In Brave New World, what is the Bokanovsky Process?

In addition to the actual process that produces many human beings at a time in measured amounts according to intelligence, there is an underlying subversion at work. For, the Bokavonsky Process transforms the social order from individuals in various roles to a group of programmed humanoids. "Everyone belongs to everyone" in this system, and no one belongs to anyone because there are no family units to overcome.

Also, with the elimination of the traditional family, there is the elimination of the authority of the paternal and maternal participants of this family unit, thereby imposing much more easily the order of the state over the individual. The state, therefore, has complete control over the lives of its participants as it provides the burgeoning citizens with what to believe about the world, and how to act in it. True emotions, cultivated in the nurturing atmosphere of family, are virtually eliminated, as well.

1) 3 5/7 divided by 7/82)12 5/6 + 8 9/163)6(-3) (-3 is an exponent)4)14569000There are 4 questions.number 1 and 2, is solving...

1) 3 5/7 divided by 7/8.

First, change 3 5/7 into an improper fraction of 26/7 and then divided by 7/8. Remember to flip 7/8 over to become 8/7 and also to change the division sign to the multiplication sign when you do so. LIke this:

3 5/7 / 7/8 = 26/7 * 8/7

= 4 12/49

2) 12 5/6 + 8 9/16

convert both fractions into improper fractions:

77/6 + 137/16

Then, find the common denominator which is 48

616/48 + 411/48

= 1027/48

= 21 19/48

3) 6^ -3

convert negative index to positive index, which is:

1/6^3= 1/216

4) 14569000

Move the decimal to the first number. The number before the decimal place must be less than 10 and more than zero, like from 1-9, and later count the place values to get the index notation, which is at its 7th power. So, the index notation should be:

1.4569 * 10^7

What is the summary for Chapter 20 of The Kite Runner?

The next day Amir and Farid leave Jalalabad and arrive at Kabul after a tiring four hour long "bone-jarring" ride on a road full of potholes. Amir is traumatised to see the battle scarred countryside devastated by both the Russians and theTaliban. Inspite of Farid warning him that the Kabul of today is not what it once was, Amir is shocked at what he sees: "rubble and beggars. Everywhere I looked that was what I saw." Most of the beggars are small children on their mothers' laps. The men folk have been killed in the successive wars.

Amir is traumatised to see all the familiar landmarks of his Afghan childhood completely destroyed, especially Jadeh Maywand the place where he used to buy his kites from Saifo the Kitemaker: "Jadeh Maywand had turned into a giant sand castle."

After driving a short while Amir comes face to face with the Taliban for the first time. A red Toyota pickup truck passes by with young bearded Taliban soldiers. Frightened, Amir stares at them as the truck passes slowly by them. Amir warns him not to provoke them by staring at them, for the Taliban are always on the look out for a reason to stir up trouble. Soon, they are joined in their conversation by an old beggar. Amir is pleasantly surprised to learn that the beggar is actually Dr.Rasul who had been a lecturer at the university from 1958 to 1996. Dr.Rasul had been acquainted with Amir's mother Sophia Akrami who had also been a lecturer at the university at that time. Amir is deeply touched when Dr.Rasul the beggar relates to him the details of his last conversation with her. Amir poignantly remarks, "I had just learned more about my my mother from this old man on the street than I ever did from Baba."

Amir and Farid finally locate the orphanage "in the northern part of Karteh-Seh along the banks of the dried-up Kabul river." The director of the orphanage, Zaman, disappoints them by saying that just a month ago he had sold Sohrab to a Taliban official. Farid is furious and almost strangles to death Zaman because he is indulging in child-trafficking. Zaman defends himself saying that the money that he earns by selling children is used to feed the other children in the orphanage, and that unlike the others he did not flee Afghanistan but stayed back to care for the orphaned children. Zaman instructs them to go to the Ghazi stadium the next day where they can meet a Taliban official wearing black sunglasses who will help them in locating Sohrab.

What are the amendments and their abuses to the seven commandments in Animal Farm?

1. Whatever goes upon 2 legs is an enemy. 
 
Near the end pigs started walking on 2 legs.

2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 

These so called "friends" are seen as lesser beings later on.

3. No animal shall wear clothes. 

At the end pigs are wearing clothes.

4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 
Changes to "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets".

5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 
Changes to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess". 

6. No animal shall kill any other animal. 
Changes to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause".

7. All animals are equal. 
Changes to "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". 

I need 4 examples of the lies in Romeo and Juliet.

If lie is defined as something intended or serving to convey a false impression, then there are lies in "Romeo and Juliet." 

• The first deception is Romeo and Benvolio's "visors" as they mask themselves and attend the party for Juliet, passing themselves off as invited guests.


• Another deception involves the conversation of Lord Capulet and Prince Paris who desires to marry Capulet's daughter.  At first, Lord Capulet acts as though he is most reluctant to betrothe his daughter, but after only a couple of days he demands of Juliet that she marry the prince in Act 3, scene 4.  In Act 2 he tells Paris 

My child is yet a stranger in the world--...let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride....And too soon marred are those so early made./The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,(llI,ii, 8-14)

Then, in Act 4 he orders Juliet:

Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day(l.32)

• Shortly therefter, the Nurse's encouraging of Juliet to marry Romeo in Act 3, scene 5 is deceptive since the Nurse realizes that Juliet has already married Romeo


• Juliet misleads her father into thinking that she has acquiesced to his orders to marry the Prince when she tells the Nurse,

"Go in, and tell my lady I am gone,/Having displeased my father, to Laurence's cell,/To make confession and to be absolved" (III,v, ll.231-233)

• Friar Laurence becomes involved in deceiving the Capulet's as well when he issues a potion to Juliet which causes her to appear dead.  While his intentions may be good, the act is anything but forthright. Of course, Juliet, too, is guilty of deception again.

In the play "Macbeth" what is Macbeth's behavior after becoming king up to where Macduff's family are murdered?

After becoming King, Macbeth slowly becomes more and more paranoid.  He worries about the witches' prophesies for Banquo's sons.  This is the point where he loses it completely.  He orders the murder of his best friend and son. When only Banquo is killed and his son escapes, Macbeth goes to see the witches again to know his future.  After hearing and seeing the apparitions, he goes after Macduff.  His second warning was to "Beware the Thane of Fife."  That is Macduff, so Macbeth has his killers murder Macduff's entire family.  From the point of becoming king until he has Macduff's family killed, he is paranoid and controlling.  He cannot lose his crown and he is willing to do anything to keep it.  On top of that, his wife is slowly losing her mind (from her guilt) and he really shows no signs of caring for her health.  He has the doctor do whatever it takes to make her better, but he never really has any connection with her after the ghost of Banquo appears throughout the rest of the play.

In "A Separate Peace" Gene's war ended before he ever put on a uniform. What does he mean and how does that relate to young people?

At the end of the book, Gene explained that most people came up against something in their lives that tested them to the max, and broke them, "and they were not the same again."  For most characters in this story, it was the war.  Once they realized that there was "this overwhelmingly hostile thing in the world with them," they broke, changing forever.  However, for Gene, the real war that he went to fight in was never a problem for him.  He had already confronted his own private war, in the form of his jealousy for Finny, and how his body instinctually reacted to that jealousy, and then dealing with the repercussions of that action.  He had to look his meanness in the face, own up to it by confessing it to Finny, then watch in despair as that meanness took the life of one of his best friends.  His war was overcoming his distaste of himself and his cowardly actions in regards to Finny.  He had to struggle each day with the knowledge that his jealousy of someone had led him to essentially destroy someone, someone who could not be destroyed in any other way.

This battle against other people, against our own insecurities, and against our own more base tendencies is something that young people fight every single day.   Young people constantly pit themselves against other people that they desire to be like, and against their own worst traits.  They focus and dwell on them, and until they can learn to be confident as they are, and who they are, no matter who surrounds them, they do not win that battle.

I hope those ideas help, and that they give you some food for thought.  Good luck!