What is President Trump's effect on business law and foreign policy?

It is important to note that Presidents have
less effect on the economy than is generally believed (see attached New York
Times article by Neil Irwin, January 17th 2017). In foreign policy, the President has
far more direct influence, particularly since, whatever his theoretical powers in the matter of
declaring war, the President can, in practice, deploy troops unilaterally.

It
may well be the case, however, that President Trump's behavior, so far as it has been
influential, has had markedly different effects in the two spheres of business law and foreign
policy. Trump's much touted "Doctrine of Unpredictability" (see attached
Democracy Journal article by Michael H. Fuchs, January 26th, 2017) holds
that a leader gains more power over a rival country by being unpredictable. Other states will be
more careful in their dealings with the USA if they think its President capable of any action or
retaliation, including starting a nuclear war.

However, this very
unpredictability is detrimental to the economy and to business law, since a functioning system
of regulation and a stable economy requires calm, predictable leadership.

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In 1984 why does Winston believe that the hope of government overthrow lies in the hands of the proles?

At the very
beginning of chapter 7 in part 1, in the very first sentence,gives at least one of the reasons
that he believes the Proles are the only hope at successful revolution.  He mentions that they
are at least "85% of the population," so, they have numbers on their side.  Because
there are simply so many of them, they are the only ones that could be a large enough
"force to destroy the Party."  He said that rebellion was so difficult under the
watchful eye of Big Brother, but that the Proles who had more freedom from that ever-watchful
eye, could simply unite by "rising up and shaking themselves like a horse shaking off
flies."  So, by the mere fact that there are so very many of them, all they would have to
do is rebel, and their numbers alone would ensure success.

Secondly, they
aren't under the oppressive eye of Big Brother as intensely as non-Proles are, so they have more
freedom to move about and form a rebellion without being detected.  Because of this, they are
more free; Winston envies that freedom a bit, in fact, and wishes they would use it to overthrow
their oppressors.

Unfortunately, through very clever and insidious propaganda
and constant war-mongering to elicit a fury of patriotic devotion from the Proles, they never do
rebel. They are constantly pitched to a fever of rallying to the cause of the nation in wars
against its enemies, and the propaganda.  The masses are so controlled by this, in fact, that
the Party has no worries whatsoever about the Proles.  Their busy workschedules, their
exhaustion, and their being brainwashed into devotion to the cause, all keeps those masses in
check.

I hope that helped; good luck!

What kinds of ions do acids and bases form in water?

Acids
produce hydrogen ions, H+, in water. Bases produce hydroxide ions, OH-.

A hydrogen ion is a bare proton that associates with a water molecule so the H+ ions
produced by an acid exist as H3O+ ions:

`H^+ + H_2O -> H_3O^+`

There are three accepted theories defining acids and bases:

1. The
Arrhenius theory defines an acid as substance that dissociates to produce H+ ions in solution
and a base as a substance that dissociates to produce OH- ions in solution, as per the answer to
your question.

2. The Bronsted-Lowery theory defines an acid as a proton
donor and a base as a proton acceptor. (Remember that a proton is the same as an H+
ion.)

3. The Lewis theory defines an acid as an electron pair acceptor and a
base as an electron pair donor.

Here are a few examples of these
definitions:

HCl is both an Arrhenius acid and a Bronsted-Lowry acid. It
dissociates to produce hydrogen ions in aqueous solution, and it donates a proton to a base.
These are two different ways of describing the same behavior.

Bases that
contain the hydroxide ion OH- are both Arrhenius and Br¸nsted-Lowry bases because they
dissociate to produce OH- ions that "accept" or bond to protons:

`H^+ + OH^(-) -> H_2O`

H+ is a Lewis acid because it will
"accept" or share a non-bonding pair of electrons on another atom or ion. For example,
it accepts an electron pair from the Lewis base F-:

`H^+ + F^(-) ->
HF`

Ammonia, NH3, is an example of all three types:

`NH_3
+ H_2O --gt NH_4^+ + OH^-`

Ammonia produces OH- by reacting with water. It
can also be said that it accepts a proton from water and that it donates an electron pair to an
H+ ion.

How does Juliet lose her innocence in act 3, scene 5, in Romeo and Juliet?

On a
surface level,loses her sexual innocence. At the beginning of the play, she was a virgin who had
never even thought of marriage. Now, after Juliet has met and married , the two have consummated
their relationship, hence their waking up together after the wedding night. However, Juliet also
loses her innocent reliance upon her family and even her society.

Once Romeo
has run off to find refuge in Mantua until he and Juliet can at last live together as husband
and wife openly, Juliet finds herself speaking with her parents about a possible marriage to
Count . Juliet refuses to marry Paris, obviously because she is already married to Romeo, but
her parents view this as mere ingratitude and grow angry, even threatening to throw Juliet out
of the house if she does not comply.

Then, when the Nurse suggests Juliet
just marry Paris since, in the eyes of Verona's society, Romeo is as good as dead anyway, Juliet
is asked to forsake the values she grew up with (as well as her...

How does "Hills like White Elephants" depict women?

The one
woman shown in any detail in the story, Jig, is depicted as frustrated and unhappy. She is
trapped in a dead-end relationship.

She is pregnant and clearly wants to
keep the baby. She seems to hope her lover will accept her wish and that somehow they can be a
family. He, on the other hand,...

What are the literary movements and trends of the early 20th century? What are the literary movements and trends of the early 20th century?

You also would benefit
to look beyond modernism to postmodernism, which in many ways rejects some of the key tenets of
modernism and "plays" with literature and genre in often highly amusing and different
ways. One excellent example is the author David Mitchell, who writes postmodernthat really
"breaks the mould" of what we have come to call a novel - Cloud
Atlas is one of my personal favourites.

Why was the United States so reluctant to enter World War I?

The United
States did not feel immediately
threatened in 1914 when the war began.  The government did
perceive some
threats, but it was mainly from the anarchist and labor movements.  The
United
States hoped to trade with both the Entente and the Central Powers,
though it soon switched to
mainly trading with the Entente Powers because the
Central Powers did not have the navy to get
past the British blockade.  The
United States thought that it could count on being surrounded by
two oceans
to protect itself from a European struggle.  The progressive activists in the
country
feared that war would get in the way of their domestic
agenda.  

Even when
war came to the United States in the
form of submarine attacks on American citizens and goods,
the United States
refused to get into the war.  Woodrow Wilson claimed that the United States

was "too proud to fight."  There was a concern that the United States military was
not
prepared to fight the huge armies of the Central Powers, as the army's
last meaningful
experience was in the Spanish-American War.  The people of
the United States saw the war as a
squabble among European powers over
territory that did not concern the United States.  The
United States only
went to war after the discovery of the Zimmerman telegram, which promised

Mexico the American West, and the continuation of German unrestricted submarine warfare,
which
sank many American ships.  Even when the United States joined the war,
it did not join as an
ally of Britain and France. Instead, the United States
was described as an
"associated" power.  This was done so the United States
could still claim the moral
high ground when the conflict
ended.  

In The Lovely Bones, how did Jack and Abigail deal with the loss of Susie? What are some similarities and differences?

After
Susie Salmons death, both parents suffer from their loss and their guilt over the difficulty of
helping the other children because of the weight of their own grief. Abigail, her mother,
concludes that her own recovery must proceed separately from the rest of the family, and she
moves away. Her physical distance makes her seem more remote to Susies spirit. However, she
later realizes how tight the bond was with her husband; after he suffers a heart attack, she
returns home.

Susies father, Jack, expresses grief through anger. He shows
this in part by attacking things that he shared with his daughter, notably the ships in bottles.
This action draws Susies spirit closer, and he understands that her presence continues as part
of his life. Jack more than Abigail concentrates on solving the murder and tracks down clues
himself. Jacks common sense fails him as he undertakes rash actions, however, and his health
suffers from the burden of grief, as he has a heart attack.

What was Thomas Hobbes idea for the government?

Thomas Hobbes
was an english philosopher who lived predominately in the 1600's. His idea for government was
that in order for people to be able to live together and survive, they needed to be governed by
a single sovereign ruler. This idea was put forth in his book, Leviathan,
where Hobbes states that if people are left to rule themselves, they will only focus on
self-preservation. He counters this argument by saying that while living under a sovereign ruler
the people in society will enter into a "social contract" with one another, and the
sovereign. In this social contract, all people of the society give up their "right to all
things", except for the sovereign, who is in control of all. By entering into the social
contract, the people are able to coexist with one another based on the rules, regulations, and
laws the sovereign puts forth. It is important to note that Hobbes never stated that this
sovereign should be one person. He argues that in addition to a single ruler such as a King or
Queen, small groups, such as those seen in a democracy, or the British parliament, could also
serve as the sovereign to govern a nation.

Hope this
helps!

What are some examples of Edwards using fear to get his point across to the congregation in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Edwards set
out many examples illustrating how the members of his congregation are in extreme danger during
the course of his sermon. He based his sermon on a text referring to the sliding of people's
feet over a period of time and interpreted this to be a reference to God's wrath at those who
fall away from following His will as time goes by.

The Application portion of
the sermon then explained exactly what awaited those whose feet had slipped off God's intended
pathway.

the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the
wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor
any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air;

Edwards made it very clear that no one was safe; no one was exempt
from the punishment awaiting those who had sinned.

However
you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may
keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing
but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting
destruction.

 

What is the theme of Friar Lawrence's speech in the beginning of Act II, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

likes
to collect various herbs, plants, and flowers that he uses to make all kinds of potions and
medicines. Doing so allows him to gain a deep understanding of the natural world, of how the
good is so often mixed in with the bad. Everything in nature has a purpose and can conduce to
the good if used properly. However, if the bounteous fruits of nature are misused, then the
consequences can be unpleasant:

For naught so vile that on
the earth doth live / But to the earth some special good doth give. / Nor aught so good but,
strained from that fair use / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. / Virtue itself turns
vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified. (Act II, Scene iii).

As we can see from the last lines of the above quotation, Friar
Lawrence extends this insight to human beings. Vice can often come out of virtue, and vice
versa. There is some interestinggoing on here. Later on in the play, Friar Lawrence will try to
overcome the...

What is the one power found in found in one but not the other two of the following: Declaration, Constitution, Articles of Confederation?

There are
many powers that are found in the Constitution that are not in either of the other two
documents.  This is because neither of the other two documents was meant to give much power at
all to the national government.  The Declaration of Independence essentially gives no powers to
anyone.  It is...

What point of view does Steinbeck use in The Pearl?

uses an omniscient
third-person
point of view (POV) in .The POV is

"third-person" in that the narrator seems to be on outsider looking in on the
story's
events. (Think: an outsiderthe third personobserving two peoplethe
first and second persontalk.)
And the POV is omniscient ("all knowing") in
how the narrator is able to reveal the
thoughts, actions, and perspectives of
other characterseven minor characters, such as the priest
in The
Pearlwho are not the main .

The
Pearl
uses the omniscient third-person POV to observe events at a
distance, while
occasionally closing that distance by jumping into the minds
of Kino, Juana, the doctor, etc.
Due to the narrator's lack of personality or
subjectivity, we can reasonably assume that the
narrator is providing a
trustworthy, untainted account of events within The

Pearl.

What does Frederick Douglass understand a man to be?

In
discussings concept of humanity, or what he considers a man to be, one can pretty much begin
with a quick reference to French philosopher Ren© Descartess oft-quoted dictum cogito, ergo
sum, or I think, therefore I am. For Douglass, the essence of the discussion was encapsulated
in the fundamental distinction between humans and animalsin effect, that the former can be
defined by the pursuit of knowledge. Perhaps nowhere was this adage better articulated than in
an address Douglass gave in 1872 titled Self-Made Men. Recognizing at the outset of his
remarks the propensity for individuals to interpret that phraseself-made menas indicative of
one who has propelled himself upward socially, professionally, and economically entirely of his
own accord, Douglass immediately rejected any such notion without going to another extreme by
suggesting that personal initiative and skill played no role at all in ones success.
Rather,...

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Discuss the blend of realistic and fantastic details. Does this blend make the story more or less effective? Does it require a different type of...

"" is an intriguing blend  of the ordinary and the supernatural, of reality
and the fantastic.  Consider the following:

• A girl disobeys her
  parents (real) and is turned into a giant spider (fantastical).
• A very sick
  little boy was healed (real) and, among others, a blind man did not have his sight restored but
  did grow three new teeth (supernatural).
• A very old man (real) has
  enormous, and very natural-looking, wings (unreal).
• Angels (or should I
  say, winged creatures who are apparently responsible for at least one actual miracle) are true
  and respected religious symbols (real) but this particular one is kept in a chicken...

What conditions did African Americans in the south face in 1900?

African
Americans faced very rough conditions in the South in 1900. White attitudes toward African
Americans were very negative and had changed very little since the end of the Civil War. Many
whites thought that African Americans were inferior. Laws known as the "Jim Crow laws"
were passed to reflect this way of thinking. As a result of the separate but equal doctrine
established in the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court case, African Americans
were legally segregated from whites in many places, including educational settings, train cars,
bathrooms, and other places of public accommodation. African American men also had a difficult
time getting well-paying jobs and were often forced to work on farms as hired
laborers.

Additionally, African Americans faced other obstacles. The pursuit
of equal rights could not advance, and in many cases, the struggle to be seen as human was a
matter of life and deathSouthern whites were regularly lynching blacks with impunity. African
Americans also found it difficult to vote, as poll taxes and literacy tests, instated
specifically to suppress the black vote, served their purpose. Many African Americans couldn't
afford to pay the taxes and/or couldnt pass the literacy tests because they had little income
and/or little to no educational training. African Americans were also threatened and intimidated
by groups like the Ku Klux Klan that tried to terrorize them and committed heinous crimes
against them. Life was very difficult for most African Americans in the South in
1900.

Compute the principal for the loan. Use ordinary interest when time is stated in days. Rate =9% Time= 6months Interest=$675

Find the
principal (original) amount if $675
"ordinary" interest accrues after 6 months.

Depending on
your definition of "ordinary" interest as being
simple interest:

P = ? (the unknown)

rate (`r` ) = 0.09
(or
`9/100` ) /

time period (`t` )= 6 months which is 0.5 of a
year
/

interest accrued (`I` ) = $675

We know that `I = P times
r times t`

Substitute
what you know into the formula:

$675 = `P` `times 0.09
times 0.5`

Now solve for `P`

`675 =
P times 0.045 `

`therefore 675/0.045 = P`

`therefore P = $15000`

There is
another
definition of "ordinary" interest being based on a 30-day month (=
360 days in a
year), in which case a standard 6 months (ie of 365 days)
becomes 0.50694 of a year of 360 days
instead of 0.5 of a standard year.

Answer based on a standard calculation of
simple interest
= `$15000`

What are 15 personality traits of Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird?

1.
Athletic:loves sports and wishes to start playing on the football team.

2. Respectful: Similar to , Jem treats others with respect
and is a morally upright individual.

3.
Empathetic: Jem understands whenis upset and does his best to calm her
down.

4. Humorous: Many of Jem's explanations
are humorous and addto the story.

5. Leader: Jem
takes on the role as the leader of their group throughout the novel.

6. Proud: Jem is proud of his father for killing the rabid
dog in one shot.

7. Gullible: At the beginning
of the novel, Jem believes the untrue rumors about .

8.
Inquisitive: Jem is a curious individual who is continually asking his father
questions. 

9. Naive: Before the Tom Robinson
trial, Jem does not realize the overt prejudice in his community.

10. Loyal: Jem refuses to leave his father's side when the
Old Sarum bunch surrounds him.

11. Protective:
Jem is protective of Scout and makes her spit the gum out that she found in the Radley
tree.

12. Jaded: Jem becomes jaded with the
community members of Maycomb following the trial.

13.
Talented: Jem can play various roles in the children's rendition of Boo Radley's
life story.

14. Adventurous: Jem is not afraid
to go on a nighttime raid in an attempt to get a look at Boo Radley.

15. Vindictive: Jem takes revenge on Mrs. Dubose by
destroying her camellias.

What objects does a child get at each age in The Giver?

In the community, the changes
presented at the ceremonies are symbolic.

These are the most
significant ceremonies.

At the ceremony of one, the Newchild gets a name and
is recognized for the first time as more than just a number.

For the earliest ceremony, the Naming, the Nurturers brought the newchildren to the
stage. (ch 6, p. 41)

Newchildren also get a family at
one.  The family consists of a Father, Mother, and one child of each gender.  The family units
only exist for child-rearing purposes, and the couple has to apply for a child and be approved
by the committee.

describes the ceremonies of Two, Three and Four as
boring.  Children are not really considered significant until Three. Dream-telling began with
Threes (ch 5, p. 35) and language instruction is important at this age.

The
ceremonies of Four, Five, and Six are basically just the children aging one more year.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back
so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. (ch 6, p.
40)

At Seven, children get front-button jackets.  This is
significant because until that point the jackets have buttoned in the back. This change is the
first sign of independence (ch 6, p. 41).

At Eight, children begin volunteer
hours, and yet another sign of growing independence.

Lily€¦ became an Eight and received the identifying jacket that she would wear this
year, this one with smaller buttons and, for the first time, pockets, indicating that she was
mature enough now to keep track of her own small belongings. (ch 6, p. 45)

At Nine, children receive one of the most coveted gifts: the
bicycle.  They have been secretly taught how to ride them.  The bicycle is a strong symbol of
moving away from the family unit, out into the community.

Tens get a haircut,
so the ceremony is a bit more time consuming.

[Each]
child's hair was snipped neatly into its distinguishing cut: females lost their braids at Ten,
and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair and took on the more manly short style
which exposed their ears. (p. 46)

Elevens are pretty much
just waiting to be Twelve. The females get bras and the children get clothes with special
pockets for a new calculator.

Twelve is the most significant ceremony in some
ways, because it is the last one.  At Twelve children are no longer really children.  They are
young adults.  They no longer are designated by age, but rather by occupation.  Their
occupations are chosen for them by a committee of Elders.

Lowry, Lois
(1993-04-26).(Newbery Medal Book). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle
Edition.

What is the significance of Maggy's smile in "Everyday Use"?

Maggie's
smile represents a victory.  Throughout the story, Maggie never seemed to be happy and was
always hiding in the shadows of her sister.  When her mother told Dee that the quilts were for
Maggie, she was surprised and smiled because, for once, she was able to receive something
instead of her sister.  Her sister turned the quilts down when she left for college because she
felt they were old-fashioned. Now that she is all into showing off her heritage, she wants them
to display. She always felt like Dee got everything and she even said, "She can have them
Mama."  She didn't need the quilts to have the memories.  Dee says, "Maggie's brain is
like an elephant's."  This comparison indicates that elephants have good memories and
Maggie would use those memories and put the quilts to "."   When they walk Dee to the
car at the end of the story, Dee tells Maggie she should make something of her life and
insinuates that as long as she and her mother stay in that house they will never improve their
life.  Maggie smiles because she knows they have the best life of all.  They respect their
culture and memories and know that memories are meant for "Everyday Use" so one can
always remember the past.

Reference:  The Language and
Literature Book by McDougal Littell 

In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, what does Meg have to do break the spell of the dark thing?

Meg has
learned that she cannot break ITs power
over Charles Wallace by mere brute force. This has a
limited effect on
Charles Wallace, breaking his concentration for only a minute. She remembers

that Mrs. Whatsit gave her the gift of her faults, so she tries to figure out how her
flaws can
help her in this situation. Her impatience has made her persistent,
willing to return to
Camazotz to rescue Charles Wallace, even though her
father is close to giving up. It is the
simple yet complicated act of loving
Charles Wallace that rescues him. Meg realizes that this is
the one thing
that IT cannot understand, the unselfishness of love toward someone else. It
has
tried to spread peace by convincing everyone on Camazotz to be like
everyone else. There is
peace through uniformity. Yet it is not the same.
Similarity is not the same as being
identical. It is through the uniqueness
of love for the flaws in ourselves and our
self-sacrifice for someone else
that can overcome evil.

How does Oedipus fail as a king in Oedipus Rex?

It is
agreed by many scholars that not only is 's ultimate failure a result of hisbut that his failure
occurred before he had ever even taken the crown. Indeed, Oedipus had already unknowingly
slaughtered his own father before he had won the hearts of the people of Thebes. In this sense,
he never had any hope of being a good king, or even any true king at all.

Oedipus's cursed existence is slightly more forgivable, seeing as it seems that fate
was against him from the beginning. In the final moments of the play, we feel an overwhelming
pity for Oedipus as he blinds himself, claiming all of his miserable titles. What is less
forgivable, however, is how he dismissed those who tried to warn him of his folly.


Though Oedipus had already committed a heinous moral crime, he could have at
least remained a just and loved king in Thebes. After all, it was his own strong sense of
justice that motivated him to search so relentlessly for Laius's killer. However, by spurning
the advice of , he spurned the wisdom of the Gods themselves.

Had he only
listened to the seer, and later his wife, he might have lived his life blissfully unaware of his
terrible crime and could have even been a just and good king to the people of
Thebes.

What is the purpose of the short story "The Open Window" by Saki?

The purpose
of "" is to show that people can be deliberately malicious and cruel, especially to
people who reveal their vulnerabilities. We know that the main character, Mr. Nuttel, has shared
his nerve disorder with his hosts. In fact, his hostess, Mrs. Sappleton, says he "could
only talk about his illnesses."

The fifteen-year-old Vera, Mrs.
Sappleton's niece, also finds out that Mr. Nuttel barely knows her aunt. She takes advantage of
this information to deliberately frighten Mr. Nuttel with a false story. Vera lies and says that
her aunt's husband and two children disappeared one day while hunting. She explains that Mrs.
Sappleton keeps the window (what we would call a French door) open in the deluded hopes they
will walk back through it one day. Of course, they are quite alive. When they come in, Mr.
Nuttel runs off, thinking he's seen ghosts.

The story implies that Mr. Nuttel
is a bore about his illnesses and that Vera is getting revenge. It warns that people like Vera,
despite polite manners, are not all sweetness and light. They are capable of manipulation and
amusing themselves through cruelty. We all have an aggressive streak, which can come out
passive-aggressively in how we treat people. The message of the story is not to assume that
people have your best interests at heart.

In what ways did World War II change the American worldview?

One change
was that the nature of the war dealt a serious (but not fatal) blow to American isolationism as
a mainstream political view. American public opinion in the wake of the war was far more
friendly to involvement in geopolitics, particularly participation in alliance systems (like
NATO) and international organizations (like the United Nations. Part of this was due to the war
itself, which was won by the Allies in no small part due to the efforts of the United States,
especially in the Pacific. Part was due to the obvious need for global leadership in the
devastation and turmoil wrought by the conflict. Yet another reason was the outbreak of the Cold
War, itself a legacy of .

The war, as well as the Great Depression, also
altered Americans' views of the role of government in the economy and in people's everyday
lives. The New Deal had been the single largest expansion of the federal government in American
history, but the war effort dwarfed Roosevelt's peacetime programs both in expense and in
extent. Massive investments in industry during the war were not totally abandoned in its wake,
and the postwar period saw some continuity in government social programs, most conspicuously the
GI Bill of Rights.

Finally, the war, fought as it was against a totalitarian
regime that based its rule on racial tenets, helped to accelerate the discussion about civil
rights in the United States. Black soldiers who had served  abroad chafed under Jim Crow at
home, and many white liberals changed their thinking about white supremacy. Of course, this
sparked a massive backlash from whites, especially in the South, but historians widely consider
the war as a watershed moment in race relations in the United States. 

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Compare and contrast Keats and Shelley.

The poets
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley have numerous similarities as well as some important
differences. The poets were contemporaries, writing in the early nineteenth century, and are
considered pillars of the Romantic movement. As representatives of the Romantic poets, they
wrote verse that is rich in emotion, demonstrates an awe of nature, and idealizes the
imaginative power of humankind. Both wrote in traditional verse forms, penning many sonnets and
making heavy use of iambic pentameter in extended narrative and reflective poems.

The two poets gravitated toward different subject matters. Keats is considered
"less mature" in his art, primarily because he was younger and did not have the time
to perfect his style. He died at the age of twenty-five from tuberculosis, and although he only
wrote poetry for six short years, his poetic genius and the rapidity with which he improved his
poetic skills is astounding. In 1819 alone, he composed multiple masterpieces, including his
five...

Why does the author leave it unclear whether Goodman Brown's experience is a dream or real in "Young Goodman Brown"? How is this noted in the story,...

Early
nineteenth-century writers were preoccupied with examining unusual mental states, the power of
imagination, and the borderline between illusion and reality. The literary preoccupation with
these concepts was symbiotic with developments in philosophy. Beginning especially with the
works of Immanuel Kant, and his successor (in some sense) Arthur Schopenhauer, philosophers
believed the external world, as we perceive it, is basically a projection of our minds,
different from actual, unmediated reality, or the "thing in itself" as Kant referred
to it.

Hawthorne is part of this literary trend that sees the outside world
as what could be an illusion, or sees the power of the human mind as such
that it can create its own reality. His stories generally possess a dreamlike quality even when
there is no explicit mention of the supernatural. What is important in " " is the
moral concept behind the story; the unanswerable question of literal reality versus dreams
or...

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what do Victor and the monster talk about?

Dr.and his
monster discuss several different things after his creation.comes to life loquacious and
intelligent, and so he is able to converse well in spite of the fact that he was just
created.

One of the first things that the two discuss is s disgust at the
monster he created. Victor assumed his creation would be beautiful and a much more impressive
feat, but the monster is heinous and questions his existence, which frustrates Victor, thinking
it was a failure even though he was able to manufacture life from nothing.

Victor eventually curses the monster and wishes him dead. He does this several times,
hating the murderous creature he designed. His monster believes him to be a hypocrite since he
created this beast. In the end, Victor demands the monster to leave him, but he ends up
listening to the tale his creation begs him to hear.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a free market economy? And what are the roles and needs in the business cycle?

A free market
economy has two key advantages. First, it allows for individuals to innovate. Individuals have
the freedom to create new ideas, new products, and new services to sell for profit. They are not
required to only produce what the government tells them to produce. Due to this freedom,
competition is created, forcing companies to create new products and features. A clear example
of this is the cell phone market. New phones come out each year, as individuals create new ideas
and new features for their consumers.

The second major advantage is that
customers drive decisions. If a customers wants a certain product or feature, the producer must
meet their needs in order to survive. This ultimately drives the price, as customers determine
the price of products.

However, disadvantages are created from some of the
advantages. Profit motive drives businesses, but can create dangers. Poor working conditions and
unethical decisions can be made as entrepreneurs seek higher profits. Secondly, free markets can
lead to market crashes as we saw in the great depression and the economic downturn in the early
2000's. Unemployment can lead to devastation of families.

These advantages
lead to economic growth and expansion during the business cycle. However, during times of
crashes and downturns, government regulation usually occurs to spur expansion
again.

Consider the following quote from Walden: "Wealth is the ability to fully live life." Please write one short paragraph that describes the extent to...

The
assignment is based on a quotation from 's , an autobiographical work
concerning two years (1845€“1847) Thoreau (July 12, 1817, to May 6, 1862) spent living in a
cabin by Walden Pond. The quotation expresses a sentiment that one does not need material goods
in order to be happy but that happiness is found in one's experiences, independent of material
circumstances.

This represents part of a longstanding philosophical debate.
In antiquity, the Cynic school of philosophy argued that people would be happier living in
accordance with nature and ridding themselves of human conventions and possessions. Diogenes
famously owned only a cloak and a bowl. Other philosophers such as Aristotle argued that a
moderate amount of material prosperity was important to happiness, as it was necessary for
physical comfort and security. For example, Aristotle would claim that someone living in Canada
might be happier having access to a home with adequate heating than living outdoors in the
woods.

As a student writing on this topic, one should be aware that there is
no one right answer. Philosophers over the centuries have disagreed about the nature of
happiness. Some consider it entirely an internal matter, having nothing to do with experience at
all, while others argue that happiness is a product of how we live lives in relation to others.
Theologians would say that happiness is found in a relationship with the divine.

As a student writing about the topic, you should simply state what you consider the
nature of happiness and whether you feel that it requires some degree of material wealth or
whether one's greatest "wealth" is a storehouse one builds up of memory or experience,
as, for example, Boethius argued in his Consolation of
Philosophy.

According to Shaw, Professor Higgins has "touches of sweet". Bring out the pathos in Higgins' character in light of Shaw's observation.

This
question misunderstands Shaw's quote in the preface to . When Shaw mentions
"touches" of Sweet in the play, he means Henry Sweet, a renowned phonetician and
grammarian who studied accents and pronunciation, just as Higgins does. What Shaw writes is the
following:

With Higgins's physique and temperament Sweet
might have set the Thames on fire.

When Shaw adds that
there are "touches of Sweet " in the play, he is not referring to "sweet"
aspects in Henry Higgins' personality. According to Shaw's preface, Henry Sweet was anything but
"sweet," having a "Satanic contempt" for people who disagreed with his
views.

Nevertheless, the question asks us to explore whether Higgins has a
"sweet" side or "pathos" to his character. Higgins is rude from beginning to
end, but his pathos is that he is rude without any intention of being spiteful or malicious. He
is rude simply because he speaks his mind bluntly. There is a pathos in his blindness to how
much he bullies Eliza and the extent to which he treats people as objects to be used rather than
as human beings. His pathos may lie in how often he lacks self-awareness of the ways in which he
offends people. 

For despite all his rudeness and bullying, Higgins also has
moments of insight that add pathos to his character. When he and Eliza are quarreling and she
says she wants to be independent, he says:

"We are all dependent on one
another, every soul of us on earth."

A few moments later, he
acknowledges his appreciation of her, revealing that he can have some awareness of
others:

"Five minutes ago you
were like a millstone round my
neck. Now you're a tower of strength: a consort battleship. You and I and Pickering will be
three old bachelors together instead of only two men and a silly
girl."

We feel sympathy for Higgins because he is trying to be kind but
doesn't understand that Eliza has no desire to be an "old bachelor" like
him.

 

 

 

Does A Raisin in the Sun ultimately answer Langston Hughes's question, "What happens to a dream deferred?" Does A Raisin in the Sunultimately answer...

It seems to me that
reading the play as an extension of the poem and an exploration of the questions posed therein
might be a bit more helpful than reading the play as an answer to the questions of Hughes'
poem.

The poem presents us with the notion that a dream can be a challenge, a
burden, a weight when it is not fulfilled. The Youngers have a dream of moving out of poverty in
a very literal way. This dream presents a very real challenge to the family as many road-blocks
emerge as they move toward achieving this dream.

cannot see past his own
limitations.cannot find any redemption within the confines of the family. The neighborhood where
the Youngers plan to move is resistant to that prospect. The dream of moving out of poverty is
certainly deferred.

Theare embittered by this deferment. They are beaten.
They are hopelss, at points. But they don't give up...

Explain the relationship between Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies." Why does Mrs. Das feel comfortable with Mr....

 s
presents three adults who suffer from their own maladies.  The story takes place in India in
modern times. The Das family, who are Indian, has come to holiday in India although they are
Americans.  The other character in the story is Mr. Kapasi, the tour guide and driver, who is
also the interpreter of maladies.

 Mr. and Mrs. Das are not a happy
couple.  Mr. Kapasi describes them as acting like brother and sister.  The husband sticks his
nose in a travel guide and ignores the family as much as he can.  Mrs. Das seems to be the
ultimate self-centered woman who wishes that she were someone else and someplace else.  She does
not share her snacks, tries to avoid doing anything with her children, and subtlety fusses with
her husband.

Mr. Kapasi is not only a travel guide but an interpreter of
maladies.  He works for a doctor that does not understand the language and interprets for the
patient what he is suffering from.   His...

I am having trouble finding direct characterization examples and indirect characterization examples for Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter.

The
introduction of Reverendinto the story of comes through an
indirect as well as a .
Characterization reveals the traits, values, beliefs, appearance,
etc. of a character. reveals these things through
dialogue or actions or reactions to events or other . Direct
characterization reveals these things through a narrator who
states directly that a character has specific traits, beliefs, etc.

When
Reverend Wilson--the "eldest clergyman of Boston," is
speaking toin --makes references to Dimmesdale, these references
tell readers that Dimmesdale had been Hester's clergyman,...

In "Eveline," what is the pattern or structure of the development of the plot?

Michael Del Muro

"" is broken up into two parts: the first part consists of Eveline sitting at
her window, reminiscing on her childhood and on her family, and the second part consists of her
attempted escape with Frank. The first part of the story explains why her attempt to flee
Ireland fails and highlights one the main themes of Joyce's :
duty.

In the first part of the story, the third-person narrator describes
Eveline as she "leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of
dusty cretonne. She was tired." Then the narrator goes on to describe the changes to
the...

Please discuss the contributions of Chaucer as the architect of Modern English.

After the
Norman Conquest of 1066 in which William the Conqueror of Normandy (part of France) and his
Norman noblemen eradicated Harold of Hastings and the Saxon nobles, French became the official
language in England.  All written works were put in French including literature.  (For instance,
the Arthurian Legends are in French). 

Then, , whose last name is the French
form of the word shoemaker , came along in the second half of the
thirteenth century (1343-1400).  Chaucer, who was bilingual, as were many in his time, was
greatly influenced with the matter and style of French poetry.  However, when he realized how
people of his time delighted in stories, he gave these to them.  Thus, the Canterbury Tales
began.  Perhaps because this work is about the...

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How and where do Taoists worship?

Taoism or
Daoism is a religion that originated in China in approximately the fourth century BC. It is
polytheistic with many deities and ritual practices. There are several different forms of ritual
and worship in China, and many western offshoots of Taoism have created innovative synergies
with local religions.

In China, the two main centers of worship for followers
of Taoism are monasteries, which are inhabited by people who have devoted their lives to a
strict schedule of worship and ritual observance, and temples, which are the center of rituals
open to the laity.

There are also many practices which might be characterized
as "folk religion." These may include festivals and parades held outside the temples
and other community events, meditation, divination, and personal prayers. 

Many followers of Taoism have shrines to their ancestors in their homes and make
offerings of incense and food to the spirits of their ancestors. Divination may also be
practiced in the home.

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Describe the feelings of young Robinson Crusoe during his first voyage.

begins his
first voyage upon the invitation of a friend and his friends father, beginning his career as a
sailor. On his first night aboard the vessel, he experiences the turbulence of the ship as it
enters the sea and feels stark terror, in addition to seasickness, believing this turbulence to
be a result of a terrible storm in which he will soon die. In his fear, Crusoe prays to God and
swears that if God will save him from the terrible storm, he will return home and beg his
fathers forgiveness, just as the prodigal son did in the Biblical. He feels
especially...

What action has Oedipus taken to find an answer to the city's problems?

, as a
good Greek, knows that things like
pestilence are a sign that not all is well with the gods. The
priest comes to
Oedipus and confirms this point. Oedipus knows that he must seek counsel. The

place to go is clear - the Oracle of Delphi. So, he sends his brother-in-law,
.

When Creon returns, Creon asks if Oedipus wants to hear
the counsel of Apollo in
private. Oedipus wants him just to speak. Creon
does. Crean reveals that Laius, the former ruler
of Thebes was murdered. The
oracle also gives a directive. The murder, who still dwells in
Thebes, must
be driven out. Oedipus is shocked by this revelation. 

Oedipus,
therefore, knows what he needs to do: find the murderer and
drive him out. Therefore, he is
passionate about finding the murderer to save
Thebes. 

When the problem
proves to be intractable,
Oedipus sends for the blind prophet, .  Tiresias is cryptic in his
speech, as
he knows the truth. When Oedipus persists in pressing the prophet, Tiresias
finally
divulges the truth. In the end, Oedipus assumes responsibility and
the play ends. Oedipus is
truly a tragic hero. 

In "Everyday Use," what is the significance to the family members of Dee's having changed her name to Wangero?

Dee's having
changed her name is symbolic of the conflict between two definitions of the family's heritage in
's story. For, as part of the new movement of Black Nationalism, Dee has rejected what Malcolm X
called "slave names," names. Her hair now is in an Afro hairdo.When she alights from
the car, Wangero greets her family in African, "Asalamalakim, my mother and
sister!" 

Clearly, Dee/Wangero has adopted a new identity. As a Black
Muslim, she will not eat pork, a meat she ate regularly as a child. Her perspective of the old
butter dish of Grandma Dee now intrigues her as well as the butter churn; however, she does not
wish to use them. Instead, she desires them as museum pieces since she is now part of a new
culture.

When she asks for the quilts which represent for the mother the
connection of the family's past and their roots--their real heritage-- the mother refuses,
snatching them from Dee's hands and giving them to Maggie, who appreciates the history of those
who have toiled on these quilts. For, Maggie will use these quilts and not put them on
display.

"You just don't understand," she [Dee]
said, as Maggie and I came out to the car.

"What don't I
understand?" I wanted to know.
"Your heritage," she said..then she
turned to Maggie....It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd
never know it.

After Dee departs, Maggie smiles "a
real smile, not scared." She is now a person of her own, no longer in the shadow of her
sister who has forfeited her family history for an identity that has become merely
fashionable.

Are there any sound devices (alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm) in this poem and what is their effect? Smalltown Dance by Judith...

At
the moment, what you need most is to find out how to identify sound devices.
A sound device is a class
of literary device that is in the category of literary
technique; this means it is something a poet (or prose writer) may or may not
choose to employ. Sound devices create an effect in poetry (or
prose) because of what they add to the musicality, the sound, of the work, and
sound, as Spenser and Frost prove, adds to the
meaning of a work, especially a poetic work. Some common sound devices are
, assonance, consonance, rhyme, and rhythm (metrical pattern).

• Alliteration: This is the repetition of a
  sound--usually a consonant--at the beginnings of words that are next to or nearby each other
  (i.e., proximal words); e.g., poems put poetic points in proper poetic patterns.


• Assonance: This occurs within words and is the
  repetition of the same vowel sound in proximal (nearby) words; it's also called an internal or a
  vowel rhyme; e.g., date,
  place,
  fame.
• 
  Consonance:  This is...
  
  
  
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In his "I Have a Dream" speech, how does Martin Luther King, Jr. want African-Americans to realize his dream?

Dr. King
wants African-Americans to recognize that their dream is linked to American History.

There is a historical foundation to "I Have a Dream."  The opening of the
speech references The Declaration of Independence and The Emancipation Proclamation.  Dr. King
uses these historical documents to prove to African-Americans how something owed to them is
still being denied: 

But one hundred years later, the
Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the
Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and
finds himself an exile in his own land. 

Dr. King wants
African-Americans to recognize that American History supports the realization of their dream. He
speaks of how it is time "to cash a check" that represents the promise of their dream.
 While specific realities might have sent that check back with "insufficient funds,"
Dr. King hopes African-Americans to refuse to believe that the "bank of justice is
bankrupt."

Dr. King wants African-Americans to see that history is on
their side as they pursue their dream.  American ideals such as "unalienable Rights"
and "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" ensures that racial justice and
equality will be realized.  Dr. King uses this appeal to history in a deliberate manner. He is
aiming his message at African-Americans who might doubt whether "the dream" should be
pursued.  Given the resistance that white Americans showed towards civil rights, it would be
understandable that people of color doubt whether the dream is worth it.  In order to convince
them of "the fierce urgency of now," Dr. King stresses how their dreams are linked to
American History.  He wants African-Americans to realize that their dream is a part of an
American legacy that possesses "the riches of freedom and the security of
justice." 

What did Fitzgerald achieve by using Nick's point of view to tell Gatsby's story in The Great Gatsby?

creates
an elaborate set-up with a sole narrator whose vision of reality the reader is encouraged to
believe. Becausemeetsat the beginning of the summer, we come to know Gatsby via the same steps
he took and to see him through Nicks eyes. Nick presents himself as the polar opposite to Jay
Gatsby, but the reader gradually learns that they have numerous similarities. We can think of
the two men as alter egos. Nick emphasizes his own honesty, but in context, his statements come
across as ironic. After criticizingas incurably dishonest, a few paragraphs later, he states a
suspicion about himself: I am one of the few totally honest people I have ever
known.

In Nicks narrative, he began the summer fascinated with the mysterious
Gatsby and did not know which stories to believe about Gatsbys occupation and pastbootlegger,
killer, spy, Oxford man. In contrast, he paints himself as transparent, laying out specific
facts about his own upbringing, war service, and Wall Street job. Nick is so convincing that the
reader is almost certain to believe him. Ultimately, however, because he is the sole narrator,
he is unreliable. The entire story of Gatsbys decline and fall is filtered through Nick, so the
reader can never know what is true. He initially portrays Gatsby as an eternal optimist, with a
unique romantic readiness about him. At the end, however, the reader is left wondering if Nick
is not the greater romantic.

What is so remarkable about Mrs. Auld?

Whenarrives at Baltimore to meet his new
master Thomas Auld and his lovely wife, Sophia Auld, he is astonished to finally interact with a
kind, compassionate white woman, who is unlike any white person he has ever met before.
Frederick Douglass mentions that he is "utterly astonished by her goodness" and is
fortunate to have a caring, gentle female master. Sophia Auld was a weaver by trade and had
never owned a slave before. She was unaccustomed to having a black slave under her control and
is extraordinarily gracious towards Frederick. She initially treats him like a human and even
prefers for Frederick to look her in the eye, which is something he was previously forbidden
from doing. Sophia also attempts to educate Frederick and begins to teach him how to read.
Tragically, her husband forbids her from teaching Frederick anything related to academics, which
motivates him to learn how to read by his own means. As time passes, being a slave owner has a
negative effect on Mrs. Auld and she develops into a callous, wretched
woman.

What is the plot of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?

At the
start, readers learn that a Mr. Hyde attacked a young girl.  A respected doctor has written a
will giving all his possession to this violent man, which puzzles the doctor's friends.  People
haven't seen much of Dr. Jekyll lately.  Utterson, a friend of Jekyll, looks into Mr. Hyde and
finds that he hangs out at a laboratory at Jekyll's home.  Utterson is amazed at how ugly Hyde
is. He questions Jekyll, who tells him not to worry about...

How does the atmosphere of the bunkhouse in chapter two contrast chapter 3?

The
differences between chapters 2 and 3 are subtle, but thechanges between the chapters.

In , as we are introduced to the boss and Curley, an atmosphere of menace and danger
overhang the bunk house. The boss clearly doesn't believe 's story of why they arrived late in
the day, and Curley bulliesand George. Lennie tells George he wants them to leave, because he
senses that the place is "mean." George himself says he is scared: he doesn't want
Lennie to get into a fight with Curley, and, at the end of the chapter, he fears he himself will
tangle with him. Yet despite the atmosphere of foreboding, George wants them to stay because
they need the "stake" or money.

In , Slim's calming, wise presence
takes over. Curley is not around at first, and the men can relax and talk more freely. But the
atmosphere of the chapter is saturated with sadness, loss, and Candy's despair as his ancient
dog is taken out to be shot, an act Slim quietly allows. At the end of the chapter, the sense of
menace returns as Lennie is goaded into hurting and humiliating Curley, an episode handled
expertly by Slim to protect Lennie, but nevertheless unsettling.

If chapter
two introduces danger and meanness through Curley, chapter three introduces elements of comfort
through Slim and the dream farm, as well as the sadness of the men's lives, which are not much
different in their vulnerability from Candy's dog.

How many soliloquies are there in Hamlet?

Ais when
a character shares his or her thoughts
through a speech. The audience is able to hear it, but
any otherthat are
present are not privy to the words that are spoken. Soliloquies provide

insight into what the character is thinking and gives the opportunity for the audience
to learn
information that cannot be revealed through characters
conversations.often uses soliloquies in
his plays, and is
no exception. Throughout the play of ,
there are a total
of seven soliloquies. Each soliloquy helps the audience learn more about the

character of Hamlet, especially since hes always honest and his true self during
the
soliloquies, unlike times when he is speaking with other
characters.

What are some quotes you could use to argue that Romeo and Juliet are to blame for their own deaths?

each
commit separate suicides in act 5, scene
3, both believing the other is dead. Having each taken
their lives willingly,
they are both technically responsible for their deaths. The downfalls of

bothandare their youthful impetuousness, which causes them to fall so hopelessly in love
that
they conclude that life without the other is unbearable.

Romeo's own death is
foreshadowed in act 3, scene 3. In a
conversation with , Romeo likens his banishment from Verona
(Romeo having
been exiled by King Escalus for killing ) and physical separation from Juliet to
a
form of living death:

And sayst thou
yet that exile is not
death?

Hadst thou no poison mixed,
no sharp-ground knife,

No sudden mean of death, though
ne'er so mean,

But banish¨d to
kill me?Banish¨d!

In act 4, scene 1, Juliet and the
friar devise a
plan to fake her death in order to avoid her planned marriage to(Juliet and
Romeo
are already secretly married at this point). Juliet takes a sleeping
potion and is placed in the
tomb of the Capulet family. Having not received
the message from the friar about this plan,
Romeo believes Juliet is actually
dead. He buys poison from an apothecary and kills himself with
it at the base
of Juliet's supposedly dead body. In act 5, scene 3, Romeo presents abefore
he
commits suicide, which is essentially a long farewell to his own life and
that of Juliet. He
says, "O, here / Will I set up my everlasting rest,"
meaning in this spot, himself and
Juliet will be together forever. Romeo says
that his lips "seal with a righteous kiss / A
dateless bargain to engrossing
death." In other words, true love's kiss has forged a deal
to be with
together with Juliet in death forever.

Moments later, Juliet
wakes
up from her potion-induced slumber and finds Romeo dead. She kisses him
in order to take some of
the poison from his mouth: "I will kiss thy lips, /
Haply some poison yet doth hang on
them, / To make me die with a
restorative". In this way they can be connected in death and
by the same
means. She then stabs herself with Romeo's dagger, yet another morbid connection
to
him. Juliet says "O happy dagger" meaning she is welcoming this fate in
order to find
eternal rest with her lover.

Evaluate the integral integrate of (sin(x))^2(cos(x))^4 dx

`sin2x =
2sinx*cosx`

`(sin2x)^2 = 4(sinx)^2*(cos(x))^2`

`(sinx)^2*(cos(x))^2 = 1/4(sin2x)^2`

 

`cos2A =
2cos^2A-1 = 1-2sin^A`

`cos^2A = 1/2(cos2A+1)`

`sin^2A =
1/2(1-cos2A)`

 

int(sin(x))^2(cos(x))^4 dx

`= int (sinx)^2*(cosx)^2*(cosx)^2dx`

`= int
(1/4(sin2x)^2)(1/2(cos2x+1))dx`

`= 1/8int [(sin2x)^2cos2x+(sin2x)^2]dx`

`= 1/8[int(sin2x)^2cos2xdx+int1/2(1-cos4x)dx]`

 

 

`int(sin2x)^2cos2xdx`

Let
`t = sin2x`

`dt = 2cos2xdx`

dt/2 = cos2xdx

 

`int(sin2x)^2cos2xdx`

`= int t^2dt/2`

= 1/2(t^3/3)

`= t^3/6`

` =
(sin2x)^3/6`

 

 

`int1/2(1-cos4x)dx`

`= 1/2[int 1dx-intcos4xdx]`

`= 1/2(x-1/4(sin4x))`

`= 1/8(4x-sin4x)`

 

`int(sin(x))^2(cos(x))^4 dx`

`=
1/8[int(sin2x)^2cos2xdx+int(sin2x)^2cos2xdx]`

`=
1/8[(sin2x)^3/6+1/8(4x-sin4x)]+C`

`= 1/24[4(sin2x)^3+3(4x-sin4x)]+C`

C is a constant since this is indefinite integral.

 

`int(sin(x))^2(cos(x))^4 dx = 1/24[4(sin2x)^3+3(4x-sin4x)]+C`

What does Baldwin mean by "black people, mainly, look down or look up but do not look at each other, not at you, and white people, mainly, look away"?

What
Baldwin is referring to is the fact that racism separates black people, not just from whites,
but from each other. The indignities of racism have instilled a certain mindset in African
Americans that makes them seek a kind of artificial dignity in class distinctions. Essentially,
they internalize society's racism and then use it to construct barriers between themselves and
other African Americans on the basis of class. So, as well as constantly having to "look
up" at white people, lower-class African Americans also have to do the same to their
alleged social superiors of the same race.

Among other things, this means
that black people are divided from each other when they should be united. Instead of coming
together to fight racism and oppression, they're too busy trying to create a distinct social
hierarchy that keeps a whole segment of black society down, oppressed by both white racism and
black middle-class snobbery. In the meantime, white society can just look away,
ignoring...

According to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what was life like for Frederick Douglass as a young American slave boy in Maryland?

This
depends on where in Maryland Douglass is at the time of inquiry.  Douglass was born in Tuckahoe,
Maryland, and spent the early years of his childhood on a large plantation.  Because he was too
young to work in the fields, he spent much time driving cows and cleaning the front yard.  In
his leisure time, he helped his master's son on errands such as chasing after downed
birds...

What is the summary to Chapters 13, 14, and 15 in the book The Pigman?

John and
Lorraine have a party at Mr. Pignati's place while he is at the hospital, and the party quickly
gets out of hand. Everyone is drunk, and John and some others don roller skates and dance on the
dance floor they have created by moving the furniture. Norton shows up, angry that he had not
been invited, and quickly goes upstairs to see what he can steal from Mr. Pignati. John and
Norton get into a big fight, and in the middle of this, Mr. Pignati comes home (Chapter
13).

The police come, and as Mr. Pignati declines to press charges, John and
Lorraine are taken home in a squad car. John is "hopelessly drunk" when they arrive at
Lorraine's house, and Lorraine's mother slaps her when the policeman escorts her to the door.
John's parents also react typically when he gets home, threatening to send him to a
psychiatrist, but never following through. Lorraine and John realize that it is Mr. Pignati, and
not their parents, whose forgiveness they must earn. They call the old man the next day and
offer to make amends, and agree to meet at the zoo. At the zoo, Mr. Pignati, who is frail and
weak, discovers that Bobo has died, and he collapses from the shock. Mr. Pignati is dead
(Chapter 14).

John waits with Mr. Pignati's body while Lorraine distances
herself from the situation so that she will not get into further trouble with her mother. John
reflects that, contrary to what everyone thinks, he cares deeply for Mr. Pignati and a host of
other things, and is completely bewildered at how "screwed up" life can be. He
imagines himself in his tomb, and wonders if he "would rather be dead than to turn into the
kind of grown-up people (he) knows." After an ambulance takes Mr. Pignati's body away, John
rejoins Lorraine, who is crying. Both sit for awhile, then, in a silent, mutual realization that
responsibility for their own lives lies solely with themselves, John takes Lorraine's hand. Both
understand that they had "trespassed...and...were being punished." There is no one
else to blame, and, in the end, their lives "would be what (they) made of it - nothing
more, nothing less" (Chapter 15).

Provide an analysis of Oprah Winfrey's acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes. This is not a...

Winfrey has
a platform that is often denied to black people and to black women especially. It is a platform
she has earned over decades. As a result of her enduring work and iconic status, her audience is
captive. Hundreds in the auditorium, millions watching live, and millions more who will watch it
online are in the palm of herhand.

Winfrey grabs this...

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What is the significance of the Byzantine empire to the civilization of Europe

The Byzantine
Empire was basically the continuation of the Roman Empire under a different cultural, political,
religious and geographic setting. The Byzantines largely thought of themselves as the inheritors
of the Roman legacy and maintained many of the writings, scientific knowledge and other cultural
elements that distinguished the Old/Classical world, and were later inherited by Western Europe
during the Renaissance. The Empire also served as a sort of buffer, geographically and
politically insulating Western Europe from many outside influences, such as the spread of
Islam.

In "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, what is meant by "rainbow, rainbow, rainbow"?

It seems
to me this line is representative of
what the narrator of "" figuratively sees.  This
is an important fish, not
just a fish or anyfish. 
This is a
wonderful specimen of age and longevity and perseverence and
character. 

On the outside, though, the fish is not what
anyone would call beautiful-- 

battered
and venerable
and homely. Here and
there
his brown skin
hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper....

It is scarred and battered and lice-ridden and trailing
bits of
other fisherman's lures and lines.  This fish is a testament to age
and strength and character
and perseverence.  While there is an actual
rainbow on the spilled oil around the engine on the
bottom of the boat, the
rainbow in this line is more about the figurative or symbolic nature of
a
rainbow.  This ugly brown trout did not, all of a sudden, regain its coloring; instead,
it is
an image seen by the narrator of what this fish is on the inside.  And
the symbolism of promise
and hope and beauty are all realized in that image
of a rainbow.  Then--"I let the
fish go."

In "Marriage Is a Private Affair," compare and contrast the father's first reaction to his son's marrying with his attitude at the end of the story.

Okeke's
initial reaction to his son's wishes is defiant anger, while his attitude at the end of the
story is one of regret.

As the story opens, Nnaemeka is confiding in Nene
that he dreads telling his father about their love.  He turns out to be right.  The father's
first reaction to his son's wishes is not very good.  Okeke is dismissive when his son says that
he does not love the girl that his father has picked.  Then, Okeke becomes angry when he finds
out that Nene works outside of the house, something that offends his traditionalist
construction.  Finally, he becomes irate when he finds out that Nene is not Ibo.   It is at this
point that Okeke shuns his son. He refuses to have any contact with his son and his new wife.
 Even six months after the wedding, Okeke's letter to his son depicts an angry and resentful
reaction:

It amazes me that you could be so unfeeling as
to send me your wedding picture. I would have sent it back. But on further thought I decided
just to cut off your wife and send it back to you because I have nothing to do with her. How I
wish that I had nothing to do with you either. 

At the
end of the story, another letter shows Okeke's reaction.  This time, it is from Nene.  After
reading it, Okeke displays a different type of reaction.  He realizes that he has held on to his
anger for so long that he might have closed out the opportunity to know his grandsons.  The
ending of the story shows him filled with regret over his initial defiance.

Intense feeling is displayed in both reactions.  They exist on different ends of the
emotional spectrum.  However, Achebe uses both to show what it means to be human being and what
it means to embrace one in putting aside the other.