Other than Ralph, who are two other characters that lose their innocence in the novel Lord of the Flies, and what are some examples to prove it?

Aside from Ralph, the characters of Maurice and Roger also lose their innocence throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. At the beginning of the novel Maurice is portrayed as a funny, helpful boy. In Chapter 2, Maurice helps the boys gather driftwood for the fire, and in Chapter 5 he makes the boys laugh to cheer them up towards the end of a depressing meeting. Roger is also viewed as a helpful, positive character at the beginning of the novel. In Chapter 1, Roger is the first to suggest that the boys choose their leader via a vote, and in Chapter 2 he also partakes in gathering driftwood for the signal fire. The boys' behavior is innocent because they are acting civilly and have not yet partaken in savage acts.

There are several critical moments throughout the novel that depict Maurice and Roger's decent into savagery and loss of innocence. In Chapter 4, Maurice and Roger are walking past the littluns building sandcastles on the beach, when Roger begins destroying the sandcastles. Maurice follows along and begins kicking down the sandcastles. Maurice "felt the unease at his wrongdoing" because in his old life he would have been chastised for ruining the boys' sandcastles. (Golding 60) Later on in Chapter 4, Roger begins to throw stones at Henry, but purposely misses. Roger purposely missing is significant because it depicts the remnants of civility still left in his memory, and his remaining innocence, which is waning.  

After joining Jack's savage group of hunters, Maurice becomes so involved that he suggest the boys use a drum for ceremoniously slaughtering pigs. In Chapter 10, Maurice has completely descended into barbarism, and he accompanies Jack and Roger to steal Piggy's glasses. Roger turns into a sadist by the end of the novel, and there are several scenes that portray his brutal behavior. In Chapter 8, Roger viciously stabs the pig up its rear and laughs about it, and in Chapter 11 Roger rolls a boulder, killing Piggy. Maurice and Roger's participation in savage acts and support for Jack's tyrannical leadership prove they have completely lost their innocence.

Am I going against God's creation for enjoying Surrealism so much?

The Surrealism movement began in Paris in the 1920s and continued through the 1960s, although people still use the word "surreal" frequently to describe artistic work that embodies the principles these artists followed. Andre Breton (who also created Dada, a literary art form employing random collections of words) founded the movement in 1924 when he wrote "The Surrealist Manifesto," but the term "surrealism" was first used by Guillaume Apollinaire, in the review of a ballet created by Pablo Picasso, Leonide Massine, Jean Cocteau, and Erik Satie. These artists, as well as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Marc Chagall, and Max Ernst were a few of the artists whose work came to be associated with this movement.

Psychoanalysis was being more widely known and read about at this time, and the Freudian concepts of repression and unconscious desire were important to the Surrealists, who believed that people are often encouraged to repress their inner thoughts and feelings out of fear or guilt. There are contemporary artists who are considered modern Surrealists, such as Jacek Yerka, Mark Ryden and Vladimir Kush.

I think your question has to do with Surrealism's representation of unusual beings (chimeras, or creatures who combine parts of different animals) and strange portrayals of humans who do not conform to the so-called "normal" ways we view such things. Interestingly, such creatures are now potentially possible through the wonders of gene-splicing and genetic engineering!

There is a great deal of religious art that has been produced throughout history, and one way of looking at Surrealism is to appreciate the artists' attempts to explore the intimate recesses of the human mind, much as science is a way of exploring human potential of knowledge of the known universe. If your belief system dictates that God created Man in his own image, then the existence of intelligent and creative beings can be seen as something that God is in favor of. Then again, humans do a lot of things that do not seem to agree with what God had in mind...

I think if you enjoy this art and find it stimulating, you can view it as a celebration of the human spirit, an appreciation of human endeavor, and the joy and wonder that creativity can bring to us all.

Where is the symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Perhaps the most important symbol to discuss in To Kill A Mockingbird is the symbolism behind the mockingbird. The title is more than just a title but is a symbol for what is to come in the story. The mockingbird symbolizes innocence, so the title means that innocence is being killed or destroyed. Throughout the book, there are several characters who can be viewed as mockingbirds, such as Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, and Boo Radley. This means that they are innocents who are damaged or destroyed by evil. After Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood even compares his death to the act of killing a songbird. Additionally, the fact that Jem, Scout, and Atticus have the last name Finch, which is a type of bird, may portray that they are vulnerable in the racist town of Maycomb.

Another symbol in To Kill a Mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo Radley is used within the story as a means to show how Jem and Scout mature and grow throughout the story. In the beginning, Boo is a town superstition that frightens the children. This shows how innocent Jem and Scout are and that their beliefs are not based on their own, real experiences, but they are based on the beliefs of those around them. As the story continues, and Boo leaves presents for the children and mends Jem's pants, the children begin to see Boo as an intriguing and real human being, not just the town spook. In the end, they realize that he is a kind and understanding person, a mockingbird in his own right, a child damaged by a ruthless father. The changing relationship between the children and Boo Radley serves to reveal Jem and Scout's growing maturity and moral awareness.

What's Roger's role in chapter 11 of Lord Of The Flies?

Roger acted as a sentinel at the Castle Rock where Jack and his tribe had set up a fort. It was his job to sound the alarm when Ralph or any of the others approached. His duty was made clear when Jack at one point asked him why he wasn't on watch. He explained that he had just come down, but did not complete his sentence.

Roger was one of the older boys and Jack's right hand. He therefore could be deemed second in command. He was one of the choirboys and was a member of Jack's hunters. Throughout the novel, he is painted as a dangerous character, one with an almost instinctive leaning towards evil. He was secretive and seemed not to like attention as illustrated in the following extract:

There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy. He muttered that his name was Roger and was silent again.

Golding consistently paints him as a sinister character who is quite cynical as in the following examples:

The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up.

Roger took the conch and looked round at them gloomily. “I’ve been watching the sea. There hasn’t been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we’ll never be rescued.”

Roger is also deliberately destructive and seems to enjoy scaring and even hurting others. He intentionally destroys the littluns castles and later throws stones at Henry whilst hiding from view.

He was not noticeably darker than when he had dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding.

When he and Jack capture a pig, it is Roger who seems to relish the idea of inflicting pain on the helpless creature:

Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high pitched scream.

It is therefore hardly surprising that he is responsible for Piggy's horrific death. Roger had intentionally pushed on a lever to dislodge a large rock which bounded down, first shattering the conch and then knocking Piggy over the ledge, hurtling him forty feet down to his demise. 

Write out a table of indices modulo 23. Express all the other primitive roots of 23 as powers of 5.

Modular arithmetic has a lot of weird properties we don't find in conventional arithmetic. The idea that you can get any number mod 23 by raising powers of 5 is pretty strange, but it's true.

Let's first review what we mean by "primitive roots of 23". A primitive root modulo n is a number g such that every number a coprime to n is equal to some power of g, mod n; that is,

`forall a exists k : g^k equiv a mod n`

The value of k, the power you have to raise to, is the index.

Since 23 is prime, this is really all a (other than 0), whereas for a composite base (such as mod 8 or mod 10) we'd have to exclude factors of the base.

So what we're looking for is the numbers g that satisfy this, as well as the values of k that make it work.

I think the simplest way to start is just to write out a table of values and their powers, mod 23. (I think this is what your teacher means by an "index table", though that can also mean a couple of other things.) Most of the powers will eventually end up with an infinite series of 1s at the end.

A few of them will have every single number somewhere in their list; those are the primitive roots of 23.

original value | powers
0 | 0, 0, 0, ...
1 | 1, 1, 1, ...
2 | 2, 4, 8, 16, 9, 18, 13, 3, 6, 12, 1, 1, 1, ...
3 | 3, 9, 4, 12, 13, 16, 2, 6, 18, 8, 1, 1, 1, ...
4 | 4, 16, 18, 3, 12, 2, 8, 9, 13, 6, 1, 1, 1, ...
5 | 5, 2, 10, 4, 20, 8, 17, 16, 11, 9, 22, 18, 21, 13, 19, 3, 15, 6, 7, 12, 14, 1, 1, 1, ...
6 | 6, 13, 9, 8, 2, 12, 3, 18, 16, 4, 1, 1, 1, ...
7 | 7, 3, 21, 9, 17, 4, 5, 12, 15, 13, 22, 16, 20, 2, 14, 6, 19, 18, 11, 8, 10, 1, 1, 1, ...

And so on; so I'm not doing all your work for you, I'm going to leave you the rest of the table to finish.

If you have access to a programming language, here's a nice little script (in Python, but easily translatable to other languages) that will print out the powers of g mod n for you (just plug in for g and n; you could even run a for loop over them):

x = g
while (x > 1):
    print(x)
    x = (x*g)%n

Or you can do it by hand of course. It's tedious, but not complicated.

Instead, I'm going to focus on the part that comes after you finish the table.

Notice how every number from 1 to 22 is somewhere in the table for powers of 5. That means 5 is a primitive root of 23.

The same is true of the powers of 7; so 7 is also a primitive root of 23.

Since you can get any number as a power of any primitive root, that means you can also get any other primitive root as a power of any primitive root.

We picked 5 as our favorite primitive root, so we want to express 7 as a power of 5. Read through the table, and you'll find that 7 = 5^19 mod 23.

You could just as well have chosen 7 as your favorite and found that 5 = 7^7 mod 23; but we were told to make 5 our favorite.

Hopefully you can take it from here. Complete the table; any rows that contain all numbers from 1 to 22 are primitive roots. Go back to the row for powers of 5 and find the column equal to that number; then you can express the new primitive root g as some power of 5.

What are the five types of organizations? I have normative, coercive, and utilitarian, but the chart asks for five?

Normative, coercive, and utilitarian and the three formal organizational structures.

When five structures are involved, we are commonly talking about Mintzberg's Five Types of Organizational Structure.

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  Entrepreneurial - A generally loose organizational structure driven by creativity, yet often featuring low discipline. A tech startup managed by its founders is one example.


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  Professional - Featuring a moderate level of bureaucracy and driven by professional and competent workers, often with highly specialized skills.


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  Machine - Characterized by a high level of bureaucracy. Feature high structure and are often long-lived, but have limited openness to new ideas. Government agencies are examples.


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  Divisional - Typical of large corporation which divide themselves into more focused business unit, each responsible for a distinct set of product lines.


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  Innovative - A structure designed to allow for brand new leadership styles focused on decentralized decision making. Often seen in emergent industries.

How did Jem get even with Scout for contradicting him about "Hot Steams"?

In Chapter 4, Dill tells Scout that he has the ability to smell death and that she will die in three days. Jem tells them to hush and says, "you act like you believe in Hot Steams." (Lee 48) Scout responds by saying, "You act like you don't." (Lee 49) Jem explains that a "Hot Steam" is a lonely soul that cannot get into heaven and wallows around on lonesome roads at night. The consequence of walking through a "Hot Steam" is that you will become one when you die. Jem tells Dill that you have to say, "Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath" to avoid from being wrapped by one. (Lee 49) Following the conversation about "Hot Steams," the children decide to roll the tire. Jem is still upset that Scout contradicted him during the discussion on "Hot Steams" and pushes the tire with all his might once she gets into it. Scout ends up crashing into the Radley's front porch on accident and leaves the tire behind. Jem is forced to run into the Radley yard to retrieve the tire.

`cos(2x) + sin(x) = 0` Find the exact solutions of the equation in the interval [0, 2pi).

You need to evaluate the solution to the equation `cos 2x + sin x = 0` , hence, you need to use the formula of double angle for `cos 2x` , such that:

`1 - 2sin^2 x + sin x = 0`

You need to re-arrange the terms, such that:

`-2sin^2 x + sin x + 1 = 0`

`2sin^2 x - sin x - 1 = 0`

Yo need to replace t for sin x, such that:

`2t^2 - t - 1 = 0`

Using quadratic formula, yields:

`t_1 = (1 + sqrt(1 + 8)/4) => t_1 = (1 + 3)/4 => t_1 = 1`

`t_2 = (1 - sqrt(1 + 8)/4) => t_2 = (1 - 3)/4 => t_2 = -1/2`

You need to replace sin x for t such that:

`sin x = 1 => x = pi/2`

`sin x = -1/2 => x = pi + pi/6 => x = (7pi)/6`

`sin x = -1/2 => x = 2pi - pi/6 => x = (11pi)/6`

Hence, the solution to the equation, in `[0,2pi),` are `x = pi/2, x = (7pi)/6, x = (11pi)/6.`

Compare and contrast Candy and Carlson.

Carlson is competent, confident, and in control. He seems to be a leader amongst the ranch hands, and takes the initiative in stating what they all feel: Candy’s dog needs to go. He has an innate kindness, however, able to talk Candy into putting the dog out of its misery because of its pain and inability to eat. Though this argument can also foreshadow the same argument in regards to Lennie and Candy himself, Carlson volunteers to do the unpleasant job, which Candy is not able to do.

Candy has a sensitivity that is in place of that kind of kindness. He does not want to see the dog in pain, yet he cannot make himself get rid of the only companion who has stayed with him. Candy is more vulnerable and is willing to follow Carlton’s lead. Candy looks to others for leadership, not only Carlson but also George. He has passed the time where he felt of some use, just as his dog has. Carlson, however, continues his leadership role, doing what needs to be done. This serves as a model for George when he decides to use Carlson’s gun (the same one with which Carlson killed Candy’s dog) to kill Lennie.

How did music change during the Harlem Renaissance?

To understand how music changed during the Harlem Renaissance, you also need to understand how the Great Migration impacted the culture of the North.  Around the turn of the 20th century, a huge population of blacks started migrating from the South to the North in search of jobs, education, and other opportunities not found in the South.  The South was still a place of oppression and racism with its Jim Crow laws and incidents of lynching.  Blacks were looking for a safer place to live, and one where they could get ahead financially.  The larger industrial cities in the North received the most migrants and include, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburg, and of course, New York City. 

With them, migrants brought the Blues and instruments of the South.  Primarily acoustical instruments like guitars, banjos, and homemade instruments, they were packed and brought along with their clothing and material possessions.  Blues was the predominant style of music in the South while the North was revving up with Ragtime music like that of Scott Joplin.  Because the North had electricity everywhere, the electric guitar was invented, and the two different music genres combined to form a new one, jazz. 

The meeting of the urban Northern black culture with the rural Southern black culture caused a beautiful melding of the styles, themes, and experiences into a new, unique black experience.   Born from two styles of music, jazz became overwhelmingly popular across all cultures in the United States.

List eight things that can be considered a part of a person's environment.

I am going to assume that you mean 8 things that a part of a person's health environment and not part of an ecological definition of environment.  

A person's health environment is comprised of things that a person can control and some things that a person can not control.  

A person's genetics, for example, is part of a person's health environment, but they cannot be controlled.  That makes them less interesting to talk about in my health class though.  Nothing can be done about them, and I like to teach students about the things that they can control around them to improve their health environment.  

A person's health triangle is made up of three segments. The social segment, the emotional/mental segment, and the physical segment.  A person's total health includes all three segments, and the environment can be used to hurt or help any of those three sections.  Generally speaking, a person's health "environment" is divided into two parts -- physical environment and social environment.  

A person's family is part of a person's social health environment and can affect all three parts of the triangle -- especially emotional.  

Air quality is part of the physical environment and can affect the physical segment.  Included within air quality is more than just smog though.  Pollen and dust levels need to be taken into account for allergy reasons.  

Friends and their influences are part of the social environment.  They can influence many of a person's health habits.  But friends can also affect a person's physical environment.  For example, I might be friends with a heavy smoker.  I don't smoke, but the second hand smoke is detrimental to my health.  

A person's work environment is another piece of the overall social environment that can affect total health.    

Diet and exercise are two more parts of the health environment.  

Stress and stress management strategies are two more parts of a person's health environment.  It's okay to have high levels of stress . . . if you can appropriately manage the stress.  

One last major piece of a person's health environment is the culture that a person is from or participates in.  Culture will include beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.  A particular group culture might practice healthy eating habits.  If you are a member of that culture, chances are you practice those healthy practices too.  

What is a suitable indefinite pronoun that fits into the phrase?: "All pens are bad -------- seem to be writing."

There are two indefinite pronouns which are appropriate for this sentence, but choosing the correct one depends on the meaning of the phrase. If there is a context, you can use it to find clues about what the author meant; if there is not a context, I would say that it is based on your own opinion.

The first potential indefinite pronoun is "all," so the phrase would be: All pens are bad; all seem to be writing. (The semicolon is necessary to make the sentence grammatically correct, though you could also use an em dash.) The meaning behind this one is pretty obvious: pens are bad because they write (presumably on their own, with no human help), which would be a little disconcerting to see.

The second potential indefinite pronoun is "none," so the phrase would be: All pens are bad; none seem to be writing. This version of the saying is more humorous, saying that pens are bad because they do not write on their own.

Either pronoun is correct grammatically, but the correct meaning is based on context clues and/or your own choice.

What does Mary Warren bring home to Elizabeth Proctor?

The part of the play that you are asking about is in Act 2.  Mary Warren has been at the court proceedings all day, because she is one of the "witnesses" to witchcraft.  She comes home late that day, and John Proctor isn't too happy about it.  Mary sort of side steps John by going to Elizabeth and giving her a present.  The item that Mary Warren brought home to Elizabeth is a "poppet."  

Mary Warren: I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.

Elizabeth, perplexed, looking at the doll: Why, thank you, it's a fair poppet.

A poppet is a children's doll.  The present is completely innocuous, and Mary has no ill intents with giving it to Elizabeth.  The poppet becomes important a bit later in the act, because Abigail Williams was using the doll to spoof the court into thinking it is used for some kind of voodoo witchcraft.  Earlier in the day, Abigail Williams stuck a needle into the doll and then secretly stabbed herself with a different needle.  That was enough evidence to accuse Elizabeth of intending witchcraft harm against Abigail.  

Cheever, his hands shaking: Why, this go hard with her, Proc-tor, this - I had my doubts, Proctor, I had my doubts, but heres' calamity. To Hale, showing the needle: You see it, sir, it is a needle!

Hale: Why? What meanin' has it?

Cheever, wide-eyed, trembling: The girl, the Williams girl, Abi-gail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris's house tonight, and without word nor warnin' she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin' of her how she come to be so stabbed, she - to Proctor now - testify it -were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in.

Proctor: Why, she done it herself! To Hale: I hope you're not takin' this for proof, Mister!

Hale, struck by the proof, is silent.

Cheever: 'Tis hard proof! To Hale: I find here a poppet Goody Proctor keeps. I have found it, sir. And in the belly of the poppet a needle's stuck. I tell you true, Proctor, I never warranted to see such proof of Hell, and I bid you obstruct me not, for I -  

Who is "Pop" in Bud, Not Buddy?

This is an interesting question from chapter 12 of Bud, Not Buddy.  The word “Pop” is only used once in the novel.  Lefty Lewis has just dropped Bud at the nightclub where he expects to find his father.  As Bud enters the nightclub, he overhears a story being told by one of the band members and recognizes the story as a complete exaggeration.  The sentence that has the word “Pop” in it is as follows:

And to make a long story longer I go out and flick this halfway stiff right jab clean at Pop’s head.

The man speaking (who we eventually learn is Herman E. Calloway) is using the term “Pop” to describe a man named “Jordan ‘Snaggletooth’ MacNevin.”  MacNevin is a fighter from Chicago.  When Calloway was young, his manager set up the fight for Calloway.  The story, and the sentence that references the word “Pop,” is about how Herman E. Calloway wins this fight.  In this instance, the word “Pop’s” is a derogatory term for the fighter that implies he seems older than his age and unable to fight well.  Herman E. Calloway easily wins the fight by using a punch called a “stiff right jab” at MacNevin’s head.

The silver sword plays a crucial role in the story. What do we learn about it?

The silver sword links the children (Ruth, Edek, and Bronia) to their father and symbolizes hope.

The first mention of the silver sword is in chapter four. Their father, Joseph, returns to Warsaw after escaping a Nazi prison camp. He finds his house destroyed and family missing, but he locates the silver sword in the rubble. He gives the sword to a young boy, Jan, and asks Jan to help him find his family.

In chapter eight, Jan is sick and Ruth brings him in to their hide-away in the bombed out cellar. When the children find the silver sword among Jan's possessions, they know that their father is looking for them. Jan tells them to go to Switzerland to find their parents.

In chapter 21, the children are hiding in a farm house with Kurt Wolff. The Burgomaster comes to tell Kurt that all children must be returned to Poland. Kurt uses the silver sword to try to prove to the Burgomaster that the children will be reunited with their family in Switzerland. The Burgomaster is unimpressed, however, and the children have to escape in Kurt's sons' canoes.

In Chapter 24, the silver sword goes missing and the children worry that it is a sign that their parents will remain missing. However, luck is on their side and they meet up with an American of Polish descent who helps them by taking them to a Red Cross camp near the border to Switzerland.

At the camp, they receive a message from their father, and the silver sword is returned to them via a message from Kurt.

The last time the sword has significance is in chapter 28, when the children are reunited with their parents after a perilous storm and a rescue by boat. Jan tells Margrit (the children's mother) that he held on to the silver sword and asks to be adopted into their family. At this point, the silver sword symbolizes Jan's hope to have a family. He held on to the silver sword just like he held on to his desire to be part of a family.

The question is evaluate the integral of : `int` `z/10^z` dz using integration by parts. I have u=z,du=1,v=(-10^z)/ln(10),dv=10^z I am stuck....

Your idea is correct! But you got the integra wrong for v'(z) (you forgot a minus sign!). The correct one is:

`v(z)=-10^(-z)/ln(10)`

You can check that this is the correct v(z) by taking its derivative with respect to z. You got it right with u(z) and u'(z), so I will use then for the integration by parts.

Now, following the integration by parts we have:
`intu(z)v'(z)=u(z)v(z) - intu'(z)v(z)`

Inserting our functions:

`intz/10^z = -z10^(-z)/ln(10) - int(-10^(-z)/ln(10))=`

`= -z10^(-z)/ln(10) + int10^(-z)/ln(10)`

All that remains is to evaluate the integral of `10^(-z)/ln(10)`

But we know that integral. It is simply `10^(-z)/(ln^2(10)) + C`

Thus, we get as a final result:

`intz/10^z = -z10^(-z)/ln(10) - 10^(-z)/(ln^2(10)) + D` 

I used D for constant because that may not be the same value as C, due to the integral being indefinite on the first term aswell!

I believe your problem was with the minus sign, which could have resulted in a really complicated integral.

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What are some important elements of "due process of law"?

Due process of law is a constitutional construct that stands for the proposition that the government cannot take "life, liberty, or property" without providing procedural protections to the person the government seeks to deprive. In other words, we cannot sentence someone, imprison someone, or take away someone's property without following certain procedures. At the very least, we would perceive these actions to be unfair.

In the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, the protections named are the right to an indictment, the right against double jeopardy, and the right against self-incrimination.  These ensure a process before someone can be prosecuted, a protection against being tried for the same crime again after having been acquitted of that crime, and a right not to have to take the stand in a proceeding against oneself. 

In the Sixth Amendment, we have the right to a public trial, a speedy trial, and an impartial jury. A public trial implies that people will be present to ensure the government follows all the rules, and a speedy trial is a right that exists so the government cannot simply put you in jail, throw away the key, and forget about you. An impartial jury is meant to stop the government from rounding up all your enemies and asking them to judge you. Also in the Sixth Amendment are the right to be informed of what you are being charged with, which is not something all countries do, believe it or not. The Sixth Amendment also requires that you can cross-examine any witnesses against you, and this is a very important right, too. The right to subpoena witnesses to testify for you is part of this amendment, as is the right to counsel. If you do not have the power to call witnesses or an attorney, it is just you against the government, which is an unfair contest. 

These are all quite important rights for a defendant and not available in many countries in the world. If you are going to be executed, incarcerated, or fined, then at least you know you had these protections going through the process. 

How does the setting affect the story of "Greasy Lake"?

The lake is dirty and the stomping ground of teenagers trying to be important.

There are two elements of setting—time and place.  Both of these are significant to what happens at Greasy Lake.  The characters are teenagers who are trying to prove that they are tough, and Greasy Lake is a perfect place to do it.

There was a time when courtesy and winning ways went out of style, when it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste.

The time period is not exactly given, but it is sometime during the mid twentieth century.  The boys like to wear leather jackets and talk about cocaine, but they are wannabees.  Going to the lake makes them feel tough.  Exciting things happen there.  It is where everyone goes at night.

The lake certainly isn’t much.  It is not far from town.

Through the center of town, up the strip, past the housing developments and shopping malls, street lights giving way to the thin streaming illumination of the headlights, trees crowding the asphalt in an unbroken wall: that was the way out to Greasy Lake.

The name sounds terrible, but it is appropriate.  The lake is described as murky, with a small island devoid of any vegetation but scrubs.  Its shores are full of garbage from all of the teenagers who hang out there.  Teenagers spend their nights there to “drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars” and listen to rock and roll music.

It is pretty much only in a place like this that the night’s mishaps could happen.  The group of teenagers finds out that they are not as tough as they thought.  The relative isolation of the lake, the time of night, and the depravity of its inhabitants results in the attack on the boys. There is a fight, and they attack a girl, “eyes masked with lust and greed and the purest primal badness.”  Somehow in the midst of all of this, the corpse turns up.

In Chapter 3 of The Bronze Bow, why does Simon come to visit Daniel?

In the first chapter of The Bronze Bow, Daniel meets a brother and sister, Joel and Malthace, on the mountain. He asks them to send word to Simon in the village, a mutual acquaintance, letting him know where Daniel is. In Chapter 3, Simon is led by some of Rosh's scouts to Daniel blindfolded. Daniel thinks that Simon may be interested in joining Rosh's band because he knows that Simon also wants to fight to overthrow the Romans. However, Simon explains that he has come to let Daniel know that Amalek, Daniel's former master, died two weeks ago. Since Daniel ran away from Amalek, who had paid for Daniel to serve him, Daniel has not dared return to the village, for he would have fallen under Amalek's control again. Now Simon tells Daniel that Amalek has died, leaving no heirs, meaning that Daniel is now released from his "bond," or required servitude. Therefore, Daniel has no reason not to visit his grandmother and sister, whom he has not seen in two years. Daniel agrees to go to the village with Simon to see his family. 

In Chapter 20 of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, what happens when Scout and Dill return to the courthouse?

At the beginning of Chapter 20, Scout and Dill talk with Dolphus Raymond outside of the courthouse. After Dolphus explains why he feigns alcoholism, Scout realizes that they are missing Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination. When they return to their seats, Atticus is half-way through his speech to the jury. Jem tells Scout that Atticus has just finished going over the evidence and has made the case perfectly clear. Jem believes that Atticus will win the case.

Scout and Dill arrive just in time to hear Atticus' closing remarks. Atticus informally unbuttons his vest and loosens his tie before he begins his speech. He tells the jury that "this case is a simple as black and white," and should never have come to trial in the first place. (Lee 271) Atticus explains how the testimonies of Bob and Mayella contradict, and how the state has not been able to produce any medical evidence to convict Tom Robinson. Atticus tells the jury that Mayella felt guilty because she broke a "time-honored code of society," and that her father beat her as a result. (Lee 272) Atticus mentions that the jury's decision should not be based on the assumption that African Americans are all evil. He quotes Thomas Jefferson and urges the jury to review the case "without passion," and restore Tom Robinson to his family. Atticus understands that the jury members harbor prejudice against African Americans and encourages them to judge the case based on the evidence and testimonies provided, and not Tom's skin color.

What is a summary of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Jonathan Edwards's address to his congregation stands as a quintessential example of a "fire and brimstone" sermon that sought to correct a growing secularism in the Puritan community, as well as a increasing spiritual indolence. Edwards's sermon generated so much fear in his listeners that some fled the church, while others screamed and nearly fainted.

The thrust of this sermon relies upon the idea that it is only the mercy of God that holds them above the fires of hell. Finding the words he needed in Deuteronomy 32:35: “Their foot shall slide in due time," Edwards uses the motif of the foot sliding on the slippery slope for those sinners who have ignored the anger of God, who holds them over the fiery pit of hell as they hang by mere gossamer threads because of their sins. He tells the sinners in his congregation that they are leaden in their wickedness and are falling toward hell, but for God's holding them. Were He to release them, they would "descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf" and all that they would do to save themselves would have no more effect than a spider's web trying to hold back a rock.

Repeatedly, Edwards employs such images as a floodgate that only the goodness of God withholds, an arrow that His "bow of wrath" has ready to be released. Other images include God's hold of them over the pit of hell like "some loathsome insect over the fire," and the people's being "ten times more abominable" in God's eyes than "the most hateful venomous snake." Edwards stresses time and time again that it is only God's hand that has held them from falling into the pit of hell. Through many figurative images and comparisons (metaphors and similes), Edwards relates his message to things with which his congregation is familiar.

Edwards ends his sermon with an exhortation that the sinners consider the danger in which their souls exist, that a fiery pit awaits them unless they alter the sinful state in which they are living and acquire a saving faith. For, his dire warnings lead to his announcement of the opportunity for God’s grace. After having argued strongly for the imminence of God's anger, Edwards's sermon makes a dramatic shift: “Now God stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy.” 

What is significant about the prince's name in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

Prince Prospero’s name is ironic because he dies at the end.

It is not hard to determine the significance of Prince Prospero’s name.  “Prospero” sounds like “prosper.”  Prince Prospero tries to prosper at the expense of his people.

But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.

As the prince, Prospero was responsible for his kingdom.  As the red death decimated his people, he thought of no one but himself.  Prospero could have tried to help his people, but instead he helped himself.  He took a thousand of his closest friends, courtiers and nobles, and locked himself and them away in a castle.

Seeking to prosper on his own, at their expense, Prince Prospero held a ball about six months into his hiding stint.

It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.

Prince Prospero’s ball has an uninvited guest.  The people are celebrating and having fun—prospering—but it is temporary.  Prospero is only delaying the inevitable.  He dies, and so do all of his guests.  You can’t escape death just by being rich.

Propsero’s ironic name sends a message to Poe’s readers.  People who are selfish and use their wealth to hurt others, or who steal from others, will eventually get what is coming to them.  Like Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, which has a main character named Prospero, this story is about revenge.  In the end, the dead got revenge on the man who abandoned them.

After Lady Macbeth reads the letter, what does she reveal in her opinion of Macbeth? How does she plan to help him?

After Lady Macbeth reads the letter, in which she learns of Macbeth's meeting with the weird sisters, what they promised him, and how one of their predictions had already come true, she tells us much about her opinion of Macbeth as well as a lot about herself. From her first words, we can see that she has already decided that, one way or another, what the sisters predicted will come true ("Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be / What thou art promised"). Further, she's already decided how it will happen, without consulting her husband. We see immediately that she's the leader of this duo, even though Macbeth is the king-to-be. 

Then she tells us what she knows of Macbeth: She is afraid that his law-abiding and maybe even pious nature will stop him from murdering Duncan (which she has already decided will happen). He is "too full o' the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way" meaning that he is too compassionate to murder Duncan, which is the easiest and fastest way to become king himself.

She knows he is ambitious and wants to be great, but he lacks "the illness should attend it." This line is telling, as she clearly believes that all powerful people are crooked to some extent (rather like a lot of people believe all politicians are crooked--apparently, this sentiment is as old as history itself). This line also helps her justify what she has planned (if all kings are crooked, then what's the big deal in playing dirty to become one yourself?). 

She goes on to say that whatever her husband would do to become powerful is limited to what he can do "holily," or what he can reasonably get penance for. He would not "play false"--pretend or cheat--and yet...he would not be opposed to winning (the crown) even if the way he got it wasn't completely fair. He is, in short, the sort of man who knows what needs to be done to achieve his goals ("Thus thou must do, if thou have it") but at the same time is prone to stop before he does it rather than doing it first, then repenting ("That which rather thou dost fear to do / Than wishest should be undone.") In other words, Lady Macbeth is of the Rear Admiral Grace Hopper school of thought (It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission), but she knows Macbeth is the more cautious sort. 

She plans to "help" him by convincing him, to "chastise with the valour of [her] tongue" the parts of his nature that will keep him from doing it her way--the wicked way. In other words, she plans attack all that is good and just and admirable in her own husband so he will commit regicide. 

The weird sisters get a lot of flack in this play, but it's Lady Macbeth who is the devil. 

How do the narrator's changing states of consciousness affect the story?

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," Poe uses the narrator's changing states of consciousness to create mystery and suspense in the story. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is in a partial dream state. He hears voices, but does not comprehend or recognize everything they are saying or who the people are. This creates an aura of mystery right from the start as the antagonists to the man and the reason for his death sentence are ambiguous. This mystery continues as the narrator becomes unconscious during the scene changes in the story. This allows Poe to never have to describe the people who are torturing the man. Because the story is more about the man's psychological reactions to his torture than about the people who are torturing him, the blackouts give Poe a way to take the focus off the man's captors and keep it on the man's reactions even as he adds more mystery to the story.

The man's varying states of consciousness also create suspense. As the man comes to consciousness the first time in the pitch blackness, the suspense is heightened by his wakening consciousness as he wonders whether he can be dead, and then whether he has been buried alive. As he explores the perimeter of his cell and then blacks out, the setback creates more suspense. When the man is on the wooden table under the pendulum, after perhaps days have passed, he experiences an "interval of utter insensibility." In a groggy state, he begins to feel hope and joy, but doesn't understand why. This builds the suspense. After several paragraphs describing a frantic, even unhinged, mental state, the man finds the "collected calmness of despair" sweeping over him, and in that state he is finally able to think. Again, the suspense builds through this section because of the man's changing mental states.

Identify three factors that may limit Latino population growth in the U.S.

Whether a given population is Latino or not, population growth can be limited by the same things.  Anything that limits the size and growth of a given population is called a limiting factor.  Limiting factors apply to every life form in existence, and humans are no different.  

The three most basic limiting factors that can be applied to any given population are food, water, and shelter.  Those three limiting factors apply to Latino population growth.  I'll lump food and water together for simplicity.  As more and more people crowd into any given area, that puts a strain on food and water supply chains.  While it is imaginable that suppliers could keep up with the demand, it's also likely that prices soar because of the increased demand.  Eventually, there is going to be a group of people that simply can't afford to feed themselves.  The population can't get bigger, because the new additions don't have access to the basic needs.  

Shelter applies to Latino populations as well.  In this case, it would be housing.  As the housing market continues to rebound, housing costs go up.  As the population grows, there are fewer and fewer affordable homes.  That could in turn limit the population growth of any given group.  

A third limit to Latino population growth in the United States is a political and legal limit.  As the United States tries to tighten up border security, that makes it harder for Latinos to enter the United States.  That in turn will slow the population growth for that particular group of people.  

Should sex education be part of education? Support your answer.

This is an opinion question about which you'll have to decide what you believe. Many educators believe that sex education is needed in our school system. Research conducted by the School of Public Health at the University of Washington found that sex education reduced teen pregnancies for those who had comprehensive sex education. The same study showed that students who received comprehensive sex education were actually less likely to have sex compared to those who had abstinence-only sex education. 

Others believe that sex education has no place in schools. Many religious and conservative leaders believe that schools are not the place to discuss these elements of sexuality. Some people believe that these conversations should be had between a student and their parents. Additionally, sex education discusses gay, lesbian, and transgender issues, which some parents object to. 

This question should be answered with your opinion, but do not forgot to back up your opinion with facts. 

Declaration of Independence: was it a major turning point in the U.S., what changed and what remained consistent from the period immediately...

The Declaration of Independence was clearly a turning point in United States History. The Declaration of Independence stated that we were no longer a part of the British Empire. It said we were free from British rule. We were now an independent country based on the words of the Declaration of Independence. We went from being British colonies and British citizens to having our own country and becoming American citizens.

What changed after the Declaration of Independence was that we were now at war with Great Britain. The British weren’t going to allow us to just walk away from British rule without a fight. As a result, the Revolutionary War began. We were now fighting for our freedom. The Second Continental Congress was now acting as our official government. While it was functioning as a form of government before the Revolutionary War, the British were still ruling us. Once we declared independence, the Second Continental Congress acted as our government. Thus, the Second Continental Congress was an example of a change since it was now our official government. However, it also is an example of what remained consistent because it was functioning as a form of government before we declared independence.

Once we declared independence, we were now responsible for many things that the British had done for us. We had to deal with other countries. We had to develop our system of money. We had to supply our army and train our troops. The British were doing many of these things before the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. These were significant changes for us.

We did continue to carry on our normal business before and after the Declaration of Independence. Our industries continued to make products, and our farms continue to produce various crops and farm products. Americans continued to believe in the ideals that a government must protect our rights and be of service to the people it represents. These were some ideas that remained constant before and after the Declaration of Independence was issued.

Why do both people in the North and South dislike parts of the Compromise of 1850?

People in both the North and the South didn’t like parts of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to join the country as a free state. That wasn’t popular in the South. The Compromise of 1850 also ended the slave trade in the nation’s capital. That also wasn’t popular in the South.

There were some parts of this compromise the North didn’t like. The Compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide if land in the Utah and New Mexico territories would be able to have slavery. This meant several new states could possibly join the Union as slave states if people wanted that to occur. Plus, some of this land was north of the 36° 30’ line that had been closed to slavery. Now, some of that land could possibly have slavery. The North wasn’t happy with this. Additionally, the Compromise of 1850 required northerners to help capture runaway slaves. This was part of the Fugitive Slave Act. Northerners also didn’t warmly receive this.

In a compromise, both sides get some of what they want, but not everything they want. This is what happened with the Compromise of 1850. Therefore, it isn’t surprising both sides were dissatisfied with parts of the Compromise of 1850.

I have to write about an elderly person whom I know. I want to write about my grandmother, but I don't have a good thesis statement. Can you...

The secret of a good thesis statement is to word your major attitude, approach, or point of view on the subject at hand clearly, in preparation to illustrate, defend, or document your attitude.  In this assignment, avoid argument, taking a side, or defending a controversial point of view; more fruitful would be a statement regarding your personal relationship with her, rather than a statement about old age in general or an attitude toward Alzheimer’s and the like. Your thesis statement might begin a discussion of how she fit into your life and/or you into hers. Example: “Whenever I remember my grandmother, I think of how we shared the grief of losing my father in World War II.” Another example: “Because she was so young when she had my mother, my grandma can identify with and advise me as I grow though my college years.” Your own thesis statement, then, should begin you description of your connection with her, whether strong or fragile.

How does the character Mary Warren create mass hysteria in The Crucible?

Mary Warren is a character whose actions are part of very pivotal plot moments in the play. She works as a servant to John and Elizabeth Proctor, a replacement for Abigail Williams who was relieved of her duties after she had an affair with John. Because Abigail is in love with John, and because she is devious and selfish, she sees the witchcraft accusations as an opportunity to remove Elizabeth from the picture, and so decides to accuse her. Mary becomes a pawn in Abigail's game.

Abigail sees Mary making a poppet in court one day, and asks Mary to give it to Elizabeth (the poppet is a small cloth doll, believed by some to be used for casting spells on a person it represents). Later, Abigail is witnessed at the Reverend Parris' home screaming out in pain, and reveals she has a needle sticking out of her belly. Abigail had apparently also asked Mary to leave the needle in the doll. The poppet and needle are discovered by Ezekiel Cheever, when he comes to the Proctor household to serve a warrant on Elizabeth, who has been accused by Abigail, and the doll is seen as evidence of Elizabeth's attempts to hurt Abigail, and proof that she is a witch. This plot point is important because it places John Proctor, a respected man but one known to be dismissive of the witchcraft accusations, squarely in the center of the hysteria. Elizabeth is arrested and taken away; John Proctor angrily demands that Mary come to court and tell the truth.

The courtroom scene that follows is a prime example of the mass hysteria that allows the situation to escalate, wherein many people are accused and some subsequently hanged. When Mary Warren attempts to tell the truth, Abigail pretends to see a bird on the rafters, as if a spirit has flown into it. She also starts repeating everything Mary says, and the other girls do the same. This childish game is seen by those present in court as being somehow caused by Mary Warren, and the girls' play-acting is so effective that the court believes witchcraft must be the reason for their bizarre actions. Mary breaks down emotionally and decides she wants to side with Abigail once again; the accusations fly, fast and furious, and the Reverend Hale departs in frustration. This climactic scene depicts the way that mass hysteria (defined as "a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness") can sway rational people into condemning their own neighbors.

Does gender affect the way justices come to decisions?

Absolutely. Gender causes many different results in the area of justice. Two main examples are in the case of divorce, and in the case of rape.

During divorce cases, it is quite common for the mother to gain custody of the children by default. This is because society sees the mother as the primary caregiver of children. Traditional roles in the family include the father as the wagearner and provider, and the mother as caregiver and nurturer. The court system in the U.S. has followed along with these gender norms in most child custody cases, awarding custody to the mother and visitation to the father in most instances. For many years, it was very rare to see a father gain full custody of his children. While this standard is changing, and we do see fathers gaining full custody more frequently now, it is still the default for the mother to gain full custody of the children.

In the case of rape, gender and societal norms play a huge role in the prosecution of accused rapists. The lawyer for the accused rapist (the defendent) will often make the case that the woman who was raped was "asking for it," because she wore revealing clothing, because she drank too much, or because she was out late at night. They make these arguments because of our societal expectations of the female gender. We expect women to be modest, thus, we view women who wear revealing clothing as slutty or loose. We expect women to be responsible and more subdued, thus we view women who drink too much as irresponsible and reckless. We expect women to be more cautious, thus we view women who are out late at night as irresponsible. These are all typical gender stereotypes that are often used in during the prosecution of accused rapists. Quite often, judges are influenced by these arguments and stereotypes, as are juries, and accused rapists may be found innocent of the charges as a result.

When will the polar ice caps melt completely? Take it as a given that global warming is real.

"Take it as a given that global warming is real" is a statement I think we should post at the door of Congress. The scientific consensus on global warming is absolutely overwhelming: it is not only happening, but it's also our fault and it will have terrible consequences if we don't do something fast.

To make this specific forecast, we have to be clear about what we mean by "melt completely"; this could mean three things:

1. A complete melting of all polar ice in summer
2. A complete melting of all polar ice for a whole year
3. A complete melting of all polar ice indefinitely

Moreover, all three of these could be applied to either Arctic ice or Antarctic ice, which turns out to be important.

The good news is that Antarctic ice will not disappear completely any time soon, not even in the summer. Right now Antarctica is sloughing off its huge amount of land-based ice into the sea, so sea ice around Antarctica is actually increasing for the time being. There is so much ice in Antarctica that in fact it can probably continue melting for thousands if not millions of years at the current rate without all the ice disappearing. 26.5 million km^3 is 26.5 million gigatons, and the current melt rate is about 70 gigatons per year. Even if it speeds up a thousandfold, we still have centuries.

Now for the bad news. Arctic polar ice in summer is almost gone already. Current models say it won't last more than the next four years. So by the most narrow definition of polar ice melting, it's about to happen.

There will still be Arctic ice during the winter until about 2040 or 2050 by current estimates, and for a decade or two after that there will be cold years that have Arctic ice, but not every year will.

It's actually the Antarctic melting that's a problem, though; Arctic melting doesn't raise sea levels very much, because it's mostly sea ice and sea ice is already at equilibrium with the water. But Antarctic ice is mostly land ice, and as land ice falls into the sea it raises sea levels. If it all melted, sea levels would rise an astonishing 58 meters.

`(x - 1)/2 + (y + 2)/3 = 4, x - 2y = 5` Solve the system by the method of substitution.

EQ1:   `(x -1)/2+(y+2)/3 =4`

EQ2:  `x-2y=5`

To solve using method of substitution,  we have to isolate one of the variable. 

For this system of equations, it is better that we isolate the x in the second equation.

`x-2y=5`

`x=5+2y`

Then, plug-in this to the first equation.

`(x-1)/2+(y+2)/3=4`

`(5+2y-1)/2+(y+2)/3=4`

And solve for y.

`(2y+4)/2+(y+2)/3=4`

To solve this, it is better to eliminate the fractions in our equation. This can be done by multiplying both sides by the LCD. The LCD of the fractions present is 6.

`6*((2y+4)/2+(y+2)/3)=4*6`

`3(2y+4) + 2(y+2)=24`

`6y+12+2y+4=24`

`8y+16=24`

`8y=24-16`

`8y=8`

`y=8/8`

`y=1`

Now that the value of y is known, solve for x. Plug-in y=1 to the second equation.

`x -2y=5`

`x-2(1)=5`

`x-2=5`

`x=5+2`

`x=7`

Therefore, the solution is (7,1).

Describe the geography of Greece, including what the land is like and what surrounds it.

The country of Greece is located in southeastern Europe. It is divided into three geographic regions: the mainland, the Peloponnese (peninsula), and the chain of hundreds of island. The mainland is nearly covered in mountains. Three-fourths of Greece is characterized as mountainous. The mountains are steep with some of the deepest gorges in the world. The tallest mountain in Greece is Mount Olympus.

An advantage of Greece's geography is that as a peninsula, it is surrounded by warm-water seas. Greece has over eight thousand miles of coastland and is surrounded by the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas. Greece also has the most coastal area of any country in Europe with over 8,000 miles. Plains are found on the mainland in the east and north, but do not account for a significant percentage of the landmass.

What was the connection Dillard made between playing football and being chased for throwing a snowball?

In the story, Dillard described playing football as "It was all or nothing" (Dillard). When she learned to play, she was taught that she had to put everything into the game so that her team would win. She goes on to talk about tackling on the field. "But if you flung yourself wholeheartedly at the back of his knees - if you gathered and joined body and soul and pointed them diving fearlessly - then you likely wouldn't get hurt, and you'd stop the ball" (Dillard).

After throwing the snowball at the car, the man gets out and chases Dillard and her friends. She knows she has to escape, or at least try her best, just as she does in the game. As the kids split up, he chooses her (probably because she was the only girl) and gives chase. She knows that to escape, she will have to push herself just as she does on the field. She pushes herself until she can no longer run, and gains respect for the man as he refuses to give up. The chase goes on for paragraphs, through so many backyards and homes, until he catches her. But she knows that she "...flung herself wholeheartedly..." (Dillard) into her escape, and that she did her best.

There are more comparisons, but this should get you started. Look to the link below for more help with the story.

What is the definition of Pi?

`pi` (pi) is Greek letter and is a mathematical constant, expressed as ratio of circle's circumference to it's diameter.

circumference of circle=`pi` *diameter of circle

`pi` (pi)=circumference of circle/diameter of circle

The approximation of `pi` (pi) commonly used is 3.14159 and in terms of fractions it is taken as 22/7.

Why is weather an element of Gothic literature?

First, let's clarify what "the gothic" means in literature of this era. A good definition comes from the website of the Norton Anthology of English Literature:

"The Gothic featured accounts of terrifying experiences in ancient castles — experiences connected with subterranean dungeons, secret passageways, flickering lamps, screams, moans, bloody hands, ghosts, graveyards, and the rest. By extension, it came to designate the macabre, mysterious, fantastic, supernatural, and, again, the terrifying, especially the pleasurably terrifying, in literature more generally."

So, how might weather in Jane Eyre relate to "the Gothic element" in the novel? From the first chapter of the book, the weather sets the mood: 

"Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.  At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon.  Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast" (Jane Eyre, Chapter 1)

In this passage, the weather not only mirrors Jane's sad mood, but sets the stage for the macabre/terrifying events that happen in Mrs. Reed's house: the red room, John Reed's abuse, etc. Similarly, in Chapter 23, storms and lighting add a sinister undercurrent to Rochester's proposal to Jane:

"But joy soon effaced every other feeling; and loud as the wind blew, near and deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed, cataract-like as the rain fell during a storm of two hours’ duration, I experienced no fear and little awe" (Chapter 23)

Although Jane is happy in this scene--she has just become engaged--the weather suggests that her happiness is precarious. It sets the stage for uncanny and scary things to continue to happen in the novel: for example, Bertha tearing Jane's veil in half in Chapter 25. Just before Jane describes that event to Rochester, the weather is tumultuous and threatening:

"I sought the orchard, driven to its shelter by the wind, which all day had blown strong and full from the south, without, however, bringing a speck of rain.  Instead of subsiding as night drew on, it seemed to augment its rush and deepen its roar: the trees blew steadfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward—the clouds drifted from pole to pole, fast following, mass on mass: no glimpse of blue sky had been visible that July day."

In short, the weather is one of many devices Brontë uses to establish the Gothic mood in the novel: terrifying, strange, and tumultuous weather mirrors the terrifying, strange, and tumultuous events that take place over the course of Jane's journey. Just as telling a ghost story on a dreary, rainy night makes the story more powerful and creepy, Brontë's use of windy, rainy, and desolate weather makes Jane Eyre more vivid and uncanny.

What happens when a source of energy causes a medium to vibrate?

Mechanical waves, such as sound waves, would be created if an energy source caused a medium to vibrate.

Energy vibrating a medium produces energy waves that are mechanical waves, which means that they require a medium through which to travel.

A medium refers to a substance through which energy can be transferred from one location to another, from one particle to another. A medium can be either a solid, liquid, or a gas. As an illustration, the mechanical waves of sound travel the fastest through solid because the particles are so close to one another.

Mechanical waves can be:

1. traverse, with up-and-down crests and troughs


2. longitudinal, with compressions and rarefactions


3. surface, with combined up-and-down and back-and-forth motion (combining traverse and longitudinal characteristics)

To continue the illustration, sound waves are classified as longitudinal waves. Longitudinal waves, with compressions and rarefactions, move in a back and forth motion.

Kit is very conflicted about what to do regarding Judith, Mercy, and John Holbrook. Should she have intervened?

The conflict lies in the fact that Kit sees Mercy, in an unguarded moment, looking at John Holbrook with love in her eyes as John reads the Bible to the Wood family on a Saturday evening. When she sees Mercy's look of adoration, she realizes how "utterly right" Mercy and John are for each other.

Then, when John Holbrook tells her that he is going to stay with Mercy instead of going to the husking bee, Kit is overjoyed. John intends to ask Matthew for permission to marry Mercy. However, Judith, arrogantly thinking John is smitten with her (instead of her sister), asks Matthew to just "say yes" immediately so that they can still go to the husking bee together.

Kit, knowing that John had intended to ask for Mercy's hand, is torn. Yet, Kit and John know that if they say something to correct Judith in her presumption, and in doing so hurt Judith, Mercy would never forgive them.

Although it is difficult for Kit to watch the two true lovers torn apart unintentionally by Judith, it works out well that she did not intervene. In the end, everyone ends up with the partner that they should. After a near-death experience, John develops the courage to go to Mercy and fixes the mistake of not speaking up sooner. Judith ends up with William Ashby, her original and appropriate suitor.

Conclude a brief analysis as to whether you believe the fall of the Soviet Union was an inevitable occurrence, or could earlier Soviet leaders have...

If you believe the ideas contained in George Keenan’s Long Telegram, you would conclude that the fall of the Soviet Union was inevitable. The Long Telegram, about 8,000 words in length, stated that communism was a flawed system that would eventually fail. It suggested we would prevail over the Soviet Union without having to go to war. It suggested that our struggle with the Soviet Union was going to be one that would last for quite some time. Therefore, negotiations with them for a permanent solution were fruitless. Keenan pointed out that we should try to keep Communism from spreading. This became the basis for the policy of containment we used after World War II ended.

The only way the Soviet Union could have prevented its demise was to change its system. This was something the Soviet leaders were unwilling to do until it began clear their system was failing. Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a series of reforms and provided more openness in Soviet society. Even when it was clear these changes were the only way to possibly save the Soviet Union, hard-liner communists still were against these changes. Thus, the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable, even though it would take 45 years for that took occur after the Long Telegram was written.

`-165^@` Find the exact values of the sine, cosine, and tangent of the angle.

`-165^@=-(120^@+45^@)` 

`sin(-165)=-sin(165)`

`sin(u+v)=sin(u)cos(v)+cos(u)sin(v)`

`[sin(-(u+v))]=-[sin(u)cos(v)+cos(u)sin(v)]`

`[sin(-(120+45))]=-[sin(120)cos(45)+cos(120)sin(45)]`

`[sin(-(120+45))]=-[(sqrt3/2)(sqrt2/2)+(-1/2)(sqrt2/2)]=-sqrt2/4(sqrt3+1)`

`cos(-165)=cos(165)`

`cos(u+v)=cos(u)cos(v)-sin(u)sin(v)`

`cos(-(u+v))=cos(u)cos(v)-sin(u)sin(v)`

`cos(-(120+45))=cos(120)cos(45)-sin(120)sin(45)`

`cos(-(120+45))=(-1/2)(sqrt2/2)-(sqrt3/2)(sqrt2/2)=-sqrt2/4(1+sqrt3)`

`tan(-165)=-tan(165)`

`tan(u+v)=(tan(u)+tan(v))/(1-tan(u)tan(v))`

`-tan(u+v)=-[(tan(u)+tan(v))/(1-tan(u)tan(v))]`

`-tan(120+45)=-[(tan(120)+tan(45))/(1-tan(120)tan(45))]=-[(-sqrt3+1)/(1-(-sqrt3)(1))]=(sqrt3-1)/(1+sqrt3)`

After rationalizing the denominator the answer is `2-sqrt3.`

In the short story "Through the Tunnel," what is the author suggesting about the process of maturation?

Doris Lessing, the author of "Through the Tunnel," seems to be suggesting that the process of maturation is not a linear one. As we grow up, we don't neatly proceed from one step to the next in an orderly fashion, eventually ending up at the goal after we've taken each step in order and only once. The process of maturing is a great deal messier than that; the path is twisted and winding, sometimes turning back on itself for a time.

To begin, Jerry seriously desires some independence from his watchful and protective mother, and he longs to go to the "wild bay" to begin to achieve this. When he eventually does get there, he comes across some "big boys -- men to Jerry," and his desire to be accepted as one of them, a man, overwhelms him. Later, however, rejected by them, he "cried openly, fists in his eyes" and "he cried himself out," as a child would.

He has realized that he needs goggles in order to attempt the feat that those boys did -- swimming through the tunnel in the rock -- and he assaults his mother, unable to delay gratification (the ability to do this signals maturity), "defiant and beseeching" because he needs them "now, now, now! He must have them this minute and no other time." This is very childlike behavior.

As he practices holding his breath, day after day, "that other beach [...] seemed a place for small children [...]. It was not his beach." Jerry is beginning to have a sense of the patience one must exhibit in order to achieve something substantial. When he decides to go to the wild bay that day, "He did not ask for permission [...]." Adults do not ask permission; children do. Moreover, although he now believes that he could probably make it through the tunnel, "A curious, most unchildlike persistence, a controlled impatience, made him wait." He is acquiring the ability to delay gratification, a sign of his growing maturity and waning childish impulsiveness.

However, in achieving his goal of swimming through the tunnel he had been extremely frightened by it, and "He could see the local boys diving and playing half a mile away. He did not want them" anymore. Fitting in with those "big boys" had once been his primary goal, but it no longer appeals to him. Jerry, perhaps, has realized that he is not quite ready to be a man yet. In the end, he calls his mother "Mummy," a quite childlike way to address her, and blurts out that he can stay underwater for three minutes now. "It came bursting out of him," like a child would speak when seeking his mother's approval. It is now no longer the boys' approval he desires; he doesn't need their recognition as a fellow man. He is content, for now, to remain a child and accept his mother's praise and instruction without a "battle of wills."

This back-and-forth movement -- desiring independence one minute, displaying an inability to delay gratification the next, using patience and level-headedness to make a mature decision, and then reverting to childish tendencies and behaviors -- shows that the process of maturing is not a straight path from point A to point B. Instead, in this process, we often take two steps forward and one step back.

Who dies, and what happens at the burial at the end of the Death of a Salesman?

At the end of Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, the main character throughout the story, commits suicide in an automobile accident and dies. Willy commits this act to allow his family to cash in on his 20,000 dollar life insurance policy so that his son Biff can get the money he needs to start his own business. Willy hopes that many people will attend the funeral, and Biff will see that Willy was actually someone popular and worth while knowing, and that this will cause Biff to realize that Willy was an important and successful salesman despite the fact that Biff caught his father cheating on his mother during a flashback earlier in the story. Sadly, only close family and friends attend the funeral, and the story ends with the family and their neighbors, Bernard and Charlie, standing at Willy's grave. During this scene, Biff tells the family he plans to leave town, while Happy, Willy's other son, tells everyone he will stay in New York and pursue Willy's dream of making a successful living in sales. The narrative ends with Willy's wife Linda pleading and asking why Willy would do this. Ironically, she confesses to paying off their house in full, a house that is now empty, with the insurance money from Willy's death.

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What do each of the main figures in the cartoon represent ? What are they doing ?

The political cartoon, "Interrupting the Ceremony," appeared in the Chicago Tribune and is a critique on Woodrow Wilson's desire to have the United States enter the League of Nations. The League of Nations is depicted as the justice of the peace or preacher. He is attempting to wed Uncle Sam and a bride named "foreign entanglement." He is finishing the ceremony with the mandated "speak now or forever hold your peace."

The groom is good ole' Uncle Sam. He always represents the United States in political cartoons. His reluctance to marry foreign entanglements is depicted by a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead and the look of misery portrayed in his frown. The bride is foreign entanglements. "Foreign entanglements" is the idea that by entering the League of Nations, the United States would be constantly embroiled in the affairs and conflicts of other states. She seems to be perfectly content with this union.

The most important actor in this cartoon is the old grandfather bursting through the church window. He is symbolised as the U.S. Senate, who by Constitutional right, would have to bless this union. As indicated by his jumping through glass with the U.S. Constitution in hand, the Senate obviously has serious objections. History tells us that the Senate arrived in a nick of time to stop this marriage.

Summarize chapters 6 and 7 of the novel Lord of the Flies.

Chapter 6 "Beast from Air": The chapter begins with the descent of a dead paratrooper from the sky after he is shot during an air battle that takes place over the island while the boys are sleeping. His parachute gets tangled in the canopy of the forest and his lifeless body rocks back and forth when the wind blows. When Samneric awake, they see the dead paratrooper and mistake him for the "beast." After Samneric tell Ralph about the sighting, Ralph calls for an assembly where a search party is organized. The boys, armed with spears, travel up the mountain in search of the beast while Piggy and the littluns remain at the base camp. As the boys explore the island they come to an unknown area, where Ralph volunteers to lead the way. The area where Ralph explores will become Jack's base camp later on in the novel, and the boys begin to play in the caves and roll rocks down the side of the hill at this new location. Ralph notices that the signal fire has gone out and reprimands the boys for playing and rolling rocks down the side of the hill. Jack comments that they should stay there and build a fort. Ralph speaks up and reminds the boys the purpose of their expedition. The majority of the boys want to either stay at the "Castle Rock" location or go back to base camp, but Ralph insists they continue up the mountain.

Chapter 7 "Shadows and Tall Trees": At the beginning of the chapter, Ralph notices that his hair has become long, and his body is filthy. Ralph laments at his appearance and realizes that it has become the norm on the island. Simon comforts Ralph by saying, "You'll get back all right. I think so anyway." (Golding 111) Ralph is comforted by Simon's comments, but believes he is "batty." Roger mentions that he's spotted fresh pig feces, and the group decides to hunt a boar. They eventually spot the boar, and it breaks through the forest towards the boys. Ralph manages to wound the boar on the nose, but the pig continues to run and injures Jack before getting away. The boys remain in a frenzy and begin to enact the hunting scene with Robert playing the "pig." The game gets out of hand, and Jack suggests that they use a littlun as a pig the next time they partake in a reenactment. The sun is setting, and the boys discuss whether or not to continue up the mountain or return to base camp. Simon volunteers to go back to the base camp and tell Piggy their location. Simon travels by himself through the forest alone. Ralph, Jack, and Roger begin to climb to the top of the mountain as the sun goes down. Ralph and Roger refuse to climb to the summit, and Jack chastises them for being cowards. Jack continues and sees what he thinks is the "beast," then runs down to tell Ralph and Roger what he saw. The three travel as a group to the summit and view what looks like a great ape with its head between its knees. They freak out and run down the mountain in terror.

What are the products of the following reaction? Zr(NO3)4*5H2O + CH3CO2H =?

The first compound you have listed is zirconium nitrate, which is a crystalline solid, but is soluble in water.  The second compound, after water, is acetic acid.  So we basically have a nitrate compound being combined with an acid.  Acids are substances that offer H+ (hydrogen ions) when combined with water, so what happens is the hydrogen ion separates from the acetic acid and displaces the zirconium ion.  The products formed are nitric acid and zirconium acetate.

Zr(NO3)4 times H2O  +  CH3CO2H ----->  HNO3  +  Zr(CH3CO2)4

When you mix a nitrate with an acid, as in this chemical reaction, there is the extreme likelihood of an explosion, a fire, or something of a similar catastrophic nature.  This is an exothermic reaction, meaning the products will have less energy than the reactants.  The difference in energy is given off in ambient heat energy.  This can result in pressure being generated, an explosion taking place, or at the very least, an appreciable difference of temperature being given off.  Care should be taken, appropriate eye care and clothing protection should be exercised.  Toxic vapors may also be a concern, a well ventilated area should be considered for this reaction.

How are the going concern assumption and the historical cost attribute related?

The going concern assumption is that a business is planned to continue existing for some span of time into the future, usually assumed to be at least 1 year. In order to be a going concern, a business must either be profitable or at least be running a loss small enough that current assets will suffice to keep the business solvent during that period. Most accounting systems require that all businesses must be going concerns to file normal accounting statements, and otherwise must file for bankruptcy.

The historical cost method means that whenever a business purchases an asset, they report the value of that asset in future accounting reports as the actual amount paid when the asset was bought. The alternative is current cost accounting, on which assets are "marked to market" and accounted at their current market value.

Since most assets depreciate, the historical cost can overestimate what those assets would be worth if they were sold today, though most accounting methods do include depreciation for this reason. The problem is that depreciation for accounting purposes may not be the actual rate of depreciation of that asset in the market.

Thus, a company that appears to be solvent under historical cost accounting could actually be insolvent if all of its assets were sold today. Historical cost accounting could make a business appear to be a going concern even though it should really be bankrupt.

The opposite is also possible, if the asset has appreciated; a business that appears insolvent at historical cost accounting could in reality be solvent. This is less of a problem, however, as the business could simply sell the asset at the higher market price and receive the capital gain in cash, thus proving their solvency.

What was Hephaestus' domain?

Hephaestus (Vulcan in the Roman form) was the Greek god of blacksmithing, craftsmanship and metallurgy. Thus, his domain was fire, smithing, and forge. According to the prevailing Greek myth as described in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hephaestus' parents were Zeus and Hera. Hephaestus was lame (he had a deformed foot), so Hera (or Zeus, depending on the myth) threw him off Olympus.

Hephaestus later returned to Olympus (he is the only Olympian to have been exiled and yet been able to return later), and he crafted magical armor for most of the Olympian gods and goddesses, as well as their thrones. He also crafted armor for a few select mortals and demigods, including the armor Achilles wore in the Iliad.

Since his primary craft is blacksmithing, Hephaestus is usually symbolized by a blacksmith's tools: an anvil, hammer, and tongs.

How does Dill change from the start to the end of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

At the start of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill is young, energetic, and imaginative. His youthful innocence is portrayed in the fact that he is the only one of the three children who cries during Tom Robinson's cross-examination by Mr. Gilmer. However, by the time Dill accompanies Jem, Atticus, and Calpurnia to Helen Robinson's home to inform her of her husband's death, we see he has lost all imagination and strong emotions.

Dill's energetic imaginativeness is reflected in all the games and stories he makes up. One example is seen when, on the night he is discovered having run away from Meridian to Maycomb, he tells Scout a story about where babies come from. According to Scout's narration, Dill tells her, "There was a man [he] had heard of who had a boat that he rowed across to a foggy island where all these babies were; you could order one--" (Ch. 14).

During the trial, when Dill cries because he feels Mr. Gilmer is treating Robinson horribly, Mr. Dolphus Raymond says he understands why Dill is crying; it's because such treatment "just makes you sick, doesn't it?" (Ch. 19). Yet, Mr. Raymond also warns that as Dill grows up, "[H]e won't get sick and cry" (Ch. 20). He'll realize something is wrong, but it won't make him cry any longer. By the time we learn about Helen Robinson's reaction to her husband's death, we see that Mr. Raymond's prediction was correct and was even fulfilled much sooner than we would expect.

We learn of what Dill recounts to Scout of Helen's reaction through a flashback Scout has one evening after Dill had returned to Meridian at the end of summer. Through Scout's flashback, we learn that Dill's story was extremely truthful and straightforward; he did not embellish the story in any way, as he normally would have done. He described black children playing marbles in the front yard. He also described a young girl's hair as being full of "tiny stiff pigtails, each ending in a bright bow" (Ch. 25). Most importantly, he described Helen as falling to her knees without even being told the bad news. What strikes the reader is that Dill does not cry while reciting this story even though the story is full of the consequences of social injustices.

The fact that, by the end of the book, Dill tells a straightforward story without any embellishments and does not cry despite the fact that the details of the story are tragic shows that, as a result of witnessing the trial, Dill has lost his innocence and has become hardened. As a result of losing his innocence, Dill loses his imaginativeness and some of his sensitivity.

This is biology related.. Describe the origin and effects of air, soil and water pollution.

There are various sources of environmental pollution. Industrial and domestic discharges are the chief sources of air, water and soil pollution. Our industries, especially the manufacturing sector, generates solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. Inadequate treatment and inappropriate discharge of these waste products into our environment causes pollution. For example, a battery making industry will produce waste containing acids, which if discharged into environment without treatment, may end up in our rivers, thus polluting it. Low pH waste (acidic waste) will decrease the pH of water and causes ion imbalance. Organic wastes will reduce the dissolved oxygen level in the water, thus killing phytoplankton and zooplankton. These effects will also render water unfit for drinking or swimming, etc. When such wastes are discharged into agricultural fields, they contaminate the soil and decrease its fertility, while also harming the native microbial community. Industries also discharge a lot of harmful gases (such as CO2, methane, etc.) into the atmosphere, thus polluting it. These are generated as a result of burning of materials, esp. fossil fuels. When they escape into environment, they make breathing difficult and can also cause acid rain. One big effect of air pollution, esp. by CO2, is enhanced greenhouse effect, causing global warming. 

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How are villainous characters presented in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

In Macbeth and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, villainous characters are presented through their indulgence in guilty pleasures.  For example, Macbeth becomes consumed with the idea of being king and proving himself a man.  He seeks to eliminate all doubt from others regarding his position, so he gets yet a second prophecy from the witches and kills anyone whom he believes might challenge him.  Macbeth is consumed by becoming and staying king.  Similarly, Jekyll's evil persona Hyde abuses a child on the street and kills an old man for no reason.  Jekyll has wanted to divorce himself from this evil side rather than take the responsibility of dealing with it, and now the evil has taken on a life of its own.  Like Macbeth, Hyde is consumed with evil and acts accordingly.  So the villainous characters in these two texts are motivated by their own guilty pleasures.

Why did Burris Ewell only come to school on the first day?

Burris Ewell only came to school on the first day because his truancy officer required him to be in attendance one-day out of the school year. After Miss Caroline witnesses a "cootie" crawl out of Burris' hair, she tells him to bathe before coming to school the next day. Burris responds by saying, "I was on the verge of leavin'---I done done my time for this year." (Lee 35) Scout tries to explain Burris' situation and tells Miss Caroline that school attendance throughout the year is not required for the Ewells. When Miss Caroline asks about Burris' parents, the class tells her that the Ewell family has no mother and their father is "contentious." Burris proudly states that he's been coming to school on the first day for three straight years, and never attends any other days of school. Burris then argues with Miss Caroline after she tells him to sit down and threatens to report him to the principal. As Burris is leaving the school, he shouts insults toward Miss Caroline, which make her cry.

The Cask of Amontillado: In what ways was Montresor either right or wrong to kill Fortunato?

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" the narrator, Montresor, is clearly a sociopath. He is a cold-blooded killer whose only reason for murdering Fortunato is because of an "insult." He has absolutely no hesitation or remorse in carrying out the diabolical deed of walling up a man in the catacombs below his house.

In the first paragraph, he reveals his deranged thinking. He says that he must commit this crime so that no one figures it out but that the victim should know exactly who murdered him. Montresor says,

At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Indeed, the crime is never discovered. It is perfect in its sinister nature and could only be carried out by a man who felt no empathy for his fellow man. Even at the end when Montresor says for a split second that his "heart grew sick" we quickly learn it is not out of guilt but because he is cold.