Discuss how Miller's The Crucible shows the very worst as well the very best in humanity.

I think that power in Miller's work is that the reader is
left stunted between witnessing the best and worst in human beings.  One is not sure
where to go, other than to know that human beings can be capable of "breaking charity"
between human beings and restoring it.  Certainly, the worst of all human connection can
be seen in the actions of Abigail and the girls.  The idea of manufacturing accusations
against targeted people is one of the worst representations of "mean girls" imaginable.
 At the same time, Miller is able to bring out a sense of the pathetic in Abigail.  From
the time she witnessed her parents being murdered as a child, to the fact that Parris
really shows little, if any, guidance and affection towards her, to the ending of her
running away to Boston and rumored to have become a prostitute.  Abigail represents the
worst in humanity.  The girls that follow her such as Mercy Lewis also represent this as
they are the proverbial "sidekick" to Abigail's "Queen Bee."  I would say that the
Putnam's manipulation of the situation in order to consolidate his own wealth and
Danforth's steadfast refusal to see that the court he presides over is guilty of murder
can also embody the moments where the worst in humanity is seen.  The town's lack of
faith, lack of trust, and lack of connection to one another is an instance where the
worst in human beings is on display for all to see.  The shackles and chains that take
Elizabeth away from her husband are symbolic of the constraints on the goodness in the
town's goodness towards one another.

In this abyss of moral
depravity lies some specks of human redemption, as well.  Goody Nurse would be one such
specimen.  She never relents in his beliefs, standing on a threshold that Proctor would
say he himself is not "worth the dust on the feet" of people like her.  Goody Nurse
represents the very best of humanity in how she cares and even until the end, does not
waver in her commitment of social justice and values that breed charity as opposed to
"breaking it."  When Giles Corey utters "More weight" at his pressing, it is a moment
that shows how human beings can transcend their condition, and become symbols for all
that is good and right in their refusal to succumb to the temptation of being less than
what they can be.  Francis Nurse's advocacy  for his wife is poignant and touching,
reflecting how human beings show care for the ones they love at the moments when it is
needed the most.  I would also say that Proctor does represent the very best in humanity
at the end.  The fact that he cares for his name, wishing to teach his boys to "walk
like men," is something that is an example for all to absorb.  In a world that lacks
moral order and structure, Proctor starts this process towards redemption.  It isn't
much, not enough to "weave a banner with," but it is a start. For this, Elizabeth's
words of not "wanting to take" his goodness is a powerful statement for both Salem and
all of us.

How do the characters in Brave New World develop throughout the book? Provide examples.

Most of the characters in Brave New
World are static and flat: they are undeveloped and do not change because
they are born into and conditioned to be in a caste system.  This is especially true of
the female characters, Lenina and Linda, who are superficial, addicted to pleasure, and
have no real sense of identity or femininity.  It is also true of the Director, Mustapha
Mond, and Henry Foster, all of whom seek to protect their positions at the top of the
caste system.

The only two characters who change and are
self-aware are Bernard and John.  Whereas Bernard rebels against the values of the
"utopia" at the beginning, John rebels against them at the end of the novel.  As the
novel progresses, the two switch roles: Bernard loses his courage to rebel, and
John succumbs to the pleasures of "orgy-porgy."  Knowing that he is forever lost in this
new world, John kills himself--becoming a kind of tragic-comic hero.  Of course, Huxley
exaggerates all the behaviors of his characters in order to show the effects of
government mandated birth control, unbridled mass media, addiction to drugs and
pleasure, and the remediation of books as the basis for
education.

Please give a summary of "On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture" by William Cowper.

This very interesting poem is based around, as the title
suggests, the poet receiving a picture of his mother who had recently died. Looking once
again at the image of his mother allows him to process his grief, remembering happy
times he shared with her whilst at the same time dealing with his feelings of loss and
sadness.

The poem opens with the speaker wishing that the
picture of his mother was real and that she could communicate with him. Even though the
picture can't the "meek intelligence" of his mother's eyes comforts him nonetheless. He
uses the power of "Fancy" to believe that the picture is actually his mother, which
gives him an opportunity to talk to her and ask her questions, checking if she was aware
of her son's grief when he heard that she had died. The speaker expresses his desire to
meet his mother "on that peaceful shore" so that he will experience no grief again,
though he does say that in time he learnt "submission" to his grief at having lost
her.

The next section of the poem talks of the passing of
time, and how their family house is now occupied by another family who do not know them.
Even though this house was a "short lived possession," memory of her acts of kindness
lasts a lot longer, and the poet remembers his mother's kindness and love as expressed
when he was a child. The poet reflects that even if he had the chance to turn back time
and have his mother with him again, he would probably not,
saying:

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...what here we call our life is
such,
So little to be lov'd, and thou so much,
That I should ill
requite thee to constrain
Thy unbound spirit into bonds
again.

The last stanza
reflects on the far better existence that his mother enjoys, and also comments on the
way that this poem has allowed the speaker to re-live his childhood joys and to bid her
farewell, thanks to the arrival of the picture. The rhyming couplet that ends the poem
reflects on the way that death has not robbed him of his mother
entirely:

Time
has but half succeeded in his theft—
Thyself remov'd, thy power to sooth me
left.

It may have taken away
his mother from him, but it certainly has not taken away her power which is bequeathed
to the poet.

Who is Antonio in Bless Me, Ultima? I have been reading this book and trying to figure out some traits of this character. All I can think of is...

Antonio
(also called “Tony” and “Anthony”), the main character and protagonist of the novel, is
a six-year-old boy who lives with his family just outside Guadalupe, a small village in
New Mexico.

Antonio is a
seeker, a thinker, and a person of faith...only he doesn't know yet exactly what to
believe. 

He is persuaded by the image of the Virgin Mary
and prefers her over the more confusing male God figures that he has been exposed to. He
also likes the idea of the Golden Carp, but is confused by the stories that surround it,
which, like the Catholic stories he has heard, present a mixture of compassion, love,
and vengeance. 

Antonio is smart - he skips a grade - and
wants to please his family, but he is not sure that he can fulfill the expectations that
his mother and father have for him. They both expect different things from him and he is
uncertain about how to find his way into adulthood while pleasing them
both. 

What is the genre in "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck?I think it's a parable, but i am not sure how.

One reviewer wrote of The Good
Earth:

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Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whlo
cycle of life:  its terror, its passions, its ambition and rewards.  Her brilliant
novel--beloved by millions of readers--is a universal tale of the destiny of
man.

In his essay, "Religious
Beliefs of the Society Depicted in The Good Earth," Brian Aubrey
writes of the progression of Wang Lung's beliefs in the narrative of Pearl S. Buck. 
Aubrey points to the peasant's simple faith in two gods to whom he offers incense when
he first brings his new wife home.  But, with the experiences of Wang Lung, his beliefs,
too, change. 

When, for instance, Wang Lung and his wife
and children experience the Great Famine, Wang Lung loses his faith in anything, much
like Job in the Bible. he accuses "the Old Man in Heaven" of being wicked.  When he goes
to a temple, Wang Lung spits in the face of the icons.  And, after Wang Lung and his
family finally return from the life in the city during the Great Famine, Wang Lung
believes in only one thing:  the power of the land. Because he has retained some
property, he is able to become successful again.  And, he can buy more land.  However,
as he grows older, Wang Lung finds again some faith in the gods.  As his grandchild is
about to be born, Wang Lung visits a temple to pray that he will have grandson and tries
to barter with the gods.

Ironically, his life runs parallel
to his religious beliefs.  When he has faith in his land, it produces for him, and he
lives well.  After the Famine, Wang Lung loses his faith, like Job.  Finally, in the
end, he seeks to bargain with the gods; however, in so doing, he errs as his sons have
this same bargaining attitude about the land.  They feel it, too, can be bartered, and
they talk of selling one field and another.  It is then that Wang Lung understands.  He
calls to the sons, entreating them to never sell the land, for it will be the "end of a
family."  His sons hold him and assure him they will not, but over him "they look at
each other and smile."

Truly, then, Wang Lung's life has
been a parable with its moral lession that one must live one's beliefs or no child will
undertake them.

Can someone help me with an outline for a critical literary analysis for "Hills like White Elephants," by E Hemingway?i need something to put into...

I see from your tags that your focus for this essay is
symbolism.  Indeed, Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants," is rich in symbolism.
 First of all, you need a thesis statement.  Once you have decided on a thesis, the rest
of your outline becomes much easier to complete.  Your thesis might be something like
the following:

Hemingway's symbolism in "Hills like White
Elehants" not only reveals the subject of the couple's discussion, but also the choice
that they ultimately make.

With a thesis such as this one,
you can complete your outline.  The following is only a
suggestion:

I.  The title as
symbol

A.  "White Elephants" symbolizes change in
relationship (Look when the girl first mentions the "white
elephants.")

B.  "White Elephants" refers to the unwanted
baby (A "white elephant" sale is one in which people get rid of their unwanted
junk.)

II. Setting as symbol

A.  Railroad, situated between a dry valley on one side and a fertile one on the other
symbolizes choice

B. Unshaded, dry land symbolizes
death

C. Fertile land symbolizes life and
fertility

And you can go on from here with other
symbols such as the couple's luggage that symbolizes their past and the Anis del
Toro--the drink that the girl orders, whose bitter taste may symbolize the change in
their relationship.

Hi..I need help in writing an essay specifically on language used in the Romantic period by the romantic poets.

The authors of the Romantic period were heavily influenced
by their dislike of the preceding literary movement (The Age of Reason). Historically,
any movement which exists comes about given a disagreement with the works of a current
period. The Romantics did not like the generalizations and instructive aspects of the
Realists. Therefore, the Romantics focused upon the importance of feelings, imagination,
and intuition.

With this, the Romantics centred their
writings around nature given, for many of the authors, nature evoked deep feelings which
were perfect for the ways in which they wished to write while focusing on imagination
and intuition.

To explicate an essay on the Romantics (for
example), you could find different examples of authors and how they used nature to
explore the abstract ideas of the imagination, feelings, and
intuition.

A few good authors to look at in regards to
these characteristics are: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Blake, and Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.

In the play, Death of a Salesman, discuss and analyze willy Loman.

Willy is a complex character. A man of great pride, Willy
strives to realize a goal that is beyond his ability to reach. Willy's brother Ben
stands as an example of the type of success that Willy has no chance to
achieve. 

Despite his limits, Willy is a person of some
talent. He is a gifted carpenter and a hard worker. Despite these positive traits, Willy
is also unfaithful to his wife. He is too weak to overcome his deficiencies and to weak
to directly admit to his faults. 

If his story is a
tragedy, it becomes one because Willy:

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...cannot face the reality that he has
misdirected his energies and talents chasing a dream that never had any chance of
materializing.

On a deep and
fundamental level, Willy is delusional. He hallucinates and in this manifests
conversations with this brother Ben. He is "twisting in the wind" of his own mind,
unable to accept his flaws and unable to maintain a firm grip on reality. Willy seems to
be driven to this mental state by the stress of age, job trouble and basic but
deep-seated disappointment. 

Though he has paid off his
house and raised two childre, Willy fails to see any success in his life. His dream, so
bright and impressive, overshadows the moderate successes he has actually
achieved.

Water is one of the few substances with a solid form that is less dense than its liquid form. Descride what would happen to a small lake if...

Let's start by defining "dense" in scientific terminology.
"Density" means "the mass of a unit volume of some material." In the case of your
problem, the unit volume we're discussing is the amount of H2O contained in the small
lake. In a liquid form, H2O is called water. In a solid form, H2O is called
ice.

In your problem, you are imagining that ice (the solid
form) is more dense than water (the liquid form). As the more dense substance, the ice
would have a higher specific gravity. If the top one inch of water in the lake froze and
became ice, that top one inch of ice would become more dense than the water below it.
Because of that greater density, the ice would sink down into the less dense, still
liquid water below it.

In reality, the solid form of H2O is
less dense than the liquid form. That's why ice floats on top of the lake as lake water
freezes.

the history of information management in healthcarei got to do a 10 to 12 slide presentation

The increasing demand for health and social services, due
to the rise in the proportion of the elderly people requiring
care.

The increasing expectations of citizens for reduction
of inequalities, access to quality-assured and evidence-based care
services

The complexity of caring for people with acute and
chronic disease problems

The requirement to limit
healthcare costs and to optimize resource utilization, while providing the best possible
healthcare under limited budgetary conditions

The need to
reduce the unacceptable rates of medical errors and their significant impact on patient
safety .The increasing mobility of
patients

Inevitably, all of these factors have
influenced significantly over the years the health care industry and particularly the
ways in which healthcare organizations operate. Healthcare organizations, just like
other business entities, are information-intensive enterprises, generating on a daily
basis huge volumes of data from many different units such as clinics, laboratories,
surgeries, administrative offices, and so on. Yet, much of this data continues even
today to be processed manually is spite of decades of experience in the successful
application of Information Technology (IT) in other information-intensive industries. At
the same time, the health care industry has become significantly specialized and
complex. The electronic health record has a wide range of names and labels
including,Electronic Patient Record, Electronic Medical Record, Continuity of Care
Record or PatientMedical Record Information. While the different labels can denote
slight changes in the scope, the content, and the use of the record, the core role of
this central ITC tool remains the same: to enable comprehensive documentation of the
care provided to any citizen, and to make the right information available to the right
healthcare providers at the right time.

Does the poem "House Fear" by Robert Frost suggest that people often enjoy being frightened?"House Fear" by Robert Frost

In my opinion, I don't think so. The people in the poem
have developed a routine that they follow when returning home to a dark house in the
night that prevents them from being frightened or surprised. They do continue to return
to the house, even after they apparently have been frightened often enough to have
developed their pattern of actions to prevent the scare, but that may indicate that they
have no other place to go rather than that they enjoy being frightened. If the people
enjoyed being frightened, I don't think they would follow the same steps every time they
came home and prepared to enter the house, with the understanding that those steps would
allow "whatever might chance to be" to leave the house before they
entered.

The arc of the parabola y=1/4(x-2)^2 + 1 from the point (2,5) to the point (4,2).length of arc of the graph of the function additional applications...

Length = integral(sqrt(1+(y')^2) dx, a,
b)

y' = 1/4 * 2(x-2) =
1/2(x-2)

(y')^2 =
1/4(x-2)^2

1+(y')^2 = 1/4(x-2)^2 + 1 = 1/4(x^2 - 4x + 4) +
1 = 1/4(x^2 - 4x + 8)

so Length =
integral(1/2sqrt(x^2-4x+8), -2, 4)

use t = (x-2) +
sqrt((x-2)^2 + 4)) and substitute

1/2 integral(sqrt(x^2 -
4x + 8)
= ln (x - 2 + sqrt(x^2-4x+8)) - (1/2)sqrt(x²-4x+8) + (1/4) x
sqrt(x²-4x+8)

evaluate at x = 4 we get
= ln( 4 -
2+sqrt(16 - 16 + 8))-1/2 sqrt(16 - 16 + 8) + 1/4 (4)(sqrt(16-16+8)
= ln(2 +
sqrt(8)) - 1/2 sqrt(8) + sqrt(8))
= ln(2 + sqrt(8)) + 1/2
sqrt(8))
= ln(2 + 2sqrt(2)) + sqrt(2)

evaluate at
x = -2 we get

= ln( -4 + sqrt(4 + 8 + 8)) - 1/2 sqrt(4 + 8
+ 8) + 1/4(-2)sqrt(4 + 8 + 8)
= ln(-4 + sqrt(20)) - 1/2 sqrt(20) + -1/2
sqrt(20)
= ln(-4 + 2sqrt(5)) - sqrt(20)
= ln(-4 + 2sqrt(5)) - 2
sqrt(5)

So our answer is
ln(2+2sqrt(2)) +
sqrt(2) - ln(-4 + 2sqrt(5)) + 2sqrt(5)
= ln(2sqrt(2)+2) - ln(2sqrt(5) - 4) +
sqrt(2) + 2sqrt(5)

Please provide a timeline of important events in Frances Hodgson Burnett's story, The Secret Garden.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson
Burnett describes Mary Lennox who lives in India. She is a miserable and unattractive
girl. Cared for by servants because her mother ignores her, Mary is a bossy,
self-centered and wretched nine-year old.

Mary's life
drastically changes when cholera breaks out. Her parents and many in the household die.
Few people know of her existence, so she fends for herself until she is found; she stays
with an English "clergyman" and his family (and she isn't nice to them). Eventually she
is sent to live in England.

Mary arrives at gloomy
Misselthwaite Manor. When she tries to order one of the servants, Martha Sowerby, Mary
has met her match: Martha will not give in to Mary's whims. She is amazed that Mary
can't even dress herself—but Martha will not do it for her. Martha believes that Mary
can learn to take care of herself and become more independent. Soon Mary and Martha come
to an understanding.

It is from Martha that Mary learns of
the secret garden that no one enters. It was here that Mary's uncle, Archibald Craven,
once spent long hours with his wife. However, it has been shut for ten years, and with
this mystery, Mary begins to search. In searching for the garden, she will come to find
herself. Through Martha, Mary meets Dickon (Martha's brother), a boy who loves
animals. Mary begins to thrive.

Mary runs into the
gardener, Ben Weatherstaff, who though initially unfriendly, finds Mary acceptable when
a robin in the garden takes a liking to her. He is reticent to speak of the garden, but
admits that Mrs. Craven even cared for her flowers. When a tree
branch broke, she fell and soon died; and although Ben promised to care for the garden,
Craven refuses. The door is locked, the key buried and no one speaks of it. Craven is
destroyed by his wife's death.

Mary searches for the
garden. At night she hears a voice crying, but is told it's "the wind." Spring comes and
Mary is out in the gardens each day. The robin leads Mary to find a key, and when ivy
moves with the wind, a door is revealed: the key opens the door and Mary enters the
secret garden. The garden is a mess, but Ben, unaware of her discovery, tells her how to
care for roses. She finally meets her uncle who gives her permission to garden anywhere
she chooses.

That night, during a storm, she hears a crying
child. Mary finds Colin, her cousin, bedridden and lonely. He acts as Mary did when
she arrived. His father will not visit him because he looks so much
like his mother. The doctor, Craven's cousin, will inherit if Colin dies, so he does
little to help Colin, but a London doctor says Colin is fine. Mary tells Colin about a
secret garden and Dickon, and Colin begins to improve. When Mary learns that Colin fears
an early death, she convinces him that he can walk and be well if he will try. Mary and
Dickon take Colin to the garden. Over time, Colin walks, and the children become great
friends. They keep the garden a secret—when Ben finds them, Colin orders him to do the
same.

One day, in a foreign place, Colin's father dreams of
Lilias, his dead wife, who says she is in the garden. His heart lightens. Dickon's mom
(who knows their secret) writes and urges Craven to come home. When he does, he visits
the garden first, and as the door opens, a healthy boy runs into him: both Colin and his
dad are amazed to see how each has changed. Colin welcomes his father into the garden as
they rediscover each other—in the garden the children have
resurrected.

____ characterizes Postmodernism, in which a number of styles and trends exist simultaneously.

Postmodernism is a movement which began in the social
sciences, arts and humanities just after the second world war. Although various
postmodernisms differ in intellectual heritage and theoretical perspective, they share
in common a sceptical attitude towards the knowability or even existence of any uniform
objective realities or criteria of truth, but instead insist on radical relativism.
Another shared characteristic of various postmodernisms is that they respond to what
Richard Rorty refers to as the "Linguistic Turn", in which language is seen not merely
as a tool of an intellectual discipline but constituative of the modes of disciplinary
knowledge.

In the arts, postmodernist works and criticism
are characterized by self-referentiality. Rather than the artist being an invisible
creator, often the artist intrudes into the work or the experience of the audience, and
the work itslef, rather than attempting to seamlessly portray a subject, often contains
jarring references to or commentaries on its own artificiality, in the form of visible
structural elements in qrchitecture, intrusive narration in fiction, or the breaking of
the illusion of the proscenium arch in Brecht.

The major
philosophical systems of postmodernism divide into the "high theory" or metaphysics of
Derrida, Lyotard, Heidegger and Baudrillard, the more historical work of Foucault
and Jameson, and the Anglo-Saxon neo-pragmatism of Rorty and
Fish.

Explain the following quote from The House on Mango Street: "Maybe the sky didn't look the day she fell down."

For Esperanza, there is a symbolic power and connection to
the sky and the clouds.  This is something repeated often.  The sky/ clouds represents
the transcendental power that can overcome the conditions of the present tense.  The
"clouds in the wind" represents a form of change that overcomes all obstacles.  This
speaks to Esperanza because she wishes to enter a realm where she can change and
transform, without having to endure the difficulties of her current state, filled with
contingencies that limit her and constrain her sense of identity.  In this idea, the sky
and clouds are representative of both change and the power of the divine to facilitate
such change.  The fact that her name represents "hope" is another part of this identity
that seeks to find redemption and a sense of totalizing change in the sky/
clouds.

In discussing the death of her aunt, it is the
first time that the force of death has to be weighed into Esperanza's conception of
self.  This means that somehow, death, its finality, and its lack of coherent
explanation has to be integrated into a setting of why reality is the way it is.  To
this end, the statement of the sky being absent or silent in the death of Esperanza's
aunt is a way to explain death.  In Esperanza's understanding, the presence of God, the
sky and the clouds, represents benevolence.  The presence of conditions that are sad,
such a death, would then be only able to appear because these forces of grace and
benevolence are absent.  It is to this end that the quote brings out the idea that
sadness, death, and suffering comes about when "the sky didn't look."  When the forces
of benevolence are absent from one's life, the forces of negation are able to wreak
havoc.

Solve log2(x) that's base 2 and base 3.I tried using change of base w/ ln and then multiplying by ln2ln3 but I'm not sure where to...

First, you need to create matching bases to both
logarithms:

log a (x) = log b (x)/log b
(a)

log3(x) = log2(x)/log2 (3) => log2(x) =
log3(x)*log2 (3)

The inequality will
become:

log3(x)*log2 (3) -
log3(4x-5)

But log2 (3) = lg3/lg2 =
0.4771/0.3010=1.585

1.585log3(x) - log3(4x-5) >
1

log3 (x^1.585) - log3(4x-5) >
1

Since the bases are matching, we'll use quotient
rule:

log3 (x^1.585/(4x-5)) >
1

We'll write 1 as log3
(3)

x^1.585/(4x-5) >
3

(x^1.585 - 12x + 15)/(4x-5) >
0

Both numerator and denominator must be positive or
negative, to keep the fraction positive.

The denominator is
positive for x>5/4

according to Erickson how can conflict in the first stage of development be resolvedtrust v mistrust

The first stage within Erikson's theory of psychosocial
development occurs from birth to approximately one year of age and is known as trust vs.
mistrust. During this stage, an infant experiences the conflict of whether to trust or
to not trust that his or her caregiver(s) will take care of his or her needs. This
particular conflict can be resolved in two different ways. The first, more desirable,
way is that the infant learns to trust his or her caregiver(s) once the infant
experiences his or her needs being met on a consistent basis. The less desirable outcome
is that the infant develops a sense of mistrust due to his or her caregiver(s) being
emotionally unavailable or not providing consistent care. Although there are two ways to
resolve the conflict of this stage, the successful resolution results in the infant
developing a sense of trust.

How is the manner in which Colonel Gaddafi covers up his treachery similar to that of Macbeth in Shakespeare's play?

In particuluar by comparing Gaddafi and Macbeth, we see
some stark similarities. There is no question that both men are reprehensible,
tryannical leaders.

One way these two figures are similar
is found in the secretive way that they arrange for and support the annihiliation of
those who stand in their way. In the case of the Libyan leader Gaddafi, his intent has
been to disrupt regions in West Africa, trying to start an uprising. For some
"disgruntled West Africans," as well as...

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...[t]he men who led the war on Sierra Leone —
former Liberian leader and warlord, Charles Taylor and Sierra Leone’s rebel leader,
Foday Sankoh, and The Gambian Fugitive, Kukoi Samba
Sanyang...

Gaddafi has
quietly arranged for their training in guerilla warfare. Additionally, enormous amounts
of financial support were supplied to the factions trying to overthrow the government of
Sierra Leone, with funds also secretly provided by Gaddafi. The monstrous reality of who
Gaddafi truly is, has been hidden behind a front concealed by "his so-called positive
gestures, such as his abandoning of WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] programs." (This
was a step that he never actually
took.)

In looking at the character of Shakespeare's
Macbeth, this tyrant is also secretive about what he does. (Of
course, first he murders Duncan and places the blames on the King's guards, who Macbeth
kills in a "remorseful distress" because he was so overcome by Duncan's
murder.)

However, more closely aligned to Gaddafi's reign
of terror, Macbeth also sets about destroying those loyal to Duncan
(specifically Banquo) by arranging to have people murdered. In
arranging Banquo's death, Macbeth makes excuses to the murderers that
he cannot be involved because of the political ties Banquo has a
court, which is only a part of the lie he feeds this unfortunate men. Macbeth
also blames the poverty-stricken circumstances his hirelings must
face each day to survive on Banquo, when the truth is that Macbeth
is truly to
blame.

MACBETH:

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Well then, now

Have
you consider'd of my speeches? Know

That it was [Banquo],
in the times past, which held you

So under fortune, which
you thought had been

Our innocent self?
(III.i.80-84)

In these ways,
Macbeth arranges for the murder of the one man who knows about the witches predictions,
who is also noble and completely loyal to Duncan. Secretly, Macbeth carries out the
murder of Banquo (though the murderers cannot catch his son,
Fleance).

However, as is the case with Gaddafi, it does not
take long for those around each man to realize that "fair is foul and foul is fair"
(I.i.11). In other words, that which (or he who) seems good
outwardly, can actually represent evil beneath the surface. In Act Three, scene four,
Lennox begins by recounting how decent men, finding themselves too
close to Macbeth, have ended up dead. And while others may agree with Lennox, they must
be careful for what they say, while Macbeth has tried to hide his treachery by blaming
others for misdeeds carried out—he blames Duncan's death on the guards who "must" have
been working for Malcolm and Donalbain. (Lennox knows in his heart that if Macbeth was
ever to get ahold of the King's sons, even for a short time, some calamity would befall
them.) Macbeth even blames Fleance for killing Banquo. Macbeth's people know that this
tyrant's heart is black, as do those in Serria Leone and around the world with regard to
Muammar Gaddafi.

According to statements made in The Grapes of Wrath, what importance is anger in overcoming fear?

I think that anger is a necessary condition for social
change.  Steinbeck makes it very clear that anger is what allows social solidarity to
happen.  It is anger that changes what is into what can or should be.  Anger is the
motivating force, but Steinbeck argues that in order for it to be relevant and useful,
it must be directed towards some productive end.  Anger for its own sake is something
that is not seen as breeding social change, but rather enabling individual alienation. 
Jim Casy is an example of how anger can be productive.  Casy is angry at how the worker
is being mistreated by those in the position of power, and he channels his anger into
working with those who need his help.  Tom Joad is angry when he sees what his family
endures and in the critical moment when Casy is beaten and killed.  Through reflection,
he understands that his anger will be best served if he is able to carry out Casy's work
and broaden social solidarity in the name of transforming what is into what should be. 
For Steinbeck, anger is the key to bringing hope and redemption into the world. 
Steinbeck believes that when people get angry enough to demand and to fight for change,
it is here where they will be able to transform their reality.  This becomes the
critical statement that the work makes about anger.

After examining Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, explain how Sophocles' ordering of events makes for an effective play.

This is an important question, since it implies a
distinction between a chronological narrative and a
plot. A chronological narrative merely reports
a sequence of events in the order in which they occurred.  Almost anyone can write such
a narrative. A plot, however, is the design a writer imposes on
such a bare narrative. Only talented writers can construct truly effective plots, as
Sophocles does in Oedipus Rex. Here is a brief account of the
chronological narrative from which Sophocles constructed his
plot:

• Laius, king of
  Thebes, is told by an oracle that when he has a son, the son will eventually kill
  him.


• When Laius does indeed have a son, he orders a
  servant to take the child into the countryside and kill
  him.


• The servant takes the child into the countryside but
  does not kill him. The baby is instead taken to the king of Corinth, who raises the boy
  as his own son. Oedipus grows up thinking that this king is his real
  father.


• When Oedipus becomes a man, he consults an
  oracle, who foretells that Oedipus will kill his own father and marry his own
  mother.


• Not wanting to kill his supposed parents, Oedipus
  leaves Corinth. While on the road, he argues with a stranger (Laius, king of Thebes) and
  kills him. He has thus unwittingly fulfilled one aspect of the oracle’s
  prophecy.


• Nearing Thebes, Oedipus meets the mysterious
  Sphinx, who poses a riddle to him that no one else has been able to solve. Oedipus
  solves the riddle, thereby freeing Thebes from the sickness and misfortunes imposed by
  the Sphinx.


• The grateful people of Thebes make Oedipus
  their king (since Laius, their previous king, has recently been killed by a stranger).
  Oedipus also marries Jocasta, the widow of Laius (thereby fulfilling the second of the
  oracle’s prophecies).


• Later, when new disease descends
  upon Thebes, Oedipus vows to discover its cause. An oracle instructs that the disease
  will not disappear until the murderer of Laius is found. Oedipus vows to discover the
  murderer’s identity (not realizing that he himself is the killer he
  seeks).


• Tiresias, a prophet, warns Oedipus not to pursue
  the matter. Oedipus chooses to seek a solution
  nonetheless.


• A messenger from Corinth reveals that the
  king of Corinth has recently died. Oedipus thus assumes that the prophecy that he would
  kill his own father was false.


• Further investigation
  reveals to Oedipus, however, that the child raised by the king of Corinth was Oedipus
  himself.


• Jocasta, understanding what has happened, leaves
  the stage and commits suicide.


• Oedipus thus learns the
  true story of his past and realizes that he has indeed killed his father and married his
  mother.


• Oedipus discovers the suicide of his mother /
  wife and, in grief, blinds himself. He then leaves Thebes, accompanied by his daughter,
  Antigone.

A play could easily be written that
presents the details of the story in precisely this chronological order.  The
plot of such a play would thus coincide with the
chronological narrative. Sophocles, however, chose a more
sophisticated and effective rearrangement, so that the audience learns the complicated
and devastating truth of the matter along with Oedipus himself. In the play's opening
lines, Oedipus has no idea why Thebes is plagued:

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OEDIPUS
My children, latest generation
born from Cadmus,
why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks
in
supplication to me, while the city
fills with incense, chants, and cries of
pain?

Only as the play ends
will he discover that he is the cause of Thebes' suffering.

What is the first rebellion in Animal Farm about (causes and what it was)?

If by the first rebellion, you mean when the animals
rebelled against Farmer Jones, the cause was a build-up of years of mistreatment of the
animals capped by an extended period of starvation where Jones preferred to get drunk
and be lazy to feeding his animals.

Old Major (who
symbolizes Karl Marx) planted the seed of rebellion a good deal of time earlier when he
presented his "dream" of a world where all animals were equal to the other animals. In
his speech, Old Major chronicled how the humans didn't produce, yet took the fruits of
the animal labor. He also reminded the animals of the cruelty of man that he would steal
the animal's children and slaughter the animals when they were too old to work for him
anymore. The rebellion song, "Beasts of England" riled the animals up to think
revolt...which they finally did on that fateful night when Jones refused to feed
them.

So "what it was" about was the animals banding
together, deciding that they no longer wanted to be controlled by an outside
entity...and rising up and defeating the current government...later replacing it with
their form of citzens-as-equals government called "animalism".

How is hatred between Orlando and Oliver transformed to love through forgiveness in As You Like It, and how can we relate this to today's situations?

In Act III, scene i, we learn that Duke Frederick wants
revenge against Orlando. He orders Oliver to seek out Orlando and return him to the
court. If Oliver fails, Frederick will dispossess him of everything he owns and be
prevented from earning a living in the kingdom. The last we see of Oliver until Act IV,
scene iii, is that he swears he never loved Orlando as he undertakes to obey the duke's
orders to find him:

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OLIVER
O that your highness knew my
heart in this!
I never loved my brother in my
life.

When next he appears,
we learn how Oliver's hatred toward Orlando is transformed into love. In a flashback, he
tells Celia and Rosalind, as Aliena and Ganymede, with "this bloody napkin" in his hand,
how he encountered Orlando and how he was saved by Orlando from a hungry lioness in the
forest. Following their reunion, which was washed in purifying tears, "from the first to
last betwixt us two / Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed," Duke Senior
blessed their reunion and their mutual forgiveness of each other since their life and
death experience had transformed their hatred to love through courage and sacrifice
leading to forgiveness. Oliver says of "the gentle
duke":

[He]
gave me fresh array and entertainment,
Committing me unto my brother's
love;

Frankly, it's hard to
know how this example might relate to today's world-wide situation because the catalyst
for igniting love from Oliver toward Orlando and for reawakening early love from Orlando
toward Oliver was impending death under the claws of a hungry lioness, which led to
courage and self-sacrifice from Orlando. Previously, when Orlando first recognized
Oliver, after the snake slithered away from his throat, Orlando had no desire to aid
him.

It was a battle of moral conscience--which weighed the value of
human life in the face of danger against the value of animosity and enmity--that led to
Orlando's decision. A great impetus was needed for Orlando to choose on the side of
humanity and turn his back upon his personal perspective. From this, the supposition can
be suggested that without such life and death circumstances and such courage and
self-sacrifice, ingrained hatred cannot be cast out. The simple answer, however, is that
 Orlando and Oliver's situation applies today by showing that the battle of moral
conscience must give the victory to valuing humanity above valuing personal sentiment
and embitterment.

Why was the egalitarianism found in the Declaration of Independence considered hypocritical by some?

You are certainly right about the idea that slavery shows
the hypocrisy of the Declaration of Independence.  After all, the man who was the main
author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, was a major slave owner who never freed his
slaves.  A person who could write that "all men are created equal" while enslaving human
beings is, by our standards, hypocritical.

I would also
encourage you to think about the status of women in American society at that time. 
While women were not enslaved, they were deprived of many of the rights that women take
for granted today.  This went beyond just lacking the right to vote.  Women were often
not allowed to own property or to enter into contracts or to do many other things that
adults are supposed to be able to do.

So, the men who wrote
and signed the Declaration were talking about equality for all, but they were (you can
argue) being hypocritical.  They were willing to demand equality for themselves while
denying it to others.

What is the relationship between the opulence and granduer of the World Fair and the poverty and degradation that surrounded it?After the...

Erik Larson's historical book The Devil in the
White City recounts the events leading up to the Chicago World's Fair in the
late 1800s. It is a story of contrasts, as evidenced first by the title. The Fair was
known as the White City, as it was both literally white and a shining example of the
best America and the world had to offer. In contrast is the devil in the person of
Holmes, committing foul acts mere blocks from the monument to
greatness.

Your question points out more contrasts. The
quote you cite refers specifically to the "before" and "after" of the Fair, and it is
true that once the Fair was over and the visitors all left, there was little of the
grandeur remaining. In other words, the opulence of the Fair did not have an elevating
or enduring effect on anything around it.

This is not an
uncommon phenomenon. The only modern thing we have which might compare is the Olympics,
and it is well documented that once the Olympics are over, there is nothing particularly
positive left behind in the host city. The buildings and other facilities are not
generally useful and fall into disrepair, and the areas near the sites are certainly in
no better shape--and often worse for all the traffic and activity--than before. On a
personal note, I was in Greece the summer after the Athens Olympics, and I heard many
stories from shop owners as well as individuals that it was not worth it for them to
have had the Olympics in their city. Too much money and energy spent on something which
only benefited the visitors and left the Athenians in worse shape than before the
Olympics. The event prospered, but the people around it and built it did
not.

Chicago was not a rich city, and the harsh conditions
of weather, crime, and just plain living took a serious toll on the people who lived
there. It was a city on the verge of becoming what it is today, but at the time it was
no place for the fainthearted to live. The World's Fair in Chicago was built primarily
by people who needed work; however, once the Fair was built, the work was gone and the
conditions of these laborers remained the same.

The
contrast is between the extravagant and lavish White City which the world came to see
and the place around it which was still relatively undeveloped: muddy and dirty and
miserable. All the glorious innovations displayed at the Fair promised a bright future;
in contrast was the squalor and deprivation of the present. In other words, America's
image and standing in the world increased after the Chicago World's Fair, but the living
conditions and quality of life for the residents of Chicago did not--at the
time--improve. It's hard to say that things did not get better for Chicago in the long
term, given the city's stature today; however, at the time it must have been
disheartening for Chicagoans to walk through their muddy, smelly streets and see those
gleaming towers of white mocking their squalor.

Please give a summary of "Ode on Melancholy" by Keats.

The "Ode to Melancholy" belongs to a class of
eighteenth-century poems that have some form of melancholy as their theme. Such poetry
came to be called the "Graveyard School of Poetry" and the best-known example of it is
Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard." The romantic poets inherited this
tradition. One of the effects of this somber poetry about death, graveyards, the brevity
of pleasure and of life was a pleasing feeling of
melancholy.

Keats' special variation on the theme was to
make the claim that the keenest experience of melancholy was to be obtained not from
death but from the contemplation of beautiful objects because they were fated to die.
Therefore the most sensuous man, the man who can "burst Joy's grape against his palate
fine," as Keats put it in a striking image, is capable of the liveliest response to
melancholy. Keats' own experience of life and his individual temperament made him
acutely aware of the close relationship between joy and sorrow. His happiness was
constantly being chipped away by frustration. He was himself a very sensuous individual.
In the "Ode to Melancholy," Keats, instead of rejecting melancholy, shows a healthy
attraction toward it, for unless one keenly experiences it, he cannot appreciate
joy.

The abruptness with which "Ode to Melancholy" begins
is accounted for by the fact that the stanza with which the poem begins was originally
the second stanza. The original first stanza was

Though you
should build a bark of dead men's bones,
And rear a phantom gibbet for a
mast,

We don't know why Keats rejected this original
beginning stanza, but we can guess. He was straining to create images of death that
would convey something of the repulsiveness of death — to give the reader a romantic
shudder of the Gothic kind — and what he succeeded in doing was repulsive instead of
delicately suggestive and was out of keeping with what he achieved in the rest of the
poem. Moreover, he may have felt that two stanzas on death were more than enough. The
stanza is crude and Keats realized it.

The stanza with
which Keats decided to begin the poem is startling, but not crude. Keats brought
together a remarkable collection of objects in the stanza. Lethe is a river in the
classical underworld. Wolfsbane and nightshade are poisonous plants. The yew-berry is
the seed (also poisonous) of the yewtree, which, because it is hardy and an evergreen,
is traditionally planted in English graveyards. Replicas of a black beetle were
frequently placed in tombs by Egyptians; to the Egyptians, the scarab or black beetle
was a symbol of resurrection, but to Keats they were a symbol of death because of their
association with tombs. The death-moth or butterfly represented the soul leaving the
body at death. The owl was often associated with otherworldly symbols because of its
nocturnal habits and its ominous hooting. Death is the common denominator of the
displays in Keats' museum of natural history. The language of the stanza is vastly
superior to that of the discarded stanza. Nothing in it can compare with calling
nightshade the "ruby grape of Proserpine," the queen of the underworld, nor with making
a rosary of yew-berries and thereby automatically suggesting prayers for the dying or
the dead. The stanza is one of the richest and strangest in Keats'
poetry.

In what ways is Marcus Brutus a villain in Julius Caesar?I would like some points that prove that Brutus is a villain and if you could some...

Julius Caesar is a unique play
because the line between good and evil is jagged and unclear.  When I teach this play to
my class, it is usually about a 50-50 split between those who think Antony is the good
guy and those who think Brutus is the honorable one.

Those
who see Brutus as the villain tend to fault Brutus for being gullible and so easily
manipulated.  He falls for Cassius' ploy to kill Caesar unable to see the personal
vendetta attached to Cassius' efforts.

Others fault Brutus
for his lack of loyalty.  Caesar had been one of his closest friends for a long time. 
Some people can't jusify stabbing one's friend in the back, no matter what the reason. 
They are further repulsed by the way Brutus bathes his hands in Caesar's blood almost
immediately after the slaying.  They find it a gory act, void of any loyalty or
honor.

{6,8,12,3,5,10-x,10+x,10} Given that the set of numbers has a unique mode, find the possible values of x.

The mode of a given set of values is one that is repeated
the most often. The values given are {6,8,12,3,5,10-x,10+x,10} and there is a unique
mode. I assume you are looking only for values of x such that the values in the set
remain positive.

Let's see which of the values satisfy the
fact that there is a unique mode. x =

0: this gives a
unique mode of 10

1: here the mode is not
unique

2: here also the mode is not
unique

3: here also the mode is not
unique

4: the mode is unique here,
6

5: the mode is unique here,
5

6: the mode is not unique

7:
the mode is unique, 3

8: the mode is not
unique

9: the mode is not
unique

10: the mode is not
unique

Therefore the values that x can take
are 0, 4, 5 and 7.

In Chapter 2 of Alas, Babyon, what examples of foreshadowing are there that involve cars?

Let us remind ourselves that foreshadowing is when the
author plants hints in earlier chapters about what is to come later on in the novel. You
might want to consider the description of Randy's car that we are given at the beginning
of the second chapter of this great novel. Note how the one negative element about his
car seems to point towards some kind of future problem with
it:

Randy got
into his new Bonneville. It was a sweet car, a compromise between a sports job and a
hard top, long, low, very fast, and a lost of fun, even though its high-compression
engine drank premum fuel in
quantity.

Given what we know
is going to happen at this stage in the novel, we therefore are given grounds to suspect
that this might be an issue with the car, as the nuclear holocaust will undoubtedly make
securing fuel for Randy's car difficult.

What were the Puritans' beliefs?

The Puritans were strong Calvinists, who believed in
Calvin's doctrine of predestination; that is all people were born into a state of sin,
but God had predestined certain individuals to be saved. One was made aware that he was
a recipient of God's grace by divine revelation. A little known belief of the Puritans
was "infant damnation;" that is if a child died in infancy and therefore still in
original sin, the child was damned to hell. They believed that people were "called" to
their work, and that the Anglican Church, as founded by Henry VIII was tainted with
"popery," and needed to be purified, hence the name Puritan. The term was actually a
pejorative one, they called themselves "the Godly." They were not drab and colorless as
they are often portrayed; rather they did wear colorful clothes if they could afford
them, enjoyed secular music in moderation, and frequently drank beer and other alcoholic
beverages. Increase Mather, the father of Cotton Mather, once
commented:

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Drink is in and of itself a good creature of God,
and to be received with thankfulness; but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is
from God, but the Drunkard is from the
devil."

Those who became
drunk habitually were made to wear a large "D" on their outer garments as a token of
public rebuke.

They did not consider sex within marriage a
sin; rather a woman had a duty to satisfy her husbands needs, and could be expelled from
the church if she did not do so. Women and children were subject to the will of the
husband/father as head of the household, in fact there was no prohibition against a man
beating his wife so long as he used a stick no larger in circumference than his thumb;
hence the "rule of thumb." Of course sex outside marriage was a sin, and considered
adultery, for which one could be forced to wear the famous "scarlet
letter."

The primary element of Puritan belief was modesty
in all things except piety, toward which one should work diligently and zealously. The
will of God was more important than the will of the people, therefore democracy was not
a primary concern. Rev. John Cotton commented in a letter to Lord
Seyle:

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Democracy I do not conceive that ever God did
ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be
governors, who shall be governed? As for monarchy, and aristocracy, they are both of
them clearly approved, and directed in scripture, yet so as referred the sovereignty to
himself, and setteth up Theocracy in both, as the best form of government in the
commonwealth, as well as in the
church.

The harsh belief in
predestination caused many people to worry if they were members of the "elect," which
when combined with long winter nights, led to a quarrelsome and irritable people who
frequently resorted to lawsuits. New England became the most litigious area in the
colonies.

Does temperature mean heat? i'm confused!

Definitely, temeprature is not heat, though these concepts
are mixed up frequently.

Heat is the kinetic energy of
molecules within a substance, while the temperature is a
number.

Temperature is measured in different units
(Kelvin,Celsius), while heat is measured in units of energy
(Joules).

There is a relation between heat and temperature:
the average kinetic energy of molecules within a substance is directly proportional to
the temperature measured in Kelvin units.

In what ways was the Treaty of Versailles designed to restrict Germany's ability to attack France?

Certainly, its very essence helped to ensure that Germany
would not be able to attack anyone, including France.  The demand for astronomical
reparations to be paid to nations in Europe was one such inclusion that made it very
difficult for Germany to attack anyone.  The idea of Germany having to pay off this debt
would have taken such a long time and would have exacted such a cost that it would be
rather inconceivable for Germany to attack France, or any other nation.  France's own
demand for the Saar Basin also helped to minimize the chance that Germany could rearm
itself for an attack against other nations, as coal was important and vital to any war
effort.  The consolidation of political and national power against Germany as a result
of the Treaty also helped to ensure that there could be little opportunity to allow
Germany to reload and launch any attack nations such as France.  Given how the demands
of the Treaty were imposed upon Germany, it seems unlikely that Germany would have had
the capacity to launch any sort of attack, and this became the primary motivation of
nations like England and France in drafting the Treaty.

What does Macbeth say to the witches during his second meeting in Macbeth?

The second meeting that Macbeth has with the witches
occurs in Act IV scene 1, which comes after Macbeth has been haunted by the ghost of
Banquo during the banquet scene and decides that he needs to receive more answers from
the witches regarding the confusing and nebulous prophecies that they gave both him and
Banquo. Thus it is that Macbeth enters the scene in this section of the play, determined
to receive answers to his questions, saying to the witches the following
lines:

I
conjure you, by that which you profess,

Howe'er you come to
know it, answer me:

Though you untie the winds, and let
them fight

Against the Churches; though the yesty
waves

Confound and swallow navigation
up;

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown
down;

Though castles topple on their warders'
heads;

Though palaces, and pyramids, do
slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the
treasure

Of Nature's germens tumble all
together,

Even till destruction sicken, answer
me

To what I ask
you.

Note how desperate
Macbeth is to receive his answers. He is even willing to receive them if it means that
nature itself will perish and be destroyed. These lines of Macbeth present him as a man
who is obsessed and haunted by what has been said to him and the many different possible
futures that the prophecies could indicate. He wants answers, and he will have them at
whatever the cost, both to himself and to the world at large.

I have to write 'my opinion' about this book. Can anyone help?

Since the book itself is not specified, I think that you
have to articulate what your impression of the particular work is.  This will involve
opinion and subjectivity, by the very nature of the task.  Yet, there are some elements
that should be present in your writing.

While you are being
asked for your opinion, it sounds to me that it is important that you are able to
substantiate your thoughts.  It seems to me that you have to explain why you think what
you think.  Give your opinion and impressions, but do not think that you should not
support your beliefs.  For example, if you did not like the ending of the book, be
prepared to give several reasons why.  If you did not agree with the writer's handling
of a particular topic, it would be good to offer why you felt the way you did.  I think
that focusing on the book's development, such as what it was about, and your impressions
on how the writer handled specific elements in the book might serve as good starting
points to write on this topic.  It seems to me that you are simply being asked to render
your opinion with some level of support as to explaining why you feel the way you do. 
Keeping this in mind might help with the writing of this particular
task.

In Oedipus Rex, what is the significance of Oedipus's slow coming into awareness of that identity?

It is Oedipus Rex's hubris, or
excessive pride that leads to nemesis, as well as his
ogre, or anger, which is the cause of his reluctant realization of
the truth.  In fact, the name Oedipus signifies "I think/know" and
"swollen feet"; Oedipus finally discovers himself once he conquers this
hubris as he realizes that the feet upon which he stands are the
very feet of the murderer.

On the other hand, the
reluctance of Oedipus to accept the truth of Tiresis also points to his wisdom and
honorable search for what is really true as he keeps his vow to the people of Thebes, as
well as his great character.  For, in the first scene, the priest tells Oedipus, "You
are not one of the immortal gods, we know" but he possesses the intellectual prowess to
ameliorate Thebes's grave situation.  Thus, it is significantly part of the tragic irony
of this play that Oedipus seeks so hard to determine the cause of the plague when this
cause is within himself.

What are the changes in tone of Lady Macbeth when sleep-talks? Thanks

Lady Macbeth spends the majority of the first acts
displaying a masculine quality, her control over her husband much greater than most
would expect for the time period and his station. She is certain and sure in what they
must do to gain the titles she desires, particularly after she is emboldened by the
witches and their prophecy.

However, after the murder
occurs, she seems to lose her constitution over it, and begins to sleep walk. Her tone
in this scene varies between fear, regret/guilt, and even still her imperiousness
towards her husband. She comments on the invisible stain the king's blood left on her
hands, which was ironic because earlier in the play she told Macbeth that a little water
was all that was required to wash it away. The blood has a deeper meaning, indicating
the king's family--his son, Malcolm, is out for revenge. The guilt remains with the
false queen as she continuously comments on the fact that the blood is still there,
condemning her.

Yet her imperiousness continues to show in
her words as she tells Macbeth to be calm and stay steady. Part of her sleep talking
refers to the night of the murder itself, while still other parts seem to indicate she
suspects what is coming.

How is the archetypal "journey," the literal and metaphorical, in Jane Eyre best explained?I am having trouble understanding the significance of...

Spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically, the
"archetypal journey" for Jane Eyre is a metaphor for her growth and development as an
independent woman.  
       As basis for this "journey," Carl Jung, the famous
psychologist, contended that people shared in what he termed a “collective
unconscious.”

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Here lay dormant all of the knowledge we, as
humans, needed in order to know who we are and what is valuable and worthwhile in life.
Although we vary greatly in our conscious attitudes and goals, our unconscious minds,
revealed through dream studies and psychological research, are quite similar the world
over.

Thus, Jane Eyre's
journey is an existential one that has its beginnings as a non-entity who must be
boarded by Mrs. Reed, to a young girl who seeks an individual identity by rejecting the
passivism that her friend Helen suggests.  On the other hand, Jane does acquire much of
the Christian values of humility, patience, and forgiveness from her friend.  These
virtues serve Jane well in her experience at Thornfield Hall as she finds herself
confronted with the polarities of reason and passion, absolute and relative morality,
and, finally, love without marriage and marriage without love. After all of her
experiences in her journey of life, Jane Eyre emerges from the "dormancy of
knowledge." Once a forlorn child who sought friendship and love, Jane Eyre as a woman of
great individuality, strong and independent, yet passionate, caring, and fiercely
loyal. 

What are the major ideas or themes in The Bear by Anton Chekov?Consider vows made by the living to the dead, the difficulty of keeping...

Well...these are all excellent points, and amazingly so in
light of the fact that Anton Chekov's The Bear is a comedy—and such
a delightful one! It's easy sometimes to lose sight of the fact that Chekov was not just
trying to amuse the members of his audience, but enlighten them as well. This is the
sign of a truly fine writer.

The first prominent theme
presented in the story is Popova's vow to remain faithful to her good-for-nothing,
deceased husband. I would venture to assume that Chekov is satirizing those who all but
die when a spouse "passes"—especially one who remains true to the memory of a husband
who was an adulterer, who made fun of her, and was abusive in a number of ways. He broke
her heart and embarrassed her, but somehow she believes that she can "show" him in death
how wonderful she was in life. In my mind, Chekov finds her dedication a waste of
time.

At first, Popova has no difficulty keeping the vow
she has made (that her husband never asked for); when Luka begins to pester her about
going out and getting on with her life, she is adamant about her commitment mourn for
the remainder of her life. And when she first meets Smirnov, she certainly has no
difficulty sticking to her promise: he is a raving
lunatic!

The "nature of powerful emotions," however, seems
closely tied to the "difficulty of keeping resolutions" as Popova's resistance is only
broken down as she and Smirnov begin to argue. Her intention is
never to turn her back on the devotion she has promised to her
husband's memory. However, perhaps Chekov is saying that in the cold light of
objectivity, it is easy to remain steadfast regarding decisions or
promises we make. It's easy to say we don't want any cake until someone puts the plate
of chocolate layer cake before us, and we lose a good measure of our self-control.
Popova ends up abandoning her vow—and never even sees it coming: Smirnov has embraced
and kissed her before she has barely processed his declaration that he "likes" her
(which she is insulted by) and never even gets to consider his
claims of "love." His powerful emotion for her overwhelms her
promises to forever be true to her husband and to reject Smirnov. I would think that
Chekov could tolerate a person's lack of "sound" judgment in the face of tumultuous
emotions.

I would imagine, however, that maintaining
conventions would be low on his list of societal concerns. A convention, once again, is
based on an idea made in a starkly emotionless state, as is the decision to live up to
expectations: either one's own or those of another—or even of society. Chekov shows in
Popova's dutiful faithfulness to her undeserving husband, a future without hope or joy.
It is easy to see that Popova deserves better—even after his death she has a desire to
prove her value as a person and devoted wife to a man who has no way of appreciating
these things in death—any more than he was capable of doing so in
life.

It is only with the arrival of Smirnov that we find
she is still capable of strong emotion; it has long been said that there is a thin line
between love and hate, as we see with Popova and Smirnov. And social conventions and
expectations do not feed the heart or the soul. Both Popova and Smirnov begin the story
with nothing but unhappiness ahead of them. By letting their emotions lead them, they
find great promise in the days ahead, spent with each other.

Explain the development and impact of Early Feminist art of the 1970s. Refer to at least 1 example to illustrate your points.art

Although it debuted in 1979, Judy Chicago's art sample The
Dinner Party started to be developed and refined in 1973 and 1974.  Chicago's art piece
is an invaluable contribution to the discussion of early feminist art in the 1970s.  It
represents feminism of the time period in a variety of ways.  The first is that it seeks
to redefine women's view of history.  Chicago said that her intent in the art sample was
to develop a narrative that spoke the voices of women who have been silenced by
traditional historical discourse.  This represents feminism in a couple of ways.  The
first is that it stresses the idea that history needs to be re-conceptualized into a
genre whereby one can fully appreciate the role of women.  At the same time, the design
and structure of the art sample to represent both women and the physicality of woman is
something representative of 1970s feminism.  Seeking to strike a pose in which women did
not have to feel that their own physical and sexual identities were to be dictated by
men, there is an overt statement in which the physical concept of woman is present,
challenging how patriarchy defined sexuality:

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The place settings present the sexual images of
women's bodies, primarily images of the vagina, which were seen as vulgar by
conservative reviewers.

In
this, Chicago's work challenges viewers to reconfigure their physical and intellectual
conceptions of women, representative of the movement in the early
1970s.

The use of living plants to withdraw harmful substances from the environment is known as ______?

Plants can absorb harmful substances from the air, such as
carbon dioxide. When this happens, it is called photosynthesis.
Besides carbon dioxide, plants also absorb other things such as water, light,
etc.

This process takes place with plants, algae and
various kinds of bacteria ( href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria">cyanobacteria). The
plants successfully absorb harmful things like carbon dioxide and convert them naturally
into energy—as organic compounds like sugar. By using carbon dioxide and water, plants
are able to produce oxygen, which the plant releases as waste, which is obviously a
positive outcome for air-breathing creatures like human
beings.

When global warming began, the introduction of
aerosol particles into the environment led to a growing concern of the affects of these
particles on the earth because of the reduction of sunlight (called "global dimming")
they caused. However, a recent article in ScienceDaily notes that
plants are doing better than ever under these conditions, probably better than they did
a hundred years ago. Instead of getting direct sunlight, plants are bathed in a
scattered, reflected light, which is better for the
plant.

As scientists find ways to clean up the environment,
they will now need to study the effects the clean up will have on the world—in
particular, plants, as plants continue to remove dangerous substances from the world
around us—scientists will not want this to change.

What is the power of storytelling in The Joy Luck Club?

Storytelling ends up becoming the source of power for the
women in Tan's work and those who end up reading Tan's work.  The way in which the
mothers end up empowering their daughters is through the power of story.  Tan's style is
one where she believes that the expansion of one's moral and ethical imagination is how
change can happen.  Rather than provide a feminist critique of patriarchy in China and
America, Tan is able to accomplish the same goal through the power of story.  For
example, when the mothers tell their own narratives to the daughters, there is a common
link that is forged because the scope of the daughters' imagination is widened when they
realize that what they are enduring is what their mothers endured.  In this, there is
empowerment.  While the daughters are wondering why they are unhappy or why their is
sorrow in their lives, examples of consciousness where there should only be happiness
and contentment, the power of story is what allows these gaps to be filled.  When the
daughters hear of their mothers' experiences in China as young women, it helps to bridge
the gap between narratives and also helps to fully explain the suffering in their own
life.  In this, the power of storytelling is to help reflect and transform.  The same
experience happens to the reader when reading both daughters' and mothers' narratives. 
The same condition of wondering what one shall do and where one shall go is evident in
the power of storytelling, revealing narratives where the scope of moral and ethical
imagination of the reader is widened in understanding their own reality and their own
being more.  Through Tan's work, storytelling is both affective and reflective, causing
the ability to spark progressive change in one's life.

In the light of your understanding of tragedy and the tragic hero, how is Oedipus the King a tragedy?

One of the earliest and most influential of all
definitions of tragedy was proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in his
work known as The Poetics. Aristotle greatly admired Sophocles’
play Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex), and
indeed he seems to have considered it the finest tragedy in existence. Certainly the
play exhibits a number of traits that Aristotle considered crucial to a successful
tragedy, including the following:

• The play
  exhibits a reversal of the sort Aristotle admired, as when he
  writes,

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Reversal of the Situation is a change by which
the action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or
necessity. Thus in the Oedipus, the messenger comes to cheer Oedipus and free him from
his alarms about his mother, but by revealing who he is, he produces the opposite
effect. (Butcher
translation)

• The
  play exhibits recognition, which Aristotle defines as “a change from ignorance to
  knowledge. He also writes that

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The best form of recognition is coincident with a
Reversal of the Situation, as in the
Oedipus.

• Aristotle
  thought that the best tragic figure would be “highly renowned and prosperous,” as
  Oedipus is initially.


• Aristotle thought that the tragic
  effects of pity and fear could be produced simply from hearing the plot of a tragedy, so
  that a tragedy’s success did not necessarily depend on being staged with spectacular
  means. He felt that hearing the plot alone of Sophocles’ Oedipus
  could produce pity and fear, thus indicating Sophocles’ skill as a
  dramatist.


• Aristotle felt that a good tragedy usually
  involved some “deed of horror” occurring between friends or between members of the same
  family, as in Oedipus.


• Aristotle
  felt that a tragedy should exclude the “irrational element,” either from its plot or
  from its presentation on stage. He thought that the latter exclusion occurred in
  Oedipus, particularly concerning Oedipus’s ignorance about the
  manner of Laius’s death.


• Aristotle believed that
  

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of all recognitions, the best is that which
arises from the incidents themselves, where the startling discovery is made by natural
means. Such is that in the Oedipus of
Sophocles.

• Aristotle
  commended Oedipus for being neither too long nor too short. He
  considered it exactly the right size to be an effective
  tragedy.

Above all, Aristotle believed that
Oedipus revealed all the key elements of an effective tragedy –
elements that Aristotle explained succinctly when he wrote
that

Tragedy
. . .is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude;
in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being
found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through
pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these
emotions.

Aristotle's
definition of tragedy is perhaps the most influential that has ever been proposed.  In
formulating his definition, he seems to have had Sophocles' play in mind and to have
tested his definition at practically every point to make sure that Oedipus
Rex would be the perfect illustration of his theory.

What is the primary themes in Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small?

The primary theme in Herriot's All Creatures
Great and Small is that of survival in life's harsh
conditions. The setting is the Dales that are tucked in at the feet of the
fells that rise high above the Dales. The setting is a metaphor for
and a symbol of the hard lives the farmers live in the Dales. They daily experience the
cycle of life and death and of illness and struggle, which regularly phases into death.
The people of the Dales are desperate to keep their animals alive even when stricken
with disease, yet they don't trust the vets who might be the best able to help their
animals, which adds to the struggles.

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The farmer, Mr Dinsdale, was a long, sad, silent
man of few words who always seemed to be expecting the worst to happen. He had a long,
sad, silent son with him and the two of them had watched my efforts [with the calving]
with deepening
gloom.

Sophisticated people
living in cities who read Herriot's books found (and find) in them a return to the
struggles that the comfort and abundance of city life stand in stark contrast to life in
the Dales. Even though separated from the struggle with the land and life, readers
nonetheless felt (and feel) a sympathetic pull to the essential nature of a life pitting
human against nature. As a consequence, this theme of life's
hardships has a universal appeal and makes Herriot's vets universal
characters who help to live out the theme with the farmers in the
Dales.

No,
there wasn't a word in the books about ... the slow numbing if the arms, the creeping
paralysis of the muscles as the fingers tried to work ... no mention anywhere of the
gradual exhaustion, the feeling of futility
....

What are some objects I could bring into class that are symbolically relevant to To Kill a Mockingbird? Thanks!

There are so many symbolic elements of this classic novel
by Harper Lee.

You might start by considering bringing something into
class that relates to the items that Scout and Jem found in the old tree by their house.
These items include some chewing gum, an old stopwatch, and a two shiny coins, and the
tree serves as a valuable conduit of communication between child and their unseen
playmate in Boo Radley throughout much of the novel's first act. The fact that the items
are left in the tree throughout much of the children's non-interaction with Boo Radley
symbolizes the fact that the mysterious next door neighbor is, as his name suggests,
almost something of a ghost; never fully seen, but never fully
absent.

Other items of symbolic importance would include some sort of
replica of the eponymous mockingbird to which the title alludes. The novel is loaded
with themes of imprisonment and escape, and the mockingbird -- as Atticus tells Scout --
is symbolic of a creature that is guiltless and deserving of a free and unfettered
existence. Mockingbirds do nothing to harm anyone, choosing instead to spend their days
singing songs for all to hear. Accordingly, "it is a sin to kill a mockingbird," and in
many ways, the mockingbird is a metaphor for all creatures who are "cooped in" and
persecuted by those around them in spite of their having done nothing but good in
return. Many critics suggest that both Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch are, in their own
respective fashions, "mockingbirds" of the post-Reconstruction era South in which the
story is set.

I have to write a book review on Their Eyes Were Watching God, but I do not know what would be considered the main theme of the book.

Just remember that a book review must not exclusively talk
about theme. You must also mention other elements, such as plot, characters and setting,
in addition to your own thoughts about the novel.

However,
certainly the central theme seems to revolve around Janie's "journey" through life and
in particular her growth in her own understanding of herself and a strong love of her
own independence. This central movement of Janie towards wisdom and maturity occurs as a
response to the different relationships that she has. The novel seems to suggest that
fulfilling relationships can produce growth, but only when they are based on equality,
as Janie's relationship with Tea Cake demonstrates.

If we
view the novel as being about Janie's journey towards self-fulfillment, we can see that
she manages to escape from her relationships with Logan and Jody that hinder this goal
but does not do this with her relationship with Tea Cake. We see that in this
relationship, Janie establishes her true identity and enjoys independence. Through this
relationship, Janie establishes an almost spiritual connection with the world and even
feels that Tea Cake, although he is dead, is still with her in some
way.

You might like to consider the following quote from
the final chapter as part of the consideration of this
theme:

Two
things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh
find out about livin' fuh
themselves.

Janie has done
both of these things in her quest for self-enlightenment, which is something that
distinguishes her from the ignorant and gossipy villagers she returns to. Having done
it, she has reached a position of security in her own identity and independence in who
she is.

"Pearl is the medium through which Hester and Dimmesdale are able to express their true identity." Discuss in relation to The Scarlet Letter.

A life-giving symbol, little Pearl represents the bondage
of sin and love that exists with Hester and Dimmesdale.  As such, she does not reach
full humanity until Chapter XXII of Nathaniel Hawthorne's seminal novel.  In this
chapter, Pearl acts as an extension of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale by connecting
the physical and spiritual triangle; with this act she, thus, provides redemption for
her father.  Her act, symbolized by the kiss, causes Pearl herself to be "freed" as "a
spell was broken" and she becomes fully human since her "errand as a messenger of
anguish was fulfilled."

After Pearl kisses the clergyman,
Arthur Dimmesdale is able to make his redeeming confession as he "lookest far into
eternity."  He praises God,

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"He hath proved His mercy...By bringing me hither
to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!  Had either of these agonies
been wanting, I had been lost for ever!  Praised be His name! His will be done!
Farewell!"

For Hester, it has
been the wearing of the scarlet letter, of which Pearl is the representative, that has
effected her redemption.  In her charitable deeds of helping the sick and sitting with
the aged and offering them comfort Hester performs penitential acts that redeem her and
exhibit her kind nature.  Without the letter upon her breast, ironically, Hester may
well have not been accepted into homes of illness and death so readily and been afforded
the opportunities to redeem herself through good works.

In
Chapter VIII when Hester is before the Governor and questioned about her fitness as a
mother, Hester explains how Pearl is the expression of
herself,

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 Alone in the world, cast off by it, and with
this sole treasure to keep her heart alive, she felt that she possessed indefeasible
rights against the world, and was ready to defend them to the
death.

“God gave me the child!” cried she. “He gave her, in
requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness!—she is my
torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too! See ye not,
she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a
million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die
first!”

As
the link between them and the reminder of their sin, Pearl acts as a catalyst for
redemption in both Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale.  Indeed, she acts as the liasion
between the earthly and the spiritual for her parents.

What is the significance of the Malcolm & Macduff Conversation in Macbeth?

In Act four, Scene three of Macbeth,
Malcolm and Macduff have a significant conversation. Malcolm betrays his own innocence,
claiming that he too lusts for power, not unlike the evil
Macbeth:

With
this there grows
In my most ill-composed affection such
A
stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their
lands,(90)
Desire his jewels and this other's house,
And my
more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge

Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for
wealth.(95)

Of course,
Malcolm is only testing Macduff's sincerity. He is searching for some mischief that may
be found in Macduff. Malcolm is actually honorable. He tells Macduff lies to see if
Macduff is solely in favor of protecting the throne of Scotland. Macduff passes the
test. He mourns for Scotland, his
homeland:

O Scotland,
Scotland!

When Malcolm
realizes that Macduff can be trusted, they create an honorable bond and agree to rid
Scotland of the evils of Macbeth. Malcolm proclaims his innocence. He tells Macduff that
he has only been testing his sincerity:

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I am yet(140)
Unknown to woman,
never was forsworn,
Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
At no
time broke my faith, would not betray
The devil to his fellow, and delight

No less in truth than life. My first false speaking(145)
Was this
upon myself. What I am truly,
Is thine and my poor country's to
command:

At this, Malcolm and
Macduff come into an agreement to rid Scotland of the evils of
Macbeth:

Now
we'll together, and the chance of goodness
Be like our warranted
quarrel!

In summary, the
beginning conversation between Malcolm and Macduff is one of pretense. Malcolm pretends
to be lustful and full of evils to test Macduff's loyalty to the throne of Scotland.
Malcolm was looking for a sign of loyalty to the throne of Scotland. When Macduff passes
the test, Malcolm is ready to join his forces with Macduff in order to restore goodness
back to the throne of Scotland.