Homework Help - November 2007

Here is my essay. Use curly braces { } to what part of the essay u change. most important plz check for grammar error.

Faith Loss in Darkness
In his poem, “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold seems to portray a number of ideas including of the beauty of the coast, his sense of randomness of human existence, reality and one of the key ones I most interested is being faith. The poem is a reaction to Matthew Arnold loss of faith, due to developments in scientific theory that basically contradict the previous beliefs and moral values set in place by religion. He sees the world as a bleak place and life as meaningless without the existence of God. This is the basic meaning of the third stanza so far, stating that religion, which was once strong force, losing its power due to the amount of people, including himself that are taking the side of science and materialistic of this world rather that his faith. The use of simile, imagery and metaphor in his poem makes it hard to understand, but as you read the poem several times it gradually make sense. In this poem, Arnold seems to make each of the stanzas to have its own characteristics, effectively transferring the theme of the poem. The poem itself has a realistic tone through Arnold’s use of words and illustrative descriptions. Arnolds seems to give life and emotions to the poem by the flow of words such as “pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,” giving the reader a sense of motion, and the feel of the sea close by. After reading through the poem, it seems that Arnold was trying to describe what he felt was wrong with the world and that faith in the world is disappearing because it is being constantly tormented by the new “waves” of science and materialism in the world.
In the beginning of the poem Arnold expresses how calm everything seems, and it’s like any other night. However, as the poem progresses, he mentions how Sophocles’s heard the sadness in the Aegean Sea, just as he was hearing the sadness in his own sea. In mentioning “the sea of faith,” he reveals that while it looks calm and normal on the surface of the sea, really, the sea is singing a song of sadness and despair. During this time, people began questioning religion and turning to science or Darwinism. Arnold is expressing how people used to not think twice about what they believed, but now the world was unsure. In telling his love to stay true to him, he is hoping that at least one thing in the world will remain the same and true. To him, the world was left in darkness by the threat against faith.
As Arnold’s world of the mid 1800’s, the pillar of faith supporting society was perceived as crumbling under the weight of scientific postulates, such as the evolutionary theory of Darwin, the existence of God and the whole Christian scheme of things was cast in doubt. In this poem it seems that Arnold is deeply religious, lamented the dying of the light of faith, as symbolized by the light he sees in Dover Beach, which gleams one moment and is gone the next.
Throughout the poem Arnold used the sea to symbolize for a time when faith in God was strong and comforting. This faith itself wrapped itself around us, protecting us from doubt and despair, as the sea wraps itself around the world. Now, the “sea of faith/ was once, too, at full” has become a sea of doubt. Science and materialism challenges the percepts of faith in religion; human misery makes the world and its people feel abandoned, lonely. The people in the world place their faith in material things and thus the certainty of religion withdraws itself from the human grasp and leaves only darkness behind.
Furthermore, in the third stanza of the poem “Dover Beach” Arnold is discussing faith initially as being fresh and new. After it matures for a while it becomes stale, abandon and loses its appeal. As he contemplates Dover Beach, Arnold hears the “melancholy, long withdrawing roar” of the “sea of faith” (line 25, 21). It seems as though Arnold is questioning his own faith. He thinks that once lost, without faith, the world is a cold place. This is the dismal message Arnold is trying to convey. Faith lost, is elusive, like a ethereal vision of hope. We can only grasp it in dreams. We feel it and see it the moment before waking, but upon waking, forget almost everything, but not all. Arnold point is summed up in the end of the poem where it said “ignorant armies clash at night.” This line implies that both believers in faith answering everything and materialism similarly being the best way forward are both wrong in assuming only one is right.
The poem “Dover Beach” is definitely describing faith being abandoned and loss. Arnold sees the need for God dwindling among the world as in him, but it seems the poem itself is telling that he realizes that he should have more faith because without faith we are all lost. In an attempt to give substance to his life, he clings to what he loves, hoping that it will be enough. Arnold understands the faith has been dwindling significantly in the recent past and realizes that we have become increasingly despondent due to this, having no choice but to turn to love, as he himself has done, and cling to another in hopes of not losing his faith in this doubtful and materialistic world.

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I need to know HOW to solve this problem... I know that distilled water has a pH of 7... but without using that number in the formula, how and what do i imput into the formula in order to get this pH of 7? AHHHHH!!! HELP PLEASE !!!

Find the pH factor of a substance of your choice. Is this substance acidic or basic? Why?
Substance : “DISTILLED WATER”

Logarithmic Formula
pH = - log H+ concentration

Using this pH, show how to find the hydrogen ion content of the substance using the formula. Round to 10 decimal places or write your answer using scientific notation. Include units on your answer.

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Please change this sentence to something that will make grammatical sense.

Clearly visible under the shoe, a part of the heel peels away to reveal the true underside of this piece of footgear.



Do not use since, when, while, because, after, who, whose, whom, which, that, as if, as, if, will, have, has, had is, are, was, were, be, being, been, seems, looks, appears, smells, feels, tastes, I, you, our, we, us.

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2007-11-12 01:09:49 · 2 answers · asked by Ritsuku (Shadow) 2

write a journey type short story or narrative account of a hero's encounter with a monster in his lair. Organize your story in the form of a journey or guest. In the first part describe and picture the surrounding area or vicinity. In the 2nd Part , describe or narrate the means of entering the hiding place. In the Third Part describe what the lair itself looked like and the kinds of things the hero finds there. and finally in the last part describe the hero's encounter and/or the battle with the monster. Give a vivid description of your monster..................

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hey guys, I don't mean to spam, but I think this will get more responses in this section than in the sculpture section, where I posted it before. anyway, it is homework!


when discussing two sculptures from the Hellenistic era of greek art, what does this mean?


context:

"both [sculptures] display technical virtuosity in the rendering of forms and textures"

I suspect it means that the sculpting is realistic, but I'm not sure.

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2007-11-11 17:16:30 · 6 answers · asked by Brekn'dwn 1

1; When you are ally's with a country, does it mean we are friends w/ them or enemies?
and..
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THANKS GUYS!
:DD

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2007-11-11 15:41:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

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So since it's Veterans Day tomorow i have some questions about this day:
1. How important are a nation's armed forces?Why?
2. do you believe people should be required to serve in the armed forces? Why or Why not?
3. What qualifications do you believe those who wish to serve in tha armed forces should have?
4. should women be allowed to serve in the armed forces? Why or why not?
5. how could serving in the armed forces make someone more appreciated of their homeland and freedoms?
AGAIN I WILL GIVE 10 POINTS FOR THE BEST ANSWER AND FOR WHO EVER ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS AND PLZ GIVE SOME SERIOUS ANSWERS. THANKS.

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