How does the setting of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas relate to events in the plot and the characters?

There
are two settings in . While the novel begins in Berlin, Germany, the action
soon moves to Auschwitz, Poland. Both settings make important contributions to the plot and the
characters. An important part of the plot is the move that Brunos makes from their Berlin home
to the concentration camp, which is occasioned by the fathers appointment as the camps
commandant. This relocation is directly relevant to the characters of Bruno and his new friend,
Shmuel; his father; and his sister, Gretel.

In Berlin, Bruno lives with his
upper-middle-class family in a comfortable, nicely furnished five-story house; they employ a
maid, a butler, and a cook. His grandparents, who live nearby, are a constant, affectionate
presence in his life. Bruno enjoys its location near the citys center, with the bustle
of...

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Explain the concepts of Pax Sinica and Pax Romana. How did Han and Roman Leaders promote long periods of peace and prosperity in eastern and western...

A bad peace is even worse
than war.-Tacitus

The
Pax Sinica was a
period of Chinese history between 221 B.C. and 200 A.D. with relative peace
and
economic prosperity. The period saw five different dynasties rule, with
the Tang Dynasty being
considered the golden age. The period saw the
unification of China under one rule for the first
time and brought an end to
centuries of warring between the states. During the Pax Sinica, trade
with
the West was opened through the construction of the Silk Road, but ironically, China
became
culturally homogenous at the same time.

The Pax
Romana was a period of Roman
peace and prosperity that began with the rule of
Augustus Caesar in 31 BC and ended with the
death of Marcus Aurelius in 250
A.D. The period is marked by an end to expansionism and a growth
in commerce
and trade. The Pax Romana is a seen as a move away from Romes militaristic
origins
to a more keen interest in culture and the arts. The diffusion of
Roman culture throughout
Europe was an...

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How do "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and The Things They Carried relate to each other? Please use examples from the texts.

Mikayla Bruen, M.B.A.

Both "" and The Things They Carried are stories of theof
unnecessary deaths during wartime. While they reflect different time periods and different wars,
they relate to each other by conveying the emotions, thoughts, fears, desires and coping
mechanisms of men potentially facing their premature deaths. They also relate to one another
because they reveal what these men hold dear.

In An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge by , a southern plantation owner named Peyton Farquhar is being
executed by a unit of the Federal army. His crime is that he is evidently a southern
gentleman.

The man who was engaged in being hanged was
apparently about thirty-five years of age. He was a civilian, if one might judge from his habit,
which was that of a planter. His features were gooda straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead,
from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar
of his well fitting frock coat. He wore...

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When everyone starts tending the garden, are they escaping the evil of society or is there a deeper meaning?

Yes, in a way
it is a cloistering from the harsh realities of the that left their literal marks onand his
friends. In a world of self-centered, greedy, and thoughtless people, one must be able to find
solace in something personal and comfortable.

Consider Candide's garden like
your home. Where are we most at ease, the most comfortable? Where can we truly be
ourselves...

What perspectives can be compared in Animal Farm and Julius Caesar?

In both
and Julius Caesar, we're presented with elite power
struggles in which the masses are largely bystanders. In 's story, a radical revolution takes
place which is supposed to result in the empowerment of the poor benighted farm animals. Yet as
soon asand his gang have achieved power they proceed to repress, starve, and kill the very
creatures in whose name the Animalist revolution was carried out. One elite has simply been
replaced by another. Ultimately, neither man or beast has the interests of the ordinary farm
animals at heart.

In Julius Caesar, each side in the
elite power struggle tries to get the Roman plebs on their side. Brutus makes an impassioned
speech at Caesar's funeral in which he tries to justify his assassination, knowing as he does
how much the common people loved him and how restless they are in the wake of his murder. In his
own speech, Mark Antony then uses the love of the plebs for their fallen leader to turn them
against Brutus and the...

Identify important features of Cleanthes's and Paley's arguments and how the two differ from each other and articulate objections raised against each.

To begin,
it's important to note that Cleanthes is not actually a real person but a character invented by
David Hume in his Dialogues Concerning Natural . In this work, Cleanthes is
in conversation with Philo, a skeptic, and Demea, who adheres to a more Orthodox brand of
Christianity. So, the objections and criticisms to Cleanthes's arguments are raised in the very
same work that his argument is presented.

Both Cleanthes and Paley advance
versions of an argument known as the Argument for Design. Cleanthes claims that the existence of
a Creator is the rational conclusion that arises from study of the universe itself. He compares
it all to a "great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines, which
again admit of subdivisions to a degree beyond what human faculties can trace and explain"
(book 2). In Cleanthes's view, nature's mechanical quality compares closely with the mechanical
creations of human beings, though nature achieves levels of sophistication no...

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y = - 1/2 - 4

It
looks like you are trying to collect like terms in order to solve for y. This can be tricky when
both numbers you are working with are negative. And working with fractions can be tricky, too.
So let's look at each of those separately.

You're beginning with a negative
number. In this case, it's negative 1/2. I tell students whom I tutor to think about negatives
in terms of money. So if I have a negative number, that means I'm in debt. In this case, I owe
you 1/2 (which converted to a decimal would be .50).

So I'm starting out
already "in the hole," over in the negatives. And then I go further into the negatives
by borrowing 4 more dollars from you. I was sitting at negative 1/2 and then went further
negative, so now I have a combined negative total of -4.5 or -4 1/2. (These are equal, but pay
attention to directions as sometimes teachers ask that answers be left as proper fractions and
other times you are directed to convert fractions to decimals.)

If asked to
convert to a decimal, you can again think of the fraction in terms of money. 1/2 of a dollar
(which is worth 100 cents, so it works well with thinking about fractions this way) is .50. Or
you think of it as a division problem (1 divided by 2), which will also equate to .50.

For my kinesthetic learners, it sometimes helps to learn to navigate the number line
into the negative numbers in order to determine how negatives are affected by both negative and
positive numbers. To do this, I draw huge number lines in chalk from about -20 to +20, with 0
being right in the middle. I then give my students problems like this one and let them stand on
the number line to work out the problem. For this one, I would ask a student to stand on -1/2,
making sure she understood where that is located on a number line. And then I would ask her to
subtract 4 from that negative number. She should then move to the left, ending up at -4.5. It
helps sometimes to practice working out problems like this with number lines, both big and
small, to learn how negative numbers work.