Can you explain what Beneatha means when she says that "there are two things we, as a people, have got to overcome, one is the Ku Klux Klan€”and the...

is referring
to what Ms. Johnson is symbolic of, which is the attitude of some black folks to resent people
of their race who attempt to better their class position. It is very clear that sheMs. Johnsonis
one who holds this opinion. She comes to the Younger house with a...

What is a comparison between French and English Gothic cathedrals?

As others
have noted, French cathedrals put an emphasis on soaring height. To build the cathedrals as tall
as they were without having the walls collapse, the French used flying buttresses. These look
like a row of columns outside the main building, connected to the main building by arches at the
top of each column that press into the wall of the main structure and help hold it up.

English Gothic cathedrals did not put such a great emphasis on soaring toward heaven.
They achieved a taller height than Romanesque cathedrals, however, through the use of lancets.
These are tall, narrow windows that look lances with a point at the top. The fact that they were
made of glass rather than stone meant they were lighter, so buildings could go higher without
collapsing. The glass was narrow enough that it would not collapse either.

Another important difference between French and English Gothic cathedrals is the relationship
between the facade of the buildings and the interior. French cathedrals...

In Chains, how does Curzon offer to help Isabel earn her freedom?

Curzon
is a huge help to Isabel in a lot of ways throughout the entire book, but he first broaches the
subject of helping her obtain freedom in chapter 6. This is the chapter that has Curzon guiding
Isabel to the Tea Water Pump. In addition to helping her find her way there, he also secures
some much needed food for Isabel.

As friendly as Curzon is to Isabel, I can't
say that Isabel is as friendly back to Curzon; however, that is to be expected. She has just
lost her freedom, she and Ruth are in completely foreign territory, and the Locktons are
horrible owners. Isabel has already been struck once at this point in the story. Curzon knows
that the Locktons are awful people, and he's even more against them because they are "dirty
Loyalists." Curzon will eventually ask Isabel if she feels "beholden" to the
Locktons. Isabel says that she's just biding her time until she can find the lawyer that will
grant her the legal freedom originally promised to her; however, Curzon says that he might have
a quicker and more dependable solution for obtaining her freedom:

You might be better served if you placed your loyalty with us.

Isabel isn't immediately in support of doing anything for Curzon,
but she does ask who "us" is and what she could possibly do. Curzon explains that
Isabel is likely to hear things in the Lockton household. Isabel quickly understands that Curzon
is asking her to spy, and Isabel doesn't see any good coming of that. Curzon then explains that
Colonel Regan could help get Isabel's freedom paperwork straightened out as a reward for helping
the Patriots. Isabel likes the idea; however, she simply isn't willing to risk herself or Ruth
at this point in the novel.

What role does this advice play in developing Scout's compassion for others in To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus tells Scout that she needs to walk in her...

takes '
advice to heart and uses it throughout the remainder of the novel. Atticus explained that Miss
Caroline's decision to try and provide young Walter Cunningham with money for lunch (he refused
to accept it) was an honest mistake on her part, and if Scout and Walter "had put ourselves
in her shoes," they would have understood that as a newcomer to town, she could not be
expected to learn the town's ways in a single day. Scout uses this advice effectively at the end
of the novel after she escortsback home following the attack by Bob Ewell. After Boo closes the
door...

Compare and contrast Victor and the monster in Frankenstein.

The main
point of comparison to note betweenand his monster is that they both want to dominate and
control their surroundings. Like the mad scientist he is,createdbecause he wanted to exert more
power over the world, to create a race of creatures who would populate the earth and bow down
before him like a god.

For his part, the monster also wants control: he wants
to break free from the shackles of his being and become more like a human. Over time, he comes
to resent being Victor's creature and wants to lead his own life, complete with his very own
bride. And this resentment, combined with an insatiable desire for power and control, will
manifest itself in a brutal act of violence as the monster strangles Frankenstein's new wife,
Elizabeth, to death on their wedding day.

One major difference between
creature and creator is that the monster shows a much greater capacity to develop as a human.
Admittedly, he starts from a much lower base than Victor, but this...

What does young Goodman Brown mean when he says Of all nights in the year, this one night I must tarry away from thee in Young Goodman Brown

Although we do
not know the details of why or how, we do learn from
the story that for some reason,has agreed to make a trip into the forest on this particular
night because on this night, there is to be a meeting in the forest. That meeting is actually an
evil ceremony at which converts give their souls to the devil.  Goodman Brown is a newlywed. He
and his wife, Faith, have been married only 3 months and prior to his making this statement, she
asks him to remain at home "on this one night." She suspects that there is something
amiss with the mysterious meeting he has agreed to attend. We also...

What was the Sonderweg Thesis?

Queen Langosh

"Sonderweg" comes from a German phrase meaning "separate path."
Basically, the argument is that Germany's political development did not resemble the trajectory
of political and social development in any other European country. This is a long-running trope
in German historiography, something akin to the idea of "American exceptionalism" in
the United States, but naturally the events of the Second World War form a sort of turning point
in how we view it. Before , the idea of a Sonderweg emphasized the fact
that Germany had not developed the sort of autocratic government that emerged in...

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what are figurative devices?why are they used in poetry?

makes maximum
use of a sense of language, a feeling for words. The meanings, whether denoted or suggested, all
add to the overall import of a poem. So in order to utilize the possibilities of words, poets
employ figurative devices. Here are some of these devices:

- Language that appeals to the various senses. There are
various types of sense representations: 

1. visual


2. auditory
3. olfactory
4. gustatory


5. tactile
6. organic
7. kinesthetic

- a stated comparison between two unlike
things or ideas using the words as or like. Sometimes
than, similar to, resembles, or seems are used, as
well.
 - an unstated comparison between two unlike things
or ideas. Sometimes the two terms are named, but often one of them, the literal or the
figurative term, are simply implied.
Apostrophe - the
addressing of something non-human or someone absent as though this being or entity is alive and
able to respond
- the attribution of human qualities to
non-human entities or ideas.
Synecdoche - the use of part
for the whole  e.g. "The hand of God"
Metonymy -
the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. e.g. "The pen is
mightier than the sword."
- An apparent
contradiction that provokes thought into a deeper meaning

- A play upon the meaning of words. e.g. a dying Mercutio tells Romeo, "Tomorrow you will
find me a grave man." grave/serious; grave/place for the dead
Tone -
The author's attitude toward his/her
subject
- A contrast between what is said
or what happens and what is meant or expected.
Symbol -
Something that stands for someone/something
else


 

When does Tennyson use nourishment as a metaphor, and to what effect, in Ulysses?

In
analysing Tennysons , it is important to realize that like many Victorians, Tennysons
familiarity with Classical Greek literature (in the original language) was equivalent to a level
achieved in the...

What are some tips to write an essay about sitting outside in my garden and admiring nature?

Essentially, writing is about the emotions
and memories that come to you when you think about a topic. To that end, it could be beneficial
to go to a place of zen, while you sit in your garden, and clear your mind. This can be done by
practicing a method that Gretchen Bernabei coined in her educating practice. What you will do
is, as you sit in the garden, think about a memory that the scenery invokes. This memory can be
from a smell in the garden that causes you to think back to a specific time. The scenery can
also be reminiscent of something you've done in the past. However, if a memory is not coming to
mind, create a story based on one element of the garden. Next, you will write only simple
sentences, with very little details. Each of the sentences will be specific and follow the
pattern below.

In thinking about the memory or new creation, answer the
following questions to begin your essay:

- Where were you?

- What were your feet doing, what were your eyes seeing, and what were you thinking in
the very moment this memory or imaginative scene began?

- What happened
next?

- How did the memory wrap up, and/or, what was the final moment in this
occurrence?

- What was your overall impression of the moment? What did you
think or consider?

After you have answered these questions, and allowed
nature to be your muse, go back and flesh out each question. You should include vivid details
that are inspired by the freedom of nature. Likewise, if you choose to create an imaginative
story, it may be helpful to base each question on a specific thing in the garden. Below, I have
written two simple sentences that would answer the first two questions, to give you an idea of
this process. I based my sentences on sitting in a rose garden, which I have, and used a rose
petal as my inspiration.

- Where were you:

I was waiting for my husband at the Botantical Gardens.

- What were your feet doing, what we're your eyes seeing, and what were you
thinking in the very moment this memory or imaginative scene began?

I was standing still, with my eyes fixated on a the dew that was captured by a rose
petal. I remembered the first rose my husband gave me.

In "A Rose for Emily" what is the relationship between the individual, Miss Emily, and the community?

The
community seems to be reluctant to confront her or force her to do anything largely because of
the role her lineage has played in the towns history and her defiant nature. One of the most
telling examples from the story that reflects this is when the town is plagued by an
overwhelming stench coming from s home. Afraid of confronting a lady of her reputation, town
officials decide the best solution is to sneak to her house in the middle of the night to
sprinkle lime. In short, the community tiptoes around her and has to come up with unique ways to
deal with her, as she is obstinate and unwilling to cooperate.

What happens to Edward Covey's ox cart?

Covey
disregarded Frederick's inexperience in dealing with livestock, and when he lost control it
smashed into a tree. This enraged Covey, and he was set on causing Douglass pain for his
"stupidity".

How are the traditional stereotypes of men and women reversed in part 2, chapters 1 and 2 of George Orwell's 1984?

is the
lead character in these chapters. She takes the initiative in taking her illicit relationship
withto the next stage. She is the one who leaves him the little note which says "I love
you"; she is the one who takes Winston to the secret hideaway where she's had sex with
Party members before him. At every stage in Winston and Julia's relationship, it is Julia who
takes the lead role.

In Oceania, such a forthright display of sexuality is
strictly forbidden, especially for women, who are restricted to a subordinate role in society.
Winston understands this and draws a sharp distinction between Julia's behavior and that of his
first wife, Katherine. Unlike Julia, Katherine was always somewhat uncomfortable with physical
intimacy. However, that's precisely what the Party would've wanted and expected from her. Julia,
on the other hand, is an individual in the truest sense of the word, and that means defying the
many constraints put upon her by both the Party and society, with their sexist assumptions of
how a woman should behave.

In 1984, what values of society are revealed through Winston Smith's alienation?

's alienation
occurs as a result of the overwhelming control of the party. To truly connect to other human
beings, it is necessary both to have some sense of self and for the person you're interacting
with to have the same, because personal connection comes, in part, as we reveal these selves to
each other, and while they grow and change through a relationship. In the world under Big
Brother, everyone must portray themselves as the people they are expected to be, and discovery
of self is explicitly discouraged in order to create people who are identical and controllable,
so no one has any sense of self to reveal and, even if they did, they would be punished if they
let it slip. This means that human interaction never creates real connection, and this is
incredibly alienating.

In "Young Goodman Brown," what evidence in the story suggests that Browns journey into the forest represents a journey into his own heart?

Goodman Brown leaves
his home one night, and he looks back at his wife, Faith. This could allegorically represent the
idea that the deeper he goes into his own heart, the more he leaves his Christian faith behind.
As he journeys within, he knows that he has an "evil purpose" and fears that the Devil
is waiting nearby. This stands in for the Christian's knowledge of temptation, of its presence,
its allure, and the inevitability that we will, at some point, give in.

As he
walks deeper and deeper into the forest, this seems to signify a dark spiritual place, a place
where the light of God cannot shine once the person chooses to enter it willingly. Brown knows
he should not go, but he chooses to do so anyway:

He had
taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside
to let...

Identify the main idea in "Networks of Resistance" by Elleke Boehmer.

One of
Boehmer's primary points is that the exchange of ideas that is intrinsic to Colonialism helped
to develop the vocabulary and consciousness that led to its dismantling and the rise of
Postmodernism.  In the cross- cultural exchange that was Colonialism, ideas emerged that would
eventually lead to its subversion.  For example, Boehmer points to the example of Gandhi, who
used appeals to British notions of law and justice evident in the Magna Carta and
other...

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What do you think Goodman Brown has been forced to accept?

Brown is
forced to accept--but in fact does not, and therefore despairs--that Faith as a virtue is indeed
"a poor little thing" (which is how he refers to his wife when he leaves her) and that
he cannot take it for granted. His real or imagined trip into the forest where he learns about
evil challenges his faith, and he loses it. He think he can withstand temptation, but goes so
far to the edge that in fact does lose his faith in the goodness of humanity and the justice of
God. What he should learn is that faith needs to be nurtured and cared for and not arrogantly
challenged. He thinks he is strong enough to exist without it as he walks into the unknown
("poor little faith") but in fact he is not. 

In The Alchemist by Coelho, why did Santiago have to experience the dangers of the tribal wars in order to reach the Pyramids?

In 's
story, , it is only because of the news of the tribal wars approaching that
Santiago sees the vision of the hawks fighting. When he speaks of what he has seen, the
alchemist comes to find out who is reading signs based upon the behavior of
his birds. It is here that Santiago and the alchemist meet, and the wisdom of Santiago's
responses based upon what he has learned on his long journey, impress the alchemist. They begin
their acquaintance. The two start out on a journey across the desert.

When
the alchemist and Santiago reach one of the warring tribes, they are...

The early nineteenth century is often referred to as the Age of the Common Man. Evaluate whether that assessment is true or false.

Any
sweeping generalization, such as calling the nineteenth century the Age of the Common Man, is
problematic. Although broad generalizations are useful teaching tools in that they help students
understand that cultures change over time, any general statement is by its very nature too broad
to be more than a starting point for more specific analysis.

A good starting
point for arguing against this would be to note that it is Eurocentricresponding to specific
social, political, and economic changes in Europe and North Americarather than true of the
entire world, including Asia, Africa, and South America. For many places outside Europe, this
was a period of imperialism, colonialism, and oppression of Indigenous populations by a small
minority of foreign oppressors.

In Britain, the Reform bills and other
legislation gave increasing power to a wider section of the population, but the reforms in the
early part of the century benefited the new middle classes and bourgeoisie, and workers and
peasants were often as much victims as beneficiaries of reforms. It wasn't until after the
mid-century mark that universal male suffrage was granted. The French Revolution gave more power
to the "common man" in France, but other countries moved more slowly toward
democracy.

Even more important, while the common man may
have grown in influence in the early part of the century, it was only later that the common
woman began to gain equal rights.

What was it like being a child in slavery in regards to things we take for granted (e.g., birthdays, spending time with your mother, etc.) as outlined...

At the
opening of his memoir, Douglass records how different the experience of what we think of as an
ordinary childhood is for a slave. He states that in most cases, including his own, slaves are
not told the day of their birth. The closest they come to finding out is possibly getting the
information that they were born near planting time, harvest time, or another time of year
associated with crops or the seasons.

Douglass says that all he knows of his
birthdate is that his master said in 1835 they he was about seventeen years old, which would
have put his birth year in 1818.

Douglass also states that, while he knew the
identity of his mother, he did not know who his father was, though it was possibly his master.
He also says that he was separated from his mother at an early age, which he also explains is
common among slaves. He asserts he believes this is done to prevent bonds of affection of
growing up between mother and child. As he puts it:

For
what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the
childs affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother
for the child. This is the inevitable result.

He only saw
his mother a few times in his early childhood, when she would come at night from the farm twelve
miles away to see him. She died when he was seven, but he did not hear of it until after she was
gone, and, as he did not know her well and could not feel grieved over it.

As
he shows, the childhood of a slave is one in which a firm identity is difficult to form (other
than that of being a slave).

What does Saki convey about social conventions during the time period in "The Open Window"?

's story
"" is a great study on the social conventions of the Edwardians, as it presents the
plot within a set of circumstances that are very unique to that era (1901-1910, think
"Downton Abbey" toward the end of the first season). 

The character
of the young teenage girl, Vera, uses those very social conventions of the time as the
springboard that will propel her to execute her mischievous trick upon the nervous Frampton
Nuttel.

The first social convention that we can extrapolate, right from
the start, is the old tradition of visiting the country for "a cure." In this case,
Frampton had just suffered a nervous breakdown and needed to retire to a calm and quiet place to
rest.

The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an
absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical
exercise.

The visits to the rural side of England were
thought to be therapeutic, as London was literally the cosmopolitan capital of the world with a
bursting metropolis that was as busy as it was chaotic.

Saki, who was quite
familiar with the London scene himself, surely evoked the neurosis of the typical Edwardian
cosmopolite with the old-time paradigm of the bucolic and peaceful life in the countryside.
However, he will show us that life in the country may not be as idyllic, peaceful or innocent as
people make it out to be. This is Saki at his best satirizing his social peers and their
pre-conceived notions of life.

The second convention is that these visits to
the country are not necessarily between people who know each other. In this case, Frampton was
visiting Mrs. Sappleton, whom he did not know, and he was also going to spend a good deal of
time in her home.

How could these visits take place? Enter the third social
convention in the story: the introduction letter. Frampton's sister is presumably the person who
has ties with Mrs. Sappleton. She must have trusted her friend enough to propose the invitation
of a third party to stay at her residence.

Moreover, Frampton's sister must
have also trusted her brother's own behavior to even establish a connection with someone in the
country for something as delicate as a resting cure. It is either that, or she purposely sent
Frampton to the Sappleton's knowing that he would end up in some embarrassing situation. That,
we will never know. However, knowing Saki's style, that is not entirely impossible.

Once in the country, Frampton makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Sappleton's 15-year old
niece, Vera, who is in the parlor at the time he arrives. Another convention, he is there in
order to get properly introduced to the lady of the house. But this does not happen because the
young woman, true to her status as a young lady, uses her decorum to "warn" her house
guest about her aunt's alleged trauma over her dead husband. She also uses this poise and
decorum to quietly examine the new house guest and get his weakest traits.

On
that note, we can assume that Nuttel (as his name hints) may have looked the part of a person
with a mental issue. We can also safely assume that the young girl had the upper hand, being
that she is quite well in control of herself. This is how she managed to tell the fake story of
the aunt's dead husband, explaining that there is a reason for the French window in the parlor
to be always open: for her aunt to wait for that dead husband to come back at any minute from
the hunting trip that killed him and her (Mrs. Sappleton's) two brothers.

A
final convention is the entrance of Mrs. Sappleton to meet Mr. Nuttel, and her asking him
whether Vera was a polite hostess to him, as she is expected to be.

We know
the rest. Nuttel's answer is that Vera was "very interesting". Shortly after that,
the sight of Mrs. Sappleton's (very much alive) husband and brothers in law coming back from
their hunting trip sends Frampton Nuttel into a frenzy, and he runs out of the house. Vera
attributes this to a (false) "fear of dogs" and Mrs. Stappleton is left wondering what
ever could have caused such reaction.

Therefore Saki conveys the social
conventions of the time in a way that is both satirical and illustrative of how things were
done. However, the satirical part of it is what Saki does best, always creating something
unexpected from an otherwise predictable and foreseeable event such as a visit to the country to
get a cure for an ailment.  

Did Armand truly love Desiree?

In the
beginning, Armand truly loved the idea of being with Desiree. His station in life was such that
he could have all the things he desired, including Desiree. He did not care that she was adopted
and that her heritage was unknown. He was extremely attracted to Desiree and deeply wanted her.
However, this changed when it became apparent that their child had African-American
traits.

Armand became angry with Desiree for having a mixed bloodline. A
biracial child did not fit into Armand's original ideal plan. This was not how he imagined his
life would be like with...

What was it about Great Britain that made the French Enlightenment philosophes so envious of that nation-state? What did Britain have going for it,...

Many of
the French philosophes saw Great Britain as the model for good government.
One thing that they especially liked about Britain was the system of limited monarchy (and
Parliamentary supremacy) that emerged in the wake of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. The
Baron de Montesquieu, for example, admired the English Constitution, that set of traditions and
laws that limited the powers of the king. He argued that this system struck a good balance
between liberty and authority, far more so than the French monarchy. Voltaire, too, was a
self-described Anglophile who especially valued the freedom of speech and press afforded to his
fellow writers and intellectuals in Great Britain. In a series of essays called The
English Letters, Voltaire, who actually lived in England for a few years, also
praised the spirit of religious tolerance that prevailed there. He regarded the English as
industrious and business-minded, and attributed their economic success to the spirit of
tolerance that he saw there. Like Montesquieu, he used English society as a model for absolutist
France. Many French intellectuals admired the works of British writers, especially John Locke,
whose theory of the social contract influenced Voltaire, Rousseau, and others in the eighteenth
century. In short, in absolutist France, England was for many a beacon of liberty, of
moderation, and of modernity.

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What actions could be recommended that Walt Disney Companys management might take to improve the company and increase shareholder value?...

Fundamentally,
there are four ways that a company can increase shareholder value. The first action to consider
is to increase pricing. You may also increase shareholder value by increasing sales. Decreasing
costs is another factor to consider. A fourth way to increase shareholder value would be
increasing fixed cost utilization, which requires a company to look at ways to use resources
differently to decrease costs and/or increase sales.

As with any company with
multiple revenue sources, you probably want to look at the Walt Disney Companys greatest revenue
source. Currently, the largest percentage of the companys profits come from its media resources,
specifically television. Therefore, you should consider changes that could be made in Disneys
media holdings using the above four components to increase shareholder value as a guide. This
would give the changes the most leverage in impacting the company's profits and value.

What do you understand by a "decolonization of mind?"

The
phrase "decolonizing the mind" was popularized (if not coined) by Ngugi wa Thiongo, a
Kenyan novelist, in a book by that title published in 1986. He summed up what it meant to him in
the introduction of the book, which he assured his readers would be the last he published in
English: from here on out, it would be "Kenyan all the way." Thiongo lamented the fact
that many writers in former colonial countries wrote exclusively in English or French, which he
viewed as the languages of the oppressors. He argued that even if political imperialism was
over, cultural and economic imperialism was very much alive, and to accept European culture and
language as normative was to accept their hegemony over African and other formerly colonized
peoples. For Thiongo, writing in English was (and is) an acceptance of the alleged inferiority
of African and other indigenous cultures that served as a justification for imperialism in the
first place. In order to become fully free, formerly subaltern...

What type of creatures do they meet?

The
travelers, en route to the center of the earth, see exotic creatures not found on the surface of
the planet. For example, they view living dinosaurs, such as an Ichthyosaurus and a Plesiosaurus
having a fight. They also see very large insects and mastodons. In fact, they come across a
whole herd of mastodons, exactly like those discovered as fossils in Ohio in 1801.

They also see a very large man who is perhaps twelve feet tall. He has a head the size
of a buffalo head and lots of matted hair. The voyagers are not entirely sure if he is a man, an
ape-man, or some member of the monkey family, but they avoid having any contact with
him.

They also find the plant life of the earth's surface all jumbled
together:

there appeared confounded together and
intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the
globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of
the order Myrtaceaeleaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its
branches with those of the New Zealand kauris.

What is the difference between perception of service quality and customer satisfaction?

In many
cases, there is no difference between these two terms.  They are often used interchangeably.
 However, some scholars argue that there is truly a difference between the two.

The perception of service quality is a measure of how well a service that is received
matches up to the expectation that the customer had prior to receiving the service.  Customer
satisfaction is the degree to which the customer is happy with the service received.

These are clearly very similar concepts.  However, some scholars differentiate between
the two.  Some scholars argue that customer satisfaction is more of a long-term concept while
perception of service quality varies from one transaction to the next.  That is, a person can
feel that they have gotten poor service from a firm on a recent transaction and therefore give
the firm a low score on perception of quality yet, at the same time, the person can be fairly
satisfied with the firm because of the quality of previous transactions. 

Researchers have found that there is a strong correlation between these two things.
 That is, people who have a perception that the services they have received have been of high
quality are very likely to have high levels of customer satisfaction as well.  Therefore, the
difference between these two things appears to be more important to academics than to actual
customers.

According to Edward Abbey, how should wilderness areas be managed?

was a
striking example of a libertarian and environmentalist. In some ways, he believed that the
wilderness represented opportunities for freedom and thus was uncomfortable with certain types
of regulation. On the other hand, he was very aware of how wilderness areas needed to be
protected from exploitation by commercial interests and environmental degradation.

His first priority was keeping wilderness areas wild. That meant not filling them with
roads and concessions. It also meant not subsiding ranching, which was and still is destroying
much of the southwestern desert. He was outraged by the way the ranching interests had captured
so much of western politics leading to "welfare cowboys", i.e. large scale ranching on
public lands subsidized by taxpayers. He saw the system of mining leases and ranching permits as
essentially handouts by the government to small groups of wealthy and influential people. He was
also strongly opposed to the creation of Lake Powell.

Basically, Abbey saw
wilderness as the birthright of all citizens. It should be preserved in a pristine state so that
future generations can continue to enjoy it rather than its being sold off to commercial
interests. He saw wilderness as having inestimable spiritual value that could only be retained
if it stayed wild. He opposed the presence of cars in national parks and saw commercial mass
tourism (e.g. tour buses and helicopters) as destroying the spirit of the wilderness as well as
causing environmental harm.

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In the book The Egypt Game, who owns the A-Z store on Orchard Street?

When April
moves to the Casa Rosada to live with her grandmother, she takes an interest in a dusty curio
shop with a sign that says A - Z. The store is owned by a mysterious, taciturn man whom
residents of the area call the Professor. People in the community are skeptical and suspicious
of the Professor, partly because he is a man of few words who doesn't easily form relationships,
and partly because his...

In Animal Farm, in which ways do the animals behave like animals and how do the animals behave like humans?

The
only animals that adopt human characteristics and behave as they do, are the pigs and to a
certain extent Mollie, Moses the raven, the cat and 's guard dogs. The rest of the animals
maintain their natural animal tendencies.

Mollie had been spoiled by Mr Jones
and had been taught to become conceited. She had become used to wearing pretty ribbons and to
eat sugar, habits which she was not prepared to sacrifice after the Rebellion. She was lazy and
shirked doing even basic duties. She eventually ended up being owned by a publican so she could
continue with her spoilt behaviour, a very human trait.

Moses repeatedly went
around the farm to spread lies about Sugar Candy Mountain, an ideal place to which all animals
would go to after death. He did not work and his lies had the support of the pigs since he was
never punished for spreading them. This is a human quality, misleading and deceiving others for
no particular reason, except for the pleasure to confuse. 

The cat became
involved in teaching the birds but would often try to get them closer, for obvious reasons. She,
just like Moses and Mollie, as well as Napoleon's dogs, hardly ever did any work and would
disappear for long periods. Her deceptive and lazy nature make her more human.

Napoleon's guard dogs occupied a privileged position. Napoleon had secretly raised them
since they were puppies and they had become loyal to him, acting on his brutal instructions,
without question. They became tools of Napoleon's tyranny and kept the other animals in check,
subjugating them to their master's authority. In this sense then, their assistance in the
oppression of their fellow animals made them more human, since humans had been ruthlessly
autocratic.

Of all the animals, the pigs, being the cleverest, had easily
adopted human characteristics and quickly adopted their way of life. It started with them
claiming privileges and denying these to other animals, such as their sole claim to the milk and
windfall apples. Thereafter, they moved into the farmhouse and slept in beds. When murmurs were
raised about their behaviour going against the principles of Animalism, they misled the animals,
changed the commandments to suit them, and used propaganda to further confuse the
others.

The pigs went even further, they started drinking alcohol, took to
wearing human garments, walked on their hind legs and started carrying whips. Napoleon even took
to smoking a pipe! The fact that they could read and write completes the cornucopia of human
attributes that they possessed and exercised.

In the end, the pigs became so
similar to the humans that it affected even their physical appearance. It became difficult for
the other animals to distinguish between the two.

The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but
already it was impossible to say which was which.

 

How do the three party slogans (Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace) become truthful by the end of 1984?

These three
slogans are all quite paradoxical since they appear to be contradictory, yet hold a great deal
of truth in relation to the novel.  Remember that this is a Dystopian novel that takes place in
a Totalitarian society where all personal freedoms, including the ability to think for one's
self, have been stripped away.

Freedom is Slavery:
With freedom comes the responsibility of making choices.  In this society, people
are usually punished for independent thinking or any type of behavior that is not dictated or
approved by The Party.  If people made their own choices in this society they would likely be
captured by the Thought Police and vaporized.  Freedom is slavery because freedom would lead to
bondage and death in this society.  You become a slave to yourself, a slave to the
responsibility of thinking and acting on your own.  By allowing the party to strip away your
freedoms, you no longer possess the responsibility to think or make decisions and are
"free" from the threat of capture and
vaporization.

Ignorance is Strength: As
mentioned before, knowledge and free-thinking will ultimately lead to being captured and
vaporized in this society.  By remaining ignorant you remain strong, because you are not a
threat to The Party.  If you possess knowledge asand Syme did, The Party becomes threatened by
your abilities.  Having knowledge may lead people to question Big Brother and eventually attempt
to overthrow the government.  Ignorance is strength, because it keeps you alive and safe from
the threat of capture and death.

War is Peace:
The people in this society need somewhere to direct their anger which is why The
Party invented Emmanuel Goldstein.  If the people do not believe that Oceania is at war and
threatened by Emmanuel Goldstein, they will start to question the conditions they are living in
and the laws established by the government and eventually direct their anger towards Big
Brother.  War is peace, because war unites the people of Oceania and maintains harmony within
that particular super-state in order to avoid the threat of
mutiny.

Were the American colonists justified in rebelling against England?

According to
Jefferson, a people being oppressed have a moral obligation to rebel against their
oppressors.The question is really whether or not the US would have been better off staying
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What is the hook in A Wrinkle in Time?

A hook is
what makes us curious and keeps us reading in the opening pages of a story. In the first few
pages of , we're introduced to an important story arc, the disappearance of
Meg's father, which, of course, makes us curious and drives the rest of the plot. But I would
argue that the more important initial story hook is the more generalized sense of mystery, of
which the missing father is only a part. Opening with "it was a dark and rainy night"
is a cliche, but also signals a mystery, as does Fortinbras's barking, which he only does when a
stranger is approaching the house. Then there's feisty Meg feeling like a misfit, the mysterious
little brother Charles Wallace waiting for Meg in the kitchen, and the glamorous mother. In a
story that's as much about the characters as the adventure, it is ultimately our curiosity about
the unusual but close-knit family and what is going to happen to them that hooks us and keeps
the pages turning.

In the book, Of Mice and Men, in what ways is George protective of Lennie? How does George threaten Lennie?

is 's
guardian and close friend throughout the novella. George promised Lennie's aunt Clara that he
would take care of him and protects Lennie from hostile individuals like Curley and his wife.
George understands that Lennie is not intelligent enough to understand precarious situations and
protects him by constantly giving him advice to avoid malicious individuals on the ranch. George
warns Lennie about being around Curley and cautions him to stay far away from Curley's wife.
George also protects Lennie by answering questions on his behalf and reiterating their escape
plan if anything goes awry. George helps Lennie find work, which is difficult to come by, and
also cautions him about drinking still water and carrying a dead mouse in the opening scene of
the novella.

George has a tendency to get frustrated with Lennie and
threatens to leave him. George continually laments about being stuck with Lennie and talks about
living alone and independent. When George threatens to abandon Lennie in the opening scene of
the novella, Lennie threatens to do the same thing by walking into the wilderness and living
alone in a cave, which makes George feel guilty and apologize.

What is relationship between democracy and electoral system? Explain and analyze the difference between dictatorship and democracy.

Democracies are
free nations that have elections. Electoral systems vary from democracy to democracy, but the
peoples' votes are almost always the key factor in determining the elections' winners. There is
an Electoral College in the United States, however. Because of the antiquated Electoral College,
the winner of American presidential elections do not always receive more votes than the other
candidates. For example, the winners of both the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections received
far fewer popular votes than their opponents. The vast majority of other democracies outside the
U.S. have a parliamentary system, and political party leaders run their governments.

Dictatorships are different from democracies because they do not have free elections.
Russia,...

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Can someone explain the link in economics with marginal physical product (mpp) and marginal cost (mc)? It says in my book they go in opposite...

The reason
this happens is because as you add more variable inputs to a given amount of fixed inputs, each
unit of additional inputs helps you less, but still costs the same amount.

Think about the example of a 10 acre farm.  The land is a fixed input and we'll say
labor is the only variable input.  As you add your first few workers, they do you a lot of good
because they can help you work more efficiently.  That means their marginal product is high
(lots more produced for every unit of labor added) and marginal cost is low (because they are
producing a lot their cost is divided over a lot of units of output).

Now
lets say you keep adding laborers.  At some point, they just get in each others way.  At that
point, the marginal product for each worker is low (they may not even help at all) and the
marginal cost is high (you divide their wages over very little added product).

Does that make sense?

In The Crucible, what are Elizabeth Proctor's internal and external conflicts?

In Act Two, we see
Elizabeth's conflict with her husband, John.  He asks if she is sad again, and
"she doesn't want friction, yet she must" say,

You come so late I thought you'd gone to Salem this
afternoon.

She seems to still suspect him of having
ulterior motives for going to Salem.  Elizabeth is somewhat justified in her suspicion since
John shortly reveals that he spoke with Abigail, his former lover, alone, when he'd led
Elizabeth to believe that he was never alone with the girl.  

We also see
evidence of Elizabeth's conflict with her employee, Mary Warren, in Act Two.  Even though John
has forbidden Mary to go into the courts in Salem anymore, Elizabeth feels she could not stop
her.  She says,

I couldn't stop her [....].  She
frightened all my strength away.

Despite their age
difference, and the fact that Mary is employed by the Proctors, Elizabeth still felt overpowered
by Mary, especially given how powerful the court has become in town.  Mary claims to be an
official of the court, and Elizabeth is afraid to interfere, it seems, though she's also trying
to obey her husband.

Then, in Act Four, we see evidence of Elizabeth's
internal conflict, a conflict she's had much time to mull over during her three months in jail
for witchcraft.  When John asks her forgiveness again, she says,

I have read my heart this three month, John.  I have sins of my own to count.  It needs
a cold wife to prompt lechery [....].  John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no
honest love could come to me!  Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my
love.  It were a cold house I kept!

Elizabeth has felt
conflicted by her love for John and her simultaneous distrust of that love.  It sounds like low
self-esteem has caused her to doubt his love since its beginning, and she blames herself and her
behavior for John's infidelity.  Only now can she really put that conflict into
words.

What are some quotes that show how Abigail Williams is a victim of her society in The Crucible?

Abigail Williams is far from being a sympathetic character, but there is plenty of
evidence in the play to suggest that her position is an unenviable one and that she is a victim
of the stifling society in which she lives.

After her parents' violent death,
she was accorded the status of a poor relation in the home of the paranoid and tyrannical
Reverend Parris, whose obsessive questioning of her at the beginning of act 1 shows how
burdensome her position is. He reminds her of his charity in a way that must be very
galling:

I have given you a home, child, I have put
clothes upon your back - now give me an upright answer.

Finally, she has to ask him, with ill-concealed resentment:

Do you begrudge me my bed, uncle?

It is clear that life in Parris's house is miserable for Abigail, since she is a victim
of his character defects as well as of the wider society that oppresses both of them. Moreover,
her only escape was to accept the status of a servant in the Proctors' house.

She had no opportunity...

Describe Bob Cratchit's feelings for Tiny Tim in stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. How does Charles Dickens show this to the reader?

Bob
Cratchit dearly loves Tiny Tim, as he does every member of his family. Scrooge sees this with
his own eyes when the Ghost of Christmas Present shows him a glimpse of life inside the Cratchit
household. Like the reader, Scrooge can see for himself just how much Bob cares for his disabled
son. When he comes through the door, Bob is carrying Tim on his shoulder. We soon discover that
Bob had been acting as Tim's "blood horse"i.e., he carried him homeall the way from
church.

The close bond between father in son is also much in evidence during
Christmas lunch, when Tiny Tim sits by Bob's side. Bob holds Tim's withered little hand in his,
keeping him by his side, almost as if he's worried that his son might be taken away from him.
This touching scene prompts...

What is the effect of juxtaposing these the poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" by William Blake?

When you
juxtapose the two poems and The Lamb you get a battle of the rhythms, where one is fierce
and the other is innocent.  Together, they are like two halves of the same song.

Blake wrote the two poems as a spiritual symphony.  They are meant to be read
together.  They each...

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What factors contributed to European imperialism in the 1800's?

Many factors
contributed to European imperialism in the 1800'sespecially the latter half of the nineteenth
century. Large areas of Africa and Asia were colonized.

One factor was the
widespread desire to enhance national prestige. After France's crushing loss in the
Franco-Prussian War, the French sought to recover national greatness by acquiring colonies.
After becoming one nation in 1871, Germany worked hard to establish its own colonial empire.
Even tiny Belgium colonized large tracts of land in Africa. Later, some leaders in the United
Statesincluding Teddy Rooseveltsuccessfully championed the cause of imperialism.

National security and the need for foreign military bases were important. The Suez
Canal opened in 1869, and it linked Europe more closely to Asia. Britain took over Egypt to
control the Suez Canal and maintain its sea links to India, an important British colony. The
United States acquired military bases in the Pacific Ocean.

Social
Darwinism contributed to...

What's The image of time in Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"

The appearance of daffodils is often symbolic
of heralding spring, which is a time of new birth and beauty. The speaker in "To
Daffodils" examines how quickly this beauty fades and "weeps" to see the glory of
these beautiful flowers fade away so quickly. In some areas, daffodils only bloom for about six
weeks of the year; thus, the promise of their beauty is fleeting--a whisper in time.

The speaker then notes that "we" humans have comparatively just as short a
time to spend on Earth as the beautiful daffodils. Humans, like the beautiful flowers, grow
quickly only to speed toward their own decay. Each hour that ticks by brings everything in
nature one hour closer to death.

The speaker then notes other beautiful
things in nature which fade quickly: summer rains and the dew of morning. Within a quick time,
both dry up and are erased. The speaker notes again that "we" also dry away quickly
and are speeding toward a time when we will "Ne'er...be found again."

The image of time, therefore, is fleeting. The message is quite reminiscent of Robert
Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay," noting that the most beautiful parts of nature never
last long. As humans are part of nature, too, they face the same hastening progression toward an
eventual decay, passing from Earth and never to be seen again. Time on Earth is extraordinarily
brief.

According to Edwards, how fast will damnation come?

In
","asserts that damnation "does not slumber; it will come swiftly, and, in all
probability, very suddenly" upon those who least expect it.

Edwards
expects damnation to come quickly for those he feels are not assured of their salvation. In
another part of his sermon, he maintains that many delude themselves into trusting their own
"schemes" for ensuring their place in heaven. He argues that it is futile for men to
"contrive" for themselves. Rather, he asserts that "whatever pains a natural man
takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner
of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction."

In yet
another part of his sermon, Edwards tries to frighten his listeners into action. He portrays
hell as a place that has been steadily and unequivocally set aside for all sinners. He assures
them all that "their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made
ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and
glow."

Basically, Edwards believes his stark portrayal of the horrors of
hell will induce his listeners to take the necessary steps towards their own
salvation.

What does Daniel dislike about Capernaum synagogue in The Bronze Bow?

Daniel's
a deeply devout Jew, and like any any devout Jew, he regularly goes to synagogue to worship. But
the synagogue at Capernaum is different. Because it's been built by the Romans, he won't have
anything to do with it. This is an indication of just how much Daniel hates the Romans; he
regards them as oppressors and occupiers, people who have no business even being in Israel, let
alone building synagogues there.

At this stage in the story, Daniel's heart
is still full of vengeance; he wants nothing more than to see the Romans driven by force out of
his homeland. And he is determined that he will play his full part in the armed resistance
against the Roman occupation. It's only much later on that he will foreswear violence and follow
the path of Jesus.

What became of Moshie the Beadle after he last spoke with Elie?

Moishe
the beadle had tried to warn the Jews of Sighet what was in store for them. He'd witnessed at
first hand the brutal treatment meted out to the foreign Jewish deportees herded onto cattle
trucks by the Gestapo. Moishe was one of them, though he was able to escape. Since his return,
he's gone round from door to door, desperately trying to get people to believe his story. But no
one does; not even Elie. Most people think he's mad, especially after the Germans arrive at
initially behave with courtesy and respect.

However, when the Germans start
arresting the leaders of Sighet's Jewish community and the Jews are prohibited from leaving
their houses for three days on pain of death, it's immediately apparent that Moishe was right
all along. He comes running into Elie's house and shouts "I warned you" before leaving
without a response. We never find out what happens to Moishe after this, but it's more than
likely that he will die in the camps along with so many others.

Why does Tom Weylin whip Dana in Kindred by Octavia E. Butler?

In the novel
, bywe meet Dana and Kevin Franklin.  They are an interracial couple who
are moving into a new home.  Dana is taken suddenly back in time to the Civil War era and being
an African American this puts her in danger.  She is called back each time Rufus Weylin is in
mortal danger and she saves his life over and over. 

On one trip back in time
Rufus is drowning, another time he is setting the house on fire, and one time his leg is broken
from falling out of a tree.  It is during this incident that Kevin, Dana's white husband, grabs
on to her and returns to the old South with his wife.  During this visit Mr. Weylin discovers
that Dana can read.  He tells her he will permit her to read to Rufus but not to read anywhere
else and not to touch his books.  She chose to teach one of the slave children, Nigel a
young slave boy belonging to the Weylins, who is the same age as Rufus.  She is leaving the
cookhouse with a book and is discovered by Weylin. He whips her for disobeying him and taking
the book.

Later she is whipped for trying to escape.

"After being beaten following her attempt to run away, however,
Dana is tormented by doubts about her own resistance: "Why was I so frightened
nowfrightened sick at the thought that sooner or later, I would have to run again? €¦ I tried to
get away from my thoughts, but they still came. See how easily slaves are
made? they said."

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, how does Oedipus's ignorance lead to his blindness to truth?

In
the ancient Greek, written byin about 440 BC, 's ignorance of the
circumstances of his life don't lead directly to his blindness to the truth. His blindness to
the truth is his purposeful refusal to believe the truth, even after it's been revealed to
him.

In his Poetics, Aristotle wrote that the best Greek
tragediesof which he considered Oedipus Rex the best exampleproceed in a
logical cause-and-effect manner. In Oedipus Rex , the revelation of one
truth leads to the revelation of another truth until all truths are revealed and the play comes
to its logical...

Of all the 123 plays of Sophocles, why is that 7 only survived?

The
survival of Greekwas precarious. It relied on fragile physical texts being copied and recopied
by generations of scribes. Often only the most popular or influential texts were recopied. A
book might cost the equivalent of several weeks`salary for a laborer, and so people owned few
books. Since all books were copied by hand, there weren`t massive numbers of copies of the same
book in bookstores. Instead, if you wanted a book, you would normally go to a book dealer who
had a copy of the text, and order a copy made for you, a process that would take several weeks,
and was quite expensive. This means that unless a book was used as a school text, important to a
philosophical, medical or other school or profession, or very important in some other way, it
wouldn`t get copied.

For , his plays were lost in several stages. First,
those plays which did not win prizes at festivals were unlikely to be copied.

Next, a major stage in preservation  was the establishment of the canon of Attic
authors by the librarians and scholars of Alexandria. This included a selection of plays by 3
tragic playwrights (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides). Anything not in this canon (a sort of list
of important books`) was unlikely to be preserved. After the fall of the western Roman empire,
classical works were recopied in Byzantium and Christian monasteries -- but many were not
recopied.

 

Summary of epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The beauty
of epic poems such as The and  is that the stories
are so rich that many can return to them again and again and find completely new meanings. As a
result, distilling both into a "summary" is a difficult task indeed! Here are the two
stories, in a nutshell:

The Iliad is the story of the
Trojan War. The Trojan War began when Paris, a Trojan prince, visited a Greek king, Menelaus.
During his visit, Paris seduced Menelaus's wife, escaping with her and returning to Troy. As a
result, Menelaus rallied his fellow Greek kings, raised an army, and set sail for Troy to
reclaim his wife. The story follows the Greek army as they lay siege to Troy for ten long years
and raises thematic questions as to the value of honor and glory and the role of warfare in
human society.

The Odyssey, on the other hand, is a very
different tale. The Odyssey follows the journey of Odysseus, one of the Greek
soldiers, as he attempts to return home from the war. One of the heroes of the Trojan War,
Odysseus offends the sea god Poseidon and is punished with another decade of trials and
tribulations before he can return home to the wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, that he left
behind. The Odyssey considers themes such as the role of the veteran in
society and the role of ego in the face of fated events.

What is a brief summary of Catching Fire?

poetrymfa

is the second installment in 's dystopian
series . 

The book opens with Katniss and Peeta safely
returned to their new victor homes in District 12. This rest is short-lived, however, when
President Snow pays a visit to Katniss and demands that she use the victory tour as a platform
to proclaim her love for Peeta in order to settle the unrest and rebellions that have been
spreading throughout the other districts.

Katniss and Peeta go on the tour
but end up witnessing tremendous violence at the hands of the Peacekeepers. Their return back to
District 12 is no less bloody, with Gale being publicly whipped after an altercation with
Romulus Thread, the new Head Peacekeeper. 

It is shortly thereafter announced
that the 75th Hunger Games, known as the "Quarter Quell," will consist of previous
winners of the Games as tributes. Katniss's name is drawn at the reaping, as well as Haymitch's;
however, Peeta volunteers himself in Haymitch's place.

During...

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What did Erasmus and Luther have in common?

Desiderius
Erasmus and Martin Luther were both Augustinian monks with a strong desire to reform the
Catholic Church. They both recognized abuses of power within the Church and the Papacy and
wanted a return to a more wholesome practicing of the religion.

In order to
make their points, both Erasmus and Luther utilized their skills as writers. In 1509, Erasmus
penned his satirical work, In Praise of Folly. Luther is best known for his
95 Theses written in 1517. While Luther's work was more direct and to the
point, both these works pointed out the abuses of the Catholic Church and argued for a return to
biblical fundamentals.

These two men and their works influenced many people
to reconsider the position of the Catholic Church and its power. Both men took issue with the
role of monasticism as well. They did not believe that a life of piety within the hierarchy of
the Church equaled led anyone to salvation. Luther articulated this with his argument that
"all Christians are priests." It was faith alone that led to grace, he
argued.

While these two men may seem to have had a lot in common, their
differences are noteworthy. Erasmus never dreamed of dismantling the Catholic Church or breaking
away from it. He merely wanted to open up the idea of questioning accepted practices that he saw
as divergent from doctrine. Luther was much more extreme and ended up fanning the flames of
Reformation that would eventually burn across Europe.

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In The Crucible, what are some quotes that show Abigail Williams losing power?

From the
beginning of the play, we see that Abigail Williams's grasp on power is tenuous. When Reverend
Parris's daughter, Betty, comes out of her "coma," she says to Abigail,

You drank blood Abby! You didn't tell him that! ... You did, you
did! You drank a charm to kill Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody
Proctor!

Abigail becomes infuriated and threatens Betty.
Why does she do this? It's because Betty speaks the truth. Abigail knows that the one thing her
pretense of godliness can't withstand is the truth. She therefore tries to silence and bully
Betty and the other girls, but the audience knows that Abigail's power is only a thinly
constructed facade.

The next glimpse the audience sees of Abigail's anemic
grasp on power is when Reverend Hale visits the house of John and Elizabeth Proctor. In the
process of Hale's interview with the Proctors, John reveals that he knows the girls are just
pretending. Proctor tells Hale that the girls were caught being mischievous in the woods, were
startled, and then pretended to be sick.

Hale: Who told
you this?

Proctor, hesitates, then:
Abigail Williams.

Hale: Abigail!

Proctor:
Aye.

Hale, his eyes wide: Abigail Williams told you it
had naught to do with witchcraft!

Proctor: She told me the day you came
sir.

This exchange may seem insignificant, but it's an
instance of the truth coming out.is making the point that eventually the truth will be
victorious. Falsehoods cannot bear the beacon of truth. Miller also takes great pains to point
out how well-respected Reverend Hale is because of his religious education at Harvard
University. If Hale, someone so respected, comes to believe the truth of what Proctor is saying,
Abigail's house of cards will come tumbling down. Her semblance of power will crumble.

The dramatic instance that blatantly displays Abigail's loss of power comes in act 3,
when Mary Warren appears before Danforth at Proctor's demand in order to expose Abby. Proctor
becomes fed up with Abigail's manipulation, bullying, and false self-righteousness, and in a
fury, he exposes her:

(Director's notes) Without
warning or hesitation, Proctor leaps at Abigail and, grabbing her by the hair, pulls her to her
feet. She screams in pain. Danforth, astonished, cries, "What are you about?" and
Hathorne and Parris call, "Take your hands off her!" and out of it all comes Proctor's
roaring voice.

Proctor: How do you call heaven? Whore!
Whore!

Herrick: John!

Danforth: Man! Man! What
do

Proctor: It is a whore!

Danforth: Do you
charge?

Abigail: Mr. Danforth! He is lying! ...

Danforth:
You will prove this! This will not pass!

Proctor: I have known her sir. I
have known her.

Danforth: YouYou are a lecher?

And then the whole ball of yarn comes unraveled. For Proctor to say that he has
"known" Abigail is an antiquated term meaning that he has had sex with her. John
Proctor has just cast his reputation and name away in order to prove that Abigail is a
manipulative liar and has illegitimately been given power. In the the era of the Puritans, no
Christian man would risk his reputation, name, and honor to falsely say that he had committed
adultery if it weren't true. Everyone at that hearing knows this, and this is whythough there
are a few more weak attempts by Abigail to hold on to powerthis is her death
knell.

In The Scarlet Letter, why does Dimmesdale seem to be hiding something during his conversation with Chillingworth?

Inof
"",already suspectsof being the father ofand he is digging, trying to find out if he
can coax the truth from the minister. Dimmesdale seems to be hiding something because he his the
father of Pearl and does not want to admit it to anyone. In a conversation about hidden sin that
is filled with innuendo and double meaning, Chillingworth taunts Dimmesdale . The minister
says,"that the hearts holding such miserable secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at
that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable. Chillingworth then asks
"Then why not reveal then here?  This makes Dimmesdale very uncomfortable and he clutches
his chest and answers, "So, to their own unutterable torment, they go...

How do the words "tarnished," "rotted," "discarded," and "cuckolded" connect in A Rose For Emily?

In
order to connect them, it's important to first examine the words in context:

On a tarnished gilt easel before the
fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss 's father.

Upon a chair hung the
suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the
discarded socks.

The body had apparently once
lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers
even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.

What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the
nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay...

All of these words both help establish the tone of the story
(macabre) and define the relationship betweenand Miss Emily. It is
tarnished from the beginning; there are rumors that he cannot
possibly love her, and she develops a plot to murder him. It seems that Homer tries to
discard Miss Emily, disappearing from the town for a while and then
returning on the night he is murdered. Death cuckolds Homer; Emily
chooses an affair with a dead man over a relationship with a living man. And Homer is left
rotting in Miss Emily's bed for many years.

These words almost summarize the sequence of events in their
relationship.

How does Frederick Douglass rebuke the romantic image of slavery in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

In his
narrative,rebukes the romantic image of slavery by using vividto describe situations that he has
witnessed.  Additionally, Douglass uses specificto develop these scenes.  For example, in the
fourth chapter of the narrative, Douglass tells the reader about Mr. Gore who replaced Mr.
Hopkins as overseer on Great House Farm.  Mr. Gore was a tyrant and felt that the lives of
slaves were meaningless when compared to the reputation of the overseer.  Douglass recounts the
story of Demby, a slave who waded into a nearby creek to soothe the pain of a whipping given by
Mr. Gore.  When Demby refused to come out of the water, Gore shot and killed him.  Douglass
writes, "His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he
had stood."  This line paints a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and is all but
romantic.  By painting the harsh image of reality, Douglass is able to rebuke the romantic image
of slavery.

How would you approach the question: To what extent did the Civil War involve every American citizen?

The best way
to answer this question is to start thinking about what it means for a war to involve
someone.  For example, we now have troops fighting to some degree in Afghanistan and had troops
involved until a few years ago in fighting in Iraq.  Were you involved in that war?  Why or
why not?  Now let us think about this with respect to the Civil War.

The most
obvious way for someone to be involved in a war is to be in the military.  It is said that 3
million men were in the military on both sides in this war.  This was about 10% of the
population.  So we know that at least 10% were actively involved in the war.

Then there were people who worked in support services.  These were people like...

How is stealing related to salesmanship in Death of a Salesman?

As the
drama of unfolds, it becomes more and more clear that Willy Loman is a man
who lacks a moral compass, a sense of his own identity, and an accurate understanding of
success. As Willy reveals to Ben in one of the flashback scenes, he decided to pursue a career
as a salesman rather than seek his fortune in Alaska as Ben advised because he believed that a
salesman could be successful without working hard. His example was the eighty-four-year-old
salesman who could "go into any city, pick up the phone, and he's making his living."
He insists that "a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked." Biff
will only have to walk into a business office and "doors will open to him." It's clear
that Willy believes that success can come through shortcuts and without hard work.

Similarly, Willy's front porch steps were made from stolen materials. Willy didn't
work to pay for the boards but sent his sons to the nearby construction site to steal the wood.
He...

Who is Tybalt? What makes him a villain?

In
Shakespeare's ,is a member of the Capulet clan, a cousin to , and the
nephew of . Although, without question, he's a hot-blooded and even bellicose young man, he
hardly could be called a villain. He's surely as much a victim of the bloody conflict between
the warring families as the eponymous lovers.

In ,becomes infatuated with
Juliet after sneaking into a ball at the home of her family. Tybalt, greatly angered by the
stealthy entry of his family's enemy, is on the verge of drawing his sword when he's stopped by
Juliet's father, Capulet, who forbids violence in his home.

When they next
meet on the street in , Tybalt, still enraged by Romeo's transgression, challenges him to a
duel, unaware that he's now married to his young cousin. For this reason, Romeo refuses the
challenge, which angers his friend, who accepts in his place. When Romeo steps in to stop the
fight, Mercutio is accidentally killed. Now...

What images does the speaker produce by referring to himself and Annbel Lee as children?

The
second stanza takes us back to the simpler, magical time of childhood.
 "She was a child and I was a child, /     In
this kingdom by the sea,"  the speaker recalls.  Note the italicized emphasis here.  The
speaker fondly recalls a time when they were both able to be mentally "together." 

The speaker savors these magical moments, fondly recalling a world in which
myths were real and...

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