In "Frankenstein," in what ways are Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates different in their life experiences?

Victor and the monster have very different life experiences. Victor grew up in a loving home with people who adored him and with a true friend in Henry Clerval. He was accepted for who he was and at at early age probably knew who he would marry. His family was well of and allowed him to study what he wanted and even to go to the university. The monster,on the other hand, was rejected from the moment he was created. He must teach himself everything, including how to read and survive in a hostile environment. He is rejected because of his appearance everywhere he goes and even though he is kind to people, they assume he is evil. He has no friends, no family and no social support system.

What is the central theme of "The Death of the Hired Man"?

The central theme of the poem is really a question. Which is more important, justice or mercy? The poem is a dialogue between a couple who own a farm and have periodically hired an undependable farmhand named Silas. Silas returns to their farm after begin gone for some time, and tells them that he wants to work for them again. Mary, who has talked to Silas thinks he has really come back order to have a place to die. Warren, on the other hand, believes that Silas has shown himself to be so undependable that they really own him nothing. Mary is seen as representing mercy and Warren represents Justice. In a long conversation, both Warren and Mary argue about what they should do about Silas. Warren believes that he owes Silas nothing because he has done nothing to deserve it. Mary believes that it doesn't matter what Silas has done in the past, he at least deserves to be taken care of because he cannot take care of himself. She tells her husband, "Be kind." Warren argues that he has been kind but " off he goes always when I need him the most." The discussion continues until Warren finally gives in a little. Ironically, just as Warren has accepted caring for Silas, he discovers the man has already died.

List the three types of environments that can be found outside of cells. Include a brief description of each environment. Biology 12

I think you might be asking about the 3 different osmotic conditions a cell might find itself in.  Isotonic is the normal cell environment where water moves in and out of the cell freely and equally in both directions.  It is in osmotic equilibrium so to speak.  The concentration of water and solutes is equal on both sides of the cello membrane.  In a hypotonic solution the cell will gain water and swell up - just like the letter O.  This means that the water concentration outside the cell is higher than inside the cell and the water moves into the cell.  It also means that the solute concentration is higher inside the cell than outside which causes the water to enter to try to dilute the solutes.  I'll bet you can guess what happens in the hypertonic solution.  The water exits the cell, the cell shrivels up.  This is due to the concentration of water inside the cell being higher than outside the cell and the concentration of solutes outside the cell being higher than inside the cell.  The definitions textbooks provide actually just refer to the solutes, but I like to relate it to water because it makes more sense to me.  You might go to youtube and search for osmosis - I believe there are movies there to watch the process.  I attached a couple of youtube sites to watch.

Should George and Ann be justified or condemned for having cut off all relations with their father for so long because they believed he was guilty?

It is more complicated than Ann and George just believing that their father was guilty of the crime. Ann and George turn from their father out of a sense of shame.  Their family was destroyed by the scandal, their parents separated, they had to move out of the neighborhood they loved.  They were very angry at their father for ruining their lives.  So I understand why they turned away from him. 

In view of the fact that before the faulty airplane parts scandal which led to the jailing of both Joe and Steve, all these people were very close.  They lived near each other, spent their lives growing up side by side and shared a similar understanding of morality.  When Joe Keller turns and blames Steve Deever, exclusively, for the faulty airplane parts, Ann and George are shocked that their father would behave in such an unethical, criminal way.

Joe Keller is a strong personality, he is very convincing as the unknowing victim in the situation.  He is released from prison, and once he is free, he makes sure that everyone, all the neighbors, his family,  know that he feels pity for Steve, after all, he wasn't in the factory the day that Steve made the decision.

 However, it is shortsighted of them to think that their father was capable of making such an important decision.  The factory belonged to Joe Keller, he was the boss.  When George finally goes to talk to his father, he learns the truth.      

What does the Salinas River symbolize in "Of Mice and Men"?

The Salinas river is a safe haven for Lennie to shelter. It is a calm santucary and acts as a contrast to the rest of the novella.

On the second description there are clues that Lennies life is ending:

- Sun going down --> reflecting on Lennies life

- The watersnake doesn't die so something will i.e. Lennie

- A second watersnake emerges --> cycle

- The cycle idea is also backed up by the fact the novella starts and finishes at the river

- The description seems forced and not so fluid --> theres a problem

The river starts and finishes the novella. It is like a link running through the whole poem. Water is usually means new life however this is a contradiction. When the river theme emerges again we know that the book is closing to an end as a complete cycle has commenced.

I want some information on the literature figures of speech.with their relative examples

There are many, many literary terms, here are the most commonly used figures of speech.   

Literary Terms, also called figures of speech include:

Simile - a comparison of two different things using the works like or as. ex. My love is like a red red rose (Robert Burns)

Metaphor - a comparison of two unlike things which does not include the worlds like or as. ex. And take my tears, which are love’s wine.(John Donne)

"Personification - a figure of speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities. An entirely imaginary creature or person also may be conceived of as representing an idea or object. Like a metaphor, personification is a frequent resource in poetry."

ex. the clouds wept, giving a human trait to nature.

"Hyperbole - obvious and deliberate exaggeration or an extravagant statement. It is a figure of speech not intended to be taken literally since it is exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbole is a common poetic and dramatic device."

Comparing the women in "Miss Brill," "A Rose for Emily," and "The Storm," do they appear as real people or are they symbolic to the story?"Miss...

This is an interesting but in some ways difficult question. Miss Brill dominates Mansfield's story "Miss Brill" but Emily, it might be argued, is only a background figure in Fauklner's "A Rose for Emily," while the appearance of Calixta in Chopin's "The Storm" may be said to be dominated at one point by Alcée's point of view. It is also difficult because limits of the writer's skill may confuse the issue making a poorly drawn character seem symbolic instead of realistic. It is further made difficult because even realistic characters like Dickens' David Copperfield can have symbolic importance, i.e., a symbolic copper field. So the task at hand may be said to be one of sorting out the dominant role of realistic representation versus symbolic presence.

I'd say that Miss Brill is a realistic character. Though we aren't told much about her, we are told enough to infer her background and her personality and character traits. We become involved in her life in even the short span of the story. We care about her when she is heartlessly disparaged by the "hero and heroine" in the story and feel a pang of sorrow with her when she hears a faint weeping:

She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.

On the other hand, Emily is always described as though from a distance, as when she and her father are described as standing on the front porch, with Emily behind and overshadowed by him.

We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, ... the two of them framed by the back-flung front door.

I'd say that Faulkner's Emily is never more than a symbolic representation of the decay and corruption of society in the South; a representation of an impotent and fading way of life. The corruption of this way of life is symbolically dramatized by what the towns people find in the chilling bedchamber.

Calixta is a little harder to sort out. She is introduced later in the story, though the delay has good effect. She has very little dialogue interaction with any other character. A good deal of her involvement in the story is reaction: her reaction to Alcée; her reaction to her Bobinôt and Bibi; one might even include her reaction to the storm:

She unfastened her white sacque at the throat. It began to grow dark, and suddenly realizing the situation she got up hurriedly and went about closing windows and doors.

She doesn't appear to have as much of a symbolic purpose as Emily. I'd say she is not meant to be a symbolic character. In addition, though we care about her and have interest in how her story ends and though it appears she is meant to be predominantly a realistic character, I'd say she is not well enough drawn by Chopin to make a clear distinction. Part of the reason she is not well drawn as a character is that Chopin shifts the emphasis of the point of view of the omniscient third-person narrator from Calixta to Alcée almost as soon as he is introduced:

He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon apparent that he might as well have been out in the open: the water beat in upon the boards in driving sheets, and he went inside,