What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did labor organizations attempt to respond to these new conditions?

The Industrial Revolution had a profoundly negative effect on workers during the early Twentieth Century. In the past, workers that crafted consumer goods were highly valued and respected. With the introduction of machinery for the mass production of goods, the American worker became expendable. Work became more dangerous and employees were exploited for profit. No laws or government oversight existed to guarantee worker safety. The skill level required to work in industry was very low, and, therefore, wages were not even paid at a subsistence level. Laborers were required to work very long hours for limited pay. Children were used to perform some of the most difficult tasks. If a worker were injured on the job and could not perform his duties, he was simply fired and replaced by another unskilled laborer.

To counteract the difficulties faced by laborers in manufacturing, labor unions formed. They fought for the right to bargain for wages collectively and pressured Congress to act. Unions would organize strikes and many of them became violent. One labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World even advocated the use of violence to achieve their goals. The violence of the labor movement caught the attention of the federal government which enacted sweeping legislation in the early part of the Twentieth Century.

How do Antony and Octavius treat Brutus's body in Julius Caesar?

When the victorious Antony and Octavius view Brutus's dead body on the battlefield at Philippi, they both speak of him with praise and respect. Marc Antony says,

This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.

Antony previously accused the conspirators of being primarily motivated by envy in his funeral oration. Envy has been defined as "the resentment which occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it" (Parrott). Julius Caesar aroused this painful emotion in other men because he was superior to them in many ways. Aristotle defines envy as "the pain caused by the good fortune of others." Brutus, according to Shakespeare's Marc Antony, was the only conspirator who was motivated by patriotism instead of envy.

Octavius concurs with Antony and even goes so far as to have Brutus's body kept overnight in his own tent.

According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.

In "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing, why does Jerry's mother feel impatient with Jerry and worry over things he might secretly be thinking about?

In that first paragraph, Jerry's mother "looked impatient, then smiled."  She assumed he was right behind her, but he was dawdling and stopping to turn and look "toward the bay" instead.  Her initial impatience seems to be a typical parental response when they believe their child is with them and turn around to find the child is lagging far behind, distracted by something or other.

When she sees where Jerry is looking, his mother asks, "'Why, darling, would you rather not come with me?  Would you rather--,'" stopping short before she finishes the question.  She doesn't honestly know what would amuse him, if those amusements would be ones she'd approve or feel were safe.  "She frowned, conscientiously worrying over what amusements he might secretly be longing for which she had been too busy or too careless to imagine."  As an eleven year-old boy, Jerry's interests are changing and he is beginning the process of becoming an adult, beginning to long for freedom and independence from his mother.  Perhaps this moment sort of snuck up on her.  She realized, of course, that this moment would come, but she worries now about how to treat him and what to say, "determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion."  Her worry is caused by the internal conflict she feels, wanting to grant Jerry the independence he needs but also wanting to keep him safe.

How does the older George Orwell feel about his younger self in "Shooting an Elephant?"

Orwell does not look back at his stint as a imperial policeman in Burma very fondly. He tells the reader that in this job, "you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters." Generally, he thinks that colonialism is immoral, but he also remembers that he despised the Burmese people--and they felt the same way about him. Above all, he remembers looking back that imperialism involved playing a role. As a young man, he had to act like what he thought a British imperial representative was supposed to be--resolute and decisive, even if that meant acting contrary to his personal sense of morality. This, in the end, was the significance of his memory of shooting the elephant. Looking back, he is struck by how, at the end of the day, he did the deed out of fear. He did not want to shoot the beast, which by the time he discovered it, had calmed down and was peacefully munching grass. He did so, he tells the reader, "solely to avoid looking a fool." He remembers that as an imperial policeman, he was "solely a puppet pushed to and fro" by the Burmese people, who expected him to shoot the elephant. He is not proud of the act, and remembers his younger self as essentially powerless to act in ways other than those prescribed for him by the logic of empire.

Which of the following best describes John Maynard Keynes's view regarding the economy? A. A balanced budget is not essential to promote economic...

John Maynard Keynes was an economist who broke with traditional economic theory.  Traditional economic theory said that the government should stay out of the economy.  Traditional economic theory said that balanced budgets were necessary for economic growth.  Keynes did not agree with these ideas.

Keynes said that the government should not try to have a balanced budget during bad economic times.  He said that a balanced budget would actually prevent economic growth in such times.  Instead, the government needed to do things to make sure that the people had more money that they could spend.  When the people spent their money, the economy would grow.

This means that Keynes wanted the government to lower taxes and to spend more during a recession.  This would, of course, result in a budget that was not balanced.  Keynes, then, thought that a balanced budget was not essential to economic growth.  He thought that lower taxes and more government spending (which would create deficits) would cause economic growth and get the country out of a recession or depression.

Logan has 4 teen age children of different ages. The product of the ages is 67184. Find the sum of the ages.

Hello!

I suppose that the ages are integer numbers, not fractional. Also teen age means integers from 13 to 19 (inclusive).

Let's decompose (factor) the given product, 67184. Try the factors at the given interval.

1) 67184 is divisible by 13, 67184 = 13*5168. Decompose the quotient.

2) 5168 isn't divisible by 14 and 15 but divisible by 16, 5168 = 16*323.

3) 323 is divisible by 17 and the quotient is 19. Hooray!

So we obtained that 67184 = 13*16*17*19. The only non-prime factor is 16, but we cannot divide it between other factors in a such way that they remain "teen age". Therefore this decomposition is the unique "teen" decomposition.

The answer for the question is 13 + 16 + 17 + 19 = 65.

`sin^4(x)cos^2(x)` Use the power reducing formulas to rewrite the expression in terms of the first power of the cosine.

According to the power reducing formulas, you may re-wrute the expression such that:

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x = (1 - cos2*(2x))/2*(1 - cos2*(2x))/2*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x=((1 - cos 4x)^2)/4*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x=(1 - 2cos 4x + cos^2 4x)/4*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x= (1 - 2cos 4x + (1 + cos 8x)/2)/4*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x= (2 - 4cos 4x + 1 + cos 8x)/8*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

`sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x = (3 - 4cos 4x + cos 8x)/8*(1 + cos 2x)/2`

Hence, using the power reducing formulas yields `sin^4 (2x)*cos^2 x = (3 - 4cos 4x + cos 8x)/8*(1 + cos 2x)/2`
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