What led to the formation of the Progressive party in U.S. politics?

The
National Progressive Party, also called the Bull Moose Party, was the result of a split in the
Republican Party in the 1912 election between Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, Roosevelt's
hand-picked successor.  Roosevelt left office in 1909 under the impression that Taft would
continue the progressive line blazed by Roosevelt, "to dissolve the unholy alliance between
corrupt business and corrupt politics," as the Progressive Party platform put it.  When
Taft did not continue this line, Roosevelt challenged Taft's bid for reelection.  This split in
the Republican Party made it easier for Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency in
1912.

The Progressive Party dissolved within two years following the election,
but Roosevelt's view of government's direct care for its citizens would affect later policies,
specifically the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, TR's distant
cousin.

Help reword and amplify word choice to make the quote fit and increase the flow of the sentence. This imaginative scenario is ruled by a...

Given the
context of 's work, I thought that some level of rework was needed.  The new version is a bit
different from the original:

In this imaginative
scenario, a totalitarian government controls what it deems to be the truth.  This extends to
dictating what is viewed as the past, present, and future.  Within this setting, the idea of
who controls the past controls the future is non- existent.  A world where lies...

What are two interpretations of chapter 18's title, "A Flood of Sunshine"?

Inof ,
anddecide that they will end their years of silent suffering and run away,
together, from their Puritan community.

This decision has an enormously
positive effect on the emotional state of each of the lovers.

About
Dimmesdale, Hawthorne writes:

a glow of strange enjoymnent
threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast...His spirit rose...and attained
a nearer prospect of the sky...

Hester removes the
scarlet letter from her dress and flings it into the forest; she also removes the "formal
cap that confined her hair." 

her youth, and the
whole richness of her beauty, came back from what men call the irrevocable past...and [she
experienced] a happiness before unknown...

At this point,
Hawthorne describes (perhaps in an exaggerated fashion) how the happiness of the two lovers
spread beyond themselves and affected the natural world around them:

as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring
a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf...Such was the sympathy of
Nature...with the bliss of these two spirits!

This
sentence is the basis for the chapter's name, "A Flood of Sunshine."  It refers to:
a)the literal flood of light from the sun, and b)to the overflowing joy that was experienced by
Hester and Dimmesdale.

During WWI and WWII how did Germans feel about their "National Community?" Did the German people really believe in it or were they just more or less...

There is
simply no way to know the answer to this question.

First of all, we do not
have polling data that could tell us what the average German believed during either of these
wars.  It certainly looks as if they tended to believe strongly in their national community, but
people sometimes act outwardly in ways that do not correspond do their true beliefs.  Without
accurate polling, we can't know what they truly felt.

Second, it would
be...

What was Hester's punishment?

's punishment was to
spend a little time in jail; she is released three months after the birth of her child, the
child her Puritan community believes was conceived in sin since Hester's husband has been
missing for two years. Because they have no proof that her husband is living, she is not
punished more harshly, but because they have no proof that he is dead, she is considered to be
an adulteress.

In addition to the few months of jail time, when Hester is
released, she is obligated to stand on the public scaffold in the town center, holding her baby,
so that she can be publicly questioned by the town clergymen as to who her partner in sin was.
However, the longest part of her punishment requires her to wear a scarlet "A" (for
adultery) on her bodice any time she leaves her home. She had to make it herself while in jail,
and as she stands on the scaffold, the

Scarlet Letter
[appeared], so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a
spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by
herself.

The letter renders her distinct, different from
everyone else, and thus its appearance on her breast isolates her from all the townsfolk.  She
becomes a cautionary tale in church services, an object of ridicule to the local children and
some of the local goodwives, and town magistrates even consider removing her child from her
care. The letter comes to be synonymous with Hester's identity in a way that can never be
disentangled, not even by Hester herself.

What is the definition of studying literature? What is the definition of studying literature?

I think there
is an important distinction between reading for pleasure and studying literature.  I can be very
intellectually engaged in reading very challenging novels, but I am still only reading unless I
consciously stop to analyze what an author is doing and why, and
consider how those literary choices by the author were made and
how they contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. If I am not
actively thinking about these topics, I not studying, I am just reading.

How is farming an auto-catalytic process? How does this account for the great disparities in societies, as well as for the possiblilities of paral.......

An
autocatalytic process is a term borrowed from chemistry to describe a type of chemical reaction
the products of which include components for the same chemical reaction. This type of chemical
reaction is self sustaining, and does not need regular addition of external catalysts.

There are two main autocatalytic aspects of farming. The first is a literal one. When
a farmer grows plants, the plants produce seeds that can be collected to produce more plants.
Similarly, domesticated animals reproduce, producing more animals. This makes parallel evolution
possible because once a society starts domesticating...

What are the methods of restricting trade?

Nations use
trade restrictions as a matter of both foreign and economic policy. A nation can blockade
another nation in time of warthis restricts all trade going in and out of a country. A nation
can also use trade sanctions in order to punish certain industries. One example of this is when
the United States would not sell high-octane fuel to Japan during World War II.

A nation can also use embargoes to limit trade. One key example of this happened when
President Jefferson levied an embargo against belligerents during his administration. This
embargo backfired, as key European nations also did not buy American goods, thus crippling the
US economy.

Tariffs are a key part of economic policy. Tariffs are taxes
placed on imports. They are used to protect industries in the home country. Tariffs often become
political issues, as interest groups want their industries protected. When another nation issues
tariffs in retaliation, a trade war results. Tariffs also increase the price of...

what were the three hardships the settlers faced in jamestown

The
original English settlers of Jamestown faced many hardships and struggles. The biggest three
were internal divisions, disease, and lack of food.

Starvation was one of the
first hurdles that these settlers had to surmount. As bad luck would have it, when the settlers
arrived in 1607, the region was experiencing a severe drought. Furthermore, they had arrived too
late in the year to plant. Many were also unaccustomed to the hard labor that farming in this
region required. As a result, there was little food to feed them and many starved to death. The
situation was so dire that there are reports that some of the settlers had to resort to
cannibalism to make it through this "starving time."

Being located
in a swampy estuary, Jamestown was in a prime location for the spread of disease. First of all,
all this sitting water was a great habitat for mosquitos to breed in. Mosquito-borne illnesses
such as malaria took many lives. The lack of reliable sources of potable water also meant that
the settlers drank contaminated water which made them even sicker. All this disease compounded
the earlier mentioned problem of lack of food because many were too sick to farm. By the end of
1610, about eighty percent of the original settlers were dead.

This high
mortality rate naturally led to high levels of internal strife. Although John Smith painted an
optimistic picture of the situation in order to woo investors in England, he was not universally
loved as one of the colony's leaders. Many saw him as self-serving and reckless in his forrays
into the interior. Even before the initial voyage had reached North America, Smith was accused
of mutiny and nearly executed. Many still distrusted his intentions after arrival. To make
matters worse, Smith's policy of giving food preference only to those who could work during the
"starving times" increased resentment towards him. If he had not returned to England
after being injured in an accidental gunpowder explosion, there may have been a rebellion
against him.

It should also be mentioned that, although they initially helped
them, the Powhatan tribe were sometimes very hostile towards the English settlers. Between 1610
and 1614 there were several direct and violent conflicts between these groups that led to the
death of many English settlers and kept them from expanding their exploration much beyond
Jamestown.

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What are some examples of some recent legislation that the National Organization for Women has either supported or opposed?

The
National Organization for Women is a group that was created in 1966 with the purpose of focusing
on women's issues such as equal rights, equal pay, and reproductive freedom. To achieve the
ends, NOW has been active in supporting many pieces of legislation that guarantee women's
freedom of choice and which prevent discrimination against women. It has also served as a strong
voice in opposition to acts that restrict women's freedoms or seek to limit protections for
gender equality.

NOW has been active in opposing legislation that restricts
women's reproductive freedom, supporting the Freedom...

In Pygmalion, according to Higgins, why is Liza such an apt pupil?

In
, in Act I, Higgins predicts that, given six months, he'll be able to take
Liza "anywhere and pass her off as anyone." He also makes it clear that her
accomplishment will be based on her "ear" and "tongue." In fact, he modifies
his prediction to say that "if she has a good ear and a quick tongue," his task will
take only three months.

The expressions "good ear" and "quick
tongue" are representative of the trope metonymy, which is a
literary device comprising figures of speech. Metonymy replaces a general concept or an idea
with a word representing a concrete object. Therefore a good "ear" refers to the
ability to accurately hear various sounds and the fine points that differentiate sounds, while a
quick "tongue" refers to an adroit facility in reproducing variations of similar
verbal sounds. In other words, possessing a "good ear" and a "quick tongue"
means that the individual can recognize and articulate the different pronunciations of a newly
introduced language sound system.

In Act III, Higgins tells his mother that
Liza gets on "like a house on fire" (really quickly) and attributes this to his
earlier predictions being correct: "she has a quick ear." He claims that he will
fulfill his prediction (the six month prediction, not the overly enthusiastic three month
prediction) and in "six months time" introduce her anywhere and "pass her off as
a duchess," thus making him confident that he will win his bet. In summary, Higgins says
Liza is an apt pupil because she recognizes audible differences in phonetic sounds and is able
to articulate the differences accurately.

Help me explain the mood of paragraph 8. I think it is hopelessness...

If this is
not the right paragraph, let me know.  I am talking about the second numbered list -- the one
that actually has a paragraph with a number 8 on it.  It starts "Natural men's
prudence..."

I would agree that the mood here is...

What did the Progressives believe was important?

The
Progressives were such a large and diverse group that it is difficult to generalize about them.
It is best to say, in response to this question, that they thought responding to the effects of
rapid industrialization and urbanization was the most important issue of their time. 

Progressives generally argued that government ought to play a role in curbing the
excesses of the era. They did not want to destroy capitalism, but rather to manage it in ways
that made it beneficial for more people. So many Progressives supported, for example, anti-trust
laws that reined in the power of monopolies. They promoted shorter hours and safer working
conditions in factories. They supported child labor legislation and safety regulations for food
and drugs. Because they worried about the effects of urbanization, Progressives championed
efforts to "clean up" city politics through reforms such as hiring city managers and
establishing city council systems that were less open to control by political machines. They
also promoted housing regulations, set up settlement houses and city volunteer organizations,
and other measures intended to reduce crime and create better living conditions in urban areas.
Some actually pushed for immigration restrictions, especially on Eastern Europeans, and the
movement to prohibit alcohol always had a strong anti-immigrant bent. So the Progressives
believed in trying to rein in the excesses that had characterized the United States during the
so-called "Gilded Age."

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What makes Stargirl so interesting?

is actually a
girl named Susan, but she prefers to go by "Stargirl."  At her school, the other
students just want to fit in and be popular, but it becomes clear that Stargirl has no interest
in fitting in.  This sets her apart from the other students almost immediately.  She doesn't
wear makeup, and wears weird outfits every day. She decorates her desk at school and sings Happy
Birthday to kids she doesn't know.  At sports games, she cheers for the other team.  She doesn't
seemed concerned with being popular-she just wants to make everyone else around her happy.  Some
of the other students accept her, while others are wary of her and think that she's just doing
all of this for attention.

In Pygmalion, what does Alfred Doolittle mean by saying "he cannot afford morals" and that "middle class morality is just an excuse" for not giving him...

After
Eliza has been staying with Professor Higgins for a while, her father, Alfred Doolittle, calls
on Higgins and Pickering. Seeing how wealthy Higgins is, he believes this is an opportunity for
him to get some money from him. He offers to let Higgins keep Eliza in exchange for a
"five-pound note." This prompts Pickering to exclaim, "Have you no morals,
man?" Doolittle replies that he can't afford them. In other words, he's too poor to not try
to take advantage of a situation that presents itself to him. In his view, someone with wealth
can "afford" to have morals because he won't be...

Please explain the meaning of this quote about seeing creation in a single grain of sand in The Alchemistby Coelho. "you dont have to understand the...

What this
quote is saying is that everything in the world is connected and that you can learn everything
you need to know wherever you are.  Because of this, a person should look at their own
surroundings to learn about the world...

In "The Black Cat" By Edgar allen poe. How does Plot, character, point of view, setting, and style support the authors THEME?

The first
step would be to identify the theme.  A theme is a life-truth that the author is trying to share
with his/her audience.  For this story, the theme could be "familiarity breeds
contempt," "justice will prevail," or "you cannot hide the
evil within."  There are certainly others, based on how the story speaks to
each reader, but I find these to be prevalent.

If we choose the last theme,
"you cannot hide the evil within," you can apply all the literary elements you have
identified.

The plot is about a man who changes
from being loving to animals and people, to being one consumed by hatred for both.

This, too, covers the character of the man.  He has been
loving of animals for his entire life; he meets and marries a woman with similar feelings.  As
time goes by, he loses touch with this aspect of himself, loses all patience and compassion, and
resorts to torture, and ultimately, committing murder.

Point of
view is important with this theme because it is only by being able to look into
the very mind and soul of our narrator (from a first person point of view)
that we can not only witness his degradation as a person (drunkenness, abuse, etc.), but we can
also watch (and listen to) how his obvious psychosis permeates his entire being and destroys the
kindness and gentleness that once resided within.

In terms of the
setting, a great deal of the dark side of the story occurs in
"dark" places.  The establishments he haunts each evening are vile.  It is there that
he becomes repeatedly drunk, and it is there that his soul begins its deterioration.  The other
specific setting of the story is the basement of his home: a dark, chilling stage on which the
narrator plays out his final, maniacal act of hatred, and his attempt to cover his
actions.

An author's style is the way he/she
writes, how he expresses himself, grammatical structure, and even the specific words he chooses
to create his own particular way of writing.

Poe's style is very specific to
his writing.  It lends itself to creating horror stories.  Those who remember Alfred Hitchcock
will note that his stories, on TV or in the movies, always created a sense of horror. A more
contemporary parallel would be Stephen King, though his style diverges greatly between stories
such as Carrie, and others like The Shawshank Redemption or The
Green Mile. In all of these cases, the stories are told in such a way as to elicit a
contrived response: we are to be horrified, even fascinated, and certainly drawn in by the
writing style.

When studying , the words Poe chooses to
create a sense of suspense, shock and even revulsion stand out: dread, felon, terror,
horror, gallows and perverseness (both in capital letters),
rabid, and death are words that set a specific mood
and purpose for the reader: to bring about horror and fear.  With these words, the theme is
clear: you cannot hide the evil that lies within.  With the end of the story, the cat (the one
in the title? who knows?) does, in fact, reveal the evil hidden within the
man.

In what ways was the Gupta Empire similar to the Murya Empire? In what ways were they different?

The Gupta
Empire ruled much of north India from about 320-550 CE and the Mauryan Empire ruled much of the
same territory of north India from 321-185 BCE.  Among their similarities:

1.
Both ruled over large areas of north India, and both expanded their territory - basically became
empires - through conquest.

2. Both were periods of advancement in various
areas. For example, under the Mauryas, the social and political manual...

Does double jeopardy and collateral estoppel apply where a state tries a defendant for armed robbery after acquittal in federal court?

The
Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects a person from a second prosecution for
the same offense, or multiple punishments for the same offense, by the federal government. The
Fourteenth Amendment protects against Double Jeopardy in state courts. The question then
becomes: what happens if a state and the federal government have identical laws?  Is it Double
Jeopardy if a person is tried in a federal court and a state court for breaking these identical
laws?  This issue is known as dual sovereignty.  According to the case of Bartkus
v....

In Romeo and Juliet, what are the differences and similarities between the characters of Romeo and Juliet?

are alike
in being young people who fall quickly and passionately in love, are impatient to get married,
and are willing to ignore the feud between their families to be together. Both would rather die
than be apart.

, however, is much more in love with the idea of being in love
thanis. This makes him, therefore, the less constant of the two characters. Romeo starts off the
play, for example, pining for Rosaline, who refuses to return his love. It's for this reason
that his two friends,and, drag him to the Capulet party: they hope he will meet a girl who will
take...

What did people do for entertainment?

People in
do all kinds of things to entertain themselves. They go dancing, catch a
movie, see a show, or just stay at home to listen to the radio. If they're anything like 's
sisterthey even go to the zoo, where, as well as looking at the animals, they also ride on the
carousel.

The problem with all these forms of entertainment, however, is that
they cannot satisfy Holden. They're part of a world that he considers to be nothing less than
phony and superficial. When he goes to the cinema, for example, he's positively scathing about
the films that he sees. He hates the movies with a passion, seeing them as a prime example of
all that's wrong with the world.

Despite his loathing of all things cinematic
Holden still can't take his eyes off the silver screen as he watches a soppy romantic tale about
an Englishman who loses his memory in the war and goes off with another woman, only to have his
memory restored later on. The film may be putrid, to use Holden's colorful description, but he
can't take his eyes off it all the same. Even that which Holden deems as phony exerts a grim
fascination upon him.

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How does Dickens present Scrooge's redemption in stave 5 of A Christmas Carol?

Whatshows in stave 5 of is the
culmination and the manifestation
of Scrooge's redemption: the joyful "Merry
Christmas," the "prize turkey"
for the Cratchits, the charitable donation,
Bob Cratchit's raise. However, Scrooge's redemption
occurred gradually
(almost imperceptibly) throughout the preceding staves. The final stave

represents the ultimate result.

In stave 2, the Ghost of Christmas
Past takes
Scrooge to the boarding school that Scrooge attended as a
boy:

They went, the Ghost and Scrooge,
across the hall, to a door at the back of the house.
It opened before them,
and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of

plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire;
and
Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as
he used to be. . .
.

Then, with a rapidity of transition
very foreign to his usual character,
he said, in pity for his former self,
"Poor boy!" and cried...

Give a brief note on Mr. Whymper from Animal Farm Chapter 6.

Mr. Whymper is the go-between for the animals.  His job is to communicate
and trade with people so the animals do not have to.

The
vision ofis a place where animals have no contact.  Anything that walks on two legs is an
enemy.  Anything that walks on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.  However, the reality is
that the animals often want things they cant produce on the farm, and want to sell their
surplus.

There would be no need for any of the animals to
come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable. He intended to take
the whole burden upon his own shoulders. A...

Discuss the theme of religion in this novel.

One could
say that is a spiritual autobiography, which charts a soul's long,
tortuous journey to salvation. The book's overriding religious theme is established right from
the outset in the Preface, where Defoe clearly states his intention to "justify and honour
the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances."

Having been washed up on a remote desert island full of everything he needs to survive,
Robinson Crusoe arrogantly fails to acknowledge the hand of Providence at work. His main problem
prior to his conversion is that he takes all the bounties of nature for granted; he doesn't see
God at work everywhere like most Christians at the time. This is just the kind of attitude we'd
expect from an unrepentant sinner. Yet over time, Crusoe comes to see the error of his ways and
embraces God in a remarkable act of conversion.

As the name would suggest,
divine Providence provides us with everything we need to survive and flourish upon this earth,
both physically and spiritually. Yet all too often, like Crusoe himself, we're dissatisfied with
our lot and try to turn ourselves into gods, seeking to control the earth and everything in it.
At first, Crusoe shows great arrogance in his attitude towards others, taking to sea against the
advice of his father and the captain of the first ship he sails on. Both of these authority
figures can be seen as substitutes for God; in defying them, Crusoe is defying the Almighty. In
putting out to sea, Crusoe's also going against God's providential social order in the world, in
which the father is supposed to enjoy complete authority over his children.

It is only later on in the story, after his dramatic conversion, that Crusoe puts aside
his selfish attitude to life and finally reconciles himself to the dictates of divine Providence
in all its wondrous majesty. Nevertheless, there are still lapses, even after Crusoe turns to
God. For instance, he seriously contemplates pretending to be a Catholic once more in order to
return to Brazil and claim his estate. This is hardly the kind of behavior one would expect from
a righteous Protestant. But this episode simply illustrates the wider point that, according to
Puritans like Defoe, we are all sinners, and are constantly engaged in a never-ending struggle
against temptation and evil in a sinful, fallen world.

Are the events depicted in the story happening today? Could they happen? Why might a society allow them to happen? I didn't think anything like this...

I agree with
you.  I have always wondered why
novels likeare so popular when I do not think they resemble the
modern world
in any way.

I do not believe they could happen today, at
least
not in the United States.  We are too accustomed to freedom and to
luxuries that I...

Please explain "To Sleep," a poem by William Wordsworth.

Overall,
someone who has been suffering from
insomnia describes his difficulties in Wordsworths poem,
To Sleep.

The title and the first two lines of the poem hint at the theme

of sleeplessness even before it is clearly identified. For
instance, the
idea of counting sheep to put oneself to sleep is very common
in the face of sleeplessnesseven
to a contemporary audience.

In the first four lines, Wordsworth describes the
images that come
into the speaker's mind as he tries to fall

asleep.

A flock of sheep that leisurely
pass
by, 
One after one; the sound of rain, and bees 

Murmuring; the fall of
rivers, winds and seas, 
Smooth fields,
white sheets of water, and pure sky...
(1-4)

The speaker lists the things he has laid awake
imagining, in an
attempt to sleep. "One by one" gives reference to the act of counting
sheep.
"Leisurely" refers to the rolling gait and relaxed pace of the moving sheep

(1-2). The speaker refers to the soothing sounds of rain, "bees murmuring"
and
waterfalls"fall of rivers" (2-3). He also describes the visions of
"smooth
fields" (perhaps a part of an afternoon nap in the country), as well
as a "pure
sky," with no hint of storm and nothing in it that would cause
anything but a quiet calm
within, conducive to falling asleep
(3-4).

In lines 5-8, Wordsworth's speaker
explains that he
has done all he can think of to bring sleep upon himself (5). However, he has

had no successhe has remained awake all night longuntil he finally hears the sound of
birds
that utter in the orchard, breaking the silence
with their song in the
early morning, we imagine just before dawn (5-6). Even
the first 
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melancholy: we can assume it is because the speaker is still awake
to hear
it, having had no respite from the day before. Note that the bird
does not sing,
but criesit is a sound of distress
(7-8):

I have thought of all by turns,
and yet do lie 
Sleepless! and soon the small
birds'
melodies 
Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; 
And
the
first cuckoo's melancholy cry. (5-8)

The theme of
sleeplessness continues into the next three lines,
giving the reader a deeper insight into the
depth of the speaker's
difficulty: for it is not just this one sleepless
night,
but the third in a row

Even thus last night,
and
two nights more, I lay, 
And could not win thee, Sleep! by
any stealth; 
So
do not let me wear tonight away...
(9-11)

With all the
tricks he has
tried to use, the insomniac has not been able to even steal"Sleep! by any

stealth..." (10)any relief. In line 11 the speaker directly addresses sleep (as if it
were
a living, hearing thing), asking that it not allow
him to remain in the
same condition as he faces the approach of another
night.

The poem's last
three lines describe just how
important sleep is:

Without
Thee what
is all the morning's wealth? 
Come, blessed barrier between day
and
day, 
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
(12-14)

The "morning's wealth" (12)
refers to all of the wonders
of a new day. "Wealth" indicates that the
morning is filled with things that are
extremely valuable. He has already
pointed out the sound of birds that welcome the day. They are
a blessing at
the beginning of the day, but only after a time of rest; the sound is very

different when one has remained unable to experience rest, but instead has counted the
long
hours until the day breaks. What good, what joy is to be found in the
coming of morning without
rest from the night before?

The
speaker praises sleep, referring to the

"blessed barrier" (13), the thing that separates one day
from
another. He goes on to provide details of the benefits of a good night's
sleep: "fresh
thoughts" and "joyous health." (14)

Whereas
the title might
first lead the reader to believe the poem is about the
pleasures of sleep, the content
demonstrates that it is actually about the
hardships created when one
is unable to sleep; it points
out the negative ramificationsmost especially
when the insomnia continues
over subsequent nights.

 

How does the theme of Reality vs Unreality of Hamlet and 1984 relate to a current news event?

At work in
both Hamlet and

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According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why did Australia's aborgines lose out to invading Europeans?

The answer
to this can be found late in Chapter 15.  It can be found on pages 319 and 320 in the paperback
edition of the book.  As with everything else in this book, the answer has to do with
geography.

In this chapter, Diamond contrasts New Guinea with Australia.  He
says that New Guinea was not suited for European colonization.  Australia, on the other hand,
was very suitable.  Diamond points out...

Find a function whose graph is a parabola with vertex (4,9) and that passes through the point (5,12). How do you find this function??

We will write
the function in the vertex form:

`f(x)= a(x-h)^2 + k`  such that (h,k) is the
vertex.

`==gt f(x)= a(x-4) + 9`

`` Now given the point
(5,12) passes through the line.

`==gt f(5)= 12 `

`==gt
f(5)= a(5-4)^2 +9 = 12 `

`==gt a + 9= 12 `

`==gt a = 12-9=
3 `

`==gt f(x)= 3(x-4)^2+ 9 `

`==gt f(x)= 3(x^2 -8x + 16)+
9`

`` ==`gt f(x)= 3x^2 -24x + 57.`

 

Distinguish between economies and diseconomies of scale, giving examples of EACH

Scale means to expand. When we talk about economies of scale, we refer to the
benefits that a firm receives as it grows. Diseconomies of scale is the opposite €“ it refers to
the disadvantages of scaling.

Take the example of a big company like Nike. It
is a recognized brand that makes billions in global sales every year. If Nike wants to expand to
a new market, but they dont have the capital, they can simply go to the bank and ask for a loan.
Since the brand is big and makes huge sales every year, the bank will approve the loan within a
short period. The lender can also give Nike credit at a cheaper rate because they want them to
return. The discounted bank loan is an example of economies of scale. Nike pays a lower interest
rate on the loan because of its size. The bank believes that such a company is unlikely to
default.

Scaling can also be bad for a company. Take the example of a
company like AT&T. It is currently the largest telecommunications company in the world. The
firm grew...

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In Pygmalion, in what ways did nature cause Eliza to suffer?

It is
hard to see Eliza's conflict as one in which nature rather than society or other people is most
responsible. Other people's prejudices against lower-class individuals and society's rigid
control over who can move up within it relegate Eliza to the lower rungs of British society.
From there, she has little hope of moving beyond selling flowers on the street.

Nature might...

Was the Civil War inevitable? What were options other than civil conflict? Why were they not viable?

I would
argue that Civil War was inevitable,
the reason being that it was the only viable way of
resolving the issue of
slavery once and for all.

A number of compromises had

been tried in the past, but all they'd done was delay confronting the real issue at the
heart of
the problem. Even after the South seceded, attempts were made to
cobble together yet another
political compromise between the North and South
on the issue of slavery....

What does it mean to be an individual in today's society? Does our society embrace individuals or exclude them?

Every
single person who has ever lived on this planet or will ever live on it in the future is, by
definition, a unique individual, as no two people can possibly be identical. Thus, in order to
write an essay on this topic, you need to think through what precisely you mean by the
terms.

One way popular media, especially advertisers, misuse the
term...

In what way is Animal Farm becoming a civilized society?

The question
hinges on what is meant by a "civilized society." If it means the equal
societyenvisions in which all the animals achieve a comfortable standard of living, an absence
of the coercion of whips and spurs, and a decent retirement, that society never comes into being
on the farm.

More likely, "civilized society" means the world
familiar to most of human civilization through most of history, which is one of hierarchy and
privilege for the few. The pigs, especially under , move quickly to make sure that they are the
privileged group. They almost immediately commandeer the windfall apples for their
"brainwork." Later they move into the farmhouse and sleep on beds. Napoleon trains a
private police force of dogs that uses violence and terror to enforce the will of the pigs. By
the end of the book, the pigs are wearing clothes, carrying whips, drinking alcohol, and living
in comfort while the lower caste animals work very hard and live rough, hungry
lives.

Why does Dante use the number "3" mutiple times in "Dante's Inferno"?

The
number 3 is everywhere in 's Divine Comedy . For one thing, the poem itself
is structured according to the rhyme scheme terza rima, which uses stanzas of three lines that
employ interlocking rhymes (aba bcb cdc, etc.). Additionally, there are nine circles of Hell
(three multiplied by three), Satan has three faces, and three beasts (a lion, a leopard, and a
wolf) threaten Dante at the beginning of the Inferno. There are many more examples of three, but
the overall important thing to understand is that the number three...

In Oedipus Rex, why does Oedipus blind himself?

's act
of blinding himself symbolically
represents his ignorant decision to dismiss 's intimate
knowledge of his
past, by purposefully overlooking his message and the signs which reveal that

he murdered his father and married his mother. When Oedipus is exposed to the truth, he
is
overcome with shame, grief, and remorse. Once Oedipus realizes that he was
not able to avoid the
prophecy and is responsible for the plague, he is
disgusted with himself and stabs his own eyes
using 's golden
brooches.

Oedipus blinding himself reflects his emotional

pain and reveals that he has taken responsibility for his actions. Oedipus acknowledges
that
hishas left him blind to the truth and is too ashamed of himself to
witness the citizens'
reactions. Overall, Oedipus chooses stab out his eyes
as a way of punishing himself for his
hubris and ignorance. His loss of
eyesight also symbolically represents his previous decision to
overlook
Teiresias's message and ignore the truth.