How many bones and muscles are in the human body?

The human body does have 206 bones, however, if the sternum is counted as three then the human body would have 208 bones. When people have an abnormal number of bones it is usually due to vertebrae or ribs.

There are two systems of bones and these are the axial skeleton which is the body and the appendicular skeleton which are the limbs.

The number of muscles in the body depends on who you ask. The previous post is accurate. The reason there is some controversy over how many muscles there are in the human body is due to the fact that many experts argue about what constitutes a muscle.

In Song of Solomon, what act of kindness did Ruth do for Pilate?

Ruth got money from her husband (Macon Dead) to give Hagar a decent and respectable funeral. After Hagar died Pilate and Reba had little money for the funeral and burial since they gave most of their money to Hagar for makeup and clothing to make herself feel accepted and loved by Milkman. Ruth demanded that Macon give her money, and she wouldn't leave his office until he gave her a satisfactory amount.

Ruth was perhaps reciprocating Pilate's kind acts toward her. It was Pilate who gave Ruth the concoction to seduce her husband, which led to Milkman's conception. Pilate also saved Milkman from Macon's attempts to abort him by scaring him with a voodoo doll.

Is this a good thesis: Dickinson use of enjambment and repetition shows society's disregard for virtue and the debilitating nature of death.I have...

A few thoughts:

I do love that you're pointing to the actual language of the poem in your thesis, and enjambment is huge for Dickinson, esp. this poem.

when you say it "shows" society's disregard, you have to be careful, because that assumes that there is some stable truth about society that the poem is merely revealing.  Poems actively construct a certain world and a certain effect with each choice of diction, enjambment, etc.; they depict society as X or argue that society thinks Y.

I think the trouble with this thesis as it stands now is that it's somewhat hodgepodge.  We've got two ideas: dying for truth is no better (or something) than dying for beauty, and death is debilitating.  How do they go together?

I'm trying to mind read here, but it seems as if you're going to talk about the double meaning of "I was scarce" and "I was scarce/ adjusted in the tomb," where the latter reading (across the enjambment) produces narrative information, while the former reading (which registers the pause created by the line break) creates a sense of lack on the narrator's part (I was scarce).

The repetition is, I think, going to be "died for beauty," "died for truth" + was + adjective (scarce/lain)?  So the fact that these deaths are made parallel by the language, aside from the fact that one death is for beauty and the other truth, and the fact that the actual "characters" are laid in adjoining rooms, implies that the deaths are somehow equivalent or comparable.

I *think* that's where you were going with enjambment/repetition.  So the question remains, for me, whether you see the sense of lack implied by the enjambment, a lack connected to a death for beauty, as contradicted or reinforced by the fact that the death for beauty is written as parallel to the death for truth.

Are beauty and truth both "noble causes," or are you taking beauty to be a lesser cause than truth (that's what it seems like from your thesis that society disregards virtue).  If they're both noble causes, and the deaths are portrayed as parallel, then it seems that the "lack" expressed by the enjambment condemns both deaths-for-causes as not worth it.  If beauty is a lesser cause, and that's the lack the enjambment names, then that sense that it wasn't worth it to die for beauty contradicts the fact that the poem makes the deaths parallel, or comparable.

I hope that isn't totally confusing.  Those questions are meant to help you develop an argument that draws a connection between the two meaning-producing features of the poem that you've identified.  Again, I hope you'll scrap the pronouncement about society, and stick to making a claim about what the poem says about death, or causes, or, or, or...

Good luck with your essay!

What is the story of "The Griesly Bride" by John Manifold?What is the form of this poem?

John Manifold was an Australian poet who was also interested in folk music.  This influence can be seen in his poem "The Griesly Wife," which like most folk lyrics, tells a story with gothic undertones.

In this story, a newlywed couple are getting ready to spend their wedding night together, when the woman jumps out of bed and runs into the night.  The man follows her tracks, growing angrier and angrier at her disappearance.  Then he discovers that the tracks have changed from two feet to four feet.  His anger changes to fear, and he turns back.  However, at the end of the poem, he "lies in a crimson tide," a metaphor for blood; the young husband has died.

Though what actually happens to the man and the wife remains a mystery, there are a few clues in the poem which can help draw conclusions.  The moon is full and dingoes are heard howling far off.  The husband finds his wife's discarded nightgown at the same place where her tracks turn to four feet.  And finally, he is chased by what was once his "quarry."  It is possible, and we are supposed to assume, that his new wife was a werewolf.

In your judgment, is America any less racially prejudiced today than it was 50 years ago?"Your summary should express your judgment, based upon...

Absolutely. This of course does not mean that prejudice does not exist. People have learned to be more tolerant of other cultures, races, ethnicities, etc. and attitudes have thus changed.

In the 1960's there was a huge civil rights movement going on. People were fighting for equality.

There were many events that led to desegregation. There were many unfair attacks on The Freedom Riders and the field secretary for the NAACP, Medgar Evans, was murdered.

Prominent equal rights activists were murdered, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. They fought for equal rights and helped in making the United States a more tolerant nation.

America still holds a lot of discrimination against people based on gender, ethnicity, and race but we have definitely come a long way in the last fifty years.

Acoustic Poem for Dill Harris.. how would you describe him and his personality? (The term is ACROSTIC poem, not acoustic)I so far have this...D...

H - Honest, H - Hard-playing, H - Humble

R - Rambunctious

S - Strong-willed, S - Supportive

Yes, Dill is very respectful.  He also has a keen sense of what is right and what is wrong. He has been through adversity (no father, being passed off to his aunt by his mom) and doesn't feel sorry for himself.  Even though he creates stories about his fictional father, he is honest where it counts.

How well did the animals work together? Why is that so?

Animals continue to work together throughout the novel, at moments building up real solidarity, such as when Boxer dies and is sent off.  Cats and rats do not get along, however, and at one point Mollie leaves because the others resent her bourgeois vanity. Significantly, Snowball is forced to leave by Napoleon because he disagrees with him. Following this, Napoleon makes Snowball the scapegoat for all the bad things that transpire on the far. They get along because they have subscribed to the idelogogy of "animalism," because they know the consequences of questioning (the dogs will attack them), and because they become so tired they do not have the energy to protest, because they cannot read or write and are easily persuaded by Squealer, and because they remain hungry as the story progresses, losing any energy for struggle.