What factors cause demand for a product to be elastic?

Certain types
of products are generally more elastic than others. For instance, if a product is nonessential
it will obviously be far more elastic. For instance, raising the price on a pack of baseball
cards is probably going to decrease sales more than raising the price on a lifesaving medicine,
especially if there are no alternatives. This is an extreme example, but it applies to other
areas. Gasoline, while certainly responsive to price, is relatively inelastic. People still need
to get to work even it is going to cost them.

Additionally, some products
that are not essential are perceived as being that way. Cigarettes are a perfect example of
this. Smokers will generally continue to purchase this product when taxes go up or the price
increases. That is because the addictive nature of the product makes it appear as if it is
essential. Any product that is either essential or for some reason a staple of daily life is
going to be less elastic, as long as competitors are raising prices at a similar rate. People
will always buy toilet paper, milk, eggs, etc, even with small price increases. This has been
shown many times with the price of eggs, for example. 

Other goods, that are
more optional, are much more sensitive to change. 

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, what is Shakespeare saying about the theme "action vs inaction?"

In
Shakespeare's , not only is Shakespeare passing judgment on the value of
taking action and the folly of not doing so, but literary critics have long held the same
opinion. In fact, as a tragic herodemonstrates his tragic flaw in his
"indecision."

The basis for the concept of "action vs
inaction" is Hamlet's failure to avenge his father's death quickly. The idea has been
presented multiple times that had Hamlet done so, he and , and his
household, would not have died.

I struggle with this for several reasons.
Hamlet is written when the audience deeply believed in the...

Does the reader's inability to trust the narrator increase the suspense in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

The
answer to this question is based on an individual reader's opinion.It is possible for a reader
to believe and defend that the narrator's lack of trustworthiness actually decreases the
suspense in the story; however, I believe that most readers would support the idea that the
suspense is increased through our inability to trust the narrator.

The
narrator alerts readers in the very first paragraph that he is somebody that readers should not
openly trust.The narrator questions why we should think that he is crazy.He then tells us that
his mental disease gave him extra sharp senses that allowed him to hear things that mere normal
people can't hear.This is somewhat believable, but then the narrator tells readers what sorts of
things he was hearing.He was hearing things from heaven and hell.That should immediately make
all readers think the narrator is crazy and should not be trusted.This lack of trust in him and
knowledge that he is crazy enhances the suspense and tension of the story because while we know
that the narrator should not be trusted, that does not change the fact that he might not be
lying to readers.Just because a person isn't trustworthy doesn't mean they aren't telling the
truth from time to time.Additionally, because the narrator is crazy and untrustworthy means that
readers legitimately suspect that he is quite capable of just about any horrific bit of
work.

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What is the theme, or message, in the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier?

An important
message or theme of the story is that the ability to understand and see other peopleespecially
outsidersas fully human is the beginning of maturity into adulthood.

Lizabeth
is a young adolescent who remembers vividly the day she led the other children in taunting old
Miss Lottie as a witch and destroying her beautifully tended marigolds.

We
can understand how Lizabeth vented the rage she felt at her own constricted, impoverished life
on an old woman who couldn't easily fight back. The story is set in the Depression, and Lizabeth
and her brother Joey live in a shack with her parents. Her mother works all day as a maid, and
her father goes out each day in search of the work he never finds. Lizabeth feels a sense of
affront that, amid all the squalor and ugliness in which they live, Miss Lottie would dare to
grow beautiful flowers.

In tormenting Miss Lottie and ripping up what she
tried to create, Lizabeth expresses some of her own internalized rage. However, as she looks at
Miss Lottie, she suddenly feels ashamed, realizing she has victimized not an "other"
or a "witch" but a real human being like herself. Instead of wanting to continue to
express wrath at her, she feels compassion for this older woman.

Learning to
view others with empathy is an important theme the story illustrates: compassion, to Collier, is
the essence of adulthood.

What is the significance of the title of A Doll's House?

The
significance of the title of the play , by , is that it foreshadows the
dynamics that take place in the Helmer household. Moreover, it also helps unveil the real role
thatplays within her family; that of a mere entertainer to her husband and children. In the end,
the title of the play becomes sort of a misnomer, since Nora actively moves away from the role
of a "doll" and moves on to try to become a fully-grown, and real woman.

From the very beginning of the play, we notice how Nora's playful ways are quite
enabled, and even encouraged, by her husband, . It encourages the audience to question the
purpose of two adults conducting their communication in such a way. However, later we realize
that this is perhaps one of the many tricks that Torvald uses to somewhat manipulate Nora's
childish behavior, as well as to reinstate his role as the "man" of the house. It is a
condescending way to treat people, nevertheless.

We also get to the
conclusion that...

What was the impact of the Trail of Tears?

The impact
of the Trail of Tears was that the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia, western
North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. This was the culmination of a more than decade-long
removal process championed by President Andrew Johnson. By 1838, virtually all of the Native
peoples in the Southeast--the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and to a lesser extent the
Seminoles--had been forced off their lands and into Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma.
Each of these peoples had suffered grievously in the process, with thousands dying of disease.
The Cherokee experience was no different. The tribe had split into factions, with one smaller
group moving more or less voluntarily. A much larger faction, at least 15,000, refused to leave.
Under orders from President Martin van Buren, they were forced from their lands by the US Army
and marched to Indian Country. Around 5,000 died of disease and exposure. So the result of the
Trail of Tears was the expropriation of Indian lands and widespread disease and death among
Indian peoples. On the other hand, Indian removal cleared the way for the expansion of
plantation agriculture into the fertile Southeast. Thousands of would-be planters brought their
slaves to the region to raise cotton.

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Discuss the political, social, and economic issues affecting the home fronts in the North and South during the Civil War and the way these issues...

Some of
the most significant problems that both the Union and Confederate sides had to contend with
during the Civil War were the rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental circumstances
that the conflict had caused. In the North, tax revenue, primarily derived from the sale of
agricultural products, was only able to cover about 20 percent of the costs of the war, forcing
the federal government to begin issuing its own paper money. This resulted in a devaluation of
the value of gold and silver, as the new paper money was not backed by anything other than a
government guarantee of its value (known as fiat money) and damaged some banks that still
relied on the gold standard. Furthermore, some businessmen were able to trick government
contractors by providing them poor-quality goods for quick cash exchanges, making a fortune in
the process.

The Southern economy relied heavily on import and export duties
for its wartime revenue, but these too were too little to cover all of...