Thursday, June 18, 2015

How has low income caused many struggles within American families? I need help with my thesis and outline.

Families with low incomes face a chain reaction, as VanFleet (2002) documents (see the source below), meaning that their poverty affects them in many ways. They cannot afford proper health care, food, transportation, electricity, water, and phone service. VanFleet documents that poverty affects many generations, including children, and affects each aspect of a family's existence in a way that would be difficult for people not living in poverty to imagine. The thesis you produce for this paper might include how poverty affects each aspect of a family's life.
Using this thesis statement and conducting additional research, you can produce an outline. You might want to begin the paper with statistics about poverty in the United States. The link below from the organization Working Poor Families will provide you with more information, such as that one in three working families in the United States struggles to provide for its needs.
Each section of the outline might deal with one way in which poverty can affect the family. For example, the first section of your outline might deal with how poverty affects a family's access to proper health care for all its members and how their health suffers as a result. The next section of your outline could discuss the ways in which poverty affects a family's food resources, and the next section could be about other resources that are difficult for a family living in poverty to obtain (including housing, electricity, etc). For each section, you can do more research into the effects of poverty on that aspect of life. In your conclusion, you might think about why it is so difficult for children raised in poverty to obtain the education and resources to escape poverty when they grow up. 
Source:
VanFleet, Jennifer (2002) "The Struggles and Predicaments of Low-Income Families and Children in Poverty," Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 1 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol1/iss2/6.
http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/

How is the story structured with form, and what is the connection between the form and the meaning of Wide Sargasso Sea?

"Form" is a catch-all term for the elements that comprise a work's structure—the basic order of events (in a narrative text), the use of chapters (or other structuring devices), the conventions associated with the literary genre (a sonnet, for instance, follows a very specific template), and so on. "Meaning" is an even broader topic that potentially encompasses not only the work's themes, but also its cultural context and the effect it has on its readers. In order to talk about the relationship between form and meaning, then, it helps to narrow your focus by asking yourself what is particularly unusual or idiosyncratic about the work's structure.
In the case of Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys has divided the novel into three very distinct sections, with Antoinette narrating Parts One and Three and the Rochester figure (unnamed in Rhys's novel) narrating Part Two. This three-part structure is not especially unusual, but it is significant in light of the fact that Wide Sargasso Sea is a literary "response" to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; the latter also breaks (roughly) into three sections, corresponding to Jane's childhood at Lowood, her romance with Rochester at Thornfield, and her time with the Rivers family at Moor House. By following the same basic template, Rhys encourages us to think about the ways in which Antoinette's narrative compares to Jane's.
On that note, one of the most striking things about the structure of Wide Sargasso Sea is that it ends almost exactly as it began: Antoinette's childhood home of Coulibri burns down early in the novel, and in the work's final pages she herself is dreaming about burning down Thornfield. This circular structure underscores, in part, how little control the novel's characters have over their own fate; after witnessing her mother's disastrous marriage and descent into madness, Antoinette grows up to experience precisely the same things. We sense, in other words, that Antoinette is destined to relive the same tragedies over and over again no matter what she does—as payment for her family's involvement in slavery, because of her lack of power and agency as a woman, and so on. All of this stands in marked contrast, however, to Jane Eyre; like most nineteenth-century novels, Bronte's has a straightforward and linear structure that ends with its protagonist happily married, underscoring her ability to take charge of and improve her own life.Another unusual aspect of Wide Sargasso's Sea's form is Rhys's choice to have the Rochester figure narrate Part Two—that is, the section of the book that purports to explain how and why Antoinette became Jane Eyre's "Bertha." On the face of it, this seems like an odd move, assuming we want to read Rhys's novel as a kind of "defense" of Bertha. It makes sense, however, in the context of Rhys's broader treatment of identity. Even before she goes mad, Antoinette is an elusive figure—including, significantly, to herself. She comments several times, for instance, on the fact that as a white Creole woman, she does not feel at home either among Jamaica's black residents (her family's former slaves) or the more recent wave of white European settlers. In fact, it is in part the ambiguity of Antoinette's identity that the Rochester figure finds so unnerving and which he connects to the broader "mysteriousness" of the Caribbean. By having Rochester narrate what are (arguably) the most important events in the book, then, Rhys ensures that Antoinette will remain somewhat unknowable even to her readers (perhaps as a commentary on the impossibility of truly understanding someone across vast differences of power, gender, and culture).
Again, these are far from the only ways to think about the relationship between form and meaning in Wide Sargasso Sea, but they are likely starting points.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

y' + y/x = xy^2 Solve the Bernoulli differential equation.

Given equation is y'+y/x=xy^2
 
An equation of the form y'+Py=Qy^n
is called as the Bernoulli equation .
so, to proceed to solve this equation we have to transform the equation into a linear equation form of first order as follows
=> y' (y^-n) +P y^(1-n)=Q
let u= y^(1-n)
=> (1-n)y^(-n)y'=u'
=> y^(-n)y' = (u')/(1-n)
so ,
y' (y^-n) +P y^(1-n)=Q
=> (u')/(1-n) +P u =Q
so this equation is now of the linear form of first order
Now,
From this equation ,
y'+y/x=xy^2
and
y'+Py=Qy^n
on comparing we get
P=(1/x) , Q=x , n=2
so the linear form of first order of the equation y'+y/x=xy^2 is given as
 
=> (u')/(1-n) +P u =Q where u= y^(1-n) =y^(1-2)=1/y
=> (u')/(1-2) +(1/x) u =x
 
=> -u' +(1/x) u =x
 
=>u' -(1/x) u = -x so this linear equation is of the form
u' + pu=q
p=-(1/x) , q=-x
so I.F (integrating factor )
= e^(int p dx) = e^(int -(1/x) dx) = e^(-lnx)=1/x
 
and the general solution is given as
u (I.F)=int q * (I.F) dx +c
=>u (1/x)=int (-x) * (1/x) dx +c
=>u (1/x)=int (-1) dx +c
=>u (1/x)= -x+c
=>u= (c-x)/(1/x) = x(c-x)
but u=1/y
1/y = x(c-x)
y=1/(x(c-x))
 
is the general solution.

How does the reader's opinion of the people of Lilliput change in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?

It can be hard to define a reader’s “attitude” toward a character or characters. Attitudes are subject to all sorts of influences, some contained in the text, others caused by real life circumstances and experiences, other texts one might be familiar with, and so forth.
For Swift, part of the satire of Gulliver’s situation with the Lilliputians comes from the ironic reversal of social power dynamics: Gulliver is much more powerful than all the Lilliputians combined, but nevertheless he is made to serve the ruling Lilliputian class. At first, Gulliver thinks this is a point of honor, and serves them willingly and is hailed as a hero; however, as things turn out, the Lilliputians ultimately condemn Gulliver for a breach of etiquette. The Lilliputians turn out to be not any better than the aristocrats of Europe.
For the reader, there is a predisposition to want to trust the tiny Lilliputians. Although they bind him and shoot him with arrows at first, they also reward Gulliver’s mild behavior with food and drink, housing and clothing, and teach him their language. Gulliver becomes a great favorite at court and earns his liberty. But the longer Gulliver is in Lilliput, the more he learns about the politics of the place, which have to strike the reader as ridiculous. Far from being superior to European rulers, the Lilliputians are subject to the same petty prejudices (like which is the best side of an egg to break) and have the same lust for power. Gulliver’s ultimate condemnation (for “polluting the palace” by urinating when in fact he was extinguishing a dangerous fire) underlines their lack of gratitude and hypocrisy.

What are major elements of the social structure of Pakistan?

The traditional tribes of Pakistan, located principally in the North West Frontier Province, play a central role in the social identity of their members and, as a result, the social structure of this part of Pakistan. In many cases, a tribal members' political identity is first that of a member of his clan and, secondly, as a citizen of Pakistan.
Outside of the tribal regions, Barādarī—a form of caste identity—plays the dominant role in social structures to the point that political parties and politicians in the country more often draw their support from caste fellows than along ideological lines.
Finally, religion is a major factor in the social structure of Pakistan. Islam is the official, state religion of Pakistan and as much as 99% of the country are Muslim, with Sunni Islam being the dominant variety.


Pakistani society is deeply divided along religious, ethnic, and status lines. The state is composed of four provinces: Punjab (the largest), Sindh, North Western Frontier Province (NWFP), and Baluchistan. The largest ethnic groups are Punjabis (about forty-five percent of the total population), Pashtuns (fifteen percent), and Sindhis (fourteen percent).
While in Punjab the caste frameworks (biradri) play a key role in shaping social interactions, in the rest of the country, tribal structures are more important. Tribal chiefs and large landowners hold most political positions and use their influence to their own advantage. Industrialists, many of them Muslim migrants from India, have less political power than traditional tribal and feudal elites.
Inequality and the social exclusion of landless laborers, tenants, and members of the lower caste is a basic feature of social life that the state does little to change. There is also huge gender inequality; males have considerably more access to education and enjoying the dominant position in society.
The role of religion is very important in Pakistan. Three quarters of the country’s population are Sunni Muslims and about twenty percent are Shia. Sectarian tensions are strong; sometimes there are violent attacks on Shia mosques. The ongoing conflict with India over the Kashmir region, which both countries claim, and the war in neighboring Afghanistan have strengthened the influence of Islamic extremists and radical terrorist organizations; these organizations sometimes attack cities, state institutions, and army bases. The social role of the army and the secret services is also very important, as military regimes have governed Pakistan for about half of its independent existence.

Which countries colonized various regions in the New World?

The Spanish colonized what we now think of as the Southwestern United States, plus Florida, as well as Mexico and much of Central and Latin America, as well as Cuba. The Spanish explorers or "conquistadors" responsible for colonizing these areas were Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizarro, to name the most prominent among them. 
The Portuguese colonized Brazil, building enormous system of plantations there. The Dutch first settled what is today New York and New Jersey, which they named New Netherlands, and which they farmed very successfully for a time. The English settled what is today Virginia, and then Massachusetts, Road Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vermont, the Carolinas, Georgia, Delaware and Connecticut. In the mid-1600s, the English fought and defeated the Dutch, and took New York and New Jersey for themselves.
In Canada, the French Jesuits settled what became Quebec. Both the British and the French also made early forays into the settling the Caribbean islands as plantations.

Why is Mrs. Van Daan important to Anne Frank?

Mrs. Van Daan is important as an alternate mother figure to Anne, as Peter’s mother, and as a sower of discord in the attic.
In their early days of confinement, Anne feels pressured by the amount of time spent with her own family. Although they have to make adjustments to share the space with the Van Daans, the novelty of having others around is appealing to her. Anne finds Mrs. Van Daan a reassuring presence and feels a kind of emotional connection to this outgoing woman that is different than to her own mother.
As Anne and Peter become friends, it seems that Mrs. Van Daan resents Anne’s attention to him. This in turn makes Anne uncomfortable, so she becomes more distant from her. In addition, Anne cannot help but be aware of the older woman’s pettiness as she takes offense at trivial matters, such as Anne spilling milk on her coat. In such a small space, Mrs. Van Daan cannot make the right kinds of efforts to ensure peaceful coexistence, and Anne comes to appreciate her own mother more.


The Diary of a Young Girl is a true story about persisting. Anne Frank documents her life as she writes in her diary, which she has named Kitty. Anne and her family have gone into hiding into the annex at her father's work. Anne is living with not only her parents and sister, Margot, but also a dentist friend and the Van Daan family.
The Van Daan family as a whole is important to Anne. Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan are in some ways the opposites of Anne's own parents, who are normally calm and positive. The Van Daans argue with one another and complain constantly. They have one son, Peter. Peter and Anne grow close throughout the time that they are hidden. Mrs. Van Daan appears to be jealous of their relationship. She does not want to lose the close connection that she has with her son; however, at times, she does take on a maternal role with Anne. Anne is able to confide in her when she feels she cannot talk with her own mother.

Why is the fact that the Americans are helping the Russians important?

In the late author Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, the assistance rendered to the Russians by the United States is impor...