In Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds," what sacrifice does the mother make for her daughter?

In Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds," the mother makes many sacrifices for her daughter, the protagonist in the story. The mother has come to San Francisco from China, where she lost all of her family, and she tries to teach her daughter that she can be anything she wants to be. The mother has sacrificed her own life, while contending with painful memories of her dead children in China, to try to make her daughter's life great.

The mother does not make much money cleaning houses, but she is able to gather magazines from the houses she cleans to find stories of amazing children to motivate her daughter to achieve greatness. Later, the mother is convinced her daughter can be a musical prodigy, and she manages to have her daughter take piano lessons, even though she has no money. Tan writes, "She had talked to Mr. Chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. Mr. Chong was a retired piano teacher, and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six." The mother works hard to provide music lessons to her daughter. 

The daughter is worried that her mother wants her to be a genius, but the mother responds, "'Who ask you to be genius?...Only ask you be your best. For you sake.'” The mother wants her daughter to work as hard as she can--something the daughter has a hard time doing. After the daughter does badly at a recital after failing to practice her piece, the mother wants the daughter to continue to practice piano. However, the daughter refuses, and that's the end of her lessons. It's only many years later, after the daughter inherits the piano from her parents, that she realizes that she has cheated herself by not working hard enough and that what her mother wanted was only hard work, not perfection. 

How did the Industrial Revolution affect immigration and the economy?

The Industrial Revolution affected immigration and the economy. When the Industrial Revolution began, our economy experienced growth. More products were being produced at a faster rate by the factories than were being produced when the products were made by hand. As more products were produced, more workers were needed. Some people moved from the countryside to the cities to get jobs in the factories. Other people came to the United States to work.

There were stories throughout Europe how the United States was a land of opportunity. Many Europeans were struggling economically and decided to come to the United States in pursuit of a better life economically, as well as politically and religiously. Since there were plenty of jobs available in the factories, many immigrants began to work there. Unfortunately, many immigrants didn’t see significant improvement economically because of the low pay. However, they did experience religious and political freedom. The increasing immigration to the United States also helped the economy grow. The immigrants not only provided the labor to do the work, they also bought products that were being manufactured. Thus, the Industrial Revolution helped both the economy and immigration to the United States grow.

How should businesses with inelastic demand decide the price of their product?

Demand elasticity is the measure of how much the quantity of a good will be demanded for a price change. If demand is inelastic, the quantity demanded will not drop very significantly with an increase in price. If the demand is perfectly inelastic, consumers will demand the same quantity, regardless of price. For this reason, businesses that produce a product with an inelastic demand tend to charge higher prices.

That being said, the business is still restricted by its supply curve. For this reason, even with a perfectly inelastic good a business cannot set prices at will. Once the market has been saturated, the consumer will not buy more of the product. For this reason, the price of the product is still determined by the intersection of the supply and demand curves, regardless of elasticity.

Explain what a mixed economy is.

The majority of the economies in the world should be considered a mixed economy. The mixed economy blends elements of a market model with characteristics of a command economy. It is an amalgamation of capitalism and socialism. The mixed economy affords private citizens the right to own private property and enterprise but attempts to control resources through regulation policies of some variety.

There are a number of ways that government can intervene on the private sector in a mixed economy. It may try to redistribute wealth by taxation policies aimed at corporations or entrepreneurs. Governments may heavily regulate industries that it views as essential for the public good. These industries are often associated with utilities or transportation.

In the United States, there are a number of government agencies that intervene in the capitalist system. Their intervention has been determined to protect the welfare of its citizens. The Department of Commerce, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Environmental Protection Agency are just three of many examples of government regulation of the American economy.

21. If an object’s speed is doubled, how does its Kinetic Energy change?

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For an object with a mass `m` and a speed `V` its kinetic energy is defined as

`E_k=m V^2/2.`

So if a speed is doubled, `V_1=2V,` and a mass remains unchanged, then

`(E_k)_1=m (V_1)^2/2 = m (2V)^2/2=4*(m V^2/2)=4E_k.`

Thus the kinetic energy will be quadrupled (4 times greater than the original).

In The Great Gatsby, what do you know about Gatsby's job?

It's important to note that Nick Carraway, our omniscient (and somewhat unreliable) narrator throughout this novel, is never explicit about what Gatsby did. It's because he didn't really know either. We're led to think, through certain context clues, that Gatsby made his fortune in bootlegging and Wall Street speculation. Both pursuits were common ways of acquiring wealth in the 1920s. 

The bootlegging is brought up by Tom Buchanan, Gatsby's husband and rival for Daisy's affections. Buchanan also works well in the story as an example of "old money," in contrast to Gatsby -- an upstart from a simple, modest background.

Buchanan reveals that Gatsby did business with a guy named Meyer Wolfsheim. He says that they ran "'drug-stores' here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter." The name "Meyer Wolfsheim" has a number of connotations: "wolf" suggests someone predatory; and "Meyer" is a reference to the associate's Jewish heritage. Bootlegging was considered a dishonorable way to make a fortune (though we know now that many prominent people became wealthy doing it). Also, upper-class white Americans did not generally associate with Jews in the 1920s. All of this is revealed to highlight Gatsby's status as an outsider, despite his immense wealth. Buchanan, during his exposure of Gatsby, refers to him as a "swindler."

In the novel, much of Gatsby's life and career remain unclear. Nick Carraway does not begin to learn much of the truth about him, including Gatsby's claims of being an Oxford alum, until the end of the novel when Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz, comes to claim his son. 

What is the function of the right auricle? This is a question for grade 8.

When using the term auricle in terms of biology, there are two possible things you could be talking about.  One is the external portion of the human ear, and the other is a part of the heart.  Since you are specifically are talking about the right auricle, that leads me to believe that you must be referring to the heart since it has four different basic chambers.

The right auricle is really an older term for the right atrium.  As I stated earlier, the human heat has four basic chambers, the left and right atria and the left and right ventricles.  The atria (plural for atrium) are the top two chambers of the heart and the ventricles are the lower two chambers of the heart.  The right atrium (auricle) is the chamber where incoming blood from the major vein of the circulatory system (vena cava) brings deoxygenated blood into the heart.  The right atrium (auricle) receives the blood and pushes it into the the right ventricle, which then transports the blood to the lungs for oxygenation.  The freshly oxygenated blood then is pumped through the left side of the heart (atrium and ventricle) before it re-enters the circulatory system to bring oxygen to the rest of the body.