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I agree because IT is doing its best to get control of the children's minds. IT is already in control of their father. Though fear tempts the threesome to turn and run away from Central Central Intelligence, as Charles Wallace notes, they won't make the decisions that will free their father if they give into fear. They need, instead, to face their fears. As Calvin says, quoting Mrs. Who, who was quoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only thing the children had to fear was fear itself. IT is trying to hypnotize the children. If they keep thinking, rather than allowing themselves to be paralyzed by fear, they can block out IT and avoid mind control. They have to keeping thinking thoughts that are not IT's thoughts and that means overcoming their terror. 

The Robber's Cave experiment was conducted in 1954 by a famous social psychologist, Muzafer Sherif. In this experiment, 22 12-year-old boys from white, middle-class, Protestant backgrounds with two parents were brought to Robber's Cave State Park in Oklahoma. They did not know each other before the study and were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Each group spent a week developing their own group norms without being aware of the other group. One group called itself the Rattlers, while the other group called itself the Eagles. During the competition part of the experiment, the boys engaged in competitions that led to all-or-nothing awards (the winners got everything, while the losers got nothing). For example, picnics were staged in which the first group to arrive ate all the food. The conflict between the groups started as verbal harassment and developed into stealing each other's property and then physical attacks. During the last two days of the experiment, the boys...

Miss Maudie is referring to Atticus in this question. This incident occurs during Aunt Alexandra’s social event with the other ladies in town, which Scout unwillingly attends wearing a clean, starched dress instead of her preferred tomboy clothing. The ladies have an extremely hypocritical discussion about missionary work in Africa and how wonderful it is that J. Grimes Everett is helping the poor people there, before immediately turning around and making negative comments about Atticus’s work defending Tom Robinson. Miss Maudie takes offense to this, not only because she is friends with Atticus and thinks he is doing the right thing, but also because they are all sitting in Atticus’s house and eating his food. Miss Maudie thinks Mrs. Merriweather is being quite rude to criticize Atticus while enjoying his hospitality. Hence her comment, “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” In other words, she is saying to Mrs. Merriweather, You are criticizing this man, but you sure don’t hav...

At this stage of the story Malcolm is living in Harlem, making a living as a low-level criminal. One of the criminal enterprises he gets mixed up in is the numbers racket: an illegal lottery. But Malcolm doesn't just sell lottery tickets; he starts playing the numbers as well. He becomes more deeply involved in gambling, placing bets with a formidable character by the name of West Indian Archie. One day, Archie and Malcolm fall out over a bet. Archie accuses Malcolm of collecting on a wager he never actually made. Malcolm, for his part, is equally insistent that he did indeed make the bet and is entitled to keep his winnings. Neither man wants to back down, but Archie forces the issue by giving Malcolm twenty-four hours to pay back the money. This is a low point in the story for Malcolm. Not only is he a criminal; he's also taking drugs and getting deeper into debt. Worse still, he's constantly looking over his shoulder, worried that at any moment he might get killed by Arc...

Mr. Rochester's behavior throughout the entire novel is one that easily confuses readers. The question always stands "If he really loved Jane Eyre, then why did he keep such a big secret from her?" One way a person could look at Mr. Rochester is by looking at his merciful nature. The people that he kept around him were people that he obviously adored, but chose not to create a connection due to his fear of rejection and possibly damaging them with his own issues. So therefore, when it came down to Mr. Rochester and love, he seemed to fall easily and hard towards those that have a sense of innocence about them. Then, with Jane Eyre, he seems to instantly want to have her at his side, but know that he cannot have the best of both worlds with him being married to Bertha. Nevertheless, he was drawn to Jane and carried himself with a tender, but somewhat guarded nature that even put Jane in a state of confusion with her constantly asking the question "Is he mocking me or ...

General Zaroff is the antagonist in Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game." He owns a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea where he indulges in his favorite pastime, hunting. When Sanger Rainsford, a big game hunter from New York, blunders onto Zaroff's island, the general invites him to dinner and describes his passion for hunting. The general has hunted all over the world and pitted his skills against dangerous animals such as tigers, grizzlies, and the Cape buffalo. Unfortunately, Zaroff discovers that he has grown bored with hunting such animals. For him, it has become too easy. He admits to Rainsford that he had to "invent a new animal" which would provide more of a challenge or else, Zaroff believed, "he would go to pieces." Rainsford, of course, is quite interested in this new animal until Zaroff admits that he actually hunts men. The general understood that only a reasoning animal could provide the type of danger he craved....

The third-person narrator of "A Sound of Thunder" sets the scene of the various parts of the story as seen through the eyes of Eckels, who is the main character. The narrator also puts the reader inside the mind of Eckels so that we know what his thoughts and emotions are as the story unfolds. The narrator conveys both what Eckels physically experiences and his inner sense of wonder. For example, in the paragraph below, the first sentence show us the sight and sound of the time machine as Eckels experiences it. The second, much more lyrical sentence, tells us how the time machine seems imaginatively to Eckels: Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue. There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame. For much of the central part of the story, the narr...

Roger is overcome with emotion at the end of “Thank you, M’am” by Langston Hughes, which leaves him unable to say more than a simple “thank you.” Roger is a young man who is the product of his Harlem environment. There is no evidence of family support in his young life. When he attempts to snatch the purse off the shoulder of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, he is in for the lesson of a lifetime.  Mrs. Jones does not report him to authorities, but instead takes him to her rooming house, where she shows him kindness and understanding. She has him wash up before they eat a meager dinner together. More importantly, she respects his circumstances and shares some of her background with him. While he is in her company, she allows him to learn how to be trustworthy. When it is time for her to rest, she hands him the money he needs to buy the blue suede shoes that drove him to steal in the first place. Roger is unaccustomed to this type of treatment and he finds it so overwhelming that he i...

The shell has the radius x, the cricumference is 2pi*x and the height is x*e^(-x) , hence, the volume can be evaluated, using the method of cylindrical shells, such that: V = 2pi*int_(x_1)^(x_2) x*x*e^(-x) dx You need to find the next endpoint, using the equation x*e^(-x) = 0 => x = 0 V = 2pi*int_0^2 x^2*e^(-x) dx You need to use integration by parts to evaluate the volume, such that: int udv = uv - int vdu u = x^2 => du = 2xdx dv = e^(-x) => v = -e^(-x) int_0^2 x^2*e^(-x) dx = -x^2*e^(-x)|_0^2 + 2int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx You need to use integration by parts to evaluate the integral int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx. u = x => du = dx dv = e^(-x) => v = -e^(-x) int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx = -x*e^(-x)|_0^2 + int_0^2 e^(-x) dx int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx = -x*e^(-x)|_0^2 - e^(-x)|_0^2 int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx = -2*e^(-2) - e^(-2) +0*e^(0)+ e^(0) int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx = -2/(e^2) - 1/(e^2) + 1 int_0^2 x*e^(-x)dx = -3/(e^2)+ 1 int_0^2 x^2*e^(-x) dx = -x^2*e^(-x)|_0^2 + 2(-3/(e^2)+ 1) int_0^2 x^2*e^(-x) dx = -2^2*e^(-2) - 6/...

Given equation is yy'-2y^2=e^x => y' -2y=e^x y^(-1) An equation of the form y'+Py=Qy^n is called the Bernoulli equation . so, to proceed to solve this equation we have to transform the equation into a linear equation form of first order as follows => y' (y^-n) +P y^(1-n)=Q let u= y^(1-n) => (1-n)y^(-n)y'=u' => y^(-n)y' = (u')/(1-n) so , y' (y^-n) +P y^(1-n)=Q => (u')/(1-n) +P u =Q so this equation is now of the linear form of first order Now, From this equation , y' -2y=e^x y^(-1) and y'+Py=Qy^n on comparing we get P=-2 Q=e^x , n=-1 so the linear form of first order of the equation y' -2y=e^x y^(-1) is given as => (u')/(1-n) +P u =Q where u= y^(1-n) =y^2 => (u')/(1-(-1)) +(-2)u =e^x => (u')/2 -2u=e^x => (u')-4u = 2e^x so this linear equation is of the form u' + pu=q p=-4 , q=2e^x so I.F (integrating factor ) = e^(int p dx) = e^(int -4dx) = e^(-4x) and the general solution is given as...

The 15th Century saw a renewed interest in trading in Europe. One of the primary reasons for this was the contact that the Europeans experienced with the East during the Holy Crusades. The Crusaders brought back food goods such as spices, coffee, tea, and rice that were immediately in high demand. Porcelain, silks and perfumes were also introduced and there was a high demand for those goods in Europe. This interest in goods from the East motivated nations to explore trade routes to India. These routes led to the expansion of trade and conquest along the coast of Africa and into the New World. The colonial conquests of Britain, Spain, and Portugal increased the wealth of these imperial powers which further expanded trade in Europe. The continent was introduced to new goods from both the east and west. This early form of capitalism, which was called mercantilism, motivated nations to trade. A nation achieved its economic and political strength by gaining trade surpluses over its neighbor...

The change in Laurie's clothing is described in the first paragraph of Shirley Jackson's short story, "Charles." It foreshadows the behavioral changes in Laurie, as manifested through the character Charles, whom Laurie invents.  Here is the paragraph:  The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy overalls with bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first morning with the older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a longtrousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave good-bye to me. Jackson's word choice and description of Laurie's new attire foreshadow the behavioral changes to come. First, she uses the word "renounced." Synonyms for this word include shun, reject, and disown. This shows that Laurie is asserting his independence with his clothing choice. One can infer that his mother made the clothi...

This is an interesting question for this story, because I have always thought that the story wouldn't be that much different if it was written in the first person perspective. While the narration of this story is third person, it is not third person omniscient. It is third person limited. The narration is almost exclusively focused on Connie. Readers know her thoughts, actions, and feelings, and we do not know much of that information about any other character. This makes Arnold Friend as mysterious and creepy to readers as he is to Connie. We feel her fear, and we have no idea what Friend is up to and about. All of that can be accomplished with a first person perspective, yet this story is told from the third person perspective. This allows the narrator to explore Connie's world in a little bit more depth than would be possible in first person. The opening paragraphs are a good example of this. They give readers information about Connie, her sister, and her mother. The third p...

Make a table of values and sketch the graph of the equation $y = - \sqrt{4 - x^2}$. Find the $x$ and $y$ intercepts. $ \begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline\\ \text{Let } x & y = - \sqrt{4 - x^2} \\ \hline\\ -2 & 0 \\ \hline\\ -1.5 & - \displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{7}}{2} \\ \hline\\ -1 & - \sqrt{3} \\ \hline\\ -0.5 & - \displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{15}}{2} \\ \hline\\ 0.5 & - \displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{15}}{2} \\ \hline\\ 1 & - \sqrt{3}\\ \hline\\ 1.5 & - \displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{7}}{2}\\ \hline\\ 2 & 0\\ \hline \end{array} $ To solve for $x$ intercept, where $y = 0$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 0 =& - \sqrt{4 - x^2} \\ \\ 0 =& \sqrt{4 - x^2} \\ \\ 0 =& 4 - x^2 \\ \\ x^2 =& 4 \\ \\ x =& \pm 2 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ Thus, the $x$ intercept is at $(2,0)$ and $(-2, 0)$ To solve for the $y$ intercept, we set $x = 0$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} y =& - \sqrt{4 - (0)^2} \\ \\ y =& - \sqrt{4} \\ \\ y =& -2 \end{aligned} \e...

Show that the formulas for the derivatives of the functions a.) $\cos hx$, b.) $\tan hx$, c.) $\csc hx$ ,d.) $\sec hx$ and e.) $\cot hx$ a.) $\cos hx$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \cos hx =& \frac{e^x + e^{-x}}{2} \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} (\cos hx) =& \frac{d}{dx} \left( \frac{e^x + e^{-x}}{2} \right) \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} (\cos hx) =& \frac{\displaystyle (2) \frac{d}{dx} (e^x + e^{-x}) - (e^x + e^{-x}) \frac{d}{dx} (2) }{(2)^2} \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} (\cos hx) =& \frac{2 [e^x + (-e^{-x})]}{4} \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} (\cos hx) =& \frac{e^x - e^{-x}}{2} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ We know that $\displaystyle \sin h(x) = \frac{e^x - e^{-x}}{2}$, so $\displaystyle \frac{d}{dx} (\cos hx) = \sin hx$ b.) $\tan hx$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \tan hx =& \frac{\sin hx}{\cos hx} \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} \tan hx =& \frac{d}{dx} \left( \frac{\sin hx}{\cos hx} \right) \\ \\ \frac{d}{dx} \tan hx =& \frac{\displaystyle (\cos hx) \frac{d}{dx} (\sin hx) - (\sin hx) \frac{d}{dx}...

There are arguments to be made for lobbyists being beneficial to the legislative process and arguments to be made that they are harmful to the legislative process.  Bear in mind that lobbying is a legal activity, and indeed, is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and any argument against lobbying must take this into account.  Your opinion on this matter, for or against lobbying, should be a considered one, certainly, so let's look at the pros and cons.  On the positive side, there are arguments to be made. Lobbying is simply the act of trying to influence the legislative process, and this is completely consistent with democratic aims, to allow a constituency to voice concerns and opinions. When you or I write to our legislatures, we are lobbying, within the pure meaning of the word.  When a group bands together and selects someone to represent it to the legislature, the dynamic is at least theoretically the same.  Legislators cannot legislate in a va...

This question is an opinion question, so my answer may be very different than yours. However, we have to consider the same basic points to reach our respective conclusions, so let's go through some pros and cons. Reasons Romeo should deny his family name: His name doesn't define him. As Juliet said, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."  Love conquers all. To many people, love is one of the most important things in the world. Romeo and Juliet both think so, given the lengths to which they go to be with one another. If you agree, that's a strong reason to leave. His family name is tainted. In the opening scenes of the play, the Prince has made it clear that he's sick and tired of the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. Yet this feud shows no sign of stopping. Abandoning his name might be a wise decision even without Juliet, making it all the more attractive if love is his reward. Reasons Romeo should keep his name: He owes it to his parents. Rom...

You could say that a thesis statement is an opinion which you will be arguing throughout your essay. I like to think of a yes or no question and frame my thesis statement around an answer. For example, in "The Lesson" I might ask, "Is it necessary to become aware of injustice?" In the story, Miss Moore takes the kids into a rich part of town and shows them expensive toys which the kids know they cannot afford. She's making them confront their situation and think about the poverty and injustice that surrounds them. Does this make a difference? Does anything change in the way Sylvia thinks and asks? Will knowing that she is poor help her make a positive impact in the future? Think through these questions, or come up with questions of your own, and then decide how you want to answer. Your thesis can come from those answers, such as "Becoming aware of injustice is a necessary step in improving one's situation." Or, on the flip side, you could argue ...

Father Quinel is a good friend to both Crispin and his mother Asta. He also knows the true identity of Crispin's father, and this makes him a threat to the wicked John Aycliffe. Aycliffe brutally murders Father Quinel before he can tell Crispin the whole truth about his father. When Crispin finds Father Quinel's body, he's absolutely devastated. He feels all alone in the world, as if everyone's abandoned him, even God. Nevertheless, Crispin is still sufficiently devout to get down on his knees and pray to St. Giles. Crispin is petrified, frightened at what's in store for him. Like the vast majority of people in the Middle Ages, his faith provides a source of comfort in times of great fear and sorrow. In medieval Christianity, St. Giles was one of the so-called Fourteen Holy Helpers, a group of saints thought to be particularly helpful in interceding on behalf of believers. If Crispin ever needed the assistance of a saint, then it's now. Trembling, he falls to hi...

The definition of "disturbing" is when peace and harmony are interrupted or interfered with. In O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the peace and tranquility of the family traveling for a holiday are fatally interrupted when they take a wrong road and come in contact with The Misfit and his gang. The family may have escaped unharmed if the grandmother had not identified the men as escaped convicts, which makes one feel sorry for the family. Probably the most disturbing fact of the story, however, is the polite, yet carefree, way that the deaths are carried out. For example, the Misfit says the following: "Lady, . . . would you and that little girl like to step off yonder with Bobby Lee and Hiram and join your husband?" Then the mother simply says, "Yes, thank you," and walks her daughter and herself into the woods to be killed like her husband just was. The mother doesn't put up a fight, or argue, or try to escape! Another distur...

In "Thank You, M'am," we learn that Mrs. Jones's home is a modest one. When Mrs. Jones drags Roger to her home, she is not taking him to an opulent mansion.  Hughes gives us specific details about how her home reflects a limited economic condition.  Mrs. Jones lives in a house with other "roomers."  When Roger hears them laughing, he knows that "they were not alone."  Roger notices the home's "large kitchenette furnished room at the rear of the house."  There is a day-bed where Mrs. Jones talks to Roger about her life of economic limitation.  We are struck by the intimate, modest setting that contains a "gas plate and an icebox."  Roger does not wash his face in a large bathroom, but rather at a sink.    Mrs. Jones' home bolsters her lesson to Roger.  Mrs. Jones emphasizes how Roger should reject immorality.  His poverty does not justify such behavior.  As Mrs. Jones reprimands Roger for stealing, she is speaking from th...

In a different interpretation than the other educator, I would argue that there is only one female hero in the text. Both Isabella and the elder Catherine are victims, in a sense, of the men who prey upon them. Additionally, each is destructive in her own way: a quality that often runs contrary to the notion of heroism. The younger Catherine does not really perform any acts of courage or heroism either. In the end, the noblewomen in the text are not to be idealized. However, Ellen “Nelly” Dean stands apart from the rest of the women in Bronte’s novel. Nelly is the only character in the text who is both compassionate toward the Earnshaws, Lintons, and even Heathcliff after he transforms into a sort of villain. Dean is somewhat heroic in that sense that she has the moral fortitude to remain an essentially good person amidst so much pain and chaos. A hero is a person who others see as courageous or bold. In that sense, Catherine Earnshaw could be understood as heroic. She is fearless. She...

To verify the volume of a right circular cone, we consider the radius of the base (r) as an interval along the x-axis  and height (h) as an interval along the y-axis. As shown in the attached image, a red line revolves about the y-axis to form a right circular cone. For the equation of the red line, we consider the points: (0,h) and (r,0) where:  x_1= 0 , y_1=h , x_2=r , and y_2=0 .   The point (0,h) is a y-intercept point therefore  it follows  (0,b) then  b =h in y=mx+b . To solve for m, we follow m = ((y_2-y_1))/((x_2-x_1)) . m= ((0-h))/((r-0)) = -h/r Then  plug-in m= -h/r and b = h, we get the equation of the red line as: y =-h/rx+h . This can be rearrange into x = -(y-h)*r/h   or   x= ((h-y)r)/h . Using the Disk Method, we consider a rectangular strip perpendicular to the axis of revolution. For a horizontal rectangular strip with a thickness of "dy", we follow the formula for Disk Method as: V = int_a^b pi r^2 dy .  To determine the r, we consider the length of the rec...

You need to evaluate f(u) using the antiderivative of the function f'(u), such that: int f'(u) du = f(u) + c int (u^2 + sqrt u)/u du = int (u^2)/u du + int (sqrt u)/u du int (u^2 + sqrt u)/u du = int u du + int u^(1/2 - 1) du int (u^2 + sqrt u)/u du = u^2/2 + (u^(1/2 - 1+1))/(1/2 - 1+1) + c int (u^2 + sqrt u)/u du = u^2/2 + 2sqrt u + c Hence, f(u) = u^2/2 + 2sqrt u + c You need to evaluate the constant c, using the information f(1) = 3, such that: f(1) = 1^2/2 + 2sqrt 1 + c 3 = 1/2 + 2 + c => c = 3 - 2 - 1/2 => c = 1 - 1/2 => c = 1/2 Hence, evaluating the function f under the given conditions yields f(u) = u^2/2 + 2sqrt u + 1/2.

The significance of Désirée's response to Armand's belief that she is not white is that her physical features—skin color, hair color, and eye color—are her only proof of being white. She cannot point to any lineage as proof because she was a foundling left at the pillar of the gateway at the Valmondés' home. So she has no further evidence since she does not know her parents' names or race. Désirée's hysterical state demonstrates her fear that she cannot prove she is white, as well as her fear that she may possibly have African blood in her. Désirée may also recall that her adoptive father, Monsieur Valmondé, "wanted things considered," such as "the girl's obscure origin," before Armand married her. But at the time, Armand felt that her origin did not matter, nor did it matter that she was virtually "nameless." But now that the baby does not appear to be white, Armand Aubigny, whose mother lived and died in France, and his white fath...

The South didn’t react well to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. The South was convinced that Lincoln was going to end slavery, even though Lincoln had said he wasn’t going to do that. While Lincoln was against slavery, he stated that he would allow it to remain where it already existed, if doing so would keep the country together. However, many Southerners believed that their way of life would be destroyed, and many people in the South had a difficult time accepting the idea that the slaves would be treated as equals if President Lincoln actually ended slavery. Many Southerners doubted Lincoln would keep his word. As a result, seven states seceded from the union shortly after the election of 1860, forming the Confederacy. After the attack at Fort Sumter, four additional Southern states seceded and joined the Confederacy. https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/lincoln-douglas-debates

Satan is indeed in charge of Hell. It's just that Dante presents him as a rather pathetic, impotent figure. Instead of the charismatic, charmingly seductive Satan of Milton's Paradise Lost, we're presented with a hideous but immobile monster, vainly beating his six wings in a futile bid to escape his icy tomb. There's a sense of anticlimax about Dante's encounter with the Prince of Darkness, and this is intentional on Dante's part. He wants to present Satan as a dumb beast rather than a cunning tempter. He may look pretty fearsome with his monstrous size, three faces, and six huge bat-like wings, but he cannot threaten Dante as he remains firmly trapped in ice. Satan constantly beats his wings in a desperate bid for freedom. Ironically, though, each time he does so, he simply generates an icy wind that keeps the water beneath him frozen solid. If he didn't struggle, this wouldn't happen, and so he'd be able to make good his escape. But because Satan ...

Find all real solutions of the equation $\displaystyle x + 2 \sqrt{x - 7} = 10$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} x + 2 \sqrt{x - 7} =& 10 && \text{Given} \\ \\ 2 \sqrt{x - 7} =& 10 - x && \text{Subtract } x \\ \\ (2 \sqrt{x - 7})^2 =& (10 - x)^2 && \text{Square both sides} \\ \\ 4(x - 7) =& 100 - 20x + x^2 && \text{Use FOIL method} \\ \\ 4x - 28 =& 100 - 20x + x^2 && \text{Combine like terms} \\ \\ x^2 - 24x + 128 =& 0 && \text{Factor out} \\ \\ (x - 8)(x - 16) =& 0 && \text{Zero Product Property} \\ \\ x - 8 =& 0 \text{ and } x - 16 = 0 && \text{Solve for } x \\ \\ x =& 8 \text{ and } x = 16 && \\ \\ x =& 8 && \text{The only solution that satisfy the equation } x + 2 \sqrt{x - 7} = 10 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $

Sanger Rainsford is Richard Connell's protagonist in "The Most Dangerous Game." The reader first discovers Rainsford is a fit man at the beginning of the story after he falls off the yacht and swims through ocean currents toward Ship-Trap Island. The text says the following about this swim for safety: Doggedly he swam in that direction, swimming with slow, deliberate strokes, conserving his strength. For seemingly endless time he fought the sea. He began to count his strokes; he could do possibly a hundred more. From this passage, the reader learns that not only does Rainsford know how to swim with intention, but the swim isn't easy because he has to fight through the ocean. Rainsford then proves he is at the top of his game physically when he is hunted for three days in a jungle. For instance, Rainsford runs through the forest, climbs trees, digs pits, and makes elaborate traps during this three-day traumatic activity. Not only that, but he does it with very little s...

Many youths join gangs for different reasons. Some want acceptance, while others want some sort of family to look up, and forward to. When looking at the different factors that make people want to join gangs, it is important to pay attention to the environment those people are exposed to. Many of the larger cities, such as Los Angeles and Chicago, are so badly plagued by gang violence, the youth of those communities are willing to join the gang solely for protection. Society also plays a large role in why someone will join a gang. Music, television, and movies, all affect how adolescents see themselves and how they see society. Being part of something is important to young people, and many older people as well, and the violence and aggression can be over looked. Stopping and looking at the consequences is something many young people avoid. They tend to act off of impulse and often figure out what they got involved in too late.  Social Psychology says humans are influenced for different...

Some issues faced during the Gilded Age were consumer safety, governmental corruption, urban planning, and deregulated capitalism. The Food and Drug Act, passed soon after the release of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, sought to regulate food and medicines and was one of the first ways that the federal government intervened directly in the lives of the American public. This act made American food safer and ended the practice of selling patent medicines. The Pendleton Act created civil service tests that governmental employees had to pass before being offered a job. The goal of this act was to limit officeholders' ability to give jobs to their favorites as a form of patronage—now governmental employees had to have some kind of qualification. The act was passed after the assassination of James Garfield by a disgruntled office-seeker in 1881. Acts concerning zoning were passed due to the tenement system. Many immigrant families lived in tenements during the Gilded Age. Many of these ...

The First Opium War was a conflict between Britain and China—at that time ruled by the Qing dynasty—over questions of trade and sovereignty. It took place between 1839 and 1842. At the height of the opium trade through China, mainly facilitated by British merchants, many Chinese people were addicted; in an attempt to crack down on this, the Chinese government burned a huge quantity of opium. This created a hostile environment in which some British sailors killed a Chinese man. The British government objected to the Chinese trying British subjects in their courts, and war soon broke out. The war moved quickly, ending in the British capture of Nanking, and the Chinese were forced to cede Hong Kong to British powers. The Second Opium War, fought between Britain and France against China, was fought from 1856–1860 and was essentially declared by Britain, and joined by France, as an excuse to try and extend trading permissions in China. By the end of the war, in which the European powers wre...

In "Snaps," Espaillat starts with a series of snapshots of a girl that symbolize the way in which she presented one reality to the camera while harboring a different reality. The conventional scene of her as a child, "neatly dressed...in your white middy," presents the image of the perfect girl, who, dressed in white, radiates innocence. In the next snapshot, the girl appears in a conventional pose as a "nice girl with ankles crossed, hands in your lap's small bounded nest." In the metaphor in this line, the girl's lap is a nest, conveying the idea that women's sexuality is contained.  Capturing these oppressive images, however, the camera catches the "strain/behind its ease," meaning behind the ease of the girl's "obedient pose." The way in which the camera catches the girl's secret ideas is compared, through a simile, to a situation "as if a passage in some plain old book opened into an unexpected place."...

int1/(sqrt(x)-root(3)(x))dx Apply integral substitution:u=x^(1/6) =>du=1/6x^(1/6-1)dx du=1/6x^(-5/6)dx du=1/(6x^(5/6))dx 6x^(5/6)du=dx 6(x^(1/6))^5du=dx 6u^5du=dx int1/(sqrt(x)-root(3)(x))dx=int(6u^5)/(u^3-u^2)du =int(6u^5)/(u^2(u-1))du Take the constant out, =6intu^3/(u-1)du Integrand is an inproper rational function as degree of numerator is more than the degree of the denominator, So let's carry out the division, u^3/(u-1)=u^2+u+1+1/(u-1) =6int(u^2+u+1+1/(u-1))du Apply the sum rule, =6(intu^2du+intudu+int1du+int1/(u-1)du) Apply the power rule and the common integer:int1/xdx=ln|x| =6(u^3/3+u^2/2+u+ln|u-1|) Substitute back u=x^(1/6) and add a constant C to the solution, =6(1/3(x^(1/6))^3+1/2(x^(1/6))^2+x^(1/6)+ln|x^(1/6)-1|)+C =2x^(1/2)+3x^(1/3)+6x^(1/6)+6ln|x^(1/6)-1|+C =2sqrt(x)+3root(3)(x)+6root(6)(x)+6ln|root(6)(x)-1|+C  

Many Homeric scholars have spent their entire careers studying and writing about the Odyssey. Some of these critics have also used their knowledge of the poem to complete new translations of Homer's Ancient Greek epic as well. Criticism of the text has occurred in three main phases: classical scholarship, eighteenth and nineteenth-century scholarship, and modern scholarship. Classical scholarship regarding the Odyssey goes back to ancient times. The earliest Homeric scholars aimed to ensure that written versions of the epic poem were consistent in Greek language use and poetic rhythm. Even well-known ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle wrote frequently about Homer and quoted his works. Criticism of the Odyssey changed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to focus on what we now call the Homeric Question: did Homer write every book of the Odyssey (and his other famous work the Iliad)? These critics aimed to fact-check the epic and find inconsistencies with histor...

At the start of A Doll's House there is no real indication that anything is wrong or unusual about the Helmers' marriage. This in itself does not prove that it's "typical" or representative of the institution of marriage overall. But any theatergoer or reader of Ibsen's time, and later, would recognize that the dynamic between Nora and Torvald is normal in an age when few middle-class women had yet entered the work force and were therefore completely dependent on their husbands for money and basic necessities. The strongest evidence that this marriage isn't unique, and therefore is representative, is evidence by default: nothing shows it to be unusual. All indications are also that Nora loves Torvald, and in fact the one mistake for which she's in trouble—forging her father's signature on a loan application—was done in order to obtain money for Torvald's medical treatment. As the play progresses, one sees more and more that the dynamic between ...

Throughout the novel, Harper Lee portrays the importance of following one's conscience and standing up for what is right. The novel persuades the reader to follow Atticus' morally upright character by challenging prejudiced views and arguing for equality. Lee also persuades the audience to exercise tolerance towards individuals with opposing views and show compassion for innocent people. Throughout the novel, Atticus encourages Scout to maintain her composure in the face of adversity and to be respectful to everyone, regardless of race, gender, religion, or class. Lee persuades the reader to follow the Golden Rule by treating others the same way you would want to be treated. Characters like Atticus, Miss Maudie, Judge Taylor, and Heck Tate understand the importance of treating individuals equally, as well as looking out for innocent members of society like Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. The novel encourages its audience to adopt Atticus' mindset in dealing with racism and pre...

Household production involves the production of goods and services by members of a household for their own use and consumption. To produce these goods and services, they use their own capital and are not paid for their labor. In the process of household production, people use intermediate purchased commodities (such as groceries or other products) and turn them into final consumption commodities (final commodities are those they can use or consume such as meals or clean clothes). Not all housework, meaning work done around the house, fits this definition, as some housework does not produce final consumption commodities.  In the examples above, consider whether the activity described is turning intermediate purchased commodities into final consumption commodities. For example, cooking a meal of hamburgers involves turning an intermediate purchased commodity (hamburgers bought raw at a grocery store) into a final consumption commodity (a meal that the family can eat), so this would quali...

In both poems, the protagonist must live in forced isolation, either because of vocation (in Fra Lippo Lippi's case) or a curse (in Lady Shallot's case). Robert Browning's Fra Lippo Lippi is an artist-monk who must serve two masters: the Church and Cosimo de Medici, his patron. Fra Lippo Lippi's freedom of movement and association is circumscribed by his Church superiors (who expect him to abide by his vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience) and Medici (who expects him to produce paintings upon demand). Meanwhile, Lord Alfred Tennyson's Lady of Shalott lives in seclusion because of a curse. Interestingly, Tennyson does not provide a back-story for the curse itself, so the question of how Lady Shallot comes to be cursed is never answered. Nevertheless, both protagonists feel suffocated by the constraints of their isolated lives. In Fra Lippo Lippi's case, however, he is able to contrive matters so that he can leave his "mew" or cage; after being seclu...

The narrator asks the old man, “What politics have you?” The old man answers that he is "without politics.” The narrator is a soldier and works as a scout for a group of soldiers who are fighting the fascists. His work entails monitoring the grounds to observe the movement of the approaching enemies. The non-fascist soldiers are friendly to the villagers and are helping to evacuate them to safer grounds. The mention of the fascists means that this is a political war. This could be the reason why the narrator wants to know the old man’s political affiliation. Perhaps, if the old man had been sympathetic to the fascists’ ideology, he might have had a small chance of survival. However, the old man does not have any political affiliations. The old man’s age hampers his escape from the approaching fascists. He has already walked over twelve kilometers and cannot walk anymore. It is heartbreaking to observe the hopelessness of the old man’s situation. He sits by the roadside because he ...

The following answer is based solely on my opinion, but I would suggest the biggest problem with the Darling family is that the parents are simply not very attentive. Although both Mr. and Mrs. Darling are aware that a strange boy has been attempting to enter the nursery, they leave the kids unattended in the nursery and head out of the house for a dinner engagement at the beginning of the story. If Mrs. Darling had followed her instincts and stayed home, if Mr. Darling had allowed Nana to remain in the nursery, or if either parent had paid attention to Nana's warning barks, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell would most likely not have entered the nursery. The fact that the parents employ a dog as the children's nurse also indicates a lack of attention. Although Mr. and Mrs. Darling clearly love their children and realize some of their parenting errors during the novel, had they been more present with and attentive to the children in the first place, it's likely that Peter Pan would ...

One reason why conservatives were against the Equal Rights Amendment was because they were afraid that the traditional family would be hurt. Conservatives place a big emphasis on the family and family values. There were concerns that if the Equal Rights Amendment passed, women would be denied their right to be supported by their husbands. There were concerns that women would be sent into battle, that gay marriages would become legal, and that abortion rights would be upheld. Each of these issues was an issue that threatened the traditional family and traditional family values. There were concerns that women would have to be paid the same wages that men were paid. It was believed that this might encourage more women to leave the traditional role of housewife and enter the workforce. There were concerns that if women entered the workforce, they would become financially independent. Women might then choose to leave unhappy marriages or not get married at all. These concerns were additiona...

Find (dy)/(dx) if 4x^3+lny^2+2y=2x Rewrite the second term using a property of logarithms: 4x^3+2lny+2y=2x Divide through by 2: 2x^3+lny+y=x Differentiate term by term with respect to x: 6x^2+1/y*(dy)/(dx)+(dy)/(dx)=1 (dy)/(dx)(1/y+1)=1-6x^2 (dy)/(dx)=(1-6x^2)/(1/y+y) (dy)/(dx)=(y-6x^2y)/(1+y^2)

Let's talk about two of these stories: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. I'll include two quotes from each, as you requested. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the primary example of environment influencing an individual is the case of the grandmother. (She's not named specifically in the story: she's just called "the grandmother," as she's the mother of the protagonist, Bailey, and the grandmother of his children.) Bailey wants to take the family to Florida for a vacation, but the grandmother wants the group to go to East Tennessee, where she is from, instead. Her grandchildren have never been there, she argues, and they don't understand her background. Here, right off the bat, and throughout the story, she tells (and shows) us about what it means to be from East Tennessee. Outward appearance and propriety are important, apparently: T...

The name of the product being advertised in the sample advertisement I watched is Old Spice Men's Body Wash. The advertisement uses magical realism, humor and physical appeal--appeal of person, place and possessions--to present compelling reasons for women, their target audience, to make their men switch to a man's body wash. The ad is driven by the unspoken assumptions that women do the shopping for their men and that the household uses one brand of shower body wash. In the ad, a popular male sports figure, half stripped, stands in front of an open shower holding Old Spice Men's Body Wash. A description of the advertisement.The sports figure hunk draws the target woman's attention to the unfavorable comparison between "your man" and "me": "Look at your man, now look at me" so he can condition her on the virtues of Old Spice. Magical realism takes him and viewers to a yacht where he is magically dressed in pastel casual clothes. Another cha...

This quote appears about halfway through chapter 13. I would like to clarify that Mr. Jimmy does not say the bread and butter quote; Steady Eddie is the character that says the quote to Bud. A few paragraphs before, Mr. Jimmy informs the band members that Bud is going to be their guest for dinner at the Sweet Pea restaurant. Steady Eddie, the band's saxophone player, then tells Bud to help load the car. Steady Eddie isn't being mean spirited about it. He simply states that if Bud is being treated to dinner, the least he can do is help load the instruments into the car. The sax man told me, "Come on, little man, if Mr. Jimmy's gonna spring for your supper the least you can do is help load the car. Grab that case over there and put it in the trunk of the Buick out back." Steady Eddie specifically points out his saxophone case and tells Bud to be especially careful with it because it has his "bread and butter in there." He pointed to a long skinny black sui...

A grateful and now respectful Roger wants to say more than his mere "thank you" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones as she closes the door after taking him to her home and feeding him, but he does not have time. This phrase of "thank you m'am" is used by Langston Hughes as the title, perhaps, because it expresses the gratitude Roger feels toward this kind and generous woman who has effected a change in him. After all, it is thanks to Mrs. Jones that Roger has not been arrested for stealing her purse; it is thanks to her that he has cleaned his face and had a hot meal. And it is thanks to her that Roger has been taught how wrong it is to steal from others as he is reprimanded physically and verbally by Mrs. Jones. Roger has felt the love of a woman with a large heart who has recognized a neglected boy in need of love and direction. The generous Mrs. Jones has given all these things to Roger. As she sends Roger on his way, he turns to thank her for her kindness ...

David Walker was against the idea of African-American colonization. He thought that the United States belonged more to the slaves than it did the whites because slavery and its products made up a lot of the US economy. He also called for slave revolts so stridently that William Lloyd Garrison, a prominent abolitionist, publicly objected to his views. Alexander Crummell, on the other hand, thought that African-Americans should move to Liberia in order to spread Christianity and Western culture there. Crummell's worldview may have been shaped by his mission work and living overseas. Crummell was the first black man to graduate from Cambridge. He also experienced racism in his early years at Noyes Academy in New Hampshire. Crummell would go on to found the American Negro Academy. His goal was to educate black men so that they could go overseas and benefit an entire continent. His early experiences with racism may have led him to the conclusion that it would be hard for African-America...

The Integral test is applicable if f is positive and decreasing function on the infinite interval [k, oo) where kgt= 1 and a_n=f(x) . Then the series sum_(n=1)^oo a_n converges if and only if the improper integral int_1^oo f(x) dx converges. If the integral diverges then the series also diverges. For the given series sum_(n=1)^oo 1/n^(1/4) , the a_n = 1/n^(1/4) then applying a_n=f(x) , we consider: f(x) = 1/x^(1/4) .   As shown on the graph of f(x), the function is positive on the interval [1,oo) . As x at the denominator side gets larger, the function value decreases.   Therefore, we may determine the convergence of the improper integral as: int_1^oo 1/x^(1/4) = lim_(t-gtoo)int_1^t 1/x^(1/4) dx Apply the Law of exponents: 1/x^m = x^(-m) . lim_(t-gtoo)int_1^t 1/x^(1/4) dx =lim_(t-gtoo)int_1^t x^(-1/4) dx Apply the Power rule for integration: int x^n dx = x^(n+1)/(n+1) . lim_(t-gtoo)int_1^t x^(-1/4) dx=lim_(t-gtoo)[ x^(-1/4+1)/(-1/4+1)]|_1^t                                 =lim_(t-gto...

In line 11 and 12 of Shakespeare's sonnet 13, Shakespeare writes: I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: He is suggesting that his subject of the poem, Shakespeare's famous dark lady, is not a goddess. She does not float on air, and as he says even more bluntly earlier on in the poem, "that music hath a far more pleasing sound" than her voice. Though Shakespeare knows she is a mere mortal, he loves her just as well, if not more, for it. As he writes at the end of the sonnet: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare. The final phrase "false compare," nicely summarizes the whole piece. He is saying all the flowery words that sonnets usually use to describe their subjects are just too over the top to do them justice. Shakespeare's dark lady is just a normal woman, and what could be more beautiful than that? In "Sonnet 130" Shakespeare gently mocks the established c...

In Chapter 19, Daniel and a group of boys attempt to free Joel from a passing Roman caravan. Unfortunately, the boys are no match for the experienced Roman soldiers. At the beginning of the raid, Samson follows the group and rolls a massive boulder down into the valley, successfully breaking up the Roman forces. Daniel then attacks and overpowers a Roman soldier in order to reach Joel. While Daniel is freeing Joel, he is lifted from the ground and thrown against a rock. Daniel gets knocked out and wakes up to learn Samson saved his life. Daniel learns Samson threw him onto the rock and then freed Joel with his bare hands. Unfortunately, Samson is critically wounded by a spear and taken prisoner by the Romans. Kemuel then tells Daniel that Samson will not live to see the galleys.

The narrator of "Shooting an Elephant" is upfront and honest about his feelings toward the Burmese. He wants to like them, because he sympathizes with the way they are oppressed by their British overlords, but instead he hates them. His hatred of the Burmese helps him to understand that imperialism is a rotten system that serves nobody well. He hates the Burmese because they resent him as a police officer and representative of the British empire. He hates them because they attempt to humiliate and undermine him. Even the Buddhist priests jeer at him. He says he would like to stick a bayonet in one of them. He shoots the elephant even though there is no need to do so. The elephant is calm by the time he arrives. He knows too that the gun he has in hand is too small to quickly kill the elephant and that the animal will therefore die slowly and painfully. He also knows that the elephant's death will represent an economic loss for the owner. Nevertheless, he shoots the elepha...