What does Daniel Defoe mean by this sentence from his essay "The Education of Women"? "A woman of sense and breeding will scorn as much to...

Defoe argues
in this essay that women are just as intelligent as men but without education, are not anywhere
near the perfect companions they could be. As a matter of fact, he adds, there isn't a problem
with women that education couldn't improve. The only reason he can imagine that men deny women
education is that they are afraid that women will compete with them. He cannot conceive of a God
who would create such wonderful, witty creatures as women to only be "Stewards of our
Houses, Cooks, and Slaves."

Then he says:

What did Nicolaus Copernicus contribute to science? Did he futhered human knowledge of the solar system or did he futhered human knowledge of the...

Nicolaus
Copernicus is not famous for his contributions to reproductive
science, but rather for his contributions to ASTRONOMY. (Although he did work as a physician for
a time, studying medicine, as well as many other things such as economics, classical history,
linguistics, and politics.) 

His famous theory was that it was the sun at the
center of the universe, rather than the earth. Although there were limitations to the Copernican
model, it was an absolute breakthrough idea. One such limitation was the fact that he still used
a universe-based model, rather than a solar system based one. In fact, our sun is at the center
of our solar system, and definitely not the universe, or even the galaxy. 

His theory was heliocentric (sun-centered) rather than geocentric (earth-centered). The
geocentric model is also called the Ptolemaic model, after the Greek philosopher Ptolemy.
Decades after he first came up with the heliocentric theory, Copernicus published his ideas in
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (In English: On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). It summarized the theory. Besides the idea that
everything orbited the sun rather than the earth, the significant parts included the idea that
retrograde and direct motion could be explained by the rotation of the earth, the idea that
there is no one center of all the celestial circles and spheres, and the idea that the earth has
more than one motion (orbiting the sun, as well as rotating around). Most of these ended up
being true, as they were later proven by other great scientists. 

Copernicus's heliocentric theory began what became known as the Copernican Revolution,
sparking the ideas and experiments of later scientists like Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.
Most significantly, Kepler modified Copernicus's theory from perfect circles to ellipses, and
thus solved many issues with the original model--especially the ones having to do with
retrograde motion.  

Why did the United States get involved in World War I?

An excellent
answer, the sinking of shipping and the Zimmerman telegram were the overt reasons America got
into the war.  The Lusitania incident was the most widely publicized, a
little ironic when you consider that the Amercian government and the major newspapers all knew
that the ship had been carrying 200 tons of munitions to Britain, thus making the
Lusitania a legitimate military target under the laws of naval warfare. 
But further shipping losses and the lives of civilian passengers, including both American and
other neutral citizens, led to widespread outrage.

The underlying reason for
eventual American involvement , however, was the same thing that led Britain into the war.  The
British recognized it even before the war began, and President Wilson reluctantly shared the
same view; a German victory over France would leave Europe dominated by a militarist power, and
that simply could not be allowed.  The long-term consequences would have been too
dangerous.

How does George Orwells 1984 explore the representation of how the human experience are bound and defined by social and political worlds?

The
simple answer to your question is thatdoes this in almost every way. From the point of view ofin
regard to his own life to the behavior that he observes in others, the totalitarian regime of
Oceania infects almost every aspect of the human experience.

The chief
effect that ideological oppression can have on the human experience is the complete eradication
of unique and independent thought. The Inner Party is even complete with a "thought
police" that monitors for not only crime, but even intention of crime or anti-party
sentiment.

In comparable novels such as Fahrenheit
451,this anti-intellectualism is perpetuated in the name of peace. This is quite
curiously not the case in . Violence abounds as Oceania is in a constant
state of war, and citizens are even encouraged daily to direct their hate at enemies of the
state in vocal and even physical displays of contempt. Indeed, the "two minutes' hate"
is probably the plainest example of how political worlds can affect the human experience.
Winston remarks that the most disturbing thing about the ritual is the absolute inability to
avoid it. People are filled with a violent and genuine rage that they themselves to not
completely understand. In a country like Oceania, human emotion is completely
manufactured.

A ladder 20 feet long leans against a vertical building. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the building horizontally at a rate of 3...

Let `x` be
the distance from the wall, and let `y` be the height at the top of the ladder.

Then from the pythagorean theorem we have `x^2+y^2=20^2` .

We are
given that the rate of change of the bottom of the ladder away from the wall is
3ft/sec,...

href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related_rates">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related_rates

In Fahrenheit 451, how does the Mechanical Hound represent government control?

The
Mechanical Hound is the government's technological enforcement. Like a real dog, the hound can
sniff out things; in this case it is used to sniff out books. Using a sense of smell rather than
visual monitoring, the hound is still a means of surveillance, giving new meaning to the term
"watch dog." The hound also represents the oppressive use of technology. In this way,
the hound functions like the parlour shows. The shows are a technological advancement that have
become used to create a passive thoughtless public. The hound is used to hunt and kill those who
attempt to challenge their passive, oppressed lives. Both enforce the government's
agenda. 

In trying to create a public that does not think critically, a
public that goes through the motions of their lives mechanically, the government in Montag's
world is essentially trying to make the public into a thoughtless machine. This is what the
Mechanical Hound is. Although it is described as living and not living, it is a machine. As
Beatty says: 

"Come off it. It doesn't like or
dislike. It just 'functions.' It's like a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide
for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. It's only copper
wire, storage batteries, and electricity." 

The
government uses the hound to enforce its policies. The government wishes to command the public
as it commands the hound. The government uses the hound to enforce the "trajectory"
they have for the entire society. This shows an interesting intersection of using technology to
control life. With such stringent control, the effect is that society becomes like a machine,
like the hound: thoughtless and less sentient. 

What are some descriptive words about the bird in "The Raven"?

In the seventh stanza,
the speaker describes the raven as "stately" and as having the "mien of lord or
lady." In other words, the bird has a certain elegance and holds itself as though it were
of high status and privilege. In the eighth stanza, the bird is said to be "ebony" and
"beguiling" as well as "grave and stern"; the narrator is fascinated by the
bird's serious and somber demeanor. In the ninth stanza, he describes the bird as
"ungainly" and a few stanzas later, he calls it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,
and ominous"; in other words, then, the bird is kind of frightening and awkward and strange
and menacingthe word "ominous" implies that the narrator sees the bird as an omen of
sorts, perhaps something associated with the supernatural. The narrator feels as though the bird
knows something he does not. Later, still, he calls the bird a "prophet" and seems to
believe that it does bring him some kind of news from the underworld or afterlife, or even the
devil.