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What venture does Salerio mention? According to Salerio and Solanio, what would be the reason for Antonio's sadness?

In Act One, Scene 1, Salerio and Solanio are having a conversation with their depressed friend, Antonio. Antonio mentions that he doesn't know why he is in such a terrible mood and that he feels tired and confused. Salerio comments that Antonio is worried about his merchant ships that are sailing on the treacherous sea. Salerio mentions that he would also be worried and in a depressed mood if his precious ship Andrew were grounded or sunk after a storm. He then tells Antonio that he cannot fool him because he knows Antonio is worried about his goods. Solanio agrees with Salerio, and they both initially think that Antonio is upset about his ships at sea. When Antonio mentions that he is not upset about his merchandise, Solanio says that Antonio must be in love. However, Antonio dismisses Solanio's assumption that he is in love, and Solanio ponders how peculiar some people are.

In Emma by Jane Austen, what does the first sentence say about how Austen portrays Emma Woodhouse, and which themes are revealed in the first...

In the first sentence of Emma, Austen says that her heroine is beautiful, smart, and wealthy and has a good personality and that she has lived her 21 years without much to disturb her. The first sentence relates to way in which Austen portrays Emma Woodhouse and to the themes of the novel. Emma's life as a young woman in Regency England has led her to be cloistered and naive. Though she is bright, she does not know much about life and must become more enlightened through experience and through connections with men in her life, such as Mr. Knightley, who have been allowed to have more experiences in the outer world. Emma's naiveté leads her to meddle in other people's affairs, such as Harriet's relationships with Mr. Elton and Mr. Martin, in flawed ways. Her lack of experience also causes her to judge other people, such as Jane Fairfax, unfairly. Though her friendship with Mr. Knightley and her experiences with others, Emma is eventually able to cultivate her considerable intelligence and charm into a more worldly approach to life.

Suppose you live in a community of 200 people where everyone is able and seeks to work. If 140 people are 16 years and older and 120 of them are...

The unemployment rate for this community would be 14.3%. Let us see how we arrive at this figure.

As you can see in the link below, an economy’s unemployment rate is generally defined as the percentage of people who are at or above the age of 16 and who do not have work even though they would like to have it. People who are below the age of 16 are not counted, even if they...

The unemployment rate for this community would be 14.3%. Let us see how we arrive at this figure.

In the scenario that you have given us, only two numbers matter. These are the number of people who are 16 or older and the number of people who have jobs. The total population of the community does not matter here because unemployment rates only look at people who are at least 16. In your question, you say that there are 140 people who are 16 or older in this community and 120 of them have work. This means that 20 of them are unemployed. We take 20 and divide it by 140 since 140 is the total number of people 16 or over who want to work. That gives us a figure of .1428. Expressed in terms of percentages, this is 14.3%, which means that the unemployment rate in this community is 14.3%.

Would you recommend Laurie Halse Anderson's book Speak to anyone? Why?

This is an opinion question, so feel free to state your opinion. Whether you would recommend the book or not isn't as important as explaining why you have that opinion. Additionally, one person might recommend the book because of a specific reason, while a different person might not recommend the book for the very same reason.

Personally, I would recommend Speak. I would definitely recommend the book to people in high school or...

Personally, I would recommend Speak. I would definitely recommend the book to people in high school or older. I would not recommend the book to anyone much younger than that, though, because the book's content focuses on the emotional turmoil Melinda goes through after being raped. I would recommend the book to both males and females. I believe it is important for men to understand and realize many women carry deep emotional scars from being raped. It's not just a physical violation. Despite the book being emotionally dark and depressing, Speak ends by giving the reader feelings of justice being served. There is hope at the end of the novel. Everyone knows what Andy did to Melinda, and the reader gets the sense that Melinda is finally on the emotional mend.

The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up.

Tell me the dialogues which show appearance vs reality in The Merchant of Venice.

The scenes where this theme is most obviously explored are those involving the caskets. These are Act 2, Scenes 1, 7, and 9; and Act 3, Scene 2.

Portia is an heiress. Her father, before he died, stipulated in his will that his daughter's husband should be chosen by a trial of caskets. Each hopeful suitor is shown three "caskets" (small chests) and is asked to choose one to open. If he opens the one that contains the picture of Portia, he can marry her. One casket is of lead, one of silver, and one of gold, and each has a cryptic riddle that goes with it.

In Act 2, Scene 1, the prince of Morocco arrives to try his luck. With his first words, he asks Portia not to dislike him because of his dark skin, pointing out that he has blood as red as any white man's.

In Scene 7, the prince chooses the gold casket, only to find it is the wrong one. Inside it is a poem that contains the famous line, "All that glisters is not gold."

In Scene 9, the prince of Arragon arrives to make his choice. He chooses the silver casket, which is also the wrong one.

In Act 3, Scene 2, Bassanio makes his choice. He and Portia love each other, and in fact Portia urges him to wait a while before choosing a casket so that they can enjoy each other's company. But Bassanio feels that until he knows whether they can marry, he "live[s] upon the rack." Bassanio picks the leaden casket, which of course turns out to be the right one. Before he picks it, he gives a long speech about how appearance and reality often differ. This speech begins,

So may the outward shows be least themselves;/The world is still deceived with ornament.

Other notable scenes in which appearance and reality differ are:

Act 2, Scene 2, in which Old Gobbo does not recognize his own son, and his son (Launcelot Gobbo), pretends to be someone else in order to have a joke on the old man. When Launcelot finally reveals himself, he has some difficulty in getting his father to believe it's really he.

Act 2, Scene 6, in which Jessica dresses up as pageboy to run away with Lorenzo.

The courtroom scene (Act 4, Scene 1), in which virtually nothing is as it seems. Portia arrives dressed up as the young lawyer Balthasar and is not recognized by her own husband. Shylock, who seems to have the law on his side, ends up being condemned by the law. And so on.

Act 4, Scene 2 and Act 5, Scene 1, in which Portia and Nerissa play a trick on their husbands Bassanio and Gratiano.

In what way does Duke Theseus play a very crucial role in the lives of many of the characters in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, though he...

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duke Theseus most significantly influences the lives of the four Athenian lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius.In the opening scene, Duke Theseus expresses doubtthat Egeus is making the correct decision in forcing his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius upon punishment of death or exile. He expresses this doubt in response to Lysander's protests that he is just as wealthy as Demetrius, maybe wealthier, and that...

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duke Theseus most significantly influences the lives of the four Athenian lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius.

In the opening scene, Duke Theseus expresses doubt that Egeus is making the correct decision in forcing his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius upon punishment of death or exile. He expresses this doubt in response to Lysander's protests that he is just as wealthy as Demetrius, maybe wealthier, and that Demetrius is unfaithful. We observe Lysander accuse Demetrius of unfaithfulness in the following:

Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,
Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
Upon this spotted and inconstant man. (1.1.106-10)

Upon hearing Lysander's accusation against Demetrius of unfaithfulness, Duke Theseus expresses his doubt in the rightness of the match when he replies, "I must confess that I have heard so much, / And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof" (111-12).
He then takes Egeus and Demetrius aside to speak with them privately, probably to dissuade them from pursuing the match.

Therefore, by the time we reach act 4, scene 1, Duke Theseus is very willing to overrule Egeus's decision to force his daughter into marriage, and it his willingness to overrule Egeus that significantly influences the lives of the two Athenian couples. Theseus overrules Egeus's command the moment Theseus hears Demetrius explain that he is now in love with Helena, which Theseus believes is morally correct. Once he overrules Egeus's command to his daughter, he grants both couples permission to be married in the temple alongside himself and Hippolyta, as we see in the following:

Egeus, I will overbear your will;
For in the temple by and by with us
These couples shall eternally be knit. (4.1.176-78)

By permitting Hermia to marry Lysander and Demetrius to marry Helena, Theseus is significantly influencing their lives, especially by preserving the lives of Hermia and Lysander.

What is the meaning of the following quote from To Kill a Mockingbird? He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own...

This passage is from Chapter 14 of To Kill a Mockingbird. Dill Harris has run away from home to be with his friends, Scout and Jem. In this passage, Dill is revealed as a highly intelligent boy, a creative genius, a sensitive soul, but he is lonely boy, perhaps not unlike Scout's strange neighbor.

Dill is so unhappy alone at home that he takes a train from Meridian, Mississippi, to Maycomb Junction, fourteen miles away, and...

Dill is so unhappy alone at home that he takes a train from Meridian, Mississippi, to Maycomb Junction, fourteen miles away, and covers the rest of the way by walking and then riding on the back of a cotton wagon.
When Dill gets in bed with Scout, she asks him why he has run away. Dill explains that his parents are often gone, and if they are home, they sequester themselves in a room and close him out. He says that his parents are not mean, and they buy him toys and tell him they love him. However, they rarely do anything with him, and the sensitive boy needs nurturing.

As they talk, Scout analyzes Dill in the passage cited above: He is bright, highly skilled in reading and arithmetic, but he prefers the dreamy, romantic--"twilight world"--of his own making, a world in which his creative soul that is sadly neglected at home finds refuge. He dreams of "a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies." This world is one in which Dill, too, would he hugged and coddled and loved with deep emotion and laughter and exhilaration--much as the little world he shares with the Finch children.
Little Scout feels herself falling asleep, too, until the image of another sad house emerges in her mind: "a gray house with sad brown doors." She then asks Dill,

"Why do you reckon Boo Radley's never run off?"
Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me.
"Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to...." (Ch.14)

Intuitively, Scout has hit upon the emptiness of Dill's home as being similar to that of Boo Radley. Dill runs to the Finches where there is warmth and love, but Boo has no refuge from his loneliness. Indeed, the sensitive Dill's last words before falling asleep are very significant.