Revenge in "Hamlet" Identify three instances of revenge in Hamlet and describe them. Who is seeking revenge in each instance? What is the outcome in each...

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Winston's fascination with the past. Discuss the significance of Winston's fascination with the past and what are its implications in a totalitarian...

His
fascination with the past is "bad" for two reasons.  First, it implies that he wishes
things were still like they used to be before the...

What are some useful quotes from 1984 about Winston and Julia's secret meeting in the woods?

and 's secret
meeting in the woods takes place in . In terms of useful quotations, it is important to include
a quotation that highlights the dangers of meeting secretly. Winston and Julia must be mindful
of the possibility of hidden microphones which would alert the Party to their meeting and, more
importantly, to their forbidden relationship:

"I
didnt want to say anything in the lane," she went on, "in case theres a mike hidden
there. I dont suppose there is, but there could be."

Secondly, when Winston asks Julia about her sexual history, she tells him that she is
not a novice:

Of course. Hundreds of timeswell, scores of
times, anyway.

This is important because it shows Julia
is not as innocent as people might think. Julia is a very sexual person who expresses her hatred
of the Party through her body....

In act 1 scene 3 of Hamlet, what is Laertes's advice to Ophelia?

In ,is
about to depart for France. Before he leaves, however, he offers his sister, , some advice about
her relationship with . Firstly, he tells her not to take too seriously the affections thathas
shown for her. He says that she should consider Hamlet's affections "a fashion and a toy in
blood." In other words, Laertes doubts that Hamlet really loves his sister, and suspects
that Hamlet's affections are a temporary consequence of youthful, hot-blooded passion. He says
that Hamlet's affections for his sister will not last, and that they are only the "perfume
and suppliance of a minute. / No more."

Laertes then tells Ophelia to
remember that Hamlet, as a member of the royal family, is "subject to his birth," and
that, therefore, whatever choice he might make as regards who becomes his wife, may not be his
choice alone. The implication is that even if Hamlet did love her, he might very well have to
disappoint her later when he has to choose a woman more suitable to take the position of
queen.

Laertes continues by implying that Hamlet might really only be
interested in having sex with Ophelia. He asks Ophelia to imagine what it would be like to have
given her "chaste treasure" (her virginity) and thus her honor to Hamlet, only for him
to subsequently tell her that he can't marry her because the country, and the royal family, want
somebody else to be the queen. Laertes implores his sister to be afraid of this eventuality, and
to bear it in mind should Hamlet ever tell her that he loves her. Laertes tells Ophelia that to
remain afraid of this outcome is the best way for her to remain chaste, and honorable, while he
is away.

In "Oedipus Rex", how long had the plague on Thebes taken place?

As the play
opens,meets a procession of citizens coming to petition him. They speak of a deadly plague that
"consumes the buds and fruits of the earth." It also kills livestock and unborn babies
and brings death to the people of Thebes. The delegation implores Oedipus, though he is not a
god, to help them. They call him wise.

Oedipus tells them he is already aware
of the deadly plague. He says he has taken matters into his own hands. He has sentto the oracle
of Delphi to find out if he can find a solution that will end the illness.

We
learn that Creon is returning from Delphi just as the crowd makes its plea. Since Delphi is more
than 550 miles round trip, we have to imagine it would take at least 10 or 11 days at top-speed
to get there and back. Creon would also have to allot time to actually visit the oracle. If we
say as a rough estimate that Creon has been gone 2 weeks, we can back up to when the eruption of
the plague became so evident that people became worried.

The plague must have
been going on in full force for at least 3 weeks, probably longer, for Oedipus to have heard of
it, made a decision to send Creon to Delphi, and for Creon to get to Delphi and come
back.

In the novel The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway, Discuss Jake relationship with Brett, Robert and Bill.

hmm...those are
all very complicated relationships.Although Jake considers all of them as friends, you can sense
the animosity that he has towards Brett and Robert.This probably has more to do with Jake
himself than with the others.
Starting with Brett, Jake and Brett have an odd
relationship.Although Brett refuses Jakes advances, it doesn't seem as though he minds that
much. It may be that they both know that a romantic affair is impossible given...

Why was Christopher Columbus a hero?

Traditionally, Christopher Columbus has been
seen as a hero because of his role as an explorer, facing harsh conditions and the unknown as he
made his famous voyage. He wanted to forge a western path to the East Indies so that trade with
those nations could be accomplished much more quickly. It took him some time before his lobbying
paid off with the Spanish king and queen.

One myth claims Columbus was heroic
because he stood his ground against the idea that the earth was flat and that his voyage across
the sea was meant to be a way of illustrating the earth's roundness, but this has since been
debunked.

As of recent years, many have disputed the heroic image of Columbus
due to his harsh treatment of the native Cuban and Hispaniolan peoples, subjecting them to
enslavement, torture, and rape at the hands of his men. He was primarily interested in getting
land and gold for the Spanish Empire, so his goals were not entirely noble.

He also sought to convert the natives to Catholicism, an act which may have been heroic
by the standards of his culture but would be seen in a more negative light now, since this
conversion involved the destruction of native cultures and killing those who refused to
convert.

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Why does Scout wish that her father was "a devil from hell" in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Like a
lot of children,finds her dad to be rather uncool, at least by comparison with other children's
dads. Scout dearly loves , but finds him a little boring. He doesn't do any of the things that
other dads do, and he doesn't have any special talents or skills. (Or so she thinks; she's yet
to discover Atticus' skills as a marksman.) He just spends most of his free time reading
quietly.

That's why Scout sometimes wishes that Atticus were a devil from
hell. At least then she'd have something to brag about to the other children. The devil may be
wicked, devious, and unpredictable, but at least there's something fascinating about him, which
is more than can be said of Atticus. That is until he picks up his rifle and dispatches the
rabid dog Tim Johnson with one shot. Then, Scout finds Atticus amazingly cool all of a
sudden.

I wonder if you could answer this question. How do I compare and contrast the two fathers in the story--Bob Ewell and Atticus Finch? Also, the...

There are many
more contrasts between these two figures than there are adequate comparisons. Let's first focus
on one similarity: Neither has a female counterpart. 's wife has died, and Mr. Ewell is also a
single father.

Beyond that similarity, however, all of the contrasts are
stark and apparent: Mr. Ewell treats his children with disdain and rancor, whereas Atticus
treats his children with respect, gentleness, and kindness. Mr. Ewell has had frequent run-ins
with the law and trouble with alcoholism, whereas Atticus does not drink, and is considered a
pillar in the community. The Ewells are monetarily poor, and while the Finches aren't rich,
their lifestyle is more plentiful than average. Mr. Ewell displays racism and bigotry,
and...

How can I write a thesis statement comparing and contrasting Christianity and Islam in the context of knowledge and belief?

The thesis
here has to compare the ideas of knowledge and belief in Christianity and Islam. In
Christianity, Faith is Knowledge and Faith dictates action. In Islam, knowledge comes before
action and informs faith. Christianity places a much higher value on faith; Islam on knowledge.
In the sentinel book Warranted Christian Belief, Alvin Plantinga actually
asserts that belief in the teachings of the gospel is knowledge itself. The Quron teaches that
human reason is key to arriving at a true faith. So a thesis statement might sound something
like this: "Christianity and Islam put different value in faith and knowledge. Christianity
values belief over knowledge and believes faith dictates action, whereas Islam values knowledge
over belief and believes that man must use his intellect to arrive at a complete
faith." 

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Compare and contrast the literary elements between a short story and a play.

In the
absence of a narrator, a play relies heavily on stage directions, such as asides, to direct the
reader's attention to key details about character, plot, or setting. A play will also
communicate key information through monologues and soliloquies, which by their nature are not
features of short stories. Dialogue, while present in both plays and short stories, becomes even
more important in a play, as it is the primary way that characters are developed. Some literary
elements will be present in both plays and short stories: plays often contain rich symbolism,
like Cyrano de Bergerac, which uses the white flag/plume as a key symbol. ,
suspense, andmay also be present in both genres. Shakespeare's play Hamlet
obviously contains all three, but so does the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by
Richard Connell, for example.

To what extent did the election of Abraham Lincoln as president cause the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War?

The election
of Abraham Lincoln did cause the outbreak of the Civil War, but only in the immediate sense.  To
think of what this means, think of a person who smokes, is terribly obese, and never exercises. 
The person goes out for a walk and has a heart attack.  Did the walk cause the heart attack?  In
a sense, it did, but the heart attack was really caused by all of the things that had gone
before.  Lincolns election was the same way.

Lincolns election was the
relatively immediate...

How does Hawthorne use irony in "Young Goodman Brown" to illustrate the hypocrisy of the Puritans?

The centralof "" is the same irony that highlights the hypocrisy of the
Puritans: the people who appear to be pure and religious by day are actually consorting with the
devil in the woods at night.

The title character begins the story by kissing
his wife Faith goodbye and going on an apparently obligatory journey into the forest (one that
must be taken at night). He meets a man in the forest who symbolizes the devil, and this devil
takes him through the woods and eventually to a satanic ritual. Along the way, they meet people
from the town, and the devil exposes their hidden sins and secrets. For example, Goody Cloyse,
who was Brown's religion teacher, is called a "friend" of the devil. This shows that
she is holy by day but wicked by night; in other words, she has a dark side under her social
facade.

Later, Brown sees that even his wife Faith is involved in the
ritual in the woods. It seems everyone in town is a sinner and hides some dark secrets about his
or her...

Explain how the relationship between Emma and Miss Taylor changes over time.

Though
formally hired as 's governess, Miss Taylor, or Mrs. Weston as she later becomes, acts as more
of an older sister towards her young charge. Among other things, this means that Miss Taylor
doesn't adequately step into the shoes of the deceased Mrs. Woodhouse. Unlike her predecessor,
discipline's not really Miss Taylor's thing. She's more of a boon companion than an authority
figure, and quickly develops an easy intimacy with Emma.

The downside of
this, of course, is that Emma loses her way a little. Without an adult authority figure to guide
her, Emma becomes quite conceited, thinking herself better than the denizens of Highbury. Miss
Taylor's friendship with Emma has had the unfortunate effect that the young lady's numerous
character flaws have gone unchallenged, greatly hindering her development as an adult. Miss
Taylor's indulgence of her charge has led to a complete role reversal in the normal
teacher-student relationship, as Mr. Knightley shrewdly observes:

You might not give Emma such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise;
but you were receiving a very good education from her...

Once Mrs. Weston (as Miss Taylor's now become) gets married and has
to leave Hartfield, Emma is understandably bereft. Not only has she lost a very close companion,
but she knows that her days of getting away with murder are well and truly numbered. Emma must
soon put away childish things and start to mature as an adult, a long overdue process that was
only further delayed by her former governess's well-meaning indulgence.

Describe the early life of Gulliver.

In
Chapter 1, Lemuel Gulliver mentions that he was the third of five sons, who attended Emanuel
College in Cambridge before becoming Mr. James Bates's apprentice. As Bates's apprentice,
Gulliver learns the science of navigation and mathematics, which he later applies throughout his
various journeys. Gulliver then attends Leyden University, where he studies physics for two and
a half years. After returning from Leyden, Gulliver becomes a surgeon on the Swallow, where he
makes several trips to the Levant. Gulliver then opens his own practice in London and marries
Mrs. Mary Burton. Shortly after Mr. Bates dies Gulliver's practice begins to fail. Gulliver then
becomes a surgeon on several ships, which make successful voyages to the West Indies. Gulliver
then returns to London and attempts to start his practice again, but does not find success.
After three miserable years, Gulliver joins Captain William Prichard's ship as a surgeon.
Unfortunately, Gulliver becomes shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, where the citizens are
six inches tall.

In The Interpreter of Maladies, what is the role of an interpreter?

The term
"interpreter" on the most basic level simply means a translator, or more specifically
someone who does oral translation in person as opposed to a literary translator who works
primarily with written materials.

The role of the interpreter is necessitates
by the linguistic situation of the Indian subcontinent. India has over 122 major languages, and
many different dialects. Over 29 Indian languages have more than one million native speakers.
There is no official language, but the two most commonly taught and spoken are English and
Hindi. Medical schools in India teach exclusively in English, and thus Indian doctors may
require interpreters if their patients speak languages with which they are
unfamiliar. 

Kapasi works as an interpreter for a doctor due to his fluency
in several languages. Ironically, though, his linguistic expertise is not matched by his
cultural knowledge, and thus he fails to understand Mrs. Das, who is a westernized woman of
Indian descent.

Can you give a stanza-by-stanza annotation (including important literary techniques) for Kenneth Slessor's poem "Five Bells"?

Gaia Chandler, M.A.

Literary techniques are specific expressions of language that writers use to create
meaning in their work. These expressions can include figures of speech, such as metaphors, and
sound effects like . In "Five Bells" (1939), Australian poet Kenneth Slessor uses rich
and varied literary techniques to create multiple layers of meaning. Reading the poem closely a
few times is very useful in peeling back these layers to reveal new interpretations.

I can think of three important literary techniques Slessor uses in the poem, the first
of which is the poem's structure itself. Ana poem mourning or
commemorating someone deceasedfor his close friend Joe Lynch who died by drowning, the poem is
structured in a way that deliberately recalls the tension that exists between the two aspects of
time. One aspect of time is its linear nature, which we can call "clock time" and by
which we organize our lives. The other aspect is "memory time," which is nonlinear,
fast-traveling, and...

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Why did Hester name her child Pearl in The Scarlet Letter?

Hester's naming her childis significant for a
variety of reasons. They mainly deal with theof as a whole. The name Pearl
also reflects the complicated way Hester perceives her sudden motherhood and her child's
peculiar character.

Pearl's name represents two contrasting elements of her
character. On the one hand, she is the most important person in Hester's life. Hester is willing
to do and sacrifice anything for her child. She also delights in Pearl's intelligence and
energy. On the other hand, Pearl was born as a result of Hester's own indiscretion. The latter
seems to point more towards Hester's choice of name, as pointed out by the text
itself:

How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she
watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence
that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child! Her Pearl!For so had
Hester called her; not as a name expressive of her aspect, which had nothing of the calm, white,
unimpassioned lustre that would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant
Pearl, as being of great price,purchased with all she had,her mother's only
treasure!

Thatshould name her illegitimate child Pearl is
deeply ironic. Pearl's existence makes Hester's adultery common knowledge and leads to her
expulsion from polite Puritan society. When Pearl grows into a child, she is mischievous and
causes her mother no shortage of frustration, refusing to give the proper answers to religious
questions posed by the town elders, for instance.

An additionalis that Hester
initially fears her child might turn out to have some wicked nature, due to the way which she
was conceived:

God, as a direct consequence of the sin
which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored
bosom, to connect her parent forever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a
blessed soul in heaven! Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than
apprehension. She knew that her deed had been evil; she could have no faith, therefore, that its
result would be good. Day after day, she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature,
ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the
guiltiness to which she owed her being.

That any good
could come out of her sin is inconceivable to Hester at first, just as it is to the town. The
elders fear Pearl is doomed because she is being raised by a "wicked" mother and was
conceived in the midst of an adulterous liaison. The other children single Pearl out and mock
her. And yet, Pearl proves an exceptional child, wild yet certainly not evil.

The name Pearl takes on additional meanings at the end of the story, once Hester and
her child leave the town for Europe. Pearl makes a good match on the continent and marries well.
Her name reflects her fortunate state at that point.

In the end, Pearl allows
Hester to mature as a person, becoming more generous and forgiving as a result of her being
ostracized, and she gives her mother joy. Pearl grows to marry and find happiness elsewhere,
showing that Hester's sin did not lead entirely to misery and wickedness, but redemption and
love as well, tying into the novel'sabout grace.

Derivative Of E^x

Given f(x) =
e^3x

We need to find the first derivative f'(x) using the chain
rule.

We will assume that u= 3x ==> u' = 3

==> f(x)
= e^u

==> Now we will differentiate:

==> f(x) =
(e^u)' = u' * e^u du

==> Now we will substitute with x.

==> f(x) =3 ** e^3x = 3*e^3x

Thenthe derivative of
f(x) is f'(x) = 3*e^3x

How does the introduction, "The Custom House," relate to the novel The Scarlet Letter? I read "The Custom House," and to me it relates to the story...

Much argument
has taken place over the importance of The Custom House in Hawthornes .
Certainly, most high school students probably find it somewhat dense compared to the rest of the
narrative. As a result, many high school teachers skip this section of the novel in their
teaching.

 

This fact is unfortunate as The Custom House
really sets the stage for the rest of the novel. In it the reader is introduced to the narrator,
who shares many similarities with

How does Shakespeare, through the use of literary and dramatic devices, explore Juliet's struggle when she hears the news of Tybalt's death in Romeo...

Whenfirst hears
the news thatkilled , she is distraught.  She is torn between her love for Romeo and her love
for her cousin, and initially, she is confused about where her first loyalties lie.

It takes a while for the Nurse to clearly tell Juliet what has happened, and the
Nurse's confusing outbursts at first lead Juliet to think that Romeo himself is dead.  When she
finally understands the truth, she cries out:

O God! did Romeo's
hand shed Tybalt's blood?

The Nurse confirms this news, and Juliet
responds venomously at first with a series of powerful metaphors and oxymorons, as well as , to
Romeo's suspected duplicity:

O serpent heart, hid with a
flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend
angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of
divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an
honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst
bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever
book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should
dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!

She cannot get
over the fact that Romeo looks so beautiful, so good, and so kind on the outside, yet secretly
harbors such ugliness and evil.  However, as soon as the Nurse agrees with her, saying that
"there's no trust/no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured/all forsworn, all naught, all
dissemblers," and asking that "shame come to Romeo," Juliet comes to Romeo's
defense:

Blister'd be thy tongue
For such a wish!
he was not born to shame:
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a
throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O,
what a beast was I to chide at him!

This speech, again
using both metahor and personification, as well as , clearly shows the turmoil Juliet is going
through.  Her cousin has been her close relative and friend for many years, but Romeo is now her
husband, her true love, and she realizes that her first loyalty should be to him.  She
therefore asks the Nurse:

Shall I speak ill of him that is my
husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy
three-hours wife, have mangled it?

Juliet is only able to accept
Tybalt's death when, upon reflection, she realizes that if Romeo had not killed Tybalt, Tybalt
would have killed him:

That villain cousin would have kill'd my
husband:
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops
belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that
Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my
husband:
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?

Her
grief, however, does not end at this point, for the news of Romeo's banishment leaves her
disconsolate.  She would rather hear the news of Tybalt's, her mother's and her father's deaths
than to hear that her lover will not be able to come to her.

In the story "The Tell-Tale Heart," what is an example of onomatopoeia?

is a
literary device in which a word is formed to imitate a sound. Examples include "ring,"
"pow," "snap," and "boom." 

The first example
of onomatopoeia in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is the word
"creaked." It describes the sound the lantern made when the narrator lifted the slats
to reveal the light.

And then, when my head was well in
the room, I undid the lantern cautiouslyoh, so cautiouslycautiously (for the hinges creaked)I
undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.

The next example is the word "groan." The old man wakes
up startled when the narrator slips and makes a noise with the lantern. After asking who is
there and hearing nothing, the narrator describes his groans of terror. The word groan describes
the sound that came out of the old man's throat. The quote is below: 

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of
mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of griefoh, no!it was the low stifled sound that
arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well.

The third example is the word "chirp." In the story, it
is describing the sound a cricket makes by rapidly rubbing its legs together. The narrator is
speculating as to what the old man is thinking. He supposes he is rationalizing the noise by
saying it was the wind, or a mouse, or a cricket: 

He had
been saying to himself"It is nothing but the wind in the chimneyit is only a mouse crossing
the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp."

The next example occurs when the police come over to investigate
after the neighbors report the shriek they heard. He is chatting casually with them, and then he
becomes uncomfortable and wants them gone. The narrator states: "My head ached, and I
fancied a ringing in my ears." The word ringing describes the sound in his ears and is
another example of onomatopoeia. 

The sound of the heartbeat itself is not
described with onomatopoeia because it isn't really happening. It is all a figment of the
narrator's imagination. 

Chaucer is the father of English literature.Discuss?

It's a
little old-fashioned to refer to anybody as the "father" of anything. Patriarchy
chafes in this day and age, (see Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own for a
meditation on the unsung contributions of the foremothers), and assigning Chaucer such a grand
title suggests that he singlehandedly "spawned" all of the rest of English literature.
(He himself might laugh at the designation.) If we want to be careful in our use of language, it
might be better to say that Chaucer made an important contribution to the far larger stream of
English literature, a stream to which many were contributing in many different ways.

That being said, Chaucer did make important contributions. He might be seen in some
circles as a "father" because The Canterbury Tales,
though written in Middle English, is nevertheless composed in anmuch closer to modern
English than that used by other poets of his period writing in the vernacular, such as William
Langland. In other words, a modern person can read and more or less understand Chaucer's
English. Second, although Chaucer based his characters on stereotypical types, which was common
in the Middle Ages, he created characters that became three-dimensional human beings and
transcended their typing. Characters such as the Wife of Bath emerge with distinct
personalities. Chaucer also was an early humorist, a strand that has been important in the
English tradition and which was picked by Shakespeare, many earlier novelists such as Sterne,
Fielding, and Austen and continues to be important to the present day in writers such as Ali
Smith. In these various ways, he helped to move English literature forward toward
modernity.

How is the use of Vulnerable, Mindful, Commendable, Equivocal, Harmful, and Imminent significant to the theme of the poem "House of Changes?" The poem...

"House
of Changes" is an extendedin which the speaker's body is directly compared to a house of
bickering women.  The women are all named above: Vulnerable, Mindful, Commendable, etc.  These
are the names of "personalities" the speaker has personified as different women who
all live inside her at the same time.  Clearly, the speaker views herself as a multi-faceted
woman...

In the play Romeo and Juliet, what does Romeo mean when he says, "Then I defy you, stars"?

It means
he is defying fateor attempting to, at any rate, because unfortunately fate will ultimately
defeat both .

has just been wrongly informed of 's death. His immediate
reaction to this tragic situation, as well as intense sorrow, is one of angry defiance. Romeo
recognizes himself as the plaything of fortune and subject to the whims of fate. But he's not
going to take this lying down; he's determined to take his fate into his own hands by heading
back to Verona and killing himself in Juliet's tomb.

Thehere is that in his
attempts to defy fate, Romeo is actually making it happen. For when Juliet wakes from her
drug-induced slumbers and sees Romeo's dead body lying next to her, she stabs herself to death,
thus fulfilling the sad fate of the star-cross'd lovers.

How did Orwell's experiences possibly lead him to believe in socialism?

experienced
life in a confusing part of history.  He was born in the 1903 and passed away in 1950. Because
of the timing of his life and his eventual rejection of his fortunate upbringing, he witnessed
much pain and felt great empathy toward the working class.

First,grew up in a
privileged manner. After graduating and working in this way, he began to resent his privileged
status and the British Empire that encouraged this way of life. As a result, he
started...

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In Voltaire's Candide, what are the main themes found in the old woman's history?

In 's
novel, , three themes stand out in the old woman's tale.

The old woman has not always been a servant; in fact, she was once a member of the
nobilitythe Princess of Palestrina. The first theme I would identify would be that being born to
greatness does not guarantee lifelong happiness. For instance, the old woman speaks of her
betrothal to a prince of Massa-Carrara.

I was about to
reach the peak of my happiness when an old marchesa who'd once been my prince's mistress invited
him to her house for chocolate. He died in less than two hours, with...

What was the last major change of the pigs to make them indistinguishable from humans in Animal Farm?

's pigs had already made
the transition to nearly complete human-like behavior. They slept in beds, ate human food, drank
liquor and, in the end, they proudly began to strut upright on two legs. Whenmet with their
human neighbor farmers in the final chapter, this time in friendship, they toasted one another
and Mr. Pilkington commented about the pigs "having your lower animals to contend with...
we have our lower classes." They all...

What does Cecil Jacobs talk about for his current event report?

In ,
Cecil Jacobs goes to the front of the classroom and begins discussing an article regarding Adolf
Hitler's persecution of the European Jews. Cecil Jacobs tells the class that Hitler has been
taking property away from the Jews, imprisoning them, and rounding them up. Cecil's current
event leads to a class discussion regarding the differences between Nazi Germany and America.
Miss Gates proceeds to say that the primary difference between both countries is that Germany is
a dictatorship and America is a democracy. She then comments that persecution and prejudice do
not exist in America.is unnerved by Miss Gates's comment and recognizes her hypocrisy. Scout
understands that she lives in a prejudiced community that discriminates against African
Americans and realizes that Miss Gates is a racist hypocrite.

What metaphor is there in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?

The
eponymous old man with enormous wings, who some think is a fallen angel and others think might
be a Norwegian, is arguably arepresenting difference, which would make this story one about how
we respond to difference.

The first reaction to the winged man is fear.
Pelayo is at first frightened and stands over the winged man "with his bailiff's
club," before locking him up "with the hens in the wire chicken coop." The fear
provoked by the winged man's appearance reflects the fear that often, unfortunately but perhaps
naturally enough, is the first reaction to difference. This is evident in all kinds of different
ways, and throughout all eras, whether it be the fear of immigrants or refugees that we see
today, the fear of people with a different skin color that characterized the European
colonization of Africa in the nineteenth century, or the fear of disabled people which in the
sixteenth century led the likes of Luther and John Calvin to declare that disabled people
were...

In what ways does the idea of progress shape Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe? If Unoka, Okonkwo, and Nwoye are symbolic of three successive...

presents a challenge to the positivist idea of historythat
conditions continually improve over timeby depicting the change to Umuofia's culture as a result
of Christian missionaries. When the novel begins,is a powerful man and a leader in his tribe. He
is famous for wrestling and for growing yams, both of which establish his masculinity. Okonkwo
lives in opposition to his father before him. His father was a musician and was always poor and
asking others for help. Okonkwo resents his father and vows to be nothing like him. In some
sense, at least in Okonkwo's mind, his life is better than his father's; he has made progress
compared to the generation before him. He hopes that progress will continue with his son , but
his son is sensitive, unlike Okonkwo. In fact, one of Okonkwo's daughters is his favorite, but
he laments that he cannot treat her like a true heir because she is a girl.

Eventually, when the missionaries have taken over the village, Nwoye...

In the novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," how is the historical and political setting relevant to its themes of lightness and heaviness?

francis-xavier

is a complex read because of its philosophical themes, many
characters, nonlinear plot, and political setting. Due to Kundera (the author) himself
experiencing some of the 1968 political turmoil, the political setting is actually a bit
incidental and secondary to the main themes.

The political setting can be
broken into two fundamentally opposing groups: those for communism and those against it. The
philosophical themes can also be broken into fundamentally opposing things: heaviness and
lightness.

The novel makes a great case for how difficult it is to determine
whether something falls into the lightness category or the heaviness category. The novel cites
Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Recurrence (the concept that all of history has occurred and will
occur again...

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Give me information about introduction of the second half of 20th century in the field of the novel Give me information about introduction of...

The
second half of the twentieth century was a period of great thinkers who began to probe beneath
the hidden face of power. Sociologist, anthropologists, linguists, philosophers all contributed
to create a hermeneutic of suspicion. For this reason all knew that there was more than meets
the eye. For example, governments spin ideology and science is not objective. So, the idea of
what is "true" began to be challenged. It was a time of deconstructing what people
ordinarily took for granted. To put it another way, there was a shift from a modern worldview
with strong claims...

Please explain the significance of the worn path in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path."

The
significance of the physical, titular path that Phoenix Jackson uses to get to town when
retrieving medicine for her grandson is that it illustrates the love and commitment that Phoenix
has to her family. Phoenix is perfectly familiar with every aspect of the path, seeming to have
cataloged every step based on what it represents for her arduous journey. She approaches certain
moments with a warm familiarity and others with a resolute but still present dread, saying
"now comes the trial."

Even though Phoenix is in no physical
condition to be making such a journey, she still makes it "like clockwork," and others
on the path have become familiar with her. In fact, the only reason she is able to complete her
journey is because people in the city recognize her, even though she has forgotten why she is
there.

What are the three orders in Ancient Greek architecture?

The three
orders in Ancient Greek architecture are Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic. These architectural
classifications have been used since the first century B.C., when the Romans adopted these
orders as part of their architectural system. These orders are generally used to define and
describe all neo-classical European architecture.

• Corinthian order
  - these columns, the most ornate of the three, are slender and fluted, decorated with several
  rows of acanthus leaves and scrolls.
• Doric order - these columns are the
  "oldest, simplest, and most massive" of the three orders; they are fluted with a round
  base (though often they are free-standing) and a square top.
• Ionic order -
  these columns are taller and thinner than Doric columns and are recognizable by the two scrolls
  at the top.

Both links below have drawings and diagrams of each
order of columns. 

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What advice do both Polonius and Laertes give to Ophelia in Hamlet? I.iii

Just
before departing for his studies in Paris,gives some unsolicited advice to his sister, . He
tells her that 's attentions are not to be taken seriously; he's just going through a typical
phase of hot-blooded youth. And besides, even ifreally is in love with Ophelia, as a member of
the royal family, he's not in a position to make his own decisions concerning matters of the
heart; he has family responsibilities to consider.

Taking everything into
consideration, Ophelia should be on her guard against Hamlet, Laertes advises. Even if he
professes his undying love for her, she should remain cautious. Furthermore, it would be
shameful for Ophelia to allow Hamlet to open her "chaste treasure" (i.e., take her
virginity). Even good girls can get a bad reputation, and that's the last thing Laertes wants
for his little sister.

As for, he tells Ophelia that Hamlet's professions of
love mean absolutely nothing. His affections are not real, and if Ophelia believes...

What is the man's attitude toward the situation in "Hills Like White Elephants"? What are his primary concerns?

offers
a story of a man and a woman who have fundamentally different visions of their lives and of
their possible life together. The man seems to believe that they could indefinitely continue a
carefree, almost-nomadic lifestyle....

In Act II, scene 1 of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, where does Polonius send Reynaldo? Why does he send him there?

is
sendingto Paris to deliver some money and "notes" to . This shows that Laertes has
been gone from Denmark for some time, since he said goodbye to his father and his sisterin . The
crafty Polonius is concerned about his son's behavior, or possible misbehavior, in Paris.
Laertes is young and has never been away from home before. Polonius knows there are many ways
for young men to get in trouble when they are on their own. He tells Reynaldo:

You shall do marvelous wisely, good Reynaldo,
Before you
visit him, to make inquire
Of his behaviour.

Obviously, Polonius is mainly concerned about keeping some sort of watch over his
beloved son. He gives Reynaldo extensive advice about how to "inquire of his
behaviour." Evidently he thinks Reynaldo should make such inquiries "before" he
visits him so that Laertes won't know Reynaldo is in Paris. Also, this will give Reynaldo an
excuse for asking questions about Laertes, as if he were having trouble finding him in the big
French city.

Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge
of him,
As thus, €˜I know his father and his friends,
And in part him. Do you
mark this, Reynaldo?
€˜And in part him, but, you may say, €˜not well....
if't
be he I mean, he's very wild,
Addicted so and so; and there put on him
What
forgeries you pleasemarry, none so rank
As may dishonour him, take heed of
that
But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips
As are companions noted
and most known
To youth and liberty.

Shakespeare
introduced Laertes to his audience in Act I, along with all the other principalin the play; but
the playwright had no present use for the Laertes and sent him off to France until he would be
needed much later after the death of his father Polonius. Shakespeare's main purpose for staging
the meeting between Polonius and Reynaldo Inseems to be to establish that Laertes is now in
far-away Paris and that some time has passed since he left. Laertes had to be introduced in Act
I so that the audience would recognize him when he came storming back to Denmark in
.

What is Martin Luther King's dream in the "I Have a Dream" speech?

King's dream was the
dream of racial equality: an America where whites and blacks possess the same opportunities and
rights. He discusses the abolition of slavery some one hundred years prior, but he argues that
blacks have continued to exist in a different kind of enslavement since then. He says that the
founding fathers of the nation issued a kind of promise to all Americans, that

all menyes, black men as well as white menwould be guaranteed the
unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that
America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are
concerned.

Though such a promise was madea promise that
each citizen would have access to the same freedomsthe United States has been delinquent in
making sure that such freedoms are equal. King's dream is that this promise will be fulfilled,
that the white citizens of the country will recognize that we will all succeed or fail together,
that it is "shameful" for so many of its citizens to live in poverty, without access
to good education or opportunities for success.

Find the derivative of fog(x) is f(x)= 2x-3 and g(x) = x^2-2

We have f(x)=
2x-3 and g(x) = x^2 - 2

fog(x) = f(g(x))

=> f( x^2 -
2)

=> 2*(x^2 - 2) - 3

=> 2x^2 - 4 - 3

=> 2x^2 - 7

The derivative of 2x^2 - 7 = 4x

The required derivative is 4x.

 

Give an example of a simile, metaphor, or personification from any part of Catching Fire and explain its meaning.

 is the second book
which comprises  Trilogy, written byas part of her young adult series. As
Collins describes the dystopian environment within which Katniss Everdeen (Kat) must survive and
succeed, she uses literary devices to help describe the intense, extreme and often devastating
events and circumstances.

Ais a comparison where two items, emotions, events,
settings or situations which ordinarily would not be relative to each other, are paralleled.
There are many examples of metaphor in this book and one is when, in chapter one, Kat says,
"I would try to forget the Hunger Games entirely. Never speak of them. Pretend they were
nothing but a bad dream." Here Collins is comparing the games to a nightmare.

gives human characterisitcs to inanimate objects, animals or, in this case, a process,
circumstance or action. In chapter twenty seven, Plutarch tells Kat that she is the motivation
behind what they do. Without Kat, there will be no purpose. She effectively gives life to the
revolution: "While you live, the revolution lives..." Kat is such an integral part of
the revolutionary process even without any specific involvement with the revolutionaries and so
it is discussed as if it is human and has its own personality. 

Similes make
comparisons by revealing similarities between things, feelings, actions and so on by using the
word "like" or saying something is "as...as." In this quote from chapter
seven, Gale is trying to make Kat realize that her actions have been justified and inspiring
others is a good thing. He says, "Starve? Work like slaves?..." and reminds her that
she has created opportunity and hope where none existed. In chapter thirteen, we have ausing
"as," when Kat says,"I'm as good as dead now." 

Use the properties of integrals to verify the inequality without evaluating the integrals. integrate from `int_0^1 sqrt(1+x^2)dx lt int_0^1...

You should
remember that `a dx.`

Notice that 0<1 and you need to verify if `sqrt(1+x^2) < sqrt(1+x)
` over the interval [0,1] such that:

If `x in [0,1] => x^2 < x =>
x^2 + 1 < x + 1 => sqrt(x^2 + 1)

Since `sqrt(x^2 +
1)

`sqrt(x^2 + 1) int_0^1 sqrt(x^2 + 1) dx < int_0^1
sqrt(x+1)dx`

Hence, using the properties of integrals yields
that inequality `int_0^1 sqrt(x^2 + 1) dx < int_0^1 sqrt(x+1) dx` 
holds.

In Animal Farm, how is the Battle of the Cowshed allegorical?

The
Battle of the Cowshed in 's novella allegorically represents the
infighting that took place during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. During the Russian Civil
War, the Red Army, which was led by Leon Trotsky, battled the loosely allied forces known as the
White Army, which comprised of monarchists, capitalists, and alternative socialists.
Additionally, eight foreign nations also intervened in the conflict to fight against the
Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Eventually, Trotsky's Red Army defeated the
White Army and controlled the newly formed Soviet Union by the end of the war. In Orwell's
novella, , who allegorically represents Leon Trotsky, leads the animal forces against Mr. Jones
and his men and they successfully defeat the humans at the Battle of the Cowshed. Shortly after
the Battle of the Cowshed,usurps power, chases Snowball off the farm, and begins ruling Animal
Farm as a ruthless tyrant.

Please provide a page number and quote from Tom Robinson showing he has the courage to overcome the prejudice that he experiences during his trial...

Tom Robinson
shows courage simply by taking the witness stand in . But the most specific moment when he is
faced with the most prejudice is when Mr. Gilmer cross-examines him. Mr. Gilmer speaks so
disrespectfully to Tom that it actually makes an innocent child cry (Dill). For example, when
Tom says that he felt sorry for Mayella Ewell's situation,explains what followed:

"'You felt sorry for
her, you felt sorry for her?' Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to raise
the ceiling. The witness realized his mistake and shifted uncomfortably in the chair. But the
damage was done. Below us, nobody liked Tom Robinson's answer. Mr. Gilmer paused a long time to
let it sink in" (197).

Mr. Gilmer continues
questioning Tom and Tom does a great job holding his head high and answering the questions. Mr.
Gilmer tries to twist the way Tom presents his testimony by asking if he's saying Mayella is
lying, which puts Tom in another sticky situation. But Tom says respectfully and courageously,
"I don't say she's lyin', Mr. Gilmer, I say she's mistaken in her mind"
(197).

Tom is convicted and sent off to prison, even if he was courageous at
the trial, because there's no beating racism in 1935 Alabama. But his one last ounce of courage
is spent running for his life as he tries to escape. He tries to outrun the prejudice of the
judicial system because he doesn't believe that he will win with an appeal likedoes. Atticus
explains Tom's bravery in :

". . . the guards called
to him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They got him just as he went
over the fence. They said if he'd had two good arms he'd have made it, he was moving that fast.
Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn't have to shoot him that much" (235).

In the end, Tom's courage wasn't enough to stop bullets, but he did
what he thought was best at the time. He gave the judicial process a try and stood up for
himself against a whole town of prejudiced white people and that's true
bravery.

How does the theme of inhumanity take place within the story of Animal Farm? What specific actions of the animals make them inhumane?

The basic inhumanity of
the animals in is that the pigs perpetrate the same unfairness that caused
them to overthrow Mr. Jones in the first place. For example, although the pigs declare that
everyone is equal, they quickly establish their dominance early on and deprive the other animals
of a fair share of the farm's resources. While the pigs claim most of the resources, the other
animals do the hard work. This system of exploitation is very similar to what the humans
practiced on the farm, but it has not improved under the pigs' leadership.

When the animals complain, the pigs use fear and the animals' common...

After listening to the beginning (maybe about 20 minutes or so) of the majestic J.S. Bach's St. Matthews Passion, what did you personally hear in the...

A
beautiful example of classical sacred music, St. Matthew's Passion
(Matth¤us-Passion, BMV 244), composed in 1727 by Johann Sebastian Bach,
presents chapters 26 and 27 from the Gospel of Matthew in musical form.

As an
oratorio, the Passion was intended for Good Friday services and employs a libretto by Picander
paraphrasing the Biblical text. Bachs composition features two orchestras, two choirs, soloists
representing characters in the narrative, and subtle shifts between major and minor keys. Within
the referenced time frame, the attentive listener will find a moving introduction to a
significant piece of Western classical music.

The Passion begins with the
orchestra playing a slow tempo in a minor key to establish a solemn, respectful tone. As is
typical with music of the Baroque period, violins, flutes, and oboes are the featured
instruments.

After the introduction by the orchestra, both choirs
representing the Daughters of Zion and Believing Souls sing the opening text in which they mourn
the upcoming Crucifixion. Then a tenor soloist and a baritone soloist perform the roles of the
Evangelist and Jesus with responses from theaccompanied by the orchestra. A harpsichord
accompanies parts of the Evangelists performance of the story about the Anointing at Bethany
(Matthew 26:6€“13). Another instrument featured during the choral responses is the
organ.

A mezzo soprano soloist performs to the accompaniment of flutes,
strings, and the organ a recitative and aria from the point of view of the woman who anoints
Jesus. The Evangelist then introduces the story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas (Matthew
26:14€“16).

From that point on, St. Matthew's Passion
continues toward the events of the Crucifixion with a depth of feeling that earns the work its
place in the musical canon.

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In George Orwell's 1984, what are the four ways an elite group can fall from power?

In
Goldstein's book thatobtains from , he reads about the nature of Oceania's authoritative regime
and its affinity for absolute power. Winston goes on to read about the four different ways that
an elite group can fall from power, which are as follows:

1. The elite group is conquered from the outside by
another nation. Typically, a nation is attacked and proceeds to acquiesce its territory to the
victor.

2. An elite group can also fall from
power by governing so inefficiently that the disgruntled, oppressed masses come together and
revolt against the hegemony.

3. Another way that
an elite group can fall from power is by allowing a strong discontented middle group or class to
develop and grow.

4. The fourth way that an
elite group can fall from power is by losing their self-confidence and willingness to govern
altogether.

What are instances of good and evil in chapter 8?

The longer the boys remain on the island, the
more evil pours out of their actions and speech. In this chapter,uses his moment of leadership
with the conch to try to overthrowby lying about him and trying to destroy his leadership
qualifications.

However, his rant shows that the boys are still capable of
goodness. After he makes a case for why Ralph doesn't deserve to be leader, he forces the boys
to vote on it. When no one raises his hand, he asks again for a vote. The boys remain true to
their original loyalty, standing behind their original determination that Ralph should be their
leader.

Jack is humiliated and refuses to "play" with them
anymore.

A while later,and Ralph realize that a few of the boys (Maurice,
Bill, and ) have snuck off to join Jack, thereby abandoning their pact. Jack's group kills a
pig, and the manner in which they do it shows evil intent. The sow's death is slow, with her
staggering in front of the boys throughout an entire afternoon. After they kill her, they giggle
and then explode into laughter about how one spear found its way right up her backside. There is
no respect in the kill, and the boys cry with laughter, showing their lack of respect for life
itself.

Meanwhile,has escaped to solitude with nature, seemingly searching
for peace within the increasing chaos of the island. He watches "butterflies [dancing] in
the middle their unending dance" and feels the warmth of the "arrow" of the sun.
Standing apart from the violence, Simon's goodness is that he respects the life on the
island.

Give ten significant annotations with a heavy emphasis on analysis for A Streetcar Named Desire.

In
the stage directions for the opening scene of his play ,provides a wealth
of background information that's important to understanding the setting, characters, and action
of the play.

SCENE ONE

The exterior of
a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs
between the L & N tracks and the river.

The
perception of New Orleans for the people who don't live there is of the old-world Southern city
famous for the never-ending partyof Bourbon Street in the lively French Quarter of the city, and
the annual, pre-Lenten "Mardi Gras" celebration. In contract, the setting of
A Streetcar Named Desire is in a very different working-class area of New
Orleans.

In Greek mythology, the "Elysian Fields" (also known as
"Elysium") is a place of peace and happiness where the souls of heroic and virtuous
people are sent when they die.

Symbolically, the "Elysian Fields"
is a place that Blanche Du Bois is searching for at the beginning of the play. Blanche arrived
at Elysian Fields on the streetcar named "Desire," which is symbolic of Blanche's
motivation for coming to New Orleans, one of the major themes in the play.

It
also foreshadows Blanche's fate. Even though Blanche hopes to reach the elusive Elysian Fields,
at the end of the play she's taken away to a sanatorium, a symbolic representation of the
mythological hades, where lesser mortals reside after death.

According to Homer, the Elysian Fields were located on the western edge of the earth,
literally "at the ends of the earth." The street, Elysian Fields, "runs between
the L & N tracks and the river," symbolically and literally putting the street, and the
characters of the play, on "the other side of the tracks."

The section is poor but, unlike corresponding sections in other
American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white frame, weathered gray, with
rickety outside stairs and galleries and quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two
flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both.

Upstairs, where Eunice Hubbell lives, is a symbolic haven for
Stella Kowalski when she's fighting in the downstairs flat with her husband, Stanley. Even so,
the upstairs flat is no haven for Eunice from her abusive husband, Steve.

It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows
around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise, which invests the
scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay. You can almost
feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences
of bananas and coffee.

Williams introduces the quality of
light as one of the recurring motifs of the play and draws a distinction between the reality and
the appearance of decay in the neighborhood.

In the light of day, the houses
in the neighborhood are "weathered gray," with "rickety," faded white stairs
leading to each flat. In the early evening light, the neighborhood appears almost
beautiful.

Williams also introduces a sensory element to the setting that is
often missing from other plays. He describes the "redolences," the smells, of the
neighborhood.

"The warm breath of the brown river" gives a sense of
the stench of the polluted river, into which the dirty and decaying byproducts of the city are
dumped. This stench is tempered by the smells of bananas and coffee coming from the warehouses
for two of the products closely associated with the daily commerce of New Orleans.

A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at
a barroom around the corner. In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around
the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated
fluency of brown fingers. This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which
goes on here.

"Blue Piano" is a form of
improvised jazz that is imbued with the emotions of the performer (the "blues"), much
as the play is imbued with the emotions of the characters.

The "Blue
Piano" music is heard throughout the play as background music for the events of the play.
The music symbolizes the reality and the hardship of life in New Orleans, but it also symbolizes
the "life goes on" and "enjoy it while you can" spirit of the people of the
city.

The reality of life expressed in the "Blues Piano" music is
often juxtaposed against Blanche's unrealistic perception of the world, and of herself.
Blanche's lives in a dream world, an illusion of reality.

Ultimately, reality
prevails. The "Blue Piano" music is the last music that the audience hears as Blanche
is led offstage at the end of the play, still depending "on the kindness of strangers"
to help her cope with the reality of her life.

Above the
music of the "Blue Piano" the voices of people on the street can be heard
overlapping.

Williams emphasizes how the "Blue
Piano" music, and the reality it symbolizes, is an integral part of the life of the
characters in the play.

Who is Baltus Van Tassel in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Baltus
Van Tassel, a happily married, prosperous Dutch farmer in the Hudson valley, is the father of
Katrina, the object of Ichabod Cranes affection (which is not unmoved by her father's status).
Balt is described as contented, satisfied, and reasonable. He is fond of smoking his pipe
and appreciates the abundance that farm life provides for him and his family. An excellent
father, he loves and indulges his daughter. Balt is limited in his horizons, as he has rarely
traveled beyond the farm or the nook in which it is nestled, but he is contented because there
everything was snug, happy and well-conditioned. When he and his wife throw a party at their
home, they lay out a lavish spread, and the jolly, affable host encourages everyone to enjoy
themselves. Balt particularly enjoys swapping the wild local legends with the other elders who
are, like him, war veterans.

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What is the role of a retailer in supply-chain management?

A
business that fails to understand the environment in which it operates is a business with a very
short life span.

External environment in a business context refers to all
the factors that exist outside of the businesss internal structure. It is, therefore, a vast
universe including laws and regulations passed and enforced by government, macroeconomic factors
involving markets and interest rates, perceptions of the market targeted by the business,
availability of skilled labor, and level of competition confronting the business in question.
These factors or variables can directly affect a companys performance and future. Knowledge of
interest rates, for example, is essential if management determines it needs to expand or
recapitalize. Knowledge of the labor pool is important if a company needs to add or replace
staff and cannot afford to increase wages. Knowledge of the market is vital, as without such
knowledge management may miss opportunities and indicators of changing...

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Why is April worried about the empty mailbox?

April
was sent to live with her grandmother because her mom does not have the time or desire to raise
her while also pursuing an acting career.

When the book begins, April is
devastated and quite unhappy at having been abandoned by her mother. She writes to her mom with
some regularity and eagerly awaits some kind of response from her mother. She hopes for a
letter, a postcard, something, anything, but day after day goes by, and the mailbox is
continually empty. Her mom does not respond to the letters, and April worries about the mailbox
continuing to be empty because it is further confirmation that her mom has really left her
behind.

Fortunately, April makes great friends, and by the end of the book,
she is quite content living with her grandmother.

Why did the authors of the Declaration of Independence fail to address the rights of women, African Americans, and Native Americans in the document?

The short
answer to this question is that none of these groups of people were considered to have the same
rights as affluent white men in the new nation of the United States.

Women,
for instance, although they were considered citizens, were completely excluded from political
activities. They were expected to be subservient to their husbands, perform difficult domestic
labor around the home, and bear and raise children. As an example of attitudes prevailing at the
time, Abigail Adams wrote her husband John Adams when he was helping to compose the U.S.
Constitution and asked him to "remember the ladies" and "do not put such
unlimited power in the hands of the husbands." Adams replied that "we know better than
to repeal our masculine systems." Abigail wrote back that "whilst you are proclaiming
peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute
power over wives." Women did not manage to obtain the right to vote until 1920, 144 years
after the Declaration of Independence was written.

As for African Americans,
some in the fledgling nation were free men, but most were still trapped in the oppressive system
of slavery, and many of the so-called founding fathers owned slaves. For instance, Thomas
Jefferson, who wrote the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, owned over 600 slaves
during the course of his life. When he died, over 130 of the slaves he owned were sold to pay
his debts. The writers of the Constitution did not even consider slaves to be worthy of being
counted in the census as whole men. Instead, they made a provision that slaves should be counted
for census purposes as three-fifths of a man. African Americans did not gain U.S. citizenship
until after the Civil War when the 14th amendment to the Constitution was passed in
1868.

In 1776, Native Americans were not considered part of the new country
of the United States. The federal government was slow to grant citizenship to Native Americans.
In 1888, some Native American women married to white people received citizenship. In 1919,
Native Americans who fought in World War I received citizenship. It was not until 1924, when the
Indian Citizenship Act was passed, that all Native Americans born in the United States became
citizens.

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Are there any allusions in Octavia Butler's novel Kindered?

Theof begins with anto events that occur within the interior
ofthe novel, which commences in the form of flashbacks continuing from the startingpoint of the
Prologue. The novel's opening lines depart from the frame ofthe Prologue and lead into the
flashback with:

Thetrouble began long before June 9, 1976,
when I became aware of it, butJune 9 is that day I remember. It was my twenty-sixth birthday. It
was also the day I met Rufus.

Thereis also an allusion in
theto the Emancipation...

kalau

What is the
integral int (x^2+1)(x^3+3x)^4 dx?

`int (x^2+1)(x^3+3x)^4 dx`

Use U-substitution to solve this.

`U=x^3+3x `

Take the derivative.  Notice that there is a common factor of three!

`dU= 3x^2 +3 dx= 3(x^2+1) dx`

Divide by three on both sides, and
then we will see that we can plug in `(x^2+1) dx`

`1/3 dU = (x^2+1)
dx`

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In Act 1. What aspects of Higgins' character are shown?

Act I
shows several features of Higgins' character. First, we find out that he is very studious and
observant, taking his profession and hobby to an extreme level. He is eavesdropping on
conversations, recording how people...

Please give me the interpretation of the story in your own approach. "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (If you choose to use any...

As the
guilt-ridden descendent of Puritans, Hawthorne was deeply concerned with what he termed
"secret sin" and the hypocrisy of many sinners.  It is interesting that in more than
one instance the garden of Dr. Rappaccini is alluded to as the Garden of Eden with Dante's
Inferno also being mentioned.  And, that Beatrice is sexually alluring to Giovanni is clearly
apparent:

She looked redundant with life, health, and
energy; all of which attributes were bound down and compressed, as it were, and girdled tensely,
in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.

Yet, while
Beatrice would appear to be Eve-like, there is an ambiguity surrounding her as well as about the
goodness of both Giovanni and Dr. Baglioni that is not untypical of Hawthorne.  For, against the
temptations he feels, Giovanni rationalizes the the "luxuriant vegetation" would keep
him "in communion with Nature while he

could not
determine how much of the singularity [of his idea] which he attributed to both [Dr. Rappacini
and...

What is in Room 101, as O'Brien describes it?

At the end of
,askswhat is in Room 101, to which he replies:

You know
what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.

This foreshadows Winston's time in Room 101 in Part Three, Chapter Five. Here, O'Brien
elaborates by saying that the room contains the "worst thing in the world." He also
acknowledges that for every individual, this "worst thing" can vary quite widely
because our deepest fears are personal and subjective.

The fact that the
party knows the deepest fear of every individual in Oceania is indicative of the extent of its
control. It demonstrates the success of its surveillance methods, like the telescreen, and how
this information is manipulated by the party for the purposes of total control and
exploitation.

Thus, by using intelligence to create a complete picture of an
individual, the party can turn Room 101 into that individual's idea of hell. This is what makes
Room 101 so unique and also so successful.

How does Kit feel upon first seeing America and then upon landing in Wethersfield?

In  by , Katherine
Tyler, known as Kit, leaves Barbados in 1687 to live with her aunt in Puritan Connecticut. When
her boat, the Dolphin, docks first in Saybrook, Connecticut, in the first
chapter of the book, Kit is incredibly disappointed. "She didn't want to admit how
disappointing she found this first glimpse of America. The bleak line of shore surrounding the
gray harbor was a disheartening contrast to the shimmering green and white that fringed the
turquoise bay of Barbados that was her home." Kit is used to the beautiful tropical waters
of Barbados, and she finds Saybrook cold, gray, and sparse. 

When Mistress
Eaton, Kit's fellow passenger, goes ashore, Kit wonders why Mistress Eaton is so excited to
disembark at Saybrook. "Kit glanced at the forbidding shore. She could see nothing about it
to put such a twinkle of anticipation in anyone's eye." Kit notices when a young girl who
is on board a rowboat coming to the Dolphin drops her doll into the water. In response, Kit
dives into the water to rescue the doll, and the girl's mother brands Kit a witch because only
witches were believed to know how to swim, according to Puritan beliefs. 

In
Chapter Two, the Dolphin reaches Kit's new home in Wethersfield, which Kit
also finds deeply disappointing. "Her heart sank. This was Wethersfield! Just a narrow
sandy stretch of shoreline, a few piles sunk in the river with rough planking for a
platform." She finds the town uninspiring and simple, and it is clear that Kit's new home
is very different than her former home in Barbados and that she will have difficulty adapting to
her new surroundings in Connecticut.  

How did the Compromise of 1877 affect the former slaves?

The
Compromise of 1877 had a major effect on the former slaves. There was a dispute over electoral
votes in the election of 1876. The South agreed to let the Republican candidate, Rutherford B.
Hayes, win the election in order to get federal troops out of the South that were enforcing
Reconstruction. This should have been a sign that the southerners were planning to make major
changes once Reconstruction ended.

Once Reconstruction ended, the federal
troops left the South. Many white southerners got elected to office. This led to many laws being
passed that took away the rights of the former slaves or separated the races. The South passed
laws called Jim Crow Laws that segregated the South. There were separate bathrooms, separate
seating sections on train cars, and separate schools just to name a few examples. People had to
pass a literacy test or pay a poll tax in order to be allowed to vote. To exempt whites that
could not pass the literacy test or could not pay the poll tax, they allowed a person to be
exempt from the requirements if the persons father or grandfather had voted before the Civil
War.

Additionally, the Ku Klux Klan began to dominate the South. They would
terrorize, intimidate, and threaten African-Americans. They often went unprosecuted because they
were tied to the Democratic Party, and the Democrats controlled southern politics after
Reconstruction ended. The ending of Reconstruction was a huge blow to the former slaves, as
things really got bad for them after Reconstruction ended.

In Chapter 6 of "Witch of Blackbird Pond", what was the argument between Matthew Wood and Reverend Bulkeley over?

Reverend
Bulkeley is a staunch loyalist who believes that the colonists should give their total
allegiance to the Crown and its appointee, Governor Andros.  He gets into a heated argument with
Matthew Wood because Matthew "(does) not favor knuckling under to this new King's
governor".

The Reverend begins the exchange by asking Kit if she is
"a loyal subject" like her grandfather before her, and...

How did Frederick Douglass describe slave life on Colonel Lloyds plantation in his Narrative?

Colonel Lloyd has a
massive plantation with 300-400 slaves. They are given very little food and clothing, and
children who are too young to work in the fields go almost naked because they are given no
clothing. The slaves work almost constantly and drop with weariness when they stop working. They
sleep with blankets but no beds, but they are too weary to notice the difference.

Mr. Lloyd's house and estate are run like a well-oiled business, as slaves carry out
functions such as blacksmithing, weaving, coopering, and other tasks. Slaves vie for the right
to serve in his plantation house and believe that it's a great honor to receive this right. Mr.
Lloyd cares deeply for his horses and severely punishes any slave who is not perfect in his or
her duties with the horses. Slaves must listen attentively to Mr. Lloyd when he speaks, and they
are beaten harshly if they do not show the utmost respect and attention at all times.

Why do you think the boys in Holes spit in their holes when they are finished digging?

In
chapter seven, Stanley Yelnats digs his first hole, which is supposed to measure five feet deep
and five feet across. Well before Stanley finishes digging his hole, the other boys finish their
work, and Stanley proceeds to watch each boy spit in their own hole before heading back to
camp.

There are several explanations as to why the boys engage in this rather
odd daily ritual. By spitting in their holes, the boys express their disdain for the arduous,
pointless labor. Their spit is also a sign of contempt for the entire administration and
facility at Camp Green Lake.

In addition to expressing their disdain for the
difficult work and uncomfortable camp, the boys more than likely have excess saliva from lack of
hydration, and spitting is a relieving feeling. Overall, the act of spitting in one's hole is a
refreshing feeling to the boys, which also happens to express their contempt for their
unfortunate situation and difficult work.

What are the townspeoples reactions to Chillingworths lodging in the same house as Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter?

According to
the story, the townsmen accepted and respected Chillingworth because he was educated, and
because he showed an accentuated interest in the man whom the town loved and admired the way
they would venerate God himself.  Yet once Chillingworth' true intentions began to take place
(which was to findout as his wife's lover), his action spoke louder than words.

At first, his expression had been calm, meditative,
scholar-like.Now,there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had notpreviously
noticed . . . it grew to be a wisely diffused opinion, thatthe Reverend . . . was haunted either
by Satan himself, or Satan'semissary, in the guise of old .(1224)

Therefore, the townspeople felt that Chillingworth was haunting
Dimmesdale, but what they do not know is that the reason why Dimmesdale is allowing himself to
be haunted is because he is guilty, and because Chillingworths other mission was basically to
drive Dimmesdale to insanity so he would confess who he really was.

How does the protagonist react to conflict in Animal Farm?

If thein
's work is seen as , the answer is that Napoleon simply eliminates the source of conflict.
 Problem solved.  When conflict arises with , he chases him off of the farm.  When different
animals voice concern with how he is pursuing his position as leader and present conflict, he
simply kills them off.  When other farms try to engageinto...

How is Winston and Julia's relationship a rebellion against the Party in 1984?

's rebellion
takes place on a more "intellectual" level than does 's.  Winston is inspired by the
(imaginary) work of Immanuel Goldstein.  When they are in bed in the room at Charrington's, he
reads part of the text to her; she falls asleep.  Julia's rebellion is more at the
"gut" level.  She doesn't seem to care about the ideology of revolution or Goldstein
or any of that.  She rebels against the control the part has over her life, and her rebellion
takes the form of intimate relationships with men (although we only know of Winston, she does
say that she has done this with other men).

What does the blacksmith do on Sundays? How does he feel when he hears his daughter sing?

The poem
"," by , strongly emphasizes the values commonly associated with the Protestant work
ethic through the character of a blacksmith in a small town. To this end, the blacksmith's
Sunday activity is to attend church. At church, his daughter sings in the choir, and his heart
rejoices to hear her, especially because her voice reminds him of his mother's voice. We learn
that his mother, whom he loved very dearly, has passed on, and when he hears his daughter sing
and is reminded of her, he cries. The ending of the poem indicates that this sorrow is part of
what fuels his work, and his work is what allows him to rest soundly at
night.

This Photo Shows Which Major Difference Between The War In Europe And The War In The Pacific?

There were
quite a few differences between the fighting in the European and Pacific theaters.  First, there
were issues of diplomacy.  Stalin kept asking the other Allies to open a Western front against
the Nazis, and he was disappointed that this did not happen until June 1944.  The fighting in
the Pacific was largely carried out by the American forces with British support.  This is one
major reason why the Soviet Union was left out of rebuilding Asia after the war.  

Next, there were differences in terrain.  The war in Europe was largely a land war,
with the exception of submarine warfare in the Mediterranean and around the British Isles.  This
meant that supply lines had to be secured before advancingthis was true for both the Axis and
Allied Powers.  There were also issues of climate, as the German army learned amidst
catastrophic circumstances during its ill-fated Soviet winter campaigns.  The war in the Pacific
was largely fought over water with key islands such as...

How does Gregor respond to his sister's violin playing, and what might this reaction imply about him?

In Part
3, Gregor hears his sister, Grete, playing the violin for the three gentlemen boarders, and he
"dare(s) to come forward a little" to hear it. He is described as captivated by the
music, much more so than the three boarders are, and he wishes that she "might come into
his room with her violin" and play for him rather than them. His reaction to the music is a
reminder of his affection for his sister and is in stark contrast to her reaction upon seeing
him present, which is a reaction of disgust and contempt. This bond with his sister, represented
by his response to the music, is the last bond to break, and this moment signals his complete
and irreparable separation from his family and from his former human self.

Earlier in the story, in Part 2, Kafka writes that it was always Gregor's "secret plan to
send (his sister) to the conservatory," because, even though she was more fond of music
than him, he nonetheless appreciated what a "gifted and expressive violinist" she was.
After...

Regarding Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, explain how the Biblical stories of the Prodigal Son and Job relate to Robinson Crusoe's salvation on...

It is a
curious happenstance that when a youth rebels against the "pulpits" of his father and
society, and becomes so far removed from the comforts of his own environment that he finds
himself endangered, he often reaches back for the lifeline of his family culture and faith as a
means of sustaining his spirit. Having ignored the "serious and excellent counsel" of
his father, Robinson commences a seafaring career in the hope of satisfying his "wandering
inclination." Acting as a prodigal son, Crusoe departs from home without having 

... sent them [his parents] Word of it; but leaving them to hear of
it as they might, without asking God's Blessing, or my Father's, without any Consideration of
Circumstances or Consequences and in an ill Hour, God knows. On the first
of September 1651 I went on Board a Ship bound
for London.

After Crusoe's first
shipwreck, he alludes to theof the Prodigal Son: 

Had I
now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and...home, I had been happy, and my father, an
emblem of our blessed Saviour's parable, had even killed the fatted calf for me....But my ill
fate pushed me on now with an obstinancy that nothing could resist....

Crusoe then boards another ship which meets an ill fate also as
Crusoe is captured by Turks, who make him a slave. Nevertheless, he is fortunate enough to make
an escape with Xury as he commanders a boat from a Moor, whom he throws overboard. A Portugese
ship comes along and Crusoe gives Xury to the captain and selfishly goes on to Brazil where he
makes a fortune. But, as he later writes, Crusoe is punished for his sins and ignoring the
advice of the captain, who represents the wisdom of Providence, as he, once again, is
shipwrecked, but this time he is the sole survivor bereft of anything but what he can salvage
from the ship. 

Alone and dependent upon his own survival skills, Crusoe
finally draws from his spiritual past and the upbringing of his father. When he begins to
despair, his faith in God returns to his heart and restores his spirits:

All Evills are to be consider'd with the Good that is in them, and
with what worse attends them.

Much like Job of the Old
Testament,realizes that he has scorned his father's wisdom. In the biblical story of Job, a
friend named Elihu tells Job that God speaks to human beings in two ways: with visions and with
physical pain, a pain which provides an opportunity for the sufferer to truly acknowledge God's
forgiveness and love once he is well again. For, then he comprehends that God has
"ransomed" him from an impending death (33:24). Thus, Crusoe sits in humiliation of
his rejection of God's teachings of honoring one's father and mother and of ignoring the signs
from God after he has survived previous danger. So, like Job, Crusoe, having read from the Bible
on the island, regains his faith in God.

After his return to England,
although he learns his parent have died so he cannot return as has the Prodigal Son of the
Bible, Crusoe yet finds much religious significance in what happens to him:

I might well say, now indeed, the latter End
of Job was better than the Beginning. It is impossible to express here the
Flutterings of my very Heart, when I look'd over these Letters, and especially when I found all
my Wealth about me; for as the Brasil Ships come all in Fleets, the same
Ships which brought my Letters, brought my Goods; and the Effects were safe in the River before
the Letters came to my Hand.

Having never completely lost
his faith in God--certainly, having restored it while on the island--Crusoe perceives himself as
a likeness of Job, albeit one who is rewarded with
wealth.

All of the following are acknowledged nuclear powers except: A. Pakistan. B. Germany. C. China. D. France.

As of 2019,
eight countries are acknowledged to be nuclear powers, having admitted to possessing nuclear
weapons. A ninth, Israel, is known to have nuclear weapons but has never publicly acknowledged
the fact. The countries with the largest arsenals by far are Russia and the United States.
Russia has almost 7,000 nuclear weapons, and the United States has more than 6,500 of them. Of
the countries mentioned in the question, three have developed, tested, and have a stockpile of
nuclear weapons.

France conducted its first nuclear weapons test in 1960, and
since then it conducted over 200 more between 1960 and 1995, mainly in the Algerian desert and
French Polynesia. It currently maintains approximately 300 operational nuclear warheads, and one
of its nuclear submarines is constantly on patrol.

China began a nuclear
weapons program as a deterrent against the United States and the Soviet Union. It tested its
first nuclear device in a remote region of Mongolia in 1964. China currently possesses almost
300 nuclear weapons.

Beginning in the 1970s, Pakistan spent decades secretly
developing nuclear weapons. In 1971, Pakistani president Bhutto vowed to develop nuclear weapons
in response to India's nuclear weapons program. Its first tests took place in the mountains of
northern Pakistan, in a place called the Ras Koh Hills in 1998. Pakistan is believed to have
about 150 nuclear weapons.

This brings us to Germany, which is the correct
answer to the question. Germany is not a nuclear power and does not have nuclear weapons of its
own, although it has the technical capability of building them. During the Cold War, nuclear
weapons were deployed in West Germany by the United States and East Germany by the Soviet Union.
Currently under a NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, the United States stores a quantity of
warheads in Germany that would be delivered by Germany in the event of war. Supposedly these
weapons cannot be armed without special authorization codes by the US Department of Defense.
Germany has contemplated developing its own nuclear weapons program and did not sign the United
Nations treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.

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Who is Mr. Frederick Johnson in "In Cold Blood"?

Frederic Johnson
(note the correct spelling of the first name) is the brother-in-law of Perry Smith, one of the
two men convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family. His wife, Barbara, was
Smith's only surviving sibling.

He is mentioned
twice:

1. Capote provides the text of a letter to Smith written and
   signed by Barbara and Frederic.Capote indicates to readers that he will refer to Barbara as Mrs.
   Frederic Johnson.

   (In the latter instance, Capote may be implying that
   "Johnson" is not the couple's last name, perhaps to protect their true
   identity.)

In Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," to what extent do they give open expression to their feelings?

€˜If I do it you wont ever
worry?

€˜I wont worry about that because its perfectly
simple.

€˜Then Ill do it. Because I dont care about
me.

€˜What do you mean?

€˜I dont care about
me.

€˜Well, I care about you.

€˜Oh, yes. But I dont care
about me. And Ill do it and then everything will be fine.

€˜I dont want you
to do it if you feel that way.

It might easily be argued
that neither the American man nor Jig give any open expression to their feelings, as in the
excerpt above. They both evade, feign, and falsify their expressions of their feelings, while on
occasion also using sarcasm, as when Jig says: €˜And afterwards they were all so
happy.

The easiest type of expression to see is when Jig overtly tries to
evade further talking about the operation and related feelings. Jig clearly evades by
saying:

'Would you please please please please please
please please stop talking?

At one point, in a moment of
a sort of absent-minded reverie, Jig honestly says, more to herself than to the man, that
everyday it becomes more impossible for them to have their dream of love and
happiness:

€˜And we could have all this, she said. €˜And
we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.

While her remark leads to an exchange between them, it characteristically ends with
Jig's evasive, €˜Well wait and see.

Shortly after, the man does a good job of
seeming to falsify his feelings then following up with feigning a rationalized expression of his
other feelings: he doesn't give direct and honest report of his feelings:

€˜Doesnt it mean anything to you? ...'

€˜Of
course it does. But I dont want anybody but you. ....'

`F(theta) = arcsin(sqrt(sin(theta)))` Find the derivative of the function. Simplify where possible.

`d/(dx)sin^-1(x)=1/sqrt(1-x^2)`

`F(theta)=sin^-1(sqrt(sin(theta)))`

`F'(theta)=(1/sqrt(1-sintheta))
* d/(d theta)sqrt(sintheta)`

`F'(theta)=(1/sqrt(1-sintheta))
*(1/2)(sintheta)^(-1/2) costheta`

`F'(theta)=costheta/((2sqrt(sintheta)sqrt(1-sintheta)))`

How would a teacher apply Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development in his/her classroom?

I think
that there are many ways in which that the primary school teacher could embrace Vygotsky's
approach.  In my mind, the most important element to argue in Voygotskian thinking is the idea
that the classroom has to contain the explorative elements in which a child can learn.  Part of
this involves creation of a classroom where students are able to maximize their potential
without being limited to great of an extent.  In Vygotsky's...

Which character is a clown in Romeo and Juliet? What is his function in the play? How does he provide comic relief to the audience?

If any
character is a clown, it is . Throughout the play, Mercutio functions as a source of . Usually,
Mercutio adds humor by lampooning . In contrast to Romeos serious and idealistic romanticism,
Mercutio is practical and irreverent. Mercutio frequently reduces love to physical and sexual
attraction, and this is funny because it contrasts with Romeo. While Romeo pursues his hopeless
relationship with , Mercutio points out the ridiculousness of the situation by trivializing
Romeos feelings. In addition, Mercutio makes clever use of puns and general wordplay in order to
get these points across. There is rarely an instance in the play in which Mercutio is not
speaking in euphuisms, and it makes for very witty dialogue.