From "To Kill a Mockingbird", do you know the origin of the expression "when the chips are down" ? (It is used on page 120.) Thank youI understand...

In the origination of the saying "when the chips are
down," while the reference to gambling is made, chips are used as a replacement to
money, there is a little more to the meaning of the
saying.

When one accumulates chips, it is considered that
they are winning. Another way to look at the saying is that once one has played their
chips, the chips are in a place where they can be
lost.

Another way to look at the saying is that once a
person begins to lose their chips they are considered "down" from where they began. "The
chips are down" refers to the fact that things are not looking very good for the
person.

As for the origin of the phrase, historically
gambling first began in the 1600's in America. A specific date is not given regarding
the initial use of chips.

How does Shakespeare combine the four worlds of Athens, the human lovers, the fairies and the mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

This is a very interesting question to consider, given the
separate realm of each of these characters and worlds. Firstly, I think it is clear that
there is an opposition in this play between the world of Athens and the world of the
forest. Athens, as is shown by Act I scene 1, is ruled by law, that can often be very
harsh in its treatment, as Hermia discovers. Athens is a place that is characterised by
the role of reason and logic in how it is managed. Of course, this is sharply contrasted
by the forest, where magic, dreams and enchantment rule, and which acts as a kind of
arena where human emotions, free from the constraining influences of civilisation, are
free to run riot. This is of course highlighted by the four Athenian lovers, whose
affections are presented as unshakeable in Athens, until they go to the forest, where a
riotous and chaotic change occurs in how they feel about each
other.

Secondly, another parallel structure in the play
seems to be the way that the Mechanicals and the Fairies balance one another. If we take
the kingdom of Theseus in Athens and balance it against the kingdom of Oberon in the
forest, we can see that both have their underclass or servants. The Mechanicals of
course are planning a play for Theseus to please him, just as the fairies, principally
in the form of Puck, try to please Oberon by carrying out his wishes. All of these four
separate spheres collide when the lovers from Athens and the Mechanicals from Athens go
to the forest and meet with the fairy world, and are changed dramatically as a
result.

What kind of abusive language does Jack use in Lord of the Flies? What does it tell about his true character?

From the beginning of the novel, Jack is rude. In chapter
one, upon first meeting Ralph and Piggy, he calls Piggy "fatty." He has no sensitivity
for Piggy's feelings:

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'You're talking too much,' said
Jack Merridew. 'Shut up
Fatty.'

Clearly, Jack has no
manners. He gets a laugh from the other boys at Piggy's
expense.

In chapter one, as the boys are electing a chief,
Jack is arrogant:

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'I ought to be chief,' said Jack with simple
arrogance.

From the very
beginning, Jack is obnoxious. Clearly, he feels superior to the others. The reader
automatically dislikes Jack based on his characterization. He is bossy and forward in
his actions and dialogue.

By chapter four, Jack is a mighty
hunter. He declares himself a great hunter. He screams out, "'Kill the pig. Cut her
throat. Spill her blood.'" This is his reaction to the pig he has just killed. He has no
mercy. He is cold hearted in his hunting frenzy. It seems to not affect him that he has
just killed a living creature.

As the story progresses,
Jack becomes more savage in his actions. He leads the boys in a hunting dance that ends
with the murder of Simon. Jack seems so hard hearted. He becomes more savage each time
he kills a living creature. In chapter nine, Jack has his boys screaming and chanting,
"'Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood.'" Then Simon comes crawling out of
the woods and they begin to kill Simon with their bare hands and
teeth.

With no remorse, Jack continues to control his boys.
He is power hungry. In chapter eleven, Jack and Ralph argue about who the leader is.
When Piggy falls to his death because of Roger, Jack indicates that Ralph will get the
same treatment:

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Jack screams that that’s what Ralph will get.
The conch is gone. He is chief now. He hurls his spear at Ralph, grazing his side. The
others, including Roger, hurl their spears as well. Ralph turns and
flees...

Jack becomes more
antagonistic as the story unfolds. By the end of the story, he is in total control over
the boys. Ralph is the only one who has not succumbed to Jack's tyranny, and he is
fleeing for his life.

Jack is a reprehensible character,
and his abusive language only worsens as the story unfolds.

What historical/political theory did John Locke’s theory of natural rights reject?

John Locke, in his First Treatise on Civil
Government had argued against the necessity of Absolute Monarchy. The latter
doctrine had been supported by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan in which
he had argued that the basic selfishness and wantonness of human nature made a strong
ruler necessary in order to prevent absolute chaos. Instead, Locke argued for the
protection of every person's natural rights.

Locke
dismissed the idea of Absolutism in his First Treatise, and
proposed his theory of everyones "natural" right to life, liberty and property (the term
Locke used was "estate") in his Second Treatise on Civil Government.
Locke argued that since all people had the ability to reason, they had the
natural rights of which he spoke. Governments were created not to protect people from
each other, as Hobbes had argued; but to protect and guarantee their natural rights.
Locke's argument was written to justify the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which James
II of England was removed and replaced by William and Mary who were required to agree to
the English Bill of Rights as a condition of their accepting the throne. Later, this
same argument was used by Thomas Jefferson in supporting America's claim to the right of
independence from Great Britain.  

Explain the meaning of the quote below from Orwell's Animal Farm."The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig...

This quote comes at the end of Orwell's work.  In this
setting, the animals have gathered around the farmhouse to watch the dining/ celebration
between the humans and the animals.  As they heard Pilkington's toast and Napoleon's
follow- up toast, the celebration and drinking revelry took the animals back to an
extent.  Surveying the room of  and humans, the animals on the outside could not tell
the difference between the beings on the inside.  This helps to bring out Orwell's
fundamental point that politics and the constructs of power are universal, and that
those in the position of power have only one primary concern and that is not losing it. 
Both the humans and the pigs have found their common ground, which is being able to
exploit their workers and become masters of their respective universes.  When the
argument over the card game breaks out, the animals look again and see all of them
inside, no different from one another.  The dynamic of "insider" and "outsider" has made
those who have power, regardless of animal or human, those who are in control and those
who do not have power on the outside looking in.  Orwell's main point is to draw the
distinction here that "the twelve voices shouting" were not representative of the
animals' interest, but rather in protecting their own share and their own hold on
power.  There is no more of "animal vs. human" or "Animalism."  There is only power and
those who have it are inside the farmhouse and those who don't are on the outside of
it.

Explain Widow Quin as a counter weight character in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.

A counter weight character is one who balances the
extremes of a major character. An example is Enkidu as a counter weight character to
Gilgamesh in The Epic of Gilgamesh. By himself, Gilgamesh is a
rash, hard-driving, demanding ruler who exhausts his people and resources. Enkidu
balances these things in Gilgamesh by refocusing his energy and calming him down: Enkidu
counters Gilgamesh's tendencies by influencing him to move toward countering
behaviors.

In The Playboy of the Western World,
Widow Quin is a counter weight character to Christy. She also attempts to be a
countering influence to Pegeen and the other villagers but is not successful as they
never exhibit improved behaviors. Christy first tells the whole story of his father's
end to Widow Quin. One of her comments is an ironic remark aimed at influencing him to
take a better view of himself and not be swept away by the myth around him and the force
of group mentality:

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WIDOW QUIN -
Don't be letting on to be
shy, a fine, gamey, treacherous lad the like of
you.

Another example of Widow
Quin's countering influence is her attempt to persuade Christy to accept Shawn's offer
to get out of town and stay out. She does influence him in some regards, for example, to
participation in the sports games, which is where he eventually gains his title of
Playboy of the Western World. As a whole though, Widow Quin is not very successful in
her task of influencing Christy to behave in a less excessive way. Christy's exit from
the play demonstrates her failure:

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CHRISTY. Go with you, is it? I will then, like a
gallant captain with his heathen slave. Go on now and I'll see you from this day stewing
my oatmeal and washing my spuds, for I'm master of all fights from now. (Pushing Mahon.)
Go on, I'm saying. ... I'll go romancing through a romping lifetime from this hour to
the dawning of the judgment day.

What are some specific details that show how Gene is a specific character in A Separate Peace?I need 3 details.

Your question is very general. Gene shows many sides to
his character through the course of the novel, with deepening awareness of himself and
of the levels of his relationship with Finny as the story
progresses.

Early on, Gene is frustrated with Finny, but
also with himself for being unable to stand firm against Finny's ideas when he is
uncomfortable with them.

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I wouldn't have been on that damn limb except
for him. I wouldn't have turned around, and so lost my balance, if he hadn't been there.
I didn't need to feel any tremendous rush of gratitude toward Phineas...I never got
inured to the jumping....but I always jumped. Otherwise I would have lost face with
Phineas, and that would have been
unthinkable.

Gene becomes
aware that he is a better student than Finny but isn't sure how that affects their
relationship and the fact that Finny is the better
athlete.

He
had won and been proud to win the Galbraith Football Trophy and the Contact Sport
Award...If I was head of the class on Graduation Day and made a speech and won the Ne
Plus UltraScholastic Achievement Citation, then we would both have come out on top, we
would be even, that was all...My brain exploded. He minded, despised the possibility
that I might be the head of the
school.

After Finny's second
fall, Gene has to deal again with the feelings below the surface of his
friendship.

I
didn't know what I was going to say at the Infirmary. I couldn't escape a confusing
sense of having lived through all of this before - Phineas in the Infirmary, and myself
responsible...We members of the Class of 1943 were moving very fast toward the war now,
so fast that there were casualties even before we reached it, a mind was clouded and a
leg was broken...My brief burst of animosity, lasting only a second, a part of a second,
something which came before I could recognize it and was gone before I knew it had
possessed me, what was that in the midst of this
holocaust?

In the end, Gene
is a very introspective character who struggles a great deal with his insecurities but
does, with the hindsight of time, reach a mature understanding of himself and his
experiences at Devon.

In chapter 10,why do the men not get trouble when they do not act with proper decorum in the hospital?All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria...

After an assignment to guard a village in which Paul and
his fellow soldiers find food and a few other comforts, they are ordered a fortnight
later to evacuate a village.  However, as they begin to leave, the other village where
they have been comfortable, they are hit.  Albert Kropp and Paul are hit by a shell, but
they crawl to a dressing station where they are treated and then put on a train. On the
train to the hospital, Paul is at first reluctant to lie on such clean sheets, but the
sister insists. 

Having arrived at the hospital, Paul and
Albert do not want to hear the recital of evening prayers from the nuns; so, they shout
for them to be quiet, and Paul throws a botte.  The nuns are disconcerted, explaining
that they have left the door open for them to hear, but Albert and Paul yell, "Shut the
door!"

The next day a hospital inspector appears to
investigate the row the men have caused.  When he asks who has thrown the bottle, a
strange man who "talks like a book" admits to the act.  After this man admits to
throwing the bottle, the inspector departs; curious, Paul and Albert ask his name and
why he has said that he did the act.  He replies that he has a shooting license.  Paul
understands,

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Whoever has a shooting license can do just
whatever he pleases.

The
soldier, Josef Hamacher explains that he has been hit in the head and presented with a
certificate that declares that periodically he is not responsible for his
actions.

Ever
since then I've had a grand time.  No one dares to annoy me.  And nobody does anything
to me."

Clearly, Hamacher
exploits his condition.  Because hearing the bottle break while the sisters were praying
amuses him, he makes his statement that will excuse them all from any
misbehavior.

How did the Monroe Doctrine pave the way for imperalist US foreign policies?

The Monroe Doctrine paved the way for imperialistic
policies because it, in essence, claimed that the whole of the Americas fell within the
sphere of influence of the United States.  This idea led fairly naturally to the idea
that the US should do what it liked, even to the point of interfering in the affairs of
those other countries.

In the Monroe Doctrine, the US said
that no new colonies could be taken in the Americas by European countries.  It also said
that any European interference with the countries of the Americas would be taken as a
threat to the US.  By saying things like this, the US was essentially saying that
anything that happened in the Americas was the business of the US.  This attitude
eventually led to such things as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and to
the imperialistic actions that went along with that corollary.

What role does this advice play in developing Scout's compassion for others in To Kill a Mockingbird?Atticus tells Scout that she needs to walk in...

Scout takes Atticus' advice to heart and uses it
throughout the remainder of the novel. Atticus explained that Miss Caroline's decision
to try and provide young Walter Cunningham with money for lunch (he refused to accept
it) was an honest mistake on her part, and if Scout and Walter "had put ourselves in her
shoes," they would have understood that as a newcomer to town, she could not be expected
to learn the town's ways in a single day. Scout uses this advice effectively at the end
of the novel after she escorts Boo Radley back home following the attack by Bob Ewell.
After Boo closes the door behind him, Scout turns and gazes from the Radley porch at the
neighborhood before her, pretending to stand in Boo's own shoes and visualizing the
scene through his eyes.

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Atticus was right. One time he said you never
really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on
the Radley porch was
enough.

Scout had just
previously agreed with Sheriff Heck Tate's decision to call Ewell's death
self-inflicted. She knew that from his point of view, Tate thought he was making a just
decision in order to keep Boo from facing a public investigation. Scout also felt some
compassion for Mayella Ewell, though she understood that Mayella had falsely accused Tom
Robinson, and she recognized the hatred that Mayella had for
Atticus.

...
she seemed somehow fragile-looking... and I was somehow reminded of the row of red
geraniums in the Ewell
yard.

And, at the missionary
circle tea, Scout even feels compassion for her Aunt Alexandra. Following Atticus'
announcement of Tom's death, Scout sees Miss Maudie and Alexandra quickly recover and,
as if nothing had happened, resume serving refreshments. Scout was
impressed.

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After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time
like this, so could I. 

Can you explain the feelings that Macbeth and Banquo have for each other after the first encounter with the three witches in Shakespeare's...

When the witches prophesy to Macbeth, Banquo makes simple
congratulatory comments. Then he immediately asks for his own prophecy. Banquo's first
thought is a "what about me" question. He briefly comments on Macbeth's future
successes. Then he asks for his own prophecy:

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You greet my noble partner
With
current grace and great predictions
Of having nobility and of the hope to be
king,
that he seems carried away as well. Only you don’t speak to
me.
If you can look into the future,
And say what will happen, and
what will not,
Then speak to
me,

This would indicate that
Banquo is little envious of Macbeth. Macbeth has just received a great prophecy, and
Banquo immediately desires his own prophecy. Banquo does not waste any time in asking
the witches for his own prophetic word. He does not dwell on Macbeth's fascinating
prophesy. He asks the witches to look in his future and tell him what will
happen.

It appears that the witches' prophecies have
slightly divided Macbeth and Banquo. As we learn later, this division will grow and lead
to Banquo's
murder.

describe the religious criticism made by arnold

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a British writer and poet
who addressed the social issues of his time. For more information on his biography,
follow the link below. Arnold wrote several books critical of religion, including St.
Paul and Protestantism in 1870, Literature and Dogma in 1873, God and the Bible in 1875,
and Last Essays on Church and Religion in 1877.

Arnold
thought religion was important, but his interest was more pragmatic than spiritual. He
thought religion could be useful to society by teaching people virtues which would make
them good citizens. Arnold was conservative in his values and he thought highly of
religious rituals and traditions. However, he was critical of the superstitious elements
in religion and the unwillingness of religion to change and accept scientific findings.
He felt the religious leaders who clung to the old orthodox teachings were blocking
truth and making religion unappealing to educated people of his day. He was skeptical
about religious dogmas and about the Bible as a source of religious truth. In light of
new scientific findings, he preferred a more symbolic or poetic interpretation of Bible
passages.

However, Arnold also did not agree with the new
ideas of scientific positivism, which believed only those things which can be observed
or proven scientifically can be believed. So Arnold had to carve out a new position that
used science to help people find religion credible.

In Wallace Stevens' poem "Sunday Morning," why is Palestine described as the "dominion of the blood and the sepulcher"?

In Wallace Stevens’ poem “Sunday Morning,” Palestine is
called “Dominion of the blood and sepulcher” (15) for a number of possible
reasons.

• The woman mentioned in the first stanza
  of the poem seems to be staying home on a Sunday morning, dressed in a nightgown and
  drinking coffee and eating oranges, rather than doing what is traditionally and
  conventionally done on Sunday mornings: going to church. Physical relaxation and
  pleasure seem to appeal to her more at the moment than traditional religious observances
  do. Thus the reference to Palestine as a place associated with blood and with a tomb
  starkly contrasts her pleasurable self-indulgence with the gruesome violence and
  sacrificial death associated with the story of the crucifixion of
  Jesus.


• As she meditates about religion, the woman wonders
  why she should sacrifice her own current pleasure and happiness by giving “her bounty to
  the dead” (16). She seems to long for spiritual insights that can be associated with the
  pleasures and loveliness of nature, such
  as

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. . . pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or
else

. . . any balm or beauty of the earth . . . .
(20-21)

Does spirituality
need to be associated (she wonders?) with death and violent sacrifice (as it often has
been, and as it certainly has been in Christianity)?  Can’t spiritual insights (she
wonders) be prompted by “Passions of rain or moods in falling snow” (24)?  At this
point, the woman might be accused of a kind of naïve Romanticism that emphasizes only
the joys and beauties of nature.  However, part of the power of Stevens’ poem lies in
the fact that the alternative he imagines to Christianity does not deny death or sorrow
or suffering.  Instead, the poem mentions, as sources of spiritual inspiration, such
phenomena as “Grievings in loneliness,  . . . All pleasures and all
pains,” both “The bough of summer and the winter branch”
(25, 28-29; emphasis added).

• By the time the
  poem reaches its rich conclusion, then, the woman is able to imagine hearing
  

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A voice that cries, “The tomb in
Palestine

Is not the porch of spirits
lingering.

It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.”
(107-09)

In other words,
Jesus was a human (not a god); Jesus died, as all humans die; and the value of Jesus’s
life lies not in the supposed fact that he was god but in the simple fact that he was a
human being, like other human beings, whose life was valuable in and of itself, not for
any reason “higher” than that. He was part of

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. . . the heavenly
fellowship

Of men that perish, and of summer morn.
102-03)

This, at least, is
what Stevens’ poem suggests about spirituality and religion in general, and about
Christian spirituality and religion in particular.

Please describe the meaning of the following lines from "Ode to a Nightingale."I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense...

Clearly it is always important to look at such quotes from
poems in context rather than taking them out of the poem as a whole and trying to work
out a meaning that may not relate to the original poem. These lines come from the fifth
stanza and describe the immediate setting of the speaker and point towards the richness
of nature at this point in the year and also indicate the darkness of night that the
speaker is in. Note the way that the stanza begins with an assertion that the dark is so
strong that the speaker is unable to identify the flowers at his feet or the blossoms
around him. He is left in "embalmed darkness" to guess at each scent from what he can
smell. The impact of this darkness is to create a very rich image based on scent, as,
due to the inability of his eyes to pierce the darkness, the speaker must rely on his
nose to guess the source of each smell that the "seasonable month" has "endowed."
Clearly, the speaker is in a very beautiful part of nature, surrounded by flowers and
blossoms, giving "the grass, the thicket, and the fruit tree wild" their own beautiful
scent.

However, these lines also include an example of
synesthesia as the speaker tries to "see" the incense hanging on the trees and stands in
perfumed darkness. Both descriptions in these lines place next to each other the sense
of sight in terms of the sense of smell.

Comment (with detail) on the importance of language to satire.

Word choice is absolutely critical when writing satire,
because the language being used is what expresses the message. To start with, a
definition. "A ‘satire’ is a poem, or in modern use sometimes a prose composition, in
which prevailing vices or follies are held up to ridicule." So, when writing satire, the
author is making fun of something - the actions, attitudes or opinions of another person
or group of people.

There are numerous authors who have
used satire with great effect. Many are named in the linked article. I happen to enjoy
James Thurber. In giving "advice" to a young lady who asks him for guidelines to writing
humor, he responds with a series of rules he follows, each one phrased in humorously
satiric terms. He advises against standardized formulas to start stories, exemplified
with the comment, "For Heaven's sake, Patience, will you please give me a chance to
explain?" (Obviously, the person named Patience is not being patient.) He counsels
against pen names for authors such as "Ann S. Thetic" (anesthetic), "Maud Lynn"
(maudlin), or "Bertha Twins" (birth of twins).

The choice
of words used sets the stage for the satire contained in the
writing.

Can you put the word "venerate" in a sentence?I dont fully understand the meaning of this word and i am supposed to put it in a sentance. Can...

If you "venerate" something, you treat it with a huge
amount of respect or reverence.  It means that you treat it essentially like a holy
object.  The word "venerate" comes from the same word as the word "revere."  That might
help you to better understand what "venerate" means.

So, to
use "venerate" in a sentence, think about something or someone that some group of people
treat as holy.  You could say things like:

• The
  Spanish national soccer team was venerated by the Spanish public after it won the World
  Cup.


• One of the most venerated figures in recent history
  was Mother Teresa, who was widely revered for her work with poor people in
  India.

In both cases, you have a person or
people being treated with a huge amount of respect and
admiration.

How is the action of The Kite Runner a metaphor for the rest of the novel’s action?

Kite running is a cultural tradition of Afghanistan,
reminiscent of the country’s beauty, prior to Taliban rule. Before the country’s
political and military upheaval, residents fly kites, filling the blues skies with
colorful creations. Once the Taliban takes control, these contests are
banned.

In the book, two main characters, the
privileged Amir and his servant friend Hassan, spend many happy days flying kites
together. These carefree days represent the boys’ youth and innocence, but it also
symbolizes Afghanistan’s dark side. During kite running competitions, participants coat
their kite strings with glass shards to slice an opponent’s kite strings. These
competitions leave blood on the hands of Amir and Hassan, like the blood that will
follow under Taliban rule.

Once a year in the
story, the town holds a kite running competition. Amir’s father wants his son to win to
prove his son’s prowess. Amir and Hassan work side-by-side all day until they finally
win. Hassan seeks no credit and happily retrieves Amir’s blue kite. As Hassan tries to
fetch it, though, he is surrounded by another group of boys that lost the contest. The
leader of the group will become a high-ranking Taliban official later in the book.
During the encounter, Hassan is raped, and Amir watches from a distance, but does not
intercede. Innocence is lost.

The boys’
friendship falls apart while Afghanistan unravels. Amir and his father seek refuge in
the U.S. However, Amir is forced to face the demons he left behind in Afghanistan when
he returns to try and rescue Hassan’s orphaned son. The boy has become a toy for a
high-ranking Taliban official, the same one who raped
Hassan.

Amir finally manages to make a
treacherous escape with Hassan’s son, but the boy is psychologically damaged. He shows
signs of healing at the end of the story as he watches Amir run a kite, restoring
innocence again.

Is this conflict internal or external in The House on Mango Street?

The conflict in The House on Mango
Street is both internal and external. Esperanza Cordero's external conflict
comes from living in a ghetto-type environment. She is not happy with this location. The
community is run down. There are dangers all around.

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The novel opens with a description of the
Cordero family's house on Mango Street, the most recent in a long line of houses they
have occupied. Esperanza is dissatisfied with the house, which is small and cramped, and
doesn't want to stay there. But Mango Street is her home now, and she sets out to try to
understand it.

Esperanza's
environment causes external conflict. She is not happy with her environment. She longs
to live in a better house in a better neighborhood. Of course, that want happen anytime
soon. Already, Esperanza's father is working two
jobs:

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.

As for internal
conflict, Esperanza is at an age that fills her with many choices. She struggles with
her own identity. She is at a teenage age in which she desires to have nice clothes and
such. Likewise, she struggles with things that are possibly in her power to
change:

Like
all adolescents, Esperanza struggles to forge her own identity. In many respects,
Esperanza's own keen observations and musings about the women in her neighborhood are
her way of processing what will happen to her in the future and what is within her power
to change.

Esperanza is at
the age that her conversations deal with ideas about her sexuality. She is surrounded by
adolescent myths and superstitions about sexuality. Life for Esperanza contains inward
struggles and outward struggles. She has learned through some of the characters that
early marriages often end in an abusive situation. She desires to have a better life
than some of the ones around her. Fortunately, Esperanza's dreams help her deal with
both the internal and external conflicts while growing up in the
ghetto:

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Throughout the book there is a tension between
Esperanza's ties to the barrio and her impressions of another kind of life outside of
it. Ultimately, Esperanza's ability to see beyond her immediate surroundings allows her
to transcend her circumstances and
immaturity.

Esperanza dreams
of owning her own house. Still, she plans to return for those who have no way out. She
desires to help those who are struggling with conflict in the neighborhood.
Because Esperanza is receiving an education, she has hope of leaving her internal and
external conflicts behind her:

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It is Esperanza's power to see beyond the
barriers of her neighborhood, fueled by her education gained through reading and
writing, that keep her from being trapped in the same roles as the women who surround
her.

Because of the internal
and external conflicts all around Esperanza, she has grown and matured. She is wiser for
all of her turmoils and conflicts. She is determined to make it. She will leave it all
behind one day:

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'One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too
strong for her to keep me here forever. One day I will go away. Friends and neighbors
will say, What happened to that Esperanza? Where did she go with all these books and
paper? Why did she march so far away? They will not know I have gone away to come back.
For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot come
out.'

In chapter 10, what message is Orwell communicating when he has the new commandment added?"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than...

In the end, I think that the last commandment is a
paraphrase of how power is a cyclical element.  To quote The Who, "Meet the new boss-
same as the old boss."  The last commandment brings to light how very little has changed
on the farm.  The tenets of animalism have been completely undermined, Old Major's
vision totally discarded, and the power structure has returned to a "top down"
configuration of government.  Orwell's vision of government has come full circle.  The
consolidation of power that the pigs desired has made Manor Farm one in which the
animals lack power and lack control over their lives.  The last commandment brings this
into clarity in that there is no such thing as equality and as long as the animals lack
the competency or will to voice discontent, there will be a complete resumption of power
that Jones held over the animals.  Life has not changed for them, as their suffering has
continued.  Animalism has become another tool to keep them in check, eliminating their
power and silencing their voice.  In the end, the last commandment brings out Orwell's
belief that political structures in the modern setting seeks only to substantiate their
own sense of being and control.  There is little to indicate that such structures will
be empathetic to citizens unless they hold their governments
accountable.

Why does the young man spend several nights at Mrs. Tilley’s cottage?

The young man is on a quest to find the elusive white
heron, and has enjoyed hunting for various bird specimens in the forest. The stranger
has been engrossed in his hunt, and has lost his way in the forest as a
result.

Speak
up and tell me what your name is, and whether you think I can spend the night at your
house, and go out gunning early in the
morning.

It is fortuitous for
him that he meets Sylvia, as her grandmother, Mrs.Tilley, is welcoming to the stranger.
He is surprised at the pleasing condition of their modest country home, described
as-

clean and
comfortable little
dwelling.

The stranger is
also intrigued to hear of Sylvia’s skill and knowledge with the animals. When Mrs Tilley
tells him-

the
wild creaturs counts her one o’
themselves.

He realizes her
potential in being able to help him track the mysterious white heron, so he spends
several nights at her cottage.

So Sylvy knows all about
birds, does she?

How would you characterize the father/son relationship in the play Fences?

In truth, it seems to me that Troy in August Wilson's
play, Fences, is trying to motivate his son to reach for the
American Dream, something he was not able to do. In essence, Troy
is doing what many parents have done for thousands of years: wanting to see a child or
children provided for, and wanting the child to have a better life than the parent
had.

Troy works as a garbage man. We learn early on that he
is not even allowed to drive a truck (and make more money) because he is black. Troy's
relationship with Lyons (his son from a previous marriage) is dysfunctional. Lyons comes
to borrow money and Troy tells him he should get a job. Lyons blows Troy off saying that
since Troy wasn't a part of the boy's life growing up, he has no right to scold him.
(Ironically, it seems Troy has enough parental rights to be asked
for a loan…)

Perhaps Troy's relationship with Lyons is
another thing that drives Troy to try to make Cory's chances for success better. He
wants to be involved with his son's life so that he doesn't end up like Lyons, begging
for money, and unemployed.

The father-son relationship
seems typical to me: the son can only know what his limited
experiences have shown him. He likes football and has no time to think of the future or
to consider that he might have difficulty like his father. His father's experiences are
meaningless to Cory because Cory is too young and naive to know that he should pay
attention to his father's advice. Troy has lived a hard life, including fifteen years in
prison and a life that seems to run from pay check to pay check, weekend to weekend. He
cares for his son and wants what is best for him. Even wanting to be an athlete himself,
Troy has found with age that football won't count in helping Cory have a better life
than Troy. This is all he can
see.

Perspective is everything, and the father and son in
the play are in different places. Someday they might better understand each other, but
for now, they struggle because each one's perspective only encompasses how each sees the
world at that moment, and their views are very
different.

What is the difference between consanance and alliteration? Please provide examples.

While cosonance and alliteration are sound devices that
depend upon the repetition of cosonant sounds, they differ in the placement of these
sounds. 

Consonance is the
repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or
important words. For example, in Macbeth's soliloquy after this wife's death, he
reflects that all the world is a stage upon which eacher person is merely an actor "That
struts and frets his hour upon the stage." The ending sounds of the words
that, struts and frets are an
example of consonance.

Alliteration,
on the other hand, is the repetition at close intervals of the
beginning cosonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.  For instance, the
poet e.e. cummings makes use of alliteration to move the lines rapidly along in his poem
"maggie and milly and molly and may." Here the /m/ moves the first line rapidly.  Here
are some other examples:mapmoon,
kill-code,
preach-approve. 

On
occasion, there is alliteration of vowels, as well. Important words and accented
syllables beginning with vowels are considered alliterate as far as they have the same
lack of an initial consonant sound.  For example, in the repetition of the //
in "Inebriate of
Air am I."

Interestingly alliteration
and cosonance can be combined, as in such phrases as "thick and thin,"  "kith and kin,"
and "alas and alack." These two forms of repetition of cosonants work to add sound to
the reader, pleasing the ear, adding emphasis to the words,  as well as advancing lines
of poetry and lending to the poem structure and  consistency
.

Source:  Literature: Structure, Sound, and
Sense.  Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.

What are Claudio's thoughts and feelings after Hero unveils herself in the final scene of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing?

We can gain a better understanding of Claudio's thoughts
and feelings the moment Hero unveils herself in the final scene by first looking at what
we know of his thoughts and feelings prior to this
scene.

We know that one thing Claudio was feeling at the
moment just before the unveiling was a deep sense of grief and repentance. We begin to
see Claudio's repentance portrayed the moment Borachio confesses that, by Don John's
urging, he had tricked Claudio into believing that Hero was Margaret and that she was
unfaithful. Claudio calls Borachio's confession "poison," referring to how his
confession has just killed his soul like poison, as we see in his line, "I have drunk
poison whiles he uttered it" (V.i.234). Claudio also exclaims "Sweet Hero" and proclaims
that now he is seeing her as the pure woman he fell in love with, which he regrets
because it is too late, as we see in his lines, "[N]ow thy image doth appear in the rare
semblance that I loved it first" (239-240). He also begs Leonato to revenge himself for
Hero's death by any means Leonato sees fit (261-263). Not only that, Claudio writes an
epitaph to hang on Hero's tomb proclaiming her innocence and her wrongful death, and he
begs forgiveness of the goddess Diana, a goddess known for her virginity (V.iii.3-11,
12-13).

Since we see how deeply grieved Claudio has become over Hero's
death and how deeply repentant he has become, we know that when who is actually Hero is
unveiled, he will feel a profound sense of joy and relief. Also, we know from Claudio's
line after Hero is unveiled, "Another Hero!" that he feels the same thing Hero does. He
feels that the Hero he unjustly slandered and violated has been reborn anew, fresh, and
undefiled. Hero expresses this sentiment best when she says, "One Hero died defiled; but
I do live, / And surely as I live, I am a maid" (V.iv.65-66).

Hence,
we know that due to his profound sense of grief and repentance, when Hero is unveiled
before Claudio, he feels a profound sense of joy and relief. We also know he feels that
she has been born anew, undefiled, and pure, just as Hero declares herself to
be.

Compare and contrast Dudley Randall's poem "The Ballad of Birmingham" to “Sir Patrick Spens” in terms of structure and subject matter.

Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” can be compared
and contrasted to the traditional popular ballad “Sir Patrick Spens” in a number of
ways, particularly with regard to structure and themes.  Relevant comparisons and
contrasts include the
following:

• CONTRAST:
  “Sir Patrick Spens” is a longer poem, consisting of eleven stanzas rather
  than eight.


• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST:
  Both poems feature four-line stanzas that rhyme, but whereas the “Spens”
  stanzas rhyme a/b/a/b, the stanzas in Randall’s poem rhyme a/b/c/b. The “Spens” lines
  alternate in length by the number of syllables as follows: 8/6/8/6.  The number of
  syllables per line in the first three stanzas of Randall’s poem are less regularly
  predictable: 8/6/8/7, 8/7/8/7, 8/8/8/6.
  


• COMPARISON: Both poems
  feature dialogue, particularly in their first two stanzas. In the first stanza someone
  asks a question, and in the second stanza someone answers that question. Both poems
  feature narrators who comment on the events the poems
  depict.


• CONTRAST: The
  speaking characters in “Spens” are males; the speaking characters in Randall’s poem are
  females.  There are two speakers in Randall’s poem, but there are four in “Spens.”
  


• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST:
  Both poems deal with the deaths of various persons, but whereas the
  deaths in “Spens” are anticipated by some of the characters, the deaths in Randall’s
  poem are not. The dead persons in “Spens” are adults who die after deciding to obey the
  king’s orders; the dead persons in the Randall poem are children who make no choice to
  put themselves in an obviously dangerous
  situation.


• COMPARISON: Both
  poems feature references to the combs:

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O, lang, lang may the ladies
stand,

Wi’ their gold kembs [combs] in their hair . . .
(“Spens,”
37-38)

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She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,

And bathed rose petal sweet . . . (Randall,
17-18)

• COMPARISON:
  Both poems deal with tragic
  outcomes.

Explain this quote from "My Last Duchess".She rode with round the terrace all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at...

The biggest puzzle in Browning's poem is: Why did the Duke
have his wife murdered. He talks and talks about her and shows his visitor a portrait of
her which the Duke himself declares to be "a wonder," and yet he had her killed without
even trying to tell her what it was he objected to about her behavior or personality.
The Duke acknowledges that he lacks skill in expresssing himself. He says, "Even had you
skill in speech which I have not..." Therefore his entire explanation of what he
objected to in his wife's behavior is difficult to understand. He did not complain to
his wife about her democratic and friendly manners for several different reasons. He
couldn't express himself. He felt she might fail to understand him if he did managed to
express himself adequately. He was afraid she would argue with him, which was something
he couldn't tolerate. He was afraid she wouldn't change even if she did understand him.
And finally, he himself seems perfectly well aware that his fault-finding is unjust. She
is a better person than he is, by far, and he wants to be a better person than her or
than anybody. But there is nothing admirable about this man. He tries to be cordial, but
he is hopelessly arrogant. He thinks he is noble, but he is ignorant and vulgar, as
shown in the fact that he cannot even express his thoughts clearly. He thinks of himself
as a connoisseur of art, but all he knows is how much things cost and the impression
they make on other people. He had a beautiful young wife who was nearly perfect in every
respect, and he could not understand or appreciate her--although everybody else loved
and admired her. She was getting the attention and adulation he wanted for
himself.

What is unique about "My Last Duchess" is that it
is a long explanation which explains nothing but succeeds in exposiing the wicked,
vulgar nature of the man offering the explanation.

Solve the following by elimination method: 2x 3x

(1) 2x-3y=5
(2)
3x-(2y-3)/5=4

Simplify (2)
(5)3x - (5)(2y-3)/5 =
4(5)
15x - 2y + 3 = 20
(3) 15x - 2y =
17

2x - 3y = 5 multiply by -2 to get -4x + 6y = -10  
(4)
15x - 2y = 23 multiply by 3 to get 45x - 6y = 51  
(5)

Now add (4) and (5) to
get

41x = 41  and solving for x we
get

x = 1

To find y we
substitute x = 1 into (1) and solve for
y
2(1)-3y=5

3y = 2 - 5
3y =
-3
y = -1

Check the answers in the 2nd
equation
3x-(2y-3)/5=4
3(1) - (2(-1)-3)/5 = 4
3 - (-5)/5 =
4
3 - (-1) = 4
4 = 4  Checks...

So our
answer is (1, -1)

How is the Forge depicted and what does it reaveal about Joe?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Forge, the blacksmith shop in which Joe works, is
depicted as a manly, warm, and open-hearted place from which much light and love is
emitted.  It is indeed where Joe belongs with his leather apron on him and his sleeves
rolled up.  Adjoining the house, the forge is Joe's particular realm; for the child Pip
it feels more like home than the house.

When Joe comes to
visit Pip in London wearing his suit with hat, Joe is extremely awkward, not knowing
where to put his hat that continually falls from the mantle shelf.  As he takes his
leave of the new gentleman Pip, Joe apologizes and tells Pip that he will not come again
to London. 

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"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so
many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blackmith, and one's a
whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith.  Diwision among such must
come, and must be met as they come.  If there's been any fault at all today, it's mine. 
You and me is not two figures to be together in London...It ain't that I am proud, but
that I want to be right, ...I'm wrong in these clothes.  I'm wrong out of the forge, the
kitchen, or off th' meshes.  You won't find half so much fault in me if you think of me
in my forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my
pipe...."

Throughout
Great Expectations, Joe is a steady and permanent fixture much like
the forge. When Pip returns for his sister's funeral, he
comments, 

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after the funeral Joe changed his clothes so far,
as to make a compromise between his Sunday dress and working dress: in which the dear
fellow looked natural, and like the Man he
was.

The light of love
emanates from Joe's heart just as light shines from the forge.  Whenever Pip does come
to the forge, he is welcomed back into Joe's heart each time. Like the light of the
forge, Joe is a beacon in Pip's life, offering him the saving help he needs after his
boyish sins as well as after his burning from saving Miss Havisham.  There is a
permanence to the forge and to Joe, the blacksmith.

Discuss economic conditions of reality in Treasure Island.

The most basic economic condition present lies in the
almost cliched notion of "search for buried treasure."  This simplistic idea reveals
much in way of economics.  The first economic condition revealed is a capitalist notion
of the good.  There is money or treasure to be made or found, and a few privatized
individuals are all that are needed to find it.  Along these lines, the search for
treasure, the coveting of wealth, is an individualistic and self- interested process. 
Hawkins, Livesey, and Trelawney do not seek to appropriate the treasure for social
means.  They do not commence their jouney for the desire of a collective redistribution
of wealth. The coveting and seeking of money or profit is an individualistic quest with
an individualistic end.  The idea of something being "stolen" is also a self-
interested, capitalist concept.  The fact that there is treasure protected by some,
denied to others, and forcefully taken by others are all reflections of a capitalist
configuration whereby wealth is the primary means of communication and conflict. 
Pirates and sailors do battle in Stevenson's work for wealth and ownership of the means
of production, in this case wealth and treasure.  Finally, the fact that "buried
treasure" holds so much importance for everyone in the novel reflects an economic
condition whereby money and profit seem to control the wills and minds of individuals. 
It is evident that the characters in the story seem to not mind being controlled by
money, treasure, and riches.  In fact, they seem to enjoy it.  Here, there is a major
economic condition being identified whereby people are at the whim of "things" and the
appropriation of "things" controls how individuals perceive themselves, others, and
their own sense of reality.  These are the basic economic conditions of reality in
Stevenson's work.

How is Pearl compared to the babbling brook in The Scarlet Letter?

The chapter you want to refer to in order to answer this
question is Chapter Sixteen, which describes a walk that Hester and her daughter take
into the forest, and how they sit next to the babbling brook. It is important to realise
that while the text asserts a comparison between Pearl and the brook, it also points out
that there are a number of differences between them as to behavior as shown in the
following paragraph:

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Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the
current of her life gushed from a wellspring as mysterious, and had flowed through
scenes shadowed as heavily with gloom. But, unlike the little stream, she danced and
sparkled, and prattled airily along her
course.

Thus we can see that
the brook and Pearl are compared in the way that they both come from obscure origins and
have seen much "gloom" and darkness in their lives. However, the central difference
between them is that Pearl is not overshadowed by this darkness, and is able to "dance
and sparkle," in contrast to the sombre brook that Pearl finds to be "foolish and
tiresome" because of its sadness.

During the battle of Midway, the US sent 3 torpedo squadrons to attack the Japanese fleet. Almost all were lost. Was this a planned suicide...

I would argue that this was not a planned suicide attack. 
Instead, it was an attack that the US launched using some of the very few weapons that
the US possessed.

In 1942, the US had not yet managed to
seriously upgrade its weaponry or to train a large group of highly qualified pilots. 
The US was not nearly as ready for a war as Japan had been.  Because of this, the US was
forced into fighting in relatively disadvantageous circumstances.  The Devastators that
these pilots flew were no match for the Japanese aircraft and there were not enough
fighters to provide cover.  Many of the fighters available to the US at Midway were
Brewster Buffalos which were terrible overmatched by the Japanese planes as
well.

So, the attack was not a planned suicide attack.  It
was a desperate attempt to hold the Japanese off using what weaponry was available to
the US at the time.

In "The Black Cat," what is the narrator's inner struggle?

If we look carefully at the story, we can see that the
inner struggle that the narrator faces is thanks to his increasing addiction to alcohol
and the way that it tempts him to engage in acts of violence. Note how the
transformation of his character from a happy, pet-loving man to a viscious murder is
initiated. Talking of his friendship with the black cat, Pluto, the narrator
says:

Our
friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general
temperament and character--through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance--had (I
blush to confess it) experienced a radical alternation for the worse. I grew, day by
day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered
myself to use intemperate langauge to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal
violence. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my
disposition.

Thus the inner
conflict that the man faces is a result of his alcoholism and the impact that this has
on his own character, and the deep feelings of guilt that arise at his irrational
behaviour that he shows he is increasingly unable to control.

Solve and check the solution for 4(2x-3)=3(2x+6)

4 ( 2x - 3 ) = 3 ( 2x + 6
)

First, distribute the 4 and the
3

By distributing, you should
get

8x - 12 = 6x + 18 now add
12 on both sides

By adding, you should
get

8x = 6x + 30 now subtract
6x on both sides

By subtracting, you should
get

2x = 30 now divide 2 on
both sides

By dividing, you should
get

x = 15 which is your
answer

CHECKING YOUR
WORK

4 ( 2 X 15 - 3 ) = 3 ( 2 X 15 + 6
)

4 ( 30 - 3 ) = 3 ( 30 + 6
)

4 ( 27 ) = 3 ( 36 )

108 =
108

so x = 15 is your
answer

How how does "The Tell-Tale Heart" prove, beyond a 'no duh' statement, the theme?Try it with the theme being guilt.

The actions portrayed by the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's
"The Tell-Tale Heart" seem to prove two of the main themes of the story--those of guilt
and insanity. Although the narrator tries to convince the reader throughout that he is
quite sane, his actions tell a different story. From the very first lines, we know that
there is something wrong with him.

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TRUE!—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I
had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard
all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I
mad?

Certainly not the words
of a sane man, the narrator's later discussion about the man he would later murder--his
love of the old man and his "vulture-eye"--further prove that his motivations are
foundless.

The theme of guilt is addressed primarily by the
resulting beating heart that the narrator hears long after the old man has been killed.
To the madman, it is an audible sound, though it cannot be heard by the policeman in the
same room. The narrator's guilt also reflects the "doppelganger" effect, in which the
old man functions as the narrator's double or foil. Assuming the old man is the
narrator's doppelganger,

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"... he kills the old man because he cannot stand
himself, perhaps fearing becoming old or disfigured like
him."

I need advice with good/creative ideas on how to create an animal cell in power point. Is there any site with templates, because I need to add 10...

I think one creative thing that you could do is overlay
the various animal cells over the part of the animal's body where the cell would be
found.

For example, take an image of an animal muscle cell
and place it over the muscle structure of a gorilla or lion. Adding to this, you could
address the difference between procaryotic and eucaryotic cells.

As for PowerPoint templates related to animals, a good
site to check is tagged below.

This
site offers great scientific centered templates.

Given that
there are multiple images of animal cells on the Internet, you would not need to create
an actual image for your presentation. Instead, copy an image from the web and be
creative with placement and presentation (like exampled above).

What is an ode?

An ode is one of poetry's
formal types, or forms, and is a kind of a broader form of poetry called
lyric poem. A lyric poem is often rhymed, but need not be,
and expresses the feelings and emotions of the poet. It is the emotive characteristic of
lyric poems that make them so appealing. Odes have their own formal requirements, or
requirements of form. The Pindaric and
Horatian odes have three parts, the
strophe,
antistrophe, and
epode, while the
Irregular ode may have some or all of the traditional
elements while being longer.

In the opening stanza of the ode, the
strophe, there is a complex scheme of rhythmic meter and
rhyme. The second stanza, the antistrophe, mirrors the
scheme of the first, and the third, the epode, has a
different metrical scheme structure altogether. An ode speaks in a lofty manner to an
event, object, or person that is absent, thus not present with the poetic speaker. This
can be illustrated by Wordsworth's long-titled ode to an event, "Ode on Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." It may also be illustrated by
Keats's ode to an object, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." It is further illustrated by Robert
Lowell's long Irregular ode to sailors, "The Quaker Graveyard in
Nantucket."

Describe Hitler's opinion on the Master Race and Racial Purity.

Anti-semitism had existed in Germany long before Hitler's
birth; and many Jewish soldiers served proudly in World War I; in fact when laws
restricting the civil rights of Jews were passed, Jewish veterans were originally
excepted. People of Aryan descent had for centuries considered themselves superior to
others for reasons dating back to their times as nomads on the Eurasian steppes. Hitler
simply codified and exemplified an attitude that was already present, so much so that
many Germans considered it a true revolution.

A common
theory at the time was Eugenics, that human beings could be perfected by selective
breeding, and that certain races and cultures were superior to others. For that reason,
Hitler's master race not only excluded those who were not Aryan, but also those who were
feeble minded, autistic, epileptic, even suffered from severe alcoholism. These latter
groups were selected for forced sterilization to prevent their
reproduction.

Conversely, Hitler encouraged persons of true
Aryan descent to have many children. He is shown in many photographs with small
children, displaying a proud, almost grandfatherly affection toward them. Of course the
children were all blue eyed blondes.

An excellent book on
the subject is R.G.L. Waite's The Psychopathic God, the Mind of Adolf Hitler.

The previous post discusses Hitler's blame of
Jews and Jewish bankers for Germany's humiliation in World War I; it does not address
the issue of his creation of a Master Race.

What is Puritanism?

Puritanism was a set of religious beliefs that sprang up
in England in the years after the Protestant Reformation and the creation of the Church
of England.  The Puritans were given this name because they wished to "purify" the
Church of England, purging it of all vestiges of Roman Catholicism.  They believed that
the Catholic Church was too hierarchical and relied too much on
ceremony.

Puritan beliefs were basically Calvinistic.  They
believed in predestination and in salvation solely through the grace of God.  They
believed that there was nothing any person could do to deserve
salvation.

Puritans also believed in a close connection
between religious and secular matters.  They believed that God had made a covenant with
them that required them to exhibit correct behaviors so as to prevent God from punishing
their society.  This meant that they used secular government to enforce church
teachings.

What is the last digit of 3^52?Explain several different ways this could've been done.

What is the last digit of
3^52?

(1) By far the simplest method: note the
following;

`3^0=1,3^1=3,3^2=9,3^3=27,3^4=81,3^5=243,3^6=729`

It
appears as though the last digit is following a pattern:1,3,9,7,1,3,9,... as indeed it
is. So every 4th power of 3 starting at 0 ends in a 1, so `3^52=(3^13)^4` ends in
1.

** This could be proved by induction if
needed**

(2) Consider that `3^52=(3^13)^4` . Now a typical
scientific calculator can evaluate `3^13` as 1594323. Now look at `(1594320+3)^4` . We
can use the binomial expansion theorem to
evaluate:

`(1594320+3)^4=`

`1594320^4+4(1594320)^3(3)+6(1594320)^2(9)+4(1594320)(27)+81`

Note
that each power of 1594320 ends in 0, so only the 81 contributes to the last
digit.

(3) `3^52=3^10*3^10*3^10*3^10*3^10*3^2` Again, a
typical scientific calculator can evaluate `3^10=59049` . So this product can be
written

(59040+9)(59040+9)(59040+9)(59040+9)(59040+9)(0+9).
Again all terms end in 0 except the term formed by the 9's, and
`9^6=531441`

(4) Imagine taking the 5 5-digit numbers from
(3) and the 9 and multiplying by hand. The only thing that affects the one's digit is
the product of those 6 nines.

(5) Finally, use a computer
program like Mathematica.

The last digit is a
1.

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what is science ?branches of science

Science, according to dictionary.com is:

a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a
body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the">the operation of general
laws: the mathematical
sciences.

There are many brances of
science, and different organizations recognize different numbers (or branches) as being
legitimate sciences. Some of the most commonly recognized brances of science are:
Behavioral and Social Science, Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth
and Space Science, Enginerring, Enviornmental Science, Gerontology, Math, Medicine and
Health, Microbiology, Physics, and Zoology.
These are only general catagories,
however. Underneath all of these general brances of science are subcatagories: ie:
Underneath Medicine would be Pharmacology, etc.

In your opinion was Victor being irresponsible for abandoning his creation to fend for himself or was it a smart decision in Frankenstein?

In Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor
decides to abandon his creation and allow it to fend for itself. While there is surely
opposing views on this, one could justify that he was ultimately wrong in his
decision.

Perhaps if Victor would have taken responsibility
for his creature, nurtured it, and taught it, the outcome of the story would have been
very different (but then we would not have the classic many know and love today). All
the creature wanted was to be loved and accepted by someone. The fact that his "father"
abandoned him was heartbreaking enough, but, to add insult to injury, the creature was
abandoned by society as well.

Therefore, if Victor would
have taken responsibility for his creation and loved it, the creature would not have had
the soul shattering experiences which caused him to seek out Victor and murder all whom
he loved.

What is the plot line for Little Women?

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Little Women is
about the lives of four sisters and the friends that surround them. Each sister has her
own personal struggles to overcome and each must find her own path through life. In the
beginning of the story, the girls father is away with the soldiers during the war and
the girls must work to help the family survive without him. Joe works for Aunt March as
her companion. Meg works for the Kings as a governess. Beth is too young to work but she
helps Hannah tend the house while Marmee is out helping the less fortunate. Amy, the
youngest, attends a school for girls. Eventually, Amy leaves the school because the
teacher uses corporal punishment against her in the classroom. She then takes us Joe's
position as Aunt March's companion. She even accompanies Aunt March to Europe for an
extended trip abroad. There, she runs into Laurie, the boy who lives next door that Joe
has already turned down a marriage proposal from. Joe goes to Concord to work in a
boarding house and try her hand as a writer. She returns home to find Beth gravely ill
and her sister Meg, who was the first to marry, pregnant. After the death of Beth and
birth of Meg and John's twins, Amy and Laurie return from Europe to announce their
marriage. The story ends with the engagement of Joe to Professor Bear, a man who
befriended her at the boarding house.

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What are some quotes from Antigone that represent the theme Man VS Woman (women's role in society)?

I like the opening scene's exchange between Antigone and
Ismene for quotes on the conflict between men and women.  Antigone represents the force
for social change in her arguments that men's laws, when unjust, should be challenged. 
Ismene is more representative of the traditional view whereby there should not be
challenges of men's laws because she and her sister are women, and are not the in the
position to wage such challenge.  It is here where I think some very meaningful quotes
about individual power based on gender can be found.  Ismene's articulation of the
traditional notion of gender can be seen here:

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And now the two of us, left all
alone—
think how very horribly we will die
if we go against the
king's decree and strength(60)
outside the law. Rather, consider that
we
were born women, proving we should not fight with men,
and that
we are ruled by more powerful people
and must obey them, even in more painful
things.

Notice the
language Ismene employs to convey both her predicament as a sister and women.  "Left all
alone," "horribly" in describing the manner of death are both representative of how the
traditional view of women are held in Greek society.  Additionally, the idea that being
"born" women is somehow a second rate condition is matched with men being "more powerful
people."  Antigone's response is fairly interesting in this
light:

But let
me and my foolish plans suffer(95)
this terrible thing, for I shall
succumb
to nothing so awful as a shameful
death.

In Antigone's mind,
being a woman is not the issue. The fundamental issue is believing in a cause, in
"foolish plans."  Her entire line of response to Ismene is the belief in something more
transcendental than the contingent condition of men vs. women.  Antigone does not spend
time in arguing the merits of female empowerment.  Rather, she seems to transcend gender
and embrace the idea that every human being commits themselves to something, someone,
some idea.  When Antigone tells Ismene to not "worry for me; straighten out your own
life," it is telling.  Such a line reveals that Antigone's fundamental argument is that
one neednt be locked in gender specified roles if they passionately hold beliefs in what
they see as right and just.  It is here where Antigone becomes more than a feminist, and
embraces the idea that contingency and condition does not define human beings,
regardless of gender.

What are the heavy boots Oskar refers to a symbol of in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?

Oskar is such a wonderful character, and it is because of
his ability to capture a truth of life or an emotion with a childish metaphor that, in
actuality, is richer and more original than the things most adults would come up with.
 He mentions his "heavy boots" in an almost off-handed way very early in the novel and
the reader is a bit perplexed, but his metaphor becomes clear as the novel progresses.
 The heavy boots are any and all of the facts of his life that weigh him down.  If you
think of boots as a metaphor then you think of the following:  boots protect your feet,
boots allow you to move around in rough terrain, boots are more substantial than other
footwear.  But, if your boots are heavy, then your protection is perhaps "too much" or
burdensome and your movement and forward momentum is potentially impeded by the weight
of them. The list of events and facts that make Oskar's life-journey burdensome come
from many things: most notably the death of his father in the 9-11 attacks, but also the
hardships of his search for the lock that matches the key he found, his mother's new
relationship, his disconnection from classmates, his carrying the burden of having heard
his father's last messages on the answering machine, etc.  Oskar is bothered by the fact
that the family buried an empty casket.  Oskar is troubled by some of the circumstances
of the people he meets -- especially the "boarder" who lives with his grandmother and
lonely Mr. Black who lives upstairs.

Oskar is an
incredibily sensitive little man who is over-burdened by the harsh realities of life,
and therefore, must learn to either take off the heavy boots, adapt to the heavy boots,
or lighten the emotional load he carries.  By the end of the novel, there seems to be
some hope that his boots will be a little lighter:  he solves the mystery of the key and
better understands the people around him.

In his soliloquy in Act II, Scene 2, “O what a rogue and peasant slave am I”, what are Hamlet's specific accusations about himself?William...

In Act Two, Scene Two, Hamlet specifically questions
himself:

Am I
a coward?
Who calls me
villain?

When he asks who
calls him villain, he is saying none call me villain, meaning none think of him as
dangerous. Hamlet is critical of himself in that he confesses that he feels like a
coward.

Hamlet is using ridicule in calling himself "most
brave." He is using sarcasm, meaning that he is not brave at
all:

Why,
what an ass I am! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father
murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a
whore, release the content of my heart with
words, and fall down cursing like
a very drab...

Clearly,
Hamlet insults himself because he is ferocious only in words, but not in deed. He can
talk a good deal, but, in actions, he is a coward. These are his own critical comments
about himself.

Truly, Hamlet criticizes himself for not
being able to act on his feelings. He claims to be in a dream-like state. He even states
that he cannot stand up for his cause. Indeed, he admits that he is not fully passionate
enough for his cause, which is to avenge his beloved father's
death:

A dull
and muddy-spirited rascal, shrink,
Like a dreamy fellow, not full of my
cause,
And can’t say anything, no, not for a king
On whose kingdom
and most dear life
Were all brought to
nothing.

He confesses that he
is no better than a "menial servant in the kitchen!" He does not act like a son, a
prince. He is no more than a "rogue and peasant slave." He feels like a worthless,
shiftless, coward. Hamlet is not his father's royal son. He considers himself a servant
in his father's house because he has not stood up to his Uncle Claudius who murdered his
regal father.

How is the idea of naturalism depicted in A Streetcar Named Desire?Tennessee Williams

Naturalism, an outgrowth of literary realism, is a
literary movement that replicates  everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as
Romanticism or Surrealism, in which symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment
is given to literary subjects.  Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life,
including poverty, racism, sex, violence, prejudice, disease, corruption, prostitution,
and filth.  Certainly, Tennesse Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
portrays life in a naturalistic manner. 

Despite
her pretenses of gentility, Blanche DuBois admitedly has ridden that streetcar named
Desire in life.  In Scene Nine, she admits to the Mexican woman selling flowers that she
anwered the calls of the drunken soldiers from the training camp who staggered into her
lawn at Belle Reve.  While with her sister, Blanche disguises her penchant for sexual
interludes, but the earthy and animalistic Stanley sees through her guise.  Finally, in
the end Blanche's psychoses are exposed, and Stanley, in his naturalistic desire for
survival as the dominant male, cooerces Stella into agreeing to have Blanche committed
to an asylum.

Certainly, if there were ever
a quintessentially naturalistic character, Stanley Kowalski is he.  He constantly speaks
of being king of his castle; he reminds Stella that he brought her down from the "big
columns" of her plantation home and she "loved it."  When Blanche flirts with him, he
tells her ''If I didn't know that you was my wife's sister I'd get ideas about you."  
However, Stanley mainly enjoys the dominance and power he holds over Blanche because he
actually depises her.  Animalistic, vulgar, and violent, the strong Stanley is no match
for the mentally weak Blanche or Stella the physically weaker of the married
couple. 

What is an essay topic "GOD IS ONE; PATHS ARE DIFFERENT" ?

You might want to ask your instructor if you could argue
against the "God is one" part of the topic. There are religions that would not agree
with that statement. You could use your essay to discuss Hinduism with its multitude of
gods and goddesses that are different manifestations of the divine, among other
polytheistic faiths.

Alternatively, you could focus your
essay on the "paths are different" part of your quote. Take your pick of religious
faiths from around the world and compare the beliefs regarding God and how to achieve a
close relationship with God in each of those faiths. The three most recognizable faiths
built on the belief that "God is one" are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - you will
find many commonalities among the three, but there will be
differences.

If a person is on probation and violates that probation, how much jail time is usually given as a punishment?

First, I have to say that I am not a lawyer. Regardless of
that, I think I can give you a fairly accurate answer to your
question.

That answer is: it depends.  There are lots of
variables.

If a person is on probation already, it is
because they have done something wrong in the eyes of the law.  They may have already
spent time in jail, or maybe not, but probation is basically saying "keep your nose
clean in the future or we'll be seeing you again."   So the first variable is how
serious an offence a person was put on probation for in the first place.  The nastier it
is, the nastier the punishment for violating
probation.

Secondly, the nature of the violation that
"breaks" parole comes into play.  If an individual violates parole in a way that is
related to the original offence the punishment will often be more severe.  For example,
a person who is on probation for fighting who gets into another fight is worse off than
someone who violates probation in some non-violent
way.

Third, the nature of the individual as gauged by the
authorities.  What are the reasons for the violation; how repentant is the individual;
how honest were they when confronted?

Much rests on the
judgement of the probation officer.  That individual may choose a course of action
ranging from a warning to a probation hearing.  Again, it depends a lot on other
factors.  The hearing may not result in jail time, depending.  It is possible to receive
extended probation time, additional probation conditions, monetary fines, community
service, or a brief stint in jail.  In some cases probation can be cancelled and a
person sent to jail to serve out a previous sentence.

In
short, people are put on probation as a way to avoid having to lock them up for doing
something they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.  If a person violates that
probation, it is calling into question the judgement of the individuals that allowed the
person to remain "free" in the first place.  It generally shows a lack of judgment and
as well as a lack of remorse, and our justice system gives big black strikes to
both.

How is there a lack of communication between the daughters and mothers in The Joy Luck Club?

Clearly the lack of communication between the daughters
and mothers in this excellent novel is based upon the culture clash that occurs between
them. The second generation immigrants, the daughters who are born in America, are
profoundly ambivalent about their Chinese heritage and background that means so much to
their mothers. In a sense, they want their Chinese background to be a private part of
their lives that remains at home, as is testified by their embarrassment when their
mothers speak in broken English.

Of course, the mothers
look upon this from a very different perspective and fight to maintain the value of
Chinese tradition in both their lives and in the lives of their daughters. The mothers
want their daughters to flourish in their new home of America, but also to remember
their origins and develop a distinct Chinese-American
character.

It is this clash in perspective based on culture
that leads to the lack of communication between the daughters and mothers, as both
struggle to see the perspective of the other group. The daughters feel that their
mothers are incapable of understanding what life is like for them, resulting in broken
communication and damaged relationships. You can look at any one of the mother-daughter
relationships to see this, but perhaps when Waverly insults her mother about the pride
she takes in her daughter's chess success would be a good example to look
at.

In what way and to what purpose were reports of the events of April 19th manipulated for public consumption, especially as related in David Hackett...

In David Hackett Fischer's book, Paul Revere's
Ride, April 19th refers to the Battles at Lexington and Concord. The
"skirmish" at Lexington was the most controversial because it is considered by many to
have started the Revolutionary War. The manipulation of the events of this confrontation
would serve to describe one side as the antagonist and the other as a group of innocent
victims.

When the colonials gathered at Lexington, it was
clear that they were outnumbered. The leader of the militiamen was Captain John Parker.
Because he was ill, his voice could not be heard clearly, so there was some confusion
among his men when he gave orders during the confrontation with the regulars. The
regulars (the Redcoats) were careful not to do anything that might be misconstrued as an
act of aggression.

At Lexington, there were only about 80
militiamen (though one member of the regular forces reported 200-300). The British army
was made up of much larger numbers. Parker instructed his men not
to start anything with the Regular Troops unless they "molested" the colonial soldiers.
When the regulars attacked quite suddenly, Parker reported that he tried to warn his
men...

...to
disperse and not fire:—Immediately said Troops made their appearance and rushed
furiously, fired upon, and killed eight of our Party without receiving any Provocation
therefor from us.

The
colonists were already resentful of King George's treatment of "his colonial subjects"
and equally so because of the presence of His Majesty's military forces. The detriment
the regulars suffered in being to blame for this unnecessary attack simply intensified
the hatred the British colonials had for the King and his
soldiers.

From the British leader, either Pitcairn or
William Sutherland, an order may have been given
to...

...lay
down your arms, you damned
rebels!

Parker
did order his men to disperse and go home, but in the
confusion—with Parker's poor voice—his orders were not clearly heard by
all—none of his men laid down the guns. While Parker and Pitcairn
both gave the order to "hold your fire," someone (no one knows for
sure) did fire. One of Parker's militia reported that no one in
their ranks had fired. Witnesses standing with the regulars reported a shot from a
colonial "onlooker." Others reported the shot came from "a mounted British officer."
However, both sides agreed that the shot did not come from the forces that were facing
each other on the ground at the Lexington green.

Blaming
the British discredited them, impugning the "sense of honor" they insisted that they
followed in all things. Blaming the colonists really did not cause
them much worry: the British monarchy and soldiers already believed
the New Englanders to be a collection of stubborn, disorganized and weak "rabble"
(troublemakers). Their staunch resistance was a credit to all of
them, especially in that the English military was unprepared and was forced to contend
with these amazing men upon reaching Concord.

In sympathy
with their fellow colonials, placing the blame for "the shot heard round the world"
encouraged other colonists to join the forces fighting against the Crown. This would
have further united them and galvanized them into immediate action to protect their
homes, families and possessions (farm lands, supplies, money, etc.). Manipulation of
this news (by word-of-mouth or publication) would have inspired further support of the
colonials and less cooperation with the King's representatives.