April's
supposed to be babysitting Marshall while doing her homework. But before she can begin, she
realizes that she's forgotten her math book; she left it back in Egypt, so she has no choice but
to go get it. She wants to go by herself, but Marshall's having none of it: he wants to come
with...
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Why didnt Marshall yell?
Rationalists hold that the mind contains ideas innate (built-in) from birth. The Empiricists hold that the mind is a tabula rasa or blank slate...
The
competing ideas of inbred intelligence and "Tabula rasa" polarize the debate about
human intelligence and learning. If we are to believe the rationalist perspective, individuals
are born with some innate knowledge that manifests itself throughout the life cycle, essentially
saying that there is archaic human experience in our genetics that holds over knowledge from
previous generations. However, the empiricist perspective makes the argument that humanity is
born with nothing, a blank slate on which to make our memories and create knowledge.
While both of these concepts have their merits, there is some scientific evidence for
instinctual knowledgeessentially knowledge that, like the...
In As I Lay Dying why does Darl say Jewel's mother is a horse?
Impassioned and wild and
set apart from the family, Jewel has a special connection to a horse just as his mother has a
special connection to him.
"Jewel Bundren, Preacher
Whitfields illegitimate son. A violent young man, he loves only his horse, which costs him many
long hours of labor at night" .
While each
child in the family is different from the others, Darl understands that Jewel is the only one
with a different father. In a figurative way, this means that Jewel's mother was "another
Addie" when she conceived Jewel -- wild, willful and untamed. Conceiving Jewel in a
clandestine affair, Addie was not the same bitter and resistant mother that she was with the
others.
This difference is borne out in the way that Addie treats Jewel,
doting on him as she does not dote on the others, despite Jewel's hard-headed wildness. Jewel is
the one that Addie "labored so to bear and coddled and petted so and him flinging into
tantrums and sulking spells[...]."
Notably, Jewel treats his horse in
ways that directly parallel the treatment he received from his mother. He attends to the horse's
willfulness and skittishness with a passionate and whole-hearted concern, as when he sometimes
is shown "patting the horse's neck in short strokes myriad and caressing, cursing the horse
with obscene ferocity."
Furthermore, Jewel's larger relationship to his
horse has a strong resemblance to that of his mother's relationship to him. Jewel spends months
secretly working to clear a field at night, by the light of a lantern, in order to earn the
money to buy his horse. Then he spends countless hours trying to tame the animal. The horse will
acquiesce to its situation at times, but refuses ultimately to be tamed.
The
parallel between Jewel's pre-history and Addie's narrative continues with this detail as
Addie is never resigned to her place in the family, as we find out in the chapter she narrates.
Like Jewel's horse, Addie may occupy a formal place within the family's schema but her heart is
not in it. She holds herself apart.
"I gave Anse
Dewey Dell to negative Jewel. Then I gave him Vardaman to replace the child I had robbed him of.
And now he has three children that are his and not mine."
Jewel's connection to the semi-wild horse that he has acquired secretly is thus a
multi-leveled parallel to his relationship to Addie, his mother.
Finally,
Jewel is forced to give up his horse in order to complete the family's quest to bury Addie where
she wants to be buried. When he does so, Jewel's act symbolizes a recognition that his mother is
truly gone. It is a burial rite, of sorts, and one that expresses Jewel's devotion to his mother
and the degree to which he becomes forlorn at her loss.
The radius of a circle is 17 cm. A chord (XY) lies 9 cm from the center and divides the circle into two segments. Find the perimeter of the minor...
We are given
a circle with radius 17 cm. There is a chord 9 cm from the center. We are asked to find the
perimeter of the minor segment formed by the chord.
Let the center of the
circle be O, and the endpoints of the chord be A and B. We can draw a radius perpendicular to
the chord; label the intersection of this radius M.
The perimeter of the
minor segment is the length of minor arc AB plus the length of the chord AB.
First, find the length of the chord. Note that OB = 17 (it is a radius.) OM = 9 since
the definition of the distance of a chord from the center of the circle is the length of the
segment drawn from the center perpendicular to the chord.
Using the
Pythagorean theorem we find that
`MB = 4sqrt(13) => AB
= 8sqrt(13)`
If we measure the central angle `angle AOB`
in radians, the arc length s of the minor arc from A to B is given by `s = r theta` where r is
the radius (17) and `theta` is the measure of the central angle.
Using
right-triangle trigonometry, we find that `m angle BOM = cos^(-1)(9/17)`, so the measure of the
central angle is `m angle AOB = 2cos^(-1)(9/17)` .
Then `s =
17*[2cos^(-1)(9/17)]=34cos^(-1)(9/17)` .
If we measure in degrees, the length
of the arc is `s = (m angle AOB)/360*(2 pi r) = (2cos^(-1)(9/17))/360 * (2 pi 17)`
The perimeter of the minor segment is then:
`p = 8sqrt(13)+34cos^(-1)(9/17)` (where the arccos, or inverse
cosine, is measured in radians), which is approximately 63.28cm.
If we measure in degrees, it is:
`p =
8sqrt(13)+(17pi)/90 cos^(-1)(9/17)`
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Friday, 30 July 2010
In Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Chains, how does Curzon persuade Isabel to be a patriot spy?
In the
beginning of s novel , Isabel, the 13-year-old , and her mentally
disabled younger sister are slaves with the advantage of a relatively benign master. Miss Mary
Finch, their owner, has promised the girls their freedom when she dies. Unfortunately for
Isabel and Ruth, though, Miss Finchs nephew cares little for his now-deceased aunts gesture
towards these young girls and chooses instead to sell them into captivity. The couple that buys
the girls, the Locktons, are evil personified in their treatment of Isabel, and her and Ruths
lives are worse than ever. Isabels introduction to the Locktons, however, is accompanies by her
first encounter with a young, refined slave named Curzon. A slave to Mr. Bellingham, Curzon is
no fool; he knows how to ingratiate himself with the Locktons, and displays a mastery of
emotional manipulation in his attempts at meeting Isabel. Having offered to show Isabel how to
find the water pump and then escort her to the Locktons home, the young boy replies to Mr.
Lockton query as to whether Curzon knows the location of the formers estate: One of
the proudest in our city, sir, the boy answered as he put his hat back on his
head.
Curzons desire to escort Isabel represents an attempt at
furthering his agenda. If Mr. Lockton is evil, Curzon is a polite, resourceful gentleman who
immediately sees to Isabels needs, offering her food and a place to sit while she eats. When
Isabel has finished her food, Curzons true character is revealed. Inquiring as to how long she
has been the property of the Locktons, he informs her that Lockton is a dirty
Loyalist.
Curzon may be a slave, but he has decidedly chosen his
position in the revolutionary conflict that is brewing between the colonialists and the British
Crown. As their conversation proceeds, Curzon remains intent on figuring out as precisely as
possible the exact nature of Isabels relationship to the Locktons. In effect, he wants to know
if Isabel is loyal to the Locktons, thereby making her loyal to the Crown. Isabel answers
Curzons question about whether she feels loyal to the Locktons by noting that her and her
sisters welfare, at least for the time being, are tied to the girls new masters:
Someday Ill find that lawyer and Miss Marys will and
thatll free us. Until then, we need to eat, work and stay together. So, yes, I guess Im loyal
to Lockton.
It is at this stage in the
conversation that Curzon plants the seeds of deception in Isabels mind, albeit unsuccessfully at
first:
We paused at a corner while a soldier
drove a cart filled with barrels down the street. After we crossed, Curzon spoke so quiet I had
to lean in to catch his words. €˜You might be better served if you placed your loyalty with
us.
Explaining that us refers to his
master, and those he serves, the rebels, the Congress, Curzon explains to
Isabel that her freedom can be better assured by supporting the rebel cause
The conversation continues, with Curzon explaining in great detail the threat Mr.
Lockton poses to the revolutionaries and how information regarding Isabels new master could
benefit the cause. You just have to listen and alert me if you hear anything
important, he tells the reluctant Isabel.
This is the manner in
which Curzon tries to recruit Isabel to the side of the rebels. Spying on Lockton could provide
important information on what the Loyalists are thinking and provide advance notice of actions
the Loyalists and the British soldiers are contemplating.
In 1984, why does Winston Smith hesitate to write in his diary?
In
totalitarian states like Oceania, privacy is virtually nonexistent. The government seeks to
control not just how people behave, but also their thoughts. The totalitarian state will not
allow any spheres of privacy for the individual. This makes it easier for the state to subject
all citizens to constant surveillance. Given the purported omniscience of the state, starting a
journal is a very risky thing forto do. If caught, he runs the serious risk of being
vaporized.It is not in the least bit surprising that he hesitates before writing in his
diary.
In Winston's world, setting down one's thoughts in written form is not
a simple case of putting pen to paper; it is an act of subversion, an act of liberation, and an
act of defiance against a state which will never truly be able to plumb the innermost depths of
the human soul. In Oceania, harboring independent thoughts is cause for suspicion. Committing
those thoughts to paper is tantamount to treason. Winston knows he is about to cross a very
dangerous line. This is why he hesitates.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
What does the coral paperweight symbolize in 1984?
The coral
paperweight symbolizes 's desire to escape into the time before the Party took over. He longs,
in an idealized way, to recapture some of what normal life was like in those former days. As
Winston thinks when he buys the artifact:
What appealed to
him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age
quite different from the present one. The soft, rainwatery glass was not like any glass that he
had ever seen.
The coral paperweight also symbolizes the
special world that Winston attempts to create withseparate from the everyday world
of...
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