what are some examples of loyalty of daniel

Daniel is
initially loyal to Rosh, the leader of the band of zealots that Daniel has joined. Like many
young men, he's drawn to Rosh, this dangerous man of action, by his extraordinary charisma and
powerful personality.

However, as time goes on, Daniel becomes thoroughly
disillusioned by Rosh. Though Daniel and the other zealots display great loyalty to Rosh, such
loyalty is not reciprocated. It eventually becomes clear to Daniel that Rosh is a deeply selfish
individual only interested in looking out for Number One.

For good measure,
Rosh shows a distinct lack of loyalty to his own people, the very people he's supposed to be
protecting and defending from the Roman oppressors. Rosh has no compunction with stealing from
fellow Jews, something that Daniel finds repugnant.

In that sense, one could
say that Daniel shows great loyalty to his people in leaving Rosh's band of zealots. He knows
that, whatever Rosh may say about driving the Romans out of Israel, he's as much the enemy of
the Jewish people as any Roman. Though Daniel will later go on to show loyalty to Jesus in
choosing to follow him, his motivations are the same: he believes that he's doing the right
thing.

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In Animal Farm by George Orwell, what was the Battle of Cowshed?

In
by , the Battle of the Cowshed occurs when Mr. Jones, the human owner of
Manor Farm before the animals took over, shows up with a group of men to get his farm back.
Jones enlists the help of fellow farmers, Pilkington and Frederick, who in many ways are just as
bad or worse than Jones. They are greedy and self-centered and even look at ways they might get
something out of the animal take-over of Jones' farm. 

Sadly for the men,
however, the animals are ready for them, andin particular, turns out to be quite the strategist.
He knew the men would eventually come, and he has planned out what the animals should do.
 

First, the pigeons warn the animals that the men are coming. Snowball gets
the animals ready to attack them. He has been studying up on Julius Caesar's battle strategies,
and proves himself to be a good leader during the Battle of the Cowshed. The animals' victory is
swift, and Mr. Jones ends up in a large dung heap. 

What was the significance of the Orthodox Christian Church in the Byzantine Empire and Russia?

When
Constantine took over the Roman Empire he moved the capital from Rome to Byzantine, which he
renamed after himself Constantinople. When he moved the political seat of the empire this caused
a dramatic shift of power. In an age when there was very little separation between religion and
government this also caused a shift in the power of the church. Constantine made Christianity
the state religion of the empire and also wished to reallocate the power from Rome to
Constantinople. The start of the split between the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern
Orthodox church occurred primarily because of disagreements in the church councils, which began
under the rule of Constantine. While the East and West were not officially split until 1054
(Great Schism) they were split on doctrine long before this. Christianity of the Eastern
Orthodox doctrine began to spread east and north into Russia.

Of what does Edwards believe his congregation is not sensible in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Steven Hinkes

"" centers around a sermon thatdelivered to a group of people who he believed
to be complacent and comfortable. He gave the speech to the congregation on July 8, 1741 in
Enfield, Connecticut.

In the longest and most important part of the sermon,
in which Edwards speaks directly to members of the congregation who are unable to sense
their...

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In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," why does the Grandmother say the Misfit is one of her children when she only has one son?

The
grandmother, in a misguided attempt to appeal to the Misfit's non-existent sympathy, calls him
"one of her own children." She does not mean that she suddenly recognizes the Misfit
as her long-lost child in a literal sense; rather, she means that he is so familiar to her at
this particular moment that he could be her own child.

The grandmother makes
this kind of comment in response to a display of vulnerability by the Misfit. While talking
about Jesus, the Misfit has just displayed some emotional depth, as evidenced by the expression
on his face being "as if he were going to cry." Possibly, the grandmother may be
trying to deepen the emotional connection between herself and the Misfit so that he will feel
something positive towards her and let her live, but no matter her motives, her attempts to
create a bond fail. The Misfit shoots her when she tries to touch his shoulder and offer him
comfort, and he and Bobby Lee mock her talkative manner over her dead
body.

What is the main problem in the book "The Fighting Ground"?

In a
story like , I believe it is usually safe to say that the main problem or
main conflict is the one between the great powers involved, in this case between the American
revolutionary forces on the one side and the British and Hessians on the other. The characters
in such a story are typically the "little people" who are caught up in the struggle
and whose lives are changed by what happens to them. In The
Fighting...

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In The Scarlet Letter, why did Hester keep her baby's father a secret?

In
seventeenth-century Massachusetts, the prevailing double standard held that women were more
responsible for adultery than men. Women who engaged in extra-marital sex were widely condemned
as brazen temptresses, shamelessly transgressing the bounds of socially acceptable behavior. As
for men, they could suffer damage to their reputations, but they weren't treated with anything
like the same degree of severity as adulterous women. So, by not revealing the identity of 's
father,is trying to protect 's standing in the local community. Although he wouldn't be publicly
branded or banished from the town, Dimmesdale would nonetheless be greatly diminished in the
eyes of his congregation were his adultery to be exposed. As a man of God, he's expected to
maintain the very highest standards of propriety, and fathering a child out of wedlock
represents an attack on those standards.

In any case, it's possible that
Hester wants Dimmesdale to have the bravery to reveal the truth...

How has Gieve Patel depicted violence & philosophy of non-violence in "On Killing a Tree"?

Patel's
"On Killing a Tree" depicts violence and the philosophy of non-violence depicting
violence literally and non-violence ironically. The speaker lectures his audience from the
standpoint of having done the deed of killing a tree at one time. His comments depict the
experience of "hacking" and "chopping" until the entire tree is extracted
from the earth, roots and all. Even after all of that, what is left of the tree must be left
"scorching and choking/ In sun and air,/ Browning, hardening/ Twisting, withering."
All of these actions take a tremendously violent effort.

Having done this,
the speaker discourages others from doing it. It seems like a worthless, senseless act by the
time he has finished his description. The tree, after all, has lifted itself triumphantly from
the "leprous hide" of the earth, and will "expand again/ To former size" if
left "unchecked." The effort it takes to kill the tree is a travesty in the speaker's
mind. He's done it and is worse for the experience. That is where the philosophy of non-violence
is found.

 

 

It takes much time to
kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife
Will do it. It has
grown
Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of it, feeding
Upon its
crust, absorbing
Years of sunlight, air, water, 
And out of its leprous
hide
Sprouting leaves.

So hack and chop

But this
alone won't do it.
Not so much pain will do it.
The bleeding bark will
heal
And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green
twigs,
Miniature boughs
Which if unchecked will expand again 
To
former size.

No,
The root is to be pulled out-
Out of the
anchoring earth;
It is to be roped, tied,
And pulled out-snapped
out
Or pulled out entirely,
Out from the earth-cave,
And the strength
of the tree exposed, 
The source, white and wet,
The most sensitive,
hidden
For years inside the earth.

Then the matter 
Of
scorching and choking
In sun and air,
Browning, hardening,
Twisting,
withering,

And then it is done.

 

What is the book Winston reads about in "1984"? What does he realize after? Goldstein's The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is...

In the
dystopian world of Big Brother, thought-control, Newspeak, Doublespeak, and reversible and
constant wars, there is a perpetual shifting of what is considered real; or, in the words from
Shakespeare's phantasmagoric play, Macbeth, "Nothing is what is
not." Further in this oxymoronic existence, afterandbegin to conduct their affair in a room
above Mr. Charrington's shop, at The Ministry of Truth, the impostor  approaches Winston and
asks him if he would be interested in joining the Brotherhood; moreover, he offers Winston
Goldstein's book that contains strategies on how to destroy Big Brother. In truth, however,
O'Brien is actually a member of the Inner Party that supports the government of Big
Brother. 

Then, at the end of Chapter IX of Book Two, after reading
Goldstein's book, Winston realizes that he is not mad, even if he is "a minority of
one":

There was truth and there was untruth, and if
you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

This is the difference between Winston at this point and Macbeth,
who, in his madness,  believes in what the witches from the preternatural world have told him.
Sadly, then, Winston also succumbs to madness when, after torture in Room 101 where his greatest
fear attacks his psyche, he goes mad and agrees that two plus two is five, the very argument he
has so long resisted.

I am comparing She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb and The Lovely Bonesby Alice Sebold and need help with my thesis statement. My theme is of Loss and...

This is a
very broad question (and essay topic), so the first place to start is by narrowing down your
ideas.  Instead of writing a thesis statement for you, I usually help
students get started on forming a thesis for any essay, by posing relevant brainstorming points
and open-ended questions.  Then, I encourage students to continue brainstorming and questioning
until a clear idea presents itself with a line of reasoning that is proven by details in the
text(s).  In the two novels presented above, the themes of loss and grief are portrayed in both,
but in very different ways.

Some ideas for your consideration include the two
narrators and their similarities and differences.  Both are young females who are raped at young
ages, however, this is probably where the similarities stop (as onetells her story from the
afterlife). The fact that each novel is told from the victim's point of view, however, is
another point of comparison that is worth noting.

Also, consider that each
novel portrays very different kinds of loss for each set of characters.  Lovely
Bones focuses on how the loss of a loved one affects surviving family members. 
Undone shows multiple losses in one individual, though death might be the
very least of these.  While Sebold's characters are all dealing with the same loss, the
Undone Dolores experiences loss of innocence, protection, self-worth, a
loved one, and ultimately, herself.

Grief, in both novels (as in real life)
is a biproduct of loss.  Both novels present the five stages of grieving, though again, they are
more obvious in than She's Come Undone.  My
suggestion here is to consider whether you really want to focus this essay on both grief
and loss, as you likely have enough information in one or the other
to write a complete essay.

Given the points above, some questions to consider
(that will help lead you to a thesis statement) include:

1. How does
   each novel's character(s) deal with the idea of grief and/or loss similarly and
   differently?
2. How does each narrator present the
   idea(s) of grief and/or loss?  Through what tone? 


3. What lesson or message is
   the narrator trying to send about the theme(s) of grief and/or loss?

What does this quote (the first line of Ch 22, or Vol II Ch iv.) mean? "Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are interesting...

I would
argue that the quote you cite refers only to Miss Augusta Hawkins who has come to Highbury to
become Mrs. Elton.

The meaning of the quote is that people
automatically...

What is Macbeth's reaction to Duncan's murder? How does Macbeth feel after Duncan's death?

's
strongest reaction to 's murder does not come over him untildiscovers the King's dead body and
raises a general alarm.didn't want to be present when this happened, but the knocking at the
gate forced him to stop playing possum and come down to see why nobody was opening the gate.
Macbeth expresses his feelings in the following lines in Act 2, Scene 3:

Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a
blessed time; for from this instant
There's nothing serious in mortality.
All
is but toys. Renown and grace is dead.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere
lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

He wishes he
were dead. He is overcome with guilt and remorse. He realizes that he has made a terrible
mistake and that he is going to have to live with his guilt and shame for the rest of his life.
Theabout the wine of life suggests that all the wine has been drained from the barrel and only
the bitter residue is left at the bottom. He can't see how anything he...

Which of the following would be an accurate complaint a colonist could make about the British government in 1764? a. The colonists were forced to pay...

(C) is
the correct answer to this question. The Proclamation of 1763 mandated that American settlers
not proceed beyond the Appalachian Mountains, and, perhaps more important, rendered null and
void any land claims that colonists had in the Ohio River Valley. This angered not just
frontiersmen who hoped to settle in the area, but more significantly the wealthy...

How does Mr. Hoopers conduct on the day that "The Minister's Black Veil" takes place contrast with his normal behavior?

I am
not entirely sure that this question isn't a trick question that looks to force the answer to be
a rebuttal. When the story starts, there is something different about
Father Hooper. He is wearing a black veil that covers his face. That is the only difference in
Hooper. Readers are told several times that his behavior was identical to
what it normally was. Notice how the third paragraph describes Mr. Hooper's walk
toward...

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How did Southerners feel about Reconstruction?

Feelings
aboutvaried to some degree in the South. Overall, it was greatly disliked and reviled by white
southerners who felt that their defeat in the Civil War was being rubbed in their faces through
further occupation by the federal army. Most of these southerners also resented the new freedoms
that the former slaves had just acquired. They did as much as they could to keep former slaves
subjugated. This involved instituting Balck Codes, keeping them economically dependant on
whites, and violently intimidating them, sometimes even murdering them.

While most white southerners hated Reconstruction, many had some mixed feelings about it. Before
the end of the Civil War, many Confederates feared that they would be severely punished as
traitors should they be defeated. Under Presidential Reconstruction, they found that these fears
were unneeded as most were pardoned and had their property rights (minus their slaves) restored.
While they still resented the conditions of their...

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What were the steps of Germany's aggressive expansion before WWII?

You can say
that Germany's aggressive expansion started at home.  It began with the following
steps.

• Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by instituting a
  military draft and creating an air force.
• He remilitarizes the...
  

In Tennyson's poem "Ulysses," is Ulysses' audience consistent throughout?

There is
some dispute about the answer to this question. Some scholars argue that, in the first part of
Tennyson's " ," the king is speaking to himself, while in the second part he is
addressing an audience, such as his men. Others might assert that the king of Ithaca is
addressing some kind of audience throughout the poem. While it's difficult to say for sure which
stance is completely correct, I think that the second argument, that Ulysses is consistently
addressing the same...

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What does the young Goodman Brown experience in the forest primeval in "Young Goodman Brown"?

In the forest
primeval,suffers a fall from innocence that is not unlike that of Adam.

When
Brown ventures into the forest in order to test his faith, he loses this faith after witnessing
the black mass and seeing his wife Faith there. As the pink ribbons of his once innocent wife
"flutter lightly down through the air," Goodman cries, "My Faith is gone!"
and he learns the terrible significance of this loss.

Goodman Brown
experiences such a dramatic change in his character because he is initially so confident in his
faith. But, this faith is challenged as one by one the seemingly saintly members of his
community demonstrate that they are in league with the devil. For instance, when Brown happens
upon Goody Cloyse, who has taught him his catechism and who he recognizes as "a very pious
and exemplary dame," he is surprised to see her in the forest. Then, he is shocked when
this "pious old lady" notices the traveler "put forth his staff and touch her
withered neck with what seemed the serpent's tongue" and she cries out, "The
devil!....Ah, forsooth, and is it your worship indeed?" Furthermore, she laughs and engages
in conversation with this traveler who has ironically assumed the form of Brown's
grandfather. 
Later, when Brown sees Deacon Gookin and Goodman Brown, he

...caught hold of a tree for support, being ready to sink down on
the ground, faint and overburdened with the heavy sickness of his heart. He looked up to the
sky, doubting whether there really was a heaven above him.

Of course, the most spiritually devastating sight for Brown is that of his wife Faith
"trembling before that unhallowed altar" at the black mass in the forest. He calls to
her, "Faith! Faith!...look up to heaven and resist the wicked one."
At this
point Goodman Brown loses consciousness. When he does awaken, it is as a changed man. For,
having confronted the universal nature of sinful man in the forest, Goodman Brown becomes
cynical and misanthropic. Henceforth, "misery unutterable" pursues him as he has
completely loss his religious faith and his belief in the goodness of humanity.

 

 

 

 

 

In which act and scene of Romeo and Juliet is the quote: "Stand up, stand up! Stand up and you be a man"?

This line
is spoken by the Nurse in . She comes looking for , andtells her he is upset because he can't
be...

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" what are Jonathan Edwards's views of God, Christ, and humanity?

To Edwards,
God is perfect and cannot stand sin. Edwards refers to sinners as being lowly creatures, like
spiders, whose lives are only preserved through God's grace. This is not to deny that God is
loving; rather, it is to say that God's perfection cannot stand man's imperfections. One
pictures God as a stern judge who does not play favorites when reading the sermon
"."

Edwards's view on humanity is that a human's life is rather
fragile and is only preserved through the mercies of God. Edwards believes that if humanity
received what it deserved, then all humans would be damned due to their wickedness. One views
mankind as being one breath away from damnation when reading the sermon.

Edwards's view on Christ is that Christ's grace and mercies are the only way into Heaven. Christ
offers the only way to salvation, and it is only through his purity and sacrifice that humans
can escape judgment. Edwards calls upon his listeners to accept salvation, to turn...

Explain why a hydrogen atom can become either an ion or a part of a molecule

Hydrogen is
an element with atomic number 1. It has only one electron in its electron configuration that is
`1s^1` . The closest stable electron configuration for an atom with one electron is `1s^2` that
is the electron configuration of the noble gas helium.

When a hydrogen atom
loses an electron its electron configuration is `1s^0` . A hydrogen ion `H^+` cannot exist as
such due to the positive charge it carries. It immediately combines with any negatively charged
particles around it to form ionic bonds.

Hydrogen also forms covalent bonds
where a stable electron configuration of `1s^2` is achieved by the atom sharing an electron with
another atom. For example, two hydrogen atoms combine to form the gas `H_2` where the electrons
of each of the constituent atoms provide one electron so that the each atom has a stable
electron configuration.

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Compare Gilgamesh and Enkidu in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Enkidu is
as loyal, courageous, and determined as Gilgamesh. However, his humility exceeds that of
Gilgamesh.

In the story, Enkidu challenges Gilgamesh's exercise
of jus primae noctis (the right of the first night, where
the king beds a young bride before her husband does). Enkidu asserts that this practice is a
flagrant abuse of a king's power. He challenges Gilgamesh but is overcome by the latter's
superior strength.

Despite his defeat, Enkidu graciously accepts Gilgamesh's
offer of friendship. He acknowledges that Gilgamesh's "strength surpasses the strength of
men," and he willingly pledges to follow him. Although Enkidu is as brave a warrior as
Gilgamesh, he is more cautious in nature. Unlike Gilgamesh, Enkidu prefers to ensure that a
possibly successful plan is in place before he ventures forth. 

When
Gilgamesh voices his resolve to confront Humbaba (the watchman of the cedar forest), Enkidu begs
him to first inform Shamash (the sun god) of his plans. Gilgamesh takes Enkidu's...

Why would a slave whose life on a plantation was very bad fear being sold to a slave-trader?

There are a
couple of reasons for which a slave might express such a fear.

Firstly, there
was the possibility of being forced away from one's family, never to see them again. Though
slaves were not allowed to marry legally, they still partook in marriage ceremonies, referred to
as "jumping the broom," and retained as much love and dedication to their loved ones
as those who were free. Being sold meant being forced to live on a plantation or a small farm
far away from one's spouse or children, sometimes even in another state.

Being obedient did not always help to avoid this. Because black men and women were
regarded as property, they were usually assessed according to monetary value. Slave owners who
required revenue might have been inclined to sell off a man or woman who was an exceptionally
good field hand. An exceptional house slave (e.g., a cook, a wet nurse) might have gotten the
same treatment. A slave's stability was always uncertain.

A second reason for
fearing sale was that, no matter how bad one's master was, there was always the possibility of
being sold to someone much worse. Even when a slave was subjected to a cruel master, living with
him or her for long enough allowed the slave to anticipate the worst moods and to adapt to them;
being sold to someone else required new modes of adaptation. While it was unlikely that a slave
master would murder a slave (though, as Douglass demonstrates in his narrative, not at all
impossible), due to fearing loss of revenue, one could be subjected to forms of cruelty that
would make death seem preferable.

Explain the processes of osmosis, diffusion, active transport, and bulk transport across a cell membrane.

In
some ways, this question is asking about an overall process and then naming specific types of
that process. Both osmosis and diffusion are types of passive transport. This means that both
processes do not require the cell to use ATP energy to make them happen. Both osmosis and
diffusion work because of a difference in the concentration gradient across the semi-permeable
cell membrane. Materials want to move from an area of high concentration to an area of lower
concentration until the concentration levels are at equilibrium. Osmosis is a specific type of
diffusion: the diffusion of water.

Active transport requires a cell to use
energy to move materials. This could be because the cell needs to move something in or out of
the cell membrane against the existing concentration gradient. This can happen at special
"pump" locations within the cell membrane. The sodium-potassium pump is a common
example. You can think of this pump like an airlock on a space craft. One side of pump is open,
and a material is placed inside. The pump will then close that side and open the other side. ATP
energy is required to activate the shape change of the pump, so it is active transport. Bulk
transport occurs when the cell needs to take in or get rid of large materials. The cell will do
this by manipulating the cell membrane to form membrane-bound sacs that pinch off from the cell
membrane. Endocytosis and exocytosis are examples of this kind of active transport
mechanism.

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What does it mean to study English literature in India ? Do you learn any skill at all this course of study?How different would it be to study...

To study
Englishin India is as important as studying English Literature in any other country.  In my
opinion, the grand prize of English Literature can be summed up in one word:  Shakespeare. 
Shakespeare alone (even if you consider him to actually be Kyd or Marlowe) makes English
Literature worthwhile studying.  This is not because England is some kind of extraordinary
country.  No.  It is simply because the literature of Shakespeare (including both his plays AND
his sonnets) is so incredibly profound and so astonishingly universal that all cultures have
been able to identify with the many characters enmeshed within it.  In fact, even if you
consider "English Literature" to be ANY literature written in the English language, .
. . the word Shakespeare can STILL sum it up nicely.

Therefore, there isn't
one specific "skill" that someone learns by reading only English Literature.  (Unless
you want to point to something specifically English, such as the type of sonnet called the
Shakespearean Sonnet.)  It is less a set of "skills" as it is a set of amazing
authors:  Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Austen, and Shaw just to scratch the
surface.  In fact, I would argue that one would be quite handicapped indeed if English
Literature were the ONLY kind of literature taught in high schools and universities. 

Consider the course of study for most high school students in the United States of
America:  9th grade, grammar/writing; 10th grade, American Literature; 11th grade, British
Literature (English Literature); and 12th grade, World Literature.  To be well-read, therefore,
an American student should have knowledge of Indian Literature as well!  And I would hope that
the high school equivalent in India would include a full year of Indian Literature and that
perhaps English and American Literature would be grouped into one, or perhaps even included in a
World Literature class.

I believe any of us would be quite narrow-minded if
we knew literature only from our own country; therefore, kudos to those who stress the
importance of World Literature to expand student knowledge!

Discuss the basic archaeological data used to divide Near Eastern antiquity into epochs such as Neolithic Period, Chalcolithic Period, Early Bronze...

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The Neolithic is characterized by a
wealth of specialized stone tools in the archaeological record. Stone technology originates with
the Paleolithic, and these tool-making techniques were gradually passed from population to
population until it was the general tool of choice. The Neolithic Revolution is heavily tied in
with the Agricultural Revolution, and many of the new types of stone tools we see appearing in
the record around 10,000 BCE are related to the practice of farming. Just as with the
development of stone tool technology, the transition to using more specialized stone tools was
not an instantaneous process, and it gradually moved from the Near East out into Europe and
Asia.

The Chalcolithic  is either considered to
be a very early portion of the Bronze Age, or falling between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The
date for the Chalcolithic is roughly from 5300-1700 BCE. This period is characterized by
copper-working and craft specialization. The production of metal, ceramic,...

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In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, what evidence shows that Tom Robinson is innocent?

Chapters
17 and 18 are the sections in 's novel in which the physical evidence of
Tom Robinson's innocence is revealed. The revelation concerning Tom's physical condition -- in
effect, that his crippled left arm made it impossible for him to have inflicted the bruises on
Mayella Ewell's face and similarly made it extremely unlikely that this destitute African
American could have raped this large, healthy young woman. It is during 's questioning of
Mayella during the trial that Tom's disability is revealed. In the following passage, , the
novel's young but observant narrator describes the defendant's condition:

"Tom Robinsons powerful shoulders rippled under his thin shirt.
He rose to his feet and stood with his right hand on the back of his chair. He looked oddly off
balance, but it was not from the way he was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches
shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. It ended in a small shriveled hand, and from
as far away as the balcony I could see that it was no use to him."

The above passage is fromof Lee's novel. The preceding chapter is
the one in which Atticus questions Mayella's father, the bitter and virulently racist 'white
trash' who we are led to believe in Atticus' cross-examination is the one who is guilty of
beating his daughter. It is inthat Atticus attempts to inject the notion of reasonable doubt
into the jury's mind (despite knowing that Tom was doomed the minute he was accused of raping a
white woman). The clever attorney, and conscience of this story, knows what the reader does not
yet know -- that Tom's left arm is crippled. During his interrogation of Bob Ewell, Atticus asks
the witness to sign his name, thereby displaying for the jury the fact that this ignorant,
violent racist is left-handed, and so was the likely individual who struck Mayella. Scout
provides her observation of her father's tactics in Chapter 17:

". . .Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have
beaten up Mayella. That much I could follow. If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten
mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it.
Sherlock Holmes andwould agree. But Tom Robinson could easily be left-handed,
too."

It is early in the following chapter, 18, that
the earlier passage describing Tom Robinson's disability is provided. It is the revelation of
Tom's disability, combined with the reputation of Bob Ewell, that provides the greatest evidence
of the former's innocence. That Tom would be convicted anyway, however, is simply a sign of the
times depicted in Lee's novel. In the American South of the 1930s (as well as the centuries
preceding that period and the decades that followed) simply being accused of raping a white
woman was sufficient to ensure the African American male's conviction.

How does the whirligig affect Stephanie in Chapter 2?

In chapter
two, Stephanie, a girl of thirteen or fourteen, is the narrator. Her best friend, Alexandra, is
taking her to the whirligig to teach her about the power of thoughts and visualization.
Stephanie is described as pragmatic and unromantic with a scientific point of view about the
world. She is socially awkward and sees herself as "puny in every department, with freckles
and oily, drab, brown hair."

Conversely, Alexandra, whom Stephanie
describes as a "mush-headed dreamer," is pretty, popular, and has already pledged her
undying love to her boyfriend. As the pair trudge through the snow toward the whirligig,
Stephanie's comments are sarcastic and cynical. However, despite her outward protests, she
secretly hopes there might be truth in what Alexandra says.

Her hopes are
revealed toward the end of the chapter. As she and Alexandra sit together quietly, Stephanie
realizes someone is watching them and wonders if it's possible that Alexandra's power of
visualization really works:

Disbelieving, fearful,
hopeful, I slowly turned my head and stared.

The chapter
ends with anfrom Stephanie. Three years have passed, and while she didn't become the buxom,
long-haired adventuress that Alexandra described, Stephanie did meet a boy who turned out to be
"her heart's joy." She is able to believe in things that can't be proven with facts,
and she can embrace feelings of hope and joy and love.

How would one describe Montresor's character in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

The easiest
way to describe Montresor would be as vengeful, single-minded, and unforgiving. We know from the
very beginning of the story that he is intent on exacting revenge for the injuries and
insults of Fortunato, and that he is patient, willing to wait at length for an opportunity
to arise to allow him to achieve his end. He does not once waver in his plan to murder
Fortunato, hesitating only once as he is bricking up the recess in which Fortunato is chained;
and even then he hesitates not out of indecision, but out of fear that Fortunato has escaped his
bindings. And consider the Montresor familys motto: Nemo me impune
lacessitno one attacks me with impunity. Here we have confirmation that the man is
vengeful, and learn that this vengeance is rooted in his familys values and history. The man is
proudhe comes, after all, from a great and numerous family, with a reputation that he is
burdened with upholding.

Given Montresors unerring performance in tricking
Fortunato into his cellar and his chosen method of murdering his friend, we can confidently
say that Montresor is a creative man, and clever. His tactics involve a good amount of knowledge
about his acquaintanceshe knows that Fortunato, a quack in many ways, is a genuine connoisseur
of wine, and that he believes Luchresi to be an ignoramus who cannot tell Amontillado from
Sherry. Montresor plays off of Fortunatos own biases and pride to lure him deeper and deeper
into his trap, until there is no escape. The fact that Fortunato is led very deep into
Montresors cellar without having any doubts or suspicions about the events at hand is testament
to Montresors acting abilitiesall this time, harboring the most sinister of intentions, he
manages to disarm Fortunato and maintain a friendly demeanor. Also, we know that Montresor is
never punished for his crime, which indicates that he feels little to no guilt, and that he has
a very strong command of his emotions, such that he can keep his secret and raise no suspicions
for decades after the crime is committed.

Montresor is a scheming and
intelligent man, patient and careful. He is true to himself and loyal to his familys legacy,
unafraidindeed, determinedto do anything necessary to free his name from what he perceives as
unjust insult. He is strong-willed and innovative, utilizing the resources available to him to
maximum effect. And, of course, he is a murderous villain.

Advantages Of Commercialization

There are
several different ways the term "commercialization" is used. The advantages and
disadvantages of it depend on the type of commercialization to which you are referring. One area
is commercialization of underdeveloped nations or regions. Others are commercialization of
technologies and education. 

One area the term is applied to is
commercialization of technologies. Take, for example biotechnology and medical research. When
academic scientists are supported by government grants, they can focus on the basic science, on
making discoveries that can benefit all of humanity. Many government grants require that the
recipients make their results freely and publicly available. Commercialization is the design,
development, manufacture, and marketing of "products based on new technologies"
(" href="https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1988/8807/880704.PDF">Commercialization,"
Princeton.edu). The advantage of commercializing this research is that it means a boost to the
economy. The downside is that corporations aren't in the business of benefiting humanity but in
the business of making a profit. This may mean focusing on the most profitable lines of research
rather than on affordable cures for diseases and on keeping information proprietary to maximize
profit from a monopoly on it rather than sharing it where it could be useful.

Another area of concern in North America is commercialization of education. Imagine
something innocuous, such as a soft drink company, having an exclusive contract to sell and
advertise sodas on a university campus. While the university benefits from the extra revenue, it
might have a stifling effect on scientists researching the bad effects of soft drinks on health
or the possibility that Beverage X contains cancer-causing chemicals. Any form of
commercialization of education helps fund it but also threatens to limit intellectual
freedom. 

What was life like in the 1990's?

First, we
must remember that life in the 1990s was not the same for everyone just as life today is not the
same for everyone in the United States.  Different people will have had different experiences of
the 1990s because of their age, their sex, their social class, their race, and many other
variables.

That said, the 1990s in the United States were generally a
relatively prosperous and optimistic time.  One reason for this was the position of the United
States in the world.  In late 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and by late 1991, the Soviet Union was
officially dissolved.  This meant that the US had won the Cold War and that Americans no longer
felt threatened by the Soviets and their nuclear missiles.  Since terrorism had not yet arisen
as a major issue for most Americans, the world seemed safer for much of the 1990s.

Another reason for this was economic.  Although there were worries during the early
1990s that Japan would come to dominate the world economically and that the US was falling
behind, these were generally forgotten by mid-decade as the US economy started to boom.  This
was an era that was prosperous enough that the government had its first budget surpluses in
decades.  This, too, helped Americans to feel optimistic.

Finally, there were
technological changes that made Americans feel as if life was progressing.  The huge boom in
personal computers and the beginnings of the internet revolution were chief among these.  These
technological changes, when combined with the changes in foreign policy and the economy, allowed
many Americans to feel that life was getting better.  Of course, not all Americans felt this
way, but there is no way to accurately capture the experience of all people so we must
generalize about the majority.

What is a battle royal and what is the narrator's attitude toward the battle in which he must participate? Why?

In
"," the battle is an entertainment the young black men, who thought they came to be
honored for their high school achievements, have to provide for the white business leaders,
called the "big shots."

First, they have to box blindfoldeda
terrifying experience.

Next, (fake) gold coins and bills are scattered across
a carpet. As the white spectators watch, the young black men must scramble for the money on the
carpet. The nasty trick, which they don't realize at first, is that the carpet is electrified,
so they are shocked while they are on it.

The battle royal is to withstand
the shocks to gather the money while the whites enjoy the black boys' pain. What the young men
have to battle is not only the physical pain of being electrocuted, but also the pain of
humiliation. This battle is merely a symbol of the larger battle black people have to fight for
recognition and acceptance as fully human in a society where the deck is stacked against them.
As the grandfather says on...

Define direct and indirect materials and list the reasons why a large company would have two separate departments to manage the purchasing of each?

Direct materials
are those that are used directly in the production process and are reflected in the final
product. For example, timber would be a direct material in the production of furniture. In this
case, timber is the primary material and must be part of the final product. Further, the cost of
direct materials can be accurately identified and allocated to the cost of production.

Indirect materials are those that are
used in the production of the final product indirectly. They cannot be directly measured and
conveniently charged to the cost of production. For example, in furniture production, wood,
glue, and nails may be classified as indirect materials.

Why They Are Assigned To Different Departments

1. Cost implications: In most cases, direct materials are more costly than indirect
materials. Since the costs of direct materials can easily be calculated and ascertained, they
are usually charged to a cost centre or a work order.

2.
Quantities to be ordered: Indirect materials may not be purchased in large quantities. For this
reason, they are mostly treated as miscellaneous and charged to overhead accounts.

3. Cost determination: Indirect materials are not easily
quantifiable. Therefore, they cannot be purchased in bulk like direct materials.

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In Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, why does Benjamin Rush enlist the help of the Free African Society to treat the fever victims?

It tells
you something about the primitive state of medicine at the time that it was genuinely believed,
by a qualified medical practitioner, that African Americans were immune from yellow fever. Yet
that it precisely what Dr. Rush believes. His understandingor lack thereofof this terrible
condition forces him to take desperate measures. For white people to enlist the help of
African-Americans at that time would've been considered quite desperate indeed.

In addition to scientific ignorance, Dr. Rush is motivated by racism. He sees African
Americans as strange and mysterious, not fully human by comparison with white folk. This is the
main factor in his absurd conclusion that black people are immune from yellow fever and can
therefore be called upon to help treat yellow fever victims and bury the
dead.

In addition to his brother Allie's death, what factors contribute to Holden's downfall/ depression?

has a deep
desire for connection with other people, but he does not have the skills to make genuine
connections in most cases. He is very sensitive to injustice but, again, doesn't have the skills
to combat it effectively. He is perceptive and intelligent, but his personality is a bad match
with the boarding-school environment, at least when he is in his adolescent state of depression
and grief. He's inadequately connected with his family, especially his parents. Finally, his own
coping strategies make things worse for him. 

I write the paragraph above
with Holden as the subject of the...

What is the direct characterization of Monsieur Loisel in "The Necklace"?

Directoccurs
when an author tells you what a character is like though narration.shows
you through action what a character is like.

In "," Maupassant
tells us that Monsieur Loisel is a minor clerk with a government ministry. We learn that he is
"exultant" and expects his wife to be pleased when he comes home with an invitation
for a great social event thrown by the Ministry of Public Instruction he works for. The narrator
also tells us that Monsieur Loisel is "stupefied" and at a loss when he is wife begins
to cry and tells him she has nothing to wear to such an event. We are told he is
"heartbroken." We also learn that when his wife asks for 400 francs to equip herself
for the party, he sacrifices the gun he was planning to buy with the money so that she can have
new clothes.

From all of this, we learn that Monsieur Loisel loves his wife
and wants very much for her to be happy. He knows she is discontent and makes sacrifices to try
to please her. He comes across as a very kind and upright person.

What are the poetic devices in the ballad "A Legend of the Northland" by Phoebe Cary?

There are
a number of poetic devices throughout "A Legend of the Northland" by Phoebe Carey. One
that stands out the most is a , which is a comparison between two things (that are not usually
compared to each other) using the words "like" or "as."

In this poem there is a simile on lines 7-8: "the children look like bear's cubs /
In their funny, furry clothes." This is not only comparing children to bear cubs but it is
also giving the reader a better understanding of just how cold it is. The children must have
many heavy layers on to stay warm. Similarly, the simile "thin as a wafer" on line 35
helps to understand the way in which a cake looks, and "black as a coal in the flame"
on line 60 helps the reader to understand the darkness of the woman's new form when she is
changed into a woodpecker.

The poem also contains a number of sound devices.
For example, the lines "And being faint with fasting, / For the day was almost done"
contain, which is the repetition of consonant...

Find in Newtons the equilibrium reading of the top spring scale. A 1.19 kg beaker containing 1.86 kg of oil with a density of 916 kg/m^3 rests on a...

A 1.19 kg
beaker containing 1.86 kg of oil with density 916 kg/m^3 is resting on a scale. A 2.2 kg block
of iron is suspended from a spring scale and completely submerged in the oil. The density of
iron is equal to 7.86*10^3 kg/m^3. The volume of a 2.2 kg block of iron is 2.2/7.86*10^3 =
2.79*10^-4 m^3. The mass of 2.79*10^-4 m^3 of oil is 2.79*10^-4*916 = 0.2563 kg.

When the block of iron is submerged in the oil, the weight of the iron block is
decreased by an amount equal to the weight of the oil displaced. The weight of the oil displaced
is 0.2563*9.8

The spring scale from which the iron block is suspended
initially shows displays a weight of 2.2*9.8 = 21.56 N. After the block is submerged in the oil
the weight displayed is equal to 21.56 - 0.2563*9.8 = 19.05 N

Why does Chillingworth "seek no vengeance, plot no evil against" Hester? Who, according to Chillingworth, is most deserving of vengeance?

seeks no
vengeance and plots no evil againstbecause he knows she will have to live with her sin in a very
public way, and this is more than enough revenge for him.  Even if I imagine a scheme of
vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live--than to give thee
medicines against all harm and peril of life--so that this burning shame may still blaze upon
thy bosom?"  Chillingworth knows that keeping Hester alive means that she will suffer every
day for the rest of her life.  Why, then, would he seek vengeance against her?

The person who is really deserving of vengeance, according to Chillingworth, is Hesters
partner in sin.  He says: Between thee and me, the scale hangs fairly balanced. But, Hester,
the man lives who has wronged us both! Who is he?  In Chillingworths opinion, both he and Hester
have been wronged by her partner, who is refusing to stand up and take the
blame.

What is n (1000)/(120.25)=(1800)/(n*373)

You need
to perform the cross multiplication such that:

`1000*n*373 =
120.25*1800`

You may divide by 100 both...

What is ironic about Oedipus' claim that he is "stranger to the story" in Oedipus Rex?

is seeking himself. All
the people Oedipus seeks information from only have information about him. The stories he
insists on hearing fromand the shepherd hinge on him and only him. 

This is
theof Oedipus being a "stranger to the story". He does not know the story, but it is
his own story.

As he seeks the source of the plague on Thebes, he seeks
himself. As he attempts to discover the murderer of the former king of Thebes, Laius, he
discovers that he murdered the man, his father, on the road to Thebes. 

...by demanding that others tell him all they know he is forced to
confront the hideous facts of his patricide and incest.

He insists on his own innocence and good intentions, yet he can only be said to have
good intentions, not innocence. When the truth of his own story comes home to Oedipus, he is
overwhelmed. In the end he is no longer a stranger to his story, but he becomes a stranger to
his family, blinding himself and leaving home to become a wanderer, punishing himself by binding
himself to his story and severing himself from all else.

The suitors have been trying to court Odysseus's wife and have eaten his livestock and taken advantage of his property. Though they are ready to pay...

The
question of why Odysseus slaughters the suitors is an engaging question and one usually taken
for granted. Throughout the Odyssey, one big theme that modern readers have
difficulty engaging with is the guest law, or guest-friendship (xenia, in
Greek). In some ways, the Odyssey is really a story about guests and hosts,
and what is the proper conduct between them. Antinous and the rest of the suitors demonstrate
bad guest conduct early and often. As early as book 2, Telemachus holds an official assembly and
asks the suitors to leave, to which Antinous calls his would-be son-in-law an insolent
braggart. Even when the best prophet in Ithaca warns them that Odysseus will return soon,
Eurymachus, another suitor, threatens him:

Go home, old
man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them ... We shall go back and
continue to eat up Telemachus estate without paying him.

is making the point that this are not how guestssuitors or otherwiseare supposed to act. They
have overstayed their welcome, and they know it. They are insolent, rude to Telemachus and his
mother, and display . It is difficult to make the argument the suitors deserved to die, because
xenia was a huge cultural concept in Ancient Greece and is not so much of
one today. It is akin to trying to explain seppuku among the samurai class
or bullfighting in modern-day Spain. Some concepts that are steeped in culture and tradition in
one place are difficult to explain in others.

In case there was any room for
doubt that the suitors needed to die, Homer gives one more instance of Antinous (who is the
worst of the suitors, but also a sort of synecdoche for all of them) acting unruly. When
Odysseus returns home and walks into his palace disguised as a beggar, Antinous does not greet
him with propriety but slings insults at him:

Have we not
vagabonds enough without him, nuisances of beggars enough to mar our feast?

He goes on to hurl a footstool at him, which is entirely
inappropriate.

There are other explanations for why Odysseus kills the
suitors that can be argued outside of xenia. For one, Athena seemed to be
directing Odysseus toward it. Perhaps at that point in the story, the weary Odysseus has been
consumed by violence. He is also the king of Ithaca, and having an entire generation of young
men who lived in his palace, ate his food, disrespected the prince, and made advances on the
queen undermines his authority and does not bode well for the future of the kingdom.

It should be noted, along with the suitors, he also hangs twelve maids who were
assaulted by the suitors. If you would like further reading on them, The
Penelopiad is a fantastic short novel by Margaret Atwood.

How was Spinoza's experience as a Jew relevant in shaping his thinking about state and God? Is he more of a Jewish thinker or secular thinker?

Baruch
Spinoza, also known as Benedictus de (E)Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher, largely misunderstood
until after his death. His work would influence renowned philosophers and scientists, even
Albert Einstein. Spinoza's attempts to quantify thought and from it to deduce truths has been a
source of much debate and criticism as he explores God and Nature in an unconventional
manner. 

The Jewish community wherein Spinoza grew up consisted mainly of
Jews whose ancestors had fled during the Portuguese Inquisition, converted to Christianity to
avoid persecution, and then converted back to Judaism. Spinoza's grandfather was one such person
and Spinoza's father converted back to Judaism. Spinoza's upbringing was considered fairly
typical, his father being a warden of the synagogue and Jewish school although he was exposed to
some less-than-traditional teachings. However, despite his great promise, he never completed any
advanced learning of the Torah and the...

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What is "1984" by George Orwell about?

The book is
also about the corruption of language under the direction of the state.  Creation of the
Newspeak dictionary is referred to often in the book.  This dictionary attetmpts to limit the
amount of words available to the people (rather than increase the number as in our society). 
The goal is to rid the language of any words (thoughts) that could work against the state.  We
do all of our thinking through words (I know that some people would say that we do it through
images, but I think that it comes down to words in the end).  Many of these words have
temperatures; all of them point to something.  In the case of concrete nouns (pens, trees, etc),
the correspondence is usually clear; no one would call a car a pen.  When it comes to the
non-concrete nouns, it gets a lot tougher; what does "love" refer to?  What does
"loyalty" refer to?  What does "freedom" refer to?  If these words can be
taken out of the language, or made to point to something the STATE wants them to point to, then
our ability to think has been limited, and the less we can think the more we can be controlled. 
It's more suble than beating us, but it may work all the better.  After all, what's left when
our "ownlife" has become a bad thing?

If you want to read more of
's thoughts about this, I refer you to the article below.

Talk about the irony reflected in Helene Johnsons Sonnet to a Negro with reference to the images used.

Thein this poem is
created as a result of the speaker's appreciation for the young black man she addresses. She
uses such positive words to describe him: magnificent,
perfect, towering, his voice is
rich, his laughter bold, his entire personage
splendid. She can see (visual ) his beauty, the way he chooses his own
path, refusing to "toil and sweat for labor's sake" as others do, refusing to wring
his hands and grasp their gold. He will not "urge ahead" his hard-to-please feet for
the same mundane reasons they do.

Such a magnificent person must surely
impress anyone and everyone he meets, right? That is what we would expect, and yet, she creates
other images which suggest that other peoplewhite peoplewill not see him as splendid. They will
see his "dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate"; they will view him as
"incompetent" and "barbaric." For them, "Scorn will efface each
footprint that [he] make[s]."...

How do chainsaws contribute to the destabilization of Earth's atmosphere and climate?

I suppose
that chainsaws contribute to the destabilization of thebecause they allow people to quickly and
easily cut down trees. While all plants help to regulate the levels of carbon and oxygen in the
atmosphere, trees are the largest of plants and contribute to this process more than any other
terrestrial plant.

Chainsaws, and logging, in general, has led to the
destruction of forests across the globe. Forests are a huge carbon sink. Trees and other plants
absorb carbon from the atmosphere and using the process of photosynthesis converts it into plant
material. When trees are cut down, less of this carbon can be absorbed from the atmosphere and
stored inside these plants. Also, once forests have been removed from the landscape, the exposed
ground absorbs more heat than the leaf cover would, further leading to temperature rise.

There also is some greenhouse emission output from chainsaws themselves.
While electric chainsaws do exist, most are gas-powered. Emission standards on smaller
appliances are not as strict as they are on large vehicles and the emissions produced by
gas-powered chainsaws do add to the overall amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Furthermore, the
emissions from chainsaws tend to put out relatively large particulate matter into the
air.

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I am trying to find examples of obsessive love in the Poe's Annabel Lee? I see the love but am struggling as to whether it is crazy and obsessional.

When
taken out of a natural context, I have a tendency to believe that most love poems
"sound" a bit on the obsessive side.  Due to this, it is a difficult to read if this
is the exact intent of the poem.  Perhaps, love, itself, is a topic which lends itself to
obsessive tendencies.  Having said all of this, I think there are some lines in " "
that can reflect some aspects of an extremely consuming and all encompassing love.  The closing
lines to the first stanza might indicate as much, "And this maiden...

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what does the Misfit mean by his remark, "She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot...

In 's world
of, grace is often obtained from an act of evil, or through the agency of violence that acts as
a catalyst for spiritual epiphany. In the case of the egotistical grandmother who puts her own
desires ahead of any of her family members, it is only after her son Bailey and his wife and
children are killed and she herself is faced with death that she looks up at the Misfit and
recognizes their commonality, "Why....You're...

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why did Europeans conquer the Americas instead of Americans conquering Europe?

In
Chapter 3 of ,explains why the Europeans were able to conquer the Americas
rather than the other way around. He begins the chapter with a close analysis ofFrancisco
Pizarro's defeat of the Inca King Atahuallpa in 1532, despite the Spanish forces being vastly
outnumbered.

The first element underlying Pizarro's victory was superior
military technology. This included the use of horses, guns, and steel swords and shields, which
not only were vastly more effective than Inca weaponry but also terrified many opponents.

Just as important as military technology was the spread of European
diseases such as smallpox, typhoid, and...

In Animal Farmthere are seven commandments of which one says: 'All animals are equal'. Give three examples that explain how that specific...

The
first example is found soon after the Rebellion with the disappearance of the milk and the
windfall apples. When the cows have not been milked for some time and their udders are filled to
bursting point, the pigs take to milking them, resulting in five frothy, pails of milk. The
animals all wondered what was to happen to the milk. When they returned from work, they found
that the milk had disappeared. On a query, it was discovered that the milk was to be mixed in
the pigs' mash. If all animals were to be treated equally the milk should have been shared
equally amongst all the animals.

When windfall apples were discovered, these
were also claimed by the pigs. All the apples thereafter would then be reserved solely for the
pigs. Once again, the idea of all animals being equal was ignored in favour of the
pigs.

Another example is when the pigs moved into the farmhouse. The other
animals had to make do with sleeping in the barn. The pigs were comfortably ensconced in the
Jones' beds. It was clear that the pigs afforded themselves certain privileges, which were
denied the other animals. For there to have been equality, all the animals should have been
afforded exactly the same privileges that the pigs had.

A third example is
the fact that the pigs never performed any physical labour. The arduous physical tasks were
performed by all the other animals, under the supervision of the pigs. The pigs gave
instructions and commandeered the rest of the animals, without lifting a single trotter to
actually work.

Obviously, to avoid any dissent from the other animals,was
sent byto firstly, change the commandments so that the animals would be confused, since they
could not clearly remember the original commandments due to poor intellect, and, secondly,
Squealer made it his duty to explain to the animals why the pigs were so favoured. In the case
of the milk and apples he mentioned that these were 'brain food' for the pigs. Since they had to
run the farm and plan everything, they had to keep up their intellectual capacity. For them to
fail in this most complicated task would mean that Jones would come back. Obviously none of the
animals wanted that and accepted Squealer's explanation.

When the pigs slept
in beds, the commandment was changed from: 'No animal shall sleep in a bed' to, No animal shall
sleep in a bed with sheets. This appeased the animals since they
could not remember the original version. Furthermore, it became custom to accept that the pigs
would supervise and lead, since it was a known fact that they were the most intelligent animals
on the farm and no one complained about them not performing any physical labour.

And so it came to be that the pigs exploited the other animals so that they could enjoy
lives of privilege and luxury, just as Jones did. The other animals were no better off than they
were during Jones' reign. 

 

 

What are some examples of superstitious beliefs? A superstitious belief is the irrational belief than an object,or action, and an...

There are so many
superstitions.Friday the thirteenth is a scary day.Black cats are bad luck.Don't walk under a
ladder.Breaking a mirror brings you seven years bad luck.There are examples from every culture,
and they are somewhat similar to these.]]>

Describe Blanche, Stella and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Blanche
is the central character and appears in every scene. The action of the play revolves almost
entirely around her. 

Blanche is a classic Southern Belle, to all appearances
genteel and ladylike and chaste, the representative of an old and decaying aristocracy which is
being rapidly displaced by the social changes of early twentieth-century America. Without a home
of her own, Blanche has been cast adrift and struggles to cope. She normally hides her anxieties
under a somewhat domineering exterior as she attempts to impose her ideas on her sister Stella
and brother-in-law Stanley. She is particularly locked in a contest of wills with Stanley who
deeply resents her interference.

As the play wears on Blanche's failings are
exposed; contrary to the high ideals and lofty morals which she espouses, she lies, drinks and
sleeps around. Therefore she is nothing like as refined as she pretends to be. But her
vulnerability also becomes clear; she has never recovered emotionally from the shock of losing
her young husband to suicide years ago, and she also had to face the burden, alone, of trying to
keep the old family plantation going. In the end, her hysterical tendencies, Stanleys brutality,
and Mitchs rejection overwhelm her and she breaks down completely. It is hard not to feel pity
for her by the end of the play, even if she has brought a lot of her troubles upon
herself.

Stella is younger and quieter than Blanche, and generally appears
uncomfortable in her sisters presence. The main difference between the sisters is summed up in
their own words when Stella remarks: €˜I never anything like your energy, Blanche, to which
Blanche replies, €˜Well, I never had your beautiful self-control (scene 1)

Stella often appears rather cowed by Blanche when they are talking together, but she is
quietly resolute. She never wavers in her love and support for Stanley despite Blanche insisting
that he is an entirely unsuitable husband. Being of a more conciliatory and calmer nature than
either her husband or sister, she attempts to mediate between them. She does genuinely love her
sister, and tries to make her comfortable as she can, but in the end she cannot cope with
her.

 Stanley, quite unlike his wife Stella, is of working-class background,
 very much the rough, down-to-earth, plain-speaking, uncultured type. His boorish behaviour and
lack of manners attract Blanches criticism. Being dominant and hot-tempered, he does not stand
for this, and ultimately crushes Blanche for daring to challenge his control.

There does seem to be a certain unpleasantly cruel streak in Stanley in his treatment
of Blanche, and he is undoubtedly crude, but he is also capable of great tenderness towards his
wife Stella. Although from such different backgrounds, he and Stella are extremely compatible -
something quite beyond Blanche's comprehension. It is true, though, that Blanche does appear to
be somewhat attracted as well as repelled by him. 

What are some textual examples of societal expectations for marriage in Jane Austen's Emma?

The social
expectation in is that women will marry. Anything else is unacceptable.
Women are also expected to marry a person of their own class.

Harriet shows
how unacceptable it is for a woman not to marry when she expresses deep shock at Emma's
declaration that she will never marry. To be an old maid like Miss Bates is, to Harriet, a
terrible fate. Emma actually agrees with her, saying it is ridiculous to be unmarried and poor,
but that she, Emma, will be an unmarried older woman with money, so people will fear and respect
her. But in the end, threatened with spinsterhood when she finds out the Jane Fairfax is
marrying Frank and when she fears Mr. Knightley will marry Harriet, she wants desperately to
marry Mr. Knightley herself. Partly...

White european man is very much related to colonialism europeans felt that they are center of civilization? Explain. Give example according Robinson...

Many
scholars believe that 's "" is largely about colonialism.

In the
book, Crusoe systematically subjugates the island on which he is lost.  All through his own
efforts, he makes the tools that he needs to build himself a home with ten foot
walls...

What types of desire are illustrated in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams?

The
biggest desire in the play is Blanche's. She desires more than anything else to be accepted,
find a place in the world, be loved, be cherished, and be cared for. Yet she is destined never
to find it, as she's much too delicate and psychologically fragile, and that's before she even
arrives to stay with Stanley and Stella. Subsequent events simply make matters worse, much
worse. Her desire is so strongdesperate might be a better wordthat she constantly finds herself
involved with men who aren't right for her, for one reason or another. It looks for a brief
moment as if Mitch might finally be the man for her, but once he finds out about her sordid
past, he treats her as badly as all other men in her life ever have.

Stanley
desires to be lord and master of his own home, to dominate and control all those around him.
That's why he perceives Blanche as such a threat; she comes into his life and disrupts its
natural rhythms. Now it's Blanche who's the center of attention, not him,...

In William Wordsworth's poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," how does the speaker sense the "mighty heart" of London by viewing, from a Romantic...

In his poem
titled Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802,writes in a Romantic mode about the
mighty heart of the City of London. He does so in a number of ways, including the
following:

• In line 1, the speaker immediately mentions Earth €“
  a fact that already helps suggest that this may be a Romantic poem. Whereas poets of earlier
  centuries often emphasized God, heaven, and the afterlife, the Romantics tended to be concerned
  with the visible world before them. The brief reference to God at the very end of this poem
  might almost seem perfunctory; certainly Christian themes are not stressed in this work as they
  might have been in a poem written, say, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.


• In the rest of line 1, the speaker shows enthusiasm for beauty €“ another common
  feature of Romantic poetry.
• In line 2, the speaker posits the existence of
  persons whose souls are Dull €“ persons precisely the opposite of the Romantic, with...
  

What is an example of imagery in Romeo and Juliet?

There is a
great deal ofin Shakespeare's . When trying to find examples of imagery in
this or any other Shakespeare play, it is a good idea to look to the major monologues. In these
speeches, characters are generally alone as they examine their own emotions, which allows
imagery and poetic language to abound.

In and ,some
prime examples can be found in 's "Queen Mab" speech in act 1, scene 4, and in several
of Juliet's monologues: in "Gallop Apace" in act 3, scene 2, she entreats nighttime to
come faster so she and Romeo can consummate their marriage. In doing so, she employs lots of
imagery of light versus dark and night versus day. In her "What if this mixture do not work
at all?"in act 4, scene 3, in which she fears she will either die from 's potion or wake up
too early in her family's tomb, she uses lots of death imagery to express her fears.

A specific example from Mercutio's speech, in which he argues that
Romeo's...

In the novel 1984, Winston's memories of his mother include love, sacrifice, and loyalty. What has replaced these qualities in his present world?

Love
hasn't been replaced as much as it has been appropriated by the party, as has loyalty. Whereas
once people within a family had love for one another, now people are expected to put their
loyalty to Big Brother and the party above all else. That is why children are feared by their
parents and why people are allowed to marry as long as they have the proper attitude towards sex
(they are not supposed to like it, but are supposed to do their duty for the party). There are
not supposed to be any intimate relationships because intimacy and love divide people's
loyalties. The party could not have absolute control over people who put their loved ones and
family first. As for sacrifice, that has been eliminated, for no one has any reason to sacrifice
because no one has anyone (apart from Big Brother, that is) that he loves more than himself.

What is the only thing stopping someone from being dropped into the pit of hell at any moment?

In Jonathon Edwards'
sermon "" there is only one thing which he states keeps a person from being dropped
into the pit of hell at any moment.

Reminding his parishioners the God is the
one who holds each and every person over the pits of hell, Edwards states that it is God, alone,
who can keep mankind safe. Edwards states that God looks upon mankind as being worth nothing.
Thisused to detail God's hold on man is demeaning:

The
God that holds...

At the end of WWII, why was the fate of Poland so important to the US and the Soviet Union?

The fate of
Poland was very important to both the United States and the Soviet Union, though the Soviet
Union managed to maintain control of Poland. The war against the Nazis had left Stalin's army
quite weak, and he was aware of Western hostility against his regime. Stalin desired a buffer
state between the Soviet Union and the West. Stalin even envisioned this as early as 1939, when
the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland at the same time the Nazis invaded the western side.
Stalin ordered many captured Polish officers killed in the Katyn Forest, as these people would
form the leadership of any new Polish state. Stalin did not back the Polish government in exile
in London, but rather a puppet state which he appointed after the Red army "liberated"
the country. Stalin's desire for a weak Poland may have also stemmed from a small war fought
between Poland the newly formed Soviet Union from 1919€“1921.

Roosevelt,
while enjoying the support during the war of a very vocal Polish lobby,...

Why does Obierika think the clan is falling apart?

thinks that the clan is falling apart
because of the demoralizing influence of the white man and particularly the new religion he has
brought. Whensays they should fight the white men and drive them out, Obierika replies sadly
that it is too late. Too many of the clan have joined the Christian church and now they have
begun to join the government administration too. It would be easy to drive the white men out of
Umuofia, he says. There are only two of them. However, he continues:

But what of our own people who are following their way and have been
given power? They would go to Umuru and bring the soldiers, and we would be like
Abame.

Abame has always been the subject of ridicule for
Okonkwo and Obierika. It is an inferior clan where titles are worth two cowries and where titled
men such as they climb trees and prepare the food for their wives. However, the story of the
destruction of Abame, achieved by only three white men with guns, is a powerful and terrifying
lesson for Umuofia. Obierika now believes that their clan too may be destroyed, now that they
have been weakened by the insidious influence of the white man's religion and
government.

What are some of the main themes in the novel Emma? Discuss each one briefly.

's
is, like most of her novels, a strongly-stated commentary on the social
mores of the time. One of the strongest themes is that of integrity. Emma conducts herself with
integrity most of the time, but when, in a moment of impatience, she blurts out a cruel remark
to a friend, the people present are shocked and the target of the remark is
humiliated.

An additional theme illustrated by this occurrence is that of the
unspoken rule of polite society to behave kindly towards those in less-privileged social
classes. The woman insulted by Emma is of a lower social class, and so it is seen as doubly
cruel, since she cannot easily rise above her station, and Emma, as a well-bred woman, is
expected to behave in a more genteel way.

How does Harry Potter change or evolve throughout the first book, Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone? If you could include a quote, that would be...

Harry Potter
not only grows in confidence, but with that confidence, he also learns to value his voice and
ideas. At the start of the novel, Harry generally expresses himself in short phrases; he
realizes that his ideas are unwanted by his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin, Dudley. This
is seen at the start of chapter two when Aunt Petunia knocks repeatedly on Harry's closet door.
She demands,"Get up! Now! . . . Are you up yet" to which, after several repetitions of
her demand, he responds, "Nearly" (ch. 2). He does not elaborate, primarily because no
one wants to hear his thoughts. This is continually revealed in the early chapters of the novel.
For example, when asked to "look after the bacon" for Dudley's birthday breakfast,
Harry simply groans (ch. 2). His aunt hears his noise, asks what he said, and he replies,
"Nothing, nothing." She doesn't urge an answer because she does not truly care what he
said.  Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Dudley have the...

What is the difference between a reptile and an amphibian?

Reptiles are
cold-blooded animals.  They typically lay hard shelled eggs and have skin covered with scales or
a bony external plate. They either have four legs or descended from four limber ancestors. Some
examples of reptiles are: alligators, crocodiles, caimans, gavials, lizards, snakes, turtles,
and tortoises. The science dealing with reptiles is called herpetology.

Amphibians are animals that can live on land or in water. They spend part of their
lives under water breathing through gills and part of their lives on land breathing with lungs.
Amphibians are characterized by glandular skin and no scales. Most amphibians lay eggs in the
water.  Most have four legs but some have no legs. Some examples of amphibians are: frogs,
toads, salamanders, and newts.

What is the significance of the setting in "The Outsider" a.k.a. "The Stranger"?

The
setting in "" or "The Outsider" is the desert country of Algeria in northern
Africa. The main character is a foreign Frenchman. First and foremost, the setting takes place
in Meursault's (the Frenchman) non-native country. He is, obviously, from France, and is quite
literally a stranger. Beyond that, however, Algeria stands as not just a foreign country, but a
predominantly Muslim country that does not fit the standard type of western countries. This
makes the cultural divide even greater and makes it more difficult for Meursault to fit
in.

The fact that it takes place in a desert is also important, as many of
Camus's works take place in...

How does Chillingworth bear guilt in The Scarlet Letter?

seems not to really
feel any guilt for pursuing the soul of his wife's one-time lover and the father of her child,
the Reverend Mr. . He feels that he is perfectly justified in punishing the man who has wronged
bothand himself. However, the more Chillingworth focuses on his plot for revenge, the more his
outer appearance begins to change, indicating the degeneration of his inner self as well. Of
Chillingworth, the narrator says that

At first, his
expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like. Now, there was something ugly and evil in
his face, which they had not previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight,
the oftener they looked upon him. According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had
been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be
expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke.

In
other words, the people in town begin to associate Chillingworth with hell, some even believing
that he is the Devil himselfor at least an emissary of the Deviland they fear that their
minister is being haunted and hunted by him.

In the poem "No Men Are Foreign," written by James Kirkup, who are being referred to as brothers, and what two things are common to all?

In James
Kirkup's poem "No Men Are Foreign" he writes that "attacking other humans is
attacking our brothers." So, while he does not specifically refer to anyone directly, his
statement implies that all humans are our brothers.  The two things that he notes as being
common to all are " eyes, like ours, that wake or sleep" and " strength that can
be won by love."

What did the motives of Germany, Italy, and Japan have in common during World War II?

The most
important single motive shared by the so-called Axis powers was the establishment of empire. To
that end, Germany, Italy, and Japan felt unable to subscribe to the prevailing norms of
international law and politics. Each power routinely disregarded international treaties and
conventions in pursuit of its aims, often dividing the Allied powers in the process. The Axis
powers tested the prevailing system to destruction, and it took some time before the
international community was able to respond effectively to the challenge.

The
Germans, Italians, and Japanese looked towards a glorious, mythical past that they wished to
recover. Virulent nationalism was the dominant political force in each one of these countries,
and their governments were obsessed with the idea of restoring national greatness. This would be
achieved at the expense of so-called lesser races and peoples: Chinese and Koreans (Japan);
Abyssinians (Fascist Italy); Jews and Slavs (Nazi Germany). The international order established
after World War I militated against the whole notion of overseas empires created by armed
force.

This generated a profound sense of grievance in Germany, Italy, and
Japan, who felt that they were being deprived of colonial territory that was rightfully theirs.
The Axis powers wanted to achieve great power status, but the Allies wouldn't let them. This
fanned the flames of resentment and gave added impetus to nationalist dreams of imperial
conquest. The Nazis, for example, were especially obsessed with the concept of
lebensraum, or living space. This would involve the forced seizure of large
tracts of territory in Eastern Europe to make room for hordes of German
settlers.

Why does Madame Loisel select the necklace rather than any other piece of jewelry?

Madame
Loisel's character is superficial and concerned about status. When invited to the Minister of
Public Instruction's soiree, a difficult invitation to receive considering her husband's status
as clerk, she is not satisfied. "She looked at [her husband] with an irritated eye, and she
said, impatiently: 'And what do you want me to put on my back?'" Her initial reaction is
not of gratitude but of ingratitude because she doesn't have a dress to wear to the
event. 

Madame Loisel does not care that her husband may not be able to
afford finer items such as dresses or jewelry; she only cares that she presents the illusion
that she is wealthy and of an appropriate status. This is what leads her to borrow
jewelry.

Madame Loisel chooses the necklace rather than wearing flowers or
even another piece of jewelry because the necklace symbolizes status and wealth. 

All of a sudden she discovered, in a black satin box, a
superb necklace of diamonds; and her heart began to beat with an immoderate desire. Her hands
trembled as she took it. She fastened it around her throat, outside her high-necked dress, and
remained lost in ecstasy at the sight of herself.

Ultimately, it is Madame Loisel's desire for a higher status and wealth and
dissatisfaction with her life that contribute to her borrowing the jewelry.

Madame Loisel borrows the necklace and unfortunately loses it. This event is a turning
point in her life because she must work tirelessly to afford a replacement necklace. As a
result, Madame Loisel is reduced to a lower status (both economically and socially) than she was
prior to borrowing the necklace. In the end, we learn that the necklace she coveted and which
symbolized wealth to her was indeed a fake and not worth much more than fresh flowers.

Describe the ways in which Gregors relationship with his family members changes or stays the same.

Gregor Samsa
goes through a horrifying experience: he wakes up transformed into a bug.

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious
dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous
bug."

This strange and incomprehensible change
causes his relationship with his family to shift throughout the story.

At the
start of the story, soon after Gregor wakes as a bug, his parents (especially his mother) begin
to distance themselves from him. At first, Gregor's mother tries to wake him up for work with a
"soft voice." She shows tenderness and love for her son. After she sees him in his bug
form, her treatment of her son changes. As he rocks quietly near his mother in his bug form she
cries out, "Help, for God's sake help!" Her fear of her bug-son is so great that she
"collapsed into the arms of [Gregor's] father." His mother grows afraid of Gregor in
his new form.

Gregor's relationship with his sister changes greatly
throughout the plot as well. At the...

What are some examples showing that Victor allowed passion to overule his responsibilities?

The first
example of 's passion leaping over his sense of responsibility is the fact that he created the
monster in the first place.  His passion for science and he desire to pursue the origins of life
led to his tireless work on the patching together his creature.

Collecting cadaver parts from graveyards, he slowly pieces together the form of a human
being. It takes him two years to complete his experiment, but when he finally gives his creature
the spark of life, Victor can only run in fear. 

Victor
is so hasty in his reaction to the...