Why is Alonso feeling depressed and sad?

Alonso, the King of Naples, is feeling sad because he has lost his daughter Claribel to marriage, and now, shipwrecked on a deserted island, he believes his son, Ferdinand, is also dead. A loving father, Alonso says,

O, it is monstrous, monstrous: Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper[o]: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded And with him there lie mudded.

When Alonso says he thinks Ferdinand is "i' the ooze bedded," this means he thinks his son is dead. Alonso reveals how depressed he is when he announces he will "with him there lie mudded," meaning he wishes to kill himself.
Ferdinand, of course, is not dead. He has simply been spirited away, because Prospero wants him and Miranda to fall in love with each other.
Alonso, near the end of the play, repents of having helped steal Prospero's throne and restores Prospero to power. At that point, Prospero reveals that Ferdinand is, after all, still alive, which makes Alonso happy.

What is George's analysis of Lennie's incident involving the girl in Weed?

During a conversation with Slim, George explains how Lennie got them into some trouble in Weed. After Slim assures George that he won't say a word, George tells him that Lennie saw a girl wearing a red dress that he wanted to touch. George explains to Slim that Lennie enjoys touching soft things and simply wanted to feel the dress. When Lennie grabbed her dress, the girl screamed, and Lennie panicked. Lennie was so scared that he grasped harder onto the girl's dress as she continued to scream. Fortunately, George was standing close by and was able to run over to see what was happening. When George saw that Lennie was not letting go of the dress, he hit Lennie over the head with a fence picket until he let go. Following the incident, the girl told the authorities that Lennie raped her. George and Lennie were then forced to hide out in an irrigation ditch to avoid a lynch mob before they were able to escape. George insists that Lennie wasn't trying to harm the girl and blames Lennie's actions on his mental disability. 

What diseases does George Crosby have?

He suffered from a lot of diseases!The book Tinkers follows the history of George Washington Crosby on his deathbed—a hospital bed in the living room of the house he constructed himself. Crosby is an eighty-nine-year-old man who is dying from kidney failure caused by cancer that began in his groin, and he also suffers from Parkinson's disease.While waiting for his imminent demise, his mind starts to wander in a chaotic manner. He frequently hallucinates, and his memories, most of which are centered around his father, Howard Aaron Crosby, are disordered.In conclusion, Crosby suffered mainly from three diseases at the end of his life: kidney failure, cancer, and Parkinson's disease. All of these diseases are linked to the process of aging.
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/12925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_failure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease

Intermediate Algebra, Chapter 3, Review Exercises, Section Review Exercises, Problem 28

Determine an equation for the line that has a slope of $3$ and goes through $(-1,4)$

a.) Write the equation in slope intercept form.
b.) Write the equation in standard form

We are given $m = 3$ and $(x_1, y_1) = (-1, 4)$
a.) Then by using point slope form, we have

$
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
y - y_1 &= m(x - x_1)\\
\\
y - 4 &= 3 (x - (-1))\\
\\
y -4 &= 3(x + 1)\\
\\
y - 4 &= 3x + 3
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
$

So, the equation in slope intercept form is
$y = 3x + 7$

b.) By transforming into general form $Ax + By = C$, we get
$ -3x + y = 7$

What does the following article have to say about the Fifth Amendment and how it should be used in legal cases? http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1957&context=fss_papers

The article attempts to think through the original purpose of the Fifth Amendment and argues for an interpretation that emphasizes the notion of compulsion rather than the issue of self-incrimination. 
The most important historical point that the authors make is that the Fifth Amendment was written in a period in which many countries used torture to elicit confessions. Even more importantly, much of European law was based on Roman Law, in which the testimony of slaves was considered invalid unless they were tortured. The authors thus suggest that we should read the word "compelled" as a key to understanding the purpose of the amendment. The point they make is that it was designed to prevent any form of compulsion. This is especially relevant in cases where confessions may, even now, be elicited by threats or other marginally unethical interrogation techniques, or even by police brutality.
The authors also argue that part of how we should think about the Fifth Amendment is in terms of the balance between actual evidence and testimony. They suggest that part of how we analyze the Fifth Amendment should emphasize that testimony is less reliable than other forms of evidence, such as physical evidence and paper trails.
Finally, the authors suggest that the Fifth Amendment should not be used to prevent defendants from testifying on their own behalf or providing testimony in general, but only that there should be no element of compulsion. 

Who is the protagonist in "Sons" by John Updike?

The story "Sons" by John Updike follows several different stories about the childhood of several generations of men. Because it is divided up into different stories encompassing different lives, the protagonist changes frequently throughout.
The initial story follows the youngest generation, the son—so he is the initial protagonist. After him, the narrator, his father, shifts the focus to his own childhood. Following that, he begins into a story of his father's youth—the grandfather of the initial protagonist. Finally, it settles on the youth stories of the narrator's grandfather, the great-grandfather of the initial boy in the story. Because of this, there is not a consistent protagonist throughout the story, but instead several different protagonists who lead their own stories.

This is an interesting question, as this story retreats backwards to follow the boyhoods of four men: the son, the father, the grandfather, and the great-grandfather.
Hence, you could conclude that the "protagonist" in this piece of writing changes to whichever man is being presently focused on. Because the story has no real plot and no set narrative, it would be difficult to choose any one of these men as the true "protagonist." It is more an essay on the nature of all fathers and sons, and the constantly conflicting feelings of love versus hate, or the yearning for approval versus contempt, than it is a story.
Looked at from another angle, though, it seems reasonable to conclude that if we were to choose a protagonist, it would be the father narrating at the start of the story. As the book starts and finishes with this man's narrative, and as it is based off of the author's experiences with his own son, David, this seems a logical conclusion.

In chapter 31 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout lists the things Boo has given her and Jem. List those items and explain Scout's thoughts about Boo's gifts.

In chapter 31, Scout reminisces about what she and her brother found in the oak tree from Boo Radley. They first find gum, which Jem makes her spit out because he thinks it is poisoned. Next, they find the following: two Indianhead pennies, two soap dolls, and a broken watch with a chain and a small knife. By the end of the book, though, Scout knows that Boo Radley is a friend and neighbor, not the boogeyman that she was first taught about by Jem and Miss Stephanie Crawford. Consequently, Scout says the following about Boo Radley:

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad" (278).

This passage shows that Scout is very grateful for the material items that Boo Radley gave them through the knothole of the tree. (In fact, in chapter 7, she and Jem write a thank you letter to put into the knothole of the tree, but Mr. Nathan Radley filled it up with cement before they could accomplish their goal.) She also appreciates the fact that she and Jem were saved by Boo on the night that Bob Ewell attacked them. However, Scout also feels sad because she is not able to give anything to him in return. Therefore, once Boo saves the children's lives in chapter 28, there doesn't seem to be anything more they could give him in response to all of his kindnesses, so this makes her sad.