A solid cube of silver (density = 10.5 g/cm3) has a mass of 90.0 g. What is the resistance between opposite faces of the cube?

The solid
cube of silver, between the opposite faces of which we have to find the resistance, has a
density of 10.5 g/cm^3 and a mass of 90 g.

Now density is given by mass/
volume or volume is equal to mass/ density.

Here, the volume is equal to 90/
10.5 cm^3.

The volume of a cube with sides of length l is equal to
l^3

=> l^3 = 90/ 10.5

=> l = (90/10.5) ^ (1/3)
cm

=> l = 2.04 cm

=> l = .0204 m

The resistivity of silver is 15.87* 10^-9 ohm*m.

So the resistance
between opposite faces of the cube is: 0.0204*15.87*10^-9

=0.317*10^-9
ohm.

The required resistance between the opposite faces of the
silver cube is 0.317*10^-9 ohm.

Please help me draw a plot graph for "The Minister's Black Veil."

Let us remember for one
moment the key elements of a plot graph. In order, they are the , which presents the main
characters and the conflict, the rising action, in which a series of events heighten this
conflict, leading us to the , which is the most emotionally engaging section of the story, which
leads to the resolution, which is how the story is resolved and the conflict ends.

If we think about these four stages of the plot of "," the exposition is
clearly the sudden arrival of Mr. Hooper in a black veil. The rising action begins with the
parishioners wondering why on earth he is wearing it, and this continues when he wears it for
both a funeral and a wedding, and then, even at the cost of losing his love, he refuses to take
off his black veil at the behest of his fiancee, Elizabeth. This rising action of course leads
to the climax, which is Mr. Hooper's stubborn refusal to remove his black veil even on his death
bed. This section also gives us a key clue as to the symbolic meaning of the black veil, for Mr.
Hooper, when he looks at others, sees a black veil covering every face. Lastly, the resolution
would be when Mr. Hooper dies and is buried with the black veil still firmly covering his
face.

What makes at least some of what Gatsby says believable?

Whenfirst meets , he does not know who he is
(). The two men strike up a conversation, which include some references to having served in
World War I. Nick is both drawn to Gatsby and puzzled by him. He recognizes that there is
something distinctive about the man that draws others into his confidence, but also sees that
Gatsby is like a chameleon, always changing to fit the situation. Nick has glimpses into
charming exterior to see a roughneck behind. Gatsbys charisma accounts for much of his
believability.

He smiled understandinglymuch more than
understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.
... It facedor seemed to facethe whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on
you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. ... Precisely at that
point it vanished, and I was looking at an elegant young roughneck.

Gatsby is not a simple conman trying to fool others; instead, he
believes much of the tale that he has constructed about himself. Gatsby is utterly convinced of
the depth and permanence of his and s love. He is na¯ve in some ways and obtuse in others: he
cannot or will not accept that his image of Daisy and of true love is a mirage and that Daisy is
fascinated by him but not at all devoted to him in the way he is to her. Buying into his own
fantasy is part of what makes it seem believable to Nick.

In addition, the
elaborate stories that Gatsby tells do have some basis in fact. The running motif of the
Oxford man is the best place to observe this. While rumors fly that he had gone to Oxford,
many people do not believe it, andis outright scornful. When Gatsby produces the photograph
showing him at Oxford, however, he accompanies it with the explanation of how he came to spend a
few weeks there as a result of his military service. A kernel of truth within a larger
fabrication does much to convince people that the whole story is true.

What advice does a business manager require to help him or her increase their company's success rate?

Advice
that is useful to a business manager is advice that gives ideas on ways to improve efficiency
while containing costs. To that end, a manager needs advice concerning ways to increase sales
through cost-efficient marketing initiatives that provide a significant Return on Investment
(ROI).  One example is engaging in social media campaigns on a regular basis to target new
customers. This can be accomplished inexpensively - the major outlay of resources being the
wages paid for the public relations department to engage in discourse with the enterprise's
target market.

Another way to increase the success of a business is to
implement quality internal control...

What are some of the metaphors found in paragraphs 17 & 18 of the Conclusion? What do they mean?

First, keep
in mind that a is figurative language, which is descriptions based on
comparisons that are not meant to be taken literally.  Metaphors, unlike similes, are direct. 
They do not use the words "like" or "as."

Thoreau was, if
you will permit the term, like a literary philosopher.  In he pontificates
human wisdom after spending a significant amount of time in solitude, experiencing nature.  His
words attempt to exact a deeper sense of truth for a wide audience, and as such, he
mostly uses figurative language.  Therefore, you can find several metaphors
and similes within each paragraph.  In some sections, there seems to be one in every sentence. 
Simply look for the description of ideas through concrete images, and you are probably noticing
figurative language in some form.  One example is

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms house
asbrightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door asearly in the
spring.

Here, Thoreau is urging people to accept their
places in in life with gratitude rather than longing for something better.  Basing his example
off the universal idea that life is easier for the rich, he uses natural images to paint a
picture that when all else is stripped away, the poor and the rich are not actually different. 
The sun and the snow, after all, treat them both the same.

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy
of bell-metal.

Again, using natural images, Thoreau is
trying to make a point.  With this metaphor, he seems to be comparing his friends and
contemporaries to a lead wall.  This suggests that for the most part, their situations will not
change.  The "bell-metal" which has been added to the wall gives it the ability to
make noise (bell-metal was used in making bells, an alloy which allowed the bell to ring when
struck without changing or damaging its form).  "Living in the angle" of this wall
suggests that Thoreau feels pinned (or trapped) and surrounded by people who constantly complain
about their situation, but either can do nothing to change it, or simply don't.  Here, he pleads
with humanity to stop complaining and just accept things.

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," how can the power of persuasion invoke guilt on a person, and in turn cause them to do something they feel...

Let us remember that
this is a perfect example of a persuasive text where the speaker is trying to persuade his
audience of the necessity of becoming reborn and starting a life in relationship with Jesus
Christ. To answer your question, one of the aspects that makes this sermon so powerful and
persuasive is the way in which

What quotation might summarize the complete story of "Harrison Bergeron"?

 I think
the quote that summarizes the story of "" is from The Declaration of
Independence":

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,...

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What is the supreme law of the land?

The supreme law
of the United States is the U.S. Constitution. It is the oldest written constitution in use
today. It has served as a model for other nations since it went into effect in 1789. Most
Americans are extremely proud of the document.

Because times change, the
Constitution is supposed to be a living document. Indeed, the United States of 2019 is much
different from the nation that George Washington governed as the first president from 1789 to
1797. The Constitution is amended through a process, and there are a total of 27 Amendmentsthe
first ten of which make up the Bill of Rights. It is almost impossible to amend the Constitution
today. Not only is the process a laborious undertaking, but the country is too divided
politically for a change to be effected. This means some features of American governancesuch as
the Electoral Collegeare at risk of becoming obsolete.

A second problem with
the Constitution is its brevity and vagueness. It is up to the Supreme Court to interpret the
Constitution when disputes arise. One area of contention has been the Second Amendment.

rome empire What factors in the belief system of the Roman Empire contributed to the rise of Christianity?

Remember
that the Roman Empire was at its height when Christianity first came into being, and slowly
crumbled therafter.  The Romans went from targeting Christians to accepting them to basically
ignoring them, as their problems became bigger and bigger.

What question does Pearl ask her mother in chapter 15 of The Scarlet Letter? Nathaniel Hawthorne

As a constant
reminder of her sin of passion,is the living scarlet letter ofPyrnne.  In Chapter XV of
, Hester returns after her interview with ; she reflects upon her encounter
with this deformed figure and concludes that she hates the man.  But, she dismisses thoughts of
the chill that this man has brought her heart and calls to her little Pearl who has been amusing
herself nearby in a tidal pool.

Hearing her mother's call just as she has
formed the letter A on her chest with eel-grass, freshly green, Pearl
wonders if her mother will ask what her decoration means.  As Hester notices the eel-grass she
tells Pearl,
"

My little Pearl...the green
letter, and on thy childish bosom has no purport.  But does thou know, my child what this letter
means which they mother is doomed to wear?" 

Pearl
innocently answers that her mother wears the great letter A. Then, in order
to determine whether Pearl attaches any symbolic meaning to the letter, her mother asks if
Pearl knows why she wears it.  Ironically, Pearl replies that Hester wears the A
for the same reason that the minister holds his hand over his heart. Smiling at the
"absurd incongruity of the child's observation" at first, Hester quickly turns pale as
she realizes the intuitive precocity of Pearl.  So, she then asks Pearl, "What has the
letter to do with any heart save mine?"

Pearl replies that she knows
not, but "yonder old man" with whom her mother has spoken may know.  Suddenly, Pearl
asks her mother,

But in good earnest now;
mother, dear, what does this scarlet letter mean?--and why dost thou wear it on they bosom?--and
why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?

For the first time, Hester wonders if she can, after all, have more than "a
doubtful tenderness" from her child; for, perhaps in this precocious child she may have a
true friend of "unflinching courage" and a "sturdy pride."  Now, maybe, this
child may be a help to Hester, soothing away the sorrow "that lay cold in her mother's
breast." 

Nevertheless, Hester is not prepared to answer this question
truthfully:  "No! If this is the price of the child's sympathy, I cannot pay it."  So,
Hester tells Pearl that she wears the scarlet A for the sake of its gold thread.  When Pearl
will not relinquish her question, Hester becomes angry and threatens to lock her in a closet.
This incident of Pearl and her mother presages a later scene in which Pearl, the Reverend , and
Hester will all be together and the real family of the three will be formed.

 

Why have audiences for decades experienced such an emotional reaction to this play, frequently being moved to tears by the manner in which Act III...

The most affecting
section of the play for me - the only truly poignant moment, but a very good one - comes when
Emily joins the dead. The review/consideration of the precious nature of life is well wrought
here. The powerlessness of nostalgia to overcome the limits of life, I think, is clear and this
idea is also rather universally relatable.

How did the Magna Carta lead to the decline of feudalism?

The Magna Carta (Latin for "Great
Charter"), signed in 1215 by King John of England, was a significant and symbolic document
because it limited the powers of the monarchy, ultimately giving more freedom to all
citizensincluding nobility and commoners alike. This eventually led to the dismantling of
feudalism, which was the economic, political, and social system dominant in medieval Europe at
the time (particularly from the ninth through fifteenth centuries).

By 1215,
the citizens of England had grown tired of King John's heavy taxation, political failures, and
military miscalculations (both at home and abroad). Concerned with the possibility of a
rebellion, he agreed to sign the Magna Carta, which granted certain liberties to the people and
prevented the king from abusing powerthus forcing him to consult with others, including the
nobles and clergy, before making decisions.

Thanks to the Magna Carta, the
idea of habeas corpus (Latin for "that you have the body"),
expressed that there has to be a clear reason to keep someone in prison. This is important
because the king had been imprisoning the citizens of England with no specific charges. Through
this charter, the power of the monarchy became more limited, and citizens were gifted more
freedomwhich ultimately brought an end to the feudal system.

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How far do you consider the Wilsonian world order as the forerunner of globlization?

I would say
that Wilson's "world order" was a forerunner of political globalization, but not of
economic globalization.

It is possible to argue that political globalization
started with Wilson's push for the League of Nations.  This...

What leadership potential elements exist with the different animals in Animal Farm?

On the Jones
farm, among the animals who rebel against his cruelty there are animals who display admirable
leadership qualities:

  

A
"majestic-looking pig with a wise and benevolent appearance" Old Major envisions a
better life for the farm animals.  He calls them together and initiates the rebellion against
the despotic Jones, who often neglects their care and feeding. He convinces the animals that if
they remove Man from their environment, the cause of their hunger and overwork will be abolished
forever.

Although he is too idealistic and creates some propaganda with his
song "Beasts of England," the old boar has the interests of the animals at heart,
encouraging them to gain control of their own lives, for "Man serves the interests of no
creature except himself."

Snowball is the best...

How do the pigs use power to benefit themselves in Animal Farm?

Shortly
after Mr. Jones is expelled from the farm, the pigs become the leading voices of government and
are exempt from engaging in manual labor. They label themselves "brainworkers" and
begin eating milk and apples in their mash, which are valued resources on the farm. Onceusurps
power, he drivesout, puts an end to Sunday meetings, and begins ruling the farm like a ruthless
tyrant. The pigs become the ruling aristocracy and eventually inhabit the farmhouse while the
other animals sleep outside or in the barn. They indulge in alcohol while the other animals are
prohibited from doing so and financially benefit from the other animals' labor. Napoleon sells
the farm's resources to neighboring humans and pockets the money while the rest of the animals
continue to work all day.

The pigs are also the only animals with the
opportunity to earn an education and are given authority over the others. They even begin
wielding whips, and the other animals must move out of their way on the farm. The other animals
have no say in the farm's policies and are essentially forced to work themselves to death while
the pigs give orders. With the help of , Napoleon alters each of the Seven Commandments,
manipulates the animals, and oppresses them while reaping the benefits of their
labor.

Who is the speaker in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

The speaker in this
excellent short story is a character who is external to the story, and not involved in it. As a
third person narrator, the speaker is notable by his extremely detached perspective on the
story. In no way can the narrator be described as omniscient, as he does not reveal the thoughts
and feelings experienced by Jig and her American partner. The narrator is very careful only to
report what is said and what can be observed, and this is shown through the way that the
majority of the text is reported dialogue rather than introspective comments about the thoughts
and emotions of the characters. Note the following example:

"It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig," the man said. "It's not
really an operation at all."

Here, the reader is
left to infer that what the man keeps on trying to discuss with Jig is that he wants her to have
an abortion. This is not stated at all, but rather the detached narrative perspective means that
the reader needs to infer this from what is said and how they conduct their speech. In short,
this excellent short story is a perfect example of how Hemmingway shows the reader what is going
on rather than telling them directly, and as a result his narrative voice in this text is
detached and not intrusive.

What are the achievements of the United Nations Organization?

The United
Nations (UN) has had a long and somewhat controversial history. Its supporters laud its
accomplishments. Its detractors, including the United States, have sometimes excoriated it.
Nevertheless, the UN has achieved quite a lot over the past seventy years, and it has been a
positive influence.

One achievement of the UN is that it has endured since
1945. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, failed within two decades. But the creators of the
UN learned from the League's unhappy experience and created a more robust and effective
institution.

The Cold War was an impediment to the UN's effectiveness for its
first half century. The world was divided into East and West, and agreement on any issue was
problematic. The Soviet Union frequently used its veto in the Security Council. After the Cold
War ended around 1990, the UN became more assertive and active.

In spite of
East-West divisions, the UN took an active role in both the Korean War and the Suez Crisis
(1956). Soldiers from many nations fought under the UN flag in Korea. The UN mediated the crisis
that resulted from the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in 1956.

The UN has been
active in peacekeeping operations, especially since the 1990s. The organization won the Nobel
Peace Prize for its peacekeeping efforts in 1988.

A UN climate conference in
2015 produced the Paris Agreement. Signed by nearly two hundred nations, the accord seeks to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. President Donald Trump took the United States out of the Paris
Agreement in 2017.

Today, it is hard to conceive of a world without the
UN.

What is the language used in the short story ''A Dark Brown Dog''?

A
Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane is an allegorical tale of a small child who befriends and adopts
the titular dog. The story, which was published in 1901, is written in a richly descriptive
style and employs emotive language. This means that Crane uses the power of language to lend an
almost audio-visual aspect to his words and create a strong emotional response in the
reader.

At the beginning of the story sunshine beat upon the cobbles and
the breeze raised yellow dust. The trucks passing on the street are clattering. Using strong
verbs and adjectives, the author helps us visualize the scene so that we feel we are almost
there. Furthermore, by describing the dog from the outset in human terms, Crane invites us to
see it as more than just a dog (and in fact the animal in the story is a symbol of the newly
emancipated black slaves). The dog is shown to regard the boy, to hesitate, to have an
apologetic manner and can feel despair and even offer a small prayer. All of these words are
utilized in a way which is intended to make the reader forget he is reading
about a dog and insert additional meaning into what is on the page, thus making the point of the
story all the more poignant.

Throughout the story the dog continues to behave
like a human being, eloquently expressing regret, becoming agitated with shame and yelling
in supreme astonishment. Additionally, in the last scene the child burst into a long,
dirgelike cry and toddled in search of his friend. The humanand strong words like the verb
burst and adjective dirgelikehelp make the dogs fate at the end of the story become more
distressing, and the writer uses the language expertly with the aim of shaping the readers
reaction so that the ending will have the desired effect of being quite
touching.

How do I create a vivid sci-fi setting? I'm not sure whether to include advanced technology such as spaceships and so on. Any creative writing tips?

There are many
different settings that would be appropriate for a sci-fi setting. Sciencediffers from fantasy
(although the two genres are known to overlap) in that it focuses more specifically on the
future (even if it's only the very new future), scientific advancements (both those based on
technology we currently have, and technology that has not yet been imagined)....

What did you like about the story "Young Goodman Brown" and what didn't you like about it?

I
especially liked the way Hawthorne revealed that all the righteous people of the village had
evil desires which they concealed from everybody else.and his wife Faith are both model citizens
who have an ideal marriage. Brown's wife does not realize that her eminently respectable husband
plans to attend some kind of devil-worshipping orgy in the forest; and, ironically, he discovers
that his angelic little wife is attending the same ceremony and taking a leading role in the
proceedings. What I didn't like was the way Hawthorne deliberately "painted over" his
own story, so to speak, by raising the question of whether what Brown had observed had actually
happened or whether it was only a dream.

Had Goodman Brown
fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?

Hawthorne seems to want to be saying that people all have dark
sides to their natures. Yet he...

What is the lesson of the story?

"," by , is a humorous little
story, but one with some lessons about parents, children, and the supposed socializing provided
in school.  A mother is narrating the story, which is about sending her little boy, Laurie, off
to school for the first time. She is sad to see her "sweet-voiced nursery school tot"
(line 5) go off on his first day, seeing him "replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering
character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me" (lines 5-6).

Laurie comes home from school on his very first day reporting the misdeeds of his
classmate, Charles, and this sets the pattern for weeks and weeks of Charles' misdeeds in
school, all duly reported by Laurie to his parents.  Laurie reports that Charles has a few weeks
of improvement, but then reports that he has regressed into bad behavior by the time of the
second PTA meeting, which Laurie's mother is able to attend.  She is quite curious to meet
Charles' mother, wondering what kind of parent would produce such a badly-behaved child. When
she inquires, she learns there is no Charles in the class.

The reasonable
inference is that Laurie is Charles, that all of Charles' misdeeds are actually those of Laurie.
One lesson of the story is that parents are often deluded about their children, no matter how
clearly they think they see them. While Laurie's mother understands that
school will change him, she cannot see that he is going to become a demonic kindergartner.
Another lesson is that probably we should not judge others' parenting, since our own children
are quite capable of being dreadful.  Viewing the story with some empathy for Laurie, we can
learn that it is difficult to be thrust into this new environment, which causes many children to
act out in response.  We can also see that Laurie may feel a need to let his parents know about
his behavior, so that perhaps they can help him do better, as we are wont to seek advice about a
personal problem and say it is "for a friend" that we are asking.  This might be the
only way Laurie can let his parents know what he is doing. Of course, this takes us back to the
idea that parents do not necessarily know their own children.  Finally, we all like to believe
that school has a powerful socializing impact on children. In the long run, this is mostly true,
but Laurie's socialization is not going to happen overnight. Socialization is a process, not a
product. 

When and where does Capulet arrange for Paris and Juliet to meet?

's father,
, actually arranges for Countto meet Juliet twice. First, in Act I, he encourages Paris to see
Juliet at the party Capulet is giving, and in Act III, after he has decided the two should be
married he tells Paris to come to Capulet's on the day of the wedding. The two actually only
meet once outside of 's cell in the opening scene of Act IV. 

In , Count
Paris, who is obviously wealthy and a good match for Juliet, asks Lord Capulet for the girl's
hand in marriage. It really doesn't matter that she is only 13 years old. Paris says that even
younger girls are already having children. It was typical of that time for older men to marry
young girls, and in fact, we are told that Capulet had married his wife when she was quite
young. Capulet is hesitant to give his permission and advises Paris to get to know his daughter
and persuade Juliet to fall in love with him. Capulet says,

But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; My will to her consent is but a
part.

Shakespeare never tells us whether Paris talks to
Juliet at the party. Instead the party scene, , is dominated by the meeting between .

In Act III, after the deaths ofand , Capulet finally gives his consent for Paris to
marry his daughter. Of course, Juliet is already married. When Juliet seeks advice from Friar
Lawrence in , she meets Paris, who is under the impression that they will soon be married.
Juliet hides her true feelings and attempts to quickly end the conversation.

The last arranged meeting is interrupted by Juliet's supposed death. Paris comes to
Capulet's for the wedding but the Nurse has discovered Juliet dead in her room. We realize for
the first time how much Paris really loves Juliet when he says,

Beguiled, divorc¨d, wrong¨d, spited, slain!
Most detestable death, by
thee beguiled,
By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!
O love! O life! Not
life, but love in death!

The last time we see Paris
he is confrontingat the tomb. Because he knows nothing of the secret love he thinks Romeo is
vandalizing the Capulet vault. They fight and Paris becomes one of the six casualties in
Shakespeare's play.

 

 

What is the climax in the short story "The Open Window" by Saki?

Theis the most dramatic
moment in the story; it could also be called a turning point. It is the moment when the main
conflict of the story reaches its most tense moment. The main conflict here appears to be one of
the character versus character variety: between Vera, the story's , and Framton Nuttel, a young
man who suffers from an anxiety disorder and has come to pay a visit to Vera's aunt, Mrs.
Sappleton (an old acquaintance of his sister).

When Vera learns that Framton
doesn't know anyone, she is interested to learn that he knows next to nothing about her aunt.
Vera begins to weave a story about an uncle having died in the swamp, her aunt's denial of the
loss, and her own creepy belief that he will return one day with her aunt's brother and a dog
(both of whom were with him); she tells Framton that they all drowned.

Mrs.
Sappleton finally comes in, and Framton goes on and on about his health issues and the treatment
he receives for his weak nerves. Mrs. Sappleton jumps to alert attention when she sees her
husband, brother, and dog, coming toward the house (likely because she is so bored by Framton).
When Framton looks to Vera to "convey sympathetic comprehension," she is "staring
out through the open window with dazed horror in her eyes."

This is the
climax, the moment of the highest tension in the text, as it seems that the men's ghosts have
returned to the house until we hear Vera's next fabricated story and recognize that she is
simply good at inventing "Romance at short notice."

How do we begin the new year (2012) without sadness and worries? How do we begin the new year 2012, Without sadness and worries? Can I forget...

What a
wonderful, thought-provoking discussion this question has created! Thank you for making us stop
and think in such a timely way.

In addition to all the excellent thoughts
already shared here, I would like to add one more idea: Good Riddance Day. This New Years
ritual, which probably originated in Italy, has long been celebrated in Latin America and is now
making its way into the US.

The idea is to symbolically destroy the things
that you would like to leave in the past. It and include actually smashing or throwing out
objects, or writing down the bad things and then shredding, burying, or...

Why doesn't Oedipus accept the story that Tiresias tells? What does Oedipus accuse Creon of?

accuseof
treason and trying to steal his crown.

What should an assistant controller of a general ledger do when faced with an ethical problem in the workplace? You are the assistant controller in...

As the
assistant controller of the general ledger, you are supposed to act ethically and
professionally. As a bookkeeper, you are supposed to maintain high levels of integrity and
honesty. You have to report financial data accurately and truthfully. As a professional, you
have a duty to your boss. You are supposed to respect them and do what they tell you.

In this ethical dilemma, you have two options. The first one is talking to the
financial vice president and suggesting that you send the insurance company a loan extension
request for failure to meet the monthly financial target. Lenders...

What is the setting of "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?

has two
main settings: the kitchen table, where Laurie talks to his parents, usually over lunch, about
what has happened in school that day, and Lauries kindergarten classroom, in which all his
stories take place. Not much information is given directly about these settings, nor are there
any real details given about either; we learn everything through Lauries stories about Charles
and the narrators stories about Laurie.

At home we have standard images of a
family with a young sonparents asking their kindergartener how he likes school, Laurie eating
bread and butter and cookies. The only incongruous thing about this setting is Lauries behavior.
We have no indication that he was a disrespectful or ornery child before starting school, and
yet he addresses his parents very casually, often insultingly. Our narrator, Lauries mother,
assumes this is due to Charless influence in class. In this way, she interacts with the
kindergarten only through her sons stories, and Charles seems to be wreaking havoc in Lauries
classthrowing chalk, hitting the teacher, making a little girl bleed€¦ The tales of disruption
and violence are endless. Lauries parents have no reason to suspect Laurie of any wrongdoing,
and as long as the child keeps what happens in the storys two settings separate, he is golden.
However, a few weeks into his school career, his mother attends a PTA meeting, and with this
action the home and the school settings intermingle. It is only here, when our two settings
converge, that the truth about Charles is revealed.

What are God's responsibilities to the people? And discuss the power of the minster in a New England town.

In New
England of the Puritan era, church
ministers had a great deal of power.According to Puritan
philosophy, there
was to be no separation between church and state.This was because it was

necessary for all the people in a given town or colony to...

How's Tennyson's Ulysses a dramatic monologue?

A dramaticis a poem in which the first person
speaker addresses the reader or an imaginary interlocutor directly and tells a story or makes a
series of observations. The monologue reveals the character of the speaker, wherein lies the
drama. Tennyson's 1842 poem, "" is often regarded is the first major example of the
form and it became popular among Victorian poets, with Tennyson, Browning and Arnold all writing
dramatic monologues.

While Browning's dramatic monologues tend to be very
sensational, with unhinged speakers demonstrating their monstrous personalities and confessing
to appalling deeds, Tennyson's are quieter and more contemplative. The tone of
"Ulysses" varies from querulous to wistful, with a surge of hopeful energy at the end.
It is this, arguably, that makes the monologue dramatic, rather than meditative. Much of the
poem is given up to complaint:

How dull it is to pause,
to make an end,

To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!

As tho' to breathe were life!

Ulysses
describes himself fading away. Most of the heroes with whom he fought are dead and his survival
has got him nothing except a tedious life with an aged wife on a rocky island. The drama comes
when he stirs himself to action:

Death
closes all: but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet
be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

This inspiring thought leads Ulysses to a conclusion at which he
hinted early in the poem:

I cannot rest
from travel: I will drink

Life to the lees...

At the end, however, it is still dramatic when he vows to follow
up this principle with decisive action

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding
furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the
baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

The end of the poem, therefore, is the beginning of another
adventure.

Friday, September 8, 2017

If the equation y = 2x2 ˆ’ 5 + 3 x is graphed in the xy-plane, what is the value of its y-intercept?

This is a
linear equation which can be rewritten into the formula y=mx+b, where m is the slope and b is
the y-intercept.

I will assume that the first part of the equation is 2x2; in
many circumstances, this is written as 2*2 or 2(2) in order to ensure that the "x"
symbol is not confused for the variable "x."

The first step
according to order of operations is to multiply 2 and 2 in the first part of the equation. This
leaves you with y=4-5+3x. Combine the constants and one gets y=-1+3x.

The
final step is to put the terms in the correct order: y=3x-1. The final term is the y-intercept,
so in this case the y-intercept would be -1.

In order to show this on a
graph, go below the origin (point 0,0) and graph -1 on the y-axis. Go up three spaces and to the
right one space and place another point. Go up another three spaces and right one space and
place another point. Connect the points with a straight line. This is a simple way to graph a
line using slope-intercept form.

In a short paragraph, describe Beatrice from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter."

It is
likely that your teacher or professor wants you to write a paragraph describing Beatrice in your
own words and phrasing; however, I can remind you of some of her characteristics and attributes
in order to help you write your paragraph.

Beatrice is the title character in
's short story "." Though she is not theof this story, her father, Doctor Giacomo
Rappaccini, is theand she is his victim. He is a rather mad scientist who is more concerned
about advancing his scientific studies than he is about his only child, whom he is raising by
himself. 

Beatrice is 

a young girl,
arrayed with as much richness of taste as the most splendid of the flowers, beautiful as the
day, and with a bloom so deep and vivid that one shade more would have been too much. She looked
redundant with life, health, and energy; all of which attributes were bound down and compressed,
as it were and girdled tensely, in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.

Her voice inexplicably reminds Giovanni (the man she will come to
love) of flowers, and her appearance is strikingly similar to one particular flowering bush in
the garden Beatrice so loves. We learn later that Rappaccini planted that flower on the day
Beatrice was born, so they are, in fact, close to being sisters, as Hawthorne so often describes
them.

Beatrice is as beautiful inside as she is outside, and she is also
quite skilled in the area of medicine. Hawthorne says she is "brilliant," and Doctor
Pietro Baglioni tells Giovanni "she is already qualified to fill a professor's chair."
Despite everyone's desire to see her, Beatrice is a recluse, almost always limited to the
confines of her house and garden. 

When she and Giovanni become a couple,
they only spend time together in the garden; however, they never touch. Beatrice is careful that
even her dress does not touch her young lover. All is well with their romance until Giovanni
sees an extraordinary and appalling sight one day. As he watches Beatrice from his window above
the garden, he sees that this kind, thoughtful girl inadvertently kills an insect by breathing
on it, and the bouquet of flowers he throws her withers immediately after she grasps
it. 

Beatrice begins to realize that she and the garden have been infused (by
her father) with a deadly poison which is capable of killing anything that comes in contact with
either. She is horrified by the discovery. One day when Giovanni, who has come to virtually the
same conclusion about her, tries to reach for a flower, Beatrice grabs his hand to protect him;
the next day Giovanni sees that on "the back of that hand there was now a purple print like
that of four small fingers, and the likeness of a slender thumb upon his wrist."

In a final confrontation between the two young lovers and Rappaccini, Giovanni is
relieved to learn that Beatrice was an innocent regarding her father's sinister experiment,
Beatrice is horrified at what her father has done to her, and Rappaccini is shocked that
Beatrice is not more grateful for the "gift" he has given her. 

Realizing that she will never experience the "normal" kind love and happiness
she so desires, Beatrice drinks the antidote which Baglioni gave Giovanni. Rather than saving
her, it kills her. 

What important lesson have you learned from Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist as a whole?

's
is a unique story which basically tells readers not to just follow their
dreams, but to go accomplish them. The boy, Santiago, represents each one of us on life's
journey. Since we all have choices to make in life, the question is whether or not we will
make ones that will propel us forward to achieving our fullest potential, or will we sit still
and wait for life to come to us? Santiago learns to watch for omens that will direct him through
life and towards his Personal Legend and treasure. He learns to trust in himself, not to give up
until the goal is accomplished, and that marriage and family can wait until all of this happens
first.

There are some very inspirational quotes and pieces of advice given
throughout the book, too. Here are a few examples:

1-
". . . when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better,
too" (150).

 

2- "What you still need to now is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of
the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil,
but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as
we've moved toward that dream" (132).

 

3- "The
boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And
he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles"
(152).

These are all very empowering and motivating
passages that teach readers not to give up and that life does not have seem insurmountable. Life
can be difficult, but there's always a solution to discover or a choice to make it
better.

 

Thursday, September 7, 2017

What are the differences between himself and Charles that Laurie lists in "Charles"?

Laurie describesas how he wants

to see himself.

When Laurie goes to kindergarten, he
comes
home every day talking about a bad boy named Charles who gets in all
kinds of trouble.  His
parents are concerned, but decide that he might as
well meet people like Charles now.

One day his mother asks
him what Charles looks like and what his last name is.  Laurie
evades the
last name question, but answers the first.

Hes bigger than me, Laurie said. And he doesnt have any rubbers and he doesnt
wear
a jacket.

Clothes are important
to Laurie. They are a
symbol of maturity,  This is why he describes the
clothes Charles wears and nothing
else.

 Of course,
Laurie cant really answer questions about Charles because
he does not exist. 
Charles is Lauries alter-ego.  He is the little boy that Laurie made up so
he
could tell his parents all the bad things he had done, without them realizing it
was
him.

 

 

Providing examples, explain how sexual reproduction in plants has evolved to become less dependent on water.

Plants use varying methods in order to
achieve
sexual reproduction, both with and without water. One main adaptation that
plants
evolved is pollen, which has a protective coating to prevent the sperm
(male gametophyte) from
drying out and thus is able to fertilize the female
part (gametophyte) of a different individual
plant of the same
species.

Notably, some older species of plants, such as

mosses and ferns, must have water in order to reproduce. Their sperm "swim" to
the
female gametophyte through water, and thus they must be in a moist
environment in order to
reproduce.

Angiospermsplants that
produce flowersevolved another ingenious
way to promote sexual reproduction
without water. Their flowers attract pollinators such as
bees, butterflies,
and hummingbirds, which transmit the sperm of one to the female part of

another individual plant. Reproduction then takes place inside the flower, where seeds
are
produced.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

What are the themes and topics of the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz?

Perhaps the main theme of

Soledad is the importance of family and community. Soledad is
delighted to
escape both for what she regards as a better life and returns to
West 164th Street only under
pressure when she is told that her mother has
fallen into a deep depression and Soledad's
presence is the one thing that
might save her. The novel describes a tough but close community
and a similar
dynamic within Soledad's family, at least among the women, since the father
is
abusive. Another theme, obviously linked to the first, is the solidarity
and endurance of women
in the face of male violence and treachery. The major
characters, Olivia, Soledad, Gorda and
Flaca, are all women.

Two other themes are suggested by the title. One is the
immigrant,
Spanish-speaking Dominican community in Washington Heights and their experience
of
New York City, which seems like a difference country or a different world
from the East Village,
where Soledad thinks she has escaped. The other is the
meaning of Soledad's name,
"loneliness," which, despite ties of family and
community, affects all the major
characters in the
book.

How is John Proctor a voice of reason in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, in Act 1?

That's
certainly all true.  In addition, Proctor is also a voice of reason in
concerning Reverend Parris.  Proctor is critical of Parris in nearly every way,
showing his shortcomings about nearly everything.  Proctor has a personal motivation, it's true;
however, he points out Parris's greed in wanting golden candlesticks and more money for
firewood.  Proctor reminds him there's more to church and godliness than golden candlesticks. 
Proctor also points out Parris's lack of spiritual depth by criticizing his continuous
sermonizing about hell and damnation.  It is Proctor who offers another perspective on this
supposedly godly man who is acting so self-righteously and pompously.  Despite his own sins and
faults, Proctor is able to keep things in balance for the audience and reveal the flaws in this
man of God. 

Monday, September 4, 2017

Cinematic Language

Cinematic language could be two different
things. On one hand, a director is going to use verbal cinematic langue to his actors and camera
crew. This equates cinematic language to vocabulary. Knowledge of this vocabulary will help
everybody involved in the filming process to be on the same page as to what the director is
ordering. This language could be something as simple as the director saying "action"
or "cut."

The other possible meaning of cinematic
language is wider in scope. An author is going to use vocabulary words in a text, but
what words are used and how they are used can control things like mood, tone, , pace, and so on.
Movies are likely to use spoken language to do those same things, but movies can also
show audiences things that can convey more than just words on a page. What the
director chooses to show and how to show it involves the usage of cinematic language, and
audiences are becoming quite savvy at understanding the cinematic language. For example,
audiences routinely understand the emotional difference between static shots and tracking shots.
Another example is the "Dutch Tilt." This occurs when a filmmaker intentionally has
the camera rotated off of the horizontal. It's very disconcerting to audiences, and it
immediately conveys that something isn't quite right with the actions that are happening on
screen. This is why it is commonly used in the horror genre. All of these various filming
techniques are tools of a greater cinematic language that help to tell a particular story to
audiences.

A great example of how cinematic language can be used to
drastically alter preconceived notions about a story is the opening scene in Baz Luhrmann's
Romeo and Juliet. The camera is all over the place with quick zooms, quick
cuts, low angles, and more. This opening scene and the way that it is filmed let audiences know
that this isn't going to be the slow-paced story they read in English
class.

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Sunday, September 3, 2017

What is the theme of Premchand's story "Panch Parmeshwar or Holy Panchayat?"

As was
mentioned in the previous post, the central themes throughout the short story examine justice,
responsibility, discernment, and friendship. Both characters, Jumman Shaikh and  Algu Chowdhry,
exercise discernment when they are given the responsibility of being Sarpanch, which is the head
of the village council meeting. Despite being close friends with Jumman, Algu places justice
above friendship by deciding in Khala's favor. Jumman is initially upset at Algu's decision and
plans to seek revenge for losing his case. However, when Algu is taken to Panchayat by a
deceitful and callous man named Samjhu Sahu, Jumman has his chance at revenge by being named
Sarpanch. However, Jumman cannot resist his duty to enact justice and rightfully rules in favor
of Algu. After the Panchayat, Algu and Jumman become friends again. Throughout the short story,
both characters understand their responsibility to excuse friendships and bias in order to enact
justice during the Panchayat.

In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", how does Marquez use fantasy to reveal a human truth?

In
"" Marquez uses fantasy to reveal human
truths about the new beginnings and the value
of humanity. In the story, the
two most prominent characters are the fantastical Spider-woman
and the very
old man with enormous wings.

Spider-woman had a fall from
her
position in life and was in fact turned into a tarantula spider, with her
own head and
brain...

Saturday, September 2, 2017

What is the author's point and some of his implications in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Hemingway tells us a
story here about the
fragility of relationships, the impotence of generosity in certain

situations, and the nature of time as moving always forward, despite our deepest desires
that at
time it can be turned back.

Friday, September 1, 2017

What is the meaning of the Oath that Daniel, Joel, and Thacia make in The Bronze Bow?

Daniel's
original vow, at the age of eight, was to devote his life to the destruction of the Romans
occupying Israel. Through his apprenticeship with Rosh, he has worked towards that goal,
although he does not yet know that Rosh is only using Daniel's zeal to enrich himself. Later,
when he renews his oath with Joel and Thacia, the language of the oath changes:

Thacia laid her hand firmly over her brother's. "For God's
Victory," she repeated. They looked at Daniel, waiting. The three of us, Joel had said,
taking him, who had always stood outside, into the close circle of their
lives.
(Speare, , Google Books)

Daniel does not make the distinction until much later; while Joel is still young and
driven by much of the same patriotic fervor that consumes Daniel, Thacia is smarter and knows
that the men will destroy themselves long before they make any difference in the occupation.
Instead, the new oath is to win "God's victory" which is not necessarily the same
thing as killing Romans. Thacia knows that they need to change the minds of people from within,
not kill those with whom they disagree. This coincides with the teachings of Jesus, who, after
hearing Daniel repeat his oath, calls it representative of love instead of hate, even if Daniel
does not yet realize it.

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Examine the concept of Orientalism as propounded by Edward Said in his book Orientalism.

In
addition to the above answer, I might just add that in , Edward Said
established a binary between Orient and Occident. It was this binary that created the
"Other" and that allowed the colonizers to form a cohesive Us identity in the
corollary Us/Them binary. Postcolonialist professors embrace this criticism because of adherence
to the precept that dignity derives from recognizing each group as equal as opposed to a Them
inferior to or subservient to an Us.

The relevance of Said's binary of
Orientalism to literature is that he contends (critics suggest boldly contends) that there could
be no European literature from the end of the 18th century onward (at which time morality ceased
being an individual choice of a code of conduct and became a cultural construct) as we know it
because from Austen to Conrad, the Us/Them Orientalism binary is present. In works such as
Austen's, it is present in a stark silence; in work such as Conrad's it is present with a
passive Them as ineffectual background to the Us who have the agency, authority and rational
capability to act.

Compare and contrast Siey¨s's, Burke's, and Paine's understandings of how the three estates worked in practice, and relate this to the work of...

Siey¨s
and Paine had similar views of what needed to be changed in France and in Europe overall.
Siey¨s saw the Third Estatethe ordinary people of France, as opposed to the clergy (the First
Estate) and the nobility (the Second)as the "nation." The Third Estate is
"everything" so far as he is concerned, but in the "political order" until
the present (1789 at the time of writing), it has been "nothing." The common people,
both the bourgeoisie and the laboring class, do all the productive work, but they are not part
of the political process. Instead, the classes of people who do "run things"the clergy
and aristocracy, together a tiny minority of the population of Franceare basically parasites,
holding onto power by means of traditional beliefs that have become outdated and pernicious.
This must change, Siey¨s asserts, and the Third Estate needs to become empowered.

Thomas Paine says essentially the same thing in Rights of Man,
published two years later (1791). His concern is primarily the situation in Britain,
a country which, according to Paine, claims to have a constitutional system but in reality is a
despotic state run by the monarch and his courtjust as France was before the Revolution that
began with the meeting of the States-General in 1789 and the subsequent storming of the
Bastille. Paine's ideas in Rights of Man are an extension of those in the
pamphlets he had written fifteen years earlier during the American Revolutionary War:
Common Sense and the Crisis papers.

In between the publication of Siey¨s's pamphlet and Paine's Rights of Man,
wrote and published his (1790). This is a seminal (if not
the seminal) work of what we now routinely label "conservatism."
Burke views the French Revolution in near-apocalyptic terms: as a movement that he believes will
destroy European civilization. His greatest fear is, therefore, that the disorder created by the
Revolution in France will spread to Britain and the rest of Europe.

Burke
sees no contradiction between the existing monarchy in Britain and the Constitutional rights of
the common people, and even goes so far (or seems to) as to claim that because of Parliament's
declaration of loyalty to William and Mary a century earlier, the English have deliberately
relinquished any right to alter the existing form of government. In Burke's mind, the
traditional political order of Europe is at least implicitly based on religion, on Christianity.
He rails against the liberal writers of the Enlightenment, asserting that their aim has been
"the destruction of the Christian religion." Though he does not literally say that
kings rule by divine right, this is his implication. The attacks on, and disempowerment of, the
clergy and monarchy in France are, in Burke's view, a violation of the ordinary human
rights the French revolutionaries claim to uphold.

Burke's
thinking appears the exact opposite of what is represented by Siey¨s and Paine. Yet to this
point in this life, Burke, a member of the Whig Party, had in some sense been the
eighteenth-century equivalent of what we would today label a liberal or progressive. During the
American Revolutionary War, he had denounced the tyranny of George III and his administration in
violating the rights of the Americans.

When he published his attack on the
French Revolution, therefore, liberals like Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many others were
taken aback. One might ask which was the "real" Burkethe liberal or the conservativeor
whether his fundamental ideas about human rights are as different from the views of Siey¨s and
Paine as they appear.

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