Edwards shifts the focus of his sermon towards the end of "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God." Describe it.

Beginning
with the words "and now you have an extraordinary opportunity..." Edwards indeed
shifts the focus from impressing upon his audience the likelihood of their eternal condemnation
to what he really came to Enfield, CT to do that day: win new converts and win back those who
have let their faith slide. Edwards's efforts to reinvigorate the Puritan faith required him to
travel throughout New England and deliver fiery sermons as a visiting minister.In this sermon,
the bulk of his remarks that day was a reminder of the omnipotence and omniscience of God and
the horrors an eternity in Hell would bring to those unfortunate souls who failed to renounce
their sinful ways. As he nears the end of his sermon, he has to make his listeners believe that
there is something they can do to reverse their path, and so he urges people to act quickly to
save themselves.

In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", how does Ichabod Crane demonstrate that he is gullible ?

Ichabod Crane
showed that he was gullible because he listened to all the tales told by the townspeople and
hung on their every word.  He would visit "with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning
by the fire" and listen to their spooky, suspenseful stories.  They told him all about
haunted bridges, brooks, houses, and fields....

Please discuss tone and style and theme in Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."

In
Hemingway's "," tone reflects style.
Style is the particular way an author constructs sentences and
thoughts and it relates toand vocabulary,and grammar choices. Tone
is the feeling a narrator has about the subject and characters of a story. Tone may be different
or the same as the mood, or , within the story. For example, the mood of the story may be cheery
but the tone of the narrator sarcastic and bitter (think of Scrooge talking about his nephew's
Christmas feasts before being visited by the Ghost of Christmas past).

Hemingway's style is minimalistic and without numerous
kinds of figures of speech. His vocabulary is simple and often single
syllable words. His diction is the language of the...

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What did Jem realize after Miss Maudies house burned down?

Inof
, Miss Maudie Atkinson's house burns to the ground. As we might expect, the
scene is one of chaos and confusion.andcan only stand and watch as the flames wreak terrible
destruction on Maudie's property. It is winter in Maycomb, and it is freezing cold on that
terrible night: poor Scout shivers on the sidewalk.

Later on, when Scout is
drinking hot...

What in your opinion, are the major issues for prison reform at the present time? Do you agree or disagree with the plight of inmates who seem to...

I would
argue that the main issue that faces prison reform today is the lingering feeling on the part of
many Americans that prisoners need to be punished as harshly as possible.

In
my view, the main thing that needs to happen to prisons is that they need to be made into places
that will actually rehabilitate offenders.  My main reason for saying this is not concern for
the inmates.  Instead, it is concern for our society.  As a society, we incarcerate huge numbers
of people.  If we incarcerate people without...

What's the theme in paragraph four as related to the whole poem "Railway Club Blues" by Pete Trower?

Throughout the poem, Trower examines how jazz music unifies the older generation fans with the
new generation of young punk rockers. In the last paragraph, Trower writes that the
"cardboard boundaries are erased" after the two different groups of people listen to
harmonious jazz music in the same club. Throughout this paragraph, Trower explores the theme of
unity through the punk rockers' reactions to the jazz music. On the surface, the older
generation of jazz fans has nothing in common with the young punk rockers. Despite their
differences in appearance, there is a common attitude and preference for jazz music. At the end
of the poem, Trower...

Describe the relationship between Willy and his sons as Ben influences them as a family in Death of a Salesman.

Ben Loman represents a
story and standard of success that Willy adopts for himself and his sons. In this way, Ben
becomes a symbol of success that reflects Willy's failure. He also becomes an ideological tool -
an intellectual concept - which serves to distance Willy, Biff and Happy from reality and also
to distance them from one another. 

Primarily, we can see Ben as a symbol
(and a symptom) of Willy's persistent and complex delusions regarding success. 

He appears in scenes which take place in Willy's imagination, and
appears larger-than-life, all-knowing, powerful, a great adventurer; he is everything Willy
dreams of becoming.

As a young man, Ben sets off to seek
his fortune. After living in the wilds of Alaska and Africa, Ben succeeds in his adventures and
becomes quite wealthy.

Willy states directly that he sees Ben as a great
example for his own boys. Willy reminds Biff and Happy about the greatness of their uncle and
seems to fully expect them to achieve similar things. 

While Biff realizes
that this potential simply is not in him and ultimately faces up to the reality of his
character, Happy internalizes the dream that Willy repeated so often. This becomes perfectly
clear at Willy's funeral, when Happy offers his take on Willy's character. 

"I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not
die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can haveto come out number-one man. He
fought it out here, and this is where I'm gonna win it for him."

Willy's high expectations for himself and for his two sons proves
damaging all around. The schism that so plainly exists in Willy's mind regarding who he truly is
and who he believes himself to be leads to a moral failing in Willy, demonstrated by the affair
that Biff discovers in Boston. 

Unable to accept his station in life and
unsatisfied with his modest achievements, Willy defends himself through bluster and lies both to
Biff and to his neighbor Charlie. Willy's talent for delusion and his preference for fantasy
both lead Biff to steal as a child and to attempt to get a loan from his old boss as an
adult.

Biff comes to realize that this elevated self-regard is nothing more
than fantasy. He attempts to bring his father around to this realization as well, but Willy
feels that Biff is simply attacking him again. Willy clings to the notion that he once was
"somebody" and that his brother Ben still stands as an example of achievement suited
to his own personality, or at least that of his sons.

Biff, it appears, comes to the sad realization that his father "didn't know who he
was," and how his father's unrealistic dreams led him away from the satisfaction he could
have found if he had pursued a goal that reflected his talents...

Q. The value of `a` for which the sum of the squares of the roots of the equation `x^2-(a-2)x-a-1=0` assume the least value is:- A)2 B)3 C)0...

We are given
the equation `x^2-(a-2)x-a-1=0` and we are asked to find the value of a that minimizes the sum
of the square of the roots:

We use the quadratic formula to find the roots
with a=1,b=-(a-2), and c=-(a+1):

`r_1,r_2=(a-2+-sqrt((a-2)^2-4(1)(-(a+1))))/2`

`=(a-2+-sqrt(a^2-4a+4+4a+4))/2`

`=(a-2+-sqrt(a^2+8))/2`

`=(a-2)/2 +- sqrt(a^2+8)/2`

So `r_1^2+r_2^2=`

`((a-2)/2+sqrt(a^2+8)/2)^2+((a-2)/2-sqrt(a^2+8)/2)^2`

`=((a-2)^2)/4+2(a-2)/2 sqrt(a^2+8)/2+(a^2+8)/4`

`+(a-2)^2/4-2(a-2)/2 sqrt(a^2+8)/2+(a^2+8)/4`

`=(a-2)^2/2+(a^2+8)/2`

`=(a^2-4a+4+a^2+8)/2`

`=(2a^2-4a+12)/2`

`=a^2-2a+6`

This is minimized
at a=1 (The graph of `y=a^2-2a+6` is a parabola opening up; the minimum occurs at the
vertex.)

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The minimum of the sum of the squares of the roots occurs when a=1

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What do you think was Dante's purpose in writing Inferno?

Dante
wrote  during a period of personal and political upheaval, and the work
reflects many of the issues in Florentine political life, literary history, and Dante's personal
life.

On a political level, Italy at this period was not unifiedunification
was not completed until 1871but instead consisted of various small states often involved in
rivalries against each other or affiliations with different larger European states. Florence,
Dante's native city, was caught up in a contest between two factions know as the the Guelphs and
Ghibellines, with the Guelphs tending to...

What branch of government is responsible for deciding who can receive welfare?

This
question highlights an underappreciated area of complexity with respect to how the U.S. federal
government works. The U.S. Congress creates the legislation that funds welfare, and that
legislation sets forth the basic requirements for eligibility. However, both federal and state
regulations, as well as state legislation, also are involved with determining who receives
welfare, and a state agency makes the direct decision on which applicants receive assistance.

Current federal welfare law is an example of Congresss power of the purse.
Congress authorizes federal spending for the welfare system. Within the legislation authorizing
the spending are rules that recipients of the funds, the states, must follow if they are to
receive the funding for their citizens. Thus, Congress sets the basic rules for who may receive
welfare, but does not make any individual decisions on who receives benefits.

Since Congress cannot send funding for welfare programs to the states directly, the
funding has to go through the executive branch of the federal government via the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS). The U.S. HHS creates regulations on how the funding is to be
distributed, how states must administer the funding, how states must hear appeals to denials of
assistance, etc. The regulations created by the U.S. HSS must have the minimum requirements set
out by the funding legislation, but there is some latitude for the agency to determine how to
regulate and enforce those minimums. These regulations are found in the Code of Federal
Regulations, and states that received funding for welfare must follow these regulations in
administering their welfare systems.

In addition to federal legislation and
the federal regulations, states must enact state legislation to create, regulate and administer
their own agencies that receive federal funding for welfare. In order to receive the federal
funding, the state legislation must mirror the basic requirements for welfare assistance
eligibility as set by Congress. The state may expand on those basics if the state has its own
funding to add to the federal funding, but a state may not go below the minimum federal
standards.

Each state has its own agency akin to the U.S. HHS. It is the
state agency that has the ability to give assistance to the people, and to do so, the state
agency creates state regulations. These state regulations determine how both federal and state
funding for welfare is administered in that state, including the specific rules on who receives
welfare benefits. These regulations must track state law, which must track federal law, and they
must also track the federal regulations. If they do not, then the agency will not receive
federal funding for welfare.  

Since the state HHS-type agency is the only
entity that can actually disperse the assistance to the citizens, the state agency decides which
particular applicants are eligible to receive assistance. However, as discussed above, the state
agency must follow its own regulations, state law, the federal regulations, and the federal code
in making its decisions. And while there is some variability from state to state, especially
with regard to state funding that goes beyond the basics set by the federal government, any
state that receives federal welfare funding must follow at least the basic requirements of
eligibility set forth in the funding legislation created by the U.S. Congress.

So, while the question may seem simple, it actually encompasses a great deal of
complexity as several different entities have a hand in making the rules for who is eligible to
receive welfare assistance, even though a state agency makes the decision on which applicants
are eligible.

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Theme

carol-davis

"An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" contains two themes
regarding time and reality. In all, these themes advance Bierce's message that war is
unnatural.

liked to have a twist at the end of his stories. 
He also likes to write about the Civil War. When the reader embraces The Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge, he gets the best of both from Bierce.  Serving as a topographical officer, Bierce
received a serious head wound in battle in 1864.  From this experience, Bierce understood the
traumatic injury and how a life could be lost in the blink of an eye.

The
story is divided into three parts

First part-
The story begins with a group of silent figures standing on a railroad bridge.  The time is the
Civil War.  A man dressed in Civilian clothes is about to be  hanged.  As the man waits the time
of his execution, he imagines that he could escape and find his way home to his wife and
children. 

Second part - The man is Peyton
Farquhar, a wealthy slave owner. ...

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Who are the characters in Things Fall Apart?

s
is a novel set in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, from pre-colonial
times to the arrival of the Europeans in the late nineteenth century. It was published in
1958.

is the mainof the novel. He is the clan
leader of Umuofia, with three wives and ten children. Apart from his diligence, his skill in war
and wrestling has earned him wealth and status. He is characterized as rash and overtly
masculine, a trait he had cultivated in order to distance himself from his father,
, who is peace-loving and effeminate.

Nyowe is Okonkwos eldest son. Nyowe does not subscribe to
the same rigid standard of masculinity his father does, and so Okonkwo frequently beats him.
Ultimately, Nyowe converts to Christianity out of skepticism for the laws and rules of his
tribe.

Enzima is Okonkwos favorite daughter. She
is the only child of , Okonkwos second wife. Like her father, Enzima is brave, strong-willed,
and stubborn. This wins her the affection of Okonkwo, who often wishes that Enzima had been born
a boy rather than a girl.

Ikemfuna is a boy
given to Okonkwos family by the Mbaino tribe, the neighboring clan. He enjoys a close
relationship with Okonkwos children, especially with Nyowe. His death, which Okonkwo did nothing
to prevent, resulted in a rift between him and Nyowe.

Mr.
Brown is a white missionary. He came to Umuofia to convert the tribe to
Christianity. He is amiable and understanding and so earns the clans trust.
Reverend Smith replaces Mr. Brown after his untimely death. Unlike
Mr. Brown, he is strict, uncompromising, and shows no respect for the clans
beliefs.

What are some quotes describing Nick Carraway and his purpose in the Great Gatsby?

Becauseis narrating
after the events of the story have taken placehe's thus a first person objective narratorhe has
a perspective on the otherthat we lack because he knows how the story ends. He's not telling it
as it happens, and so we don't learn with him; he tells it later, and so
he's better able to shape the telling of the story so that we like who he likes, sympathize with
who he does, and dislike whoever he thinks is worthy of judgment. For example, in the first
chapter, he tells us whyis "great":

There was
something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. . . .   [It]
was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other
person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. NoGatsby turned out all right at the
end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that
temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded...

What do you think is contributing to more cargo being flown international versus domestic to cause different revenue ton miles (RTM) ranges?

I'm sure
there are many factors that contribute to this phenomenon, but I would expect an emphasis on
international trade has to be one of the current reasons behind it. As the economy strengthens
and improves internal manufacturing (instead of outsourcing its...

In The Beauty Suit: How My Year of Modesty Made Me a Better Feminist, what epiphanies (or sudden insights) does Shields's experiment inspire? What...

In The Beauty Suit,
Lauren Shields describes a talk about hijab, the Muslim requirement to dress modestly, which she
heard as a student at her Candler Theological Seminary. Having seen Hasidic women in Brooklyn
dressed in long, loose clothes and headscarves and envying the freedom and comfort of their
attire, Shields suddenly felt inspired and began to think that she might feel freer if she were
to dress with similar modesty.

Shields then realized how much time, effort,
and money she spent living up to Western standards of beauty. It suddenly occurred to her that
she had been living a double-standarddismissing her grown-up suit of fashionable clothes and
make-up as merely a costume, not an essential part of her, while at the same time focusing so
much of her life on it.

The Modesty Experiment taught her that some people
had been heavily influenced by her appearance and that these people now ignored her. However,
those she really valued, including her fianc©, did not treat her any differently when she
changed her appearance. She now had more interesting conversations with these people about the
role of appearances in their lives.

What are some major themes of the story "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

Isolation is another important theme in the story. Roaring Luck itself is some way
removed from civilization, both culturally and geographically. This wild, remote outpost
provides a suitable home for the colorful cast of characters who are among society's
outcasts.

Yet the characters' isolation from so-called respectable society
paradoxically brings them closer together. For the denizens of the old mining camp, it's very
much a case of Roaring Camp against the world. This attitude of close-knit solidarity can be
seen in the case of Cherokee Sal, who herself is isolated on account of being the only woman
about the place. The men of the camp protect her, thus ensuring the safe delivery of her baby.
(Though sadly Sal herself dies in childbirth.) Before she passed away, Cherokee Sal's status as
Roaring Camp's lone female, combined with the power of the ruling patriarchy, meant that she
remained an isolated figure, even in the midst of a largely supportive...

What arguments did the colonists use in objecting to the new taxes in 1764 and again in 1765? Please include supporting details!

The
colonists' objection was that they were denied the rights of Englishmen; specifically the right
to be taxed only by their duly elected representatives.

The Seven Years War
(the French and Indian War in America) had been costly to the British Empire, and since the war
had been fought to protect the colonists, it seemed reasonable to George Grenville, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the colonists should assume some small part of the debt. He
also was determined to put a stop to the smuggling that had been rampant in the colonies. Among
the measures Grenville pushed through Parliament:

• The Sugar Act
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How can human resources management be instrumental in helping a company create a competitive advantage?

Human
resources play a key role in creating a competitive advantage for many different types of
company. Especially in the "resource light" new economy, the main value in some
companies lies in the ideas and talents of creative and innovative people rather than in capital
or other tangible assets. The innovative ideas and designs of Steve Jobs for Apple or Bill Gates
for Microsoft or Warren Buffett for Berkshire Hathaway were the keys to the successes of those
companies. What this means is that attracting and retaining top talent is the key to success in
many industries.

Human resource management, though, is about more than just
the stars at the top ranks of a company. At every level of a company's workforce, workers can be
more or less productive. A strong human resources department can facilitate finding the best
people for every role, providing them with the training to constantly hone and update their
skills, and providing a positive work environment which improves productivity and...

What is the central conflict in "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri?

Mr. Kapasis
unhappiness stems from his sons recent death. His loneliness and personal disdain for his life
make him vulnerable to Mrs. Das.  This is the beginning of the conflict that occurs in Theby .
The Indian/Americans Mr. and Mrs. Das vacation in India and want to visit the Sun Temple.   Like
Mr. Kapasi, this family struggles to maintain a fa§ade of a happy family. 

Despite Mr. Kapasis mediocre jobs, he is a well-educated man who studied languages. He
feels that he is a failure.  He has an unhappy, arranged marriage.  His wife demeans his
interpreting job in which he translates for a doctor who does not speak his patients language. 
The wife connects his job with the death of the son to typhoid.  Their marriage is loveless with
no intimacy.

Mr. and Mrs. Das were in love when they married. They are now
estranged.  When the story starts, they are arguing about who should take their little girl to
the restroom.  Obviously, it should be Mrs. Kapasi; however, she seems unattached to her
children. They also annoy her.  It is apparent that she is not happy. 

What is the primary conflict?

When Mr.
Kapasi explains his interpreting job to the family, Mrs. Dass attitude toward him changes.  She
appears intrigued by his ability to work with a doctor.  She asks him questions and even
includes him in the family picture. Mr. Kapasi gives her his address for her to send him a copy
of the picture. The problem arises from the difficulty in communication between the two
cultures.  Both are Indian, but Mr. Kapasi is a true Indian and the Das couple is Americanized. 
 

Mr. Kapasi begins a fantasy about Mrs. Das.  He thinks that they will have
a brilliant correspondence.  He believes that they have similar problems in their marriages.
Feeling that they can commune with each other, he also thinks that Mrs. Das is infatuated with
him.   .

The conflict which arises is within Mr. Kapasi.  He is unhappy and
believes that he will have something to look forward to with the potential correspondence with
Mrs. Das.  In his mind, he builds a relationship between the two of them.

When Mrs. Das stays behind with Mr., Kapasi, he is delighted.  Mrs. Das wants to
confide in Mr. Kapasi because she believes that his work with the doctor qualifies him to
interpret her problem.

She admits that she had an affair and her son Bobby is
not her husbands child.  Unfortunately, Mr. Kapasi is hurt by her obvious lack of feeling for
him personally. He listens to her and tells her that it is the guilt about her affair that keeps
her from being happy.  She does not respond.

Mrs. Das makes an immediate
change and is more involved with her family.  Her selfish attitude ignores or misunderstands the
rapport that Kapasi desired from her. Mr. Kapasi feels disgusted by Mrs. Das.  He has faced the
death of his son and the real unhappiness of marriage. She has forced him to look at his own
actions.

I told you because of your talents.  About my
secret and about how terrible it makes me fell.  I feel terrible looking at my children and at
Raj.  One day I had the urge to throw everything I own out of the window.  Dont you think that
is unhealthy?

€¦and so he [Mr. Kapasi] asked, Is it really pain that you
feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?

The problem stems from
the cultural gap between the Kapasi and Mrs. Das. His fantasy ends, and he must become the
ordinary tour guide again with no change in his future.

According to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what is the only way to escape God's wrath?

In the
famous sermon "," the British theologianemphasizes the horrors of the wrath of God
upon unrepentant sinners. Most of the sermon is taken up in descriptions of God's vengeance on
those who refuse to heed his offer of mercy. Edwards insists that sinners deserve hell, they may
be cast into it at any moment, and they suffer a sample of hell on Earth as long as they remain
wicked and reject Christ. God has no obligation to save anyone, according to Edwards, except the
promises that "are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in
Christ." Although most of the sermon is caught up in details of the fiery pit of hell, the
lake of brimstone, and the terrifying punishments of God, Edwards eludes to the way to escape
God's wrath at several points, especially near the end.

He says that God's wrath is the only possibility for every soul that has not been "born
again." At another point he repeats, "Are there not many...

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Which individuals threaten the established beliefs of society in The Great Gatsby?

Theofandthreaten the
established beliefs of society. American society in the 1920s believed in the American Dream:
the idea that a person could start with little to nothing and, through hard work and
perseverance, become wealthy and successful.

Jay Gatsby threatens this idea
because he could not simply do honest hard work and make his fortune. Even
when he was bequeathed a substantial sum from , Cody's familywith their superior resourcesfound
a way to deprive him of it. The only way he could become wealthy and appear successful was to
turn to a life of crime; he becomes a bootlegger, selling illegal grain alcohol during the era
of Prohibition. The fact that Gatsby must turn to criminal activity to even approach the
appearance of success threatens the whole idea of it.

George Wilson threatens
the idea of the American Dream as well. He works hard and tries to live in an upright and
law-abiding way, and he cannot make his fortune because rich people likemanipulate and abuse
him. He simply cannot get ahead. Again, George's inability to achieve the American Dream despite
the fact that he seems to do and be all that is required threatens the whole idea of it and
makes it seem like a fantasy only.

In The Great Gatsby, does Fitzgerald describe Myrtle Wilson in a way that her physical appearance reflects her character?

Myrtle's deception toward her husband is captured in her first appearance in Wilson's
garage, whenarrives in :

The thickish figure of a woman
blocked out the light from the office door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout,
but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress
of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately
perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. She
smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom,
looking him flush in the eye. Then she wet her lips...

There are several clues within this description that reveal Myrtle's character. She is sensuous,
carrying herself in such a way (despite some extra weight) that exudes a sexuality and demands
attention. She wears a lightweight fabric, undoubtedly using the freely flowing fabric to
further entice Tom's attention. She...

In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, why is Willy annoyed by Biff? What does this tell us about Willy?

It is
extremely common for American parents to want their children to be successful. Part of the
American Dream is for people to have children who are better than their parents--better
educated, better looking, more intelligent, and especially better off financially. Bernard
symbolizes all that. He has wealthy, important friends. He plays tennis on their private courts.
He is going to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court! Willy has begun to realize that he is
never going to amount to much. Like a lot of other fathers, he consoles himself that at least he
has been biologically successful. He has fathered two strong and healthy sons and worked hard to
raise them to manhood. They could salvage his American Dream--but only if they are successful
themselves. Willy has pinned his hopes on Biff, since Biff seemed to show the most potential. He
has tried to condition Biff to be ambitious and enterprising. And Biff has tried to live up to
his father's expectations. But he can't make it....

What are the most prominent social issues in As I Lay Dying?

Although
race is an overwhelmingly important theme on 's work, it is more of a background issue in
than his his other novels. However, racial inequality for Faulkner was one
of the defining issues of the South and was central to his characters' sense of
identity.

Gender roles were also important for Faulkner. While Faulkner was
not as deeply concerned about gender inequality as about race, he still movingly portrayed the
effects of patriarchy in limiting the choices of female characters. Even women who are the
victims of violence or spousal abuse stay in toxic situations due to lack of alternatives. Addie
was trapped in a marriage in which she was unhappy and served almost as an unpaid
servant.

Dewey Dell Bundren is a rape victim seeking an illegal abortion.
Poverty and laws both prevent her from having access to safe abortion despite being a teenage
rape victim. She also illustrates the problem of teen pregnancy and the way it can trap girls
into a cycle of...

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What is the narrator's motivation for telling his story?

As the
narrator is so thoroughly unreliable, we can't know for sure what his precise motivations are.
But as his confession is taking place on the eve of execution, perhaps one could argue that he's
trying to elicit sympathy for his plight. The narrator knows that he'll soon be dead, so he has
limited time available to say the things he wants to say. He thus proceeds to give a very
detailed account of how he came to kill not one but two cats, as well as his wife.

Though incredibly detailed, his account is nonetheless unreliable. At no point does the
narrator take responsibility for his heinous crimes; he prefers to blame either the effects of
alcohol or the malevolence of a cat. That he is being so dishonest right up until the end
indicates a strong desire for control on the part of the narrator. He's not about to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That would be to concede too much. Instead,
he'd much rather give a partial account of what happened, the better to remain in control of his
life's narrative right until the bitter end.

What is revealed about the party's philosophy by the conversation between Winston and Syme in George Orwell's 1984?

It is in
this chapter, through the articulate and intelligent Syme, that we first begin to understand the
extent of the Party's ambitions (these ambitions are, of course, completely explained byin his
interrogation oflater in the book). A key theme of is the power of
language. This is demonstrated through the use of the pithy and apparently oxymoronic Party
slogan "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." In his lunchtime
conversation with Winston, Syme, who is responsible for editing the dictionary of Newspeak,
outlines exactly how language can be used to subjugate people. Syme's job is, as he puts it,
"the destruction of words." He and his colleagues are paring down the English
language, simplifying it by getting rid of what they deem unnecessary adjectives, antonyms of
certain words, and other superfluities. But the Party's aims go beyond simplifying the language,
and they are not doing it for the sake of efficiency. For them, it is another exercise in mind
control. Syme explains:

Don't you see that the whole aim
of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever
be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its
subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. 

If the
Party controls language, then they control the range of ideas that can be expressed. And in this
way they can eliminate the ability to articulate opposition to the Party. Syme tells Winston
that "orthodoxy means thoughtlessness." The Party not only demands unthinking,
unquestioning loyalty, it seeks to eliminate the possibility of any other emotion. 

But Syme's conversation with Winston reveals another element to the Party's philosophy.
Winston recognizes that Syme is far too intelligent for his own good. He will be, Winston thinks
to himself, eventually "vaporized." The stupid, obsequious Parsons, who eventually
joins their conversation, on the other hand, will never be vaporized, he thinks. 

So it is in this chapter that we really learn the extent of the Party's control of the
people. Syme demonstrates how the Party uses language itself to control what people can
think.

How does the idea that each individual must make the best of the life he is given work in Shaw's Pygmalion?

Shaw
loved to poke fun at society and its prejudices. , loosely based on the
myth of Pygmalion (Book Ten of Ovid's Metamorphosis), demonstrates that
social class is not necessarily permanent, and that rich or poor, people are people.

The idea that individuals have to just accept their lots in life is opposite of Shaw's
theme. Eliza...

In The Destructors, what kind of symbolism is demonstrated in regards to the house, the drab landscape, shadows, misery and worms?

The story
takes place against the backdrop of a war-ravaged London. The boys who make up the Wormsley
Common gang are from poor, underprivileged backgrounds, and the bleak landscape in which they
live symbolizes this. The very name of the local area, Wormsley Common, conjures up images of
decay, of a corpse riddled with worms. This is the kind of environment in which the boys live.
Old Misery's stately home stands as a symbol of a bygone age, an age of elegance and nobility.
The home is a representation of a vanishing heritage, one unceremoniously swept away by the
Second World War.

Though considerably more pleasing than its immediate
surroundings, the house is also a symbol of national decay, an old building in an advanced state
of dilapidation. T. represents the new spirit of social leveling, one that wishes to sweep away
the old hierarchies of British society to usher in a new era of equality in which the common man
is king. T. wants to destroy the house, representing as it does an enervated social system in
which his family once thrived. He and the other boys in the gang will act as worms, eating away
at society from within. They are the products of this almost apocalyptic landscape; society has
produced its own gravediggers, its own destroyers.

How does the narrator of Garth Stein's novel The Art of Racing in the Rain describe the soul?

Early in
's novel , the story's narrator, the aging canine Enzo, discusses the basis
for his belief that he will be reincarnated as a human being. That belief, inspired by a
television show he has seen, involves the concept of a human soul inside a dog's body:

"Sure, Im stuffed into a dogs body, but thats just the shell.
Its whats inside thats important. The soul. And my soul is very human."

With this observation, Enzo continues to reflect on the importance
of his soul and the role it plays in his plan to convince his human owner, Denny, to have him
put to sleep so that transformative process towards becoming human can commence. Enzo can't
explain the concept of a soul any better than most humans, noting that it is "a thing that
has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind," but which exists nonetheless.
Enzo proceeds to put forth a scientifically and spiritually-derived (and, he...

What is a quick summary of chapters 3 to 8?

Put another way,
once the letter has been placed on , she goes about her life as best she can. Her ability to
raise , though, is called into question by both her treatment by society and how she conducts
herself as a mother. Between the two, the townspeople seem to have had enough of the little
elf-child, and seek to have her removed from her mother. This section you stated ends with
Hester fighting to keep Pearl, and ultimately winning.

Dave Becker 

What education did Boo Radley have in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In his
younger days, Arthur "" Radley was something of a juvenile delinquent. He got himself
involved in a gang with the Cunningham boys. They weren't exactly what you might call hardened
criminals, but they used to get up to all kinds of mischief all the same.

The
worst thing they did was to lock Mr. Conner, the town beadle, in the court outhouse. For this
wanton act of public disorder, Boo and the other boys were hauled up in front of a judge. Boo's
co-defendants were sent to the state industrial school, a kind of juvenile offenders' institute
that provided many poor boys with a welcome supply of food and a roof over their
heads.

As for Boo, he's spared this particular punishment. His father
intercedes with the judge, promising him that if he lets young Arthur go, he, Mr. Radley, will
see to it that his son will cause no further trouble. As the judge knows that Mr. Radley's word
is his bond, he lets Boo go.

Whereas the other boys in Boo's gang received
the best secondary education to be had in the state, Boo himself was shut away inside the Radley
residence, never to be seen again for another fifteen years. We don't know for sure, but
whatever education that Boo receivedif indeed he did receive any educationmust have taken place
at home.

This question pertains to The Odyssey and Homer. Examine if the book is an important historical work?

I think
that 's work can be a valuable work of history in understanding the dialectic of Greek history.
 Homer's work has historical undercurrents within it, seeking to explain spiritual identity in
Greece, political instability, and how social stability is evident in elements of Greek society.
In its reflection and comment on Greek social values, possesses historical
value.

Yet, where the true historical value lies in The Odyssey is in its
place in the history of literature and intellectual ideas.  Homer's work has a place in the
history of literature and this is essential.  The work depicts the multiple layers of the hero
and the complexity in war.  At the same time, human consciousness is shown to be layered with
intricacy, characterizations that were essential in the understanding of what literature is and
what it can be.  It is here in which the value of The Odyssey is felt.  It
is an integral part of Western literature, establishing at a very early point what literature
can be and, perhaps, what it should strive to be.  This historical value is undeniable, and
represents the work's historical merit.

given a loan on $6000, interest is 2%, how much would have to be paid monthly in order to pay off the loan? i know the question is really simple, but...

The principal
(P) is $6000 and the interest rate (r) is 0.02.

Now if the loan was for 1
month we would have

`L=P(1+r)` or `P=L/(1+r)`

If the loan
was for 2 months we would have

`(1+r)((1+r)P-L)=L` or  `(1+r)^2P-(1+r)L=L`
which gives `P=L/(1+r)+L/(1+r)^2`

So if the loan is n months we would
have

`P = sum_(j=1)^n L/(1+r)^j=L sum_(j=1)^n 1/(1+r)^n`

We can solve this by noting that

`(1+r)P=L sum_(j=0)^(n-1)
1/(1+r)^n`

So

`(1+r)P - P = rP = L(1-1/(1+r)^n)`

So `L=(rP)/(1-1/(1+r)^n)`

Substituting P = $6000, r = 0.02 and n =
24

`L = (0.02(6000))/(1-1/(1-0.02)^24)`

Evaluating we
get $317.23 per month.  Now this does seem high since 6000/24=250 but 2% per month is 48% for
the entire loan, so this is actually a high interest rate made more attractive by stating it as
a monthly interest rate.

So the final answer is $317.23 will pay off the loan
in 24 months.

What are some darknesses in the book A Wrinkle in Time?

The
wording of your question is interesting because there are definitely "some darknesses"
in . Theis that all of the "darknesses" are part of the Dark
Thing that envelopes planets and stars in order to spread evil. In this book, evil is always
represented as darkness or blackness. For example, when the children are looking the
the...

How does Calypso tell Odysseus that he may leave the island if he would like to go in the Odyssey? How is Calypso being tricky here?

Odysseus is
on Calypsos island for seven years, and until the last day, the goddess is holding him prisoner.
He is described as being sad the entire time, aching to return to Ithaca and Penelope:

his eyes were never dry of tears, and his sweet life was ebbing
away, as he longed mournfully for his return (5.150)

Athena eventually intervenes, going straight to Zeus, and the gods (besides Poseidon)
agree that Odysseus should be let free. It is only due to the direct intervention of the
Olympian gods that Calypso agrees to let Odysseus go in the first place.

She
tells him of her intention, but offers to let him stay, offering him the chance to be her
immortal husband, and saying that:

Surely not inferior to
[Penelope] do I declare myself to be either in form or stature, for no mortal women should vie
with immortals in form or comeliness (5.213)

Calypso is
being sneaky by comparing herself to Penelope. If Odysseus says his wife is more beautiful, then
that is an act of , which the gods might punish. Odysseus does not want to be punished by the
gods anymore, however, and gives a very diplomatic answer:

Mighty goddess€¦I know full well€¦that Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou€¦for
she is mortal, while thou art immortal and ageless. But even so I long day by day to reach my
home (5.215)

Calypso tries to trick Odysseus into
disrespecting the gods, but the man of many wiles flatters her instead and is allowed to leave
the island.

Is the Party from 1984 right about making assumptions of gender?

Your
question is worded in a difficult manner as you use the term "right" about unspecified
assumptions in the novel, so I must make an attempt to answer as best I can.

The "party" or more specifically, the "inner party" of the novel
are the controllers of the mechanism of society. They have built an effective dystopia in the
years they have managed history and created a society of people controlled by them. One of the
common threads in dystopian literature and other forms of art is the distortion of sexuality. In
Brave New World, for example, human sexuality is used as a means of
pacifying the people and as entertainment and little else, much like the drug used to pacify
people. In the means of...

Why is marketing important in today's economy?

Marketing
is important for several reasons. Let me list three of them.

First, marketing
is important, because we live in a very competitive society. So, all companies are competing
against each other to gain and retain customers. In light of this fierce market, marketing is
important to gain an upper-hand if possible.

Second, marketing allows a
company to know what the customers want and how they want it (for example, price point). This
insight makes a company more profitable. A marketing company may also forecast what the new
products will do well in the future.

Third, marketing is important also from
an internal perspective. It allows the company to change it structure to become more efficient.
This also allows for a competitive edge.

 

What is the point of view of Gulliver's Travels?

The first
person point of view in is important as it makes it much easier for the
reader to identify with the story's . During his epic voyage, Gulliver encounters many strange
new worldsfull of bizarre creatures and their equally bizarre customs.

Swift
recognizes that if he's going to make such worlds more readily understandablenot to mention make
hisall the more effectively bitingit's better to have someone to guide us: someone not too
different from ourselves. That someone is, of course, none other than Gulliver
himself.

As we read about his many adventures from a first person
perspective, we can more effectively place ourselves in his shoes, imagining how
we would act when faced with such challenging situations and such unusual
characters.

In Act 4 of The Crucible, why does John Proctor decide to confess but refuse to sign a written confession?

Proctor
feels compelled to retract his confession because he admits that people more innocent and closer
to God are going to be hung.  Particularly, Rebecca Nurse, who is an icon of virtue in the
community.  She is scheduled to die with Proctor. 

Also, there is a practice
that when someone confesses to witchcraft, their land is confiscated and sold at a discounted
price.  So if Proctor goes ahead with his confession, being pressured by Danforth and Parris to
sign his name to a written confession to be hung on the church door, he will lose his property
and soil his name, not only for him, but for his sons.

Proctor cries,
"It is my name," he will only have one in his life, therefore, in order to bring
dignity and honor to the Proctor name John must retract his confession.  He can't bear the
thought of living with a name that has been disrespected.  Since he confessed to the adultery
with Abigail, Proctor feels like he is right with God.  He does not want to risk his immortal
soul at this point.  His wife, Elizabeth, agrees.  

Does Oedipus, in Sophocles' Oedipus the King, represent the best and worst humans have to encounter in your experience with god and nature?

On one hand,
the character ofdisplays something quite amazing with respect to human beings, namely his
relentless quest for the truth. He sendsto Delphi to discover the reason for the plague and when
he finds out that Thebans are still harboring Laius' killer, he declares that he will find that
person even if it involves his own house. Later in the play, as Oedipus moves closer to
discovering his true identity andtries to dissuade him from continuing with his investigation,
Oedipus presses onward. Oedipus wants to find out if what the gods have said about him is true.
Eventually, Oedipus discovers that the divine prediction about who he would become was
true.

Whereas Oedipus' relentless pursuit of the truth is admirable, he also
displays, in my opinion, one of the most unfortunate human behaviors, which is his denial of the
evidence which seems obvious in linking him to the killing of Laius. We see Oedipus at his worst
when he accusesand Creon of conspiring against him. In accusing these two, Oedipus denies the
validity of what the god's representative (Teiresias) has said and also denies the credibility
of a family member (Creon).

Oedipus also comes off pretty badly when he meets
with the old Theban shepherd later in the play. Oedipus' earlier threats against Teiresias are
echoed with a threat of violence in his encounter with the old Theban shepherd. If the old man
does not tell Oedipus what he wants to know, Oedipus threatens to hurt the old man.

In the end, we can admire Oedipus' relentless pursuit of divine truth, but we are
saddened by the force he threatens to use which he has gained due to his political power.
Oedipus' denial of wrongdoing when faced with accusation strikes me as a very natural thing. We
see politicians do this all the time.

Operations Management question (Specification Limits): Ecril Technologies makes car parts using vacuum-formed moulds. The President wants the...

Cp and Cpk
are measures of process capabilityknown as the process capability ratios, where Cpk is
"two-sided," meaning it takes the lowest value between both halves of the capability
to determine the weakest point in the process's capability.

Cp is calculated
by subtracting the Lower Spec Limit from the Upper Spec Limit and dividing by 6 Standard
Deviations, or (1945 - 1297)/(6 * 81), which equals 1.333.

To determine Cpk,
you have to find the process capability for the upper and lower bounds, which is (USL -
average)/(3 * standard deviation) and (average - LSL)/(3 * standard deviation). Then, you'll
take whichever of the resulting values is lower.

(1945 - 1459)/(3 * 81) =
2

(1459 - 1297)/(3 * 81) = 0.667

Therefore, the lower of
these two values is 0.667, which is the Cpk.

Depending on what your
specifications are, the president may determine that this is acceptable, but typically you
prefer a Cpk above 1 and closer to 2. The president would likely determine that this process is
out of...

Comment on the emotional differences expressed by the son toward the father in "Obituary" by A.K. Ramanujan.

A.K.
Ramanujan, an Indian poet, muses about a fathers death in the poem Obituary.  Writing in , the
narrator tells the story of a son and fathers relationship after the death of the father.  Each
stanza provides a different view of the father from the sons perspective.

The
narrator feels disgruntled by the problems his father left him. His legacy is evaluated by what
he has left undone. The son finds nothing but unhappiness.  Probably the speaker is the oldest
son because he is the one who is  usually left to take care of the fathers estate in Indian
culture.

His heritage basically provides a set of inconveniences: unpaid
bills, unmarried daughters, and a house with its own set of problems.  A grandson, who wets the
bed and was named after the speakers father, is a hindrance as well.

In a
typical Indian funeral ceremony, the father is placed on a funeral pyre and cremated. The father
had a hot temper since the poet states that he was the burning type. Apparently, the fathers
body burned well.

He burned properly at the
cremation

As before, easily

And at both ends€¦

 Afterwards, the eye coins, used to keep the eyes shut during the
burning, were intact.  Little was left unburned except for a few bones. The sons pick them up
and throw them into the river as the priest told them.  

There will be no
headstone with his full name and the date of his birth and death.  The narrator refers to
parentheses which symbolically hold the man's life between them.The fathers life was off kilter:
his birth was caesarean; life in a ghetto; death in a street market.

With a different set of emotions, at this point in the poem, the narrator
seems to long for some remembrance of his father.

But someone told me

He got two
lines

in an inside column

Of a Madras
newspaper...

In the hope of finding these obituary lines€¦

The narrator discovers that his father had a two line obituary in a
local paper a month after he died.  The paper is sold by street vendors.  The son often gets
sugar cane in one of the papers rolled in a cone and then reads it later.  The son wishes that
he could find a copy of the obituary. 

Sadly, the father left his family,
particularly the narrator's grieving mother.  Now, the family rituals will be without him and up
to the son. The son wants some meaning for his fathers existence; this has become the sons
quest.

What was Philadelphia like in 1793?

The city of
Philadelphia was a thriving place during the time that Mattie lived there in
. From 1790 to 1800, it was serving as the temporary capital of the young
United States while the District of Columbia was being built. This made it a vibrant place, as
representatives from all 13 states could be found in the city handling the business of
government.

For generations, Philadelphia was a thriving port along the
Delaware River. This brought in a lot of trade, production, and financial businesses. As a
result, a lot of money and wealth was to be found in the city. Large brick and timber buildings
housing these businesses could be found downtown and near the docks along the river. Just
outside the city were many manor-style houses belonging to the wealthy as well as small farms.
In the city, you could find people from all over the country and beyond.

Unfortunately, all these temporary visitors likely contributed to the spread of the
fever. About two thousand refugees from Haiti had recently arrived in the city and likely
inadvertently brought yellow fever with them. As described in the book, this disease decimated
the city and severely set its economic and political dominance back.

What is a paradigm, and what does it have to do with success in "Outliers"?

A paradigm
(pronounced pare-a-dime) is a pattern, and its usually one that is quite firm and established.
(Whenever you hear someone talk about a paradigm shift, you can bet that a major
change just took place to alter a long-standing pattern.) Gladwell uses the term
paradigm twice in Chapter Two, The 10,000-Hour Rule, as he traces the path of the computer
programming success of Bill Gates.

The paradigm Gladwell looks at first is
one from the 19th century. 14 American entrepreneurs who number among the richest people of all
time were born in the...

I am writing a poem, and I need some puns about roses.

One of my
favorite quotes is by Abraham Lincoln where he uses roses to examine a positive outlook on
life.  He wrote, We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn
bushes have roses.

But since you are looking for puns, or play of words, here
are a couple I came up with.

• I rose to the occasion and bought her
  a bouquet on Valentines Day.
• Her love stemmed from the number of roses he
  gave her for Valentines Day.
• Her budding love flowered like a
  rose.
• Her cheeks were so rosy; she was an American Beauty (type of
  rose).

To write an effective , think of all the ways you can
play with words associated with roses.  For example, rose, bud, stem, thorn, bush, petal,
bouquet, or names of roses like American Beauty.

Rose can also be a verb or
an adjective like rosy.

 

In Chapter 3 of The Bronze Bow, why does Simon come to visit Daniel?

By this
stage in the story, Daniel has broken free from his life at the forge to become an outlaw. The
lifestyle agrees with him, and he has no intention of going back to the village. Simon, however,
wants to persuade him otherwise. Amalek the blacksmith has died, so Daniel is free from this
bond. Simon thinks this crucial piece of information will be enough to convince Daniel to
return. He understands that, however glamorous and exciting the outlaw life may appear, it's
also highly dangerous; Daniel could end up being killed at any moment.

But
Daniel's not interested. For the first time, he feels he has a sense of purpose and direction in
his life. However, he meets Simon halfway in that he agrees to come back to the villagenot on a
permanent basis, but to visit his sister and grandmother.

What is the conflict between the grandmother and the Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

As a Roman
Catholic,was often concerned with the cardinal sins, especially that of pride in her stories. 
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother prides herself upon being a lady and
a moral one at that.  Hints of the conflict between her and the Misfit appear early in the story
when the grandmother takes such care in her dress for the road trip.  She contemplates what a
person would perceive if the family has an accident on the way.  With dramaticO'Connor
writes,

In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on
the highway would know at once that she is a lady.

If
she is killed in an accident, it will little matter what she looks like, yet she is worried
about physical appearance and what class people will put her in based upon this appearance. 
Later in the story, the grandmother tells her grandchildren that she should have married a Mr.
Teagarden since he was a "gentleman," and had died a wealthy man.  Again the
grandmother's emphasis upon class...

What is the distinction between Mama's use of the churn and Dee's purposed use of it in "Everyday Use"?

For Dee, the
churn and its parts are primitive objets d'art. She wants to make a nice centerpiece with the
top. For Mama, the churn is more than just an everyday utensil. It is a part of her history.
Uncle Buddy whittled the churn top, and Aunt Dee's first husband, Henry (who was called Stash),
whittled the dasher.

When she finished wrapping the dasher
the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to
see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the
wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk
into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big
Dee and Stash had lived.

Every time Mama and Maggie used
the churn, their fingers would rest in the sinks left by family members who had used it before.
Dee wants it just because of the attention having it will bring her. Dee wants it for
materialistic reasons. Mama and Maggie want it for sentimental reasons.

What social, political, and economic factors influence fashion?

Fashion
is influenced by the world around it. There are social, economic, and political factors that
have changed the way fashion is used throughout history.

Clothing is impacted
by the social setting. Whether it is because certain attire is mandated for certain activities
or because it is more comfortable to work in a certain way, the environment of fashion changes
it. This lends itself to adaptations in fashion. In the 1940s, women entered the workforce and
began jobs in manufacturing in much larger numbers than before. Because of this, it became more
commonplace for women to wear bandannas, have their hair up, or wear pants and jumpsuits. These
items slowly worked their way into the general fashion world and became commonplace.

Politically, certain factors will impact the fashion world. For some regions, like the
Middle East, politics and religion directly dictate what is to be worn and not worn. However,
prominent political figures have also impacted clothingsuch as when American...

How does Angelou describe the bird and its flight?

In
","juxtaposes the ideas of a free bird and a caged bird to show the effects of
oppression.  Stanza one focuses on the free bird:

A free bird leaps

on the back of the
wind   

and floats downstream   

till the current
ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun
rays

and dares to claim the sky.

In this stanza, Angelou uses metaphors to make the flight of the bird appear less like
flying and more like floating. For the free bird,...

What might be the difference between a didactic and a non-didactic reading of Emma according to Booth's discussion of "Narrative" in The Company We...

Something that is
didactic is something that intends to purposefully instruct with moral
instruction. One step further, a didactic piece of literature intentionally subordinates
aesthetic qualities to the didactic, politically or morally instructive, qualities.

A didactic reading of within the
framework of Booth's ethical criticism is one that finds moral instruction (either purposeful or
not purposeful) in the text and characters. As an example, we might apply a didactic reading to
the introduction where we discover that Emma's heroic qualities are that she thinks rather too
well of herself and gets her own way rather too often:

The
real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way,
and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;  

A didactic reading alerts us to the textual focus on
exploring the moral lessons behind the "danger ... so unperceived." A didactic reading
establishes a mind-set bent upon looking for the moral lessons to be learned, for example, from
Emma's poor behavior on Box Hill for which Knightley scolds her.

"Ah!wellto be sure. Yes, I see what she means, .... I must make myself very
disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend." (Miss Bates to Mr.
Knightley)

A non-didactic
reading will see these same passages through other perspectives that don't
consider moralism in their readings. This may apply to criticisms other than Booth's ethical
criticism or it may apply to an individual person's reading. For example, an individual may
read Emma as nothing more than entertainment provided by the meddling of an
overly indulged young woman who creates trouble non-stop for herself and others.

This brings up the interesting corollary question of Austen's purposeful intention of a
didactic reading (though she of course would not have used this terminology) since even the film
and television adaptations of Emma cannot escape the didactic
representation of moral lessons.

In "Harrison Bergeron," why does the ballerina wear handicap bags "as heavy as those worn by two-hundred pound men?"

The ballerina
who reads Harrison's escape bulletin is hinted to be the same one who Harrison chooses as his
Empress. She is strong and graceful, more so than any other woman, and her mask is
"hideous." Since she has unfair advantages in her looks, strength, and voice, she is
heavily handicapped so nobody will feel inferior in comparison.

She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.
And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her
handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men.
(Vonnegut,
"," tnellen.com)

Her voice is
"luminous" and when she (if it is she) removes her handicaps, she is shown to be more
beautiful than anyone. Her handicaps are preventing her from reaching her true potential, as
intended by the handicap laws; nobody can be better than anyone else, and so her abilities are
negated to keep her "average." If she is the same ballerina, then her true potential
was truly extraordinary, because as soon as she removes the handicaps she is able to fly
alongside Harrison.

What are some examples of real time operating systems and why are they needed?

Real time
operating systems are generally special-purpose ones designed to run embedded or specialized
systems. These systems often operate in environments where there are significant constraints on
hardware design and often narrow tasks that need to be done with great accuracy and speed. Real
time systems are used in military, engineering, medical, and data communications systems (among
others).

A traditional, general-purpose operating system such as Mac OS or
Windows is designed for general consumers and imposes a massive overhead on the hardware,
demanding significant amounts of storage for a wide variety of features ranging from playing and
recording videos to editing photographs, playing music, monitoring internet security,
downloading updates, and running business applications. This means that a significant amount of
storage space and processing power end up devoted to things that simply aren't needed in a
missile guidance system or an intelligent thermostat. Real time operating systems often consist
of very small executive programs that simply monitor or control devices, have basic user
interfaces, and are capable of running a very small number of applications, sometimes just one
piece of software that accomplishes its main function and some sort of diagnostic
software.

Typical examples of real time operating systems are those custom
written for the Galileo and Voyager space probes. Because of extreme power and weight
constraints, they needed to be coded extremely efficiently to use as little memory and to
accomplish their tasks in as few operations as possible. The operating system needed to be able
to interface with a limited group of devices in short windows, such as planet fly-bys or course
changes, and then go into a dormant mode to conserve power.

Process control
and embedded hardware and software are often paired with real time operating systems. The
software embedded in intelligent missiles and military drones also needs to operate in real
time. It needs to be able to quickly process and prioritize interrupts from software and
hardware including commands from external sources and information from various sensors including
navigational devices and internal monitoring devices that might give warnings of system
malfunctions. The reason that a real time operating system is required for these is that
off-the-shelf systems are often too inefficient and resource hungry for such
applications.

How does the order fulfillment process impact inventory control decisions in warehouse operations?

Order
fulfillment services are automated processes that will process and fill orders for either
different areas of production or for customers. Because these services automatically distribute
product from warehouse to customer or from one internal bin to another, there must be very
strict oversight to ensure that reporting and inventory numbers are accurate.

Because of the automated order fulfillment process, inventory control decisions need to
include rigid requirements and measurements to ensure that everything is accounted for during
transportation. The issue that arises is that some orders can be processed and distributed prior
to being logged for inventory management. When that happens, there may be inaccurate quantities
for products in inventory.

Warehouse operations also have to be much quicker
in order to keep on top of the demand and immediate response time that is required of automated
order fulfillment. These systems necessitate rapid warehouse response times so that orders can
be distributed quickly. Additionally, there must be rigid reporting and standard operating
procedures to ensure that everything is tracked and tasks are performed in standard and
repeatable ways. These automated processes require quick turnaround and a high level of insight
and visibility into both the operations processes and inventory levels. If these things are met,
the automated fulfillment services can function properly.

Why does Santiago want to go to Africa in The Alchemist by Coelho?

Santiago
develops a desire to go to Africa after his visitation from Melchizedek who tells him about
Personal Legends, the dream or...

The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the result of their own impulsive actions. Give supporting details agreeing or disagreeing with this statement....

were
young teens who were not ready for the committment of marriage.  Their actions were impulsive
and compounded the .  First,was in love with Rosaline and pined over her even when she never
gave him the time of day and didn't know he existed.  Then all of a sudden he seesat the
feast, and Rosaline no longer exists.  Next, Romeo and Juliet make their vows to each other, on
the balcony, when they have only muttered a few words at the feast and they are already making
wedding plans.  Soon they are married and before the marriage even gets started, Romeo is
banished, Juliet...

What is the connection between Langston Hughes "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and the central theme of Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" ?

Both
Langston Hughes "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and s ""  focus on the effect of
racism on African-Americans. In both cases, the focus of the authors is not merely to document
incidents of racism and show its practical effects, although many details of the economic
effects of racism surface in both works, but also to analyse the psychological effect of racism
on its victims. The specific theme is dreams and ambitions, and the way that living in a racist
society prevents subalterns from having the opportunities to pursue their dreams freely and
succeed at them.

The question of whether or not the United States should have used the Atomic Bomb against Japan has been a perineal question among American...

For
obvious reasons, this is a very sensitive issue, and it's important to acknowledge that there
are perfectly valid reasons to support either side of the argument. Having said that, I would
argue that the United States was not justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, for the
reasons I will set out below.

The most important reason would be moral. The
atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused massive
devastation, taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Although the vast
majority of these deaths took place on the day that the bombs were dropped, many of those who
survived the initial attack eventually died from serious illnesses such as cancer and radiation
sickness. Many children also suffered from birth defects such as cleft palates and club foot due
to their mothers' exposure to high levels of radiation.

In practical terms,
the dropping of the bomb was also unnecessary. Even the Secretary for War at the time, Henry
Lewis Stimson, acknowledged that

Japan had no allies; its
navy was almost destroyed; its islands were under a naval blockade; and its cities were
undergoing concentrated air attacks.

That being the case,
Japan was virtually on the brink of defeat, and so there was no need for the United States to
adopt such drastic measures.

It's interesting to note that, in its
preparations for deploying the atomic bomb, the US military was more concerned with the
devastating effect it would cause rather than any assistance it might provide in bringing an end
to the war. Strategic geopolitical considerations were of considerably greater importance here
than any desire to save American lives, in contrast to what supporters of the decision to bomb
Japan have always claimed.

In bombing Japan, President Truman and the army
brass wanted to send out a clear warning to the USSR of what the United States was capable of
should the Soviets push them too far. In this high-stakes game of international politics,
Japanese civilians were considered expendable. As well as being utterly amoral and cynical, this
contempt for the welfare of Japanese civilians was completely unnecessary anyway, as the USSR
was already in the process of developing its own atomic weapons capability.

If anything, the Soviets saw the bombing of Japan as an incentive to acquire the same
weaponry. Thus was born the great arms race that would create so many tensions during the Cold
War and would lead the world to the brink of nuclear armageddon during the Cuban Missile
Crisis.

In both the short and long-term, then, the consequences of the
bombing of Japan were damaging indeednot just for the people of Japan but for the whole
world.

What are some specific examples of superstitions of the Puritans in The Crucible?

In his opening stage directions, Miller writes of the looming forest beside Salem and
points out why it must have seemed so ominous:

The edge of
the wilderness was close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of
mystery for them. It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day, for out of
it Indian tribes marauded from time to time, and Reverend Parris had parishioners who had lost
relatives to these heathen.

It is this, rather than
anything in the Bible, that causes the Puritans to regard the forest and everything that happens
there with superstitious horror. They believe that the forest is an evil place. Their particular
superstitions about witches include their flying (Mrs. Putnam's first question is how high Betty
flew) and being able to use curses to kill or injure children. They also assume that it is
possible for a needle stuck in a doll to reproduce itself and pierce human flesh at the behest
of a witch.

The Puritans also believe...

What is symbolic about the Museum of Natural History in The Catcher in the Rye?

The Museum
of Natural History symbolizes 's desire for stasis. A part of him deeply longs for everything to
stay the same as it was in his childhood. At that point, his brotherwas still alive and Holden
himself wasn't faced with all the struggles of adolescent life.

The dioramas
in the museum, scenes of Native American life behind glass, never change. As Holden walks
through the museum as a teenager, they look exactly the same as they did when he was an innocent
child. As he says:

You could go there a hundred thousand
times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would
still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with
their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would
still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be
different would be you.

As Holden goes on to state, even
the differences in a person's life, when a...