What is the theme of Anne Bradstreet's poem, "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild"?

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was born in England but settled down in America in 1630. Her  husband Simon Bradstreet served as governor of  Massachusetts Bay Colony. She faced many adversities in her life - she lost all her belongings when her house burnt down, she lost her son and daughter to illness and she herself died of TB. However, her Christian faith helped her to face and overcome all these personal calamities successfully.

Anne Bradstreet does not hide her grief and sorrow from her readers nor does she intellectualize it, but instead she tells it  as it is in plain simple terms:

"With troubled heart and trembling hand I write.

The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight.

How oft with dissappointment have I met

When I on fading things my hopes have set."

She begins by complaining that the "heavens" are responsible for her innocent grandchild's death. But she immediately checks herself by saying that  her past "experience" of the death of her dear ones has made her more stoical and helped to bear her loss:

"Was ever stable joy yet found below?

Or perfect bliss without mixture of woe?"

She realizes and accepts the impermanence of human existence and summons up enough courage to finally bid farewell to her grand daughter. Finally, she seeks consolation in her strong Christian faith that her grand  daughter is with Jesus Christ in heaven and that she will meet her when she herself goes there:

Farewell, dear child; thou ne'er shalt come to me,

But yet a while and I shall go to thee.

Meantime my throbbing heart's cheered up with this--

Thou with thy Savior art in endless bliss.

Please tell me about the slave rebellion on the Amistad.

The incident you are referring to occurred when slaves being brought from one part of Cuba to another aboard the ship Amistad rebelled and took over the ship.  This happened in 1839.

After the slaves took over the ship, they tried to force the navigator to bring them back to Africa.  He tricked them and sailed north.  They ended up being found by the US Navy off of New York.  The slaves were taken to Connecticut to be resold.

When abolitionists heard about this, they started to protest and the case was taken to the US Supreme Court.  The Court ruled that the slaves could not be sold and they were set free.

Although it did nothing to help end slavery, this rebellion is seen as having been very important in helping energize the cause of abolitionism in the US.

In O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," how is chronology used?

In this opening and title story of O'Brien's anthology, the author sets up a pattern of using flashback chronology and brief interruptions in time.  For example, when O'Brien describes Lt. Jimmy Cross and his photo of Martha, he mentions Lt. Cross's routine with the photo, but he interrupts the description with flashbacks in Cross's mind to when he had a date with Martha.

In addition to this interruption technique, O'Brien narrates most of the story in chronological order and includes references to the future, especially about which soldiers do not make it out of the war alive, such as describing what Ted Lavender carries and then stating "but that was before he was shot."

This style of including flashbacks and snippets from earlier or future moments in someone's life is chosen carefully by O'Brien because it represents the mind of someone struggling with traumatic events and trying to create some frame of reference for those events.

What tactic did Gen. Robert E. Lee use to win a brilliant victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville?

At the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1863), Robert E. Lee and General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, were able to defeat a numerically superior Union force, led by Gen. Joseph Hooker.

Because the Confederate forces were outnumbered, the conventional thing for them to do would have been to gather their forces in one place and try to avoid battle, or at the very least fight on the defensive.

Instead, Lee and Jackson decided to split their forces and use the tactic known as a flanking attack (attacking the enemy from the side rather than the front) against the Union army.

This tactic allowed the Confederates to win a victory that is still cited as a "stunning" win.

What is the situational irony and dramatic irony in "The Necklace"?

Situational irony is, simply put, when the opposite of what one expects to happen occurs.  In "The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant relies once again on his dark situational irony to end the story and advance his theme.  At the end of the story, Mathilde who despises hard labor and anything unglamorous discovers that she has sacrificed the best years of her life to replace a necklace that she discovers is a fake.  Someone who prided herself in such taste and appearance could not even tell the difference between the artificial and valuable.

While this story does not have much dramatic irony, de Maupassant does include some in that Madame Forestier knows all along that the necklace is not real and chooses not to tell Mathilde earlier.  Thus, a character in the story is privy to information that another character does not know.

A transit company carries about 80,000 riders per day for a fare of $1.25. To obtain more revenue, the management plans to increase the...

What you need to do here is to set up a table.  Your table should have three columns -- the fare, the number of riders per day, and the total revenue.  Revenue will, of course, be the fare multiplied by the number of riders.

Then you just start plugging in numbers -- it's easy to do this using Excel.  When you do this, you find that a price of either $2.60 or $2.65 will get you the same amount of revenue.  In each case, your revenue will be $137,800.  This is the highest revenue level.

If you want to solve this mathematically, you will need to derive the equation for a parabola where the x axis is the revenue and the y axis is the fare.  Then you will need to use that equation to find the vertex of the parabola.

Please see the following link for how to find the equation of a parabola given three points on that parabola.

What is the speaker's attitude in Harlem?

The speaker in the poem holds an examining attitude towards the American Dream.  The speaker in the poem offers different perspectives towards the dream in America.  The theme of the poem is to question the reality of dreams that are set aside.  Set amidst the condition of those in America whose voices are denied, the speaker in the poem posits possible results from the opening question of "What happens to a dream deferred?"  The attitude of the speaker is a reflective one, with an ominous tone struck by the posing of the closing question:  "Or does it explode?"  This attitude of the speaker does not indicate anything other than a predicament where little good results from the actions of dreams being deferred.

I NEED HELP WITH THE CRUCIBLE:In act 1: 1. in this arguement, the theme of authority explicitly arises. what are the 2 points of view? 2. In what...

I think the Act II question is the most intriguing.  The fear, paranoia, and lack of voice which seemed to mount in Salem at the time of Witchcraft Trials were also present in the 1950's with McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.  In both setting, to be accused was tantamount to guilt.  This created a setting where individuals were afraid to speak out against incorrect accusations for fear of being accused themselves.  In some respects such a time can be seen as "strange," because individuals who have the capacity to speak do not, and silence becomes the norm amongst individuals.

Explain management of data processing systems in business organisations?

Data and information play a very important role in management of any enterprise. The use of information becomes more extensive and important for an enterprise with increase in its size and complexity. Data Processing in business refers to all the activities related to the collection of data required by a business, storing and analyzing this data, and supplying the data in form of useful information required for operating and management of the business.

Managers need information about the environment of the enterprise they manage and within which they operate. They need to know the internal resources available in the organization they work for. They need to know its aspirations and limitations. To work effectively they must understand the internal strengths and weaknesses of the organization, the opportunities available and the external threats faced by it. They must have information about the customers of the company and its competitors. They must understand the technology of their business. There are hundreds of such types of information managers must have to manage their companies effectively. They use such information to take decision about their own actions and of subordinates they need to direct and guide. They also pass on information to their juniors, seniors, and colleagues to facilitate their work. Similarly a manager also receives information from others in the organization for facilitating his work. Such exchange of information is essential for collaborative working of the organization.

The management of data processing in business is aimed at providing managers with all such information effectively and efficiently. More specifically Data processing aims to ensure that good quality information available to support all the activities of the business. It aims to provide information to managers that is relevant, accurate, reliable, timely and easy to understand.

Effective management of data processing requires the general management skills, as for management of any other function. In addition it requires good understanding of business processes. Also with intensive use of Information, management of information also requires good technical knowledge of information technology, which covers five main sub-system of data processing processes: data capture, data storage and retrieval, analysis, information presentation, and information transmission.

What are five major supporting points/examples Jared Diamond's uses to support his thesis on the book Guns, Germs, and Steel?HELP! I'm a 9th...

Okay, you're asking for quite a bit here.  What I'm going to do is give you a bit of help with his thesis first of all:

His thesis is that Europeans came to be more powerful than other people because they were lucky in terms of their geography.  It was not because they were smarter or better than other people.

The major way in which they were lucky is that they could get agriculture sooner because they had better kinds of plants and animals available.  (This is the main point of Part 2 of the book)

Part Three shows the connection between getting agriculture sooner and having the guns, germs, and steel that allowed the Europeans to go conquering.

What I'd do if I were you is look in Parts 2 and 3 for examples that support the thesis.

I'm afraid I don't have space here to do more for you -- we're supposed to keep these around 90 words and I'm over....  The historycooperative link is a review that disagrees with Diamond.  Mcgoodwin is a summary of the book that might help you.

Good luck!

Advantages and disadvantages of having narrow span of management.

Span of management is also called span of control and refers to the organization of relationships between management and workers. Management span may be narrow or wide. Narrow span means that there are many mid- and top-level managers who each supervise a small number of employees reporting to them. In contrast, wide span means that there are fewer managers of mid- and top-level with each supervising a larger number of employees. Narrow span leads to a "tall" organizational structure because there is an inverse relationship between the span and the layers of hierarchy, so narrow span results in tall, multi-layered organizational structure. Conversely, wide span results in flat organizational structure with few layers. 

With this understanding of narrow span, especially contrasted with wide span, some of advantages and disadvantages are readily discernible. Advantages are:

• close relationships between workers and employees


• close supervision of employee tasks


• greater supervisorial attention to employees by managers


• possibility for more upward growth for employees


• possibility for greater complexity of tasks for employees

Disadvantages are related to overall cost, communication, feelings of remoteness, difficulties with motivation and morale.

• greater levels of management means greater operational costs


• tall organization with many layers of management means less efficient communication upward and less interest in communication downward


• lessening of employee morale and feelings of belonging


• lower skilled, less motivated employees require more supervision

Current theory prefers wide span and suggest span based upon type and nature of organization, management requirements, employee jobs and skill levels, kinds and intensity of interaction between employees and managing supervisors.

How did the seven years war bring on a crisis of empire between the colonies and the crown?

Main reasons why the French and Indian War/ 7 Years War causes the crisis between the colonies and Britain:

1.  This is the biggest one: it causes the British government to go too deep in debt.  So they want money to make up for that.  That's why they start trying to tax the colonies and trying to crack down on smuggling and stuff like that.  So the war leads them to try to control the colonies more than ever before and the colonies don't like that.

2.  Takes the French out of North America so the Americans don't have to worry about getting swallowed by France if they become independent.

3.  Allows Americans from different colonies to get to know one another and see that they have things in common.  Before that, they might as well have been from different countries so there was no way they'd work together to become independent.

In Chapter 1 the author is mostly interested in?"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

With one of the most famous sentences in all of literature, Herman Melville opens his narrative with "Call me Ishmael."  With this line, Melville introduces the Biblical allusion of the son of Hagar and Abraham who, with his mother, was made to wander in the wilderness after Sarah, the wife of Abraham, had had a son of her own, Isaac. Wanting no competition for Isaac, she asked Abraham to banish Ishmael and his mother.  Reluctantly, Abraham acquiesced after God told him he would take care of Ishmael. That the narrator is named Ishmael takes on great significance as the sailor goes to see for a long time--wanders--and is ultimately the only survivor of the doomed ship of the tragic Captain Ahab.

The attention of the author is clearly given to this character who is also the narrator who is touched by fate.  While Ishamel explains that it is despair that makes him decide to go to sea, for the lure of the mysteries of nature, the whale and the sea are what lure him onto the Pequod in Nantucket;

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Once more.  Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.  Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.  There is magic in it.  Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.  Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

The sea has a lure of metaphysical mystery; the answer to the questions of the universe are withing its depths. Ishamel declares,

the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul.

The preternatural sea that "hosts the grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in air," lures Ishmael, a somewhat enigmatic character who seeks adventure to relieve his depression of spirit, suggesting some similarities between him and his future captain.  In Chapter 1, Melville creates mystery and introduces the narrator and the theme of the Quest for what is beyond the "pasteboard mask," as Ahab terms it, that Nature wears.

In "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, how does the narrator eventually murder the old man?

This question can be answered through a close reading of the text; in it, the narrator describes his struggle as he murders the old man, and what he does with the body afterwards.  I encourage you to take a close look at it and read it for yourself, because it's such a cool story, and the way that Poe writes it is super intense.

To summarize, the narrator opens the door to the room and eventually, shines the lantern onto the old man.  And, it is the old man's creepy eye that falls into the beam of the lantern.  This, along with his perception that he can hear the old man's heartbeat, makes the narrator so incensed that he attacks the old guy.  Poe describes it thus:

"In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him."

So, he basically smothers the old man with the mattress.  The narrator mentions how it took quite some time for the old man to be smothered to death, and for his heartbeat to stop beating away.  But, after the deed was done, the narrator takes gruesome means to cover the crime--he chops the old man's body to pieces in the bathtub, and buries the parts under the floorboards of the room he was murdered in.  Pretty horrific, if you ask me, which is probably one of the reasons that for nearly 200 years, this tale has been so popular.  Poe has a talent for writing really interesting narrators who do some pretty fantastical things.   I hope that helped; good luck!

New Director cannot get the Administrator to deal with certain issues. What decision-making process can she use to manage this?Hired as the...

This is common in the military.  The commander (or in your case, the Administrator) is indeed too busy to be immersed in decision making.  What the Administrator needs is to be able to briefly provide guidance during the decision making process and then to make the decision based on your recommendation.

Basically, here's how to make that happen.

1)  Identify your problem.  This is simple, but needs to be stated to all who are involved in the decision.

2)  Analyze the problem.  Collect facts, statistics, laws, restrictions, costs, the boss' personal preferences, etc.  State any assumptions you are making during the decision making process.  Identify requirements that your organization MUST meet, both specified and implied.

3)  Develop courses of action that will solve your problem.  There may be many courses of action, and many may not exclude each other.  When you recommend a decision to the boss, make sure she knows what courses of action you considered.  Now may be a good time to present these to her as part of the process, so you don't spend a lot of time later on a wild goose chase.  Now is also the time to decide what criteria you will use later when you analyze these courses of action.  In other words, what will make a course of action better than another.  Often, cost is one of these criteria.  Other criteria may include speed, efficiency, difficulty, etc.  In other words, one course of action may be cheaper but slower than another, while another may be cheap but difficult.

4)  Analyze and compare the courses of action.  Using the criteria from before, analyze how effective each course of action is and compare it to the others.

5)  Make your recommendation, using all of this information.  Your boss will appreciate being able to make an INFORMED decision.  She may not go with your recommendation, but all is not lost.  She still is considering all your input, but often has a different viewpoint.

All of this is very loosely based on the Military Decision Making Process, which takes college-educated Army officers a career to master.  Good luck!

Why do plants breath oxygen at night? explain it and how oxygen helps the plant

The term "breath" is improper, instead of this term you could use the right term "respiration".

As every living organism, plants, during the process of respiration, take in the oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

Also, during photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen,photosynthesis being the process used to form the nutritious substances necessary for growth and development of plants, and it took place in the chloroplast only in the presence of light. Chloroplasts contain a green pigment called chlorophyll, which absorbs light energy from the sun.

From water and minerals (crude sap arrived in leaf ) in the presence of carbon dioxide in leaf, organic substances (sap drawn) and oxygen are formed. Starch is the organic matter from the sap drawn, resulting from photosynthesis.
Oxygen is removed from the leaf through stoma.

Knowing all the above, the conclusion is that during the night, the process of photosynthesis, which changes CO2 into O2 to feed themselves, cannot be held, because of the lack of light, so the plants have to use O2 for carrying the electrons.

How does Gatsby "prepare" for his meeting with Daisy in The Great Gatsby?Chapter 5

Jay prepares for his meeting with Daisy by first, checking his house to be sure it looks grand and opulent and perfect.  At the beginning of chapter five, Nick tells us that Gatsby had turned on all the lights in his house.  Jay also tries to repay Nick for the favor of hosting the get-together which is an awkward, but telling, attempt on Jay's part.  In Jay's world, all things have a price.  If he does a favor for someone, he expects to be paid and the reverse is true as well.  In Nick's world, sometimes people just do things out of kindness.  This is one of the examples of the class difference between Jay and Nick as well as between Jay and Daisy.  Additionally, Jay sends people to Nick's house to mow the lawn and deliver many flowers.  He wants Nick's house to look good, too.  Jay is nervous because he wants Daisy to see that he is wealthy. He thinks that if she sees him as wealthy, then she'll see him as being worthy of her.  That is also why he wears the white wool flannel suit, with the silver shirt and the gold tie.  His clothes scream "wealth".  Sadly, his ostentatiousness is another glaring example of the class difference which will forever prevent Daisy and him from truly being together.

How do you translate the following into Spanish?: "She likes to play the piano, guitar, drums, and loves to sing!"

Well, since no-one else has ventured a guess, I think I'll throw my hat in the ring!:

¡Ella tiene gusto de jugar el piano, la guitarra, los tambores, y los amores para cantar!

That's the best I've got but I am pretty sure it is accurate.  I know that the spelling is correct.  "tiene gusto"=like, "jugar"=to play, "el piano, la guitarra, los tambores"=piano, guitar, drums.  "amores"=loves cantar=sing.

You're killing me a bit here because I am supposed to use at least 90 words to answer each question, and your question was so simple I am not sure which 90 words I would use in order to make my answer longer.  Oh wait, there I go!

What does this phrase in Macbeth mean?this is malcolm talking in act 5 scene 4." for where there is advantage to be given, BOTH MORE AND LESS HAVE...

The text, as printed in the First Folio:

• 
  Seyw.
  What wood is this before vs?
  2295:
  Ment.
  The wood of Birnane.
  2296:
  Malc.
  Let euery Souldier hew him downe a Bough,
  2297: And bear't before him, thereby shall we shadow
  2298: The numbers of our Hoast, and make discouery
  2299: Erre in report of vs.
  2300:
  Sold.
  It shall be done.
  2301:
  Syw.
  We learne no other, but the confident Tyrant
  2302: Keepes still in Dunsinane, and will indure
  2303: Our setting downe befor't.
  2304:
  Malc.
  'Tis his maine hope:
  2305: For where there is aduantage to be giuen,
  2306: Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt,
  2307: And none serue with him, but constrained things,
  2308: Whose hearts are absent too.
  2309:
  Macd.
  Let our iust Censures
  2310: Attend the true euent, and put we on
  2311: Industrious Souldiership.

As stated, his own soldiers, officers and enlisted, have revolted; since both "more and less" have done so, he's left with "none" or zero soliders who truly wish to serve him.  So we've got a bit of a numbers pun here.  Those who do serve are "constrained things" meaning their (absent) hearts aren't really in it.

The text before and after Malcolm's statement feeds into this numbers theme -- "[we shall] shadow the numbers of our host" meaning the tree camouflage used by the soldiers will cause him to miscalculate the number of soldiers attacking him.  So the opposing army also has "more and less" -- "less" is the number that he thinks will attack, "more" is the actual number of camoflaged soldiers who will!  In this deception, Malcolm "gains the advantage" in the battle.

In the book Hatchet, why does Brian push the nose of the plane down and throw up?

In the book Hatchet, Brian pushes the nose of the plane down because the engine has suddenly died, and that is the only way to keep it flying a little longer. He throws up most likely because of terror - the terror of knowing that he is going to crash-land, and possibly die.

Brian has no idea of how to fly a plane, but he has had quite awhile to think about it after the pilot dies. The plane has been flying smoothly on its own during the period since then, and in that time, after his initial panic, Brian has tried to prepare himself for what he knows is coming. He figures that eventually, the plane will run out of fuel and the engine will stop, and he guesses

"that without the propellor pulling he would have to push the nose down to keep the plane flying - he (thinks) he may have read that somewhere, or it just (comes) to him. Either way, it (makes) sense."

Brian's conjecture that he will have to push the nose down to keep flying speed when the engine stops, then pull it back up to slow the plane as much as possible before impact is correct. When the engine finally dies, he does just as he has planned, but as he pushes the nose of the plane down, the terror and the finality of what is about to happen causes his stomach to "tighten into a series of rolling knots" and he throws up (Chapters 2 and 3).

Determine the simple interest. p= $41, 864, r =0 .0375% per day, t = 60 days

The total simple interest interest is given by the formula below:

I = p*r*t/100

Where:

I = Total simple interest

p = Principal amount taken on loan

r = Rate of interest payable on loan expressed as percentage of the principle for a single time period. Generally the time period used for specifying the rate of interest is one year, but other periods can also be used. In the given question the interest rate is specified in terms of days.

t = Duration or time period of the loan. This should be in the same units as used for specifying the interest rate.

It is given:

p = $41864

r = 0.0375 % per day

t = 60 days

Substituting the given values in formula for simple interest we get:

Interest = 41864*0.037*60/100 = 941.94

Answer:

Simple Interest = $941.94

How does Atticus explain rape to Scout?

As always, Atticus Finch tells it like it is when Scout demands to know what rape means in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. When Scout initially asks her Uncle Jack "what a whore-lady was," he beats around the bush. When Scout questions Calpurnia about rape, she instructs her to ask her father. Since Scout knows she can talk with Atticus about anything, she does.

    "What's rape?" I asked him that night.
    Atticus looked around from behind his paper... He sighed, and said rape was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent.

Scout was less than enthused by Atticus' accurate definition, and drops the matter. But it only led to another argument between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra concerning Calpurnia's place in the Finch family.

Is Lady Macbeth the driving force behind the murder of Duncan?I can not come to conclusion about whether the witches, Lady Macbeth or Macbeth is...

From the beginning of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," there is a perversion of gender roles:  The witches are bearded and Macbeth expresses confusion over whether they are male or female.  Critic Robert N. Watson states,

Shakespeare portrays Macbeth's crimes, from first to last, as costly violations of the procreative cycle.

The sexless witches stir a broth of eyes and other parts of animals used to enhance one's procreative prowess.  This suggestion of procreation then extends to the description of Scotland as the motherland and Macbeth, who "carved out his passage" (I,ii,19) as the heroic son.  And, it is King Duncan who receives Macbeth as a son, praising his valor:

Thy praises in his kingdom's greata defense,/And poured them down before him. (I,iii,98-99)

In Act I, Scene v, Macbeth writes of the prediction of the witches to Lady Macbeth, indicating that he is tempted by the preternatural world.  Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to kill Duncan, an act much like the mother urging her son to usurp the throne.  That this is somewhat Oedipal in nature has been propounded by many a critic.

Thus, all three of these forces contribute to the violations of the procreative cycle:  unnatural forces, a man who sees a "dagger" before him and an opportunity for rebirth as the new king that his wife, who "unsexes" herself and urges him as a perverse mother to kill the king so that her "son" can have the throne.

What is rapid globalization?

This term describes what is taking place today in the world. In the past people have spoken about globalization, but it was a type of globalization that was taking place at a slow pace. However, when we speak about globalization today, it is taking place at a much quicker pace. The chief reason for this is due to technology.

Through technologies of communication and transportation, in particular, the world is getting smaller. Therefore, one part of the world is linked to another. Consider the advancement in shipping alone. We can order something from London and get it to New York within a day. The very popularity of overnight shipping is a case in point. Finally, there seems to be no slowing down in this trend.

What techniques do Napoleon and Snowball use in their struggle for power over Animal Farm?

Snowball and Napoleon, arguably the most intelligent animals on the farm (other than, perhaps, the mule) are in a "battle" to control the direction that Animal Farm will take.  Both of them choose different tactics during the fight, one which Napoleon will ultimately win.

Snowball seems to have a genuine interest in improving the lot of the animals on the farm.  He is idealistic and believes in the "commandments."  His main goals are to spread the revolution (as seen in his suggestion to send out more birds to visit other farms) and to improve conditions on Animal Farm.  In a political sense, he is trying to win the hearts of the the animals and thereby their loyalty.  He can do this if he is able to think of "programs" that appeal to the animals sense of progress (for example, the Windmill that is supposed to provide some creature comforts to the animals in the barn.)  Technology is a way to improve the farm and allow the animals more time off.  Sort of a populist message.

Napoleon, on the other hand, is more of a "blunt instrument."  He is willing to spend the time needed to debate Snowball, but generally takes opinions contrary to Snowball in order to create conflict.  His main goals are to tighten his control over Animal Farm and ensure its protection (as seen in his suggestion to acquire more guns rather than sending out birds.)  He has had the foresight to train up a pack of attack dogs and make them loyal to him, showing that the "coup" option was always in the back of his mind.

Napoleon was willing to go through the "democratic" process to a point, but when it looked like he was going to lose the vote on the windmill he had his dogs chase Snowball off the farm, thus ending the debate.  For him, politics is only a useful game if he was winning.  He tends to work on the animals minds, twisting history and events in ways the less intelligent animals have problems recognizing.  This twisting solidifies his power.   Notice the way that once Snowball is gone, Napoleon decrees that the windmill will indeed be built because he had (supposedly) secretly always been for it.

In the end Snowball didn't stand a chance.  He thought he was playing politics on a level playing field, but Napoleon was the type willing to just take the ball and go home.

What does Mark Strand want to show us in his poem "Eating Poetry"?

The most likely message that Mark Strand is trying to communicate in his poem is the joyous experience that reading really good poetry often can be for people.  When you read a really good poem, absorb it and take it into your mind and heart, it sometimes almost feels like you are transformed; Strand represents this with a literal picture of "eating" poetry, which is more likely a symbol for reading a poem.  Poets, writers and readers have tried to describe the physical experience of reading a really good poem; Emily Dickinson, a famous American author, said that reading a good poem felt like the top of her head had been taken off.  Others describe it as a ray of light penetrating their hearts, being filled with revelation, and like a rush of wind blowing through their minds.  So, reading a really good poem definitely has a physical impact; anytime you recognize beauty, revelation or profundity, it awes, it takes your breath away, it moves you, sometimes to goosebumps or tears.

Mark Strand took this idea of reading good poetry to a rather unique angle--he compared it to feeling like a joyful, exuberant, reckless, ridiculous dog.  Dogs, when happy and excited, jump about, pant, wriggle, bark, run everywhere, and seem to be so overwhelmed with their glee and joy of living that they can't even contain themselves.  Well, perhaps that is what Strand feels like when he reads a good poem--overwhelmed with joy and glee, and wanting to jump around like a silly dog to release the happiness he feels.

Strand is showing us the complete joy that abandonment to a good poem can be; he takes a rather unusual and almost disturbing and literal route to do it, but, conveys that sense of joy that poetry can bring to someone.

In "The Devil and Tom Walker," why does Tom decide not to make a pact with the devil after his first offer?

When Tom first meets Old Scratch in the forest, he is skeptical about the creature's identity and authenticity.  However, when he reaches home, he sees the permanent black mark left on his forehead by the devil.  He tells his contrary wife about the devil's offer, and she--true to her selfish nature--urges her husband to barter away his soul for material goods.  Her advice and nonchalance about his soul anger Tom, and so he is determined not to accept the offer.  Irving writes that

"however Tom might have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil, he was determined not to do so to oblige his wife; so he flatly refused out of the mere spirit of contradiction."

Thus, Tom most likely would have never made a deal with the devil because he wanted to spite his wife had she not gone into the forest to make her own deal and been killed.

In 1984 what is the significance of Winston's dreams about O'Brien and his sister and mother?Chapters 2 and 3. His dream of O'Brien (shall meet...

As the book continues, we learn a little bit more about the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Winston's mother and sister, and realize that he harbors long-held feelings of guilt and shame over his involvement in it.  Growing up, he was a selfish boy, always taking more food than was his share, whining quite a bit, and treating his mother cruelly.  Granted, he was merely hungry, starving even, but Winston still feels guilty about it.  After one particularly nasty episode, his mother and sister disappear, and Winston can't help but feel it is his fault.  So, in his dream, his mother and sister are in some sort of sinking ship, or well, where he knows that they are going to die or suffocate.  And they are looking up at him, who is in the sunshine, safe, with accusation and knowledge in their eyes, knowledge that he won't save them.  The part that really gets Winston is this:

"He was out in the light and air while they were being sucked down to death, and they were down there because he was up here.  He knew it and they knew it, and he could see the knowledge in their faces."

This dream directly reflects the guilt and shame that Winston felt over treating them so horribly when they were alive, and the subconscious feeling that he was somehow responsible for their disappearance. He has no confirmation of this fact, but feels so horrible that he is sure he must have driven them away to their deaths somehow.

The dream with O'Brien represents Winston's deep-seated desire to find someone to connect to, who feels the same way as he does about the party.  He hates the party, but feels alone and vulnerable in that hatred.  He suspects that O'Brien might feel the same too, but isn't sure.  In his dream, those hopes are played out, and O'Brien is a co-conspirator, a fellow-hater, and gives him the elusive lines, "we shall meet in a place where there is no darkness."  Winston interprets that line with a sense of hope; he ties it to the Golden Country, which is a land of sunshine and beauty that also frequents his dreams, where the Party is gone and real life can truly begin.  O'Brien haunting his dream, offering hopes of a better life with no sorrows all reflect his dreams of such a thing actually being able to exist.

I hope that those thoughts helped; good luck!

What is centeral idea of Julius caesar story? and Brief summary of Julius caesar ?I read this drama twice a day but a could not get theme of this...

In the William Shakespeare play, Julius Caesar one of the major themes could be expressed as absolute power corrupts absolutely. Look at Julius for instance. He began his reign as a good ruler with good ideas for the people, but gradually he changed and his ideas caused concern among those closest to him that he might become more of a dictator. Later as his "friends" discussed what could be done, they allowed themselves to be influenced with ideas such as having the power and need to take this stand for the good of the people. This thinking, however, clouded further thinking and they could not see that Marc Anthony was not truly in league with them. Thus even more political corruption and tragedy arose.

How do the men feel about Corporal Himmelstoss in All Quiet on the Western Front?

While the young men are in the equivalent of basic training under Corporal Himmelstoss, they find him unfair and even cruel. "He is known as the toughest disciplinarian in the camp, but he pushes this group of boys especially hard because he believes they are defiant. His method of punishing the bedwetters is horribly unjust and would never work in the first place; the boys just thwart his plan by alternating sleeping on the bed and on the floor. Himmelstoss pushes them relentlessly them, drilling them in exercises that seem unnecessarily repetitive, such as the "stand up--fall down" in the mud drill they have to do with heavy packs on their backs.Requiring various soldiers to remake a bed numerous times or clean with a toothbrush is excessive. Their retaliation when they punish the drunken corporal is very satisfying to them, as Paul says, "We had become successful students of his method."

Although some of Himmelstoss' demands will undoubtedly toughen the young men in preparation for the rigors of battle, they discover when they reach the front that they have learned little that is actually useful to survive. When Himmelstoss eventually reports to the front himself, the boys are amazed to discover their corporal's cowardice in battle and their view of him drops even lower.

The eagle allegory is symbolic and thematic ."One day, ran the story, an eagle ladi her eggs in a nest..." and ends with "We have,says Lina."To...

I loved this allegory, which I think Lina tells Florens. You have to keep in mind that nearly everyone in the story is an orphan in some way or another. Everyone has been displaced and they are in a new environment, removed from his/her roots and now facing very difficult circumstances. The story as I recall entails eggs that are falling from a high nest. And possibly that the mother has pushed the eggs out of the nest so that the man who has come into the valley will not harm or take the eggs. The falling eggs separated from the mother parallel the story of all of the orphans in the story. Florens has been separated from her mother--her mother purposely abandons her so that she might have a better life. Lina has been separated by her indian tribe because it was wiped out by smallpox, and she's sort of become a drifter that has been picked up by the French and a protestant group. Disease has made her an orphan. Sorrow grew up living on a boat but everyone died, so she becomes a casteaway who is taken in by Sir. Sir himself grew up in London as a literal orphan. He was told that his mother was a woman of no consequence who chose not to take care of him. Eventually he comes to the New World because he buys into all the promises of fortune. Rebekka is also a kind of orphan because her father has basically sold her off as a mail order bride. Sir put out an ad for a wife and Rebekka's father answered and put his daughter on a boat. Everyone is scrambling to survive. No one in the new world has family or roots because they are the first to arrive. They are all eggs falling, totally vulnerable to disease, to violence, to starvation, to the winter, and religious wackos who burn people to stakes. What will happen to the eggs? Florens asks. That's when Lina says "we have survived." This is an amazing book!

What are the complications caused by acute pancreatitis?

Complications of acute pancreatitis can be very unpleasant. One problem is hyperglycaemia which is a high glucose (blood sugar) level. Then, the body can stop making insulin. Dangerous conditions arising from acute pancreatitis can include renal failure or failure of the respiratory system. In severe and  often fatal cases, all the organs will fail. In this case the rate of mortatlity can increase to thirty five per cent.

Patitents with the condition need to be kept in hospitals for treatment. There they will have to fast rigorously and will be given intravenous fluids. The condition can be very painful so they need to be given painkillers. They may have to have a tube put through the nose to the stomach for feeding and to stop them from vomiting. As the condition can be brought on by alcohol misuse it is probably best to avoid this unpleasant condition by living healthily.

Which halogens are also diatomic molecules?

There are 5 elements of the halogen family in column 17 of the Periodic Table.  The word "halogen" comes from the Greek meaning "to produce sea salt," and all of them, with one exception, are very commonly found as compounds on Earth and within the oceans.

One of the properties of the Halogen family is that the elements are missing just one electron to complete their outer orbits.  They are therefore reactive, and will share electrons among themselves.  Again, with one exception, the whole family is diatomic, meaning that the element exists as a molecule made up of two of its atoms.  The exception is astatine, which unlike its relatives, is among the rarest of elements.

The halogenic diatomic molecules are fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine.

The 3 other remaining non-halogenic diatomic molecules are oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen.

Computers in Business and Personal Computers in Business?

I think what you are asking is whether there is a difference between personal computers and computers that you find in businesses. This is a hard question to answer, unless I know what type of business you are referring to. For example, if you are talking about a high technology science company with the need to make huge computations, a personal computer would not work. Or if you are referring even to a movie production company that needs to render huge amount of video footage. But if you are referring to average companies, then any computer would work fine. The difference is not so much in the hardware. The difference is in the software.

In "The Cask of Amontillado," how do Montressor's personalilty and emotions convey the story's theme?Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

The grotesque playfulness of the narrator allows Poe to tease out the latent horror of his theme in "The Cask of Amontillado." For instance, Montesor, who has "vowed revenge" states that when he is "accosted with excessive warmth" by Fortunato, he

was so pleased to see him that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand.

As his "own fancy grew warm with the Medoc," Montesor playfully asks Fortunato if he is a mason, waving a trowel in the air as he demonstrates his pun.  Continually, Montesor, much like a cat playing and torturing a mouse, feigns concern for Fortunato's health by acting as though they should turn back instead of completing his nefarious plan. But, his gothic arabesques completed, Montesor fetters his victim and walls him in.

Thus, the psychological horror of this tale of revenge parallels the physical is Poe's pattern of "arabesque," as he termed it.  The various turnings and returnings in Poe's story develop the horror and cause it to crescendo at the ending with the narrator's perverse "Yes, for the love of God." In a final insanely playful remark Montesor says after he hears the jingling of the unfortunate enemy, "My heart grew sick--on account of the dampness of the catacombs."  With no remorse for his act, Montesor proudly states that for a half of a century no one has disturbed Fortunato's tomb' his revenge is complete.

What is a good topic for an essay about "A Piece of String"?"A Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant

One direction that you can follow is that of the author's attitude toward his characters in "A Piece of String" and the effect that it produces upon the narrative. Having served in the Franco-Prussian War, Maupassant, a Norman himself, developed an intense dislike for the peasantry and their abiding distrust of one another after his disillusioning experiences in the army.  In several instances Maupassant makes remarks such as "like the true Norman he was," "since they both had a tendency to hold grudges, they had remained on bad terms with each other," and "they slyly watched each other."  Repeatedly, Maupassant alludes to the deceitfulness and treachery of these Norman peasants in his recounting of the narrative.  His two key phrases, "the tricks of the man" and "the defect in the beast" are pivotal to the plot and theme alike in this examination of the inner workings of the Norman lower-class psyche.

When creating a Chart of Accounts, is it appropriate to lump all type of payables (liabilities) as a single category known as Accruals?

The "chart of accounts" in accounting refers to a complete lis of accounts that are used by the accounting system of a firm. These accounts are divided in four broad categories - assets, liabilities, income and expenses.  Liability refers to the amounts that is owed by the firm to others. This includes the the payables, or the amount that the company owes to its suppliers.

Accruals is a concept that is independent of classification of accounts in these categories. It is a concept that is related to the status of any particular item of income or expense.

We can identify three states of any income or expense. These are incurred, due, and accrued. We can understand this taking example of interest charges. When a company takes a loan on interest, the interest charges are calculated from the day the loan is taken, and the amount of interest keeps on increasing every day. But the company does not pay the interest every day. The terms of loan taken may require the interest on the loan is to be repaid every quarter, In this the loan becomes due for payment only at the end of each quarter, however the amount of loan keeps on accruing throughout. Thus the have the concept of interest accrued and interest due. Interest due at a particular time may not be paid exactly when due. When the interest is actually paid, it becomes interest incurred.

For the purpose of calculating the profit and loss and preparing the balance sheet the accounts follow the system of either accrued or incurred income and expense. Irrespective of the system followed by a company in this respect, there is no change in accounts of the company relating to accounts payable. And most certainly there is no category or group of accounts in a typical chart of accounts called accruals, as accruals can pertain to either expenses or income, which are two very different groups of accounts.

What would be a good symbol to represent Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird?

This is purely a subjective, opinion question, but if you want to continue Harper Lee's bird motif, you should choose a bird to symbolize Scout--one which encompasses the narrator's boldness, protective nature, and inquisitve spirit.  Personally, I think that the blue jay would work well for Scout, but whatever you choose, try to ensure that you avoid Scout's last name since Lee has already chosen that for symbolic purposes.

What does Capulet say he wishes for his daughter?

If you're referring to Capulet's first appearance, in Act I scene ii, he wishes for Juliet to mature two more years before she is married. In this scene, Paris is pushing for Capulet to grant him permission to marry Juliet, but Capulet is reluctant. As Juliet is only thirteen, Capulet thinks her too young to be wed.

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;
Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

Paris tries to argue, saying that women younger than Juliet marry and are happy, but Capulet argues that their lives are not as fulfilling as they might be if they had waited. He also says he will not consent to the marriage unless Juliet is willing.

But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;

My will to her consent is but a part.

An she agree, within her scope of choice

Lies my consent and fair according voice

Thus, Paris must win over Juliet before Capulet will even consider it. This is actually a rather progressive stance, considering the time period and the lack of rights for women. Capulet appears as one who truly loves his daughter and wants to see her happy. Of course, this will be reversed later, when he discovers that she refuses to marry Paris. At that point he disowns her and threatens to throw her into the streets if she does not obey his orders. It is interesting to note this shift throughout the play.

How are the townspeople superstitious in chapter 8-11?

Superstition is a constant motif throughout the novel, shown as pervading the society of the South. One example from these chapters is the search for Huck's body. He is awoken by the sound of cannons firing, which is supposed to bring a dead body to the surface. This seems to be a satiric treatment of the theme of superstition, particularly since the participants are the educated townspeople. In addition to the cannons, the townspeople load a loaf of bread with mercury, which is also supposed to locate the body. Ironically, the floating bread on the water finds Huck as it was meant to do.

In Chapter 10 superstition is evident again, particularly when the rattlesnake bites Jim. The morning after seeing the floating house, Huck wants to discuss the dead man, but Jim says talking about it will bring bad luck. Although he is simply covering for the fact that the dead man was Huck's father, he is using superstition to do so. Huck argues that touching a snakeskin with his hands was supposed to have brought bad luck too, but instead they found all those useful items in the floating house, including money. However, the bad luck is revealed when Huck plays a joke on Jim by putting a dead rattlesnake in his blanket. When Jim goes to bed, the snake’s mate is curling around the dead snake and bites Jim in the heel. Jim thinks his bad luck is attributed to the fact that Huck touched a snakeskin with his bare hands a few days ago, but Huck knows the real reason. He is aware that he acted irresponsibly when he put the dead rattlesnake in Jim’s blanket for a joke. Although it is too late, he remembers that the mate of a dead snake will come later and curl around it.

While some of the superstitions play out in the novel, Twain makes his audience aware that he is mocking these beliefs and revealing the folly of those who live by them. According to him, it is the same kind of thinking which leads to racism and slavery.

What countries in Europe won their independence during 1830 and 1831? In what city did the European revolutions of 1848 begin?

In the years 1830 to 1831, political changes swept through Europe.  They were begun, in a way, by a revolution in France.  Charles X of France had tried to take much more power for the crown in July 1830.   In response to that, a liberal revolution drove him from power -- he abdicated and went into exile.  But France was already independent.

The upheaval in France spread to Belgium, which rebelled against Dutch rule and gained independence in 1830.  Serbia also gained independence in that year.

Poland rebelled against Russia in 1830 but their rebellion was crushed.

The revolutions of 1848 began in Paris.

In "The Scarlet Letter" what does the scarlet letter "A" look like?

The word scarlet is actually a synonym for the word red; it's not used as often as it used to be, but red is what scarlet is.  Scarlet is a deep, dark, intense red, very vibrant and rich.  So, the scarlet letter A that Hester wears is of that sort of color.  Hawthorne actually describes the letter in more details, as Hester stands in front of the crowd to be mocked and stared at as part of her punishment.  Near the beginning of the first chapter, when Hester steps out of the prison, Hawthorne describes the A thus:

"On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.  It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy..."

From this description, we can ascertain that it was a very fancy letter, sewed on with gold, shiny thread.  It stood out boldly on her dress, and showed great ability in terms of talent at sewing.  Compared to the black-garbed, dim Puritans that she stood in front of, it had to have stood out quite a bit.  The colors-bright red, and shiny gold, would have been a rare sight for many of the Puritan people of that time.  It is even described as fantastic, luxurious, and gorgeous.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good luck!

What is describe in the poem as a blessing? In James Wright's "A Blessing" how is his description revealing of his spiritual beliefs ?

The poem is about looking at two ponies (nature) and feeling transcendent as a result.Many other things are suggested by the language the author uses. For example, the feminine nature.

Feminine nature is a subject in the poem as you can see from the narrator's stating that one pony is a female: "she has walked over to me" … "her mane" … "her long ear / That is delicate as the skin over a girl’s wrist."

Another subject the poem deals with is death. The poet is telling us that when people die they don't just vanish. The image of  stepping out of the body shows us that he feels at one with the pony and nature.He is not just a human being but part of nature. He can transcend his human (body) nature.

Because of the poet's rapturous encounter with nature which seeing the ponies represents, the reader of "The Blessing" can understand that the poet believes in transcendence. In other words, that he is more than a mere mortal. This awareness he has makes him profoundly scared, as if he would "break". He is also feels he has become pure, like a "blossom".

In the short story "Earthquake" by Jack Hodgins, what is the theme that he is trying to express to his audience?What role do the adults thinking...

In the short story, “Earthquake” by Jack Hodgins, he is trying to recall and deal with the devastating affects of the Vancouver Island earthquake in 1946. The short story's narrator is just a seven year old boy. He reminisces about the events after the earthquake, as if he is talking to other "survivors". This narrative technique is really immediate and brings the details up close, in terms of the psychological impact the earthquake had. The long term affect it had on him personally is profound: he had thought the earth was a solid, stable mass, but now, he is unsure. His world view was changed entirely by this one, major dramatic event in his life. What was once his home and his town, became nothing. It changed his outlook on the world forever.

The theme is impermanence. Life is in the now. It isn't in the future,or in our goals for the future for our children. He is stressing that life is lived and experienced "in the now".

Discuss the importance of Claudius in the play.

Claudius is the villain of the play.  In particular, he plays several villain archetypes: he is a tyrant who wants power at any price; he is a traitor who betrays those who trust him most; he is a backstabber who delights in duping the unsuspecting, who relishes in his victims' secrets; he is a schemer, a spy who plots the ruin of others.

Above all, he commits the most heinous crimes imaginable: incest, regicide, patricide, and fratricide.  He kills his King, his brother, his wife the Queen, his nephew the Prince.  He uses a whole family of pawns (Polonius, Ophelia, and Laertes) to do so, and they die also.  In the end, two families are dead because of Claudius.  Norway is defeated and invaded because of Claudius.

Claudius is based on the chieftain Feng from the Saxo Grammaticus and the Roman archetypal Claudius I, who also committed incest.

Claudius is not without remorse.  He tries to confess his sin and even comments on his guilt in Act III: "O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven"

A quote in "Huckleberry Finn" that shows the transcendentalism idea of simplifying life?

As you say, the transcendentalists, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau believed that people should simplify their lives.  They thought that people got too tied up in loving their material possessions until they existed for the benefit of the possessions rather than the other way around.

The Transcendentalists also argued that people should behave in the ways they think best.  They said people shouldn't just blindly follow what society says is right.

Both of these ideas are present in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  Here's the quote that I would pick to show these ideas.  It's from the very beginning of the book:

but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

I hope that helps.

How did Jonas decide he felt? What was causing this feeling?

I don't know at what point along the story line you are referring to, but at the very beginning the book states that Jonas has been feeling 'apprehensive.' (It took him a while to find the right word.) This is because of the approaching Ceremony of Twelve, a coming of age ritual in which he will be given his Assignment.  As everything else in the Community, this is not a question of choice but appointment; he will be delegated his job to do for the rest of his life. Jonas is understandably anxious in that this moment is an important turning point in his life over which he has absolutely no control.

The above answer is a pertinent one but it comes later on, after Jonas has been appointed to be the next Giver in line and is in training as the Receiver.  His feelings of anxiety (over the unknown) give way to anguish, then horror, as he is imparted the collective memory of a very dystopian society. It is his "wake up call" to change the course of events by giving the Community back its past, and consequently, its ability to reason and choose.

What would Mr. Gatz write in his eulogy at Gatsby's funeral?some ideas plz. i have to make it a paragraph. thnkx in advance

Look at what Henry Gatz says to Nick in chapter 9 and even more importantly, look at what relic from Jay's past his father brings with him to New York - the book with the notations written in it.  Each one of the six resolves that young Jimmy Gatz wrote in his book would probably be a point made in Henry Gatz's eulogy to his son.  I think Henry would lead with something like, "If Jimmy would have lived, he'd have been someone great.  He was bound to get ahead because he had a big future before him....".  Henry would dwell on the positives of his son and the resolves, as well as that very disciplined schedule, show a determined, driven boy.  The last resolve, "Be better to parents" would have been a fitting conclusion to the eulogy, too.

What is the difference between dystopian and post apocalyptic literature?i want to know the main different points.also can we consider post...

There isn't a clear difference. Certain dystopic societies could occur in a post-apocalyptic world. And certain (or most) apocalyptic societies could be considered dystopian. The main difference, especially in literature, is that dystopian societies are often the result of revolutions or the effects of the illusion of progress and other intended means of improvement. So, dystopias are often the unfortunate result of well-meaning, albeit misguided attempts at progress and social evolution. Post-apocalyptic societies are the aftermath of nuclear war, plague, or religious 'end of days'/Book of Revelation types of scenarios.

In short, since post-apocalyptic societies are all at the end of civilization, they are necessarily dystopias. But not all dystopias are post-apocalyptic. For instance, novels like 1984 and Brave New World are not really post-apocalyptic. They are societies evolved from the progress of increasing governmental control.

Apocalypticism is often due to war (which is humanity's folly), plague, or some spiritual end/revelation. Dystopias, in literature, and movies are often the result of misguided societal revolutions: and this is from the left or right - with the pursuit of either extreme, the result is often illustrated as leading to fundamentalism and subsequently, a narrow-minded view of culture, which leads to too much control or anarchy.

Examples of post-apocalyptic in literature and film: The Stand, 2012, War of the Worlds, 28 Days Later, I am Legend.

List of dystopias: Brave New World, Swastika Night, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale.

My best idea of how to differentiate post-apocalyptic and dystopian is that dystopian societies are usually humanity's fault and post-apocalyptic can be humanity's fault (nuclear war), but is often the result of natural causes or spiritual intervention.

The movie WALL-E is an example of both. You could probably argue that BNW and 1984 are also post-apocalyptic, but given that the consistent difference between dystopic/post-apocalyptic is human-cause/natural or divine intervention, I tend to call them dystopic. Still, it is open to interpretation. I'd consider the movie Blade Runner to be both, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" to be dystopian, V for Vendetta and Fahrenheit 451 could be both and on we go.

Some critics see a significance in the words the song that the woman outside singing. What do you think? chapter 4 book 2

Winston knows that the song the woman sings as she hangs the laundry outside the window of the room above Mr. Charrington's flat has been composed by a machine, but he invests it and the woman singing it with a romantic pathos from the past, because, in his heart, he wants to believe that he has found a place of escape:

But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. He could hear the woman singing and the scrape of her shoes on the flagstones, and the cries of the children in the street ..

His head tells him he is not safe, but the song, though manufactured by the Party, appeals to his heart:

It was only an ‘opeless fancy. It passed like an Ipril dye, But a look an’ a word an’ the dreams they stirred! They ‘ave stolen my ‘eart awye!

The song's lyrics actually tell Winston what he doesn't want to believe. They are important for that reason, just as the lyrics of the Chestnut Tree song are important in explaining how Winston and Julia will betray each other.

The charwoman's song as she hangs the diapers tell Winston that his love for Julia and desire to escape into the past are "only a hopeless fancy." They will pass "like an April day," ie, quickly. But looks and words--from Julia and O'Brien--have stirred up Winston's dreams and stolen his heart away. As the song states, Winston no longer operates from reason, but from imagination and dreams.

Winston responds emotionally and intuitively to the music and the way the woman sings, but blocks out what the words mean, mirroring the way he emotionally (though rationally he keeps reminding himself that none of this can work) blocks the reality of what he has done in opposing the state. He hears what he wants to hear. 

Winston later listens to the woman singing over and over again and hanging diapers in inexhaustible amounts and imagines that the woman transgresses against the state by singing, calling it a "dangerous eccentricity."

The day Winston and Julia are arrested the woman sings a different verse of the song:

‘They sye that time ‘eals all things, They sye you can always forget; But the smiles an’ the tears acrorss the years They twist my ‘eart-strings yet!’

If Winston had been paying attention, he might have heard the foreshadowing in these words, suggesting that something bad is about to happen: he is being told that time heals all things and that he can forget ... all hints that the good times in the room above the shop are about to end. But Winston can't hear the lyrics.

Instead, he idealizes her as "beautiful" and imagine proles like her leading the uprising against the state.

While he are never told explicitly that the woman works as a spy for the Party, the extent to which Orwell points repeatedly to how endlessly she stands in the yard hanging laundry and singing, hanging so many diapers that Winston has to create 30 grandchildren for her (though we never see any) would hint that she is, like Charrington, a tool of the state. Both she and the song she sings point to Winston's blindness and his desire to remake the world to conform to his own romantic image. 

Choice of electrodes considering type of coating

The coating of electrodes plays a critical role in the process of welding. After the nature of covering the electrodes can be:
Acid coated electrodes (A). They have combined iron oxides, iron silicates, SiO2, manganese oxide. Shell is thick and melts easily in the form of fine droplets. Slag is lush and fluid, solidifies with delay and it can be removed easily. 
It is welded  AC/DC, with short or medium arc. The welding cord resulted is smooth, with a smooth transition to the metal base.

Basic coated electrodes (B). They have a thick skin containing basic character components: calcium carbonate (limestone, marble, chalk, calcite, etc.)all together with calcium chloride and ferro-alloys.
Slag formed is compact and easily rises above the molten metal, and after solidification has a shiny appearance. Solidification range of basic slag is reduced (20 ... 25 °), after freezing slag in the gap is porous and difficult to remove. The Basic welding electrodes are using DC,reverse polarity, all the while maintaining an arc welding electrode as short and inclined in the direction of welding at 75 ... 80o. It can weld in all positions. There are Basic electrodes for welding, in alternating current.
Coated titanic electrodes , symbolized by (R) - Rutile, or (T) - titanic. They have medium thick skin, the last could be weld in vertical positions and over head. Shell that contains titanium minerals: rutile (TiO2) or FeTiO3.
Electrodes symbolized by R contain a larger amount of rutile. Slag of these electrodes is dense and viscous, if coating is Rutile.Electrodes (T) have a more fluid slag and less dense. Slag solidification range is quite small, about 30oC and after freezing slag is removed easily and, in the gap, it is porous.Favorably welded in all positions, especially upright dragged, at high speed work.

Cellulosic coated electrodes, symbolized (C). Shell contains large amounts of combustible organic substances, which decompose during welding and produce large amounts of protective gas, which provide protection welding bath.
Slag produced in small quantities, remove easily.
Arc easy to maintain. Drops losses are larger  that other types of electrodes and welding area has nice appearance.

In Night, what happened to the prisoners that did not evacuate the camp with the SS?

I'm assuming you're referring to the evacuation of Buna. If so, those prisoners who did not evacuate were liberated by the Russians two days later. However, Elie and his father choose to leave with the officers and other healthy prisoners, & so end up at two more camps, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald.

Before the evacuation, Elie is hospitalized following a surgery on his foot, which was swollen for weeks. He had been unable to walk on it, & finally entered the hospital. He had been reluctant to admit that he needed medical attention, because the hospital was often considered a place to die, rather than get well. But he finally conceded, and the evacuation is planned while he is recovering. Elie and his father deliberate for days, agonizing over whether to leave with the others, or remain behind with those who cannot walk.

In the end, they decide to take their chances with the SS. It may seem foolish in hindsight, but one must consider that the Nazis often killed those who were too weak to work anymore. Elie and his father were terrified that if they remained behind in the hospital, they would be executed as useless. Unfortunately, they actually would have been freed two days later, but they made the choice that they thought would save their lives. 

Write a comparasion between "The Lady of Shalott" and ''Thyrsis'' by Mathew Arnold.

[In 2 Parts]

There are many differences between "Thyrsis" by Matthew Arnold and "The Lady of Shalott" by Tennyson. One vivid one is the difference in variations of tension in the poetry. "Thyrsis" is reminiscent of Samuel Johnson's earlier poetry in which regularity of meter was a prime element of poetic aesthetic. Having this sort of regular meter, "Thyrsis" lacks variations in dramatic and emotional tension such as Tennyson achieves through the sounds of language articulated within a fixed yet fluid meter.

For instance, in the following excerpt from "Thyrsis," there are three places where the speaker's emotions might reasonably be expected to vary. The first line, which is an exclamatory, might reasonably be expected to have a quick cadence and a heightened emotion, whereas "with heavy heart" and "he went away" might reasonably be expected to have a slower cadence and saddened emotion. However, the cadence and tension are both uniform from line to line with no variartion. Emotion must be superadded by the reader's internal cognitive processes.

My pipe is lost, my shepherd's holiday!
Needs must I lose them, needs with heavy heart
Into the world and wave of men depart;
But Thyrsis of his own will went away.

By contrast, in the following excerpt for Tennyson's poem there are four places with differing emotions successfully expressed. The first line is jaunty. The second and third are pleasant and carefree. The fourth has heightened tension, a feeling of urgency and expectation. The fifth and sixth have a feeling of doom. This is accomplished through Tennyson's choices in diction. Emotion and tension are imbedded and are external experiences.

He flash'd into the crystal mirror,    
'Tirra lirra,' by the river    
Sang Sir Lancelot.    

She left the web, she left the loom,    
....    
Out flew the web and floated wide;    
The mirror crack'd from side to side;     115

Arnold is often criticized for a dearth of emotion. This dearth, illustrated in the excerpts, is the result of uniformity in the sounds of the language as well as in the meter of the poetry. Tennyson utilized the sounds of English to create tension and varying emotions; he has this in common with Edmund Spenser. Arnold does not make use of this device.

Another difference between the two poems is that "Thyrsis" is in era-correct English while "The Lady of Shalott" uses an earlier form of English, e.g., flitteth, weaveth. In addition, Arnold's descriptors are of a flatter, less vivid quality, whereas Tennyson writes with energetic descriptors. Compare Arnold's:

And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks--
Are ye too changed, ye hills?
See, 'tis no foot of unfamiliar men

to a similar description of Tennyson's:

There the river eddy whirls,    
And there the surly village-churls,    
And the red cloaks of market girls,

Whereas with Arnold chimneys are "twisted" and hills are "ye," with Tennyson a river "eddy whirls." With Arnold, men are "unfamiliar," while with Tennyson girls have "red cloaks" and are "market girls." Further, Arnold has a lackluster central character.

#1 6xto the 2nd power-12+6yto the 2nd power+36y=36 #2 4y2ndpower-8y+9x2nd power-54x=49 #3 9y2nd power+108y+4x2ndpower-56x=-484hey need help with...

1) First of all, the first equation is the eq. of a circle, whose the general form is:

(x-a)^2+ (y-b)^2 - R^2=0, where R is the circle radius and a,b are the coordinates of the circle center.

E(x)=(6x)^2-12x+(6y)^2+36y=36

First of all we'll have the common factor with value=36

 (6x)^2-12x+(6y)^2+36y=36

36*(x^2 - (1/3)*x+ y^2 + y]=36

We'll simplify with the value 36

x^2 - (1/3)*x+ y^2 + y=1

We'll try to emphasize that x^2 - (1/3)*x is a part from the developing: x^2 - 2*(1/2)*(1/3)*x + (1/2)^2= [x-(1/2)]^2

We have observed that we've added the term (1/2)^2, so we have to get rid of it.

[x-(1/2)]^2-(1/2)^2

Same way we'll do with the second part of the expression

y^2 + y=y^2 + 2*(1/2)*y+(1/2)^2 - (1/2)^2

y^2 + y=[y+(1/2)]^2  - (1/2)^2

The expression will become:

E(x)=(x - 1/6)^2 + (y+ 1/2)^2- [sqrt(46/36)]^2=0

This is the equation of a circle, which has the center

C(1/6, -1/2)  and R^2=46/36

2) We'll try again to form the eq. of a circle, in the same way we've did at the first example.

(4y)^2-8y+(9x)^2-54x=49

(4y)^2-8y=(4y)^2-2*4y +1-1=(4y-1)^2 - 1

(9x)^2-54x=(9x)^2-2*9x*3 + 9-9=(9x-3)^2-9

(9x-3)^2-9 + (4y-1)^2 - 1 -9 - 49=0

(9x-3)^2-9 + (4y-1)^2 - 59=0

This is the equation of a circle, which has the center

C(3/9, 1/4)=C(1/3, 1/4) and R^2=59

3)We'll try again to form the eq. of a circle, in the same way we've did at the first example.

E(x)=9y^2+108y+4x^2-56x=-484

If we'll consider just the unknown y and the unknown x, raised to the 2nd power,than we'll have

9y^2+108y=(3y)^2-2*3y*18+18^2 -18^2=(3y+18)^2-18^2

4x^2-56x=(2x)^2-2*2x*14+14^2 - 14^2=(2x-14)^2-14^2

E(x)=(3y+18)^2-18^2+(2x-14)^2-14^2+484=0

(3y+18)^2+(2x-14)^2-36=0

This is the equation of a circle, which has the center

C(-18/3, 14/2)=C(-6, 7) and R^2=36, R=6

Explain the Merchant theory of metal cutting?

fi=(pi/4) - (1/2)(beta - alfa)- the basic relation from Merchant theory of metal cutting.

Conditions for the relationship above to be true:

• fi- shear angle which it is adjusting itself to result minimum work


• beta- friction angle which is independent of fi and is constant


• the edge of the tool is sharp


• the distribution of the shear force and normal stress is uniform, in the shear plane


• the part material is rigid and plastic


• the width of the generated chip is constant

After experimental work, the relationship above was found to be over estimated, so that Merchant modified it and the result was another relationship:

2*fi + beta - alfa=C, C being the machining constant. In order to C<PI/2, grain size and the micro structure has to remain constant after the material is manufactured.

The normal force Fn, which is acting in a direction perpendicular to the shear plane, is changing due to the deformations and frictions.The normal stress affects the shear stress, in the shear's direction.

How does the sentinel seem to feel about his arrest of Antigone?part 2

The sentry seems to have mixed emotions in his scene with Creon as he turns Antigone over to him. He is clearly fearful of Creon's wrath. He hastens to tell the King that there is no doubt of Antigone's guilt, that she was caught in "the very act" of burying her brother's body. He stresses to Creon how efficiently he and the others had watched the body of Polyneices to catch whoever had buried it once before, just as Creon had instructed. As he describes what he had witnessed, the sentry says Antigone did not deny what she had been doing when she was apprehended:

She denied nothing.

            And this was a comfort to me,

And some uneasiness: for it is a good thing

To escape from death, but it is no great pleasure

To bring death to a friend.

            Yet I always say

There is nothing so comfortable as your own safe skin!

The sentry takes no joy in delivering Antigone to the King, but he is relieved to have saved himself from Creon's punishment had he failed to perform the King's order. The sentry's primary emotion, no doubt, is that he is now "off the hook." He says:

I am through with the whole thing now, and glad of it.

The sentry knows that dealing with Creon in his present state of ire is a dangerous activity.

In "By the Waters of Babylon" name four places or objects that John sees in the Place of the Gods and explain what you think they actually are.

1.  "There was also the shattered image of a man or a god. It had been made of white stone and he wore his hair tied back like a woman's. His name was ASHING, as I read on the cracked half of a stone. I thought it wise to pray to ASHING, though I do not know that god."

This is probably a statue of George Washington that was broken during the destruction.  It is interesting here that John calls it a "man or a god" because many Americans throughout history have looked up to George Washington as an extraordinary man, and revered him almost as a god.

2. "It is known that the gods did not hunt as we do -- they got their food from enchanted boxes and jars."

This refers to the fact that there were a lot of canned foods (fruits, vegetables, etc.) and prepackaged foods (Rice a Roni, Hamburger Helper) that the "gods" ate.  Later, he refers to a strong, clear liquid in a bottle--probably wine or liquor.

3.  "Let me tell one thing to show. In the washing-place, a thing said "Hot" but it was not hot to the touch -- another thing said "Cold" but it was not cold."

This is probably a bathtub or shower; John is confused about why they are not the temperatures that they indicate.  He probably doesn't realize that water comes out at that temperature, or at least it's supposed to.

4. "There was a cooking-place but no wood, and though there was a machine to cook food, there was no place to put fire in it."

This is most likely an oven, and it confuses John--they don't have any technology in his tribe, and are still using fires to cook their food.

I hope those examples help--good luck!

What is Shakespeare's Sonnet XCIV (94) talking about?

There are several messages you can get from this sonnet, but I think I'll stick with the one that makes most sense to me.

In order to get an idea of what the sonnet means, we have to look directly at it.  It is common to interpret this poem in terms of quatrains (groups of four lines) but that doesn't seem natural to me.  To me, the poem must be read "from head to toe."  That makes it harder to understand, but I think we'll manage alright. We'll just stop every few lines to check our understanding, okay?

Let's start!

"They that have power to hurt and will do none,

That do not do the thing they most do show,"

What the heck does this mean?  It appears to be talking about people who have power over others, power that could be harmful.  The second line implies that those in power do not exercise it to hurt others, even though they could and even though they look tough on the outside.

"Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,

Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,"

These people of power are able to influence others but themselves are not easily moved, do not display their feelings, and do not respond quickly to temptation.

"They rightly do inherit heaven's graces.

And husband nature's riches from expense;"

These people inherit grace from heaven, and are able to grow riches from the expense of energy required to remain uninfluenced and true to their values.

"They are the lords and owners of their faces,

Others but stewards of their excellence."

These people own their actions and control them.  Other people, who do not, are only "stewards" (caretakers) of their emotions, not owners of them.

"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,

Though to itself it only live and die,"

Now it switches images. We are not talking about people, but rather nature.  A flower during summer smells sweet, but is not sweet to itself (the flower is indifferent to its own sweet smell.)  The flower is "born" and it will "die," that's what it knows.

"But if that flower with base infection meet,

The basest weed outbraves his dignity:"

The flower is easily made sick...the weed, an ugly, stinky flower, will outlast it because it is more hearty.

"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

This is a great last line.  Something that starts out as beautiful on the outside has a far greater penalty when it doesn't live up to expectations.  The dead flower will stink worse than the dead weed.  What he seems to be saying is that even if something appears to be beautiful and righteous on the outside, because of its actions you may find it is far worse than something that is not so "flashy" in its actions.

How does this tie in with the first image?  The powerful individual is not flashy at all.  He is stoic.  You cannot read him by his face, which is grim and cold.  It is by his actions that you know he is a man in "grace."  He does not do good to get attention or for appearances.

The flower looks and smells beautiful, but because of its actions it ends up stinking.  It is unaware of its actions, and does not master them. In the end, it is the tough weeds that both outlive and smells less than the attractive but weak flower.  Both the man and the flower images are used to let the reader know that outward appearances can be deceiving and should not be trusted.

Like I said, there are other explanations, but this is the one I like.

Can someone explain to me the underlying meaning behind Ferris' painting "The First Thanksgiving"?

I'll gladly take a shot at this question, but I hope that others will chime in, too.

What strikes me first when I view the painting is the division of the image into two halves: on the far right side is a building (maybe a house, made of wood with a stone fireplace), while on the far left, in a position opposite to the building, are the trunks of one or two pine trees. This division is continued with the positioning of people and furniture in the painting. To the right, with the building, are the newly arrived white settlers, dressed up and with little skin showing (mostly only their pinkish hands and faces). These people also have a table and chairs. Opposite them are the native Americans, seated on the ground or on blankets while they talk or eat. Two of the men in this group have bare shoulders and chests, and their skin is noticeably darker than that of their Puritan neighbors. At the same time, of course, there are smaller details that work against this simple division into two wholly separate groups. One of the native Americans, for example, wears a European-style hat, and several white people appear in the background on the left side, talking among themselves or talking to one or more native people.

The net effect of the painting, to me, is to show the peaceful interaction (with the meal, with the implied trading, etc.) between two groups of people. This may be a simplisitc view of the painting, however. The technological achievements of one group are shown, but those of the other group are not (American Indians of the northeastern regions did have houses. used tools, had complex social networks, etc.; they didn't sleep under pine trees!).  

When I continue to try to see how the painting might reflect Western bias, I also notice that the trees in the background have more shadows than the building and that the smoke of the fire seems almost to bellow forth from the native Americans themselves. The opposition of light and dark has been widely used in early, culturally biased representations of the New World (see, for example, Mary Rowlandson's capitivity narrative or Phyllis Wheatley's poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America"). 

This question has been asked before. Check the link below for more discussion of the painting.

Explain vibration. What are different forms of vibrations concerned with industry?This question is related with ergonomics topic Whole body Vibrations

Vibration are effects on human body which are caused by direct contact with work equipment, contact which produces oscillations or collisions (chain saws, pneumatic hammers, etc.).

Vibration at work
Vibrations are present in most environments where mechanical equipment is used.

Types of vibration

• whole-body vibration (produced by excavators, trucks, bulldozers, cars, etc. level.)
• hand-arm vibration (grinding machines, cutting wood, chain saws, hand saws, axes, drilling machines, etc..) Occupations in which the body is affected by vibrations
• Working with chain saws  • Construction worker and driller • Automotive Industry and repair tools manufacturers • Welders • Pipeline Construction • Roads and railways • Quarries In assessing the vibrations are taken into account the following aspects:
• Level of vibration, acceleration, frequency, pulse
• Duration, continuity
• vibration radiation (weight gear, power clamping device, hand position, area of exposure)
• Temperature
• Clothing In the absence of appropriate measures is difficult to estimate the level of vibration produced by gear
• Obligations of manufacturers of tools and employers on the measurement of vibration, protection of workers and information concerning the minimum safety and health relating to exposure of workers to risks arising from vibration:
-Daily exposure limit value (8 h) 5 m/s2
-Action-value limit of exp. daily (8 h) 2.5 m/s2

The effects of vibration
Short-term exposure:
• more rapid depletion
• lack of concentration
• worsening vision
Long-term exposure:
• musculoskeletal disorders-in particular problems of the spine
• blood circulation disorders, especially the fingers. Prevention effects of vibration on human body

Smoking and low temperatures are negative effects to be added vibration. • Lowering the minimum exposure
-Improving technical gear
-Minimum exposure time
-Gloves etc..
• Knowledge about the level of vibrations emitted by the new tools used
• Temperature
• Stop smoking
• Periodic medical examinations

How do people relax and enjoy their spare time in The Giver?

People have almost no spare time in the community.  This is one of the reasons their careers are chosen for them so carefully, in hopes that many of them will enjoy what they do, I suppose.  When an unscheduled holiday is called, it is unusual.  I also suspect that it is being used to observe people when they are not at work, and record how they choose to spend their spare time.   Children do get some free time to play, but once they get a little older they are supposed to spend their time volunteering in various jobs to see which ones they are good at.  There is no television, few games or sports, and definitely no books.

American government is based upon English principles. Explain their evolution and how they led to America's separation from Britain.

The evolution of English government (and a parallel study of English History) shows a process by which political power became consolidated and wielded by one ruler.  This was actually a necessary phase for England to become a country and a nation.  Indeed, claiming the sanction of heaven through the political argument of the Divine Right of Kings served the executive powers of the king, or monarch, to justify his or her role in the Great Chain of Being.  By the time of Medaeval England, the notion of "Divine Right" had been seriously questioned, and as embodied in the Magna Carta, had been curtailed.  In effect, this document began the process of disseminating the absolute monarchy, and establishing a judicial and legislative branch of government separate from the executive.  By the time of Renaissance England, the notion that not only was the monarch not absolute, but was also not above the law reflected the shift in power towards the legislative, specifically through the institution of Parliament.  Democracy, where the people have say in the workings of government, became more prominent;  Parliament became supreme over the monarchy.  The notion that any "freeman" could have a vote and a political say reflected the trend towards individual freedom.  America inherited this evolving British concept of government, and contributed the notion that if you didn't like the way you were governed, you could, and had a moral obligation to change it.  The "parliaments" or legislative bodies of the colonies were sadly ignored and sidelined by the Parliament of London, and, by asserting the English notion of self-governance, broke away.  In his Declaration, Thomas Jefferson refers to "our English Brethren" and, as colonists claiming the rights of Englishmen, asserts the notion of the governed to alter or abolish the government should they see fit to do so.

What is the main theme of The Epic of Gilgamesh, and what is the historical background of Gilgamesh? Is it a believable story?

The main theme in The Epic of Gilgamesh is that wisdom and kindness are superior attainments to immortality, and immortality may symbolize all self-centered attainments such as strength and power. The story of Gilgamesh is founded on the life of an historical ruler in a kingdom called Uruk, near Sumeria, in circa 1600 B.C. The tales began as oral tales passed down from one highly trained and skillful story teller to the next generation of equally trained and skilled story tellers, who were considered the keepers of a culture's greatest historical figures and achievements.

Historians don't doubt the authenticity of Gilgamesh as an historical ruler, and the tales were first written down by Sumerian scribes in 2100 B.C. Though the standard opinion is that mythological figures such as gods and other immortals are untrue legends, there are those who believe stories of mythological gods represented true individuals and events, as propounded by Robin Lane Fox of Oxford University in Pagans and Christians (1987).

What was Harper Lee's one thesis statment in To Kill a Mockingbird?

If you're looking for a thesis statement for an essay, I would definitely check out the post above mine for some great answers.

However, if you're looking for a main idea of the novel, or a theme, there are several of them. Most of them come from the wisdom of Atticus Finch.

In Chapter Three, he explains to Scout that you can't really understand a person until you walk around in his/her skin, meaning we shouldn't judge people until we know their full story.

Going along with that, Lee tries to tell us that people aren't always what they seem.  She uses Mrs. Dubose, Mr. Raymond, Boo Radley and the Missionary Circle for examples of this.  Tom Robinson can also be an example because people were making judgements on him just because he was black.

In Chapter 23, when Aunt Alexandra tells Scout she is not allowed to invite Walter Cunningham over, Scout remarks that she thinks there's "one type of folks: folks."  Scout doesn't see the differences in skin color and social status that seems to consume most of the adults in Maycomb.

The outcome of the Tom Robinson trial shows the tragic outcomes of bigotry, racism and close-minded thinking.

Atticus' last live of the novel, when he is putting Scout to bed, reminds the reader that most people are nice when you really see them, almost encapsulating all of the theme--Atticus takes his own advice, puts himself in other people's shoes (including Bob Ewell) and is able to see the good or reasoning behind most people's actions.

give me detail explanation of this ode

The poem opens with three consecutive metaphors: the implied, rather than directly stated, comparisons between the urn the speaker is viewing and, respectively, a “bride of quietness,” a “foster-child of silence and slow time,” and a “Sylvan historian.” Of these, the last is perhaps easiest for the reader to immediately comprehend. Ancient Grecian urns were commonly illustrated with scenes or subjects that varied depending on the era and style in which a given urn was created. While more ancient vessels featured paintings of war and heroic deeds, the one Keats had in mind probably came from the early free-style period. Urns of this era are characterized by scenes from religious and musical ceremonies similar to the ones described throughout “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Because of its subject matter, Keats’s urn must date to before the fourth century B.C., yet the bucolic scenes it depicts have been preserved through the millennia. For this reason, the urn reveals to the viewer a “leaf-fring’d” bit of history: it is a “Sylvan historian.”

More puzzling to readers are the first two metaphors. Each involves the idea of “quietness” or “silence” because the urn relates its story in pictures rather than words. But why is it a “bride of quietness” and a “foster-child of silence and slow time”? The latter may be because while the urn’s creation was the result of a fertile union between an ancient artist and some experience that informed his work, the same artist is now long-forgotten and the experience long-ended. Thus the urn, his “child,” has fallen into the custody of the ages — ”slow time.” People who look at the urn can imagine but cannot actually hear the musical sounds and the story it depicts. Moreover, while in its own day the urn was used by people in their everyday lives, it has since become an artifact, perhaps in a museum, that viewers inspect reverentially — in “silence.”

The most cryptic meaning in these lines is of the word “still.” Is it an adjective, suggesting the urn is “unmoving,” or an adverb, meaning “not yet” deflowered or “ravished”? A dual intent seems to fit the poem best. While “unmoving” suggests the urn’s static condition as an artifact, “not yet defiled” suggests that its beauty, though still present after thousands of years, will one day be destroyed. This points directly to a major theme of the poem: the painful knowledge that all things must pass, including (and perhaps especially) beauty. Though the urn is ancient and might seem eternal, in fact it remains subject to decay and destruction — subject to time, even if, in the case of an antiquity, it seems to be “slow time.” The urn’s perishability is made apparent by a simple understanding: one of beauty’s qualities is that it is rare. Though many urns were created, only few survive, and while this contributes to the speaker’s conception that the urn is uncommon and therefore more striking, it is also evidence that even ancient relics are not immune to time.

At one point in Act 1, Happy offers to finance Willy's retirement (p.27). Willy scorns Happy's offer. Why?

Willy has returned home late at night. He is exhausted and lost, and he's been talking to himself. Happy comes down from his bedroom to join Willy in the kitchen. Willy has just been remembering his brother, Ben:

WILLY: You guys! There was a man started with the clothes on his back and ended up with diamond mines!

HAPPY: Boy, someday I’d like to know how he did it.

WILLY: What’s the mystery? The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich! The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress!

HAPPY: Pop, I told you I’m gonna retire you for life.

WILLY: You’ll retire me for life on seventy goddam dollars a week? And your women and your car and your apartment, and you’ll retire me for life! Christ’s sake, I couldn’t get past Yonkers today! Where are you guys, where are you? The woods are burning! I can’t drive a car!

First off, there is no way that Happy, with his mere seventy dollars a week, can retire anyone for life. In addition, Willy cites Happy's own expenses: his propensity for womanizing, his car payments and the rent he has to pay... all of his money is used up on those things. Besides, Willy dreams of real success, real money... the kind of money his brother Ben made, Ben, the man who Willy sees as "success incarnate."

Like his father, Happy is a dreamer who believes his own dreams, and Willy knows it.

Compare the theatre world of Shakespeare to that of Moliere.17th century theatre in England and in France

While both men's careers began with struggles for success, the theatre that Shakespeare developed differed greatly from that of Moliere in its audiences.  Whereas William Shakespeare's locations in the great halls of London's inns and at bawdy inns, and at the Globe Theatre accommodated every level of society and played to them as well, Moliere's success came when he brought his company to Paris in 1658 and played to King Louis XIV who housed Moliere's theatre in a part of the Louvre, the royal castle.  In this location, Moliere became a success.  Rather than catering to the royalty as Shakespeare did, as, for example, in such plays as "Macbeth," in which Macbeth is portrayed as the evil doer rather than Duncan, Moliere captured the affectations of the aristocracy and the absurdities of the salons, satirizing them so skillfully that even the "blue stockings" and the "gallants" were obliged to laugh at themselves.  The French king loved these satires, as well. As a result, Moliere chose contemporary life as his tableaux rather than historical figures and events as did Shakespeare.

In genre, the plays of Moliere differ greatly from those of Shakespeare.  For the most part, Moliere is known for his comedies of manners in which he satirizes and parodies nobles, doctors, priests, and actors. He himself continued acting in the plays right until his death.

Like Shakespeare Moliere reveals an acute understanding of human nature.  What interested him was how a man could act when vanity conceit hypocrisy or greed gained control (much like Shakespeare).  But, Moliere could bring action to a climax without asides, soliloquies, and the use of confidants; and, of course, he did this all in comedies of manner and the comedie-ballet, whereas Shakespeare's most revealing plays are often considered the tragedies.