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To simplify the given complex fraction `(15-2/x)/(x/5+4)` , we may look for the LCD or least common denominator. The denominators are `x` and `5` . Both are distinct factors. Thus, we get the LCD by getting the product of the distinct factors from denominator side of each term. `LCD =5*x=5x` Multiply each term by the `LCD=5x` . `(15*5x-2/x*5x)/(x/5*5x+4*5x)` `(75x-10)/(x^2+20x)` Another method is to simplify top and bottom as single fraction. Let `15= (15x)/x` and `4 =20/5` . `(15-2/x)/(x/5+4)` `((15x)/x-2/x)/(x/5+20/5)` `((15x-2)/x)/((x+20)/5)` Flip the fraction at the bottom to proceed to multiplication. `((15x-2)/x)* (5/(x+20))` Multiply across fractions. `((15x-2)*5)/(x*(x+20x))` `(75x-10)/(x^2+20x)`  The complex fraction `(15-2/x)/(x/5+4)`  simplifies to `(75x-10)/(x^2+20x)` .

The Reverend Edwards hopes his fire-and-brimstone sermon will frighten and inspire his congregation to become more obedient to the teachings of their Christian faith. In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards, a Calvinist, strives to throw fear into the hearts of the Puritans in his congregation who have become wayward. Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all resolutions," and it is apparent that Edwards enthusiastically embraces this concept, too. His frightening metaphors and imagery cause members of the congregation to flee from the church because they are so terrified. Edwards's frightening sermon is composed around a passage in Deuteronomy, a book of the Old Testament in the King James Version of the Bible: "The foot shall slide in due time." Employing this metaphor of the slippery slide, Reverend Edwards cautions against spiritual sliding, telling his congregation that a yaw...

(A) Momentum is given by the equation `p = mv` , so the initial momentum is `(950 kg)(25 m/s) = 23,750 kg*m/s` . Since we are given two significant figures, we should round to two significant figures for our answers, so the final answer is 2.4 *10^4 kg*m/s. (B) The impulse is the change in momentum, so we need to find the final momentum, again by `p = mv` . The final momentum is `(950 kg)(17 m/s) = 16,150 kg*m/s` , which in two significant figures is 1.6 *10^4 kg*m/s. (C) The direction of the force (applied by the friction of the brakes) is backwards, resisting the motion of the car. Its magnitude is the impulse divided by the time, `F = {Delta p}/{Delta t} = (16,150 kg*m/s)/(3.2 s) = 5046.875 N` , which in two significant figures is 5.0*10^3 N.

One of the best ways you can tell that this is a story about growing up is by reading the first sentence, which I think is one of the best openings in all of literature. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.  Don’t we all want to be the heroes of our own lives?  That would be the idea, wouldn’t it?  This sentence really demonstrates Dickens’ idealism and mindset when he wrote this book.  Dickens was obsessed with childhood.  Many of his books have child protagonists, and he was one of the first novelists to focus on growing up.  In David Copperfield , we follow David from a miserable childhood to a fairly successful adulthood, but not without some bumps in the road. First of all, growing up in a Dickens book usually means you will lose one or both parents.  David lost both.  His father died, and then his mother remarried a horrible stepfather who sent him away to a horrible school, and then h...

In his novel  Things Fall Apart , author Chinua Achebe subtly reveals Igbo culture through three different methods. First, he illustrates the sociocultural, philosophical, and practical elements of Igbo culture through anecdote. The different stories and events that follow the life of Okonkwo, his protagonist, and his family members reveal different elements of Igbo culture through exposition.  However, Achebe contrasts this natural and familiar revelation of Igbo culture with a presentation of Igbo culture through a Western imperialistic lens. With the appearance of the white missionaries and later colonists, Igbo culture, along with its superstitions, religions, and social practices, is painted as foreign and "inherently inferior."  The most interesting portrayal of Igbo culture is in fact through the style of the novel itself. Achebe writes  Things Fall Apart in the manner of Igbo narrative, drawing many seemingly unrelated events and anecdotes together to paint an overar...

In the book, Fernea's distinction between women of the tribe (or harem) and women of the town highlights the multiple ways of being a Muslim woman. During her visit to the women's quarters, Fernea finds herself an object of curiosity among the sheikh's wives. The youngest, Selma, is the sheikh's favorite, and she wears no abayah. Although this is unusual for a traditional Muslim woman, Selma's dress and education demonstrates the sheikh's progressive attitude (and indulgence) toward female agency. Selma's sky-blue satin dress and largely uncovered hair is a manifestation of the similar independence women of the town enjoy. In the book, the women of the town who socialize with Fernea include several teachers (Aliyah, Hind, etc.), the mayor's wife (Um Saad), the engineer's sister (Khadija), and the doctor's wife (Nadia). While the sheikh's wives are only expected to cater to the sheikh's needs, to remain chaste, and to raise his children, m...

"Rip Van Winkle" is a myth within a myth. A myth can be loosely described as a story with an element of the supernatural. Diedrich Knickerbocker is a fictional man who gathers stories from the locals in the Catskill Mountains. According to the fictional story, Knickerbocker is the man who recorded the myth of Rip Van Winkle. In his history, the spirits that Rip meets are claimed to be real. The myth of Rip Van Winkle involves the title character coming across ghosts of ancient explorers in the mountains. According to the myth, Rip Van Winkle goes into the mountains on an autumn day.  He comes across a lone man and follows him. This man is carrying a heavy keg: His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion—a cloth jerkin strapped around the waist—several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his shoulders a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and as...

Holden is not very comfortable to be in the Spencer home. He's glad that he isn't out in the frozen world, but he feels depressed and anxious to be around sick and old people. Holden behaves properly, though. For being on edge and uncomfortable, he keeps his speech and behavior respectful. When Mr. Spencer reads his history report out loud, Holden feels embarrassed and ashamed because he didn't do a very good job with it. He also feels a little disrespected that Mr. Spencer would embarrass him like that. Holden says the following about how he is treated by Mr. Spencer: "He put my goddam paper down then and looked at me like he'd just beaten hell out of me in Ping-Pong or something. I don't think I'll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud" (12). Again, Holden keeps his thoughts to himself and doesn't disrespect the old and sickly Mr. Spencer after he feels disrespected. Holden understands that Mr. Spencer is doing his best to help him, ...

In Paul Zindel's  The Pigman , Lorraine makes a prank phone call to Mr. Pignati one night, which ends with John convincing the senior citizen to donate ten dollars to a fake cause. John promises Mr. Pignati that they will come over and collect the money soon. However, Lorraine has different feelings: "The next day Lorraine chickened out and said she wouldn't go with me to collect the money.  'Give me one good reason,' I demanded. 'Because it's wrong to take money from an old man, that's why'" (31-32). Lorraine clearly does not feel comfortable taking an old man's money, especially after hearing how sweet Mr. Pignati sounds over the phone. John is accustomed to taking advantage of other people because he is the puller of many different pranks over the phone and at school. Lorraine only makes the prank call to Mr. Pignati during a prank calling game with John's friends. Lorraine is nervous because she has a conscience and cares about othe...

Coming of age refers to the way the events of the novel affect the character and help her grow up. Scout grows up a lot over the course of the book.  In the beginning, like other young children, she is very self-centered.  She gets into arguments and fights constantly, and she is afraid of the neighborhood bogeyman Boo Radley.  She comes to understand people better over the course of the book.  When Scout tells her teacher at school about the ways of Maycomb, she is surprised that her teacher is not more grateful.  Instead, she gets into trouble for being annoying.  Her teacher also tells her not to read anymore, because she should not know how to read yet.  This really upsets Scout.  She takes it personally.  Atticus tells her that she needs to learn empathy.  “First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-” “Sir?” “-until you ...

Macbeth's hesitation about killing King Duncan allows us to infer that he begins the play as a relatively upright, loyal, and good man.  This inference is supported by the fact that he behaves so loyally and bravely in the battles that begin the play; the captain calls him "brave Macbeth" and graphically describes Macbeth's performance in the fight, and how he "carved out his passage" through the soldiers until he reached the traitorous Macdonwald who he then killed in a truly spectacular and gruesome manner consistent with the man's crimes against the crown (1.2.18, 1.2.21).  Macbeth is so loyal to his king and country that Duncan rewards him with a new title, on top of the old.  It is true that Duncan has been deceived by others in regards to their goodness, but there are other reasons to believe that Macbeth is a good and loyal man. Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, believes that her husband is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness...

The metric system, also known as the International System of Units, was invented in France during the French Revolution.  Although it was adopted in 1795, it was not required until 1837. The Convention of the Metre (also called the Treaty of the Meter), which a delegation from the United States attended, was held in 1875.  It was signed by 17 nations and was designed to provide a common measurement system to aid in science and trade.   Prior to the adoption of the Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), measuring systems varied not only from country to country, but also from one region to the next.  As the industrial revolution brought more international trade, it was clear that there needed to be a common measurement system.  There are now 48 member nations.  They meet every four years.

Diamond sums up the effects of the large-scale extinctions of Australian megafauna in this way: Those extinctions eliminated all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for domestication, and let native Australians and New Guineans with not a single native domestic animal (44).  Diamond assigns considerable importance to the presence of domesticable animals, which he sees as indispensable to the development of agriculture. Settled agriculture is the single factor that contributes to the ability to produce the "guns, germs, and steel" that gave some peoples the power to conquer, colonize, and even destroy other peoples. Because aboriginal Australians had no domesticable animals, they did not develop these things, and their surroundings were unable to sustain the kind of population growth that gives rise to civilization. Something similar happened in the Americas, which also lacked domesticable animals, a fact that placed native Americans at a disadvant...

Young Marguerite makes the choice to speak to Mrs. Flowers because she senses that the older woman is different from the other adults in her life. Mrs. Flowers never makes Marguerite feel like she's at fault for not wanting to talk. She accepts Marguerite for who she is and never belittles her for her fears. For her part, Marguerite is fascinated by Mrs. Flowers. The older woman reminds Marguerite of "women in English novels who walked with their dogs" and "who sat in front of fireplaces, drinking tea and eating cookies." In other words, Mrs. Flowers is refined and sophisticated. Marguerite thinks that Mrs. Flowers is as "well-mannered and civilized as white folks in the movies and books." Despite her obvious education, Mrs. Flowers remains friendly and modest. It is Mrs. Flowers who tells Marguerite that "language is man’s way of communication with other people and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals." Additionall...

`int-1/sqrt(1-(4t+1)^2)dt` Take the constant out, `=-1int1/sqrt(1-(4t+1)^2)dt` Now apply integral substitution: `u=(4t+1)` `=>du=4dt` `=>dt=(du)/4` `=-1int1/sqrt(1-u^2)(du)/4` `=-1/4int1/sqrt(1-u^2)du` Now use the common integral: `int1/sqrt(1-x^2)dx=arcsin(x)` `=-1/4arcsin(u)` Substitute back `u=(4t+1)` and add a constant C to the solution, `=-1/4arcsin(4t+1)+C`  

In Chapter 27, Maniac teaches his friend Grayson to read by acting as his own personal dedicated teacher, starting with the alphabet and moving Grayson slowly up until he can read words, then sentences, then entire books. They start by buying some cheap old picture books that were for sale at the library as well as some chalk and a small blackboard from Woolworth's. They start at the beginning, with Grayson first learning the names, shapes, and sounds of the letters, which takes three days. A few weeks later, Maniac has helped Grayson read short words (ones with just one syllable, like "cat" and "this" and "find") by blending the sounds together. Vowels were very hard for Grayson to learn--understandable, since they make different sounds according to complex rules, most of which have exceptions--but Maniac doesn't let Grayson give up. He just keeps coaching his old friend like a patient, knowledgeable baseball coach would do. By the end of the chap...

In Act I, Scene 2, Benvolio suggests that Romeo should go to Capulet's party to check out the girls of Verona. Romeo is very sad about his recent rejection by Rosaline. When he finds out Rosaline will be at the party, Benvolio urges Romeo to attend. Benvolio claims he will show Romeo girls who are much prettier than Rosaline: Go thither, and with unattainted eye Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. When Romeo gets to the party, in Act I, Scene 5, it is not long before he sees Juliet. For him, she lights up the room and instantly brings him out of the darkness and depression he was feeling over his unrequited love for Rosaline. It is truly love at first sight. He says, O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear— Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear. Romeo also reiterates Benvolio's earlier statement and makes his cousin a prophet by saying,...

Radiation is released from unstable atoms as the atom tries to make itself stable. An atom is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. Since like charges repel each other, protons repel each other. However, these are held together in the nucleus by the strong forces. The net force in the atom due to strong forces and the repulsive forces is known as the binding energy. If the binding energy is high enough to hold the nucleus, the atom is called a stable atom. If the binding energy is not strong enough, we end up with an unstable atom.  The unstable atom tries to stabilize itself by giving off energy or matter. This phenomenon is known as radioactivity. The unstable atom may give out alpha, beta or gamma particles and thus stabilize itself. Hope this helps. 

Hello! The specific heat is, by the definition, the quantity of heat that is required to raise the temperature of a mass unit of a substance by one degree. One may use any units of heat (energy), mass and temperature, but the numerical value of the specific heat will depend on this choice. The specific heat is a characteristics of a substance itself, it does not depend on the mass of a body and the change of the temperature. But it is important that the state of aggregation remains the same. In our case, the given temperatures are inside the interval where ice remains solid. Therefore the amount of heat is  `C*m*Delta t = 0.492*100*(-0.5-(-20)) approx 959.4` (calories). This is the answer. Note that the all data are given in the suitable units (degrees, grams, calories).

Microscopes allow humans to see cells that are too tiny to see with the naked eye. Therefore, once they were invented, a whole new microscopic world emerged for people to discover. On a microscopic level, new life forms were discovered and the germ theory of disease was born. The organization of an organism's body from cells, to tissues, to organs, to systems, to the complete individual could finally be studied and visualized. The Cell Theory emerged from early work with microscopes. The notion that all living things are composed of cells, that cells are the units of structure and function of living things and that cells arise from pre-existing cells were all powerful ideas. Microscopes allowed scientists to observe Prokaryotic cells which make up Bacteria and Archaea. These cells are small and contain no membrane- bound organelles. It allowed them to observe Eukaryotic cells with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles that perform different life functions. These are seen in Fung...

Ionic compounds are formed by ions: cations and anions. A cation is formed when an atom loses an electron/s and an anion is formed when an atom gains one or more electron/s. An example of an ionic compound is sodium chloride, which is formed between a sodium cation (Na+) and chloride anion (Cl-). Compounds formed through an exchange of electrons (between ions) have stronger bonds as compared to covalent compounds. The ionic compounds are held together by electrostatic forces which are very strong. In the case of covalent compounds, atoms are held together by weak intermolecular forces. The stronger the bond, the higher the energy needed to break them. Thus, the ionic compounds have higher melting and boiling points as compared to covalent compounds. The strong intermolecular attraction is also the reason ionic compounds are mostly solid at room temperature. This is directly correlated to their high melting points. Hope this helps.

Both Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Mariana in Dagoberto Gilb's short story "Love in L.A." are the powerless objects of seduction for ne'er-do-well men. In "Love in L.A.," Jake, who is without a job and is obsessed with living the good life in a way that resembles a "tequila ad," hits Mariana's car on the freeway. He proceeds to tell her a series of lies, which she reacts to with some suspicion. She also turns down his offer of breakfast, which would likely lead to more seduction from Jake. In the end, however, Mariana gives Jake her number and asks him to call her, showing that she has fallen for his deception. Jake is a superficial, self-centered guy who lies to get what he wants, but Mariana is still eager to have him call her. Like Mariana, Connie is unfortunately deceived by a man, but he is far worse than Jake. When she is out with a boy, she sees another man who she...

I can think of three ways that I believe Jing-mei's mother pressures her.   The first type of pressure is the parental pressure that children in families all around the world experience. Jing-mei's mother wants her to do something and do it well. Most kids love to make their parents happy, and Jing-mei feels pressure to try to do so. At first, Jing-mei is excited about it, too. The second type of pressure is a comparison pressure. Jing-mei's mother sees other child prodigies in the world, and she believes her daughter should be similar. Jing-mei feels this belief essentially says, "You're not good enough the way you are." Jing-mei feels like she needs to do something really well to earn her mother's approval. The third type of pressure applied by Jing-mei's mother is the pressure of audience and potential public humiliation. This occurs when Jing-mei's mother has several of her friends over to listen to Jing-mei play the piano. She does this with t...

The Catcher in the Rye seems — and is — episodic. Author J.D. Salinger seems to have been worried about that himself. The Catcher in the Rye does not seem to have a lot of unconnected or meaningless details, though. What holds the novel together is that Holden, the protagonist, is searching for something. He keeps going from place to place in Manhattan looking for whatever it is he is searching for. He appears to be very lonely, and he must be searching for something like companionship, friendship, love, or some other kind of relief from his loneliness. Countless young people love this novel because they feel the same way. For many, that feeling of existential angst is like a prelude to adulthood with marriage and family. A novel is a work of art. A work of art does not have to teach a lesson. It is intended to communicate a feeling, or feelings. The Catcher in the Rye does not seem to teach a lesson. I believe it is a mistake to look for "lessons" in short stories and nov...

An adult human has 206 named bones; as a normal human being ages, certain bones fuse together. As a result of the fusing, a baby who is born with 300 bones will have about 206 bones by adulthood. Bones largely protect our organs and form a supportive frame for our body. Our red and white blood cells are produced in our bones, and bones also store the important minerals and fats our bodies need. Bones are made up of three layers. The outer layer is the compact bone, the hardest type of bone in our bodies. It makes up about 80% of our bones and is instrumental in supporting our bodies when we walk or run. In the meantime, 20% of the bones in our body are made of spongy bone (which isn't actually spongy at all). Spongy bone contains marrow and the blood vessels that carry specific nutrients to different sections of our body. The innermost bone layer is the bone marrow, which consists of yellow and red marrow. Red marrow is found in the center of flat bones such as ribs. Red blood cell...

The story would have been very different if told from Fortunato’s perspective.  The main reason is that we have no idea what the motive for the murder is.  This is always one of the main things you want to know.  All we know is that there was some kind of vague and possibly imagined insult. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. From this line we know that Montresor never threatened Fortunato, but we also know from the story that Fortunato never suspected he had done anything wrong.  Why would he go into the catacombs with Montresor if he thought his friend was angry at him?  If the story was told from Fortunato’s perspective, we may know what the injury was, or at least get confirmation that there wasn’t one.  Also, if the story was told from Fortunato’s perspective we would know what he was thinking.  It re...

The last chapter of  The Wednesday Wars  is a good read.  A lot of different things happen, so it feels a bit disjointed at times, but that's to be expected at the end of a school year.   With a new month, comes a new play for Holling to read.  Mrs. Baker assigns  Much Ado About Nothing for Holling to read.  At first Holling does not like the play, because it is too happy too often.  Holling's negative reaction to the play comes from the fact that Robert Kennedy died on June 6.  Heather Hoodhood did not take the news well, and she locked herself in her room.  Holling was the only person that could convince her to come out, and the two of them went to St. Adelbert's to light a candle and to pray.  For the end of the year field trip, Holling's class goes camping in the mountains.  There are the problems associated with any camping trip.  Things like everything being dirty, or not having enough of certain things, and lots of bugs were all memorable events of the trip.   N...

I'm not sure I can agree with this claim. We may find that the real tragedy lies elsewhere. It is possible that we can identify the source of Gatsby's tragedy as his own greed, rather than his "choosing" of Daisy. Nick describes the way Gatsby felt when he was first courting Daisy, how he knew that it was a "colossal accident" that he was in her home, that he was "penniless" and had nothing like what she already had. However, "He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously -- eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand." Gatsby lied to Daisy, allowed her to believe that he came from a family like hers, that he could offer her a life like the one she knew, and "he had deliberately given [her] a sense of security."  It was only after he had already committed himself to her that he began to actually love her.   If Gatsby had not behaved in such an unscrupulous ...

This is one of the beauties of math and science.  In this case, essentially, you pick. In organic chemistry, Huckel's rule pertains to aromatic molecules, meaning: - it must be cyclic - it must be conjugated (all atoms much be able to have a pi-bond) - it must be flat Also, it must have a certain number of pi-electrons.  That what Huckel's Rule gives, those number of pi-electrons in aromatic molecules.  Given the structures of aromatic molecules, the number of pi-electrons has to be 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, etc.  That series of numbers pertains to a mathematical sequence 4n+2.  So, the "n" only pertains to whichever number of pi-electrons you are looking at. For instance, if n = 0, 4*0+2 = 2, so 2 pi-electrons If n = 1, 4*1+2 = 6 pi-electrons If n = 2, 4*2+2 = 10 pi-electrons And so on. So, n has essentially nothing to do with anything specific.  It is simply a whole number (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) So, a sample problem could be, "Can an aromatic molecule have 12 pi-ele...

Bias in this context refers to the absence of objectivity. In historical practice, bias exists on two levels. The first is our own bias as historians. Whenever we try to understand historical events, we bring our own assumptions and beliefs, and these are shaped by our own times. Sometimes called "presentism" by historians, it is not good history, because it can tend to hold historical actors accountable to the standards of our time, as opposed to their own. We can see another level of bias when we read primary sources, which are the lifeblood of history. On the one hand, we depend on first-hand accounts and sources to make sense of the past. On the other hand, we have to remember that these accounts were generated by human beings, and that these humans brought their own biases to bear on the subject. For example, if we want to learn more about Native Americans, the writings and first-hand accounts of Europeans who came in contact with them are essential. But they are very pr...

Junior uses many hyperboles to describe himself and his identity. He says that he was so skinny as a small child that "I'd turn sideways and disappear." He also describes his feet as so big that, given his big feet and skinny body, "I looked like a capital L walking down the road." He states that his head is so big that other kids' heads orbited around it, much as planets orbit around the sun. He describes himself as "the biggest retard in the world" because he has a stutter and a lisp at age 14. Though these descriptions may in part be based in reality, Junior describes himself in an exaggerated way, using hyperboles. The reader is supposed to understand that Junior's self-descriptions are exaggerations and are not strictly true. 

The groups being discussed as "ethnic Europeans" begins with the Irish, used as a base of comparison to evaluate ethnic Europeans who came to America later, in the 20th century. The Irish assimilated into American white culture, an assimilation that was boosted by developing a powerful East coast political machine. After the Irish, came the Italians, Greeks, Poles and Jews. Their skin and hair colors made them more distinguishable as "different" than the Irish hair and skin coloring, and their routes to assimilation into the culture of white English and Central European Protestants were made much harder by these distinguishing traits. These ethnic European groups are distinguished and set apart from "white" by dark, often curly, hair and "olive" skin.   Using the Greek experience as an illustration of the experiences these groups shared, The Color Initiative podcast describes the typical racially punitive white reaction to these groups. In Omaha...

A narcissist is defined as someone who has an inflated sense of self-importance. This may certainly seem the case because Holden generally criticizes everyone he meets. And destructive? Holden can and does tear down relationships, such as with Sally Hayes and his roommate Stradlater. But there are times when Holden shows character, kindness, and compassion at his own expense, too. For example, Holden never hurts an underdog; he's willing to share with those who have less; and he considers other people's feelings. First, Holden has compassion for those who have less than he does. In chapter 15, Holden discusses Dick Slagle. Dick Slagle didn't have as nice of suitcases as Holden did at Elton Hills. Holden figures that Dick was embarrassed by his suitcases because he hid them under his bed. Holden explains his feelings about the situation as follows: "It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him" (108). H...

Rikki-tikki killed Karait because Karait threatened to harm Teddy.   The fight between Karait and Rikki-tikki is very brief, and the build-up to it is even more brief. The text says Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted. Teddy is only too happy to oblige, and right when Teddy bends down, Karait announces his presence: "Be careful. I am Death!" Karait is a "brown snakeling," meaning he is a young brown snake. There are two main types of brown snakes. The North American brown snake is harmless. Karait is not this kind of snake, because the text says his bite is as deadly as a cobra's bite. That means Karait is likely an Eastern brown snake. According to various sources, the Eastern brown snake is the second most toxic land snake in the world. That ranking puts Karait's venom as more powerful than Nag and Nagaina's venom. Karait is dangerous and threatening to Teddy. Rikki-tikki is a mongoose, and killing snakes is what he does. Add to that the credible threat...

Henry VIII was one of the most significant monarchs of England. Most famous for having six wives during the course of his tumultuous reign, he also did much to build England as a powerful nation-state, and, perhaps most significantly, separated the kingdom from the Catholic Church. Unable to conceive a male heir, Henry petitioned the Pope to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. When the Pope denied the King's request, he took the revolutionary step of declaring himself head of the Church of England, separating the kingdom from the Catholic Church. This move ushered in a decades-long conflict between England and Spain, the dominant Catholic power on the continent. It also significantly strengthened the English monarchy, and Parliament, by stripping the Church of lands and authority in England. Henry would go on to marry five more times, executing his wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard for adultery, and divorcing Anne of Cleves. Jane Seymour died before Henr...

The poem and the novel are two entirely different literary forms. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a poem is defined as a  ...piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme. Some poems are essentially narratives, telling a story, while others address a single theme or topic. Poems are usually (but not always) shorter in length than novels, which are, in short, books. Aside from length, a novel always tells a story--it is fundamentally a work of fiction. A novel usually covers a certain timeframe, even if not in a linear way--it begins with an event and ends with an event. Perhaps most important, novels are written in prose form. They are not concerned with rhythm, rhyming schemes or many aspects of poetry. Many poems and novels address the same thematic issues--Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Wester...

There are three primary motivations for developing a business model that includes the delivery of high quality goods and services: market reputation , customer loyalty and retention , and customer satisfaction . These three benefits can contribute to a business model that is both sustainable and profitable. Customer Satisfaction A customer who is satisfied is beneficial in that the satisfied customer is unlikely to seek to return the product or receive a refund for unsatisfactory services. The customer then keeps the product and does not burden the company with customer service costs and in many cases inventory loss. Customer satisfaction is  the  starting point before the benefits of market reputation and customer loyalty/retention occur. If a customer is unsatisfied, the following two benefits will not occur. Customer Retention and Loyalty Customers who receive high quality products and services from a company are more likely to stay with or revisit that company. By providing excelle...

In Chapter 16, Attean's village is having a feast, and he invites Matt to attend. Pleased that he will have an opportunity to savor bear meat, Matt consents to accompany Attean back to his village. Both Matt and Attean have to take a canoe to the other side of the river. After they disembark, both boys walk through the woods until they come to a "solid wall of upright posts." They then enter the stockade through a gateway that opens up to a spacious area "filled with smoke and moving shadows and wavering patches of light cast by birchbark torches." In the open space, Matt sees "cabins and cone-shaped wigwams" in a circle. In the middle of the circle, a fire burns between "walls of logs." Suspended upon timbers over the fire are three iron pots. Although at this point Matt can't tell what the pots hold, he thinks that he can smell boiling meat and herbs. The delicious smells make him feel hungry. Then, he realizes that they are not alone. ...

The internal conflict in this text is Louise Mallard's.  She learns at the beginning of the story that her husband has been killed in a train accident, and immediately after hearing this, she retires, alone, to her room.  There, she begins to notice all the signs of "new spring life."  She hears the "countless sparrows twittering," smells the "delicious breath of rain," sees the "tops of trees [...] all aquiver."  It is unexpected that she would be so aware of signs of life when she has just learned of this important death.  However, Louise begins to reflect on her new freedom, and "She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her."  We would likely expect a woman who has just learned of her young husband's death to be quite sad, and, instead, she seems to be, well, happy.  However, She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked s...

Somatoform disorders are types of mental health problems in which patients exhibit physical symptoms that cannot fully be explained by medical conditions. Medical test results will be normal or otherwise fail to explain the symptoms. Patients with somatoform disorders will have "higher-than-average levels of anxiety and social dysfunction" (Bauer, M. et al., 2014, "Somatic Symptom Disorder," Consultant ). In contrast, dissociative identity disorder (DID) , which used to be called multiple personality disorder, is a type of mental health problem in which one person exhibits at least two different personalities. The different personalities will respond with different behaviors, emotions, and reactions. Patients with DID will often have memory lapses, experience losses of time, and be accused of lying. Those with DID often also have post-traumatic stress disorder. Though the two types of disorders are very different in terms of symptoms, one similarity in therapy is...

To solve, apply the Planck's equation. `E = hv` where  E is the energy  of photons in Joules h is the Planck's constant `6.63xx 10^(-34) J*s` , and `v` is the frequency in Hertz. Plugging in the known values, the formula becomes: `9.70MeV = (6.63xx10^(-34)J*s)v` `9.70xx10^6eV = (6.63xx10^(-34)J*s)v` In order for the unit to be consistent, convert the given energy to Joules. `9.7xx10^6 eV * (1.602xx10^(-19)J)/(1eV) = (6.63xx10^(-34) J*s)v` `1.55394 xx10^(-12)J = (6.63xx10^(-34)J*s)v` Then, isolate the `v` . `v = (1.55394xx10^(-12)J)/(6.63xx10^(-34)J*s)` `v=(2.34xx10^(21) )/s` `v=2.34xx10^(21) Hz` This is the frequency of the gamma ray. To determine its wavelength, apply the wave equation. `c= lambda v` where c is the speed of light, `3xx10^8 m//s` and` ` `lambda` is the wavelength in meters. Plugging in the value of c and v, the formula becomes: `3xx10^8 m//s = lambda( 2.34xx10^21Hz)` And, isolate the wavelength. `lambda = (3xx10^8 m//s)/(2.34xx10^21 Hz)` `lambda = 1.28 xx10^(-1...

Jack Finney creates intense suspense through descriptions of what it is like on the ledge of the eleventh floor and what lies below the ledge, the fear and terror in Tom, and the crisis of the apartment window closing. What it is like on the ledge and what lies below Once Tom Benecke makes up his mind to go after the yellow sheet containing weeks of gathered data, he climbs out of his apartment window onto the eleventh floor apartment. Inching along this ledge as he inserts his fingers between the bricks, Tom reaches the yellow sheet, which is at a corner of the building. First, he carefully places his feet on the ledges of each wall. Then, by bending his knees and sliding his body downward, Tom bumps his forehead along the "brick V" until he can retrieve the yellow paper. At the same instant he saw between his legs and far below, Lexington Avenue stretched out for miles ahead. He saw in that instant, the Loews theater blocks ahead past Fiftieth Street, the miles of traffic s...

"The Hitchhiking Game" explores the idea of personas in relationships through the perspectives of a young couple simply referred to as "the girl" and "the young man." While both characters begin the game amused and optimistic, they reach a limit for it at different points in the story. The Girl At the beginning of the story, the girl is self-conscious and represses the sexual aspect of her personality, both by society's expectations and her own. The hitchhiking game offers her the benefit of escaping and expressing the repressed aspects of her personality in a seemingly low-risk scenario. She is able to adopt the persona of the type of woman she believes the young man is attracted to and, in doing so, is given the benefit of working out many of her insecurities and overcoming her inhibitions. The game stops being fun for the girl towards the end of the story when the young man spontaneously takes her to a hotel. He begins treating her as a sexual objec...

Based on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, one argument one can make about an issue concerning justice is that, due to racial prejudices, justice doesn't truly equally exist for all mankind . The term justice has many meanings, including being able to act according to right conduct, being lawfully treated fairly, or being punished or rewarded fairly, and none of these things exist equally for all men. Atticus reveals his belief that justice doesn't truly exist for all mankind in his closing remarks to the jury during Tom Robinson's trial. One interesting statement he makes in his closing remarks is that not all men are "created equal in the sense some people would have us believe" (Ch. 20). People are not created equal for the following reasons: some are smarter; some are born with more opportunities; some are wealthier; some are more talented; and some are "born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men" (Ch. 20). Since not all men are crea...

Buddy and his friend must overcome numerous obstacles as they make the fruitcakes they give as gifts each year. In Truman Capote’s story “A Christmas Memory” the friends must devise ingenious ways to obtain or purchase the ingredients to make and deliver the gifts. Buddy and his friend live in poverty with little adult support or intervention, therefore they are basically penniless except for the small amounts they raise. Throughout the year, Buddy and his friend save small amounts of change given to them by relatives, raise money by doing odd jobs, and staging neighborhood activities to raise money for the fruitcake ingredients. But before these Purchases can be made, there is the question of money. Neither of us has any. Except for skin-flint sums persons in the house occasionally provide (a dime is considered very big money); or what we earn ourselves from various activities: holding rummage sales, selling buckets of hand-picked blackberries, jars of home-made jam and apple jelly an...

Romeo is banished in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet after killing Tybalt in a street duel. In spite of the fact that Tybalt started this duel and killed Mercutio, one of Romeo's dearest friends, in the process, Romeo is the "last man standing" and must bear the responsibility and consequences for the bloodshed.  At the beginning of the Play, Prince Escalus finds the Capulets and Montagues brawling in the streets and, thus, declares that there will be severe punishment if they are caught fighting again: By thee, old Capulet, and Montague. Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets, And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old, Canker'd with peace, to part you canker'd hate: If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. Thus, when the Prince discovers that violence has once again broken out between the Capulets and Montagues in Act Three, t...

In Martel's  Life of Pi , Pi discovers that he must keep himself busy each day in order to keep himself from going insane. A daily schedule of events allows him to find some sort of structure in his life at sea. His daily schedule is found in chapter 63 and contains everything from looking after the boat and Richard Parker to saying his prayers. He believes that this schedule helps him to survive as follows: "I kept myself busy. That was one key to my survival. On a lifeboat, even on a raft, there's always something that needs doing. An average day for me, if such a notion can be applied to a castaway, went like this:  wake up, prayers, breakfast for Richard Parker, general inspection of the raft and lifeboat . . ." (190). Pi catalogs the whole day from morning to night and breaks it down into five different sections. Within these five sectioned-off parts of his daily life, Pi not only checks the boat and the tiger, but he also prays just like a Muslim would. For five...

To evaluate the given equation `10^(3x-10)=(1/100)^(6x-1)` , we may apply `100=10^2` . The equation becomes: `10^(3x-10)=(1/10^2)^(6x-1)` Apply Law of Exponents: `1/x^n = x^(-n)` . `10^(3x-10)=(10^(-2))^(6x-1)` Note:` 1/100= 10^(-2)` Apply Law of Exponents: `(x^n)^m = x^(n*m)` . `10^(3x-10)=10^((-2)*(6x-1))` `10^(3x-10)=10^(-12x+2)` Apply the theorem: If `b^x=b^y` then `x=y` , we get: `3x-10=-12x+2` Add `12x` on both sides of the equation. `3x-10+12x=-12x+2+12x` `15x-10=2` Add `10` on both sides of the equation. `15x-10+10=2+10` `15x=12` Divide both sides by `15` . `(15x)/15=12/15` `x=12/15` Simplify. `x=4/5` Checking: Plug-in `x=4/5` on `10^(3x-10)=(1/100)^(6x-1)` . `10^(3*(4/5)-10)=?(1/100)^(6*(4/5)-1)` `10^(12/5-10)=?(1/100)^(24/5-1)` `10^(12/5-50/5)=?(1/100)^(24/5-5/5)` `10^((-38)/5)=?(1/100)^(19/5)` `10^((-38)/5)=?(10^(-2))^(19/5)` `10^((-38)/5)=?10^((-2)*19/5)` `10^((-38)/5)=10^((-38)/5) `   TRUE Thus, the `x=4/5`  is the real exact solution of the equation `10^(3x-10)=(1/100)^(...

Trading blocs respond to certain specific problems raised by globalization. The first problem they address is that globalization does not necessarily involve free markets or balanced trade. A global trade organization such as the WTO has limited ability to solve such problems, and its sheer size can limit its ability to achieve consensus. Trade blocs such as NAFTA can create limited trade agreements that facilitate limited trade in goods and services without requiring global agreement. They can also address the global imbalance of small, poor countries having less leverage in creating trade agreements than large, rich countries. For example, the EU can negotiate from a position of power as a large market in the way that Portugal or Estonia alone could not. A trade bloc can also create strategic alliances among countries with common diplomatic or military aims. For example, several countries are nervous about the increasing power and militarism of China, especially with respect to contr...

Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" was written as a satiric reply to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." This means that the two poems are by two different authors and although they address related themes, there is no central argument made by both poems. Marlowe's poem is a typical exemplar of the pastoral genre, in particular of the "carpe diem" amorous poem which argues that since life is short and beauty and pleasures fleeting, the female beloved should yield to the sexual advances of the male lover. Within the Christian community of early modern England, of course, engaging in premarital sexual activity would have been considered "fornication", a sin in the eyes of the church that would lead to social ostracism for the woman who yielded her virginity and perhaps became pregnant outside of marriage. Raleigh's nymph presents a counterargument to Marlowe's shepherd, arguing t...

It appears from the history of the attempts to introduce his birthday as a national holiday that it is extraordinary that we have any African-American at all honored this way.  The first attempts began shortly after King's assassination in 1968, but Congress did not pass a bill for this holiday until 1983, to be effective in 1986.  The argument stated was that the cost would be a burden to the taxpayers, since national holidays were paid days off for federal employees.  One has to wonder, though, whether this argument would have been made for someone who was not African-American.  There were no doubt many other important civil rights figures. Rosa Parks would have made a good pick, since we have no women honored this way.  But I do think the two factors that led to King as the choice were his outsize contributions to the movement and his martyrdom.  Most people, if asked to name leaders of the civil rights movement are likely to have a difficult time thinking beyond King.  And his ...

Of course, not everyone would agree that the US should act in an imperialistic manner today.  There are many people who would say that we should not.  If, however, we do need to give a reason why the US should be imperialistic, we can say that the US is the country that is most able and most likely to act in the best interests of the world.  Therefore, if we control more of the world things will be better. If the US were imperialistic, it would mean that we would control more of what happens in the world.  We would have much more influence over what various countries do and what happens in those countries.  If we had this, there would be fewer bad things happening in the world.  If we controlled Syria, ISIS would not be able to have a stronghold there and Bashar Al-Assad would not be able to commit atrocities against his people.  If we controlled Pakistan, it would stop committing terrorist attacks against India.  America has, you can argue, better values than most other countries in t...

Henry is actually using four rhetorical techniques at once when he asks his audience: ''Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?" Here is an analysis of the four techniques: 1.  Henry asks a rhetorical question to engage his listeners and make them think about his point. 2.  It is an allusion to The Bible , specifically Mark 8:18, in which Jesus is asking his disciples a series of questions, as Henry does in the speech. 3.  It is parallel structure, a rhythmic device well-suited for oratory. 4.  Henry makes an appeal to both logic and emotion when he asks his listeners if they want to be the kind of people who fail to read the signs of what is happening around them.  He is asking why people would chose to ignore their situation, which in his opinion, affects their "salvation" from the British in their "temporal" (Earthly) lives.

Although Langston Hughes does not explicitly tell us why Mrs. Jones makes Roger wash his face in “Thank you, Ma’m,” we can certainly infer the reason from the story.  We can infer that Mrs. Jones makes Roger wash his face in order to help instill in him a sense of pride and self-worth. In this story, Mrs. Jones is clearly trying to reform Roger by making him respect himself.  After she initially kicks and shakes him, she stops trying to punish him much and instead tries to rehabilitate him.  When she takes him home, she repeatedly leaves him alone in such a way that he could both take her money and escape.  She is clearly trying to make him feel better about himself so that he will stop trying to commit crimes. Once we understand this, we can see why Mrs. Jones has Roger wash his face.  His dirty face is a symbol of his life in general.  It shows that he does not respect himself enough to keep clean and it shows that his upbringing has been poor because he has no one at home to teach h...

Digory is bold, curious, stubborn, and rash.  He also has a healthy skepticism.  These are the traits that drive the story.  Digory also has some softer traits, such as love for his mother, sorrow that she is dying, and a sense of honor and respect for authority.   We see Digory's boldness and curiosity when he urges Polly to help him explore the attic and to use it to get down into the abandoned house.  These traits, plus his rashness, come up again when the children get into the Wood Between the Worlds.  Digory wants to explore the other worlds the pools lead to.  Polly, who is more cautious, has to be convinced to do this.  (Digory is stubborn during their many little fights.)  Then, when Polly finally does agree, Digory almost charges off to another pool without marking the one that they needed to go back by.  This would have left them lost in other worlds forever.   These same traits of Digory's come up again when the children discover the bell and hammer, with its warning...

William Shakespeare is famous for mainly four reasons.  First , he was a famous “entertainer” is his lifetime, providing dozens of dramatic productions, both financially rewarding and “popular” in the sense that the audiences of all social classes spread the word about his plays .  Second , he worked in the Elizabethan age, which was a time when the English language was growing quickly and spreading geographically.  Consequently, Shakespeare was able to add hundreds of words and phrases to the English language, additions that were repeated for centuries, even today.  Third, his plays enjoyed a long life throughout history, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. So his works were studied and enjoyed by many generations.  Finally, his works now act as a kind of historical picture book of Elizabethan times and social traditions (largely due to centuries of Shakespearean scholarship); every work of his contains character portraits of persons in that era – kings and queens,...

Here is a one-sentence description of the following characters from To Kill A Mockingbird: -Jem: Jem is Scout's older brother who helps Scout navigate her first year in school and understand what is going on in Tom Robinson's trial.  -Scout: The protagonist of the book, Scout is an honest, bright five-year-old at the start of the book who tries to understand racism and prejudice through Tom Robinson's trial and through her eventual friendship with Arthur "Boo" Radley.  -Atticus Finch: Scout and Jem's father, Atticus is a kind, rational lawyer (whose wife has died) who defends Tom Robinson, an African-American man, at a time when it was unpopular to do so. -Uncle Jack: Atticus's younger brother, Uncle Jack is a doctor and has a lively personality. -Miss Maudie: Maudie Atkinson is a neighbor who helps Jem and Scout understand what is going on in Maycomb and who treats them with kindness and respect. 

The repetition of the first and third lines of the poem impress the reader with the speaker's relative desperation that his father fight against death (we learn the narrator of the poem is speaking to his or her father in line 16). It sounds as though the speaker is trying to persuade his or her father that, although continuing to live might be painful or difficult, resisting death is the best thing, the right thing, to do. The speaker repeats these lines in the context of describing all different kinds of men—wise men, good men, wild men, and serious men (or men who are very near death, since "Grave" has two potential meanings here)—and all the different reasons that they choose to stay in "the light." This seems to be an attempt to convince the father that no one else goes "gentle into that good night," so neither should he.