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Hello! Probably a body moves with a uniform acceleration, denote it a. Then the speed changes uniformly, V(t) = V_0 + a t, where V_0 is the initial speed and t is the time in seconds since the initial moment. Because the initial speed is given to be zero, we have V(t) = a t. Therefore the displacement from the initial position is equal to D(t) = (a t^2) / 2 (proving this requires integration or computing the area of a triangle but I hope you know this fact). The unknown in our problem is a, to find it we multiply both sides of the equation (a t^2) / 2 by 2 and divide by t^2 and obtain the answer  a = (2 D) / t^2. Numerically it is equal to  (2 * 72.1) / 0.735^2 approx 267 (m / s^2).   http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/acons.html

Solve the system of equations $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 4x -8y =& -7 \\ 4y + z =& 7 \\ -8x + z =& -4 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 4x - 8y \phantom{+ 2z} =& -7 && \text{Equation 1} \\ 8y + 2z =& 14 && 2 \times \text{ Equation 2} \\ \hline \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 4x \phantom{8y} +2z =& 7 && \text{Add} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 4x + 2z =& 7 && \text{Equation 4} \\ -8x + z =& -4 && \text{Equation 3} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 8x + 4z =& 14 && 2 \times \text{ Equation 4} \\ -8x + z =& -4 && \text{Equation 3} \\ \hline \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \phantom{8x + } 5z =& 10 && \text{Add} \\ z =& 2 && \text{Divide each side by $5$} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{equa...

When Olaudah's ship arrives in Barbados, he's taken ashore with all the other slaves. He gives a very detailed description of the process by which the slaves are bought and sold at the market place. It is a particularly harrowing experience for Olaudah; he sees friends and relations forcibly separated from each other, never to be together again. The slaves are not regarded as human beings; they are simply items of property to be bundled together in convenient lots for sale, even if it means keeping family members apart. Olaudah, however, along with a number of other slaves, is not sold at the slave market. He mentions earlier that the slaves were terrified when the buyers rushed into the yard to make their purchases. Olaudah must also have been visibly agitated at what was happening. He appears to suggest that his extremely anxious appearance was the reason for his not being sold: [W]hen I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much frettin...

Although the two cities of Dickens's title refer explicitly to London and Paris, they also suggest that each city itself is comprised of two very different cities or worlds, separated by social class and economic inequality. The excesses of the Terror were a reaction to the impunity of aristocrats such as Monseigneur the Marquis St. Evrémonde in his killing of Gaspard's child. In the contemporary United States, the Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has been rising steadily to levels unseen since the Gilded Age with CEOs making over three hundred times the wage of an average worker. While real wages for average workers are stagnating, the Republican-led Congress has passed tax cuts for large corporations and the very wealthy while weakening the social safety net and support for children, the poor, the elderly, and the sick in order to subsidize tax breaks for the wealthy. In response to this, the country is becoming politically fractured, with alt-right populists...

It depends on one's perception of what is "helpful" and what is "harmful" in a slave system.  Kunta Kinte (later, "Toby") insisted not only on retaining his identity, symbolized by his stubborn insistence on refusing his new name—but also identified as African. He never lost his sense of history; he did not identify with his slave status. His ability to remember his history created the possibility for Alex Haley to tell this story—his family's story—which is the history of many Black Americans and a history of America. His pride was "harmful" because it led to severe abuse. The best-known scene in the miniseries version of Roots is when young Kunta Kinte, played by LeVar Burton, is whipped repeatedly for refusing to accept the slave name Toby. Later, Toby (played by John Amos) has his foot cut off to prevent him from running away. Punishments such as these were not unusual. There were also slave masters who inflicted cruelty on slaves sim...

There are four dimensions of effective listening. The first is empathic-objective. Empathic listening involves trying to understand the other person's feelings and experiences, while objective listening involves comparing what they are saying to an objective standard. The dimension of surface-depth is about whether the listener is only paying attention to the words in a superficial way or is paying attention to the deeper meanings behind them. The non-judgmental versus critical dimension relates to whether you are listening with a totally uncritical mind or whether you are listening to make a value judgment. Politeness versus impoliteness is about how you respond to the speaker--with politeness or not. Finally, active versus inactive is about whether you respond to the speaker by channeling back his or her thoughts and feelings (as you do in active listening). When you are listening in class, you are likely trying to be more objective and thinking about the teacher's and other ...

Doris Lessing is very adept at conveying a setting through the use of few, carefully chosen words. In this story, we can see this skill at work. She describes the bay, for example, as "wild and rocky," two descriptors which immediately help us to understand that this is not a place where it is safe for children to bathe, but a cove where the tides crash in fiercely and where a person could easily be injured by the unpredictable sea. Likewise, the beach adjacent is "crowded"—putting these two elements together, we can interpret that the reason the beach is so crowded is because the bay area is not available for bathers; it is not a place where people would gather. The word "wild" is not used only once, either—in fact, Lessing uses it twice within the first couple of paragraphs in her story, emphasizing the fact that this is what she wants the reader to remember about the bay. Word choices that convey the story's setting -- in fact the two different sett...

"Through the Tunnel" is a coming of age story for young Jerry.  Readers are privileged to watch him gain mental and emotional maturity and independence.  Paragraphs 8 and 9 help establish Jerry's desire to gain some independence from his mother.  Jerry loves his mother, but he also desires to establish his own presence in the world.  Instead of being somebody's son, he wants to be his own person.  Paragraph 8 shows that desire.   He ran straight into the water and began swimming. He was a good swimmer. He went out fast . . .  Readers can see there isn't a hesitation in Jerry's movements away from his mother.  He's goes straight for the water and goes in fast and hard.  The paragraph shows that Jerry desires some freedom.  The paragraph also shows that Jerry is confident in his own abilities, and courageous enough to quickly move himself into a foreign and potentially dangerous area.   . . . a middle region where rocks lay like discolored monsters under the...

In reference to your quote from "In Memory of an Aristocrat," it is very likely that Tennessee Williams was referring to bohemian artists like Irene. The word "aristocrat" is associated with distinction and refinement. Williams's hypothesis is that the working-class artist has more to offer the world than the unimaginative aristocrat. Thus, the "aristocracy of passionate souls" consists of all who purposefully challenge the bounds of social decency through their promotion and creation of experimental and provocative art. These "passionate souls" challenge the status quo and so, are the true "aristocrats" and leaders of society. In his time, Tennessee Williams was much influenced by Chekhov, who himself highlighted the virtues of the common man. Similarly, in many of Tennessee Williams' stories, the aristocrat classes are often portrayed in a negative light, while the working classes are often shown to be imaginative, open-minded...

In Toni Bambara's "Raymond's Run," Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker (Squeaky) and Gretchen are competitors who live in the same neighborhood. They start their relationship as rivals but later begin a friendship. Gretchen is the "new girl" in the neighborhood who has generated a rumor that she is going to win the first-place medal in the May Day race. This rumor stirs the competitive Squeaky to strive even harder to be able to beat her. Another motivator for Squeaky to want to defeat Gretchen is the fact that Mary Louise, a girl that Squeaky defended from beatings by others in Harlem when she first moved from Baltimore, has now decided to befriend Gretchen, and "talks about me [Squeaky] like a dog." Consequently, Squeaky thinks of Gretchen as a foe. Despite the defection of her friends and Gretchen's confidence in winning the upcoming race, when they meet on Broadway, Squeaky causes Gretchen to back down. When Rosie makes derogatory remarks about ...

That would be Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, and the only one to date to serve two non-consecutive terms of office. Cleveland won his first presidential election in 1884. This was a bitterly contested affair against the Republican candidate James Blaine. The Republicans targeted Cleveland with personal abuse over an allegedly scandalous past involving the fathering of an illegitimate child. But Blaine himself had been dogged for many years by allegations of graft and corruption and the Democrats made a great play of this. When the votes were counted, Cleveland won by a whisker—just one quarter of one per cent. The final tally in the electoral college was slightly more comfortable:219-182. Cleveland's first term was characterized by reform. In particular, his administration pursued a policy of tariff reduction, as most Democrats believed that the government should not take more money from the people than was strictly necessary for its maintenance...

Look at Table 11.i in the book, in which Diamond discusses how humans have historically picked up diseases from the animals they have domesticated, as well as wild animals, and how these diseases progress in humans. His four stages explicate the stages of "evolution of a specialized human disease from an animal precursor." The first stage, according to Diamond, is illustrated by the many diseases that humans can pick up from pets and domesticated (e.g., farm) animals. The examples Diamond gives include cat scratch disease from cats and brucellosis from cows. We can also pick up diseases from wild animals, provided we're in contact with them. The second stage is when a "former animal pathogen evolves to the point where it does get transmitted directly between people," causing epidemics. Diseases at this stage, however, will die out at a certain point, either because medicine has cured them or everyone has already had the disease and developed an immunity to it. P...

I think it is possible to read Life of Pi as an "allegory of fear," so long as we take into consideration the multitude of things going on in Yann Martel's stunning novel.  It is true that fear is working its way into Pi's mind as he attempts to process the strange world around him. He presumably has great fear for his mother as he watches her meet her end on the raft. And soon, he inherits the sum total of what fear remains, as he wonders whether or not he will survive. I think another important topic in Martel's work is trauma, and the curious way that the human brain works when it is subjected to intense duress.  In the novel, Pi conjures up a world that might be fabricated purely from trauma. But his ultimate thesis is that the "fabricated" world may not be any less real than the "real" one. A boy alone on a raft exists only in the reality his mind creates; this is the fundamental teaching of phenomenology.  And in this fantasy world, we co...

I believe that this question is asking about Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. This is the fourth book in the Twilight book series, and it is broken into 3 parts. The first part deals with Bella's honeymoon with Edward, and she becomes pregnant. Part 2 is interesting because it is told from Jacob's perspective. It's somewhat convoluted with a lot of narrative involving Jacob not knowing whether or not to kill Bella and/or the developing baby. In the end of part 2, Jacob imprints on the baby Renesmee. Part 3 contains the rest of the rising actions, the climax, and the resolution. The Volturi are told about Renesmee, and they believe she is an abomination called an immortal child. The Volturi move to kill the child. The Cullens, Jacob, and his pack obviously do not want that to happen, so they begin preparing for the upcoming fight. Then in the most anti-climactic fashion ever, the fight never occurs. The Volturi show ready to fight, but Bella uses her newly acquired vampire ...

The key to the solution of the mystery of Julia Stoner's death is the poisonous snake which Dr. Roylott sent through the ventilator between their rooms and had trained to come back up the bell-rope and through the ventilator when he blew on a whistle. The author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, obviously did not want, to use the word "snake," however, especially in his title. That would have given everything away. The big question in this "locked room murder mystery" is: How could a girl be murdered when she is sleeping inside a room with the door locked and the window sealed by iron shutters? Doyle coined the term "speckled band" to avoid using the word "snake" in the title and in the text. In fact, the word "snake" is only used near the very end. “It is a swamp adder!” cried Holmes; “the deadliest snake in India." "The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicio...

Piri’s family moves to Long Island after his father saves enough money that allows him to pay for a down payment on a small house there. Piri does not like Long Island, because its social scene is totally different from the Harlem social scene that he is used to. It is while his family is living in Long Island that his mother talks to him about his father’s infidelity. She tells him that his father is seeing another woman called Ruthie. It seems that Piri too has known about his father’s infidelity, for he states that “I knew it, too, but I’d lie my ass off to make it a lie so that Moms wouldn’t have to make it any harder for herself.” Piri struggles with race issues. He takes after his father and is darker skinned than all his siblings. Even though he is Puerto Rican, he is sometimes as black, much to his chagrin. As a child, he even suspects that his father maltreats him because of his dark skin. In trying to discover himself and his place in his society, Piri is entangled with the d...

Marx, a German who lived from 1818-1845, saw the industrial revolution as a force that reshaped individuals' relationship to the work setting, specifically separating the worker from his ultimate product. It reduced craft to labor by exploiting the worker as a cog, dehumanizing large percentages of humans. Weber saw people as effected by economic realities, as responding to social position (prestige) but as harbingers of ideas that could affect their own behavior. He specifically felt that moral attributes such as a work ethic and frugality contributed to social movements. Marx distinguished workers in the industrial revolution from pre-industrial worker (most agricultural) in which the working class had a full relationship to the product (or outcome) of his toil, in which workers had a steady interaction with their environment (as farmers or merchants). In other words, a farmer lived and worked on the same soil, raised animals from birth to maturity, and lived in a natural world w...

As with most questions about history, there is no single yes-or-no response possible to this one. But the in-between answer I will give leans more toward "no" than "yes." Both the lengths of time throughout history during which Europeans have controlled the Middle East and the extent of their control need to be taken into account. In the fourth century BCE, Alexander the Great conquered in a short time an enormous stretch of territory from the Bosporus to the Indus river in western India. His premature death meant the huge conquered territory was divided among his generals. Some areas reverted to Asiatic control relatively quickly; others did not. Parthia (present-day Iran) became independent of the Seleucid Empire (ruled by Alexander's successors) in 247 BCE. If we consider Palestine and Syria, however, these remained, with notable exceptions such as the Maccabean period, under Greco-Roman-Byzantine control until 636 CE, when they were taken over by the Arabs. ...

Greed is portrayed by Conrad as an integral part of the colonial project. It doesn't simply relate to the unscrupulous actions of a handful of greedy individuals; it's part and parcel of what it means to be a European colonialist in Africa. Whatever the Belgians and other colonists might say, they didn't come to Africa to bring the benefits of Western civilization to the poor, "benighted" natives: they came in search of riches. In search of those riches, they will do whatever it takes in order to achieve wealth—however brutal or degrading. In Heart of Darkness, greed can be observed as corrosive to the soul—undermining whatever high moral standards or elevated notions of civilization the colonialists may have once shared. In one particularly revealing scene, Marlow makes a casual remark about the cannibalism of the men he's hired to help him aboard the ship. Back in England, the very idea of eating human flesh would be considered taboo, but out in the Congo, t...

Shelley's intention is to show that political power is never permanent and that even the greatest, most powerful ruler will not survive forever; thus Shelley seeks to satirize politicians, or dominant rulers, and call the reader's attention to the passing of political power. The poem has a weighty theme, so Shelley has used the formal sonnet form.  The "colossal wreck" is literally the giant remains of the statue of the once-powerful ruler Ozymandias, with the "shattered visage" (face and expression) and the now broken "legs of stone" which have parted from the body so that they are "trunkless." The adjective "colossal" is also used ironically and metaphorically to refer to the enormous power this "king of kings" once had but has now lost, as Ozymandias has succumbed to death. Even his statue lies wrecked in the "lone and level" sands, which will endure far longer than he did! We notice the alliteration in th...

To create Android applications, which include games, it is important to have some computer programming knowledge. The best place to start for beginners is learning Java or Action script. However, computer programming languages are not the only skills required in successful game development. Scripting and graphic design are also necessary skills for successful application development in Android and all other platforms. Free softwares are available for Android games development. Eclipse is one of the free popular integrated development environments (IDE). The IDE comes prepackaged with the Java software development kit (SDK), which is extended by installing the Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT). Using the ADT, developers can create Android games by coding the game’s actions and attaching the required graphics. The final project is saved with a .apk file extension, which is compatible with the Android framework. Note: (This is what I have used as a developer. The Eclipse IDE was rep...

1. The monthly payment on the mortgage is determined by the formula M=P*(R/(1-(1+R)^(-N))) , where P is the principal (P = $200,000), R is the monthly rate, expressed as a decimal (R can be found as annual rate divided by 12: R = 0.04/12 = 1/300 ), and N is the number of months in the terms of the mortgage. In the given example, we know the monthly payment M = $3,000, and we need to find how long it will take Vanna to pay off the loan (N). Plugging everything given in the formula results in 3000 = 200,000((1/300)/(1-(1+1/300)^(-N))) This simplifies to 4.5 = 1/(1-(301/300)^(-N)) From here, 1- (301/300)^(-N) =2/9 (301/300)^(-N) = 7/9 N=-log_(301/300) (7/9) = 75.52 It will take 76 months (rounding up) or 6 years and 4 months for Vanna to repay the loan. To find the exact number of months and the exact final payment, prepare the amortization schedule. See the amortization schedule for the first several months in the attached file. In the B column, the remaining principal is shown after the...

Social media is not inherently bad. Rather, it can have both good and bad qualities, and it often falls on the user to make responsible decisions about using social media. While social media providers try their best to eliminate bad content from their websites and applications, their products are often designed in ways that make it easy to get by without notice. For example, a number of racist groups make use of Facebook's easy photo sharing and social networking as a way to spread their ideas and help racists get in touch with each other. Facebook tries their best to eliminate these kinds of user pages, but they often don't know such pages exist until they are reported by users. Social media helps friends and family stay in touch and can connect people to new ideas and experiences. Those are both really good things, and typically the reasons people sign up for social media. Unfortunately, it does come with the risk of exposure to negative aspects of society. In addition to rac...

In 1984, there are some differences between doublethink and Newspeak. Doublethink, for example, is the practice of holding and accepting two contradictory ideas at the same time. The Party slogan, "War is Peace," is one example of doublethink, because war and peace are opposites, and, therefore, cannot be the same thing, but the idea is accepted anyway. As Winston comments in Part One, Chapter Three, doublethink is all about controlling the perception of truth and reality: "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink." In contrast, Newspeak is the official language of Oceania. It is very similar to English, but has been whittled down to its most basic form. As Syme explains to Winston in Part One, Chapter Five: We’re destroying words — scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.  Although doublethink and Newspeak are very different, they share one similarity. That is, their purpose. Both doublet...

In a democratic government, people elect their leaders. There are elections held to determine who will represent the people at the local, state, and national levels. The candidates running for office will  campaign by telling the people what they believe and what they hope to accomplish when they get elected to office. Since the elected representatives are supposed to represent the people that elected them, they need to listen to what their constituents want them to do. They should represent the viewpoint of the majority of the people they represent. These leaders can gather information by holding meetings, talking phone calls, receiving letters, and sending out surveys. Depending on the office, elections are held for various lengths of time, usually ranging from two to six years. If the elected representatives are doing a good job in the minds of the people they represent, they should have a good chance of being reelected. In a democratic government, the people have the power because ...

Framton Nuttel is a highly-strung young man. He suffers from a nervous disorder which is apparently so serious that his doctor has advised him to spend some time in the country for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Framton's sister is also worried about his condition. At the same time, she wants her painfully shy brother to come out of his shell a little bit and meet some people. So she gives him a list of introductions to local families in the area where he'll be staying. One of these families is the Sappletons. The Sappletons live in a large country house. They're a respectable local family, just the kind of people that Framton's sister thinks would be perfect for him to meet and get to know. Who knows, paying them a visit might even do wonders for his nervous condition.

Determine the simplified difference quotient of the function $f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2$ For $f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} f(x + h) &= a(x + h)^3 + b(x +h)^2\\ \\ &= a \left[ x^3 + 3x^2h + 3xh^2 + h^3 \right] + b\left[ x^2 + 2xh + h^2 \right]\\ \\ &= ax^3 + 3ax^2h + 3axh^2 + ah^3 + bx^2 + 2bxh + bh^2 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ Then, $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} f(x +h) - f(x) &= ax^3 + 3ax^2h + 3axh^2 + ah^3 + bx^2 + 2bxh + bh^2 - \left( ax^3 + bx^2 \right)\\ \\ &= ax^3 + 3ax^2h + 3axh^2 + ah^3 + bx^2 + 2bxh + bh^2 - ax^3 - bx^2\\ \\ &= 3ax^2h + 3axh^2 + ah^3 + 2bxh + bh^2 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ Thus, $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h} &= \frac{3ax^2h + 3axh^2 + ah^3 + 2bxh + bh^2}{h}\\ \\ &= \frac{h\left( 3ax^2 + 3axh + ah^2 + 26x + bh \right)}{h} \\ \\ ...

Levi have a $\$50$ coupon from the manufaturer good for the purchase of a cellphone. The store where Levi is purchasing his cellphone is offering a 20 percent discount on all cellphones. Let $x$ represents the regular price of the cellphone. a.) If only the $20 \%$ discount applies, then find a function $f$ that models the purchase price of the cellphone as a function of the regular price $x$. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} f(x) &= x - 0.2 x && \text{Where } x \text{ is the regular price}\\ \\ f(x) &= 0.8x \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ b.) If only the $\$50$ coupon applies, then find a function of $g$ that models the purchase price of the cellphone as a function of the sticker price $x$. $g(x) = x - 50$ where $x$ is the regular price and $50$ is the discount coupon. c.) If you can use the coupon and the discount, then the purchase price is either $f \circ g(x)$ or $g \circ f(x)$, depending on the order in which t...

Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is a poem that deals with many themes, especially the themes of love, time, human mortality, and the pursuit of pleasure. However, for all its complexity, "Mistress" is also a representation of the shallow, male interpretation of love, as it essentially equates love with sex. Initially, the speaker insists that he wishes he were able to engage in a long courtship and get to know his lover in an intimate way. However, the speaker also asserts that this process is sadly impossible, because he and his mistress will get old and die. As such, the speaker concludes that it is necessary to love each other (have sex, in other words) while both parties are young and good looking so that they can have as much pleasure in life before they die. The elevated verse of the piece suggests there's a certain logic to the speaker's argument, but it's important to remember that the speaker is advancing a stereotypically male (and e...

In parts of the country where lynching was common (particularly the South) the practice was often justified on a number of grounds. The most common of these was that lynching was a necessary means of preventing sex crimes carried out by black men against white women. Over time, a disturbing narrative had taken hold of the  consciousness of white America, one in which old-fashioned ideas of womanly virtue were combined with racist hysteria. It was widely believed that respectable white women were in constant danger of having their honor violated by the insatiable sexual urges of savage black men. Lynching, it was held, was a trusted, time-honored method of keeping those urges in check. The prevailing prejudice was that any kind of racial mixture would be disastrous, leading to the impurity of the white race and the undermining of the dominant culture. However, it was not just the yellow press or white supremacist politicians who used this spurious justification for acts of racist murder...

Several of the Greek philosophers opposed slavery in some or all forms, and some also argued for gender equality. Aristotle believed in a concept he termed "natural slavery". In other words, he believed that some people (such as pale, sluggish northerners made dull by the cold climate in which they lived) were best suited to be slaves, while other more rational people were best suited to be masters. He thought that enslaving someone who was not a "natural slave" was wrong. He also believed that women were naturally inferior. Plato was a far more unconventional philosopher. He admitted women and slaves into his Academy. In fact, Hypatia, a woman, was actually the leader of the Platonic Academy in Alexandria. Chronicles of the Platonic traditions in philosophy, including Iamblichus's On the Pythagorean Way of Life and Eunapius's Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, discuss several leading female philosophers in the Platonic/Pythagorean tradition. The reason...

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno is the our guide to the destructive capacity of the war. As the focus for the narrative, Bruno interprets the destruction of the war for us, the reader.  He sees the war as an inconvenience because it has caused him to leave his home, his friends, and enter a world unfamiliar to him. Bruno does not see the people in "Out-With" as anything more than the people in "the striped pajamas." Yet, in these impressions, we get a glimpse of the wide level of war's destruction.  For example, when Bruno sees the large number of people boarding the "other" train to Auschwitz, we grasp the depth of the war's extermination. All of "those" people are intended to be killed. What Bruno see, we understand in a very horrific realization.  As Bruno moves us to a very sad threshold of revelation, we become aware that if Bruno sees it, it also exists on a larger level.   Through his personal interactions with people in ...

No. A person’s loan and repayment history is translated into a credit score. Credit scores are calculated by several different companies but usually range from 300–850 points. The higher your credit score, the better your credit is for loans. Lenders are taking a risk when they give you a loan. Your credit score tells them if you have repaid your prior loans or if you have struggled with late payments. The better your credit score (credit repaying history), the less risk the company is taking on you paying the money back. They can therefore give you the loan with a lower interest rate. On the other hand, if your credit score is poor, a lender will charge a greater interest rate to cover the greater risk in the event that you default on the loan or declare bankruptcy. Most lenders have a minimum credit score requirement and will not provide financing to individuals who fall below that minimum score.

A manufacturing engineer determines that the cost per unit for a compact disc is $\$ 3.35$ and that the fixed cost is $\$ 6180$. The selling price for the compact disc is $\$ 8.50$. Find the break-even point. To determine the break-even point, or the number of units that must be sold so that the profit or no loss occurs, and an economist uses the equation $Px = Cx + F$, where $P$ iis the selling price per unit, $x$ is the number of units sold, $C$ is the cost to make each unit and $F$ is the fixed cost. Solving for the break-even point $x$, $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} Px =& Cx + F && \text{Given equation} \\ \\ Px - Cx =& F && \text{Subtract } Cx \\ \\ x(P-C) =& F && \text{Factor out } x \\ \\ x =& \frac{F}{P-C} && \text{Divide by } P-C \\ \\ x =& \frac{6180}{8.5-3.35} && \text{Substitute $F = 6,180, P = 8.5$ and $C = 3.35$} \\ \\ x =& 1,200 && \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ In other words, the engineer sho...

There were many things that ended the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev enacted reforms in the Soviet Union and opened more communication with the West. There was also increased economic unrest in the Soviet Union, and it could no longer support its anti-Western military defense. Increased nationalism in Soviet Bloc countries led to independence movements in places like East Germany, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine. The former Soviet Bloc nations declared independence. Gorbachev desired more peaceful relations with the West, yet he did not want the West meddling in former Soviet Bloc nations, as this would be a threat to Soviet security. Through a series of compromises that allowed the former Soviet Bloc countries to leave the Soviet Union while retaining strong ties—in addition to Gorbachev's willingness to enact domestic reforms and improve the Soviet Union's human rights record—the United States and Soviet Union established a better relationship. The most symbolic act of the end of t...

In order to argue that Juliet is unjustified in her deceit the audience must make a positive assessment of Lord Capulet's intentions, both toward his daughter and toward Romeo. In Act I Capulet comes across as a wise and benevolent father. In Scene 2 he appears to be a man that is totally interested in the happiness of his daughter. He initially claims that his daughter is too young to marry but when pressed by Count Paris he insists that the Count win Juliet's heart. He will not approve of any marriage unless his daughter is in approval as well. Likewise, in Scene 5 Capulet warns Tybalt against fighting Romeo and even suggests that Romeo is an honorable young man: Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone.He bears him like a portly gentleman,And, to say truth, Verona brags of himTo be a virtuous and well-governed youth. If not for the outburst in Act III, Scene 5 in which he berates Juliet and threatens to disown her if she doesn't marry Paris it would be easy to come away w...

The two deceptions employed by Jack and Algernon that are roughly equivalent are Jack's made-up brother Ernest and Algy's made-up friend Bunbury. This is why Algy calls Jack a "Bunburyist." Each has made up an excuse to get him out of doing things he doesn't want to do, so he has the opportunity to do what he wants to do. However, Jack's taking on the identity of Ernest is different from Algy's taking on the identity of Ernest. Jack is engaging in his own deception, which gives him greater control of the story. Although he has deceived Gwendolen about his name, he really doesn't try to dissimulate about who he is. When Lady Bracknell interviews him, he presents his real identity to her, including the fact that he was, as she puts it, "born and bred in a handbag." It is only his name that he has changed. (The exception is the fact that he doesn't pay his bill at the hotel; he doesn't reveal the facts about his true self to the bill col...

The difficulties your question refers to are the complications of Imperialism, which Kipling argues is the responsibility of the sophisticated European-descended peoples to civilize the native peoples of the areas they are colonizing. Kipling, a British citizen born in India, is addressing the United States, and in describing his own country’s experience in their empire-building, lets them know what to expect as they seek to expand their territory. To identify what is truly difficult about imperialism, you’ll need to look closely at Kipling’s word choice. In just the first stanza, you can see the evidence of this burden: exile (line 3) and heavy harness (line 5). Those individuals who will facilitate the building of an empire must live abroad under heavy “toil” (line 28). They must be far from the comforts of home and family to complete their mission, which will not be an easy one. There is no guarantee their goals will be met, either, as you could see in lines 23 and 24: “Watch Sloth ...

There were many different reasons, although it should always be remembered that a majority of Germans never actually voted for Hitler. Many of those who did looked upon him as the country's savior, someone who would make Germany great again. Germany had been mired in economic chaos with living standards drastically reduced and mass unemployment causing misery to millions. Large numbers of the middle-class citizens had their savings wiped out and no longer felt secure. It seemed that the entire system had failed, that democracy had failed, and that it was time for radical change. Hitler offered such change. He made elaborate promises about restoring Germany's greatness and getting the nation back to work, restoring a sense of national pride after the humiliations of the Versailles Treaty. Like the demagogue that he was, Hitler offered simple solutions to seemingly intractable problems. In a country with a fully-functioning political system and a healthy economy, it's likely ...

Hamlet's attitude to his mother from his first appearance seems one of quiet disdain. In act 1, scene 2, he somewhat coldly addresses her and seems to fixate on her statement questioning his ongoing grieving. She has asked: If it be,/Why seems it so particular with thee? You might ask how much of his manner is openly disdainful of Gertrude herself and how much is just Hamlet's ongoing grief limiting his ability to reach out to his mother. Yet he clearly is furious at her for marrying Claudius. Also, observe that Gertrude addresses him with the familiar "thou" but he uses the more formal "you" to her. Pronoun usage in Shakespeare's time is an interesting issue, especially since the familiar forms were already beginning to die out in general conversation. You might look up some information about the nuances of these pronouns in his characters' speech. In act 3, scene 2, before and during the play-within-the-play, Hamlet's effort seems more directed...

The play Betrayal by Harold Pinter is not an example of either psychoanalytic or feminist drama. In terms of genre, Pinter is sometimes loosely associated with a school known as the "Angry Young Men," writers of lower or lower middle class origin who were disillusioned by the elitism of British literature and politics after World War II. Although Pinter is similar to Osborne in being actively engaged in political critique and rebelling against the gentility of Georgian literature, his own work is technically more modernist, tending to a sort of dark absurdism, sometimes called "comedy of menace." His hallmark as a playwright is use of awkward, almost menacing, moments of silence within his dialogue. There are two basic approaches one could take to staging Betrayal. First, this play is quasi-autobiographical, reflecting his own experiences of adultery. Thus it could be staged realistically, using 1970s settings and costumes, with the very mundanity of its setting con...

A good theme from Keeping Corner to write an essay about would be the theme of Indian tradition.  In fact, even the title comes from a particular Indian tradition that widows in India must keep themselves confined for an entire year (with their heads shaved) in order to express their grief over their husbands.  This is one of the most important Indian traditions relevant to the plot in that it is exactly what happens to the main character of Leela.  Another tradition you could write about is marrying at an early age.  In fact, Leela is married at the age of nine which is very typical for a privileged child in a Brahman family.  Yet another tradition you could discuss is what happens after a widow "keeps corner."  The widow is bound to be childless and unmarried for the rest of her life.  Because of this particular tradition, it is education and work for civil rights that finally appeals the most to Leela.

It could reasonably be argued that both appeasement and isolationism contributed greatly to the outbreak of World War II. As Hitler made ever greater territorial demands in Europe, many politicians believed that giving him what he wanted was a price worth paying for avoiding another world war. The horror and bloodshed of the First World War were still fresh in the minds of millions, and the last thing many wanted to do was to go through yet another destructive conflict. Besides, many countries such as Britain and France were woefully unprepared for war, either economically or militarily. However, the policy of appeasement failed miserably. It was clear quite early on that once Hitler had been given what he demanded, he'd simply go on demanding even more. And that's precisely what happened after the Munich conference, the high-water mark of appeasement. Though he'd been given the Sudetenland, Hitler had further territorial designs on Europe. Appeasement had emboldened him to...

Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles in the first person voice of Dr. Watson in order to highlight Sherlock Holmes's keen intelligence and genius for analysis. Dr. Watson is an everyman who jumps to obvious—and often wrong—conclusions about almost everything and so acts a foil for the highly talented Holmes. Watson is also endlessly impressed with Holmes's powers of observation, and so encourages the reader to be impressed as well. For example, in the opening to this mystery, Holmes is able to figure out what Watson is doing, although facing away from him. This causes Watson to say, in honest admiration: I believe you have eyes in the back of your head. Watson continues to be impressed that Sherlock Holmes can derive the meaning from a walking stick left at his home much more thoroughly and accurately than Watson himself can. Having Watson tell the story also ensures that the mystery is not revealed too soon. Watson is a sincere man who is easily mislead. He can be clueles...

It's a great idea to keep up with recent science news. News outlets are great places to check for science news updates - some outlets even have sections dedicated to science news. I'll list some of the most popular science news items from this past summer (2016) and link them to the online articles so you can take a look. June 28, 2016: Science organizations urge congress to take climate change seriously July 2, 2016: NASA announced extended spacecraft missions July 4, 2016: Bats eat mosquitoes and reduce Zika carriers (During this time, fear of Zika rises) July 5, 2016: Juno spacecraft began orbit around Jupiter July 12, 2016: Obama administration strengthens Arctic drilling restrictions July 19, 2016: Study shows that IVF doesn't increase breast cancer July 22, 2016: Extreme heatwave in the midwest July 30, 2016: Zika cases skyrocket in Puerto Rico (worry continues) August 8, 2016: Miami is "ground zero" for Zika August 16, 2016: Possible new treatment for osteo...

Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran is one of the central characters in The Secret History who we learn in the prologue is eventually murdered. He is part of a closely knit group of six students who study the classics at Hampden College. Bunny eventually stumbles upon a secret that the other five friends had hoped to keep between them. He uses this knowledge to tease the group relentlessly with his "uncanny ability to ferret out topics of conversation that made his listener uneasy and to dwell upon them with ferocity once he had." The group begins to see Bunny as a threat and decide as a result to take matters into their own hands. In The Secret History, Bunny is a nickname for Edmund Corcoran. Ultimately, Bunny is murdered for his inability to keep a dangerous secret. The story begins with Richard Papen (the narrator) leaving Plano (a fictitious town in California) for Hampden College in Vermont. Hampden College is a fictitious institution, likely modeled after Bennington Coll...

int (csc^2(t))/(cot(t))dt= We will use the following formula:   int (f'(x))/(f(x))dx=ln|f(x)|+C. We will use the following formula:   The formula tells us that if we have integral of rational function where numerator is equal to derivative of denominator, then the integral is equal to natural logarithm of the denominator plus some constant. The proof of the formula can be obtained by simply integrating the right-hand side. Since (cot(t))'=-csc^2(t) we first have to modify our integral in order to apply the formula. We will put the minus sign in the numerator but then we must also put minus sign in front of the integral (-1 times-1=1). -int(-csc^2(t))/cot(t)dt= Now we apply the formula. -ln(cot(t))+C= We can further simplify the result by using rule for logarithm of power: r log_b x=log_b x^r ln(cot^(-1)(t))+C= And since cot^(-1)(t)=tan(t) we have ln(tan(t))+C 

Trust in this context can be defined as the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone. The consensus is that trust has to be earned. What this means is that the person to be trusted (the "trustor") has to have acted, over a period, in a manner that has convinced the trustee that he or she deserves trust. The situation does become complicated, however, when one is involved in social situations in which the trustor and trustee have not had consistent contact or have never been in contact at all, as in a first-time meeting. In such a context, it can be said that having "a firm belief" in a stranger would be foolhardy and naive because the trustor has not had occasion to earn trust. The trustee will, therefore, place him or herself at risk by trusting such an individual or individuals. The notion that "one cannot be too careful in life" then becomes a reasonable option. For one, it reduces the risk of the would-be trustee's abu...

Wordsworth (1770–1850) is known as a Romantic poet, which means that much of his poetry celebrates the beauty and power of nature. English Romantic poets of this time saw the industrial revolution, which brought with it cities dominated by factories pumping smoke into the skies, as a threat to the natural landscape. In "Tintern Abbey," an autobiographical poem published in 1798, Wordsworth returns to the eponymous abbey, in southeast Wales, five years after his previous visit. He comments on how the beautiful landscape around the abbey ("these orchard-tufts . . . groves and copses . . . pastoral farms, / Green to the very door") have impressed themselves upon his memory, and helped him cope with "the din / Of towns and cities." One way in which Wordsworth emphasizes the beauty and serenity of the natural world is to contrast it with the ugliness and noise of the city. For example, he describes the natural world as inspiring in him a "tranquil restorat...