After her initial round of treatment, what did Henrietta's doctor assume about the effectiveness of the radium therapy?

In Chapters 4 and 5 of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, readers learn that Henrietta has been diagnosed with invasive cervical carcinomas. The standard treatment for patients diagnosed with invasive cancer was to use radium, “a white radioactive metal that glows an eerie blue,” to shrink the tumors. Many hospitals believed that radium was safer and more effective than surgery for treating cervical cancer. Initially, Henrietta’s doctors assumed her treatment was a success. “At that point doctors liked what they saw. They saw her cervix was a bit red from the treatment, but the tumor was shrinking.” For weeks, doctors believed the treatment had been successful. It was only after Henrietta’s continued complaints of pain, and a subsequent X-ray, did they learn that the radium treatments were not successful and Henrietta’s tumor had grown and spread to other parts of her body.

In Of Mice and Men, why does Lennie constantly get into trouble?

Lennie gets into trouble because he is childlike and doesn’t really have any impulse control. 

Lennie is a developmentally delayed man who happens to be incredibly strong.  He has the mental age of a child.  As a result, he often gets into trouble.  This is why he travels around with George, who looks out for him, takes care of him, and laments how much trouble he is. 

"God, you're a lot of trouble," said George. "I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn't have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl." (Ch. 1) 

Lennie’s main problems are that he doesn’t know his own strength and that he likes to touch soft things.  This is why they got run out of Weed, a small town in Northern California where Lennie wanted to “feel” a lady’s dress.  She thought he wanted something else.  She was scared.  He was scared because she was scared, and held on to her dress.  The next thing you know, George and Lennie were on the run. 

This incident foreshadows the trouble Lennie gets into later with Curley and his wife. In the case of Curley, Lennie was just minding his own business, smiling about the ranch he and George would have one day.  The other reason Lennie always got into trouble was that he was not aware of the world around him and could not pick up social cues. He had no idea that smiling would be seen as a threat by Curley.  Curley picked a fight, and George allowed Lennie to fight back.  Lennie got scared. He did not let go of Curley’s hand, smashing it badly. 

Smashing Curley’s hand was nothing compared to what Lennie did to his wife.  He was minding his own business in the barn, stroking his puppy (who did not survive the encounter) when she came in.  She was lonely and wanted someone to talk to.  She didn’t realize that he was dangerous because she found his childlike nature disarming.  He never meant to be dangerous.  However, she offered him her hair to stroke.  When he did not let go, she panicked.

"You let go!"

Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie's other hand closed over her mouth and nose. "Please don't," he begged. "Oh! Please don't do that. George'll be mad." (Ch. 5) 

Lennie did not mean to kill her.  He got scared, just like with the lady’s dress and with Curley’s hand.  Lennie knew enough to go hide where George told him to. After he realized that Curley and the other men would come to kill Lennie, George shot Lennie to spare him from drawn-out suffering.  He was protecting him, because he was his responsibility.

What is the symbolism of the island in Lord of the Flies?

In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the island represents the microcosm of the world the boys have left behind.  The island is by itself with no other people nearby, so the boys have space to create their own ideal world. As they are civilized British boys, the reader would expect the island to be run as they have been taught--with rules, leaders etc.  However, as the reader soon learns, the island as a symbol of their world and how they will create it turns into a deadly mockery of the original idea.  As a microcosm of the "civilized world" they left behind which is currently at war, the boys soon reflect the  image of war among themselves, with two leaders, Ralph and Jack, at war with each other just as they are in the world outside of the island.  Only the navy captain's appearance at the end of the novel, saves Ralph from death, and the boys board the ship, leaving the microcosm of the island to return to the macrocosm of the world outside of the island.  Both the island and the outside world are like each other with death and destruction happening in war.

How much unsaturated fat is there in a 25 g packet of crisps?

The amount of unsaturated fats depend on the type of crisps and the brand. Here are few examples of quantity of unsaturated fat in a 25 gm pack of crisps:

• Walkers Crisps: Total unsaturated fats = 7 gm ( 1 gm polysaturated fats and 6 gm monosaturated fats)


• Salt and Vinegar/ Cheddar Cheese and Vinegar Crisps: Total unsaturated fats = 7.1 gm ( 1 gm polysaturated fats and 6.1 gm monosaturated fats)


• Walkers Beef and Onion/ Roast Chicken: Total unsaturated fats = 7 gm ( 1 gm polysaturated fats and 6 gm monosaturated fats)


• Walkers Salt and Shake- Original crisps: total unsaturated fats = 7.4 gm


• Walkers Ready Salted: total unsaturated fats = 7.3 gm


• Snack Factory Pretzel crisps: unsaturated fat ~ 1.5 gm


• Kettle Brand Potato Chips: unsaturated fats ~ 8 gm

There can be a large number of other options. We can see that Walkers crisps contain about 7 gm of unsaturated fats in a pack of 25 g. There are other options available as well, both with higher and lower fat content.

Hope this helps. 

How is the theme of guilt portrayed and explored in Act 5 scene 1 in Macbeth

In this scene, Lady Macbeth reveals her guilt through her actions while she walks in her sleep. The scene opens with one of Lady Macbeth's servants consulting a doctor about the worrisome sleepwalking. The two watch as the sleepwalking Lady Macbeth compulsiviely washes her hands. The servant tells the doctor that Lady Macbeth will sometimes "continue in this a quarter of an hour."

As she washes, Lady Macbeth says "out damned spot" and wonders that the "old man" had so much blood in him. Her unconscious need to wash off Duncan's blood, and her unconscious conviction that she can never wash the blood or its scent away, both reveal the guilt she feels. The doctor says she is carrying something heavy on her heart. Lady Macbeth goes on, in her sleep, to say that Banquo cannot come out of his grave, once again displaying her guilt as well as her subconscious fear that he can come back to haunt her. 

The doctor judges that Lady Macbeth has an uneasy conscience, saying:

Infected minds

To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

More needs she the divine than the physician.

When he says she needs "more needs the divine that the physician," he understands that she is suffering from a spiritual or psychological malady, not a physical problem that he can solve. 

What is the setting of Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Chapter 2 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the Maycomb school. In this chapter, Scout attends school for the first time, where she meets her teacher, Caroline Fisher. Scout describes her as having "bright auburn hair and pink cheeks" and looking like and smelling like "a peppermint drop." Most of the children in the classroom, on the other hand, are "ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted." The children in Maycomb are largely from poor farming families, and Ms. Caroline, an outsider, doesn't really understand them. 

Ms. Caroline tells Scout that her father, Atticus, should not teach her to read, as it interferes with her learning. Ms. Caroline doesn't understand that Scout has picked up reading naturally. Ms. Caroline also tells Walter Cunningham that he can borrow a quarter for lunch and pay her back tomorrow, not understanding that Walter comes from a very poor family and could never pay her back. When Scout attempts to explain the situation to Miss Caroline, the teacher slaps her with a ruler. In this chapter, Scout interacts with the larger Maycomb community and realizes that she doesn't always understand the world around her. 

What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this policy? What consequences did it have to the British colonies in...

Salutary neglect refers to Britain's unofficial policy of not strictly enforcing Parliamentary laws in the colonies. Britain practised salutary neglect throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and for practical reasons: America's distance from Britain made it impossible for the government to keep a constant eye on the colonists. They knew, for example, that the colonists bought goods from France and Spain and did nothing to stop it - even though it was technically against British law. Quite simply, it was too expensive for Britain to maintain a full and constant presence in America when it had so many other affairs to tend to. 

As a result of salutary neglect, the colonists enjoyed a degree of self-government which, over time, they cherished and would fiercely protect. They were not accustomed to Britain enforcing trade laws in the colonies so, when this began to happen in the 1763 with the passing of the Navigation Act, they felt that Britain's actions were a direct threat to their liberties and freedoms. Britain continued to pass and enforce restrictive trade laws throughout the 1760s, like the Intolerable Acts, which set many Americans thinking strongly about independence.