In Death of a Salesman, Willy praises and then curses the Chevrolet; what do these inconsistencies tell us about Willy?

The main
messages that the audience gets from most of Willy Loman's actions can be summarized in the
following:

• inconsistent


• contradictory
• incomplete

This is
because, as it is evident throughout the play, Willy Loman has never really had a backbone that
would provide him with the self-assurance that is so needed to make good choices and move on
through life. Part of this lack of back-bone comes from the fact that Willy was abandoned by his
father so early in life. Also, right as he is left with his elder brother as his main keeper,
his brother also leaves. Willy never really had the male role model that he very much needed to
understand his role as a son, a father, and a husband. This is the main reason why he basically
failed at all three.

The result of a living without guidance leads Willy to
double-guess himself all of the time. On one hand, he calls himself "vital" and
"well-liked" while, on the other hand, he has to ask his mistress whether he is funny,
or whether he is likable. Likewise, while he feels sure that he is ready to go explore Alaska
with his brother, he again double-guesses himself and asks Linda what she thinks about the
possibility. Willy just is not capable of making an educated decision and create viable choices
from them. He simply has no clue who he is, or what he has to offer.

Then
there is the Chevy.  When the car was first purchased it was a sign of great times to come. The
car was one of Willy's prized possessions, and having come to own it represented a sign that his
American Dream was well on its way to come true.
However, time has passed, and the
Chevy no longer does the job it once did; like Willy, the car is outdated and needs a lot of
fixing up. Yet, despite of all this, the mixed emotions that Willy has about it shows Willy's
own inability to think objectively- he simply goes with what he feels at the time. This huge
flaw is what leads his life on a road to nowhere.

Who is Katharine in 1984?

 There is
a great character description and
analysis for each character in the novel on so I will
post Katharine's here
for your convenience. 

Katharine is 

"s
wife. She was a tall, fair-haired girl, and, according to Winston, remarkably

vulgar and stupid. Technically, he is still married to her, though theyve lost track of
each
other. They parted ways about ten or eleven years before, after only
fifteen months of marriage,
when they realized that she could not get
pregnant by him. The Party has declared that the only
reason for marriage is
procreation, and in fact it is illegal to have sex simply for pleasure.

Therefore, there was no reason for Winston and Katharine to stay together. The Party
does not
believe in divorce, just separation, so Winston and Katharine just
sort of drifted
apart.

Readers only see Katharine through
Winstons memory of her, and her
main purpose in the novel is to show how the
Party destroys love, sex, and loyalty between
husband and wife."

Hope this helps! I'll include the link below as

well.

About citation, I have to mention the dates when citing critical overview on Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel lee" can you please help?

According to
research, the only important dates I was able to relate to this poem are as follows."
" was the last poem that Poe composed, and was first published in November, 1849, in The
Southern Literary Messenger, a month or so after his death. Written in 1849.Poes death occurred
on October 7, 1849."Annabel Lee" appeared in two...

What are some examples of Holden's internal and external conflicts in The Catcher in the Rye?

's
inability to deal with things, is his most pressing conflict that he has. He lives in the past
and therefore, can't move on with his life. He is an angry young man. His external conflicts
stem from this. He is angry with life, and society. He thinks people are hypocrites and that
they only care about material things. He will start fights with people for no reason at all. He
is very selfish at this point in his life. It is quite apparent that he is suffering from some
sort of mental break, and this is causing him to create external conflict with everyone he
meets.

Holden's biggest internal conflict, is that he can not deal with the
death of his younger brother, . This event has haunted him since his death. Holden slept in the
garage the night his brother died and broke all the windows in the garage. He has harbored this
anger and sadness inside himself for many years, now. He is unprepared on how to deal with is
feelings.

"The thing was, I couldn't think of a room
or a house...

What happens to the Charter in "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"? hi

In Chapter
15, the historical incident involving the disappearance of the Connecticut Charter is
described. 

The Charter was a document obtained from England by the
Connecticut Colony which guaranteed them the right to self-government. In 1687, the Crown
reneged on its agreement and ordered the colonists to surrender their Charter.  During
discussion on the issue that lasted until dark, the candles were suddenly and mysteriously blown
out all at once, and when they were relighted, the Charter, which had been displayed in plain
sight on a table, was gone.  It had been taken and placed in hiding by unnamed dissidents, and
William Ashby is one of the few who knows where it is.  Although the colonial government was
ended nonetheless, the disappearance of the Charter was a symbolic moral victory, and Matthew
Wood predicts that "when the hard times have passed...(they) will bring (the) charter out
of hiding ...and show the world what it means to be free men".

Although
the book says nothing more about what happened to the Charter, historical records show that it
was spirited out of the room by Captain Joseph Wadsworth and hidden in a hollow oak.  It
remained in its hiding place for two years, at which time the royal governor was removed from
office and the precious document was brought forth once again. 

How could Victor Frankenstein's warning to Walton that he "ardently hopes that the gratification of [his] wishes may not be a sting to you, as mine...

In
,dreams of great accomplishments through his exploration. In his first
letter to his sister, he asks, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great
purpose? Whenand Robert converse, Victor recognizes that Robert is in some ways a kindred
spirit. However, Victor suffered from excessive pride (). By focusing on gratifying his own
desires and failing to anticipate the consequences of his actions, Victor became responsible for
disasters that occurred on many fronts. His own anguishing and the suffering and death of many
others are what he refers to as the sting.

There are numerous examples of
this kind of behavior and its negative consequences. Self-centered behavior and arrogance are
often associated with the Type A, over-achiever personality, which also tends to produce
highly successful entrepreneurs. People who disregard the negative effects of their actions on
others can cause widespread, often irreparable harm. A good example in the business and finance
realm is Bernard Madoff, who ran the largest pyramid or Ponzi scheme in history. When he was
finally caught, prosecuted, and convicted, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Another way of looking at Victors troubled behavior is by focusing on the type of
activity: his playing God through reckless scientific experiments. Since the late twentieth
century, changes in biomedical technology have facilitated biomedical engineering, leading to a
host of ethical questions about genetic modifications. These include the possibility of creating
human beings through cloning, as has been done with animals. The unethical use of donor sperm
has also raised issues about appropriate controls over artificial insemination.

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In the story of "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, what does the "descent of the soul into Hades" mean?

This
quotation occurs at the end of the first
paragraph of the story, and it is acomparing that which
the author is going
through to death. In mythology, Hades is the realm of the dead in the

afterlife and does not necessarily have any concept of torment or punishment associated
with it.
However, in Christian tradition, the term "Hades" is the equivalent
of hell, a place
of eternal suffering where unbelievers go when they
die.

When the narrator
speaks of Hades, he says this: "all
sensation appeared swallowed up in that mad rushing
descent
as of the soul into Hades." The word "as"

indicates that the expression is a simile. The narrator faints, as the following line
makes
clear, "I had swooned." Thus the narrator means that the act of losing
consciousness
felt to him like he imagined it must feel like for the soul of
a person to leave this life and
descend into Hades or hell. This figurative
language is consistent with the descriptions that
precede it in the story. In
his state of half-consciousness during the inquest, he imagines the
seven
candles to be angels. He goes on to consider that dying must be very
pleasant.
Consequently, the use of this simile for fainting is in keeping
with the other-worldly and
morbid thoughts the narrator is having in his
half-dream state.

What is the net ionic equation for Ag + O2 => what is the rest?

There is
no ionic equation here since Ag and O are not in ionic...

How long did it take the police to find the wife?

Thein s
short story has murdered his wife and entombed her remains behind a brick wall in the cellar.
The large black cat that had mysteriously replaced the once-beloved Pluto and that has a large
white pattern depicting gallows symbolic of Plutos brutal, ugly murder has disappeared as
mysteriously as it had first appeared. As readers of Poes story discover, the protagonist,
relating his story from death row the day before his execution, had unknowingly entombed the
live cat behind the same wall that contained the remains of his wife. Before the discovery of
the cat, however, the protagonist, who narrates his story, takes the reader through the days
between the murder and its discovery by the police.

Poes narrator is nervous,
having murdered his wife with an axe. As the first few days after the event pass, however, he
becomes more relaxed, believing that he has gotten away with his crime. The answer to the
questionhow long did it take the police to find the bodyis provided following reference to
several summary investigations into the wifes whereabouts:

The guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but little. Some few inquiries had been made,
but these had been readily answered. Even a search had been institutedbut of course nothing was
to be discovered. I looked upon my future felicity as secured.

It is now when the narrator writes that, [u]pon the fourth day of the assassination,
a party of the police came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceeded again to make
rigorous investigation of the premises. This search, of course, leads to discovery of the murder
victims remains, but only after the now-confident narrator has facilitated his own demise by
rapping heavily with a cane ... upon that very portion of the brickwork behind which stood the
corpse of the wife of my bosom. The rapping on the wall alarms the cat sealed behind the wall,
which emits a terrifying screech heard by the investigating law enforcement officers who proceed
to tear down the wall and find the body with the cat resting uneasily upon the corpses
head.

Why has the Party gone to such tremendous efforts to ensnare and trap Winston? part 2

In the eyes
of the Party,poses a true threat.  The Party maintains power by using mind control, by teaching
others to think in ways that benefit the Party (Big Brother).  It seems reasonable to assume
that the only real fear of the party is losing its power; its power can only be lost via the
power of free thought. Freedom is contagious; its power grows many fold with the addition of
each person who recognizes some evil in Big Brother.  If you think of free thought as a
contaminant (from the Party's viewpoint), it may be easier to recognize that Winston, as
person...

What are the main literary devices of From Phyllis by Thomas Lodge?

In Thomas
Lodge's "To Phyllis," the first notable literary device is perhaps the
in lines six and seven. Here the speaker says that his Phyllis has
"prime-feathered flowers / That smile when she treads on them." The flowers are
personified to suggest that nature, which the flowers symbolize, is enamored with
Phyllis.

In the ninth line the speaker employs a
when he says that Phylis has "so hard a heart." Her
heart of course is not literally hard, but the metaphor implies that she is unsympathetic, and
emotionally cold. Perhaps the implication is that Phyllis does not respond, in the way that he
would like, to the speaker's attentions.

At the end of the poem, in the final
two lines, there is a rhyming . In these lines the speaker asks the
flowers to ask Phyllis to see him before he dies. A rhyming couplet at the end of a poem often
indicates some kind of closure, or resolution. The resolution in this poem seems to be that the
speaker will die if Phyllis does not return his love.

This resolution is
especially tragic when contrasted to the repetition of the phrase
"My Phyllis" at the beginning of the poem. The repetition of the possessive pronoun
"My" implies that the speaker considers Phyllis to, in some sense, belong to him. At
the end of the poem, the speaker realizes that Phyllis does not belong to him at all, at least
not in the sense that he craves. She evidently does not love him, despite the love which he
obviously has for her.

In chapter 7 of Never Let Me Go, Miss Lucy says, "It's just as well the fences at Hailsham aren't electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes."...

Miss Lucy is
teaching a poetry lesson to her
English class and the topic of conversation falls on soldiers
held in World
War 2 prison camps.

"One of the boys

asked if the fences around the camps had been electrified, and then someone else had
said how
strange it must have been, living in a place like that, where you
could commit suicide any time
you liked just by touching a fence."

The class
pretends to joke about touching
imaginary fences and getting electrocuted, and that's when Miss
Lucy remarks
about "terrible accidents." She juxtaposes the image of a prisoner of war

intentionally killing himself on a fence with both the images of children
playfully
mocking...

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In lines 8€“13 of "The Pit and the Pendulum," describe the narrators state of consciousness and how it changes.

Allowing
six lines for the introductory quatrain and its translation, lines 8€“13 of 's ""
encompass approximately this section of the story:

I felt
that my senses were leaving me. The sentencethe dread sentence of deathwas the last of distinct
accentuation which reached my ears. After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed
merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum. It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolutionperhaps
from its association in fancy with the burr of a mill-wheel. This only for a brief period, for
presently I heard no more.

From this passage, we can
deduce that the narrator is fully conscious at first. Since he feels his senses leaving, he was
aware of his mental state and surroundings initially. He hears his death sentence distinctly.
However, whether from mental distress at hearing the pronouncement or from some sort of physical
trauma or both, he fades into a state of semi-consciousness. He is not completely...

What were the reasons for the decline of drama in the Romantic era?

In the
Romantic period, it is not really the case that drama declined, but rather that poetry exploded.
There were still many great dramatists in the Romantic era such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Victor Hugo, and Friedrich Schiller.

However, it is fair to say that there
were less canonical works of drama produced in this time period, and perhaps this is because
poetry was a better medium for the topics in which the Romantics were interested.


Among other things, the Romantics loved to write and think about humanity's
relationship to nature. While this topic could certainly be explored in a play, it is probably
fair to say that poetry is and was a more agreeable genre. And indeed, the Romantic poets wrote
hundreds and hundreds of amazing, now anthologized poems including, "Ozymandias,"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," and "Ode to a
Nightingale."

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What does "the alchemist" mean in Coelho's The Alchemist?

An alchemist
was a person who sought, among other things, to turn base metal into gold. Santiago meets an
alchemist, a veiled stranger on a white horse, at the oasis in the desert. Santiago travels with
the alchemist for a time and witnesses him actually turning lead into gold. Santiago understands
that you cannot become a successful alchemist without first purifying your soul.

Santiago learns to trust the alchemist, but the alchemist tells him he can't tell him
the secret of turning metal into gold, because it "was my Personal Legend, not yours."
He tells Santiago he should go back to the oasis, and Santiago does. He has gleaned from the
alchemist that he has to faithfully pursue his own Personal Legend with a pure heart. In this
sense, Santiago also becomes a metaphorical alchemist. He takes all he has learned on his
journeys and is able to turn it into "gold" by returning home again to find his
treasure.

Other than proverbial language, how is Achebe demonstrating the depth and beauty of African culture in the novel Things Fall Apart?

The depth and beauty of the Igbo culture in
is particularly evident in the descriptions of tribal customs and rituals,
including musical performances, dances, and religious ceremonies. These play an important role
in the book from the very beginning. s father, , is a musician and his face lights up whenever
he talks about music. His reaction to the thought of playing in his band is poetically
described:

He could hear in his minds ear the
blood-stirring and intricate rhythms of the ekwe and the udu and the ogene, and he could hear
his own flute weaving in and out of them, decorating them with a colorful and plaintive tune.
The total effect was gay and brisk, but if one picked out the flute as it went up and down and
then broke up into short snatches, one saw that there was sorrow and grief there.

This music is often accompanied by traditional dances such as the
ozo, which is part of the intricate ritual that occurs when a member of the tribe takes a new
title. There are many of these rituals for important milestones in the life of the tribe and its
members, some of which (for example, births, deaths, and marriages) are universal. However,
others, such as the taking of titles and the ceremonies involving the egwugwu dancers (who
impersonate the ancestral spirits of the village) are culturally very specific. Art and religion
are combined in these powerful rituals, which emphasize the dignity of the culture as much as
the lofty language and intricate mythology of the Igbo.

List and discuss the four key elements of the Athenian democracy.

Athenian
democracy was created after the age of
the tyrants as an attempt to create a system of
government which was governed
and shaped by the citizenry of Athens. With this in mind, one of
its major
tasks was to prevent an oligarchy or a single person from seizing power, and
it
contained several safeguards designed to counteract a perceived accretion
of power.

One of these was the idea of ostracism. Athens
had a procedure enshrined within its
laws which allowed the citizenry to vote
whether or not to banish a citizen from Athens for a
span of ten years. This
practice was intended to give Athenians a chance to counteract
individuals
who were becoming too prominent or influential or powerful, to the point where
they
might become a threat to the democracy itself.

In
addition, the Athenians
made use of a lottery system when it came to the
selection of individuals for public service, to
ensure there was randomness
to the selection. This is in sharp contrast to modern democratic

values...

What is the singular effect in The Pit and the Pendulum? Poe claimed short stories were intended to create a singular effect.

In 's essay
The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, Poe describes the
importance of the single effect in a text.

A skillful
literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has notfashioned his thoughts to accommodate
his incidents; but havingconceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single
effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents--he then
combinessuch events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceivedeffect.

What Poe is saying here is that a writer must have a certain
purpose in mind when constructing a text. A true artist (writer) constructs a piece which is
meant to be read in one sitting based upon the fact that a

simple cessation in reading would, of itself, be sufficient todestroy the true unity.
In the brief tale, however, the author isenabled to carry out the fullness of his intention, be
it what it may.

Therefore, Poe's single
effect which he creates in is one which he speaks of in his
essay. Poe wants his reader to be able to take in the complete text in one sitting so that the
emotions they are feeling are not stopped given the reader does not require a pause in the
reading, which would "destroy the unity" of the text.

As one can
easily recognize, Poe's texts were meant to be read in one sitting given his immense repertoire
of poetry and short stories). Poe wanted his reader's to be engrossed and engulfed by his words,
by the images he created, and by the character's he designed.

Explain in detail the summary of the poem "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt.

In Howitt's
1828 children's poem, a spider tries different strategies to entice a fly into its home so he
can kill and eat it. The spider is pictured as a smooth-talking gentleman and the fly as a
female.

The spider initially tries to appeal to the fly's sense of curiosity
to lure her into his home, but she sidesteps visiting him, saying she knows that those who go up
to the parlor never come back down again. The spider next appeals to the fly's weariness,
offering to tuck her into a bed with fine sheets. The fly repeats that she knows if she takes
him up on the offer, she will never be seen again.

The spider now turns to
offering the fly food from his pantry, but again his reputation as a dangerous insect deters
her. She still refuses to enter his home. Finally, the spider moves from appealing to comforts
and directly flatters the fly, calling her witty and wise and praising her looks. He offers her
a chance to gaze at herself in his mirror.

The fly has done well so far at
sidestepping the spider's enticements, but now begins to weaken, saying she'll return. The
spider knows he has her now and spins a web in the corner of his room.

Soon
after, the fly returns. Thinking only about her own beauty, she comes close enough that the
spider can seize and drag her to his "dismal parlor." She is never seen
again.

The poem ends with a direct address from the speaker to the children
listening to the poem. They are warned to ignore flattery and "take a lesson" from
this didactic poem. The poem also functions as a warning to women to sidestep the flattery of
smooth-talking, predatory men.

In the book Stargirl, why does Hillari Kimble say Stargirl isn't real?

's
novel, , tells the story of an unusual girl named Susan, though she prefers
to go by "Stargirl." A new student at Mica Area High School, Stargirl's eccentric
clothing and odd behavior garners all kinds of attention and affection, especially that of the
narrator, Leo. 
 
While almost everyone is curious about Stargirl, Hillari
Kimble, one of the more popular girls in the school,...

What is Susie's brothers name?

In this novel by
, Susie's brother's name is Buckley Salmon. He is the youngest child in the family. There is
another sister named Lindsey. Buckley struggles to cope with his sister's death throughout the
novel. When his alcoholic grandmother moves into his home to help his dad care for him and
Lindsey after their mother runs off with another man, Buckley has further struggles. He
struggles with his father later in the novel and the father (Jack) winds up having a heart
attack. This prompts Buckely's mother, Abigail, to come home and help care for him and Lindsey,
but Buckley remains bitter against her for leaving them in the first
place.

How does the language of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech create an impact on the audience?

In his well-known "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., employs
language that is compelling and filled with both figurative language andto urge his readers to
believe in a world of better possibilities for everyone.

Effective repetition
is one strategy that King uses to strengthen his argument. In the very beginning, he repeats
"one hundred years later" three times in a single (written) paragraph to underscore
the empty promises to the African American population. Later, he repeats his famous "I have
a dream" title line numerous times to highlight the ways that America could better fulfill
its promises to all people and to demonstrate the unity that is possible. This section is also
an excellent example of logos, the rhetorical strategy which appeals to the
audience's sense of logic.

King also uses metaphors, such as this
one:

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate
valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Thisdemonstrates the...

In the General Prologue to the Cantebury Tales, how does Chaucer use images of food, eating and physical size in his descriptions of the pilgrims? How...

Many of
Chaucer's character sketches in theto Canterbury Tales use the diet and
eating habits of the characters as symbols of their personalities.

The
Prioress, for example, is depicted as a very dainty diner:

At table she had been well taught withal,
And never from her lips let morsels
fall,
Nor dipped her fingers deep in sauce, but ate(10)
With so much care the
food upon her plate
That never driblet fell upon her breast.

This is part of her image as a person who "went to many
pains...

What are the effects of imperialism on our world today?

This is an
extremely complex question that is very difficult to answer here.  Essentially, our the world is
becoming more gloabilzed (the process of globalization) economically.  Unlike economic
imperialism from the 16th through 19th centuries, more developed countries are...

In "Animal Farm", what is a list of ideal ideas outlined by Old Major that should occur after the rebellion? Old

In ,is the
visionary behind the revolution.  It is Old Major's dreams and views that inspire the animals to
actually rebel against the farmer and his men. In a speech he gives to the animals, he outlines
what he believes the future of the farm should be and how the animals should live
together.

"Major identifies man as the cause of all
the problems for the animals. It is man alone who consumes without producing. Get rid of man, he
says, and animals will be rich and free. Jones abuses his animals. Old Major predicts that
evenwill be sold to the knacker to be boiled down for glue and dog food the very day that
those great muscles of yours lose their power. ()

After
the rebellion, and out of Old Major's speech, the animals develop the belief system known as
Animalism and the seven commandments that are painted on a sign that represent the foundational
principles that are to govern their behavior after the rebellion.  The seven principles
are:

"1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an
enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No
animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal
shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals
are equal."

What parts of the story demonstrate the theme of appearance versus reality?

In this
story,reveals her mastery of construction as linked to character by precisely controlling the
reader's access to information about "reality." Laurie's mother is portrayed as an
involved, concerned parent. The difficulties that Laurie is experiencing in school are
understandable on one level because, as a good-natured, trusting boy, he is bound to be
impressed and even troubled by ' acting out. The parents' reinforcement of their affection for
their boy should reassure him of his security within their home. The mother intends to raise the
issue with the teacher to see if further steps are needed. Perhaps Laurie is overly sensitive or
is exaggerating.

Butthat is only the way things appear to the parents. Have
they missed important cues? Did Laurie make up all the incidents? Did he do some or all of the
things...

What is a quote that establishes the setting of "Araby" by James Joyce?

The story takes place on North Richmond Street in Dublin, Ireland, around
the turn of the twentieth century.

There are many quotes you
can pull from this very descriptive story, but the following is very meaningful.

I sat staring at the clock for some time and. when its ticking
began to irritate me, I left the room. I mounted the staircase and gained the upper...

What sins does Macbeth commit in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

commits numerous sins after hearing the Three Witches' initial prophecies, which consume his
mind with the possibility of one day becoming King of Scotland. 's extreme desire to become king
and his willingness to assassinate Kingare a direct result of his overwhelming greed and envy.
Macbeth envies the authority and wealth that comes with being crowned king and commits a
horrific murder to usurp the throne. After assassinating the king, Macbeth proceeds to lie to
the Scottish lords to hide his crime before hiring assassins to killand . Macbeth is worried
that Banquo's descendants will inherit the throne as the prophecy suggests and attempts to end
Banquo's bloodline to no avail.

Following Banquo's murder, Macbeth continues
to display his wrath and violence by developing into a bloodthirsty tyrant, having 's entire
family slaughtered. He displays his selfish, insensitive personality by distancing himself from,
and his pride contributes to...

Evaluate the indefinite integral integrate of (2t^2-t+1)/(t(t^2+25))dt

First
write the expression as a partial sum

`(2t^2 -t +1)/(t(t^2+25)) = A/t + (Bt +
C)/(t^2 +25)`

`implies A(t^2 + 25) + Bt^2 + Ct = 2t^2 -t +1`

Comparing...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, compare and contrast the characters of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.

and Tom
Robinson are bothwho can be connected to the symbol of the mockingbird. Mockingbirds don't hurt
or pester anyone, which is whysays it's a sin to shoot one. The theme behind this is that
innocent people are like mockingbirds, especially those who are less fortunate than the
majority. These innocent people should be allowed to live in peace just like mockingbirds should
not be shot. However, this is not the case for these two men. Both Radley and Robinson are
hounded by rumors, myths, and prejudices; consequently, they are treated with disrespect from
the community. For example, Miss Stephanie Crawford spreads rumors that Boo Radley sneaks around
town at night and looks into people's windows. Rather than minding their own business, or
finding out the truth for themselves, people judge Boo Radley as a criminal or a
boogieman.

Tom Robinson also has rumors spread about him by Bob Ewell. It's
worse for Tom, though, because Bob Ewell not only ruins Tom's life...

In Pygmalion, discuss how Clara and Eliza try to present themselves as ladies at Mrs. Higgins' "at-home."

In
Clara and Eliza approach presenting themselves with the appearance of
being ladies from two vastly different frames of reference. Clara, though not of the highest
social circles herself due to her mother's sorely limited income, associates with those circles.
Eliza, by contrast, prior to her contact with Higgins, has never had any contact at all with
better social classes except to try to sell them flowers on the street corner. This means that
when Clara tries to present herself as a lady at a social event like Mrs. Higgins' at-home she
can well do it, within the limits of her personality, temperament and education.

When Eliza tries to present herself as a lady (at this early stage of her training) she
comes at it with misconceptions, limits on comprehension, ignorance of form and subtleties of
manner and cannot well do it: She can dress the part and appear the part because of her beauty
and to some extent act the part because she can learn to pour tea from a teapot but cannot think
the part or speak the part. Though Clara has her own problems with social grace, courtesy of
manner, consideration and intelligence, she and Eliza are still worlds apart in the attempt to
present themselves as ladies. In the end though, when Eliza's natural good-heartedness combines
with the linguistic and social cultivation Higgins has bred in her, she obviously surpasses the
gruff, unpleasant, ill-mannered Clara in presenting herself as a lady.

sin(x+Ï€/4) = 2 cos(x-Ï€/4) Solve for x

We are asked
to solve sin(x+pi/4)=2(cos(x-pi/4)) for x.

Often, to solve equations
involving trigonometric functions, it helps to try to transform the equation to one that
involves only one function. Usually you will use identities to achieve that goal.

Here we can use the sum identities for sine and cosine. Recall that:

sin(A+B)=sinAcosB + sinB
cosA
cos(A-B)=cosAcosB+sinAsinB

Using these we
rewrite the given equation as:

sinxcos(pi/4)+cosxsin(pi/4)=2(cosxcos(pi/4)+sinxsin(pi/4))

Noting that sin(pi/4)=cos(pi/4)= `sqrt(2)/2` , we substitute into
the equation to get:

`sqrt(2)/2 sinx+sqrt(2)/2
cosx=2(sqrt(2)/2 cosx + sqrt(2)/2 sinx)`

Using the
distributive property and collecting like terms we get sinx=-cosx.

(1) We can
divide both sides by cosx to get tanx=-1. The arctan (or inverse tangent) of -1 is -pi/4. Since
tangent has a period of pi, the full answer is:

`x=-pi/4 +
npi, n in ZZ` (n is an integer.)

(2) We could recognize
that sinx=cosx implies x is a multiple of pi/4. The sine and cosine have opposite sign in the
2nd and 4th quadrants giving the same answer as above.

You might know, or be
able to show, that cos(x-pi/4)=sin(x+pi/4). Then the original equation becomes
sin(x+pi/4)=2(sin(x+pi/4)) or sin(x+pi/4)=0. Then since sinA=0 implies A=0 we have x+pi/4=0 or
x=-pi/4 as above.

Last, you might graph the left and right sides of the
equation and look for the intersection.

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There are 5 kind of psalms: praise, wisdom, royal, thankgiving, lament. There are 4 kinds of prayer: adoration, contrition, thankgiving, supplication....

Wow, those
are detailed questions and answers.  I think that you need to remember that you will choose the
psalms and prayer based on the occasion.  There are this many so that you will be able to find
the one you need based on when you need it.

Describe Nora's mood in act 1 of A Doll's House.

's mood
and attitude in act 1 of do little to indicate what her eventual
transformation over the course of the play will be. In the beginning, Nora is bubbly and happy
and seems to be the model housewife. She buys gifts to dote on her children and respects her
husband's word, which becomes more surprising by the minute as the act goes on.

Indeed, we findto be a man that, while not entirely unkind, makes a habit of
infantilizing his wife and treating her in an overly possessive manner. He lectures her with
platitudinous ideas about the spending of money and even calls her wasteful when she wants to
find the perfect gift for herself, ending with a patronizing sting by telling her that she's
"perfect" the way she is.

It is obvious that Torvald does not want
his wife to change or to think too freely. We do see a spark of rebellion in Nora, however. At
the beginning of the act, she takes a macaroon for herself and enjoys it. This seems to be
blatantly against Torvald's wishes, as he asks her suspiciously if she indulged her
"sweet-tooth." He even goes on to ask specifically about macaroons when she denies it,
and eventually, he relents. This moment of defiance sets the stage for Nora's eventual rebellion
and transformation into an independent woman.

What is the place and social role of the governess in Jane Austen's Emma?

There are three broad kinds of
references to governesses in :

• Miss Taylor as
  governess to the Woodhouses
• Jane Fairfax's potential position as a
  governess
• general mention of governesses applying to the Sucklings and
  determining their conditions.

Bear in mind, though, that the
glimpse given in Emma of the world of governesses is a minute glance and a
very rarefied glimpse. In other worlds, there is far more to the world of governessing than
appears in Emma. This is important to understand if you intend to draw
general conclusions about the place and social role of governesses throughout English society
because you will be unable to draw sound conclusions if you examine just what is found in
Emma. Examples of other aspects of governessing come, for instance, from
the Bront« sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront« and in
Agnes Grey by Anne Bront«. Emma draws the world of
the governess with "so fine a brush" on a bit "of ivory" "two inches
wide."

Mr. Knightley gives the closest thing to a "job
description" for a governess when he and Mrs. Weston nee Taylor discuss her
inappropriateness to be a governess. This discussion alone tells that governesses were not mere
escorts to protect and oversee children. Knightley (as Mrs. Elton dared to call him) tells Mrs.
Weston that her "powers" promised a good education but that that promise was never
fulfilled; she became the companion instead.

"Emma
has been mistress of the house and of you all. ... You might not give Emma such a complete
education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education
from her,..."

This inadequate, failed
role Knightley criticizes. Thus companionship was not the
role of the governess. The role, as Knightley
implies, was to provide a good, high quality education, especially to daughters who were at that
time not sent out at a young age to "public school" to be educated ("public"
meaning private, but public in that it is not at home with a tutor (man) or governess (woman)),
though, as in David Copperfield and Jane Eyre and
Great Expectations, daughters had many avenues of formal education open to
them under the university level. To try to define a "good
education" for girls, it included skill in music, modern language
multilingualism, geography and history, science reading, morality and philosophy reading, and
perhaps Greek and Latin along with the ancient Classics (it is believed Austen was versed in
reading the Greek and Roman classics though perhaps in translation).

Mr.
Woodhouse offers a glimpse at the idealized place of the governess
when he says that Miss Taylor had lived with them as living in what was her home, not as a
tenant or boarder or boarding employee in someone else's home, "it has been her home,"
and that her health was always his first concern (never mind he is a bit obsessive about it,
it's the concern that counts), "her health ... ought to be the first object." Mrs.
Elton offers a glimpse of the realistic place of the governess when
she prattles on about what is possible as a governess for a family that moves in the "first
circles" of social contact and connections (though Maple Grove and the Sucklings wouldn't
be the first circles were they to chance to meet Lady de Bourgh or Darcy from
). Mrs. Elton paints a picture where the quality and "powers" of
the governess determine her place in terms of
interacting with the family. She also paints a picture of the converse
where the quality of the family determines
her place in terms of the happiness given her
through her employ with the family. The place, then, of the
governess is that, first, she is an employee; second,
she is the sole provider of quality, good education, like Austen's heroines themselves have
(with some flaws); third, she is at the mercy of the family employing her
for her comforts in life.

Comment on Shaw's use of myth in Pygmalion. Answer in detail.

If you use
the term "myth" loosely, you might apply the Frankenstein myth to the characters,
plot, and theme of the play. While the play is called , it seems to have many thematic parallels
to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  In this 19 C. romantic novel,
Shelley portrays an overly ambitious scientist, much like Henry Higgins, whose experiments
create an anomalous being who as a result has nowhere to go.  Like Shelley, Shaw explores the
effects of such a creation on both the creator and the creation.  We see Eliza transformed from
a flower girl to a lady, but this transformation involves far more than a transformation of
language and clothes.  Like the monster, Eliza becomes much more than her creator bargained
for--and as Higgins is reminded by his mother and Mrs. Pearce, he has some responsibility toward
her in making it impossible for her to return to the world she has known previously. Just as Dr.
Frankenstein abandons his monster, Higgins refusal to acknowledge Eliza as anything more than an
experiment deeply wounds Eliza who gradually learns to stand on her own two feet in a world of
rigid class distinctions and hypocrisy. 

How does inflation reduce the burden of national debt?

The effect
of inflation is to essentially to reduce the value of cash in the economy. As inflation
increases, the price of goods increases, which means that each dollar available has less buying
power.

Because of this, the government benefits in two ways. The first is
that it can levy higher taxes. In order to extract the same value from taxes, it will have to
bring in more cash, because cash now has less buying power. This will give the government higher
reserves that can pay down the debt.

Additionally, the overall value of the
debt decreases. Because each dollar is less valuable, the debt loses value. GDP will increase
with inflation, so the debt becomes a smaller percentage of that number, and it becomes easier
to pay down.

Explain Hume's argument about intelligent or natural design?

Hume argued
against Intelligent Design in his 1748 essays  "Dialogues Concerning Natural
" and "An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding"

Hume's argument is essentially three-fold.
First, Hume claims that in order for intelligent design to be feasible, it must be true that
order and purpose are...

Describe Lennie and George's dream for the future.

anddream of
saving up their money and purchasing their own small farm.

This is a part of
the American Dream of land ownership that is largely out of the reach of migrant workers like
George and Lennie. They crave it because it would give them a chance to put down roots and
become part of a community, rather than wandering constantly in search of work. They dream of
the independence it would give them, including the chance to take a day off if they felt like
it. Further, rather than having to share a bunkhouse with strangers, some of whom can be
unpleasant, they could surround themselves with friends.

Lennie dreams of
raising rabbits, and George comforts him when they are both feeling down by conjuring an image
of the bounty the farm would produce. This modest dream helps sustain them through the rough
times they have faced in the Great Depression. Other ranch hands are also inspired by the dream
and ask to be a part of it.

In what language did Dante write The Divine Comedy?

It is
difficult to imagine a work of literature
of more importance to a national culture than Dante's
The Divine
Comedy. Not only did he write it in the Tuscan or Florentine

Italian, this long poem helped make that , or version of Italian, the standard one for
Italy.
However, the poem also pulled in words from other Italian dialects and
other
languages. 

In the early 1300s when Dante wrote his
masterwork, Latin was the
international language widely used by educated
people of Europe for their written texts. It was,
therefore, unusual for
Dante to write a major literary work in the vernacular, the native
language
of one's country, but Dante did so, along, it might be noted, with fellow
medieval
writers Petrarch and Boccaccio. 

It's worth
noting that 600 years later,
Italian Primo Levi devotes a whole chapter of
his book Survival in
Auschwitz to regaining his sense of
humanity for a short time while in the
concentration camp simply by having
the opportunity to recite afrom to a
fellow
inmate. 

 

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What is Thoreau's remedy for our hectic, detail-crowded lives?

In terms
of the question, I think that Thoreau's answer would be to find solitude and revel in it.  For
Thoreau, the notion of solitude allows individuals to gain control over their own lives. 
Thoreau believed that social conformity and the notion of living life for others in the
cosmopolitan and social setting is one where individuals lose sight of their own lives.  In the
establishment of solitude, Thoreau feels that individuals can follow their own
"drummer" and live life on their own terms, finding their own voice in the process. 
It is this empowerment that helps to place the hectic details of consciousness in their own
perspective.  When Thoreau says, "To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome
anddissipating," he is suggesting that the best way to simplify consciousness into a unity
of pure and true is to find and establish a zone of solitude that is not to be permeated by
others and the trappings of society.

What are some ancient Mesopotamian recipes? Please provide the exact ingredients and the exact measurements of those ingredients.

The Ancient
Mesopotamians were the first to write down their cooking recipes!I have a few for you.

The first two are courtesy of the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago.

This one is colorful, but you probably won't want to make it:

Baby Goat Stew

Head, legs,
and tail should be singed before putting [them in] the pot to boil.

Bring water to a boil. Add fat, onions, samidu (a type of onion), leeks,
garlic, some blood [from the goat], some fresh cheese.

Beat the whole
together.

Here's one you could actually make.The recipe
is for a basic bread -- it's alot like pita bread -- but you can add to it...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, what does "the scarlet letter had not done its office" mean in Chapter XIII?

In addition
to contributing to the growth of independence in Hester, rather than subjugation to the
stringencies of the Puritan community, the scarlet letter has also "not done its
office" in its failure to elicit fromher confession of the identity of the man with whom
she has committed her sin of adultery.  For, in Chapter III, one of the townsmen
remarks,

"Madame Hester absolutely refuseth to speak,
and the magistrates have laid their heads together in vain."

The Reverend Mr. Wilson has exhorted her to indicate the man, telling her to speak his
name that with her repentence, she "may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy
breast."But, Hester adamantly replies, "Never!"

In Chapter
XIII, then,the letter has most certainly "not done its office" as Scarlet wears the
letter on her own terms, resolving to go completely counter to the wishes of the magistrates;
for, she is determined to meet her former husband,

Please write other ideas to the following or add to the following ideas based on Robinson Crusoe: he did not know the value of life, unfaithful, false...

I assume that you are
refering to Crusoe's life before his experience on the island. Crusoe displays every
characteristic of an individual who is unhappy with life and unsettled. This can be expressed
through his relationship with his parents and the way in which he keeps on intending to visit
them, but finds that distractions in the form of new excitement and adventure...

What are the main points of "Children in the Woods," written by Barry Lopez?

Barry Lopez,
a prize winning American essayist andwriter, involves himself in environmental problems.  Lopez,
designated as a nature writer, "frequently examines the relationship between human culture
and nature."  Having traveled over the world, he chose to live in a rain forest in western
Oregon.  According to Lopez, he feels privileged to be surrounded by such wonders of
nature.

Written in 1988, Children in the Woods, is told
in first person narrative and essay form.  Lopez's use of  and descriptions of his experiences
charm the reader into thinking he is reading a short story rather than an essay.

Lopez's essay begins with a memory of his childhood: a compliment from an adult.  The
adult simply commented to his mother about his intuitiveness.   Realizing its memorable and
lasting impression, Lopez applies this to his encounters with children.

Lopez
and his wife do not have children of their own.  Surrounded by a beautiful wood near a lake in
Oregon, Lopez often takes walks into the woods with family's or friends' children.  Through
trial and error, he ascertained how to interest children in the wonders of nature.   Originally,
his talking stymied the children in what they wanted to say.  Letting the children ask the
questions, he quickly learned to answer only the questions.

His involvement
in the nature walks turned into one of guidance: For example, Lopez pointed out the skeleton of
a raccoon and allowed the children to respond and examine it.  From these experiences, the
writer found that children can easily learn the names of things; however, it is the relationship
between features of nature that is most important.  To the author, this is where real learning
takes place.  From the skeleton of the raccoon to the other sensory objects found in the
woods--all connect and assure man or child that he is part of the world in its wholeness. 
Everything has a place.

In the end, the greatest revelation
Lopez acquired from the children and nature encounters culminated in this knowledge: through
example, the adult should  demonstrate that keen observation of nature and use of the senses is
the best way to experience the world.  Be hesitant to speak and let the child learn from his own
impressions.

How does Rousseau challenge the idea of human beings as essentially rational or of human psychology as ruled by intellect?

In his essay,
"What is the origin of inequality among men and is it authorized by the natural law?",
Rousseau applied his view of the development of individuals to the development of society
itself. It was entered in a competition held by the Dijon Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1754.
Four years earlier he had won the competition with another essay but this one, though more
popular in years to come, won no award.

Rousseau's position on
the...

Ron Franz

In 's
, Krakauer recounts the tale of Christopher Johnson McCandless. 
McCandless, who often used the alias Alexander Supertramp, died in the Alaskan wilderness at the
age of twenty-four after spending two years traveling the United States and having no contact
with his family.  During the time McCandless spent as a "leather tramp," he met many
people who helped him in various ways; however, McCandless seemed to feel little sense of
obligation or desire to return those kindnesses.

Ronald Franz, whose wife and
son had been killed in an automobile accident caused by a drunk drive years earlier, developed
such an attachment to McCandless that he wanted to make the young man part of his
family.

At one point Franz dared to make a special request
of McCandless.  "My mother was an only child," he explains.  "So was my father. 
And I was their only child.  Now that my own boy's dead, I'm the end of the line.  When I'm
gone, my family will be finished, gone forever.  So I asked Alex if I could adopt him, if he
would be my grandson."

McCandless, uncomfortable with the request,
dodged the question:  "We'll talk about it when I get back from Alaska,
Ron."

Franz did not realize that McCandless, who had
told him his name was Alex McCandless, actually had family of his own who anxiously awaited word
from him and even hired private detectives to find him. The eighty-one-year-old man received a
letter from McCandless in April of 1992, in which McCandless advised him to make drastic changes
to his life.

If you want to get more out of life, Ron,
you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life
that will at first appear to you to be crazy...Don't settle down and sit in one place.  Move
around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon...Ron, I really do hope that as soon as you can
you will get out of Salton City, put a little camper on the back of your pickup, and start
seeing some of the great work that God has done here in the American West...And you must do it
economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as
possible...

Franz actually followed the
twenty-four-year-old's advice and lived at the campsite used by McCandless for eight months; he
stayed at the campsite until he learned of the death of his young friend (hitchhikers told
him).

Franz, who had maintained a strong Christian faith until he realized
that McCandless was dead, became an atheist due only to the fact that God had "let
something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex."  Franz also resumed drinking, which he
had not done since overcoming the alcoholism that had consumed him after the deaths of his wife
and son.  In short, both the life and death of Chris McCandless impacted Ronald Franz in
profound ways.