Research the advantages and disadvantages of traveling to and settling in a new location. Choose a location, prepare a report that explains your...

Historically, people choose to move and
settle in a new location based on various factors. Some are "pushed" out of their
former home while others are "pulled" toward a new territory. Often, people's reasons
are a combination of push and pull.

Some common "push factors are
natural disasters, war, or lack of resources in the current location. People may choose to move
in order to escape one of these difficulties. Sometimes there is simply no choiceif your life is
in danger, you cannot stay put, no matter how much you might wish to. An advantage, therefore,
would be escaping the dangerous situation. A disadvantage, in that case, would be that the
person might head into the unknown unprepared.

When people feel drawn to a
new location, these are called pull factors. Some common ones are improved access to resources
(such as land or work), or better opportunities for your family, such as access to education.
Advantages of settling a location like this would be more opportunities to live a better
lifethis was the main draw for early European immigrants to the United States, for example.
Disadvantages are the inevitable challenges that come with travel and settlement, such as the
expense of travel, adapting to a new culture, or encountering barriers that were previously
unknown.

As you answer this question, consider which factors might pull a
person toward the new location you choose. And, along with that, which reasons are pushing
them away from where they currently are. Then you can weigh the advantages and disadvantages of
each choice.

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What were the distinctive characteristics of Roman culture?

Roman culture
borrowed and improved on Greek culture and other foreign cultures, making it difficult to
adequately point out its distinct features. It should be noted that sections of the Roman
population held on to Greek features, for instance, giving preference to the Greek language over
the Latin language. However, despite this challenge, Roman culture has identifiable features
that can effectively be associated with the culture and the era.

The Romans
contributed the arches and domes in their architectural designs and structures. One popular
structure with these features, and which also serves as a symbol of Roman culture is the
Colosseum. The Colosseum was used for official ceremonies, but it was made popular by the death
matches between gladiators that were carried out for the entertainment of the public.

has also been considered a distinct feature of Roman culture. The style was used in
numerous literary works.

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What is Douglasss job on Mr. Coveys farm?

Mr.
Covey givesa job that Douglass has never done before. For the first time in his entire life,
Frederick Douglass is made into a field hand. He must work outside of the house and do
backbreaking manual labor with all of the other field slaves. One of his first specific jobs
that he is given is to hitch up a cart to some...

How To Start An Autobiography

It seems
to me that it would be difficult for most young people to write complete autobiographies. They
haven't been around that long, and most haven't done much except grow up and go to school. I
would suggest that, with the teacher's permission of course, it would be better for a young
student to write about a single memorable incident in his or her life. A fairly detailed
description of that incident ought to give a pretty good impression of the writer's background.
If you were to write about a single incident in your life, then the first step, it seems to me,
would be to jot some of the incidents that stand out in your memory, and then to zero in on one
of them as your project. You can find some excellent examples of the kind of essay I am
suggesting in collections of James Thurber's short pieces, particularly in My Life and
Hard Times and in The Thurber Carnival, which contains
selections from My Life and Hard Times. Here are a few titles of his
autobiographical essays:

"The Night the Ghost Got
In"

"The Night the Bed Fell"

"The Dog
that Bit People"

How does Octavia Butler challenge us to consider boundaries in Kindred? (black/white, master/slave, husband/wife, past/present)

In 's
historical time-travel novel , the author challenges the reader to consider
the dichotomies that seem so easy and automatic (past and present; black and white; master and
slave), to really immerse ourselves in the space between the two, and realize how inadequate the
boundaries really are.

By using the unique frame of time travel, Butler
disturbs and dissolves the boundary between the past and the present. Through Dana's own
confrontation of the past, we as readers are also forced to confront the past (not only the
antebellum South, but also Dana's present day, which is now our past). Through Dana's physical
return into history, we are reminded of the very humanness of the past, which is often obscured
through the "objective" lens of historical textbooks. Dana is able to form
relationships with her ancestors, with people who were enslaved and with people who did the
enslaving. Through those relationships, we are able to better understand the
motivations,...

How does Night by Elie Wiesel make an appeal to a more inclusive sense of humanity?

In
his memoir ,appeals to people to have a more inclusive sense of humanity.
First, in his introduction to Night, a book in which he testifies about the
atrocities prisoners endured in the death camps during the Holocaust, he writes,

Was there a way to describe the last journey in sealed cattle cars,
the last voyage toward the unknown? Or the discovery of a demented and glacial universe where to
be inhuman was human, where disciplined, educated men in uniform came to kill, and innocent
children and weary old men came to die? Or the countless separations on a single fiery night,
the tearing apart of entire families, entire communities? Or, incredibly, the vanishing of a
beautiful, well-behaved little Jewish girl with golden hair and a sad smile, murdered with her
mother the very night of their arrival? How was one to speak of them without trembling and a
heart broken for all eternity? Deep down, the witness knew then, as he does now, that his
testimony would not be received. After all, it deals with an event that sprang from the darkest
zone of man. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was.

The vanishing...beautiful, well-behaved little Jewish girl with
golden hair and a sad smile was Wiesels sister, whom he brings to life in all her young
humanity. In fact, he brings all of his dead family to life, as he writes about their reaction
upon first being forced to leave their home. He makes the reader see them as human beings, even
though they were not being treated as such. The reader can feel their emotions. They were
people: a father; a mother; Elie; and a small sister. As he describes his family on page 19,
they are people who are being treated worse than animals.

My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it
possible. As for my mother, she was walking, her face a mask, without a word, deep in thought. I
looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a
little girl of seven. On her back a bag too heavy for her. She was clenching her teeth; she
already knew it was useless to complain. Here and there, the police were lashing out with their
clubs: "Faster!" I had no strength left. The journey had just begun and I already felt
so weak... "Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police
were screaming. That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today.
They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.

Wiesel also notes other people who were oppressed by the Nazis,
making it clear that it was not only Jews who were treated as if they were animals: We were
herded into yet another barrack, inside the Gypsy camp. We fell into ranks of five. However, in
one encounter with a Gypsy prisoner, the other man strikes Wiesels father.

The Gypsy stared at him for a long time, from head to toe. As if he
wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a
human being with a body and a belly. Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father
with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.

Importantly, Wiesel continues in his introduction to the
book:

Could men and women who consider it normal to assist
the weak, to heal the sick, to protect small children, and to respect the wisdom of their elders
understand what happened there? Would they be able to comprehend how, within that cursed
universe, the masters tortured the weak and massacred the children, the sick, and the old? And
yet, having lived through this experience, one could not keep silent no matter how difficult, if
not impossible, it was to speak. And so I persevered. And trusted the silence that envelops and
transcends words....

This is an important plea to people
to treat others as human beings and to be inclusive of all people. As the author notes,
"For, despite all my attempts to articulate the unspeakable, 'it' is still not right."
The "it" here is the brutality of people against other people whom they consider to be
different.

`int_0^1 root(3)(1 + 7x) dx` Evaluate the definite integral.

Given `int_0^1root(3)(1+7x)dx`

Integrate using the u-substitution method.

Let `u=1+7x`

`(du)/dx=7`

`dx=(du)/7`

 

`=int_0^1u^(1/3)*(du)/7`

`=1/7int_0^1u^(1/3)du`

`=1/7*u^(4/3)/(4/3)`  Evaluated from x=0 to x=1.

`=1/7*3/4*(1+7x)^(4/3)` Evaluated from x=0 to x=1.

`=3/28
[(1+7*1)^(4/3)-(1+7*0)^(4/3)]`

`=3/28[8^(4/3)-1^(4/3)]`

`=3/28[16-1]`

`=3/28[15]`

`=45/28`

`=1.607`

 

Find the area bounded by y=8-x^2 and y=x^2.

We first
determine the points where the curves y = 8 - x^2 and y = x^2, meet.

8 - x^2
= x^2

=> x^2 = 4

=> x = 2 , x = -2

Now...

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How does science fiction/horror author create an alternate reality as a way of exploring issues of his own day and time? How does science...

I think we can
best understand how to answer this question if we understand what "" is. For example,
in Star Trek: Enterprise , the crew is living hundreds of years in the
future compared to us. However, in the third season, Captain Archer was constantly tempted to
violate his values in order to obtain information about an alien race known as the Xindi. The
Xindi had attacked earth without cause and now Archer had to find and stop them. At the time,
the US had recently been attacked and our president was calling for a second invasion. Anyone
that made that connection between America and...

a 25-foot ladder is leaning against a house. the base of the ladder is pulled away from the house at a rate of 2 feet per second. How fast is the top...

The length
of the ladder is 25 feet. It is leaning against the wall of a house. The base of the ladder is
pulled away from the wall at 2 feet per second. Let B the distance of the base of the ladder
from the wall....

What important function does Jocasta play in the play and the film other than being Oedipus mother/wife?

Aside from
the fact thatis ' mother, wife, and the mother of his children, she plays a role in the drama
unlike the rest of the .  In the midst of his trials, Jocasta is the one voice that seems to
support Oedipus through reason.  She speaks very matter of factly in Act II when she explains to
Oedipus why she does not believe in prophesy.  Unlike the rest of the people in Thebes (and
therefore also the original audience of the play), Jocasta dares verbalize her disbelief in
something everyone else takes very seriously and without question.

Ironically, while Jocasta's confidence makes her sound very rational and even somewhat
convincing, her actual proof for why she does not believe in prophesy (the
story of the crossroads where Laius was murdered) turns out to be the exact evidence that
confirms Oedipus' mistake and shows him his own blindness.  She unknowingly convinces him that
Tieresias was correct all along.

When she hangs herself at the end of the
play, I think it symbolizes the fact that Jocasta really thought herself innocent all along.  I
believe it shows that her intentions were pure and only confirms her ignorance.  When she finds
out the entire truth, and realizes how her mistakes contributed to the , her guilt is so great
that she does not feel worthy to live.  There is something noble in this decision, despite how
much the audience may pity her.

What is the central idea of the text?

The central
idea in this classic sermon is that God not only can and will send Edwards's parishioners to
hell in the blink of an eye, but that he has the power and is anxious to punish them for turning
their backs on them. Not only that, but he is angry, so angry that he holds the hapless sinner
like a spider over a fiery pit, just waiting for the chance to drop it in. The point was to
scare the bejeebers out of Edwards's parishioners, and according to reports, it
worked.

The scare tactics were designed to get their attention so they'd
understand that they could not get to heaven on their own. They had to turn their back on reason
and good works (as means to attain eternal life) and confess their sins to God and beg his
forgiveness.  

Foreshadowing In Romeo And Juliet

In
Shakespeare's , one of the first examples ofis whenand his friends are
thinking of crashing the Capulets' party.suggests that Romeo might find somone new there, better
than Rosaline. He says that by comparison, Romeo will see such beauties that Rosaline will seem
a crow when compared to these "swans." This is what happens, and this is
foreshadowing.

BEN:

At this same ancient feast of Capulet's

Sups the fair Rosaline whom
thou so lov'st;

With all the admired beauties of Verona.

Go thither, and with unattainted eye

Compare her face with some that
I shall show,

And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
(I.ii.86-91)

And then Benvolio notes that Romeo has only
ever weighed Rosaline against herself, but compared to someone else, she might
not fare so well...

BEN:

Tut! you saw her fair, none else
being by,

Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;

But
in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd

Your lady's love against some
other maid

That I will show you shining at this feast,

And
she shall scant show well that now seems best. (98-103)

In Act One, scene four, as the men prepare to leave for the Capulets' party, Romeo
expresses a dark feeling of his impending death. This is foreshadowing also.

ROM:

€¦for my mind
misgives

Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,

Shall
bitterly begin his fearful date

With this night's revels and expire the
term

Of a despised life, clos'd in my breast,

By some vile
forfeit of untimely death. (113-118)

Whenfirst encounters
Romeo, she asks the Nurse who he is as he leaves the party, stating that if he is married,
she'll die a virgin, but her description states that her grave will be her wedding bed. This
actually is what ultimately happens.

JUL:

Go ask his name.If he be
married,

My grave is like to be my wedding bed. (I.v.143-144)

In Juliet's very long speech in Act IV, scene three, she worries
that she might wake from her drugged sleep before Romeo arrives, surrounding by the bones of the
dead. This is more accurate than she could knowand Romeo will be among the bodies. First she
wonders if she will not be smothered in such a place:

JUL:

How if, when I
am laid into the tomb,

I wake before the time that Romeo

Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point!

Shall I not then be
stifled in the vault,

To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes
in,

And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? (32-37)

Then Juliet goes further, wondering if she wakes among the bones
and is driven mad by feareven finding 's enshrouded corpsemight she not kill herself? In truth,
she will kill herself, but not as she imagines: this is more
foreshadowing.

JUL:

O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all these
hideous fears,

And madly play with my forefathers joints,

And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud,

And, in this rage,
with some great kinsman's bone

As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains?
(51-56)

These are all examples of foreshadowing in
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

 

 

 

In Part Two, Chapter 8, Orwell brings the character of O'Brien to life through Winston's eyes. What is Winston's attitude toward O'Brien?

I would
describe 's attitude towardin this chapter as a mixture of both fear and admiration.uses
specific verbs and adjectives here to paint O'Brien with a specific air of confidence, while
Winston is portrayed as jittery and eager. This is especially clear in the middle of this
chapter, when O'Brien asks Winston a series of questions to test his allegience to the
Brotherhood: "...You are prepared to commit murder," to which Winston answers,
"Yes."

Winston admires O'Brien for being a part of the
"Brotherhood" and is willing to do almost anything to join or serve him for this
important cause. O'Brien shmoozes Winston andby serving them wine and then fascinates Winston
when he is able to complete the stanza that Winston often repeats.

Overall, I
would say that O'Brien is both a symbol of hope and fear in Chapter 8. He represents the idea of
a future when they can finally be free from the telescreen and the other confines they currently
know, yet he also represents risk. Opening up to O'Brien is the most drastic measure Winston has
taken so far against the Party, and he knows this, yet he chooses to
proceed.

In chapter eight of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, which words or phrases in the last two sentences seem ironic?

Early in s
novel , after the animals have staged a revolution and taken control of the
farm, seven commandments are posted for everyone to see:

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes upon
four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3. No animal shall wear
clothes.

4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

5. No animal
shall drink alcohol.

6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

7. All animals are equal.

During the course of
the novel, various of these commandments are modified to suit the interests of the most powerful
animals.  In Chapter VIII, for instance, afterand some of the other powerful animals discover
alcohol and drink too much of it, Napoleon becomes extremely drunk. An order is quickly issued
in his name that no animal is to drink alcohol, upon pain of death. After he sobers up, however,
Napoleon thinks better of this directive.  The final paragraph of Chapter VIII reads as
follows:

But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to
herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They
had thought the Fifth Commandment was €˜No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words
that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: €˜No animal shall drink alcohol to
excess.

This paragraph is doubly ironic: the statement that the animals had
remembered the fifth commandment incorrectly is false, and so, of course, is the new phrasing of
that commandment.  Once again, the commandments have been altered to suit the interests of the
farms rulers, especially Napoleon. The altering of the fifth commandment is yet more evidence of
the cynicism of Napoleon and the corruption of his regime.

 

In George Orwell's 1984, what imagery is depicted in the first chapter?

s
begins with poignant .

It was a
bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Anyone familiar with Britains unpredictable weather can relate to the first part of the
sentence. In this way,sets up a familiar world only to have it come crashing down words later.
In reality, clocks do not strike thirteen times to announce 1:00PM. By using the number
thirteen, Orwell is...

What is a good thesis statement for a critical analysis of symbolism in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

I
agree with an earlier answer that the place to start is with figuring out what you think the
story means, and what the themes are. For me, the thing that is interesting about Hemingway is
how, for all the focus on the directness and concreteness of his prose, most of the meaning of
it is left unsaid. In the case of this story, it is mostly dialog, but in fact very little real
communication is happening. There are many reactions one could have to these characters: Jig is
being bullied, of course, but she is also fighting back in a passive aggressive way (I dont
care about me, she says when she gives in). There is an emptiness in their relationship; they
are talking at each other, rather than to each other, and there is a kind of intractable quality
to each of them. Someone described them as decadent, but to me these are people who realize
that they have made a tremendous mistake but dont want to admit it or face up to each other. I
dont mean the baby, but their lives.

So a thesis statement about symbolism in
the story would need to account for this. I guess another way of thinking about a thesis would
be to ask some questions: How does the setting of the story, or any of the descriptive details
Hemingway provides, relate to this theme? Do these things contrast with this feeling of
disconnectedness or reinforce it? Can these details be seen as ironic in any way? I think if you
consider these questions, you can come up with a good thesis about how Hemingway uses the
landscape as a way to comment on, and distance himself from, these
characters.

What are the pros and cons of a jury system?

The role
of juries in the criminal justice system is to reach verdicts based upon the facts presented to
them by prosecutors and defense lawyers. As juries are determining issues of fact, rather than
law, then it would seem perfectly natural to allow laypeople to decide whether or not a criminal
defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Legal matters are decided by judges; matters of
fact by laypeople. This is a simple, straightforward division of labor between law and fact
which the jury system perfectly reflects.

As decisions in criminal trials are
arrived at by ordinary members of the public, their verdicts are more likely to be accepted by
society as a whole. If jurors weren't laypeople but jurists (legal experts), then the criminal
justice system would be seen by many as being too distant from the general public and too far
from the vast majority of the population. Under these circumstances, the administration of
justice would be an elite pursuit, one divorced from any deep roots in society. The reputation
of justice would then, in all likelihood, be significantly diminished, being seen as little more
than the expression of a narrow class interest.

That said, there are
drawbacks to the jury system. For one thing, juries tend not to be as representative of society
as its defenders would have us believe. One of the main sources of unfairness in the American
criminal justice system is the unconscious bias of white juries in relation to minority
defendants.

Nor is the process of jury selection anywhere near as random as
we might think. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys frequently remove jurors to get a jury
composition that will strengthen their case.

As jurors aren't legal experts,
they can often be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information presented to them, leading in
many cases to lengthy, drawn-out trials. Not all jurors take their responsibility seriously. If
their lives are disrupted for any appreciable length of time, then it's only natural that
they'll want to return back to normal life as soon as possible. Under these conditions, the
chance of a rushed verdict increases substantially and with it the very real danger of
injustice. 

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What is the awfully simple operation, why is it unnamed, and how do the man and girl each feel about it?

linda-allen

ok! now that abortion is been discussed, what other social issues are mentioned in the
story?

The story was first published in 1927, so another
issue besides abortion is societal attitudes toward unwed mothers. There was no such thing as
government aid back then, so Jig would have had a tough time raising a child without a father.
Unless she was independently wealthy, she would have had a hard time finding a job. The issue of
illegitimacy would have arisen as well. Her child would have been branded a bastard in 1927. If
the father refuses to fulfill his responsibility, the only choices open to her were abortion,
adoption, or illegitimacy.

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Mary Shelley incorporates nature many times throughout Frankenstein. List some examples and explain why the author includes them.

Shelley,
like most Romantic writers, uses nature to represent ' emotions or state of mind and to reflect
the morality or immorality of characters' actions.

Examples:

1. The novel begins with 's letters to his sister.  Before he reaches the Arctic and
becomes entrenched in ice, his portrayal of nature is romanticized.  He finds the ride of the
sled across the Russian snow "pleasant" and thinks that the Arctic breeze against his
cheeks is a "wind of hope."

2. For, nature is idyllic and
soothing.  In...

In The God of Small Things, who, or what, is the God of small things?

It would be worth your
while to re-read Chapter 11 of this incredible novel, entitled "." One of the key
aspects of Roy's style that is employed throughout the book is the way that she uses repetition
to highlight important aspects of what she is trying to convey. Therefore we as readers are
presented with phrases that echo throughout the narrative as we bounce back and forward between
the present and the past. One of these phrases is given to us in Chapter 11, which describes the
ecstatic union of Ammu and Velutha:

Who was he, the
one-armed man? Who could he have been? The God of Loss? The God of Small Things? The God of
Goose Bumps and Sudden Smiles? Of Sourmetal Smells - like steel bus-rails and the smell of the
bus conductor's hands from holding them?

It is clear then
that the title "The God of Small Things" comes to be applied to Velutha in the tale,
however at the same time, symbolically it comes to mean much more. At the very end of the tale,
note how Roy talks about what Velutha and Ammu focus on in their relationship:

Even later, on the thirteen nights that followed this one,
instinctively they stuck to the Small Things. The Big Things ever lurked inside. They knew that
there was nowhere for them to go. They had nothing. No future. So they stuck to the small
things.

Thus the God of Small Things could be said to be
the God of those who possess a determination to extract what joy and pleasure they can out of
life no matter how hopeless the situation and how temporary that pleasure may be. Velutha and
Ammu, in their union, transgress "The Love Laws" as Roy calls them, and thus they
recognise that what they can savour is only in the now and is at best temporary. And yet they
make the most of it, in spite of the crushing end that they know is just around the corner. In
the face of such "Big Things" as caste, race and inequality, perhaps it is only the
"Small Things" that can be lived for.

How does the government protect the rights of its citizens?

There are
many things the government can do to protect the rights of its citizens. One thing the
government can do is to guarantee these rights in a written document such as the Constitution.
The first ten amendments to our Constitution, called the Bill of Rights, guarantee basic
freedoms of the American people. For example, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and
freedom of religion are guaranteed rights.

The government must also protect
its citizens when there is an attempt to take away their rights. Currently, the government is
fighting the threat created by terrorist attacks. By working to stop terrorists, who want to
take away some of our rights and freedoms, the government is working to protect the rights and
freedoms we have. In World War I and World War II, we fought to preserve democratic governments
and the rights people had under these governments.

Sometimes, the government
will pass laws to protect our rights. People who do things to violate our rights, like stealing
our property, are punished when they break the law. The government creates laws to help keep
people safe and to help safeguard their rights.

There are many things the
government can do to protect our rights.

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In The Pigman, why does Lorraine feel sympathy for her mother?

Lorraine
feels a degree of sympathy for her mother because she is an empathetic young girl, and she knows
her mother really does have a difficult life. Lorraine's mother is working at a job she hates in
order to support herself and Lorraine; Lorraine says,

As I
watched her I remembered all the times she said how hard it was to be a nurse - how bad it was
for the legs, how painful the varicose veins were that nurses always got from being on their
feet so much. I could see her standing under the street light...just standing there until the
bus came. It was easy to feel sorry for her, to see how awful her life was - even to understand
a little why she picked on me so" (Chapter 8).

Lorraine also understands why her mother is so suspicious of the motives of men, and
why she hates them so much. Lorraine's father had cheated on her mother, and her mother had
found out about his infidelity when she was pregnant with Lorraine, and the doctor told her that
she had contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her husband, who had gotten it from
another woman. Lorraine's mother and father had been "childhood sweethearts," and
Lorraine can see why the revelation of her husband's waywardness "must have been awful for
her" (Chapter 9).

How might Frankenstein's rejection of his creature impact the creature in Frankenstein?

The
answer to this question is key to what Shelley is saying to us aboutin .
Often thought of as a monster, it is in fact the creature's humanity that causes him to react to
his "father's" rejection in much the same way that any of us would react to a similar
rejection from our parents. The creature doesn't understand why Frankenstein would have created
him, only to cast him out and consign him to an existence wherein he is aware of his own
hideousness but also aware of the warmth of a fire and the beauty of a moon. It is an existence
in which he feels human inside but...

Compare/contrast Old Majors speech and the first four paragraphs of The Communist Manifesto.

's speech
has parallels with the first four paragraphs of The Communist Manifesto.
Old Major states the plight of the animals is one of oppression, enslavement, and
exploitation:

We are born, we are given just so much food
as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work
to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we
are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or
leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery
and slavery: that is the plain truth.

In The
Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels write:

The
modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away
with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new
forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

This tract
sees class oppression occurring in nineteenth century...

In Coelho's The Alchemist, how do certain people help Santiago on his journey?

Certain people definitely do help Santiago throughout this novel. I always think it is
interesting to discuss the idea that every single person Santiago encounters helps him in some
way. This would include the people that try to thwart his efforts. Scientifically, this relates
to something called the "observer effect." It states that the act of observing
something will influence the phenomenon being observed. One of the major things that Santiago
learns is that the journey and process of obtaining his Personal Legend is every bit as
important as the hypothetical end reward. It has to be said that Santiago's journey involved
just as many pitfalls as successes, yet he would not end up the man he is at the end of the
story without those interactions. By this reasoning, even the bandits helped Santiago.

Of course, if you want to go with a more concrete answer, then I would go with the
crystal merchant. He gives...

How can learning be measured?

Using testing works
for me only when you consider the 'value added' aspects: where a student starts from, targeted
teaching to improve from this point then final testsing to assess the progress. This only works
when aspects of a subject, eg a spelling pattern in English, are measurable. I rely on the
holistic approach as a better indicator. I have begun using a half-year review with students and
a portfolio approach to allow me and the student to see how they have developed across all areas
of my subject.

Compare Douglass Narrative to Franklins Autobiography, narratives about self-creation and about the possibilities open to the individual man or...

The
key connection between Douglass' narrative and Franklin's autobiography is the emphasis placed
on self-reliance and a particularly American spirit of ingenuity and independence. Franklin's
story is characterized by a pioneering sense of adventure, as he strikes out on his own and
makes his own way in the world through hard work. While he is born into some measure of
privilege--certainly in comparison to the bondage Douglass was born into--Franklin emphasizes
the degree to which his success hinges upon his own focused efforts to develop not only a career
plan but a whole life plan in which his day is rigorously structured around the most efficient
route to edification and self-improvement.

Douglass' story has a lot in
common with Franklin's despite the profound difference that Douglass was born into slavery. As
Douglass' narrative is also a political appeal for abolition and an argument for the manifest
humanity of black people, one rhetorical strategy is to connect to the American ideals posited
by the founding fathers (like Franklin). So throughout his narrative, Douglass emphasizes how
his condition called for an even more robust do-it-yourself spirit. For instance, when he
realizes his master wants to keep him from learning to read, he becomes determined to achieve
literacy by any means possible. He ultimately teaches himself to read and write in part through
tricking neighborhood boys into teaching him. Douglass' literacy allows him to "write his
own pass" by forging his master's signature. Ultimately, while Franklin and Douglass'
narratives are written by men in vastly different circumstances, they are united by an
investment in the American ideal of self-invention.

In "A Worn Path," why is it significant that the grandson cannot speak?

The grandson
does not appear in the story. The fact that he has no voice illustrates his helplessness.
"Having no voice" has a lot of implications and interpretations, some of which may be
quite fitting or irrelevant to this story. For example, politically speaking, having no voice
implies that one has no political power as a voter, democratic citizen, and so on. It could even
imply that one with no political voice is oppressed in some way and/or is treated as a lower
class citizen. Given the racial elements in this story, one could argue that the grandson's lack
of a voice is symbolic on a racial and/or political level. His generation and subsequent
generations will not have "voices" as long as they are treated like second class
citizens. (Note that the people in the town treat Phoenix condescendingly, like a charity
case.) 

He literally has no voice because he had swallowed lye when he was
younger. This damaged his throat. He depends upon his grandmother to get his medicine to sooth
the pain and open his throat. His lack of a voice illustrates how helpless he is. The image of
this helpless boy, with no voice, also fits the symbolism of the story. According to Phoenix, he
waits for her, "holding his mouth open like a little bird." Phoenix's name is symbolic
of the mythological phoenix (Greek myth), a bird reborn again and again of its own ashes. She
continues to make the journey again and again, despite her old age. It is symbolically
consistent that she is like the mythological phoenix (a bird) and the grandson is also like a
"bird." 

How might a historian use the source Gilgamesh to understand the nature of ancient Mesopotamian society? What specific themes, plot devices,...

First,
historians note that theof The Epic of Gilgamesh actually appears on the
Uruk King List. Although many of the details of the epic are obviously fictional, historians
study the text for hints about whether Gilgamesh was the name of a real king or simply a
legendary founding figure.

Next, the epic shows a moral evolution from the
king an as absolute power, unrestrained by law or morality, to one who learns that his role is
to carry out divine justice and protect his people. Historians compare the lawless behavior of
Gilgamesh at the beginning of the epic to the prohibitions found in early law codes.

Next, the treatment of Ishtar in the epic can be used to investigate her cult and the
tradition of temple prostitutes. The role of Ishtar and the prostitute who seduces Enkidu are
evidence of some of the traditions of gender and sexuality in Mesopotamia.

The relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh can be examined for insights about male
friendship.

In the section concerning...

How does Hester act when she returns to prison in The Scarlet Letter?

After her
ignoble exposure upon the scaffold,is returned to the weather-beaten and rusty prison, that
bastlon of Puritan punitive measure.  Immediately, she becomes as still as a corpse, although
her babe continues to whimper. There also is in the prison the stranger whom she has spotted in
the crowd, the man who has been with the Indians, . This man is her husband. And, when he offers
to treat the restless baby, Hester mistrusts him as she is in "no reasonable state of
mind." 

Chillingworth then examines Hester herself; as he...

In 1984, why does Winston say that he must have some "ancestral memory that things had once been different"?

Asis
eating in the overcrowded canteen, he listens as the telescreen spews fabricated statistics
regarding food rations and he is astonished by the way that all the Party members consciously
accept the message. Winston then looks around the canteen and cannot help but notice how
depressing, old, and ruined everything is that surrounds him. Winston becomes painfully aware
that the environment is dirty, cold, and uncomfortable. In addition to the outdated, filthy ,
Winston takes note of the nasty food, bad coffee, and grimy tables. Winston thinks to
himself,

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was
a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to. (,
76)

Tragically, Winston has never known anything other
than the terrible, depressing conditions and has no memory that anything was better before the
Party's reign. Winston then asks himself,

Why should one
feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been
different? (Orwell, 76).

Winston wonders why he is so
dissatisfied with life and believes that he possesses some type of "ancestral memory,"
which suggests that life was once better. Winston acknowledges that he has no reason to be
dissatisfied with his current life since he has nothing to compare it to. However, his
"ancestral memory" inside his conscience informs him that life should not be lived
this way.

Can anyone provide a critical analysis of the short story "The Taste of Watermelon" by Borden Deal?

"The
Taste of Watermelon" is a coming-of-age story about a sixteen year-old-boy who goes a long
way in maturing from a boy to a man in the course of one evening in which he steals a
watermelon.

The narrator is a newcomer to a farming town. Watermelon stealing
is a time-honored activity for teenage boys and is not even really considered stealing. The
narrator and his two friends look longing at a giant watermelon, the biggest ever seen growing
in the middle of Mr. Wills's watermelon patch, and at Mr. Wills's desirable daughter, Willadean.
Because Mr. Wills is so fierce and mean, however, they are afraid to approach either of these
desired objects. Mr. Wills is especially protective of his watermelon, guarding it at night with
his shotgun.

Nevertheless, the narrator decides impulsively one night to
steal the melon. He does so successfully, even though it had seemed to be the impossible task.
He and his two friends feast on what they can of the delicious melon, but, as narrator says,
the...

Why do you think Laurie's parents took so long to discover the truth about Charles in Shirley Jackson's short story "Charles"?

In the minds
of some parents, their children can do no wrong. To admit that one's child can have a behavior
problem is to perhaps admit a failure in one's ability to parent. Maybe the reason that Laurie's
parents do not catch on to the fact that their son is describing not a classmate's outrageous
behavior, but in fact his own, is that they are willfully blind to Laurie's
naughtiness.

Laurie's parents may be taking pleasure in their belief that
their superior parenting has produced a son who is not in trouble at school. And the pity that
they...

Is there any evidence for Christianity? I would like to know

I suppose
that this question is actually wondering about whether proof exists that Jesus Christ existed as
a physical human being on planet Earth. There's no doubt that Christianity and Christians have
existed since the first century CE. We have plenty of non-biblical evidence that shows that the
Romans were having to figure out how to deal with this new religious sect. For example, Roman
emperor Nero blamed the horrific fire that broke out in Rome in 64 CE on the Christians. Letters
exchanged between Pliny the Younger and the emperor Trajan also show without doubt that
Christians were alive...

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Why has Gregor changed in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

There has
never been any firm evidence as to why Gregor becomes a giant insect in Kafka's
, though it has been debated widely.

There are several
things that might account for Gregor's change. It could be something rooted
in his own mind. In keeping with this argument, it could be a "waking-dream." He notes
that he had strange dreams the night before:

One morning,
as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been
changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

However, Gregor
soon dismisses this himself:

Whats happened to me, he
thought. It was no dream.

That is not to say, however,
that he could not be having a "dream within a dream."

It has been
argued that Gregor might simply perceive himself as a "verminous bug" because of the
way his family thinks of him. Once his father lost the family...

What are the strengths and weaknesses of Jared Diamond's theory in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

's
is an extremely long and complex book. His overarching claim is that
differences in the degrees of material wealth and technological development between regions are
grounded in geography more than in innate disparities in intellect or diligence or in cultural
factors. 

The first major strength of this claim is its ethical and political
consequences. It provides a solid substrate for invalidating many forms of prejudice,
stereotyping, and discrimination. On these very general lines, it is also supported by our
intuitions and personal experiences. Most of us who travel widely or know people from many
different cultures have met smart, hardworking, decent people (and the opposite) from many
different cultures, regions, and ethnic backgrounds. The next strength of the theory is that it
provides and simple and coherent account of widely observable phenomena. 

The major weakness of the theory is, in a sense, also a consequence of its major strength.
It...

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Ending

The Boy in the
Striped Pajamas byis historical in nature but is a fictional story which reminds
readers of the disaster andof Nazi occupation. Bruno must move because of his father's
profession which, in itself, is nothing unusual but he would thrive in a situation where he is
allowed to develop and mature at his own pace. He is forbidden from exploring and making new
friends is impossible. It is significant that it is Bruno's father's behavior which, in fact,
directs Bruno's actions. The boys are thrust together by circumstance and this story indicates
the tragedy and futility of war and also highlights the similarities between these innocent
children, regardless of which side they are supposedly on. Bruno and Shmuel come from worlds so
far removed from each other that an event of this nature should not be possible. However, John
Boyne skillfully points out through Bruno's character, there are more things that unite Bruno
and Shmuel than there are things that separate them. 

Bruno's father, a
powerful Nazi Commandant, has convinced himself that "Those people...well, they're not
people at all..." (chapter 5). This is ironic considering that Shmuel is Bruno's only
friend with whom, if his father is correct, Bruno has "nothing in common." However,
Bruno and Shmuel share an unexplained bond, which starts with them sharing a birthday. After a
year of meeting and chatting, Bruno is due to return to Berlin and so he and Shmuel discuss the
possibility of him going to Shmuel's side of the fence. Bruno's hair is short, having been
shaved to avoid lice and, as Shmuel points out, he is a little "fatter," but,
otherwise, in a "pair of striped pajamas" he would look essentially the same as Shmuel
and they can go on a "final adventure" in the camp. Bruno is excited at the prospect
of "exploring" and Shmuel is anxious that Bruno will help him look for
"Papa," who has apparently gone missing. The boys sense that this will seal their
friendship and is a good way to say "goodbye" (chapter 18). The reader senses that
this foreshadows more sinister events to follow.  

Bruno is shocked that he
has to walk barefoot and that he sees mostly sad faces; the camp is nothing like he expected. He
and Shmuel find no trace or "evidence" of Shmuel's papa either so Bruno is about to
make his way back to the fence and go home when a whistle sounds and the boys find themselves in
the middle of a crowd. They are ushered into an "airtight" room and Bruno tells Shmuel
he is his best friend and holds his hand but has no idea whether Shmuel replies because "at
that moment, there was a loud gasp from all the marchers..." and Bruno can hear nothing. He
wonders about the darkness but in his innocence presumes it is related to the fact that it is
raining outside. After that, "Nothing more was ever heard of Bruno..." The reader
knows what has happened and takes solace in the fact that Bruno is not afraid in his last
moments and that Shmuel has his friend with him. The boys have evidently been
gassed. 

In To Kill a Mockingbirdow are Tom Robinson and Boo Radley like mockingbirds? Give reasons besides their innocence.

Mockingbirds are an important symbol throughout the novel and represent innocent,
vulnerable beings who cannot defend themselves, which is whyconsiders it a sin to kill one. Both
Tom Robinson andare considered symbolic mockingbirds because they share similar traits to the
defenseless, innocent birds.

Similar to a mockingbird, Tom Robinson is a
benevolent, compassionate man who does not harm others and attempts to make people's lives
easier. Tom displays his benevolent nature by selflessly helping Mayella complete various chores
around the house without receiving compensation. Unfortunately, Tom Robinson is vulnerable to
Maycomb's violent racists, who attempt to lynch him at the jailhouse and wrongly accuse him of
assaulting and raping Mayella. In both circumstances, Tom is defenseless and relies on Atticus
for protection. Tragically, Atticus cannot protect Tom from becoming a victim of racial
injustice.

Boo Radley shares similar character traits to Tom and
demonstrates...

Advantages and disadvantages of having narrow span of management.

The
advantages and disadvantages of a narrow span of management are clearly set forth in the
previous responses.  What has not been discussed thus far is the importance of context.  In some
industries and in some settings, the advantages and/or disadvantages are magnified
significantly, and when structuring an organization, those advantages and disadvantages must be
weighed carefully within that industry and context.  For example, if one is setting up a
manufacturing assembly line, are the advantages of closer relationships between supervisor and
employees worth the cost of a small span of control, when there is little justification for a
small span of control in an assembly line?  On the other hand, in a research and development
department, where a supervisor is expected to foster creativity and promote employee growth, the
cost of having a small span of control might pay off in the form of new and lucrative
ideas. 

It should also be noted that while a small span of control does tend
to make for a "tall" organizational structure, it is possible to design a flatter
structure, whereby some of the higher levels have a somewhat greater span of control. In some
industries, the most important span of control is at the bottom, and one can rely on good middle
and upper-management to competently handle greater spans of control.  An example of this would
be customer service organizations, such as call centers.  The availability of the first-line
supervisor tends to have more importance than in other settings, while mid-level managers are
mostly number crunchers.  If there is a problem of any sort with an employee, it is that
first-level supervisor who will be implementing a solution.  This requires a smaller span of
control. 

In Paul Zindel's The Pigman, why does Norton show up at John and Lorraine's party? Also, how does John feel about cemeteries?

John, Norton,
and Dennis usually go to the cemetery to drink beer together at "Masterson's Tomb."
John says that he likes cemeteries because they are so well kept. For example, the lawns are
green and the flowers are kept fresh. He likes the cleanliness of the cemetery so much that he
says that the dead get nicer lawns and flowers than when they were alive.

As
far as Norton is concerned, he shows up at John and Lorraine's party to scope the place out for
things he can steal. Not only is he jealous that John and Lorraine have been spending a lot of
time with Mr. Pignati without him, but his habit for stealing is getting worse and worse. It
started out with him stealing marshmallows, and grew into something more criminal.

In chapter nine, Norton specifically meets John at Masterson's Tomb for a drink. His
agenda, though, is to get John to tell him what tools, TVs, or radios Mr. Pignati might have
that are worth stealing. When John won't tell him anything to help him, Norton threatens to
"visit" the old man with Dennis on his own sometime. John doesn't give him a reaction,
but Norton certainly does visit Mr. Pignati's house eventually. Out of spite and bad character,
Norton visits on the night of their party to steal what he can and ends up trashing the
place. 

Based on the article "I Was Trapped in My Own Body," by Brian Eule, write a three-sentence biography of Henry Evans. Who is Evans, and why is he...

It is difficult to fit even the most
essential facts about Henry Evans into three sentences, but here is my attempt:

Henry Evans was a healthy, active man of forty when he suffered a
stroke-like attack which left him almost completely paralyzed and feeling suicidal. Inspired by
his wife to make the best of his situation and use his talents to help himself and others, Henry
began to design robotic solutions for the everyday problems that confronted him, such as typing,
opening a drawer, scratching an itch, or shaving. In collaboration with robotics experts and
computer scientists, Henry has created many solutions for everyday problems that face disabled
people and also emerged as a powerful advocate for the abilities of those whom society regards
as disabled.

There is much more that could be said, but
to do so would create sentences of such length and complexity that they might well be
unreadable. If I had a little more space and a few more sentences, I would use these to focus on
two points. First, I would want to discuss how Henry Evans's machines are developed and tested.
Second, I would talk about his philosophy, which is that we are all disabled and use assistive
devices every day. Cars, telephones, and airplanes are all assistive devices to remedy the
deficiencies in our bodies. The people we regard as disabled simply have a few other limitations
which require particular types of correction.

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What are some elements of musical expression that would make the music more interesting?

Jazz is
certainly a genre that lends itself to much musical expression because of the improvisation that
enters into the playing of jazz. The jazz player must inherently have a good "ear" for
his/her music and then can insert "licks" into a piece or improvise in other ways,
such as changing the tempo.

In a 1988 interview,
trombonist J.J. Johnson said, "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never
will."

Some other unique characteristics of jazz
that provide an interesting presentation of melody are the flatted fifth chords and modern
harmonies and substitutions.

Sometimes musicians play their instruments in
usual ways that create different sounds. For instance, there is a jazz violinist who sometimes
turns his violin backwards and runs his bow across the neck. Trumpeters often place their hands
or a mute inside the end of their instrument.

Another element of musical
expression that creates interest is the mixing of genres. One popular mixture is what is called
jazz-fusion, jazz that is combined with another genre. Or jazz with an ethnic tinge, such as
jazz with a Spanish tinge gives a different expression.

What is ironic about the end of "Chapter 4: Tyranny is Tyranny" of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States?

There are
examples ofthroughout Chapter Four in.  Most of the irony centers around how the colonial elite
criticize the King of England for his policies and then perpetrate similar offenses on the
people that they govern.  This is made clear at the end of the chapter.  There are a couple
examples of irony in that part of the chapter.  One such example is that the Declaration of
Independence was signed the same year that Adam Smith's treatise on capitalism was issued.  The
Declaration calls for individual freedoms.  Throughout the...

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What is Fitzgerald's purpose in contrasting the images of "hard rock" and "wet marshes" in the following passage from The Great Gatsby? "And,...

Consider a house built on a foundation of hard rock. It is stable and has a solid base.
People who maintain such conduct have a solid moral base. They cannot be shaken, as they are
firmly rooted in deep and true values. I would argue that there aren't any such people in this
book; evennotes in this selection that "...represented everything for which I have an
unaffected scorn." Nick himself complacently goes along with much of the illicit activity
in the book, so he's not firmly rooted in "hard rock," either.

Most
of the , therefore, have built their morals on "wet marshes." Their values shift with
time. What is true today may not hold true tomorrow. Their lives are somewhat fluid, changing
with the rise and fall of life's tides.certainly fits this sort of description; his only even
potentially positive character trait is his wealth, but even that is acquired through family
inheritance, not through his own abilities. He's an abuser of women and a
racist.leaves...

What is the irony in the names "Ministry of Love" and "Ministry of Plenty" in 1984? Did you find any of this irony humorous?

Thein the names of
these Ministries is indeed very striking. The Ministry of Love, for instance, shows anything but
love to the people of Oceania and the Ministry of Plenty is, in fact, a source of material
deprivation. As this book charts the struggle of one man, , against the Party, a totalitarian
government, the reader is unlikely to find any humour in this irony. This humour is, perhaps,
reserved for Inner Party members, like . For men like him, life is anything but brutal and
deprived. O'Brien, for example, is allowed to drink wine and turn off his telescreen while those
below, like Winston and , become increasingly dependent and alienated.

In
using irony in this way,makes one of his most important points of : that
totalitarian regimes care more about maintaining absolute power than about the lives of the
people they rule.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what are some puns said by the Nurse in Act I?

In Act 1,
Scene 3, onethe nurse speaks is found in the line the Nurse quotes her husband as saying towhen
she was a toddler, "'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward
when thou has more wit." The pun is a sexual innuendo making a double meaning of the phrase
"fall backward." Fall backward can literally refer to
falling, as baby Juliet just did, or it can be interpreted with sexual
connotations.

A second pun can be found in the line referring to the bruise
on baby Juliet's face after falling, "a parlous knock," meaning a "perilous
knock." The term knock can refer to a hit or blow, but it can
also have sexual connotations that the slang term "knocked up" comes
from.

A third pun can be found in Nurse's response to 's advice that Juliet
open herself up to getting to know : "by having him, making yourself no less," Nurse
responds with, "No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men." The pun is a play on the
word grow. Lady Capulet is using
less as afor Juliet getting to know Paris, but Nurse uses the paraodx with
grow as a pun with sexual reference. She is using grow
to refer to growing in pregnancy.

Who are the main characters of the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz, and how do they act?

Soledad by Angie Cruz is
set in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a borough of New York City. Its
characters are drawn mainly from the Dominican-American community in the neighborhood and
reflect that hyphenated identity. This is a complex identity in that the Dominican Republic has
a heritage blending French, African, Spanish and English as well as indigenous cultures,
although the majority of Dominicans are descended from Africans originally brought as slaves.
The main characters of the novel are:

Soledad€‹
is a talented young artist with a scholarship to Cooper Union who returns home to care for her
mother. Much of the novel revolves around her attempts to reconcile her world as an artist with
the world of her family and how she synthesizes her Dominican roots with her artistic
ideals.

Olivia is Soledad's mother who has
fallen into a psychosomatic coma. She is a widow and bears secrets concerning the family history
which are gradually revealed to Soledad.

Flaca
is Soledads wild and rebellious teenage cousin who forms a love triangle with Soledad and
Richie, a fellow neighborhood teen rebel. She proves to be bright and talented by the end of the
story.

Richie is to external appearances a bit
of a thug but actually is a talented musician, sensitive and thoughtful.

Tia Gorda, Soledad's aunt, is a "bruja" or witch
who tries to treat her sister's illness and represents Dominican spiritualism and traditional
beliefs.

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The compound Interest on a certain sum of money in 2 years is Rs. 920.25 and the simple interestis Rs. 900. Find the yearly interest rate r and the...

If the
compound interest is Rs 920.25 and the simple interest is Rs 900, then 920.25-900 = Rs 20.25 is
the interest made on the gathering interest only.

The
simple interest made on a principle P in 2 years (2 periods) is given by the formula

`I_s = 2rP `

where `r ` is the period (yearly here) interest
rate.

Since we are given that `I_s = 900 `  then we have the
relation 

`rP = 450 `

The compound interest made on a P in
2 years is contrastingly given by the formula

`I_c = P(1+r)^2 - P = 2rP +
r^2P `

The final term is the pure interest in the second period made on the
pure interest from the first period. This pure interest term is not included when calculating
the simple interest, which consists of the first term only (2rP).

Since we
are given that `I_c = 920.25 `  then we have that the pure interest term

`r^2P = 20.25 `

We now, then, have two formulae in the interest rate
r and the principal P, meaning we can solve for both:

`rP = 450 qquad
(1)`

` r^2P = 20.25 qquad (2)`

Dividing (2) by (1) gives
us  `r = 20.25/450 = 0.045 `  

and then plugging this into equation (1) we
obtain `P = 450/0.045 = 10,000 `

Check that equation (2) adds up: `r^2P =
(0.045^2)10000 = 20.25 `  True.

Therefore the principal was `P
= 10,000 `  Rs and the period interest rate is `r =0.045 ` , that is
4.5%.

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Discuss and describe the town of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird. In what ways does the town and its people set the mood and tone for the novel?...

Maycomb, Alabama is described as being a "slow town," where the majority of
the inhabitants are old and there are no significant attractions. It is portrayed as a small
country town, and the community is predominately made up of conservative, traditional Southern
citizens, who are prejudiced against African Americans. In ,describes her hometown by
saying:

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the
square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was
twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere...

Describe the appearance of the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol

To begin, the ghost was
"like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man." The spirit seems to embody
the innocence of children and yet possesses the wisdom associated with age: two things we
typically do not think of as going together. Usually as we gain wisdom, we lose our innocence.
The ghost has long, white hair that hangs down its back, but the "tenderest bloom" on
the skin. Its arms are "long and muscular," as though it has a great deal of strength,
and yet its legs are "delicately formed." The spirit is certainly a strange
combination of old and young. It also wears a tunic of whiteagain, as if to symbolize its purity
and innocencetrimmed with "summer flowers," and it carries a "branch of fresh
green holly."

Even more curious is that "from the crown of its
head there sprung a bright clear jet of light," and he carries "a great
extinguisher" as a hat.  An extinguisher is the small bell-shaped apparatus, usually at the
end of a long stick, which one would use to...

Name three economic factors that influence international trade.

Three factors
that influence international trade include:

• Demographic
  change
• Technology
• Energy and other natural
  resources

Changes in demographics which include age, gender and
income in the global economy directly impact international trade. For instance, a countrys
ability to provide adequate labor is directly affected by the age of the majority within the
population. An aging population would produce less which would lead to a decrease in their
capacity to export their local products.

Advancement in technology affects
international trade through knowledge transfer and the improvement in operational efficiency.
The technological differences between different countries and regions also impact trade.
Technology has resulted in the introduction of goods that challenge existing products, forcing
countries to evaluate their output to ensure they remain competitive in the global
market.

Research and development in green sources of energy and oil/gas
exploration in developing countries is expected to impact international trade. This is because
the new energy sources would improve the industrial capacity of developing countries and provide
the developed countries with an opportunity to increase their production. Such developments are
expected to influence international trade especially with regards to
production.

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What lessons did Scout learn in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

s novel
is told from the first person point-of-view of the character . It is often
mistakenly said that the story is told from her perspective as a six-year-old, but it is
actually told from her perspective as an adult looking back on events that occurred when she was
six-years-old. This double perspective allows the narrator to reflect on the many important
life-lessons she learned as the events of the novel unfolded.

One of the most
important of those lessons came when a particularly vicious old neighbor named Mrs. Dubose
infuriated Scouts brotherby saying, Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he works
for! This prompted Jem to destroy Mrs. Duboses flowers, which brought forth a very creative
punishment.

Jem and Scout were both sentenced to read to Mrs. Dubose every
afternoon for a month. At the time they were unaware that Mrs. Dubose was fighting a morphine
addiction. As the month passed, they noticed that she...

How did Canada live up to the ideals in the Preamble of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms from 1914€“2019?

The
Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states:

Whereas every human being possesses intrinsic rights and freedoms designed to ensure
his protection and development,

Whereas all human beings are equal in worth
and dignity, and are entitled to equal protection of the law;

Whereas respect
for the dignity of the human being and recognition of his rights and freedoms constitute the
foundation of justice and peace;

Whereas the rights and freedoms of the human
person are inseparable from the rights and freedoms of others and from the common
well-being;

Whereas it is expedient to solemnly declare the fundamental human
rights and freedoms in a Charter, so that they may be guaranteed by the collective will and
better protected against any violation;

Therefore, Her Majesty, with the
advice and consent of the Assembl©e nationale du Qu©bec, enacts as follows:

Following, of course, is a detailed list and description of the
various rights and freedoms that can be enjoyed in Canada. Essentially, the preamble gives the
reasons why these rights have been laid out. The Charter was written so that all could read
these rights, and understand them.

Canada as a country prides itself on
valuing human rights. For example, the right to equal protection under the lawfrom the Charteris
an essential piece of the Canadian justice system. Anyone in Canada can expect a fair trial,
conducted within a reasonable amount of time, and will be considered innocent unless proven
guilty.

In terms of rights of the human person as an individual and as part
of the well-being of the whole, Canada works hard to ensure that all its citizens are cared for.
Some example of this are Canada's socialized health care system, free public education, and
freedom of movement for citizens in and out of the country and to various provinces.

There is also freedom of assembly in Canada. People are allowed to meet and mobilize,
for example during the climate protests earlier this year (September 2019). Canadians gathered
together and were outspoken in their demands for the government to take action on climate
change. This reflects the respect for the dignity of the human being mentioned in the
Preamble.

Canadians not only know their rights as granted by this Charter,
but also use them. In that way, we can say that on the whole Canada does live up to the promises
made.

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How does Romeo describe Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

Whenfirst seesat the Capulet's feast in act 1, scene 5, of Shakespeare's
, he's totally smitten with her before he even knows her name:

ROMEO: [to a Servingman]
What lady's that which doth enrich
the hand
Of yonder knight?

SERVINGMAN I know not, sir.

ROMEO: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It
seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an
Ethiop's ear
Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too
dear.
. . . Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,
For I
ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Is Vera's practical joke funny or cruel in "The Open Window" by Saki?

Vera's
practical joke is cruel.

Admittedly, Nuttel is a stranger who has been more
or less foisted on the Sappleton family by his sister, who apparently wanted to get rid of him.
He seems to bore Mrs. Sappleton, who can barely suppress a yawn when he starts to talk to her.
He appears to talk too much about his illness and its symptoms.

One can
understand, therefore, why Vera, who has been left with this unfortunate guest on her hands,
would want to get rid of him. Nevertheless, the way she choses, while ingenious, is nevertheless
cruel.

Nuttel is in the country at the Sappleton house for a nerve cure. He
appears to suffer from extreme anxiety. Vera plays on this with a false story that leads him to
believe he is seeing ghosts. He flees the house in terror. The family is rid of an unwanted
guest, but we can only imagine that, by playing on his...

In "Rappaccini's Daughter," by Nathaniel Hawthorn, identify an aspect of the story that might be tied to Emerson's notion of transcendentalism....

Emerson
was a man who was interested in individualism, the natural world and the condition of one's
soul.

Nature, Emerson's essay written in 1836...

...is a well-organized statement of his earliest idealism, showing the natural world to
be a present messiah...

Emerson was not interested in
what the world valued: position, notoriety or wealth. Having been raised in
poverty himself, he had no illusions about the advantages of having money, but these things were
not what appealed to him. One thing that Emerson valued was...

...a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature.

In perhaps one of Emerson's finest poems, entitled
"Days," he finds himself lacking in that he is not a part of his "work-oriented
culture." He chides himself for the different path he has taken as he
writes of the passing of days, but values nature over "things."
In the poem he speaks of the "daughters of Time" who are personified to express the
passing of dayshe notes that they bring to his...

What are some quotes about Boo and Tom being misunderstood and mistreated throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

There are
many examples in that show misunderstandings and misconceptions about .
One such example can be found in . Dill daresto venture onto the Radley property in the hopes of
making Boo Radley come outside. Jem says, "I hope youve got it through your head that hell
kill us each and every one, Dill Harris." Boo Radley is seen by the children and other
citizens of Maycomb County as being a terrifying monster.

In ,notices a shiny
object in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property. It turns out to be a piece of gum in a
shiny foil wrapper. When Scout "did not die" from licking the gum, she proceeds to
chew it. When Jem discovers where the gum is from, he orders her to spit it out. He says,
"Dont you know youre not supposed to even touch the trees over there? Youll get killed if
you do!" This quote provides another example of how Boo is a misunderstood
character.

Tom Robinson is another unfortunate character that...

What were some of the technological advances that were important in the period after the Civil War?

The period
after the Civil War was an important period in terms of technological innovation in the United
States. The telegraph existed before the Civil War, but it proved invaluable in moving men and
supplies during the war. After the war, the telegraph found more commercial uses and, combined
with an ever-expanding rail system, helped to link the United States commercially. The telegraph
also allowed for the spreading of the news industry in the United States, as newspapers could
learn of events in a matter of minutes in order to print both morning and evening
editions.

Mass production in...

What power do the main characters in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck exert?

s novella
targets the lives of migrant workers during the depression.  Men searched
for work to help their families survive. Other men who lived lives of quiet desperation worked
to achieve their dreams of independence and freedom from wandering.

The story
is not one of power.  It is the lack of power that urges the characters on in their quest for a
piece of the American dream.  The characters ofandhave a dream which will probably never come
true. It is the hope that pushes them on that despite the powerful forces that work against
them. George does have power over Lennie sometimes.  When George is not around Lennie, anything
can happen.

George has been given the responsibility of Lennie for life.  His
inner strength and character will not let him break the promise that he made to Lennies aunt. 
Lennie is a burden to George particularly when Lennie forgets what he has been told and gets
himself into trouble.  If George had the capacity to be powerful, he would get that farm and
take Lennie away from the hard and friendless life they lead.

George grows as
an individual throught his  care of Lennie.  At one time, he abuses Lennie for his own
enjoyment.  However, he learned that there is no fun in hurting the weak.  Now, he has become
Lennies father, brother, companion, and caretaker.  If Lennie did not have George, he would not
survive.

Lennie is a huge fellow who does not know his own strength. His
intellectual ability is childlike.  Strength, retardation, and temper do not go together.  When
pushed to the limit, Lennies power ends his own life.

He pets too hard, he
touches too hard, he breaks hands, and he chokes the life out of things. Up until this moment in
the story, George has always been able to save Lennie.

The pair has a dream
that will take them out of the rat race of being around people who are hard and insensitive.
George and Lennie are different:

George says: With us it
aint like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We dont
have to sit in no bar room blowin-in our jack jus-because we got no place else to go. If them
other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody give a damn.  But not us.

But this time he has killed a person, and Georges clout is
useless.

The horrific mistake happens and Lennie gets scared and kills
Curleys wife. Curley will never let this go. When George realizes that the only way to help
Lennie is to shoot him before Curley can find him, George must exert his powerful inner
strength.  Regardless of the results, this is an act of love by George.  One that George will
never get over. 

In the end, George will be free to do whatever he wants;
however, he has lost his companion which separated him from the other workers who have no one.
His dream is gone with Lenniea paradise where there would only be animals, friends, and
happiness. 

In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, how does Calvin explain Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which to the beasts?

This is
an interesting question because Calvin tries to explain the three characters to the beasts
continually as Meg is recovering from her escape from the "Black Thing" in Chapter 11.
 However, it is only when Meg begins to try to explain them that Calvin has an
epiphany:

Angels! Calvin shouted suddenly from across
the table.  Guardian Angels!  There was a moments silence, and he shouted again, his face
tense with concentration, Messengers!  Messengers from God! 

The problem arises because the beasts of this planet cannot see.  Instead, they can
feel and experience a sort of mental telepathy.  Both Meg and Calvin are trying to explain what
the three women looked like to the beasts; however, they are unable to understand anything about
seeing.  One of the beasts tries to explain by saying that the children should think about
what they are.  Calvin, who is used to seeing things and describing things
that way, finally realizes the closest thing to what the three women
are.  Calvin does a good job by describing them as angels, but it still
is not enough for the beasts to understand the three women.  It is at this point that the three
women appear.  It is only the appearance of Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which that finally
helps the beasts understand.

In the poem, what effect does the lake have on the speaker?

In Edgar
Allen Poe's "The Lake," the effect of the titular body of water on the speaker seems
strange and even contradictory at times. The speaker contrasts emotions that are typically
considered to be negative with a reaction that seems positive. For example, he describes the
loneliness and isolation that he feels when near the lake as "lovely." He goes on to
say that when the night falls on the lake, he awakens to a feeling of terror, but that the
terror is not an oppressive force that haunts and torments him, but rather a feeling of
excitement and delight.

The speaker admits that the feeling may be
considered perverse, and that not even the riches of a "jeweled mine" can "teach
or bribe" him to explain what it was that the feeling implies. He even goes as far to say
that the secrets of love hold no explanation for what he might be feeling.


In the end, he attributes the feeling of the lake to the presence of Death,
who he personifies as an entity that is present in a "poisonous wave." He decides that
the lake is the domain of death, and that it alone could make an "Eden" of the
lake.

What are two moral decisions with which Frankenstein struggles? Please provide chapters.

From an
early age,struggles with the moral dilemma of studying alchemy and science. He is fascinated by
these studies and the idea of controlling nature, but he also realizes he is treading on
dangerous ground. When Frankenstein is fifteen, in chapter 2, a thunderstorm and lightning
strike destroys an oak near the family house in Belrive. A learned guest informs them about
electricity and galvanism, but that has the odd effect of disenchanting Frankenstein. He
states,

It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever
be known. All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.

He muses that this was an act of providence, his "guardian
angel" trying to save him from science. But he loses the battle, saying his
"destiny" was too strong, so he ends up on the path of creating his
creature.

Having created the monster, Frankenstein is faced with a second
moral decision: whether to makethe bride he desires so that he can have companionship. At first
he...

What were the Progressivess concerns about industrial concentration?

The
Progressives were very concerned about the power and the influence of big businesses. The
Progressives believed that businesses held almost all of the power. The Progressives wanted to
level the playing field.

The Progressives were concerned about conditions in
factories. The workers had long hours, low pay, and unsafe working conditions. Kids were working
in the factories instead of going to school. The Progressives set out to change this. Worker
compensation laws were passed to help workers that were injured on the job. Laws were passed to
restrict child labor and to require kids to go to school. Safety regulations were developed for
factories. Unions were given the right to exist with the passage of the Clayton Antitrust
Act.

The Progressives were also concerned about unregulated business
activities. The Meat Inspection Act was passed to require that the federal government would
inspect the meat factories. The Pure Food and Drug Act prevented companies from falsely labeling
foods and medicines. The Bureau of Corporations was created to investigate business activities.
The Bureau of Mines was established to monitor mining companies. The Hepburn Act gave the
Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set railroad rates. The Childrens Bureau could look
into issues with child labor. The Federal Trade Commission could order businesses to stop unfair
business practices. The Clayton Antitrust Act also ended price discrimination where businesses
charged different rates to different customers. Railroad workers got an eight-hour workday with
the passage of the Adamson Act. The Progressives also went after trusts that formed, especially
those trusts that acted only in their own self-interest.

The Progressives
wanted to give the workers and the common person a chance to be treated fairly by big
businesses. Before the Progressive Era began, this wasnt happening.brought about many positive
changes for the workers and for the common people.

The American west How did the industrialization and the government transform the West?

The
impact of industrialization on the American west resulted in the following;

1. The spread of immigrants into the western lands.

2. The passage
of the Morrill Land Grant in 1862 which provided for the sale of federal lands to fund
agricultural colleges to speed up the pace of scientific agricultural development in order to
industrialize that sector of the economy.

3. A series of broken treaties
between the United States and the Native Americans as the west was settled by immgrants and
homesteaders.

4. The cattle kingdom which turned cattle ranching into big
business but eventually would take such a toll on the land it led to the great 'Dust Bowl' of
the 1930's.

5. The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission which
regulated the railroads by prohibiting monopolistic practices and price
fixing.

I need to evaluate the limit of function y=(1-cos2x)/x^2, using trigonometric identities. x approaches to 0.

You want the
limit of y=(1-cos 2x)/x^2 while x approaches 0.

y = (1-cos 2x)/x^2

=> [1 - (1 - 2*(sin x)^2)]/x^2

=> 2*(sin x)^2/x^2

=> 2*(sin x / x)^2

lim x--> 0 (sin x / x) = 1

Using this identity.

lim x--> 0 [ (1-cos 2x)/x^2]

=> lim x--> 0 (2*(sin x/x)]

=> (2)* lim x--> 0 [(sin
x/x)]

=> 2*1

=> 2

The required limit is 2.