Saturday, April 4, 2015

Outline briefly two explanations of what really happened with respect to the three wishesThe Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The sergeant-major who visits the Whites one cold and
snowy night tells the family of a monkey's paw that has had a spell put upon it to prove
the immutability of fate.  When he tosses it into the fireplace of the Whites, Mr.
White, who has earlier been reckless in his game of chess, retrieves it; then the
soldier leaves and the monkey's paw belongs to the
Whites.


Despite what the soldier who has been in many lands
has told them, Mr. White and his son Herbert do not consider the talisman as genuine or
as possessing any powerful properties.  In fact, Mr. White smiles "shamefacedly at his
own credulity" as he holds up the talisman; his son poses with a solemn face, but he
winks to his mother and sits at the piano striking a few ominous chords.  Clearly, the
first error in judgment by the Whites is in considering the monkey's paw as a fake. 
Therefore, Mr. White does not seriously consider that his modest wish will come
true.


In "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, the characters
who own the money's paw do not truly believe that it holds magical powers;
consequently, Mr. White is rather frivolous in making the wsh, not pondering seriously
upon his wish before rather rashly forming it.  Secondly, Mrs. White does not consider
the consequences of her wish that Herbert White be brought back from his untimely death.
All in all, because the Whites (1) do not initially take the monkey's paw seriously, and
they do not ponder and plan their wishes sufficiently, and (2) they do not consider all
the consequences of what it is for which they wish, they meet with a tragic
fate. 

Friday, April 3, 2015

Pip promises that he will come back to his village and do something for everyone. Do you think he will keep this promise?Great Expectations by...

 the next day after learning of his "great expectations,"
Pip in Chapter XIX attends church with Joe; later that day, he strolls around on the
marshes for a final look:


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As I passed the church, I felt (as I had felt
during service in the morning) a sublime compassion for the poor creatures who were
destined to go there, Sunday after Sunday, all their lives through, and to lie obscurely
at last among the low green mounds. I promised myself that I would do something for them
one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and
plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the
village.



With his opportunity
to become a gentleman, Pip then begins to imagine the importance of Joe's being
educated, encouraging Biddy to do all that she can to elevate him because Pip may pull
Joe out of the marshes and bring him "to a higher sphere."  Biddy asks Pip, "Have you
never considered that he may be proud?"


With "disdainful
emphasis," Pip repeats her word "Proud?" And, after Biddy explains, Pip arrogantly
says,



"I am
sorry to see this in you.  You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.  You are dissatisfied
on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing
it."


"If you have the heart to think so," returned Biddy,
"say so.  Say so over and over again, if you have the heart to think
so."



With these indications
in his conversation with Biddy of Pip's growing arrogance and sense of superiority, it
seems doubtful that he will want to maintain a relationship with the community, or that
he will return to show his gratitude.  With his awareness that he will soon have money
and be a gentleman, Pip now feels superior to those on the marshes; his statement that
he will return and feed "those poor creatures who were destined to go" to the
church rings of condescension--Pip himself says he will give the villagers "a gallon of
condescension." More than likely, it is an empty promise that Pip makes to
himself.  

What happens before and after "Two Minutes Hate" in 1984?

The Two Minutes Hate is a pivotal moment in Part One in
that the reader begins to understand the inner desires of the main character Winston. 
Before the emotional outburst of hate which is designed to unify the party members in
their love of Big Brother and hate for Emmanuel Goldstein, a symbol for all that is
against Big Brother, Winston has given clues to his inner struggle.  He has written a
diary, strictly forbidden, and is questioning a photograph which he believes proves lies
told by the government.  This allows him to be drawn to the dark haired girl, who he
believes holds the same level of disillusionment that he does.  After the ceremony,
Winston begins to take his inner doubts to an external level by talking with Julia,
arranging for a love next in a prole neighborhood and taking steps to join the
underground movement in support of Goldstein.


It is ironic
that these feelings gain momentum during the Two Minutes Hate, which is designed to
secure unity among the citizens.  However, Winston's reaction is to act against the
Party, which ultimately fails.

define programming language

I find Wikipedia a useful source of information. Here is
the Wikipedia explanation.


A programming
language
is an artificial href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language">language designed to
communicate href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_instruction">instructions to a
machine,
particularly a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer">computer. Programming
languages can be used to create href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_(machine)">programs that control
the behavior of a machine and/or to express href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithms
precisely.


The earliest programming languages predate the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware">invention of the
computer
, and were used to direct the behavior of machines such as title="Jacquard loom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom">Jacquard
looms and href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano">player pianos. Thousands
of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with
many more being created every year. Most programming languages describe computation in
an href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming">imperative
style, i.e., as a sequence of commands, although some languages, such as those that
support href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming">functional
programming
or href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming">logic programming,
use alternative forms of description.


A programming
language is usually split into the two components of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax">syntax (form) and title="Semantics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics">semantics
(meaning). Some languages are defined by a specification document (for example, the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)">C programming
language is specified by an href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization">ISO
Standard), while other languages, such as href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">Perl, have a dominant title="Programming language implementation"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_implementation">implementation
that is used as a reference.


If you invent a ‘Toaster’ and
wanted to program the same think of the syntax and semantics you could
use.


Select – Choose Type of
Bread


Pre Warm [period] – duration of pre-warm
time


…. Similarly for toasting and cool down
tim


…. Add a variety of alarms
etc.


…. Test Moisture Level
etc.


Hopefully you get the idea..

Read the paragraph and answer the following question: This passage discusses the similarities and differences in the language of which two...

This paragraph discusses the similarities and differences
in the languages of children on the one hand and computers on the other.  The basic idea
of the paragraph is that children as young as six years old have language skills that
are in some ways more advanced than those of the most advanced
computers.


This paragraph is telling us that both children
and computers must be taught langauge.  Children learn spoken language easily but have
difficulty with written language.  For computers, things are just the opposite. 
Computers have the ability to learn written language easily (according to this passage)
but do not do well at all with written language..


Overall,
then, the paragraph is comparing and contrasting language learning in computers and
children.

What hearsay exceptions are most relevant in child sexual abuse cases?

All the exceptions to the hearsay rule would apply
regardless of the nature of the case. There are few cases in which special circumstances
dictate a special exception to the rule, primarily instances such as "dying
declarations."


Child abuse cases are troublesome as the
child often does not understand what is going on and may parrot remarks by an adult in
order to please the adult and/or avoid perceived punishment. Although one would prefer
that a child not testify to abuse, it would be difficult to obtain a conviction without
the child's testimony. Although not a true "exception" to the rule, the Hearsay rule
does not apply unless the uttered statement is made in order to prove the truth of the
matter asserted. If offered merely to prove that the person made the statement, it is
not hearsay and not covered by the rule.


Two notable
exceptions that should apply here are the Res Gestae or "excited
utterance" rule. If one makes a statement during the heat of the moment, immediately
after a serious or traumatic event, an exception applies. The reasoning is that one has
not had a proper opportunity to amend, correct, or "perfect" his story and it is
therefore probably true. A second exception is the "admission against interest" rule;
that is a "confession." Thus if one admitted to an improper or unlawful act to a second
person, the second person could testify as to the truth of the statement as an exception
to the rule.

In the equation E=mc2 why is the speed of light squared i mean what is its significance?

here the speed of light acts only as a constant of
proprtionality.....


1. look E and m are
inter-convertable.....and in such processes E is directly proportional to
m.......


2. now to replaceproportionality by equality we
must require a constant.....


3. morever in such processes a
very small amount of mass can be converted into a very very large amount of
energy.....therefore the constant heree will have a very large value....and when
calculated, its valuewere found to be equal to 90000000000000000 and its unit should be
in m/s that is exactly equal to the square of speed of
light.....

What is the meaning of the 4th stanza of Eliot's Preludes, especially the lines "I am moved by fancies...Infinitely suffering thing".

A century old this year, T.S. Eliot's Preludes raises the curtain on his great modernist masterpieces, The Love...