The most important themes in literature are sometimes formed when a death takes place. In the book Wuthering Heights, do you think this statement...

Death absolutely provides thematic material in Wuthering Heights. First, the father's death early in the story leads to the theme of abuse and how abuse and neglect draw Cathy and Heathcliff into a very close bond. Second, Cathy's death has a shattering effect on Heathcliff, and third, even if he does not love as deeply, Linton mourns Cathy's demise and never remarries, showing that death changes lives.

An important theme arises from Cathy's death. The novel is metaphysical, meaning it posits, or argues for, another world beyond the material. Cathy believes that after she dies she will be flung on the moors because she doesn't belong in heaven: nature is her true home and where she longs to be. In the novel, Cathy and Heathcliff might be separated in life by her dying, but the intimation in the novel is that their love is so deep and their souls so tightly intertwined that they will be together after death: a love like theirs cannot be killed. 

In Pokemon Go, do teams affect anything besides gym and color?

Upon reaching level 5, you can finally head to your first gym. It does not matter what color the first gym you go to is on your map--you will still be able to choose your team!

The different team leaders claim to have different methods of researching Pokemon. It does not seem that there is any technical advantage to choosing a team--but some speculation states that the Legendary Birds that represent each team’s color may come into play sometime in the future. This means that the color team you choose might affect the Legendary Bird you might potentially interact with (but again, that is complete speculation at this point).

Once you choose your gym color, you have the ability to train at that gym. If there is space available at that gym, you can leave your Pokemon there to defend your team. You'll also earn some bonuses.

You can also challenge the gyms of other teams. By doing so you can eventually have your team take over. You get to choose 6 Pokemon and with those 6 you get to battle the opposing team's hierarchy of winning Pokemon. If you challenge your own gym, you only get one Pokemon to fight your way to the top.

Make sure you coordinate with your friends on choosing a team, because once you pick your color, you cannot change your mind.

If the theory about Legendary Birds is correct, you would choose yellow Team Instinct for Zapdos, blue Team Mystic for Articuno, and red Team Valor for Moltres.

Aside from arguing with other people over who has the better team and potentially changing your entire wardrobe to display your team color, there are no observed differences between the teams. They are simply there to add an element of competition to the game.

Enjoy!

What was the critical analysis about language and brain determined by Broca (1861) and Wernicke (1874)?

Broca and Wernicke determined brain regions associated with language. In 1861, Broca, a French neurosurgeon, examined the brain of a deceased man who understood language but could not produce it. This man, nicknamed Tan, had a lesion in the interior part of the left frontal cortex of his brain. Broca identified the left side of the brain as the hemisphere that produces language. This region of the frontal cortex became known as "Broca's area" and was the first part of the brain to be determined to play a specific function.

In 1874, Wernicke, a neurologist, found an area in the posterior part of the left temporal lobe of the brain that is involved with comprehending language. People with a lesion in this area could speak, but their language was incomprehensible. Brain scientists now know that around the lateral sulcus in the left hemisphere of the brain, there are areas that are necessary for producing and understanding language. The front part of this region is known as Broca's area, which is necessary to produce language, while Wernicke's area, which is necessary for processing language, is in the posterior temporal lobe. This so-called "language loop" is found in the left hemisphere of the brain in 90% of right-handed people and 70% of left-handed people, and it is also found in this hemisphere among people who use sign language. 

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe influence American literature?

Uncle Tom's Cabin had a very profound effect on American history, as it convinced many moderate Americans that slavery was wrong by personalizing slavery and showing its effects on people. While some abolitionists thought the book was too lenient, defenders of slavery thought Stowe, a northerner, was off base in her assessment and portrayal of slavery. As the legend goes, even Abraham Lincoln thought Stowe's book had had a major effect on the nation and said to her in 1862, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." 

Stowe's work was in the tradition of the slave narrative. Freed slaves such as Frederick Douglass wrote famous autobiographies about their experiences in slavery, but Stowe, a white woman, wrote a work that outsold all the previous slave narratives. She changed literature by taking a genre that had traditionally been written by African-Americans as autobiography and turning into a novelistic form. While Stowe intended the character of Uncle Tom to be a virtuous, Christian man, modern critics have charged that her characterization is racist in many ways. For example, they have criticized Tom for being too submissive. At the time, however, it was novel for a white author to depict a slave as the hero, while the white plantation owner, Simon Legree, was the villain. 

What are chapter summaries for The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain?

The Preface introduces Twain's work as "travel-writing," while humorously separating it from "solemn scientific" writing, "attractive" though that might be. He explains that portions of his writing will be reproduced from letters he had written to the "Daily Alta California, of San Francisco," the "New York Tribune" and the "New York Herald," noting that all had given "the necessary permission." Chapter 1 introduces the advent of a new and unusual excursion advertised and "chatted" about across America in "newspapers" and by "firesides." It was that of taking a "royal holiday" on a "gigantic scale" on a "steamship" to explore "beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history!"

Twain tells how "this brave conception" was to allow participants to "hob−nob with nobility and hold friendly converse with kings and princes, grand moguls, and the anointed lords of mighty empires!" He explains how "every household in the land" was "longing" to be one of the "one hundred and fifty" passengers on this extravaganza excursion to "the Crimea, Greece, and intermediate points of interest." To entice his readers, Twain adds the advertisement, dated 1867, in full to display to advantage the lure of the excursion. In testimony to the effectiveness of the advertisement, he tells how he hurried to the treasurer's office to deposit his 10 percent fee, being delighted that he could still acquire a stateroom. Twain's ironic wit is on display when he says that upon giving references of his character, he chose names of those who knew him least: he chose "all the people of high standing [he] could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about [him]."

After an announcement that the "Plymouth Collection of Hymns [a Puritan hymn book] would be used on board the ship," Twain's ironic wit is further evident: "I then paid the balance of my passage money." The simple positioning of this sentence ironically implies a causal connection between the hymn book choice and his payment. This is ironic because he implies, by suggestion of cause and effect, that no right thinking person could care about the selection of a hymn book as a reason to expend money on the excursion. He carries the irony further with a Calvinistic allusion to "being 'select.'"

   Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship. I then paid the balance of my passage money.
   I was provided with a receipt and duly and officially accepted as an excursionist. There was happiness in that but it was tame compared to the novelty of being "select."

Twain then enumerates celebrities who were enrolled to go but who cancelled due to various urgent matters. He ends by saying that, although the excursion now traveled without celebrities, like the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Lieutenant General Sherman, they still had the "'battery of guns' from the Navy Department" with which to salute royalty. The accompanying letter of introduction from the "Secretary of the Navy," as it was extended to "General Sherman and party," may have left them to their own devices (as Sherman was called to the American plains during "the Indian war") with the "courts and camps" of Europe, but with the "seductive" itinerary including Gibraltar, Paris, Jerusalem, and Bermuda still in tact, he and the others were nonetheless happy. As he says, "What did we care?"

How should Groupon enter international markets? As Groupon goes global, should it adapt its business to different cultures? Should Groupon run...

The starting point for your assignment should be discussing the focus of Groupon's business. While the initial model of "pushing" emails of local coupon deals into mailboxes was successful for a short period, the company's stock prices collapsed shortly after its IPO and it has been trying to re-invent itself, moving to a "pull" model for its core business, moving more heavily into general discount online retailing, and moving into the food delivery market. From a business perspective, it might actually be better for Groupon to solidify its core business strategy before trying to expand randomly in every direction. Its main strength is its early start in mobile marketing; its main weakness, a lack of direction and uneven results with its core group coupon business.

The key to expanding as a platform company is that platforms tend to be natural monopolies. Attracting large numbers of vendors attracts large numbers of customers and then the the large customer base attracts more vendors, starting a virtuous cycle. This means expanding piecemeal into a large range of new markets is not an appropriate business strategy. Instead, it makes sense to target a few carefully selected markets where it might be possible to achieve dominance. This would be done best by forming partnerships or strategic alliances, as the route to success is eliminating competition. As detailed understanding of local buying habits is needed, much of the marketing and other decisions should be done locally. 

Which of the four reasons were the most significant for American involvement in WWI?

America joined the war for four main reasons:

1.  German unrestricted submarine warfare was sinking American neutral vessels that were trading the Britain and France.  America almost joined the war over the loss of 128 American lives when a German U-boat sank the Lusitania in 1915.  Germany was forced to back away from its policy of sinking all vessels in British waters, but by 1917 Germany resumed this practice in order to try to win the war.  

2. The Zimmerman note, which was a secret deal between the German Empire and Mexico that would mean Mexico declaring war on America long enough to distract the United States from the larger war in Europe.  Germany pledged support, and after the war Mexico would receive the lands lost during the Mexican War fought against America from 1846-1848.  While the German government in Berlin was probably never aware of Ambassador Zimmerman's plan to make Mexico a nominal Central Power ally, British intelligence delivered the note to Washington, and furthered the idea that Germany could not be trusted.  

3. American war loans to the Allies would be in danger of not being paid back if the Allies lost the war.  Millions of dollars of aid in the form of loans and weapons sales were going to the Allied Powers well before 1917.  Germany appeared close to victory in late 1916 and early 1917, with Russia reeling in the East and the French military having mutinies on the Western Front.  Something had to be done to ensure that America's financiers received their money back with interest.  

4. Allied propaganda ensured that only one side of the story of the war was told.  Early in the war, the British cut the German telegraph cable to America.  From that point, the British ensured that only Allied war news was spread.  When Germany invaded Belgium, Americans heard of Germans attacking and enslaving civilians, when in reality this practice was not as widespread as reported.