How does gender relate to globalization?

Gender's
intersection with globalization is an incredibly complex and difficult topic. In general,
globalization tends to open up employment opportunities for women in developing nations;
however, many of these opportunities tend to be exploitative with poor pay, extreme conditions,
and long work hours. Many women have culturally-imposed domestic responsibilities, which cut
into their time away from work. In fact, globalized corporations have even begun to exploit
"female" domestic skills for their own advantage. In her book
Threads on the garment industry, Jane Collins quotes US
corporate...

Find the first term of an a.p. if the sum of the first 10 terms is 150 and d =3.

Le a1, a2, ...,
a10 are terms of an A.P

given S10 = a1+a2+...+10 = 150

But
we know that:

s10 = (a1+a10)*10/2 = 150

==> a1+a10 =
150/5

==> a1+a10 = 30

==> a10 = 30 -
a1......(1)

But a10 = a1 + 9*3 = a1 + 27

==> a10 = 27 +
a1........(2)

from (1) and (2):

==> 30 - a1 = 27 +
a1

==> 2a1 = 3

==> a1= 3/2

 

What are ten main events in chronological order for Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner?

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1. The
   story opens with Amir talking to Rahim Khan, who is in Pakistan. The story then shifts to Amir
   and Hassan playing as children in Afghanistan. The opening talked about the close bond between
   Amir and Hassan when they were young.
2. Amir narrates the birth of Hassan,
   and how his mother, Sanaubar, abandoned him soon after. He also shares information about his
   mother, who died giving birth to him.
3. Amir tells of a time when Baba
   dismissed teachings by the Mullahs. The event had an impact on Amirs religious
   beliefs.
4. Amir describes the onset of armed conflict in Afghanistan. The
   story mentioned the communist coup d©tat followed by Russian occupation.


5. The narrator introduces Assef, the neighborhood bully. Amir and Hassan meet him and
   his friends. Assef threatens to assault Amir, but Hassan steps in.
6. During
   the community kite flying contest, Hassan is waylaid by Assef and his friends as he is running
   for a kite. Assef rapes Hassan as Amir, who watches from a distance, does nothing to
   help.
7. Because seeing Hassan makes Amir feel guilty, Amir frames Hassan for
   theft. Hassan and Ali decide to leave Babas home despite his attempts to stop them.


8. The conflict in Afghanistan worsens. Amir and Baba are forced to leave the country for
   their own safety. They arrive in Pakistan and eventually make it to the United
   States.
9. Amir learns through Rahim Khan that Hassan was his brother. He also
   learns Hassan and his wife are dead, but they left behind a young son named Sohrab.


10. Amir is convinced to leave America and save Sohrab, who is suffering in Afghanistan.
    Despite numerous challenges, Amir is able to rescue Sohrab and brings the boy with him to
    America.

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In Pygmalion, discuss how Clara and Eliza try to present themselves as ladies at Mrs. Higgins' "at-home."

In
Clara and Eliza approach presenting themselves with the appearance of
being ladies from two vastly different frames of reference. Clara, though not of the highest
social circles herself due to her mother's sorely limited income, associates with those circles.
Eliza, by contrast, prior to her contact with Higgins, has never had any contact at all with
better social classes except to try to sell them flowers on the street corner. This means that
when Clara tries to present herself as a lady at a social event like Mrs. Higgins' at-home she
can well do it, within the limits of her personality, temperament and education.

When Eliza tries to present herself as a lady (at this early stage of her training) she
comes at it with misconceptions, limits on comprehension, ignorance of form and subtleties of
manner and cannot well do it: She can dress the part and appear the part because of her beauty
and to some extent act the part because she can learn to pour tea from a teapot but cannot think
the part or speak the part. Though Clara has her own problems with social grace, courtesy of
manner, consideration and intelligence, she and Eliza are still worlds apart in the attempt to
present themselves as ladies. In the end though, when Eliza's natural good-heartedness combines
with the linguistic and social cultivation Higgins has bred in her, she obviously surpasses the
gruff, unpleasant, ill-mannered Clara in presenting herself as a lady.

Does Shaw's "Theater of Ideas" fit into Pygmalion with expositions of fickle social boundaries?

class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> Good question. Yes, Shaw's
theater of ideas would deal with exposing fickle social boundaries, but ideally for Shaw, his
works would go deeper than that. In addition, they tackle more than one idea,...

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How does Hester's character evolve in Chapter 5? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Chapter V of
portrays Hester's departure from prison as she takes now an
"unattended walk" that begins a "daily custom" which she must endure or
"sink beneath."  Hester is faced with her new position in the community, realizing
that her individuality is gone.  For, now she is to become the general symbol for the preacher
of the living figure of sin.  And, strangely enough, it is this sin from which she could escape
by moving somewhere else that somehow fatally keeps Hester in the Puritan community:

Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the
soil. It was as if a new birth....had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every
other pilgrim and wanderer, into 's wild and dreary, but life-long home. All other scenes of
eartheven that village of rural England, where happy infancy and stainless maidenhood seemed yet
to be in her mother's keeping...were foreign to her in comparison. The chain that bound her here
was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but never could be broken.

With this sense of doom, therefore, Hester sets forth on her new
path in life. Then, too, there is also the pull of the force of her love for the man who
has been her partner in shame; she cannot leave because of her love for him and because she
feels she may be able to purge her soul by playing the role of martyr. And, so, lonely and
friendless, Hester establishes herself on the edge of the community in a dwelling that faces the
west. Yet, she is not without means as she can do elaborate needlework.  And, while ornateness
is forbidden the Puritans, those assuming power or positions of eminence have need for the
ornateness that Hester could create. Her work was evodemced on the governor and other officials,
on the baby, but never on the bride.  Often, however, Hester turned her needle to the crude
handiwork of clothing for the poor, perhaps as a means of penance. As narrator, Hawthorne writes
of her talent with the needle,

To Hester Prynne it might
have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life. Like all other
joys, she rejected it as sin. This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter
betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful,
something that might be deeply wrong, beneath.

While
Hester sews, it seems, there is something of the psychological which enters into her artistic
actions.  While they express her creativity, at the same time, Hester perceives her talent as
expressions of a sinful pride just as her original sin of adultery has been. This distinction,
also, sets Hester apart from the others,

She stood apart
from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside,
and can no longer make itself seen or felt....

Having
become a social pariah, Hester holds the insults of others quietly in her heart.  When she
attends religious services, she often finds herself as part to the text of the sermon.  Children
often let her pass by, but then run after her,calling her names, and whenever she passed anyone,
they invariably stare at her letter, first with astonishment and fear, then with repulsion.  So
tortured is Hester that she is anxious upon each encouter with others, more sensitive with each
"new torture."  But, sometimes it seems that Hester sees a sympathetic eye. Still,
Hester believes that none are guilty but her. 

In "A Streetcar Named Desire," what does the streetcar named Desire symbolize?

There is
definitely symbolism in the title of thisplay, and in the reference early in scene 1 to . The
story takes place in a decidedly low-income section of New Orleans. It is a blue-collar
neighborhood in which the men perform manual labor during the day and bowl and drink during the
evening. Stanley Kowalski and his friend Mitch are theof Williamss vision for the setting of his
play. It is with the introduction of Blanche, however, that the full-meaning of the streetcars
name becomes evident. Williamss stage directions introducing the character of Blanche evoke the
image of a woman who has seen better times and who is aging more quickly than her years would
otherwise suggest. Notice in the...