What is the point of view used in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty?

The point of view used in Welty's "A Worn Path" is third-person narrator/ limited omniscient. With regard to the character of Phoenix, the point of view is omniscient as the narrator knows her thoughts and feelings in part of the story.

The significance of the title is certainly heightened as the reader considers the point of view of Welty's narrative; the reader is privy to Phoenix's feelings all along her "worn path." Before she reaches this path and after she leaves it when arriving in Natchez, the point of view is third-person limited.

The exposition of the story is clearly in third-person narration as the weather is described and Phoenix Jackson is characterized in much the same matter-of-fact manner:

Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows. . . Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern of her own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her face.

If the reader learns Phoenix's thoughts at this point, it is because she speaks aloud:

The path ran up a hill. "Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far," she said.

By paragraph 14, however, the narrator switches to omniscient as Phoenix is fully into the woods. The reader enters the old woman's imagination as "a little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble cake on it."

Then, after Phoenix enters Natchez at the end of her journey of love, the narration switches back to third-person limited as the reader is closed off from Phoenix's interior monologue. Phoenix becomes silent; when the attendant who does not know her speaks to her, Phoenix does not respond. Because her thoughts are not revealed with omniscient narration, the reader can only surmise that this silence suggests Phoenix's defensiveness as she is in a white world in which she is vulnerable to being just put out the door by strangers. Fortunately, it appears her silence works for her, as a sympathetic nurse familiar with Phoenix hears the attendant raising her voice to the old woman. Under the pressure of the situation, and, perhaps, because she does not want the attendant to think she is being obstinate or rude, Phoenix still does not respond. When she does, she excuses herself,

My grandson. It was my memory had left me. There I sat and forgot why I made my long trip.

When the attendant who shouted at Phoenix later offers her "a few pennies," the old woman recognizes this condescension. She takes the money for her grandson, but not before winning a small victory:

"Five pennies is a nickel," said Phoenix stiffly.
"Here's a nickel," said the attendant.

Although the reader is closed off from the interior thoughts of Phoenix, this dialogue underscores the fact that Phoenix's mind is still quick at times as she manipulates the attendant into giving her a coin that makes her act of receiving seem less pitiful.

How did Polyneices die in Antigone?

Antigone is the third installment in Sophocles' trilogy about the disastrous fate which torments the royal house of the Greek city-state of Thebes. The first two stories mainly concern Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his own mother (hence, the "Oedipus complex" in Freudian psychology). Eventually, Oedipus, who has four children, two sons and two daughters, is exiled from Thebes while his brother-in-law, Creon, rules as king. Oedipus's two sons soon clash over who will assume their father's throne. Creon sides with Eteocles and Polyneices is forced into exile where he raises an army and attempts to invade Thebes. At one of the gates of city, the brothers meet and wind up killing each other. As Antigone opens, it is the day after the battle and Eteocles has been buried with full military honors, but Polyneices has been deemed an enemy of the state and left unburied. This was a very harsh sentence to the Greeks because their religious laws required the performance of certain burial rites. If a body was left to decay in the open, then its soul would never be at rest. The play concerns itself with the clash between Antigone, one of Polyneices's sisters, and Creon over the burial of the brother.

Will every sample of seawater have the same proportion of salt to water?

No, not every sample of seawater will have the same proportion of salt to water. This has to do with many factors. Seawater along the coast has a lower salinity than in the middle of the ocean. This is because freshwater is running into the ocean. Here we have brackish water. This is part salt water and part freshwater. A small river or stream will cause little change to the salinity but a very large river emptying into the ocean will cause a significant decrease in salinity. Another factor that determines salinity is the amount of evaporation or precipitation in that area. For example, if it is hot and dry, there will be more evaporation than precipitation. This will cause a higher salinity. If there is more precipitation, the salinity in that area will decrease. If there are icebergs present, they can also affect salinity. Icebergs are frozen fresh water and if/when they thaw they will cause a decrease in salinity around them.

What can you infer about Bruno's father from the information presented in Chapter 1 of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Discuss his character...

In Chapter 1, Bruno comes home to find Maria packing his belongings into wooden crates. He politely asks Maria what she is doing because his mother told him to treat her respectfully and not "imitate the way Father spoke to her." The previous statement suggests that Bruno's father is rather disrespectful to Maria and talks down to her. Bruno's mother then explains to him that they will be moving because of his father's job. She mentions that her husband's job is very important which suggests that he holds a prestigious position or rank. Bruno also says that there were always many visitors in his home who wore fancy uniforms and were friendly to his father. Bruno's mother goes on to say, "Well, sometimes when someone is very important...the man who employs him asks him to go somewhere else because there's a very special job that needs doing there" (Boyne 4). One can infer that Bruno's father is a high-ranking officer who is both valued and talented.

When Bruno tells his mother that he doesn't want to go, she mentions that his father would miss him terribly. She also tells Bruno that his father loves him and Gretel equally which suggests that Bruno's father has compassion for his family. When Bruno asks his mother who is going to take care of their house, she sighs and looks around at the beautiful, five-floor home. Their massive home also suggests that Bruno's father is a very successful man who gets paid well.

As Bruno laments about leaving his friends, he overhears his father and mother arguing in his father's office which is "Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions." Bruno mentions that his father's voice rose until he could no longer hear his mother talk. One can infer that Bruno's father is also a strict disciplinarian who does not shy away from confrontation. The fact that he is choosing to move his family, against their wishes, indicates that he values his position and does not take into consideration his wife's feelings. As the novel progresses, it is revealed that Bruno's father is a Commandant in the Third Reich who is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

What skills do business shareholders need?

A shareholder is anyone who has complete or partial ownership of a company. Someone who owns one share of a multi-billion dollar company as part of a modest investment portfolio is a shareholder, as is someone with a controlling interest in a technology startup. Perhaps the easiest way to think through the question of skills is to look separately at passive versus active shareholders.

A passive shareholder buys shares in a company as an investment but takes no part in actively running the company. This sort of shareholder needs a solid understanding of what makes a good investment but does not need detailed internal knowledge of how the company works. Often choice of shares is as much about balancing a portfolio or mirroring an index as about looking at individual businesses in detail. The basic skills required are some understanding of the nature of investing and finance, basic economic knowledge, patience, some mathematical skills, and discipline (avoiding emotional buying and selling). 

An active shareholder needs more detailed knowledge of the specific industry and a strong background in accounting and finance to understand what measures will increase the company's profitability.

What do you think the title means in "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains"?

The title is a reference to a poem, and to the catastrophe that killed all of the people. 

The title tells us right away that the story takes place in the future.  You have to remember that it was published in 1950, so 2026 seemed a lot farther away than it does now.  Now it is a few years away, which is scary in itself!  However, the technology in this story is more advanced than what we have.  The house is very self-sufficient, and everything is automated.  It takes care of the people, doing everything from making them breakfast to reminding them of their bills. 

Unfortunately, there was a recent catastrophic event that did not destroy the house, but killed off its people (and eventually the family dog). 

The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down. 

The “titanic instant” that incinerated the people was likely some kind of nuclear blast. That could be the soft rain of the title, because atomic activity often causes acid rain.  The soft rain is kind of ironic.  It actually would be very dangerous rain. 

In the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” that is recited in the story by the house, there is a reference to “soft rains” and war.  According to the poem, the animals and nature will barely notice when we are gone.  Humans will destroy themselves with war, and then the world will go on without us. 

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The catastrophic event in the story was likely caused by a war. We don’t know, but atomic bombs don’t just go off.  The poem’s inclusion seems to allude to war.  The people were going about their business, and then one day they were gone.  The house went on without them, not knowing they were gone. 

What is Marxism and how is it currently influencing the economy?

In popular terminology, Marxism is a set of beliefs about the proper set up for a country’s economy.  Marxism is diametrically opposed to capitalism, arguing that capitalism is unjust because it exploits the workers.  Although this is somewhat controversial, we can at least argue that Marxism affects the American economy by inspiring government programs like welfare programs and Medicaid.

Marxism is named for Karl Marx, who laid out the foundations of the philosophy in the mid-1800s.  He argued that capitalism inherently exploits the workers.  Marx argued that manufactured goods only had value because of the work that went into them.  Even so, the workers did not get most of the money from the sale of the products they made.  Instead, the capitalists who owned the factory got most of the money even though they did none of the work.  To Marx, this was very unjust.  He argued that the economy should be set up in such a way that the workers would own everything and there would be no capitalists.  In this system, everyone would be essentially equal to one another economically.  There would be no rich and no poor people.  Only in this way could there be a truly just economic system.

Today, it is very controversial to call any aspect of our economy Marxist.  This is because Americans generally hate the idea of Marxism so calling something Marxist is very politically inflammatory.  However, you can argue that some aspects of our economy are influenced by Marxism.  In particular, you can say that anything the government tries to do to bring about economic equality is Marxist.  Therefore, you can say that programs like welfare, Medicaid, and Social Security are evidence of the influence of Marxism on our economy.

Why did Sherman's strategy of total war work?

Sherman's strategy of total war brought the war home to many in the Deep South.  Most of the young men and boys in the Confederate Army did not own slaves--they fought in order to protect their homes from people they were told were invaders.  During Sherman's March to the Sea, his army lived off the land, meaning that they took food that they needed from the countryside.  Southern soldiers who received letters from home learned that they needed to come and help their families rebuild--this led to higher desertion rates in the Army of Tennessee.  Sherman also went to war against the Southern infrastructure--he destroyed rail lines and telegraph lines which kept the Confederate armies supplied and informed.  By going to war against supplies as well as the armies which used them, Sherman made the war end sooner.  Sherman also inspired other generals to wage total war--upon seeing the success of Sherman's armies, Grant authorized Philip Sheridan to wage total war in the Shenandoah Valley in order to deprive Lee of valuable foodstuffs.  

What is a quote from A Separate Peace by John Knowles that shows that Gene is proud?

In the first few chapters of A Separate Peace, Gene shows how jealous he is of his best friend's charisma and athleticism. Gene is so jealous of Phineas that he searches his mind for examples of how he could possibly be better than Finny's charming talk, breaking the school's swimming record, or creating the game of Blitzball. Gene is tired of feeling like his best friend's shadow, so he clambers for success in any way he can find it. When Gene does find it, he also finds pride to accompany his successes--and all this in an effort to make himself feel better in Finny's presence. Gene realizes that he is a better student than Phineas, so he sets his sights on beating Chet Douglas, the top of their class, at every test and assignment during the summer semester. Gene, therefore, shows how proud he is in the following passage:

"I was more and more certainly becoming the best student in the school; Phineas was without question the best athlete, so in that way we were even. But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty good athlete, and when everything was thrown into the scales they would in the end tilt definitely toward me. The new attacks of studying were his emergency measures to save himself. I redoubled my effort" (55).

This passage also seems sad because Gene has to pull his friend down in order to feel better about himself. After comparing both of the boys' strengths and weaknesses, Gene feels proud that the "scales" would favor him over Phineas. 

`f(x) = arcsin(x) + arccos(x)` Find the derivative of the function

 Recall that the derivative of a function f at a point x is denoted as f'(x).

 The given function: `f(x)= arcsin(x)+arccos(x)` has  inverse trigonometric terms.

There are basic formulas for the derivative of inverse trigonometric functions:

`d/(dx) (arcsin(u)) = ((du)/(dx))/sqrt(1-u^2)`

`d/(dx) (arccos(u)) = -((du)/(dx))/sqrt(1-u^2). `

Applying the formula in the given function:

`f'(x) =d/(dx) (arcsin(x)) +d/(dx) (arccos(x))`

`f'(x) =1/sqrt(1-x^2) + (-1/sqrt(1-x^2))`

`f'(x) =1/sqrt(1-x^2) -1/sqrt(1-x^2)`

`f'(x) =0`

How does Nora's character change throughout Andrew Clements's The Report Card?

At the start of Andrew Clements's The Report Card, Nora feels she is able to single-handedly change a society that revolves around judging intelligence based on grades and on pressuring kids to earn good grades. By the end of the book, Nora sees just how great a task she was trying to take on by herself, and her attempt to change things was causing more harm than good.

Nora felt motivated to protest against grades when her best friend Stephen did poorly on the Connecticut Mastery Tests because of the pressure he was under to do well, and doing poorly on the tests made him feel stupid, which she knew wasn't true. In contrast, students who did well and were put in the gifted program, such as Merton Lake, felt more intelligent than other kids, which was equally untrue. Nora's plan to protest against the reliance on grades to measure a student's worth goes so far that she and Stephen encourage half their fifth-grade class to earn zeroes on a social studies quiz. Since their actions are seen as vandalism, a large meeting with school staff, parents, and students is held in the principal's office. When there is talk of suspending the two kids, Mrs. Byrne, the school librarian, stands up for them and points out that they did not intentionally cause harm; they just naively tried to "get everyone to look more closely at some of the negative side effects of testing and grading" (116). Throughout all of it, Nora had been realizing the enormity of what she was trying to tackle and that her actions were upsetting people and making it appear she thinks school is a joke, which were not her intentions. Therefore, she apologizes to her classmates and explains she was wrong to think such a major change could be made so quickly and singlehandedly. She ends by saying there are more people than just herself who see grades and testing as being an issue, and the only way to tackle the issue is by working together over a long period of time.

What is customer service in today's business environment? As an employee, what are some of the ways in which you can affect your company's...

In today's business environment, customer service representatives are charged with the responsibility of serving a customer base made up of many different kinds of people with different personalities and needs. An employee must take into consideration the particular needs of a company and their consumers. Additionally, it is important for employees to consider the varying needs of consumers from special populations (such as the disabled). This assignment requires you to consider several questions related to this topic. Of course, I can't answer the entire assignment, but I will offer tips to help get you started.

What is customer service in today's business environment? This question asks you to define "customer service" with attention to today's environment. It may be helpful to consider how the idea of customer service has changed over time. It may also be helpful to consider how business environments and shopping habits have changed over time. Consider the difference between one-stop stores (Wal-Mart) and specialty shops (candle shops, for example). How would customer service adapt to each of these environments? It used to be the case that stores served particular purposes or groups of people, but that's no longer the case in today's world. In fact, customer service representatives need to have much more knowledge about a wide range of products rather that just specialty items.

As an employee, what are some of the ways in which you can affect your company's culture? Consider the presentation of a customer service representative at a fancy suit shop (probably dressed in a suit) and a fishing supply store (probably dressed more casually). Is one way of dressing better suited for a particular service? What would you think about a person dressed in a suit to sell fishing supplies or a person dressed in shorts to sell a suit? As an employee, your presentation will affect consumer attitudes and buying responses for your company's products. Other examples of ways that employees affect a company's culture include language, speech patterns, interaction, physical distance from shoppers, number of employees, uniformity/individuality, and overall attitude.

As an employee, what are some ways you can successfully serve your internal and external customers? As an employee, you will be interacting with both internal (part of your organization) and external (not part of your organization) customers. If you work for Apple, for example, you may sell Mac products to your employees - in that case you will take an entirely different marketing approach than if you are selling to a non-Apple employee consumer. If you are selling to an internal customer, they may already know the benefits of your products and which product they want to buy. In that situation, it may be difficult to introduce new products because the internal consumer already knows what they want. On the other hand, an external consumer may welcome your suggestions. An internal consumer may already be dedicated to your products and brand, so you may not have to convince them to buy anything or worry about losing them as a customer. In contrast, an external consumer may be difficult to convince of a product's value.

When working in a retail store, how would you approach a person with a visual impairment? How would you demonstrate a product’s features to this person? Depending on the company products, an employee may take different approaches to working with people with disabilities, including visual impairments. For example, let's consider that you are selling a cell phone. Would it be beneficial to describe the color of the phone? What about the bright and colorful display? Maybe...That person may be buying the phone with the intention of sharing it with a young child or a significant other, so those attributes may very well be important. However, it's probably a better idea to market the phone with the person's visual impairment in mind. Instead of focusing on visual elements, you may point out how the phone feels in your hand and how the buttons are strategically placed around the outside of the phone. You will probably encourage the customer to touch the product. You may also point out features of the phone that may help a visually impaired person use the device such as voice command used to set alarms, place voice calls, add reminders to a calendar, and use voice texting. Finally, it's important to consider language during a product's presentation. You probably wouldn't say, "Take a look at this," or "See this?" Instead, you may say things like, "If you feel the right side of the phone near the top, you will find the power button. Near the bottom center of the phone, you can press and hold the "home" button to begin voice command."

Assume you are at a restaurant. Imagine you have a client from the Mature Generation and another client from Generation Y. How would you tailor your service to each client? As an employee, it's critical to consider how consumers from different groups will respond to customer service. What might a person from a Mature Generation expect from a customer service representative? How would you address a person from a Mature Generation versus a young child or young adult? One way to figure out how to interact with individual people is by observing their behaviors. Are they quiet and reserved? Loud and obnoxious? Playful and funny? Serious and brief? These attributes will guide you in interacting with your customers at a restaurant. 

How much acid is in a lemon or lime?

Lemons and limes are both citrus fruits and contain citric acid, which gives the juice of these fruits a sour taste. In any given lemon or lime, the citric acid content is about five to six percent of the juice, but may even be as high as eight percent! Depending on the age or ripeness as well as the specific variety of the lemon or lime, acid levels can vary. 

According to the National Institute of Health, one ounce of fresh-squeezed lemon has about 1.44g of citric acid. Because limes have a comparable level of citric acid, we can expect a similar amount of citric acid to be present in one ounce of fresh-squeezed lime juice. Lemon or lime juice from concentrate, like you might buy in a bottle at the grocery store, has had some of the water removed and will have a higher acid content than fresh juice.

Name one major internal and one major external conflict in Gathing Blue.

An internal conflict is a struggle that takes place within a character's mind, while an external conflict is a struggle that takes place between the character and another character, the society, nature, or even technology. In Gathering Blue, an internal conflict for Kira starts to build as she finds Jo, the little singer, locked in her room and miserable. As she pieces together her own history, Thomas's, and Jo's, she begins to realize that "although her door was unlocked, she was not really free." She starts wishing that she could use her talent with embroidery to create her own designs, not the designs she is required to make on the Singer's robe. As she lies in bed, she wants to "leave this place, despite its comforts, and return to the life she had known." Yet she knows she can't; that life is gone, and she has no way that she can see to build a different future for herself.

One strong external conflict for Kira comes near the beginning of the book. As she comes back from the Field of Leaving, she intends to rebuild her burnt cottage, but Matt warns her that Vandara and the other women have planned to claim her lot and use it for a pen for their tykes and chickens. Vandara confronts her with a rock in her hand and tells her, "Your space is gone. It's mine now. Those saplings are mine." Kira must fend off an imminent stoning by the women, yet because of her disability she has few options for fight or flight. She uses her analytical skills, reminding the women of the laws against killing someone in a dispute that has not been brought before the guardians. 

One of Kira's internal conflicts is her desire to pursue her artistic abilities freely rather than being controlled by the guardians. An external conflict is her confrontation with Vandara.

In The Egypt Game, why did April become Neferbeth?

April did not become Neferbeth. April took the Egyptian name Bastet. When the children are choosing hieroglyphs to symbolize their names, April remembers a cat goddess with earrings, Bastet, and chooses that name and symbol for herself.

Elizabeth Chung, a new girl who moves into the Casa Rosada, joins the Egypt game and becomes Neferbeth. Elizabeth is nine years old and Asian American. Shortly after April and Melanie allow Elizabeth to join the Egypt game, April catches a glimpse of Elizabeth sitting on the railing and looking up Orchard Avenue. In profile view, with her porcelain skin and jet black hair pulled away from her slender neck in a ponytail, Elizabeth looks surprisingly like Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen, or so April thinks. The next time they get together to play the Egypt game, Elizabeth plays the role of Queen Neferbeth and Marshall finally gets to play the role of the young Pharaoh, Marshamosis. "Neferbeth" is a blend of the names Nefertiti and Elizabeth.

In Of Plymouth Plantation, what conclusion does Bradford draw from the two occurrences at sea?

Bradford first writes about a "very profane young man" who is one of the sailors on board the Mayflower. This sailor condemns the people who are sick and even tells them that he hopes to toss them overboard. During the voyage, he is taken sick with a "grievous disease," from which he dies. He is the first one thrown overboard, and Bradford sees the sailor's death as the work of God. Bradford also describes a storm in which a young man named John Howland is thrown overboard. Howland catches the topsail halyards and hangs onto them until he is hauled back to the boat and to safety. Though he is ill, Howland goes on to live and become a "profitable" member of the church and the community. Bradford also sees the work of God in Howland's salvation. 

In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, what does Kit think about the texts the students read in school?

Kit finds the texts that the children at the dame school are required to read from to be extremely dull. Their main books are a set of "primer readers." These primers have selections of various texts inside. The texts inside the primers espouse Puritan values and ideas. Kit describes these texts as "dreary monotonous sermons." The young pupils also read the Lord's Prayer from their hornbooks. When writing, the students have to "[spell] out the gloomy text."

Feeling sorry for the students, Kit begins writing short phrases for them using their own names. She does this to make reading more enjoyable for them. She tries to recall how her own grandfather taught her to read when she was a child. The children love Kit's new way of teaching them how to read. They gaze at her hand and watch "every motion of her quill with breathless eagerness."

How did Bob Ewell confront Atticus? How did Attitcus react? What did Atticus's reaction reveal about his character?

While Atticus is leaving the post office one day, Bob Ewell confronts him. Mr. Ewell "spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life" (Chapter 22). Atticus tells his children he wishes Bob Ewell did not have a tobacco chewing habit. They hear Miss Stephanie's retelling of the story. According to her, Atticus did not even "bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat" (chapter 23). Mr. Ewell taunts Atticus, saying he is too proud to fight him. Atticus says he is just too old to fight, and walks away.

His reaction shows how Atticus picked his battles. He does not think showing his own personal honor is worth getting into an altercation with Bob Ewell. He also shows his selflessness. He puts himself in Bob Ewell's shoes. Atticus believes if Ewell "spitting in [Atticus's] face and threatening [Atticus] saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something [Atticus would] gladly take."

What is the pyramid of corporate social responsibility?

In 1991, Archie Carroll introduced the pyramid of corporate social responsibility. This model helped crystallize people's understanding of corporate social responsibility, or "CSR." CSR is the general idea that businesses should do more than just make money. They owe the larger community something. 

The pyramid of corporate social responsibility helps people understand what their businesses owe to others, what form that ethical duty takes, and how different aspects of it fit together. It is called a pyramid because the lower levels are the most basic and serve as a foundation for the upper levels. Just as you have to put the foundation in place for a house before you put the roof in place, you have to put the lower levels of the pyramid in place before you build the upper/ later levels. The foundation of the pyramid is a firm's "economic responsibilities." You have to make a profit before you can fulfill your other responsibilities. The second level is your "legal responsibilities." You have to abide by the law. The third level is your "ethical responsibilities," and the fourth is your "philanthropic responsibilities," or being a good "corporate citizen." (All of the terms quoted come from Carroll's original article.)

Why does Atticus undress in the court room?

In Chapter 20, Scout and Jem notice their father do something that they have never witnessed him do before. Atticus casually unbuttons his vest, the collar of his shirt, loosens his tie, and takes off his coat. They are shocked and confused as to why Atticus is undressing in front of the jury. As Atticus begins to give his closing remarks, Scout mentions, "His voice had lost its aridity, its detachment, and he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office corner" (Lee 124). Atticus then proceeds to encourage the jury to judge the Tom Robinson case without their prejudiced beliefs. The reason Atticus begins to "undress" is because he wants to portray himself as a typical citizen of Maycomb. He is attempting to connect with the jury on a personal level, which is why he strips himself of his formal attire to appeal favorably to the jury. He begins to talk to the jury like they were "folks on the post office corner" to make them feel comfortable and familiar. Atticus is trying to give the impression that he relates to the jury's difficult situation; he hopes that they will look past their prejudice and accept Tom's testimony as the truth.

In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, what does Giles Corey believe is motivating the witch-hunt? How did he inadvertently cause trouble for his wife?...

Giles Corey believes that greed is motivating the witch hunt.  In Act Three, he presents Deputy Governor Danforth with a statement that Thomas Putnam was overheard, on the day his daughter accused George Jacobs, of saying that she'd given him "a fair gift of land."  Jacobs' land will go up for auction when he is convicted, and Putnam is the only person with enough money to purchase it.  Therefore, Giles believes greed is behind the accusations.

He inadvertently caused trouble for his wife, Martha, by talking about how much she likes to read, the fact that she hides her books from him, and that he once had trouble praying while she was in the room but could pray again once she left the house.  He spoke of all this to Mr. Hale in Act One, but he never intended to accuse his wife of witchcraft.  Nonetheless, she is brought in and eventually convicted and hanged.

Giles attempts to save his wife by bringing his statement to the court, but he does it in such a way that Danforth holds him for contempt.  He refuses to name the man who claimed to have overheard Putnam, and so Danforth believes that he is untruthful and has come to overthrow the court with John Proctor.  In the end, Giles is taken to jail.  He is eventually pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea in court.

Describe Helen Keller's experience at Radcliffe. Why did she say, "but college is not the universal Athens I thought it was"?

College did not live up to Helen Keller’s expectations because she previously loved learning for the sake of learning and she felt that college did not allow for that. 

Helen Keller was very excited to finally go to college, because she worked so hard to get there being blind and deaf.  This was especially the case because she had to wait a year after being admitted to continue preparations.  She had built it up in her mind, and therefore there was bound to be some disappointment.  Radcliffe was not the paradise she expected. 

For one thing, she complained about the lack of time she had in college.  Helen felt that she no longer had time to reflect.  She was no longer learning just for the joy of learning. 

But in college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. (Ch. 20) 

Helen felt that college was not the “Athens” she thought it would be, because some of the people were possibly just pretenders and not geniuses. 

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. (Ch. 20) 

One of the biggest problems is that very few of the books she needed were printed in Braille.  As a result, she had to have them spelled into her hand.  This naturally made everything take longer for her to learn.  Helen often lost her temper.  In the end, however Helen felt that the experience taught her patience and was a worthwhile adventure despite the struggle.

What is a summary of A People's History of the United States, chapter 9? How does it describe the evolution of slavery?

Chapter 9 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States examines slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era. Zinn traces the limited successes of grassroots abolitionist movements in the late slavery era to the development of the Civil War to the brief progress experienced by former slaves to the violent, racist backlash against African Americans.

The text details the violence directed at slaves and the difficulty faced by abolitionists trying to free them, as well as the relatively limited slave revolts of the early 19th century. Most slaves did not engage in armed resistance, however, and instead attempted to flee and resisted "pre-politically," by affirming their humanity with religious expression, art, and music. Legal changes in the mid-19th century made escaping plantations and retaining freedom much more difficult for former slaves, despite abolitionists’ resistance. Additionally, the 1857 execution of John Brown and passage of the ban on mailing abolitionist literature in the south were major blows to the growing abolitionist movement.

The election of Lincoln in 1861 resulted in the secession of several states, which led to the first battles of the Civil War. Abolitionists used the war to increase their campaign for emancipation; while they differed ideologically with Lincoln, who aimed to deport ex-slaves to Africa after freeing them, the freeing of Union-state slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation was viewed as a minor success. 20% of slaves fled their plantations during the war; 200,000 total joined the Union army, and demands for equal pay were passed by Congress in 1864. The Civil War waged for four years, claiming 600,000 lives. The Union was restored in 1865.

After the war, new Constitutional amendments and racial equality laws allowed for ex-slaves to progress socially and politically. The years after the Civil War showed some progress, with the election of African Americans to state legislatures and introduction of racially mixed schools. However, backlash including the creation of the KKK, widespread murder and rape by white men in black communities, and church arsons began soon after. Coalitions between white business owners denied opportunity to black workers, popular writers used stereotypes of former slaves as violent and primitive to promote racism in society, little government reconstruction aid benefited the impoverished formerly-enslaved, and lynchings continued throughout the south. The brief progress enjoyed by African Americans shortly after the abolition of slavery quickly devolved into more violence and fear. The chapter ends with a brief examination of late-19th century black leaders, such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, and their leadership in the fight for full racial equality.

What is the role of business in the economy?

In any market economy, business plays a huge role.  Business is the engine of an economy.  Business provides jobs that allow people to make money and goods and services that people can buy with the money they make.  Without business, the economy would be very inefficient and/or very primitive.

In any economy, people need jobs.  In any but the most primitive economies, people need to be able to buy goods and services.  Businesses provide for both of these needs.  Most businesses provide people with jobs.  If I open a restaurant, I will need to hire cooks, wait staff, dishwashers, and other people.  My business is providing jobs for many people.  Now imagine how many people get their jobs from large companies.  A large company can provide thousands of jobs. This is incredibly important to an economy.

These businesses also provide the things that people need to buy.  If you need a cell phone, you have to buy it from a business because you certainly cannot make your own. Most people cannot make their own clothes and must buy them from a business.  Most people do not cut their own hair and must pay a business for their haircuts.  Without businesses, people would not have goods and services that they could buy.

Economies can exist without businesses, but they are not nearly as strong.  Imagine an economy where every person works only for themselves.  No one starts a business and hires other people.  This economy would be very primitive as people would only buy and sell things they could make themselves.  Alternatively, imagine an economy where there are no businesses because the government is in charge of the economy.  The government will provide jobs and goods and services, but it will not do so efficiently.  The government might not provide the things that people want.  It might run its factories and other operations poorly because they could not go broke if they failed to satisfy their customers. This would be an inefficient economy.

Business, then, plays a central role in any market economy. It is the engine that allows an economy to run because it provides jobs as well as goods and services.

Toward what audience does MLK direct his "I Have a Dream" speech, and how does he appeal to this audience with specific quotes or examples?

Martin Luther King, Jr. directs his "I Have a Dream Speech," delivered in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963, to the entire nation, but his use of "we" referred to the nearly 250,000 people gathered at the capitol for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The speech was intended to express their support for the civil rights legislation proposed in June of 1963 by President Kennedy. He also addresses the nation as a whole.

At the beginning of his speech, King says, "In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check." His reference is to the promises of the "Emancipation Proclamation" of 1863, a full century earlier, and to the unfulfilled promises of the "Declaration of Independence" for African-Americans. He appeals to his audience by referring to seminal events in American history to suggest that this march, and its call for civil rights, is a continuation of these critical events that shaped the destiny of the United States. His words have echoes of those of Lincoln. For example, "Five score years ago" is similar to Lincoln's "four score and seven years ago" in the "Gettysburg Address." King's words also recall those of Jefferson: "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

King also uses the traditional African-American preaching technique of voice merging, or adapting the words of religious leaders in the past. When King says, "We can never be satisfied," and uses a series of examples of the way in which African-Americans are not equal, including police brutality and the lack of the vote, he is merging his voice with that of Amos, the Old Testament preacher who said "Let justice roll down like waters." Amos's prophetic voice merges with the prophetic voice of King in an example of voice merging. In addition, King's famous anaphora (use of repetition) at the end of the speech, which repeats the phrase "I have a dream," calls on the words of Isaiah in the Old Testament. Isaiah referred to the valleys exalted, mountains laid low, which are words echoed in King's words: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain."  This is another example of voice merging. 

Therefore, King's speech first establishes political authority by calling on Jefferson and Lincoln, and then moves to religious authority and the use of a prophetic voice. At the end of the speech, King again uses political authority by calling on references to "My Country 'tis of Thee," also known as "America." His use of anaphora with the repetition of "let freedom ring" in the states of Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi (then known as one of the worst states with regard to civil rights) is a powerful reminder that freedom does not exist in these states. 

In the book Tuck Everlasting, how would you describe the outside of the Tucks' house?

There is not much specific detail in the text about the outside of the Tucks' home.  The following quote is from chapter nine.  

Down the embankment they swayed and there it was, a plain, homely little house, barn-red, and below it the last of the sun flashing on the wrinkled surface of a tiny lake.

One detail that is not left open to interpretation about the outside of the house is the fact that the house is red.  Barn red.  

The next semi-objective description is "little."  Little could mean different things to different readers.  Chapter ten gives further details about how little the house is.  The first floor has three rooms. Not three bedrooms.  Three rooms.  It has a kitchen, family room, and a single bedroom.  The second story isn't a full second story, because the reader is told that it is a loft.  With that small of a house, I would think that the outside of the Tucks' house has three to four windows maximum.  It's also not likely to be any taller than fifteen feet tall.  

The description of the outside of the house says "plain" as well.  That tells me that the outside of the Tuck home isn't embellished in any way.  There's no decorations or elaborate trim work.  That makes a lot of sense, because the Tucks only meet at that house every ten years.  Keeping the outside of the house simple means less upkeep.  It also means that the house is likely to receive less outside attention and curiosity from people passing by.  

In "The Adventure of The Speckled Band," where did Holmes and Watson catch the train from and where to?

When Sherlock Holmes wakes his friend in the early morning, Dr. Watson states:

He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

Their visitor Helen Stoner explains why and how she has arrived so early.

“I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo.”

It only took her twenty minutes to reach Leatherhead Station from her home at Stoke Moran, and she must have reached London in less than a half hour. She took a dog cart from Stoke Moran to Leatherhead and hired a cab at Waterloo Station in London to take her to Baker Street. 

When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go down to Stoke Moran, they follow Helen Stoner's journey in reverse. They take a cab to Waterloo Station, the major London train station, named in honor of the famous battle of Waterloo in which the British defeated Napoleon Bonaparte.

At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.

It is noteworthy that Holmes solves the case in less than twenty-four hours. Helen Stoner presents herself at 7:15 A.M. Holmes and Watson spend the darkest hours of that night in her room. Dr. Roylott sends the "speckled band" through the ventilator shortly after 3 A.M. and is dead within less than an hour. Holmes has not only succeeded in protecting his client as he was originally commissioned to do, but he has solved the two-year-old "locked room murder mystery" surrounding the death of Helen's sister Julia. 

According to Dr. Watson:

The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day.

That would be the day after Helen Stoner came to 221B Baker Street with her complicated problem.

Why does Tom choose to stay home in "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" by Jack Finney?

In “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” Tom Benecke stays home even though his wife is going out to watch a movie.  He has wanted to see this particular movie, but he thinks he needs to stay home and work. His desire to work and get ahead, even at the expense of enjoying his life, is the main theme of the story.

This story was written in 1956. This was during the height of the post-WWII boom where the American economy was going strong and men (very few women held good jobs) were striving hard to get ahead. This was a time when men did not spend much time with their families, choosing instead to work hard so they could advance their careers and thereby achieve more material security.

In this story, Tom is a real go-getter. He wants to work hard so he can be known as “the Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries.” Because of this, he decides to stay home and work instead of go to the movie he wanted to see with his wife whom he loves. He is giving up that sort of pleasure in order to get ahead. The story centers on what happens to Tom when he stays home and how this affects the way he thinks about what is important in life. The answer to your question, then, is that Tom stays home so he can get more work done and thereby advance his career and his family's material prosperity/ security.

In Sophocles' Antigone, which of the following would be the most important principle(s) to Creon and Antigone?1. loyalty or obligation to family...

Antigone and Creon believe in principles which result in a unbridgeable gulf.

Antigone embraces loyalty or obligation to family and observance of religious law as important to her identity. These principles are the basis of her convictions. Antigone disagrees with Creon's orders forbidding proper burial of Polynices’ body.  One reason is out of obligation to her brother.  In countering Ismene's objections, Antigone says "False to him I will never be found."  Antigone cannot envision a world where she turns her back on her brother. Demonstrating the need to honor her brother with a proper burial is part of that loyalty.  In her discussion with Ismene, Antigone also suggests that she must bury Polynices because it honors the gods' will.  Doing so would make her "sinless"; and if Ismene refuses to help, she will be "guilty of dishonoring the laws which the gods have stabilized in honor."  The principles of loyalty or obligation to family and observance of religious law justify Antigone's actions.

Creon insists on obedience to civil law.  His edict that praises Eteocles' efforts and denigrates Polynices' shows his insistence on obedience.  Creon argues that deference to his laws is the most important quality in Theban society. Ismene shows how disobedience to Creon's laws carries grave danger.  She is shocked that Antigone would want to challenge what "Creon hath forbidden" and that she herself has no strength to "defy the State." Creon also believes if his laws are violated, the nation or community is left vulnerable.  When Haemon pleads with him to reverse Antigone's punishment, Creon responds that he will not let "the mob dictate my policy."  He underscores this to Antigone herself when he says that "No woman shall be the master while I live."  Creon equates his laws with the supremacy of the state.  As a result, he exhibits how protection of nation or community is extremely important to his tenure as ruler.

In Creon's and Antigone's stubbornness, both display a protection of personal dignity.  This principle propels the dramatic conflict.  Both Creon and Antigone insist on their approach being the only acceptable path.  It is why both of them alienate family members who beg them to reconsider their choices.  To move from their principles would mean a loss of personal dignity.  Antigone will not let her dignity suffer in the face of Creon's law.  She shows commitment to her dignity with her death.  At the same time, Creon will not allow Antigone's example challenge his.  Their own suffering and the suffering of those around them increase as they protect their personal dignity.

How would you evaluate Winston's tryst with Julia in regard to his dream of the golden country in 1984 by George Orwell?

In some ways, Winston's dream of the golden country mirrors his tryst with Julia. In the dream, just as in reality, Winston finds himself in a rabbit-bitten pasture with molehills here and there, and a dark haired girl comes toward him. As he dreams, she rips off her clothes in what Winston calls a gesture that seems to "annihilate" the whole Party system of Big Brother. In the real tryst, although they have moved to a more secluded spot than in the dream, Julia still rips off her clothes in what Winston sees as a "magnificent" gesture that again annihilates a whole culture. 

While dreaming, Winston feels no sexual desire for the dark-haired girl, but in the real encounter, he does desire her, all the more so because Julia has had affairs with "scores of" men, a symbol of her rejection of the Party's values. In the dream, Winston wakes up with the word "Shakespeare" on his lips, but in the real encounter, he feels arising in him a feeling of tenderness and protectiveness towards Julia that he doesn't experience in the dream.

Since Winston had seen Julia before their tryst, it seems likely she is the dark-haired girl of his dream, whether he knows it or not. It is a bit uncanny that his real first encounter with her follows the dream so closely, but the significant difference is that the real encounter awakens human feelings in him that the Party has worked to eradicate. Winston's dream is just a dream, but his real encounter begins to change him.

According to David, how did it happen that he and Rosalind fell in love in The Chrysalids?

David says that he has loved Rosalind as long as he can remember.

All of the telepaths are very close.  Being able to read another person’s mind is an intimate thing.  David and Rosalind grow to love each other while they are young, and as they get older they realize that they will marry one another someday. It just seems natural.

Quite when it was that we had known we were going to marry one another, neither of us has been able to remember. It was one of those things that seem ordained, in such proper accord with the law of nature and our own desires, that we felt we had always known it. (Ch. 10) 

When Anne falls in love with a man who is not a telepath, Allen, she tries to explain to the others that they will not understand because none of them have been in love except David and Rosalind.  The others tell her that she can’t marry a normal person, but as Uncle Axel tells David, you can’t question a woman in love.

David and Rosalind’s relationship is forbidden because of a feud between their parents.  It does not stop them.  Their love and their unusual abilities make them above such considerations.  Still, they have to meet in secret.

We used to meet, discreetly and not dangerously often. No one but the others, I think, ever suspected anything between us. We had to make love in a snatched, unhappy way when we did meet, wondering miserably whether there would ever be a time when we should not have to hide ourselves. (Ch. 10) 

Because of their secret, David wonders what would happen if Rosalind got pregnant.  His parents would not approve of the marriage, and his father is powerful.  Eventually, the telepaths will have to go on the run. 

Everything from Anne blows up, and their cover is blown.  Alan is killed and Anne thinks one of the telepaths did it and commits suicide.  Soon after, Petra panics when her horse is being attacked by a mutant and calls the others.  They have a hard time explaining how they knew to go there since she made no sound, and their secret is out.

What theme does the author of the History of Plymouth Plantation want to convey? How does this theme relate to God's providence?

One of the major themes of the History of Plymouth Plantation is, in fact, God's divine Providence. Throughout the book, Bradford interprets every event that occurs, both good and bad for the Pilgrims, as God's will, and connected to some divine purpose that was usually impossible for human beings to understand. On the voyage to Plymouth, for example, a very profane young man, who was given to blasphemy and insulting the pious Pilgrims, got very sick and died. Bradford reflects that this was surely God's way of chastening the people, reminding them of proper behavior for a Christian:

Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.

Bradford believed that whatever successes the Plymouth settlement experienced were the result of God's mercy and Providence, which would be extended to them only as long as they maintained their faith in God. Almost every event, good or bad, is prefaced by the phrase "it pleased God." "It pleased God," for example, "to visit them this year with an infectious fever," or to "send home a great quantity of beaver." Everything that happened to and around the Pilgrims portrayed by William Bradford was an example of God's will. So essentially, the main theme of the book is in fact God's providence.

Why does Cassius want Antony killed, and why does Brutus wish to spare his life?

Cassius is a better judge of human character than Brutus, as the events in the play reveal. Brutus is an idealist. He has an honest, generous character and expects other men to be the same. When he takes over the titulary leadership, he wants the conspiracy to appear to the public to be a patriotic and necessary deed. Cassius is a selfish, greedy man who expects other people to be like himself. When he suggests Mark Antony should be killed along with Julius Caesar, he foresees, correctly, that Antony could be extremely dangerous. Brutus and Cassius both state their opinions of Antony in Act II, Scene 1.

CASSIUS: I think it is not meet
Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
Should outlive Caesar. We shall find of him
A shrewd contriver; and you know his means,
If he improve them, may well stretch so far
As to annoy us all, which to prevent,
Let Antony and Caesar fall together.

Antony does in fact prove to be a shrewd contriver. He knows how to manipulate Brutus, and then shows he knows how to manipulate a whole crowd of lower-class Roman citizens who all listen to Brutus's funeral speech, support Brutus, and favor the assassination of Julius Caesar.

When Cassius suggests killing Antony in Act II, Scene 1, Brutus dismisses the proposal. Brutus is a good and wise man in many respects, but he has his faults. He is a bookish, solitary man wrapped up in his own ideas. He assumes he knows more than any other man in Rome. He has a reputation for integrity and patriotism, largely because of his family background, and this is of great importance to him. He wants the masses to think of him as a hero after the assassination. In reply to Cassius's proposal to kill Antony, he says,

Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
And in the spirit of men there is no blood.
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds;
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Stir up their servants to an act of rage
And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
Our purpose necessary and not envious,
Which so appearing to the common eyes,
We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.
And for Mark Antony, think not of him,
For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's head is off.

When Brutus speaks to the mob in Act III, Scene 2, he tries to make them think he and all the conspirators were public-spirited "sacrificers." When Antony displays Caesar's shredded, bloody cloak and mangled body, they serve as evidence that most of the conspirators were "butchers, not sacrificers" and that they "hewed Caesar as a carcass fit for hounds." In truth, most of the thirty or more assassins were motivated by hatred, rage, fear, and panic, not the noble motives Brutus attributes to them.

The ghost‘s appearance as the "Headless Earl" to frighten the twins was not very successful. What actions of the twins made the ghost flee? What...

The ghost decides to appear as Reckless Rupert, the Headless Earl, a trick that he found successful in the past in scaring people. He spends three hours applying his make-up and costume to get ready, but when he enters the twins' room, also called the Blue Bed Chamber, by flinging the door open, a jug of water falls on him. His clothes are soaked, and the twins are laughing at him. He is so shocked that he runs away back to his room as fast as he can. His only consolation is that he did not bring his head, as that would have become soaked as well. After this incident, he despairs of ever scaring the American family, and he resorts to creeping about the hallways in slippers. He seems more afraid of the twins than they are of him. 

How does wind power work?

Wind is generated due to differential heating of Earth's atmosphere by the Sun. Due to differences in air pressure, hot air rises up and cool air (denser air) rushes in to fill the gap and this motion causes winds. Wind energy is based on the utilization of the kinetic energy of wind particles (that is, air molecules). For a long time, wind energy has been used in sail boats for transportation and also in wind mills for milling operations. The use of wind energy to generate electricity is a relatively new concept. 

In essence, wind energy is used to move a set of blades, whose rotational motion can be used to rotate the wheels of a mill or lift water out of a stream/well or rotate the shaft of a generator to generate electricity. We can harvest the wind energy by using any of these methods.

Wind turbines are commonly used to convert wind energy to electricity. Wind energy is one of the cleanest forms of energy and is a renewable energy resource and hence, a lot of emphasis is being placed on developing wind farms (a series of wind turbines collectively generating significant amounts of electricity, located in proximity to each other). 

Hope this helps. 

How does Shakespeare's tyrant Macbeth compare with a tyrant of the twentieth century?

It could be argued that Macbeth shares some characteristics with a murderous twentieth-century tyrant like Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler. While neither of these men murdered the rightful rulers of their respective nations, they certainly used violence to maintain their grip on power. Both men ordered bloody purges that victimized even some of the people that supported them in their rise. Macbeth, once in power, attempted to purge his enemies and potential enemies as well. He had Banquo and Macduff's wife and child murdered solely because he deemed them threatening to his power. Like Hitler, Macbeth's murderous deeds eventually caught up with him. Defeated and hiding in a bunker, Hitler took his own life in 1945. Macbeth, of course, was killed by Macduff, who thus avenged his murdered family. Beyond this, it is hard to say much about Macbeth's ruling style. He is, however, described as a bloody tyrant who has all of Scotland living in fear, and this could pretty obviously be said of several twentieth-century dictators. 

In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, what are the ship and the storm-blast compared to?

At line 41 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner describes the ship's journey south into unknown waters. The storm-blast is described as having "o'ertaking wings," which gives the impression of a huge bird flying toward them and catching up to them. The bird is "tyrannous and strong," meaning this is a bird that is unusually powerful as well as cruel, unjust, or oppressive. What type of bird might the poet have had in mind? The roc could be one option; it is a mythical bird that was large enough to carry away an elephant. Alternatively, the poet or the speaker may have had in mind a creature like a griffin or dragon that has wings but is not a bird. These creatures are more often associated with judgment or execution. You can see an artist's depiction of the winged storm at the link below.

The ship in this section is compared to a person who is pursued by a foe who is yelling at him. The person "forward bends his head," showing his fear and desire to get away from his pursuer. 

Both these images create a mood of danger and fear as the mariner's ship careens toward adventures that will not end happily. 

Is the Bermuda Triangle a place of mystery, or is it all rumors?

The Bermuda Triangle covers an area in the Atlantic Ocean that goes approximately from Miami to Puerto Rico to Bermuda, making a triangular shape. There have been several instances of unexplained disasters occurring within this triangular area. Planes and ships have disappeared and never been found. Sometimes, these events occurred when the weather was very good.

Because of these events, some people say mysterious forces caused these events to occur. Christopher Columbus reported a great crash of fire into the water that was followed by unusual compass readings. The range of theories runs from aliens, to reverse gravitational field, to eruptions of methane gas from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. There doesn’t seem to be a disproportionate amount of incidents happening in this area when compared to incidents that have happened in other areas, though. It is probably more of a coincidence than anything else. Lloyd’s of London, which insures shipping vessels, doesn’t consider this area to be a high-risk area. If it did, it would charge higher insurance rates on vessels that travel through the Bermuda Triangle. Thus, while some mysterious events have occurred here, there is no proof that these events were caused by some unusual feature of the Bermuda Triangle.

What are current social and ethical concerns regarding gene therapy?

As we learn more about the human genome, or our genetic make-up, we learn more about ways we can solve problems such as genetic disorders, irreparable damage to organs and tissue, and other issues. As with many new fields of science, genetic studies have been met with a fair amount of resistance on moral and ethical grounds. 

For example, when someone has a stroke, a section of their brain dies away. People who have had a stroke have some function loss ranging anywhere from lower muscle movement to large-scale paralysis. Gene therapy could one day be used to fix this by inserting blank stem cells into the damaged tissue and "programming" the blank stem cells with the patient's DNA so he or she can begin to repair brain tissue. Similar illnesses such as heart attacks or organ failure could also be replaced this way. By starting with some blank stem cells, we could grow organs and tissue for patients with their exact DNA, alleviating the need to match blood types or have to take immuno-suppressors to keep the body from attacking the organ. 

The problem keeping us from advancing this technology is where to find the stem cells needed. Stem cells are primarily found in the fetal tissue of infants; adult humans have very few and they are only designed to become different red or white blood cells. The best sources for fetal tissue would be babies who died in the womb or were aborted. This opens huge moral implications as scientists may (a BIG may) be willing to use the tissue for studies, but very few places would be comfortable selling or giving them the tissue in the first place. Planned Parenthood, the US-based sexual-health organization, performs abortions and is restricted from selling the aborted tissue for fear of it becoming some sort of a business leading to an increased demand of fetal tissue. 

There are other arguments for and against gene therapy. An age-old argument is that messing with a human's DNA is always wrong, or we might have implications down the road we don't know about. This last concern is very real, as we are still learning more about human DNA every day in the Human Genome Project and are unsure what every gene and section does. We could attempt to change a growing infant's DNA to prevent Down's Syndrome or Muscular Dystrophy and create issues much worse than the disorder we were attempting to solve. All real fears aside, one day we will know enough to nearly perfect the process and be able to fix most genetic disorders pre-conception so the baby never has to undergo any sort of genetic therapy, but we will never know if we cannot get past the barriers we have set to attempt to study the process. We may have ethical and moral obligations, but unless we can find a way to appease everyone the science will never advance beyond the dreaming stage, and genetic disorders that could have been very treatable early on will continue to wreak havoc in people's lives.

How does Malcolm test Macduff's integrity and loyalty?

Macduff has fled to England to escape Macbeth's wrath, and he seeks out Malcolm there. When the two meet, Macduff is hoping that Malcolm, the rightful heir to the throne as Duncan's son, will return to overthrow Macbeth and rescue Scotland from the tyrannical rule of Macbeth. But Malcolm tells him that he is actually a worse man than Macbeth in many ways. He is a drunkard, a womanizer, and corrupt. He says that he has a "stanches avarice" that would lead him to steal from the nobles were he made King. He concludes that he has none of what he calls the "king-becoming graces," which include such traits as "justice, verity, temperance" and "stableness," to name a few. When Macduff hears this, he loses hope for Scotland. When he expresses his despair, Malcolm reveals that he is actually a good, honest, chaste man--he was simply saying otherwise to determine where Macduff's loyalties lay. Macduff's response convinces Malcolm that he is to be trusted, and the two determine to join forces to overthrow Macbeth. Macduff's resolve is cemented later in the scene, when Ross arrives to tell him that his wife and children have been murdered at Macbeth's order. 

I need a thesis regarding organized crime and I also need a proposal, but I can't seem to even formulate a question. This is for college seminar...

It would help to know what the seminar is about or what kind of topics you're covering, but here is an array of questions relating to organized crime that might get your mind going: 

1) What were the factors that led to the development of organized crime in a particular area? e.g. Sicily, Tokyo, New York, California, etc. 

2) How has organized crime altered the economy in that area? What has been the negative impact? Has there been any positive impact?

3) How do or did members of a crime organization interact with local and national politics?

4) What is the interaction of social demographic factors with organized crime like? e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, religion

5) How have crime organizations used technology? For example, the crime family on The Wire used pages and pay phones to communicate, then moved to text messaging after their pagers were tapped. What are some real-world examples of this interaction?

6) Alternatively, what can you say or write about fictional crime organizations and their relationship to any of the above questions, or to real crime organizations? Has The Sopranos or The Godfather had an impact on the Mafia? etc.

7) There's a certain stereotype that crime organizations tend to operate under their own code of ethics. Are there real-world examples of this happening? Are some crime organizations more "ethical" than others? 

What are the atoms and/or monomers that make up proteins?

Proteins are relatively large and complex molecules essential for life. They are classified as biomolecules - along with carbohydrates and DNA and RNA, other molecules that are necessary for life. 

Proteins are essentially polymers - that is, they are made up of certain building blocks that are simply used over and over along the chain of the molecule, in this case protein. These building blocks, or monomers, in the case of proteins are molecules referred to as amino acids. By breaking down this name, it can be inferred what it is made of - amino referring to the amino group  (-NH2), and acid to the carboxylic acid group (-COOH).

The amino is a base, while COOH is an acid. The amino group can protonated to form -NH3+. Meanwhile, the acid group, COOH, can be deprotonated to form the conjugate base -COO-. Amino acids at physiological pH (around 7) will have this form. They are neutral but contain an equal number of positive and negative charge - they are zwitterions.

These two functional groups are connected to a central alpha carbon. There are 20 amino acids that are essential for life. Of these 20, 19 have a chiral alpha carbon. The presence of this chiral center makes amino acids asymmetric, and are non-superimposable with their mirror images. In simple terms, a carbon will be chiral if it is attached to four unique groups. As mentioned, 19 of the essential amino acids are chiral and hence have a central alpha carbon attached to 4 different groups. The first two groups are the two main functional groups making up amino acids. The other two are 1) a hydrogen, and 2) an R group referred to as a side chain. The only amino acid that does not have a chiral carbon is glycine, because the R group is another hydrogen. 

So far, it is evident that amino acids are composed of atoms of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), and nitrogen (N). In fact, this makes up most of proteins. The only other atom that may be found in proteins is sulfur (S) and it is present in the side chain of two amino acids, namely cysteine and methionine. 

----

In brief, proteins are made up of monomers called amino acids. These amino acids are molecules composed of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and in some cases, sulfur. Amino acids, the monomers, are connected via peptide bonds, to form the polymer that is the protein. 

What humanitarian laws must be abided by all parties involved in a civil war?

Thanks to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocol of 1977, international humanitarian law is very clear when it comes to international conflicts, which are conflicts between two parties, usually seen as between two separate states. International humanitarian law aims to protect people from crimes against humanity, such as genocide. However, international humanitarian law becomes a bit murky with respect to non-international conflicts, or civil wars.

International humanitarian law was developed to protect the victims of armed conflict such as the "wounded and sick, shipwrecked, prisoners of war and civilians" (Rowe, P., "Freedom Fighters and Rebels: The Rules of Civil War"). However, when it comes to civil wars, the laws of the state and international humanitarian law overlap. Rebels, meaning those in opposition to the state, when captured, are permitted to be prosecuted "under the national law of the state," which means rebels can face charges "ranging from treason, murder and assault to destruction of property" (Rowe). Tribunals in some countries, such as the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, have established that rebels can be charged with the crimes against humanity and genocide established by the Geneva Conventions; however, currently, no laws can be applied to rebels of every nation.

Our greatest hope lies in the International Criminal Court (ICC) that was established by Roman Statute and signed into ratification by 60 states in 2002. The ICC makes it possible try people of participating states based on international humanitarian laws established by the Geneva Conventions, especially if the country is "unable or unwilling to prosecute their war criminals" themselves (Donovan, D., "International Criminal Court: Successes and Failures"). However, the ICC is running into issues concerning strength of prosecution and, therefore, has not yet accomplished what politicians had hoped to accomplish (Donovan). Therefore, international humanitarian law still remains relatively murky when it comes to the question of civil wars.

What observations does Crooks make about the relationship between George and Lennie? Why does this excite him? Why is he so quick to observe and...

When the men go into town for the evening, Lennie sees Crooks's light on and goes in for some company. Lennie tells Crooks about George's plan to buy a house, plant a garden, and have rabbits. After a little further discussion, Crooks realizes that he's not talking to an adult, but a child. One observation Crooks makes is as follows:

"Sometimes he talks, and you don't know what the hell he's talkin' about. Ain't that so? . . . Jus' talks on, an' you don't know what the hell it's about" (70).

Lennie admits that Crooks is right. Crooks then makes a parallel from Lennie's situation to his. He tells Lennie that while he was growing up, his was the only colored family around. No one would listen to the things he had to say because he was black. Then, with his back being disabled and crooked like it is, people seemed to look down on Crooks even more. Once Crooks makes this connection between his life and Lennie's, he gets very excited for figuring out the next part of the observation, which is as follows:

"George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all" (71).

Crooks believes he has unlocked the mystery to George and Lennie. Normally, men don't look after each other in their line of work. But Crooks figures out that George stays with Lennie simply for the company. Crooks knows first hand that the life these men lead can be very lonely; therefore, he realizes that George has the upper-hand in the friendship and Lennie is kept merely for company.

Once Crooks figures all of this out, he also becomes excited because he knows he can mess with Lennie's mind and play a joke on him. This is when he taunts Lennie with wondering what he would do if George never came back for him. It backfires a bit because Lennie gets very confused and very angry. Crooks has a fun time teasing Lennie, though, anyway.

How do you feel about the community's acceptance that a twin can be released because "it's a twin" in The Giver by Lois Lowry?

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the Committee of Elders upholds Sameness in order to ensure complete consistency among community members. Most notably, Sameness involves physical appearance; everybody in the community has the same color skin, hair, clothing, and eyes (with the exception of the chosen Receivers). Given the standards of physical Sameness, I am surprised that twins are released rather than embraced. After all, who looks more alike than twins? In order to avoid confusion among citizens, however, one twin must go. As Jonas explains, "Well, they can't have two identical people around! Think how confusing it would be" (148). To maintain physical excellence within the community, the twin with the lower birth weight is released to Elsewhere. The community accepts this practice simply because it is a traditional practice in their community.

When considering community members' reactions to release, it is important to note they do not perceive release in the same manner as the reader. As the giver explains to Jonas when Jonas recognizes the truth, “They can’t help it. They know nothing” (156). The Committee of Elders uses precision of language to maintain rules and truths within the community. The community cannot be afraid or angry about something they simply do not know. Therefore, while the reader learns that release means death, the characters in the book simply believe that they go to Elsewhere, which they perceive as literally just another place. The reality of death does not cross their mind because they do not know death as a part of life. The decision about which twin to release is determined according to birth weight. The straightforward process of choosing a twin to release plus the false perception of Elsewhere does not alert the community that something is out of the ordinary or wrong. Therefore, their indifferent attitude towards releasing a twin for a simple reason makes perfect sense because they do not know any other way of treating a twin.  

What are the two rumors at the beginning of Chapter Four about Gatsby?

The rumors about Gatsby at the beginning of Chapter IV of The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) are quite different in nature.  The first is that Gatsby is a bootlegger.  To put this in some context, selling or producing alcoholic beverages was illegal during this period in the United States, an era we call "Prohibition." This in no way stopped people from drinking, and bootleggers were there to help them do so, smuggling in alcohol from other countries, such as Canada. The notion of Gatsby as bootlegger was consistent with the times, his stunning wealth, and his associations with organized crime.  The other rumor was that Gatsby had killed a man once, a man who had discovered Gatsby was Paul von Hindenburg's nephew.  Von Hindenburg was an officer in Germany in World War I and a rising politician who would become president of Germany. The prejudice against Germany was quite strong during the period in which the novel takes place because the United States and Germany had been enemies in World War I. Indeed, even Americans citizens of German descent were often treated with suspicion during this period.  So, if Gatsby had been a nephew of a prominent German politician, the idea was that he would have killed a man to keep this from being revealed.  Gatsby is not concerned with all the rumors that swirl about him. They make him more interesting, they might attract Daisy's attention, and they help him to conceal his mundane origins. 

How many Fortune 500 company CEOs are military veterans? How does this compare to the general population?

The best figure I can find on Fortune 500 CEOs who served in the military is that there are 23 current CEOs who are military veterans:

Alex Gorsky, Daniel Akerson, Sumner Redstone, Robert J. Myers, Lowell C. McAdam, James Mulva, Robert A. McDonald, Frederick W. Smith, Alan B. Miller, Robert J. Stevens, John A. Luke, Jr., James A. Skinner, Josue Robles, Jr., Martin J. Whitman, Robert S. Morrison, George Schafer, Richard Kinder, Tom Dent, Herb Vest, Kevin W. Sharer, William V. Hickey, Clayton M. Jones, and Ken Hicks.

A lot of people make a big deal about this (You'll see articles like, "Do veterans make better CEOs?"), but, at 4.6%, this percentage is actually comparable to, if not smaller than, the general population. Less than 1% of Americans are actively serving frontline or reserve military personnel, but the total number of US military veterans is about 19 million, roughly 5.8% of the total population. Given the small sample size, there is statistically insufficient evidence to show that being a military veteran either increases or decreases one's chances of being a Fortune 500 CEO.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, who is Boo Radley? Why is he important to the story?

Boo Radley's real name is Arthur Radley. He lives in a house a couple of doors down from the Finches and he never comes out of it. He is taken care of by his parents, until they pass away; then, his brother Nathan Radley moves in to take their place. He probably suffers from a mental illness or a mental disability, but no one is quite sure. Rumors and lies spread about him all over Maycomb to the point that children believe they will die if they eat nuts from his yard. Some adults believe that he comes out at night to do mischievous deeds or to peek into people's windows. He is significant to the story because he represents a mockingbird--someone who is innocent and harmless, but may receive ill treatment because of these traits.

The mystery that surrounds Boo Radley is a vehicle that drives some people to show their true character. For example, Miss Stephanie Crawford loves to gossip and tells Jem everything there is to know about Boo Radley simply to make herself seem important. How people treat Boo, therefore, determines what kind of values and beliefs they have about humanity. 

Scout and Jem are influenced by Boo Radley's story and existence because at first, they are scared of him and they believe the superstitions surrounding him. Eventually, though, he is key to their development as kind and tolerant people because they learn to move past the rumors and superstitions to see who the man is as a person and a friend. For instance, Boo Radley extends a hand of friendship by leaving Jem and Scout little gifts in a knothole in his tree. He even mends Jem's pants when they get caught in his fence. Once Jem catches on that Boo Radley is kind, he also realizes that Boo isn't the boogeyman that Maycomb makes him out to be. Jem's revelation is vocalized on the night of Miss Maudie's house fire. When Scout comes home with a strange blanket around her shoulders, Jem declares that it must be from Boo Radley.

". . . Atticus, I swear to God he ain't ever harmed us, he ain't ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead . . . he ain't ever hurt us" (72).

Just like mockingbirds don't hurt or pester anyone, Boo Radley doesn't either. People should respect his name by not gossiping about him or spreading superstitious tales. In fact, Boo Radley is such a great guy, he saves the children's lives from Bob Ewell's knife attack on Halloween night. It turns out that the children learn not to judge a book by its cover because things aren't usually as they seem.

How would you describe Helen's love for nature? How did she come to know that nature could be unkind in The Story of My Life?

Helen loves nature, but she describes a time when she was in a tree during a storm and realized nature could be frightening.

Helen adores nature. Anne Sullivan brings her into the fields to smell flowers and feel the waves of the grass. Helen is mesmerized. Nature seems wonderful, especially after her sheltered existence. It helps her experience the entire world and all life has to offer, despite her disabilities.

Even if you are blind and deaf, you can still enjoy nature.  You can feel the sunlight on your face, smell flowers, and dip your toes in a pond. Helen Keller never really saw nature as dangerous or scary until one time she managed to climb a very tall tree.

Suddenly a change passed over the tree. All the sun's warmth left the air. I knew the sky was black, because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the atmosphere. (Ch. 5)

Helen can tell from the smell of the air that the weather is changing and thunder is imminent. She suddenly feels alone and vulnerable. She is in the tree, and the safe earth seems far away. Fortunately, Anne Sullivan rescues her.

...I clung to her, trembling with joy to feel the earth under my feet once more. I had learned a new lesson—that nature "wages open war against her children, and under softest touch hides treacherous claws" (Ch. 5).

This incident does not end Helen’s love for nature, but it tempers it a little. She realizes that nature can be wonderful, but also dangerous. You have to be careful of snow and water, for example. Even though Helen is missing two senses, being part of nature is important to her. It helps her feel alive.  She just has to learn to interact with nature in a safe way.

What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s purpose in giving the "I Have a Dream" Speech?

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his well-known "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. President Kennedy had proposed a Civil Rights Bill in Congress and the march was to support that effort. 

At this time in history, African Americans had few rights, particularly in the southern portion of the United States. They had the technical right to vote, but racists did everything possible to keep them from voting, including murder. They had the technical right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," but the Ku Klux Klan tried to keep people in a state of terror. Outside of these technical rights, African Americans were not allowed to attend the same schools, eat in the same area of restaurants, use the same restrooms, or even drink out of the same water fountains as white people. It was difficult for them to get jobs that weren't for menial labor. 

The yearning for freedom was strong in the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln had freed enslaved people on January 1, 1863, but these people were still not truly free. 

King's purpose in giving the speech, then, was to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation proclamation by showing the majesty of American rhetoric from the great texts that influenced the development of this country (the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and even patriotic songs such as "My Country Tis of Thee") and comparing that to African American's everyday lives. He then tells of his dream that things will change, so he provides hope for the future.

What are the precautions that should be taken when verifying the laws of reflection?

The best way to demonstrate the laws of reflection involves a narrow, bright beam of light to shine on reflective surfaces; for this a laser works very nicely. But lasers can be hazardous; even if they are not powerful enough to cause burns or damage anything (and it would be foolish to use such a powerful laser for this demonstration), they are usually still bright enough to cause eye injuries.

Thus, if you're going to do this demonstration, it is important to make sure that no one ever looks directly into a laser or shines a laser directly into someone else's eyes. Beyond that, demonstrating the laws of reflection is relatively safe and straightforward: Shine the laser at reflective surfaces at known angles and measure the angle at which it reflects.

In what way does The Crucible relate to the anthrax incident after 9/11?

During both the events that take place in the play and the events that took place after 9/11, especially with the anthrax scare, paranoia and hysteria took over and overwhelmed some people's better judgment.  In the play, Mrs. Putnam is so sure that there is someone evil in her midst, someone on whom she can blame the deaths of her seven babies, that she is willing to believe anything, suspect anyone.  Therefore, when Abigail and Betty begin accusing people of witchcraft, Mrs. Putnam responds hysterically -- out of her fear -- convinced that the girls' words confirm her suspicions. 

Something similar happened to people after 9/11.  People began to get really paranoid about using the postal service, afraid to open packages or letters unless they knew exactly where they'd come from or who had sent them.  There was even one story about a baker who called the police because he'd received a suspicious 25-pound package of white powder.  The powder turned out to be flour.  Fear of danger caused a hysteria that overwhelmed some folks' logic and common sense.

What ideas can I use for a thesis statement on why everyone should read The Piano Lesson by August Wilson?

There are many reasons to read August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson. Among the first reasons that come to mind is the idea that this is a (relatively) contemporary work of American drama.

Much of the theatrical work that Americans are familiar with (outside of blockbuster musicals like Wicked or Hamilton) comes from early and mid-century playwrights like Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Reading The Piano Lesson offers a glimpse of the American stage that is simply newer and fresher than The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman. Thus these great, older plays gain a new context through reading Wilson's 1990 play.

One attribute of the play that goes along with its contemporaneity is the nature of its comment on race and history in the United States. Our cultural discourse on history has always included slavery, but for a long time did not really include Black history, per se. The Piano Lesson offers a view of American history from a Black perspective, which is helpful in developing a broad vision of the country's history.

Furthermore, the Jim Crow era discussed in the play is a period that has not always been well represented in literature or in histories of the United States. The Piano Lesson offers a nuanced view of some of the challenges faced by Black families and individuals in the period following emancipation, exploring the migration of Black Americans to the North in ways that directly examine the stresses this migration placed on social bonds and social identity.

The two strongest themes of the play can be connected to (1) individual responses to a shared history and (2) notions of the lingering effects of historical circumstances. Boy Willie and Berniece have very different feelings about how to deal with their shared past. These differences are as telling as they are complex.

Berneice has left the South, but keeps the family piano with all its carvings and all its latent meaning. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano so that he can return home to the South with enough money to buy land there. Berniece no longer plays the piano because of the memories attached to it, but she refuses to give it up. Boy Willie never learned to play the piano but feels that it can be useful to him as a means to take power in (and control of) his life.

The complex differences between these two main characters act as a metaphorical parallel to the historical theme of the play, which is choice. After emancipation there was a period of uncertainty and hope. In talking about his time on the railroad, Doaker offers another metaphor for this period.

"Now, you can start from anywhere. Don't care where you at. You got to go one of the four ways. And which way you decide to go, they got a railroad that will take you there. Now that's something simple. You think anybody would be able to understand that. But you'd be surprised how many people trying to go North get on a train going West. They think train's supposed to go where they going rather than where it's going.”

The push and pull between Berniece and Boy Willie is, arguably, a dispute over how to conceive of the past and how to move on in the future. It is, in short, a dispute about Black identity. It is about finding a way forward and about the difficulties of that task.

Wilson's play recalls something William Faulkner once famously said: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." The conceptual structure of the play places an emphasis on retrospection and a contemplation of the notion that the past leaves people in the present with unfinished business. There is a continuity from past to present, in other words, which might resonate with audiences today or at any time.

We are thus invited in The Piano Lesson to consider similar questions of how the past is still working on us in the present. What strains and conflicts, hopes and disappointments are still being worked out in our society and where can we identify them in the past?

A final reason to read the play then is that it articulates a clear vision of how history impacts the present and in doing so offers us a way to see the past as something that is not divorced or completely separate from the present. We can see in this play how our roots continue to shape us, as individuals and as a country.

`5^(6x) = 8320` Solve the equation accurate to three decimal places

For exponential equation: `5^(6x)= 8320` , we may apply the logarithm property:

`log(x^y) = y * log (x).`

This helps to bring down the exponent value.

 Taking "log" on both sides:

`log(5^(6x))=log(8320)`

`6x * log (5) = log(8320)`

Divide both sides by log (5) to isolate "6x":

`(6x * log (5)) /(log(5))= (log(8320))/(log(5))`

`6x=(log(8320))/(log(5))`

Multiply both sides by `1/6` to isolate x:

`(1/6)*6x=(log(8320))/(log(5))*(1/6)`

`x =(log(8320))/(6log(5))`

`x=0.935`

In the poem "The Unknown Citizen," what does the Bureau of Statistics say about the unknown citizen?

According to the Bureau of Statistics, the unknown citizen was a model worker who served the greater community well.

He was a good worker who never got fired, and he "satisfied his employers" immensely as an employee. According to the Bureau, the unknown citizen was socially popular, fully insured, and resistant to extreme or unpopular convictions. By all indications, the unknown citizen adhered to socially-accepted views about popular life and culture. He was said to have bought a paper everyday while he lived and to have reacted to advertisements predictably.

The unknown citizen was also regarded by the Bureau as the stereotypical model citizen who never veered from the truths his government expected him to adhere to: "That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;/ When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went."

Last, but not least, the unknown citizen was said to have had five children, the "right number for a parent of his generation." He was also said to never have interfered in his children's education, a fact that the Bureau finds especially commendable. In all, the Bureau views the unknown citizen as the ideal citizen.

What can the Wellton 26 teach us about the issue of illegal immigration? Do you think this is a moral or a legal issue? Why?

It is both a moral and a legal issue.

The story of the Wellton 26 began in May 2001. Twenty-six men and teenage boys from the Mexican state of Veracruz, located in southeastern Mexico, attempted to cross the United States-Mexico border into Arizona. They were led by a "coyote," or someone who helps desperate people cross into the United States illegally in exchange for a fee. The coyote was Jesus Lopez Ramos who, before becoming a coyote, also lived in poverty.

Sometime between May 22 and May 24, 2001, fourteen members of the group died, while the other twelve barely escaped with their lives. Unfortunately, Ramos and the migrants had not brought along enough food and water to sustain them during the long trip in the harsh desert climate. They are named the Wellton 26 after Wellton, Arizona, which is the border station nearest to the place where the survivors were found by Border Patrol agents. 

The story of the Wellton 26 is, unfortunately, not unusual. Desperate people from Mexico and Central America frequently die trying to reach the United States. They are fleeing from poverty and violence in their home countries, and toward relative safety and economic opportunity. This story made news because of the high number of casualties in this single trek.

The issue of illegality is inextricable from the issue of morality. Many, if not all, of the men and boys in the Wellton 26 were probably entering the United States with the hope of getting jobs as farm laborers, or perhaps, in construction.

Farm labor -- e.g., picking oranges or tomatoes -- pays very little and requires one to work long hours in uncomfortable conditions. Americans, typically, do not perform this work. Certain positions in construction which require hard, manual labor are very similar. Therefore, supervisors seek out illegal immigrants whom they can pay meager wages in exchange for many hours of labor. They can also avoid subsidizing certain benefits, such as health insurance. Thus, because the migrants are illegal, they can be exploited. If they complain about their treatment or their wages, they can be expelled from their jobs and possibly threatened with deportation.

The American desire to "protect our borders" is often at odds with the economic desire for cheap labor. Illegal immigration is undeniably a problem. People who are undocumented have not undergone background checks. Some of these people have criminal records in their home countries. Being undocumented poses an even greater risk for the immigrants. If they are victims of a crime they are less likely to report it out of fear that they will reveal their undocumented status and be deported. For those who have lived in the United States for years and have native-born children, this is a major risk.

Undocumented immigrants also perform a great deal of domestic labor. They are gardeners, nannies, and housekeepers. Again, their illegal status can allow their employers to pay them far less than their labor is worth, while threatening to have them deported if they complain about their wages or responsibilities. 

Undocumented immigrants, as previously stated, are fleeing from desperate circumstances. American employers who use their undocumented status to exploit their labor are not only guilty of disobeying the law but are also guilty of treating others inhumanely.