How was the murderer caught?

The
reader spends the grand majority of 's waiting for justice to finally
catch up to Mr. Harvey, the middle-aged sexual predator who brutally rapes and kills Susie
Salmon, the narrator. Unfortunately, that particular reckoning never occurs. Near the end of the
book, it appears that Mr. Harvey has not only gotten away with his crimes but also is about to
add another victim to his list. However, while the authorities never catch up to him, the world
finds a way to deliver justice.

The last the reader sees of Mr. Harvey is as
he is stalking yet another girl near the end of the book. He emerges from a Greyhound bus and
goes into a diner. Shortly after, a teenage girl who had been on the bus comes in. Susie, the
narrator, states,

It was a teenage girl who had sat a few
rows ahead of him for the last few...

What is the significance of the advice given by the narrator's grandfather in "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison?

,
published as a short story and then as the first chapter in The ,
bypresents the main character, the unnamed young, black narrator. The story takes place in the
1930s in a town which is fully segregated. Told by the older narrator, he reminiscences about
his early life.

The initial incident in the story concerns the death of the s
grandfather.  On his death bed, the grandfather purports to being a spy in the white mans
world.  The old man explains that the life of the black man is a war to gain their
independence. He became whatever the white world wanted him to be.  It is unclear to whom he
feels he has betrayed:  his race, himself, or his family.

He advises his
children to maintain two identities: the bitter, resentful part of themselves and the
stereotypical model of the meek, subservient Negro.  From this model, his descendants can
protect their personal self-respect, yet internally despise the second-class
citizen...

Can someone please explain the theme of this poem? The link is here. http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-soldier-died-alone#ixzz2KVgdXicy

Some themes
that seem to be present in this poem are loneliness at death, the purpose of war, and that which
turns a boy into a man. At one point in the poem, the soldier gets shot and holds onto a friend
as he starts to pass away. It would seem from this line that the boy is not truly alone, but
then remembering the fact that the picture of his family is with him reminds us that a person
would probably prefer to die among family rather than out on a dusty desert on the other side of
the world.  Since the soldier is just a young man, the word "boy" is used to identify
his youth and that he should have many more years ahead of him. The whole situation grants the
boy manhood which is defined by many as facing the worst with courage. In this poem he holds his
head high even though he knows it's the end and he probably feels angry and afraid. Another
theme that is brought up is the Judeo-Christian teachings of "thou shalt not kill" in
contrast to how the boy dies. Many themes are interwoven throughout this poem's tapestry for
sure.

A radio wave travels 186000 miles per sec, how many kilometers will the wave travel in one microsecond if 1 mile=1.61 km.

A radio wave
travels 186000 miles per second. 1 mile is equivalent to 1.61 km. 186000 miles is equivalent to
186000*1.61 = 299460 km.

The radio wave travels 299460 km per second. It
travels 299460*10^-6 = 0.299460 km in one microsecond.

A radio
wave travels 0.299460 km in one microsecond.

In 1984 by George Orwell, what simile is used to place Julia's coarse remarks about the Inner Party into a natural response?

There is a lot
going on in the passage you describe. Short answer: the narrator compares the
coarse languageuses to a natural response, like when a horse smells bad hay and cannot help but
to sneeze. It is a signal of her resistance to the Inner Party, an involuntary
reaction to the injustice. This passage appears in chapter 2 of part 2 if you would like to read
the rest for context, and I have quoted thebelow.

It was
merely one symptom of her revolt against the Party and all its ways, and somehow it seemed
natural and healthy, like the sneeze of a horse that smells bad hay.

The narrator is inside 's head at this point, giving Winston's
perspective on the things that Julia says. He also uses other literary devices to describe the
language, such as when he talks about the bad words she uses being like the bad words one sees
"chalked up in dripping alley-ways."

By making the sneeze
comparison and implying that her coarse language is involuntary, the narrator removes any fault
Julia may have committed in Winston's eyes. He agrees with her dislike of the Inner Party and
appreciates that it is so natural to her character to speak so negatively about
it.

How may prejudice and discrimination contribute to ethnocentrism?

The
relationship between prejudice and discrimination on the one hand and ethnocentrism on the other
is not one-way.  While prejudice and discrimination can help to bring ethnocentrism about,
ethnocentrism can also cause prejudice and discrimination.

Ethnocentrism is
the attitude that our own ethnic group is superior to others.  Naturally, such an attitude can
lead to prejudice and discrimination.  If you feel that your ethnic group is...

What are the positive and negative perspectives about Gregor Samsa's change in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"?

Gregor Samsa
is the main character and most developed character in the short story "" by . He is an
average man, a worker who seems to blend in with the rest of society. He represents the virtues
of his age and middle-class values: Gregor is dependable, supports his family, and works at a
regular job. His job, which he despises, is that of a traveling salesman. He does the work to
support his family out of a sense of duty, and particularly to pay off his father. Gregor's boss
is hostile and difficult, and Gregor gets little satisfaction from his work. In some ways, the
character of Gregor resembles theof Camus's The Stranger, a man who is
somewhat removed from his own life, and when he finally makes waves eventually accepts his
fate.

Once Gregor wakes up one day to discover he's been transformed into a
giant insect (probably a cockroach, or perhaps a beetleit's never totally clear), he is both
horrified by his condition yet mildly relieved that he...