I'm trying to find ideas and examples within the novel The Art of Racing in the Rainas to how Denny's response to difficult circumstances shapes who we...

decided to tell this story from the perspective of Enzo, the dog. Once he became a family pet,
Enzo played an important role in helping the humans through difficult times. Denny was first a
devoted pet owner and then a devoted family man; he understood that it was important that Eve,
his girlfriend and then wife, accepted Enzo as a family member. While no one could have
predicted that Eve would become ill and die very young, Enzos actions helped Eve through her
last days and then helped their daughter, Zoe, and Denny with grief and recovery.

As the novel begins, when Enzo is old and near death, the reader learns right away
that he remained a family pet for many years. As he reminisces about the early years he spent
with Denny after being adopted, we learn that he made an adjustment from farm life to city life
in Seattle. This information establishes his adaptable personality. When Eve entered Dennys
life, Enzo faced another challenge, as Dennys affections were...

How did the location(Boston Mass.) affect the treatment of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In the
Introductory to , Hawthorne writes about his progenitor from Salem,
Massachusetts:

He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was
a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil.  He was likewise a
bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and
relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect, which will last longer,
it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many.  His son,
too, inherited the persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the
witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him....

Planted deep, in the town's earliest infancy and chilhood,...the race has ever since
subsisted here; always, too, in respectability; never, so far as I have...

Compare and contrast the environmental factors in Mesopotamia and Egypt with regards to how they affected the emergence of the worlds first...

Both
regions were dependent upon floods.Mesopotamia is located within the Fertile Crescent between
the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.Egypt is located on the Nile River; the Nile River delta has
some of the best cropland in the world.Both places could go large amounts of grain and other
crops.This led to population growth and commerce as both regions could trade farm products for
other goods.Many of the early religious practices of both groups were tied to ensuring floods
and good crop years.

Egypt, at the mouth of the Nile, had access to trade
goods from various communities on the long river.Egypt also had some protection by being
surrounded by deserts.While Egypt would be invaded by various groups, it was not invaded in the
manner that Mesopotamia was, as this region had no natural boundaries from Eastern
invaders.Egypt could store grain with its arid climate.This arid climate also allowed for the
preservation of mummies.Mesopotamia was more humid which led to food...

What motivated Japanese, German, and Italian aggression in the 1930s?

Japan, Italy,
and Germany comprised the Axis powers in(1939€“1945). They would lose that momentous struggle
against the Allied powers after a very bloody and destructive war.

By the
1930s, Japan was ready for further expansionism. Its military had won its previous conflicts
against China (1895), Russia (1905), and in World War I. Japan's economy was in dire straits,
and Tokyo was worried about its ability to feed its growing population. Also, the Japanese were
chafed by Western powers who treated them as inferiors. Some military officers praised the
memory of the samurai and sought...

What is the exposition of "The Destructors" by Graham Greene?

Theof a
short story often includes the setting, backgrounds of the characters, and a reference to any
events that took place prior to the beginning of the story.

• The setting of the story is the eve of the August bank
  holiday in England, sometime after WWII, likely the late 1940's or early 1950's. The characters
  live in a working-class neighborhood called Wormsley.


• The backgrounds of the characters  is that they are all
  young males in a group that calls itself the Wormsley Common gang.  The latest recruit is
  Trevor, who goes by the nickname "T"; he has been raised in a higher class than the
  other boys, but his family has recently fallen in society due to his father's comedown from
  architect to clerk.  T challenges Blackie to become the...

How can I use "How Stories Can Save Us" as a stimulus for an imaginative text? It has to focus on human experiences and the role of storytelling to...

An
imaginative text can be any kind of text: a fictional story, a memory from your own life, an
abstract poem, and many others. What makes the text imaginative is that it approaches and
expresses the idea in a creative way and aims to entertain the reader. I will focus on the
human experiences of story-telling that you mention in your question to help you figure out what
kind of text you want to write.

To break this task down, you
could first brainstorm what the role of story-telling means.

In many cultures, story-telling is a way of sharing important information. For example,
instead of just telling children dont touch the hot fire, you could tell them a story about
what happens when you touch the hot fire. This might work better because the child will be more
interested in hearing a story, rather than a strict instruction.

In addition
to sharing information, story-telling can also have the role of connecting people emotionally.
When you hear a story about somebody who has had different experiences from your own, you can
still connect to the story through understanding the emotions they felt. Even though you have
never had the same experience, you can relate to that unfamiliar experience through the familiar
emotions.

Finally, story-telling is also a way for people to make sense of
their own world. Think about a time when you were feeling strong emotions, like confusion,
sadness or anger. After you talk about it, or tell the story of those emotions, they become a
little easier to understand. The act of story-telling was more to help the teller of the
story, rather than to create the content of the story itself.

So, now that we understand the role of story-telling a little better,
lets think about what it could mean for stories to save us.

If we share important information through a story, it could save a person who has heard
the story and remembers the information they have learned.

If we connect
emotionally to another person through a story, it could help us feel less alone in the world. We
can see that other people have the same emotions as us even if their experiences are different.
This can save us from loneliness and sadness.

Finally, telling our own story
it could save us in many ways, for example we could realize the solution to a problem weve been
worrying about.

Can you explain one of
these roles to your audience in a creative and entertaining way? This will help you start
writing your imaginative text.

Is the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" insane?

The
narrator of "" is what's called an unreliable narrator. This means that we can't be
sure that what he's saying is true; we simply can't take him at face value. Instead, we need to
read his words carefully and see if we can construct a plausible account of what happened. Very
few of us are trained psychologists, so we can only surmise as to his true mental
state.

The narrator starts by telling us that he isn't mad; but he does
acknowledge that some degree of psychological disintegration has taken place. We sense that the
narrator is reluctant to acknowledge madness because of the shame and stigma that such an
admission will bring. In reading the story, we need to remember that people with mental health
issues in the nineteenth century were often treated appallingly by society, so we can understand
why the narrator doesn't want to be tarred with the brush of insanity.

Yet
the narrator undermines his own case by his meticulous account of the killing of his wife and
the...

Should graffiti be considered an art?

First, a quick
refresher on what graffiti is: graffiti is unauthorized writing/drawings/spray paint art on
public spaces like walls, streets, or buildings. It can be as simple as someone marking their
initials in Sharpie on a the wall of the Post Office, or as elaborate as a
stencil-and-spray-paint href="http://www.bipgraffiti.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi">portrait of
Anne Frank on the side of a restaurant.

So, should graffiti be considered an
art? People have differing opinions. Some people view graffiti as a nuisance, ugly,
inappropriate, or vandalism, because usually graffiti artists don't ask the permission of the
institution they paint. Graffiti may...

In Things Fall Apart, how does Okonkwo's killing of Ezeudu differ from that of Ikemefuna? What is the nature of law and justice in Ibo society?

is
a hypermasculine warrior, a leader with a few titles in his tribe in Umuofia, and he is no
beginner when it comes to killing. However, both the killing ofand that of Ezeudu's son feature
prominently in Okonkwo's character development in the novel.

Ikemefuna is a
boy taken from another villagebasically as a hostage. He is not killed right away, though and
grows up next to Okonkwo's eldest son, , for three years. Okonkwo comes to like the boy (more
than his own son, really), but he is determined to go along when the Oracle decrees that
Ikemefuna is to be taken beyond the village limits and killed. He is advised against doing so,
but Okonkwo is afraid of looking weak. When the sacrificial killing begins, as one of the
tribesmen cuts Ikemefuna from behind, the boy looks to Okonkwo and calls him father.

Okonkwo is emotionally affected, but instead of showing his grief, he decides to take
his machete and finish the killing himself. This is seen as extreme and harsh to his fellow
tribal leaders. Okonkwo feels out of sorts for a while after the boy's death, but his public
demeanor leads people to think he is heartless and unaffected. While Okonkwo's act is frowned
upon by other leaders, he has technically not committed a crime because he was following the
Oracle. He is not officially punished for this act.

The killing of Ezeudu's
son, on the other hand, is totally accidental. He is at the funeral of Ezeudu with the rest of
the village and one of the shots he fires from his gun accidentally hits and kills one of the
sons as he is participating in one of the funeral rituals. This is labeled a "feminine
crime" because it is unintentional. Okonkwo is exiled for seven years to his mother's
village, Mbanta. Clearly, this act of committing a "feminine crime" is ironic, since
Okonkwo cares more about maintaining his masculinity in front of others than anything else. In
the killing of Ikemefuna, for example, his action is motivated by his desire to not be
"thought weak."

Based on these examples, the law in Igbo culture is
based on the society's perception of the gods. The fact that Okonkwo is exiled is aligned with
the belief that his unintentional killing is "an offense on the land" which then has
to be cleansed. It is considered just that Okonkwo be sent to his motherland for committing the
"feminine crime" and that he must stay away from his village for seven years to allow
the land to be cleansed.

How do the animals deceive Mr. Whymper in Chapter Seven in Animal Farm?

The animals use a
number of tricks to deceive Whymper. They also lead him through the barn "on some suitable
pretext," so he sees that the grain bins are full and feels that the animals have nothing
to hide from him.

This plan to deceive Whymper is the work ofand reveals much
about his character: he is more concerned, for example, with having people believe that the farm
is doing well than actually working hard to make life on the farm better. In reality, Napoleon
cares only for his reputation, as is made clear in the text:

Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the
food situation were known.

In addition, Napoleon uses the
sheep to spread his message to Whymper because he knows that they are easily manipulated. This
is not the only time that he has used the sheep in such a manner: in Chapter Five, for instance,
he had them bleat "four legs good, two legs bad" to silence the other animals during a
discussion on the windmill. 

Napoleon is, therefore, prepared to do whatever
it takes to make Whymper believe his version of the truth. 

What archetypes can be found in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"? Jorge Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

With
meaning the original pattern or model after which a thing is made, the
story itself is an archetype of a fairy tale with the role of the supernatural mixing with the
mundane.  However, while Marquez's "" is in the style of a folk or fairy tale, it does
not provide a moral lesson.  Instead, it blurs the line between the significant and the trivial
as the townspeople misinterpret and then become weary of the old man with wings.

There is also a blurring of the role of the old man with enormous wings, whose
appearance hardly affects Pelayo who perceives little difference between the "angel"
and the crabs in his...

How do Newton's three laws relate to roller coasters?

Newton's three
laws are used to describe any motion, including the motion of a car (with a passenger in it) on
a roller coaster.

Newton's first law, also known as the law of
inertia, states that an object will move with a constant velocity (without change in
either speed or direction) unless it is acted on by an unbalanced force. The application of this
law can be experienced while riding a roller coaster. When the car slows down (for example, when
approaching a peak), the passengers in the car fall forward, because they tend to keep moving
with the same velocity. On the other hand, when the car accelerates, the passengers are thrown
backward, as they tend to keep moving with the slower speed.

Newton's second
law describes how the velocity of an object changes if there is an unbalanced force acting on
it. The rate of change of velocity, or acceleration, is proportional to this force and inversely
proportional to the object's mass. For a passenger in the roller coaster's car, the...

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What is the poetic form of the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson?

"" byis a "narrative
poem." The term "narrative
poem" is used to describe a genre of poetry that tells
a story. Although the
work is formally a poem, in terms of content, it resembles a short story
with
a first person plural narrator who observes Cory's exterior actions but has no access
to
Cory's private thoughts or emotions.

In terms of poetic
structure, the poem
consists of four four-line stanzas. The stanzas are
rhymed "ABAB," a form known as
"open quatrains." Although this is the same
rhyme scheme as is used in "common
meter," the lines are iambic pentameter,
rather than the alternating tetrameter and
trimeter of common meter.
Nonetheless, the rhyme scheme produces some of the effect of a ballad,
a
traditional type of narrative verse. The rhymes are regular masculine rhymes and most of
the
lines are end-stopped rather than enjambed.

The form
of all the lines in the
poem is "iambic pentameter." This means that each
line consists of five iambic
"feet." In other words, the smallest repeated
rhythmical unit is an iambic foot
consisting of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable, and this pattern is
repeated five times
(thus "pentameter").

In "Kindred," why does Kevin have a difficult time believing Dana's story?

Kevin and Dana
are unpacking boxes in their home in the middle of the day when she's first transported back in
time. She's also gone for just a few seconds, so it's hard for Kevin to believe that she was
gone long...

How can you summarize Robert M. Cover's "Violence and the Word"?

In
"Violence and the Word," Cover argues that the written and verbal
"interpretations" of the law that judges use to sentence those convicted of crimes
inevitably lead to acts of physical violence. To have any power, the law must be enacted in the
physical world. This enacting is not innocent, much as the judge in the courtroom might be
shielded from its worst aspects.

Looking at sentencing from the point of view
of the prisoner, the prisoner understands that his body is subjected to all sorts of coercion.
He can't not comply with the order, for example, that he go to prison: he knows will be dragged
out, probably beaten, and possibly killed if he does not walk out as commanded. In prison,
beyond being locked up, his body is subject to various forms of violence from guards and other
prisoners.

Cover wants his readers to understand the very
physical notion of justice, which centrally involves control of a human
body. As Cover puts it,

The "interpretations"
or "conversations" that are the...

What does the boy tell Denny at the end of The Art of Racing in the Rain?

's
is a 2008 novel that
was adapted as a film in 2019. This story is told
from the point of view of a
dog named Enzo.

Enzo describes his life with his
owner, a
man named Denny. Throughout the novel, the two go on many adventures and grow
together
as a family with Denny's wife and daughter. Throughout the novel,
Enzo describes the idea of
reincarnation and says that he hopes that when he
dies, he returns as a human.

At the end of the novel, the
boy says "The car goes where your eyes go". This
is important to Denny
because it is something that he would often say to Enzo, the dog, while

driving with him. Enzo learned a lot from Denny and was able to meet him in his new
life,
reincarnated as a human boy.

How did Alice's babies in The Kindred die?

The first two
children die in infancy because of improper medical treatment. The other children are used by
Rufus like "a bit in her mouth" to show Alice he has complete control over her. The
children were pawns in the game Rufus played with...

Old Major's speech and Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream" Looking for similiarities, differences, use of rhetoric, and how they relate to...

It
would seem strange to me if there are intentional similarities between the two, as
was published in 1945 and King delivered "I Have a Dream" in
1963. If it is agreed that the similarities are rhetorical in nature--a good technique used by
each--then it is possible to analyze similarities etc. The most obvious similarity is that each
relies on , or the repetition of beginning of clauses. For example, King
repeats "We must ..." and "We can ...," while Major repeats "No animal
in England." Most famously, King repeats, with variations:

I have a dream that ...
I have a dream that one day...
I have a dream
today ... 

Both also use strings of repeat ideas
connected by commas:

Go back to Mississippi, go back to
Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our
northern cities .... (King)

He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he
is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough .... ()

What King does that Old Major does not do in the same poetic way is use figurative
speech like the techniques ofand : "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by
drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

What is the climax in Elegance of the Hedgehog?

Theof a story
is defined as the turning point of the plot, or the moment of highest intensity.

In 's the moment of highest intensity occurs when Renee dies
after barely having discovered her personal meaning of life. However, it is arguable that prior
to her death, another high intensity moment was her first encounter with Paloma. As a result of
that encounter, Renee's life begins to change. She meets Kakuro Ozu via Paloma, and she begins
to realize that life is worth living. It is because Paloma that Renee finds a reason to live,
and how she begins to slowly unfold into intellectual and emotional freedom.

Unfortunately, her taste of freedom is short-lived. Renee dies, but leaves her legacy
onto Paloma who, in turn, also finds a reason to live thanks to Renee.

In
conclusion, the first meeting between Paloma and Renee definitely becomes the catalyst for
change in the lives of the women, and Renee dies after finally experiencing the true meaning of
life.

How did increased consumerism affect the 1950s? Why did consumerism grow during this era?

Increased
consumerism happened because the US was on top of the world, economically, after WWII.  The
Europeans were too beat up from the war to compete with the US and Japan had not emerged as a
power yet.

American adults had grown up with the Depression and the War and
now they were going to make up for lost time by making some money.

To me,
this impacted the United States by making Americans more interested in focusing on material
goods.  It made people think of success in terms of "keeping up with the Joneses."  As
people got so into this, many of their children got spoiled and disenchanted and became part of
the 1960s counterculture.

What are questions to ask Martin Luther King Jr. on the subject of Civil Rights. What are questions to ask Martin Luther King Jr. on the subject of...

I would ask King what
gave him the willpower to try what no one else had attempted.King was able to speak out against
inequality and speak passionately in a way that made everyone else passionate.It took tremendous
inner strength and force of will for him to do that.]]>

i came up with a few but what are some similarties between winston and parson in the book 1984

Tom
Parsons is 's neighber in .  He lives with his wife and children, whom
Winston is familiar with when he visits their home to hlep with common tasks.   Like Winston,
Parsons is a member of the Outer Party and works near Winston in the Ministry...

Could anything have been gained by including more scenes from the time before or after the events of Animal Farm's plot?

What I like
about the plot of is that it can apply to any society at almost any time.
The principles in the book clearly demonstrate human nature.

• When
  one group obtains too much power, even if it is a small group, if it's goal are evil or even
  just selfish, it can destroy a much broader group of people.
• When people
  stop thinking about holding leaders accountable or keeping them in check, they become victims of
  their own circumstance.
• When there is a revolution among a people, it
  almost always takes out a leader and creates a void of power. That void turns into a vacuum.
  Something must fill it, and that often is a new person, who because of human nature has selfish
  tendencies and most likely inexperience.

I wouldn't add anything
to the book because it already has very clear connections to the aftermath of the Russian
Revolution. No more conclusions need to be done. That was history, and this is now. These
principles need to be guarded against today.

Is the plot of Oedipus Rex by Sopocles ethically or pathetically motivated?

Ethos and
pathos are not terms used to describe plots. Plot structures can stem from character or
incident. In the case of , the plot structure is based on the working out of the curse on the
Theban house. That it will end in disaster is inevitable. The audience would have known the plot
in advance of viewing the play. The character of Oedipus, some argue, contributes to his
downfall, but once he has killed Laius and married , events that occur before the play begins,
there is really no way out from under the curse. Thestates:

€€

Therefore, it is necessary to call no man blessed
as we
await the final day, until he has reached
the limit of life and suffered nothing
grievous

€€

Ethos means character in
the specific sense of the intrinsic character of a speaker's persona as a persuasive rhetorical
device, and pathos the swaying of the audience's emotions. It is the pathemata (things suffered)
that awaken fear and pity in the audience of drama, not ethical and pathetic
persuasion.

What references in the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" reveal Edwards' philosophical beliefs about divine mercy?

Edwards
believed that people were inherently sinful, and that it would be entirely just for God to cast
all of their souls into hell. The only reason why he chooses to save some people is out of his
mercy, through which he gives them grace. Rightfully condemned, he says, "all that
preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance
of an incensed God." Edwards emphasizes this point throughout his sermon using terrifying ,
comparing people, or "sinners" to insects held over a fire by a hand ready to release
them at any moment. True to thefrom Deuteronomy that serves as the inspiration for his sermon,
"Their feet shall slide in due time," Edwards portrays impending damnation as
immediate, sudden, and unavoidable to those who do not seek God's mercy by turning to Jesus
Christ: 

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in:
it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit...that you are held over in the hand
of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you... You hang by a slender
thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it,
and burn it asunder...

God's mercy was completely
unwarranted by anything people did, but by throwing themselves at his feet, so to speak, people
could make themselves more worthy of grace. Indeed, those who did not accept Jesus would be
destroyed. This message was intended to awaken the spirituality of people who Edwards viewed as
lapsed and complacent. By emphasizing their precariousness, and humans' total dependence on
divine mercy for salvation, he hoped to encourage a new spirit of religious
zeal.

What is Holden's rule he made for himself about sex in The Catcher in the Rye?

s rule about sex is that he is

not going to mess around with girls that irritate him, but he has trouble sticking to
his
rules.

Like most teenage boys, Holden
does not understand
sex.  He gets frustrated because he cant seem to stick to
his principles and morals.  He does
not want to associate with phonies, for
example.  Holden tries to protect himself from
self-loathing by making
rules.

Last year I made a rule
that I
was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the
ass.
(ch 9)

Holden broke the rule
within a week.  He realized
that he did not understand girls, or sex.  He
spends time with crumby girls, in a crumby
way, and is unable to respect
himself or other girls.  Sex is just another aspect of life with
which Holden
feels uncomfortable and inadequate.

 

What do the townspeople say about the veil in The Minister's Black Veil?

The
townspeople definitely do not like the
black veil that hangs in front of Hooper's face.  Some
think it is a gimmick
or a way to protect his eyes from the sun.

Others said there was no mystery at all, but only that the ministers eyes were
weak and
needed to be shaded from the light.

But on the whole, the
townspeople find it gives the minister a
creepy and sinister vibe.  Some of the people even get
the feeling that the
veil gives the minister some kind of supernatural ability to see each of

their hidden sins.  

Every listener, even the
most
innocent, felt that the preacher had crept up on them and discovered
their hidden
sins.

The best quote that
shows the general feeling about
the veil from the congregation comes very
early in the story.  Paragraph three specifically.
 

I dont like it, muttered an old woman. He has

changed himself into something awful by hiding his face.

The rest of the townspeople agree with that
statement and feel that the mask has
somehow turned their beloved minister
into something dark.  A great detail left by Hawthorne
about the effects of
the veil comes a few paragraphs later.  He tells readers that the veil so

upset some people during the church service that they had to leave.  That is something
that was
practically unheard of during that time.  Everybody went to church,
and people simply did not
walk out during the
service. 

What are the characteristics of romantic novels?

It has been
said that romantic literature depicts life as it should be, while realistic literature depicts
life as it is. This is as good a basic definition of a romantic novel as we might
find.

In romance novels, no matter how perilous or uncertain the plot seems
at certain points, we can depend on an uplifting, if not always happy, ending. A romance novel
also involves a love affair of some sort, and most generally, the two lovers end up united at
the end, all obstacles overcome. Even if they don't, the ending has an upbeat, inspirational
quality, as one lover nobly sacrifices himself or herself for the other lover or for a heroic
cause. In Agatha Christie's romance, The Rose and the Yew, for example
(written under Christie's pen name Mary Westmacott), the female lover, though terrified of
dying, takes a bullet and dies to save her belovedand we feel (or are expected to feel) inspired
at this uplifting example of the sacrifice true love makes.

The protagonists
of romance novels are often larger than life, more beautiful than ordinary people, of
aristocratic lineage (though that might not be uncovered until the end of the story), and
idealistically given to living by the highest principles. The language of the romance novel is
sometimes overheated and the plot sometimes fantastic. Nevertheless, the drama and the heroics
are often satisfying and fulfill our wishes about how we would like the world to be and people
to behave.

What is a prostar?

There are nine
different stages that a star must pass through before being born.  The first stage is when a
nebula collects and makes a mass of gas and dust then it begins to contract under its own
gravity.  The second stage in the birth of a star is the protostar.  During the protostar stage
the young star has begun to collapse on itself, but not collapsed enough to go through the
nuclear fusion that is required for it to move on to stage 3.  During the protostar stage the
star is protected and must get up to 15,000,000 centigrade degrees.  After that happens the
process moves to stage 3.

Solve the equations 4x - 2y = 8, 2x - y = 3.

The set of
equations 4x - 2y = 8 and 2x - y = 3 has to be solved.

Each of these
equations represents a line in the x-y plane. It is possible to write each of them in the
slope-intercept form, y = m*x + b.

4x - 2y = 8

=> y =
2x - 4

2x - y = 3

=> y = 2x - 3

For
both these equations, the slope is the same. These equations represent parallel lines and lines
that are parallel to each other do not intersect. As a result, the given set of equations does
not have a solution.

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How did changes in society relate to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan?

The Ku Klux
Klan (KKK) had a resurgence in the 1920s.  Its resurgence came about because of changes to
society that made American society more modern.  The KKK was based largely on a desire to have
society return to traditional ways.

In the 1920s, the United States was
moving away from traditional ways in a number of respects.  For one thing, it had become a
country with a large number of immigrants.  Many of these immigrants were not Protestant but
were, instead, Jewish or Catholic.  A second factor was the changing of values in the cities. 
This was the time of the flappers and jazz.  It was a time when women were doing things like
smoking in public and sexual values were supposedly deteriorating.  All of these things bothered
people who believed in traditional morals.

This led to the resurgence of the
KKK.  It promised 100% Americanism.  It opposed immigrants and it opposed Jews and Catholics. 
It wanted a return to the old social and moral values.  In other words, it got its impetus from
the backlash that was arising among many people against the new ways.

What is the difference between the concept of marketing and the marketing concept?

The concept
of marketing is the overall idea of marketing and how to go about marketing well to customers.
It's a five step plan that is broken out as an overarching idea into the concepts of production,
selling, marketing, product, and societal marketing. These are all fundamental aspects of the
overall concept of marketing and that holistic idea is different than "the marketing
concept," which is only one facet of the overall equation.

The marketing
concept is the idea that a business should tackle the task of meeting customer needs by
producing a product that helps their lives, is useful, and/or is better and more effective than
competitors' products.

The marketing concept is generally what people think
of as "marketing" because it involves brand positioning, advertising, and similar
actions. The concept of marketing is the holistic concept that encompasses every aspect of
marketing, from product creation, to the method of sales, to the societal impact, and to
word-of-mouth advertising.

Who the protagonist in this story: Trevor, Blackie, or the gang? Who or what is the antagonist? Identify the conflicts in "The Destructors".

Walter Fischer

Identifying theandin s short story requires a departure from the conventional wisdom
regarding definitions for both characters. In The Destructors, the protagonist is Trevor, or
"T." as he is called by the other boys in the Wormsley Common gang. T. is anything but
heroic. He is the protagonist, however, because he is the central figure in the story and the
one who provides the motivation for the action that consumes most of the narrative: the
destruction of the Christopher Wren-designed house owned by Mr. Thomas, or Old Misery as the
boys call him. Not only is T. unheroic, he is most likely a psychopath. As Greenes unseen
narrator states regarding T.s ambitious plan to systematically destroy the house and the gangs
success in so doing, A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become. T.s
psychosis is also evident in the narrators description of the new gang leaders reaction to
the...

What are some examples of juxtaposition in 1984?

Juxtaposition is
something that is used
extensively throughout this novel in order to highlight the difference

between the Party's version of events and their presentation of life and the reality
as
experienced by . This is often achieved through the naming of items. For
example, in Chapter 1,
Winstom Smith is shown to enter "Victory Mansions,"
although in reality this grand
name masks a building that smells of "boiled
cabbage and old rag mats." In the same
way, note how the experience of
swallowing some "VICTORY GIN" is described:

Instantly his face turned scarlet and the water ran out o fhis eyes.

The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of
being
hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.

Again and
again in this novel, the way things
are named or how they initially appear is radically
different from how they
actually are. Just as the gin is named in a way that leads the reader to

suspect it will be much better than it is, so the naming of other places, like the
Ministry of
Love, for example, masks the true reality of what happens behind
its walls. Juxtaposition
therefore is used to identify the two very different
versions of reality: the Party's reality,
and the reality of Winston Smith.
It is the conflict between these two different versions of
reality that
occupies the entire novel.

In "A Worn Path," trace the obstacles faced by old Phoenix in the valley.

In
reading "," the reader is filled with complete disbelief that Old Phoenix is not only
able to complete her journey but does so periodically and completely alone. She first makes her
way though pinewoods, shooing away any rustling of animals that she hears within the shrubbery.
When she comes to a hilly area, she feels as though she has "chains on her feet"
because the climb is so exhausting.

At the bottom of the hill, she catches
her dress on a thorn bush and becomes slightly frustrated and discouraged. She then faces her
first real trial, having to cross a creek over a single log. After accomplishing this, she is so
tired that she needs momentary rest and even hallucinates a small boy offering her cake.
Nonetheless, she presses on.

She passes under a barbed-wire fence and
through the maze of a cornfield, and soon comes to a ravine where she is menaced by a large
black dog. However, a hunter helps her to chase it off, and seems to admire her.


Phoenix's greatest and most...

1) How and why have millions of people moved from Asia to the United States since the 1960s? 2) What events and issues have rallied Asian Americans...

Asian
immigration to the United States has occurred largely for the same reasons that immigration from
other areas has.  Asians have come to the US because they have wanted to escape bad conditions
in their own countries and because they have been attracted by better conditions in the US. 
With regard to Asians in particular, immigration has increased since the 1960s because a law
passed in 1965 removed the legal barriers to Asian immigration that had previously existed. 
Once these barriers were removed, more Asians came.  Vietnamese fled the conflict in that
country.  Koreans and Filipinos came for economic opportunities.  These are typical reasons for
immigrants to come to the US.

There have not been many events or issues that
have rallied all Asian Americans over the past four decades. ...

What is the summary of the poem "Our Casuarina Tree" written by Toru Dutt?

At the
beginning of the poem 'The Casuarina
Tree'  the poet likens the Casuarina tree to a giant
wearing a scarf of
creeper. The creeper winds around the trunk like a python. We imagine the

tree to be very tall, as it's summit is described as 'near the stars.' The tree is
described as
being gallant, and possibly brave, as few other trees could
survive in the strangle-hold of this
creeper. The poet then goes on to
describe the life that thrives amid every facet of the tree
(the baboon in
its boughs, the crimson flowers,water lilies in its shadow.) But these are
not
the main reasons why the poet holds the tree so dear. The other is that
it holds memories of
loved ones, so strong that it brings tears to the poet's
eyes. We then hear that the tree too is
sad, and cries a lament. The poet
continues with a description of how strong the image of the
tree is, even
when in lands far away. The poet wishes to consecrate the tree's memory and

importance for the sake of those who are now dead - and looks ahead to his own death,
hoping
that the tree be spared obscurity (or that no-one will remember
it.)

In The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne a conformist? If not, why does Hawthorne represent her as nonconformist?

While 's
relationship to conformity is a complicated one, Hawthorne generally depicts her as a kind of
conformist.  The key scene for this reading is in Chapter XVIII, "A Flood of
Sunshine," in which Hester throws off the scarlet A she has been ordered to wear by her
Puritan community.  In her secret meeting in the forest with ,

she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom,
threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.  The mystic token alighted on the hither verge
of a stream.  With a hand's breadth farther flight it would have fallen into the water, and have
given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligible tale which
it...

What does Chillingworth discover when Reverend Dimmesdale is sleeping in Chapter 10 of The Scarlet Letter and how does he react to this discovery?

Inof , "The Leech
and his Patient",tries everything he can to extract from Reverendthe truth about the
ailment that has been consuming him alive. Since Dimmesdale refuses to give way, Chillingworth
opts to hint at different things that "could" be wrong with the minister, namely, his
spiritual health. 

The men keep going back and forth, with Dimmesdale
reminding Chillingworth that he (Dimmesale) is the one to deal with his own spiritual matters.
Chillingworth lets Dimmesale go along with the certainty that he still will be
needed. 

At the end of this chapter, Reverend Dimmesdale falls asleep at
around noon while reading. This is rare since Dimmesdale's physical state often rendered him
sleepless and nervous. Chillingworth is aware of this and enters the room "without any
extraordinary precaution". It is here where he moves the Reverend's robe aside and sees
"something".

The reader does not get to know in this chapter
exactly what it is that Roger actually sees, but we later find out that Arthur has carved a
letter "A" on his own flesh. This means that he commiserates withand her own scarlet
letter. This is when Chillingworth makes the connection that Dimmesdale is the secret man that
Hester refuses to identify as the father of her child born out of wedlock. 

Chillingworth's reaction is quite surprising for an elder man. He feels a "ghastly
rapture", and he essentially becomes extremely ecstatic. He is compared to Satan himself,
and how the devil would behave itself in a situation where it had won someone's soul. However,
Hawthorne clarifies: 

But what distinguished the
physician's ecstasy from Satan's was the trait of wonder in it!

How did the availability of domestic plants and animals explain why literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

The main
reason that the availability of domestic animals and plants had the impact Diamond suggests has
to do with the economic conditions necessary for specialization of labor. Hunter-gatherers live
in what is known as a subsistence economy, in which all members of the society must focus their
efforts on finding food; there is no surplus production which allows some individuals to focus
on things that are not absolutely essential to survival.

The neolithic
agricultural revolution in which plants and animals were domesticated produced a food surplus.
That meant that farmers could produce enough food to feed not only themselves but also many
non-farmers. This gave rise to specialization of labor, allowing people to develop complex
skills such as writing and metallurgy. Rather than all children working in the fields as soon as
they could walk, some children in agricultural societies could attend schools or be apprenticed
to skilled craftspeople, allowing technical skills to be trained...

Compare and contrast the Abbasid and Umayyad empires using bullet points.

The
Umayyads and Abbasids were both dynasties that dominated the Islamic World. Both held the title
of Caliph.

The Umayyads emerged earlier than the Abbasids (having ruled from
661€“750 CE), and they moved their capital to the city of Damascus. They borrowed heavily from
the Byzantines in creating their governing and administrative structures. Even so, the Umayyads
remained an Arab-dominated culture. They continued the Islamic expansions further west across
North Africa and into Europe, as well as east into India. They were overthrown in 750 CE, when
the Abbasids began to come into power.

The Abbasids moved their capital
further east towards the city of Baghdad (in modern day Iraq). Their civilization would be
shaped out of the fusion between Arabian and Persian influences. However, while the Abbasids
enjoyed a greater degree of social and political stability than the Umayyads did (as well as
experiencing the famous Golden Age of Islam), the Abbasids also marked the beginning of
the...

Importance Of Social Science

The term social science is
a catch all for so many subjects it is sort of like asking "why should we study
life"?Learning about our own identity, history, culture, and how we relate to other humans
on this planet is essential to living as one.Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, all of these
are essentially the study of what it means to be human.]]>

Find at least three quotes from chapter 2 of The Great Gatsbythat depict the theme of materialism. Explain how the theme of materialism is portrayed in...

In ,ends
up accompanyingand his mistress, , to
a small, impromptu party in the Manhattan apartment that
Tom keeps for their
trysts. Myrtle, a working-class woman, has furnished the apartment (at Toms

expense) with what she believes to be tasteful, elegant furnishings and decorator
accessories.
The excesses of materialism are shown by both the amount and
type of furniture, entirely too
much and thematically ill-suited to a small
New York apartment.

The living room was
crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely
too large
for it, so that to move about was to stumble continuously over scenes of
ladies
swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

Myrtles sister, ,
is one of the guests. She brags to Nick, under the
guise of complaining, about her short trip to
Monte Carlo, and that she and
her friend did not bother to see anything more in
Europe.

[W]e just went to Monte Carlo and back. ... We

had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of all of it in
two days.
... God, how I hated that town!

Myrtle seems enthralled
with the luxuries she can enjoy as a benefit
of her affair with Tom but also tries to make
spending money seem like a
chore. She offers to give her dress to a guest, Mrs. McKee, then
reels off a
long list of all the shopping and personal services she has planned for the
next
day. Her temporary stays in the apartment are a sharp contrast to the
modest life she and her
husband have, living over his garage. Myrtle tells
her guest,

Im going to give you this
dress as soon as Im through with it. Ive got to get another
one
tomorrow.

Compare and contrast Max and Kevin in Freak the Mighty.

Kevin and
Max develop a symbiotic relationship, but at the start, it seems unlikely that these two would
develop a friendship due to their glaring differences. 

Max struggles in
school and has a learning disability in reading. He describes himself as unintelligent. He lives
in the basement of his grandparent's home (his mother's parents). His father is in prison and
his mother is gone. He doesn't have a particularly close relationship with his grandparents,
especially his grandfather, who he calls Grim. 

In contrast, Kevin is
incredibly smart. The first time readers encounter him in the novel, he has created an
ornithopter that has become stuck in a tree. This is the first instance of symbiosis--Kevin
can't reach the ornithopter, and Max's size allows him to reach it easily. Max is befuddled by
Kevin's enormous vocabulary. Kevin's relationship with his single mom is much different than his
next door neighbor Max's relationship with his kin. It is clear that Gwen dotes on Kevin, and
Kevin adores her. Kevin has Morquio syndrome, which causes him to have a twisted spine, short
stature, and many health problems. While Max is physically healthy, Kevin is physically
challenged. Together, they become , with Kevin relying on Max's physical strength, and Max
relying on Kevin's brain.

The two were in daycare together when they were
very young, and Max remembers Kevin. Kevin becomes Max's reading tutor. They become Freak the
Mighty when Max lifts Kevin onto his shoulders to see a fireworks display, and then the pair
tries to outmaneuver a trio of bullies chasing them. 

They go on to have many
other adventures. Kevin is brave and daring but lacks the physical prowess to enact his bold
feats befitting a chivalric knight. Max is introverted and prefers the safety of routine and his
basement dwelling. He doesn't like conflict and would stay inside his turtle's shell if it
weren't for the prodding of his only friend, Kevin. 

Max is insecure because
of his father's past, and fears he will turn out like Kane the Killer. Kevin wants to defy his
present circumstances and get a robot body so he will be free to do all the things he wants to
do in life. 

What are the ethical theories that can be used against and for using bribery to award a major contract to your company?

There are
several theories. One is simple pragmatism, in which one accents the practical outcomes of
things. In this model, if an action works, it would be good. A related but more...

why was the industrial city such a shock to people coming from agricultural areas

Jurgis and
his group of fellow Lithuanian
immigrants have hardly been outside of the Imperial Forest of
Lithuania and
have seldom even seen a town when they travel to America. They have no context
for
understanding big cities when they arrive in New York and later Chicago.
They have never
experienced anything like them.

At first
they are cheated by officials or
people who seem to be officials in New York.
In Chicago, as they sent to live near the
stockyards, the landscape is
completely different from what they are used to.

The
setting is barren and bleak, and when the train drops them at the stockyards,
they
become aware of the billows of smoke coming from six huge factory
chimneys towering in the sky.
Great streams of thick, black oily smoke rise
from the chimneys. There is an odd, rancid smell
in the air from the
stockyards. And they hear the strange sound of the distant lowing of cattle

and grunting of swine, a constant background noise from the stockyards. Finally, when
they
happily meet up with Lithuanians again, they are taken to a boarding
house that is worse than
anything they have seen in Lithuania. It is filthy
and crowded with people who rent a little bit
of floorspace, bringing their
own mattress and bedding, and sleeping with up to 14 people in a
room. Their
new terrain in Packingtown is dark, bleak, and very crowded.

The
immigrants are disoriented by all the differences, and lacking
language skills or a knowledge of
the law, easily cheated.

By the end of the story, is there any source of hope? What message (if any) does Voltaire leave the reader with?

The answer
to this is unclear, because 's
is such a pessimistic work overall. It is
very
difficult to find much optimism within it, and the main character, who seems at times to
be
the incarnation of optimism and hope itself, is torn down until he loses
his own positive
attitude. However, the end of the book gives something of a
challenge, which offers hope in the
context of the work.

Optimism is clearly the enemy in Voltaire's eyes. He
embraces cynicism and
encourages his main character to eventually accept that the world is not

necessarily a happy and optimistic place. Most prominently, he seems to be decrying the
majority
of European civilization and the...

What does Banquo mean when he says "Were such things here as we do speak about? 85 Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner"?

Shortly
after the Three Witches giveandtheir seemingly favorable prophecies, they vanish into thin air
and Banquo questions the authenticity of their predictions and the reality of the odd situation.
Banquo asks ,

"Were such things here as we do speak
about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner" (Shakespeare,
1.3.83-85).

Banquo is essentially asking whether or not
the information andwere both real or were they simply hallucinating. The "insane root"
that Banquo refers to is more than likely hemlock or henbane, which are deadly herbs that cause
madness. Banquo is asking Macbeth if they accidentally ingested some poison that takes
"reason prisoner." He is saying that the poison would make them lose their minds to
the point that they can no longer think rationally, which is a reasonable question to ask after
witnessing the Three Witches vanish into thin air.

How does the Father-son relationship throughout three generations shape the personalities of Okonkwo and Nwoye in Things Fall Apart?

There is an Englishto the effect that trying to avoid making ones fathers mistakes
leads, all too often, to making ones grandfathers mistakes.despised his father, , who is already
dead at the beginning of the book, and it has become one of the major preoccupations of his life
to be as different from his father as possible. Unoka was a lazy, cowardly man: poor and
unsuccessful, constantly in debt, and mainly interested in drinking and playing the flute. No
one feared or respected him. He had one wife, for whom he could not provide, and took no
title.

Okonkwo is the complete opposite of his father in every one of these
respects. He is wealthy, feared, and respected, a brave warrior and a wrestler. He has multiple
wives and barns full of yams, and he even hates music because he associates it with his father.
He is a harsh disciplinarian who beats and berates his son,, for his laziness. Nwoye is already
becoming a sad-faced youth, resembling his...

What is one example of cultural continuity between Byzantine empire and the original Roman empire?

The legal
system of the Byzantine empire was continuous with that of the earlier Roman empire. The
Justinian Code was a compilation of the opinion of earlier Latin jurists, beginning with the
earliest known records of Roman law. Opinions of famous Roman jurists such as Ulpian and Paul,
and rescripts issued by the office of the ab espistulis from the beginning of the Roman  Empire,
as well as opinions mentioning earlier praetorian edicts were incorporated in the later legal
codes. Law, as a system based on precedent, is therefore a major source of
continuity.

Provide 3 examples Jem showing maturity in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

demonstrates maturity inwhen a lynch mob surroundsoutside of the Maycomb jailhouse. Afterruns
into the middle of the group of men, Atticus instructs Jem to take her and Dill home. However,
Jem recognizes the gravity of the situation and refuses to leave his father's side. Jem's
disobedience demonstrates his loyalty and courage. Jem is determined to remain by his father's
side during the threatening situation, which is an extremely mature, courageous decision.
Fortunately, Walter Cunningham tells the lynch mob to disband and nobody is harmed.

Jem also demonstrates maturity inby preventing Scout from arguing with Aunt Alexandra
and getting into trouble. Scout becomes furious when Aunt Alexandra calls Walter Cunningham Jr.
trash and is about to retialiate when Jem intervenes. Scout mentions,

I...

Describe the role which advertising plays in the various market structures.

In a
competitive market, advertising is one of
the many tools firms use to compete with one another.
Firms compete on many
different fronts, including price, features, and brand loyalty.
Advertising
becomes a way to convince buyers to buy one product rather than another. It
attempts
to reach out to consumers and offer them persuasive information or
appeals. Even when products
are essentially identical, brands may compete by
offering consumers other reasons to buy their
products such as environmental
or ethical concerns. A company that makes public its commitment
to reducing
its carbon...

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In Romeo and Juliet, what effect does the accelerated time scheme have on the play's development?

Shakespeare purposely condensed his classic
play to span just five days instead of the course of months like his
primary source The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and (1562). The effect of
the accelerated plot underscores the brevity of the young couple's romance and contributes to
the play's suspense. By condensing the time frame of the play to only five days, the audience
experiences a heightened sense of suspense and anxiety asand Juliet race towards their
inevitable fate. Time is a particularly important element of the play and the characters
continually bring it to the audience's attention. For example,informs Romeo that "but new
struck nine,"uses the"the prick of noon," the time of's impending
wedding...

In the famous 2 plays: "A Streetcar Named Desire" & "Death of a Salesman" Is there any similarities between these plays? Specifically in 2 things,...

But there are among us today...those who act against the scheme of things that degrades
them, and in the process of action everything we have accepted....is shaken before us and
examined, and from this total onslaught by an individual against the seemingly stable
cosmos...-from this total examination of the "unchangeable" environment-comes the
terror and the fear that is classically associated with ....And such a process is not beyond the
common man [who] has demonstrated again and again this inner dynamic of all tragedy.
-Tragedy and the Common Man, A. Miller

Indeed, both Willy Loman and Blanche du Bois are tragic figures who suffer from the
"terror and fear" of self-delusion in their struggles against society which
"degrades them." So, perhaps rather than focusing on the American Dream as a
theme--which certainly exists for Willy--there may be more commonality with the characters in
the theme of Individual vs. Self:

• Both characters deceive
  themselves about their appearances.

By placing shades over the
lights and only dating Mitch in the evening, Blanche creates the illusion of youthfulness in her
appearance; further, she dresses as though she were yet the Southern belle and she is
flirtatious and proud of her girlish figure:

You know I
havent put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle
Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us€¦ (Act 1)

Similarly, Willy believes that he can be more successful if he regains his youthful
look:

I gotta overcome it....Im not dressing to advantage,
maybe. (Act 1)

• Both believe that they can
  attain happiness outside themselves.

Willy Loman and Blanche
DuBois seek false and shallow promises of happiness; Willy perceives material wealth as the
keystone to success and contentment, while Blanche seeks attention and romance as a delight and
marriage as security.

"Always dependent upon the
kindness of strangers," Blanche delights in attention and romantic flirtation as a
diversion from reality as well as a bolster for her diminishing self-esteem and as
escape.

In Act 2, for instance, Stella instructs her
husband Stanley to compliment Blanche,

And admire her
dress and tell her shes looking wonderful. Thats important with Blanche. Her little
weakness!

Further, Blanche hopes to attract Mitch enough
to get him to propose and, thus, bring her some contentment and financial security since Belle
Reve has been sold to pay debts.

In Death of a Salesman,
Willy feels that happiness is attained through personal success and material wealth, 

....I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could
want. Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go... into twenty or thirty
different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many
different people? (Act 2)

Like Blanche, he looks
elsewhere for contentment. In Act I, for instance, Happy tells Biff, who complains that Willy
mocks him, "He just wants you to make good, that's all." Even his act of suicide is
intended to give his son's some financial security and himself some respect. He imagines a
conversation with his brother about his funeral,

All the
old timers with the strange license-that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never
realizedI am known!I am known...and hell see it with his eyes once and for all. Hell see what I
am, Ben!(Act 2)  

• Present and Past blur for
  both

Blanche and Willy retreat to memories and illusions of
success. 

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In A Raisin in the Sun, the Youngers and Mr. Lindner have a conflict. What is the resolution?

The
conflict between Mr. Lindner and the Youngers involves his attempts to buy 's new home in the
white neighborhood of Clybourne Park to prevent them from moving in. As a representative of the
white community, Mr. Lindner's job is to carry out the wishes of the racist white community
members, who do not want a black family moving into their neighborhood. When he initially visits
the Younger household, he is rebuffed byJr. and . After one of Walter Jr.'s business partners
steals Lena's insurance money, he calls Mr. Lindner in hopes of making a deal. Mr. Lindner
returns to the Younger family's apartment, and Walter Jr. plans on selling Lena's home in
Clybourne Park for more than she paid for it. However, Lena makesstand next to his father, and
Walter Jr....

What were the effects of the Second World War on Italy?

had
wide-reaching ramifications for Italy's political, territorial, and economic status.

Politically, World War II led to the end of the stranglehold on state power enjoyed by
the National Fascist Party since the 1922 March on Rome. Perhaps more significantly, however, it
ultimately brought an end to the Italian monarchy as well as the downfall of the Royal House of
Savoy, which had sat on the throne of a unified Italy since 1861. The constitutional referendum
of 1946 transformed Italy from a constitutional monarchy to a republic.

In
terms of Italy's territory, World War II resulted in the loss of Italian Somaliland, a longtime
African colony of Italy, which was ceded to the United Kingdom. It also resulted in the
relinquishment of all...

Evaluate the integral of 1/ ( 1 + 4x^2)

We have to
find Int [1/ (1 + 4x^2) dx].

First substitute u = 2x

=>
du /dx = 2

=> du /2 = dx

Now Int [1/ (1 + 4x^2)
dx]

=> Int [(1/2)*(1/ (1+u^2) du]

=> (1/2)*Int [1/
(1 + u^2) du]

Now Int [1/ (1+u^2) du] =arc tan u + C

=>
(1/2)*arc tan u + C

replace u with 2x

=> (1/2)* arc tan
2x + C

Therefore the required result is

1/2)* arc tan 2x +
C

How would I write a comparitive essay about To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men?

In
writing a comparative essay about the two
works, you might like to concentrate on what they say
about the economic and
political situation in 1930s America.

Both books are
set
during the height of the Great Depression, when poverty and mass unemployment stalked
the
land. For itinerant farm laborers like Lennie and George in Of
Mice and
Men, this means that they're forced to travel from place
to place in search of work.
As unemployment is so high, ranch owners have the
whip hand over their employees. They can
pretty much treat their workers as
they please, as they know that there will always be many
others willing to
take their place.

In it's clear that

the rural areas surrounding Maycomb have been especially hard hit by the Depression. We
see this
illustrated in the wretched poverty of the Cunningham family, who
pay in kind for services
renderedsuch as 's legal adviceas they can't afford
to pay in cash.

Another
point of comparison is the issue
of race....

How does Gregor's mother react to seeing Gregor for the first time after his transformation in Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

The narrator describes
Mrs. Samsa's response to seeing her son, after his metamorphosis:

His motherin spite of the manager's presence she stood with her hair still unbraided
from the night, sticking out in all directions -- first looked at his father with her hands
clasped, then took two steps toward Gregor, and sank down in the midst of her skirts spreading
out around her, her face completely hidden on her breast.

Her first reaction, then, seems to be one of utter disbelief. Mrs. Samsa appears to
look to her husband for confirmation of what she is seeing. Then she seems to feel an impulse to
go to her son, to comfort or assist him in some way, but before she reaches him, she sinks to
the ground, indicating that she has lost hope. Her head is down, and this particular posture
tends to imply dejection and sorrow.

A little while later, during this same
interaction,

she, who had seemed so completely
self-absorbed, all at once jumped up, her arms stretched wide, her fingers spread, and cried,
"Help, for God's sake, help!" held her head bent as if to see Gregor better, but
inconsistently darted madly backward instead; had forgotten that the table laden with the
breakfast dishes stood behind her; sat down on it hastily, as if her thoughts were elsewhere,
when she reached it; and did not seem to notice at all that near her the big coffeepot had been
knocked over and coffee was pouring in a steady stream onto the rug.

It is obvious that Mrs. Samsa feels either herself, her son, her
family, or all of them, to be in need of help, perhaps to know how to deal with her son in his
terrible new condition, but it is not totally clear who she expects to help them. The manager?
That seems unlikely. It appears that she is still attempting to understand what Gregor's new
state actually is, but, at the same time, she is so horrified and frightened by what she sees
that she cannot help but run away from it. She has forgotten her breakfast and doesn't seem to
notice anything else that is going on around her. It seems a lot like disbelief and
horror.