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The answer to this question can be found near the end of chapter 19. The first half of this chapter contains narration about Lyddie attending one of Diana's meetings, and Lyddie leaves frustrated that she missed her chance to sign the petition. Diana offers to walk Lyddie home, and Diana laments at one point that she will miss Lyddie. Lyddie doesn't understand because Lyddie knows that she herself doesn't intend on going anywhere. Diana clarifies by saying that she will be the one leaving. She has plans to go to Boston. Diana is leaving so that she won't be dismissed from the factory for being pregnant. Diana isn't married, so the news already a little bit scandalous; however, it is made more scandalous by the fact that the father is already a married man. The entire thing has to be kept a secret to protect her reputation, the father's reputation, and not bring dishonor to the Association. "I'll need to go soon. I can't bring dishonor on the Associa...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, Beorn is a shapeshifter or skin-changer whose primary form is that of a bear. His name is cognate with Swedish Björn, which means "bear," although beorn in Anglo-Saxon, of which Tolkien was a professor, actually means "man" or "soldier." The choice of name is therefore extremely apposite, as it connotes both the warrior side and the animal side of Beorn's nature. Beorn provides vital assistance to Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarves on their way to the Lonely Mountain. Beorn is described as something of a wild creature, but his human side can be appealed to, and the party is able to win his trust with their story of encountering, and fighting, goblins in the Misty Mountains, which Beorn then confirms for himself. Having ascertained that the travelers are telling the truth and are not attempting to hoodwink or mislead him—Beorn is somewhat suspicious by nature—Beorn offers to help the travelers. Specifically, he p...

In Through the Looking-Glass, Alice encounters a variety of bizarre situations, many of which are linguistic in nature. While we often use the term “play with language” somewhat loosely, Carroll’s novel often quite literally plays with language to produce games and puzzles for its reader. Consider “Jabberwocky,” the often discussed poem within the novel. When Alice first happens upon the book that contains it, she decides that she cannot read it “for it’s all in some language I don’t know”: She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. “Why, it’s a looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again.” The passage is printed backwards, and if the reader holds it up to a mirror, it appears legibly. This moment of linguistic play produces what Alice refers to as a puzzle—a game for the reader to play. But there is a joke in Alice’s initial reaction that has to do with the linguistic play present throughou...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant takes place in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The short story depicts the financial ruin of the Loisel family because of a lost necklace. In fiction, the setting always provides important clues about literary elements like characters, plot, and theme. In a short story, setting is even more important, because it is crucial for the reader to use all of the information available to make inferences as quickly as possible. Authors use time and place to create setting. "The Necklace" takes place at the end of the 1800s. In France, this was a period of prosperity, peace, and high fashion. Consumerism was on the rise, and even people of modest means aspired to join in the trends. The characters live in Paris, the "City of Light" and capital of France. The Champs-Élysées lies seemingly just outside their door. It is no wonder that Mathilde Loisel, even though her husband is only an education clerk, is desperate to we...

The volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the curves y^2=x and x=2y about y axis, can be evaluated using the washer method, such that: V = int_a^b pi*(f^2(x) - g^2(x))dx You need to find the endpoint of interval, hence, you need to solve for y the following equation, such that: y^2 = 2y => y^2 - 2y = 0 => y(y-2) = 0 => y = 0 and y = 2 You need to notice that y^2 V = int_0^2 pi*(((2y)^2 - 0^2) - (y^4 - 0^2))dy V = pi*int_0^2 4y^2dy - pi*int_0^2 (y^4)dy V = (4pi*y^3/3 - pi*y^5/5)|_0^2 V = (4pi*2^3/3 - pi*2^5/5 - 4pi*0^3/3 + pi*0^5/5) V = 32pi/3 - 32pi/5 V = 5*32pi/15 - 3*32pi/15 V = (64pi)/15 Hence, evaluating the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the curves y^2=x and x=2y about y axis, using the washer method, yields V = (64pi)/15.

Under ideal situations, yes, public schools do nurture democracy.  Students learn that their vote counts in student body elections.  Students often point out ambiguous questions on exams and, if valid, a teacher can modify the grade based on their complaints.  Many teachers give their students choices as to what the "fun" activity will be for the day.  By giving the student some autonomy over their day, the student feels more involved in the educational process.  Also, the public school classroom often serves as a good representation of American life. There are students of varying abilities and backgrounds in most classrooms.   Day-to-day classroom management is usually not handled through a democratic process. The teacher makes most of the decisions.  Also, in some cases, the teacher does not let the student have any control over what they will do or the manner in which they will do it.  While this is not necessarily an incorrect way of management—all classrooms are differen...

From what I can see, you are referring to what Scout says about her father's definition of God in Chapter 5. In that chapter, Scout and Miss Maudie are discussing religion. According to Scout, her father's definition of God is "loving folks like you love yourself." This corresponds with the Golden Rule, where we treat others the way we would want to be treated. Atticus' definition of God and true religion, however, differs from that of "foot-washing Baptists." If we refer to the text, Miss Maudie defines "foot-washing Baptists" as legalists who strictly adhere to the letter of the law. According to Miss Maudie, foot-washing Baptists are "literalists": they are so focused on the academic definition of morality that they forget to display the true spirit of good religion. To Miss Maudie, foot-washing Baptists are so busy "worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one." For his part, Atticus is first a...

Dorothy Allison uses humour to represent and discuss her experiences with sexual identity and prejudice in many of her published works. She has described her use of humor in several interviews: “I’m always doing these panels or doing a talk or go to a program, and people will come up to me after and say, ‘you’re so funny. I didn’t know you were funny. I thought you’d be tragic.’ I’ve had enough tragic, girl. I actually do believe that humor is one of the life-saving approaches that particularly Southern working class people use, so here I am honey. Get used to it.” Allison’s humor is often self-deprecating and masks the prejudice experienced by herself and her family. She’s written about being “trash”—“I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats”— working class, and most notably a “bastard” in her semi-autobiographical novel Bastard Out of Carolina. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure describes some of her most horrific moments, such as a rape...

Fashion Week (which is held London, Paris, Milan, and New York) and fashion labels target young consumers in several ways. First, Fashion Week uses social media, including Instagram, to capture images of the models on the runways. They also feature photos of the models behind the scenes, and they make the life of a fashion model seem glamorous and festive, like a party teens would want to attend. Fashion labels like Prada use celebrities, such as Kim Kardashian, to pose for ads. In these ads, Kardashian appeared semi-nude or nude and in very suggestive poses. By targeting teenagers, Fashion Week and fashion labels suggest teens are ready for the suggestive clothing and adult lifestyle they are marketing. They are marketing a lifestyle that is based on expensive, revealing clothing that many would argue is more appropriate for adults who have the money and discretion to choose what they want to wear. While fashion labels are trying to cultivate teenage followers so these young consumers...

Miss Emily Grierson is not described in anything resembling a remotely flattering fashion. By the time the special deputation from the Board of Alderman come to call on her regarding her taxes in the town of Jefferson, the narrator says that she is [...] a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand. She is compared, via simile, to a bloated body that has been under water: pale and puffy. It is a gross and cringe-worthy description. The words used to describe her are overw...

By the time the narrator references a person named "Jane" in the final lines of the story, she believes herself to be the woman in the wallpaper.  The narrator also talks about the bed that will not move, peeling off as much paper as she can from the walls, and she also considers jumping out of the window.  She even references the "creeping women" she can see from her window: these are, for the most part, topics she has discussed before.  However, suddenly, she ponders, "I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?"  It seems that, as a result of having been imprisoned by her husband and kept from everyone and everything that brought her joy or stimulated her intellect, the narrator has suffered a major dissociative break in which she no longer identifies as herself.  Now, she identifies herself as the woman she has freed from the wallpaper; she has liberated this (fictitious) woman and taken on her role; this is perhaps a mechanism of her br...

The previous post has some great tips! I just wanted to add a strategy that works well for my students. To find tone, it is helpful to use an acronym called DIDLS (I did not come up with this myself; as far as I know, it is a well-known and widely used strategy and I’m not sure who originally created it). DIDLS stands for Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, and Syntax. When reading a work for tone, it is helpful to go through each of these steps. Diction: How does the word choice show the author’s tone? Are the words particularly dark, uplifting, concrete/abstract, etc? The type of word choice an author uses can help to determine how he/she feels about a subject. Imagery: Imagery refers to word that relate to the senses. If, for example, the author uses a lot of bright, colorful imagery, that might indicate a more positive tone, whereas dark imagery might indicate a negative tone. Similarly, pleasant sound or smell imagery leads us to a positive tone, while unpleasant sound or smell i...

At first, Reconstruction was concerned with making sure that the political institutions of the South were changed to ensure that there would be no repeat of the secessionist uprising that had led to the outbreak of Civil War. To that end, it was important to protect the civil rights of the newly-freed slaves, to allow them to take their place in the new society as free citizens, voters, and office-holders. White opinion in the South was generally hostile to any notion of civil rights for African Americans. That being so, Reconstruction necessitated the establishment of powerful federal agencies such as the Freedmen's Bureau, which provided food, medical aid, and legal assistance to former slaves in the South. Such concerted action at the federal level was necessary as the white supremacists still in control of the South's political institutions had no intention of protecting the civil rights of those they didn't believe should have such rights in the first place. The fundam...

There are a few instances where wording could be more concise or accurate. 1) Let's start with the very first sentence of this paper.  "A lot of people wonder what is the purpose of government, why is it there anyway?" This is a run-on sentence that suddenly turns into a question. Correct use of punctuation always helps a reader understand what a writer wants to say. If you take what is written already and say it out loud, you could surmise that the writer was trying to write this:  A lot of people wonder, "What is the purpose of government? Why is it there, anyway?" I know that this technically isn't changing any of the words, but this punctuation breaks up the sentence into distinct clauses. While it may not feel organic to the person writing, it will definitely feel more organic for the reader in terms of processing meaning.  2) The second sentence of the paper does a bit of rambling.  "This is a good question because even though many people think th...

Some of the following quotes highlight Percy Jackson’s decisions to risk his life for his friends; others indicate a propensity to put others ahead of himself. Page 9 — Percy lashes out at Nancy because of her actions against his friend Grover. I don’t remember touching her, but the next thing I knew, Nancy was sitting on her butt in the fountain, screaming, “Percy pushed me!” Page 36 — Percy is talking to his mother, trying to prevent her from feeling bad about his expulsion. He’s not risking his life, but he is putting another first. For her sake, I tried to sound upbeat about my last days at Yancy Academy. Page 53 — Percy refuses to leave Grover and his mom and run to safety, even though she clearly tells him to. ”No!” I shouted. “You are coming with me. Help me carry Grover.” Page 57-58 — Percy attracts the beast’s attention and risks his life to save Grover. The monster hunched over, snuffling my best friend, as if he were about to lift Grover up and make him dissolve too. I could...

The main device used throughout the poem is repetition, which is characteristic of the traditional form the poem takes: the ballad. Ballads pertain to the oral tradition and are designed to be told or sung: repetition is a way to keep listeners engaged and even to make them participate in the telling. The fact that the poem is written in a rather simple and antiquated language also anchors it in the tradition of the folktale. Throughout the poem, silence and death are intertwined through imagery: "no birds sing," "wither'd plants" run parallel to the description of the knight, "alone and palely loitering." Keats uses a few metaphors that reinforce the lyricism of the poem and the otherworldliness of the setting. For instance, the pallor of the knight becomes "a lily on [his] brow" in the poet's description. This could be a hint at how the knight is under the spell of the lady and risks losing himself in her world, since she is associated ...

The difference between Macbeth and lady Macbeth is lady Macbeth is active while Macbeth is imaginative and thoughtful. Her ambitious nature instigated her husband into action. This is too for the sake of her husband. Her strength of power and action should be highlighted for a woman's courageous nature. So she can also be said as the protagonist of the play Macbeth. The term "protagonist" is taken from ancient Greek drama and simply means "first actor." The "protagonist" of a drama is the central or leading character, and he or she usually has the most lines and is played by the "starring" actor. In antiquity, the cast for a play consisted of three actors and a chorus. As well as a "protagonist," there was a "deuteragonist" (second actor) and "tritagonoist" (third actor). In some cases, a protagonist would have a strong single opponent called an "antagonist," usually played by the second actor or deuter...

John and Elizabeth have a strained, tense relationship, which is a result of John's infidelity and Elizabeth's callous nature. In Act Two, the audience becomes aware that Elizabeth has not fully forgiven her husband for his affair with Abigail Williams and is a rather cold, insensitive woman. At the beginning of Act Two, John Proctor and Elizabeth try their best to act amiably and repress their emotions of disdain and anger toward one another. John represses the fact that he feels Elizabeth is callous and dull, while Elizabeth still resents her husband's decision to cheat on her. Eventually, John mentions that he was in a room alone with Abigail and Elizabeth expresses her displeasure, which sparks John's anger. John and Elizabeth's tense relationship reflects the various conflicts throughout the community of Salem. In the austere society of Salem, neighbors harbor ill-will toward each other over various disputes. The citizens repress their negative emotions in orde...

The daily lives of Southerners changed more drastically than those of Northerners in the years following the Civil War.  The Southerners faced personal financial difficulties, as well as a severely weakened economy.  The Northerners experienced a period of prosperity after the Civil War. The South once again joined the Union after the Civil War.  The Confederate States were dissolved and the Southern states became part of the United States again.  Slaves were freed, which caused significant economic changes in the South.  The agricultural industry had relied heavily on slave labor.  Slaves had planted and harvested crops on large plantations.  Planters had to hire laborers for the first time after the war ended.  Many were already suffering economic ruin from the war and did not have the cash to pay workers.  Sharecropping became a common solution to this lack of funds.  Many formerly wealthy planters became poor.  Rather than produce crops like tobacco and cotton on smaller scales, th...

Twain wrote The Gilded Age, in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, in 1873, so Twain himself did not coin the term to describe the last three decades of the 19th century, as they mostly hadn't yet occurred. His 1873 term Gilded Age was later taken on by others as a way to characterize the end of the nineteenth century in America. Twain and Warner borrowed the term from Shakespeare's play King John to describe "wasteful and ridiculous excess." The novel pokes fun at the corruption in Washington, D. C. in the post-Civil War era and at the desire of the novel's characters to get rich quick without hard work, primarily by selling land. The term was later adopted to describe the era because Gilded Age seemed to capture the superficial materialism and greed of the period. It was an era of rapid growth of wealth in the United States: by the turn of the century, the country was poised to become to the world's new superpower. However, it was also a tawdry and cor...

int (x^3-4x^2-4x+20)/(x^2-5)dx To solve, divide the numerator by the denominator (see attached figure). = int (x - 4 + x/(x^2-5))dx = int xdx - int4dx + int x/(x^2-5)dx For the first integral, apply the formula int x^ndx = x^(n+1)/(n+1)+ C. For the second integral, apply the formula int adx = ax + C . = x^2/2 - 4x +C + int x/(x^2-5)dx For the third integral, apply u-substitution method. Let u = x^2-5 Differentiate u. du=2x dx (du)/2 =xdx Plug-in them to the third integral. =x^2/2 - 4x + C + int 1/(x^2-5)*xdx =x^2/2 - 4x + C + int 1/u *(du)/2 = x^2/2 - 4x + C + 1/2int 1/u du Then, apply the formula int 1/xdx = ln|x| + C. =x^2/2-4x + 1/2ln|u| + C And, substitute back  u = x^2-5 . =x^2/2 - 4x +1/2ln|x^2-5|+C   Therefore,  int (x^3-4x^2-4x + 20)/(x^2-5)dx = x^2/2 - 4x + 1/2ln|x^2-5|+C .

The short answer is that the dwarf that lives in the Brobdingnagian court hates Gulliver because Gulliver has usurped his place as the shortest person in Brobdingnag.  Gulliver says that the dwarf, upon meeting a creature that was even smaller than he, grew so "insolent [...], that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by [Gulliver] in the queen's antechamber [...]."  Gulliver would often stand on tables to speak with the courtiers, and the dwarf would strut by him, trying to look really big, and he would usually employ sarcasm or insults to deride Gulliver for his littleness.  Gulliver really has no recourse other than to call the dwarf "brother" and try to avoid him whenever possible.  In his anger, the dwarf actually drops Gulliver into a bowl of cream for fun, and Gulliver nearly drowns.  At another point, the dwarf jams Gulliver's lower half into a bone from the queen's table, tearing up his pants.  For this, the dwarf was whip...

a.) Graph the function $\displaystyle f(x) = \frac{1}{(1 + x^2)}, -2 \leq x \leq 2$ b.) Estimate the area under the graph of $f$ using four approximating rectangles at sample points. The width of the rectangle is.. $\displaystyle \Delta x = \frac{2 - (-2)}{4} = 1$ (i) Right endpoints At right endpoint, $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} R_4 =& \sum \limits_{i = 1}^4 f(xi) \Delta x \\ \\ R_4 =& 1 [f(-1) + f(0) + f(1) + f(2)] \\ \\ R_4 =& [0.5 + 1 + 0.5 + 0.20] \\ \\ R_4 =& 2.2 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ We can see in the graph that at $x (ii) Midpoints In each case, sketch the curve and the rectangles in part (b) $ \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} M_4 =& \sum \limits_{i = 1}^4 f(xi) \Delta x \\ \\ M_4 =& 1 [f(-1.5) + f(-0.5) + f(0.5) + f(1.5)] \\ \\ M_4 =& \left[ \frac{4}{13} + \frac{4}{5} + \frac{4}{5} + \frac{4}{13} \right] \\ \\ M_4 =& 2.22 \end{aligned} \end{equation} $ We can see the graph that our estimates is a mixed of overestimate and underes...

The original collection of The Jesuit Relations consists of 73 books and can be difficult to access for readers who don't have the time to tackle such a large volume of literature. Allan Greer focuses on 35 documents from the original sources and helps make them more accessible with explanations and background information in The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. Chapter four of Greer's The Jesuit Relations is called "Diplomacy and War." Greer sets the scene by saying: The Jesuit missions of New France were conducted throughout the seventeenth century in an atmosphere of tension, war, and shifting alliances involving the French and the various native nations. Accordingly, the Relations are packed with news of war and peace—daring raids, hopeful negotiations, surprise ambushes, captivity, torture, and redemption—all recounted in the style of romantic adventure with an overlay of pious sentiments. In some cases, armed confli...

Let's distinguish the difference between the three keywords in your question: mixture, element, and compound. An element would be any of the chemicals on the periodic table. An element exists usually as one atom in nature, but some elements have more stability as a diatomic molecule (diatomic means the element occurs most naturally when it is paired with one other atom of the same element). A compound is a chemical bond between two or more different atoms, making it a molecule. A mixture, however, is a mingling of either multiple elements or compounds within the same "container" that do not ever chemically combine. Substances within a mixture can be physically separated from each other as they never react chemically with one another. A mixture can have a mix of elements and compounds, or just a combination of one or the other. So yes! A mixture can contain just elements if those elements are not chemically reactive to one another. Air is a great example of an elemental mi...

As the novelist George Santayana famously said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This quote has been altered and repeated in the decades since it was first spoken, but the sentiment remains the same. It is a clear and inarguable statement that strongly emphasizes the importance of having an appreciation for history. Schools in nations around the world devote scores of classes to the purpose of teaching pupils about many aspects of history. In addition to helping people avoid repeating past mistakes, a study of history also allows for humankind to understand the processes that have led us to where we currently are. History is the building block of the future, and the more we understand about where we came from, the more we will understand about where we can go.   http://msc.gutenberg.edu/2001/02/the-importance-of-history/

The idea that a war can be morally justifiable can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt. As a philosophical concept, it finds its origins in Ancient Rome. In 44 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero defined the term in one of his final writings, De Officiis. With the Republic crumbling around him, Cicero wrote this piece in an attempt to define public morals. Cicero argues that war is not the mark of a civilized nation and therefore must only exist as a last resort. For a war to be just, an official warning must be issued to one's enemies first, so that there can be one last chance to avoid conflict. Furthermore, according to Cicero, war must only be waged in order to secure peace, and punitive measures over the losing side must not be made too harsh. Saint Augustine of Hippo amended the notion of a just war in Christian terms in the 4th century. Like Cicero, Augustine argued that war should be avoided if at all possible. However, he went on to posit that a government of Christians had God...

The structure of W. B. Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" mimics the way the water laps at the shores of Innisfree—a sound that's stuck not just in the speaker's head but in his heart, too. Here's how Yeats turns verse into lake water. The poem is made up of three quatrains—or stanzas four lines in length—that follow an alternating rhyme scheme. In the first stanza, Lines 1 and 3 rhyme with each other, and Lines 2 and 4 rhyme with each other. In the second stanza, Lines 5 and 7 rhyme with each other, and Lines 6 and 8 rhyme with each other, and so on. Now let's talk about the beat. The first three lines in each stanza are in hexameter, which means they have six stressed syllables apiece. The last line of each stanza is in tetrameter, which means they each have four stressed syllables. All the lines in "The Lake of Isle of Innisfree" have a rolling, sing-song quality to them. Rhythmically, it's not totally iambic hexameter and tetrameter fro...

In both cases we don't really know what caused the speaker to be angry. He simply tells us that he was angry with his friend, and then later on, his foe. The difference lies in how the speaker then goes on to deal with his anger. In relation to his friend, he openly expresses his feelings. Doing so makes his anger go away. But with his foe, however, he remains completely silent, bottling up his emotions inside, which only makes his anger grow. The anger that the speaker harbored towards his friend quickly subsided, but the anger that he feels towards his enemy has grown like a poisoned apple tree. The biblical reference here to Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge is inescapable. The foe has tasted anger's bitter fruit, and it has destroyed him. Although the speaker expresses satisfaction at the death of his bitter enemy, the abrupt ending serves to emphasize the sheer destructiveness of anger and hate. The poem has gone full circle, and our attention is drawn once more to th...

In The Odd Couple, Felix connects to the thesis of interpersonal relationships that is so dominant in the drama. Felix is the countervailing force to Oscar.  Their relationship is predicated upon a balance.  Attributes of one offset the detriments of the other.  While Oscar spends money freely, Felix is financially controlling.  Oscar does not care about cleanliness, while Felix cares for little else.  Oscar cannot cook, yet Felix enjoys creating sumptuous meals in the kitchen.  The disorder of one matches the order of another.  While each is incapable of being effective on their own, when they are together, they make a whole.  In this way, Felix connects to the drama's thesis that relationships can be formed when people complement one another, compensating for the weaknesses of one with the strengths of another. Another aspect of the interpersonal thesis that Simon illuminates is that excessive love of self can destroy relationships.  Oscar and Felix are single because their self-...

The narrator in Poe's classic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is completely unreliable and is clearly mentally unstable. In the first paragraph of the story, there is a litany of clues that reveal the narrator's unreliability. The narrator uses staccato speech, which is typical of an extremely nervous, paranoid individual. The fact that he is attempting to persuade the reader that he is not mad is also suspicious. Why would a sane individual need to convince someone that they are not crazy? In addition to the narrator's staccato speech and insistence on his sanity, the narrator mentions that he can hear all things in heaven and hell, which is both disturbing and indicative of a mentally unstable person. The narrator proceeds to contradict himself: he claims that he loved the old man, while simultaneously plotting his murder. The narrator's motivation for killing the old man is also suspicious, as he insists that the old man's Evil Eye is the source of hi...

Miss Brill doesn't really "deal with" reality—at least, not until the very end of the story. Initially, she imagines that her little fox fur is alive, even referring to it as a "Little rogue," as though it has not only living but also had a sassy, saucy personality as well. Then, when she arrives at the park, Miss Brill begins to imagine that she's playing a role in a play—that everyone in the park has such a role—and she seems not to understand that she is, like almost everyone else there, old and decrepit. It's as though she actively ignores reality, preferring her fantasy instead. She still sees herself as vital, vibrant, and important until she hears the harsh and unkind words of the young couple who sit down next to her.  The boy calls her "silly" and "stupid," and the girl makes fun of her fur.  We know this has affected Miss Brill on some level because she skips her usual stop at the bakery, forgoing her piece of cake, and she ...

In chapter 17, the missionaries arrive in Umuofia and ask for a plot of land to build their church. The village elders do not want the missionaries near the clan and decide to offer them a plot of land located in the Evil Forest. The Evil Forest is a forbidden, ominous place, where the clan buries individuals with diseases and is also used as the dumping ground for the powerful medicine men when they die. According to the villagers, the Evil Forest is a wicked, sinister place, where powerful dark spirits dwell, which is why they allow the missionaries to have as much land as they want. The villagers believe that they are harming the missionaries by offering them such a wicked plot of land and laugh at the missionaries, who appreciate the offer. Initially, the villagers believe that the missionaries will not survive more than four days in the Evil Forest and are shocked when none of the missionaries die after the first week. As time passes and the missionaries continue to survive in the...

There are four letters given. These are A, B, C and D. And there are four positions that have to be filled up. ___    ___    ___    ___    The first position must be filled up with consonant only, which are B, C and D. So there are only three consonants that we can pick from for the first position. ul3     ___    ___    ___  Since repetition is allowed, the second position can be filled by A, B, C or D. So there are four possible letters than can occupy the second position. ul3    ul4     ___    ___      Also, the third and fourth position, can be filled by A, B, C or D. So there are four possible letters that can be place in the third and fourth position. ul3    ul4    ul4    ul4 And, multiply them together. ul3 * ul4 * ul4 * ul4 = 192   Therefore, if the first letter should be a constant and repetition is allowed, there 192 ways that A, B, C and D can be arranged.

int (x+2)/(x^2+5x) dx To solve using partial fraction method, the denominator of the integrand should be factored. (x+2)/(x^2+5x) = (x + 2)/(x(x+5)) Then, express it as sum of fractions. (x+2)/(x(x+5)) = A/x + B/(x +5) To determine the values of A and B, multiply both sides by the LCD of the fractions present. x(x+5)*(x+2)/(x(x+5)) = (A/x + B/(x +5))*x(x+5) x+2=A(x+5)+Bx Then, assign values to x in which either x or x+5 will become zero. So, plug-in x=0 to get the value of A. 0+2=A(0+5)+B(0) 2=5A 2/5=A Also, plug-in x=-5 to get the value of B. -5+2=A(-5+5)+B(-5) -3=A(0)+B(-5) -3=-5B 3/5=B So the partial fraction decomposition of the integrand is: int (x+2)(x^2+5x)dx =int (x+2)/(x(x+5))dx = int (2/(5x) +3/(5(x+5)))dx Then, express it as sum of two integrals. = int 2/(5x)dx + int 3/(5(x+5))dx = 2/5 int 1/xdx + 3/5 int 1/(x+5)dx To take the integral of this, apply the formula int 1/u du = ln|u|+C . =2/5ln|x| + 3/5ln|x+5| + C Therefore, int (x+2)/(x^2+5x)==2/5ln|x| + 3/5ln|x+5| + C .

Having spent many years working for members for the United States Congress, I have often pondered the question of which of two systems, parliamentary or the US Congress, is better. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Putting aside for a moment the question of which system better serves the public, I would rather be a member of Congress than a member of parliament. While members of both types of institution are elected, members of the US Congress generally enjoy better stability. Under Article I of the Constitution of the United States, members of the Senate serve for six year terms and members of the House of Representatives for two year terms, with no limits on the number of terms members can serve. Those are fixed terms and, unlike a parliamentarian system in which new elections can be called at almost any time, congressmen and senators know that, once elected, they are safe until the next regularly scheduled elections. Beyond the question of job stability, members of Congr...

In act 1, scene 1, Bassanio petitions Antonio for money in order to fund his trip to Belmont. Bassanio explains to Antonio that he has been careless with his money and is in debt to numerous people throughout Venice. He goes on to tell Antonio that there is a wealthy heiress named Portia who lives in Belmont and has many suitors. Bassanio explains to Antonio that he believes he will be able to win Portia's heart and marry her. Marrying Portia will make Bassanio a rich man, and he will be able to pay Antonio the money back. Antonio is more than willing to finance Bassanio's trip, but all of his investments and wealth are tied into his ships, which are out at sea. In order to help Bassanio, Antonio gets a loan of three thousand ducats from the Jewish moneylender Shylock on the condition that if he forfeits on the loan, Shylock can remove a pound of Antonio's flesh.

In Rutherford’s famous experiment, a beam of alpha particles from a radioactive source was directed at a thin gold foil. An alpha particle has mass and a positive charge, so it will be slowed or deflected when it encounters mass and/or charge. At that time, it was known that atoms contained negatively-charged electrons but were neutral overall. One tentative description for the internal structure of the atom was called the “plum pudding” model. It supposed that an atom was made of positively-charged material with electrons embedded in it, like the fruit in a plum pudding. Rutherford’s experiment changed all that. Most of the alpha particles went right through the gold foil as if there was no matter there at all! A few were deflected or scattered, some through large angles, suggesting that they had encountered matter of very high charge density. The conclusion from this was that the matter and positive charge of an atom must be concentrated in a very tiny volume so that most of the atom...

In chapter 1, Bruno returns home to discover the maid packing his personal belongings into boxes. Bruno is initially confused and learns from his mother that his family will be leaving Berlin because of his father's "important" job. However, the narrator does not elaborate on Bruno's father's occupation, leaving the reader to infer what he does for a living. Bruno's mother is hesitant to disclose much of the information about the family's move and seems to dismiss her son's incessant questions. Bruno is clearly upset about the upcoming move and voices his displeasure at having to leave his three best friends. In the first chapter, Boyne introduces several significant characters throughout the novel and reveals Bruno's thoughts about leaving Berlin. By using limited narration, several important pieces of information are purposely left out; this allows the reader to view the events from Bruno's innocent perspective.

Feste appears in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will, which was written around 1600. In analyzing the character of Feste, it's important to note that Twelfth Night was written at the time that Robert Armin joined Shakespeare's acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, replacing Will Kempe as the actor who played fools and clowns. Will Kempe was known for his physical comedy and low-brow humor and played rustic fools and clowns—called "natural fools," like Lance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. When Armin joined the troupe, the fools in Shakespeare's plays were written as "wise fools," who were less clownish and more witty and worldly-wise, starting with Touchstone in As You Like It, then Feste in Twelfth Night, and then the Fool in King Lear. Armin was a well-known actor before he joined Shakespeare's company. He had also written several books and plays...

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements begins in Scarsdale, New York. The main protagonist of the story, Mark Robert Chelmsley, has lived there in New York for the past three years of his life.  Mark's opinion is that he lives in the greatest place in the world.  Most of the book is not set in New York, though.  Mark and his family are moving from New York to a renovated country farmhouse in rural New Hampshire.  Mark is not happy about it.  In addition to the story being set in Mark's new house, large parts of the book are set in Mark's new school.  The name of the school is Hardy Elementary.  Mark's teacher, Mr. Maxwell, is in charge of the school's "Week in the Woods" program, and the remaining setting location is at the camp in the woods where Mr. Maxwell takes his class. 

Benjamin Franklin's memoirs were intended initially for his son, William, who was a governor during the time of its writing. The autobiography initially only consisted of the first part: a summary of some of the political and social achievements Franklin had accomplished at the time. However, as he was still very active—particularly in the political arena—he decided to continue to write these memoirs to his son. Eventually, however, his editor informed him that the memoirs would likely be beneficial for the general public, so he attempted to expand upon them. He lost many of the papers for the third part of his book while traveling to France but still managed to produce a large compilation. Finally, after his death, the book was released—unfinished—to the general public, and it has since become a hallmark of political literature for that period. Benjamin Franklin was an influential public figure in Europe and America, and most people admired his accomplishments. Many had heard that...

Normally, Antigone would be stoned to death for defying Creon's express orders not to bury Polyneices's body. But Creon cannot do that; he has to make an exception in her case. The reason is that Antigone is related to Creon; she's his niece. Not only that, but she's engaged to his son Haemon. According to the ancient Greeks the killing of a relative would bring down divine vengeance, not just upon the perpetrator but the community as a whole. So instead of having Antigone stoned to death, Creon decides to have her walled up in a cave. Although this will lead to her being starved to death, Creon will still be able to evade responsibility for it. Clearly, he thinks there's a difference between actively killing someone and just letting them die. Creon's approach to the problem is ironic indeed, not to say hypocritical. He's expressly forbidden Antigone from burying her brother even though doing so could well incur the wrath of the gods. Yet when it comes to so...

Imperialism is defined as forcefully imposing the rule and/or influence of a stronger nation over a weaker one. This control can be done economically, through military might, or political control. The word shares the same latin root as “empire”; imperialism is the expanding of an empire. Many have argued that the very nature of imperialism is contrary to the free will and basic rights of all human beings. When people are forced to live under foreign rule, they have little to no say in how their lives and communities are governed. This was quite evident in the Soviet “satellite states” during the Cold War. Ukraine was essentially forced into a famine by Joseph Stalin, leaving the people to eat grass, vermin, rats, frogs, and even the corpses of those who had died during the famine. The United States participated in what was known as the “Age of Imperialism” in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. After winning the Spanish-American War, the US became responsible for a varie...

The Colombian Exchange of the 15th and 16th centuries fostered the Atlantic slave trade. The effects of this on Africa were immense and brutal. The capture and forced deportation of young, healthy Africans between the ages of 18 and 40 took a toll on the continent's demographics. Back in Africa, the compulsory marches in which captured Africans took part were lengthy and lethal; many died before they even left for the New World. Politically, the social structure was upended across the African continent, as long-standing relationships between ethnic and religious groups, soldiers and civilians, and neighboring communities shifted. Social rifts were created. Traditional African values were undermined. European intervention prevented African nations from organizing against them. All this cultural chaos enabled the rise of vulturous regimes that still exist today and stifled economic and technological growth. Agricultural production was slow to stabilize, for example. Before a nation c...

Praesal v. Johnson This is a case of a partial reversal of the trial court's judgment in favor of all plaintiffs involved. The case revolves around a man named Ronald Peterson, who broadsided another vehicle while experiencing a grand mal seizure. The driver of the other vehicle died from her injuries and her family filed a lawsuit against three of Peterson's doctors and the Sadler Clinic, where he received treatment. The lawsuit was filed on the grounds that the physicians had a duty to warn Peterson not to drive or to report his condition to the authorities. The trial court determined that the three physicians involved in Peterson's treatment owed no duty to the deceased victim of the car accident or any third parties. The court of appeals upheld this judgment with the exception of the judgment in Dr. Wendenburg's favor. It was determined that, unlike the other physicians and the Sadler Clinic itself, Wendenburg did have a duty to the third party as a result of his pr...

Nick Hornby's novel Slam centers around a teenage boy named Sam and the many connections in his life to teenage pregnancy.  On his sixteenth birthday, Sam's girlfriend Alicia tells him she might be pregnant, and he does his best to avoid her. After celebrating his birthday with his fighting parents, Sam goes to his room and falls asleep. When he wakes up, it is somehow months later. Sam is at Alicia's house, and Alicia has had a baby.  He lives a day in this future-life, but the next day he wakes up and is back in his normal timeline. Later on in the book, there are two more instances where Sam is "whizzed" to the future and then brought back.  Throughout the book, there are not any clues that definitively tell us whether Sam is dreaming or actually being "whizzed" to the future, so it is up to the reader to decide which way they think it is. Alternatively, you could just say it is ambiguous and leave it at that. 

The short story "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" by Sherman Alexie tells of a homeless Indian named Jackson Jackson who comes across his grandmother's regalia, which is gear that she used in powwow dances, in a pawnshop. Jackson explains that it's been missing for 50 years, it's important, and he wants it back. The pawnbroker tells him that he'll sell it back for 999 dollars and he'll give Jackson 24 hours to come up with the money. The rest of the story describes Jackson's quest for the money. In fact, he acquires money and then spends it several times. First of all, the pawnbroker gives Jackson and his friends $20 to get started. They take the money to a 7-11 store and use it to buy liquor. Next, Jackson goes into the Real Change newspaper office, and the kind Big Boss gives him 50 newspapers for free. Jackson manages to sell five newspapers for $5 and throws the rest of them away. With $4 he buys four MacDonald's burgers and eats them. Jackson then...