`sin(u-v)=sin(u)cos(v)-cos(u)sin(v)`
`sin(225-30)=sin(225)cos(30)-cos(225)sin(30)`
`sin(225-30)=(-sqrt2/2)(sqrt3/2)-(-sqrt2/2)(1/2)=-sqrt2/4(sqrt3-1)`
`cos(u-v)=cos(u)cos(v)+sin(u)sin(v)`
`cos(225-30)=cos(225)cos(30)+sin(225)sin(30)`
`cos(225-30)=(-sqrt2/2)(sqrt3/2)+(-sqrt2/2)(1/2)=-sqrt2/4(sqrt3+1)`
`tan(u-v)=(tan(u)-tan(v))/(1+tan(u)tan(v))`
`tan(225-30)=(tan(225)-tan(30))/(1+tan(225)tan(30))=(1-(sqrt3/3))/(1+(1)(sqrt3/3))=(3-sqrt3)/(3+sqrt3)`
The rationalized answer is `2-sqrt3.`
I think that this question has a few answers (it's subjective, so what you think can probably be proven correct through analyzing the text!).
One way to look at this poem is to say that it has a dark and dreary tone. The poem uses dark imagery coupled with a rhyming meter to create an eerie tone. First we will discuss the imagery. Frost makes a point to state that he is on his horse in the woods, while it's snowing (!!!), on the darkest night of the year (eek!). Sounds dangerous and kind of scary! To take it further, Frost states that the woods are "lovely, dark and deep." To state that being in the woods while it's snowing in the dark is lovely is kind of crazy. A normal response would be to say that it is scary or bleak.
The poem's rhyming meter is Shakespeare'e favorite: iambic pentameter. As iambic pentameter is considered regular meter of stressed and unstressed syllables, it allows the poem to be read quickly and almost like a song. Let's take a step back for a second: Frost wrote a dark, dreary poem where he calls a dangerous situation in the woods "lovely" and it is written in a sing-song tone. If we take these clues, we could postulate that this poem is about suicide or, more generally, just about death.
Again, this is just one way to analyze this poem. The tone could also be perceived as bucolic (celebrating the countryside), solitary (just a dude and his horse!), or any other word that you can think of to describe how the images presented in this poem help get the message of the poem across.
I feel that the attack on Johnny was so traumatic to him because he nearly lost his life. When Ponyboy describes the vicious attack to Cherry, he mentions that Johnny was beaten so badly that he thought he might be dead. Johnny's entire face was cut and swollen. Any victim of a brutal attack similar to the one Johnny experienced would be fearful of another attack, and nervous to get caught defenseless again. After the attack, Ponyboy mentions that Johnny carried a switchblade around with him and refused to walk anywhere by himself. Ponyboy comments that Johnny would use his switchblade and kill the next person who jumped him. He says, "Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body..." (Hinton 34) This comment is significant because it foreshadows the scene in Chapter 4 where Johnny uses his switchblade in self-defense to avoid being beaten by a gang of Socs. Unfortunately, Johnny's actions result in the death of Bob Sheldon, which is significant to the plot of the novel.
China’s relations with other states are clearly better than those of Iran. There are two main reasons for this.
On the one hand, you might think that China’s relations with other states would be worse than Iran’s. Both countries are nondemocratic, but China is the country that is threatening to become a major world power. This might frighten the countries that currently hold power and make China’s relations worse.
But this is not the case. One reason for this is that China is not seen as an imminent military threat to just about anyone in its region. China has enough power to dominate its region, but it does not have any real reason to want to destabilize any country in its region. While Iran has potential religious reasons for wanting to weaken Israel as well as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, China has no reason to try to undermine or get militarily involved in countries around it. This means that China does not have real enemies in its region. Relatedly, China is allowed by international law to have nuclear weapons. Iran, by contrast, is not, and its apparent efforts towards developing such weapons have poisoned its relationship with the powers of the world.
A second reason why China has better relations with other countries is the size of its economy. Everyone knows that China is an important country economically and, therefore, militarily. Countries can afford to simply treat Iran as a pariah. They cannot afford to treat China in that way because it is simply too big, powerful, and important.
For these reasons, China has much better relations with other states than Iran does.
Aristotle, like most of the ancient Greeks, was concerned with defining happiness (eudaimonia). It must be clarified, at the outset, that the Greeks did not take "happiness" to be mere subjective contentment. Happiness entailed flourishing and (objective) well-being. Now Aristotle and the Epicureans offer very different accounts of happiness and, for this reason, the Epicureans certainly added on to Aristotle's moral theory. Indeed the only significant point of agreement is that they both take happiness to be the goal of life. Such moral theories are often called "eudaimonistic."
In the Nicomachean Ethics X, Aristotle argues that the best possible life consists in contemplation (theōria) but that a secondarily happy life — and one that is attainable by human beings — involves a life lived according to practical wisdom (phronēsis). A person who possesses practical wisdom and, consequently, happiness, will possess a range of moral and intellectual virtues.
The Epicureans, on the other hand, defined happiness as pleasure. Pleasure requires the absence of emotional distress as well as the absence of physical pain. We will be happy as long as we pursue natural and necessary pleasures.
In Stave III of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the third of the three spirits that visit Ebenezer Scrooge this night, takes the miserly, angry old man to a number of destinations, each equally bleak, but each just as equally touched by the spirit of the season. When Dickens’ story opens, Scrooge is depicted in the most negative of lights, caring nothing for those around him; blood-relative, employee, stranger, whoever crossed his path was invariably greeted with a scowl and an admonition against the joyfulness of the Christmas season. This depiction of the “wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” sets the stage for the story of redemption to follow. Scrooge, of course, is visited first by the ghost of his late-business partner Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge of the fate that awaits him should he fail to amend his ways. Marley’s ghost further warns Scrooge that he will be visited by the three spirits, the first of which, the Ghost of Christmas Past, reminds the old man of the melancholy existence he led as a child and of the promise of a happy life once available for the taking. Scrooge, however, took a different, more spiritually deleterious path – a path now illuminated by the Ghost of Christmas Present. This ghost, as noted, transports Scrooge to various unsettling settings, including the “bleak and desert moor,” the solitary lighthouse by the sea, and the ship plying the lonely, dark waters. The purpose of these experiences is very clear. Each setting is intrinsically lonely and desolate, yet the few individuals who live or work at each place are invariably infected by the spirit of the season. Referring to the desert moor, which Dickens describes as “where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass,” Scrooge asks, “What place is this?” to which the ghost replies: “A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,” returned the Spirit. What becomes apparent to Scrooge about this dismal setting is that the family that these two invisible interlopers observe, desperately poor though they are, is nevertheless filled with the joyous spirit of Christmas:
“A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. An old, old man and woman, with their children and their children’s children, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire. The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song—it had been a very old song when he was a boy— and from time to time they all joined in the chorus. So surely as they raised their voices, the old man got quite blithe and loud; and so surely as they stopped, his vigour sank again.”
Similarly, at the lighthouse, as physically and emotionally isolated a venue as can be imagined, Scrooge observes the lighthouse’s occupants embracing the holiday spirit:
“But even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea. Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder, too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be: struck up a sturdy song that was like a Gale in itself.”
And, finally, the ghost takes Scrooge to the ship sailing the rough, dark waters of the sea, from above which they observe the ship’s crew dutifully performing its dangerous work under the most arduous of conditions:
“They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year . . .”
Scrooge is surprised to witness the solemnity and respectfulness with which each member of the crew performs his duty while inculcated with the spirit of the Christmas season. The purpose of these experiences was to illustrate for Scrooge the importance of the season and how divorced from financial considerations is the reason for the observance of Christmas. Heretofore, Scrooge has been concerned only with money. He cannot fathom how anybody without money can be happy, despite the fact that he himself is the wealthiest man in town yet lives a solitary bitter existence. By showing Scrooge the contrasts of poverty and isolation on the one hand and the inner peace and joy that Christmas brings to even the most unfortunate among us, the ghost is exposing the old man to the true meaning of the season. These people – the minors, the lighthouse caretakers, the ship’s crew – are all much less financially fortunate than Scrooge, yet each is filled with the joy of the Christmas season.
This problem can be solved using the ideal gas law, PV=nRT. We can rearrange it as follows to solve for n, the number of moles of gas:
n = PV/RT
R = .0821 L-atom/mol-K (ideal gas constant)
Temperature needs to be in Kelvins: 25.5ºC + 273 = 298.5 K
Volume must be in liters: V = 29.65 ml X (1 L/1000 ml) = 0.02965 L
n = (708.1 atm)(0.02965 ml)/(0.0821 L-atm/mol-K)(298.5 K)
n = 0.857 moles, so the correct answer is b.
There are several values for R with different units. Be sure to use the value that has the same pressure units as given in the problem, in this case atmospheres. Make sure that other units match up, like using liters for volume. If you include all of the units in the calculation and cancel them you can verify that you set the problem up correctly.
The "traditional, or "orthodox" interpretation of the origins of the Cold War, at least in American historiography, was born in the midst of the conflict itself. This interpretation emphasized the aggressive and expansionist nature of Communism, which was assumed to be a major threat to the Western-style democracies. In short, these writers, who included such intellectuals as George Kennan (also a member of the US diplomatic corps and an important foreign policy analyst), journalist Walter Lippmann, and historian Thomas Bailey, blamed not just the nature of communism but Soviet premier Joseph Stalin himself. They emphasized his duplicity on the question of democratic elections in Poland in the immediate aftermath of World War II. According to this interpretation, which again emerged in the midst of the Cold War itself, only firm action on the part of the United States in the form of the Truman Doctrine prevented the spread of Communism throughout Europe. Stalin's aggressiveness, like that of Hitler, was assumed to be almost unlimited except in the face of force. Subsequent interpretations, especially from historians who have access to documents from Soviet/Russian archives, had shown that Stalin was actually quite cautious and somewhat fearful of war with the United States. But early historians and other interpreters of the conflict didn't--perhaps couldn't--see it that way. Even today there are many historians who accept the broad outlines of this interpretation.
This small excerpt from Leaves of Grass serves as a perfect example of Whitman’s point of view about living in the world, about observing the world we’re in rather than intellectually dissecting it or scientifically taxonomizing it, categorizing it, charting it, treating it as a puzzle “solvable” only by so-called “learned men.” The detail “in perfect silence” contrasts with the learn’d astronomer’s droning lecture. Anyone who has ever sat through that sort of erudite, pompous non-teaching environment knows the desire to remove oneself and seek the real, immediate experience of living. “I looked up in perfect silence at the stars” is a brilliant example of how we should live every day.
Isabel wishes that the Lockton family would give her Sunday afternoons off. Then she could work elsewhere for pay. With enough money saved up, Isabel would be able to buy her own freedom.
The answer to the question is found in chapter 41. Madam Lockton is preparing herself and her household to attend a ball in honor of Queen Charlotte. The day proves to be particularly difficult for Isabel because Madam Lockton is intentionally unhappy with whatever Isabel does. Madam Lockton's churlish behavior gets Isabel thinking about what it would have been like to be Lady Seymour's slave. Then Isabel wonders if Lady Seymour would have set her free, which turns Isabel's thoughts toward freedom. She mentions that some other slaves are given Sunday afternoons off. They use the time to earn money. Isabel says that she would sew, scrub tables, or even clean prison cells, if it meant she could earn enough money to buy her own freedom.
One of the first things you should do is look carefully at your assignment sheet to clarify the genre of the essay. There are many different types of essay, including personal, informative, and argumentative. Developing a topic and thesis depends to a degree on the type of essay you have been assigned.
Your next step in developing your essay is to narrow your topic. You won't be able to cover everything that can be said about friendship in three paragraphs. Instead, you might think about selecting a particular aspect of friendship or particular examples of friendship that has been important to you.
One possible topic would be to discuss the things you do with your friends and how your life would be less happy or interesting without friends. For an essay like this, you might start by introducing your topic, "things I do with my friends", then writing a paragraph with detailed examples, and concluding with a paragraph on how your friends enrich your life.
If you have a pet such as a dog or cat, you could write an essay about how your pet is a friend, and then follow the pattern of extended examples in the body paragraph and a conclusion showing how your pet improves your life.
A psychosis is an illness or episode characterized by a loss of perception of reality, often manifesting as delusions, hallucinations, and disruptions of typical behaviors and emotions. Psychosis may result from some disease or abnormality of the brain- even a high fever can bring on psychosis- or where there is no identifiable structural or organic causes, it is termed a functional psychosis.
A neurosis is sometimes thought of as the lighter, less intense manifestation of psychosis, but this isn't entirely accurate. A neurosis may cause some amount of distorted perception of reality, but people are largely able to regain objectivity in their actions and understanding of the world. A person suffering from neurosis may feel anxiety, depression, or anger, all of which cause problem in a person's life, but they are not disabling in the same sense as an episode of psychosis. Neuroses can stem from structural or functional abnormalities in the brain which create anxiety, depression, etc, or they may be the result of traumatic experiences.
In short, a neurosis can alter a person's understanding of reality, while a psychosis occurs when a person is unable to distinguish reality from their perceptions.
The man does not belong in this setting. He can only maintain his existence by the artificial means of building fires. The dog, on the other hand, does belong in this setting because it is not far removed from its wolf ancestors who had adapted to these cruel conditions over thousands of years of struggling for existence.
At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, grey-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf. The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for traveling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man's judgment.
Jack London uses the dog throughout the tale to serve as a contrast to the inexperienced man. The dog does not understand its master's behavior but obeys him because of a combination of fear and trust. It is an ironic situation because the animal knows how to survive under the coldest conditions, whereas the man, who supposedly has superior intelligence, makes one blunder after another. The dog is especially useful as a character because it keeps its eyes steadfastly on its master, watching his every move, evidently trusting him to get them both to safety. This enables the author to describe the man both subjectively from the man's point of view and objectively from the dog's point of view. The dog shows loyalty right up to the end. Loyalty is part of its heritage of instincts; whereas the man has no loyalty to the dog but tries to kill it just to warm his frozen hands. The reader is left feeling more respect for the dog than for his master, who is left dead in the snow.
Jack London's use of the dog as a second character makes his story more dramatic, even though dog and man cannot communicate. The alternative would have been to use an intrusive narrator to explain the things the dog knows by instinct. There is some of that kind of intrusive narration in the story, but there would have had to be much more without the dog.
During the Gilded age there was rapid economic growth, this growth created vast amounts of wealth. There were new products and technologies that led to the improvement in the quality of life of the middle class. However this new prosperity was not shared by everyone, the industrial workers and farmers worked in dangerous conditions for long hours with very little pay. The politicians during the Gilded Age were ineffective and corrupt. The majority of Americans during this time desired social and political reforms, however there were huge disagreements about what type of reform was needed. The unskilled workers of the day worked for long hours in dangerous conditions. These workers got paid very little and did not share the prosperity of the Gilded age. Many of these workers lived in slums. While the industrial giants made huge contributions to the development of the American economy the vast majority of Americans did not benefit from these changes. The economy allowed for few to gain large fortunes but the unskilled laborers had to work 60 hours a week for 10 cents an hour. Over a million people lived in the cramped New York dumbbell tenements which were overcrowded, fire traps. In Chicago, the slums were around three times as packed as those in New York. The living conditions in these settlements were horrible, city governments were not able to build sewage or water facilities fast enough for the growing populations. Diseases such as cholera, TB, consumption, and typhoid became common in these settlements. In cities like New Orléans the poor walked in their own sewage.
The period of the Gilded Age was one of horrible labor violence where the industrialist and workers fought for control in the workplace. This resulted in the workers forming the first labor unions. The employers were against such unions and tried to stop them for forming which led to conflicts. The key events that came out of this was the Railway Strike of 1877, Haymarket Riot of 1886, Homestead Strike of 1892, and the Pullman Strike of 1893. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 started a time of serious conflicts in the industrial industry. The strike ended when federal troops attacked the protesting workers. After 1877 the laborers started to form large unions. In 1892 there was a strike at the Carnegie Homestead Steel plant that was outside of Pittsburgh. There was fighting between armed security and workers which left 12 men dead. The steel industry stayed free of unions until the 1930s. Pullman ran a railroad car factory in Chicago and built a city for his workers to live in but the rent in this city was high and workers were generally unhappy. The Pullman Strike started after wages for the factory workers were reduced but rent for living in the town was not. Workers who went on strike received support from the national American Railways Union. The strike however ended up being a failure due to intervention by government troops. The Industrialists were convinced by the violent strikes that labor conflict was an inevitability. So most of the big industrialists desired to stop unions from forming instead of trying to reach a compromise. The rapid industrialization of the American workplace changed the role that work played in people's lives. The workers were not just unhappy due to the pay, hours and conditions but they also loss the status and satisfaction that work had previously given them. The introduction of machinery plus the subdivision of the manufacturing process led to workers only understanding the one tiny part that they played in the process. The laborers also lost the opportunity for advancement resulting in them being demoralized. The manufacturing process gave the workers no transportable skills, they often had no real skills at all. In fact the process was subdivided so much that a child was capable of doing the work. It wasn’t until the 1920s that industrialists decided to improve productivity and morale by improving factory conditions.
Typically, when respiration is considered, we consider the catabolism of glucose to produce ATP. In eukaryotes (organisms with nucleus-containing cells) this process begins in the cytoplasm of the cell with glycolysis. Glycolysis breaks down a 6-carbon glucose into two 3-carbon pyruvic acid molecules, 2 NADH, and 2 ATP (4 are produced, but 2 are used).
The pyruvic acid molecules are then oxidized to produce 2 acetyl CoA molecules which can enter the Kreb's cycle (also known as the citric acid cycle or the TCA cycle) which takes place within the mitochondria. The cycle is completed twice for each original glucose molecule. This cycle, per original glucose, produces 6 NADH, 2 ATP, 2 FADH2, and 4 CO2.
The electron carriers (NADH and FADH2) produced during the previous 2 steps then go on to the electron transport chain embedded within the inner mitochondrial membrane. Proteins within the chain are reduced by the electron carriers as they take the electrons that they are carrying. The electrons are then passed from protein to protein along a chain of increasing electronegativity until the final electron acceptor, water, accepts the electrons to form water. As the electrons are transported, the energy is used to pump protons into the intermembrane space, creating a proton gradient. The only place where these protons can diffuse down their concentration gradient is through ATP synthase. As they do, the movement of the enzyme results in the production of ATP.
Glucose (a carbohydrate) is not the only macromolecule that can be broken down to produce ATP. Lipids and proteins can also be used. The fatty acid chains of lipids, such as triglycerides, can be broken apart 2 carbons at a time to produce acetyl CoA molecules. This process is called beta oxidation. These acetyl CoA molecules can then enter the Kreb's cycle with the same result as acetyl CoAs resulting from glucose catabolism.
Proteins are broken down into their component amino acids building blocks during digestive processes. Once this occurs, energy can be obtained from amino acids. Amino acids can be converted to Kreb's cycle intermediates and then enter the Kreb's cycle. For example, arginine, glutamate, histidine, and proline can be converted to alpha ketoglutarate, an intermediate in the cycle. Once they are inserted, the cycle continues as it does with glucose.
Prokaryotic cells lack membrane bound organelles and the process of respiration occurs in an area known as the mesosome within the cytoplasm. The mesosome is created as the plasma membrane folds inward, and within this region are respiratory enzymes which function within an electron transport chain. However, not all prokaryotic cells contain mesosomes.
In the membrane are proteins that can function as carrier molecules to allow electrons to flow in a series of redox reactions. This is coupled with pumping protons against their gradient. This creates a proton motive force that is used to drive cellular work including regeneration of ATP from ADP plus inorganic phosphate as the protons fall down their concentration gradient through an enzyme called ATP synthase.
The enzymes involved in prokaryotic cellular respiration are embedded in the cell membrane and include NADH dehydrogenase complex, various cytochromes and the enzyme cytochrome oxidase complex, co-enzyme Q. The enzyme ATP synthase uses the proton motive force to synthesize ATP from ADP plus inorganic phosphate. These enzymes, co-enzymes and carrier molecules are located in the inner membrane of bacteria cells.
The flow of electrons in these cells proceeds in the following direction-- from organic compounds from food, to the carrier molecule NADH, to the electron transport chain and to oxygen, the final electron accceptor. This is for aerobic prokaryotic cells.
I have included a nice diagram of the membrane of prokaryotic cells containing the various enzymes I have described.
Your intuition that the monopoly faces a marginal revenue curve with twice the slope of the demand curve is correct. I'll walk through the problem and see if I can find where you might have made a mistake.
From what you described, it sounds like you might have missed the fact that the equilibrium price will change when the market switches from competition to a monopoly.
Part of being a monopoly is that they get to choose both how much they make and how much they charge, subject to their costs and the market demand. They aren't constrained by the market price the way a competitive firm would be.
In general the monopolist maximizes this function (technically called a Lagrangian, though it's often taught without using that terminology):
profit = P*Q - C(Q) = max
The first-order condition for a local maximum is that the derivative must be zero:
0 = dP/dQ * Q + P(Q) - C'(Q)
The supply curve is assumed to be the same as the marginal cost function, so
P = 30 + Q_S
C'(Q) = 30 + 3Q
The demand curve is the function that gives us P(Q) and dP/dQ:
P = 100 - 2 Q_d
P(Q) = 100 - 2 Q
dP/dQ = -2
Substituting all that back in gives us:
0 = -2*Q + 100 - 2Q - (30 + 3Q)
100 - 4Q = 30 + 3Q
70 = 7Q
10 = Q
That's the quantity that the monopolist wishes to produce and sell. To see how much they can charge and still sell that many, we plug back into the demand curve:
P = 100 - 2(10) = 80
So the price that the monopoly wants to charge is $80 per unit, choice A.
(As a quick test-taking strategy, you can eliminate C and D immediately based on this demand curve. For P = 100 - 2Q, P = 110 can't possibly be right because Q would have to be negative and a negative quantity sold makes no sense. P = 100 is also very unlikely because you can't be making profits at Q = 0. That is at least possible, if it turns out that this whole market is failing proposition and your best bet is to drop out completely; but that doesn't seem to fit the context of this problem. Choices A and B are the only plausible answers from the very start.)
The aim of the vacuum story was to inform Mrs. Frisby about the risks of taking the easy way out. This was with regards to the stealing culture of the rats. Nicodemus realized that by over-relying on the resources available to the people, the rats were exposing themselves to conflicts with the humans. He believed that taking the provisions from the people was going to be unsustainable in the long run because the resources were limited and a significant reduction would force the people to capture or exterminate them. In this regard, Nicodemus sought to establish a self sufficient community for the rats to safely exist in, far from the threat posed by the humans.
In the vacuum cleaner story, Mrs. Jones substituted her traditional use of the broom and the mop for the more effective vacuum cleaner. The other women followed suit much to the detriment of their environment. The power company, in their attempt to supply the much needed electricity, polluted the environment because of the soot produced by the plant. This forced the women to work twice as hard and long and they still did not achieve the same levels of cleanliness that they did when they used the broom and mop.
The meaning of the story to the rats was over-reliance on shared resources (stealing) was risky but easy, while on the other hand, self sufficiency needed more effort but offered safety in return.
Immediately after World War I ended, Germany didn’t have a dictator. Germany created a republic as their form of government. It was called the Weimar Republic. Germany elected its leaders.
Unfortunately, the Versailles Treaty was so harsh on Germany it doomed the Weimar Republic to fail. The Versailles Treaty imposed very heavy reparations on Germany. Germany had to pay the Allies $33 billion. The heavy reparations help to create big financial issues in Germany. Germany’s economy eventually collapsed leading to the failure of the Weimar Republic.
As the Weimar Republic failed, this opened the door for Germany to return to a government led to by a strong leader. The Nazi Party grew to power, and Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany in 1933.
While Germany had a republic government right after World War I ended, it eventually turned to a dictatorship led by Adolf Hitler in 1933.
Depositions are part of the discovery process in a court proceeding, and they are meant to be scheduled at a time that is amenable to both parties, not just to the requesting party. If the company has been cooperative throughout discovery thus far, there is no reason not to request another date for the deposition. The vendor could very well need some consideration as well as the proceedings go on. But if the company has done everything possible to drag its feet and make discovery difficult for the other side, a request for a delay or an alternative date might not be viewed very favorably. The judge is generally in charge of discovery, particularly discovery deadlines, and it is also possible to ask the judge to intervene to assure that the company can carry out its normal and necessary business throughout the proceedings. The moral to this story is that all parties in discovery should begin and continue in a spirit of cooperation, rather than engaging in scorched earth tactics before trial even begins!
In the story There Will Come Soft Rains, the talking mechanical house represents humanity. Nearly every story in existence contains some sentient life, whether that takes the form of talking animals, magical beings, or just plain old humans. In short, most stories have characters.
There Will Come Soft Rains only has one talking character and this character is arguably not sentient at all. The house displays some awareness and anxiety, which are human qualities, yet it is distinctly not human. The house is programmed to serve its family and gives little, if any, indication that it possesses any thought or free will of its own. Therefore, the only talking being in this story is hardly a character at all.
The house represents the inhumanity of the world that constructed it. It symbolizes the advanced technology that helped destroy the human race. And it represents the cold efficiency of the world prior to the war.
The house did everything for the family that lived there and in doing so became just one of the many ways that humanity out-bred kindness. Instead of your loved ones surprising you with breakfast in the morning, the house does it for you and requires no thanks. Instead of spending time entertaining and coaxing your children, the house can do it for you. Instead of remembering your friend's marriage, the house reminds you. The house was made human so the people didn't have to be.
"'Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.'"
In a world destroyed by nuclear war, a lone mechanical house that doesn't dream or love is the only thing left that even resembles humanity. The house represents how the technology that people make will outlive them. The house also lives on in denial of what has transpired. It knows that its owners are nowhere to be found, and yet it continues about its daily tasks just as before. It's blatant denial of the horrors surrounding it mirrors how people always manage to pretend not to notice the signs of their impending doom. The people who owned the house and others like them must have seen the signs of how catastrophic the war would be, but none of them cared or tried to stop it.
People living in New York during the era of the Thirteen Colonies had different jobs depending on where they lived. Farming was common in rural areas. Farmers harvested crops and cared for cattle and other livestock. In towns and cities, there were doctors, lawyers, teachers, printers, tanners, coopers, blacksmiths, gunsmiths, bankers, saddle makers, bakers, butchers, wheelwrights, and tavern keepers. Some men were merchants who managed bookshops, tea shops, and other stores.
Most women did not work, but there were some occupations that were considered acceptable for ladies. Some women taught at dame schools, which were educational establishments that taught basic reading and other skills to children. Other women were dressmakers, milliners, and midwives.
In rural parts of New York, there were fur trading posts. Fur was often used to make coats and blankets. The hide from animals was used to make leather.
Density is a property of matter that tells us how heavy something is for its size. It's determined by dividing an object's mass by its volume: d=m/V.
The volume of the rock can be determined by the amount of water it displaces. It's the difference between the volume of the water and rock combined and the volume of the water alone:
V = 30. ml - 22 ml = 8.0 ml
The mass of the rock is given, m = 24 grams
so density = m/V = 24 g/8.0 ml = 3.0 g/ml
Here are some other common units for expressing density:
g/cm^3 = this is the same as g/ml because 1 ml = 1 cm^3
Kg/L = this is also equivalent to g/ml because 1 Kg is 1000 grams and 1 liter is 1000 milliliters.
The main idea of Wordsworth's poem "We are Seven" is that the dead still "count", even though they are no longer with us. In the poem, a man approaches an eight-year-old girl and asks her how many brothers and sisters she has. She answers that "we are seven" (meaning there are seven siblings total), and proceeds to explain that two of her siblings lie in the church yard. She further details how first her sister, Jane, and then her brother, John, fell ill and were laid to rest in the church graveyard, not far from her home.
The man counters the girl, stating that, as only five siblings are still alive, her count should be at five. He contrasts the siblings whose souls "are in heaven" with the girl, who has limbs that "are alive". She counters with tales of how she still interacts with her dead siblings, visiting their graves often, singing, etc. In the end, as the poet asserts, the "little maid has her will", as she will not be convinced that she has any less than a family of seven. This is one of those cases where children can be more knowing than adults, as most readers will find themselves siding with the girl.
The Boston Massacre was a very significant event. On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered outside of the Custom house in Boston. After the shooting stopped, five colonists were dead.
This event was significant for a number of reasons. First, it had shown how the relationship between the British and colonists had deteriorated, especially in Massachusetts. Once blood was shed, for some people this changed the course of the struggle. Prior to this event, the colonists and the British had their differences, but nobody was killed over these differences. That now changed.
A second reason why this was significant is that the British repealed all of the Townshend Acts taxes except for the tax on tea. To some people, keeping the tax on tea was seen as a way for the British to let the colonists know the British were still in charge. While people were glad most of the Townshend Acts taxes were removed, people were still concerned about where events might be headed. The Committees of Correspondence also reorganized and became more active after the Boston Massacre occurred.
As events would unfold, the situation deteriorated further over the years. Eventually, the Revolutionary War began.
A stroke is a medical condition in which the blood flow to our brain stops, causing the death of blood cells. There are a number of causes of stroke, including specific medical conditions (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.), smoking (first hand or second hand), obesity, heavy drinking, recreational drugs, etc. An example of a medical condition causing stroke is atherosclerosis, in which plaque (fatty substances) builds up on the inner side of our arteries, thereby choking the blood supply to our organs. This can cause a transient stroke, also known as ischemic stroke. High blood cholesterol levels increase the risk of plaque buildup. There can also be conditions in which a blood vessel ruptures inside the brain, causing to hemorrhagic stroke. This is generally caused by very high blood pressure or overuse of blood thinning medicines (such as heparin and warfarin).
A healthy lifestyle, proper diet and regular exercises are some of the ways we can reduce the risk of strokes.
Hope this helps.
In this poem, a man rides through the woods. It's dark and there is someplace he needs to be. However, he stops for a moment to watch the snow fall. He doesn't tell us why he stops, but we can surmise he is suddenly struck by the beauty of the snowflakes swirling in the darkness and stillness of the woods.
In the next two stanzas, his horse acts surprised, which indicates how unusual it is for this man to pause and enjoy the beauty of a moment. The horse seems to be used to his owner hurrying to and fro, eager to get on with the business of life. "My little horse must think it queer" the man muses in stanza two. In stanza three, the horse shakes his harness bells "to ask if there is some mistake." The repetition of the horse's surprise underscores how odd it is for this man to indulge in enjoying life's momentary pleasures.
The last stanza is filled with longings and regrets. The man would love to prolong this magical moment of beauty and oneness with nature, but he must move on. He writes:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
The poem thus reveals the tension between living in the moment and living to fulfill goals and responsibilities.
The main chemical in Benedict’s solution is the copper (II) ion (Cu2+). Reducing sugars - sugars that contain a free aldehyde or ketone group - will turn Benedict’s solution from blue to green or brick red depending on the amount of reducing sugar present. So the test is both a qualitative test for the presence of reducing sugars such as glucose and it can also be used to give a quantitative indication of the amount of reducing sugar present.
It is often necessary to test for glucose because it is perhaps the main monosaccharide used to give energy and is the main product when carbohydrates such as starch are broken down. In fact, because the test is semi-quantitative diabetics can use it to test their urine.
Osmosis is a special case of diffusion.
Diffusion is the movement of particles from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.
Osmosis is the diffusion of water molecules through a semipermeable membrane. Osmosis only occurs when the concentrations on either side of the membrane are different. Osmosis will occur until the concentrations equalize.
It is important to remember that osmosis considers the movement of water. Water is a solvent but we usually talk about concentration in terms of the solute. Water will move from areas of high water concentration (low solute concentration) to areas of low water concentration (high solute concentration).
Thus, water (the solvent) will move from low salt (solute) concentrations to high salt concentrations. High solute concentrations indicate a low solvent concentration, and vice versa.
The introduction should have a hook to grab attention, a topic leading to a thesis statement, and then the major points you will use to support your topic. All of these items work together to make a solid intro.
Example thesis: The story shows [topic] through [point 1], [point 2] and [point 3].
Another example: One of the larger themes of the play Macbeth is guilt. This can be seen through [point 1], [point 2] and [point 3].
The first body paragraph is about point 1, and ONLY point one. You go into detail and use support such as quotes from the story and paraphrased scenes, from the story to back up your thesis. Make sure each paragraph is at least 4-5 sentences long.
The second body paragraph is about point 2, and once again uses details, quotes and paraphrased scenes to support that point.
The third does the same thing.
In your conclusion, you should restate your thesis and main points again, but in different words.
Hope that helps!
The gas in air that reacts with magnesium is oxygen. The type of reaction that takes place is called synthesis or combination. In this type of reaction there are two or more reactants and one product. Here's the equation for the reaction:
`2 Mg + O_2 -gt 2MgO `
There are two foms of evidence that a chemical reaction is taking place. One is the release of heat and very bright light. The other is the formation of a new substance: White, powdery magnesium oxide forms as the magnesium burns.
Here are the word equations for the reaction of magnesium, lead and potassium with the same gas, oxygen:
Solid magnesium burns with oxygen gas to produce magnesium oxide
Hot molten lead reacts with oxygen gas to produce lead(II)oxide
Potassium metal burns with oxygen to produce potassium peroxide
This question is most likely referring to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, which was framed in the United States as a war to liberate the Cuban people from Spanish oppression. This narrative was especially powerful in the New York press, where rival publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst sought to out-do each other through "yellow journalism": the lurid depiction of alleged Spanish atrocities against Cubans in the war for independence on that island. Whether the United States had a "right" to intervene, is, of course, open to interpretation. Some people argued at the time that it was the morally correct thing to do, and indeed the Spanish-American War enjoyed considerable popular support. But it should also be noted that the United States had other motives in entering the conflict than simply freeing the island of Cuba. Americans desired what was left of the once-mighty Spanish Empire, particularly the Philippines, as part of a new push for imperial expansion. At the same time, some congressmen, who opposed imperialism, stipulated in what became known as the "Teller Amendment" that the United States would not take possession of Cuba as a result of the war against Spain. However, once the war was over, the United States imposed an amendment known as the "Platt Amendment" to the Cuban constitution that authorized American intervention in Cuban domestic affairs. The United States would do so in different ways a few times in the twentieth century. Although the Platt Amendment was repealed under Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy authorized a failed covert operation involving Cuban exiles to overthrow Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro in 1961. So whether or not the United States had the right to intervene in Cuban affairs, the nation has done so more than once, with the aim of protecting American interests there as much as aiding the Cuban people.
Growing up is about coming to an understating of the hypocrisy and unfairness of the adult world, and looking at things from other people’s point of view.
In this chapter, we see how much Scout has matured. She goes from having no understanding of the adult world to appreciating the hypocrisy of the people around her. For example, she can’t understand why the people of Maycomb can condemn Hitler’s treatment of the Jews while treating African Americans with such prejudice.
“…Miss Gates … was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford. I heard her say it’s time somebody taught ’em a lesson, they were gettin‘ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an‘ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home—” (Ch. 26)
This demonstrates that Scout has come to have empathy. She has learned Atticus’s number one lesson of people, that you should learn to see things from their point of view. It is one of the overall themes of the book, that part of growing up is learning to appreciate other people’s perspectives. This chapter shows that Scout has begun to do that.
One of the most significant ways we can see this is Scout’s reflection on Boo Radley. She is no longer afraid of him. In fact, she looks back on her childhood exploits with some shame, wishing that she had not tormented him.
I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishingpole, wandering in his collards at night? (Ch. 26)
Scout also acknowledges the positive role that the children played in Boo’s life, and the fact that the he showed the children what they meant to him by leaving them gifts. Scout fantasizes about meeting him in person and walking him home. It is something she will eventually get to do.
Macbeth and Ulysses have more differences than similarities. Macbeth chronicles the rise and fall of a general who believes he is fated to rule Scotland. Taking matters into his own hands, Macbeth kills the rightful king, rules with an iron fist, soon alienates his allies, and is overthrown and killed. Concise, brutal, and dark, Macbeth is the tragic story of a formerly virtuous man whose own ambition leads to his downfall. The story also has contains many fantastical elements, including, most famously, the witches who prophesy Macbeth's rise to the throne.
Ulysses, on the other hand, is a the tale of a day in the life of a fairly unremarkable man, Leopold Bloom. While the novel is based on Homer's Odyssey, Joyce ultimately tried to capture the nature of an ordinary life, something that few novels had tried to do in 1922. Additionally, while there are many tragic elements in the novel, the end is relatively uplifting, as Bloom finds a potential mentoring relationship with Stephen Dedalus and comes closer to repairing his strained relationship with his wife. Also, the novel constitutes Joyce's celebration of the common human, as one of the overarching themes of the novel is the inherent epic quality of every life, no matter how ordinary.
In short, Ulysses differs from Macbeth in some pretty significant ways. While Ulysses celebrates the ordinary, the mundane, the REAL, Macbeth chronicles the epic struggle between kings, lords, Fate, and the supernatural. Additionally, Ulysses is often uproariously funny, while most audience members watching the Scottish Play would be hard-pressed to crack a smile. That said, Joyce does heavily reference many works of Shakespeare throughout his novel; however, his most common allusion is to Hamlet, not Macbeth.
That said, there are some interesting similarities between Macbeth and the character of Ulysses, especially the Ulysses found in Dante's Inferno. Rejecting the comforts of home, Dante's Ulysses left Ithaca to sail off for the ends of the Earth. During this venture, his boat was capsized and he and all of his crew mates drowned. Punished for his blasphemous ambition, Ulysses is forever imprisoned within the bowels of Hell. Thus, both Macbeth and Dante's Ulysses are ultimately punished for the extent of their ambition, and so there are actually quite a few similarities to be seen in that context. But, compared to Jame Joyce's Ulysses, Macbeth is altogether a different work of literature.
James Joyce wrote the novel Ulysses in 1922. This novel is viewed by many as the most influential novel of the 20th century. This novel included various styles of writing and contained a significant number of allusions and puns. James Joyce’s Ulysses was about a single day, June 16, 1904, in the life of a middle-aged Jewish male who was living in Dublin, Ireland. The novel follows the man, Mr. Leopold Bloom, using a steam-of-consciousness style of writing. This style of writing enabled the reader to follow Bloom’s actions as well as his thoughts, needs, desires, and despair. Joyce’s novel almost broke free of realism, which was a literary goal that aimed to portray people and events as they might exist in the real world. James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is credited with changing contemporary ideas about what a novel could do and what a novel was in general. Perhaps the most significant thing about Joyce was that more than any other author before him, he realized that the way an author writes determines what they are capable of writing about. Basically, he understood that form cannot be separated from content and vice versa. Most writers who recognized this as fact simply lamented the fact, but unlike them Joyce tried to master several styles of writing instead of being constrained by them. In a way he desired to have his writing be capable of saying anything. Ulysses by James Joyce is best known for the style it is written in, stream of consciousness. This style made the readers become more intimately aware of the characters' thoughts, even if they were disorienting and fragmented. The style of the novel is flexible, however. This gave Joyce the ability to change his form of writing to suit the content of what he was writing. Joyce’s Ulysses was able to move the epic journey out of the realm of external adventures and into the realm of the mind. Joyce dared to take an ordinary man and portray him as a heroic figure. Though the novel Ulysses is difficult to read, what it was able to do was reveal that the ordinary can be extraordinary.
Concave mirrors are used in solar furnaces, because concave mirrors are the only type of mirror that reflects light in toward a single focal point. A flat mirror does not have a focal point. It does regular reflection off all of its points. A convex mirror does have a focal point, but it is an imaginary point that exists behind the mirrored surface. The light will reflect up and away from the focal point of a convex mirror. The concave mirror takes all light that strikes its surface and reflects it all "down and in" toward the focal point. The collected light at the focal point is very powerful. It is bright and carries a lot of thermal energy, which is the goal of a solar furnace. It's basically the equivalent of taking a magnifying glass to burn ants with. The difference is that the magnifying glass is a lens instead of a mirror, but both devices collect light and gather it into a single point.
Arguably, it is the lawyer who learns a lesson in "The Bet." At the dinner party, for example, he decides to make the bet because he is motivated by greed: he thinks that being locked away for fifteen years in return for two million rubles is a sacrifice worth making. By the end of his confinement, however, he has come to realise that life is, in fact, "worthless" and "fleeting," and that money cannot buy happiness or fulfilment.
While the lawyer has undergone a spiritual and ethical awakening, the banker is better off in a social and financial sense: he has the honour of winning the bet and he gets to keep the two million rubles. But this comes at a great personal cost: after the bet is over, for instance, he is overcome with "contempt for himself," presumably because he is ashamed of his materialistic nature.
The roots of the Holocaust lay in the antisemitism of ancient times. Long before the birth of Jesus, Jews were attacked and oppressed because of their unwillingness to accept other forms of belief pressed upon them by hostile forces, including, to certain degree, the formidable forces of ancient Rome. Judaism was the first of the major monotheistic religions, and the polytheistic nature of the ancient Romans and Greeks could not both countenance this divergence in belief systems and maintain legitimacy grounded in claims of divine rule. Now, that is, obviously, ancient history, but the antisemitism manifested throughout history led directly to the Holocaust by laying the seeds of hatred towards Jews, invariably grounded on crude stereotypes about Jewish religious practices.
Antisemitism exploded as a force with the life and death of Jesus, as Jews bore the blame for the Crucifixion because of their unwillingness, again, to accept alternative approaches to God. Jewish adherence to its underlying principles discounted the notion of a human God placed upon Earth in the guise of Jesus, as worship of Jesus ran counter to the monotheistic nature of Judaism. As Christianity spread across Europe, hatred of Jews spread with it, with the Crusades and Inquisition both among the more spectacular manifestations of antisemitism predating the Holocaust of the middle of the 20th century. It would be the development of the political thoughts of Adolf Hitler during the early 20th century that would presage that most horrific of all developments in human history.
Hitler, as we know, had served in the German Army during the Great War of 1914-1918 -- a conflict subsequently known as World War I. Germany's defeat and subsequent humiliation in the post-war negotiations at Versaille, France, became a source of great bitterness for many Germans, not least the former army corporal and wannabe artist who would lead the National Socialist movement known as Nazism. The Nazi Party was not initially successful, and Hitler would be sentenced to a brief period in jail for leading a failed revolt against the German government. While Hitler was in jail, however, he wrote the book that would become the bible of the fascist movement (a movement already well-entrenched in Italy under the rule of Benito Mussolini, Hitler's role model). Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, was part autobiography, part political creed, and all antisemitic bile. In it, Hitler laid the blame for the Great War, and for Germany's subsequent humiliation under the terms of the Versaille Agreement, on Europe's Jewish population.
Hitler was obsessed with the notion of German, or Aryan racial supremacy, and he viewed Jews as not only responsible for the war, but for the moral decline of his beloved German nation. Note, for example, the following two passages from Mein Kampf, in which the author and future Fuhrer ruminates on the pernicious influence of "foreign" race defilers -- read: Jews -- on the German people:
"What history taught us about the policy followed by the House of Habsburg was corroborated by our own everyday experiences. In the north and in the south the poison of foreign races was eating into the body of our people, and even Vienna was steadily becoming more and more a non-German city."
. . .
"One ought to realize that for one, Goethe, Nature may bring into existence ten thousand such despoilers who act as the worst kind of germ-carriers in poisoning human souls. It was a terrible thought, and yet it could not be avoided, that the greater number of the Jews seemed specially destined by Nature to play this shameful part. . . I began then to investigate carefully the names of all the fabricators of these unclean products in public cultural life. The result of that inquiry was still more disfavourable to the attitude which I had hitherto held in regard to the Jews."
Jews, in short, were responsible for all of Germany's ills, and, what's more, provided the intellectual underpinnings and revolutionary zeal behind the Bolshevik movement that had seized power in Russia towards the end of 1917. The key for Germany's revitalization, then, was in casting off the highly discriminatory conditions of the Versaille Agreement, which required that Germany claim responsibility for the Great War despite the obvious role of other great powers in its initiation; that Germany pay financial reparations to the victorious countries; and that Germany cede important territory to those victorious countries. The Great Depression also, and significantly, contributed to the environment in which Hitler's hatred towards Jews and other "race defilers" could take root among the German (and Austrian) people and lead to systemic oppression of the Jewish populations of Europe. Difficult economic times breed resentment among most peoples, and they are often all-too-willing to point their collective finger at whomever they feel can bear the brunt of their rage. Hitler's success in leading Germany's population to point that finger at Jews led directly to the establishment of a sizable infrastructure of concentration and extermination camps designed for the sole purpose of ridding the world of Jews, as well as homosexuals, Roma (Gypies), and others.
The roots of the Holocaust, in short, lied in the hatred of Jews that has existed throughout much of history. Hitler was successful in exploiting German fears of nefarious outside forces because the German people were anxious for a leader who would restore their nation's greatness. Jews were an easy and attractive category of people to blame for their problems, and the overwhelming majority of Germans, Austrians, Poles and others were more than willing to cooperate in the extermination of the continent's Jewish population. That Jews were, obviously, Jewish and not Christian made them logical targets for Nazi Party castigation. Hitler's success in blaming Jews for past wars and for Europe's present difficulties could only occur because millions of Europeans were willing to agree that this one particular people were responsible for the economic difficulties that had swept the globe with the Great Depression and because they continued to blame Jews for the death of Jesus. Hitler instilled in Germans and Austrians the belief that Jews were an impediment to the racial purity necessary to reemerge as one of the world's great powers.
In the short story “The Duchess and the Jeweller” by Virginia Woolf, the Jeweller is a dissatisfied with a life that includes the finest material things, servants, and a burgeoning jewelry business. But why? Oliver Bacon’s story includes flashbacks to his life as a poor, small boy when his mother constantly berated him to use common sense and to make something of himself. He becomes the richest, most respected jeweler in London who has admirers in the business all over Europe. What he does not have is someone to love, someone to share the fruits of his labor with. He is in love with the daughter of the Duchess of Lambourne and he sells his soul to be with her by giving the Duchess money to pay her gambling debts by buying fake pearls from her. Again, he has a flashback to his mother as he stands before her portrait. He justifies his actions by telling himself he will get to spend a weekend with Diana, the daughter of the Duchess, and other aristocrats that will be in attendance.
In Chapter 11, Jem loses his temper after Mrs. Dubose makes several derogatory comments about his father. Jem's punishment is to read to Mrs. Dubose for two hours every day, except for Sunday. Later on in the chapter, Jem notices that his reading hours become longer, and Mrs. Dubose stays awake for longer periods of time each day correcting his reading. When Mrs. Dubose dies, Atticus explains to Jem that Mrs. Dubose suffered from a chronic illness and took morphine to ease the pain. She asked Atticus if he could help her, and Jem's reading kept Mrs. Dubose occupied and her mind off the pain in between her morphine doses. Mrs. Dubose's final wish was to die free of her addiction. Each day, Jem would read for a little bit longer, thus increasing the time in between doses of morphine until her addiction was broken. Mrs. Dubose was in extreme discomfort while Jem was reading to her, which probably resulted in her grouchy attitude. Also, addicts who suffer from withdrawal symptoms are extremely irritable, which explains why she would continually harass Jem while he was reading.
Too much is going on. Too many issues are swirling around in Henry’s head. He learns that a runaway slave he had helped has been caught and killed. He is also disappointed by the behavior of his best friend, Waldo. They have an argument about whether or not Waldo should speak out publicly against slavery and against the war with Mexico. Henry thinks he has convinced his friend to do so. He runs to the church and rings the bell to announce to Concordians this important speech by this important man – only to be met by Lydian, Waldo’s wife, who is sent to make her husband’s apologies for not appearing. No wonder Henry has a nightmare of a bloody war scene, with Waldo standing in as the President, Sam Staples as a military sergeant, and other people he knows as participants in the siege. Even his beloved and long-dead brother John shows up, only to die again. This is a horrible mess. He is awakened by Sam, letting him know that he is being released from jail. Now he knows what he must do.
One of the fundamental assumptions that Carnegie makes in "Wealth" is that there will always a be division between those who have access to power and financial resources and those who do not.
Carnegie suggests that a social hierarchy predicated upon wealth acquisition is inevitable. He suggests that some people will always possess more advantage than others: "It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so." Carnegie believes that universal fairness is akin to universal "squalor." He believes that "the old conditions" are ones where everyone was kept in financially dire straits, a reality that "would Sweep away civilization" and its advances. One of Carnegie's primary assumptions is that there will always be a structure where some will be above others. Carnegie feels that this is natural to all social construction.
From this assumption lies his idea that the rich should try to make the best out of this situation. He argues that the real challenge of the modern setting is not how to eliminate wealth inequality, but rather how to ensure that the "proper administration of wealth" can maintain "the ties of brotherhood." He assumes that the wealthy will want to find and develop ways to create "harmonious relationships" between those who have economic power and those who lack it.
You could say that the speaker's mood changes twice. In the early portion of the poem, the speaker spirals into a low and dark mood. In the early lines, he becomes depressed due to failure and shame (or what he perceives to be failure). That's the first eight lines.
However, I suspect you're referring to the second change in mood, which starts on line 9. At that point, the change in mood is sudden and quite touching, actually. The narrator thinks of his beloved, and that is enough to change his mood. Just thinking of the person he loves, and the love that person holds for the speaker, is enough to completely transform his world. From the profound despair of the early lines, where the speaker is cursing his state and envying others, thinking about love is enough to raise his spirits just as profoundly, so much so that he no longer envies others.
That's a great poem!
Spices, first encountered by Europeans during the Crusades, profoundly affected European cuisines. Prior to soldiers returning home from the Crusades with spices, European foods were bland and indistinct. Subsequently, French, Italian and German cuisines began to exhibit their distinctive characteristics.
Navies, as a defensive force, developed in England to repel Viking invaders. The organization required to sustain an effective navy enabled England's various kingdoms to unite into a formidable nation-state capable of defending itself. Life in coastal towns no longer getting sacked by Viking raiding parties improved immensely.
Many events can be said to have bookended the Medieval period. From the point of view of the Catholic church, it began with a gradual process of the Pope replacing the Roman emperor as the most powerful political figure; by the 12th Century, the Pope had the unprecedented ability to raise an army. One of the many events that ended the Medieval period was the Protestant Reformation, which effectively ended the Pope's ability to raise troops for Crusades (a perennially popular rallying cause).
Macbeth and Banquo have a good, positive relationship at the opening of the play. As generals in King Duncan's Scottish army, they fight together to defeat the Norwegians and rebellious Scots. Shortly after their victory, however, they encounter the witches, who make several prophecies. One is that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and king. When Banquo asks what the future holds for him, the witches say that he shall “. . . get 'kings,” which means that his descendants shall become kings.
At first, Banquo and Macbeth do not directly address the implied conflict here—if Macbeth is going to be king, but Banquo's descendants are going to become kings, something negative is going to have to happen to Macbeth's royal line.
Later in the play, after Macbeth has achieved the throne, Banquo, speaking alone on stage, expresses his suspicions of Macbeth's path to the kingship:
Thou hast it now; king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully for't:
Soon thereafter, Macbeth is alone on stage and relates this worry concerning Banquo:
To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus; our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd.
Macbeth means that even though he has become king, it doesn't mean anything unless he is safe, which he is not as long as Banquo is alive.
In the next scene Macbeth arranges for Banquo and his son Fleance to be murdered.
Thus, the witches' prophecies have shattered the relationship between Macbeth and Banquo by causing them to become suspicious and afraid of each other.
W.E.B. Dubois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples. Through Dubois's research and many worldly travels, he developed a fairly deep appreciation for socialism as an economic system. He believed the communism and socialism provided African-Americans with the best possible opportunity for equality and economic opportunity. Dubois felt this way since the early days of the NAACP but his trips to the Soviet Union solidified this position.
The problem with this socialist position in the late 1940's was that it was very unpopular to the American public. It was also unpopular with the government as the FBI was investigating communist organizations around the country. The United States was in the early stages of an ideological and political war known as the Cold War. This Cold War was fought against the Soviet Union and socialism/communism in general. The NAACP felt that it needed to distance itself from communist and socialist rhetoric or risk losing its valuable funding from the American public. It also risked becoming a target of FBI agitation. For this reason, DuBois and the NAACP parted ways in 1948.
It would be difficult to define "Good Man is Hard to Find" as a feminist work. First, the central female character, the Grandmother, is not a feminist figure. She continually defines herself as a "lady" throughout the story, an anti-feminist term that implies that she is more delicate than a man. She wears a navy blue straw sailor's hat with a sprig of white violets pinned to it and lace around her collar and cuffs to signal "at once" that she is a lady. In fact, she uses the idea that women need to be protected as the weaker sex as a defense when she realizes the Misfit is about to kill her, saying "You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?" Then, as if to reinforce the message, she takes out a "clean handkerchief" (what a proper lady would carry) to wipe her eyes.
Second, O'Connor defined herself, first and foremost as a Roman Catholic, and in a 1963 essay, stated that her "assumptions" in this story "are those of the central Christian mysteries." The Grandmother's gender is secondary to the point O'Connor is trying to make: that God's grace is available to everyone, male or female.
It's important to note that a work of literature can transcend or jump beyond an author's intention, but in this case, the story does not head in a feminist direction.
In Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” Buddy’s cousin spends the evening in tears after relatives find the pair drinking a small bit of leftover whiskey from making the fruitcakes. As they are chastised, she blames herself for their transgression. Her age would indicate that she would know it is inappropriate to give whiskey to a seven-year-old boy, but her lack of adult judgement is apparent. "It's because," she hiccups, "I am too old. Old and funny." In this case, funny means that she is limited by the disabilities she acquired from a youthful illness. Buddy attempts to comfort her as she cries and cries long after the others have gone to bed. He tries to tell her that she is not “funny” but that she is fun. He also reminds her that if she continues to cry she will not be up to the task of cutting down their Christmas tree the next day. In this case, the seven-year-old boy acts as the adult.
In Chapter 5, Bryon and Mark hustle a couple of guys from Texas in billiards and win twenty-five dollars from them. After the Texans lose, they wait in an alley for Bryon and Mark to leave Charlie's bar. As soon as Bryon and Mark walk out of Charlie's, the Texans say that they are going to give them a lesson on why the boys shouldn't hustle pool. One of the Texans was aiming a gun at Bryon and Mark, while the other man, Dirty Dave, was putting on brass knuckles. Out of nowhere, Charlie comes to the rescue and tells the Texans to drop their weapons because he has a loaded sawed-off shotgun. When Bryon and Mark reach Charlie, they thank him and one of the Texans fires a gun. Charlie slams both of them to the ground, and Mark picks up Charlie's shotgun. Mark begins to fire back at the Texans, but misses. After the shootout is over, Bryon and Mark find out that Charlie is dead. In Chapter 6, Bryon and Mark testify in court against the Texans. The Texans were sentenced to life in prison for murdering Charlie.
At the beginning of the story, Montresor lists the following two conditions for a satisfactory revenge: the person taking revenge must do so with "impunity" and he must also "make himself felt as such to him who has done wrong." What Montresor means is that, first, the person taking revenge must be able to do so without being caught, and second, that the person he is taking revenge upon must know what is happening to him. In other words, it doesn't do any good to take revenge on a person if the person doesn't know you are hurting him.
In "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor goes out of his way to fulfill both conditions: he walls Fortunato into a catacomb far from any possibility of a witness and Fortunato knows, at least by the end, that he is being walled in and left to die. Fortunato knows who is killing him, and Montresor knows he won't be caught and be made to pay. But it is not clear that Fortunato knows why Montresor is taking vengeance on him: Montresor might say that doesn't matter.
A cell spends most of its life in the interphase stage of the cell cycle. This can be broken down into G1, (gap 1) S (synthesis) and G2 (gap 2) phases. Eventually, after the cell passes through various checkpoints, it proceeds to the M phase (mitosis) when it divides and forms two genetically identical daughter cells.
In order for a cell to have enough DNA to be dispersed into two cells, the important step known as replication occurs. Since DNA is a double helix, either side of the molecule can serve as a template to be copied or duplicated to form its complementary strand, resulting in two identical DNA double helixes.
This step occurs during the S phase of interphase. S refers to synthesis and it is the crucial time when the cell replicates its DNA so that a complete set can be placed into two daughter cells.
Please note: I have attached an excellent link to a diagram as one of my references below.
Chapter 20 of To Kill a Mockingbird contains the closing argument of Tom Robinson's trial. In the closing statement, Atticus presents three main arguments. First, he reminds the jury that there is no medical evidence that Tom Robinson committed the crime. Mayella Ewell was beat by someone who was left handed, but Tom Robinson has no use of his left hand. Atticus reminds the jury that when Bob Ewell "swore out a warrant," he no doubt signed it with his left hand.
While this was clear evidence that should have exonerated Tom of the crime, Atticus knew that in the society in which they were living, he needed to convince the jury of a bit more. He then went on to explain that when Mayella's father caught her committing the crime of kissing a black man, she, like a child, needed to destroy the "evidence of her offense." This trial and Tom's subsequent punishment would be how she manages to do so.
In the last portion of the closing statement, Atticus talks about the fact that unlike Jefferson's assertion, in reality, all men are not created equal. He recognizes that they are living in a time of inequality, but that they have a duty to maintain justice. He asserts:
“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal— there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.
Towards the end of the story, Ponyboy opens the novel Gone With the Wind and a slip of paper falls out of the book. The slip of paper is actually a note that Johnny had written to Ponyboy while he was in the hospital. Throughout the letter, Johnny tells Ponyboy that he does not regret saving the children from the burning building. He then tells Ponyboy the meaning of the Robert Frost poem. Johnny explains the poem and compares it to Ponyboy and Dally's lives. Johnny says that staying gold essentially means remaining innocent. He encourages Ponyboy to stay innocent and to tell Dally that it is not too late to change his perspective on life. Johnny's main message throughout the letter is that Ponyboy should remain innocent and not grow up too quickly. He also wants Ponyboy to relay that message to Dally in order to give him hope.
