How does Freak die in Freak the Mighty?

In the novel Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick, the
best friend of Max (the "Mighty") is Kevin ("Freak"). When Max first meets Kevin, he
realizes that there is something very different about him- he is very
small.

Max recalls being in day-care with Kevin much
earlier in their childhood. Kevin, he recalls, was the only child who scared him. Now,
Max is intrigued by Kevin and the mechanical bird that he is
flying.

When Max sees Kevin trying to get the bird out of
the tree he realizes that there is something wrong- Kevin is very small for his (their)
age. Max goes over to help.

After their friendship has
begun, Max comes to learn that Kevin is more than just small; Kevin's growth condition
will eventually take his life. Kevin, in order to accept his condition, has created a
fairy-tale for his life where the government is going to conduct an experimental
operation and give him a bionic body. Kevin never makes it to the
surgery.

Shortly after Christmas and saving Max from his
father's abduction, Kevin's condition takes his life. Kevin dies from his growth
condition. This is the conversation between Max and Kevin's doctor about his
death:

“What
happened to him really?” Dr. Spivak answers simply, “His heart just got too big for his
body.”

While the name of the
condition is never stated in the novel, the film version states that Kevin has Morquio's
Syndrome.

How did Ying-ying get the ability to predict the future in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club?

In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Tan
tells the stories of four mothers and their four daughters. One of the mothers is
Ying-Ying. As a child and a young woman, she was pampered, somewhat reckless, greatly
loved by her mother, and an innocent. The night after her youngest aunt's wedding,
Ying-Ying "began to know a thing before it happened."

After
most of the wedding guests had left, and Ying-Ying's half-sisters were asking her about
who she wanted to marry when...

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...a large wind blew in from the north and the
flower on the table split from its stem and fell at my feet...Right then, I knew I would
marry this man.

There are
other occasions when knowledge comes to Ying-Ying before it happens, before anyone else
knows. When she becomes pregnant the first time, she knows it is a boy. Ying-Ying knows
before she reads her youngest aunt's letter that her first husband is dead, and she
knows when she meets Saint ("Mistah Saint Clair") that she will marry
him.

It seems that Ying-Ying's ability to know the future
(as she believes) came to her on the north wind that first night. It brought her the
knowledge to know who she would marry. It also (she believes) was the same strong cold
wind that would eventually carry her first husband away from her—which happens when he
leaves her for another woman.

Compare the reactions of Macbeth and Banquo to the witches in Macbeth.J. Wilson believes that Banquo is more interested in the witches than is...

In Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth, Banquo
does appear to be more interested in the witches and their intentions than he is in the
prophecies themselves.  Banquo has never seen the witches before, so he is not familiar
with them, and therefore, he does not trust their apparent intentions.  He believes that
they are really trying to trick him and Macbeth, so he remains wary.  Macbeth, on the
other hand, does not seem to question the witches' intentions and thus he is lured by
the prophecies.  In the face of Banquo, Macbeth pretends that he does not much care
about their words, but he takes the prophecies to heart and begins to dream about what
it would be like for the prophecies to come true.  So, Banquo does seem to be more
interested in the witches--he is not driven by greed or ambition, so his good nature
allows him to be more critical of the potential harm that the witches' words might
bring.

What are examples of recent political actions in regards to the issue of health care?

There have been any number of political actions on the
subject of health care in recent years.  Here, I will define "political actions" as
those that are meant to try to affect people's opinions on health care or that are meant
to transmit the people's opinions to their leaders.

One of
the major political actions on health care in recent years is the Republican attempt to,
as seen in href="http://www.repealhealthcareact.org/welcome-to-repealhealthcareact-org/">this
link, mobilize public opinion against President Obama's health care law and to
use the opposition as a means of promoting Republican electoral prospects.  These
attempts have generally involved trying to convince voters that the Obama plan is
anti-American and dangerous to the US economy.

Similarly,
we can currently see Democratic political actions on health care, particularly on the
issue of Medicare.  Here, we see Democrats trying to convince voters that Republicans
would destroy the Medicare program.  They hope, like the Republicans, to use these
political actions to mobilize public opinion and to use that opinion to improve their
ability to win elections.

Why did Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall state that he did not celebrate the 1787 Constitution?

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall chose not to
attend the festivities for 200 year anniversary commemoration of the U. S. Constitution
in 1987, primarily because he believes that the Constitution--and its founding
fathers--deliberately did not include full rights for black slaves and women. Political
compromises affected the wording of the document, which, according to Marshall, did not
live up to the credo that

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"all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of
Happiness."

Marshall claims
that the compromises made in the writing of the Constitutution extended the importation
of slaves in the Southern states for another 20
years.

The
men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 could not have envisioned these changes. They
could not have imagined, nor would they have accepted, that the document they were
drafting would one day be construed by a Supreme Court to which had been appointed a
woman and the descendent of an African slave. "We the People" no longer enslave, but the
credit does not belong to the framers. It belongs to those who refused to acquiesce in
outdated notions of "liberty," "justice," and "equality," and who strived to better
them.

So, Marshall chose not
to celebrate the bicentennial "with flag-waving fervor." Instead, he celebrated it as "a
living document," preferring to honor the Bill of Righs "and the other amendments
protecting individual freedoms and human rights."

Discuss how the reader is supposed to finally understand the "I" in Whitman's Song of Myself?

I think that this becomes one of the primary issues in
Whitman's writing.  In the end, Whitman strives to make the personal notion of self a
universal one.  Whitman's goal is to see that the reader understands the subjective
experience that he undergoes in the course of the collection of poem.  Through this
acknowledgement of the subjective, there is a hopeful connection and application to the
universal.  It is here where I think that the "I" is to be understood.  While Whitman
examines the concept of his own identity and the contours of the American experience
through his own lens, it is clear that he wishes for it to be grasped and absorbed by
the reader, as well.  In recognizing his subjective, there is a hope that this can be
appreciated in the realm of the universal.  This is a strongly Romantic tendency in that
the poet sees himself as a representation of the universal voice that is filtered
through his own sense of being in the world.  The artistic experience for Whitman is to
explore his own recesses of the universal and through this, a universal link can be
forged.  In this, the reader understands the "I" as both Whitman and themselves in the
acknowledgement of experience.

What are some examples from To Kill a Mockingbird that support the fact that the book takes place during the Great Depression? Thanks

There are two specific examples that allude to the dates
consistent with the Great Depression. In chapter 1, Scout
narrates:

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Maycomb County had recently been told that it had
nothing to fear but fear
itself.

This alludes to the
words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who encouraged America that the country was going to
make it through the Great Depression.

Later in the novel,
Atticus uses a year in his closing argument that gives readers a date certain throughout
which the entire novel took place.

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There is a tendency in this year of grace,
1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context,
to satisfy all conditions. (Chapter
20)

These are the ways that
we learn that it is The Great Depression through just the knowledge of time, but
throughout the novel, Atticus in particular gives merit to the era because of discussion
of money. He lets the kids know that they are poor... although not as poor as many
others that they are around. He also refers to ways that doctors and lawyers are getting
paid during this era: through donations of food and supplies.

Do these two Japanese sentences mean what I think they mean? kono uchi ni hon ni arimasuka kono uchi ni hon deska I think the first one is "is...

Neither of these sentences is actually grammatically
correct.

In the first one, if you really want to say "is
there a book in this house," you would need to say "kono uchi ni hon
ga arimasu ka?"  Ni is the wrong particle because "ni"
shows location.  When you say "kono uchi ni" the "ni" shows the location of the action,
which is in the house.  But the book is not the location of the action, so you don't say
"ni" with regard to the book.

To say "is the book in this
house" you would need to say "hon wa kono uchi ni arimasu ka?"  You put "hon" with the
"wa" to show it's the subject.  You put "ni" with "uchi" to show that that is where the
action (being -- "arimasu") is taking place.

Neither of the
sentences as they are written can actually be translated because neither of them is
grammatically correct.

In The Hunger Games, what is the name of the mountain that the people of District 12 mine in?

The Hunger Games takes place in North
America, where the United States used to be; the new nation is named Panem. A terrible
war has decimated the country, perhaps even the world, and so there are only a few small
enclaves of humans left on the continent. Although the specific mountain that District
12 mines is not named, the region is shown in the
text:

District
12 was in a region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal
here.
(Collins, The Hunger Games, Google
Books)

This places District
12 in the Eastern United States, probably on the West side of the Appalachian Mountain
range. The fan website linked below contains several pieces of information about how
Panem is laid out, as well as with a few maps; in addition, Suzanne Collins reads
Katniss's voice with a Southern accent, meaning that District 12 is probably near the
Southern end of the Appalachian Mountain range.

What attitudes or traditions does Orwell wish to modify and what techniques does he use to influene the reader in 1984?I'm not looking for a plot...

I would suggest that Orwell's main "tradition target" is
our willingness to accept whatever we hear about the past/present as true just because
it is said or common knowledge.  Thus the key phrase who controls the present controls
the past; who controls the past controls the future. Orwell was very concerned about the
manipulation of the past through selective information "creation," especially through
the use/misuse of language.  He thought much of our modern writing wasn't intended to
enlighten, but rather to obfuscate, that much of what pasted for information was
propaganda (cf.  "Animal Farm"). Since the past doesn't exist, our only knowledge of it
is through verbal and written records.  When the information in these is created for
control purposes, you have propaganda.  We seem to become more and more taken by this,
especially with the Internet flooding us with information that is almost impossible to
verify.

He influences his readers by showing where such
slavish following of misinformation leads ... people put their faith in a government to
protect them, even if what they are protect against isn't real.  All countries carry on
Wars against the others, not because they are angry at them, but because the ongoing
nature of War makes the people dependent on their government for security, and makes
them more willing to make whatever "sacrifies" are demanded for that security.  Sound
familiar?  Orwell may have been on to something ....

Why is Scout surprised that Jem turns scarlet with anger when Mrs. Dubose defames Atticus for defending Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout was surprised at how angry Jem became at Mrs.
Dubose's racial comments. When she made a snide reference to his father defending Tom
Robinson, accusing him of "lawing for niggers," Jem turned scarlet with anger. Jem's
reaction surprised Scout. She had never seen Jem so upset. He usually remained calm by
nature:

I took
it for granted that he kept his temper--he had a naturally tranquil disposition and a
slow fuse.

Indeed, Scout was
surprised that Jem lost his temper. Normally, Scout was the one protecting Atticus' good
name. She was usually in a fist fight when someone claimed that Atticus "was no better
than the niggers and trash he works for." (Mrs. Dubose's very comments).  Now, it was
Jem who became furious. He was so angry until Scout thought he had lost all his
senses:

At the
time, however, I thought the only explanation for what he did was that for a few minutes
he simply went mad.

Of
course, Scout is referring to Jem tearing down Mrs. Dubose's flowers. Jem seemed to be
crazy with rage. Scout reminded him that Mrs. Dubose has a pistol, but Jem continued to
beat down her camellias:

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Jem did not begin to calm down until he had cut
the tops off of every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered
with green buds and leaves. He bent my baton against his knee, snapped it in two and
threw it down.

No doubt,
Scout stood in amazement at Jem's anger. She was shocked at what he did to Mrs. Dubose's
flowers. His actions were so aggressive and violent until Scout did not recognize him.
He was out of control with anger. Scout was stunned.

What are the internal conflicts in Lord of the Flies?

The most dominant internal conflict in Lord of the Flies
concerns the boys' struggle against becoming savages.  Ralph, particularly feels the
temptation and actively resists the urge to become a savage like Jack and the hunters. 
In chapter eight, "Gift for the Darkness," Ralph and Piggy discuss the danger of the
other boys' transformations into savages and how they had lost sight of the importance
of rescue.  Ralph confesses that he fears becoming like
them:

"What's
more I don't [care] sometimes.  Supposing I got like the others--not caring.  What 'ud
become of us?" (139)

Savagery
represents temptation in the novel; it is, in many ways, the easy choice for the boys to
make.  Becoming a savage had all the advantages of letting go of responsibility,
forgetting the rules and restrictions of civilization, and being able to participate in
the hunt; Ralph remarks, "being savages [...] must be jolly good fun" (142). 

The internal conflict in Lord of the Flies mirrors the
external conflict between civilization and savagery; ultimately, all of the boys will be
forced to choose between the two.

What is the significance of the beginning paragraph in the novel A Tale of Two Cities?A tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Ranked among the most famous lines of all literature, the
opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities begins with dramatic
contrasts that, ironically, suggest dualities.  The message of Charles Dickens, who has
read Thomas Carlysle's The French Revolution: A History with
trepidation for his own England, is that both England and France are between chaos and
order, despair and hope, darkness and light--"the worst of times" and "the best of
times."

Long a social reformer, Dickens intends to alert
his English reader that what has happened in France could well occur on both sides of
the Channel. Thus initiating the motif of dualties, the first paragraph helps to launch
the character doubles in Darnay/Carton, Manette/Lorry, Styver/Marquis d'Evremonde and
the opposing doubles of Mme. Defarge/Lucie and Miss Pross as well as the
parallels between London/Paris.

Finally, the opening
paragraph suggests the literary tensions between family and love, oppression and
hatred.  For instance, with the Evremonde family, especially, this tension is present as
Charles Darnay, the nephew, renounces his family name, yet he is pulled by the
"Loadstone Rock" to his home.

Discuss why planning is important to managers within an organization.

Planning is important to managers because the whole point
of management is to allow a business to operate more efficiently and to be more able to
achieve its goals.  If there is no planning, managers cannot do these
things.

In order to help a business achieve its goals,
managers need to be able to spell out where the firm wishes to "go" and how it wishes to
get there.  They must decide, for example, whether and how the firm wishes to expand. 
They must decide how that expansion could best be carried
out.

If there is no planning, decisions will be taken each
day based simply on immediate needs.  This will not allow the company to move forward in
an organized and purposeful way towards its future goals.  Such a firm is unlikely to
succeed because it would have no long range plan.

For these
reasons, managers need to plan if their firms are to succeed in the long
term.

What theme do "Shiloh" by Bobby Ann Mason and Trifles by Susan Glaspell have in common?

These are two very interesting texts to compare and
contrast. I would want to approach this question by thinking about the representations
of gender in these texts and how women are variously presented. In "Shiloh," for
example, Norma Jean is shown to be embarking on a discovery of her sense of self and
seems to have thrown off traditional roles of women, partly because of actions beyond
her control. Thus it is that her dreams of her life when she married at eighteen
concerned her role of mother and wife. The death of her child and the accident that
leaves Leroy crippled means that she is robbed of these two roles. We are presented with
Norma Jean's efforts to discover an identity that is not impacted or shaped by either
her mother or her husband. Her act of leaving her husband at the site of an important
battle in the Civil War symbolises the death of their marriage as Norma Jean
deliberately leaves behind traditional representations of gender and refuses to be
trapped again. Note what she says to Leroy at the end of the
story:

"She
won't leave me alone--you won't leave me alone." Norma Jean seems to be crying, but she
is looking away from him. "I feel eighteen again. I can't face that all over
again."

Norma Jean
deliberately rejects the traditional roles that society forces upon women and tries to
discover an alternate identity.

To a lesser extent,
Trifles captures similar ideas of how women are presented in a
patriarchal society. The play is suffused with the men's arrogance concerning their
belief that the women engage in nothing but "trifles," such as sewing, quilting and
preserving. It is of course highly ironic that the women are able to find what the men
are looking for through focusing on such trifles, that clearly map out the murder. Their
act of hiding the dead canary and therefore protecting Minnie Wright can be compared to
Norma Jean's act of leaving Leroy. Both are examples of women behaving in ways that
contradict the impression of how women should act and think in a patriarchal
society.

How does Harper Lee show the treatment of Tom Robinson is cruel and unfair in To Kill a Mockingbird?I would really appreciate strong quotes and...

Long before the trial begins, Harper Lee allows the reader
to understand that it will be an uphill battle for Tom. Atticus recognizes that Tom has
little chance of being cleared of the charges, telling his brother Jack
that

"The jury
couldn't possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson's word against the Ewells." (Chapter
9)

The verdict has actually
been decided in the minds of the jurors before the trial starts, since the fact that a
white man's word is always accepted over that of a black man's holds true in the 1930s
Deep South. Although the Ewells are the "disgrace of Maycomb," they are white, and their
word will be accepted over that of Tom's.

Atticus will
provide plenty of evidence to support Tom's innocence: Mayella's injuries must have been
inflicted by a left-handed man (Tom's left arm is crippled); she never saw a physician
to corroborate her charge of rape; Bob's and Mayella's testimony often were in conflict;
and Mayella changes her story several times on the stand. But, as Atticus knew
beforehand, Tom's testimony--as honest and forthright as it seemed to Scout and Jem--was
not believed by the jury.

Tom suffers further indignities
when he is nearly taken from the jail and lynched shortly before the trial; while he is
being cross-examined, the prosecutor repeatedly refers to him as "boy;" and Bob and
Mayella both call him "nigger" while on the stand. For Tom, the worst part is being
imprisoned following the trial. Although Atticus believes he has a great chance of
freeing Tom on appeal, Tom is unable to deal with being caged like a bird, and when he
attempts to escape, he is riddled with bullets--seventeen of them--from the rifles of
the guards. Tom is memorialized in an editorial by B.B. Underwood, who likens his death
to the sinful and "senseless slaughter of songbirds." 

Explain why Boxer is ultimately a tragic hero.

In thinking of Boxer as a tragic hero, I think that a
couple of elements have to be present.  On one hand, I think that Boxer is unaware of
his own predicament.  This helps to make him quite a tragic victim of his circumstances
and surroundings.  Boxer is manipulated by Napoleon in order to maximize his effort and
when he is deemed ineffective, he becomes a victim of his circumstances.  I think that
Boxer can be seen as tragic in that he is made to realize, albeit too late, that he is
being taken to the Knacker's.  Clover screams this out to him as he is being taken away,
and as he kicks the sides of the truck that has come to take him, his resistance is
futile.  In the end, this becomes a tragic end to one of the most heroic and noble
characters in the novel.

With all of this in mind, I am not
entirely certain that Orwell was really concerned with establishing Boxer as a tragic
hero.  In some senses, Orwell feels much in way of sadness for Boxer and his
representation of those who blindly serve their political rulers.  Yet, there is a level
of anger that Orwell possesses for Boxer, precluding him from being fully embraced as a
tragic hero.  In the end, Orwell feels that Boxer's willingness to blindly follow
Napoleon, confirmed with his assertions that "Napoleon is always right" and "I will work
harder," coupled with his lack of learning the alphabet in not being able to get past
the first four letters, and his lack of questioning all play a role in Boxer's
downfall.  This might not make him tragic as much as simply making poor choices in
relation to himself and authority.

"Emily Bronte gives us an in-depth psychological study of the character of Heathcliff in her novel Wuthering Heights." Discuss this statment in...

I am not too sure that I understand what you mean by the
phrase "in-depth psychological study" of Heathcliff. While I think the novel does
provide us with excellent insights regarding Heathcliff's character, if you think that
this phrase is talking about a kind of investigative presentation of Heathcliff where we
understand his character completely, then I would have to disagree with the statement,
as, by the end of the novel, we as readers are still left with so many questions and
uncertainties about him.

Consider first of all his obscure
origins. His entrance into the novel comes as something of a fairy talle, as he has
clearly mesmerised Mr. Earnshaw and broken the toys that he brought for his two
children, symbolising the cuckoo-like way that he supplants them in their father's
affections. We are given an understanding of how the abuse he receives at the hand of
Hindley could be responsible for his later actions, in particular his desire to get back
at Hindley, and how his loyalty to Catherine is tested by her growing friendship with
Edgar.

However, a crucial gap in the information we are
given about Heathcliff is where he went after hearing that Catherine was going to marry
Edgar and what he did. We do know he comes back transformed physically, and Nelly
suspects he might have been a soldier. However, he comes back determined to gain his
revenge on Hindley and Edgar for the loss of Cathy, and pursues his aim with such
ferocity that he destroys many in the process. So often, his evil acts are just hinted
at rather than explicity explored, such as his son's references to his father's abuse of
him to the younger Cathy.

Therefore, given the number of
gaps surrounding Heathcliff's life and narrative, it is hard to say that we are given an
"in-depth" psychological study of this important character, and by the end of the novel,
I think it is safe to conclude that we are left with more questions than answers about
Heathcliff.

In Brave New World, What is Helmholtz's opinion of Shakespeare?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter
Twelve, which is when John the Savage reads Romeo and Juliet to
Helmholtz, with something of a mixed reception. Interestingly, in spite of Helmhholtz's
openness to new ideas, he shows that he is unable to escape the way that he himself is a
product of socialisation of his age, as his shown by the way that Juliet protests
against her parents forcing her to marry Paris, to which he responds with
"uncontrollable guffawing." Note what the narrator tells us about Helmholtz's response
to these lines:

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The mother and father (grotesque obscenity)
forcing the daughter to have someone she didn't want! And the idiotic girl not saying
that she was having someone else whom (for the moment, at any rate) she preferred! In
its smutty absurdity the situation was irresistibly
comic.

So, although Helmholtz
is able to appreciate Shakespeare as a genius of "emotional engineering," at the same
time, his conditioning makes him unable to appreciate Shakespeare in the same way that
John is able to appreciate Shakespeare, as notions such as love and loyalty are
completely absent from his experience.

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

The house on Mango Street is not Esperanza's dream home.
She is not happy with her surroundings. She expresses her dissatisfaction with the
small, cramped house:

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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.

The house is located in
the ghetto. It is not an ideal location. Esperanza is dissatisfied. She is constantly
talking of leaving. She dreams for a nice, large house in a better neighborhood. She
complains about the crowded neighborhood:

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

At the present, the
house on Mango Street is surrounded by bums, drug dealers, and homeless drunkards. The
atmosphere is negative. The house on Mango Street is where the children encounter
various situations; some are even dangerous. Esperanza and her friends get in trouble
while walking around the street in high-heel shoes that were hand-me-down high
heels:

They
strut around the neighborhood acting like the older girls until a homeless man accosts
them. After fleeing, the girls quickly take off the shoes with the intention of never
wearing them again.

The
neighborhood is less than safe in that some girls get abused on Mango Street. It is not
a safe neighborhood. Esperanza will leave one day as she promises continuously
throughout the pages, but she will return to save the ones who cannot get out. Three
sisters read her palm and share that Esperanza will leave Mango street one day. They
remind her to come back to save the others who cannot get out by
themselves:

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When you leave you must remember to come back for
the others. A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango
Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you
are.

Even though Esperanza
will always be a part of Mango Street, and she will leave one day but never forget Mango
Street and the people who there, this is why it's not her dream
home.

Why we cannot divide 3+5i by 1+i?

The answer is
easy!

The divisor 1 + i cannot divide 3 + 5i because it is
not a real number. The division of complex numbers follows the next procedure. First,
we'll have to multiply both numerator and denominator by the conjugate of
divisor.

`(3+5i)/(1+i) =
((3+5i)(1-i))/((1+i)(1-i))`

We notice that the special
product from denominator returns a difference of two
squares:

`((3+5i)(1-i))/(1- i^2) = ((3+5i)(1-i))/(1+1) =
((3+5i)(1-i))/2`

Since the divisor is a real number we can
perform now the division.

We'll remove the brackets from
numerator:

`((3+5i)(1-i))/2 = (3 - 3i + 5i -
5i^2)/2`

`((3+5i)(1-i))/2 = (3 + 2i +
5)/2`

`` `((3+5i)(1-i))/2 = (8 +
2i)/2`

`((3+5i)(1-i))/2 = (2(4 +
i))/2`

`` `((3+5i)(1-i))/2 = 4 +
i`

The result of division of the complex
numbers 3 + 5i and 1 + i is the complex number 4 +
i.

What other feelings did people have for Mr. Summers besides feeling sorry? (a) respect and liking; (b) awe; (c) fear and suspicion; or...

The answer to your question is certainly in between (a),
respect and liking, and (b)awe. They both would fit because Mr. Summers is
well-respected as a community leader, and he is liked perhaps because he is the richest
man in the village.

The fact that people talk about him
with admiration shows awe. It is almost as if he were the celebrity member of the
village. It is imaginable that the fact that he has money and power earn him the awe of
his fellow villagers.

Yet, the fact that the villagers
continue with the tradition of the lottery shows that they like and respect Mr. Summers
enough to take his word, and not their own common sense, to go on with it. Mr. Summers
is one of the biggest supporters of the lottery. His influence clearly affected their
decision-making process.

Therefore, A or B would work, but
if you want to cover all bases go with "respected and
well-liked."

What are two ways that white supremacy was restored in the south after the Civil War?

Two ways that white supremacy was restored in the South
after the Civil War were through governmental action and through
terrorism.

The terrorism was conducted by groups like the
Ku Klux Klan.  This group was created to try to frighten freed blacks and the white
supporters of Reconstruction governments.  The KKK used violence to try to prevent these
groups from exercising their political rights.

Partly
because of this, and partly because of Northern indifference, the Compromise of 1877 was
reached.  This compromise ended Reconstruction and allowed the South to have
self-government again.  Governments elected after this were uniformly white supremacist,
taking away the rights of black people to vote and to have equal
treatment.

In detail, explain how the flashbacks to Edna's past function. Be sure to consider her father and her childhood.

The two earliest flashbacks in the novel and arguably the
most important in regards to establishing Edna's character both reveal a depth to Edna's
character that would be missing without them. Both flashbacks occur in chapter 7.  In
the first one, Edna is talking to Robert and recalls a "summer day in Kentucky, of a
meadow that seemed as big as the ocean."  When they talk about the experience, Edna
tells him that when she walked in the field it felt like swimming and that "I was a
little unthinking child in those days, just following a misleading impulse without
question" and she suggests that she was likely "running away from prayers, from the
[gloomy] Presbyterian service." This memory reveals to us that Edna's interest in
running away and being engulfed by something larger than itself has its manifestations
in her childhood and is not something that she is just starting to consider as an
unhappy wife and mother in Creole New Orleans.  She isn't that
simple.

As the chapter progresses we learn that Edna had
some "loves" in her past, but that they were more of her imagination than any
possibility of reality.  She loved a "sad-eyed cavalry officer" who was actually more of
an acquaintance of her father.  She loved a man, from a distance, who hardly knew she
existed and who was engaged to the lady on the neighboring plantation.  She finally
loved a "great tragedian" that "began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses."
 Unfortunately, he was completely out of her realm -- a picture on her table -- and it
was completely hopeless.  With all of this flashback information, it comes as no
surprise then that when Leonce woos her with real, actual ardor, she is taken in, even
though she doesn't love him.  Leonce is everything her father isn't, and that is part of
his appeal.  He is attentive and loving; her father is aloof and a heavy drinker.
 Leonce is polished and sincere; her father is a former army officer and a bit more
brash.  Edna even openly admits that the fact that Leonce is Catholic and that that
would irritate her father is one of the reasons she agreed to marry him. This flashback
gives us a very complete picture of Edna's history in regards to men and establishes the
foundations of her marriage to Leonce, so that when we see things falling apart, we can
know that this might have been inevitable.  This has a great effect on the reading of
the novel -- it makes Edna's character more complex and more
interesting.

Examine Lycidas by Milton as a pastoral elegy.

Pastoral poetry is a genre which narrates the purity of
rural/country life.  Very often it also relates to the lives of a shepherd. 
Country/rural life is glorified as ‘pure’ from all problems of life.  A pastoral elegy
can be an elegy which takes up the pastoral poetic style in narration.  An elegy being a
poem written on the death of some near or dear ones, pastoral elegy relates to both
death and idyllic rural life. This genre (pastoral elegy) is initiated by Theocritus and
made famous by Virgil and Spencer.

Lycidas by
John Milton is an elegy on his friend Edward King who was drowned on a voyage to
Ireland. In its very form it is pastoral. In this poem we can see excellent images of
nature and village life. In this elegy Edward King is been pasteurized as a shepherd in
its idyllic setting.

Milton borrows the name
Lycidas and gives to Edward King from the profounder of pastoral elegy (Theocritus)
himself. He has taken this name from Theocritus’ Idylls in which Lycidas is a shepherd
and poet.  By giving the very name Lycidas to King, Milton fulfills the first
requirement of a pastoral poetry.  In this genre we can also see praises for the
shepherd.  Here in Lycidas Milton calls King as selfless even though he was of
clergy.

Lycidas begins with a pastoral image,
“Symbols of poetic fame; as their berries are not yet ripe.” When we read these lines we
are sure to get a picture of nature.  Milton tries to compare Cambridge to pasture,
latter on he tries to speak about the heavy change suffered by nature because of the
death of King.  He says that willows, hazel groves, woods and caves lament Lycidas’s
death. At the end of the poem Lycidas appears as a rejuvenated figure, Milton says,
“Burnished by the sun’s rays at down, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his
eternal reward.”

The balance between elegy and
pastoral imagery throughout the poem has created an impression that Lycidas is one of
the most original pastoral elegies.

Please comment upon the following lines from "Ode to a Nightingale" by Keats.White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets...

You have quoted the second half of the fifth stanza and
the first half of the sixth stanza of this famous poem. As always with these kinds of
questions you need to be very careful that you look at any quotes you take from it in
context of the stanzas that they come from and the poem as a
whole.

Having said this, your quote begins by a description
that paints a picture of the sensuous beauty of nature that surrounds the poet as he
speaks. We are given images that deliberately appeal to our senses, as we can smell the
"coming musk rose, full of dewy wine" and also hear the "murmurous haunt of flies" as
they buzz around. The setting therefore seems to be entirely approrpiate for the speaker
to engage on his flight of fancy as he considers the nature of beauty in the form of the
nightingale.

The opening of the sixth stanza however
creates a very different mood from the kind of natural beauty presented in the stanza
immediately before. Instead of focusing on the beauty of his surroundings, the poet
describes his own world-weary state and how he has yearned for death at times, being
"half in love with easeful Death," seeing death as a release and an escape from the
wearisome problems of the world that he suffers. Note how the mood of this section
becomes morose, dispirited and passive as he contemplates dying.

Why is nature never spent in Gerard Manley Hopkins "God's Grandeur"?

In Hopkin's poem "God's Grandeur" the first line of the
second stanza states, "And for all this, nature is never spent".  The meaning of the
word spent in context of this line means: worn
out.

Therefore, the power of nature, given God's power, is
unlimited. Nature, according to Hopkins, has the ability to regenerate itself over and
over again. The world "will flame out" and "gather to a greatness". Nature, unlike the
generations of men who "have trod, have trod, have trod", is able to shine again at
morning even though the world sees nothing but darkness at
night.

Basically what Hopkins is saying is that regardless
of what man does, no matter how hard he toils, he is unlike nature- he is mortal in a
sense. Nature, because of God, is immortal- able to survive the footprint of mankind's
generations.

Explain how the writer uses the introductory scene before the arrival of the sergeant-major to arouse our sympathy for the White family. The...

In "The Monkey's Paw," the setting is a stormy night.
Also, the White family lives way out where the pathway is a wet, soggy area. The night
out is bringing torrential rains:

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"That's the worst of living so far out," bawled
Mr. White, with sudden and unlooked-for violence; "of all the beastly, slushy,
out-of-the-way places to live in, this is the worst. Pathway's a bog, and the road's a
torrent. I don't know what people are thinking about. I suppose because only two houses
in the road are let, they think it doesn't
matter."

Immediately, the
reader has sympathy for the White's living conditions. It is easy to have compassion for
the Whites who live so far out until no one else cares about their existence. On this
stormy night, the reader is sympathetic in that the Whites are experiencing unfair
circumstances due to their setting.

Also, Mr. White is
losing a chess game against his son. The reader is sympathetic for it seems to mean so
much to the senior. He is able to arouse sympathy from the reader for his present
situation.

Even Mrs. White tries to console her husband.
She reminds him that he can win the next game:

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"Never mind, dear," said his wife, soothingly;
"perhaps you'll win the next
one."

Unknowingly, the
visitor is bringing bad luck on this stormy night. Even Mr. White doubts that he shall
come on a night like tonight:

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"I should hardly think that he'd come to-night,"
said his father, with his hand poised over the
board.

Truly, the reader is
sympathetic with the conditions in the introduction that the Whites are experiencing on
this ghastly
night.

A winch operating at 1kW pulls a box of weight 980N up a smooth slope at a constant speed 2m/s. calculate the angle the slope makes with the...

The winch is operating at 1kW. The work done by the winch
in one second is 1 kJ. Assuming the slope is frictionless, the work done is only against
the gravitational force of attraction of the Earth on the box which is 980
N.

If we assume the angle of the slope with respect to the
horizontal as x, the force with which the box is pulled upwards can be divided into two
components: one perpendicular to the ground and one along the ground. The component of
the force perpendicular to the ground is equal to 1000*sin x. It is also equal to the
weight of the box as the box moves upwards with a constant
velocity.

1000* sin x =
980

=> sin x =
980/1000

=> x = arc sin
(0.98)

x = 78.52
degrees

The angle made by the slope with the
horizontal is 78.52 degrees.

Does the theme of "Tintern Abbey" justify the title of the poem?

The theme of Wordworth's poem "Lines Written a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour" is that of the
power of nature.

Perched above the actual abbey, Wordsworth
is able to look down a get a larger picture of what is surrounding him. This being said,
Wordsworth admits to the fact that this is the place where he can always find
comfort.

The title of the poem provides a perfect name.
Wordsworth is looking down upon nature's glory. In doing so, Wordsworth is able to find
comfort in the things he remembers because of the
abbey.

Wordsworth knows that the power of nature is great-
it can take away the pains one feels in life.

Wordsworth is
not alone, nature surrounds him:

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For thou art with me, here, upon the banks

Of this fair river; thou, my dearest
Friend

In the story, "Thank you, Ma'am," by Langston Hughes, what is the theme?I have read the story but I don't know the answer to this..

Author Langston Hughes explores several themes in his
poignant short story, "Thank You, M'am." The ideas of trust, dignity and respect are
foremost in the interactions between the protagonist, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones
and her would-be purse snatcher, Roger. The conflict arises when Roger tries to steal
Mrs. Jones' purse; the large woman cuffs him, however, and leads him to her apartment.
Once inside, she treats him with the respect he has probably rarely encountered,
offering him a place to clean himself and then a portion of her meager meal. She leaves
her purse unprotected, showing that she trusts the boy despite his earlier
transgression. In the end, the poor woman--who obviously can barely make ends
meet--gives Roger $10 in order to buy the blue suede shoes he so desperately desires.
She then shows him the door; the boy, obviously humbled and gratified by her kindness,
manages to thank her as the door closes behind him. Mrs. Jones' actions are meant to
instill trust and confidence in the boy who, like her, is in need of both material and
spiritual guidance.

the use of the first person narration in poe's stories leads us to sympathise with the characters. discuss. the short stories i'm doing is 'The...

A reader sympathizes with the narrator because of the
first-person narration, a technique commonly used by writers to help the reader not only
get into the head of the main character, but also to make the reader feel that
character's emotions. Once we feel a connection with that character, we are
automatically, psychologically made to sympathize with that character.  From a
psychological standpoint, the repetitive reading of the word "I" in first-person
narration makes the reader feel as though s/he is the one experiencing the events, thus
deepening the connection to the narrator.  Furthermore, it is that narrator's
perspective and "version" of the story which the reader is given, therefore limiting the
chance of the reader sympathizing with any other character whose thoughts and emotions
the reader is not privy to.  In the specific case of "The Tell-Tale Heart", we have only
the servant's first-person narration explaining the horror and mental torture of looking
into that eye, thus frightening us and almost forcing us into understanding his
actions.  We may not, however, really know the entire situation. If we were perhaps to
find out from the old man that he loved the servant, or depended  and trusted the
servant, our view of both characters could very well change and lessen our sympathy for
the servant's criminal actions.  The perspective the reader is given is one the reader
tends to trust and adhere to.

Explain how "A Day's Wait" is a slice of life story.

I think that "A Day's Wait" can be seen as a "slice of
life" story in both theme and construction.  The most mundane of experiences is detailed
in terms of a boy being sick and a father's vigil over him. There is nothing very
extraordinary about the conditions in which the boy and father live.  The setting and
condition is very real.  The boy's reaction and mistaken belief of his own death is very
real life.  The father reading a book about pirates to his son confirms the mundane and
natural of the story.  The discussion of death, a topic that is not mundane, is even
framed in a mundane manner.  The boy recognizes the differences between Celsius and
Fahrenheit readings.  In this small mundane fact, the boy recognizes his
misunderstanding regarding death.  The fact that the ending includes "small things" that
make him cry also brings out this "slice of life" element.  The story is representative
of the Hemingway "local color" short story that takes a moment in real life and explores
its philosophical implications.  It is for this reason that so much in the story is
presented in a "slice of life" manner, for its depiction of the mundane helps to
heighten the universal applications that emerge form the short
story.

How is the circulatory system of reptiles characterized?

The circulatory system of reptiles is closed, as it is in
humans.  Reptiles have a double circulatory system, but the heart is not always
completely separated into two separate pumps.  In reptiles, the ventricular septum is
incomplete and the pulmonary artery is equipped with a sphincter muscle.  This allows
for a second possible blood flow path.  Sometimes the sphincter muscle may cause the
blood to flow from the capillaries to the heart, then right back to the capillaries
again.  This type system is useful to cold-blooded organisms like reptiles in helping
regulate their body temperature.

Do I lose my unemployment benifits if I take a commission only Job?Yes, What if no sales are made I do not make any money from the job.

Each state has different rules based on federal guidelines
as it relates to eligibility for umemployment benefits.  For example, if you are an
employee of the company and you have a specific number of hours to work which includes
some  administrative record keeping time, you may be eligible for umemployment benefits.
Benefits. of course. are based on salary earned.  So if you make no sales. there will be
no benefitrs. 

Below are the Federal
guidelines

"1. You must meet the State requirements for
wages earned or time worked during an established period of time referred to as a "base
period". (In most States, this is usually the first four out of the last five completed
calendar quarters prior to the time that your claim is filed.)

2. You
must be determined to be unemployed through no fault of your own (determined under State
law), and meet other eligibility requirments of State law."  Source: US Dept of
Labor. "

What passages from Crispin: The Cross of Lead could be used to reveal Crispin's world view?

The story of Crispin charts how he moves from being
extremely bound by his views of God and religion at the beginning of the tale and
gradually, thanks to the encouragement of Bear, exchanges this for a more liberated
world view. For example, in Chapter 12, when he runs away from his home village
recognising that he has been declared a Wolf's head and that there is little chance of
his successful escape, he shows his religiosity by
praying:

At
length I flung myself upon my knees and prayed long and hard to Our Saviour Jesus, to
His Sainted Mother, Mary, and most of all to my blessed St. Giles, for mercy, guidance,
comfort and
protection.

Crispin shows
himself bound by his world view because he is unable to go against anything that he has
vowed to do in the name of his religion. For example, after Bear has shrewdly made
Crispin swear a vow to serve him, Crispin reflects that he would love to run away, but
unfortunately he feels that he would go straight "to Hell" if he were to break his vow.
Crispin's world view at the beginning of the novel is therefore best expressed as being
dominated by his belief in Christianity, which results in his repression in various
forms.

What is the plot outline of "The Sisters" (in the anthology "The Dubliners")? What happened?What is the plot outline (what happened) in "The...

As with many of James Joyce's short stories in
The Dubliners, "The Sisters" seems to have little to no plot.  On
the surface little seems to happen.  We know from the beginning that Father Flynn is
dying. "There was no hope for him this time."   The narrator is his student, who has
been taking lessons in religion from the priest.  The narrator finds out from a family
friend Old Cotter that the priest has died.  The next day, the narrator goes to the
priest's house.  There he meets the title characters--the sisters.  These two women are
the sisters of the priest who have tended to his needs and from whom we learn much about
the priest's physical and mental decline.  From them we learn that he dropped the
chalice, an incident that seems to precipitate Father Flynn's collapse, and later he was
found laughing in the confessional.  The sisters declare that he was a "conflicted man"
but view his corpse as a "beautiful" one.

The narrator who
seems to be experiencing the death of someone he knows for the first time views the
priest through unfiltered eyes.  To him the priest was a friend. Yet, his death brings a
curious sense of relief  He seems focused on the priest's physical deterioriation both
in life and in death.  To him his corpse is anything but
beautiful.

Much, though, seems to be omitted from this
story.  Like the gnomon, one of the words that so fascinates the boy, parts are left
out.  We don't truly know the extent of the priest's interactions with the boy or the
reasons for the priest's mental decline.  But we, like the narrator, sense a certain
uneasiness when the priest is mentioned, as if his true flaws are not revealed--either
by the narrator who is too innocent to understand or by the sisters who seem to find
comfort in routine and ritual.

What are the differences and similarities between the Socs and greasers in The Outsiders?

The Socs and greasers are the two rival groups of
teenagers in S. E. Hinton's teen novel, The Outsiders. There are
obviously more differences between the groups than
similarities.

SIMILARITIES 

• All
  of the boys are teens (aside from Darry, who is 20; and possibly the Soc, Paul, Darry's
  ex-buddy who squares off against him at the rumble).


• The
  boys all like to fight, and they all seem to have a general disregard for the law.
  


• According to Cherry Valance, the boys aren't so
  different; like the greasers, the Socs also have family
  problems.


• Pony and Cherry both dig
  sunsets.

DIFFERENCES

• The
  greasers wear leather and blue jeans; the Socs wear madras shirts and khaki
  slacks.


• The greasers have long, greasy hair; the Socs
  generally have shorter hair.


• The greasers are poor,
  living on the bad side of town; the west-side Socs live in the affluent area of
  Tulsa.


• Socs drive nice, new cars; few greasers even own
  cars, but those who do soup up older models.


• Greasers are
  emotional; Socs are "sophisticated—cool to the point of not feeling
  anything."


• Greasers are considered juvenile delinquents;
  Socs are looked upon as "an asset to society."


• Many of
  the greasers are dropouts; most, if not all, of the Socs attend high
  school.


• The greasers know they will always be on the
  bottom of the social ladder; the Socs have bright futures ahead of
  them.


• The greasers "steal things... and hold up gas
  stations and have a gang fight once in a while." The Socs "jump greasers and wreck
  houses and throw beer blasts for kicks."

What is Shirley pointing out when Tessie keeps saying that "it wasn't fair"?Multiple Choice (please choose): The author seems to be pointing out...

The answer that closest completes the sentence is choice
A: Fairness is meaningless.

The reason for this is because
Tessie is the first person in the village that actually questions the fairness and
purpose of the celebration of the lottery. As a former active participant herself, we
can assume that she never wondered about it until the day when her turn comes. Moreover,
since she does not get an answer and gets stoned to death by her fellow villagers, it
means clearly that to the people of her community fairness is completely
meaningless.

Choice B- nothing is fair in life is a general
statement that would apply to anything and not directly to the main idea of the story.
This story is about ONE specific event not being fair for a certain
population.

Choices C and D do not have anything to do with
the story. Choice C states that fairness is most important to the victims, which just
does not make sense and the last choice that says that Victims cannot be bad "sports"
does not make sense either because victims do not consent to whatever is done to
them.

Why is it ironic that the animals are congratulated at the Battle of the Windmill in Animal Farm?

There is irony in the congratulations of the animals at
the "Battle of the Windmill" for a couple of reasons.  The first is that the windmill is
totally destroyed.  The congratulations of a battle would be in recognition of victory. 
The windmill was not saved, as it was obliterated.  Yet, Squealer understands very
acutely the nature of the animals.  He understands that if all of the animals coalesce
and share anger amongst one another, they can mobilize to get rid of the pigs'
leadership much like all of the animals unified to get rid of Jones and the humans.  In
an attempt to misdirect them and placate them, Squealer declares success in turning back
the humans and creates the "Battle of the Windmill" label and extends the
congratulations.  In doing so, the animals' attention is turned against the humans and
not against the pigs' leadership, whose attempts to try to negotiate with both sets of
human farms ended up causing the destruction in the first place.  It is also ironic that
congratulations was extended because of what follows it.  The pigs' use "The Battle of
the Windmill" as a way to get the animals to rebuild the windmill.  In this light, the
congratulations is empty.  It is a pat on the back, followed by a whipping to get
working on building it again.

what do they hope to achieve by being there

By being "there" I think you mean behind the castle
walls??  The "Red Death" was an epidemic.  Some believe that it is a fictional disease,
but Time magazine called smallpox "the Red Death". (See link
below). Smallpox, however, does not have the symptoms explained in the first paragraph
of the story.

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"There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness,
and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the
body and especially upon the face of the
victim... "

although it does
cause a rash in the mouth and throat before moving all over the body.  An epidemic
affects many people in a specific area at the same time.  It is spread through contact
and being around people with the disease.

Prince Prospero
was unconcerned about his people, but he and his friends wanted to avoid getting the
disease. They want to avoid contact of any kind with those people who are suffering from
it.  So he

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" summoned to his presence a thousand hale and
light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his
court"

He had built his
castle into a strong fortress and had the servents weld bolts into the iron gate so that
no one could enter or leave.  They did not want to have any contact with those infected
nor did they want to see them. Notice he invited his " hale and lighthearted"
friends. "Hale" meaning that they had to be healthy, and "lighthearted" meaning that
they enjoyed a good time.  He still wanted to enjoy life, while his people were dying
outside the castle gates.  That is the reason he threw the masquerade ball.  They had
been confined for almost six months and the epidemic was at its height.  So what they
hoped to achieve was escape from the "Red Death"

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to what does this phrase refer? "The light begun to come...."

In Chapter Nine of Mark Twain's The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim have left the high end of island in their
canoe, and before them they see a two-story house drifting down the Mississippi River.
For Huck and Jim, the house represents the potential for supplies. The two climb
"aboard," even while the "frame-house" is titled radically to one side. They enter in
through a window on the second floor, but it is too dark to see. So Jim and Huck tie the
canoe to the house and wait for the daylight to appear with dawn. Finally, light comes
up over the horizon.

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The light begun to come before we got to the foot
of the island. Then we looked in at the
window.

This statement means
that the sun is beginning to rise before the house approaches the end of their island.
With the sunrise, there is now enough light so they can look inside the window to see if
there is anything inside that they can use. The quote, "The light begun to come..." is
referring to the sun coming up.

Why did most city states have defensive walls in ancient times?

There are two reasons for this.  First, they had the walls
because they were necessary.  Second, they had the walls because they were
effective.

Cities needed walls so that they could not be
easily attacked.  People from bandits to outright armies would have been interested in
attacking and looting cities.  The cities needed walls to make it so that attacking them
would be too difficult.  This would mean that they would be much less likely to be
attacked.

Cities had walls because walls worked.  In the
times before modern artillery (cannons) walls were rather effective.  Armies, let alone
bandit bands, did not have effective ways to knock walls down from long distances.  This
meant that the walls were actually useful in ways that they were not useful after
powerful cannon were invented.

Cities had walls, then,
because they were effective ways to prevent attacks on those
cities.

Why do the passengers on the Dover mail act towards each other as they do? A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In the opening chapter of the Dickens's historical novel,
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens creates a tableau of the times: 
Highway robbers are proliferate as "in England, there was scarcely an amount of order
and protection to justify much national boasting."  Robberies and buglaries are nightly
occurrences. Highwaymen, too, abound; so, there is a tremedous distrust and fear that
exists within the hearts of many a Englishman.

Therefore,
in Chapter II of the Book I, the passengers on the Dover Mail, the stagecoach that
carries the mail to the Dover point where it then goes on to Calais, France, are
extremely wary and very suspicious of anyone they do not know.  Dickens writes that
the three passengers, one of whom is Mr. Lorry, have their faces covered with only their
eyes peering out from "many wrappers."

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In those days, travellers were very shy of being
confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a robber‚ or in league
with robbers.

The coach guard
is extremely cautious as anybody on the road that they traverse may be a robber, or in
league with robbers; in fact, he watches the "arm-chest" that has six or eight loaded
rifles and several cutlasses on top of it.

As the
passengers who "suspected everyone else," mount the hill by walking in the mud next to
the stage, not one ventures ahead for fear that he

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would have put himself in a fair way of getting
shot instantly as a
highwayman.

Being an older
gentleman, Mr. Lorry remains on the step of the coach, half in and half out, but he like
the others looks to the driver to the guard and back again as they continue up the muddy
hill.  When the coach stops, it is as though the beating of their fearful hearts can be
heard, especially when the sound of a horse at a fast gallop is discerned.  When he
detects this sound, the guard calls out, "So-ho!" and threatens to
shoot.

It is Jerry Cruncher who approaches and asks for the
passenger Mr. Lorry, who verifies himself.  But the guard tells Cruncher to approach
slowly,

"And
if you've got holsters to that saddle...don't let me see your hand go high 'em.  For I'm
a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of
Lead."

At this point Mr.
Lorry calls out to the guard, who has his right hand on the stock of a blunderbuss: 
"There is nothing to apprehend. I belong to Tellso's Bank....I am going to Paris on
business."  When Mr. Lorry returns to the cab, the others have secreted their watches
and purses, pretending now to be asleep.  The coach moves forward, and the guard
replaces his blunderbuss with attention to where is artillery is should he need it
again.

How does the Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven", relate to his own life?Was there anything specific throughout Poe's life that inspired him to...

Yes. Poe had married his first cousin, Virginia Eliza
Clem. There was a great deal to suggest dysfunctionality in the marriage: Poe and Eliza
were first cousins; at the time of the marriage, he was twenty six and she thirteen.
Even so, he was madly in love with her, or as he stated in Annabel Lee,
"we loved with a love that was more than
love."

Poe had a morbid fear of tuberculosis, a disease
which had killed his mother and forced him to be raised by foster parents. For a long
time, he avoided serious relationships for fear that it would be spoiled by
tuberculosis. He overcame that fear when he married Eliza. In a cruel irony, Eliza
contracted tuberculosis, and lingered for several years before dying at age 25. Poe was
consumed by her impending death, and the similarity of circumstances between this and
his mother's death. A number of scholars have suggested that the untimely death of the
women in his life influenced Poe's frequent theme of the death of a beautiful woman. In
"The Raven," she is called "Lenore." Other poems, such as Anabel
Lee and Ulalume, echo the same
theme.

The Raven speaks not so much of death but of the
pain of losing a loved one to death with which he was so familiar, a pain that refuses
to go away, as he notes in the poem:

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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting,
still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,

And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be
lifted -- nevermore!

How do elementary school children benefit from being taught states and regions in social studies?

It is generally the case that children (and even many
adults) are more interested in studying things that have a clear relationship to their
own lives.  It is for this reason that elementary school students benefit from studying
states and regions.

By studying these local subjects early
on, students are introduced to social studies and historical concepts in a context that
is more interesting to them.  They learn about them in the context of places that are
familiar.  This allows them to have an easier time learning and caring about these
concepts.

Once students learn skills and concepts in this
way, they are more ready to move on to other areas of history and social studies.  They
have benefitted from having a foundation laid for them through their study of their own
states and regions.

Please explain the images used by Confessional Poets.

Poetry of the Confessional Poets is all about personal
experiences and typically dealt with themes such as death, depression, trauma, and
personal relationships. These were new subject areas in literature given that many times
texts were not typically written from such an honest and open first-person
point-of-view. In this type of poetry, authors dealt with very personal and sacrificial
writings in which, basically, they "spilled their
guts".

Confessional Poets emerged during the 1950s and
1960s. The most famous of the Confessionalists were: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, John
Berryman, Robert Lowell, and L.D. Snodgrass.

The imagery of
the Confessionalist's was typically dark and depressed. These authors had no interest in
hiding the truth behind the reality of their lives. Perhaps they looked at their poetry
as a sort of way to deal with what has happened to them and as an own personal therapy
session to heal.

One example of a Confessional Poem is
"Barren Woman" by Plath

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Empty, I echo to the least
footfall,
Museum without statues, grand with pillars, porticoes,
rotundas.
In my courtyard a fountain leaps and sinks back into
itself,
Nun-hearted and blind to the world. Marble lilies
Exhale
their pallor like scent.

I imagine myself with a great
public,
Mother of a white Nike and several bald-eyed
Apollos.
Instead, the dead injure me attentions, and nothing can
happen.
Blank-faced and mum as a
nurse.

The imagery here is
forced upon a reader through Plath's imagery ridden terminology: empty, echo, sinks,
blind, pallor, dead, injure, nothing, blank-faced, and
mum.

All of these words depict sorrow, solitude, and pain.
This is an example of the way imagery is used in the poetry of the
Confessionalist's.

In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, what is inside Jim Rawley's heart? What is most important to him?

In Chapter Twenty-One of John Steinbeck’s novel
The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Rawley manages a federally funded camp
where the Joads stop and stay for a while during their Depression-era trek across the
country. Rawley stops by to introduce himself and make sure that the Joads have
everything they need.

Ma Joad is at first suspicious of
Rawley’s apparent kindness. Rawley explains that he was sleeping when the Joads arrived
the night before. He is glad that the camp had a place for them to stay. Ma soon begins
to trust him. When she asks him if he is the “boss” of the camp, he replies that no boss
is necessary because the people who live in the camp are hard-working and creative
without being forced to behave in those ways.

When Ma
indicates that she feels unclean because she and her family have been traveling, Rawley
says that he knows how she feels. He also immediately, and shrewdly, changes the
subject, praising the smell of the coffee Ma is brewing and implying that he might like
a cup. He thereby gives Ma an opportunity to show what she can do for him rather than
allowing her to dwell on thoughts of what the camp is doing for her and her family. In
other words, Rawley gives Ma a chance to feel renewed self-respect. Indeed, when
inviting him to share breakfast with them, Ma says,

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“We’d be proud to have ya . . . We ain’t got much
that’s nice, but you’re
welcome.”

Rawley now shows
his thoughtfulness once more. Rather than consuming any of the family’s food, he
explains that he has already had his breakfast, and so he merely takes a cup of
coffee.

When Ma ponders his motives, she sees “nothing but
friendliness.” He is so consistently kind, in fact, that Ma feels like crying as he
leaves.

Rawley, then, seems to be motivated chiefly by
friendship, concern, compassion, and respect for other human beings. In all these ways,
he differs from a number of the other characters in the novel, especially some of those
with money and power and authority. Indeed, the fact that Rawley is
a sort of authority figure makes his genuine kindness all the more remarkable and
impressive.  Rather than abusing his authority, or showing off, or lording it over the
people who come to him in need, he treats them with the sort of camaraderie that
Steinbeck felt was the basis of any truly civil and progressive
society.

Somehow this question was originally
placed in the wrong category (dealing with Margaret Truman'sThe President's
House), which does not seem to have a character named Jim Rawley.  Searches
of the internet revealed, however, that Rawley is a notable
character in John Steinbeck's famous novelThe Grapes of Wrath. I
have already answered the question in connection with Steinbeck (see link below), but
allow me to elaborate upon that answer here.

Rawley seems
to represent the ideal government bureaucrat as imagined during the "New Deal" -- a
series of programs formulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help Americans cope
with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Rawley, then, is just one of many ways in which
Steinbeck tries to make a case, in his novel, for the New Deal. In that sense, Rawley is
an "occasional" figure in the novel -- a figure designed, in large part, to be relevant
to the particular time period of the literary work. Rather than being a "universal"
figure in the way that Ma Joad is (she is almost a living, breathing emobodiment of the
Strong Mother archetype), Rawley seems designed to show that government bureaucrats can
be (and should
be):

• thoughtful


• kind


• compassionate


• respectful


• hard-working


• modest


• generous


• and
  never over-bearing

However, it is also possible
to see Rawley as an example of varios other archetypal figures who regularly appear in
literatture, including

• the good
  neighbor


• the decent
  boss


• the thoughtful
  friend


• the generous and helpful
  stranger

Rawley typifies all these positive
traits and archtypes when he says, for instance,

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"I'm Jim Rawley. I'm camp manager. Just dropped
by to see if everything's all right. Got everything you
need?"

Most of us, of course,
would be very thankful to have persons like Jim Rawley in our lives, and so it is no
surprise that Ma is grateful to meet him.

ABC an equilateral triangle. D, E & F are points on AB, BC and AC such that AD = BE =CF = AB/3. BF, CD, AE intersect to form traingle PQR.Find the...

ABC an equilateral triangle. D, E & F are points
on AB, BC and AC such that AD = BE =CF = AB/3. BF, CD, AE intersect to form traingle
PQR.

Find the ratio of area of traingle PQR : area of
triangle ABC. (PQR is inside ABC.)

Let CD intersect AE at
Q, CD intersect BF at P and AE intersect BF at R. Also, let the side length of triangle
ABC be 3x.

Now triangles BRE and BCF are similar by AA
similarity since they share an angle at B; for the other angle note the symmetry of the
construction guarantees that angles BRE,CPF and AQD are congruent so angles Q,R, and P
are congruent also and must be 60 degrees.

(1)Then BR/BC =
RE/CF = BE/BF or BR/3x = RE/x = x/BF.

Consider triangle
BFC. Drop the perpendicular from F to BC, naming the foot H. Then triangle FHC is a
30-60-90 triangle, so FH=(sqrt(3)/2)x. Using the Pythagorean Theorem on triangle BFH
yields BF=sqrt(7)x. Thus the scale factor from triangle BRE to triangle BCF is
1/sqrt(7).

From (1) we get BR=3x/sqrt(7) and
PF=RE=x/sqrt(7).

Therefore RP = sqrt(7)x-3x/sqrt(7) -
x/sqrt(7) or RP=(3sqrt(7)x)/7.

Finally triangle QPR is
similar to triangle ABC so the ratio of the areas is in the ratio of the square of the
side lengths.

Area QPR/Area ABC =
[(3xsqrt(7)/7)/3x]^2=1/7.

The ratio of the area of triangle
QPR to the area of triangle ABC is
1:7.

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What kind of symbols are in "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" by Irwin Shaw?

In Irwin Shaw's short story, "The Girls in Their Summer
Dresses," there are several uses of symbolism.

First, as
the story progresses, we learn that Frances is desperate to keep her husband close, even
as she senses him moving away—as he watches every attractive woman they pass. Frances
announces that she wants to keep Michael to herself for the day, but this is simply
symptomatic of a deeper concern. The image of a "rope" symbolizes how Frances needs to
feel connected to Michael—even to hold him against his
will:

"Also, I
slept all night, wound around you like a
rope."

The fact that Michael
is gaining weight may be symbolic of a deeper change, a movement toward a more
self-centered lifestyle that comes from indulging his whims, and does not include
Frances. However, Michael's response when she notes that he is "getting fat" and she
loves it, seems to indicate that he resents her "worship" of him: a lack of self-respect
on her part whereby she will take whatever he dishes out (to a point) and be happy for
it.

"I love
it," she said, "an extra five pounds of husband."

"I love
it, too," Michael said
gravely.

Michael does not
seem to appreciate this "devotion," perhaps feeling the challenge of wooing and winning
his wife's affection (after five years) has left him feeling unfulfilled. If so, the
challenge of gaining the attention of other women may appeal. Michael has obviously put
a lot of thought into his constant "oggling" of
women:

"...the
handsomest women, out to spend money and feeling good about it, looking coldly at you,
making believe they're not looking at you as you go
past."

The summer dresses
that Michael refers to (as this husband and wife walk in November) may "represent
freshness, youth, and vitality," while reminding Michael of his approach to middle age,
and a sense of loss he may experience in that women don't respond to him in the way they
did when he was younger.

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As with other stories by Irwin Shaw, this one
touches on the theme of lost or disappearing
youth.

Michael may be caught
up in the past—when he was part of the game he witnesses all around
as they move along. In not feeling as connected to that part of his life, Michael
watches women and "wants" them, doing so in the presence of his wife—showing how little
regard he has for her feelings, and how strong his desire is to please
himself.

In Animal Farm, is Snowball's expulsion allegorical?

Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, the military genius who
helped make the Soviet Union a strong world power in the early days of the Russian
Revolution. However, Joseph Stalin (Napoleon), jealous of Trotsky's intellect and
wanting power for himself, had Trotsky banished, and afterwards used him as a scapegoat
for any failures in the system:

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"Snowball has done this thing! In sheer
malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious
expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of
nearly a year."
(Orwell, Animal Farm,
msxnet.org)

Since he was
gone, Trotsky was unable to sabotage any of Stalin's plans, but like Napoleon, Stalin
knew the value of a false, subversive enemy. By portraying Trotsky as a hidden force
trying to undermine him, Stalin excused his use of secret police and murder to quell
sedition. Similarly, Napoleon uses Snowball as an excuse for all of his failures,
pretending that Snowball is remaining in the area to perform acts of sabotage. This
shows a powerful method of propaganda, as Squealer and Napoleon tell unashamed lies to
cover up for their power-grabs and alterations of the original, Marxist (Old Major's)
ideals.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, how does Dill's sudden appearance in Maycomb for the summer affect Scout?How is this summer different than the last one?

Scout and Dill plan to be married one
day:

A year
older than Scout, Dill has declared he will one day marry her, a statement she seems to
accept
matter-of-factly.

Scout
enjoys having Dill at first. She enjoys his mischievous behavior. He dares Jem to touch
the Radley house and Scout finds this extremely
daring:

He
instigates much of the children's mischief by daring Jem to perform acts such as
approaching the Radley house. He seems to have a limitless
imagination...

Jem, Scout and
Dill become very close playmates. They reenact many dramas. Particularly, they reenact
the drama based on the Radleys' place. They spend hours in the summer following their
delightful imaginations. Jem, Scout and Dill play in the treehouse out back. They
pretend to be Boo Radley and other Radley family members. Of course, Atticus tries to
put a stop to this, thinking it disrespectful. Scout, Jem and Dill think is is an
awesome game.

Later on, although Scout never says so, she
possibly resents Dill when he and Jem begin swimming lessons without her. Jem informs
Scout that he is going to teach Dill to swim and Scout is uninvited. Scout finds solace
in the company of Miss Maudie.

Dill spends the entire
summer playing with Jem and Scout. He even runs away from home one summer to be with Jem
and Scout.

What is the plot of John Updike's short story "A&P"?

John Updike's short story, "A&P," is a
slice-of-life tale about Sammy, the protagonist-narrator and teenage cashier in a New
England grocery store. One day at work, three teenage girls come into the store clad
only in bathing suits. Sammy becomes so distracted that he can't remember if he has rung
up his last customer's goods. The three girls--described by Sammy as "a chunky one... a
tall one" with a long chin, and the "queen"--continue their shopping while he and a
co-worker gossip about the three underdressed girls. When the girls arrive at Sammy's
checkout counter, "Queenie" produces a dollar bill from her bathing suit top, causing
Sammy more lustful distress. However, the store manager chastizes the girls for their
scantily-clad dress, which embarrasses the girls. As they leave, Sammy, in an act which
he considers chivalrous (but which goes unnoticed by the girls), tells the manager that
he quits. The manager, a friend of Sammy's parents, tries to convince him to remain, but
Sammy rings up a "no sale" on the register, and storms out of the store. Without a job
and likely to draw the ire of his angry parents, Sammy's summer --and his immediate
future--appears to be threatened by his abrupt decision. 

"Beowulf demonstrates how a hero can achieve a sort of immortality even if he is doomed by fate to die in battle."I have to write an essay, but I...

You might want to respond to this question by refering to
the heroic code that is developed and explored in this epic text. Every position in this
world has characteristics that emerge from this code and serve as pointers towards
whether actions support or break this heroic code. For example, warriors are expected to
be strong, courageous and loyal, and kings are to be generous, politically astute and
hospitable. Of course, this actually presents us with many ambiguous situations in the
text where the limits of this heroic code are presented and questioned. Key to this
issue is the choice of Beowulf to go and fight the dragon, even though he knows that
this will result in his death, leaving his people defenceless and without leadership at
a critical juncture for his nation. Does Beowulf do the right thing? Every reader will
have a different response.

Clearly, you could argue that
the statement can easily be supported by the way that the legend of Beowulf is still
being studied and read today. In spite of his death, decreed by fate, he has,
nonetheless acheived a measure of immortality through his bravery. However, as my points
above suggest, whether Beowulf was truly heroic in going to meet his doom is another
matter.

In Chapter 7 of Lord of the Flies, describe Ralph's role in the pig hunt.

Your original question was not very clear, so I have
edited it to the one above. I hope this is what you meant to ask. Please respond to this
question if not.

Chapter Seven is very important because of
the way in which it presents Ralph as possessing the same savage instincts that Jack
does through the hunting of the wild pig. Even when Ralph is faced with the pig bearing
down on him, he is forced to recognise that he possesses something of the killer
instincts of a hunter:

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Ralph found he was able to measure the distance
coldly and take aim. With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden
stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a
moment.

Although the boar
escapes, Ralph shows his bravery and also his skill and ability. Far more disturbing
though is his role in the "mock" pig hunt the boys host, with Robert playing the role of
the pig. As the game suddenly turns violent, Ralph is described as joining in just as
much as the other boys:

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Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a
handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was
overmastering.

Ralph,
therefore, is shown in this chapter to be just like Jack in the way that savagery
overwhelms him in this instance. In spite of the way that he stands for civilised order
in the novel, this example shows that savagery and violence are part of the human
condition, no matter how civilised we appear on the surface.

In the Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, what would be a short but descriptive summary of the Men of the Lake.

The Lake-men are mostly descendents of the people of Dale,
the land next to the Lonely Mountain.  When Smaug first took over the mountain, the
people fled and many, like Bard who is a descendant of Girion of Dale, established
themselves at Lake-town.  The Lake-men have an established, prosperous trade system with
the elves of Mirkwood. They use the river to transport and receive goods in barrels to
and from the Elven-king.

When the dwarves first arrive at
Lake-town, most of the Lake-men are excited about the possibility of restoring the
dwarven King under the Mountain.  They celebrate Thorin's return and sing many of the
old songs as well as create some new ones.  Many of the Lake-men feel that Thorin's
return will bring prosperity and wealth back to the valley and
town.