Who insists that Simon's death was murder?

In
chapter nine,discovers the dead paratrooper's corpse at the top of the mountain and travels to
the beach, where the boys have begun a tribal dance as rains falls and lightning strikes. In the
midst of the storm, Simon stumbles onto the beach and is mistaken for the beast. The boys
quickly form a circle around Simon's body and proceed to brutally beat him to death. Following
Simon's tragic death, his body is peacefully washed out to sea by the current.

In the next chapter,is the only boy to acknowledge Simon's death and talk about the
events that transpired the previous night.immediately attempts to dismiss the topic and begins
making excuses for their actions. Ralph proceeds to tell Piggy,

"That was Simon...That was murder" (Golding, 224).

Piggy responds by telling Ralph that it was extremely dark and they
were too frightened to realize what they were doing. When Ralph continues to talk about their
vicious, brutal actions, Piggy insists that he was on the outside of the circle. Piggy also
tells Ralph that the entire incident was an accident and blames Simon for trying to scare
them.

Asbegin to walk towards them, Piggy asks Ralph to not let on that they
were involved in Simon's death but Ralph responds by saying, "But we were! All of us!"
(Golding, 226). Piggy then convinces Ralph that he was also on the outside of the circle and the
boys attempt to suppress the memory of the traumatic experience. When Samneric arrive, they also
refuse to take responsibility for their role in Simon's death.

How and where does the battle between good and evil take place in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

In Chapter 8, entitled
"The Last Night," Poole, Jekyll's butler, calls Utterson to Jekyll's house because he
is so concerned about his employer.  Poole fears that someone has murdered Jekyll, and that it
happened some eight days ago, he says, "'when [the household] heard him cry out upon the
name of God; and who's in there instead of him, and
why it stays there, is a thing that cries to Heaven [...].'"  Poole
imagines that whoever hurt his employer is still in the room, though he cannot imagine why such
a person would stay.  He says that for the last week, this person or "'whatever it is that
lives...

Which detail from Gilgamesh (the New English version) best illustrates a courageous hero?

I
think the idea of "courage" in Gilgamesh is more complicated than it might seem. Both
Gilgamesh and Inkidu are strong and brave, but their courage comes from their friendship and
bond as brothers. One example of this is how it through working together they are able to defeat
Humbaba. At first, Inkidu is afraid of challenging Humbaba, and Gilgamesh has to convince him to
be brave (see p 93). Later, after they enter the cedar forest, Gilgamesh is scared, but Inkidu
reassures him, saying that "two boats lashed together will never sink," (p 122)
meaning that as long as they work together, they will triumph. Inkidu is also the one who
convinces Gilgamesh to be brave and cut off Humbaba's head (p 127).

What are the sins of Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? Why I can say that he has committed the greater sin?

The biggest
sin thatcommits, aside from the adultery and fornication he already has committed with , is the
fact that he does not own up to what he does and continues to lie to his flock. He does this
while secretly inflicting private punishment upon himself. He does this by perpetuating the
image of the "young divine" that the villagers have bestowed upon him.

Not only does he do this to his flock, but he also does this to Hester. He never
supports her, and the only times that Hester and Dimmesdale get to speak and make
"plans" for the future are at the times when she orchestrates the meetings. To add to
the shocking nature of his behavior, he is neither loving of nor entirely accepting of his own
daughter, , even as he is not entirely loving, forgiving or accepting of himself as we learn at
the end of the novel when his chest and back are bared.

The reason why you
can say that Dimmesdale commits the greatest sin (if "greater sin" means as between
his and Hester's...

What are the principles and elements of art? Please explain each aspect of them. like what are the principles and elements of art.

This is a
fairly interesting topic.  I find it to be so because it strikes at the heart of what it means
to define "art."  I think that some would argue that there are specific principles or
elements of art and help to define what art is.  Yet, there might be an equal number of
individuals who would argue that art is a...

In Scene 8, who is Huey Long and why would Stanley admire him?

The
previous answer set up the historical context for why Stanley would admire the policies of Huey
Long. Stanley agrees with the idea that a man should be the master of his own home. Like Long,
Stanley casts a critical eye on the wealthy elite class of the south, represented in the
character of Blanche, a former wealthy southern belle who now lacks money but more than makes up
for that with her sense of class snobbery. She looks down on Stanley and his working class
lifestyle, and treats him like an animal.

Additionally, Stanley's tyrannical
character resembles the portrait Long's opponents painted of him: as a potential dictator. Long
was considered...

Battle Royal is constructed on the phenomenon of a spectacle. Why did Ellison construct the story this way? What notions of race does he want...

A
spectacle can be defined as "something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or
entertaining." A spectacle also emphasizes the need to be an eye-catching or dramatic
public display. Readers can't know for sure why Ellison decided to construct this particular
event this way, but I do think a major goal of his was to make thescene as viscerally repulsive
to readers as possible. The...

What advantages are there in looking at the world through the lens of the sociological imagination?

The main
advantage of having a sociological imagination is that you can see what's happening underneath
the surface of reality.gives us an insight into the underlying structures of our day-to-day
experience and how they impact on our lives.

Contrary to what many of us
might think, we are not isolated individuals trapped in our own little worlds; we are connected
to each other through highly complex networks based on class, race, and kin. It is these
networks which, to a large extent, determine who and what we are and give our lives meaning.
They also provide sociologists with the opportunity to conduct the kind of in-depth empirical
research that provides us with a greater understanding of how we are all connected....

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In what ways is the town of Holcomb, Kansas ordinary? In what ways is it unique?

Holcomb is
characterized by clear blue skies and wheat plains. It is an isolated region located in West
Kansas. Buildings in the town are separated by train tracks. The land is vast and has scenic
views. People in Holcomb keep horses and cattle. Their main economic activity is farming. Based
on the description above, Holcomb seems like an ordinary town. The authors description of
Holcomb in the story makes it seem like a peaceful town.

Holcomb is
different when compared to other towns because of the peoples sense of fashion, accent, and way
of life. Furthermore, it is a small,...

Which images in Edgar Allen Poe`s "The Raven" contribute to its gloomy atmosphere?

The first
image that leads to the gloomyof the poem appears in the first line, where the speaker describes
a midnight dreary.  Both words evoke gloom.  Even the words many a quaint and curious volume
of forgotten lore are kind of creepy and make you think of a spooky story.

Referring to the room as a chamber adds to the spooky atmosphere.  The word just sounds so
much gloomier than some simple word like room.  The images continue...

Compare and contrast wartime, presidential and congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction.

Wartime
Presidential reconstruction was represented by President Lincoln's "ten per cent
plan," issued in 1863 which provided that new state governments could be formed when ten
per cent of voters in the 1860 election pledged loyalty to the Union, and received a general
amnesty. He excluded former Confederate generals and government officials, as well as those who
left federal government positions to join the Confederacy. Congress responded with the
Wade-Davis Bill which required a loyalty oath of a majority of those eligible to vote, and those
serving in state constitutional conventions must swear to "past loyalty" to the Union.
New state constitutions were required to abolish slavery, not allow former Confederate officials
to hold office, and repudiate any debt from the Confederacy. Lincoln's plan died with him; the
Wade Davis Bill died earlier when Lincoln pocket vetoed it.

After the war,
true "Radical" reconstruction became the order of the day. The MilitaryAct divided the
south into military districts with a military commander as its chief executive. The commander
would determine who could serve on state constitutional conventions, and ratification of the
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was a condition of acceptance.

The
Military Reconstruction Act was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson, but Congress overrode the
veto. Johnson's plan for reconstruction was similar to Lincoln's but it was blocked by
Congressional Republicans.  

What are key rhetorical devices or techniques used by Old Major in his speech?

I think
that one of the most critical rhetorical devices thatuses is the connection with his audience. 
Old Major specifically speaks to the animals in a manner that makes relevant his ideas. For
example, he specifically refers tobeing taken to the Knacker's.  This is something that is a
fear for animals like Boxer, and in doing so, Old Major is able to directly connect what he is
saying to the audience listening.  Another rhetorical device is that Old Major offers a contrast
between what is and what can be.  This parallel provides a sense of hope to the animals, and
allows for a sense of inspiration to be present.  Old Major's inspirational quality is something
that enables him to be able to reach the animals in a way that allows them to see what can be. 
This is seen particularly in the pigs, who sit in the front and pay attention to what is being
said.  Old Major's stress about his own age is another rhetorical device that helps to bring out
his ideas to the audience.  His fundamental argument is that none of what he says is for his
benefit, as he is going to be moving on soon enough.  Rather, he speaks for the animals and
those who will come after him.  In this, he is able to provide another connection of meaning to
his audience.

How does The Scarlet Letter relate to today's world?

Though
modern-day America has evolved from the Puritanistic New England colonies of our forefathers,
manythat are present in are still relevant to today's society: judgment
towards women (and men) of a sexual nature, hypocrisy in religious figures, and the isolation
that people on the outside of a community might feel. These are just a few examples of the way
that The Scarlet Letter can relate to today's world.

Judgment towards women (and men) of a sexual
nature

Though some generations and cultures in the last two
hundred years have been more accepting of sexuality than others, there is still a lingeringof
judgment for those who are sexual outside of the accepted norms of the society. For , her
society expected all women to be virginal and pure until marriage. While we might not have the
same expectations of young women in American culture now, women and men might still feel
criticized and pressured if their sexual behavior is seen as deviant by today's standards.

Hypocrisy in religious figures

While Hester is often perceived as a victim in Hawthorne's story, the author portraysin
a more negative light. It is ironic that the person who represents the religion is equally
complicit as Hester in violating that religion. This treatment of Dimmesdale calls attention to
the double standards for men and women in the society as well as the idea that Dimmesdale's
status protects him. We might apply this idea to other figures in our society and wonder if the
status of politicians, leaders, and religious figures protects them in some ways while at the
same time punishing them more harshly in the public eye should their misdeeds come to light.

Isolation for people outside the
community

It is obvious that Hester and her daughter are
branded and set apart from society in the novel, but it is worth comparing this isolation to the
isolation people might feel today who are on the fringes of our society. For example, consider
the homeless, the elderly, prostitutes, or even foster children leaving the system as they age
out. Each of these groups might feel that they have a certain stigma they carry around just as
Hester carried her letter, and that stigma might cause them difficulty in finding their role in
society. In relating this novel to our world, it is worth asking ourselves if we might be
treating these groups with the same derision that Hester's society showed in shutting her out of
their community.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a market economy?

A true
market economy exists when supply and demand control the amount of goods and services in the
market. There is no government interference in a true market economy. This has never happened
before, as governments have always at least used tariffs and internal taxes in order to regulate
commerce; however, there have been times that government has been less active in managing the
economy than it is today.

This economy has several advantages. People are
free to produce and buy as many goods as their income will allow. A person is free to decide
what to do with his/her money.

This economy also has many disadvantages.
There are no protections for consumers. They are not protected against business fraud or faulty
products. There are no protections for workers either, as they are only paid what the market
dictates. While they are free to take other jobs, they may be limited in their options due to
ability or location. The market can also produce periods of economic success followed by extreme
market downturns.

The unregulated market has never existed in the United
States, but it closely resembles the period of the Gilded Age in which a minority of Americans
controlled most of the nation's wealth. While there were tariffs to control the prices of
imports, businesses could pay workers anything, and businesses could also create products
regardless of safety. It was a great time for large business but a horrible time to be in the
working class or a consumer.

How does Voltaire show the hypocrisy of the clergy in chapters 10 to12 ? Candide by Voltaire

While
'sparodies the theory of optimism as promulgated by Wilhelm von Leibnitz, it also satirizes the
Catholic Church and its religious orders.  Here are some examples of hison the hypocrisy of the
religious orders:

• In Chapter X of Candide ,
  Cunnegonde has been sold to a Hebrew, Don Isaachar. But, Cunnegonde resists the overtures of
  Isaachar; one day when she attends Mass at church, the Grand Inquisitor sees her and desires
  her.  He offers to buy her from Isaachar because, he says, she should not live with a Jew.  One
  day, in order to ward...

What does the masked figure represent in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

In one sense, the masked
figure who crashes Prince Prospero's party is representative of the disease -- called the Red
Death -- that ravages the kingdom.  The disease is referred to as the Red Death because it is
characterized by the hideous quantities of blood that seem to pour out of a person when they
have contracted it.  The narrator says of the disease, "Blood was its Avatar and its seal
-- the redness and the horror of blood" because its victims would literally bleed from all
their pores before they died.  The masked figure comes, having "assume[d] the type of the
Red Death."  His clothes are "dabbled in blood -- and his broad brow, with all the
features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror."  He is the disease,
personified.

However, the masked figure is more than just the disease.  He
can be interpreted as a symbol of death, in general, too.  His mask looks like the face of
"a stiffened corpse," and he is first seen by Prince Prospero as he stalks through the
seventh room of black and red.  This is the only room to be characterized by two colors, and so
they both must be significant.  Just as red is associated here, with the fatal disease, so black
is often symbolic of death in general.  Likewise, clocks are often symbolic of mortality and
death, and so the ebony clock in this room provides another clue that anything associated with
the room is likewise connected to death.  It is not the Red Death, the disease, that holds
"illimitable dominion over all" but rather death in general.  No human, no matter
their status, can escape death, though the prince clearly thought that he could.  Thus, the
masked figure represents both the bloody disease as well as death, generally
speaking.

How is propaganda used in Animal Farm?

Propaganda
is satirized throughthe pig. He symbolizes Stalin and the government's control over all media
and information being given to the peasants. Because they were uneducated, the peasants could
not follow twisted or illogical arguments when they were presented  by someone whom they
respected and considered intelligent.  Furthermore, just like in Soviet Russia, the people had
once trusted the government's intentions, so they trust the pigs and Squealer, and don't want to
seem ungrateful or confrontation by questioning things that confuse them (especially because
they know they don't have to the ability to argue back). 

What are the structure, themes, thoughts, setting, and diction of Endgame by Samuel Beckett?

Beckett
wrote his plays in French and then translated his own work into English; that might partially
explain the eccentricity of his dialogue. In attempting to verbalize the Beckett-ian system, or
rhetorical context of his work, the reader should start with existentialism. More specifically,
I think Beckett is saying that the devices of civilization have proven to be meaningless, and
this determines how estranged or interdependent people have become in response, acting out their
anachronistic social roles to create a solid existence from nothingness.

The
setting is a room. The quartet of characters, Hamm and Clov, and Hamm's parents, are each
impaired or paralyzed and live further compartmentalized existences. Master and servant do
everything they can to function within their biodome-like isolation. Their conversation is
clipped, rendered into shorthand, things already said, repeated in a ritualistic loop. They're a
bickering duo, as if they are former WWI soldiers, forgotten in their...

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In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," give at least three supporting details for Dee's actions and speech that demonstrate that she is a "spoiled brat."

Dee and
Maggie are sisters in 's short story, "." Dee has "found" her African roots,
and wants nothing to do with her African-American heritagepassed down by
ancestors who worked tirelessly to survive in a foreign land and provide a better life for their
children.

Dee is very cosmopolitan, has taken an African name and dresses in
authentic African garb. She has been formally educated, while her mother and sister live in the
tiny shack "back home." Dee is, without question, a brat. The mother (the narrator)
describes Dee.

I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But
that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She
used to read to us...She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge
we didn't need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at
just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.

Dee is extremely self-centered, thinking only how her family...

Why did Arthur Miller name his play "The Crucible"?

A
crucible can be defined as a container capable of withstanding intense heat. In the play
a number of characters finds themselves having to do much the same thing.
Heat in this sense is not just allegorical; it's also literal. The standard punishment for those
convicted of witchcraft was public burning. Anyone so condemned effectively had to go through
three crucibles, or trials: first, the trial of public opinion; then, a formal criminal trial in
a court of law; and finally, the trial of the actual execution itself.

Each
test is significant as it removes the individual's outer...

Examine the theme of identity in Mahesh Dattani's Tara.

If we look
at identity as representing a person's self conception, I think that the theme of identity
in Tara relates to how the individual's notion of self collides with the
external, social construction.  Dattani applies this in terms of gender in India.  Born as
conjoined twins, Tara and Chandan, girl and boy, are to be separated.  Their parents decide that
the boy, Chandan, is to be shown preferential treatment. The way in which the separation happens
displays more advantage to Chandan, making Tara's condition difficult and leading to her death.
 

In examining the theme of identity, Dattani suggests that subjective
constructions of identity often fly in the face of social expectation.  The individual must make
an active choice as to how they construct their own sense of self.  Identity becomes the net
result of our choices.  Dattan argues that in forming our identity, human beings are what they
choose to tolerate.  Thus, a world in which there is gender separation and prejudice are
external impositions that we internalize.  Chandan recognizes this as his identity is formed.
 While he might be "Dan" to the rest of the world, his own identity is impacted
through the collision of social constructions of gender and his own internal sense of love
towards his sister: "Like we've always been.  Inseparable. The way we started in life.  Two
lives and one body in one comfortable womb.  Till we were forced out €“ and separated.   In this
vision, the womb is internal. It is the realm of the subjective where there is a sense of
equality in identity. However, when there is "separation" and being "forced
out," individual identity becomes submerged by external notions of the good.  Dattani is
suggesting that human identity is poised between the world of the subjective and being
"forced out" and "separated" from one another.  This theme is explored in
the characterizations of Dan and Bharti, son and mother, who live with the consequences of
choosing one vision over the other in the development of their identities.  Chandan must live
with the love he has for his sister, and the social advancement that places his interest above
hers.  This condition of being imprints itself on his identity, helping to develop Dattani's
theme that individual identity is the result of a collision between subjective belief and
external reality.  The choices that the individual makes in navigating both play a profound role
in their identity, and in what they do and how they shall live.

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Post ONE sentence describing each element: Line,Color,Texture,Form,Space as expressed in the Impressionism art example topic for The Artist's Garden...

Because Impressionism was the first of the great modern movements in art, its struggle
was more protracted and severe than other more radical movements such as Cubism and Surrealism.
Among the most important artists of Impressionism were Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. As they
found themselves making compromises to appease the Salon, they began to follow their own
impulses and paint with brighter colors and more freedom of expression. Developing such
techniques as the play of light upon color, the Impressionists became effective in painting
landscapes en plein air (outdoors) rather than in the traditional
studios. 

• Claude Monet's The Artist's Garden at
  Vetheuil

LINE

As an
Impressionistic painting, Monet's depiction of his garden has no definitive line; instead, line
is created by a series of brushstrokes which, looked at from a distance, give the illusion of a
line.

COLOR

Color is created by the play of light, a
technique that reflects some of the...

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When Winston and Julia go to O'Brien's apartment, what does Winston find particularly remarkable about the telescreen?

Whenandarrive at 's apartment to speak to him
about joining the secret Brotherhood, they are astonished and impressed by his luxurious home.
Unlike Winston in his dilapidated apartment complex, Victory Mansions, O'Brien enjoys the
privilege of having a butler and access to fine food and good tobacco in a comfortable
environment. Before O'Brien speaks to Winston and Julia about the Brotherhood, he turns off his
telescreen, which surprises Winston and Julia. Since O'Brien is an Inner Party member, he has
the ability to turn off his telescreen, which is something that Winston and Julia cannot do.
With the telescreen turned off, O'Brien proceeds to speak about the Brotherhood, and both
Winston and Julia express their desire to join the secret organization. After their brief
conversation, O'Brien informs them that he must turn on the telescreen to avoid suspicion.
Unfortunately, Winston and Julia are not aware that O'Brien is a loyal Party memberor that he
will eventually arrest and torture them.

My teacher says that in The Fighting Ground, Jonathan fights a battle inside of himself. What does this mean?

Although
the story only covers twenty-four hours, Jonathan is fighting an internal battle the entire
time. He struggles with issues of patriotic activism contrasted with detached security, courage
and cowardice, and loyalty and betrayal.

Jonathan has heard about the coming
war, so at the first opportunity, he decides to show his patriotism by joining the revolutionary
forces. His father had warned him to stay home and out of the conflict, but Jonathan will not
listen. His desire to serveand to experience adventurewins that particular battle.

Once he gets into a fighting unit and enters the fighting, his zeal cools considerably.
He had assumed that he was a brave person and would act courageously, even nobly, to distinguish
himself. When presented with a choice between advancing and retreating, he chooses the latter
and flees to the relative safety of the woods. Although he does not stay there long, it is long
enough to make him realize that being brave is no simple matter.

Once
involved with the patriot and Hessian forces, he struggles again to be convinced that the
Hessians are simply the evil enemy. Some individual men treat him kindly, so he in turn has
compassion for them, which leads him to try to disobey an officers order. Now he is really torn,
for he cannot determine which decision is right. By the time he returns home, his internal
battle seems to have declared a temporary truce, but he has learned that this battle will
resurface every time he goes off to fight.

Paying particular attention to the character of Squealer from Animal Farm, how is language used as an instrument of social control?

uses
language to keepin power.  His use of language helps to construct truth that is acceptable to
the power structure.  He uses language as a means to consolidate power.  This conception of
control extends to the use of language to explain both past and present in a manner that
enhances the power of the status quo.  In this light, truth is an element that can be malleable
through language.  His use of language is designed to enhance the control...

What warning does Prince Escalus give the street brawlers in act 1, scene 1, of Romeo and Juliet?

In the
opening scene of the play, a brawl ensues between servants of the Montague and Capulet
households, which disrupts the quiet Verona streets and introduces the audience to the
longstanding family feud. During the melee, members of both households join the fight before
Prince Escalus and his escorts arrive to put an end to the brawl. Once Prince Escalus arrives on
the scene, he severely chastises both households for disturbing the peace three times and
proceeds to issue an edict.declares that if any member of the Montague or Capulet family
disturbs the peace again they will be executed. This decree seems severe but is an appropriate
response to the ongoing violent conflict between both families. Despite issuing the edict,
Prince Escalus allowsto live and banishes him from Verona after he killsin the
streets.

In Romeo and Juliet, to which two characters is Prince Escalus related?

Prince
Escalus, sovereign of Verona, is related to Countand , according to the text of Shakespeare's
. In those days a relative was often referred to as a "kinsman."
Paris is an important character because his request to marryfigures prominently in the plot.
Mercutio is one of the most interesting characters with his unpredictable nature and razor wit.
Both characters will end up dead.

Shakespeare indicated Prince Escalus's
relationship to Mercutio in 's explanation of the events which take place inin which both
Mercutio andare killed. In the aftermath of the bloodshed, Benvolio addressesby
saying,

O noble prince, I can discover all
The
unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
There lies the man, slain by young ,
That
slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.

Benvolio is
referring to Tybalt as the man who "slew" (killed) the prince's kinsman, "brave
Mercutio."

 

Count Paris is also discovered
to be related to the prince inafter Romeo has killed him because of a misunderstanding over
Romeo's presence at Capulet's tomb. Paris has come to pay his respects to Juliet, who is
supposedly dead, and Romeo has come to commit suicide by her side. After killing Paris, Romeo
recognizes him and says,

In faith, I
will.Let me peruse this face.
Mercutios kinsman, noble County Paris!

It is probable that since Paris is
related to Mercutio, then he must also be related to Prince Escalus. This relationship is
confirmed later in the scene when the prince laments not only the deaths of Romeo and Juliet but
also his kinsmen (plural). Moreover, the prince chastises himself for not doing enough to end
the feud between the Montagues and Capulets:

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill
your joys with love,
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a
brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

In Macbeth, which characters (besides Macbeth and Lady Macbeth) choose greed over loyalty, and what does this do to their perception of loyalty?...

This
is an interesting question. Obviously, as you've noted, the theme of greed and how this can lead
to the destruction of loyalty is primarily embodied byhimself.

Early in the
play,tellsthat the "loyalty [he] owe[s]" to the king is so valuable that it "pays
itself," stating that all he is devoted to serving Duncan and protecting his honor.
Obviously, however, Macbeth's greed for power soon overtakes these feelings. Although his wife
at first convinces him to kill Duncan, he becomes increasingly greedy and more disloyal, even to
the point that he orchestrates the murder of his best friend, , rather than allowing Banquo to
live to "produce kings" (rather than Macbeth's line taking on the throne).

Macbeth's argument for this...

What are some major themes of Jack Kerouac's work On the Road?

s book
explores a variety of themes, including the following

• The desire for adventure
• The desire for
  freedom
• The yearning for originality
• An opposition to
  restrictions
• Sexual entanglements
• Romantic
  relationships
• The ways reality complicates or subverts fantasies and
  dreams
• Friendship
• Geographical exploration


• Travel
• Relations between males
• Relations
  between males and females
• The traits of young people


• The post-World War II period in the United States
• The importance
  of literature
• The importance of individual experience


• Unconventional behavior
• Tensions within families


• Friendship as an alternative to disappointing family relationships


• Health and illness
• Foreign cultures (especially the culture of
  Mexico)
• The distinctive features of different parts of the U. S.
  
• The monotony of everyday, conventional existence
• The
  attractions of novelty
• The ideas and ideals of Friedrick
  Nietzsche
• The appeal of the western U. S. as an alternative to the
  east
• Emotional enthusiasm and physical energy
• Physical
  sensation and mental stimulation
• The insignificance, in an ideal world, of
  racial divisions
• The joy provided by madness, ecstasy, inspiration, and
  sublimity
• The value of spontaneity
• The importance and
  appeal of music, especially jazz, as in the following passage:

. . . Whoo! said Dean.  He was rubbing his chest, his
belly; the sweat splashed from his face.  Boom, kick, that drummer was kicking his drums down
the cellar and rolling the beat upstairs with his murderous sticks, rattlety-boom!  A big fat
man was jumping on the platform, making it sag and creak.  Yoo!  The pianist was only pounding
the keys with spread-eagled fingers, chords, at intervals when the great tenorman was drawing
breath for another blast €“ Chinese chords, shuddering the piano in every timber, chink, and
wire, boing!

 

 

The narrator explains that the valley of sleepy hollow is a place of wonder, mischief, and powerful unknowns. This foreshadows what to the reader?

A
description of a setting can often foreshadow events to come in the novel. In this story, the
description of Sleepy Hollow in " " directly foreshadows the supernatural events that
take place. Particularly, the phrase...

How is Animal Farm a satire on the Russian Revolution?

is a satirical , so all the characters in the story are representative of someone or
some group that was key in the Russian Revolution.  Comparisons are as follows:

• :  Karl Marx
• :  Joseph Stalin
• : 
  Leon Trotsky
• :  propaganda
• and Clover:  loyal
  masses
• Benjamin:  skeptics
• Nine Dogs of Napoleon: KGB
  (secret police)
• Moses:  religion
• Mr. Jones:  Czar
  Nicholas II

In addition to the characters, the concept of
animalism as defined by Old Major in the novel is similar to the concept of Marxism.  The
characters in the novel have traits and perform actions that are similar to those of their
historical counterparts.  For example, after Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm, he asks all
the animals to confess their dealings with him.  After these confessions, Napoleon has the
animals killed by the dogs.  This is representative of Stalin's treatment of those who were
caught, tortured, and forced to confess only to be killed by the KGB for harboring secrets
against the state.  The novel may be considered abecause it shows how ridiculous the behaviors
of the animals are as they attempt to throw Animalism aside to gain power and control (i.e. the
pigs walking on two legs while with the humans).

Monday 20 October 2014

Why does O'Brien call Winston the "last man" in 1984?

During
's torture in the Ministry of Love,is attempting to make Winston give up hope that humanity will
prevail and the citizens will successfully rebel against the Party. Winston believes in the
indomitable spirit of Man and tells O'Brien that he considers himself a man. O'Brien replies by
saying,

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.
Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors (, 340).

By
calling Winston the last man, O'Brien is emphasizing the Party's superiority and complete
control over humanity. The Party has cultivated an environment where virtually every citizen
reveres, worships, and fears Big Brother. The Party is also in the process of completely
eradicating independent thought, and Winston is one of the last remaining political dissidents,
who believes in independence and autonomy from the government. O'Brien is also highlighting the
futility of Winston's rebellion against the Party by calling him the last man. He is essentially
encouraging Winston to give up his pursuit of independence and completely embrace Big Brother
and everything the Party represents.

Are the behaviors of the main characters in "Cranes" consistent with the plot? Explain.

The
answer to this question is subjective, and you are welcome to go either way and defend your
stance. Personally, I would to say that characters' behavior is consistent with the plot. More
often than not, students of mine like this story. That generally occurs when both plot and
character are meshed well and work hand in hand.

Songsam and Tokchae
are...

Is this a good thesis on Frederick Douglass for my research paper? Frederick Douglass, one of the most significant abolitionist speakers, greatly...

I think it's a
great example of an intro thesis sentence, especially for AP US History if that's the class
you're in.  I think you could use a clarifying sentence, to hammer the message home.  Something
that argues the same point in a slightly different way sdo the reader knows without doubt what
the thesis is.

what is the nature of his obsession with the axolotis

The
narrators apparent obsession with axolotls is key to what the Cortazar's story suggests about
how our minds relate to the world. seems to describe the narrator observing axolotls in a zoo
aquarium, but by the end of the story, it seems to be narrated by an axolotl staring out at a
human. The story makes this shift in an extremely subtle way, so you might characterize the
story as a Mobius strip: two sides with a single, unbroken surface.

The story
begins with the narrator mentioning his visits to a zoo/botanical garden in Paris (the Jardin
des Plantes), and how he became obsessed with the axolotls in the aquarium.

I would lean up against the iron bar in front of the tanks and set
to watching them. There's nothing strange in this, because after the first minute I knew that we
were linked, that something infinitely lost and distant kept pulling us together.

The use of the first-person plural voice (we, our, etc.) links
the axolotls and the narrator, making this the first step in the storys strange twist. Theres a
subtle difference between saying I knew that we were linked and saying I knew that I was
linked to the axolotls. The former immediately brings the self (the narrator) and the other
(the axolotls) together.

Instead of looking on the outside world in terms of
what is separate from ourselves, or outside of our minds, the narrator sees something ostensibly
external as an intimate part of who he is. Theres a powerful philosophical idea at play here. On
one hand, to imagine that our minds are fundamentally shaped by what is outside of us suggests
that we are less psychologically independent that we might normally imagine. To look at things
from the flipside, however (as Axolotl loves to do), if our minds and the external world are
so linked, then our minds also have some role in shaping what we see.

And
thats exactly what we observe as the narrative of Axolotl unfolds €“ by its end, we see that
the narrators observation of the axolotls, or what he imagines them to be like,
becomes the axolotl. When the story ends with the axolotl-narrator staring
out on the world, we have come full circle (or full twist): the observation of the axolotls
initially shaped the narrators mind, but then the narrator's mind observing the axolotls changed
the very notion of what the axolotls were.

The story also suggests why
axolotls, of all things, were what the narrator became obsessed with in this way. He
states:

It was their quietness that made me lean toward
them fascinated the first time I saw the axolotls. Obscurely I seemed to understand their secret
will, to abolish space and time with an indifferent immobility.

The silent, undeveloped nature of the axolotls (who live their lives as perpetual
adolescents, biologically speaking) became the perfect vehicle for the narrators
musings.

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Please suggest for me some research areas in banking. I am an undergraduate in Finance.

I would
suggest starting with the W's: who, what, where, when, why, and how?

For
"who", you could research who is banking. Are homeowners taking out more or fewer
loans? What about students? Who is using microfinance in the developing world? Similarly, you
could focus on a particular bank or CEO.

For "what", topics are
also easy to think of. What products are banks selling more or less of? What world events or
trends affect banking (e.g. the fall in oil and commodities prices, the Federal Reserve's
tightening of monetary...

Comparing the standard of living today to a hundred years ago: how have changes in technology affected the standard of living in the United States?...

If you want
to compare the standard of living today to that of 100 years ago, you need to have a standard
unit of measurement. The generally accepted unit of measurement is the real Gross Domestic
Product or GDP. A high GDP shows that an economy is producing more output, and people are making
and spending more as a result. 100 years ago, the real GDP of the United States economy was
roughly half a trillion dollars. Back then, they didnt have the internet or artificial
intelligence to help them with office and manufacturing tasks.

Thanks to
modern advancements in technology, productivity has increased. Today, the real GDP of the United
States is $19 trillion. That is a significant jump. As a result, the standard of living is quite
high when you compare to that of 100 years ago.

Interestingly, the minimum
wage requirement wasnt established until 1938. Back then, it was 25 cents an hour. Today, the
minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Thats a 2,800% increase in less than 100 years. If you go with
the above figures, the minimum wage rate has increased at a faster rate than the real
GDP.

If the wage rates are readjusted with the standard of living, they would
be much lower than they are right now. Therefore, the minimum wage should not adapt to the
standard of living measures because it would lead to less income for the
people.

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Sunday 19 October 2014

What is the plot, rising action, falling action and other elements of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving?

One element
not mentioned in the examination of 's story, "" is point of view.  This story and
"Rip van Winkle" are both from Irving's The Sketch Book.  Both
tale are supposedly handed down from

the papers of the
late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curous in the Dutch
history of the province and the maners of the decendants from its primitive settlers.  His
historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books, as among men...

Thus, the tales of Knickerbocker are handed down, and Irving
presents himself as the narrator of one of his tales.  So, he is narrating a story that has told
to Knickerbocker.  Then, within the tale told thrice, the characters in "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" tell stories themselves, with all the narrators being unreliable.  Without
any reliable narrator, Irving has fun having Ichabod Crane frightened by the story of the
Headless Horseman, a story within a story.

Clearly, the emotional distance
that all these unreliable narrators create keeps the reader from empathizing with any character.
In this manner the humorous tone prevails as the reader, then, focuses more upon it. And, it is
this humor as Irving describes the unlikely figure of Crane who supposes himself a courter of
Katrina van Tassel and who ingratiates himself to the old wives of the community that has made
this story distinctively American and a favorite for many generations.

What are some quotes about Scrooge that show his personality and some quotes about his desires/ambitions. some quotes about his appearance and also...

Of all the
memorable characters created by , Scrooge is probably the best known.  In fact, his very name
has become synonymous with that of a cold-hearted miser.  In his novella, Dickens portrays
Scrooge with words that are equally as familiar as his name-- 
"Bah!...Humbug!" 

In Stave I, the reader
learns much about the personality of Scrooge, who does not even stop working when his partner of
many years, Marley, dies.  Nor does he bother to paint over Marley's name; indifferent to his
absence, Scrooge even answers to his name if a client should call him "Marley." 
Dickens describes him as

...a tight-fisted hand at the
grindstone, Scrooge!   A squeezing, wrenching, gasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!  Hard
and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and
self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.  The cold within him froze his old features, ripped
his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue
and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.  A frosty rime was on his head, and on he eyebrows,
and his wiry chin.  He carried his own low temperature about with him; he iced his office in the
dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. 

In
a small cell the clerk of Scrooge's countinghouse works where Scrooge can keep his eyes upon
him.  Scrooge is so parsimonious that he

has a very small
fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.

When his nephew enters his business, heartily wishing him "A
Merry Christmas, uncle!  God save you!" Scrooge gruffly replies,
"Bah!...Humbug!"  He tells his nephew to desist in his wishes or he "will lose
[his] situation," and he refuses his nephew's kind invitation to come to Christmas dinner,
as well, asking him why he has married and dismissing him by growling, "Good
afternoon!"

When two men enter, requesting charity for the poor, Scrooge
asks, "Are there no prisons?" and "no Union workhouse?" in which the poor
are confined.  One of the men tells him that some would rather die than go to the workhouse; to
this, Scrooge dismisses them,

"It is not my
business....It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not interfere with other
people's.  Mine occupies me constantly.  Good afternoon, gentlemen!"   

Finally, the day draws to its close and Scrooge must release his
clerk, Bob Cratchit, but not before he grumpily says, "...you don't think me ill-used when
I pay a day's wages for no work" as he must allow the man a holiday on Christmas.  Ordering
the man to "Be here all the earlier" the next day, Scrooge reluctantly lets the man go
home.

Clearly, Ebenezer Scrooge is a misanthrope who shares no warmth with
any man.  As he dismisses his nephew, Scrooge declares,

"If I
could work my will,...every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be
boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.  He
should!"

Saturday 18 October 2014

In Animal Farm, if Napoleon teaches us that power corrupts, what does Snowball teach?

When
one reviews 's activities and what he said, it becomes evident that he had all the animals'
interests at heart. He selflessly and tirelessly dedicated himself to their cause, which was to
ensure a better life for all animals, free from bondage, abuse and exploitation. This aspect is
clearly illustrated when he gets involved in the education of the animals, especially the less
intelligent ones, his indefatigable work with his committees to ensure that the farm is run
better and that everyone is involved, and his plans to build a windmill which would be used to
generate electricity and make life much more comfortable and easier for everyone on the
farm.

There is no evidence that Snowball bore any malice. He is depicted as
good and is the perfect foil for , who only had his own interests at heart. Although he occupied
a position of authority, Snowball did not abuse his power to manipulate and exploit the other
animals, whereas Napoleon did. In spite of benefiting from the windfall apples and the milk
which disappeared, just as the other pigs did, Snowball never sought greater privilege or
comfort for himself. He clearly wanted all the animals to, on the whole, benefit
equally.

However, Snowball's kindness and hard work all came to nothing for
he stood in the way of Napoleon's ambition. Napoleon wanted sole power and would ruthlessly
pursue his goal. He was sly and carefully planned his ascension to become a dictator. He chose
an opportune moment to ruthlessly get rid of Snowball by setting his dogs on him and chase him
off the farm. He then demonized him and eventually turned the animals against him so that he was
despised and seen as a traitor who was intent on destroying everything the animals hoped to
achieve.

Napoleon used propaganda, manipulation, ruthless violence and
threats to assert his authority and soon the animals found themselves even worse off than they
had been under Jones and his men.

I believe that the lesson to
be learnt from Snowball is that good can be overwhelmed by evil if those who do good are not
wary of the malevolence lurking within their very midst. Snowball believed in
himself and never guarded or acted against Napoleon. He was quite naive and never questioned
Napoleon's motives. Although they disagreed most vehemently during meetings, Snowball never
challenged Napoleon about his motives like, for example, about his purpose with the nine puppies
that he had removed from their mothers once they were weaned.

The dogs became
Napoleon's trump card and he used them to serve his insidious purpose. One can be sure that if
Snowball had insisted that they be raised by their mothers and socialize with the general
populace, the outcome would have been quite different. Bluebell and Jessie would definitely have
supported him in this regard. His innate goodness did not allow him to suspect any malice on
Napoleon's part and that was his greatest flaw. 

Friday 17 October 2014

WHY Romeo and Juliet is all time favorite love story? WHY romeo and juliet are famous inspite of its sad ending?

I would say
that one reason it is famous is definitely BECAUSE OF the sad ending.  People love , and the
idea of two people so young and so in love dying after one night together grabs attention. 
Another reason is that popularity is a self-perpetuating thing, and people love it because
people love it. 

Thursday 16 October 2014

What are Santiago's character flaws in the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?

Santiago's potential character flaws are
subjective. One reader might consider a particular trait a flaw while another reader might see
that same trait as a strength. One such trait is Santiago's desire to travel. Perhaps that trait
could be a trait of general restlessness. There is a saying about rolling stones not gathering
moss, but it isn't definitive about whether or not that is a good thing or a bad thing. I
suppose thinking about moving all the time to prevent mold from growing sounds good; however,
the gathering moss is integral to ecological succession and the maturation of an environment.
Staying in a place helps a person become a part of a community and put roots down. Santiago
seeks an ever changing horizon which could show that he is incapable of being content in any
given location or life situation. That means he is not capable of making the best of current
situations because he's always looking for a better or different
situation.

In Love in L.A. by Dagoberto Gilb, why is Jake "both proud and sad about his performance"? What does this mean? What does author Gilb mean...

When Jake returns to his
car, he feels "both proud and sad about his performance," as he has pretended to be
someone else with Mariana. He is clearly broke, but he pretends to be an actor and a musician.
He also tries to woo her, and she gives him her number in the end. Therefore, he has conducted a
kind of performance with her, and he feels proud about it because he believes that he has fooled
her into believing he is greater than he truly is. He also feels sad because he has lied
consistently and pretended to be someone he isn't in an attempt to deceive her. He might also
feel sad because he can't measure up to the person he pretends to be. 

The
author, Gilb, writes that he identified with Jake because he was also confused about who he was.
The author writes, "Was I a construction worker pretending to be a writer? Writing was this
full-of-it dude who was getting me." Gilb was trying to make a living as a construction
worker, but the beauty and sexiness of writing intrigued him (much in the same way that Mariana
intrigued Jake). Gilb felt he was kidding himself about being a writer, much in the same way
that Jake was kidding himself about being a glamorous actor and musician. 

Jake is a fairly consistent character. At the beginning of the story, he dreams about
the new car he will get and how glamorous it will be, with its "crushed velvet
interior." Even after he gets in the accident, he is still, at the end of the story,
dreaming about the interior of the new car he wants. The fact that he has consistently lied to
Mariana does not trouble him. Though Jake is a static character in many ways (because he doesn't
change), he is a round rather than flat character. The reader wants to know more about Jake's
motivations. For example, why does Jake lie consistently? Does he dream about being a star, and
what has held him back from reaching his dreams? As a character, Jake troubles and confuses the
reader, causing the reader to want to know more about him. 

What does Lady Macbeth do as Macbeth kills King Duncan? act II scene 2

She
talks to herself (and us). She jumps at the sound of owls and she talks about how well she's
prepared the scene: she's drugged the guards and laid out the daggers nice and neatly for , and
there's a suggestion in this speech that she expectsto bungle it. Of the daggers, she says
"he could not miss them," and of the act, she says she fears "the attempt and not
the deed confound [them]," meaning she thinks they may be caught in the act.

The noise that startles her--the owl (fatal bellman) is ironic because the cry of the
owl is supposed to signify an...

What similarities and differences do you see between the Okinawa civilian perspective and Japanese-American (Nisei) perspective? Have your thoughts...

The Battle
of Okinawa took place between April 1 and June 22, 1945. What was meant to be the Allies' final
push toward the Japanese mainland quickly devolved into disaster for combatants on both sides.
By its end, more people lay dead in Okinawa than in any other battle in the Pacific theater. The
level of opposition American troops faced during the Battle of Okinawa contributed greatly to
the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 (a fact not lost
on either Okinawan civilians or Nisei).

Historians estimate the Okinawan
civilian casualties to be over 100,000; between one third and one half of the entire population
in 1945 died during the 81-day battle. Okinawa lies only 350 miles from the major islands and
was to be the base from which the final Allied assaults were...

Wednesday 15 October 2014

How does hubris cause Oedipus' downfall in Oedipus Rex?

Excessive pride is 's tragic flaw, which blinds him to the truth and leads to his
demise. Initially, Oedipus is guilty offor attempting to defy the gods and overcome his fate by
fleeing Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus was told the prophecy that he would one day kill his
father, which is why he fled Corinth to avoid murdering Polybus. Unfortunately, Oedipus could
not overrule the gods or alter his fate and unknowingly slaughters his biological father, King
Laius, at the place where the three roads meet while traveling towards Thebes. Oedipus once
again demonstrates hubris during his interaction with , who initially does not want to divulge
the harsh truth to Oedipus. Oedipus goads Teiresias into telling him who murdered Laius and
immediately accuses him of conspiring within order to usurp the throne. Oedipus pridefully
denies Teiresias's prophecy and refuses to believe him.

In addition to
thinking that he could overcome his fate and refusing to accept...

Is Higgins a victim of mother fixation or an oedipal complex?

style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mother
fixation refers to a persons excessive dependence on the mother as a result of a mothers
indulgence of her own bonds of affection, resulting in wanting to act like a mother or always
relying on mother figures to make decisions.Oedipal complex refers to the (unconscious) fear
of a son that his father will castrate him because he desires his mother. For Freud, "being
a man" depends on a young boy giving up his desire for his mother and, later in life,
choosing a differentwoman to love. An Oedipus complex generally implies thata personremains
inappropriately attached to his mother out of a desire for her and, as a result, afraid ofmale
authority figures. Although both terms imply a lack of manliness,mother-fixation does not
necessarily involve the sexual desire for the mother implied in Oedipal complex. In
considering these terms as tools of psychological literary analysis, the crucial point would be
making this distinction. Applying these terms towould involve turning
to the biography of Shaw to determine whether he experienced either of these while growing up,
for if he did, we might see traces of these issues in his character, or we might simply look at
the character: does Higgens behavior suggest he grew up
overly-dependent on his mother?That he retains an inappropriate desire for her?Is he fearful of
other men?

Beowulf and the Art of Letting Go How effectively and/or nobly do you think Beowulf met his mortal end?

I don't
think he was ignoble in facing death, but he definitely felt sad about not getting to stick
around longer:

"He was sad at heart,
unsettled yet ready,
sensing his death." (2419-2420)

After telling stories from his youth, he
then says,

"'I shall win the gold
by my courage,
or...

What role does Judge Taylor play in the outcome of the trial?

Judge Taylor
serves mostly as mediator and facilitator for the trial, as he does not posit his own opinions
into the proceedings, but serves instead as referee between the defense and the
prosecution.

The stern Judge Taylor does not permit outbursts in his
courtroom, as he threatens at one point to "clear the whole courtroom" if there is any
such commotion. We see that Judge Taylor is trying his hardest to keep an objective distance
from the whole mess of the trial in the first place, but serves well in the capacity of
courtroom manager.

Tuesday 14 October 2014

In The Scarlet Letter, why does Pearl cry at the the end of chapter 7?

At the beginning of Chapter VI, which introduces her and bears her name,is described as
a lovely and immortal flower sprung from a guilty passion. She makes a practice of gathering
flowers and even plays a game which involves throwing them atand trying to hit the scarlet
letter.

At the end of Chapter VII, Pearl points to the image of the two of
them in a convex mirror in the governors mansion. The mirror makes the scarlet letter loom
unnaturally large and Hester seeks to distract Pearl by taking her out into the garden, saying
that they may see more beautiful flowers there than the ones they find in the woods. There are
not many, as the garden is mainly given over to vegetables, but they do see a few rose bushes,
and Pearl cries for a red rose.

When Hester will not let her have the rose,
as she hears people approaching, Pearl gives an eldritch scream. Her crying for the rose is a
simple, childish reaction and the fact that she stops a moment later of her own...

Sunday 12 October 2014

What is the idea of parliamentary sovereignty from the American and British point of view?

Many of
the aspects of the British unwritten constitution made their way into the United States
Constitution. Some of these were a two-house legislative body and of course a powerful
executive, but the concept of "parliamentary sovereignty" is very different. What this
means is that parliament is the supreme, or sovereign, body in the land. This developed over
time, especially in the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth centuries.

Parliament has the power to enact laws that cannot be changed except by a future
parliament. They cannot, for example, be overturned by the courts, though in practice, British
courts do modify parliamentary laws through their interpretations of them. This has been
especially true since the establishment of a Supreme Court (by act of...

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What does Robinson discover about the ship that comes to the island and brings hostages to the beach?

After spending
over twenty-eight years on his island,finds that a ship has approached the island and anchored
nearby. He immediately recognizes it to be an English ship, although he is suspicious as to its
presence in that region. He knows that English ships do not come into these waters and believes
that the ship might be carrying thieves and murderers.

Keeping his guard
up, he and Friday continue to watch the sailors as they bring the longboat to shore. They see
several of the sailors dragging three of the men onto the shore, threatening and mistreating the
three men to the point that Friday believes that the sailors intend to eat the three men, just
as his own people do to their captives.

After the three men plead for their
lives, the sailors fall asleep after wandering on the shore, and Crusoe approaches the three
hostages to find out more about their circumstances. One of the three men explains that he had
been the captain of the English ship and that his crew had mutinied against him and then
captured him, his first mate, and a passenger. Crusoe offers to help the men escape and to seek
justice against these mutineers with the captain in exchange for passage to England when the
ship is recovered.

Saturday 11 October 2014

From what point of view is To Kill a Mockingbird written?

's
is told from the point of view of , an adult who narrates in retrospect
during the time of the narrative.

This interesting mix of adult and child in
Scout as narrator contributes greatly to the narrative as a
bildungsroman, or a novel of maturation. While the ingenuous Scout
describes the events of the story in such a manner that the reader receives a non-judgmental
commentary and can follow the maturation of the main character, the adult Scout can insert
herself into the narrative when needed for explanation. 

Such an occasion for
this injection of the adult perspective occurs when Scout first attends school and her teacher
Miss Caroline seems different from other teachers. The adult Scout inserts herself into the
narrative, explaining that Miss Caroline is from Winston County in northern Alabama, a county to
this day that is viewed with negativity by many residents of Alabama because it was disloyal to
the state during the Civil War by being sympathetic to the North. Scout even adds commentary on
how this county is more like a Northern state:

North
Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and
other persons of no background. (Ch. 2)

The use of
Scout-the-child and Scout-the-adult as narrator enriches the narrative of To Kill a
Mockingbird, making the novel appealing to both young and old.

Friday 10 October 2014

What does Lucilles illness mean for Mattie and Grandfather?

Once
Mattie's mother Lucille comes down with the fever, Mattie and Grandfather have to step up to the
plate and effectively take over the running of the household. As well as minding the store,
Mattie finds that she has to provide personal care for her mother, such as changing her linen
and helping her take a bath. Mattie's not used to this; it all seems rather strange that she
should now be acting like a mother to her own mother. But Mattie doesn't complain; she gets on
with the business of doing whatever is necessary to help Lucille during this difficult
time.

Dr. Kerr arrives, and after examining Lucille, tells Mattie and
Grandfather than she needs to be sent out of the city for the good of her health. With the fever
rapidly spreading like wildfire throughout Philadelphia this is no place for Lucille. Mattie's
not very pleased at hearing this; she wanted to stay in the city and help as best she could. But
Grandfather's much more enthusiastic; an old army veteran, he sees this as an opportunity for a
great adventure. Still flush with excitement at the prospect of doing something vaguely heroic
he heads off to procure a coach to get everyone out of town.

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Thursday 9 October 2014

In Pygmalion, how does the behavior of Liza and Clara compare to Mrs. Higgin's lady-like behavior at her tea party?

The
the tea party in during Mrs. Higgins "at home," there isn't very
much dialogue given to Mrs. Higgins, however she does say a lot before and after the tea party.
The tea party is short and is mostly monopolized by Miss Doolittle. An examination of Mrs.
Higgins' deportment shows she is a lady who thinks of how her remarks and behavior affects or
will affect other people. This awareness of a person's affect on others is way she has banished
Henry from her at homes. An examination of Liza's deportment shows she is absolutely unconscious
of the affect her remarks and behavior have on other people. In this regard, she is precisely
like Professor Higgins and precisely unlike Mrs. Higgins. Clara shares this trait of unawareness
with the pair in that she too has no idea that her remarks and behavior mark her as unpleasant,
though wealthy and well-bred, arrogant and ill-mannered.

Another trait Mrs.
Higgins displays is a readiness to come to the defense and support of one who is under her
patronage, even if only a guest at her tea party for a few minutes. When Liza waxes lyrical
about her father's drinking habits and fears from the general laughter that she has done
something improper, Mrs. Higgins jumps instantly to her aid by saying simply but graciously and
eloquently, "Not at all, Miss Doolittle." The only comparison we can make with Liza is
that when laughed at, she doesn't take umbrage (offense or annoyance) but continues in the same
sweet and open spirit and tone--regardless of subject matter. The only comparison to Clara is
that, having admired Liza's lovely looks and elegant clothes greatly, after Liza has left, Clara
rapturously expresses herself as won over by the "new small talk" that Higgins asserts
Liza is speaking, thus branding herself as shallow, petty, pretentious, credulous and
gullible.

Why are the common criminals and political prisoners treated differently in the temporary lock-up?

The common
criminals seem to be proles, as evidenced by the "enormous wreck" of an older woman
who comes in struggling and is dumped on 's thighs. Because they are proles and not Party
members, as the political prisoners are, they are of far less interest to the state. They are
prostitutes, racketeers, homosexuals: people engaged in petty crime. There appears to be no need
to reprogram them, and the guards treat them with "a certain forbearance, even when they .
. . handle them roughly," which is far differently from how Party members are
treated.

People like Winston and Ampleforth, who are Party members, have to
be restored to orthodoxy, which calls for far different and more terrifying treatment. The view
screen "barks" at them to remain silent, and they seem to be singled out for
systematic torture, including the frightening but at this point mysterious room 101.

Wednesday 8 October 2014

Should hate crimes be punished more severely than crimes motivated by anger, or revenge? Should hate crimes be punished more severely than crimes...

Honestly, I do think
hate crimes are terrible.All crimes are bad, but the motives for hate crimes are specific to
targeting a person because that person is a member of a specific group, and these people are
likely to confine the pattern if they are allowed to do so.]]>

In 1984, in what ways is Oceania a totalitarian state?

There is certainly
enough evidence for you to identify, even just by reading the first chapter, that would suggest
that Oceania is a totalitarian state. This is one of the centralof this terrifying novel after
all. You might want to think about the sense of fear and suspense that is created in the first
chapter asdescribes a world where the citizens live in constant fear and are watched all the
time:

The black-mustachio'd face gazed down from every
commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS
WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own... In the far
distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle,
and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's
windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.

This is one small example from the novel that shows how Big Brother
is not just content with having power - he wants to have power over every single one of his
citizens, going into their very homes, lives and minds, to try and dominate them and control
them. They are constantly watched and live out their lives in constant
fear.

Why did the way WWII ended in the Pacific change how wars are fought in the present day?

In order to
understand the answer to this, we first have to remember how the war in the Pacific ended.  The
war in the Pacific ended, in essence, with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.  This changed the way in which wars are fought today because it ushered in the age of
nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons have changed the way in...

Discuss the implications of the afterlife on human behavior.

I think
that the concept of an afterlife would have some type of impact on human behavior.  If an
individual is concerned of their own condition in the afterlife, it might play a large role in
how they behave in this life.  For example, if someone is concerned with redemption in the
afterlife being dependent on how they act in this one, their actions might be in...

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Tuesday 7 October 2014

To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Terms Chart

1. Lee utilizes inby giving the town of Maycomb human
   attributes, such as the ability to be tired. Lee writes, "Maycomb was an old town, but it
   was a tired old town when I first knew it" (6).
2. uses
   in chapter 1 to describe the activities available in her small
   town by saying, "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no
   money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (Lee,
   6).
3. Scout uses personification to describe the
   appearance of metallic lunchboxes reflecting light on the ceiling by saying, "Molasses
   buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light" (Lee,
   13).
4. Scout utilizes an at the end of
   
   
   
   
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Monday 6 October 2014

What is the message and theme of this quote from To Kill a Mockingbird? "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...

This quote
comes at the end of Chapter Eleven. In the chapter,tellsthe real reason he had him read to Mrs.
Dubose. When the elderly woman was alive, she was a morphine addict. Towards the end of her
life, she fought an excruciating mental and emotional battle to overcome her addiction. Because
she died victorious in her quest, Mrs. Dubose will always be a 'great lady' in Atticus'
mind.

Jem isn't too thrilled at Atticus' verdict of Mrs. Dubose's character;
he still remembers all the vitriol the old lady hurled at Atticus when she was alive. However,
Atticus counters with the above quote; he maintains that courage isn't always evident and overt.
Someone with a gun isn't necessarily brave; intrinsically, courage is a mental decision
unrelated to the amount of firepower at one's disposal. Mrs Dubose exhibited this truth
magnificently when she fought courageously through overwhelming physical and mental pain to
overcome her crippling addiction to a powerful drug.

The above quote is also
significant in that it highlights Atticus' own courage when he later represents Tom Robinson, a
black man, in court. Like Mrs. Dubose, Atticus lives the courage of his convictions without
apology. Despite his community's anger and disapproval, he fights to acquit Tom. The above quote
supports the theme of courage or grace under fire; both Mrs. Dubose and Atticus display great
courage in spite of insurmountable challenges. They live 'beholden to nothing and nobody' and
their lives are a demonstration of their true .

In To Kill a Mockingbird, if Mayella Ewell's mother died when she was little, then whose children are they who live with her and her father?

never
explicitly discloses when Bob Ewell's wife died or how old Mayella was when her mother passed.
The audience learns inthat Burris Ewell does not have a mother and that her "paw's right
contentious." During the Tom Robinson trial, Bob Ewell takes the witness stand and begins
by testifying that he is Mayella's father before commenting that "her ma's dead." Bob
does not elaborate on how or when his wife passed away. In ,cross-examines Mayella and asks how
long her mother's been dead. Mayella responds by saying:

"Don't knowlong time." (Lee 185)

Mayella is nineteen years old when she takes the witness stand, and the audience can
infer that Burris is probably eight years old. On the first day of school,is five and Burris has
been repeating the first grade for three years. If Burris enrolled when he was five and failed
three years, he would be eight years old. If Burris is the youngest of the eight Ewell children
and Mayella is the oldest, than...

Sunday 5 October 2014

How does Shakespeare present the development of Juliet's character for Act 1, Scene 3, to Act 3, Scene 5 in Romeo and Juliet?

Even in the
very first scene in which we meet , Act 1, Scene 3, she
shows a bit of a rebellious streak. It is evident that, as expected
by society, she wants to please her parents, but she is also a budding woman who
is learning her own mind and places more value on her own desires than anything
her parents wish. Therefore, it is not really any surprise when we see Juliet
rebelling against her parents in Act 3, Scene 5, after she has married . The main
difference we see is that in Act 3, she is a bit more forceful about her opinion. It seems that
the combination of defying her parents through her secret marriage and the tribulations she has
undergone over the past 24 hours have matured her into a woman who can find her
own voice. Not only that, desperation to prevent sin and remain faithful to her
husband also drive her to find her own voice.

Juliet's
rebellious streak is especially evident in Act 3, Scene 1 whentries to persuade
Juliet to consider marrying . When Lady Capulet asks her, "[C]an you like of Paris'
love?," Juliet's only reply is that she'll "look to like, if looking liking
move," meaning that, as her mother suggests, she'll take note of Paris at the ball to see
what she thinks of him (I.iii.100-01). However, hidden rebellion can be seen in her next two
lines: "But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make
it fly," meaning that since Lady Capulet is only telling her to see if she can like him,
whether or not she can like him is all she will consider that night at the ball (102-03). While
it is clear here that Juliet is not fully agreeing with her mother, it is also
clear that she is trying very hard to please her, just as was
expected of children in this era.

However, all desires to
please become lost in Juliet's more eminent needs in Act 3, Scene 5. In this
scene she is no longer playing the role of the obedient daughter;
she has found her own voice as a woman. She refuses to consent to
her parents' sudden demand that she marry Paris. Part of her ability to refuse her parents stems
from the fact that her rebellious nature has already matured through the fact that she went
behind their backs and married a man in secret. However, the grief she has suffered due to 's
death and Romeo's banishment has also matured her from a girl into more of a woman. Finally, the
most powerful reason behind Juliet refusing her parents is due to the fact she realizes marrying
Paris would be a sin. As a girl brought up in the Catholic Church, Juliet well knows that
polygamy would be considered a sin under the Catholic Church. Therefore, Juliet's strong
rebellion in this scene is not just based on her preference not to marry Paris, but rather on
her religious convictions. We especially see Juliet express her religious convictions in the
line, "My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven," showing us that it is her
convictions of faith that have also helped her develop into a mature woman with her own
voice.

In The Indian in the Cupboard, what is Boone's nickname?

In 's
novel , Boone is the cowboy who first gets to know Omri in Chapter 9. All
we know about Boone so far is that he cries easily and likes to ignore Omri.

Little Bear has been chasing Boone and shooting arrows at him, one of which pins
Boone's fine cowboy hat to the baseboard (a piece of wood attached to the wall right down by the
floor). This is very upsetting to Boone.

When Omri intercedes between Little
Bear and Boone to stop the violence, here's what we learn about Boone:

"The cowboy seemed embarrassed and hung his head. 'M'name's
Boone. But the fellas all call me Boohoo. That's on account of Ah cry so easy. It's m'soft
heart. Show me some 'n sad, or scare me just a little, and the tears jest come to mah eyes. Ah
cain't help it.'"

What Boone means is that his
nickname is "Boohoo" because he cries very often. ("Boohoo" sounds a little
like "Boone" and is another way of saying "wah, wah, wah," or imitating the
sound of someone crying big, babyish tears.) Of course, it's not a very nice nickname!

And because we learn what Boone's nickname is right as we're meeting the character and
getting to know him, his nickname could be a hint about what he needs to work on before the end
of the story. Will his experiences help him become tougher, less likely to cry? It gives us
something to think about as we keep reading.

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," to whom does the term "natural men" refer?

The "natural
men" to whom Edwards refers seem to be those individuals who attempt to reach heaven
through good behavior and adherence to religious practices or rituals rather than through an
acceptance of Jesus Christ. He says,

whatever some have
imagined and pretended about promises made to natural men's earnest
seeking and knocking, it is plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in
religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of
obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction. So that thus it is that
natural men held in the hand of God over the pit of hell; they have
deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it.

These natural men are already sentenced to hell, and God, Edwards claims, is ready to
allow them to fall into the pits of hell. Until these natural men believe in and accept Christ
as their savior, they will remain naturalwhich, here, has quite a negative and in a state of
sinfulness. These men may take care to do and say all the things that a good person does and
says, but, without a real opening of one's heart to Christ, one cannot hope to avoid hell,
according to Edwards.

Saturday 4 October 2014

Discuss the management information system (MIS) and a global economy in the 21st century.

Management information systems (MISs) in
business acquire and organize information from business-internal and business-external sources,
for example, internal cash register receipt data and external commodities price changes. The MIS
makes information available to management for facilitating faster and better
decision-makingoften using real-time dataand the MIS generates scheduled reports detailing
changes at all levels of the organization ( href="https://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/management-information-systems-mis.html">Inc.com).
Once reserved for large corporations with their own mainframes, the technological innovations of
mobile digital platforms and cloud computingrun from software instead of from mainframesfits the
MIS to international businesses and brings the MIS to globally located entrepreneurs.


Small business entrepreneurs located globally can develop their own MIS
through software, as explained by href="https://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/management-information-systems-mis.html">Inc.com
in "Management Information Systems (MIS)." Software can link a computer network of the
business and its suppliers, distributors, customers, and customer service and sales personnel.
The software-managed databases of information from each network branch constitutes the new,
globally-oriented small business MIS.

Two examples of this globalized MIS are
in the jewelry and furniture businesses springing up in Asian countries, like China and Vietnam,
that have computer links to raw resource suppliers, technology suppliers (e.g., suppliers of the
nano-technology for gold-filled jewelry), international distribution platforms (e.g., ebay.com),
international shipping companies (e.g., Chinese and U.S. postal systems operating jointly
through international treaty) and an international customer base. Information linked, acquired
and organized by computer networking makes a globally available MIS an integral component of the
growing global marketplace, once the domain of multinational corporations but increasingly the
stage for the globalized small business.

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What does Scout find in the knothole of the tree in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

In the
knothole of the tree on the Radley property,andfind a couple of sticks of gum, a ball of twine,
some old Indian head pennies, a spelling bee medal, a pocket watch, and two figurines carved out
of soap.

At first, the Finch children don't understand the significance of
the items. But they soon understand that , who's always been this strange figure of legend to
them, is trying to reach out to them. The knothole is Boo's sole means of communication with the
outside world; it's also the only way he can reveal something of himself and his true
personality to the Finch children. All the various items he leaves in the knothole provide a
tantalizing glimpse into his own little world, a world that no one else has ever had the chance
to see.

Scout and Jem's discovery of the gifts in the tree is a real turning
point in the story. From now on, they will come to realize that Boo is a much more complex, more
recognizably human character than the crazed bogeyman of legend.

What dream does Mr. Liner mention? Act II, scene 3.

Linder and the
people he represents "dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children
in." They are not wealthy, but probably working-class folk who see Clybourne Park as their
own first step up the ladder of middle-class success.

It is very important
not to demonize Mr. Linder.Hansbury has taken great pains to present him as shy, reasonable, and
in all respects (save one) respectable.He doesn't want to hurt the Youngers, and believes truly
that he is doing the right thing by offering them an option.As he phrases it, the dream of
having a safe place to raise one's children is identical to the dream expressed by Mama.That is
the point.

He does not say or imply that he will not be responsible if
certain elements "get worked up." It is a misreading to suggest that he is making
threats. His last line is not a warning, but a simple "I hope you folks know what you're
doing."

Doubtless Hansbury wanted to avoid alienating white investors
and audience, and so deliberately worked to make Linder a non-threatening character.But by
giving him the language she does, and constructing Linder's arguments as she does, she shows
that the Youngers and their white neighbors-to-be actually have exactly the same
dream.

Explain the significance of Judge Taylor and his courtroom manner in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Judge John
Taylor comes across towhen she first sees him as the stereotypically down-to-earth, gnarly,
white-haired old Southern judge. He can seem to doze in the courtroom, cleans his nails with a
pocket knife, and puts his feet up as a trial progresses.

Scout also notes
that despite the seeming informality of the courtroom, Judge Taylor runs a tight ship. He also
never really dozes but is acutely aware of what is going on at any given moment during the
proceedings. He is a good judge, Scout says.

Judge Taylor's courtroom manner
is significant because it disarms ordinary people. They take him to be just another safe,
country bumpkin judge who doesn't know too much and isn't out to rock the boat. However, his
appearance is deceiving. In reality, the judge is very sharp and wants to see justice done in
his courtroom. He tries to insure that Tom Robinson gets a fair trial by appointingto defend
him. He keeps order in the courtroom when the testimony gets exciting. He looks with contempt at
Bob Ewell, as if he is a "square egg" or some other freak of nature. As Atticus will
later comment:

Dont tell me judges dont try to prejudice
juries.

By this, Atticus means that Judge Taylor's facial
expressions meant to convey to the jury his conviction that Bob Ewell was lying.

Like Atticus, Judge Taylor is trying in his own way to challenge a system that is
grossly unfair to African Americans.

Why was Martin Luther King Jr. more significant than Malcolm X?

The
modern consciousness regarding the Civil Rights Movement is one where Dr. King is located at its
center.  Dr. King is the fulcrum point from which all else in the movement rotates.  Dr. King
can be seen as more significant than Malcolm X because of his ability to reach across racial
lines and construct the Civil Rights Movement as a human issue.  

Prior to
Dr. King, White Americans had viewed the issue of Civil Rights as a political issue, one where
states rights and issues of federalism trumped all.  Yet, Dr. King placed the Civil Rights
debate in moralistic terms.  Invoking Gandhian...

What is personality traits of Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels?

As his
name indicates, Lemuel Gulliver's main personality trait is his gullibility. He easily believes
what people tell him, and because he has a good memory, he can often recall their words
verbatim. Much of the humor of the book comes from the deadpan way Gulliver will repeat the most
absurd assertions he has heard or experiments he has witnessed, treating them as if...

Evaluate The Upper And Lower Sums For F(x) = 2 + Sin X, 0 ‰¤ X ‰¤ Ï€, With N = 2, 4, And 8. Illustrate With Diagrams Like The Figure Shown Below. (round Your Answers To Two Decimal Places.)

The upper sum
of the integral

`int_a^b f(t)dt`

is

`U=sum_{i=0}^{n-1} f(x^+) Delta x`  where `Delta x = {b-a}/n` , `f(x^+)=max(f)` on the
interval `[x_i,x_{i+1}]`  and `x_i=a+i Delta x`

The lower sum is 

`L=sum_{i=0}^{n-1} f(x^-) Delta x` where `f(x^-)=min(f)`  on the same
interval

Since `f(x)=2+sin x` , and the bounds on the...

Compare and contrast the roman republic with the roman empire. Which was more succesful? How do you define success? Im doing it for a history essay so...

Both the
Roman Republic and Roman Empire had periods of instability which ultimately caused their demise.
Interestingly, each lasted for almost the same amount of time, so it would be difficult to
ascertain one as more "successful" than the other. However, if one considers the
extent of the Roman Empire and its continuation from Byzantium after the collapse of the Western
Empire, then the Empire was ultimately more successful than the Republic.

The
Roman Republic controlled most of the Italian Peninsula and soon spread into the Mediterranean,
where it came into conflict with the Phoenicians, primarily over colonization and control of
Sicily. Although the Romans won all three Punic Wars, the cost had been expensive and those who
fought in the wars had been forced to abandon their homes and farms which were in disrepair.
They sold their farms to a number of wealthy citizens and thereby lost their right to vote. The
end result was a civil war and later a slave revolt led by Spartacus which ended with a number
of generals raising private armies, among them Gaius Julius Caesar. Although the dying republic
was ruled for a short time by the famous triumvirate; it soon collapsed with the death of
Crassus and Julius Caesar became the first Roman Emperor.

The Empire itself
lasted no longer than the Republic, but its territorial gains were considerably more extensive.
Whereas the Republc had limited itself to the Italian Peninsula and the Mediterranean (which the
Romans called mare nostrom: "our sea) the Empire extended to Britain
in the West, and to the banks of the Rhine and Danube Rivers in the East. It encompassed vast
numbers of people and thereby spread Roman culture throughout Western Europe. On this basis
alone, one might argue that the Empire was more successful than the Republic. One should also
consider that the vast extent of the Empire resulted in its division into Eastern and Western
Empires; and that after the fall of the Western Empire in 476, the Eastern Empire continued and
was quite successful until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in
1453.

Friday 3 October 2014

Which event in Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis can be considered surreal?

The word
surreal is an adjective used to describe things that are strange or
freakish, things that seem unreal or uncanny and hard-to-believe. It has an eerie and unnatural,
and so surreal things often feel off-putting and confusing and even upsetting. Therefore, the
opening event of the...

How does Shakespeare use figurative language to describe Romeo's feelings for Juliet?

Whensneaks into the
garden beneath 's balcony, he says,

But soft, what light
through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise,
fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with
grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since
she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do
wear it. (2.2.2-9)

Here, Romeo uses a
to compare Juliet's window to the east, where the sun rises, and
he develops this metaphor into another metaphor, by which he
compares Juliet to the sun itself. He, likewise, personifies the
moon, saying that she feels grief and envy of Juliet, the sun, because Juliet is more beautiful
than she, the moon. He expresses his feelings for Juliet, especially concerning her beauty, with
these comparisons. Romeo uses apostrophe, speaking to Juliet
although she cannot hear him or respond yet, telling her to refuse to be a servant of the moon.
He describes the dress of those maids who serve the moon as being a sickly green color and
declares that Juliet ought never to wear it.

Romeo goes on to describe Juliet
more, saying,

Two of the fairest stars in all the
heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres
till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The
brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars
As daylight doth a lamp . .
. (2.2.15-21)

Now, he
personifies the stars, suggesting that they have some business to
which they must attend, and so they ask Juliet's eyes, also
personified as something which can understand and respond to
questions, to take their places in the sky. He wonders if Juliet's eyes and those stars have
actually switched places, emphasizing how brightly her eyes seem to shine. He uses a
to suggest that Juliet's cheeks are so bright that they shame the
stars, just like the daylight shames a lamp because it is so very much brighter than the lamp
could ever be. In this simile, the lamp is also personified as
something which could feel shame.

In 1984, was Winston really free at the end of the book?

By the
end of the noveldoes have a sort of freedom. He has been released from the Ministry of Love and
deemed to be cured of his 'insanity' of being a humanist. The twisted logic of the party has
been truly incorporated into his very existence; for example, in idle moments he dreamily traces
two plus two equals five with his finger. As that would suggest, as a result of his brainwashing
at the hands ofWinston has become a hollow shell of a man. His days consist of...

Thursday 2 October 2014

What are the three phases of Thoreau's character development throughout Walden?

Duplicate
of

 

What is the black thing that Mrs. Whatsit shows the children on Uriel?

What is
interesting about the "Black Thing" from is that it is up for
interpretation exactly what the black thing is. Is it alive? Is it a place? Does it represent
something else? When the children fly up into the clouds of Uriel and first see the black thing
creeping closer and blotting out the stars, they wonder if it's an actual "thing" or a
shadow cast by a "thing." Either way, all the childreneven young Charles Wallaceknow
instinctively that it is dreadful and powerful. After they descend back down to to the flower
field, they all feel relieved, but then Meg suddenly realizes that the darkness is where she can
find her father. Whatever the black thing is, she must have hope and be brave enough to fight
against it in order to save him. While darkness generally symbolizes evil, the author purposely
makes it unclear exactly what the black thing is, so the reader is free to ponder what it means
and what it represents for them in real life.

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Compare and contrast the life of Paleolithic Hunter-Gathers and early settled Neolithic farmers.

Among
the factors which distinguish the two and mark the progression of early man from hunter-gatherer
societies to settled societies: (1) the ability to produce a surplus of food and (2)
specialization of labor. The two are well connected. A third, equally important factor is
specialization of tools and weapons. 

Hunter-gatherer societies survived on a
subsistence level, often following herds of game animals or areas where edible vegetation could
be found. There was no ability to store excess food, and starvation was a much more likely
outcome in day to day life than surplusage. With the advent of superior tools and weapons,
humankind of the neolithic era were able to not only develop agriculture but were also able to
domesticate animals for both food and work purposes. Cattle, sheep, even horses were
domesticated and perform tasks such as pulling plows which enhanced agricultural production.
Surplus vegetable food could be stored, and animals kept until needed for slaughter, thus there
was no longer a need to move from place to place. Settled developments thus first appeared.
Also, with excess production, it was possible for one to trade his excess to another, thus
leading to specialization of production and labor.

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