How can you use a table, a graph, and an equation that represent an exponential function to find the y intercept and growth factor for the function?...

Minor
addition to the answer:

Finding Growth Factor from the graph:

From the graph `y_1=6, y_2=12, y_3=24`

Growth
factor(b)=`y_2/y_1=y_3/y_2`

Growth factor=`12/6=24/12=2`

So, Growth Factor will be constant.

What is the main theme of Emma?

Social
class is a very important theme in the book, as it is in all of 's works. Regency England was a
very hierarchical society with clear boundaries between the respective classes. And it's clear
from reading that Jane Austen firmly believed in maintaining those
boundaries. At the same time, she insists upon the importance of the upper-classes'
responsibilities towards those poorer and less socially prominent than themselves.

We see this in Emma's well-meaning, but ultimately misguided attempt to instruct
Harriet Smith in the ways of Highbury society. It becomes painfully obvious that Harriet doesn't
really belong among the upper echelons of society; she is hopelessly out of her depth,
artificially elevated to a higher station by Emma's assistance. Thanks to Emma's ill-judged
intervention, Harriet gets ideas above her station, developing unrealistic expectations about
her future marriage prospects. Emma should have learned from the example of Mr. Weston. His
first marriage was to a woman of a higher social class, and her inability to adjust to a lower
standard of living was a major factor in their unhappiness together.

How are postmodern techniques employed in the story "Girl"? Also, what is meant by "postmodern" in writing?

Margarete Abshire

Kincaid's "story" raises all sorts of questions: who is the speaker? What is
the context for all of these admonitions? Why are these tasks so important? How is this even a
story?

While it is hard to define the "postmodern," one thing that
is characteristic of postmodern literary texts is that they tend to undermine conventional
notions of author, reader, and text. In the case of "," we can see these principles at
work. For one thing, the text itself doesn't appear to be a story at all, just a kind of . The
traditional features of a story, like a clearly-defined narrator and characters or a plot, seem
to be lacking.

This calls into question the nature of the author: since we're
not sure what it is we are reading, we can't be sure who
wrote it. This undermines our relationship to the text as readers: the story is less
something that is told to us, and it becomes a site of readerly investigation.

The use of second person in the story also complicates the question of character.
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What is Jane Austen trying to say about the character and vocation of the novel through Emma, in her novel Emma?

On one
level,is a novel about about artistic endeavor and how we receive it. Austen lays this out in
chapter 6, as Emma draws a portrait of her friend Harriet. In the comments other characters make
about this portrait, we learn how the artist (or writer), either by design or lack of skill, can
alter reality. Emma's portrait makes Harriet more beautiful than she really is, a move Austen
critiques.  Austen...

What are some obstacles Phoenix faces, and what social/political forces might have her in their grip?

's
"" does present Phoenix, specifically, and others like her, generally, in the grip of
large and indifferent social and political forces.  This is a Southern Gothic story that deals
with life in the South after the Civil War.  For the most part, existence was not good for
anyone immediately after the Civil War.  The South was ravaged (remember most of the battles
took place in the South) and the economic system turned upside down. 

Notice
that in the story no one is really out to get Phoenix.  Her existence is the way it is, period. 
Nobody conspired to make her grandson swallow lye, or arranged things so that she would have to
make such a long, difficult walk to get his medicine.  Even the man who points the rifle at her
does it just for the fun of it, for kicks.  No one is persecuting Phoenix.

Yet, no one is really doing anything to help her, either.  She has to suffer
humiliation just to get the medicine for the grandson.  And even this act of charity is done
with indifference:

"A charity case, I suppose,"
said an attendant who sat at the desk before her."

Phoenix is the victim of society.  Society is not necessarily against her, but it is
not for her, either.

What were some of the events in Europe that motivated Japan to enter the war on the side of the Axis Powers?

There were
a number of reasons why Japan, Italy, and Germany were allied during . Many of the factors that
convinced Japan to become part of the Axis alliance had their origins in places other than
Europe. However, if we look at the events from a European perspective, perhaps the following
factors can be considered

Both Germany and Japan had the goal of territorial
expansion on their respective continents. The Soviet Union was an obstacle to this goal and a
common enemy for both Japan and Germany as it lay between them. The old saying goes that
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend." On November 25, 1936, Japan and Germany signed a
pact against the Soviet Union. Italy joined the pact one year later. This was part of the basis
of the Axis alliance.

When Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor
in December 1941, the United States had been providing material aid to Great Britain in the form
of the lend-lease program. As such, Germany saw the United States as an enemy as well and also
declared war on the US. Here we have another common enemy situation.

When
Japan joined the conflict at the end of 1941, it had no intention of fighting in Europe itself.
Japan was focused on securing an Asian and Pacific empire. However, the many military successes
of the other Axis powers on the continent of Europe convinced Japan that it was on the winning
side. The Axis powers were convinced that the war would be over shortly as Great Britain stood
alone and isolated in Western Europe and Germany's armies were successfully pushing deep into
the Soviet Union. By being part of the Axis alliance, Japanese leaders predicted that they would
soon emerge as some of the leaders of a new powerful world order.

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What does the power struggle between mother and daughter in the poem "Girl" reveal about the larger experience of oppression in Antiguan society?

"" byis adelivered by a mother to her adolescent daughter, instructing herin
a series of pithy imperative statementson every aspect of how to live her life as a woman. The
mother teaches her daughter how to make traditional West Indian dishes, such as
doukona, how to garden, how to attend to the man in her life and, most
importantly, how not to be "a slut."

The monologue is based in
part on Kincaid's difficult relationship with her mother, a woman who migrated to
Antigua...