According to the selection from The Future of the Mind, what were the main reasons that Einstein was so successful as a scientist? Choose three options. A. He was the most intelligent scientist of his time.
B. He was a gifted mathematician, which is important for a scientist.
C. He had the courage to challenge scientific ideas that he felt were wrong.
D. He used his imagination to create and test ideas through his "thought pictures."
E. He inherited his abilities from his family, which included several great scientists.
F. He had the mental focus to spend ten years developing each of his most important theories.
G. He conducted experiments in a laboratory with the help of many other talented scientists.

The three reasons, according to the selection from The Future of the Mind, that Einstein was so successful as a scientist are:

C. He had the courage to challenge scientific ideas that he felt were wrong.

D. He used his imagination to create and test ideas through his "thought pictures."

F. He had the mental focus to spend ten years developing each of his most important theories.

According to scientific facts, Albert Einstein, who was a German scientist, became a genius with his scientific discoveries about relativity, gravity, and the lightbulb.

A genius possesses and develops exceptional intelligence and creativity.  

Thus, a genius is not always a gifted mathematician, the most intelligent scientist, or one who inherits abilities from his family, but one who can challenge wrong scientific ideas, be imaginatively creative, and have mental focus.

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"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

explanation:

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.