In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence, please explain this phrase, "It's as if he had it from heaven."

In Lawrence’s short story "The Rocking Horse Winner," a young boy becomes obsessed with the idea of having good luck after he engages in a conversation about luck and money with his mother.  She installs in him the belief that neither she nor his father has any luck.  In reality it is their need to keep up false appearances of having money that adds to their bad luck of never having enough money.  Even the house whispers the sentiment “If there was only more money.”

The boy engages in riding a rocking horse with steadfast determination.  It is only when the child begins to talk with his uncle that it is revealed that he is betting at the races.  After using money his uncle gave him, the boys luck changes from bad to good.  A man named Bassett, who assists the boy in betting, tells the boy’s uncle, “It’s as if he had it from Heaven” (D.H. Lawrence).  He is referring to the boy’s talent at being able to predict which horse is going to win the race.  He relates the child’s ability to predict the races as a present sent from divine sources.  The phrase is repeated several times through-out the story reminding the reader of the boy’s special gift for prediction.

The generous child shares his earnings with his mother so that the bill collectors and the noises demanding that more money be obtained are halted.  Yet, the voices only increase because his parents increase their spending once they have money again and still poorly manage their bills.  Instead his parents step up their lifestyle creating an even greater need for a larger sum of money to support there lifestyle.

The ending lends to concern as the child dies following a wild and exhausting ride on his rocking horse as he gropes for the next winner.  He rides into frenzy in order to find his answer “The Gift he has from Heaven.”  However, the gift turns into something not from Heaven which is disclosed by the son’s death shortly after he wins the large sum of *80,000 pounds.  His parents need for a lavish lifestyle has led to the boy’s demise.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of committees in organization?

A committee is a group of persons within an organization to whom, as a group, some matter is committed. The committee may be formed for a limited duration or a standing committee. Also the members of the team may or may not have other responsibility in the organization in addition to those as a member of the committee.

The biggest advantage of committee is that it provides a convenient means of a larger number of people exchange, ideas and information ad take a joint decisions. By careful selection of the membership of committees, it is possible to bring together a wide range of ideas, expertise and interests together. When committee consists of people representing different department and functions in the department, it helps to ensure that all aspects of a decision are considered before final decision. Also, as decisions are taken jointly be all the committee members, their acceptance by all the departments represented on the committee is easier.

Major disadvantage of committee is that they usually require considerable expenditure of total manpower in the committee work. The committees are also known to cause excessive delays in decision making and in taking action. Frequently, an absence of a clear cut authority and responsibility for results, the committee becomes tend to take decision that represent compromise between dissenting views rather than an optimal balance of conflicting requirements. In some situations, where one member or a small group is significantly more powerful than others, some people may impose their decision on the committee. In this way the more powerful members gain power beyond the intended limits. Further, this power is not accompanied by matching responsibility.

Who is Pip's guardian in Great Expectations, and why does he/she set Pip up to room with Herbert?

Pip's guardian is a lawyer named Mr. Jaggers.  When Mr. Jaggers unexpectedly shows up at Joe's house and delivers the news that Pip has a mysterious benefactor who is going to pay for Pip to become a gentleman, Pip and others assume that Miss Havisham is the anonymous sponsor because Jaggers is her personal lawyer.

When Pip arrives in London, he goes to Mr. Jaggers for almost everything since Jaggers is in charge of his finances.  The lawyer arranges for Pip to room with Herbert Pocket (a relative of Miss Havisham) because Herbert's father will train Pip in etiquette and because Herbert is acquainted with many of London's customs. He has been in the city for a while and works at an insurance agency of sorts, but he, too, has ambitions.  He wants to get into trade at some point or have his own fleet of ships (instead of working for a company which insures them) to trade with.

Compare and contrast John Proctor from The Crucible and Joe Keller from All My Sons.

This is a pretty big question! Let's deal with it in parts.

Similarities:

Both characters are caught in a lie.  John Proctor is caught in the lie of adultery.  Joe Keller is caught in the lie concerning the shipment of defective plane parts.

Both characters have wives who know the truth.  They keep their silence and do not speak out but then encourage their husbands to reveal the truth.

Because of these lies, both marriages are filled with tension.

Both characters are leaders...men who are outspoken and do not hold back in their judgements and thoughts.

Both men are concerned about the honor of their name.  Joe Keller feels that his name and his business is all that he has to pass on to his son.  John Proctor feels that his name, dirty or clean, is all that he has to pass on to his children as well.

Both choose to die in the end in an attempt to restore their dignity and the dignity of their families.  John Proctor takes back his confession and hangs with the others.  His wife does not stop him because, in her words, "he has his goodness now".  Joe Keller comes to realize at the end of the play that "in a way, they were all my sons" and he goes inside to shoot himself.  That is his s way of restoring justice and removing the burden from his family.

Differences:

Proctor dies at the hands of a corrupt justice system where it is next to impossible to prove your innocence.  He dies because of his wrongful conviction for witchcraft.  Joe Keller dies at his own hands rather than go to the authorities and subject himself to the police and the courts.  Keller most likely would have been given prison time, not a death sentence, but his name would have been destroyed in the process.

You could argue that Proctor's death is more noble and his situation more sympathetic than that of Joe Keller.  Proctor fought for justice and for the lives of his neighbors and friends.  Joe Keller's actions were selfish and motivated by self preservation and greed.

Family Impact:

Both families are left fatherless.  However, Proctor's family is left with a father who died a hero with his honor and dignity intact.  Keller's is left with the memory of a man who hid from the truth to the very end.  He died as a coward who would rather commit suicide than face the consequences of his crime.  He left his family behind to clean up the mess--both literally and figuratively.

What is the significance of the title "Araby"?

James Joyce's story, "Araby" is the narrative of a boy who idealizes his love for the neighbor he watches from his window.  Through his glass of romanticized ideas, the boy ignores his "brown" and bleak, winter surroundings and perceives the girl as a maiden for whom he will venture on a "Holy Grail Quest": I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes," he imagines one day at the market.

The word Araby connotes the exotic, the intriguing enticement of an imaginary world.  In the land of Araby, the land of spices, there are also dangerous snakes. In his essay, "Araby: A Quest for Meaning," the critic Freimarck writes,

The very title of the story is the first of several images promising the apocalyptic world of romance, but containing the demonic.

The boy follows his dream to its bleak conclusion: He has been deceived by his delusions.  The bazaar is filled with cheap goods and petty, gossiping people.  In his epiphany, he states,

I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

How are Dally and Bob similar?

Both Dally and Bob are among the most hot-headed and violent members of the greasers and the Socs in S. E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders. Both boys are seemingly very different: Dallas Winston grew up on the streets of New York and is proud of his lengthy juvenile police record; he has even spent some time in jail. Bob Sheldon is a wealthy older teen who is not new to trouble but who has apparently never been arrested for his misdeeds. (It is the ring-laden Bob who beats Johnny Cade so severely prior to the retelling of the novel.)

Dally and Bob are both downright mean, although their kinder moments are also revealed. Dally has a soft spot for Johnny Cade, and he is devastated after Johnny dies. Bob's girlfriend, Cherry Valance, relates that Bob is sweet and friendly when he hasn't been drinking. Cherry herself is attracted to both boys. But for the most part, they are the two most violent members of their respective gangs. Bob uses alcohol and his fists to fuel his hatred of the greasers; his large rings are an identifying trademark. He seems to take pleasure in stalking and attacking outnumbered greasers. Dally also enjoys fights, and he has been known to use a knife when necessary; he also owns a handgun. His hatred of the Socs is equal to Bob's dislike of the greasers. Both eventually die through their own violent, seemingly uncontrollable actions.

What causes oxygen to diffuse from the lungs into the capillaries? A. Equal oxygen concentration in lungs and capillaries B. Oxygen...

The answer is C, the oxygen concentration is lower in the capillaries relative to the lungs.  Likewise, at the alveoli, where this transaction occurs, the concentration of carbon dioxide is higher in the capillaries and lower in the lungs, so that migrates into the lungs to be breathed out.  The oxygenated blood then gets pumped throughout the body where it gives up its oxygen to the cells.  The deoxygenated blood then returns to the lungs to become oxygenated once again.

Would you rewrite the following statement with your own words?1.is it becuase it has an unacknowledged hold on so many of us? 2. he would scorn to...

There are so many ways to say the same thing. This is one of the reasons why language is so beautiful. Here are my sentences:

1. Is it because this thing has  some sort of control over us in an unknown way?

2. He belittles the issue by trying to settle it with a coin toss.

3. Most people can keep their fears in check, but they are not able to get rid of them totally.

4. When has the heart ever cared about science?

5. How did the Melanesians come to the same point?

In regards to America: Pathways to the Present, compile a list of ten descriptive phrases that characterized the USA and Europe after the war.

Seeing that we are examining or searching for ten phrases, I think we can go from the very mundane to the very complex.  Phrase one:  America and the allied forces had stood victorious after engaging in the world's bloodiest affairs.  Two:  The world stood forever changed as a result of the First World War.  Three:  The terms imposed by the Treaty of Versailles sought to castrate the German state.  Four:  The imposition of reparations and denial of weapons for Germany helped to fuel a great deal of anger towards the West.  Five:  The experience of the war left its scars on many nations, including England.  Six:  The isolationist movement grew as a result of the First World War.  Seven:  Democracy was installed as a government in Germany.  Eight:  The lack of economic stability made democratic attempts in Germany a challenge.  Nine:  Russia's entry into Communism made them unable to forge any alliances with other nations in Europe.  Ten:  In the wake of the First World War, the world's attention was lacking to the Armenian Massacre at the hands of the Turkish Army.

In what way were the British and French governments of the late 1600s different?

Britain, having gone through civil war in the early part of the 1600s, had reestablished governance under the Rule of Law, from which no one, even the monarch, was exempt. Parliament, as the sole legislative authority, made the law; members of Parliament were elected officials.   Britain had constructed a government based on the division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial.  The Glorious Revolution was glorious because the succession of the king was made by the Rule of Law, and not by Divine Right or skill at arms, as it had been earlier.  In contrast, France's government had retained Divine Right and all governance was done through the monarchy; having prolonged the medaeval form of government, its "civil war" came in the form of the French Revolution a century later, when the country attempted to do away with the Divine Right and institute democratic reforms.

among planning, organising, leading and controlling (POLC), what are the two most important process and why?(according to me its planning and leading)

Planning and leading are the most important of the four management process.

Planning involves establishing mission statement, defining the goals of the organisation and determining the activities and resources required to achieve them, whereby managers should decide what to do, how to do it, when to do it and by whom it is to be done.

If there is no planning there will we no business purpose.

Leading plays a very crucial part in the business organisation. A leader is interpreted as someone who sets direction in an effort and motivates people to follow that direction. If there is no good leadership the business will not reach its objective. It is like a ship with no skipper.

Every successful business requires effective leadership to fully utilise the skills of staff in order to achieve the aims of the business. This is not just a matter for larger businesses, even if  only one or two people is employed  manager still need to make sure that they  make the most of their abilities and aptitudes.

People who are organized generally accomplish much more than disorganized individuals. The same is true of organized departments or businesses. Those managers who can master the organization function will enjoy a much smoother tenure in the management position. Considering organizing, a successful leader will organize their staffs, assign task, delegate responsibilities to employees and to determine the way the business will operate.

Smith and Cronjé (2003:390) state that the technical meaning of ‘control’ in business is the process whereby management ensures that the actual works fit in with the predetermined goals and planned activities.

The aim of control is to keep deviations from planned activities so that the goals can be achieved with fewer problems.

Controlling involves assessing and monitoring performance, compare with set standards, identifying variants and taking remedial action.

A good leader will definitely achieve the planned activities of an organization with fewer problems and will take necessary action if the organization deviates.

To conclude, a business with no vision is nothing and with a good leader the business will meet its objectives.

What are the seven stops on Young Goodman Brown's journey and the significance of each of them?

I'm not certain that there are seven stops on Young Goodman Brown's journey. Perhaps it's a matter of how you read the story. I can only see five stops right now, and two of those stops seem minor and come very early in the story:

1. At the threshold: In the first paragraph, Young Goodman Brown pauses and sticks his head back in through the doorway to give his wife a quick kiss.

2. Again, at the threshold: In the sixth paragraph, about to move out of sight of his house, Young Goodman Brown looks back toward his home and wife.

These first two stops seems to signal some sort of hesitation or uncertainly on his part. Perhaps he realizes that he is risking his comfortable life (including wife and house) in order to do whatever he's agreed to do in the forest.

3. In the woods: Young Goodman Brown tells the devil that he's done what he said he would ("Friend... having kept covenant...") and now plans on heading back home. Of couse, he doesn't. This conversation with the devil makes up the heart of the story.

4. Again, in the woods: Young Goodman Brown suddenly stops ("sat himself down on the stump of a tree, and refused to go any further") and tells the devil that he's seen enough and will not continue along the path. Of couser, he does.

These two stops in his journey seem to clearly signal his intention to bring an end to the night's discovery and his failure to fulfil that intention.

5. At the black mass: Deep in the woods, Young Goodman Brown stops as he takes in the details of the religous ceremony that is taking place.

At this point, he seems overwhelmed (like the story's reader) by the details of the ceremony.

Again, there may indeed be seven stops, but I only see five.

What literary techniques are utilized in "Dover Beach," and how are they used?

Arnold's "Dover Beach" is one of the land mark poems of English Literature, written by a man who was more well-known as a critic of literature than a poet. The poem was written in 1851, and published 16 years later.

The Techniques used in DB are both poetic and thematic. The thematic, first.

You will see that what seems to have triggered off Arnold to write it, is a very moving scenery in Dover, on the south coast of England, some twenty miles from France. Arnold was there with his wife, but the proximity to Frace and the immediate prospect of going there probably reminded her of a lloong love affair he had with a French girl, Marguerite, whom Arnold was never to see again.

So, on this night, by the window in a house on Dover Beach, Arnold starts the poem by describing the sea "The  English Channel," bashing on to the beach, taking the sand and pebbles with it, churning and spinning them, and receding again to the darkness. "This tremulous cadence, slow..." makes him feel rather sad. Could he be thinking of his French lover? He asks his wife to join him by the window, and watch the eternal tide of the sea at night.

"Sophocles heard it long ago..." the beginning of the second stanza says. Why the reference to Sophocles, the classical Greek dramatist, who had perhaps witnessed a similar sight by the Aegean Sea? The next stanza would reveal.

To the English of the 1850s, England was the Great Empire, inheritor of Greek, and later Roman, supremacy. Arnold is perhaps bemoaning the thought that civilizations, once great, get so caught up in power and empire building that they forget ordinary humanity. Like the dark sea in the first stanza, empires suck in everything, then spits them out. It may make a lovely scene of natural beauty, but a devastating one when brute strength, enormous wealth and military power are involved: "ignorant armies clash by night."

So what should we do in the face of such gloomy future of the world, the world which has seen the fall of the Greeks and the Romans (and will no doubt see the fall of the English Empire)? What shall we do?

"Ah love, Let us be true to one another!" says Arnold to his wife. In this world where ordinary people have little control over nature and the affairs of state, let us in our own private way tary to make world, a better place.

Notice, though, that despite the positive value of love, Arnold cannot maintain the positive tone. The poem ends with a sequence of very depressing visions. The earth is still beautiful; but there is "no joy, no light, nor love/Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain."

(Incidentally, this feeling of pain comes out brilliantly in Leonard Bernstein's conducting of Be(http://www.classicalarchives.comethoven's 9th Symphony. If you get a chance, do listen to it! )

The poetic technique Arnold's uses is what I call an "eclectic rhyme scheme," i.e., rhyming only when he feels the rhyme is needed for a shift in poetic effect, otherwise not.

Random as such a rhyme scheme is, it is not easy to do, because the poet is constantly off-setting meaning with rhyme. The first and the third lines rhyme, like in many poems, but then the next rhymed line is four lines away! "The tide is full, the moon lies fair (2)...Come to the window, sweet is the night's air. (6)."

The invitation to his wife to join him to partake of the beautiful scenery is rhymed perhaps because there is a new rhythm in a man's invitation to a woman, from the metronomic rhythm of the sea. The mood changes.

How do I cite my professor in my paper and in the works cited page using MLA?

The seventh edition of the MLA Handbook 2009 clearly specifies how to cite a lecture. If you wish to quote your Professor's formal lecture please refer to the following section in the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook 2009:

"Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral Presentations (including Conference Presentations)

Provide the speaker’s name. Then, give the title of the speech (if any) in quotation marks. Follow with the name of the meeting and organization, the location of the occasion, and the date. Use the descriptor that appropriately expresses the type of presentation (e.g. Address, Lecture, Reading, Keynote speech, Guest Lecture). Remember to use the abbreviation n.p. if the publisher is not known; use n.d. if the date is not known.

Stein, Bob. Computers and Writing Conference. Purdue University. Union Club Hotel, West Lafayette, IN. 23 May 2003. Keynote address."

If, however, the lecture is not a formal one it is not necessary to either quote it in your paper or in the 'works cited' page.

What might the ideal population graph for humans look like over the next 200 years?

It took from the beginning of time until 1850 for the world's population to reach 1 billion. By 1900, it had doubled, by 1930, it had reached 3 billion, sometime in the 1960's, 4 billion, 1980's, 5 billion, and today we're over 6 billion.  Curiously, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in Europe and North America in 1850; the rising standard of living initally increased population. However, as industrialization in a particular country continued, births declined, due to the shift from an agrarian to industrial economy; manpower began to be replaced by machinery.  Right now, the two most populous countries on Earth, China and India, together have over half the population of the world.  Both these giants are finally beginning to industrialize; as they do so, their population will eventually decrease.  Within 200 years, we should be at a sustainable level, which may be around 2 to 3 billion. So the population graph, which loped along until 1850, has spiked from then until now, will most likely continue to spike for a time (50 years?) then should slide down and level out over the next 150.

In The Scarlet Letter, what are some clues that illustrate Dimmesdale is Pearl's father?

In The Scarlet Letter, one clue that may indicate that Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl is illustrated when Hester Prynne appears on the scaffold for the first time. She appears with the baby in her arms and the scarlet letter sewn on her dress. As the crowd gathers to taunt and gawk at Hester, Dimmesdale offers a passionate plea for her to not let the father of the baby go unpunished and to let the people know who also sinned. To a casual observer this scene may mean nothing but it's interesting why such a passionate plea is given in her defense, considering Puritan beliefs at the time.

Another clue linking Pearl to Dimmesdale is continued in chapters three and four. The discussion Dimmesdale has with the other town fathers over the Hester is interesting. While the town fathers want to force the identity of the father out of her, Dimmesdale objects to this action. He likens this action to a rape. It is not right to pry the information out of her in a forceful manner. Again, why would a town father go out of his way to protect or help a sinner in any way?

However, this behavior reinforces Dimmesdale's mixed nature: Dimmesdale does not speak in direct terms when talking to Hester. He offers mixed messages; encouraging her to act according to her own will but then to confess the father's name in the hope that the father's soul will be saved.

Chapters seven and eight lend the biggest clue that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father when at a meeting before the govern;or it is Dimmesdale Hester asks to speak for her and Pearl. He notes that Pearl is both a blessing and a curse and should stay with the mother. It is at this moment that Pearl takes a liking to Dimmesdale and seems to go to him by some hidden force. His hand touches Pearl's cheek, almost as a sign of acceptance or acknowledgement.

In the book, The Marines of Autumn by James Brady, what is going on in chapters one and two.I am stuck and can not get into the book. Help!

First of all, historically speaking, this is early in the Korean War in 1950.  The North Koreans have attacked the South and conquered almost the whole country.  Then the US counterattacked and drove them back.

In Brady's book, the hero, Captain Tom Verity, is just being called back to active duty in the Marine Corps.  He'd been in World War II and now he's being called back.  Verity's wife was killed the previous winter and he has a small daughter.

In the first two chapters, we see Verity in the process of getting called up and in the early stages of his experience in Korea.  The book goes back and forth between what's happening in the present and his memories of his wife.

How did Morris acquire the monkeys paw? What happened to it's previous owner? Why did the fakir put a spell on it?this is all #2!!!!!

In W. W. Jacobs' horror short story "The Monkey's Paw," Sergeant-Major Morris arrives at the White's home at Laburnam Villa with an object of perverse interest to his guests: It is a shriveled monkey's paw, said to have the power to grant three wishes to its first three owners. Morris, the second owner of the paw, received it after its first owner wished for and received death as his third wish. Morris's wishes have already come true, and he warns his hosts to "let it burn." According to the sergeant-major, the old fakir who put the spell on the paw "wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow." As all three owners of the paw eventually discovered, misery soon followed.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's biography - his theory- feature the century and the poem Ode to the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a romantic poet from England.  He lived from 1792-1822.  Shelly attended college and went on to attend a University.  However, he had strong atheist views which led to him being kicked out of school.  He was a man ahead of his time.  He married twice.  His wife, Mary, would later write the novel “Frankenstein.”  Shelly and his wife moved to Italy.  He had one son with Mary, who died in his youth.  Shelly drowned when a vessel he was on sunk.  He was only 29 years old at the time of his death. 

Shelly composed “Ode to the West wind” while living in Italy.  It is thought that he wrote it because he was wishing he could be in England to provide support. He was a strong support of revolution and reform.  He, like so many poets of his day, used prose to present his political loyalties.  However, other scholars believe that he wrote the poem in regards to the death of his and Mary’s son.  In the poem he is calling to the wind to lift him up and give him power/strength.

Do you think that Johnny's feelings about Merchant Lyte and Dove have changed by the end of the novel?Explain. :)

I think it is pretty clear that Johnny's feelings for Dove have changed by the end of the novel.  However, I don't think his feelings toward Lyte really have very much.  At various times early in the novel, there is no doubt that Johnny looks down on Dove and bullies him around.  He also hates Merchant Lyte.

By the end of the book, Johnny seems to have more respect for Dove or is at least kind to him.  He does things like doing Dove's work for him so Dove can sleep (Chapter IX).

In Chapter XI, Johnny finds out that Merchant Lyte is his great-uncle.  He does not react with revulsion like he might have before.  Instead, he just kind of takes it in stride.  This implies that he's okay with the idea of being related to Merchant Lyte.  However, he's still not all that fond of Lyte, because when Lavinia says Lyte is the "best man who ever lived," Johnny "had his own opinion on that."

What are some things on the history of football that would be helpful to write a research paper?

There are actually quite a few different things you can write about for the history of football. You could start with the history of the game itself, and how was first played, or how it came into being. You could write about who the inventor was, where the first game was played, and how it became what it is today. 

You could also write about the history of the NFL. The NFL has actually been around longer than one might think, but it didn't start to become the most popular sport in the United States until about the 1960's. 

Or, you could write about the history of a specific team. College, professional, or otherwise. There is a lot of rich and interesting history and trivia behind every football team. 

Hope this helps!

Why does the interdependence of firms play a major role in oligopoly but not in perfect competition or monopolistic competition?

The main reason for this is the different number of firms that are in each of these market structures.

In both perfect competition and monopolistic competition, there are large numbers of firms selling the same (in perfect competition) or similar (in monopolistic competition) product.  By contrast, in an oligopoly there are very few firms selling the product.

Because there are only a few firms in an oligopoly, the firms are really in very direct competition with one another.  Think about McDonalds and Burger King -- what any one of these does affects the other.  But then think about all the Chinese restaurants in New York City.  What one of these does can have very little impact on the others.

From The Alchemist by Coelho, describe Melchizedek (The King of Salem) with two facts.

Melchizedek, the King of Salem in The Alchemist is a mystical figure who Santiago, the shepherd boy, meets on his journey while traveling with his sheep.

When Santiago meets the king, he thinks he is just an old man.  The shepherd boy is slightly preoccupied with what an old gypsy woman has told him about a recurring dream he has had.  In this frame of mind, Santiago thinks the man is unimportant.  When the old man asks about the book Santiago is reading, the man proves to be very knowledgeable not just because he can read, which the boy had first doubted, but that he has read the book already and has a low opinion of it. The man tells Santiago that he is a king, which the boy doubts at first; however, once he is convinced, he is in awe of the king and listens carefully to what Melchizedek has to say.

Melchizedek is very wise.  He knows a great deal about life and what can bring a person personal happiness and fulfillment.

The old king is rather mystical as well.  He not only knows things about Santiago that he could not possibly know, but he also can read the boy's mind.

Last, Melchizedek he is slightly prideful.  He is not filled with self-importance.  After the boy leaves, when the king talks to the Lord (God?), he is humble and honest about himself.  He admits that he is giving into vanity, but wishes that after the boy left that Santiago might remember the old king.

Melchizedek is a man aware of the characteristics of human nature.  He is patient and non-judgmental. He is also kind in that he fervently hopes that Santiago will be successful in his journey.

A bag has 4 marbles purple, green, blue and red. Adam pulls out 3 marbles w/o looking. How many different combinations of 3 colors are...

What you are doing here is (as your tag says) combinations.  This is as opposed to permutations.  The difference is that, with combinations, order doesn't matter (Adam is grabbing them all at once, not one at a time).  Permutations are when he grabs them one at a time.

The correct answer for your question is four -- there should be four different combinations of three marbles that Adam could grab.  The possibilities are

• purple, blue, green


• purple, green, red


• purple, blue, red


• blue, red, green

Any other combination would be a repeat (like blue, red, purple), just in a different order.

When the order in which the marbles of different colours are pulled out is not considered, then the question can be answered very simply by modifying it the different possibilities regarding the fourth marble that is left in the bag after three marbles have been pulled out of the bag. This is because just by looking at the the fourth marble, we can tell which other three marbles have been pulled out.

There are just 4 different possibilities of the fourth marble left in the bag - 1) purple, 2) green, 3) blue and 4) red. Corresponding to this there are four combinations of three marbles pulled out. These are:

1) green, blue and red,

2) purple, blue and red,

3) purple, green and red,

4) purple, green, and blue.

In combinations , the order is to be ignored. In permutations orders or arrangements are to be considered.

From four marbles , green, blue,red and adam, how many combunatuions are possible? The number of combinations of three is as mmany as how many possibility of remaining one you leave when you choose 3. Possiblities are:

a) Choosing the 3 other than green or

b) Choosing the 3 other than blue or

c) Choosing the 3 other than red or

d) Choosing the three other than adam.

Thus it is  4 posible ways. Or 4C3 = 4.

If you are interested in  permutation or arranging the  3 things chosen combination, the order also counts. Then for each of the 4 choices further arranging 3! whitin each choice makes the number of permutations 4P3 = 4*3! =24.

Please seek out your question or teacher to find out whether order matters.  Certainly there is a math formula for this problem.  See below:

If order does not matter :  answer = 24
Permutations are how many ways a given number of things can be sequenced. The standard notation is that nPn is the permutations (sequences) of all n things in a set of n things; nPr is the permutations on n things taken r at a time. The relevant formulas are below:
 
nPn = n!
nPr = n!/(n - r)!
 
 
ABC, ACB, ADB, ABD, ADC, ACDBAC, BCA, BDA, BAD, BCD, BDCCAB, CBA, CBD, CDB, CAD, CDADAC, DCA, DAB, DBA, DBC, DCB
 

where ! is the factorial operation (n! = 1*2*3*...*n). For example, the number of permutations of 4 things taken 3 at a time is 4!/(4-3)! = 24/1 = 24. Thus for items, A, B, C, and D, the 24 permutations are:
If order does matter : Answer = 4
Combinations refer to how many subsets can be derived from a given set, regardless of permutation sequence. For instance, ABC, ACB, BCA, BAC, CAB, and CBA are 6 permutations but only 1 combination. The relevant counting formulas are below:
 
nCn = 1
nCr = n!/(n - r)!r!
By cancellation, n things combined 2 at a time = nC2 = n!/(n - 2)!2! = (n*(n-1))/2
 
 
A, B, and C in any orderA, B, and D in any orderA, C, and D in any orderB, C, and D in any order
 
 
 
For example, the number of combinations of 4 things taken 3 at a time is 4!/[(4-3)!3!] = 24/(1*6) = 4. The 4 combinations of A, B, C, and D are:
Permutations and Combinations of Sets Not All Different. The foregoing formulas assumed that we were dealing with a set of n things, each of which was different from the other. But what if we have a set of, say, individuals, some of whom are Republicans and some Democrats, and we are interested in permutations by party, not individual? The relevant formulas are below:
 
nCn1, n2, ..., nk = 1
nPn1, n2, ..., nk = n!/n1!n2!...nk!
 

In The Crucible explain what Elizabeth means when she says, "He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him."

Elizabeth utters this phrase at the very end of The Crucible, and it is very significant because it is the reason that she gives for not stepping in and pleading for John to not confess in order to save his life.  She is standing there, watching her own husband go to the gallows to hang, and doesn't beg for him to reconsider; instead, she says that he finally "has his goodness," and that she wouldn't dare interfere with that.

What Elizabeth means is that for the first time in a long time, John actually felt like he was a worthy, righteous, brave man.  He had spent the last long while feeling guilty over his affair, feeling bitter and upset at himself, feeling unworthy to be in the presence of more pious people, and feeling conflicted about his faith, minister, marriage and goodness.  He didn't like himself very much.  In fact, in his conversation with Elizabeth before this moment in the play, he confesses how he "cannot mount the gibbet like a saint...I am no good man."  He has no confidence in himself; he feels that if he stands all self-righteously up at the noose, touting his honesty before the world, that it would be a hypocrisy because he is not a good person. He has lied, he has committed great sins, and to go to the noose pretending that honesty is part of who he is, then he is fooling no one.  He feels intimidated at the prospect of going up there with the likes of Rebecca Nurse, renowned for her piety.

However, by the end of the act, John has made up with his wife, been forgiven by her for the adultery, and stood his ground on the issue of not confessing to a crime he didn't commit.  He refuses to confess and have his boys see his name on a list of "witches."  He refuses to leave them the legacy of a weak liar.  And the very act of standing his ground and deciding not to confess at the cost of his life is what, in the end, convinces him that he does have some goodness in him.  As he tears the confession he states,  "I do think I see a shred of goodness in John Proctor," and for the first time, is at peace with his life, his sins, and his past.  He is at peace.  That is what Elizabeth means--he is finally at peace with himself.  If she intervenes and forces him to confess, he won't have that anymore.  She respects his self-dignity more than her own selfish desires for him to live.  I hope that helped clear it up a bit; good luck!

What does "the city comes to me" in My Side of the Mountain mean?PLAESE PLAESE TELL ME THIS IS HOMEWORK AND ITS DUE TOMARROW AND IF I DONT TURN IT...

In the last chapter of My Side of the Mountain, Sam's solitary life in the wilderness changes with the arrival of his family, who have come to the Catskill Mountains to make a new life for themselves together with Sam on Grandfather Gribley's farm. Upon seeing them, Sam exclaims proudly, "Wow, all of New York!"

Sam's family was certainly a lot smaller than the population of New York City, but after living for a year with very little human interaction, Sam evidently found all the activity and noise caused by the new arrivals reminiscent of life in the city.

Later in the chapter, Sam refers to his family as a "city of people:"

The next day I took John, Jim and Hank out into the mountain meadows with Frightful to see if we could not round up enough food to feed this city of people. We did pretty well.

In creating a title for this chapter, the author skillfully uses a figure of speech known as synecdoche wherein the whole (city) is used to represent a part (Sam's family, who were among the population of that city). If we restate her title without the synecdoche, as the example below indicates, its literal meaning becomes apparent.

Example:  My family, from the city, comes to live with me.

What is spherical trigonometry and on what theorems is this based?

Spherical trigonometry mathematics is the discipline which deals with solving triangles formed on the surface of a sphere from   arcs of large circles.

Spherical trigonometry has a big  importance, theoretical and practical, and it's applicable on a larger scale in astronomy, superior geodesy, in cartography, in crystallography, in the mining geometry, theory of instruments and other sciences, when, to study the relative position in space of points, lines and planes, it  is used an helpful sphere.
It's called spherical surface, or area, the geometrical locus of points in space, equal far off from a fixed point O - the center of this surface.

The space bounded by the surface of a sphere is called also sphere.

Spherical surface can be defined as the surface produced by rotating a semicircle around it's diameter.
Segment of straight line joining the center of the sphere with any point on its surface is called the sphere radius R and the segment of straight line , joining two points on the spherical surface passing through its center and is called diameter, obviously the same sphere radii are equal between them and the diameter is equal with two rays.

In the spherical geometry are used the following theorems:
Theorem 1: Section of a sphere with a certain plane, is a circle.

Theorem 2: great circles divide the sphere and its surface into two equal parts.

Theorem 3: Through two given points on the surface of a sphere, if they are not placed at the ends of the same diameter, it can be traced a large circle and only one.

Theorem 4: The intersection plane of two large circles   is one of their diameter and divides them into two equal parts.

Theorem 5: The shortest distance between two points on the sphere, on its surface, is an large arc smaller than 180 °.

What aspects of the Magna Carta are found in modern governments?

The most important idea from the Magna Carta that influences governments today is the idea that the executive (the king back then, presidents and prime ministers today) does not have unlimited power.  Magna Carta made the king share power with his barons -- today executives must generally share power with legislatures.

Another important idea is the right of habeas corpus, which means that a person may not be held in prison unless there is some legal reason for holding them.

Finally, there is also the idea of due process.  This is the idea that a person can not be punished (have life, property, or liberty taken away from them by the government) unless they have been legally convicted of a crime.

Together, all of these mean that the we can see the influence of Magna Carta in limitations on the powers of modern governments.

What do the three explorers do at the top of the mountain?

There are actually two incidents of explorers climbing to the top of the mountain.  The first occurs in Chapter 1 when Ralph, Jack, and Simon are exploring the island. The purpose of this expedition is to find out if the land is actually an island.  As they climb to the top of the  mountain they see tracks made by some animal, foreshadowing the fear of the beastie that later creates chaos.  Blocking their way to top is a huge rock, that they send rolling down the mountain.  This incident is the first of the three rock rolling episodes in the novel, the third of which ends in Piggy's death.  When the boys reach the top, they survey the island, and Ralph pronounces, "This belongs to us." They are impressed with the boat-shaped island and its coral reef, and Jack finds the place where they landed.  At this point the island seems friendly, and the boys are all friends.

On the second expedition, the mission is to find the beast that Sam and Eric spotted.  The explorers are initially Simon, Ralph, and Jack, and a few little ones,  but Simon and the little ones go back to find Piggy, and Roger takes Simon's place. In this expedition, the boys also find a rock, but only Jack rolls this one down the mountain while Ralph seems more focused on their mission.  We see that Ralph has matured, but Jack has not.  This time when they reach the top of the mountain, the boys see what they think is the beast.  In actuality this is the dead parachutist, but because it is dark, the boys run without investigating.  This incident causes the total break-up of the group as  Jack soon leaves Ralph's group and forms a tribe of his own.  The island now has a much more ominous tone.

Two circles have diameters in the ratio1:3. Find the ratio of their circumerences.

Suppose that the radius of circles are: D1 and D2.

We'll express the ratio of the 2 diameters as:

D1/D2=1/3

We know that the diameter of a circle is twice the radius of that circle, so:

 D1/D2=2*R1/ 2*R2=R1/R2=1/3

The formula expressing the length of the circle is 2*pi*R.

The length of the first circle is: 2*pi*R1.

The length of the second circle is: 2*pi*R2.

The ratio of the circumferences of the 2 circles:

2*pi*R1/2*pi*R2

Simplifying constant pi and 2 , we'll get:

2*pi*R1/2*pi*R2=R1/R2

But R1/R2=1/3, as we've demonstrated before, so:

2*pi*R1/2*pi*R2=R1/R2=1/3

What did Jacob get Bella for her 18th birthday in New Moon (the sequel to Twilight)?

New Moon opens with Bella's eighteenth birthday, and she celebrates it with the Cullen family. Jacob is absent from Bella's birthday celebration and, in fact, doesn't appear in the book until several months after Bella's birthday. Jacob's entrance into the novel is marked by Bella's purchase of two motorcycles. She visits Jacob to see if he can help her restore the bikes and offers to give her one of the bikes in exchange for his labor and for riding lessons. In the conversation in which she makes the offer, Bella asks Jacob whether he can legally drive. When she realizes she has missed Jacob's birthday and apologizes, Jacob points out that he missed her birthday as well. They briefly discuss the possibility of having a joint birthday party, but before this happens, Jacob discovers he is a werewolf, which complicates his relationship with Bella. The party never happens, and Jacob technically never gives Bella a gift, unless you consider his restoring the bikes and teaching her how to ride her birthday gift.

Life in the New DemocracyIt is one thing to create a country based on certain principles, say that men have an inalienable right to life, liberty,...

I'm not sure what you're asking here.  Do you have a question?

My response to what you're saying is this: even though the early United States didn't come close to living up to the words of Declaration of Independence (and arguably doesn't do it perfectly now), those words and ideas have been a strong impetus that pushes and inspires Americans to try to perfect their society.

Let me be clear, I'm not a blind cheerleader for the US.  I teach history and US government, among other things, and know that we're imperfect.  I'm of mixed racial origin and am fully aware that the US hasn't always lived up to "all men are created equal."

However, we have been slowly but surely moving towards the ideals of the Declaration.  America today is closer to those ideals than it was when my parents were born.

How can I change my essay from First Person POV to Third Person POV?Example Sentence: "I strongly believe that my solution will work to please the...

First of all, not on the topic of POV, "still stands against the opposing" sounds kind of strange to my ears at least.  Do you mean to say that you still hold that opinion against opinions that are opposed to yours?  I'm going to proceed here as if that's what you're saying.

Okay, so if I had to change this particular sentence to the third person, I'd say:

The solution offered in this essay will work to please the children of America.  Opposing arguments notwithstanding, the arguments for this solution are sound and convincing.

Sounds really stilted, I know, but third person often does.

What is the future of business environment in India?

The future of business environment is very bright,. Indian economy is already one of the biggest economies in the world and growing fast. As per world Bank data India, with its GDP of 3,097 billion international dollars in terms of purchasing power parity in 2007 ranks fourth largest economy in the world. And it is expanding at an impressive rate. With its sheer size of economy India occupies a important position in the world.

India has well developed agriculture, industrial and service sectors. It has a large pool of expertise in areas of technologies, plus a large population of educated people to man its industries and business activities. This provides India with a large and convenient base for setting up and operating all types of industrial and business activities.

The wages continue in India are lower as compared to all developed countries. This is a big advantage in setting up industries here. However it must be noted that the wages are rising, and cannot continue to remain low forever.

In addition India has good availability of many types of agricultural and mineral resources.

It has a stable government and fairly liberal government policies on setting up of industries in general as well as participation of foreign investors in Indian business and industries.

Further its large population with rising incomes has become very lucrative market for all types of consumer products.

The biggest limitation of India is infrastructure, particularly for transport and power. However, India is making rapid progress in these areas also.

Does there have to be hamartia in Modern Tragedies?

'Hamartia' as referred to by Aristotle in his Poetics is an 'error' or 'flaw' that makes the tragic protagonist a victim of fatal circumstances. Oedipus killed Laius and became the king of Thebes and married Laius's widow, Jocaste, without knowing that he had committed an error of killing his father and marrying his mother for which Thebes had to suffer from plague.

'Hamartia', meaning 'beside the mark', was a term that Aristotle borrowed from the field of archery; it was an error born of 'hubris', i.e. 'pride' which goes before a fall. It was an intellectual error, not a moral failing. A towering personality belonging to high station like Oedipus or Agamemnon was still prone to such error leading to reversal of fortunes.

In modern social drama, e.g. Galsworthy's Justice or Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman, 'hamartia' does have little significance. The protagonist--a junior clerk or a humble salesman--pitted against a cruel society is too ordinary to be capable of any such intellectual error, that also born of exceeding self-consciousness. This absence of 'hamartia' may also be the reason why the protagonist in a modern social tragedy tends to be more pathetic rather than tragic.

Discuss the contrast that Twain creates between the river and the shore.Explain how the places differ, what each represents, and how the...

To me, the river represents a refuge for Huck and Jim, especially, from the shore, which represents the society as a whole.  The society of the time is bad for both of them -- it wants to enslave Jim and it wants to civilize Huck.  On the river, they can escape these problems.

On the river, nothing bad really happens to them.  On shore, among other things, Huck's dad can get him, the Grangerford feud can happen and Jim can be taken as a runaway slave.

The contrast between the two contributes to one of the overall theme of the work, which is freedom.  Both Huck and Jim want to be free, each in his own way.  The differences between what happens to them on the river and what happens on the shore highlight that struggle.

Why does the Lord in the "Induction" of The Taming of the Shrew play a practical joke on Christopher Sly?Why does the Lord decide to convince the...

Mousey is correct in suggesting that part of the purpose of the Induction in The Taming of the Shrew is to set a humorous tone.  There is a bit more that can be found in the Induction, however, if we look a little closer.

First, as suggested, there really is no "reason" that the Lord decides to convince the drunken Christopher Sly that he is a Lord.  The Lord says simply, "Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man," after nearly tripping over Sly, who is passed out from drink on the floor of an alehouse.  This decision is a set-up for the comedy that ensues when Sly awakes, and after some convincing decides,

I am a lord indeed,

And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.

He has convinced himself so well that he switches from speaking in prose (a sign of a low-born character) to verse (the language of the nobility in Shakespeare's plays)!

But the Induction does also serve a purpose beyond the humor it provides when considering the theme of identity in Shrew.  In the main body of the play, Kate is "tamed" once she accepts Petruchio's point of view over her own.  This happens in Act Four when she finally agrees:

And be it moon, sun, or what you please,

And if you please to call it a rush-candle,

Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

This acceptance of another's view of circumstances is foreshadowed by the comic Sly accepting the word of the Lord and the others around him that he is, in fact, a Lord himself.  Once he accepts it, he begins to act and behave as if it were true.  The same can be said for Kate.  Once she accepts that Petruchio is her Lord and husband, she begins to behave in a "tame" obedient way.

What do lay-nah, awi usdi, min-e-lee, mon-o-lah, tal-con, pa-koh, ti-bi, tel-qui mean in The Education of Little Tree?

All of these are supposedly Cherokee words for things that are actually just words that Earl "Forrest" Carter made up, in this novel that masquerades as an autobiography.

Since the publication of this book, it has come to be known that Carter was actually a former KKK member and white supremacist who may not have had any Indian blood at all.

At any rate, according to the book, the words you mention are supposed to have the following meanings:

• Lay-nah is "spring branch."


• Awi usdi is "little deer"


• Min-e-lee is "quail hen"


• Mon-oh-law is "Earth Mother"


• Tal-con is "hawk"


• Pa-koh is "panther"


• Ti-bi is "bee"


• Tel-qui is "turkey"

In "The Crucible" what makes Judge Danforth so unwilling to consider the girls could be pretending?

By the time that Mary Warren, in act three, comes forth with her testimony that the girls have been faking, there are numerous people in the jails, being condemned as witches, based on the testimony of these same girls.  Danforth is a might judge, brought in from the outside, and he has a reputation to maintain.  If it is found that he condemned innocent people to die, based on the antics and acting of a bunch of little girls, his career will be ruined.  He will be a laughing-stock, a joke of a judge, and no one will ever trust his judging capabilities ever again.  To have been fooled by little girls, and to condemn innocent people to death based on those same little girls!  What a mockery, and a shame!  So, Danforth has quite a bit of stake in maintaining the courts as they are, and keeping the people he has already condemned in the jails.

Mary's testimony, if true, undermines his entire authority as a judge, and makes him look the fool.  So, he is quick to side against Mary, quick to believe Abigail and her posse, rather than ruin his career and reputation for believing the quavering Mary Warren.  I hope that those thoughts help to clear the situation a bit for you; good luck!

What was the Mesopotamian economy based upon?

Mesopotamia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq. One of the earliest civilizations known, Mesopotamia was active in agriculture, given its location in the Fertile Crescent. Grains and animal products were mostly produced during this time.

There was no money system such as we have today; instead, people bartered using goods, animals, and other tangible items. Bartering is trading one thing for another, and the worth of these objects was often determined by demand, exotic qualities, and abundance.

How did Scrooge start the day for Bob Cratchit after Christmas?

In short, Scrooge starts Crachit's day with the shock of his life. When Cratchit arrives to work "eighteen minutes and a half" late, Scrooge treats him with the same malevolent demeanor he has "for many a year," and as Scrooge is scolding and poking at Cratchit causing him to back away from him with fear, Scrooge gives him the shock of his life by telling him that he is going to raise his salary " which causes Cratchit to tremble and consider knocking Scrooge down with a ruler and screaming for someone to get a strait-jacket, for he thinks Scrooge has gone insane.  

At the end of the novel the naval officer brings the boys back to civilization, meaning that humanity can be returned to civilization.Demonstrate...

In accord with the post of mstokes, the fact that a naval officer arrives and the boys are to be taken back to civilization in a battle ship, leaves much doubt in the mind of the reader that civilization, as such, has ever been as perfect as Piggy has imagined, and that "adults know how to make things right." After all, there is a war going on in the adult world, too.

Added to this fact, as Thomas Wolfe wrote, "You can't go home again."  That is, after having certain experiences, one cannot return to the innocent state that one was in prior to these experiences--"Ralph wept for the end of innocence...."  This adage is also demonstrated in the reaction of Jack, who

carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still.

Clearly, the rescue has come too late.

Why is Paul's company returning to the front and how does the battle progress in the two weeks spent there?

Because the war is still very much in progress, Paul's company is called back to the front; furthermore, he learns that his company has become one of the flying divisions that are pushed into "wherever it is hottest." Some of Paul's friends and he are assigned to guard a village that has been abandoned after receiving a deluge of heavy shelling. The men enjoy sleeping in beds and being able to cook themselves a meal after Kat and Paul have scoured the area for what they can find. After gleaning vegetables and two suckling pigs, the men enjoy a veritable feast. However, their hiatus from war is interrupted as the smoke from the chimney has been spotted and shell pour down.

After eight days, the men are called back. A few days later they are sent to evacuate a village Paul and Kropp are hit. After the doctor sadistically digs around in Paul's leg for shrapnel, he sets his leg and he and Albert are put on a train. After they are recuperated, Paul and the others are sent back to the front, but the morale is weakening.  No longer are the men individuals; now they are“coins of different provinces,” “melted down,” and they all “bear the same stamp.” The Germans are losing, too, so the men simply try to avoid death, and operate as animals. As his comrades begin to die because their weapons are antiquated against the newer, advanced weaponery of the Allied forces. Paul watches as his friends and comrades die. When Kat is hit, Paul carries him to the medics, but he has been hit and is dead. Paul is devastated.

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle,a dn I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died.
Then I know nothing more.

Paul has lost his dear friend; nothing seems to have any meaning.

In I, Robot the movie, describe how symbolic codes are used in the film to portray who is good and who is evil?The movie I robot

Science fiction relies heavily on allegory and symbolism to generate its themes and warnings.  I, Robot the film plays upon heavily-used symbols of the genre to create a morality play.

At the beginning of the film, the "good" robots are white and wear a human mask with an agreeable expression.  The "bad" ones are metallic-colored, show rust, and do not wear such a human-like mask.

Later, when these good robots begin attacking Will Smith's character, their hearts glow red, a traditional indication of sin and corruption.  Their facial expressions turn aggressive, even though their vocal patterns remain monotone.  The symbolism connotes that newer, human-like techonology is good, but when it when we use it to replace humans, it becomes evil. 

The movie is very biblically symbolic, and there is much Christian allegorical criticism of the film on the internet.

What's an example of characterization in "Harrison Bergeron"?

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. describes the main characters of "Harrison Bergeron" in his usual matter-of-fact and rather sarcastic way, from the perspective of the society that he creates.   For example, when we are introduced first to Hazel, Harrison's mother, the first bit of character description that we get of her is that she wasn't very smart, and that

"There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd forgotten for the moment what they were about."

Immediately we feel like she is a rather shallow person, and a total ditz.  Vonnegut is describing her through the eyes of the society that they live in though, not through our eyes.  According to the society that existed in this story, in 2081 where everyone was "finally equal," they did find Hazel average and dull.  Vonnegut characterizes them according the standards of his dystopian society.

Later, we see Hazel is willing to bend the rules a bit (she encourages George to take off some of his weights, just to rest) but that George is more of a stickler for the rules.  The most flamboyant and exaggerated characterizations come in describing Harrison. Here, Vonnegut gets a bit wordy and even poetic.  He describes Harrison as all "Halloween and hardware," and later, when Harrison bursts onto the stage, as "a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder."  Vonnegut uses similes and metaphors and other poetic techniques to describe just how overwhelmingly beautiful and strong Harrison is.  This would be true to his society's perspective also, since they were used to average.

I hope that helped a bit; good luck!

How does D.H. Lawrence use imagery and symbolism in the short story "The Odour of Chrysanthemums"? How do imagery and symbolism contribute to the...

This is a great question, because the story "The Odour of Chrysanthemums"  is well-known for its stunning use of visual imagery (such as the chrysanthemums, and the interplay of darkness and light) to bring out its messages, or themes, which, in this story, are primarily concerned with life, marriage, and death.

In the early part of the 20th century, when this story was published, flowers were thought by many people to have symbolic properties. The meaning of the chrysanthemum was joy and happiness, and hopes for the future.  This knowledge makes the symbol of the chrysanthemum more poignant in this story, because for Elizabeth, they have taken on the meaning of disappointment and bitterness.

Elizabeth is unhappy with her husband and her life. Chrysanthemums, for her, represent all the disappointments she has experienced in life.  She says, "It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when [our child was] born, and chrysanthemums the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he'd got brown chrysanthemums in his buttonhole."

When her dead husband is brought in from the mine and laid out in the parlor, chrysanthemums are also used as a symbol. One of the men bringing in his body knocks over the vase of chrysanthemums by accident.  Elizabeth had put them out earlier  even though they reminded her of her bitter marraige and life.  The chrysanthemums symbolize her married life and all its disappointments.

Their marriage was "dead" even though her husband was still alive.  In the end, even the vase of flowers just leaves an odor behind. The chrysanthemums symbolize the hope and promise that the marriage never fulfilled for Elizabeth.

Another theme in the story is the theme of light and dark.  Most of the action happens in the afternoon and early evening, as the sun is going down.  This symbol generally suggests death and endings.  The ever-growing darkness makes a contrast with the flowers, a symbol of hope.  This can be interpreted as a symbol of Elizabeth's married life, with reality slowly obscuring (darkening) the promise that the wedding crysanthemums originally promised.

Why is it that the poem is entitled, "The Road not Taken"? What is the meaning of this poem?

This is Frost in his own words:

"One stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: was found three or four years later, and I couldn't bear not to finish it. I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way."

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference August 1953

Two roads that were pretty much the same, two paths of life, two choices, presented themselves to the narrator. He chose one of the two paths:

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

That's our lot in this brief existence of ours: we make a few decisions early on, then way leads on to way, and pfft, we're seventy. We know the life we've chosen and lived, but the other life, the road not taken, we'll never have a chance to know where that one may have taken us.

What do the Canadian Honkers represent in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Ken Kesey's classic novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is filled with symbols of freedom and imprisonment.  The patients of the psychiatric ward are essentially caged birds, trapped physically by the locked doors and burly guards as well as mentally by drugs, electro-shock treatments, and Nurse Ratched's psychological abuse.

Both the mongrel dog sniffing outside the window and the Canadian "honkers," or geese flying by overhead, represent past moments of freedom for Bromden.  They are reminders that he was once free, and perhaps, that he could be again.

In chapter 7, what contrast is presented by Ralph's daydream?

The contrast here is between the idealism of Ralph's dream, & its reflection of the lost society from which the boys came, & the reality of their lives on the island. Ralph's dream is of a cottage in which his family once lived, where wild ponies would visit at their walls. He remembers:

When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books-they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly...Everything was all right; everything was good-humored and friendly.

These recollections of the peaceful, contented life he had lived before the island swarm up before he is unable to stop them. They are also destroyed by the appearance of a wild boar, which Ralph attempts to kill. This moment of the novel reveals Ralph's weakness-his easygoing attitude and inability to see the evil in others. Instead, he dreams of peace without making the effort to establish it on the island.

In the book The Catcher in the Rye, in chapter 20 why does Holden do his "bullet in the guts" number again?

Holden is extremely drunk at this point, as, in retrospect, he is well aware. So his pretence about being shot is directly related to this; he's just acting daft. It also shows his tendency to melodrama and to imitate the movies even though he apparently loathes them. Earlier he says: "I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang out of imitating them." Back at Pencey, he pretended to be a tap-dancer in the style of a musical. When he is pretending to be shot, he's obviously mimicking crime and gangster movies. He emphasizes this when, on phoning Sally, he tells her that "Rocky's mob" has got him.

Holden's acting wounded at this point is also symbolic of the fact that he has been wounded emotionally; he is in a mess. But he doesn't want to let on:

I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch.

Although he is wracked and confused mentally and emotionally, he hides his emotional pain. Getting blind drunk is the only escape for him by this stage in the book. However, things do get a little better after this, at least for a time. He goes to visit his kid sister Phoebe, who seems to be the only person in the entire story he has a genuine connection with.

What literary devices, with examples, are in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Literary devices are of two categories: literary elements and literary techniques. Literary elements are common to all fiction in one form or another. Literary techniques are options each individual author can choose from and therefore vary between literary works.

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one example of a literary element is the narrator, or narratorial voice. The story starts with a third person limited narrator who tells the story through Mr. Utterson's experience, thoughts, motives, and feelings. Other literary elements to consider are conflict; rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, all part of plot structure; character development (direct or indirect); foreshadowing; setting; point of view; mood; tone; and theme.

One literary technique (optional choice of author) in the story is Stevenson's use of epistolary sections. In Chapter 9, Dr. Lanyon takes over as the narratorial voice by means of his letter to Mr. Utterson. Further, in the beginning of Lanyon's epistle (letter) is an embedded letter to Lanyon from Jekyll. So Lanyon's letter to Utterson consists in part of a letter quoted inside a letter. Chapter 10 is given over to Jekyll's narratorial voice again through the literary device of an epistolary (literary) technique as Utterson reads Jekyll's letter, his confession, addressed to himself, Mr. Utterson.

Some other literary techniques to look for are allusion, symbolism, metaphor and simile, metonymy, puns, personification, irony (verbal, situational, dramatic), idiom, flashback, and cliche.

What is learned of the relationship between Elizabeth ann John from the opening dialouge and stage action in Act 2 of The Crucible?

In the beginning of Act II, we learn that Elizabeth and John Proctor's marriage isn't as solid as it might be.  This is because of John having cheated on Elizabeth with Abigail Williams.  Elizabeth knows, but hasn't forgiven John yet -- seven months later.

The stage action at the begining shows us this because he tastes the soup and adds salt secretly rather than openly.  He also at one point kisses her and she only "receives it" rather than kissing back.

Then in the dialogue there is a lot of distrust on her part when she asks him about him being in Salem, and about how late he is getting back from plowing.

He tries to be cautious -- not blaming her when he wants to, complimenting her cooking, but they still end up arguing.

What significance does repetition have in the lives of Kino and Juana?

As the novel opens, Kino awakens before dawn in the small brush hut where he lives with his wife Juana and their baby, Coyotito. He sees Juana moving around, starting the fire to prepare breakfast and tending to the baby. Kino goes outside and walks down to the beach. He hears the waves lapping on the sand, hears the morning birds, and smells the corncakes Juana is cooking inside. Kino is at peace, hearing what Steinbeck calls the Song of the Family. Kino feels "this is safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole." Kino's morning has begun just as it begins every day with the repetition of these experiences. He finds peace and security in the repetition, the familiarity of his life.

Once the great pearl comes into Kino's life, this repetition of daily life is destroyed. He and Juana are forced by events to leave their home, their village, and all that has given them comfort and security. The Song of the Family is destroyed by evil, greed, and--ironically--by Kino's desire to provide more for his family. Too late, he realizes that he and Juana had possessed all that was truly important.

Why was Napoleon upset with Mr. Frederick ?

Napoleon is upset with Mr. Frederick because Mr. Frederick cheated Napoleon out of some money.

When the animals took over the farm from Farmer Jones, there was a pile of timber on the farm.  They started to try to sell it, and Napoleon tried to have Frederick and Pilkington sort of bid against each other so that the price of the timber would be higher.

Napoleon eventually sold the timber to Frederick.  He later found out that all the money Frederick gave him was fake.

When he found this out, he was, not surprisingly, upset.

x+4=2x+3

To get the answer for this problem, first get all the x's on one side of the equation.  You do that by subtracting 2x from each side.  That gets you

-x+4 = 3 (because x-2x is -x)

Then you want to get all the numbers on the other side of the equation.  To do that, subtract 4 from each side.  That gets you

-x = -1 (because 3-4 is -1)

Now to make your x positive, multiply both sides by -1.  That gets you

x = 1

And that's your answer.

From The Phantom of the Opera, I need a summary on Chapter 12: "Apollo's Lyre."

In Chapter 12 of The Phantom of the Opera, Christine and Raoul escape to the top of the building and stroll along the tin roof watching Paris below. The Phantom follows them without their knowing of it. Christine and Raoul speak of their plans to escape after Christine's performance the next night, and Christine voices her fears and apprehensions that when the moment would arrive, she would be unwilling or unable to flee with Raoul. She makes him promise to take her with him regardless.

Then Christine tells Raoul the story of her encounters with the Phantom who taught her to sing. She describes their conversations and the visit where the Phantom, on his knees, declared his love for her and wept tears at her feet. As she and Raoul kiss, a great roar explodes in the night sky and, looking up, they see a great black shape high above them glaring down with blazing eyes and seemingly hanging on high by Apollo's string.

What is an example of Gene's innocence early in A Separate Peace?

This is a difficult question, in that Finny is the truly innocent character of the novel, while Gene harbors paranoia & jealousy which lead to Finny's fall and, ultimately, death. However, Gene does carry some innocence of adolescence with him early on.

One such example is his attitude toward war, and his status in society as a 16-year-old male in the summer of 1942.

"I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. We registered with no draft board, we had taken no physical examinations. We were carefree and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time."

Gene has the advantage of being a year younger than those who are preparing for war, & this allows him a carelessness & selfishness which not many people could possess. He is free to worry about his trigonometry test on the night he & Finny sleep on the beach, & he is free to jump out the tree as a game, rather than preparation for fleeing a sinking ship. They are able to complain about lack of maids to make their beds, rather than lack of nurses to tend their wounds on the battlefield. He can pursue the goal of valedictorian, instead of choosing which branch of the military to join.

Gene, in many places, also represents an innocence in friendship. Despite his animosity toward Finny, and his paranoia in thinking Finny is out to sabotage his grades, Gene often delights in realizing the depth of their friendship. He is excited to know that the most popular kid in school is his roommate and has chosen him to join in all his ridiculous antics. These moments highlight how dramatic the shift in his thinking is, when it comes later.

Discuss the two meanings of the title."The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

Just as there exists an irony throughout the narrative of Richard Connell's story when Rainsford disdains Whitney's concern for the jaguar as prey but later understands being a "beast of prey," and when Rainsford tells Zaroff after hearing of the general's "game" that he does not "condone cold-blooded murder," but later himself commits such an act, there is an irony to the title.

Two interpretations of this title are that, on the one hand, General Zaroff, in his jaded state of ennui with the customary hunts of wild game, has created a situation on his island where he can hunt the most challenging game: man. He has created a dangerous game, or hunting sport. On the other hand, this dangerous game that he has created becomes, ironically, for Zaroff the most dangerous prey, or "game" as the animal of pursuit, he has ever encountered.  For, the prey, Rainsford, as a "beast at bay" turns predator and kills the general.  Thus, the irony of the title becomes apparent: the game has changed from a sporting contest in which Zaroff is the hunter to Rainsford's becoming himself the hunter who deals a deadly and fateful end to the former predator. 

In order to understand the two meanings, one can place the emphasis on the word Game implying that man in general is the most dangerous of game animals, or one can place the emphasis on The implying that Rainsford himself becomes the most formidable of the dangerous prey, man, that Zaroff has ever hunted. (The Most Dangerous Game vs. The Most Dangerous Game)

How is the "Lord of the Flies" a symbol in the novel by William Golding?

coachingcorner provides a great list of themes to explore re. symbolism in Lord of the Flies (i.e., Order/Disorder - Good/Evil - Death/Life - Decay - Anarchy - Free Will - Convention/Freedom - The Fight of Angels and Demons in Heaven/Hell - Falling From Grace - Hunting - Trophy - Humiliation - Sacrifice - Ritual Exhibition).

There is a biblical allusion in the book's title that may be of help in your exploration of these themes. Interestingly, "Lord of the flies" is a synonym for "Beelzebub" (a.k.a. the devil).

Here's the derivation breakdown: ORIGIN from late Latin Beëlzebub, translating Hebrew ba‛al zĕ b ū b ‘lord of flies,’ the name of a Philistine god (2 Kings 1:2), and Greek Beelzeboul ‘the Devil’ (Matt. 12:24). Source: Any good (print/electronic) dictionary.

As you read coachingcorner's list of themes again, this tidbit will surely/hopefully help you with an essay, test, or simply to gain greater insight into the novel.

Hope this helps. :)

Using an appropriate diagram, explain how an indirect tax can change the free market price and the allocation of resources. This is an economics...

Indirect tax refer to the taxes that are levied on sale purchase and manufacture of goods and services. These include taxes such as sales tax, value added tax, and excise duty. These taxes are called indirect taxes because, unlike income tax and wealth tax, these are not based on individual income or wealth.

The indirect taxes may be payable by either buyer of a good, or the seller or manufacturer of the goods. When tax is paid by the seller it has the impact of increasing the price of goods paid by the buyers, without corresponding increase in price realized by the seller.This in turn results in shift of the demand curve to the left in terms of prices without tax.

Similarly when indirect taxes are paid by sellers they increase the cost of the seller. The sellers have the option of increasing the price of the goods sold by them to fully cover the taxes paid by them. However, the exact increase in price will depend on shift in supply, which in terms of cost without the tax will shift to right.

Because of these shifts in demand and supply curves the market equilibrium prices and quantities will change also. In general higher the rate of tax lower will be the the equilibrium price without tax. However the equilibrium price including tax is likely to be higher, and because of that the quantity sold and consumed is likely to be lower.

IN terms of market allocation of resources, the indirect taxes tend to draw resources away from the goods taxed at higher levels to the goods taxed at lower levels. Also when there is significant differences in types of goods consumed by different sections of society, the indirect taxes have the impact of reducing the effective income of people consume the goods taxed. In this way there is indirect taxes impact also the distribution of resources and income between different sections of society.

What are the moral and ethical implications that come along with not allowing women to be in the infantry?PLEASE ANSWER ACCORDING TO THE CARDINAL...

Some issues to consider when it comes to allowing women in the infantry center around our current experience in war.  While the United States and its culture has made marked progress in recent years in terms of womens' equality in the workplace, the military is a very traditional and conservative institution, and changes much more slowly than the rest of the country.

Part of that tradition stems from our own history in gender roles, where men are taught to feel it is their duty to protect the women and children of society, up to and including going to war.  As outdated as that idea is, it is still engrained in our history and culture.

A primary issue both morally and ethically is the capture of female soldeirs on the battlefield.  To employ female soldiers into combat situations or on the front lines is to do so with the knowledge that they may be captured.  While male POW's have in the past been tortured and abused, very few are known to have suffered sexual abuse.  At least three women captured during the first and second Iraq Wars have testified to such abuse after they were liberated.

Modern technology renders obsolete many of the older ideas about women's ability to fight on equal par with male soldiers, although there are certainly still duties and missions which call for brute strength and endurance, and not all women would be able to meet such challenges.

What is an analysis of "The Youngest Daughter" by Cathy Song?

Cathy Song, a Chinese American writer, focuses on the family  in much of her work. Her poem "The Youngest Daughter" explores the relationship between mother and daughter. 

The poem written in free verse uses graphic images to portray the harshness of  aging and the responsibility of the child to her parent. Told with first person point of view, the narrator is the poet herself. Her simplistic language directs the reader to understand the limitations of both characters: the elderly parent and the responsible child.

Song begins by conveying the anguish of the daughter.   Viewing the world bleakly, the narrator's skin is pale and moist; and her eyes burn when touched.  She suffers from migraines, and her mother massages her face to ease the pain.

On this day, the daughter bathe's her mother who is in a good mood. She even jokes about her large breasts floating in the water.  As she washes them, the daughter is reminded that she and her siblings have nursed from these breasts. Her mother, an insulin dependent diabetic, is covered with bruises.  Receiving her daughter's touches with her eyes closed, the other sighs complacently.  The two share this intimate moment as though this is the way it has always been. 

After the mother rests, she prepares the Chinese ritual of tea and rice along with fish for her and her daughter. Silently eating together, the mother knows that the daughter wishes that she could escape.  The narrator toasts her mother just as cranes symbolically fly up into the sky.

...a thousand cranes curtain the window,

fly up in a sudden breeze.

The daughter lovingly cares for her mother, now in the winter of her life.  The poem conveys a warmth between the two, but the tone is different.  Even though the narrator loves her mother, she realizes that she has become tied to her. The daughter's own body has lost its vibrancy to the imprisonment of care giving. Lacking the freedom desired by any person, the mother's aged rituals have consumed the daughter.    Her mother's ancient body betrays her quick mind because she knows her daughter longs for independence. 

The Oriental culture demands that the young take care of the elderly.  Usually, when the grandparents or parents cannot live by themeselves, they move in with their children.  Consequently,  it is the duty of this daughter who might not have other responsibilties to attend her parent.  It is required.  The bitterness comes through in the poet's description of her own unhealthy demeanor and the duties and rituals she must perform.  These experiences seem endless to the narrator.

It seems it has always

been like this:

the two of us

in this sunless room...

"The Youngest Daughter" depicts a caring, yet bitter relationship between the daughter and the mother.  The mother knows her child wants to be free; however,  she needs her.  Song, in her imagery,  places the reader into the bath setting exposing both the parent and child. Her flowing words lead to the obvious climax and metaphor of the birds surrounding her window, flying off to soar and live freely. Something that the poet longs for as well.

What is the structure of the story "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber?

This story vascillates between the everyday humdrum life of Water Mitty, the hen-pecked husband sterotype, and the extravagant adventures he lives in his daydreams. Mitty flits in and out of reality, his daydreams concocted by a stream of consciousness association triggered by the sputtering of his car's exhaust pipe, a pair of gloves, and finally a freshly lit cigarette. In such a way this docile "hubby" gets to be the captain of an icebreaker, a famous surgeon, a defendent in a murder trial and finally a fighter pilot taken captive distaining a firing squad. Mitty's imagination is his "second life," which nurtures his deflated ego and helps hims escape the insufferable mediocrity of his existence.

If you do a graph of the plot line of this story, it would look very much like a cardiograph printout, with the steady horizontal line of Mitty's real life intermittantly broken by the highs and lows of his "virtual" existence.

I have to write a paper on Lord of the Flies. How would I start a paper about theme?I need to know major plot points as well as symbolic meanings.

Focus on a single aspect of the novel. Perhaps a good topic would be the fire. What is it? Why is it so important to Ralph and Piggy especially? What is Jack's original attitude toward the fire? How does that attitude change? What does the fire represent for Ralph and Piggy? How is it later used by Jack and his group?

The fire is one of the central symbols of the novel. Again and again, its importance to the boys is emphasized. It is hope of rescue and salvation, and it gives comfort and warmth. Many see the fire, at least through the eyes of Ralph and Piggy, as belief in a better future or as a symbol of religion.

Here are numerous passages from the book that can help you:

1)

“There’s another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.”

2)

“You let the fire go out.”

Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him.

“We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time. The twins got knocked over—”

“We hit the pig—”

“—I fell on top—”

“I cut the pig’s throat,” said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it.

3)

“There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!” He took a step toward Jack, who turned and faced him. “They might have seen us. We might have gone home—” This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss. He began to cry out, shrilly:

“You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home—”

4)

“If Jack was chief he’d have all hunting and no fire. We’d be here till we died.”

5)

“Can’t they see? Can’t they understand? Without the smoke signal we’ll die here? Look at that!” A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but without a trace of smoke. “We can’t keep one fire going. And they don’t care. And what’s more—” He looked intensely into Piggy’s streaming face. “What’s more, I don’t sometimes. Supposing I got like the others—not caring. What ’ud become of us?” Piggy took off his glasses, deeply troubled.

6)

Ralph stood back, speaking to himself. “We don’t want another night without fire.” He looked round guiltily at the three boys standing by. This was the first time he had admitted the double function of the fire. Certainly one was to send up a beckoning column of smoke; but the other was to be a hearth now and a comfort until they slept.

Think about it for a while, gather the pieces together, make an outline, and write! Good luck!

What would be a moral that one can learn from "The Cop and the Anthem" that is applicable to one's life?

O.Henry's stories always have a moral undercurrent that is often hidden beneath layers of irony. In this short story the central character, Soapy, is a homeless man with a need for winter shelter and a clever way to get it. Unfortunately, Soapy is unable to get himself arrested no matter how hard he tries. Finally, Soapy stops outside a church and lets his mind wander to happier times and he determines to better his place in life. At that moment, he is arrested for loitering and sent to jail for the winter.

On the surface the story seems to illustrate the cliche, "If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all." Upon deeper examination, however, there is a deeper and more relevant meaning. O.Henry had an eye for the details of unfortunate people. Early in the story O.Henry tells that Soapy is shaved, clean, and as well dressed as can be for a vagrant. This is the first indication that there is more to Soapy than a stereotypical "bum." Later O.Henry makes the point that at one time in Soapy's life there were "such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars."

In providing these details, O.Henry's moral message comes to life. Every person has a story. Even the homeless man on the street has a history that doesn't include his current state of affairs. Even though we don't know how or why Soapy became homeless, O.Henry teaches the reader to feel sympathy for him and to hope for better things when Soapy begins to plan a future for himself. The irony leaves the reader disappointed--but perhaps a bit more compassionate to those who may not have crossed consciousness before.

Between Act 1 and Act 2, provide 2 character traits for Horatio, Polonius, and Hamlet.Also, provide a quote to support each of your indentified...

Horatio is well-educated, & his opinion is trusted among the soldiers. When the ghost first appears, Horatio is skeptical, which is exactly why Marcellus asks him to come along:

Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

So it's obvious that the other men hold him in high regard. There seems to be good reason for this too. Horatio is perhaps the character most concerned about Hamlet for Hamlet's sake, and not for any other ulterior motives. He honestly cares for his friend, a trait the Hamlet will acknowledge in Act III. Here, early on, when the ghost comes, Horatio warns Hamlet not to follow it:

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form,
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
And draw you into madness? Think of it.
The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many fathoms to the sea
And hears it roar beneath.

Thus he warns Hamlet of the possible dangers of following what may well be a malevolent spirit.

Polonius is fat, annoying, and likes to speak in puns. Yet he also cares for his children, and offers advice to Laertes when he goes to leave:

There, my blessing with thee.
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Of course, it's good advice, but Polonius probably thinks he's the first one to think of it. Also, he's not just a fat jolly guy. He's got a rather sinister side, as shown when he convinces Reynaldo to spy on Laertes, even suggesting that he tells lies in order to find out Laertes' true reputation. Not the kind of thing most fathers do.

Hamlet is depressed, and perhaps even suicidal. He reveals this in his soliloquy, saying:

O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!

He establishes himself as melancholy from the beginning, due to his father's death and his mother's marriage. He will continue to identify himself by his melancholy throughout the play.

Gertrude notices this as well. She is worried for Hamlet, probably because she doesn't want Claudius to have a reason to suspect Hamlet of anything but grief over his father's death. Yet Gertrude senses Hamlet's disgust over their marriage, and she wants to make sure she's the only one. She gently chides Hamlet for his mood:

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

The line that gives it away is "look like a friend on Denmark." She is specifically telling him to acknowledge the King as the royal head of state, and her husband as well. Of course, Hamlet refuses to do this, & this will determine his action (or lack thereof) throughout the play.

In the story "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote, what are the character traits of Buddy's friend, the older woman?

Buddy’s friend, who is actually never named, is an interesting combination of innocence and wisdom. Although in her sixties, she is still like a child both in her actions and experience. Her life has been so sheltered that she has never been to a movie or eaten in a restaurant. She does, however, appreciate the beauty of nature and she passes this appreciation to her seven-year-old cousin. In addition to this “simple wisdom,” she possesses the magical quality of taming hummingbirds, but she doesn’t know that it’s a bad idea to give whiskey to a child. She has the courage to venture into the “sinful” territory of Mr. Haha Jones, but she is brought to tears by “Those Who Know Best,” the two relatives who seem to be in charge. These contradictory characteristics make Buddy’s friend realistic in spite of the nostalgic tone of the piece – a tone that could have made her too good to be true.

What are Tom Joads personal sacrifices and the significance of these sacrifices?Use examples and/or direct quotes from the text to support the...

His most famous speech comes in Chapter 28:

Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there . . . . I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll be there.

Tom has just left his family in order to protect them from harboring a vigilante.  Instead of running from the law, he is going to fight against it.  Tom is going rogue, becoming a ghost, a vigilante for social justice.  He vows to be a kind of sacrificial lamb for the common man and working class heroes.  Not exactly a Christ-figure (because Jesus was against violence), but certainly a martyr for the migrant worker.  Tom is Steinbeck's tireless hero who sacrifices family, identity, and his American Dream to protect theirs.

Compare and contrast "Two Kinds" and "Harlem" and "Same in Blues" by Langston Hughes.We are comparing one story and two poems and we need to...

In the story "Two Kinds," Amy Tan borrows from elements of the Yin-Yang philosophy, in which two opposing forces complement each other to form a whole.  In this case, we have a mother-daughter relationship instead of the traditional Yin (female) and Yang (male) complement.  Much of Hughes' poetry makes no gender distinction, but in "Same in Blues" he mentions a "Daddy," suggestive of a father-son complement.

The dreams deferred in Hughes' "Same in Blues" follow three conditions: (1) "There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred"; (2) "A certain amount of nothing in a dream deferred"; (3) "a certain amount of impotence in a dream deferred." The first condition is the most applicable to "Two Kinds."

In the story Jing-Mei and her mother defer each other's dreams, out of spite.  Jing Mei thinks her mother's dream is for Jing-Mei to be a piano prodigy, mainly because Waverly is a chess prodigy.  Jing Mei tries to taint her mother's dream by saying she wishes she were like her forgotten Chinese twin sisters: "dead."  And it works.  She forgoes future piano recitals.

Later, when Jing Mei is 30, and her mother sends her a piano, Jing Mei is amazed at how well she can recall the two piano pieces she butchered at the recital: “Pleading Child” and “Perfectly Contented.”  Though two halves, they sound like complementary pieces (hence, the Yin-Yang).  Though not a prodigy, Jing Mei somehow fulfills part of her mother's dream by understanding this philosophy.

Her mother's full dream deferred, of course, is for Jing Mei to be reunited with her twin daughters in China.  Jing Mei realizes that she must do a "certain amount of traveling" in order to better understand her mother and herself.  By fulfilling her mother's dream deferred, she has fulfilled her own: she discovers the twins, her Chinese identity, and her mother's long-cherished wish.

I need 10-15 discusion questions and answers over act 5 of hamlet.

Your first question will be: Does act V put an end to the internal and external conflicts that Hamlet experiences. Is Hamlet ready to kill Claudius, and finally revenge his father´s death?

The answer is yes. Hamlet has matured, thus killing his uncle seems more natural, as Hamlet sees him as “the canker of our nature”, a strong metaphor suggesting that Claudius is the cancer in the state of Denmark. Conclusively, killing Claudius, Hamlet exerts an act of justice. He feels less guilty in that he considers Claudius a corrupt person, who might cause harm to other people.

The second question concerns the beginning of Act V. Why do the gravediggers joke and sing, in a mournful situation? After all, they are preparing Ophelia’s grave. The language of Shakespeare is ironic and he often uses his wit in grave scenes. As an example, one gravedigger says that digging is the oldest trade in the world:” There is no ancient gentleman but gardeners, ditches, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam’s profession”(V,i)

The third question is : how the other characters regard Ofelia´s suicide? Considering that the characters are catholic, suicide is viewed as a mortal sin. According to Catholicism, people must bear life´s adversities until they die.  However, the circumstances of Ophelia´s suicide are different. Since Hamlet rejected her, she has become insane. Queen Gertrude even says “sweet of the sweets: farewell. / I think thou shoudst have been my Hamlet´s wife.” (Vii) This shows how Ophelia’s suicide is understandable.

The fourth question regards Hamlet´s attitude. By showing surprise and bewilderment with Ophelias´death, is he still feigned madness? Being a complex character who has acted strangely many times, one cannot be sure. However he deliverers a love discourse in honor to Ofelia: “I loved Ofelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum” (V, i).

The fifth question is : why does Laertes fight against Hamlet? Laertes is still hurt by Hamlet´s treatment of Ofelia, which caused her insanity and her death. On the other side, the hostility between the two characters prepares the atmosphere for the tragic events that follow.

The sixth question is: what is the meaning of the fencing match? This match should be harmless and inoffensive. However, it turns into carnage. The fencing match is just a pretext for Claudius to murder Hamlet.

While Laertes is dying, does Laertes forgive Hamlet? Laertes pardons Hamlet when he says: “Exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet” (V,ii). Laertes says those last words before dying.

The eighth question is why does the queen drink the poisonous wine? She is unaware of Claudius ´plans to kill Hamlet, thus Gertrude’s death is another disastrous event in the play, since she drinks the wine without any suspiciousness.

The ninth question refers to Gertrude’s last words “no, no the drink, the drink-o my dear Hamlet…” (V,ii). What is the meaning of these words? Here, Gertrude shows her concern for Hamlet and she might want to warn Hamlet against Claudius

How does Hamlet kill Claudius?  Hamlet stabs Claudius. After so many hesitations, Hamlet finds the right circumstances to kill Claudius, during a fencing match.