In "A Rose for Emily," what is meaningful in the final detail that the strand of hair on the second pillow is iron-gray?

The
surprising fact thrown in almost casually at the end of the story is what gives the whole tale
its Southern Gothic impact. Not only did Missretain the corpse of her dead beau in her home for
decades; not only did she poisonin order to keep him; not only had the decaying body caused a
stench that the whole town noticed--these events would have been creepy enough. But Faulkner
adds another gruesome detail that tops them all: Miss Emily has been sleeping with the corpse
years after Homer Barron's murder.

Faulkner makes it clear that when Miss
Emily and Homer Barron were courting, Miss Emily's hair had not yet turned gray. Miss Emily's
hair began turning gray "some time" after the mysterious disappearance of Homer Barron
and a period when Miss Emily did not leave the house. Even then, it was not the
"salt-and-pepper iron-gray" that it eventually became and...

Why has Crooks been able to accumulate more personal items then the other ranch hands in Of Mice and Men?

Also, although
Steinbeck doesn't refer to it directly, the reader gets the impression that he has been the
stable buck at this ranch for quite some time, whereas many of the other men working there are
truly migrants.

Remember that whenand Lenny first arrived, they were filling
the bunks of men who had just left the job, and they themselves were migrant workers moving from
farm to farm.

Because of the probable length of time Crooks had been at this
one job, he was able to accumulate more.

In Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," what do the villagers think the headless horseman is doing out at night, and why is he in such a...

The
headless horseman in "" is the ghost of a Hessian soldier. Hessians were Germans who
were hired by the English to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, and they had
the reputation for being fierce and ruthless fighters. Because the Hessians were on the enemy
side in the war and frightening warriors, it is no wonder the story of a
Hessian ghost on horseback would raise fear among the superstitious in Sleepy Hollow.

According to the legend, this Hessian had his head blown off by a cannonball "in
some nameless battle during the revolutionary war." The head rolled away, and therefore the
ghost rides out to the scene of the battle every night searching for his lost head. He has to
gallop away hurriedly before the sun rises because he is a ghost and can only come out at night.
The ghost earns the alliterative title of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Ichabod Crane, who loves fairy and ghost stories, particularly enjoys hearing this
tale told...

How does Shakespeare show conflict between the children and their parents in Romeo and Juliet?

Tamara K. H.

A couple of ways in which Shakespeare shows
the conflicts betweenand their parents are through
dialogue and plot development.


's conflict with his parents is especially
portrayed through dialogue in the very first scene.
His conflict with his parents is seen in his refusal to confide in
his parents and tell them his woes. As we learn in the first scene, both his parents have
noticed that Romeo is in a deeply troubled state of mind. His father has observed that Romeo is
staying out all night, night after night, sleeping in the daytime, and is also seen crying each
morning at dawn under a grove of trees in a certain part of town. Thoughhas tried to find out
from Romeo what is troubling...

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What does Tom Robinson's trial reveal about Maycomb's community?

The
trial of Tom Robinson is significant in several ways. One set of factors that we will analyze
pertains to the case going to trial and the choice of public defender. Another set pertains to
what transpired during the trial, including its outcome.

Because of
deep-seated racism in Maycomb and, Lee implies, in Alabama more generally, many white people
believed that Tom was guilty of rape. Among the attorneys who might possibly have been selected
to defend him,was chosen. To increase the odds of a fair trial, it could have been moved to
another jurisdiction where people had heard less about the case, but the trial was held in the
place where the alleged crime occurred. Sheriff Tate comments, Change of Venue . . . Not much
point in that. After Tom is arrested and incarcerated, but before the trial, a group of local
men go to the jail, where they intend to remove Tom and lynch him, although this is left unsaid:
Young know what we want, another man said. Lee...

In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden calls other people phony. In what way is he one? ( chapter 9)

In ,is
extremely phony withwhen he calls her at a very late hour. He pretends to be a mutual friend of
somebody named Eddie Birdsell and implies that he is a Princeton student. He pretends to be
older than sixteen, as he does throughout the novel. There is no doubt that Holden does a lot of
lying and misrepresenting.

I'm the most terrific liar you
ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and
somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.  ()

Examples of Holden's mendacity or phoniness can be found on
practically any page in the book. For example, opening the book at random to pages 96-97, we
come upon the encounter with the prostitute named . He decides he can't perform with her and
tells her:

"The thing is, I had an operation very
recently."

What made the American Romantic poets different from the American Romantic novelists and short story writers?

Though many
of the writers of the American Romantic literary movement agreed on various principles, some
tension existed between a few of the poets of the time and a few of the prose writers.

The transcendentalists of American Romanticism, represented by the poet Walt Whitman,
for example, focused on the subjective experience of the individual. Spiritual and emotional
concerns dominated Whitman's poetry, and he advocated for others to embrace transcendentalist
ideals so that everyone can come together as individuals.

Some of the writers
of novels and short stories at this time, like Herman Melville, objected to Whitman's emphasis
on the individual, deeming it far too self-indulgent. To writers like Melville, such
individualism can only lead to self-obsession, which is a destructive force, not a
community-building one.

What role does the appeal to fear or terror (PATHOS) play in Edward's sermon? How do biblical allusions support the writer's appeal to fear?

Fear plays a
very strong role in Edward's "." Even the title is emotional, as anger--especially in
a powerful figure such as a deity--tends to evoke fear.

Edwards used
biblicalto support his argument that people need to repent immediately and change their sinful
ways or the wrath of God will fall on them. The Bible would have had a strong ethos--or
positive, trustworthy character-- among his congregants. Since it would have been understood by
his listeners as the most highly authoritative work in existence, they would have been
emotionally swayed by its imagery, which Edwards used liberally. He chose images that were not
of lying down in peaceful fields by clear waters nor of ambling in a land flowing with milk and
honey. Instead, he alluded to frightening events, such God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
in Genesis 19, writing:

haste and escape for your
lives 
look not behind you escape to the mountains lest you be consumed 

Edwards also alluded to Luke 16:24, in which Jesus tells of the
rich man Lazurus tormented by hellfire, writing:

The wrath
of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is
made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and
glow. 

Do you think the only way to stop the brotherhood is through a comprehensive surveillance like in Oceania which is underway in some fashion today?...

They are
willing to do anything EXCEPT not be together anymore.  There is no true evidence that the
brotherhood even...

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, please analyze Queen Gertrude's explanation of Ophelia's death in Act IV, Scene 7.

It's act
4, scene 7 of and the bad news just keeps on coming for poor old . Not
only has he just found out fromthat it waswho killed his father, , but nowhas brought the tragic
news that his sister, , has drowned. Gertrude's description of Ophelia's death is
extraordinarily thorough; she holds nothing back, giving us a detailed account of everything
that happened.

Ophelia, apparently, was making wild wreaths from the flowers
of a willow tree that leans over a brook. She climbed the tree to hang the wreath upon the
branches but then suddenly fell into the water. Initially, Ophelia appeared in no immediate
danger due to her dress keeping her afloat. She remained blithely unconcerned at her
predicament, singing snatches of old hymns without a care in the world:

Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a
creature native and indued...

How does cinematography affect atmosphere in the 2006 film Pans Labyrinth?

appletrees

Cinematography encompasses a number of design and production elements, in addition to
camera movement. The use of light and color is a major component of the "look" of a
film, and an atmospheric film like Pan's Labyrinth relies heavily upon
establishing a strong color structure that depicts a sense of place, mood, and story movement.
Often a filmmaker will have a distinctive visual style that one sees portrayed in most, if not
all, of their films.

Guillermo del Toro is known for having a somewhat
"dark" or subterranean look to his films. This can be seen in the more recent film
The Shape of Water, as well as in earlier films such as The
Devil's Backbone . The idea of a film's sense of place, particularly a place that is
connected to a fantastical or supernatural version of reality, as del Toro's films often are,
can be related to actual locations or to ideas such as the natural...

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Why do we need to study contemporary arts?

Douglas Carroll, Ed.D.

Contemporary art, by the strictest definition, is art that is produced by artists
presently living. A more liberal interpretation of contemporary art expands the definition
significantly and provides a broader perspective from which to look at the study of contemporary
artworks you can consider art produced within your own lifetime to be "contemporary
art."

Artwork is one form of a cultural-historical record. Art forms
are representative of the society in which they were produced. Thus, they are a primary source
for understanding the past and present. For example, viewing artwork from the 1950s...

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Can anyone help me on my son's 11th grade math class? I don't know if the same lesson plans as in the states? The topic is Vectores? I need like a...

Vectors are
like arrows, but they have different lengths...

In "Robinson Crusoe", how did Crusoe build his fort?

After
landing on the island, Crusoe spends his first couple weeks building a raft to transport him
back and forth between shore and ship. ...

What are the two theological themes of the book of Joshua?

There are
number of themes one can extrapolate from the book of Joshua. This href="https://people.bethel.edu/~dhoward/classes/Ot101-111/TheologyofJoshua.pdf">short
paper from Bethel University lists seven which are predominant: "(1) the land,
(2) God's promises, (3) the covenant, (4) obedience, (5) purity of worship (holiness, (6) godly
leadership, and (7) rest." Of these, the land and God's promises are perhaps most
evident.

The book of Joshua begins...

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What was island hopping?

The term
island hopping is typically used with reference to .  Therefore, I have moved your question to
that section and I will assume that you are asking about that war.

The island
hopping strategy was used by the United States in its war against Japan in the Pacific.  The US
knew that, to win the war, it would have to at least threaten to invade the Japanese home
islands.  The problem was that Japan controlled many small islands between Hawaii and Japan and
between Australia and Japan.  If the US had attacked every Japanese-held island, the war would
have taken a long time and casualties would have been much higher than they were.  Therefore,
the US generally used the island-hopping strategy.  That is, they chose not to attack a number
of islands, instead simply bypassing them and attacking islands closer to Japan.  For example,
the US never tried to invade the large Japanese naval base at Truk.  Instead, it hopped past
that group of islands and invaded Guam and Saipan in the Marianas instead.  It left the Japanese
on Truk to wither on the vine instead of expending the resources needed to invade that island
group.

Why does the government handicap George but not Hazel?

In
Vonnegut's dystopian future America, the government requires every citizen to be completely
equal in all facets of life. In order to assure complete uniformity and equality, government
agents force talented, athletic, intelligent, and skilled civilians to wear various types of
handicaps that suppress and limit their advanced abilities or alter their appearance. 's father,
George, has above average intelligence, which is why he is required to wear a tiny mental
handicap radio in his ear. This government transmitter emits sharp noises every twenty seconds
to interrupt the person's thoughts, which prevents them from "taking
unfair
advantage of their brains." George's wife, Hazel, does not need to wear a
handicap because she is of average intelligence, which means that she cannot think of anything
for a substantial amount of time and is rather slow. Overall, George is required to wear a tiny
handicap ear radio to interrupt his thoughts because he is above average intelligence while
Hazel is not, which means that she is already equal with the rest of the
population.

Why was Mr Jones drunk on the day of the animals' rebellion, and why didn't he care about the animals in Animal Farm?

In
,writes that Mr. Jones had recently fallen on hard times and began to drink steadily throughout
the day. Mr. Jones had recently lost a lawsuit, which made him depressed enough to sit on his
Windsor chair all day and drink alcohol. In addition to Mr. Jones's alcoholism, his men were
idle, and they neglected to take care of the farm and adequately feed the animals. On Manor
Farm, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings were dilapidated, and the animals were
dramatically unfed. On Midsummer's Eve, Mr. Jones got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not
come back to the farm until the following day and immediately went to bed when he returned home.
Mr. Jones was so depressed about his lawsuit and consumed in his alcohol that he completely
forgot to take care of the animals. The animals had gone unfed for two consecutive days and had
finally had enough of being neglected by their human master. The animals then rebelled and
successfully expelled Mr. Jones and his men from Manor Farm.

Which of realism, liberalism, and constructivism best characterizes the relationship among nations? Which of realism, liberalism,...

I tend to
believe most in constructivism as I do not believe that eitheror liberalism takes into account
the attitudes of nations towards one another.

Realists argue that all
nations act only to get more power or to maintain the power that they have.  According to this
theory, international relations are Hobbesian -- a war of each against all.  But this
makes...

What is the nth term of the series: 10, 27, 52, 85,...

The series
given is 10 , 27, 52, 85,€¦

Subtracting subsequent terms gives

27 €“ 10 = 17

52 €“ 27 = 25

85 €“ 52 =
33

The difference we get does not provide any information about the
series.

Again...

In Catching Fire, "Peeta's eyes flutter open." What does "eyes flutter open" mean?

Dictionary.com defines "flutter" as
"to move in quick, irregular motions; vibrate."

Based on this
definition, the meaning of "Peeta's eyes flutter open" is that Peeta did not just open
his eyes smoothly, but that his eyes opened in a series of irregular movements.

Other examples for the word "flutter" are "the butterfly's wings
fluttered open" or "the leaves fluttered in the wind." The word is usually used
to show a waving back and forth.

Strong writers must use descriptive language
so that the readers can imagine themselves in the story. By including "flutter" in the
description,not only tells the reader that Peeta opens his eyes, she also shows
how Peeta opens his eyes.

Writers are often advised to show,
rather than tell, the story, and this sentence is a good example of the purpose behind that
advice. The image of Peeta waking up would be more difficult to imagine if Collins has simply
wrote, "Peeta woke up." With the way it is written, though, the reader can imagine how
he woke up.

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Neither Hester Prynne nor Goodman Brown appear to be capable of believing wholeheartedly in the piety of the Puritan community. What experiences make...

Goodman Brown
initially appears to be a pious individual, but over the course of " ," it becomes
clear that his faith is tied up in the faith of others in his community. While it is ambiguous
whether the events of "Young Goodman Brown" are a dream or not, as he...

is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley a typical novel from the romanticism? Why or why not? Use examples and quotes from the novel.

was
considered to be one of the foremost writers of Romanticism, and her most famous work is no
exception. It does at many points, however, flip the ideals of romanticism on their heads. For
example, at the core of Romanticism are the ideals of creativity and innovation. These are
traits that the main character, , certainly possesses. Through his genius and creativity, he is
able to unlock the very secrets of life itself. However, the product of his creation is a
tortured and spiteful being whose existence plagues Victor. Nevertheless, Victor is not deterred
from the beauty of creation and nature that inspired him in the first place. He seeks out one of
the most pristine and naturally beautiful areas that he can find, Lake Geneva, to find calm
after his terrible ordeal of misguided creation.

The romantic subject matter
of is not necessarily a condemnation of Victor'sin creating . If anything,
it celebrates the ideas and motivation that led him to his brilliant breakthrough. However, it
is a work that fully emphasizes that while nature is sublime in its beauty, it is filled with
untold power that humans cannot fully grasp. When humans reach far into the mysteries of nature
for achievement, the results can be unexpected and sometime tragic. The monster, when describing
himself, states that:

Once I falsely hoped to meet with
beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was
capable of unfolding.I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.But now crime has
degraded me beneath the meanest animal.No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be
found comparable to mine.

This is a most tragic quote
because it hints at what could have been. Perhaps this new form of created life could have found
a place among the loftiest thinkers of the world. But humankind, fickle and pedantic, was not
ready to receive the monster, leading to theof both creator and monster. The beauties defined in
romanticism are many, but sometimes human beings are simply not ready to receive them.

What are some prereading, reading, and postreading activities you have seen employed with social studies content?

Given that
the question asks about social studies, I am assuming you are looking for reading comprehension
strategies at an elementary or middle school level.  One of the most common reading
comprehension methods employed with social studies is called SQRRR (or SQ3R).  It stands for
Survey, Question, Read, Review, Recite.  The first two steps are pre-reading strategies, the
third is the reading strategy, and the final two steps are post-reading strategies.  This method
is especially effective because it is so adaptable and each step can be employed in a number of
creative ways.

A typical...

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How is the girl named Fatima related to Santiago's journey? And what is her physical description in Coelho's The Alchemist? How does Fatima...

Fatima is
the woman that nearly derails Santiago from going on his quest to find treasure at the Pyramids.
He and Fatima find true love, and Santiago nearly decides to abandon his personal legend in
order to stay with Fatima at the Oasis. He is told that he could stay in the Oasis with Fatima
and live a fulfilling and comfortable life. However, it would mean losing the gift of reading
omens and the fulfillment of his personal legend. Despite his love for Fatima, Santiago makes
the difficult decision to continue the pursuit of his personal legend.

Fatima is surprisingly alright with this. She tells Santiago that as a woman of the
desert, she will wait for his return. Her role here is to show us that love should not stand in
the way of fulfilling one's personal legend, that true love is unconditional and supportive in
all matters.

As far as physical descriptions, Fatima is described as being
beautiful in the way of the people of the desert with dark eyes and
features.

Why does Brown say that There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given in the story?

This story is somewhat
allegorical in nature, where Goodman Brown represents a sort of "everyman" Christian
character (consider the Puritan honorary "Goodman" as ironic as well as
"Brown" as quite a common name). Faith, his wife, represents Christian faith in
general. Brown leaves her behind, opting to go into the woodsrepresentative of committing
sin"one [last] night, [and then he'll] cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven."
However, faith isn't supposed to be something one has when it is convenient; Brown intentionally
walks away from Faith, and this is his first step toward moral ruin.

In the
woods, Brown repeatedly considers turning back and returning to Faith, but he never does. As he
nears the Devil's meeting of sinners in the woods, he...

Why did Elizabeth's "saintly soul shine like a lamp"?

characterizes Elizabeth by way of a striking .says that her "saintly soul" shines
"like a shrine-dedicated lamp" in their peaceful home. Victor clearly has a very high
regard for Elizabeth, seeing her as the epitome of ideal womanhood. But she's so much more than
just a woman; she's also something of a saint. She gives off an inner light more powerful and
yet more gentle than any lamp.

In this sense, Elizabeth represents theof
Victor, who could in no way be described as anything resembling a saint. She also stands
diametrically opposite to 's monster, whose very appearance savors of the demonic. If the
saintly Elizabeth is more than a woman,is somewhat less than a man.

In order
to be a saint one must first be dead. Frankenstein's diabolical creation duly obliges, making
Elizabeth a prime candidate for sainthood by creeping into her bridal suite and strangling her
to death. Victor's gushing praise about her "saintly soul" turned out to be eerily
prophetic.

What is the main idea of theories of international relations?

The main idea
of theories of international relations in general (as opposed to the main idea of each
particular theory) is to explain the factors that impact international relations.  There are
many factors that could be used to explain and predict events in
international relations.  Theories of IR attempt to explain which of those possible factors
actually do have an impact on what happens in international
relations.

Different theories highlight different factors.  For
example,argues that the most important factor is the fact that the international order is
anarchic; that there is no world government that can compel countries to obey laws.  This means
that international relations are governed by countries' desire to get power and security for
themselves.  Idealism, by contrast, argues that the international system is not anarchic and
that there are many ways in which countries interact and cooperate so that they are doing
something other than trying to get power.

In these ways, IR theories attempt
to identify what factors are most important in determining what will happen in international
relations.

Why is Meg unhappy at school in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg is
unhappy at school in for several reasons. First, she feels she doesn't fit
in. Her hair doesn't look right, she wears braces on her teeth, she isn't athletic and
"normal" like her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, and she doesn't do well
academically. One of her teachers has just told her that she will be held back if...

What are Jordan's and the Buchanans' reactions to Myrtle's death in The Great Gatsby?

At first, asstands over
Myrtle's dead body, he is "motionless," and he seems to be in shock.  After all,
Myrtle had seemed so vital, so very alive when she was living, and her death is a rather
gruesome one.  When he hearssay that he knows exactly what kind of car it was that hit
Myrtle,says,

I saw the wad of muscle back of his shoulder
tighten under his coat.  He walked quickly over to Wilson and, standing in front of him, seized
him firmly by the upper arms.  

Tom orders Wilson to pull
it together, and then he tries to quietly explain that the car he was driving earlier, the car
that killed Myrtle, was not his car and that he'd only just arrived at the scene.  He also tells
Wilson that he had just been bringing him his little blue coupe that he'd been promising Wilson
for months: a lie.  Once he is confident that he is no longer under any suspicion, he whispers
to Nick, "'Let's get out.'"  On their way home, Tom "sob[s]" and "tears
were overflowing down his face."  He believeskilled Myrtle.

When they
reach the Buchanans' house, Tom offers to call Nick a taxi, and Nick says he'll wait outside. 
Thenputs her hand on Nick's arm and asks, "'Won't you come in, Nick?'" as though she
wants to continue the evening as though a woman hasn't just been killed.  She laments the loss
of the night, saying, "'It's only half-past nine,'" but Nick suddenly finds he cannot
stand to be with any of them right now, including her.  "She must have seen something of
this in [his] expression, for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the
house."  She might be cold and callous, but she's also quite proud.

Of
's response to hitting Myrtle with the car, Gatsby tells Nick,

'Daisy stepped on it.  I tried to make her stop, but she couldn't, so I pulled on the
emergency brake.  Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on.'

It's telling that Daisy's first response is not to stop and check
on the well-being of the woman she hit.  Instead, her first impulse seems to be to get away as
quickly as possible.  The fact that she cries seems to have more to do with her own feelings of
upset, rather than anything like sorrow for the woman she killed; this is corroborated by what
Nick sees through the window of the Buchanans' home: Tom and Daisy sitting and talking and
eating, appearing as though they are "conspiring together" -- Daisy isn't crying
now.

Response on this quote: "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

If one is
a person of faith, I believe it is not hard to believe this statement at all. If we believe in
God and in the scriptures that say first that He loves us, and second, that we need only to ask
and we will receive, I can't help but believe that all things are possible. Having faith that
God will do what he promises lets me believe. The "universe" that is
"conspiring" is God. And He wants us to achieve great things.

There
is also an argument that being positive gives people a distinct advantage. Though it does not
happen with everyone, doctors note that people who have cancerand have a positive attitude about
beating itdo better during treatment.

Believing in the potential for success
often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As a person of faith, I believe
"... all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose." Romans 8:28. That's just my response to Coelho's
quote.

In George Orwell's 1984, why does Winston follow an old prole into a bar and attempt to talk to him?

By the
time , the mainin 's seminal novel of an autocratic dystopian futuristic society,
, decides to approach a prole, or proletariat, he has already grown
disillusioned by the government and its increasingly obvious lies. At the beginning of Chapter
7, 's narrator describes Winston's evolving thought process regarding the notion of subversion
to undermine or openly overthrow the ruling regime:

"If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles. If there was hope, it
must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of
the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be
generated."

Winston has become a committed enemy of
the state, but lacks the base of knowledge and resources necessary to achieve his objective. His
attention focuses on several once-loyal Party members who had defected only to return to the
Party fold. These three Party-loyalists-turned-traitors-turned-Party-loyalists have become the
focus of Winston's interest, and his observation of them at "the Chestnut Tree Cafe"
provides an opportunity to attempt to approach them. These three men represent an invaluable
reservoir of knowledge and experience regarding the Party apparatus and the mechanisms that
secure the Party in power. 

"They were men far older
than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great figures left over from the
heroic days of the Party. The glamour of the underground struggle and the civil war still
faintly clung to them."

While the three men have
returned to the Party, Winston knows that their acceptance back into the Party is a mere charade
and that, in the probably not-too-distant future, they will pay the price for having once
betrayed the Party. These men, Winston concluded, were doomed, and to be seen in their presence
was hazardous to one's health. As Winston predicted, the three were executed. These elderly men,
however, represent Winston's best hope of attaining the knowledge and history necessary to
adequately understand the regime's strengths and weaknesses. He has been dependent upon a
children's history book, but knows that this is an unreliable source of information, as all
books and other sources of information have been corrupted to serve the Party's interest. It is
in Chapter 8 when Winston spots another old man, by himself, entering a dingy pub, and sees in
this another opportunity to learn from these one-time revolutionaries. As Orwell writes
regarding Winston's perception of this elderly gentleman, "[h]e and a few others like him
were the last links that now existed with the vanished world of capitalism." To Winston's
disappointment, however, the old man proves unable to recall the past in sufficient or reliable
detail and has clearly suffered mental deterioration with age.

Winston has
followed the old prole into the bar and initiated a conversation with him because he hopes to
learn from him. He is sorely disappointed, however, by this aged man who is more interested in
beer than in remembering the past.

How did President Andrew Jackson mistreat the Native Americans?

President Andrew
Jackson had a significant effect on Native
Americans. Native American tribes were prominent in the American South, and so
presented an obstacle to settlers. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of
1830, which forcibly relocated inhabitants of the Five Civilized
Tribes living east of the Mississippi River; this led to the infamous
Trail of Tears.

This act directly punished those
Native Americans who were attempting to assimilate into the spreading U.S. culture; many spoke
English, held local jobs, or traded peacefully with white settlers, and Christianity was
widespread, pushing out Native American religious practices. However, the encroachment of
plantation farmers and aggressive, violent settlers (commonplace but not the norm) gave Jackson
leeway to sign laws prohibiting Native Americans from owning land outright; this tacitly gave
settlers permission to steal land and kill Native Americans. Jackson's personal view of Native
Americans was condescending; he thought of them as sub-mental and inferior, and the Removal Act
was seen by many as a humane method of getting Native Americans out of the way without overt
warfare. For their part, the Five Civilized Tribes attempted to win their independence through
litigation; they were blocked at most turns and ultimately failed. Many local tribes engaged in
guerrilla warfare against settlers, again spurring violent retaliation.

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More detail on want

The
girl symbolically named "Want" and the boy named "Ignorance" appear in Stave
Three, "The Second of the Three Spirits," of 's novella, . Dicken
published the novella at his own expense in time for Christmas, 1843. The first edition sold out
by Christmas Eve.

Towards the end of Stave Three, Ebenezer Scrooge notices
something poking out from under The Ghost of Christmas Present's robe.

Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask, said Scrooge,
looking intently at the Spirit's robe, but I see something strange, and not belonging to
yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?

The Spirit lifts his robe to reveal two small children.

From the foldings of its robe it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful,
hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its
garment.

Dickens further describes the
children.

They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre,
ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should
have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled
hand, like that of age, had pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels
might have sat enthroned devils lurked, and glared out menacing.

Scrooge is appalled by their appearance.

Spirit! are they yours? Scrooge could say no more.

They are
Man's, said the Spirit, looking down upon them. And they cling to me, appealing from their
fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both...

Have
they no refuge or resource? cried Scrooge.

Are there no prisons? said the
Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. Are there no
workhouses?

The children represent two things that
Dickens abhorred in the Victorian society of his time: the ignorance of the negligent, wealthy,
upper classes, and the needs of the abject, desolate poor. Dickens depicts Want and Ignorance
metaphorically as the children of mankind"They are Man's," says the Spirita
consequence of years of indifference in an oppressive society that the poor can't escape. He
considered ignorance and poverty the greatest failings of Victorian society.

As regards ignorance, Dickens was passionate about education. He advocated for a public
policy of "education for all" in his books, journalistic writing, and speeches, and he
lobbied for the building of public libraries throughout England.

Dickens was
a relentless and highly vocal opponent of the harsh "New Poor Law" that sent those who
sought relief from poverty to prison and workhouses.

Dickens himself grew up
in poverty, and he saw first-hand the effect of laws by which the idealistic, "socially
conscious," but essentially ignorant lawmakers forced a "work ethic" on the
poverty-stricken people in London and throughout England.

In
, Dickens attacks the New Poor Law as offering the poor a choice between
starving to death slowly in their own homes, or being starved to death quickly in the
workhouses, where they would periodically receive €˜"small quantities of oatmeal; and
issued three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on
Sundays."

The scene with Ignorance and Want is jarring, to Scrooge and
to the reader, and seems curiously out-of-place in A Christmas Carol.
Nevertheless, Dickens takes the opportunity in the midst of the story about Scrooge's redemption
to send a message to Victorian society, and to the wealthy upper classes in particular, that
they need to change their attitude towards education and poverty, and they need to change public
policies to provide a better life for everyone.

Was it a good idea to leave Charles Wallace on Camazotz?

The
answer to this is complex, because Meg's father is forced to choose between two of his children.
Meg is in danger of IT taking control of her mind, but Charles Wallace has already been taken
control of. Therefore, Meg's father has to make a quick decision about what is best for the
safety of all involved. In this case, that decision is to tesser to another planet with Calvin
and Meg while leaving Charles Wallace behind, even though he is still under the control of IT on
Camazotz.

Ultimately, however, this does prove to be a worthwhile decision.
While...

What are examples of ethos, logos, and pathos in chapter 11 of The Life of Frederick Douglass?

relied heavily on convincing readers of his noble goals in abolishing slavery. His narrative is
rich in logos, ethos, and pathos.

Pathos is seen
in the section of text as Douglass prepares to escape:

The
thought of leaving my friends was decidedly the most painful thought with which I had to
contend. The love of them was my tender point, and shook my decision more than all things else.
Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had
experienced at my first attempt. . . . I felt assured that, if I failed in this attempt, my case
would be a hopeless oneit would seal my fate as a slave forever. I could not hope to get off
with any thing less than the severest punishment, and being placed beyond the means of
escape.

In these lines, Douglass conveys several
poignant emotions that elicit sympathy in the reader. He says that in spite of his desperate
quest for freedom, his friendships will be missed greatly. He talks about how he...

What is a character analysis of Desiree in "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin?

A
character analysis of Desiree reveals that she is a gentle and loving young woman who feels no
shame nor inferiority because she was a foundling abandoned by the road when a toddler, then
found, claimed, and adopted by the Valmondes. When grown into young womanhood she is as
beautiful and charming as she has always been good natured and sweet of temperament. In
addition, she loves easily and without judgementalism for we learn that she gives her heart to
the first man who dotes upon her beauty--fortunately, he is a man her parents know well and
approve of for her (perhaps wrongly, we find...

How did the Progressive movement affect immigrants?

To some degree,
Progressive reformers helped immigrants. Women such as Jane Addams, who ran Hull House in
Chicago, and other workers in settlement houses helped immigrants by providing English classes
and instruction related to assimilation into American life. Settlement houses were generally
located in urban areas such as Chicago and New York and offered immigrants services for their
children, including daycare and opportunities for recreation such as drama and sewing, as well
as classes. These institutions were generally run by college-educated Protestant women. Other
Progressives worked to improve working conditions for immigrant women and children in factories
and to limit child labor.

Middle-class Protestant white women were also
active in other parts of the Progressive movement, including temperance. This strain of
Progressivism, which resulted in Prohibition (which banned the sale and transport of alcohol
with the 18th Amendment), had an anti-immigrant bias to it. Many advocates...

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Why were early English plays moved from churches to inns?

English plays were
moved from production in churches to production in inns for a couple different
reasons.

First, churches were relatively limited in space. As the interest
in the plays produced in the churches began to grow, the church, itself, became unable to
accommodate the growing number of people. The only accommodations the church could make was to
move the productions outside of the church. This brought about new problems. Some of the sacred
grounds of the church, namely the graves, were being desecrated by people standing
on...

How do the Pigman, Lorraine, and John change throughout the story?

Both
John and Lorraine change a great deal over the course of the book. What is great about this book
is that the chapters alternate between those two characters telling the story, so readers get
really solid insight into how each character is mentally and emotionally developing throughout
the story.

When the story begins, readers see John as a mischievous
troublemaker of a kid. He does not care what other people think about him, and he has a huge
problem with authority. That is why he sets off firecrackers in the bathroom and antagonizes
substitute teachers. I believe that John's attitude and actions result from the fact that the
important adults in his...

Why is the Prologue not a problem for the Elizabethan audience that would have attended Romeo and Juliet?

Theof
Shakespeare's basically reveals the final outcome of the play. It tells of
the feud and the love between the star-crossed youngsters. It tells the audience that the lovers
will end up committing suicide, thus ending the bitter rivalry between the Montagues and
Capulets. It also says the play will last about two hours (a dubious claim since it usually
takes at least three when nothing is left out).

The Elizabethan audience of
Shakespeare's day would not be put off by...

Can anyone interpret the song "Imagine Me," by Kirk Franklin?

The
primary message in the song is a reclamation of one's own self and an affirmation of self
value.  The opening stanza conceives of a self image that is in the ideal, as it is rooted in
the belief of "imagining" an existence that is almost opposite of reality.  The idea
of being able to imagine a sense of self apart from the cruelty that others in the world
perpetrate is critical to the song's interpretation, and also represents why the song serves as
an affirmation of self.  With a past filled with hurt and agony, the speaker seeks to conceive
of a self that can "imagine" into the present and future with the belief that what is
can be changed into what can be in terms of how one views themselves and the
world.

What is the relationship between the 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights?

The Bill
of Rights amendments were originally added to the US Constitution to protect individual rights
against encroachment by the federal government. During the ratification debate, opponents of the
Constitution expressed concern that the proposed changes did not adequately protect the rights
and liberties of the individual. The Bill of Rights was designed to allay these fears and smooth
the subsequent ratification process by the states.

Right at the outset,
then, it was understood that the Bill of Rights applied to relations between American citizens
and the federal government as opposed to...

Provide at least two examples of foreshadowing from the story and indicate what each example foreshadows.

When
Montresor encounters Fortunato on the street he twice pretends to believe that Fortunato has an
"engagement," that is, that Fortunato is expected somewhere. Montresor would not like
to lure Fortunato to his palazzo if, for example, he were expected at home. His wife might send
servants out looking for him and asking questions; and people on the streets might remember that
he had been with Montresor when last seen. But since everybody had been drinking, it was likely
that nobody would remember much of anything the next day, or the day after that, when it was
finally realized that Fortunato was missing. Montresor gets no response from his intended victim
the first time he pretends to think Fortunato has an "engagement," but the second time
he tries the same ploy he gets the answer he wanted. Fortunato says:

I have no engagement;come.

This foreshadows Fortunato's doom, since the reader knows full well that Montresor
hates Fortunato and is probably looking for a way to kill him without getting caught or
suspected. Later, when Fortunato finds himself chained inside a narrow recess in the rock wall
of the catacombs, he tries to plant seeds of doubt in Montresor's mind by suggesting that he
actually is expected at home. He says:

"But is it not
getting late? Will not they be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let
us be gone.

But Montresor knows his victim is lying and
desperately trying trickery to get himself released.

Another good example
ofis to be seen in the bait Montresor uses to entice Fortunato to his underground wine vaults
and extensive caverns.

He had a weak pointthis
Fortunatoalthough in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided
himself on his connoisseur-ship in wine. 

The reader will
sense that the nonexistent cask of Amontillado will be the means by which Montresor will
accomplish the difficult task of getting Fortunato to come to his palazzo immediately, in spite
of the fact that it is nighttime, Fortunato is having a good time at the carnival, Fortunato is
inadequately dressed for going into a cold, damp cavern, Fortunato has a bad cold, and Fortunato
is drunk.

I said to himMy dear Fortunato, you are
luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day. But I have received a pipe of what
passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.

If
Fortunato takes the bait he is doomed. But Montresor knows his man. 

He prided himself on his connoisseur-ship in wine.

Montresor makes it a matter of urgency by telling him:

"You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a
bargain.

It is the idea of a bargain that motivates
Fortunato. He assumes that Montresor bought only one cask because he wasn't quite sure it was
genuine Amontillado. Fortunato can tell with one sip. If it is genuine, he would like to get in
on the bargain. The cask must have come by ship. He could easily find that Spanish ship in the
harbor without going home with Montresor. He could taste the wine on board and deal directly
with the captain or purser. But Montresor has told him:

As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If any one has a critical turn it is
he. He will tell me

If Fortunato doesn't go home with
Montresor immediately, Montresor will go to Luchesi, and Fortunato would find himself competing
with another expert for the cargo of nonexistent Amontillado. All of this foreshadows
Fortunato's arrival underground in a thin jester's costume following Montresor to his gruesome
death.

What is an example of situational irony in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Situationalis when what happens is the
opposite of what is expected. Situational irony runs throughout the entire story because
Fortunato is completely unaware of the danger he is in. Fortunato expects to taste a rare wine,
not to be murdered. He thinks Montresor is his friend and that Montresor is doing him a favor.
Ironically, it is Fortunato who hurries Montresor towards the catacombs. Fortunato has no idea
he is hastening toward his own death. As Montresor says:

Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing
a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.

Throughout their journey deeper and deeper into the catacombs,
Fortunato continues to be completely unaware of the dangerous situation he is in. For example,
when Montresor offers to take him back because of his cough, which is worsened by the dampness,
it is Fortunato who insists on going forward:

"Enough," he [Fortunato] said; "the cough's a mere nothing; it will not
kill me. I shall not die of a cough."

Again, we read
the irony in Fortunato's words. He will not die of a cough. He will die of being walled up and
left to starve--but he is completely unaware of what is soon to come. 

Describe Professor Baglioni in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter."

Doctor
Pietro Baglioni is one of the few characters in "" by . Baglioni is a well respected
professor of medicine at the University of Padua and is known as a "physician of eminent
repute" throughout Italy. Giovanni, the son of Baglioni's old friend, has come to Padua
study with him. Though Baglioni does have flaws in his character, he seems quite pure of heart
compared to Doctor Giacomo Rappaccini. In fact, Baglioni serves as a kind of foil for the evilin
this story.

Baglioni recognizes the superior knowledge of his fellow
physician but claims he would not want the matter of his own life and death
in Rappacini's hands. He tries to warn Giovanni many times about the potential danger of being
involved with Rappaccini and insists that Rappaccini "should be held strictly accountable
for his failures." 

One day Baglioni and Giovanni are walking down the
street when Rappaccini passes, and Baglioni makes what turns out to be a deadly accurate
observation. He says to Giovanni:

"For some purpose
or other, this man of science is making a study of you. I know that look of his! It is the same
that coldly illuminates his face as he bends over a bird, a mouse, or a butterfly, which, in
pursuance of some experiment, he has killed by the perfume of a flower; a look as deep as Nature
itself, but without Nature's warmth of love. Signor Giovanni, I will stake my life upon it, you
are the subject of one of Rappaccini's experiments!''

Baglioni is right. While he is kind and professional, Baglioni is also eager to catch
his colleague in any kind of unethical act. Baglioni pays the boy an unexpected visit and
realizes that Giovanni has undergone some changes (because of the poison, unbeknown to him) and
notices a strange fragrance in the room (again, from the poison). The doctor insists that
Rappaccini is somehow using Giovanni for some kind of experiment and vows that Rappaccini will
not harm the boy. 

Baglioni is the one who procures a rare antidote for the
poison and gives it to Giovanni (though unfortunately Beatrice is the one who drinks it and it
kills her). As a reminder that Baglioni is a man of flaws, Hawthorne places Baglioni in
Giovanni's apartment at the end of the story. As the horrific truth is revealed, Baglioni is in
the window, looking down and observing everything. 

"[I]n a tone of
triumph mixed with horror," Baglioni shouts the final words of the story:

"Rappaccini! Rappaccini! and is this the
upshot of your experiment!''

Baglioni, like most of us,
is a good man with flaws. He is, of course, appalled at the grotesque experiment Rappaccini
conducted, but he is ecstatic that the unfeeling doctor has been caught in such an immoral and
horrific act. 

 

What is the main setting of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?

The time
period of the setting is 1818-1841. Specifically, it takes place in Baltimore, Maryland and on
the eastern shore of Maryland, New York City,...

Which spirit was the most frightening to Scrooge? Why?

Ebenezer
Scrooge seems to be the most frightened and disturbed by the third spirit, the Ghost of
Christmas Future. There are a two primary reasons for this: the spirit does not answer Scrooge's
increasingly frantic questions about his own future and the spirit shows Scrooge his own
tombstone.

In Stave Four the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge several
upsetting scenes including Tiny Tim's death and people who are in debt to Scrooge and are
relieved upon hearing he has died. Scrooge is most disturbed, however, when he asks about his
own future and the spirit takes him to a churchyard and points to a tombstone.

Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, said
Scrooge, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they
shadows of things that May be, only?

Scrooge suspects it
might be his tombstone, and that is why he asks the spirit this. But the spirit does not answer
Scrooge and this causes him to become more and more frantic and upset. He is genuinely
frightened by the spirit's lack of response. The other two spirits answered his questions. Even
if he did not like the answers, there was some comfort in having a response. We see how agitated
Scrooge becomes when the spirit does not reply.

Spirit!
he cried, tight clutching at its robe, hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man
I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope!

The spirit returns Scrooge to his home without confirming whether
Scrooge's changes will matter.

 

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In Orwell's 1984, what is the purpose of the telescreen?

In
, the telescreen is a tool used by the Party to detect instances of rebellion. You
will notice in Part One, Chapter One, for instance, howkeeps his back to the telescreen when
writing in his diary. This is to prevent the Party from seeing his diary because he knows that
if they found it, he would face some harsh and violent punishment, like a forced labour camp.
 

That the telescreen cannot be turned off (except by Inner Party members)
gives us another glimpse into its purpose. The telescreen is designed to monitor every movement
and capture every conversation between Party members, whether they are at home, at work or in
some other public place. As such, the telescreen also functions as a deterrent against breaking
the rules. People are far less likely to commit a crime, for instance, if they know that Big
Brother is indeed watching them and that they have little chance of getting away with
it.

What do you think happened to the milk in Animal Farm?

Early in
s(or, perhaps, more accurately, ) , the animals are becoming
increasingly agitated about their subordination to and dependence upon humans.  The farm animals
have begun to question the existing arrangement, in which they serve at the pleasure of man, who
does, himself, contribute to the arrangement but seems to exist solely to consume the fruits of
others efforts.  As Major notes in his address to the assembled masses,

 €˜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. . .And what has happened to that
milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the
throats of our enemies.

Majors speech is revealing in s
allegorical tale about tyranny and human nature.  He, of course, is a boar, and, as will be
revealed in Chapter III, it is the pigs who abscond with the missing milk after Napolean,
another boars, refrain to the assembled animals to ignore the issue of the milk: €˜Never mind
the milk, comrades! cried , placing himself in front of the buckets. €˜That will be attended to.
The harvest is more important. Comradewill lead the way.

The boars apparent
diversionary tactic, and an important literary device in the storys evolution, conceals the
answer to the question of the missing milk.  As Orwells narrator notes, The mystery of where
the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs mash.  The pigs, it
turns out, conspired to keep the milk for themselves, justifying their actions on the basis of
their presumed importance to the broader enterprise:

All
the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon.was sent to make the
necessary explanations to the others. €˜Comrades! he cried. €˜You do not imagine, I hope, that
we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike
milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve
our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances
absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers.

The pigs, in other words, kept the milk for themselves because of
their conviction that their survival and prosperity is key to the success of the animals plan
for self-rule.  That the pigs have succeeded, at least for the moment, in institutionalizing the
ancient concept of €˜first among equals -- as would the Nomenclatura of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in its infamous and decidedly unsocialist hierarchy €“ so
does this early and prominent fracture in the animals newly established order serve as the
central theme of Orwells story.  

Identify a quote/text from a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's.

Consider
the words of one "Colonel" William Joseph Simmons.  Seeking to develop the resurgence
of the Klan in the 1920s, Simmons became a prominent voice of the movement and the group's
goals.  This was seen in a speech in Atlanta in 1921:

It
is indeed strange that if we organized to persecute the Roman Catholics, Jews, and Negroes that
nothing has been done against them. In the United States the question is not and should never be
whether a citizen is a Protestant, a Roman Catholic, a Jew, or a Negro, but whether he is a
loyal American.

In his speech, one notices how the focus
of the Klan's rise was the idea of appealing to patriotism, suggesting that the Klan's only
focus was to develop the idea of a "loyal American."  Simmons develops this idea that
the Klan is "misunderstood," suggesting that it is more of a social organization
dedicated to advancing the ideas of "true" American notions of the good.  In this,
Simmons makes it evident that Klan is more of a defender of American values than it is an
aggressive force dedicated to silencing voices.  For Simmons, being able to articulate this
vision of the Klan so early in its rise was fundamental in its ascent to a noteworthy position
in American society and gave a refrain still heard today.

Who does Lysander love in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

At the
beginning of the play, Lysander is in love with Hermia and wants to marry her. However, Hermia's
father, Egeus, refuses to give his permission for the marriage, preferring that his daughter
marry Demetrius instead. As a consequence of Egeus's...

What was the significance of the Abyssinian Crisis in 1935?

I think
that one of the most significant elements of the Abyssinia Crisis of the early and mid 1930s was
to foster the dismantling of Wilson's Post World War I vision of the world and usher in a new
conception of international aggression.  The idea that both Italy and the Ethiopians were
willing participants in the League of Nations and the post- World War I framework and would end
up being at odds with one another despite such harmony was quite telling.  At a time when the
rise of the dictator in 1930s began to raise open questions of how the world was constructed
under the League of Nations, the Abyssinia Crisis was one of the first instances where there was
a legitimate sense of question about this vision and how the fragile peace constructed after the
First World War was not sustainable.  With Hitler's rise in Germany in part due to his constant
railing against the world that was constructed by the Treaty of Versailles, the clash between
Ethiopia and Italy, members that were in favor of the configuration of the Versailles world,
helped to bring credence to Hitler's point that the treaty needed to be scrapped in favor of a
vision that enabled nations to form alliances and act in the name of national identity.  This
resonated with Italy, who, after the Abyssinia Crisis, began the process of aligning themselves
with Germany in a set up that helped to establish the Second World War.

Discuss the transformation of Eliza.

Under the
tutelage of Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle's accent, dress, and manners change so that she
transforms from a working-class Cockney woman into an upper-class English lady. By showing how
easily Eliza becomes upper-class by adopting only a few superficial changes, Shaw skewers an
ideology that maintains that the upper classes are "innately" superior to the the
lower. Even a little education, the play shows, can make a lady out of a flower
seller.

But Eliza's transformation goes deeper, and Shaw shows this to be
both positive and negative. On the positive side, her acceptance into higher society builds her
sense of confidence and self-worth. She rebels and asserts herself against Henry Higgins' verbal
abuse, such as his calling her a "squashed cabbage," as well as his careless
assumption that she will always function to suit his convenience--and go away as soon as she
becomes inconvenient. Henry treats her as a thing: Eliza insists, at the end, on being treated
as a human. On the negative side, however, the play points out that by transforming Eliza into a
lady, Higgins has left her unfit for any role in society but marriage. Shaw critiques a culture
in which a woman's ascent up the class ladder leaves her increasingly useless and dependent. As
a working girl selling flowers, Eliza might have been very poor, but at least she could earn her
own keep. As a lady, she must marry and rely on a man to support her, for holding a job in that
class would be unacceptable for a woman. 

How can I do a compare and contrast essay?

It would
seem that to do a compare-and-contrast essay on Hemingway's story "" you would be
almost forced to compare and contrast the two main characters with respect to how they feel
about the girl being pregnant. The "contrast" part would be fairly simple. She wants
to have the baby and the man called the American doesn't want her to have it. You might explain
why she wants a baby and he doesn't. She wants it because it is instinctive with her, as it is
with most women. It is against her instincts to abort a baby. He doesn't want it because it will
tie him down. As far as the "compare" part, you could tell about the things they have
in common. They love each other. They are both bright, sophisticated people. They enjoy
traveling and "trying new things." They have fun together. The baby, of course, is a
result of their love, but it is tearing them apart. You might speculate about whether these two
are married. My opinion is that they are. Otherwise I doubt that the girl would want to have the
baby. It was unthinkable in the 1920s. Yet she never says anything about wanting to get married.
At one point she says:

"Doesn't it mean anything to
you? We could get along."

So I assume they are
already legally married. The author's objective style creates some confusion. Hemingway
avoidsand forces the reader to make guesses based on what the reader can "see" and
"hear." 

What American ethnic groups took part in the military effort during World War II?

All
American ethnic groups took part in the military effort during WWII.  Some of them were not
allowed to take as great a part as others (there were segregated units and most blacks weren't
put in combat positions, for...

In Neighbour Rosicky, how does teh area in which Anton Rosicky lives reflects his values? include details from the story to support your ideas

This
area of the U.S., the northern prairie, was settled by Scandinavians and northern Europeans
looking for farmland similar to their homeland.  Life was difficult, but with hard work and
devotion to routine they could survive.  The...

ultimately which character do you find most evil macbeth or lady macbeth and why? ultimately which character do you find most evil macbeth or lady...

I consider Ladyto
be the evil one as she requests the possession of the spirits to 'unsex' her. She is aware of
her husband's humanity 'he is too full of the milk of human kindness' and knows that she will
need to override his honest nature to achieve her goal - to have her husband King.

We need to remember thatis a seasoned warrior - a killing machine- and yet it is he who
refuses the deed. Althoughsuffers for her actions and is perhaps not 'fill'd from the crown to
the toe top full of direst cruelty', she has mettle enough to push her husband to commit the
bloody...

International business Explain why production and logistics decisions are of central importance to many multinational businesses

Production is
of special importance because, as #7 states, each country can give different benefits to local
production. I would even go a step further and say that if you are able to produce in each
country of consumption, you can drastically reduce operating costs and increase profits by
moving more inventory at a lower-overall consumer cost; lower the MSRP with cheaper local
production and move more units for a greater profit overall.

How does the book reflect China at that time in a political context?

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Descriptions of the Chinese political structure are plentiful in ;
additionally, the rich history of Mongol rule in China is well documented.

In
the book, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, is the founder of the Yuan dynasty in
China. Marco's story reflects the power of the Khan by drawing our attention to how his
administration is set up. He tells us that twelve barons are set up to rule over all thirty-four
provinces in Kublai Khan's Chinese kingdom. These twelve barons are extremely powerful; it is
the barons who appoint governors for each of the provinces. The clerks and judges of each
province administer the rule of law under the authority of the governors and ultimately, the
barons. Difficult court cases are tried under the jurisdiction of the barons, in consultation
with the Khan.

also documents the reach of the Khan's power by highlighting
the presence of 'Horse Post-Houses' in the kingdom. These post-houses, of which there are more
than...

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How is the Devil's service and congregation described in "Young Goodman Brown"?

When Goodman
Brown calls the devil by saying "come devil himself!" it seems that he gets what he
asks for.The forest appears to him to be ablaze with a red light, and he hears sounds that
resemble a hymn but resolve to "sounds of the benighted wilderness."

As Brown moves closer to the service, he sees a stone that functions as an altar or
pulpit, and four trees with flaming tops. The clearing in the woods is surrounded by burning
foliage. The congregation that Brown sees assembled, are to him "grave and dark-clad
company" comprised of people he recognizes from his own Christian congregation and people
from Salem "famous for their especial sanctity." Deacon Gookin is there, accompanied
by Brown's pastor.His catechism teacher, Goody Cloyse is there along with the fallen people of
his village, and Indians are also in attendance. The congregation is large.

The hymn that is sung...

Discuss whether knowledge of price elasticity of demand is of use to a company selling things with different price elasticities of demand.

A knowledge
of price elasticity of demand is beneficial for any company to have.   The knowledge can be
practical rather than theoretical.  In other words, as long as the companys decision makers
understand the concept in practice, they do not need to know the term price elasticity of
demand.  However, if they have no knowledge of the idea at all, they will harm
themselves...

Briefly explain what elements of Existentialism are in Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"

In
"," there are existential overtones in the old man's search for the light and a clean
caf©, the waiter's efforts to establish order by reciting the Lord's Prayer using the
word nada repeatedly instead, and the exercise of discipline in his
life. 

Existentialism is a philosophy that is centered upon the individual's
struggle to create meaning out of a meaningless world. The individual takes responsibility for
his existence in society that is unnatural and arbitrary in its rules. Since there are many
things that are irrational, the individual must create his own order through individual acts of
will. In other words, the individual must decide how he will live.

In
Hemingway's story, the clean, well-lighted caf© is for the old man an isle of order in the
nothingness of his existence. His little routine of coming there helps to give some order as he
starts a routine. This routine is what the older waiter understands; he tells the younger waiter
that the light and cleanliness of the caf© are what the old man seeks. They are what provide
some order and meaning in a meaningless world.

Each night
I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the caf©.

What are the different causes of the animals' rebellion in Animal Farm by George Orwell?

To a great
extent, the animals who rebel do so out of opposition to 's actions as leader.  There are some
areas where there are differences as to why they decide to rebel or openly question his actions,
but most of it boils down to dislike of Napoleon as leader.  For example, three hens consider it
murder that Napoleon demands that they surrender their eggs in order to fulfill the arrangements
he has made with Whymper.  In destroying their eggs, this represents an act of rebellion.  When
Napoleon wants to end Sunday meetings, some porkers disagree.  In their dissent, another act of
"rebellion" is construed.  Whenquestions 's retelling of history in suggesting that
Snowball was actually treasonous to the ends of , it is seen as an act of rebellion.  This
becomes broadened to any animal that engages in a collaboration of any kind with Snowball.  The
cause of these associations are the belief that Snowball could be a better leader and possesses
better ideas than Napoleon.  In the end, the dissatisfaction with Napoleon in the fundamental
cause of rebellion, its perceived end and its actual result.  This is something that in either
form Napoleon strikes down with intensity and force, as seen in chapter seven when Napoleon
coordinates public confessions and demonstrates public execution in the most brutal of
fashion.

When Victor describes the monster in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, what terrifies him most?

In 's
, there is a great deal of vividthat helps share Victor's sense of horror
when looking athe has brought to life.

...by the glimmer
of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...

Victor then describes how it takes its first breath. In an instanta
moment of epiphanythe painshad taken to construct a creature of beauty are illuminated before
him to see, instead, the truth of what he has done: he has made a horrifying mistake, a crime
against God and naturea monstrous looking being.

I had
selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the
work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth
of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast to his watery
eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his
shrivelled complexion...

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This Is The Dark Time My Love

Let's begin by
taking the poem piece by piece in order to figure out what it means:

"This is the Dark Time, My Love" --we can learn
a lot by looking at the titles to poems.  "Dark Time" has the implication of danger,
or trouble.  "My love" lets us know that the poem is addressing someone.

This is the dark time, my love, 
All round the
land brown beetles crawl about 
The shining sun is hidden in the sky 
Red
flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow 

--Okay, the
narrator is addressing someone he (or she) loves, letting that person know that times are
difficult.  The images given are probably not meant to be taken literally.  Brown Beetles
crawling about (could be a reference to crop eating bugs...symbolic of destruction) and the sun
his hidden in the sky (the sun being a sign of light and hope, its being hidden can imply that
evil or danger is at hand.)  Lastly, the red flowers bend their heads toward the ground (another
sign of sadness, of despair.)

This is the dark time, my
love, 
It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears. 
It is the
festival of guns, the carnival of misery 
Everywhere the faces of men are strained and
anxious

--Here the phrase is repeated about "dark
time, my love."  This is probably done for rhythmic appeal and to reinforce the idea that
the narrator is speaking to someone in particular. The second line alludes to great hostility,
with being "oppressed."  "Dark metal" probably is a reference to weaponry,
and tears, well, you know what they are.  Line four contrasts "festival" with
"guns" and "carnival" with "misery."  These comparisons are the
opposite of what most people would think of when thinking about a carnival or festival.  That's
what makes them stand out.  The last line shows the strain that the times are putting on
people.

Who comes walking in the dark night
time? 
Whose boot of steel tramps down the slender grass 
It is the man of
death, my love, the stranger invader 
Watching you sleep and aiming at your
dream.

--These references seem to be military in nature...the idea that
some invading army is approaching.  Steel boots could be a reference to armor, or steel
reinforced ones.  Notice the way they trample the grass, another thing symbolic of (like the
beetles) something natural and good being destroyed by something alien and unnatural.
 "Watching you sleep and aiming at your dreams."  Again, another military-style image,
as in taking aim with a weapon.  The narrator appears to be describing the way that the invader
is destroying the person's chances at happiness and a normal life. Hope this helps!

 

Describe the death of Simon in Lord of the Flies.

had gone into
his grove to contemplate things and actually passed out or fallen asleep.  While he was
unconscious or semi-conscious he has a very clear vision of theand it...

What is the importance of the frame story in Heart of Darkness?

The
frame story of is important in a couple of ways. Conrad tells us the story
of the novel through his created middleman, . In the frame story, Marlow is telling of his
voyage up the Congo to a group of sailors, all safely anchored on the calm water of the Thames.

First, the frame narrative creates the minor dramaticof the reader being
aware of Marlow's fate. After all, we see here that Marlow is alive to tell his tale, so we know
that, regardless of what horrors may ensue over the course of the journey, Marlow will emerge
relatively unscathed, at least in a physical sense.

More importantly, it
allows the reader to question the reliable nature of the narrator. From the onset of the story,
the reader is quick to notice that Marlow has an extreme fascination withthat sometimes seems to
border on an obsession. Because of the knowledge that we are hearing the story not only from
Marlow's perspective, but as his account, we are forced to distance ourselves from...

What are some puns said by Mercutio in Act 1, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

makes
onefrom the word "prick" in his lines,

If love
be rough with you, be rough with love.
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
(I.iv.28-29)

The term "prick" can be used to
mean "to pierce," or to "puncture," especially to cause pain (Random House
Dictionary). However, since it can also refer to an "erected" object, like a dog's
ear, Mercutio is also using the term with sexual connotations (Random House
Dictionary).

Mercutio forms two other puns from the word "done."
Whencontinues to refuse to join his friends in crashing the Capulet's ball, saying, "The
game was ne'er so fair, and I am done," meaning I am finished playing these silly games
(40), Mercutio responds, making his first pun out of "done," with, "Tut, dun's
the mouse, the constable's own word!" (41). While Romeo, in saying that he is
"done," actually means finished, Mercutio makes a pun by rhyming the word
"dun" to refer to the adjective "dun," which can describe a "gray-brown
color," just like the color of a mouse. Historically, the expression, "dun's the
mouse" meant "be as quiet as a mouse" ( href="https://shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/T14.html" title=""Romeo and
Juliet," shakespeare-navigators.com">"Romeo and Juliet,"
shakespeare-navigators). Beyond that, Mercutio's phrase, "the constable's own
word," also refers to the historically understood concept that the constable of a town
"sat around" quietly "doing nothing." Hence, through the pun of
"dun" referring to the silence of a mouse, just like the constable, Mercutio is
chastising Romeo for sitting around and doing nothing ( href="https://shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/T14.html" title=""Romeo and
Juliet," shakespeare-navigators.com">"Romeo and Juliet,"
shakespeare-navigators).

The second pun Mercutio makes by rhyming
the word "done" with "dun" is in his line, "If thou art Dun, we'll draw
thee from the mire" (42). In this line "Dun" refers to a historic game called
"Dun the horse." The game was played at Christmas time and consisted of pulling a log
out of mud ( title=""Romeo and Juliet," shakespeare-navigators.com">"Romeo and
Juliet," shakespeare-navigators). Hence, Mercutio is saying that if Romeo is
truly "done" then, due to his lovestruck behavior, he has also allowed himself to sink
into "mire," or a poor state of mind. Mercutio is claiming that if Romeo is truly
"done" then they will pull him out of the "dun," or mud, or
mire.

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In "Letter to His Son" by Robert E. Lee, written on January 23, 1861, what gift has Lee's son given him? How is Lee's recognition of this gift linked...

Lee's son,
Custis, had given his father a book on George Washington.  The gift enables Lee to delve deep
into the condition of the nation in 1861 and how this would be perceived by framers of the
country like Washington.  For Lee, the gift allows a sense of reflection in examining from where
to where the country has gone.  The recognition of this gift links to his overall ambivalence
about secession.  In the letter to his son, Lee is able to articulate the political and personal
reasons why secession might not be the best approach for the South to take and for the nation to
endure.  Lee states clearly that his feelings about secession are not positive ones:

But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the
dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am
willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all
constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing
but revolution.

While he agrees with his son that the
"The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North," he is not
ready to embrace secession as an absolute answer.  With the gift of the book on Washington's
life and reflecting on his contribution to the nation as a union, Lee suggests that secession
would destroy the vision that the framers like Washington has for the nation:

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor,
wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities,
if it were intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for
perpetual union, so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government (not a
compact) which can only be dissolved by revolution, or by the consent of all the people in
convention assembled.

It is in this light where Lee's
recognition of the gift enables him the ability to reflect on how the issue of Southern
secession would be perceived by the nation's architects.  Lee understands that this course of
action, coupled with its dashing of the hopes of the nation's founders, will result in a state
of personal sadness:  "Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets,
and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no
charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare and progress of
mankind." 

Juvey-Cops. Why would these same juvey-cops be willing to turn a blind eye to the Admiral and the Graveyard? Do you think that this occurs often in...

I
believe that this question is asking about the book Unwind by Neal
Shusterman. The Juvey-cops, or Juvies, are the law enforcement officers that are tasked with
policing juveniles. More often than not that means Unwinds that have skipped AWOL. Juvies
attempt to capture runaway Unwinds and bring them to a harvest camp, and that is why most Juvies
do not carry and use weapons that use deadly force. Most Juvies in the series use tranquilizer
guns because the body parts of every Unwind are quite valuable. Readers will eventually find out
that the Juvey-cops are fully aware of the Graveyard, the Admiral's work, and all of the Unwinds
that seek refuge there; however, the Juvies are perfectly content with letting the Graveyard
exist. Readers can surmise various reasons as to why they do this, but one reason to leave the
Graveyard alone is because the Juvies know about it. Since they know about it, they can monitor
it. It relates to the phrase "the devil you know." The Juvies might not like it, but
knowing about it is better than shutting it down only for another one to open that they don't
know about. Another benefit of the Graveyard is that it keeps the AWOL Unwinds out of civilized
society. The Unwinds are not wreaking havoc in neighborhoods, because they are contained within
the confines of the Graveyard. Juvies exist to make sure that juveniles don't become a problem,
and that is also what the Graveyard seeks to do. Their methods are different, but the end goal
is still the same.A negative is in societal perception.The Juvey-cops look incompetent if they
know about an Unwind refuge but don't do anything about it.

How is Nature portrayed in the poem "Hunting Snake" by Judith Wright?

, by now, is
known as the icon of Australian poetry that is replete with a consciousness for ecological
preservation. Such poetry has to concentrate on the variegated forms of natural beauty in the
Australian space. Wright has written famous poems about birds, like the oft-quoted
"Magpies" or described the Australian countryside and bushlands and seas and mountains
in her famous poems like " South of My Days", " Train Journey", " Flame
Tree in a Quarry", "Request to a Year", " Platypus' etc , of which "The
Hunting Snake" is one. As a poet with an eco critical awareness, Wright celebrates the
special livingness and " whatness" or the exquisite incomparable inner living essence
of nature, be it a tree, or a bird or a season or bushland. Here also the snake's living essence
is captured with elan and grace by the poet. The poem opens with a contrast between the human
and the natural animal's world. Whereas inspite of being " sun-warmed', the persona feels
the frozen cold of a still autumnal afternoon, the snake is full of verve and vitality. It
passes "reeling by". The word"reeling" is significant, since it suggests a
rapid, effortless or violent lurching of the snake which here suggets predatory power. The
process of the hunt is exquisitely described. The predator is absolutely focussed on the
kill--"head down", "he quested through the parting grass". The word quest
suggests that hunting is the snake's single-minded mission, just as a spiritual seeker quests
for truth. The snake is awesome but beautiful; glittering "diamond scales" dazzle on
his skin as it reflects the sunlight. It fascinates the seer or the persona; "and we lost
breath to see him pass". Breathlessly the beauty and vitality-haunted persona can have a
feel of the snake's "fierce intent" and without knowing the identity of his kill, the
poet and her fellow watchers looked intent on the snake: "we stood/ Our eyes went with him
as he went". The snake is biologically cold, but at the same time"dark and
splendid". the word " dark" has an unmistakableof mysteriousness and its
splendour or dazzle is unputdownable. With the snake passing out of their sight, they "
took a deeper breath of day" and went on in their journey. The expression " deeper
breath of day" suggests that first, they were holding their breath at the sight of the
awful beauty of the snake and second, that the snake had given them a sense of darkness or a
feel of the world of death, which now the onlookers relieve them of by breathing the
"day", suggesting hope and life. It is indeed a poem of celebration of the vital
terrible power and beauty of the snake, an integral part of nature, which has an imposing
presence on the poet's psyche.

Can anyone can help me analyse the character of Crusoe with examples?

There are
several character traits which make , the narrator, an interesting character.

First of all, he goes against the conventions of his society and his family by taking
to the sea.  His family was middle class and would have imagined a different kind of lifestyle
for him.  As the son of a middle class family, an education and later a job in business
would...