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Can a child's blood type be B+ if the mother has an O- blood type and the father has an O+ blood type?

There are two parts to how we commonly type blood: the part that deals with antigens (the part of blood type that is A, B, AB, or O) and Rh factor (the positive or negative after the letters). The antigen portion of the blood type says what antigens the blood cells have or don't have. A has A antigens, B has B antigens, AB has both A and B antigens, and O has neither antigen. For the Rh factor, it is either present (positive) or not (negative). A parent can only pass down an antigen and Rh factor they possess. Parents with AB blood can pass down either the A or the B marker.

In this specific case, neither parent has either antigen, so a child would have to have an O blood type. For the child to have a B blood type, one parent would have to have either AB or B as their blood type. The Rh factor is similarly passed down. For the child to be Rh positive, there would have to be an Rh positive parent. It would be impossible for an O- mother and an O+ father to have a child with B+ blood. The only possible blood types for these parents would be O- (only possible if the father had an Rh negative gene) or O+.

Why doesn't Cherry want to spend the evening with Bob and his friends in The Outsiders?

Cherry and Marcia did not want to stay with Bob and his friends because the boys were drinking.

When Pony, Johnny, and Dally sneak into the movies, they are surprised to find two Soc girls sitting there alone. Their boyfriends are not with them, because they are avoiding them for the time being. The boys were drinking too much, and the girls did not want to be around them.

Cherry gets annoyed at the suggestion...

Cherry and Marcia did not want to stay with Bob and his friends because the boys were drinking.

Cherry gets annoyed at the suggestion that the boys just got a little drunk.

Cherry looked mad. "A little? You call reeling and passing out in the streets 'a little'? Bob, I told you, I'm never going out with you while you're drinking, and I mean it. Too many things could happen while you're drunk. It's me or the booze." (Ch. 3)

This turns out to be very important. Since Bob was drinking and attacked Johnny and Pony in the park, he might have been more violent than he would have been sober. Either way, things got very out of hand. Bob tried to drown Pony, and Johnny attacked him with a knife and killed him.

Pony found out later that Bob seemed to have a drinking habit, and his parents let him run wild. Cherry stood up for Johnny and Pony with the authorities, even though Bob was her boyfriend.

They had interviewed Cherry Valance, and she said Bob had been drunk and that the boys had been looking for a fight when they took her home. Bob had told her he'd fix us for picking up his girl. His buddy Randy Adderson, who had helped lump us, also said it was their fault and that we'd only fought back in self-defense. (Ch. 7)

Cherry and Randy both imply that this never would have happened if Bob had not been such a heavy drinker.

May a state be composed of several nations? If so, can you please give an example?

A state is a relatively well-defined unit, based upon the largest unified government that maintains strong de facto power over a region. States are generally characterized also by some degree of recognition in the international community, and reasonably well-defined borders. A region could fail to be a state either because it is part of some other state, or because it is so chaotic that no institution holds de facto power over the region. Most of what we think of as "countries" are unambiguously states--somewhat ironically, the United States is very much one single state at this point.

A nation is a much more fraught concept; one person's "nation" is another's "ethnic group." The idea is that people of a nation share some sense of cultural unity; they speak the same language, they consider their heritage shared, they have cultural features in common that are distinct from others. Yet in practice, these boundaries are often extremely fuzzy---is Germany a nation, or just Bavaria? Is Canada a nation, or specifically Quebec? Could Californians be considered a different nation from Texans? What about Southerners versus Yankees (there was a civil war over that, after all)?

Still, it does seem to be the case that a single state can encompass multiple nations. The United Kingdom is the classic example; Scotland and Wales really do seem to be distinct nations from England, but all are part of the same state, the United Kingdom. When the British Empire was stronger, it was even sensible to say that Canada, Australia, and India were part of the same UK state, but India especially was clearly not the same nation.

Perhaps the best definition of a nation is the maximum unit of strong solidarity (as opposed to de facto power). Your nation is the people you think of as "like you", as "on your team." But precisely because people vary in their concepts of solidarity, this definition doesn't result in clearly-defined national boundaries.

This is a feature, not a bug; it shows that our definition is capturing the real ambiguity. In the real world, the ambiguous and fraught defining lines between nations have been a source of much conflict. People who think of themselves as separate nations often seek to form separate states, while people who do not think of those people as part of a separate nation will often try to maintain unity against that separation. And as national identities change, the desired boundaries change as well--often violently.

Why does every police officer need to be aware of the rules of civil liability? What are the potential consequences if an officer is not aware of...

Police are necessary to reduce crime and maintain civil order, but to maintain a free society, it is also necessary that the police abide by strict codes of conduct and do not abuse their authority. We need to hold police officers to an even higher standard than we hold other people because the police act "under color of law." This means they represent our government, system of laws, and, ultimately, civil society. Every action by...

To that end, we have established codes of civil liability that the police are required to obey at all times. These rules ultimately owe their existence to fundamental rights established in the Constitution, such as the right against unreasonable search and seizure in the Fourth Amendment and the right against self-incrimination in the Fifth Amendment.

If a police officer violates one of these rights in the line of duty (examples include performing an illegal search, killing a suspect without justification, or performing a custodial interrogation without a lawyer present), that officer can be held liable and sued in court for damages. Evidence acquired illegally can be thrown out of court. If the offense is serious enough, it can result in the officer being removed from the force or receiving criminal charges.

Police officers have a responsibility to know and follow these codes of civil liability, not only to protect themselves from lawsuits, but also as a fundamental part of their job. Officers aren't thugs or vigilantes who fight crime without rules; they are police officers who exercise legitimate authority within Constitutional limits.

What is a theme of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

One theme is the theme of isolation.

This is probably my personal favorite theme of the poem. It's a lonely poem. The speaker is a man who has stopped with his horse beside a lonely wood. He doesn't know who the woods belongs to, but he is sure that the owner lives in the town that is in the area.

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village...

One theme is the theme of isolation.

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

There's nobody else around. In fact, he is so alone that the only sound that he hears is the wind and the harness bells.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

I never get the feeling that the man is scared by his isolation. In fact, I get the opposite feeling. I think that he enjoys his isolation and alone time. I feel that is especially evident by the positive way in which he talks about the dark and snowy woods.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

The ending of the poem seems to indicate that he is tired and not looking forward to keeping those promises. Those promises are likely reminders of his busy, people-centered life. I always get the feeling that the man is thinking those final two lines with a heavy sigh.

Read The Story of My Life and answer the following questions: i. Helen had a great strength and courage which helped her come...

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Question 5:

Martha Washington was the daughter of the Keller family's cook. Martha was Helen's closest friend before Miss Sullivan came. The girl learned Helen's crude signs. Unfortunately, Helen bossed Martha Washington around. Martha was...

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Question 5:

It pleased me to domineer over [Martha Washington], and she generally submitted to my tyranny rather than risk a hand-to-hand encounter (The Story of My Life, Chapter II).

The two girls enjoyed being in the kitchen, where they did everything from preparing ice cream to grinding coffee beans. Sometimes they played outside, where they searched for eggs.

Helen and Martha Washington sometimes got into trouble. One day, they were cutting out paper dolls with scissors. Soon they began cutting other things. Helen decided to cut some of Martha's hair. Martha did the same to Helen.

You will find information to answer your first question in chapters 4-9. You can find out about Helen and Miss Sullivan's relationship throughout most of the book. It evolved from teacher to companion over the years. You will also find information for the pen portrait throughout the book. Helen's relationship with her sister changed over time. You will find several examples of it throughout the book.

What happens when you react liquid pentanol (C5H11OH) and gaseous oxygen?

Pentanol is a liquid hydrocarbon composed mostly of carbon and hydrogen atoms and has the chemical formula C5H11OH. Gaseous oxygen (also know as molecular oxygen) is a diatomic molecule composed of two oxygen atoms with the formula O2). If you mix these two chemicals under standard conditions (room temperature and atmospheric pressure), absolutely nothing will happen. But the addition of a tiny spark will ignite the chemical reaction known as combustion. This is the burning...

C5H11OH + (15/2)O2 --> 5CO2 + 6H2O

To remove the fraction from the coefficient in front of the oxygen species, multiply the entire equation by 2:

2C5H11OH + 15O2 --> 10CO2 + 12H20