How do the townspeople feel about Richard Cory?

In
"," the title character is admired by the townspeople. They envy him and wish to be
him. The way Robinson establishes this main idea in the first three stanzas makes the ironic
ending even more shocking to the reader.

The speaker describes Richard Cory
in a positive manner from the start of the poem. The first stanza reads,

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We
people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to
crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim. (lines 1€“4)

All of the townspeople look at Richard Cory when he walks around
town. He is described as the quintessential "gentleman." The adjective
"clean" and the adverb "imperially" add to the positive perspective of the
speaker and townsfolk.

 

Next, in stanza two, the
speaker tells us:

And he was always
quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. (lines 5€“8)

What factors affect the supply of tourism in specific locations?

Today, tourism
is an extremely important economic activity. The wide availability of air travel has facilitated
its growth. Sustainable and profitable tourism is complex and it encompasses personal safety,
reasonable pricing, and great diversity.

One important prerequisite for
successful tourism is safety. Tourists want to be able to enjoy themselves without worrying
about their personal safety or security. Egypt relies heavily on tourism for its economic
survival, but far fewer tourists visit because of recent violent demonstrations and terrorism.
In the Dominican Republic, a number of Americans have died in unexplained circumstances. In St.
Louis, visitors are afraid of riding the MetroLink (public train system) because of violent
incidents.

A second component of a successful tourist industry is fair and
reasonable pricing. In Thailand, foreigners are charged twice as much as Thais for entry into
tourist attractions; many foreigners resent what they feel is discriminatory
pricing....

In "Richard Cory," how do the townspeople respond to Richard Cory?

In
"Richard Corey," the people viewed Richard with great favor.  They found him always to
be a gentleman, in both manner and dress.  Though undoubtedly rich, he never seemed above them,
but treated them with...

Thursday, 26 February 2015

How do the following statements show that Hawthorne had psychological insights that were far in advance of his time? A. "Wherever there is a heart and...

Hawthorne's
understanding of human psychology and the relationship between mind and body is clearly
manifested in the development of his majorin the novel. The passages you cite show
that Hawthorne recognized in his own time what science has now clearly established: Prolonged,
unrelieved psychological stress impacts the body in physical ways that are detrimental to good
health. His understanding of this fact is seen in the characters of bothand .

Dimmesdale is plagued with guilt and self-loathing that grows only stronger as the
novel progesses. As he continues to suffer psychologically, he fails physically. He grows pale;
he becomes weaker and more infirm with each passing day. He walks with his hand over his heart,
as if in response to a physical pain located there. It is this shocking decline in his health
that finally promptsto tell him Chillingworth's true identity. The minister is dying, and she
acts to save his life.

The physical...

What is the meaning of the following quote from Julius Caesar?: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on the fortune;...

This
quotation is from a discussion about military strategy between Brutus and Cassius. In it, Brutus
is speaking to advocate attacking Octavian at Philippi. He argues that this would be the ideal
time to attack, before Octavian can augment his forces.

The central concept
is one known in Greekas "kairos," or the ideal time or moment. It is based on the
notion that the right words or actions are not enough; they must also be done at the right
time.

The notion of a tide isfor such a time. A ship, trying to land, needs
to work with a rising tide. Once the tide peaks, it then starts to recede. Brutus is suggesting
that this moment is like that of high tide. Once the moment is passed, there will be no equally
favorable situation in the future.

This quotation reflects the Stoic
philosophy of Brutus which acknowledges the inevitability of laws of nature and sees human
success as based on understanding and following those laws. Rather than fighting against the
tide, in human or nautical matters, the wise man chooses to work with those forces of
necessity.

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

How does Dickens present the fog in A Christmas Carol?

It would
be a challenge for any author attempting to capture theof London in the winter to ignore fog.
Londons fog is a character, it is so pervasive a part of that citys environment. Descriptions of
Victorian-era London invariably make note of the prominent role fog plays in the citys
atmosphere, darkening the sky, adding to the chill, and providing a sense of foreboding ideal
for multiple genres of literature. Arthur Conan Doyle regularly referenced Englands foggy
climate in adding to the threatening nature it adds to the local landscape, as did Bram Stoker
in Dracula, especially in the way the author established the atmosphere in
which horrific action takes place, as when the counts coffin in transported to England. The fog
limits visibility, concealing untold dangers. , writing in the Victorian era, similarly
referenced fog as a way of establishing atmosphere. In , the fog is
ever-present, obscuring vision and casting a pall...

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

What is the allegory and irony of the story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"?

I think one of the joys
of this short story is that it defies interpretation. You need to note how the villagers are
often exposed as foolish and gullible in their beliefs, and also how they try to make sense of
the world. They stick fast to "facts" even though they are clearly ridiculous, such as
the fact that angels eat mothballs, and they jump to impossible conclusions, for example when
some argue that the old man should be proclaimed "mayor of the world." It is almost as
if once they have conceived of an idea they make reality "fit" to support that idea
despite any protestations to the contrary - or until a "better" version of the
"truth" comes along and then the process beings again. Of course, the villagers,
although they can be said to be figures of fun in this sense, contain many characteristics which
we can identify whatever our time or culture - for example the unquestioning belief in their own
wisdom and their stubborn clinging to their own ideas are aspects which we can all
identify.

It is clear though that while there are a few hints into this story
as to the "meaning" or "" there are no conclusive pointers that give one
definitive explanation. We are left, much like the villagers therefore, to try and make some
sort of meaning from these strange and bizarre events. The last laugh seems to be with Marquez,
however, as we prove ourselves to be like the villagers trying to make sense of this story and
coming up with very different and ridiculous answers. Therefore, if there is a
"meaning", it is that there is no "meaning" - it is more about the process
by which we make "meaning" and how we support our conclusions.

"""A Worn Path" is an exquisitely controlled story of unconcious heriosm. Explain ""

A story
completely free of authorial commentary and intrusion, "" byis thus a controlled
narrative open for different interpretations, one of which is that Phoenix is a character of
heroism.  Like her name, the old woman has a courage that allows her to rise above the obstacles
in her path as she sets forth in her quest to obtain medicine for her sick grandson.

The heroism of Phoenix is unconscious because her actions are generated simply by her
maternal instinct. Substantiating this instinctiveness of the old woman, Welty writes in the
opening paragraph that Phoenix's walk is like the pendulum of a grandfather clock, suggesting
the unconscious constancy and determination of the old woman.

Reinforcing the
image of the Phoenix that rises from the ashes, the old woman rises from each adverse condition
that she encounters as she traverses the worn path. Stoically, she tells the thorny bush that is
simply "doing your appointed work," and she is undeterred by a buzzard wathcing her: 
"Who you watching?"  When her poor eyesight mistakes something "tall, black, and
skinny" for a man and then a ghost, she does not falter; instead, she puts out her hand,
realizing it is just a scarecrow.  She jests with herself about her poor sense of sight, saying
she should be "shut up for good" and dances with the scarecrow. There is no self-pity
in this woman.

When Phoenix is confronted by a hunter's dog, she is faced
with a fearful situation.  Bravely, she strikes at the dog with her cane only to fall backward
into a ditch. After the hunter asks her what she is doing, she humorously replies that she is
lying on her back "like a June-bug waiting to be turned over."  With growling dogs and
the threat of a rifle in the hands of a white man, Phoenix displays no trepidation.  While he
chases the dog away, Phoenix surreptitiously picks up a nickel that he has dropped.  Faced with
his gun, she straightens and faces the hunter, telling him she is not afraid, for she has
"seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done."

Having finally reached Natchez and the hospital, she is treated as a
"charity" case.  Nevertheless, the old woman heroically focuses upon her
"quest" for which she lives.  In anto the heroic tradition, Welty even
writes,

With her hands on her knees, the old woman waited,
silent, erect and motionless, just as if she were in armor.

The old woman's holy grail, of course, is her little grandson:

'We is the only two left in the world.  He suffer and it don't seem
to put him back at all.  He got a sweet look.  He going to last.  He wear a little patch quilt
and peep out holding his mouth open like a little bird....I not going to forget him again, no,
the whole enduring time.  I could tell him from all the others in creation.'

Endurance, fortitude, determination characterize Phoenix.  These
are the ingredients of unconscious heroism.

 

 

 

In "The Color of Water", what music could be used if it became a movie? I keep thinking of interracial music and can't come up with any...

McBride's white mother, Ruth Jordan, is  a Polish Jew.  She immigrates to Missouri shortly after
her birth in the early 1920s.  It might be nice to begin with some instrumental traditional
Jewish songs (a link below to some...

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Monday, 23 February 2015

How does Dickens intend to educate the reader through Scrooge's redemption and reflective journey in A Christmas Carol?

Dickens intends for readers to
think about how they treat their loved ones and fellow humans, and learn to care more about
them.

In we experience a journey of redemption.  Scrooge is
described as a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! (ch
1, p. 5)  He is a miserable human being who does not care about anyone or anything.  Yet there
are people in his life who care about him and would like to make him part of their
lives.

Jacob Marleys ghost tells Scrooge what is required of every man (or
human).

[The] spirit within him should walk abroad among
his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is
condemned to do so after death. (ch 1, p. 14)

Scrooge
shrugs off this warning until he gets visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him that
he was not always alone and miserable.  Scrooges journey back to the hopeful young boy he once
was slowly makes him see his own life in a different way.  His fianc© Fran releases him from
their contract to marry.

You maythe memory of what is
past half makes me hope you will have pain in this. €¦. May you be happy in the life you have
chosen! (ch 2, p. 26)

Dickens populates the tale with
memorable characters, such as Scrooges clerk Bob Crachit and his nephew Fred.  Yet no character
is intended to pull at our heart strings as much as Crachits son Tiny Tim.

Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs
supported by an iron frame! (ch 3, p. 32)

Although the
description of the little boy drips with sentimentality, Tim is afor the poor and hungry, the
surplus.  The Ghost of Christmas Present chastises Scrooge harshly for suggesting that not
feeding the poor will decrease the surplus population.

[Forbear] that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it
is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? (ch 3, p. 34)

In the end, Scrooge is reformed.  He has had an opportunity to
reflect on his life, and determine the kind of person he wants to be.  He decides he wants to be
warm and kind.  He wants to have people in his life who care about him.  He does not want to die
alone.  Dickens wants the reader to reconsider his or her own life and come to the same
decision.

What part of the play can the last line be linked to and what meaning can it represent? the line is as follows: "That function is smothered in surmise,

Shakespeare
loved .  He loved to pit ideas against each other and see what happens. is full of antithesis. 
In the very opening scene we are told that "foul is fair and fair is foul".  In other
words, things aren't what they appear to be.

Throughout the play, we are
confronted with what something appears to be and reality. appears to be a hero but proves to be
a villain. appears to be inept in battle but proves to be a...

In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, how many meetings did Kit Tyler miss?

Kit Tyler does
not miss any formal prayer meetings under the strict surveillance of her pious Uncle Matthew;
however, she does miss a Thursday Lecture, which is the day that people are publicly punished in
Wethersfield. Kit is terrified of seeing what will happen to Nat, who is being punished for
illuminating jack-o-lanterns in the house of William Ashby.

An hour before
the meeting is due to start, Kit sneaks out alone and goes to see Nat, who is locked up in the
stocks with some of his fellow sailors. Kit attempts to comfort Nat and offers to bring him
food, but Nat is too proud for that and says, 'You can stop trying to be a lady of mercy. 'Twas
well worth it. I'd gladly sit here another five hours for a sight of Sir William's face that
evening." Unimpressed by this childish display of bravado, Kit leaves the square with
"[h]ead held high," trying "to keep a ladylike pace." Embarrassed that her
very public "foolish concern" might be the subject of the town gossip, Kit wanders to
the meeting house, where she sees the formal notice of Nat's punishment: he must pay a fine of
forty shillings, remain in the stocks "from one hour before the Lecture till one hour
after," and must never return to Wethersfield "on certainty of thirty lashes at the
whipping post." 

Kit decides right then and there that she will not go
into the Meeting House to hear Nat's sentence read to the entire town since "[s]he could
not bear to sit there and hear that sentence read aloud," or "face the family, or the
whispering and staring that would turn her own family pew into a pillory." This is, as the
book says, "the first time since she had come to Wethersfield in the spring that she had
dared to miss a Thursday Lecture."

Sunday, 22 February 2015

In Oedipus Rex, Why does Teiresias does not wish to tell Oedipus what he knows is true?

is one of a series
ofcalled upon byto reveal information about the person responsible for the cause of the plagues
troubling Thebes, and he, like others, is distinguished by a profound reluctance to reveal the
information that he has. In his silence, Teiresias forces us to confront the somewhat troubling
nature of the truth:

How dreadful knowledge of the truth
can be

When there's no help in truth! I knew this well.

But made myself forget. I should not have come.

In a sense, we can admire Teiresias for not wishing to divulge what he knows - as he says, if he
did, the knowledge would no longer be his "misery," it would be the "misery"
of Oedipus and of Thebes. It is clear that he wishes to be silent to spare Oedipus from the
terrible fate of self-knowledge that he knows would completely destroy him and his family. You
might want to...

Explain various themes in the novel A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma.

A
principal theme in this story is one of displaced aggression and of the victimization of
innocent people.

The situation in apartheid (the term is not actually used in
the story) South Africa is one of reflexive distrust and hatred between the different races.
Michael Adonis has just been fired from his job, and then, walking down the street and minding
his own business, he's stopped and shaken down by cops who suspect he's carrying dagga
(marijuana). He understandably seethes with resentment against the boer
policemen and their treatment of him. Shortly after this, in his tenement building
Michael visits the flat of an elderly white man, a has-been actor named Doughty. The man offers
Michael wine, but when he asks for the bottle back Michael strikes out at him with the bottle
and accidentally kills him.

When the killing is being investigated a police
constable named Raalt angrily thinks about his grievances towards his wife. The officer driving
Raalt in the police van senses trouble will occur, as Raalt demeaningly questions the residents
of Michael's building. Raalt hates black people and is itching to strike out against someone. A
man named Willieboy has happened upon Doughty's body and been seen fleeing from the building.
When information is given to Raalt about this, the police think they have their suspect. Raalt
and his partner later spot Willieboy, who runs from them, and Raalt pursues him and shoots him.
Willieboy dies in the police van after Raalt refuses his partner's recommendation to call an
ambulance and delays getting Willieboy to the station in the police van by making a needless
stop on the way to buy cigarettes.

It's easy to see that the dynamic among
these characters is one of suspicion and hostility, leading to accidental and intentional
violence and killing. Michael is somewhat like Bigger Thomas in Native Son.
Though both men kill unintentionally, they realize that in some sense the deaths are
not totally accidental but are partly the result of reflexive resentment over the unfairness and
oppression the whites have directed against them. The policeman Raalt takes out his own inner
anger on people who cannot defend themselves, the non-white urban population. Throughout his
novella,depicts theof a poor district in Cape Town as one of decay and hopelessness. People
strike out against each other due to the displaced anger they feel, rooted in various modes of
despair and frustration in which they are trapped. It is a bleak picture on the
whole.

Relating only to foreign policy between 1867 and 1914, what are three topics that are essential background to the changes that took place in foreign...

This period covers the
end of the Civil War through the beginning of World War I. One change that took place was that
the U.S. began to enter the second wave of the Industrial Revolution
(there was an earlier wave before the Civil War). This meanT that the U.S.,
particularly the northern U.S., became a center of production and needed raw materials and
markets to sustain its industrialization. Therefore, foreign policy objectives centered on
finding raw materials from other countries and securing markets in which to sell finished
products.

The second change was that the frontier
closed. As of 1890, the U.S. Census determined that there was no longer a
frontier. Many people, influenced by what was called the Turner Thesis (which posited that the
frontier was necessary for American development and renewal), believed that Americans had to
find new centers for development and renewal abroad. People believed that finding new frontiers
abroad was vital to the American character.

Finally,
European...

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Saturday, 21 February 2015

Was imperialism a major cause of WWI?

Imperialism
was a major factor in the First World War, which is why it was addressed in President Woodrow
Wilson's Fourteen Points speech, which helped secure peace in Europe.

In the
initial part of his address, Wilson declares an end to the Age of Imperialism by saying that
"the day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by." This statement urged Europe to
push toward a new world order that acknowledged the sovereignty of nations it had previously
sought to dominate and subdue. It is important to remember that the war began when the Serbian
national, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Austria-Hungary had been in conflict with Serbia due to the monarchy's attack on the smaller
nation. Serbia was much smaller, but it threatened the...

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How does the word choice and word order, as well as the style/form used to create the poem, influence the tone in "Overalls" by Robert Morgan?

[These are
my perceptions of the poem.]

The poem entitled
"Overalls," by Robert Morgan shows the careful use of word choice,and form to create a
desired tone by the author.

The poem at first glance is about overalls. They
are not stylisha casual piece of clothing, they are comfortable:

...bib up to his neck holding the trousers high on his belly, with no chafing at the
waist, no bulging over the belt.

While the author says
that overalls make the "biggest man...look baby-like," this image is dispelled later
when the man in the overalls is likened to a soldier going into battle. The author's href="http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/ElementsLit.html" title="literary elements -
tone">tone (how the author feels about his subject) reflects a certain respect
for this man in his "armor."

The word choice continues to be
important as the author describes the detailsthe important functions of the smallest items on
the overallsmuch the way he speaks of a mere man becoming a warrior with the land:

But its the pockets on the chest that are most interesting, buttons
and snaps like...

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How and why did the North and the South drift apart in the years between 1789 and 1850?

At the
time the Constitutional settlement was finalized in 1789 and the new federal government went
into action, the new country's unity was still something largely theoretical. Though
independence had been a fact for six years, the land west of the Alleghenies was still partly
occupied by the British, who had continued to hold their forts in the Northwest territory. There
was no plan in place regarding the Native Americans and the potential conflicts that would
continue to erupt as the settlers moved west and attempted to claim more and more land. There
was also a consciousness, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, that the slavery issue had been
shelved only temporarily, and that disagreements over it had been relegated to the background in
the interests of a common cause, first in 1776 in the effort to break away from the Crown, and
then in 1789 in the attempt to form the "more perfect union" that a majority of
Americans agreed was necessary.

Eventually slavery became the
principal...

Friday, 20 February 2015

How would you feel about having a manager's responsibility in today's world characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and sudden changes or threats...

This
question offers you a great opportunity to outline for yourself how you feel about life's
challenges and what your best resources for facing them may be.

Uncertainty,
ambiguity, and sudden changes in the environment are challenges that are not unique to this day
and age, nor are they only experienced in a business setting.

What do you
think would help you personally to be ready to meet these kinds of difficulties? I think it all
has to begin with developing an inner core of calm, confidence, and persistence that will allow
a person to learn from mistakes and to keep striving for success.

In all
areas of life, developing a social network of good, solid, knowledgeable people from all walks
of life through a variety of shared common interests can be incredibly beneficial. You never
know just how and when another person may happen to have a solution to a problem you encounter
or may be able to lead you to an answer. This is as true in a business setting as it is in other
areas of life.

What is the main idea of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles and what is the play about?

The two
main ideas of the play are these: the first is that that we are blinded by our own pride. This
is called , and it is what Oedipus suffers from. The second idea is that we can't escape our
destiny.

It is foretold that Oedipus will murder his father and marry his
mother. To try to prevent this fate, his parents place the infant outside to be exposed and die.
He is, however, saved and raised in Corinth. He has no idea who his real parents are. He thinks
they are the people who raised him. Therefore, when he hears the prophecy, he flees Corinth in
horror.

On the road, he meets and kills his father, not knowing who he is.
When he arrives at Thebes, he solves the riddle of the sphinx and becomes king. He marries his
mother Jocasta, not knowing she is his mother. When a plague comes to Thebes because of his
sinskilling his father and marrying his motherOedipus has too much hubris to imagine he could be
the cause of the plague. He has to accept finally that he has not been...

Why Was The Radical Republican Plan For Reconstruction Considered Radical

The
proposed plans to rebuild the South after the Civil War differed greatly. President Johnson took
the approach that, although the South seceded from the Union, the southern states still retained
the right to govern themselves. As a result of his permissive approach, some Southern states
began passing laws that were known as "black codes." These laws, with the purpose of
restricting the freedom of African Americans in the South, were unacceptable to most
Republicans. They were motivated to create their own plans and ideas for rebuilding the South,
known as the Radical Republican Plan for .

Driven by the view that African
Americans should be seen as equal to whites, Republicans were able to push for legislation that
would have been seen as "radical" to many, especially those in the South. For example,
the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were passed, which granted African Americans
equality under the law and the right for African American males to vote,...

Thursday, 19 February 2015

When and where did Sophocles live and die?

lived about
2500 years before the present.  He was born around 496 BC in Athens or, more precisely, in a
suburb of Athens.  At any rate, he was an Athenian.  Our first historical knowledge of Sophocles
comes in 468 BC.  At that point, some of his plays won the first prize in a contest for best
drama.  Sophocles was to win that prize more than 20 times in his career as a playwright. 
Besides being a playwright, he served as a government official.  He died in Athens in 406 BC. 
His last known play was staged by his grandson in 401.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what relationship do Romeo and Juliet have with their parents?

I would
actually argue that bothhave very formal relationships with their parents that are customary of
the time period. During this time period, children were expected to be completely obedient to
their parents and the relationships were more distant. However, both 's and 's parents show that
they care very deeply for their children.

We especially see Romeo's parents
demonstrate how much they care about their son in the very first scene. After Prince Escalus has
successfully put an end to the whole-city brawl that the Capulets and Montagues have started, we
see Romeo's...

Who was corrupted in the story of Young Goodman Brown and how do you know this?

In the
story,is corrupted because he goes to meet with the devil. This could be literal or metaphoric,
real or a dream. Meeting with the devil is not necessarily bad, but Brown repeatedly attempts to
turn back to his Faith. This implies that each step he takes is one more down the path of evil.
But, Browns own walk with the devil is not really what corrupts him. When he realizes that most
of the townspeople have also discoursed with the devil, he loses his faith in
humanity.

Theis on faith, since she represents goodness in this story.
Brown feels guilty for leaving Faith in the first place. His corruption becomes complete when
he cannot believe that goodness exists in a world where everyone he knows has taken part in some
evil. For Brown, everyone looks like hypocrites. And he would be correct. But Browns stubborn or
absolutist religious views (Puritan) make it difficult for him to accept that the duality of
good/evil is a part of human nature.

Brown concludes that if this is a world
of evil, he will be evil himself.

In truth, all through
the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman
Brown.

Brown has lost faith in the world, himself and his
wife.

My faith is gone! cried he after one stupefied
moment. There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this
world given.

What is the importance to the rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" in 1984?

Oranges and Lemons connectswith Charrington, OBrien, and, rather unexpectedly, , each
of whom supplies him with some of the words. It seems appropriate that OBrien should complete
the eighteenth-century rhyme, as he reminds Winston of an eighteenth-century nobleman, with his
charm of manner and incongruously civilized appearance.

In Ray Bradburys
Fahrenheit 451, another book-burning dystopia, a group of dissidents manage
to assemble a human library, having memorized some of the great books of the Western canon. The
Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four has effectively censored great works of
literature by translating them into Newspeak versions, but it seems to have wiped out
traditional popular verse, such as nursery rhymes, so thoroughly that several people are needed
(at least two of them, ironically, undercover agents of the Party) to piece together a very
brief rhyme. It is a furtherthat Winston spends so much time trying to recover these fragments
of the past...

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

How is Carol Ann Duffy's poem "A Healthy Meal" a political poem?

Carol Anny
Duffys poem titled A Healthy Meal is a political work in a number of senses. Most obviously,
the poem is a clearon the habit of eating meat €“ an issue which is increasingly controversial
and increasingly the subject of political debate. Duffys poem contributes to that debate by
implying that the consumption of animals by humans should be avoided and/or condemned. In the
case of eating animals (the poem implies), ingestion is injustice.

The poem
is political, however, in another sense as well. The people whom the poem mocks seem to be
wealthy people. Thus the poem...

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

What was Walter Dean Myers' father's name?

' father
name was Herbert.  At birth, his name was Walter Milton Myers.  Yet, at birth Myers was given to
a man named Herbert Dean, who along with his wife, Florence, raised the boy.  Walter Dean Myers
does not know why he was given up, but...

Napoleon,Snowball,and Squealer are the three main pigs. Who or what do they represent in Russian history?

Pohnpei above
is correct. I think each of their chosen names also further reflect who they are supposed to
represent in the Russian Revolution.

(Stalin) is the name of another
merciless leader in history.

(Pravda) is the media mouth. Often sounds that
squeal are unpleasant but very real. Also, a squealer is like one who tells on other people. The
media is used to "tell-on" what happens to other Russians.

(Trotsky) reminds me of the snowball effect. The lies spread about Trotsky during early
Communism, grew and grew and grew like a snowball.

Just something to think
about.

Why do some organizations seem to have a new CEO every year or two whereas others have top leaders who stay with the company for many years (Jack...

There are
various factors that impact the length of time a CEO stays with a company. One factor is
performance. If a company isnt profitable or if the stock doesnt perform as well as anticipated,
the CEO may be replaced to try to turn around the companys performance. Sometimes a new group of
people is elected to the Board of Directors who has a very different vision for the company.
This new vision may not match the strengths of the current CEO. In other instances, the new
board members may want to choose a CEO with whom they are more comfortable. These factors could
lead to the departure of the current CEO.

The competition of the marketplace
also plays a role. Sometimes, the CEO gets an offer from another firm that is too good to
reject. In a competitive marketplace, talented people are highly demanded and often switch jobs
when offered a very lucrative compensation package.

There are instances
where the CEO stays for many years. For example, if the company is doing well, and...

Monday, 16 February 2015

Are there any nationalized companies in the USA? Are there any nationalized companies in the USA?

After the
economic collapse, the goverment did start getting involved.  At first it was the bailout of
banks that were "too big to fail" without destroying the whole economy.  Then, it was
the car companies.  In both cases, however, the government does not intend to stay in the
business but just keep an interest until the company can stay afloat on its own.  Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac are government owned and run.

According to Edwards, have human beings appeased God?

Part of
what is Edwards's driving motivation in the sermon is to make clear how human beings have not
appeased God.  Edwards wishes to convince individuals that they are living on borrowed time from
the divine. Edwards suggests that part of the reason that human beings have not appeased God is
because they operate under the belief that they are infallible and incapable of death. Edwards
sees human beings possessing a mentality that they are the beginning and end of their existence,
without paying proper homage to the divine. Edwards seeks to repudiate this idea and make human
beings...

What is ironic about Piggy's glasses in Lord of the Flies by William Golding?

Unfortunately for him,is the character in
bythat everyone loves to hate. Whenfirst meets Piggy, he puts up with
Piggy's chatter and questions, but as soon as he can, Ralph tries to get away from him. While
the little ones answer Piggy's questions, they do not even consider voting for him as their
leader--despite the fact that "what intelligence had been shown [on the island so far] was
traceable to Piggy."literally hates Piggy from the first moment Piggy opens his mouth to
speak. From the beginning, Piggy is on the outside of the circle of boys. 

This is probably due to the fact that Piggy is such an unappealing physical presence.
He is distinctly overweight, wears a windbreaker (a rather "sissy" thing to wear in
this crowd, apparently), has asthma, and wears thick glasses. These are schoolboys, remember,
and there is nothing much crueler than a bunch of kids who find something to pick on in a person
they may not even know. This is what happens to Piggy with Ralph and ; however, with Jack things
are different. Jack clearly sees Piggy as a threat to his (Jack's) leadership and wants to shut
him up from the outset. 

When the boys vote for thier leader, Piggy does not
vote for either Jack or Ralph, seeming to understand that neither of them is a particularly good
leader. Jack has already demonstrated that he is a poor leader by having to coerce his choir to
vote for him. Ralph takes a cheap shot at Piggy by revealing his nickname, the one thing he
asked Ralph not to do. In short, Piggy is the most intelligent boy on the island because he
understands these things before anyone else does. 

So, no one wants Piggy on
their team, so to speak. At meetings he tries to follow the rules of the conch but is shut down
and stifled at every turn. When the boys decide to make a small fire on the mountain, everyone
races off, leaving the asthmatic Piggy to makes his way alone and at his own pace. The boys
amass a huge pile of wood and then stand there, embarrassed because they have no way to light
the fire. They look around but see nothing to use.

A
little air was moving over the mountain. Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring
cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses. He held the
conch under his arm.

Almost immediately he is mauled and
his glasses ripped off of his face so they can make a fire. 

The greatis that
no one needs or wants Piggy's physical presence, his intellect, or his commitment to the rules
(as demonstrated by his understanding of and care for the conch). Nevertheless, it is his
glasses which hold the power of life and death on this island, for fire has the power to save
and destroy. Piggy, the boy everyone loves to hate, has the absolute key to life and death on
the island: not intelligence, not order and discipline, but fire. 

Discuss the conversation between Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs on the wedding day from Our Townby Thornton Wilder. Why does Mrs. Gibbs change her mind about the...

Act II in
byis labeled Love and Marriage.  The play portrays the lives of the
citizens of a small town in New Hampshire at the turn of the twentieth century.    Using the
Gibbs and Webbs families as his primary characters, Emily Webb and George Gibbs are getting
married when Act II begins. 

The Stage Manager enters and points out some
interesting facts and Mrs. Webbs and Mrs. Gibbs.

€¦ both
of those ladies cooked three meals a dayone of €˜em for twenty years, the other for fortyand no
summer vacation.  They brought up two children apiece, washing, cleaned the houseand never a
nervous breakdown. 

This the life of a woman  in this
time in history.

Establishing the subject of the act, the Manager quotes a
line from a poem called Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters:

Youve got to love life to have life, and youve got to have life to love life.

All of these lovely people enjoy their lives for the most part and
live each day to the fullest.

It is Emily and Georges wedding day.  Mrs.
Gibbs comes down to prepare breakfast.  Dr. Gibbs teases her about losing one of her chicks. 
She is obviously upset and shares with her husband her fears. First, she thinks that George is
too immature.  He does not take care of his clothes or know when to dress warmly.  In addition,
Emily is too immature as well.  George will get a cold because she does not know how to take of
him.

Dr. Gibbs begins to talk to his wife. He shares with his wife that he
felt like he was marrying a total stranger when they were married.   For the first time, he
tells her that he was afraid that the two of them would not have enough to talk about€¦but they
have survived and are not only husband and wife but friends as well.  He also states that
everyone starts out the same, and every couple faces their own set of problems. 

Mrs. Gibbs decides that human beings are not meant to live by themselves; they should
live in pairs. This few moments of sharing with her husband reminds Georges mother about  how it
feels to be young and in love. Every mother and father worry about their children as they begin
their married lives. Even Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs started out with their own problems.  They
survived, as will Emily and George.

It is the vicious cycle that the Stage
Manager refers to in the beginning of the act.  One generation has the same feelings that the
previous generation faces.  Life goes on and on.  People are born, they grow up, they fall in
love, and they get married. That was the cycle of life in 1904 in Grovers Corners and every
little town in the United States.

Sunday, 15 February 2015

Analyze Lord Capulet as father, husband, friend and citizen. Analyze Lord Capulet as father, husband, friend and citizen.

Father: Means well but is often overbearing and mean. In Act I he arranges a marriage
betweenand  and says that he only wants the marriage to take place if Juliet falls in love with
Paris. However, later in the play when Juliet expresses that she does not want to marry Paris,
Lord Capulet becomes...

Saturday, 14 February 2015

How does John Proctor represent integrity in The Crucible?

This play presents a
number of conflicts, external and internal. The crisis faced by John Proctor in the final two
acts of the play embody both of the external and the internal conflicts of the story as he is
forced to confess to a moral transgression then accused of another. 

Each of
these conflicts, for Proctor, is directly related to integrity. 

When Proctor
confesses to his affair with Abigail while in court, he does so because his sense of integrity
demands it. His wife has been sentenced to die. Proctor has a choice to make - either maintain
his secrecy regarding his affair with Abigail or confess, sacrifice his reputation, and in this
way try to save Elizabeth. 

This is an issue of integrity. Proctor realizes
that if he maintains his secrecy, he will be acting in cowardice, betraying his wife (after
already wronging her with Abigail), and failing to do the self-less thing. As a man who values
honesty, Proctor cannot lie by omission. He cannot keep his secret. He must confess. 

His confession to the affair leaves his integrity intact, even while it damages his
repuation as a moral man. 

Later, Proctor faces a final test. He will be
hanged if he continues to deny that he has performed witchcraft. Though he is tempted to lie to
save his life and provide a false confession, Proctor realizes again that this is an issue of
integrity. 

In Proctor's final recantation of his
confession and his refusal to put his principles aside to save his life, we see the triumph of
personal integrity in a world of moral uncertainty.

Choosing honesty, a supreme value for Proctor, is his method of maintainting his
integrity. 

In "The Fish," how does the speaker seem to regard the fish that has been caught?

There is of course a
massive change that the speaker undergoes during the course of the poem with regards to his or
her feelings towards the fish, however, the other question that I have just answered for you
deals with this, so I will only focus on the way the speaker contemplates the fish at the
beginning of this excellent poem.

If anything, the fish that the speaker has
caught at the beginning of the poem is an animal that he or...

How does Old Major describe men in Animal Farm?

In chapter
one of , we findgetting all the animals together after Mr. Jones has gone
to bed for the night. Old Major lets it be known that he had a dream and wants to tell the other
animals about it. Old Major is a pig that is twelve years old and known for being full of
wisdom. The other animals look up to him and respect what he has to say. At first Old Major
describes their situation and how horrible it is for them.

"Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives
are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep
the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last
atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are
slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure
after the he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and
slavery: that is the plain truth."

Old Major is very
upset about what he sees happening to the animals on the farm. He thinks all animals are treated
this way and Old Major knows exactly who is to blame for their unhappinessMan.

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He
does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast
enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back
to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and yet there is not one of us
that owns more than his bare skin." 

Old Major then
tells the animals that they have to get rid of the humans and run the farm themselves. Old Major
has a very clear image of what he thinks man is. He is convinced that man is the reason for all
of their problems and misery. Little does he know he is creating war between the
animals.

What evidence shows that a character is having a conflict in 1984?

Conflict is a
major theme inand we see it most prominently through the character of .develops Winston's
conflict through his dreams. In , for example, Winston dreams about the deaths of his mother and
his sister. He struggles to remember the details of how they died but this dream coincides with
the beginnings of his rebellion against the party. When he dreams of his mother again, in, we
find a much more detailed version of events. He is able to remember his last meeting with his
mother and realises that he "must have deliberately pushed out of...

What is a summary of the book Masks of Conquest?

English literature was not studied in British universities until comparatively recently
and, even when it was introduced into the curriculum in the early twentieth century, had a low
status compared with traditional disciplines such as classics or history. In Masks of
Conquest, Gauri Viswanathan argues that the origins of the English literature
curriculum actually lie in Britain's imperial colonies, where the subject was used as a tool of
colonial management.

Almost a hundred years before English people were
studying English literature as an academic discipline, the English Education Act of 1835 made
English the medium of instruction in India and prescribed the study of an English literature
curriculum for Indians. The aim of this was at least partly to expose the colonial student to an
idealized literary version of an Englishman, which would serve as propaganda for colonial rule.
The curriculum also aimed to inculcate British social and political philosophies and Christian
religious...

Friday, 13 February 2015

In The Shakespeare Stealer, what inner conflict is Widge faced with and as a result how does he grow as a person?

's novel
is set in the 1590s. It follows the life of a fourteen-year-old raised in
a Yorkshire orphanage. Widge's master pulls him into a plan to steal Shakespeare's
Hamlet before it gets printed. As Widge is not a thief by profession, he
soon gets caught. To save himself, Widge pretends to be a star-struck fan who wants to be a part
of the troupe's shows. The kind-hearted actors decide to accept him.

In his
new world, Widge makes new friends and mentors. As his friendships deepen and the lure of the
stage becomes powerful, his priorities change. He loses interest in his mission to steal the
play. He finds his true calling as a stage actor. He understands the importance of loyalty,
honor, and commitment. He fulfills his lifelong desire: to belong to a family.

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Explain Atticus's definition of a gentleman.

's
definition of being a gentleman is central to the arc of that revolves
aroundrepaying his debt to Mrs Dubose. Jem is often brought to anger by Mrs. Dubose's sour
nature and how nothing anyone does ever seems to make her happy. In this regard, Atticus tells
Jem to simply "be a gentleman" and not be provoked to anger. To Atticus, the
definition of being a gentleman is to be polite and accommodating to all people, regardless of
adversity or how one-sided the kindness may be.

Atticus's central
characteristic is being able to see things from the perspective of others. He understands the
courage and constitution that it takes to face the severe morphine addiction that Mrs. Dubose
faces. To Atticus, a gentleman knows that everyone in the world is facing a private struggle and
that it is always best to show kindness, regardless of what this is met
with.

What details about the life and writings of Frederick Douglass, and about his character, would help your reading of the poem named for him?...

Douglass,
himself, is an extremely complex and divergent thinker.  I think that one of the critical
details about Douglass would have to be his experience as a slave.  In his Narrative, one of the
overriding themes would be how slavery and the existence of it seems to pose direct and
authoritative challenges to the...

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

How does Dill show his sensitivity in Chapter 19 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Dill shows his
sensitivity in this chapter because of the way that Mr. Gilmer harangues and challenges Tom
Robinson as he is cross-questioned at court. Mr. Gilmer is particularly insulting in the way
that he refers to Tom Robinson as "boy" and also in his tone and what he seeks to
insinuate in his words. Note whatsays about how Dill responds to this:

For some reason, Dill had started crying and couldn't stop; quietly
at first, then his sobs were heard by several people in the balcony.

Dill later explains to Scout that it was Mr. Gilmer and the way he
spoke to Tom that made him start crying, as it was "wrong," and it "just makes me
sick" for somebody to talk to somebody else--negro or otherwise--in that kind of insultng
and patronising tone of voice. Dill therefore shows his sensitivity at the way that he is able
to get upset over the terrible way Tom Robinson is treated and he recognises that there is
something supremely wrong with how Mr. Gilmer is talking to Tom and treating him. He
instinctively recognises that "it ain't right," and this shows him to be far more
sensitive than otherwho do not see anything wrong with how Mr. Gilmer is talking to
Tom.

What is the theme of the book? what is the author trying to tell the reader?

A
young teenager named Janie glancing at a milk carton one day suddenly has the feeling that the
face on the milk carton staring back at her is her own at three years old. From that moment she
sets off to figure out if what she strongly suspects is true. She seeks to understand how and
why this could have happened to her and who she really is. 

The main themes
of this novel are identity, figuring out who one really is and truth vs coincidence. Almost
immediately the novel is focused on Janie wondering who she is. Her identity, always tied to the
only parents she has known, is shattered as she seeks to understand who her parents truly are
and what happened to her. 

As the story continues and Janie finds what she
believes are clues to her true identity, she must sort out which are truths and which are simply
coincidence or unconnected facts that have nothing to do with her
reality. 

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Specifically, what poetic imagery dominates William Blake's poem, "The Tyger"?

The
"Tyger" is the dominant image of the poem, and the language which Blake uses to
describe the animal often connotes fire (e.g., "burning bright," "Burnt the fire
of thine eyes," "dare seize the fire"), which in turn connotes passion and
vitality. The color of the tiger also stands out in stark contrast to the darkness of "the
night," so that the connotations of fire, vitality and passion are emphasized even
more.

Later in the poem, in stanza four, there is industrial, machine , such
as "the hammer," "the chain," a "furnace" and "the
anvil." The language is part of awhere the speaker imagines that the tiger must have been
created in the blistering heat of a furnace, and that it must have been the product of great
force, hence the hammer and the anvil. The implication is that the tiger's color and the
intensity of "the fire of (its) eyes" is such that it seems only possible that it
emerged from such intense conditions.

There is also imagery throughout
the...

This week we are studying the development of Romanticism as a literary genre in relation to the development of the United States as a social,...

For an essay
utilizing Nathaniel Hawthorne as a Romantic author whose work offers social commentary on
America, his 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter would be a fine
choice.

Though set in a Puritan colony, Hawthorne develops a proto-feminist
novel that speaks to overarching themes of nature, the city on a hill, and
individuality.

Like many Romantics, Hawthorne explores the idea that nature
is superior to the so-called civilizing efforts of humanity. Only there can Arthur Dimmesdale
and Hester Prynne find the full expression of their individuality. Puritan society, an
embodiment of the oppressive force of a theocracy, does not allow for natural sexuality or
individuality, and the novel details the toll that it takes on the free-spirited Hester Prynne
and the repressed minister with whom she falls in love.

The Puritan colonies
were meant to be the city on the hill in the new world, and Hawthorne argues throughout the
novel that they were ultimately a failure. The oppression and failed attempts at social control
through the combination of church and state are highlighted in theof the love triangle between
Hester, Roger, and Arthur and the ostracization of Hester and Pearl.

The Scarlet Letter offers abundant symbolism to analyze; the
scenes set in nature are among the novel's most lyrically written and symbolic. Only in the
forest can Hester, Arthur, and Pearl fully express themselves, and nature welcomes them in a way
that the construct of society never will.

Given what had been happening with the relationship between faith and politics in centuries leading up to them, the Wars of Religion between...

On the
whole, I would agree with this statement for a number of reasons. First and foremost, one has to
remember that, in those days, religion wasn't just a private matter; it formed the entire basis
of public life in Europe.

In such an environment, where politics and religion
were so inextricably linked, the choice of one's religion could have serious consequences.
Depending on which religion they followed, people could find themselves being sent to prison or
even put to death if they didn't follow the faith endorsed by their secular rulers. Such
intolerance against rival religions created a toxic environment in which religious
persecutionmuch of it attended by violencewas considered perfectly right and proper.

Given the prevailingit's not surprising that wars of religion between Catholics and
Protestants eventually broke out, bringing widespread death and devastation to vast swathes of
the European continent. The religious dimension of these conflicts ensured that what would
otherwise have been territorial disputes were turned into epic struggles between good and evil,
with each side in the conflict believing that they were good and that their opponents were
evil.

Isolated voices on both sides urged caution and restraint, but the vast
majority of Catholics and Protestants alike passionately believed that they had God on their
side and that their opponents were carrying out the work of the Devil. Given the almost
universal nature of such rigidly Manicheanthat is to say, black and whiteworldviews, it's almost
inevitable that, sooner or later, Catholics and Protestants would try to settle their
unbridgeable differences on the battlefield.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Explain briefly advantages and disadvantages of computers in our society. Explain briefly advantages and disadvantages of computers in our society.

Computers allow us to
talk to anyone in the world.I think that is both an advantage and a disadvantage.Computers also
allow us to work from home legitimately.There are disadvantages to that as well.When you work
from home, you can become rather lonely.]]>

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, how does the alchemist convince Santiago to go on in his trip?

In 's
, actually it is not the alchemist that convinces
Santiago to go on his trip to pursue his Personal Legend, unless you believe that Melchizedek
(the King of Salem) that Santiago meets early on, is the same person. (I do not: Melchizedek
talks to God, referring to him as "my Lord." The alchemist is a teacher, not a
"prophet" like Melchizedek.)

When Santiago decides to follow his
dream of treasure by going to the Pyramids in Egypt, he asks a gypsy woman to explain his
recurring dream. For this she asks for ten percent of his treasure if he finds it. In the
marketplace, the King of Salem approaches the boy (Santiago) and tells him that he will give him
the information he needs to find his treasure for a tenth of Santiago's flock.

It is Melchizedek (the King of Salem) who explains about Santiago's Personal Legend and
omens, and that once he begins to follow his dream, the universe will do all it can to help him
reach his goal.

When you want something, all the universe
conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The second piece
of information that the King of Salem gives Santiago is that just when you are ready to quit,
that is the time you must move forward, so as not to come so close to your
goal that at the last minute, you turn away from itnever knowing how close you actually
were.

As an example, he tells the boy that sometimes he (Melchizedek) appears
to someonein an unusual formjust about the time that person is ready to quit following his
Personal Legend. Recently he has helped a miner who had been searching for an emerald.

...the miner was about to give it all up, [and] if he were to
examine just one more stonejust one morehe would find his emerald.
[Melchizedek] transformed himself into a stone that rolled up to the miner's foot. [In anger,
the miner] picked up the stone and threw it aside...it broke the stone it fell upon...and
there...was the most beautiful emerald in the world.

The
King of Salem tells Santiago this story so he won't give up, giving him encouragement and
direction to hold onto his dream.

(Santiago does not meet the alchemist until
the later part of the story, and the alchemist helps Santiago realize what true treasure
isloveand how to achieve his Personal Legend.)

The King of Salem tells
Santiago about his dream before the boy ever speaks of it, and can read his mind, as he does
regarding the boy's grandfather and omens, even as Santiago is thinking silently to himself. In
showing that he is knowledgeable and powerful, he offers Santiago hope that he will find his
Personal Legend simply by sticking to his path. Santiago's heart is open, and in these ways,
Melchizedek is able to direction the boy onto the path that will bring him happiness.

 

Combine Like Terms. A) -14b^2-11b^2 B)3x+2y-8x-7y

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`-14b^2-11b^2`

Here (b^2) term is common for both parts. So we can
take it out.

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In Animal Farm, what solution could have solved the conflict between Snowball and Napoleon?

The conflict
betweenandis ideologically-based, and almost impossible to resolve through mediation or other
typical means. Snowball, an idealist, truly believes that with the participation of all animals
a Utopia can result; Napoleon sees the inherent problems with 's philosophy and decides to take
advantage of the system for his own power.

Snowball also
busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal
Committees.
[...]
Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees. He said
that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those
who were already grown up.
(, , msxnet.org)

Napoleon never intended to play by the same rules, and so
Snowball's naivety becomes his downfall. The culmination of their relationship comes when
Napoleon tries to have Snowball killed by his trained dogs; this abuse of power is endemic to
their essential differences. Without some higher power that is able to keep Napoleon in check,
there are few other ways that the conflict could have been resolved.

One
other possibility would be for someone -- possibly an uninvolved third-party -- to educate
Snowball and make him more cynical about Napoleon's intentions. Up until the last, Snowball
assumes that they are moving towards the same goals; he never considers that Napoleon will
betray him. By giving Snowball a dose of healthy suspicion, it is possible that he could have
developed his own strong following to deflect the dogs, at which point the conflict would change
from private to public, between two equally-armed powers.

Monday, 9 February 2015

In Animal Farm, what strategies do the pigs use to suppress the other animals on the farm?

Through
the use of clever arguments, propaganda, and intimidation, the pigs manipulate and control the
other animals on the farm. The pigs begin to separate themselves from the other animals and
receive certain privileges by arguing that they are brainworkers. Afterusurps power, he begins
altering the commandments in order to support his agenda. He then establishesas the foremost
enemy of the farm and uses him as a scapegoat whenever anything goes awry.garners support for
Napoleon by cleverly manipulating the animals' ability to reason. Squealer uses euphemisms to
explain unfavorable policies, reveres Napoleon as their supreme leader, and reminds the animals
of Jones's potential return. The pigs also lie about statistics regarding...

How does Robinson crusoe become a religious man?

DeFoe'sbecomes a religious man because of his
labor and (eventual) deference to God.

George Starr argues in his article
" and the Myth of Mammon," that the 17th century faithful believed hard work must be
coupled with a dependence on God."Providence," Starr says, "does not excuse man
from action but calls him to it and sustains him in it."

Defoe expresses
this sentiment in an essay he titled, "Serious Reflections," saying:"(W)e are to
trust Providence with our estates, but to use, at the same time, all diligence in our callings,
so we are to trust Providence with our safety, but with our eyes open to all its necessary
cautions, warnings, and instructions."

This is precisely what brings
Crusoe around:accepting hard work and trusting in God to sustain him.One is useless without the
other.It is not, as Star argues,"either/or" but rather
"both/and."Eventually, Crusoe understands this and he learns "thankfulness and
resignation."

Describe the historical background of the "Disgrace at Canossa" based on the Letter of Gregory VII to the German Princes & Henry IVs Oath of...

In Pope Gregory VII's letter to the German
princes dated 28 January 1077, the Pope describes the penance and absolution of the Holy Roman
Emperor Henry IV. The Pope and the Emperor had been embroiled in a dispute known as "the
investiture controversy" about who had the authority to appoint bishops, and this had
culminated in Gregory excommunicating Henry at the Lenten synod of 1076. Henry then sent
messengers to the Pope, promising obedience. He finally came to Italy himself and approached
Gregory at the castle of Matilda of Tuscany in the town of Canossa, where he was staying. There,
Gregory writes, Henry stayed for three nights outside the castle having laid aside all the
trappings of royalty, with bare feet and dressed simply in wool, crying and imploring the Pope
for the apostolic blessing.

At length, Gregory continues, he "loosed the
chain of the anathema and at length received him into the favour of communion and into the lap
of the holy mother church." This affair, for the time being, consolidated the power of the
Pope and resolved in his favor the long-running struggle for power with the Holy Roman Emperor.
Henry had to swear an oath that he would effectively be the vassal of the Pope and "either
do justice according to his judgment or conclude peace according to his
counsels."

The letter and the oath are both attached
below.

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Sunday, 8 February 2015

What are the duties and responsibilities of each branch of government?

The government
of the US is divided into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the
judicial.

Congress is the legislative branch, and it is bicameral: its two
components are the House of Representatives and the Senate. They are chosen by voters to serve
two-year and six-year terms, respectively. Laws are made by Congress. Impeachment of the
president starts in the House and ends in the Senate. A two-thirds majority in the Senate is
needed to impeach a President or approve treaties.

The Presidency is the
executive branch of the government. Presidents are elected to four-year terms and may serve only
two terms. Presidents, unlike the Congress, are not chosen directly by the people. Instead, they
are selected by the Electoral College. This is problematic because the Electoral College
sometimes overrides the peoples' choice, as in 2000 and 2016. Gridlock occurs when the
presidency and Congress are controlled by different parties. Presidents command the armed
forces.

The judiciary branch consists of the Supreme Court and an extensive
system of lower courts. The Constitution did not explicitly list the powers and duties of the
judiciary branch. John Marshall (1755€“1835), the fourth chief justice, was instrumental in
making the judiciary branch the equal of the other two branches. He did this by establishing the
principle of judicial review. In other words, the Supreme Court has the final say in determining
the constitutionality of any law in the country.

The Sugar, Stamp, Townshend Acts, Writs of Assistance, Tea Act and Intolerable Act were all actions taken by British Parliament. What was the main...

The main
reason why the American colonists protested and opposed all of the actions of the British
Parliament that you mention is because the colonists wanted to have autonomy.  All of these
actions showed that the British Parliament could do more or less what it wanted to the
colonists.  Therefore, the colonists opposed them.

The actions you mention
are diverse. There are taxes on trade, like the Sugar Act.  There are taxes on goods used only
domestically, like the Stamp Act.  There are things like the Writs of Assistance that made it
easier for British officials to enforce laws that the colonists did not like.  What this means
is that the Americans would have had different specific reasons for disliking each individual
action of Parliament.

However, we can identify one major thing that all of
these have in common and that would have angered the colonists.  What all of these actions have
in common is that they represent British domination of the Americans.  Each of these actions
shows that the Parliament was able to pass and enforce laws that affected the colonists without
the colonists approval.  When a government can pass laws without the approval of the governed,
the people have little autonomy and little power.  This is what bothered the colonists.  They
wanted to have the power to govern themselves.  All of the Parliaments actions showed that the
colonists lacked this power and that Parliament was in no hurry to give it to them.  This
angered the colonists, leading them to oppose and protest the measures.

 

href="https://www.historycentral.com/Revolt/causes.html">https://www.historycentral.com/Revolt/causes.html

Is Ulysses' positive side, seen in the love of travel and knowledge, more persuasive than his negative side, seen in the disowning of his subjects and...

There is
little doubt that this is a tough question.  It is so difficult because there is not a singular
or clear answer to it.  Like Tennyson's construction of , it is complex.  I would suggest that
the answer depends largely on what one values.

Tennyson, himself, does not
give a "moralistic" answer.  He does not make it easy for the reader.  He constructs a
figure that is ragingly complex.  In doing so, one has to examine how Ulysses is developed.
 Indeed, there is much in Ulysses where admiration can be found.  The opening line that speaks
against an "idle king" is a part of this.  Ulysses is constructive enough to
understand that he is not being of any real, tangible use back in Ithaca.  Telemachus has proven
skilled enough to handle the responsibilities that are required as "he works his
work."  At the same time, Odysseus wishes to avoid a condition in which he does not
"shine in use."  Odysseus is afraid of wasting away, to a great extent.  He makes
 clear that his experiences have left an imprint on him:  "I am a part of all that I have
met."  Acting upon these becomes vitally important for him.  Odysseus'in the poem is one
that illuminates these qualities within him.

Yet, it is hard to leave the
poem without a realization that he is unable to adapt to what life is from an emotionally
intimate point of view.  Life at home is viewed in a negative light.  It is viewed as a mundane
existence.  Odysseus offers little in way of emotional exploration with the people that he
struggled mightily to reunite.  He hardly speaks of Penelope, whose faithfulness and sense of
honor is not acknowledged.  He speaks of Telemachus in the previously mentioned professional
tone.  Yet, Odysseus fails to see "the emotional odyssey" that can exist between the
people in his life and his subjects.  He defines consciousness in external terms and not with an
emotional understanding.  Odysseus could immerse himself in an emotional quest with others by
hearing them, being with them, and living life in communion with them.  This is not mentioned.
 Odysseus only defines being as an external notion of the good.  He stands at the end of the
poem as what can be described as a "melancholic figure."  This helps to reinforce to
me that the source of his melancholy is a forlorn condition that will remain with him.  Even if
he sets off to voyages, he will always be alone.  With the abdication of emotional connection to
his subjects and family, this is the image that remains in my mind and seems to overcome all
else.

Describe how Juliet's mother behaves when she tells Juliet about the arrangement her father made to have her marry Paris. How does Juliet's mother's...

seems
to think that 's imminent betrothal to the drippy, uninspiringis a cause for celebration. As
well as demonstrating how out of touch with reality she is, Lady Capulet's unaccountably sunny
disposition also emphasizes the lack of genuine connection she has with her daughter.

If our initial impressions of the good Lady weren't exactly positive to begin with,
they're even less so when we see her craven response to her husband's splenetic fury over
Juliet's stubbornness. Unlike Juliet, Lady Capulet unhesitatingly goes along with society's
prevailing conventions without ever stopping to think whether she's doing the right thing. As we
might expect, then, she blindly apes her husband's impetuosity, joining him in...

What are some major differences between how the Allies treated Germany after World War II and World War I?

Consider the
terms of the Treaty of Versailles, contrasted to the terms of the Nazi surrender ending WWII in
Europe. 

The Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for virtually all of the
war, Nazi surrender only put the blame where it belonged.  The Treaty of Versailles required
Germany to pay the rest of Europe for the damage that was done, the Nazi Surrender treated all
the parties in WWII as victims, proportional to damage suffered (i.e. Germany and France were
absolute victims as both countries were virtually destroyed, the US wasn't a victim as it
was...

Saturday, 7 February 2015

Essential Short Stories We are compiling a list of the best short stories ever for high school students. What titles do you think should make the cut...

1. A
Passion in the Desert  Honore de Balzac

2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County  Mark Twain

3. A Child's Christmas in Wales  Dylan Thomas

4. The Ship that Found Herself   Rudyard Kipling

5.  href="http://www.classicshorts.com/bib.html">Rip Van Winkle (A Posthumous Writing
of Diedrich Knickerbocker)   Washington Irving

6. The
Purloined Letter Edgr Allan Poe                                                                
                                                                                               
                                                                                               
                          7. Working with Little People   Harlan Ellison                        
                                                                                               
                                                                                               
                                                          8.Fondly Farenheit  Alfred Bester    
                                                                   

Why is consumer behavior important for a business firm?

Simply
put, consumer behavior is important because customers are the heart of any business. Without
customers, any business would be forced to close its doors immediately. Understanding consumer
behavior is therefore a cornerstone of any successful business, because without understanding
who your customers are, you will not know what they want or how best to speak to them.

To provide a basic definition of consumer behavior, this field of study looks at what
makes a consumer make the decisions that he or she does. It looks at the motivations and the
psychology behind each factor. Without knowing...

href="https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/how-understand-influence-consumer-behavior/">https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/how-understand-influence-...

When listening to composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumble-Bee, use the elements of music (melody, harmony, form, rhythm, timbre,...

The orchestral
interlude from Rimsky-Kovsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan is the close
to Act III, Tableau 1. In this interlude, the Swan-Bird transforms himself into an insect so
that he can fly off to visit his father, who does not know he is alive.

In
the image above, the leitmotif of the flight (1) and the transformation (2), are, of course, the
thematic ideas that bind the work together. So, in drawing a music map, these notes could be
copied and inserted as they tie together the pictorial depiction of sound (as fence posts hold
the wire in place every so many feet). Remembering that music and art are simply different
mediums for the expression of the same concept or feeling, the student may wish to use color and
line to convey the rhythm and melodies and chord progressions of the music. (There are some
people, called "synesthetes," who experience double sensory experiences such as
hearing a sound while also seeing a color.)

Here's another suggestion: Watch
and listen to the video of the links below and try to visualize the sound in lines and imagine
into what color this sound can be translated. For example, as the conductor moves his baton,
imagine it is a sparkler in the dark that creates lines of light and draw this line which then
moves with the progression of the music (vary the thickness, color, etc.). For example, when the
flutes are being played, the line will be thinner; when the cello comes in, the line thickens,
and so forth. Perhaps, the student can conceptualize the leitmotif as the body of the bee, and
the lines emanating from him in his transformation and flight. And, what about flowers? Bees
hover over them often in their flights.

The important thing is to free the
imagination and feel, experience personally, the color and line; closing the eyes and imagining
line and color can be the way to translate sound into other senses--even dance! With regard to
the other link, the Canadian Brass rendition, the tuba has such round, bold notes in contrast to
the sharp, staccato of the trumpet that line can easily express these
sounds. 

href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE&feature=kp">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE&feature=kp
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Friday, 6 February 2015

How does Edwards structure his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by using hyperbole to describe the horrors of Hell by...

did indeed
employ a special kind of structure to his sermon. The four elements you listed (i.e. ,
intimidation, litany of wrongs, and series of metaphors) exist within a greater context, and
understanding the whole of the sermon, its message, and what led up to the sermons impact help
to more effectively understand the structure Edwards used.

First, consider
the more traditional, simple structure Edwards employed. While our purpose here is to better
discover the full structure of the sermon, we must recognize that  Edwards started with a design
conventional for his time--reading and explaining a text (in this case, Deuteronomy 32:35), a
teaching on related topics that stem from the text (here, it is expressed in ten points), and
directly applying the text to the audience.

Second, changes in the Enfield,
Connecticut, community led to the eventual response of repentance expressed by the audience of
Edwardss famous sermon. People were dying of disease and...

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What are methods to increase trade between countries and methods to restrict trade between countries?

Discussions of policies or practices that facilitate or restrict trade among nations involve
flip sides of the same coin. Measures adopted to increase trade usually entail refutation of
practices that heretofore restricted it. Tariffs, which are taxes imposed on imported goods, are
a case in point. When countries want to limit the importation of certain goods, such as steel or
wheat, they increase the tariffs imposed on the import of these items. That makes it more
expensive for the importing business to purchase raw materials or componentsexpenses that must
be passed on to the customer if the business activity in question ceases to be profitable.
Conversely, countries seeking to increase the levels of trade between them agree to lower
tariffs, or eliminate them completely, with the assurance that certain domestic industries will
benefit, while others may suffer. This is the case with president Donald Trumps recent decision
to impose tariffs on imports of steel and other goods....

href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/tariff-trade-barrier-basics.asp">https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/tariff...
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Why do you think Laurie reported Charles's good behavior grimly, while he had delighted in telling about Charles's bad behavior?

In the
ironic ending to 's short story " " Laurie's mother discovers that although her son
has been faithfully reporting the deeds and misdeeds of a boy named Charles in his kindergarten
class there is in reality no Charles. Laurie is really Charles, which should come as no surprise
to the reader in light of Laurie's behavior at home where he torments his baby sister and often
talks back to his father. Charles is made...

What are some quotes that show Lennie is mentally challenged in Of Mice and Men?

In
, the character ofseems to have a developmental disability, which is
indicated in his own words, the other characters comments, and the narrators descriptions and
presentation of events. Lennies memory is not good, and he is comfortable with concrete things
and information but struggles with abstractions and hypotheticals.

The mice
he plays with and accidentally kills remind him of those he played with as a child, he tells ,
which that lady used to give to him. George has to remind him that the lady was your own
Aunt Clara.

When Crooks attempts to have a conversation with Lennie, he is
surprised to find that George had not exaggerated Lennies limitations. Crooks tells him, you
dont understand nothing. He also goads him to imagine what he would do without George, should he
get hurt. Lennie tries but is unable to process this abstraction, so he assumes it is a fact. He
angrily demands to know, Who hurt George?

Through their...

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Thursday, 5 February 2015

What is the importance of food in the short story "Girl"?

In the very
short story "" by , food is mentioned several times. The story is written as
adelivered by an overbearing Caribbean mother to her daughter. The mother instructs her daughter
on the proper way of doing things as a woman so as not to be perceived as a "slut."
The many domestic tasks her mother outlines include how to cook pumpkin fritters, how to
"eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach," and how to
set tables for various types of meals. The cooking and table setting instructions add to the
story's themes of domesticity and subservience as they both imply that the girl will one day
live a life where she is hosting and housekeeping for others. In these moments, the mother
embodies the oppressive patriarchal culture, and (some scholars argue) the strict rules of
colonialism.

The instructions given on how to eat food, rather than how to
prepare it, serve a slightly different purpose. Because eating is a bodily function, these
instructions get much more personal, even sensual. "Don't eat fruit on the streetflies will
follow you" can easily be read as coded instructions about the girl's sexuality. Don't
flaunt your enjoyment of sensuous delights (eating fruit) lest you attract unwanted
attention.

The story ends on a food image. The narrator tells her daughter to
always squeeze the bread at the market and the daughter interjectsone of only two times she is
able to break through her mother's lectureto ask "but what if the baker won't let me feel
the bread?" And the mother is outraged that her daughter might grow up to be the kind of
woman not allowed to feel the bread. Here food is a symbol of respectability. The right kind of
woman would be trusted to feel bread before purchasing it, because there would be no doubt as to
her respectability and character.

Thus food operates in three ways throughout
the story: as a totem of domesticity, a symbol of sexuality, and a marker of societal
acceptability.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

In Chapters 5-7 of Animal Farm, what causes the animals to struggle with breaking up the stones for the windmill, and what is the outcome?

One of
the main problems the animals run into when constructing the windmill is how to break the
massive pieces of limestone into suitable sizes. Initially, the animals thought there was no way
to break up the stone without the use of picks and crowbars, which were impossible to use
because no animal could stand on their hind legs or correctly wield the human tools. Eventually,
the animals decided to use the force of gravity to break up the stone by hauling large slabs of
limestone to the top of the quarry and letting them tumble down to the bottom of the quarry,
where the slabs would break into smaller pieces. Once the limestone was broken into smaller
pieces, they would load the stone into carts and haul it back up the quarry.

The only issue with this method is that it is arduous, taxing work, which exhausts ,
who does the majority of the heavy lifting. The animals are able to retrieve the necessary
limestone to build the windmill, and they eventually finish construction. However, Boxer uses
all of his energy hauling the stone and eventually exhausts himself.

What kind of irony does the last line of the poem, "Went home and put a bullet through his head," represent? Is it verbal irony, dramatic irony, or...

's
tragic, unforeseen suicide is an example of situational . Situational irony occurs when
something unexpected happens and the opposite of what someone anticipates takes place.
Essentially, it is when something happens that the audience does not expect. The audience does
not expect Richard Cory to commit suicide because he is depicted as a prestigious, wealthy man,
who seems to have it all. The audience is led to believe that Richard Cory enjoys his luxurious
life, which is why his suicide is unexpected and surprising. Verbal irony is when someone says
something that is the opposite of how they feel or think while dramatic irony is when the
audience knows something that the characters do not. Both verbal irony and dramatic irony are
not utilized in the poem "Richard Cory."

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

What are some techniques used to convey the theme of justice in The Lovely Bones?

This is an interesting
question, and one that I would answer by refering to the end of the story and the eventual fate
of Mr. Harvey. The message of the story concerning justice seems to be that your crimes will
catch up with you, and that you cannot outrun justice, even if you do not receive justice at the
hands of law and order. Mr. Harvey is a perfect case in point. Having managed to commit the
apparently perfect crime and then to carry on living next door to the girl he murdered, he
evades every attempt of the police or of Susie's father to accuse him of the murder. It is only
when Susie's sister actually breaks into the house and enters it that suspicions are raised, but
he is able to find enough time to flee. As we come to the end of the story, we are left with the
nagging thought that justice will not catch up with him and he will be free to murder again as
he murdered Susie and so many others before. As he engages another girl in conversation and
plans another rape and murder, Susie watches as his plan turns out somewhat differently than he
expected:

A moment later, the icicle fell. The heavy
coldness of it threw him off balance just enough for him to stumble and pitch forward. It would
be weeks before the snow in the ravine melted enough to uncover him.

This is the major technique that is used to present the novel's
theme of justice, which cannot be outran or evaded. Even though he is not arrested, Mr. Harvey
faces the justice of nature for what he has done.

What are some examples of puns from Romeo and Juliet?

Ais a play
on words, usually for humorous effect.  Shakespeare liked to use puns, often with sexual
meaning.  However, puns can be based on just about anything. 

 Although puns
are often made for humors sake, the person making them is not always laughing.  For
example,makes a pun on the idea of being in love.

BEN:

In love?

ROM:

Out

BEN:

Of love?(165)

ROM:

Out of her favour, where I am in
love. (Act 1, Scene 1)

In this case, the pun is a play on
the concept of being in love and Romeo is not really in a laughing mood.  Its not really an
incredibly sad scene though, because Shakespeare is still using the pun to inject some
silliness.

Sometimes one character makes a pun off of the other.  Consider
this exchange.

MER:

That dreamers often lie.

ROM:

In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.

The double meaning of lie is a pun, as in the fictional nature of dreams and being
flat in bed.  In this casebegins the pun, and Romeo completes it.

The
character of Mercutio uses puns a lot, often of a sexual nature.  However, his most famous pun
is with his dying words.  Mercutio is such a punster that even with his last breath, he has to
use a pun!

Ask for me to-morrow,

and
you shall find me a grave man. (Act 3, Scene 1)

He will
be a grave man, meaning serious, because he will be in his grave, because
he will be dead!

is one of the bawdiest plays the bard
wrote, and one of the funniest.  This comes in large part from the puns.  The puns, largely
coming from Mercuito and Nurse, were designed to entertain the cheaper seats in the theater, but
would have brought a chuckle from even the nobility.  Even today, modern audiences cant help but
smile even in the most tragic scene when poor Mercutio is killed byin a brawl and dies with a
pun.

href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

In the book Lyddie, Chapters 7 and 8, how does the stagecoach help Lyddie?

At the
end of Chapter six,is fired from Cutler's Tavern.  With no way to support herself, Lyddie
decides to head to Lowell in order to become a factory girl.  She must take the carriage
(stagecoach) to reach Lowell.  

Along the way, the carriage picks up several
additional passengers, which makes for a very cramped ride.  The ride was not a smooth or clean
ride, and the spring rains combined with the spring thaw made the roads nearly impassable.  At
one point, the carriage got bogged down in the muddy road.  The driver ordered the male
passengers out of the carriage in order to push.  They pushed for fifteen minutes, but they
could not get the carriage unstuck.  

Lyddie was soon frustrated with the
men's lack of intelligence.  

After a least a quarter of
an hour of watching, she could stand their stupidity no longer. 

Lyddie hitched up her skirts, found a big flat stone to place under the stuck wheel,
and ordered the men to push from the back.  The carriage was immediately free.  

The entire situation helped Lyddie out, because her grit and hardiness impressed the
driver.  He decided to repay Lyddie by taking her to his sister's boarding house.  His sister is
Mrs. Bedlow.  Mrs. Bedlow quickly befriended Lyddie and began taking care of her.  Mrs. Bedlow
gave Lyddie money to buy some new clothes and arranged employment for Lyddie in one of the
factories.  

Had the stagecoach not gotten stuck, Lyddie likely would not
have been able to find work and boarding so quickly and easily.  

What are some quotes on the theme of knowledge from Frankenstein?

Early in the novel,establishes that bothand
have dedicated themselves to their education and have become exceptionally ambitious. In his
early letters to his sister, Walton recalls,

I often
worked harder than the common sailors during the day, and devoted my nights to the study of
mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval
adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.

Walton is diligent in his studies and hopes to set himself above his peers. His
ambition is "to accomplish some great purpose" and he feels entitled to that based on
his work. It's no wonder that he immediately bonds with Victor when Walton's crew pulls Victor
from the sea. Victor recounts his own childhood studies, saying,

We learned Latin and English, that we might read the writings in those languages; and
so far from study being made odious to us through punishment, we loved application, and our
amusements would have been the labours of other children.

Victor recalls his and his siblings' love of learning and the intellectual curiosity
their upbringing instilled in them. This leads, though, to Victor's obsession with the so-called
"elixir of life" and his ambition to become the most famous and groundbreaking
scientist in the world.

His experiences, though, have taught Victor to warn
against education and knowledge. He tells Walton,

Learn
from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of
knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than
he who aspires to become greater than his nature would allow.

This warning is based on Victor's misuse of knowledge to try to reign over the
processes of life and death. The novel clearly condemns Victor's actions, but the reader can
also see it's not necessarily knowledge itself, but rather Victor's extreme ambition and lack of
foresight that lead to his downfall.

Monday, 2 February 2015

In 1984, what quotes show us that relationships were not allowed in the Party?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

There are several quotes that show both that relationships are tightly regulated by Big
Brother and that any pleasure in relationships is discouraged. Further,admits tothat eventually
the party will sever what relationships remain completely so that the only loyalty left is
loyalty to the Party.

O'Brien says to Winston:

We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between
man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future
there will be no wives and no friends. Procreation will be an annual formality like
the...

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What is Hawthorne's attitude toward Hester?

First, it
is important to distinguish between the narrator of and Hawthorne. A
narrator of a novel is just as much a construct as any of theand one cannot always assume that
fictional narrators express the author's personal opinions.

In the novel,
the narrator sympathizes with . Although she commits what would at the time have been considered
the sin of adultery, she atones for that single sin by living an exemplary life. She refuses to
ruin the life ofby uttering his name and she is a good mother to . Despite being an outcast, she
offers sympathy and solace to the women of the town and behaves in a manner that displays more
Christian humility and charity than that displayed by many pillars of the Puritan community. In
a way, her life stands as a rebuke to religious hypocrisy.

Why did Atticus want Scout to hear every word he and uncle Jack had spoken?

In his
conversation with his brother Jack,is frank about how difficult life's going to be for the Finch
family once the trial of Tom Robinson gets underway. Atticus wantsto hear every word of this
conversation, as he wants to prepare her for what's coming next.

He...

Are the phrases "people are dumb" and "mean as hell" types of figurative language from In Cold Blood and are they adequate?

"Mean as
hell" might be classified as a form of figurative language, as it is a(a comparison that
uses "like" or "as"). This expression is a cliche, or a phrase that has
become worn out from overuse, but it nonetheless compares a person's meanness to the evils of
hell and involves a comparison that is not literal. "People are dumb" is not a form of
figurative language, as it does not use any kind of figurative (or non-literal) comparison.
These expressions are not totally adequate, as they could use more vivid forms of
description.

If you are looking for other examples of figurative language,
there is one in the first paragraph of the book. When Capote is describing Holcomb, Kansas, he
writes about "grain elevators rising as...

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In 1984, is Julia a spy? Please provide specific examples from the book. My teacher says that he knows of 17 pieces of evidence which proves that Julia...

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• Compare and contrast Ulysses and Telemachus in Tennyson's "Ulysses."

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