In The House on Mango Street, what do the mice symbolize in the vignette of Alicia Who Sees Mice?

In "Alicia Who Sees Mice," the mice represent Alicia's
poverty:

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"Alicia Who Sees Mice" is a young woman burdened
by taking care of her family while attending college in order to escape her way of life
in the barrio. She is only afraid of mice, which serve as a metaphor for her
poverty.

She lives in a
broken down home. The floors are "swollen floorboards nobody fixes." The mice run around
at night while Alicia is studying. She is afraid of the "foor-legged fur." In reality,
Alicia is afraid of her poverty-stricken life. She stays awake at night studying so that
she can earn a college degree to help her escape the poverty she lives
in.

While studying at night, the mice crawl about,
interrupting Alicia's studies. She dreads seeing the mice. Her father who is not
supportive of her studies tells her to close her eyes and sleep. Then the mice will go
away. Of course, he is sexist and believes that she, as a woman, is to do two things:
sleep and rise early to make tortilla lunches for her
siblings.

Alicia overcomes of fears and attends college,
even though she has to take two trains and a bus to get there. She is determined to rise
above her poverty-stricken situation, which the mice symbolize.

350 mL contains 45 g of medication and delivered over 2.5 hours at a 25 drop set. How many drops per minute is administered.a. 175 gtt/min b. 233.3...

gtt/min is a common abbreviation used to describe the rate
at which a medicine is administered. gtt comes from the Latin word "guttae" which means
drops.

Here we have a 350 mL solution that contains 45 g of
medication and is delivered over 2.5 hours at a 25 drop
set.

The 25 drop set indicates that each mL is equal to 25
drops. 350 mL is equal to 350*25 = 8750 drops. This is administered in 2.5 hours or
2.5*60 = 150 minutes.

The rate in gtt/min of the solution
being administered is 8750/150 = 58.33.

The correct answer
is option d or 58.3 gtt/min.

In the novel Into the Wild, what evidence proves that transcendental ideas/concepts are present?

You need look no further than the way that works by key
transcendental thinkers such as Thoreau and Emerson are used in the book itself. For
example, you will have noticed the way that each chapter begins with one or two quotes
from varioius books. The quotation at the beginning of Chapter Six comes directly from
Thoreau's Walden:

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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as
intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little
star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have
clutched.

This quote of
course captures the importance of the return to nature philosophy that McCandless tried
to embody in his life. During the book, various others who tried to similarly return to
nature are mentioned, especially in Chapter Eight, where the fascination of Alaska's
untrammelled wilderness is explored at length. Throughout the novel, transcendentalism
is refered to in the author's attempt to explore what drove Chris McCandless to act as
he did.

What is the overall meaning of Rowdy and Junior playing 1on 1 basketball at the reservation in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time...

I think that the last scene is highly significant to the
manner in which Junior has constructed his identity.  The fact that Rowdy and Junior are
able to come back together as competitors that respect one another is significant.  On a
symbolic level, it shows that there will be a division, or compartmentalization, in
Junior's life between the identity he holds at Reardon and the notion of what he holds
in terms of life on the Reservation.  There is no subjugation of one over the other. 
The basketball court is Junior's soul or his canvass for identity and both forces,
Junior and Rowdy, compete and go back and forth in a game where there is "no score." 
This point is huge.  The fact that neither keeps score shows that there is a mutual
respect for one another.  The game is ongoing.  Yet, it also shows how the battle for
identity is ongoing.  There is no final point, no sense of totality in this vision .
Rather, Junior will go through periods where his "reservation" aspect is embraced and
moments where his "Reardon" identity is embraced.  Both vacillate between one another,
representing a pendulum that swings from side to side as identity is formed and the
notion of self is an ongoing element of consciousness and being in the
world.

Compare the political structure of ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and the Indus River Valley as they developed between 8000 and 2000 BCE.

Mesopotamia consisted of a series of Empires, either
Sumerian, Babylonian, or Chaldean, to name a few. Each was ruled by an Emperor with a
well defined class structure which separated the nobility from the commoners. Among the
more well known of the Mesopotamian Emperors was Hammurabi, who promulgated his famous
Code of Laws, and Nebuchadnezzar, who constructed the hanging Gardens of Babylon. This
system remained in place until the area was ultimately conquered by the Persians under
Cyrus the Achaenamid in 558 B.C.E.

Ancient Egypt was ruled
by a king known as the Pharaoh, meaning "Great House." He was considered the
personification of the sun God, Horus, and was believed to be responsible for the annual
flooding of the Nile, from which ancient Egypt gained it subsistence. Pharaoh ruled
directly through an administrative bureaucracy; there was no Egyptian nobility.
 Although some Pharaohs led troops into battle, most were never seen by the public at
large. They remained secluded from public view. It was forbidden to even look on him,
and to touch him unless he expressly requested it was punishable by death. Pharaohs
typically referred to their wives as their "dear sister." This has led to some
speculation that these marriages were incestuous, but there is no concrete
evidence.

The early society of India was the Harappan, or
Dravidian. Because their language has not yet been deciphered. As a result, there is no
way of knowing their political structure. It is known that they built several large
cities with broad streets organized on a grid with shops, public baths, and other
amenities. All of this indicates a highly organized and developed society; but other
than that, nothing is known of their system of government.

How does Huxley employ the use of irony in Brave New World?

For the most part, Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World is a dark satire about the misuse of science in a society, and at times
a parody of evangelical revivals and virtual reality films; however, there are instances
of irony, contradictions between what is perceived and what actually is, in his
disturbing work.  Here are some examples:

1. It is
   ironic that the Director of Hatcheries, who predestines and conditions and instructs the
   residents of the New World on the sordidness of natural reproduction, should be a
   natural father himself.


2. Despite the genetic engineering
   of the Hatchery, the hypnopaedia, individuality survives the conditioning of the New
   World. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are two dissidents who display several
   out-of-the-norm behaviors.


3. Infantile behavior is
   encouraged in the society of the New World.


4. The New
   World, John learns, is anything but the Shakespearean "brave new world" he first
   imagines it.


5. Linda longs to return to the New World only
   to be rejected and die.


6. John delights also in the New
   World at first and perceives Lenina as an ideal, but learns
   otherwise.


7. Bernard wants to be an individual, but when he
   brings John back with him, he exploits John to serve his
   popularity.


8. When Bernard learns that he is being sent to
   Iceland, he loses all his aplomb and becomes servile in his effort to stay in the New
   World while Helmhotz delights in the idea.


9. John is
   anything but a "savage"; rather, he is an individual of high sentiments and chivalric
   sensitivities.


10. John comes to the New World thinking he
    will be happier there than on the reservation.


11. Mustapha
    Mond, one of the seven world Controllers, reads the Bible, and Shakespeare and other
    works banned in the New World.


12. Mond remarks, "What fun it
    would be....if one didn't have to think about happiness." (Chapter
    12)


13. Happiness and truth cannot exist together in the New
    World.


14. The New World is not a utopia:  Women have to take
    Pregnancy Substitutes; soma must be taken to relieve anxieties and
    for the government to control people. Moreover, the New World develops into a
    welfare-tyranny rather than a utopia.  

What were the political consequences of the Industrial Revolution?

The major political impact of the Industrial Revolution (I
would argue) was to push countries like Britain and the United States towards a greater
level of democracy.

Once the Industrial Revolution truly
came into being, the older, more patriarchal ways of politics had to begin dying.  There
were no longer the sorts of paternalistic, patron-client relations that made for a more
feudal form of government.  Instead, the masses of people were equal to one another and
had only economic relations with their bosses.  The days in which tenant farmers on a
landlord's estate would look to him for political cues were gone.  Instead, the mass of
people were workers who had little connection to their bosses and who, instead, acted on
their own interests.

This is not to say that the US or
England became more democratic right away.  However, in the long run, the major
political impact of the Industrial Revolution was increased
democratization.

Can anybody provide an alternative ending for "An Astrologer's Day" without adding any characters?

I provided four possible endings
below:

Perhaps, you could change the ending by having Guru
Nayak recognize the astrologer. They could have a confrontation about the time the
astrologer stabbed him with the knife. Nayak could fight with the astrologer and stab
him, leaving him for dead. Then, after Guru Nayak fled the scene, someone could pass by
and hear the astrologer groaning. The passerby could get medical help for the astrologer
and save his life. Then Nayak could be even with the
astrologer.

Another possible ending could be that Guru
Nayak could recognize the astrologer and the two of them could perhaps talk out the
problem. Since it had been years ago, perhaps the astrologer could apologize and Guru
Nayak could accept his apology and some money as payment for the deed of stabbing him
years ago. Guru could tell how he had been down on his luck. He could thank the
astrologer for everything, and the ending could be a happy
one.

If you would prefer, you could have Guru recognize the
astrologer. The two of them could fight. In self defense, the astrologer could actually
kill Guru Nayak this time. Then the astrologer could rid himself of the guilt he had
carried all these years, realizing that someone like Guru Nayak is always looking for
trouble. In self defense, the astrologer would realize that he had to kill Guru
Nayak.Then his conscience would be cleared in that Nayak was an unreasonable
man.

You could have Guru Nayak recognize the astrologer.
The two could have a violent argument. Then the astrologer's wife and children could
come looking for the astrologer and save the astrologer from being killed. In the face
of the astrologer's children, Guru Nayak could feel apologetic for being so aggressively
violent with the children's father. Guru and the astrologer could calm down, apologize
one to another. Then the astrologer could invite Guru to his home for a late night
dinner. The two of them could sit down to a hearty meal and talk out their differences
after all these years or the astrologer could poison him at
dinner.

What is the function/significance of Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest?

In the play The Importance of Being Earnest
, by Oscar Wilde, the character of Algernon Moncrieff is the reflection of
Jack Worthing, only with a more marked tendency for mischievous
behavior.

Algernon is Wilde's conduit to express his own
views on morality. In a time and place like Victorian England, Wilde himself had to put
up with a puritanical and prudish society. Algernon is the picture of lax morality: It
is not that he is bad, but that he does not intend to be
good.

In his relations with people, he spreads he gospel of
the sybarite: Enjoy the day, seize the moment, eat all you can, enjoy yourself, forget
what is serious and meaningful-all that is boring.

In the
way he lives life, his purpose is to be the catalyst of change in the lives of everybody
else. He loves escaping from his aunt, so she has to adapt to Algernon's schedule. He
feels like falling in love, so he invites himself to Jack's estate in the country and
courts Cecily. He feels like eating, so he invites himself to dinner with Jack. He wants
to Bunbury, so he simply takes off and disappears.

However,
on a more general level, he simply is Algernon. He is the one who is meant to break with
convention of the time, with taboo, and with social expectation. He represents liberty
in the Victorian way of life. His character basically represents Wilde: The dandy who
lives above his means, finds pleasure in good food and drink, and cares very little for
what society feels for him. Algernon is definitely the black sheep of an
overly-moralistic society.

explain the role of fools in as you like ittouchstone and jaques

The role of the court fool was a very important one. He
had the liberty of saying what was true and critically viewing the happenings of the
court and the persons in power. Often he enjoyed the favour of the ruler and was a
source of merriment with his antics and sayings.

In As you
like it, Touchstone provides a link between the pairs of lovers and acts as a foil to
the sincere passion of Orlando and Rosalind and the way in which they woo and win the
love of their life.

Besides Touchstone with his
down-to-earth attitude is a foil to the courtier Jacques, who is often found in the
position of the fool in spite of his pretensions at being philosophical and
high-minded. 

What are some key words that explain Reuben Land in Leif Enger's Peace Like a River?

Leif Enger's novel Peace Like a River
is narrated by Reuben Land, the second son of Jeremiah Land. Describing anyone with just
a few words is likely to portray an incomplete picture; however, there are two words
which would effectively describe Reuben: asthmatic and
believer.

It is impossible to overlook
Reuben's asthma. He suffers breathing problems from the moment of his birth,
and asthmahas shaped who he is. He has asthmatic episodes throughout his life, and they
cause him to have bizarre dreams and even nightmares. These episodes keep him close to
his father, who is the one to sit with him and pound on his back to help him breathe.
He, more than anyone except for his father, is aware of the fragility of life because of
his asthma.

The second word, believer,
is intricately connected to the first, asthmatic. Reuben is not
breathing when he is born, and it is a miracle (performed by God through his father)
both that he is alive and that he has no adverse effects from the lack of oxygen for the
first ten minutes of his life. Because he is alive because of a miracle, Reuben believes
in miracles. Ironically, the miracle of healing is not his--until the end of the
story. He is sensitive and is affected most by his brother's leaving. He believes Davey
will come back to them, and he believes everything will be
okay. 

Reuben is an asthmatic and a believer, and these two
pieces of who he is are evident through the entire novel.

What are some specific details that shows that Gene is a static character ?I need 3 details

At the traditional term tea for the Upper Middle class,
Gene stands by and lets Phineas get away with outrageous behavior. Gene feels
disappointed because he did.

After missing dinner one
evening and being questioned upon their return by Mr. Prud'homme, Finny gives outrageous
excuse after excuse and Mr. Prud'homme just laughs and doesn't take any action against
them.

All through the novel, Gene lets Finny distract him
from his studiies by getting him to jump out of the tree, go the beach, etc. Gene always
goes along with him, even though it is against his nature. He doesn't stand up to Finny.
Even when Gene tries to tell him the truth about the accident, Finny won't hear it. Gene
never changes. He lets things happen when he could have stood up to Finny at any time.
Finny "took over" Gene and Gene let him.

What are some specific examples of metaphors in Animal Farm?

I would say that the characters in the book are the best
examples of metaphors. Under the pain of censorship and not being published, Orwell had
to construct the animals as extended metaphors of the historical figures he satirized. 
For example, Benjamin is a metaphor for the disaffected and cynical intellectual who
realizes too late the need to take action.  In this, Benjamin is a metaphor for the
likes of the Orwells of the world who realize far too late that their call to action has
in fact passed.  Orwell looked for a way to bring out the loyalty of those who followed
the revolution in Russia and paid the ultimate price for it.  In this, I think that
Boxer is a wonderful metaphor. He represents how individuals who pledge unquestionable
loyalty to a government can end up being sacrificed for it.  I think that the metaphor
for the misguided individuals who are trapped in between how political reality is going
and how it should be going would be seen in Mollie, who never really has the courage to
launch a counter- revolution but has extreme difficulty in being able to identify how
what is happening on the farm is in line with what was initially promised.  Orwell uses
his characters as metaphors, a way to draw out the comparison between what he wishes to
say and how he can say it.

How does this statement, "During conflict the group is more important than the individual," relate to Martin Luther King?

Martin Luther King Jr. had a non-violence self-sacrificing
position to prove that the group is more important than the individual. A study in some
of the writings as well as the analysis of his life would help you develop strong
arguments to prove the relationship between the man and the
statement.

I would use 3 points of reference in developing
such an argument:

1. His
positions: Martin Luther King Jr. believed in social justice, resistance,
reconciliation, and non-violence. Each of these values prove that he put society before
himself because the consequences on the individual for rejection of these ideas was
extreme. He eventually paid for his values with his
life.

2. His writings: In each
of his speeches and sermons, King rallied individuals to seek common purpose in pursing
justice for all peoples. His "I have a Dream" speech particularly employs the theme of
unity.

3. His lifestyle: Many
people today preach one thing and then do another. King participated in sit-ins, he went
to jail for his positions, and he marched. Each of these actions demonstrate that he did
not just say how he felt, he acted on it.

All of these took
place within the Civil Rights Movement over issues of racial equality. Therefore,
tension was high and conflict flared regularly.

Are the sources used to support Diamond's argument in Guns, Germs, and Steel valid?

The sources used in this book are absolutely valid.  There
is no real way to argue that they are not.  Diamond uses articles from well-respected
journals such as Science and books published by reputable academic
publishers such as the University of Chicago.  These sources can be found in the
"Further Readings" section at the back of the book.

While
we cannot argue with the validity of Diamond's sources, we can argue with the validity
of the conclusions he draws from those sources.  For example, Chapter 2 draws on a
number of books about Polynesian societies.  The books are reputable.  Diamond uses them
to argue that the differences in Polynesian societies were caused by geography and
nothing else.  This is his own conclusion and people may wish to argue with
it.

Overall, Diamond's sources are indisputably valid. 
What can be disputed is the way in which he uses those sources.

What is the climax in The Terrorist?

Laura and Jehran are in the airport, headed to New York. 
Laura suddenly realizes that Jehran was responsible for her brother's death.  She was
rescuing her brother's killer!  She tells Jehran that she is not boarding the plane.
Jehran touches her leather satchel and says that Laura doesn't want to die the way Billy
did.  The climax comes when Laura pulls that leather satchel from Jehran and confronts
her in the airport lobby.  Laura doesn't know if the satchel has a bomb in it or not,
she assumes it has money, but she could be wrong.  If she sets the satchel down, there
could be an explosion. This was Laura's time to catch Billy's killer.  Jehran was about
to turn and walk away, becoming just another kid in the crowd, but the soldiers arrive
and grab her.   The rest of the book is an explanation of why Billy died and what
happened to the characters after Jehran was caught.

In Chapter 1 of Brave New World, what tone is established in the opening two paragraphs?

The first two paragraphs of this excellent book give
rather a bleak, ironic tone to the opening of this novel. I would argue that partly this
is the result of the discrepancy between the World State's motto of "COMMUNITY,
IDENTITY, STABILITY" and the way that the Hatchery room is shown to be depicted as a
cold and harsh place. Note the way it is described:

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Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for
all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows,
hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but
finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
Wintriness responded to
wintriness.

Note the way in
which the motto, which is apparently such a positive statement affirming concepts that
we would all believe in, is then undercut through its juxtaposition to the reality of
the wintery nature of the hatchery room. The coldness of this location of course
ironically corresponds to the coldness of this "brave new world" where conditioning has
robbed humanity of its warmth and distinguishing features.

What techniques does Fitzgerald use to convey bleakness in the setting of chapter 2?F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald's marvelous use of color imagery finds itself
turned to monotones in Chapter Two of The Great Gatsby as the
description of the Valley of Ashes is in sharp contrast to the verdant lawns and white
curtains and gold of an afternoon reflected in French windows that diminish to the green
light at the end of Daisy's pier. Instead, the area is ashen; railroad cars that bring
the industrial waste from New York are described as a line of "grey cars" that crawl
along and then give "a ghastly creak."

The Valley of ashes
is desolate, a "fantastic farm" where, metaphorically, only ashes grow, taking the forms
of houses and chimeys and "grotesque gardens." Even the inhabitants of this area are
covered with dust and their spirits spent.  George Wilson, who has a "shadow of
a garage" in this desolate area is described as a "spiritless man, anaemic and faintly
handsome" with a "white ashen dust veiled his dark
suit."

At the party in the New York apartment, Fitzgerald
describes the people as shadowy and seen through a blur of
smoke:

The 
little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from
time to time groaning faintly.  People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go
somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for eath other, found each other a few
feet away.

Throughout Chapter
Two, there is the imagery of greyness and the blind staring of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg with
decadent yellow spectacles that pass over "a nonexistent nose"; also, there is
the metaphoric artificiality of the Fifth Avenue apartment in New York with its gossip
magazines upon the coffee table and Mrs. Wilson's feigned hauteur and laughter ringing
through the room. Certainly, Fitzgerald's magery and metaphor in this chapter convey a
sense of bleakness and decadence.

Why does Curley get suspicious every time Slim is not with the other men in Of Mice and Men?

Curley, a antagonist in the novel Of Mice and
Men, is a very suspicious man. He knows that his wife is an attractive woman
and that a ranch full of men is not a "safe" place for a woman to
roam.

That being said, Curley knows how all of the ranch
hands look up to Slim. Slim is indirectly described as being the one on the farm with
which all others compare themselves to. Curley is surely jealous of the respect the
ranchers have for Slim, as well as, an almost certain jealously regarding Slim's
attractiveness as a superior male.

Curley always assumes
that if Slim is not with the other ranchers that he is with his wife. Knowing that
Curley maintains great control over his wife, he would surely have a problem with her
"stepping out" on him with a hired hand.

Review the ethical standards for psychotherapy.

The field of psychotherapy does not have a universal
licensing body or board. There is no specific set of standards to which all
psychotherapists are accountable. Some therapists are psychiatrists who hold and M.D. In
the U.S., these therapists are responsible to national and regional boards that govern
the professional behavior of medical doctors. Other therapists may hold a psychologist’s
license or counselor’s license. These professionals are subject to the ethical codes of
conduct established by their professional boards. Most psychotherapists develop an
ethical code of conduct that emphasizes keeping an appropriate distance from their
patient or client. Generally speaking, therapists do not engage in romantic liaisons
with clients. They do not make decisions for their clients. They do not affiliate
socially with clients. However, not all therapists abide by these common rules.
Therapists who practice sexual surrogacy, for example, have been criticized for the
intimate relationships they develop with clients in the context of sex
therapy.

What is the "It" in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?What the "it" is.

Is your question refering to the "it" that is mentioned in
the first stanza of this excellent poem? Let us remind ourselves of the context of this
quote. J. Alfred Prufrock is walking through some rather shady streets of London
thinking about what awaits him when he reaches his
destination:

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Streets that follow like a tedious
argument

Of insidious
intent

To lead you to an overwhelming
question...

Oh, do not ask, "What is
it?"

Let us go and make our
visit.

The "it" thus relates
to the "overwhelming question" that he feels driven to ask when he reaches his
destination. However, the way that the poem instructs us not to ask what this question
is and just focuses on the thoughts and feelings of J. Alfred Prufrock reflects his own
fear or hesitation of asking such an "overwhelming question." Although the precise
nature of this question is never exactly specified, we can infer that it is perhaps a
marriage proposal to the woman that awaits him. Of course, his inability to even mention
this question reflects his overall indecision and lack of sureness that this is the
right thing for him to do.

Does Lady Macbeth genuinely faint or does she put on act to divert attention away from Macbeth—and what does this tell us about her?In...

In Act Two, scene three, of Shakespeare's
Macbeth, Macduff arrives early at Inverness to collect the King and
go on their way. When they go to waken Duncan, his murder is discovered, along with two
bloodied guards who have no idea what is going on, as their drinks had been drugged the
night before.

Macbeth murders the guards to keep them
quiet, excusing his actions as those of one overcome by the death of his dear King—in
that moment, he went crazy.

While all of this is going on,
Lady Macbeth pretends to faint. There is no question that she is trying to divert
attention away from her husband. First, when they are inside, covered with blood and
hear the knocking on the castle gate, it is Lady Macbeth who has the presence of mind to
tell Macbeth to clean up and get into his bed clothes, as they
should be asleep. She tells him to pull himself together.
Certainly, she must be worried about how her husband will react when the murder is
discovered; so fainting also gives Macbeth a little more time to pull herself together.
This is ironic because fainting would be sometime a squeamish woman would experience:
however, Macbeth is the squeamish one, and Lady Macbeth has complete control. She is
guaranteeing that everything goes smoothly by calling attention to herself and her
"vapors." She is much more sneaky and manipulative—even murderous—than one might
expect.

What is a trait for Mrs. Baker and and an example of her showing it in The Wednesday Wars?

In Gary Schmidt's novel, The Wednesday
Wars, Mrs. Betty Baker is a woman who comes across as an amazing teacher—she
has her drawbacks which make her human enough to be believable. Her trait is stepping up
to a responsibility or difficulty she may not like, but making the best of
it.

We see this trait in the way Mrs. Baker deals with
Holling. While she ends up very much involved in Holling's life—supportive of him,
seeing his good qualities and taking a real interest in his
life...

Her
extracurricular activities—taking him to Yankee Stadium and on an architectural
tour—make her seem like a guardian
angel.

...(characteristics
that make her almost too good to be true), it wasn't always this
way. Mrs. Baker is not a superhero, but simply a dedicated teacher. Early on, she does
not warm up to Holling completely, and her "irritation" with him is obvious. Holling
starts his story as follows:

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Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo
Junior High, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than the
sun.

Me.

Mrs.
Baker ascertains that Holling will be coming to her classroom on
Wednesdays—because the Jewish and Catholic students attend Hebrew School or Catechism,
and he does not.

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"You are here with
me."

"I guess," I said.

Mrs.
Baker looked hard at me. I think she rolled her
eyes.

However, things will
eventually change for the better, probably most notably when they begin reading
Shakespeare on Wednesdays.

While Mrs. Baker is doing her
best in the classroom, she is plagued by her own person problems. In learning of these
difficulties, we can find the real person behind the professional front she puts on for
her students: her husband is fighting overseas in the Vietnam War which causes her a
great deal of worry, especially when he is lost and missing in action. However, as noted
before, she is someone who takes the difficulties placed in front of her, and does her
best to move forward and make the best of it: carrying on with
life.

What was the lesson learned by Gortsby after helping the young man? Describe it and state its significance in our lives.Question is from "Dusk" by...

Gortsby learned what he thought he already knew. Don't be
too trusting. Gortsby in his own cynicism was already on to people like the young man.
Still, the young man tricked Gortsby into giving him his
money.

The real lesson here is that people are often too
trusting by nature. Gullible is a word that comes to mind. Naive is another word that
fits this story. Truly, the cynical man Gortsby already stated that the defeated come
out at dusk. He was already aware to be on guard. In fact, he concluded that the young
man was a con artist because he could not produce a bar of
soap.

Ironically, the bar of soap produced itself and
turned the cynical man's cynicism into trust. Oh, how a small bar of soap can change
one's thinking into a cleansing thought.

Again, Gortsby
learns a lesson. No doubt, Gortsby has every right to be cynical. All too often, we as
trusting human beings get burned. The lesson is that the human heart desires to trust
unconditionally. It is in human nature to give one's heart away. Even though Gortsby
prides himself on understanding the defeated ways of mankind, he too fell for the con
artist. He was all too ready to pour out his sympathy with nothing to gain in return.
Some consider it an admirable quality. Saki would consider it
foolish.

The reader learns a lesson right along with
Gortsby. Don't be too trusting. To borrow a cliche: if it sounds too good to be true, it
probably isn't. Don't talk to strangers, especially right before it gets
dark.

Saki, in all his infinite wisdom, through men like
Gortsby and the young man, teaches a lesson on the danger of believing everything people
say:

Saki
came to the short story as a satirist and never averted his eye from the darker side of
human nature, a place where not only social ineptness, pomposity, and foolishness are
rooted but criminality as well.

In Chapter 3 of Guns, Germs, and Steel, what is the role of technology in the overthrow of the Inca?

The Spaniards' technology played a huge part in their
defeat of the Incas in Chapter 3.  It allowed them to get to South America in the first
place (instead of having the Incas sail to Spain) and it gave them the ability to defeat
more numerous opponents.

Diamond points out that it was
Spanish maritime technology that allowed them to sail to South America.  He points out
that the Incas had nothing at all like ocean-going ships.  Once the Spanish got to South
America, technology helped them even more.  Their steel swords, and their steel armor
(and, to a lesser extent, their guns) were so much better than the weapons and armor the
Incas had that the Spanish were able to defeat armies much larger than their
own.

In these ways, technology allowed the Spaniards to
reach South America and, once there, to conquer the Inca.

In The Good Earth, what does Wang Lung do with his eldest son because of his moodiness and restlessness?

The answer to this can be found in Chapter 22, which is
when O-Lan tells Wang Lung the reason for his eldest son's strange behaviour as he
misses more and more school and comes to behave in a way that is  more and more bizarre
and odd. For O-Lan, the solution to this problem is easy. When she worked in the Old
Lord's house, when his sons began to act in this way, he found a female slave for them
so that they could get rid of their sexual frustration. Wang Lung decides to hatch a
different plan in order to help his son:

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I will betroth him and we will marry him early,
and there is that to be
done.

Wang Lung therefore
decides to try and end his eldest son's restlessness by finding a wife for him to become
betrothed to and then marrying him so that he can dispense with his sexual
frustrations. 

Please give at least one specific example of how Peeta changes through The Hunger Games.

You might like to think about how Peeta is presented in
Chapter Nineteen of this excellent novel, when Katniss finds him and takes him to the
cave and sees the full extent of his wound. When Peeta saved Katniss from being killed
by Cato, Cato wounded Peeta badly in his leg, and it is only in this chapter that
Katniss discovers just how badly Peeta is wounded. Given the nature of their environment
and the lack of medical supplies, the chances for Peeta are pretty slim. Peeta is
obviously changed by the reality of his situation. He recognises the way that he is
unlikely to survive the experience. This of course develops and matures him. Note how he
tries to raise the subject with Katniss, only to be interrupted every
time:

"Look,
if I don't make it back--" he
begins.

We can see the
acceptance that Peeta has of his death again in Chapter Twenty Five, when he insists
that Katniss kills him to win the Hunger Games, and then rips of his bandage to his
wound so that he will die. Peeta has so clearly changed from the young and innocent
young man who worked in the bakery and gave bread to Katniss so long
ago.

What are the challenges of community policing, or how do we solve the challenges of community policing?

To start with, let's clarify a
definition:

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Community policing is a philosophy that promotes
organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and
problem-solving techniques, which proactively address the immediate conditions that give
rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of
crime.

Challenges to making
this system work start with building effective partnerships and insuring supportive
involvement by all the needed parties. If businesses or individuals are apathetic or
afraid to take part due to fear of reprisal, the level of self-policing that is
necessary to make community policing effective is compromised. Once adequate involvement
is obtained, training is the next step so that all parties understand their role and the
procedures that need to be followed to ensure safety and effective communications among
everyone involved.

Unfortunately, one major block to
effective community policing may become an overwhelming amount of criminal activity in
the given area. If the severity of problems goes beyond what members of the public can
handle, the community may have to be policed by more formal authorities with a harsher
set of enforcement tools and consequences available.

What is one weakness and one strength of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird?

I find Scout's intelligence for someone so young to be her
most endearing trait in To Kill a Mockingbird. Upon entering her
first day in school, she is already advanced scholastically beyond all her other
classmates: She reads several grades above her level, and she already knows how to write
cursive (though these facts do not impress her teacher, Miss Caroline). Despite her
youth, she understands most of what is said by adults and comprehends some of the more
detailed aspects of life in Maycomb. Although some of the testimony in the trial of Tom
Robinson is above her head, she is able to perceive the important facts and decide for
herself about Tom's innocence. By the end of the story, she is even able to put several
of Atticus' favorite sayings to good use, understanding how charging Boo with Bob's
death would be like "killing a mockingbird"; and how important it is to step inside
someone else's shoes before judging them.

Scout's hot
temper is undoubtedly her greatest weakness, and she has to fight the urge to use her
fists in order to solve her differences. Atticus' warnings manage to curb this problem,
and her fights grow less frequent as the novel continues. According to others, her
unladylike ways are also a detriment, but Scout isn't old enough to realize this yet.
She sees that some of the other "ladies" of Maycomb, particularly those at the
missionary circle tea, are hardly worth emulating.

A ball is projected upwards from a point 4m above the ground with a speed of 4m/s. Find:(a) The speed of the ball when it is 15m above its point of...

The ball is projected upwards with a speed of 4 m/s from a
point 4 m above the ground. There is an acceleration on the ball due to the
gravitational force of attraction of the Earth equal to 9.8 m/s^2 acting
downwards.

Let the speed of the ball when it is 15 m above
its point of projection be v.

Use the formula v^2 - u^2 =
2*a*s, where v is the final velocity, u is the initial velocity, a is the acceleration
and s is the distance traveled.

v^2 - 4^2 =
2*15*(-9.8)

=> v^2 =
-278

This is not possible. We can infer that the ball
cannot reach a height of 15 m if it is projected at 4
m/s.

The maximum height that the ball can reach is 16/2*9.8
= 0.816 m.

The velocity of the ball when it hits the ground
is:

v^2 - 16 =
2*4*9.8

=> v = 9.715
m/s

=> v = 8.85 m/s

9x + 3x =

9x is a term.  9 is the
number part and is called a coefficient.  x is the letter
part and is called a variable.  When a coefficient is
combined with a variable, a term is form:  9x

9x and 3x are
considered like terms because they both have the same
variable.  Like terms can be combined by adding the coefficients of the terms.  The
variable does not change.

9x + 3x =
12x

Answer: 
12x

Why is the house on Mango Street not their dream home in The House on Mango Street?

Esperanza lives in a small, cramped house on Mango Street.
She, her mother and father and two brothers and sister all live in one small place. The
walls are so thin you can hear the neighbors interactions. The house is located in the
ghetto. Bums, drunkards, and homeless people are on the
street:

Mango
Street is populated by people with many different life stories, stories of hope and
despair. First there is Esperanza's own family, her kind father who works two jobs and
is absent most of the time; her mother, who can speak two languages and sing opera but
never finished high school; her two brothers Carlos and Kiki; and her little sister
Nenny.

Truly, Esperanza is
surrounded by such a negative environment until she hopes to leave the house on Mango
Street:

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The House on Mango
Street is set in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. Esperanza
briefly describes some of the rickety houses in her neighborhood, beginning with her
own, which she says is "small and red with tight steps in
front.

Besides the house
being run down, the neighborhood is less than ideal. Esperanza has to deal with the
people of the neighborhood who live hopeless lives. She desires to leave it all behind
one day. She desires a nice home in a safe, beautiful
neighborhood:

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In a child-like voice, Esperanza records
impressions of the world around her. Her perceptions range from humorous anecdotes
pulled from life in the barrio to more dark references to crime and sexual
provocation.

The neighborhood
is crowded. People live close to one another. Esperanza can hear the street fights and
the families next door arguing. She is unhappy with her house and environment. She
writes that she will escape the house on Mango Street one day. But for now, she has to
put up with all types of activities that happen on Mango
Street:

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Esperanza gives the impression of a crowded
neighborhood where people live in close quarters and lean out of windows, and where one
can hear fighting, talking, and music coming from other houses on the
street.

Do you think Lady Macbeth is constant in her love for Macbeth?

Before determining wether or not Lady Macbeth was constant
in her love for Macbeth, you first have to determine the nature of her love to begin
with. Lady Macbeth, though it is possible she may have felt some sort of romantic
passion for him at some point in their relationship, is principally concerned with
power. Every action she takes is to preserve, enhance, and expand Macbeth’s power and by
proxy her own influence through his affluence (until, of course, her eventual demise).
At Lady Macbeth’s point of demise, she is incapable of love or any real emotion at all
that extends beyond the desperation of her predicament. So, did Lady Macbeth remain
constant? If we accept that she never loved him to begin with, then yes -it remained at
a constant absence. If we consider what may have happened before the beginning of Act I,
perhaps -but throughout the duration of the comprehensive play the only real affection
she affords is to power.

In "Ex-Basketball Player," what is John Updike's attitude?

What do you mean by attitude? You might find it helpful to
expand on this question and make it more specific? Do you mean what attitude does Updike
have about Flick Webb and his situation in life? I think we can clearly infer that
Updike feels great sadness for Flick Webb, who, like Pearl Avenue, has started off with
so much hope only to be curtailed suddenly:

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Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school
lot,

Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut
off

Before it has a chance to go two
blocks...

The geography of
the streets matches the trajectory of Flick Webb's life: both are "cut off" before they
have a chance to go anywhere. In addition, you might like to consider the way that
Updike presents Flick Webb as a character who is haunted by the ghosts of his former
victories, which is made all the more poignant by the way in which his current life is
so devoid of success, meaning or purpose. Consider the last three lines of the
poem:

Flick
seldom says a word to Mae, just nods

Beyond her face toward
bright applauding tiers

Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju
Beads.

The way that the
metaphor in these lines is used to compare the tiers of candy to the "bright applauding"
bleachers of his former matches creates a pitiful picture of a man who cannot reconcile
his early success with his present mediocre existence.

What is the historical setting in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and why is it essential to the overall themes?

The years following the French Revolution were hardly
peaceful. The poor still felt oppressed and many government factions were still fighting
for power. Les Misérables is set during the
1800s, which were full of moments of political unrest. The novel
primarily focuses on what is called the June
Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of
1832.

The uprising, just
as the novel depicts, was led by Republican student societies, just like the ABC. Many
problems led up to the revolt, particularly the treatment of the
poor. The years 1827 to 1832 were years of famine with crop failures.
Plus, the economy failed, driving prices up, increasing the cost of living. Not only
that, all of Europe suffered a cholera outbreak, and in France, the poorest
neighborhoods were hit the hardest by the epidemic. This served as enough proof for the
citizens that the poor were still being treated unfairly. The June revolt was first
inspired by workers' revolts, such as the 1831 Canut revolt of silk factory workers in
Lyon. The most significant catalyst for the rebellion, however, was the
death of political hero Jean Maximilien Lamarque who died
on June 1st of cholera. Lamarque was a member of Parliament and became leading critic of
the new constitutional monarchy under Louis Phillippe; he was therefore
supported by republicans. Citizens began to see his death
by cholera as a sign of upper class mistreatment, leading to the revolt. Students
intercepted Lamarque's funeral procession and took it to the Place de la Bastille where
the 1832 rebellion broke out.

General Lamarque's
funeral is mentioned in Les Misérables, just after
Marius has lost Cosette due to her removal from the Rue Plumet and just before the
uprising at the barricades is described. When Marius learns Cosette will soon be leaving
for England, he throws himself down on his bed after wandering the streets until
midnight and is awakened by Courfeyrac asking, "Are you coming to General Lamarque's
funeral?" (Vol. 4, Bk. 9, Ch. 2).

Also part of the real historic
event is that the students set up barricades in the streets
surrounding Paris's historic center, Faubourg Saint-Martin. The ABC set up a barricade
in the Rue de la Chanvreri, which was indeed historically
accurate.

The novels historic setting helps portray the
themes of injustice and the
need for mercy and redemption so prevalent in the
book.

What was the first thing Uri ate on the new island in Chapter 3 of Call It Courage?

So far as we know, the very first thing that Uri eats when
he and Mafatu get to the island is a robber crab.  We cannot be absolutely sure,
however, that this is the first thing he eats.

At the
beginning of Chapter 3, Mafatu is just regaining consciousness after making it to the
island.  He sits up, and he sees Uri holding the crab in his paws, cracking its shell,
and eating it.  We cannot know for certain that this is the first thing he has eaten. 
For all we know, he could have been eating the whole time Mafatu was
unconscious.

As far as we know, though, the robber crab is
the first thing Uri eats on the island in Chapter 3.

In The Miracle Worker, why does James get a ladder?

The answer to your question can be found at the end of Act
One, which charts the first tumultuous meeting of Annie and her new pupil, Helen Keller.
Having challenged Helen and having tried to impose her will on Helen, Helen manages to
lock Annie in the room upstairs and hides the key. When dinner is served, the only way
that the Kellers are able to get her out is by getting a ladder and leaning it against
the wall by the open window so that Annie can leave the room and come downstairs, in a
very undignified fashion. James in particular is very humorous about this, not revealing
why he needs to get a ladder to get Annie down for dinner until he is questioned about
it. Annie later discovers that Helen had concealed the key in her mouth, and she watches
her as she happily drops the key into the well.

What are comparisons and contrastings of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and Eliezer in Night by Elie Wiesel and examples of each?

Both Okonkwo and Elie Wiesel become disillusioned with
life. Okonkwo loses his faith in his clan. The clan is not willing to go to war;
therefore, Okonkwo becomes disillusioned. He gives up on his tribesmen. He realizes that
there will be no battle against the white man who has come in to control and change his
tribesmen. As a result of disillusionment, he hangs
himself.

Elie Wiesel too becomes disillusioned in life. He
loses his faith in God:

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'Never shall I forget those moments which
murdered my God and my Soul and turned my dreams to dust.' But such moments passed and
his argument is in keeping with Hasidism. Rather, his alteration takes this form, 'I no
longer accepted God's
silence.'

He realizes that
God is not fighting his battle. He becomes despondent and utterly hopeless. He gives up
all hope after losing his family in the concentration
camps.

Both Okonkwo and Wiesel lose faith. They both become
utterly hopeless. They see no change from the way outsiders have come to control each of
them. There is nothing to live for. There seems to be no end to their
misery.

The key difference in Okonkwo's and Wiesel's
outlook is the end result. Okonkwo hangs himself. Wiesel is finally released from the
concentration camps but not before losing all of his family members to
death.

Both men feel totally rejected. There is a common
thread of utter hopelessness. However, each man deals with his loss of faith in
different ways.

Okonkwo takes his own life. Wiesel lives to
write about the horrors of the concentration camps.

Why, according to Guns, Germs, and Steel did China lose its technological advantage to Europe?Should be found in the epilogue

The answer to this, according to Diamond, has to do with
the fact that China dominated its area whereas no European country was able to
completely dominate Europe.  This led to competition between the various European
countries, a competition which led to technological
growth.

In China, for example, the government could stop
using mechanical devices in the late 15th century.  When they did this, it did not hurt
them because there was no country that could defeat them by using mechanical devices to
get rich or powerful.  Contrast this with the situation in Europe.  If a country
rejected mechanical devices, it would be destroyed (militarily or economically) by its
neighbors who would use the devices to get ahead.  European countries could not,
therefore, afford to turn their backs on technology the way that China could. 
Similarly, it was in the best interests of the European countries to try to push ahead
with new technologies to try to gain advantages.  China did not have to do
this.

So, China fell behind (Diamond says) because it had
no competition.  European countries had to compete fiercely to keep up with one
another.  This led Europe to move ahead of China in technology.

What is Jack's character like, and where does he fit in to the story?

'Jack' in the story is Sergeant Jack Noonan, a police
officer known to Mary Maloney as he worked alongside her husband Patrick. Jack is a foil
to Patrick Maloney and Mary Maloney's characters. He is caring and compassionate towards
Mary-

Dahl also uses some of Jack's dialogue to illustrate
the irony of the investigation into the attack on Patrick
Maloney-

“It’s
the old story,” he said.  “Get the weapon, and you’ve got the
man.”

There is
great irony in the fact that the officers keep overlooking the murder weapon as it is in
the oven. Also, they are not looking for a man, as it is Mary who is
guilty.

Mary uses Jack's sympathy for her to her advantage.
She asks him to get her a drink, and convinces him to talk the other men in to eating
the leg of lamb.

 Jack's naivety concludes the scene of the
investigation at the end of the story. The officers discuss the whereabouts of the
murder weapon as they eat it-

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“Probably right under our very noses.  What you
think, Jack?”

And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to
giggle.