In A Streetcar Named Desire, what does Blanche mean by Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers?

There is
a kind of tragicto Blanche's last words, "Whoever you are I have always depended on the
kindness of strangers." She is at this point in the play being escorted out of Stella and
Stanley's apartment by a doctor, who has come to take her to a psychiatric institution. The fact
that she doesn't know who the doctor is here ("Whoever you are") points to how
psychologically disorientated she is by the end of the play. And, tragically, she has been
reduced to this condition in large part because strangers have not been kind to her. Mitch told
her, "You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother," when he found out
about how many men she had slept with. Stanley violated her when he raped her offstage. Even her
own sister has betrayed her.

Blanche's final words are also, however,
grounded in truth. Earlier in the play Blanche told Mitch that she "had many intimacies
with strangers. After the death of Allanintimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill
my...

What influences in Orwell's life led him to see totalitarianism as such a threat to humanity?

One of the
largest was the rise to power and the way that Stalin used his power to create a powerful
totalitarian state on the back of the deaths of millions and millions of people in the Soviet
Union.  Having also seen the aftermath of Hitler's rise to power and the holocaust, one can
understand a reasonable fear of totalitarianism and the results of its emergence.

This, combined with his concern for the poor and the working class and
the...

Why does Tybalt seek revenge on Romeo for crashing the party?

recognizes 's voice at the Capulet's masked ball, and Tybalt is infuriated that Romeo, a hated
Montague, would sneak into the event hiding behind a mask. Tybalt considers it an outrageous
violation of Capulet territory, and he believes that Romeo has come to the ball simply to make
fun of the Capulets and cause trouble.

TYBALT: This, by
his voice, should be a Montague.

. . . What, dares the slave

Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our
solemnity?

Now, by the...

In Frankenstein, how does society turn the creature into a monster?

Society
causesto become a monster because of the reactions to his physical appearance, for he is
rejected by his maker, excluded from society, and misjudged.

When people see
Victor 's creature, they are terrified and repulsed by his physical appearance; consequently,
they shun him. Even his creator, , reacts in horror when he views his completed attempt at
creating man. He says the following:

How can I describe my
emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom . . . I had endeavored to form?
(Ch.5).

Horrified by what he has created, Victor rushes
out of the room, "unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created" (Ch.5).
Wrongly, he thinks of the creature as his "enemy," and he wishes "to extinguish
that life which [he] ha[s] so thoughtlessly bestowed" (Ch. 5).

The
abandoned creature has to fend for himself. When he finds what he believes to be an empty hut,
the creature enters it, hoping to locate food. However, an old man...

What is the message of "The Black Cat"?

In the
famous short story "" by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator initially professes a love for
animals. He and his wife have numerous pets, but the narrator is particularly fond of a large
black cat named Pluto. However, the narrator comes home drunk one night, and after the
frightened cat bites him, in a fit of rage he gouges out one of its eyes. In another drunken
frenzy, he kills the cat by hanging it from a tree. His house catches fire that night, and the
next day he sees a ghostly outline of the hanged cat on a wall, as if the cat is haunting
him.

A similar cat follows him home one night, and it begins to terrify him,
as he notices resemblances to the cat he has killed. Attempting to kill the second cat with an
axe, he instead hits his wife in the head, killing her when she tries to stop him. He encloses
her body in the wall with bricks, but when the police come to investigate, the second black cat
howls from within the wall, exposing the narrator's murder of his wife.

What is the teacher's role in developing a behavior intervention plan for students with challenging behaviors?

The
teacher plays an essential role in developing a behavioral modification plan for a student with
challenging behaviors. The teacher is the person who sees the child every day. The teacher knows
what behaviors the child displays as well as what modifications have and havent
worked.

However, the teacher should not be developing this plan alone. The
teacher should consult with the school psychologist, the guidance counselor, other members of
the grade level team, teachers from previous years, and the parents or guardians of the student.
It is possible the principal should also be involved....

What is one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress Indigenous people?

One
significant motive for Columbus that led him to oppress Indigenous peoples was his lust for
gold. He knew that his financing was reliant upon him finding valuable objects to ship back to
the king and queen of Spain, who had approved of his journey. This motive was so strong that he
responded to the tiny gold ornaments that the Arawak wore in their ears by taking many as
prisoners in order to force them to give directions. This proved fruitless, however, as Columbus
never found much gold.

When no large gold field was discovered, but Columbus
knew he still needed to fill his ship with some kind of valuable commodity, he turned instead to
enslavement to meet his extractive needs. Columbus rounded up 1500 Arawak people and then chose
what he thought were the best 500 to ship to Spain. Of these 500, 200 died on the
journey.

How does Dickens present Scrooge's redemption in stave five of A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge has
a deeply emotional response to the visit of the ghosts. This results in a joyful and lasting
personal transformation. As he awakes on Christmas morning he thinks:

Time before him was his own, to make amends in! I will live in the
Past, the Present, and the Future! Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. The Spirits
of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised
for this!

As a result of his transformation, Scrooge
begins to live generously. He also becomes sociable with his relatives and neighbors. Sociality
and generosity are the hallmarks of his change. He takes a benevolent and paternal interest in
the Cratchits, gives Bob Cratchit a raise, helps Tiny Tim, visits his relatives cheerfully, and
does good for his community.

It is striking that this a personal
transformation of one person. Nothing else about his society has changed. This reflects
Dickens's belief that individual actions, especially on the part of the powerful, can have a
profound effect for the good on society as a whole. Whether these kinds of efforts alone are
enough to create a good society is an open question, but one Dickens found appealing. At the end
of the stave, he urges his readers to follow Scrooge's lead:

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive
possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!

What is the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution for 1984?

The
takes place at the beginning of the story and introduces the
audience toand the dystopian nation of Oceania. The audience learns about the oppressive,
authoritative government and Big Brother's omnipotent role as the nation's fearless leader. They
also learn that Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, fabricating historical documents and
records. Winston's bleak existence is illustrated and the audience sympathizes with the 's
oppressed life, which is completely controlled by the government.

The
rising action includes Winston's rebellious journal entries,
his...

Provide examples and evidence of Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and Freudian pscychoanalysis in the Oedipus plays.

One of Marx's
profoundest insights concerned the way in which inequalities among different classes led to
strife; he also claimed that this strife would be the undoing of the ruling classes. One might
say that the character ofillustrates this; he is desperate for power and is willing to subjugate
anyone he needs to in order to get it. However, this is very much part of his tragic flaw;
perhaps if he weren't so keen to rule, the tragic events would never have unfolded.

In terms of feminism, we might argue that the tragic events could also have been
avoided had , Oedipus' mother/wife, been allowed a say at any point. Her husband decided
unilaterally to send the baby away in order to avoid the prophecy. Oedipus (unknowingly) killed
his father and married Jocasta; Jocasta had no say in this matter either.

In term of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus plays led Sigmund Freud to name a complex after him : the
Oedipus complex. Freud believed that humans were controlled by drives and...

How does the narrator convince you that he has become an axolotl?

Ron Michael Miraflores

In Julio Cortazar's short story, " ," the narrator becomes obsessed with the
Mexican salamander, axolotl, after he visits the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. At first, he is
only fascinated by it, almost entranced by its features. This is illustrated in the first three
paragraphs in which the narrator describes...

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What is the name of the economic collapse that happened in the 1920's and 1930's and how did it lead to the rise of fascism?

The name
for the economic collapse of the 1920's and 1930's was the Great Depression. The Great
Depression occurred as overproduction of goods caused prices to fall in the United States. In
response, manufacturers laid off workers which ultimately hurt the market for consumer and
agricultural goods. The weaknesses in the United States economy came to a head on October 29,
1929, when the stock market crashed and the economy headed into deep recession.

Germany was crippled by the sanctions leveled against it by...

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How does Jem (Jeremy) change during the course of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper?

Discussing
bothis too much for one question.  Please ask for an explanation of the other character in a
different question.

When s novel begins,is ten years
old.begins by mentioning the ending of the story for Jem who breaks his arm when he is thirteen.
Although he sometimes teases and aggravates Scout, Jem becomes a good brother. He protects her,
serves as one of her best friends, and in the end, saves her life. Many things impact Jem
between that beginning sentence and the actual event.

The three years that
are covered by the story are a transitional period for Jem as for any boy. He enters puberty and
begins adolescence.  That is enough in itself to be difficult without the life
altering...

In Oedipus Rex, what does the chorus's final speech tell us about human life?

The final
speech of thelooks back to reinforce one of the lessons of the play -- that the future is beyond
human knowledge:

Ye men of Thebes, behold this Å’dipus,

....
And, lo! in what a sea of direst woe
He now is plunged. From
hence the lesson draw,
To reckon no man happy till ye see
The closing day;
until he pass the bourn
Which severs life from death, unscathed by
woe.

In a very short time,has gone from being a king to
being a despised outcast.

However, there is a second layer of meaning to the '
words. Oedipus, after all, does not die at the end of -- he goes into
exile. The Chorus thus looks not only backwards but forwards, to the events of
, which covers the death of Oedipus himself, and . In
Oedipus at Colonus, the disgraced Oedipus accepts the judgment of the gods
and the prophecy of the place where he will die, and so far succeeds in his penance that his
burial site becomes a source of blessings and victory. In this way, he seems redeemed. On the
other hand, he also curses his sons and predicts they will kill each other, a prophecy shown to
have been fulfilled in Antigone with the added death of one of Oedipus'
daughters and the total and unexpected ruin of his formerly triumphant nemesis . Thus to the
very end of Oedipus' life, and even beyond, human fortunes remain unpredictable, as the Chorus
has warned.

How do Marxist Literary Criticism and Cultural Literary Criticism compare, with examples from Emma by Jane Austen?

Marxist criticism and Cultural criticism
address what is not in the text, what the text hides or neglects to say. Compare this to
Structural criticism that addresses what is exactly in the text: the , the , the tropes and the
rhetorical devices etc. Both Marxism and Culturalism seek to expose the reality that underlies
the narrative without being explicitly stated in the narrative. Marxism looks for the
exploitative economic underpinnings of the narrative, while Culturalism looks for the social
underpinnings of the narrative.

Marxism asks questions like: what is the
economic base? what is the superstructure of law, philosophy, politics etc that superimposes
order on the economic base? who is heard and who unheard in the base? what is the ideology of
beliefs and values that goes unquestioned in the narrative yet guide the actions and thoughts of
the actants in the narrative?

Culturalism looks for the web of social forces
that create the cultural moment captured in the narrative, though perhaps only implied in it
rather than explicitly illuminated in it. Culturalists ask questions like: what are the
social-cultural discourses that attribute power and, conversely, powerlessness? what are the
discordant, subversive sociocultural discourses? wherein lies the challenge to the legitimate
voices of socio-cultural discourse from the unheard, unrecognized voices?

Though there is little space available, there are a great many examples of all these
questions in Austen's . Starting with the last question, the gypsies are a
denied voice in discordant, subversive discourse they present: socio-cultural discourse would
make them a banned other, neither seen nor heard, yet they assert their right to
be. Emma, a voice in the legitimate discourse,
objects to Jane's "reserve," demonstrating a perceived challenge to the socio-cultural
mandate of "precedence," or social superiority and status.

Skipping
to the Marxists questions, the dominant ideological belief--the predication of the novel, which
both Austen (through implication) and Knightly challenge--is that status in the base economy has
the right to manipulate the existence of those without status in the economic base. This applies
directly to Emma's manipulation of Harriet and directly to why Emma's "real evils ... [are]
were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too
well of herself."

One last example: Who is heard and who unheard in the
economic base presented in the narrative? We already know who is heard: Emma (and Knightly, Mr.
Woodhouse, the Churchills). Who is unheard? Who does the economic base and superstructure render
invisible and powerless?  In this narrative, that is the servants. We know there are servants.
Who else prepares the gruel Mr.Woodhouse relishes and serves at the dinner and card parties Emma
organizes? Yet, in the narrative, and presumably in Austen's own world, the servants are an
invisible, powerless element in the economic base and in the socio-cultural consruct.

Other things to consider in Emma are Emma as economically
disempowered though the heroine; Harriet's position in the economic base; Mr. Knightly's
challenge to the base through his behavior toward Mr. Martin and Harriet; Elton's socio-cultural
assumptions; Miss Bates' socio-cultural role; and the import of both Frank and Jane being raised
elsewhere in families not their own.

I suppose Colonel and
Mrs. Campbell will not be able to part with [Jane] at all.

 

What happens during the Ambassador's garden party in Pygmalion?

Though the
ambassador's garden party is not actually staged, it plays a significant role in Shaw's play
. During the garden party, which takes place months after the start of
Eliza's education under Professor Higgins, Eliza is able to convince others that she has the
poise and elocution of a duchess. Her elegant behavior means that Higgins has won his bet with
Colonel Pickering.

According to the post-party conversation between Higgins
and Pickering, Eliza has impressed the other partygoers with her beauty and her manners. Eliza's
social success is only superficial, as it means something vastly different to her than to the
men involved in her transformation. To...

How do the last two paragraphs of Voyage IV in Gulliver's Travelsaffect the way we view Lemuel Gulliver? Do these last two paragraphs help to answer...

In the
last two paragraphs of the voyage, Gulliver chiefly comments on his attempts to co-exist with
the Yahoos of English society, and he compares the perfect, rational society of the Houyhnhnms
to the society he is now first to become a part of.  He clearly has set himself apart from the
human (Yahoo) race.

Gulliver can stand almost any vice in other humans, whom
he insists on calling Yahoos, but he cannot abide the vice of pride because he cannot reconcile
the vile...

In "Desiree's Baby", do you think Armand already knew about his black ancestory?

The last
lines of the story reveal that Armand did not know of his black
ancestry.

"But above all," she wrote, "night
and day, I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never
know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of
slavery." (Chopin)

A very prejudiced man, Armand does
not know that he is the one who bears black ancestry from his own mother.  He would behave
differently looking at his baby if he knew the origins of the black features were from his side
of the family. 

Was slavery the primary cause of the Civil War?

Most
historians would agree that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War, because the issue of
slavery lay just beneath all of the more specific issues that led to secession.

After the war, Southerners would try to distance themselves from slavery as a cause of
the war, but during the secession crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln's election, proponents of
disunion openly said that they wished to leave the Union to protect slavery. In their
"Declaration of Causes" of secession, the secession convention in Georgia pointed to
"...numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding...

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Find the vertical , horizontal and oblique asymptotes of `q(x)= (5x^2-13x-6)/( 2x^2-5x-3)`

The
asymptotes of q(x) = (5x^2 - 13x - 6)/(2x^2 - 5x - 3) have to be determined.

The vertical asymptotes are given by x = a where a is the zeros of the...

What are some lessons Meg learns about herself in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle?

Meg Murry
views herself as inadequate. She may be bright in some school subjects but she is horrible in
others. She has very few social skills and few friends. She sees herself as an extremely flawed
individual. When she meets the three Mrs. Ws, she learns a different view of herself. In
preparation for her return to the planet Camazotz, Meg is given a gift from Mrs. Whatsit; she is
given her faults. Meg objects that she is always trying to get rid of her faults; she does not
see how these can help her to attack evil. Yet she learns that her faults are often the flip
side of strengths. Her impatience leads her to be persistent in attacking IT. Her capacity to
love unhesitatingly helps her to rescue Charles Wallace from his possession by IT. She learns
that she does not need to be perfect, but can find strength in being herself with all her
flaws.  

seesfor the
first time when he crashes the Capulets' party with his friendsand . As soon as he lays eyes on
Juliet, Romeo is captivated, asking who she is. Romeo then makes his first comparison, likening
her to a brilliant jewel gleaming on the ear of a black person ("Ethiope"). He
states,

Oh, she doth
teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night

Like a rich jewel in an Ethiopes ear ...

Romeo is saying that Juliet shines with
such a bright light that everything around her seems dark or black in contrast. This is a
sentiment he will repeat over the course of the play in many ways.

This kind of enthusiasm is typical of Romeo, a young man who is in love
with love. He is not one to hold back, and he lets the love thunderbolt strike him full force
when it comes to Juliet.

Discuss the irony in Phoenix Jackson's encounter with the hunter in "The Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

Phoenix
Jackson's trip to town covers a lot of ground and many kinds of landscape.  However, Phoenix
will not give up, and she travels the distance to get the much needed medicine for her grandson.
 In "The Worn Path" by , this elderly black woman exhibits an indomitable
spirit. 

Phoenix does not know for sure how old she is.  She is showing signs
of senility.  She talks to herself a good deal of the time.  She also is hallucinating some
times.  But as long as she can walk, she will make this trek for her sick grandson.  

The medicine she needs is in Natchez.  Phoenix lives in the woods. Traveling through
the bushes, thorns, up and down hills, across creeks, she continues her journey.  The path that
she travels is worn because of the many times that she has gone to get the medicine. 

Finally, she falls into a ditch when a wild dog comes up to her. A young, white hunter
finds her and helps her out of the ditch.  He is carrying a rifle and has already shot a
bobwhite.  He tells her that she should not be out on this cold December morning.

The young hunter treats Phoenix as though she is a child.  He calls her Granny. He also
tries to show off by  attempting to shoot the wild dog.  He does tell her that if he had a dime
he would give it to her.  

'I bound to go to town,
mister,' said Phoenix.  'The Time come around.'

He gave another laugh. 'I
know you old colored people! Wouldn't miss going to town to see Santa Claus!'

This angered Phoenix.  The hunter did not understand
theof his statement.  Phoenix was the Santa Claus.  She was going to get and deliver a life
saving bottle of medicine to the most mportant person in her life.  

The hunter drops a nickel out of his pocket.  Manipulating him to go chase the wild
dog, Phoenix picks up the nickel and puts it in her pocket. Phoenix registers a twinge of
conscience, but the hunter talked down to her.  This makes Phoenix not feel so bad. 

Telling the hunter that she has to be on her way, Phoenix  makes it to town. When she
goes into the doctor's office, Phoenix has to sit down because she is so fatigued.  The nurse
fusses at her about wasting their time.  Finally, Phoenix remembers what she needs and tells the
nurse.

One of the secretaries gives Phoenix another nickel.  This makes
Phoenix so happy.  Now, she can buy her grandson a Christmas present.  

After
leaving the doctor's office, Phoenix goes to the store and buys her grandson a
"whirligig." She will hurry home as faster as her legs can take her. Waiting for her
will be a hug and a smile. 

The difficulty the reader has is understanding
that she has to return on the same worn path that she traveled coming to town.  With the
medicine and present in her hand, may be her steps will be lighter. 

 

During World War II, were the goals of the United States overseas consistent or inconsistent with its goals on the home front?

The primary
goal of the United States in WWII was to stop the spread of totalitarianism.The home front was
also mobilized in this endeavor even before the war withsuch as Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State
of the Union Address in which he mentioned four freedoms:freedom from want, freedom to worship,
freedom of speech, and freedom of fear.When the United States officially joined the war in
December of that year, these words energized the public to stand up to
totalitarianism.

The United States at the time did not entirely live up to
these four freedoms mentioned in the speech.Black people throughout the South still faced
discrimination and it took the federal government to stop segregation in war industries.This was
the first national effort at desegregation.Free speech was sharply curtailed by anti-communist
and anti-immigrant groups of people were not perceived to be "true patriots" in favor
of fighting the Axis powers....

What is the historical and cultural context of Romeo and Julliet?

The societal status of women in this period
is crucial to fully understanding 's character. Women were not allowed to own property or
establish monetary claims in their own names. (Remember that women were not even allowed to act
in Shakespeare's time, so even Juliet's role was played by young boys.) Passed from their
fathers (or oldest brother in his absence) to a husband, women of noble ranks often had no
determination in whom they would marry and were often used as financial or political
pawns.

Juliet is expected to marry . This has been decided by her father and
is a decision Paris is in agreement with. To disobey the authoritative men in her life is no
small decision--particularly for a young girl of 13. (Although it was common for girls to be
married fairly young, this is an exceptionally young age.) Juliet's character is often dismissed
as a flighty young girl almost mindlessly following the "fate" of the stars, but her
willingness to circumvent societal expectations and marry a man whom her father did not support
shows both her courage and her willingness to risk everything for . Thus, this context
highlights the certainty she must have felt in their relationship.

Also of
cultural significance is that the play was written somewhere around 1595 and during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I. The arts flourished during this time period, and Shakespeare was invited to
her court more than once. Queen Elizabeth I was required to be a courageous and tenacious ruler;
she remained on the throne for more than 40 years, one of the longest reigns in England's
history.

Perhaps there is a bit of this independent spirit, standing tall in
her own right instead of aligning to the wishes of the men in her life, in Juliet. Although the
"Virgin Queen" chose to be married only to her country (while Juliet chooses marry and
spend a honeymoon night with a man she has only known for about 24 hours), they both show an
independence in making their own sexual decisions, regardless of how they are judged by societal
standards.

In Candide, what did Martin mean by saying, "There is something deeply broken in the world"? Which chapter can this statement be found in?

This statement
(or some variation thereof, depending on which translation you are reading) can be found in
chapter 20 of . Throughout the interactions between Candide and Martin in
part 1 of the book, the stark difference between viewpoints about the world held by Martin and
by Candide are highlighted. While Candide holds an overwhelmingly positive view of the world and
its people, Martin holds an exceedingly negative view of people and society. In this way, these
two characters act as dramatic foils, or opposites meant to highlight differences in character,
to one another.

In this statement by Martin, he indicates that he thinks
there indeed is something in the world that is...

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demography in africa. what are some changes in demography iun general africa from 600 - 1450? What are some similarities? and what are the results of...

That was definitely a
period of colonization in Africa.Another key factor was the slave trade.By the end of that
period, slavery was in high gear.Both of these factors strongly influenced the demographics of
Africa and changed the political dynamics as well.This is largely responsible for Africa's
problems today.]]>

Why did Swift make the houyhnhnms look like horses in part 4?

In this section of the ,
Swift is, in part, poking fun at the entirety of the human race and our perception of our own
intelligence and feelings of mastery over other animals or even, sometimes, other people.  The
horse is a long-domesticated beast of burden that many of Swift's contemporaries felt to be
beneath them in terms of intelligence, and so he presents a utopian society in which horses rule
in order to turn this common way of thinking on its head.  Unlike human society, the society set
up by the Houyhnhnms is peaceful and reasonable, and it is actually the Yahoos, the horribly
disgusting and animalistic humanoid creatures, who are the beasts of burden for the Houyhnhnms. 
By presenting humans and horses in these ways, Swift encourages readers to reevaluate the way
they see themselves and other animals and/or people to see if their perceptions are accurate or
merely the common way of thinking.

What are some examples of direct/indirect characterization concerning Carlson? John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

A flat
character who does not change throughout the narrative of Steinbeck's novella
, Carlson is developed through indirectionrather thanwhich involves direct
statements giving the writer's opinion of the character.  Here are the ways that Steinbeck does
use :

through a physical description of the
character

In Chapter Three, Carlson is described as
"thick-bodied" with a "heavy-legged stride."

through the character's thoughts, feelings, and
speeches

Carlson demonstrates his arrogance and insensitivity
in a number of ways.  First of all, when he enters the bunkhouse, he assumes everyone thinks it
is dark and turns on the second shaded light, commenting in the same breath about the dark in
conjunction with the ranch hand with dark skin:

"Darker'n hell in here," he said.  Jesus, how that n--- can pitch shoes....He
don't give nobody else a chance to win--"

Then, he
snifs the air, locating the odor as that of Candy's old dog:

...Get him outa here, Candy!  I don't know nothing that stinks as bad as an old dog. 
You gotta get him out."

Ignoring Candy who
"squirmed uncomfortably" and "looked helplessly" at Slim for some
"reprieve," Carlson offers to shoot the dog for Candy.  When he sees Candy's
discomfiture, Carlson callously explains that he will kill him so that the dog will not
"even quiver."

"If you want me to, I'll put
the old devil out of his misery right now and get it over with.  Ain't nothing left for him. 
Can't eat, can't see, can't even walk without hurtin'." 

Then, when Whit enters and shows Slim a magazine with a letter from a former bindle
stiff there, "Carlson had refused to be drawn in" to the conversation, indicating his
unfriendliness and self-imposed alienation.

Of course, Carlson's
insensitivity reaches its magnitude after he arrives at the river bank wherelies dead in Chapter
Five as Slim consoles . 

Curley and Carlson looked after
them.  And Carlson said, "Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two
guys?"

through the character's
actions

Despite Candy's anxiety, Carlson takes the swamper's
old dog and shoots him with his Kruger in Chapter Three. In the final chapter, Carlson eagerly
runs for his gun as the men prepare to find Lennie and kill him.  But, Slim reaches the river
bank before them, and consoles George after learning of Lennie's death. "Curley and Carlson
looked after them," puzzled. 

through the comments and
reactions of other characters

Interestingly, there are no
reactions to Carlson as he stays out of any interaction in two instances:  in Chapter Three when
Whit shows Slim the letter from William Tenner, and in Chapter Five as the men rush in to see
Curley's wife lying dead on the hay, Carlson keeps back "out of attention
range."  Nor, are there any comments made about Carlson's personality. When Curley mentions
him, it is only to say that his Kruger has been taken.  

From these methods
of characterization, the reader comes to realize that Carlson is representative of the alienated
men who become hardened, insensitive, even cruell to others.

What does Gladwell mean when he states, "The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all" in Outliers: The Story of Success?

By this statement,
Gladwell means that outliers are not really what we might consider outliersthat is, outstanding
individuals who have gotten ahead because of their amazing personal qualities. Instead, they are
people who have benefited from what Gladwell calls "parentage and patronage" (page
20). While people who achieve great success may appear to have succeeded because of their
personal qualities, they have benefited from years of advantages and opportunities that others
do not share and that help them learn and grow.

Therefore, it is important to
consider the largest cultural and societal environments in which people develop. Their success
is a function of the way in which their culture or society is able or unable to provide them
with advantages. For example, a student who seems bright and capable is usually rewarded with
more opportunities and attention than a student who is not always able to present his or her
best at school (possibly because this student has a more chaotic home life). The student who
receives more opportunities will generally go on to achieve greater results; therefore, one's
success is also a function of what one receives from the society around him or
her.

What did Elizabeth do that impressed Melanie and April so much in The Egypt Game?

Although
Melanie, and especially April, are a little resentful at first at having to share the secret of
the Egypt Game with Elizabeth, who has just moved into the neighborhood, they quickly discover
that the little fourth-grader is a delightful child and a welcome addition to the group.  For
one thing, Elizabeth is quiet and unassuming, and completely appreciative of everything the
older girls do.  Her "pretty tilted eyes (become) wide with wonder at almost anything (they
tell) her", which is a great boost to their egos (Chapter 7), and she does "everything
April and Melanie (do), only softer" (Chapter 15).  Not only that, but April and Melanie
notice immediately that, in profile, Elizabeth looks exactly like the ancient Egyptian queen
Nefertiti - "Elizabeth's ponytial pull(s) her hair back away from her face and neck, and
there (is) certainly something about her delicate, slender-necked profile that (is) very like
the statue of Nefertiti" (Chapter 7).

In addition to looking the part
and being a completely amiable playmate, Elizabeth is creative, and very "artistic with her
hands".  It is she who delights everyone with the idea of costumes for the Egypt Game. 
Elizabeth makes herself "a Nefertiti headdress out of a plastic bleach bottle with the top
cut off", inspiring Melanie to get some old curtains from her mother to make "sheer
flowing robes for everyone", and April to go around to all the ladies in the apartment
asking for old junk jewelry which they can use to decorate their robes, or use "just as
they (are)" (Chapter 8).

 

What nationality are the boys in Lord of the Flies? And on what page can I find this?

In
chapter two,holds an assembly after exploring the island and attempts to lay the foundation for
a civil society. After discussing necessary tasks and puttingin charge of the hunters, Ralph
mentions a signal fire and the boys sprint to the top of the mountain. Shortly after making a
massive bonfire using 's specs, Ralph mentions that they should have more rules and Jack agrees
with his statement. On page 58 of the online Global Village Contemporary Classics pdf. version
of the story, Jack reveals the boys' nationality by saying,

After all, were not savages. Were English, and the English are best at everything.
(Golding, 58)

was born in England and was also raised to
believe in English superiority. However, Golding's experiences in WWII significantly shaped his
perspective of humanity, including...

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In The Scarlet Letter, what gesture has become Dimmsdale's new habit?

Dimmsdale has begun a new habit
that we might perhaps see today when someone has a heart-attack. He puts his hand
over his heart, in the same place that's scarlet 'A' makes its home. This is significant for a
variety of reasons....

How do you transpose `1000/120.25 = 1800/n * 373` to find n ? A full explanation would be helpful thanks

Jedidiah Hahn

`1000/120.25 = 1800/n*373`

First, we may express right side as one
fraction. So, multiply the numerator with the whole number.

`1000/120.25 =
(1800*373)/n`

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In The Young Landlords, the main character telling the story is Paul Williams. Using details from the first chapter, describe three things you already...

The reader
finds out a lot about Paul Williams in the first chapter of the novel The Young
Landlords. In the first few paragraphs, the reader finds out Paul is quite a brave
person (although maybe a little reckless). At thirteen, two years before, he approached the
school bully and told him to stop bothering other people. He says the school bully looked at him
like a martian for a second and then hit him.

The next thing we find out
about Paul is that two years later, at the age of fifteen (the time the story is set), he forms
what he calls an action group with his friends Gloria, Dean, Omar, and Jeanie. Their first task
is to sort out a building called the Stratford building.

At this point the
reader finds out that Paul lives near 122nd street in Harlem New York. His friend Omar talks
about the oppressive conditions that the Stratford building is contributing to, so it's likely
that he lives in a poor area.

When they approach the owner of the Stratford
building, the reader finds out that Paul is not only fifteen, but he is the oldest in his group.
He was born in March while the other were born in either the summer or the
fall.

Emerson uses a fair
amount of figurative language, rhetorical devices which make his writing all the more
interesting and vivid and help him to make his argument better by keeping his audience more
engaged.He personifies the stars, example, describing them as "envoys of
beauty" which "light the universe with their admonishing smile."The bring their
beauty out to us, then, purposely and intentionally, and they smile at us while they gently
scold us for taking them for granted.

Emerson also
uses metonymy when he says that "few adult persons can see nature.Most
persons do not see the sun."This is an incredibly attention-getting use of figurative
language because, we think, of course we can see nature!What could he
mean?!He does not literally mean that adults cannot or do not see nature or the sun but, rather,
that most of us do not really take the time to appreciate nature or the sun, to recognize them
for the sources of beauty and inspiration that they can be in our lives.Metonymy...

Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton are both known for their Civil War efforts as what?

Dorothea Dix and
Clara Barton are both recognized for their remarkable humanitarian work during the Civil War
(1861€“1865). In nineteenth-century America, women played a subordinate role in a male-dominated
society. Because of that, they had to overcome the common stereotypes that limited women's roles
outside the home. For instance, prior to the war, Barton established a school but then resigned
rather than work under a male principal. Dix also faced and overcame adversity before she also
opened a school in 1821.

Remarkable women were needed during the hard-fought
Civil War. The war was much more destructive and bloody than anyone had envisaged. The soldiers,
especially wounded troops, did not usually receive the care and services they needed.

Prior to the war, Dix made a name for herself as a prison and mental-health care
reformer. In 1861, she was appointed Superintendent of Female Nurses. Her authority was not
well-defined, and she was not an ideal administrator. But she helped recruit thousands of women
who worked as paid army nurses during the war.

Clara Barton was working in
the US Patent Office when the Civil War began. During the war, she excelled at acquiring
provisions and supplies for the troops and distributing them as needed. She also searched for
missing soldiers and did some nursing. Although her role was not limited to nursing, she became
Superintendent of Nurses in the Army of the James in 1864. After the war, she founded the
American Red Cross.

What are the moral implications of the atomic bomb?

The moral
implications of the atomic bomb were not really any different than the moral implications of the
industrialized war with conventional weapons.  It is true that the atomic...

What does Hamlet decide to do at the end of this speech? ("O what a rogue and peasant slave am I") Act 2, Scene 2

has been
paralyzed by indecision over whether or not to obey 's commands to kill .hesitates because is
unsure whether the ghost is a devil sent to lure him into evil or truly the ghost of his father.
After he sees the player so movingly act out Hecuba's grief, Hamlet, who feels genuine grief for
the death of his father, is spurred into action. He decides that a play that enacts a murder
just like the one the ghost described would so shock Claudius, if he were guilty, that he would
betray himself. Hamlet is behaving here rationally and logically: he doesn't want to have
innocent blood on his hands, and it does make sense to run an experiment to see if Claudius is
guilty. As Hamlet says of the ghost, it:

May be the
devil, and the devil hath power

T' assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and
perhaps

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,

As
he is very potent with such spirits,

Abuses me to damn me.

In other words, the devil may well be playing on Hamlet's intense
grief to lure him into finding a false scapegoat for his father's death, in order to 'damn'
Hamlet. Evil spirits, he says know, how to play on people's weaknesses.

 

Hamlet thus decides that he will find more solid (relative)
grounds to stand on than the hearsay of a spirit: 

Ill
have grounds

More relative than this. The plays the thing

Wherein Ill catch the conscience of the king.

In "Nightfall", Anton the director of Saro University, Theremon the reporter, Sheerin the psychologist and Latimer the cultist represent different...

Anton is
associated with both science and reason, but a kind of pure reason: that of the hard sciences.

Latimer is associated with religion, but also with a sense of wonder, and a
veneration of the past.
Sheerin is associated with the attempt to turn the human mind
on itself (social science), and to use reason to deal with passion and even madness.
Theremon is the voice of the people and in some ways of experience. He's associated with
cynicism and doubt.

What is the conflict in The View From Saturday?

There are
many minor conflicts in The View From Saturday. However, all the conflicts
displayed among the characters are just a representation of the main conflict.builds the major
conflict between The Souls and society. In essence, all the major characters in this book have
several flaws. Mrs. Olinski is disabled due to her involvement in an accident. She lacks
confidence and turns to The Souls for encouragement. Each of the other four members that make up
Mrs. Olinski's academic team has personal flaws. Ethan is a loner, and other students think he
is weird. As a result, he is found to be easy prey by bullies. Noah is egotistical and always
thinks he is right. Nadia is a troubled girl; she is engulfed by self-pity and anger owing to
the divorce of her parents. Julian is a shy young man who thinks that the accomplishments of his
elder brother make him inferior. The unruly behavior displayed by Hamilton toward Julian and
Mrs. Olinski shows how the community regards people...

What is the significance of the Freedmen's Bureau?

The
Freedman's Bureau was a federal agency created immediately after the Civil War to help the
South's ex-slaves by giving them educational opportunities, health care, and job training.  The
organization was also helpful in uniting families that had been separated in slave sales.  This
was one of the largest federal agencies that offered aid to the less fortunate--other than the
military,...

WWYD? Let's say you come home from Winter Break, your dad is dead, your mom has married your uncle, (whom you've never much cared for anyway). ...

One must
consider that it was not uncommon for a lady--royalty or not--to marry another free male from
her husband's family should her husband be killed or die somehow.  This was the way women
survived.  Without a daddy, brother, husband, or other male taking care of her food, clothing,
shelter, etc., she would be left to beg for her living.  Take a look at Katherine of Aragon--she
married Henry VIII's brother first, then took Henry VIII as her new husband.

Granted, it would have to be emotionally disturbing to call your used-to-be uncle
"Dad".  After learning that his uncle-father is the reason his dad is dead, that would
poison Thanksgiving and Christmas get togethers indefinitely. 

Poor Hamlet. 
I have always given him grief about being "Mr. Waffle"--I imagine that being in the
same situation, I would be a supreme waffler in my own right.  

By the way,
being from Kentucky and taking lots of jokes about wearing shoes and running faster than my
brothers, I chuckled a bit at the...

Explain Ignorance and Want, who appear in Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol.

Ignorance and Want are children who appear
from inside the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present.  Dickens says of them:

They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish;
but prostrate, too, in their humility.. . .No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity,
in any grade,through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half sohorrible and
dread.

Spirit! are they yours? Scrooge could say no more.

Theyare Man's, said the Spirit, looking down upon them. And they cling tome,
appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl isWant. Beware them both, and all
of their degree; but most of all bewarethis boy, for on his brow I see that written which is
Doom, unless thewriting be erased."

With the
revelation of these ragged, pitiful children, the Spirit is cautioning not only Scrooge, but all
of mankind.  He proclaims that they represent Man's worst enemies  -- the state of Want (for
food, shelter, etc.) that many suffer and live through every day, but most especially, the
self-imposed Ignorance of this state of affairs, the Ignorance in which Man chooses to live his
life.  Man, according the the Spirit (and Dickens ), must wake up and see what is needed by
others and the part each individual can play to ease the pain and suffering of his fellows.  The
Spirit cautions that, unless Man wakes from his self-imposed Ignorance, he will create his own
downfall, his own "Doom."

The Ghost then relates these general
predictions about all of mankind more specifically to Scrooge when he taunts him with his own
words from early in the story, a demonstration of Scrooge's choice to live in
Ignorance:

Have they no refuge or resource? cried
Scrooge.

Are there no prisons? said the Spirit, turning on him for the last
time with his own words. Are there no workhouses?

For
more on Ignorance and Want and the social responsibility of mankind as advocated by Dickens,
please follow the links below.

What caused the Trail of Tears?

The
Trail of Tears was the name given to the forced relocation of Native-American tribes from their
ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to west of the Mississippi. The impetus
for this notorious policy was the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Prior to this, successive American
governments had tolerated the existence of Native-American tribes in the Southern states so long
as they could be culturally assimilated. However, President...

What talent did Hester use to support herself and Pearl? from The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 5

Despite her
adorned "A", however,wore very plain clothes herself.  The fancy clothes she made were
for the women of the town.  It is ironic and hypocritical that these women are still judging her
for "outlandish" behavior, when by Puritan standards, Hester is dressing appropriately
and they are being outlandish.  Not to mention that they criticize her constantly but still buy
from her!

What values do Plutarch and Confucius promote? What similarities and differences do you see in their moral and educational philosophies? How are those...

Plutarch
believed in an eternal and good God who created the world. Plutarch saw all life as connected by
a world-soul, which was basically evil. One tenet of his philosophy was the necessity of reason,
as Plutarch saw man's soul as subject to evil passions. Reason, therefore, was required in order
to free the self from bodily passions and to achieve happiness. Plutarch was not overly dogmatic
and believed that a moral life was achieved by moderation in all things.

The
philosophy of Confucius revolves around the Tao. The Tao is the "principle of order"
in nature, natural elements, and human beings. It manifests itself in cold and heat, feminine
and masculine, yin and yang, order and chaos. According to Confucius, it is by the study of the
Tao, ourselves, and others that we can become better people.

One interesting
point of agreement between Plutarch and Confucius is that they both...

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poetryhow can content, form, and the overall effect of the poem developed through the use of emotions, the imagination, ideas, meaning, sentiment,...

effect of the poem developed through the use of emotions,
theimagination, ideas, meaning, sentiment, passion, power, senseexpression, interpretation,
beauty dignity, freshness of expression,orderly arrangement, concreteness, and
pleasure

This is a massive question. I'm going to
rearrange it slightly so there are at least some categories to address:

effect of the poem developed through the use of (1) emotions,
sentiment, passion; (2) beauty, dignity, pleasure, power; (3) theimagination, ideas; (4)
freshness of expression,senseof expression; (5) orderly arrangement, concreteness;
(6)...

What are the accounts of the Creation in Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism? What about the afterlife?

Judaism,
Islam, and Christianity all accept the account of creation found in the Old Testament of the
Hebrew Bible. This account, located in the book of Genesis, describes God creating the world and
its inhabitants over a period of six days and then resting on the seventh day. In contrast to
this singular account of creation, Hinduism believes in a universe that has always exists but
goes through cycles of creation and destruction.

Judaism places less emphasis
on the afterlife than Christianity. Christians believe in God judging people and sending them to
heaven or hell, depending on how they lived their lives, as does Islam. Hinduism includes
reincarnation.

Should education be made a fundamental right ? Why? Should education be made a fundamental right ? Why?

The previous
poster addressed a significant problem for many students (and parents) in public education. Yes
they pay for it from taxes, but because the money doesn't come directly from their pocket or
checkbook, they see it as not have great value. In our school we have the same students
repeating core classes two or three times in a row--they put no effort into the class. What if
parents had to pay the tuition the second time a kid had to take the core class due to lack of
effort?

How are Winston and Julie betrayed? Explain the various ironies involved in this scene.

andare
betrayed by Mr. Charrington, the apparently kindly old man who operates a shop. They had rented
a room from him in the part of town where the proles live. They believe that they will be safe
from the prying eyes of Big Brother there, and indeed they meet many times in the room. One day,
as they awakened in the room, they are shocked as they hear a voice from...

In 1984, Winston interprets O'Brien's indirect reference to Syme as a shared act of thoughtcrime. How is this later shown to be an example of irony?

Syme is one
of the more interesting minor characters in the novel.likes to talk to him because Syme is
working on refining Newspeak and can converse intelligently about it. In fact, Winston realizes,
Syme's insightfulness will be his own undoing. As Syme chats to Winston over lunch at work, it
strikes Winston that:

One of these days, thought Winston
with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly
and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people.

Not long after the lunch conversation, Syme disappears, as Winston had
predicted:

Syme had ceased to exist: he had never
existed

Whenstops Winston in the hall to talk him and ask
him to come to his apartment to get an advance copy of the latest Newspeak dictionary, Winston
is certain O'Brien is referring to Syme when he mentions a "friend:"

"But you write it very elegantly," said OBrien.
"That is not only my own opinion. I was talking recently to a friend of yours who
is...

What is the symbolic meaning of Salamano's dog in the novel?

In
, the relationship between Salamano and his dog is analogous to both the
relationships between Mersault and his mother and between Raymond and his Arab girlfriend.  The
dog reminds Meursault of his mother; therefore, the dog is a symbol for that which is lost,
dead, or abused.

First, Salamano is more heat-broken about losing his mangy
dog than Meursault is about his mother dying.  This is not to say that Meursault does not love
his mother; on the contrary, it shows that he appreciates his mother's life and refuses to
excessively mourn her death (the way that Salamano weeps over his dog).

If
The Stranger is an existential indictment of people who choose death over
life, then Salamano is guilty as charged.  He seems to care more about the dog now that it is
gone than he did when it was alive.  Camus is morbidly poking fun at the fact that most people,
like Salamano, are addicted to the culture of death and guilt.  As a result, they refuse to live
meaningful lives.

Secondly, the relationship shows how violence can damage
relationships.  Salamano would beat his dog simply because it is old, just as Raymond would beat
his girlfriend simply because she is a woman.  Both men harbor violent tendencies toward weaker
creatures, most likely because they are addicted to the culture of death, guilt, and
suffering.

On the other hand, the absurd hero Meursault chooses the simple
pleasures of life: he enjoys the sun, the beach, smoking, and sex; as a result, he does not need
to engage in a power struggle with those who are defenseless.

What is the primary setting in The Scarlet Letter, and what is its corresponding mood?

Is it not
ironic that a religious sect that sought freedom to practice their beliefs in England came to
America where they built a settlement and placed as one of the first buidings a prison? 
Hawthorne conveys thisin his description of the second paragraph of Chapter I:

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and
happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest
practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion
as the site of a prison....The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more
antique than anything else in the New World.

That this
prison has been built as the first construction indicates the hypocrisy and the restrictiveness
of Puritanism, a motif that is prevalent throughout Hawthorne's novel.  With this restrictive
and iron prison, the setting conveys the harsh control exerted upon the Puritan colony.  But,
before this "ugly edifice" is a small plot of ground where grass grows and a single
rose-bush.  Hawthorne writes of this rose-bush,

It may
serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moreal blossom...to relieve the darkening close of a
tale of human fraility and sorrow.

This grass-plot is occupied by grey
figures in "grim rigidity that petrified the bearded phsiognomies" of the
people....there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators; as
befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical and in whose character
both were interfused.

Clearly it is a dismal, prison-like
setting into which the reader is introduced to Hawthorne's "tale of human fraility." 
The people are clad in grey like the prison door, suggesting the cold rigidity of their lives, a
passionless existence.  Only one red rose, a symbol of passion, blooms in the prison
yard.

 

 

What is Dhvani School of poetry?

To
put a very complex subject in simple terms, dhvani is two things. It is the emotional meaning of
poetry in the Pracina and Navina schools of poetry in Sanskrit. Dhvani is poetry that adopts the
avenue of suggestion through emotion; it is not devoid of the concrete, like description, but it
elicits suggested emotion as its core meaning.

More often called the href="https://englishliteratureforcollegestudents.blogspot.com/" title="Theory of
Dhvani">Theory of Dhvani, this very complex subject starts with the difference
between the expression and the meaning. Dhvani is the expression that bridges the two schools
and gives the essence of each. Pracina school stops with the concept of expression, which leaves
the story or narrative of the poem as an incidental in light of the words that embody it, the
dhvani that embodies it. The Navina school carries dhvani further by suggesting a yielding to
the emotion that is suggested by the dhvani thus giving the content, the story, a place with the
embodying words.

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What are the Party mottos in 1984? What is unusual about them?

The
Party mottos seem unusual because they appear to be paradoxical, but what is perhaps even more
unusual is that they do in fact, in the context of the dystopian setting, make sense. The motto,
"War is Peace," for example, appears paradoxical, but war
is in fact necessary to maintain the peace because it provides the people with vital
opportunities to release their suppressed emotions, namely their anger.

They
are angry, whether they know it or not, with the Party for making their lives so miserable, but
they cannot direct their anger towards the Party, and so the Party provides them with constant
war. If the Party didn't provide the people with war, then the anger, needing some form of
release, might end up being directed their way. If this was to happen, then there would almost
certainly be a civil war between those for the Party and those against the Party. To avoid this
scenario and to keep the peace, the Party provides the people with imaginary wars.

The second motto, "Freedom is...

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What is the author trying to point out in "The Raven"?

In a word: 
Obsession.  As the previous post has mentioned, Poe strives for the single effect.  In
"," the speaker is singularly in despair to the point that he becomes obsessed with
his feelings.  And, it is this obsession that is so very desperate.

I am unsure about how to fully understand how long a foot is in poetry. HELP?

The key to
solving your problem is remembering that poetry is written to be heard. Read the poem you are
analyzing aloud - if necessary, record yourself reading it so you can then focus completely on
the sound of the language, without worrying about reading it.

A
"foot" in a given poem is a specific number of stressed and unstressed syllables
repeated consistently for the length of the poem. There is no one length that applies to
all...

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Public Education Are we witnessing the beginning of a sea change in American education? Does it seem possible that one day public schools will educate...

If the Tea
Party had its way, we would not have public schools at all.  Since No Child Left Behind was
passed, the movement has been to make public schools less effective, take away their autonomy,
and then privitize them.  Eventually, there will be no public schools.

In A Raisin in the Sun, how does Beneatha feel about George Murchison?

is
portrayed as a rather fickle, mercurial young woman, who is interested in both George Murchinson
and Joseph Asagai. Whenandinitially begin inquiring about Beneatha's upcoming date with George
Murchinson, Beneatha admits that George is simply "all right" but is an extremely
shallow person. Beneatha proceeds to tell Lena and Ruth that George flaunts his wealth and
mentions that his family is rather snobbish. Despite the fact that George drives a fancy car and
takes Beneatha to beautiful places, she cannot see herself marrying him. Beneatha is simply
enjoying her options and the experiences George Murchinson currently provides for her.

Beneatha also does not appreciate the fact that George does not support her decision to
become a doctor, and he is depicted as an arrogant, controlling man, who criticizes Beneatha's
natural hairstyle and could care less about his African heritage. Hansberry portrays Joseph
Asagai in a much more favorable light, and Beneatha seems more attracted to him than George
Murchinson. Overall, Beneatha likes George but cannot take him seriously and has reservations
about his superficial, arrogant demeanor.

In what ways is Robinson Crusoe typical of its era?

The
eighteenth century is associated with the rise of the middle class in Great Britain.
"Middle-class" has a different meaning in Britain than in the United States: it
differentiates between the aristocracy, who inherited their land-based money and status and were
not expected to work for a living, and the people who earned their wealth through their own hard
work, usually in trade.

The middle class gained its wealthand often vast
fortunes (one could be middle-class and very very wealthy: the middle-class designation simply
meant you weren't born of a gentleman and didn't inherit your money)through industry, frugality,
planning, intelligence, common sense, and hard work. is typical of this
era, and very appealing to this rising middle class, because Crusoe survives and thrives through
use of middle-class virtues. He thinks ahead, salvages supplies from the sinking ship, plants,
hunts, cultivates, builds, conserves, and works very, very hard to become the lord
(if...

Examine why humans are presented as a social group in the novel.

The
original question had to be edited.  I would suggest that one reason why humans are presented as
a social group is that the humans represent where the clones wish to be.  The clones, as a
group, wish to emulate and become humans.  In presenting the humans as a social group, the
clones perceive them to be powerful.  This is where Ruth, for example, directs her efforts
in...

Explain World War II.

In a nutshell,was
fought between the Allies, including England, France, Russia, and the United States, and the
Axis, Germany, Italy and Japan.The battle was fought in Europe and the Pacific, but was mainly a
fight for world dominance.]]>

What poems can relate to Death of a Salesman?

Robert Frost's "I Have Been One Acquainted with the
Night": In this poem, the speaker feels a sense of isolation and
depression. He doesn't feel connected in any space and doesn't feel that anyone needs
him:

When far away an interrupted cry

Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye

The
"night" in this poem symbolizes the speaker's inner turmoil, which could definitely
relate to Willy.

William Meredith's "Dreams of Suicide": The poem
is dedicated to three writers who ended their own lives, much the same as Willy chooses to do in
the end. The poem conveys a truth about people who are unable to face the struggles of life and
emerge with resilience on the other side of it.

Dylan Thomas's "Do Not
Go Gentle into That Good Night": Perhaps someone should have encouraged Willy with some
words of strength. Old men, wise men, and good men all fight against going "gentle into
that good night," and maybe it could have been Willy's option, too, if he had lived more
in...

What role does Boo (Arthur Radley) play in To Kill a Mockingbird and how does he affect the story?

Arthur
"" Radley is the Finch family's reclusive neighbor, who is portrayed as a symbolic
mockingbird throughout the novel. Boo is considered a symbolic mockingbird because he is a
benevolent, vulnerable man, who cannot defend himself against the unflattering rumors
surrounding him or his prejudiced neighbors. Despite Boo's undeserved bad reputation, he is a
kind, compassionate man and attempts to form a relationship with the Finch children by giving
them gifts in the knothole of his tree. One of the mainLee examines throughout her novel is the
importance of protecting innocent beings. Boo's character contributes to this theme as he plays
the role of a defenseless, innocent man. Towards the end of the novel, Sheriff Tate protects Boo
by refusing to place him in the community's limelight, which would be harmful to Boo because he
is extremely shy and timid.

In addition to contributing to the theme of
protecting innocent beings, Boo's character also serves as a gauge forand

What are the disadvantages of the fourth generation of computer?

The
fourth generation computers are characterized by microprocessors, which contain a large number
of integrated circuits (IC). The first microprocessor chip, Intel 4004 chip, was developed in
1971. Very large scale integration (VLSI) allowed a large number of ICs to be squeezed onto a
single chip, resulting in microprocessors that power these computer and a large number of other
devices. The computers that we use today are all fourth generation systems.

The disadvantage of these computers is that the microprocessor design and fabrication
is very complex and requires expensive setup and highly skilled staff for manufacturing. This
has limited the design and fabrication to very few companies (Intel, AMD, etc.) and made
everyone dependent on them. Another disadvantage is susceptibility to large-scale attack on
networked system. Smaller computers meant that they could be networked, paving the way for
internet. This also leaves the possibility of a virus attack on the entire system, making
everyone vulnerable. 

Hope this helps. 

How did the stars and heaven react when the tiger was created?

For
Blake, the stars symbolize the power of cold reason, which he greatly despised. Like many of his
contemporaries, Blake was deeply impressed by the rapid advancement of scientific knowledge.
But, at the same time, he strongly opposed what we would now call scientism, the idea that
everything in life can be explained by science. Blake believed that there was a whole world of
imagination for which science could provide no adequate account, and he explored that world in
considerable depth both in his poems and his numerous artworks.

Although the
tiger is an animal and therefore part of the natural world, there is something about it that
can't be captured by scientific analysis. Science can tell us so many things about tigers, as it
can with all other creatures upon this earth, including ourselves. But what it can't do is
convey the sheer awe and terror that the tiger inspires; only the aesthetic imagination can do
that. The sense of awe and fear which the speaker feels in the presence of the tiger defies
reason. In response to the tiger, reasonas symbolized by the starscan say nothing. All it can do
is suspend its hostility to the imagination ("When the stars threw down their spears")
and weep in the presence of this sublime, awesome creature ("And water'd heaven with their
tears").

Career Plan Of A Future Teacher

My evaluation
is highly invested in the Common Core State Standards, so my professional growth has been around
coming to grips with what those standards are about and how to infuse those in my classrooom.
I've mentioned this in a few other posts, and I should really start a thread for discussion
around it as well, but I am part of the LDC (Literacy Design Collaborative), which was created
in order to help instructors with an avenue and method of teaching the Common Core. This was
really designed by teachers for teachers, particularly non-literacy or English Language Arts
teachers. But if there is to be a major focus on literacy in non- and skills centering on
evidence gathering and critical thinking and persuasion, then all teachers need to be a part of
that movement. 

My professional growth has pushed me towards LDC and creating
"modules", independently and collaboratively with other teachers in the district /
country. What the module allows me to provide is a direction for my evaluator, a day by day
breakdown of my instruction, the specific core and state standards that I am addressing with
each day, and the formative product, which is better than any other produce I've been able to
get my students to produce, that functions as the necessary data for me to guide my instruction
and have a discussion with my evaluator. With each module, I know I am directly hooked into
common core and that I am doing the necessary instruction for my students to be successful.
Thus, my evaluation and growth plans are aligned and positive.

What are Browns values at the end of the story "Young Goodman Brown"?

""
is another narrative concerned with 's indictment of Calvinism and the psychological probing
into the heart of man. 

In the beginning, the naive Goodman
Brown is convinced that he is of the elect; so certain is he of his faith that he
ventures out at night to the forest primeval with a "not unexpected
companion." Asserting that his father and other relatives are good Christians, Goodman
decides shortly that he should turn back. But, the old traveler scoffs at him, saying that he is
well acquainted with Brown's relatives,"They were my good friends." In fact, the old
man resembles Goodman's grandfather.

As he traverses the path to the forest,
Goodman encounters two pillars of his church, Goody Cloyse, who has taught him his catechism,
and Deacon Gookin; and, he is shocked to see and hear them speak excitedly of the night's
meeting. Later,when he sees Faith at the meeting, Brown is completely disillusioned: 

"My Faith is gone! ...Come, devil; for to thee is this world
given."

After this experience of the depravity of
those he has considered among the elect with him, Goodman Brown realizes Calvinism is
diabolical, rather than divine. He rejects Faith when she greets him, for he no longer believes
in anything but "misery untterable," the depravity of man, and he despairs of any
chance to merit salvation, having seen the hypocrisy of those he perceived as the Calvinist
elect. Young Goodman Brown has suffered a great fall from innocence; his faith was too simple to
begin with as at first he has only a "notion" of evil, but now he has become
acquainted with it. Now, he believes only in the evil of man's
heart.

Give me an example of how you can use "I" and "me" theory in customer service.

George Herbert Meads theory of "the I
and the me" characterizes the "I" as the active aspect of personality, analogous
to the Freudian "ego," and the "me" as the socialized aspect, consisting of
the internalized attitudes of society. This means that the "me" conditions the conduct
of the "I."

In a customer service context, this principle suggests
that customers should be treated in such as way as to condition a desirable reaction. For
example, a customer making a complaint must be treated not only as though the complaint is
reasonable but as though that customer is the type of "I" who would only be capable of
making a reasonable complaint in a civilized manner.

Of course, in a
short-term customer service situation, the employee serving the customer has very little
influence over the customers "me," which has been conditioned by society over the
customers entire life. Perhaps all the employee can effectively do is to observe the customers
"me" through the conduct of the "I" and use this to ascertain what solution
or course of action will be most appropriate for that customer.

For example,
the employee might look at the range of options available to him/her in serving the customer and
use observation of the "me" to determine such matters as (a) whether it will be
helpful or merely confusing to present the customer with the full range of options (b), whether
one particular option stands out as being immediately most suitable for this customer, and (c)
which option or options are most likely to appeal to this customer and why.

This applies in any number of situations, from retail in a department store to such
products as financial services. In the latter case, a concrete example might be deciding how to
present a large array of options for mortgages or investment products to customers who differ
not only in terms of expertise and financial acumen but in the expectations conditioned by their
socialized "me."

In a long-term customer relationship, the
customers "me" may actually be conditioned, at least in his or her manner of dealing
with that particular organization. Employees should therefore be trained to deal with customers
in a predictable and consistent manner, amounting to a house style.

What does the following Party slogan mean: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past?"

This Party slogan
is first mentioned in Part One, Chapter Three of . To put it into
context,is thinking about the Party's past alliance with Eurasia. According to the Party,
Oceania and Eurasia have never been allies but Winston has a strong memory of their friendship.
However, it does not matter that Winston can remember it: the Party says that it never happened
and has rewritten the history books and newspapers accordingly.

The Party is
able to rewrite the past through a combination of brainwashing and violence. Because people are
unable to speak out, the Party takes control of the both the present and the future. It can
continue to manipulate the truth without worrying that anybody will contradict its version of
events. If somebody does, they are sent to the Ministry of Love, as happens to Winston in Part
Three. 

Please explain the two deaths, Piggy's and Simon's, in Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

There are
actually three deaths in 's novel , but the two you mention can be
classified as murders and are therefor more egregious. The first death is the little boy with
the mulberry birthmark who is inadvertently killed in an out-of-control fire in chapter two; 's
death borders on accidental but 's death is flagrant murder.

Simon is killed
on a dark, stormy night after he has discovered the truth about the beast from the Lord of the
Flies. He is weak and exhausted, but he wants to tell the others that the beast is in all of
them, is part of them. He crawls through the dense foliage to get to the spot on the mountain
where the boys have all gathered to celebrate a successful hunt and eat meat. 

The boys have all gathered into a circle and begin to chant the same words as they do
on a hunt: Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in! Some ofassume the role
of a pig and a kind of a mock hunt ensues. The lightning, thunder, and rain are crashing around
them, and it is clear the boys who are chanting in a circle have gotten caught up in theand
emotion of their setting--and then Simon appears, crawling out of the woods in the dark. He
crawls to the center of the circle and tries to talk to them, but his words are unintelligible
to them and they do not listen.

The sticks fell and the
mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its
arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body
on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the
rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on
to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing
of teeth and claws.... Presently the heap broke up and figures staggered away. Only the
beast lay still, a few yards from the sea. Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it
was; and already its blood was staining the sand.

Simon
is dead, killed by the other boys, and the next day onlyseems to feel any sense of
responsibility or remorse for this act.

While Simon's death was an accident,
Piggy's was not. Whencomes and steals Piggy's glasses one night, Piggy has had enough. While he
has always been afraid of Jack--and probably still is, to some extent--he is ready to fight
back. It is not going to be a fair fight, however, because Piggy can barely see and, though he
has Ralph and the conch, Jack has a tribe of savages who no longer recognize the authority of
the conch. 

Piggy asks Which is betterto have rules and agree, or to hunt
and kill? It is not a difficult question for Jack, and he allowsto lever a boulder to drop on
Piggy, smashing both the boy and the conch. 

When the naval officer arrives
to rescue the boys, Ralph 

Ralph wept for the end of
innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend
called Piggy.

What literary devices are found in " It Was a Dream" by Lucille Clifton?

In this
poem, Clifton pits a powerful (greater) dream self against her everyday self. She emphasizes the
weakness and smallness of the this everyday self by using a lower-case "i" to describe
it. This literary device of having a word function visually in a poem is called a
calligram.

Clifton uses , or
description using the five senses (i.e., sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch) to describe her
greater self. This self has an "extra" finger that "whirls" in a
"gyre"or circle of rage. We can visualize that finger: a shaking finger is what we
associate with a parent or a teacher, adding a sense of authority to the greater self. Clifton
continues to employ imagery to describe the intimidating presence of this greater self: she
twists "wild" hair, has "wild" eyes that spark, and she screams.

, or using the first word repeatedly at the beginning of
successive lines, comes into play with the "and"s that repeat three times in a row
near the end of the poem.

Clifton uses in the
repeated "w" sounds throughout the poem that replicate the blowing sound of wind and,
hence, the sound of the greater self. Finally, by using the title as both title and first line,
the body of the poem appears to begin "in
media res," or in the middle of the action.

What is the significance of the fire in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat"? There's a symbolic phenomenon that I don't seem to understand.

The fire
functions on at least two levels of symbolism in the story. First, it's arguably a punishment
directed against the narrator by God, fate, or any supernatural avenging force, for his abuse
and murder of Pluto. Though in general Poe's tales seem to take place in a random and irrational
universe, there is at least an implied form of moral justice that emerges at crucial points
within his narratives. In "," the message that comes through is the obvious and
time-honored one that crime doesn't pay. Not only are the man's wealth and property destroyed,
but the gigantic image of the cat that appears on the wall is a warning to him that a
supernatural avenger is present that will destroy him personally as well.

Poe also uses the fire as a mechanism to reveal more and more of the narrator's aberrant mental
state. The man's rationale for the huge image of the cat is a convoluted exercise in denial
and...

What does the phrase "star-crossed" mean in relation to Romeo and Juliet?

I assume
that you're asking for an explanation of what "star-cross'd lovers" means in relation
to . The expression comes from the play'sand indicates thatand 's love is
ultimately destined to be thwarted by the stars.

In Shakespeare's
day,...

Do any characters in the story change in significant ways?

s story
is a tribute to the tenacity of the elderly female , Phoenix Jackson, who is present during the
entire action narrated in the story. The only other characters play minor roles; they are the
hunter, the nurse, and the attendant. In addition, Phoenixs grandson is important because he is
the motivator for her actions, but he does not appear in the story; the reader learns about his
existenceand more importantly, his illnessfrom the conversations among the nurse, the attendant,
and Phoenix when she finally arrives at the between.

Phoenix does not change
significantly during the course of the story. Although Welty has made her a static character in
this respect, Phoenix is not a flat character. She carries out her quest with not just
determination but also humor. During the period in which she has been caring for her sick
grandson, before the storys action begins, she haschanged through aging; her physical and mental
health sometimes seem to have declined. Phoenix keeps going and is not hampered for long by the
obstacles she encounters and overcomes; these characteristics indicate that the author intended
for the reader to appreciate and admire the grandmothers dedication to the
boy.

What are some examples of irony in Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde?

Act 2, like all of , contains many examples of . I will cite a few
of these and discuss how they contribute to the humor of the play.

One early
example is when Cecily is telling Algernon about her diary. She tells him she can't read the
diary because "it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions,
and consequently meant for publication." This is an example of verbal irony because Cecily
describes her diary, which is a document people use to record their private, secret thoughts, as
something Algernon cannot see because it is "meant for publication." This is the
opposite of what we expect to hear about diaries in general, and also opposite of what we expect
Cecily to say given the beginning of her statement. Both Cecily and Gwendolen use their diaries
as "proof" of their engagements, so they are ironically referred to as public
documents at other points in the play.

Cecily also talks to Algernon about
his name, which he...

In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, what are the 3 miracles the old man performed incorrectly according to the townspeople?

According to the
townspeople, the angel makes several mistakes in granting miracles. First, there is a blind man
who sprouts three new teeth instead of being able to see again. There is also a leper whose
sores are not cured but who instead grows sunflowers out of his sores, and the final flawed
miracle is a paralytic who almost wins the lottery instead of being able to walk again. These
miracles almost make it seem like the angel is playing with people and making fun of them, and
people tire of him because he can't grant the miracles they expect of him.

As
a result, the angel loses his popularity to a strange woman who was transformed into a spider
after attending a dance without her parents' knowledge. This woman appears in a passing
carnival, and she proves far more popular than the eccentric angel.

Why does Jody, from the novel The Red Pony, name his colt Gabilan?

In
Steinbeck's early novella, , the main character, Jody Tiflin receives a red colt from his father
which he names Gabilan. In Spanish, gabilan or gavilan, means sparrow hawk. It is the name of
the mountain range that borders the boy's family ranch in the Salinas Valley. Hawks, especially
red-tailed hawks, are numerous in this area and throughout California.

Steinbeck's best novels, , , ,andare all set in California. Steinbeck grew up in the
Salinas Valley and he describes that area beautifully in his stories. In the opening chapter of
the novella Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie camp next to the Salinas River at the foot of the
Gabilan Mountains. The "rocky Gabilan Mountains" are west of the fertile Salinas
Valley and run through much of Monterey and San Benito County. They are the high range to the
west as you drive north on the 101 freeway through King City, Soledad, Gonzales and Salinas.
 

According to A People's History of the United States, did the Civil War effectively end the growing division between capital and labor?

The
Civil War did not end the division,argues. Both the end of the armed conflict and the expansion
of business and industry contributed to widening the gap.

Beginning in the
mid-nineteenth-century, Zinn notes in chapter 10, the legal bases of class conflict and
exploitation were increasingly disguised by the appearance of fairness and neutrality. Because
the wealthy business and industry owners controlled the political system, they could influence
the passage of legislation that favored their interests. During the crisis of the Civil War,
military and political unity suppressed class-consciousness. Workers rarely dared to strike.
After the war ended, massive numbers of soldiers returned home, unable to find work. For those
who did have work, conditions were often perilous. The formation of unions and numerous large
strikes seemed to threaten the owners control. By 1873, the entire US was sunk into a
depression.

Immigration laws were adjusted to allow more foreign
workers...

What ideas does the phrase "whiskery spitter" convey in the poem "CAT!" by Eleanor Farjeon? no

The entire
poem uses ,and rhyme to great effect to convey the fiesty nature of an active cat.

Phrases like "sleeky flatterer" recognize the long, slim body shape of a
healthy cat rubbing against ones legs to indicate affection and appreciation of the person's
presence. "Green-eyed scratcher" could simply be indicating the actual color of the
eyes of the cat being described, or could be a symbolic reference to a cat's jealousy as
demonstrated by scratching an object in order to get revenge for being ignored or to get
attention returned to itself.

"Whiskery spitter" acknowledges the
long facial whiskers possessed by most cats, framing the hisses and spits and howls that cats
produce when they are displeased or worse.

What other books did Paul Zindel write?

has written
several plays, numerous novels, and even a screenplay. Some of his novels are listed
below.

1.(1968)
2.(1969)
3. Pardon Me, You're Stepping on
My Eyeball (1976)
4. Confessions of a...

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In the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is Ulysses a heroic or an unheroic figure?

In the
poem ","presents an old man who has safely returned from all the exciting,
life-threatening adventures recounted in The Odyssey. He sits upon his
throne, an "idle king" with an "aged wife" and remembers his days of glory.
He considers his son with fondness and contemplates with approval leaving his kingdom "the
sceptre and the isle" to Telemachus. Ulysses longs to set sail with his mariners for one
last adventure. Acknowledging that death is near, he says,

Death closes all, but something ere the end, some work of noble note, may yet be done,
not unbecoming men who strove with Gods.

To answer your
question, whether in the poem Ulysses is heroic or unheroic depends upon your definition of
heroism. In the classical sense, a hero is a person of bravery and strength who undertakes a
journey and overcomes dangers for the sake of fame and honor. By this...