Describe how the number of seats for the Democratic and the Republican parties changed in the House of Representatives as a result of the election...

According to our constitution, the entire House of Representatives is to be elected every two years. There is currently a total of 435 seats in the House of Representatives. The number of seats each state has is based on the population of the state. States with larger populations have more seats than states with smaller populations.

As a result of the election in 2012, the Democrats had 201 seats in the House of Representatives while...

According to our constitution, the entire House of Representatives is to be elected every two years. There is currently a total of 435 seats in the House of Representatives. The number of seats each state has is based on the population of the state. States with larger populations have more seats than states with smaller populations.

As a result of the election in 2012, the Democrats had 201 seats in the House of Representatives while the Republicans had 234 seats. As a result of the election in 2014, the Democrats had 188 seats in the House of Representatives while the Republicans had 247 seats. As a result, the Republican majority increased in the House of Representatives.

Having a majority of seats in the House of Representatives is important for whatever political party has the majority of seats. The Speaker of the House of Representatives comes from the majority party. Should something happen to both the President and the Vice President that would prevent them from doing the job of the President, the Speaker of the House, currently Paul Ryan, would assume the responsibilities of the presidency. The majority party also chairs the committees of the House of Representatives and has more members on the committees. They also control more of the budget of each committee and have more staff members. Additionally, the majority party gets the more desirable office locations and can determine the legislative agenda.

When you remove an organism from a food web or add an organism to a food web, what are some consequences that can occur?

All the organisms in a food web are related to one another and changes of population of one organism will affect the population of others. Each organism, in a food web, is either a prey or predator (or both) of another organism. Thus, changes in its population will mean less threat or food to another organism. Additionally, many organisms are in competition, with each other, for same food source. Thus, changes in the population of...

All the organisms in a food web are related to one another and changes of population of one organism will affect the population of others. Each organism, in a food web, is either a prey or predator (or both) of another organism. Thus, changes in its population will mean less threat or food to another organism. Additionally, many organisms are in competition, with each other, for same food source. Thus, changes in the population of an organism will affect the organism that serves as its food or the organism that feeds on it and the organisms that compete with it.

For example, deer eat grass and are in turn, eaten by tigers. Deer also compete with other herbivores, such as say, cows, etc. If the population of deer is increased, cows will have more competition for food, more grass would be consumed and tigers will have more food. This could result in lesser grass and cow population and more tiger population.

If we completely remove deer, tigers will have less food, cows will have more food and grass will have lesser predators. Thus, grass density will increase, cows population will increase and tiger population will decrease (in short term; in longer term, additional cows will feed tigers). 

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How does the government influence science research?

The biggest weapons that the government has are funding and policy.Scientific research requires resources and in turn, money. Governments spend billions of dollar each year on research, in various disciplines. For example, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DoE), etc. are some of the governmental organizations who fund research in United States. The government can decide on some focus areas (say, infrastructural development and cancer research or fuel...

The biggest weapons that the government has are funding and policy. Scientific research requires resources and in turn, money. Governments spend billions of dollar each year on research, in various disciplines. For example, National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DoE), etc. are some of the governmental organizations who fund research in United States. The government can decide on some focus areas (say, infrastructural development and cancer research or fuel cell and batteries, etc.) and channel more funds into those areas. This will result in more research in these areas, while drying up funds from other areas and reducing the amount of research in them. The government can also make policy changes, such as banning stem cell research, etc., that will change the direction of scientific research in some disciplines.

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What is one metaphor that Juliet uses to describe the night in Romeo and Juliet?

In Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, we find the two young lovers engaged in conversation in the Capulets' garden after the ball has ended. Juliet has just professed her love for Romeo while standing on her balcony, not knowing that he has overheard her words from his hiding place below. Upon learning that she is not alone and that Romeo has listened to her private thoughts spoken aloud, she initially fears...

In Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, we find the two young lovers engaged in conversation in the Capulets' garden after the ball has ended. Juliet has just professed her love for Romeo while standing on her balcony, not knowing that he has overheard her words from his hiding place below. Upon learning that she is not alone and that Romeo has listened to her private thoughts spoken aloud, she initially fears for his safety if he should be caught there and then she chastises him for spying on her. She is also embarrassed that he has overheard her true feelings for him and she says:

"Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;                                          Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek                                               For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight."  (lines 85 - 87)

In the first line of this quote she compares the night to a mask, which conceals her awkward humiliation, and this is an example of a metaphor that is used to describe night.       

How does "The Raven" relate to Poe's real life, aside from paralleling his grief for his wife Virginia?

Perhaps it doesn't.

If you want to, you can definitely point out the various tragedies of Poe's real life, the struggles he endured that involved everything from gambling debts to drinking to strained familial relationships to the death of his wife, and you can find reflections of those struggles in his stories and poems about tortured souls, especially in his poem "The Raven." In fact, Richard Kopley suggests in his introduction to The Raven and...

Perhaps it doesn't.

If you want to, you can definitely point out the various tragedies of Poe's real life, the struggles he endured that involved everything from gambling debts to drinking to strained familial relationships to the death of his wife, and you can find reflections of those struggles in his stories and poems about tortured souls, especially in his poem "The Raven." In fact, Richard Kopley suggests in his introduction to The Raven and Other Poems that "an appreciation of the losses that Poe had endured in his life increases our understanding" of Poe's work.

But if you're trying to look too closely to confirm your guess that the poem and the poet's life have deeper parallels, you may not be successful.

However, we do have some hints about what Poe was thinking when he wrote "The Raven."

For example, we do know that he wanted us to interpret the bird as a symbol of memory. He wanted us to understand the raven itself as the embodiment of a terribly sad, ongoing remembrance. (I'm getting this from Kopley's introduction that I mentioned a moment ago.) This makes sense when you think of how the bird can only say the same phrase again and again: it reveals how we find only limited comfort in our memory of people we've lost, since we can only access recollections of the finite things they said and did, since they will no longer say or do anything else or continue to interact with us. 

We also have some extensive commentary from Poe himself on what he was trying to accomplish, literary-wise, by writing "The Raven." You can find his thoughts in his published essay entitled "The Philosophy of Composition." You'll find a bunch of insights there, including the fact that he purposefully wrote that poem to appeal to popular taste as well as to the taste of the critics. That fact alone might convince us that Poe was primarily working to create a masterful (and profitable) piece of literature rather than use it to subtly express his own personal struggles.

Why does the reader think they’re walking with Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol?

Your question is quite confusing; however, my guess is that it is a reference to the visit (during the journey of the ghost of Christmas present and Scrooge) to the Cratchit family household.  The reason why I think this is because of the word “they’re.”  The quotation I believe you are referring to is as follows:

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken,...

Your question is quite confusing; however, my guess is that it is a reference to the visit (during the journey of the ghost of Christmas present and Scrooge) to the Cratchit family household.  The reason why I think this is because of the word “they’re.”  The quotation I believe you are referring to is as follows:

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire.

In this instance, Tiny Tim is “walking” with the help of his crutch and is “escorted” by “his brother and sister.”  This indicates Peter and either Martha or Belinda.  We are not told which sister is helping Tiny Tim.  The reason why they are walking with Tiny Tim over to the fire is twofold.  The first and less significant reason in that the three are going to help their mother with the food and sample the cooking.  The most important reason, though, is that Tiny Tim is a cripple and needs help getting places.  Even while using his crutch, Tiny Tim is prone to falling down due to his weakness and fragility.

What personal choices does the poem "The Road Not Taken" remind you of ?

The poem "The Road Not Taken" is about a speaker who comes to a place where two roads diverge in a yellow wood, and he contemplates what road he should take. Symbolically speaking, this poem talks about the time when we find ourselves at a crossroads and when we must make an important choice which will irrevocably alter our lives. That choice could be related to anything, such as the college we want to go...

The poem "The Road Not Taken" is about a speaker who comes to a place where two roads diverge in a yellow wood, and he contemplates what road he should take. Symbolically speaking, this poem talks about the time when we find ourselves at a crossroads and when we must make an important choice which will irrevocably alter our lives. That choice could be related to anything, such as the college we want to go to, or the job we want to accept, or the person we want to be with. Our speaker attempts to look down one road so that he could potentially guess what that road would bring to him if he were to take it:

Long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth...

However, he realizes that we cannot know what awaits us in the future. The poem stresses how we cannot make two choices simultaneously. We must make one choice, which, in consequence, will shape us. And once we do it, we cannot go back to the time when we had another option in front of us:

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

The last stanza suggests that we should always take "the road less traveled by," which means that we should not make the easy and popular choices, but the ones that would make our lives more fulfilling.