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There are different ways to "annotate" quotations, depending upon the subject of your essay and the point you are trying to make in using the quotation. In terms of what we can unpack from this quote from Shelley's "Ozymandias," however, I will offer a few suggestions. First, the context of the quotation: the description relates to the face of Ozymandias's statue, whose "shattered visage" is now sunk in the desert sand, no trace remaining of the great works he once thought would provoke "despair." We need to consider this quotation in the context of the whole poem: what does it tell us about Ozymandias himself? The word "sneer" suggests an arrogance which is in accord with a man who would declare himself "king of kings." The adjective "wrinkled" to describe the lip creates a visual image, helping the reader to picture the facial expression on the statue. For Ozymandias to have had himself depicted with a ...

Scout learns many lessons in To Kill a Mockingbird. She learns that sometimes the rules don't apply to everybody, as is the case with the Ewells. The children in the Ewell family do not attend school, and Mr. Ewell hunts out of season. Scout also learns that life is not always fair. This lesson is learned as she sees an innocent man convicted of a crime he did not commit. Through Tom Robinson's ordeal, Scout learns that people are often judged based on the color of their skin. However, perhaps the most valuable lesson Scout learns stems from her father's words in chapter 3. Atticus tells Scout, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is terrified of Boo Radley. She believes the stories about him, and is almost ill when she learns that Boo covered her with a blanket on the night Miss Maudie's house burned. Gradual...

Jealousy is presented as a tragic flaw in Othello—a destructive emotion that brings down an otherwise good man. Iago, ever on the lookout for people's weaknesses, realizes that Othello—a strong, brave, and honest commander, supremely confident in his career—is insecure in the arena of love. A black man in a racist society and a middle-aged man in an ageist society, he worries that his lovely young wife doesn't truly love him. Iago ruthlessly exploits this fear. He manipulates events to suggest (though he pretends to do so reluctantly) that the handsome Cassio is sleeping with Desdemona. Othello falls for it and "honor kills" his wife as a result. Shakespeare shows that jealousy is a "monster," a destructive emotion that grows out of all proportion to any reality and destroys lives. It clouds our judgment and becomes a form of madness. Iago, too, can be seen as a jealous character. It appears as if Iago is so filled with anger and bile that he is looking for ...

x=sint y=cost First, take the derivative of x and y with respect to t. dx/dx = cost dy/dt=-sint Then, determine the first derivative dy/dx . Take note that in parametric equation, the formula of dy/dx is: dy/dx = (dy/dt)/(dx/dt) Applying this formula, the first derivative is: dy/dx = -sint/cost dy/dx=-tant Then, determine the second derivative of the parametric equation. To do so, apply the formula: (d^2y)/(dx^2)= (d/dt (dy/dx))/(dx/dt) So the second derivative is: (d^2y)/(dx^2) = (d/dt(-tant))/(cost) (d^2y)/(dx^2) = (-sec^2t)/(cost) (d^2y)/(dx^2)=-sec^3t Take note that the concavity of the curve changes when the second derivative is zero or does not exist. (d^2y)/(dx^2)= 0   or   (d^2y)/(dx^2)= DNE Setting the second derivative equal to zero, result to no solution. sec^3t = 0 t= {O/}   Since there are no angles in which secant will have a value of zero. However, on the interval  0lttltpi , the secant does not exist at angle pi/2 . sec^3t = DNE t= pi/2 So the concavity of the parametr...

Suppose that a plank $30 ft$ long rests on top of a flat roofed building, with $5 ft$ of the plank projecting over the edge. A worker weighing $240 lb$ sits on one end of the plank. What is the largest weight that can be hung on the projecting end of the plank if it is to remain in balance? By using the law of lever, let $w_1$ be the weight of the man, $x_1$ be the distance to the edge of the building, $w_2$ be the required weight to balance and $x_2$ be the other end of the plank. So in order to remain in balance.. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} w_1 x_1 =& w_2 x_2 \\ \\ 240 lb (30 - 5) =& w_2(5) \\ \\ 240(25) =& w_2(5) \qquad \text{Solve for } w_2 \\ \\ w_2 =& 1200 lbs \end{aligned} \end{equation} $

The thirteen-year era from 1815 to 1828 in the United States was transitional in many respects. The country had just emerged from the War of 1812 (1812–1815) and the future seemed bright. Although America had not won the war, it did manage to hold its own against Britain. This thirteen-year period also preceded the rise of Jacksonian Democracy (1829 –1837). The end of the War of 1812 healed a strong source of division in America. New England had never supported the war, so its end was important for national unity. It was clear, however, that sectionalism might emerge again over economic differences. The presidency of James Monroe (1817–1825) is known as the Era of Good Feelings. One reason for this national harmony was the fact that only one political party—the Democratic-Republicans—dominated the nation. In the presidential election of 1820, Monroe received 99% of the electoral votes cast. Political unity meant that previously contentious issues, such as a national bank, now caused ...

There are a lot of themes that run throughout Wharton's book.   One central theme has to be about dreams versus reality.  Birdy creates his own birdlike existence as a way to escape his own abysmal reality.  To Birdy and Al, the real world is a place to be escaped from.  All of the places where the boys should be receiving love, guidance, and structure are places of harshness and cruelty.  In his dreamy bird world, Birdy is able to escape from nuns, teachers, parents, and army commanders.  The theme of escapism could also be a central theme that coincides with the dream versus reality theme.   A second central theme has to be friendship.  Readers are introduced to Birdy through Al.  As Al's memories become blurred with Birdy's memories, it is made clear to readers that their friendship is just about the only part of reality that either of them can stand.  Their friendship is a deep bond that is strengthened by their time suffering through similar situations.   Love seems to...

In a speech in 1944 to members of the Indian National Army, Subhas Chandra Bose gave a speech with the famous line "Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom" while touring Burma. Burma, today's Myanmar, was another British colony close to the Indian subcontinent. India was colonized by the British, and before that it was controlled by the British East India Company. The country was incorporated into the British Empire and promised freedom after World War I, but the Indians had to continue negotiating for freedom from the British until it happened in 1947. Of the many opinions about decolonization in India, one supported peaceful nonviolence and tolerance (best exemplified by Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru), while the other supported violent measures, as shown in this speech by Subhas Chandra Bose. In the speech, Bose argued that since Britain was consumed by fighting in WWII and was distracted by war, they were at their weakest state and India should begin fighti...

Beatty, who is well-read, dislikes the contradictory nature of books. But, like the devil who can quote scripture, Beatty manipulates excerpts from famous works to his advantage. Having told the woman with many books that she has been locked up in a virtual Tower of Babel, Beatty knows only too well that reading, which offers contradictory ideas, is dangerous to the totalitarian state in which he exerts power. For this reason, Beatty seeks out those who secretly read literature. Books are harmful to a government that desires control over its people, because by reading books, people learn about ideologies that contradict those of their political state and ideas that celebrate individualism. Furthermore, Beatty knows the truth of what Faber tells Montag about books—"the right to carry out actions based on what one has read"—is dangerous to total control of the people. When he comes to Montag's house because he suspects Montag of reading, Beatty tells his worker that reading...

Much of Bilbo's good luck in The Hobbit has to do with his possession of the ring of invisibility, which allows him to do things like spy on the spiders in Mirkwood forest and learn Smaug's weakness, which allows the dragon to be killed. Even his initial good luck in finding the Ring happens because the Ring had grown tired of Gollum and was looking for someone new to carry it. In this way, The Hobbit is mainly setting up The Lord of the Rings, and we can see Bilbo's good luck as being the beginning of his relationship with the Ring, which begins well but, by the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, is making him feel like "butter spread over too much bread." 

Determine the derivative of the function $y = (2x-5)^4(8x^2-5)^{-3}$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} y' &= \left[ (2x-5)^4 \cdot \frac{d}{dx} (8x^2-5)^{-3} \right] \left[ (8x^2-5)^{-3} \cdot \frac{d}{dx} (2x-5)^4 \right]\\ \\ y' &= \left[ (2x-5)^4 \cdot -3(8x^2-5)^{-4} \frac{d}{dx} (8x^2-5) \right] + \left[ (8x^2-5)^{-3} \cdot 4(2x-5)^3 \frac{d}{dx} (2x-5)\right]\\ \\ y' &= \left[ -3(2x-5)^4(8x^2-5)^{-4}(16x)\right] + \left[ 4(8x^2-5)^{-3}(2x-5)^3(2)\right]\\ \\ y' &= \left[(-48x)(2x-5)^4(8x^2-5)^{-4} \right] + \left[ (8)(8x^2-5)^{-3}(2x-5)^3\right]\\ \\ y' &= 8(2x-5)^3(8x^2-5)^{-3} \left[ -6x(2x-5)(8x^2-5)^{-1}+1 \right]\\ \\ y' &= 8(2x-5)^3(8x^2-5)^{-3} \left( \frac{-12x^2+30x}{8x^2-5} + 1 \right)\\ \\ y' &= 8(2x-5)^3(8x^2-5)^{-3} \left( \frac{-12x^2+30x+8x^2-5}{8x^2-5}\right)\\ \\ y' &= 8(2x-5)^3(...

After recovering from his fever, Pip is a man reborn. He's rediscovered himself, finally realizing who and what he really is. In pursuing the life of a man about town, a gentleman of means, he'd forgotten where he came from. He'd become ashamed of his humble origins as a "common laboring boy," an apprentice blacksmith living on the bleak Romney Marshes. Over time, he'd developed into a snob, embarrassed to be reminded of his past upon Joe Gargery's showing up to his apartment one day. But when Pip wakes up and sees Joe's kindly face, he feels utterly ashamed of how he's treated his very dearest friend. There is nothing wrong in Pip wanting to live the life of a gentleman—to have money, nice clothes, and a decent place to live. Unfortunately, he loses sight of what's truly important in life: friendship, love, and true companionship. In Pip's rebirth, all that social snobbery, obsession with changing fashions and love of luxury have died. But...

Use the variable $x$ for the unknown, and write an equation representing the verbal sentence "when $75 \% $ of a number is added to $6$, the result is $3$ more than the number". Find the number and solve the problem. The equation is $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 0.75x + 6 =& x + 3 && \text{Write $75 \%$ as decimal} \\ 0.75x - x =& 3 - 6 && \text{Subtract each side by $(x + 6)$} \\ -0.25x =& -3 && \text{Combine like terms} \\ x =& 12 && \text{Divide each side by $-0.25$} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $

The Home in the novel Bud, Not Buddy is an orphanage in Flint, Michigan where Bud lives at the beginning of the story. The Home is filled with orphans, including Bud, who do not have anywhere else to stay. Bud mentions that he doesn't like the orphanage because it is getting too crowded and fears that some of the children might steal his personal possessions in his suitcase. The novel's setting is during the Great Depression which was a time when many families were experiencing financial difficulty. The orphan population rose because many families could not afford to raise their children which was one reason that the Home was becoming overcrowded in the novel. Bud laments about living at the Home and doesn't want to return because he is tired of being sent away to various foster homes. After a short stay with the Amoses, Bud decides to travel across Michigan to find his father.

The answer to this question can be found in the chapter titled "Ceremony for the Dead." Once it is decided that the pet will be mummified, Toby informs the other children that it is a long process. It will take about 5 or 6 days. He then tells them what supplies are needed. Palm branches and flower petals are needed for the procession. After the procession ended, the kids discussed what supplies would be needed for the actual mummification process. Oil is needed, and the kids figured bicycle oil was as good as any. The first step was to prepare a saltwater bath. The pet was then left to soak until "the following afternoon." The kids were a bit shocked at how gross the bird looked when removed. The appearance of the mummy-to-be when he was removed from his brine bath, on the following afternoon, was something of a shock to everybody. Then fresh water was poured over the animal to remove the brine. Next, the dead pet was dried. When Pete-ho-tep was dry and his feather...

In the United States system of government the branch that passes bills is the legislature, the US Congress. Any member of Congress can introduce a bill but only members of the House of Representatives can introduce bills relating to taxes and spending. Wherever the bill is introduced it must pass through both houses before it can become law. The process in both the Senate and the House is almost the same, involving a lengthy examination of proposed legislation by committees. If a bill is then passed by one house, it's sent to the other. A joint committee of the House and Senate attempts to work out any differences. If both houses agree to the bill then it is signed by the Speaker of the House and the Speaker of the Senate, who is also the Vice President. Once signed, the bill is then sent to the president for his signature.

Philip describes Miss Narwin as uptight and strict. In an entry dated Tuesday, March 13 at 10:35 p.m., Philip says that Miss Narwin is so uptight that she seems like she was pieced together with super glue. He says that, with her, it's impossible for anyone to have their own opinion. If a joke is made, her face registers disapproval and looks flinty. He also talks about how boring he found Call of the Wild to be. He thinks that there must be better books to read and insists that he'll find a way to get around her. However, that seems unlikely since he also said that as soon as anyone goes sweet, Miss Narwin goes sour. She seems like a person who automatically goes against what other people say or want, from Philip's perspective. The next thing that is in the book is a letter written by Miss Narwin that shows her in a different light. It's also clear that she likes Philip but thinks he can do more than he already is. Philip describes Miss Narwin in decidedly unflattering...

At the beginning of chapter 15, Heck Tate and a few of Atticus's friends stop over to his house to discuss a possible of change of venue for the Tom Robinson trial and to warn him about troublemakers, who may attempt to harm Tom Robinson. Sheriff Tate goes on to express his concerns regarding the Old Sarum bunch, a group of rowdy farmers known to cause trouble. Tate and the other men are aware that there are citizens who vehemently disagree with Atticus defending Tom Robinson and might try to cause trouble the night before the trial. Despite their anxiety about the Old Sarum bunch or any other disgruntled citizen, Atticus dismisses their concerns and says that he doubts anyone will get drunk on a Sunday night and cause trouble. Link Deas then asks Atticus why he even touched the case in the first place. Overall, Atticus's friends visit his home in order to express their concerns about the possibility that someone might cause trouble and harm Tom Robinson. That night, Atticus tr...

Show that the equation $x^2 + y^2 + 2x + y + 1 = 0$ represents a circle. Find the center and radius of the circle. $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} x^2 + y^2 + 2x + y + 1 =& 0 && \text{Model} \\ \\ x^2 + y^2 + 2x + y =& -1 && \text{Subtract } 1 \\ \\ (x^2 + 2x + \underline{ }) + (y^2 + y + \underline{ }) =& -1 && \text{Group terms} \\ \\ (x^2 + 2x + 1) + \left( y^2 + y \frac{1}{4} \right) =& -1 + 1 + \frac{1}{4} && \text{Complete the square: add } \left( \frac{2}{2} \right)^2 = 1 \text{ and } \left( \frac{1}{2} \right)^2 = \frac{1}{4} \\ \\ (x + 1)^2 + \left(y + \frac{1}{2} \right)^2 =& \frac{1}{4} && \text{Perfect Square} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ Recall that the general equation for the circle with circle $(h,k)$ and radius $r$ is.. $(x - h)^2 + (y - k)^2 = r^2$ By observation, The center is at $\displaystyle \left( -1, \frac{-1}{2} \right)$ and the radius is $\displaystyle \sqrt{\frac{1}{4}} = \frac{1}{2}$.

Albert Camus's novella The Stranger is a reflection of his French-Algerian heritage, and should be read in that context. The ramifications for France of its colonization of Algiers in 1830 and subsequent occupation of Algeria until 1962 (the decolonization following a protracted and bloody war of independence waged by Algerian nationalists) are still being felt today, as Muslim immigration from North Africa and the Middle East continues to deeply affect French (and German and Dutch and Swedish, etc.) cultural sensitivities and politics. That The Stranger takes place in French-occupied Algeria and involves the violent death of an Arab at the hands of a French-Algerian of French extraction lends Camus's story a particularly enduring relevance. The French, as European colonial administrators and expatriates tended to be, were prone to a cultural arrogance and heavy-handed demeanor in administering this prized possession, and relations between those of French extraction and those n...

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” is a 1931 poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a famous American poet who was extremely popular in the 20th century (and beyond). This is a poem about the pain of the subject, she has been separated from a great love and the pain is not alleviated by the passage of time. The poem spills over with natural imagery, which demonstrates the magnitude and endurance of the subject's emotional strife. Consider "I miss him in the weeping of the rain; / I want him at the shrinking of the tide." The power and majesty of nature itself reflects the subject's pain, her turmoil on par with the chaos of a storm and the force of the tides. She also sees things in purely negative terms: the rain "weeps" and the tides "shrink." Even the choice of verbs reflects the internal pain of the subject. It is also important to note the form: this poem is an English sonnet, a classic form for a love poem. It is an ironic choi...

Part of the reason why Oroonoko remains of interest to modern readers is because of its ambiguous stance on slavery. The very nature of its title, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, is an active point of contention that best describes its sense of conflict. In particular, imagery and third-person narration work to create various, dynamic arguments for where Behn herself and her text stand with respect to the institution. When we are first introduced to Oroonoko, he is described as being not of that brown rusty black which most of that nation are, but of perfect ebony, or polished jett. ... His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat. His mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great turn'd lips, which are so natural to the rest of the negroes. The whole proportion and air of his face was so nobly and exactly form'd, that bating his colour, there could be nothing in nature more beautiful, agreeable and handsome ... By emphasizing his Eurocentric feat...

I wouldn't interpret this poem as Keats making any particular kind of comment on society as a whole. He is not writing in response to any particular social change. Rather, he is lamenting the vicissitudes of life in general, and is doing so from the point of view of someone, it is widely believed, who was suffering from acute depression. Indeed, Keats's sentiments in this poem draw towards the suicidal: he has "been half in love with easeful Death" for some time, and envies the nightingale, who does not suffer either the speaker's difficulties or his troubled thoughts. The "drowsy numbness" which pains the speaker and causes his heart to ache is not ascribed to any particular social issue, but rather has arisen because the speaker is so envious of the bird, whose "happy lot" seems so far outside the speaker's experience. The bird, like a "Dryad of the trees," soars, both literally and symbolically, above the speaker's cares. T...

In chapter 6, Dally visits Ponyboy and Johnny in Windrixville and takes them out to eat at Dairy Queen. The boys are famished and end up stuffing themselves with BBQ sandwiches as Dally tells them about what is happening back at home. After Johnny finishes his fifth BBQ sandwich, he shocks Dally and Ponyboy by saying, "We're goin' back and turn ourselves in" (Hinton, 74). Dally reacts by gagging on his food before he curses at Johnny. Johnny proceeds to tell Dally and Pony that he believes he has a good chance of getting let off easy because he has no prior record with the police and was acting in self-defense. Johnny also mentions that he does not plan on spending the rest of his life in the abandoned church and simply wishes to go back home. Following Johnny's speech, Dally expresses his displeasure with Johnny's decision to turn himself in by telling Johnny that he doesn't want him to get hardened in jail like he did when he was first incarcerated. Sho...

Aphra Behn's short novel Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, published in 1688, tells the fictional story of Oroonoko, an African prince from Coramantien sold to British colonists after being duped into slavery. Upon his enslavement, Oroonoko is taken to a British colony in the West Indies called Surinam. Oroonoko is reunited with his love Imoinda in Surinam. The two conceive a child, but a failed slave revolt precipitates their tragic demise, and the novel culminates in the deaths of both Imoinda and Oroonoko. Oroonoko can be read through a post-colonial lens as a representation of the disastrous effects of British colonization and slavery upon African nations and peoples. Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a heroic tragedy built around the contradiction inherent in its subtitle: "royal slave." Behn describes Oroonoko as a dignified, noble, and courageous leader, establishing Oroonoko as a sympathetic hero early in the text. His enslavement is devastating for both himself and h...

The first Soc that the reader learns much about is Sherri Valence. She goes by the name Cherry because of her long red hair. It quickly becomes apparent that Cherry can handle herself when she encounters Dallas Winston at the movies. Dallas is attempting to get a reaction from the girls by talking dirty and putting his feet on Cherry's seat. She turns around and says, "Take your feet off my chair and shut your trap." She is feisty and intuitive and sees right away that Dallas is trouble but that Johnny and Ponyboy are harmless. Cherry has a long conversation with Ponyboy and they learn from each other that both sides, Greasers and Socs, have problems. She is unusual in that she spends so much time with Ponyboy. Although her Soc boyfriend was killed, she acts as a sort of spy for the Greasers because she wants things to be fair. Cherry wants the fighting to end, and she seems to see the good in people. Randy Adderson is another Soc that Ponyboy learns about. At first, Rand...

Since the US is involved in many events around the globe, opinions vary on US involvement. The US has been characterized as a humanitarian nation for its work in ending the ethnic conflict in Bosnia and for sending aid to refugee situations in the Middle East and Africa. The US has also been characterized as a supporter of the world's economy for leading the way in supplying technology to developing nations and for its trade agreements. However, American involvement is not always perceived as a good thing. Some nations claim that the United States is working too hard to agitate North Korea into war and some also claim that the United States is too meddlesome in the Middle East for its continued involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. The United States serves as the "policeman" of the world, but some nations point out that America's most vulnerable citizens do not enjoy a good quality of life. Other nations, especially those in the Middle East, find American objec...

The Count of Monte Cristo—really Edmond Dantès—has embarked upon a plot of revenge against those responsible for his wrongful imprisonment. One of these men is the Count de Montcerf, a.k.a. Fernand Mondego. He was the one who mailed the fateful letter that led to Dantès being sent to the grim fortress of Chateau d'If. Ironically, Dantès is friendly with Mondego's son, the journalist Albert. But he doesn't let that get in the way of his plan to wreak terrible revenge upon his father. The Count helps to expose Mondego as a traitor who assassinated Ali Pasha, an important ally of the French. When Albert discovers that it was the Count who played the leading role in his father's public disgrace and humiliation, he is furious and challenges him to a duel. His family's honor must be restored. When the day of the duel arrives, Albert surprises everyone by apologizing to the Count. He now knows the terrible truth about his father's betrayal of Ali Pasha. He also knows a...

I'm inclined to think that Coates was also influenced by the first line in W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk: Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. Coates' book is the latest in a lineage of literature that has sought to understand how Black people, particularly Black men, survive in a nation that views them, perpetually, as "a...

Find an equation of the tangent to the curve $x^2+y^2 = (2x^2+2y62-x)^2$ at the point $\displaystyle \left(0,\frac{1}{2}\right)$ using Implicit Differentiation. If $y'= m\text{ (slope)}$ then, $\displaystyle \frac{d}{dx} + (x^2) \frac{d}{dx} (y^2) = \frac{d}{dx} (2x^2 + 2y^2 - x)^2$ $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 2x + 2y \frac{dy}{dx} & = 2 (2x^2+2y^2-x) \frac{d}{dx}(2x^2+2y^2-x)\\ \\ 2x + 2y \frac{dy}{dx} & = 2 (2x^2+2y^2-x) \left[ 2 \frac{d}{dx} (x^2) + 2 \frac{d}{dx} (y^2) - \frac{d}{dx} (x) \right]\\ \\ 2x + 2y \frac{dy}{dx} & = 2 (2x^2 + 2y^2 - x) \left[ (2)(2x) + (2)(2y) \frac{dy}{dx} - 1\right]\\ \\ 2x + 2y \frac{dy}{dx} & = (4x^2 + 4y^2 - 2x) \left(4x +4y \frac{dy}{dx} -1 \right)\\ \\ 2x + 2y \frac{dy}{dx} & = 16x^3+16x^2y \frac{dy}{dx} - 4x^2 +16xy^2 + 16y^3 \frac{dy}{dx} - 4y^2 - 8x^2 - 8xy \frac{dy}{dx} + 2x \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ $ \begin{...

Much of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 should make a modern reader feel uneasy. The prevalence of so many of the mentalities and technologies that appear in the novel are seen just as frequently today. One of the places in the novel where this is especially poignant is in Beatty's speech to Montag. In this speech, Beatty is explaining how firemen and culture in general came to be as it is in the book. One thing that Beatty speaks to is the shortening of the attention span for the population at large. He states: Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. Certainly, the pacing of today's society, especially with the immediate availability of most technology, speaks to the lack of long attention spans and the need to shorten everything. Then, he discusses the effects that a fast-movie culture has on transportation. Beatty says the following: Impatience. Highways full...

He won't do either of those things for the simple reason that he is a moneygrubbing old miser. He is rich enough to be able to paint the sign and also to provide adequate heating in the office, both for himself and for poor old Bob Cratchit. But then he's also rich enough to provide Cratchit with a proper wage, and he won't do that either. This tells us pretty much everything we need to know about Scrooge before he is visited by the three spirits. Money is everything to him. But it has taken over his life to such an extent that he can't enjoy his vast wealth. He lives all alone in a big old drafty house, feeling miserable most of the time. His miserliness over the sign and the heating in his office help to establish just what kind of a character he is and why he really does need to receive a short, sharp shock from the spirit world in order to see the error of his ways.

In S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, the character of Dallas Winston is stereotypical of everything that society thinks is representative of what it means to be a greaser. From society's point of view, Dallas is a young man who has no family; he's a juvenile delinquent who has done time in jail, he drinks, he smokes, he fights, etc. The interesting thing about Dallas is that S.E. Hinton never uses direct characterization to tell readers that he is a stereotypical greaser. Like the society around him, readers gather this information about Dallas through his actions as the story unfolds. Readers, however, get the chance to see the softer side of Dallas Winston on multiple occasions when he helps Ponyboy and Johnny. Despite the fact that Dallas does multiple things to help the boys, including trying to save Johnny from the burning church, he would not be remembered by society as a hero. Ponyboy highlights this when he says in chapter 10: But I remembered Dally pulling Johnny throug...

The Great Depression impacted Canadian lives severely. The Depression was a global phenomenon, originating within the US and quickly spreading to other parts of the industrialized West. In Canada, the unemployment rated dropped to over 27 percent. Service, farming, and manufacturing industries were hit particularly hard. The Canadian economy depended on trade with countries like the US and Great Britain. As these economies began to sink, Canada's economy stifled for lack of viable trade partners. Between 1929 and 1936, many social ills began to rise within the urban centers. High school dropout rates, organized crime, and the use of illicit drugs all increased substantially during this time frame, destabilizing communities and families. In rural areas, families suffered from lack of access to food and basic services. Throughout the Great Depression, Canadians experienced challenges similar to those experienced by people living in the US and other affected countries. https://www.his...

The Logan children watch the trail on their way to school because the school bus for the white children speeds dangerously down this road. In Chapter 1 of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a novel set in the Jim Crow South, it is the first day of classes and the three Logan children are on their way to their school. Cassie has promised her mother, who teaches at the school, that she will arrive "looking clean and ladylike." It is unnecessary for Mama to remind Little Man because he is obsessively neat on his own. In addition to obeying their mother's order to arrive at the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School in a presentable manner, the Logan children watch the narrow winding red dirt road with its deep gullies because they know that the school bus driver races down this road toward the Jefferson Davis County School. When they hear this bus, the Logan children try to get out of its way. Little Man, the youngest of the Logans watches "saucer-e...

Photographs and newsreel footage detailing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II reveal scores of skeletal looking human beings who were systematically starved to death. The prisoners, among them Elie and his father, were given just enough rations, usually only soup and bread, to allow them to sustain enough energy to work. Obviously, in many cases the prisoners would do almost anything to attain extra rations. One particularly brutal scene comes in section seven as the train carries the Jews from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald. The German civilians are throwing pieces of bread into the train cars in order to watch the men tear each other apart to grab a morsel. Even a son falls upon his father just to get the bread from his hands: He collapsed. His fist was still clenched around a small piece. He tried to carry it to his mouth. But the other one threw himself upon him and snatched it. The old man again whispered something, let out a rattle, and died amid th...

Food critics such as Michael Pollan argue that the American food industry has enriched itself by capitalizing on our cravings for sugar, fat, and salt. What Pollan names the "nutritional industrial complex" (a play on the phrase "military industrial complex" made famous by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961) is a system of industrial-scale agriculture, food production, and marketing. This system makes processed junk-food products packed with mouth-pleasing quantities of sugar, fat, and salt, abundantly available at low prices. Many people have essentially become addicted to food products with a lot of calories but not very much nutritional value. Our eating patterns have resulted in epidemics of obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease, and other ailments. So much of the US public is now overweight that many scientists and doctors believe the nation has entered a public health emergency centered around poor nutrition.

Determine the derivative of the function $f(x) = \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^5$ analytically. Then use a calculator to check your results. By using Product Rule and Chain Rule, we get $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} f'(x) &= \frac{d}{dx} \left[ (\sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3)^5 \right]\\ \\ &= 5 \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^{5 - 1} \cdot \frac{d}{dx} \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)\\ \\ &= 5 \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^4 \left[ \frac{1}{2} (2x - 1)^{\frac{1}{2}-1} \cdot \frac{d}{dx} (2x - 1) + 3x^2 \right]\\ \\ &= 5 \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^4 \left[ \frac{1}{2}(2x - 1)^{-\frac{1}{2}} (2) + 3x^2 \right]\\ \\ &= 5 \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^4 \left[ \frac{1}{(2x - 1)^{\frac{1}{2}}} + 3x^2 \right]\\ \\ &= 5 \left( \sqrt{2x - 1} + x^3 \right)^4 \left[ \frac{1 + 3x^2 (2x - 1)^{\frac{1}{2}}}{(2x - 1)^{\frac{1}{2}}} \right] \end...

I would say that Nick's role in the conflict is merely that of an observer. Nick is involved in the conflict, but is never really the cause or mediator of that conflict. I am of the opinion that if Nick had played a more active role in the conflict, the outcome of the novel would likely have been quite different. He could have had a greater impact on the novel and possibly saved the others from unnecessary pain and suffering. For example, had Nick been more involved in his cousin Daisy's life, he may have been able to help her and Tom resolve their marital issues. As a result, Daisy would probably never have killed Myrtle, thereby indirectly saving Gatsby's life. I would classify the main conflict of this novel as one of character versus society; Nick, the protagonist, conflicts with society, represented by people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and even Jordan Baker, as a result of their selfishness and "carelessness." They are rich and, therefore, have the priv...

The exact line from Elie Wiesel's Night is: The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. This statement is meant to be taken figuratively, not literally. The Germans were, of course, in overall charge of the ghetto, exercising the power of life and death over everyone forced to lived there. In turn, the Nazis appointed a Jewish Council to carry out the day-to-day administration of the ghetto. But this wasn't about giving Jews any real power over their own lives; it was simply a sinister ploy by the Nazis to make it easier to control the Jewish population in preparation for its subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. What Wiesel is referring to, in my opinion, is the prevailing spirit within the ghetto. Effectively, the Jews are living in denial as to the full scale of the horrors that the Nazis are inflicting upon them. It is a common human reaction for people to be in denial when something terrible is happening to them. It's a subconscious way of ...

One of the most important differences between the book and the film is the portrayal of Nick. In the film, he is much more of a conventional hero, someone for the audience to root for. Gone is the complexity of his character in the book, in which he is portrayed as being as much of a codependent as Amy. The relationship between Nick and Amy is much darker, more twisted, and much more interesting in the book. However, as Gone Girl the movie was always intended to be a mainstream Hollywood film, it is not surprising that the script irons out one or two of the original source material's complexities. The character of Amy also undergoes some degree of change in the transformation from page to screen. In the film, she is presented as a typical femme fatale. This is in contrast to Nick, who is given to us largely as a hapless dupe. We do not get as much of a sense of the full range of Amy's psychological states as we do in the book. It is notable that the character of Hilary Handy is...

Segregation and discrimination are an intrinsic part of Troy's life. The Sanitation Department, where he works, is no exception. All the garbage truck drivers are white whereas African American employees have to make do with relatively menial jobs, such as emptying trash cans into the back of the garbage trucks. Troy's profoundly unhappy with this unfair treatment and confronts his boss about the discrimination he's encountered. As a consequence, he's promoted to the much better job of truck driver, despite the fact that, unbeknownst to his boss, he doesn't actually have a driver's license. Although Troy claims that he wants everyone to have the chance to drive a truck, irrespective of their color, his desire for promotion is entirely selfish. He's deeply unsatisfied with every aspect of his life, and so being given the opportunity to drive a garbage truck is a rare chance for him to feel like he's achieved something in life.

A mission statement, simply put, defines a company or organization's purpose. It tells the world why it exists.  For this purpose, it is essential that the mission statement expresses a clear intent. The words contained in the statement should be forceful and straightforward. It should not be couched in ambiguity and should not reflect what is generally seen as cliched or an adherence to buzzwords or fashionable language used to impress. This means that it should be constructed to specifically relate to a business or field and should clarify its strategy.  An effective mission statement should be able to answer the following questions:  What do we do? How do we do it? Whom do we do it for? What value do we bring? If one's mission statement effectively answers these questions, it will provide an excellent base from which the company or organization can work from. The mission statement then becomes the anchor for its operations. Every aspect of its existence, including its vision...

Adolf Hitler died by committing suicide on April 30 1945 in his underground bunker (Fuhrerbunker) in Berlin. He shot himself with a pistol while his mistress, Eva Braun, died by ingesting cyanide, a deadly poison. To put Hitler's suicide into context, a Nazi victory in the war was no longer possible. Stalin's Red Army had already captured Berlin, leaving the Nazis in a hopeless situation. Moreover, the Allied forces were positioned to the west of Berlin, ready and waiting to provide support, if needed.  With the Red Army poised to take over the German chancellery (which stood above Hitler's bunker), Hitler had few options. He could risk escaping the city to go to the Berchtesgarden, his home in the Bavarian Alps, could surrender to the Red Army or commit suicide. Hitler chose the latter.  See the reference link provided for more information.  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker

Below is the graph of the derivative of the function a.) At what intervals is $f$ increasing or decreasing? b.) At what values of $x$ does $f$ have a local maximum or minimum? a.) Based from the graph, the function is increasing (where $f'$ is positive) at interval $0 b.) Since the sign of the derivative changes from negative to positive at $x= 3$ and positive to negative at $x = 1$ and $x = 5$. We see that $f(x)$ has a local maximum at $x = 5$ and local minimum at $x = 3$

Miss Strangeworth takes great pride in her roses. At the end of the story, when she is unmasked as the author of the poison pen letters, she receives her own letter—telling her that her roses have been destroyed. This would seem to be a fitting punishment for someone who has destroyed other peoples' lives through her malice. It is also not violent, in the sense that no human being was physically hurt, and yet it sends a strong message. However, it is not really an appropriate punishment, because Miss Strangeworth misses the point completely. As she reads the letter, she begins to "cry silently for the wickedness of the world." The letter becomes simply another confirmation, ironically, that everyone else in the world is secretly wicked. She doesn't understand that it is her own wickedness that brought this sad fate on her. Despite all that she has done, she still thinks she is pure and an agent of goodness in a fallen world. It could be said that the punishment that M...

Determine the focus, directions and focal diameter of the parabola $\displaystyle 8x^2 + 12y = 0$. Then, sketch its graph. The equation $\displaystyle 8x^2 + 12y = 0; x^2 = \frac{-12}{8} y; x^2 = \frac{-3}{2} y$ is a parabola that opens upward. The parabola has the form $x^2 = 4py$. So $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} 4p =& \frac{-3}{2} \\ \\ p =& \frac{-3}{8} \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ So, the focus is at $\displaystyle \left( 0, \frac{-3}{8} \right)$ and directrix $\displaystyle y = -p = \frac{3}{8}$. Also, $\displaystyle 2p = 2 \left( \frac{-3}{8} \right) = \frac{-3}{4}$, thus the endpoints of the latus rectum are $\displaystyle \left( \frac{-3}{4}, \frac{-3}{8} \right)$ and $\displaystyle \left( \frac{3}{4}, \frac{-3}{8} \right)$. The focal diameter is $\displaystyle |4p| = \left| 4 \left( \frac{-3}{8} \right) \right| = \frac{3}{2} $ units. Therefore, the graph is

Through depicting Perry as a lonely and remorseful, Capote shows compassion for him and makes him sympathetic to the reader. Capote constructs an internal life for both Perry and Dick, but Dick’s internal monologues are ruthless and selfish, while Perry’s tend to show self-pity and internal conflict. For example, Capote presents Perry’s motive for meeting up with Dick to collaborate on a robbery to be a desire for attention from someone who cares about him. When Perry receives Dick’s letter inviting him to help out with “the perfect score,” he responds, not because of the money but because Dick happens to be in the same town as a Preacher he had met in prison, Willie-Jay, who Perry says is the only person who “had ever recognized his worth, his potentialities” (51-52). Capote also portrays Perry as showing remorse. After the murders, he says and thinks repeatedly that “there must be something wrong with [himself and Dick]” (124). He also expresses surprise that he was able to kill at a...

At the end of The Thirty-nine Steps, Hannay tries to find the man who posed as the First Sea Lord by remembering Scudder's book, in which Scudder wrote down that the enemy would try to escape when the high tide takes place at 10:17 at night and where there are 39 steps. The man who pretended to be First Sea Lord has secret knowledge of England's military defenses that could be delivered to England's enemy. To stop him, Hannay tries to find a small port in which the high tide will occur at 10:17 at night. He determines the enemy is leaving from a small port because the high tide will be important, and the enemy can only leave this type of small port when it is high tide. Hannay finds a place called Bradgate in Kent that meets this description. When he goes there, he finds a house called Trafalgar Lodge that has 39 steps. He notes a suspicious yacht in the harbor, and when he goes to the house that night to arrest the three men inside, he feels at first that he has made a mis...

In Lorraine's nightmare, the pig room beckons to her. Despite her apprehension, she is irresistibly drawn to it by unseen forces. In her dream, Lorraine screams for John, but there is no answer. Upon entrance into the room, Lorraine realizes that the pigs are not on the table. Instead, they are arranged on top of a long, black container. To her horror, Lorraine suspects that the container is a coffin. Almost at once, unseen forces compel her to open the container. Lorraine relates that her hands become cold when she touches the coffin-like box. As the lid begins to rise slowly, Lorraine screams. It is at this point that she wakes up from her nightmare. Lorraine's terrible dream foreshadows the destruction of Mr. Pignati's prized ceramic pig collection and Mr. Pignati's own death. In Chapter 13, John tries to stop Norton from stealing an oscilloscope from Mr. Pignati's home. Unfortunately, Norton manages to get away. Before leaving, Norton maliciously destroys much o...

The concepts of extremism and fundamentalism are most thoroughly explored through the character of Miss Doris Kilman. Miss Kilman is presented as a poor, unattractive woman who is a devout Christian and tutors Elizabeth Dalloway. Miss Kilman has a zealous, extreme faith, and this fundamentalist approach to religion comes out in Miss Kilman's hatred of Clarissa Dalloway's wealth and privilege. Woolf presents Miss Kilman's hatred of Clarissa's privilege as a religious distaste for materialism, as Miss Kilman haughtily considers Clarissa's life to have been frittered away on earthly goods (125), while she is sometimes presented in the book as more of "a soul" than an actual woman (134). However, if Miss Kilman's extreme religious views are unfair and mean-spirited, it is difficult to altogether dislike her. While Clarissa has had the benefit of wealth and good looks, Miss Kilman has had to struggle to work and support herself, and even recognizes herself ...