Is the story "The Piece of String" an analogy?

There are differences between analogy and allegory, but some would say that allegory is a form of analogy, so if it is an allegory, it would be an analogy.

It is certainly (specifically) an Allegory (the representation of an idea through characters, events, story, narrative). One allegory is Pride: Hauchecorne was ashamed of picking up the string: He made it a point to pretend to be looking for something else when his enemy catches him. No one believes him when he's vindicated. They think he and Paumelle were in on it together. He can't let it go. At this point, his guilt or innocence is not irrelevant, but it is beside A point: that point being that he's more concerned with being thought of as a theif than he is with the truth. He's more concerned with what other people think of him: Pride.

Analogies can be shared relations between two pairs of terms -

arm: hand : : leg: foot

But they can also be shared relations, or shared attributes between two dissimilar (or similar) things. "The Piece of String" is a metaphor for pride (or cynicism: townspeople), Malandain is like a rat (simile). These (metaphor and simile) stand for things they do not directly signify. And although 'analogy' (historically) is a broad term, it is generally thought of as a relationship between two or more things. The relationship is based on a shared meaning, attribute or structure: in this case, analogy is called an extended metaphor.

In literature and science, analogy is often used with respect to form. The parts of one system correspond to the parts of another system. I.e., The oxygen atom is analogous to the solar system. "The Piece of String" is analogous to "The Myth of Sisyphus" in that they're both short fiction and the main characters are facing hopeless situations.

One more thing: The 'piece of string 'itself is analogous to the story itself. In Maupassant's story "The Necklace," he says, "How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!" The string, in a short story, in the grand scheme of things, is as insignificant as the events (the story). A purse is stolen, somebody gets blamed, and then it's found. Big deal. Hauchecorne makes too much out of it. This is self-reflexive because the story is analogous to a part of itself. And that (analogy) is analogous to the Solar system/atom analogy.

In Macbeth, when Macbeth sees the dagger, why does he talk to it?

The scene with Macbeth and the dagger is a very notable incident in the play and a very riveting one to watch on the stage. In this incident, Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air in front of him. From a practical standpoint, Macbeth must speak to the dagger so that we will know what he sees. (The dagger is not actually shown on the stage for the audience to see.) Furthermore, in Macbeth's speech we learn that not only does he see a dagger, but it also turns bloody before his eyes. This shocking and gory detail would have been impossible for Shakespeare to present on the stage, given his lack of special effects technology. So, by having Macbeth describe what he sees before him, Shakespeare is able to include a supernatural event that he could not present any other way.

The incident works on a deeper level, too. With his words, Macbeth reveals much about his mental state as he prepares to kill King Duncan. He reaches out to touch the dagger, but finds he cannot. He wonders if it is even real, or if it is a figment of his imagination and troubled conscience. We then wonder those things, also.

The dagger foreshadows and emphasizes the violence to come, it's appearance adds suspense to the story, and it allows us to get inside Macbeth's mind. Those dramatic elements would be lost if the dagger was not included, and the only way Shakespeare could introduce it into the play was to make it invisible to the audience and revealed through Macbeth's talking to it.

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," why is the narrator standing before judges?

This story is set during the Spanish Inquisition, which was a bloody period of history where people who wouldn't convert to the Catholic church were rounded up, tortured, imprisoned, killed, and put on trial for being heretics.  So, to infer from that information, and from what the narrator says in his dazed state, we have to guess that he has refused to join the Catholic church and has so been brought before judges to pronounce his sentence.  Joining was required, you see, and if you didn't, you had to be punished.  People were "punished" for a lot of other things, too, but, that was the main one.  So, the narrator was a man who refused to do what they wanted him to do.  The judges were the ones who were going to decide what his fate would be:  imprisonment, torture, or death.

As it turns out, they punish him in all three ways--they throw him in a dark prison, torture him in phases, and intend on killing him towards the end.  Not a very fun fate, to be sure.  I hope that helped with this question--for your other questions, try submitting them separately on other days, as the format for this website indicate only one per day.  Good luck!

What is a good thesis statement about the use of flower imagery in "The Great Gatsby"? "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Because of the ephemeral quality of flowers, as well as their illusionary qualities, the imagery employed by Fitzgerald befits his theme of Appearance vs. Reality.  For instance, Daisy's name connotes the white petals of a flower with a yellow center. Just as there is a duplicity to this flower, the character of Daisy appears innocent to the enamored Jay Gatsby who makes her the object of his desire; however, Daisy reveals her corrupt nature as she callously runs over Mrytle Wilson and eschews any culpability.  Likewise, the love between Daisy and Gatsby begins in a state of freshness, but ends like a withered flower.

The name Mrytle represents the evergreen shrub that was sacred to Venus, the goddess of Love.  However, Mrytle Wilson is a character who does not live up to her name, either.  Thus, there is a discrepancy between her name and the reality of the person that exists.

Another flower that is employed in imagery by Fitzgerald is the orchid--a delicate, beautiful flower. Again the use of this flower imagery is indicative of the theme of appearance and reality.  For instance, Fitzgerald writes that a woman, known only as a famous actress is "a scarcely human orchid of a woman," is one of the few guests at Gatsby's parties worth talking to, a refined beauty rather than an illusionary one like the other guests at Gatsby's party.

Given that you have 14.5 moles of N2, how many moles of H2 are need to produce 22.5 moles of NH3 according to the reaction: N2+ 3 H2 yields 2...

The balanced reaction is :-

N2(g) + 3H2(g)  ---------->  2NH3(g)

In the above balanced reaction, N2 and H2 reacts in the molar ratio of 1:3.

Thus, for each mole of N2, 3 moles of H2 is required for complete reaction.

Now, moles of N2 present = 14.5

Thus, for complete reaction of N2, moles of H2 required = 3*moles of N2 = 3*14.5 = 43.5 moles

Now, moles of NH3 formed after complete reaction = 2*moles of N2 reacting = (2/3)*moles of H2 reacting = 2*14.5 = 29

Now, clearly, we don't want complete reaction to occur.

The moles of NH3 required to be produced = 22.5

Thus, moles of H2 required = (3/2)*moles of NH3 formed = 33.75 moles

Hence moles of N2 actually reacting = (1/2)*moles of NH3 formed = 22.5/2 = 11.25

Thus, N2 left unreacted = 14.5 - 11.25 = 3.25 moles

What are pheromones of insects and what role do they have?

In insects and other animal groups, meeting sexual partners who are capable of physiological copulation is not random, but through complex mechanisms "transceiver" that enable exchanges of information between individuals, sometimes distant enough.

Chemical communication mechanisms play an important ecological role, allowing the specific and precise tracking of partners across the environment.

Communication mechanisms between the individuals of the same species are physical (sound waves, electromagnetic waves, color, etc.) and chemical, which are predominant (chemical compounds).

Sex Pheromones (hormones that carry the message) are chemical compounds that mediate  sexual attraction between individuals of different sexes. Name of pheromone was used first in 1959 by P. Karlson and I. LUSCHER. The pheromone generally means a chemical emitted by one individual and received by another individual of the same species, causing a specific reaction to the individual which received it.

Sex pheromones are biologically active compounds, which determine sexual attraction of the other sex, closeness of individuals around and all their precopulator  behavior. In most cases, the female is the issuing authority, and the male is the individual receiver. There are also cases where the roles are reversed. Among insects where sex pheromones were identified, most are Lepidopterae followed (in decreasing order) by orders Coleopterae, Hymenopterae, Orthopterae, Dipterae, Isopterae.

From chemical point of view, natural insect pheromones are formed usually from a single chemical compound, it is rarely a mixtures of several compounds. In the latter case, the specific function of the pheromone depends on the proportion of different compounds mixed. The simplest of insect sex pheromone is valeric acid produced by the female of boring worm of the sugar beet, Limonius californicus.

Most pheromones are esters, acids, alcohols and ketones, with long carbon chain, consisting of C-C, with double bonds, which facilitate their isomerization. Molecular conformation of pheromones plays an important role in their biological activity.

Is Cummings a "serious" poet? In what ways did he experiment with language in "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and consider their effects.

Although e.e. cummings has quite a bit of "non-serious" poems out there, he can also has many, many poems that are perfectly serious, grave, and deeply profound.  If you have a chance, peruse some of this other poems, and you will discover the range and variety of his poetry--from silly to serious.  To give you one example of a very serious one, look at his poem "somewhere i have never traveled"; I provided a link below.  As you read through that poem, it is apparent that it is very serious, and that his love for this woman is something that he considers to be deeply profound and layered.  One would be hard-pressed to call that, and many other of this poems, silly or light-hearted.

However, often his poems are quite light-hearted, silly, and exist merely as a way to experiment with language and rhythm.  Some of them come off as almost like nursery rhymes in their ridiculous and jocular subjects and structure. One example of this is "anyone lived in a pretty how town."  It is bouncy, rhythmic, and seems to be very childlike in its jabber-talking.  However, the apparent silly surface and structure of the poem masks a deeper, morose message of a man's life that was so insignificant that he didn't even have a name worth remembering, that no one really cares about when he dies.  The poem is about how people just go about their days, caring very little for others, and forgetting those that have gone before them. His usage of the "non-serious" style of writing emphasizes the childlike, flippant way that we go about our lives, and underscores the importance of a man's life, just like everyone around him did.  It takes a serious subject of one's impact in life, and makes it trivial and unimportant, just like we often do ourselves.  It is a symbol for our attitude towards others, and cummings, being a poetic genius, reflects our glib attitude in his glib style of writing.

I hope that those thoughts help get you started thinking about the poem a bit; good luck!

What does Odysseus' bow represnt in The Odyssey?

That is a great question. I think we can look at it in several ways, but here is one approach. For one thing, the very fact that Odysseus is the only one that can use the bow in book twenty-one shows that he is physically strong. However, Odysseus is not known for his strength, but his cunning. This is how is defeated Polyphemus and the suitors. So, it seems that the point of the bow is a reminder that while he is a powerful warrior, but what is even more important is person's cunning. This is certainly how Odysseus is portrayed in later literature.

What is the significance of the conversation between Lady Macduff and her son?

This short scene from Act 4, sc. 2, shows how Lady Macduff feels about her husband's absence and shows the general current mood of Scotland.  Lady Macduff is angry that her husband has left them in Scotland to go to England.  She implies that things are so bad in Scotland that she feels vulnerable and unsafe with him gone (she obviously has good intuition).  She tells her son that her husband is dead, which, in a way, he is to her right now.  Her son knows better and realizes that his mother is simply angry with her husband and is speaking metaphorically.  Ross, her cousin, tries to soothe her, but she says if her husband loved her and his family, he would not leave them alone.  Later, in the next scene, when Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to Scotland, that loyalty is clearer to the audience who has seen how Macduff left his family in harm's way to help his country.

How many levels of hell are there in Dante's The Inferno? What does Dante see on each?From the book The Inferno, Canto 33 and 34 by Dante...

Here are the levels:

Level 1) Limbo: a peaceful and sad place, a place of unbaptised, non Christian souls.

Level 2) The level of the lustful. Strong winds violently blow their souls to and fro for eternity.

Level 3) The level of the glutton. There is constant cold, heavy, filthy rain. A great and ugly dog, Cerebus, bites at the sinners in the storm.

Level 4) Here, near the river Styx, the greedy and insatiable roll great weights against each other. Plutus, the wolf of wealth threatens all who dwell here.

Level 5) The realm of the River Styx. Here the people who spent their lives in anger bite at each other constantly, and those who were ever gloomy and negative fight with the black mud at the bottom and gasp for air.

Level 6) The City of Dis. Satan's city where a vast land is enclosed by iron walls. Those who didn't believe in God, the heretics, buen here forever in their graves. The three bloody furies dwell here.

Level 7) A place of boiling blood. The deeply wicked, the sinners, the criminals, all of society's lowlifes are here. They are all eternally pierced by arrows. Bodies are ripped apart again and again, and sinners drown in excrement.

Level 8) The Maleboge. A large oval arena, filled with pimps, seducers, liars and cheat, and the like. They are whipped here by demons and thrown into boiling tar pits.

Level 9) Cocytus: Where Satan dwells. His great wings bring icy winds. Sinners against God, family and country are here frozen in ice and the torment of eternal despair.

Why is it important for Godot never to appear in Waiting for Godot?

It is important for Godot not to arrive. This important absence might be interpreted in thousands of ways depending on what one considers to be the real identity of Godot in Beckett's play. Godot is everything and nothing at the same time, a sacred all powerful absence as a force of life--a God, a dictator, the significance of life, a mother/father figure, order, beauty, love, the object cause of desire and so on.

The importance of Godot's non-arrival can be seen in a positive way as the dictatorial centre of power seems to be exposed in all its absence. It is an unacknowledged political lack in the master. This decentring may be seen as liberative as in Tagore's plays. The absence may also be positive if we read Godot as a meta-narrative that answers all questions. Its non-arrival enables Didi and Gogo to be more individualistic, more egalitarian and work with their apparently meaningless micro-narratives of action.

The failure of Godot in arriving may connote a dark vision of a hyper-real world where real signification has been complicated beyond existence, with the world turning complexly meaningless. It is the Derridean meaning--always deferred or the absurdist meaning--beyond the tentacles of logic.

Godot failing to arrive is as important as the fact that they still wait for him till eternity. This is the story of human courage, moving on in the void, working the way through the most restrictive of situations. That is Beckett's leason I think. One must go on, even as he knows he cannot go on.

One "motif" in 1984 is the scarcity of consumer goods such as butter, razor blades, and real chocolate. Why does this scarcity exist?This is in...

Scarcity is a form of propaganda, a way The Party gets the proles to jump on the bandwagon.  It's a way to manage suffering, to dole out poverty, to build false patriotism: "The Party needs razor blades for the war effort.  You would rather it go to the front lines than to you, the spoiled public, safe at home, right?  Support your country.  Do without razor blades!"

It's a means of control: supply and demand.  Like the war with Eurasia.  Or is it Eastasia?  Is there a shortage of butter or razor blades this week?  What's the price of chocolate?  Keep the public guessing and uninformed and no one complains.  Always changing the price gives it a kind of legitimacy, as if market forces are really at work.  But it's all a ruse, really.

It's like the shortages at the gas pumps and the price of gas during a war or a recession.  It's a way to make headlines by the Ministry of Truth.  It's a way to keep the masses from rebelling by the Ministry of Plenty.  Keep them hungry, but not too hungry.  Take away razor blades, but not for too long.  It's revolving door propaganda: flavor of the week bandwagoning.

It's also a satire of the USSR's many "Five Year Plans."  The USSR was famous for its scarcity during the Cold War.  One year the whole country went without toilet paper, I think.  But there were always enough fighter planes and ICBMs to keep up the Americans.

What is a compound sentence?

A compound sentence is a sentence that has more than one main clause.  A main clause has both a subject and a verb, but is not introduced by a subordinating word (like when, for example).

So an example of a compound sentence would be

"The wind blew, and the leaves fell."

But "The leaves fell when the wind blew" would not be a compound sentence because "when" is a subordinating word and that means that "when the wind blew" is not a main clause.  Therefore, that sentence does not have two main clauses.

Why does the narrator come to hate his cats so much? Support you answer with evidence from the text.

The narrator's hatred for his black cat comes about over a period of time.  At first, the cat was the narrator's "favorite pet and playmate" for several years, but that began to change one night when the narrator came home intoxicated and believed that the cat was avoiding him; angry that his beloved pet would shun his company, the narrator picks the cat up roughly.  Because the animal is frightened, it either bites or scratches him lightly, which infuriates its owner, who cuts its eye out in a rage. 

By the morning after the narrator's attack on his pet, he is horrified by his actions and sorry for them.  He attempts to forget the incident by continuing to drink to excess.  Although the cat heals, it has now become terrified of its owner and flees "in extreme terror at {his} approach," which at first saddens, then angers the narrator.  When the man gives in to his feel sense of having been betrayed by a creature he loved, as well as an overwhelming sense of resentment, he hangs it from a tree limb.

What are the extensive uses of Lithium compounds?

Outer layer of elements as lithium, sodium and potassium, contains a single electron. These elements combine very easily with other elements (transferring them the electron from their last layer) forming a large number of chemical compounds.
Lithium is found very little spread in nature. The accompanying small quantities in some rocks potassium and sodium, lithium and aluminum silicate, LiAl [SiO3] 2, fluoro-or hydroxy-aluminosilicates of lithium, potassium and aluminum Li3K2Al3 [Al (Si3O10) 2 (OH, F) 4] , and a variety of lepidolit much iron, etc..

Lithium decompose water and ignites in air  forming lithium oxide, Li2O.Heated in hydrogen atmosphere formes lithium hydride, LIH, which is the most stable of the alkali metal hydrides.
Lithium is the only alkali metal that combines directly with nitrogen in cool atmosphere, forming nitrides, Li3N, also directly combine with halogens to form halides in  hot atmosphere, LIX, sulfur, forming sulfur, Li2S, with carbon, forming carbides, Li2C2, with silicon, forming silicides, Li6Si2, etc..

What are the methods of measuring nervous stress caused due to whole body vibrations?Ergonomics - Whole body Vibrations

Work-related stress occurs when environmental conditions demand employees to work beyond capacity.

Stress at work can be avoided and action to reduce it can be very profitable. Risk assessment of stress at work involves the same principles and basic processes and assessment of other risks at work. Inclusion of employees and their representatives in the evaluation process is essential to its success, they must be consulted to identify causes stress, the groups that are its victims and the solutions to be adopted to help.

Stages of risk assessment can be summarized as:
• identify risks;
• establishment of persons who may be affected by stress and how;
• risk assessment by:
an identification of measures already taken; a check whether these measures are sufficient, and one if not sufficient, toestablish additional measures that could be adopted;
• recording the results, and
• review the assessments at appropriate intervals and checking the impact of measures taken.

To detect a problem

Risk factors to be identified are:
• "culture" or "atmosphere" of the organization and how to tackle
stress at work;
• job applications, such as work load and exposure to
physical threat to the working environment;
• control over their work - how much can influence how employees
performing their own work?
• labor relations, especially intimidation and harassment at work;
• changes in workplace organization - such as organizational changes how they are runned and communicated ;

Decisions who may be affected by stress and how
We are all vulnerable to pressures which are subject to a time given. Factors helps establish the nominated persons which 
are at risk.
Symptoms that allow to determine whether work-related stress is a problem in the organization. Behavior
• abusive consumption of tobacco, alcohol or drugs, violence, intimidation or
harassment.
On the psychological level
• sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, inability to concentrate,
irritability, problems in family relationships, fatigue.
Health
• back pain, heart problems, stomach ulcers, hypertension, impaired
immune system.

What is the setting of "Mrs. Flowers"? im an 8th grader .. and this is the story mrs flowers by maya angelou story

I assume you're referring to "Mrs. Flowers: A Moment of Friendship."  If so, this is a children's book that is taken from Maya Angelou's autobiographical book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

The story of Mrs. Flowers is set in Sparks, Arkansas in the 1930s.  Marguerite (Maya Angelou's birth name) has been living in St. Louis.  But while there, she was raped by a friend of her mother.  She is, of course, deeply traumatized by the incident.

Now living is Sparks, she is still having a hard time coping.  At that point, she meets Mrs. Flowers, who acts as something of a mentor for her and helps draw her out of her shell.

What is the basic difference between the philosophies of Wordsworth and Coleridge?The above question is in reference to a comparative crical study...

Breaking with the earlier eighteenth century, which maintained that poetry should be rational and objective, Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" focused on the subjectivity of the individual. He writes, "Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart...speak a plainer and more emphatic language."  He believed that feelings "coexist in a state of greater simplicity" than "rational thought. Thus, to Wordsworth it is a poet's duty to capture and express experience with authentic and internal force, "a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings with emotions recollected in tranquility."The poet should descend from his or her "supposed height" and "express himself as other men express themselves". This statement lies at the very essence of Wordsworth's theory of poetry.Notice, that in the preface to "Lyrical Ballads," there is not much about imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge brought back the issue of imagination and fancy in his discussion of poetry in "Biographia Literaria." While to Wordsworth, imagination was something taken for granted, especially in poets, Coleridge, while agreeing with Wordswoth's premise, nevertheless, clarifies for himself what imagination was; what was the difference between imagination and fancy that the eighteenth century critics tended to merge together?

The Biographia Literaria was one of Coleridge's main critical studies. In this work, he discussed the elements of writing and what writing should be to be considered genius. The "Biographia" blends criticism of poetry with literary theory, philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and is full of discussions on politics, religion, social values and human identity.

Central to the Biographia Literaria," is his discussion of imagination and fancy.

Like Wordsworth, Coleridge, too, rejected that the mind was a tabula rasa on which external experiences and sense impressions were imprinted, stored, and recalled. Rather, he believed that imagination is innate. Coleridge divides the mind into imagination and fancy.

To Coleridge imagination was primary and secondary. Primary imagination, was the creative force behind perception itself; meaning, that there is nothing called objective perception. Perception, according to Coleridge, is essentially subjective. While the human being is finite, Coleridge maintained that the poet's creation of "I AM" is his or her expression of the infinite. What this means is, according to Coleridge, if we could remind ourselves of the "I AM," we can, through our writings, move gradually from the finite to the infinite.

FANCY, on the contrary, is much more limited. It comes from memory, according to Coleridge. When we free our memory from being to bound up with time and space, we are in the realm of fancy. Its provenance is memory and its interaction is through the association of ideas. Whereas imagination is active and dynamic, fancy is "passive and mechanical." Imagination, on the other hand, is "vital" and transformative, "a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation."e and inventive genius."

Frederick Engell, one of the two original Marxist's critics, has observed that Coleridge's division of the imagination into the "primary" and "secondary" draws a distinction between creative acts that are unconscious and those that are intentional and deliberate. Imagination works at the unconscious level, while fancy is willful and deliberate.

In "A Case of Mistaken Identity," describe Miss Mary Sutherland.

Miss Mary Sutherland is said to have a "preposterous hat and...vacuous face." She is a lady of some small fortune of "a hundred a year," left her by her uncle, who makes a living by taking typewriting jobs at home. She is an as yet unmarried young woman who is gentle mannered, good-hearted, sincere and innocently simple in her expectations. She is not greedy because she lets her mother and new husband, Mary's stepfather, have the use of her annual income while she lives at home until she marries, and she would give up all to know what happened to Hosmer Angel.

When Holmes first meets her, he notices that she has "short sight" and wonders if it is strain for typewriting, never having been previously informed of either fact, of course. She reveals herself to be industrious and hardworking because she lives off her earnings from typewriting while her mother has the use of her income. She is independent of thought and action because she went to the Gasfitter's Ball even though told not to go by Mr. Windibank her stepfather, and she went to Sherlock Holmes for help when told not to go by the same Mr. Windibank.

What she tells Holmes of her courtship with Hosmer Angel shows she is innocent in her expectations; trusting of others' sincerity; easy to influence since she was engaged from the the first walk she took with Mr. Angel; confident in the upright goodness of those she associates with; naively trusting and loyally devoted. Even though there are such odd circumstances surrounding her situation with Mr. Hosmer Angel, like not having his address, sending all her letters to post office, receiving typed letters with equally typed signatures, she implicitly believes and trust Mr. Angel, she keeps her pledge of love and trust.

What countries have a market economy?

Most of the countries today have a combination of market economy and command economy. There are no countries that pure market economy or pure command economy. Even countries like USA, leading in their support for market economy have many laws such as anti-monopoly laws that restrict free competition, which is essential for a pure market economy. Recent bailout package by US Government have further highlighted the presence and need for command economy like action of government in all economies.

However, we can say in that communistic countries like China follow predominantly command economy, whereas democratic countries - which includes most of the countries in the world today - follow predominantly the market economy pattern.

Who is more honest in The Great Gatsby--Nick or Gatsby?I've only read up to chapter six but for some reason I feel like Gatsby is a more honest...

The entire novel is framed by Nick, and his characterizations of Gatsby are all done in flashback.  So, it's hard to differentiate between truth and fiction, between honesty and dishonesty, between realism and romance.  All the lines are blurred by Nick, about himself and especially Gatsby.

Nick says, "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (39)

Nick says he dislikes dishonest people, but he is attracted to them throughout the book.  Jordan is a cheater at golf.  Daisy admits she's a hopeless little food.  Gatsby is a fraud and criminal.  Doesn't this mean that Nick is dishonest too?

Jordan says, "I hate careless people.  That's why I like you."  Jordan says she hates careless people ,and yet she's attracted to Nick.  Doesn't this mean that Nick is careless too?

Gatsby's desires are at least focued.  Nick's are not.  Gatsby wants Daisy.  He wants her to admit to her husband that she loves him.  He believes in Daisy, the green light, the American Dream.  He will do whatever it takes to get them: the ends justifies the means.

Nick doesn't know what he wants.  Does he want to live in the East or Midwest?  Does he love Jordan or not?  Does he want to be a broker or not?

I don't think any of them are honest people.  They're all careless.  Careless with cars, with women, with money, with alcohol.  At least Gatsby is honest enough to know what he wants.  At least he's in touch with his id.

What is distinctive competence?

Distinctive competence of a firm refers to a set of activities or capabilities that a company is able to perform better than its competitors and which gives it an advantage over them. Distinctive competence can lie in different area such as technology, marketing activities, or management capability.

A company needs to develop its strategy that utilizes its distinctive competence to gain competitive advantage. It must be remembered that what distinctive competence of a firm may change with time as other companies develop new capabilities and with change in market requirements. Therefore companies need to identify their distinctive competence by careful analysis, and if required, strive to develop new competences to meet changing market requirements and competitive situation.

The concept of distinctive competence was first put forward by Philip Sleznick in 1957. Kenneth R Andrews further elaborated it in 1971.

The concept of distinctive competence is quite similar to the concept of core competence. While some authors consider these two term to mean the same thing, as per authors like C.K. Prahlad core competences must satisfy two additional criteria. One, it must be difficult to copy or replicate by competitors. Second, it should provide competitive advantage for multiple products and multiple markets.

In Chapter 11 of A Separate Peace, what is the importance of Finny's acceptance of the war?

The fact that Finny, who outwardly denies that the war exists or who criticizes involvement in the war, finally admits to Gene that he is interested in and wants to be involved himself in the war efforts is significant because it allows Gene to see that Finny has had his own struggles too. Finny has been writing to various world armies to see if they will accept someone like him who has had such a bad injury. This helps Gene see that Finny is not invincible and is not someone to be hated or even competed with--he is simply another human who is trying to find his purpose in life.

What is the role of each character in these plays? What was the author's purpose for these characters?

Critic Northrop Frye says:

Tragic heroes are so much the highest point in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightening than a clump of grass.  Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightening.

So, by this definition, each of the tragic heroes in the trilogy are the "great trees" standing on the hill--human "conductors" of "divine lightning."  The other characters, Jocasta, Heamon, etc... are the "clumps of grass" who are struck by the lightning after the the tragic hero.  They suffer along with the tragic hero, often committing suicide. 

In Oedipus, Oedipus is the great tree and Jocasta is the main clump of grass.  In Antingone, Antigone and Creon (mainly Creon) are the great trees and Haemon and Eurodyce are the clumps of grass. 

What are some ways to remember the following terms?Please include pictures (tell me what pictures) and words in your answer that can help you...

See graphic displays of these definitions, and more, at the link below.  The important concepts in the definitions are highlighted to help you remember:

Atomic Mass - The weight of an atom.

Atomic Number - The number of protons in an atom.

Compound - A mixture of elements.

Covalent Bond - Occurs when atoms share electrons.

Hydrogen Bond - Occurs in a compound when a hydrogen atom, under the influence of a covalent bond, becomes slightly positive, which then attracts the negative portion of another atom or compound.

Ion - An atom or compound with a positive or negative (not neutral) electric charge

Ionic Bond - Occurs when atoms transfer electrons, resulting in the creation of oppositely charged ions which attract each other.

Matter - Anything composed of atoms.

Molecule - The smallest amount of a compound.

Neutron - A neutrally charged subatomic particle found in the nucleus of an atom.  Similar in mass and volume to a proton.

Isotope - A variant of an element containing more or less neutrons than the number of neutrons found in the standard element.

How does one describe what important items in "Lord of the Flies" represent allegorically?Please include the definition of Golding's novel as...

An allegory is a story with more than one level of meaning--a literal level and one or more symbolic levels.  Seen as an allegory, William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" has the island represent a type of Garden of Eden in which innocent man arrives in the form of the boys.  Ralph, the golden haired born leader and Piggy, the intellectual and rational counterpart lead the other boys until Jack and the other hunters, the savage side of man vie for power with them.  Roger, whose evil nature has only been curbed by conditioning in his society--at first he throws rocks only near Henry--sheds all trappings of this civilization to later become consummate evil.  The Lord of the Flies, the beast, is the devil, who talks to the spiritual boy, the intuitive Simon, and tells him, "You knew, didn't you?" meaning that Simon sensed that the "beast" is the evil and violence inherent in man. 

On a symbolic level, it is the forces of nature that bring the beast to the boys spiritually.  Like the rotting pig's head, the parachutist is also rotting, symbolizing the deterioration of the spiritual, wholesome part of man.  The boys perceive him as a large ape, thus suggesting their regression to a more primitive, violent state.

The conch is like a horn that calls the boys to meetings, so it symbolizes order/society's rules.  The fire is the signal to the boys' society, their hope of rescue; for Ralph and the others, the fire is of paramount importance.  And, for Jack and the other savages, it also represents power.  When he and his hunters steal the fire, an allusion is made to the mythological story of Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the mortals, thus empowering them.

Other important allegorical symbols are the anonymous masks behind which Jack and the others hide in order to act out their cruelty with impunity and Piggy's glasses, also an empowering instrument, which enable the boys to light the fire.  For Piggy, of course, they allow him to see and, thus, be in control of himself.  When his glasses are stolen, the symbolic meaning is that the rational side of the boys has been defeated

Even the ship that rescues the boys is not without an inherent evil, for it is a battleship and the man a naval officer, both of whom suggest war and killing.

Why do you think Shelley chose to include the letters at the beginning of the text? What function do they serve?

I am assuming that the question is in reference to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Frankenstein opens with Robert Walton's letter from St. Petersburgh, Russia, to his sister in England for several reasons, both literary and psychological. There are many examples of works in English and European literaturethat begin with a tale within a tale: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wuthering Heights readily come to mind. But whereas those are tale-within-a-tale narratives, Frankenstein is actually a letter written by a brother to his sister.

In order to understand why Shelly chose to situate the letter at the beginning, let me refer you to a very interesting book by the late Edward Said called Beginnings (1985). In this book, Said analyzes the beginnings of several types of literary and journalitic works and comes up with the hypothesis that, in the begiining of a work, a microcosm of the whole work is embedded. This is why, writes Said, perhaps with tongue in cheek, authors write the introduction to their works last!

Applying Said's theory to the letter with which Frankenstein opens, we find that this letter contains, not only the moral of the story of Frankenstein, but, in fact, parts of the letter signifies and even foreshadows what is to follow in the story proper.

To begin with there is that thirst for adventure and knowledge; an indomitable desire to know everything there is to know, to create that ultimate phenomenon that will answer all questions humans are capable of asking.

But beware: desire for knowledge caused the angels to fall!

The witnessing of the man-made monster is of course, quite literally a foreshadowing of the story, a near cinematic image before the days of the cinema! But it is more than that.

To Christian readers, this part of Walton's letter can be understood as the ultimate perversion of human desire -- the creation of a deformed creature because only God makes human beings in His own image. Not only, is the monster ugly, he is dangerous -- for he has a human brain to go with his super human strength.

Finally, the story. The letter ends with the announcement of the story, in the conventional tale-within-a-tale that sets up the actual story of Frankenstein as a prologue would a play.

I hope this answers your question.

What is Scrooge's profession and how does it affect his life?"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

One of the most renowned misers of literature, Scrooge's profession is never clearly stated by Charles Dickens in his story "A Christmas Carol."  Bob Crachitt, the assistant to Scrooge, seems to be an accountant of sorts; therefore, many feel that Ebenezer Scrooge is, perhaps, a money-lender of a banker of sorts, or a property owner.  All that is mentioned of Scrooge's profession is that he is "in business."  And, because money is his main focus, the business is probably one in which money is transferred and interest on this money collected, as in the three professions above.

This obsession with making money colors the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge to the point that he divorces himself from all emotion and tenderness which are uncertain, and, thus, cannot always be "profitable." Having been made to remain at school during Christmastime by a cold, distant father, Scrooge closes off his feelings to avoid the pain of rejection or hurt.  In fact, his fiancee of his youth tells him, "You fear the world too much."  Of course, Scrooge realizes later--thanks to the assistance of the three spirits--that one must risk the dangers of emotions, or else one will have no meaningful existence and will die alone, powerless, and hopeless.

I need urgent physics help.My teacher didn't explain this well. Please help with as many as u wish but if i can just get help with one at least i...

I believe you need to understand the basic concept common to the four problems and a general method to solve them. This is what I intend to clarify in my answer here.

When any object is thrown in the air, the movement of that object can be resolved in two separate movements:

1. Movement along a direction parallel to the earth, or any horizontal surface like a playground or surface of water in a swimming pool.


2. Movement in a vertical direction.

Assuming that there is no air resistance to the movement to the object, the horizontal movement under the influence of initial horizontal velocity is uniform at that velocity.

However the vertical component of the velocity of vertical movement is affected by acceleration due to gravity, which on earth is equal to about 9.81 meters/second^2. Depending on initial direction in which the object is thrown the initial velocity vertical velocity can be in upward direction or downward direction. For objects thrown in a horizontal direction or just dropped from a height,this initial velocity can also be zero. A object with initial velocity in upward direction will start rising up, but with reducing velocity because of acceleration due to gravity. In this way the object will continue to rise till its velocity becomes zero. This is the highest point reached by the object. Immediately on reaching its highest point the object start falling down with increasing velocity. With the velocity at highest point being 0 (zero). The object continues to fall till it reaches ground or some other obstruction in its path.

Frequently the Object may be bounced off the surface it hits this way, and may continue to move further. However normally in problems of this type, designed to provide provide practice in use of principles of projectiles, the movement after the object hits the ground is not considered.

The exact path path of motion of the object is the combined effect of the vertical and horizontal movement. In science this path is sometimes called a projectile, which has the shape of a parabola.

In solving problems of this type the horizontal and vertical components of initial velocity can be determine by the following formulas:

Horizontal velocity = Actual velocity*Cos A

Vertical velocity = Actual velocity*Sign A

Where A is the angle that the initial velocity makes with the horizontal.

If horizontal velocity (H) and vertical velocity (V) are known the resultant velocity (R) can be calculated as:

R  = (H^2 +V^2)^1/2

The tan of angle A of the resultant velocity can be calculated as:

Tan A = H/R

Further quantities as required by the problem can be calculated using Newton's law of motion and the following equations giving relationship between different variables involved.

v = u + a*t

Average velocity = (u + v)/t

s = u*t + 1/2[a*(t^2)]

v^2 = u ^2 = 2a*s

Where:

u = initial velocity

v = final velocity (after time t)

a = acceleration

f = m*a

In case of acceleration due to gravity the symbol g may be used instead of a.

t = time of movement

s = distance covered (in time t)

f = force applied to accelerate the object

m = bass of the object

In your judgement who is most responsible for Dr Roylott's death in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle?

Dr Roylott himself is largely to blame for his own demise. He has the fatal flaw of greed for the money bestowed on his stepdaughters and uses violent means to bring about the death of one of them, Julia. It is only through the intervention of the brilliant Sherlock Holmes who uncovers Roylott’s evil snakebite scheme that the second stepdaughter, Helen, is not killed also. There is a neatness in Roylott’s death being due to the very snakebite he intended for his stepdaughter: poetic justice indeed.

Discuss the different skills that managers have and the roles they are expected to play in achieving organizational goals.

The scope of management both in terms of types of work or organizations managed and the specific functions or roles performed by management is vast. It is not worthwhile or even possible to prepare a comprehensive list of all the roles performed by managers and identify all the skills required in effective performance of these roles. To help understand the nature of management work and  the general requirements for becoming effective managers, different authors have classified management role and functions in different ways. I will describe some of these alternate approaches.

One of the most widely known approach to identification of management role is to identify the primary management functions that constitute the basic management process. These management functions are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Corresponding to these we can speak of four management skill of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.

Another popularly used list of managerial roles has been suggested by Mintzberg. He has identified ten managerial roles divided in three categories as listed below.

Interpersonal roles

1. Figurehead role: In this role the manager is only acting as a figurehead to represent the company.


2. Leadership role: In this role a manages leads, motivates and guides the people working under him.


3. Liaison role: In this role the managers develops maintains and manages relationship with people in other parts of the organization and with outsiders .

Informational Role

1. Recipient role: To collect and receive information required by him and other working under him for performance of their work.


2. Disseminator role: Passing on to subordinates the information required by them.


3. Spokesperson role: Passing on information to people in other parts of organization as well as to outsiders.

Decision Role

1. Entrepreneurial role: This involves innovating and taking initiatives to to give new directions to the activities of the organization.


2. Disturbance-handler role: This basically involves unexpected problems as and when they occur.


3. Resource allocator role: this involve taking decision on how the resources of the organization are to be used and making them available to subordinates who need to use those resources in performance of their duties.


4. Negotiator role: Reaching agreements with various persons and groups to ensure their commitment and actions as required for achievement of organizational objectives.

Corresponding to these roles we can again identify corresponding skills such as leadership skills, problem solving skills and negotiating skills.

Another classification of management skills is given by R.L. Katz. He identifies three different skills.

1. Technical Skills: These are the skills associated with the technology of the work managed. For example, a production manager must have some expertise in the technology of the manufacturing processes he manages.


2. Human skills: These skills are required for dealing with subordinates, colleagues, superiors and outsiders.


3. Conceptual and design skills: These are the general skill in analysis and evaluation for managerial decision making.

How books can change our pastoral civilization social life?wisdom, that is for welfare.

Since I don't know what country you are from, I can't really say anything about your particular situation.  But here are my thoughts on this general topic.

I do not think that books are what changes a civilization.  Instead, it is technology and economic change.  As long as a country or region is made up mostly of subsistence farmers, its social life cannot really change.  This is because it will not have the resources to change and the people will not have the time to do any new things.

Social change comes when technology gives people more free time.  When they have more free time, they discover new forms of entertainment like reading, watching television, or using computers. When they do this, they get new ideas and that is what can change a culture.

I hope that is what you are asking...

Why do the ideas of patriotism and the glory of self-sacrifice in war have appeal in All Quiet on the Western Front?Which character seems to...

Kantorek, Paul's old schoolmaster, seems to represent ideas of patriotism and the glory of self-sacrifice in war.  His stance has appeal due to a number of reasons, including the sheer passion and relentlessness of the man, peer pressure, and the upbringing of the students and their parents.

Kantorek, a small man, is "energetic and uncompromising" in his insistence that joining up to promote the Germany's objectives is a sacred duty.  He subjects his impressionable young students to long lectures which are extremely moving and persuasive.  As Paul notes, teachers like Kantorek "always carry their feelings ready in their waistcoat pockets, and trot them out by the hour".  Trusting Kantorek as an authority figure, and not knowing any better, the "whole of (the) class" finally relents, with all twenty of the young men going, under Kantorek's "shepherding", to the District Commandant to enlist.

Peer pressure inarguably plays a part in convincing the boys to do their patriotic duty.  Paul tells about one student, Joseph Behm", "who hesitate(s) and (does) not want to fall into line".  He does, however, in the end, "allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracized".  Ironically, Behm is one of the first to be killed on the field of battle.

The upbringing of the students and their parents also contributes to the fact that the boys ultimately all go to volunteer straight out of school.  The students themselves are good boys who, with wide-eyed innocence, sincerely want to do right and to do their duty, whatever that may be.  Their parents, apparently for the most part educated and comparatively well-off, are quick to use the word "coward" in support of the teacher's agenda.  For this reason, it would have been hard for a dissenter to "stand out" in defiance of the general trend.  Paul observes that "the wisest (are) just the poor and simple people...they (know) the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who (are) better off, and should...(be) able to see more clearly what the consequences (will) be, (are) beside themselves with joy" when the class joins up (Chapter 1).

a/(a-b)(a-c) + b/(b-c)(b-a) + c/(c-a)(c-b)

We simplify the expression involving the  three terms each being a rational algebraic expression. We also assume that the given expression is a/((a-b)(a-c)) +b/((b-c)(b-a))+c/((c-a)(c-b))

Then each ter can have an equivalent expression for each of term by taking the common dinominator as the LCM of the dinominators of the 3 terms, i.e. (a-b)(b-c)(c-a).

Then the 1st term:a/((a-b)(a-c)) = a(b-c)(-1)/{(a-b)(b-c)(c-a)}

2nd term: b/((b-c)(b-a))= b(-1)(c-a)/{(a-b)(b-c)(c-a)}

3rd term: c/((c-a)(c-b))= c(-1)(a-b)/{(a-b)(b-c)(c-a)]

Therfore, the dinominators being same we can add the numerators of the equivalent expressions.

Su of the numerators; -a(b-c)-b(c-a)-c(a-b)= -ab+ac-bc+ab-ca+bc= 0

Therefore, the sum of the three terms = 0/{(a-b)(b-c)(c-a)}=0.

Why did old mr radley lock Boo in the house? Explain his backstory.Boo Radley was deprived from going to the world outside the boundary of his...

It is easy to view Mr. Radley as an evil or mean individual for locking Boo up, but as the Radley's were a wealthy and prominent family in the Maycomb community, Mr. Radley's choice is not surprising. He locked Boo up possibly for Boo's sake, but more than that, he locked Boo up to save the family's face in the community.

When Boo had the breakdown and stabbed his father in the knee he was locked up at the courthouse until arrangements could be made. Certainly it wouldn't have been seemly for the Radley's to have one of their own locked up in a mental institution, so the only option was to bring Boo home and keep him out of the public eye, thus saving the family embarrassment. This was the sum total of Boo's existence for many years.

Boo's brother on the other hand was perhaps more mean spirited. As the innocent actions of the children draw Boo out of hiding, we see him as a rational, caring, and nonthreatening individual. So why would the brother continue to keep Boo locked away? Why would he shut down Boo's attempt to communicate and develop friendship with the children by filling in the tree? Perhaps he was afraid that a society that was still intolerant of differences like skin color would be no more tolerant of Boo, but as Boo had clearly shown his growth, his brother did not, and one must ask why?

How is the loss of innocence a theme in the Lord of the Flies?

Innocence is an important theme in the novel 'Lord of The Flies' by William Golding. It deals with the important nature/nurture argument in human psychology. Is man born 'iinnocent' and then polluted by evil elements in society? Or is he born with some degree of 'natural evil' himself? If the latter is true, then is it the case that those 'civilizing' elements of society must place conventions, limitations and barriers and sanctions on those who are not? Golding explores these ideas here in this novel. He looks at what would happen if these boundaries are not present and portrays the percieved anarchy that results.The boys discover their own capacity for selfishness,self-indulgence,cruelty and power-seeking. An interesting development would be to look at the degree to which boy loses innocence - what about Ralph? or Simon? or Piggy?

Look at the passage in the link for an exploration of innocence vs evil.

What does the part in which Marlow wonders why the savages (30 to 5) do not eat them tell us about the narrator's attitude towards it and the...

First of all, Marlow is surprised that even though the cannibals have run out of food, they do not attack and eat the white men aboard the boat--amazing, he thinks, because the cannibals definitely outnumber the whites. What he comes to realize is that the cannibals demonstrate restraint, a quality he greatly admires, a quality he did not expect to find in "savages." Ironically, these cannibals show restraint, but the "civilized" whites do not. When the boat is attacked, the whites fire their guns wildly into the bush, even though they don't see any targets. Their actions are reminiscent of the shots fired by the French warship that Marlow witnessed on his journey to the Congo, just useless little pops of gunfire shot into the leafy greenness of the shore where there was no evidence of any native life. The foolishness and panic of the whites coupled with their lack of restraint contrasts them sharply with the cannibals, who maintain a dignity not seen in the whites on Marlow's boat.

This reversal of Marlow's expectations is just another of his learning experiences during his time in Africa. Although his original intent was simply to pilot a boat on the Congo, he gradually learns more about the whites in Africa and about the "savages" than he had ever expected. As a European, he came to Africa with preconceived notions about Africa; he discovers, however, that some of the natives, represented here by the cannibals, are more "civilized" in some respects than the whites. Conrad emphasizes this reversal with his reversal of the typical use of black and white imagery. The city of Brussels, for instance, where the main office of the ivory company is located, is described as a "whited sepulchre." Ivory itself, which the white "pilgrims" seem to "worship," is white and leads to the downfall of such "universal geniuses" as Kurtz. Marlow's whole worldview is so changed that he is willing to lie to Kurtz's Intended even though he declares he hates lying because it's like "biting into something rotten." His experience with the cannibals is just another in the series of events that reshape his view of the world.

Express -40 degree C in degree F.Multiple Choice: A) -72 degree F B) -54 degree F C) 40 degree F D) 4.4 degree F

In centigrade system of measuring temperature (C), melting of ice/water  is taken as 0 C, and 1/100 division of difference in temperature of melting of ice and boiling of water is taken as 1 degree. In Fahrenheit system of measuring temperature (C), melting of ice/water  is taken as 32 C, and 1/180 division of difference in temperature of melting of ice and boiling of water is taken as 1 degree.This means magnitude of each degree F is equal to 9/5 times degrees C.

Thus we can convert any temperature in Fahrenheit in to centigrade using the following formula:

F = C*9/5 + 32

Therefore when C = -40, F is given by:

F = -40*9/5 + 32 = -72 + 32 = - 40

Answer:

- 40 C = - 40 F

None of the multiple choices given correspond to this answer.

Perhaps, by mistake, the value given in choice C) is 40 degrees F instead of -40 degrees F.

How long is the shell in motion? Answer in units of s.A shell is fired from the ground with an initial speed of 1.70 x 10^3 m/s (approximately five...

The shell is fired from the ground  with an initial velocity u and incination x degree to the horizontal.This is a problem related with projectile motion of the shell. The motion of the shell is detrmined by its initial velocity, the angle of inclination to the horizontal and the acceleration due to gravity at any time of its motion.

The shell has the horizontal and vertical components of velocities at any time: ucosx and usinx -gt, respectively, which are useful to determine the height , vertical and horizontal displacements and the time to reach a postion in the path of the shell.

The vertical displacement s at any time t is given by:

s= (usinx)t-(1/2)gt^2---------------(1), where u is the initial velocity , g is the acceleration due to gravity and x is the direction of angle the shell is fired above horizon.

When the shell hits the ground s=0. Given u=1.7km/s =1700m/s

and x=63 deg and g=9.81m/s^2. Substituting these values in (1) we get:

0= (1700 sin63)t-(1/2)*9.81*t^2. Solving for t, we get the shell time in mtion before reaching the ground.

t=0 or t=2*1700*(sin63)/9.81=308.81 secs. t=0 applies to starting time of the shell. t=308.81seconds is the time the shell remains in motionbeforeit reaches the ground.

What is figurative language?

What is Figurative Language?

Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else,
you are using figurative language. 

Simile

A simile uses the words “like” or “as”
to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Example: busy as a bee

Metaphor

The metaphor states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.
A simile would say you are like something; a metaphor is more positive - it says you are something.
Example: You are what you eat.

Personification  

A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given
to an animal or an object. Example: My teddy bear gave me a hug.

Alliteration

The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words.
Alliteration includes tongue twisters. Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

Onomatopoeia

The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound
made by an object or an action. Example: snap crackle pop

Hyperbole

An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Tall tales are hyperboles.
Example: He was so hungry, he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.

Idioms

According to Webster's Dictionary, an idiom is defined as: peculiar to itself
either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning
that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements
(as Monday week for "the Monday a week after next Monday")

Clichés 

A cliché is an expression that has been used so often that it has become trite
and sometimes boring. Example: Many hands make light work.

Macbeth term paper... Any ideas?I am writing a term paper on Macbeth and how he fits the description of a tragic hero. I have some examples. I was...

Macbeth's character is a great example of a
tragic hero. Many factors cause Macbeth's downfall. For example,
the prophecy the witches told him, Lady Macbeth's
manipulation, Macbeth's overarching ambition to be king. Macbeth's
character goes from a noble man to violent, desperate man.

The prophecies related by the witches were the
onset factor that set in his downfall. It started him imagining his greatness.
The influence of Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth also contributed
to him loosing his inner center or bearings. She gave him the scheme, which led to Macbeth assassinating King Duncan.
Of course after he first committed murder, he could murder again, everything changed for him. He was no longer worthy of his own respect.
This is tragic--loosing oneself inthe process of achieving something else-- then in the end loosing life itself.

What roles are played by Friar Laurence and the Nurse in Act 2, Scenes 3-4 in Romeo and Juliet?

In Act III, Scenes 3 and 4 of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" both Friar Laurence and the Nurse are catalysts to the tragic fates of Romeo and Juliet and others, as well.  For, had they not become complicitous in Romeo's plans, the marriage would not have taken place, at least not with such celerity.  Then, too, Romeo would not have told Tybalt that he loved him in the street when the young man is so distempered if he had not married Juliet.  Without Romeo's remark which incensed Tybalt, Mercutio and he may have just continued to bandy words and not have drawn swords.

The duplicity of the Nurse and Friar Laurence is most unexemplary, as well.  Both adults are in positions in which they should wisely advise the young people to respect their parents. Yet, Friar Laurence, especially, steps outside the bonds of his station in life when he agrees through subterfuge to marry the young couple.  For, he is a friar, one of an order that takes the vow of humility.  On the contrary, his act of surreptitiously marrying Romeo and Juliet without the consent of the parents is one of overweening pride:  Friar Laurence believes his act will effect a solution to the feuding of the families.  However, in his arrogance, he is wrong; in fact, he is the most responsible for the death of the two young lovers.

Similarly, the Nurse forgets her position of maturity and immerses herself giddily in subterfuge.  Shortly after Juliet is married, Lady Capulet urges her daughter to marry Paris. Aghast after her mother leaves, Juliet seeks comfort from the Nurse; instead the Nurse tells her to marry Paris, knowing that Juliet cannot do this. Unwisely, she advises Juliet to marry Paris, saying,

Faith, here it is,/Romeo is banished, and all the world to nothing/That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;/Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. (III,v,214-216)

Her words, suggesting bigamy, upset poor Juliet so much that the young woman contemplates suicide, and later turns to Friar Laurence, becoming a part of his desperate plan to reconcile the families.  However, his "best laid plans"  do not work as his message does not reach Romeo before he enters the tomb and discovers Juliet as she lies "dead."  Impetuously, Romeo takes the poison and dies in the arms of his young wife.  Truly,the poor judgment of the Nurse and Friar Laurence serve only to ignite the fire of the impetuosity of the two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. 

How does Steinbeck present the barn in Chapter 5 of Of Mice and Men, and why is it important to the novel?

Steinbeck's description of the barn in Chapter 5 is significant for several reasons.  First, Chapter 4 is also set in the barn, but it occurs at night in Crook's small room.  The author's description of the barn in Chapter 5 immediately follows the scene in which Curley's Wife threatens to accuse Crooks of attempted rape, and Crooks' decision to stay out of the farm dream plan. In Chapter 5, Steinbeck describes the light filtering through the barn's cracks. It is a sunny, restful day for most of the men.  Instead of hours in the field, most of them are playing horseshoes outside the barn in the bright sunlight.  In contrast, Lennie sits in the coolness of the barn, alone, with his newly killed puppy.  This different view of the barn in the chapter contributes to Steinbeck's overall light/darkness motif.

The quiet calm in the barn also contrasts well with the violent encounter between Lennie and Curley's Wife which occurs later in the chapter. After Lennie flees, and Candy and the others enter the barn to discover Curley's Wife's body lying in the hay, the barn begins to darken, and the Sunday laziness of the horses dissipates, foreshadowing the dark ending to come.

Who gets married at the beginning of "The Odyssey." book 4

At the beginning of Book 4, Odysseus' son Telemachus and his companion Pisistratus (one of Nestor's sons), have arrived in Sparta. They hope to ask Menelaus, the king of Sparta, if he has any information about Odysseus' whereabouts. They happen to arrive when the Spartans are in the middle of celebrating the double weddings of Menelaus's two children--his son Megapenthes and his daughter Hermione. Megapenthes, who is Menelaus' son by a servant woman, is marrying Alector of Sparta's daughter. Hermione, his first and only child with the famous Helen, is marrying Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. This union is a result of the events of the Trojan War. It is an interesting aside that the beautiful golden daughter of Helen of Troy (the instigator of the Trojan War) and Menelaus is going to marry the son of the most famous warrior of the Trojan War. Although the Odyssey does not mention this part, it is also an interesting fact that Achilles and Helen did not get along. He blamed her for starting a war that he did not want to fight in. The double weddings allow everyone to start telling stories of the Trojan War, which brings the narrative back to the figure of Odysseus, whose clever Trojan Horse trick was the winning stratagem of the war. 

In Bud, not Buddy, Bud was late for breakfast at the mission. How does he get to eat anyway?It must restate the question.

Chapter six is the part of this novel you want to re-read to find the answer to this question. It starts with Bud waking up and realising that he has been asleep too long and might miss out on breakfast. He tries to get into the line, but a man challenges him and stops him from doing so, and when, typically, Bud tries to talk his way into the line, the man actually threatens Bud with a beating. At this stage, fortunately, a mother and father with a son come over to him and "adopt" him, calling him Clarence and pretending that he is there son and therefore allowing him to join him in line and get his breakfast. Bud thus gains what he calls a "pretend family" that helps him and even shares their brown sugar with him - real generosity in such a difficult time.

In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", what is the theme of the story?

The central theme of the story is the dangerous period of adolescence where identity is still so unformed and malleable, which allows certain individuals the chance to manipulate and control such adolescents. This is shown through the central character of Connie, who is depicted very early on as a young girl who is trying to grow up and struggling to find her identity through becoming older and wanting to assert her independence. Note how the following quote describes her:

Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home: her walk, which could be childlike and bobbing, or languid enough to make anyone think she was hearing music in her head...

It is this uncertainty and lack of surety that Connie displays about her personality and who she is that allows Arthur Friend to exploit her and to force her to come with him, and clearly face some sort of terrible fate. The central theme of this story then is the way in which adolescence is such a dangerous time of transition for young people, and how this period allows others to exploit teenagers who are going through this process of trying to work out who they are.

Discuss heat stress management. Explain the physiological hazard resulting from heat stress.Ask question is related with ergonomics topic -...

Heat stroke is the physiological hazard which occures when the management of the heat stress is improper. Besides environmental factors (temperature, humidity,radiant heat), heat stress is determined  by the regimen of work and clothing requirements of the persons.  It is important to have a routine in order to manage heat stress in every workplace. Such a possible routine it's described in the next three steps to be followed:

1) Evaluation of the heat stress which is done using a screening method established by the ACGIH (American Conference for Governmental Industrial Hygenists).

2) Screening and limitation of heat stress for the persons exposed to it. Pursuit of body temperature variations by using a thermometer.

3)Use of strategies of managing heat stress

The following signs are the mark of an occuring heat stress and they are requesting medical emergency care:

-confusion, irritability,disorientation, the loss of weight per shift is greater than the 1.5% from his body weight, the amount of sodium from his urinary, during a day, is less than the quantity of 50 milli-moles.

To avoid all these physiological hazards, the following measures could be applied:

-the time spent and worked in overheated environment should be shortened and followed by a time for resting in cool places;

-the amount of water intakes should be increased;

-the workload should be distributed;

-disseminating the informations about the symptoms of heat stress so that the workers to protect themselves;

-scheduling the jobs which require hot conditions during the cooler part of the day or maybe choosing a cooler season for performing these activities.

Why do Sarah Good and Tituba talk about the devil so openly?Do they really believe in what they are saying?

What you are talking about is what happens in Act IV, Scene 1 of the play.  At that point, Sarah Good and Tituba have been in prison for a long time.

The way the two women speak in this scene is usually interpreted as their reaction to having been in prison so long.  They are usually said to have gone a bit crazy because of the conditions they have been exposed to.

When people have gone crazy, it is unlikely that they are able to truly understand what they are saying.

So, overall, I'd say that they have been driven crazy by their persecution and imminent execution.  I also would say that this is supposed to underline how crazy the whole situation is.

What does the green light symbolize to Gatsby? To Nick?What makes the light so important to Gatby. Why is it also important to Nick?

The green light on the end of Daisy’s dock symbolizes many things to Jay Gatsby. Naturally, it symbolizes Daisy to Gatsby as he stands on his dock looking over the water at it. Since it’s on her property, it shows how close he is to her. When he reaches out his hand towards it as he stands alone on his dock at night he reaches out his hand to it, and the narrator says, “I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it.” Unfortunately for Gatsby, the green light would never be attainable to him.

For Nick the green light represents everything that Gatsby wanted, but could never have. He says at the end, “I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.”

In Great Expectations, who is Orlick, and what is his importance in the novel?

Orlick is a rather frightening character who helps Joe out at the forge; he is, like Pip, an apprentice in-training to become a blacksmith.  At first, he just seems like kind-of a mean, scary guy that hangs around the forge quite a bit, and goes and gets slightly drunk at the local tavern every evening.  But, as the story progresses, he ends up playing quite a significant role in some key events.  First of all, Pip suspects him to be the one that irreversibly harms his sister.  He comes home one day to find his sister hurt badly, and after that, she can barely speak or move.  No one really knows what happens, but Orlick was suspiciously unaccounted for during the events, and his sister seems very animated whenever he comes around after that.

Later on in the story, Pip runs into Orlick again, and the nasty character threatens harm and murder.  He traps Pip in an old shack in the middle of nowhere, and has full intentions of murdering him.  So, overall, Orlick is a villian, one that Dickens uses to cause great harm and suspense in the story from beginning to end.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good luck!

Explain how blood travels through the body including the use of a diagram.plus a diagram please.

Blood travels or circulates through the body through sort of pipes called blood vessels. The blood is pumped in to the blood vessel for circulation by heart.

The blood vessels are of three types called arteries, veins and capillaries. Arteries carry blood pumped by heart to other parts of the body. Veins return the blood to heart for pumping. Capillaries constitute a very large network of tiny blood vessels that reach every part of the body and connect arteries to veins.

The blood circulates in two separate network of blood vessels. The heart is like a two pump combined, so that blood in each of the two circulation network is pumped by heart separately. The first blood circulation network takes care of the general blood circulation of the body, circulating blood to each and every part of the body, carrying oxygen, food and other essential material required for functioning and growth of the body. It also collects carbon dioxide and other waste material generated in body. One special section of this part of the blood circulation is through the kidney which removes excess water and some other substances from the blood and expels them from the body in form of urine.The other network of blood circulation is devoted entirely to lungs for the purpose of respiration.

Left side of the heart which makes up stronger of the two pumps receives oxygen rich blood returned from lungs through the respiratory network. This blood is pumped by the heart and sent throughout the body. this blood supplies oxygen plus many other substances absorbed by blood from the digestive system or releases in blood stream by various organs for supplying wherever these are needed. In the course of its travel through it also picks up carbon dioxide and other waste material from the body. The excess water and waste material are also removed from the blood by urinary and sweating system during circulation. The blood with high carbon dioxide is returned to the right side of the heart. This completes one cycle of blood circulation through the first circulation network.

The blood circulation in respiratory network starts with blood with carbon dioxide being pumped by right side of heart to the lungs. In lungs the the carbon dioxide in the blood is removed and oxygen is relished. This oxygen rich blood, after circulation through the lungs is returned to the left side of heart. This completes one cycle of blood circulation through respiratory circulation network.

What is the conflict in "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Silko?

The primary conflict in "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" is that of man against society. This conflict would be better stated as humankind against society. This is a common conflict type in contemporary literature as society is more often seen as a restricting barrier rather than a civilizing culture.

The defining point in this conflict is that the central character or characters challenge, or are challenged by, the society in which they live because the values and customs of society are in one way or another outside the system of moral conviction or unexamined behavior of the character or characters. One instance of this conflict is embodied in the priest's grave uneasiness about using Catholic Holy Water in a Pueblo Indian society's religious death ceremony.

A secondary conflict in this story is that of man (humankind) against nature. This conflict pits humankind's desires and will against the forces and affects of nature. This conflict appears prominently in connection with Teofilo's death and his new duty and role as the bringer of rain clouds.

In Pip's mind, how are Biddy and Estella different? Whom does he value the most? What does this tell you about Pip?

In Ch.15 Pip learns from Miss Havisham that  Estella has been sent "abroad... educating for a lady; far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her."  Finally, Miss Havisham with "malignant enjoyment" dismisses him gloatingly  "do you feel that you have lost her?" Pip returns home completely disgusted with his present situation to discover that his sister has been knocked senseless by an unknown assailant.

Towards the end of Ch.16, Biddy moves into Pip's house after the death of her great-aunt.  In Pip's own words she "became a blessing to the household" because Pip's sister has now become an invalid who needs some one to take care of her. In Ch.17, Pip praises Biddy by saying "she managed our whole domestic life, and wonderfully too." Its from then on that a certain intimacy develops between Pip and Biddy.

In Ch.17 one Sunday afternoon he has a heart to heart conversation with Biddy which reveals the inner conflict and mental torment which Pip was experiencing because of his infatuation for Estella. He openly confesses to Biddy that if had not met Estella he would have become a partner to Joe in the forge after the formal completion of his apprenticeship and that "you and I and Joe would have wanted nothing then .... I should have been good enough for you.

In his heart of heart he knows fully well that Biddy is the ideal soul mate and wife for him, but he is completely overwhelmed by his foolish infatuation for Estella. Pip describes his pathetic situation thus:

"how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?"

Biddy although she sympathizes with Pip's plight  is non judgmental and tells him that he has to decide for himself whom he should choose for a life partner. Biddy unlike Estella "was never insulting, or capricious" and Pip wonders, "how could it be, then, that I did not like her [Biddy] much the better of the two [Biddy and Estella]?"

Finally, Pip asks her plainly "I wish you could put me right...If I could only get myself to fall in love with you... that would be the thing for me" To which Biddy replies very bluntly, "but you never will you see."

Dickens very graphically describes for us a teenager's infatuation for a very attractive girl [Estella] and how it blinds him to the worth of a gem of a girl like Biddy. In Ch.30 Pip very categorically tells his friend Herbert who advises him to "detach" himself from Estella that it would be impossible for him to do so: "you can't detach yourself?" No. Impossible!"

What is Chapter 8 in Elijah of Buxton about?

In Chapter 8, which is entitled "The Most Exciting Night of My Life So Far", the carnival comes to the town of Chatham.  Because it is a notoriously sleazy operation, the parents of the children of Buxton forbid their offspring to go.  The Preacher, however, has in mind a devious plan to make some money for himself as usual, and tries to convince Elijah to sneak away and accompany him to the forbidden event.  Although Elijah knows his parents would not approve, he is excited and curious about the carnival, and allows himself to be persuaded to go with the Preacher, who tells him to bring along a sack full of stones with the obvious intention of somehow exploiting Elijah's uncanny talent for "chunking" rocks.

At the carnival, the Elijah and the Preacher go to see Madame Sabbar, a prodigy with the slingshot.  Madame Sabbar, who is white, puts on a show whereby she vanquishes MaWee, a "savage of the Swedish Mohongo tribe".  Although for this performance, MaWee is played by a white boy whom Elijah recognizes as one of his schoolmates, Jimmy Blassingame, it is evident that ordinarily, the "savage" is black, and the show an exhibition of racist degradation of the Negro by Madame Sabbar, who purportedly uses her skill to save the "purity of...innocent white (women) from the "black...barbarian".  The ethnicity of MaWee has been changed because the political climate in the Buxton area will not tolerate such a blatant display of bigotry, but the derogatory essence of the script cannot be hidden.  As MaWee, Jimmy is abused and humiliated, but the mean-spirited audience "laugh(s) so hard that the tent (shakes)".  At the end of the show, the Preacher pulls Elijah with him to see "one more person" with whom he needs to speak.  It is clear that the Preacher has plans, and that he is up to no good (Chapter 8). 

Does everyone need to take energy drinks?

The utility of so called energy drinks is highly debatable. There is no accepted definition of what constitutes energy. Any soft drink advertised as energy drink gets the tag of energy drink. Typically energy drinks rely more on action of stimulants rather than energy or calories contained in the drinks themselves. Typically energy drinks contain substances such as caffeine, vitamin B, ginsberg, and other herbs that act as stimulants.

Use of energy drinks may be useful to improve levels of physical performance and alertness in certain situation. However regular use of strong energy drinks may not be advisable. And most certainly, energy are in no way essential for all people. At best, energy drinks may be considered as one among many sources of some essential nutrients and other non-essential additional stimulants.

What is the denotation of the short story "The Interlopers" by Saki?

With denotation meaning the literal definition of the word, the title of Saki's story indicates more than one person or thing that intrudes into a region without proper license.

Now, as far as the story itself is concerned, initially interlopers is identified as the two main characters, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, as well as the men of each of the hunters.  In the brief moment after von Gradwitz is startled by the sudden encounter with his enemy as he comes around the trunk of a huge beech tree, the two men stare at each other without doing anything. For,

a man who has been brought up under the code of a civilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken except for an offense against his hearth and honour.

So, they hesitate to fire at each other because of the the interloper, their civilised natures.  Then, before the act of

hesitation had given way to action, a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both

and the "pestilential wind" causes the old tree crashes upon them and they are pinned beneath them. Thus, the wind, too, becomes an interloper that prevents the men's firing of their rifles. As they lie there between life and death, Ulrich decides that their enemity is not of the importance he has believed; in this change of heart, he offers to reconcile with his enemy and become friends with him in the forest:

And if we choose to make peace among our people there is none other to interfere, no interlopers from outside....

Of course, the situational irony of his word interloper which Ulrich has meant to denote other people is not apparent to either man until the last line of the story:  "Wolves." They are the penultimate interlopers; they are the consummate interlopers, for they intrude into the field of forgiveness and friendship, giving the word interlopers the most significant denotation.

How do you analyse a sound recording of Shylock's monologue to relate it to belonging apart from Jewish belonging in The Merchant of Venice? ...

Setting aside the physical qualities of a recording, such as music, narration, special sound effects, etc., for the moment, an analysis of Shylock's monologue (soliloquy) in Act III, Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice for indications of the theme of belonging will depend on vocabulary and diction, just like in an analysis of printed text, and linguistic elements. Vocabulary and diction will include denotative and connotative meanings of word choices along with the overall package of Shylock's diction within Shakespeare's poetic diction, such as whether it is high or low and abstract or concrete. Linguistic analysis will cover sentence stress, word stress, rising and falling tones, pauses, and emotive inflection.

To give just a couple of examples, one step will be to identify a passage that indicates, either through word (vocabulary, diction) or linguistic elements the idea of belonging. Since the entire monologue is a comparison of Jew versus Christian, it is a little awkward to talk about belonging without reference to Jewishness but within the particulars there are universals to look for. Take for example the verses:

...hath not a Jew hands, organs, / dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

Analysis of the word level shows the universality of Shylock's vocabulary choices. These are elemental human traits shared by all humanity.

To analyze this linguistically for belonging, note the word stress. For instance, is each noun emphasized equally? Or are one or more emphasized differently. Then ask if sentence stress follows the normal pattern with emphasis put on verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives? Further, check for emotional inflection, pauses, and rising and falling tones, asking if these are as you would expect them to be or are there variations. For example, does the speaker's tone fall at the end of a question instead of rise? Or does the speaker pause in odd places that puts emphasis on unexpected words? Ask how might these variations or consistencies contribute to thoughts of belonging being inspired in the listeners imagination.

What are some symbols in "And of Clay Are We Created"?

One of the central symbols of this story for me at least is the pump. This pump and its unattainability seems to be a symbol of the real lack of compassion and care of humanity in the face of suffering. Consider the following passage:

In the meanwhile, more television and movie teams arrived with spools of cable, tapes, film, videos, precision lenses, recorders, sound consoles, lights, reflecting screens, auxiliary motors, cartons of supplies, electricians, sound technicians, and cameramen: Azucena's face was beamed to millioins of screens around the world. And all the wile Rolf Carle kept pleading for a pump.

Note how a very short and simple sentence is placed after a long sentence which lists all the sophisticated technology that reporters bring with them. They are able to do incredible things thanks to technology, but somehow bringing a pump to save Azucena eludes them.

You might want to think as well about how Azucena herself might be a symbol and what she symbolises. This should start you off though - good luck!

I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SOLAR POWER1. how it works 2. how much supply 3. problems with solar power

Solar power is sometimes used synonymously with solar energy or more specifically to refer to electricity generated by solar radiation. Solar energy has been exploited by man since ancient times, using a range of technologies. Solar radiation along with secondary solar resources such as wind and wave power, hydropower and biomass, are considered most available renewable energy on Earth.

How much supply

Earth receives 174 PW of solar radiation (heatstroke) entered in the upper atmosphere. About 30% is reflected back into space while the rest is absorbed by clouds, oceans and land masses. The spectrum of sunlight is most prevalent in the Earth's surface in visible and near infrared ranges , with a small part in the near ultraviolet.The total value of solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, the oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 EJ per year. Photosynthesis captures approximately 3000 EJ per year in the biomass. The amount of solar energy reaching the planet's surface is so vast, that in one year is about twice as much for how it will ever get from all non-renewable Earth resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and extracted uranium, all combined.

How it works

Solar energy technologies can provide electricity generation by heat engine or photovoltaic means, space heating and cooling of active or passive solar buildings, potable water via distillation and disinfection, lighting, hot water, heat for cooking, heat and process for high temperatures for industrial purposes. Solar technologies, is characterized roughly as either active or passive, depending on how they capture, edit and distribute sunlight. Active solar techniques use photovoltaic panels, pumps and fans to convert sunlight into useful productivity.

Passive solar techniques include selecting materials with favorable thermal properties, designing spaces that facilitate the air flow naturally, and correlates the position of a building toward the sun. Active solar technologies  increase energy offerings and they are seen as sources of secondary technologies, while passive solar technologies reduce the need for alternative resources and are generally considered sources of secondary  technology applications.

Problems with solar power

 They were and still are problems associated with solar progress, some real other invention. One of them is that the sun is not always shines, even in California, but there are enough solutions to fix this - it is part of serious problems, one of those invented by some skeptics, such as collapse of installation, this causing a even greater danger than nuclear fusion, but the idea of danger can not be totally contradicted.

What does the quote "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" mean?

It means that if we are now having some sort of sorrows, doesn't mean we'll never get the spring,i.e., happiness in our life. "Winter" here is referred to as the sorrows in our life cycle. We all know that every year there is a cycle of all the seasons - winter,spring,summers and then at last comes the autumn. So, if we have any kind of tragic situations in our life doesn't mean that we'll always suffer it. As it is also said that "beaten gold becomes ornaments" so the more we suffer pain and agony, the more we'll have joys in our lives. A death can be very painful, but does not have enough pain in it to get against the happiness after a failure child to come in 1st division or birth of a child. So, if pain comes, can joys be far behind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

What does it mean to say "nothing exists except through human consciousness?

If you think about it, how do we know that anything exists?  The only way I know anything is through my own consciousness.  I can not know anything except through my physical senses and my ability to think and imagine.

That is true for me, but also for every other human being on earth.

So you can argue at least that nothing would exist if there were nothing around to perceive it -- sort of like the old saying "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Or, as O'Brien says, the earth couldn't have existed before people since there would have been nothing to perceive it before people existed (since he would not believe in God).

I hope that helps.

Can an object have kinetic energy and potential energy at the same time?

Yes, an object can have both of these at the same time.

Potential energy is energy that is stored in an object.  Kinetic energy is the energy that is associated with motion.  So what you have to have is an object that is in motion but still has more energy that it has yet to convert into kinetic energy.

A perfect example of this would be an object that is falling but has not yet hit the ground.

This object would have kinetic energy because it is in motion.  But it would also have potential energy because it has a ways yet to fall before it lands.

How are memory cells produced?A child is given a measles vaccination. Explain how the child becomes immune to measles.I have answered this question...

Immune memory involves specialized functional types of lymphocytes T and Bm, called memory cells .

B memory lymphocyte antigen receptors have higher binding antigens affinity  and therefore are more effective in capturing small amounts of antigens and presenting them faster.

Memory B cell generation mechanism is hypothetical. One theory believes that both plasma cells (antibody producing) and memory B cells are derived from the same B lymphocyte precursors.

Cells resulting from successive divisions, triggered by antigenic stimulation evolve differently: some are differentiated plasma cells, others remain small lymphocytes, returning to the G0 state and become memory lymphocytes. Descendants of stimulated clone  to evolve towards plasma cells or memory cell, compared with the influences it receives  from accessory cells or Th cells.

After another theory, the memory cells and plasma cells are comming from different B cells. B lymphocytes seem to be preprogrammed to become plasma cells or memory lymphocytes before antigen exposure.

Secondary immune response is characterized by increasing antibody affinity.

Memory Th cells are probably generated in the cortex of lymph nodes, but the mechanism is unknown. The memory T cells mechanism was proposed after the model of contact dermatitis induction, a delayed hypersensitivity reaction, mediated by CD4 cells.

In the book Nickel and Dimed, do you think discrimination shaped Ehrenreich's story? In what ways?

Discrimination works in a few different ways in this text. First, Ehrenreich experiences the discrimination against the working class in a supposedly classless society. The extreme invasions of privacy put on minimum wage earners are nothing like the freedom middle class or upper class workers experience. Random bag searches, drug tests, and personality tests may be required to get a job, and at least two of those are almost certainly required to keep it, in many cases. In addition, she experiences a different attitude entirely toward herself as a minimum wage worker. The memory of working Walmart is one of the most depressing pieces of investigative journalism in recent history. She is subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) outcast from those who shop there, and looked on as a servant. This is essentially what she confronts in all her jobs.

Another example of discrimination throughout the book is gender discrimination. She faces sexual harassment and lower wages due to being female, & watches many women forced to use their sexuality just to remain on equal terms with male co-workers, or to be treated decently by male employers. This is especially relevant today, with the raging health care debate. Women can still be denied coverage due to Cesarean sections, and some insurance companies require sterilization as a criterion for coverage if one has had a Cesarean section.

Finally, Ehrenreich is not only on the receving end of the discrimintaion. She brings middle class biases to her research, & often judges her fellow workers for their perceived lack of anger at their situation. She also makes many disparaging remarks about obese people in her work as well.

From anyones point of view dicuss what kind of lessons was learned from Tuesdays With Morrie

1. "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do." (p. 18)

2. "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it." (p. 18)

3. "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others." (p. 18)

4. "Don’t assume that it is too late to get involved." (p. 18)

5. Find someone to share your heart, give to your community, be at peace with yourself, try to be as human as you can be. (p. 34)

6. "Love always wins." (p. 40)

7. "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it." (p. 42)

8. "So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." (p. 43)

9. " . . . if you really want it, then you’ll make your dream happen." (p. 47)

10. "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." (p. 52)

11. "Love is the only rational act." (p. 52)

12. "I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all . . . . It’s horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it’s also wonderful because of all the time I get to say goodbye." (p. 57)

13. "Sometimes you can’t believe what you see; you have to believe what you feel." (p. 61)

14. "What if today were my last day on earth?" (p. 64)

15. "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." (p. 82)

16. If you accept you are going to die at any time, then you might not be as ambitious as you are. (p. 83)

17. There is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. (p. 91)

18. "Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent." (p. 103)

19. " . . . If you’ve found meaning in your life you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five." (p. 118)

20. "Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness." (p. 125)

21. " . . . love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone." (p. 133)

22. "Love each other or perish." (p. 149)

23. " . . . the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone--or any society—determine those for you." (p. 155)

24. "Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long." (p. 162)

25. "Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." (p. 163)

26. "Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others." (p. 164)

27. "As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on—in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here." (p. 174)

28. "Death ends a life, not a relationship." (p. 174)

29. The important questions have to do with love, responsibility, spirituality, awareness. (p. 175)

30. "You’re not a wave, you are part of the ocean." (p. 180)

31. " . . . there is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life." (p. 190)