Notes: November 2014

Sunday 30 November 2014

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: "Self education plays a critical role in shaping the subjectivity of Victor Frankenstein's monster." Do you agree?

's novel
offers readers a critical look at the question of "nature versus
nurture." Since abandoned by his "father" upon his "birth," 's creature
must rely upon his own intuition and self-education to survive. Therefore, it is true that
"self education plays a critical role in shaping the subjectivity of Victor Frankenstein's
monster."

Victor flees his "son" as soon as it lives. He,
mortified by the appearance of , flees from his flat in order to escape both his creature and
the reality of what he has done. The creature, therefore, is left to educate himself upon both
survival and life.

The creature, unfamiliar with anything at all, must learn
to depend upon his sense in order to survive. Once he masters his senses, he must learn how to
communicate. This he teaches himself through mimicking the DeLaceys and reading different papers
and books. He comes to understand how the world works through his interactions with other
beings, learns about love through watching Felix and Safie, and learns about his own existence
through Paradise Lost and Victor's papers. Everything that the creature
know he does so because of his own questioning and actions. No one teaches him anything about
life (with the exception that he is not like other humans which he comes to realize because of
the way they treat him).

How does the poet portray the image of the pulley in the poem "The Pulley" by George Herbert?

The
pulley is used by Herbert as afor the relationship between God and the individual Christian
believer. A pulley is a simple mechanical device which you use to lift something up by pulling
down on it. And God both pulls us down and lifts us up by withholding the gift of rest. One is
reminded of St. Augustine's famous maxim that our hearts are restless until they find rest in
God.

As with many metaphysical poems, " " is based around a
conceit, or...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, describe the clothes Hester makes for her daughter?

Hawthorne
describes Hester as one who is really good at sewing, so she makes a career out of making and
fixing all types of clothing. It would make sense, then, that she would make clothes for her own
daughter. Hester certainly has a unique eye and bold style because she chooses reds and golds
for her daughter to wear. The Puritans were a humble and simple people who wouldn't seek to
stand out in a crowd, so they didn't wear a lot of color, if any. Astakes to the streets by
chapter seven, she is received by little children with mocking words and mud clots thrown at
her. Pearl runs them off and does not feel ashamed of who she is though; and, her personality
and clothing seem to speak for her. Hawthorne explains it best, though:

"Pearl's rich and luxuriant beauty; a beauty that shone with
deep and vivid tints; a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and
hair already a deep, glossy brown, and which, in after years, would be nearly akin to black.
There was fire in her and throughout her, she seemed the unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate
moment. Her mother, in contriving the child's garb, had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her
imagination their full play; arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic, of a peculiar cut,
abundantly embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. So much strength of
colouring, . . . that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token whichwas
doomed to wear upon her bosom. It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter
endowed with life" (48)

In "Marriage is a Private Affair", what is the Okeke's internal conflict?

Okeke
faces an internal struggle that concerns his obedience and compliance to the traditional Igbo
culture and his love for Nnaemeka, his son. Okeke is depicted as a traditionalist who obediently
abides by the Igbo customs and traditional culture. When Okeke's son Nnaemeka decides to
challenge the traditional marriage customs of the Igbo tribe, Okeke is faced with a difficult
decision to accept and honor his son's choice or reject and shun Nnaemeka. Okeke's
internal struggle concerns the love for his son, which conflicts with the expectations of the
traditional Igbo society. Okeke realizes that in honoring his son's decision to
marry Nene independently without consulting him or his wife, he will be dismissing the
traditional Igbo marriage custom. Given the fact that Okeke is a strict traditionalist, he
decides to reject and shun Nnaemeka for deciding to marry Nene. Okeke struggles to repress his
feelings of love and affection...

What are two instances of flashbacks or foreshadowing in "The Pit and the Pendulum," and what helped you determine your choices?

In his dark dungeon, the
narrator returns to consciousness and recalls how he got to be in this place. He
describes

[...] a full memory of the trial, of the judges,
of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. Then entire
forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much earnestness of endeavor
have enabled me vaguely to recall.

Up until now, he has
not even opened his eyes; he has only barely attempted to actually move his body. He has gaps in
his memories, or flashbacks, and this eventually helps him to conclude that he is being drugged.
These gaps also make him a somewhat unreliable narrator because he simply does not recall some
of what has happened to him.

The narrator's moment of "joyof hope"
even while underneath the swinging pendulum seems to foreshadow his eventual escape. He
describes "hopethe hope that triumphs on the rackthat whispers to the
death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition." This moment gives us hope, just
as the narrator is comforted by it. Even in the worst of moments, of course, we can have
hope.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of collectivism?

Strengths

Certain political
objectives are more likely to be achieved by members of a group working together than by
individuals working in isolation. Strategic issues, such as national defense and the building of
infrastructure, require a mindset that privileges the group over the individual. If society
operated on the basis of individualism, it would be much more difficult to achieve these vital
collective goals.
Collectivism encourages a sense of social solidarity.
This should lead to people being less selfish and seeing themselves as part of a bigger whole.
Instead of simply pursuing their own interests, people will recognize that it's in everyone's
interests to work together for the good of all.

Weaknesses

The individual
tends to get lost in a collectivist system, which is potentially dangerous. Individuals have
rights against the collective, whether that is government or society, that must always be
protected. This is a particularly relevant concern in a collectivist system, where...

Saturday 29 November 2014

In "The Cask of Amontillado," why does Montresor vow revenge on Fortunato?

In the
first line of the story, the narrator vows revenge on Fortunato because he claims he had
insulted him in the past.

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had
bourne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.

However, he doesn't really say how Fortunato had insulted him, and he even refers to
him throughout as "my friend." Fortunato seems to be completely unaware of any bad
blood between them. The only clues Montresor gives as possible offenses are his family emblem
and the suggestion of a possible disbarment from the masons.

Montresor's
family motto, for example, underneath a picture of a foot crushing a serpent, is "Nemo me
impune lacessit," meaning, "no one attacks me with impunity." This could suggest
that the attack was not on Montresor personally but on someone in his family, or even on his
family as a whole. After all, he doesn't seem that comfortable in confronting Fortunato about
what happened. It is almost as if he didn't experience it firsthand.

Who is Van Gogh?

Vincent Van
Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who lived from 1853 to 1890. He is considered one of
the world's most famous painters, and you are likely to recognize some of his work, such as the
painting Starry Night. Van Gogh's life story is a bit tragic-- he
struggled with mental illness and though he conveyed great emotion and beauty in his paintings,
he was very poor and not well known as an artist until after his...

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Friday 28 November 2014

Identify where there is hope in Nene's letter to Okeke at the end of "Marriage is a Private Affair."

Nene's
emotional frame of reference is complex in her letter to Okeke. There is a sense of sadness to
it in that she readily acknowledges that the relationship between she and her father in law
will, to a great extent, be ruptured. Yet, I think that Nene's hope at the end of her letter to
Okeke is fairly powerful in that it is a desire to seek resolution without sacrifice to her own
sense of dignity. The letter speaks to the idea that she is a mother who wishes the best for
her children, boys who wish to know their grandfather. She does not let her own sense of
dignity and pride impact their own connection. In her statement about how she "will remain
in Lagos," there is a sadness, but a sense of the resolute present. She had been shown in
the story as one who will not be defined by setback and adversity, but actually rise above it.
She also does not show herself to be a woman that wishes to break the bond between her husband
and his father. She clearly states that the three of them in terms of the father and the two
sons wish to visit Okeke. The hope present is that she will not deny or repudiate this in the
same way that Okeke's demeanor has done in terms of his son's and Nene's marriage. It is in this
where hope is evident, that moral ascendancy and transcendency is evident in her actions, the
actions of a young person. It is in this that we see Okeke's "resolution he had built up
over so many years falling in." It is here where there is hope and where there is
redemption at the end of her letter.

What 2 passages/quotes from chapter 6 describe Pearl, and what is the symbolic meaning of these quotes?

The opening
ofof "" is beautiful prose:

that little
creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and
immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion. How strange it seemed to the
sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and
the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the features of this child!

More than a child,is a symbol of the love and passion betweenand
the father of the child. In addition, she is the outpourings of the repressed heart of her
mother. All outpouring of the passions of the woman imprisoned by grey and a mark upon her
bosom are manifested in Pearl:

Man had marked this woman's
sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy
could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which
man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom,
to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed
soul in heaven.

In , Hester herself explains that Pearl
is the scarlet letter only "capable of being loved and so endowed with the million-fold the
power of retribution: "She is my happiness!....She is my torture!" In a criticism of
the harsh punishment of the Puritans. also, Hawthorne writes that God has given Hester a lovely
child to connect the isolated Hester with the human race and to provide her with the prospect of
reparation through her caring love for her child.

In which chapter of 1984 does the quote about controlling the past appear?

It is in Part One,
Chapter Three of that you can find the following quote about controlling
the past:

"Who controls the past," ran the Party
slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

To illustrate the meaning of this quote,uses the example that
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. While the Party claims that Oceania has always been at war with
Eurasia, Winston can clearly remember a time, four years ago, when Oceania and Eurasia were in
alliance. This knowledge, however, exists only in his "own consciousness" because the
Party has rewritten history so that this alliance never happened.

It is this
manipulation of the truth, or "reality control" as Winston calls it, that contributes
to the Party's everlasting and totalitarian power. It can make people believe whatever it tells
them because it rewrites history accordingly.

It is also worth looking at the
text from Emmanuel Goldstein's book which appears in the last chapter of Part Two. In the
following quote, Goldstein further explains the Party's control of the past:

"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds
of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make
it."

Wednesday 26 November 2014

a reflection of how he represents the characteristics and ideals of the modernist movement

The
work of the American poetis characteristically modernist because it is formally innovative (the
poet Ezra Pound's modernist directive was "Make it New") and employs modernist
techniques like fragmentation and collage. These techniques help to underline themes of flux or
instability that are representative of modernism's attempt to re-envision and rebuild the world
in the wake of world war.

One of Crane's most important works is the long
poem "," which entails a journey through the landscape of American history and
culture. Many scholars believe that "The Bridge" is a kind of answer to T.S. Eliot's
"The Waste Land," which is likely the most famous modernist poem and is often taken to
be the most representative example of modernist style and content. While Eliot's poem is
arguably profoundly pessimistic in its emphasis on the rubble and ruin of the early 20th
century, Crane's poem is more hopeful--attempting to build a "bridge" from the
optimism and romanticism of Whitman's 19th century America to modernism and the realities of his
contemporary world. For instance, in the section of "The Bridge" called "The
River," Crane refers to modern invention and technology:

"--and the
telegraphic night coming on Thomas

a Edifordand whistling down the
tracks
a headlight rushing with the soundcan you
imaginewhile an Express makes
time like
SCIENCECOMMERCE and the HOLYGHOST
RADIO ROARS IN EVERY
HOME..."

In this except you can see the play on words of "Thomas a
Ediford" which combines "Thomas a Becket" with "Thomas Alva Edison" and
"Henry Ford." In addition the idea of "HOLYGHOST RADIO" juxtaposes spiritual
and technological communication.

What made Framton Nuttel to visit the countryside in "The Open Window"?

Nuttel
visits the countryside as part of what the text calls a "nerve cure." Nuttel has
apparently had some sort of unspecified nervous breakdown. He believes rest and quiet in a rural
setting will help with his recovery. However, his sister thinks his nerves will end up in worse
shape if he ends up "moping" by himself in a retreat. Therefore, she sends him off
with letters of introduction to people she knows (but he has never met).

These include the Sappletons, with whom he is visiting. He wonders to himself if all
this socializing with people he doesn't know is doing him any good or, instead, making him
worse.

As the story shows, staying in a house with a person with such a
wickedor even sadisticsense of humor as Vera's does not do him any good.

What are Julia and Winston willing and unwilling to do for the Brotherhood in 1984?

Whenandmeet
within Book Two, O'Brien tells them that there are things they will need to do in order to show
their loyalty to the Brotherhood (the underground revolutionary group who works against Big
Brother). He names atrocious acts such as throwing acid...

What is the solution of "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

The
solution to 's is ultimately the narrator's rescue. For the majority of
the story, the narrator finds himself trapped in a cell, imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition
for a reason that we as the readers do not know. He faces absolute darkness at first, which is
when he nearly stumbles into the pit; then the room lights up and he sees that the walls are
painted and encounters the rats for the first time; after that, he has to escape the pendulum,
which is slowly descending down upon him as he lies strapped to the floor. Once he has escaped
all of those things, the walls start to literally close in around him in the shape of a diamond,
forcing him closer and closer to the pit. The story ends as the narrator is about to fall into
the pit, but the walls stop, and just as he is starting to fall, a hand grabs his arm (the hand
of General Lasalle of the French army) and he is freed from his death.

What is the central metaphor in the poem "A Red, Red Rose?"

The central
metaphors in are time and love. Burns uses a series of images and concepts that describe
love's delicacy and fragility in time. In other words, love and beauty are fragile because they
exist in time. However, Burns also describes love that sustains over great periods of time, so
long that perhaps love itself is eternal. Paralleling this temporary/eternal duality of time is
the duality of the word luve which represents both his lover and the abstract quality of love.
A person has a limited amount of time in life but love, and perhaps his love's soul, transcend
the limitations of...

Sunday 23 November 2014

What was the likely outcome for a slave that tried to escape?

Slavery
in the United States is considered to be one of the darkest periods in human history as well as
one of the most brutal displays of human cruelty. The living conditions that slaves suffered
were some of the most inhumane at even the best of times, so it goes without saying that slaves
that boldly attempted escape were punished severely. Since slave records were poorly kept or not
kept at all, it is difficult to ascertain specifics in regard to what was standard procedure for
an escaped slave. Most of what we know is purely anecdotal, though accounts are numerous.

In many scenarios, slaves who attempted to escape were sold further down
south to discourage any further attempts. A slave in Georgia, for example, would be less likely
to attempt escape than one in Virginia, purely based on logistics. Regardless of whether the
slave was to be sold or kept, they would be made an example of through brutal punishment.
Sometimes, if the slave's absence would not be a terrible loss, they would be killed outright in
brutal fashion. Everything done to an attempted escapee would be done to discourage any further
dissent on the part of other slaves who would dare to attempt escape.

What is the direct statement in which Edwards sets forth the purpose of his sermon?

Edwards
states that:

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.

By natural man, Edwards means any person who
has not become a Christian and been saved by making a confession of faith that Christ is his
lord.

Edwards is stating that the purpose of his sermon is to illustrate
that an unsaved individual can at any moment be plunged into the fires of hell. Edwards goes to
great pains to describe how the unsaved live: they are like people trying to cross over a great
fire on a very rickety bridge that is missing planks: they could at any step fall through the
rotting planks to perish horribly. Or they are like a spider dangled over a fire, or like people
walking on an unstable shore, liable at any time to slip into...

What is one of the conflicts in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," and how is this conflict resolved?

One
of the central conflicts in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man is Hard to Find (1953) is
between the grandmothers convenient perception of Christian grace and the demanding way in which
grace actually operates. In Flannery OConnors , grace never comes sweetly or easily; neither can
it be brought about only by rituals, such as singing Gospel songs and attending Sunday mass
regularly. Grace is often terrifying and tests you beyond your imagination. I have found that
violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept
their moment of grace, OConnor said of A Good Man is Hard to Find. She was also of the opinion
that All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is
painful.

OConnors worldview of suffering as a trigger for grace was no doubt
influenced by her own devout Catholic faith and her physical difficulties. Confined to her home
since the age...

In the "Canterbury Tales" do you think that Chaucer was trying to point how religious leaders are liars? In the "Canterbury Tales" do you think that...

I think
Chaucer had multiple purposes in writing the Canterbury Tales, some of
which we will never know! He clearly was disenchanted with the Catholic church and uses a lot
ofin his tales, definitely. One way many authors "got away" with criticizing the
church was through satire, which involves poking fun at serious subjects. Chaucer is no
exception. I do not believe that he had very specific purposes but that he wanted to merely
bring attention to some of the inadequacies and wrongs in the church.

Saturday 22 November 2014

In "Hamlet", what is Shakespeare saying about the concept of revenge?

Well,
consider the price that was paid in order forto exact his revenge: shunned, gone mad, then
dying; good friends manipulated then murdered;mocked then murdered;driven to murder and
violence; and a mother reprimanded and killed.

In "", the
concept of revenge was much more noble and simple then the enacting of it.
If you are to exact revenge, at least be more efficient about it, for pete's sake! But Hamlet
wasn't-Shakespeare didn't write it that way, when he could have. He could have written a nice,
tidy, quick revenge tale, but didn't. That alone might hint at Shakespeare's underlying
message: revenge is a messy, unfortunate undertaking whose price might not be worth
paying.

Can someone please come up with a sentence, not directly from the book 1984 (but written in the context of the book), for each of the following words:

These words
are from the first two chapters of 's .

In Chapter I,attends the
required Two Minute Hate session in which people unleash all their hatred upon the Party enemy
of Emmanuel Goldstein. While all the vituperation occurs, Winston begins to verbally abuse Big
Brother, rail against thought control and other restrictions. It seems as thoughunderstands as
for a moment they make eye contact and O'Brien

seemed to be saying "I know precisely what you are feeling.. " and then the
flash of intelligence was gone, and O'Brien's face was as inscrutable as
everybody else's.

(new
sentence

What are the ethical issues Walmart has faced?

Walmart
has been accused of gender discrimination against women. In 2011, 1.5 million women who were
Walmart employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the retailer. The women claimed that
Walmart paid them less and didnt promote them as often as the men because of their gender. Even
though the suit didnt go far, other lawsuits have been filed by current or former female workers
claiming that they are or were treated differently because as women.

In
2004, a Mississippi resident filed a lawsuit against Walmart for alleged racial discrimination.
According to Mr. Nelson, the human resource manager at the Walmart distribution center offered
him a job as a laborer instead of the driver job that he had applied for. The manager claimed
that Mr. Nelson had falsified his documents to get hired. However, Mr. Nelson didnt falsify
anything. His records were clean. Mr. Nelson later filed a lawsuit, which later turned out to be
a class-action suit, for being discriminated against because...

In William Blake's "The Tyger," how has the poet described the tyger?

's poem was
an early work from the British Romantic era. Blake included the poem, along with some original
illustrations (he was an artist, too), in a poetry collection called Songs of
Innocence.

As a Romantic poet, Blake often writes about mystery
and the supernatural. His description of the Tyger reflects this. The first stanza of the poem
reads:

Tyger, Tyger burning bright

In
the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye,

Could
frame thy fearful symmetry?

After reading these brief but
powerful lines, we already know a lot about this Tyger. He is no ordinary tiger, as the
burning bright reference reveals. What kind of tiger would burn brightly? Later in the poem we
will find out that this Tyger's eyes were made by an immortal creator from fire.

The term symmetry refers to the Tyger's physical or spiritual being, depending on how
we think of it. Is the Tyger physically real? Or is he an immortal being of some kind, such as
the angel that eventually became Satan? Either way, we know he is scary and formidable, because
he is described as fearful, even in the presence of an immortal hand or eye.

Later in the poem Blake will make a reference to the rebellious angels' revolt in
heaven. The implication is that this Tyger was one of them, and probably the leader,
Lucifer.

Friday 21 November 2014

In the concluding paragraphs of Candide, is Voltaire recommending retreating from social commitment?

seems
not to advocate removal from the world, nor disinterest in the larger forces that affect people.
However, he does certainly reject Pangloss's approach to philosophyoptimismand the religious and
political debates that seek to impose a meaning on the events that happen in the course on one's
life.

Like Voltaire, the text is deeply suspicious of religion and its claims
for authority. It is also suspicious of the kind of political thinking that leads to war and
tribal allegiance. Only the Anabaptist who lives out his faith of charity toward humanity
without seeking to convert or judge others, those in El Dorado who hold wealth and the outside
world in contempt, and the Turkencounters at the end seems free of Voltaire's . All the other
characters engage in acts of cruelty, pettiness, vanity, and division.

The
Turk, who offers hospitality and wisdom, speaks for Voltaire, it seems, when he claims that he
and his family have found peace and tranquility as well as...

Who is Mr. Gilmer in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mr. Gilmer
comes upon the scene inof . refers to him as the "solicitor." In
the context of Scout's narrative, this term may suggest that Mr. Gilmer is a specialist in
certain areas of the law and is very qualified.

Scout further describes Mr.
Gilmer as having an odd eye that seems to be watching the jury at all times. Because the jury
has the impression that they are

...under close scrutiny,
[they] paid attention; so did the witnesses, thinking likewise.

Nevertheless, despite his expertise, Mr. Gilmer has trouble with Bob Ewell when this
man is put on the witness stand. Ewell's disrespectful language and flippant attitude thwart Mr.
Gilmer's intent when he instructs Ewell to answer "just in your own words."

Later, when Tom Robinson is on the witness stand and he speaks "just in [his] own
words," Mr. Gilmer repeats Tom's words for the purpose of the prosecution, knowing that in
the Jim Crow South no juror (they are all white men) would like this black man's choice of
words: "Mr. Gilmer paused a long time to let it [Tom's phrase] sink in."

As the prosecutor, Mr. Gilmer continues to question Tom about Mayella's version of
events, and the now-cautious Tom Robinson can only safely say that Mayella "was mistaken in
her mind."

How is the theme of hate portrayed in Romeo and Juliet?

From the
outset of Shakespeare's the audience knows that hatred is one theof the
play. In the , Shakespeare calls the rivalry between the Montagues and Capulets an "ancient
grudge" and refers to "mutiny," "rage" and
"strife."

Hatred rules the day inas the Capulet servants announce
they will rape the Montague women and incite violence by using insulting gestures. , 's cousin,
is characterized as full of bitterness toward the Montagues. When he first appears he threatens
the peacemaking :

What are three things Hillari Kimble is famous for in Stargirl?

Hillari Kimble is famous for
her mouth, The Hoax, and Wayne Parr.

The hoax involved
cheerleading, where Hillari broke all of the rules and social conventions of high school and
made herself instantly the talk of the town.

Her face and
figure were right enough, and she surely had the mouthshe made the squad easily. And then she
stunned everyone by turning it down. She said she just wanted to prove she could do it. (Ch.
4)

In most schools, being a cheerleader is the height of
popularity and every girl longs for it. Hillari not only made fun of cheerleading, she
humiliated the cheerleaders.

Wayne Parr was Hillaris boyfriend. He was the
opposite of Hillari because she had a big mouth and he seldom opened his (Ch. 4). He was
gorgeous and his job was just to be seen and be gorgeous. Like Hillari, he had no interest in
sports.

Hillari is stubborn and harsh. For example, when she insists thatnot
sing to her on her birthday. Stargirl agrees, but then she sings instead to Leonominally
keeping her promise. Hillari is annoyed, but Leo is confused, and a little impressed that weird
Stargirl thinks hes cute.

Leo describes Hillari as holding court. She is
not a princess though. Like the other misfits, she is just a kid trying to fit in, and make her
own rules. The cheerleading incident demonstrates that she is not one of
the popular kids. Shes essentially being proactive. Hillari is smart and opinionated, and she
definitely marches to the beat of her own drummer. She is not afraid to stand up for herself,
to voice her opinions, and to make herself heard above the uproar of high school. Still, she is
somewhat threatened by the bold eccentricity of Stargirl, definitely a dangerous path to talk in
high school. In many ways, though, Hillari and Stargil are after the same thing. They both
want to be the person they want to be.

Thursday 20 November 2014

What is neo-victorianism?

Lynn Ramsson

Neo-Victorianism is a term that refers to creative works that somehow relate to
Victorian times and culture. As well, the scholarly school of thought that examines these
creative works with a critical eye can be categorized as neo-Victorianism. In brief, the
Victorian Age was the period of Queen Victoria's reign in United Kingdom, from 1837 to 1901, and
this era was characterized by high moral standards and rigidity as well as a propensity towards
romanticism.

The aesthetics that guide neo-Victorianism can impact creative
works like literature, style of dress, and even interior decor....

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What does the snowstorm on Christmas Eve mean in relation to events in Emma?

The
snowstorm on the night of Mrs. Weston's Christmas Eve party in Chapter XIV of 's
has great significance to events and is pivotal to the direction of the
story. Who would think a simple snowstorm and ill judged marriage proposal could have so much
impact.

As a result of the snowstorm, Mr. Elton is rejected by Miss Woodhouse
and goes to Bath to sulk abd recuperate his shattered ego. There he finds a wife and brings home
the resistible Mrs. Elton with all her "resources." Mrs. Elton
then triggers some other monumental...

Analyze the use of sensory language in "Teenage Sky" by Rona Adshead.

The
sensory image is a detail or visual picture through words that "draws upon any of the five
senses." Adshead's poem is filled with the sensory images that are reflected in the natural
world. An example of this is when Adshead describes the morning horizon as "Daubed with
lipstick streaks of sunrise." The "lipstick streaks" is a sensory image
appealing to the sense of sight and touch, as one can see and almost feel the presence of
lipstick and its smooth effect on the morning horizon. "Scarves of mist" is another
sensory image that helps to illuminate what the breaking of morning looks like to the
eye.

When the morning breaks, Adshead describes it as pushing away the
"anorexic crescent moon." This example of sensory detail helps to evoke the physical
feeling of what anorexia looks like, the thin and gaunt moon being ushered away with ease by the
break of the day. With the "defiant shower" and "sulky pout," the poet is
able to continue to draw upon the sensoryof experience in adolescents and teens, connecting such
demonstrative displays with the natural world. Adshead's ability to connect the experience of a
day and its changes with the sensibility of the teenager can only happen through the use of
sensory imagery, details that are able to evoke a stronger picture by linking it to our
experiences and senses.

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Tuesday 18 November 2014

Explain how Timur the Lame relates to the Ottoman Empire.

Timur
"the Lame" (ca. 1336-1405), or Tamerlane, was born into the Barlas clan in the area of
Samarqand, a descendant of an amir from the time of Ghengis Khan.He first rose to prominence in
the 1360s and then, in 1379, set out on a campaign of conquest.He amassed an enormous empire,
including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Anatolia, southern Afghanistan, and northern India.See the first
link below for a map of Timur's conquests.One of his last major victories was a defeat of
Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II, who was taken captive, at the Battle of Ankara.Bayezid died in 1403.

This victory brings us to his significance for the Ottomans: Timur's victory
stopped the spread of Ottoman power for a few decades.Furthermore, after the Ottoman loss, there
was a period of instability and fratricide for about ten years, called the Ottoman Interregnum
(i.e. between reigns) or the Ottoman Civil War.The Ottoman Empire was restored to some semblance
of order only in 1413, by Sultan Mehmed I.

The defeat of the Ottomans at the
Battle of Ankara also likely prolonged the existence of the Byzantine Empire, the remnants of
which eventually fell to the Ottomans and Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" in 1453,
with the sack of Constantinople.

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How does Frederick Douglass establish his identity in the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?

Douglass
establishes his identity by describing his experiences as a slave while illustrating how
steadfastly and persistently he rejected slavery's dehumanization and second class status. His
outward identity might be that of slave, but inwardly he understood himself as fit to be
free.

As Douglass presents himself in the autobiography, he always had a
strong sense of himself as a worthwhile person. He takes advantage of what opportunities present
themselves to him to better himselffor example, pursuing reading after his mistress stops
instructing him:

The plan which I adopted, and the one by
which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met
in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid,
obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to
read.

Despite his resourcefulness, some of his bitterest
moments come when he realizes the magnitude of his enslavement...

Does Tree-ear have friends in A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park?

Written
by Korean-American authorin 2001, tells the story of young orphan Tree-ear
who lives in 12th century Korea. Although Tree-ear does not know how old he is exactly, he
thinks that he is probably about twelve-years-of-age.

Following the deaths of
both his parents, Tree-ear became an orphan when he was about two-years-old. When an uncle, his
last remaining relative could not be found, Tree-ear ended up living under a bridge in the
seaside village of Chulpo with Crane-man. Crane-man is so-called as he is physically disabled
and walks with a crutch. When he tries to stand upright, he resembles a crane.

Crane-man is a good man and Tree-ears only friend. He teaches Tree-ear how to be a good
and moral person. When some monks arrived to take Tree-ear to live with them at their monastery,
he refused to leave his friend and protector. As Tree-ear doesnt go to school or belong to a
community, he doesnt have any other friends. After Crane-man is killed in an accident Tree-ear
has lost his only friend and companion.

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Sunday 16 November 2014

In Poe's poem "Annabel Lee," what did the girl live to do?

wrote "" in
1849 to memorialize his wife, Virgina, after her death. (On a side note, Poe's most popular poem
during his lifetime, " ," was written during his wife's five year long battle with
tuberculosis.) "Annabel Lee" was written so Poe could move on from...

In Homer's Odyssey, who are the lotus eaters and what did they do to Odysseus and his men?

After
plundering the city of the Cicones, Odysseus wants to move on but his men are intent upon
celebrating their success. This proves an ill-fated decision, for the remaining men of the
Cicones call up reinforcements: other Cicones warriors. Odysseus and his remaining men are lucky
to escape with their lives.

According to Odysseus, while they are escaping
Zeus "roused the North Wind with a wondrous tempest," so that the ships are driven
headlong and "their sails were torn to shreds by the violence of the wind." Odysseus
and his men finally set foot on land. They eat and rest for two days and two nights; when they
finally move on, the winds again bear them along for nine days until they finally come to land
once more. This land is known as the Land of the Lotus Eaters.
After eating and resting, Odysseus sends two men plus a herald to find out who the inhabitants
of the land are. Odysseus' men are given the "lotus to taste" by the Lotus
Eaters.

Unfortunately, after the men taste the "honey sweet fruit of the
lotus," none of them want to return to Odysseus. They forget all their duties and their
previous hopes of returning home. These men have to be dragged, weeping and screaming, back to
the ships. Once there, they are bound so that they will not escape and return to the
Lotus-Eaters. Odysseus straightaway bids "the rest of my trusty comrades to embark with
speed on the swift ships, lest perchance anyone should eat of the lotus and forget his homeward
way."

Which is the value of the sum cos177+cos176+...cos4+cos3 ?

S = cos177 +
cos176 + .....+ cos4 + cos3

Let us rewrite:

S =
cos(180-3)...

Saturday 15 November 2014

What is a literary device in Act 4, Scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet?

There are a
couple of literary devices worth noting in this scene of this play.

First of
all,uses awhen she calls Capulet a "mouse-hunt." What she means is that Capulet used
to chase women amorously, just as a cat would chase a mouse. In other words, she is comparing
him to a cat and those women to mice.

Secondly, Capulet uses awhen talking to
the servants about collecting logs. The pun appears when Capulet calls the second servant a
"logger-head." In the literal sense, Capulet is referring to the finding of logs for
the wedding, but what Capulet really means here is that the second servant is being stupid: the
implication being that the servant has wooden logs in his head instead of a brain.

Friday 14 November 2014

How did Hitlers Nazi party begin to gain power?

The Nazi
party began as a semi-reactionary party specifically responding to the "stabbed in the
back" myth, which stated that Germany was winning World War I until the Social Democrats
betrayed the country and surrendered. This was a myth, but it had a lot of strength within
postwar Germany.

Early Nazis wanted to end reparations payments to France and
create an autarky in order to prevent any other nation from controlling Germany. The Nazis' rise
was facilitated by von Hindenburg and other conservatives who wanted to establish a government
with a conservative majority. This had been difficult because of the significant support that
the Social Democrats received.

The various conservative parties threw their
weight behind the Nazis on the assumption that they could control Hitler and that power would
moderate the party's extreme position. They were aided by the Communists' desire to undermine
the German government, thus giving the Nazis overt support from conservatives and indirect
support from Communists.

Factor the following trinomial: t^2 + 4t -2 Show all work

If you look
at the discriminant of the trinomial `t^2+4t-2` , we get `D=4^2-4(-2)=16+8=24` , which is not a
perfect square. This means that...

Thursday 13 November 2014

A pieces of wire 10cm long is cut in to two pieces, one pc. is bent into a square and the other is bent into an equalateral triangle. How shoul the...

You need
to cut the wire into two pieces whose lengths are not given. You need to consider these lengths
as `3x` and `4y` .

The problem provides the information that the
total length of wire is of 10 cm such that:

`3x+4y = 10`

Consider that you need to use the length of `3x` to form the equilateral triangle and
the length of `4y` to form the square.

You need to evaluate the area of
equilateral triangle using the formula:

`A_(Delta) = l^2sqrt3/4`

Since the length of side of triangle is of `3x/3 = x` yields:

`A_(Delta) =x^2sqrt3/4`

You need to evaluate the area of the
square...

Wednesday 12 November 2014

From Winesburg, Ohio, which characteristics do Alice Hindman and Elizabeth Willard in "Adventure" and "Mother" have that are comparable?

Interestingly,prefaces his stories with a chapter entitled "The Book of the
Grotesque" in which he implies that a grotesque character emerges when a man or woman takes
one of the many truths of life and pursues it obsessively. And, it seems that small towns, such
as , often produce such grotesque characters because of their limited opportunities and
stultifying environment. In his stories, "Mother" and "Adventure," Mrs.
Willard and Alice Hindman are two such grotesques.

Both women become trapped by their losses.

1.
Elizabeth Willard has aspirations of being an actress and traveling; however,

her uneasy desire for change, for some big definite movement to her
life

is stymied by her marriage to Tom Willard, working
as a maid in her dilapidated motel, and she has stagnated in Winesburg. Now, in the evenings she
sits in her dilapidated hotel with her adult son and watches through a window that looks out on
Main Street.

2. Alice Hindman also stagnates in...

Why do both people in the North and South dislike parts of the Compromise of 1850?

People in
both the North and the South didnt like parts of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850
allowed California to join the country as a free state. That wasnt popular in the South. The
Compromise of 1850 also ended the slave trade in the nations capital. That also wasnt popular in
the South.

There were some parts of this compromise the North didnt like. The
Compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide if land in the Utah and New Mexico territories would
be able to have slavery. This meant several new states could possibly join the Union as slave
states if people wanted that to occur. Plus, some of this land was north of the 36° 30 line that
had been closed to slavery. Now, some of that land could possibly have slavery. The North wasnt
happy with this. Additionally, the Compromise of 1850 required northerners to help capture
runaway slaves. This was part of the Fugitive Slave Act. Northerners also didnt warmly receive
this.

In a compromise, both sides get some of what they want, but not
everything they want. This is what happened with the Compromise of 1850. Therefore, it isnt
surprising both sides were dissatisfied with parts of the Compromise of
1850.

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Describe two societal changes that occured during the 1920s.

There were
many societal changes during this time. We will look at two of them here.

Changing role of women. During the 1920s, women came to have a great deal
more freedom. This led to such things as the rise of "flappers" who dressed and acted
in ways that would have seemed immoral to older people.
More forms of
entertainment. This includes things like movies, radios, and cars. They helped to make the
'20s a time during which people's lives revolved around recreation to a much greater degree than
ever before.

Both of these helped lead to a conservative,
traditionalist backlash in this decade.

Monday 10 November 2014

Discuss the role of information within an organization in full detail. For an organization to act, it needs to have information about itself, its...

The first
area in which an organization needs understanding in is itself. Accounting, essentially,
provides financial self-understanding. Accurate knowledge of assets, cash flow, and liabilities
allows a company to make safe financial decisions. Financial information can also be used to
assess the relative profitability of different activities and allow the organization to focus on
the areas that are most profitable rather than just chasing revenue or growth. Knowledge of its
own human resources allows them to be deployed and motivated more effectively.

An organization needs to understand its...

Willy's reminiscences Why is Biff upset with Willy's mumbling reminiscences?

Biff is bothered by the
way that Willy refuses to live in reality. When Biff was in high school, Willy fantasized about
Biff's great football future and made excuses for Biff. Even then, Willy was engaged in his
dreams more than in the reality of the world around him. Biff can see that Willy does not
recognize reality much of the time and he feels this is a choice Willy is making.

Effectively, this refusal to engage in reality means that Biff and Linda are ignored by
Willy. They are invisible to him in their reality.

How does Winston Smith display a sense of courage throughout 1984?

One
could argue thatdemonstrates a sense of courage in his endless pursuit to maintain his humanity
in a world controlled by the Party, which requires its citizens to behave completely orthodox at
all times and revere Big Brother above themselves and their families. As a Party member, Winston
is under constant government surveillance and virtually every aspect of his life is tightly
regulated and monitored. Despite living in a terribly oppressive society, Winston Smith
demonstrates courage by secretly denouncing Big Brother, committing thoughtcrime by writing in
his journal, carrying on an affair with, and attempting to join the Brotherhood. After Winston
commits thoughtcrime, he understands that he...

What does the speaker mean by "fearful symmetry"?

This line is within a larger question that the speaker poses in "":

What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy
fearful symmetry?

Within the
creation of the tiger is a much bigger question that centers around the essence of the Creator.
If God works as a craftsman to create every wonderful thing, does He then also work in
"symmetry" to create a counterbalance of darkness?

The perfect symmetry of a tiger then, its perfect form and shape, has a counterbalance:
It is capable of great devastation. The speaker is questioning whether both goodness and
darkness originate from the same Creator. If there is innocence (I often teach this poem in
conjunction with "The Lamb," which elicits this opposing image of God's creation and
is also written by Blake), then must there also be corruption? If there is beauty, must there
then also be fear?

The speaker provides no answers about
the "symmetry" of God's design but allows readers to discern this answer for
themselves.

Sunday 9 November 2014

Film: "Best Years of Our Lives" Do you think that this film shows the emotional problems of returning veterans accurately? Does it depict a clear...

Best Years of Our Lives shows a representative sample of three
categories of returning soldier: The upper class son who comes back with rough manners and
friends that puzzle and sadden his mother; an upper class husband and father who comes home to
loving and happy wife and teenage children but cannot feel the carefree happiness and love of
life they feel; the wounded and disfigured son of a prosperous working class family who has to
adjust to being the same son but in a changed, dependent body and who has to watch his parents
try to adjust as well. The first two can get out, go to some sort of work and try to rediscover
ordinary life but the third is physically limited and psychologically bound to his parents
home.

This overview shows that in one sense, the film does not represent a
true picture of returning soldiers as not all were from prosperous or upper class families, nor
were all who returned in as good a condition as the characters: many were much worse off; some
were only...

Saturday 8 November 2014

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what are some examples of hyperbole?

Another example of(or
exaggeration in the service of truth) is as follows: "What are we, that we should think to
stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown
down?" The earth does not actually tremble, as though it were a living thing, but Edwards
uses hyperbole to express God's terrible and great power over all creation, not the least of
which is us.

When Edwards describes those who do not believe, he says that
they are, essentially, already condemned to Hell:

The
devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like
greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept
back. If God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment
fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to
receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and
lost.

The hyperbole here is in the image of hungry
devils following nonbelievers around, simply waiting for the word from God that these
nonbelievers are fair game. He compares them to lions stalking their prey. In the moment that
God lifts his protection from these individuals, the devils will pounce, dragging them into the
open mouth of hell in an instant. This hyperbole draws attention to the swiftness with which
these individuals would be damned and how quickly and surely they will be conveyed to Hell
whenever God permits it.

In the short story "Charles", do Laurie's parents have good parenting skills? Why or why not?

The
answer would seem to be yes and no. In one way they are good parents. They provide food,
shelter, love and caring for their children. It is evident when Laurie "swaggers off"
to school how much the mom misses having her "little boy" at home. They also seem to
understand that negative behavior at school can be a bad influence and they show genuine concern
about it. Also, the mom is involved in the PTO, at least as her schedule allows.

The second part of this...

Think about the symbolism behind the evolution of the Ferris Wheel throughout its construction, its use during the fair, and its ultimate demolition.

The
Ferris Wheel plays an important role in Chicagos history, as related by Eric Larson in
The Devil in the White City. The wheel not only fulfilled its intended
purpose to become a symbol of the 1893 Worlds Columbianbut also left a mark on American society
that outlasted the function of any single wheel. Larson shows how the individual wheel that
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. designed was first feared, then accepted, and then embraced
by the people who attended the exposition or fair.

Ferriss ambition is
portrayed as a fitting match for that of Daniel Burnham, the man behind the fair. Only a few
years before, France had hosted the Exposition Universelle of 1889
commemorating the centennial of the beginning of the French Revolution. For that exposition,
Gustave Eiffel had designed a massive tower, which was built on the Paris fairgrounds. Ferris
intended to rival Eiffels and Frances accomplishments. Rather than ascending to the top in an
elevator, however, people would ride around the wheel in tiny cars. Fear of the structures
instability, the mechanisms failure, and being thrown out of the cars were among the popular
concerns that made the public hesitant to ride it.

After some of their fairs
leaders tested it and the brave early riders gave it glowing reviews, the public embraced the
wheel and, boosted by massive propaganda efforts, the wheel did achieve its symbolic function.
Larson shows how it came to be synonymous with the fair in the kind of advance nostalgia that
people were feeling by late summer. They saw the ultimate demolition of the wheel as a symbol of
the fairs end.

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Friday 7 November 2014

What are two similarities and two differences between Cool Jazz and Afro Cuban Jazz?

While both
technically fall under the banner of jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz and cool jazz tend to be pretty
different. Afro-Cuban jazz can often be characterized by the use of extra percussion. Bongos,
congas, and other percussive instruments were present in a way they had not been before. In
fact, one of the major collaborations of Afro-Cuban jazz was between trumpet player Dizzie
Gillespie and Chano Pozo, a percussionist. Cool jazz, on the other hand, tended to utilize a
more strictly traditional jazz instrumentation, without any extra...

Thursday 6 November 2014

Comment on the topic..Literature as a commodity.. Comment on the topic..Literature as a commodity..

True
literature is not merely a commodity when expression and form are individualistic and personal.
Even when there is a universal appeal as there is to worthy literature, it is not written first
with sales in mind.

Stephen King is an example of an author who does
write with the intention of selling his books, for he is capable of great literature if he
would not make selling his first motive. Often in his novels, there are isolated passages of
value and beauty that hint at his real talent.

It is a shame that
everything in America is evaluated on its...

What are the similarities and differences between realism and liberalism in International Relations?

In a
sense, approaches to international relations are grounded in assumptions about human nature writ
large. These two different theories are grounded in quite different assumptions about people in
their "natural state." It should be noted that the use of the term "liberal"
in international relations refers to a sense more common in Europe than the United States,
deriving from its Latin root "liber" (free), meaning a position supporting free
markets and limited government regulation.

begins in the work of Thomas
Hobbes, who in his Leviathan famously claimed that the state of nature was
"bellum omnium contra omnes " (war of all against all). Hobbes
assumes that people act entirely out of self-interest and are always competing for resources.
States exist as people band together for safety and security and face off against other states.
Strong, authoritarian states are needed to rein in people's naturally bad tendencies. Rather
than believing that people can work together to attain...

Wednesday 5 November 2014

What were the Navigation Acts? How did the colonists respond to these laws?

The
Navigation Acts, or the Acts of Trade and Navigation, were a series of laws passed by the
British Parliament over a number of decades that regulated how colonists were legally allowed to
trade with other countries. Essentially, many of the Navigation Acts required colonists to only
trade certain goods, such as tobacco, sugar, and indigo with England, thus benefiting England's
economy. This also strengthened the Industrial revolution in England in the mid-eighteenth
century as raw materials for England's textile mills were shipped from the American
colonies.

However, many colonists were infuriated by the restrictions on
their ability to trade with other countries. As such, smuggling of goods to other countries was
a common place tactic. Smuggling before the era of mass surveillance and large police
departments was a rather achievable process in which colonists were able to continue their
business of illicit trading.

Throughout the mid-1700s, the English government
attempted to increase trade restrictions and increase enforcement against smuggling. The
tensions, as a result, continued to rise and colonial anger continued to spread against the
English crown. This decades-long struggle between smugglers and English parliament and their
enforcers only served to strengthen tensions that led to the Revolutionary War of
1776.

Describe three ways that Charlie was affected due to the treatment he received from his parents.

In
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for Algernon, Charlie Gordon undergoes a risky surgical procedure in order
to boost his intelligence to averageand then to above-averagelevels. Charlie has suffered verbal
and possibly physical abuse from his mother. In fact, his parents ultimately gave him up and
placed him with a relative, Uncle Herman. Of the many ways that Charlie is affected by the
treatment he received from his parents, three are discussed here.

First, it hampers his ability to interact emotionally and
romantically. The abandonment by his parents stays with Charlie and haunts his
relationship with Alice. He dreams about the treatment he received from his mother and writes,
"When I woke up, I thought of Alice, and I had the same feeling of panic as in the dream.
What am I afraid of?

It also makes him ashamed of his desire for physical
intimacy. That shame came primarily from his mother and was also reinforced by others. He
recalls two extremely painful incidents. In the first, the young Charlie spied on his sister as
she was bathing. In another situation, his sister Norma brought a friend home, and little
Charlie stared at her. His mother, Rose, became incensed.

"Look at him!" Rose screams. "He can't learn to read and write, but he
knows enough to look at a girl that way. I'll beat that filth out of his mind."

"He can't help it if he gets an erection. It's normal. He didn't do
anything."

"He's got no business to think that way about girls€¦.Do
you hear? If you ever touch a girl, I'll put you away in a cage, like an animal, for the rest of
your life. Do you hear me?"

"I still hear
her," he writes. She [Alice] tried to soothe me, to tell me it didn't matter, that there
was no reason to blame myself. But ashamed, and no longer able to control my anguish, I began to
sob."

Second, it also makes him
compassionate. He understands the injustice that other people who are like the
younger Charlie often suffer. After his operation, as his intelligence and understanding of the
world around him grows, he recognizes how badly people have treated him. He writes,

I guess I'm still a little angry that all the time people were
laughing and making fun of me because I wasn't so smart.

He empathizes with people who are like the younger Charlie. For instance, when he sees
other people taunting a young boy, he shouts at them. He sees himself in the boy and has
compassion for him.

Third, it
makes him seek approval from others. He strives to become even more intelligent
than most people in order to show his parents and others and eventually win their approval.
Before he undergoes the procedure, Charlie writes,

When I
become intelligent like Dr. Strauss says, with three times my IQ of 68, then maybe I'll be like
everyone else and people will like me and be friendly.

Then, following the procedure, he writes, Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like
other men.

How is the Catholic Church represented in the story "Eveline" from James Joyce's Dubliners?

In
"," as in most of Joyce's short stories, the Catholic Church is presented in a
distinctly unflattering light. This is entirely in keeping with Joyce's fervent conviction that
the Catholic Church was, to a large extent, responsible for what he saw as Ireland's cultural
paralysis.

The Church exerted a great deal of influence on Irish public life
in Joyce's day and would continue to do so for many decades thereafter. For many artists and
intellectuals like Joyce, such influence was wholly pernicious and held Ireland back from
contributing to the European cultural tradition.

In "Eveline," the
title character could be said to symbolize Ireland in that she too is held back by the Catholic
Church. In her case, she is prevented from joining her lover for a new life in Argentina by a
guilt complex, the kind often associated with Catholicism.

Eveline has made
a number of promises to God that she is loath to break. Implicit in these promises is the notion
of sacrifice; Eveline has spent...

Tuesday 4 November 2014

Discuss the purpose of the time capsule in Our Town by Thornton Wilder.

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A thousand years from now€¦

The Stage Manager
controls the events of the play by . As one of the most fascinating
characters in American theater, the Stage Manager provides information about the town and
characters for the audience.

In Act I, the Manager explains that he wants to
place a time capsule in the cornerstone of the new bank that is under construction. Time
capsules are placed with the intention that they will be opened or accessed at a future date.
The capsules contain items that will illustrate what life was like for the future
generations.

The time capsule seems very important to the Stage Manager.
Remember that his purpose is to keep the audience informed. To him, the future audiences will
also know what life was like in 1901 in Grovers Corners.

What should be
included in the time capsule to
represent civilization at the turn of the twentieth century? Remember the Stage Manager is
speaking for all people who live in a...

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Sunday 2 November 2014

I need an analysis of the the Suffering Servant in Isaiah and the New Testament please.

In
Isaiah 53, there are numerous prophecies to the Messiah who is yet to come. First, the words lay
out the plan for Christ's eventual crucifixion:

But he was
pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the
punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah
53:5)

In this verse, echoes of later New Testament
references to what Roman soldiers did to Christ's body before they removed him from the cross
can be heard:

One of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with
a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. (John 19:34)

Christ's punishmentbeing beaten prior to the crucifixionis also evident in this text
found in Isaiah. His suffering and "wounds" provide for the "healed" souls
of sinners found later in the New Testament.

Isaiah 53:8 is a prophecy of the
conviction of Christ in front of Pilate:

By oppression and
judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?

In Luke 23, Christ appears for judgement before Pilate, and
although Pilate himself tells the crowd that Jesus has committed no crime, the crowd insists
that Pilate kill Jesus and release a known murderer instead:

Pilate argued with them, because he wanted to release Jesus. But they kept shouting,
Crucify him! Crucify him!

For the third time he demanded, Why? What crime
has he committed? I have found no reason to sentence him to death. So I will have him flogged,
and then I will release him.

But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding
that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed. So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they
demanded. As they had requested, he released Barabbas, the man in prison for insurrection and
murder. But he turned Jesus over to them to do as they wished. (Luke 23:20€“25)

Just as predicted in Isaiah, no one came to rescue Jesus. He was
judged and was condemned to death as an act of extreme oppression.

Isaiah
53:9 provides the prophecy for Christ's place of crucifixion:

He was assigned a grave with the wicked

In Luke
23:32€“33, Christ hangs on a cross between two criminals:

Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him. When they came to a
place called The Skull, they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucifiedone
on his right and one on his left.

Again, the prophesies
found in Isaiah align with the details of Jesus's life and death. Christ himself was aware of
the predictions found in Isaiah and noted, It is written: 'And he was numbered with the
transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me
is reaching its fulfillment (Luke 22:37). The quote he references is found in Isaiah
53:12.

Jesus also knew, then, that his suffering ultimately provides the path
to salvation for all of mankind. Verse 12 goes on to say,

For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the
transgressors.

The Messiah, who was prophesied in Isaiah,
was a humble servant of the Lord who willingly bore the sin of each individual person and
offered himself as the needed sacrifice for mankind's transgressions against
God.

Is this a story about the clash between traditional African and modern Western values? Explain, giving examples from the story to support your answer.

The
primary conflict in Achebe's short story "Marriage is a Private Affair" concerns
Nnaemeka's decision to forego the traditional Igbo marriage custom in favor of marrying the
woman of his dreams. In the traditional Igbo marriage custom, parents dictate who their children
marry. Nnaemeka's father, Okeke, is a staunch traditionalist, who has already chosen a bride for
his son. However, Nnaemeka harbors Western values regarding love and marriage. Nnaemeka
dismisses the traditional Igbo custom and embraces Western principles by proposing to Nene
against his father's will. In doing so, Nnaemeka severs his relationship with Okeke, who shuns
him for eight years. Despite Nnaemeka's numerous attempts to repair their relationship, Okeke
remains resolute and refuses to speak to his son. Okeke's character represents traditional
African cultures ,while Nnaemeka represents Western values. The disagreement between the two
characters underscores the theme of culture clash, which Achebe explores throughout the short
story.

Why is "Young Goodman Brown" an allegory?

is anof the temptation to do wrong instead of right in
life.

Young Goodman Brown is an allegory of mans journey
through life. As the title character walks through the woods, he begins relatively innocuously
but not a clean slate.

From the very beginning, Goodman makes a choice.
Instead of staying with his wife, he chooses his journey. He is steadfast, but he does feel
guilty for leaving her alone when she begs him to stay. This represents the ties that bind us
in our quest for independence. Sometimes we break free of them anyway. Hawthorne would seem to
indicate that this is not the best choice, given what happens to Brown. His purpose is
described as evil.

What factors led to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828?

There were
several factors that led to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. One of these factors was
Jacksons determination to get elected after having lost the election in 1824. Jackson believed
that election was stolen from him by a deal he believed was made between John Q. Adams and Henry
Clay. This deal, called the Corrupt Bargain, had Clay support Adams in return for Adams making
Clay the Secretary of State. Since Jackson had the most electoral votes, but not a majority,
Jackson believed he would have been chosen by the House of Representatives to be president if
there was no deal. Jackson put all of his energy into getting elected in 1828.

Another factor helping Andrew Jackson was that more people were getting involved in
politics between 1800-1828. In some places, the property requirement to vote was dropped. This
allowed more working class males to vote. As a result, Jackson had a greater chance of getting
more votes because he said he represented the common man.

Jackson was also
helped by the unpopularity of John Q. Adams. Adams had a lot of difficulty with Congress. He was
not well liked. He took positions that Congress wouldnt support. For example, he wanted a
stronger federal government and more money for scientific explorations. The dislike of Adams
worked to the advantage of Andrew Jackson.

There were many factors leading to
Andrew Jacksons victory in the 1828 presidential election.

In the 1936 film musical Showboat, how does the song "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" help tell the struggles Julie goes through?

Julie sings
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" as an attempt to explain why she continues to love
Steve.

In spite of his tendency to leave home without giving any reason and
to return after indefinite periods of time, often late at night, she still adores him. It
doesn't matter to Julie if he can't hold a job because he's "lazy" or
"slow." His lack of...

Saturday 1 November 2014

What countries have a market economy?

A free
market, or market, economy is one which allows the market to do as it pleases and essentially
lets the science of economics dictate how business perform. A market economy was much more
common a century or two ago, before government regulations began influencing the way market
economies were run. In America, for instance, government regulation prevents monopolies,
exploitation, and more in order to create a more equitable economy. However, there are still
several free markets in existence.

For example, nations such as Hong Kong,
Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland are all relatively free markets. Other
nations either have more government regulation or are based on entirely different principles
(socialist, dictatorship, etc). The above five nations, however, are the most intrinsically free
market economies in the world.

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmanhas been used to convey social commentary on American society. Discuss the breakdown of the family in pursuit of...

's play,
, shows the decline of the family as father and sons see the American dream
in very different ways.

Willy Loman has been a salesman for a very long time.
Things have changed in the business, but Willy has nothe is out of touch with reality. He
believes that one can still go out and become an enormous success with little trouble, like his
brother Ben. Ben decided what he wanted and won the success he wanted: rich at twenty-one. Willy
believes everyone can do what his brother did.

Willy comments on his son
Biff's lack of success and how Biff could turn his life around. Willy is
again alluding to the American dream: success, there for the taking.

WILLY:

Biff Loman
is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with suchpersonal attractiveness, gets
lost. And such a hard worker. Theres one thing about Biff hes not lazy€¦Ill see him in the
morning; Ill have a nice talk with him. Ill get him a job selling. He could be...