What are some possible source of errors in a science assignment?please list all the possible errors!!!!

Just to list a few that are
generic:

Equipment - Either wrong equipment used or the
equipment does not measure to the proper level of precision. If you used a beaker to
measure 30 mL instead of a graduated cylinder you could only measure to .0 mL where as
with a graduated cylinder you could measure to the
.00mL

Contamination of chemicals if it is
chemistry.

did not conduct the proper number of trials
normally 3 is acceptable

Rounding of data to
early

Humidity exposure of items such as salt that obsorb
water vapor from the atmosphere.

It would help to know the
experiment but I hope these help.

Verify if the function f(x)=10secx+5tanx has critical numbers?

The critical values of the function are the roots of the
1st derivative, therefore, we'll have to compute the 1st derivative of
f(x).

f(x) = 10/cos x + 5sin x/cos
x

f(x) = (10+5sin x)/cos
x

We'll use the product rule to differentiate the function
with respect to x:

f'(x) = [5cosx*cosx + sinx(10+5sin
x)]/(cos x)^2

f'(x) = [5(cos x)^2+ 10sinx + 5(sin
x)^2]/(cos x)^2

We'll use the Pythagorean
identity:

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

f'(x) = (5+ 10sinx)/(cos
x)^2

We'll cancel f'(x):

f'(x)
= 0

5+ 10sinx = 0

1 + 2sin x =
0

sin x = -1/2

x =
(-1)^k*arcsin (1/2) + k*`pi`

x = (-1)^k*(`pi` /6) +
k`pi`

The critical values of the function
belong to the set {(-1)^k*(` ` `pi` /6) + k`pi` / k`in`
Z}.

Do patients have a right to have a family member present in the doctors examination room?

Yes. Assuming the patient is mentally competent to make
that decision for himself or herself the patient can request the presence of a family
member  or significant other during a physical exam. The HIPAA (Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act) covers a wide range of patient privacy issues, and
the federal government has issued numerous guidelines and clarifications regarding the
issue you are asking about here. (check out the links below to see the recommendations
as they are given to doctors).

For routine matters, the
patient's request to have the person in the room is seen as general permission to
discuss the patient's health or medical treatments.  The one big caveat is whether or
not to discuss something of a highly personal nature - HIV, for instance - with a
patient in front of the other person, whether they patient invited them or not. In such
a case, the doctor is advised to give the patient a heads-up as to what the discussion
may entail, and ask whether they want to continue, or ask the other person to step out
of the room first.

x=5t^3-6t^2-7t meter, what is the displacement from t1=1s to t2=3s. What is the instantaneous velocityand instantaneous acceleration?

The displacement from t=1 to t=3 is the given function
f(t)'s

f(3)-f(1)=60-(-8)=68
meters

the instantaneous velocity is the derivative of x
with respect to t

in math
notation

dx/dt

dx/dt the
original equation

using the power
rule

v(t)= 15t^2-12t-7 with t measured in seconds and
velocity measured in meters/second

the instantaneous
acceleration is the derivative of the velocity(the slope of the velocity graph) with
respect to time

dx/dt

dx/dt
the velocity equation

using the power rule
again

the constant -7 becomes
0

a(t)=30t-12 measured in
m/s^2

The final answer to this
question

The displacement from t=1 to t=3 is
68m, the instantaneous velocity is
v(t)=15t^2-12t-7

the
instantaneous acceleration function is a(t)=
30t-12

How is Macbeth's opposition presented in Act 3 of Macbeth?

The scene you want to focus on is Act III scene 6, in
which Lennox talks with another Scottish Lord about his suspicions of Macbeth and the
forces that are being raised in opposition to his rule. It is the Lord that tells Lennox
about these forces. He says that Malcolm has gone to England, where he is being helped
by King Edward to raise a force to retake his rightful inheritance that has been so
cruelly snatched away from him by Macbeth. In addition, Macduff has gone there to gain
more support for their cause. Note what he says:

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Thither Macduff

Is
gone to pray the holy King, upon his aid

To wake
Northumberland, and warlike Siward;

That, by the help of
these (with him above

To ratify the work), we may
again

Give to our tables meat, sleep to our
nights...

Therefore this
scene is important in giving the audience news of the conflict that is in the offing
between Malcolm and Macduff on the one hand and the forces of Macbeth on the other. This
of course foreshadows Macbeth's eventual defeat and, ironically, the truth of the
prophecies of the witches, for Macbeth will not have an heir that can inherit the crown
from him, and his ambition will end with his death.

How does Fitzgerald's illustration of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby represent the mindset of contemporary American society?

On the surface, Fitzgerald paints the picture that these
people sought material wealth and fame as their means to happiness. What has made his
work so powerful is the timelessness of this theme and the consequences of the
idea.

First of all, America was founded on the values of
hard work. We still preach to children in elementary schools that if they work hard they
too can be the next president of the United States, or they can be very wealthy.
However, during the 20s, people began looking for shortcuts to that ideal. These
shortcuts proved to have dire consequences. For example, bootlegging became a highly
profitable industry. Many people lost their lives in the competition for and
distribution of alcohol. Because of prohibition, some people became wealthy by breaking
the law. This was also an era of easily attainable credit. People began buying cars and
homes on credit. The began to understand they could have whatever items they wanted
without paying for them now, they could always pay
later.

Fitzgerald particularly illustrates this by the way
people attend Gatsby's parties. These parties were free and he lavishly shared all he
had with his patrons. You may recall the expensive dress Gatsby purchased for a woman
who ruined hers at a party. These people had the perspective at Gatsby's parties that it
was all for fun and that they had nothing to lose. They wore their best clothes and
flirted with the rich and famous. Sometimes, just rubbing shoulders with people like
that made the average people feel more worth in
themselves.

Today, people work on credit as much as
possible. We do it so much so that we have created a failing economy much like that
which put our country into a Great Depression. We also do things that satisfy right here
and right now, much like Gatsby's parties. With Twitter and Facebook today, we are made
to feel like we can get to know celebrities and participate in life with
them.

Explain the word decoding in a communication process.

From a communications point of view, "decoding" involves
being able to ensure that the message, recipient, and messenger are aligned in ensuring
maximum comprehension.  In all communication processes, there is a natural belief or
fear that the full magnitude of the message will not be received.  This is where
decoding enters into the equation.  Using the idea that decoding involves the receiving
and interpreting of a particular message, it become essential to ensure that the
decoding of a message recovers the entirety or as much as possible of its intent.  It is
here where the largest challenge is experienced in the communication process.  The
speaker has to make sure that the message they intend to transmit across is decoded in a
manner that reveals its full content.  In order for this to happen, the messenger must
place themselves into the paradigm of decoding and examine to see where detraction could
occur and remedy those.  Public speaking or any type of communication relies on this
aspect of decoding.  In the writing process, this is where "editing" enters and,
similarly, in the communication process, there is a type of editing whereby the speaker
ensures that the message being transmitted is decoded properly, or in a manner that
allows the full intent of the message to be received.

Is there a quote in/about The Grapes of Wrath that has to do with the flaw of "caring too much about what other people think"? I can't find it to...

Interestingly, as a very young man, John Steinbeck was
quite concerned about how he would be critically received. Prior to the publication of
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's father, Earnest, gave him the
following advice:

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"You wouldn't be so worried about what others
think of you if you realized how infrequently they think of you at
all."

Although Earnest said
this to his adult son, it must have been family advice that the young writer
internalized as he was growing up, for if you look at many of his central characters,
they too have to learn not worry about what people
think.

For example, in The Grapes of Wrath,
as soon as the family moves out of Oklahoma, they encounter prejudice that
they had never had to put up with in the past. Tom Joad
marvels:

"Okie
use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie
means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say
it."

Ma Joad, the family
matriarch, knows that they cannot let the perceptions of others make them feel "little
and mean."  Although they are poor, they can be generous. Ma and her family show their
character by being kind to the family they meet on the road, even burying their dead. Ma
feeds the starving children in one of the camps even though they barely have enough food
to feed their own kin.

Had they listened to the opinions of
the "masses" calling them dirty and scum, they may well have become dirty and scum. But
as Earnest Steinbeck so aptly observed, when the Okies (or whomever) were out of that
judgmental person's purview, it's unlikely that those "others" were given much thought
at all.

Be who you know yourself to be, not the aspersions
that might be cast upon you. This is a running theme throughout Steinbeck's work (think
Lennie and George in Of Mice and Men, or the "bums" on
Cannery Row, to name just two.)

This is a physics question.Runner A is initially 6 km west of a flagpole and running at a constant velocity of 9.0 km/h due east. Runner B is...

The GUESS method stands for givens, unknowns, equation,
substitution, and solution.

In your
problem:

G - givens are:  initial position of each runner
in relation to a reference point (flag pole) - for A this is 6 km and for B this is 5
km  (this means they are 11 km apart); and the velocity of each runner.  V(A) = 9 km/hr 
and V(B) = 8 km/hr.

U - unknown is where, in relation to
the flagpole, will the two runner meet.

"E - equation.  let
X = distance that runner A has gone when they meet. then 11-X = distance runner B has
gone.  Using the formula time = distance/velocity;  for runner A time = X/V(A) and for
runner B time = (11-X)/V(B).  Since times are equal for the two runners, the final
equation is:

X/V(A) =
(11-X)/V(B)

S -
substitution

X/9 km/hr = (11 - X)/8
km/hr

S -  Solve.

X = 5.82
km

This means that runner A has moved 5.82 km east from his
starting point of 6 km.  6 - 5.82 means he is 0.18 km west of the
flagpole.

For runner B he has moved 11-5.82 km west from
his starting point.  11-5.82 = 5.18 km west. Since he started 5 km east, he is now 0.18
km west of the flagpole also.

How does law protect us?

Laws themselves do little to protect us.  Most of the
actual protections we get are governmental authorities who enforce the laws.  This is an
important distinction because we must not simply look at the laws on the books and
assume that they have effect and that they protect the people they are meant to
protect.

It is true that laws might protect us to some
degree because people will have respect for the law and will not want to break it.  We
might say, then, that law protects us by setting standards for society which people will
not violate.  These standards include provisions to protect our lives, our liberty, and
our property.

However, we know that laws are very often
broken and that some laws (like those giving African Americans equal rights in the late
1800s and early 1900s) are completely ignored.  Those laws, by themselves, do not
protect us.  Laws can only protect us to the extent that the government is willing and
able to enforce them.

Laws, then, protect us by setting
standards for society and by requiring the government to enforce those standards. 
However, laws can only protect us insofar as the government enforces
them.

How accurate are Sammy's judgments about the other characters?John Updike's "A & P"

John Updike's nineteen-year-old character,
Sammy, vacillates between being cynical and romantic.  As a cynic, he is a disappointed
idealist, so he looks at the shoppers and perceives their imperfections.  For instance,
women who come in from the beach wear a shirt and shorts if they come into the grocery
store. But, as mothers of several children, they have spider and varicose veins.  Other
shoppers move like "scare pigs in a chute." Of his employer, Lengel, Sammy expresses
disdain, for the man is too compliant with "policy."  He sees on Lengel's face "that sad
Sunday-school-superintendent stare."  However, when Queenie and her entourage enter the
grocery store, Sammy's cynicism metamorphoses into
romanticism.

Sammy watches the girls enter the store with
Queenie "showing them how to do it, walk slow and hold yourself straight."  As he
describes Queenie, Sammie objectifies her, describing her straps down, with nothing
"between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just
her..."  But, then, he becomes romantic, "I mean, it was more than pretty." 
Ironically, while it has been all right for him to objectify Queenie and the other
girls, Sammy is offended by the "house slaves"' and the "slaves"' having stared and
reacted to the girls who enter in swimsuits.  When the other men he works with view the
girls with lust, Sammy suddenly has another romantic urge and "feel[s] sorry for them,
they couldn't help it." 

Clearly, Sammy's judgments of
others are distorted by his cynicism. His attitudes towards Queenie and the other girls,
however, are colored by his teen-age urges and his romantic heart. Wishing to make an
impression upon the girls, Sammy makes what he considers a chivalric gesture and tells
Lengel that he should not have embarrassed the girls.  When Lengel retorts, "It was they
who were embarrassing us," Sammy acts romantically and quits his job.  However, the
girls take no notice of his chivalric act, hurriedly departing and mitigating the impact
of Sammy's chivalric and romantic act.  And, it is his poor judgement that brings Sammy
to the insight of knowing how hard "the world is going to be."

How could one find a flaw in Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire?

It should be stated on the outset that it is going to be
difficult in finding a flaw in Williams' work.  He is a powerfully compelling writer in
displaying human conflict and interactions that help to bring out the sense of sadness
within individuals.  I think that this needs to be stated on the
outset.

If there is a flaw in the work, it might lie in the
lack of social redemption.  It seems that if Williams really wants human interactions to
improve and not be rooted in subjugation, there should be some level of hope offered at
the end of the play.  Stanley might be exposed as a brute, but he ends up being
victorious.  Blanche, the only threat to checking his cruelty, is institutionalized.  I
think that this is something that ends up becoming the ending that negates any hope of
social or emotional transformation.  Stella's pragmatism precludes much in way of
redemption and in this, I think that one could point out a flaw in Williams' hope and
what he has depicted.  Certainly, those who emulate Stanley and his sense of cruelty
could feel emboldened by the ending, which would be the direct opposite of what Williams
wants.  I think that in the lack of a socially redemptive or transformative conclusion,
there might be some level of flaw present.

what are the inward and outward conflicts?

The action of a Shakespearean tragedy always develops
through conflict.This conflict is both external and internal. It may be between two
persons, or group of persons representing opposing traits, or belongs to one of the two
groups. This is the external conflict. There may also be an internal struggle in the
mind of the hero between two opposite ideas or interests which pull him in different
directions so that the hero, torn and divided within himself, suffers the agonies of
hell. As the dramatist's art matured, the conflict became more and more internalised.
Thus there is Macbeth torn between ambitions and loyalty to the king.Othello is torn
within himself between jealousy and love, and Hamlet hesitates and broods but does
nothing. In this way the hero becomes a divided self and suffers from external conflict
as well as intense mental anguish. This is a conspicuous element of a Shakespearean
tragedy.

please comment on the use of purple in emily dickinson poem " one dignity delays for all"what does purple mean (symbolize) in the poem?

Emily Dickinson was a very spiritual poet and the colour
purple has inferences for Christianity as well as for the theme of this poem - Royalty.
Emily Dickinson may be trying to link the idea of inherited kingship with that of the
suffering it also (sometimes) carries inherent in its privilege, The colour purple was
important to the Romans in terms of the class/education/civil rights of the toga-wearer
and it also has symbolism in Christianity today. As well as being the colour of royalty,
it is the colour of the blood of Christ which is central to the wine in the chalice of
the Roman Catholic Mass - it is also the colour of bruises and martyrdom - some people
see it as the colour of the victim as well as that of the victim. The trinity is also
important because it ties together the idea of a 'king' (Christ the King/God) with that
of a defenceless victim or martyr who gave his life for others. In the case of
Christianity, it was to save souls from sin and thus guarantee them entry to eternal
life with Christ in heaven. Emily Dickinson may be saying,among other things, that, the
role of king is one of privilege, power, pomp and ceremony but that it also carries
heavy responsibilities when carried out properly - responsibilities that can be as heavy
as the heavy cross borne by Jesus Christ for the sake of his followers. We also remember
the crown of thorns and its bleeding, and the spear in the side of Christ on the cross.
Suffering would have been a familiar theme for Emily Dickinson and other Christians of
her time as it ties in with the ideas of self-sacrifice, forebearance, never
complaining, patience, unconditional love and charity, unselfishness and
prayer.

What were the most significant political and social developments during the Shang Dynasty? Shang Dynasty

The most important political development for Shang China
was their control of the Bronze market and their ability to produce tools and weapons
from this metal. Shang rulers had exclusive control over the production of copper and
tin used to make bronze. Weapons made from bronze were far superior to any used by
adversaries and allowed the Shang to control much of the Yellow River
valley.

Control of Bronze was also something of a social
development. Only the wealthy and nobility were allowed to use it for tools; peasants
still used stone implements which were very inferior to bronze
tools.

The Shang also developed a method of building
structures known as "pounded earth." It was created by placing soil in a wooden frame
and pounding it with a wooden mallet until it had the consistency of rock. City walls
were made from pounded earth; but also residents for the wealthy and the nobility. The
peasants lived in underground dwellings.

Finally, the Shang
were one of the first Chinese cultures to fully develop a system of writing. For this
reason, much more is known of their culture and customs than earlier dynasties. Much of
the writing was in the form of Oracle Bones in which breaks in an animal bone when
heated was used to divine the will of the Shang deity.

Compare and/or contrast the use of the use of horror and/ or the supernatural in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" and "The Rocking-Horse...

The use of horror in both of these stories seems to be
rather different. In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," the horror is based on the supernatural
nature of the rocking-horse and how the mother's lack of love leads the boy to
desperately try and gain more money for her. In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You
Been?" the horror is reflected through the complete domination of Arnold over Connie and
how he comes to command her in every sense.

In "The
Rocking-Horse Winner," the use of supernatural is used to create an atmosphere of
horror, as we see Paul driven to ever greater excesses to try and find out the winning
horse. The more he rides on his special rocking-horse, the more he is presented as being
possessed and the more he sacrifices of himself. Note how his final fateful horse ride
is described as his mother enters:

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Then suddenly she switched on the light, and saw
her son, in his green pajamas, madly surging on the rocking horse. The blaze of light
suddenly lit him up, as he urged the wooden
horse...

He cried out in a
"powerful, strange" voice and his eyes "blaze" before he falls of the horse,
unconscious. This element of the supernatural and the way in which riding the horse in
this tormented way somehow communicates the name of winning horses to him add a real
sense of horror as we see a boy sacrifice himself to try and gain his mother's love and
affection.

The horror in "Where Are You Going, Where Have
You Been?" does not have any reference in the supernatural. Rather, it is based around
the complete dominance of Arnold over Connie as he manipulates her and makes her yield
to him. The way that Connie is so unsure about her identity makes her ripe for the
picking from Arnold's perspective, and perfect for his violent intentions. Arnold's
words form an "incantation" that completely takes Connie in as she is hypnotised by his
words, threats and blandishments:

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The place where you came from ain't there
anymore, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are
now--inside your daddy's house--is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down anytime.
You know that and you always did know it. You hear
me?

The true horror of this
excellent story lies in the way that Arnold is able to prey on the weakness and unsure
nature of Connie's character, resulting in Connie's complete yielding herself up to
Arnold and her incredibly uncertain future, as the story ends with her realisation that
she will see "so much land."

What are some quotes that describe Darry's traits from The Outsiders?Need some help with characterization!

Darry is the hard-working oldest brother of the Curtis
family, forced to accept the responsibility as head of the household after his parents
are killed in an automobile accident. Darry is forced to put aside his dreams of playing
college football to take care of Soda and Pony, and he works two jobs in order to
support them. He is particularly hard on Pony, since he sees a bit of himself in his
younger brother. He knows that Pony has a chance to succeed in school, go to college,
and get out of the dead-end world of the greasers. Darry acts out of love, although Pony
rarely understands this. Darry treats Soda differently, partly because he is older, but
also because he realizes the happy-go-lucky Soda will not be able to succeed in the way
Pony may.

According to Pony, Darry's "hard and firm and
rarely grins at all... (he's) grown up too fast." He "works too long and hard to be
interested in a story or drawing a picture." When Pony doesn't "use my head... It drives
my brother Darry nuts." But there is no doubt that Darry loves and cares about Ponyboy.
When Darry and Soda come to the hospital following the fire at the church, Pony saw
the

     ...
tall, broad-shouldered Darry... his eyes were pleading... Suddenly, I realized that
Darry was crying. He didn't make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks. I
hadn't seen him cry in years, not even when Mom and Dad had
been killed...
     That was his silent fear then--of losing another person he
loved... and I wondered how I could have ever thought him hard and
unfeeling. 

What are the similarities of Wordsworth and Coleridge?

Both William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were
English Romantic poets. That being said, both poets adhered to the characteristics
typical of the Romantic poet.

Romantics focused their works
upon the following ideas:

1. Value of feeling over
reason.

2. Highlighted both nature and
imagination.

3. Wanted readers to look at the past through
different lenses than before.

Both Wordsworth and
Coleridge's works epitomized the importance of nature and free thought. After they met,
both were highly influenced by the other. The impact of each's theology on the other
changed each's writings to fit a more Romantic view of the world and of
poetry.

Both poets focused upon the impact of nature and
spirituality in life. The poetry, for each, was filled with imagery that reflected the
importance of nature in man's life.

The poetry book
Lyrical Ballads (1798) was a collaboration on the part of both
Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Please give an example of the scientific method being used in October Sky.

You might like to look at Chapter 11 of this great book,
which contains a clear example of the scientific methos being used whilst also
presenting us with one of the most hilarious moments in the book, in my opinion. In
search of some kind of fuel or explosive that will give the rocket the sufficient power
they need to shoot up into the sky, the boys hit upon the idea of creating a liquid to
use by heating up saltpeter and other chemicals, including sugar. It is clear that the
boys have absolutely no idea what they are doing, as the author's fear that he will be
blown up indicates. Also, note the way that they reassure the author's
mother:

"We'll
write everything down like a recipe," I said, trying to assure her. "Wash the pot, clean
up everything before we melt another
batch."

When the author's
mother asks them if it will make their rockets fly better, the only answer the boys can
give her is "Maybe," which captures the scientific method in its essence, as the boys
are experimenting with different ideas, with no idea of how they will turn out, but
through observation and notetaking, hope to increase their level of knowledge of what
will make the best rocket fuel.

What was the Iron Curtain, and what did it do?

The Iron Curtain was a term used to describe the
separation between West and East during the Cold War. Eastern countries controlled by
the Soviet Union during the Cold War were said to be "behind the Iron Curtain." The
phrase was used first by Winston Churchill in a speech at Westminster College, who
said

From
Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central
and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and
Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call
the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet
influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from
Moscow.

These countries were
controlled by the Soviet Union to the extent that they were considered only satellites
of the Soviets. The Soviet Embassy in East Berlin was the largest government building in
the city, as all of East Germany was governed from there. It was called an "iron
curtain" because it was a closed society. Information to and from the west was tightly
controlled; there was little knowledge within the west of events in that area, and vice
versa. In a metaphorical sense, the Iron Curtain was them the line between the
Republican west and Communist East in Europe.

Explain the short story "The Cask of Amontillado." Why did the narrator wait 50 years to tell his story?

Edgar Allan Poe's short story masterpiece, "The Cask of
Amontillado," tells the story of a man's desire to gain the ultimate revenge upon a man
who had borne him a "thousand injuries"--though the acts of unkindness are never
revealed by the murderous narrator, Montresor. Montresor has decided that his
acquaintance, Fortunato, must die for the unnamed wrongs and insults that have been
made against him. Montresor plans his revenge carefully, making certain that two things
will be accomplished: He will not be caught--there will be no form of retribution; and
Fortunato must recognize, before dying, that Montresor is his killer. Montresor succeeds
on both counts.

Luring Fortunato into the Montresor family
catacombs--which doubles as a wine cellar--on the pretense of sampling a rare bottle of
Amontillado, Montresor leads him into the far recesses of the crypt. When Fortunato, who
is already drunk, is caught unaware, Montresor chains him to a wall and proceeds to seal
up the remaining side with mortar. There, Montresor leaves Fortunato to die,
where

For the
half of a century no mortal has disturbed
them.

Why Montresor waits for
50 years before revealing his secret is unknown. Perhaps he is on his deathbed, and he
wishes to ease his conscience in the presence of a priest; or maybe he is passing on his
tale to a surviving relative or friend. In any case, Fortunato's murder will not be
discovered during Montresor's lifetime, and Montresor can revel in the fact that he
committed the perfect crime against his greatest enemy. 

In The Magician's Nephew, can someone give me a simile in Chapter 4? I have read it 3 times but can’t find one.

Let us remember the definition of a simile to help us try
and identify one in this chapter. A simile is an example of figurative language that
compares one thing with something else, normally something that we wouldn't normally
relate to the first thing. The simile's function is therefore to provide us with an
often surprising comparison that can help us to see objects and characters in new and
novel ways. The presence of a simile is indicated by the use of the word "like" or "as"
to compare, as in the sentence, "He is as brave as a
lion."

If we have a look at the end of this chapter, after
Diggory rings the bell, we can see that the sound that occurs after this momentous event
is described using a simile:

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Then at last it began to be mixed with another
sound, a vague, disastrous noise which sounded first like the roar of a distant train,
and then like the crash of a falling
tree.

Note the two similes
that are indicated by the word "like." The sound is compared at first to the roar of a
distant train and then to the crash of a falling tree. Both of these comparisons
indicate the suitably ominous nature of what is happening.

Is branding necessary for a firm in an oligopoly?

Branding is not always necessary in a market that is an
oligopoly.  However, branding can be essential in many
oligopolies.

A firm in an oligopoly can sell a
differentiated product or it can sell a homogeneous product.  In cases where the market
is selling a homogeneous product, branding will not be important.  For example, Saudi
Arabia will not go to any great lengths to try to "brand" their crude oil.  It would do
them no real good because crude oil is a relatively homogeneous
product.

In cases where the product is differentiated,
however, branding is very important.  For example, the market for automobiles is an
oligopoly.  In that market, it is very important for a firm to build its brand.  The
brand tends to develop a reputation and a relatively faithful customer
base.

So, branding is not necessary in all oligopolies
because some oligopolistic markets sell homogeneous products.  When the product sold is
differentiated, though, branding becomes vital.

How does Fitzgerald demonstrate the ideas of the modernist period in his story?

After World War II, writers attempted to come to terms
with where humanity was going after the belief in many of the things that were held as
fundamental had been shattered.  Disillusioned, many modernists placed their focus upon
individualism, employing a new technique called "stream of consciousness" narration with
the theme of the randomness of life.  Moreover, the Modernist movement was concerned
with the quickening of society towards its destruction and lack of meaning.  Certainly,
several of the elements of Modernism are present in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon
Revisited."

Randomness of
life

As expatriates in Paris, Charlie Wales
lives a rather hedonistic and impetuous life.  However, with the crash of 1929, things
change drastically for him.  Years later, Charlie does recover financially, but his
personal life is an absolute wreck because of his alcoholism  The fateful night on which
his wife walks in the cold rain is certainly a random act, but one with tragic
results.

Society's movement towards its own
destruction meaninglessness

Charlie Wales
rationalizes his drinking problem and dismisses important issues--"The depression of
yesterday was gone." 

The former friends of Charlie, Duncan
Scaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles seek to "draw a certain sustenance from his strength,"
but they really destroy Charlie's chances of regaining custody of his daughter Honoria. 
Hedonistic, they are only concerned with Charlie's joining them for drinks and
partying.

Constantly Marion, his sister-in-law is the voice
of practicality.  As a foil to Charlie's irresponsibility she often asks such questions
as "Why didn't you think of all this
before?"

Stream-of-consciousness narration
and allusiveness,

In several passages in the
story, Charlie's thoughts are intermixed with the third-person narration, providing the
Modernist stream-of-consciousness, interior monologue.  Here are
examples: 

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 He had never eaten at a really cheap restaurant
in Paris. Five-course dinner, four francs fifty, eighteen cents, wine included. For some
odd reason he wished that he had

He believed in character;
he wanted to jump back a whole generation and trust in character again as the eternally
valuable element. Everything else wore out

He would come
back some day; they couldn't make him pay forever. But he wanted his child, and nothing
was much good now, beside that fact.... He was absolutely sure Helen wouldn't have
wanted him to be so
alone.

Individuality

In
his effort to escape the past, Charlie tries to avoid Duncan and Lorraine.  But he
fails, just as he fails to convince Marion that he has changed because he lets his
friends and his alcoholism control him.  Finally, at the end, Charlie engages again in
interior monologue in which he vows to "come back someday"
because

...he
wanted his child, and nothing was much good now, beside that
fact.

Perhaps futilely,
Charlie ultimately understands that he must create his own destiny.  And, so, he
promises not to revisit Babylon the next time.

what poet saying hereThat's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's...

Here the Duke (the 'I' of the poem) is showing the
picture of the Duchess to his guest and explaining that he alone is allowed to pull back
the curtain that covers it from view. He talks about how beautiful it is; 'a wonder' and
how it was painted by Fra Pandolf and is so skillfully done that she almost looks alive.
This is irony considering that later on in the poem we find that the Duke has
actually had her killed.

The Duke finds that the Duchess is
more pleasing in art as she does not disrespect him and reflects well on him and he can
easily control her. The Duke imagines that she never appreciated her position as his
wife and was possibly unfaithful, although there is no evidence for this.
      

I am having a difficult time coming up with a conclusion about "How I Met My Husband."In my thesis I wrote that author introduces Edie as an...

In Alice Munro's "How I Met My Husband," it may be
important to note that the title is purposely misleading. I remember the first time I
read this story, and I was sure Edie was going to marry the pilot, but nothing could be
further from the truth. Edie is young and falls in love with the pilot who is not only
too old for her, but engaged to another woman. We can also question the kind of man
Chris Watters is, first for kissing the young Edie: it seems only the "grace of God"
that he does not "ravish" the young girl on the spot. Fortunately for her, he
stops—splashing water on himself and her to cool them both down. Second, he also
misleads Edie into believing that he does not care for his fiancée, Alice, and will
write to Edie so she knows where he is. The letter never
comes.

The fact that he is a pilot might be symbolic that
Edie is trying to reach out for something far beyond who she is, like Icarus flying too
close to the sun with wings of wax. Watters is out of her league and dangerous, not only
for her reputation but for her hopes for happiness. Realistically, Edie is a "hired
girl...who has little education, money, or status." She is also very young and
naive.

It is, of course, this naivete that allows Edie to
be in the right place at the right time. Day after day, she sits waiting for the letter
that will never arrive from Chris Watters. The mailman comes each day to find Edie in
the same spot.

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"You've got the smile I've been waiting on all
day!" he used to holler out the car
window.

The process of
constantly waiting eventually strikes Edie with a sense of the futility in what she has
been doing: she knows now that the letter will not
arrive:

Till
it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. I imagined
me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go
gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. So I stopped meeting the
mail.

When she does so, the
mailman, who she has become friendly with, calls her and tells her that he missed seeing
her. They date, become engaged and marry. He jokes with their children that Edie "went
after him by sitting by the mailbox every day." She does not correct him: thinking that
she did so makes him happy.

If I were constructing a
conclusion to an essay about this short story, I would probably
write:

Edie waits each day for word from the pilot, but
soon realizes something about herself: she cannot be a woman who spends her time
waiting, but has to be someone who is busy and not holding her
breath until life finds her. The truth of Edie's self-awareness
comes to her when the mailman asks for a date—she does not wait,
but jumps in and accepts the date, the engagement, and the love that grows between them.
How she met her husband had nothing to do with
flying.

Would you call “The Monkey’s Paw” primarily a plot story, a character story, an atmosphere story or a combination? Give reasons for your answer.

W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" is a story whose
primary element is its plot.  Critic Stefan Dziemianowicz
writes,

A
deceptively simple tale, it reveals on close inspection Jacobs' meticulous attention to
narrative structure and careful handling of foreshadowing, symbolism, and other
narrative elements that contribute to its eerie
effect.

Three, that magical
and spiritual number that is filled with fateful meaning, controls the plot. First of
all, the plot is divided into three parts with each of these parts having the arrival of
a character as its central focus.  In Part I, the sergeant-major, who years before had
worked with Mr. White at the warehouse, visits after having traveled in foreign
countries and been stationed in India.  In Part II, the insurance respresentative comes
to the White's home, and in Part III, the mangled corpse returns in horror to the
house.  Of course, the first visitor lays the way for the visits of the other two men so
that the action of Part II, thus, depends upon that of Part I, with the action of Part
III dependent upon that of Part II.  Using this arrangement, Jacobs clearly develops the
theme of the inevitability of fate.

In another carely
structured sequence of events, fire also comes in threes, and its symbolism is carefully
structured by plot.  First, the sergeant-major throws the monkey's paw into the fire,
which can be symbolic of either destruction or purification, but Mr. White retrieves it
to wish upon the paw.  Secondly, after making his wish, Mr. White and Herbert smoke
their pipes as they gaze at the dying fire, a symbol of their disappearing happiness.
Thirdly, as Mr. White wishes for Herbert to return to life, the candle fire goes out,
and Mr. White must strike a match and descend the stairs for a candle.  But, as he
reaches the bottom of the stairs, the match goes out; when he hears a knock and
identifies the horror, Mr. White returns to his wife.  Their lives have lost direction
and soon the only light in it is the desolate lamp that flickers over the deserted road,
symbolizing the Whites' empty life without Herbert.

In a
similar fashion, the foreshadowing and imagery also further the sequence of events in
"The Monkey's Paw."  In Part I, for instance, Mr. White and Herbert play chess; however,
the father takes reckless chances, suggestive of his wishing on the monkey's paw despite
the exhortations of the sergeant-major.  In another instance of foreshadowing, "a fine
crash from the piano" greets the father's wish for two hundred pounds," connoting the
crash that later kills Herbert.  As the wind picks up, there
is

A silence
unusual and depressing [that]settle upon all three, which last until the old couple rose
to retire for the
night.

Clearly, this passage
foreshadows the emptiness in the hearts of the parents at the story's end as they return
to their lonely bedroom.

A meticulously constructed
narrative with carefully structured events with foreshadowing, imagery, and symbolism
the plot of The Monkey's Paw is unquestionably the most significant element of this
short story.

What were some problems that the confederate paper notes had?

The issues of Confederate paper money took place between
1861 and 1865 and although the the value in 1861 was about 90 cents on the dollar, it
fell to just over 1 penny on the dollar in 1865.  This economic disaster was combined
with a seriously inflated economy. Inflation is defined as a general rise in prices and
between 1861 and 1865 the value of confederate money decreased as the cost of goods and
services increased. In addition, the individual Confederate states began printing their
own currency which in turn further devalued confederate paper notes. The oversupply of
these paper notes led to excessive price increases, 'too much paper following too little
goods'. Lastly, the Confederate government tried to slow inflation by calling for
holders of Confederate treasury notes to exchange them for Confederate bonds.
Unfortunately, those who held Confederate treasury notes thought they were strengthening
the southern economy. This was the ultimate blow to the southern economy because it
turned southern creditors (owners of whatever value was left to the currency) into
southern debtors thus destroying the last vestige of value in Confederate
currency.

Identify an example of irony in Act II of The Crucible?

Well, you can say that Abigail's attempt to separate John
and Elizabeth ironically brings them closer.

Abigails
lashes out an accusation against Elizabeth, with the intention of brings her to court
and getting rid of her - so that Abigail herself can become to Mrs Procter. But, this
ironically intesifies John's resentment against Abigail and also brings John and
Elizabeth closer, don't you think? John exhibits his love for Elizabeth very clearly as
she is being taken away and chained, "I'll not have it!". He is resentful and angry at
Abigail, "Crazy little children are jangling the keys to the
kingdom!".

We see that the event has ironically brought
them together instead of tearing them apart. They are separated physically, but closer
emotionally. Ironically, Abigail's plan is a catalyst in mending the
Elizabeht-Procter relationship.

Other than that,
maybe you can talk about how Abigail, a teenaged orphan, ironically seems to have the
upper hand and is now given a certain amount of reverence? "…and where [Abigail] walks
the crowd will part like the sea for Israel."

Hope you find
this helpful.

Can a realitor not take me off a lease even though I gave him a 30 day notice?I moved out of my home in North Carolina, its been a month. My...

If two people are on the lease, both would have to sign
the 30 day notice and a new lease would have to be drawn up with only the name of the
remaining party.  It sounds like part of that was done.  It is possible that the
real-estate company does not want the hassle of drawing up a new lease; however, that is
their legal obligation once notice has been given in a timely fashion. 

Before the lease is terminated, it is general practice that a
walk-through or inspection be completed of the property.  Of course, this doesn't
necessarily have to occur before you move, but generally is completed before the end of
the lease term.  If you moved on the 10th and the lease ended on the 18th, the property
owner still had the right to complete the inspection without your presence.  He/she
would have had to right to claim that there were damages and then refuse to return your
security deposit; however, I don't believe the property owner has the right to refuse to
complete the inspection.  Since you gave notice in accordance with your lease, you
should be released from the contract.

What is the moral of Proserpine and Ceres?

Many moral lessons can be inferred from the myth of
"Proserpine and Ceres." First, love may cause those afflicted to do strange things.
Cupid shoots Hades, the God of the Underworld, with an arrow. Hades essentially goes
after the first girl he see, Proserphine. She is gathering flowers in a field and he
drives her to the underworld where he ravishes
her.

Proserphine's mother, Ceres, Goddess of Fertility,
searches the world over for her, cannot find her, and lapses into malaise. All the
plants start to wither so Zeus intervenes. As long as Proserphine has not eaten anything
in the Underworld, she is free to leave. However, Proserphine is honest and confesses to
eating three promegranate seeds. Consequently, she is doomed to remain in the Underworld
half of the year and is allowed to live with her mother the other half. When Proserphine
lives in Hades, plants die. The outcome explains the
seasons.

Proserphine displays honesty in acknowledging what
she ate.

Ceres shows how deep maternal despair affects
all.

Hades demonstrates that bad behavior usually will
taint love so he is unfulfilled for half of every year.

What level does the character Agathocles the Sicilian in The Prince belong in Dantes Hell?I'd like to know where and why he belongs there.

Agathocles the Sicilian belongs in the Ninth and last
Circle of Dante's Inferno. Dante designated that level of hell for
the most loathsome of creatures. It was reserved for people like Agathocles who betrayed
his own country, kinsmen, and benefactors.

In The
Prince, Machiavelli pointed out Agathocles slaughtered senators from his
country in order to gain power and become prince. He wasn't motivated by the desire to
help his countryman; it was the allure of pure, unadulterated power that prompted him to
order his soldiers to kill all the senators and some of the most affluent commoners at a
meeting he called.

According to Machiavelli, Agathocles
rose from the lowest ranks of society to become King of
Syracuse.

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“Son of a potter, through all the stages of his
fortunes he led a foul life. His vices, however, were conjoined with so great vigour
both of mind and body, that becoming a soldier, he rose through the various grades of
the service to be Praetor of Syracuse. Once established in that post, he resolved to
make himself Prince, and to hold by violence and without obligation to others the
authority which had been spontaneously entrusted to him. Accordingly, after imparting
his design to Hamilcar, who with the Carthaginian armies was at that time waging war in
Sicily, he one morning assembled the people and senate of Syracuse as though to consult
with them on matters of public moment, and on a preconcerted signal caused his soldiers
to put to death all the senators, and the wealthiest of the
commons.”

Machiavelli argues
Agathocles did not ascend from favor or fortune, but through the “regular steps of the
military service, gained at the cost of a thousand hardships and hazards, he reached the
princedom which he afterwards maintained by so many daring and dangerous enterprises.
Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity,
and religion, cannot be counted as merits...”  Machiavelli concludes Agathocles was
characterized by “unbridled cruelty and inhumanity…[and] countless
crimes.”

In the first ring of the Ninth Circle, Dante meets
Camiscione dei Pazz, who killed a kinsmen to gain power. Pazz is doomed to the lowest
level, while Agathocles killed many more kinsmen and betrayed his people. Thus,
Agaothocles also garnered himself in the bowels of hell.

Why does Estella marry Drummle in Great Expectations?

Estella gives Pip some insight into her purpose with this
discussion in chapter 44:

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“Is it not true,” said I, “that Bentley Drummle
is in town here, and pursuing you?”

“It is quite true,” she
replied, referring to him with the indifference of utter
contempt.

“That you encourage him, and ride out with him,
and that he dines with you this very day?”

She seemed a
little surprised that I should know it, but again replied, “Quite
true.”

“You cannot love him,
Estella?”

Her fingers stopped for the first time, as she
retorted rather angrily, “What have I told you? Do you still think, in spite of it, that
I do not mean what I say?”

“You would never marry him,
Estella?”

She looked towards Miss Havisham, and considered
for a moment with her work in her hands. Then she said, “Why not tell you the truth? I
am going to be married to
him.”

Prior to this
discussion, Pip and Estella had been talking about her nature and capacity to love.
This character Estella may indeed be marrying Drummle as a service to
Pip. She does not love Pip like he wants to be loved by her, but she may
have the capacity to understand that she could not fake it just to please Pip. Notice,
in this discussion about Drummle, she never says she loves Drummle.
In fact, Drummle fits for Estella just because he is of high social standing. Pip
aspires to be of high social standing, but it is a stretch, and after learning of his
benefactor, it still may be further off.

Another direct
perspective or interpretation could be that Estella marries Drummle because throughout
the novel she has been learning to seek revenge on men for Miss Havisham. Pip has been
her life's work. To marry someone else would be the ultimate injury to
Pip. Pip points this work out between Havisham and Estella in these
words:

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Estella, dearest, dearest, Estella, do not let
Miss Havisham lead you into this fatal step. Put me aside for ever—you have done so, I
well know—but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle. Miss Havisham gives
you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better
men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you. Among those few there may be one
who loves you even as dearly, though he has not loved you as long, as I. Take him, and I
can bear it better for your
sake!

Great
Expectations is a great novel to learn life lessons from. Whether the
intention of this marriage is to point out that marriage should not be done for
convenience or to illustrate Pip's problem of putting all of his effort into one woman,
this much is clear: Estella does not love any man, but for social standing will marry a
man who did not grow up in a forge.

Discuss the narrator’s warped sense of reality in "The Tell-Tale Heart."

In the first two paragraphs of "The Tell-Tale Heart," the
dangerously deranged narrator draws the reader into the macabre, but somewhat
fascinating madness he possesses:

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True!  Nervous--very nervous, dreadfully nervous
I had been and am.  But why will you say that I am mad?  The disease had sharpened my
senses--not destroyed, not dulled
them.

It is through this
completely unreliable narrator that the reader views the terrifying tale of murder, and
for this reason, the story is all the more chilling. 

With
sadistic pleasure,the narrator recalls how he has planned the murder. For seven days he
feels triumphant and powerful as he opens the door upon the old man who is unsuspecting
of his "secret deeds."  On the eighth day, when the old man groans, the narrator
describes his soul as "overcharged with awe."  So, he stealthily opens the door and this
time his lantern falls upon "the vulture eye," which is what the narrator claims has
been torturing him.  At the sight of the eye that offends him, the narrator becomes
furious; he then hears what he mistakes as the old man's heart when it is probably his
own.  As the heartbeat grows louder, the narrator becomes paranoiac, fearing that the
neighbors will hear. So, he pounces upon the room, drags the old man to the floor, and
pulls the heavy bed over him.

Again, his feelings of
triumph surge, and he smiles at his deed.  With sang froid, then,
the narrator describes his "perfect coolness" as he takes precautions for the hiding of
the body.  After he has the body dismembered and hidden under the floorboards, the
police appear.  With a sick bravado, the narrator escorts them into the very room where
he has hidden the body.  Then, he again imagines the beating of the heart of the old
man.

Oh God!
would could I do?  I foamed--I raved--I swore!...but the noise arose over all and
continually increased....They suspected!  They knew! They were
making a mockery of my
horror!

Again, the mad
narrator projects his own feelings onto others as he accuses the police of dissembling.
In his frenzy, he tells them to tear up the planks, revealing the beating heart that is
surely his own.

I would like an analysis of the novel Lord of the Flies as an adventure novel.

William Golding's Lord of the
Flies has many characterisitics of an adventure novel. By definition, an
adventure includes elements of risk, excitement, danger, conflict and uncertainty, often
creating psychological and physical arousal. Certainly, the novel is chock full of such
examples. Stranded on an uninhabited island when their plane crashes, the boys are left
to fend for themselves, uncertain when or if they will ever be rescued. The boys
experience both fear of the unknown and the excitement of spending a time of frolic and
fun on the beach without the intrusion of parents or adults. Conflict arises when there
is a dispute over who will lead the boys, and there is danger all around
them--especially in the mysterious beast that inhabits the island. They are forced to
improvise when it comes to finding food and providing shelter, and they are at the mercy
of the natural elements. All of the boys are affected psychologically by their
situation, and the physical nature of the hunt brings out the worst in Jack's gang of
choir boys. In the end, there is a rescue, but not before the boys experience terror,
fear, and even death. 

What are the three forms of government by which Texas cities operate?

The three forms of city government in Texas are the
mayor-council, city commission, and council-manager systems.  These typically differ as
to who runs the executive branch of the city. 

In the first
form of government, the executive branch of the city is run by a mayor.  There can be
strong mayors who are elected separately by the people and are not part of the city
council.  They can typically do things like appointing various officials and vetoing
laws passed by the council.  There can also be weak mayors who are often part of the
council and are only selected to be something like a chairman of that
group.

In the city commission form of government, there is
no separate executive branch.  Instead, the various members of the city council each act
as the head of one particular part of the executive
branch.

In the council-manager system, the executive branch
is run by an unelected official.  This person is called the city manager and is hired
for his or her competence rather than being elected by the people.  This form is meant
as a “good-government” form that is more technocratic.

Act 2 Scene 3 Compare how Macbeth behaves in this scene with his behaviour in the previous sceneMacbeth by William Shakespeare

There is clearly a marked difference in Macbeth's demeanor
in Act II Scene 3 compared with his words and actions in Act II, Scene 2.  In the second
scene, for instance, as Macbeth contemplates his murderous action, he is ridden with
guilt and misgivings.  For, when he returns to Lady Macbeth after he has slain King
Duncan, Macbeth reviews what has occurred and he tells his wife that he heard a voice
cry

“Glamis
hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall
sleep no more.” (2.2.55)

and
he confesses to his trepidation:  "I am afraid to think what I have done" (2.2.65); he
tells Lady Macbeth that no ocean can wash the blood from his hand.  And, when he hears
knocking, Macbeth wishes that Duncan could awaken to this sound, wishing to undone his
heinous act.

In contrast to this behavior, Macbeth seems in
control of his emotions in the next scene, as in the morning he greets Lennox and
Macduff as though nothing has happened to their king, leading them to King Duncan's
chambers, telling them that the king has not stirred yet although he plans on leaving
this day.  Yet, incongruously, when the two noblemen discover that Duncan is dead and
the two guards have blood smeared on them, Macbeth, dissembling, confesses to having
slain these guards,

O, yet I do repent me of my fury,

That I did kill them. (2.3.117-118)He explains that when he saw the body of
King Duncan slain and "overtook with gore," his anger overtook him and he killed the
"murderers."

Thus, the character of Macbeth is completely different
in Act II, Scene 2 from that of Act II, Scene 3, for he is guilt-ridden and frightened
at first, but in the next scene, he appears to be in control of his feelings,
although his are incongruous actions.

What are some reasons that T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is considered a critically valuable poem?

T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is valued as a poem by many
readers for the following reasons (to mention just a
few):

• Its skillful use of allusions (implied or
  explicit references) to other texts


• The ways in which it
  incorporates such numerous allusions into its own peculiar
  unity


• The ways in which whatever unity it possesses is
  subtle and suggestive rather than overt and rigid


• The
  ways in which its fragmented form and imagery are appropriate to its larger theme of
  social and cultural fragmentation


• The ways in which it
  suggests a journey into the underworld without making that theme simplistically
  obvious


• Its literary sophistication and daring
  experimentalism


• Its break from traditional literary
  conventions that had come to seem, to many, stale and
  predictable


• The ways it challenges readers to think
  rather than making them mere passive recipients of prepackaged thoughts and
  emotions


• The fluidity of its
  structure(s)


• Its use of recurrent images, such as water,
  to achieve a subtle unity


• The ways it skillfully uses
  juxtaposition (abrupt contrasts) to imply its points rather than openly stating
  them


• The ways it tries to make the past seem relevant to
  the present


• The ways it alludes to a whole range of
  earlier cultures, not just (predictably) to classical Greece and
  Rome


• Its focus on such undeniably important themes as
  life, death, and the possibility of at least some kind of symbolic
  resurrection


• Its social
  relevance


• Its skillful use of ambiguity, irony, and
  subtle suggestiveness


• Its almost encyclopedic or epic
  ambitiousness, despite its relatively brief
  length

Yet there is also much to be said for
the poem simply in terms of its sound effects. Consider, for instance, the opening four
lines:

April
is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs
out of the dead land, mixing

Memory
and desire, stirring

Dull roots with
spring rain. (Italics and boldfacing
added)

Note the way the
italicized verbs are given maximum emphasis by coming at the ends of their respective
lines. Active verbs (suggesting life and vitality) are juxtaposed with the dead
landscape. Note how the repetition of such verbs in those places contribute to the
rhythm and music of the poem. Notice the skillful use of the bold-faced alliteration,
and notice, too, the balance of “Memory” and “desire” (one focused on the past, the
other focused on the future) and of “Dull roots” (adjective/noun) with “spring rain”
(adjective noun).  Whatever “The Waste Land” may or may not mean,
it is often a powerfully well-written work, vivid in its imagery and striking in its
sound effects.

In the expansion of (1+x)^n the coefficient of x^9 is the arithmetic mean of the coefficient of x^8 and x^10. Find the possible values of n where...

The coefficient of the kth power of x in the expansion (1
+ x)^n is n!/(n-k)!*k!

Here, in the expansion of (1 + x)^n,
the coefficient of x^9 is the arithmetic mean of the coefficient of x^8 and x^10. This
gives:

n!/(n-8)!*8! + n!/(n - 10)!*10! = 2*n!/(n -
9)!*9!

=> 1/(n-8)!*8! + 1/(n - 10)!*10! = 2/(n -
9)!*9!

=> 1/(n-8)! + 1/(n - 10)!*9*10 = 2/(n -
9)!*9

=> 90/(n - 8)! + (n - 8)(n - 9)/(n - 8)! =
20(n - 8)/(n - 8)!

=> 90 + (n - 8)(n - 9) = 20(n -
8)

=> 250 + (n - 8)(n - 9) =
20n

=> 250 + n^2 - 17n + 72 =
20n

=> n^2 - 37n + 322 =
0

=> n^2 - 14n - 23n + 322 =
0

=> n(n - 14) - 23(n - 14) =
0

=> (n - 14)(n - 23) =
0

n = 14 and n =
23

The required condition is met for n = 14
and n = 23

In the Bible, who dwelt in the land of Canaan before the Israelites invaded and drove them all out?

Canaan of course represents the promised land that is
"overflowing with milk and honey," and the land that God gives to his people, the
Israelites. However, as a significant part of the first few books of the Old Testament
go to show, this land is not just empty and waiting to be possessed by the Israelites. A
number of tribes have occupied it and are very strong and difficult to defeat, as the
Israelites believe. The names of these tribes can actually be found if we turn back to
the Book of Genesis, which details the Table of Nations and the origins of the first
tribes that filled the earth. In particular, consider Genesis
10:15-19:

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Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,
and of the Hittites, Hebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borded
or Canaan reached from Sidon towards Gerar as far as Gaza, and then towards Sodom,
Gomorrah, Admah and Zebolim, as far as
Lasha.

Thus we can see the
origins of the lands of Canaan and the names of the various tribes that populated it,
all descending from Canaan himself. The Israelites have to face many struggles and
trials and battles before finally occupying the land that they felt was given to them by
God.

What are the two bones found in the area between the knee and ankle?

The two bones are as
follows:-

1. Tibia


2. Fibula

TIBIA

Tibia
is also known as shin bone or shank bone. It connects the knee with the ankle bone. It
is the heaviest, strongest and largest bone of the
body. 

The main function of the tibia is to support the
weight of the body and its legs movements making it easy for someone to walk, run,
etc.

FIBULA

Fibula
is also known as the calf bone. It is located parallel to tibia. It is long but the
slenderest bone in the body. It is connected to tibia supporting
it.

The main function of fibula is to support the muscles
of lower leg, stabilizing the ankle.

What are 6 different ways in which judges are selected based on the different court systems?Judges are elected or selected within each state and...

All judges in the federal judicial system are appointed by
the President of the United States and must be confirmed by the Senate. Justices to the
Supreme Court and normally the Courts of Appeals are hand picked by the President,
usually with the advice of his chief of staff, attorney general, or other legal adviser.
There is no particular qualification, although most recent Supreme Court justices have
either been federal judges or had substantial experience practicing before Federal
Courts. District Judges, Judges to the Tax Court, Court of Claims, etc. are also
appointed by the President, but usually with advice from another group, such as the IRS.
When District Judges and U.S. Magistrates are appointed, the President normally consults
with the senior Senator from that area, or the Senator from that area who is a member of
his political party and receives suggestions from
him/her.

State judges are appointed in a number of ways. In
some states, they are chosen/elected by the legislature of the state. Not surprisingly,
in that instance, almost all judges were once members of the legislature. In other
states, they are appointed by the Governor with the consent of the legislature, much as
in the federal system, in still others they are elected by the populace in a general
election.

The link below, from the American Judicature
Society can provide you with more detailed information.

What two emotions are pulling at Mr. Gatz in chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby?

In chapter 9, Mr. Henry Gatz experienced great
pride. Nick narrates:

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After changing my clothes I went back next door
and found Mr. Gatz walking up and down excitedly in the hall. His pride in his son and
in his son's possessions was continually increasing and now he had something to show
me.

Mr. Gatz' pride was
growing with his increasing knowledge of the material wealth his son had. Having come
from the Midwest, Mr. Gatz must have believed that his son worked extremely hard to get
these material items. Of course the item he refers to that he wanted to show Nick was
Jay's old schedule and list of resolves. The traits Jay practiced as a kid model a
hard-working moral citizen's fortitude.

Another legitimate
feeling of Mr. Gatz was anxiety. Of course, experiencing
the death of a child would cause anyone anxiety, but as people failed to show for the
funeral, I think it left him wondering why.

Why does the success of a strategy depend so much on how well it is implemented?

In business, as in anything else, a strategy or a plan is
simply a set of words unless it can be carried out in an effective way.  Because of
this, a strategy will only be able to succeed if it is implemented
well.

Let us imagine that a firm creates a beautiful plan
for cutting its costs by getting workers to accept more flexible work rules.  This plan
may look wonderful on paper, but the management will still need to get the workers to
buy in to it.  If management implements this plan poorly, they can antagonize the
workers and the workers will not give the plan their whole-hearted support.  In such a
case, the plan will fail.  This is an example of why a strategy needs to be implemented
well.

Plans are necessary, but plans on their own cannot
cause success.  Instead, plans must be implemented well if they are to
succeed.

What is a summary of Chapter 2 in To Sir with Love?

Here is a summary of Chapter
2:

Having left the headmaster's office, Braithwaite
descends the stairs and stops outside the first of the classrooms only to be run into by
a tall red-headed girl who quickly says, "Sorry."  Then, he opens this classroom's door
and discovers that there is no teacher present.  One of the students asks, "Are you
taking Old Hack's place?"  Taking his clue from this question, Braithwaite tells the
class that he will check in the staffroom.

When he arrives
in the staffroom, Braithwaite encounters some of the faculty. "A large, hairy,
cadaverous young man in baggy flannel pants" reclines in an easy
chair.

"Ah
another lamb to the slaughter--or shall we say black
sheep?"

Weston furthers the
gloom that he has cast by telling Braithwaite before he leaves, "I'd say you're for
it."  After he leaves, Braithwaite meets other faculty members:  Mrs. Grace Dale-Evans.
who asks him if he is ex-service, and offers to introduce him to the others after the
bell.  In the meantime, Braithwaite surveys the depressing situation of the schoolyard
with its rusty fence and  courtyard littered with newspaper, candy wrappers and "great
blobs of mucus everywhere," testifying to the heavy colds of the
children.

When the teachers turn up, Braithwaite meets Miss
Euphemia Phillips, "youngish and mousy."  Mrs. Dale-Evans whispers commentary on each
teacher as she introduces them.  Miss Vivienne Clintridge, known as Clinty, is the drama
teacher, with a voice "silvery with acceptance."  Then, he meets Gillian Blanchard, a
new art teacher, who gives a Freudian interpretation of the efforts of her morning
class.  Throughout the conversation with these teachers, Braithwaite wonders why so many
express concern that he will stay at the school. 

After
the bell, Braithwaite is appalled when Mrs. Dale-Evans tells him that she has to prepare
a bath for a girl who has been so unsanitary with her person.  Amidst all this,
Braithwaite marvels at the perfect neatness and cleanliness of her Domestic Science
Department.

Do you think that Grendel is Beowulf's doppelganger (or "twisted double")?

What an interesting idea to consider.
Beowulf is an epic Anglo-Saxon poem/story which chronicles the
exploits of Beowulf. One of the three adversaries whom Beowulf battles and defeats is
Grendel. Because they are opposite in nearly every way, perhaps Grendel can best be seen
as Beowulf's mirror image rather than his doppelganger.

We
do not learn very much about the monster Grendel, we are told that he "nursed a hard
grudge" (Seamus Heaney translation). This bitterness causes him to strike out in anger
and evilness throughout Hrothgar's kingdom. He goes on a killing rampage. We never hear
him speak or see him interact in any way with society. He prefers the dark and the
dank.

Beowulf, on the other hand, has nothing but noble
motives for his actions. He comes to Hrothgar's rescue with the lofty goal of killing
the marauder. He makes lofty speeches and enjoys the company of his fellow soldiers and
Hrothgar's court. He does not have any obligation to fight for Hrothgar, but he is a man
of honor and justice.

Beowulf has heard that Grendel fights
without weapons, so he plans to do the same. The battle becomes a literal arm-wrestling
match, each of them with an extraordinary strength in their arms (hands). The visual of
the two men locked in a grip of death is suggestive of a mirror image. Though the image
ends as Beowulf is the victor and Grendel slithers away to his marshy fen to die, the
two are clearly opposites--thus the mirror image.

What are some of Rose's negative characteristics?

Rose is not entirely a bad character.  She is not shown to
be one who is excessively mean- spirited or emotionally hurtful.  Yet, if one were to
draw up a list of negative characteristics about Rose, I think that something to top
that list would be her excessive need to "fix" things.  She is a "fixer" and to this
extent, she is also an enabler.  She really and truly believes that she can fix all of
another person's problems.  In this, she enables those for whom she cares.  Her form of
caring is one whereby she is only content when she is in the position of power to do
things for others.  In this, Rose is an enabler to her brothers.  This is comfortable
for her, a role to which she is accustomed.  Her need to be a fixer is thus for her own
benefit, as it provides a sphere of comfort for her and a realm in which she is "safe." 
In this, I think that a negative quality can be evident for Rose's need to assist in an
overtly maternal manner is motivated by her own desire to feel needed and wanted by
others.  I don't think that Tyler constructs this as an overwhelming or specifically
negative quality.  Rather, it is one whereby individuals are able to see that in a
desire to fix and exercise despotism over another, there might other forces at
play.

How does Tennyson powerfully convey the character of Lancelot in Part 3 of "The Lady of Shalott"?

To answer this question, you need look no further than the
way Lancelot is introduced at the beginning of Part III of this excellent poem. Consider
the way in which the first stanza immediately presents Lancelot as a vibrant character,
full of light, movement and colour:

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A bowshot from her bower
eaves,

He rode between the barley
sheaves,

The sun came dazzling through the
leaves,

And flamed upon the brazen
greaves

Of bold sir
Lancelot.

Notice the
tremendous movement as he is compared to a "bowshot" and the descriptive details such as
"dazzling" and "flamed" and "brazen." Given the grey shadows that the Lady of Shalott
spends most of her life looking at through her mirror, such a combination of intense and
vivid colour with movement makes both us and her sit up and take notice. Also, consider
the alliteration in the next stanza. The repetition of "b" and "g" sounds in phrases
such as "golden Galaxy" and "bridle bells" certainly help to make the verse ring as
merrily as bridel bells themselves ring.

Up until this
stage, the poem has been written in a kind of dreamy, nebulous way, with mystical
enchantment surrounding the scene. At this point in the poem, the symbol of reality, Sir
Lancelot himself, enters the shadow world of the Lady of Shalott, and Tennyson makes
sure that we are all aware of the change.

How can I apply the quote below to Stanley and Blanche from A Streetcar Named Desire?“No two people share the same perception of reality “

I think that taking Williams' work and applying it to your
quote would be a good exercise.  The idea of two people living in different realities is
quite evident in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Blanche and Stanley
live in parallel spheres of existence, with each one striving to have their own realm
deemed supreme by Stella.  They battle one another with their multiple perceptions of
reality.  It's more than being "different" with alternate beliefs and choices.  Both
Stanley and Blanche have diametrically opposed views of the universe and the people in
it.  Neither one can afford to have the other's exist, and their dramatic interplay is
more like a dance of death where one of their visions have to perish.  In Blanche's
world, a perception of reality where Belle Reve and stately Southern manors are where
gentlemen and rules of decor are strictly respected, Stanley would be nothing more than
a servant, if that.  His crass and rude mannerisms would have been rejected as the very
representation of being "uncivilized" and "undignified."  In Blanche's reality, her
sense of self makes "sense" and it is a world that gives her comfort, precisely because
it is a view of reality that is absent in the modern
setting.

Stanley's perception of reality is one where the
realpolitik and pragmatic nature of the world emboldens the strong and the forceful.  In
Stanley's perception of reality, a working class guy with Polish parents can make it in
America because everyone has the same starting point to eke out an existence.  Blanche's
world represents the old order where social stratification was not an expression of
dignity and class, as much as it was to strangle out people from trying to appropriate
their own world and empower themselves.  For Stanley, his impression of reality is
rooted in power and the fact that he holds it in his world is a reflection of the
correct values that his world holds.  In Stanley's perception of reality, Blanche is
nothing more than a "gold digger" or some other rich "hasbeen" who is living off of some
means of income that he has to not only discover, but appropriate for
himself.

Both of them see reality differently and do so in
a manner that rejects "the other."  They cannot share the same vision of reality becuase
each one's reality is rooted in the other's rejection.

What does Josephine & Richards represent in "The Story of an Hour"?

In Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Josephine (Mrs.
Mallard's sister) and Richards (a friend of Mr. Mallard's) represent two typical
stereotypes regarding gender.

Josephine tells her sister
about her husband's death in "in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half
concealing." This shows the typical female reaction to both death (an overly emotional
time) and the hint that something else may be of concern (many sisters have very close
relationships-Josephine probably knows about Mrs. Mallard's concerns about her own
life).

On the other hand, Richards made sure
to:

the time
to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any
less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad
message.

This indirect
characterization shows the procedural mind of the man. A woman, like Josephine would
have probably not taken the time to check the message twice. Richards is calculating and
wants to make sure he knows everything before giving Mrs. Mallard the
news.

This being said, Josephine seems to represent one
side of Mrs. Mallard: the emotional side; whereas, Richards seems to represent the
analyzing side. Readers see the transformation of Mrs. Mallard in her bedroom. She, for
purpose only, seems to 'turn male'- is able to detach emotion and look at the bigger
picture.

In the end, her female self returns and the
emotion kills her.

How does Jonas show courage in The Giver by leaving with Gabriel?

Let us remember for one moment what Jonas is sacrificing.
He is giving up home, all that he has ever known and a feeling of security, for a
completely unknown existence outside his community, where he has never gone before and
which he has no knowledge of. He is defying the rule of his community openly, which he
has only done in secret before. These are massive issues for a boy of Jonas' age to
face. To be forced to abandon your home and family so that you can stand up for what you
think is right is a big decision to have to make at the age of thirteen, and yet Jonas
does it without even thining about it too much. Note how his feelings are described as
he leaves in Chapter 21 of this great novel:

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He felt, surprisingly, no fear, nor any regret at
leaving the community behind. But he felt a very deep sadness that he had left his
closest friend
behind.

Perhaps his lack of
fear and regret reinforces the sense that Jonas knows he is doing the right thing by
leaving to save the life of Gabriel. His courage in standing up for what he believes to
be right and then acting on it by leaving his home is
self-evident.

What are the grievances of Orlando in As You Like by Shakespeare?

Orlando has many grievance, and they are against his
eldest brother Oliver. Their father, Sir Roland de Boys, specified in his will that the
eldest brother Oliver take care of the raising and educating of the two younger, Jacques
and Orlando. Oliver fulfilled his commission regarding Jacques, who was carefully
educated as a gentleman, but failed in his responsibilities to Orlando--possibly because
he resented the expenditure of more of their inheritance.

While
Jacques went to schools, Orland was left to live in the stables of the family manor:

he keeps me
rustically at home,
[...]
that
differs not from the
stalling of an ox?

He
complains to Adam, his servant and old family domestic retainer, that Oliver spends
money on "riders dearly hired" to train his horses, yet Orlando gets nothing from "him
but growth." Encounters with Oliver even seem to rob Orlando of his good nature because
Oliver treats and trains him "like a peasant."

These are the
grievances Orlando has plus the additional one that, after having won the wrestling
match against Charles and incurring the further enmity of Oliver along with the fresh
enmity of Duke Frederick, Oliver plans to burn down the dwelling that has housed
Orlando.

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this night he
means
To burn the lodging where you use to
lie

It is for this
murderous new twist their brotherly love has taken that Adam suggests he flee to the
safety of Arden Forest. The final grievance accrues to this because in fleeing for his
safety, he loses Rosalind (or so he thinks).

How is the epigraph at the beginning of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" relevant to the meaning of the poem? Try in particular...

The epigraph of this poem is a six-line
quotation from Canto of the Inferno by the Renaissance Italian poet
Dante Alighieri .. the italian term " Inferno" means  the horrors
of Hell

And
no, Eliot doesn’t translate it out of the Italian, which makes people think Eliot is a
snob and
showy.

 But why
did Eliot quote Dante's poem "Inferno"  and did'nt even translate it out of the italian
?

He was absolutely and
totally obsessed with Dante and maybe he thought other people loved Dante as much as he
did – enough to translate the quote for
themselves

 

 

Before
we start  explaining  Dante's Inferno  we  should recognize 2 guys , Dante and Guido ..
Dante who has messed up his life badly enough to require some help from heaven and In
order  to scare him away from sin and other bad things, heaven sends him to hell  ,

Along the way he meets a lot
of evil and misguided people including " Guido" this guy was  the worst of the worst
people  are stuck in hell for eternity
.

 

and
when Dante asks  to hear his story,  here’s what he
says:

"If I thought that my
reply would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would remain
without  further movement; but as no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what
I hear is true, I can answer you with no fear of
infamy."

 

So
What does this quote mean? Well, Dante is really curious to know why Guido ended up so
far down in Hell. But Guido is selfish. He’s afraid that people back on earth will find
out about the horrible stuff he did – he’s concerned about his
reputation

 

On
the other hand, Guido knows that no one has ever entered Hell and made it out again, so
he figures  that  it's safe to tell his story because Dante is stuck
here.

 

 

Unfortunately 
for Guido, Dante is the first human ever  to be allowed to pass through Hell and "return
to earth," so people do eventually find out about Guido’s sins…from reading the href="http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/dante-alighieri/inferno.html">Inferno

 

Last
thing: What did Guido do? Essentially, Guido committed terrible atrocities in
war.

But that’s not the worst
part. The worst part is that he tried to have himself forgiven
before he committed these atrocities. He basically thought he could
out-smart God and get into heaven despite doing things that he knew were really bad.
It’s like if before you broke your mother’s favorite lamp you asked her, "Mom, if I
broke this lamp right now, would you forgive me? . . . Yes? OK."
CRASH

 

 

Why
does Eliot choose this epigraph for his poem? Well, it suggests a couple of things.
First, that "Prufrock" might not be a poem about good people, but about bad ones
pretending to be good. The setting of the poem is a kind of
hell.

Second,
it tells us that this fellow Prufrock, who is singing his "love song," might be
concerned about his reputation like Guido. In other words, Prufrock is going to tell us
things because he thinks  we  won’t have a chance to repeat them to other people
.