A number of different terms have been used to identify acts of violence against women (for example, "wife battering" and "intimate partner abuse"). a) Based on the information in Chapter 6 of the textbook Women and Crime: The Essentials and on the article "Police Reaction to Male Victims of Domestic Violence," should male victims of domestic violence be treated differently by the criminal justice system? b) What about Victim Services? Should there be distinctive services available to assist male victims of domestic violence?

a) The answer to this question will depend upon your perspective after reading the documents in question. 
In order to decide whether male victims of domestic violence should be treated differently by the criminal justice system, we will have to consider two important factors. First, what are the circumstances surrounding the abuse of male victims? According to Chapter Six of Mallicoat and Ireland's book, the justice system often fails to note the rationale behind the actions of female batterers.
The authors cite several studies which demonstrate that female batterers often use violence as a means of self-defense or as a preemptive move to discourage violence from their intimate partners. They argue that women who batter often do so to maintain personal agency, while men batter to maintain control over the lives of their intimate partners. 
Second, in order to answer the question, we must also address the implications of a gender-neutral approach to domestic violence. A gender-neutral approach would entail a disregard of prevailing and sometimes harmful social perspectives about domestic violence.
As has been pointed out by Mallicoat and Ireland, female batterers often perpetrate violence on their domestic partners as a desperate act of self-defense. Therefore, justice systems must be open to the possibility that the female perpetrator may also be a victim.
Similarly, the troubling rise in female-on-male violence has introduced new paradigms into the arena of domestic violence. Men report receiving little sympathy from law enforcement officials regarding their plight. Still others report that they were arrested despite being the victims of domestic violence. The social stigma associated with male victimhood often leads fewer men to report incidents of domestic violence. So the justice system must be open to the realities associated with female-on-male violence.
While both male and female victims of domestic violence deserve support from the criminal justice system, one thing is clear: diverse approaches are needed to tackle the issues associated with both male and female victimhood. Men and women deserve advocates who understand their unique challenges.
b) As for Victim Services, it follows from the arguments above that male victims would need assistance specifically tailored to their unique circumstances. For example, many male victims fear that police don't view women as perpetrators of violence. As a result, men who report incidences of domestic abuse must produce clear evidence (often in the form of recordings) to substantiate their claims.
Such victims need the assistance of law enforcement who understand that female batterers may resort to false claims about merely acting in self-defense. So Victim Services for male victims should be specifically tailored to their unique circumstances.
For more information on answering these questions, please refer to the links below.
http://www.batteredmen.com/NVAWcjs.htm

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-acknowledge-m_b_8292976

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/domestic-violence-services-gender-neutral

In The Chosen, what is a good passage involving figurative language?

On page 6 of The Chosen by Chaim Potok, there are a number of examples of figurative language involved in the description of a baseball game in which Reuven Malter, the protagonist, is playing. Mr. Galanter, the coach, yells at the team, "Close in. A battleship could get between you and Malter." In this example, the coach is using hyperbole, or exaggeration (a type of figurative language), to describe the space between two players on the baseball team. The coach then says, "The enemy's on the ground. That throw was wide, Goldberg. Throw it like a sharpshooter." In these sentences, the coach is using a metaphor and a simile, comparing the baseball game to a war with enemy troops attacking and sharpshooters keeping them at bay. 
Lower on the same page, the narrator of the book, Reuven, says, "To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, the spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day." In this metaphor, Reuven likens the rabbis' conception of baseball to a spawn, or an animal-like offspring. In other words, by using the word "spawn," Reuven underscores the rabbis' disdain for baseball. The boys' interest in baseball is something that the rabbis do not want and something that they can't control, as they would prefer that the boys concentrate on their study of Talmud. 

How and when did the U.S. begin its influence in Hawaii? How was Hawaii annexed?

The United States started down the road to annexing Hawaii in 1820, when the first missionaries arrived in the islands from New England and set up shop on Maui, Oahu and the big island. At the same time, whaling ships from Massachusetts began stopping at the ports of Honolulu and Lahaina to stock up on provisions.
Their arrival coincided with the erosion of traditional Hawaiian customs and beliefs following the death of the great king Kamehameha the previous year. The power struggle between the new king and the dead king's favorite wife precipitated crises that hastened the abandonment of centuries-old traditions.
As the Hawaiian islands opened to the West, the native peoples enjoyed trading with the newcomers. This trade was boosted by the opening of large commercial sugar and pineapple plantations in the 1830s and 1840s, and the California Gold Rush made Hawaii an attractive trading partner due to its proximity to the West Coast compared to the US Eastern Seaboard. Western influence increased with the 1840 Constitution and an 1848 land act that allowed foreigners to gobble up lands previously owned by nobles and commoners alike.
Hawaii signed a most favored nation treaty with the US in 1849 that provided generous terms to Hawaiian sugar producers -- a situation that lasted until 1890, when tariff rates on foreign sugar imports hurt the Hawaiian economy greatly. The growers, mostly wealthy Americans, saw annexation as a way to make the tariff problem disappear. They started an uprising in 1893 that forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate, and an annexation treaty was quickly drawn up, but before it could be approved, newly inaugurated US President Grover Cleveland withdrew the treaty from Senate consideration.
President Cleveland believed the US had acted wrongly in Hawaii and was determined to place the queen back on her throne, but his attempts to do so were thwarted at every turn. Sanford Dole, who'd led the uprising that overthrew the queen, refused to step aside and declared Hawaii an independent republic. When William McKinley became president in 1897, he negotiated a treaty with the Republic of Hawaii, and when war with Spain broke out a year later, the naval base at Pearl Harbor and its strategic location for the war effort sealed Hawaii's fate. Congress quickly approved formal annexation of the islands, and by 1900, Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory, which it remained until statehood in 1959.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy

What does it mean to be a man or a woman in Macbeth?

In Macbeth, William Shakespeare explores ideas about appropriate male and female identity and behavior in regard to living and dying. The complicated partnership between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth reveals the gaps between expectations and actions, as well as the consequences of failure to uphold social standards.
While the ruler of Scotland is unquestionably the king, Macbeth needs a woman’s support to commit manly violent acts. He relies on his wife both to muster the resolve to commit the murders and to cover the traces of his bloody deeds. In this respect, Shakespeare shows that developing an identity as a man is interdependent with relying on a woman.
For Lady Macbeth, however, there is a glass ceiling to her ambitions. She knows that playing a complementary role to her husband is her only route to power. She aims to detach herself from what she understands as female limitations—to be “unsexed.” The irony related to the success she achieves in this goal, however, is that Macbeth shows no sense of appropriate limits. He misinterprets the meaning of manliness and a warrior’s courage, slaughtering innocent children. This travesty against nature effectively disqualifies him to lead, as it makes him an unnatural man.
Macbeth attempts to reassert his masculinity and redeem himself at the end by fighting on as a warrior, albeit in service of a lost cause. While he can choose to lose his life in an "appropriate" way (i.e., on the battlefield), that path is blocked to Lady Macbeth, as a woman, and she takes her own life.

Shakespeare works with stereotypical ideas of men and women's "natures." A man is supposed to be strong, brave, and capable of violence. A woman is supposed to innately be a nurturing mother figure given to compassion rather than hardness.
Lady Macbeth tries early in the play to "unsex" herself and fill herself with gall. This way, she can steel herself to prodding her husband to murder Duncan. She calls on the spirit world to help her with her task.
Lady Macbeth is successful in appealing to Macbeth's masculinity in persuading him to go ahead with the murder, even though he had changed his mind. He can't very well back down against her seemingly hard masculinity without looking weak himself.
Ironically, however, the play ends up affirming traditional gender roles. Lady Macbeth, for all her bold talk, is the one who cracks and goes mad because of the guilt she carries, sleepwalking at night and trying to wash Duncan's blood off of her hands. Ultimately, the crime becomes too unbearable for her, and she commits suicide. Macbeth is the one who grows hard and is able to morally withstand what he has done. He is miserable, but he doesn't crack under the strain as she does.

Macbeth can, to a degree, be seen as a commentary on the conventional implications of "being a man" or "being a woman."
Lady Macbeth's invocation to the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" asks that they "unsex" her. The suggestion is that for the purpose at hand—killing Duncan—she wishes not to have the normally gentle and merciful qualities associated with femininity.
At the same time, Lady Macbeth, in criticizing her husband's nature as "too full of the milk of human kindness," is attributing a kind of femininity to Macbeth. When Banquo's ghost appears in the supper scene and Macbeth becomes hysterical, she pointedly asks him, "Are you a man?" to which he replies, "Ay, and a bold one that dare look on that which would appall the devil." Her questioning of his manhood is presented as the worst insult that a woman can deliver, though her intention is to knock some sense into Macbeth and get him to stop panicking. She and the others at the banquet, of course, do not see the ghost. This leads us to the still unsolved question of whether the ghost is merely a hallucination, as Lady Macbeth asserts: "This is the very painting of your fear! This is the air-drawn dagger you said led you to Duncan." Macbeth is not a coward, but the depth of his guilt has caused him to react in a fearful, violently emotional way.
The most significant thing about the traditional concepts of "man" and "woman" presented in Macbeth is the irony that the male lead, Macbeth, has more compassion than his female counterpart. Lady Macbeth's encouragement is what sets the plot in motion and causes the killing. Without Macbeth's own inner cruelty, however, her urging would have fallen on deaf ears. So the ultimate message Shakespeare gives is that both men and women are equals in their potential to destroy others and, ultimately, themselves.

To be a good man in Macbeth is to be brave and strong, a warrior, like Macbeth and Banquo are at the beginning of the play. Consider how highly they are initially praised by Duncan, a character whom we are clearly supposed to like (even Macbeth must admit how kind, generous, humble, and honest a ruler Duncan is). Duncan is, in many respects, an ideal man and ruler—he only lacks the discernment to realize whom he should and should not trust. Further, a man ought to care deeply about his family, like Macbeth does for Lady Macbeth at the beginning, or like Macduff does for his wife and children, or like Duncan does for his sons.
From our knowledge of Elizabethan England, we might make a case that to be a good woman in Macbeth is to be soft and nurturing, a woman who stands by her husband and supports him in his principles. Essentially, we might infer that a woman ought to be everything Lady Macbeth is not. She manipulates her husband, emasculating and insulting him, trying to run roughshod over him and his principles. In the end, she pays a terrible price when she loses her sanity and takes her own life. These are the major clues that her behavior is wrong by Elizabethan standards.

Calculus of a Single Variable, Chapter 9, 9.4, Section 9.4, Problem 14

Limit comparison test is applicable when suma_n and sumb_n are series with positive terms. If lim_(n->oo)a_n/b_n=L where L is a finite number and L>0 , then either both series converge or both diverge.
Given series is sum_(n=1)^oo5/(4^n+1)
Let the comparison series be sum_(n=1)^oo1/4^n=sum_(n=1)^oo(1/4)^n
The comparison series sum_(n=1)^oo(1/4)^n is a geometric series with r=1/4<1
A geometric series with ratio r converges if 0<|r|<1
So, the comparison series which is a geometric series converges.
Now let's use the limit comparison test with:
a_n=5/(4^n+1) and b_n=1/4^n
a_n/b_n=(5/(4^n+1))/(1/4^n)
a_n/b^n=(5*4^n)/(4^n+1)
a_n/b_n=(5*4^n)/(4^n(1+1/4^n))
a_n/b_n=5/(1+1/4^n)
lim_(n->oo)a_n/b_n=lim_(n->oo)5/(1+1/4^n)
=5>0
Since the comparison series sum_(n=1)^oo(1/4)^n converges, so the series sum_(n=1)^oo5/(4^n+1) as well ,converges as per the limit comparison test.

You kick a ball whose mass is 0.43 kg. The ball leaves your foot with an initial speed of 25 m/s. What is the magnitude of the impulse associated with the force of your foot on the ball? If your foot is in contact with the ball for 8.0 ms, what is the magnitude of the average force exerted by your foot on the ball?

The impulse delivered to the ball equals the change in the ball’s momentum. The impulse is also the product of the average force exerted on the ball and the time during which the average force acts.
http://www.conceptualdynamics.com/files/partmo/partmo_linimpmo_ep3.htm

Create a logic model for legalizing marijuana.

A logic model generally contains the following four elements:
the inputs for a program: what will make it work, including money, personnel, etc.
activities: which activities, such as training, are necessary for a program to work
outputs: what the activities produce, including trainings, workshops, publications, etc.
outcomes: the changes, such as increased skills or knowledge, that come from the activities
To legalize marijuana, a state must use inputs such as money and volunteers to fund grassroots campaigns to convince voters to pass initiatives decriminalizing certain amounts of marijuana (like Colorado recently did). (Note that if marijuana were to become legal on a federal level, it would require a different process.) The grassroots groups would campaign and get voters to sign petitions to put an initiative to legalize marijuana on the ballot during an election. These would be the necessary activities. Then, the outputs would involve passing a law decriminalizing marijuana on a state level. Later, other outputs might involve trainings for people who run medical or other dispensaries that are allowed to dispense the drug under the law. The outcome would be knowledge about how to dispense marijuana in legal ways to customers in the state, as well as knowledge among consumers about the ways to legally use marijuana.