What is the importance of the role of the old woman, and how are various themes and ideas (wealth, optimism, religion) expressed through her...

Much of
the information about the old woman comes from her biography as she provides it. Once a wealthy,
great beauty and the illegitimate daughter of a pope, by the timemeets her she is a
self-described red-eyed, long-nosed servant woman. In many respects, the old woman stands for
the pervasiveness of injustice in the world, the oppression of women, and the evils of
slavery€“all of which she endures. Yet it is her endurance that creates the strongest
impression, and ultimately bolsters the theme of optimismthe faith in life that she calls a
ridiculous foible.

The old womans many qualities begin to emerge in chapter
eight. During Candides stay in Portugal, after he was whipped and witnessed the philosopher
Pangloss hanged in an auto-da-f© , the old woman takes him in, feeds and
clothes him, and heals his wounds. She later reunites him with his beloved Cunegonde, who
reveals that the woman is her servant, and that she had commissioned her to help Candide and
to...

What were the key political and religious differences between France, Russia, Prussia, and England during the period 1450€“1750?

Given
that this question is very broad as stated, it might be best if we approached it in an inverted
form by first focusing on what the similarities were among these states
during the period referred to. We can then extrapolate the primary or central differences as
negatives and perhaps can grasp them better in that way and arrive at a concise solution to the
question at hand.

France, England, and Russia all, during that 300-year
span, emerged from periods of internal and external strife to become unified, powerful
nation-states. France expelled the English in the Hundred Years' War, then settled its internal
religious conflicts in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and became a unified Roman
Catholic kingdom under an absolute monarchy. The Russians, after expelling the Tatar overlords
who had controlled the country for 200 years and then going through a period of internal
disorder known as the Time of Troubles, emerged as an absolute monarchy under the Romanovs and
secured its...

Why does the American man from "Hills Like White Elephants" want Jig to get an abortion?

Hemingway's story sounds autobiographical. He
was accustomed to making up stories out of his own personal experiences. He admired authors like
Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad who got their inspiration in the same way.

If he wrote it he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many
things by writing them.                                                                        
                                     -

We know he was
living in Europe while trying to get started as a freelance writer. He liked seeing new people
and places, because these stimulated his imagination. He also liked the fact that it was
possible to buy any kind of liquor in Europe when drinking was considered a crime in America.
Not only was liquor fully available, but it was cheap. Everything was cheap relative to the
American dollar, which was why so many artists were attracted to Europe in the 1920s. In it
would appear that the couple is being charged the equivalent of about four American cents for
two big glasses of beer.

Hemingway had a hard time selling his early stories.
Editors considered them unfinished and pointless. They called them "sketches,"
"slices of life," and "vignettes." (If you compare a story like Stephen
Cranes The Blue Hotel with Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants you can see what the
editors expected in the stories they were buying and why they were rejecting Hemingways.) John
Steinbeck once said:

The profession of book writing makes
horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

When Jig
says, "Doesn't it mean anything to you? We could get along," she is addressing what
she knows is at the root of their problem, which is money. She is obviously young and
inexperienced. She only thinks they could get along in Europe with a baby and that everything
else would be the same as before. The man knows the baby would change everything.

Hemingway didn't need much money to survive in Europe, but even getting small sums of
money for his stories was hard. He confessed that he would sometimes break into tears when he
received another rejected manuscript back in the mail. No doubt there have been many aspiring
writers who have felt the same way.

Hemingway was married and his wife Hadley
had a baby. No doubt this was a threatening event for Hemingway because it would mean having to
settle down and earn more money. The American just isn't ready for fatherhood. He knows he will
be giving up his freedom before he has had a chance to establish himself in his chosen
profession. Hemingway does not specify that the American is an aspiring writer, but it seems
likely. 

There are hundreds, thousands of youths who enter
upon the hard calling of the arts with extravagant hopes; but for the most part they come to
terms with their mediocrity and find somewhere in life a niche where they can escape
starvation.

                                             
                                                                    Somerset Maugham

Many people who read Hills Like White Elephants want to know What happened? Did Jig
go ahead with the abortion? If so, how did that affect their relationship? If not, how did
that affect their relationship? No doubt many of the readers who ask such
questions feel like the editors back in the States who were so coldly rejecting Hemingways
stories. 

What is a character trait of Mr. Frampton Nuttel from "The Open Window"?

In
"," Framton Nuttel can be considered somewhat self-absorbed. Framton, on the advice of
his doctors, is seeking peace and quiet to calm his fragile nerves. His sister provides him with
letters of introduction, one of which he plans to give to Mrs. Sappleton. During his
conversation with Mrs. Sappleton, he seems anxious to change the topic of conversation back to
himself, as he finds her topic "ghastly." Framton proceeds to share his medical
concerns with her and notices that she seems focused on other matters.

Framton can also be considered a nervous fellow. The reader learns early in the story
that he seems to have fragile nerves for which he is seeking a calming environment. He is
uncomfortable meeting strangers and even questions whether he can say the "correct
something" that he should say to Vera. Believing Vera's story about her aunt's
"," Framton flees the house when he sees the figures approaching the open
window.

When did Mrs.Olinski decide that Hamilton Knapp was not the right fit for the academic team in "View From Saturday"?

Mrs. Olinski
decided that Hamilton Knapp was not right for the academic team when she realized that he was
behind the cruel taunting that occurred during the Annie play.  She
"had a great tolerance for mischief, but she had no patience for malice", and
Ham's stunt in instigating the chanting proved to her that he was not just naughty, but
"terribly mean" (Ch. 5).

Mrs. Olinski did not know herself exactly
what qualities she was looking for in her team members in the beginning.  She chose Noah first
after reading his essay on the First Amendment (Ch. 5), and was drawn to Nadia when the young
girl, after being so "cautious about being friendly" over the first month of school,
broke out of her shell and began to greet Mrs. Olinski each morning with a bright smile and a
"Hey" (Ch. 2).  Ethan was chosen next because of his positive attitude; he was one of
the rare sixth graders who asked "Now what?" instead of "So what?" (Ch. 3). 
Mrs. Olinski did not at first consider Julian, the last member chosen, to be on the team because
he seemed so much "an island unto himself, definitely not a team player", but she
changed her mind after visiting Sillington House.  There she discovered that Julian, along with
Noah, Nadia, and Ethan, were exceptionally creative, loving, and kind individuals, and she
realized that "kindness" was the essential quality she wanted in a team member
(Chapter 11).

Which were the memories connected to happiness that Rousseau experienced on the fifth walk in Reveries of a Solitary Walker?

In his fifth
walk in Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Rousseau has removed himself to the
sparsely inhabited island of St. Peter's on Lake Bienne. His neighbors in M´tiers had angrily
responded to his democratic ideas in his Letters from the Mountains, so
Rousseau decided it was time to relocate to a new locale.

His relationship to
happy memories while on the island are complex. The chief charm of his setting is not the
memories it engenders but the opportunity it offers to live in the beauty of the present moment
and away from sad recollections. He states that he enjoys being:

detached from the rest of the world, where nothing but smiling objects presented
themselves, where no painful remembrances were recalled

He also notes that the most memorable moments in life are too sharp and intense (filled
with "delirium and passion"), too removed from the quietude of everyday life, to
provide him with the kind of solace he seeks:

the periods
of sweetest enjoyment, and most lively pleasure, are not those whose remembrance wins and
delights me most. These moments of delirium and passion, however charming they might be, appear
from their vivacity itself, but as points thinly scattered along the line of life, being too
detached and rapid to constitute any permanent idea of felicity.

Instead, he wants to connect with the half-forgotten moments of ordinary happiness that
he can experience by living in the present. He very much loves the nature that surrounds him on
the island and finds joy in losing himself in it. He likes not so much to remember as to walk
around or float lying on the bottom of rowboat as it drifts and rocks on the lake, enjoying a
mix of the present moment with what he calls "reveries" or
daydreams.

In "The Necklace" if Mme. Loisel didn't lose the necklace what would happen?

If Mathilde Loisel did not lose the necklace nothing would have changed
for her.  She would have gone on being poor and miserable, longing for
more.

Mathilde feels like she should be rich, even though she
was born into a poor family and married a poor man.

She
had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She
would have liked so much to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after. (p.
1)

Mathilde thinks of nothing...

What did Meg mean when she said she was measured and found wanting?

She
means that her personal inventory has been taken and that she is not "measuring
up"...

What's a good analysis of the short story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid? How could I create a good thesis statement for an essay based on this...

is a
short story written as one long sentence, a series of rules given from an authority figure €“
most likely a mother €“ to a girl at a transitional age about how to be a proper lady.  The girl
interjects only twice, and is both times dismissed.  There are a couple themes you could work
with here for your analysis €“ first and foremost, there is the seemingly interminable amount of
expectations for young women €“ especially those from traditional families €“ to conform to a
certain feminine ideal.  There is also the implication of a certain flaunted promiscuity among
young generations (an attitude adopted from the beginning of time by older generations toward
the youth of the day) and the negative attitudes toward female sexuality.

The first of these themes is symbolized most immediately by the form of the story itself.  By
framing the narrative as a long list of instructions Kincaid is emphasizing how overwhelming
these expectations can be for a young woman, and...

Why is due process important to individual rights?

Each of
the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, collectively known as the
Bill of Rights, has historically been considered essential to the preservation of individual
rights. The Fifth Amendment directly addresses the issue of due process of law,
stating,

No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use,
without just compensation.

The importance of the Fifth
Amendment to the preservation of individual liberty has been debated continuously since its
ratification, with Supreme Court decisions consistently reaffirming its importance.
Interpretations, as with each of the ten original amendments, have left some uncertainty
regarding the its scope or applicability. Its underlying intent, however, was and remains clear:
government cannot arbitrarily deprive an individual of freedom or seize that individuals
property without having first followed specified steps intended...

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In "1984" can you explain Winston's Reintegration?

To put it
simply, they broke him down, breaking his will and mind.  Through a very slow, drawn-out process
of starvation, mind-control, physical abuse and violence, threats and drilled
backwards-reasoning, 's power of reasoning, self-dignity, individuality and self worth were
stripped from him.  What was left was a robotic shell that was the perfect vessel for Party
propaganda and servitude.

would come in and state illogical things like
"2 plus 2 equals 5," and beat and argue with Winston, starving him and humiliating him
until Winston admitted that that was indeed a true statement, and actually partially believed it
himself.  Through this process, anything that made Winston an individual, or gave him a sense of
identity, was taken away from him.  He holds on to one thing until the very end, and that is his
love for .  He clings to that, vowing that they can't take that away.  But, through the use  of
playing on Winston's terror of rats, he ends up betraying her also, begging them to put her in
his place for the torture.  After Winston gets out, he meets Julia and finds that she betrayed
him too--it's what the Party does, and both of them, along with their entire society, has fallen
victim to it.

Winston emerges an automaton, a perfect servant for the party,
not only in body, but in mind and soul too.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!

Why do Boo Radley's reclusive habits in To Kill a Mockingbird make him an outsider in Maycomb?

There are
several reasons thatis considered an outsider--and the town's most talked-about citizen. First,
Maycomb is a small town where everyone knows everyone, and the Radleys never quite fit
in.

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to
themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.  ()

The family worshipped in their own home instead of embracing the
social aspects of church; they rarely socialized with anyone (old Mr. Radley always failed to
respond to 's and 's greetings); and they kept their 

...
shutters and doors... closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb's ways. 
(Chapter 1)

The family was already
outcasts before Arthur Jr.'s troubles, but when he was restricted by his father's unusual form
of house arrest within the Radley House walls, the town made "Boo" its favorite
subject of gossip. When both Mr. and Mrs. Radley died and Boo did not come out--instead, being
looked after by his brother, Nathan--the gossip only increased. In Maycomb, people gathered in
front yards and porches to discuss the day's events, but Nathan kept to himself and Boo was
never seen. Boo was accused--unfairly and without substantiation--of

Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb... People still
looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.  (Chapter
1)

Boo was seen but once in nearly two
decades--after he was again incarcerated for stabbing his father's leg with a pair of
scissors--and he again retreated into the seclusion of the family home, never to be seen until
he reappeared on Halloween night to rescue Jem and Scout. Boo's status as Maycomb's leading
outcast was solidified by his parents' prior actions; his own run-ins with the law; and the fact
that he was never seen, even though everyone in town knew he was still alive since, as Miss
Maudie told Scout,

"I know he's alive, Jean Louise,
because I haven't seen him carried out yet."  ()

What is the moral of the story "Charles"?

's short
story, "," is about a boy called Laurie and his mother and father. Every day Laurie
comes home from kindergarten and talks about a very unruly boy called Charles, who hits
teachers, swears, and hurts other children.

At the end of the story it is
heavily implied, at a PTA meeting, that Charles doesn't exist except as a pseudonym that Laurie
uses to describe and hide his own misbehavior. The moral or message of the story is perhaps that
it is very difficult for parents to control their children or, indeed, ever really know who
their children become when they grow up.

The story also suggests that we
should not be too quick to judge others, at least not before first turning our gaze upon
ourselves. Indeed, in the story, Laurie's parents are quick to blame and laugh at Charles's
mother, only to discover at the end of the story that Charles doesn't exist. We can assume that
Laurie's parents subsequently work out that it is in fact their own son who has been behaving so
poorly at kindergarten.

Why is price elasticity of demand important in modern business?

The price
elasticity of demand is an economic concept that describes the change in demand that accompanies
a change in price. If a good has an elastic demand, consumers will not be willing to purchase as
much of it if its price rises. On the other hand, if a good or service has an inelastic demand,
people will continue buying it at higher prices, probably because they need it.

Understanding, and being responsive to, demand elasticity is important for businesses
at any time, and especially if they are in a highly competitive economic sector. If, for
example, a property manager or owner calculates that she can rent apartments at $1,000 a unit
when, in fact, few are willing to rent at that price, then she will have to lower the rent and
may lose her investment in the process with the resulting falling revenues. She failed to
account, in short, for the elasticity of housing demand.

So, understanding
the principle of price elasticity of demand is important to businesses in pricing the goods and
services they offer.

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of computers in the teaching and learning process? How do they affect the academic performance of students...

Wow! This
question is timely for me, because I will be teaching at a school next year in which, all
students will receive apple laptops.  They will be allowed to take the computers home, and we
will encorporate computer usage into daily instruction.

As an English
teacher, I find computers to be very helpful for the following reasons:

1.
Students are able to reasearch information quickly.  They can find their own answers, discover
their own truths.

2. Computers lend themselves to a lot of creative and
interestion activities i.e. creating a "commercial to advertise your favorite
book"

There are also some downfalls:

1. Students can
easily get off task.  They may wander to sites like Facebook, MySpace etc.  (I know that schools
usually block these sites, but students often find ways around them.

2. 
Without knowing it teachers can create computer-related activities that are quite exciting, but
the intended content is not learned i.e. teachers focus too much on the "cool
activity" rather that the actual lesson itself.

Discuss the last sentence of The Stranger: "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet...

ends with Meursault's
refusal to renounce his actions, his refsual to show remorse for killing the Arab or for not
crying at his mother's funeral.  Instead, he hopes for an angry mob to jeer at his beheading.
 He says that no one had the right to cry over his mother's death because she was ready to live
her life all over again.  The same it is with him.  So, instead of tears, Mersault and Camus
want us to show anger in the face of death.

One of Camus' earlier essays,
"" shows this same hatred for death.  There, Sisyphus cheated Death and lived two
lives.  Rather than be buried, he again enjoyed the sun and ocean by his wife's side.  But Death
caught up to him a second time and, as punishment, made him forever roll a rock up a hill, only
to have it roll back down.  But, Sisyphus accepted his punishment.  An eternity of useless labor
was a small price to pay for seeing one's wife, the sun, and the ocean again after death.  In
the end, Sisyphus would have done it all over again, punishment and all.

Like
Sisyphus, Merusault is an absurd hero who:

• Loves life


• Hates death
• Scorns the gods

First,
Meursault loves life: he loves the beach, water, sun, and sex.  He has no regrets; he lives with
total freedom.  Like Maman and Sisyphus, he would live his life all over again, without changing
a thing.  He would not cry at Maman's funeral; he would shoot the Arab; and he would refuse to
feel guilt for either.

Secondly, Meursault hates death.  This is why he
doesn't want to see his mother.  This is why he doesn't cry at her funeral.  He hates those who
sit up all night and cry and torture themselves for another's death.  The culture of mourning is
absurd to Merusault, and so he becomes angry at the old people and Thomas Perez for feeling such
blathering guilt.  Instead, they should all love the sun, water, and each other rather than
following a hearse around until they faint.

Thirdly, Meursault scorns the
gods: at the rest home, at work, in prison, at the church.  He resents all forms of authority
that take away one's freedom by prescribing behavior which says one must cry at a funeral; one
must live to work; one much believe in God, etc...  All of these institutions limit choice and
freedom of the individual.

So, Merusault and Camus want us to be angry at his
death, not angry at him for killing the Arab, but angry at the entire culture of death: the
death penalty, the funeral homes, the churches, the prisons, the judicial systems, any
institution that makes a living off of death.  As readers, we too are in that angry mob
greeting him with cries at hate.  For he is
our absurd hero.

In 1984, why is it essential that the different populations of the three super-states never come into contact with each other?

In
the world is ruled by three giant superstates: Oceania (wherelives),
Eurasia, and Eastasia. They are in near-constant conflict with each other, driven on by
relentless propaganda that paints the enemy as somehow less than human. In Oceania in
particular, the populace is encouraged to hate foreigners, and any average citizen who
establishes contact with foreigners is committing nothing less than high treason.

So long as this mutual hatred can be maintained, the political elites will be able to
remain in control. However, if the people of the three superstates should ever establish contact
with one another, then the consequences for the powers-that-be are potentially
catastrophic.

For then, the citizens of these states would realize that their
counterparts are human beings just like themselves. At that point, they'd also realize that
they'd been lied to all these years by their respective governments. This would undermine the
ability of each state to control its citizens, as power in the three superstates is largely
based on keeping the population in a state of ignorance and fear.

Do you agree that Eliza in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion represents the new woman?

I would have to say
that I disagree that Eliza, from Shaw's represents the new
woman.

Eliza does not wish to change herself until it is brought to her
attention that she needs to be changed. Therefore, she does not represent the new woman because
the new...

What is the cause of the boy's late arrival at Araby?

The
boy's late arrival at the bazaar called "" is his uncle's fault. The boy can't leave
for the bazaar until he gets some money. The adults in the story cannot understand the
importance of the bazaar because they are unaware of the boy's love for Mangan's sister. The boy
doesn't want to go to Araby for his own sake, but rather because he promised to buy Mangan's
sister something while there. He is not only suffering from the pangs of young love, but he is
also being tortured because his uncle is unusually late to arrive home. At one point his aunt
says,

I'm afraid you may put off your bazaar for this
night of Our Lord.

The narrator specifies that these were
"the short days of winter," which would make it seem more and more impracticable to
leave for the bazaar as time went on. 

At nine o'clock I
heard my uncle's latchkey in the hall door. I heard him talking to himself and heard the
hallstand rocking when it had received the weight of his overcoat. I could interpret these
signs. When he was midway through his dinner I asked him to give me the money to go to the
bazaar. He had forgotten.

When the narrator says he could
interpret these signs, he obviously means that when he hears his uncle talking to himself and
hears the hallstand rocking under the weight of the overcoat, he knows his uncle had stayed late
at some pub and gotten drunk. His uncle forgot about his promise to give the boy some money to
spend at the bazaar. No doubt the boy would ordinarily have realized it was too late and too
cold to be leaving at nine o'clock, especially since it might take him another hour to get
there. His promise to Mangan's sister makes him feel he has an important quest and must endure
all obstacles to fulfill it. The boy prudently endures another delay, waiting until his uncle is
midway through his dinner before asking for the money. He hopes the food will make his uncle
more sober and therefore easier to deal with. Evidently, the boy has had plenty of experience
dealing with his uncle when he has been drinking. Finally, he receives a coin from his
inebriated uncle, who insists on reciting The Arab's Farewell to his
Steed.

I held a florin tightly in my hand as I
strode down Buckingham Street towards the station. 

A
florin was a British silver coin worth two shillings. The train takes an intolerable amount of
time to start and then seems to creep among "ruinous houses" to its destination. The
boy arrives at about the time the bazaar is ready to close. It is two minutes to ten. 

Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall
was in darkness.

The contrast between the reality of the
place that calls itself by the exotic name of "Araby" and the boy's expectations is
the main point of the story. The boy doesn't have enough money to buy anything, even if all the
stalls had been open. 

I allowed the two pennies to fall
against the sixpence in my pocket.

He pays a shilling to
enter this closing bazaar, and most of the remainder of the florin went for train fare. He had
only eight cents left to spend on a present for Mangan's sister. One of the few concessions that
was still open seemed to be offering nothing but "great jars that stood like eastern guards
at either side of the dark entrance to the stall." 

What is the central theme of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson?

Dr. Jekyll
tries to achieve his dream, through science, of separating his dark sidewhat we could call his
"id"from the rest of his responsible, ethical, hardworking self. He takes a drug that
removes his inhibitions and turns him into "Mr. Hyde." This way, he can freely and
without any qualms of conscience indulge all his deepest, most unacceptable desires for pleasure
and violence without having to repress, control, and sublimate them.

Stevenson's theme or message is that while it is tempting to want to find a way to
release our dark side, this is a very bad idea. Mr. Hyde, lacking a conscience, does terrible
things, such as murder, and feels no reason not to grow more and more powerful until he
threatens to take over Dr. Jekyll entirely. The novel's message is that we need to integrate and
control our darker and more anti-social impulses for the good of society and
ourselves.

It is worth noting that Oscar Wilde explores a similar theme of
trying to "split off" the evil side of oneself in his novel The Picture of
Dorian Gray. There, too, it does not go well, and the person wishing for the freedom
to indulge every desire ends up regretting the horror he has become.

Examine how Hansberry is challenging stereotypes of African Americans in the play.

challenges stereotypes of African American people in the play by making thepeople rather than
caricatures and by giving them qualities that stereotypical African American people at the time
wouldn't have demonstrated.

Each member of the Younger family is a full
person with motivations that are explained to the audience.wants her family to escape from the
place where they live; her children,and , want to find their careers and places in the world.
The money they receive offers all of them a different means to get what they want.

Beneatha wants to be a doctor, which wasn't a common career path for African American
women at that time. Walter is attempting to start his own business. This was also less than
common at a time, when prejudices were so fierce that people like the Youngers were discouraged
from moving into housing developments. These goals show that Beneatha and Walter are not just
stereotypesthey're people who want things for...

Compare and contrast the political terms hawk and dove.

These are
terms that have to do with the attitudes that people hold towards wars or military interventions
in general (or towards specific cases in which the US is involved militarily in some other
country).

The term hawk is used to refer to someone who tends to back
military involvement.  For example, as you can see in the link below, hawks in the Vietnam War
backed expanded American action in that war.  They applauded the bombing of North Vietnam,
saying that it would scare the Soviet Union.

By contrast, the term dove
refers to people who do not want the US to be involved militarily.  In the link, the doves feel
that the bombing of North Vietnam will backfire by making the Soviets take more of a hard line
towards the US.

These terms can be used in reference towards any military
involvement by the US or they can be used about people's attitudes towards military action in
general.

What do most world religions have in common? What do most world religions have in common?

I think all
religions have faith in that they believe in something that cannot be proven or for which there
is the scientific evidence disproves.   Faith requires that you believe something you cannot see
or know with 100% certainty.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, how does Big Brother affect the theme of manipulation?

Big
Brother is the enigmatic figurehead of the Party, whose picture adorns every hallway, forum, and
public space in 's dystopian nation of Oceania. The stoic, masculine portrait of a man with a
stern look and a bushy mustache is the face of Big Brother and underneath his portrait is the
warning "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" (Orwell, 4). In addition to the numerous posters
of Big Brother hanging throughout Oceania, his image also appears on telescreens during the Two
Minutes Hate period. Big Brother offers the Party members encouraging words and comforts them
after they witness the horrifying images of enemy soldiers attacking their nation. Big Brother's
image manipulates the Party members by striking fear in them while simultaneously offering them
protection from government scapegoats like Emmanuel Goldstein.

Big Brother's
portrait is a constant reminder that Party members are under surveillance, which alters their
behaviors by indirectly suggesting that they act completely orthodox at all times out of fear
that they will be arrested by the Thought Police. The Party also manufactures hysteria, which is
illustrated during their Two Minutes Hate period, and uses Big Brother's image to calm and
assure the Party members that he will protect them. This method of manipulation creates a
reverence towards Big Brother as the Party members look to him as their courageous leader and
protector. Overall, the Party uses Big Brother's image to strike fear in its populace and
manipulate Party members into idolizing and obeying the government
figurehead.

Describe the relationship between Mr. Pignati, Lorraine and John from Zindel's The Pigman.

Mr.
Pignati, John, and Lorraine essentially function as a family unit. Mr. Pignati's wife has died,
so he is all alone. John's home life is awful. His father is a drunk that verbally abuses him,
and Lorraine's home life is equally abusive. Her mom is convinced that all men are evil, and she
constantly criticizes anything and everything about Lorraine. John and Lorraine might be able to
make up for rough home lives with solid, loyal friends. However, the text shows that both John
and Lorraine are never going to win a school popularity contest. Mr. Pignati is lonely, so
John's presence and Lorraine's presence in his life fills a void that he has been missing for
years. Conversely, Mr. Pignati is a father figure of sorts that...

What is meant by the title of Chapter 7 "As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs" in A People's History of the United States?

The point of
this chapter in Zinns book is that the United States government has consistently abused the
Native Americans.  The title refers to a phrase used by Andrew Jackson in giving instructions to
an envoy to the Choctaws and the Creeks.  The envoy was to tell them that they should accept
Indian Removal and move out beyond the limits of the United States.  If they did so, they would
own the land in that area as long as grass grows or water runs.

Of course,
the US government did not keep that promise.  Native Americans were later pushed off lands west
of the Mississippi as soon as white settlers wanted that land.  Therefore, Zinn uses this phrase
as a title to emphasize how Native Americans have been (in his mind) mistreated and lied to by
the US government.

The leaders of the US, USSR, and Great Britain said they wanted to cooperate, so why were negotiations at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences so...

Actually,
the three great superpowers at Yalta did want to cooperate, because they wanted to ensure peace
for the postwar world.  However, they all had different agendas to promote.  Stalin acted on his
own and was not responsible to the people of the Soviet Union.  Stalin wanted to ensure a buffer
zone between the West and his country, because the Soviet Union lost heavily in terms of men and
material in this war.  Churchill openly distrusted Stalin and there was still some animosity
between Britain and the Soviet Union over the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939.  Stalin
wanted to see the prewar government of Poland restored, but Stalin wanted his regime to remain
in place.  When Churchill complained that Stalin was expanding his borders, Stalin pointed an
accusing finger at British colonies and asked why the British could have a sphere of influence
and the Russians could not.  Roosevelt, on the other hand, needed an assurance that the Soviet
Union would stay in the war to fight the Japanese, who were already retreating in January 1945
but were still quite strong.  Roosevelt was willing to agree to almost anything to get this
assurance, even if it meant that Eastern Europe would be occupied by the Soviet army, which was
already a reality on the ground at the time of the conference anyway.  Roosevelt thought that he
could negotiate a deal with Stalin to get the Soviet Union to acknowledge the prewar territorial
boundaries, but the American president died in April before the war's end.
 

Who is Dennis in The Pigman?

Dennis Kobin
is a friend of John and Lorraine.  He is usually paired with Norton Kelly, and the two are
described as "demented", and are always causing trouble.  Of the pair, Dennis is the
follower, and is nowhere near as malicious and conniving as the more assertive Norton.  John
says that Dennis is "not very bright", and notes that "he talks so slowly some
people think he has brain damage".  Dennis does hold the record for the being able to
engage a stranger in the longest conversation ever in a "phone marathon" game that the
four teens have created.  The object of the game is to call a number at random and see how long
one can keep the person who answers on the line.  Dennis once called a lonely old woman and made
up a story about needing advice about how to treat a skin disease which he had as a result of
having had his nose bitten off by a rat when he was a baby.  He was able to keep the woman on
the phone for well over two hours.

Dennis's father works long hours and
drinks a lot.  When his mother is not home, the group sometimes gathers at his house to play the
phone marathon game (Chapter 3).  When John and Lorraine decide to throw a party at the Pigman's
house, they invite Dennis, but caution him not to tell Norton because they know that Norton will
take the opportunity to steal from the Pigman, and otherwise cause trouble.  Dennis, however,
can be counted on to be discreet and to follow instructions.  Because John has asked him to,
Dennis steals some alcohol to bring to the party from his father's whiskey cabinet, and supplies
some soda mixers and glasses from his house as well (Chapter 13).

What are the differences between teacher-centeredness and learner-centeredness? Give examples Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language

In any
subject of teaching, some level of choice is needed between teacher- centeredness and learner
centeredness.  On one hand, the former makes the presumption that the learning process is more
traditionalist, with the teacher acting as the center of knowledge.  This approach involves more
teacher direction to students, who act in accordance to what the teacher says needs to be done. 
The learner centered approach creates a new understanding of the roles of teacher and student. 
In this approach, the teacher is more of a facilitator while students take a more active role of
creating learning opportunities within the curriculum.  The teacher lays out what is to be done,
and the student selects how they want to approach such moments.  In any content, the teacher has
to make some particular decisions as to the moments where the presentation of material is done
with the teacher being the center of learning or if the student's learning will be accomplished
with a less traditionalist approach.

In ONE paragraph, evaluate the 'hypodermic syringe model'? Include :- - The strengths and weaknesses of the 'hypodermic syringe model'?

The hypodermic
syringe model infers that people are basically spoon fed news and information and that we
assimilate it, accept it, and create an opinion about it. This model is not realistic and
assumes that all people will react identically to information and news. This is a false
assumption because everyone, by tendency, is bound to be interpret information differently.
However, this model could be applied to people who are already set into an idea or have already
formulated an opinion about something, and watch channels of communication that share the same
opinion. In this particular case, the hypodermic syringe model might work after
all.

In Animal Farm, how do the neighboring farms react to the animal revolution?

When thebegins
to show that it can be productive without human control, the neighboring farms begin to feel
threatened by its mere existence; this is magnified by the propaganda spread by the pigeons, who
brings tales of freedom from oppression to the animals in the surrounding areas. Farmer Jones
begins to spread dissent, complaining that he was never a bad master of the animals, and the
others farms join with him to overpower the animals and take the farm back.

Nevertheless, they were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion
on Animal Farm, and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it.
At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for
themselves.
[...]
Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood
and Pinchfield, had entered the five-barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to
the farm. They were all carrying sticks, except Jones, who was marching ahead with a gun in his
hands. Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm.
(, Animal Farm,
george-orwell.com)

Their reaction is based in fear, since
the success of Animal Farm would throw their own control into question; after all, if the farms
do not need humans in charge, what purpose do the humans serve?The easy conversion of animals
from willing subordinates to rebellion is beyond their understanding; in their minds, the
animals are merely acting out a fantasy that is doomed to fail, but they become more and more
worried as the song "Beast of England" spreads among their own animals. In an attempt
to restore their status quo, the humans attack the farm, and are repelled;leads a triumphant
counterattack that routs the humans.

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Explain the major differences between professional and amateur property offenders. Property offenders are either professional or amateurs. What is...

The main
difference between amateur and professional thieves is whether or not the person makes a living
from thievery. I imagine this question is related to individual thieves as opposed to the much
more impactful corporate or government thieves who are often protected under the law. It is
important to make this distinction of outlawed versus legalized/accepted thievery because there
are many professions that rely on stealing that are, in fact, legalized and accepted by society.
Example of such are the profession of policing in which police legally and forcefully steal
people from their homes and loved ones, or the profession of resource extractors, such as giant
rubber corporations, who steal land from indigenous people and force them to extract rubber from
the lands they once called home.

Amateur thieves can be classified as folks
who may consistently or inconsistently steal from businesses or private residences, and they
tend to steal for themselves or for others, but not as a means...

How does the setting of Emma impact the characters' actions and the plot?

The novel's
setting has the biggest impact on , through whose eyes we see the story. The novel is placed
entirely in Highbury and the adjoining Hartfield, where Emma and her father live, as well as
Donwell Abbey, home of Mr. Knightley. The farthest the action of the novel spreads is a few
miles away, to Box Hill. Significantly, Emma herself has never been farther from home than Box
Hill, which she visits for the first time during the course of the novel.

Because Emma's entire life has been set in a quiet provincial village, this influences
how she sees the world and her own place in it. She has never been anywhere else, so she has an
outsized sense of her own importance. She also places too much confidence in her own judgments,
with comicand potentially not-so-comicresults. She is clueless, to a large extent, because she
has seen so little of the wider world.

Highbury is well delineated as a
social world in the novel. We follow Emma and Harriet as they visit the poor in the...

What are the six ways a manager can provide ethical leadership?

To be an
ethical leader means to be someone who guides the employees by example and respects their
rights, and always tries to do the "right thing" without ever abandoning their own
personal moral and ethical beliefs or compromising the company's ethical climate in
general.

One of the most important ways a manager can provide ethical
leadership is to be honest, loyal, and trustworthy. Honesty and transparency are important
because the employees will trust and respect an honest leader more than a secretive one.
Additionally, an honest leader will motivate others to be more genuine and straightforward and
to openly communicate with each other to better...

Assess to what extent were the future Allied powers responsible for Hitler's expansionism.

The
policy of appeasement that future Allied leaders like Chamberlain followed were critical in the
expansionism and aggression that defined the Nazi rise to power.  I think that there is an
element in which one has to be careful from absolving Hitler from responsibility for what he and
the Nazis did.  However, appeasing Hitler and the Nazis played a significant role in the
expansion and aggression that would come to define them.  Consider the most...

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Give examples of the following devices and explain how each one shows Scout to be an adult and not a child in To Kill a Mockingbird: humor, irony,...

Throughout , the narrator (the adult Jean Louise Finch)
continually includes information about her younger selfnicknamed to remind the reader that she
is speaking from a vantage point years later than the events in the novel.

These references often include Scout's use of language that she did not quite
understand (but which the adult narrator assumes that the reader will). The result is often
humorous, and theresults...

What is an example of foreshadowing in "The Necklace"?

An example
ofin "" has to do with the necklace itself. One day, Mathilde's husband brings home an
invitation to "an evening reception at the Ministerial Mansion." Once Mathilde buys a
new dress for the event, she decides to take her husband's suggestion and borrow a necklace. Her
friend, Mme. Forestier, immediately agrees to loan a "superb diamond necklace" in a
"black satin box" to Mathilde.

After a glorious evening, Mathilde
and her husband return home and notice that she no longer has the necklace. After much
searching, they take the black box to the jeweler whose name was inside the box in the hopes of
finding a similar necklace. The jeweler looks at his records and says, "I didn't sell that
necklace madame. I only supplied the box." Mathilde and her husband have to borrow a large
sum of money to replace the necklace. After ten years, Mathilde sees Mme. Forestier and decides
to tell her the truth about the necklace. When Mme. Forestier hears that her necklace was
replaced with another, she informs Mathilde that her necklace was a fake, and only worth about
five hundred francs.

The foreshadowing occurs when we see that Mme. Forestier
easily agrees to loan the necklace, and the jeweler states that he only supplied the box. These
are clues that the necklace was not as valuable as Mathilde and her husband
believed.

What aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird seem to be particular to its setting? What aspects are universal in nature?

The novel
is both set within a specific time and transcendent in its message. Much
of the background and setting of the novel is very specific to its time and place. For example,
the novel takes place in the deep South during the Great Depression. You can see this in the
descriptions of the ' clothing and actions as well as the description of the town itself: an
impoverished environment is evident in much of the novel.

Many of the gifts
that are left forandare small trinkets (such as gum or a trashed watch) that have little
monetary value are nevertheless interesting to the children in their mysterious origin.
Additionally, the kids would play in the fields by shooting a BB gun, indicating that they spend
most of their time exploring the outdoors.

Theare much more transcendent
though. Racism was prevalent and pervasive throughout American culture during this time period,
and so it is certainly not unique to this region. In fact, racism and...

similar problem. Jim needs 4 1/2 cups of bleach for every ten gallons of water for cleaning. How many cups of of bleach should he use if he is...

The primary
question asks us to determine the number of cups of bleach to add to 5 gallons of water if 4.5
cups is required for 10 gallons of water.

One approach to solving a problem
like this is to see it as a problem of proportions. We can set up a proportion and solve for the
missing amount. The proportion can be written as 4.5:10=x:5 or as an equality involving
ratios:

`4.5/10=x/5` . Order matters; we are comparing cups of bleach to
gallons of water in each example.

To solve we use a property of proportions:
if `a/b=c/d` then ab=cd. (This is known as the means-extremes property. In the given proportion
a and d are the extremes with b and c as the means. Then the product of the means equals the
product of the extremes.)(( Sometimes this is taught as the rule of three; see the
reference.)

Thus 5(4.5)=10x or 22.5=10x. To solve for x we
divide both sides by 10 to get x=2.25. So we need 2.25 (`2 1/4` ) cups of bleach for 5 gallons
of water.

Similar problems include:

(a)
conversions. For example there are 2.54 cm in an inch. Find the number of centimeters in a yard.
Or monetary conversions, like if 1 British pound is worth $1.70 in US currency, how much is 50
pounds worth.

(b) proportions: the median of a triangle is divided into a
ratio of 2:1 by the centroid. If the distance to the centroid from vertex A is 5c m, what is the
length of the segment of the median from the centroid to the side opposite vertex
A.

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Is the letter written by Perry's sister included in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, as well as the those written by Perry's father and Willie-Jay the...

While s
nonfiction novel, as he labeled his most well-known work, , has
been pilloried over the years for the authors dissembling regarding the line between fact and ,
the letters from Perry Smiths father, sister and former fellow prisoner are authentic.  Once
Capote set out to dramatize a real-life crime, using details from the actual investigation and
real names, and while insinuating himself into the lives of key figures, his determination to
place artistic merit over fealty to absolute truth condemned him to a life of heightened
scrutiny.  Most recently, a trove of documents directly related to the 1959 murders of a Kansas
farm family by Perry Smith and Richard (Dick) Hickock, and to Capotes involvement in the
investigation, have placed the late authors veracity into question even more than ever before.
(See the February 8, 2013 Wall Street Journal article the link to which is
provided below.)  Capote, as these documents indicate, fabricated more than he had been willing
to admit while alive, to such an extent that the integrity of the law enforcement officials with
whom he maintained contact during and after the investigation has been called into question. 
While none of these revelations serves to cast any doubt at all into Smith and Hickocks guilt,
they do undermine Capotes character.  That said, and to reiterate, the correspondence Capote
included in In Cold Blood, specifically, the letters from Tex John
Smith, Barbara Smith, and Willie-Jay, to Perry Smith, are authentic.

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Peripeteia In Oedipus Rex

shakespeareguru

Shaketeach is correct, but there is a specific moment that can be pinpointed as the
peripeteia.  Thewho comes to tellthat the man he believed to be his father, Polybus, is dead and
that he will be made king in Corinth, also happens to be the man who brought the baby Oedipus to
King Polybus and his wife.

The scene that reveals Oedipus' true past goes on
for quite a few pages, drawing out the suspense as Oedipus learns that, according to the
Messenger, he need not be afraid of murder and incest in Corinth since Polybus was not his
natural father.

And yet the unravelling doesn't end with this...

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What is something Gatsby hates in The Great Gatsby?

Something thatdoes not
like is drinking alcohol. His mentor, , was a drinker, and Gatsby formed an alliance with Cody
by taking care of Cody when he was drunk. Dan Cody himself never even knew what he might do when
he was drunk, so he placed his faith in the young Gatsby to take care of him.

Gatsby became Cody's steward, companion, secretary, and even a kind of jailor, keeping
Cody out of trouble when he was drunk. As a result of these difficult past circumstances, Gatsby
does not like drinking, though he serves alcohol at his grand parties. He inherited from Dan
Cody a love of money and the high life but not the love of drinking.

In 1984, what are the four ministries and their purposes?

The four
ministries in 's are the Ministries of Truth, Love, Peace, and Plenty.
They are all named for positive values that are meant to be beneficial to society, but, in
reality, they function to serve the opposite value for which they are named.

The Ministry of Truth is in charge of information as it is received by the public. This
information can come in the form of education or art or news or entertainment. Though unbiased,
truthful information is the most valuable kind in a democratic society, the Ministry of Truth
does not have the ideals of democracy in mind as it works to disseminate...

What is the difference between flora and vegetation?

To answer
this question, it's good to look at the dictionary definitions of flora and vegetation.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, flora are the types of individual plants that you
can list of a particular region. In comparison, they say that vegetation is a more general term
used to describe the type of growth area.

The four main types of vegetation
are forest vegetation, grassland vegetation, and desert vegetation. However, one can narrow it
down further into areas into sub-categories such marshland vegetation and heathland vegetation.
For example, though England's New Forest would be mostly seen as forest vegetation, it also
contains some heathland vegetation as well.

Within the heathland vegetation,
its flora includes plants such as orchids heather, louseworts, tormentils and gorse.

Flora shouldn't be confused with fauna, which mean a list of the types of animals in a
region.

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Who was the Pythian Oracle of Delphi vs Tiresias in Oedipus Rex?

'
Tyrannos (or ) first came to the stage in Athens around 429-425
BCE. Although the play takes Thebes as its setting, the play has several references to the town
of Delphi, which was the location of Apollo's famous oracle. The priestess whose mouth spoke for
Apollo was called Pythia. Thus, the oracle at Delphi is sometimes called the Pythian oracle.
Likewise, the town of Delphi is sometimes called Pytho....

What are the rivers of hell and their ferrymen in Dante's Inferno?

The river and
ferryman of Dante's Inferno are based on Greek myth rather than on
Christian concepts of the afterlife, a reflection of Dante's work during the Italian
Renaissance, when themes from ancient history became revived.

The river Dante
crosses is called the Acheron, one of the five rivers of the ancient Greek underworld; while the
Acheron is a real river in northwestern Greece, here it is symbolic, afor crossing over into
Hell itself.

The ferryman who takes both Dante and his guide, the shade of
the Roman poet Virgil, is named Charon. Charon is responsible for ferrying the dead from the
living world across the rivers and into Hades. In ancient Greek mythology, this was not seen as
a punishment in the same sense of crossing into the Christian hell, but rather an obligation of
the dead, who could not stay in the world of the living. In ancient Greek custom, people would
be buried with symbolic coins meant to pay the ferryman. At first, Charon refuses to take Dante,
since he is not dead, but Virgil insists that they be allowed to pass.

Why did Jem not want Scout to tell Atticus about Bob Ewell's comment? Was this a wise thing to ask her to do? This answer will be found in chapter 25.

The fact
thatdoesn't wantto tellis evidence of him maturing which is a theme of the novel.  Jem is older
now and sees things from a different perspective.  He wants to protect Atticus and he takes on a
protector role telling Scout that Bob Ewell is just 'hot gas' and won't do anything.  I would
not say it was a wise or unwise thing to ask of her.  Atticus was well aware of Bob Ewell and
his thoughts and plans - the kids not keeping his comments a secret would not have changed
anything.

What evidence from Of Mice and Men shows us that Curley is hostile?

Curley
has a bit of a chip on his shoulder, mainly due to his diminutive size. There's also the
suggestion that he's unable to satisfy his alluring and sexually overpowering wife. That being
the case, Curley's always trying to prove his masculinity, and what better way to do that than
to pick a fight with men much bigger and stronger than hisself, such as .

Curley has no good reason to pick a fight with Lennie; he's simply taking out his anger
and...

In chapter 5 why did the mother say her son did not drop the ball?

She did not
acknowledge that her son dropped the ball because to do so would be to admit...

How is Holden a liar in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye?

Caulfield not only lies to the people he interacts with throughout the story, but also
continually lies to the audience as an unreliable narrator. At the beginning of the story,
Holden even mentions that he is the "most terrific liar you ever saw in your life" and
proceeds to lie throughout the remainder of the story. Holden lies about his appearance to the
audience by saying that he looks significantly older than he really is. However, Holden cannot
get served alcohol at several establishments, and the girls at the Lavender Room make fun of him
for his youthful appearance. Holden also claims that he hates the movies and America's
entertainment industry, yet goes to see them often, pretends that he is in an action movie, and
even takeson a date to the theater.

Holden blatantly lies toon the train by
saying that his name is Rudolph Schmidt and proceeds to make up stories about her son, Ernest.
When Holden interacts with the prostitute named, he also lies...

Why did the Vikings settle in Britain? Is it because they had travelled such a long way?

To answer this
question, we need to look at the situation in the Vikings' homelands. According to the
historian, Dr Anna Ritchie, fertile land was in short supply across Scandinavia, especially in
Norway, thanks to the cold and harsh climate as well as a growing population. In contrast,
Britain had a warmer, more...

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What are some examples of hysteria in The Crucible?

"Hysteria" is a term that can be used with varying degrees of precision, from
a psychiatric diagnosis at one end of the spectrum to any type of general panic at the other. In
the vaguest sense, all of records an outbreak of hysteria, which soon came
to be regarded as such. Within weeks of the trials, practically all those who participated in
them were trying to distance themselves from the proceedings. The witch-trials quickly came to
be regarded as an episode of temporary insanity.

Although, there is no
evidence that any of the characters in the play suffer from hysteria in its most...

How does Victor now feel about the study of science?

, at first, is excited
to study science; his mind is of a rather scientific bent from his early childhood, and when he
gets to college, he is ecstatic to get to study it (though his focus must shift from the
pseudo-scientists with whom he is familiar to actual scientists). However, after the creation of
the "monster," Victor's feelings about science change completely. He falls terribly
ill and nearly dieshe would have died were it not for the ministrations of his best friend, and
afterward, he says, "the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my
nervous symptoms." In addition, Victor "acquire[s] a dislike for the room which had
previously been [his] laboratory." In short, he no longer loves science; really, not only
does he no longer love it, he can no longer tolerate even the sight of a scientific instrument.
After this, his feelings regarding science never really alter for the remainder of his
life.

what is the point of view in young goodman brown? how important is the point of view and does it change anywhere in the story?

The short
story, , is told from the Third Person Omniscient point-of-view. The Third Person Omniscient
narrator has the ability to both describe the outward appearances of the characters and to
explain the characters motives, desires, fears, and hopes. The difference between a limited and
an omniscient narrator is the degree of insight that each is able to provide. The omniscient
narrator is all-knowing, able to offer the reader absolute and unquestionable insight into a
character.  For instance, the narrator in this instance provides information on Goodman Browns
thoughts and reactions as he encounters the characters of Good Cloyse and Deacon
Gookin.

Dfferences Between Female and Male Characters in "The Scarlett Letter" Where in the novel does it show the differences between female and male...

The
scarlet letter itself is a depiction of the difference between male and female .   is forced to
wear the letter A upon her chest, as punishment for adultery, because she became pregnant prior
to her husband's arrival in America. 

One major difference is how Hester is
treated, because she is a woman and has obvious proof of adultery, and, Hester's lover, who
avoids public punishment because he...

Foreshadowing In Frankenstein

In addition to
frequent sybolism, as stated in the previous response, Shelley makes particular use of narration
to divulge elements of the plot. Wheneveris particularly positive about a friend or family
member, disaster is just around the corner. In Chapter 18, for instance when Clerval joins
Victor, Victor describes him as "alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties
of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day." No one
this happy lives long in this novel. Another good example is Elizabeth's letter in Chapter six 
regarding "little darling " and his adorable "little dimples." I her very
next letter, just a few pages later we learn that "William is dead!"

 

Shelley reminds us that Victor is narrating his story to Walden
aboard the ship. Often, Victor uses apostrophe ("Oh, Henry!") and lets us know how
terrible he feels about some laterin the story. Victor has a wonderful memory and is precise
about his account of events. It seems that he cannot help but give us some spoilers along the
way, though.

What motivates Ulysses to go on another voyage in the poem Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

is
motivated to go on another voyage in the poem Ulysses byfor several
reasons. Ulysses states:

Death closes all: but something
ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not
unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

As he compares his
current life with the great events of the Trojan War and his return home, he considers that his
life is being wasted. He is bored with Ithaca and feels that it is time for his son, Telemachus,
to assume the duties of rulership for which he has been trained. Ulysses himself has no real
purpose to stay at home when there is the possibility that despite his age, he might still
manage some last great deeds, giving a sense of purpose to the end of his
life.

What are the best practices for improving an organization's ethical climate?

Many
studies show that business organizations that have a good ethical climate are much more
successful in comparison with organizations and companies that have a poor ethical and
organizational culture. Improving the ethical climate often boosts the company's reputation and
signifies that the organization tries to send the right ethical and moral message; as a result,
the company earns the loyalty of its customers and the respect of its competitors.

There are several ways to improve an organization's ethical climate. For instance, the
leaders and the managers should define and establish the company's core values and attempt to
learn what is truly important in their...

What are the advantages of Data Dictionary as applied in computer system analysis and design?

The data
dictionary was created as a programming tool to address the problem of managing large datasets
over long periods of time. For major software projects, such as airline reservation systems,
military C3I applications, or banking systems, which might involve hundreds of programmers,
designers, and support staff, data integrity is a huge issue. Any particular piece of data may
be created, updated, or accessed by multiple users. Especially as software is updated or new
types of application are created, it's important that all stakeholders are making the same
assumptions about what each piece of data contains, what its format is, and who has permission
to update it under which circumstances. By using a data dictionary, designers have a central
point of control and documentation for making changes and updates to data sets and structures.
It also helps programmers working on updating or replacing legacy systems figure out the basic
data structures of the systems they are renovating and the definitions of individual variables.
Also, it allows easy development of new or ad hoc queries using SQL. 

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What gifts did Malthace give to Leah?

Malthace, or Thacia, becomes a very good friend to Leah. She's one of the very few people to get
close to Daniel's younger sister, in either the physical or the emotional sense. To the outside
world, Leah's a troubled young lady; many believe that she's literally possessed by
demons....

How did Brent change dramatically in Whirligig?

Brent Bishop
appears to us as an aimless teenager in the first chapter of the book. He just goes along with
what life deals to him, even though he often doesnt agree with it. Part of his negative and
lackadaisical attitude probably stems from the fact that he and his parents have moved from
Connecticut to Atlanta and now to the Chicago area, over the course of a few years. He has had
to adapt to new schools and new groups of people, each time. Hes quick to get angry when
something doesnt go his way, too. These factors meshed together lead to the toxic brew that
includes his tirade at the party, his drinking, and his decision to take his hands off the
steering wheel on the highway ride home.

The tragic accident is followed by
Brents sentence to go to the four corners of the country to install whirligigs in Leas honor.
He agrees to take on the challenge. He travels by bus to Washington, California, Florida, and
Maine, and makes a unique whirligig in each place. He finally has a purpose and definite goals
to work toward. He has to make his own choices and to live with the results. If he makes a
mistake with his woodcraft, he cannot allow himself to get angry for very long. He has to
complete the task; he feels required to complete the task, in his own way.
The bottom line is that Brent is maturing. Hes developing his own personality, now that he is on
his own. And while he still keeps some distance from strangers as much as he can, hes also being
more polite to the ones he does interact with. Brent has been transformed by the accident in a
variety of ways.

How to direct Act 1 Scene 3 How would you direct Act 1 scene 3 macbeth, such as : where to have the scenery , different techniques and words , what...

In addition to
the sound suggestions already given, be sure to emphasize the androgynous appearance ofwith
their beards.  There voices must be...

Explain how you would empower an employee.

To empower an employee, the employee should
give them as much freedom, autonomy, and chance to take initiative as possible within the
constraints of the tasks that have to be accomplished. This should begin before the parties sign
the contract of employment. The employer and employee should agree on precisely what the
employee's role is and ensure that the employee wants to do this job and believes that it is
worth doing.

Once they have decided what the employee is
to do (with input from the employee), the employee should be able to have as much autonomy and
flexibility as possible in deciding how this is to be accomplished. Both
parties should ensure that all rules have a purpose and are conducive to the employee's comfort
and productivity. For instance, is it necessary that the employee should be on site between
certain hours? If not, the employee should be allowed to set their own working hours or hours on
site, subject to the achievement of certain targets.

The employee should be
encouraged to implement their own ideas and rewarded if these are successful. Since the employee
has agreed before signing the contract that the business in question is worthwhile, a suitable
use of their time and attention, the employer and employee should act as partners in achieving
this end, sharing ideas about how to achieve maximum results rather than giving and receiving
orders.

In the following poem, what literay devices and what are they good for in the poem? Bombed Last NightGassed last night and gassed the night...

When you are
looking for literary devices used in a poem, just noticing them is step one, but connecting them
to the meaning or theme of the poem is what is really important.  First you have think about
what the poem is about:  four guys in a trench being bombed during a war. 

Some devices to notice:

1.  Repetition of "going to get
gassed" and "going to get bombed"  The repetition reinforces the terror of this
experience.  There is no escaping the weapons.

2.  Repetition of
"They're warning us" and "They're over us" has a similar affect as the above
note.  You have to be careful to think about pronoun reference here -- who is "they"
in each of the stanzas?  How is the enemy warning these soldiers? 

3.  The
strong rhyme and meter make the poem rather "sing-song" which serves asin light of the
seriousness of the situation, and therefore serves to actually reinforce the how awful this
is.

4.  The poet's choice of a first person speaker is important too.  It
makes the experience personal, as does the casual/conversational language, such as the slangy,
"'Cos" and  the cliche, "Thank your lucky stars."  The personal tone also
helps to connect the reader to the speaker of the poem -- perhaps most people would be thinking
and feeling the same way in a trench under fire.

Below are some links to
a couple of sites that have information on other literary devices and techniques.  You could
review these sites, or any other, and look again at your poem for other choices that the poet
made in the creation of this poem.

Compare the poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" by William Blake.

Blake's poem "The Lamb" consists of two stanzas, each one of ten short lines.
The lines are six or seven syllables in length, with slight variations from trochaic trimeter.
Lines 9 and 10 are repetitions of 1 and 2, while lines 12 and 20 repeat lines 11 and 19. The
lamb of the title is apostrophized and questioned:

Dost
thou know who made thee

The rhetorical nature of the
question is emphasized by the lack of a question mark. Theis simple, even childish, with words
such as "Softest," "bright" and "tender" stressing the lambs
innocence and purity. The second stanza provides the answer to...

Foreshadowing In To Kill A Mockingbird

In ,
Aunt Alexandra warnsthat Bob Ewell is the type of individual to hold a grudge, when Atticus
mentions that they have nothing to fear. Alexandra says, 

"I wouldnt be so sure of that, Atticus . . . His kindd do anything to pay off a
grudge. You know how those people are." (Lee, 222)

At the beginning of ,mentions that three small things have happened that were out of
the ordinary and involved Bob Ewell. Scout mentions,

"Ruth Jones, the welfare lady, said Mr. Ewell openly accused Atticus of getting
his job. She was upset enough to walk down to Atticuss office and tell him about it."
(252)

Scout then proceeds to explain how Bob Ewell
attempted to break into Judge Taylor's home and harassed Helen Robinson. Bob's actions indicate
that he still resents those involved in the court case and is holding onto his grudge, which
foreshadows his attack. 

At the end of chapter 27, Scout mentions thatis
going to walk her to Maycomb's Halloween festival at the school and says, "Thus began our
longest journey together" (257). Her statement foreshadows that something dramatic will
take place on their walk to or from the Halloween festival.

In , Lee sets the
ominous mood by describing the quiet, dark autumn night. She foreshadows Bob's attack and 's
presence by symbolically mentioning the calls of a mockingbird and bluejay. Symbolically, Boo
Radley is represented by the mockingbird while Bob Ewell is represented by the bluejay
throughout the novel. As the children walk towards the school, Scout says, 

"High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his
repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of
the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor
Will, Poor Will." (256)

Explain the theme of "The Spider and The Fly" by Mary Howitt.

The theme of "The
Spider and the Fly" is that people should not allow themselves to be manipulated by others
who prey on their vanity. In the poem, the spider first tries to inveigle the fly into entering
the spider's house by telling the fly how comfortable his parlor is and how welcoming he will be
to the fly. The spider then promises the fly a rest on his bed and treats from his pantry. The
fly wisely resists these attempts to get her to enter the spider's house; however, she cannot
resist the spider's flattery, as he praises her wings and eyes and offers her the chance to look
into his mirror. Motivated by her great vanity, the fly enters the spider's lair and is
entrapped. The poet tells the reader not to be tricked by "idle, silly, flattering
words" at the end of the poem. The theme is that vanity will make people susceptible to
doing foolish things, so people need to be wary of others who flatter them only to deceive
them.

What is the importance/symbolism of the sun and the heat in The Stranger?

When evaluating the
significance of the sun in Camus' , we might focus on the connection
between the day of the funeral (when Mersault's mother is buried) and the day that Mersault
commits the murder. 

On each of these days the sun is mentioned as being very
hot, oppressive, and even painful. 

We might conjecture that when Mersault
encounters the extreme heat/sun on the beach he is (consciously or unconsciously) reminded of
his mother's death and burial. The latter sections of the novel offer ample suggestion that
Mersault is affected by his experiences (like his mother's death and his affection for Marie)
even though he denies that these experiences are influencing him.

The
espoused emotional and intellectual neutrality of Mersault's narration of his own psyche is
brought into question by contrasting examples of deeply felt emotion and keenly observed, very
human turmoil.

The second part of the novel deals with Mersault's denial of
an inner life and the ramifications of...

What are the creation stories of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism? What are the similarities and differences?

Both
Christianity and Islam take their creation stories from the Hebrew Bible. Therefore, they are
very similar. However, whereas Christianity has simply adopted the Jewish creation account, the
Quran, as dictated to Muhammed, made some changes. Both accounts say that God or Allah created
the earth in six days, but whereas the Christian account says that on the seventh day God
rested, the Quran states:

We created the heavens and the
earth and all that is between them in six days, nor did any sense of weariness touch
Us.

The Quran also says that Allah created all living
creatures except humans from water, which is not true to the Christian account. However, both
stories tell of the creation of Adam and Eve: the Quran is more vague about how Eve was created.
Adam in the Quran is created from mud, as he is in the Christian account.

Hindu creation accounts differ, but a major one says that Brahma, the creator god, created the
world. Brahma also created a woman, named Shatarupa. She was so...

What is a coming of age accident? like what he did too make him seen older

Well,
technically, coming of age incidents are moments of revelation and insight which a character
experiences and from which he learns.  Given that, I'm not so sure " " really has one
or any coming of age...

Brief sketch of the character of Mr. Pirzada.

In 'When
Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine,' Lilia's parents befriend Mr. Pirzada, a Bengali academic, who has
been awarded a grant by the Pakistani government to study New England foliage. Invariably, Mr.
Pirzada comes to dinner every night; Lilia notices that the adults always seem to be preoccupied
with the news whenever Mr. Pirzada comes to dinner.

The year is 1971, and
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war has broken out between Pakistan and the soon to be Bangladesh. Mr. Pirzada's wife
and seven daughters are home in Dacca. He is a deeply caring family man who writes to his wife
every week and sends comic books to his daughters. When the post proves unreliable because of
the war, Mr. Pirzada has to rely on American media to piece together the events of the
conflict.

Although Mr. Pirzada presents a stoic demeanor while watching the
events of the civil war unfold on television, Lilia notes that he often does strange things.
These seemingly strange idiosyncrasies betray a man who is desperately trying to maintain his
objectivity and his sanity amidst deep uncertainty regarding the fate of his beloved wife and
daughters.

For example, Lilia notes Mr. Pirzada's 'composed and alert'
expression while digesting news images about the Pakistan/Bangladesh conflict; yet, his pocket
watch is set to Dacca time, and he never fails to wind up the watch and to set it in front of
him when he eats dinner with Lilia's family. When an Indian official announces on the news that
India may go to war with Pakistan unless the world finds a way to accommodate Bangladeshi
refugees (from the Bangladesh/Pakistan conflict), Mr. Pirzada's knife slips while carving the
Halloween pumpkin for Lilia. It is obvious that Mr. Pirzada is a man of great depths of emotion
despite seeming otherwise.

Mr. Pirzada's lavish courtesy and affection to
Lilia (he brings her elaborate candies whenever he comes to dinner) highlights his love for
children. Additionally, Mr. Pirzada's heartache and personal anguish regarding his own
daughters' fates may well have motivated his watchful solicitude toward Lilia. When Lilia and
her friend, Dora, go out trick-or-treating, Mr. Pirzada is worried about the girls' safety.
Lilia's mother tries to reassure Mr. Pirzada, but it is obvious that his worries about his own
daughters have colored his perceptions.

Upon his return to Dacca, Mr.
Pirzada's considerate nature is exemplified by his courteous letter informing Lilia's parents of
his family's safety. A man capable of flamboyant courtesy, Mr. Pirzada finds himself finally
understanding the meaning of a simple 'thank you,' although he contends that the two words will
never be enough to express his deep gratitude to Lilia's parents.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown," how does the setting affect the characters and theme?

We learn that the
setting of the story is Salem, Massachusetts: a city known for the infamous witch trails that
took place there in 1692, trials that resulted in the executions of nineteen innocent men and
women and the deaths of several others who perished in jail or as a result of their
imprisonment.It is one of the darkest chapters in American history because people turned on
their neighbors and friends, accusing them of witchcraft without evidence, the result of
hysteria and fear and, perhaps, greed and malice.Rather than just a few people being guilty of
wrongdoing, it turns out that a great many people were actually sinful and dishonest.The people
in Goodman Brown's community have the appearance of being morally upstanding and righteous
individuals, but they are really harboring sinful natures.Even the most upright people are
actually working for the devil.This certainly helps to convey that theme that, no matter how
sinless we may appear, we are all secretly sinful....

Explain the early Japanese successes in Asia and the Pacific in World War II.

Imperial
Japan was very much a martial society, one in which the armed forces enjoyed a high level of
prestige and influence. Combined with an intense nationalism, the militarization of Japanese
life had turned the country into an aggressive power, willing and able to wage war. All of the
available evidence suggests that the Japanese had been preparing for war in South East Asia
since at least 1936. Yet it took the outbreak ofin Europe for the Japanese high command to put
its long-standing military strategy into effect.

Large parts of South East
Asia belonged to European imperial...

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What geographic advantages did the South have over the North?

The main
geographic advantages that the South had come from the fact that they were fighting in the South
as opposed to in the North. Being closer to home, the South was able to keep their supply lines
significantly shorter than the Northern ones, and so were able to get food, ammunition, and
medicine to their soldiers much more quickly than the Northern army could.

In
addition, fighting in the south offered their armies the ability to travel and fight in areas
with which they were familiarincluding the Appalachian Mountain range, which is very rough
terrain. Some guerrilla warfare was employed by members of the Southern armies which was aided
by this terrain.

Finally, the South encompassed a significant areathe South
encompasses at least two thirds of the land area of the country at that time, which made it more
difficult for the Northern army to penetrate and invade.

How do you know that the blacksmith is a honest man?

Longfellow paints a very flattering portrait
of the village blacksmith. This is a man who seems to have no negative character traits
whatsoever. He's incredibly hard-working, he regularly goes to church, he's immensely proud of
his little daughter when she sings in the village choir, and he still cries over his dear,
departed wife. What's not to like?

What's more, the village blacksmith is an
honest man, as Longfellow makes clear in the second stanza:

His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His
brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole
world in the face, For he owes not any man. (Emphasis added)

This is a hard-working man who toils each day at an honest trade. Moreover, he's
fiercely independent and self-reliant; he owes nothing to anyone. But we don't simply have to
take the speaker's word for it. We can reasonably infer that if the village blacksmith weren't
an honest man, then it's highly unlikely that much work would ever come his way. Reputation is
everything in such small villages, and a reputation for dishonesty would almost certainly put
the blacksmith out of business.

How did the production of opium negatively or positively effect Indians?

At the
height of its production in the 19th Century, as many as ten million Indians were involved in
growing and harvesting poppies for the British opium trade. It can be argued that the production
of opium helped Indians by providing relatively stable jobs and supporting the country's
agrarian economy. In this sense, it may have been a boon for some Indians who would have been
unable to find work in other fields.

However, I might argue that opium
production hurt Indians overall. It turns out that the East India Company, which managed this
trade, was highly exploitive of its farmers. Opium farmers usually did not own their fields.
They rented them. The East India Company often required farmers to grow poppies on part of these
fields as a condition of their lease. The farmers were responsible for buying their own seeds,
manure, and equipment to do this. Although the East India Company often offered these farmers
interest-free loans to get them up and running, the cost of producing and harvesting the opium
poppies often outpaced the profits. This trapped many farmers in a series of debt and
contractual obligations which was difficult to get out of. Many Indians were unable to pay off
their debts, which in many ways were foisted upon them by British officials and therefore
remained in perpetual poverty. With so many Indians in this situation, other parts of the
economy suffered as well since there was less money to go around and support
it.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF FANTASY ? GIVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE FUTURE WORKS OF FANTASY SUCH AS HARRY POTER NEW FILM

I think
that the genre of fantasy is going to be more dependent on technology in both process and
product.  In terms of the former, the more technology advances, the more it will be reflected in
the storylines and behaviors of the characters.  When the internet was first emerging, movies
like "The Matrix" series were able to integrate its growth into their stories and
plots.  I think that this will continue as social networking and communication become enhanced
by technology.  It has already become such an ingrained part of our existences that fantasy will
not be immune from it.  The notion of imagination of new and varied worlds will still have
technology as a part of this process.  Along these lines, the products of fantasy will also
include technology.  Recent films like...

what is the significance of this quote The second traveler was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and...

As Goodman
Brown travels through the woods, he meets a man that the narrator says could have been an older
version of Goodman.They might have been taken for father and son. This statement is the first
clue of who the stranger is, but Goodman does not recognize yet. Next, the narrator states that
the stranger had an indescribable air of one who knew the world. He has a certain
sophistication and self-confidence. Finally, the narrator describes the staff that the stranger
holds, which looks like a great black snake. In fact, the narrator swears the staff appears to
twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. Dismissing this last statement as an illusion
brought on by the darkness, the narrator continues the story.

However, the
readers cannot dismiss the clues that Hawthorne has given. Even if Goodman does not understand
right away that he is dealing with Satan himself, the readers must recognize that fact. The
clues are there. The man takes on Goodmans form: the devil is known to be able to take on any
form in order to tempt people. It would make sense that he takes on the form of Goodmans father,
so that Goodman will trust him. He carries a snake staff which seems to come alive: in the
Bible, the devil is known as the serpent who tempts Eve into taking the forbidden apple. Surely,
Satan would be able to make his walking stick come alive since he is supernatural; and what
symbol is more appropriate for him than a snake?

This part of the story is
significant in that it introduces Goodman and the reader to the evil that Goodman encounters,
and it helps to characterize a dark side of the . Although he is a good man, he knowingly
walks into the dark forest at night; he knows what he will encounter there. The forest was an
object of fear to Puritans, who believed that the devil lurked there waiting for someone to
tempt. Anyone who willingly entered the forest was looking for trouble, so Goodman is not as
innocent as he is portrayed.

How does Poe create suspense in "The Pit and the Pendulum" through the use of various literary devices? What are the different types of suspense...

was the
master at using a number of literary devices in his works.is one of his most famous stories. In
this story he sets up great suspense and a wonderful use of literary devices.

The story opens with a man on trial. It is during the Spanish Inquisition, and the
narrator is telling us his story of what has happened to him. We don't know why he is on trial,
and there are seven tall candles on a table. As he watches the candles melt her feels his hope
for surviving diminish. As he goes to the torture chamber, we see Poe using his literary
devices. Poe uses a couple different devices to make us see what is happening. He uses
anadiplosis, which is when the last word or words of a sentence is used as the first word or
words in the next sentence.

"That I could not force my imagination to
regard as unreal. Unreal even when I breathed." The next example could be "For the
moment at last I was free. Free and in the grasp of the inquisition" these are just a
couple of examples he uses.

He also uses vivid descriptions of things. When
he wants to really make something stand out to the reader, he uses such great descriptions. The
description of the torture chamber is an example of this. 

"I now
observed with what horror it is needless to say, that its nether extremity was formed of a
crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward and the
under edge evidently as keen as that of a razor appended to a weighty rod of
brass."

He also uses symbolism throughout all of his works. The darkness
of the torture chamber is a symbol of the darkness happening during the inquisition.

The suspense we feel is so very clever. We have suspense in the fact that we have no
clue what the narrator is on trial for. What was his crime? When he is in the torture chamber,
we have no idea what is going to happen to him or how far the torturer is willing to go. We see
that the narrator is frightened by what he sees at the bottom of the pit, although we are not
told what it is he has seen. We are left wondering the horrors of what could be at the bottom.
Edgar Allan Poe was so creative in his works. He uses words and descriptions that put the reader
inside the story.

What is making Lyddie feel leaden with sadness, on page 43 of Lyddie?

is sad that her family is
separated and she has lost the farm. 

The phrase leaden with
sadness means that you feel so sad that it weighs you down.  It is a .  Lyddie is upset because
she has returned to her farm, where she runs into a runaway slave named Ezekial.  She feels bad
for him and lends him money.  When he says he will quickly pay it back, she sadly tells him
there is no rush.  What use has she for money?  It won't get her family back together.

"Will you think of it as a loan, then?" he asked.
"When I get established, I'll send it to you care of the Stevenses. With interest, if I
can." 

"There's no hurry. Wait till your family comes. I don't know
when my brother and I can ever get back." She felt leaden with sadness. (Ch. 6) 

Lyddie feels the separation of her family dearly.  She tried very
hard to take care of them.  When her mother gave up, she let out the family farm to pay off her
husbands debts.  He had gone west and was never heard from again.  She also hired her children
out.  Charlie went to work for a mill, and Lyddie at a tavern. 

Being back at
the farm is hard for Lyddie.  She is taking a short break from the tavern, and she has visited
her brother.  At the farm, she is just reminded of everything she has lost.  Lyddie is an
independent and strong-willed young lady, and she does not like feeling trapped. 

"I hope you find your freedom as well, Miss Lydia," he
said. It wasn't until she was well down the road that she began to try to figure out what he had
meant. And he was right. At Cutler's, despite Triphena's friendship, she was no more than a
slave. (Ch. 6) 

Lyddie is freed from the factory soon
after, however.  She is fired for being away from the tavern.  She feels this is unfair, since
Triphena gave her permission.  Mrs. Cutler doesnt see it that way, though.  Lyddie makes the
most of it, deciding to take her fate into her own hands and get a job in a
factory.

In 1984, what is the significance of the wine which O'Brien serves Winston and Julia?

Whenandvisit 's apartment, Winston is astonished to discover how the Inner Party lives
and is taken aback by the pleasant smells of "good food and good tobacco." Unlike
Winston's dreary, dilapidated apartment at Victory Mansions, O'Brien's flat has unique,
expensive furniture in it, and he even has his own servant. Both Winston and Julia are also
amazed that O'Brien is able to turn off the telescreen in his apartment and are curious when
O'Brien pours them wine out of a decanter. Winston has never tasted wine before, but he has read
and dreamt about it. Winston compares wine to something from the romantic past and associates it
with the glass paperweight and Mr. Charrington's half-remembered rhymes. Unfortunately, Winston
is disappointed when he drinks the wine and can barely taste it because he is used to drinking
strong gin every day.

O'Brien's wine emphasizes the extreme gap between the
privileged Inner Party and the oppressed Outer Party. O'Brien's wine also...

How did Yayoi Kusama become so famous?

It appears
that Yayoi Kusama's fame was fueled in part by her advent into New York City's avant-garde art
scene in the 1960s.

Sometime in the late 1950s, Kusama wrote to famed artist
Georgia O'Keefe, who to her surprise sent a reply. O'Keefe was key to Kusama's entrance into the
glitzy world of New York art. Upon her arrival in the United States, however, Kusama didn't
immediately venture to New York City. Instead, she made her way to Seattle and showed off her
Infinity Nets paintings at a small art gallery there.

Kusama's "infinity art" paintings involve a nonlinear profusion of dots that
epitomize the concepts of infinity, timelessness, and spiritual obliteration. Kusama credits
Donald Judd, a minimalist artist in his own right, for her eventual fame. In truth, Judd's
profusely positive review of Kusama's art at the Brata Gallery in 1959 may well have propelled
Kusama to the forefront of New York City's art scene. To read about Kusama's relationship with
Judd, please refer to Donald Judd and Yayoi Kusama from the Judd Foundation.

For more about Kusama's art, the links below should be helpful.

href="https://nymag.com/arts/art/features/yayoi-kusama-2012-7/">http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/yayoi-kusama-2012-7/
href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/30/yayoi-kusama-museum-tokyo">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/30/yayo...