What are some reasons that satire became popular in the age of John Dryden and Alexander Pope?

Satire, it can be argued, became an especially popular
genre in English poetry during the age of John Dryden and Alexander Pope for a number of
reasons.  Among those reasons are the
following:

• The growth of political partisanship,
  especially developing tensions between “Whigs” and “Tories.” A hundred years earlier,
  during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, factions had existed at the royal court, but the
  rise of formal political factions or “parties” as such was still in the future.  Satire
  was a means by which political factions in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
  centuries could express their opposition to one
  another.


• The growth of religious divisions, particularly
  between Protestants and Catholics and within Protestantism.  Again, satire was a kind of
  writing especially appropriate to the expression of religious
  conflict.


• The rise of rationalism (an emphasis on
  “Reason”), which was now increasingly seen as an alternative to religion and which soon
  had its own advocates and detractors.


• The rise of
  professional writers – authors who earned their livings by writing poetry, often of a
  satirical kind. Satire was lively, controversial, and topical and thus had plenty of
  readers.  The “market” for satire during this period was a healthy
  one.


• The rise of the power of parliament and of the
  middle classes.  Whereas under Queen Elizabeth the monarch and the aristocracy were the
  most powerful persons in the land, after 1660 power became more dispersed, conflicts
  among the powerful became more open, and the need to win allies and attack enemies by
  using the popular press had become more urgent.


• The
  controversies associated with the Civil War had schooled many English writers in the
  arts of satirical prose, especially in the form of satirical pamphlets. During the age
  of Dryden and Pope, writers of satire were often poets influenced by classical Roman
  satirists, especially the poet Horace.


• A growing sense
  that the purpose of literature was to be explicitly didactic (that is, to teach lessons,
  especially moral lessons). Satire is a genre that lends itself to explicit instruction
  and persuasion.

In Romeo and Juliet, describe Juliet's relationship with her family in Act 1.

The only real evidence that we can look at to answer this
question in Act I is actually in Act I scene 3, which is of course the famous scene when
Lady Capulet and the Nurse talk with Juliet about marrying Paris. The fact that Lord
Capulet is absent from this conversation seems to be significant of the way that he
views his daughter. She is a possession to be bestowed onto whom he pleases, and for his
benefit. Her own feelings are immaterial.

If we consider
Lady Capulet, however, it appears that her affections for Juliet are contrasted with the
Nurse's. It is the Nurse that loves her charge, even though she shows this love and care
in amusing ways. The words of Lady Capulet are rather stilted and formal with her
daughter. Again, no option is given to Juliet by her mother. She quickly tells her that
Paris wants to marry her, only then urging her to be aware of his "valiant" status and
then to be pleased when she sees him that evening at the ball. It is clearly assumed
that she will accede to her parents' wishes. Note how this is
implied:

readability="16">

Well, think of marriage now. Younger than
you,

Here in Verona, ladies of
esteem,

Are made already mothers. By my
count,

I was your mother much upon these
years

That you are now a
maid.

Depending on the
director, these lines could be delivered in a rather impatient, exasperated voice. Lady
Capulet was married before Juliet's age, so she needs to accept that she will be
married, regardless of her feelings or not. This points to a rather cold relationship
with her mother, suggesting that Juliet is distant from both of her
parents.

Montag encounters Shakespeare's works, the poem "Dover Beach", and the bible. What is the significance of each of these texts?

These texts are all central to the message of this book.
The texts that the author chose to allude to had to be very specifically chosen because
this is a book about censorship.

Shakespeare
is often regarded as a master of the human experience. Few authors have
captured the best and worst of man like Shakespeare. He reveals the truth of man in
emotion, vindication, sin, deception, and love. He demonstrates the power of influence
and relationships like no other. He models man's ability to persuade each other. His
characters struggle through the thought processes of life. Readers love Shakespeare
because they can relate to what his characters experience. Fahrenheit
451 is all about robbing society of the opportunity to experience Shakespeare
or other authors.

"Dover Beach"
puts the beauty of landscape to words. Likewise, the speaker expresses
conditions of faith and love. These are each deep experiences of the human soul which
require great thought and emotion. Humans relate to the poem because it is an expression
of the struggle with religion (at the time, people were leaving the church in droves in
England). Additionally, the speaker wants to express love in word and deed. Keeping with
the natural scene, the speaker wishes to experience the greatest features of a love
relationship right then and there. In the society of Fahrenheit
451, these possible expressions and experiences are not only lost, but they
feel immoral.

The Bible is
representative of faith and morality. The God of the bible positions believers to follow
Him based on their free will. The bible seeks to encourage fairness and forgiveness.
None of these are acceptable in the society of Fahrenheit 451. The
bible's book of Ecclesiates becomes Montag's memory. The 3rd chapter expresses all of
the "times". There is a time to mourn, and a time to dance. There is a time to weep, and
a time to rejoice. This seems to be particularly relevant to Montag because he is
undergoing a transformation by the end of the story. There was a time for the life of
blindness that he once led, and now there is a time for renewal and awareness. The end
of the book also refers to the city of Zion which is heaven that the men in Montag's
group may be travelling towards.

What is the relationship between the characters in Act One of An Inspector Calls?

This excellent play focuses on one family and its various
members. The Birling family are all introduced in the first act as the curtain opens. We
are told that the head of the family is Arthur Birling who is a manufacturer. His wife,
Sybil is a socialite and appears to be a rather "cold" woman. Then, they have two
children, Sheila, their beautiful daughter, and Eric, their shy son. Lastly, they have a
guest with them, who is Sheila's fiancé, Gerald Croft, who is the heir to a business
fortune. Although she is not precisely a member of the family, there is also the maid,
Edna, who is busying herself with clearing the table and laying out port and cigars as
the play begins. It is of course the way in which each of these individuals has been
involved in the downfall of Eva Smith that Goole exposes, forcing them, albeit briefly,
to take a look at themselves and their actions tothose less fortunate than
themselves.

In the following paragraph, what is the topic sentence and what are the supporting details?Foxes show many catlike features in their behaviors. For...

The topic sentence of a paragraph is typically found at
the start of the paragraph.  This is true here as well.  The topic sentence of this
paragraph is the first paragraph.  It makes the claim that foxes and cats are
similar.

In order to support this, the author gives us a
number of statements that tend to prove that foxes behave in ways similar to how cats
behave.  Essentially all of the other sentences in the paragraph support this idea.  You
can simply list the other ideas given in the paragraph.  Among these
are

• Both cats and foxes threaten in the same
  way.


• Many of their vocalizations are the
  same.


• They hunt in similar
  ways.

If you want, you can list the exact ways
in which these are true.  At that point, you will have identified the topic sentence and
the supporting facts.

Does the poem "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns support or negate that delight, unlike some emotions, increases when it is expressed?"A Red, Red...

'The Red, Red Rose' is a ballad, and though it is read as
a poem it is a  Scottish high-land ditty by origin, altered by Burns and meant to be
“played to tune” or sung. The poem is structured gradually from simple to overpowering
similes and metaphors moving the theme of love from a very simple visual satisfaction to
an eternal emotion that conquers time.

In the very first
stanza the poet expresses the delight or joy that he feels on first seeing his lady
love. He compares it to the joy a nature lover may feel at the sight of a blooming red
rose. In the very next two lines to conclude the stanza he says “Oh my luve is like the
melodie, /That's sweetly play'd in tune.” There is a suggestion here that his joy is
increased manifold when he speaks of his love and joy to his
lady.

There is a double meaning here, where the ‘sweetly
play’d in tune’ indicates the poem, which is also the expression of the poet’s emotion
of delight, as declared to the world.

In this very first
stanza Robert Burn supports that the emotion of delight increases when it is experessed.
Since with each passing stanza the feeling of love moves to a climax where it ultimately
is equal to challenge even the ravages of time, by the order of placement of expression
after sighting, the poet seems to indicate that on declaring of his joy/delight, the
feeling was further strengthened.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, comment upon freedoms being either expressed or denied.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH.  I don't
recall many specific examples of freedom of speech being denied, although Scout realizes
that, as a child, she is not always welcome to voice her opinion; an example is at the
missionary tea, when she holds her tongue while the "ladies" are making fun of her. Jem
also holds his tongue during his initial dealings with Mrs. Dubose--before he destroys
her camellias. Atticus obviously voices his opinion during his courtroom summation of
the Tom Robinson trial; and Miss Maudie always speaks what's on her mind, particularly
at the missionary circle tea.

FREEDOM OF
WORSHIP.  I don't believe anyone is denied to worship freely, unless you
count the fact that Maycomb's Negroes must go to their own church; blacks were not
allowed at the white churches. Mr. Radley is devoutly religious, but he rarely attends
church. Atticus attends the Methodist church, while Miss Maudie chooses to attend the
Baptist church.

FREEDOM FROM
WANT.  The Cunninghams are dirt poor, and Walter comes to school without
lunch. Bob Ewell spends all of his money on liquor, leaving his kids hungry and dirty.
Dill, on the other hand, gets plenty of gifts from his parents; however, he receives
little attention from them--the thing he wants
most.

FREEDOM FROM FEAR.  Many
of the Finch neighbors fear going out late at night because of the rumors of Boo
Radley's bloodthirsty nature. Atticus fears that Tom Robinson will be taken from the
jail and lynched. The Finch family fears Bob Ewell after he makes threats against
Atticus following the trial.

List the chemical composition of non-living things?

In order to answer your question, we need to turn it
around and look at the chemistry of living things, and then say that things that don't
match that definition are non-living.

Living things, on
Earth at least, are based on just a few elements, carbon being the most important.
Because each carbon atom can form four covalent (sharing) bonds, carbon is able to
create complex molecules. Theses molecules always have some hydrogen atoms in them as
well, and usually there's oxygen in them too. Those are the "big three", the commonest
life molecules. Then there are nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, chlorine, potassium,
sulfur, sodium, and magnesium; this list is in descending order of amount found in the
human body.

Non-living things can be composed of any
combination of elements, but will always lack the carbon-hydrogen-oxygen main
structure.

What is the relationship between father and son in Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair?"

It is a difficult relationship that exists between father
and son.  Okeke has faith in his son and believes in his son until he chooses a bride
that the father did not select.  This arouses an intense schism between both father and
son.  Nnaemeka does not seem angry at his father.  In fact, the opening of the story has
him speaking in hushed and scared tones to Nene about his impending marriage to her and
his father's reaction to it.  Okeke cannot comprehend the perceived insult of his son
choosing a bride on his own and wishes to have nothing to do with his son or his
marriage.  When Nnaemeka tries to reach out in letters, he is rebuked by the his father,
including a desecrated picture of Nene as a bride.  The relationship is restored only
through Nene's dignified stance of seeking reconciliation between father and
son.

Achebe brings out how the intense reverence of
tradition at all costs can impact the relationships in families.  This is certainly the
case between father and son, between Okeke and Nnaemeka.  One can presume that Okeke is
angry because his son has sought to break tradition of the Ibo, has gone against his
father's wishes.  This relationship is impacted through the upholding of tradition at
the cost of familial bonds.  It is for this reason that there is such an intense fear
that Okeke feels that his upholding of tradition will permanently impact the
relationship between father and son with his death.  This fear, almost an impending
sense of doom, is the closing image of the story, where a father seeks to run back to
the son he has abandoned.  This is a touching image for all who have experienced a sense
of abandonment in the hopes that the wrongs that have been perpetrated by family members
can be rectified without a permanent end being dictated.

What does Jack Merridew represent in Lord of the Flies? The 'little-uns'? Piggy and Ralph?

In Lord of the Flies, Jack represents the savagery or evil
in man. He loses his ability to remain civilized while he is stranded on the island. He
gives in to his innate savagery and becomes dehumanized. He becomes a wretched evil
person. He becomes blood thirsty and slaughters pigs unmercifully. He laughs and shakes
the blood from his hands after killing a sow. He laughs as Roger probes the sow's anus
with his spear. Jack laughs as Roger twists and puts all of his weight on the spear
while the sow screams in agony:

readability="8">

Jack begins to rub the blood on his hands onto
Maurice, and then they notice Roger withdraw his spear. They become hysterical because
he had pinned the sow by driving the spear through its anus. They reenact the slaughter
until they grow tired.

Then,
Jack hangs the sow's head on a stick to represent the Lord of the Flies. He becomes
cruel in his killing of the sow. Then he leads his mighty hunters into a hunting-dance
frenzy. During the dance frenzy, Simon comes crawling out of the woods and Jack and his
hunters jump on him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth. No doubt, Jack
represents the most evil nature a man can have--a complete lust for blood and the power
of the hunt:

readability="6">

He represents leadership by intimidation and
rebelliousness. By the end he is compared to an “ape” and called a
“savage.”

Ralph, Piggy and
the littluns represent innocence. They are the good that is found in mankind. They
despise Jack's and his blood thirsty hunters' actions. Ralph and Piggy try to keep order
on the island, but it is hopeless to change Jack and his hunters. In particular, Ralph
tries to get everyone to build shelters and a fire to quicken their
rescue:

readability="6">

[Ralph] is elected leader and initiates necessity
to build shelters and a fire. He represents leadership by common sense and governmental
authority.

Ralph and Piggy
represent sense and order in all the chaos created by Jack and his hunters. Piggy dies a
senseless death at the hand of Roger who is utterly cruel. By the end of the story,
Ralph is being hunted by Jack and his hunters. Ralph and his representation of good
versus evil is losing the battle. If the naval officer had not arrived when he did,
Ralph very well may have killed by Jack and his cruel hunters.

Why wont Nausicaa let Odysseus ride in her cart? It should be in Chapter 6. Please explain!

In Book 6 of Homer's The Odyssey,
Nausicaa, the daughter of King Alcinous of Phaeacia, is a maiden. She is unmarried and,
as all young princesses hope, she would like to find a suitable husband one day. She is
a proper young girl who adheres to the proper principles of the culture and land of
Phaeacia. It would not be fitting for a young maiden who is unmarried to be seen with a
strange man entering the city. It would start rumors and may ruin her chances for ever
marrying one day. She is so ready to be married and she's not willing to risk it.
Therefore, she meets Odysseus instead at her father's palace.

Does anyone know the different ethical problems in law enforcement including behaviors?Ethical problems in law enforcement always receive a...

Law enforcement officers receive training, screening,
counseling, and education on a myriad of subjects dealing with contact with the
public. Here are a few: (1)A regular officer, on beat, for instance, may encounter an
irate citizen who is verbally abusive to the officer. The officer is trained not to
respond in a similar fashion, rather he should attempt to defuse the situation with
reason and patience; (2) An officer investigating a case which may include the discovery
of drugs or lots of cash must rise above the tendency to abscond with any of it; he is
required to take possession of it and turn it over to the property or evidence room at
the stationhouse; (3) The use of deadly force is legal by law enforcement only if an
officer reasonably believes that his life or another person's life is in serious danger;
(4) Entering someone's house to search without a warrant in a non-emergency situation is
illegal.  In each of these instances, (and there are many, many more that officers face)
law enforcement agents know that there may be dire consequences. Taking a chance on the
wrong side of the issue is not just a matter dealing with legality; it is also a serious
matter of ethics.  

What do you think happened at the end of The Giver?What clues in the book led you to your answer?

I think Jonas safely travels out of the community and
finds other societies unlike the one depicted in The Giver. Jonas
demonstrates bravery throughout the novel, giving him the courage to escape. He also is
intelligent and appalled when he begins to understand what type of place in which he
lives. For example, he does not want to return home when he understands "release" means
putting someone to death. After watching his father release an infant, Jonas is
repulsed.

As for the community, it would have been thrown
into disarray. As the Giver noted, there was no one who could take over Jonas' job, and
clearly the Giver lacked the heart to transfer painful memories to someone else. His
reluctance probably stemmed from training his own daughter, who sought release as an
escape from the torture of bearing the community's memories. After the Giver lied and
told the community that Jonas had died, "Their attention would turn to the overwhelming
task of bearing the memories themselves. The Giver would help
them."

Expand each sentence below by adding words or phrases that modify the nouns. The questions listed below suggest details you can add.Sentence:...

This particular task involves the need for adjectives. 
The ability to describe a noun is the function of an adjective.  It is vitally important
for adjectives to present themselves prominently in writing for the ability of the
author to convey meaning and bring out richness in visualization rests with the ability
to describe what is happening.  For this, the adjective becomes important.  The sentence
of "Messages request information" can be modified and enhanced in a variety of ways. 
For example, "Urgent messages" can bring a feeling of tension, as if the need for
deliberate and vital messages is present.  Another idea could be "Zealous," to indicate
a feeling of intense emotion surrounding these messages.  If we wanted to play with the
"information," we can toss in the idea of "detailed" or "specific" information as
describing what kind of information is requested.  Thus, with adjectives, we can have
new sentences such as the following:

"Urgent messages
request detailed information."

"Zealous messages request
specific information."

A short review on the novel To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite

To Sir, With Love by E. R.
Braithwaite is a narrative less about race relations that it is about learning to
understand people.  Granted, some of the students see Mr. Braithwaite as a "darky";
however, he, too, brings his own prejudices to the classroom about the lower
socio-economic white children whom he teaches.  But, in the environment of openness at
Greenslade Secondary School, an environment in which communication is encouraged,
students and teach alike come to understand and love one
another.

To Sir With Love is also
about maturation and integrity.  The students of Greenslade leave as graduates with a
firm understanding of how important it is to be honest and to develop character in
themselves.  By having been treated as adults in Mr. Braithwaite's classroom, they have,
indeed, learned to think and act like adults.  Braithwaite's integrity and
dedication wins its battles.

What were the beginning and ending dates for the following civilizations? Indus River Valley, Tigris Euphrates River Valley, Yellow River Valley,...

The Indus River Valley
sustained a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 B.C.) that was located on the western
Indian subcontinent. The civilization's decline may have been due to extreme climate
changes and the elimination of portions of the Ghaggar Hakra river system. Situated in
Mesopotamia, the Tigris Euphrates River Valley is often
referred to as the "cradle of civilization." Beginning in the Bronze Age, it existed
from 3100 B.C. until the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. to the conquering Achaemenid
Empire. The "cradle of Chinese civilization," the Yellow
River (or Huang He or Hwang
Ho) Valley can trace its inhabitants to 2100
B.C. It is believed that the first examples of the ancient Egyptian civilization was
established along the Nile River Valley as early as 3150
B.C.

Discuss 2 ways that colonialism transformed local economies.

The first way that colonialism transformed local economies
was often to move them from subsistence economies to economies that produced staple
crops or that produced other things.  For example, an economy in which most people
farmed for themselves might change to one in which many people were working on
plantations growing things like bananas or in mines. 

A
second way that colonialism transformed local economies was to make them focus on the
needs of the mother country rather than on their own needs.  They were no longer trying
to produce what their own people wanted and they were no longer trying to do things that
would advance their own economic development.  Instead, their whole existence revolved
around the needs of the colonizers.

Explain the combination of genres in Pygmalion.

The Shavian play Pygmalion belongs to
popular theatrical genre of the time known as the "well-made play." This means that it
contained a strong plot complete with a solid main story that it follows directly,
without allowing the theatrics to alter the message of independence and social
unfairness that the play intends to convey.

However, aside
from being a well-made play, it also contains several elements of Romantic literature in
that the situations that are shown in the play are realistic, not adorned, and quite
relevant in social terms. Here we have a woman whose cockney accent is a problem for her
potential future. This shows the real silly social discrimination issues taking place in
a growing Victorian England, where snobbery and haughtiness was the daily bread of the
new middle classes.

Additionally, the potential romance
between the two main characters is not resolved. This is another aspect of the play that
makes it mix with Romanticism: The fact that the romance does not come to a full circle.
After all, do all romances come to a happy ending in real life? It is this use of
realism what gives Pygmalion its unique, Shavian
taste.

In contrast to many other plays of his time, we also
see a lack of flowery-overused language, and we find roughness and toughness when
necessary. Yet, we can also experience the touch of sarcasm that was used by many other
dramatists for comedies of manners.

In all, we can conclude
that Pygmalion can be both a comedy of social issues as well as a
romance where we witness journey into the hearts of Liza and Higgings. It is, in all, a
play that shows the social, the emotional, the psychological, and the comedic aspects of
human reality.

Are there any similarities between the play Mrs Warren's Profession and The Importance of Being Earnest?

Both plays are from the same period and use comic
techniques hinging on issues of false identities. More importantly, both plays address
the "woman question." For both Wilde and Shaw the issues of women and careers were
twofold. First, there was the practical issue of how women could earn their livings
outside marriage, and second was the issue of how rich women who did not need to work,
could employ their intelligence productively. Mrs. Prism shows the limitations of the
traditional female occupations of novelist and governess, albeit humorously. Cecily, in
Earnest, is potentially a "New Woman" like Vivie, but relegated to use her education in
the trivial arena of high society. Although Mrs. Warren succeeds in amassing wealth
froim her brothel, she fails to model a viable option for the new woman because
ideologically she remain mired in the conventional role of supporting herself by
pleasing men, and in the end proves less willing to break gender role conventions than
her daughter Vivie.

What is the importance of the opening scene in Macbeth?

In the opening scene of Macbeth (Act
I, Scene I), there is a raging storm going on. There is lightning, thunder, and heavy
rain. On the abandoned Scottish heath, it is dark and foggy and eerie. The three witches
(or weird sisters) introduce the grotesque tone of the play. They make a reference to
the battle going on between Scotland and Norway, and say that they will meet again when
the battle is over. This already sets up a strange thing happening--the evil and
foreboding events will happen AFTER the actual war. Thus, it implies that the tragedies
that will happen are secretive ones. King Duncan believes that he has defeated his
enemies, without realizing that his true enemies are his own people, whom he trusts and
loves. 

The witches plan on meeting Macbeth once this is
over, signaling the name of the titular character and thus alerting the audience to the
importance of this scene. The scene sets up Macbeth's tragic fate--these evil figures
are planning his doom already. His end is already in sight, even before he makes any
decision at all. 

Despite being very short, the opening
scene deals with many of the major themes of the play--evil, ambition, fate, inversion,
appearances vs. reality, the supernatural, violence, and
madness. 

If one side of a square is 5 units, what is the area of the square?

In determining the area of a square, one need only figure
out the length of one side to fulfill the conditions of the formula, which is width
times height.

By definition, a square consists of four
equal sides.  This would mean that the formula for the area of a square consists of
"squaring" the sides. If one side is five, then the other side, by definition, also has
to be five.

In this light, take the 5 units and then
"square" it, meaning to raise it to the second power.  This results in 5 ^2.  This
equals 25.

Therefore, the area of this square would be 25
total units.

What is the main problem that Diamond defines and discusses in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

The main problem that Diamond is addressing in this book
is "Yali's Question."  It is the issue of why European societies have come to dominate
the world.

Yali was a native of New Guinea who asked
Diamond why it was that white people had so much wealth compared to the natives in New
Guinea.  Diamond expands that question in this book to ask why European societies have
become dominant in so many (economic, political, technological, etc)
ways.

In order to answer this question, Diamond then turns
to a huge variety of evidence.  Most importantly, he looks at geographic factors such as
the presence of plants and animals that could be domesticated and the length of the
"axes" of the various continents.  Diamond uses these geographical factors to try to
account for the fact that European societies have come to dominate the
world.

How does the following poem exhibit a form of tunnel vision while describing nature? Turtle walking slow Moving alone on the bank Swimming in a...

The tunnel vision present is that the poem takes a moment
in nature and expands it to encompass the entire poem.  The idea of the turtle's
movements is presented a tunnel vision format, where only the turtle exists in the vast
configuration of nature.  The "walking slow" and the "moving alone" images focus the
reader's attention to only these aspects of nature.  Even the inclusion of the turtle in
a larger setting continues only the focus on the turtle.  For example, the reader does
not see much of the bank, and at the same time does the reader does bit see the stream. 
These experiences are tunnel vision for a couple of reasons.  The first is that the
entire sequence and experience of nature is concentrated into only the turtle's
actions.  At the same time, the Haiku format allows the reader to succinctly see only
the turtle, as the economy of words and syllables affords only this to be seen.  In
this, there is no other description except that of the turtle in nature, contributing to
tunnel vision on the part of both reader and poet.

If f(x)=3x+2, then f(2a+b)=?

To determine the value of the fuction f, at the point x =
2a + b, we'll have to replace x by the expression
2a+b:

f(2a+b) = 3*(2a+b) +
2

We'll remove the
brackets:

f(2a+b) = 6a + 3b +
2

The requested value of the function at the
point x = 2a + b is f(2a+b) = 6a + 3b + 2.

Please summarize Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" (also known as "Resistance to Civil Government").

Henry David Thoreau's belief in "non-conformity," is seen
in, "Civil Disobedience"—standing up to the government if
necessary.

Thoreau was arrested for not paying a tax—on
principle. "…some one interfered, and paid the tax…" and he was released, and so wrote
"Resistance to Civil Government" initially to "argue the moral necessity of resisting
the institution of slavery."

Thoreau makes his stance clear
from the very beginning of the essay:

readability="7">

I HEARTILY ACCEPT THE MOTTO, “That government is
best which governs least”…[moreover] “That government is best which governs not at
all...”

The government was
needed to an extent, but should not be an entity that controlled
the will of the people, but rather served the people. People
created the government, but often did not have the opportunity to use it for their
good:

...[it]
is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through
it.

Thoreau argues that often
times the government becomes a tool of the few rather than the
"arm" of the population as a whole. Special interest groups rob the people of their
power, which is counter to the principles of those who created government in
the first place. In this way, the government which was conceived for the
best of all purposes has lost its " href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/integrity">integrity."

Thoreau
insists that the accomplishments of the country have been achieved by the efforts of its
people, its individuals—keeping the country's people free,
educating, settling the West, etc.—and might have done more had the
government been used as it should have
been.

Thoreau sees the hand of government too heavily put
to use where it should not be. He does not press for the absence of
government, but change:

readability="7">

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once
a better government.

Arguing
again for the right of the individual, Thoreau asks:

readability="8">

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the
least degree, resign his conscience to the
legislator?

Thoreau calls for
the conscience of men to act, as not seen in government,
specifically regarding slavery:

readability="6">

I cannot for an instant recognize that political
organization as my government which is the slave's government
also.

And while a man may
argue against what the government does, he must be sure his
actions support those
words:

...I
must first see, at least, that I do not pursue [these wrongs] sitting upon another man's
shoulders.

And...

readability="6">

The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in
an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes
the war...

Thoreau calls upon
the people to stop the "machine" of the unjust government. The single act is
powerful:

For
it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done
for ever.

Thoreau reflects
upon his own imprisonment brought on because he would not pay a tax, insisting that jail
only controlled his body—not his mind or will.

readability="6">

As they could not reach me, they had resolved to
punish my body…

He simply
refused to pay a tax he did not believe in. In the scheme of things, government rules
him a short time before he dies.

readability="7">

It is not many moments that I live under a
government, even in this world. If a man is thought-free...unwise rulers or reformers
cannot fatally interrupt
him.

He
will be ruled by his conscience:

readability="7">

...even such as I am willing to submit to,— for I
will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than
I...

Thoreau calls for men to
submit to conscience first, and government second.

In The Hunger Games, when does Katniss realize that she has a chance of winning?

This is an interesting question to consider. If we look at
the text carefully, we can see that the first time Katniss mentions the prospect of
winning comes after Rue is dying from the spear wound in Chapter 18. Katniss has of
course by this stage blown up the food at the starting point, which is a major
accomplishment. In response to Rue's command that she "has to win" the Hunger Games,
note how Katniss responds:

readability="6">

I'm going to. Going to win for both of us now," I
promise.

This is perhaps the
first recognition that Katniss shows of the possibility of her victory, and also this
comment shows great determination. At this point, of course, the contenders have been
thinned down significantly, so Katniss does have a real chance. After this stage in the
book, as others die and Katniss remains, obviously her chances of winning become greater
and greater.

How is anger portrayed in Baraka's poem "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note?"

Start the analysis of anger with the title and I think
that one can get an idea of where it is located in the poem.  The idea of a suicide note
indicates one level of needing to speak and articulate one's voice.  Yet, the idea of a
twenty volumed suicide note is intense to the point where anger is present.  The speaker
has much to say and has a great deal to indicate in what needs to be articulated.  It is
here where there is anger, an intensity that would fill a twenty volumed suicide note. 
In the poem itself, the first stanza's articulation of the day to day mundane state of
the speaker's life is undercut with the idea revealed in the one lined, second
stanza:

readability="5">

Things have come to
that.

This line helps to
indicate where the speaker is in his life.  The idea of an existential reality defined
by the most mundane of tasks such as walking the dog or missing the bus help to reflect
a state of affairs where resignation have given way to anger in such a terse
articulation.  A similar reality is presented in the fourth
stanza:

Nobody sings
anymore.

If taken by
themselves, the second and fourth stanzas help to reveal a certain amount of anger
regarding where the speaker is in the world.  This condition is one where "things have
come to that nobody sings anymore."  There is noticeable anger and regret in both of
these conditions, something to which the speaker does not shy from.  The question would
be whether the speaker's anger can be mollified by the solitary state of his daughter's
prayers at the end of the poem.  The alienation and dislocation the speaker experiences,
along with the anger that accompanies this is something that collides head on with the
solitary daughter praying into her own hands, perhaps for the subsiding of her father's
anger and sense of loss.

Put these parts of the heart in chrono order of blood flow beginning with blood entering through superior and inferior vena cava...Superior vena...

The correct arrangement of the structures listed in your
question is as follows:

1.  Superior and
Inferior Vena Cavae

2.  Right
Atrium

3.  Right Ventricle

4. 
Pulmonic Valve

5.  Left Pulmonary
Artery

6.  Left Pulmonary
Artery

7.  Right Pulmonary
Veins

8.  Left Atrium

9.  Left
Ventricle

10. Aortic Arch

11.
Circumflex Artery

An expanded list containing
some key structures not included in your question is as
follows:

1.  Superior and Inferior Vena
Cavae

2.  Right Atrium

3. 
Tricuspid Valve

4.  Right
Ventricle

5.  Pulmonic
Valve

6.  Pulmonary Artery

7. 
Right and Left Main Pulmonary Arteries

8.  Pulmonary
circulation (pulmonary arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules and
veins)

9.  Right and Left Pulmonary
Veins

10.  Left Atrium

11. 
Mitral Valve

13.  Left
Ventricle

14.  Coronary Circulation (left and right
coronary arteries and left circumflex artery)

15. 
Ascending Aorta

16.  Aortic
Arch

17.  Large arteries to upper
body

18.  Descending
Aorta

19.  Lower Thoracic
Aorta

20.  Abdominal
Aorta

21.  Large Arteries to lower
body

22.  Organ vascular beds (arteries, arterioles,
capillaries, venules, veins)

23.   Superior and Inferior
Vena Cavae

And so
on.

Coronary
Circulation:

As opposed to the systemic circulatory system
(which provides blood to all organs other than the heart), the coronary system provides
blood to the heart itself.  The right and left coronary arteries arise as openings at
the base of the right and left cusp of the aortic valve in the form of ostia…the right
and left coronary ostia.  The left main coronary artery gives off the left anterior
descending (LAD) coronary artery with passes down along the anterior aspect of the left
ventricle.  It also gives rise to the left circumflex coronary artery that passes
posteriorly.  The right main coronary artery passes around the right upper portion of
the heart and gives rise to the posterior descending branch that passes down the
posterior aspect of the right ventricle.

The
commonest sites of coronary artery occlusion (obstruction) leading to heart attacks are
the proximal right coronary artery (usually s few centimeters from the right coronary
ostium), and the proximal LAD (usually about one or two centimeters below or distal to
the LAD’s origin from the left main coronary artery).  Coronary occlusions occur at the
sites where there has been a build-up of arteriosclerotic plaque.  They can be from
coronary thrombosis (clotting at the plaque site) or spasm of the
vessel.

Systemic Circulation:  As opposed to the
coronary circulation the systemic circulation constitutes the circulation to the entire
body other than the heart.  It begins after the aortic valve where blood has left the
heart, and ends in the superior and inferior vena cavae that bring deoxygenated blood
from the organs back to the
heart.

Summary:

The
heart pumps blood through the coronary circulation to supply oxygen to the heart itself,
and through the systemic circulation to supply the entire body other than the
heart.

What is "gyre" in "The Second Coming"?

I have moved this question to this group, as the reference
to the word "gyre" obviously refers to this famous poem by W. B. Yeats and its first
line. The poem concerns the poet's prediction of the grim future that awaits humanity,
and the first startling image that is used to introduce this theme uses the word "gyre"
to indicate the way that culture is disintegrating. Consider the following
lines:

Turnign
and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the
falconer;

We are presented
therefore with the somewhat mysterious image of a falcon going round and round in an
ever widening "gyre," or a radiating spiral, moving further and further away beyond the
reach of its falconer. Of course, the further that the falcon moves away from its
falconer, the harder it is for the falconer to regain control over the bird and the
falcon cannot be diverted or controlled in its direction. The word "gyre" therefore
refers to the spiral motion of the falcon as it flies.

What are some Plain Stlye Elements in the first paragraph?

Plain Style elements are short sentences, the use of
concrete words over abstract ones, and the use of an author's native
language.

The first sentence of History of
Plymouth Plantation contains eighty-nine words. Therefore, it does not adhere
to the defining characteristic of using short sentences.

As
for the use of concrete words over abstract ones is not necessarily justifiable either.
Given the fact that the first paragraph contains words such as "godly", "judicious", and
"breaking out of y lighte of y gospell" the language certainly does not adhere to the
use of concrete text over that of abstract.

Perhaps the
only characteristic of Plain Style that the text does adhere to is the use of the
author's native language. Given that William Bradford was an English leader, his diction
and style mirror that of his native England.

Therefore,
based upon the characteristics of Plain Style, the text the History of
Plymouth Plantation only meets one of the features characteristic to the
form.

Why was the Han Dynasty seen as “Glorious”? Is this perception accurate? Why or why not?Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty is considered the golden age of Chinese
culture; and this may lend itself to it being referred to as Glorious. It was during the
 Han dynasty, which lasted for four hundred years (with a brief hiatus) that China was
brought under centralized rule. China was divided into administrative districts with
officials who answered directly to the Emperor. Legalism, a Chinese doctrine or
orderliness and obedience, became the standard for reform under Emperor Liu Bang. Roads
and canals were constructed, government monopolies on iron and salt were imposed, and an
imperial university was established to educate young men in Civil Service, primarily on
Confucian principles. Interestingly, Liu Bang personally had nothing but contempt for
education. He once publicly urinated into the cap of a Confucian scholar to demonstrate
his disdain.

Sadly, after almost four hundred years, the
dynasty ended because of infighting among members of the royal family, Confucian
scholars and court eunuchs.

What is the author trying to say in Angels and Demons?

The novel Angel and Demons , by Dan
Brown, is a fictional thriller based on scientific, historical, and theological
constructs.

In the story, Harvard professor Robert Langdon
is invited to investigate the kidnapping of the four top candidates for the Papal
throne. In addition to this, information leaks joining the Catholic Church with the
ancient sect of the Illuminati, and additionally joining these two entities with an
antimatter project that aims to re-enact the creation of the
Universe.

All this boils down to a few powerful
points:

• The Vatican is a financial, scientific,
  historical, political, and psychological world power; it is not just a branch of heaven
  on Earth.


• The Vatican freely and legally is allowed to
  hold information that leads directly to the making or breaking of key people, programs,
  and systems in place across the world. Brown argues that, among this information, there
  is the existence of extracted antimatter, the possession of secret historical documents,
  and the hosting of societies that are the true movers of the fate of
  civilization.


• The Catholic Church is more of a keeper of
  treasures than a religious sect.


• The Vatican is made of
  a mob of priests, radicals, and some other interesting people, who act against each
  other and have the potential to turn the world around.
  

Hence, Brown explores all the possible
mysteries that are actually hidden in the vaults of the Vatican, making the reader
understand that hundreds of years of secrets, security, and extreme control must be
happening there for a reason. What exactly goes on behind close doors in the so-called
House of God?

In what ways does Diamond use science to help construct history in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

Since Diamond is a scientist by training, it is not
surprising that he uses science to construct history at many points in this book.  Some
examples of how he does this include:

• His
  discussion of natural selection and the natural history of various plants in Chapter 7. 
  There, he uses science to determine what kinds of plants would have been feasible and/or
  attractive for people to domesticate.


• His discussion of
  how diseases evolve in Chapter 11.  There, he uses science to explain how and why some
  diseases evolve to become epidemic diseases that persist in a population.  The presence
  of these diseases in the "Old World" and their absence in the "New World" are very
  important to Diamond's history.


• His discussion in Chapter
  5 of radiocarbon dating.  Here, he uses science to help determine when the domestication
  of plants began in various places.

In these
ways and others, Diamond uses science to help construct a history of how some areas came
to have "guns, germs and steel" while others did not.

How could the Commandments be considered a vice in Animal Farm?

The animals chose the commandments because they wanted to
keep the farm pure from human activity.  They considered humans evil, and therefore
tried to find ways to avoid emulating them.

readability="7">

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man
from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. (ch
1)

Therefore the commandments
were written to avoid man’s vices, or weaknesses and immoral deeds.  There are
commandments against killing other animals, but there are also rules against wearing
clothes, sleeping in a bed, and drinking alcohol (ch 2).  These are considered man’s
weaknesses.

Although most humans consider killing a sin,
you have to look a little deeper to find the problems with the other infractions. 
Wearing clothes could be considered vanity, and sleeping in a bed might be sloth (one of
the deadly sins).  Drinking alcohol is often considered
gluttony.

The commandments do not last long.  The pigs
decide that they want some of these luxuries, and they begin changing the
commandments.

What is the background and main theme of the poem "A Prayer for my Daughter" by W.B. Yeats

Yeats's poem begins with a description of a storm howling
outside while his newborn daughters lies, partially covered by a blanket, in her cradle,
ostensibly protected from the outside world.  The reader becomes aware that the storm
is actually a metaphor for the struggle for Ireland's independence, a political
situation that overshadows the joy of his daughter's birth.  Thematically, many women
have pegged this work by Yeats as being sexist and offensive, inasmuch as he describes
his hopes for her future, which, if all goes well, will include a large home and sizable
income brought into her life, of course, by a good match with a suitable husband--in
other words, these critics believe Yeats was doing nothing more than endorsing the
ideals of 19th century womanhood as his daughter's birthright. 
 

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond says it is better to live on an east-west axis. Are there any benefits to living on a north-south axis?the...

As you know, the bad part of living in a place with a long
north-south axis is that crops (even if they are diverse) cannot diffuse along that
axis.  So when a society north or south of you domesticates a crop, you can't
necessarily copy them.  That makes it harder for you (and those other societies) to
develop.  In that case, you should try to think of what benefits there might have been
to living in an area where crops couldn't diffuse.

I would
argue that a major benefit would be that you are less likely to have your society
overrun and conquered by other societies.  If you live on a long east-west axis, a
society to your east could come, conquer you, and take your lands because they would
know how to farm in an area like yours.  If you live on a north-south axis, other
societies would be less able to conquer you because they would have to adapt to a whole
new way of life in order to take your lands.

How does the literary device "point of view" operate in Mansfield's "Miss Brill"?

Point of view is interesting
in Mansfield's "Miss Brill." The opening line indicates clearly for us that the point of
view is focalized through a limited third person narrator who tells
us about the story by focusing on Miss Brill's
experience:

readability="7">

Although it was so brilliantly fine--the blue sky
powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins
Publiques-- Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur.

Third
person narrators stand outside the story and provide a "bird's eye" view,
so to speak, into the events and personalities and the effects of events. These
narrators provide objective reports in the narrative that may be
more or less objective but certainly quite different from a subjective first person
point of view. These narrators may also be more or less distanced in
proximity: they may report the narrative through a great emotional distance
from events, personalities, and effects or they may report from a near proximity and
even comment upon events, personalities and effects. 

Limited third person narrators, which
are different from omniscient third person narrators, focalize the
narrative through the experience of one character (that character may change from time
to time in various chapters of a book but is consistent in a short story). This sort of
narrator has access to the focalizing character's thoughts, feelings, motives, and inner
perceptions and reactions.

In "Miss Brill," the limited
third person narrator has a very near proximity and, though
objective, provides a report on the
stream of consciousness thoughts and
reactions of Miss Brill. This stream of consciousness element in the narrator's report
is what makes the point of view in "Miss Brill" so interesting: we "hear" what Miss
Brill thinks as she thinks it through the narrator's
report:

Miss
Brill had often noticed--there was something funny about nearly all of them. They were
odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they'd
just come from dark little rooms or even--even
cupboards!

What are the different practical applications of stem cell therapy with current technology and knowledge?

There are a number of clinics worldwide that are offering
href="http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011/05/Unapproved-stem-cell-treatments-causing-concern/47834510/1">unapproved
stem cell therapies, including the examples cited by the previous poster.
While stem cells are considered to have a lot of potential uses, the
only stem cell therapy currently approved by the Food and Drug
Administration  for routine medical use is bone marrow transplant for leukemia and
sickle-cell anemia patients.

Additionally, there are a
number of different stem cell therapies in various stages of clinical trial, all of
which have shown some promise. These include potential treatments for Lou Gehrig's
disease, various ischemias of major blood vessels, spinal cord injuries, macular
degeneration of the retina, and many other conditions. You can see a current list of
clinical trials involving stem cell therapy href="http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/search?term=stem+cell&submit=Search">
here.

In Wuthering Heights, why do Heathcliff's dogs turn against Lockwood?

The amusing first chapter of this classic details the way
in which Lockwood, as a southerner and therefore not used to the northern culture and
life, misinterprets so much of what he sees in the house of Heathcliff, his landlord,
and often with hilarious consequences. The dogs in Wuthering Heights turn on him when
Lockwood ignores the advice he is given by Heathcliff and provokes the dogs by making
faces at them. Note how the text describes this
event:

Not
anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would
scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces
at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke
into a fury and leapt on my knees. I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table
between us. This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of
various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common
centre.

Thus we can see that
Lockwood finds himself the unexpected quarry of the many dogs in Wuthering Heights
because of his stupidity in provoking one of them with silly facial gestures. However,
let us not forget the import of Lockwood's role in the first chapter. As our principal
narrator, he is clearly shown to not understand the culture of the Moors, and therefore
is shown to be distinctly unreliable.

Why does Ponyboy have a better chance at making out of the neighborhood than the rest of the boys?

Ponyboy's age is the main attribute that makes him the
best candidate to escape his rough neighborhood.  Due to his youth and lack of grown-up
responsibilities, he still has the ability to focus on school and to get into a college,
whereas is brother Darry, though equal to him in intelligence, must bear the burden of
raising his younger brothers.  The rest of the Greasers lack the motivation and desire
to leave.  They are content with their place in society, are happy being Greasers, and
truly are a fit in the neighborhood.  Ponyboy and Darry, however, have visions of doing
something better with their lives.  That is why they both take school seriously and
compete in school sports.  They also have the qualities to fit in with the Socs.  This
is evidenced by the fact they both have made friends with Socs in the past, while most
of the other Greasers wouldn't look at a Soc unless it was to start a fight with him. 
Unfortunately for Darry, he is stuck working a blue collar job all day to help Ponyboy
keep his dream alive.

How would you describe the speakers personality in 'Mending Wall'?

I would describe the speaker's personality as playful and
humorous. He is being facetious in his response to his own
statement:

readability="7">

Something there is that doesn't love a
wall, 
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to
him,

The speaker has a good
sense of humor. He is mischievous in his line about elves desiring to tear down the
wall. The speaker humors the neighbor in helping him mend the wall. He realizes the
neighbor is old fashioned in his idea of having a fence and can't be convinced that the
fence is unnecessary. The speaker is charitable in his efforts to help his neighbor mend
the wall. He has a good will and a friendly
personality.

The speaker does not have to help his neighbor
mend the wall, but out of acts of kindness, he humors his neighbor. Although the speaker
does not necessarily believe the wall is necessary, he goes to great lengths to help his
neighbor rebuild the wall. No doubt, the speaker playfully criticizes his neighbor in
good jest. While he considers him old fashioned, he complies with his request to mend
the wall, even though the hunters and animals will tear it down
again:

I see
him there 
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top 
In each hand,
like an old-stone savage armed. 
He moves in darkness as it seems to
me~ 
Not of woods only and the shade of trees. 
He will not go
behind his father's saying, 
And he likes having thought of it so
well 
He says again, "Good fences make good
neighbors."

Truly, the speak
has a good spirit. He is playful and a bit mischievous. He is totally tolerant of the
neighbor and his idea that "good fences make good neighbors." The speaker is a warm,
caring man who does the right thing by respecting his neighbor's
wishes.

How are motherhood and maternity represented in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Written as a critique of the conventional medical
treatment prescribed by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell for women of the Victorian Age who suffered
from a condition known as "neurathenia," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow
Wallpaper" portrays the subjugation of married women under a patriarchal medical
profession.   Gilman's narrator, a young mother who suffers from what today is know as
postpartum depression, a condition which prevents her from caring adequately for her
baby, is deprived of all mental, physical, and social activities.  Unfortunately, the
patriarchal husband John as well as Dr. Mitchell refuse to acknowledge the narrator's
desires and needs, feeling instead that they are the proper judges of her
condition. 

The narrative of Gilman's story expresses a
concern with the repressed role of women as wives and mothers in the patriarchal
nineteenth century.  With the femme covert laws of the Victorian
Age, women had many domestic limitations placed upon them and were permitted little or
no creative self-expression.  This situation itself was often cause for repression and
its resulting mental illness in many a wife and mother.  In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the
hideous wallpaper itself becomes symbolic of this feminine oppression.  It contradicts
symmetry and color--the aesthetics that the narrator loves.  Without being able to walk
in the garden or draw or write, locked in the room with the detestable paper that her
husband refuses to change, the narrator becomes increasing ill, perceiving the "hideous
paper" as an antagonist to her aesthetic desires and needs.  Finally, in a desperate
effort of the mind to free itself from its repression and agonies, Gilman's narrator
attempts to free the "woman" who is behind the narrator--her symbolic self.  She has
seen other women behind the paper and asks, "I wonder if they all come out of that
wallpaper as I did?"  Yet repressed, however, she adds, "I suppose I shal have to get
back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard!"

A is a square matrix. Write the value of A(adj A)

To find the adjugate of a square matrix A, we'll first
find the cofactor matrix of A.

The cofactor (i,j) of the
cofactor matrix of A is:

`C_(i,j) = (-1)^(i+j)*M_(i,j)` ,
where `M_(i,j)` represents a minor of the matrix A which is the determinant that can be
found suppressing the row i and the column j of the matrix
A.

Let's calculate the adj.(A), where A is 2*2 square
matrix:

(a , b)

A
=

(c , d)

We'll calculate the
cofactor elements of the cofactor matrix A.

`C_(1,1) =
(-1)^(1+1)*M_(1,1,)`

We notice that if we'll suppress the
1st row and the 1st column, we'll get the element d, therefore the minor `M_(1,1)` is
the element d.

`M_(1,1) =
d`

`C_(1,1) = d`

`C_(1,2) =
(-1)^(3)*M_(1,2)`

We notice that if we'll
suppress the 1st row and the 2nd column, we'll get the element
c.

`C_(1,2) = -c`

`C_(2,1) =
(-1)^(3)*b`

`C_(2,1) = -
b`

`C_(2,2) = a`

The cofactor
matrix of A is:

(d , -c)

C
=

(-b , a)

Now, we'll
calculate the transpose of the cofactor matrix, such as the 1st row (d , -c) becomes the
1st column and the 2nd row (-b , a) becoms the 2nd
column:

(d , -b)

`C^(T) =
`

(-c , a).

The
adjoint of the matrix A is the transpose of the cofactor matrix: adj.(A) = `C^(T)`
.

How are Rainsford and Zaroff different, and how are they alike in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

The protagonist and antagonist of the short story "The
Most Dangerous Game" share at least one similarity. Rainsford and Zaroff both love the
thrill of the hunt, and they have travelled to different parts of the world to kill the
big game they view as their greatest challenge. However, the two men differ in most
other respects. Where Rainsford travels the globe to seek big game, Zaroff has isolated
himself on a remote island in the Caribbean, stocking the it with many of the same
animals that Rainsford seeks. Rainsford is still an enthusiastic hunter, while Zaroff
has grown bored with the sport. But the biggest division between the two men is their
idea of killing: Rainsford restricts his hunt to animals, while Zaroff has moved on to
the human prey. This repulses Rainsford, and he wants no part of Zaroff's game nor his
hospitality. Forced to play the game anyway, Rainsford proves a skillful adversary for
Zaroff; and when the game is over, Zaroff honorably names Rainsford the winner. But by
this time, Rainsford's values have changed, and he is ready to play Zaroff's game
himself--this time as the hunter. 

2 kids had the same number of cars. After she gave him 72 cars, he had 3 times as many cars as her. How many stickers did they have in all?

At the start 'she' has x cars and 'he' has x
cars.

If 'she' has x cars then she has x-72 cars when she
gives them to 'him'.

Now 'he' has three times as many cars
as 'she', so he has 3(x-72) cars.

But since they both had x
cars to begin with, this must be equal to x+72 after 'she' has given him 72
cars.

So now we have an
equation

3(x-72)=x+72

Distribute

3x-216=x+72

2x=216+72    
subtract x from both sides, and add 216 to both
sides

2x=288     divide both sides by
two

x=144   So they started out with 144
cars

So they both had 144 cars this means they started out
with 288 cars.

Importance of setting and space: Explain specifically the representation of public, private spaces, or mysterious and undefined spaces.Please use...

Edgar Allan Poe, as a master of terror, uses every
mechanism possible to adhere the reader to the story, and to appeal to the senses and
emotions of the intended audience.

This being said, the use
of space and setting create the atmosphere that is required of Gothic stories to instill
in the reader the feeling of emptiness that comes as a result of a vast exposure to a
dry and cold setting. However, Poe's uniqueness as a writer is shown in the way that he
contrasts settings to create an even more terrifying
sensation.

For example, in The Cask of
Amontillado, the story begins in a cheerful and festive setting. People are
celebrating, drinking, eating, and having fun in the carnival. As it is known, the
carnival is similar to a Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, where people enjoy their most
sinful delights right before fasting for Lent.

It
was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I
encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking
much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head
was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him that I thought
I should never have done wringing his
hand.

Similarly, Montressor allows Fortunato to
enjoy his festivities, for he is planning his death in a dark, damp, horrid and secluded
place. The three settings of a) the carnival,  b) the walk through the catacombs, and c)
Fortunato's grave,  are allegorical of a transition from heaven, to purgatory, and then
hell.

At the most remote end of the crypt there
appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to
the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this
interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth side the bones had
been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of
some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a
still interior crypt or recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six
or seven. It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but
formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the
catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing href="../../cask-amontillado-text/the-cask-of-amontillado#prestwick-vocab-bes-82"/>
walls of solid granite.

Poe brings a brilliance to
the narrative by making Montressor tell the story from his convoluted and obsessive
point of view. This actually makes the settings seem even more
tragic.

In all, the tragedy of the story is mainly
accentuated by the settings: From a lighthearted and festive carnival to the deep, dark
and scary isolation of a man-made grave in the catacombs, the story clearly goes from
light to darkness in a very small time frame.

What makes more sense, the historial perspective on psycology or the current?

I think that the current perspectives make "more sense"
because they are more thoroughly researched and have the benefit of psychological
studies combined with advanced technology to back them up.  However, I feel that it is
impossible to appreciate the current psychological perspectives without understanding
and learning about the historical ones.  When compared, it is easy to see how far
psychology has advanced over even the last 100
years. 

Psychology is a field that is always changing and
growing; there will always be a new theory and/or a new discovery, much like in the
medical field.  As psychologists improve their methods of study, their research becomes
more scientific in nature, which makes it more reliable and provides more strength for
the current perspectives.

I need to write a letter to Shakespeare explaining why I appreciate him for the methods used by Petruchio to tame Katharina in The Taming of the...

This is a good assignment that is being used to test your
knowledge of the play but it is also after your own opinion and thoughts and it is
testing your ability to express those in a letter form. So, the best place to start is
for you to think about what you thought was funny or particularly effective about the
methods that Petruchio adopted to "tame" his wife. When you were reading or watching the
play, what amused you? I would say that you probably need about three different examples
from the play, each of which that can form a middle paragraph of your essay. For each
paragraph you need to offer a brief summary of what Petruchio did and then say briefly
why you think it was effective. Consider the following
example.

I loved the way that, in Act IV scene 1, Grumio
relates to Curtis how when Katharina's horse fell and she ended up in mud, Petruchio did
nothing to help her but only beat Grumio so that Katharina had to wade through the mud
to pull him off Grumio. That was an excellent way of humbling Katharina and also to stop
her thinking so much about her own needs and desires. Beating Grumio forced her to think
of others for a change.

This is just a quick example, but I
hope you get the idea. Good luck!

What do carbohydrates provide for very active youngsters who are participating in two to three sports.

First and foremost, carbohydrates provide energy. Most
dietary scientists believe that the human body is designed to get most of its energy
from this food group. A young person who is growing and is physically active will need a
lot of energy input to maintain their body and to feel
well.

Carbohydrates are the only foods that include any
significant amount of fiber. Fiber is important for the health of the digestive system.
It keeps digested foods moving along in the large intestine. Diets high in fiber are
believed to help protect against colon cancer, which is the third most common form of
cancer.

"Good" carbohydrates also bring with them a wide
variety of vitamins and minerals, which are necessary for ones overall health and
well-being. This is not necessarily true of highly refined or sugary foods, which should
be eaten in moderation. Whole grains and fruits and vegetables contain the healthy
carbohydrates that everyone needs to be healthy.

How does the Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855 defy the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

The Act of which you speak was one of several "Personal
Liberty Laws" passed in northern states in response to the Fugitive Slave Act, part of
the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act placed runaway slaves under federal
jurisdiction and was heavily weighted against runaways. It was manifestly unfair, so
much so that there was real danger of free blacks being arrested as potential runaways
and given little opportunity to defend themselves. The Act caused tremendous uproar in
the North. Ralph Waldo Emerson commented:

readability="5">

the filthy enactment was made in the nineteenth
century by people who could read and
write

Personal Liberty Laws
were attempts by northern states to prohibit local officials from enforcing the law.
Ironically, their position--that the Act was unconstitutional and thereby unenforceable
within the state's borders--bore a striking resemblance to John C. Calhoun's doctrine of
Nullification when Calhoun, a southerner, opposed the Tariff of 1828 which had benefited
the North.

Personal Liberty Laws took several steps to
contravene the Fugitive Slave Act. Some forbade state and local officials from enforcing
the Act; others prohibited the use of state or local jails for incarcerating suspected
runaways; others placed the burden of proof on the slave catcher, this being a direct
contradiction of the Act itself.

The U.S. Supreme Court
declared Personal Liberty Laws unconstitutional in the case of Prigg vs.
Pennsylvania. The Court held that states could not interfere with the
enforcement of a Federal statute although they were not compelled to enforce
it.

The Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act prohibited law
enforcement officers in Massachusetts from enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, a federal
statute. The Fugitive Slave Act was unfair on its face, as constables and magistrates
were paid a higher fee for certifying that a prisoner was indeed a fugitive than if they
determined that he was lawfully free. Accused persons were denied jury trials and could
not call witnesses in their own behalf. This was all part of the Compromise of 1850
which saw California admitted into the Union.

Unfair is it
might be, the Fugitive Slave Law was a federal statute, which under Article VI Clause 2
of the Constitution superseded any state law:

readability="13">

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall
be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or
Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

The Personal
Liberty Act was in direct contravention of the Constitution; something one would have
expected from nullifiers such as John C. Calhoun. The fact that a Northern state openly
defied a federal law is ironic.

Please comment on the following quote from Act 5 of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.In Act 5 Higgins states: "The great secret, Eliza, is not...

This is a very good quote to select to consider the
character of Higgins in this play. Note the context of this quote is the way in which
Eliza protests that Pickering "treats a flower girl as if she were a duchess." Pickering
has shown her that the outer transformation of people is not important. Thus, the way
she talks and dresses is insignificant in terms of changing her. What is important, and
what secures the transformation, is how a person is treated by others. Note Eliza's
complaint:

I
shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a
flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always
treat me as a lady, and always
will.

In response to this
charge, Higgins protests that actually this is unfair. He treats everybody the same,
regardless of their appearance or position in life. Higgins summarises the way he treats
everyone in the following pithy comment:

readability="9">

...in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven,
where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as
another.

Thus we can see that
Higgins is presented as an irrascible, arrogant and provocative individual, who has
treated Eliza badly, as she observes. However, the real question is asked by
Higgins:

The
question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you ever heard me treat anyone
else better.

Higgins looks
upon everybody else with equal annoyance and arrogance. Eliza is no exception. The only
reason he manages to get away with this is that he is at his core a good and harmless
individual.

Who was the real inventor of DNA?

No one invented DNA. It was discovered.  Who exactly
discovered it is up to interpretation.  Gregor Mendel is the father of genetics because
he figured out there was something that affected heredity.  He used pea plants to test
his theories.  He mixed colors, heights, etc and observed the results.  James Watson and
Francis Crick have been officially credited with discovering the alpha helix formation
of DNA.  Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize for their discovery in
1962.

What is the significance of The Mechanicals (the characters of the lower order) in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

One important point of significance of The Mechanicals in
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is that they compound the
underlying irony that forms the foundation for the entire
play, irony and festive foolishness as is befitting of the Midsummer festival the play
is named after. Shakespeare introduces their significance soon after he introduces them
into the play.

They are about to undertake to perform
Pyramus and Thisby for Theseus the Duke of Athens and his betrothed
Hippolyta. Quince calls the play a "lamentable
comedy":

readability="8">

QUINCE
Marry, our play is, The most
lamentable comedy, and
most cruel death of Pyramus and
Thisby.

In truth, the story
from ancient Greek mythology tells a tragic tale of lost love that is very similar to
Romeo and Juliet: young lovers separated by their families elope,
have a failed rendezvous and take their own lives one after the other. This is a
tragedy, it is most certainly not a comedy, lamentable or
otherwise.

By bringing The Mechanicals into the play this
way in Act I, scene ii, Shakespeare establishes the ironical foolishness that is to come
as Helena chases Demetrius but gets caught by Lysander who is eloping with Hermia and as
Demitrius chases Hermia who has run away with Lysander, and Puck applies magical nectar
to the wrong eyes. Thus one significance of The Mechanicals is that they undergird the
irony and humorous structure of the play.

Excerpt from
Pyramus and Thisby:

readability="29">

While she hesitated she saw the form of one
struggling in the agonies of death. She started back, a shudder ran through her frame as
a ripple on the face of the still water when a sudden breeze sweeps over it. But as soon
as she recognized her lover, she screamed and beat her breast; embracing the lifeless
body, pouring tears into its wounds, and imprinting kisses on the cold lips. "Oh,
Pyramus," she cried, "what has done this? Answer me, Pyramus; it is your own Thisbe that
speaks. Hear me, dearest, and lift that
drooping head!" At the name of Thisbe,
Pyramus opened his eyes, then closed them again. She saw her veil stained with blood and
the scabbard empty of its sword. "Thy own hand has slain thee, and for my sake," she
said. "I too can be brave for once, and my love is as strong as thine. I will follow
thee in death, for I have been the cause; and death, which alone could part us, shall
not prevent my joining thee. And ye, unhappy parents of us both, deny us not our united
request. As love and death have joined us, let one tomb contain
us.

What guidance does the accounting constraint of conservatism offer. Please provide a concrete example.

Conservatism in Accounting is a branch of accounting
requiring a high degree of certainty and verification in order to legally claim a
profit.

Here are examples of techniques used in
conservative accounting:

1.  Recognize and include all
probable losses as they are discovered, anticipated or actually
occur

2.  Defer revenue until it is actually
received

3.  Use strict criteria for recognition of
revenue

4.  Overestimate projected losses from doubtful
accounts

5.  Underestimate the value of an asset,
especially if the value is uncertain

Here is an example of
conservative accounting that employs the application of the
“lower-of-cost-or-market-value” rule.  If an item in inventory cost $20.00 but can be
replaced for $15.00, the rule requires reporting the item in inventory at $15.00, and
reporting an immediate loss of $5.00.

Accountants
themselves needn’t be “conservative”.  Instead they must be fair and objective.  The
term “conservatism” requires such an accountant to “break a tie” between two reasonable
interpretations in order to avoid the danger of overestimating the firm’s
profitability.

Conservatism in accounting is particularly
important in today’s doubtful economy.  This has been dramatically demonstrated in
recent failures of large corporations in which accounting practices were highly
questionable and irregular…the antithesis of conservative
accounting.

100 animals cost 4000. calves, 120 each; lambs, 50 each; piglets, 25. How many of each did he buy?Numer theory

Let the number of calves be a, the number of lambs be b
and the nuber of piglets be c.

The total number of heads
is:

a + b + c = 100

The price
paid to buy 100 heads of animals is 4000 monetary units, such
as.

120a + 50b + 25c =
4000

We'll use the first equation to write c in terms of a
and b.

c = 100 - a - b

We'll
substitute c into the 2nd equation:

120a + 50b + 25(100 - a
- b) = 4000

120a + 50b + 2500 - 25a - 25b =
4000

We'll combine like
terms:

95a + 25b = 1500

We'll
divide by 5:

19a + 5b = 300

We
notice that if a = 0 and b = 60, then (0,60) represents a solution of this
equation.

We'll consider as solution of the equation a'= 5x
and b' = 60 - 19x, where x is an integer number.

The values
of a,b,c must be natural numbers since they represent the number of
animals.

For b' to be positive, x must be positive but
smaller, or equal to 3.

Therefore,
we'll have:

For t = 1 => a' = 5 and b' = 60 - 19 =
41 and c = 100 - 5 - 41 = 54

For t = 2 => a' = 10;
b' = 60 - 38 = 22 => c = 100 - 10 - 22 = 68

For t =
3 => a' = 15 ; b' = 60 - 57 = 3 => c = 100 - 15 - 3 =
82.

Therefore, there are 3 possibilities: 5
calves ; 41 lambs and 54 piglets or 10 calves, 22 lambs and 68 piglets or 15 calves, 3
lambs and 82 piglets.

Is there any symbolism in A Farewell to Arms?

YES!  Even though the novels structure and irony is in the
forefront of most critical examination of this novel, it certainly contains symbolism. 
Here are two:

Rain is a frequent symbol in literature and
is often used to foreshadow some type of bad luck or even doom.  It rains when Henry
travels, showing his journey through misfortune.  It rains during the cholera outbreak
and it rains when his fiance and the baby die.  For Henry, rain is perpetual and
symbolizes misfortune and death.

Stars are a symbol of
achievement and status in the military.  They are physical representations of Henry's
pride in himself and his confidence in those around him.  He is pleased and comforted
that his surgeon has several stars on his uniform.  However, he removes his own stars
from his own uniform when he deserts the military.  This removal represents his loss of
pride and confidence in himself and in his own cause.

There
are other examples of symbolism, but these two should get you started and give you
direction as you continue to study the novel.

In Shakespeare's Othello, what is an example early in the play of a speech by Othello in which he uses iambic pentameter?

While Shakespeare writes in blank verse in iambic
pentameter, he varies it so that it is sometimes challenging to find large blocks of
text that are written in regular, unvaried iambic pentameter. Shakespeare might vary his
verse through the use
of:

1. hypercatalexis,
   which is adding an extra unstressed beat at the end of a line
   (five and a half meters): "But he'; /
   as lov' / -ing his' / own pride' / and pur' / poses,";
   


2. catalexis, which is
   lessening a line by one or more beats
   (four and a half meters): "For
   -sooth', / a great' / a -rith' / -me -ti' / cian, __";
   


3. acephalous, which is the
   omission of the first unstressed beat in a line: "__ Horri' / -bly
   stuff'd' / with ep' / i -thets' / of war'";


4. lines that
   have a different meter, such as iambic
   dimeter: "And what' / was he'?"
   

He also liberally employs
elision to blend several syllables into one beat, often by
dropping an unstressed vowel or syllable. "I" and "am" are elided in "I am worth": "I
know' / my price', / I_am worth' / no worse' / a
place'."

Shakespeare also may fill an unstressed beat with
the English pause, indicated by a comma, semicolon, colon
or em dash.

Having said this, here is an early
excerpt of a speech by Othello that is in iambic
pentameter--with--all manner of variation from acephalous (first
line) to hypercatalexis (most subsequent lines) to
regular pentameter: "Shall out-' / tongue his' / com -plaints'.
/'Tis yet' / to know',--".

readability="15">

Let' / him do' / his spite':
My ser' /
-vi -ces' / which I' / have done' / the sign' / -iory
Shall out' / -tongue
his' / com -plaints'. /'Tis yet' / to know',--
Which, when' / I know' / that
boast' / -ing is' / an hon' / -our,
I shall' / promul -gate'-- / I fetch' /
my life' / and be' /-ing
From men' / of roy' / -al siege', / and my' / de
-mer' / -its
May speak' / un -bonn' / eted to' / as proud' / a fort' /
-une
As this' / that I' / have reach'd': / for know', / I 'a /
-go,
But that' / I love' / the gent' / -le Des' / -de -mon' /
a,