What are five bad things about the Colony of Virginia?

It certainly wasn't the best place they could have chosen to land, and the fact they had been on the ocean for weeks no doubt influenced their decision.

Much of the colony was a swamp, which bred huge swarms of mosquitoes and invited malaria.  It was also difficult to farm those regions without first draining them.

The land was undeveloped, and had to be hacked out of the wilderness.

Relations with the Native tribes were often testy at best, and it made it difficult to increase settlement on the frontier.

It was difficult to get labor to the colony.  Indentures were expensive and temporary, and slaves had to be imported from long distances.

It was difficult to convince women to settle there, and this made male settlers restless, in part causing Bacon's Rebellion.

Are there similies, metaphors, allusions, personification or parallel constructions used in Chapter 13 of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

Heralded as one of the greatest writers of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne did, indeed, employ literary techniques in his writing of The Scarlet Letter.  Here are some examples from Chapter 13:

Parallelism (the repetition of words or phrases or other grammatical structures) is found in the following sentences:

She never battled with the public, bus submitted, uncompliningly, to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it, in requital for what she sufferd; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.

None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or ....None so self devoted as Hester, when pertilence stalked through the town...

Metaphor (an implied comparison) is employed by Hawthorne when he writes of the rulers of the village who "were fortified in themselves by an iron famework of reasoning."

day by day, nevertheless, their sour and rigid wrinkles were relaxing into something which, in the due course of years, misght grow to be an expression of almost benevolence.

In the above passage, "sour and rigid wrinkles" imply the stern perspective of the leaders upon Hester.  Another metaphor in the chapter appears as Hawthorne writes of the effect of the scarlet letter,

All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up by this red-hot brand, and had long ago fallen away, leaving a bare and harsh outline...

The light and graceful foliage is a metaphor for Hester's hair, her face, her walk, her lovely figure. Shortly after this passage, Hawthorne writes of "men of the sword," a metaphor for soldiers, and ruthless people. 

Personification (the assigning of human attributes to non-humans) comes in the last part of the seventh paragraph:

In her lonesome cottage by the sea shore, thoughts visited her, such as dared to enter no other dwelling in New England; shadowy guests, that would have been as perilous as demons to their entertainer, could they have been seen so much as knocking at her door.

The cottage is "Lonesome," and "Shadowy guests" is personification for the soldiers.  There is also a simile in the last line:  [the shadowy guests] would have been as perilous as demonds.

 Finally, there are allusions (references to other places known.  One such allusion is made to the "Puritan establishment and Anne Hutchinson as foundress."

Write short notes on i) Heat production and regulation in human body, ii) Paced and unpaced work, iii) Human work efficiency and work load. This...

Human body needs to maintain its temperature at 37 degrees centigrade with a margin of about plus or minus 0.5 degrees. Body achieves this standard temperature for the body irrespective of the environmental temperature by a process known as homeostasis. To maintain the the body temperature at the standard body temperature the amount of heat gained and lost by body needs to be balanced by the homeostasis process.

The body gains heat in the process of converting food into energy. In this only about 10 percent to 25 percent of the energy is converted to work and id the rest is converted to heat energy which the body must dissipate. The body loses energy by convection of air and by radiation when the environmental temperature is lower then the body temperature. Body also gives out excess heat by the evaporation of sweat.

Body needs to loose extra heat when engaged in activity due to production of extra heat in the metabolic process. At the same time in very cold environment the body looses too much heat to the environment, and to maintain the body temperature it mus t produce extra  energy through increase in metabolic rate.

What is a summary of Part 11 of Song of Myself from Walt Whitman?

The gist of part 11, Song of Myself, goes something like this:

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.  --This refers to the fact that she is an older woman, has had 28 years of "womanly life" (on top of her non-womanly life as a girl, one supposes.)  Probably early 40s?  There are also 28 men bathing by the shore she lives on (men would have bathed in the nude, most likely, around this time.)

She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window. --She is respectable and pretty, from a wealthy family or with a wealthy husband.  She keeps the blinds drawn to reduce the chance of her being seen by the bathers.

Which of the young men does she like the best?
Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her. --She has been without male companionship...the least attractive of the men is still enough to get her motor running.

Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room. --Does one of the bathers see her up there in the window?  Maybe.  In her mind she is splashing in the water with the men, but in reality she is perfectly still up in her room.  A stark contrast between her reality and her desires.

Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them. --Perhaps the 29th bather is the one who is able to see her?  She is enamored with all of them, the sexuality and freedom they represent.

The beards of the young men glisten’d with wet, it ran from their long hair,
Little streams pass’d all over their bodies. --Erotic imagery...the types of things she is noticing.  The reverse of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

An unseen hand also pass’d over their bodies,
It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs. --She's fantasizing about touching them.

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
They do not think whom they souse with spray." --The men are unaware of the effect that hey have on this woman because all (except perhaps one) is unaware that she is watching.  I believe in this section she is fantasizing about having sex with one of them.

Hope this helped!

What is the main problem or conflict in The Whipping Boy?What is the solution for this conflict?

The "Whipping Boy," a book written by Albert Sidney Fleishman is a story about a young prince who has very poor behavior.  By many he is called Prince Brat.  Since nobility is unable to be punsihed a young boy is brought to the castle.  The boy is there to be whipped each time the prince misbehaves.  The boy's name is Jeremy.

Jeremy,  an orphan, has conflict with the Prince because he has pride in himself enough not to cry out or scream when he gets whipped.  His behavior upsets the prince who wants him to yell and scream.  The prince has ultimate power over the boy because of the boy's class being so low and the Prince's being in the upper class and nobility. Yet, the prince can not break the boy.

The two boys runaway at the idea of the prince.  Their journey leads them both through experiences that will alter the prince's behavior.  They are chased by outlaws.  IN the end resolution occurs after the prince earns about life outside of the castle and develops a friendship with Jeremy.  He wants Jeremy to return to the castle with him so that he can receive a reward.

Please explain "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" (or Sonnet 116) by Shakespeare.

Shakepare's Sonnet No. 116, "Let Me not to the Marriage of True Minds" is a fervent expression of the theme of constancy in love. Love which is the "marriage" or sacred union between two minds is "true" only when it is constant.

He defines true love both negatively and positively. True love will not change when any type of change occurs in the life of the lovers or when the lovers are separated - "removed."

It is, Shakespeare asserts, "an ever-fixed mark" that can weather any storm. It is the fixed star by which sailors steer their wandering ships. Even though the lovers grow old and their youthful beauty fades with the passage of time their love for one another will remain constant and firm till death separates the true and constant lovers.

Shakespeare swears that all what he has said in the quatorzain is true and that if he is proved wrong then neither has any person truly been in  love nor has he ever written. However paradoxically, since the poem has been written it means that all what Shakespeare has written about true love is indeed true.

Summarize "Report to Wordsworth" by Boey Kim ChengWhy would Boey Kim Cheng entitle his poem "Report to Wordsworth" ?

Wordsworth’s monumental poetic legacy rests on a large number of important poems, varying in length and weight from the short, simple lyrics of the 1790s to the vast expanses of The Prelude, thirteen books long in its 1808 edition. But the themes that run through Wordsworth’s poetry, and the language and imagery he uses to embody those themes, remain remarkably consistent throughout the Wordsworth canon, adhering largely to the tenets Wordsworth set out for himself in the 1802 preface to Lyrical Ballads. Here, Wordsworth argues that poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions that were then considered “poetic.” He argues that poetry should offer access to the emotions contained in memory. And he argues that the first principle of poetry should be pleasure, that the chief duty of poetry is to provide pleasure through a rhythmic and beautiful expression of feeling—for all human sympathy, he claims, is based on a subtle pleasure principle that is “the naked and native dignity of man.”

Recovering “the naked and native dignity of man” makes up a significant part of Wordsworth’s poetic project, and he follows his own advice from the 1802 preface. Wordsworth’s style remains plain-spoken and easy to understand even today, though the rhythms and idioms of common English have changed from those of the early nineteenth century. Many of Wordsworth’s poems (including masterpieces such as “Tintern Abbey” and the “Intimations of Immortality” ode) deal with the subjects of childhood and the memory of childhood in the mind of the adult in particular, childhood’s lost connection with nature, which can be preserved only in memory. Wordsworth’s images and metaphors mix natural scenery, religious symbolism (as in the sonnet “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,” in which the evening is described as being “quiet as a nun”), and the relics of the poet’s rustic childhood—cottages, hedgerows, orchards, and other places where humanity intersects gently and easily with nature.

Wordsworth’s poems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling, instinct, and pleasure above formality and mannerism. More than any poet before him, Wordsworth gave expression to inchoate human emotion; his lyric “Strange fits of passion have I known,” in which the speaker describes an inexplicable fantasy he once had that his lover was dead, could not have been written by any previous poet. Curiously for a poet whose work points so directly toward the future, many of Wordsworth’s important works are preoccupied with the lost glory of the past—not only of the lost dreams of childhood but also of the historical past, as in the powerful sonnet “London, 1802,” in which the speaker exhorts the spirit of the centuries-dead poet John Milton to teach the modern world a better way to live.