Simplify the following. ˆš(128x^6)+ˆš(98x^6)

When
you see problems like this, go to the instructions to see if there are restrictions on what `x`
can be. Most books I've seen specify that all variables are non-negative, for the following
reason.

Let `x=-3.` You'll find that `sqrt(128x^6)+sqrt(98x^6)=405sqrt(2),`

while `15x^3sqrt(2)=-405sqrt(2),`

so the expressions are
not equal. The reason is that `sqrt(x^6)=x^3` is not true if `x` is negative. What is
true for all values of `x` is that `sqrt(x^6)=|x|^3,` but I guess constantly having
to write things like `15|x|^3sqrt(2)` (or...

What is the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere at the top of Mt. Everest? Atmospheric pressure at the summit of Mt. Everest is 253 torr. The...

The sum of the
partial pressures of all of the atmospheric gasses is equal to the total air pressure at any
given elevation on Earth.  It is important to note that the percent composition of atmospheric
gasses is the same at all elevations on Earth, it is simply the air pressure of these gasses
that decreases as elevation increases.  So to find the percent composition of oxygen in the
:

(0.20946 atm O2/1 atm air)*100=20.946% O2 in the atmosphere

Since the total air pressure at the top of Mount Everest is 253 torr we can multiply
this by the percent of O2 in the atmosphere to get our answer:

253
torr*0.20946=52.99 torr is the partial pressure of oxygen at the top of Mount
Everest.

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Please provide a detailed analysis of "Before You Were Mine" by Carol Anne Duffy.

In
analyzing Duffy's poem, one sees that the speaker is a child who is seeing pictures of her
mother.  The ability to see the mother in pictures as a young woman, before pregnancy and before
motherhood, causes the daughter to speak in "Before You Were Mine."  The poem is a
recollection of what her mother must have been like when she was a young woman.  

"Before You Were Mine" deals with a reality of how women understand one
another.  Prior to motherhood, there was an identity that the woman possessed.  It involved
going out to dances in the evening, hanging out with friends, and having to take some level of
punishment for spending late hours away from home.  With the line, "The decade ahead of my
loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?," it becomes clear that the speaker of the poem
can see that there was a point where her mother was truly happy.  She describes the shoes that
her mother wore as a young person as "relics" and the teaching of dance steps as
almost a portal to reconnect with a past that disappeared with the demands of motherhood.
 

This "glamorous love where you sparkle and waltz" is part of an
identity that will never be had again, something permanently changed with the responsibilities
and demands of motherhood.  It is in this where the poem seeks to articulate the condition of
women.  It is one in which daughters recognize their same traits in their mothers, where a child
holds understanding about their parent.  However, it is a melancholic condition in which the
child understands that their own presence means the end of one aspect of their parent's life.
 In "I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello, somewhere in Scotland, before I was
born," this realization impacts the speaker.  It is this condition in which the poem is a
melancholic ode to that which has passed, a time that existed "Before You Were
Mine."

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Make a timeline for the main scenes within Macbeth in order.

 traces the destructive
elements at play when , a decorated and respected soldier, takes matters into his own hands and,
with his wife, 's, persuasion, intends to ensure his  position as king of Scotland, as foretold
by , by removing all obstacles in his way, starting with the king, , himself. 

1. The witches tell Macbeth he will be king andthat his sons will be kings in , scene
iii and Macbeth immediately considers his options in safeguarding his future, to the point that,
what he is thinking is so heinous that it "doth unfix my hair," (135). 

2. In Act I, scene v, Lady Macbeth expresses her intentions in persuading Macbeth. She
will go to any length on Macbeth's behalf, and even begs to be filled with "direst
cruelty," (40), to ensure that, if Macbeth loses his nerve she retains her resolve. She is
worried that he is too weak being, "full of the milk of human kindness."
(14)

3. Macbeth has resolved to murder Duncan, despite questioning his own
motives and being disturbed by the vision of the daggers in Act II, scene i. The next crucial
part is Act II, scene ii. Duncan is dead and Lady Macbeth has had to return the daggers to his
chamber due to Macbeth's confusion. 

4. Act III, scene ii is crucial in
recognizing the change in Macbeth as he stops relying on Lady Macbeth. He plans to have Banquo
murdered because he is concerned about the witches' prophesy that Banquo's sons could be kings.
Line 45 confirms how proud of himself he is that he has put in motion his latest scheme, telling
Lady Macbeth to, "Be innocent ...till thou applaud the deed" 

5. In
scene iv of Act III, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost and is in a frenzy because , Banquo's son, is
alive. This is important as it drives the plot and contributes to Macbeth's increasing
paranoia. 

6. Macbeth goes to the witches in Act IV, scene i and demands more
from them. he is now more confident than ever because the apparitions tell him that "none
of woman born shall harm Macbeth," (80) and that he can rest easy until "Great Birnam
wood...come against him," (92). The fact that he then sees eight kings that look like
Banquo is minimized in Macbeth's eyes as he now knows h is invincible. 

7.
The killing spree continues and meanwhileandconspire to return to Scotland and defeat Macbeth.
In Act V, scene i Lady Macbeth makes an appearance and her condition has seriously deteriorated.
She is obsessed with removing the "damned spot," (34) which apparently plagues her and
her doctor can do nothing more for her. As he says, "more needs she the divine than the
physician," (72).

8. Macbeth is saddened by her death in Act V, scene v
and is beginning to see the futility but not sufficiently enough to make him surrender. Even on
realizing that the witches are nothing more than "juggling fiends,"  in the final
scene (scene viii) of Act V, he fights to the death. Order is restored and the rightful king
ascends to the throne. 

In "Harrison Bergeron," why is Harrison considered a threat to society?

In 's
story "," the title character is considered a threat to society because he cannot be
contained by both the physical and symbolic handicaps this totalitarian society places on
him. 

in "Harrison Bergeron," "The year was 2081 and everybody
was finally equal." But this equality has nothing to do with the possibilities of every
individual having the freedom of reaching great heights, but rather has to do with the
government reducing the exceptionalism of those with above average intelligence, physicality,
athleticism and even beauty. These things seem to be desired by this society as even George
Bergeron, who is weighed down by 47 pounds of birdshot because of his strength would rather keep
his handicaps than return to the "dark ages" with "everybody competing against
everybody else."

These methods of control are common in totalitarian
regimes as original thought and excellence are often frowned upon. Harrison's handicaps
symbolize this society's attempt at control by removing the possibility of
excellence. 

Harrison, however, does not let his government-imposed handicaps
slow him down. On TV, he rips up his mental handicaps like "tissue" paper and snaps
his physical handicaps off "like celery," symbolicaly proving how easy it is to throw
off these methods of control. In addition, His freedom from these handicaps liberates Harrison
so much that he is able to leap up "30 feet high" to kiss the ceiling.

By ripping off these handicaps, Harrison becomes such a threat to the Handicapper
General Diana Moon Glampers that she shoots him. She knows that once people rip off their
handicaps, they become a threat to her ability to control the people.

Can someone give me a one-paragraph summary of "The Lovely Bones"?

" " is
the story of Susie Salmon, a fourteen year old girl who was raped and murdered. Susie narrates
her own story from her perspective in heaven. The novel follows the effects of her murder as it
moves through her family and her extended community, until at last her killer is captured and
her family reaches peace with their...

What are the advantages of elections?

The
primary advantage of elections is that, when fairly conducted, they provide the best expression
of the electorate's political preferences. As the alternative to elections is autocratic, or
dictatorial, rule, then the conduct of open and fair elections is the sine qua
non of democratic government. Elections that are properly conducted exemplify all
that is good about democracy. Their outcomes provide the best indication of the preferences of a
majority, or at times, a plurality of the public. 

Note that the above
paragraph repeatedly emphasizes the fairness of elections. Elections in which cheating occurs,
such as in the casting of illegitimate ballots, or when political oppression by the governing
elite or party occurs at the expense of opposing parties can hardly be considered free and fair.
Such has been the case in countries like Venezuela, Iran, and Russia, where one party, or an
alliance of parties, controls the media and the nation's security organs and uses that control
to influence public opinions while actively obstructing the opposition's ability to conduct
effective campaigns. When the ruling party controls the media, as in Russia, then the public is
constantly bombarded with "news" broadcasts that are heavily slanted towards the
government's perspective. In addition, sabotage of opposing party offices and harassment of
political operatives serves to undermine the integrity of the democratic process. Sadly,
elections in the United States, especially at the local level, are too often corrupted by
dishonest politicians and political operatives, and by political parties that wield
disproportionate power over the media, labor unions, special interest groups, and the
like.

All of that having been said, elections are essential for the
functioning of democracies, and, as noted, the alternative to elections is far worse. While
perfect elections are exceedingly rare, elections still, in many instances, represent the
majority view while protecting the citizenry from tyranny.

Benefits Of War

Wars can be
beneficial in all the ways already mentioned. World War II is probably one of the few instances
in which both the victors and the losers benefitted from the war -- the victors by defeating
tyrrany, and the losers by being freed from tyrannts. There are, unfortunately, very few wars
like that one.

Why might the author have chosen the title of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

One of
the main topics of this novel is Bruno's relationship with his new friend Shmuel, who happens to
be a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz. Since Bruno is young and naive, he does not realize that the
striped pajamas that Shmuel wears are actually an Auschwitz prison uniform. The striped pajamas
differentiate the Jewish prisoners from their Nazi guards and signify their oppression. The fact
that Bruno refers to them as striped pajamas highlights his innocence, which plays a significant
role in the novel and impacts how the story is told. Towards the end of the novel, Shmuel asks
Bruno to help him find his father. In order for Bruno to search for Shmuel's father on the other
side of the fence without being caught, he is forced to wear the Auschwitz prison uniform.
Unfortunately, Bruno is mistaken for a Jewish prisoner and dies alongside his friend in a gas
chamber while wearing the "striped pajamas."

How does Steinbeck show racial discrimination with Crooks in Of Mice and Men?

Crooks, referred to as the "stable
buck," is mistreated, insulted, and threatened.

In Section 2 the old
swamper named Candy tellsthat the boss "was sure burned" when George anddid not report
in the morning:

"Come right in when we was eatin'
breakfast and says, "'Where the hell's them new men?' An' he give the stable buck hell,
too."

George patted a wrinkle out of his bed, and sat down. "Give
the stable buck hell?" he asked.
"Sure. Ya see the stable buck's a
n****r."
"N****r, huh?"
"Yeah. Nice fella too . . . The
boss gives him hell when he's mad. But the stable buck don't give a damn about
that."

The boss makes Crooks the "whipping
boy" of the ranch, lashing out at him when he is angry. Crooks is exploited by the ranch
hands on occasions such as Christmas. 

Candy tells George about the boss's
having bought a gallon of whiskey for the men at Christmas time. Crooks was allowed to enter the
bunkhouse, but at the expense of being made amusement for the other men:

"They let the n****r come in that night. Little skinner name of
Smitty took after the n****r. The guys wouldn't let him use his feet, so the n****r got him. If
he coulda used his feet, Smitty says he woulda killed the n****r."

Crooks is treated in an extremely demeaning manner, exploited by
the boss and the ranch hands alike.

Later, in Section 4, Crooks is isolated
in the barn where he is made to live alone with the company of nothing but his books. He keeps a
copy of the California civil code so that he knows his rights. At first, he is mean to Lennie,
but as Lennie talks, Crooks realizes that Lennie is no threat, and he enjoys talking to someone.
He tells Lennie that he has to be alone every night. And when he "gets thinkin'," he
has no one to tell him whether it is true or not.

"He
can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to
measure by. I seen things out here . . . If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep,
an' then it would be all right. But I jus' don't know."

After Lennie tells Crooks about the little farm that he and George are planning to own,
Candy comes into the barn, talking about their plans. Crooks thinks that he would like to join
them. But, the entry of Curley's wife and her sharp tongue and racial insults end Crooks's hopes
to have a place where he can live in peace with others.

How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to WWII less than 20 years later?

There is
little doubt that the Treaty of Versailles had a profound influence in drawing Germany towards
World War II. To put it simply, many Germans found the treaty an insult and a burden imposed
upon them. Germany had lost territory and colonies. It had limitations placed upon its military
and was forced to accept responsibility for the war (not to mention the onerous reparations
payments it would be forced to pay). With these factors alone, it should not be surprising that,
in the years that followed, Germany would be the site of numerous extremist groups and parties
and that an ideology...

In The Bronze Bow, how does Daniel's view of Rosh change during Chapter 18?

Daniel
initially joined with Rosh because he thought the bandit leader could offer him something that
he desired: revenge. Daniel assumed that Rosh was working for the cause of freeing Israel from
Roman occupancy, because his criminal activities often worked against Roman interest. In fact,
Rosh has always been a criminal, working entirely for himself, and he used the cause of freedom
as a way to further his own interests. Daniel finally realizes this when Rosh refuses to help
him rescue Joel.

The red mist of anger cleared suddenly from
Daniel's mind. He looked at the man who had been his leader. He saw the coarsened face with its
tangle of dirty beard. He saw the hard mouth, the calculating little eyes. He saw a man he had
never really looked at before."The cause!" he said with despair.
"How could you know what it means?"
(Speare,
, Google Books)

Joel is Daniel's friend, one
who has helped him rediscover his own humanity and his capacity for love. To Rosh, however, Joel
is simply a pawn to be used and discarded when he is no longer of use. Sacrificing men to save
him on moral grounds -- which is exactly what Daniel does later -- is alien to Rosh, since he
cares about nothing except for his own survival and comfort. Daniel finally realizes that Rosh
has been using him since day one, with no actual concern for the cause
itself.

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Identify the basic meaning of Tennyson's "Ulysses."

Tennyson
felt that an essential part of the human predicament is quality of endurance.  He believed
that the need for going forward, and braving the struggle of life" is a critical part of
human identity. This construction underscores Tennyson's view ofin the poem.  

The poem centers on an exploration of the Greek warrior after his return to Ithaca.
 Making the transition from the life of war and challenge to the civilian life is shown to be a
difficult reality.  Tennyson's Greek hero challenges the idea of the "idle king."  
This vision is one who "cannot rest from travel."  From this , Odysseus is shown to
eagerly anticipate the uncertainty of voyage, repudiating the life of staying at home in a
domesticated fashion.  "Always roaming with a hungry heart," Tennyson's poem explores
how human beings must embrace freedom and the sojourn at all costs.  Even when there might not
be a guarantee of success, the spirit of vitality that defines the human spirit is illuminated
throughout the poem and within Tennyson's construction of Ulysses.  The search for truth is
something that cannot be removed, even through the domestic life.  While he has come home, some
part of his voyage has been imprinted on his own being and cannot be denied:

Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'

Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades

For ever and
forever when I move.

The desire to explore "that
untravell'd world whose margin fades" is of primary importance to Tennyson.  To explore a
world in which one might be able to brush past the greats like Achilles is what makes human
existence so meaningful. Ulysses understands that his responsibilities have been met, as
Telemachus will look out for Ithaca and that Penelope will be secure.  With these addressed,
Tennyson's Ulysses speaks to a larger condition.  It is one in which human beings have only the
spirit of freedom and endurance within them:

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'

We are not now that
strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we
are;

While individuals might be battered
and ravaged by consciousness, the spirit that enables them to embrace activity and the vitality
for life is of vital importance.  The call of "to strive, to seek to find, and not to
yield" not only close the poem, but they speak to a vision that drives the poem and
provides purpose to the definitions of human identity.

 

This becomes the primary focus of the poem.  It is a poem that asserts the condition
of existence.  Tennyson wrote the poem as a direct statement of how human beings can address the
realities of pain and suffering, as well as the unconquerable forces of death.  Being able to
find a way to cope with such overwhelming forces becomes what the poem is all about.  It speaks
to the spirit of the human being that finds a resolute commitment to voyage and exist, even when
so much might be taken away from the individual.  Tennyson sought to convey "the sense of
loss and that all had gone by, but that still life must be fought out to the end."  This
resiliency is a significant part of the poem in how it speaks to the human
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In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, what does Jocasta have to say about oracles and prophecy, and why do you think she expresses this attitude? How do her...

When acomes from
Corinth to tellthat his father, Polybus, has died of natural causes,uses this as evidence to
support her opinion that prophecy is impossible and oracles cannot tell the future. She asks her
husband

Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance,

With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?
Best live a careless life from
hand to mouth.
This wedlock with thy mother fear not thou.
How oft it
chances that in dreams a man
Has wed his mother! He who least regards
Such
brainsick phantasies lives most at ease.

In other words,
she asks why, when the legitimacy of prophecy is so apparently called into question by this
information, a man would fear it. Clearly, for her, chance is in control and not prophecy. She
thinks it is best to be carefree and worry only about the present because it is impossible to
know the future. She tells Oedipus not to worry about the second part of the prophecy since the
first part seems not to have come true. She thinks that it is totally...

Why were the immigrants who died listed as "white males" in The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea?

In the non-
work the author brings facts from several sides together to paint a
picture of how illegal immigration affects border crossers, border towns, the Border Patrol, the
Coroner's Office, and ultimately, the rest of us. The theme in this book is forgotten men,
victims who are caught in the crossfire of a brutal game of smuggling humans and drugs across
the southern US border. Theof the story occurs when the 26 men who set out from Mexicomany from
far south of the border, in Veracruzare caught in a zone called "the devil's highway"
for its history of killing those who try to cross it. Their struggle for survival and the demise
of the Yuma 14 (the 14 men who died that day in May 2001) is the heart of the story.

The author,, makes a point of giving each man a biography, of describing the things
each man carried, and of discussing their relationships and motivations for crossing. He does
this to emphasize that each of the crossers...

Who is Ewing Klipspringer in The Great Gatsby?

According
to , Ewingis a distant relative of a famous composer, althoughis dubious about the authenticity
of this claim. Klipspringer essentially shacks up in Gatsbys mansion on a quasi-permanent basis,
moving into a guest room and serving as Gatsbys personal pianist on occasion, such as Gatsbys
reunion within Chapter Five.

However, I think the most important detail about
Klipspringer comes near the end of the novel, as Nick attempts to notify people of Gatsbys
funeral arrangements. Nick unexpectedly receives a phone call from Klipspringer to Gatsbys home
during this time; at first, Nick is delighted that someone has reached out to ask about the
funeral. However, it becomes clear to Nick over the course of their brief conversation that
Klipspringer does not care about Gatsby nor plans to attend the mans funeral.

When Nick presses Klipspringer to say hell be there, the pianist remarks that he is
obligated to attend a picnic of sorts with the people with whom he now resides and that the only
reason he called was to see if someone could send over his tennis shoes.

Hanging up before Klipspringer has the chance to finish saying the address, Nick
realizes that Klipspringer and others like him only took advantage of Gatsbys kindness and
hospitality. People who attended his parties, and even one for whom Gatsby had provided lodging,
were nothing but leeches enjoying the free booze and fun. This realization sparks Nicks epiphany
about the soulless character of the East, as it soon becomes haunted for
him.

Wednesday 19 February 2014

What are some quotes ( and page numbers ) from Lord of the Flies that shows Simon's personality?

Page
numbers are going to be difficult.  I don't know which version of the book that you have, so
chances are that my page numbers and yours won't match up perfectly.  I can get you relatively
close though.  

Page 72 in my text.  For sure in chapter 3. Here is the
quote:

"They talk and scream. . Even some of the
others. As if"

"As if it wasn't a good island."

Astonished at the interruption, they looked up at 's serious face.

"As if," said Simon, "the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was
real. Remember?"

Simon is a tough character to
analyze.  I've always thought he was more weird than anything else.  I mean he's always saying
some weird things.  Of course that makes sense since Golding is presenting Simon as a sort of
prophet figure.  There is no doubt that Simon knows things.  He knows them
by feelings first, but his feelings are always confirmed.  He is the first boy to realize that
the beast is both real and fake at the same time.  It's not a real physical beast; the beast is
the power for destruction in all of them. The above quote is Simon already hinting that the
island itself might be making very real monsters of a sort.  

Page 159.
 Chapter 7

Youll get back to where you came
from.

Returning to what I said earlier about Simon being
a prophet of sorts is this quote.  Simon is talking toabout getting off of the island.  Simon
actually says the above multiple times in a few variations, but it is always the same in
concept.  Ralph will get home.  Simon never says "we."  In a way, Simon is predicting
a future outcome that is, in his mind, absolute.  Ralph will live, Simon will die.
 

What is sales promotion? Describe the various sales promotion tools used by marketers. ...

Sales
promotion is a part of a businesss marketing activities. In essence,sales promotions are
short-term deals and business occasions such as online and/or in-store events to spur customers
to buy. In addition, sales promotions involve methods of communicating with possible
customers.The objective of sales promotion is to increase the sales of products and
services.

The various sales promotion tools used by marketers
include:

1. Bonus Packs

A
popular sales promotion tools is the marketing of bonus packs. A business may typically sell
something like deodorant as a single item off the shelf of its health and beauty aids section.
To boost sales, it may offer a bonus pack of three packages of deodorant at a sales price. For
example, the single deodorant may cost $3.99. However, the bonus pack may offer three deodorants
for $9.00. Therefore, the consumer saves approximately $3.00 by buying this bonus pack and it is
worthwhile to do as the consumer will use this product regularly throughout the year and may as
well take advantage of this reduced cost.

2.
Samples

A company can choose to offer free samples of its
products to engage its customers and potential customers. This engagement is to get people to
try its tried and true established products. This is for that customer segment that has not
tried some of the businesss traditional product offerings.

In addition,
giving free samples is also a way to get people to try new product offerings. It lets customers
investigate whether these products suit their needs, and they can test these products without
any cost to them. Subsequently, if some customers are pleased with the new product it spurs them
to then purchase the products, and in many cases quite regularly thereafter.

3. Point-of-Purchase (POP) Displays

These kinds of displays are to compel people to buy a certain product or group of
products. An instance is when you walk into a supermarket and you see a floor display or rack
away from the main aisles or at the end of aisles featuring, for example, the now very popular
coffee pods. The design of these in-store displays is to alert customers to a specific
product.

These displays stand out from the crowd of other products resting in
their usual shelf sections. These displays help customers €˜notice a product that a customer may
never have noticed before on its regular shelf amidst hundreds of other products in a grocery
store aisle.

4. Loyalty or VIP
Programs

To build sales, a business may offer a loyalty
program to regular customers. They will offer loyalty rewards to customers who make frequent
purchases. These rewards can be coupons, gifts, free trips, free products, and more. The
intention of these loyalty or VIP programs is to compel people to become and to remain regular
customers so that the business can build up its stable of regular clientele.

5. Coupons

Many companies offer coupons
that give customers a discount on their purchase. These can be dollars off coupons,
percentage off coupons, buy one, get one at half-price coupons, as well as buy one, get
one free coupons, among other coupon offerings. Coupons encourage customers to buy because they
relate directly to helping customers save cash.

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How does Scrooge react to the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge's first
reaction to the Ghost of Christmas Past is one of wonder:

"Being now a
thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head,
now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense
gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again;
distinct and clear as ever" (2). The Ghost has the ability to change its distinct qualities
from light to dark, giving the appearance of a perpetually changing, shimmering being.

As the Ghost takes Scrooge on his journey to Christmases past, Scrooge's reaction
becomes one of sadness and regret. Upon visiting his old school, the Ghost asks him if he
remembers it:  "Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed" (3). The visits to the past
become more difficult when Scrooge sees Belle:

"Spirit," said Scrooge. "Show me no more. Conduct me home. Why do you
delight to torture me."
"One shadow more!" exclaimed the Ghost.
"No more!" cried...

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Tuesday 18 February 2014

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, how does Jem use stereotypes about gender to influence Scout? How does Scout feel about her gender?

uses 's gender
to counter-attack when he believes she challenges his manhood. For example, when Jem pushes
Scout in the tire and it rolls onto the Radley's front yard, Scout comes back without it. Jem
tells her to go get the tire, and because of a dare he had with Dill, she tells him to go get it
himself. After he returns with the tire, he says the following:

"'See there?' Jem was scowling triumphantly. 'Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout,
sometimes you act so much like a girl it's mortifyin'.'

"There was more
to it than he knew, but I decided not to tell him" (38).

Jem, in an effort to save face and further prove he isn't a coward, suggests that they
playas a game. Scout didn't buy his smokescreen for a second and says the following:

"Jem's head at times was transparent: he had thought that up to
make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own
fearless heroism with my cowardice" (38).

If Scout
is picking up on this battle of the sexes at a young age, she's sure to be influenced by it. For
one thing, she threatens and beats up boys like Walter Cunningham, Jr. and Cecil Jacobs when she
is challenged. She may not consciously know it, but it's what boys do, so she does it. She also
runs around in coveralls in the summer rather than wearing dresses. And, if all she has are boys
to play with in the neighborhood, then she will want to act like them so she isn't rejected from
games.

Another time that Scout shows self-awareness for her gender is when
she hears Reverend Sykes say that bootlegging was bad, but women were worse. She thinks to
herself the following:

"Again, as I had often met it
in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy
all clergymen" (122).

At this point Scout must
recognize that men of all races view women as something less than men. She never says she wishes
she were a boy, though, which suggests that she, along with many other girls, is simply trying
to find her niche in life as a girl in a boy's world.

Aunt Alexandra doesn't
help by moving in with them and doing her darnedest to get Scout to act and look more like a
girl. Scout resists her Aunt Alexandra mostly because she doesn't like her--not because she
doesn't want to continue to be a girl. Jem eventually gets involved and tries to influence Scout
by saying the following:

"You know she's not used to
girls, . . .  leastways, not girls like you. She's trying to make you a lady. Can't you take up
sewin' or something'?" (225).

It's bad enough to
have to wear dresses, now Jem is asking her to start sewing? This is a definite gender
stereotype to which Scout says, "Hell no" (225). But again, her arguments after Jem
says this go along the lines of her not wanting to act like a girl simply to satisfy his or Aunt
Alexandra's desires--not because she doesn't like her own gender.

 

How did Gulliver reach Lilliput, and how was he treated by the Lilliputians?

At first, the
Lilliputians assume that, because of his size, Gulliver will be violent and aggressive, so they
treat him as an enemy.  They tie him down, shoot him with arrows, and eventually transport him,
lying prostrate, to their city.  Once there, they chain him up and search (with his help) the
contents of his pockets, confiscating most of his personal effects.  It does not take long,
however, for them to begin to like Gulliveralthough there are still some who strongly dislike
himand they begin to discern the ways in which they might put him to use in their longstanding
feud with Blefuscu.  Although Gulliver initially aids Lilliput in this war, he eventually tells
the emperor that he refuses to be the means by which a free and independent nation is enslaved. 
 Between this refusal and his attempt to help put out a palace fire with his urine, he is
charged with high crimes against the state, and he escapes to Blefuscu.

A bank pays interest at the rate of 11% on $6000 deposited in an account. After how many years will the money have tripled?

The original
amount deposited is $6000. The rate of interest is 11%. Now we need to determine how long it
takes for the money to triple.

Here we use the formula for compounding
of...

What was the most important factor in Hitler's rise to power and why?

In my view,
the most important factor in Hitlers rise to power was German unhappiness with the Weimar
Republic and its failure to provide the strong and prosperous country that they
wanted.

After WWI, the German monarchy came to an end and a republic was
created. This government is now known as the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic had many
troubles. It was unable to maintain order very well within the country. It was unable to assert
itself in foreign affairs. Finally, it was unable to keep Germanys economy strong. All of these
things made Germans very angry and led them to support radical parties like the Nazis.

After WWI, the Allies...

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Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War? Was this an easy decision?

A big
reason the United States got involved in the Vietnam War was to stop the spread of
communism.After WWII, communism started to spread from the Soviet Union south.In 1949, China's
Communist Party overcame the Nationalist Party to take control of the country, and communism
continued to spread.Vietnam, dealing with pro- and anti-communist forces, was another domino
falling to communism.

The domino theory was a Cold War policy that dictated
that when one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would fall as well, like dominoes
knocking each other over.The US was concerned that eventually, this chain of dominoes would
reach North America.Once the Soviet Union became communist, it was followed by China, North
Korea, and Vietnam.This was part of the reason the US became concerned with what was happening
in Vietnam, in case communism continued to spread.

The US at this time had a
foreign policy called containment.Written by George Kennan, who served as a diplomat in Russia
during WWII, containment operated with the assumption that the Soviets wanted to spread their
ideals (communism) and would do all they could to

"weaken power and influence of Western Powers on colonial backward, or dependent
peoples."

Containment, then, was to intervene in
places where the US felt the people would fall to communism.The containment policy, as well as
the domino theory, encouraged the US to intervene in Vietnam to stop the spread of
communism.

Although in the 1950's the Red Scare in the US meant that people
were highly distrustful of communism, our government did not easily go into war in
Vietnam.During John F. Kennedy's (JFK) tenure as President, the US increased financial and
military aid to Vietnam, who was battling against the communist uprising, but did not commit to
complete military intervention or war.Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), who assumed power after JFK's
assassination, gave more aid to Vietnam in the mid-1960's.When two US ships were destroyed in
the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, allowing LBJ more
power to go to war.With these powers, LBJ started to drop bombs on Vietnam and other
communist-sympathizing countries like Laos.By 1965, the US made the formal decision to go to
war.

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Analyze two central ideas that are the themes of "Our Town". What is the meaning or message of "Our Town"? How does the author develop each theme?...

Althoughcan be shown to have a lot more than just "two central ideas," that's
a good place to start.  First, not to sound so much like Disney's The Lion King, but probably
the main (and most important theme) in Our Town is "the circle of life."  This life
circle is universal and is experienced by everyone.  Even though it sounds like such a simple
concept, it actually has many layers.  Our Town is a brilliant play to discuss these layers of
the life cycle of humans.

The setting is the very first real example. 
Wilder purposefully makes an incredibly plain set with no real props or details.  Why does
Wilder do this?  In this way, the watcher (or the reader) can place himself/herself into that
general setting of Grover's Corners.  [It's the same reason why Meyers made the character of
Bella in Twilight have very little real personality.  Meyers wanted all females to fit in that
character in order to fall in love with the hero:  Edward.]  Further, the play is called
"Our...

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How did Aunt Alexandra describe the Cunninghams in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In 's
, Aunt Alexandra does not mince words with regard to how she feels about
the Cunninghams. She says they are not people with which the Finches associate, and this
especially confuses young .

When Scout first begins school at the start of
the novel, she has a disagreement with Walter Cunningham because she feels he had gotten her
"off on the wrong foot" with her new teacher. At recess Scout is ready to beat him up,
butstops her and invites Walter home to have lunch at the Finch house. Scout gets in trouble for
pointing out Walter's unusual behavior at the dinner table. She recalls the encounter later in
chapter twenty-three, while having a family discussion that begins about Bob Ewell and moves on
to the Cunningham family. It is clear, and not surprisingly, that Aunt Alexandra is not as
charitable toward Maycomb's lesser folks asis. While Atticus defends the
Cunninghams, noting that once you have them in your corner they always have your back, Alexandra
sees things much differently. For example, she says:

Jean
Louise, there is no doubt in my mind that they're good folks. But they're not our kind of
folks.

Scout recalls her aunt's refusal to allow her to
visit Calpurnia's home. Even in her innocence, Scout notices a similarity between that situation
and the one she faces now:

This time the tactics were
different, but Aunt Alexandra's aim was the same.

So,
Scout questions Alexandra, wondering why, if the Cunninghams are good
folks, she cannot be nice to them. Her aunt insists there is no difficulty in being
nice:

You should be friendly and polite to him, you should
be gracious to everybody, dear. But you don't have to invite him home.

It is relatively easy to see that Aunt Alexandra's social values
allow one to be civil and "gracious" to someone from the same town. But someone who is
not considered a social equal is, in her mind, to be
kept in his or her place; one that does not intersect
with her place. She points out that the Cunninghams are in no way related
and also that no Finch woman would ever be interested in a Cunningham man. And the only way a
Cunningham will be allowed at their house, according to Scout's aunt, is if he comes to see
Atticus on business.

Scout points out that she wants to play with Walter, and
asks why she cannot:

She took off her glasses and stared
at me. "I'll tell you why," she said. "Becauseheistrash, that's why you can't
play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what.
You're enough of a problem to your father as it is."

Before Scout can react (physically, it would seem) to Aunt Alexandra's edict, Jem steps
in and leads her sobbing from the room.

In the same way that Scout cannot see
anything wrong with Dolphus Raymond or Tom Robinson, she does not understand the harm in playing
with a youngster that is, even by her aunt, deemed from a family of "good folks." The
, of course, is that at least one Cunningham (on the jury) can see beyond race to Tom Robinson's
innocence, while Alexandra's social equals possess no tolerance, or even sympathy, for the
wrongs done to the Robinson family.

This incident is at the core of the
struggle regarding the racial divide in the imaginary Maycomb, as well as the South in general,
at that time. It reflects the battle with and the sometimes disheartening outcome in, as Atticus
puts it, "the secret court of men's hearts."

In "The Open Window," what character trait best describes Frampton?

The
character trait that best describes Framton Nuttel is neurotic. In the second paragraph the
author writes:

Privately he doubted more than ever whether
these formal visits on a succession of total strangers would do much towards helping the nerve
cure which he was supposed to be undergoing.

intentionally contrasts him with the girl playing hostess by describing her as

. . . a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen

Her self-possession makes Framton seem all the more nervous, while
his nervousness makes her seem all the more self-possessed.

Then when Mrs.
Sappleton appears, Framton explains in one paragraph what his problem is. This is all the
information the reader will get about his condition and virtually all that the reader will get
about his character.

"The doctors agree in ordering
me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of
violent physical exercise," announced Framton, who laboured under the tolerably wide-spread
delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of one's
ailments and infirmities, their cause and cure. "On the matter of diet they are not so much
in agreement," he continued.

Framton seems to have
enough money to be able to consult several doctors on a regular basis and to take time off from
whatever work he does, if any, in order to spend time vegetating in the country. Saki created
this character to be the perfect victim for the mischievous young Vera. Framton is going to
experience just the opposite of what the doctors have advised him to do. He will probably not
have "complete rest" for a long time after his encounter with the supernatural. He
will get plenty of "mental excitement" when the three "ghosts" appear
heading towards the open window carrying guns. He will also get a great deal of "violent
physical exercise" when he flees.

Framton grabbed
wildly at his stick and hat; the hall-door, the gravel-drive, and the front gate were
dimly-noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the
hedge to avoid an imminent collision.

The sentence about
the cyclist coming down the road creates an impression of Framton running for his life for
several miles back along the country road. He would have no means of transportation except his
own legs, especially with night coming on. Perhaps the frightening experience and the violent
exercise would be good for him. For one thing, he might realize after running for several miles
that he actually felt better than he had in years, and he might begin to suspect that the
doctors were all wrong.

In that case, Vera might have been doing him a favor
by concocting her ghost story. Franton might very likely make some inquiries about the
Sappletons and find out that he had been the victim of an elaborate practical joke. In that
case, he might be able to laugh at himself, which would be a good way to cure his
neurosis.

Saki himself seems to have been a vigorous, self-reliant person. He
fought in the trenches during World War I, even though he was in his early forties and not
subject to conscription. He probably had little sympathy for neurotic, dependent men like
Framton Nuttle or for the doctors who all had different theories about how to diagnose and
prescribe for them.

Monday 17 February 2014

How is Ichabod Cranes failed pursuit of Katrina Van Tassel a metaphor for the inferiority of society compared to nature?

Ichabod's
failed pursuit of Katrina Van Tassel works as afor the inferiority of society compared to
nature, because Ichabod himself represents a man obsessed with some of the worst aspects of
society.  He is a school teacher but feels no particularly strong calling to the profession. 
Rather, his interest stems from the ease with which it allows him to exploit the families of his
students "who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for
the comforts of the cupboard."  He uses and abuses the system for sustenance. 

Why is education important in Confucianism?

Confucianism is
an ethical system that originated in China in the 6th century, B.C.E. The
Xueji ("On Teaching and Learning") lays out the educational
philosophy of Confucianism and was influential in the development of China's education system in
the pre-modern era. Its opening passages outlines the central role of education in the Confucian
thought:

If a ruler desires to transform the people [and]
perfect [their] customs, [the ruler] can only do so through education!

The perfection and transformation of people is accomplished through
their understanding of the Tao ("way" or "path") and
comprehension of Tao is of penultimate importance in Confucianism. According to Confucianism,
the Tao can only be understood through learning and study, further
underlying the importance of education. The Xueji explains that:

Although the ultimate Tao is present, [one] does not know [its]
goodness if [one] does not learn it.

A final point of
importance in education is in its role in the development of character and...

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Sunday 16 February 2014

In My Soul To Keep, My Weight to Lose, Randall believes her poor health is the result of too much sacrifice and not enough self-care. What part of...

Your question
states that Alice Randall claims her poor health is caused by "too much sacrifice and not
enough self care." If you are trying to find out which part of this statement is more
convincing, you may want to select "not enough self care" as your answer.

The reason is that, in her article "My Soul to Keep, My Weight to Lose,"
Randall states over and over that the main issue with her weight loss troubles involves being
unaware of how much weight she has gained. Yes, she also mentions the issue about making too
many sacrifices, but her claims about "sacrifice" cannot be quantified as well as her
claims about weight gain. Therefore, what constitutes a "sacrifice" to Alice Randall
may or may not be in agreement with what the rest of society considers to be "a
sacrifice."

Weight gain, however, is a universal concern that can be
easily quantified. Moreover, it also comes with causes and effect that are easy to detect and
are also widely know. One of those effects is poor health.

Hence, her
argument is convincing all-around; however, the only part that you can actually be able to
verify within any parameters is the weight gain/weight loss issue.

I didn't know one of the basic facts of my own lifehow much I weighed. How far up was I
from my own slavery if I didn't get down from my obesity? Part of me thought the question was
too trivial. Part of me was too afraid to know."

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Why did Black Americans fail to receive full freedom after the end of the Civil War in 1865?

Although the
Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, the Fourteenth made Black Americans citizens and gave them
equality before the law, and the Fifteenth insured their right to vote, the Reconstruction
Congress took few steps to insure the protection of these rights. As a result, aside from
physical freedom, most blacks were no better off than they had been in slavery. There was little
economic opportunity, and most were forced to work as sharecroppers at wages closer to slavery
than to freedom.

The defeated South was bitter and vindictive at the end of
the war. Southern legislatures passed a...

Saturday 15 February 2014

Darkness In Heart Of Darkness

To
answer this, we need to come to an understanding of the Western attitude of Conrad's period
regarding the colonial empires that had been established.

One often hears
Africa described in the European mindset as the "dark continent." Despite the slave
trade and exploitation of Africa that had been going on for several hundred years, Europeans
still, by the end of the nineteenth century, knew little, if anything, about the interior of
Africa. In , the disappearance ofdeep within the unnamed country of's visit
is emblematic of this mystery the Western mind had nurtured...

What's the theme of The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass?

The theme
in Douglass's The Heroic Slave is an obvious oneheroism and bravery. The
story focuses on the pursuits and triumphs of a slave who undertakes all sorts of acts of
bravery to liberate himself and those around him. Douglass's point in the story is to embolden
slaves to take charge and act bravely to thrust off the shackles of slavery and also to enshrine
these brave slaves as people to respect and revere, hoping to stir up abolitionist ideas
throughout the nation.

Madison Washington is the main character of Douglass's
story, and he is the titular heroic slavedoing miraculous and brave feats. First, he escapes
from his master and flees to Canada. Having left his wife in slavery, he returns back to the
plantation to rescue her, staging a daring escape. Unfortunately, his wife is shot and killed,
and he is captured and enslaved once more.

Returning to his fellow slaves,
he is sent on a slave ship, on which he stages a mutiny. The slaves on board overthrow the crew
and reroute...

Why is Ulysses in favor of an adventurous life?

, at the
stage of life in which Tennyson pictures him, is not so much in favor of an adventurous life as
simply any kind of active life rather than the resigned inactivity of his
position in old age.

Tennyson has Ulysses describe conditions in which the
heroic life he had led is now over. He is an "idle king," and his people on Ithaca
have become remote, disconnected from him. The great things have been accomplished, completed,
yet Ulysses doesn't simply want to resign himself to this situation and die:

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust
unburnished, not to shine in use !

Because he was a man
of action in his prime, Ulysses even in old age doesn't want to give up a real lifenot
necessarily a return to the adventures of the past but just something beyond
one in which he will:

mete and dole
Unequal laws
unto a savage race.

Unfortunately there is also an
inevitable and unsurprising sexism in his attitude. He describes himself as "matched with
an aged wife," apparently forgetting that he is aged as well. Ulysses
is in a state of depression. He recognizes that the glory that was his lifehis youth, the
victory in the Trojan War, his ten years of relentless struggle against every odd in returning
to his homeland, and finally dispatching the suitors who had invaded his house in their efforts
to win the faithful Penelopehas been completed, but he doesn't accept this.

He struggles to find an answer, and says:

'Tis
not too late to seek a newer world...
for my purpose
Holds to sail beyond the
sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.

In other words, he knows death is imminent in some sense, but he
wishes to die still trying to actto accomplish something.

Friday 14 February 2014

Approximately how many cars were registered in the 1950s in the U.S., and what was the average cost?

According to the source
from the Federal Highway Administration (below), there were about 40 million registered
automobiles (commercial and private) in 1950. This number grew to over 51 million by 1955 and to
over 61 million by 1960. The number of cars in the U.S. exploded in the post-WWII years, as more
and more Americans moved to the suburbs and relied on cars to get to work. In 1950 (see the
source from Fifties Web, below), a Ford cost $1,339-$2,262 (when the average income was
$3,216).

According to the source from CNBC, driving today costs the same as
it did in the 1950s. Though the price of gas has gone up, our cars are more efficient.
Therefore, the cost to drive one mile is in the same range as it was in the
1950s.

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What are some Roman achievements? Explain how each of them expressed the pragmatism of the Romans.

Greg Jackson

Military

The Romans maintained a large
standing army that helped protect and expand their borders. Most other civilizations of the
ancient world only raised an army during times of war. The Romans kept a professional army at
all times. This meant that they had highly trained soldiers ready to fight at a moment's notice.
Furthermore, soldiers did not have to be from Italy. Provincials made up a large part of Rome's
fighting force. This meant that every time a new territory was added to the empire, the pool of
available recruits grew even more.

Client
States

Sometimes, when the Romans conquered a...

How does Mary Shelley feel about the monster in Frankenstein?

This can be partially explained by the preface thatadded to the work when she revised
and republished it in 1831. In this added preface, Shelley notes that she has "not
considered [her]self as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors." Thus, she wants
readers to consider the character of her monster as representing fundamentally more than simply
a creepy, supernatural character. Instead, she urges readers to consider that 's creation
is:

impossible as a physical fact, [yet] affords a point
of view to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and
commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield.

The monster's character, therefore, is woven together by Shelley
to provide additional insight into human character. He is rejected by his creator. He longs for
human connection that he can never find. He longs for a mate whom he can never acquire. At every
turn he is cast aside and his hopes are crushed,...

Thursday 13 February 2014

How would you describe a bird poetically? All I have is: "The minute I laid my eyes on it, I fell in mesmerizing awe. The way it gracefully soared...

The great
part about poetry is that it is your perspective that matters most.  If you want the bird to be
indiffernt to its freedom, it can be.  You would be using the poetic device of, which means that
you ascribe human thoughts and emotions to non-human objects (or animals, in this case.)  A
really famous poem about a bird is...

Why is Father Hooper wearing a veil in The Minister's Black Veil?

The truth
is, the reader never truly finds out why Father Hooper is wearing the veil. It appears quite
suddenly, and the members of his church are most definitely put off by its addition to his
clothing: 

"I can't really feel as if good Mr.
Hooper's face was behind that piece of crape," said the sexton.

"I
don't like it," muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meeting-house. "He has
changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face."

"Our parson has gone mad!" cried Goodman Gray, following him across the
threshold.

Hawthorne sets up this same curiosity in the
reader. Most...

Wednesday 12 February 2014

What is a good thesis statement about the theme of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird?

I think it would be
relatively easy to argue the following thesis: shows that those who are racist
are ignorant, uneducated, and unkind through her depiction of Mrs. Dubose, Mr. Ewell, and Mrs.
Merriweather.

It is not very difficult to find examples of bad
behaviors exhibited by thesewhich show that we, the readers, are not supposed to relate to them
or like them. We might sympathize, perhaps, with Mrs. Dubose, but it is clear from her behavior
towardthat we are supposed to learn compassion from Atticus's treatment of
her rather than to emulate her ideas. Mr. Ewell is portrayed in an even worse way, as a child
abuser and liar and would-be murderer. By discouraging readers from liking these , Lee
encourages us to condemn their racist beliefs.

You could also argue the flip
side of this idea, which is that Harper Lee...

What are some characteristics of Janie Johnson?

's
tells the story of Janie Johnson, who discovers she is Jennie Spring, a
teenager who was kidnapped at age three and raised by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.

As the story begins, Janie is enjoying being a teenager and spending time with her
boyfriend, Reeve, and her best friend, Sarah-Charlotte. At her core, she is a caring,
light-hearted person just coming into herself.

Janie is suspicious of the
fact that she may have been kidnapped. Although she desperately hopes that it is not true, she
cannot help but continue to search for the truth.

Janie is fiercely loyal to
her parents, the Johnsons, even when faced with mounting evidence that they may have kidnapped
her. She fights to return to live with them even after she knows the truth about who she is and
where she comes from. When her parents begin to believe that Hannah may have kidnapped Janie,
they insist on contacting the Springs despite the fact that Janie is terrified of being
separated from them.

Janie feels guilty about her obsession with the
kidnapping, and later, when she learns that Hannah tempted her with ice cream, she feels guilty
for being so easily lured away from the Springs. She is torn between the two families.

The months of introspection cause Janie to find it difficult to focus on anything else.
When Sarah-Charlotte wants to discuss boys, Janie is unable to concentrate, and it creates a
rift in their friendship. Reeve gives her an ultimatum: to either tell her parents about the
kidnapping or their relationship will end.

The guilt and stress of the
kidnapping revelation have affected Janie physically as well as emotionally. She has not taken
good care of herself and has failed to eat properly, which adds to her distress, especially as
she loses a letter she wrote to the Springs that she fears will be mailed.

Discuss the major themes that are correlated by Thomas Gray in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

An
important theme of Gray's " Written in a Country Courtyard" is that
death is the great leveler. Gray uses this idea to exhort the
wealthy and powerful not to look down upon the simple lives of the poor peasants buried in the
country cemetery, because death equalizes everyone. In the end, death takes us all, no matter
how powerful. The poet finds solace in the "noiseless tenor of their [the simple people's]
way," which never led them into "Luxury and Pride."

Gray's
elegy also expresses the theme that people have equality of gifts,
if not of opportunities. As he writes, many a "mute inglorious Milton" lies buried in
an obscure grave, unknown, because life never offered him the opportunity to develop his gifts.
Gray depicts this lack of opportunity as a gain as well as a loss: fortunately for them, none of
these people had the opportunity to exercise the kind of power that leads to bloodshed and to
"shut[ting] the gates of mercy."

Finally, Gray depicts
obscurity as a natural state as...

In the 1930s, a chemical called DNP was prescribed as a weight loss pill. Describe how NDP is a metabolic poison and why it was thought to be a good...

In 1933,
Maurice Tainter, a clinical pharmacologist from Stanford University, found that the ingestion of
2-4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) resulted in huge weight loss. Shortly thereafter, it was promoted as a
weight reduction
medication and subsequently added in over-the-counter drugs and offered to the public
with no need of a prescription.

The study of its pharmacologic
characteristics indicated that it contained the ability to fuel metabolism to incredibly high
levels without triggering major harm to vital organs and capacities. It was indicated to bring
about weight reduction by href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3550200/">uncoupling oxidative
phosphorylation, resulting in both increased fat metabolism and metabolic
rate

In contrast to thyroid hormone that was utilized for weight reduction,
DNP did not affect
nitrogen discharge and hence was hypothesized to cause fat as opposed to lean muscle
loss. The subsequent surplus heat generation resulted in uncontrolled hyperthermia after
collapse of thermoregulatory homeostasis, which leads to critical illness and
mortality.

After a couple of years of its use, numerous harmful effects,
including noxious hyperthermia, hepatotoxicity, growth of cataracts, and some instances of
agranulocytosis were documented. As additional adverse symptoms were reported, DNP was banned
and categorized as very dangerous and not fit for human ingestion by the Federal Drug
Administration in 1938.

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Who was William deMille and what is his short story, "Ruthless"?

William de
Mille (1878-1955) was the son of Henry de Mille and Beatrice de Mille. His father was a renowned
playwright, with six Broadway plays between 1887 and 1890. William followed in his fathers
footsteps to become a great playwright. Later on, he moved into the film industry, where he
worked in adapting Broadway plays into films. His films include Passion Flower (1930), The
Doctors Secret (1929), Tenth Avenue (1928), Almost Human (1927) and Classmates (1924), among
others. Some of his manuscripts include Ruthless, Miss Dales Husband, Morality Clause,
Okay Mr. Wagley, etc.

The short story Ruthless talks about Judson Webbs
ruthlessness that finally puts him in harms way. On the day of the Webbss departure from their
mountain camp, Judson decides to put in two tablets of rat poison into one of the whiskey
bottles in his closet. He aims to trap the thief who stole his liquor the previous winter.
Mabel, Judsons wife is shocked by the...

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Explain the repetition in the poem "A River" by A. K. Ramanujan.

Therepetition in A River by A.K. Ramanujan
is interesting and painfullyironic. The poem itself is Ramanujan's way of atoning for the
neglect ofprevious poets, and repetition is one technique Ramanujan uses todirect the readers'
attention to his objectives.

The first repetitions of
poets and temples and
cities and temples draws two associations. The
first associates poets with a divine callthrough the association with temples. The second
associates cities withdivinity by the same means.

There is
ambiguity in this second repetition because
the association may be meant to show that cities too are holybecause of their human population.
It might also be meant to show anironic association of a corrupt population with holiness.
Theassociation of cities and temples may be intentionally ambiguous inorder to evoke both ideas.


Then again, the association of cities and
temples may be intentionally ambiguous in order to evoke both ideas.
On anotherlevel, this repetition has a third layer of ambiguity. It also draws anassociation
between the song of poets in relation to the poetsresponsibility to divine humanity in the
cities.

The repetitions of sand, flood, and
rising serve several purposes. While rising
and flood introduce the subject matter that inspired Ramanujan's
poetic contemplations (and protest), sand
foreshadows the upcoming discussion of the human victims of the flood.

The
most emotional and persuasive repetition is that concerning the

three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of
cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.

Itis in
this repetition that Ramanujan's points are tied to together:where the divine responsibility of
the poet to the divine nature ofhumanity, as well as the holy nature of the cities, are made
relevant todaily life. The holy nature of cities, expressed in the associationbetween cities and
temples, is further expressed in lines in the firststanza, such as:

the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven
water-buffaloes lounging in the sun

Thisfinal and most
persuasive repetition is where he chastises earlierpoets who "only sang of the
floods." Not only did they sing only of thefloods--neglecting the holiness of the city at
rest between floods--theyemphasized the cows above the pregnant woman by speaking of "a
coupleof cows / named Gopi and Brinda as usual." Thus, the poets violate theirdivine nature
by trivializing humanity and by humorously divertingattention away from the loss of holy life
belonging to the holy city:

The new poets still
quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant
woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even
before birth.
[...]
... identical twins
with no moles on their
bodies,
with different coloured diapers
to tell them apart.

Monday 10 February 2014

What is the symbolic relation to the island being like the Garden of Eden? I'm doing an essay on the symbolism in the book. I'm trying to relate all...

The
island in is similar to the biblical Garden of Eden in several ways.
First, it concerns relatively new beings and the choices these beings make, which will shape who
they are. While Adam and Eve were literally new humans in that they were the first to be
created, the boys on the island also may as well be a new type of society in that they are
forced into a situation in which they must shape their own destinies. This is in sharp contrast
to the relatively structured life from which they no doubt came. Much like the Garden of Eden,
the island on which the boys are stranded can be seen as an experiment.

Furthermore, the boys trapped on the island are submitted to a great temptation. However, it it
is not the fruit of knowledge that the boys are tempted by. Instead, they are tempted by
violence. The titular Lord of the Flies can indeed be seen as a parallel of the serpent,
insisting that the very nature of the children is darkness and violence, in the same way that
the...

A reaction (C7H6O3 + C4H6O3 --> C9H8O4 + C2H4O2) produced 2.44g of aspirin. The relevant molecular weights are 180.2 grams per mole for aspirin, and...

Percent yield =
(actual yield)/(theoretical yield) x 100%

The actual yield is what was
produced, 2.44 grams.

The theoretical yield can be calculated from the amount
of reactants that you started with. You didn't give this information, but I can walk you through
the process. 

To produce aspirin, salicylic acid (C7H6O3) is reacted with an
excess of acetic anhydride (C4H6O3). This is how we know that the salicylic acid is the limiting
reactant and is therefore used to determine theoretical yield.

You take the
grams of salicylic acid that you started with, and:

1. Divide it by the molar
mass of salicylic acid to get moles

2. Multiply moles obtained by the mole
ratio of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) to salicylic acid from the balanced equation to get
moles of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) produced

3. Multiply moles of
acetylsalicylic acid  (aspirin) by its molar mass.

The balanced equation
is:

`C_7H_6O_3 + C_4H_6O_3 -> C_9H_8O_4 + C_2H_4O_2`

Since the equation is balanced as written the the mole ratio of `C_9H_8O_4`     (acetyl
salicylic acid or aspirin) to `C_H_6O_3`

is 1:1.

For the
sake of example, I'm going to show the calculation as if you started with 2.00g of salicylic
acid. You should use the amount you actually started with in this calculation:

2.00g C7H6O3 x 1/138.2g x 1mole C9H8O4/1 mole C7H6O3 x 180.2g/1mol

=
(2.00g)(180.2)/(138.2) = 2.61 g = theoretical yield

% yield = (2.44g)/(2.61g)
x 100% = 93.5%

What is the "Organization Man" of the 1950s?

The organization
man completely yields to the organization he serves and is dependent on the institution for his
financial stability and feeling of belongingness. According to William Whytes study titled
"The Organization Man," he held interviews with employees of the major American
corporations of the time to try to understand their working environment, motivation, and
opinions in relation to the corporate world.

He discovered that those he
interviewed did not only work for the company that hired them but were also fully committed to
it over and above their personal interests. Further, the organization man organized social
groups comprised of work colleagues to foster a sense of belongingness for the individual
members. Individualism did not appeal to them, and these social groups were seen to be the
centers of knowledge and creativity. The organization man also allowed the conformist social
ethic to dominate his private life, and his major concern was to ensure the success of the
organization.

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Sunday 9 February 2014

What were the causes and effects of Pearl Harbor?

Short answer
is: Cause= America had placed an embargo on Japan due to their increasing power and taking over
most of the South Pacific islands. Japan was wanting to increase its oil for its war effort and
saw the Pacific Fleet of the United States as its biggest threat.

                        Effect= You've always heard that the bombing of Pearl Harbor
awoke a sleeping giant, and that it did. The United States was to remain neutral during the
second war in Europe and the bombing made declaring war a popular
reaction.

What was the purpose of publishing the open letter to Thomas Auld in 1848?

makes his purpose in publishing the open
letter to Thomas Auld clear in the final paragraph. Auld was his former slave master, from whom
he had run away exactly ten years before he wrote the letter on 3 September 1848. Having written
nine long paragraphs of narrative and , Douglass concludes by writing:

I intend to make use of you as a weapon with which to assail the
system of slaveryas a means of concentrating public attention on the system, and deepening their
horror of trafficking in the souls and bodies of men. I shall make use of you as a means of
exposing the character of the American church and clergyand as a means of bringing this guilty
nation with yourself to repentance.

Douglass says that he
entertains no malice towards Auld personally ("There is no roof under which you would be
more safe than mine") and that he would regard it as a privilege to show Auld how men ought
to treat each other. This was generous of him, since Auld was a cruel master. In fact, the two
did meet almost thirty years later in 1877, after the abolition of slavery, when Auld was on his
deathbed and told Douglass that in his place, he would also have run away.

Besides his public purpose, Douglass had a further personal reason for writing the
letter, which he discloses in paragraph eight:

At this
moment, you are probably the guilty holder of at least three of my own dear sisters, and my only
brother in bondage. These you regard as your property. They are recorded on your ledger, or
perhaps have been sold to human flesh mongers, with a view to filling your own ever-hungry
purse. Sir, I desire to know how and where these dear sisters are. Have you sold them? or are
they still in your possession? What has become of them? are they living or dead? And my dear old
grandmother, whom you turned out like an old horse, to die in the woodsis she still alive? Write
and let me know all about them.

He points out that if his
grandmother is still alive, she can be no possible use to anyone as a slave since she must be
almost eighty and asks Auld to send her to him, so that he can care for her in her old
age.

Explain the following passage taken from Adorno's Culture Industry Reconsidered: "The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that...

The term culture industry was coined by Adorno and a colleague to
reflect the mass production of products of entertainment for the masses, the process resembling
a production on factory assembly lines. This industry, they claimed, attempts to force consumers
into always adhering to market interests, thereby further supporting the ongoing culture
industry.

Adorno argues that this cultural industry has grown so large and
influential that people have collectively lost their capacity for individual thought. As people
strive for sameness, they conform to the ideals delivered to them through movies, ads, and
music. They no longer seek higher ideals such as freedom and creativity, settling (and even
striving) for the misleading psychological needs produced in capitalist markets. Therefore, the
real interests (or needs) of humans are neglected in this market, and intentionally
so.

Adorno goes on to say that humans are swayed so easily because of their
"ego weakness," and that American filmmakers...

Summarize what the criticisms of Scout reveal about the values of her community in To Kill a Mockingbird. How do most people in Maycomb County define...

In , the
only instance of the word "manliness" shows up in the novel. To be manly in Maycomb,
according to whathas internalized from her culture, is to be youthful and physically
active.

Scout andworry that 's age "reflected upon his abilities and
manliness." For example, their fifty-year father won't let the football-crazed Jem tackle
him, saying he is too old for that. Scout also complains that he doesn't have a physically
active job like most of her friends' fathers:

Atticus did
not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a
garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.

Worse, Atticus wears glasses and doesn't drink, smoke, hunt, fish,
or play pokerall activities that Scout identifies with being manly.

However,
when Atticus shows his prowess with a gun by shooting a rabid dog plaguing the neighborhood, he
goes up in Scout's estimation. She discovers he was once called "One-shot Finch"
because of his ability as a marksman. Suddenly he seems to Scout to be more in line with her
ideas of masculinity.

Miss Maudie tries to expand Scout's definition of what
it is to be masculine by pointing out that Atticus is modest: he doesn't talk about his ability
as a marksman because it is a God-given gift, not something he has accomplished on his own. When
Scout asks her why Atticus doesn't hunt since he is such a good shot, Miss Maudie
says:

If your fathers anything, hes civilized in his
heart. Marksmanships a gift of God, a talentoh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but
shootins different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he
realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

This redefinition of masculinity to include not bragging about
one's talents is lost on Scout, but she listens to Jem when he tells her not to talk about
Atticus's shooting skill in the schoolyard.

If the novel critiques a
stereotypical version of masculinity, it also, through Scout, critiques the dominant Maycomb
view of femininity expressed by Aunt Alexandra. Scout does all she can, backed by Atticus, to
avoid wearing dresses, acting like a little lady, and playing with tea sets, preferring overalls
and rough, outdoor activities. She also exposes the hypocritical viewpoints of the Maycomb
ladies who help (while belittling) the people in Africa while holding down the African Americans
in their own community.

Scout, whether she understand it or not, exposes
through her innocent eyes the racism and gender stereotyping of her
community.

Saturday 8 February 2014

If I had $100,000 to invest, which market stocks are good to invest in? Which consumer goods stocks are good and stable? Why? What is the best way to...

Some of the
best stocks to invest in that should prove stable and prone to growth are companies working with
environmental sustainability. As growing populations strain resources, and global climate change
affects weather patterns causing catastrophic damage, the kinds of infrastructural changes
needed to address these problems will be of interest to both entrepreneurs and established
companies looking to capitalize upon the needs of consumers and communities looking for more
sustainable options. One of these...

Friday 7 February 2014

In "A Streetcar Named Desire," why does Blanche find subduing her lust and sexual appetite so difficult? How do we describe her form of desire ?...

Blanche, in
"", finds it very difficult to control her sexual appetite and lust. We must remember
that she was let go from her teaching position for having an inappropriate relationship with a
student. (This shows two things: 1) Her appetite surpasses her morality; and 2) Her internal
conflict with aging.)

Many times throughout the text readers, or viewers of
the play, see her actions as sexual. She is constantly bathing herself and complaining about
light.  She is trying to maintain a youthful appearance by masking her true one.

One example from the text where we can see her indiscretions is her meeting with the
boy collecting for the paper.  Blanche literally throws herself at him and refuses to allow him
to leave before getting a kiss.

As for her past, Blanche survived by
prostituting herself. Therefore, the only way she knows how to survive is through the promise,
or , of sex.

In the end, everything Blanche knows about sex comes to a
blistering end when she is raped by Stanley.  While sexual tension has existed between them (and
most of the other men in the play), any rape should not be warranted. Regardless, the one thing
(sexuality) that helped her to survive became the main part of her ultimate
destruction.

What are the representations of women in James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

Joyce's
Portrait has a very unique perspective on women through its , Stephen
Dedalus. In the first chapter, there are only two women encountered in a significant way. These
are his mother and Dante, a friend of the family. Dante had been a nun and Stephen's mother is a
catholic. From Stephen's point of view, at his young and fragile age, these two women can be
compared to the Virgin Mary for the sake of this discussion.

Joyce also
describes a character by the name of Eileen Vance who lives next door to him and is Protestant.
The second page of...

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, how is Macbeth's ambition his hamartia?

At the beginning of the play,is described as a violent maniac, utterly fearless and
reckless in his blood-lust:

Disdaining fortune, with his
brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion
carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor
bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And
fix'd his head upon our battlements.

The response of
Kingto this terrifying conduct is all too predictable:

O
valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!

As long ass furious
violence is employed in the service of his King, he is...

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", how does Scout and Calprunia's relationship change during the first school year?

As her older
brothertakes some distance,is feeling a bit lonely and seeks refuge in Calpurnia's kitchen.  The
"soft side" in Calpurnia comes out, as we see her responding to Scout's need for
companionship and attention.  If not really approving, she takes less notice of Scout's
tomboyish ways than Aunt Alexandra, who later comes on the scene and tries to "reform"
Scout.

Scout's relationship with Calpurnia matures, too, when she sees
first-hand how Calpurnia lives among her own, maintaining a double standard in the way she
speaks to "fit in" on both sides of the tracks. Calpurnia also chastises Scout when
she needs it, such as when she made impolite comments  when Walter Cunningham comes to lunch and
pours syrup all over his plate. Calpurnia remains the Finch family's cook and housekeeper, but
she is the closest thing Scout will ever have to a mother...

What are possible solutions for the rep? A global sourcing representative for a major retail chain travels a good portion of the time, going from...

Considering
the scenario, it is clear that the Company Representative does not have 100% back up from the
government of Bangladesh no matter how many bills have been put in place and no matter the
support on the market. The rep also lacks 100% support from the Bangladeshi community because,
as they say themselves, there are very few alternatives for the children. The rep suffers a
triple blow in that he is now witness to what can be deemed as inhuman and illegal practices of
which he has no control.

Since he has a say in the company policy as a
representative, the potential solutions are:

• Report in detail
  the work practices of the Bangladeshi group. This, along with the steps (or lack-thereof) that
  have been taken to prevent it and the effects that such practices are...

What do the macaroons symbolize in A Dolls House?

In 's
, the macaroons symbolize 's acts of independence and deception. They also
represent 's efforts to control Nora and to treat her like a child.

Eating
the macaroons is Nora's way of disobeying her domineering husband. This act illuminates the
feminine issue in the play. Nora's growth as a person is stultified by her having to hide her
little pleasures and by the demands upon her by Torvald to be his "little sweetheart"
and his "little songbird"his "doll." These sobriquets suggest Nora's
dependence upon her husband and her helplessness. She is placed in...

Thursday 6 February 2014

Consider the experiences of Italians, Jews, and Asian Americans along with the impact of World War I and the Depression on the various groups in...

The historical analysis of the era provides
some clues as to why cultural pluralism was the norm for the pre-World War I through the
Depression. The current literature in the social sciences indicates cultural pluralism is not an
unusual phenomenon in our time as well. Many of the reasons for maintaining ethnic or racial
identities during the early twentieth century are the same as today.

There
are two sides to explaining the notion of cultural pluralism. The first is from the perspective
of the ethnic or racial group choosing to wall itself mostly off from the majority society. The
second is how the majority of the community decides to assimilate other ethnic and racial
identities in the majority culture. The society in which ethnic and racial groups relocate must
choose to accept the new culture within the majority.

From the historical
record of the early twentieth century, the research of the period points to the desire by the
majority to place barriers and obstacles to maintain a high degree of separation. The evidence
to support this claim is the Johnson-Reed Act or the Immigration Act of 1924. The act limited
the number of immigrants to 165,000 per year and put limits on the countries where immigrants
would originate. As an example, Asian immigration, that was critical to the success and building
of the railroads and mining industries in the West, virtually ended. European immigrants
declined every year after passage of the Bill until the law was revised in 1965. This is just
one of several government actions that can be interpreted as reflecting the American sentiment
of immigration. In combination with other types of discrimination, it is not difficult to
understand why some immigrants felt unwelcome in the United States. The immigrants residing in
the United States may have interpreted this action as hostile and as a mechanism of protection,
chose to remain separated from the majority society.

By analyzing the
historical record (journals, letters, newspapers, ect.) from the ethnic or racial perspective,
cultural plurality was the result of maintaining their cultural heritage and simultaneously for
assimilating into American society. These two are by no means cross purposes. Put yourself in
the shoes of an immigrant. Very likely, you do not speak the language. Your religion, music, and
how you dress sets you apart from what you observe to be the norm in American society. Until you
learned some necessary skills such as the language and without assistance from someone already
established in the community, an immigrant was very likely not much better off than from the
country they immigrated. Many times immigrants were forced to leave their home countries because
of war, famine, political instability, or lack of opportunity. Immigrants, for the most part,
did not choose to leave. They immigrate to a new country as the only viable option they have if
they are to survive. The social research and historical research during the era indicate many
planned on returning to the home country when stability returned, and it was safe. It is not
difficult then to understand why immigrants gravitated to and chose to remain a distinct ethnic
or racial community.

The answer to the question is both the treatment at the
hands of some American citizens and the desire to retain their unique cultural heritage for
their return home.

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The words Cessna Skyhawk have special meaning for anyone who has ever wanted to learn to fly. At 27 feet long and 8 feet tall, with a 36-foot...

The idea
of moving away from one-piece flow assembly line manufacturing to team manufacturing makes very
little sense to me in the context of manufacturing single-engine airplanes. This is the case for
a number of reasons:

First, for manufacturing at the scale that Cessna
intends to for single-engine aircraft, precision is paramount. Minimizing and avoiding defects
should be the number-one priority as an aircraft manufacturer; utilizing team manufacturing
introduces variability and, subsequently, the possibility for defects.

Second, the operation is moving two hours from Cessna headquarters, thus either
requiring Cessna-trained engineers or technicians to move from Wichita to Independence, making
hiring and retaining the talent necessary to be successful in team manufacturing
difficult.

Third, it is questionable that team-based manufacturing will be
faster or more efficient than assembly line manufacturing. That said, I think there are other
places that a team structure will be beneficial...

How is Robinson Crusoe the true homo economicus of the eighteenth century?

The character
ofis certainly the model "homo economicus." The novel is a serialization of the life
of a "man-made" survivalist. He even leaves his family for the sake of economic
betterment. At the beginning of the novel, his father desires him to maintain his middle-class
duties and resist the "poverty-stricken" fate of an ill-advised explorer.

Crusoe's inborn capitalism and desire for individual advantage are quite notable
throughout. He is the self-sufficient "economic man," and the island is essentially
fit for his exploitation. His resourceful industry and knowledge enable him to endure
twenty-four years on the island he is...

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Compare formative with summative assessment. What is the difference between them?

The
original question had to be edited.  The process of using formative and summative assessments
are critical to gauge student learning and progression in a particular concept.  Both are
important and both can be used in a strategic manner to read where students are and where they
need to be.  In analyzing the purposes and ends of both, one sees the differences between
them.

In the formative assessment, teachers are seeing where
students are in an ongoing process of learning.  Formative assessments are not as
stringent as summative assessments.  They can be informal or formal, but they are administered
in the course...

What is semantic development?

Semantic development explains how children
acquire new words and successfully attach meaning to them. This process begins before children
can even speak, as they are immersed in the language of the culture in which they are born.
Gradually, children begin to imitate some of these words they have repetitively heard which have
an especially significant meaning for them, typically beginning with the names of their
caregivers and requests for food.

As they practice more, they begin to make
connections to other words in their environment, often beginning with concrete nouns and visual
verbs and then branching out to modifiers for those words.

Even within common
nouns, children must learn various categories and usages of language. For example, a child may
learn the word cow by looking at a picture in a book. She must then learn
that the same visual image she passes in a field on her way to Nana's is also a
cow. She then learns that cows can look different: some are all brown, some
are black and white, others are solid black. But they all belong to the idea of
cow. Another child who lives on a farm might learn that her cow Bessie can
be categorized by the name Bessie, by the word cow, by
the classification of animal, and by the word pet.
Thus, semantic development includes how language is ordered and how children not only develop
singular words for ideas but how they begin to develop an organizational system for all those
words with various shades of meaning.

Semantic development relies heavily on
a larger social context for each child and varies depending on environmental influences and
supports, the intellectual abilities of the child, and the specific linguistic abilities she is
capable of performing.

What do you think of self-reliance by ralph waldo emerson, write a review about your feeling towards it.

I think
that if you are assigned to write a review there are several points on which you can focus.  I
like the idea of being able to construct a vision of individual consciousness that lies outside
the realm of social reality and perception.  There is an exaltation of the subjective that is
found in Emerson that is not found in other writers as much prior.  I think the idea of being
able to set apart the individual from a social order and actually be praising of it is essential
to not only the ideas that he puts forth in his essay, but also in the basic idea of what it
means to be an American.  The Emerson philosophy put forth in his work helps to define some of
the most basic elements of American thought and identity.  The notion of individualism and
creating a sense of self that lies outside what others think and perceive is central to the
identity and character of our nation.  An educational system has been built on the idea of being
proud of an individual and being able to "walk to one's own tune."  This is central to
Emerson's thesis and is one of the reasons why I would spend time on it in constructing a review
of the work.

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