find exact area of the triangle ABC?Points: here's how: -...

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class="AM">`c=|AB| = sqrt((-3 - 2)^2+(4 - 7)^2) = sqrt(25+9) = sqrt(34)`

`a=|BC| = sqrt((2 - 5)^2+(7-1)^2) = sqrt(9+36) =
sqrt(45)=3sqrt(5)`
`b=|AC| = sqrt((-3 -
5)^2+(4-1)^2)) = sqrt(64+9) = sqrt(73)`

We can
use Heron's formula for area

`A =
sqrt(s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c))` where `s =
(a+b+c)/2`

`s =
(sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73))/2`
class="AM">`s-a=(sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73))/2 -
3sqrt(5)=(sqrt(34)+sqrt(73)-3sqrt(5))/2`

class="AM">`s-b=(sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)-sqrt(73))/2`

class="AM">`s-c=(3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73)-sqrt(34))/2`

so

class="AM">`A=sqrt(((sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73))/2)((sqrt(34)+sqrt(73)-3sqrt(5))/2)((sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)-sqrt(73))/2)((3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73)-sqrt(34))/2))` class="AM">`or`

class="AM">`A=1/4sqrt((sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73))(sqrt(34)+sqrt(73)-3sqrt(5))(sqrt(34)+3sqrt(5)-sqrt(73))(3sqrt(5)+sqrt(73)-sqrt(34))`

Please explain the following quote from As You Like It. "Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."

The quote you have identified comes from Act I scene 3,
and is said by Rosalind to Celia, following Celia's suggestion that they escape the
court together and go to the Forest of Arden. If we have a look at the quote in context,
it will help us explain what Rosalind is trying to suggest. Note how she responds to her
cousin's idea:

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Alas, what danger will it be to
us,

Maids as we are, to travel forth so
far!

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than
gold.

Rosalind is thus
greatly afraid of Celia's suggestion, because of their status as virgin "maids." The
quote you have identified thus refers the way that virgin beauty often provides a
greater temptation than gold to surly, rough thieves, who would be greatly attracted by
the prospect of attacking, and, it is inferred, raping such beautiful young women as
Celia and Rosalind. Thus their beauty would "provoke" thieves even more than if they
carried vast quantities of gold with them.

Create an equation whose graph has intercepts at (-5,0), (0,0) and (5,0)

We notice that the graph is passing through the points (-5
; 0) , (5 ; 0) and origin (0 ; 0) of the system of coordinates. Since the graph is
intercepting x axis 3 times, that means that the equation has three roots: x = -5 ; x =
0 and x = 5

Since we know the roots, we can write the
equation of the function  as a product of linear factors.

y
= (x - x1)(x - x2)(x - x3), where x1, x2 and x3 are the roots of the
equation.

The roots of the equation that have to be created
are x1 = -5 ; x2 = 0 and x3 = 5, therefore the equation
is:

`y = (x - 0)(x - 5)(x +
5)`

The special product (x-5)(x+5) returns the difference
of two squares:

`y = x(x^2 -
25)`

Therefore, the equation whose graph ha
sthe intercepts (-5 ; 0) ; (0 ; 0) ; (5 ; 0) is:` y = x(x^2 - 25).`

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is very innocent and over the course of the story she matures. What are some quotes that show this... ... and...

Part of Scout's maturing process comes naturally during
To Kill a Mockingbird, in which she grows from the age of five to
eight years old. But many memorable events occur during these two and one-half years,
creating a loss of innocence that comes much more quickly than in most children her age.
It all begins when she meets Dill early in the novel. Dill not only spurs the children's
curiosity about Boo Radley, but he also serves as a child love interest for Scout. She
eagerly awaits the arrival of Dill each summer; he proposes to her, she accepts, and
they share secret kisses together.

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... he would love me forever... and marry me as
soon as he got enough money together... summer was the swiftness with which Dill would
reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other
feel... without him, life was
unbearable.

With the gifts
that come in the secret knothole, Scout soon realizes that the terrible rumors about Boo
are not true.

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The Radley Place had ceased to terrify me... I
sometimes felt a twinge of remorse... at ever having taken part in what must have been
sheer torment to Arthur
Radley.

She fantasizes about
meeting Boo, how he would "be sitting in the swing," and she would say, "Hidy do, Mr.
Arthur?" But she never believes their meeting will actually
occur.

She discovers for herself that the differences
between white and black people are only skin deep (as symbolized by the Morphodite
Snowman); but she also finds out about the "secret courts of men's hearts" when the jury
disregards the testimony given and convicts Tom Robinson unjustly of rape. Scout also
discovers the true meanings of two of Atticus' reminders--that "it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird," and how it is important to know people before judging them, to "climb into
his skin and walk around in it" first. She sees first-hand that teachers do not always
practice what they preach, and that proper ladies do not always act ladylike (ex:
missionary circle tea). In the final chapters she not only sees Boo in the flesh, but
finds that he is her neighbor and friend.

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

What social differences create comedy in Twelfth Night?

Maria, Olivia's lady-in-waiting acts often as a balance to
other characters. At the same time, however, Maria's reproofs often give way to humor
and lively wordplay.  Placed against Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Maria generates laughter as
using puns she teases him about his
foolishness:

.
MARIA:Now,
sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your hand
to the buttery-bar and let
it drink.(65)
SIR
ANDREW:Wherefore, sweetheart? what's your
metaphor?
MARIA:It's
dry, sir.
SIR
ANDREW:Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I
can
keep my hand dry. But what's your
jest?(70)
MARIA:A
dry jest, sir.
SIR
ANDREW:Are you full of
them?
MARIA:Ay, sir,
I have them at my fingers' ends: marry, now I
let go your hand, I am barren. 
(1.3.64-74)

Maria is very resourceful
and highly energetic, but some of her energies are negative as, for instance, she
considers that her designs may drive Malvolio mad, but decides, "The house will be
quieter." Nevertheless, as she plots with Sir Toby and Sir Andrew against the pompous
Puritan, Malvolio, Sir Toby finds her most amusing, referring to her affectionately as
"a beagle true-bred," a statement that, perhaps, seeks to elevate her social class.Thus,
it is interesting that much of the commentary of characters like Maria who have a lower
position in the society affords the audience its perception of the
play.

Combine each pair of sentences by changing one of the sentences into a participial phrase.Number one: New England rock formations are like some in...

A participle is a verbal that functions as an adjective. 
The verb typically has "ing" added to it to become a verbal.  A participle phrase is
used to modify a noun.

Number
one:

New England rock formations are like some in Britain.
Their similarities intrigue geologists.

Change the verb
"intrigue" into "intriguing".  Now combine the
sentences.

Intriguing geologists with their
similarities, New England rock formations are like some in
Britain.

Number
two:

New foresters learn how to fight forest fires. They
observe fires on film.

Change the verb "observe" into
"observing".  Now combine the sentences.

New
foresters learn how to fight forest fires by observing fires on
film.

How did Walton prepare for his voyage in Frankenstein?

The answer to your question can actually be found in the
first letter that Walton writes to his beloved sister, at the very beginning of the
book. After talking about how his travels have been safe up until this point, Walton
reflects on his background and how he came to engage on his mission, and the extreme
dedication to which he set himself to learn all he needed to in order to attempt his
voyage. Note what he writes:

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I commenced by induring my body to hardship. I
accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily
endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common
sailors during the day, and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, teh theory of
medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might
derive the greatest practical advantage. Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate
in a Greenland whaler, amd acquitted myself to
admiration.

We can thus see
the fervent and costly commitment Walton displays to his plan and dream, which of course
finds an apt parallel in the way that Frankenstein himself reveals how he was obsessed
by uncovering the scientific laws of the universe and how he might use them to create
life.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, are there any dramatic literary techniques used to further Jem's character development?

One of the most prominent literary techniques used to show
Jem's character development is irony.  Because the story is told from Jem's younger
sister, Scout, Harper Lee does an excellent job of showing how Jem is growing up and
maturing faster than his sister through Scout's frustration with him, and the distance
that grows in the playful friendship from the beginning of the story to the
end.

Consider first, the big picture.  At the beginning of
the story, Jem is the impetus for keeping boredom at bay.  He creates stories about Boo
Radley, engages Scout and Dill in the "Boo Radley game," and tests his own bravery by
daring the others and himself to do things which scare them.  He and Scout fight a lot
about childish things.  By the end of the story, however, Jem is the one who protects
Scout on the long journey home from the school pageant.  He grows from playmate and
rival to protective older brother.

Then, consider the
details of how this change takes place, from Scout's point of view.  All she knows is
that her brother is acting differently (and in her mind acting like he is superior),
playing less, and becoming more and more annoying:

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Running after it he called back, "Atticus is a
gentleman, just like me!" (Chapter 10)

Jem was twelve.  He
was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody.  His appetite was appalling, and he
told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus. (Chapter
12)

His maddening superiority was unbearable these days.
(Chapter 14)

The irony in
using a very limited first person point of view is humorous because as an audience, we
see that much of Scout's confusion is due to what she cannot yet understand.  In many
ways, the changes she speaks about in Jem are likely also happening to her, but she is
unaware of them.  It is also ironic (and therefore funny) that the things Scout finds
most annoying about Jem's growing up are all things that a grown up would welcome.  His
sense of independence, his quiet attitude and thoughtfulness, and his desire to flee
childhood would only be annoying to another child.

What is the author's (Jack London) purpose for writing Call of the Wild?purpose/moral/theme (any of these are great!)

There is no better way to explain author intent than
through the use of the author's own words. Therefore, the following reasoning behind
London's purpose for writing Call of the Wild was best described in
another text of his.

As a side note, the controversy
between London and Roosevelt did not concern only his text Call of the
Wild. Roosevelt also had a problem with London's novel White
Fang. This was written about in an article published by the New
York Times on November 1, 1908 ("A Question of Bulldogs and
Fakers").

In "The Other Animals" in Revolution
and Other Essays, London describes his reasoning behind the novel. His answer
came as a reaction to the critical remarks made by both President Roosevelt and John
Burroughs when they accused him of being a "nature-faker". Here is what London stated
regarding his writing both Call of the Wild and White
Fang:

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I have been guilty of writing two animal
stories—two books about dogs. The writing of these two stories, on my part, was in truth
a protest against the “humanizing” of animals, of which it seemed to me several “animal
writers” had been profoundly guilty. Time and again, and many times, in my narratives, I
wrote, speaking of my dog heroes: “He did not think these things; he merely did them,”
etc. And I did this repeatedly to the clogging of my narrative and in violation of my
artistic canons; and I did it in order to hammer into the average human understanding
that these dog-heroes of mine were not directed by abstract reasoning. Also, I
endeavored to make my stories in line with the facts of evolution; I hewed them to the
mark set by scientific research, and awoke, one day, to find myself bundled neck and
crop into the camp of the
nature-faker.

Not only was
London able to explain the purpose behind his texts, he was able to also address the
name-calling of Roosevelt.

Why does Abigail move all the way to California in Lovely Bones?

The answer to this question can be found in the chapter
entitled "Snapshots." Up until this stage, Abigail is a woman who is presented as being
haunted by her dead daughter and increasingly alienated by her husband's inability to
let Susie go. She needs an escape from this claustraphobic situation, and so first tries
adultery with Len. However, it is clear that this is not enough of an escape for her.
Note how the idea of going to California came about, and why it was so attractive for
Abigail:

My
mother made it through only one winter in New Hampshire before she got the idea of
driving all the way to California. It was something she had always thought she would do
but had never done. A man she met in New Hampshire had told her about the work to be had
in wineries in the valleys above San Fransisco. It was easy to get, it was physical, and
it could be, if you wanted it to be, very anonymous. All three sounded good to
her.

Thus we can see that
Abigail went to California because it was something that she had always thought about
doing before the onset of family life. In addition, she could easily pick up physical
work, to help her forget her worries, and she could remain anonymous, and avoid the kind
of questions that would prevent her from truly escaping.

Emerson's essay "Self_Reliance" is a definitive statement of his philosophy of individualism.Comment?

For the Transcendental, individualism is paramount.  In
his essay Self-Reliance, Emerson commences and ends with the idea
that to be an individual is intrinsic to the soul, for "Infancy conforms to no one," he
writes, and declares that "imitation is suicide."  When he conforms, a man's own
thoughts, his "genius," leave him and he is without peace in his
heart:

To
believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men,— that is
genius.

Further, Emerson
perceives society as in a conspiracy against the individual because the group agrees for
their own safety what should be thought and believed. 
Therefore, 

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Whoso would be a man must be a
non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered
by the name of goodness, but must explore it it be goodness.  Nothing is
at last sacred but the integrity of your own
mind.

Indeed,
there are few texts that affirm the essential "vibrat[ing] to that iron string" of
individualism.  For, unless a man be his own person--an individual--Emerson writes, he
is but a shadow of a true man.  It is the "namer, the doer, and the knower" who are the
"highest progeny of the Over-Soul" that approaches the sublime in their individual
liberty.

Did Macduff facilitate the rise of evil or how did he prevent it—or both—in Shakespeare's Macbeth? Explain.

Macduff, in Shakespeare's Macbeth, is
caught in the middle of Macbeth's evil scheming to take the throne and keep it. Macduff
appears first when Duncan has been murdered.

Macduff's
suspicions may first appear in learning that Macbeth killed the alleged murderers of the
King (his guards). When Macbeth says he is sorry he killed them, Macduff asks why he did
it? (They were the only "lead" they had in figuring out who was behind the plot to kill
Duncan, for the men believe the guards did not act on their
own.)

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MACBETH:

O,
yet I do repent me of my fury,

That I did kill
them.

MACDUFF:

Wherefore
did you
so?

MACBETH:

Who
can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,

Loyal and
neutral, in a moment? No man:

The expedition of my violent
love

Outrun the pauser reason.
(II.iii.117-123)

Along with
the others, Macduff calls for an investigation—the King's murderer
must be found.

Macduff is also
seemingly suspicious when he and Ross discuss the burial of Duncan and Macbeth's
crowning as King, as Malcolm and Donalbain have fled (for safety, though certainly
Macbeth is spreading the rumor that they are behind their father's death—he will
eventually refer to them as his "blood cousins").

There may
be an inkling of doubt when Macduff repeats once again that the guards were murdered by
Macbeth. He then takes his leave of Ross, noting that he hopes they do not soon wish for
the days when Duncan was alive as opposed to being Macbeth's subjects (as he refers to
robes):

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MACDUFF:

Well,
may you see things well done there, Adieu,

Lest our old
robes sit easier than our new!
(II.iv.49-50)

However,
everyone (including Macduff) soon comes to realize that those closest to Macbeth end up
dead. The Scotland of Duncan's time is gone. Macduff's suspicions grow, so he goes to
England.

When Macduff leaves Scotland for the country where
Malcolm (Duncan's heir) is living for safety's sake, even Malcolm questions Macduff's
intentions for being there. For how could an honest man feel he could comfortably leave
his family behind without threat from Macbeth unless Macduff were working for
Macbeth?

In his desire to save Scotland (similar to Brutus'
desire to preserve Rome at all costs when he murders Caesar in Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar), Macduff acts foolishly by leaving his family
unguarded. When Macbeth learns about Macduff's departure to England (where Macbeth's
enemy, Malcolm, resides), he is sure that Macduff has taken up with Duncan's son, and
orders the murder of all of Macduff's family and
household.

Macduff's devastation over their deaths—along
with his initial disgust when he believes Malcolm would be a far worse tyrant on
Scotland's throne than Macbeth (which he later learns is untrue)— convinces Malcolm that
Macduff can be trusted. With soldiers and arms provided by Edward the Confessor of
England, Malcolm and Macduff return to Scotland to take the throne forcibly from
Macbeth.

So Macduff facilitates Macbeth's continued evil in
leaving his family unattended, allowing the new and evil King to kill Macduff's wife and
children; at the same time, however, he prevents further evil by returning with Malcolm
to take Scotland back. It is, in fact, Macduff who kills Macbeth specifically with the
intent of avenging the deaths of those dear to him.

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MACDUFF:

Then
yield thee, coward,

And live to be the show and gaze o’ the
time.

We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters
are,

Painted upon a pole, and
underwrit,

“Here may you see the tyrant.”
(V.viii.27-31)

What is the antiderivative of function y=2sinx*cos^3x?

The antiderivative of the given function is the primitive
function that could be determined calculating the indefinite integral of
y.

We'll solve this integral using substitution
technique.

Let sin x = t => cos dx =
dt

We'll use Pythagorean identity to write (cos x)^2, with
respect to (sin x)^2:

(cos x)^2 = 1 - (sin
x)^2

We'll get the indefinite
integral:

`int` 2sin x*(cos x)^2* cos x dx = 2 `int` sin
x*[1 - (sin x)^2]* cos x dx

`int` 2t*(1-t^2)dt = 2`int` t
dt - 2 `int` t^3 dt

2 `int` 2t*(1-t^2)dt = 2t^2/2 - 2t^4/4
+ C

`int` 2t*(1-t^2)dt = t^2 - t^4/2 +
C

`int` 2sin x*(cos x)^2* cos x dx = (sin x)^2 - (sin
x)^4/2 + C

The antiderivative of the given
function is the primitive function Y = (sin x)^2 - (sin x)^4/2 +
C.

In Chapter 59 of Great Expectations, why do Joe and Biddy name their son Pip?

Eleven years pass before Pip, the prodigal son, returns to
the forge; during this time he has lived with Herbert and his wife Clara and worked as a
clerk for Clarikker and paid all his debts, while staying in touch somewhat with Joe and
Biddy.  However, he is surprised at he approaches the forge to find the graying Joe with
Biddy and two children, one of whom is a little boy that bears a striking resemblance to
himself. Pip is also surprised to learn that the child has been named Pip in his
honor. As Pip takes a stool beside the boy, careful not to rumple his hair as he had
loathed this action as a child himself, Joe tells
him, 

“We giv'
him the name of Pip for your sake, dear old chap, ... and we hoped he might grow a
little bit like you, and we think he
do.”

Certainly, Pip
is touched by Joe's last remark since he has been so arrogant and inconsiderate of Joe
in the past.  But, it is typical of Joe's forgiving heart and charity that he would name
his own son after the little boy of whom he was so very fond and misses so
much.

What can you infer about why Italy's surrender gave hope to the people in the Annexe in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?

The life in the Annexe was filled with so much in way of
uncertainty.  There were some fundamental and tension ridden beliefs that lived besides
one another in this setting.  On one hand, there was an overwhelming condition of
despair.  Living in the annexe was a flight from death, and everyone in the annexe
understood it.  At the same time, in order to counteract the condition of total fear and
despair, there seemed to be an equally intense yearning for hope, to take hope in almost
anything.  Seeing that those hiding in the Annexe have little or no power in the social
setting, there was a tendency to see anything that happened as in a larger context than
might actually be.  When news of Italy's surrender hits, there is an immediate hope that
the war is close to being over and their life of hiding is over with it.  It is this
painful condition of striving to find hope in anything, everything that could lead to a
potential end to such a condition that enables the people in the Annexe to react the way
they do.  This hope becomes one of the most defining elements in Holocaust Literature
such as The Diary of Anne Frank.  It compels people to believe,
which is the source of both great strength and simultaneously great
delusion.

In Guy de Maupassant's story "The Necklace," does the reference to the "Street of Martyrs" have any significance? What does this reference mean?

The reference to the “Rue des Martyrs” – that is, to the
“street of Martyrs” – one of the subtle ironies of Guy de Maussant’s “The Necklace,” a
very ironic story.

In the story, Mrs. Loisel has borrowed
an apparently valuable necklace so that she will seem suitably dressed when she and her
relatively poor husband attend a glitzy party to which they have unexpectedly been
invited.  After the party is over, they return to their drab
dwelling:

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They went down toward the Seine, disgusted,
shivering. Finally, they found on the Quai one of those old night-hawk cabs which one
sees in Paris only after night has fallen, as though they are ashamed of their misery in
the daytime.

It
brought them to their door, rue des Martyrs; and they went up their own stairs sadly.
For her it [that is, the joy of the party] was finished. And he was thinking that he
would have to be at the Ministry [to go to work]at ten
o’clock.

The reference to the street of Martyrs is a touch
of ironic foreshadowing. Martyrs were persons who were willing to suffer and die for
their religious faith (particularly Christianity). The fact that Paris has a street
named after martyrs suggests the high regard in which martyrs were held in French
Christian society of the nineteenth century and earlier. Martyrs were willing to endure
pain and even to die in order to remain faithful to a creed that teaches the importance
of spiritual values and non-material goods.  Mrs. Loisel and her husband, however, seem
far less spiritual and far more materialistic in their values and ambitions than were
the great Christian martyrs. The fact that they later endure lives of suffering and
deprivation because they assume that they have lost a highly valuable necklace they had
borrowed – a necklace that turns out to have very little value at all – is one facet of
the general irony of this tale.

The reference to the street
is brief and subtle; only when one re-reads the story does one understand its true
ironic resonance. The fact that Maupassant included this detail implies the skill with
which his stories were designed and the delight he must have taken in crafting them. The
reference to the street contributes to the artistic unity of the text; it is a small
part of the larger design, but it fits very effectively into the larger structure of the
story. Just as Maupassant often wrote stories in which the true significance of the plot
is not revealed until the very end (as happens here in “The Necklace”), so he also often
included in those stories small details whose full significance does not become clear
until after the story is read for a second time.  On first reading, the reference to the
“street of Martyrs” may seem simply a small bit of realism, perhaps just a way of
suggesting the already dreary lives of the Loisels; on second reading, however, the
reference takes on greater symbolic significance.

What is the importance of Finny's acceptance of the war? (Chapter 11)

In Chapter 11, Finny acknowledges that there is a "real
war" going on after he sees Leper at Devon.  However, it is in chapter 12 that the
reader learns that Finny has been writing to the different military branches (i.e. Army,
Navy, Marines) and they have all rejected him based upon his medical
condition.

Once he accepts that there is a war, he also
needs to face the reality of being rejected - something he is not accustomed to.
Furthermore, he can no longer deny the fact that he will not be part of the war effort
as he would like.  Finny states, "I'll hate it everywhere if I'm
not in this war!" Finny's life is forever changed by the fall from the tree and the
rejection by the armed forces makes this clear.

What are Dr. Manette's "reiterated instructions" to Charles in preparation for the trial?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

When Charles Darnay arrives in France, he is amazed at the
changes that have taken place since his departure.  As he travels toward Paris, the
atmosphere heats up and many angry revolutionaries call out to him, "You are a cursed
emigrant."  Charles learns that two new decrees affect the French emigrants:  There
property can be seized and they can be banished, and if they return, they can be
executed.  As he nears Paris, Darnay is given escort and, shortly, arrested and taken
prisoner.

After Dr. Manette, who is recognized by the
revolutionary court as “a notable sufferer under the overthrown system” is allowed to
enter a plea before “the lawless court” to free Charles Darnay, the court refuses but
Dr. Manette is allowed to remain nearthe prison to assure that Darnay is safe. Using his
influence as the Bastille prisoner, Dr. Manette becomes the inspecting physician in La
Force. In this way, he is able to see Darnay on a regular basis, an arrangement that
comforts Lucie.

As the trial day approaches, Manette
instructs Darnay how to conduct himself during his questioning.  Because of the new
decrees about emigrants, it is of paramount importance that Darnay stress the fact that
he is not an emigrant; instead, he must clarify the point that he has voluntarily
relinquished his title because it hs been "distasteful" to him and explain that he
receives no revenue from the Evremonde estate, but, instead, "lives by his own industry"
in England.

To further emphasize that he truly loves
France, Darnay is instructed by Dr. Manette to mention that he has married Lucie
Manette, who is, of course, French.  In addition, Darnay is to mention that his motives
for returning to France have been to save a citizen's life by bearing witness to the
truth of his testimony.

At his trial, Dr. Manette and
Theophile Gabelle are witnesses to the proof of his declarations.  After Dr. Manette
testifies on Darnay's behalf and calls upon Jarvis Lorry to corroborate his testimony,
the voices cry in favor of the prisoner, and Darnay is declared
free.

what is the key forensic signs that a drowning may not be a suicide,but a murder made to look like suicide?is petechial hemorrhages on the lungs...

Petechia on the lungs are more consistent with
suffocation, particularly when petechia are also present on the mouth or pharyngeal
tissues; finding these would tend to indicate the possibility of
murder.

Pathologists look for a white foamy discharge in
the airway as a confirmatory sign of drowning; generally they also look for water
aspirated into the lungs, which is carefully examined for the presence of diatoms, which
are tiny single-celled algae that are present in virtually all natural surface waters.
Interestingly, the specific blend of diatoms can be used as a "fingerprint" to link the
aspirated sample back to a certain body of water.

So
overall, petechia and lack of foamy discharge and/or water in the lungs would point to a
conclusion of dry suffocation. Finding water in the lungs that does not match the water
the body is located in (for instance chlorinated drinking water in the lungs, body in a
pond) would indicate that the body was drowned in one location and then moved to
another.

Another consideration would be to see if the body
has other external injuries consistent with struggling or being held under
water.

I am attaching a link to an article about this that
you may want to have a look at.

What does the piano represent in "Two Kinds"?

In "Two Kinds," the piano represents a type of trophy.
Jing-mei's mother has a desire to make her daughter into something she is not. Also, the
piano represents the struggle between a mother and daughter. Jing-Mei does not desire to
play the piano. Her mother is determined that she will play like a star child prodigy
she has seen on television:

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This particular struggle invokes the mother's
attempt to mold her daughter, Jing-mei, into a musical prodigy so that she will be able
to brag to her friend Lindo Jong, whose daughter is a precocious chess
champion.

For years, Jing-Mei
and her mother struggle because her mother is so determined to make her daughter into
something she is not. Jing-Mei's mother desires to have bragging rights in a type of
competition with Lindo's daughter who is a chess
champion.

The piano recital is Jing-Mei's chess board. The
piano is a type of trophy that Jing-Mei's mother can have as a symbol of her daughter's
accomplishment. In much the same way that Lindo brags over her daughter's chess
trophies, Jing-Mei's mother desires to boast about her daughter's musical
trophies.

In "The Rules of the Game," how are Waverly and her mother different and how are they alike?

Although this excellent short story primarily concerns the
conflict between a first generation Chinese immigrant to the United States and her
daughter, who is born in the United States and therefore has a very different experience
of migrancy from her mother, there are actually a number of similarities between Waverly
and her mother. Mostly these are based around their shared Chinese heritage and the way
that this comes to be a force of strength for both of them. Both of them come to be
defined by the various bits of Chinese lore and culture that identify them. Consider the
lesson that Waverly is taught by her mother at the beginning of the
story:

Wise
guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with
wind--poom!--North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be
seen.

This is a philosophy
that both characters use and in particular Waverly adopts this to ensure success in her
chess matches. In addition, both characters show incredible independence and resilience
in learning the "rules" of the various games that they play. Waverly's mother has been
forced to learn the rules of immigration, just as Waverly herself learns how to play
chess.

However, in spite of the similarities based around a
similar Chinese heritage, these two characters are defined more by their differences
than by their similarities. In particular, Waverly feels mortified and embarrassed by
the way in which her mother shows off her daughter and takes the credit for her
succes:

My
mother would proudly walk with me, visiting many shops, buying very little. "This my
daughter Wave-ly Jong," she said to whoever looked her
way.

This is the central
point of conflict between the mother and Waverly, as Waverly asks her mother to stop
behaving like this: "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off,
then why don't you learn to play chess?" In the struggle for Waverly to develop into her
own individual person and establish her identity, she feels her mother is a force
against which she must struggle, which is dramatically presented in the dream Waverly
has at the end of the story.

Explain Louis Sullivan’s functionalism as it relates to the Wainwright Building in St. Louis.

Louis Sullivan, best known for coining the phrase "form
follows function", a mantra popular in decorating and architectural circles, was
expressing one of the three components of what is called the "Vitruvian triad" in
architecture:  utilitas (convenience/utility/functionality), venustas (beauty and
aesthetics), and firmitas (the sturdiness or "firmness").  Although many designers and
architects approach the idea of functionality as being exclusive of aesthetics, and
assume Sullivan did as well, in fact the Chicago architect who helped design St. Louis's
Wainwright Building in the early 1890's, one of the world's first skyscrapers, was a
proponent of ornamentation as well, and did not find functionality and aesthetics to be
mutually exclusive.  Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Wainwright
Building was build in a three part Italian palazzo style, consisting of a base, shaft
and attic; it was a modern variation of the classic column of the Greeks, and boasted a
wide frieze, a cornice of some depth, and decorative ornamention throughout the vertical
plane, including ornamented spandrels between the windows. 

Explain why in order to digest the bacteria which organelle must be plentiful in macrophages.

All cells have lysosomes, organelles which contain enzymes
used to digest materials that are either created inside or brought into the cell. For
many cells, this is just a way to break down foods, but for macrophages the cell's main
job is to ingest and break down bacteria and other foreign bodies. Because of this, we
have a term specifically for the digestive process of macrophages, in which we find
digestive sacs known as phagolysosomes. A phagolysosome is formed
when a phagosome, which is the membrane-enclosed packet containing the material
ingested, fuses with a lysosome. To see an animation of this process, click on the link
below.

Since macrophages engulf a lot of bacteria and other
particles, they create a lot of phagosomes. Therefore we would expect to see a lot of
lysosomes present inside a macrophage, so that they could join with the phagosomes and
form phagolysosomes. The other link below provides detailed information on the chemical
digestion process that occurs within the phagolysosome.

How has a change of political party or a change in the level of stability in China and USA affected tourism?

Well, the political party of China really hasn't changed,
they are still a Communist nation, but what has changed is their economic policy. They
have embraced capitalism which is considered a "Western" form as opposed to Communism
that was in place when Mao was the leader of China. When the Tianamen Square riots
happened, it was clear that the Chinese government would not tolerate democracy but
because of the success of trading with the Western world has proven so beneficial
especially over the past 10-15 years, China has begun to see the benefits of welcoming
touriist since this is a capitaliist form of income as well. China has been more open to
welcoming English teachers because English is the international language of business.
China is very accepting of ESL teachers and of course, with the embrace of Western
trends, movies, along with China's own tourist attractions, that brings people to China.
 You need to remember that China needed to stabilize if they wanted to reap the benefits
of a stronger economic system. Obviously, they are now one of the stronger (not
strongest)  economic nations in the world.  Hope this helps!

What is "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" trying to convey?

Well, there are plenty of meanings that this beautiful and
excellent poem could be argued to be trying to convey. People have variously argued that
this poem is about the beauty of transcendent nature, the simplicity of living or the
power of the imagination. I actually think, if we examine the life of the poet who wrote
this poem, we can argue that the poem is about the desire to return to a simpler form of
nostalgic existence.

Yeats himself possessed this
characteristic in the form of wanting to go back to Innisfree, which is a real small
island in county Sligo that he used to go to for holidays as a child. This poem was
created when Yeats was based in London and walking along Fleet street, which is an
incredibly busy and hectic section of this major capital city. As he was walking along,
he suddenly related the sound of the fountain to the sound that the water in Sligo lake
made. Note how this is refered to in the final stanza of the
poem:

I will
arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake
water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

while I stand
on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I heart it in the
deep heart's core.

We see
here the central opposition that drives the poem related to the theme of returning to a
simpler life. The "pavements grey" and the "roadway" are compared to the "lake water
lapping," and it is most definitely the latter that sustains the poem in the "deep
heart's core." This poem is above all about the desire to escape the busy present and
return to a childlike state of existence where everything is much
simpler.

Submarines were very important in the American victory in the Pacific during World War II, but hardly used at all in the Atlantic Theater. Why was...

Submarines were neither practical nor necessary for the
Allied side in the Atlantic Theater.  This was mostly because the German Navy was
heavily outgunned by the British Royal Navy and the Americans, and received almost no
supplies from cross-Atlantic shipping, so there were relatively few targets for Allied
submarines to go after.

Britain depended on heavy aid
across the Atlantic, however, so German U-Boats attacked merchant ships relentlessly,
and the Allies concentrated on building the cargo transports and the destroyer escorts
needed to protect them as opposed to submarines.

In the
Pacific, the entire war was fought over islands, all of which had to be supplied by sea,
so submarines use by both the Japanese and the Americans was a much more natural and
necessary strategy.  So it made much more sense to concentrate all of America's
submarine forces in the Pacific.

What are some examples of figurative language in The Road by Cormac McCarthy?

You might want to analyse some of the description of the
surrounding landscape that the novel contains. For example, figurative language is used
in the following piece of description:

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Slow water in the fat country. The slough by the
roadside motionless and grey. The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the
wasted farmland.

Note the way
that figurative language is used to compare the coastal plain rivers to leaden snakes
which is used to help us visualise the way the rivers meander across the landscape. The
way that they are compared to snakes also of course brings in an element of sinister
threat or of danger to the setting.

For one more example,
consider the description given when they enter an abandoned house and start a fire in
its fireplace.

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The flames lit the darkening glass of the window
where the boy stood in hooded silhouette like a troll come in from the
night.

The boy is compared
through use of a simile to a troll, which is in keeping with the mood of suspense and
terror of the novel, but also helps us understand that such a sight and such a feeling
of warmth are so alien to the boy, having walked around for so long with his father,
that he does not seem to fit in to such a "normal" domestic setting. Before lighting the
fire, the boy and the father brought in many "dead limbs" to light the fire, reinforcing
the novel's focus on death.

There are two examples for you.
Hopefully you will be able to go and find some others now. Good
luck!

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what does plant domestication mean?

Plant domestication is the process of changing plants to
make them more useful to human beings and then purposely raising them as crops (rather
than simply gathering their fruit or seeds wherever they happen to be
found).

Domesticated plants are physically different from
their wild ancestors and relatives.  They tend to have larger fruits and seeds, for
example.  This has come about through a process in which people select the plants that
have the biggest fruits or seeds.  The people plant those exclusively and eventually the
typical fruit or seed becomes much bigger than the
original.

This process of changing the plant to make it
more useful is part of plant domestication.  The other part is actually cultivating the
plant rather than simply searching for it and gathering its
fruit.

This answer can be found on the first page or two of
Chapter 7.

In Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3, what observations does Friar Laurence make about flowers and herbs?This is in lines 1-27.

One of Friar Laurence's passions or hobbies is his herb
garden. He tends to it gently and attentively. These herbs will come into importance
later in the play when he uses them to make a potion to drink that will help Juliet fake
her death to avoid having to marry Paris.

The observations
Friar Laurence makes about his herbs and flowers have to do with the healing and harming
powers they possess. They have the power to heal, yet they have the power to harm, as
well. Think of it as the venom from a snake. If a snake bites you, the venom can kill
you. However, a tiny amount of that venom is used to make the anti-venom that is given
to snake-bite victims to heal them. The Friar then makes a connection to humans. They
also have the power within them to either heal or harm. We all have both sides of our
personality within us and it's a matter of what we choose to utilize. This is his
commentary on the two families who have been fighting for
generations.

Zaroff states, "I'm a hunter, not a murderer." How does this fit in with Rainsford's hunting philosophy in The Most Dangerous Game?

Zaroff and Rainsford, the main characters in "The Most
Dangerous Game," share a passion for hunting.  Rainsford is an expert in the field,
having written many books on the subject, books which Zaroff has actually read,
ironically enough.  Rainsford considers it a sport which humans are more or less
entitled to because of their superiority to animals, who he perceives don't really
notice or feel anything when they are being hunted (a philosophy which changes fairly
quickly when he becomes the hunted one).  Zaroff is a cold, calculating killer, despite
what he might say, and he conceives the idea of hunting human beings as being more
challenging to himself, as well as being perfectly OK since he hunts people that he
considers to be socially inferior.  

What are three significant moments that show the growth of an individual in The Kite Runner, including quotes?

Despite his youthful transgressions against
Hassan, Amir grows into a successful writer and loving son and husband who eventually
exhibits a heroic streak upon his return to Afghanistan. Unlike Baba, who failed to
regain his confidence and wealth after relocating to California, Amir thrives in his new
surroundings. He graduates high school and college and becomes a published author,
giving him the personal pride that he lacked as a youth in Kabul. As an adult, his
relationship with Baba becomes a strong one, developing a mutual love with his father
that was not evident before arriving in America. Amir's character further develops when
he meets and falls in love with Soraya.

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Lying awake in bed that night, I thought of
Soraya Taheri's sickle-shaped birthmark, her gently crooked nose, and the way her
luminous eyes had fleetingly held mine. My heart stuttered at the thought of her. Soraya
Taheri. My Swap Meet
Princess.

Their marriage
makes him the nearly complete man, yet Amir is unable to forgive himself for his
deceitful actions as a boy. His return to Pakistan to meet with Rahim Khan begins Amir's
final transition, and when he successfully undertakes the dangerous trip through
Taliban-held Afghanistan to find his nephew, Sohrab, Amir finally gains
partial atonement for his longstanding guilt. As he takes the brutal beating from Assef,
Amir realizes that he has accomplished one part of his personal
dream.

My body
was broken--just how badly, I wouldn't find out until later--but I felt
healed. Healed at
last.

When Amir at last makes
a personal breakthrough with Sohrab while running the boy's kite in the final chapter,
Amir takes the final step at total self-redemption.

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     It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't
make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only
a smile. A tiny thing...
     But I'll take
it.

i need explanation of these linesThe Frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cryCame loud, -and hark, again! loud as...

The speaker in "Frost at Midnight" is awake in the night
while everyone else in the house ("the inmates of my cottage") are sleeping. As the
speaker enjoys the quiet and calm of this time, s/he observes the frost appearing
outside and hears an owl hooting in the distance. All is peaceful - even the baby is
quietly asleep in it's cradle.

We don't know why the
speaker is awake - it's not windy or stormy outside. Apparently s/he is simply too
involved in his/her thoughts to be able to sleep. "Abstruse" can be defined as meaning
"not easy to understand." The speaker appears to be grateful to have time without the
bustle of family activities in which s/he can think about the topics that don't get
attention during busier times of the day.

What point system did Ed Ruscha use to construct the screen print Standard Station?Art that depicts buildings, interiors or rectangular solids is...

Ed Ruscha’s screen print Standard
Station was created in perfect two point perspective. One of the 2 points
(the right point) in Standard Station is in the precise bottom
right corner.  All the right edges of the building meet at this point. The left point is
so far to the left that it is off the picture.  The horizon line is along the bottom
edge of the picture.

Here’s the way to analyze a picture
and tell whether it is in one, two, or three point perspective.  Imagine that you are
holding up an imaginary window right in front of your eyes and looking through it at a
picture.  Artists call this imaginary window your picture plane.  If the box or building
that you are looking at in the picture is positioned so that a whole wall or surface of
the building is flat against your picture plane, then the building is in one point
perspective.  If an edge of the building (where one wall meets another wall) is flat
against your picture plane, then the building is in 2 point perspective.  That is the
way it is in Standard Station.  If only one corner of the building
would touch your picture plane, then the building is in three point perspective.  This
is how artists analyze the rectangular solids around them to determine which point
system to use when drawing or painting a picture.

What do the pocket watch, marbles, and drawing of a bird symbolize in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The gifts in the tree symbolize innocence
and friendship.

Boo Radley leaves a variety
of gifts in the tree for the children to find, until Nathan Radley cements the hole. 
The children do not know who is leaving the gifts at first, but when they realize that
Boo left them they know that he is reaching own.  When Nathan Radley cements the hole,
they realize he is preventing Boo from interacting with the outside world.  Scout is
worried that Boo will get in trouble when she realizes he has put a blanket on her
shoulders.  These events change their perception of Boo, and they begin to see him as a
secret friend.

What meaning does the quote at the beginning of Chapter Three of The Secret Life of Bees have?“New beekeepers are told that the way to find the...

Your excellent question of course relates to the way in
which the quotes that begin each chapter relate to the contents of the chapter. What is
interesting about Chapter Three is the way that we see Lily making an important
discovery that will lead her to the queen bee, August, who will have such an important
impact on her life. Note what leads her to discovering August and her whereabouts is
seeing the picture of the black Virgin Mary in the shop and asking the shop attendant
about it. Of course, finding one of the queen bee's attendants, in the form of a shop
that sells August's honey, allows Lily to locate the queen bee herself, as the shop
attendant gives her the directions to August's house:

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Oh, sure, it's the darndest house you ever saw.
Painted like Pepto-Bismol. Your grandmother surely's seen it--you go through town on
Main Street until it turns into the highway to
Florence.

Thus it is that we
see Lily making another important step in her journey to
self-discovery.

Why was the original title of Lord of the Flies changed to its present one?

William Golding suffered ten rejections of his novel,
originally titled Strangers from Within, before finding a publisher
who wanted it. In September 1953 a young editor from the firm Faber and Faber, Charles
Monteith, wrote to Golding accepting the manuscript. In a letter written in December
1953, Moneteith notes his skepticism about the title. Nineteen possible titles would be
suggested before Lord of the Flies was nailed
down. 

In a letter dated February 25, 1954, (link below),
Monteith proposes Lord of the Flies as a title. According to
Monteith, someone else at the publishing company had offered that title, and everyone
who was involved from the firm seemed to agree that the title was apt because it
referred to one of the most memorable scenes from the story, it was impressive, and it
would likely boost book sales. Monteith assured Golding that if he didn't like the
title, he didn't have to go along with it. Evidently Golding didn't object. Monteith
also came up with the chapter titles and sent them to Golding for approval via
correspondence. Other letters show that the publisher worked with Golding to polish
Simon's characterization so that he didn't appear to self-righteous. It's fun to look
back at letters that show how such a literary classic arrived at its final
form.

What was a main theme in The Masque of the Red Death?

The main theme of this amazing short story by Poe is
Death.  He comes in quietly, like a thief, disguised appropriately for this masquerade
ball.  One by one, the guests drop dead and the rest retreat to other rooms.  The
purpose of the party was to keep all the wealthy friends far away from the plague that
is sweeping through the city outside.  Prospero, like his wealthy friends, thinks that
because he is wealthy and "above" the poor who are dying ouside his walls, that he is
above dying.  The truth is, no one can escape Death, no matter how rich, how beautiful,
how entitled one is. 

Another theme is time.  Throughout
the story, the clock keeps ticking loudly, and Prospero and other guests keep noticing
the time.  It is almost as though they expect an expiration date on the contagion. 
There is, however, an expiration date on the living. Everyone dies eventually.  It is
interesting to note, that the different rooms in Prospero's house correspond with the
different stages in one's life.  Take a look at the colors of each room...all the way to
the last one, which is black, signifying Death itself.

What does the hammer symbolize in this story?

Toni Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is a story
whose subject is the exploitation of one group by another.  Like the chicken hawk, the
two cameramen are intrusive as they come onto the property without even saying "Good
morning."  They film what will serve their purposes, taking from the family what they
wish. Explaining this act of exploitation to the children, Granny likens their actions
to those of a cameraman who dispassionately flimed a person's
suicide,

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"Takin pictures of the man in his misery about to
jump, cause life so bad and people been messin with him so bad.  This person takin up
the whole roll of film
practically.... 

When
Grandaddy Cain returns from hunting a chicken hawk that has preyed upon their chickens,
he, too, is filmed by the cameraman.  Ignoring the men, however, he pauses by the porch
so that Granny can see that he has caught this hawk.  Then, he nails the bird to the
toolshed door, "the hammerin crackin through the eardrums."  As the pinioned bird flaps
its wings futilely, its blood runs down upon the gravel.  At this sight of the "tall and
silent and like a king" Granddaddy nailing the hawk, the two men move away from him. 
For, without saying a word, Grandaddy has symbolically expressed his disdain for the
exploiter.  Then, he looks at the men as though he has just noticed them; he holds out
his big hand, "a person in itself," until the cameraman gives him the movie camera. 
Granddaddy's bloody fingers curl up around the camera; then his other hand, like "a
sudden and gentle bird" hits the top of the camera, knocking off this half. Camera leaps
to save the film from exposure.  With no comment other than remarking that the men are
standing in his wife's flower bed, and "This is our own place," Grandaddy picks up the
hammer, returning it to his pocket, and goes into the house.  Cathy tells the narrator
that she is going to write a story about "the proper use of the
hammer."

This hammer represents the
protective power of the kinglike Grandaddy.  With the hammer, he ends the
predatory power of the chicken hawk that has been preying upon his chicken coop.  With
his powerful hands, he ends the predatory filming of their family and property, so he
does not need to use the hammer, but it is there if he needs it.  Like the gun that is a
deterrent for cowboy, the hammer is returned to his oilskin pocket as it has
symbolically spoken to the two men.

what is the significance of the closing scene in Hamlet ?i have a report due . and really cant come up with an answer to put in my homework . ughhh x(

The closing scene in Hamlet provides a restoration of
order and and fit ending for the plot.

As expected in a
tragedy, most of the main characters end up dead on stage.  Gertrude is killed by
accidentally ingesting poison meant for Hamlet.  Her death spurs Hamlet, finally, to
act.  He learns from Laertes that both he and Laertes will die from the poisoned sword. 
Finally, Hamlet is able to muster the courage and power to exact his revenge on
Claudius.

Beyond this, the audience learns that Hamlet's
true story will live on through Horatio, who is thwarted by Hamlet from drinking the
poison as well.

Finally, Denmark will have a capable leader
in Fortinbras, who happens upon the carthage minutes after its conclusion.  Even though
an enemy country has taken over, Fortinbras has proven himself logical and able while
also recognizing Hamlet's greatness by offering him a soldier's
burial.

x=2+ln(1-x)

To solve this type of equation, that is called
transcendental equation, we'll have to isolate the logarithm function to one side, and
the linear equation to the other side, such as:

x - 2 =
ln(1 - x)

Now, we'll draw the graphs of the linear equation
x - 2 and logarithmic equation ln(1-x).

The graph of the
linear function x - 2 is the orange line, whose intercepting points to x and y axis are:
(2 ; 0) and (0 ; -2).

The graph of the logarithmic function
is the black curve that is passing through the origin (0 ;
0).

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The
solution of the equation is the intercepting point of the graphs. To determine x
coordinate we'll have to draw a perpendicular from intercepting point to x
axis.

The solution of the transcedental
equation is found in the closed interval [0 ; 1].

What are the chemical imbalances that lead to depression, anger and happiness and sadness.. please illustrate with diagrams and mention the...

I'm sorry to say that there is not a lot of good science
to support the idea that these conditions are caused by chemical imbalances. Anger,
happiness, and sadness have not been studied because they are accepted as normal and
reasonable human emotions; however, depression has been extensively studied and given
disease status.

The common concept that low levels of
serotonin in the brain cause depression has its roots in the 1960's. At that time it was
discovered that depressed people had measurably lower levels of serotonin than
non-depressed people, and pharmaceutical companies promptly developed and began to
market SSRI's, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, such as Prozac. These drugs
are designed to increase the level of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the patient's
brain.

The problem is that we have a chicken-or-the-egg
problem here. More recent research indicates that depression, which has a number of
physical effects, creates the lowered serotonin levels, and not the other way around.
However the pharmaceutical companies are in the business of selling drugs, and they have
worked hard to convince both the public and the medical community that depression is
simply a chemical imbalance, and is easily treatable with
drugs.

The first link below will take you to a pdf of an
excellent scientific review of the literature on this topic.

In "Sonny's Blues" how does the order in which events are related later in the story affect your experience of reading it and interpreting its...

Baldwin intends for the reader to experience Sonny's
troubles, the narrator's struggles to understand his brother, and the moment in which
the two brothers come together.  The attached link on writing style suggests that the
end of the story provides a catharsis in which Sonny is relieved from the pressure of
his life by playing his music.  The narrator has decided to go see Sonny play, so he is
there to witness this release.  We, the reading audience, are also "there" watching the
event unfold, and therefore, we are part of Sonny's catharsis.  The story moves around
in time, and sometimes readers might feel lost in the time shifts.  This is symbolic of
the trouble that has plagued Sonny's life and of the difficulty that the narrator has
had trying to understand the choices that his brother has made in life.  But these
events come together in the end when the narrator understands how music has shaped--and
saved--his brother's life.

What, in your opinion, is the message of Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance"?

In his essay, “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson focuses
on the benefits of the individual that relies on him- or herself, rather than
exclusively upon the opinions of others.  Emerson regards modern, city-dwelling society
as a culture of followers who seldom think for themselves.  Instead, humanity today is
easily convinced by the opinions of religious and political
leaders.

The central message here is that this
type of reliance on others rather than the self and one’s own judgment is fundamentally
dangerous to the individual and ultimately to the whole of society as well.  A lack of
self-reliance means a lack of critical thinking.  This means that, whoever has the
strongest and most eloquently stated opinion, regardless of its content, is the most
respected leader of the time.

Society, its
development, and its very future then depend on these strongly stated opinions,
regardless of their validity or lack thereof.  This lack of critical thinking becomes
evident in social ills such as prejudice, which is based on fear rather than
knowledge.

Emerson’s message is that the
individual should retrieve a sense of critical thinking.  This would create better
judgment and ultimately a healthier future for all human beings, rather than the few
with opinions that are strongly stated, but not necessarily
valid.

What arguments did the colonists use in objecting to the new taxes in 1764 and again in 1765?Please include supporting details, thank you in advance!

The colonists' objection was that they were denied the
rights of Englishmen; specifically the right to be taxed only by their duly elected
representatives.

The Seven Years War (the French and Indian
War in America) had been costly to the British Empire, and since the war had been fought
to protect the colonists, it seemed reasonable to George Grenville, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, that the colonists should assume some small part of the debt. He also was
determined to put a stop to the smuggling that had been rampant in the colonies. Among
the measures Grenville pushed through
Parliament:

• The Sugar Act of 1764 which cut the
  tax on molasses but levied new taxes on sugar, wine, coffee, indigo, and foreign
  textiles. It was significant because it was the first attempt by Parliament to raise
  revenue from the colonies. Previous taxes and regulations pursuant to the Navigation
  Acts had been solely for the purpose of regulation to protect Britain's Policy of
  Mercantilism.


• The Stamp Act of February, 1765 which was
  scheduled to take effect on November 1 of that year was a documentary stamp tax (in
  common use in this country today) placed a tax on legal documents, dice, playing cards
  and newspapers.

Englishmen had always been
taxed only by representatives duly elected by them. This was among the precious "rights
of Englishmen" under Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights of 1688.  The colonists
regularly paid taxes levied by colonial legislatures with no objection; now, however
they were being taxed by Parliament where they had no representation; hence the protest
of "taxation without representation." The colonists were not interested in
representation in Parliament, which was not feasible; they wanted any tax to be imposed
by those whom they had elected. They were proud of their status as Englishmen and
believed that they deserved the same rights as their brethren in
Britain.

what are the colors purple and gold refer to in Emily Dickinson's line "Blazing in gold and quenching in purple"i mean what do they symbolize

Emily Dickinson's poem, "Blazing in Gold and Quenching in
Purple," is replete with color imagery as the poet personifies the sun as a juggler who
dances, leaps, and frolics throughout the day.  This juggler, the sun, is clothed in
gold and purple, the brightness of the sun and its shadows as clouds touch it.  This
controlling metaphor of the sun as a juggler of a dual-colored costume that is the
interplay of light and dark issues a joyous contemplation of nature as the sun is also
likened to leopards in its darting movement throughout the sky until it finally "stoops"
to the "Otter's Window," the kelp pads in water that otters can peak through, and bids
the meadow goodnight. Dickinson's poem is, thus, a delightful tribute to the regal
beauty of nature with its color imagery since purple and gold are royal
colors.

Macbeth's Speech in Act 1, Scene 3Hey guys, I need some help analysing the speech by Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 3 between lines 137 and 150 (starting...

I would break down the text line by line for clear
understanding. First, "two truths are told" means that Macbeth is Thane of Glamis and
Thane of Cawdor. That is how the witches addressed Macbeth when they met with him. They
also added the title of king. This is the unclear part of the prophecy. How can Macbeth
be king when Scotland already has a king? King Duncan is alive and
well:

[Aside.]
Those creatures told two truths
As happy prologues to my
ascending
The throne. I thank you,
gentlemen.

Macbeth thanks
Ross and Angus for bringing him the news that he is declared Thane of Cawdor. Then in an
aside, he begins pondering (thinking deeply) about the meeting with the
witches:

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[Aside.] This supernatural
meeting
Can’t be bad, only it can’t be good either. If it’s bad,
Why
has it given me promise of success,
That began with a truth? I am Baron of
Cawdor

Now Macbeth realizes
he is Thane of Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor, but what about the king part of the
prophecy? Will he be king? If so, how? King Duncan is King. How can Macbeth be king if
Duncan is King? There is only one solution. Duncan will have to die, but how will he
die? Murder is one solution, but that thought causes Macbeth to fear until his hair
stands up and his heart knocks at his ribs. Macbeth is having horrible thoughts,
thoughts he should not be having.

This is where Macbeth's
"horrible imaginings" come into play. He is contemplating murder of King Duncan, and it
makes his hair stand up and his heart is knocking at his ribs. Clearly, Macbeth is aware
that for him to become king, Duncan will have to die. The thought frightens Macbeth, but
he is thinking about it. Macbeth is contemplating murder. As frightening as it sounds,
he is thinking about the murder of King Duncan:

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I am Baron of Cawdor.
If it’s good,
why do I give in to that suggestion
Whose horrid image makes my hair stand on
end,
And makes my heart pound so hard they knock at my ribs,
Against
my will to stay calm? My current fears
Are less than horrible
imaginings.
My thought, whose murder is still only a fantastic
idea,
So shakes my manhood, that functioning like a man
Is smothered
in unfounded allegations; and nothing is
Only what is
not.

"Nothing is only what it
is not" could be translated to mean that to be king is only to not be king because King
Duncan is still alive.

Is duality considered a theme in the "Fall of the House of Usher"?Edgar Allan Poe

If duality is not a theme, it certainly is a motif in
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."  For, beginning with the
double entendre of "House of Usher" as both the mansion and the
Usher family, this duality motif is repeated with the twins Roderick and Madeline Usher
and their dual genetic afflictions.  Adding to this motif is Poe's technique of what he
termed arabesque as he repeats and loups the Ushers' bizarre traits
with each other and with the
house.

double entendre
of the House of Usher

• The mansion
  is personified has having "vacant eyelike window" which are not unlike Roderick's eyes
  which are "bent fixedly before him" and "the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone
  out."


• As the condition of Roderick's health deteriorates,
  so, too, does that of the mansion.  For instance, the narrator describes the gloomy
  furniture and the "

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tattered draperies, which, tortured into motion
by the breath of a rising tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro upon the
walls.

• Likewise,
  Madeline dies and Roderick is tortured  and "a strong shudder [came] over his whole
  person."


• Of course, after the twins are in their final
  death agonies, the mansion's "mighty walls rush asunder...[leaving] the fragments of the
  'House of
  Usher.'

the twins
Roderick and Madeline

• Like his
  deceased sister, Roderick Usher is described as having
  

a
cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond
comparison;...and very
pallid....

• The
  narrator notices

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A striking similitude between the brother and
sister now first arrested my attention...from which I learned that the deceased and
himself had...sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature [that] always existed between
them.

arabesque

• Throughout
  the story, Poe repeats his duality motif and loups the bizarre traits of the twins
  Roderick and Madeline with the strange happenings in the mansion. For, as he approaches
  the mansion of the Ushers, the narrator is overcome with an "iciness, a sinking, a
  sickening of the heart..."  So, too, does he sense with Roderick "sensations which
  oppressed me." Then, as the narrator regards the lady Madeline, he
  comments,

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I regarded her with an utter astonisment not
unmingled with dread--and yet I found it impossible to account for such feelings.  A
sensation of stupor oppressed
me...

• Later, the
  narrator describes Madeline as having a stupor of
  kind,

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A settled apathy, ...and frequent
although transient ...affections of a partially cataleptical
characters.

A most
ingeniously woven plot and development of character, Poe's "The Fall of the House of
Usher" exhibits much duality as a prevailing motif.

As Karthik, what would have been your strategies to deal with the defaulters?

I think we need more details as to what strategies Karthik
pursued with regards to the defaulters.  This is a rather difficult situation no matter
what.  I think that Karthik could have pursued a debt rescheduling plan, whereby some of
the debt could have been paid off over a period of time agreeable to both Karthik and
the defaulters.  Without more knowledge of the situation, it will be difficult to assess
such a plan.  One can hope that one of the strategies Karthik employed was some type of
upfront or down payment, whereby some of the money could have been collected in advance,
if nothing else, to show good faith.  Naturally, if Karthik had attempted these and
other strategies such as these, but payment was still not received, escalated action
needs to be taken.  This could involve a collection agency, which would keep some of the
profits, but could exercise greater influence to get back some of that upon which was
defaulted, and perhaps legal action could be an option.  Yet again, knowing where
exactly Karthik is in his schedule of debt collection and the strategies employed could
allow a greater value of assessing what was done and what still needs to be
done.

In Antigone by Sophocles, is Ismene a pathetic character?

If "pathetic" was meant to describe someone who arouses
pity and a sense of sadness, I think that Ismene represents this.  I find it difficult
to come down with intense criticism of Ismene because she is in a tragic predicament, if
there ever was one.  She is placed in between two equally desirable, but ultimately
incompatible courses of action.  On one hand, she has the Greek conception of woman. 
This conception is fairly direct in its assertion that women have little concern in the
realm of politics and social policy.  Their condition is one where they must respect the
laws and abide by the social and political condition in which they live.  If Ismene
rejects this, she is cast out of Greek society, branded an outsider and treated as a
pariah.  This is the best case scenario for her.

On the
other hand, there is loyalty for her sister.  Nowhere in the play does she reject
Antigone.  She even volunteers to take the punishment for her.  She remains loyal to
Antigone, who pretty much severs connection to her when Ismene reflects to her that she
is incapable of being able to fully embrace her plan.  She has endured a great deal with
her family.  Tracing back to Oedipus, her brother/ father, and the suicide of her
mother/ grandmother, as well as the death of her brother, and the refusal to honor him
as per her uncle, Ismene has endured her share of familial pain and suffering.  For
Antigone to cut her off in such a brutal and swift manner is yet another familial
relationship that has not provided emotional comfort for her.  Ismene recognizes that
her refusal to help Antigone will result in another severed
bond.

How does one not feel pity for Ismene?  The drama
centers around Antigone, who ends up receiving some amount of redemption and absolution
in Creon's admittance of error and the suffering that falls upon him.  Yet, Ismene is
discarded in terms of receiving any sort of resolution or hope for the future.  She is
left in a horrifically pathetic state at the end of drama, sister gone, and no familial
connections of which to speak.  She is not in a position of economic, social, or
political power.  She is literally silenced.  I would entirely concede that she does not
embody the bravery of Antigone.  Yet, few do.  In all honesty, one of the strongest
elements that Sophocles displays is the stubbornness and difficulty that Antigone
displays and causes to others.  While she does stand for what is right, its cost is
significant.  For the freedom fighter, this is acceptable.  Yet, for every freedom
fighter are those who must remain behind and have to "clean up the mess" of idealism. 
They do not do so for praise and for glory.  They do so out of love.  Ismene is one of
these individuals and for this, some level of pity is evoked, making her a pathetic
character.

What is the symbolism of beginning The Devil in the White City with the sinking of the Titanic?

This is a good question. Erik Larson's book The
Devil in the White City is the story of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. It
traces the creation and building of the World's Fair as well as the actions of a serial
killer who capitalizes on the crowds and confusion of the worldwide event. Understanding
the symbol of the Titanic is the first step to answering this
question.

The Titanic was known as the
"jewel of the ocean," and it was grander and more opulent--as well as faster--than any
other ocean liner ever built. It became the symbol of the most advanced technologies and
extravagances to be had anywhere in the world. What happens on the
Titanic's maiden voyage has been well documented: it strikes an
iceberg (mostly through human error) and it sinks, taking hundreds of people with it
because no one was prepared for such an occurrence. The Titanic has
become a broader symbol of a grand thing which fails due to pride and human
error.

Given that, the use of the
Titanic in this story is a perfect foreshadowing of what is to come. This
particular World's Fair was a celebration the four-hundredth anniversary of Christopher
Columbus discovering America and the ingenuity and accomplishments of the country since
then. The hope is that it, like the Titanic in Europe, will be the
grandest, most opulent display of American culture. The parallel is
clear.

While it is true that there are enormous challenges
and obstacles while building the Fair, it is completed and it is a glorious
spectacle--just like the Titanic. The elements of human pride and
arrogance also show themselves in the building of the Fair. The exposition itself does
not fail; however, the presence of a serial killer who stalks his prey virtually in the
shadow of the Fair is certainly a horrific disaster.

The
sinking aspect of the Titanic is less applicable to this story than
the glorious creation of something to display ingenuity and imagination in ways which
had never before been seen. Both the Titanic and the 1893 World's
Fair in Chicago do that.

Solve 1/x - 1/(x+4) = 1/3

1/x - 1/(x+4) = 1/3

First
things first: make all the "x"s nominators as opposed to demoninators. Multiply
everything by (x)(x+4) to eliminate the demoninators with "x" in
them.

(1/x)(x)(x+4) - (1/(x+4))(x)(x+4) =
(1/3)(x)(x+4)

reduces to: (x+4) - (x) =
(x)(x+4)/3

Simplify: x + 4 - x = (x^2 +
4x)/3

Multiply by 3: 4(3) = x^2 + 4x =
12

x^2 + 4x - 12 = 0

Now we
just have to find its parts. We know that there is addition and substraction because 12
is negative. 4x is positive so we know that the greater number is positive. Therefore,
two factors of 12 will be subtracted to equal 4.

The
factors of 12 are 12 & 1, 3 & 4, 2 &
6

The pair of 2 and 6 are the only ones that when the
lesser is subtracted from the greater is 4 therefore:

(x +
6)(x - 2) = 0

x = -6, 2

I hope
this helps! If you need more clarification, please post!

Which factors are the most responsible for limiting the growth of a population?A) predation, parasitism, and symbiosis B) weather, habitat space,...

Which factors are the most responsible for limiting the
growth of a population?

A) predation, parasitism, and
symbiosis

B) weather, habitat space, and
resources

C) invasive species, ecological succession, and
deforestation

D) resources, migration, and genetic
drift

How does Celia and Rosalind plan to save themselves from villains in their journey to the Forest Of Arden in As You Like It?

Following Celia's suggestion that her and Rosalind flee
court to the Forest of Arden following Rosalind's banishment by her father, the two
young women work out a two-fold plan to protect themselves from any villains that they
may come across on their travels. Firstly, Rosalind plans to disguise herself as a man
so that they do not appear to be two unprotected damsels. Note what she suggests to
Celia:

Were
it not better,

Because that I am more than common
tall,

That I did suit me all points like a
man?

A gallant curtal-axe upon my
thigh,

A boar-spear in my hand, and in my
heart,

Lie there what hidden woman's fear there
will,

We'll have a swashing and a martial
outside,

As many other mannish cowards
have

That do outface it with their
semblance.

Rosalind, by
planning to disguise herself as a man, thus hopes to cover up her "hidden woman's fear"
with a show of "martial outside," presenting a bold and brave exterior that hopefully
should deter anyone that wishes to cause them
trouble.

Secondly, Rosalind also suggests that in case this
plan doesn't work, they should take Touchstone the fool with them just in case, so that
he can be "comfort to our travail." Presumably, having an actual man with them in
addition to Rosalind disguising herself as one would give them greater
protection.

What are 15 personality traits of Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird?

1. Creative/ 2. Inventive -
He helped create dramas, ways to get to Boo Radley, a treehouse, and the
morphodite.

3. Curious - He
wanted to know about Boo Radley.

4. Sensitive
- Jem regularly spent time alone. These are times when he was thinking
about his mother. He also took the trial quite
hard.

5. Protective/
6. Brave - He was fighting Bob Ewell, a
grown man, when Boo Radley rescued him.

7.
Fair/ 8. Generous - He brings Walter home for lunch after Scout beats him
up.

9. Pensive - He spends
time thinking about things like the fact that someone had sewn up his pants and the
points of the trial.

10. Human
- He won't do something for nothing. He had to be paid to take his sister to
school.

11. Understanding -
When Aunt Alexandra arrived, he got it. He understood that it was best to just stay out
of the way rather than try to cause further
problems.

12. Defensive - Jem
didn't want to be shown up by a little kid. He was always trying to show Dill how he was
better than him.

13.
Moral/Just - Jem believed that Tom should have been let
off.

14. Perceptive/ 15.
Stubborn - Jem understood at the jail that night that if the kids left,
the group could have beat up Atticus. But because the kids were there, they probably
wouldn't do it.

Discuss the summary of "The Misery" by Anton Chekhov?

 “To whom shall I tell my
grief?”

The main character in the story “Misery”
by Anton Chekhov asks this question because even though he is around people, no one will
listen to him.  Iona Potapov needs to talk to someone about the death of his
son.

Setting

It
is winter in Russia. It is miserably cold with snow falling as the main character and
his little horse drawn carriage wait for people.  The time is the late nineteenth
century.

Tone

The
mood and atmosphere speak to the overwhelming grief of the main character.  The people
that he tries to talk with about his loss do not care and brush his misery aside.  The
harshness of human nature strains the emotions as the reader lives through the story
with
Iona.

Themes

 Grief

The
theme of grief encircles the protagonist Iona.  He is isolated from the rest of humanity
because he has no one with whom to share his pain.  Iona looks for  someone to stop and
let him reflect back on the terrible event that will forever impact his life. No one
seems to care.

Man’s inhumanity to
man

The incidences that Iona experiences in the
story portray the worst side of mankind.  The customers are rude, unfeeling,
indifferent, and uninterested.  They do not want to get involved because they might have
to do something or help the driver; consequently, they act as though they do not hear
him. 

Summary/Plot

Iona
and his little horse wait for people to need his services. He is physically and mentally
exhausted and debilitated from his grief for the loss of son only a week ago.   He
encounters five incidences in the story.

1st
incident

Brusque officer-

The
officer is in a hurry.  He does react to Iona’s story, but it is only to tell him that
life goes on.  He softens somewhat and makes a joke.  There is only polite
interest.

2nd Incident

Three
drunken young men

They have their own problems. They are
loud and abusive toward Iona.  They are numbed by alcohol.  One of the men is a sick
hunchback.  He is especially miserable.  The hunchback reacts to Iona’s story by saying
that “We all shall die.”

3rd
Incident

Iona stops and tries to engage an indifferent
house-porter who is delivering a package.  He tells Iona to go
on.

At this point, the sleigh driver gives in to his
misery.  He stops then and goes back to the yard.  He does not have enough money to buy
food for the horse.

4th
Incident

In the yard, Iona sees another cabman.  Again, he
tries to engage the young man in a conversation about his terrible grief.  The young man
goes to sleep while he is talking to him.

5th
Incident

Iona reflects on his grief.  Then, he decides to
check on his horse.

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'Are you munching?' Iona asks his mare.  'Since
we have not earned enough for oats, we will eat hay….Yes…I have grown too old to drive…
My son ought to be driving, not I…He was a real coachman.  Kuzma Ionitch is gone…He said
goodbye to me...' 

The old
man continues to talk as the horse eats his hay.  The horse seems to listen to his
master and breathes on the old man’s hands. 

Maybe the old
man will feel better once he has verbalized the details of his son’s illness to his
death and funeral.  Finally, Iona may find relief in talking to his little white mare. 
He pours his heart out.  The story is left with an indecisive conclusion.  Hopefully,
the resolution for Iona will come with the purging of his grief with his working
companion, his little horse.