Which plates are diverging off the west coast of South America?

Nazca Plate is interacting with the South American Plate off the west coast of South America. In fact, Nazca Plate is a converging plate and not a divergent plate. Diverging plates move away from each other, such as African and Arabian Plates. Converging plates move towards each other, as in this case. The Nazca Plate is undergoing subduction (due to higher density of oceanic plate) and is being pulled under the continental South American Plate. This subduction is causing the South American Plate to rise up and this has resulted in Andes Mountains. Another characteristic of this oceanic-continental convergence is the volcanoes that form on the surface of continental plate. Strong earthquakes also result from this subduction, as the fragments of subducting plate gets locked in and are suddenly released. 

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Write chemical equation for the reaction of calcium hydroxide with carbon dioxide.

Aqueous calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide to form a white precipitate, calcium carbonate, and water. Carbon dioxide dissolves in water to produce carbonic acid (H2CO3), The carbonic acid reacts with OH- to produce the carbonate ion that precipitates with calcium ion. Here's the equation:

`Ca(OH)_2 + CO_2 -> CaCO_3 + H_2O`

Aqueous calcium hydroxide is called lime water. Lime water can be used as an indicator for carbon dioxide because, when CO2 is bubbled through it, it turns cloudy as the insoluble calcium carbonate is produced. Exhaling through a straw into limewater turns it milky-colored as the carbon dioxide from your lungs reacts. This reaction can be used to observe CO2 production in processes such as fermentation.

Continuing to add CO2 to limewater after it's become cloudy will cause it to become clear again. The carbonic acid that forms reacts with the calcium carbonate to form soluble calcium hydrogen carbonate. 

In To Kill a Mockingbird what is a good thesis for a coming-of-age theme and in what chapter is it found?

Jean Louise Finch is the perfect candidate to discuss in a coming-of-age paper. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is called a bildungsroman, which means that the protagonist goes through character building experiences such as rites of passage. Scout's character development definitely grows as one life experience builds upon the other. It seems that as each chapter passes, Scout learns a new lesson on proper moral behavior, the ways of the world, and how to treat other people with respect. Hence, almost any chapter would show an experience that helps Scout to learn about becoming an adult. But there is one specific instance when Scout stops learning about how to behave or think like an adult and she proves it.

The first time Scout shows that she understands a difficult situation and acts accordingly is in chapter 24 when Aunt Alexandra is hosting a missionary tea party and Atticus comes home with news that Tom Robinson is dead. The ladies have just been listening to indirect racist comments about the trial and Atticus, so tensions are high. Scout's usual response is to vocally or physically react to people who challenge her family, but she can't do that in polite company with older adult women, of course. Both Scout and Aunt Alexandra almost can't go on as they sit in the kitchen taking a break from the women in the living room. Miss Maudie rallies them back to their senses so they can go back out to their company. Scout says the best coming-of-age comment:

"After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I" (237).

With this comment, Scout passes cookies politely and acts like a proper lady. This is significant because Atticus, Calpurnia, Uncle Jack, Jem, and Aunt Alexandra have all worked with Scout to behave more like a lady than a tomboy; and, she figures out when different times call for different behavior.

Thesis Statement Examples:

1-  Jean Louise Finch demonstrates what it means to behave like a lady when she wears a party dress, attends Aunt Alexandra's tea party, and controls her temper and emotions in the face of adversity.

2-  Jean Louise Finch shows that she has reached a pinnacle in her coming-of-age story when she attends a ladies' tea party, wears a dress, and properly behaves by controlling her temper and emotions in the face of adversity.

How does Beatty explain fire in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451?

Captain Beatty is not only the chief of the firemen who burns books, but he is a well-read, very intellectual man. He fights books with real fire and he fights them with their own words, too. Being that he is eloquent in his own right, Beatty can describe fire's physical attributes as well as its cleansing qualities. When they show up to burn down Montag's house, Beatty ignites his flame thrower and philosophizes about it as follows:

"What is it about fire that's so lovely? . . . It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences" (115).

In the above passage, Beatty is basically saying that fire is one of the biggest mysteries known to man, but it is an element that destroys both the physical as well as the abstract; such as responsibility and consequences.  He continues by saying the following:

"Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical" (115).

Beatty ends by saying that he will use fire to get rid of the liability that Montag has become. Beatty depends on fire to control the environment and people around him. He believes fire is the greatest cleansing element that also executes with the utmost efficiency. It seems, too, as if Beatty worships fire like it were a god.

Some people might claim that the spirit of Caesar influences the entire course of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. Discuss this idea.

While Caesar is certainly not the main player on the stage of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (he is, after all, dead by the middle of the third Act), it's still possible to argue that his spirit, or rather his character, continues to influence the entire course of the play.

This idea might surprise some readers. After all, it's pretty easy to see that the main plot of Shakespeare's play is more concerned with the tragic figure of Brutus and his fellow conspirators than with the eponymous emperor. Be that as it may, it's important to recognize that, if it weren't for Caesar's arrogant ambition to rule all of Rome, none of the events of the play would have ever taken place. As such, though Caesar himself does not play a major role in most of the events in Julius Caesar, his character is responsible for the drama that unfolds: his ambition to become emperor leads the conspirators to assassinate him, which in turns leads to a bloody civil war. As such, it would be very accurate to claim that the spirit of Caesar influences the entire course of the play.  

What is the falling action in the plot of the film, A Christmas Story?

The falling action of the film, A Christmas Story, takes place after the climactic scene on Christmas morning. Ralphie received the gift he had been wishing for all Christmas season-- a Red Ryder BB Gun. He promptly takes the model air rifle outside, and upon firing his first shot, the pellet ricochets off of a metal sign and hits him in the face. This scene mirrors something he has been warned of all throughout the film-- "You'll shoot your eye out!" Though Ralphie's glasses protect his eyes, it is certainly a frightening moment for the characters and viewers of the film.

After Ralphie's incident with "shooting his eye out," the tension and expectation in the film begins to drop, but it is by no means less eventful! Having ruined his glasses and caused minor injury to his face, Ralphie pretends that the cause was an icicle falling on him. This wins the sympathy of his mother, who takes him to the upstairs bathroom to console him and tend to the small wound left  by the pellet. Unknowingly, they have left the downstairs door open and the neighbors' many dogs are sneaking in! They ravage the Christmas dinner Ralphie's mother has been working so hard to prepare, and the family is devastated. 

This leads us to the resolution of the film. Ralphie and his family go out to a Chinese restaurant for dinner because it is the only place open on Christmas. Though their day has been disastrous, their relationships to one another are reaffirmed.

To what extent would you agree with the statement, "The appeal of Shakespeare's Hamlet lies primarily in the complex nature of the play's central...

Hamlet is arguably the most complex male character in the English canon. His soliloquies are complicated and filled with contradictions. He is as motivated as he is contemplative. It is hard to deny that he is a difficult character. However, the main appeal of the play comes from Hamlet's interactions with the many levels and systems that exist within the play. Hamlet, on his own, is not the main appeal of the play. Instead, it is Hamlet's interactions with the other characters and situations that have enchantled audiences and readers for centuries.

There are many moving parts in the play that take hold of Hamlet. On a system level, the country has damaged foreign relationships which threaten to harm the country and its citizens. On a familial level, Hamlet has fractured relationships with his mother. Personally, Hamlet is conflicted and often lashing out. Hamlet's interactions and exchanges with these levels are what engage us.