What was the ideal female image projected by mass media in the 1950s?

The ideal female in the fifties was a stay-at-home mom who
ran her household effortlessly, had milk and cookies for her children when they came
home from school, made perfect meals, and was, if not submissive, then at least
deferential to her husband, who was in all ways the head of the household.  She
exhibited very little sexuality because it was her husband's satisfaction that was
important, and besides, husbands and wives were shown sleeping in twin beds, not
together.  These women were always portrayed as dressing modestly.  Women were not
generally college-educated, and if they were, it was only for the purpose of meeting
prospective husbands and/or to make them better wives.  They were not expected to pursue
careers.  Generally, the only acceptable work outside the home was volunteer
work.

Some television shows that portrayed women like this
were Leave It to Beaver, I Remember Mama, and
Father Knows Best.  The only program that went against these
stereotypes in any way was I Love Lucy, because at least Lucy
presented as an "imperfect" wife in some ways.

Compute the integral of sin x/(1+cos x)^0.5.

We'll re-write the denominator of the
fraction:

(1+cos x)^0.5 = sqrt(1+cos
x)

You'll have to substitute the expression within brackets
by another variable.

Let 1 + cos x =
t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

-sin x dx = dt => sin x dx =
-dt

We'll evaluate the
integral:

`int` sin xdx/sqrt(1+cos x) = `int` -dt/sqrt
t

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

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

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

`int` sin xdx/sqrt(1+cos x) = -2 sqrt (1 +
cos x) + C

What motivates Rusty-James to steal and engage in other unlawful acts in Rumble Fish?

Much of the blame for Rusty-James' adolescent criminal
activity lies with his family upbringing. Rusty's mother, who apparently suffered from
criminal tendencies herself, abandoned the family and left Rusty alone for three days
when he was just two years old. Rusty's father, a former attorney, is a jobless drunk
who gives his sons little support or fatherly guidance. Rusty-James idolizes his older
brother, the Motorcycle Boy, a respected former gang leader who loves to steal
motorcycles and travel for months at a time. The mysterious Motorcycle Boy (whose real
name is never given) is rumored to have killed a junkie, and threatens to break
Rusty-James' arm if he ever uses drugs. Poverty and a lack of self-respect are other
reason's for Rusty's actions. Rusty-James' family serves as some of the poorest role
models possible, and Rusty--who hates being alone--finds the streets a better place to
inhabit than his own home. Rusty's love of fighting and stealing stem from a desire to
live up to his older brother's former stature, and he seems to think that by doing so,
the Motorcycle Boy--and other gang members--will respect and admire him as
well.

What is the thesis statement for Part 4 of Guns, Germs, and Steel?Just for Part 4, not for the whole book.

Part 4 of this book includes five chapters that touch on
every populated continent on the globe.  Because of this, there is no single explicit
thesis statement that covers the whole part.  However, there is at least one sentence
that comes close to summing up Diamond's major thesis that he is trying to prove over
the course of these five chapters.

This sentence comes at
the end of Chapter 19.  There, he tells us that European domination of
Africa

was due
to accidents of geography and biogeography--in particular, to the continents' different
areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal
species.

If we discount the
fact that this sentence is specifically about Africa and Europe, we can use it as a
thesis statement for the whole part of the book.  This is particularly true of the first
part of the sentence.  In Part 4, Diamond is trying to prove that it was "accidents of
geography and biogeography" that determined which people were to dominate the world and
which were to be conquered.

Is there any specific date and time when William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, was set?

This is a difficult question to answer authoritatively,
because I have seen numerous productions of this excellent play with settings ranging
from some kind of Athenian golden age in medieval times to modern-day settings with all
of the characters in modern dress. We always need to remember when studying Shakespeare
that all he left us with is the text. Whilst there are a few pointers in terms of
location and time in that text, so much else is necessarily a choice and decision of the
director who is staging the production of that play. This play could equally be set in
modern day America as it could be set in feudal China, for example, and still be just as
relevant. Consider the film version of Romeo and Juliet that sets
it in modern-day LA rather than in medieval Italian Verona for an excellent example of
this.

Thus, when we look at the play, the fact that Theseus
is called "Duke of Athens" does point towards some kind of medieval setting in Greece,
but it is vital not to feel bound or limited by that. If you are trying to come up with
a setting to this play, you can go wild as far as your imagination will take you, as
long as your setting can roughly be linked in to the themes of the
play.

According to Gun, Germs, and Steel, what role did axis orientation play in development?

Axis orientation played a major role in development.  It
allowed technology to diffuse on some continents and not on others.  This allowed more
civilizations to arise on some continents.  This allowed those continents to become
dominant.

A long east-west axis such as that of Eurasia was
essential to development.  Crops that arose in one place could be diffused to other
places and new civilizations could start up using these crops.  These civilizations
could then invent technologies and trade them with one another.  This allowed all of
the civilizations to benefit from the inventions of any given civilization.  Continents
without such axes had less potential to give rise to civilizations that would help one
another develop.

In this way, the orientation of the
continents' axes played a huge role in determining which continents
developed. 

How does this example of dramatic irony manipulate the audience sympathies, develops character, and develops the conflict and/or theme of the...

The fact that the audience knows that Claudius did in fact
kill King Hamlet makes the audience feel sympathy for Prince Hamlet, but it also makes
us question his actions or lack of actions throughout the play. The fact that the ghost
tells Hamlet that he was killed by Claudius doesn't necessarily set up the dramatic
irony in the play because Hamlet is not sure if the ghost is really his father or if the
ghost is an evil spirit that is there to pull him into Hell. In act II scene ii Hamlet
is expresses the fact that he is upset with himself after the player performs the
monologue about Priam and Hecuba and begins to cry. Hamlet is having a hard time
understanding how the actor can show so much emotion over someone he doesn't even know,
but he has not done anything to avenge his father. However, Hamlet also states that he
needs more proof that the ghost is telling the truth because he is still not sure that
the ghost isn't evil. He states that he will use the play "to capture the conscious of
the king" (II.ii.586). In other words he will watch Claudius's reaction and decide if he
is guilty. Therefore, at this point we don't know for sure that Claudius is the
killer.

However, in act III scene iii Claudius admits his
guilt in a soliloquy when he tries to pray. He also says that his prayers will not go to
Heaven because there is no action behind them. In other words he is not willing to give
back the queen, the crown or his power -all things he obtained after the murder. The
fact that we, the audience, now know that he is guilty but not willing to give back what
he has received helps us to understand what an evil person Claudius really is and how
much he deserves to die.

The dramatic irony also helps the
reader understand why Hamlet is so quick to kill Polonius, who he thinks is Claudius,
when he is talking to his mother and hears something behind the curtain (III.iv). The
audience can understand why Hamlet wants to kill Clauidus. However, the dramatic irony
also makes the audience wonder why Hamlet takes so long to get revenge. Hamlet gets
upset with himself in his solioquy in act II scene ii and again in act IV scene iv
because he has not avenged his father's death. Since the audience knows that Claudius
did indeed kill King Hamlet, we are left to wonder why Hamlet just doesn't kill
Claudius.

Describe two significant events that take place during the time period of The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt. What effect do these events have on...

Two really important things happen in the world during the
nine months of The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt. One is the
Vietnam War and the other is the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Neither of
these events has any particular impact, however, on the relationship or conflict between
Holling and his seventh-grade teacher Mrs. Baker. The opening lines of the novel are
spoken by Holling"

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

Despite Hoilling's
perceptions, Mrs. Baker does not hate Holling and soon even he knows it. Two significant
events that happen in the novel that do have an impact on their relationship, though,
are Holling's playing Ariel in a local production of The Tempest
and Holling having to try out for the cross country
team. 

Holling gets the role of Ariel rather accidentally,
but it is his love of Shakespeare which allows him to get it. That is a direct result of
reading and talking about Shakespeare's plays every Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Baker.
She helps Holling get a better understanding of his role simply by reading the play with
him, and she is quite proud of his performance. This event enhances their
relationship.

Another event which Holling is dreading is
the tryouts for the cross country team in which he must participate. It is not something
he wants to do or is particularly good at, but Mrs. Baker gives him some pointers on his
running form which really help him. She reveals that she is a former Olympian, running
the anchor leg in the silver-medal-winning four-by-one-hundred relay in the Melbourne
Olympics in 1956. She helps Holling run with the same form as the famous Olympian Jesse
Owens. This experience also makes the relationship between Holling and Mrs. Baker
stronger.

There are, of course, several events which happen
that do strain their relationship. Everything to do with cream puffs and cleaning the
chalkboard erasers seems to cause a problem between them, as does Holling's inadvertent
release of her two pet rats while he is cleaning their cage. Mrs. Baker is also not
happy with Holling when he takes Shakespeare too lightly. None of these events, though
they do seem to add to Holling's perceived conflict with his teacher, seem to keep
Holling and Mrs. Baker from having a good working relationship for most of the
novel. 

Explain motivation behind the neighbor’s duties toward the wall and his favorite saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.” "Mending Wall"...

The neighbor desires property separation. He believes in
boundaries. Walls protect. Clearly, the neighbor is old-fashioned. He believes "good
fences make good neighbors." The significance of this phrase is that neighbors should
desire to be good one to the other, and if good fences help this process, then build a
good fence.

While the speaker of the poem would tend to not
see the necessity of the wall, he humors his neighbor. He restores the broken down wall.
Hunters and animals have broken down the wall. Restoring the wall is a good time to
fellowship and spend time with his neighbor.

Clearly, the
neighbor is motivated by tradition. His father taught him that "good fences make good
neighbors."

He
will not go behind his father's saying, 
And he likes having thought of it so
well 
He says again, 'Good fences make good
neighbors.'

Truly, the
neighbor is motivated by old-fashioned ideas. The speaker considers him old
fashioned:

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Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the
top 
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. 
He moves in
darkness as it seems to
me~

No doubt, the neighbor
may only believe "good fences make good neighbors" because his father taught him that it
was so. Some people hold on to traditions for sentimental reasons only. Clearly, the
speaker of the poem does not see the necessity of the wall. He even mentions that one
should really consider what one is walling out by building a
wall:

Before I
built a wall I'd ask to know 
What I was walling in or walling
out, 
And to whom I was like to give
offence.

The neighbor is set
in his thinking. He will not change his mind. Obviously, the speaker has ask him about
the importance of building a wall. To this, the neighbor repeats his
thoughts:

He
says again, "Good fences make good
neighbors."

This is just the
way the old-fashioned neighbor thinks. He learned it from his
father.

Calculate the equation (n+4)^2-(n-2)^2-12n=________?

we are solving for the expression (n + 4)^2 - (n - 2)^2 -
12n

>(n+4)^2 also means (n + 4)(n + 4), the same
goes to (n - 2)^2, we have:

(n + 4)(n + 4) - (n - 2)(n - 2)
- 12n

>Now let's factor (FOIL), we
have:

(n^2 + 4n + 4n + 8) - (n^2 - 2n - 2n + 4) -
12n

(n^2 + 8n + 8) - (n^2 - 4n + 4) -
12n

>You thenuse polinomial operation, we
have:

n^2 + 8n + 8 - n^2 + 4n - 4 -
12n

12n  +  4 - 12n

>
Our final answer is 4 since 12n - 12n = 0, and we are left with
4

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What themes are explored in Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

I feel that one of the themes is that racism and hatred
can ultimately destroy the person who is guilty of it. Bruno's father is happy to kill
children of Jewish families and it is the ultimate irony that he indirectly kills his
own son. It is also clear that it is adults that are the ones who are guilty of racism
as children play happily with each other and do not see race/colour
etc.

The role of women is explored too as Bruno's mother is
not really at ease living near a concentration camp but does not speak out; speaking out
may have saved her child's life.

The Nazis' hatred of
other people and their casual mistreatment of them is characterised in the form of Pavel
who helps around the house although he is really a doctor.     

In Coelho's The Alchemist, identify three instances where Santiago has to pay a price to fulfill his Personal Legend, and explain whether he ever...

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist,
there are three specific times when Santiago (the boy) is required to pay a price to
find his Personal Legend.

First, the gypsy (in exchange for
analyzing his dream), demands a tenth of his treasure—if he finds
it. He agrees. Next, the King of Salem, Melchizedek, demands a tenth of Santiago's sheep
if Santiago wants to learn of his treasure. Again, Santiago agrees. In promising a tenth
of his treasure and giving away a tenth of his sheep, Santiago seems rather
stoic.

When Santiago has sold the rest of his sheep and has
the money from the sale, he is robbed by a young man he meets in the market place.
Santiago has neither the money to move forward or to return home. He cannot even buy
more sheep. So he takes a job with the crystal merchant. In order to go anywhere, he
must make money, and he works close to a year (eleven months and nine days) to save what
he needs. (At this point, he is again presented with the need to decide in which
direction he will continue.) However, in these circumstances, Santiago has more
difficulty in giving up his time to work for the crystal merchant. He is frustrated that
he has come to such an enormous obstacle through the deceit of
another.

However, in the long run, the time the boy spends
with the crystal merchant teaches Santiago a great deal with regard to pursuing one's
Personal Legend. When first robbed, he was certain he would buy some more sheep and go
home. However, after spending time with the crystal merchant, and seeing how
he missed the chance to achieve his Personal
Legend, Santiago recommits himself to move forward. While at the beginning of this
segment of his life Santiago feels the price is too high (knowing he must work so long),
later he is able to put it into a more meaningful perspective and believes that it has
all been worthwhile.

In John Tranter's poem called "Butterfly" what is the main idea presented?

This excellent poem takes as its subject a young woman who
is compared to a butterfly throughout the poem due to her tendency to flutter from one
position to the next and never stay anywhere for too long. Note how the poem begins by
emphasising this theme of moving from one place to
another:

When
she was fourteen, she says,
she ran away from home, at sixteen
she
bought a big bike and hit the road,
moving from town to town, looking
for
something she can’t
explain.

The movement of a
butterfly, randomly going from one flower to another, is thus compared to the girl in
the way that she moves "from town to town" seemingly without purpose or explanation. As
the poem says, with her, "it's just one weird thing after another," as she went from
roaming on her bike to fixing computers. The central comparison is made clear by the
present situation the girl finds herself in. The speaker tells us that "briefly, she's
alighted" to work in a pet shop during winter. The use of "alighted" is an implied
metaphor that reinforces the central comparison. She has "alighted" on this job for now,
with her eyes "awake and dreaming," an apparent paradox, which again reinforces her
desire to constantly travel on in search of her dreams. The poem ends with the speaker
regarding this girl and how she is obviously contemplating her next
move:

She
lights another cigarette, stares out
through the rainy window at the
street
full of showers and the heavy traffic
stalled on the
hill,
thinking of the open road,
sunshine, and the next
flower.

As regards the
message of this poem, it seems as if Tranter is presenting us with a figure who is
unable to commit to anything long-term and instead moves itinerantly from one position
or activity to the next. The speaker does not seem to judge the girl or her way of
living life, and indeed his comparison to her as a butterfly suggests that he finds
something beautiful in her aimlessness and her lack of commitment, and her ability to
not be tied down by one job or one position. Yet at the same time, the last stanza
suggests that she is so fixated on "the next flower" that she is unable to fully enjoy
the present and live it to the full. Lacking commitment is therefore shown to have its
disadvantages. 

Solve for x the equation x+2=squareroot(2x+12)?

The first step is to impose constraint of existence of the
radical.

2x+12 `>=`
0

We'll isolate 2x to the left
side:

2x `>=` -12

x
`>=` -6

The values of x that can be validated as
solutions of the given equation must belong to the closed interval [-6,+`oo`
).

Now, we'll solve the equation raising to square both
sides, to remove the radical:

(x+2)^2 = 2x +
12

We'll expand the
binomial:

x^2 + 4x + 4 = 2x +
12

We'll shift all terms to the left
side:

x^2 + 2x - 8 = 0

We'll
apply quadratic formula:

x1 = [-b+sqrt(b^2 -
4ac)]/2a

a=1 , b = 2 and c =
-8

x1 = [-2+sqrt(4 + 32)]/2

x1
= (-2+6)/2

x1 = 2

x2 =
(-2-6)/2

x2 =
-4

Since both values of x are located in the
closed interval [-6 , `oo` ), the solutions of the equation are {-4 ;
2}.

What happens when Napoleon joins with the other farmers in Animal Farm?

At different points in the novel, Napoleon joins the other
farmers. He begins to engage in trade with them in chapter 6. Although the animals don't
know what kind of trade, they have already seen the results in dwindling food supplies.
The animals' health and well-being continues to suffer. Napoleon, the great leader of
the animals, has obviously broken one of the great Animal Commandments and is engaging
with humans, but his mouthpiece Squealer helps the animals understand that it has to be
done.

In chapter 10, Napoleon really joins the other
farmers. He has them over for a meal and as the animals watch the great pig from the
window of the farmhouse, they see him drinking and enjoying the company of the other
humans. Enjoyment turns to anger as more and more alcohol is
consumed:

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Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they
were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man
again; but already it was impossible to say which was
which.

The pigs had turned
into humans.

Is there actually a phobia of colours? What is that kind of phobia called?

Your question intrigued me so much that I just had to find
an answer for you. Believe it or not, the fear of colors is a documented phobia, called
chromophobia or chromatophobia. According to my research, like most phobias, the fear of
colors is triggered in early childhood when some traumatic event occurs and becomes
associated with a color. For instance, Sybil Dorset, who was said to suffer multiple
personality disorder, was afraid of the color purple. She associated it with a time when
her mother locked her inside a crate in the barn. Unknown to her mother, Sybil had a
purple crayon in her hand, and she scribbled on the wood until her mother set her free.
Symptoms of chromophobia can include "a feeling of dread, irregular heart beat, extreme
sweating, mouth becoming dry, inability to speak or express, occasional shaking, extreme
anxiety, shortness of breath, relentless sweating and
nausea."

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With reference to "Dusk," state how unsucessful people determine their sense of failure.Saki's short story, "Dusk."

In his novella Of Mice and Men, John
Steinbeck's isolated character of Crooks, who is separated from the other itinerant
workers who stay in the bunkhouse, tells Lennie, another character how insecure he has
become by being alone:

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"...A guy set alone out here at
night....Sometimes he get think', an' he got nothing to tell him that's so an' what
ain't so....He can't turn to some other guy ans ast him if he sees it too.  He can't
tell.  He got nothing to measure
by...."

Humans are such that
they measure themselves by others.  When they experience misfortune of any kind, they
feel conquered, or supressed, as does Norman Grotsby who counts himself among the
"defeated," having fought for success and "lost." This sense of failure from measuring
oneself by the perceived merits of others can, then, only be mitigated by the attainment
of those same merits.

These merits can be in financial
areas as well as in human relations. Grotsby, who has failed in a more "subtle
ambition," perhaps love, is equally sick at heart and disillusioned by life. For, the
failure in any aspect of life does, indeed, conquer a person as he begins to doubt his
self-worth and abilities.  So often confidence in oneself comes from success, however
one defines this word.  If one is stalwart enough and has set the measure of success
within one's own consciousness, there may be less comparison to others, and, therefore,
less a sense of failure when one does not achieve one's goals.  However, if, as most
human beings are, a man measures success by his winning in competition with others, then
he feels vanquished by not having outdone those with whom he has vied for
success.

Was Jesus crucified on Mount Sinai? Where was he taken after the Resurrection?

Jesus was crucified at a place called Golgotha, or "the
place of a skull." After his death, he was buried in a tomb belonging to Joseph of
Arimithea. Golgotha is just outside the city gates of Jerusalem. Mt. Sinai is some
distance from there in the Sinai Peninsula. It is the site where Moses received the Ten
Commandments. There is no evidence that Jesus was anywhere near Mt.
Sinai.

After his resurrection, Jesus was not "taken"
anywhere. He apparently was seen by many, but travelled alone of his own free will.
Forty days after his resurrection, he ascended into heaven, or was "taken
up."

how does appearance and reality affect relationships in the play macbeth?explain in detail quoting examples from the text.

One definition of “appearance” is: “An outward aspect of
somebody or something that creates a particular impression.” Almost contradictory is the
definition of “reality”: “Actual being or existence, as opposed to an imaginary,
idealized, or false nature.” A prominent theme in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is the
contrast between appearance and reality. This theme is interlaced through each act of
the play.

The way people act on the outside and who they
really are on the inside may be two totally different things.  Some may change because
they feel they don't fit in. Others pretend to be something they truly aren't.  No
matter which way you look at it, if you try to act like someone your not, the truth will
always appear in the end.  That is exactly what happened in William Shakespeare's play,
MacBeth. 
Banquo, MacBeth, and Lady MacBeth each project an

image, but as time
passes. The realities of their true personalities begin to emerge.

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an honorable
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order not to offend others around him.  At one point in the play,
Banqou and MacBeth find themselves in the presence of three weird sisters who make three
absurd predictions.  MacBeth leans toward believing them while Banqou says,
"And

oftentimes, to win us to do our harm, the instruments of darkness
tells us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence". (Act
I,Scene 3)  A thoughtful yet skeptical Banquo speaks his words here very carefully to
MacBeth in order to remain honorable.  He doesn't want to come right out and tell
MacBeth to be cautious in his actions, so he tries to soften his words so that MacBeth
might contemplate his future movements.  However, MacBeth does not take heed of Banquo's
warnings. Because of the witch's predictions and his impatience, MacBeth kills in order
to get what he expects is coming to him.

When Banquo takes time to
contemplate what has been going on, he turns his thoughts to MacBeth.  He expresses his
feelings about the situation in Act II, Scene 1.  Banqou feels that MacBeth might have
something to do with the murders,but he never stands up for his thoughts or listens to
his conscience until MacBeth comes to him one day.  When MacBeth asks to talk privately
to Banquo,

Banquo states; " So I lose none in seeking to augment it,
but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiances clear, I shall be counseled."  (Act
III, Scene 1)  Banquo means that he will talk to MacBeth, just as long as MacBeth knows
that he is loyal to the King.  This is the only time that Banquo sets his foot down
against others to stand up for his morals.

How can you know a living organism is alive?

It would have been helpful to know if you were referring
to plants or animals when asking this question, as indications differ. There are some
generalities that can be used as indicators of life,
however.

Living organisms have some sort of active
respiratory function, allowing for intake of needed oxygen (in the case of animals) or
carbon dioxide (for plants) and ridding the organism of wastes. All living things need
"nutrition" of some sort, whether it be food eaten by an animal, absorption of nutrients
from an outside source, or photosynthesis to create "food" within a plant for its own
use.

Living organisms react to stimuli. This may be a very
small movement or change in the organism itself or it may be a very large reaction to
some outside condition.

Living organisms reproduce
themselves. The methods by which this process is accomplished vary greatly, depending on
the type of plant or animal you are considering, but the potential for it happening
marks all living things.

What is Hamlet all about ? What are the themes and messages throughout the play ?

In Hamlet, there is an act of
betrayal by Claudius. Then the entire play revolves around young Hamlet's desire to
avenge his father's death:

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Hamlet is often called an "Elizabethan revenge
play", the theme of revenge against an evil usurper driving the plot
forward.

Hamlet
is a play that causes young Hamlet to not be able to rest until justice is served.
Hamlet spends part of the play questioning whether or not his Uncle Claudius could do
such a thing as murder his father. Once Hamlet is convinced that Claudius has indeed
murdered his father, he spends the rest of the time plotting his retaliation for the
murder of his father. The end result is a tragedy:

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But Hamlet is far more than an outstanding
example of the revenge play. It is, to begin, a tragedy in which the attainment of
justice entails the avenging hero's
death.

The theme or message
is that revenge itself is deadly. Hamlet causes his own downfall by his obsession with
revenge. By plotting Claudius' death, Hamlet is stirring up Claudius' natural reaction
to protect himself. Ultimately, revenge kills Hamlet. His death is
inevitable:

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Life inevitably yields death and a wormy grave,
and its occurrence cannot be foreseen or
avoided.

On what values and ideals do individual characters in To Kill a Mockingbird base their ideas of right and wrong? Please provide examples with...

ATTICUS FINCH.  Atticus is
the moral backbone of his community, and he sets himself as a high standard for others
to emulate. He treats all people--black and white, rich and poor--equally and, as Miss
Maudie tells his children, Atticus acts "the same in his house as he is on the public
streets" (Chapter 5). He serves as a perfect example for his
children, who find themselves taking after Atticus in many different
ways.

SCOUT.  Scout doesn't
think much of her teachers, nor is she very impressed with some of the so-called
"ladies" of Maycomb (ex. the missionary circle tea, Chapter 24).
She prefers the life of the tomboy, but she still tries her best to follow Atticus'
rules and guidelines about life. When he tells her that the use of the word "nigger" is
"common," she claims that everyone at school says it. Atticus assures her that it will
"be everybody less one--" (Chapter 9). She comes to recognize that
his ways, though different from others, are
best.

MISS MAUDIE.  Widowed
"Miss" Maudie always says what she thinks, and it's obvious that she is a strong-willed
woman in a world and time when woman are regarded unequal to men. She is spiritual, but
not a "foot-washing Baptist" like old Mr. Radley: She's "just a Baptist"
(Chapter 5). She has many of Atticus' moral characteristics, and
she decries the gossip expounded by her friend, Miss Stephanie. She treats Jem and Scout
as adults, and for doing so, they recognize her as a true
friend.

DOLPHUS RAYMOND.  A
white man who prefers to live with his black mistress, Raymond enjoys misleading the
town gossips who assume he is drunken and mentally imbalanced. He's not, however, and he
enjoys keeping it his own little inside joke. Unlike Atticus, who treats everyone
equally, Dolphus cares little for Maycomb's white population (though he praises Atticus
in Chapter 20), and he cries "about the hell white people give
colored folks" (Chapter
20).

BOB EWELL.  As
despicable as any character in American literature, Bob's evil ways are many. He hates
blacks, drinks up his welfare check, and allows his children to go hungry and dirty. His
lies cost Tom Robinson his life, and he later attempts to kill Jem and Scout in
retribution for Atticus embarrassing him on the witness stand. He is the opposite of
Atticus, maintaining few if any morals whatsoever.

What are the character traits of Snowball in Animal Farm?

Snowball is meant to represent the life and character of
the fallen Russian leader, Leon Trotsky. In a very parallel way, Orwell gives Snowball
the very traits at which the former Soviet leader
excelled.

Snowball is a military mastermind with amazing
organizational skills. He compartmentalizes the entire farm into subcommittees in a
"divide and conquer" sort of way for the purpose of creating an army strong enough to
fight against the humans.

Like a true military leader, he
earns a medal in the Battle of Cowshed, in which the animals remained in possession of
the farm when Jones intended to take it back. All these military successes are possible
thanks to the strategies of Snowball who, as a young boar-as he is described-, also
becomes the right hand of Napoleon and Squealer.

Yet, just
like Trotsky, Snowball is eventually evicted from the farm by the very people who were
once his allies. As he leaves, Napoleon's absolutist leadership begins to lack the
skills that Snowball brings to the table as a strategist, as the brains behind every
operation, and even as a code-breaker! Hence, when all begins to fall apart he is blamed
for everything. It is easier for Napoleon to use Snowball as a scapegoat than to admit
that he is not as good a leader without him.

In all, we can
conclude that Snowball is the smartest and most dedicated soldier for the cause of
Animalism. He plans, organizes, comes up with ideas, and applies a myriad of resources
to fight their cause. As a result of his talent, he is put away from the farm due to,
perhaps, jealousy from Napoleon. Later, he becomes the scapegoat that is blamed for
Napoleon's ruling going badly. However, he will still remain the brightest of the pigs
and maybe even the most able leader they could have.

What techniques does Baz Luhrmann used to transform Romeo and Juliet into a contemporary context?

I would say that one particular technique that Luhrmann
uses is a modern soundtrack.  At least by the standards of the late 1990s, the musical
soundtrack that accompanies the film is quite modern and contemporary.  Musical
performances by Garbage, Everclear, and Radiohead brings out the "Grunge" feel of the
time period, contemporarizing his film and forging another link between the viewer and
the Shakespearean text.  The style of filming is radically different than a traditional
cinematic depiction.  Luhrmann uses fast paced filming with quick cuts and a distinct
"MTV" style to bring out another link between the viewer and the text.  The use of
modern sportscars, settings, and guns also helps to make the feel of the work
contemporary, feeding into a set design technique that allows a modern feel to emerge. 
Verona Beach as the setting of Verona works well in bringing out the contemporary feel. 
These help to bring out a contemporary take on the Shakespearean
work.

To what does this quote refer? "The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son; the widow she cried over me....... and called me her long lost lamb"The...

In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn ,
chapter 1, Huck introduces the story starting with how he and Tom Sawyer found the money
that the robbers kept hidden in the cave, and how they both became very
rich.

However, it is a known fact that Huckleberry has no
adult guidance. His father is a drunkard, and Huck is seemingly terrified of him. For
this reason the Widow Douglas basically adopts him and takes him under her wings. She
tries to educate them and reform him, but to no avail. Among the things she tries to do
with Huck is to get him to quit smoking, to say his prayers, to have good manners at the
table, to dress well, and to quit being
mischievous.

However, Huck has other plans, he hides to
smoke, always dons his overalls and raggedy clothes, hates having to wait for prayers at
the table, and would never stop being a rascal, especially as long as he continues to
associate with Tom.

Therefore, what Huck is telling us is
that he is aware of all the things the Widow Douglas has tried to do with him and that
he is aware of the fact that she is taking the role of a mother for
him.

Please suggest some points I can use to support the idea that the London riots were caused by inequality.I will argue that "The inequality between...

Perhaps the best way to make this argument is by looking
at the immediate cause of the riots and at the locations in which the bulk of the
rioting took place.

The immediate cause of the riots was,
of course, the police shooting of Mark Duggan.  Duggan was from a lower-class
background.  The fact that the shooting of such a person was the immediate cause of the
riots implies that the distinctions between classes and the treatment of the lower
classes was a major factor in the riots.  In addition, the fact that much of the rioting
took place in relatively poor areas such as Brixton can be used to infer that it was
mainly lower class people who participated in the
rioting.

So, to argue that inequality caused the riots, you
can point to the immediate cause of the riots and the location of much of the
rioting.

From Aaron Copland's essay,"How We Listen to Music", what dose Copland mean by " musical meaning?"

For Copland, the idea of "musical meaning" is a label that
helps to explain the transcendent quality of music.  Copland believes that there is a
level of musical appreciation that can transcend words.  This transcendence represents
what he terms as "musical meaning:"

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It [Music] may even express a state of meaning
for which there exists no adequate word in any language. In that case, musicians often
like to say that it has only a purely musical meaning. They sometimes go father and say
that all music has only a purely musical meaning. What they really mean is that no
appropriate word can be found to express the music's meaning and that, even if it could,
they do not feel the need of finding
it.

In this, Copland wishes
to make the argument that the definition of music does not have to be limited to
words.

It is a fairly postmodern argument in that it
asserts that there is a level of expression and understanding that exists outside the
realm of language.  In the most strict of terms, language is a limiting function.  For
example, a piece of music might reveal some aspect of consciousness to a particular
listener.  Yet, when they try to express this to another person through language,
Copland maintains that they might not be able to fully express the experience because
language is a domain whereby its full appropriation by all will only result in a limited
understanding of all.  This means that while we all communicate through language, we are
not able to fully communicate our experiences through it.  If I listen to a piece of
music and it expresses a condition that means something significant to me, my use of
language limits it because I am not able to fully convey its meaning to someone else. 
In this, Copland argues that "musical meaning" is a way in which we can convey meaning
without the limiting function of language.

What is the summary of "The Solitary Reaper" by Wordsworth?

This poem is yet another example of a Wordsworth poem that
is based around one of his walks in nature, but this time in Scotland, rather than in
the ubiquitous Lake District that was the focus of so much of Wordsworth's
poetry.

Whilst walking, Wordsworth comes across a "solitary
Highland Lass" working by herself in the field, reaping and singing. The "melancholy
strain" of her song and the way that it seems to make the vale "overflow" with its sound
causes the speaker to stop and continue his perusal of this solitary reaper without her
being aware of his presence.

The second stanza compares the
sound of the reaper's song to a nightingale's song and then to the cuckoo, finding both
wanting in comparison to the beauty of the reaper's song. The third stanza explores how
the song's meaning cannot be deduced, and the speaker speculates that perhaps it may be
of "old, unhappy, far-off things," or perhaps it captures some "natural sorrow, loss, or
pain" that is eternal.

Either way, the last stanza explores
the way in which the song is sung as if it does not have any ending, and how the
speaker, as he leaves the sight, hears the song in his heart long after he left the
solitary reaper.

What are some differences and similarities between the novel Things Fall Apart and the 2009 film Avatar?Like the themes, plot, setting, mood, etc.

Both stories involve a civilization invading
another civilization for resources. In Avatar, the
corporation, with the help of the military, is searching for unobtainium- an incredibly
rare mineral. In Things Fall Apart, the British are planning to
mine and drill for oil in Nigeria, but their primary goal in the novel is missionary in
nature. They are seeking to build a strong Christian foundation among the
Ibo.

The indigenous societies fight against
the invaders in both. However, in Avatar, a human
steps in to lead the native army against the human military. There is no such figure in
the novel; instead, Okonkwo leads his own revolt against British rule. That seems to be
a mojor difference between the two. In the novel, Achebe spends a great deal of time
establishing the Ibo culture, showing how everyday life works in their society. In the
movie, we don't see the Navi culture- except through the eyes of the human interloper(I
can't remember the character's name). Things Fall Apart is much
more focused on the Ibo culture and its response to British colonialism, rather than a
simple adventure/love story.

What are some character traits of Johnny and Sodapop from The Outsiders?I need some help with characterization!

Johnny Cade is the smallest of the greaser gang in S. E.
Hinton's The Outsiders. Johnny comes from an unhappy household,
where his parents fight all the time; Johnny is both verbally and physically abused, so
he spends as much time away from his home as possible. He is also a target of the Socs,
and Johnny takes a severe beating from Bob Sheldon--the Soc with the rings--who he later
kills in the park. Although not good in school, Johnny is introspective and loves to
read. He finally gets to complete Gone with the Wind while in
hiding at the church on Jay Mountain; he also explains the Robert Frost poem, "Nothing
Gold Can Stay," to Pony. Because of the beatings he has taken, Johnny is scared most of
the time, and he never walks alone; he also carries a knife for protection, and he
finally uses it to protect Pony in the park. He is the pet of all the greaser boys and
everyone's best friend--especially to Dallas Winston and Pony. After Johnny is injured,
the boys tell him that they can't go on without
him.

Sodapop is the happy-go-lucky middle brother of the
Curtis family. Pony describes him as having movie star good looks, and Cherry Valance
mentions how cute he is. Soda has dropped out of school and works at a gas station. He
is in love with his girlfriend, Sandy, who he hopes to marry. Soda steps in to defend
Pony whenever he and Darry argue, though we find later in the story that his brothers'
constant conflict affects him more than anyone knows. Soda and Darry are close, however;
Soda is the only one who is able to kid Darry without worrying about retaliation, and he
gives his older brother back rubs after hard days at work. Soda likes to fight more than
Pony or Darry, and he looks forward to the rumble.

Explain one theory of language development of children at the middle and late childhood stage and say how this has helped you to effectively...

Vocabulary and Grammar changes greatly in the middle and
late years of childhood.

Children in this stage of
development verbalize themselves well. During the middle and late childhood stage,
children think about words. They become more
analytical.

The elementary school child’s improvement in
logical reasoning and analytical skills helps in the understanding of constructions as
the appropriate use of comparatives, and subjunctives.

The
whole language approach stresses that reading instruction should parallel children’s
natural language learning. Reading materials should be whole and meaningful.
Basic-skills-and-phonetics approach to reading instruction that stresses phonetic and
basic rules for translating symbols into sounds. The most effective phonological
awareness training involves two main skills: Blending, and segmentation. Bilingualism is
easier for a child than for an adolescents or adults.

What does Aristophanes' "Clouds" tell us about Athenian society and education?

Aristophanes`Clouds represents a conflict between the old
education and the new sophistic education in classical Athens. The old education was
limited to gymnastics, music, and basic literacy and numeracy. Post-secondary training
was normally apprenticeship, often in the form of `sunoisia`, in which an older relative
would introduce a youth to civic life. This left a gap, between secondary education and
the age at which youths could assume responsibility for the family estate.
Pheidippiedes, Strepsiades` son in Clouds, is emblematic of the problem of wealthy youth
with no meaningful activity, generally getting into
trouble.

Two competing groups, philosophers and sophists,
developed tertiary education in Athens, with the philosophers offering an environment in
which one could devote oneself to free pursuit of theoretical knowledge and sophists
such as Protagoras charging fees for practical training in rhetoric. The Socrates of
Clouds is an amalgam of Protagoras and the historical Socrates.

If Alcee represents the Code of Chivalry in Kate Chopin's "The Storm," is he a Gentleman throughout the story? Or, is he simply a cad who takes...

In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," we are not meant to look at
Calixta as a victim of Alcee's amorous attentions. They are both consenting adults who
give in to their passions in the heat of a quite unexpected moment. There is no evidence
in the story that Calixta is vulnerable, nor that Alcee has set out to conquer her. He
is read as chivalric because of the information we receive about his past with Calixta.
In their past, before Calixta was married, Alcee reins in his passion towards her, so as
not to defile her before marriage. After she is married (and no longer a virgin),
however, he views her as a woman who is free to give of herself physically. He is not
"ruining" her by making love to her now.

Explain what The Glass Menagerie suggests about the human capacity for happiness.

In the beginning of Tennessee Williams's Expressionist
play, Glass Menagerie, the playwright
states,

The
scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic.  Memory takes a lot of poetic license. 
It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the
articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the
heart.

That memory is a key
element in this play is problematic because memory is in the heart, and it involves a
confrontation with the past in which one is not what one is now.  Thus, one often
creates illusions so that he/she can reconcile the past with the present.  This is the
case with Amanda, who reconstructs the past, creating wistful illusions of what has
really occurred or what will occur.  For instance, she often reflects on her gentleman
callers and how popular she was in order to feels a sense of having had happiness.  She
imagines Laura's marriage in an effort to effect happiness for Laura and contentment and
security for herself.  However, the nostalgia of Amanda for the past evinced in her
appearance in a dress of her youth indicates that Amanda has created an illusion and
thereby ignores the needs of her adult children.

Tom, too,
dwells in illusion, always going to the movies and dreaming of being a writer.  But,
rather than wistfully dreaming of the past like his mother, Tom dreams of the future. 
Yet, he cannot completely cut himself from the Wingfield tenement as he finds himself
looking toward it in the last scene;  therefore, his illusion is that of the future in
which he seeks happiness, but he is yet tied inextricably to the past and, thus,
prevented from acquiring this happiness.

For Laura, the
illusions are neither of the past and the future, but are, instead, the present, and
these are forced upon her. For, whenever she attempts to assert her independence and
achieve her own happiness, Amanda steps in and redirects her efforts.  One example is
the scene in which Amanda confronts Laura for not attending the Rubicund Business
College.  But, Laura does not want to attend; she tries to tell her mother how much
happier she was at the museum or the zoo, but Amanda will not listen.  Instead, her
mother makes arrangements for the gentleman caller and forces Laura to enter he dream of
security in her old age.

The Glass
Menagerie, a fragile collection of individuals, demonstrates how each
character's dream of success or happiness cannot be satisfied by the creation of an
illusion.  For, the characters own turbulent creative processes mask memory or the
future or even the present; thus they live without escape, without happiness, only with
illusion.  The final lines of Amanda are, indeed,
ironic,

"You don't know things anywhere!  You live
in a dream; you manufacture illusions.!"

Does Richard Strout “suffer equally” with Matt Fowler?

The original question had to be edited.  A question like
this is going to be a challenge because one will have to inject their own moral values
into the answer.  Perhaps, this is deliberate.  Dubus gives us a world in which there is
moral blindness and a lack of ethical vision.  It might be time for us to assert that
which the characters lacked.

It is difficult to compare the
suffering that Richard and Matt endure.  Matt losing as son and Richard losing his life
is where the fundamental collision occurs. While Matt losing his son is suffering of an
unthinkable level, it might be mitigated when he takes Richard's life.  At that point,
his suffering is muted a bit with the action he took.  I cannot see him as a paragon of
suffering with blood on his hands.  

Richard experiences a
level of suffering in having his life taken from him.  While he did take Matt's son, his
suffering is extended in not knowing what is going to happen to him.  It is not as if
Matt is happy in what he did and tells Richard, although feebly, why he did what he did.
 Perhaps, there is an equality in suffering within both men because they both end up
living with the consequences of taking a life.  Neither man is pleased with having to do
what was done.  Richard does not seem pleased because he killed Frank.  He is not proud
of what he did.  In the end, Matt is not entirely pleased with what he did.  Both men
embraced the end of violence and are not necessarily better because of it.  Herein lies
a shared level of suffering.  

What specific scenes or symbols are used as an example of loyalty or disloyalty in On the Waterfront?

I would say that when Terry talks to his brother about
what could have been the result of his life, it is a moment where one sees the tension
between loyalty and disloyalty.  It is one of the most famous scenes in the film because
it is so emotionally uncomfortable to see the pangs of loyalty hit against the dissonant
chords of disloyalty.  When both brothers are talking, Charley trying to get his brother
to take the bribe in order to be silent, and Terry speaking about how his brother should
have "looked out" for him, it is a stunning moment about loyalty and disloyalty in a mob
controlled world.  Terry reminds the viewer about what loyalty should be and how it
stands in stark opposition to what the world of disloyalty looks like.  It is a scene
where the collision between both realities is present, as Charley embodies disloyalty in
how he manipulated his brother, and Terry is tortured in trying to represent loyalty in
a world that does not validate it.  I think that it is here where we see the greatest
symbolic representation of loyalty and disloyalty, simultaneously, in the
film.

If Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice were getting married in this era, what would their wedding be like?What would the...

While Mr. Darcy is extremely wealthy, both he and
Elizabeth have very elegant and practical taste. Therefore,
their wedding would probably not be extravagant. It would be simple and elegant. Another
reason why their wedding would probably not be very expensive is that the Bennet
family's fortune is not a very large one. As we learn early on in the story, "Mr.
Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year,"
meaning that the Longbourn estate earns two thousand a year from crops and tenants' rent
payments (Ch. 7). Two thousand a year was not a bad income for Austen's days, but it
certainly wasn't as much as either Bingley or Darcy make a year. Mr. Bennet would have
already spent a lot of money on Jane's wedding clothes, plus he had to contribute "one
hundred pounds per annum" to Wickham's bribe to marry Lydia (Ch. 49). Therefore, Mr.
Bennet would probably not have been able to give Elizabeth a great deal of money for
wedding clothes. It would have been just enough.

Hence, if Elizabeth
and Darcy were married in today's society, they probably would have
married on the Pemberley estate and kept things
simple and elegant. Elizabeth's
gown would have been elegant, but simple,
probably a lot like Kate Middleton's gown when she married
Prince William.

We also know that it is fall when Mr.
Darcy proposes to Elizabeth for the second time. We know this because the
letter Elizabeth receives from her Aunt Gardiner explaining Darcy's involvement in Lydia
and Wickham's marriage is dated "Sept. 6" (Ch. 52). Also, we know it is fall because we
are informed that Bingley and Darcy have returned to Longbourn for the hunting season.
After Lydia departs with her new husband, we learn of rumors that "the housekeeper of
Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her master [Mr. Bingley],
who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks" (Ch. 53). Since
it is fall when Darcy again proposes to Elizabeth, we know that their
wedding would most likely have been in the
winter. Blues are very good
colors for winter weddings, and since both Darcy and Elizabeth have such
sensible, elegant taste, their wedding colors would most likely have been
blues.

What lesson is Shaw trying to teach with the play?

In his play Mrs. Warren's Profession,
George Bernard Shaw shows us a series of dynamics that take place in the same plot.
First, you have the topic central theme of the hypocrisy among the upper classes. Mrs.
Warren is a former destitute who, in order to make a living, opens up a brother and
works as a prostitute. She is living a righteous life, puts her daughter through school,
and basically lives under the appearance of the rich while hiding the fact that her life
earnings are based on vice.

The topic of unfairness among
the classes, separation of social status, and hypocrisy are consistently touched upon by
Victorian writers. The London society in the 19th century was as fashionable as it was
classicist. They avowed by prudishness and virtue and did the exact opposite in their
households. Mrs. Warren is an example of those women who hide their truths and joins the
masquerade of society. In the end, she sadly paid for this with the rejection of her own
daughter.

Shaw also aims to show through Vivie that not
everyone in London thinks the same way. There are dissidents from the common behaviors
of people who appreciate their independence no matter how uncommon it may seem. What
separates Vivie from Kitty is the discovery of Kitty's hypocritical lifestyle. Maybe
there is something to learn from Vivie's awkward and pseudo-masochistic behavior: Not
everybody has to be content with the status quo. It is fine to be a rebel of society. In
the end, at least those who are true to themselves end up safeguarding their
dignity.

Chapter 3: Why does Jack say "we want meat" several times in this chapter.Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Chapter Three of Lord of the
Fliesfinds a crouching Jack with a sharpened spear sniffing the ground; then,
when a bird screeches, Jack shrinks back, hissing as though he is a "furtive thing,
ape-like among the tange of trees."   Still bent, Jack seems to begin his degeneration
into a more primitive being than the civilized boy in the choir robe who first arrived
on the island as he looks down at the trodden ground for evidence of a
pig.

Clearly, Jack has become consumed with hunting.  He
himself tells Ralph that he has to go on after the other hunters have
returned.

He
tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him
up.

As he attempts to explain
to Ralph that he has thought he could kill a pig, there is a "madness" that comes into
his eyes as he speaks.  His repetition of the phrase "we want meat" is indicative of
this overwhelming compulsion to track and kill pigs.

explain the followingWho is to say that the Box Man does not feel as Thoreau did in his doorway, not “crowded or confined in the least,” with...

My take on this passage is that the author is questioning
the common assumption that if a person is homeless, something beyond that person's
control has forced the condition of homelessness upon them. The author seems to be
suggesting that perhaps living in a box is a conscious choice, and perhaps even a heroic
choice. Why?

Well, Thoreau simplified his external life to
the bare minimum in order to enrich and deepen his inner life. Unencumbered by the
possessions and material attachments with which most people load themselves up, Thoreau,
and by extension the Box Man, have the contemplative capacity to allow their
imaginations, their spirits, free rein in this inner
"pasture."

So to the busy passers-by on the Tokyo streets,
the Box Man is a tragic figure. This author suggests, however, that perhaps the inner
world of the Box Man is rich and vibrant, filled with a freedom that most of us will
never know.

In simpler terms, the author seems to say,
don't judge a book by its cover, or a man by his Box.

Summary of the Oration on Dignity of man

In 1486, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola addressed an
audience of Catholic priests and bishops. In this talk, he agrees with the Church that
human beings are marvelous creatures, with an amazing capacity for intellectual
achievement, and act as intermediaries between heavenly beings and earthly creatures.
However, the Church has not fully explored why man is so miraculous. When God was
creating everything on Earth, God wanted one creature who could appreciate all His work.
However, all the spaces in creation, from the lowest worm to the highest angel were
already created. There was no more room in the chain of being, so God created man
outside of the chain of being. Man is capable of learning from all of the creatures.
Knowledge and learning help man be like the angels, heavenly beings, whereas not using
one’s intellect makes man vegetate as other earthly creatures of flesh. When man uses
philosophy and his intellect, he ascends the chain towards the angels. Thus man through
his own human will can change himself, while the rest of creation only changes when
outside forces act upon it. This raises the dignity of the liberal arts and increases
the need to study.

Toni Cade Bambara mentions Harriet Tubman in her story titled "The War of the Wall." How and why is the reference to Tubman important?

In Toni Cade Bambara’s story “The War of the Wall,” a
young African-American woman from New York – a painter – has been given permission to
paint a mural on the outside wall of a building in a small southern town. At first two
of the children in the story are offended by the woman’s apparent presumption: she has
come into their neighbor to paint some of her
art on a wall that has long been used (for shade, for ball-playing, and for other
purposes) by the local community. Yet despite the children’s objections, the painter
continues with her project.

As the project nears
completion, the children decide that they will deface the painting. However, before they
have a chance to execute their plan, they (and the rest of the community) see the
completed mural and cannot help but strongly admire it. They are particularly touched to
find members of the community represented in the painting, and they are surprised, at
the very end of the story, to learn that the painter has a hitherto-unknown personal
reason for wanting to honor the wall.

As the children and
other members of the community look at the mural, they notice that the features of
various important African Americans have been painted on
it:

The wall.
Reds, greens, figures outlined in black. Swirls of  purple and orange. Storms of blues
and yellows. It was something. I recognized some of the faces right off. There was
Martin Luther King, Jr. And there was a man with glasses on and his mouth open like he
was laying  down a heavy rap. Daddy came up alongside and reminded us that he was
Minister Malcolm X. The serious woman with a rifle I knew was Harriet Tubman because my
grandmamma has pictures of her all over the
house.

The reference to
Harriet Tubman is significant for a number of reasons, including the
following:

• She is a well-known symbol of African
  American resistance to slavery.


• She served as a spy for
  the Union during the Civil War.


• She actually helped
  rescue blacks from slavery as part of the so-called “Underground
  Railroad.”


• She served the Union army in a variety of
  capacities during the Civil War.


• She was later involved
  in the struggle for equal rights for women.


• She not only
  led a highly active life but eventually described her actions in vivid
  words.

In all these ways, then (and many more),
Tubman is a highly relevant figure to be included in a mural celebrating
African-American heroes.

What does George do to take care of Lennie in Steinbeck's story Of Mice and Men?

George has promised Lennie's Aunt Clara that he will watch
out for Lennie, and he does this in numerous ways, constantly, in John Steinbeck's story
Of Mice and Men.

As the men approach
the water hole, George tries to protect Lennie from drinking bad water. We get the sense
quickly that something is not quite right with Lennie because George has to explain very
simple concepts to him, and Lennis forgets a lot.

We find
out, also, that George had to make a run for it with Lennie, escaping and hiding to
protect Lennie, when Lennie got carried away with feeling a young girl's dress (he loves
soft things) and frightens her.

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So [Lennie] reaches out to feel this red dress
an' the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on
'cause that the only thing he can think to
do...

When the girl says she
was raped, the authorities come after Lennie with men ready to lynch him, and George has
to hide Lennie and then make sure they get away.

George
watches out for Lennie when Curley comes in and starts picking a fight. He lets it go on
for a while, but then tells Lennie to stand up for himself—to fight back. Lennie has no
desire to hurt anyone, but in defending himself, he eventually crushes Curley's hand.
Embarrassed, Curley explains to the others on the ranch that he got it caught in some
machinery.

George tells Lennie how he should behave on the
job. In particular, he tells Lennie to stay away from Curley's wife. Lennie remembers
this clearly and tries hard to do as he has been told, but Curley's wife will not leave
Lennie alone, and ultimately tragedy follows.

George also
gives Lennie a dream—in essence, George has a dream and lets Lennie
share it. George wants to own a piece of land with a house, and work the land. This also
becomes Lennie's dream, as George tells him that he can care for the rabbits. Lennie is
overjoyed.

In the end, when the men on the ranch chase
Lennie to kill him for the accidental death of Curley's wife, it is George who takes
Lennie's life, knowing how horrific it would be for the sweet-natured Lennie to face the
anger of a mob and death at the hands of men with murder on their minds. It is just
another way that George watches out for Lennie.

What is the setting of Freak the Mighty? Rural or urban? Explain why.

The setting of Rodman Philbrick's Freak the
Mighty is unnamed but is based on the author's former home of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he went to high school. It is not a rural setting, but a city or
town of some size with many dangers. There are housing projects, particularly the
rundown New Tenements, and roving gangs--a sure sign of urban plight. Kevin and Max live
in duplexes, most often found in cities. When the two boys make their trek eastward,
they walk for "miles," going through other neighborhoods before reaching the hospital.
The city is a depressing place, and most of the homes and buildings are sad refuges from
the danger that can be found outside. A peaceful, country setting it is
not.

In the short story, "The Story of an Hour," what are 4 details/evidence regarding women's roles in the 1800's?Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."

The very title of Kate Chopin's points to the short-lived
emergence of selfhood in the life of a Victorian woman as within this sixty-minute
period there is a brief portrait of a woman's reaction to the possiblity of
freedom.

1. In the exposition of the story, the reportorial
voice of the narrator refers to the main character simply as "Mrs. Mallard," suggesting
that the woman's identity is tied inextricably to that of her husband.  And, it is not
until Mrs. Mallard is alone that the character is alluded to as "she" and eventually as
Louise.

2. Mrs. Mallard is patronized as she is "afflicted
with a heart trouble" and great care is taken to gently break the news of her husband's
death.  That Mrs. Mallard lives within a patriarchal society is evinced by the
belittling attitude toward her condition that no one has really investigated, but simply
dismissed as some trouble with her heart.

3. That Louise
Mallard should feel free only after confirmation of her husband's death indicates the
repression under which she has lived.  Moreover, this realization comes to her with
trepidation as she has been so repressed that now she is afraid of the
future,

There
was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.  What was it?  She
did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name....When she abandoned herself a
little whispered word escaped her slightl parted lips.  She said it over and over under
her breath: 'free, free,
free!'

4.  When her
sister-in-law Josephine insists upon being let in, an action symbolic of the re-entrance
of the restrictive role of women in the 1800s, Louise repels her, "Go away...." and in
her fancy Louise "breathed a quick prayer that life might be long" as she emerges "like
a goddes of Victory."  Truly Louise Mallard has experienced an emergence of selfhood. 
Sadly, however, it is too late for her, as she dies of "heart disease" when her husband
enters the hallway.

Laura said, "Isn't life--" But what life she couldnt explain." What it Laura trying to say about what she thinks of life in "The Garden Party"?

This becomes one of the fundamental issues in Mansfield's
short story.  Laura is unable to explain what she considers life to be.  To a great
extent, this makes sense.  Laura has had a moment where she has seen death and
formulated impressions about it in terms of noticing the tranquility and serene nature
of the laborer's corpse.  This experience with the force of immortality, albeit brief,
is one that holds sway over her.  In a world of human constructs such as hats, garden
parties, upper and lower classes, as well as tea cups and ice cream puffs, a brief
moment with a primal force of nature that has the capacity to undermine human existence
in a brutal way causes a shift in focus and understanding.  It is here that Laura
returns having experienced some type of change.  It is not clear what that change is,
which is why she is unable to explain what "life is."  At some point, what the reader
thinks about such issues is probably where the answer lies.  If the reader believes that
a brief brush with immortality can cause change within an individual, then one will most
likely believe that Laura has changed and has become a person who will be prone to
examining being in the world through a different lens.  If one believes that such
moments do not change people, then one might be able to embrace the idea that Laura will
retreat back into her world of wealth and privilege and forget what was outside it.  In
the end, this is suspended.  We simply don't know.  We don't even know if Laura and her
brother actually understand one another and the moment that Laura experienced. All we
are left to know is that there Laura had a moment where words could not explain what was
experienced.  There is a moment, one that transcends words and language, and there is
the unknown as to what happens after it.

How does gas chromatology detect alcohol in the blood?

Gas chromatology, also known as gas chromatography, is a
way to separate volatile gasses or liquids from one another so they can be identified.
In the case of a blood sample being examined for ethanol, the sample is first prepared
by dilution with a known concentration of another (non-consumable) alcohol, usually
propanol or butanol, for comparison purposes. It is then injected into a vaporization
chamber. A constant flow of an inert gas such as nitrogen carries the vaporized blood
sample into a separation column. The different volatile chemicals in the sample interact
with the column by adhering and moving thorough the column by capillary action. Lighter
molecules move through the column relatively quickly, while heavier molecules take more
time. This difference in motion results in the different sized molecules becoming
separated into groups as they move through the chamber. As each group exits the chamber,
it passes through a detector.

The detector allows the
instrument to note the retention time within the column for each substance. The
retention times are compared to a known standard and the presence of absence of various
molecules is confirmed. The size of the peak corresponds with the sample volume;
comparing the size of the ethanol peak with that of the alcohol added during sample
preparation allows a calculation of blood alcohol as a percent
volume.

In most cases, an additional detection step is
added in the form of mass spectroscopy. In this case, the detection system also shines
light of a known wavelength through each substance as it exits the separation chamber.
The amount that the substance refracts the light beam is recorded and again is compared
to a known database. This provides a second confirmation of the identity of the
substances present in the sample.

How is Shakespeare's scene where Clarence dies both frightful and amusing in Richard III?

In Act I, scene four of Shakespeare's Richard
III, Richard has outwardly arranged to pardon his brother Clarence (who he
secretly took steps to have arrested and put in the Tower of London), while he has
(again) secretly made other arrangements—to have Clarence
murdered.

The scene is frightful—but rather than amusing,
personally I find it disturbingly ironic. The irony comes from the substance of a dream
Clarence (George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of
Warwick) has had that he shares with Brakenbury. Clarence describes having escaped from
the Tower (in his dream) and is sailing to href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy_wine">Burgundy. While this is a
place in France, it is also the name of a kind of wine. Wine will become an important
detail in the "horror" of scene four, so it is also not just a play on
words, but foreshadowing as well. (Shakespeare was a clever
and artful writer.) Clarence goes on to describe sailing with his
brother Gloster. They look (across the English Channel, we assume) toward England. "Wars
of York and Lancaster" is a reference to the War of the Roses—the battle between the two
royal houses for supremacy in England—and, of course, the
throne.

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Clarence is filled with guilt for having switched
sides more than once during the Wars of the
Roses…

Gloster and Clarence
(still in the dream) recall the "thousand heavy times" they had experienced during the
war. Suddenly, as Gloster and Clarence walk on the "giddy" (unsafe; weak) hatches on the
deck, Gloster falls into the water to his death, and Clarence has a flash of insight in
the dream (foreshadowing, again) of what it would be like to
drown.

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Methought that Gloster stumbled; and, in
falling,
Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard
Into the
tumbling billows of the main.
O Lord, methought what pain it was to
drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in my ears!
What sights of ugly
death within my eyes!

Even
though Clarence tries to reason with the murderers that he is a king's son, and it is a
sin to kill him, they will not listen. Clarence, even in death, cannot believe Richard's
betrayal. When the murderers kill Clarence, they "drown" his body in a "vat of Malmsey
wine."

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FIRST
MURDERER.

[Stabs
him.]

Take that, and that: if all this will not
do,

I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt
within.

[Exit with the
body.]

With the
"drowning" of Clarence's body in the wine, the irony is complete, in that his fearful
dream regarding his brother's drowning actually foreshadows his
own death—murdered but then placed in a "vat" or "barrel" of
wine.

Additional
Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Plantagenet,_1st_Duke_of_Clarence

As I watched, the sun broke weakly through, brightened the rich red of the fawns, and kindled their white spots. : Please answe these questions I...

Without knowing the original passage and the larger work,
it can be difficult to parse the meaning of a sentence like the one in question.
However, we can make a few guesses by looking closely at the words and their definitions
and relationship to each other.

To "kindle" means to start
burning, or to stir up. So the flame in question is "stirring up" the white spots on the
fawns, as if causing those white spots to catch on fire. "Kindling a fire" means
starting a small fire by rubbing sticks together or using a small flame (like a lighter)
to ignite the "kindling," which are small branches. Eventually, the small flames you've
kindled grow into a larger fire.

Again, it's difficult to
guess the purpose of this sentence without knowing what information comes before and
after. However, the language does personify the sun as weak, and the fact that the sun
breaks weakly through the clouds emphasizes that the sun is struggling to shine on the
young deer below, to bring out their fire-like
beauty.

Furthermore, the sun's weakness parallel's the fact
that the fawns are young and, we can assume, relatively weak. So changing "broke weakly"
to "burst" would destroy that similarity, and give the sentence a much more triumphant
tone, rather than the tone of understated struggle that's currently present. Again,
whether that change would strengthen or weaken the sentence depends on the context (what
comes before and after).

Finally, if "broke weakly" were
changed to "burst", the sun's flame would clearly be a very big, powerful flame, rather
than the weak but fighting flame that is currently implied. Such a change would alter
the dynamics of the images here, and alter the tone, though for better or worse is for
you to decide. Consider which of the two versions is more fitting for the larger piece
in question--which is more in keeping with the emotions, themes, and imagery of the rest
of the paragraph, and of the work as a whole?

What is a summary of Song 36 from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore?

The following is "Song 36" from Rabindranath Tagore's
Gitanjali Song Offerings.

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This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike,
strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys
and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the
strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the
strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to
surrender my strength to thy will with
love.

As the only Indian poet
to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore is renowned for his
spiritual writings which were embedded with magic and
elegance.

The above song is found in Tagore's
Gitanjali Song Offerings. This text is a collection of poems, 103
to be exact, which Tagore translated from his original language into English. The text
was he one responsible for his Nobel Prize.

To summarize
Song 36, one must understand the utter spirituality of
Tagore.

In
Gitanjali Song Offerings, it is evident that Tagore regards his
deity as an ever-present companion. In Tagore's fiction and his plays, it is equally
clear that he sees life as a struggle between good and evil. Neither creed nor class can
guarantee virtue.

Therefore,
Song 36 is a prayer to Tagore's god whom he gives all power over his life to. Tagore is
asking for the strength to be a good man, live a honorable life, and live for his
god.

This song can be paralleled to the "Lord's Prayer".
Here, those of Christian faith ask of God to give them the strength to live good
Christian lives.

"Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your name.Your
kingdom come,your will be done,on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily
bread,and forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors.And lead us not into
temptation,but deliver us from evil." (Matthew 6: 9-13)

What church do the Catholic kids attend in The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt?

One of the meanings of the title of Gary Schmidt's novel
The Wednesday Wars concerns the protagonist, Holling Hoodhood,
having to spend every Wednesday afternoon alone at school with his seventh-grade
teacher, Mrs. Baker--who, by the way, hates Holling (according to him). While the novel
is about what happens on those Wednesday afternoons, your question refers to why Holling
is the only one left in class once a week. 

Half of the
kids in Holling's class are Jewish, so every Wednesday afternoon they go to Temple
Beth-El to attend Hebrew school. The other half of the kids are Catholic, so the leave
and go to catechism. Holling is a Presbyterian with nowhere to go, so he has to stay in
school alone with Mrs. Baker.

The Catholic students attend
Saint Adelbert's church. Every Saturday afternoon, his Catholic friends attend mass at
this church 

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which had gone modern and figured that it dodn't
need to wake parishioners up
early.

This is quite
different than Holling's church, Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church, which holds services
early on Sunday morning. 

integration of sin^7 x cos^5 x

We'll solve this integral using substitution
technique.

Let cos x = t => - sin x dx =
dt

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

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

We'll raise to the cube both
sides:

(sin x)^6 = [1 - (cos
x)^2]^3

`int` (sin x)^6*(cos x)^5* sin xdx =`int` [1 - (cos
x)^2]^3*(cos x)^5* sin xdx

We'll re-write the integral
using the new variable t

`int` -
(1-t^2)^3*t^5*dt

We'll expand the
binomial:

`int` -(1 - 3t^2 + 3t^4 -
t^6)*t^5*dt

`int` (-t^5 + 3t^7 - 3t^9 + t^11)dt = -t^6/6 +
3t^8/8 - 3t^10/10 + t^12/12 + C

`int` (sin
x)^7*(cos x)^5 dx = -(cos x)^6/6 + 3(cos x)^8/8 - 3(cos x)^10/10 + (cos x)^12/12 +
C

Discuss the conflict and resolution in Aesop's Fables.

I think that the premise of the question has to be
expanded.  There are multiple fables in the compendium and each one features a different
conflict and resolution.  The stories that become the fables are all different, as his
own freedom was granted on his ability to weave stories of different depths, conflicts,
and resolutions.  It is here where there is not "one" conflict and "one" resolution. 
Rather, there are different examples of conflicts and resolutions depending on the
fable.

For example, in "The Fox and the Crow," the conflict
is that the crow has something that the fox wants.  The resolution lies in the Fox's
cunning ability to flatter and the Crow's desire to be the recipient of more praise. 
The resolution is that the fox ends up getting what he wants out of the crow, proving
the illusory nature of false praise.  In another fable, "The Two Pots," the conflict
faced by the earthenware pot and the bronze pot is enduring the torrent of the river,
while the resolution is that both pots remain separate from one another, as the
earthenware pot recognizes not to try to be something that it is not and remain what it
is.  In these fables, there are different conflicts and resolutions that reflect
different human truths to be explored and lessons to be taught.

After Atticus shoots the mad dog, Jem says, "Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!" What does this quote tell the reader about Jem's attitude...

Jem's quotation specifically addresses the humility found
in Atticus' character, a trait which had not become evident to his children until
Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird. The chapter begins with Jem
and Scout seeming somewhat ashamed of their "feeble" father, who had few interesting
attributes and "can't do anything." But they later discovered that Atticus had one
astounding ability of which he had never spoken. When the mad dog, Tim Johnson, came
walking down the street, it was Atticus who was thrust the rifle by Sheriff Tate in
order to take the dog down. Jem and Scout were "in a fog" as Atticus took aim and put a
bullet between Tim's eyes. It was the first time "One-Shot" Finch--the deadest shot
in Maycomb County--had fired a gun in 30 years. 

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"Looks like he'd be proud of it," I
said.

It was Miss Maudie who
explained to the children why Atticus had never spoken of this "gift of
God."

"People
in their right minds never take pride in their talents," said Miss
Maudie.

When Scout told Jem
that she couldn't wait to tell the kids at school, Jem ordered her to keep quiet. Jem
recognized that Atticus' humble nature was part of his makeup, and he decided that it
would now be part of his as well. He proudly told Scout
that

"I
wouldn't care if he couldn't do a blessed thing... Atticus is a gentleman, just like
me!"