Describe the speaker in the poem by Lucille Clifton called "Homage to My Hips." I think she is obese and talks about herself before someone else does.

To
understand the intention of the poem "Homage to My Hips" by , it is important to know
something about the author. Clifton was a celebrated poet, twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her
collection Two-Headed Woman, in which "Homage to My Hips"
appears, focuses positively on the experience of being an African American and a
woman.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, homage is "an
expression of high regard: respect." The word comes from a feudal ceremony in which a
vassal offers his allegiance to his lord. In other words, to offer homage to something means to
acknowledge that you greatly respect it.

We can see, then, that this poem is
not intended to offer readers the voice of a weak, overweight woman but rather a strong woman
who is celebrating her womanhood. The text of the poem acknowledges this.

At
the beginning of the poem, Clifton states that "these hips are big hips," but there is
no indication that they are not shapely and well-proportioned. Many models and...

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Solve for X. e^2x - 3e^x + 2=0

e^2x-3e^x +2
=0

Let us assume that e^x =y.

Now substitute:

==> y^2 -3y +2 =0

Factorize:\

(y-2)(y-1)=0

y1= 2==> y1=e^x1= 2 ==> x1=ln2

y2=1==> y2=e^x2= 1 ==> x2=0

The solution for the equation is
:

x= {0, ln2}

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What are some visions of the future portrayed in Orwell's '1984'?

The proposed
future thatoffers in  is one in which everything, from the atmospheric
backdrop, to the thought processes, language, and human relations of each individual are
manipulated and controlled by a ruling political party. 

shows a future,
dystopian society which is easily dominated, indoctrinated, and manipulated. The motivation
behind the social submission of each individual lies in the spread of a false sentiment of
patriotism from a party that promises to take care of its own. Most of the strength of the party
comes, ironically, from children. This is because children are indoctrinated from a very young
age to comply with the ethos of the Oceania party, which is: 

"WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

Hence, the way in which the government of Big Brother puts these
axioms into practice is through the control of the very basic actions that people conduct in
human life.

The party creates...

What is an example of mystery and suspense in chapter 5 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

One example
of mystery and suspense in chapter 5 concerns what has happened to the horrible creaturehas
created. The last we see of it after Victor has recoiled from it, repelled over how it looks
when alive, is this:

He [] held up the curtain of the bed;
and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered
some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not
hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed
downstairs.

After this encounter, Victor runs into his
friend Clerval. He then has a fit and nearly dies, kept alive only by Clerval's nursing. It is
spring by the time Victor returns to his senses and regains his health. The mystery is: where
has the creature been all these months between November and spring? What has he been doing? The
suspense comes from the reader wondering when he will be encountered again.

We are left with only...

What is Holden's educational background in Catcher in the Rye?

is
only sixteen years old. He has been to three prep schools and has been expelled from all three
of them. Therefore, his educational background is minimal. He must have had very little
high-school-type education, and he shows that he has no self-discipline. At age sixteen he
should have completed a couple of years of high school. But if he was expelled from Whooton
School and at Elkton Hills, and has just been expelled from Pencey as the novel opens, he cannot
have acquired much learning during his high-school-level career to date.

His
conversation with the old teacherin Chapter Two tells almost everything about Holden's
educational background. We realize that he got expelled, not for bad conduct, but for academic
indifference, for flunking out of everything but English classes. He is obviously on a slippery
slope academically speaking. Once a student starts flunking because of nonattendance and
noncompliance, it is nearly impossible for his teachers to turn him...

Who does Dr. King refer to by the epithet "Great American"?

In his I Have a
Dream speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. refers to Abraham Lincoln as the great
American.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Lincoln during
the Civil War in 1863 (100 years, or five score years, before Kings speech in 1963), freed the
slaves in the South. (It was not until the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery would formally be
abolished throughout all of the United States.) But King argues that Lincolns words have not
been fulfilled.

One hundred years later, the Negro still
is not free.

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial, in both the literal and symbolic shadow of Lincoln, King makes many allusions to
Lincolnnot only to the Emancipation Proclamation but also to the Gettysburg Address. Kings
phrase five score years ago recalls Lincolns phrase,

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.

Lincoln wanted to ground his words in history by
connecting his words and actions to the Founding Fathers, who established this nation with the
Declaration of Independence, which emphasizes that all men are created equal. King also makes a
similar connection to history, making a timeline that starts with the Declaration of
Independence in 1776 and continues to the great American, Abraham Lincoln, signing the
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. King then extends the timeline to his present moment, the
fierce urgency of now, August 28, 1963. On that day, King exhorted the crowd and all of his
fellow Americans to keep working toward the dream promised since the very beginning of the
country, a dream that Lincoln and all great Americans work toward, a dream in which every
person, no matter the color of his or her skin, will finally be free.

This will be the day when all of Gods children will be able to sing
with a new meaning, My country, €˜tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountainside, let freedom
ring.

How do Islamic perceptions of heaven and hell differ from those of Christianity?

This is a
difficult question to answer, because theologians are constantly arguing with each other about
views on heaven and hell. So, there is little consensus even among theologians of each religion.
In light of this, I will limit myself to general points.

From a traditional
point of view, both Christianity and Islam believe in heaven and hell. Christianity says that
heaven is a place where there is no sorrow, no pain and blessedness. There will be a new heaven
and a new earth and God will be there and this will...