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Kino's canoe is the tool he uses to provide for his family and is an essential part of his life. Kino's canoe enables him to catch fish and carries him to deeper waters, where he dives for pearls. Steinbeck writes that Kino's canoe was the "one thing of value he owned in the world" and was passed down through generations in his family. Symbolically, the canoe represents Kino's heritage, culture, and family. Kino's life and future are intricately linked to his canoe. After Kino finds the Pearl of the World, he plans on traveling across the sea to the capital in his canoe, where he can sell the pearl for a high price. Kino then kills a man in self-defense and plans on using the canoe to escape from the village and flee the authorities. Unfortunately, Kino discovers that there is a gaping hole in the bottom of his canoe. Steinbeck writes, "This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not...

Product placement in movies and TV shows involves more than just invoking a feeling of familiarity. It also involves targeting a specific demographic or age group, particularly those who tend to skip ads, to make them become more emotionally connected to a product and develop an association with it.  Research shows consumers remember product placement and that it has conscious and unconscious effects. For example, people tend to recall the product to a greater extent when they see it placed within a show or movie, which is a conscious effect. They also tend to exhibit a higher intention to purchase a product after seeing it placed within entertainment, which is a subconscious effect of product placement. Research suggests effective product placement can also lead the audience to reject that product's competitors, which also operates on a subconscious level. The less disruptive the placement is to the content, the more effective it is shown to be.  Which product placement you choose...

There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Fortunato's murder was premeditated.  In the first line of the story, the narrator and murderer, Montresor, says that when Fortunato insulted him, "[he] vowed revenge."  This certainly suggests that Montresor conceived of and planned the murder in advance.  He also says, It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.  I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile was at the thought of his immolation. Here, Montresor claims that he has continued to pretend he is friends with Fortunato, never revealing that he is, all the while, planning the man's total destruction.   Furthermore, Montresor has with him a "mask of black silk, and . . . a roquelaire," or long cloak, with which he can hide his identity from anyone who might see him with Fortunato.  In addition, Montresor told his servants that he would be gone all ...

The Battle of Midway occurred between June 4th and June 7th, 1942, six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This battle served as a decisive victory for the United States in which Japan became weaker and weaker in military strength until the end of Japan's participation in World War II. During this naval battle, the US used aircrafts to viciously bomb Japanese naval ships. After this decisive battle, the US continued to out-produce Japan in terms of weapons production and continued to show more and more military strength. The battle was such a turning point because until that point, Japan had an upper hand within the Pacific Theatre and were aiming to use a victory during the Battle of Midway to secure their dominance in the Pacific Theatre. However, when Japan lost this battle, they lost their dominance in the Pacific Theatre permanently. When the US won this battle, they were able to establish a submarine base at Midway and further extend military operations. The Battle of Mi...

Act 1, Scene 1 is the first time we see Antonio and Bassanio interact, and in this scene we also see several literary devices that show us they are very good friends.   Antonio's first words are to ask, Well, tell me now what lady is the same / To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, / That to-day you promised to tell me of. From this we see that Antonio and Bassanio trust one another with their secrets, and that Antonio really cares to hear the latest news about his friend's life.   Bassanio does not immediately tell Antonio about the lady, because he has a large favor to ask of Antonio, and he wants to make sure that he is free to ask it.  Antonio assures him: ... be assured / My purse, my person, my extremest means / Lie all unlocked to your occasions. This is the literary device of foreshadowing.  "My person" means "my body."  Although Antonio could not possibly imagine it at this point in the play, his "person" will almost be "unlocked...

Leopold Kaplan was, in fact, once General Leopold Kaplan. He is a retired army general and is completely unknown to the protagonist of the story, John Anderton. Leopold Kaplan is a skeptic as regards the efficacy of the Precrime Unit, which John Anderton founded and now heads. The Precrime Unit exists to try and stop crimes from happening before they have actually taken place, using information sourced from human beings—now treated almost as animals—who are blessed with the gift of precognition. Kaplan is actually working to bring down Precrime with the help of a new army that he heads; his supposed retirement is really a front for his true intentions. Upon discovering this, Anderton kills Kaplan, whom he was originally sent out to protect from a murder. According to the text, Leopold Kaplan is retired from the Army of the Federated Westbloc Alliance, of which he was once the general. He hates the idea of the Precrime, an organization that uses people with the gift of precognition to p...

There are various ways that Golding establishes a dichotomy between civilization and savagery since, indeed, that is one of the novel’s major themes. That theme becomes apparent from the very outset, as chapter one immediately describes how the boys are stranded on the island. To clearly identify this theme, we must examine the specific language Golding uses to describe the behavior of Ralph and Piggy as they become aware of their circumstances. In the novel’s opening lines, Golding places special emphasis on clothing and dress to establish the difference between proper and improper behavior. Ralph has “taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead.” Ralph has removed his school uniform, effectively casting off the proper dress of a student, so that it “trailed” behind him. Thus, school -- with all its rules and boundaries -- is now in his past, a part of a civilized society that Ralph discards so t...

Let's look at a concrete example here. Imagine that Mary, a sixteen-year-old girl from a relatively poor family, became pregnant after having a relationship with 17-year-old Bob. Let's think about how social policy could affect whether these two young people and their child would prosper or be trapped in a cycle of poverty. The first interdependency we should consider is the relationship between the two young parents. If they are encouraged to stay together and have access to shared social housing, they will do a better job of raising the child. If both young people can find jobs in their neighborhoods, they are more likely to stay together and provide a secure environment for their child. If the state creates special classes for pregnant teenagers in which they can bond with others in the same situation, they can provide mutual support and babysitting.  On the other hand, if there are no jobs in the neighborhood and no support structures for the young parents, both may drop ou...

Both men are profoundly at odds with their respective societies, albeit for different reasons. Although Creon is king of Thebes and his word is law, he cannot overcome Antigone's stubborn defiance. In his role as king, Creon is supposed to protect his society from all manner of threats—both internal and external. To that end, he believes himself to be doing the right thing in refusing to allow Polynices's body to be buried. Polynices was a threat to Thebes; he wanted to take over the city and was planning to desecrate the temples. However, in due course, Creon's stubbornness puts the safety and security of Theban society in serious jeopardy. By willfully ignoring the prophesies of Tiresias and the entreaties of his son, he risks not just his throne, but also the very integrity of his kingdom. Hamlet's alienation from society stems largely from his wicked uncle's usurpation of the throne. The state of Denmark is so rotten, so contaminated by moral corruption, that it...

Suppose that a telescope has $200$-in mirror that is constructed in a parabolic shape that collects light from the stars and focuses it at the prime focus, that is, the focus of the parabola. The mirror is $3.79$-in deep at its center. Determine the distance from the vertex to the focus. If we let the vertex of the parabola lies on the origin and halfway between $200$-in. Then its equation is $x^2 = 4py$ where the focus is located at $(0, p)$ and endpoints at $(100, 3.79)$ and $(-100, 3.79)$. Hence, the endpoints are the solution of the equation, so.. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} x^2 =& 4py \\ \\ (100)^2 =& 4p(3.79) \\ \\ p =& 659.6306 \text{-in} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ It shows that the distance from the vertex to the focus is approximately $660$ inches.

I will start with the independent variable. The independent variable in an experiment is the variable the experimenter has control over. For example, if you are testing the effect of amounts of water on plant growth, the independent variable is the amount of water since that is was the experimenter is controlling. In the experiment you are referring to, the independent variable is the presence of the loud cymbal noises, since this is what the experimenter is controlling. Another way to think about the independent variable is to think about what is different between the experimental and control group. In this experiment, the only thing that was different was the presence of the loud noises, making that the independent variable. The dependent variable in an experiment is the variable that is being measured and cannot be controlled. In the plant example, the amount of plant growth is being measured and cannot be controlled by the experimenter. In the experiment above, the dependent variab...

Ah, the "fate-vs-free will" question. High school English teachers usually get this wrong. Oedipus absolutely has free will. In Greek myth, prophecies exist to come true.This fact does not, however, preclude Oedipus’ own agency in his (and others’) ruin. Apollo (the god of prophecy) knows what will happen; he does not make them happen. Ah, comes the objection, but without Apollo's prophecy Oedipus would have lived footloose and fancy-free in Corinth for the rest of his life. But the Delphic Oracle wasn’t a door-to-door enterprise. Oedipus went to them. Some random drunk questioned his parentage. Now, Polybus and Merope could have done a lot of people a big favor by leveling with their adoptive son, but they were more interested in protecting the line of succession at Corinth. They tell Oedipus to let it go, but he just has to know the truth — his very name is suggestive of knowledge. (Gr. oida = “I know”.) Oedipus tells Jocasta that the Oracle did not answer his question,...

When Pi begins being teased about his full name, Piscine, and mockingly nicknamed "Pissing Patel," he decides to take matters into his own hands. When he begins as a student at a new school, he claims a new identity for himself: I got up from my desk and hurried to the blackboard. Before the teacher could say a word, I picked up a piece of chalk and said as I wrote: My name is Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as—I double underlined the first two letters of my given name—Pi Patel. For good measure I added Pi =3.14 and I drew a large circle, which I then sliced in two with a diameter, to evoke that basic lesson of geometry. With his new name established, Pi thinks, "I was saved. I could breathe. A new beginning . . . [S]o, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge." The number "pi" represents the ratio of a circle's ci...

According to Robert M. Lombardo, author of Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia, the study of crime in Chicago has long been plagued with controversies. While the media and public focused intense attention on notorious organized crime figures such as Al Capone, very few sociologists studied organized crime in a scholarly way. One of the few was John Landesco, who published Organized Crime in Chicago in 1929 (this book was reprinted in 1968). Landesco differed from most sociologists in the Chicago School of Sociology by laying blame for organized crime on the business community and the government of Chicago, and he advocated a reform of the social structure of Chicago, including services to integrate Sicilian immigrants into society, and the reform of the police department. He believed that the business, government, and social stratification of Chicago gave rise to organized crime, not immigrants themselves.  Another debate among historians and sociologists is how to even classi...

Determine whether the equation $3x + 7y = 21$ defines $y$ as a function of $x$. Solving for $y$ in terms of $x$ gives $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 3x + 7y =& 21 && \text{Subtract } 3x \\ \\ 7y =& 21 - 3x && \text{Divide both sides by } 7 \\ \\ y =& \frac{21 - 3x}{7} && \text{Simplify} \\ \\ y =& 3 - \frac{3}{7} x && \text{Answer} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ The last equation is a rule that gives one value of $y$ for each value of $x$, so it defines $y$ as a function of $x$. We can write the function as $\displaystyle f(x) = 3 - \frac{3}{7} x$

Interesting question! Victor Hugo opposed the corruption within the Catholic Church rather than the institution itself. If we rely on the text of his novel Les Miserables, we can see that this is true. Take, for instance, the incomparable Bishop Myriel: he is the reason for Jean Valjean's exceptional spiritual transformation. Bishop Myriel, however, is the antithesis of members of the clergy during Hugo's time. For his part, Hugo relinquished his Catholic faith in his later years. Historians maintain that he became a sort of rational Deist. Hugo kept his faith in God but chose to separate himself from organized Catholicism. In that sense, he opposed the Catholic Church. More specifically, however, Hugo opposed the corruption within the hierarchy of the church. Members of the clergy were predominantly focused on retaining their wealth and influence. They cared little for the working poor. It is not a coincidence that the June Rebellion is mentioned in Hugo's Les Miserables. ...

It can be hard to tell what an author's intention was in writing a particular text, but Hawthorne often returns to the same subjects again and again: religion, sin, and guilt.  "Young Goodman Brown" doesn't seem to be an exception.  Goodman Brown treats religious faith, symbolized by Faith, his wife, rather casually.  Though Faith "sadly" asks him not to go into the forest that night, he insists that he must, and though she seems "melancholy" when he looks back at her, he continues on his path.  He thinks to himself, "'after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven.'"  However, this is not how faith is supposed to work: one cannot simply lay it down and pick it up whenever it is convenient.  Brown takes his faith, and Faith, for granted, assuming that they will be waiting for him, unchanged, whenever he is ready to return to them.  In short, they aren't.  Whether he actually sees Faith in the woods...

Throughout the novel, Scout matures and develops into a morally upright individual like her father. As the novel progresses, Scout heeds her father's lessons and gains perspective on life. She begins to perceive situations from other people's points of view, which gives her insight into how people feel and behave throughout Maycomb. By the end of the novel, Scout has the ability to sympathize with and have empathy for others, particularly innocent individuals like Boo Radley. In addition to increasing her perspectives and gaining insights into people and situations, Scout also becomes tolerant by the end of the novel. At the beginning of the story, Scout was known for her quick temper and continually trying to solve problems with her fists. After sitting down and talking with her father, Scout learns the importance of tolerance and self-control. Scout first exercises her tolerance by walking away from Cecil Jacobs on the playground. As the novel progresses, Scout witnesses her ...

Foreign policy became increasingly linked to trade policy in this period. Perhaps the most important event was the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and thus the end of the Cold War. This meant that countries of the former Soviet Union became transformed from geopolitical threats to potential trading partners of the west and lower-wage countries to which manufacturing could be outsourced as well as potential markets for the west. The European Union was established by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. The initial creation of the Common Market followed by the EU, and its subsequent expansion, exemplify this notion of foreign policy working hand in hand with trade policy to facilitate both movement of goods and people and foster closer political and economic ties among nations. A similar synergy can be seen in the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement which signaled both economic and political cooperation. Perhaps the most ambitious organization growing out of globalization was the World Tr...

The observed relative growth rate of Ukraine is $4\%$ per year. In 2006 the population of Ukraine is 112,000. a.) Determine a function that will model the population after t years. b.) Determine the projected population in year 2012. c.) On what year will Ukraine have a total population of 200,000. a.) Recall the formula for growth rate $n(t) = n_0 e^{rt}$ where $n(t)$ = population at time $t$ $n_0$ = initial size of the population $r$ = relative rate of growth $t$ = time If we let $112000$ be the initial population, then the model of the population after $t$ years is $n(t) = 112000 e^{0.04t}$ b.) The projected population in the year 2012 where $t = 6$ is.. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} n(6) =& 112000 e^{0.04(6)} \\ \\ =& 142379.90 \text{ or } 142379 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ c.) $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \text{if } n(t) =& 200,000 \text{ then} && \\ \\ 200,000 =& 112,000 e^{0.04 t} && \text{Divide both sides by } 112,000 \\ \\ \frac{2...

Early on in the novel, Cecil Jacobs criticizes Scout's father on the playground for "defending niggers." Scout gets upset and wishes to fight Cecil. That night, Scout comes home and asks Atticus if it's true that he defends Negroes. Atticus explains to Scout that he will be defending an African American named Tom Robinson and challenges her to hold her head high and keep her fists down. The next day, Cecil Jacobs continues to criticize Atticus, but Scout remembers Atticus's comments about keeping her cool. Scout applies his lesson and calmly walks away while Cecil Jacobs calls her a coward. At Tom Robinson's trial, Jem witnesses his father defend an innocent, harmless man. In Chapter 25, Jem applies Atticus's lesson about not harming mockingbirds when Scout attempts to squash a rolly-polly bug. Jem tells Scout, "Don't do that, Scout. Set him out on the back steps" (146). Jem understands the importance of protecting innocent beings by stopping...

This article discusses the connection between terror and what the author calls "violent justice," or how states punish acts of terrorism. Findlay, the author, calls for "a more detailed empirical examination of the relationships suggested between terrorism and violent justice." He feels that the justification for using violent justice to respond to terrorism comes from the worlds of journalism and politics, not from validated research. This paper establishes a theoretical framework that the author believes can guide this empirical research.  The first question the author examines is the utility and purpose of violence, both in acts of terrorism and in the response of the justice system. While the author states that both terror and its punishment have elements of what he calls "purposeful justice," he believes that if the violence of the response to terror approaches the magnitude of the terror itself, its utility is limited. The author also states that the...

Use the Properties of Logarithm to evaluate each logarithm correct to six decimal places. a.) $\log_{12} 10$ b.) $\log_{2} 8.4$ a.) $\displaystyle \log_{12}10 = \frac{\ln 10}{\ln 12} = 0.926628$ b.) $\displaystyle \log_{2} 8.4 = \frac{\ln 8.4}{\ln 2} = 3.070489$

Write the polynomial $2x^3 + x - 3x^2 + 4$ in descending power of the variable. Then give the leading term and leading coefficient. Reorder the polynomial $2x^3 + x - 3x^2 + 4$ alphabetically from left to right, starting with the highest order term. $2x^3 - 3x^2 + x + 4$ A polynomial consists of terms, which are also known as monomials. The leading term in a polynomial is the highest degree term. In this case, the leading term in $2x^3 - 3x^2 + x + 4$ is the first term, which is $2x^3$ The leading coefficient in a polynomial is the coefficient of the leading term. In this case, the leading term is $2x^3$ and the leading coefficient is 2. While the leading term in a polynomial is the highest degree term. In this case, the leading term is the first term, which is $2x^3$

The mood and tone of a poem help us assess both how we are supposed to respond to it, the atmosphere it creates, and the attitude the poet is taking towards his subject. In this short poem by Robert Frost, the poet adopts a tone of acceptance towards "all the hills I haven't hoed," or things he hasn't done—he is suggesting that he does not, and we should not, waste time agonizing about everything that is yet to be done, particularly if it means that we miss out on the pleasures of the current moment. The mood of this poem is a slow, gentle one: the friend's horse "slows," as if he too is content to "plod" and indulge in "a friendly visit." The speaker has determined, like his friend, that now is a "time to talk." Rather than demanding to know what the friend wants to talk about, as he might if his intention was to hurry on to his next destination, the poet is content to pause in this "mellow" spot and engage in som...

In chapter XIV Huck Finn and Jim are discussing kings. The subject of Solomon comes up: I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and called each other your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, 'stead of mister; and Jim's eyes bugged out, and he was interested. He says: “I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards. How much do a king git?” Even an illiterate slave has some vague understanding of the Bible. Indeed, the Bible was most likely to be the only book with which slaves had any acquaintance. Huck tells Jim that Solomon had a million wives. In that case, Jim concludes, he couldn't have been that wise otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to live with all those quarreling wives. He'd never get a moment's peace. In chapter XXIV,...

In Keats's ballad "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," the knight, who is the speaker of the poem, tells of his misadventure with la belle dame, who steals his vitality and the vitality of other men who fall under the spell of her beauty and her song. Poetry, like other forms of art, can be understood as the belle dame if the reader of the poem considers the knight in the role of the poet writing the poetry. Imagine a poet, like the knight in the ballad, happening upon something beautiful. This image, whether it be a vision or a sound or even a smell or taste, stays with the poet, who eventually obsesses over the beautiful image in his or her imagination, much like the knight obsesses over the lady in the meads. While trying to translate the image into art, the poet struggles under the greatness and power of the beauty of the image, and eventually, the poet succumbs, weakened by the effort of trying to create something as beautiful as what inspired the art in the first place. This...

In act 4, Reverend Parris tells Deputy Governor Danforth that he ought to consider postponing the hangings scheduled to take place today.  He says that "it were another sort that hanged till now," by which he means that the people that have already been hanged were not as respected in the town; those people were outcasts, but these people are known to be upstanding citizens and good Christians.  He says, I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet in the town.   In other words, the people about to be hanged—Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, among others—are still thought of as good people.  The citizens of Salem already question their guilt and could riot if Rebecca "send[s] up some righteous prayer" as she is about to die.

Situational irony is irony that occurs when something happens that is different from the expected outcome. In "The Machine that Won the War," this happens a few times as readers discover how the three main characters treat the supercomputer named "Multivac." The humans in the story have been at war with the Denebians for a very long time. They feel that the only sure way to victory is to put their fates into the "hands" of a supercomputer that will analyze the enemy's tactics and come up with its own battle plans and countermeasures to win the war. Based on this initial setup, a reader would expect that Swift, Henderson, and Jablonski are all going to talk about how amazingly the computer executed its job.   That is when the irony of the situation starts to come through. Each man admits that he didn't pay attention to the computer at all. Henderson admits that the field data coming in was so biased that he couldn't trust it; therefore, he simpl...

Bilbo’s increase in confidence and courage is the defining aspect of his character arc. At the beginning of the novel, he is shut away content in his Hobbit hole, happy to remain separate and coddled from the rest of the world. In the movie, Bilbo chooses to join the dwarves on their quest out of a sense for adventure. In the book, however, Bilbo wants nothing to do with them and only joins because he had been duped into signing a contract. Despite being on the adventure somewhat against his will, Bilbo still proves himself time and again, saving the dwarves from the spiders, the trolls, and a number of other dangers they encounter along the way. Bilbo’s character arc has even been cited as a sort of Christian metaphor for the growth of the soul, though how much Tolkien intended on this front is up for debate. From a thematic standpoint, the ring of invisibility also plays into Bilbo’s brand of bravery. If Hobbits are the overlooked creatures of Middle Earth, then it is noteworthy that...

Simpkin the miller previously cheated the college that John and Alan attend by overcharging them for the flour he grinds in his mill. They come and try to trick him by claiming that they're interested in milling; they want to watch him grind it, in reality, so that they can make sure he's not charging too much. So he doesn't like them at first because they are trying to prevent him from making as much money as he has in the past and also because they are treating him like he's stupid by trying to play this trick. Simpkin responds by stealing the grain and having his wife bake it into a loaf of bread for his family. He also unties the students' horse so that they have to leave and chase it down while the stealing and baking happens. When they return, they ask to pay him to stay there overnight, and he agrees. Their plan is to get revenge against the miller for untying their horse and stealing their grain. To do so, the students have sex with the miller's wife and...

I believe his poem alludes to the choices we make in our lives that are sometimes unpopular but provide us with the benefit we are seeking.  The "road not taken" implies he is speaking of the choices he did not make; the roads or paths he chose not to travel.  He "took the one less traveled by" suggesting that the path he chose for himself was not the one his peers may have taken or one his family wanted for him; a path society approved of.  The final line of "that has made all the difference" suggests that he has considered what would have happened had he taken the more popular or well traveled path, but the reader is left to consider how that choice impacted his life.  It also leaves us with one of the most burning questions we all face: what if?  What if he had taken to road that was more traveled, then the other road would be the one less traveled, and there still would be a difference in his life.  We cannot see the out comes of choices we do not take...

I would echo the sentiments of the previous Educator and also say that no, Claudio does not deserve Hero. For one thing, he's way too immature. Just look at how he's so easily manipulated by the scheming Don John, who makes Claudio think that Don Pedro is wooing Hero. As well as immaturity, Claudio's reaction to Don John's blatant lies indicates naivety and insecurity—certainly not character traits that any self-respecting woman would want in a life partner. Even worse, Claudio is way too emotional, forever going ballistic at the slightest provocation. Once again, he's putty in the hands of Don John, who effortlessly makes him believe that Hero's been cheating on him the night before their wedding. Claudio is so furious at what he thinks is his intended's infidelity that he angrily confronts his blushing bride on their wedding day, publicly humiliating Hero by making all kinds of outrageous slurs and accusations against her. I am going to go out on a limb he...

I don't think that it can be said that Melinda changes as a student over the course of the novel.  When the novel starts, Melinda is on her way to the first day of high school.  Her first quarter grades are not good, and her grades continue to stay poor from grading quarter to grading quarter.  If anything, Melinda's grades actually get worse as her school year goes on.  Her parents go through a range of tactics to help.  They want to be helpful and encouraging, but their frustrating eventually begins to show, and they become angry at Melinda's increasingly poor grades.  Her parents do attempt to have Melinda seek out a tutor, but Melinda doesn't do this.  What her parents fail to understand is that Melinda isn't in need of a tutor.  She needs a therapist.  Short of that, she needs somebody to understand what she went through the previous summer.  In her words, Melinda needs "to hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to somebody else."  Her emotional tu...

The Federalist essays 79 through 82 were each written by Alexander Hamilton. They are an extended discussion of the role of the federal judiciary under the Constitution. In number 79, Hamilton addresses a few key concerns. He observes that the justices will be guaranteed a salary from the federal government, so they will not be beholden to any one party in their decision-making. He also points out that they are liable to be impeached if their behavior violates the law. He further explains that since they are appointed for life, it guarantees that they will be experienced, which does justice to the kinds of people who agree to serve their country as judges. Number 80 has to do with the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, and in it Hamilton explains why the federal courts are given jurisdiction in cases involving treaties, maritime cases, cases involving the federal government, cases between states, and others. In this essay, Hamilton anticipates how important the federal courts will ...

In the minds of most Renaissance writers, as well as the classical writers they emulated, Fortune, or "Fortuna," was gendered female. In fact, Fortuna was the Roman goddess of luck and chance, a fact of which Machiavelli, a classicist through and through, was keenly aware. So Machiavelli is by no means being original, nor notably sexist, by referring to Fortune with a feminine pronoun. Like most of his contemporaries, Machiavelli would have believed that women were more fickle, spiteful, and irrational than men. This belief, which of course is part and parcel of a patriarchal society, is probably why the Romans associated fortune with the feminine. Machiavelli, though, takes this gendered view of fortune much further: Fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a love...

This is differential equation with separable variables. We can separate the variables by putting y on the left side and dx to right side to get int y dy=int (ln x)/x dx (1) This looks like we multiplied the whole equation by y dx but that is not really the case. If you want to learn more about theory behind this I would suggest you read W. E. Boyce, R. C. DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems or some other book on ordinary differential equations. Now back to solving the equation by integrating. Let us first integrate the right side because it is harder. int ln x/x dx= We make substitution t=ln x=>dx/x=dt int t dt=t^2/2=(ln^2x)/2+C Now we return to (1). y^2/2=(ln^2x)/2+C y^2=ln^2x+C y=pm sqrt(ln^2x+C) Now we use initial condition y(1)=2. 2=pm sqrt(ln^2 1+C) 2=pm sqrt C Obviously there is no solution for minus sign. C=4 Therefore, the solution is y=sqrt(ln^2x+4)

In act 2, scene 4, the Nurse meets up with Romeo, who tells her to relay an important message to Juliet. Romeo tells the Nurse to let Juliet know that she needs to devise a plan to leave her home and visit Friar Lawrence's cell in the afternoon. Romeo then tells the Nurse that Friar Lawrence will marry them in secret once Juliet arrives. After Romeo gives the Nurse some coins to relay his important message, he tells the Nurse that one of his men will stop by the Capulet home and deliver a rope ladder to her in secret. Romeo plans on climbing the rope ladder into Juliet's bedroom that night in order to consummate their marriage. In the following scene, the Nurse relays Romeo's message to Juliet and tells her to immediately travel to Friar Lawrence's cell to get married while she retrieves the rope ladder from Romeo's men.

John R. Searle in The Construction of Social Reality makes a distinction between "institutional facts" and "brute facts." The brute facts of the physical universe such as the distance between the earth and sun or the speed of light exist independent even of human existence. Institutional facts are agreed on by convention. Thus whether, for example, someone is the citizen of a country or whether a couple is considered as married under the laws of a particular country is an institutional fact, dependent on a legal context. Nevertheless, there is an objective component to many such facts. Either a couple is or is not married under a certain legal system, independent of whether, for example, they deeply love each other or feel a great deal of emotional closeness over an extended period. Similarly, someone born and raised in a country, who may emotionally be quite patriotic and assimilated to a country's culture may not be a legal citizen. Many social reform movement...

The family in Italy spends about 39% of its income on food, while the family in Mexico spends about 58% of its yearly income on food. Interestingly, according to the photos, the types of food they eat are somewhat similar. Both families—that in Sicily and that in Italy—eat a lot of processed foods (cereals and canned foods, for example). They also drink what appear to be sodas and eat a lot of carbohydrates in the form of bread. The family in Mexico appears to have more produce as part of their meals. This means that family meals in both countries are somewhat similar. The similarity of the meals between the two families suggests that international food businesses have been effective at marketing their products around the globe. For example, both families appear to eat American breakfast cereals and to consume American sodas. International businesses have been so effective at changing local food patterns that family meals in different parts of the world are similar. Though eating local...

Ammonium chloride, sodium chloride, and sand can be separated from each other by using the following steps: 1) Sublimation for separation of ammonium chloride: Ammonium chloride undergoes sublimation at a temperature of about 337.6 degrees Celsius and forms ammonia gas and hydrogen chloride gas. We can heat the mixture at this temperature and collect the gases that are produced to separate ammonium chloride from the mixture. 2) Water dissolution, filtration, and evaporation: Sodium chloride is easily soluble in water, while sand does not dissolve in water. To separate out sodium chloride from sand, one can dissolve the mixture of sodium chloride and sand (left over after step 1 for ammonium chloride separation) in water. Heating and stirring will speed up the process of sodium chloride dissolution in water. The sand will settle down at the bottom of the container and can be filtered out from the liquid phase, using a filter paper, piece of cloth, etc. Finally, the sodium chloride can b...

Morrison may have chosen to include the racial slurs to underline how pervasive racism was in her time. The unofficial name of Medallion (The Bottom) was actually derived from sophistry and deception; essentially, "The Bottom" was a cruel joke played by a white farmer on his slave. According to Morrison, a white farmer had promised his slave freedom and a piece of bottom land if he consented to perform some very difficult chores. Bottom land is a reference to the fertile land of the valleys (as opposed to hilly land). However, the white farmer pretended that the hilly land was actually bottom land (or valley land). Unwilling to part with the fertile land he owned, the farmer tricked his slave into believing that the hilly land he was giving him was essentially good land. He even reiterated his lie by asserting that the hilly land was the bottom of Heaven and "the best land there is." However, the slave soon discovered the lie when he tried to farm the hilly land, wh...

Of course there were many things that characterized the Medieval Period. The two that might distinguish the period the most are the dominance of the Catholic Church and the institution of feudalism. Throughout the medieval period, nearly everyone in Western Europe was Catholic. This was before the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth Century and the split of many factions of the Church. There were notable populations of Jews scattered around the continent, Muslims in Spain, and Eastern Orthodox Christians in the east. However, the Catholic Church held dominance over most of Europe and Europeans. The pope often held more power than even monarchs. A king who disobeyed the wishes of the Church often did so at great risk. For instance, when King Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire disagreed with the pope he found himself in a dire situation. When an argument arose over who had the power to appoint local clergy, Pope Gregory VII demonstrated his authority by excommunicating the king and an...

The tone of the poem "I taste a liquor never brewed" by Emily Dickinson is rapturous. However, although the poet seems to be describing the rapturous feeling experienced with intoxication or inebriation by alcoholic liquor, this state is in fact brought on by observance of nature. When people drink alcoholic beverages and become drunk, they may feel dizzy and euphoric as a result of the effects of the alcohol. Dickinson uses this as a metaphor to describe the natural rapturous effect of being in the midst of nature. The "liquor never brewed" does not have to be made, because it occurs naturally. "Inebriate of air" means that the poet becomes inebriated or drunk just by breathing in fresh air. A "debauchee" is someone addicted to excess, such as excess of alcohol; "reeling" means swaying back and forth as if dizzy through drunkenness. A "tippler" is someone who drinks too much liquor. Additionally, the poet writes of observanc...

"Father Malloy" is one of the few poems in Spoon River Anthology that is not narrated in the first person by its central character. As a result, the use of detail by the poem's unnamed narrator becomes crucial in establishing who Father Malloy was in life. One significant detail is that Father Malloy is not buried in the cemetery on the hill with most of Spoon River's residents, but rather at a Catholic cemetery, indicating a religious divide between himself and the predominantly Protestant community. The fact that he is referred to as "Father Malloy," as well as the references to St. Peter at the end of the poem, confirms this, establishing an apparent conflict between himself and many of his fellow citizens. However, Father Malloy's response to this divide is also a critical detail. For example, we are told that the Father evidently did not see religious differences as a reason to isolate himself. He spent time in fellowship with residents by "tak...

Simplify $\displaystyle 5a^2 b (ab^2)^2 + b^3 (2a^2 b)^2$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 5a^2 b (ab^2)^2 + b^3 (2a^2 b)^2 =& 5a^2 b \left( a^2 b^4 \right) + b^3 (2)^2 \left( a^4 b^2 \right) && \text{Multiply each exponent in $ab^2$ and in $2a^2 b$ by the exponent outside the parentheses} \\ \\ =& 5a^2 b \left( a^2 b^4 \right) + b^3 \left( 4a^4 b^2 \right) && \text{Simplify } (2)^2 \\ \\ =& 5 \left( a^2 \cdot a^2 \right) (b \cdot b^4) + 4 (a^4) \left( b^3 \cdot b^2 \right) && \text{Use Properties of Multiplication to rearrange and group factors} \\ \\ =& 5a^4 b^5 + 4a^4 b^5 && \text{Multiply variables with the same base by adding the exponents} \\ \\ =& 9a^4 b^5 && \end{aligned} \end{equation} $

I am assuming that you are referring to the reasons that many people in the UK gave for voting to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016, a.k.a. Brexit. If not, we can still look at Brexit as a case example of why any country might want to withdraw from the European Union. There were a number of reasons UK citizens gave for voting to leave. The most common one was a desire to limit immigration into the UK. Over the last decade or so, millions of people immigrated to the United Kingdom under the freedom of movement allowances that membership in the EU allows. Those who felt that too many immigrants from other EU nations were coming into the UK unchecked tended to vote to leave the European Union so that their country could institute its own controls over who gets to cross its borders. A desire to stop paying membership fees to the EU is another reason why some might want to withdraw from the EU. The UK paid £13.1 billion to the EU in 2016 alone. Some saw this as a large and dispropor...

Analyze the graph of the rational function $\displaystyle r(x) = \frac{2x^3 - x^2}{x + 1}$ by using a graphing device. Find all $x$ and $y$ intercepts and all vertical, horizontal and slant asymptotes. If the function has no horizontal or slant asymptote, find a polynomial that has the same end as the rational function. Based from the graph, the $x$ intercepts are and $0.5$ On the other hand, the value of $y$ intercept is . Also, the vertical asymptote is $x = -1$. More over, since the degree of the numerator is greater than the degree in the denominator by a factor of $2$, then the rational function has no horizontal or slant asymptote. Thus by applying long division, Hence, if $\displaystyle r(x) = \frac{2x^3 - x^2}{x + 1} = 2x^2 - 3x + 3 - \frac{3}{x + 1}$ Then, the polynomial $f(x) = 2x^2 - 3x + 3$ has the same end behavior as the given rational function.

George Orwell's novella Animal Farm is considered an allegorical tale because all of the characters and events in the story symbolically represent various people, places, and events that correspond to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Josef Stalin. Old Major symbolically represents Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin and the school of thought known as Animalism represents Communism. Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, while Napoleon's character represents Josef Stalin. At the beginning of the story, Mr. Jones is expelled from his farm, which symbolically represents the initial Russian Revolution when Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. The Battle of the Cowshed represents the infighting during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and the Battle of the Windmill allegorically represents the Battle of Stalingrad. Other characters in the novella allegorically symbolize groups and aspects of the early Soviet Union. Boxer represe...

The primary three reasons for the Spaniards to be exploring North America (and, by default, Central and South America) stem from imperial ambitions. Spain, like Portugal and other European countries (especially England, France, and the Netherlands), was a seafaring nation. At the time, Spain had begun to set its sights outside of its borders in order to expand trade and gain territory ahead of its chief rivals, namely, the Portuguese. Imperial ambition was the first primary reason. In this spirit, Christopher Columbus sought a western passage to India, so he set sail across the Atlantic—only to find the Americas. Alongside ambition, wealth from land, gold, or silver was on his and other explorers' minds. Gaining wealth was the second primary reason. As Spain made inroads in the "New World," laborers, basically slaves, were needed to build, mine, and cultivate on the scale that Spain (and other countries) envisioned. One way to bring the native population under submission ...

During the 1800s and 1900s, immigrant had a significant social and economic effect on the United States. There were two major immigration waves. There was the Old Immigration wave (1840-1890) and the New Immigration wave (after 1890). Immigrants from northern and western Europe moved to the United States during the old wave and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe moved to the United States during the new wave. Drawn to the United States for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to democracy and economic opportunities, these immigrants brought their unique customs and cultures to the northeastern, southwestern, and western areas of the U.S. The immigrants caused cities to grow. This was largely due to the economic opportunities in large cities such as New York City and Boston. The populations in these cities skyrocketed. Therefore, the immigrants, including women and children, caused the number of factory workers to proliferate. The immigrants also became carpenters, b...