Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from A Christmas Carol (4-6 good sentences): “It matters little,” she said, softly. “To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.” “What Idol has displaced you?” he rejoined. “A golden one.” “This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said. “There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!” “You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”  . . . .  “Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.”  

He bears a “little crutch” and “had his limbs supported by an iron frame.” His words of “God Bless Us, Every One!” close A Christmas Carol.      

Identify the context, and significance of the following quotation from Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (4-6 good sentences):                   other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.—And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:

For the reaction: H 2   +   I 2   ⇌   2 H I Which is the correct equilibrium expression?

Part III: Essay (40 points)• Choose one of the following topics and write a terrific, far-reaching essay, one that is rich in insight and specific detail.• Minimum word count: 400 (“A” essays usually go well beyond the minimum); +1 for providing a word count at the end (you must type this “by hand”). • Make sure your essay has an introduction, three-four body paragraphs, and a conclusion.• Keep the introduction and conclusion short; let the bulk of the paper be the body paragraphs.• Bring in numerous specific details from the work, and reference key ideas from class discussion and the PowerPoints in your analysis. Topic A:  Focusing on Staves One and Five of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, discuss the moral transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. How does Scrooge change in his treatment of his fellow human beings? How and why has he evolved? In your essay, discuss the following scenes in detail, incorporating specific detail from both Stave One and Stave Five to prove your assertions. You may also draw from any other stave you think relevant to the topic:  The “portly gentleman” he encounters (one body paragraph)  His nephew Fred (one body paragraph)  His employee, Bob Cratchit, and his family (one body paragraph) Note: ** You may add an additional body paragraph where you expand any of the previous sections from one paragraph to two, or discuss anything else you think relevant to this topic. Conclusion: What moral message is Dickens sending to his readers through Scrooge’s transformation?   Topic B: Discuss the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as following the traditional pattern of the Christian Fall and Redemption. In your essay, be sure to do the following in one body paragraph each: –Discuss the Mariner with regard to the albatross.  What “sin” does the Mariner commit and why? and how does he suffer for the sin he has committed? –Discuss the moment of transformation with the water snakes. How is he changing, particularly with regard to nature? –The Mariner at the end of his tale. What does he say about the way he lives his life?  What role does religion play in it?   Ultimately, what is the Mariner’s religious perspective at the end of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?  Optional:  A 4th body paragraph, discussing anything else you see as relevant, or expanding one of the previous body paragraphs to two.  –Conclusion:  What was Coleridge’s theological purpose in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?  In what ways is it a Christian text?

Keats first describes it as “as a still unravished bride of quietness”; later, it is characterized as a “friend to man,” to             whom it says, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” 

What is the oxidation number of chlorine in ClO3-?

Which change would most likely increase the rate of a chemical reaction?

Which particle is missing from the nuclear equation below?U92238 → Th90234 + ____

If \(\sin(t)=\frac{3}{5}\) and \(t\) is in quadrant II, find \(\sec(t)\).