Is there a summary of Romeo and Juliet available?

and friends
crash a party at 's house--their families are arch enemies. It's a masquerade ball and everyone
is wearing a mask. fall in love at the party.  Juliet swears her love on her balcony later that
night, and she doesn't know it, but Romeo is in the bushes below listening.  They swear their
love, and plan to marry.  However, , Juliet's cousin kills, Romeo's friend.  Romeo, in a rage,
kills Tybalt.  Romeo is banished from Verona, but he doesn't leave until he meets Juliet at the
Friar's place and marries her. They meet later that night at...

What's the poem's tone up until the last line? "Richard Cory" by Edward Arlington Robinson

In echoing
the previous thoughts, there is a tone that praises and attaches an almost reverential tone to
the description of .  The language employed demonstrates this.  Notice the "crown" in
line 3 and in lines 4 the description of him being "clean favored, and imperially
slim."  This tone through language continues throughout the poem.  The fact that Cory is
wealthy creates the perception that he, in a way, is better than everyone else.  In this tone,
rich or wealthy translates to superior, not merely different.  The poem's tone creates this
aura, especially in the last stanza where the speaker indicates the struggle in daily existence
for those who are not wealthy.  Of course, the last line changes all of this and helps to
undermine the tone.  While the perception of Richard Cory might have been rooted in a belief of
superiority, this is not necessarily the case as the last line raises issue that the perception
of individuals could be vastly different than their reality.

According to Lady Capulet, why is Juliet being asked to marry now?

In
,discusses marriage with . Juliet is thirteen and will be fourteen in two weeks, so Lady Capulet
thinks it is high time for her to marry. Lady Capulet says many girls in Verona are married and
mothers at Juliet's age, and she also notes that she herself was married and probably had had a
child by the time she turned fourteen. Lady Capulet states:

Younger than you

Here in Verona, ladies of
esteem

Are made already mothers. By my count,

I
was your mother much upon these years

That you are now a
maid.

Lady Capulet goes on
to tell Juliet thatis interested in marrying her. He will be at the Capulet's masquerade ball
that night, and Lady Capulet says he would make fine husband. She states that he is handsome and
single, and she implies that he is well-to-doand for all these reasons, a good match for her
daughter. Lady Capulet believes that since her daughter is old enough to marry and has a
suitable suitor, now is the time to move ahead.

Look closely at the passages involving the narrator's original household, the fire, and the impoverished dwelling/damp cellar at the end of the tale...

Early in the narrator's
life, he was known for his "docility" and "humanity" as well as his
"tenderness," especially toward animals. These traits followed him into adulthood, and
he found a wife who shared his love of animals and pets; they adopted a number of animals into
their home, including a large and intelligent black cat named Pluto. Pluto was a personal
favorite and would follow the narrator all over the house. They all share a lovely home
surrounded by trees and green life.

However, the narrator admits that his
character "experienced a radical alteration for the worse" as he grew moody and
irritable and selfish: the result of apparent alcoholism. He became violent, even cutting out
one of Pluto's eyes one night. Finally, the narrator says that he descended into the worst kind
of spiritual "perverseness" and hanged the cat by the neck from a tree. He knew that
he wanted only to "do wrong for the wrong's sake only" and that the cat had never done
anything but to love him.

It is this very night that a fire burns down the
narrator's whole house, and his "entire worldly wealth was swallowed up" just hours
after he did a thing that he believed would "jeopardize [his] immortal soul" and
"place it...even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy" of God. The fact that his
entire estate is consumed by flames after he essentially commits his own soul to Hell seems as
though it cannot be coincidence.

The narrator has long been abusive to his
wife and his pets, and he purposely destroyed himself spiritually; as if to suggest that he can
sink no lower in terms of his character, and his position in life declines as well. They are
"compelled" to move into an "old building" as a result of their poverty, the
result of the fire, and the narrator's next act of terror actually occurs in the basementbeneath
the earth as Hell is thought, by some people, to be. It is as though he is symbolically moving
closer to Hell with each despicable act he commits, and he knows it!

In this
way, then, the movement in the story can certainly be symbolic of his mental and spiritual
state.

What are the advantages and limitations of using graphs and charts in business?

Graphs and
charts provide major benefits. First, they can quickly provide information related to trends and
comparisons by allowing for a global view of the data. It also allows members of the audience
who may be less versed in numerical analysis to follow the information and understand the
presentation more fully.

Secondly, graphs and charts provide a visual version
of data, which can be helpful for visual learners.

However, these benefits
are balanced by disadvantages. The major disadvantage of using charts and graphs is that these
aids may oversimplify data, which can provide a misleading view of the data. Attempting to
correct this can make charts overly complex, which can make their value in aiding a presentation
less useful. Finally, it is important to use the correct chart and/or graph when presenting
information, though this can be difficult to identify for ambiguous data.

How did Persian kings maintain control and organize such a vast empire?

The
Persian empire was able to control such a vast and expansive area mainly due to their combined
system of centralized and decentralized hierarchical control. The Persian empire held
centralized power through the king who ruled over the entire empire backed by the military
strength of the enormous Persian military. The empire was sectioned off into regions known as
"satrapies". The satrapies were ruled by local rulers (sometimes native to the
conquered land) called "satraps". These satraps were under direct control of the king
but were able to focus specifically on ruling their designated regions. While the Persian empire
allowed for some religious and other freedoms, the empire still maintained its absolute control
through the fierceness and size of its army.

Do you think the poem "Our Casuarina Tree" has autobiographical overtones?

Yes, the
poem definitely has autobiographical overtones. Dutt uses the first two stanzas to describe the
casuarina tree, then spends the rest of the poem discussing how the tree evokes or brings back
memories of her youth.

In the third stanza, she describes how looking at the
tree returns her to the childhood companions of her youth, who are "loved with love
intense." As she watches...