What are the connotations and implication of the name "Richard Cory," the gentleman? Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

William
Shakespeare himself wrote about two of the English kings named Richard in his plays.  Richard I
(1157-1199), or Richard the Lionhearted, was a great warrior and military strategist, and was
noted for his chivalry and courage.  He was part of the Norman rule, and spoke only French,
spending very little time in England. Therefore, not only could he not communicate with the
English, he had little contact with any of the people of his kingdom. His son, Richard II of
England was a tall, handsome, and intelligent man, who had some type of personality disorder as
his misrule led to his tragic downfall. Richard III was involved in the War of the Roses, and
was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last king to lose his life in battle. 

Certainly, there are several parallels among the kings Richard and .  For, Cory is
perceived as distant royalty; like the handsome Richard the Lionhearted who knew no
English, Cory, too, is perceived as a gentleman, an aristocrat above those who worked, unable to
communicate with common people, the people "on the pavement."  In a similar fashion to
Richard II, there is the suggestion that something is wrong with Richard Cory as he seems like
the perfect gentleman, but he commits suicide one "calm summer night."

Of course, the last name, Corey, is of Irish derivation, suggesting then that the regal
Richard, suggestive of English kings is not what he seems to be.  Since there is no surname of
Cory, actually, but only Corey, the suggestion here is that Richard Cory is anything but
"everything/To make us wish that we were in his place."  Indeed, the name of Richard
Cory connotes the wrong characteristics for the tragic man of a lonely and disturbed
existence whom no one understands

In "The Pigman," what does Lorraine's mother look like, and what does she think of men?

Presumably, Lorraine's mother is a fairly
attractive woman, or, at the very least, she was at one point. The narrator does not give
readers a lengthy physical description of Mrs. Jensen, but we are told that she has long,
beautiful brown hair. Lorraine also tells readers that her mom is a very pretty woman "when
she smiles." Unfortunately, Mrs. Jensen hardly ever smiles, so her beauty hardly ever
shows. This parallels her thoughts about men. At one point, Mrs. Lorraine was married and in
love, but like her beauty, her faith in men and her love toward the opposite sex has faded and
become hard.

Mrs. Jensen caught her husband cheating on her, and she divorced
him. Soon after the divorce, he was killed. These two tragic events in such close proximity to
each other profoundly affected Mrs. Jensen. Her faith in men and her outlook on life were both
completely crushed. She now believes that men only have one thing on their mind, and she
repeatedly warns Lorraine about this. She even goes so far as to threaten Lorraine about the
consequences of being in a car with a boy.

She's always
warning me about getting into cars and things like that. When she goes to work on a night shift,
she constantly reminds me to lock the doors and windows, and sometimes she calls on the phone if
she gets a chance and tells me again. Beware of men is what she's really saying. They have dirty
minds, and they're only after one thing. Rapists are roaming the earth.

Where does Bob Ewell say he hates black people in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Bob Ewell doesn't have to explicitly state this as his actions make his hatred clear.
First, he has brought false charges against Tom Robinson (who is proven innocent byalthough not
by the court) claiming Tom has raped his daughter, Mayella. Tom's only crime was stopping to
help a girl in need, but Bob is a racist man who wants Tom punished for daring to assist a white
person.

Bob yells racial slurs about Tom in the courtroom and when he is
questioned about going to get help for Mayella on the night in question, he comments,

Why, I run for Tate quick as I could. I knowed who it was, all
right, lived down yonder in that n*****-nest, passe the house every day. Jedge, I've asked this
county for fifteen year to clean out that nest down yonder, they're dangerous to live around
'sides devaluin' my property

These are perhaps the
most racist remarks Bob makes on the stand. The "they" in question is Tom's family,
whom Bob (a man who cannot even provide adequate shelter and food for...

What is an example of mobilization of lower-class energy by upper-class politicians in chapter 4, "Tyranny is Tyranny"?

In the years
leading up to the American Revolution, there was enormous popular discontent, often pointed
directly at landlords and tax collectors. Many early mass actions were direct examples of
popular struggle, naming their grievances in terms of the rich and the poor. These actions
included targeted destruction of tax...

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do for former slaves?

The
Freedmen's Bureau was established by the United States government near the end of the Civil War.
As the war was drawing to a close, the U.S. government realized that they would need to provide
assistance to recently freed slaves as they began to adjust to free life. The Freedmen's Bureau
attempted to provide care and greater opportunity for newly freed African Americans. Some of the
efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau included providing medical care for former slaves, as well as
providing education for former slaves. As slaves, many African Americans did not receive proper
medical care and education was forbidden. The Freedmen's Bureau undertook the task of helping to
feed recently freed African Americans who were in need of food. The Freedmen's Bureau also
attempted to help former slaves acquire land on which they could use their
agricultural...

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What are some similarities between April and Melanie in The Egypt Game?

Starting with simple similarities, both
characters are young women that live in the same neighborhood; however, there is a lot more that
is similar between these two characters. Both girls are incredibly intelligent and very
imaginative. This is one reason why they are able to work so well together in creating the
entire Egypt Game. Melanie might be the girl that introduces the concept of imaginary games to
April through the paper dolls, but April is incredibly receptive to the idea and helps enhance
it through her own imaginative powers. For example, it is April that immediately knows what to
do with the abandoned lot.

Both Melanie and April are also both incredibly
loving, caring, and patient with younger kids. The best evidence for this can be found in how
both girls treat Marshall. Marshall is a four year old kid, and that is not an easy age to
incorporate into a lot of things, but Melanie is an excellent big sister. She never tells him to
get lost. In fact, she actively looks for ways to include Marshall in her life's
activities.

April is also incredibly tolerant of Marshall. While April can be
aloof, she is not this way with Marshall. April and Melanie both take Marshall for walks while
Mrs. Ross is gone, and they help make him feel welcome in all of their imaginative
games.

Analyze the theme of power and leadership in Chapter 1 of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The entirety of
the novel explores theof leadership and power as we watchcorrupted by and disobeying the very
principles he and the other pigs instituted to rid themselves of a ruler (like the one Napoleon
eventually becomes).

Chapter one demonstrates the beginning of the fall of
one leader or the power of one as he (Mr. Jones) stumbles through his duties because of his
drunkenness. This demonstrates that a leader can easily become unaware, which is indeed what
happened when the last ruling Romanov was in power. 

Asshares his vision, he
does so with the idea that he won't be around long and that his idea is not necessarily for
himself, but for a future. A good leader is a persuasive one. He had planted this idea, the
animals almost subliminally took hold of it and before they know it (...) rebellion has
begun.

Old Major may have been looking out for his own, but the problem of
leadership comes when one who seeks power just for the sake of having power doesn't think about
all possible consequences.

Reading some of Thomas Jefferson's writings will
show consideration that went into the idea of power to the people and the corruption of mankind.
Could an evil leader rise in America? Is it possible? Very.

positioned this
speech of Old Major's in the beginning to cause readers to consider the power of leadership.
Should you follow someone blindly just because there is promise in their words, or should you
check their motives, history and background before positioning them with such
power?

What is a fond memory Mattie has of winter?

In
chapter six of , while Mattie is washing clothes in heat of the
oppressively hot and humid Philadelphia summer, she fondly remembers her favorite winter
experience. For Mattie, this fond winter memory is of ice skating around the frozen ships in the
Philadelphia harbor. Particularly, Mattie fondly remembers ice skating with her beloved,
Nathaniel Benson. One could infer that Mattie's longing for winter is less for the actual season
and more related to sharing this special experience with Nathaniel Benson. Mattie is being
increasingly pressured to marry her parents' idea of a suitable husband (notably, not Nathaniel
Benson), and Mattie's longing for the winter of old can be seen as longing for a time of
innocence, freedom, and joy.

In The Great Gatsby, how does Gatsby's attitude toward money affect how Nick perceives him?

's attitude
toward money contributes strongly to 's perception of him as a romantic personality, a man who
lives only to achieve a "colossal" romantic dream. When Gatsby was a boy living in
poverty as Jimmy Gatz of North Dakota, money for him was a means of escape. An entry in his
childhood journal read, "Study needed inventions," suggesting that he was looking for
a way to succeed in business and reap the financial rewards. When he reinvents himself and
becomes enormously wealthy through his association with criminal Meyer Wolfshiem, however,
Gatsby's attitude toward money has changed; it has become only the means to an end--to bringback
into his life and keep her forever.

Nick becomes aware of this when Gatsby
confides in him, explaining naively that he will repeat the past with Daisy, an idea Nick
recognizes as a romantic impossibility. As Nick watches Gatsby show off his gorgeous mansion and
many fine possessions to Daisy, to impress her with his great wealth, Nick realizes that
Gatsby's intention is to convince Daisy that he is a man of substance who can take care of her.
Nick also realizes that Gatsby had traveled very far, literally and figuratively, to buy his
mansion across the bay from Daisy with the sole purpose of achieving his dream of her; he had
thrown his elaborate parties only to draw her to him.

Nick realizes that
Gatsby's attitude toward money is far different from that of the Buchanans. Unlikeand Daisy,
Gatsby does not enjoy wealth for its own sake or for the lifestyle it affords him. For example,
he swims in his own pool only once, the day he dies, and he generally does not attend his own
lavish parties. Unlike the Buchanans, he does not feel or exhibit a sense of superiority because
he is wealthy. Gatsby himself is unaffected by wealth, and the purity of his romantic vision
affects Nick deeply, so deeply that Gatsby's eventual destruction sends Nick back home to the
Midwest. He despises Tom and Daisy's moral corruption, the result of their own relationship with
money. For Nick, however, "Gatsby turned out all right at the end," saved by his
"romantic readiness" and "gift for hope."

What dual purpose does Big Brother symbolize in the novel, and was he real or just a symbol?

First of
all, Big Brother is not a real person. Although he frequently appears on television and his
picture stares out from huge posters that shout, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, nobody sees Big
Brother in person.He is a symbol of the authority of The Party.

According to
cited scholars,probably had several things in mind when he created Big Brother. He was most
likely thinking predominantly of...

Why does Chapter III of The Strangerend with "the blood pounding" in Meursault's ears and "the dog whimper[ing] softly"? Different translations may use...

The
answer to this question is a complex one partly because of Camus' innovative psychological style
and partly because of symbolism and . Firstly, Camus believed that the psychological aspects of
a psychological novel were revealed in action, which ran contrary to the popular psychological
literary convention of his day that built psychological development through first-person
introspection and monologues of self-examination. What this means is that in order to show
Meursault's psychology and psychological development, Camus develops actions, which includes
dialogue and first-person descriptions of passing moments--but not passing thoughts.

Secondly, at least one recurring symbolic motif is present in the passage you ask
about:

The whole building was as quiet as the grave, a
dank, dark smell rising from the well hole of the stairs. I could hear nothing but the blood
throbbing in my ears, and for a while I stood still, listening to it. Then the dog began to moan
in old Salamanos room, and through the sleep-bound house the little plaintive sound rose slowly,
like a flower growing out of the silence and the
darkness.

The symbolic motif I'm thinking of
is flower. There are at least four places in
which Camus likens something to a flower, including Marie's face: "her sun-tanned face was
like a velvety brown flower." The first use of
flower is when Meursault sits in vigil at his
mother's coffin:

through the open door came scents of
flowers and breaths of cool night air. I think I dozed off for a
while.
I was wakened by an odd rustling in my ears.

The flower symbolizes the existential
absurdity in life, the flower appearing as it does in a completely random and valueless fashion
(1) at the side of death, (2) in a poorly lit and ill-smelling stairwell and (3) in a beautiful
woman's face. When, as in the first two uses (vigil, stairwell),
flower appears with the symbolic motif of
sound rushing in Meursault's ears ("odd rustling in my ears";
blood throbbing in my ears"), existential
absurdity is linked directly to Meursault's life, which leads to the next consideration, that of
foreshadowing.

Thirdly, the scene set by Camus in the ill-lit
stairwell--

"quiet as the grave, a dank, dark smell
...  blood throbbing in my ears ... dog began to moan ... through the sleep-bound house the
little plaintive sound rose, like a flower growing out of the
silence and the darkness"

reflects back on the
earlier scene of the vigil at the coffin echoing the funereal motif of death and decay, with the
dog moaning as mourners may do and as Meursault perhaps ought to have done at the vigil. This
foreshadows what will eventually happen to Meursault largely as a result of the overwhelming
influence of his behavior (or lack of behavior) at the funeral vigil.

So why
does Chapter III of end with the "blood throbbing" and the
"dog moaning"? It ends thusly to express Camus' existential views; to tie random
meaninglessness with Meursault's life; and to prepare the reader for--to foreshadow--the events
that will ultimately follow; and to prepare for the great and significant influence the funeral
vigil has on Meursault's ultimate end.

How does Newton's law of universal gravitation apply to Earth and the moon?

Newton's law
of universal gravitation states that any two bodies with a mass are attracted towards each other
by a force directly proportional to the product of their mass and inversely proportional to the
distance between them. For the Earth and the Moon, if the mass of the Earth is Me and the mass
of the moon is Mm, the force of attraction between them is given by F = G*Me*Mm/R^2 where R is
the distance between them. G is a constant and is equal to 6.67—10^-11 N m^2*kg^-2.

It is this force between the two due to gravity that makes the moon revolve around the
Earth. It provides the centripetal force that makes the Moon move in a circular path. The
gravitational force is also responsible for effects like the tides that occur on the
Earth.

"""Because horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like a sun; it cannot be contained"(186). Is this a metaphor or a simile?""

It is actually
two similes because it first compares horror on earth to a flower and then it compares it to a
sun.  They are both similes because each use the word like.  Sebold is
purposely using two positive and common images to compare to horror.

What are the literary devices used in "Richard Cory"?

A few of the word
choices Robinson makes in the first stanza work, metaphorically, to compareto a king. The
speaker says that Cory is a "gentleman from sole to crown" (line 3) and that he is
"imperially slim" (4). Although the word crown can refer to the
top of the head, which makes sense in this context, it can also refer to the object a king wears
on his head. This might not be significant on its own, but when we see the word
imperially on the next linea word that refers to an attitude that befits or
is suggestive of an emperorthe choice of crown , with its two meanings,
seems intentional. (The speaker even calls Cory "richer than a king" in line 9.)
Connecting these word choices, we gather that Richard Cory is being compared to someone of royal
status, in the first stanza,...

How does she explain where she is going to the hunter? How do we know how much old Phoenix loves her grandson?

In the
story, Phoenix Jackson meets a young white hunter on her way to town. When the hunter asks
Phoenix where she is going, she tells him that she is going to town. Upon hearing her answer,
the hunter exclaims that the way to town is too far for an old woman like her. He then advises
her to head for home.

For her part, Phoenix doesn't reveal exactly why she is
going to town. She merely satisfies his curiosity with a general answer: "The time come
around." From her answer, the hunter speculates that she is going to town to see Santa
Claus. He assumes that she must be like other "old colored people" who make the
journey to town for this purpose. Essentially, Phoenix Jackson provides no concrete details
about her reason for going to town. She merely explains that she goes to town because she
must.

We know how much Phoenix Jackson loves her grandson by her willingness
to endure a long, arduous journey for his sake. Additionally, old Phoenix makes the journey
regularly. During each trip, she must brave varied dangers. Her exchange with the white hunter
reveals the low status of African Americans in her society.

When the hunter
points his gun at Phoenix and asks her whether she is afraid of it, she remains calm; her reply
is a simple "No, sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I
done." Phoenix knows that her safety is not promised in such a society; yet, she makes the
journey because she loves her grandson.

Name three characters and discuss why they are blind to the truth in The Crucible.

Reverend Parris is certainly blind to the truth at various points in Miller's
celebrated play . He does not initially understand the implications of
calling Reverend Hale to investigate witchcraft in Salem's community at the beginning of the
play. Reverend Parris requests Reverend Hale's expertise to please Thomas Putnam and other
prominent members of the community.

Reverend Parris is primarily concerned
with maintaining his position of power and does not realize the consequences of his decisions.
He is also blind to the fact that he is primarily responsible for the congregation's contempt.
When Proctor criticizes Reverend Parris's messages and preaching style, Parris is offended and
denies the accusations that he is cold and callous. Initially, Parris is blind to the fact that
hanging John Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse will incite a rebellion, and he supports
the court's proceedings.

Mary Warren is also blind to the truth concerning
her actions and participation in...

What is the meaning of the title The Glass Menagerie?

The
title  brings to prominence the collection of figurines composed of
delicate glass and shaped like animals that the equally delicate Laura owns. This title also
helps to draw attention to the symbolism of the fragile glass animals who come to represent
anything that is too delicate to last in the day-to-day outside world.

Because life is harsh and difficult for Laura, she has fabricated an imaginary world
symbolized by the glass menagerie. Laura is even compared to the glass animals in the stage
directions in Scene 6:

She is like a piece of translucent
glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not natural, not lasting. 

In a similar fashion, Amanda longs for the world of her youth, in
which she was comfortable as a Southern belle. Tom desires a world that is beyond the mundane
and trivial, escaping in books and at the picture shows (the movies).

Much
like the glass menagerie, all three Wingfields prove to be unrealistic. They each hold another
world in their minds, and, like the glass figures, it is a much too fragile world to last. Thus,
the title of The Glass Menagerie helps to bring to the
front the themes of illusions and impossible dreams.

How is the image of a boot stamping on a human face€”forever an appropriate image of this future anti-utopia in 1984?

In the
dystopian nation of Oceania, the authoritarian regime oppresses the entire population through
inhumane tactics and is dedicated to completely eradicating individuality. The Party's primary
goal is to forever dominate and control the population of Oceania. The Party maintains a
hysterical, threatening environment at all times, keeps the citizens under constant
surveillance, publicly executes enemies of the state, and tortures political dissidents. The
government also requires every Party member to worship Big Brother and completely accept their
absurd propaganda. If Party members are not completely orthodox, they are tortured and
brainwashed in the Ministry of Love.

In Emmanuel Goldstein's book,
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism,reads about the
various methods the government utilizes to maintain power and oppress the citizens. Winston
reads about the necessity of continual warfare to use up valuable resources as well as the
ideology of Ingsoc. Since...

What does Daniel feel when he leaves his family to go back to the mountains?

Daniel
feels incredibly lonely and distant whenever he returns to the mountain from his exciting,
illuminating experience in the village. After spending five years on the mountain with Rosh and
his band of selfish, greedy zealots, Daniel misses numerous opportunities to develop genuine
friendships with adolescents his age. In his hometown, Daniel narrowly escapes several Roman
soldiers and manages to survive a serious wound to his ribs, which happened during an
altercation with a Roman soldier on his way back to the mountain. Fortunately, Malthace greets
Daniel at the door and nurses him back to health in a hidden room in Hezron's home. While Daniel
is recovering, he tells his life story to Malthace and...

Explain how appeasement contributed to the march of aggression leading to World War II.

Appeasement led to more aggression prior to
the start of World War II. This policy had the opposite effect of what it was intended to do.
Appeasement means to give into demands now in return for a future promise. The key part of
appeasement is that the country or the person gets what is being requested without having to
work to earn it. All that has to be done is to make a promise to do something after getting what
is being requested.

In 1938, when Hitler wanted the Sudetenland, he promised
the Allies this would be his last request for land if they would grant this request. The Allies
trusted Hitler, believing he would keep his word. However, Hitler didnt have to do anything to
earn what he wanted. All he had to say was he wouldnt ask for more land. There was no
stipulation of what would happen if he broke this promise.

Considering
Hitlers previous actions in Europe in the mid-1930s, the Allies shouldnt have been surprised
when Hitler broke his promise and took the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939. After all, Hitler had
been aggressive in the past, and very little was done about that. In his mind, he planned to
stay aggressive regardless of any promises he had made. Appeasement often fails because a person
doesnt have to work to earn what he/she wants to get. After Hitler broke his promise, the Allies
said any more aggression would lead to war. When Poland was invaded in September 1939, World War
II began.

What is the relationship between Jody and his father in "The Red Pony"?

Jody's
father, Carl, is very much a man's mantough, resilient, and very masculine. In keeping with the
prevailing conventions of the time, he is also emotionally distant from his son. As such, he is
unable to forge any kind of real connection with Jody. Moreover, Jody's relationship with his
father is complicated by the pressures of work. Carl works just about every hour God sends on
his small farm. This does not leave him much time to spend with Jody, let alone bond with
him.

Carl is not necessarily a bad man; it is just that his devotion to being
the family breadwinner, coupled with his old-school attitude toward parenting, prevent him from
displaying much in the way of love and affection toward his son. Carl's world is a harsh world,
a world full of struggle and hard work. There is simply no room in such an environment for the
kind of empathy and compassion that Jody so desperately needs, especially after the death of his
beloved pony, Gabilan. That said, Carl's stoicism and dedication to the material well-being of
his family are admirable qualities, and his example is one that Jody would do well to
follow.

In the book The Lovely Bones, how does Alice Sebold describe the charm bracelet that Susie wore? How would you draw it?

To put
it bluntly,absolutely nails the description here.  She even puts it in the context of the
grotesque Mr. Harvey, allowing the two to directly complement each other. 

If
your assignment is to draw Susie's bracelet, Sebold gives you a perfect starting point: a gold
bracelet (most likely a gold chain with links large enough to hold charms) with keystone
engraved with the initials S. S., a ballet slipper (obviously indicating Susie's past interest
in dance), the golden thimble (homage to Susie's very favorite Monopoly piece), and the working
little gold bike. 

Let's further explore this (as well as the connection with
Harvey) through the actual text of the novel.  Probably the best description can be found on
pages 53 and 54:

[Harvey] fingered it, the fleshy pad of
his index finger finding the smooth gold metal of the Pennsylvania keystone, the back fo the
ballet slipper, the tiny hole of the miniscule thimble, and the spokes of the bicycle with the
wheels that worked. (53)

[Harvey] liked the Pennsylvania keystone, which my
father had had engraved with my initials--my favorite was the tiny bike--and he pulled it off
and placed it in his pocket.  He threw the bracelet, with its remaining charms, into the
soon-to-be man-made lake. (54)

It is important to note
here, that there are significant differences between the bracelet in the novel and the bracelet
in the movie.  Gold vs. silver, for example.  I find it ironic that the charm Harvey chooses to
save is the Pennsylvania keystone, . . . and NOT the house (seemingly nonexistant in this
description) that is so critical in the movie, . . . with Harvey fingering that house while
thinking of Susie.

What points-of-view do the three children hold of the trial of Tom Robinson in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Literally and
figuratively, the children view the tria of Tom Robinsonl from the balcony.  In fact,acts much
like a "color commentator" at a sports event as she reports the occurrences, but at
the same time, she gives her explanations of what her father says and does.  In , for instance,
she remarks at the beginning of the trial,

So far, things
were utterly dull:  nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel,
there was no drama; a grave disappointment to all present, it seemed. was proceeding amiably, as
if he were involved in a title dispute....With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas,
he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon....Our nightmare had gone with daylight, everything
would come out all right.

Scout reacts to what happens. 
When Mr. Gilmer's back stiffens as he questions Bob Ewell, she "felt sorry for him." 
But, she explains that she anddo not feel any of the trauma that other lawyers' children feel as
their fathers are engaged in debate.  She observes, "Mr. Gilmer was doing his job, as
Atticus was doing his."  And, when the language becomes inappropriate and Reverend Sykes
tells Jem to take Scout home, Scout counters that she can understand anything that Jem does.  Of
course, she really does not know exactly what rape is, so Jem informs the minister that Scout
will be all right there.

An experienced viewer of trials, Scout observes how
Judge Taylor gains control of his court as well as how Atticus employs his various techniques
for questioning witnesses. She reports how Atticus's calm disarms Bob Ewell and he incriminates
himself without realizing it. However, at times, Scout worries that Atticus has "gone
frogsticking without a light"  by asking in his cross-examination of Ewell something about
which he may not know the answer. Nevertheless, because she does not have as deep an
understanding of the proceedings as her brother Jem, Scout is a keen, objective observer who has
fewer reactions to the court proceedings. As such, she is, perhaps, the best to be the novel's
reporte.  After his questioning of Bob Ewell, for example, Scout explains to the
reader,

Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern
Atticus's questions...Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells'
home life.

In contrast to his sister, Jem's reactions to
the proceedings of the trial are stronger. He is appalled at the injustice of the outcome; his
analytical mind can make no sense of it, and his heart is hurt, as well.  In , after the
trial,

It was Jem's turn to cry.  His face was streaked
with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. "It ain't right," he
muttered, all the way to the corner of the square where we found Atticus waiting....

"It ain't right, Atticus," said Jem.....

"How could
they do it, how could they?"

Of course, Dill is the
most emotional.  When Mr. Gilmer verbally attacks Tom Robinson on the stand, the sensitive Dill
begins to cry and has to be led out. Outside, Dill tells Scout,

"That old Mr. Gilmer doin' him thataway, talking so hateful to him--

..."I know all that, Scout.  It was the way he said it made me sick, plain
sick."

Interestingly,utilizes the points of view of
the three children to capture both the documentation of the proceedings, an explanation of the
techniques of the lawyers, and her sentiment of the rank injustice and cruelty of
bias. 

How does Brent change over the course of the book Whirligig by Paul Fleischman?

At the
beginning of the book, Brent is a selfish, listless, and angry teenager. Once he is traveling on
his own and has an assignment to do €“ to build four whirligigs in Leas honor, in the four
corners of the country €“ he finally has a purpose and a set of goals to work...

In Candide, why does the old woman cling to life even though she is miserable?

Afteris
flogged in Chapter 6, an old woman cares for him.  While with Candide in Chapter 11, she tells
him her miserable story of being captured along with her mother, her mother's killing, and her
desperate escape from death.  After reflecting upon her lost happiness and beauty, she remarks,
"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love
with...

Explain Crusoe's belief that his fortunes are connected with Providence in Robinson Crusoe?

The
word "Providence" is defined as the Christian God who is believed to direct believers'
lives with wise benevolent care. God can also be said to offer "providence," which is
defined as care and guidance of God based on knowledge of things to come.

Please discuss the ways in which Irving manipulates our sympathies in his story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"€”which varies from ridicule of Ichabod...

To be
perfectly clear, Irving never offers an affectionate picture of Ichabod Crane, but it is true
that the point of view shifts more to Crane's eyes as the story progresses, and we gain a bit of
sympathy (pity would be a more accurate term) for him as he goes up against Brom
Bones.

Crane is far more anti-hero than hero throughout the story. He is an
underhanded and two-faced person. He beats the children viciously in his role of schoolmaster
but shows a different face to the mothers: he is gentle, ingratiating, and kind around them. He
courts Katrina and wants to marry her but only because he covets the wealthmost particularly the
foodher father's farm offers.

Although he is very thin, he is a glutton.
Although he is the supposedly learned schoolmaster, he is ignorantly superstitious and believes
in witches and ghosts. He is portrayed repeatedly as a person out for himself. He is cruel to
those under his power but servile to those with power over him. He licks the boots of the
powerful and kicks with his own boots the powerless. We would fear for Katrina if he married
her, because we know his servile courtship would turn into disregard of her feelings or needs
once he had her farm and money.

Yet the narrator treats him with satiric
humor rather than open condemnation, and Crane does work hard between the school, his singing
lessons, and the help he provides:

He assisted the farmers
occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took
the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire.

In addition, after he is competing with Brom Bones for Katrina, we
do feel some sympathy for Crane. For instance, Brom and his gang vandalize his singing school
and schoolhouse. The description of that raises some sympathy (or pity) in us for what Crane is
up against:

They harried his hitherto peaceful domains;
smoked out his singing-school, by stopping up the chimney; broke into the school-house at night,
in spite of its formidable fastenings of withe and window-stakes, and turned every thing
topsy-turvy: so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held
their meetings there.

We hear, too, that Crane's marriage
proposal to Katrina is met with rejection:

Something,
however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great
interval, with an air quite desolate and chop-fallen.

We
can feel some sympathy for Crane being so thoroughly bested by Brom, but Crane is a difficult
character to like.

What is the plot of Pygmalion? Bernard shaw

is a wonderful play
about Eliza Doolittle.  Eliza is a young educated girl working in the flower district of London,
England.  On night she runs into Professor Henry Higgins, a noted professor of phonetics. 
Higgins is intrigued by her broken speech and low station in life.  He believes he can tell all
he needs to about a person based on his speech

"I can
place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two
streets."

Higgins suggest to Colonel Pickering that
he could in fact have Eliza speaking like a high class London lady in three months.

In the second act, Eliza shows up at Higgins' house to take him up on his offer.
Higgins is mean and cruel to the young lady.  He mocks her accent; however, Pickering suggests
that the girl has feelings and offers her a seat.  They agree that Eliza will live with Higgins
for 6 months and he will tutor her and turn her into lady.

In Act 3, Higgins
tries to show off Eliza's transformation with his mother and her group at tea.  Eliza's stuns
them in her beautiful dress and polite conversation.  The tea turns when the group begins
discussing influenza.  Eliza drops into a long story of her aunt dying of influenza.  The group
is put off by this, but it's dismissed when it's suggested that she's just making "small
talk".  As she leaves, the group is smitten by her and young Freddy is in love with
her.

In Act 4 Higgins and Pickering congratulate themselves on their great
work.  They do not consider the work she has put into changing and ignore her completely.  A
huge fight erupts between Eliza and Henry as he considers her ungrateful and she wishes he had
left her where he found her.  As the act ends, she leaves and he throws her ring in the
fire.

In the final act, Eliza has taken refuge at Henry's mother's house. 
His mother criticizes Henry and Pickering for treating Eliza like an experiment and not like a
lady.  Higgins promises that he never treated her anymore badly than he treated anyone else.  He
invites her to move in with him again as his daughter or even to marry Pickering.  She says
she's thinking of marrying Freddy's who's been writing her letters.Her father enters claiming
that Higgins' money has "ruined me. Destroyed my happiness."  Before he could bum
money from friends, but now all of his friends come to him for money.

As the
play ends, we're not sure if she will marry Freddy, but the play ends with Higgins laughing at
the notion.

In 1984 how does the Party use instincts (or lack of instincts) to control people?

In book 3, when
it is time to torture , the Party has spent some time researching him. He has had a reflexive
instinct to wince and freak out when the noise of a rat or pitter-pattering step of a rat creep
along the floor.

The Party's torturing represetative, , takes advantage of
this to get him to change and turn on . When they try to put the caged helmet on top of his head
he is immediately ready to do whatever they ask him because hungry rats are ready to eat his
face off.

Winston has been hard to break, but this is the moment of truly
controlling him.

What is the importance of personal achievements in the society in Things Fall Apart?

We can see
the importance of personal achievements in Igbo society from Okwonko's life. Ashamed of what he
considers his own father's lack of manliness, integrity and initiative, Okwonko strives to
maintain his own identity apart from his father's legacy.

Although he is
excessively demanding and controlling with his wives and children, Okwonko's tribal warrior
feats, wrestling victories, and wealth cause his fellow villagers to greatly esteem him. He is
also a physically imposing man with no patience for weakness or what he considers effeminate
behavior.

Age was respected among his people, but
achievement was revered.

With all his accomplishments,
Okwonko becomes the man chosen to house , the young man exchanged by the neighboring village of
Mbaino for the death of an Umuofian woman. He is also the "proud and imperious emissary of
war" the people of Umuofia choose to represent their village in the war negotiations with
Mbaino. The Mbaino negotiators treat him with respect and honor because of his grand
accomplishments and his place in Umuofian society.

Personal achievements are
so much revered in Igbo society that not even the gods will tolerate laziness and lack of
initiative. When , Okwonko's father, complains to the priestess of the Oracle that ill-luck has
plagued him all his life, the priestess refuses to help him. Instead, she berates him for his
sloth and lack of ambition and tells him to "go home and work like a man." In a
society where survival is dependent on work, indolence is rarely tolerated. Personal
achievements are respected because the resourcefulness and accomplishments of each member of
society contribute to the prosperity and reputation of whole villages.

Hope
this helps!

Oceania is in a constant state of what in 1984?

In
, Oceania is in a constant state of war. While the enemy is subject to
change, the purpose of warfare in Oceania remains the same, as Emmanuel Goldstein argues in his
Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. War, he says, is
necessary to subjugate the people and to maintain the Party's power:

The primary aim of modern warfare€¦is to use up the products of the
machine without raising the standard of the living.

In
other words, the Party uses the war as justification for claiming the surplus goods that are
produced in Oceania. These goods are directed towards the war effort instead of towards the
people and this keeps the general standard of living low. This benefits the Party because it
keeps people in a permanent state of dependence.

War, therefore, is one of
the Party's most important political tools and this is why it is and must always be
perpetuated.

What points in the novel can I use to highlight how the novel has shown how Hester is "fundamentally innocent"? I have already examined the effect of...

One of my
points would be to note thattakes this permanent mark of the letter 'A' on her so seriously,
that even at's mention of the magistrates thinking about letting her take it of frustrates her.
She is determined that the 'A' itself should decide when and if it will come off. I believe a
person who you could label as fundamentally innocent would...

Discuss the villager's beliefs in the killing of the sacred python.

Nigerian
author s is a novel first published in 1958. It is set in the
south-eastern part of Nigeria, from pre-colonial times to the arrival of the Europeans in the
late nineteenth century. The book is divided into three parts: the first part chronicles s
personal history and the conventions of the Igbo society, while the second and third chronicle
the arrival of British colonialists and Christian missionaries.

In Igbo
culture, the pythons sacredness is rooted in the belief that it is the symbol of the god of
water. Apart from a special mode of address, there is also a special ceremony if it is killed
accidentally. In fact, there is no pre-planned ceremony for when the python is killed knowingly;
such a thing is unthinkable to the tribe:

No punishment
was prescribed for a man who killed the python knowingly. Nobody thought that such a thing could
ever happen.

Okoli, one of the Mbanta outcasts who
converted to Christianity, is alleged to have killed the sacred python in . When the elders of
Mbanta gathered to decide what is to become of Okoli, Okonkwo, one of the main protagonists,
insists on violence. He is disgusted, therefore, when the clan chooses to merely peacefully
ostracize the converted clan members. This bans them from the market, the stream, the chalk
quarry, and the red earth pit. Okoli, meanwhile, tries to assert his innocence but falls ill and
dies soon thereafter. His death is interpreted by the tribe as justice dispensed by the
gods.

Describe the diary entry of a desensitized child in 1984, showing what he or she would think and say in response to the stimuli he/she typically...

This
particular task has some challenges embedded within it.  Diary entries are usually reflective of
sensitivity.  Someone who has a sensitivity towards society, themselves, or others feels
compelled to write down their thoughts.  The question here is whether someone who is
desensitized would be able to compose their thoughts in a diary format.  If so, what would it
look like?  A diary entry, in general, is composed of an individual's reflections about the
world and, perhaps, their place in it.  In a diary entry of someone desensitized to their world,
it seems that sentences would be declarative, informative, and short.  There would be little in
way of reflection or expression because such elements contain a sensitivity that someone who has
been desensitized lacks.  This would be the condition that the Party wants out of its citizens.
 Lacking reflection and lacking...

What is Malcolm Gladwell's cultural legacy in the book Outliers: The Story of Success?

bywas a work of popular nonfiction published in 2008. Although it
was a bestseller, the term "cultural legacy" might be somewhat overstating its
influence. It was one of several books written in the first decade of the twenty-first century
that attempted to explain inequalities of achievement and income in a manner that moved away
from a purely individualistic account and instead argued for social and environmental factors as
affecting individual success.

In this work, Gladwellshows that many external
factors affect individual success. For example, Canadian hockey players born in the early part
of the year were more likely to succeed than those born later in the year due to the way school
and youth hockey leagues were organized. Early advantages in family background, such as living
in a wealthy neighborhood with good schools or being able to afford private tutoring affect
academic performance which leads to career success later in life.

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20.00 mL of radiator liquid, ethylene glycol has a mass of 20.85 g. What is the density of the liquid? Compare this with the density with water

20 mL of
ethylene glycol has a mass of 20.85 g. The density of ethylene glycol is the mass per unit
volume.

`1 mL = 1*10^-6 m^3` , `20 mL = 20*10^-6 m^3`

The
density of ethylene glycol is `(20.85*10^-3)/(20*10^-6)` = `1042.5 kg/m^3`

The density of water is `1000 (kg)/m^3`

Why is Mr. Nuttel visiting the country?

Framton
Nuttel's purpose in sojourning in the country and for calling on the Sappletons are covered
quickly in two passages. When he presents himself he is greeted by fifteen-year-old Vera
Sappleton, who explains that she is standing in for her aunt who will be down shortly.

Framton Nuttel endeavoured to say the correct something which should
duly flatter the niece of the moment without unduly discounting the aunt that was to come.
Privately he doubted more than ever whether these formal visits on a succession of total
strangers would do much towards helping the nerve cure which he was supposed to be
undergoing.

Vera has just enough time to tell Framton her
utterly false ghost story before her aunt arrives. Then he gives Mrs. Sappleton some further
details about his health.

"The doctors agree in
ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the
nature of violent physical exercise," announced Framton, who laboured under the tolerably
widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least
detail of one's ailments and infirmities, their cause and cure. "On the matter of diet they
are not so much in agreement," he continued.

Framton's sister knew some people in the area, but not really very well. She had
insisted on giving her brother letters of introduction to these people, probably under the
assumption that such isolated country dwellers would welcome visitors from the big city of
London. The sister had been staying with the local vicar, which made it impossible for anyone
who received her letter of introduction to fail at least to invite Framton to tea. That is
evidently Mrs. Sappleton's intention. It is nearly tea time, and she is awaiting the return pf
her husband and her two brothers from their customary bird-hunting, which seems to be all they
ever do and all they ever talk about..

The author establishes that Framton is
seeking "complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the
nature of violent physical exercise" because the poor man is going to experience just the
opposite when he sees the men who have supposedly been dead for three years approaching the open
window, all of them carrying guns. The story is told in such a way that the reader does not
realize why Framton panics and goes running out of the house and down the country road until
Mrs. Sappleton's husband enters and shows that he is not a ghost when he asks:

"Who was that who bolted out as we came up?"

What are problems faced by developing countries?

Developing
nations have many problems, many of which are connected to poverty. Developing nations often
have underdeveloped infrastructure systems. This leads to an inability to attract businesses to
expand there unless the government of the developing nation agrees to relax worker and
environmental protections. Many developing nations also lack reliable internetthis is another
factor that can drive off businesses.

Businesses who do move to developing
nations often take advantage of the situation by paying workers low wages for long hours.
Factory conditions are often unsafe, and the corporation pollutes the nation at will. This leads
to poor conditions within the country as the tax base remains low, thus making it harder to fund
local governments. Education suffers from a lack of funding; this makes the poverty generational
in many developing nations. Pollution, combined with a lack of steady food and clean water,
leads to lower life expectancy for the people who live in these countries.

Developing nations are often poor due to a lack of investment. This lack of investment
is caused by a lack of initiatives for businesses to move their interests there. Those
organizations that do often take advantage of bad situations by paying low wages and taking
advantage of a nation with no business regulations. In many circumstances, a few people who can
make the country better immigrate to richer countries. All of these things plague the developing
world and continue a cycle of poverty that dates back to the colonial era.

What is Swift's attitude towards Mankind in Gulliver's Travels?

In
general, it is clear that Swift's depiction of the societies his , Gulliver, encounters during
his adventures suggests a cynical perspective. Swift's point of view is not positive or
encouraging. Many interpreters regard his character, Gulliver, as a symbolic representation of
the objective viewer--someone who does not make any judgments and who does not discriminate. It
is through Gulliver's eyes that we are made aware of humankind's iniquities, idiosyncrasies, and
foolishness. Each adventure depicts an experience that exposes one or more of these
shortcomings.

Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput, for example, seem to depict
our desire for material wealth, our arrogance, and our obsession with pride and self promotion.
We are, in our feebleness, intent on proving ourselves better than others by conducting
irrelevant excursions and undertakings to prove an insignificant point. In the end we are really
left with nothing.

Gulliver's experiences in Brobdingnag accentuate our
insignificance. We are small, feeble, and unimportant in the greater scheme of things.
Gulliver's encounters here show how we can be fooled by our own perspective when we believe that
we are superior and above everything. Gulliver is humbled by his encounters in Brobdingnag and
becomes a mere plaything. This depiction surely indicates that there are powers greater than
ours that dominate us. We should therefore not allow our egos to lay claim to a greater
importance.

Through his depictions of Gulliver's adventures on the flying
island, Laputa, Swift ridicules our foolish adherence to impractical and idealistic philosophies
and theories which serve no real purpose. He clearly expresses disdain for the fact that we
adopt these as ultimate proof of our intellectual superiority when, in fact, such ideologies do
not prove anything nor empower our advancement. It is all smoke and mirrors.

Swift's most damning criticism of humankind is revealed in Gulliver's journey to the
land of the Houyhnhnms. The onomatopoeic nature of the name sounds like a jeer and, to a certain
extent, copies the neighing of a horse. This, in itself, depicts Swift's view of humankind. It
is as if the superior horses are displaying their contempt for humans when they neigh. The
horses are depicted as wise, intelligent, compassionate, and caring, unlike the humans, the
Yahoos, who are shown to be savage idiots.

It should be evident that Swift,
through the persona he has created, is deeply disappointed by the folly of humankind. Being
human, it seems, means very little or nothing at all.  

What are some important passages in chapters 17 through 26?

Chapters 16 -
19 concern the trial of Tom Robinson. Almost any passage you choose that relates to the
testimony of the witnesses - Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, Heck Tate -- are important because they
illustrate the various social prejudices in the town. Even though Bob and Mayella are obviously
lying, it is clear that the townspeople and the jury are going to side with them anyway, just
because they are white.

In , I think an important passage is ' final
statement to the court. He sums up why they should find Tom innocent, ending with:

A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as
the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the
evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the
name of God, do your duty."

In , Tom is convicted. I
always liked the part at the end where the blacks in the balcony show their respect for ATticus
and tellto stand up because her...

Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the South and North in the Civil War. How did each side view the war? What were their objectives, and how...

Often in
history, the simplest and most obvious answers to basic questions are the correct ones. Although
a myriad of interpretations have been offered by historians of the central issues of the US
Civil War, in my view the explanations for the causes of the war and the motivations of each
side in fighting it are surprisingly straightforward and clear-cut.

The basic
advantage the North held at the start of the war, and for the duration of it, lay in its
superior manpower and industrial strength. The South had relatively few factories and
manufacturing facilities; its economy was primarily based on agriculture. Its ability to fight
the war successfully was dependent largely upon its ability to trade with the two European
countries which, at the start of the war, were in some sense its de facto
allies, Britain and France. Yet the Union initiated a naval blockade of the South
which was effective enough to prevent at least partially the unimpeded commerce the South needed
to sustain its war effort. And once Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, making the
cause of abolishing slavery explicit, it became an embarrassment to the European countries to
continue supporting the Confederacy.

The South's advantage lay in the
enormity of its own territory and in the fact that it needed (or should have needed) merely to
fight a defensive war in order to win. The North needed to conquer a land-mass larger than that
which the British were unable to subdue 80 years earlier in the War of Independence. The South,
presumably, needed only to protect itself from invasion and to keep the war going long enough
for the North to exhaust itself and give up the attempt to conquer it.

Neither the North nor the South was monolithic in its motivations for fighting the war.
But, contrary to what Southerners themselves and the historians who have acted as apologists for
them have asserted, the central reason the South fought to break away from the United States was
its objection to Lincoln's plan to prevent the spread of slavery to the territories of
the US. The South knew that this, in itself, was an anti-slavery position and, given
the fact that many in the North were full-fledged abolitionists who wished
to see slavery eliminated entirely, the underlying cause of the secession was to protect
slavery. This was made clear when the Confederate Commissioners, the diplomatic agents who were
sent from the already seceded states with the purpose of persuading the other states of the
South to join them, repeatedly announced the "dangers" the abolition of slavery would
pose to Southern society and the consequent need to secede from the Union in order to keep the
slave system intact.

The North, at least initially, was on the
whole motivated by the desire to keep the Union intact because, if it were to break
apart, the cause of freedom and democracy most Americans believed their country had been founded
upon would then be weakened or destroyed. The dissolution of the United States would prove that
the "experiment" in democracy had failed. But again, the subtext of the effort to
quash the secession was the slavery issue. As stated, many in the North were in fact
abolitionists. Lincoln himself did not initially believe that slavery should be interfered with
in the states where it already existed, but he was nevertheless opposed to slavery, or else he
would not have made it his platform that slavery must be prohibited from spreading to the
territories. And his wish not to interfere with existing slavery was due to his belief that
outright and immediate abolition would be too disruptive to society and would lead to more
potential problems than it would solve. With the exclusion of slavery from the territories, the
institution, Lincoln and others believed, would "die a natural death." By the autumn
of 1862, Lincoln realized that this passive approach was not workable, and he issued the
Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863.

The manner in which the South
carried out the war is itself indicative of its wish to defend slavery at all costs. Given the
size of its land-mass, as stated, one would think the South merely had to fight a defensive war,
using the "Fabian" technique Washington had successfully employed against the British
by making strategic retreats and allowing the enemy to take territory but keeping his armies
intact in order to fight another day. But for the most part, especially in the actions of their
leading general, Robert E. Lee, the Confederates chose to go on the offensive, attacking Union
armies repeatedly in order to attempt driving them out of the South (and even taking the war
into the Union at Antietam in 1862 and Gettysburg in 1863). The underlying reason for this was
that if the Union took territory, it was possiblevery possiblethat the enslaved people would
liberate themselves, even during the early part of the war before the Emancipation Proclamation
was issued and the Union commanders did not yet have explicit orders to carry out
abolition.

Northern commanders were at first divided on how to prosecute the
war. Initially the intention was to aim for a quick victory, end the rebellion, and bring the
South back into the fold with little if any disruption to Southern society. This was the
thinking of Gen. George McClellan, for instance, and even possibly of a more competent and
successful commander such as George Meade. But the strategy did not work. Both Ulysses S. Grant
and William T. Sherman by 1864 realized that "total war" was the only realistic method
of prosecuting the conflict. Both men succeeded in demoralizing the South through the massive
destruction of propertySherman in the deep South in Georgia and South Carolina, while Grant
ordered Gen. Philip Sheridan to destroy the farmland of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia which
had been supplying Lee's army, trapped as it was in Petersburg. The Confederacy, overwhelmed by
the superior resources of the Union and by the imminent destruction of the slavery system on
which it was built, had no choice but unconditional surrender in the spring of
1865.

Is a teacher allowed to call a student a DICK, because they called me one? Please answer because I need to know if i should file for sexual...

The
previous posts were fairly strong.  I think that, as mentioned, the sexual harassment claim is
not going to be where this is. I do believe that reporting it might result in some type of
articulation between administration, the teacher, and you.  I think that some level of speaking
out will probably give you some level of comfort.  Whether you want to pursue the formal
channels of involving the principal or others in the position of power is certainly one avenue. 
Yet, asking your parents to call a meeting with the teacher and then being able to voice how you
felt about the incident in question and your opposition to his use of the term could allow for a
new and more healthy dynamic between you and the teacher to emerge and could also allow you to
feel empowered.  I think that being silent or harboring resentment that is not released in a
positive and constructive manner could be one of the worst things to do in this
predicament.

What are some examples of solutions without liquid?

Solution is
another name for a homogeneous mixture. A homogeneous mixture is
one whose components are evenly distributed throughout the mixture. 

A
solution is composed of a solute and
a solvent. The solute is the substance that is
dissolved in the solution. The solvent is the substance that dissolves the
solute. 

A solution can be composed of solutes and solvents that are solids,
liquids, and gases. 

Examples of solutions that don't include
liquids:

• Air: Air is a solution composed of a gas solute and a gas
  solvent.
• Hydrogen and platinum: Hydrogen is a gas solute and platinum is a
  solid solvent.
• Water in air: Water is a liquid solute and air is a gas
  solvent.
• Smog: Smog is composed of solid solute particles in a gas
  solvent.
• Alloys: In an alloy, the solute is a solid metal and the solvent
  is a solid metal.

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What is the meaning of Willy pawning his diamond watch fob? Also what is the meaning of Biff's radio correspondance course that Willy paid for with...

In his
autobiography,wrote that the characters of Death of a
Salesman speak in a stylized manner

...to lift the experience into emergency speech of an unabashedly open kind rather than
to proceed by the crabbed dramatic hints and pretexts of the 'natural.'

Willy's having sold the diamond watch fob indicates his willingness
to separate from the past and devalue his brother's affection in order to further his dreams for
his son Biff. The "crabbed dramatic hints" here are that Willy's American Dream is a
distorted one; for, it is a dream of money and success.

When he has learned
of his father's philandering with "The Woman,"and abandoned taking summer school to
make up the math credits, Biff faces an empty future. So, Willy sells his diamond watch fob for
Biff to take a radio correspondence course in the hope that Biff can learn to be a successful
speaker which will aid his success in business.

WILLY. Whatever happened to
that diamond watch fob?...When Ben came from Africa...?

LINDA. You pawned it,
dear...for Biff's radio correspondence course.

While Willy's imagined
conversations with his brother Ben indicate his desire to connect with his family,he has pawned
the meaningful relationships and values for the skewered American Dream of
materialism.

What happens to Hyde after Jekyll dies in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Mr. Hyde is
the dark side of Dr. Jekyll; he is part of the same man, and the two share a body. In death,
then, only one body is found.

The darker side of Dr. Jekyll eventually takes
over and the man completely becomes Mr. Hyde. This is why in the end the dead body of Hyde is
discovered wearing the clothes of Dr. Jekyll.

Earlier in the novel, Dr.
Jekyll develops a chemical mixture that allows him to separate his moral nature from his immoral
one because he has wondered if he could indulge his dark side without the pangs of conscience.
However, what Dr. Jekyll has not figured is the fact that with each action, the darker side
develops, and soon the evil grows inside Mr. Hyde until he commits a murder. Then, when he
attempts to return to his better self, he finds that he cannot. Desperate for more of his
potion, in the persona of Mr. Hyde, he has Dr. Lanyon procure the drugs from his laboratory.
When Hyde takes the potion and begins to transform right before Dr. Lanyon, Lanyon is horribly
shocked. He dies shortly thereafter.

The horror, then, in this tale of the
secret of Jekyll and Hyde is that both parts of this man are trapped; they each fight for
dominance over the other.

This brief condescension to my
evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul...

writes
Jekyll in a letter. This is why Hyde/Jekyll dies when the good side tries to rid itself of the
evil side. 

What is Ulysses' plea to his fellow mariners?

I think
that the fundamental pleamakes to his fellow mariners is to join him on a voyage where the
destination is uncertain, the results in limbo, but the journey is the epitome of being worthy. 
In the Homeric myth, Ulysses' ability to convince his fellow mariners to strive towards Ithaca,
towards home, had a directed end.  It proved to be relatively easy to galvanize men into action
with such a poignant and relatively simple selling point.  Tennyson's retelling of Ulysses is
much more complex.  Home has turned out to be something representing banality.  Home represents
the "idle" and "barren crags." The voyage and spirit of intensity that
accompanied it is lacking in home.  To this end, Ulysses' pleas are geared towards instigating
this spirit of what can be, of the conditional and of the possible, and of a realm where
directed end products are not immediately apparent:

For my
purpose holds/ to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/ of all the western stars, until I die. 
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down.

This plea is
followed by a potential promise to meet Achilles once again and "touch the Happy
Isles."  It is this plea, one of adventure, challenge, and inspiration, that Ulysses offers
to his fellow mariners in the hope believing that consciousness can be an endeavor in which one
commits "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Explain the difference between "social responsibility and social equality" in "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison.

is the
first chapter of the acclaimed novel The by . The narrator, now a 40 year
old man, looks back at his high school graduation speech that was given to acclaim. This
incident has haunted him for all of his adult life.  

The narrator is asked
to repeat his speech at a meeting of the towns well-to-do white men. By the time, the narrator
arrives at the meeting, most of the white men have already had too much to drink.   Extremely
nervous, the main character has to go through a night of hell before he actually performs his
speech.

Several boys have been asked to compete in the
Battle Royal. The young men are blindfolded
and taken into a large area in front of the white men.  The narrator and the others  are to
eliminate the other contestants anyway they can.  The last two standing will fight until the
other one has been defeated.  The narrator is one of the last two, but is soundly beaten by a
much larger boy.

The white men have...

According to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what keeps sinners out of hell?

According
toin , the only thing that keeps people out of hell is Gods mercy.  We can see this in many
places in the sermon.  Here are two examples:

€¦'tis to be
ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to
awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep: and there is no other reason to
be given why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand
has held you up.

And

There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any one moment, out of hell, but the mere
pleasure of God.

In other words, everyone would be in
hell if God did not have mercy on them and hold them out of the fire.

When
Edwards preached this sermon, he was trying to instill greater religious fervor in his
audience.  At that time, the Puritans of New England had, in general, been becoming less
religious.  People were being admitted into the church without having had a genuine conversion
experience (this was called the Halfway Covenant).  The church had to do this because too few
people had enough religious zeal to undergo such an experience.  What this meant is that the
members of the church did not feel as attached to their religion as their forebears
had.

In order to remedy this, Edwards emphasized the fact that all humans
deserved to go to hell.  He argued that there was nothing a person could do to deserve
salvation.  The only thing people could do was to be converted to a deep and emotional love of
God.  They had to be grateful to God for not allowing them to be cast into hell as they
deserved.  They had to have

their hearts filled with love
to him that has loved them and washed them from their sins in his own blood.

This was why Edwards emphasized that only Gods mercy kept sinners
(which includes all living people) out of hell. 

In 1984, what type of literature is produced for the proles? How does prole literature differ from that produced for party members?

The answer
to this question can be found in Chapter Four of Part One. The Ministry of Truth, whereworks, is
responsible for producing literature for the consumption of both Party members and proles.writes
that the Ministry produces "newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays,
[and] novels" for the Party members that are full of rewritten history and Party
propaganda. These included all sorts of literature, including children's books and Newspeak
dictionaries, but they were all written to promote ideological conformity. The literature that
the Ministry of Truth produced for the proles was of "a lower level," and consisted of
"rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology,
sensational five-cent novelettes [and] films oozing with sex." The sentimental nonsense
songs sung by the proles throughout the book were composed by a special machine called a
"versificator." There is even a special section of the Ministry of Truth called
Pornosec that produces pornography for the proles to consume. Party members were strictly
prohibited from viewing this material, which was sent out in sealed envelopes to the
neighborhoods where the proles lived. The Party is using two different methods to achieve the
same end: power. The proles are kept docile through the proliferation of brainless literature
and low art, and the Party members, through their consumption of media, are constantly exposed
to propaganda.

The themes in Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply" and how the poem is related to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd"

Raleigh's
poem is one of numerous "answers" other writers gave to Marlowe's. It is both an
imitation--using the same stanzaic format, meter, and rhyme scheme as Marlowe's--and a kind ofas
well, though not in the sense of ridiculing it. It is literally an answer by the shepherdess to
the shepherd who is the speaker in Marlowe. If anything, Raleigh arrives at a much more serious
and complex exploration of the same themes expressed by Marlowe's "Passionate
Shepherd."

Marlowe gives us an idealizedsetting and theme. The shepherd
tells his love how wonderful life will be with him, beginning with what became one of the most
famous lines in the English language,

Come live with me
and be my love.....

then enumerating the things he will
give her and the advantages of living with him, and concluding with:

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing

For thy
delight each May morning,

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me, and be my love.

Raleigh's
speaker, the shepherdess or "Nymph" replying, doesn't believe any of this. Her answer
basically confronts the shepherd with the reality that men lie, that youth does not last, and
that the world is marked by sorrow and decay:

Time drives
the flocks from field to fold,

When rivers rage, and rocks grow
cold,

And Philomel becometh dumb,

The rest complain of
cares to come.

She enumerates the things he has said
he'll give her, and debunks the value of them:

Thy gowns,
thy shoes, thy beds of roses,

Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,

Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,

In folly ripe, in reason
rotten.

But she concludes by saying that if all these
realities of life were not so, she would in fact change her mind and accept
his offer; she would decide,

To live with thee and be thy
love.

The two poems can be considered as expressing
idealism versus . Marlowe's shepherd is a smooth talker, not very deep, but as always Marlowe's
language is so beautiful that the reader is carried along by it. Raleigh's nymph is a sensible
realist, but more than this, there is a deep melancholy and resignation in her words, and she
expresses much more than a mere rejection of love. The basic theme of her reply is that of the
impermanence of life, and of beauty.

In what way is Winston "the last man?"

I thinkis
"the last man" because he may have been the last to actually think, judge, deny,
desire, and grow ambition. Certainly this book demonstrates that humans are different from
animals in our ability not just to be like the proles, but to apply complex thinking. When the
ability to think for one's self is completely removed, it seems like a piece of humanity at the
very least is removed.

The proles seemed happy to exist, but took part in
nothing that caused them to affect change on the world that they took part in. To reach the
highest levels of self-actualization in one's life, one wants significance, or at the very least
some kind of meaning, legacy or purpose.

I also think humanity means a desire
for real truth, whatever that may be. When Winston finally gave in to writing that 2 + 2 = 5, we
know his desire for truth had been defeated.

For Winston, to be human meant
to experience every aspect of humanity: relationship, faith, purpose, entertainment, and
contribution.

Why do you think there is always an emphasis on blindness in the story? Provide examples

In
, blindness is used as a symbol of how those subjected to racial oppression
are often not fully aware of just how much society discriminates against them.

The boys forced to participate in a blindfolded boxing match know there's something
wrong about such a shabby, undignified contest, but they still go along with...

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie's neighbor in the hospital tells Elie he has the most faith in whom?

It's
ironic indeed that Elie's fellow Jewish prisoner in the hospital should have the most faith in
Hitler, of all people. This is the man, after all, who murdered over six million Jews during the
Holocaust and would've murdered even more if he'd had the chance.

But therein
lies the faith of the hospital patient. Throughout his whole experience of the war, he's
discovered that Hitler is the only man who's kept his promises. He said that he would annihilate
the Jews and that's exactly what he's in the process of doing. It's come to something when a Jew
can say this.

What it illustrates is the way in which so many people have
deluded themselves as to the true nature of Nazi rule and what it involves. Elie himself was
particularly scathing of the Jews of Sighet for downplaying the horrors of German occupation. It
seemed that many people preferred comforting lies to the harsh, unvarnished truth. But what they
should've done was to take Hitler at his word. When he said he would destroy the Jews, he meant
it. That only a few people like the hospital patient have understood this point is tragic
indeed.

What are three ways Holden changes as a character in The Catcher in the Rye?

Caulfield has
changed his perspectives in few areas; he alters his attitude about , his sister , and his
writing of his autobiographical account.

--Mr. Antolini

Inwhen Holden visits his former teacher, Mr. Antolini is very solicitous and suggests
gently that he thinks Holden is "riding for some kind of terrible fall." But because
it is late and Holden feels extremely sleepy, Holden cannot listen well to the good advice that
Mr. Antolini gives him. So, his host makes up the couch as a bed for Holden.
After
sleeping for a while, Holden wakes up and discovers Mr. Antolini stroking his head. He is very
upset by this. Since he claims to have had "that kind of stuff" happen before, Holden
believes that Mr. Antolini is gay.

Later, in Chapter 25, Holden rethinks what
has occurred with Mr. Antolini:

...I wondered if just
maybe I was wrong about thinking he was making a flitty pass at me. I wondered if maybe he just
liked to pat guys on the head when they're asleep.... I mean I started thinking that even if he
was a flit, he certainly'd been very nice to me.

--Phoebe

Whereas Holden has desired to be a "catcher in the
rye" and save children from the phoniness of adulthood as a protector of their innocence in
Chapter 24, in Chapter 25, he changes his mind. 

In Chapter 25 Holden sends
Phoebe a message to meet him at the museum, where he will return her Christmas money, which she
gave him. When she arrives, Phoebe has a suitcase with her and asks if she can go with him.
Holden denies her request, instructing her to return to school, but Phoebe adamantly refuses to
go, so he offers to take her to the zoo. There the siblings reconcile and Holden convinces
Phoebe to ride the carousel as she has in the past. As Holden sits watching her, he sees Phoebe
grab for the gold ring, and he becomes afraid that she will be hurt. But, Holden
recognizes,

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab
for the gold ring, you just have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they
fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them. 

Thus, Holden realizes that he cannot stop children from maturing. He cannot be "a
catcher in the rye."

--His autobiographical account

After giving his account of why he has left school and his feelings about phonies and
other people and things, Holden reveals that he has been institutionalized for a while, but he
will soon attend a new school. However, he does not want to reveal much more, and he wishes now
that he had not told so much about himself already. He adds,

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

What does Victor say about his temper and vehement passion when he was young?

Althoughsays that his parents provided
nothing but a lovingfor him and that he and Elizabeth enjoyed only "harmony" in their
relationship, he admits that he personally has a flaw in his temperament:

My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by
some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire
to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately. (Chapter 2)

Victor seeks a depth of knowledge even from childhood. This passion
to understand the laws of nature which govern the world around him are sometimes consuming,
leading him to become agitated in his quests. He longs to understand the "physical
secrets" of the world, and it is this part of his character which drives him to contemplate
the possibility of creating a human(like) figure. It likely also drives his reaction tohe
constructs, leading him to respond in this "violent" temper to the creature's various
requests.

With his family, Victor is patient. In scientific quests and
learning, he is so passionate that his personality leans toward violence in spirited quests for
understanding.

What do you make of the fact that the strange man in the woods in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" closely resembles Brown?

Goodman
Brown's journey into the dark night forest to confront evil is anfor confronting the evil within
his own soul. He has stuffed his own evil down and denied it, believing himself to be a good,
pious person, but his faith is largely a facade, even if he doesn't realize it. He is concerned
with surface appearances and how he appears to other people more than with his internal faith
life. He has little tolerance for the idea that people, including himself and his neighbors, are
inevitably a mix of good and evil. He has to "other" the evil in his own soul,
projecting it on to outside figures. That is why the "strange man," or devil, looks
like him. It is a representative of his own evil, but he displaces it to outside of himself. The
narrator states explicitly that in the woods, Goodman Brown's evil or devilish side is
released:

In truth, all through the haunted
forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. ... The fiend in
his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.

 

Analyze how Chaucer builds the Pardoner's character so he seems blissfully unaware of how others see him, using "The Prologue," the "Pardoner's...

To
answer this question, it is necessary to establish that the Pardoner is "blissfully
unaware" of how he is perceived, and I don't see this as an accurate analysis. He certainly
is unconcerned about how he is perceived, but he also seems perfectly aware. Let's explore and
find out what case, if any, can be made for his being "blissfully
unaware."

The most relevant part of the narrator's description of the
Pardoner in the "General" is that he wears his hair long and let's it fall in
ungroomed clumps down his back. He wears no clerical hood, only the clerical cap of his order.
This is very significant to understanding the Pardoner because there were strict codes of dress
and grooming general to England and specific to the many clerical orders. Monks and friars, etc,
(1) had to wear  their hair short; (2) had to wear their hoods in public; (3) had to wear their
skull caps under their hoods. The Pardoner knowingly and deliberately, without any concern for
the breach of protocol or...

Why do you think Mme Forestier never contacted Mme Loisel after the return of her necklace in "The Necklace"? Why do you think Mme Forestier never...

When
Madame Loisel returns the replacement necklace, Madame Forestier "said, with an irritated
air:--You ought to have brought it back sooner, for I might have needed it." This
irritation might explain why there was no further contact between the two women. They had
nothing in common anymore anyway. Madame had probably suspected that her former friend had no
intention of returning the necklace, and she might have decided she wouldn't ever lend her
anything again. There is a gulf between the rich and the poor which makes it impossible for them
to maintain friendly relations. Madame Loisel was terrified that her rich friend would examine
the substitute necklace and discover that it was not the same one. That in itself would prevent
Madame Loisel from contacting her friend again. And Madame Forestier had no special motive to
condescend to contact Madame Loisel. The Bible...

Who or what is the antagonist in The Egypt Game?

This is an interesting
question, as in a sense, there could be said to be many different protagonists. At the end of
the novel, however, we discover that the mainwho has been responsible for the murders of the
children and the failed attack on April is not actually the man that we and the children had
expected--the Professor--but it was actually somebody completely different:

He was a relative of Mr. Schmitt and he had always had something
wrong with his mind. He couldn't get a good job, and sometimes Mr. Schmitt let him work as a
stockboy in his store. He's work for a while and then he'd go away and do something else. But he
always came back again, and since he was willing to work for very little money, Mr. Schmitt
always hired him again.

So, whilst the ginger-headed man
is clearly the principal protagonist, if you want to think a bit more metaphorically, you might
want to consider how actually a major protagonist is fear and prejudice of those who are
different from us. The children suspect the Professor of committing the crime because he is such
a recluse and so strange to them. An important part of the novel is their realisation that being
different does not mean that you are responsible for crimes. They grow and develop as they make
this realisation.

In Act II of Romeo and Juliet, what is an example of forshadowing of more sinister events in Act II? For example when Romeo and Juliet get married....

There are
many examples.  First, the Friar's opening monolgue is foreshadows bad things that can happen
from good. In talking about the qualities of the plants, he mentions that some plants might
smell good, but when tasted they can be poisonous.  He says, "For naught so vile
that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good but,
strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns
vice, being misapplied." Act II, scene iii

At the end of the
scene, the Friar foreshadows the negative consequences of acting quickly.  He says:
"Wisely, and slowly. They stumble that run fast."   is rushing
forward to marry , but that increases the danger that their marriage will "stumble".

In Act II, scene iv,makes a joke about Romeo's love for Rosaline having
overpowered him. Mercution says: "Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! stabbed
with a white wench's black eye."  This joke hints that Romeo will die.  After
that, we learn  has challenged Romeo to a duel. Danger is pending.

These
scenes leave the reader feeling unsettled.  Although we should be happy about the marriage,
small words and small events (like Tybalt's challenge) keep interfering and making us doubt that
happiness can last.

Edwards uses repetition to impress upon his congregation why they are not suffering consequences this very moment. What is that phrase?

In ,  one
of the literary techniques used by Edwards to persuade his audience is repetition.  An author
uses repetition to emphasize a point and fix it in the readers mind.  In the case of wanting the
congregation to understand what it is that is...

What is Romeo's hubris?

In classic
Greek , the hero has a tragic flaw that brings him to his doom. The flaw is generally
, or stubborn pride. At first glance,doesn't seem especially proud.
However, he is self-absorbed, which could be considered a type of pride. In the beginning of the
play, he is moping around inconsolably because Rosaline doesn't love him. He refuses to consider
his friend's analysis that he only loves Rosaline because he hasn't met anyone prettier yet.
But, as it turns out, Romeo's friends know him well. As soon as he sets eyes on , he is consumed
with his infatuation for her. She tries to slow him down during their first meeting, but he
ignores her mild protests and manages to get two kisses. Later, when they speak on the balcony,
Juliet again warns that they are being too "rash," but he starts planning their
wedding.warns him that he is moving too quickly, but again, he pays no heed. This unwillingness
to take time to listen to others is a type of hubris.

The most tragic example
of Romeo's hubris, however, occurs during the encounter with . Although Romeo tries to break up
the fight betweenand Tybalt, after Mercutio is wounded, Romeo forgets his own advice to his
friend. He makes this speech:

My very friend, hath got
this mortal hurt
In my behalf. My reputation stained
With Tybalts
slanderTybalt, that an hour
Hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty
hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valors steel.

Rather than thinking rationally, he lets his pride
take over. He worries that his "reputation" has been "stained" and that he
might appear "effeminate" for not fighting back. He kills Tybalt.

All Romeo's previous foolishness pales in comparison to
this. This is the event that sets the tragedy in motion. It is the moment where Romeo displays
not just self-absorption but pride, demanding revenge. This is the hubris that leads to the
deaths of both .

Thursday 7 November 2013

What is the connection between the film Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee and the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz?

Apart
from a few similarities some might judge superficial (though they are very obvious and
clear-cut), I would suggest that these works have relatively little in common. It's true that
both deal with minority communities and families: one African American, the other
Latino. But the differences between the stories arguably outweigh the
resemblances.

Admittedly, Mookie in Do the Right Thing
and Soledad can be likened to each other in that they are singular people in conflict
with those around them. Mookie's position in Sal's Pizzeria is one in which he constantly feels
attacked, harassed by Sal and the two sons. He also has a somewhat conflicted relationship with
his sister, though this is a secondary issue. In Soledad, the emphasis is
on the title character's conflict with her mother and with others in the family, but the other
characters are stressed as well and the point of view shifts from one to the other. In
Do the Right Thing, the family focus is actually more upon Sal and his boys
than upon Mookie. When the film was released one of the criticisms was that Sal is a more
rounded character than Mookie and ironically seems to be drawn more sympathetically than the
African American figures in the film. If any clearcan be drawn with
Soledad, it is that of, on the one hand, the dysfunctional dynamic between
Sal and his sons and, on the other, the troubled relationships within Soledad's
family.

Soledad is a "rebel," wishing to create her own life
outside that of her family and the Washington Heights neighborhood which, she observes, most
outsiders do not even think of as part of Manhattan. Mookie is a kind of rebel as well, but the
emphasis is less on his family problems and background than it is upon the
relationship between the African American community and his employer, Sal, whose "Famous
Pizzeria" is a white outpost in a black neighborhood. Mookie understandably resents the way
he's treated and is troubled by the centrality of Sal's business to the community: it is a
microcosm of the dependence of many African Americans upon white people in general, even those
who are racist (although at this point in a mostly institutionalized way) as Sal is. Mookie also
does not, until the one crucial moment that leads to destruction, attempt to break out of his
constricted circumstances, unlike Soledad, who when the story opens is already living downtown
and trying to make an independent existence for herself.

Not only Soledad but
others in her story focus more on the oppressive nature of their own family life and the
compromised possibilities for young Latinas than upon the relationship between themselves and
the whites, even if this, inevitably, is part of the picture of her life presented to us. Though
her behavior could not be more different, her cousin Flaca feels the same pressure to be
something other than what she is. To some extent, Soledad views the family as caricatures. The
names are often significant: Soledad ("loneliness"), Aunt
Gorda (the heavy woman), and Flaca (the skinny girl).
The struggles of the family members create a rich texture in which the personal element is
dominant.

By contrast, Spike Lee's narrative, powerful though it is, often
seems subordinated to a schematic depiction of people as symbols in a conflicted society. Some
would allege Lee's characters are stereotypes enacting truisms. In the climactic scene, Mookie
ignites the catastrophe less from his own personal resentment of Sal than because he is speaking
up for the community, carrying out a symbolic act. The moments in which Sal's business burns
down and we see his photographs of Italian-American idols going up in flames mark Lee's drama as
an existential one. In Soledad, the story is far less apocalyptic than it
is personal and intimate. Both works show, however, the oppression and marginalization
unfortunately endemic in U.S. society.

What do you think Alice Walker is saying in "Everyday Use" about the nature of heritage?

Thoughwas
obviously a strong proponent of racial equality and building positive racial identity, there
were a few aspects of the Black Power movement at large that she found to be particularly
detrimental. One of the most prominent was the tendency for the movement to speak for black
persons as a whole and to assume that all had lived the same experience. In particular, Walker
took issue with the assumption that black culture in an urban setting was somehow more
emphatically responsive to black heritage than black culture in a rural setting.


In "," Walker illustrates a frustration with the tendency of the
Black Power movement to disregard alternative narratives. She shows this in the form of two
sisters. Dee is a woman who is living an urban life and is fully involved in the identity and
social liberation of black persons. Maggie, on the other hand, is quiet, demure, and has little
concern for the world outside of her home.

Dee is quietly cruel to Maggie
for her...

Why write poems? Why write poems?

is so
different from any other kind of writing.  There are no "rules," really, and you get
to form and shape your ideas any way you wish without worrying about the conventions of writing,
such as punctuation, capitalization, and complete sentences.  Poetry offers an opportunity to
express what you're feeling in a way no one else could, and frankly it allows you to say things
which need to be said (both awful and amazing) without everyone necessarily knowing all the
details.  You can tell how it feels or how it looks to you without telling all.  Conversely, you
can take the tiniest observation and give it a full and detailed expression in poetic form. 
There are certainly forms and conventions for poetry; however, at its core, poetry is a form of
expression which allows you to do whatever you want, however you want, as long as you're
expressing yourself.