Find the values of r which minimizes the surface area.TIn cans come in various shapes and sizes, but what factors influence their design? In...

We know that the surface area of the cylinder is given by
:

SA = 2pir^2 + 2pi*r*h

But we
know that the volume is :

v = r^2 * pi *
h

 

Given that v is a fixed
value.

Then we will write h as a function of
r.

==> h = v/r^2 *
pi

Now we will substitute into
SA.

==> SA = 2pi*r^2 + 2pi*r *(v/r^2
pi)

==> SA = 2pi*r^2 + 2v/
r

Now we will
differentiate:

==> (SA)' = 4pir -
2v/r^2

Now we will find critical
values.

==> 4pi*r - 2v/r^2 =
0

==> 2v/r^2 =
4pi*r

==> Multiply by
r^2

==> 2v =
4pi*r^3

==> r^3 =
v/2pi

==> r =
(v/2pi)^1/3

Then
the value of r that given minimum surface area is r=
(v/2pi)^1/3

What is the main theme of "Sonnet 19"? Discuss.

In Sonnet 19, the main theme is the poet is challenging
the concept of Time while bargaining with the personified Time. While Time has a way of
changing everything it touches, the poet is as if giving Time permission to destruct or
destroy or mutate anything in its path. However, the poet asks Time to not touch his
friend or loved one with the antique pen of Time:

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But I forbid thee one most heinous
crime:
O, carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow,
Nor draw no
lines there with thine antique
pen;

While the poet is trying
to bargain with Time in reference to not touching his friend or loved one with old age
and wrinkles, the poet has a recourse if Time should be so unkind. The poet will write
his friend's youthful features into a poem which captures his friend as immortal. Yes,
the poet will assure his friend's or love's youthfulness upon the pages of his poem. He
assures that future generations shall witness his friend's forever beauty that comes
with youthfulness.

Time cannot touch his friend's youtfhful
beauty on the pages of the poem. The poet's friend's beauty will forever remain youthful
on the pages of his eternal verse:

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Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy
wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live
young.

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, what problem does Marguerite have in the story that Mrs. Flowers talks to her about?

Well, the root problem is the abuse that Marguerite
suffered when she was living with her mother at the hands of her step-father. As Chapter
14 makes clear, the impact that this horrendous incident has on Marguerite is to make
her hate herself which in turn makes her hate her life and robs her of any joy that she
might have:

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Sounds came to me dully, as if people were
speaking through their handkerchiefs or with their hands over their mouths. Colours
weren't true either, but rather a vague assortment of shaded pastels that indicated not
so much colour as faded
familiarities.

Mrs. Flowers
speaks to Marguerite directly about the way that she won't speak in class or to anyone
else. Marguerite seems to have closed in on herself like a flower who refuses to bud,
and Mrs. Flowers directly addresses this issue,
saying:

Now no
one is oging to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's
way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone that separates him
from the lower animals.

Thus
it is that Mrs. Flowers challenges Marguerite's perception of herself and of others, and
gradually fills her once again with self-respect and self-love through the simple
process of spending time with Marguerite and letting her know that she is valued and
esteemed.

What is the subject of Jarvis Lorry's dream?

In Book 1, Jarvis Lorry dreams of a man who
has been buried alive and is being recalled to life (resurrected) but is worried about
it.  In actuality, the man is Dr. Manetter, and he has been falsely imprisoned and just
let out.

When Lorry retrieves Dr. Manette,
the conversation echoes his dream.

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Mr. Jarvis Lorry—sitting opposite the buried man
who had been dug out, and wondering what subtle powers were for ever lost to him, and
what were capable of restoration—the old inquiry:

“I hope
you care to be recalled to life?”

And the old
answer:

“I can’t say.” (Book 1, chapter
6)

Lorry knows that Dr.
Manette is nervous about being brought back to life, which is really just a metaphor for
being released from prison.  Lorry is aware of the potential dangers Dr. Manette will
face when he returns to England.  His daughter will not know him, and he worries about
his fragile mental state.  So when Lorry asks the ghost if it cares to be recalled to
life, it isn’t sure.  Lorry is not sure Dr. Manette will be able to make the transition
well, since he is so fragile mentally.

What is the final interpretation of the word “equal?”

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than
others.  This becomes the last commandment and it is an interesting one.  The concept of
"equality" is something that Orwell plays with quite a bit in his work.  It ends up
being a condition that the reader is left to assess and debate in terms of how it can be
used to both inspire people to revolutionary causes, but also be used by those in the
position of power to actually advocate that which is its
antithesis.

The fundamental call to "equality" would be
seen in the Animalism commandments that are adopted after the revolution.  The events
leading to the revolution represented a fundamental disconnect between animals and
humans, where an "unequal" relationship of power existed.  Animals were secondary to
humans and this hierarchy served as an abusive condition in their lives.  To this end,
once the revolution was waged and Jones was sent packing, the animals come to accept the
seventh commandment of animalism:

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7. All animals are
equal.

It was in this that
the initial condition of "equality" was
introduced.

However, as the novel advances and the
predicament of the animals becomes more complex, there arises a need of leadership. 
Since the pigs were the first to read and the first to fully grasp the message of Old
Major, after all they did sit in the front and heard every word he spoke, the pigs were
seen as the leaders of the farm.  With leadership, a fundamental hierarchy was
developed.  As Napoleon raised the pups to become his secret army and form of
enforcement, the dogs were seen as second in command, the brawn to the pigs' brain. 
Over time, the pig population increased as well as the dog population, as it became good
to be either one.  For the other animals, life did not change.  Every time it was
insinuated that there was an imbalance of power, Squealer would spin how everyone works
for everyone's benefit or Napoleon would simply quash it through force.  In the end,
everyone believed in the theoretical principle of equality.  With this as a smokescreen,
the pigs and dogs were able to enjoy privileged status and be able to "live it up" while
ascribing to equality as a pretext.

It is for this reason
that the addition Squealer maks to the last commandment becomes so
telling:

All
animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.

It is a great play on
words and theory, a stroke of genius that brings out how those in the position of power
see themselves as fundamentally different than those who are on the outside of power. 
This becomes a warning about the nature of equality, in that one must strive to fight
for it to ensure that it is not one that is abused to actually perpetuate a system that
is unequal, a realm where "some are more equal than others."

Find the quadratic function y=ax^2 + bx + c whose graph passes through the points (-1,9)(-3,1)(2,-9)I have been working on this problem for quite a...

Substitute the three points into the
equation

x = -1, y = 9
9 = a(-1)^2 +
b(-1) + c  which simplifies to   9 = a - b + c

x = -3, y =
1
1 = a(-3)^2 + b(-3) + c  which simplifies to 1 = 9a -3b +
c

x = 2, y = -9
-9 = a(2)^2 + b(2) + c    which
simplifies to -9 = 4a + 2b + c

So now we have a set of 3
equations which we can solve using elimination

a -   b + c
=  9  (1)
9a - 3b + c =  1  (2)
4a+ 2b + c = -9 
(3)

(2) - (1)
9a - 3b + c = 1
-a +  b
-  c = -9
----------------------
8a - 2b = -8  Which we can reduce
to 4a - b = -4  (4)

(3) - (1)
4a + 2b + c =
-9
-a +   b -  c = -9
----------------------
3a + 3b =
-18  Which we can reduce to a + b = -6 (5)

Now compute (4)
+ (5)

4a - b = -4
a +b =
-6
------------------
5a  = -10  solving for a we get a =
-2
Using (5) we get  -2 + b = -6, or b = -4
Using (1) we get -2 - 
-4 + c =  9, c = 7

So our function is
f(x) =
-2x^2 - 4x + 7
Checking:
f(2) = -2(2)^2 - 4(2) + 7 = -8 - 8 + 7 =
-9  gives point (2,-9)
f(-1) = -2(-1)^2 - 4(-1) + 7 = -2 + 4 + 7 = 9 gives
point (-1,9)
f(-3) = -2(-3)^2 - 4(-3) + 7 = -18 + 12 + 7 = 1 gives point
(-3,1)
Which are the points we were given.
Again our solution is
f(x) = -2x^2 - 4x + 7

Why cant Hester Prynne sew bridal gowns in the novel as described in chapter 5?

While Hester Prynne (the protagonist from Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter)is able to sew "for the ceremonials of pomp and
state" she was not allowed to "embroider the white
veil."

Hester has been charged and sentenced with
committing adultery proven by her illegitimate child, Pearl. Hester begins to sew so as
to make a living for herself and her daughter.

Many people
come to Hester for her renowned embroidery skills. She had provided her services to the
Governor, military men, ministers, babies, and used on the coffins of those who had
died.

Hester was not able to work on garments used for
weddings because society "frowned upon her sin" and did not want her to touch the "white
veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride." Basically, Hester's hands were
looked at as sinful and people did not want her to tarnish the purity of the bride's
attire.

2 number cubes are rolled. Find P(an even muber and a prime number)

If your number cubes have 6 faces on
them,

To get primes, 1+1, 1+2, 1+4, 1+6,  2+1, 2+3, 2+5,
3+2, 3+4, 4+1, 4+3, 5+2, 5+6, 6+1, 6+5

To get evens 1+1,
1+3, 1+5, 2+2, 2+4, 2+6, 3+1, 3+3, 3+5, 4+2, 4+4, 4+6, 5+1, 5+3, 5+5, 6+2, 6+4,
6+6

So P(prime) = 15/36,  P(even) =
18/36

As you stated it, the P(prime and even) = 2/36   1+1
is the only even prime, but I suspect you meant P(prime or
even)

P(prime or even) = P(prime) + P(even) - P(prime and
even) so we get

P(prime or even) = 15/36 + 18/36 - 2/36 =
31/36

In "My Last Duchess," what does the poem's title suggest about the Duke's attitude toward women in general?

Excellent question. It is of course important to remember
to always analyse titles when studying works of literature. They are not just picked at
random and are the result of careful thought and deliberation. The title of this
excellent dramatic monologue seems to introduce so much about the Duke and his attitude
towards women. Note the possessive use of "My" at the beginning of the title. This seems
to foreshadow the complete control and mastery of his wife that is made clear from the
poem, whilst also indicating the way that he saw his last wife as a possession, much
like the statue of Neptune taming a seahorse that he moves on to showing the envoy at
the end of the poem.

Interestingly, the middle word,
"last," seems to suggest that this last duchess is just one of a string of many
duchesses, as it implies that there were others before this last duchess and will be
more in the future. This helps present the Duke's attitude towards women because they
are presented as disposable objects. He disposed of his last one and is now trying to
obtain another. They are not permanent fixtures, and ironically it seems that the
painting is more important and valued by the Duke than his last wife ever
was.

What are the metaphors used by the poet to refer to the ever-fixed nature of true love in Sonnet 116?

Shakespeare Sonnet
116

Let me not to the marriage of true
minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to
remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never
shaken;
It is the star to every wandering
bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height
be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his
brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man
ever loved.

Note the bolded section of the sonnet.  Here
is where you can find the metaphor referring to the fixed nature of
love.

Love is compared to a lighthouse
(ever-fixed mark) which remains visible during a storm
(tempest).  Love is also compared to the north star
(start), which remains fixed in the sky to guide ships
(wandering
bark).

You may find the attached
website helpful.  It takes Sonnet 116 and paraphrases each
line.

How does Mr. Tench character fit in this story, The Power and the Glory?

Mr. Tench serves as a sort of chorus in the novel, helping
to initially develop themes and providing a context for the priest
character. 

Tench is in a situation that resembles the
priest's situation. He feels forlorn and, to some extent, stranded in the southern state
of Mexico. He is cut off from his past both physically and temporally. He has known
better days and has known some measure of success. Now he is a faded and failed version
of himself. All these things are true of the priest as
well. 

Tench also introduces the priest to the story and
helps to provide exposition for the protagonist as a drinker, a man on the run and as a
frightened man. The priest's inability to save or deliver himself to safety and his
religious impotence are reflected in Tench's professional compromises. He uses sand to
form the molds he uses for false teeth: 

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"I cast in sand," Mr. Tench said. "What else can
I do in this place?"

In chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson says of the elevator boy, "These people! You have to keep them drunk all the time." Why is this...

My version (Scribner) has a slightly different
quote:

These
people! You have to keep after them all the time
(36).

However, there is irony
in that statement, too.

To see the irony in either
statement, it is important to understand what irony is first. Irony is a juxtaposition
of incongruous elements, in other words, putting things together that do not
fit.

Next, we need to examine the context.  Myrtle is
clearly of a very low socio-economic group, much lower than that of Nick, Tom, and
Daisy, who are, I would say, upper-class.  Myrtle in this chapter is drinking
heavily.

Now, given your quote, the irony is that someone
who is drinking is talking about how someone else needs to be drunk all the time, in
order to perform services properly.

The other irony, which
is present in both quotes, is that Myrtle is acting as though she is of a much higher
class than the elevator man, putting on airs, as they say, and in fact, it is likely
that she is of the same class, or perhaps even lower.

How does the dialect affect the scene setting of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

One of the aspects of Mark Twain's fiction is the way that
he uses dialect to add a real sense of setting and place to his stories. The use of the
dialect creates a much stronger sense of place and really helps to conjure up the
setting of an ancient mining camp. Twain is very wise to make the decision he does of
reporting the story as it was relayed to him. Note the following
example:

Why,
it never made no difference to him--he would bet on anything--the dangdest feller.
Parson Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they
warn't going to save
her...

Use of the vernacular
in slang expressions such as "dangdest feller" and grammatically incorrect phrases such
as "warn't" really help convey the setting that Simon Wheeler comes from and clearly not
only conveys the humour of the story through the printed word but also demands to be
read and heard.

Why does Jem prevent Scout from fighting Walter, and why is Calpurnia furious with Scout in Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout's first day at school in To Kill a
Mockingbird was not a good one, despite the fact
that

I never
looked forward more to anything in my
life.

Scout ran afoul of her
new teacher, Miss Caroline, from the start, and when she tried to defend Walter
Cunningham Jr. and explain why the boy had no lunch money, Miss Caroline "whipped me"
with a ruler. Scout planned to get payback on Walter during lunch break, and she was
busy "rubbing his nose in the dirt" when Jem made her
stop.

"You're
bigger'n he is," he
said.

Instead of eating dirt,
Walter was invited to the Finches' house for lunch. Walter and Atticus got along fine,
and they "talked together like two men, to the wonderment of Jem and me." But when
Walter drowned all of his food in syrup, Scout couldn't resist protesting. Calpurnia
immediately led her from the kitchen, angrily explaining
that

"That
boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you
hear?"

Cal explained that any
guest--even a Cunningham--was considered company and that Scout's remarks were
"disgracin' " Walter.

What is the solution set of |4x – 3| – 1 > 12?

|4x – 3| – 1 >
12

First add 1 on both
sides

By adding, you should
get

|4x - 3| > 13 Since
there are absolute value signs change your equation
into

4x - 3 > 13  and 4x - 3 <
-13 now add 3 on both sides to both
equation

By adding, you should
get

4x > 16   and 4x <
-10 now divide 4 on both sides

By dividing,
you should get

x > 4   and  x <
-10/4

What fact clinches Darnay's acquittal in A Tale of Two Cities?in Book the Second Chapters 1-6

An unscrupulous spy (John Barsad) falsely testifies that
he observed Darnay sailing on a ship from France to England, and passing a
mysterious-looking envelope to a mysterious-looking person. This is damning testimony,
as it seems to prove - in the eyes of the court at least - that Darnay is a spy trading
in state secrets.

Stryver, Darnay's attorney, asks the
witness if he can be absolutely sure that the man in the courtroom is the man that he
saw on the ship. The witness replies that he is. Stryver the asks his associate, Sydney
Carton, to stand up. Everyone in the court expresses shock and disbelief when they see
that Carton and Darnay look almost exactly alike. The witness's testimony is fully
discredited, as it is revealed that he easily could have mistaken Darnay for someone
else. It was Sydney Carton's idea to have Stryver compare the appearance of the two men.
Thus, this scene becomes the first of two times in the novel (the other occurs at the
very end) when Carton saves Darnay's life.

Can you compare and contrast Life of Pi and the poem "The Panther"?Here is the poem: His vision, from the constantly passing bars,has grown so...

This is an interesting question. My first reaction is to
find a parallel between the poem and the way that the panther finds his being and
existence shrunk down to the space of his cell and the bars that prevent his freedom. He
comes to believe that his world only consists of this space, and that the "thousand
bars" only represent a boundary between his world and "no world." As a result, his
"might will stands paralysed." This reminds me of the way that Pi's life becomes
suddenly restricted to the lifeboat and his raft. He, like the panther, by necessity
comes to focus on this narrowest and slimmest of geographical locations as his "world."
The sea represents the bars that mark the boundary between the state of "world" and "no
world." In order to survive, Pi can only allow himself to focus on his immediate
realities, thus "paralysing" his "mighty will," though of course just like the panther,
occasionally his singleminded focus is interrupted by otehr
thoughts.

What metaphors and similes are used to explain ideas in "If"?

That is a great question!  The fact is that the only way
we can understand ideas or concepts is through figurative speech.  We use metaphors,
similes, and analogies, which are kind of super metaphors, to understand anything
because the only way we can get information in our brains is through our five senses. 
We must see, hear, taste, touch, or smell something, and then we can use that sensory
input to describe ideas and feelings.  Let's take two
examples.

First, how do we understand the concept of
education?  That is a completely intangible idea.  We can only understand it in terms of
metaphor, really.  So we often think of it as a structure, with a foundation.  Teachers
talk about "scaffolding," which means teaching students to learn by connecting with what
they already know.  We talk about "closing the gap" between low-performing and
high-performing students.  These are all tangible "things" that we are familiar with in
the physical world, ways for us to understand what the concept of education
is.

Second, let us look at an emotion, anger.  That is an
intangible idea. But we use metaphors to describe it, metaphors that are based on what
we observe people doing when they are angry.  They "explode" with rage, for example, or
"blow their tops."  They boil over with anger.

Think about
other concepts that you are familiar with, for example, the concept of business, or the
concept of love.  How many metaphors can you think of to describe
these?

I have included a link for you with an excerpt from
Lakeoff and Johnson, a team who write often on this very topic.

Prove the identity: sin^2x + 2cos^2x = csc^2x

The identity that has to be verified
is

(sin x)^2 + 2(cos x)^2 = (csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot
x)^2

First, we'll manage the left side and we'll
write

(sinx)^2 + 2(cos x)^2 = (sinx)^2 + (cos x)^2 + (cos
x)^2

We'll use the Pythagorean
identity:

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

(sinx)^2 + 2(cos x)^2 = 1 + (cos
x)^2

We'll manage the right side and we'll
write:

(csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot x)^2 = 1/(sinx)^2 - (cos
x)^2*(cos x)^2/(sinx)^2

(csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot x)^2 =
[1-(cos x)^4]/(sinx)^2

We'll have a difference of two
squares that returns the product:

(csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot
x)^2 = [1 + (cos x)^2][1 - (cos x)^2]/(sinx)^2

But 1 - (cos
x)^2= (sinx)^2

(csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot x)^2 = [1 + (cos
x)^2]*(sinx)^2/(sinx)^2

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

(csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot x)^2 = [1 + (cos
x)^2]

We notice that managing both sides,
we'll get the same result [1 + (cos x)^2], therefore the identity (sin x)^2 + 2(cos x)^2
= (csc x)^2 - (cos x)^2(cot x)^2 is verified.

Describe Eliezer's mother in detail in Night.

There is not much offered in the narrative about Eliezer's
mother.  She takes care of and tends to the family in a traditional manner.  Her
husband, Eliezer's father, is well respected in the community and she acts in accordance
to this.  She is concerned with her eldest daughter's marriage, and is also concerned
with the well being of her family.  She is seen in the first section of the narrative. 
However, Eliezer's strongest connection is seen with his father.  On one hand, this is
because Eliezer defines the two emerging male figures in his life between his father and
Moshe the Beadle.  His mother does not enter his conception of identity.  As the family
is deported, Eliezer's emphasis becomes on survival and wonderment about what is to
happen to him.  The last we see of Eliezer's mother it is in the third section where
separation becomes evident.  At Birkenau, the men are separated from the women.  When
this happens, Eliezer and his father move to one side and Eliezer's mother moves to
another side with her daughter.  In this, there is no more mention of Eliezer's mother,
and there is no formal farewell between them.  It is for this reason that little is
offered about Eliezer's mother in the narrative.

What is the impact of the voices of Victor Frankenstein and the monster on the readers?

The impact that the voices of Victor and his monster have
on the readers can be vastly different. Depending on which character one relates to, and
empathizes with the most, determines the impact of each on the
reader.

One could "listen" to the tale of the monster and
feel great empathy for him. If a reader has felt abandoned by a parent then the reader
will relate to the monster much more than with Victor. In fact, the reader may find
Victor despicable for abandoning the monster.

Others may
see Victor as the more sympathetic character. Given his great loss at the hands of the
monster, some may find the monster the deplorable one and Victor the one needing
sympathy.

Therefore, it completely depends on the
individual reader with how the voice of both Victor and the monster impact
them.

In To Sir, With Love, did Gillian's parents approve of her relationship with Rick?

Chapter Twenty-One of this excellent account of one black
teacher's struggle for acceptance is the chapter you will want to re-read to answer this
question. It details the first time that Gillian took Rick back to her parents' home to
be introduced to them. Gillian's father at this stage has a very frank talk with Rick,
in which he says to him that he would rather Gillian had fallen in love with somebody
her own colour:

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We would, even now, prefer that Gillian had
fallen in love with someone of her own colour; it would have made everythign so much
easier for her as well as for us... It's not just the two of you, Rick, that have to be
considered. You might have children; what happens to them? They'll belong nowhere, and
nobody will want
them.

However, in spite of
these concerns, Gillian's father is also very open about the fact that he likes Rick and
does not find anything wrong with him apart from the concerns that he has about the
impact of his skin colour on his daughter and their future together. Thus, although he
has his reservations, we can see this as being a result of racism in Britain at the time
rather than any particular problems with Rick as an individual as far as his character
goes.

In "The Slave's Dream" by Henry Wadworth Longfellow, what is a reasonable explanation of why the rice lay ungathered?

To answer this question you need to look at the poem as a
whole, from start to finish. As you read the first stanza and then look at the last
stanza and the way that the poem describes that the slave whose dream we have just been
able to see has actually died from exhaustion and maltreatment. Note how this last
stanza presents the slave:

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He did not feel the driver's
whip,

Nor the burning heat of
day;

For Death had illumined the Land of
Sleep,

And his lifeless body
lay

A worn-out fetter, that the
soul

Had broken and thrown
away!

The last stanza thus
reveals the reason why the rice lay ungathered, as indicated in the first stanza. The
slave, worn down by days and weeks and months of slave labour in the "burning heat of
day" and mistreatment, as indicated in the "driver's whip," has collapsed, exhausted,
onto the floor, leaving the rice ungathered. He has entered a state of unconsciousness
where he is able to "return" to his homeland, ironically just before dying and gaining
the liberty that he so keenly desired.

What is the significance of the narrator saying that he would ‘build that dome in air`?

Marianne Moore famously stated that poetry was composed of
'imaginary gardens with real toads in them`.
Like Moore`s imaginary garden or Tennyson`s Palace of Art, the pleasure dome of Kubla
Khan is not presented as a real place but as an ideal symbol of artistic
creation.

The key phrase which signals that the dome is
noty a real but an imaginary construct is:

Could I revive
within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win
me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in
air,

You cannot actually build a dome with music, but only
with concrete building materiasl. Thus the sense is that music (or Coleridge`s poem)
conjures up in the listener`s mind the image of a dome of pleasure, which itself is
merely a symbol of a certain type of ecstatic or Dionysian vision of art and its
associated emotions.

List three cell parts that are probably present in the cell, but too small to be seen with your light microscope. What are the functions of...

Ribosomes are present on all cells, but are very small and
unlikely to be seen with a standard light microscope; at best, they may look like tiny
grains, but their structure will not be discernible. Ribosomes are found both free in
the cytoplasm and embedded on the surface of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. They are
involved in protein synthesis.

Vesicles are generally
small, and often are clear, so are not likely to be visible under the light microscope.
They are involved in the transport of materials, both within the cell and across the
cell membrane.

Cytoplasm is present in all cells, but you
can't really see it, you actually look through it to see the other parts of the cell. It
is a clear watery fluid, and provides support and transport within the
cell.

The cytoskeleton is a network of fibers and tubes
that provides internal support and shape to the cell.These are very fine and usually are
not visible unless the cell is in the midst of
mitosis.

Peroxisomes and lysosomes are very tiny membrane
sacs filled with enzymes that help the cell break down materials. Peroxisomes break down
toxins and lysosomes break down things the cell has ingested.  Both are quite tiny and
probably not visible with a standard light microscope.

How do you convert fractions to decimals, and decimals to fractions?

To convert a fraction to a decimal, divide the denominator
by the numerator. The result is the value of the fraction in decimal form. If the result
has a large number of decimal digits, it can be rounded off to the appropriate
accuracy.

For example: 1/2 in decimal form is equal to 0.5
which is the result of dividing 1 by 2. 10/3 on the other hand gives 3.3333... , which
goes on forever. The number decimal digits here should be chosen based on the accuracy
required.

To convert a decimal to a fraction, remove the
decimal point from the decimal number and write it as a whole number divided by ten
raised to a power equal to the number of decimal digits. Then simplify the fraction that
we get if that is possible to do.

For example to represent
1.25 as a fraction, write 1.25 = 125/10^2 = 125/100. Now simplify 125/100 to get 5/4 as
25 is a common factor in the numerator and denominator.

Explain how to determine derivative of function y=2^(2x+3)?

well using the logarithm differentation is right, here is
also another way to do it, which is by the exponent rule and the chain
rule.

The chain rule states that you split a function into
two functions, differentiate the outside function, leave the inside alone, then
differentiate the inside function.

2^(2x+3) is basically
two functions. One is 2^y , another is y=2X+3

we know by
the exponent rule

differentation of A^X (A is a
constant)=A^X ln A

so by the chain
rule

it is ln 2 * 2^ Y * 2

the
two at the end is the dervative of the inside function

well
Y= 2x+3

it is 2*ln2*
2^(2X+3)

btw, the log laws state that 2 ln 2 = ln (2^2)=ln
4

so the derivative
is

ln 4
*(2^(2x+3))

Explain this quote from Macbeth in detail:Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green...

In the quote you cite from Shakespeare's
Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is chiding Macbeth for, as she sees it,
changing his mind about killing King Duncan.  She's basically accusing him of
cowardice.

Lady Macbeth metaphorically begins by asking if
his hope was drunk when he dressed himself in the king's royal robes.  In other words,
was it alcohol that made him courageous.  Then she wants to know if that hope has been
asleep, only to now wake green and pale, sickly, cowardly, instead of courageous, like
before.     

Then, step two of her argument, and that's
what this quote really is, an emotional and logical argument trying to convince Macbeth
to go ahead with the assassination, she equates Macbeth's lack of consistency in this
matter with his love for her.  If Macbeth can't stay consistent concerning the
assassination of Duncan, then she will consider his love to be as equally
inconsistent.

Next, Lady Macbeth points out that Macbeth's
intended actions, in saying he doesn't want to go through with the assassination, do not
match his desires.  He desires to be king, but won't go through with what is necessary
to be king.

Finally, Lady Macbeth directly suggests that if
Macbeth doesn't go through with the assassination, he is a coward and will have to live
with the knowledge that he chickened out, as we would say today.  He will fail to do
what he "would" do, what he wants to do, because he is afraid
to. 

Give a critical appreciation of "The Unknown Citizen" by W. H. Auden.

W. H. Auden, an English author, wrote this poem while
living in the United States.  “The Unknown Citizen” is a satirical poem based on the
very serious military unknown soldier which is a tribute to those
soldiers who died fighting for their country could not be
identified. 

The title establishes the subject of the poem
but  is never mentioned again. The poem is supposedly written on a statue somewhere
built by the state. The poem is intended to show a humorous approach to the modern world
of 1938 which takes itself too
seriously.

Narration

The point of view is third person with the
narrator including himself in the poem by using some first person pronouns: our
Eugenist; our teachers. The speaker is someone who works for a fictional government who
makes decisions that impact lives that he has never or will never meet.
 

Use of Literary
Devices

The poem uses few literary devices
other than it is a parody for the pretense of celebrating a life of a man that does not
exist.  It does rhyme with the rhyme scheme  varying throughout the poem.  The only
metaphor that is obvious is the unknown citizen compared to a
saint. Called a modern saint, it is apparent that this is a
facetious statement since he appears to be just an ordinary
man.

Ironically like the Big Brother concept, the poem
predicts or even warns about the future that could have  many organzations that watch
over and check on citizens.  The unknown citizen is declared a saint because of his
behavior and lack of breaking the rules. Part of the poem’s irony comes from the list of
accomplishments of the citizen which are not really achievements at all.  They are an
ordinary life. 
 

Summary

Here
are the things he did to merit his stance:

• The
  unknown citizen conducted himself for the greater good working well in a large industry
  and was never fired.


• popular among his
  peers.


• Read the newspaper every day and paid attention to
  the advertising


• Insured and had health
  care


• Borrowed money and paid it back in
  installments


• Fought in the
  war


• Married with just the right number of
  children


• Never interfered with the children’s
  education

Then the poet asks the sardonic
questions:

Was
he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:

Had anything
been wrong we should certainly have

Heard.
 

Did anyone ask the man
about his feelings or what he wanted?  Was the man free to live his life without the
interference of the government? These are the real questions that the poet is
asking.

The statue that supposedly built really celebrates
the ordinary man who does not want to cause any problems and follows the accepted
pattern for a man's life.  The poet  really does not want man to be like the unknown
citizen but more independent and creative.

What are the patterns in the beginning and the ending of "A White Heron"?

Reading the first and final paragraphs of this excellent
short story, which clearly has a very strong "green" message that is therefore
appropriate for our times, there is a pleasing parallel between the opening and the
final paragraph, both of which refer to Sylvia returning home at night driving the cow,
and her close affinity to nature. Consider how the story
begins:

A
little girl was driving home her cow, a plodding, dilatory, provoking creature in her
behaviour, but a valued companion for all that. They were going away from the western
light, and striking deep into the dark woods, but their feet were familiar with the
path, and it was no matter whether their eyes could see it or
not.

Note the way in which
Sylvia, although robbed of the sense of sight, is so familiar and attuned to the forest
that, in spite of the darkness, she is able to find her way expertly. In the same way,
this image is returned to at the end of the story:

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Many a night Sylvia heard the echo of his whistle
haunting the pasture path as she came home with the loitering
cow.

The image of the cow and
Sylvia returning home at night is a central image that seems to suggest the way that, by
the end of the story, her life has not changed and she has given up the one hope of
escape that she had. Having chosen to not reveal the location of the heron's nest has
resulted in her being trapped in a future characterised by solitude and estrangement
from her own kind, but a deep, abiding relationship with nature.

What are two examples of irony in A Separate Peace?

Although there are many examples of irony in A
Separate Peace, two examples are:

1)  In many
cases, Finny has power over Gene's actions.  For example, he convinces him to go to the
beach, resulting in Gene failing his first test.  Gene changes his mind about enlisting
because of Finny's return to school.  However, in the end, Gene's jouncing of the limb
causes Gene to have a significant amount of power over what happens to Finny.  It is
ironic that although Gene is jealous of Finny's abilities, it is Gene who actually has a
great deal of power over what happens to Finny.

2)  In
chapter 2, Finny "practically saves" Gene's life when he grabs Gene's arm when he loses
his balance on the limb. This is ironic because Gene later jounces the limb, resulting
in Finny's death.  The name "the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session" is also
ironic because Finny ends up dying as a result of the club's actions and Gene feels as
if he has died too.

examine identity of godot in waiting for godot

Clearly the identity of Godot could encompass several
possibilities, but the most obvious is that Godot is some kind of deity.  The letters G
- O - D in the name point obviously to this fact, but the question is this:  what kind
of god is Godot?

Most people search and wait for their God
based on faith - they have never seen God but believe completely in his existence. 
Similarly, Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot on faith.  In Act I, they are not
sure they have the right day or the right place, but they wait.  They seem to be hoping
that Godot will provide them with answers or guidance, much as people turn to God for
answers and guidance.

Yet, Godot does not seem to be as
nurturing as many would hope from their own God.  He keeps them waiting for a while,
sending a messenger to tell them they must wait longer.  They feel as if they are
compelled to wait rather than are waiting from their own free will.  Estragon and
Vladimir even muse that if they do not wait, they might be
punished.

Thus, it is difficult to tell what kind of deity
(even to the most simplest question of god or devil) Godot may be.  The uncertainty
surrounding him seems to mimic the uncertainty that society may have towards a god at
all.

In The Scarlet Letter, when Hester left prison, what did she have to look forward to?

You might want to analyse Chapter Five to answer this
question, which narrates what happens to Hester at the end of her time in prison, and,
in particular, the kind of future she could expect after being identified as a public
figure of shame. Clearly, in the Puritan society in which Hester lives, such an act of
bearing a child out of wedlock is to invite social censure, and this is something that
the narrator strongly indicates in terms of the kind of future that Hester Prynne could
expect. Note what we are told at the beginning of this
chapter:

The
days of the future would toil onward; still with the same burden for her to take up and
bear along with her, but never to fling down' for the accumulating days and added years
would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame. Throughout them all, giving up her
individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and morlaist
might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman's frailty
and sinful passion.

Thus
Hester's future does not look too bright. She can only expect to be singled out and
looked upon as a bad example, of what happens if you let sin control your life. She will
be objectified thanks to the scarlet letter that she is forced to bear on her breast,
and refered to by preachers as an example of what can happen if you do not remain
upright and moral.

Could you give me some topics of essays which address the following stories: The Postmaster, Dusk, If, The Road Not Taken, Case for the Defence.

There are many different questions one could create in
regards to the following short stories.

"The Postmaster"-
Rabindranath Tagore

1. How does the story address longing
and separation?

2. How does the story address the
importance of companionship and dependency?

"Dusk"-
Saki

1. What is Saki saying about "judging a book by its
cover?"

2. What is Saki saying about human
nature?

"IF"- Rudyard
Kipling

1. How does Kipling example manhood and leadership
in the poem?

2. How does Kipling show the importance of
gaining righteousness with being self-righteous?

"The Road
Not Taken"- Robert Frost

1. Although a Modernist, how is
the poem characteristic of poetry from a Romantic
point-of-view?

2. What role does nature play in the
poem?

3. What is Frost trying to say about the paths
mankind chooses to take?

"The Case For the Defense"- Graham
Green

1. How did Green's left-handed political views bleed
into the text?

2. What historical happening influenced the
text?

What attitudes about equality is Vonnegut mocking in the story "Harrison Bergeron"?What statement is he making about individuality? Consider the...

While Kurt Vonnegut may be ridiculing the fears of many
citizens of the early 1960s in the United States who feared the federal government would
in some way propose schemes that would enforce equality of outcome, the story "Harrison
Bergeron" has been more prophetic that Vonnegut could have supposed.  For, the U.S.
government did, indeed, impose quotas on hiring in the 1970s and established Affirmative
Action. During George W. Bush's administration, the No Child Left Behind Law was
enacted, a law which the reader could perceive as being satirized in Vonnegut's story by
having the bright and talented students wear handicaps so that the slower can compete
with them intellectually and physically.

At any rate, what
Vonnegut ridicules mostly is the government's idea that it must be the one to ensure
equality.  This attitude precludes the ability of individuals to rise on their own even
when social restraints are eradicated.  So, in Bergeron's society there is the failure
to acknowledge the innate differences in people and the failure to allow people to excel
if they have talent.  To restrain and punish others for their talents is as criminal as
not allowing someone to excel because of his race or nationality or other
characteristics. Vonnegut takes political correctness and equal opportunity to extremes
in order to get people to understand the dangers of some well-meaning
programs.

In addition to satirizing the notion of
handicapping people to enforce equality, Vonnegut also ridicules the failure of
rebellion, authoritarian government, and the apathy that occurs in people who watch
television.

In Chapter 39 of Great Expectations, what is Pip's "sharpest and deepest pain of all" when he discovers that Miss Havisham is not his benefactor?

Pip had always entertained the idea that his good fortune
was from Miss Havisham and that therefore Estella was intended for him along with
wealth: he thought he was being groomed to be Estella's husband. Since this is what Pip
believed, he deemed it permissible to abandon Joe and Biddy to entrench himself in the
sham life of a gentleman with the decadence and snobbery he mistakenly thought defined
"gentleman." However, when he learned that his good fortune came not from Miss
Havisham--who had no good designs for him at all beyond his being an occasional
entertainment for herself and Estella--but from the terrifying and low and uncouth
convict of the graveyard marshes, he felt utterly ashamed and utter despair--his
"sharpest and deepest pain of all"--that he had rejected good and kind, though simple,
Joe and goodhearted Biddy for--a convict. When his rejection of them was for a sham of
high social life, it was justifiable; when pip found that the rejection was for an
alliance with a convict, the reality of his own lowness came before him with
clarity.

Miss
Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only
suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with
a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the
first smarts I had. But, sharpest and deepest pain of all,—it was for the convict,
guilty of I knew not what crimes, and liable to be taken out of those rooms where I sat
thinking, and hanged at the Old Bailey door, that I had deserted
Joe.

Why does the blood flow to the kidneys decrease during exercise?

This happens because there's only so much blood to go
around in the body. When skeletal muscles are at rest, the capillary bed that supplies
the muscle tissue is relatively inactive, with only 20-25% of the capillaries open. When
the muscle becomes physically active, additionally capillaries begin to open, and
eventually 100% of the muscle capillaries are open. This means that during exercise a
much larger percentage (as much as 50% of the total volume) of blood is shunted to the
muscles than is the case at rest. Blood flow to the brain has to be maintained in order
to remain conscious, but blood flow to the other visceral organs, including the kidneys,
can be temporarily reduced in order to shunt toward the muscles.

In King Lear, what kind of man is Lear in Act 1, Scene 1?

The key to understanding Lear in the first scene of this
play is the way that he prizes appearances over reality. His "darker purpose" is to
maintain the position and the trappings of the crown whilst divesting himself of all the
work and resonsibility of being king. Likewise, the manner in which he plans to divide
up his kingdom gives value to appearance but not to reality, as the false answers of his
daughters show. It is highly significant that Lear says to his daughters "Which of you
shall we say doth love us most?" rather than just asking "Which of you loves us most?"
This of course leads to his fatal error of being blind to Cordelia's true love and
Goneril and Regan's false love, that shows him to be an arrogant, self-obsessed and
irresponsible man. We are told that Cordelia is Lear's favourite daughter at the
beginning of the play, and yet the way that he so quickly banishes her after her
response clearly demonstrates the way in which Lear values the obsequious flattery which
is not genuine of his other daughters over the truth of Cordelia's love which is
expressed through actions and not deeds.

"In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare considers time as the great adversary to love." Elucidate.

The quote you have given could actually be used as the
basis to discuss a number of Shakespeare's sonnets, which seem to place the passing of
time in conflict with the beauty of the object of the speaker's affections and their
love. However, famously, this poem seems to capture this conflict in its evocation of
what "true love" should be in a relationship, pointing towards an eternal, unchanging
sense of love that remains constant in spite of whatever damage time may do. Consider
what love is said not to be, and then what it is said to
be:

Love is
not love

Which alters when it alteration
finds,

Or bends with the remover to
remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed
mark

That looks on tempests and is never
shaken;

Love is therefore
described as unchanging and not impacted by the changing landscape around it wrought by
time. In particular, love is said not to be "Time's fool," even though beauty obviously
comes under the power of time in the way that it fades so fast. Even though beauty and
physical appearance may change thanks to the power of time, true love remains unchanged
in the face of such decay:

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Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.

Note the way in which
these lines place love in direct conflict with time, in the form of "brief hours and
weeks." Thus, although this sonnet clearly places love and time in conflict, it is
obvious that true love is never seriously threatened by the power of time, because true
love is eternal and will carry on "even to the edge of doom." Whilst time has power over
our appearance and age, true love renders such transformations as
meaningless.

Why did Old Major wish to speak to the other animals after Mr Jones went to bed in Animal Farm?

Old Major wishes to speak to the animals after Jones
retires for the night because what he has to say is an indictment of the rule of human
beings.  Old Major wants Jones to be asleep so that he can speak to the abuses of
animals at the hands of men.  Old Major waits until Jones goes to bed in order to freely
express his thoughts that both deconstruct the present system on the farm and articulate
a vision of the future.  The deconstruction lies in Old Major's beliefs that the animals
are exploited by the human beings.  He argues that the animals are used and abused,
useful only to humans in so far as they help to generate profit.  When the animals have
outlasted their usefulness, Old Major argues that they will be slaughtered.  In addition
to this, Old Major speaks of a vision whereby the animals are able to assert control of
their own destiny.  He renders a vision to the animals in something called "Animalism"
whereby humans are the enemies and all of the animals work together as one common
entity.  Old Major has to wait unti Jones slumbers in order to speak of both visions as
they represent a direct attack on Jones as a manager.  In doing so, Old Major sets the
wheels in motion for both revolution and the themes of Orwell's
work.

Select and discuss a key incident in which a main character finds himself/ herself in some type of conflict?

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, is a series of letters
between Juliet Ashton and the other people in her life. We only know of anything that
happened to any of the characters through their correspondence with her, and there are a
number of what might be considered main characters.

Juliet
Ashton is the character who connects all the others, and she finds herself in a rather
unusual conflict when Markham V. Reynolds asks her to marry him. He is a spectacular man
in every way: rich, beautiful, cultured, and a book publisher. They do fun and exciting
things together, and she enjoys her time with him very
much.

However, they have only known one another for two
months, and Ashton does not feel that is long enough for her to be certain Reynolds is
the man she should marry. There is shouting and crying, but in the end Ashton asks him
for more time to decide and he gives it to her. Earlier in her life, Ashton realized she
was making a mistake the day before she was to get married, so she does not want to make
the same mistake again. 

It is an excellent choice, for
Ashton marries someone else.

Why do we see a mirror like thing on the road in the afternoon?

This is called a mirage.  The one you are referring to is
called an inferior mirage, meaning lower in the atmosphere.  The mirage is caused by
cold and warm air bending the light ray as it travels to your eyes.  If the air closer
to the ground is warmer than the air above it, the light ray bends in an upward path or
concave direction.  When the light reaches your eyes your brain thinks that it is from a
straight line of path.  However, the light ray has been bent and projects the image
above being the sky on the ground.  You brain may trick you into thinking it is water
because it is more realistic and common to see water than sky on the
road/pavement.

How does Silko justify the woman's betrayal of her family in "Yellow Woman" by Leslie Marmon Silko?

Leslie Marmon Silko writes about the Native American
folklore that follows the oral tradition of her Laguna Pueblo culture.  “Yellow Woman”
illustrates Silko’s skills in transferring a legend into the contemporary world.  The
truth of the legend comes through the realism and confrontations of the emotional truth
and  the characters in the story.

The narrator of the story
is a young Indian woman who remains nameless except for the name given her by Silva, the
representative of the ka’tsina spirit in Indian lore.  “Yellow Woman’’ is set along a
river, on mountain trails,  and in Silva's mountain dwelling. 
 

The young woman seems typical of her heritage. 
Attractive, unsophisticated, vulnerable, and sexual—these words describe the narrator
caught up in an unknown world that her grandfather told her about,  but strikingly
different than the reality of her own life.  She does not come across as a role model
for Laguna women,  but more as the spirit for womankind who dream of adventure in their
lives.  In reality, the narrator lives with her family in
the pueblo, where life is safe, limited, and
comfortable.

Her sexual attraction to the mysterious Silva
goes beyond the normal man-woman connection.  She feels a part of him when they are
together.  He is irresistible to “Yellow Woman.” The narrator presents herself as a
willing participant in the sexual encounters as she wants not to go with him; however,
she cannot pull away. 

Her world is dream-like. The
narrator finds herself between two worlds: the real time of her twentieth century life
and family where she is educated and a wife, mother, daughter, and granddaughter; and
the mythic world that is timeless.  (1) She progresses
through the story with no boundaries between time and place.  She wants the contact of
the spiritual world in which the human, animal, and nature are
one. 

“Yellow Woman” is not just common version of the old
story of a married woman seeking to escape from her boring and unfulfilled family life
by having an affair with an exciting, eccentric man. (2)
The woman does not decide to do things with Silva but is forced to go
along with him.  She lives in the realistic world of Jell-O, paved roads, and screen
doors. 

I
wondered what they were doing at home now—my mother, my grandmother, my husband, and the
baby.  Cooking breakfast, saying ‘Where did she go?—may kidnapped,’ and Al going to the
tribal police with the
details.

(3)
Her thinking indicates that she does not appear to have a very strong attachment to her
husband or child, nor does she believe that they will mourn her loss very
much.

When the woman realizes that Silva is not the benign,
wonderful lover, her dream is quickly shattered by the understanding that this man is a
thief and a murderer. Without hesitation, she turns back to the other world: children,
husband, responsibility, routine.  She will lie to her family and they will believe
her.  Who would believe the truth? When she does return to her pueblo, she holds on to
the belief that the “strange” man will come back to get her one day when she walks again
along the river.

The narrator will not be punished for her
infidelities. (4)This was a woman in search of her
spiritual, native world.  Encompassed by the traditions of her people, she will be
protected by her other self: Yellow Woman.

What is humor and how is it used in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

Humor is a way of presenting things that are amusing. One
way to make something humorous is to present something that is absurd, illogical, or
lacks common sense. Jane Austen uses many absurd characters to present humor. One is
Mrs. Bennet, who is always going on about her goals to get her daughters married, who
acts contrary to social requirements, and is always going on about her nerves. Another
is Mr. Collins who has no mind of his own, always accepts Lady Catherine's commands, and
yet feels very proud about his position as clergyman. A third is Lady Catherine herself,
who is rude, condescending, and who traveled all the way to Longbourn to command
Elizabeth not to marry Darcy, even though Lady Catherine herself claimed that such a
union would be an impossibility.

Another way to present humor is
through wit. We see a great deal of wit in Elizabeth who is very quick to point out the
amusement and irony of a situation. For instance, when Lady Catherine demands to know if
she is engaged to Darcy, Elizabeth quickly points out that Lady Catherine has already
"declared it to be impossible" (Ch. 14, Vol. 3).

A final way in which
we see Jane Austen employ humor is through irony. Austen uses many different types of
irony, including situational irony, in which there are turns in the plot, and dramatic
irony, in which the character's words come back to haunt them. Irony can be amusing
because it is intelligent and witty.

Examine the ways in which Shakespeare uses language in Macbeth to create characters, atmosphere and horror.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, we find
that the author masterfully uses the language to bring the audience into the world he
creates with words: specifically imagery. Among the other things Shakespeare's imagery
creates are the play's realistic characters, the atmosphere (or mood) and a sense of
horror.

Imagery is used early on as the Sergeant describes
the valiant way Macbeth (and Banquo) performs on the field of battle in the war between
Norway and Scotland. In this case, the descriptions present the admirable qualities
Macbeth displays before he decides to kill Duncan, the King. In this passage, Macbeth is
described as a man who is not worried for his safety, but "hacks" his way through the
battle raging around him until he comes face to face with Macdonwald, a Scottish
traitor. Without hesitation, he cuts him open and kills him, and then puts the corpse's
head on the castle's battlements.

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For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that
name—

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd
steel,

Which smoked with bloody
execution,(20)

Like valor's minion carved out his
passage

Till he faced the
slave,

Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to
him,

Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the
chaps,

And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
(I.ii.18-25)

There are
several examples of setting the mood (or creating an atmosphere). One that I enjoy the
best is when the disruption of the order of the universe (because of Duncan's murder)
becomes obvious to the casual observer—these are signs that God is displeased that the
man he ordained to be King has been killed. Strange things begin to occur in nature.
First, Ross indicates the occurrence of an eclipse that now darkens the face of the
earth during the daytime. The Old Man talks about a role reversal where the prey becomes
the hunter:

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’Tis unnatural,

Even
like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last

A falcon
towering in her pride of place

Was by a mousing owl hawk'd
at and kill'd.
(II.iv.12-15)

Ross then
reports that the King's horses, generally gentle creatures, "make war on mankind," going
crazy, and the Old Man share a rumor he heard that Ross
confirms:

And
Duncan's horses—a thing most strange
and

certain—

Beauteous and
swift, the minions of their race,

Turn'd wild in nature,
broke their stalls, flung out,

Contending ’gainst
obedience, as they would make

War with
mankind.

OLD
MAN:

’Tis said they eat each
other.

ROSS:

They
did so, to the amazement of mine eyes

That look'd
upon't. (16-24)

These lines
show that the world has turned upside down. A strange and eerie mood is set first with
the unnatural darkness that rests over the land and then the unnatural
behavior not only of wild animals, but of the King's noble horses
that have eaten at each other.

Horror
is present when Macbeth returns to his bedroom, covered in blood, still holding the
murder weapons. His wife tries to calm his rattled nerves, telling him to wash up, and
then—seeing the daggers—to return the weapons to the King's rooms; Macbeth is horrified
and refuses:

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LADY
MACBETH:

...Why,
worthy Thane,

You do unbend your noble strength, to
think

So brainsickly of things. Go, get some
water

And wash this filthy witness from your
hand.

Why did you bring these daggers from the
place?

They must lie there. Go carry them, and
smear

The sleepy grooms with
blood.

MACBETH:

I'll
go no more:

I am afraid to think what I have
done;

Look on't again I dare not.
(II.ii.56-66)

Shakespeare
artfully uses language to make his play more realistic.

What are the primary responsibilities of the President?

The primary and most fundamental responsibilities of the
President is to serve as Commander and Chief of armed forces.  The military is under the
civilian control, which means that the President is able to command and give orders to
the military for any operation seen as vital to protection of national interests.  The
Commander in Chief capacity of the armed forces is a vital responsibility to the
President.  Another critical function of the Executive Branch and the President is to
ensure that there is a working relationship between the proposal of laws and their
passage in the Legislative Branch.  In this light, the President is seen as a force that
must work in conjunction with the Legislative Branch.  Disagreements can be there, and
are even encouraged under the checks and balances principle of the Constitution. 
However, the configuration of the branches of government ensures that the President is
able to find some level of negotiation and common ground with the legislative branch in
the passage and approval of laws.  In this, the signing and enforcement of these laws
becomes one of the most important responsibilities of the Executive
Branch.

What lessons can we possibly learn from this detective story that can be applied to life?

Jabez Wilson thinks he is learning something valuable
while he is copying the articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica,
but he is really only acquiring a temporary knowledge of certain facts, most of which
will eventually be forgotten. A real education does not consist of the accumulation of a
lot of knowledge, much of which is better off kept inside a book like the
Encyclopedia Britannica. A real education includes thinking and
discussing as well as simply reading. A person who aspires to be educated should think
about what he or she is reading and deal with it interactively--that is, to relate it to
his or her own experience and common sense. As Bacon says in his essay "Of Studies, one
should "weigh and consider" what is being read.

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Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire
them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom
without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and
consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but
not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and
attention. 

Wilson will
always be simple and naive because he is lacking in intelligence. He could copy all the
articles in all the volumes of the big encyclopedia and still be simple-minded and
uneducated. Possibly the most valuable lesson he learned from his eight weeks of copying
from the first volume of the encyclopedia occurred when he found the notice that the
Red-Headed League had been dissolved. That was when he started using his own brain for
something besides a repository for factual information, most of which was of no
practical use to him.

CHAPTER 9: What does Simon discover about the beast, and what does Simon do for the beast in Lord of the Flies?Thanks!

Chapter 9 of the Lord of the Flies is the chapter that
takes the boys from just being boys to being killers. Simon discovers that the so called
beast of the island, in really nothing more than the body of a dead airman. His
parachute had become tangled and stuck in the trees. Simon cuts the lines of the
parachute and allows the body to slip away. He realizes that he has to go and tell the
other boys that there is no beast.

In Jack's camp, they are
having a fire and a feast. Ralph and Piggy have come, to try to see if Ralph can see
what is really going on and try to get control over the boys. They start to chant and
dance around the fire. Ralph and Piggy join in slowly, and get caught up in the frenzy
that is going on. Simon rushes in, to tell them there is no beast, and Jack and the
other boys, in their frenzied state, think that Simon is the beast. Before Simon has a
chance to say anything, the boys attack him.

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"The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and
fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged
after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.
There were no words and no movements, but the tearing of teeth and
claws."

This is the moment
when the boys have crossed a line and there is a question to whether they can ever come
back from what they have done. Simon represents good, and they have just killed the good
on the island. Even Ralph and Piggy had a part in the death of Simon. The boys saw Simon
as the beast, when in reality the beast is inside of all them at that
moment.

Why does Duke Frederick dislike Orlando in As You Like It?

The answer to this question can be found in Act I scene 2,
when Orlando reveals his identity to Duke Frederick after winning the wrestling match
against Charles. Note how Duke Frederick responds to finding out that Orlando is the son
of Sir Rowland de Boys, who is an ally of the banished Duke
Senior:

I
would thou hadst been son to some man else.

The world
esteemed thy father honourable,

But I did find him still
mine enemy.

Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this
deed

Hadst thou descended from another
house.

Thus Duke Frederick
dislikes Orlando because of the way that he is related to one of his enemies. This
automatically taints Orlando by association, making Duke Frederick misinterpret Orlando
and his actions and speech. Ironically, it is Orlando's victory that brings him to the
attention of Duke Frederick and leads to his fall in favour in court, necessitating his
removal to the Forest of Arden.

Can you give some examples of the use of number three (attempts are made three times) in the Odyssey book 7-12?

The theme of three pervades the epic poem The
Odyssey in Books Seven through Twelve. There are many examples, but I'll
mention only a few. First of all, in Book Nine when Odysseus lands on the island of the
Lotus Eaters, he sends three men to investigate the island the men that inhabited it. He
tells King Alcinous that he sent out "two picked men and a runner". Another example also
occurs in Book Nine when Odysseus is on the island of the Cyclopes. While trapped in the
cave of Polyphemus, Odysseus devises a plan to escape the cave. He begins his plan by
gettting the Cyclops drunk. It takes three bowls of wine to do this. Also, in Book Nine,
the number plays a part in the final part of Odysseus' plan to escape Polyphemus' cave.
Once Polyphemus moves the huge boulder blocking the cave, Odysseus ties three men to the
belly of one of the Cyclop's sheep. When the sheep leave the cave to go out to pasture,
three men each escape with the sheep. In Book Eleven of the epic poem, Odysseus
encounters the shadowy figure of his mother in the Underworld. He had no idea that she
took her life in Odysseus' long absence. Odysseus tries three times to hug her, but to
no avail.

What is the thesis of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother?

This book, which is actually a memoir of Chua's own
experience of trying to put into practice her own beliefs of child rearing, presents a
sharp challenge to the generally accepted philosophy of child rearing in the west. Chua
argues that, instead of constantly praising a child for the slightest success, parents
should only expect absolute perfection from their children and nothing less. Note what
she says to define her beliefs about child rearing:

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Chinese parents demand perfect grades because
they believe that their child can get them. If their child does not get them, the
Chinese parent assumes it's because the child didn't work hard
enough.

Whilst some may agree
that there is a certain amount of truth in such a statement, at the same time, Chua does
not stop at this controversial statement, and instead chooses to go further, saying at
one stage:

The
solution to substandard performance is always to excoriate, punish and shame the
child.

The bulk of the book
relates Chua's own experience of trying to bring up her two daughters by this
philosophy, and is an honest if somewhat disturbing account of her successes and
failures. Whilst this method did produce results in the case of her daughters, at the
same time the extremes to which Chua went should hopefully make us question the price of
success. Thus the thesis of the story is that we in the west have got it wrong when it
comes to raising children and that we should adopt much tougher
tactics.

How is classical allusion evident in the story of Babylon Revisited?

The title of the story is in itself a biblical allusion:
the people of ancient Babylon were known to be decadent and sinful, and were eventually
punished for it. The protagonist of the story "revisits" the site of his earlier
transgressions: he was involved in a decadent Roaring Twenties lifestyle in Paris, and
became an alcoholic who behaved irresponsibly, and caused the accidental death of his
wife, and his daughter was put into the care of his wife's sister. He has returned to
show he has changed, that he is no longer irresponsible, but through an unfortunate
misunderstanding and overreaction, his wife's sister deems him an unfit parent and
refuses to allow him to take his daughter home.

Why does Shakespeare use the literary technique of oxymoron throughout Romeo and juliet?Is this technique perhaps used to reflect the conflict of...

You are definitely on the right track with your thinking. 
Oxymorons are words with opposite meanings used consecutively.  Oxymorons are used by
Romeo and Juliet to express how they are feeling opposite emotions simultaneously.  
Love and hate are both felt by Juliet in Act III when the Nurse tells her Romeo killed
her cousin Tybalt.  She still feels love for Romeo, yet she hates him at the same time
for killing Tybalt.  Some of the oxymorons she uses include "beautiful ruffian",
"angelic devil", etc.

Romeo jointly feels the emotions
elation and depression.  This is most evident in Act I when Romeo is trying to explain
his love for Roseline to Benvolio.  He is experiencing elation because he finally found
the supposed girl of his dreams, yet he feels depressed because she has vowed a life of
chastity and, therefore, can never be with him.  Consequently, he spews off several
oxymorons "brawling love", "heavy lightness", "serious vanity", "feathers of lead",
"bright smoke", "cold fire", "sick health", etc. to describe to his friend how he
feels.

find the equation of the tangent and the equation of the normal to the curve y = x - 1/3 x^3 + 1/7 x^5 where x = 4

The tangent line to the given curve, at the point x = 4 is
the derivative of the function at x = 4.

Therefore, we need
to determine the equation of the 1st derivative of the
function.

If the function is y = x - 1/(3x^3) + 1/(7x^5),
we'll get:

y' = 1 - (-9x^2)/9x^6 +
(-35x^4)/49x^10

y' = 1 + 1/x^4 -
5/7x^6

We'll calculate the slope of the tangent line, at
the point x = 4:

y'(4) = 1 + 1/256 -
5/7*4096

y'(4) = (28672 +112 - 5
)

y'(4) = 28779/28672

We'll
calculate the value of the function at x = 4:

y(4) = 4 -
1/192 + 1/7168

y(4) = (4*7168 - 112 +
3)/21504

y(4) =
28563/21504

Therefore, the equation of the
tangent line at the curve y = x - 1/(3x^3) + 1/(7x^5) t x = 4, is y - 28563/21504 =
28779(x-4)/28672.

The equation
of the normal line is written: y - 28563/21504 =
-28672(x-4)/28779.

What is the origin and effects of Progeria?

Progeria is a very rare disorder, occuring in about 1 in 8
million births. It is a disease which causes extremely rapid aging of the body,
particularly of the heart. It is usually diagnosed in early childood, and the victims
rarely survive into their teens.

While progeria is a
genetic disease, it is not passed down in families. It is caused by a spontaneous
mutation of the LMNA gene, which codes for the protein Lamin-A. Lamin-A creates the
structure of the cell nucleus. Children born with this mutation are unable to make
Lamin-A correctly, so their cell nuclei become unstable, and do not maintain or repair
themselves. As a result, the normal wear and tear in their bodies does not heal, and so
accumulates at a very rapid rate. Every body system is affected by this; some of the
more obvious symptoms are skeletal abnormalities, hair loss, thin, aged-looking skin,
and very little body fat. Most progeria sufferers die of heart
failure.

At this time there is no treatment that is
effective for progeria. The main interventions involved psychological support for the
victim and their family.

What is the "scar" on the island in Lord of the Flies?

The boys' crash-landing left a "long scar smashed into the
jungle" (7).  Golding uses the imagery of the scar, a flesh wound, as a symbol for the
destructive nature of humanity.  Ralph and Piggy immediately notice the damage to the
island where the wreckage of the plane left broken trees.  Ralph "touched a jagged end
of a trunk" and wondered aloud to Piggy what happened to the fuselage of the plane. 
Piggy's reply conjures more imagery of the plane's destructive path carved onto the
island:

"That
storm dragged it out to sea.  It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks
falling..." (8).

Golding's
imagery of the scar warns of man's innate capability to destroy; the scar is a visual
symbol that foreshadows deeper themes within the novel.

Why is Rowdy so angry in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian?

Junior alludes to the fact that there are demons that rage
inside Rowdy.  It is for this reason that he is so angry.  The fact that he is a drinker
at such a young age is a reflection of this anger and sense of sadness that almost
cradles him.  Rowdy's parents are also drinkers, indicating that there is a lack of
affect and nurturing present in his life.  This could also be a reason for his intense
amount of anger in his being.  The fact that Rowdy cannot spend time at his own house
because of what is happening there and must spend much of his time at Junior's might
also represent a source of anger.  It is here where I think that the source of Rowdy's
anger might arise.

On a more existential level, Rowdy's
anger might also be the only response he can muster to a condition that lies outside his
own control.  Life on "the rez," the state of Native Americans, and a way of life where
despair is more prevalent than redemption are all aspects of Rowdy's consciousness that
effect him, and yet are impervious to anything he might do to change them.  Such a
contradictory state of affairs might be another reason for his anger, the one thing that
can be directly controlled.

What are the main characters in "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury?

The story "There Will Come Soft Rains" from Ray Bradbury’s
The Martian Chronicles has no human characters. The concept behind
the story is that all human life on Earth is gone, but this fully automated house keeps
going because it is a machine. We know people existed at one point because their
outlines are visible outside.

The house is really the main
character in the story, and is supposed to be a machine, but Bradbury gives the house
human-like qualities (personification). The robotic mice in the story are described as
angry and at the end of the story when the house catches on fire, the house is described
as “dying” and screaming. The story says the house “tried to save itself” showing a
human desire for self-preservation.

The other short stories
in the collection have human characters, but the house would be the main character in
“There Will Come Soft Rains”.

Combine the following pair of sentences below into one sentence that contains a subordinate idea that tells more about its verb.They were jammed...

The critical element in a subordinate clause or idea is
wishing to make the reader want to continue reading.  It is here where the use of
complex sentences and a subordinate conjunction can help compel the reader to continue. 
The author uses subordinate clauses to vary up sentence structure and ideas, being able
to do more in standard sentences than "subject + verb" as the fundamental layout in
sentences.

In the sentences above, I would consider setting
up a subordinate conjunction that can being out the idea of being "jammed" or packed
into a tight situation:

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Since they were jammed together as sardines, the
ships became overcrowded.

I
used "since" as my conjunction early on in the sentence in order to highlight the
"jammed together" element.  This also allows the overcrowding issue to become more
important as explaining it because it is a result of "jamming together as sardines."  It
is here where there is a greater sense of understanding in the sentence, bringing out
more in the verb and greater variety in its topic.

Why are the pigs immediately accepted as leaders in Animal Farm?

In chapter two, the pigs announce that they have taught
themselves to read and write:

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The pigs now reveal that during the past three
months they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had
belonged to Mr. Jones's children and which had been thrown on the rubbish
heap.

The other animals are
impressed with the pigs' education. Not only have the pigs taught themselves to read and
write, but they have created the principles of Animalism. The other animals like the
sound of Animalism. This is one reason the other animals accept the pigs as leaders. The
pigs' philosophy sounds good. It makes the other animals feel there is hope. The other
animals want to see change and the pigs are now offering hope. The pigs have named the
farm Animal Farm, and the other animals like the sound of Animal
Farm.

Also, Snowball is quite the leader and is later
honored with a medal for bravery:

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Snowball shows his expert use of military
strategy during the attack—which becomes known as the Battle of the Cowshed—and is later
awarded a medal.

No doubt,
the other animals recognize the great leader that Snowball is. He is organized in his
efforts. The other animals accept his expertise and consider his ideas
effective.

Also, it was Old Major, a pig, who initially
planted the desire to rebel against Mr. Jones and his animal
cruelty:

The
animals gather in the barn as Old Major, the prize boar, tells them that he has thought
about the brutal lives that the farm animals lead under human bondage and is convinced
that a rebellion must come soon, in which the animals throw off the tyranny of their
human oppressors and come to live in perfect freedom and
equality.

The animals
respected Old Major and trusted him. It makes sense that the pigs would take up
leadership where Old Major left off. After all, everything Old Major talked about made
sense to the animals, or at least most of the animals. What animal would not desire
perfect freedom?

Most importantly, the pigs have created a
commandment that all animals are equal. This is important to the other animals and they
accept the pigs as their leaders for they talk a good talk.

Explain the importance of Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984.Also describe the way his image looks.

Emmanuel Goldstein is most likely Orwell's nod to Leon
Trotsky; his description is somewhat close but not close enough to be an absolute
identification.  Trotsky was a leader of the Russian Revolution whose theories and
writings were discredited. Trotsky himself ultimately exiled and later killed, after the
acquisition of power by his political adversary Josef Stalin.  In the novel Goldstein
serves as the object of the ritualistic expressions of hate that are part of the ongoing
indoctrination of Party members.  When Winston actually gets hold of Goldstein's actual
writings, he realizes that the man he has been trained to hate has nothing to do with
the real Goldstein.  Goldstein serves as a reminder of the necessity of objects of group
hatred in totalitarian societies, and how such objects serve to reinforce the power of
those (like Big Brother - but how "real" is he?) who define who is good and who is
bad.