Who, besides Mr. Nuttel, is the victim of Vera's hoax?

It might
be said that Mrs. Sappleton is also the victim of Vera's hoax, but that would depend upon what
happened after Framton Nuttel fled from the house. He might report to other people that the
woman was insane. That seems unlikely, however, because he would be required to tell about the
whole incident. If he did that he would find out that the three "ghosts" he thought he
saw were still very much alive, in which case Mrs. Sappleton was perfectly sane in expecting
them to come home and in leaving the window open. It seems unlikely that Nuttel would not relate
his experience to his sister and that she would make inquiries of the minister with whom she
stayed when she was in the area. Vera herself might become the victim of her own hoax in that
case. Everyone would realize that she had played a cruel trick on their poor, neurotic visitor
and that she had also misrepresented her aunt as a lunatic.

"Here they are at last!" she cried. "Just in time for tea, and don't
they look as if they were muddy up to the eyes!"

     Framton shivered
slightly and turned towards the niece with a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension.
The child was staring out through the open window with a dazed horror in her eyes. 

Vera would be subject to some form of punishment--or at least a
severe scolding from more than one of the members of that family. That might not discourage her
from frightening other visitors with the same ghost story in the future, since it had been such
a big success with Framton Nuttel. The same scenario seems to be repeated practically every
night. Mrs. Sappleton leaves the big French window open for the three hunters, and they return
at about the same hour for tea. Bertie sings the same awful song with the words:

"I said, Bertie, why do you bound?"

It is a little bit like the movie Groundhog
Day in which the same things keep happening every day. The entire family, including
Vera, might be somewhat victimized by the girl's hoax if word got around in this uptight
neighborhood that the entire family was conspiring to frighten visitors out of their wits with
ghost stories and bizarre behavior. It seems possible that Nuttel might have gotten the idea
that the whole family was in on the hoax and had actually rehearsed
it.

On the other hand, if the family's
reputation was not compromised, Framton Nuttel's sister, who does not appear in the story, might
be slightly victimized because she might not be welcome to return to the rectory or the
neighborhood because of her relationship with a man who was obviously a lunatic. Friends and
neighbors of the Sappletons would be more likely to sympathize with them than with a couple of
strangers who lived in London.

A fruiterer had the same number of apples, pears and oranges at first. After 98 oranges, some apples and pears were sold, there were 392 fruits left....

For the stated
word problem, we need to use
variable to represent the unknown counts per each fruit. We may

let:

o = original number of oranges

a= original
number of
apples

p = original number of pears.

 To set-up an
equation, we translate the given conditions in the
problem.

Condition 1: A
fruiterer had the same number of
apples, pears and oranges at first.

 This
implies that we
can equate them as `o =a=p` .

Condition 2:After 98 oranges, some apples and pears were sold, there were 392
fruits
left. 

We may let:

unsold
oranges = o'

unsold apples = a'

unsold
pears = p'

 It...

At the beginning of the novel, Sal Paradise admits to having ambivalent feelings about Dean, at first thinking him to be a little too tough, a real...

On one
hand, Dean represents the freedom of the Beat Generationunwilling to be tied down, always on the
move. However, Sal does find problems with the darker side of this trait: for instance, Dean's
inability to ever really love one woman (or man), his irresponsibility, his attraction to
teenage girls, and his drug addictions.

In the end, though, Sal always seems
to forgive his friend for his bad behavior. (Or perhaps a better word might be
"overlook.") Dean abandons Sal while traveling on more than one occasion, yet these
events are never enough to make Sal write Dean off completely, since Sal thinks Dean's
complicated family and love life have made him what he is and, therefore, he cannot shoulder all
the blame for what he does. Even at the end of the novel, when Sal muses about his unfaithful
friend, he thinks, "He'll be alright," with a sense of peaceful resignation.

However, after being abandoned by Dean in Mexico during his delirium and illness (right
after Dean's idea of the perfect night: partying with sex workers), Sal does not seem interested
in emulating Dean's lifestyle any longer. Though he admires Dean, he knows his way of fast
living with no attachments will never satisfy him. So while he still idolizes Dean as a holy
goof, he is done trying to be a holy goof himself. This is as close to resolution as his
feelings for Dean Moriarty ever come.

Tell me about the age of Chaucer?

In the
"Canterbury Tales"describes an age that was much different to our own modern one in
terms of social practices, customs and beliefs - and his depiction of them makes very
entertaining reading. The church played a far more powerful role in influencing people, society
and state than it does now, and was often accused of using religion and scare stories to cowe
the people into submission, as well as improve their souls and chances of getting into heaven.
These chances were improved still further if you were free enough, and well-off enough to to be
able to gain more brownie points along the way in your path on earth! One way to avoid the
dreadful fires of hell, torturing devils and evil smug looking gargoyles (replicated at every
turn on churches!) was to undertake a pligrimage of repentance and forgiveness - such as the
popular little jaunt to Canterbury!

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, how was the rise in human population density linked to the origins of food production starting around 8500 BC?...

The answer
to this can be found in Chapter 6.  Specifically, it starts on p. 111 in the paperback version
of the book and ends on p. 112.  Diamonds argument can be summed up when he says

A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and
the rise in food production. 

What that means is that neither was the cause
or the effect.  They were both causes and they were both effects.

Diamond
says that human populations were already rising in the late Pleistocene, even
before...

Describe three images of Douglass's grandmother as defined in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,...

Chapter eight of '
, Written by Himself provides three images of his grandmother. First, he
describes his grandmother as "poor" and "old." This image allows readers to
see her as one broken by a life of slavery. The word poor, here, does not refer to wealth.
Instead, it refers to the miserable nature of the life of a slave.

Second,...

In Lord of the Flies, what is the first sign that Piggy is an organized thinker?

is
the most organized and rational of the boys on the island. The reader gets the first sign of
this in Chapter One when Piggy proposes the idea of using a conch shell to summon the other
boys.

Piggy believes the group must band together and continue
to...