Describe the character of Mr Hyde in Chapters 1-3 of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In the early chapters of the book, Mr. Hyde is described as a mysterious man who has some type of deformity.  Mr. Utterson is very curious about Mr. Hyde especially since Dr. Jekyl has written his will with unusual instructions concerning his possessions and Mr. Hyde. 

Through Mr. Utterson, the reader begins to wonder who Mr. Hyde is and what his relationship to Dr. Jekyll really is.  Mr. Utterson goes to the door that Mr. Enfield saw Mr. Hyde enter, finally sees the approach of the man.  He confronts him and is horrified by his appearance.  He is deformed in a very disturbing way.

Mr. Hyde's appearance is hideous, he is frightening to look at. Mr. Utterson is very worried about Dr. Jekyll's relationship with Hyde, who engages in criminal, immoral behavior. 

Hyde is a primitive version of Jekyl, he is connected to the well-mannered, sophisticated doctor, but only on the inside. 

"Not all of these together could explain the ... unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him." In his final estimation, Hyde seemed "hardly human" and marked with "Satan's signature."

What is the summary for Chapter 15 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?

Chapter Fifteen:  The Forbidden Forest

Cornered by McGonagall, Harry and Hermione allow her to believe that they lied to both Neville and Malfoy about the dragon.  Everyone gets detention in addition to 150 points being taken from Griffindor.  As a result of this, Griffindors start to despise Harry even though he was one of their most admired after his last Quidditch match.  As Harry and Hermione are taunted by classmates, Harry overhears Quirrell sobbing and believes that Snape is torturing him again for information about how to get to the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Malfoy all serve their detention with Hagrid in the forbidden forest looking for a wounded unicorn.  The group splits up with Hagrid leading Harry and Hermione and Fang leading Neville and Malfoy.  Hagrid’s group has rotten luck getting any specific unicorn information from Ronan and Bane who are centaurs.  After Neville sends up red sparks in a panic, Hagrid has them switch groups.  Now working with Malfoy and Fang, Harry finds the dead unicorn and a cloaked shadow figure drinking the unicorn’s blood.  Fang and Malfoy run as Harry stands paralyzed with fear and with a terrible pain in his scar.  As the figure moves toward Harry, a centaur named Firenze charges to stop it.  Firenze puts Harry on his back to carry him to safety.  After being chided by his fellow centaurs for doing this, Firenze reveals that drinking a unicorn’s blood allows a being to live a cursed life, but a life just the same, until something else can bring more strength and power.  Harry’s heart sinks as he realizes that it was Voldemort drinking the blood and awaiting the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Harry paces the common room thinking that Snape could steal the Sorcerer’s Stone for Voldemort at any moment.  Hermione reminds Harry that he’s safe as long as Dumbledore is around.  Then Harry goes to bed only to find that someone has anonymously returned the invisibility cloak.

Why do multi-cellular organisms need a transport system?

A system of transport is found in most multicellular organisms. It allows the growth of these organisms to a substantial size in contrast with single-celled organisms. As the surface to volume ratio increases, those cells that are too far from the external environment would not be able to rely on osmosis and diffusion as these processes would not be able to get the needed nutrients, oxygen and other materials to the cell in time. Therefore, a system of transport allows for all cells in the body to get the necessary substances for life in a timely manner. In multicellular animals, you will a heart(pumping mechanism), a liquid tissue known as blood, arteries, veins and tiny capillaries. The capillaries are thin--walled and moist, allowing for transport of materials from blood to cells. In primitive multicellular animals, because they usually lack a transport system, their sizes remain small as they rely on diffusion and osmosis to get the substances they need. In plants, there are roots, stem, leaves and inside, xylem and phloem vascular tissues. These act as a transport system however, there is no heart to pump materials. Instead, capillary action and evapotranspiration drive materials up through the plant, against the pull of gravity.

"Lord of the Flies" presents a view of human nature. Give reasons why it is realistic or not.

The novel itself isn't entirely realistic: Piggy's glasses, for example, if they were the prescription of the time for the myopia he suffers from, certainly wouldn't be able to light a fire in the way they do in the novel - it's also hugely unlikely that a conch found on a beach would sound like that. Come to mention it, it's also quite unlikely that so many boys (do they ever actually mention any dead?) would survive a plane crash.

You'll notice though, that the conch and the spectacles both function explicitly as symbols: the conch representing democracy, equality and civilised behaviour, the glasses clear-sightedness and wisdom (of course, they become gradually destroyed as Jack and his gang rise to prominence on the island).

I'd argue that "Lord of the Flies" is a fable, rather like Aesop's Fables, a deliberately heightened and neatened story, packed full of symbols to read, and judged carefully to deliver its message: its message being that, I think, every man's heart contains darkness (slightly paraphrased from the final page of the novel).

Golding's view of human nature is extremely pessimistic: do we really like to think that this is naturally how we evolve - toward war, towards violence, towards the murder of Piggy and Simon? I suppose not. But could anyone really, truly say that they don't think the behaviour of those boys is plausible? I don't think so.

Golding's presentation isn't wholly realistic: but I fear his message is.

What is a detailed summary of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper"?

"The Chimney Sweeper" is one of my favourite poems of Blake. I find in the poem about poverty and unkindness. In the first stanza, we find that the speaker is a very young boy who is a chimney sweeper. During the period of Blake, in England little boys were employed for sweeping chimneys.

The teen ages boy lost his mother and his father sold him to a master-sweeper. He carried a brush and shouted searching work of chimney sweeping. He was sold when he was unable to pronounce the word 'sweep'.Thus a note of tragedy is struck at the very beginning of the poem. The child pronounced 'weep' in stead of 'sweep' because he was put into a condition to weep or children of his age weeps to attract attention of parents or others. It conveys distress of a little chimney sweeper.

we can also see this way that children of poor parents are not fed unless they cry. In England at the time of Blake people might have lost sense of christianity and employed such children to work who were suppose to be in charity school. A child sleeping in soot suggests that the morality of English people got darkened.

Then in the second stanza, a such teen aged sweeper named Tom Dacre who had nice curley hair was shaved his head in order not to catch fire. Also, his beautiful hair will not get spoilled by the soot, was a statement of giving consolation to the boy.

In the third stanza we see that Tom Dacre went to sleep at night and he dreamt a dream that thousand of teen aged sweeper like him were locked in coffins of black.

In the fourth stanza, the boy dreamt that an angel with abright key opened the coffins and set them all free. The boys ran towards the river leaping and laughing and took bath there and they emerged bright.

In the fifth stanza we see that those boys left their brown bags behind and played with the wind and the angel told Tom that God would be his father if he had been a good boy and then he would want joy never.

In the last stanza it is told that Tom woke up next day morning when it was dark and went to work with his brush and bag happily in a warm mood.

From what point-of-view is "By the Waters of Babylon" written? How do you know?

By the Waters of Babylon is written in the first person.  You can tell this right away because the protagonist, John, says the word I throughout the story.  Thus, the story is told from his point of view which is first person.

“My father is a priest; I am the son of a priest.  I have been in the Dead Places near us with my father; at first I was afraid…"

Why is it possible to have a family of six girls and no boys, but extremely unlikely that there will be a public school with 500 girls and no...

It is a matter of probability. Males produce 1/2 sperm cells carrying the X chromosome and 1/2 with the Y chromosome, thus determining 1/2 girls and 1/2 boys in the progeny, respectively.

If different matings are independent (and this assumption could be analysed separately for matings within a couple and among couples), then the probability of having a progeny or generation of n individuals of only one sex is 1/2 to the power of n.

In your question, n is 5 or 500, then the probability under these assumptions is 1/32 = 3.125% (unlikely, not impossible) for the first and a value under 10 to the power of -150, that is, 0.(150 zeros)3, for the second -- virtually 0.

Another assumption that must be made is that public schools draw randomly from the general population, or if there is a bias (for example economical) this does not affect the girls/boys natural distribution.

One assumption that needs to be made further is whether the 1:1 distribution holds from meiosis to conjugation, prenatal development, birth and childhood. It is here that it is believed that some bias is introduced. Nevertheless, all other assumptions being true, if girls going to a public school are 52% of the total, then the above probability would go to aproximately 0.(141 zeros)1.