Find dy/dx by implicit differentiation. x^2-5xy+3y^2=7.

x^2 - 5xy + 3y^2
= 7

We need to differentiate the equation with respect to x.

==> dy/dx( x^2 - 5xy + 3y^2 ) = dy/dx ( 7)

==> dy/dx (x^2) - 5
dy/dx ( xy) + dy/dx ( 3y^2) = dy/dx ( 7).

We will differentiate with respect
to x.

==> 2x - 5 ( 1*y + xy' ) + 6yy' = 0

==> 2x -
5y - 5xy'+ 6yy' = 0

Now we will combine the terms with y' on the left
side.

==>  6yy' - 5xy' = 5y - 2x

Now we will factor
y'.

==> y'*( 6y - 5x ) = 5y-2x

Now we will divide by
(6y-5x).

==> y' = (5y-2x)/(6y-5x)

In the book In Cold Blood, why was Perry convicted of premeditated murder? When does the text mention his wanting to kill the Clutter family?

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tells the tale of a Kansas family that was brutally murdered for
what, at the time, seemed like no reason at all. Late at night on November 15, 1959, two
ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith entered the house of the Clutter family with the
intentions to steal a safe that was believed to be full of money. A cellmate had told the two
about the wealthy family and the safe when they were in prison (Buchanan, 2011).

After entering the house under a cloak of darkness, neither Richard nor Perry could
locate the safe. During the search, they woke Herb. At that time, Herb tried to give the
intruders what money he had in hopes that they would leave and not hurt his family. Sadly, that
did not stop the urge to find the safe, and after searching for it again, the two suspects woke
up the rest of the family (Buchanan, 2011). That was when things started to go from a home
invasion scene to a murder scene.

The family members were separated into
different rooms, bound, all but one...

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Absolutely!
 These characteristics must be in place before anything else occurs.  These are basic to
establishing a good rapport with students and anin which students feel comfortable enough to
express themselves and therefore learn.  But of course these are just starters.  You might
expect that your teacher has mastery over the material; that your teacher is skilled enough to
provide different learning experiences for different kinds of learners; that he/she is
conscientious enough to prepare lessons that not only engage but that also promote learning,
mastery and independence;that appropriate and timely feedback is provided for student work; that
students are well prepared for the next level of learning and can implement skills they learned
in class in a broader context.

Situational Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado

Verbal is the intentional use of words to mean something
different from what the character actually says. Throughout the short story, Montresor
continually uses verbal irony during his conversations with Fortunato in order to encourage
Fortunato to follow him down into his family's catacombs. 

• "My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature" (Poe,
  2).
• When Fortunato makes a toast, Montresor responds by saying, "And I
  to your long life" (Poe, 3).

Situational
irony is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually
happens. The short story takes place during carnival season, which is generally happy,
fun-filled time. However, Montresor plans and executes a horrific murder during the festive,
joyful time.

Dramatic irony is when the audience
is aware of something that the characters are not. Throughout the short story, the audience is
aware of Montresors evil intentions to harm Fortunato the entire time. However, Fortunato is
unaware that he is following...

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What does Victor Frankensteins relationship with Elizabeth tell you about his values and personality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

claims
to love Elizabeth, but he has a rather funny way of showing it. Though there's undoubtedly some
affection on Victor's part, there's a lack of real depth to his feelings toward his adopted
cousin. Surely, we might think, ifreally did love Elizabeth as he says he does, then he wouldn't
put her life at risk by creating .

Victor kind of lets the cat out of the
bag regarding his true feelings when he candidly tells us that he looked upon Elizabeth as his
own. This gives the impression that Elizabeth is a more of a possession, a piece of property, to
Victor than she is a loving companion. Such an attitude is perfectly in keeping with Victor's
value system, in which those around him are objects to be studied, measured, and manipulated
rather than valued in their...

How is Young Goodman Brown changed by his experience in the forest? Does the narrator endorse Brown's unwillingness to trust anyone?

When Goodman Brown
returns to the village on the morning after the witches' Sabbath, he is very changed. He used to
believe that his friends and loved ones were good people with good morals, but now he thinks
that they are all false and two-faced. He no longer trusts the minister or the deacon, and when
walking past the "good old minister" he "shrank from the venerable saint, as if
to avoid an anathema." To him, the men he used to think of as so holy and good now seem
wicked and cursed.

Likewise, when he sees his lovely wife, Faith, he
"looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting." He can no
longer feel comfortable with her and shrinks away, just as he does from the minister. He no
longer believes that these are godly people, and he cannot trust their appearance as
such.

When he dies, Goodman Brown's neighbors "carved no hopeful verse
upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom." He had become a distrustful and
miserable cynic by the time of his death.

I do not believe the narrator
endorses Brown's unwillingness to trust. Brown had gone into the forest to meet the devil, just
as all the others had. He is surprised to learn that his father and grandfather, the minister
and deacon, and all his neighbors and friends are sinners, but he is a sinner too. Brown is no
better or more trustworthy than any of the others, so what right does he have to judge others
for curating similarly deceptive appearances of sinlessness? The narrator does not describe
Brown sympathetically.

Relationship between Indus valley civilization and other valley civilization

The Indus
Valley Civilization (IVC) is considered one of the three cradles of early civilization in the
Eastern Hemisphere, alongside Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. All three of these civilizations
flourished during the Bronze Age--a time characterized by bronze craftsmanship and early urban
development (falling chronologically after the Stone Age and before the Iron Age). 

All three of these early civilizations were settled around a major river,
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What makes Theseus a heroic character?

The Greek heroes all conform to a fairly narrowwhich we find in Homer. They are
categorized to such an extent that we can rank the heroes of the Iliad and,
to a lesser extent, the Odyssey according to how closely they conform to
this archetype. Non-Homeric heroes in Greek mythology, such as Theseus, are also subject to its
constraints.

The hero should be of royal birth and preferably with at least
one divine parent. He should be strong, handsome and virile. He should be aware of his status,
acknowledging his equals or near-equals, not condescending too much to his inferiors. Above all,
he should perform great deeds, which bring glory and renown to his name. In all these
categories, Theseus obviously qualifies as a hero.

It is not necessarily
required of the hero that he behave in a moral or reasonable manner. Achilles, the greatest of
the Homeric heroes, is unreasonable when he refuses the gifts of Agamemnon, and Theseus seems
immoral, unreasonable and profoundly ungrateful when he...

Why was there increased support for the Nazi Party in the years 1929-32?

The main cause
for increased support for the Nazi Party in the years 1929-1932 was economic. After World War I,
the defeated Germany emerged as a republic subsequent to the revolution in November 1918. A
national assembly was, thereafter convened in Weimar, where the German Reich was formed with a
new constitution. However, this Weimar Republic was besought with problems which included
hyperinflation, political extremists, and very contentious relationships with the victors of
World War I, who subjected Germany to humiliation and unreasonable demands in the conditions of
the Versailles Treaty. These conditions forced Germany to make large territorial concessions and
to pay reparations to the Entente powers. Financial reparations were 132 billion Marks (then
$31.4 billion), an outrageous amount. Because Germany felt the amount unjustifiable and
impossible, renegotiations were made and the debt reduced. The renegotiation of the financial
reparations resulted in the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan. Because the Dawes Plan was
unworkable, as Germany could not meet the payments, a committee headed by American industrialist
Owen Young reduced payments by designing

...one
unconditional part, equal to one third of the sum, and a postponable part, equal to the
remaining two-thirds, which would incur interest and be financed by a consortium of American
investment banks coordinated by the Morgan [banker J. P. Morgan] Guaranty Trust
Company.

However, Germany was fraught with social and
political problems as the Weimer Republic's liberal democracy ended with the dictatorial
presidency of Hindenberg, and then the dictatorial emergency powers of Chancellors Bruning,
Papen, and Schleicher. Finally, when the Great Depression of 1929 occurred in the United States,
the economic earthquake sent devastating ripples into Germany as the U.S. banks withdrew its
money. As a result, the Weimar Republic failed because America had been propping up Germany with
the Dawes and Young Plans. After the Crash of Wall Street, American banks gave Germany only 90
days to repay them; no other country could support Germany, either, because they were devastated
from World War I, as well. With hyperinflation, also, German companies went bankrupt and the
economy was in shambles as people could not afford the cost of goods and were starving and
desperate. In fact, unemployment rose from 650,000 in 1928 to 5,102,000 in 1932.

These conditions were what helped the Nazi Party rise to power. Before 1930, the Nazi
party only received 2.6% of the popular vote; however, after the Great Depression, it received
18.3% of the popular vote in the election and gained 107 seats in the Reichstag, and in 1932 it
gained 33.1% of the popular vote and 196 seats in the Reichstag. Starving and desperate, Germans
rejected a republic that had failed them, and turned their hopes to a government that would take
control of their lives and provide them a hope of renewal.  

What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major?

In the first chapter of
, the animals who have come to hearspeak sit in an order which is minutely
described by . The dogs come in first and sit at the front, along with the pigs. The chickens
are on the window sills and the pigeons in the rafters. The sheep and cows lie down behind the
pigs. Clover, the mare, uses her foreleg to protect the orphaned ducklings. Both she andare very
careful not to tread on any small animals.

All this is significant because it
shows the animals already have the capacity for organization. They do not require a leader,
human or otherwise. Most people would predict that if you let all the animals on a farm out of
their enclosures, you would be faced with chaos, but these animals are perfectly capable of
arranging themselves.

How does Boyne show that prejudice is senseless in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

follows the perspective of 9-year-old Bruno. Through his innocence and repeated
struggles to understand the principles of the Nazi regime, the author emphasizes the nonsensical
nature of anti-Semitism.

One day when playing in the yard, Bruno falls off
the tire swing and cuts his knee. Pavel, an old Jewish man who...

Need a good theme for "Homeage for my hips"

's
"Homage to my Hips" presents a refreshing perspective on body positivity and
femininity. While the grand majority of past poetry focused on women has portrayed them as
reserved, demure, and often silent, Clifton's poem is bold, self-assured, and powerful. The
narrator not only describes her hips as "big" and "free," but also
"mighty" and, finally, "magic." The narrator states that "they don't
fit into...

What problems did the Manchus (Qing) encounter during the 19th century?

 

The Qing Dynasty faced a number of serious problems during this century, problems that
would lead to its collapse early in the 20th century.

Perhaps the biggest
challenge was from the outside.  This started with the British forcing China to open up to the
opium trade in the Opium Wars.  By the end of...

Why does Mrs. Bedlow have difficulty understanding why Lyddie was fired?

Mrs.
Bedlow, 's landlady, is shocked when she learns about Lyddie being fired. Although she does not
understand the full details of the events that led to Lyddie's dismissal, she is not convinced
by the decision. She suspects that something must have been very wrong for Lyddie to get
fired.

The reason for Mrs. Bedlow's reaction is that she knows Lyddie well.
She has seen Lyddie overcome many obstacles in life just to achieve her career goals. According
to Mrs. Bedlow, Lyddie is probably the best employee of the company. On many occasions, the she
has witnessed the effort Lyddie invests in the company.

Before Lyddie lands
the job at the mill, she has to overcome many obstacles. She has to deal with the separation of
her parents, navigate the death of her mother, confront a bear, and struggle to educate herself.
While working for the mill, Lyddie invests all her time in the company in her quest to make more
money and be productive. Understanding the tough path that Lyddie has traveled to accomplish her
dreams, Mrs. Bedlow is not convinced that the hardworking girl could do anything that would
jeopardize her career.

What are the similarities and differences between the lives of Songsam and Tokchae?

Songsam and Tokchae are much more alike than
they are different.  They were childhood friends before the civil war began ripping apart
families and communities.  The initial separation of Tokchae and Songsam probably indicates the
one main difference that existed between the two men.  Tokchae chose to stay in his village with
his family and fight.  Songsam, on the other hand, ran away and went into hiding.  He left his
family behind.  That single incident illustrates a few differences.  The case could be made that
Tokchae is braver and more family focused than Songsam.  

As for
similarities, there is likely an entire list of similarities that I could make up.  Being
childhood friends would indicate that they like the same kind of stuff (food, sports, girls,
hobbies, etc.).  It doesn't matter what time period or location they are from.  They are friends
for a reason, and that's likely because they are similar is a lot of ways.  The story doesn't go
into any of that though.  What is clearly indicated is that they both value freedom.  Songsam
ran away in order to maintain his freedom.  Tokchae stayed behind in order to have the freedom
to care for his family.  The flashback sequence in which the boys free a crane is symbolic of
that similarity.  

But the next moment, as another crane
from a nearby bush fluttered its wings, the boys' crane stretched its long neck with a whoop and
disappeared into the sky. For a long time the two boys could not take their eyes away from the
blue sky into which their crane had soared.

That love for
freedom is not simply a distant memory of the men's past.  It is still active in their hearts.
 It's why Songsam unties Tokchae and gives him his freedom.  

Why does Omri bring Little Bear outside in the book Indian in the Cupboard? What dangers do they meet?

Omri brings
Little Bear outside because the Indian wants to ride his horse on solid ground instead of
carpet. After Omri has magically made the horse, Little Bear mounts him inside the cabinet,
where there is very little space to maneuver. Riding diagonally inside the tiny cabinet to make
maximum use of the available space, the Indian and the horse leap over the ledge at the front of
the cabinet and land on the carpet on the floor. The carpet is too soft for riding, however; the
horse's feet simply sink into it like soft sand. Little Bear expresses his desire for a more
solid surface on which to ride, so Omri decides to risk taking him and the horse
outside.

Omri takes the Indian and his horse to a beaten path of earth and
small stones in his backyard. He is very much aware of the dangers the two little creatures will
have to face in the outdoors, and is vigilant in keeping them safe. First, Omri calculates how
fast they might be able to travel should Little Bear decide to try to escape; Omri knows that
they would not be able to survive long on their own but figures that, even if they ran as fast
as they could, he would be able to keep up with them. Then, he begins to worry about what might
happen if a cat were to see them. He warns Little Bear to be careful, because of "mountain
lions" which are "big enough to swallow (him) whole and the horse too." He then
allows Little Bear to ride free, and is astonished at the Indian's bravery as he dodges stones
that to him are as big as boulders, and navigates a landscape in which ants appear to be
enormous and a small bird flying overhead is perceived to be a gigantic bird of prey (Chapters 3
and 4).

Which type of organisms developed first due to the early environmental conditions on earth?

The first
cells are thought to have been similar to Archaea of today. Archaea is a group of single-celled
prokaryotic cells. Being prokaryotic, Archaea lack a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles
that are characteristic of more developed eukaryotic cells. Archaea are able to live in extreme
environments. Halophiles are a group of Archaea that are able live in extremely salty
environments. Thermophiles are a group Archaea that are able to live in extremely hot
temperatures. Because Archaea are primitive in structure and are able to survive in such harsh
environments, they are thought to resemble the cells that developed during Earths extreme and
prehistoric conditions.

The first cell is thought to have developed 3.8
billion years ago. At that time, Earth had little free oxygen in its . Instead, the atmosphere
was mainly composed of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Other trace gases were also present such as
hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide. The presence of carbon dioxide is thought to
have made any water that was present fairly acidic. The temperature is suspected to have been
much hotter than it is today. Therefore, cells could have that developed during such a time
would have needed to be able to sustain such conditions.

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What style of writing did Frederick Douglass use in his autobiography?

It is
important, too, to acknowledge the structure of the narrative.

It begins with
a preface, written by William Lloyd Garrison, a well-known Massachusetts abolitionist, publisher
of The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, and a friend and associate of
Douglass. In this preface, Garrison certifies that "Mr. Douglass has very properly chosen
to write his own Narrative, in his own style, and according to the best of his ability, rather
than to employ someone else." Thus, the reader has the certification of a white man that
Douglass is, indeed, eloquent enough to tell his own story and that his story is the truth.

This preface is followed by a letter to Douglass from Wendell Phillips,
Esq., another leading abolitionist of the time. While Garrison's words validate Douglass's
ability to tell his own story, Phillips's letter validates Douglass's ability to narrate
history. His voice, Phillips asserts, would be instrumental in wrenching narrative authority
from the masters.

In telling his own...

What was Mr. Utterson's reaction to hearing about the crime and seeing the weapon?

Mr. Utterson is awoken
early on the morning following the murder, before he is even out of bed, by the police, who have
brought a letter found on Sir Danvers Carew's body, which bears Utterson's name and address. He
goes immediately to the police station because he wants to see the body of the dead man before
making any statements. Utterson identifies the body as Carew's, which surprises the police
officer, because of how well-known and respected Carew is in town. The officer shows Utterson
the murder weapon, "the broken [walking] stick" that Utterson had once "presented
many years before to Henry Jekyll." At this point, then,

Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid
before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it
[...].

Utterson is, understandably, shocked, but he
quickly leads the police to Hyde's door so they can arrest the malefactor. He does not want to
believe that his friend Dr. Jekyll is at all connected to this murder, but it certainly does not
look good, considering Jekyll's own walking stick is the murder weapon.

Why did Curley's Wife marry Curley? John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

In 's
novel , Curley's wife is an important character
because she drives the plot forward and is at the center of theof the novel. Despite her
importance to the novel, readers learn very little about her. She is known only as
"Curley's wife."

To find the answer
to the question of why she marries Curley, readers must look in chapter five. Prior to that
chapter, hints are dropped that Curley's wife may have a wandering eye. Some of the men call her
a "tart" and say they've seen her sneaking glances at the men. Curley's wife
findsalone in the barn, and she is lonely. She begins talking to Lennie, pouring out her heart.
She explains that it was her dream to be an actress. She was even "discovered" by a
man who worked in pictures, but her mother wouldn't allow it. Because her mother restricted her
from pursuing her dream, she decided to escape from her any way she could. That is the reason
she gives for why she married Curley. In the quote below, she is telling Lennie about the letter
the man who worked in pictures promised her. 

"I
never got that letter," she said. "I always thought my ol' lady stole it. Well, I
wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself, an' where
they stole your letters, I ast her if she stole it, too, an' she says no. So I married Curley.
Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night."

From this quote, readers can see she married Curley impulsively, out of spite for her
mother and to escape from her mother's authority.

What standard of behaviour can you infer the cat applies to judge the behaviour of humans in general and its master in particular? Why is it ironic...

The cat in
the novel judges the humans around him based on animal behaviors, but he
also evaluates them as if he were a nobleman looking down on his subjects. The cat finds the
behavior of the humans odd because they have "customs" and actions that seem unnatural
and...

What is the flaming forge of life

A forge is
the place where the blacksmith makes a very hot fire. He then uses the fire to soften metal so
he can bend and hammer it into a new shape. Therefore, in the poem, the flaming forge is his
fire, which has flames just like a fire in a fireplace does. It is the place where he does his
life's work.

In this first use of "flaming forge" in the poem, the
children of the village love to look in the door of his workspace.

Later,
this literal forge is likened to "the flaming forge of life." In this instance, the
word "forge" is a turned into afor the hard work we must do to achieve whatever it is
we are meant to accomplish in life. The blacksmith working at his forge to shape his metal is
compared to how we must shape or forge our own lives. The blacksmith with
his steady, hardworking, responsible ways, is a good role model for all of us in living
fruitfully and meaningfully. His work is humble, but he does it faithfully and well.

The awe of the children shows that the blacksmith is a part of the life of the
community and that his work is valuable. Though he is such a powerfully muscled man, with strong
arms, the children are not afraid to watch him at work--keeping a distance, of course, by
standing in the doorway so that they don't get hurt.

Benefits Of Ethnic Diversity

Globalization
has inevitably brought people of diverse backgrounds to a common geographical space and this is
unlikely to revert. Such diversity, spread across racial, religious and cultural lines, has its
merits as well as limitations. Some of the advantages include;

Society cohesion

People of different
cultural or racial backgrounds can interact and get to learn and appreciate each others
uniqueness hence fostering tolerance and peaceful coexistence. The peaceful coexistence allows
each group to maintain its identity giving rise to societies free of discrimination and
conflict. Countries such as Switzerland and Indonesia are renowned for the peaceful coexistence
of multi-ethnic groups

Cultural
resource

With each group maintaining its identity and
practices, multi-ethnic societies offer a wealthy pool of culture. Individuals get to learn
about others way of life and even exchange some practices. Cultural aspects such as art, music
and cuisine have become tourist attractions in culturally rich countries such as
Madagascar.

Economic development

People from different backgrounds have different things to offer in terms of ideas,
experiences and expertise. In the US for instance, the inflow of immigrants such as high
achieving scholars, engineers and other highly skilled professionals create conducive
environment for competition, innovation, efficacy as well as productivity, key elements in any
economy.

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What are some primary sources on the Vikings?

The word
Viking refers to Norse merchants, raiders, and societies that flourished between the 8th and
11th centuries (the Viking Age). As such, the modern nations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and
Iceland have their origins in the Viking Age, and other areas of Europe that were controlled or
contacted by the Norse during this time hold varying degrees of Viking influence. Unfortunately,
the Vikings did not have a strong written tradition, and much literary information about them
comes from later Norse societies or from other Europeans who studied them or were impacted by
them.

Runestones

When they
did write, the Vikings wrote in runes, a type of alphabet related to but distinct from the Latin
alphabet. Most extant runestones can be dated to the...

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What are the disadvantages of having arts in the school curriculum?

Tough
question.  Honestly, I don't believe that there are any disadvantages to having art in a
curriculum.  I think it is an integral part of teaching the whole child.  

Unfortunately, not everybody feels the same way, which is shown by how many schools
have cut art programs from their curriculum.  I can lay out a few of those arguments for you.
 

One suggested disadvantage is that running a robust art program is
expensive.  There is some merit to this argument.  Art supplies cost more money that math
supplies.  Many people feel that money should be spent on "reading, writing, and
arithmetic."  Those are fairly cheap subjects to budget for.  

Additionally, schools right now are making big pushes toward STEM.  Science,
technology, engineering, and math.  Given the choice between paying for art or paying for STEM,
schools are choosing STEM, because that is the big push in education right now. 

Another possible disadvantage to running an art program is that art classes are
generally not required courses.  That means class sizes are likely smaller.  That's great for an
advantageous student/teacher ratio.  Unfortunately, budget wise, it looks like a teacher is
being paid equal amounts of money to teach fewer students.  

Explain how research has evolved since the Florence Nightingale era. Discuss how research and EBP are different; include how you believe research...

In a
modern healthcare setting, research presumes the use of the scientific method. The researcher
makes an observation, studies the available literature, and constructs a hypothesis. They use
this informationtheir own experience and/or that of othersto design and implement a randomized,
controlled experiment, then analyze the data to draw their conclusions. Some steps will be
different based on how practically and ethically controls can be used in any given research
study. For example, just as a researcher would not injure a control group of patients in such a
way as to have an analog to their experimental group, they would not divide a group of people
undergoing cancer treatment into experiment and control, discover that their new treatment works
very well, then withhold that treatment from the control group. Appropriate research conduct
demands a stop to such an experiment so that the control group can be offered the treatment. Its
important to remember that patients...

In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, briefly analyze the effect of alternating points of views for each section.

In his
efforts to present the narrative of  in a journalistic style that recreates
the setting and the persons involved, apparently without bias,uses an omniscient narrator who
moves back and forth from the perspectives of the Clutters to that of Dick and Perry. This
technique keeps the reader aware of what happens with both parties at the same time while also
emphasizing important events. This method also works towards the convergence of the two
perspectives which then creates a suspenseful tension. As written in a review in
Time magazine,

Capote has thrust the
act...

How dies Virgil silence Charon in Dante's Inferno?

Charon is
the ferryman who transports the dead to Hades. He is characterized by Dante as a prickly
white-haired old man with fiery eyes. He refuses initially to take Dante across to the land of
the dead, because Dante is still alive. Virgil silences Charon and wins his compliance by
telling him that that it is God's will that Dante be allowed to cross. Virgil says,

"Vex thee not, Charon;
It is so willed there where is
power to do
That which is willed; and farther question not."
Thereat were
quieted the fleecy cheeks . . . .

In other words, Virgil
says to Charon, don't get upset ("vex thee not") because Godthe one "where is
power" has willed (commanded) this journey. He then tells Charon not to ask any more
questions: God has spoken and that is all he needs to know. Therefore, the fleecy (white
bearded) cheeks of Charon (which would have been moving as he spoke) grow quiet.

In summary: Charon protests taking Dante to hell. Virgil said God wants this. Charon
doesn't question God and so grows quiet and takes Dante across to Hades.

What makes Beckett's use of metaphor so unique in Endgame?

What makes the use ofin
Beckett's works and specifically this one so unique is the way that he uses metaphor to connect
his work to his very pessimistic view on life that presents his harsh and unyielding beliefs
about humanity and what life is all about. 

The whole play
could...

What are three themes in the story Thank you M'am?

One theme in Thank you,
Ma'am is the power of compassion. After nearly having her purse stolen by Roger, Mrs.
Luella Bates Washington Jones has every right to turn toward him in anger and even demand some
form of justice. However, she meets Roger with compassion, going so far as to open her home to
him. Mrs. Jones has a keen perception about Roger's circumstances, and when he tells her,
"There's nobody home at my house," Mrs. Jones provides a meal to this wold-be
thief.

The story ends with the note that Roger "want[s] to say something
else other than 'Thank you, m'am'" for the compassion he's been shown, and although it is
noted that the paths of these two never cross again, it seems that Mrs. Jones has given Roger a
reason to choose a different path in life.

Another theme is that human
strength can be found in unlikely places. Roger certainly doesn't choose a "victim"
who he thinks will put up a fight. Not only does Mrs. Jones retain possession of her purse, she
also effectively takes control of the situation:

But the
boy's weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of
taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk, and his legs
flew up. The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned
sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his
teeth rattled.

Furthermore, she chastises the boy and
questions whether he's ashamed of himself. Roger underestimates the wrong lady, and Mrs. Jones
proves herself a fearless adversary when attacked.

Finally, in the fallout of
an attempted mugging, this story explores one final theme: the duality of trust. Mrs. Jones has
to extend trust to invite Roger into her home. Likewise, Roger has to extend trust to allow
himself to be led away into her home and to remain there when he realizes that he has the
opportunity to bolt. In order to mend relationships and society at large, people must extend
trust to each other, even in difficult situations.

How are strategic planning, performance improvement, and information systems interrelated and fundamental to the delivery of quality healthcare?...

Walter Fischer

Strategic planning, performance improvement, and information systems are each essential
components of an effective organization. They are especially important in the context of
healthcare because of the stakes involvedthe life-and-death decisions that are inherent in the
provision of medical care to the seriously ill. They are also interrelated precisely because the
technological element represented by a healthcare facilitys information system is central to the
ability of the other two elements to function efficiently.

Strategic
planning is, as the name suggests, a long-range process of assessing a healthcare organizations
future requirement and preparing to meet challenges and expectations through personnel policies
and improvements to or recapitalization of the organizations existing information systems.
Information systems are constantly reviewed and assessed for weaknesses (e.g., vulnerabilities
to hacking and/or to systemic disruptions caused by power outages or other...

In 1984, (part 3 - chapters 4-6), what is the telescreens' announcement?

In short, the
telescreens announced a victory for the country. As Oceania had defeated Eurasia, the
telescreens specifically cried:

"Vast strategic
maneuver - perfect co-ordination - utter control of the whole of Africa - bring the war within
measurable distance of its end - victory - greatest victory in human history - victory, victory,
victory."

This announcement is important for two
reasons.

First, this demonstrates for the last time that the people are
hearing a manipulated message. They are being taken advantage of by the power of
propaganda.

Second, this statements offers incredible . A victory has just
been achieved over 's life. He has just been won to the Party's ideology forever. His humanity
has been defeated.

The reading audience understands that the Party's message
will always offer hope, but never actually truly achieve the means of completely defeating
another country. The countries depend on being at war with each other to keep their people under
control.

Why was Rachel embarrassed by her mother?

begins his
book by sharing the history of his parents with us. His mother was named Ruchel Dwajra Zylska
when she was born in Poland on April 1, 1921. When her parents came to America, they renamed
their daughter Rachel Deborah Shilsky. Rachel herself changed her name to Ruth after she left
Virginia in 1941.

Rachel's mother was named Hudis, and she was a 'gentle and
meek' woman. In her reminiscences, Rachel remembers her mother as a 'sweet Mameh.' However, due
to polio, Hudis was paralyzed on the left side of her body. Her left hand was bent at the wrist
and was useless to her. Almost blind in her left eye, Hudis also had a severe limp; she had to
drag her left foot behind her as she walked. Because Rachel's father, Tateh, often made fun of
Mameh's condition, Rachel had a poor role model to follow in terms of relating to those with
disabilities. So, Rachel often found herself embarrassed by her mother's disability; she
maintains that she did not really change her poor attitude until after she converted to
Christianity.

Why was Mattie's mother so anxious to have tea with the Ogilvies?

In chapter
7, Mattie's mother is quite anxious about having tea at the Ogilvie mansion for a couple of
reasons.

First of all, the Ogilvies are extremely wealthy and belong to the
upper crust of Philadelphia society. This is made quite apparent upon their arrival at the
estate. The Ogilvie daughters are dressed in expensive matching outfits and are learning French
from their own private tutor. They talk about their connection to the Washington family and that
Colette Ogilvie is engaged to the son of Lord Gathering. Mattie and her mother are rather out of
place in such a setting.

The true reason for Mattie's mother's anxiety and
eagerness is shown when she asks about Mrs. Ogilvie's sons. It becomes clear from her repeated
questions that she would like Mattie to marry one of the Ogilvie boys. Of course, this would be
marrying down for an Ogilvie, and the conversation goes nowhere. In fact, it ends with a verbal
fight between Mattie and one of the Ogilvie girls.

What is the interpretation of this poem "Alzheimer's" by Kelly Cherry? He stands at the door, a crazy old man Back from the hospital, is mind...

Everyone
comes to a poem with a different background, a different set of life experiences, different
education so a poem can have many interpretations. Often, learned critics will unite in
identifying a central theme, but sometimes 'the man in the street' may have his own insights and
they are valid too. I will speak as one who Has actually had experience of a person with with
this disease:

Firstly, this brilliant poem gives readers a clue in the title
- as this can be a confusing subject for everyone (not least the victim) it is good to have the
guideline. An old gentleman has been in hospital and is returning home to his wife. Even without
the title we know he is not always rational ('crazy' - the piggy bank in the suitcase - brains
rattling.') The poem continues in the style of his mind racing,taking in the things he sees in
the way he sees them - (sunlight first,sparkling raindrops,the house highlighted,rosebushes that
were once obviously a central pre-occupation for him.)

The next bit of the
poem underlines the way in which memory is actually lost - not necessarily chronologically. In
some dementias patients have a perfect recollection of childhood events but cannot remember what
they were told 2 minutes ago. The short term memory loss becomes painfully obvious in the last
part - he does not recognise his wife. He is used to being a busy professional man of purpose -
now the only thing he can apply that to is working out who his life-partner
is.

What did The Zombies contribute to music?

Formed in
1962, The Zombies were part of the so-called British Invasion that witnessed numerous British
bands, most prominently The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, cross the Atlantic Ocean to achieve
enormous commercial success in the vast American pop market.  Founded by keyboardist and
vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone, along with drummer Hugh Grundy, guitarist Paul
Atkinson, and bassist Chris White, The Zombies recorded a number of hit singles including Time
of the Season, Shes Not There, and Tell Her No, all emphasizing Argents organ and keyboard
instrumentals.  The group's second album, "Odyssey and Oracle," recorded inn 1967 and
released in 1968, would receive great critical acclaim, but would also represent the band's
"swan song."  The Zombies disbanded in 1968, but regrouped in various iterations from
1990 to the present, with Argent alternating Zombies tours with those by his own band, Argent. 
The Zombies were definitely categorized more appropriately together with groups like the The
Beatles, The Kinks and The Dave Clark Five, all of whom were recording mainstream rock and roll
or pop music in contrast to the heavy metal British bands forming in the later part of the
decade and during the early 1970s like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.

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What is the plot of Fever 1793?

Becky Diamond

tells the story of fourteen-year-old Matilda "Mattie"
Cook, who lives with her widowed mother and grandfather above their coffee shop in Philadelphia
in 1793. Like any carefree teenager, she is more interested in having fun than in cleaning and
doing chores, but her world is soon forever changed when the very contagious, fatal yellow fever
breaks out throughout the city.

We see the devastating effects on the citys
population through Mattie's eyes,...

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What is the probability that 4 randomly selected people all have different birthdays? Round the answer to four decimal places

There are 365
out of 365 ways to select the birthday of first person. Therefore the number of ways that we can
choose a birthday for second person is 364 out of 365.

Therefore the
probability of two persons not having the same birthday is,

`P(2) = 365/365
xx364/365`

For four people,

`P(4) = 365/365 xx 364/365 xx
363/365 xx 362/365`

`P(4) = 0.9836`

 

Therefore the probability of 4 people having different birthdays is
0.9836

Please explain the elements of Elizabethan lyric poetry.

Lyric
poetry in general is designed, as the word lyric suggests, to be sung as
well as read, and it dates as far back as the ancient Greeks. Elizabethan lyric poetry is
characterized by both its subject matter (themes) and its form. Lyric poetry was often intended
to be accompanied by music in the form of a lyre, which was quite different than elegiac poetry
of the time which would have been accompanied by a flute.

The themes of most
lyric poetry of the era often center around the theme of love and romance. This could include
the concept of courtly love, in which a young man or woman (usually a man) falls quickly (and
soundly) in love with someone and then gets almost physically ill at the thought that his (or
her) love might be unrequited. Other Elizabethan lyric poetry haveor nature (the idyllic world)
themes, patriotic themes, as well as religious or reflective themes. In most cases, the speaker
of the poem is speaking about his own experience and feelings, making the poems more personal in
theme than many other kinds of poetry. 

While the form of Elizabethan lyric
poetry can vary greatly in terms of stanzas and other structural elements, most lyric poems are
written in short lines. This, of course, is because they were often designed to be sung as well
as read. 

Lyric poetry was written by poets we no long read about, such as
John Wootton who wrote:

Her eyes like shining lamps in
midst of night,

Night dark and dead:

Or as the stars that
give the seamen light,

Light for to lead

Their wandering
ships.

Some lyric poetry (in fact much of it) remains
anonymous, but some familiar examples were written by Shakespeare and others, whose works we
still read today:

Sonnet 18

Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough
winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a
date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold
complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or
nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor
lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his
shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe
or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Elizabethan lyric poetry is distinctive in both its themes and its
form, and they all lend themselves to the music of the lyre.

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Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the $20 bill? This questions is part of a larger essay topic given to me, which is pretty much our opinion on...

I think Jackson's
administration was in many ways a sad point in history.The Trail of Tears is unforgivable.I
think it's time to put someone else on that bill.Other countries have people other than their
leaders.Charles Dickens was on British money.Why not another contributor to our society?Why not
shift the faces on the money?]]>

Drawing from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, why Dick and Perry deserve the death penalty? I have two reasons: they are a threat to society, and they...

One way
to approach the issue of rationalizing or justifying the imposition of capital punishment in the
specific case of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock is to cite the comments made by County Attorney
Duane West in Part IV of s account of the real-life 1959 murder of the Clutter
family, .   Addressing reporters, West was quoted as
saying:

I feel that due to the violence of the
crime and the apparent utter lack of mercy shown the victims, the only way the public can be
absolutely protected is to have the death penalty set against these defendants. This is
especially true since in Kansas there is no such thing as life imprisonment without possibility
of parole. Persons sentenced to life imprisonment actually serve, on the average, less then
fifteen years."

Utilizing this quote,
which includes the two reasons specified in the question €“ punishment for the crime and
protection of society €“ one can note the extension of that second reason: the fact
that,...

Was Hitler solely responsible for World War II?

No single
person can be responsible for something as complex as a war. It requires many thousands of
people to make armies, fund them, provide logistical support, etc. That is while the "great
man" (or "evil man") way of accounting for historical events is generally more a
feature of popular culture than historical scholarship.

What is the thesis of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

My thesis
would be that this is a story about human empathy versus human indifference. Hemingway comes
down on the side of human empathy. The world may be a meaningless place that crushes people, but
for that reason, small acts of kindness and decency are all the more important.

The plot of this story is very simple: two waiters are discussing an elderly male
patron. They would like to close up the cafe for the night, but the man seems unwilling to
leave. One waiter is callous and indifferent. When the other waiter defends letting the older
man linger, the first waiter says the old man can go to the bar down the street if he doesn't
want to go home. The other waiter notes that you have to stand at the bar, and it is not a
pleasant place for an old man.

I would use as my thesis something like:
"As the title of the story...

In "Death of a Salesman," how does Willy's suicide serve as a resolution to the plot?

The dynamic
of the play is driven by the emotional and psychological disintegration of Willy Loman. As the
story develops, Loman's interior life becomes more chaotic and his behavior becomes more bizarre
as he breaks apart under stress. His career as a salesman is over. He has little to show for a
lifetime of hard work. He cannot support himself and his wife Linda. His two sons are failures
in every sense of the word, men of no character or accomplishment.

The idea
that Loman is suicidal is introduced into the plot specifically when Linda Loman discovers by
accident that her husband is making plans to kill himself. Overwhelmed with pain and fear, she
shares this news with her sons. Her intervention, however, and her appeal to her sons for help
do not even slow this plot development. Events happen rapidly that push Loman finally to commit
suicide.

The finalof Loman's life is that through the life insurance Linda
Loman collects, he is worth more financially to his family by dying rather than by living. Willy
Loman's suicide at the conclusion of the play resolves the plot. It is far too late for him or
his sons to be saved from the lives they have created and the flawed characters they have
become. Linda, the loving wife and mother, is left amid the wreckage.

In Coelho's The Alchemist, why is it important that Santiago not remain at the Pyramids?

In Coelho's
, the alchemist knows that Santiago's Personal Legend does not end with the
Pyramids. This is why the leader of the robbers is important in directing Santiago in the way he
should go. When Santiago arrives the Pyramids, he begins to dig because of his recurring dream.
The robber tells him:

Two years ago, right here on this
spot, I had a recurrent dream, too. I dreamed that I should travel to the fields of Spain and
look for a ruined church where shepherds and their sheep slept. 

The robber who has not paid attention to his dream is lost.
Nothing could convince him to search for omens and take on a journey fueled by faith, in order
to find that which the universe has in store for him. 

Once Santiago arrives
at the Pyramids, and hears the dream of the robber, he understands that he has fulfilled his
quest to see the Pyramids, and now has the information necessary to
retrieve his treasure. Ironically, the treasure leads him homealmost to his own back yard. This
part of his journey is temporary as well: as he returns home, he is drawn to Fatima for he knows
that the love of his life is waiting for him at the oasis. 

The alchemist
believes that greatness lies within Santiagoand an opportunity for love. Money means a lot to
many people, but it cannot buy true love. Everything centers on love and
knowing that you are part of something much greater: the entire universe. Santiago has learned
to speak the language of the desert and the wind, but he now understands that to travel back to
Spain, he will realize that which his dreams sent him to find in the first place. If he stays at
the Pyramids, he will not see his dream come to pass. Instead, he will learn (as the alchemist
tells him) to resent never finishing his quest for his Personal Legend, and that Fatima will
feel to blame.

In the end, Santiago realizes the Pyramids were a lure to take
him away from what he knew in order to teach him. Santiago asks (across the miles) if the
alchemist could not have saved him a beating in the desert by telling him to avoid the
Pyramidsfor his answer does not truly lie
there. The alchemist responds:

If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're
beautiful, aren't they?

The universe didn't want Santiago
at the Pyramids: it wanted him to dream of going there, and in getting
there, to realize his Personal Legend. For his Personal Legend was not to
be found at the Pyramids, but simply a part of his journey to find his "treasure"which
appears to be Fatima.

Who is Cherokee Sal and why is she so unique to the town in "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

We don't
learn much about Cherokee Sal, though she is unique to the Roaring Camp. She is unique because
she is the only woman living there among more than a hundred men, and, in addition, she has a
babysomething unprecedented in the life of the camp.

Unfortunately, however,
given how central she is, she never gets to speak, and we only get the sparsest outline of her
physical appearance or interior self. All we learn is that she is "coarse" and
"very sinful."

The story is told from the male point of view, and
we have to take the male narrator's word about Sal. When she dies after giving birth, the
narrator states that the town has been cleansed:

Within an
hour she had climbed, as it were, that rugged road that led to the stars, and so passed out of
Roaring Camp, its sin and shame, forever.

This is, to put
it mildly, a highly misogynist view of Cherokee Sal. She, alone, was the
source of sin and shame? Not likely.

However, with Cherokee Sal conveniently
out of the waywe are told she is...

What are some examples of metaphorical language in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Stephen Holliday

Metaphorical language--comprising most commonly and
--allows a writer to identify one thing with another in order to show how
the first thing mentioned is similar to the second thing.  For example, a football player might
be described as "a lion" on the field or as having played "like a lion in today's
game." In the first example, the writer is using a metaphor to compare
the player to a lion and, in the second, a simile, which is a comparison
using the words "like" or "as."  In both cases, the writer is comparing the
football to a powerful animal in the hope of evoking an image (the power of a lion) that helps
the reader understand the power of the football player.

In " ," as
Irving is...

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When John and William come to visit in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, the men and women are each concerned with different issues. What concerns the men?

In
chapter 7, William and John spend some time with the Wood family. During the visit, William's
talk of building a house leads to a political discussion among the men. William's position is
that the colony should not do anything that would anger the King. John is studying with Dr.
Bulkeley and echoes the Reverend's loyalist position that perhaps Connecticut is misinterpreting
the charter. Matthew is in favor of freedom and thinks that William and John are too young to
fully understand the situation. Through this argument, we see the conservative, pragmatic, and
radical positions on the matter that we know will eventually lead to the American Revolution.
The argument ends the evening's activities, as John and William leave when Matthew storms
upstairs.

How is epiphany used in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

makes
repeated use of epiphany as a unifying device that provides internal consistency to Stephen
Dedaluss character and the novels structure. Stephen develops through events and sudden
realizations of their significance, rather than simply existing on an even keel. The technique
fits with the overall stream-of-consciousness approach that replaces conventional plotting.
These insights often accompany or follow physical changes of a type that routinely symbolize
transformation.

Notable among these is crossing the bridge when Stephen comes
upon the Christian Brothers who are marching across. Joyce accompanies this physical crossing
with a spiritual birth, as Stephen hears his soul call him, expressed as well with theof
phoenix-like rebirth as he sees his soul arise from the grave.

Other
epiphanies are associated with his ideas about his soul. For example, his reunion with Father
Arnall not only brings memories of Clongowne but enables him to understand what his...

Take a position: Brands cannot be expected to last forever versus there is no reason for a brand to ever become obsolete. Often, after a brand begins...

While
the term forever seems to used here to mean a very long time, arguments can be made both for
the continued viability of a given brand and for its extinction. The underlying concept that is
being applied is brand life cycle or product life cycle. Because very few brands last more
than a few decades, there is far more evidence to support an argument against longevity. In
addition, while it may seem that many brands enjoy considerable longevity, the vast proportion
of businesses fail in their first few years, so many consumers never had an opportunity to
develop loyalty to them.

The longest-lasting brands are in the food and
beverage industries, with several European brands lasting more than a century. However, a brand
name may also continue but require changing over time to fit the needs of new, often younger
consumers. Furthermore, while a given brand may remain popular or even become iconic, the cost
of supporting the brand may ultimately make it...

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In A Raisin in the Sun, why is Mama's little plant so important to her?

From her very first
entrance in this play, Mama is a character who is linked with her plant. As she enters, she
moves straight to care for it and throughout the play she continues to nurture it and to look
after it. The plant operates symbolically in the play as it is a symbol of Mama's nurturting
spirit and how she is trying to look after her family and make them flourish, even though the
conditions for growth are less...

What is a theme statement for "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury?

s is one
of his classic scienceshort stories, published in and set in a dystopian future where
technology has become far too important in everyones lives, even in those of children. He
expresses fears of the increasing presence of technology, and he delves into the psychological
and existential ramifications of its overuse.

A theme statement would
encompass one of the selected themes in the work. In this case, a proper thematic statement
could be that the prevalence of technology in our daily lives will lead to a breakdown in the
traditional family and individual morality. Other themes that could be explored would be about
parenting, as the Hadleys have abandoned their children to be taken care of an entertained by
their intelligent house.

In 1984, what is the purpose of Big Brother and the Party?

Big Brother
and the Party exist to exercise total power over the lives of the people, especially Outer Party
members. The Partythat is, the elite, inner Partyfunctions as a totalitarian government
controlling every aspect of everybody's lives (except for the proles, who are controlled and
kept in misery in a general way, but not forced to behave with complete orthodoxy). Big Brother
is the emblem of the Party. He is both a benign father figure who everyone is taught to love and
a constant reminder that every Outer Party member is under continual surveillance.

As both Goldstein's book andexplain to, the only purpose of the ruling elite is to
increase and perpetuate its own power. The rulers want the rest of the people to be dehumanized
so that they can only experience hate, fear, triumph, and love of Big Brother. The rulers want
to constantly force people to do things they don't want to do, because this is the only way the
ruling class can be sure they have power over...

In Frankenstein, how does the creature cause the deaths of William and Justine?

's first
murder is that of . In the creature's own words from Chapter 16, he was sleeping in the woods
when William, a "beautiful" child came upon him and he was seized with the intention
that he should "educate him as my companion and friend". Unfortunately William
screamed when he saw the creature's "form" and unwittingly revealed his father was .
The creature then decided to kill William and "grasped his throat to silence him, and in a
moment he lay dead at my feet". The decision to make William his first victim is very
deliberate and calculated.

When dead, the creature noticed a locket around
William's throat which he took. Planting the locket on Justine as she herself slept, the
creature framed Justine for William's murder. As a result she was duly executed.

The creature learns from the death of William that he can "create desolation; my
enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries
shall torment and destroy him", therefore inspiring the creature to further
crimes.

How does Hawthorne use irony in "Young Goodman Brown" to illustrate the hypocrisy of the Puritans? What characters act in ways that are against the...

As an /, 's
short story "" makes ironic use of the symbolic figures in the narrative as well as
verbal and dramatic  to depict the Puritan hypocrisy.  For instance, Young Goodman Brown's name
itself certainly has a an ironic twist put upon its meaning as the narrator remarks that
Brown possesses "a considerable resemblance to the traveller with the snakelike staff. 
Later on, this resemblance is underscored by the witch Goody Cloyse, who remarks that the young
man is made "in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown," a remark that
contradicts the traveller comment that he has been

"as well acquainted with [his] family as with ever a one among the Puitans; and
that's no trifle to say."

What is Goodman Brown's faith in the story "Young Goodman Brown"? Why do readers say he has lost his faith (his faith is Puritanism or humanity)?

Hawthorne's
"" is a criticism of Calvinism as the sanctimonious, but ingenuous, Goodman loses his
faith in the precepts of Puritanism through his discovery that Goody Cloyse, Deacon Godkin, and
the "good old minister" are in league with Satan.  Indeed, his Calvinistic Puritanism
is diabolical, rather than divine.

Initially, the naive Goodman Brown is
convinced that he is secure in his faith in a Calvinistically defined God.  He ventures forth
away from home on business for just one night after which he vows to "cling to...

In Death of a Salesman, what does Biff learn? In Death of a Salesman, what does Biff learn?

At the
conclusion of the play, Biff has learned, or at least finally acknowledged, the truth about his
own life and his father's life. He tells his father that they are both "a dime a
dozen" and that neither of them is "a leader of men." Biff recognizes that some
kind of decent life is waiting for him "the minute I say I know who I am!"

Biff also understands how destructive his father's lifetime of denial has been for both
of them. "I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop . . . . Will you let me go, for Christ's sake? Will
you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?" Biff's words are quite
true and foreshadow Willy's suicide at the play's conclusion.

 

 

 

In "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, why does Phoenix Jackson talk to herself?

Phoenix
Jackson in byhas a mission---to travel the worn path and get the medicine that her grandson
desperately needs. She has been making this trek for three years since he swallowed lye and
burned his throat.

This journey is not easy for Phoenix.  The author
describes her as quite old.  Phoenix does not know her age. She carries an umbrella that she
uses as a cane to ward off any critters that try to attack her.  Her poor vision often deceives
her; for example, she sees a scarecrow that she at first thinks is a man and later a
ghost.

Her attitude toward life amazes the reader.  She humorously jokes
about the difficulty of the path and the things that she encounters. 

Her
banter serves two purposes. It tells the reader about Phoenix and her beautiful personality. 
What she says provides much of the humor to give some lightheartedness to a serious story. 
Phoenix may have always talked to herself to keep company.  Much of what she says is addressed
to the outside forces that might prevent her from accomplishing her goal.

It
is interesting that Phoenix has learned how to respond to the prejudice of the white people she
encounters. When the hunter calls her granny or implies that she is going to town to meet Santa
Claus, Phoenix does not argue or try to set him right.  She keeps her mouth shut and goes on her
way. Of course, she is elated that he dropped a nickel that she now has in her pocket.

One of the obvious aspects of Phoenix comes from her memory failure.  Everything works
as good as possible for Phoenix except that she has spells of drifting off in her
thinking:

A big black dog came up out of the weeds by the ditch. She was
meditating, and not ready, and when he came at her she only hit him a little with her cane. Over
she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.

Down there, her senses drifted away. A dream visited her, and she
reached her hand up, but nothing reached down and gave her a pull. So she lay there and
presently went to talking. 'Old woman,' she said to herself, 'that black dog come up
out of the weeds to stall you off, and now there he sitting on his fine tail, smiling at
you.'

Because of her age, senility, dementia,
or strokes are possible reasons for her forgetfulness and her talking to herself.  When she
drifts off or does not remember what she is doing, it is obvious that Phoenixs body may outlive
her mind.  

In the book "The Egypt Game" how old is April Hall?

April is
11 years old at the time of the novel's commencement.  It is at this age that she befriends the
two other children, becomes immersed in the culture of Egypt, and enters into the
"Egypt" world.  The entire scope of her experiences do not take her past 11.  The idea
of the age's significance is representative of the adolescent emergence into adulthood, and the
issues April confronts such as personal responsibility, identity formation, and understanding
abstract social and individual perceptions of the good takes place at around ages 11-13. I
believe that April's age is disclosed early on in the novel, so it can be easily rediscovered
upon a secondary reading of the text.

How does James McBride learn to come to terms with who he is as a person in The Color of Water?

is 's autobiographical story of growing up in an extraordinarily
non-traditional household. The entire book recounts his journey from confusion and disquiet
about who he is to a relative peace with his circumstances. Young James hasmany things in his
life which make him different from others, and many of them are puzzling to him because his
mother, Ruth, reveals next to nothing about her past. It is only as Ruth tells her story that
the questions in James's life get answered and he is able to, as your question says, "come
to terms with who he is as a person."

James is one of twelve children
and grows up in a chaotic household run primarily by his rather eccentric and...

What is the Reconstruction Era in African-American literature in the nineteenth century?

Historians
generally agree to limit the Reconstruction period between 1865, when President Andrew Johnson
began his plan to reform Southern society, and 1877, the year the Republican Rutherford Hayes
won one of the most disputed elections in American history. That event is seen as the final blow
to the hopes of equality between the races that Reconstruction had initially stimulated in
African Americans.

The literature produced during these twelve years is
being rediscovered thanks to the renewed critical attention to African American literary history
in the last thirty years. A lot of works produced in...

In Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, what was Holden's reason for going to New York city?

has no
strong reason for going to Manhattan. He just doesn't like hanging around his school in
Pennsylvania after having been expelled. He feels isolated and unwanted. He begins his story by
describing how he was "ostracized" by the fencing team for losing all their equipment
on the subway. He has already been "ostracized" by the school administrators. He
doesn't want to go home any sooner than he has to, because he knows he is going to get chewed
out by his father after flunking out of his third prep school. Young people are usually most
flush around Christmas time. Holden is feeling rich. At the end ofhe writes:

After I got packed, I sort of counted my dough. I don't remember
exactly how much I had, but I was pretty loaded. My grandmother'd just sent me a wad about a
week before. I have this grandmother that's quite lavish with her dough. She doesn't have all
her marbles anymore--she's old as hell--and she keeps sending me money for my birthday about
four times a year.

He will reveal that he has even more
riches when he proposes to :

"I have about a hundred
and eighty bucks in the bank. I can take it out when it opens in the morning....No kidding.
We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out, I could get a job
somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married
or something."

All of Holden's experiences with
people during this terminal stage of involvement with Pencey Prep are unpleasant, especially his
interview withand his fight with his roommate Stradlater. He doesn't feel like sleeping in his
own room after fighting with Stradlater, and his neighbor Ackley obviously doesn't like him
sleeping in his roommate Ely's bed. Holden may feel as if he is being slowly and subtly pushed
out of Pencey. It would be a familiar feeling, since he has already experienced it at two other
prep schools. He leaves for New York because he feels he no longer belongs at Pencey. He will
find eventually that he doesn't belong in Manhattan either.

Compare and contrast the conquests of Mexico and Peru

The Spanish conquest of
the Aztecs in Mexico by Cort©s in 1519 was in part facilitated by the Aztecs' belief
that Cort©s was a god called Quetzalcoatl. Before reaching the Aztec capital at Tenochtitlan,
Cort©s made alliances with tribes who were rivals with the Aztecs. When the Spaniards reached
Tenochtitlan, Montezuma, the Aztec leader, honored Cort©s as a god and therefore did not defend
his empire. With far fewer troops than the Aztecs, Cort©s took Montezuma captive and was able
to command the Aztecs through him. After getting reinforcements from Cuba, the Spanish conquered
the capital with their guns and horses in 1521. 

The Incas in Peru were
captured by Pizarro in 1532 with a force that was far inferior in number to the forces of the
leader, Atahualpa. The size of the Incan force was similar to the large number of Aztec forces
that were also defeated by the Spanish. It...

In Spinelli's Stargirl, what is the purpose for the "Card Game" that Stargirl and Leo play?

In chapter 21,
Leo discovers thatmakes her own greeting cards. When she finds someone who needs a gift or a
card, she anonymously gives them what they need. The way Stargirl finds out what people may
enjoy for a gift or as a title of a card is through newspaper articles and public bulletin
boards. When Leo gets to view some of her handmade cards, he notices that they are simple and
hand drawn with stick figures. Although simple and not very professional-looking, each card is
personal and heartfelt. This gives them more value than a card bought from the store.

Leo also discovers a game that Stargirl plays while in public. She follows and watches
someone for fifteen minutes and then imagines what type of card she would send them. Leo points
to someone and asks what type of card would...

What is the poem, "Annabel Lee", about?

This poem
written byis a tale of love shared by two children "many and many a year ago,/In a kingdom
by the sea". In it, the speaker is telling of his one true love, , who dies because the
angels in heaven are jealous of their love. The angels send a cold wind that causes Annabel
Lee's death, but they are still jealous of the couple's love because not even death can separate
them; their souls will be forever joined. The speaker spends his nights "by the sea"
remembering her, the stars reminding him of her sparkling eyes.

I am writing an essay on the use of imagery and simile in Dante's Inferno. I need to focus on two cantos in particular. Any suggestions on which I...

As nearly
every singlein Inferno concerns a portion of hell containing an ironic
punishment that is described in vivid detail, it would not at all be difficult to choose two
cantos to discuss . Just to narrow it down, it might be interesting to find two cantos which
stand out from the rest of the subject matter in terms of imagery. Two that always seem to jump
out are Canto XIII, which concerns the relatively still woods of the suicides compared to the
violent nature of punishments that precede them, and Canto XXXII, which introduces a still, icy
lake of frozen sinners that sharply contrasts the violence and noise of Malebolge just above.


can also be found throughout Inferno and very easily
in the cantos already mentioned. A prominent one can be found in the previously mentioned Canto
XIII. Dante describes the rooting on the souls that will grow into trees in the forest of
suicides, saying that after they take root, they sprout up "lusty as any tare," which
is a common and troublesome weed in biblical terms. In Canto XXXII, Dante happens upon two
sinners who are frozen so close together that one's mouth is above the other's head, gnawing on
it. Using simile, Dante compares the gnawing head to a hat for the lower
head.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, how did Tom Robinson, the African-American accused of raping Mayella, show acts of kindness?

Tom
Robinson's kind actions toward Mayella Ewell is what got him arrested in the first place in 's
novel, . Tom had visited Mayella quite a few times before he was accused of
attacking her. He had responded to Mayella's request that she help him "bust up a
chiffarobe," and he even refused the nickel payment that she offered him. On the stand, Tom
admits tothat he went to see Mayella "lots of times."

"Seemed like every time I passed by yonder she'd have some little somethin' for me
to do... I was glad to do it. Mr. Ewell didn't seem to help her none, and neither did the
chillun.

He chopped kindling and toted water for her. On
his final visit, she asked him to fix their door but, instead, Mayella kissed Tom, and he left
as quickly as possible. Tom's kindheartedness proved to be his greatest
weakness.

Cell Theory

The three
basic tenets of the cell theory are:

1.) All living things are made of
cells

2.) Cells are the smallest structural and functional unit of living
organisms

3.) All cells come from preexisting cells.

The
first is self-explanatory, as all living things - from microscopic organisms to the largest
whale - are made of cells.  These cells can vary widely, but all living things are composed of
cells.

Secondly, living organisms cannot be broken down any farther than the
cell level. Like atoms and matter (atoms are the smallest units of matter), cells and living
organisms are related: living organisms, at their most basic level, are made of cells.

Finally, no cell comes about in a vacuum.  All cells on the planet came from other
cells. Cells divide by a number of mechanisms, such as mitosis (non-sexual cell division) and
meiosis (sexual cell division), but every cell in existence came from another
cell.

What is a quote from when Atticus guards Tom Robinson's jail cell in To Kill a Mockingbird?

It is in
the second part ofwhengoes to the town's jailhouse to stand guard for Tom Robinson's protection.
Atticus had received word that, even though he is behind bars, Tom is far from safe. A lynch mob
is likely coming for him that night.

There are many good quotes that you
could select from to help illustrate this tense episode from the book. Consider the
following.

The description of the jailhouse itself is noteworthy. It paints
the picture of the building as austere and formidable. It is clearly not an inviting placeit is
a jail after all. This short description helps set the mood for the events to follow:

Starkly out of place in a town of square-faced stores and
steep-roofed houses, the Maycomb jailhouse was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two
cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses.

We see the tension really start to build soon after. It is Atticus's subtle yet
deliberate response to an incoming threat that shows us exactly why he is visibly sitting
outside the jailhouse in the middle of the night and how he is a man who keeps his
cool:

We saw Atticus look up from his newspaper. He closed
it, folded it deliberately, dropped it in his lap and pushed his hat to the back of his head. He
seemed to be expecting them.

Although it does not happen
exactly how she intends it to,is able to diffuse the potentially dangerous situation that occurs
next. After attempting to make small talk with Mr. Cunningham, the man decides to call off their
plans for lynching Tom Robinson. The following quotation could illustrate that the situation has
been temporarily resolved:

As they had come, in ones and
twos the men shuffled back to their ramshackle cars. Doors slammed, engines coughed, and they
were gone.

In the play Julius Caesar, how did Cassius persuade Brutus to join the conspiracy?

Cassius
attempts to convince Brutus to join the conspriacy in a couple of ways, though the more
effective way is through deception.

First, during the feast of Luprical in
the first act, Claudius points out that Caesar is no more worthy of being crowned emporer than
Brutus. He points out Caesars many physical weaknesses, such as his girlishness when he is sick
or his inability to swim for distances. These weaknesses, however, are not enough to convince
Brutus.

Casius knows that Brutus' first concern is for the people of Rome, so
to convince him to kill Caesar, Casuis must first convince him that Caesar is bad for Rome. He
plants the idea that Caesar is too powerful and that power causes people to be corrupt. He then
convinces Brutus that the people themselves fear Caesar and his control.

To
do this, Casius forges several letters from anonymous Roman citizens and has them placed around
Brutus' home where he is sure to find them. These faked letters convince Brutus that the people
would be better served if the threat of an all-powerful Caesar were removed.

For more information about the characters and themes in , see the links below. I've
also included a link to thewhere Brutus decides that he must stop Caesar and why.

He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature,
there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder
And
that craves wary walking. Crown him? that;
And then, I grant, we put a sting in
him
That at his will he may do danger with.

Brutus is saying that though Caesar may be a good man now, too much power may change
his nature, and turn him into something dangerous.

Compare the two-party political system of the 1830s' New Democracy.

The first
two-party system of the early Republic had different issues than the one in the 1830s. The first
one made an issue over which side to back in foreign policy. The Federalists favored the British
while the Democratic-Republicans favored the French. The Federalists also believed in weak state
governments while the Democratic-Republicans believed in stronger states. The Federalists also
believed in a strong national military while the Democratic-Republicans believed in strong state
militias.

The two-party system in the 1830s formed due to the presidency of
Andrew Jackson. Jackson believed in a federal government that was more friendly to Western
states. He did not approve of the renewal of the National Bank, nor did he approve of federal
funds being used to support infrastructure projects at the state level. Jackson used his veto
power liberally, all of which led to the rise of the Whig Party. The Whig Party was
pro-infrastructure and also pro-banking reform. It was led primarily...

Can somebody please tell me what the role of the Nurse is in Euripides's Medea?

The Nurse's role in is to bring the audience into the world of
the play. In theof the play, she gives the historical background, provides commentary on these
events, and introduces the major characters: Medea and Jason.

At the end of
the Nurse's opening , the Attendant enters and tells the Nurse about the rumors being spread
about Medea and Jason, providing additional background for the play.

Theenters, and with the voice of Medea lamenting her current woeful situation in the
background, the Nurse discusses Medea's tumultuous emotional state of mind and physical decline
with the Chorus.

By the time the Nurse leaves the stage, never to return,
she's served her purpose (her role), which is to give the audience the information they need to
understand the rest of the play.

The audience never actually sees the Nurse
in her role as "nurse" to Medea. The Nurse and Medea have no scenes together. The
Nurse makes only passing reference to her "princess" and her
"mistress,"...

Oedipus the King: What is the significance of the plays title? What does it suggest about the authors overall emphasis?

poetrymfa

(or  the King) is a Greekwritten byand
performed circa 429 BC. The play focuses on the aftermath of a fulfilled prophecy that predicted
that Oedipus would kill his father, Laius, and wed his mother, . It is understood at the
beginning of the play that Oedipus has done just that; in his attempt to avoid his fate (which
he had heard from the Oracle of Delphi), Oedipus--who had been abandoned on a mountainside as a
child by Laius and adopted by King Polybus and Queen Merope--leaves for Thebes. On the road to
his destination, he meets and kills his biological father, and upon reaching Thebes, he wins his
mother's hand in marriage by answering the riddle of the Sphinx. 

Oedipus Rex begins after these events have occurred but before
Oedipus has realized that the prophecy has been fulfilled. The plot follows...

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In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, how does the character Walter Lee evolve from beginning of the text to the end?

In Hansberry's
,changes from the beginning to the end. In the beginning, Walter is a
bitter black man. He feels that life is not fair. He is angry because he cannot seem to get
ahead. He is dissatisfied with his job. Working as a chauffeur is demeaning to him.

Walter lives in an apartment that is disappointing. He is surrounded by strong women
who are quite vocal. He and his wifeargue:

Ruth: Eat your
eggs, they gonna be cold.

Walter: Thats it. There you are. Man say to his
woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs...Man say: I got to take hold of this
here...