Why does Hester from The Scarlet Letter take such care in crafting her clothes and letter?

Hester meticulously designs and crafts her sewing for several reasons.

1. Her intricate embroidery of her letter demonstrates her attitude about her "sin." In a way, it is a sort of rebellion against all the people of Boston who are just as guilty of sin as Hester, yet who have no outward symbol for their sin.  This reason for the novel's embellishment fits the Hester at the beginning of the novel.  Additionally, as Hester creates her own place in the town, she chooses to wear the letter even after she is not required to do so.  The letter's beautiful appearance does not mean that Hester is not sorry for her sin; rather, it shows that she has come to accept what she is known as.

2. After Hester gives birth to Pearl, receives her public punishment, and is privately spurned by her husband, she knows that she must make a living for her daughter.  She does so by sewing, and the letter along with her and Pearl's clothing are a sort of advertisement for Hester.  Like it or not, the people of Boston are after all hypocrites, and regardless of how they pretend to feel about Hester's "sin," they will not hesitate to take advantage of her skill with a needle.

In Act 1 of Othello, how does Iago use his power of persuasion with Roderigo, Brabantio and Othello to create his scheme to undo the Moor?

Look at Act 1 Scene 3, after close-reading it and the summary. After Desdemona's wish is granted, Roderigo is despairing,feeling he has lost her for ever. Iago sees this and ever-observant and waiting to pounce sees the weaknesses and motivations of the others too. He becomes excited as a plan is sparked - he shares his evil manipulations in his speech at the end of the Act so examine that line by line and use some quotes:

He fills Roderigo with false hopes 'put money in thy purse' (cheer up, get ready to be rich and happy-your fortunes are about to change)

'thou shalt enjoy her'

'Let us be conjunctive in our hate against him'

'thine hast no less reason'

and Iago...tellingly...in 'private'

'thus do I ever make my fool my purse'

'Cassio's a proper man: let me see now to get his place.....'

and about Othello - it will be easy to manipulate him and

have him 'led by the nose as asses are' by putting pressure on his suggestible nature.

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What is ironic about Mr. Avery's allusion to the Rosetta Stone? How does Scout show that she does not know his purpose for using this allusion?

    In Chapter 8 of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mr. Avery's declaration concerning the season's changing when children were bad came true, much to the chagrin of Jem and Scout.

Mr. Avery said that it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change.

Shortly after, Scout awoke to a sight she had never seen: Snow. Mr. Avery's prediction had come true, and Jem and Scout felt that it was partly their fault. Later, Mr. Avery made another affirmation:

    "See what you've done," he said. "Hasn't snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It's bad children like you makes the seasons change."

Scout responds that

"... I did not wonder where Mr. Avery gathered his meteorological statistics: they came straight from the Rosetta Stone."

Since Mr. Avery had twice predicted correctly, Scout was sure that he had again gotten his information from the Rosetta Stone. She obviously did not know the true origins of the stone, one of history's first forms of written communication.

What is bluetooth technology and how it is improved nowadays?BLUETOOTH HISTORY

Blue-tooth is a radio technology that makes it possible for mobile phones, cellphones, computers and other electronic devices to be linked over short distances, without needing to be connected by wires.

Blue-tooth technology is a short-range wireless radio technology that allows electronic devices to connect to one another. Generally, Blue-tooth has a range of up to 30 ft. or greater, depending on the Blue-tooth core.

Blue-tooth wireless technology makes connections just like cables connect a computer to a keyboard, mouse, or printer, or how a wire connects an MP3 player to headphones.

Blue-tooth technology was first developed by Ericsson and then formalized by a group of electronics manufacturers (Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba) who joined forces to form a private trade association known as the Blue-tooth Special Interest Group (SIG).

What is the reason Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist preacher who gave many sermons and speeches. His "I Have A Dream" speech is probably his most famous as it was delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Aug. 23, 1963.  The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on Sept. 22, 1862. Almost 100 years to the day elapsed between the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln and the "I have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Even though black slaves were given their freedom, they were not treated as truly free people in that they were not paid the same, nor were they allowed the same privileges as white persons. Dr. King gave this speech to motivate his followers to continue to boycott, protest, and demonstrate until they were granted full equality and privileges due any citizen of the United States of America.

Things were going well with the civil rights movement, and the people who were marching, demonstrating, and boycotting the inequity between the races were getting the attention of the government officials. This speech served to focus the attention on the need for racial equality NOW, not some time down the road or in a little while.

This speech served to motivate those who were feeling restless and impatient to wait and persevere a while longer using peaceful demonstration techniques rather than resort to violence. Dr. King was an encourager and a motivator.  He new how to speak to the authorities and work a room as well as give motivational speeches to his audience.  He was also not afraid to go into the streets and be involved in the demonstrations and protests himself. He did not ask his followers to do anything that he would not do himself.

We study his speech because he died at the hands of an assassin in the middle of his great work. The essential King speech is his "promised land" speech or the "mountaintop" speech. This was his last speech, and some say, a prophetic speech. Dr. King kept the focus tightly on the injustice of racial inequality throughout the speech while encouraging and motivating those who followed his civil rights movement to persevere and continue the fight even if he himself was not there to lead the way. This is a poignant speech, because Dr. King was assassinated the next day.

Most of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speeches were designed to persuade or to motivate the listener to act or behave in a particular way.

Are the following characters from "The Scarlet Ibis" protagonist, antagonist, static, dynamic, round or flat characters?Doodle, Brother, Aunt...

When thinking about protagonists and antagonists it is helpful to think of the hero vs. villain scenario. Brother is the sole narrator of the story as well as the only dynamic character so we can safely assume he is the intended protagonist. A dynamic character exhibits a change through the course of the story because of something he learns through experience. Brother pushes his little brother so hard that Doodle physically dies. It takes that tragic event for Brother to be able to really see how selfish he was being, caring only about himself and disregarding the well-being of his little brother.

With that knowledge you can begin to consider who or what the antagonist is. Conflict arises because of the presence of that antagonist, and consists of: man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. himself. In the story we do not actually see any people that truly pose a conflict for brother, nor do we see nature playing a large antagonistic role until the very end. Therefore, it is Brother himself that plays protagonist as well as antagonist. More precisely, Brother’s pride, which enables him to battle with himself and be so cruel towards Doodle. Brother realizes early on that Doodle will never be the little brother he wants, yet his overdeveloped pride keeps Brother from accepting that fact and allows him to continue pushing Doodle beyond what he well knows surpasses Doodle’s physical limits.

Doodle’s whole purpose during his short life is to make his brother proud. He looks up to Brother and wants to go everywhere with him and do everything he is asked. Doodle is a static character because he exhibits the same traits and never changes, learns, or grows.

Mama, Daddy, and Aunt Nicey remain exactly the same throughout the whole story and therefore static and flat characters. Their purpose is to help the story move forward and contribute towards helping the protagonist and dynamic character learn what they need to learn.

Explain the meaning of a "smokescreen" in literature.

A smokescreen hides what lies behind. Period.

In the play "Smokescreen" written by David Craig, both the father and the son hide behind their excuses (smokescreens) and show no concern for each other's real needs. Lacking empathy, both worry about their own needs, and hold onto their corners, which in fact become their own jails.

Moral: When we make excuses (smokescreens) to conceal that what really interests or concerns us, we are not in fact helping ourselves but hurting.

Writing a Research paper on lies my teacher told me.How do i outline the probs of high school history and give solutions to problems and identify...

Perhaps a better approach would be to speak of the wrong information my teacher gave me. A lie presupposes intentionality.

That said, there are many ways in which you can start this paper. You can talk about how history needs to be written for every generation, because each generation see things in different ways.

You can also start by saying how each generation has an angle on history and does not see other important perspectives, because of their historical and cultural context. From this point of view, you can go into the many blind spots that historian of the past have had. However, be careful, because other will do the same to us. Modesty is, in my opinion, important. For a good and short insight on personal blind spots see the below link.

Do any stereotypical characterizations of women appear in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"?

Emily, of William Faulkner's gothic story, "A Rose for Emily," clearly represents the repressed and subjugated woman of the Victorian era.  Having living under the domain of the patriarchal family, Emily has not been allowed the choice of a beau and she has been directed in her life by the arrangements that her father has made with Colonel Sartoris and others. But, later, Emily stereotypically "clings to that which had robbed her, as people will."

Even after her father's death, Emily lives in his shadow as symbolized by Faulkner in the scene in which she stands before his portrait, with his watch chain engulfing her entire figure: 

a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt.

After her father's death, Emily goes out rarely, maintaining the same lifestyle upon which her father has insisted.  When she retains the old Negro servant, some of the ladies remark,

Just as if a man--any man--could keep a kitchen properly,...so they were not surprise when the smell developed.

This remark is stereotypical, a remark perpetuated by the women themselves, for it assumes that women are better housekeepers.  And, when they report the smell, Judge Stevens says, "...will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"  The stereotypical implication here is that there are certain subjects about which people do not speak to women. 

When Emily begins to become interested in Homer Barron, the townspeople say,

Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.

Learning that this is exactly what Emily does, the kin of Emily are called, and the townspeople whisper, "Poor Emily" as though Emily has become the pathetic, irrational woman.  Some of the ladies label her "a disgrace."

After Homer Barron goes, the narrators are glad that the two female cousins--"even more Grierson" arrive to care for  dependent Emily, the delicate woman who cannot fend for herself.  The front door remains closed and she again is repressed in her own home until she chooses her bizarre act of independence.

How is the romantic escape motif in "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" used in todays media?

The escape motif present in this poem is definitely captured in many media forms today. You need to remember that this poem is a pastoral poem. Pastoral poems are always set in an idealised countryside inhabited by ruggedly handsome shepherds and stunningly beautiful women (or nymphs). These characters all live idyllic lives in harmony with their environment. Of course, what these poems completely do is ignore the reality of such romantic escapes - life in the countryside, especially in Marlowe´s time would be incredibly hard work for both the man and woman in the relationship. Some of these elements are raised in Sir Walter Raleigh´s poem which he wrote in response to Marlowe, entitled, "The Nymph´s Reply to the Shepherd". Of course we can all think of many adverts or films or examples of literature where the lovers escape and have a romantic ending - no reference is made to the harshness of such an escape and the disadvantages to such a new life.

What is the childhood, adolescence, mid-life and post mid-life of Emily Grierson in the story, "A Rose for Emily"?Life of Emily Grierson.

    Because author William Faulkner uses so many time shifts in his short story, "A Rose for Emily," Emily's age is not specifically set in any of the five sections. The story is told in a non-linear manner, and the stages of Emily's life follow suit.

CHILDHOOD.  There is no information regarding Emily's early childhood.  We know that the Grierson home was built in the "lightsome style of the seventies (1870s)" (Part I).  However, Emily was probably already well into her teens or older at that point.

ADOLESCENCE.  Again, there is nothing specifically said about Miss Emily's teen years. The picture of her father and herself are but a hint to her youth.

None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door.

However, Miss Emily could have been into her 20s at this point (Part II).  We can assume from the picture that Mr. Grierson dominated Emily quite thoroughly and discouraged most of her suitors, which explains her spinsterhood as she reached her 30s.

MID-LIFE.  The story focuses mostly on this stage of Emily's life, beginning with her father's death and her reluctance to give up his body (Part II); this is followed by the era of Homer Barron and their short courtship (Parts III and IV); next comes the purchase of the rat poison (end of Part III); then, the mystery of "the smell" (beginning of Part III); and, finally, Homer's disappearance/break-up (Part IV). 

POST MID-LIFE.  References to her later years are scattered through several chapters, including her china-painting lessons (Part IV); the remittance of her taxes (Parts I and IV); her death (Parts I and V); and aftermath (Part V).

I am looking for similar quote to "Be wary of what is achieved on the rack, for man will tetsify to anything to stop pain." Quotes on...

Anyone will say anything under torture.
George Galloway

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman

Torture has been criticized on humanitarian and moral grounds, also on the grounds that evidence extracted by torture can be unreliable and that the use of torture corrupts institutions which tolerate it."Consequentialist reasons why torture is wrong". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/torture/ethics/wrong_2.shtml.

Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.

According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in. They said al Qaeda's toughest prisoner, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last between two and two-and-a-half minutes before begging to confess.

"The person believes they are being killed, and as such, it really amounts to a mock execution, which is illegal under international law," said John Sifton of Human Rights Watch.

The techniques are controversial among experienced intelligence agency and military interrogators. Many feel that a confession obtained this way is an unreliable tool. Two experienced officers have told ABC that there is little to be gained by these techniques that could not be more effectively gained by a methodical, careful, psychologically based interrogation. According to a classified report prepared by the CIA Inspector General John Helgerwon and issued in 2004, the techniques "appeared to constitute cruel, and degrading treatment under the (Geneva) convention," the New York Times reported on Nov. 9, 2005.

It is "bad interrogation. I mean you can get anyone to confess to anything if the torture's bad enough," said former CIA officer Bob Baer.

How would you introduce a speech on "How to brush your teeth"?

As with any opening, it is important to immediately catch your audience's attention.  How you choose to open will depend on two factors: your target audience members - are you addressing a group of young children or a dentist's convention; the overall tone of the speech - are you going for a serious informational speech or one that is more relaxed and humorous.

You could start it off with a question to get people thinking -  "Up and down?  Back and forth? Circular motion? Which is really the most effective way to brush your teeth?" Maybe use some audience participation by having a show of hands with a younger audience.  Younger children will be more inclined to listen to see if their answer was the correct one.

Perhaps start with some dental humor; even a corny joke followed by a "but seriously" will get your audience listening.  Depending on the age of your audience will determine what kind of joke you could tell.

If it is a more serious presentation, then I would suggest finding a shocking/interesting statistic or quote that would be appropriate to the audience.

Hope this helps.  Good luck with your speech.

Explain ways in which air pollution affects the quality of life of Caribbean people?

Air pollution is a serious problem, because it not only affects all living things (even non living things, like our water), but also the quality of our lives. Also one must keep in mind that this is not only a problem for the Caribbean people, but all people. Just a few summers ago, some athletes refused to compete in the Beijing olympics, because of the air quality. These men and women hit on an important point, namely that air quality affects people in serious ways. If this is prolonged, there will be many health hazards - lung problems, for example. More importantly, one has also to ask why there is air pollution. What is causing it? Who is responsible for it? Who is benefitting from the poor quality of air? The last question might sound odd, but usually there is an industry that is benefiting. I think by asking these question, you will have a great start.  Finally, tie this question to the broader environmental movement, then you have another angle.

How does Hamlet feel about his mother's choice to marry his uncle? Why?Note that I'm currently in Act 1 Scene 2, so can you give the quotes from...

From Hamlet's very first appearance in the scene, all dressed in black, we can tell that the prince is none too happy. And we can infer that he is not just upset and gloomy about his father's death, but also his mother's hasty marriage tot his uncle Claudius. Listen to this exchange between mother and son (Note, the little play on the word "common," delivered as a veiled slur to his mother) :

QUEEN:

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,

And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity.

HAMLET:

Ay, madam, it is common.

QUEEN:

If it be,

Why seems it so particular with thee?

HAMLET:

Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not seems.

'tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,

Nor customary suits of solemn black,

Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,

No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,

Nor the dejected havior of the visage,

Together with all forms, modes, shapes of grief,

That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,

For they are actions that a man might play;

But I have that within which passeth show,

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Yes, we can assume he's quite upset by any number of things. Then, of course, there is this part of his soliloquy in which Hamlet really rails against his mother:

HAMLET:

...That it should come to this!

But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two;

So excellent a king, that was, to this,

Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on; and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman—

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With which she follow'd my poor father's body

Like Niobe, all tears—why she, even she—

O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourn'd longer—married with my uncle,

My father's brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules. Within a month,

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

She married. O, most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is not, nor it cannot come to, good.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

He spares nothing in his revulsion for what she has done. He is disgusted by her absurd choice, by her ignorance, by her sexuality, by her frailty, and by her unfathomable haste.

And in the same scene he reiterates his disdain to Horatio:

HORATIO:

My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.

HAMLET:

I prithee do not mock me, fellow student.

I think it was to see my mother's wedding.

HORATIO:

Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon.

HAMLET:

Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats(185)

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven

Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!

Oh yes, scene 2 leaves us with no doubt as to how Hamlet feels about his mother's marriage.

Can you explain to me (in detail) why the movie "Into the Wild" is an example of transcendentalism?I would also like to know why the song "I dont...

Transcendentalism was a philosophy, most notably associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, that emerged in the US around the 1830s.  The major tenet of transcendentalism is that each person should act according to his/her own beliefs, regardless of what society would think of those actions and beliefs.

"Into the Wild" illustrates this basic idea in many ways.  Some examples:

McCandless essentially gives away all his money and burns his ID.

He rejects his parents and refuses to let them know where he is.

He canoes the Colorado River illegally.

He keeps moving on toward Alaska because he thinks that is where he can really find himself.

By the end of the movie, finally discovers what the truth is for him and he continues to write about that discovery to his death.

All of these things show a man trying to do what he thinks is right and to discover his own truths, even when what he is doing is illegal or runs counter to the values of the overall culture.

Finally... I think if you look at the song lyrics you'll see how they fit with the ideas of transcendentalism.  If not, ask about it in a separate question -- more or less one topic per question, please.

Discuss the nature and significance of morale? Describe the relationship between morale and productivity?

Morale in a business is extremely vital to success.  It allows individuals to focus their energies into a particular end for the business.  Morale is what allows individuals or workers to coalesce and bond with one another as it helps to create a climate where workers exist in a state of relative satisfaction.  Morale also helps workers to help the productivity of the business.  If a manager can make accommodations which allows workers to feel better about where they work, there is a good chance that the work offered will be more productive and focused.  From a very cynical point of view, some might suggest that morale is extremely important because if it is fostered well, it keeps the arrangement of power in the current system of owners over workers.  Morale could be that guise that prevents the latter from transforming the power away from the former.  Regardless, the absense of a strong morale can help to destabilize a business, causing much in the way of poor productivity or worker dissatisfaction.

How do Othello and Iago relate to the modern audience and contemporary society?

Both Iago and Othello have character traits which are still fascinating to a modern audience. Parallels can still be drawn with figures in popular culture today who act upon the sort of qualities which also drove Othello and Iago.

Othello is a well-respected and adept military tactician. He is unable, however, to balance his military skill and insight with equal perception and understanding of matters of the heart. His Achilles' heel is his gnawing self-doubt regarding his social prowess and it is this weakness that Iago manipulates.

Iago is admired and abhorred for his clever machinations that bring down all of the vulnerable characters in the play. He too has an inner insecurity and weakness regarding his own social acceptance, but chooses to mask his inferiority with his superior planning and cruel revenge.

Put simply,both characters have the same insecurities as people today.

What is the net force on a Mercedes convertible traveling along a straight road at a steady speed of 100 km/h?

We can answer this question with two different perspectives. First perspective to consider it as an object moving in straight line at a uniform speed. As per this we can say that there is no force acting in it, or that resultant of all the forces acting on it is zero. Thus the net force is zero.

The second perspective is to consider the internal mechanism of the car as well as the various forces that power generated by car's engine overcomes to move at the uniform speed in a straight line. With this second perspective we can identify the following forces acting on the car.

1. The forces acting on and generated by the engine. When we consider the movements of the engine and other internal mechanism of the car, these are not in a state of uniform motion. It should be note that in addition to generating the net force to keep the car moving, there are many other forces generated by the engine, and there are many other reciprocating, circular and other type of motions which are not in a state of equilibrium. We feel these forces in form of the vibrations generated by the car.


2. The wind resistance created by motion of car.


3. The friction of the internal mechanism of the car.


4. The rolling friction created by movement of tyres.


5. Gravitational force acting on the car and the reaction of car to the gravitational force. This ensures that there is no downward movement of the car.

In what ways does A Farewell to Arms reveal the Hemingway code of behavior for a man?

Lt. Fredric Henry, the protagonist in A Farewell to Arms, exemplifies Hemingway's code hero in several ways. He is a man who engages in life, rather than observing it as a bystander. He maintains self-control in the face of overwhelming adversity, and he does not demonstrate self-pity. Like Hemingway's other code heroes, Lt. Henry is very competent and professional in his work. He possesses personal integrity, often feels isolated, and frequently views life as a game with senseless rules, or no rules at all. Most of all, Lt. Henry functions as a Hemingway code hero because he faces life with courage, and he endures life with dignity.

All of these characteristics are found in Frederic Henry as the novel unfolds. He is an American who enlists in the Italian army during World War I, a dangerous role he assumes by choice. As an officer who commands an ambulance unit, he serves on the front lines, exposing himself to the greatest danger. Lt. Henry is diligent and meticulous in his duties. Before an imminent battle, he checks each ambulance in his unit to make sure it is ready for service, and he visits the site where the battle will occur so that he and his men will be ready for what is coming. When he is severely wounded in the battle, he does not give in to fear and pain; instead, he tries desperately to save one of his dying men. He endures the many horrors of war without self-pity or loss of control.

As the novel continues, Lt. Henry eventually deserts the army, but his is not as an act of cowardice. Caught up in the chaos and carnage of a military retreat, he leaves the army to save his own life. He has lost his ambulances and his men. He will not sacrifice his life without purpose. He no longer feels a part of the war; he feels isolated from it. He declares an individual separate peace and acts decisively to make his way back to Catherine.

Reunited with Catherine, Lt. Henry enjoys a period of peace and happiness with her as they await the birth of their baby. When she dies in childbirth and the baby dies, also, Lt. Henry is truly alone. He sees life as a senseless game. As the novel ends, Lt. Henry leaves the hospital, after saying goodbye to Catherine's lifeless body. He walks away, in the rain. He is isolated in his grief, but he will endure this greatest of all his losses.

Pretend you are a significant object from the story. You can observe,think and talk. What is the object?

The purpose of this question is not clear.  Are there criteria for what object?  What is the point of the objects?

I assume that the point of it is to pick an object that helps you understand the story, but you don't say if that's so.  I'll answer based on that.  Some ideas:

• Gloria Dump's tree.  It sees Gloria and presumably knows her secrets. It sees Opal and Gloria build a relationship.  It sees the party where Opal and all her acquaintences get to understand one another better.


• Otis's guitar.  It gets to see what things Otis can do musically and it presumably understands Otis and some of the issues he has.


• The vegetables at the Winn-Dixie.  They are there for the beginning of the Opal-Winn-Dixie relationship.

Those are some objects I can imagine using, but without more information about your needs, I can't give you a better answer...

In The Crucible, what does the court accept as evidence that someone is a witch, and which characters seem to consider this evidence valid?

The judges in the play and in history chose to accept "spectral" evidence in cases of witchcraft.  While spectral evidence would never hold up in today's high-tech cases of DNA, reconstructive crime, and video footage, in Salem's day the religious nature of and neighbor infighting connected to the trials caused the judges to set aside logic.

Spectral evidence is primarily when a "witch" sends  his/her spirit to harm another or to cause mischief. Abigail's scheme with the poppet to show that Elizabeth Proctor wanted to harm her, and Abigail and the girls' sudden yellow bird sighting (Mary Warren's supposed spirit) in the courtroom serve as specific examples of such evidence in the play.

Many of the common townspeople seem to buy into the veracity of the evidence because most do not speak up against it and their uneducated state forces them to trust solely in the authority of the judges and religious leaders.  Judge Hathorne at times appears to find the evidence credible, as does Rev. Parris (perhaps because he needs so badly for the girls to be right). Judge Danforth simply uses the evidence to his advantage, because he is too observant and self-serving a character to actually believe that the evidence is valid.  He obviously sees the silliness of it but has gotten himself so embroiled in the trials, that he does nothing to disallow spectral "proof." Rev. Hale also serves as one who becomes thoroughly disillusioned with the court and its use of "voodoo" evidence because he knows Abigail's true motive and doubts Rev. Parris's sincerity.

What is the difference between Wollstonecraft and Mill?

Both thinkers speak about the condition of women in their writings. By itself, this is fairly radical because the topic had not received significant and meaningful treatment in the academic/ intellectual world at the time.  One difference between them would be the time period in which they are writing.  Wollstonecraft writes her work "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" in the late 18th century, when Romanticism philosophy is beginning to emerge out of the shadow of the Neoclassicist thought.  At the same time, the experience of the American and French Revolutions were fresh in the minds of thinkers at the time, and this might have underscored why the work might have had resonance.  Mill writes "The Subjection of Women"  in the mid 19th century, when political philosophy had been rooted in the shadow of both revolutions and when modernist thought had emerged.  Another subtle difference between them might be the demands both make.  Mill's primary argument is how the legal system cannot make differences based on gender.  This makes the issue of equal rights one predicated upon legal or institutional grounds.  While it is a passionate argument, the concept is somewhat vitiated by the fact that the individuals in the position of legal and social power were men, making it not as likely that Mill's claims would be heard and authenticated.  At the same time, Wollstonecraft's ideas are based on the idea of women asserting their own voice in being considered equal to men.  This assertion is rooted in the idea that women are placed in socially confined and dictated roles and that the only way to counter such a notion is to assert and speak out against this.  While overwhelmingly challenging, her ideas are compelling because they speak to men (who are locking women in gender stratified roles) and women (who are passively accepting such controlling notions.)  In speaking to both genders, there might be a greater level of change which emerges from the change in voice and audience.

What is the historical significance of Wounded Knee, South Dakota and how has it become a symbol of Native American history?

Wounded Knee is a symbolic moment in the relationship between Native Americans and White Settlers.  In 1890, the forced relocation of Native Americans had become governmental policy.  The United States Army approached the Sioux tribe at Wounded Knee with the intent to escort them off of the land.  The military surrounded the tribe with a rudimentary form of a machine gun being aimed by some of the soldiers.  The intent was to escort them off of the land, with the presence of armed forces as an attempt to move the process along in an expedient manner.  As the army had made repeated calls for the Sioux tribe to lay down their arms, Black Coyote, an Indian chief who was dead did not hear the command, and with the escalation of tensions, shots broke out.  300 Sioux, men, women, and children died as a result of the massacre of Wounded Knee.

The moment represented so much of the miscommunication of between White America and Native Americans.  This can be seen in many instances.  The first and most evident would be that the United States army came to "escort" the Sioux off of their land.  This is representative of so much of the affairs between both sides, where one side repeatedly usurped land from the other.  The standoff shows so much:  One side calling out to another side that does not understand the other.  Native Americans had a difficult time "understanding" so much of White Settler society.  For example, the notion of "owning" the land is an aspect that did not fully register with Native American society, which believed that land is communal and not the sole propriety of any other.  The Sioux, in particular, felt that the land is not one person's or one group's, as they believed in a wide ranging nature of land.  The demands to "leave" did not make any sense to the tribe, on many levels.  Additionally, the fact that one side is "hard of hearing" to the demands of the other is also quite representative, for there were years where White society refused or could not hear Native Americans' pleas for understanding and tolerance.  The fact that one side possessed advancements in technology and used it at the whim of another spoke loudly, as well.

At what speed must the second ball be thrown so that it reaches the same height as the one thrown vertically? Answer in units of m/s.A ball is...

The first ball reaches  the ground after 3 seconds .

Therefore, the time to reach the highest point is 3/2 secs.

The highest height the ball attained = (1/2)g t^2= (1/2)(9.8)(3/2)^2=11.025 m

Let the second ball be thrown with an initial velocity of u m/s with x degree to horizontal

Then its vertical component is usin30.

At the highest point the velocity becomes 0 :

(usinx)-gt=0 . But x=30 degree, given. So,

(usin30)=gt or u(1/2) = gt

Therefore, u= 2gt or t= u/(2g)............(1)

Also the vertical displacement s= (usin30)t-(1/2)t^2

Replacing t from (1) and substituting  s= 11.025m, we get:

11.025= (u/2)(u/(2g) -(1/2)g(u/2g)^2= u^2/(4g)- u^2/(8g)=u^2/(8g)

Therefore, u= sqrt(11.025*8g)= sqrt(11.025*8*9.8)=29.4m/s is the required initial speed of the 2nd ball at 30 degree to horizontal to meet the requirement.

What is William Wordworth's view on children and innocence in his writings?

William Wordsworth was a Nature poet who worshipped Nature as his God and it was his main source of spirtual comfort  and escape from all the cares of this world. His association with life giving and life sustaining Nature began even when he was only a child and remained with him till his death.

In this short lyric, the 'rainbow' symbolizes the life sustaining and life nourishing goodness of Nature. The sight of the beautiful rainbow which he saw when he was only a child is deeply etched in his memory and the same joy that he experienced when he saw it as a child contiunes to remain with him through his adulthood. He desires that this same childhoood joy should continue to sustain him even in his old age.Wordsworth says that he would rather die than not being able to experience the same joy that he experienced when he saw the rainbow when he was a small boy after he becomes an old man.

The memory of the beautiful rainbow and its pleasant associations form the link between his childhood, adulthood and his old age:past, present and future. Wordsworth concludes the poem by expressing the desire that each day of his existence be linked with the next by beautiful and simple natural sights like the rainbow.

For Wordsworth the life nourishing and life sustaining memories of beautiful natural sights like the rainbow are very precious and he deeply desires that they link each day of his life on this earth and remain with him till his death.

How does Uncle Oscar take advantage of Paul in "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence?

Shallow and selfish, Uncle Oscar of "The Rocking Horse Winner" does nothing to help his sister Hester come out of her financial predicament, although he has inherited the family fortune.  When he learns that Paul earns money through gambling, he greedily takes advantage of the boy by betting on the winners that Paul selects:  "That's right, son!...Don't you stop till you get there," he tells Paul as he slides off his childhood toy, the rocking horse. 

And, even though Uncle Oscar is aware that Paul engages in the  bizarre activity of obsessively rocking on a toy that he has outgrown, throwing himself into a trance, he does not say anything to Paul's mother, nor does he caution Paul against the dangers of gambling.  Instead, he arranges for a lawyer to send Hester a sum of money each month, disguising its origin. This behavior of Oscar's reinforces the motif of preoccupation with money and material possessions over spiritual vales.

Somewhat ironically, however, it is Uncle Oscar who does finally realize the importance of responsibility and spiritual values.  For, as Paul lies dead, it is Oscar who tells his sister,

My God, Hester, you're eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad.  But, poor devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.

What biomolecules are vitamin and mineral deficiency lacking?

The answer is in the question.  Vitamin deficiencies are exactly that.  There is a range of vitamins given letters such as A, C, D, etc.  Some, eg B, exist as complexes which are groups, and these are designated as B1, B6 etc.  Vitamins are necessary for normal biological functions, and deficiences of vitamins can lead to disease.  For example, lack of Vitamin C can lead to scurvy and Vitamin D to ricketts.  Minerals are also necessary for normal biological function.  Some are obvious, such as iron for red blood cells and the like, but some are less obvious, such as selenium and vanadium.  These are required in very small quantities on a regular basis from our diet, and that is why a varied diet is important for good health.

Why do you think life expectancy for men and women in frankish times was so much lower than life expectancies today?

The main reasons for this are better health care, better nutrition, and less physically stressful lives.

In the Middle Ages, medical care was pretty woeful.  There were, of course, no antibiotics so any wound could become infected and potentially lead to death.  As mentioned in your previous question, childbirth was very dangerous.

People in the Middle Ages, and especially the peasants, were extrememly poor compared to people today.  They lacked proper nutrition, especially during the winter.  Even the rich didn't know about proper nutrition and so ate quite unhealthily.

Finally, the work done by people in these times was very physically demanding.  They could easily be injured (and lacked medical care to make them better).  Even barring injury, they would wear themselves down through hard work combined with poor nutrition.

Were the Grimke sisters right to participate in the abolitionist movement in the way that they did?Imagine that you are an American living in the...

The question you pose also asks for moral and philosophical judgments.  Were the Grimke sisters "right" to participate ...

A lot would depend on the criteria used to evaluate what was right.  Assuming basic Constitutional principles would apply as a starting point, the Grimke sisters exercised their first amendment right to free speech, free association, and freedom of press.  They were nonviolent in their approach.

One might argue that John Brown was not right in that he used violence as a means to achieve political goals, and did so outside the framework of legal government.  For the Grimkes there was no similar behavior to judge them and their actions on.

How does Great Expectations demonstrate class conflict?

Class conflict is alive and well in Dickens' England.  Through Great Expectations, Dickens illustrates that money and family name do not equate with morality and charitableness.  Below are several examples of class struggles.

1. Magwitch (also Provis) despises Compeyson (Miss Havisham's ex-fiance).  While it is true that Compeyson is part of the reason that Magwitch was arrested and imprisoned, it is also true that Compeyson committed the same (if not worse) crimes as Magwitch, yet he receives a lighter sentence because he is a member of the upper class.  Magwitch makes several comments about this, and his hatred for the unequal treatment that he and Compeyson receive spurs him to make his own gentleman out of Pip, a member of the struggling working class.  In the end, although Magwitch never achieves "gentlemanly" status in the eyes of society, he redeems himself and demonstrates that morality is not linked to social class.

2. Most significantly, Pip at first believes that people such as Miss Havisham and, therefore, Estella and other suitors for Estella's hand are what he should emulate.  The upper class of society has made him feel insignificant; so he strives to become a gentleman so that he can fit in and hopefully find purpose.  What Pip discovers, however, is that none of the people whom he meets from England's "aristocracy" are happy or worth of emulation.  Unfortunately, before he matures in his view of social classes, he treats Joe and Magwitch badly and even forgets the values he was taught early on in life.  By the novel's end, though, Pip returns to his roots, and Dickens uses his character to show that good-hearted people are that way by nature, not by class.

In the novel 'The Pearl,' how is the priest not a priest?John Steinbeck.

The priest in this story performs his clergical duties but he is certainly not wholeheartedly a "servant of God." Neither is he portrayed as being abjectly corrupt. He is simply a man tempted by the lust of money and the things it can buy (even if his thoughts turn to ecclesiastical needs!).

Note that Kino and Juanita had not been married "properly" by the church simply because they were too poor to do so. Evidently, the priest could have performed the ceremony as a favour to the poor couple but had either refused or not even thought about it. Upon Kino's discovery of the pearl, however, the priest now speculates on the big tithe Kino will eventually make and what all could be bought with it(more specifically, repairs which could be made on the church). He had not offered to help Kino and Juanita in their moment of need, but he is quick to remind Kino of his duty to give a substantial offering. Evidently, this priest does not display true interest in the lives of the people of the village but in the prestige, security and comfort his station in life procures.

How did the Industrial Revolution affect William Blake's poetry?Here is what I have so far: Blake and Wordsworth were part of the Romantic...

The Industrial Revolution built a middle class of workers who had, for the first time in history, access to a more comfortable lifestyle because of increase of accessible products, increase in wages and decrease in illness. This economic and material gain came at the expense of the air and the land.

The smokes of the Industrial Revolution became infamous and, more importantly, choking. They obscured the view of and access to Nature. Poets like William Blake have for all time sung the praises of Nature, among other themes, and now Nature was being, literally, blackened.

William Blake was known as a seer, some thought him mentally unbalanced. Blake despised the effects of industrialization on Nature. Blake saw industrialization as a negative "transformation of the world." In his poetry he tried to draw a picture of the reality of these effects of industrialization and he tried to warn that if careful thought and action were not taken, Nature would become further and increasingly further removed from humanity's reach. And such has been the case.

I want quotes about Mr Darcy and ElizabethI want quotes that describes Mr Dacy and Elizabeth. Also I want quotes about Mrs Bennet and Mr...

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me." (Mr Darcy to Mr. Bingley about Elizabeth Bennet; Ch. 3)

"But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man." (Mrs. Bennet to Mr. Bennet about Mr. Darcy; Ch. 3)

Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. (Ch. 6)

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much. (Ch. 57)

She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. (Ch. 1)

We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before."
"But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?"

"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" (Ch. 25)

How does Golding present innocence in chapter 1 to 5?

Innocence is primarily presented in the characters of the littluns and Simon. As the youngest, the littluns are the most immune to the evil slowly spreading in the form of Jack's hunters. They only know to eat and play; they don't know about hunting or building shelters. therefore, they cannot be a part of the true battle brewing on the island. Although they bring the fear of "the beast" to the island society, it is an innocent fear of young children. They are simply afraid of the dark, when they should be afraid of the dark within the other boys.

Simon is the other representation of innocence. He is described in alternating imagery of light and darkness, as evidenced here:

Simon dropped the screen of leaves back into place. The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. With the fading of the light the riotous colors died and the heat and urgency cooled away. The candle-buds stirred, their green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air.

Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

He is the only character to truly understand their situation. He witnesses the beauty of the island, and the horror of the other boys. The most spiritual of the crash survivors, he remains the one most closely tuned with nature. He is shy, and has difficulty expressing his thoughts to the other boys. Although this isn't restricted to the first 5 chapters, it is this hesitation that causes his murder, & the description of his body being carried away fully symbolizes his innocent nature:

The line of his cheeks silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble. The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head. The body lifted a fraction of an inch from the sand and a bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop. Then it turned gently in the water.

Some have suggested that this is Christ imagery as well, which would be the ultimate symbol of innocence. Whether or not you agree with that, there's definitely a sense of Simon becoming more than a dead body. He is lit up by the "strange attendant" creatures, implying that they recognize he should be taken care of in some way. Also, the movement in the water may suggest a transcendence of death.

Who were the Nazis? this is about the machine gunners.

The previous post is good, but even though a number of sources support the claim, I'm not sure that the name "Nazi" is an blend of the beginning sounds of the first two words in the full name of the party.

The full party name, at least at one point, was indeed "National Socialist German Workers Party." The first word, as it's said in German, is pronounced "na-TSI-o-nal." The second word, again in German, is pronounced "so-TSI-o-leest." The abbreviated term "Nazi" could very well just comes from a shortening of the first word. Otherwise, I would expect the term to be "Naso," not "Nazi."

I've lived and worked in Germany for over five years, speak fluent German, and am certain that Germans still use abbreviated terms like this all the time, such as "Asi" (from "Asozial," an extreme nonconformist). According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, Germans used to shorten "Socialist" to "Sozi" and used that term as a model for the newer term "Nazi," although I've never heard the term "Sozi" used.

What are some life lessons found in this book?

The book "Rumble Fish" just like many of Hinton's books is about adolescents who have difficulty fitting into society.  The boy, Rusty James, is a street thug.  He spends most of his time in the book trying to become "his brother."  He identifies his brother's previous thug ways (his brother has disappeared) as being cool and the ideals that he wants to live up to become.  One lesson that he learns in the book is that he is not his brother and can not ever fill his brother's shoes.

Motorcycle Boy was big in the gang.  He had a power over others.  Before he leaves the town he outlaws gang war.  The gangs maintain peace for 2 months until Rusty James breaks the peace.  The Motorcycle Boy had learned the importance of not having violence in one's life and the foolishness and harm of gang wars.

Rusty James takes a rough journey to find out who he really is.  He loses his friendships, his girlfriend, and even who he thought he was in an effort to emulate his brother.  In the end he realizes the price he has paid to find his own identity.  He also learns to find his own way in life by breaking away from things people expect of him and his own problems.  He is an adolescent who has walked through the cycle of growing up in a bad environment.

Prove that sinB/1-cosB -1+cosB/sinB =0

To make the subtraction between the two fractions, they have to have the same denominator. For this reason, we'll do the amplification of the first fraction, with the denominator of the second, namely sinB, and we'll do the amplification of the second fraction with the denominator of the first one, namely (1-cosB).

The expression will appear in this way:

 [(sinB*sinB)-(1-cosB)*(1+cosB)] : [sinB*(1-cosB)]=0

Also, doing the cross muliplying between the left terms of the expression and the right terms, we'll write, even more simple:

 [(sinB*sinB)-(1-cosB)*(1+cosB)]=[sinB*(1-cosB)]*0

 [(sinB*sinB)-(1-cosB)*(1+cosB)]=

Now, all we have to do is to open the brackets and solve the expression:

sinB*sinB= (sinB)^2

(1-cosB)*(1+cosB)=1-(cos B)^2

(sinB)^2-[1-(cos B)^2]=0

(sinB)^2-1+(cos B)^2=0

We note that in the expression above, are added the squares of the joint functions, (SIN B)^2 and (COS B)^2,of the same angle B.

(sinB)^2 + (cos B)^2=1

We'll substitute the adding with sum, in the expression above:

(sinB)^2-1+(cos B)^2=0 => 1-1=0 => 0=0 TRUE

What are the external conflicts in Witch of Blackbird Pond?

To me, there are three major external conflicts in this book.

First, I think there is a conflict between Kit and society in general when she moves to Connecticut from Barbados.  She finds that things are much different in her new home, as seen when she finds out that swimming is associated with witchcraft.

Second, there is the conflict between Kit and Hannah on the one side and the Puritans on the other.  This is connected to the first conflict.

The last conflict I see is between the colonists and the Crown as the colonists oppose the attempts to change their charter.

Where might the speaker have been going and what work did he have? Who was he going to see? Did anything happen to him?

The speaker is probably Frost himself. He was a poet and a teacher. Most likely this poem records a real experience, which seems very similar to the one described by William Wordsworth in his sonnet beginning, "The world is too much with us." Frost lived in rural, rustic, thinly populated New Hampshire for many years. He wanted to lead a simple life and devote as much time as possible to his creative writing. The landscape he describes is one of open countryside with isolated farmhouses scattered here and there. It would be necessary for Frost to go into town to buy all the things that are needed in a home, especially food. The line "The darkest evening of the year" indicates that the time is just a few days before Christmas, as does the fact that this is a very light early snowfall. So the speaker could have also bought some presents for his family while he was in town. There was probably only one town serving the inhabitants for many miles around, and presumably the speaker has been there to do his shopping and is now on his way back home in a sleigh drawn by a single horse. Automobiles were becoming common in the days when this poem was written, around 1927, but Frost seems like the kind of man who would prefer old-fashioned things, including living on a little farm, chopping his own wood, as he wrote about in one of his other poems, and repairing his own stone wall, as he wrote about in another. The appeal of Frost's poetry rests largely on the way it reminds us of the beauty and the rationality of leading a simple life close to nature--something most of us have lost, or never had, or never can hope to have. Wordsworth chose that simple life. So did Thoreau. William Butler Yeats fantasized about leading such a life in his beautiful poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." We enjoy the illusion of stopping with Frost to take time out from the hurly-burly of modern civilization and feel renewed by having experienced the beauty and silence and simplicity he evokes.

Why does the author introduce the term "comrade" in the first chapter? What two purposes does the introduction of this term serve?

Orwell wrote Animal Farm during World War II, although he was unable to get it published until after the war. Through his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell came to despise the communist party, which he saw as petty and corrupt. His novel is an allegory of the rise of communism in Russia after the fall of the Tsars.

The term "comrade" is laden with many connotations. When applied to everyone, even those in positions of great power, it is meant to imply equality. When Old Major uses the term in chapter 1, this is how he intends it because his character represents Karl Marx, the German philosopher and economist whose theories spurred the development of workers' parties around the world.

Later in the story, the hypocrisy of using the term "comrade" to refer to Napoleon and the other pigs is, of course, very clear. The reader can see the corruption of the system of Animalism in parallel with the ridiculous nature of the term "comrade" as the pigs destroy all semblance of equality on the farm.

Give three quotes from the book that show Baba is kind to Amir in The Kite Runner?

Most of the kindnesses that Baba shows Amir take place once they have reached the United States.  Their relationship before that is problematic, with each frequently disappointed in the other.

When Amir and Soraya become engaged and they are on their way to the house of the General, Baba tells Amir, "You look khoshteep" (166), which means "handsome."  This was a kindness because Amir was concerned about his appearance as he prepared to visit the family he was marrying into.

To pay for the wedding, "Baba spent $35,000, nearly the balance of his life savings..." (169).  This was certainly a kindness! 

The night Baba died, Soroya and Amir helped him get into bed, and Amir says, "He asked us to lean in, gave each of us a kiss" (173). This was more than a kindness; it was like a blessing on Amir, on Soroya, and on their marriage. 

That Amir and Baba grew to appreciate one another and grow close when they got to America was an important part of Amir's growth and really part of his redemption for his failures in the past.  I am sure there are other example's of Baba's kindness in the story.

Good luck to you! 

What were some Maidu clothing?

The Maidu wore dear, puma or rabbit in the summer or winter. The fur or hair was worn on the inside, facing the body of the one wearing the pelts. The deerskin worn as a legging and wound around leg was tied off at the knee. The moccasins were thought to contain grass when it came to traveling in snow. The women of the tribe wore shredded bark aprons and grass or they went about naked at times.

Tattoos were created with obsidian and nutmeg charcoal. The women often bore actual patterns while men and women both bore variations of lines and dots throughout various parts of the body. Bird bones, smooth sticks, and feathers made up the adornments of both men and women. Women had items worn in the ears while men typically wore items in the nose. The items worn in the nose and ear were applied to both genders during a ceremony held during their adolescence.

Compare and contrast the literary elements in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin.

One striking similarity between both is that they both represent the notion of a bildungsroman set against the ever changing social conditions of the time period.  Franklin's narrative is a part of the changing colonial culture, a moment in history when the new nation began to articulate its own voice, which in part led to the America Revolution.  A narrative like Franklin's is a part of this change.  The same can be said for Douglass, although nowhere near the relative comfort of Franklin's.  Douglass' work depicts the changing face of culture in America regarding its treatment of the issue of slavery.  This particular instant is one that would threaten to divide up America, learning to the Civil War.  A major difference between them would be that Franklin's narrative voice serves to represent the promise and possibility in the new world, while Douglass represents the harsh reality and denial of opportunity, which was sadly also present in the real world.

Does the following situation reflect a movement along a demand curve or a shift in the demand curve?The situation is that movie theaters charge a...

The situation described in the question is an example of shift in demand curve.

A demand curve is a graph of quantity of a good demanded by consumers at different prices, assuming all others things being constant. When under such static condition, the supplier change the prices they ask for the good they sell, the quantity demanded by the consumers at various price is represented by the demand curve, and change in demand due to change in price is the movement of demand along a (the same) demand curve.

In contrast, when other market conditions assumed to be constant for a demand curve change, the price for the goods demanded it self changes. The example in the question represents such a situation. Generally, there are more people wanting to see movies in theaters on weekends as compared to weekdays. Because people find it more convenient and enjoyable to watch movies in theatre on weekdays, they are also willing to pay higher prices for eat. Thus the demand curve for price of admission to movie theaters on week days will be different. At each price level the demand on weekend will be higher than that on weekdays. Thus the while demand curve for weekends will shift to right as compared to demand curve for weekdays.

In "The Road" Ely says that God doesn't exist and they are his prophets; the father says that his son is God. What do these quotes mean?

In this novel, the characters live in what seems to be a pretty godless existence.  The world is wasted, and human decency is on the road to extinction.  In its place is a form of barbarism that is almost insufferable to think about, much less see with your two eyes as the father and the son do frequently.  They live in the stuff of horror movies.  So, Ely speaks from his heart when he says that God does not exist; to believe in God in such an awful world is difficult indeed.  When he says that "we are his prophets," he is meaning, the people on earth.  It is the people alone who are in charge of preaching about God, and Ely doesn't believe he exists.  So, instead of touting God, Ely speaks for his belief in a lack of God.  It is through people that God works, and it is people that either proclaim God's existence or not.  So, in essence, we really are God's prophets.

When the father says that his son is God, he is not meaning literally.  He is meaning that his son has the power of God in him.  He has the power to make his reality what he wants it to be.  He speaks figuratively of "carrying the fire," which means, carrying human decency and hope within him.  He wants his son to grow up to be a decent, kind, loving human, and to not be marred by the horrific circumstances in which they live.  That fire, that "god-like" ability, is what the father is referring to--his son's capability to restore human kindness back to the earth, in a world that seems bent on destroying it.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good luck!

In shakespear' HAMLET, why does not Claudius send Hamlet to school?

The King doesn't like it that Hamlet, all dressed in black, seems to be so depressed and has been moping around the castle. In Act 1, scene 2, after telling Hamlet that it's OK to still love his dead father and all but it's time to cheer up and move on, the King says:

We pray you throw to earth

This unprevailing woe, and think of us

As of a father; for let the world take note

You are the most immediate to our throne,

And with no less nobility of love

Than that which dearest father bears his son

Do I impart toward you. For your intent

In going back to school in Wittenberg,

It is most retrograde to our desire;

And we beseech you, bend you to remain

Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,

Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.

It seems that he is asking Hamlet to stay in Elsinore so that he can eventually come to see Claudius as his new loving father.

It's far more likely that this is but an excuse. Claudius, at this point, is the only one who knows that he has murdered his brother by pouring poison in his ear. He doesn't like it one bit that the son of the man he killed and of the woman he has just married is unhappy. It bothers him greatly; it's a loose end of his deed which he feels he needs to attend to, something he has to keep an eye... to see if something develops in Hamlet that may be of danger to him.

Thus it is a secret expression of The King's guilt and fear that makes him want to keep Hamlet close by. Soon he will enlist spies in his service to keep a wary on the melancholy prince.

Given Kant's and Aristotles's theory on ethics which is the most clear and consistent?

If one does any type of research on Kant's and Aristotle's moral philosophy, it is quite clear the Aristotle's clearer and overall more consistent.  When studying Kant, readers often have to read and reread his theory on ethics in order to understand what he promotes.  Additionally, the idea that just to determine what action to take, a person must consider what others would do in his situation at that specific time is quite impractical (this is Kant's theory).  Many moral decisions are split-second and do not allow for a survey or sorts of mankind.

In contrast, Aristotle practically suggests doing good so that it becomes almost instinctual for a human to choose to do good/right when a moral dilemma presents itself.  Although, Aristotle does not promote the simple idea of absolute morality, he does encourage humans to live lives that would generally be considered good so that they will choose right as naturally as is possible for a human.

What is the theme of this poem ? What is the mood or tone of the poem?There are many themes in this poem, but I don't which one is the best.

In Julia Alvarez’s poem “Exile” she thinks about her family and how they left their homeland. She had to adjust to NYC and this is a concern in the poem.

The voice in the poem is very innocent, like a child. Her memories are a child’s . She remembers her father as in, “worried whispers,” and she remembers her uncle, as in his “phony chuckles," and her mother made promises to them , as in, “there was a better surprise” in the end after they move to America.

The poem consists of many contrasts--the family’s homeland contrasted with New York City. In addition, the father who was full of knowledge and ability inthe Dominion becomes a man who knows so little when he lives in New York City. Their vacation at the beach that she expected is in contrast to the beach scene in the Macy's store window. All of these contrasts show the girl's culture shock.

The poem is mainly about all the conflicts and adjustments that people in exile must face when they are living away from their homelands.

In the poem, the images of water predominate. These images heighten the threats experienced by the immigrants. They can sink or swim. They can submerge or float.

They have to do something, in order to survive. And everything they expect is not what it really is. The confusion is apparent in the poem and the water images add to the immediacy of the experience.

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and "Young Goodman Brown," how is Granny Weatherall like Young Goodman Brown?

"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and "Young Goodman Brown" are antithetical, exact opposites, in all points but two. Katerine Ann Porter writes Granny Weatherall as a complaint against anonymity, against betrayal, against mighty powers abandoning those who rely on them. Her celebration of triumph comes in Granny's statement that she got her husband and children and house just the same, just like other women, even without George.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, on the other hand, writes "Young Goodman Brown" as a moral lesson about the darkness underlying religious fanaticism as exemplified by the Puritans (though religious fanaticism didn't stop with the Puritans). Hawthorne's celebration of triumph against all-pervading evilness disguised as righteousness is in his presentation of one young man willing, at all costs, to say "resist the Devil."

One similarity between the two stories is that Weatherall and Brown both came face to face with unsuspected traits in their loved ones. However, the quality of the surprising traits are not comparable: Weatherall encounters cowardice and weakness, Brown encounters all-pervasive evil. Further, even though their two characters do share the similarity of encounters with unsuspected traits, their names even distinguish the differences in their stories: Weatherall implies just what it says, Granny can weather all--almost all--and Brown is muddied, darkened, stirred, one shade above black dejection.

The other similarity between the stories is that in their last moments on Earth, both Weatherall and Brown are unhappy. Of course, for Brown this unhappiness spans his entire lifetime while for Granny Weatherall, who has weathered all (almost), the moment comes at the very last seconds of her life. Brown discovers that his whole world is a sham of lies and hypocrisy to the worst degree and is forever repelled by those around him (at least he stayed though, he didn't abandon his bride Faith), rightly distrusting and distant from people in league with the Devil.

Weatherall, on the other hand, has a flash of anger and a feeling of rejection and betrayal right before her last breaths. Of course, it is fair to say that, as a Christian, she knew better than to ask God for a sign, so one might say her last moment of disillusionment and anger were her own fault. If one wants to take the symbolism of her name as ironic, one might even say that her final disillusionment and anger were projections of her hidden lifelong feelings. Although the evidence tends to better support the idea that she knew better than to set herself up for anger by asking for a sign.

What do the "old man" and the "sweet boy" symbolize to the speaker?

For Whitman, the universality of the death experience is an intrinsic part of the war experience.  Whitman sees no other resounding truth other than the dead that results from war.  While the Civil War might have been fought for justifiable reasons, Whitman makes it clear that those reasons become secondary in the mounting death count that is such a part of war.  The old man that is dead represents how war ravages the old of any society.  Whitman makes clear that the elderly in any society are ruined by war.  For Whitman, the elderly in a social setting should be the source of life, the element of experience, and wisdom.  In his description of the elderly soldier, Whitman sees something far from this:

so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair,
and flesh all sunken about the eyes.

This vision of the elderly being reduced to "gaunt and grim" and "flesh all sunken about the eyes," shows how the old in war, the elderly in a social setting, are easily eliminated.

For Whitman, the child he sees represents the young.  Whitman clearly understands that one of the most damaging elements of war is how the youngest members of society are wiped out as a result of it.  When Whitman describes the "sweet boy," he suggests a picture of youth cut down in its prime.  With "cheeks yet blooming," Whitman makes clear that while the old dying is a painful reality, it is matched with the death of the young.  Conveying the symbolic notion of hope being removed is where Whitman seeks to convey to the reader the true and horrific nature of the war experience.

How can the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell- Tale Heart," be considered a hero?

Of course the narrator can be seen as a hero. He is after all attempting to destroy the "Evil Eye," a "vulture eye," a "hideous veil" that conceals and breathes all that is evil in the world. To the narrator, the eye must be destroyed for the eye represents a perverting force that terrorizes the narrator. Yes, it takes him a while to build up his courage, but modern heroes--with the exception of comic stereotypes--take their time turning into heroes.

It could even be argued that the narrator attempts to destroy a piece of himself, a good/evil that is attached to his soul.The old man may represent all that is either good or bad about the narrator's soul.The corpse is but pieces of his personality that he wants to destroy or bury. And this is why the hellish tattoo can be heard only by the narrator.

I would agree that the narrator is not successful, but he does attempt to change his position in the world. He doesn't sit casually and judge in literal fashion all that he sees. He attempts to take charge of his situation in the world. He is an actor in life, one who denies his fate and pushes forward. It is not necessary for a hero to fit into a  hero cookie-cutter mold for him/her to be considered a hero.

"Bullgatortail" suggests that readers should take a literal interpretation of the story. However, he fails to realize that the narrator is crazy! In literature studies, this is a classic unreliable narrator. Readers cannot simply trust that this narrator is telling the truth about anything that he says.To suggest that the narrator is simply a coward or an anti-hero is to limit Poe's creative potential and reader imaginations as well.

What are the consequences of the war in "Arms and the Man"?

The question is a bit vague, but immediately I can say these are the opening words in Vergil's Aeneid. The Latin is as follows:

Arma virumque cano... I sing of arms and the man.

These words are also an important allusion to Homer, the great Greek writer of epic. Homer wrote two works, one concerning "arms" and the other concerning "a man." The Iliad is about the great battle of arms and the Odyssey is about the great story of a man's homecoming through hardship.

If you take a step back, these three works are some of the most important works of the western canon. They speak of values that has shaped the West - Military prowess, courage, valor, glory, homecoming, etc.

The consequence for Aeneas in Vergil's Aeneid is that he established Rome, empire building. And this is exactly what the West has done for the most part.

What is the purpose of delayed emergence and how is it portrayed in Moliere's Tartuffe?

In Moliere's seventeenth-century farce Tartuffe, the playwright does not formally introduce the title character until the second scene of the third act.  Writers sometimes use this method, generally called delayed emergence, to achieve certain effects within their works.  The delayed emergence of Tartuffe serves a very particular purpose for the audience.  Though Tartuffe does not actually step on stage until the third act, he does play a formative role in the first two acts.  

He is frequently the topic of the conversations among the other characters.  From these conversations, the audience begins to develop a certain set of expectations of that character.  The characters object to the fact that Orgon is so concerned about Tartuffe's well-being, specifically his food intake.  Orgon makes these inquiries after finding out that others are not eating well (heavily indicating that Tartuffe's eating habits are affecting others' diets).  It is this ostentatious show of wealth (the ability to eat well) to which others object.  Tartuffe, in their views, is devoid of the humility characteristic of religious ascetics.  In addition, the reader learns a great deal about the other characters.  Ultimately, while delayed emergence can allow the reader to form opinions about Tartuffe, more often the reader forms a perspective on the title character crafted by the author.

Tartuffe is depicted as a character who is all talk and very little substance, causing most of the characters to be suspicious of him.  Only Orgon treats him with any respect.  When Tartuffe enters in the third act, his emergence only intensifies the views the readers form in the first two acts.  The first words out of Tartuffe's mouth amount to his calling for his hair shirt and scourge.  As a self-professed religious figure, he should know that wearing a hair shirt and a scourge are not public affairs.  They are worn beneath one's clothing and not meant to be seen.  When he speaks to Elmire in the same scene, he insists she cover her bosom out of propriety.  He does not show true religious devotion.  It is for show, and everyone knows it.

What are problems in measuring the national income of India?

Measurements of national income (such as Gross Domestic Product) are always somewhat problematic.  This is especially true in developing countries.  The major problem is that such countries suffer from underreporting of their national income.  The problem comes from the definition of GDP.

GDP only counts the value of goods or services sold on the legitimate market.  It does not count goods or services sold in the "informal sector" where transactions are not reported to the government.  It also does not count work done that is not paid.

India has problems with both of these.  It has a large informal sector.  In addition, rural women, especially, do a great deal of unpaid labor.  Both of these make it difficult to accurately measure India's national income.

What is point of view in a novel?

A novel is a work of fiction, telling a story, or rather conveying a plot. The 'point-of-view' refers to the mode in which the story is told, or the plot is conveyed. In any 'tale' there must be a 'teller'. The method adopted by the 'teller' is the narrative mode which is the novel's 'point-of-view'.

If the plot is conveyed by a narrator as 'I' (or 'we') who is also a character in the novel, it is called the 'First Person Point-of-view'. In an autobiographical novel, such as Dickens's 'David Copperfield', the first person narrator is the authorial identity in the plot.

If the narrator addresses another character in the novel as 'you', it would be the 'Second Person Point-of-view', as in Jay McInerney's novel, 'Bright Lights, Big City'.

The most frequently used mode in fiction is the 'Third Person Point-of-view' in which the narrator refers to all other personages as he/she/they. There are variations within the third person narrative frame, such as omniscient/limited omniscient/obtrusive/unobtrusive depending upon the specific nature of the narrator's involvement and/jurisdiction in conveying the novel's plot.

What events lead up to Gatsby's death?

The events leading up to Gatsby's death occur as result of Gatsby's love for Daisy and Daisy's terrible carelessness.  The circumstances that lead up to his death, are of course, more complex than that explanation.

Myrtle and Tom are having an affair.  Wilson is aware his wife is having an affair and has reason to believe that Myrtle's affair is with a wealthy man.  He finds an expensive dog leash in the drawer, which reinforces his impression.  When Tom and Gatsby switch cars while on their outing, Gatsby, who is with Daisy, allows her to drive.  It is Daisy who hits Myrtle, causing her death.  Wilson, seeing the car, believes it is Gatsby's car and that Gatsby had been Myrtle's lover.  He finds Gatsby and kills him.

What would have happened if Gatsby had not loved Daisy so much and lied to protect her?  What would have happened if Daisy had not been such a careless person?  Are Tom and Myrtle to blame for having an affair?  Do you think Wilson is the only person who is really responsible for causing Gatsby's death?  As the story begins, do you think the seeds of Gatsby's death are already sown?  What do you think the author wants you to conclude from Gatsby's death? 

What is Bacon's prose style regarding his essays?

Sir Francis Bacon wrote in a manner that was considered to be direct instead of expository.  He wanted to make his prose more of function to humans than just lyrical.  However, his writings were far from simple.  In his prose he uses a lot of natural metaphors, balanced cadences, and well planned symmetries.  He did not like to use plain syntax in his essays but preferred to challenge the reader with his own elegance in literature. 

Bacon is considered to be the founding father of the modern era in writing.   

The main point of the novel Heart of Darkness is otherness. How did Marlow deal with this subject?How did Marlow deal with Africans, as they...

When with classify a person or group as "other", we define ourselves in opposition to that person or group.  In other words, we believe that the Other is what we are not.  So, if we truly see a person or a group as an Other, we do not believe that we can understand the group/person, or that we have anything in common with the group/person.

What does Marlowe say about the residents of the Congo that indicates this type of belief?  How can you tell that he does not understand them/believe that he can understand them?  How can you tell that he considers himself fundamentally different from them?

I would definitely examine the portions of the text where Marlowe views people from the deck of his boat.  He does not talk to them, but observes and comments on them.  I would also recommend that you take a look at his comments about the boilerman on his ship.

What does the Mongoose say to Oscar at the canefield?Near the end of the novel, Oscar Wao is on the brink of death, and he sees the mongoose, and...

Earlier the three dashes are used by Oscar to stand for words he dare not say, lest he be cursed by the fuku: "I Love You."

I think the Mongoose is saying the same thing.  The Mongoose sees Oscar as a martyr for a higher love to spite the fuku.  The Mongoose (a mythological sign of altruism) is saying that it loves Oscar for dying for such a noble cause, not for selfish reasons.

The faceless men are symbols of the Secret Police, Trujullo's minions.  If Trujillo is Sauran, then the faceless men are like the Ring Wraiths from The Lord of the Rings, phantoms who steal and kill under cover of night.  They carry out the Dark Lord's evil.

What does Ponyboy look like?

On the first page of The Outsiders, Ponyboy describes himself as having "light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes."  He does not consider himself good-looking and says that he "rarely bothers to get a haircut," which he considers normal.  He wears his hair "longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides," which he also considers normal for the group he belongs to.  In addition, Ponyboy had a somewhat small, lean build that was an asset to him as a track runner, but made him an easier target for his enemies than some of the other members of his group.

In a gaseous mixture of massive molecules and light molecules with the same average KE, which have the greater speed?Multiple Choice: A. the...

Kinetic energy of any object is given by the formula:

kinetic energy = k = (m*v^2)/2

Where: m = mass and v = speed of the object.

In the question the let us say: average mass of massive molecules  is m1 and speed is v1.

Similarly, average mass of light molecules ball is m2 and speed is v2.

It is given then kinetic energy of both the massive and light molecules is same.

Therefore: (m1*v1^2)/2 = (m2*v2^2)/2

Therefore: m1*v1 = m2*v2

We know that massive molecules are heavier than lighter molecules. Therefore

m1>m2

And if m1*v1 = m2*v2

then v1<v2

Therefore, lighter molecules heavy greater speed.

Thus alternative B) is right.

Describe the narrative structure of the novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Three is a magic number in the novella: three days, three levels of nature, and three parts.  The novella can be read as tragedy, so a reader may apply Aristotle's cause-effect triangle.  I teach the novella using rhetorical analysis: the novel is the fish and Hemingway is the old man and the sharks are his critics.  This conforms to Aristotle's other triangle: ethos (writer), pathos (reader), logos (text).  In other words, the writer can never please his ideal reader, or himself, with the book, only bring back a great big skeleton of one.

Day one = Inciting Incident = Preparing to write.  Hemingway focuses on land, as Santiago prepares to go to "way out" to sea.  The boy, his disciple, contrasts with the old man and the other fisherman.  The boy will reappear in the end.

Day two = Peripeteia (turning point) and Anagnorisis (climax) = Writing the Book.  Focus here is on the sea as it contrasts the land and air.  The fish is analogous to Santiago (brothers), and it contrasts also with the birds above and the sharks below.  The turning point and climax come in killing the fish and the remorse thereafter.

Day three = Catastrophe and Resolution = Defending the book after publishing.  The focus here is on fighting the sharks.  It ends with the resolution that the old man, a Christ-figure, becoming aware of his suffering and potential, symbolized by the skeleton.

What was the importance of the Columbian exchange?How it changed both sides of the Atlantic

A fascinating question and a great answer.  The importance of the Exchange to world history can hardly be overstated.  Tobacco, maize ("corn" is an old English word for "grain" in general), tomatoes, potatoes, etc. changed the dietary patterns of the entire world.  European crops and animals transplanted to the Americas did the same.  The importance of the horse in the colonial and Native American cultures is of utmost importance.  Native Americans did not have the wheel until Europeans arrived.  I doubt there is any way to overestimate the importance of the Columbian Exchange in terms of an expansion of biological diversity.

On the other hand, as Akannan points out, the exchange of ideas and ideals is equally important.  The democratic traditions of the native nations of the Eastern seaboard very much affected the colonists in the southern British colonies, expanding their concept of natural rights nearly as much as Locke and Hobbes.  The concepts of written language and the domesticity of white lifestyles gave birth to, among other things, the development of individual land ownership, a written language and legislative assembly in the Cherokee nation.  Of course the nonsense of the "noble savage" idea was twisted out of all recognition among philosophers in Europe, but even that did give rise to a sort of idealistic egalitarianism.

There were certainly problems, social and biological in terms of misunderstood ideas and the competition of non-native species, an exchange of diseases for which the natives of the New World had no immunity and social problems such as the growing dependence of poor people in Europe on the potato, which had a great effect on later famines in Europe, particularly the Potato Famine in Ireland.  Still, disaster and success tend to go hand in hand with humans in general, and the Columbian Exchange is one of the most important ecological events of modern history.

What are the causes of Visceral Pain?

Visceral pain is characterized in terms of pathophysiological by the special nature and the impulses that produce it and by the particular ways in which their transmission is achieved. Long time thought that viscera would lack sensitivity.And indeed, surgeons have long observed that exciting that typically produce  pain in the range of somatic sensitivity  (pricking, cutting, cautery), remain unanswered in the area of visceral pain.Explanation reside in the special nature of pulse  able to excite visceral intercepts . It is recognized that visceral intercepts excitement are susceptible to be conditioned by spastic contraction of smooth muscle, or distention beyond the limits of an organ. Pathways of transmission of these pulses depend on the nervous system and they are: associated visceral fibers, spinal ganglion, posterior horn of the spinal cord.In terms of clinical visceral pain is rather imprecise, diffuse  localized and generally correspond anatomically to the place of visceral interested.Location of pain corresponds to  anatomical position of visceral affected.

 Location of abdominal pain according to cause that produces it:

• Diffuse spread:  acute peritonitis, primitive or secondary to organ perforations, chronic peritonitis, enterocolitis, acute poisoning, intestinal obstruction.
• In epigastrium: gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastric cancer, pyloric stenosis, hiatus hernia, acute and chronic cholecystitis, gall stones and dyskinesias, biliary colic, hepatomegaly of stasis, acute and chronic pancreatitis.
• Umbilical Region: peptic ulcer, acute and chronic pancreatitis, acute enterocolitis, mesenteric vessels sclerosis or abdominal aorta, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• On the flanks: colitis, reno-ureteral colic.
• In hypogastrium: acute and chronic cystitis, bladder stones, bladder cancer and tuberculosis, metroanexite, uterine cancer.
• In right hypochondriasis:  acute and chronic hepatitis, liver abscess, hepatomegaly of stasis, liver cancer, acute and chronic cholecystitis, abscess subfrenic, peptic ulcer, appendicitis, skin, kidney stones right.
• In left hypochondriasis: splenic abscess and heart, the small curvature of the stomach ulcer, aerogastria, subfrenic abscess, skin, kidney stones left.

How do I write a critical response essay on the short story of "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"?The Essay topic is: Discuss the idea(s) developed...

It sounds as if you already have a number of great ideas there that you can develop. What you need to do now is find textual evidence to support what you think about these points. To me, what is key to focus on is how the journey Tom takes out of his apartment actually changes him as a person by the end of the short story. At the beginning of the tale we are presented with a complete workaholic who leaves his wife to go out to the cinema by herself because he is driven by the pursuit of illusory and intangible goals such as success and wealth. This of course really drives him to do what he does when his crucial paper is blown out of the window and becomes stuck to the exterior wall. His decision to go out and risk his life to get it comes after a period of introspection where he considers the value of that paper:

Even though his plan was adopted, he told himself, it wouldn't bring him a raise in pay - not immediately, anyway, or as a direct result. It won't bring me a promotion either, he argued - not of itself.

But just the same - and he couldn't escape the thought - this and other independent projects, some already done and others planned for the future, would gradually make him out from the score of other young men in his company. They were the way to change from a name on the payroll to a name in the minds of the company officials. They were the beginning of the long, long climb to where he was determined to be - at the very top.

We see his motivation here and his decision to go and get the paper, whatever the cost, as part of his plan to get to "the very top". However, by the end of the story, when he manages to get back into his apartment, he chooses to leave his work and go and find his wife. Even when he opens the door and the same paper wafts out of the same window, his reaction this time is incredibly different:

As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying, scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him.

Tom has apparently learnt the danger of being so obsessed with your work that you forget to live your life, and thus he goes to find his wife and he is able to see the humour in losing the bit of paper that he has just nearly lost all to gain himself.

Please give the meaning of these lines spoken by Messala in Act V Scene iii of Julius Caesar: Messa. Mistrust of good successe hath done this...

There's an interesting analysis of "error" in the text that goes beyond the action of the play. Shakespeare conveys what went wrong with how Cassius perceived the intelligence of how the battle was unfolding. Before his suicide, Cassius sends his servant Pindarus to observe Titinius; Pindarus reports what he sees -- that cavalry have crowded around Titinius, and pulled him from his horse.  What Cassius interprets is that his friend has been overrun by the opposing army and has been killed.  In reality, it was his own side celebrating Titinius' arrival, having survived combat in his section of the battle. Several passages later, Titinius addresses the dead Cassius, saying "Thou hast misconstrued everything."

And indeed he has.  When Cassius bids Pindarus to describe the battle, he says:

Come downe, behold no more: 

O Coward that I am, to liue so long, 

To see my best Friend tane before my face

So Cassius errs in interpreting the events Pindarus reports, thinks his friend is dead, and so commits suicide.  What Messala then comments on in general is how melancholy thoughts give rise to errors in perception.  In seeing the worst and interpreting it to be true, tragedy results, as one always acts on what one perceives to be true. "Apt thoughts of men" is a reference to perception and thinking, "Things that are not" is a reference to falsehoods.   Shakespeare makes a metaphor of offspring, conception, birth, and death -- What used to be called "Melancholia," or what we would call depression or negative thinking, creates negative thoughts ("errors") that create negative perceptions, that acted upon, cause destruction.

What are some examples of Romanticism in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Some themes that the Romantics used a lot were themes of the individual, nature and death as you say.  But they also were into the idea that emotions were important (more so than logic) and that dreams and visions meant something.  Finally, the Romantics were into the supernatural.

As far as the idea of nature goes, the description of Sleepy Hollow is pretty romantic.

Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.

The whole idea of the headless horseman and of the many legends and "ghost stories" that the people tell is very much in line with the ideas of romanticism.

Finally, the fact that Katrina prefers Brom to Ichabod seems Romantic.  In terms of intellect and logic, Ichabod is superior.  But she prefers Brom because he's so manly.

I'm sure there are many other examples, but these are a few.

In Act III, what is one example of verbal irony, dramatic irony, and disease imagery?

Remember that verbal irony happens when a character says something but means the opposite.  Can you find a place where one of the characters says something about another character, but you know that he or she is thinking the complete opposite? Hamlet in particular would be a good character to look at.

Dramatic irony happens when the audience (you, in this case) knows something that a character does not.  Given the fact that the king is plotting against Hamlet while Hamlet is plotting to kill the king, there are MANY examples here.

Disease imagery is just that.  Find an instance in which a character uses language connected with disease to describe/explain a sitation, an action, or another character.  This actually won't be hard, since you just have to skim for diesease words.  Once you've found one, you can just work with the text around it.

Please explain the quote "of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best" Discuss with reference to Greek humanism, aretealso...

Arete means excellence in Greek. The idea behind this is that the Greeks excelled in many areas. And, indeed, if one studies the Greek in any detail, one will immediately realize that the Greeks did excel in a lot. For example, there were great strides in science, philosophy, medicine, and the arts through the Greeks. Consider some of the names that are associated with the Greeks - Hippocrates, Socrates, Sophocles, Aristotle, and Demosthenes. Even today we read and contemplate what these men have written! There influence is felt now. Also when we look at Athenian democracy, we will be even more impressed, because their form of government is the basis of ours in America.