Name 5 Roman gods.

1)Jupiter,at the Romans, the chief of gods and the people treated as Zeus from Greek mythology. Was considered the supreme deity,light and life-giving,  that governed heaven and earth,owned thunder and lightning, rain and unleashed  storms etc.The best known name to designate him was Optimus Maximus ( "thebest and biggest).

2)Janus, one of the most ancient gods of Roman mythology. At origin, Janus was a king who ruled the Golden Age of Latium.After death was worshiped. As Lord Protector of Rome was assigned a miracle that saved the city from an invasion of Sabins: while enemies were preparing to go over the walls of the Capitolium, Janus has made to gush in front of them a hot stream, which has forced them to retreat.

3) Saturnus, ancient deity of Italian origin,  who patronized agricultural jobs and fruits of the land. Saturnus was identified, by early, with the Titan Cronus, from Greek mythology.

4) Mercury was the god of trade and travelers - and, for this attribute, were built statues at every crossroad - but also the god of the thieves. He was the protector of shepherds and guide of the shadows of the deadland hell. He was generally regarded as the patron of music, of any inventions,  of handicrafts, etc.. In Greek mythology, the messenger god was called Hermes.

5) Apollo was the god invoked in travels, those who sailed the sea, which protect cities and new constructions. It said that together with Alcathous, would be helped to rebuild the city Megara, which had been destroyed. Finally, Apollo was considered the god of light (hence the epithet by Phoebus) and was often identified with the Sun itself. Was celebrated in various centers of the Greek world: in Delphi, Delos.

algebra and algebraic problem solving!!!!!!QUESTION 1: Simplify the following A) 6ag^2 B) 2x(5X-8)-(6x-3) QUESTION 2: A cylindrical...

Question 1A.

The given expression, particularly its last term, may be interpreted in different ways. To avoid the confusion it is rewritten in the following form.

6ag^2 - 4a + (5g^2)a

= 6ag^2 - 4a + 5ag^2   ...   [As ag^2 is equal to (g^2)a]

= 11ag^2 - 4a

= a(11g^2 - 4)

Question 1B.

2x(5x-8)-(6x-3)

= 10x^2 - 16x - 6x + 3

= 10x^2 - 22x + 3

Question 2

Volume of drum in litres is given by the formula:

Volume = [(Pi)*(Radius)^2*(Height)]/1000

when both radius and height are measured in cm.

In the question the value of radius has not been given,  whereas that of the height of drum is given which has no bearing on the problem. Assuming height of drum mentioned is actually meant to be radius, the given values are:

Radius = 1m = 100cm

Volume = 25 litre

Substituting these values in the equation for volume:

25 = [3.14159*100^2*(Height)]/1000 = 31.4159*Height

Therefor:

Height = 25/31.4159 = 0.79 = 0.8 cm (rounded off to nearest first decimal place)

Thus if water contains less than 25 litre of water the depth of water column will be less than 0.8 cm.

Question 3.

Let the speed on the dirt road be equal to x.

Therefor speed on the high is equal to (x + 30)

Distance travelled on dirt road

= (Speed on dirt road)*(Time on dirt road) = x*1 = x

Distance travelled on highway

= (Speed on highway)*(Time on highway) = (x + 30)*3 = 3x + 90

Total distance travelled on dirt road plus on highway

= x + 3x + 90 = 4x + 90

This is given to be equal to 330 km

Therefor

4x + 90 = 330

4x = 330 - 90 = 240

and:

x = 240/4 = 60 km/h = Speed on the dirt road.

Speed on highway = x + 30 = 60 + 30  = 90 km/h

Discuss the rhetorical devices Lincoln used in his "Gettysburg Address."Include at least two examples from the speech and explain why he used...

The most obvious rhetorical device in this short speech is the anaphora that Lincoln uses at the start of the last paragraph.  He says "we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow."  When you use the same word or words at the start of a bunch of consecutive clauses, that's anaphora.

In this case, Lincoln is using this device to emphasize that the people gathered there were not the important ones.  He was drawing attention to the sacrifices made by the soldiers.

Later on in that paragraph, Lincoln tries to make the same poin when he uses antithesis.  This is where a speaker contrasts ideas by putting them close together.  He says, for example,

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Who blows the conch for assembly in Chapter 8? What happens?

In this chapter, for the first time ever, Jack is the one who uses the conch to call for an assembly.

The reason that he wants to call an assembly is because he wants to get rid of Ralph as leader.  He wants the boys to throw Ralph out and put himself in as leader instead.

At this point, however, the boys are not ready to do this.  They vote to keep Ralph.  At that point, Jack decides to leave the group along with his hunters.  He says that he will not play along with them any longer.

In the Shakespeare Stealer, why do you think Widge hesitates to leave with the play book?

The reason Widge hesitates to leave with the play book is the same reason he hesitated to continue writing other preachers sermons down for Dr. Bright to later deliver as his own sermons. Widge's reason has nothing to do with a sense of right or wrong. A an apprentice he wasn't given moral instruction and nor was he given a sense of loyalty. He was told instead that his life and actions were owned by his master (Dr. Bright, then Simon Bass) and that he must do as he is told to do mush as a donkey or a hunting dog would do. At first the reason Widge hesitated to leave with the play book is that he feared getting caught. This is later compounded by the new found sense of community and friendship that was beginning to rise up for Widge because of the communal environment that was part of an acting apprentice's life.

For The Chrysalids, I need help writing newspaper article about David, Rosalind and Petra, the mutants who are running away.

Newspaper articles generally adhere to answering the six journalistic questions Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? For The Chrysalids, an article reporting on the telepaths escape from Waknuk would use the names of the escapees in answer to Who?, and the fact of running away answers What?, while Where? has two answers. The first answer to Where? is Waknuk: the escaping individuals were in Waknuk to start with. The second answer is that they are running toward the Fringes. When? would include the day, date, and time of their flight from justice.

Why? might be more difficulty to answer and this is in some ways the heart of the news report. I say in some ways because in other ways, that they are going and where they are going is more important, it all depends upon whom the reading audience is. Why? would include that the fleeing group is composed of known mutants who, as deviants, will be subjected to punishment and the proper procedures. How? will be answered by the details leading up to their escape and their means of escape.

Your article might start something like this:

WAKNUK, (Date): David Strorm, Magistrate Strorm's son, and his friends have escaped authorities and are running toward the Fringe along a straight route. This occurred because the group was discovered to be deviants with a mutation away from acceptable standards.

How does Nick finally explain the charm of Daisy's voice in The Great Gatsby? In what sense, then, is Daisy connected to "His Father's business,...

Nick expresses the notion that the charm of Daisy's voice is derived from the fact that she is incredibly wealthy. Her voice is "full of money," says Jay Gatsby. It is in this moment that Nick realizes that Daisy's attraction and Gatsby's fascination with her have their roots in the fact that she comes from a wealthy background and has married into wealth. Symbolically then, her voice has the ring of "a king's daughter." She is "the golden girl," "high in a white palace."

The implication is that Daisy is no ordinary girl. She is special and far removed from the common and mundane. Money makes her grand and different. It is money which makes her almost unattainable, like the fabled princess who lives in a high tower. She is "golden" because she is precious and she is a "girl" because her attraction lies in the fact that she exudes a vitality commonly found in those who are not burdened by financial constraints, who can exercise almost their every whim.

To Jay Gatsby, then, Daisy becomes the object of his romantic ideal: the fairy princess, and he, her prince charming. Only, Jay has to work hard to attain a position to be worthy of her and it is because of this that he had to go about his "Father's business." 

Jay's "adopted" father, Dan Cody, had introduced him to wealth and its power. Dan Cody was in the business of money and for Jay to realize his dream, he has to attain wealth, and this is exactly what he does. In the process, he changes his name from the ordinary and insignificant James Gatz to the pretentious but more memorable Jay Gatsby.

The "service" that Jay has to offer is his commitment to obtain vast wealth, relish the vulgarity of it and become its servant. His relationship with wealth leads to his audacious, over-the-top parties, his friendship with characters from the underworld (Meyer Wolfshiem et al) and fleeting associations with vulgar, pretentious individuals.

Wealth's beauty is "meretricious" - it is deceptive and paints a false image, it is a lie, just as Jay Gatsby's wealth is a lie, for he obtains it through criminal means. However, obtaining this wealth is what Jay Gatsby felt compelled to do to, once again, be with Daisy. He tragically discovers that his dream could never be, for Daisy tells him that he "asks too much."

In the end, James Gatz dies alone, forsaken and abandoned.  

Why did Henry believe that war was a thing of the past in The Red Badge of Courage?

In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Henry entered the military as a young boy ready to prove his manhood.  However, once in the military it seemed like all they did was move from one place to another.  He could not figure out what good they were doing just moving around.  Every time they would hear that they were about to go to fight, it would turn out to be a rumor.  Henry and his group began to feel like the war would be over before they would ever see any action.  It was becoming frustrating waiting all the time for something to happen and then it not occurring.

A man stands 10 m in front of a large plane mirror. How far must he walks before he is 5 m away from his image?

The distance of an object from its image in a plane mirror is exactly double the distance of the object from the mirror.

Thus for the man to be 5 meters away from his image he should be at a distance half of that>

Therefore required distance of man from mirror = 5/2 = 2.5 m

Original distance of man from mirror = 10 m (given)

Difference in original and required distance = 10 - 2.5 = 7.5 m.

Therefor:

The man must walk 7.5 m towards the mirror to be 5 m away from his image.

Increasing/Decreasing/Relative Extrema/Convavity/Inflection Points/Additional PointsIncreasing/Decreasing/Relative Extrema/Convavity/Inflection...

1)

y = (2x^2-5x+5)/(x-2).

= (2x-1) + 3/(x-2). Differentiating with respect to x, we get:

y' = 0 gives 2 +3*(-1)/(x-2)^2 = 0.  Or 2(x-2)^2 = 3 Or x = 2+(3/2)^(1/2). Or x = 2-(3/2) ^(1/2).

y'' = d/dx{2 - 3/(x-2)^2} =  0 - 3(-2)/(x-2)^3 = 6/(x-2)^3 is  clearly positive for x= 2+(3/2)^(1/2) and  negative for x = 2-(3/2)^(1/2).

Case (i) x > 2

So  when x = 2+(3/2)^(1/2),  y = 2x-1 + 3/(x-2)  =   2(2+(3/2)^(1/2)) -1 +3/(3/2)^(1/2) = 4+6^(1/2) -1 + 6^(1/2) = 3+2*6(1/2) is the minimum.

The curve y = 2x-1 +3/(x-2) undefined at x=2. But from x=  2+ to 2+(3/2)^(1/2) y value is decreasing from unbounded height to a minimum  3+2*6^(1/2) and again  increasing and approaches asymptotically to the line 2x-1. Thus the curve is enclosed between the vertical asymptote x=2 and an oblique asymptote 2x-1.

As y'' > 0, the concavity is up.

case (ii): x < 2

Similarly when x = 2-(3/2)^(1/2), the curve y = 2x-1+3/(x-2) attains its maximum  when x = 2-(3/2)^(1/2), as y'' = 6/(x-2)^3 is negative for this value of x.

So the maximum y value = 2[2-(3/2)^(1/2)] -1 +3/(-(3/2)^(1/2)) = 4-sqrt6-1 - sqrt6 = 3 - 2sqrt6.

At x = 2 the curve y = 2x-1+2/(x-2)  does not exist.

As x approaches from 2- towards 2-(3/2)^(1/2) the curve increases from negative infinity to a maximum of 3-2*(6)^(1/2). And then from x= 2-(3/2)^(1/2) to  minus infinity, the curve decreases and approaches  asymptotically 2x-1.

When x < 2, the curve remains enclosed between the oblique asymptote 2x-1 and vertical asymptote x=2 with its concavity down ward as y'' < 0.

2)

y = x+32/x^2. y' = 0 gives d/dx(x+32/x^2) = 0. Or

1+32(-2)/x^3 = 0 Or x^3 = 64. So x = 4.

At x=4, y" =[ d/dx(-64/x^3) at x=4 ] = 192/4^4 = 3/4 a positive.

So at x = 4, y =x+32/x^2 = 4+32/4^2 = 6 is the minimum.

At x = 0, y does not exist.

Case (i) x>0.

From 0+ to x=4, th e curve is decreasing from positive infinity to the minimum  6 and from x=4 onwards, as x approaches infinity y also increases and approaches asymptotically y = x.

Thus the curve is enclosed by x=0, the vertical asymotote y axis and the oblique asymptote y = x line, Since the y ''  is positive , when x> 0, the concavity of the curve is upward.

Case (ii) x< 0.

y = x+32/x^2 is positively unbounded at 0-

When y=0=x+32/x^2. Or x = -32^(1/3) = 3.1748 nearly. So the curve intercepts x axis at -32^(1/3) .

y' = 1-64/x^3  positive for all x <0. So the curve is an increasing function and so decreases as x decreases or increases as x increases. y = x+32/x^2 ultimately approaches the oblique asymptote y = x as x approaches minus infinity.

Since y" > 0 the concavity of the curve is up.

Think about Zaroff's civilized tastes and his favorite game.Do 'Zaroffs" people whose manners mask their true nature-exist in real life?help meee

Everyone is guilty of masking who they are and what they want at some time or another. For example, when we want something from our parents we usually don't demand it, and sometimes we do nice things without being asked (with a hidden motive) in order to get what we want. Another example might be people involved in scams that take advantage of people and sometimes even ruin lives.

Zaroff and his men are no different than everyone else when it comes to masking their motives and putting on heirs by having good manners and living an ultra civilized life. They want their "visitors" to buy into their game, while the majority of society is not as brutal, they certainly do the same thing.

How does Andover differ from Salem?

It's not clear exactly how the towns differ; however, Andover's citizens did band together to throw out the court.  They apparently had enough of the accusations and hangings.  It appears as Act IV progresses, that Salem's citizens will do the same. In fact, that is one reason Danforth wants Proctor to confess.  If he simply sets him free, it will prove that the court's findings were unjust.  This would give the townspeople, who are already growing tired of the proceedings, the initiative to overthrow the court.

Are there any important issues that Whitman speaks to in "Song of Myself" that must be taken into consideration no matter the century?

I would say that the contemplation of life and death is a timless topic.  When the child asks, "What is the grass?"  the speaker takes the child seriously and contemplates the role of the ordinary in our lives.  Upon consideration, he muses that everything that lives has significance, that one blade of grass is the seedling for the next, and that therefore we are all a part of the enormous, cyclical nature of life and death.  If we view ourselves as a part of an ongoing circle, there really is no death. 

Here is an excerpt from Section 7 that encapsulates the speaker's view of the interconnectedness of life and death:

I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and
         am not contain'd between my hat and boots;
   And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good;
   The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.

   I am not an earth, nor an adjunct of an earth;
   I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and
         fathomless as myself;
   (They do not know how immortal, but I know.) 

Kindly explain the quotation by John Donne that no man is an island entire of himself in the light of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

The bell and the island are extended metaphors, or conceits, in Jonn Donne's sermon entitled "Meditation XVII," which sometimes appears as a poem by the same name.

The bell's toll signals a physical death, but not a spiritual one.  He begins the sermon with a quote: 'Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die."  The bell, Donne says, is not to be feared.  A bell is a welcome sound for Donne, a minister.  The bell signals the time when he and the congregation may worship together in the church.  Therefore, all should welcome it.

The same it is for God, the Eternal Minister, whose bell signals his congregation to assemble in heaven.  Donne says that we should not view the end of our physical life as if we are on an island, selfishly; instead, we should view the ends of lives as part of the interconnected bigger picture: a congregation of souls coming home.

As an English professor at Indiana State says, there are two main ideas in the sermon:

• The idea that people are not isolated from one another, but that mankind is interconnected; and


• The vivid awareness of mortality that seems a natural outgrowth of a time when death was the constant companion of life.

Donne brings these two themes together to affirm that any one man's death diminishes all of mankind, since all mankind is connected; yet that death itself is not so much to be feared as it at first seems.

What is input and output learning approach?language learning input and output approach its fuctions goals and procedure

Those learning English for the first time must have “comprehensible input” in that they must be able to understand the message they are receiving. In order to do this, the teacher must build their new language by providing instruction just slightly above their current level of understanding. In order to do this, the teacher must build on the students’ prior knowledge.

In addition, the student must be given opportunities to practice the new language as it is acquired so that they can verify their new understanding. This would be “comprehensible output.” Many researchers feel that comprehensible output is nearly as important as input. Cooperative learning groups are one way for new learners of English to receive plenty of understandable input and output.

How did the British trade with China trigger the Opium Wars?

The British were very avid buyers of China's silk and tea.  Because of this, they were losing silver to China.  This was running down the British supply of silver.

Because of this, they really wanted to find something to sell to China to recoup some of the loss of silver.  They hit on opium, which came from British India.

However, the Chinese banned the opium trade.  This caused Britain to fight China in the Opium Wars.  So, the wars happened because Britain needed to sell opium to China to get back some of the silver they lost to China by buying tea and silk.

How did the other students react to Philip on his first day back in Nothing but the Truth?

Generally speaking, the reaction of the other students upon Philip's return is not favorable.

Ken Barchet, a friend with whom Philip rides on the bus, is decent to him, but tells him he can't run with him after school because he has track team practice. Ken tells Philip that he should be on the team too, but Philip responds that he could not try out because Ms. Narwin was failing him in English. Philip declares his intention of asking Ms. Narwin if he can do extra work to raise his grade, and Ken agrees that would be a good idea.

The next student Philip meets is Allison Doresett. Allison wastes no time in telling Philip that she thinks what he did to Ms. Narwin was really mean. She tells him everyone pretty much thinks as she does, and Philip gets defensive, angry that Allison does not take his side. In the hallway, Todd Becker comes up and asks Philip if he is going to have a press conference, and Joseph Crippens teases him, calling him "Uncle Sam." Other students are full of questions about Philip's new celebrity status, and Jason Marks asks straight out if he went after Ms. Narwin because he was failing English.

All in all, the students' attitude towards Philip upon his return to school creates a very uncomfortable atmosphere for him. He is the center of attention, but, unlike the communication he has been receiving from people who have heard about the situation but do not know him, few of his schoolmates are supportive. Some students are just curious, but many are angry at what he has done. Philip's peers know the truth; the general feeling among the students is that Philip brought about his problems himself, and that he was very unfair to go after Ms. Narwin as he did. Philip finds himself in the ironic position of being the focus of attention and being ostracized at the same time (Chapter 16).

How does The Shakeseare Stealer end?I have to do a book report, but I don't have enough time to read the whole book. Please help!

so at the end, nick gangs up wit falconer, and nick takes the play book, so then widge and Mr Armin go after them to get the play book bck, and on their way they like flip the boat while crossing the river, then like they get to the gate where falconer has to go to pass, and the homeless person there tells them no one passed, so they w8 and then he comess, and Mr Adrim and Falconer duel while Widge takes the book, and Mr adrim beats falconer, then like falconer is going to die, so falconer says: Widge want to know your true master, so he like takes his skin off, even though it was a mask, and you see its Simon Bass, and then Simon Bass dies.

(i know this because i have to do those book projects too, but i like actually read the book)

In The Lovely Bones, where does Susie live?

Susie narrates her tale from Heaven; she was killed and left buried in a frozen field.  If you mean the actual state where she lived when she was alive, I don't believe Sebold ever says exactly.  It is a suburban community with cold winters, so a good guess might be New York, from whence Sebold hales, or somewhere New England-y. 

In chapter 2 of A Wrinkle in Time, what does Charles mean when he tells Calvin, "Meg has it tough. She's not really one thing or another"?

When Charles tells Calvin, "Meg has it tough....." he's talking about his perception of Meg's feelings of not fitting in. Meg already knows that she doesn't fit in with the "popular" or "sports" crowd, but she also feels that she doesn't fit in with any other crowd. She feels like an outsider both at school and with her family. Charles and Meg have a bond, and Charles can feel Meg's confusion and frustration at not fitting in at school, and also not feeling as though she fits in with her family as well. Meg is not easy going and well liked as her younger twin brothers are, nor is she as uncaring about fitting in with others as Charles is. He knows that Meg is not comfortable in her own skin.

What sort of person is Walter Mitty and what is Walter's relationship with his wife like in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?

Walter lives in his dreams.  Specifically set with his daydreams, Walter uses these as a vehicle for excitement, passion, intensity, and adventure.  A life that is steeped in the routine and the mundane, Walter Mitty sees his dreams as a way out of this crushing monotony.  The relationship with his wife reflects this, as she is one who is not very responsive to his needs and constructs a world of monotonous drudgery and denigration.  To a great extent, Walter's construction and passion for his daydreams is because of his marriage which represents a world without heart and intensity.  The dreams are his only way out of a world where escape is so needed.

What are some good solid comparisons between Shakespeare's Sonnets 116 and 130?

I'll try my hand at giving two points of comparison and contrast between William Shakespeare's sonnets 116 and 130.

1. Beauty and love are more that "rosy lips and cheeks": Both poems seems to be concerned primarily with arguing that true beauty and true love are not superficial and changing.

2. Truth and untruth: The closing couplet in both sonnets sets up an opposition between truth and untruth. Sonnet 116 ends with the following statement:

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 130 ends with a similar statement:

And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.

Because both sonnets seem to be concerned primarily with establishing the truth about their subject (what is beauty and what is love), we can understand why both poems would end by emphasizing the different between what is true and what isn't.

Why do we still study Romeo and Juliet?Why do we still learn about it in school? & Why do we study it.

Your question could be worded, "Why do we still study Shakespeare?"; for most teachers teach Romeo and Juliet because it is Shakespeare not just because of its themes. So, in answer that question, I always tell my students that if they can begin to appreciate Shakespeare and understand his language, then their reading and analytical skills will significantly improve--skills that we need for all aspects of life and all majors in college.

Specifically, in regards to Romeo and Juliet, the play offers many universal themes--young love, illogical feuding, teenage rebellion, suicide, etc.  The play is normally studied in American high schools in the ninth grade or even in some middle schools, because most teens can identify with the conflict between parent and child, the search for a wise adviser, the struggles of romantic love, and impulsive behavior.  While it is not my favorite Shakespearean play, and most critics do not consider it the playwright's best work, it is an effective introduction to Shakespeare and his more complex works, and it certainly demonstrates that humans have been struggling with the same conflicts since the beginning of time.

What is Reverend Parris praying about at the beginning of Act 1 of The Crucible?

He certainly is praying for Betty's return to health, but he most certainly is praying for his reputation, for not only did he witness his daughter in the woods but also his niece and slave.  When the townspeople become aware of this - that the devil apparently has taken such a firm hold in the minister's family - his reputation and ministry in Salem will likely be over.  Some of the residents, such as John Proctor, have already shunned going to church because of Parris and his fire and brimstone attitude of preaching, so it is easy to see why Parris is so worried about this whole incident from the very start.

What's the free morpheme of the word packages? Is it "pack" or "package"?

In "package," the free morpheme is definitely "pack." "Pack-" is the word-unit that can stand alone, which makes it the free morpheme. "-age" is a morpheme, too (e.g. it's also used in "baggage," "luggage," usage," and a large number of abstract nouns), but it can't stand alone, making it a bound derivational morphone.

"Carelessly" has three morphemes. "Care-" is a free mropheme. "-less" is a bound derivational morpheme, because it can't stand alone and is used to make new words (adding "-less" usually changes a noun to an oppostite adjective). "-ly" is also a bound derivational morpheme, I believe, but I'm not entirely sure. If "-ly" is seen as a grammatical marker, it might more accurately called an inflectional morpheme.

Derivational morphemes are things like "un-" (as in "unlikely") and "-ous" (as in "virtuous"). Inflectional morphemes are a much smaller group of short grammatical markers. They include the standard noun plural marker (the "-s" in "cats"), the standard past tense of verbs marker (the "-d" in "liked"), and perhaps the standard comparative and superlative adjective markers ("-er" and "-est").

In To Kill a Mockingbird, how many years have passed from the start to Tom Robinson's death, and why is this significant?

Assuming you don't count the opening page of the novel, in which Scout reflects upon her past in adult retrospective many years in the future, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place over a period of less than two-and-one-half years. The story begins during the summer before Scout first enters the first grade (in 1933), and it ends on Halloween night during third grade (in 1935). We know the exact years because Atticus tells us during the trial of Tom Robinson that it is "in this year of grace, 1935..." So, the novel takes place between June 1933 and late October 1935--a period of about 28 months. The time frame from the beginning of the story until Tom's death--which occurs in late August 1935 ("August was on the brink of September") is about 26 months. The time frame of two-plus years is primarily significant because both Jem and Scout have matured greatly during this relatively short period: Jem has entered high school, is entertaining a football career, and is growing chest hair; Scout has settled down in school, no longer fights every boy who angers her, is engaged to Dill, and is even showing ladylike tendencies.

What is the reason for the windmill's first collapse, and how many times do they have to rebuild it?

As the previous point notes, the windmill was built once and re-built twice. The first time it collapses is an important moment for Napoleon to cement his power over the farm and to blame Snowball for something terrible in order to make sure no loyalty to Snowball remained. It is one of his first truly effective forays into propaganda and he seizes the opportunity with gusto. Once he blames Snowball for the collapse of the windmill, Napoleon quickly sees the utility in blaming Snowball for everything he can in order to show how smart and wise he is and how he was the rightful leader all along.

The battle with the men is the second time the windmill is destroyed. Having occupied a portion of the farm, the men place dynamite in the walls and blow it to smithereens. This destruction actually drives the animals into a great frenzy and they drive the men off the farm. They again begin the task of re-building the windmill. 

Of course, once the windmill is finished, it is not used for the promised reduction of labor and increase of comfort but is instead used to enrich the pigs.

Why did Edgar Allan Poe write his stories in a horrible, cruel and cold-blooded way? Did his biographical background affect him?

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Those stories are such a small part of one of America's most enigmatic literary giants. A complicated individual, Poe was characterized by a wide range of incompatible traits; his reputation among his literary peers varied a great deal, too. He was unquestionably a man of culture, yet surprisingly on target in his view of literary reputations, he was possessed of old-fashioned Southern courtesy, but he was notoriously hard to get along with, finicky, and often extreme in his judgments. Walt Whitman is the only major American man of letters who attended a memorial service for Poe in the 1870s. Although he was Poe's virtual opposite, Whitman had a surprising grasp of Poe's genius.

Poe's poems are astonishing in their technical polish and hypnotic cadences, and there is a kind of magic when we listen to them."The Bells" is Poe's most extreme phonic experiment, a poem that maniacally repeats and captures the actual sound of bells. "Eldorado" is one of Poe's briefest, most haunting pieces about man's eternal quest; the goal of which can be whatever we wish—heaven, truth, or beauty. At the same time, we know that Poe's poem of 1849 was specifically addressed to a major social event of his time, the California Gold Rush. "Annabel Lee" is one of Poe's most lovely creations, stirring the minds of subsequent writers such as Nabokov, evoking a tragic past. "The Raven" is, of course, Poe's most famous poem. The piece is an ingenious example of complex rhyme and metric schemes.

Poe's great contribution to literary theory is his conception of Poet as Maker vs. Poet as Seer; in this we see a drastic calling-into-question of Romantic assumptions. "The Philosophy of Composition" or "How I Wrote the Raven" (1846) is the (perhaps spoofing) famous account of Poe's poetic practice. Poe is splendidly technical in his essay; he shows us exactly how and why the refrain and metric scheme of "The Raven" are as they are.

Poe essentially created the detective story; he considers the powers of ratiocination as the opposite pole to pure sensation. This "split" marks much of his thinking. Auguste Dupin, Poe's genial Parisian detective, reigns in Poe's seminal detective stories, "Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." The genre has been launched. Ratiocination and scientism characterize Poe's detective fiction, and we see here the desire for a world that is utterly transparent to the highly intelligent detective, a world where "details" become "clues."

Science fiction is also one of Poe's "inventions." A number of his stories involve (bogus) scientific discoveries (trips into space, under the seas) that will be played out more fully in the future: Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, etc.

Although he was a poet, Poe gives us, in some stories, a blueprint for urban sociology. His tale "The Man of the Crowd" sketches an entire theory of crowd mentality, and this piece figures profoundly in the poems and prose of Baudelaire.

Poe's greatest achievement lies in the area of psychological narrative. In writing his remarkable horror stories, Poe touches on nerves that still quiver today. Poe is the man most responsible for today's horror films. Poe is the great writer of the American collective unconscious: reading him entails digging in our own cellars, which is a central activity in a number of his pieces.

What is responsible for the differences in the male and females brain..give details.It is proven that men and women think differently. So what are...

This is a complex question. A very helpful way to look at this question is not only by examining biological differences, but also by looking at sociological perspective. In other words, the differences between men and women may not be rooted in biology or genes per se, but on account of social differences. For example, if a women is expected to act a certain way or think in a certain way due to society's pressures , then perhaps this pressure is the determining factor. To think along these lines may challenge biological assumptions or at least mitigate them a bit. Finally, without this angle, no biological argument will be strong.

What were the plot conflicts in "By the Waters of Babylon" ? What did the author express by those conflicts?

To me, the main conflict in this story is between John and himself.  It is between his desire to see what is in the Place of the Gods and his fear of what will happen to him if he goes there.

I think that the author is trying to convey to us how what we think of as progress requires us to overcome fear and superstition.  John's fears are the fears of primitive people.  They are the fear of things that he does not understand.  But he overcomes those fears and will, therefore, be able to help his people progress.

However, this is not all to the good. I think the author is also telling us that we as people are doomed to keep making the same mistakes over and over -- John is going to start the human race back on the path that led to New York being destroyed.

When the monster tells Victor his story in Chapters 10-17 of Frankenstein, why is the setting important? Of what does the monster accuse Victor?

The setting that the monster tells about is the way he has had to live because of Victor's abandonment of him. He tells about a cave dwelling with straw for comfort.  The setting is important because it shows that the monster had needs just like other humans.  It begins to humanize the creature.  It is imperative for Victor to know how he has led to the demise of his creature.  The creature tells his story explaining how he came to be aware of his senses and the people around him.  He had the need o belong.  He witnessed a comfortable and desirable sight when he witnessed the old man and girl in the cottage.  He felt joy at watching them.  The creature is disclosing that in truth he is not a monster.  The creature has finally showed himself to the blind man asking him for help and acceptance but when his family came home they were appalled.

The creature asks Victor why he had created him.  The creature wants Frankenstein to create a female for him so that he will not be alone.  He accuses his creator of having the same feelings as other men, the desire to tear him to pieces and triumph.

How does the fire escape function as a symbol to reveal something about each character's personality in the Glass Menagerie?

For Tom, the fire escape is a vital symbol of his life. As the play begins, he says:

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.

Toms speaks these lines from the fire escape as he remembers the years of his life spent in the apartment with his mother and sister. And it was from the fire escape that Tom finally made his getaway to a life at sea as a Merchant Marine. For Tom, the fire escape is a means of escape from a humdrum existence to a world, hopefully, filled with romance and adventure.

All entrances and exits in the play are done via the fire escape.

For mother and daughter, Amanda and Laura, the fire escape offers not much hope for escape or personal expansion. For Amanda, it is the place from which her husband left her years ago never to return. The fire escape for her, then, is but a poignant reminder of what she and her family has lost. And sadly, too, for Laura, it is from the fire escape that Jim, the long-awaited gentleman caller made his brief entrance and hasty retreat, back into the loving arms of his girlfriend Betty.

What was the Roman belief concerning a barren woman and the Lupercalia holiday? Julius Caesar Act 1

When it comes to Roman rituals and Roman religion, there is great uncertainly. That is an honest answer. For example, if you read Cicero, Varro, Ovid and a few others, you will immediately see that the Romans did not even know what was going on and what their rituals meant! Mary Beard, the Cambridge scholar, has written extensively on this topic and her basic point is that the Roman reinterpreted their rituals to fit their current needs. In other words, meaning changed and was transformed based on context. As for the Shakespeare's play, the very fact that barren women are present suggests that they were looking for fertility. In the least, we can say that this was Shakespeare's interpretation.

What is a definition of "food" for a heterotroph and a autotroph?please help thanks

A heterotroph is an organism that uses carbon for growth. That is their primary food source. They obtain their carbon from other heterotrophs and autotrophs. "Heterotrophs are consumers in the food chain." Some examples of heterotrophs are animals,fungi, and bacteria. There are two types of heterotrophs:

1. Photoheterotroph-"obtains energy from light but needs organic carbon for growth"


2. Chemoheterotroph-"needs organic carbon for growth and an energy source"

Autotrophs are organisms that "produces complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions." They can produce their own food.  "Autotrophs are producers in the food chain."  Some examples of Autotrophs are plants and algae.

So food for a heterotroph are plants and algae (autotrophs).  Food for an Autotroph are sunlight and inorganic chemicals.

How do state governments differ from each other, and describe those differences and how they could impact a states ability to govern.

There are way too many variables in state governments to discuss here.  I will focus on just one -- whether the people of the state have the right to vote on initiatives and referendums.

In many states, especially in the West, people or interest groups can propose new laws that can be voted on by the people.  If they pass, they become law.  Depending on your political point of view, this can be good or bad.

On the good side, it gives some amount of direct democratic control over government to the people.  This allows them direct the government more clearly than they can by electing legislators and governors.

On the other hand, having these laws can severely tie the hands of state government.  The people can pass things like limits on taxes without deciding how to cut spending, for example.  The people can pass laws that sound good, but which are not really practical these, you can argue, make it harder to govern such states.

But with a question of this complexity, there surely must be something in the text that you are using that would give you more information about what it is your professor wants you to say on this.  What text are you using?

Why does Thoreau compare soldiers with wood, earth, and stones?

Thoreau says that soldiers are on the same level as wood, earth, and stones because they blindly do what the government tells them to do.  When they do that (rather than paying attention to their own consciences) they are no longer like people.

To the transcendentalists, it was very important for people to follow their own thoughts and their own consciences.  For example, Emerson (who was a transcendentalist like Thoreau) said that "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."  Thoreau is saying the same thing here.  He is saying that anyone who just blindly conforms and does what he is told is no longer a man.

How do boys react to Piggy and what role does he play in their social hierarchy in Lord of the Flies?

In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the author depicts Piggy as being slightly obese, sweaty, unfit/asthmatic and short-sighted. Nevertheless, the opening overtures are quite hopeful - Ralph is at least prepared to be courteous and civil to his new acquaintance - and to listen to what he has to say, and later even act upon it's wisdom. However, for me, the true frailty of Ralph's personality (and the naivete of Piggy's!) is brought home to me when I see that Ralph not only betrays a confidence, but also exploits it and laughs it, and in so doing humiliates someone who trusted him and could have become a wise friend. I refer to the example of Piggy disclosing his nickname and asking Ralph to keep it to himself. basically, poor Piggy bugs everyone, despite his intelligence of maybe because of it.

How does Brinker goad Gene in Chapter 7 of A Separate Peace? Why? What does it mean that students at Devon had "many public faces" pg88?What does...

Brinker goads Gene by giving him a hard time for having a room to himself. He is the kind of guy who loves to hear himself talk; Gene notes that "he never let a dull spot appear in conversation if he could help it." His teasing quickly leads to the insinuation that Gene is guilty of having intentionally hurt Finny, for the ostensible reason of securing a room of his own. Brinker's goading is significant because, whether he is fully aware of it or not, it hits very close to home. Gene has been agonizing with the possibility that he had intentionally, out of a sense of jealousy and resentment, caused the accident in which Finny fell from the tree, and, as expressed in Brinker's half-joking accusation, apparently the question has crossed his mind as well. Brinker's goading puts Gene in the very difficult situation of not only having to face the reality of what he may have done, but of exploring it in the presence of the others as well.

Gene says that

"everyone at Devon had many public faces; in class we looked, if not exactly scholarly, at least respectably alert; on the playing fields we looked like innocent extroverts; and in the Butt Room we looked, very strongly, like criminals."

He is making an observation on the different roles the boys are required to play, and how, when they play them, their physical demeanor actually changes to fit the part. His point in discussing this is to highlight the sinister aspect of the Butt Room, fittingly called "the dungeon." There, where the boys gather to smoke, away from the supervision of the ordered world of adult authority, different rules apply. A sort of unpredictable, potentially threatening atmosphere prevails, and the boys take on the look of "criminals" (Chapter 7).

In these extracts from the two scenes: 2:4 and 3:1 of Twelfth Night, Orsino and Olivia talk with Viola about love.What does each of them reveal...

In 2.4, Olivia does not appear, but there is a conversation between Orsino and Viola where Orsino describes his love for Olivia and Viola covertly confesses her love for Orsino. 

In this passage, we find out a few things about Orsino.  One, he doesn't believe in taking no for an answer in matters of love and would pursue someone until he wore her down enough to accept his suit.  And two, he doesn't believe a man can love as strongly as a woman:

ORSINO There is no woman’s sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart. No woman’s heart So big, to hold so much. They lack retention. Alas, their love may be called appetite, No motion of the liver, but the palate, That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt; But mine is all as hungry as the sea, And can digest as much. Make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia.

In 3.1, Olivia's feelings for Cesario/Viola are revealed.  It can be noted that it's important to her that the person she loves finds her honorable and that she thinks that pity is a step in the right direction for love, meaning that if C/V's heart is soft enough towards her to feel sorry for her, surely love could follow.  Olivia would also rather her love be denied by someone she finds noble than someone she finds cruel:

OLIVIA  Why then methinks ’tis time to smile again. O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! If one should be a prey, how much the better To fall before the lion than the wolf! (clock strikes) The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you. And yet when wit and youth is come to harvest, Your wife is like to reap a proper man. There lies your way, due west.

Briefly comment on the 'reliability' and 'validity' of using 'Wikipedia' as an information source?

There are some entries on Wikipedia that are excellent sources of information.  Others, not so much.  Since Wikipedia is a user-generated encyclopedia, it is only as good as its contributors.  While they have taken steps in recent months to verify information that is posted there, it is still vulnerable to editing.

A good rule of thumb is to get more than one source for the information you find there.  See if there are sources provided with each entry and follow them to see where the information may have come from.

Also, since Wikipedia pays the search engines to be the first entry to show up on the search results, they tend to get overused instead of more legitimate sources of information.

In Life of Pi, what does Pi compare to God's sacrifice of His only Son?

When Pi is first introduced to the concept of Christianity in chapter 17 of the text, he is baffled by the central story of the religion:

What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine Father saying to me, Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas...I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them.

Yes, Father, that would be the right and logical thing to do. Give me a moment so that I can wash up.

So the comparison is between God's only son being sacrificed to forgive humanity for their sins and a zookeeper's son being sacrificed to allow the violent lions clearance for their sins.

To understand why Pi would make this connection, you must also remember that Pi discovers the story of Christ a few years after his father had taught him a vivid lesson about the instincts of lions (in chapter 9, Pi's father feeds a goat to a starving lion in front of his two sons so they can learn the instinctual violence of the animal and beware). Before the above quotation, Pi had wandered into the Christian church and seen the Cross with Jesus Christ hanging on it; he had remarked on the violent detail of the statue:

The victim [Christ] again, bruised and bleeding in bold colours. I stared at his knees. They were badly scraped. The pink skin was peeled back and looked like the petals of a flower, revealing kneecaps that were fire-engine red.

With a first impression of Christ showing a bloody and battered victim, it is no wonder that one of the first moments Pi thought of upon hearing the story of this Son was his father's graphic lesson to him a few years earlier.

What was the role of servants in ancient Rome?I also need to know the everyday life of servants in ancient Rome. Especially the particular...

Concerning servants in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, I'll describe one servant in the play for you.

Pindarus is a servant of Cassius.  He previously was captured by Cassius, but Cassius spared his life and made him a servant.  Pindarus basically does whatever Cassius asks him to do.  He has a small role in the work, but has a part in two important events.

First, Cassius orders him to go to a higher vantage point from which he can see the fighting, and to report back to Cassius what he sees.

Second, Cassius asks Pindarus, in exchange for his freedom, to run Cassius through with Cassius's own sword, once Cassius thinks the battle is lost. 

Pindarus, though a slave and servant, seems extremely fond of and loyal to Cassius, and in fact warns him to escape before the battle reaches him and puts him in danger.  Cassius refuses to flee.   

At the same time, once Cassius is dead, Pindarus doesn't wait around for the enemy to arrive, and he doesn't choose to die with his master.  He does flee. 

Finally, though as far as the reader knows this is not really a reflection on Pindarus or his attitude toward Cassius, he makes the error in perception or judgment that makes Cassius think the battle is lost.  When Pindarus gains a better vantage point and sees the battle, he thinks he sees one thing but in fact sees another.  When he reports events to Cassius, Cassius thinks his friend has been captured and the battle is lost. 

How is the title "The Lovely Bones" significant to the meaning of this book?

The title of the novel has thematic significance pertaining to the theme of grief. The  bones are “lovely” because they are what remain of the narrator who was deeply loved by and loved and continues to love her family, as they do her. From her position after death,  she watches her family grieve, even as she grieves herself, and while she cannot change the events in life, her observation of them adds to the healing process, both hers and that of her family. While “bones” suggest death, the narrator seems very much alive throughout the story, and the word “lovely” contributes to this.  We tend to think of death as something frightening, and the bones of the dead as something to avoid, but by calling them “lovely bones” the author changes these connotations, softening our dread of death. Indeed, as the commentary at the link provided below explains, the author blurs the lines between what constitutes life and death” by having a dead narrator tell the story.

What happens to Marlow's steamer before he evens gets on board in Heart of Darkness?

When Marlow arrives to the Central Station he finds his steamer sunken in the river. Before he journey up the river in search of Kurtz he must repair the ship which he anticipated will take several weeks if not months. He and the manager make plans to repair the ship and order the necessary parts from the company at the Lower Station. Weeks go by and parts never arrive. Over time, Marlow realizes that the manager has not been submitting the orders for the parts and does not want the steamer to be repaired. In fact, the manager may well have sabotaged the steamer himself to keep it from journeying up to the Inner Station. All this waiting gives Marlow more time to adjust to his new surroundings and hear more about Kurtz and his exploits.

Why did Pip and Orlick hate one another in Great Expectations?

Dickens first introduces Dolge Orlick in Ch.15 In "Great Expectations." Pip gives us three reasons for the mutual animosity between them:

1. When Pip was a small boy Orlick the bully would scare him saying,

"that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and that I might consider myself fuel."

2. Later, when Pip had grown up and was old enough to be apprenticed to Joe, Orlick began to hate Pip because he thought that Pip would replace him and that he would lose his job at the forge:

"When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. Not that he ever said anything, or did anything, openly importing hostility; I only noticed that he always beat his sparks in my direction." [Ch.15].

3. In Ch.17 Biddy tells Pip that Orlick is attracted to her. This angers Pip and he hates Orlick all the more:

"I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick's daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself."

What are the common THEMES throughout the novel 'Don Quixote de la Mancha'?I need to understand how these themes, specifically found in Chapter 10...

The main themes in the novel and primarily in Chapter X are metafiction and metatheater.

Metafiction, according to Patricia Waugh, is:

fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. In proving a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine the fundamental structures of narrative fiction, they also explore the possible fictionality of the world outside the literary fictional text.

Metatheater is, according to Lionel Abel:

...reflecting comedy and tragedy at the same time, where the audience can laugh at the protagonist while feeling empathetic simultaneously.

In Part II, Don Quixote, lives in the world of literature (the romances he reads), so much so that we have an author's note from a fictional author, Cide Hamete Benengeli, who wants us to skip this chapter!

When the author of this great history comes to relate what is set down in this chapter he says he would have preferred to pass it over in silence, fearing it would not be believed, because here Don Quixote's madness reaches the confines of the greatest that can be conceived, and even goes a couple of bowshots beyond the greatest.

So, we have an author (Cervantes) presenting an author (Cide Hamete Benengeli) presenting a character (Don Quixote) who thinks he is another character (a knight errant), which is both comedic and tragic to the point that his perfectly sane sidekick (Sancho) is pretending he sees a character (Dulcinea), who doesn't exist, but is really another character (a smelly peasant woman), all simply to indulge Don Quixote and--most importantly--us!  In this world, as it says below, everyone wins!  In other words, the world of literature is the world to live by.

One critic's take is as follows:

The point of Don Quixote's knight-errantry is to make a fantasy come true. Living a fantasy even for a short time is more than most hidalgos could say. His friends unwittingly bring his wish to fruition better than he could have possibly hoped. Everyone wins, for "what the world needed most of all was plenty of knights-errant" and by acting in his fantasy, his friends help revive the traditions of knight-errantry.

In fact, it is their indulgence—their cooperation with the fantasy—that fulfills Don Quixote's dream and "astonished [him], and for the first time he felt thoroughly convinced that he was a knight-errant in fact and not in imagination." Don Quixote's madness, sadly, is the only way for adults to play in the serious world of Spain's Golden Age.

How much time has passed since the events Holden tells us about have occurred, and what is his purpose in telling it?

Holden's adventures take place in December, starting on "the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall" (2). So it's early-to-mid December (Holden says many times that it is "close to Christmas".  We don't know the exact date, but that's approximately the time period that his adventures on his own in New York occur.

At the end of the book the time is not specifically noted.  We do know, however, that Holden refers to going to another school "next fall" (213), so we can assume that the time that he is in a convalescent hospital (or perhaps a psychiatric ward, as Holden mentions a  "psychoanalyst", Ibid) during the following spring or summer.  It's possible an entire year has past, but the tone that Holden employs does not imply that that amount of time has elapsed.  These are events which have happened in the recent past: within the past few months.

As for his purpose, Holden says at the beginning "If you really want to hear about it...." (1), as if he is talking to someone who does want to know the events that lead up to his illness and (implied) nervous breakdown.  We can consider that possibly Holden is talking to a psychotherapist or other kind of doctor.  Or, maybe, to a friend, or family member -- but the completeness of the story leads one to think that it is reproduced for analysis, as one might do for a therapist of some kind.

Of couse, this is novel and not a transcript of therapy sessions between a patient and his doctor.  So the "purpose", which is not stated, is author's views about life and, specifically, the pressures put on adolescents.  This has been extensively analyzed in the literature written about this book, and there are many valid interpretations.  Holden is a voluble critic of all the institutions, customs, and people of his world -- and critical of himself in addition.  He lives some of the things he hates the most, such as being "phony" when he admits that he is "the most terrific liar you saw in your life" (16).  Obviously, Holden is deeply conflicted, and, possibly, on the verge of being mentally ill.  His critique of the world of his time is one of the outsider, but he is part of the elite world of prep schools and fancy apartment houses and families with live-in maids.  He is a profound contradiction, which is perhaps a comment on the world of his time (1940s New York) in itself.

Source: Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye (1951).  New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 1991.

What do the papers call Ponyboy and Johnny?

In the book "The Outsiders" the boys have rescued the children from a burning church.  They saved the children but the building caved in on Johnny causing him to be severely burned.  Dallas Winston, Dally, and Pony Boy also helped to rescue the children.  They are referred to as juvenile delinquents turned heroes.

The press had gone to the hospital and interviewed Pony Boy. Then they ook the three brothers pictures, Soda Pop, Darry, and Pony Boy.  Pony Boy thinks it is funny that hey would be called heroes because he knows that Dally would not like it.  It would mess up his hard core reputation.

Is there any animal that is a combination of Shark and Whale?What are their eating habits and throat size?

The shark-whale fish "Rhincodon typus" is considered the largest fish on Earth, with a length of 12 meters and weighing nearly 13 tons. Despite it's huge size, it is not dangerous to humans, feeding exclusively with fish, crustaceans and molluscs.It has no teeth, like other sharks, but a gigantic mouth that separates plankton from water.

This species of shark is found in almost every seas, but they are met, in a larger number, in tropical and subtropical waters.

After the  shark-whale (Rhincodon typus), Cetorhinus maximus, is the largest fish in the world, reaching a length of 12 m and weighing 19 tonnes. Despite the impressive size, the giant shark is also a harmless animal. It presents slow movements and feeds on plankton, which is absorbed through the five massive blades positioned around the head.

Cetorhinus maximus is the only member of Cetorhinidae family. The term "Cetorhinus" comes from the Greek, the word "ketos" meaning sea monster or whale and "rhine" being translated as nose. "Maximus" is a word of Latin origin - meaning "the greatest".

It's body is huge and dark gray colored - some specimens having pale shades on their lower sides - and the skin is covered with mucus.The mouth is large, with an opening of about one meter, and it has small teeth. The particularity of this species of shark is the size of the liver, that can weigh 25% of the entire weight of the body, serving as an upward force.

What was the literary movement/period of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6.3.1806 - 29.6.1861) belongs to the Victorian Age in English Literature. Queen Victoria ruled over England from 1837-1901.

Much of her poetry is deeply spiritual and religious. She once said,

We want the sense of the saturation of Christ's blood upon the souls of our poets, that it may cry through them in answer to the ceaseless wail of the Sphinx of our humanity, expounding agony into renovation. Something of this has been perceived in art when its glory was at the fullest. Something of a yearning after this may be seen among the Greek Christian poets, something which would have been much with a stronger faculty.

Why does Montag think books could make him happy?

I think that there are two things that you can point to that made him think this.

First, he realizes that in his day, people are generally not happy.  He knows that, in the past, people were happy.  He tries to figure out what is different now and the main thing he can think of is that there used to be books and now there are not.

Second, there is the example of the old lady who burns herself along with her books.  Montag thinks that, if she was willing to do that, there must be something important and compelling about books.

In The Exile by William Kotzwinkle, in the Caspian versus Felix dilemma, is this a case of split personality or one of parallel reality?

Neither of these terms, "split personality" and "parallel reality," are precisely correct. The concept Kotzwinkle is trying to put over is a complex philosophical and psychological one: What happened to humanity when it is strained from within? and, What happens to personal identity when it is strained from within? Let's look at what is not the case with Caspian so we can better see what is.

Multiple personality disorder, "split personality," is a psychological event that is the effect of a traumatic cause: some horrible, life shattering event(s) occurs that fixates psychological and cognitive functions at the moment(s) at which the horror(s) occurred, "frozen," as it were, in that moment. This results is a narrowing of the range of cognitive process and emotional reaction when cognition and emotion are governed by those dual fixations. Caspian suffered no such trauma; his experience was an individual inner one in which he strove to access the deepest parts of his psyche for the sake of his performance.

Parallel universe/reality is a concept in quantum cosmology wherein it is theorized that for every option not chosen at a decision-making moment, an independent, separate (parallel) reality materializes that expresses the life situation that would correspond with those options not chosen while "present" reality corresponds with the option that was chosen: a world exists for what you did not do as well as for what you did do. Caspian isn't experiencing a parallel reality built on and corresponding to an option for an different decision in present time that he did not make.

What Caspian is doing is accessing his deepest psychological motives and psycho-cognitive processes without understanding of or experience of the mechanisms at work therein. Thus he is said to have created a psychologically based alternate reality. It is an alternate rather than parallel because it is a different time period and location with different relationships with the people in his present-reality life, each individual is there but in a different role, for example, his daughter is, in Berlin, a young girl in trouble whom he seeks to rescue. Caspian's adventures in his alternate reality go full circle and he is said to have "died" at the hand of the Nazis in 1940s Berlin while Felix Falkenhayn emerges into Caspian's 1980s life.

Hi.. please please.. What is the analysis of the poem "The Wind" by James Stephens??

I don't know if I can give you "the" analysis of "The Wind" by James Stephens, but I can give you an analysis of the poem.

"The Wind" by James Stephens is centered around personification:  the wind "stood up," "gave a shout," "whistled," "Kicked," "thumped," "said he'll kill," has a voice, fingers, legs, and hands.  The wind, in addition to acting and speaking and being built like a human, is given gender:  the wind is a "he." 

The speaker covers usual effects of the wind, giving human motivation to the actions.  The wind makes loud noises, which become a shout and a whistle; the wind blows leaves around, which becomes a kick; branches break, here they are thumped; wind kills people, here it's on purpose.

The speaker also gives personality to the wind, which of course it doesn't really possess.  In "The Wind," wind is apparently vindictive, and certainly destructive. 

The writer gives a perspective of nature different from the usual.

The poem is divided into three, two-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ab ab cc, contains only two sentences, and uses repetition of the clause immediately preceding it as the short, simple second sentence.  The final line:

And so he will!  And so he will!

concludes the poem and with its use of repetition, together with the rhyme and the long first sentence, adds unity. 

Finally, the most powerful line of the poem in terms of content, meaning, and effect is emphasized with alliteration:

And said he'll kill, and kill, and kill,...

What are some similarities and differences between Carlson and Slim in "Of Mice and Men"?

These characters share very few similarities with each other. Carlson and Slim do share their power with each other. Both men are from a similar class. Carlson is a mechanic and Slim is a mule driver, both positions are quite equal in status. Both are also powerful characters and men in the novel, but each for very different reasons and in very different ways.

Carlson is insensitive and callous. He is intimidating both physically and verbally. He cares nothing for others' feelings, which actually frightens the other characters to some extent so the source of his power is others' fear. He is so unaware of others around him however, that he doesn't quite grasp the power his actions have.

Slim is empathetic toward others, he is kind, he listens on a plane that is far beyond what might be expected and he understands even better. The source of Slim's power comes from kindness and understanding. He has earned the respect of everyone on the ranch. The men on the ranch look to Slim for leadership. Slim was one of the few who understood the friendship between George and Lennie and the reasons behind George's undying loyalty. Slim was the only person who could comfort George after he had shot Lennie and Slim not only comforted George, but he understood why George had to kill Lennie. Slim knew without ever being told, how deep the two men's friendship ran.

What is animalism?

Animalism is the system of thought that Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer make using the ideas that Old Major outlined in his speech in Chapter 1.  Another way to say that is that it is the philosophy or ideology that the revolution will be based on.  You can read about Animalism in Chapter 2.

By the time the three pigs have thought about it for a few months, they boil the ideas of Animalism down to the Seven Commandments that are listed in Chapter 2.

If you look at the Seven Commandments, you can see that the principles of Animalism revolve around the idea that animals are superior to people and that people are the enemy.  You can see that animals are supposed to refrain from behaving in ways that would make them seem human.

How does Sheriff Heck plan to explain Bob Ewell's death?

It is important to understand that Atticus puts together a bunch of details and believes Jem must have killed Bob Ewell. This is Atticus' righteous character coming through and even though he is almost accusing his own son, he believes it needs to go to trial. Heck wouldn't have had to explain much if he didn't have the need to correct Atticus.

In correcting Atticus, Heck (the reader knows) is actually protecting Boo Radley. Radley killed Bob Ewell in defense of the children and rescued the kids. There was a struggle between Bob and Jem, Boo intervened. Bob Ewell must have had a knife on him with the intention to kill the children and Boo must have wrestled it away and shoved it up under Bob's ribs. Then, he carried Jem to the house as Bob was left, dead body, laying in the street.

None of this is told directly to us reader, Scout reports the sounds she hears because it was dark.

Heck put togther what happened and decided it best to report that Bob tripped and fell to protect Boo from the town bringing him gifts and praising him for getting rid of the bad guy. On the flip-side, even though Boo did something morally right in protecting the children, it is indeed legally wrong to kill. Who knows what could have happened if that went to trial.

So, does Heck Tate lie? Yes, in that he didn't tell the truth that he figured out. But also NO, because he didn't see the crime. He can't for sure know exactly what happened.

Why did Gary Pauslen in the book, kinship begin running sled dogs?

Gary Paulsen had written some books and been gaining success as a writer.  One of his books caused a controversy with someone claiming it was about them.  The argument led to a lawsuit which left Gary disillusioned and not wanting to write for awhile.  Gary withdrew from writing and worked as a mailman in the backwoods of Alaska.  He was given a set of sled dogs by a friend.  He initially had no idea how to work them and had to learn.  he more that he learned about them and their behaviors the more intrigued he  became.

Ths is based on memory, I don't have the book before me.

Who is Cornelia and how does Granny feel towards her?

Cornelia is the Daughter of Granny Weatherall and George. She died three days after she was born. "when this one was born it shoud be the last It shoud have been born first, for it was the one she had truly wanted She was strong, in three days she would be as well as ever." Granny Weatherall was having an affair with George when she was with Jonh hince the letters to them both in the attic, she didn't want the kids to find them because they would know how foolish she once was. Cornelia was born when Weatherall was with John,but the baby wasn't Johns it was Georges'. Granny weatherall is going Crazy she is arguing with herself in her head and names the other one in her head Cornelia. Throughout the story granny weatherall is recolecting her past and uses Cornelia as the younger Granny Weatherall to give her life that she never had. Everytime she is talking to Cornellia she is talking to herself in her head. 

Why doesn't Lester defend Despereaux?

Desperaux has just too many differences from the "typical" mouse. He's small, his ears are too big, he was born with his eyes open, he hears music, fall in love with a human, allows one to touch him, and sits at the foot of a king. He evens speaks to humans, doesn't scurry about, or search for crumbs. Though his father doesn't speak up for him, he does love his son. Lester is outnumbered by the other mice, and he knows his son's behavior could threaten the welfare of all mice.

Would Dill be a more credible character than Scout based on what we've learned of his persona in chapter 14?

The simple answer, I believe, is no. Dill would not be a more credible character than Scout based on what we've learned of his persona in Chapter 14. Througout the story, Scout seems very matter-of-fact, at least in comparison to Dill, who frequently fabricates elaborate tales about his life at home. Dill's imaginative tales make him a less-than-reliable character in one sense.

At the same time, however, Dill also demonstates in several places in the novel an empathy for others (human and non-human alike) that corrects for the lack of empathy in Jem and Scout. In Chapter 1, for example, Dill challenges Jem's claim that turtles feel no pain when a match is lit under them, and after witness the trial, Dill challenges Scout's view that Tom Robinson is "just a Negro" and therefore not worthy of being treated with respect by the prosecuting attorney.

Dill is one of my favorite characters in the novel. He seems at once childish and wise.

EDIT: The previous poster beat me by about two minutes, but I think we agree. Dill is compassionate but not necessarily credible.

Need help with the characterization of Gillian in "One Thousand Dollars."

For most of the story, Gillian is shown as something of a playboy.  He is presented as a person who is only interested in having fun.

When he is given the money right at first, he seems really spoiled -- he's complaining that it is an awkward amount and he'd rather have some different amount.

At the club, we see that people think he's something of a pain.  Then we find out that he is considering spending all the money buying a gift for a show girl.

Finally, we see that he is so much like this that his uncle is testing him through his will.  His uncle wants to punish him if he keeps acting like this.

But when Gillian finds this out, we see the other side of his character.  This is when he does the right thing and lies so that Miriam will get all the money

What was your reaction to Snowball's expulsion from Animal Farm?

You know what struck me? I thought Snowball was becoming the leader of the crew. I thought he was the most intelligent, he had the allegience of the rest of the animals, and he had the speaking ability that it seemed Napoleon did not have. I saw him risk himself and truly give himself to their cause for the sake of the cause, not so much for himself.

So initial reactions were surprise and wonder for me. He seemed to fit the description of the best leader possible in terms of skill, but as we watch societies around the world, we know that's not always how or why a leader is established. That's part of the power of this allegory, to show us the problems of how leaders are developed or chosen.

In Pride and Prejudice, how does the visit to Pemberley affect Elizabeth's feelings towards Mr. Darcy?

The dignity of his estate reflects the sort of person he is. When her aunt and uncle approve of him--when Darcy accepts her family on his turf, she understands he is less proud than she thought him to be.  In addition, she learns about Darcy from the point of view of his servant, who has every opportunity to complain about him or gossip in negative ways. However, to the contrary, the servant praises him as generous, kind, and in every way the gentleman. By reading the letter he sent her that explained his behavior, she had already begun to forgive him and know him better, and when she visits Pemberley, she realizes that she deeply respects and cares for this man.

Who made Shield Sheafson's son Beow famous?no

Beow (whose name translates to "bee" in Old English), was famous "through the north," as a prince, and later a king, in a prized lineage. Beow was the son of Shield Sheafson a terrifying king, whom the narrative of Beowulf begins with (Beow was no relation to Beowulf, whose name translates to "bee-wolf," figuratively a bear). If Beow was as well known as his father, although it is not clear how he becomes so in the poem, he must have been as vicious a ruler and conqueror as his father. Twice in the epic, it is mentioned that Beow was sent forth by God, alluding to the origin of his fame as well. He ruled for many years following the death of his father, until "the great Halfdane" ruled as his heir. One of the Halfdane's sons was named Hrothgar, whose great hall is the subject of the first half of the poem. A major tenet of the epic poem is the establishment of lineage, and the anonymous poet provides a fine example of this in Beowulf.

"The wave cradled the swimmer in her arms" is an example of which literary device?

I agree that it's personification, but you could also call it an example of "pathetic fallacy."  Here, 'pathetic' refers to empathy, so it doesn't really mean pathetic. Pathetic fallacy is a broad type of personification. 

Pathetic fallacy is also called the anthropomorphic fallacy. It's when writers give inanimate objects (often nature) human qualities, emotions, feelings, thoughts and so on.  So the wave is given qualities like a human. Most obviously, giving the wave 'arms' is an example of personification and the pathetic fallacy because the wave cradles the swimmer as a lover would or as a mother would cradle a child.

Just going back to the more broad concept of pathetic fallacy (and this might make it seem pathetic), is also the idea that inanimate objects, particularly nature, have human empathetic qualities. Think of the typical hollywood movie when a couple breaks up. It's usually raining. This has become such a cliche that it borders on pathetic - as if nature is grieving with the character. 

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 138?

To me, the theme of Sonnet 138 is the idea that love, or at least lust, is pretty tolerant.  Or perhaps it fools itself -- maybe these are the same things...  This is especially true as one grows older and has fewer opportunities to satisfy one's lust.

In the poem, the speaker "believes" his love, even though he knows she lies.  He tolerates the fact that she is unfaithful.  He knows that he is getting old, but he pretends that she thinks he is young and sexy.

Through the whole poem, it is clear that both lovers are sort of fooling themselves because they just want to keep sleeping together.

Which were the methods to control slaves in USA?

Clearly, all of the above answers are right, but there are a couple of important things that none of the three previous answers has mentioned. The previous answers all focus on coercion and brutality.  But much of the control of slaves was based on much more subtle things.

First, the slaveowners used (or tried to use) religion to control slaves.  They encouraged slaves to believe in a version of Christianity that emphasized obedience.  They encouraged the slaves to think of their rewards in the afterlife, not of their problems in this life.

Second, they did not allow slaves to learn to read or write.  This was partly meant to prevent them from reading about ideas of universal rights and things like that.  But it was also to prevent them from having the tools needed to start rebellions.

Finally, they used psychology, at least with some slaves.  Some masters treated some slaves with something approaching respect -- gave them high responsibilities and such.  This could create something like loyalty in those slaves.

I'm not saying brutality wasn't used.  But the more subtle things are just as effective, if not more so.

Improving education was an important goal for which President from Texas?

I'd have to give the nod to Lyndon Baines Johnson, President form 1963 - 1969.  While George W. Bush is certainly known for No Child Left Behind, I believe history is going to give LBJ much more credit for being an education President.

There were two laws that really set LBJ apart.  First, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 gave large amounts of federal money to public schools for the first time (before, they had relied on state funding almost exclusively).  Funding for school construction, extra teachers, aid to low income schools, free and reduced lunch programs were all a part of this act, which we still see affecting the schools today.

His second effort was the Higher Education Act of 1965, which created a large federal financial aid program to offer low-interest loans and scholarships to needy students.  This has been periodically reauthorized by Congress again and again, most recently in 2008.

So in terms of lasting effects, I'd say LBJ was the most recent education President.

What does Simon say they should do & how do they react in Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies?

I think that what you are talking about is the part in Chapter 8 where Simon tells everyone that they need to go climb the mountain.  He is saying this in response to the discussion about what to do about the beast and how to react to Jack and the hunters leaving the group.

When he says this, everyone is pretty nervous and scared and unwilling to climb the mountain.  They do not want to climb the mountain because they are pretty sure that the beast is up there and they are very afraid of it.

What was Miss Mayela's real reason for inviting Tom into her house, and why is it important that Tom is right-handed?

Mayella Ewell is a lonely girl who is deprived of love in a home filled with children, poverty, and a disgraceful upbringing.  Mayella probably had little opportunity to get out and meet any boys her age.  Atticus makes it a point to bring it up in court that she did not have social relationships with friends.

Mayella probably had some desires and she wanted to test her feelings.  Tom was a gullible victim, but he was also a nice person which she seemed to already know.  When Mayella invited him into her house she may not have exactly expected her own behavior to emerge, but was impulsive. 

This is only speculation as the book does not really explain her true motives.

How is the trip on the Orient Express like a romantic adventure according to the Director of the Compagnei International des Wagons Lits?I cant...

I think that the answer is to be found early in Chapter 3.  In my edition, Chapter 3 starts on p. 29 and the quote you need is on p. 30.

In this Chapter, Poirot is hanging out with M. Bouc, the director of the company.  They are in the dining car looking at al the people.  Bouc points out to Poirot that the scene in the car "lends itself to romance."  He then goes on to point out how many different kinds of people there are in the car.  There are people of lots of different ages, nationalities, and even social classes.

When he says this is romantic he doesn't mean it in the sense of love and moonlight and flowers.  Instead, he is using the definition that just refers to a situation that is mysterious and emotionally touching.  He is saying that it is a setting where anything seems possible.

What are some examples of paradox in 1984?

George Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984 details the Party’s efforts to completely remake its citizens by destroying their ambitions and emotional attachments and replacing them with the Party’s goals. The main character, Winston Smith, realizes that the Party is destroying his individuality and tries, unsuccessfully, to rebel.

Orwell mentions a place called the “Ministry of Love” several times in the book before the reader ever actually sees what goes on there. Citizens suspect that it is a place where non-compliant citizens are taken for torture and interrogation for the purpose of punishment and information retrieval. They are correct about the torture and interrogation, but not about the reason for it.

A paradox is something that appears to contradict reason or expectation. The paradox here lies in the name “Ministry of Love.” Such a name implies that it should be a place that creates or administers love in some way, not a place that uses pain and humiliation to remake citizens. During Winston’s interrogation and brainwashing process, O’Brien reveals the true mission of the Ministry of Love:

By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. There was nothing left in them except the sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother.

Their goal is a bit of a paradox itself. To create this love of Big Brother, they must also eliminate love for anything else, so the Party goes to great pains to keep its people from forming loving relationships by stoking suspicion of others and blind adherence to Party goals.

Does Demetrio Macias die?

Demetrio Macias is a member of a band of revolutionaries who fight to rid Mexico of the oppression of the Federales during the Mexican revolutionary war of 1910. Macias is a rancher who has a earned a reputation for bravery during the many confrontations with the Federales. At the end of the book Macias is in a desperate battle for his life of which there appears no escape. However rather than confirming Macias death the author leaves us with a vision of Demetrio Macias still fighting for his life and cause. Though it is highly probable that he does get killed, the author leaves it up to us to decide.

What are the development and changes in Shylock's character from Act 1 through Act 3?

Shylock becomes increasingly more bitter and angrier through the events that transpire in Acts I, II, and III. He is bitter and disgusted with the way the Christians treat him, but still use him for borrowing money, and one gets the impression that that has been aggravating him for a long time. But when his daughter, Jessica, elopes with a Christian (Lorenzo) and steals money from him, including a ring that had been a gift from his dead wife, it's like all the bitterness and anger that had been under the surface just explodes. Now he is out for revenge, and what better way than to insist on the pound of flesh owed to him by Antonio for not being able to pay back his debt?

Check the links below for more information on this character.  Good luck!

What can be said about Bob Ewell's behaviour and character after the trial, when he spat on Atticus' face?

Bob Ewell is a cruel, abusive, ignorant man who drinks too much and doesn't take care of his kids. He accuses Tom Robinson of rape just because he saw Mayella through the window make a pass at Tom. He's so racist that he's willing to sacrifice Tom because he doesn't want anyone to know that his daughter would like a black man. This also reflects the racist atmosphere of the town.

After the trial, Bob is still angry at Atticus because Atticus shows everyone the true nature of Bob Ewell when he is on the stand. Bob wants revenge; he could care less what people think of him. Atticus makes him angry, and now Bob will get back at him because he is an evil man.

In chapter 2, How do Ralph and Jack answer the question about the beast?

During their first meeting, a littlun begins to cry and says he saw a beastie thing that he thought wanted to eat him. He thought it was a huge snake. Ralph at first tries to reason saying there would be no way for a large snake to be on an island - they only exist in Africa and India. Then, as others continue talking about the beast, Ralph just begins screaming over and over, louder and louder, "there is no beast!" Jack on the other hand, tries to agree with Ralph saying their is no giant beast-snake, but he adds 'if there is we will hunt it'. This is the beginning of Jack's obsession with hunting live things.

Explain the quote: "Twenty years gone, and i am back again."

"Twenty years gone, and I am back again."

Odysseus speaks these words quietly to his old nurse Euryclea, who washes the feet of what she thinks is a beggar who has come to stay for a while at the royal palace in Ithaca.

When Odysseus returns after twenty years of absence (Trojan War, 10 years, and another 10 years to reach his homeland after the end of the war), his son Telemachus is a grown man, his wife Penelope is beleaguered by suitors who each want her hand (and the money that comes with it) in marriage and have settled in the royal palace, eating and drinking away her fortune, until she will decide whom to marry; and his father Laertes lives in the hills with the shepherds. The goddess Athene, his mentor, has disguised him as a beggar, who came to the royal palace to ask the queen, Penelope, for alms.

Penelope does not recognize him, and this is what Odysseus intended. His disguise has a two-fold purpose, a) he can see first-hand if his wife is still faithful to him (although he has had his share of amorous adventures during his 10 years of journeying back to Ithaca), and b) he is safe from the suitors and has time to plan their demise. After all, strength lies in numbers, and the suitors number over 100. Without an advantage, such as a disguise, Odysseus cannot hope to succeed in avenging the honor of his family and his house.

So, Penelope kindly offers the poor beggar (aka Odysseus) a footbath to be performed by his old nurse, Euryclea, who recognizes her master by a scar on his leg. Odysseus received the scar when he was hunting boars on Mount Parnassus with his grandfather Autolycus. In order to prevent Euryclea from giving him away, he grabs her by the throat with his right hand and with his left draws her close to him, and warns her not to reveal his true identity. That is when he utters the words, "Twenty years gone, and I am back again, and asks her not to say anything about him returning to any one else in the house.

As the rightful owner of the title of king of Ithaca (and of Penelope), it is his right to restore his bruised honor by calling the suitors on their violation of his rights, killing them as a consequence.

According to patriarchal tradition, he is also entitled to test his wife's faithfulness. As it turns out, Penelope has nothing to fear (she is, after all, the epitome of faithfulness), but her treacherous maids, who have aided and abetted the suitors, will have to suffer the consequences.

When Odysseus returns to Ithaca, it's judgment day, He restores the honor of his house, rescues those who have been faithful and loyal to him (his wife, his nurse, his father, his son) and kills those who were illoyal (the maids) and tried to usurp his powers (the suitors).

Although it looks as if Odysseus was doing it all by himself (he singlehandedly kills all 112 suitors with his bow), it is only due to divine intervention (Athene who disguises him as an old man) that he prevails.

Is the narrator of the story "Happy Endings" an objective narrator?

I'm not entirely sure that a truly objective narrator ever occurs in fiction.  Simply by choosing a specific verb of adjective a narrator can lead a reader in one direction without the reader even realizing that they are being led.  There is this type of narration in "Happy Endings" although it only exists in the beginning and end of the story when Atwood uses a second person narration to speak directly to the reader.  ‘‘If you want a happy ending, try A,’’ she tells you.  However, after having read story A you know it is an impossibility, a satire of what people imagine.  Therefore, that second person narration has already framed the way you are going to read the story.  Indeed, by the end there is a shift and Atwood tells the reader about how to create a story.

The narrator of the individual vignettes is thirdperson omniscient in that way Atwood can let the reader know the thoughts, desires, and feelings of her characters.  The narrator is a relatively objective one , although i think to be completely objective is an impossibility. 

Why did Caesar refuse the crown in Act 1 Scene 2?

Since the time of the Roman King Tarquin Superbus, (Tarquin the Proud) Romans have always hated to have a king (rex in Latin). This is because he abused a married Roman woman called Lucretia who later killed herself to save her family from the shame. She then became the perfect Roman example of virtue and faithfulness. Shakespeare also wrote a play about this called The Rape of Lucrece. Brutus' ancestor, also called Brutus, drove out the Tarquins from Rome. Therefore, it is appropriate that his descendant should kill Caesar, also in order to protect the Republic from a potentially power-abusing tyrant. Therefore, if Julius Caesar accepted the crown, it would seem to people that he was setting himself up to be king. Later, after the civil war ends and Octavian (later Augustus) became the first Republican emperor, he was also presented with a crown at his inauguration ceremony which he also refused for this reason. He did not want to upset the Roman mob who really rule Rome. It is a show of modesty which is more like a show than reality.

What symbolic meaning do the suffering hawks in Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird suggest?

Birds in general are a strong symbol for transcendence and elevation of the spirit and intellect. Like a bird, the inner being can spread it's wings and reach new heights. Birds represent the goodness and power of thought (e.g., think before you act), freedom from the material realm, flights of imagination.

Hawks have a more specific significance within this general symbolism. A hawk's greatest gift is its vision; it can see minuscule objects from great soaring heights. It can soar above the world and still be connected to it. So a hawks symbolism represents visionary astuteness; the discovery of life's purpose; the accomplishment of balance between spiritual and material senses.

By this symbolism, suffering hawks would represent the failure, through one means or another (e.g., an obstacle; personal failure; circumstances; etc), of the visionary powers; of life's purpose; of balance between spiritual and material; of the ability to soar, achieve and be free.

Explain how the title of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" points to the story’s theme.

The Grandmother believes that "good people" are the ones who have "good character". She bases her opinion of the Misfit on the fact that he doesn't look "common", so he must be a "good" man. Her belief that a "good man" is hard to find comes from her own self-righteousness, the belief that she's better than others, her judgmental views, and her selfishness. She lives in the past and thinks it's much harder to find "good" people of "good" character than it was in her time. It isn't until the end that she realizes part of the reason for the Misfit's behavior is because of people like the Grandmother. The title is related to all of the themes of God and religion, violence and cruelty, the lack of a connection among people, and prejudice.

What evidence indicates that Mrs. Bentley is either a reliable or unrliable narrator?

Mrs. Bentley is considered to be a reliable narrator. Even though she tells her own story and there is a tendency to suspect that anyone telling their own story will have a limited and slanted perspective from which their ow good qualities get a bit better and the other characters' faults get worse, this can't be assumed to be the case because there are perceptive, astute, honest reporters of stories from the first person perspective. Some of the clues to Mrs. Bentley being a reliable narrator is that her story is told as diary entries; she tells her own negative thoughts and suspicions; she describes herself in stark terms; she is intelligent and was once a talented artist.

These clues are significant for the following reasons. Diaries are socially and historically accepted as reliable life accounts. This aura of reliability of diaries, which by their very nature are the writer's surrogate confidant, carries over to literature. So unless there are very strong clues that contradict the categorization of diaries as reliable primary records, a diary presents a clue for the narrator being likewise reliable. A clue opposing a reliable diary and narrator might be overt contradictions within the text, like changes in how another character or situation is described from time to time, or changes in how the writer's reactions to a type of event are reported from one instance to another (e.g., Jan3" I just adore parties where I don't know a soul. I meet such interesting people. May 14: I had to go to another party where I didn't know a soul. I was seeing red and breathing fire at those selfish fools as early as 10 PM.)

The others are significant because people don't usually reveal the unpleasant truth about themselves or their circumstances except in private. To others there is always a tendency to evade the unpleasant truth or to dress it up a little bit. An instance of this is that Mrs. Bentley describes herself honestly without pathos or melodrama and tells her worst fears and suspicions when she hears Judith laughing behind the shed. Further, her intelligence and previous life as a talented artist conveys that she has the breadth of mind and depth of perception into herself and other people that her assessments and opinions are not skewed by misinterpretation or pettiness or vanity. This all combine to make Mrs. Bentley a reliable narrator.

How should I start a newspaper article-style assignment about the trial in "Inherit the Wind?"I have a large assignment where I have to write an...

If you are supposed to be writing this as a newspaper reporter, the format really needs to be quite different from an essay.

First of all, you need to have a "lead" a first couple of short paragraphs that will get the reader's attention but will also tell them the main facts that they need to know about the trial.  From there, you put the most important stuff first and go down to less important stuff.  (Click on the link for more about this.)

So I would lead it off with something like

In the last two weeks (or however long it was) the trial of John Scopes has exposed the splits between the new America and its old traditions.  The performances of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan have shown that there are cracks forming on the issue of religion and values in our society.

Or maybe

John Scopes, a high school biology teacher from Dayton, TN, has been convicted of teaching evolution to his students.  The legal genius of his lawyer, Clarence Darrow, could not prevent his conviction at the hands of the prosecutor, William Jennings Bryan.

From there I would go on with the other stuff, in that most-important-first order I talked about.

Good luck!

What is the significance of Lockwoods dream, and the subsequent reaction of Heathcliffe and his character development.

Lockwood dreams invite the idea of the spirit of Catherine as a child into her chambers.  In the story "Wuthering Heights" Catherine has been dead for a while.  However, when Lockwood sleeps in her chambers he wakes to a child's spirit.  The spirit grabs his arm causing him to pull it forward.  He sees the spirit cut her arm on the window glass and the next day there is blood.

The other dream has to do with Lockwood finding Catherine Earnshaw's diary.  He is frightened and when he jumps he knocks over the candle.  While cleaning it up, he comes across her diary.   By finding the diary it seems as if Catherine's spirit is reaching out from the grave.

I do not have my book in front of me, so I am not sure which dream came first, but I believe the second one that I wrote about happened first.

PYTHAGORAS THEOREM!!!QUESTION 1: For what values of n does {n, n + 1, n + 2} form a pythagorean triple. QUESTION 2: Show that {n, n + 1, n + 3}...

Pythagoras theorem states that in a right angled triangle the square of hypotenuse equals sum squares of other two sides.

A Pythagoras triple refers to a set of three positive integers a,b, and c that satisfy the condition:

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

To establish that a set of three integers forms a Pythagoras Triple we have to prove that the sum of squares of the two smaller integers is equal to the square of the square of the third number.

Question 1

To find the value of n for which the set of numbers represented by (n, n+1, n+2) form a Pythagoras triple we form a equation based on on the condition of Pythagoras triple and then solve the equation for value of n.

Thus:

n^ + (n+1)^2 = (n+2)^2

n^ + (n+1)^2 - (n+2)^2 = 0

n^ + n^2 + 2n + 1- n^2 - 4n - 4 = 0

n^ - 2n - 3 = 0

n^ - 3n + n - 3 = 0

n(n - 3) + 1(n - 3) = 0

(n + 1)(n - 3) = 0

Therefore n = 3 0r n = -1

Thus the condition of Pythagoras triple is satisfied for n = 3

Question 2

To prove that the set of numbers represented by (n, n+1, n+3) cannot form a Pythagoras triple we form a equation based on on the condition of Pythagoras triple,  solve the equation for value of n, and then show that these values of n are not integers

Thus:

n^ + (n+1)^2 = (n+3)^2

n^ + (n+1)^2 - (n+3)^2 = 0

n^ + n^2 + 2n +1 - n^2 - 6n - 9 = 0

n^2 - 4n - 8 = 0

n^2 - 4n + 4 = 12

(n - 2)^2 = 12

n - 2 = 12^1/2 = 3.4641

n = 3.4641 + 2 = 5.4641

As only possible value of n is not an integer, the given set of number cannot form a Pythagoras triple.

What is the significance of the locations in Of Mice and Men?

The novella is set up like a play or a screenplay.  Setting is described first and then characters enter it and exit it as if on a stage or shooting location.  The action takes place over 3 days (Biblical number), and it uses four major locations:

1) The idyllic "Garden of Eden" wooden area by the river.

2) The bunkhouse on the ranch

3) Crooks' room (in the barn)

4) The barn proper

The fifth (5th) location is not real: it is the fantasy ranch that George, Lennie, and Candy save up money to buy where they can farm and tend rabbits--the "American Dream" haven from a heartless world.

Notice: only one location, the bunkhouse, is meant for human dwelling: the rest are more or less for animals.  Also notice: only one location, Crooks' room, does not contain violence (see below).

Also mentioned are the boss' house and the cathouse.  Lennie and George visit the boss' house when they are hired (George is supposed to do all the talking).  Lennie cannot visit the cathouse.

Notice that the locations can be broken down in terms of socio-economic status and violence:

1) by the river: secret world only George and Lennie know about, unlivable; a place to camp (low class); the scene of the Lennie's mercy killing

2) the bunkhouse: where the men stay (low class).  infested with lice; place of violence (where Lennie breaks Curly's hand and where Carlson takes Candy's dog to shoot).

3) Crooks' room (lowest class); only the outcasts visit; yet, it is a library, the most intellectual place on the ranch; it's a section of the barn, not far from the animals, not meant for human dwelling.  No violence committed here (Crooks suggests something might happen to George and Lennie gets mad, but it is purely conjecture).

4) the barn (below class); place for animals; another scene of a crime (murder of Curley's wife)

So says one critic: "The tight structure of setting, revolving around single locations and continuous timing, make the novella seem almost as if it were set as a play."