What is a summary of the book Hornet Flight?

Ken Follett's Hornet Flight is a historical thriller that retells a true story. Follett was inspired by a story written by former Special Operations Executive worker Leo Marks, in which two Danish teenagers found and repaired a biplane to fly to England. He combined this concept with the story of Danish Flight Lieutenant Thomas Sneum, who also flew to England in a rebuilt biplane along with pictures of a German radar station.

The novel begins in 1941, a time in World War II where Germany was consistently shooting down British planes. The story follows Danish 18-year-old Harald Olufsen, who discovers a radar installation by the Germans on his home island and photographs it to aid the Allies. He decides to go to England to deliver the information, but fears for his life and how this decision may harm his brother, Danish Air Force pilot Arne, and Arne's intelligence analyst fiance, Hermia. However, Harald is determined to deliver the film negatives himself, and enlists his friend Karen to help repair a ruined biplane in a nearby church to make the trip to England alone.

What is the significance of the title of Shaw's Pygmalion?

The title of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is drawn from classical mythology. Shaw's actual source was a story found in Ovid's Metamorphoses about the sculptor Pygmalion who had forsworn love of women. He worked on a statue of a woman that was so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He named the statue Galatea. One day he made a sacrifice to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and she took pity on him and made the statue come alive as a real woman. Pygmalion married Galatea and they had a son, Paphos. They remained devoted worshipers of Aphrodite and the family was favored by her.

Professor Higgins treats Eliza Doolittle as though he were Pygmalion and she were Galatea, attempting to mold her into the image of the perfect aristocratic woman. Eliza, however, is not a lump of ivory or marble, but a smart, strong-willed woman with a mind of her own, who resents being treated as if she were simply the inanimate object of Higgins' craft. 

Higgins expresses this concept when discussing Eliza with his mother:

You will jolly soon see whether she has an idea that I haven't put into her head or a word that I haven't put into her mouth. I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden;...

What does this quote in Housekeeping mean? Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant...

To understand this quote, let us take it line by line.

• “Fingerbone was never an impressive town.” The meaning of this line is rather clear.  Fingerbone is not an important place.  It is a backwater town where we should not expect important things to happen.


• “It was chastened.”  First, we need to know what “chastened” means.  It means “humbled,” or “subdued.”  If something happens to chasten you, it makes you feel less important.  We are now going to be told what things make Fingerbone feel unimportant and unimpressive.


• “By an outsized landscape and extravagant weather.”  This means that Fingerbone is a little town in a big landscape.  The part of Idaho where Marilynne Robinson grew up is not the potato-growing area.  Her part of Idaho (Northern Idaho), is full of mountains and forests and lakes.  A town like Fingerbone would seem lost among that “outsized” landscape.  It would also feel unimportant because of the “extravagant” weather.  “Extravagant,” means something like “unrestrained.”  There is a lot of snow in the winter in this part of Idaho and the summers get hot.  The weather is not mild.  Between the landscape and the climate, Fingerbone seems unimportant and small.


• “And chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.”  This means that nothing important ever happened in Fingerbone.  All of the things that have changed human history happened somewhere else.  Impressive towns are towns where things happen.  They are towns where rich and important people live.  These towns matter.  Fingerbone does not because rich and important people do not live there and world-changing events do not happen there.

Thus, this quote is emphasizing how Housekeeping is set in an unimportant, backwater town in the middle of nowhere.  It is a town that is overshadowed by its environment.  It is a town where nothing important ever happens.  This is what the passage that you quote is conveying to us.

In the poem "London" by William Blake, why do you think the speaker never actually says the word "London" in the poem itself? Could this poem be...

While it is possible that the poem could be about other cities, at the time of writing (1794, contained in Blake's collection Songs of Experience), London was one of the largest cities in the world, and certainly one of the largest cities in Europe. Unlike many of the poems written for the collection Songs of Experience, the poem "London" does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence, suggesting the poet could not bring himself to write about London from that perspective.

Since the poem's title names the city he writes about, it is not necessary to mention it within the poem itself. But it's plausible to suggest that even without that title identifying the city, most readers would understand that Blake is describing London. The imagery is specific to London, including the Thames (the river that flows through the city that makes up a significant portion of its landscape), and the capitalization of the word "Palace" suggesting Buckingham Palace. As well, the reference to "every blackning church appalls" suggest a major industrial city where soot would blacken stone walls, and at the time London was the center of industry in Europe.

The poem could certainly serve to reflect the horror and drudgery of living in a large city during the time period at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, which took place between 1760 and 1840, beginning in Great Britain.

Consider how the text "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" says what it does, how it represents its contents. In doing so we recognize genre, structure,...

Considering the rhetorical strategies that Hurston uses in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" to appeal to logos, pathos, and/or ethos, the reader could focus on Hurston's use of metaphors throughout the essay.  For example, Hurston uses the metaphor of "a sharp white background" to pose herself as a person of color in the midst of a majority of white people.  The metaphor creates an image of her standing out against a "background" that is much different from herself.  Hurston wants the reader to understand how out of place she is made to feel in the racial divide, so using the metaphor and imagery appeals to both the reader's sense of logic and emotion.  Later in the essay, Hurston uses the metaphor of the "Great Stuffer of Bags" (the Creator or God) following her extended metaphor of the colored bags to represent people.  Hurston tells the reader that likely the "Stuffer" randomly filled the bags with all the same contents to suggest that no matter what race, people are essentially the same.  Again, Hurston appeals to the reader and asks him or her to consider the values of humanity that we hold.

Why, when his sister and his nieces were visiting, would Uncle Henrik spend the whole night on his boat?

Uncle Henrik spent the night on his boat so that he could help the Rosen family and several other Jews escape from Denmark. Uncle Henrik left early to go to his boat while everyone else remained at his house. They pretended to mourn the loss of an aunt. This funeral was staged in order to explain why a large group of people (including the Jews who were trying to escape) had gathered at Uncle Henrik's house. After soldiers came to investigate the gathering, Peter and Mama led the group to the water in order to board Uncle Henrik's fishing boat. He planned to lead them to freedom in Sweden across the water. When they dropped an important package by mistake, Annemarie ran down to the water to give it to Uncle Henrik. Then he left with the small group on the boat to Sweden. 

how can i understand the Equivalent Fractions

What is an equivalent fraction?

Equivalent Fractions are fractions that have the same value, despite they look different at times.

How does one find an equivalent fraction?

In order to find or determine an equivalent fraction, you need to multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same non-zero whole number.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please note that you have to use the same non-zero whole number for the numerator and denominator, otherwise you will not obtain an equivalent fraction.

Let's look at am example:

Question: Are the following fractions equivalent? 

Answer: The question is asking if the above fractions are equal in value. We can determine this by multiplying a non-zero whole number to the numerator and denominator of the first fraction `2/4`

Let's multiply '2' to the numerator and denominator:

`(2/4) * (2/2) = 4/8`

From above it can be seen that `2/4 = 4/8`

Now let's multiply '4' to the numerator and denominator:

`(2/4) * (4/4) = 8/16`

From  above it can be seen `2/4 = 8/16`

SUMMARY: 

• Equivalent Fractions are fractions that have the same value,


• In order to find or determine an equivalent fraction, you need to multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same non-zero whole number.