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What does it mean to say that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend?”

The phrase the enemy of my enemy is my friend is a proverb that advances the concept that because two parties have a common enemy, they can work with each other to advance their common goals. Often described as an Arabic proverb, there is also an identical Chinese proverb.

In foreign policy, it’s a doctrine commonly used to interact with a significant enemy through an intermediary rather than through direct confrontation.

Examples throughout history are common, such as longtime enemies Britain and France uniting against Germany during World War I, the Western capitalist democracies aiding the Soviet Union following the Nazi invasion during World War II, or U.S. support for anti-Communist dictatorships during the Cold War.

The five stages in the product life cycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

• Introduction.  This is a stage when the product is typically being produced for local consumption and possibly exported
• Growth.  In this stage, copies of the product are often manufactured in another country and you start to get competition based on price.
• Maturity.  In this stage, price pressures get very strong and the good is almost never manufactured in the original country anymore.  It is now manufactured only in low-cost locations.
• Saturation.  At this stage, there is really no more growing that can be done.  The manufacturer has to start trying to come up with new ways to use the product to increase demand for it.
• Decline.  At this point, companies start to abandon the product and there is not much market for it at all.

Though Atticus is often absent because of his law practice and his duties with the Alabama legislature, he sees to it that his children don’t stray far from home.

What passages in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird show that Atticus is respected, tolerant, knowledgeable, or a good parent?

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

Though Atticus is often absent because of his law practice and his duties with the Alabama legislature, he sees to it that his children don’t stray far from home.

… our summer boundaries (within calling distance of Calpurnia) were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose’s house… and the Radley Place three doors to the south. We were never tempted to break them. (Chapter 1)

Atticus was home schooled himself, but he is determined to see his children educated in the public schools. When Scout wants to quit school after her bad first day with Miss Caroline, Atticus puts his foot down.

“… dose of magnesia for you tonight and school tomorrow.” (Chapter 3)

But Atticus also has some advice about tolerance for Scout, how she needs to “climb into his skin and walk around in it” before judging people. He is sensible enough not to let his children play with dangerous objects–“Give me those scissors. They’re no things to play with”–and he does not allow them to aggravate the neighbors, telling Jem to “stop tormenting that man (Boo).” Atticus picks up a gun again, killing the mad dog in order to protect his children as well as others in the neighborhood; and he makes certain that Jem and Scout are safe from Miss Maudie’s house fire. Most importantly, Atticus tries to set an example for his children, hoping that

“… they come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town.” (Chapter 9)

The Golgi apparatus is one of the most significant organelles present in most of the eukaryotic cells. It is a membrane-bound sac and is also known as Golgi body, Golgi complex, etc. The key functions of this organelle are as follows:

• It carries out the processing of the proteins generated in the endoplasmic reticulum.
• It transports proteins to different parts of the cell.
• It involves the modification of cargo proteins by Golgi enzymes.
• It imports nucleotide sugars from the cytosol in order to carry out the processes of glycosylation and phosphorylation.
• It breaks down proteins and forms small, active fragments.
• The addition of sulfate groups to the proteins takes place in the Golgi apparatus.
• Phosphate molecules are also incorporated into the proteins in the Golgi apparatus.
• It transports the lipids around the cell.
• It is important in the creation of lysosomes.
• It involves the processing and packaging of the macromolecules (for example, proteins and lipids).
• It involves the synthesis of proteoglycans.
• The Golgi apparatus can also be thought of as the “post office” of a eukaryotic cell.

Top-down processing is the cognitive process through which our brain uses information that has been brought into the brain via one or more sensory systems. Top-down processing begins with thoughts and flows downward to the senses; it is initiated by a larger concept, idea, or object and works from the general to the specific. It can be either conscious or unconscious. It is influenced by context (what we expect to find in a given situation) and motivation.

An example would be you driving down a street in a city you are not familiar with. As you are driving, you see a sign for a restaurant which is missing several letters. Despite this, you are still able to read the sign. This is because top-down processing uses your existing knowledge to make an educated guess about the sign’s contents.

Another example would be the Stroop effect, in which color words are printed in other colors (the word “blue” printed in pink ink, the word “white” printed in green ink, and so on). The mind is slower to interpret the color of the word than the word itself because people automatically recognize the word before thinking of the color.

Top down processing sensory (sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound) input into large chunks of infomation. In top down processing perceptions are formed based on our previous experiences beginning with the largest idea or concept and gradually working towards the finner details.

For example, it is easier to read messy handwriting in a sentence than trying to read one word because the sentence provides a context for processing the handwriting. See how you go from larger to smaller in the sentance. It might be very difficult to identify a single letter, but easier in the context of the whole sentence.

The human mind uses top down processing to read, as it does not read every leettr by ietslf, rthaer the wrod as a wlohe. As lnog as the fisrt and lsat ltreets are in the crceort plcae it dseon’t maettr what oredr the lettres of a wrod are in. You can siltl raed it!

The human mind uses top down processing to read, as it does not read every letter by itself, rather the word as a whole. As long as the first and last letters are in the correct place it doesn’t matter what order the letters of a word are in. You can still read it!…That is top down processing at work!

Difference between a Reptile and an Amphibian

Reptiles are cold-blooded animals. They typically lay hard shelled eggs and have skin covered with scales or a bony external plate. They either have four legs or descended from four limber ancestors. Some examples of reptiles are: alligators, crocodiles, caimans, gavials, lizards, snakes, turtles, and tortoises. The science dealing with reptiles is called herpetology.

Amphibians are animals that can live on land or in water. They spend part of their lives under water breathing through gills and part of their lives on land breathing with lungs. Amphibians are characterized by glandular skin and no scales. Most amphibians lay eggs in the water. Most have four legs but some have no legs. Some examples of amphibians are: frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts.

The Hobbit Short Summary

When Bilbo, a peaceful hobbit, is approached by the wizard Gandalf and asked to accompany a group of dwarves to take back their kingdom from a dragon, he agrees reluctantly and faces many dangers as they approach the Lonely Mountain, defeat Smaug, and finally join five armies together to defeat an army of goblins and wargs.

There are many events that take place in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The most important center on Bilbo’s journey away from and back to Hobbiton.

When Gandalf the Grey arrives at Bilbo’s and tricks him into hosting a party for a group of dwarves, it upsets Bilbo’s quiet, orderly life. Nonetheless, he agrees to accompany the group the next morning to take back the lost dwarven kingdom from Smaug the dragon.

The journey is fraught with peril, including an encounter with Gollum, the keeper of a mysterious ring that Bilbo steals. It makes him invisible when he puts it on. He uses it to rejoin the group of dwarves, which is led by warrior Thorin Oakenshield.

When they arrive at the Lonely Mountain, where Smaug lives, they’re greeted by people from nearby Lake-town, who want the dwarves to kill Smaug. When the party arrives at the mountain, Bilbo steals a cup and manages to spot a weakness on Smaug where a projectile could strike him. Once Smaug realizes what happened, he attacks Lake-town for aiding the person who stole from him.

A thrush that overheard Bilbo’s discovery of Smaug’s weakness reports it to a Lake-town defender who shoots an arrow at Smaug, slaying him.

The dwarves take back their mountain kingdom, but the men and elves who assisted on their journey come to demand compensation, reparations, and treasure they believe they’re owed. When the dwarves refuse, the armies prepare to fight. Bilbo argues with Thorin and asks him to give compensation, but Thorin refuses.

Gandalf returns and warns of an emerging threat: goblins and wargs. The men, elves, and dwarves band together to defeat them. Thorin and Bilbo make up, but Thorin dies from a wound he received in the battle. Bilbo, now rich with a small portion of the treasure he was offered, goes home.

The setting of this poem is a laburnum tree in September. A goldfinch nests in it with her brood of chicks. Color ties the tree and the bird together: at this time of year, the leaves of the tree turn yellow and goldfinches are also yellow or golden in hue. Further, unlike most birds, goldfinches will hatch eggs in the early fall.

The poem is divided into four stanzas of uneven length. In the first, three-line stanza, we are introduced to the top of the laburnum tree, with its yellow leaves accented by the sunlight and its seeds dropping. It is alive and fertile.

In the second, nine-line stanza, the poem’s longest, we are introduced to the goldfinch that nests in the tree. She brings it more fully to life by landing on it, making it tremble. There is movement and the sound of twittering as she appears. She is the “engine of her family.”

In the third, two-line stanza, she flies away from the tree, soaring towards the “infinite.”

In the final stanza, of one six-word line, the tree is “empty” without her presence.

The poem shows how the bird brings life to the tree. While the question asks only for summary, one interpretation of the poem is that Ted Hughes is the tree and the bird that flies to infinity is his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide, leaving behind two young children.

“The Laburnum Top” is a poem which celebrates the energy and life of nature. The laburnum tree is sitting in the silence of fall, without movement or apparent life. In flies a goldfinch, stirring up life both in and on the tree, as evidenced by the sound of rustling leaves and the scurrying of a lizard. The “engine” has roared to life with all kinds of sounds and life and energy; then the bird leaves and the laburnum falls back into silence and stillness…and the impending dormancy of winter.

There is one major difference between M1 and M2.  The main difference is that M1 is a more limited and more liquid type of money.  More types of money are included in M2, but they are less liquid than those included in M1.

Different kinds of money can be more or less liquid.  This means that they can be more or less usable for buying goods and services.  For example, cash and deposits in checking accounts are extremely liquid.  These, along with travelers’ checks (which used to be a more important form of money) make up M1.

M2 includes all of M1.  However, it also includes other, less liquid, forms of money.  This includes such things as deposits in savings accounts, money market accounts, and money market mutual funds.  It also includes money in certificates of deposit (CDs).  These types of money are relatively liquid, but are slightly more difficult to actually use than the money in M1 is.

Thus, the major difference between these two is that M1 is more liquid while M2 includes more kinds of money but is less liquid.

What does this quote mean: “They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

What Benjamin Franklin is trying to say in this quote is that personal liberty is the most important thing in a democratic society.

In democratic societies, we typically say that there is a tradeoff between liberty and safety. We see this tradeoff most clearly in the areas of policing and of anti-terrorism. A recent example of this is the revelation that the government has been collecting data on who we call on our phones. We say that we have to be willing to give up some of our freedoms so that the government can protect us from criminals and terrorists.

Franklin is rejecting this idea. He is saying that no one ought to be willing to give up any “essential liberty.” When he says this, he is claiming that liberty is the most important thing. He is saying that giving up liberty in order to get safety is something that is really bad. It is so bad that we do not deserve to have either liberty or safety if we are willing to give liberty up. This means that liberty is the most important thing.