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In Chapter Four of "The Jesuit Relations," Allan Greer speaks of both sides of the war. He discusses their methods of communicating when they wanted to create a truce, as well as their plans of attack, which often hinged on the element of surprise. Greer describes the treaty formed at Three Rivers, the resulting peace of which encouraged negotiation for returning prisoners of war who had been captive. One particular man named Kiotseaeton from the Iroquois tribe is credited with bringing about this peace treaty. He was brave and courageous; he brought gifts to his enemies and danced for them. The folk tale that has grown out of his contribution to ending the war outlines seventeen specific presents that he brought, and gives him nearly all of the credit for ending the war. Greer details the true facts of, as well as speculation on, this story in this chapter.

Actually, yes, this was one reason--many Americans felt as though the victorious Allies of WWI were only squabbling over territorial rights at the Versailles treaty table--the main question was not 'how to promote peace,' but rather, 'which nation was getting which piece of territory."  This war was sold to the American people as a war to end all wars and a war to ensure democracy.  The Allied powers, especially the French, British, and Italians, seemed petty in their search for land.  While America would never be truly isolationist, given the peace conferences that happened during the interwar years such as the Washington Naval Conference which limited the size of the world's navies and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty which denounced war as a way of solving the world's problems, America turned away from European problems and mainly focused on events in Central America and the Caribbean during the interwar period.  Another reason that probably had more to do with the...

When Chiron gives Percy the gift from his father, Poseidon, a magical sword named Riptide, Percy worries that mortals will see him wielding a giant sword and freak out.  However, Chiron assures him that Mist is very powerful, and this Mist will generally prevent mortals from seeing the truth about things and events having to do with gods or divine objects.  Chiron says that it is "'Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.'"  What he seems to mean by this is that human beings need the world to work the way we already conceive it to, and since we don't believe that someone can uncap a pen and suddenly be holding a huge sword, we simply won't be able to see that this is the reality.  Therefore, our minds simply replace things that we don't think could be real with things that we believe can be; for example, instead of seeing Percy holding Riptide, we might see him holding a baseball bat because this ...

The answer to your question can be found in chapter one.  The girl, known as Brat at this point in the book, is alone and homeless.  She is hungry, and she is cold.  Her clothes offer her little to no protection against the night's frost.  Brat needs to find some warmth in order to survive the night, so she burrows herself into a big pile of dung (poop).   Tonight she settled for the warm rotting of a dung heap, where she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. The following morning the midwife was walking past the pile of dung, and she saw Brat huddled there.  The midwife did not take pity on Brat.  Instead, the midwife tried to shoo Brat away, but Brat begged for some food.  The midwife responded by telling Brat that if she wanted food, then Brat would have to work.  Brat agreed to work, and the midwife began calling her Beetle.  The midwife told Brat that her dung burrowing reminded her of...

There are three general reasons why the Burmese might not have weapons, reasons that each might apply but that are very different from one another. The first reason is there is a history of nonviolence in Burma. The Burmese might not have weapons due to their philosophical orientation. The second reason is the Burmese might well have had weapons, but no guns (and Orwell is simply generalizing too broadly). You could have a staff or knife and not be able to stop an elephant. The third reason is political. Decades earlier, the British had passed laws limiting gun ownership among their colonies. For example, in 1878 the British passed a law allowing Europeans to carry guns freely, but markedly limiting Indian access to guns. It was hard for colonial subjects to get the licenses required to own guns.

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There are marked differences between the two testimonies and I will list them, showing the specific contrasts. 1.  Mayella testified that Tom Robinson only once came to their house. That was when she asked him to chop up the chiffarobe for firewood. Tom testified that she had asked him to do tasks for her on numerous occasions, so that had not been his only visit.  2.  Mayella said that the day Tom supposedly assaulted her was the same day on which she had asked him to chop up the chifforobe, whilst Tom stated that she had asked him to do that the previous spring, long before the incident for which he was on trial. 3.  Mayella stated that she had promised Tom a nickel for doing the task whilst Tom mentioned that Mayella had only said that she might give him half a nickel, which he refused.  4.  Mayella refused to testify about her siblings' whereabouts when asked why they did not respond to her cries. Tom said that she had told him that she had saved up seven nickels to send the ch...

The graph is described by the parametric equations in x, y and t: `x(t) = t^2 + t, quad y(t) = t^2 - t ` A sketch of the graph is as pictured, with (as standard) the horizontal axis being the x-axis and the vertical axis being the y-axis. To express the function in rectangular form, we eliminate the parameter `t ` . Firstly, note that `x + y = 2t^2 `   and `(x-y ) = 2t ` ` `` ` so that `2(x+y) = (x-y)^2 ` We can then write the function in rectangular form, in terms of `x ` and `y ` only as `(x-y)^2 - 2(x+y) = 0 ` Since `x ` and `y ` are interchangeable in this function, the graph is symmetric about the line `y = x `

The informal economy is economic activity that is not taxed or monitored by the government. Students in a university or college setting often establish networks related to the informal economy with other students or sometimes with faculty and staff at the college. They don't often extend this network beyond the confines of the university. Students are often expected to contribute to the shared costs of something, such as a ride. For example, Boston University's RideShare program (see the link below) is an electronic database that connects people who are going to the same place. They can share the cost of gas and tolls (and, if traveling in a rented car, the cost of the rental). This database is only open to people in the Boston University community--not to people beyond the community. Boston University students can also use the website called ULoop (see the link below) to find used furniture or other items such as equipment and clothes, and they can also find notices posted in ...

The gift of the piano is a complex one.  Although Jing-mei was never able to become proficient at the piano, she does have a sentimental attachment to it.   Her mother wanted her to have it because it was hers.  It was a vestige of her childhood.  Jing-mei’s relationship with her mother was never easy.  Her mother just wanted her to be successful.  The piano was a failure because Jing-mei was unable to communicate with her mother.  She wanted to be a prodigy at first, but became disenchanted with the process because she felt that her mother wanted her to be something she was not.  In fact, her mother just wanted her to learn the value of hard work. So she surprised me. A few years ago she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those years. I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous burden removed. The song that Jing-mei plays demonstrates the complexity of the mother-child relationship. As a child, she did not realize that what she ...

The only simile in Act II, Scene 1 is found when Macbeth describes his thoughts as he is about to murder Duncan. He says that during the night, and especially that night, witches celebrate, "nature seems dead," and murder "moves like a ghost" toward its target. This qualifies as a simile because Shakespeare uses the word "like," and a simile makes use of the words "like" or "as." Shakespeare uses this simile, and the soliloquy in general, to paint a sinister portrait of Macbeth's state of mind. Having vacillated about the murder for some time, he is now committed to the act. He has just seen a vision of the dagger before him, and he interprets it as an omen that "marshals't" him the way he was already going. But by describing himself as "murder," he depersonalizes the act of killing the king, acting as if he is simply another malevolent force, not a human being who is making a conscious decision to kill anoth...

When the circus tent pole is struck by lightning, Anna does a number of important things. First of all, when Harry does not catch her, she realises that something is wrong and she removes her blindfold. Secondly, she watches as Harry moves past her, on the wrong side, and suddenly realises that she must choose between saving her husband and saving her unborn child. (Remember that Anna is seven months pregnant.) In that moment, Anna chooses to save her child: she changes the position of her body, twisting forward towards a heavy wire which she grabs hold of. The wire is extremely hot because of the lightning but Anna is able to safely descend to the ground. She does, however, suffer burns to her hands from the wire and a broken arm as a result of an "overeager rescuer" but is otherwise unharmed.

Boo Radley mended Jem’s pants.  There are several reasons we know this.  First, we know that Boo Radley was aware of the children’s presence. As Boo was always peeking through the window at the children, we can assume he watched them run away.  As they run away, Jem loses his pants “Dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the schoolyard’s solitary oak when we sensed that Jem was not with us. We ran back and found him struggling in the fence, kicking his pants off to get loose. He ran to the oak tree in his shorts” (Chapter 6).  Jem later returns for his pants, and he later tells Scout, ““When I went back for my breeches—they were all in a tangle when I was gettin‘ out of ’em, I couldn’t get ‘em loose. When I went back—” Jem took a deep breath. “When I went back, they were folded across the fence… like they were expectin’ me” (Chapter 7).  Jem’s pants were torn and tangled, but when he returns for them, they are folded neatly over the fence, and they are mended.  Th...

In Act Two, John Proctor seems to most want his wife to trust him.  He had an affair with Abigail Williams that ended some seven months ago when Elizabeth suspected it, confronted John, and dismissed her from their employ.  Now, John says that he had been alone with Abigail "For a moment" in town, when he'd earlier told Elizabeth that he'd only seen her in the company of others.  She calls him out for the discrepancy, and he angers and tells her, "I'll not have your suspicion any more."  She replies that if he does not want her to be suspicious, then he should not do anything to earn it.  Further, she claims that John would have no problem sharing the information Abigail told him were it not Abigail who would be hurt by its being made public.  He angers further and insists, "You will not judge me more [...].  Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more."  Therefore, what John most wants from his wife is her...

As with most questions, this one can be answered in many ways.  Let us look at arguments for and against the idea that a multi-party system is a mockery of democracy. The most logical argument for this idea is that multi-party systems give too much power to small minorities of the populace. In a system that has many parties, is relatively easy to have a situation in which no major party wins a majority of the seats in the legislature.  At that point, the larger parties have to start building coalitions to attract the support of the smaller parties.  Often, the larger parties have to give up significant concessions in order to get support from the smaller parties.  The smaller parties, with very little support in the populace, can hold up the agendas of the larger parties that have much more support.  As the links below show us, some in Australia feel that this is a problem with their system.  We can argue that it is a mockery of democracy when a small percentage of the people can (thro...

If a director were to make a film of exactly the text of "There Will Come Soft Rains," I do not believe that it would make a good film adaptation. It has actually been done before; in 1984, it was made into a short film. Making it longer would be difficult because there are no living people in the story. I think it would be a tough film to make, but if the film were able to do flashbacks in order to establish some characters and backstory, then I think it could be an enjoyable film. As you stated in your question, its message in today's world is relevant. More and more countries are becoming nuclear-enabled, so that threat is still present today.   Additionally, as modern technology becomes better and better, it is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. The home Bradbury writes about in the story is equivalent to a modern day "smart home." Everything is automated: the music choices are programmed in and the lights take care of themselves. There...

In  The Pearl , the protagonist, Kino, and his wife, Juana, find a huge pearl that they believe could make their family rich. The pearl potentially offers their family many things that Juana wants: they could afford to take their sick son to the doctor, for example, or they could afford the cost of school fees and a uniform to send their son to school. However, it is also immediately evident that keeping the pearl will place their family in danger. The first night after they find the pearl, Kino buries it in a corner of his house. He wakes up during the night when he hears an intruder attempting to dig his way into their home. Kino chases the intruder away, but his wife feels unsafe and begs him to get rid of the pearl. As their family's misfortunes grow and ultimately culminate in the death of their son, Juana's internal conflict remains her hope for what the pearl could provide their family, and the danger she believes it places them in.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 could be interpreted as insincere and sentimental, but it was more likely intended to be a spontaneous creation to amuse and flatter the person to whom it was addressed. Shakespeare is showing he has the talent to create a flattering tribute based on any subject. The poet and person the poem is about might be enjoying an outing on a summer's day and talking about poetry. Shakespeare might have been challenged to compose a sonnet about his companion. This is something the metaphysical poets were fond of doing. The personification of death as a being who is proud of his accomplishment is strongly reminiscent of a famous sonnet by John Donne (1572-1631): Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. It isn't much different from asking riddles. How is your loved one like a summer's day? The poet wishes to impress his loved one with his versatility, something it could be argued he might be attempting in ma...

The given two points of the exponential function are (3,27) and (5,243). To determine the exponential function `y=ab^x` plug-in the given x and y values. For the first point (3,27), the values of x and y are x=3 and y=27. Plugging them, the exponential function becomes: `27=ab^3`     (Let this be EQ1.) For the second point (5,243), the values of x and y are x=5 and y=243. Plugging them, the function becomes: `243=ab^5`     (Let this be EQ2.) To solve for the values of a and b, apply substitution method of system of equations. To do so, isolate the a in EQ1. `27=ab^3` `27/b^3=a` Plug-in this to EQ2. `243=ab^5` `243=27/b^3*b^5` And, solve for b. `243= 27b^2` `243/27=b^2` `9=b^2` `+-sqrt9=b` `+-3=b` Take note that in the exponential function `y=ab^x` , the b should be greater than zero `(bgt0)` . When` b lt=0` ,  it is no longer an exponential function. So, consider only the positive value of b which is 3. Now that the value of b is known, plug-in it to EQ1. `27=ab^3` `27=a(3)^3` And, sol...

Tituba seems motivated by fear. Before Tituba's "confession" that she worked with the Devil, Putnam demands Tituba be hanged, and Parris threatens to "whip [her] to [her] death." Tituba tells Putnam and Parris what they want to hear to escape these fates.  Mrs. Putnam, on the other hand, seems motivated by pain.  Seven of her eight children have died while they were very young, and Mrs. Putnam is desperate to find a reason for why this has happened. She sends her living daughter, Ruth, to conjure the spirits of the dead children in order to find out what happened to them. Abigail seems motivated by greed and revenge. Her uncle confronts her with the rumors about her reputation in the village, and Abigail seems anxious to reestablish her well-regarded character and make the village pay. Abigail also wants John Proctor, her former lover, all to herself. She also wants to exact revenge on John's wife Elizabeth Proctor, who kicked Abigail out of the Proctors...

O'Connor's no-holds-barred story inspires us to question how good and evil are defined. Perhaps, in that sense, how we relate good versus evil in the story will depend on how we judge or interpret the characters' actions. In the story, the grandmother sets herself up in her family's eyes (and ours) as a paragon of virtue. So, we must decide whether we will accept this exemplary image she flaunts before us or whether we will reject it. We are told that she refuses to go to Florida because the Misfit (a criminal) happens to be heading that way; she thinks that going to Florida will potentially expose her family to the machinations of a felon. Interestingly however, she has no qualms about deceiving her son, Bailey. In the story, we are told that Bailey doesn't like the idea of traveling with pets; the grandmother manages to bring Pitty Sing along anyway. She hides the feline in a basket and places it under her enormous, black valise. Interestingly, she rationalizes he...

Throughout recent history, Latin America has had a significant impact on the United States due to its proximity and close trade relations. There are many economic and political ties between the two regions. Cuban instability has perhaps had the greatest impact on the United States in comparison to instability in other Latin American countries. Economic Issues Related to Instability Latin America is the single largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States of America. Any instability in the Latin American supply chain has a corresponding impact on oil prices and availability in the United States. Any instability in regions that supply oil leads to a spike in prices on the American market, which in turn raises the cost of food and other goods that require transportation. Political Instability President Kennedy cited Latin America as being "the most critical area in the world." While the United States takes an active role in the development of many different countries arou...

The Constitution is still workable in that it continues to adapt.  Since the founding of this country, we have given eighteen-year olds the right to vote, abolished slavery, given women the right to vote, and allowed for the direct election of senators.  America has also had some bad ideas, such as prohibiting the consumption and sale of alcohol, but it repealed this with another amendment.  The Constitution is a living document.  The checks and balances system has served America for over two hundred years by maintaining a balance between the executive and legislative branches of government.  An impartial judiciary is supposed to safeguard the people's rights according to the Constitution.  The Founders did not provide for every situation explicitly in the Constitution; this allowed future generations of Americans to use the document as they saw fit.  While nothing last forever and the republics of Rome and Athens fell eventually, the U.S. Constitution provides enough safeguards in...

Stanley first starts to express suspicion over Blanche's character when he learns that Belle Rive has been "sold" but that Blanche has not shown Stella any papers to prove this--not even the deed of sale. Stanley believes that Blanche is swindling them, and he tears through the apartment, ripping open Blanche's trunks and pulling out her personal belongings, stating: And what have we here? The treasure chest of a pirate... Pearls! Ropes of them! What is this sister of yours, a deep-sea diver who brings up sunken treasure? Or is she the champion safe-cracker of all time! Bracelets of solid gold, too! Where are your pearls and gold bracelets! ...And diamonds! A crown for an empress!  Despite having spent very little time with her, Stanley believes Blanche to be a fraud and makes it clear with his condescending, sarcastic language and intrusive actions. The tension between the two only increases as the night wears on; Blanche seems to try to bait Stanley by insulting his...

The primary message that author Arthur Miller was trying to convey in The Crucible is that hysteria and fear come at a high cost. This story draws a parallel between the witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts and the communist witch hunts of the Red Scare in the author's time. The hysteria featured in The Crucible begins with a series of accusations by the local minister's young niece, Abigail. The town becomes paranoid of spectral threats to their homes and livelihoods, resulting in real violence towards innocent people. In this sense, Miller is trying to convey the importance of making decisions based on evidence rather than superstition and hearsay. What begins as a seemingly innocuous rumor can turn into a flame that engulfs an entire community. Social pressure is another major theme as many of those who accused the "witches" in the story were just going along with what others told them. Others were afraid that if they did not jump on the bandwagon o...

In "The Canterville Ghost," Mr Otis is eager to buy the house because he does not believe in the existence of ghosts, despite the warnings he receives at the time of purchase. He makes this belief clear to Lord Canterville in Chapter One when the latter warns him of the ghost's presence. Mr Otis's response demonstrates his supernatural scepticism: I will take the furniture and the ghost at a valuation. For Mr Otis, ghosts do not exist because it goes against the "laws of Nature." Moreover, Mr Otis believes that if ghosts existed, his country would surely have some of its own: I reckon that if there were such a thing as a ghost in Europe, we'd have it at home in a very short time in one of our public museums, or on the road as a show. This view is symbolic of Mr Otis's American roots: he is a sceptic because he associates the supernatural with the Old World of the "British aristocracy." In contrast, he represents the rational modernity of Am...

The Beatles song "Blackbird" might be a good choice for this. Paul McCartney apparently wrote this song during the height of the civil rights movement and the desegregation of public schools in Arkansas. It's easy to imagine Crooks as a bird with "broken wings" (Crooks was also literally and figuratively crippled) who just wants to "learn to fly." The blackbird in McCartney's song also has "sunken eyes" and Crooks is described as having eyes which "lay deep in his head."  In the song, the flying of the bird is likened to the new freedom of blacks in America during the 1960's after several laws signed during the Johnson administration attempted to give blacks more equality. In Steinbeck's novella, Crooks too is looking to "fly" away from the ranch and the prejudice he faces as the only black worker on the place. He is, for a time, eager and willing to go along with George, Lennie and Candy to the dream farm whic...

We are asked to graph the function ` y=(x^2-9)/(2x^2+1) ` : Note that the denominator is always positive so there are no vertical asymptotes. (The domain is all real numbers.) The numerator factors as (x+3)(x-3), so the x-intercepts are at -3 and 3. For x<-3 the numerator is positive so the function is positive; for -3<x<3 the numerator is negative, and for x>3 the numerator is positive. Since the degree of the numerator is the same as the degree of the denominator, there is a horizontal asymptote at y=1/2. If you have calculus, the first derivative is `(38x)/((2x^2+1)^2) ` . The function is decreasing on x<0 and increasing on x>0 and has a global minimum at (0,-9). The graph:

Helen Keller had a strong desire to learn how to speak.  This would be difficult for her, because she could not hear her own voice and she could not see her moving lips.  Helen had heard of a deaf and blind girl from Norway who had learned how to speak, and she became determined to do the same. Miss Sullivan sought out Miss Sarah Fuller, who was the principal at the Horace Mann School.  Rather than refer Helen to another teacher, Miss Fuller took on the task of teaching the girl herself.  In her autobiography, Helen described Miss Fuller as a "lovely, sweet-natured lady."   Helen felt Miss Fuller's tongue and lips as the woman spoke.  By doing this, Helen was able to feel the position of her lips and tongue and mimic those movements.  Even though her speech was still lacking, Helen described this as follows: My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith. Delighted to learn th...

The history of science studies not only developments in science over time, but also the changes in thinking behind those developments. Consider the example of the discovery that the world is  round  rather than flat; historians of science study the historic event of that discovery, as well underlying changes in scientific thought that came afterward. An understanding of how science has been studied and practiced in the past lets us do two things. First, it better allows us to examine our current scientific practices. Second, it allows us to understand how scientific values have shifted over time. The history of science reveals large changes in thought as new understandings of the natural world developed. For example, after Einstein released his theory of relativity, the scientific community rapidly shifted several paradigms about the natural world. These change moments are central to the study of the history of science. It is difficult to consider the history of science without also en...

This is, of course, a matter of opinion and conjecture as nothing like this has happened in any culture in a very long time and nothing even remotely like this has ever happened to the United States.  My own view is that the answers to these two questions depend very much upon the exact circumstances in which we found ourselves. In general, I believe that we would have a better chance at mounting a defense and at holding our society together than the Aztecs or the Inca did.  This is because elites do not dominate our society in the same way that they dominated those societies.  For example, imagine that the president and half of Congress died.  This would disrupt things of course, but we would have many other leaders who would be ready to step in.  We would not descend into Civil War over who the next president would be because we have laws that govern these sorts of things.  We would not be lost because there are any number of our citizens who could step into government positions and ...

The most profound case of the colonies being involved in England's ongoing feud with France would be the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe). The Thirteen colonies played a very substantial role in the fighting of this conflict which began in 1761. After an initial defeat in the earliest of battles, George Washington played an important role as a leader in the fight against France and her Native American allies. Colonial militia and soldiers were active in all of the important battles of this war. The English, especially William Pitt, worked to make the British and colonial effort seamless and treated the American leadership as equals. Despite their cooperation in this conflict, the War would also expose deep-seeded differences in how the English and colonists defined their relationship.

This quotation occurs at the end of the first paragraph of the story, and it is a simile comparing that which the author is going through to death. In mythology, Hades is the realm of the dead in the afterlife and does not necessarily have any concept of torment or punishment associated with it. However, in Christian tradition, the term "Hades" is the equivalent of hell, a place of eternal suffering where unbelievers go when they die. When the narrator speaks of Hades, he says this: "all sensation appeared swallowed up in that mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades." The word "as" indicates that the expression is a simile. The narrator faints, as the following line makes clear, "I had swooned." Thus the narrator means that the act of losing consciousness felt to him like he imagined it must feel like for the soul of a person to leave this life and descend into Hades or hell. This figurative language is consistent with the descriptions tha...

McGerr's A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920  is a study of the Progressive Era. The author tries to make sense of the many impulses and agendas that defined the Progressive Era. He locates the source of the movement in the impulses and anxieties of the middle class at the time and states that: Progressivism was the way in which these Victorian men and women came to answer the basic questions of life . . . What is the individual? What is the relationship between the individual and society? (xiv). In other words, Progressivism was led by middle-class people reacting to the excesses of the Gilded Age and trying to determine the extent to the which the individual bore responsibility for his or her society and was connected to the larger society. He traces the ways in which the Victorian middle class took on four specific battles: to change big business, change people, put an end to class conflict, and deal with segregation. The auth...

Choice C is the right answer. Let us look at each of the choices in detail. A. When neutral atoms (hydrogen or any other) lose an electron, the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus still stays the same. This is the reason the ions have the same atomic mass as the neutral atom. In other words, H+ or Cl- will have the same number of protons as H and Cl, respectively. Thus, this is not the right choice. B. The mass of a proton is 1.7 x 10^-27 kg, while that of an electron is about 9.1 x 10^-31 kg. The ratio of masses of proton and electron is about 1836. Sometimes, for simplicity, we take this ratio to be about 2000 times. Thus, this is not the right answer. C. If the electrons were to be pulled into the nucleus of an atom by the protons, we will not see any electron at all and there would be no possibility of forming any cations or anions. This is not true (as we have cations and anions) and electrons move around the nucleus and are not pulled into it. Thus, this is the right c...

I would argue that the police officer acted illegally when he placed the GPS unit on the suspect’s car.  Therefore, any evidence collected by the GPS, or through investigations that were launched because of information from the GPS, should be excluded from evidence in a trial. To prove this, we need to look first at United States v. Jones , which was a case that the Supreme Court decided in 2012.  In that case, law enforcement officers placed a GPS on a suspect’s car without a warrant.  The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that this was a violation of the 4th Amendment.  Clearly, then, warrantless GPS surveillance is generally illegal. However, we know that courts do sometimes allow warrantless searches of people, cars, or even homes.  Most commonly, courts allow such searches when they are necessary to prevent the destruction of evidence.  In other words, imagine that a police officer has probable cause to believe that there are drugs in the back of a car.  If the officer does not sear...

In Chapter 23, Atticus is discussing aspects of the trial and justice system with his children. After Atticus tells Jem that serving on a jury forces a man to make a declaration about something, Jem says, "Tom's jury sho' made up its mind in a hurry" (Lee 136). Atticus immediately corrects Jem by commenting that Tom's jury took a few hours. Atticus felt that Tom had a slight chance of winning simply because the jury was deliberating for such a long time. Atticus tells his son that in an inevitable verdict, it usually takes the jury several minutes to deliberate. Atticus then explains to Jem that one of the Cunninghams was actually arguing for an outright acquittal. Jem is both shocked and perplexed to learn that one of the Cunninghams argued for Tom's innocence.  During the trial, Jem did not understand that the jury was inevitably going to convict Tom Robinson because he was black. Jem naively believed that Tom would be given a fair trial. However, Atticus un...

As she converses with the EDS pilot, Marilyn learns that there are few colonies and exploration parties on the space frontier. Additionally, these are scattered in remote locations across the wide expanse. In Woden itself, there are only sixteen men living there. Everyone living on colonies has to acclimate to strange environments and to work against all odds to prepare the way for newcomers.The unpredictable weather also makes life harsh on the space frontier. For example, a tornado materialized seemingly overnight out of the Western Sea; it wrecked extensive damage at Camp One on Woden. Half of the prefabricated buildings were destroyed, including the one that housed all the medical supplies, and six men were killed. The inhabitants of Camp One found themselves powerless against the "blind and mindless force" of nature. Since most of the space frontier represents uncharted territory, there is very little margin for error. Because the medical supplies were destroyed, the rem...

I'm going to break this down by process. First, I'll discuss photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, pigments in the chloroplasts (often times in the leaves) absorb specific wavelengths of light to begin the light-dependent reactions. The light-dependent reactions use the energy from light to perform photophosphorylation (similar to oxidative phosphorylation except it is powered by photons of light instead of electron-carrying molecules) which produces ATP and NADPH. There is an electron transport chain that occurs during photophosphorylation, and it has a similar purpose to the electron transport chain in oxidative phosphorylation because it works to set up an electrochemical gradient. The ATP and NADPH produced during the light dependent reactions power the reactions of the Calvin cycle, which produces food for the plant in the form of glucose. In cellular respiration, glucose is broken down and the energy is converted into ATP. The process begins with glycolysis which breaks gluc...

For most of the beginning of Lowry's  The Giver,  there is an absence of war, hatred, and rudeness because the reader learns about the rules of Jonas's community. The rules demand strict adherence to being polite and respecting oneself as well as others. For example, when Asher is late to school in chapter one, he is expected to apologize to his class. The class then tells him that they accept his apology in unison. This shows that community members are held to a high standard of politeness at all times. The times when everyone seems to be happy and united are when the community holds unscheduled holidays and during the annual two-day ceremonies held each December. The two-day ceremonies held each December are the community's celebrations for the children as they grow, progress, and accept more responsibilities in their lives. This is an exciting time because each group of children receives a new responsibility as well as a certain type of personal freedom. For example, chi...

The narrator clearly states at the beginning of the story that Mrs. Sommers "did not wish to act hastily, to do anything she might afterward regret." She takes a few days to consider where best to spend the $15 she possesses, with no mention of where that money comes from. In the middle of the night, she decides: A dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janie’s shoes. . . She would buy so and so many yards of percale for new shirt waists for the boys and Janie and Mag. . . Mag should have another gown. . . And still there would be left enough for new stockings. . . She would get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls. One notices from the beginning that this woman initially spends most of the money on her children, mostly to outfit them so they will look quite respectable about town. The silk stockings, a reference to the title of the story, seem to be an after-thought, something she will only purchase if there is money left. Even then, she later...

Populist parties seem an inevitable part of democracy. The existence of demagogues who pander to the fear, anger, and resentment of those who feel marginalized by their societies is attested in ancient Greece; Cleon's rhetoric was in many ways similar to that of many contemporary populists. In recent memory, Ross Perot was an example of a wealthy businessman who campaigned as an independent on a populist platform. Like Donald Trump, he stirred up nativist sentiment of the sort that is closely allied with racism, particularly directed against Mexicans.  George Wallace was a Governor of Alabama who was strongly in favor of racial segregation. He ran unsuccessfully for President several times, on a populist platform with a strongly racist bias. Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan also was a populist to the far right, who ran in the Presidential primaries on a platform that was strongly anti-immigration, anti-Semitic, isolationist, and anti-gay, also preying on people's fears o...

In her story "Two Kinds," Amy Tan shows that the journey from childhood to adulthood moves from compliance to passive-aggressive defiance to rebellion to confident independence. When Jing-mei is young and her mother decides to make her into a prodigy, Jing-mei at first buys into the effort. She herself dreams of becoming "a dainty ballerina girl" or a Cinderella, believing she will "soon become perfect ." However, as she continually fails to measure up to her mother's expectations, she has a moment where she cries and scratches at her reflection in the mirror, and something in her dies. She digs in her heels, mentally, and determines she won't let her mother change her into something she is not. After that, she "performed listlessly" when her mother drilled her. In her piano lessons with her hearing-impaired instructor, she fakes her way along until her defiance is revealed at the recital. After that, Jing-mei becomes openly rebellious. S...

Oxalic acid is a reducing agent and hence, reduces a solution of potassium permanganate causing discoloration of the solution. The relevant chemical equation can be written as: `2MnO_4^(-) + 5C_2H_2O_4 + 6H_3O^+ -> 2Mn^(2+) + 10CO_2 + 14H_2O` Here, manganese reduces from +7 state to +2 oxidation state. The potassium permanganate solution is purple in color and when a sufficient quantity of oxalic acid is added, the solution loses the color and gets decolorized. One easy way to observe it at home or in school is to use a rhubarb plant. Rhubarb sticks contain oxalic acid and can be used to demonstrate this chemical reaction. Simply add small pieces of rhubarb sticks to potassium permanganate solution and you will see it getting decolorized. This simple experiment can also be used to demonstrate how the surface area of rhubarb sticks affects the rate of reaction. The higher the surface area, the faster the discoloration of the potassium permanganate solution. Hope this helps.  

The original concept of ICESCR itself may not necessarily have been a byproduct of the Cold War, but its subsequent drafting and ratification definitely were. ICESCR has its origins in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN in 1948 as a reaction to the atrocities of World War II. After adoption of the UDHR, work began on drafting formal covenants to enforce its underlying principles and the overall framework became known as the International Bill of Human Rights). The drafting, adoption and ratification took decades, during which the Cold War became the overwhelmingly dominant force in geopolitics. In that atmosphere, the ICESCR could not help but become a sort of Cold War political football in nature, with arguments over its provisions stemming from various nations’ competing and sometimes contradictory perspectives. Nations signed on with a variety of motivations. Some were sincere, while others ratified it as a sort of moral cover, not having any intention of a...

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Evaluate `int 1/(x^3-1)dx` : `int 1/(x^3-1)dx=int (dx)/((x-1)(x^2+x+1)) ` Use partial fraction decomposition to get: `=1/3 int (1/(x-1)-(x+2)/(x^2+x+1))dx ` ` `` (x+2)/(x^2+x+1)=(1/2)(2x+1+3)/(x^2+x+1) ` ` =(1/2)( (2x+1)/(x^2+x+1)+3/((x+1)^2+3/4))` ` "So"` ` =1/3int(dx)/(x-1)-1/6int(x+2)/(x^2+x+1)dx-1/6int3/((x+1)^2+3/4)dx` `=1/3ln(x-1)-1/6ln(x^2+x+1)-sqrt(3)/3 tan^(-1)(2x+1)/sqrt(3)+C` `=1/6(2ln(x-1)-ln(x^2+x+1)-2sqrt(3) tan^(-1)((2x+1)/sqrt(3)))+C` ``

Spencer's theory of "survival of the fittest" is a kind of evolutionary theory. After reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species , Spencer applied some of the ideas of natural selection to the realm of sociology. He believed that groups, which he called "favored races," that possessed advantages would be most likely to survive. Though he applied aspects of natural selection to his ideas, his theory also has elements of Lamarckism, the (erroneous) concept that people can pass traits that they acquire after birth to their offspring. Spencer's theories were applied to sociology and became known as "Social Darwinism," a school of thought that inspired industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie.  Spencer was a philosopher, not a social reformer. His theories justified the kind of laissez-faire capitalism that developed during the Industrial Revolution, and his theories explained that industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie should be at the top of the econ...

“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.” The statement by King Edward VI summarized his experience as a pauper, and how the incident influenced him. After he was thrown out of the royal court, Edward ended up mingling with some local boys. The boys made fun of him, and he was determined to improve their lives by getting them an education when he ascended the throne. Edward also met with other individuals who had suffered great ills at the hands of their tormentors, and he planned to make things right. Edward got an opportunity to live among his people and understand their challenges and suffering. He was made aware of issues and circumstances that would otherwise be hidden from him given his status and the protection of the royal court. His exposure to the reality of the lives of his people helped him develop care and compassion towards his subjects, which made him an agreeable king.

Cross-multiplication is applicable when have two fractions or rational expressions equated to each other.  It is method wherein we multiply the denominator towards the numerator on the other side. This will helps to simplifying the equation by getting rid of the fraction form on each side. For a given equation:  `a/b=c/d` where b and are nonzero, we may cross-multiply to simplify it as:  `a*d = c*b` . Applying cross-multiplication on the given equation `9/(x^2-6x+9)=(3x)/(x^2-3x)` , we get: `9*(x^2-3x)=(3x)*(x^2-6x+9)` Apply distribution property. `9x^2-27x=3x^3-18x^2+27x` Subtract `9x^2` from both sides of the equation. `9x^2-27x-9x^2=3x^3-18x^2+27x-9x^2` `-27x=3x^3-27x^2+27x` Add `27x`  on both sides of the equation. `-27x+27x=3x^3-27x^2+27x+27x` `0=3x^3-27x^2+54x` or `3x^3-27x^2+54x=0` Factor out the greatest common factor (GCF) `3x` . `(3x)(x^2-9x+18)=0` Apply `x^2-9x+18= (x-3)(x-6)` , we get: `3x(x-3)(x-6)=0` Apply zero-factor property to solve for x by equating each factor to `0...

Ethos involves convincing the audience of the authority or credibility of the person making an argument. Gladwell uses a great number of authorities to buttress his arguments. For example, in the "Introduction," he writes about the psychologist Timothy D. Wilson, author of the book Strangers to Ourselves . Gladwell uses Wilson as an authority about how much information the mind collects in the unconscious, which is one of the premises of Gladwell's book. Gladwell cites Wilson's training as a psychologist and the title of Wilson's book to make Wilson more credible and to appeal to the reader's sense of ethos. In Chapter One, Gladwell cites the research of John Gottman, a psychologist at the University of Washington, to again build a sense of credibility--in this case, about the ability of researchers to understand a marriage by looking at a short videotape of the married couple interacting. Throughout his book, Gladwell cites authorities in different fields to ...

There were a number of factors that allowed the American colonists to prevail in the Revolutionary War.  Let us examine the two most important of these factors. First, the Americans were able to win because they were more motivated than the British.  The British Empire did not have nearly as much at stake as the Americans did.  This is similar to what happened with the US in Vietnam almost two centuries later.  The US gave up and stopped fighting in Vietnam because the result simply did not matter as much to the Americans as it did to the Vietnamese.  The same is true of the Revolutionary War.  The British government was willing to, at some point, cut its losses and leave.  The colonists were more dedicated and more willing to pay the price needed to win the conflict. Second, the Americans got help from the outside.  Again, this is similar to what happened in Vietnam.  In Vietnam, the US had geopolitical rivals who wanted to hurt the US.  This led them to help the North Vietnamese.  In...

Anne Frank lived undetected in hiding with her family for two years.  As Jews, the Frank family chose to hide with several others in a secret annex to avoid deportation by the Nazis.  They lived in the hidden annex at the top of a large building in Amsterdam.  Someone tipped off the Nazis about their presence, and their annex was raided in 1944.  Anne and her family were arrested, and then sent to a transit camp.  From the transit camp, the Frank family was sent by train to Auschwitz.  Anne and her sister, Margot, were later sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank became sickly.  She developed scabies and she became thin and frail.  A lack of recorded documents means that no definite cause of death can be identified for Anne Frank.  It is generally assumed that she died from typhus, or typhoid fever, in the winter or spring of 1945.