When the SS officers order, " Men to the left, women to the right," is Elie separated from his mother and father?

When Elie approaches selection at Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele and the SS officers separate the group -- men to one side and women to the other.  At this point, Elie is not separated from both his mother AND his father.  He is separated from his mother and from his youngest sister, neither of whom he ever sees again.  It is believed that they were killed shortly thereafter in the crematorium.

Elie and his father are forced to march deeper into the camp.  As they march, they approach the crematorium and open pits in which babies' and adults' bodies are being burned.  Elie believes that he is being marched toward the pits in order to join the burning bodies.  Others around him feel the same and begin to recite the Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead.  It is only at the last minute that the marching cadre of Jewish prisoners turns the corner and realizes that they are, instead, headed for barracks.  Elie and his father are still together at this point in the story and will be together through most of the remainder of the text.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, why does Scout desire to be a tomboy?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout doesn't fit in with the stereotypical notions of what a girl should be. She dislikes wearing dresses and dreads participating in tea parties. As such, she develops a reputation for being a tomboy and seems to relish her status as an outsider to feminine society.

Although Lee never explains exactly why Scout chooses a tomboy lifestyle, it's likely that Atticus has something to do with it. Atticus treats both Scout and Jem as equals, encouraging them to learn, think critically, and develop a principled moral code. This environment is important for Jem, but it's even more important for Scout. In the midst of a society that's intent on keeping women in the home, Atticus teaches Scout how to reject such tradition, think for herself, and become an independent, self-sufficient individual in her own right. As such, Scout likely becomes a tomboy because Atticus has emphasized the importance of education and independence, and it goes without saying that these two qualities run counter to the subordinated status of many women in Maycomb. 

What are the main ideas of Hamlet's soliloquy in Act IV, Scene IV?

In this particular soliloquy, Hamlet is agonizing over the fact that he has not yet succeeded in avenging the murder of his father. Hamlet is on a ship destined for England, accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, when he encounters the Captain under the charge of Prince Fortinbras; the Captain tells Hamlet that the Norwegian and Polish armies are about to start a war over a small patch of land which carries little profit. This information launches Hamlet's soliloquy.

Hamlet wonders why others are able to act when they have little to gain, while he has failed to act with so much to gain. He believes that everything seems to indicate that he should rush toward his revenge, even questioning his humanity in the process, stating:

How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge! What is a man

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.

Hamlet realizes that he has been "think[ing] too precisely on th'event—" and that this overthinking has stalled his actions and guided him toward cowardice. He believes that his honor is at stake in this matter and that greatness evolves from a willingness to fight for that honor, even if you are fighting over nothing:

...Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

When honor's at the stake.

Hamlet weighs himself against these standards and finds himself wanting; if Hamlet wants to be great and to fulfill his revenge, he must consider his "thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"

This is my persuasive essay topic: an examination of the key symbols in the novel The Hunger Games. I am unsure of how to write my thesis...

"In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the author uses several symbols to convey themes."

Yes, this thesis statement would help direct your thoughts and your argument as you persuade readers that the author did, in fact, use symbols to help express the themes of the novel. Your statement offers an opinion that requires support, meaning that it will function as a persuasive thesis statement. Other readers could come along and say, "No, the placement of the objects that you're calling symbols are just random and don't mean much; it's just a popular novel, not a work of literary splendor," and you could spend time in your body paragraphs convincing these naysayers that they're mistaken. You'd show them the patterns and details that they didn't notice about the symbols, and explain how those convey the big ideas (themes) contained in the novel.

However, please let me suggest some ways to make your thesis statement more specific and concise. If you do this, you'll have a better focus for your essay, and you'll find it easier to write.

Right now, your thesis statement is very broad. You're making your job as the writer very difficult when you say that the writer uses "several" symbols to convey multiple "themes." Considering how well the symbols really do operate in this novel, to properly cover this topic, your paper would probably need to be at least twenty pages long. And because you haven't mentioned what the symbols are or what the themes are, your thesis statement doesn't really help you plan your essay around it.

To make your thesis statement more specific (more focused), narrow things down. You might say, for example, "In The Hunger Games, Collins' use of symbolic birds and music express the irrepressible nature of the human spirit." Of course, this is just an example. You can insert any symbols and themes you like into that sentence: "In The Hunger Games, Collins' use of symbolic (certain objects) express the (theme)."

If you try writing your thesis statement this way, then when you go to write your outline and the actual content of your essay, it will be much easier because you won't have to cover so much content or wonder where to start.

However, if you prefer to keep your thesis statement as it is, let me suggest just tightening it up to make it more powerful. Let's look at it one more time. I'm going to put the wordy and weak parts in bold:

"In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the author uses several symbols to convey themes."

To make your thesis statement shorter, punchier, and more pithy, take out all the unneeded words, and rephrase things so that you're only using specific, powerful, active voice verbs. Like this:

"In The Hunger Games, Collins conveys themes via several symbols."

How is a red blood cell well suited to the transport oxygen

Q:

How is a red blood cell well suited to the transport of oxygen?

A:

At the level of the cell, red blood cells lack organelles, cell nuclei, and mitochondria. This means that they cannot produce RNA and cannot replicate themselves; however, it also means that they do not need to consume as much oxygen as other cells and as such they are able to carry oxygen to other cells. In addition, the red blood cell's concave "donut" shape allows it to maximize oxygen transfer with other tissue, and the red blood cell is highly flexible, which allows it to pass through small capillaries in and out of the lungs to collect oxygen.

Another chief aspect of the red blood cell's ability to transport oxygen is at the molecular level. The key is the molecule hemoglobin, a highly specialized, three-dimensional protein. This molecule is also responsible for red blood cells' red color. Hemoglobin uses ionized (charged) iron to bind oxygen atoms. Each hemoglobin molecule is able to bind up to four oxygen molecules (`O_2`) via four specialized heme complexes.

Why did Graham Greene choose the name "The Destructors" rather than "The Destroyers"?

Graham Greene chose the name "The Destructors" instead of the "The Destroyers" for the title of his short story because the Wormsley Common gang works at destroying as if it were an act of constructing. "The Destructors" is a combination of the words "destroy" and "construct." To take apart an architecturally interesting house that has been partially destroyed by a bomb, they bring tools, including nails, hammer, a screwdriver, chisels, and a saw. These are the tools people use to build houses, but they employ them in creatively taking apart a house. They approach their task with the interest and dedication that builders would use to construct a house. As Greene writes of the gang, "they worked with the seriousness of creators—and destruction after all is a form of creation." In their minds, the destruction of the house requires the imagination and vision that a creator would have, and, in a way, their act of destruction of an old house paves the way for something new to take its place, even if it's just an empty lot. Therefore, their act of destruction can be looked at as a form of creation and of construction.

What is the function of the description of the "Great Irish Elk" skeleton and the butter?

The Great Irish Elk and butter description serves to illustrate the archaeological value of the bog in terms of Irish identity, culture, and history.

In the poem, the reference to the Great Irish Elk also highlights Heaney's own childhood memory of an elk fossil found in a bog near his hometown. To Heaney, the archaeological find is evidence that the bog is a repository of memories gleaned from centuries of Irish culture and history. The Great Irish Elk is at present time extinct; however, skeletons and fossils of these elks have been found in numerous locations around the world. The elk skeleton serves to underline the vastness and depth of Irish history; centuries upon centuries of Irish history lie in the bogs of Heaney's poem.

Additionally, the preserved butter in the poem ("sunk under/ More than a hundred years/...recovered salty and white") references the social practice of preserving or storing food in peat bogs for extended periods of time. It is remarkable that the hundred-year old butter is so well preserved that it emerges "white" from the bog.

So, Heaney uses the two items to describe how bogs are able to preserve generations of rich Irish history within the depths of their "kind, black butter."

Contrast topographic elevation with bathymetric depth.

Topographical elevation is a height in reference to a geometric sphere. Most maps use sea level as a reference sphere, and have topographic elevation above or below that line.

Bathymetric depth is a depth below the surface of water. This is used to make maps of the sea floor and lake beds, and can even be used in rivers.

To contrast the two, I would say that topographic height can be used anywhere, as it is applicable to any height on any surface, whereas bathymetric depth is only useful on underwater surfaces, and as such is always negative. 

The uses of these two types of numbers also vary. People will use topographic height in land navigation, and bathymetric depth while navigating the sea.

Which specific details evince Holden's maturity in Chapter 16 of The Catcher in the Rye?

Although this chapter includes plenty of evidence for Holden's lack of maturity, we'll find a few details that do show his ability to think and act in a responsible, serious way:

It made me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

Here, Holden shows sympathy to the nuns who stand outside taking up a collection. By realizing the nuns can never treat themselves to a nice meal, Holden shows that he's able to put himself in other people's shoes and feel genuine empathy for them. Empathy is one way of being mature: setting aside any feelings of sorrow for yourself and your own issues so you can sympathize with other people's experiences.

In the second paragraph, Holden contemplates buying a particular record for his sister, knowing she'd love it. When he actually finds that record, Holden narrates,

They charged me five bucks for it, because it was so hard to get, but I didn't care. Boy, it made me so happy all of a sudden. I could hardly wait to get to the park to see if old Phoebe was around so that I could give it to her.

These actions reveal Holden is again thinking of someone other than himself. He's going on an errand, using his own free time and (presumably) some of his own money, so he can buy something that will bring joy to his sister, not just himself. 

When Holden reflects on how he'd gotten no enjoyment from the play Hamlet when he saw it on stage, he thinks,

What I'll have to do is, I'll have to read that play. The trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor acts it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phony every minute.

Here, you can argue Holden is reflecting meaningfully on his own experiences and realizing that he may have misjudged the value of something. He decides to give the play another try, this time in a different way, because he's reflected on his own flaw: his obsession with actors on stage being phony. This kind of insight into his own bias is one detail that evinces Holden's capacity for maturity.

Holden helps a kid lace up her ice skates in the park:

She was having a helluva time tightening her skate. She didn't have any gloves on or anything and her hands were all red and cold. I gave her a hand with it.

Once Holden realized this child couldn't help him find Phoebe, he could have just walked away. Instead, he helps her without being asked. Recognizing other people are struggling and taking the initiative to help them shows maturity.

Holden also follows through on his plans with Sally, even though he doesn't feel like doing so:

So all I did, in front of the museum, was get a cab and go down to the Biltmore. I didn't feel much like going. I'd made that damn date with Sally, though.

Honoring your commitments, or keeping your word, is an act of maturity. Holden could have called Sally to cancel their date with some excuse or another, but since he'd already promised to take her out, he resigned himself to it. 

What is the importance of learning the various subjects that make up the Social Studies?

Social Studies education is very important. Many people don’t realize how often Social Studies impacts them. By studying History, people can learn from the past so they don’t make the same mistakes now and in the future. Many events in history repeat themselves in various ways. The names and places may change, but the basic situations are very similar. By learning from the past, people can hopefully avoid making the same mistakes in the future. For example, if Adolf Hitler had learned from Napoleon’s mistakes, he wouldn’t have invaded the Soviet Union in World War II.

Economics is constantly impacting us. There are many events in history that have an economic cause. We use economic concepts every day. Whether we are spending money, investing money, or determining monetary policy, these actions impact us. Because countries wanted land and resources, many wars have occurred. We can’t escape the impact that economic factors have on us. In order to understand the importance of Economics, a person must be able to understand economic concepts and understand how the economy works.

It is also important to understand how our government works. The study of Civics encompasses this and other topics. It is important to know what rights you have. It is important to fulfill your civic responsibilities. It is important to know how our political system works. People should be aware of what candidates believe and for what they stand when they are running for office. This will help them make wise and informed decisions. Many people throughout the world would give anything to have the rights and freedoms we have. By understanding how important and impactful these rights and freedoms are, we might be more likely to not take them for granted. Voting in elections is a good example. Too often, voter turnout is very low. While some people take voting for granted, other people around the world would give anything to be able to vote for their leaders.

Through the study of Social Studies, we can make wise decisions now and in the future. The study of the Social Studies impacts us in many, many ways.

I need to write an analysis of the author's historical approach to writing in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and I'm having trouble...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon is a literary novel that weaves historical events into the novel. For example, Joe Kavalier and Sammy Klayman (who becomes Sam Clay) create their comic book hero the Escapist because of their experiences that reflect real historical events. Joe has escaped the Nazi takeover of Prague by hiding in a coffin that is supposed to transport the Golem (an inanimate being in Jewish folklore) out of the city. Sam, on the other hand, "had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini" (page 3). Harry Houdini was a real magician who was known for escaping from traps that seemed impossible to escape from. An essay about this book could focus on how the motivations of the main characters, Joe and Sam, are influenced by real-life events, such as Harry Houdini's magic acts (Houdini died in the 1920s) or the Nazi takeover of Europe. 

The Escapist is a character who expresses all the hopes and dreams of Americans, particularly American Jews, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Escapist is a kind of Captain America and Superman figure who is decidedly anti-fascist. As Joe tries and fails to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Prague, where they are in danger, his comic book character becomes more and more anti-fascist. Ultimately, the Escapist and Hitler square off on the cover of the comic book, and the Escapist's "big right fist [was] arcing across the page to deliver an immortal haymaker" (page 150). An essay about this book could focus on how the Escapist is a character that is formed by historical events, such as the anti-fascist hopes of America in World War II. 

How can a thesis statement be written on how the theme of bad decisions plays a role in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Since poor (bad) decisions are usually ones made without forethought and planning, the impetuous acts of both Juliet and Romeo are essentially the cause of their tragic choices. So, a thesis statement could point to the impulsive behavior of Romeo and Juliet as the cause of their tragic ends.

Perhaps, then, the thesis statement, which needs three points if it is being written for a five-paragraph essay, could state that Romeo and Juliet meet their tragic ends because they have made their impetuous decisions of (1)_________(2)_________, and (3)__________. 

Here are some ideas to consider---

• Romeo hastily declares his love for Juliet when he first meets her; then, he scales the walls of the Capulet orchard and watches for Juliet. When she steps out onto her balcony (Act II, Sc. 2), he declares his love. They exchange sentiments, and agree to marry.

Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow

By one that I’ll procure to come to thee

Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,

And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay

And follow thee my lord throughout the world. (2.2.144-148)

• Romeo rushes to Friar Laurence in order to ask him to perform the marriage ceremony. Neither Romeo nor Juliet has considered fully the consequences of a marriage between feuding families.


• After they are secretly married, Romeo goes to a public place where he encounters a heated argument between Mercutio and Tybalt. With good intentions, but too impetuously and with poor judgment, Romeo tries to intervene and diffuse the situation. However, his hasty words of love for Tybalt are misunderstood and serve to only anger both Tybalt and Mercutio. Romeo gets in the way of Mercutio's escape from a lunge of Tybalt and is gravely injured. Then, Romeo irrationally retaliates and kills Tybalt. Of course, this terrible scene leads to much tragedy, as Romeo is banished and the grieving Juliet is later ordered to marry Paris by her father. 


• After Romeo's banishment and Lord Capulet's demand that Juliet marry Paris, Juliet takes the potion that Friar Laurence gives her to make her seem dead for forty-two hours while Friar Laurence will contact Romeo. Unfortunately, the priest's message does not reach Romeo in Mantua, and, instead, he is told by Balthasar, his servant, that Juliet is buried in the Capulet tomb. Romeo declares, "Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight" (5.1.36). Hastily, he purchases poison and rushes to the Capulet tomb. There he kills Paris, who tries to arrest him and prevent Romeo from going any farther. Then Romeo finds Juliet, who does not appear dead: 

Beauty’s ensign yet

Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,

And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there. (5.3.103-105)

Hastily, Romeo takes the poison. This haste in doing so causes Romeo to die right before Juliet's awakening. Friar Laurence soon arrives and discovers the bodies of Paris and Romeo.

Juliet then awakens from her morbid sleep and asks, "Where is my Romeo?" Friar Laurence urges her to come with him, offering to put her in a convent, saying, "go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay" (5.3). But, when she sees the bodies of Romeo and Paris, she is adamant about remaining in the tomb. When the priest runs out because he has heard the guards, Juliet finds Romeo's dagger and impulsively kills herself.

In Lois Lowry's The Giver, what is the solution to the problem that everyone lies in the community?

At the end of chapter 9 of Lois Lowry's The Giver, Jonas reads the rules and instructions for his new assignment as the Receiver in training. The last rule says that he is allowed to lie. This rule conflicts with everything he has been taught up until this point in his life. He ponders this with great concern because he realizes the following:

"What if others--adults--had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence?" (71).

All of a sudden Jonas has reason to suspect that every adult can lie to him. If every adult lies, then how can he trust anyone? Since lying is used to maintain the community's socialized laws, then overthrowing that state is the solution. With the help of the Giver, Jonas helps to overthrow the government by toppling the thing that makes it happen--Sameness. 

Sameness is the phenomenon that makes it possible for the Receiver to retain memories for the whole community. This exists so the citizens won't have to suffer the vicissitudes of life. As a result, lies must be maintained in order to keep this way of life functioning. For example, instead of telling people about death, which may incite fear, they use the word "release," which has a happier connotation.

Jonas can stop Sameness if he leaves the community with the memories he has received. Once he crosses the border, the memories will flood back to the citizens, and they will be able to differentiate between right and wrong, good and bad, and truth and lies. Therefore, the problem with lies is solved when Jonas crosses the border, releases the consciousness of memories, and those memories enable people to understand the lies that have been ruling their lives for generations. 

Where are the ideas of Common Sense in the Declaration of Independence?

The ideas of Common Sense can be found throughout the Declaration of Independence. Remember, of course, that Common Sense was in effect a call for a declaration of independence. Paine argued, among a great many other things, that the colonies had grown apart from the mother country, and that, as he said, "'tis time to part." The Declaration of Independence brought about Paine's desired goal. The Declaration also repeats many of the charges brought by Paine in a long series of indictments against King George III. Paine had characterized King George as a "royal brute," and the Declaration in essence repeated these charges, accusing him of inciting Native American and slave insurrections, ignoring the will of the American people, and imposing harsh taxes and sending standing armies amongst them to violate their liberties. The Declaration also shared fundamental assumptions about the role of government and the rights of the man. The Declaration famously stated that the role of government was to "secure" certain "unalienable rights," and that any government which became "destructive" of these rights should be altered or abolished. Paine had argued along exactly the same lines, even going so far as to proclaim that a hereditary monarchy could never really be representative of the will, or protective of the liberties, of the people.  

Paul’s constant question in “Job” is “how much am I worth?”: what happens when he has a minor nervous breakdown?

At the end of "Christ in Concrete," Paul has a minor breakdown and begins to lose his faith as he watches the people around him struggle through the depression, witnesses his godfather falling to his death at a construction site, and fails to receive a sign from God following the accident. He begins questioning the apparent absence of God relative to the inevitability of "Job" (or the necessity of labor) in his life and the lives of other immigrants. Work becomes Paul's primary dedication, rather than religion: work is a constant necessity, and religion failed to help him both emotionally and materially. His suffering and the suffering of his fellow laborers and the trauma of watching his godfather's death due to work were unresolved by religion, so Paul abandons it entirely, and the central institution in his life instead becomes the inevitability of work-- or "Job."

If Jill starts out at 20 m/s, and in 10 seconds speeds up to 40 m/s, what is her acceleration?

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The acceleration is probably considered constant (uniform). Denote it as `a(m/s^2).`

Then during each second Jill's speed `V` becomes more by `a m/s.` Therefore for any time `t` after the start the speed is `V(t) = V_0 + a t,` where `V_0 = 20 m/s` is the initial speed.

It is given that for the final moment `t_1 = 10 s` the speed is `V_1 = 40 m/s.` Therefore `V_1 = V(t_1) = V_0 + a t_1,` and we can easily find `a = (V_1-V_0)/t_1.`

In numbers it is equal to `(40-20)/10 = 2 (m/s^2).` This is the answer.

That said, `40 m/s` and even `20 m/s` is too high speed for running, probably Jill used some equipment, for example a bicycle. Also note that the same speeds could be reached within non-constant acceleration, but there are infinitely many non-constant functions `a(t)` which satisfy the given conditions.

What are three examples of realism in "The Bet" by Chekhov?

Realism was a movement in literature which emerged in France in the mid-nineteenth century and sought to "represent events and social conditions as they actually are, without idealization." We see examples of Realism throughout "The Bet" beginning with an "emphasis on the psychological," which is demonstrated through the subject matter. Although the story is driven by a wager, "The Bet" is, ultimately, a story about the psychological impact of spending fifteen years in solitary confinement and whether or not this creates a life worth living. (See the first reference link provided.)

Secondly, in Realist fiction, the characters are motivated by "real-life urges," like greed, and we see this through the character of the lawyer: it is his desire to win two million rubles, for example, which drives the plot of the story. (See the second reference link provided.)

Finally, Chekhov has created characters which have a mix of "good and bad" attributes, in line with Realist principles. The banker, for instance, gives the lawyer the opportunity to back out of the bet early in the story, which is evidence of his good-hearted nature, but his decision to murder the lawyer later on demonstrates his darker side. In this respect, Chekhov's characters are realistic because they are well-rounded. (See the second reference link provided.)

What are four of Archimedes' discoveries? How and why did Archimedes create the Archimedian screw?

Archimedes and the Door of Science tells the story of one of the most famous mathematicians and inventors of all time. Archimedes was born in Ancient Greece but studied in Alexandria. The discoveries and inventions of Archimedes are many, and they forever changed the disciplines of mathematics, physics, engineering and astronomy.

The Archimedes Principle

Archimedes and the Door of Science presents the Archimedes Principle in a humorous light. Archimedes was asked to test King Hiero's crown to determine whether it was genuine. While bathing, he made an observation about objects in water that helped him devise a suitable test and ran out into the streets crying, "Eureka!" This principle holds that the upward buoyant force of an object submerged in liquid is equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces. This means that if the weight of the water is less than the object's weight, the object will sink.

The Law of the Lever

Archimedes discovered that magnitudes reach a state of balance at distances that are proportional to their weights. It is this discovery that led Archimedes to comment, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth." With this knowledge, he developed block and pulley systems that made it possible for humans to move much larger objects with the power of leverage. This discovery also led Archimedes to a formula for determining the volume of spheres.

Figures

Archimedes is known for discovering thirteen unique figures, including the truncated tetrahedron, the cuboctahedron, the truncated octahedron, the truncated cube and the Rhombicuboctahedron. These figures play an important role in the study of geometry and space. Each of these figures is contained by equilateral and equiangular polygons and they are all naturally formed.

The Archimedian Screw

The Archimedian Screw is a device for raising water. Archimedes came to this discovery after finding the relationship between the surface and volume of a sphere and its cylinder. This device is based on the Archimedes Principle and it is used to raise water to a higher level. Also known as a screwpump, this machine was used to transfer water from a low body into an irrigation system. Some researchers believe that similar devices were in use as early as the 7th century B.C., but many hold that Archimedes was the one who first discovered it. The exact date on which Archimedes invented this machine is unknown, but researchers believe it to have been created around 250 B.C.

These four inventions illustrate the genius of Archimedes portrayed throughout the book. While little is known about the inventor's daily life, Archimedes and the Door of Science provides some engaging insights into his discoveries and their impact on the world.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans in the New World had no knowledge of Christianity, just as Europeans had no knowledge of Native...

Contrasting religious beliefs and the mutual misunderstanding of each others' religions affected the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans in the 16th century and beyond. For example, English colonists (who came to the New World in the late 16th century and afterward) thought of the Native Americans they encountered as satanic and as deserving of displacement from their ancestral lands. In Jamestown, for example, the Powhatan followed a polytheistic religion with many spirits to whom they made scarifies. The English settlers, rather than seeking to truly understand the Powhatan religion, tried to displace the Native Americans from their lands. Later, the English settlers attempt to convert the Native Americans. There was no attempt at syncretism, or combining the two religious traditions. In addition, the English misunderstood a great deal of the Powhatans' religious practice; for example, they thought that the male initiation ceremony involved sacrifice, which it likely did not.

The Spaniards sought to convert the Native Americans they encountered to Catholicism. They also sought to use Native American labor on their plantations, called encomiendas, and, in return for the labor, the Spaniards promised to save the Native Americans' souls. The Native Americans often believed in communal land ownership, and they did not always understand the Europeans' practice of private land ownership at first; the Natives were often displaced because of the Europeans' desire for land.

On balance, is family a positive or negative force for Hanna, the main character?

This is an "on the one hand,... but on the other hand,..." kind of answer. On the one hand, Hanna always thought her mother hated both her and her father. As a result Hanna has psychological impediments to a fulfilling life. On the other hand, once her father's family makes an entry into Hanna's life, they provide some of the warmth, friendship and opportunity she lacked before. It seems that "on balance," in her third decade of life, her family provides a positive force in Hanna's life.

"He wasn't my patient. Are you mad?" .... [She said in] absolute astonishment, "You thought I didn't love your father?"

To look at Hanna's situation in more detail, despite all the animosity bred from misunderstandings between Hanna and her mother, Sarah, Hanna's early family situation (herself and her mother) allowed Hanna to develop successfully intellectually and in a vein true to her own lights so she became a respected and sought after expert professional. Yet, her deep seated insecurities arising out of her mistaken belief that her mother hated her (essentially because, as Hanna thought, she hated Hanna's father) do obtrude into her professional work as seen in how she falters when she encounters the fake Haggadah and the rejection of her opinion. 

The same misunderstandings between mother and daughter led to Hanna's inability to surrender herself to deep relationships. The late entry of her father's family into her life did do something to assuage that psychological injury, especially after she joins them as a trustee of Aaron's Sharansky Foundation and begins conservation of what her mother called those "meaningless, muddy daubs of primitives." Hearing the truth about her mother and father and being welcomed by Aaron's extensive family do provide the warm embrace of love that Hanna didn't have from Sarah, who infected Hanna with the hostility of her deep guilt and deep sense of loss. With plenty of life left during which to heal, the truth and new warm relationships throw the balance toward family being a positive force for Hanna. 

"I had never, in thirty years, seen my mother cry. I picked up her hand and kissed it, and then I started crying, too."

When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about marriage, what is Juliet’s answer?

In Act I, Scene III of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, we find Juliet, Nurse, and Lady Capulet together. Nurse and Lady Capulet are discussing how Juliet is coming of age, when Nurse mentions how she hopes to live to see the day Juliet is married. Lady Capulet quickly turns this on her daughter to ask how she feels about the prospect of marriage. To this, Juliet replies, "It is an honor I that I dream not of." In our modern tongue, she might equally have said, "I haven't thought about it." 

Referencing marriage as an honor implies that Juliet understands the social significance of marriage and has probably thought a little bit about her own. However, she does not dream of it. She does not want to be married and to think on it might even be unpleasant for her. After all, she is only fourteen!

This particular exchange between Lady Capulet, Juliet, and Nurse is an important one for really understanding how intensely changed Juliet is after meeting Romeo. Here, she tells her mother and caretaker that she has no aspirations of marriage, yet just a few days later, she will be married to Romeo in secret.

Can you explain the poem "Theodore The Poet" from Spoon River Anthology?

I regard this poem as more philosophically existential than the others; it does not reflect on a life that was lived and the errors that were made, as the others do, but instead on the meaning of existence.

The narrator addresses himself in second-person, which establishes some objective distance:

As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours

On the shore of the turbid Spoon...

He is speaking to himself as a boy, sitting along the banks of Spoon River, which he describes as "turbid," or muddy. The adjective used here also reflects the murkiness of our understanding of life's meaning.

Nevertheless, the young Theodore was intent in figuring out what it all meant:

With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow,

Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead,

First his waving antennae, like straws of hay,

And soon his body, colored like soap-stone,

Gemmed with eyes of jet.

His own sensibilities merge with those of the crawfish. He gives the crawfish a "door" to his "burrow" and decides the crawfish is male, referring to it as "him." The textures on the body of the crawfish contrast and are identified with mundane objects: the flimsy "antennae" are like "straws of hay," the "body" is like "soap-stone," which is sturdy at one moment and dissolves the next, and the "eyes" are "gemmed." With these comparisons, the crawfish is at once fragile yet sensate, sturdy yet vulnerable, and precious yet common. One could transfer all these senses to our understanding of what it means to be human.

He shifts from this contemplation of the crustacean's body to a contemplation of the world as a crawfish would experience it:

And you wondered in a trance of thought

What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.

Why does the crawfish matter? What purpose does it serve? What purpose, we could ask, do any of us serve?

This reverie then incorporates the human world:

But later your vision watched for men and women

Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities,

Looking for the souls of them to come out,

So that you could see

How they lived, and for what,

And why they kept crawling so busily

Along the sandy way where water fails

As the summer wanes.

The "burrow" into which the crawfish crawls is not much different from that in which men and women "[hide]." What is interesting is that Theodore gives the crawfish a "door" while the men and women are "in burrows of fate," which gives them less control over how they may exit or enter. Theodore suggests, then, that human lives are predetermined. He gives them "souls," which seem to have the crawfish's ability to move more freely ("the souls of them to come out"). 

Theodore's "vision" imagined how these people lived and for what, in the way that he also imagines why the crawfish lives, and for what. He reverts them to the state of the crawfish: they do not walk, but rather crawl "along the sandy way," or along a space that is slippery and always receding. In other words, they move feverishly, but for nought. Here, the water does not fall but "fails." This is a slight play on words, and a trick on our understanding of what water should do. Water is usually a life-giving force for both the crawfish and people, but is absent here ("fails").

All of this occurs "[a]s the summer wanes." "Summer" is generally associated with the midst of one's life. The men and women crawled "so busy / Along the sandy way" during the summer of their lives, though the season "[waned]," indicating the loss of time and the triviality of their actions.

What was the bargain that Callie made with her grandfather?

This is a really good question, and to answer it, we'll have to read Chapter 22 very carefully. The narrator, Callie, never tells us exactly what the bargain is although she does say that it's a "hard bargain" that she'd made with her grandfather. We have to infer what that bargain is.

We do know for sure that the situation at Thanksgiving is that Callie's brother Travis has become emotionally attached to the turkeys he's been taking care of. He doesn't want them to be killed for the holiday dinner. Callie's mother is nearly indifferent to Travis's emotional appeals, but Callie gets her to agree to trade the turkeys with another family's so that Travis won't have to witness his own creatures being served for the feast.

That seems like a good solution, but Callie has trouble executing it. No other families are ready to trade their turkeys. She asks Granddaddy for help, and at first it seems like he won't help, but then he asks her if it's important to her. She says that it's important to Travis, so by extension, yes, it's important to her, too.

But that's all that we see of their conversation. We assume that they worked out a bargain right then, but we don't get to read about what it was.

Here's the first clue we see after that:

"Next morning, looking down at the pen, you could see there were three new turkeys. They were a different color from ours, and they had fewer tail feathers..."

Those details are a little misleading. Callie seems to be telling us that the turkeys were different animals. But look closely and notice that all she's really saying is that the turkeys are a different color and that they don't have as many tail feathers.

Then, at the Thanksgiving dinner, we get our second clue:

"I bore some substantial scratches on my arms and... Granddaddy's nails were rimmed with crescents of dark paint."

So if Callie's arms are scratched, and if Granddaddy has paint on his fingernails, then the two of them had probably painted their own turkeys a different color and plucked out some of their feathers (explaining Callie's scratches) so that the tender-hearted Travis would see these turkeys and believe that they were not his own beloved animals.

That's how Granddaddy helped Callie. But she'd called their arrangement a bargain. What did she do in return for him? She volunteers to take care of the turkeys at the following Thanksgiving. (This happens in the final paragraph of Chapter 22.) Recall that Granddaddy had told Callie: "Our whole existence on this earth is a cycle of life and death. That is a fact. There is no stopping it." He probably wants Callie to take care of the turkeys herself the following year so that she can accept the sad truth about the brevity of lives, especially those of livestock.

What are some creative ways some people use math in daily life?

Creative can be a matter of perspective.  I have used it directly to figure out if I should get an annual fee at a public golf course or get an annual.

I use it to approximate what miles per gallon my car is getting.  Where, then, from that, I can figure out how much gas I've used and, then, how much gas I have left before I "really have to" get some gas.

I've heard of it used to help find criminals.  Something about taking reports of the sightings of the person around town, putting "assigned" values of them from a certain point.  This process can assist the police in narrowing down what areas of town to search for a suspect.  The former TV show "NUMB3RS" was famous for showing a bunch of these.

I need to write an essay about No country for old men. I thought about the importance of the setting (a desert and desolate place where the Law is...

You have chosen an interesting and, I think, a very workable topic.  In the novel, laws are unstable, and men seem to operate without a moral code.  The desert seems to reflect this emptiness.  The men seem as hollow as T.S. Eliot's "Hollow Men," and the dryness of the desert seems to symbolize their meaningless lives and deaths.  It is significant that the money was found in the desert surrounded by dead bodies.  This becomes a symbol and a foreshadowing of the fact that the main characters in the novel trade their lives for this money.  Moss's decision to keep the money results in the loss of his life and that of his wife's.  Even Carson Wells ends up paying with his life for his attempt to get the money.  There's a sense of waste, futility, and desolation.  

Once the characters become guided by greed, then they make the law of the jungle their guide.  They do what they can to outsmart, out run, out maneuver others.  Of course, Chigurh is the villain here, but others, though not as cruel and ruthless, show similar tendencies. In this world, Chigurh wins, mainly because he is smarter and more vicious than his competitors.  

Much of the action of the novel is in the city.  It is in hotels and hospitals, not the desert, but I think you can use the desert as a metaphor that extends throughout the novel.  There is no real justice in this novel. We see this when Chigurh kills Carla Jean.  Even her steadfast love cannot combat Chigurh's evil or her own husband's greed.  There seems to be an absence of individual integrity.  In fact, it seems that Bell is the only one who has any remorse over his actions.  He seems to accept the fact that the world is a barren place and that evil is stronger than good. (By the way, you might include Bell's experience in the Vietnam jungle in your discussion.) So in some ways, the city becomes the desert--it's at least as empty, infertile, and harsh as the desert.  

I hope this helps.  

Explain the development of the Cold War and the containment policy of the United States. How was the containment policy applied? What were the...

The Cold War developed after World War II because the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as the strongest powers in the world. The ideological, economic, and political differences between the two countries made them natural enemies. The United State was a democratic republic that believed in free-market capitalism. The Soviet Union was a party dictatorship with a command economy. After World War II, the Soviet Union wanted to create a buffer zone between itself and Western Europe, particularly Germany. It acquired a number of Eastern European countries as satellites. The United States, however, wanted to establish free markets in Europe to enhance trade.  This enhanced the differences between the two superpowers further.  

The policy of containment was the brainchild of George Kennan, a career American diplomat. It was a strategy of stopping the spread of communism to new states and not focusing on the countries that were already communist. Containment was used in a variety of ways, from the foreign aid of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, to the proxy wars that were fought in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.  

What are three songs that represent Friar Lawrence's personality?

Friar Lawrence is thinking ahead in marrying Romeo and Juliet: he hopes the marriage will bring peace to the two feuding families. Therefore, a song that represents the strategizing part of his personality would be "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" by Fleetwood Mac.

Since the friar does want to see an end to a violent feud, in other words, since he is a peacemaker, "Give Peace a Chance," by John Lennon would represent the peace loving part of his personality.

The friar is also a cautious and level-headed personality, warning Romeo not to love too rashly or his love will burn out too fast. He tries to put the brakes on Romeo's emotional excesses, and he is worried enough about the passion Romeo and Juliet feel for each other that he won't let them be alone until after he marries them. Therefore, Silverstein's "Love with Caution" might well be a song the friar would suggest to the lovers. The friar might say what the song does: "please remember, hearts can grow. ... take it slow ... love with caution and trust."

Which will have greater inertia amongst three balls A, B and C filled with same volume of mercury, water and air respectively? Give reasons to...

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The mass is the measure of inertia and it is also the measure of gravitational attraction (it is the open question why and whether there are some conditions when this equivalence is broken, but for practical purposes it is absolutely true).

To determine the (gravitational) mass of those balls we need the notion of density. Each piece of a substance at a given pressure and temperature has the same ratio of the mass to the volume, called density.

If we denote the volume of each ball as `V` and the masses as `m_A,` `m_B` and `m_C,` then  `rho_A = m_A/V,`  `rho_B = m_B/V,`  `rho_C = m_C/V.` In other words, `m_A = rho_A*V,`  `m_B = rho_B*V,`  `m_C = rho_C*V.`

Because the density of mercury is much more then of water, and the density of water is much more then of air, we can infer that `m_A` is much greater than `m_B` and `m_B` is much greater than `m_C.`

What is the difference between biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reactions?

We are talking about biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reactions.  Biochemical reactions are chemical reactions that naturally take place in living organisms like plants and animals.  They usually involve large organic chemicals (biochemicals) like lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, etc.  Pharmaceutical chemical reactions involve the chemistry that takes place when a medicine is introduced into the body to evoke a certain pharmacological or physiological effect.  In many cases this involves a small molecule having a very specific reaction with a protein or polysaccharide to do things like inhibiting an enzyme or activate a cell signalling system.  Finally, a diagnostic chemical reaction is one that involves a diagnostic chemical test to measure or test a certain aspect of a person's health.  A sample of a person's body chemistry is obtained (urine sample, blood sample, etc.) and treated with a particular chemical or set of chemicals as part of a test to aid in a diagnosis by a healthcare professional.

So while all of these reactions are health related, biochemistry is what naturally takes place within an organism, pharmaceutical chemistry is what happens in the organism upon the introduction of a specific medicine, and diagnostic chemistry usually takes place in a testing instrument or vessel outside of the organism. 

In George Orwell's 1984, why is the girl frightened?

In Part One, Chapter Nine, of 1984, Winston sees the mysterious girl from the Fiction Department coming towards him. As she approaches, she trips and falls and Winston goes to help her. As she rises, he notices that she is frightened:

Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain.

Initially, Winston is perplexed by this reaction but, after she has gone, he realises that she has slipped a note into the palm of his hand. The note says "I love you" and Winston now understands the cause of Julia's fear. She was not afraid of him, she was afraid of being caught with such a note. Under Party rules, members are not allowed to have relationships with whomever they choose. As Winston comments, Julia fell directly in front of the telescreen and thus ran a great risk of being detected as she pushed the note into his hand. Punishment for such a crime might include torture or even being vaporised - a terrifying prospect for Julia.

Take any two coprime numbers and find their product. Also find out if the product of their HCF and LCM is equal to product of the numbers.

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Well, consider `a=12` and `b=25.` They are not prime but coprime (have no common dividers except `1` ). `a=2^2*3,` `b=5^2.`

Their product is `ab=12*25=300.` Their `HCF` is `1` as for any coprime numbers. Their `LCM` must include all their prime factors with their degrees, so `LCM=2^2*3*5^2=300.`

And yes,  `ab=HCF(a,b)*LCM(a,b)` for these `a` and `b.`

But wait, this identity is true for any natural `a` and `b` !  HCF is a factor of both `a` and `b,` so `a=a_1*HCF,` `b=b_1*HCF.` And because it is the highest common factor, the numbers `a_1` and `b_1` are coprime. Therefore LCM must include factors `HCF,` `a_1` and `b_1,` i.e. `LCM=HCF*a_1*b_1` and

`ab=a_1*b_1*HCF^2` and `LCM*HCF=a_1*b_1*HCF^2` also.

Why was the Nile important to ancient Egyptians?

The Nile was very important to the people of Ancient Egypt because it essentially made their economy possible.  It allowed them to do agriculture and to engage in trade.

Like all ancient people, the Ancient Egyptians relied on agriculture for most of their economy.  The Nile made agriculture possible in Egypt.  Every year, the river flooded.  When the floods receded, they left layers of silt on the areas that had been flooded.  This silt helped make the land fertile, allowing the Egyptians to grow enough crops near the Nile to feed everyone.  In other parts of Egypt not flooded by the Nile, the land was not fertile enough for agriculture.  The Nile, then, was necessary for Egyptian agriculture.

The Egyptians also used the Nile for other things.  It was a source of papyrus that they used to make paper, boats, and other things.  It was a source for fish and for waterfowl.  It also made it easier for them to trade both within Egypt and with other countries.  The Egyptians could ship goods up and down the Nile, allowing them to be moved easily from place to place.  This made trade easier and helped the Egyptian economy.  In these ways, the Nile made the Ancient Egyptian economy possible.

What does Zeebo look like in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Zeebo is Calpurnia’s son.  He is the town garbage man.  Since he is Calpurnia’s son, obviously he is black. However, since he is Cal’s son and she is educated, he is one of the few black people in Maycomb who can read. 

Zeebo is not physically described very often, but his personality is subdued and polite. He seems to know the Finch children fairly well, since his mother works for them.  When Cal takes the Finch children to church, they see Zeebo and are surprised when he leads the entire congregation in song, one line at a time. 

Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like the rumble of distant artillery:

“There’s a land beyond the river.”

Miraculously on pitch, a hundred voices sang out Zeebo’s words. The last syllable, held to a husky hum, was followed by Zeebo saying, “That we call the sweet forever.” (Ch. 12) 

Zeebo is patient, and the whole congregation follows his lead.  He does this several times throughout the service, so that the people can sing without knowing how to read.

Scout asks Calpurnia about this, and she explains to Scout that she did teach Zeebo to read, because there was no school for blacks when he was young. 

Zeebo was Calpurnia’s eldest son. If I had ever thought about it, I would have known that Calpurnia was of mature years—Zeebo had half-grown children—but then I had never thought about it. (Ch. 12)  

So all we really know about Zeebo is that is old enough to have "half-grown children," he is a garbage collector, he is one of only four blacks in Maycomb who can read, and he has deep voice “like the rumble of distant artillery.”  Even though it’s not a physical description, it does tell us a lot about him and his important role in Maycomb, from garbage collector to church line reader.

What were Paul Revere's beliefs and influence on U.S. History?

Paul Revere was a significant figure in the events leading to the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere supported the Patriots. He believed the British were violating the rights of the colonists and were treating the colonists poorly. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and helped to spread some of the pro-colonial views of the group.

Paul Revere is most famous for actions on April 18-April 19, 1775. That night, the British began to move their army out of Boston toward Lexington and toward Concord. The British had hoped to capture John Hancock and Sam Adams. The British believed these two men were the leaders of the colonial opposition in Massachusetts. The British hoped things would settle down if they were captured. Paul Revere went to alert both John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British were on their way. This allowed them these men to escape being captured by the British.

Paul Revere was well known for his actions with the events dealing with the British movement toward Lexington and toward Concord in April 1775.

Why does Randy want to talk to Ponyboy?

The answer to your question lies in Chapter 7. However, to understand what Randy is referring to when he talks to Ponyboy, we will have to recall events from the preceding chapter.

In Chapter 6, Ponyboy and Johnny saved some schoolchildren from a burning church building. As a result, both boys were injured. In Chapter 7, we discover that Johnny is badly injured and is in critical condition. He is in severe shock, has third-degree burns, and his back is broken.

In contrast, Ponyboy only has a few burns and a bruise across his back. So, he gets released from the hospital in short order. A little while after he returns home, Randy (Marcia's Soc boyfriend) turns up to speak to Ponyboy. Randy appears anxious to talk to Ponyboy about his rescue of the schoolchildren; he wants to know why Ponyboy rescued them. Randy maintains that, if he had been in Ponyboy's place, he would have let the children burn to death.

For his part, Ponyboy asserts that he wanted to save the children, even if it doesn't make sense to Randy. Randy responds that he never expected a Greaser to do such a heroic thing. Then, he confesses to Ponyboy that he has no intention of attending the upcoming rumble. Randy is still in deep grief at the loss of his good friend, Bob, and he's come to the conclusion that all the fighting and killing has become meaningless to him.

Ponyboy assures Randy that he would have saved the children as well if he had been in Ponyboy's place. Ponyboy's vote of confidence comforts Randy, who now understands that Socs and Greasers are more alike than they dare to admit. At the end of the conversation, Ponyboy has a similar epiphany: "Socs were just guys after all. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too."

So, on the surface, Randy may have wanted to talk to Ponyboy about the reasons for Ponyboy's altruistic action. In reality, however, Randy is desperate to reclaim his own humanity in the midst of the violent life he has led. Randy has a deep need to recognize both the humanity in him (a Soc) and Ponyboy (a Greaser) in order to justify his decision to stay away from the upcoming rumble. This is why he wants to know why Ponyboy acted as he did.

Why do you think Jerry wants to go to the wild bay instead of the beach he is used to?

To Jerry, the wild bay represents adventure, danger, and an opportunity to exert his individuality.

In previous years, Jerry has always stayed on the sandy beach with his mother. To him, the beach possibly represents safety, comfort, and the unyielding sense of being tied to his mother's apron strings. So, as he looks across at the "wild and rocky bay," Jerry sees an opportunity to put his emerging masculine identity to the test.

Sensing that she needs to refrain from overly coddling her son, Jerry's mother gives him permission to explore the bay. Ecstatic with the possibilities that await him, Jerry swims out to sea and eventually ends up on the other side of the bay. There, he sees some boys dive off a congregation of rocks, and finally, he notices how each of the boys take turns swimming through an underwater tunnel.

Jerry sees this challenge as an invitation to prove his courage. Even though the boys see his presence as an intrusion at best, Jerry feels the need to prove to himself that he's able to do what the bigger boys have done. So begins his adventure to conquer the mysteries of the underwater tunnel, and in his eventual victory, Jerry finds the affirmation that he's looking for.

What is the major conflict John Proctor faces in Act III regarding saving his wife ?

In Act III, Proctor has come to the court to argue that Abigail and the other girls are lying when they accuse others of witchcraft and pretending when they behave as though they've been bewitched.  He wants to prove his wife, and the wives of his friends, innocent, but, to do so, he will have to offer some proof that Abigail has other motives than to cleanse the community of evil.  The court's position is that God is speaking through the girls, and so compelling evidence is required to prove that this is not the case, and that Abigail is, in fact, manipulating the judges and community in order to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor.  However, in order to prove his wife's innocence and his former mistress's guilt, John will have to reveal to the world that he cheated on his wife and slept with Abigail.  He does not want to have to do this because he is deeply ashamed of his conduct and realizes the importance of reputation (this information will tarnish his reputation quite a bit).  Thus, he is conflicted about confessing the truth and saving his wife because he does not want to have to reveal his misconduct.

I need help writing an essay on whether Linda is a good mom or not in Death of a Salesman

Linda's character definitely reads more like a devout wife than a sacrificed parent. If anything, she is more of a mother and caretaker to her own husband than she is to Biff and Happy. Linda has a mission in her life, and in the play: She has to keep Willy within the confines of "normalcy" the best way she can because she knows that he is about to lose his mind, if he has not already done so. Therefore, it is safe to say that, in trying to keep a strong front in the household, by keeping the head of the household afloat, Linda has relinquished all expectations of her as a mother in favor of being a wife. 

Notice the description that Miller makes of Linda in the play's directions:

Death of a Salesman

....she has developed an iron repression of her exceptions to Willy’s behavior — she more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end.

This gives us even more information about Linda's likelihood of being a good parent. Essentially, what we get from this description is that Linda is Willy's follower. She is just like Willy. This may say more about her character than it lets out. It may mean that she, too, lacks the initiative to lead a life that is worth living. It also explains her lack of initiative in taking a more active part in the life of her boys each time she lets Willy take the lead. Most importantly, her devotion to Willy has become so strong that she even attacks Biff and Happy whenever they confront Willy about anything; this even happens when Biff gets upset that Willy shouts at Linda.

All this being said, we cannot just classify Linda as a "bad" parent for her lack of initiative in the care and raising of her children. We may say that she just did not know any better than to follow a flawed husband around, be subservient to him, and try to keep the household together. In such a chaotic environment one must give some credit to her as well. She did it the best way she could. 

What are the character's situations in the exposition "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury?

The word exposition comes from Latin and means "a showing forth." It is the part of the story, usually at the beginning, that introduces background information on the setting, characters, and events in a story. 

In Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story, "A Sound of Thunder," events center around the main character, known only as Eckels. In the exposition of this story, Eckels has come to a place known as "Time Safari, INC." Eckels pays ten thousand dollars to go on a time-traveling safari to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The company, Time Safari, INC, is described as a vast office with a time machine that glitters and glows like an aurora. His safari guide is Mr. Travis, and he will be traveling back to the late Cretaceous period, about sixty-five million years ago. The story is set in the year 2065, which is evidenced in this quote: 

"First a day and then a night and then a day and then a night, then it was day-night-day-night-day. A week, a month, a year, a decade! A.D. 2055, 2019, 1999, 1957, Gone!"

Lesperance is the man in charge of setting up the safaris in a way that will not disturb the past. His job is to travel back in time, find animals that are about to die, mark them with a red paint bomb, and schedule the time machine to arrive within a few minutes of their natural deaths, so that the chain reaction of the hunt will not disturb the future events. 

The company Time Safari, INC, has created metal paths that are anti-gravity and float above the earth so that hunters will not disturb even the grass. 

The discussion in the beginning of the story mentions the recent election, and how fortunate they all were that President Keith was elected. His opponent, Deutscher, was a dictatorial type who was anti-everything and surely would have ended time travel. 

Eckels seems motivated to hunt by the bragging rights of saying he's taken down a dinosaur. He has shot ever other kind of modern big game and is looking for the next thrill. 

Why did Abraham Lincoln need to wait for the Union Army to win a battle before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln did not officially have to wait for a Union victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.  By this, I mean that there was no law or anything like that that said the proclamation could only be issued after a Union victory.  Instead, he felt that he needed to wait for political reasons.  He felt that he needed to wait so that it would not look like he was issuing the proclamation out of desperation.

At the beginning of the war, most people in the North believed that the war was a war to bring the Union back together, not necessarily a war to end slavery.  The Northerners did not want slavery to spread because they did not want to have to compete with slaves for land and work.  However, they generally did not care if slavery continued to exist in the South.  Politically speaking, it was easier for Lincoln to portray the war as a war against secession, not a war against slavery.

By late 1862, however, Lincoln had come to believe that slavery had to be abolished after the war.  For this reason, he drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.  However, the Union army had been doing very badly at the time when he drafted it.  He did not want to release it at that point because he felt that it would look like an act of desperation.  Lincoln feared that it would make the North and his government look weak.  He wanted to wait until the Union was doing better so that it would look like he was freeing the slaves because it was the right thing to do, not because he felt that he had to do it in order to keep from losing the war.

What organ of government is concerned with making rules?

Governmental rules are made by the various regulatory agencies established to oversee many of the nation's vital interests. They are created by the legislature (although the president can propose them and promote their role in serving the public interest).

As a governmental agencies, they function almost like a micro-government. They can create rules, enforce rules, and adjudicate disputes concerning their rules. Of course, since they must answer to Congress and the president, they must pay attention to what Congress and the president want, rather than just going off on their own course.

Some well-known US agencies are the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All of these agencies oversee their own section of America's business or resources.

Some agencies are controversial, like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), because of the effect of their rules on some aspect of American life. When the EPA enacts or enforces a rule, it usually creates conflict with businesses who are saddled with the costs of complying with the rule. They in turn lobby against the agency, saying it is over-reaching and bad for business.

Write a conclusion about the theme of sacrifice in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

Throughout the novel, several characters act immorally and selfishly and are forced to make sacrifices in order to atone for their sins, while others characters are pure of heart and selflessly make sacrifices to benefit others. For example, Baba is ashamed of hiding his relationship with his son Hassan throughout the novel, but Baba sacrifices his established lifestyle to move to America so Amir can prosper and have a future. Later on in the novel, Amir sacrifices his well-being to save Sohrab from Assef in Afghanistan in order to redeem himself. Characters like Ali, Hassan, and Sohrab make extraordinary sacrifices in order to prove their loyalty which depicts their morally upright nature. Hassan sacrifices his well-being by protecting Amir from Assef at the beginning of the novel. Hassan also takes the blame for stealing Amir's gifts so that Amir would not get into trouble. Ali makes a personal sacrifice by leaving Baba's home because of Hassan's situation, and Sohrab sacrifices his life when he uses his slingshot to shoot Assef's eye out. In each instance, various characters benefit greatly from other's sacrifices. Although sacrifice requires someone to give something up, Hosseini depicts the significant benefits of acting selflessly and sacrificing for others.

How does Macbeth's poor decision making influence his doom?

One of the most fascinating aspects of Macbeth is that, though Macbeth's future is presented as if fate were guiding it, there's also the suggestion that Macbeth's poor decisions influence and bring about his downfall. For instance, consider Macbeth's behavior after he gains the crown. Though it would appear that Macbeth is initially liked by most of his followers (or, at the very least, he's not disliked), Macbeth becomes increasingly paranoid and embarks on a murderous rampage to quell his fears, first killing Banquo, and then murdering Macduff's family. By doing so, Macbeth rightly earns a reputation as a tyrant, and his formerly loyal followers begin to plot revenge. By extension, we can see that Macbeth's paranoid and tyrannical behavior (his poor decision making, in other words) directly leads to the rebellion of his noblemen and his eventual demise. In that case, even if fate is at work in the play, it's also clear that Macbeth's poor decisions play a huge role in bringing about his downfall.

Who is more of a hero? Amir in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini or Father Ralph in The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough?

It is difficult to look at a character in a book and say that he is all good or all bad. A good author will create characters with emotional complexities that make them human. This is very much true of Amir in The Kite Runner and Father Ralph in The Thorn Birds. 

There are elements to each character that make it difficult to qualify either of them as heroes, yet there are moments in which both display heroic tendencies.

One might say that Father Ralph starts more heroic, and finishes the book less so. Conversely, Amir is anything but a hero at the beginning of the book, but can be viewed in some ways as a hero by the time the book concludes.

In the case of Father Ralph, his initial attention to Meggie at the beginning of the book is unselfish and good-hearted. Though he is struck by the beauty of the 9-year-old Meggie he meets, he is very much her friend and protector during her childhood years. 

However, as Meggie gets older, Father Ralph's feelings for her become more intense. Despite the fact that the couple has a secret romantic relationship that begins when Meggie is 17 years old, Father Ralph's ambition to rise in the Catholic priesthood is stronger than his love for Meggie.

Though Father Ralph helps ensure that Meggie is financially taken care of, his inability to put his love for her (and her love for him) above his career ultimately defines him as a selfish participant in their relationship, rather than an equal partner.

With Amir in The Kite Runner, his jealousy is painfully obvious early in the story. While jealousy alone doesn't define a person, Amir allows the jealousy to consume him in a way that causes him to behave in ways that certainly aren't becoming of a hero. 

Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when Amir sees the attack and subsequent rape of his friend and rival, Hassan, but does nothing about it. Later, in an effort to get Hassan removed from his beloved Baba's home, Amir hides money and a watch under Hassan's mattress, thus framing Hassan for a theft he didn't commit.

As Amir grows and matures, he feels guilt for the things he did in his younger years and wants to make restitution for the things he did earlier in life. He is able to do this in some ways after he rescues Hassan's son from an orphanage in Kabul. In doing so, he actually squares off against Assef—the young man who raped Hassan many years earlier. However, instead of being passive and cowardly, Amir shows his growth as a human in boldly and bravely standing up for Hassan's son.

Though neither Amir or Father Ralph are perfect characters, one could argue that Amir showed a greater desire to make restitution later in his life than Father Ralph, thus, perhaps, making Amir more of a hero.

Could you provide biographical information on author Bart Paul?

Bart Paul is a contemporary American writer of short fiction, novels, and nonfiction, including television documentaries. He has also produced criticism for the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Paul's notable nonfiction work includes the biography Double-Edged Sword: The Many Lives of Hemingway’s Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin (University of Nebraska Press, 2009). Martin Rubin called the book "fascinating" in his 2010 Washington Times review.

Paul's personal experience working on cattle ranches in the American West and on pack trips through the Sierra Mountains inform his Western thrillers Under Tower Peak (Arcade, 2013), and Cheatgrass (Arcade, 2016). Under Tower Peak was described by Kirkus Reviews as "Wild-country noir with gripping, compelling action" "reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy and James Lee Burke."

An alumnus of University of California, Berkeley, Paul lives in Bridgeport, California, and Smith Valley, Nevada.

`int dx/sqrt(9-x^2)` Find the indefinite integral

We have to evaluate the integral: `\int \frac{dx}{\sqrt{9-x^2}}`

let `x=3sint`

So, `dx=3cost dt`

Hence we have,

`\int \frac{dx}{\sqrt{9-x^2}}=\int \frac{3cost}{\sqrt{9-9sin^2t}}dt`

              `=\int \frac{3cost}{\sqrt{9(1-sin^2t)}} dt`

               `=\int \frac{3cost}{\sqrt{9cos^2t}}dt`

                `=\int \frac{3cost}{3cost}dt`

                 `=\int dt`

                  `=t+C` (where C is a constant)

                  `=\sin^{-1}(x/3)+C`

How did European expansion impact Native American society?

European expansion profoundly affected Native American societies, and in the long run (and in many cases the short term) the effects were catastrophic. When Native peoples throughout the Americas first came in contact with Europeans, they struggled to figure out what to do in response to the intruders. Many opted to seek alliances and trade relationships with Europeans, who brought weapons and other material goods that could confer wealth and prestige on those who had them. Others sought to resist the Europeans from first contact, though this response was less common. In any cases, debates about what to do with Europeans divided Indian peoples among themselves, with factions forming.  For example, Massasoit of the Wampanoags was persuaded by Squanto and others that the best response to the arrival of the Pilgrims was to seek an alliance against the surrounding hostile Narragansett people. Many of Massasoit's people, however, differed, and this threatened to tear them apart. This trend would be persistent until the late nineteenth century. Contact also caused considerable economic change among Indian people as traditional trade relationships were permanently altered and they shifted to economies that would meet the demands of European traders. Southeastern Indians, for example, engaged in brutal slave trading wars in order to satisfy the demands of Carolina traders for Indian slaves to ship to the Caribbean. Later, they hunted whitetail deer nearly to extinction to meet a growing demand for deerskins. But by far the greatest effect on Indian society was the demographic catastrophe that followed contact. Infectious diseases destroyed millions of Native American people, a tragedy that posed a threat not just to life but to their worldview as well. Traditional leaders, charged with keeping their people safe, had seemingly failed, and new ones, often war chiefs, emerged. This trend, exacerbated by the loss of lands to Europeans, led to unimaginable turmoil in Native societies. Many people, decimated by disease, were adopted by surrounding tribes. The Catawba, for example, came into being by absorbing other peoples displaced by war and disease. 

What is a quote about Atticus talking to Jem about Mrs. Dubose?

I'll put the most important quotes in bold text below for easy reference.

In the beginning of the novel, Scout only mentions Mrs. Dubose a little bit here and there, talking about what a mean old lady she is, how she finds fault with Scout and Jem and everything they do, and so on. The kids clearly hate her. But Atticus wants them to be kind, to show understanding toward Mrs. Dubose.

In Chapter 11, here's a brief conversation Atticus has with Jem:

“Easy does it, son,” Atticus would say. “She’s an old lady and she’s ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.”  Jem would say she must not be very sick, she hollered so. 

As you can see, Atticus is telling Jem to cool it: to recognize that Mrs. Dubose is elderly and in bad health, and that he should take the high road and not show anger to her, no matter what she says. Jem resists this advice, telling his father that the old lady can't be that sick, since she has the strength to yell so much.

Later in that chapter, after Jem has gotten angry and destroyed Mrs. Dubose's flowers, Atticus chides him:

“Son, I have no doubt that you’ve been annoyed by your contemporaries about me lawing for n******, as you say, but to do something like this to a sick old lady is inexcusable. I strongly advise you to go down and have a talk with Mrs. Dubose,” said Atticus. “Come straight home afterward.”

Here, Atticus is telling Jem that although Mrs. Dubose made Jem angry with her comments, Jem shouldn't have damaged her plants, and now he has to go back to her house and apologize to her.

Jem begins reading to Mrs. Dubose after that, and he discusses what this is like with Atticus, who reminds Jem to be tactful and to overlook any of the lady's bad habits:

“Did she frighten you?” asked Atticus.

“No sir,” said Jem, “but she’s so nasty. She has fits or somethin‘. She spits a lot.”

“She can’t help that. When people are sick they don’t look nice sometimes.”

Finally, the whole last scene in Chapter 11 is worth rereading. This takes place right after Mrs. Dubose dies. Atticus talks to Jem about her again, revealing that she had been addicted to a painkiller, and that her fits that Jem had witnessed were the lady's brave efforts to end her own addiction. Here are some of the most memorable things Atticus says then about Mrs. Dubose to Jem:

"She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you’re sick as she was, it’s all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that’s what she did."

"You know, she was a great lady."

"I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

What other kind of system of social stratification exists aside from slavery, caste, and class?

Slavery, though it still exists, is no longer legally sanctioned. However, when we consider who is currently enslaved, in many instances, we find women and girls from impoverished backgrounds. This leads me to argue that you are overlooking one key and persistent form of social stratification: divisions which exist according to sex or gender.

Sexism, or systemic discrimination against women, exists in every society due to lingering stereotypes and prejudices that have persisted for centuries. The practice of turning women and girls into sex slaves is undoubtedly drawn from the notion that female bodies exist for male consumption and, therefore, can be commodified.

However, sexism manifests differently in every society. In the United States, for example, it is discussed when women talk about reproductive freedom and pay equity. In Saudi Arabia, it might surface in a discussion about exercises of female autonomy, such as the privilege to drive. Throughout the world, women are concerned with violence directed against them (e.g., rape, domestic violence, sexual abuse), and the limitations that might be imposed upon their personal and professional lives due to sex discrimination.

It is no coincidence that men control three-quarters of the world's wealth and hold most positions of political power, globally. Still, not all forms of sex discrimination are created equally.

Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" to denote the ways in which oppressive institutions or ideologies are interconnected. For example, the average salary for a white woman in the United States is seventy-seven cents for every dollar that a white man makes. However, a black woman's average salary is sixty-four cents for every dollar that a white man makes. Because a white woman benefits from race privilege, she has more earning power and more opportunities for promotion than a black woman who may have the same qualifications. Thus, according to Crenshaw, it is not really possible to examine gender stratification without also looking at racial stratification. 

How was Gene alienated in A Separate Peace?

Asking how Gene was alienated in A Separate Peace is a bit of a tricky question because Gene is our narrator and we only get the events from his perspective. Not only are we getting it from Gene, but a much older Gene who has had years to solidify in his own remembered history the events that have occurred. Gene, even into his adulthood, carries a strong sense of guilt, and it may be that the guilt he feels distorts how things were. Where his friends may have seen him as part of the group, Gene himself may remember being alienated.

Though Gene is not a trustworthy narrator, it could be argued that much of Gene’s alienation stems from his comparison to those around him. If his friends seem to be looking up to others then they are not looking at him, which might lead to his feeling of being outside the group. Remember, Gene goes to school later than the other boys do. At this point, patterns and friendships have already been established, leaving Gene to figure out his place. He is assigned to Finny, and this starts their friendship and sets up Gene’s place in the group as Finny’s roommate, though Finny regards Gene as his best friend. In Gene’s mind he is only there because of Finny and does not see himself as part of the group. When Gene attempts to establish his belonging through his academics, Finny, according to Gene, is attempting to keep him from succeeding, thus keeping Gene connected to the group as only the roommate/friend of Finny and not a real part.

We know that Gene’s memory of events is suspect, as seen in the trial when Lepellier expresses what really happened at the tree. We know that the narrator is a much older Gene relaying the events of his youth. We also know that these ideas do not devalue what Gene felt or how he remembers them and this ultimately makes his feelings of alienation true for him and the reader.

How is Stargirl different from other girls?

Stargirl isn't only different from other girls. Stargirl is different from everybody. I would say the main character trait that makes her stand out from everybody else is her self-confidence. She simply does not care what other people think. That is how she is most definitely different from other high school girls her age. Stargirl does not care about fashion trends. She wears what she wants to wear regardless of what is in fashion. She does not play favorites, as illustrated by her cheering for both sports teams and singing Happy Birthday to strangers. Additionally, Stargirl most definitely does not spread catty rumors about people the way Hillari Kimble does. Stargirl embodies love. She loves everybody equally, and she loves them even when they don't love her in return. That's how she is different.  

Which variety of English would be appropriate for writing a letter to the Minister of Education in which you raise your concerns about the quality...

In each English-speaking country, there are varieties of English used, mainly for spoken communication. To write a formal letter to the Minister of Education, you would want to use the Standard English, which refers to the written and spoken English used as the normal means of communication for business and educational purposes. In many parts of Great Britain, the Standard English is often referred to as the "Received Pronunciation" (or the Scottish Standard English in Scotland). In the United States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries, there is a Standard English used for news broadcasts, written media, and business communication. This type of communication does not use informal language or slang, and it requires proper punctuation and grammar.

The reason to use this form of English is that it is widely understood by people in different parts of the country (whether in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, or another English-speaking country). In addition, if you want the Minister of Education to understand your concerns and take them seriously enough to consider acting on them, you want to express yourself in the manner in which educated people write. You want to seem authoritative enough to have concerns the Minister of Education will consider valid.

Of what is President Eisenhower grateful concerning Congress? Do you believe that our current Congress works in a similar cooperative or...

When President Eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation, he talked about how grateful he was that he was able to get along with Congress to get things done. He believed that the American people wanted the President and the Congress to work together. He believed that because his relationship with Congress was good, many things got accomplished to help the nation move forward.

Today, there seems to be less cooperation between Congress and the President. Part of the reason is that some members of Congress know they will be reelected because some congressional districts have been gerrymandered to such a degree that it is virtually guaranteed that one party will almost always win that seat in Congress. The boundary lines for these districts are drawn in such a way to make the area either very Democratic or very Republican. As a result, there is little incentive to compromise because these representatives know that if they do what the people in their district want, they will get elected even if it means little will get accomplished in Washington, DC. A good example of this is the lack of action taken regarding confirming the appointment of Justice Merrick Garland for the United States Supreme Court. Many Republicans in the Senate have said they won’t take action on his nomination until after the election in November, even though Justice Garland was nominated in March. They are hoping the Republicans will win the election for the presidency, which would allow a more conservative justice to be nominated.

In the short story "Berry" by Langston Hughes, how did Berry decide to solve his problems?

Milberry had learned to solve problems through hard work. He had made a decision that he was not going to be bothered by other people's prejudices because he had suffered too much and was not prepared to go hungry again.

When he started work at Dr Renfield's Summer Home for Crippled Children, Milberry soon discovered that the white people there were prejudiced and exploitative. He had been appointed as a kitchen help but was gradually burdened with a variety of other tasks as well. Everyone took it upon themselves to delegate some of their tasks to him. He realized that they were taking advantage of him since he was black but, as the text states:

Still, he did everything and didn't look mad - jobs were too hard to get, and he had been hungry too long in town.

And so he continued working. He realized that the whole set up at the home was a fake, for his employer was only interested in making a profit and did not care at all for the disabled children they were supposedly taking care of during the summer holidays. Their middle class parents were only too glad to be free of them and were willing to pay good money for their care.

Milberry noticed how the children were fed poor quality food and that the best was only used when the parents came. He felt sorry for the poor children who unknowingly suffered abuse from both sides - their parents, who basically abandoned them, and the unscrupulous owner, Dr Renfield, who did not provide them with what they truly deserved. Milberry, knowing that he was reliant on the doctor for an income, obviously said nothing for fear of losing his job.

It came to be that his services were needed one day to help the nurses take the children back inside from the beach. Milberry was too glad to assist and he then became a regular. He would play with the children and tell them stories. He was affectionate and caring, unlike the nurses, and the children came to love him as he did them. They called him Berry and his interaction with them made his tasks seem so much easier.

Disaster struck when one of the children, after a long period of rain, was so excited to get to the beach when the sun was shining, that he could not wait and fell out of his wheelchair in an attempt to get to the beach sooner. Berry, in an attempt to save the child from harm, knocked over the wheelchair which broke. The child, obviously traumatized more by the fall than actually being hurt, cried and Berry was blamed for the accident. Dr Renfield, who feared legal action from the child's parents and obvious criticism of his institution, decided to dismiss Berry sans his last wages of eight dollars, which was to be used to fix or replace the broken wheelchair.

Milberry then went to Jersey City.

The story is rich in irony. Firstly, Milberry's hard work and dedication did not avoid him keeping out of trouble. It was, in fact, his commitment that led to his dismissal. Dr Renfield, and the white people who worked for him, were guided by their racist prejudice. In their estimation, because Milberry was a black man, he could never be right and had to, therefore, carry the blame. 

Secondly, Milberry was the only one who truly cared about the disabled children. All the others did not have an ounce of compassion for them and saw the children either as a burden or as a means to an end. The irony lies in the fact that the one who cared, was the one who was dismissed, leaving the children with very little to look forward to.

The story illustrates the dilemma so many blacks had to face as victims of others' prejudice. Their choices were limited to such an extent that even the good ones they made, as in Berry's case, eventually turned out bad, through no fault of their own. 

How might managers overcome the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of using Organizational Behavior (OB) concepts in the workplace?...

Managers might overcome the challenges of using Organizational Behavior (OB) by adapting their management style to one that conforms more with the relevant challenge they face, like switching from the Autocratic model to the Supportive model, which is oriented toward employee need and addresses diversity. Managers might take advantage of the opportunities of using OB by emphasizing the Collegial model, which orients toward employee self-actualization and is relevant to aspects such as building an ethical culture.

Organizational Behavior is the study of individual, group, and organizational structure in the workplace. The aims of OB relate to areas such as employee job satisfaction, customer service, and job performance. Some challenges of using OB concepts relate to globalization, diversity, and information technology. Some opportunities from using OB concepts are improving interpersonal skills, developing technical skills, and improving job satisfaction.

In "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, in which the conflict is man vs. nature, what do the men fear about nature?

The story is told mainly through the point of view of the correspondent, who is presumably writing about the experience after the event. What he and the other three men fear is mainly the indifference of nature. Nature cares nothing about them, whether they live or die. If they manage to get through the surf and to the shore, that will be a matter of sheer luck. If the boat is swamped by a big wave and they all drown at sea, that will also be a matter of luck. Nature is infinitely more powerful than these four men. 

The little boat, lifted by each towering sea, and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of sea-weed was not apparent to those in her. She seemed just a wee thing wallowing, miraculously, top-up, at the mercy of five oceans. Occasionally, a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.

Stephen Crane's main point seems to be that there is no god who has any compassion for human beings. They have to look out for themselves as best they can in this pitiless universe. Crane's short story "The Open Boat" makes the reader feel the imminence of death and the cold, indifference of nature. The boat itself seems to symbolize the fragility of human life.

What are examples of animal imagery in Acts II and III of Romeo and Juliet?

One example of animal imagery appears in the first scene of Act II. Mercutio is calling for Romeo, who has ditched him and Benvolio. Because Romeo is silent to his pleas, Mercutio says he will "conjure" Romeo, urging his friend to say one simple word, such as "love" or "dove." Romeo is silent, though, because he wants to avoid Mercutio to catch another glimpse of Juliet. Mercutio then compares Romeo to a little monkey (ape and monkey would have been synonymous in Shakespeare's day and in this case the writer only needed a one-syllable word) who is playing dead:

He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.

In the next scene, Juliet, who is trying to be quiet as she goes back and forth between the house and the balcony where she is talking to Romeo, says she wishes she had the voice of a falcon trainer in order to call her bird back to her. She compares Romeo to the falcon or a hawk (tassel-gentle):

Hist, Romeo, hist! O, for a falc’ner’s voice
To lure this tassel-gentle back again!

In Act III, Scene 1, Mercutio refers to a dog sleeping in the street as he accuses Benvolio of being disruptive and a fighter. Mercutio is, of course, being highly ironic as he claims that the peace-loving Benvolio would "quarrel" with a man who woke up his dog:

Thou hast
quarreled with a man for coughing in the street
because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain
asleep in the sun.

A little later in the same scene, Mercutio uses the classic allusion to Tybalt the cat when he says that he would like to fight Tybalt and take away one of his nine lives:

Good king of cats, nothing but one of your
nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as
you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the
eight.

Mercutio compares Tybalt to the cat of the same name in the medieval fable "Reynard the Fox." In that story, Tybalt is the "Prince of Cats." Mercutio refers to Tybalt as the prince of cats earlier in Act II, Scene 4. Here, Mercutio changes Tybalt's title from prince to king because he is looking to fight. 

`int dx/sqrt(1-4x^2)` Find the indefinite integral

We have to evaluate `\int \frac{dx}{\sqrt{1-4x^2}}`

Let `x=\frac{1}{2} sint `

So, `dx= \frac{1}{2}cost dt`

Hence we have,

`\int \frac{dx}{\sqrt{1-4x^2}}=\int \frac{\frac{1}{2}cost }{\sqrt{1-4(\frac{1}{4}sin^2t)}}dt`

               `=\int \frac{\frac{1}{2}cost}{\sqrt{1-sin^2t}}dt`

`= int 1/2cost/sqrt(cos^2t) dt`

                `=\int \frac{\frac{1}{2}cost}{cost}dt`

                 `=\int \frac{1}{2}dt`

                 `=\frac{1}{2}t+C`

                  `=\frac{1}{2}sin^{-1}(2x)+C`

Why and how and to what extent was the First World War a global war?

WWI was a global war in the sense that every inhabited continent had troops who participated in the conflict.  British, French, and German colonial subjects all fought in the war, many of whom were drafted to serve in European trenches.  There were a few battles in East Africa and in the Pacific islands--Japan used WWI as an excuse to take over German-held colonies.  The Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea became battle zones, as German U-boats waged war against Allied shipping.  Manufactured goods and foodstuffs came from the Americas in order to fuel the Allied war effort.  The Middle East erupted into conflict as Britain and Germany both tried to control Muslims in the area to either fight against Allied areas or to overthrow the Ottoman Empire--ultimately, British efforts in the region were successful in forcing the Ottoman Empire out of the war.  The conflict was even taken to the United States in the form of German spies and saboteurs; German agents managed to destroy the Black Tom munitions plant at Jersey City.  

The end of the war was also an international affair.  British and French colonies wanted their own independence through Wilson's promise of self-government for all people, but were turned down.  The interwar period was important for nationalist movements in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.  WWI also changed Europe as well, with the formation of Poland and the Baltic countries from land taken from the Soviet Union and Germany.  The Austro-Hungarian Empire split and the Versailles treaty makers created the nation of Yugoslavia in order to placate the nationalist movements there which started the war.