During what month does the story take place?

This story takes place
in December. The first line of the story reads, "It was Decembera bright frozen day in the
early morning." An old black woman named Phoenix Jackson makes her way from her home in the
rural countryside to the city so that she can retrieve a bottle of soothing medicine for her
grandson's throat. Aside from her, he has no one else on whom he can depend; ever since he
swallowed lye years ago, his grandmother has been making this trek along a worn path, so worn
that she knows the way even without her sight. The doctor has agreed to give her the medicine as
long as she can come to get it. She overcomes many challenges along the way, including the
racism of a hunter and the nurses at the doctor's office.

What advantages and risks does going global offer a small business owner?

Globalization is an ever-increasing trend
with
the internet capabilities and the spread of shipping and distribution companies.
Small
business owners now have access to foreign markets that were previously
only available to large
companies with a wealth of resources. This expansion
is both a positive opportunity and a new
level of risk for small
businesses.

On the positive side, a small business
has
access to foreign production (for instance China, India, and Mexico) which offers
cheaper
solutions for their manufacturing or service needs. This can help
them reduce costs and still
meet customer demands. Globalization also opens
up a literal world of market that they can
reachthey can sell products to
countries that previously would have been very difficult to

penetrate.

On the risky side, however, this globalization trend
increases
competition due to those same factors, which is more beneficial for
larger, established
companies. Additionally, outsourcing production or
services to another country mean giving up a
level of control that could
impact your quality or lead times, which is a possible hindrance of
global
expansion for small businesses.

What is a summary of A People's History of the United States, chapter 9? How does it describe the evolution of slavery?

Zinn begins this
chapter by discussing the
government's protection of slavery, as cotton was such a profitable
crop. He
writes that only a rebellion could destroy the system of slavery before the Civil
War.
However, the process of Reconstruction that ended slavery was not truly
revolutionary but was a
safe form of emancipation that maintained the white
power structure.

Zinn
examines the brutality of slavery,
in part caused by the owners' fear of revolts. He discusses
the evolution of
slavery as an outgrowth of the need for labor to cultivate the crops planted
in
the south. Slaves found ways to resist slavery that were not outright
revolts, and owners used
religion to tighten their grip on their slaves.
However, slaves found a religion that offered
forms of escape from
slavery.

To end the system of slavery, freed blacks

united with white abolitionists, who had their own forms of racism. The means of
overthrowing
slavery was not a revolt but a process controlled by white
Northern business...

Elmer Corp. has approached your firm for a loan. They are pursuing a 5 yr loan intended to support the expansion of their operations. Elmer Corp....

The
first thing to understand with a new customer is the type of business they are involved.  Since
Elmer Corp. is unfamiliar, a three-tier education program would need to be arranged to
understand their business model.  First, open-source research using the internet and trade
publications should be conducted to get a handle on the business.  Secondly, an introduction by
Elmer Corp. into their particular model will help solidify how they operate in their
market. ...

Who was the Warden from Holes related to?

The
Warden, from the book , is related to Charles and Linda Walker.  We are
told that the Warden is a direct descendant of those two. 

The story of
Charles/Trout Walker is a bit convoluted, but I'll try to break it down simply. Charles Walker
was in love with a woman named Katherine. Unfortunately for him, Katherine, a white woman, was
in love with Sam, a black man. Bigoted Charles and the town wouldn't stand for such a thing, so
they drove the couple away. Sam is killed making the escape. Katherine becomes the infamous
Kissin' Kate Barlow, a notorious outlaw robber. She never reveals where she buried/hid all of
her stolen money even though Charles Walker tried to torture the information out of her. That is
why the Warden is obsessed with digging holes. She is attempting to find the
money. 

What does O'Brien say the authorities are most interested in within 1984? How does this compare with other leaders (e.g - Hitler, etc..) Like were the...

I am going to
refer to the second part of your question.

To achieve this power,focuses on
two types of torture, a mental torture and a physical torture. The mental concerns itself with
lies and anticipation. The physical combines with the mental in that O'Brien chose the rat cage
helmet for . This was one of Winston's greatest fears to be around rats. O'Brien was going to
let the rats eat his face off. The anticipation of this really messed with Winston, and the
pysical experience would have been extreme pain, not to mention that rats carry innumberable
diseases that could spread in that type of torture.

I find this type
of...

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, how is Tybalt responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths?

is so
spoiling for a fight that he can said to be responsible for 's deaths. However, I would call him
a catalyst rather the responsible party: he hardly forces the two young
lovers to kill themselves, which is their own decision. However, he sets in motion a string of
events that ended in their deaths.

Tybalt wants to fight , and when he meets
him on the streets of Verona, he tries to bait him into a battle. Romeo, having just secretly
married Tybalt's cousin, , does everything he can to avoid a fight. , however, is spoiling for
some swordplay, so he decides to engage Tybalt. Romeo interferes to try to stop the fight, but
he only distracts Mercutio, which allows Tybalt the chance for the sword thrust that kills him.
Romeo feels responsible for his dear friend's death, so he kills Tybalt. As a result, he is
banished from Verona.

From that point on, a series of mishaps ensue that
lead the lovers to...

Why does Holden feel the need to lie?

is a very
sensitive person, which could be
seen as his core "problem," and as an adolescent, he
is also struggling with
issues of identity. He most often lies, therefore, to protect other
people
emotionally, and then to protect himself emotionally.

For instance,
as
the novel opens, he has been asked to leave Pencey because he is failing
too many classes. His
history teacher, , sends him a note asking him to come
say goodbye. Holden visits, and he lies
to protect Mr. Spencer's
ego:

Well, you could see he
really felt
pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was
a
real moron, and all that stuff. I told him how I would've done exactly the
same thing if I'd
been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate
how tough it is being a
teacher.

Holden is actually very kind to Mr. Spencer. He
has to get away, though, as
it is uncomfortable for him to be there, so he tells what we would
call a
white lie and says he has to be somewhere else....

What are some important themes in Animal Farm?

One
prominent theme is abuse of power, or, to put it another way, the corrupting influence of
political power. The animals' revolution begins with the best of intentions, as expressed byin
his speech. They wanted to achieve a better life and an authentic equality, free of the
injustices characterized their lives under the humans. But no sooner isestablished than the
pigs, who emerged as leaders of the rebellion, began to use their power to subvert the very
principles of the revolution to make their lives better. At first, the corruption is subtle,
beginning with the missing milk and apples. By the end of the book, though, the pigs have become
so corrupted that the other animals cannoth distinguish them from the humans.

In The Great Gatsby, what is Gatsby's reply when Nick says you can't repeat the past, and why is that his reply?

In the late
night hours following what will be 's final party, he is disappointed thatwas not impressed by
the extravagant entertainment he provided.tries to both comfort Gatsby and deliver a reality
check by telling him that he shouldn't expect too much of Daisy and that he "can't repeat
the past." Gatsby is incredulous when he replies "Can't repeat the past? Why of course
you can!"

Gatsby is suffering from the delusion that he can somehow
erase Daisy's marriage to, despite the fact that they have a daughter together. Gatsby's
development is arrested; he fell in love...

How does Pearl feel towards Hester in The Scarlet Letter?

's
relationship with her mother is complex and puzzling, the result of the circumstances of her
birth and her life in the Puritan colony. Pearl loves her mother and sometimes treats her with
affection and tenderness. However, at other times she tauntsand seems to take pleasure in
causing her distress. Always, the little girl shows a persistent and recurring fascination with
the scarlet letter Hester wears. Hawthorne writes that as an infant, Pearl's earliest
association with and memory of her mother was focused on the letter.

Pearl
is the unwitting victim of Hester and Arthur's transgression. She grows up as a social outcast,
frequently tormented by other children, and lives in the same circle of isolation that surrounds
Hester. Hers is a lonely...

what are the functions of a pinhole camera?

A pinhole camera
is "a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture."  Many pinhole
cameras are as a simple as a box with a hole in the side.  Others might be more rudimentary like
a wicker basket or more elaborate like a camera obscura.  A pinhole camera's basic function is
produce an image.  With a pinhole camera, this image is usually upside down and varies in
clarity.  Some people use a pinhole camera to study the movement of the sun over time
(Solargraphy).  A type of pinhole camera is often used to view an eclipse.  Another type of
pinhole camera, the camera obscura, was once used by artists.  The device allowed the artist to
view a scene through a different perspective.  The artist would point the lens of the camera at
the still life scene they wanted to paint.  The camera would frame the image in smaller
perspective thus allowing the artist to see the scene as it might appear painted.  (Of course,
this would eventually lead to photography).  The person using a camera obscura might even trace
the image on a piece of paper and achieve a very accurate copy of the
scene.

As a teacher, what is better -- in class work or homework? As a teacher, what is better -- in class work or homework?

Teachers
need to use a combination of in-class work and homework.  You are never going to get everything
done in class.  But you should not let students do everything at home, because you can't control
the environment or how original the work is.

What was Chaucer's contribution to English literature?

In
writing in English, Chaucer was not unique in the Middle English period. On the contrary,
writing in English continued apace in parochial documents and literary texts after the Norman
Conquest, despite the language of government being French. The idea of a "standard"
English, which had begun to develop at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period, disappeared, but the
result was that English diverged into an astonishing number of written dialects, localizable to
different geographic areas and social classes. Chaucer plays upon this idea in ,
in which two northern students in the south speak in an almost unrecognizable . What
is notable about Chaucer's English is that he was writing at a time when the
"standard" we now know was slowly returning, hastened by the invention of the printing
press. Chaucer was of course not really responsible for the fact that his southern, London-based
English was to set the written standard for all time, but the fact that his written dialect was
London (Chancery) English, combined with his enormous popularity, certainly contributed. There
are more surviving manuscripts of Chaucer's works than of any other text from this period, from
which we know that he was an extremely successful and influential author. The closest
challengers, in terms of surviving manuscript numbers, are generally religious texts like
"The Pricke of Conscience."

Why this was the case is an interesting
question. Certainly, Chaucer created vivid and entertaining depictions of people interacting
with each othercontemporary English people and archetypes from classical literature alike. In
terms of his contribution to English literature, he cannot be said to have engineered any
notable plots or stories, the vast majority of his works being variants of existing tales.
However, perhaps the most significant impact Chaucer did have on literature in English was that
he brought us to expect authorship.

Chaucer was writing
at a time when works were not signed, by and large. Works were anonymous, written by monks and
often embellished by them until they became, effectively, communally-authored pieces, to which
each transcriber would add his or her own additions and amendments. Chaucer identified himself
as "auctor" in the texts he wrote. He consciously set himself against the
long-standing convention of changing texts as they passed through many hands, saying in theto
, "so prey I God that noon myswrite thee" (I pray that nobody
will make changes to my work). People bought works on the understanding that they had been
written by Chaucersomething that sometimes backfired, as many works were then falsely attributed
to Chaucer, but which has certainly had an enormous impact on English literature. Before
Chaucer, anonymity was the norm in English literature. Today, we have and expect authors, of
whom Chaucer was arguably the first English champion.

How can firms and governments use price elasticity of demand (PED) when making decisions?

Price
elasticity of demand refers to the amount that the demand for a product in the market will
change as the price of it is changed by its manufacturer. So, a product that is said to have a
highly elastic price will suffer little change in demand from the rise or fall of the price from
the manufacturer. Conversely, if demand falls sharply for a product when the price goes up or
increases significantly when the price goes down, the product is considered to have a highly
elastic demand.

Price elasticity of demand is important for governments and
companies to consider as they adjust prices for commodities in the market. If the demand for a
product is elastic, it might be a bad idea to raise the price much, although the right price cut
could significantly increase demand. On the other hand, if a company knows that the price of
something is highly elastic, they might feel free to raise it significantly.

Can you interpret the poem "Festival" by Kenneth Wee?

"Festival" addresses the age-old
difficulty of
generational gaps, in the setting of a traditional Chinese-style New Year's

celebration.

It's written in first person, using the royal "we"
to
symbolize the author's generation, which is two generations removed from
the "old
men," their relatives who are talking nearby in groups while the
youngsters watch
television.

The author establishes that
though young and old people are
gathered in physical proximity, they are
experiencing the festival in vastly different ways. The
younger generation
feels like outsiders, separated by language, food, and tradition. "We
know
them not," Wee writes of the elders. The rituals that the older generation

relishesgossiping, eating special foods, dancing to traditional music, and hanging
decorative
couplets mean little or nothing to the author and his peers. They
prefer watching screens to
talking, cheesy pizza to "tasteless" food, rock
and roll to Chinese classics, movie
posters to decorative Mandarin
characters.

Yet, despite the wide cultural
gap, there is
something deep inside that still touches the author. In the final stanza, as
he
watches his old relatives, he is reminded of his heritage and confesses,
"I'm proud to be
Chinese." This is followed by the powerful final line of the
poem"In
English"which succinctly summarizes the contradictions between his
old culture and his new
one. That "we" think and speak in English symbolizes
the younger generation's
distancing itself from ancestors' heritage. And that
"we" are proud to be Chinese
symbolizes the dilemma of young people caught in
transition, who are not immune to change, yet
also yearn for the cultural
traditions of their childhood.

Does the book suggest a Taoist perception of living?

A
reader may certainly argue either way with this question. My initial reaction would be to say
that the book does not suggest a Taoist way of living, simply becauseis a strong Christian. The
book's major theme about...

What are three examples of Teddy Roosevelt €˜s attempt to provide a Square Deal for the American public?

Before
Theodore Roosevelt became president, the federal government had typically sided with big
businesses against the people.  For example, the government had typically used its power to
break strikes rather than to protect strikers.  Roosevelt promised that he would give people a
square deal in which he did not favor any particular group.

Perhaps the
most commonly cited instance of Roosevelt providing a square deal came in the anthracite coal
strike of 1902.  The coal strike caused a national shortage of...

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What is the shrinking frog compared to?

compares the shrinking frog to a deflating
football, bright scum on top of the water, a pricked
balloon, and a kicked
tent.

She meets the frog in the first essay in the
book,
"Heaven and Earth in Jest." She enjoys scaring the frogs so that they run

from...

What are the basic principles of fascism?

Fascism is a
form of government that is characterized by extreme nationalism. It is/was a style of government
that began in the early part of the 1900s.  Its roots can be traced back to World War I, a war
in which whole country engagement was necessary for the first time due to military advancements
that had been made leading up to and during that war.  Due to these advancements, troops being
sent off to battle were far from the only casualties that a country could be expected to
experience.  Because of the perceived need for entire countries to be mobilized for war, one
basic principle of fascism is that the state must have absolute power.  In addition, there is a
distinctive authoritarian leader who runs the government and the country.  Furthermore, there is
a very clear social order which every member of a country's society must follow.  One of the
main components of the social order is that people must refrain from speaking out against the
government or sympathizing with those who are not in the government's favor.  Moreover, fascist
regimes have an unwavering sense of national pride and the people are often rallied around views
which are considered to be 'national' views.

What is older brother profession and does it suggest anything about his personality?

Sonny's
brother is a high school algebra teacher. He grew up in the same Harlem as Sonny, but he has
buried the...

What is the symbolism of the dark-haired girl "throwing aside her uniform" in Winston's dream in 1984 by George Orwell?

In the
account of 's dream, the text doesn't actually say that the dark-haired girl was "throwing
aside her uniform" but that it was "thrown" aside after, she, in "with what
seemed a single movement ... tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside." The
text tells us explicitly that the dream woman's naked body aroused no sexual desire in Winston,
but that he was deeply impressed with admiration for the gesture, which seemed to him to erase
the whole culture of the Party and Big Brother with one sweep of an arm. The uniform she
discarded without a second thought symbolizes the Party and all its drab repression, its
crushing of people into one "uniform" abject mold. For Winston, it was the assertive
way the uniform was torn off that became a symbol of defiance and rebellion. 

It's also significant that Winston feels no sexual desire in this dream. Although the
dream woman foreshadows , at this point, Winston is still a product of incessant Party
propaganda. He wishes deeply to rebel--and he does--but he is still caught in the Party's sexual
repression, channeling his energies into emotions like hate and fear, fantasizing violence
rather than love towards Julia, whose name he does not yet know, but whose anti-sex league sash
and very demeanor fills him with rage. It will take developing a relationship with Julia to
reignite his ability to feel compassion and healthy sexual desire.  

In the book Beowulf, why doesn't Grendel attack Hrothgar's "glorious throne"?

is noteworthy as the
oldest surviving major work composed in English, although if we were to attempt to read it in
its original form, Old English, we would find it incomprehensible, because the language has
changed so much since the poem was composed about 14 centuries ago.

In those
days, England was still in a state of religious transition, moving from the old pagan
mythologies of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, which was spreading in Europe in
Asia. However, such major changes dont occur instantly, so we see in
Beowulf a confluence of Christianity and paganism.

There
are several instances in Beowulf that demonstrate this evolution. At one
point, the Danes, in their fear over Grendels murderous rampage revert to paganism:

And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,

Made heathen vows, hoping for Hells

Support, the Devils guidance in
driving

Their affliction off.

We also
see that Grendel himself has the paganistic power of sorcery, as he able to cast a spell to help
him terrorize the Danes:

. . . for that sin-stained
demon

Had bewitched all mens weapons, laid spells

That
blunted every mortal mans blade.

Such a power implies
that the people of this time were willing to accept, and in many cases probably believe, that
certain individuals have the power to cast spells.

Finally, the story shows
that God is able and willing to intervene miraculously, in some cases, to help his followers. In
those days, and for quite a long time afterward, it was generally accepted that kings were
appointed by God. Hrothgar, king of the Danes, has a throne that Grendel is unable to attack,
because he was prevented from doing so by God:

Though he
lived in Herot, when the night hid him, he never

Dared to touch king
Hrothgars glorious

Throne, protected by GodGod,

whose love
Grendel could not know.

How would I write a thesis for Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"?

To write a
thesis for the story "Everday Use," you want to think about the main ideas and
concepts explored in the story. So let's discuss some of the themes and concepts that the story
reveals.

In "," we are told the story of two sisters told from the
perspective of their mother. Maggie lives with her mother at their family home while Dee is
visiting from the city. While Maggie, who is not bright and is blighted by burns, lives with her
mother and spends time with the family, Dee despised the traditional life and went off to become
educated.

In the story, when Dee visits, she acts more like a tourist than a
part of the family. She is unrecognizable to her family, wearing "traditional" African
clothing and changing her name to overcome the name given to her by her oppressors. Her
boyfriend is Muslim and refuses to eat the pork that the narrator has prepared. Dee walks around
the family house taking pictures, commenting on the quaintness of the land and collecting
objects that she sees as heirlooms. Dee has no intention of using any of the things she
takesinstead seeing them as artifacts of the traditional life of African Americans.

Maggie, on the other hand, is unpretentious. She will marry a local man, and live a
simple life in connection with her family and community. She appreciates the things they own,
like the family quilts, because she had relationships with the people who made them. Dee
considers her to be uncultured and incapable of truly appreciating the value of the family
heirlooms.

The central conflict in the story comes about when Dee claims that
Maggie will not appropriately appreciate the family quilts. Saying that she will put them to
"everyday use" and eventually destroy them. This conflict will provide the best thesis
about the story. Focus on the idea of tradition and how the different characters view it. Dee
considers tradition to be something dead that you appreciate from afar like in a museum. She
doesn't see thein the fact that her mother and sister are living the tradition of their
family.

Maggie intends to put the quilts to everyday use because she is not
divorced from her heritage or traditioninstead she appreciates it by living what has been handed
down. A good thesis would focus on the irony presented in the story and write an essay about who
appreciates tradition and heritage more.

The sum of roots of equation x^2+px+q=0 is equal to sum of their squares, then prove that: p(p+1)=2q

Let a and b be
the roots of the equation. Hence, 

`a^2 + ap + q = 0` and

`b^2 +pb + q = 0`

We know that `a + b = a^2 + b^2` . Adding the two
equations yield:``

`a^2 + ap + q + b^2 + pb + q = 0`

Hence,

`a^2 + b^2 + (a + b)p + 2q = 0`

But `a +
b = a^2 + b^2` and...

What does the poem say about finding peace?

Odysseus
in Greekis an aging king, bored out of his mind as he vegetates in his palace. In his old age,
he's achieved a kind of peace, but it's a sterile peace, a deathly peace that offers neither
rest nor consolation. Once upon a time, Ulysses was a brave and noble warrior who fought
valiantly in the Trojan War and trawled the seas in search of glory and adventure. But now, in
his twilight years, he lingers on, reminiscing about the good old days when he was a true hero,
one of the undisputed greats.

Ulysses is so restless, so seized by
wanderlust, that he cannot ever find peace in the world of the ordinary and the
everyday:

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!

There's more to life than simply breathing. Yet as he approaches the sunset of his
life, Ulysses has no quality of life to speak of; he merely exists. Ulysses can only really find
some true measure of peace in death. Until then, however, he must constantly keep himself
diverted and occupied with exciting new adventures; he must keep moving or suffer the bloodless
peace of a living death.

href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

What is the difference between compound, element, and mixture?

An element is
the simplest substance, one which cannot be broken down into smaller parts through typical
physical or chemical approaches. Elements can be found in the periodic table, which organizes
and lists them out according to their properties, such as mass. Elements consist only of atoms
or molecules (in other words, two or more atoms of the same or different elements that have been
bound together chemically) of identical chemical properties. 

Compounds are
atoms of two or more different elements which have bonded together and which can be broken down
into elements via chemical means.

Mixtures are a combination of different
elements and/or compounds. For example, when we add salt to water, we are making a mixture; new
molecules are not produced as a result of this. Instead, they mix together while keeping their
own identities intact. 

What is the summary/analysis of "An Old Woman" by Arun Kolatkar? I require an analysis on its theme or purpose for my class 12 examinations. (Thank...

In Arun
Kolatkar's poem, "An Old Woman," the main theme is about keeping what is important in
perspectivein this case, an old woman and her heritagethe land from which she comes.

Someone may be walking and a woman may grab ahold of his or her sleeve. For a price,
she will take what seems to be a sightseer to a nearby shrine. The man will not interested: he
has seen the shrine before. However, the woman will be insistent; the man may want to dismiss
her because she is an old woman, and they cling and won't let go.

The man will turn, about to end their association, to put her in her place and demand
that she leave, but she will look at him and explain that there is little else left for an old
woman to do in the hills where she abides: how can she live? she seems to imply.

The shock the man receives is looking at the sky, perhaps as blue as the woman's eyes:
but what stops him is the sense that her eyes are like bullet holesthis image is shocking and
riveting, as is, perhaps, his enlightened perception of this woman and her connection to this
old land.

The man will note that as he looks at the woman, and the cracks
around her eyes, the cracks will seem to spread to the landscape around her: to the hills, the
temples and even the sky. But he will see, as he watches, that even though the sky may fall and
shatter around her, she is untouched: "shatterproof."

In the midst
of the life that has reduced her to trying to earn some money as a guide for tourists, and seen
only an old woman to the touristsnot worth their time and barely worth
their noticeher resolve is strong. She is a part of the land, as old as it is: she is as
immovable. She lives, the man will see, with what is made available to her.

It would seem, that in the face of the man's realization, he will feel as if he has
been reduced to nothing more than his money, for he does not have that kind
of connection to his land or his heritage. And
perhaps, in light of the trials and tribulations of life, he is really the
unimportant onebeyond the small change in his pocketbut she stands,
unbreakable and strong.

On what pretense does O'Brien approach Winston in 1984?

The
classic dystopian novel bytells of a Party member namedliving in a
super-state called Oceania, in which propaganda and surveillance are pervasive.approaches
Winston pretending to be part of an underground resistance movement called the Brotherhood,
although he is actually a member of the Inner Party and is involved in an operation to expose
and capture thought criminals such as Winston and his lover, .

The pretense
O'Brien uses to approach Winston is a profession of interest in a Newspeak article Winston has
written.

"I had been hoping for an opportunity of
talking to you," he said. "I was reading one of...

Why shouldn't Juliet marry Paris in Romeo and Juliet?

In
Shakespeare's , there is no objective reason whyshouldn't marry Count .
He's a titled aristocrat, wealthy and well-connected in business in government, and can perhaps
support her in a style even more opulent than that of the comfortable life she has known. His
exact age remains vague, but he's obviously still young and attractive enough to be described
thus byin act 1, scene 3:

Read o'er the volume of young
Paris' face,

And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;

And although in their initial exchange in act 1, scene 2, Capulet
declares his reluctance...

What are the clearest themes of the book and how does the author present them?

Two of
the key themes thatexplores in are the importance of personal integrity
and the harmful effects of meddling. Emma begins as an adolescent girl who is stuck in childhood
but imagines herself having the wisdom of an adult. She is so careless in her search for
entertainment that she gratuitously hurts her friends and so confident of the correctness of her
positions that she wreaks havoc in other peoples lives with her interference. A subsidiary theme
is that a person must learn from their own mistakes rather than from what others tell
them.

Emma is caught up in romantic fantasies and mistakes Frank Churchills
attention for genuine interest in her. She allows herself not only to be flattered by his
attention but adopts his carelessly cruel attitude, which results in hurting Miss Batess
feelings. She wants to be the center of attention, taking for granted her elite status, but
without the responsibility of good behavior.

Emmas matchmaking ideas for
Harriet Smith similarly show her stuck in childhood, as she pushes Harriet toward what she sees
as a good match for her. Disregarding Harriets feelings, Emma almost destroys her friends
possibility for a loving marriage. Fortunately, as she realizes that her respect for Mr.
Knightley is actually love, the pain she suffers when he chastises her opens her eyes to the
consequences of her behavior, and she turns over a new leaf.

What are some websites, books, or any other resources that will help with learning pre-calc?

The best way
to learn any kind of math is to do it. Watching videos and listening to lectures may be
beneficial to an overall understanding, but to become proficient one must use a pencil and paper
and be prepared for a great deal of practice.

Make sure that you have a solid
understanding of algebra and geometry principles before you begin. Without this you will
probably be lost.

Khan Academy has various lectures on Pre-Calculus. There is
an entire series of them where you can click on a topic, i.e. conic sections and get a good
overview of the work. Youtube also has entire playlists devoted to Pre-Calculus students. These
are handy because you can stop the video and watch parts of it again. Most of the useful videos
are an hour long but there are some that provide very basic overviews in as little as five
minutes.

Calculus for Dummies by Mark Ryan would also be
a good source. It has sample problems that you can work and re-check. The Humongous
Book of Calculus Problems by W. Michael Kelley is precisely as advertisedit is a
large book of calculus problems with step-by-step solutions. The trickier problems also have
helpful hints in the margins with a skull-and-crossbones logo to let you know that the problem
may be hard for a beginner student. Another added bonus to this book is that it can help you in
other calculus classes beyond Pre-Calculus. The book is over five hundred pages long and has an
index. Kelley has also written other math books similar to this one so they can be a resource
for refresher material if you need it.

I'm sending a
link to one of the Youtube videos I mentioned.

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Why does Miss Caroline disapprove of Scout's reading ability in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

is a
little fearful about her first day of school in , by , and it turns out she
was right to feel that way. Her teacher is Miss Caroline, and she seems quite harmless at
first:

Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had
bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled
pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She
boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinsons upstairs front room,
and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her,was in a haze for days.

Unfortunately, Miss Caroline was taught how to teach a certain way and to a certain
kind of students (which is clearly not what this group of students is), so she does not quite
know what to do when something does not go according to her perfectly thought-out plan. Scout
already being able to read is one of those things.

As Scout begins to read,
"a faint line appeared between [Miss Caroline's] eyebrows," and when she
"discovered that [Scout] was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss
Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my
reading."

This, of course, is a ridiculous notion. Scout tries to
explain that she was never taught to read at all; she simply sat on her father's lap and, over
time, she learned. Scout says,

Miss Caroline apparently
thought I was lying. Lets not let our imaginations run away with us, dear, she said. Now you
tell your father not to teach you any more. Its best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You
tell him Ill take over from here and try to undo the damage-

Maam? 

Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a
seat now.

Miss Caroline is clearly not flexible and does
not know what to do when things do not go as planned. She is proof that book knowledge is quite
different than real-life experience. The truth is that she should have been thrilled that one of
her students can already read; instead she is horrified and commands Scout to stop reading until
Miss Caroline can teach her. Another ridiculous notion. 

Miss Caroline watched the class file out for lunch. As I was the last to leave, I saw
her sink down into her chair and bury her head in her arms. Had her conduct been more friendly
toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.

What is the difference between open and closed systems of organization?

Businesses may
operate using an open or closed system. This approach of organization may be throughout the
company, or various departments may operate as open or closed within the same
business.

An open business model allows ideas to flow between departments and
even with other organizations. This type of system is more flexible and responds according to
the information received. An advertising firm that constantly studies the marketplace and
adjusts its practices to outside trends and interests would be considered an open
system.

In contrast, a closed organizational system does not communicate or
depend on other areas to function. This system can be efficient because there are very stringent
procedures to follow and no outside influences to interfere. For example, an assembly line
department would most likely function as a closed system. Widgets will be produced in a
consistent matter over a long period of time with little change from outside sources.

Traditionally, companies functioned using a closed systems approach. However, with the
global marketplace and fast changing landscape, an open system of organization is often more
advantageous to organizations in the present.

What was happening to Nellie, and why did Billy have to kill her to take out the colt?

Nellie,
Jody's mare in , was having trouble giving birth because the colt was
turned the wrong way inside her. Billy knew that she would trying to give birth and that the
colt would probably die as well. By killing the mare, he does the only humane thing he can think
of to do; rather than let both horses die in agony, he kills the mare, cuts her open, and
removes the colt.

Nowadays, we would probably call a...

In "How Body Modification Ended the War Against My Body," explain the symbolic meaning that body modification holds for the author by discussing two...

In her essay
"How Body Modification Ended the War Against My Body," Sharon Haywood discusses her
choice to pierce her bellybutton as an act of self-love. She says that she struggled with eating
disorders for years and considered her belly the most hated part of herself, making it the part
that was the most symbolic of the struggle she faced to love the body she lived in. She says
that her choice to pierce her belly button was as a peace offering: a way of beautifying the
part of her she felt was the least beautiful.

Eventually, Haywood decided to
take the piercing out, which is a body modification in itself. This action is meant to be
symbolic of the author having come fully to peace with her belly. She no longer needs the the
symbolic representation to remind her to see the beauty inherent in her own
form.

In the "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" what does this line mean: "Justice bends the arrow at your heart and strains the bow"? In the "Sinners...

I agree much
more with Posts 3 and 4 than with Post 2.  Edwards certainly does think that God has reason to
punish us and that God might want to punish us in the same way that we get very angry with our
children when we see them purposely doing things just to test us.  We have the right to be angry
and so, to Edwards, does God.

However, just because he says the arrow is set
in the bow, pulled back and aimed at us, does not mean that Edwards is trying to scare us. 
Instead, he is trying to emphasize how much we deserve damnation and, therefore, how immensely
good God is to forgive us our sins.  This is more of a message of hope and gratitude than it is
a message of "fear--sheer fear."

From Animal Farm, list the ideals outlined by Old Major that should prevail after the Rebellion?

byexposes the
weaknesses in any system, even one as apparently open and socialist in nature as the one which
exists on the farm after the Rebellion. Georgereveals that the need for power has the capacity,
ultimately, to destroy the good intentions of even a character likewho is no match for the
charismatic, manipulative and essentially immoral . 

The problems are evident
from the beginning when it is necessary to define what it means to be equal because "Some
animals are more equal than others." The animals do outline their rules, applicable to all
animals, initially, in the form of their "Commandments," which support the concept of
Animalism. Humans are evil and they are, "The only real enemy we have," and animals
are forbidden from taking on any human characteristics.  inspires the animals to believe they
can uphold the commandments:

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an
   enemy
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend


3. No animal shall wear clothes
4. No animal shall sleep in a
   bed
5. No animal shall drink alcohol
6. No animal shall kill
   any other animal
7. All animals are equal

Unfortunately, these ideals will gradually be replaced by other versions of
the same, favoring the pigs and creating a situation not unlike the conditions before the
Rebellion.  

In James Joyce's Araby, what does the language reveal about the boy, about how he see himself,about how he envisions what he is doing and thinking?

s short
story is a reflection of the authors experiences as an Irish
writer during the early 20th Century (the story was first published in 1914).  What the poet
W.B. Yeats called a terrible beauty, Ireland was entering a stage of increased anti-England
militarism while the start of the Great War was brewing on the continent.  While the issue of
Irish nationalism is not a major, or even a minor theme of Araby ,
it does loom in the background.  Early in the story, Joyces narrator, a young boy on the verge
of enormous physical and emotional transformations, describes the scene in which he, the aunt
and uncle who are raising him, and his friends exist.  Within this description are two subtle
references to the Troubles: . . .the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you
about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land.  Jeremiah ODonovan
Rossa was an early Irish nationalist and leader of the movement for...

Explain the satire behind Snowball's committees in Animal Farm.

In Chapter Three
of ,sets up numerous committees in the wake of the revolution to overthrow
Mr Jones. What immediately strikes the reader is the satirical nature of these committees, for
two reasons.

First of all, the names of the committees are humorous in
themselves. There is the "Whiter Wool Movement" for the sheep, the "Clean Tails
League" for the cows and even a committee for the rats, called "Wild Comrades
Re-education." The very idea that farm animals can be organised and tamed, to remove the
characteristics which define them as animals, further adds to this sense ofand humour.

Secondly, the abject failure of these committees is another source of satire.
Ascomments: "They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated
with...

`int x/sqrt(x^2 + x + 1) dx` Evaluate the integral

`intx/sqrt(x^2+x+1)dx`

Let's rewrite the integrand by completing the square of the denominator,

`=intx/sqrt((x+1/2)^2+3/4)dx`

Now let's apply the integral
substitution,

Let `u=x+1/2`

`x=u-1/2`

du=1dx

`=int(u-1/2)/sqrt(u^2+3/4)du`

`=int(2u-1)/sqrt(4u^2+3)du`

Now apply the sum rule,

`=int(2u)/sqrt(4u^2+3)du-int1/sqrt(4u^2+3)du`

`=2intu/sqrt(4u^2+3)du-int1/sqrt(4u^2+3)du`

Now let's evaluate the
first integral by applying the integral substitution,

Let `v=4u^2+3`

`dv=8udu`

`intu/sqrt(4u^2+3)du=int1/(8sqrt(v))dv`

`=1/8intv^(-1/2)dv`

`=1/8(v^(-1/2+1))/(-1/2+1)`

`=1/8v^(1/2)/(1/2)`

`=2/8v^(1/2)`

`=1/4sqrt(v)`

substitute back `v=4u^2+3`

`=1/4sqrt(4u^2+3)`

Now let's evaluate the second integral
`int1/sqrt(4u^2+3)du` using integral substitution,

For `sqrt(bx^2+a)`
substitute `x=sqrt(a)/sqrt(b)tan(v)` ,

Let `u=sqrt(3)/2tan(v)`

`du=sqrt(3)/2sec^2(v)dv`

`int1/sqrt(4v^2+3)du=int(sqrt(3)/2sec^2(v))/sqrt(4(sqrt(3)/2tan(v))^2+3)dv`

`=int(sqrt(3)sec^2(v))/(2sqrt(3tan^2(v)+3))dv`

`=sqrt(3)/2int(sec^2(v))/sqrt(3tan^2(v)+3)dv`

`=sqrt(3)/2int(sec^2(v))/(sqrt(3)sqrt(tan^2+1))dv`

`=1/2int(sec^2(v))/sqrt(tan^2(v)+1)dv`

Now use the
identity:`1+tan^2(x)=sec^2(x)`

`=1/2int(sec^2(v))/sqrt(sec^2(v))dv`

assuming sec(v)`>=0`

`=1/2intsec(v)dv`

Now using the common integral,

`intsec(v)dx=ln((sec(v)+tan(v))`

`=1/2(ln(sec(v)+tan(v))`

Substitute back `v=arctan((2u)/sqrt(3))`

`=1/2[ln{sec(arctan((2u)/sqrt(3)))+tan(arctan((2u)/sqrt(3))}]`

`=1/2[ln{sqrt(1+(4u^2)/3)+(2u)/sqrt(3)}]`

`int(2u-1)/sqrt(4u^2+3)du=2(1/4sqrt(4u^2+3))-1/2ln(sqrt(1+4u^2/3)+(2u)/sqrt(3))`

`=1/2sqrt(4u^2+3)-1/2ln(sqrt(1+(4u^2)/3)+(2u)/sqrt(3))`

Substitute
back `u=x+1/2`

`=1/2sqrt(4(x+1/2)^2+3)-1/2ln(sqrt(1+(4(x+1/2)^2)/3)+(2(x+1/2))/sqrt(3))`

`=1/2sqrt(4(x^2+1/4+x)+3)-1/2ln(sqrt(1+4/3(x^2+1/4+x))+(2/sqrt(3))(2x+1)/2)`

`=1/2sqrt(4x^2+1+4x+3)-1/2ln(sqrt((3+4x^2+1+4x)/3)+(2x+1)/sqrt(3))`

`=1/2sqrt(4x^2+4x+4)-1/2ln(sqrt((4x^2+4x+4)/3)+(2x+1)/sqrt(3))`

`=1/2sqrt(4(x^2+x+1))-1/2ln((2/sqrt(3))sqrt(x^2+x+1)+(2x+1)/sqrt(3))`

`=sqrt(x^2+x+1)-1/2ln((2sqrt(x^2+x+1)+2x+1)/sqrt(3))`

add a constant
C to the solution,

`=sqrt(x^2+x+1)-1/2ln((2sqrt(x^2+x+1)+2x+1)/sqrt(3))+C`

 

 

What is a summary for chapter 9 of "Lyddie"?

 is the story of a farm
girl whose family falls apart.  When her parents are gone, the children are unable to make ends
meet.  Lyddie goes to the city of Lowell to become a factory girl.
 Lyddie is a work of historical .

Chapter nine describes
Lyddie's first day at work.  When she arrives, she is quite startled by the noise and bustle of
the factory.  The overseer attempts to tell her how to run the loom, but he only confuses her.
 A girl she'd never met before, Diana, steps in and offers to show her how to use the loom.  She
spends the rest of the day learning from her.  Diana also offers to help her learn how to read
better, so she visits her that evening and they study together.  With Diana's help, she writes a
letter to her mother and one to her brother.  The other girls in Lyddie's boardinghouse tell her
to stay away from Diana because she is "devious" and tries to stir up trouble, but
Lyddie ignores what they say.

How is Napoleon a representation of a dictator in George Orwell's Animal Farm?

The
character ofallegorically represents Joseph Stalin in 's celebrated novella
. Stalin was the dictator during the early years of the Soviet Union and
ruled as a ruthless leader, who was responsible for a devastating famine and the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Great Purge between 1934 and 1939. In the story,
Napoleon successfully usurps power and rules over the farm as a brutal dictator.

Similar to Stalin, Napoleon takes over the farm by force with the help of his nine
ferocious dogs, which allegorically represent Stalin's NKDV police force. Napoleon immediately
consolidates power and oppresses the other animals by canceling Sunday meetings and making every
policy decision. Napoleon also establishes a cult of personality and employsto cleverly
manipulate the animals. Through propaganda, Napoleon is portrayed as an omnipotent, benevolent
leader while he simultaneously lowers the standard of living on the farm. Napoleon also accepts
several undeserved war medals and develops into a enigmatic public figure.

Similar to other dictators, Napoleon rules with an iron fist by overworking his
subjects and severely punishing dissenters. In the story, Napoleon starves several rebellious
hens and publicly executes pigs, sheep, and a goose after forcing them to give confessions.
Napoleon's actions parallel Stalin's Great Purge, where hundreds of thousands of civilians were
executed. Napoleon also amasses wealth at the expensive of his subjects and enjoys priviledges
while the other animals starve.

In The Glass Menagerie, what does Amanda hope for Laura?

Amanda
hopes that Laura will get married to a nice man and settle down. She imagines all manner of
gentleman callers for her and is thrilled when one does finally materialize, in the shape of Tom
and Laura's old schoolmate, Jim O'Connor. However, things do not end the way she hoped, as Jim
turns out to be already engaged.

What Amanda really tries to do is to mould
Laura in her own image, as a popular and romantically-inclined young woman. Amanda endlessly
harks back to her own days when she was a Southern Belle and a resounding social
success,...

In chapter 12, what do John and Lorraine confess to Mr. Pignati?

In chapter 12,
John and Lorraine confess to Mr. Pignati that they are not members of the "L & J
Fund" afterall. Their guilt has gotten...

Based on the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder, write a 10+ page journal from the perspective of 25-year-old German...

This is a very
interesting and
compelling assignment. Though I cannot write the 10 pages for you, I will

provide you with some thoughts that you can adapt or use to organize your
work.

First, this assignment asks you to consider your
character's mindset. Your character
was born around 1900 and is a person of
German origin living in Poland. As such, you would have
been affected by both
Stalin's policies and by Nazi policies, particularly as Poland was
occupied
by both powers from 1939€“1941 (see page xi in Bloodlands
by
Snyder). Poland was part of the "bloodlands" that Snyder discusses in his
book, an
area that was subjected to the mass killings of both the Wehrmacht
and the Red Army, the Soviet
NKVD and the German SS.

First, you must decide whether your character is
Jewish or not. If
he was Jewish, his fate would have been altered, as he would have faced Nazi

persecution and would have likely been killed by Nazis or had to flee. However, if you
were not
Jewish and were a German who had witnessed German defeat in World
War I, you might have embraced
the rise of Hitler in 1933. As Snyder writes
on page 9 of Bloodlands, most
Germans believed that
"Poland's borders were illegitimate," so your character might
have supported
Hitler's rise and events such as Krystalnacht. Your character may have
supported
Nazism and the German takeover of Poland.

In
addition, your character might
have heard of the famines that were taking
place in the Ukraine. As Snyder explains on pages
29€“30 of
Bloodlands, many Ukrainians fled into Poland. If you
were
committed to Fascism and to Nazism, you would have been opposed to
Stalinism and hated his
imposition of collectivization on Ukraine. The Poles
referred to Stalin as the "Hunger
Czar" (page 30), who caused his people to
go hungry.

Related to your
diary entries during World War
II (1939€“1945), if you were a committed Fascist and supported
Hitler, you
would have supported his rampage through Europe. Though Germany and the
Soviets
signed a non-aggression pact in 1939 (the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact),
the Nazis invaded the Soviet
Union on June 22, 1941, ending the pact.
Therefore, your entires for 1939 and 1941 would reflect
these events, and
your entry for May 9, 1945, would include your reflections about the end of

the war. After the war, your character might have been imprisoned by the Soviets who
occupied
Poland if he had sided with the Nazis. You can write about your
character's fate following the
war, and you can use the other sources your
teacher has recommended to gain more knowledge about
this time
period.

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What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major? What might this arrangement say about future meetings or...

In the opening
chapter of , the animals gather in the barn to hear a speech by . While the
arrangement of the animals in the barn may seem random, it does, in fact, reveal much about the
nature of equality between the animals, in a number of ways.

First of all, we
are introduced to Major. He is seated on a "raised platform," which is symbolic of his
superiority on the farm. He is well-respected by the others, hence his prominent seating
position. 

Next, after Major, come the dogs and the pigs. These animals are
considered to be the most intelligent animals on the farm and this foreshadows their superior
position on the farm after Major dies and Mr Jones is overthrown. It also foreshadows an
important event which happens in Chapter Nine when the rations of all the animals except the
dogs and the pigs are reduced.justifies this by saying that too much equality in rations goes
against the principles of Animalism. Of course, Animalism states that all animals are equal, but
Squealer does not want to admit this because, if he does, he accepts the inequality inherent in
this action.

Finally, the other animals enter the barn. These horses, hens,
pigeons, ducks and cows represent the workers of Animal Farm. Their only consideration in their
seating is for the care of others: " and Clover, came in together, walking very
slowly...with great care, lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw."
This represents the friendship and loyalty of the working classes and, later, foreshadows their
role on the farm. Together, they will perform the work that keeps the farm running and the
animals fed, while the pigs and dogs rule from above.

Why is "pork barrel" spending important?

Pork barrel
spending is spending that is intended for specific projects that benefit donor or constituent
groups. Pork barrel spending can make legislation easier to pass because it allows for targeted
incentives towards Congressional members that might otherwise be antagonistic towards
legislation. Unfortunately, this kind of targeted benefit generally proliferates, as it gives
even friendly legislators an incentive to take an opposing stance in a bid to obtain some pork
barrel spending. This can lead to significant increases in spending and can blow holes in the
budget.

A second important issue with pork barrel spending is that it can
create inefficient funding streams. This is most visible in military spending, where certain
projects that are unnecessary can continue because of the benefit they bring to specific groups.
Certain pieces of military technology, such as Abrams tanks, continue to be purchased through
appropriations legislation because so many different Congressional districts benefit from these
purchases. The military doesn't need these additional tanks, though, so the continuing purchases
force the military to spend money on something it doesn't need, which prevents funding from
going to other projects which may be more useful. It also increases overall spending without
providing a noticeable benefit.

How does the quote "There's four kinds of folks in the world. The ordinary kind like us and the neighbors... the Cunningams... the Ewells... and the...

There are
two significant aesthetic features in the given quotation, taken fromof the novel. In the
quotation,is explaining to his sister, , his new-found understanding of the social hierarchy in
Maycomb County. For example, the repetition of the word "kind," used by Jem to refer
to different types of people, is an aesthetic feature because it draws the reader's attention to
the idea that the four "kinds" of people are considered to be so different as to be
thought of as different "kinds." The implication is that Maycomb County is a place
characterized by significant social differences and divisions.

In the full
quotation, Jem says that "there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind
like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes." One aesthetic feature here is the
sequence of clauses. In each successive clause, the location associated with the different
"kind" of people becomes less appealing, signifying the lower social position, or
class, of those respective people. The "woods" connote a place outside of or on the
fringes of civilization, and the "dump" connotes a place designated for trash. These
locations accurately signify the social positions of the Cunninghams and the Ewells
respectively.

It is significant that "the Negroes," mentioned in
the third clause, are not designated a location at all. The implication is that they occupy a
place in Maycomb County even less appealing than the "dump" in the preceding clause.
Another implication is that there is no place at all in Maycomb County for "the
Negroes" to make their home.

Why did the hens confess to Napoleon in 1984?

Everything seems to be going wrong with the Animalist revolution, and the absenthas
been made the scapegoat for all the problems that beset the farm. Buthas got in into his head
that Snowball must've had accomplices in his dastardly plot to destroy the revolution. So he
accuses a number of pigs of being in secret contact with Snowball and demands that they confess
their crimes. The charges are...