Why does Santiago idolize Joe DiMaggio?The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was
first published in 1952, a time when baseball was America's favorite pasttime.  At that
time, the premier baseball team was the New York Yankees, and the premier player was
none other than "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio, also known as "The Yankee Clipper."  Here are
some facts about Joe DiMaggio:

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At the time of his retirement, he had the
fifth-most career home runs (361) and sixth-highest slugging percentage (.579) in
history. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15–July 16, 1941),
a record that still stands.]A 1969 poll conducted to coincide with the centennial of
professional baseball voted him the sport's greatest living
player.

In the setting of the
narrative, Joe DiMaggio was a baseball icon that many fans, especially Yankee fans,
adored because he led the team to nine titles in thirteen years. His popularity was so
great that he was often referred to in literature, film, television, and art.
 Interestingly, Joe's father, Giuseppe DiMaggio, Joe's father, was a fisherman, so
perhaps this fact influences Santiago.  After all, the Cuban fisherman declares, “I
would like to fish with the great DiMaggio. They say his father was a fisherman.”
Indeed, DiMaggio is the perfect baseball hero for
Santiago.  

DiMaggio's biographer, Richard Ben Cramer,
wrote about both DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, whom he
married, 

And
inside those personages . . . these two . . . were only small and struggling, fearful to
be seen. And alone—always. . . . In their loneliness, they might have been brother and
sister.”

This alienation and
loneliness is also something with which Santiago is intimately familiar, as well. 
Clearly, then, Santiago can relate to Joe DiMaggio.

Summarize the process of person perception.

People often form opinions about other people based on
limited information. When first meeting someone we use the process of person perception.
This act has both positive and negative results.

The
process of person perception starts with physical cues. We form impressions based on
physical appearance and behavior. After we meet a person we perceive them based on
personaility traits, speech, and body language. Finally we put them into categories
based on meeting people with similar physical appearance, body language,
etc.

This act can be both positive and negative. When we
meet a stranger it's good to use person perception, because it can keep us safe. Body
language explains much about a person. If they are staggering around we might think they
have had too much to drink. We could negatively judge them when in reality they recently
had a stroke. People need to be aware of many different aspects about people before they
make a solid judgement.

What is Aristophanes trying to say about the importance of marriage to the state when he shows the men weakened by a lack of marital attention?

First, we need to remember that Lysistrata is a comedy and
that unsatisfied male sexual desire was a typical element of Greek comedy. Typical comic
actor costumes include a large erect phallus made of red leather, and many of the jokes
in Aristophanes and the equally humorous satyr plays make reference to the phallus; some
of the jokes were extremely visual in nature, and at times difficult to assess based
simply on the texts which have been transmitted without stage
directions.

Greek marriage, of which our most detailed
account may be found in Xenophon's Oeconomicus, normally involved an adult
(approximately 30) man taking a wife just at the beginning of her reproductive age
(12-14) for the purpose of trying to father living male offspring in an era of high
infant mortality. Greek society was radically homosocial -- men socialized with other
men, and women with other women. They often even attended separate religious
rituals.

There is no evidence that Aristophanes was
unconventional in his notions of women; a proto-feminist reading of the play is probably
anachronistic. The importance of marriage was primarily fathering sons to sustain
population, in a era in which the Peloponnesian wars were decimating the Athenian male
population. Aristophanes' plays consistently oppose the Peloponnesian wars, and like his
"Peace", the point of this play is to suggest that Athenians, rather than prosecuting
foreign wars, should focus more on cultivating their estates. Marriage was a critical
part of household economics, with women providing heirs and also engaging in most of the
clothing production of the estate.

Lysistrata and her
friends are important vehicles for this argument because Aristophanes is making the
point that the Peloponnesian wars are so obviously harming Athens, that
even women can see their pointlessness. The sexual strike, of
course, is intended mainly for its comic effect.

How did Phillip become blind in The Cay?

After it was decided that Phillip and his mother would
leave the island of Curacao and return to the safe haven of the United States, they took
a ship, the S. S. Hato, bound for Miami. Before reaching Florida,
however, the ship planned to stop in Colon, Panama, at the entrance to the Panama Canal.
Two days after leaving Panama, the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Phillip's
mother helped him on with his life jacket, and they began their descent into a lifeboat.
However, the Hato soon "lurched heavily," and Phillip was hit on
the head and thrown into the water. He awoke four hours later on board a raft with an
old West Indian sailor, Timothy. Phillip's blindness occurred a day or two later,
probably, in part, from the blow to his head; however, Timothy blamed it on Phillip's
having previously looking directly into the sun. Phillip seemed to
agree.

Yes,
that was it! I had looked at the sun too
much.

What are the effects of the locals' hostility on the migrants like the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath?

In the most demonstrative of manners, I think that the
effects of the locals' hostility on the migrants helps to display another hurdle that
must be faced on their road to redemption and some semblance of happiness.  I think that
the desire to go out West represents a dream for the Joads.  In this lies the promise of
a better life because it is so vastly different from what they are experiencing.  I
think that in this there lies a struggle that is enhanced by the response of the locals
to the migrants like the Joads.  The struggle that they endure is added because of the
reaction of the locals, many of whom see the migrants like the Joads as threats to what
they have.  Steinbeck constructs the reactions of the locals to show how a sense of fear
has gripped everyone.  There is a fundamental disavowal of collective or communal aims
because of the fear that whatever little is possessed will be taken away by others.  It
is for this reason why the effects of the locals' hostility helps to solidify Tom into
embracing what Casy had been preaching as well as seeking to create a vision of what
should be in the world as opposed to what is.  The inertia and resistance that the
locals demonstrate do not wither his resolve, but actually enhances and strengthens it. 
Additionally, it is this reaction that helps to forge Ma's strength in keeping her
family together, intact for the pursuit of the dream of happiness that animates her
sense of being in this world.

Discribe the features of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in detail.

The poetry of the Anglo-Saxons is defined by the following
characteristics:

1. Anglo-Saxon poetry is written in blank
verse. The term blank verse means that there is no end rhyme occurring from line to
line.

2. Anglo-Saxon poetry typically depicts the problems
which arise as the theology of the Church (Christianity) and the theology of the Pagan
world are played off of, and against, each other.

3. The
use of caesura (a pause in the middle of a line of poetry- like taking a breath) is very
common. Given that during this period there was no written common written language, the
poetry of the Anglo's was sung by scops. The caesura allowed for the scop to breathe
while reciting long and detailed poems and epics. The caesura was typically placed after
the second foot in the line of poetry. There were four feet in each line and the breath
allowed for a pause to happen in the middle of each
line.

4. A commonly used poetic device was alliteration.
Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound within a line of poetry. This added
to the sing-song effect of the time.

5. Kennings were
another poetic device commonly used in Anglo poety. The Kenning is a metaphorical phrase
used to compare a figurative description to something less elegant in regards to
verbiage. An example of this would be "battle sweat". Battle sweat is a kenning for
blood.

6. Like many of the epics during this time, the
poetry of the Anglos was meant to be a moral lesson to those listening. A sort of fable,
the poems taught lessons on life and righteousness.

What do the passages from the child's reading primer at the beginning of the chapters represent in The Bluest Eye?

The passage from the child's primer also symbolizes that
which is slowly destroying Pecola's sanity, primarily the fact that her life is not
happy and as "perfect" as that of a child with blue eyes, or more specifically, a white
child. The characters Dick and Jane in the children's primer were beautiful according to
that time period's standards because of their blonde hair and blue eyes (the latter
being that which Pecola desperately wants). Furthermore, they seemed to live a perfect
life in the illustrations, having a mom and dad that loved them and cared for them, a
beautiful home with a white picket fence, and even a dog named Spot.  These were all the
things that Pecola longed for. Her desire for the blue eyes is symbolic of her desire
for the things she believed a child with blue eyes would have, i.e. Dick and Jane's
life. Not only does Morrison's way of using the primer symbolize the different kinds of
familly, but it also stands as a sharp contrast to Pecola's reality. Dick and Jane's
lives were her fantasy.

When describing Miss Emily, in "A Rose For Emily," what does the phrase "a pallid hue" mean?

William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" is a short story set
in the South not too long after the Civil War. Women were still placed upon a pedestal,
father's ruled their families with an iron fist, and societal expectations were to be
followed.

Miss Emily is a woman who, after her father dies,
completely defies convention, flaunting her behavior as an independent female in a
male-dominated society. The voice of the narrator (who is an unidentified member of the
community) speaks in the language of the old South—with a stoicism of a society that
watched things move slowly along because of the heat and because it had been done that
way forever. For example, when Miss Emily buys rat poison, the townspeople believe she
will kill herself, and believe "it would be the best thing." They take the idea in
stride.

Faulkner is also excellent in providing startling
imagery. In fact, the last line of the story is its most effective
because of the care he has taken in describing Miss Emily and her
life—most especially her appearance: delivered in small, succinct details that carry
enormous power as a storyteller's words should.

The line
you mention comes in the midst of another of these wonderful sections of masterful
imagery from Faulkner:

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...when they sat down, a faint dust rose
sluggishly about their things, spinning with slow motions in the single sun-ray...she
entered—a small, fat woman in black...Her skeleton was small and spare... what would
have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a
body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid
hue.

The word
"hue" means color. The word " href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pallid">pallid" means pale:
"pale; faint or deficient in color." When trying to ascertain what something means, it
is almost always absolutely necessary to look at the words in the
context in which they are used. Faulkner uses the narrator to
describe Miss Emily looking like a dead body that has been underwater for a long time.
The image itself is ghastly, and so, too, must be Miss Emily. She is fearful to look at,
ghoulish perhaps. When she is described as this body "long submerged" in the water, we
are to understand that her skin is very pale—without healthy color:
looking lifeless. We reason that a body in the water would lack healthy color because it
is dead and in the water, but there is no reason given for the
frightening and off-putting appearance of this specter that appears before the men. Miss
Emily actually does "look like death."

What are the various sources of cultural conflict in American history before 1750?

There are, of course, many such sources that were relevant
at various times before 1750.  Some sources
include:

• "Race."  There were conflicts between
  the Europeans and the Native Americans almost as soon as the settlers arrived.  There
  was also, to some degree, conflict between blacks and whites.  These included such
  things as the New York City Slave Rebellion of 1712 and the Stono Rebellion of
  1739.


• Religion.  In some parts of America, there were
  conflicts between religious groups.  A good example of this came in New England where
  there were conflicts between the dominant Puritans and people (within and outside of the
  Puritan religion) who had different beliefs.


• Class.  We
  see examples of class conflict in the colonies before 1750.  The best-known major
  example of this was Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1676.  This rebellion was largely
  based on the grievances of the poorer backwoods people against the elites who ran the
  colony.

Use personification to complete the following sentence:"a cat sitting in ___________"

There are several different approaches to take with this. 
The main idea in personification is one whereby human characteristics are given to
animals or objects to bring a greater level of connection between authorial intent and
reader understanding.  I always like to think of personification as a form of
visualization.  In the setting with the cat sitting, I think we can go with different
takes.  If there is a mood or feeling of nervousness or uneasiness, "A cat sitting in
nervousness, unable to relax, but unable to sleep."  In this personification, the cat is
being linked to nervousness, a distinct feeling that humans can understand and
experience.  It is a human reaction that animals also experience, but one that humans
primarily understand.  Another example would be, "a cat siting in presumptive judgment
of its surroundings."  Here, the cat is being given the power to judge or assess its
conditions, almost like a judge or some type of adjudicator.  Finally, if we wanted to
convey a sense of sadness or forlornness, "a cat sitting in wait for absolution."  This
can take the human experience, connect it to the cat, which in turn forges a stronger
connection with the human reader.

What is the length of a segment with endpoints (-8,-3) and (-3,-8)?

the distance formula in a plane meaning the distance
between two points and a plane is:

If two points are
(x1,y1),(x2,y2)

distance=
sqrt((x1-x2)^2+(y1-y2)^2)

well you could choose either of
the two points as the (x1,y1) point

I will give the example
of choosing (-8,-3) as the (x1,y1) point.

Thus, x1=-8,
y1=-3, x2= -3, y2=-8

substitute all the values into the
equations

distance =
sqrt((-8+3)^2+(-3+8)^2)

=sqrt(25+25)

sqrt
50

=5 sqrt2

The
distance between the two points( the length of the line) with endpoints (-8,-3) and
(-3,-8) is 5 sqrt2.

You could
also make a graph and construct a right triangle to do this
question.

Correct the following.1. (b/b - 1) + (4b/b^2 2. (a 3. (4/a - 5) - (1/5

1.  (b/b - 1) + (4b/b^2 - 1) = (4 -
b)/b

Since b/b equals 1, the first set of
parentheses is

(1 - 1) = 0

In
the second set of parentheses,

4b/b^2 =
4/b

In order to subtract the 4/b - 1, change 1 to
b/b. 

4/b - b/b = (4 -
b)/b

2.  (a - 1/a + 1) + (a + 1/a - 1) =
2a

-1/a + 1/a =
0

1 - 1 = 0

a + a =
2a

3.  (4/a - 5) - (1/5 - a) =
(5a^2 - 26a + 20)/5a

First
distribute the minus sign to the second set of
parentheses. 

4/a - 5 - 1/5 +
a

Rewrite with common
denominators.

20/5a - 25a/5a - 1a/5a +
5a^2/5a

Combine the
numerators.

20 - 25a - 1a + 5a^2 = 20 - 26a +
5a^2

Put this over the denominator
5a.

(5a^2 - 26a + 20)/5a

What are the implications of the long-term unemployment rate for the U.S. Economy?

The major implication of long term unemployment is that it
means the US economy has or will have a large number of workers whose skills are poorly
matched with the jobs that exist in the country at this
time.

Chances are that people who are unemployed for a long
time are structurally unemployed.  This means that their skills are no longer demanded
by employers in the US.   Structural unemployment is particularly challenging for an
economy because it implies a need for workers to learn new skills.  Learning new skills
is especially difficult for people who have been in the work force a long time and may
have difficulty in getting training for new jobs.

Thus, the
presence of long term unemployment implies that there are many workers whose skills are
no longer needed in our economy.  This is problematic because it means that either A) we
need to bring back the sorts of jobs these people can do or B) we need to get these
people trained for existing jobs.  Neither of these is particularly easy to do. 
Therefore, a high rate of long term unemployment implies that there is a fundamental
weakness in the US economy.

What is the depiction of familial relationships in House on Mango Street?

In The House on Mango Street,
Esperanza shares many stories about various family
units:

Mango
Street is populated by people with many different life stories, stories of hope and
despair.

Esperanza shares her
relationship with her own family. She is close to her family. She realizes that her
family struggles to overcome. She writes that her father wakes up tired because he works
so much:

First
there is Esperanza's own family, her kind father who works two jobs and is absent most
of the time; her mother, who can speak two languages and sing opera but never finished
high school; her two brothers Carlos and Kiki; and her little sister
Nenny.

Through the struggles,
Esperanza's family ends up on Mango Street. The small house is cramped. They can hear
the neighbors through the thin walls. Esperanza has a rice sandwich for lunch because
the family has no luncheon meat. The family is extremely poor. Although Esperanza's
family has its own struggles, some of the others on Mango Street suffer far more. One of
the young wives is held prisoner by her husband:

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Rafaela stays indoors and observes the world from
her windowsill, 'because her husband is afraid Rafaela will run away since she is too
beautiful to look at.'

This
family unit is unique in that the husband actually keeps his wife locked in their house.
Rafaela cannot go out. She sits by the windowsill watching the world go by. She is bound
by her husband's jealously. She exists inside the walls of her home, often miserable,
longing to experience the outside world:

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Rafaela stands as a symbol for the interior world
of women on Mango Street, whose lives are circumscribed and bound by the structure of
home and family.

Other
families have their own special circumstances. Ruthie was forced to move back home to
Mango Street when her husband left her. Now, Ruthie is troubled by the fact that she has
been abandoned. She exists but is truly lonely, so lonely until she plays with the other
children:

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Ruthie, 'the only grown-up we know who likes to
play,' is a troubled, childlike woman whose husband left her and was forced to move from
her own house in the suburbs back to Mango Street with her
mother.

Sally has a dark
family history. She wears black clothes, short skirts, nylons and makeup. Sally lives in
an abusive home. Her father abuses her. She gets tired of all the abuse and marries
before she begins the eighth grade:

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She trades one type of ensnarement for another by
marrying a marshmallow salesman before the eighth
grade.

Rosa's husband left
her with several unruly children. The children are misbehaved. Esperanza calls them "bad
children." Of course, they are being raised by a woman who is always tired from raising
children by herself. She is constantly "buttoning, bottling, and babying." She cries all
the time for the man who abandoned her:

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'[She] cries every day for the man who left
without even leaving a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how
come.'

These are a few
depictions of familial relationships in The House on Mango Street.
All of these depictions are quite sad. The relationships are broken. The family
structure is not there. They suffer in silence, or they shout their grief to anyone
willing to listen. Esperanza writes it all down.

What are some ways of conserving water?

The amount of water that people use is quantified in their
water footprint. There are many ways in which this can be reduced.
Many ways of doing this may not strike someone as a means of reducing water usage; for
example the production of one kilogram of beef requires 16000 liters of water, if you
were to not eat 10 kilograms of beef in a year and instead substituted it with a
vegetarian product that requires a much smaller quantity of water to produce, you could
save around 100000 liters of water every year.

There are
many direct ways of conserving water. Some of these
are:

• Use a water efficient shower head, or have
  a bath with a bucket of water and avoid using the shower
  entirely.

• Wash your clothes and
  dishes only when the complete clothes washer and dishwasher is
  full.

• When washing things like
  vegetables use a pan of water instead of running the tap
  continuously.

• Water your garden in
  the morning or in the evening when less of the water will
  evaporate.

• Try using techniques like
  drip irrigation which could save a lot of
  water.

Check the link provided below for
hundreds of ways in which you can conserve water.

Discuss the prejudice that Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Dolphus Raymond face in To Kill a Mockingbird. Including quotes would be helpful.

These three characters from To Kill a
Mockingbird face different kinds of prejudicial treatment during the novel.
As a Negro, Tom Robinson faced the racial prejudice that many blacks endured during the
1930s in the Deep South. Alabama, like many Southern states, had laws regarding the
segregation of blacks and whites; socializing between the races in public places was
illegal in many areas. Yet Tom, being the friendly man that he was, sympathized with
Mayella, and he attempted to help her without realizing he was being lured into the
Ewell house for other reasons. He was accused of raping Mayella; such a charge would not
have occurred if their colors had been reversed. He was found guilty by an all-white
jury, all of whom were apparently biased against the color of Tom's skin. As Atticus
probably already knew, Tom was guilty the second he stepped into the Ewell
household.

Dolphus Raymond also faced the wrath of much of
Maycomb's white population, but not because he was black: A wealthy white man, Raymond
lived with his Negro mistress--a sin almost as serious as the accusations against Tom.
Mixing of the races was considered a cardinal sin in the Deep South, and Raymond was
castigated by most of white Maycomb. Because of this personal decision, many people also
considered him mentally unstable, and many of Raymond's actions (specifically weaving
down the sidewalks with a bottle in a paper bag) seemed to support this
conclusion.

Boo Radley, like Raymond, was considered
mentally unstable, and rumors that had followed him for more than a decade had been
accepted by the people of Maycomb as fact. Although he was never seen, he was blamed for
most of the unexplainable crimes in the town, and many children avoided walking by the
Radley house, even though it was located next to the school. Like the unfounded
accusations against both Tom Robinson and Dolphus Raymond, the ones against Boo were
untrue, and all three men were merely trying to live their lives in the manner they
wished.

When Tom devises a coat of arms for Jim, what evidence is there that his knowledge of these things is really quite superficial?in The Adventures of...

Tom's explanation of the symbols he uses for Jim's coat of
arms reflects his awareness that there are specific names given to specific parts of the
seal and a standardized language used to describe those elements. However, Tom doesn't
know what the actual terminology is and, as a result, can't use the correct terms for
the parts of the coat of arms he has created. "Dexter" is the term used to refer to the
left side of the shield, not along the top as Tom says. The term "nombril" refers to the
center point of the shield, not a collection of "nombril points." He has the basic idea
of what should be included in a coat of arms, but doesn't have the vocabulary to
correctly name the elements.

How can critical thinking help you in your everyday life?

Critical thinking involves taking information and trying
to apply it to answer some question or questions.  It involves looking at that
information in a very disciplined, honest, and careful way.  A person who thinks
critically does not make assumptions and does not allow their personal feelings and
prejudices to determine what sorts of conclusions they will draw from the information
they are thinking about.  This sort of thinking can be of enormous value in everyday
life.

Let's say, for example, that you are trying to decide
whether to buy a particular piece of clothing.  Let's say that you really want it and
you think it looks really nice and, besides, it has the logo of some really popular
clothing line on it.  If you think critically, you will not let your emotions and your
desire to have it control you.  Instead, you will look at it more objectively.  You will
ask whether this piece of clothing is really that much better than one with no logo on
it.  You will ask whether you already have enough clothes and whether you really need
this one.  You will ask whether it is worth the amount of money you would need to spend
on it.

In this way, critical thinking can help you.  You
may still decide to buy the piece of clothing, but at least you will be buying it for
good reasons.  Thinking critically in cases like this will prevent you from making silly
decisions based on emotions or desires.  This is why critical thinking can be useful in
your everyday life.

Are Maxim's actions consistent or inconsistent with his character?

I see Maxim’s actions as completely consistent with his
character. Any inconsistencies we perceive early in the text are due to a lack of
understanding of the complex relationship Maxim had with Rebecca and
Manderley.

Maxim is clear from the beginning that the
narrator brings a refreshing and welcome change from his sombre mood. When they lunch
together for the first time, he tells her of the effect she has
had-

I’ve
enjoyed this hour with you more than I have enjoyed anything for a very long
time.

The reader, and the
narrator, believes this to mean since his wife’s death. It is only when we realise that
he was never happy while she lived that we understand fully what Maxim is trying to
communicate.

He feels he has to uphold the values of
upper-class English society, which is why he allows Rebecca to torture him. It would be,
he believes, more painful to sully the family name with divorce and lose Manderley than
to bear Rebecca’s taunting infidelity.

In An Astrologer's Day, what made an astrologer aware of a man standing before him? How did he welcome the man?He picked up his cowrie shells and...

As the astrologer is packing up his money and
"paraphernalia," he "looked up and saw a man standing before him." The astrologer had a
sense of expectancy about the stranger:

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He sensed a possible
client.

Truly, the astrologer
thought that the man would be one more person who would pay him to read his future. The
astrologer begins by using common courtesy gestures and phrases. While suggesting the
man sit down, the astrologer mentions that the stranger looks
weary:

You
look so careworn. It will do you good to sit down for a while and chat with
me.

With these comments, the
man grumbled about something. The stranger did not immediately sit down. The astrologer
had to insist:

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The astrologer pressed his
invitation.

Still, the
stranger was not convinced. Then the astrologer and the stranger have qualms over the
issue of payment for the astrologer's services. They finally agree on a price for the
astrologer's services. Then the stranger agrees to pay, but only if the astrologer can
truly tell him about the man for whom he is
searching.

Recognizing the stranger, the astrologer reveals
all he knows. Of course, the stranger begins believing the astrologer has powers. The
astrologer makes money and the stranger leaves.

How to express the area of rectangle in terms of perimeter and length?

We know that the area of a rectangle is the product of the
length and the width.

A =
L*w

The perimeter of rectangle
is:

P = 2(L + w)

Since the
area has to be expressed only in terms of perimeter and length, we'll express the width
in terms of P and L.

P = 2L +
2w

2w = P - 2L

w =
(P-2L)/2

A =
[L*(P-2L)]/2

Therefore the area of a
rectangle, expressed only in terms of perimeter and length, is A =
[L*(P-2L)]/2.

How can I improve my thesis? I'm comparing and contrasting symbolism and setting.Through both symbolism and setting both Hemingway and Jackson are...

If I were writing this piece, I would probably make a
general statement about the authors first. Then I would provide my thesis to show the
focus of my paper. I don't believe that your thesis is bad, although I would try to
avoid using the same word more than once: you use "both" twice, which is confusing when
their uses are placed so closely together. The beauty of the English language is that
there are countless ways to provide the same information without repetition. Sometimes
we have to use the same word more than once, but other times there
is a great deal of flexibility available to us.

If I had to
compare and contrast symbolism and setting, I would not (as you have already
shown) provide any specific information about these two elements in your
introductory paragraph. (Those belong in the essay or paper's body.) However, as much as
you want to let your reader know the topic of your paper immediately, thereby preparing
your audience for what is to come, sources that instruct us on how to write an effective
thesis statement and introductory paragraph will encourage you to offer something that
grabs your reader's attention without compromising the integrity of your paper.
You set the tone in the introduction, just as any writer
does.

There are many ways this can be done. A famous
quotation can sometimes be effective, or asking a question. I think
I would draw the comparison between how different the use of
setting and symbolism are in accomplishing the author's objective…as different as the
authors and their stories are.

So I would
write:

Death is a dominant image in Ernest Hemingway's
A Farewell To Arms and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Each
author's use of setting and symbolism to convey this image is as different as the
authors and their stories, but both are equally
effective.

I hope this is of some
help.

Please explain the following lines from "Ode to the West Wind."Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its...

These famous lines actually come from the final stanza of
this tremendous poem, and represent the final desire and wish of the speaker to be used
by the West Wind, which throughout the poem is seen as being a powerful symbol of change
and revolution. The lines you have quoted begin with an example of apostrophe as the
speaker addresses the West Wind openly, asking and begging to become the wind's
instrument, to have his words used to express the power of change and revolution that is
at the heart of the West Wind's being, as the poet sees it. He wishes to identify so
closely with the essence of the West Wind, as he says "Be thou me, impetuous one!"
Shelley wishes that his "dead thoughts" like the withered leaves and seeds may be driven
through the universe through the power of the West Wind so that they can "quicken a new
birth" and fan the flames of change. Note the paradox inherent in the words of a poet,
which are simultaneously dead and inert, but also alive and inspiring. Shelley wants his
words to inspire inert readers and bring them to life. He thus asks in these lines the
wind to let him be the voice of prophecy and expressive power.

What are the connotations in this poem?

To fully answer this question, one must understand what
the term connotation means. A connotation is when a second meaning of a word is used in
combination with the explicit meaning.

As for the
connotations in Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for death", there are a few
that can be justified.

1.  The personification of Death (as
notated by the capitalization of the "D" to give Death and proper name) depicts death as
both an abstract idea and a concrete one. Abstractly, death is something that happens to
someone; it is used as a primary understanding in this
sense.

As for the secondary (underlying) meaning, Death can
be understood as a person who can travel with us. "He" can, in a sense, befriend us so
that lose our fear of him.

2. The setting sun in the poem
also has two very distinctive meanings. First, the image of the actual setting sun
brings to mind the close of a day.

The secondary meaning,
when used in context of the poem, defines the end of life. As the sun sets darkness sets
over everything. Here, the darkness which comes with the setting sun represents the
coming of death- when darkness comes for good.

3. One final
connotation Dickinson sets up is the imagery depicted in the fourth
stanza.

We
paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the
ground;

Here the speaker
states that they pass a house. As readers, one can clearly understand the meaning of a
house- a place where people live. The connotation exists in the second line: "a swelling
of the ground." Instead of picturing a home (built of brick or wood) one can see that
the speaker is looking at a grave.

A grave represents the
eternal home one goes to after death.

What did the settlement of the West mean to the white cattlemen?

At first, the settlement of the West helped cattlemen, but
eventually, it forced them to drastically change their way of
life.

Originally, it was the settlement of the West that
allowed cattlemen to have a place to settle and to keep their herds.  It was the
extension of railroads that allowed them to get their beef to markets and it was the
Army that drove Indians off the land that they used for their
herds.

Eventually, however, the settlement of the West
forced changes.  As farmers came to dominate much of the West, cattlemen could no longer
simply allow their herds to roam.  As land became more settled, the cattlemen had to
keep their cattle much more penned in.  This need (along with the invention of barbed
wire) led to the end of the era of the open range and the cowboys who were needed to
herd open-range cattle.

In Chapter 18 of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, what do we learn about Granma?

In Chapter 18 of John Steinbeck’s novel The
Grapes of Wrath, the most important facts we learn about Granma is the fact
that not only has she been seriously ill but that she in fact has died just before the
family has managed to cross over into California’s Central Valley. Ma, the matriarch of
the family, keeps Granma’s death a secret to the rest of the family because she is
afraid that if the authorities who have stopped them discover a corpse in the truck,
they will not let the family proceed with their trip. Only after the family crosses over
into the land they have been seeking does Ma reveal the
secret:

Ma
raised her eyes and looked over the valley. “Granma’s dead.”
They looked at
her, all of them, and Pa asked, “When?”
“Before they stopped us las’
night.”
“So that’s why you didn’ want ‘em to
look.”

“I was afraid we wouldn’ get acrost,” she said. “I
tol’ Granma we couldn’ he’p her. The fambly had ta get acrost. I tol’ her, tol’ her when
she was a-dyin’. We couldn’ stop in the desert. There was the young ones—an’ Rosasharn’s
baby. I tol’ her.” She put up her hands and covered her face for a moment. “She can get
buried in a nice green place,” Ma said softly. “Trees aroun’ an’ a nice place. She got
to lay her head down in California.”
The family looked at Ma with a little
terror at her strength.

This
passage is significant for a number of reasons, including the
following:

• It suggests Granma’s willingness to
  sacrifice herself in the best interests of her family. Presumably she could have
  objected to Ma’s decision and actions, but there is no indication that she did
  so.


• It suggests that Ma thinks of the family as a unit
  that must survive as a unit, even if doing so means the loss of individuals along the
  way.


• It suggests Ma’s focus on the future rather than on
  the past.


• It suggests Ma’s strength of character – a
  strength that her family finds even a bit frightening.


• It
  suggests Ma’s honesty, since tells Granma directly that Granma cannot be helped and that
  she is dying.


• It suggests Ma’s trust in Granma’s own
  strength of character since Ma is willing to be so honest with
  her.


• It suggests that despite Ma’s strength, she is also
  emotionally vulnerable. Steinbeck thus provides further insight here into the complexity
  of Ma’s personality.


• It implies Ma’s sense of tenderness
  and her appreciation of beauty, especially in her remarks about burying
  Granma.

scientist say that super human strength is impossible because we need more muscle mass but what if we made out muscles denser so there are more...

Muscle strength is a function of a number of factors,
including physiological factors, i.e., size and cross-sectional area as well as
mechanical (pennation or angle of pull and muscle moment arm lengths) and neurological
(neural drive to muscle) factors.

Increasing the density
might be one way to increase strength but, while the force generated by a muscle occurs
within the muscle cell, increased density would come at the cost of reduced space for
other, equally-important components of the muscle, e.g., reduced space for the
sarcoplasmic reticulum, which stores calcium without which muscle contractions simply
could not take place.  Increased density might also mean that the build-up of lactic
acid during sustained contractions might occur faster than could be removed, thus
limiting the ability of the muscle to produce force for sufficiently long periods,
resulting in muscle fatigue.

How and why are Mark Twain's forms of writing and content considered to be "American"?

Mark Twain’s writing might be considered
characteristically “American” in a number of ways, including the
following:

• his focus on American
  people, places, and other American subject-matters, as in
  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom
  Sawyer, The Gilded Age, etc.,
  etc.


• his tendency to look at Europe and the
  rest of the “old” world from a skeptically American perspective, as in
  such travel books as An Innocent Abroad and in such works of
  fiction as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
  Court


• his emphasis on “frontier
  humor,” as in his famous story “The
  Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” among many other
  works


• his frequent tendency to use
  varieties of American dialect, most memorably in Adventures of
  Huckleberry Finn


• 
  


• his skill in capturing the sounds of the
  language spoken by many African Americans of his day, such as in the
  following passage when Jim, in Huckleberry Finn, tells Huck how he
  once slapped his very young daughter because he failed to realize that she had become
  deaf and thus couldn’t hear his commands:

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“Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin en grab her up in
my arms, en say, ‘Oh, de po’ little thing! De Lord God Almighty fogive po’ ole Jim, kaze
he never gwyne to fogive hisself as long’s he live!’ Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb,
Huck, plumb deef en dumb – en I’d been a-treat’n her
so!”

This is one of the most
moving passages in the entire book, and the fact that Twain can create such moving
speech by using such allegedly “unsophisticated” language is one of the great aspects of
his genius.

• his habit of
  celebrating American democratic values, American habits, and the American
  people, especially in contrast with the values, habits, and people of
  Europe (particularly the French).


• his
  willingness to criticize America when he felt that it had fallen short of its own ideals
  or of ideal behavior in
  general

In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" what language/style devices are used to develop the central idea?

The central idea of Shirley Jackson's short story is one
that is open to much debate.  When it first appeared in The New
Yorker, it generated the most mail the magazine had seen at that time. 
Letters then and critics now agree that if there is a central message to the story, it
is ambiguous at best.  What is decidedly agreed upon, however, is that "The Lottery" is
a story that, just like the town it represents, appears on the surface to be something
innocent, old-timey, and somewhat familiar, but harbors a deep and very dark
secret.

The language of the story heightens the horrifying
surprise ending masked by a tone of nonchalance, duty, and general acceptance by the
murderous town.  First, it is told in a third person point-of-view,
which comes across as detached, objective, and matter-of-fact.  In many ways, this point
of view presents the horror as if reporting it in a newspaper.  The who, what, when,
where, and how is laid out in a very organized and almost systematic
fashion.

In addition to the detached point-of-view, the
diction itself is simplistic and straightforward, which is meant to represent the
seeming simplicity of the townspeople.  Characters are often labeled by their appearance
("a tall boy") before being named.  The dialogue further reflects the simplicity of the
characters as many lines are only have spoken and presented as unanswered questions
("Watson boy drawing this year?" / "Old man Warner make
it?").

These language devices (among others) serve to
heighten the seeming normalcy of a town that ends up being the furthest thing from
normal.  The audience is sucked in to the assumption that this could be almost any small
town, anywhere, which doubles the surprise and digust at such a horrific
ending.

Given x=0.5t^2+5t where t is in sec., what is the starting velocity and acceleration?

The expression for distance travelled in terms of time is
x = 0.5t^2 + 5t.

The derivative of displacement x with
respect to time, dx/dt, gives the instantaneous
velocity.

Here dx/dt = v = 2*0.5*t +
5

=> t + 5

When the
body starts, t = 0. The instantaneous velocity is 0 + 5 = 5
units/sec

The derivative of velocity with respect to time
gives the instantaneous acceleration.

Here dv/dt =
1

The acceleration is constant at 1
units/sec^2.

The required value for velocity
when the body starts is 5 units/sec and the acceleration when the body starts is 1
units/sec^2.

Why is John Proctor unwilling to sign the confession? What is the significance of his "name"?

John Proctor refuses to sign a confession that he served
the devil by practicing witchcraft because it is a lie. He has lost everything--his
home, his family, his community--but he refusesd to give up his good name. When
confronted about having committed adultery, he admits it, even though he is confessing
to having sinned. He does so because he knows that he has done wrong and must suffer the
consequences. But when he is asked to sign the false confession just to end the trials
and punishments, he will not do it. He does not want his sons to grow up with a father
who is labeled a liar or who chose the easy way out when so many of his friends and
neighbors have been killed. Having an honorable name means more to him than living under
a lie. When he says that he is "not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang," he
means it. He would rather die with them than live knowing that they died for
nothing.

In "A Pair of Tickets," a chapter in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, what does the final "it" refer to in these sentences: "It is my family. It is...

At the very end of Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck
Club, one of the characters, Jing-Mei Woo, is finally able to meet her two
long-lost twin sisters, who had had to be abandoned by their mother in China during a
long-ago war. The mother, who had always hoped that her lost daughters would be found
and would be able to meet Jing-Mei (who had been born and raised in America), has in the
meantime died. Jing-Mei, however, is able to come to China with her father and meet the
twins, who very much resemble both their mother and Jing-Mei
herself.

When Jing-Mei first sees the twins and realizes
how much they resemble her mother, she remarks (as the narrator of the
story),

And
now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in
our blood. After all these years, it can finally let
go.

These comments echo the
very beginning of the chapter, where Jing-Mei had discussed her reluctance, as a
thoroughly Americanized high school student, even to think of herself as Chinese despite
her mother’s insistence that being Chinese was part of her fundamental identity. Her
mother at that time had told Jing-Mei that once a person is Chinese, the person cannot
help but feel Chinese emotions and think Chinese
thoughts:

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“Someday you will see. . . . It is in your blood,
waiting to be let
go."

Presumably, then, the
statement that “it can finally be let go” suggests that now that Jin-Mei has met her
sisters, she can experience (and is experiencing) a sense of being Chinese – of being
part of a broader Chinese family. She can “let go” (that is, give free rein to) thoughts
and feelings she had once resisted.  But she can also “let go” (that is abandon) any
sense of conflict between her Chinese identity and her American identity. By seeing,
feeling, and understanding her connection to her sisters, Jing-Mei now feels more fully
connected to her mother as well, and she also feels more at peace with herself. She has
achieved various kinds of integration on various kinds of levels. If the phrase “let go”
suggests a kind of freedom, then, for one of the first times in her life, Jing-Mei feels
fully free to be the kind of person her mother had always insisted she was. By echoing
her mother’s words, Jing-Mei implies a recognition of her mother’s wisdom and a sense of
even greater closeness to her mother than she had already felt.

Administratively, what is the difference between setting up universal health care and providing universal health insurance?

Providing universal health care would require the
government to oversee the operation of all health care facilities and workers;
essentially the entire medical establishment would go on the federal payroll. This would
be a huge undertaking, but has the advantage of potentially equalizing access to good
(or at least uniform) care for everyone.

To provide
universal health insurance is slightly different. In this scenario the medical
establishment would continue to finction as it does now, but would bill a single federal
agency to get paid. One advantage to this from an administrative standpoint is that we
alreay have a system in place -Medicaid and Medicare - which works this way; simply
expanding that to cover everyone is somewhat less complex than setting up universal
care.

How do Brave New World and 1984 come to the same conclusion?The governments create similiar societies using different methods. What conclussion do...

They come to the conclusion that we can be controlled by
the government.  They take different paths to that end.  in 1984, it's all done through
power.  The interrogation of Winston by O'Brien makes this clear.  Thought control,
manipulation of the past (another form of thought control), constant surveillance ---
all these techniques make the people fearful of yet dependent on the
government.

Brave New World does this without power (in the
traditional sense).  They get people to love and choose their slavery.  By encouraging
them to invest their energies in the pursuit of pleasure rather than meaning (sex, the
feelies, soma), they actually deprive them of a personal life (the real enemy --- when
the individual feels, the community reels!) --- but the best part is that the people
willingly buy into this way of life.  The government provides them with the drugs and
other pleasures, and the people willingly become slaves for
them.

Again, if there's one conclusion they come to it's
that we're a lot easier to control than you would think.

As
an editorial comment, I think that our ever increasing dependency on government and
government programs is frightening like their societies.  I hope you read "Brave New
World Revisited" which is included in many Brave New World texts; if not, please do. 
It's an eye opener.

What is the importance of the narrator in Like Water for Chocolate, what is interesting about this type of narrator?

The narrator in Like Water for
Chocolate is an unnamed but presumably female distant niece of the novel's
protagonist, Tita.  It is interesting and somewhat unusual for an author to tell a story
from a first person point-of-view which is not a character directly involved in the
action of the story.  This narrator is important for a couple of
reasons.

Keep in mind that the story itself is told as a
chronicle of family folklore.  The narrator is a modern voice telling a very personal
story of the past. As a result, the unbelievable details in the effects of Tita's
recipes, for example, (referred to stylistically as "magic realism") are not questioned
but rather, accepted as natural and necessary elements to the folklore aspect of the
story.  Additionally, a modern and culturally diverse audience is invited into a more
personal connection to characters who could otherwise remain distant as a result of
cultural differences.

Finally, when, at the very end of the
story, it is finally revealed that Tita's recipes were found by the narrator's mother
among the ruins of the De la Garza family ranch, it is as if this story of folklore
might have stronger elements of truth than fiction.  Just as Tita's spirit will "go on
living" through the recipes, her story will continue to be passed on through a maternal
line.  Despite Tita's original conflict as the youngest daughter of an overbearing
mother and a family tradition prohibiting her from marrying (and being remembered
through her children), she is remembered, and celebrated,
anyway.

To what degree do Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet each receive their "just rewards" in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, it would
seem that several of the primary characters are "punished" by the
end of the play.

Claudius is an easy case to support: he
has murdered his own brother in order to become king. Shocking Elizabethan
sensibilities, he has married his sister-in-law, which is considered an incestuous act,
and he plots to kill Hamlet when he believes that Hamlet is suspicious of Claudius' part
in Old Hamlet's death. Of course, his further attempts to kill Hamlet during the "sword
play," not only bring about the death of everyone involved, including Laertes, but
ultimately bring about Claudius' death as well.

Hamlet is
often considered guilty of indecision: he delays in killing his father's murderer. I
find myself sympathetic to Hamlet's inability to act because he is not sure that the
ghost is really his father, and worries that if he kills the King (a mortal sin), he
will go to hell. However, it is generally felt that Hamlet's failure to act brings about
the death of everyone else, including himself.

Gertrude is
one that I don't believe gets her just rewards. She does marry her
brother-in-law (once again, incest in the minds of the Elizabethan audience), but she is
a woman in a male-dominated society. She provides for herself in marrying her husband's
brother, and is also able to keep an eye on her son, and ostensibly to protect his right
to the throne, as Claudius has no heir. When she learns her new husband is a murderer,
she is sharp enough to keep the knowledge to herself without giving Claudius the idea
that he has been found out: she does this mostly to protect Hamlet, not herself. With
few options open to her, when her husband dies, I believe she does what she can to
protect herself, her future, and most importantly, her son. It is Claudius' murderous
actions that ultimately bring about the death of most of the members of the Danish
court.

Compare and contrast the B-17 and B-29 bombers during World War II as far as their effectiveness and protection.

Both of these bombers were so highly effective that it is
very difficult to say that one or the other was more effective.  This is particularly
the case because they were used in such different ways during the
war.

The B-29, you could say, was more effective because of
its much greater range and its greater payload.  This is, of course, what allowed it to
bomb Japan from as far away as the Mariana Islands.  This is not to say, however, that
the B-17 was not effective.  The B-17 was quite effective for use in the much smaller
distances found in the European Theater.

One of the things
that made the B-17 so effective was its toughness.  This goes to the degree of
protection that it offerred.  The defensive gunnery on the B-17 was formidable, as was
its general ability to continue to fly after having been hit rather severely.  The B-29
was also very effective in protecting its crews.  This was particularly true because of
the fact that it flew so high and so fast.  These capabilities made it very difficult
for Japanese defenses to successfully attack it.

Overall,
both of these bombers were hugely effective.  The B-17 was responsible for the majority
of the weight of bombs dropped by the US in WWII.  The B-29 was the bomber that helped
to end the war with Japan through the "carpet bombing" of Japanese cities.  They were
both highly effective at both attacking the enemy and protecting their own
crews.

Solve the inequality 3(x-2)>4(2x+11)?

We mutiply out of the brackets so that it could be
omitted

3x-6 >
8x+44

3x-8x >50

-5x
>50

Remember, if you multiply or divide an
inequality by a negative number, CHANGE the sign of the equation. (Even college students
make those
mistakes).

x<-10

This
is the solution to the inequality

Writing as an interval
form like what giorigana1976 did was no wrong, but x<-10 is simpler and easier to
understand. Moreover, writing as an internal omits the variable, leaving the teacher
confused about what variable you are solving. Most of all, do what your teacher says and
you would be ok.

can you please tell me the brief notes on the major characters of rape of the lock?

There are four major characters in Alexander pope's
rape of the lock.here the brief notes about
them...

Belinda:The poetic name of Arabella Fermor, an
upper-class English girl. She is a beautiful young woman and vain of her appearance.
Although she is a sweet society girl who loves her spaniel and is normally quite
agreeable, she flies into a horrid rage when Lord Petre snips off one of her treasured
curls.

Lord Petre:A young nobleman, one of Belinda’s
suitors. He admires Belinda so much that he wants one of her curls as a keepsake and
snips it off at a party when she bends her head over a cup. He refuses to return the
curl, and it disappears to become a star.

Spleen:The queen
of bad tempers and the source of detestable qualities in human beings. She supplies
Umbriel with magic substances.

Betty: Belinda’s
maid.

According to the Nyhus Classification of Groin Hernias how a Type II hernia is described as?

A hernia in the groin area, more properly termed an
inguinal hernia, occurs when a a section of the peritoneum, or covering of the
intestines, bulges out through an opening or a tear in the fascia tissue of the external
oblique aponeurosis. A direct hernia may involve retroperitoneal fat being pushed
through the opening in the peritoneal sac, while in an indirect hernia a section of the
intestine is included in the sac. Indirect hernias can become trapped or strangulated, a
complication in which the fascia opening, also known as a fascia ring, pinches the
herniated material and cuts off the blood supply. A patient with a strangulated hernia
is at risk of gangrene.

A number of different hernia
classifications have been developed to describe the various locations and types of
hernias. The Nyhus classification is used commonly in the United States, and is
summarized on Medscape (see link) as follows:

Type 1 is an
indirect hernia with a normal internal ring of fascia

Type
2 is an indirect hernia with an enlarged internal ring of
fascia

Type 3a is a direct inguinal
hernia

Type 3b is an indirect hernia causing posterior wall
weakness

Type 3c is a femoral
hernia

Type 4 represents all recurrent
hernias

In The Hunger Games, how does Peeta stay true to himself during the Games?

Peeta is definitely a character who remains true to his
own principals and beliefs, even in the dangerous and life-threatening environment of
the arena and the Hunger Games, where children are forced into life-and-death
situations. One way that we can see this is the way that Peeta accidentally killed the
girl known as "fox-face" by leaving berries out that were actually poisonous. Note his
reaction to having killed her:

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Not on purpose. Doesn't seem fair somehow. I
mean, we would have both been dead, too, if she hadn't eaten the berries
first.

Peeta is a character
who therefore remains true to his principals and to his emotions throughout the Games.
Even at the beginning, when he makes a rather tenuous treaty with the Career Tributes,
he only does this so that he can be in a position to protect Katniss and help her
survive, which he does at the cost of his own leg.

Is 1:00 AM a reasonable time for police to conduct a search of the room of a registered guest who happens to be on probation?Additionally they...

There are some unknown factors here that make a difference
in assessing whether police actions in this situation were either reasonable or legal. 
The first factor is why the police showed up at that particular hotel room at 1 AM?  It
is most likely they were responding to a complaint or a tip, either by the manager of
the hotel or someone renting another of the rooms there.  When they receive a complaint
specific to anything illegal in a location, a search is not unreasonable, nor would the
time be.

Depending on the state the incident took place in,
courts have often ruled that a hotel room is not the private property of the person
renting it, so the only consent they would need to obtain would be the manager's or the
owner's.  Lastly, it depends on the terms of your probation as to whether or not random
and unannounced searches of your property or person can take
place. 

Just based on what you have stated here, however,
you would have a difficult time proving police malfeasance.  Legally they are required
to identify themselves, but it is difficult to prove when they do not, particularly if
the person making the complaint has prior convictions.

From
West's Encyclopedia of Law:

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Statutes may also identify conditions of
probation. These are actions that a probationer must do or refrain from doing during
probation. Though conditions may be spelled out in statutes, a sentencing judge retains
wide discretion to fashion conditions according to the best interests of both the public
and the defendant. In most states a probationer must not possess a firearm, commit
another offense, or possess illegal drugs during the probation period. Probationers must
also report regularly to a probation officer.

A judge may
place additional conditions on a probationer. For example, if a defendant pleads guilty
to assault, the court may order him to stay a specified distance away from the victim of
the assault. In a conviction for a small amount of marijuana a judge may order the
defendant to complete treatment for drug use. If a probationer violates any condition of
probation, the court may order additional conditions or impose a prison sentence that
does not exceed the maximum term of imprisonment that could have been imposed for the
crime.

How do poetic devices create an overall effect in "Annabel Lee"?

There are plenty of aspects of this tremendous poem that
you could talk about, but you might like to think about the way in which the connection
between the speaker and Annabel Lee is described throughout the poem. Above all, this is
a poem of a love that even death itself cannot separate, and so a key theme is the
nature of their relationship. For example, examine the penultimate stanza and how it
presents their link or bond:

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But our love it was stronger by far than the
love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than
we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down
under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the
beautiful Annabel Lee.

Note
how this stanza consists in a central comparison of the love of the speaker and Annabel
Lee with those who are "older" and "wiser." The comparison serves to emphasise the deep
connection that they have together and the way in which it defies age and wisdom with
its purity and profundity. Likewise, the connection is described as being so strong and
eternal that neighter "angels" nor "demons" can "dissever" their souls. The word
"dissever" suggests that in some way there is a kind of strong link that not even death
can break, indicating the depth of the relationship.

I hope
this gives you some idea of how to begin. You can go back now and examine other stanzas
to identify other techniques and use of diction to support this idea. Good
luck!

Show that : cos 20 + cos 40 + ... + cos 180 = -1

We have to prove that cos 20+cos 40 + ... + cos 180 =
-1

cos 20+cos 40 + ... cos 160 + cos
180

use cos (180 - x) = -cos
x

=> cos(180 - 160) + cos (180 - 140) + ... + cos
160 + cos 180

=> -cos 160 - cos 140 - cos 120 + ...
+ cos 120 + cos 140 + cos 160 + cos 180

canceling the
negative and positive terms we are left with cos
180.

=> cos
180

=>
-1

This proves that cos 20+cos 40 + ... + cos
180 = -1

How does the aunt underestimate the children in Saki's "The Storyteller"? I've read this over and over and I"m not finding the answer.

In "The Storyteller," the aunt underestimates the
children's attention span. She underestimates the children's ability to show interest in
any story. She has tried everything to keep them quiet. She tells them a story of which
they have no interest. The man traveling in the train car with the aunt and three
extremely inquisitive children, to a point of being annoying, inserts that the aunt did
not tell a very good story:

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'You don't seem to be a success as a
story-teller,' said the bachelor suddenly from his
corner.

The aunt, offended,
responds:

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'Perhaps you would like to tell them a story,'
was the aunt's retort.

She
underestimates the children's ability to sit quietly and listen to the bachelor's story.
She could not keep them quiet with her story. She could not keep the children interested
in her story. She underestimates the children's ability to actually become interested in
any story. The aunt thinks the children will react to his story the way they have
reacted to hers. When the bachelor is able to command the children's attention, the aunt
tries to hide her admiration during the bachelor's story
telling:

The
aunt suppressed a gasp of
admiration.

Truly, the aunt
is impressed that the bachelor has maintained command of the children's attention.
However, by the end of the story, she reprimands the bachelor for telling such a story
with such a terrible ending. She insists that his story has been most
improper:

'A
most improper story to tell to young children! You have undermined the effect of years
of careful teaching.'

The
bachelor smugly responds:

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'I kept them quiet for ten minutes, which was
more than you were able to do.'

Were all slaves submissive, "a society of helpless dependents?" Explain.

Of course all slaves were not submissive.  This may have
been the view that scholars held in the early parts of the 20th century, but it is
certainly not a view that is held by any serious scholars
today.

Today, we emphasize that there was a great deal of
resistance on the part of the slaves.  There were the overt sorts of resistance like
running away, but this does not tell the whole story of slave resistance.  Scholars
today emphasize that the vast majority of slaves resisted their masters in more subtle
ways.  For example, it is commonly said that slaves worked slowly, broke tools, and
feigned sickness.  In these ways, slaves used whatever methods they could to resist
their masters.

We no longer speak of slaves as having been
helpless and submissive.  We now emphasize all the ways in which they fought back
against the oppressive system in which they were caught.

I am having trouble writing about Macbeth INITIAL impression in the beginning of the play. I'm not sure how to develop my paragraph?In...

I think you have a great start by introducing the
audience’s impression of Macbeth as relayed by the sergeant. This impression that
Macbeth is a brave soldier, winning the day for his king, is an excellent beginning, and
I like what I see of your writing so far. Remember to include also the mention of
Macbeth in the very brief first scene. Here the witches indicate they will have a
meeting with Macbeth. This first mention of Macbeth hints at something mysterious or
sinister, even evil--certainly supernatural. What would the audience think of the
witches talking about Macbeth? Something is amiss. Is the threat against Macbeth? Why do
the witches expect to meet with him? Is he in danger? Is he in partnership with them?
Because you also have this hint of a threatening connection between the witches and
Macbeth, you can possibly develop a thesis that includes the development of a
double-sided and/or complex characterization of Macbeth.

Are there any clues as to the author’s race and gender in the story "Bloodchild"?

This is an interesting question about a very interesting
story. "Bloodchild" is the story of humans who have been enslaved by aliens far from
Earth. The only hint that a reader might get that the author, Olivia Butler, is African
American is the fact of people's enslavement in a land far from their homeland. Like
slaveholders, the aliens, or Tlic, are both benevolent and wicked. Humans and Tlic can
play together and be friends as children, but as adults they can never be equal; the
Tlic own the humans and do whatever they want with them, even separating families by
giving children to other Tlic to own.

Are there any hints
that the author is a woman? Maybe the fact that the story is about pregnancy and
childbirth is a small clue, but I really don't see anything that would identify the
author as male or female.

I hope this helps
you!

Does the poem "Precious Words" by Emily Dickinson support or negate that a special set of circumstances is required to evoke delight?"Precious...

In regards to Dickinson's poem "He ate and drank the
precious words", special circumstances are needed to evoke
delight.

What Dickinson is illustrating in the poem is that
one must look to objects, concrete things, in order to find delight. The speaker is
illustrating the fact that a man, facing an uncontrollable history, looks to a book
(presumably the Bible) in order to find hope.

Here, the
special set of circumstances is the man's misfortunate past, he is poor and growing old
("his frame was dust"). In order to find peace with his life (delight), the man turns to
the words of a book in order to give him hope and allow him to loosen his
spirit.

Downtrodden by his lack of monetary wealth and his
weakening body, the man looks to "precious words" in order to find the strength to go
on.

Therefore, the man is looking to a specific place ("a
special set of circumstances") in order to find delight in his
life.

in the boy in the striped pyjamas what quote shows an individual doing an action or making a decision to please society? Please please help thank...

Almost every person in this novel has been made to do
something they did not want to do.  When Bruno talks to Maria about how unhappy he is to
have moved to Out With, she tells him,

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Bruno, if you have any sense at all, you will
stay quiet and concentrate on your school work and do whatever your father tells you. 
We must all just keep ourselves safe until this is all over. That's what I intend to do
anyway.  What more can we do than that after all?  It's not up to us to change things." 
(pg 65)

Bruno's father has
taken a job that moves them to Poland.  His wife is unhappy, and his children are
unhappy. But he explains to Bruno,

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"Bruno, sometimes there are things we need to do
in life that we don't have a choice in..... And I'm afraid this is one of them.  This is
my work, important work.  Important to our country.  Important to the Fury. You'll
understand that some day."  (pg
48)

Mother wants to return to
Berlin.  She knows what father's job entails, and it sickens her. She is drinking more
and taking more naps.  She finally asks Father to send them back to Berlin.  Father
replies,

"What
would people think....if I permit you and the children to return to Berlin without me? 
They will ask questions about my commitment to my work here." (pg
187)

When Shmuel is telling
Bruno what happened to his household and his family, he
says,

"I came
home from school and my mother was making armbands for us from a special cloth and
drawing a star on each one..... every time we left the house, we had to wear one of the
armbands." (pg 127)

The pages
I have given are from my edition of the book.  They may vary in your edition, but you
will find them in the general area.

Atticus says at the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird that "this case is as simple as black and white." What does he mean?

Atticus has known since the day he took the case that the
defense of Tom Robinson was not winnable. He tells his brother Jack (in Chapter 9)
that

"The jury
couldn't possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson's word agains the
Ewells'--"

The case boils
down to Tom's word against that of Mayella and Bob Ewell. Although the Ewells are the
"disgrace of Maycomb," they are white and Tom is black, and in 1930s Alabama, the word
of a white person is always believed over that of a black
person.

There is actually a double meaning in Atticus'
"black and white" statement. In one sense, he means that the case is "cut and dried":
The facts seem obvious. Atticus has seemingly proved that Mayella's attacker must have
been left-handed (as is Bob Ewell), and Tom's left arm is crippled. Bob and
Mayella's testimony conflicts with one another, and Mayella changed her story several
times while on the witness stand. Tom seems to tell his story truthfully and his
testimony seems plausible; the Ewells' testimony does not. But, as Atticus knows, the
trial all boils down to a white woman charging a black man with rape, and even Atticus
can't convince this jury to be colorblind in this case.

How does the discovery Chillingworth makes at the end of chapter X alter the relationship between the minister and him? Nathaniel Hawthorne's...

During Hester's interview with Roger Chillingworth of
Chapter IV in The Scarlet Letter, Hester is extremely anxious about
her old husband as she examines his face,

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"Why doest thou smile so at me?" inquired
Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes.  "Art thou like the Black Man that
haunts the forest round about us?  Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the
ruin of my soul?"

"Not thy soul," he answered, with another
smile.  "No, not thine!"

Thus
Hawthorne has foreshadowed the reaction that the physician has when, as Dimmesdale
sleeps, he moves the clothing that has always covered the minister's chest.  As he
stamps his foot on the floor in his Satanic delight, Chillingworth acts as
Satan

comports
himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won into his
kingdom.

Now, Chillingworth
does, indeed, possess the soul of the minister since he knows the secret sin that lies
within Dimmesdale.  This knowlege changes unalterably the relationship of the physician
and his patient.  For, Chillingworth becomes the fiend that holds the secrets of
Dimmesdale's soul, and he can manipulate and torture the minister now.  In Chapter XI,
Hawthorne writes,

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...the intercourse between the clergyman and the
physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it had
previously been. The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path
before it.....Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet
depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led
him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an
enemy.

Like Satan,
Chillingworth intends evil for the man who has provided him with the revelation he has
sought. As he has previously told Hester, "he will be mine," the physician makes plans
for torturing the minister and avenging himself as the cuckolded husband upon
Dimmesdale. Thus, Chillingworth becomes Dimmesdale's most deadly
enemy.

In Wuthering Heights, how does Heathcliff discover that Isabella is attracted to him?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter Ten of
this excellent novel. Isabella, having confessed her feelings in a very petulant manner
to Catherine, then has to endure the shame and embarrassment of Catherine revealing them
openly to Heathcliff when he enters the house soon after to be shown in to a room with
both Catherine and Heathcliff in it. Note how Catherine greets
Heathcliff:

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"Come in, that's right!" excalimed the mistress,
gaily, pulling a chair to the fire. "Here are two people sadly in need of a third to
thaw the ice between them; and you are the very one we should both of us choose.
Heathcliff, I'm proud to show you, at last, somebody that dotes on you more than myself.
I expect you to feel flattered... My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart by
mere contemplation of your physical and moral
beauty."

Thus it is that
Catherine is the one to tell Heathcliff of his ardent admirer. She does this of course
with the chief intention of showing Isabella how ridiculous the idea of her union with
Heathcliff would be, but actually she underestimates Heathcliff and his desire to gain
revenge.

What are four sentences showing the steps toward the resolution of the problem?

The plot of a story is made up of five basic parts:
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.  As part of the
exposition, an initial inciting incident is brought into the story.  This is an initial
conflict that basically gets the ball rolling and starts to make things happen in the
story.  For The Giver, the first important conflict is that Jonas
is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory.

Since you ask
for four sentences, I will break them into the other types of plot after the initial
conflict that lead to the resolution.

The rising action of
the story is Jonas’s first experiences as a Receiver of Memory, when he learns that the
community’s memories will now be stored with him and he begins to see things he has
never known before, such as color.

The climax of the story,
when the conflict comes to its most serious point, is when Jonas watches the Release of
the newborn twin and he realizes that Release means death and the community kills anyone
who does not conform.

The falling action of the story is
when Jonas learns Gabe is to be released and decides enough is enough, and he and The
Giver plan his escape to Elsewhere with Gabe.

The
resolution of the story is a little tricky (because this story has an ambiguous ending),
but Jonas and Gabe either reach Elsewhere or they die in the
snow.

What does Uncle Jack's statement that "Her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination" mean in Chapter 9 of To Kill a...

This quotation is spoken by Atticus' brother, Jack, during
the Finch family's Christmas gathering in Chapter 9 of To Kill a
Mockingbird. Scout had earlier gotten into a fight with her cousin, Francis,
in which she "split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth." Uncle Jack had spanked
Scout, blaming her entirely for the altercation. Later, when Uncle Jack took care of
Scout's wounds in the bathroom after the two had made up, she asked
him,

"What's a
whore-lady?"

It was what
Scout had called Francis earlier, but she had no idea what the term meant; to her, it
was an innocent question. Jack's later statement that "Her use of bathroom invective
leaves nothing to the imagination," simply means that he was astonished at the young
Scout's question about such a demeaning and seemingly adult phrase. ("Invective," by the
way, is defined as the use of an insulting or abusive term.) Jack avoided answering
Scout's question directly, instead telling her a story about Lord
Melbourne.

What roles does judicial review play in our governmental system of checks and balances?

Judicial Review is the power of the Courts to declare Acts
of Congress or the States as well as of the President or other governmental officials to
be contrary to the meaning and intent of the Constitution. There is no specific
provision in the Constitution to provide for Judicial Review, but the power was inferred
by Chief Justice John Marshall in the case of Marbury vs.
Madison.

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The powers of the legislature are defined, and
limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is
written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation
committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to
be restrained? The distinction, between a government with limited and unlimited powers,
is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and
if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too
plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to
it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary
act.

Between these alternatives there is no
middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by
ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts,
is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter
it.

If the former part of the alternative be
true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part
be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to
limit a power, in its own nature
illimitable

[T]he particular phraseology of the
constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be
essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is
void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that
instrument

Since
the judges in this nation are sworn to uphold the Constitution and are bound by its
terms, any act or law found to be violative of the Constitution is unenforceable by the
Courts. The Courts thus have a powerful check on the other branches of the government as
they have the ability to stop their actions completely. Importantly, if the courts
determine that laws or acts violate the Constitution, the Courts decision can only be
reversed by amending the Constitution. There have been many attempts to amend the
Constitution to circumvent Court holdings, but they tend to fail
uniformly.

How could we identify the similarities between Ethan Frome and Willy Loman as tragic heros?

I will answer your question based on traits in order not
to discuss both characters separately in too much detail (which would be two different
questions).

The trait of the tragic hero involves a series
of events that occur to a character who inevitably has to deal with them. There is no
outside control nor help from fate that could prevent a tragic hero from a sad ending.
It simply is as if destiny has chosen to make the character suffer because of a tragic
decision or a tragic flaw.

This being said, Ethan Frome
would perhaps fit the tragic hero characteristics better than Willy Loman. This is
because the tragedy of Ethan Frome is his inability to change his life from a tragic
flaw. He has a series of tragic obstacles that include his diminished financial
resources, the influence of his wife, his lack of freedom, the intense emotion he feels
for Mattie, and, finally, his accident, which leaves him
disabled.

Ethan does not have many options to turn his life
around, nor to start over in a different direction. His biggest tragedy is that he knows
that he has a dream, and that he cannot make it happen no matter how hard he tries. The
accident that he suffers in the end is the best evidence of this: He could not even
complete a suicide- fate wants him to live for the rest of his life in complete and
abject misery.

Contrastingly, Willie Loman at all times has
a chance to give up his dream and go with what he really loves. He has signs all over
the place telling him that he is chasing waterfalls. He is well in charge in his
marriage and even takes in a mistress just to justify his egotism. Willy got what he got
because he basically built his path towards a sad ending, not because something is
hovering about his existence but because of tragic
decisions.

Therefore, metaphysically speaking, Ethan Frome
may the true tragic hero from a flaw, whereas Willy is also a tragic hero but from
decisions.