Short note on brain-storming.

I am not sure
what you are asking here.  Do you  need to know what brain-storming is?  It is the first step in
planning for any project. It is a time when you...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," why does Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, ask him to stay with her as he leaves on his journey?

One of
Hawthorne's themes in "" is how the Puritan belief system affects the behavior of its
believers.  Among other things, Puritans such as Brown and his wife, Faith, believe that Satan
can be a physical presence in their lives in addition to being a spiritual being.  Puritans also
believed, for example, that Satan could and would attack their faith while they dream in order
to lead them astray.  When Faith realizes that she cannot stop Brown from taking this journey,
she says,

. . . put off your journey until sunrise and
sleep in your own bed tonight.  A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that
she's afeared of herself sometimes.  Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights
in the year.

Faith's warning is meant to remind Goodman
Brown of several important consequences of his journey: first, because they both believe that
Satan can appear to people in the form of dreams--a time when their will is the weakest--Faith
reminds Brown that she is most vulnerable during the night while she is dreaming and that his
presence might help protect her; second, from practical standpoint, going into the forest at
night, which is a very dangerous place for any English villager, would be safer during the day;
third, Faith's comment about "of all the nights in the year" may indicate that Brown
is leaving on All Hallows Eve (Halloween), the night when the veil between the living and dead
is traditionally thought to be the thinnest and a night when Satan is strongest, reminds him of
not only his danger but also hers, as well.  In other words, Faith pleads with Brown not to go
because she feels herself to be vulnerable to Satan's influence, and this fear plants the seed
in Brown's mind that grows into his belief that Faith has given herself to Satan when he dreams
that her pink ribbon falls out of the sky while Brown is in the forest.

Brown, of course, because he is determined to explore the dark side of his nature,
tells Faith not to worry and reminds her that his journey "must needs be done 'twixt now
and sunrise."  His journey, then, most likely takes place on Halloween because Brown
recognizes that he is likely to encounter what he seeks--Satan--on this night.  The fact that he
ignores Faith's concerns indicates his complete faith in Faith, which actually foreshadows what
happens to him during his dream vision--his complete loss of his religious faith and his loss of
faith in his wife.

Faith's attempt, then, to stop Goodman Brown establishes
 two very important aspects of Puritan beliefs--Satan can attack while the faithful are sleeping
and the forest itself is dangerous.

Describe the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed at ending segregation and racial discrimination. Civil rights movement

The Civil
Rights movement of the 1950's gradually influenced sweeping Congressional legislation in the
1960's. The Civil Rights Act 1964 added severe criminal penalities for any
discrimination in voting procedures, employment hiring practices, discrimination in public
facilities. In addition the law also stipulated that the federal government could withhold any
federal funding due to any state who was in defiance of the federal law....

A 6.55 percent coupon bond with 19 years left to maturity is offered for sale at $1,125.25. What yield to maturity is the bond offering? (Assume...

Kyleigh Macejkovic

Assuming a face value (F) of $1000, we are given the following data:

present value or bond value, b = $1125.25

Rate of return =
6.55%

Coupon payment, C = 1000 x6.55% = $65.5

Time to
maturity, t = 19 years

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Taking his symptoms into account, what was Rev. Dimmesdale's illness in The Scarlet Letter?

Arguably, Rev.
's condition is psychosomatic. This means that his physical ailments stem from a very disturbed
state of mind, and that the latter manifests in physical symptoms that connect to the situation
that he is going through.

In his case, guilt has made him weak to the point
of consistent depression. This same guilt has made him self-mutilate by carving a letter
"A" on his chest. It would be benighted to ignore the collateral issues that can
surface from self-mutilation, namely, infection of the wounds, bleeding out profusely, pain,
discomfort, fevers associated to the wounds, and much more.

In addition to
this, Dimmesdale's consistent physical and mental pain can result in an overall shutdown of the
body. It is no surprise that the man could nearly point out the minute he would die. He was
already dying slowly for the seven years that he kept the secret of his sins.

Chillingworth was able to tell as much. It is he who decides that Dimmesdale has
somewhat of an "animal" nature, "saintly" as he may be. He also points to
Dimmesdale about the sins of the soul and how they attack the body as disease.

Thus, a sickness, continued[..]confronting the
emaciated and white-cheeked minister, with his low, dark, and misshapen
figure,a sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit, hath
immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame

We know that Dimmesdale was emaciated, depressed, in pain, looking melancholy, and with
every sign of illness in his body. The reason for all of this was his secret. If he did not have
anything to hide, or had not been within the first place, he would have remained the "young
divine" that everyone loved so much. Therefore, it is safe to argue that his illness was,
indeed, psychosomatic.

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What is the symbolism of the color red in The Scarlet Letter? (Quotes with page numbers would be especially helpful)

Hawthorne
makes much use of the the Red Letter A within his novel; at various times, it stands for
"Adulteress," "Able," "Angel," and at one...

How is the Animal Farm movie different from the book?

The plots
of the movie and the book follow a very similar trend, as communism spreads throughout the farm
andtakes over and enslaves the others. This is allegorical of the communism gripping the Soviet
Union and other nations under its grasp. However, there is one glaring differencethe ending. 's
original work shows the ending as a continuation of the servitude trend, leaving things
ambiguous and also more frightening than before, as the animals not only have animal rulers, but
they have begun making deals with the humans, making things just as bad as before.

In the film version, however, Napoleon is trampled by the other animals, and this is
supposed to be an uplifting ending showing the triumph of democracy. However, this is contrary
to Orwell's original cautionary tale about the evils of communism.

In Robinson Crusoe, what is your conclusion of Robinson Crusoe's comparison between the evil and good? Evil I am cast upon a horrible desolate...

I would
conclude that good has prevailed over evil in this case. It is completely typical of Crusoe to
weigh life in the balance this way, as if he is placing good and evil on a set of scales and
seeing which is heavier, or as if he is keeping a balance sheet and trying to decide if life
yields more evil or more good.

Thinking it through rationally, Crusoe
recognizes that it is bad ("evil") that he is alone on a desert island with no hope
that he will be rescued by another vessel. However, he realizes it is good he is alive and not
dead...

What are some quotes that show that Jem is a protective brother in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In ,is
passing the Radley yard when she notices something shiny coming from the knothole in one of the
trees. Scout ends up finding a stick of Wrigley's Double-Mint gum and begins chewing on it.
Whencomes home and asks Scout where she got the gum, Scout tells her brother that she found it
in one of the Radley trees. Jem demonstrates his protective nature by saying,

"Spit it out right now!" (Lee 22).

Jem proceeds to yell at Scout for her "dangerous" stunt
and tells her that she could have died. Another scene that displays Jem's protective nature and
concern for Scout's well-being takes place in . Immediately after Scout and Jem get into a
fight, Scout knocks on Jem's door to ask him if he can take a look underneath her bed. Jem does
not hesitate to come to Scout's aid, and he goes to the kitchen to grab a broom. Lee
writes,

"Jem made a tentative swipe underneath the
bed. I looked over the foot to see if a snake would come out. None did. Jem made a deeper
swipe" (Lee 86).

Fortunately, there is no snake
underneath the bed and Dill Harris surprisingly comes out from his hiding
spot.

Is Jocasta of Oedipus Rex a flat, generalized queen character or an individual with a distinctive personality?

is a
complicated character, to put it mildly, and therein lies the seeds of her development. She is
no flat, generic queen, but then she can't be; she is, after all, both mother and wife toand so
needs to play two roles at once. In the midst of all the ensuing tumult, she has to stay strong
and hold her family together come what may. This becomes all the more imperative once she
realizes the terrible truth about Oedipus's true parentage.

Yet she
eventually succumbs to weakness, ending her life as she can no longer live with the shame and
the horror that has been brought upon her family. In that sense, Jocasta is indeed a dynamic
character; she isn't the same woman at the end of the play as she was at the beginning. Then, we
should recall, she showed herself to be outspoken and fearless, reprimanding Oedipus andover
their petty bickering. If there's one person who can get through what's about to follow, we
think, it must be Jocasta. Tragically, she defeats our...

How do the various characters respond to the events of the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?"

For the most
part, the old man (alleged angel) is mistreated and variously misunderstood. 

Even though the man has wings, Pelayo and Elisenda think he is a castaway from some
ship. Their neighbor notes the wings and concludes that he is, in fact, an angel. The neighbor
believes that the angel is part of some "celestial conspiracy" and should be clubbed
to death, but in their wisdom (or indifference), the couple refuse to do this. Still, Pelayo
locks the man in the chicken coop, thus treating him like a farm animal. In spite of the miracle
of finding a man with wings in their midst, the first responses are ignorant, dismissive,
reactionary, and abusive. 

By the next morning, other people in the
neighborhood have arrived and treat the angel "as if he werent a supernatural creature but
a circus animal." Father Gonzaga arrives to find that even though these people are
mistreating the old man, they offer suggestions such as making the old man mayor of the world or
promoting him to a high official position. Gonzaga tells the people not to be naive (ingenuous)
and that the old man might not be an angel. Now, he doesn't tell them to start treating the
angel better (just in case he is an angel or out of common Christian decency). He simply says he
will ask the bishop. 

In the meantime, Pelayo and Elisenda start charging
people to see the old man (angel). They make a lot of money. Then a carnival arrives and the
people flock to see a human spider. The old man is no longer the star attraction and he is
abandoned. Pelayo doesn't clean or keep the chicken coop repaired. Even though the old man had
made them relatively rich, he becomes like a burden to them. When he finally leaves, they are
only too happy to see him go. Elisenda is glad "because then he was no longer an annoyance
in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea." 

What does the reader understand about Tom Robinson's case through Scout's childish perspective? (140-141)

My
page numbers don't line up with yours, so I'll help you consider various aspects of young 's
interpretation of some of the events of the trial.

Just before the trial
begins, a lynch mob shows up at Tom Robinson's cell.is waiting for them, and he refuses to allow
the group near his client. Things get tense, and it is eight-year-old Scout's words that
diffuses the anger of the group. She helps Mr. Cunningham in particular to see that Atticus is a
good man who has helped the Cunningham family. She helps him see all that Atticus has in common
with them; they both have children who are about the same age. Scout is able to diffuse the
anger of the group leading up to the trial by showing them that Atticus is a man and father just
like the rest of them, fighting for his own family and for what he believes is right.

The facts of the case are so clear-cut that even a young child understands that Tom
could not possibly have done what Mayella has accused him of.

At the end of
, Scout makes the following observation:

Atticus was
trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella. That much I could
follow. If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it
would tend to show that a left-handed person did it.

They
later learn that Tom cannot use his left arm because it was severely injured in a horrible
accident. While her father could have inflicted the injuries, even a child
can see that Tom Robinson could not.

Scout also
understands that it gives Atticus no comfort to expose Mayella's delicate position in an effort
to save his own client. When Mayella ends her testimony by bursting into sobs, she watches her
father sit down and hang his head. She realizes that Mayella is allowed extra liberties by the
judge for her outrageous behavior on the stand because she is "poor and ignorant."
Thus, she understands that Mayella is also a victim of sorts because she has been raised by Bob
Ewell.

What are some things that make Romeo and Hamlet different? Basically compare and contrast Romeo and Hamlet

I
am interpreting this to be a comparison of the actual men (based on the absence of "... and
" that might appear if you were using the titles) instead of the plays themselves. I see
that the previous educators interpreted that differently and wanted to be clear regarding my own
interpretation.

andoperate on opposite ends of an emotional spectrum. While
Romeo's conflict is generated out of love, Hamlet's conflict emerges out of hatred. Hamlet is
visited by the ghost of his father who asks Hamlet to seek revenge for his own murder. Hamlet
then turns toward Claudius, whom he is already disgusted with, and when he learns the truth is
driven to murderous acts out of the anger. Romeo falls in love with the girl he's supposed to
hate but cannot. This puts him in conflict with her family. Romeo doesn't actively seek murder
or violence, yet he is pulled into conflict, anyway. He is almost singularly focused on his love
for Juliet in each choice he makes--not his hatred for her...

Explain atomic structure and the shells part?

Atoms are
the smallest unit of matter. They are comprised of (made of) three subatomic particles -
protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons are positively charged, neutrons are neutral (have
neither positive nor negative charge), and electrons are negatively charged. The protons and
neutrons are housed within the central nucleus of an atom. Thus, the overall charge of the
nucleus is positive. The negative electrons travel around the nucleus. Some scientists claim the
electrons...

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Is there a theme in In Cold Blood?

I have
suggested elsewhere that one important theme in's book is the way two young men may be
relatively harmless when they are separate but can make a lethal combination when they get
together. They are like two chemicals that are innocuous in separate bottles but can create an
explosion when mixed together. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are small-time delinquents who are
both trying to impress each other with how BAD they can be. Neither one of them would have
committed such a horrendous crime by himself, but when they get together they goad each other
into doing terrible things...

Give two examples of how foreboding is used as the caravan travels through the desert in The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.

In 's
novel, , href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/foreboding"
title="foreboding">foreboding appears with regard to the caravan in which
the boy travels.

First, Dictionary.com defines "foreboding"
as:

1. a prediction; portent. 2. a strong
inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.;

Before
the boy and the Englishman even leave with the caravan, the tone of danger is created with the
following:

I'm the leader of the caravan," said a
dark-eyed, bearded man. I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The
desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Right away, the sense of one's tenuous grasp on life in the desert is presented, along
with the fact that this man has control over life and death.

The leader also
admonishes...

What are the first two dangers the narrator faces in "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

After his
trial, the narrator first finds himself imprisoned in
total darkness inside a small cell. "The blackness of eternal night
encompassed me." Being confined is, itself, frightening for the narrator--"[T]hewas
intolerably close,"-- but his terror is increased when, having moved along the damp walls
in order to determine the size of his cell, the narrator
secondly discovers that there is a hole in the
floor. 

After the narrator trips over a remnant of cloth that
he has used to mark the beginning of his walk around his cell, he discovers a startling
circumstance: While his chin lies on the floor of the cell, his

...lips, and the upper portion of my head, although seemingly at a less elevation than
the chin, touched nothing.

At the same time, the prisoner
feels a "clammy vapor" on his forehead and he smells "decayed fungus." When
he puts out his arm, he discovers that he has fallen at the very edge of a circular pit.
Breaking off a small fragment of masonry just below the margin of the hole, the prisoner drops
it into the pit only to realize that it is a deep pit filled with water. When there is a rapid
opening and closing of an overhead door, the narrator "saw clearly the doom which had been
prepared for me." He congratulates himself on escaping this deadly accident by his timely
fall.

What Happens To Julia In 1984

We seeat
the very end of the book, and can get a picture of her physical appearance, and she mentions a
couple things from which we can infer what happened to her.  We don't know exactly, in detail,
but we can get the general gist.  Whenmeets her, the novel writes that

"her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly
hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple...her waist had grown thicker, and, in a
surprising way, had stiffened...her body felt like [a corpse]."

So, instead of being young, flexible, friendly and full of life,
she is pale and stiff, like all of the life had been sapped out of her.  She has a scar, so, her
torture involved some sort of awful facial cutting or damage.

To get an idea
of what they did to her, we do know that they did something to make her betray Winston, just
like Winston did her.  It's the first thing she says to him.  She said that they threatened
something so horrible that in order to escape it, she told them to do it to Winston instead. 
That is almost exactly what happened with Winston.  Other changes are startling--she is filled
with distaste for Winston, doesn't really want him to follow her, and after a bit when he first
sees her, tries to get away, but then gives up.  She used to seek out their meetings, and spend
her life evading the Party to meet him.  Now, she distastes anything having to do with her
former life, and is very passive and gives up easily.  They have taken her spirit and zest, and
left a hardened shell behind.

So, her torture ended in some that was very
similar to Winston's, was physically brutal, and completely changed her personality and nature,
breaking her will and taking the life out of her.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!

What kind of oppression does George Orwell demonstrate in 1984?

In
, demonstrates a kind of oppression that requires both outward and inward
obedience from Party members. It isn't enough simply to do what you are told in Oceania; your
thoughts also must be in alignment with the will of the state. To deviate at all from orthodox
thinking is to commit a thoughtcrime. Any thoughtcrime leaves an individual open to arrest by
the Thought Police.

For example, there are no laws at all in Oceania, and
thus no laws forbiddingfrom owning and writing in a journal, but he knows this is thoughtcrime
that at minimum would earn him twenty-five years of hard labor, or, more likely, the death
penalty.

Aslater explains to Winston, the goal of the state is to remake the
human being into a new form. This new human, which will hardly be more than an animal, will only
be able to have to the simplest thoughts because the...

What does this quote illustrate? "These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder / Which as they kiss...

These
lines are spoken byto , in act 2, scene 6, just beforeget married. Friar Laurence is warning
Romeo not to be too rash, reckless, or extreme in the way that he loves .

When he refers to "these violent delights," Friar Laurence is referring to
the violent intensity with which Romeo and Juliet love one another. He warns Romeo that unless
he and Juliet learn to love one another more moderately, their love shall result in
"violent ends." Later in the play, we discover that this warning was prescient, as
Romeo and Juliet's love does indeed end in violence.

Friar Laurence also
compares Romeo and Juliet's love to "fire and powder." The image evoked here is of a
trail of gunpowder which, when set alight, becomes a trail of fire. Often there is an explosion
at the end of a gunpowder trail, and in this sense this image too foreshadows Romeo and Juliet's
fate. Their love is like a trail of gunpowder running throughout the play which leads,
inevitably, to an explosion. Just a few years after the play was first performed, a group of
Catholics tried to blow up the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder. Thein the play to
"fire and powder" would have thus had a particularly strong resonance for audiences
watching the play at this time.

Continuing with the same theme of loving
recklessly, Friar Laurence then compares Romeo and Juliet's love to "the sweetest
honey," which, when eaten too greedily and too quickly, becomes "loathsome" and
can make one feel ill. In other words, Friar Laurence is saying that Romeo and Juliet are
feeding upon their love too greedily and too quickly, so it will make them ill and the love
"loathsome."

After comparing their love to a trail of gunpowder and
too much sweet honey, Friar Laurence tells Romeo to "love moderately"preserve the love
rather than destroy it. Romeo, of course, is too naive and too much overwhelmed by his first
experience of reciprocated love to heed Frair Laurence's advice. He continues to love violently
and greedily, and his love, accordingly, ends in violence.

What did Stargirl leave in the mailbox the day Leo followed her after school?

This
is a really great sequence in the book because readers are likely to suspect thatrealizes Leo is
following her, and those suspicions are proven true much later in the book. In chapter 3, Leo is
following Stargirl, and he's hoping that he learns some information that will help him
make...

"""Young Goodman Brown" has two distinct settings. What are the differences between these two settings? What significance does each setting have?""

The
story is set partly in Salem, and partly in the wooded wilderness around the town. At first
glance, the difference is pretty straightforward: the town is good, the woods are bad.
Fortunately, there is a little more to it than that. Hawthornes story is about hypocrisy and
sin. Goodman Brown has grown up in Salem; he has a natural respect for his elders, including his
grandfather and his religious teacher, Goody Cloyse. In town, he sees them as good, upright
people. But it is in the woods that he mysteriously meets his grandfather with the serpent
staff, and overhears Goody Cloyse, the minister and Deacon Gookin proclaiming the devil and
discussing a satanic ritual. And it is in the woods that Brown witnesses this black
mass.

So perhaps another way of understanding the town/forest dichotomy
has...

I am doing a research project for English class on dictatorship in 1984. Can you please help? I'm not positive what my general question is. It could...

I think
that you might be on a very good track here.  I believe that you might be well set to argue
that's work is more of a cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarian rule.  Given the fact
that there is little in way of redemption about dictatorship rule in the work, the narrative
provided might be one where individuals have to be mindful of allowing or enabling a government
to resemble that of Big Brother.  I think that I would use the need for individual rights to act
as a shield against government encroachment as part of this.  Orwell's...

What are the main conflicts in The Crucible and why?

I suggest that the main
conflict in this play is the inner conflict of John Proctor. As a result of his extramarital
affair with Abigail Williams, he "has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud." To
the world, he presents the upstanding Christian, farmer, and citizen, but he knows that he has
broken some of the most fundamental rules of Christian doctrineinjunctions against lying and
adultery. His continued guilt and frustration at his wife for her perceived judgment of him
clearly continues to plague him. He tells her, "Let you look sometimes for the goodness in
me, and judge me not." She replies, "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges
you."

It is clear that she is right, as, in the final act, when John has
decided not to confess to a crime he did not commit in order to save his
life, he says, "You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of
goodness in John Proctor." He had lost sight of his own goodness, his own value, and he
struggled all along to regain it; in the end, he finally does.

Ultimately,
I'm not sure that John and Elizabeth Proctor really are in conflict. She is somewhat distrustful
of him since his affair, and he is a bit embittered by her continued distrust, but they do love
one another and seem to be trying to work through the challenges to their marriage. I think the
conflict between Elizabeth and Abigail is of more significance in the play because Abigail wants
John to herself so badly that she is willing to see Elizabeth hanged to accomplish
it.

What does Cherry tell ponyboy about the Socs.

More
than likely this question is asking about things that Cherry and Ponyboy discuss in chapters 2
and 3 of The Outsiders. Cherry is an amazing character that has the ability
to see through the drama and clutter to the heart of an issue. After Ponyboy tells her about how
and why Johnny is so scared looking all of the time, Cherry says one of her most famous lines.
She tells Ponyboy that the Greasers are not the only kids that are dealing with difficulties.
She tells Ponyboy that "things are rough all over." It is a credit to her personality
that she can say this and have Ponyboy believe her without any argument.

"I'll bet you think the Socs have it made. The rich kids, the
West-side Socs. I'll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise. We have
troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know something?" She looked me straight in
the eye. "Things are rough all over."

"I believe you," I
said.

The chapter ends, and chapter 3 picks up just after
the movie ends. Ponyboy has been thinking about what Cherry said, and he has been seriously
thinking about how the Greasers and Socs are similar; however, he does know deep down that there
is a difference between the two groups. Ponyboy believes that the main difference comes down to
money.

I thought maybe it was money that separated
us.

Cherry disagrees that the money is the only cause of
the difference. She stumbles through her thoughts, but it is clear that she sees the core
difference between the groups is an emotional difference.

"It's not just money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different
set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated --- cool to the point of not feeling
anything. Nothing is real with us."

[...]

"It
seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding
it."

Ponyboy figures out what she is trying to tell
him. The Greasers feel too much, and the Socs don't feel anything at all.

"That's why we're separated," I said. "It's not
money, it's feeling--- you don't feel anything and we feel too violently."

In The Importance of Being Earnest, how does Oscar Wilde use symbolism in his social commentary?

The symbolism
that we find in 's The Importance of Being  Earnest is mostly situated
around the items that constitute the different ways in which Jack and Algernon indulge in their
double lives. One of these symbols is food, as well as its extravagant and careless
consumption.

We find that both Algernon and Jack's alter ego, Ernest, have a
penchant for over-indulging at expensive restaurants only to leave the bills unpaid for.This
causes in Jack a sense of joy, as if being "bad" was a goal of his. This is
significant because Ernest (when in the country living as Jack) is a model of good manners and
responsibility, as he is in charge of the manor entailed to him by his adoptive father, and
because he is also in charge of Cecily, who is his ward.

Therefore, food is
a door to freedom for Jack and Algernon that shows extravagance at its best: Run bills, enjoy
your meals, and do not pay. That is the life of the true so-called rich in Victorian England: A
group of people that lead...

Why does Proctor decide to confess? no

After John
Proctor met Elizabeth, he asked about his friends and the people convicted in the sham trials.
John discovered that his friend Giles Corey was crushed to death after he failed to take a plea.
He also learned that many of the other prisoners had decided to confess to the charges. However,
he also learned that Rebecca Nurse had rejected any attempts to get her to confess.

John also asked after his sons and the child he was expecting, because Elizabeth was
pregnant at the time. John was willing to confess because of what he was bound to miss out on if
he died. He was worried about his family and how they would survive without him. The baby on the
way meant greater responsibility for Elizabeth and for these reasons Proctor was willing to make
the false confession.

What are two criticisms of the European society which the three cannibals make at the end of the essay?

"" is
just one of more than 100 essays in 's collection titled Essays, originally
published in the year 1580. In this particular piece, the author praises the culture of a tribe
living in Brazil, even though they kill and eat the bodies of their enemies after victories in
battle. While making it clear that he is definitely not a proponent of cannibalism, Montaigne
describes the virtuous principals that people of this tribe adhere to in their day-to-day lives
and the great society they've built. He comes to the conclusion that, on the whole, European
culture is much more barbaric than theirs.

Near the end of the essay,
Montaigne relays an anecdote in which he got to witness the meeting of King Charles IX and a few
members of this tribe when they came to visit Rouen, France. When asked by someone to give their
opinion of what they had seen in France so far, the Brazilian visitors gave three answers, of
which Montaigne remembers two. The first was that they "thought it very strange" that
so many large, strong men were guards for the young King and would "submit to obey a
child." King Charles IX took the throne when he was only ten years old, and the tribe
members found it very weird that this monarchy, and specifically these fully grown men, had a
child as their leader and "that they did not rather choose out one amongst themselves to
command."

The second was that they did not understand why the men in the
room before them owned so much, while they had observed so many people begging in the streets,
"lean and half-starved with hunger and poverty." In their eyes, these people living in
need should have been revolting against the greedy men in power.

What is the moral of "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

The
answer to this question is largely subjective and best left up to individual readers.The reason
for that is because the moral of a story can be loosely defined as the message conveyed by the
story.In other words, it is the lesson learned from a story, but that lesson isn't necessarily
clearly stated by the author; therefore, the moral of a story is very much left up to each
reader.For me, I think a possible moral of this story is that people can change.Roaring camp is
introduced to readers as a morally corrupt and degenerate camp.The arrival of the baby causes
the men of the camp to begin changing toward a more fatherly role for this child.Their behavior
improves, their attitude toward fellow townsfolk improves, and their overall general hygiene
even improves.Knowing that a person is never truly morally "lost" and is capable of
changing is an important lesson in this story.With that said, I also think this story teaches a
darker lesson.The goodness that was...

Analyze two central ideas that are the themes of Our Town. What is the meaning or message of Our Town? How does the author develop each theme? Discuss...

I think
that one of the most central ideas to Wilder's work is the universality of the human experience.
  strives to show the universal condition of life.  It is one whereby
individuals find more in common than those forces which are different.  At the start of Act III,
the Stage Manager articulates this condition of being in the world:

...everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to
do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five
thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's
something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.

One of the central ideas that serve as a critical theme in Our
Town is understanding this eternal applicability to being in the world.  The voice of
the Stage Manager is one technique that conveys this universal condition.  The Stage Manager is
a voice that has seen the passage of time and the universality which is...

Describe Gulliver's visit to the land of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.

Gulliver
is exhausted when he finally reaches an island after his shipwreck and only wants to nestle down
in the soft grass and sleep his tiredness away. He 'slept sounder than ever I remembered to have
done in my life' and guessed it was for about nine hours because it was only just getting light
when he finally woke up. Naturally he tried to get up, but he found he was not able to lift
himself up from lying on his back because his limbs were tightly roped down to the ground and
even his long hair was tied down in the grass. There were also ropes drawn across the rest of
his body, from under his arms down to his thighs. Gulliver couldn't look anywhere but up as the
day warmed up and the sun got hotter and hotter, hurting his eyes. He heard a confusing sound
but couldn't look to find out what was causing it.

Then he must have felt
very tickly because something started to move gently around on his leg and soon he was able to
crane his neck enough to just make out 'a little creature.' Soon there were many of them, and
they began to shout at him in a strange language. Some even stabbed him in the sides with
miniature spears, and others fired volleys of arrows into him, causing him much pain. Gulliver
decided to stay very still until night time, but the attacks stopped when the Lilliputians saw
that he was calm and still. Instead, they started building a tiny stage of wood, and one of them
made a speech. Gulliver pointed to his mouth to signal that he was hungry and thirsty, and they
relayed hundreds of baskets of meat and hogsheads direct to his mouth and gave him a drink.
Gulliver then signals that he wants his freedom, but an important little man makes it clear that
Gulliver will be kept as a prisoner. However, they did soothe his wounds with ointment and they
released the tiny lines just enough for Gulliver to empty his bladder, which made the
Lilliputians scatter left and right as the torrent washed down among them.

It
seems that when Gulliver was discovered asleep on the ground, the emperor of the little men had
received an early warning and had decided with his council to tie him down while he slept and
that a machine should be prepared to transport him to the capital city.

In The Bronze Bow, why is Samson more loyal to Daniel than to Rosh?

Samson is a
giant slave rescued by Rosh's raid on a caravan. He is very strong, mute, and might be
developmentally disabled. However, he shows intense loyalty to Daniel, not to Rosh, because when
Daniel cuts off his chains, Daniel speaks to him, explaining how Samson has been saved from the
galleys of ships, where men are whipped and die attached to the enormous oars. Samson views
Daniel as the one who literally cut his chains, and so sees...

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Should we legalize a physician-assisted death?

I personally
believe that this should be legal, but I do not believe that it is compatible with our current,
and often hypocritical, legal consideration for human life.

This question is
difficult because it depends on many multifaceted definitions; what do we mean by legal, and
what is the bearing of legality upon morality? Are all laws moral? Are immoral things always
illegal? Exactly how much assistance would the physician be allowed to render? Does the person
get to choose their manner of death (imagine if someone wished to die by being shot)? These are
important questions because, as is often seen in legal matters, the way in which the act is
defined as legal or illegal often depends upon a significant amount of...

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Why does Winston feel that the man sitting next to him in the cafeteria is not a real human being but some kind of dummy?

The man in
the cafeteria at 's workplace, who is about 30, is sitting in such a way that the light hits the
lenses of his glasses so that his eyes are obscured. He looks as if he has "blank
discs" behind the glasses. However, the most dehumanized aspect of him is his speech: he
goes on and on, endlessly pouring forth language, but Winston can't distinguish most of the
words:

Just once Winston caught a phrase"complete and
final elimination of Goldsteinism"jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one
piece, like a line of type cast solid.

The man is
frightening because he talks and talks and but says nothing of substance. He is merely stringing
together phrases of propaganda that have been brainwashed into him by the state. He is saying
words without any real meaning, and he certainly isn't thinking or evaluating what he is
saying.

One of the things that I love about is that
this man, who sounds like a robot ("dummy" today might be an offensive word to the
deaf, thoughdoesn't mean it that way) is a real type: Orwell nailed it. Every time I read this
passage, I think of a man I sat next to on plane in 2006: he was loudly insisting to the man
beside him that there would be no real estate crash (just before the great recession, which was
caused by the housing bubble). There was just no penetrating his mind with critical thought. He
was like Orwell's robotic man, simply spouting propaganda that didn't make any sense and wasn't
connected to rational thought processes, and it seems to me that while our situation isn't
Orwell's dystopia, many aspects of the book can be related back to our own lives in ways that
are worth contemplating.

What is a good thesis statement for Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants"?

A story, however short, is seldom written to demonstrate a thesis in the same way as an
academic essay, so there may be a variety of plausible answers to this, based on the reaction of
individual readers and what they think is the story's most important theme. With that in mind,
here is my view:

A life lived purely for selfish pleasure
is ultimately hollow and boring, deracinating the one who lives it and cutting him or her off
from anything that might give life meaning.

This sounds
dangerously like a moral, which is why Hemingway never says any such thing, but he is constantly
demonstrating it. The lives of the two protagonists are superficially glamorous and exciting. As
the girl says, they "look at things and try new drinks." The flatness of their
conversation, however, reveals that they are sick of everything they do. Even the revelation
that they are having a child, rather than being the traditional source of joy and celebration of
a new life, merely entails a clinical discussion on...

What is the form or structure of the musical The Phantom of the Opera?

Andrew Lloyd
Weber's musical The Phantom of the Opera structurally consists of afollowed
by two acts.

The prologue is set in 1919,
thirty-eight years after the main events of the play, and presents the opera house in disrepair,
auctioning off all of their props and set pieces, including Christine's music box and a
chandelier which the auctioneer comments on as having been connected to the events surrounding
"the phantom of the opera." This opening serves as a kind of frame
tale for the musical. The audience knows that in the end the opera house fades to
disuse, and that there were apparently...

In "Masque," why does the poet begin in the first person then change into the second person? MasqueIm standing back, now, looking back at last on...

Strictly speaking, this
poem is written in the first person alone, as the first line indicates:

I'm standing back, now...

If
this poem did contain parts that were written in the second person, we would see that the poem
contains lines that just focus on the action of the "you" and nothing else. However,
you are right in indicating that there is a shift in this poem as the speaker begins to talk
about herself (if it is a she), and...

What is a short summary to the short story "Young Goodman Brown"?

Goodman
Brown sets off from his home in Salem one evening on a mysterious errand.  His wife, Faith,
pleads with him to put it off until morning, but he says he cannot. 

As he
travels the road he encounters a dark traveler, who seems to be expecting him.    The two have a
meeting, yet at the last minute, Goodman Brown wants to return home.  He is constrained by the
dark traveler, and they go on together.  They meet a few neighbors on the way, who seem to be
familiar with the dark traveler.  It is soon apparent that the traveler is the devil in
disguise, and Brown is on his way to sell his soul to the devil.

They enter a
clearing where Brown finds more people, some of whom he knows.  They are all there to worship
the devil.  Suddenly Brown recognizes one of the other worshipers--it is his wife, Faith.    She
also is involved in the ceremony.

In the morning, Brown awakens in the forest
to find himself alone.  He returns home, not sure if it was reality or a dream.  However, for
the rest of his life, he lives as a man apart emotionally from others.  At his death, he is
buried with "no hopeful verses" to cover his grave.

How are Hester, Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Chillingworth redeemed by the end of the novel ? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

With 's
confession in the third scaffold scene of , the spiritual triangle is
completed for , , and the minister, while the devilish , who attempts to stop Dimmesdale, is
defeated.  Rather than dying for others' sins as Christ did, Dimmesdale dies for his; however,
in so doing, like a Christ, he does ask God's forgiveness for Chillingworth's sin ["forgive
them Father....], and he allows Pearl to become fully human as she kisses his lips, then weeps
in true human compassion. 

This kiss of Pearl is highly symbolic,
for hitherto Pearl has washed away Dimmesdale's kiss at the brook because the minister "was
not true," she now returns her father's kiss, symbolizing her acceptance and
forgiveness.  Moreover, this action of Pearl transforms her from a "sprite" and
"imp" into a human being who sheds tears for the first time in the narrative.  That
she is no longer a symbol of Hester's and Dimmesdale's sin is evinced in Hawthorne's narration,
"A spell was broken."

For her sin of adultery, Hester has already
been redeemed by her full admission of the sin (she embroiders a brillant A
and performs good deads). Still, Hester's sin of having allowed Roger Chillingworth to
"violate the sanctity of the human heart"  has, at last, been revealed so that she,
too, can "be true" as Hawthorne urges in his statement of theme in the Conclusion. 
And, so, she is finally truly redeemed.

After the final scaffold scene,
Chillingworth

...withered up, shrivelled away, and almost
vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun. 

If Chillingworth is redeemed at all, it is in finding some humanity
in himself by bequeathing his property, both in England and in Massachusetts, to Pearl. Thus,
his hatred is converted to love, expelling his sin, just as sin is expelled in Dimmesdale,
Hester, and Pearl as the incarnation of her parents' sin.

 

In Poe's poem "The Raven," what does the speaker think when the raven first says, "Nevermore"?

Stanza
8 is where I would start to look for this answer. In this stanza, the speaker seems to be mostly
amused by his unexpected avian visitor. In his happier mood, the speaker takes it upon himself
to ask the name of the raven. It's a perfectly understandable reaction. People always ask my dog
her name instead of asking me her name. The speaker in the poem does the same thing.

"Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Nights Plutonian
shore!

Quoth the Raven Nevermore.

The speaker isn't honestly expecting any kind of answer, so he is quite shocked that
the raven gives any answer at all, let alone an answer that sounds like a word. The speaker is
shocked into marveling at the raven's plain speech.

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

Despite the marvel, the narrator admits that the bird's answer
doesn't make much sense. He even points out that no other human being has likely ever come
across an animal with the name "Nevermore." Next, he assumes that the bird will fly
away and be gone by morning. Unfortunately, this is when the raven choose to repeat its
"name."

In what way is "Pygmalion" a Shavian play? Please explain the term Shavian play.

This
question has previously been answered and may be seen at this link:

Does Capote state earlier in In Cold Blood that Perry and Dick were executed?

To the best of my
knowledge, Capote does not. Let us remember that Capote in this famous literary work was trying
to write a kind ofnon-fiction, if that does not seem to be a contradiction in terms. As a
result, he merely reports the action of this famous murder case as it happened, and tries to do
so in a detached...

My thesis for my essay is about how Squealer is the most powerful animal in Animal Farm. Why should he be considered the most powerful?

the Pig
from "" is easily the most powerful character in the book, and it's clear why. Whileis
in control, Squealer holds control over the information, which is what gives true control over a
populace. This is a very important tidbit to understand because of its relevancy to real life.
Control over the media, or control over information flow, is true power in any government or
organization.

If someone is able to spin a narrative or change a story to
fit their own needs, they can motivate the people to support whatever they...

In the novel The Bronze Bow, what does Hezron say is stronger than all the power in Rome?

Hezron,
Joel's father, is a Rabbi, or teacher of the Jewish Law. He is also a Pharisee, a member of a
strict sect of Jewish leaders whom Jesus said valued outward observance of the law over inward
qualities such as mercy, justice, and faith. When Daniel visits Joel at his home, he stays for
their meal and engages in an uncomfortable conversation with Hezron.

The man
actually knew of Daniel's father and his fate at the hands of the Romans. Instead of showing
sympathy, he states coolly, "He was a good man, your father, but a rash one." The
conversation turns to the one topic that is always uppermost in Daniel's mind: the Roman
occupation of Israel. Hezron states that he is grieved about the captivity of the Jews just as
Daniel is. However, he views the Roman presence as a punishment from God on the Jewish nation
and believes that they must bear it patiently. He compares the ineffectiveness of the Zealots to
"buzzing mosquitoes."

He then tells Daniel what he thinks is more
powerful than...

What are some rhetorical devices used in "The Education of Women" by Daniel Defoe?

begins the essay with emotive language, juxtaposing the "barbarous" custom
of failing to educate women with the "civilized and Christian" country we imagine
ourselves to inhabit. This type of pathos is evident throughout the essay, both in the negative
descriptions of uneducated women and men and in the idealized figure of the well-educated woman,
who is described in hyperbolic terms:

A woman well bred
and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a
creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer
enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and
sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight.

Defoe
juxtaposes the natural talents and virtues of women with the lowly position they occupy in
society as the servants and subordinates of men, concluding:

I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures;
and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable...

How do Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" relate to one another?

The
connection between "" and "The Things They Carried" is that both are set
during wartime, and they both place their focus on ain a difficult position: Peyton Fahrquhar
and Jimmy Cross. 

Peyton Fahrquhar is a civilian who has been manipulated by
a Union scout and then caught sabotaging a bridge, which is a capital offense. As Fahrquhar
faces execution by hanging, he copes with his impending death by projecting his mind on a
miraculous escape. He pictures himself falling into the water beneath the bridge, dodging
gunfire, and hiking home through the woods to his farm where "his wife, looking fresh and
cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to greet him." In reality, Fahrquhar does not
survive the hanging, but the fantasy in which he loses himself in the moments leading up to his
death provides comfort.

Jimmy Cross is a first lieutenant who is responsible
for his platoon. While on patrol, Cross copes with the constant low-level fear and...

My topic is elegy in James Wright's poetry.Can anyone tell me how can i divide this into two chapters?plz suggest me titles for these chapters. Plz...

's poetry
definitely features a strong death motif.  I think in your case as you are brainstorming for the
organization of your paper, you would be best served by making a topical outline.  You need to
expand your research on his poetry, and I would recommend making notecards for key points on
youridea.  Make multiple notecards for every poem that you are considering using.  On each
notecard, put a brief phrase for a title heading on the very top line, like "Death"
or...

What must we, as individuals, sacrifice to facilitate public order? Do we ever give up too much in the interest of public record? If so, when?

Public
order, rather than a necessity for public "good," is a necessity for the continuation
of nation-states and status-quo control over groups of people. Individuals are encouraged to
self-police and police others in order to maintain public order, which is necessary to police
populations because there are more civilians than there are state agents. Thus, police not only
rely on the power of their own enforcement to maintain order, but also rely heavily on self- and
community-based policing in which those deemed to be trouble makers are ostracized or turned in
to state agents.

The state...

Is drug-testing of students a violation of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to students in a private school€”based on whether the private school is...

Yes, I
believe it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment in that situation. This is, obviously, a very
tricky situation to analyze due to the complexity of the case, but there are a few facts that
can't be ignored.

Typically, a private school has a bit of flexibility to
mandate what occurs inside its walls, and drug testing would probably be completely acceptable
in that situation. Many schools, public and private, make it quite clear that they have
jurisdiction to search lockers and other on school items to ensure that school rules are being
followed. Unfortunately, if the school is a state actor, there are more complex details that
need to be addressed.

A state actor is an entity that acts on behalf of the
government, and therefore must adhere to the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments so as not to
infringe upon civil liberties.

When a school is acting on behalf of the
government, performing an action like unauthorized drug testing can be a serious violation of
the Fourth Amendment, which would overstep its bounds in regards to civil liberties (the right
to avoid unauthorized search and seizure). Regardless of what prompted the potential drug
testing, it is a violation of the Constitution.

How was the impact of computers in the 1990s similar to that of the car in 1920s?

There are
many ways in which this was true.  Let us look at a few.

• Both
  allowed people to be exposed to new things and new ideas.  Cars allowed people to physically
  move around and see new things.  Computers gave more access to information about ideas and
  places.
• Both provided for new forms of entertainment.


• Both could be seen as endangering morality.  Cars gave young couples ways to have
  privacy.  Computers could be used to access pornography.

In both
cases, the new technology completely changed the ways in which people lived their daily
lives.

Jill Lepore says that most writers like to think of themselves as hostage to critics. According to her essay, to whom does Dickens sees himself...

In her
New Yorker essay "Summer Vacation with Dickens" Jill Lepore
argues that, whereas most writers think of themselves as hostage to critics,liked to figure
himself as imprisoned by his readers. What she seems to mean by this is that Dickens was, to
some extent, in thrall to his readers' expectations as to what kind of story he should write for
them, what kind of characters, and so on.

As Lepore goes on, this was because
of a number of developments in the 19th centurysuch as higher literacy rates, the wide
availability of cheap books and magazinesthat, together, led to the rising up of what she calls
a democracy of readers against an aristocracy of critics. This process was very beneficial to
Dickens, and greatly helped the sale of his works.

Whereas most literary
critics were quite dismissive of Dickens, the reading public lapped up his stories with great
enthusiasm. However, the downside of this was that Dickens came to feel perhaps that he had to
write with the public hovering over his shoulder, so to speak, that the act of writing was no
longer about self-expression but about satisfying the voracious demands of an increasingly
literate, demanding reading public.

How did Gulliver find himself on an unknown island?

Gulliver
winds up on the island kingdom of Lilliput by accident. He originally headed home to his family
after his three-year stint as surgeon aboard the good ship Swallow. But his
wanderlust soon got the better of him, and he headed back out to see for another six
years.

Towards the end of his latest voyage, Gulliver made the fateful
decision to take one last job aboard a ship called the Antelope. As it
sails through choppy waters off the coast of the East Indies, the Antelope
is buffeted by a violent storm in which twelve crew members die. Gulliver manages to escape in a
rowboat with five members of the crew. But the rowboat capsizes and Gulliver swims to the shore.
Exhausted by his terrifying ordeal, he flops down on the beach and falls asleep.

The next morning, Gulliver wakes up to discover that he's been tied down to the ground
and that six-inch tall men are crawling over his body. His adventures in Lilliput have just
begun.

What is the main argument of James Baldwin in "Down at the Cross" in The Fire Next Time?

In this essay
(published first in the New Yorker in 1962 and titled in full "Down at
the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind"), Baldwin examines the ways in which
Christianity and the Nation of Islam have treated African Americans and rejects the idea of race
as more than what he refers to as a "political reality," rather than a "human
reality." He recounts his salvation in a Harlem church when he was a teenager. He sought
refuge in the church because he was deathly afraid of growing up as an African American man and
facing the dismal possibilities of adulthood he saw around him. He condemns Christianity, which
he ultimately rejected, and writes, "In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with
an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty." He thinks that Christianity has perpetuated the
power structure that has relegated African Americans to the bottom of the social
ladder. 

He discusses the power of the Nation of Islam and recounts his
meeting with Elijah Muhammad, who seems to want...

In A Raisin in the Sun, what made Walter suddenly change his mind about taking Mr. Lindner's money?

It is particularly
interesting to examine the stage directions of this section of the play, as it reveals crucial
information regarding the conflict thatis experiencing and how he makes his decision. If we look
at the way he is described as acting towards the beginning of the conversation with Lindner, we
see that he is walking "slowly and awkwardly, rather like a small boy, passing the back of
his sleeve across his mouth from time to time." Having just lost the remainder of the
inheritance thanks to his own foolishness and naivety, and planning to accept the money
from...

What would have happened if Rev. Hooper did remove his veil and nothing was different or wrong or disfigured about his face in "The Minister's Back...

The
general interpretation about why Reverend Hooper wears the black veil in "" is to
symbolically show that he is covering some kind of hidden sin rather than some kind of
disfigurement on his face. Regardless, the first part of the question is still applicable. What
would have happened if Hooper had removed the veil?

Personally, I believe the
answer to that question depends largely on when Hooper would have removed
the veil. Had he worn it the one day or even worn it for a single week, I think the general
population of congregants would have thought the veil was nothing more than a very effective
sermon illustration. It definitely got all of them talking about it and questioning its meaning.
Hooper could have taken it off when Elizabeth asked him to, and that could cause your answer to
vary quite widely because it depends on what Elizabeth would do in response.

If she keeps it a secret that Hooper removed the veil for her, then the community
response is no different than what Hawthorne wrote in the story. If she tells people, then
rumors are likely to run even more rampant than they already are. People will wonder why Hooper
is willing to show his face to a single person.

Removing the veil on his
deathbed is problematic in my opinion. Hooper is really trying to drive home the notion that
secret sin exists in all of us, and it will be removed only in the afterlife with the creator
God. If Hooper removes the veil before death, his point with the veil
weakens.

What profound change has taken place in Gulliver when one day he is attacked by a female yahoo? How does this episode make Gulliver discover the...

This
episode of has probably been subjected to more analysis, or specifically
psychoanalysis, than any other within Book IV or the entire tale.

A frequent view of commentators has been that in this scene, Swift is expressing his
own revulsion towards sexuality and/or women. Gulliver is horrified over the "attack"
upon him by the female Yahoo. It's always dangerous to engage in amateur psychologizing, but
given what we know of Swift's personal life plus various other misogynistic passages in his
oeuvre, this analysis seems to make sense. Perhaps, however, Swift's point
is that Gulliver is actually aroused by the female, and because of this, he realizes
he...

Who was Walter Francis White, and why was he important to the Civil Rights movement in the United States?

Walter
Francis White's most significant contribution to Civil Rights for people of color in
Americanwould be his advocacy through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP.)  White was able to use his position in the NAACP to advance specific policies
that made Civil Rights a cause that occupied national importance. 

A talented
student who graduated from Atlanta University, White began to establish an chapter of the NAACP
in Atlanta itself.  From an early point, White recognized that the group's advocacy was
essential in advancing the legal, social, and economic platform of African- Americans in a
nation where segregation was the law of the land.  Attracting the attention of James Weldon
Johnson, White was elevated to a national position in the organization.  As secretary assistant
of the NAACP, White was able to move the organization's focus onto issues such as lynchings.  He
was able to pass as White and this enabled him to work undercover within areas that were
restricted:   "I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The
traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me."  While White spoke out against segregation
and discrimination, he did not endorse the Nationalist position of a Marcus Garvey, and spoke
passionately about the need to work within American society in order to obtain freedom within
it.  White worked with President Truman to de-segregate the armed forces and helped to establish
the NAACP's legal defense fund that was able to support such litigation as Brown v.
Board of Education.

Walter Francis White's contribution to Civil
Rights was powerful.  In being able to give guidance to African- Americans who struggled with
what to do and how to live, he was able to play a formative role in the definition of millions
of African- Americans.  White recognized that the future of African- Americans existed in
working with the harsh contours of America, prompting change from within.  Through his advocacy
in the NAACP legal defense fund, it became clear that African- Americans could seek equality in
the legal system, as well.  Brown v. Board of Education was a milestone in
the Civil Rights movement, something that Walter Francis White made happen. Working within a
segregated America in order to facilitate an integrated one was a difficult path to blaze, and a
Black man named White played an incredibly bold role in doing so.

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What images and figures of speechmight have helped Edward's listeners to feel the peril of thier sinful condition? Edwards was directing his sermon to...

The
primary image that Edwards seems to be railing against is a social order that has lost sight of
a Christian or Divine notion of life.  At the time of the composition of his sermon, the
Colonies were moving towards the qualities of a secular, or not as heavily religious form of
existence. ...

In "The Pulley" what is the one gift God does NOT bestow on human kind? I'm thinking peace or rest.

I think
that it is clearly stated in the poem that rest is the one gift that God did not give out to the
world.  I think you are right to say that rest is pretty much the same thing...

What role does money play in A Raisin in the Sun?

Money is
one of the centralin the story "." Thebegin the story by arguing over what to do with
the money from a life insurance check, asfeels like he should get to do what he wants with it
but Mama is the one with the ultimate responsibility for making decisions.

Throughout the story, the family plans to buy a new house in a nice, all white
neighborhood with the sum of money they received. Unfortunately, a large portion of the money is
stolen after they buy the house and they are left without security or an ability help their
financial situation.

The majority of the story revolves around money and the
opportunities it gives. While it can be seen as a vice, it is clearly shown that lack of money
is a much worse situation than having the vices that come with too much money.

What are the examples of deus ex machina in the last act of The Man Who Came to Dinner?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

There are three examples of deus ex machina in the third act of The Man Who
Came to Dinner, namely, the arrival of Banjo, the appearance of a mummy case, and
Sherry recognizing a photograph.

Deus ex machina is a literary device that
allows a person or item to solve problems that might otherwise go unsolved. It is usually
contrived and improbable.

Three instances of deus ex machina appear in the
last act of The Man Who Came to Dinner and work together to resolve the
problems of the characters in the play. Without the occurrence of these improbable events,
things would not have worked out for...

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Please explain the connections between the major themes and characters in "The Scarlet Letter". which theme is represented by each character? For...

Everything
has offered is fine, but I don't think thatis a hypocrite.  This seems like a
difficult argument to make considering that he hides his sin; but hiding ones sins doesn't make
on a hypocrite.  As I have said (perhaps too often), Dimmesdale's identity, perhaps even his
being,  depends on his identity as minister.  He continues to minister not so that he can
pretend to be something that he isn't (my definition of hypcracy), but because of who he is. 
It's hard to feel for a hypocrite; I have always felt for Dimmesdale.  I trust not all will
agree.

I am also suspicious when an...

What visual TV techniques have become common in contemporary film?

Probably the
most common television technique used in film today is the adoption of faster frame-rates. For
years, cinema used the 24 frames-per-second standard, resulting in a specific visual quality
that is widely recognised as "filmic." Television started with film but soon switched
to a largely video-format, because of...

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What is the point of view in The Scarlet Letter (1st person, 3rd person (limited or omniscient)?

Deciding on
Point of View is one of the most important decisions an author can make. Something written in
First Person is going to look very, very different than something written in Second or Thirdthe
perspectives change, which can have very powerful effects on the work in question.

First Person Point of View is written directly from the perspective of one of thein the
story. You'll recognize it because you'll always see use of the pronoun, "I," instead
of "he" or "she." However, even more importantly: imagine if
was told from the perspective of , or , or . Imagine if one of these three
characters was telling you the story, and now imagine just how dramatically that story would
change (thematically, tonally, etc.), solely based upon which of those three was chosen as the
viewpoint character.

In Third Person, on the other hand, the story is
relayed by an external narrator, detached from the events of the story itself. Third
Person...

Discuss Andrew Jackson's major beliefs regarding the common man, the presidency, and the proper role of government in the nation's economy.

Andrew
Jackson came from a relatively humble background and played it up at every opportunity. It
became the defining component of his public image right throughout his political career. Jackson
presented himself as a man of the people, fighting for the interests of the little guy against
the wealthy East coast banking and commercial elite. This largely explains Jackson's implacable
hostility towards any kind of Federal Bank. He believed that such an institution existed only to
make the banking elite richer and more powerful, while at the same time making life hard for the
farmers and small businessmen who formed the bedrock of his electoral support.

Jackson, like the Jeffersonian he was, was a firm believer in the primacy of states'
rights. He believed in the radical decentralization of power that was the main ideological
inheritance of American republicanism. This meant that he was deeply...

Can you provide a brief description of "In Cold Blood"?

At the heart
of the novel is Capote's question about himself.  He writes much of his material of the two
killers about Perry Smith while maintaining Perry's sensibilities.  Capote archives the sordid
details of Perry's childhood and family background; it is loathsome and painful--pure pathos in
some respects.  However, he then contrasts the portrayal of an irreparably broken young man with
the carnival crowd seeking justice. 

Capote makes far less of a case for
Dick Hickock who was raised by two doting, questionably over-indulgent, parents who saw their
son as a goldenboy with a favorable reputation in high school as an all-American athlete.  His
childhood and family...

What impact did the films of D.W. Griffith have on culture?

Aside from the
ongoing political debates that D.W. Griffith's films fed into, and
off of, his major impact on culture is that of the Feature Film, or a standalone, long-form film
instead of shorts or series. Griffith also pioneered or invented many filmic techniques that are
still used today.

From a political standpoint, Griffith's landmark work
Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first to have a major impact on culture.
At the time of release, the Ku Klux Klan had become a mostly fringe
group, without popular support; the massive success of Nation allowed the
Klan to reform as a politically and culturally influential force. Bolstered by public support
from President Woodrow Wilson, the Klan was able to shape the civil
rights debate for the next fifty years, helping keep Jim Crow laws in place and keeping blacks
segregated and marginalized.

From a filmic standpoint,
Nation was the first "blockbuster" film, successful across the
country, and endorsed by the President. It created or standardized techniques such as the
fish-eye lens view, the close-up, and expensive special effects, which before that time were
limited in scope. Running over three hours, it set a standard for long films instead of shorts;
until the rise of television, feature films became the norm for film entertainment, with
serialized films running even longer. It became normal for people across all classes to have
seen and appreciated the same work, instead of seeing only locally-produced films, and no other
film of Griffith's has had the same impact (not even Intolerance (1916),
which he released to placate audiences who criticized Nation as
racist).

How are assumptions about human relationships challenged in The Crucible?

People in Salem seem to
automatically assume that a good man would never be unfaithful in his marriage, and so it is a
shocking revelation when John Proctor calls Abigail a whore and confesses that he has
"known her" in the court in act 3. For the Puritans, morality seemed to be largely a
black and white issue, and reputation was everything; it must really rock the people in the
courtroom when John makes this confession because Francis Nurse is "horrified"
according to stage direction, and Deputy Governor Danforth is likewise described as
"dumbfounded."

Relationships, even loving partnerships, are not
easy to maintain, and in almost every foundation one can find a crack. People are flawed, and so
our relationships are also. Cheating doesn't necessarily mean there is no love or a lack of
morals. In learning of John's unfaithfulness to his wife, people have to revise their
assumptions about marital relationships.

Further, John believes that his
wife, Elizabeth, would never lie; he says that she is incapable of doing so: "my wife
cannot lie," he says, just as there are those "that cannot sing, and them that cannot
weep." John never thinks for a moment that his wife would lie to protect him, especially
not after his affair with Abigail and the fight between John and Elizabeth in act 2. He makes an
assumption about their relationship, but it turns out that she is willing to
lie for him, to protect his name. His assumption that their relationship is not more important
to her than her moral code is wrong, and he learns how much she really does love him and forgive
him his infidelity, despite her own pain.

What is George's first complaint to Lennie in Of Mice and Men?

In the
opening scene of the novella,followsdown a small hillside leading to a peaceful riverbank, where
the two men plan on establishing their camp before traveling to the next ranch. As soon as the
two men reach the banks of the Salinas River, Lennie drops his belongings and begins drinking
from the river. Lennie drinks massive gulps of water like a horse. George's first
complaint is that Lennie is putting himself in danger by drinking water that is potentially
unclean. George's comments depict him as Lennie's guardian and protector. As
Lennie is taking huge gulps of water from the river, George tells him,

"Lennie, for God sakes dont drink so much . . . Lennie. You
gonna be sick like you was last night" (Steinbeck, 3).

George proceeds to stoop down and examine the water himself. He then comments that the
water looks rather scummy and doesn't seem to be running. George then gives his mentally
disabled friend advice by saying, "You never oughta drink water when it aint running,
Lennie" (Steinbeck, 3). George's second complaint is that Lennie can never remember
anything after he forgets that they are heading to work on a new ranch.

What is the main problem or conflict of "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"?

The
central conflict of this story is Kit's conflict against herself.  She is theof the story, so it
is her tale.  Her problem is that she doesn't know how to fit into her new society.  She is
uncomfortable, lonely, and confused.  She wants to live as...

How do I analyze an extract from a novel? Should i know the novel before start analyzing.what are the main steps to do the analysis.thankx

Yes, if you
have the time, you'll definitely want to read the entire novel before you analyze an extract
from that novel.

To me, there are at least two main steps when it comes to
analyzing an extract from a novel:

1. Read the extract closely, as you would
a short story, and pay close attention to the language, ideas, and patterns in the
extract.

2. Develop an understanding of how the extract relates to the novel
as a whole. Does this selected passage focus onoror a particular theme or one of the high points
in the plot, for example?

This strategy is often a very good way to write a
paper about a novel. Rather than try to talk about five or more extracts, focus on just one
extract, analyzing it closely and making clear statements about how this extract relates to the
novel as a whole.

In Oscar Castro Z's "Lucero" and Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path," what are the most interesting contrasts between the stories?

The short stories
"Lucero" (Oscar Castro Z) and "" () both main characters
("Lucero's" Ruben Olmos and "A Worn Path's" Phoenix Jackson) are on a
journey. There are a couple aspects of the stories which make them similar, but the similarities
are very superficial. 

Both stories contain an animal which upsets the path
of the main character. In "Lucero," Ruben's horse must be pushed from a steep
path...

According to the Buddhist doctrine of samsara, what is actually reborn?

According to
the Buddhist doctrine of samsara, what is reborn is a person's soul.  The soul is perpetually
reborn into other bodies until it finally (if it ever does) reaches nirvana and is released from
this "wheel of life."

According to Buddhist doctrine, the soul
moves from one body to another after the physical death of the first body.  A soul can move into
a variety of different bodies, both human and non-human, depending on the actions that it takes
during each life.  A soul that led a virtuous life will be reborn into a better state while one
that was not virtuous and built up bad karma will be reborn into a lower state.

So, what is reborn in the cycle of samsara is the soul.

From Macbeth, explain whether Macbeth is controlled by fate or exercises his own free will. Cite examples from the text to support your conclusion.

In
, it is a matter of continuing debate whetherexercises his own free will,
driven by his "vaulting ambition"(I.vii.27) and , his "Partner of
Greatness"(I.v.9) or whether he is controlled by fate on such "foul and fair a
day"(I.iii.38), receiving information fromthat cause him to believe that it is his destiny
to be King and he must commit heinous crimes in order to ensure his fate. 

Macbeth is clearly conflicted as is evident when he almost calls off the plan to
murder, recognizing that it is only his ambition which "o'er leaps itself."(I.vii.27)
Lady...

Why does Holden not want Phoebe to come with him out west at the end of The Catcher in the Rye?

doesn't
wantto come out west with him because he realizes he is putting his fantasy need for escape
ahead of her real needs to live her life as a healthy, well-balanced child. He remembers how
very excited she was, when he visited her at home, to tell him about her role playing Benedict
Arnold in her school play. Holden knows she is brimming over with excitement about acting this
part and that she wants him to come see her in it. He knows that if he runs off, even taking her
with him, that he is being no different from her father, who can't come to see the play because
of his own prioritiesand no better than a Benedict Arnold himself, betraying her. He realizes
that she needs, overall, to be in school. He is selfish if he takes her away or allows her to
sacrifice her needs to his needs. He says to her, being uncharacteristically harsh

"I thought you were supposed to be in a play at school and all
I thought you were supposed to be Benedict Arnold in that play and all," I said. I said it
very nasty. "Whuddaya want to do? Not be in the play, for God's sake?" That made her
cry even harder. I was glad. All of a sudden I wanted her to cry till her eyes practically
dropped out. I almost hated her. I think I hated her most because she wouldn't be in that play
any more if she went away with me.

He thinks that he
would hate her because she wouldn't be herself if she ran awaybut primarily, he means he would
hate himself. He realizes he is dragging her into his spiral of self-destruction. He comes to
his senses and tells her that he is taking her back to school and that he is not running away.
He is behaving like a responsible adult here, not like a self-centered adolescent, showing he is
growing up.

What are some ways the utilitarian theory might give the wrong result and make wrong actions right or right actions wrong?

To a
utilitarian, there could be no such examples.  Utilitarians say that the rightness or wrongness
of an action can be seen from its results.  Therefore, any action that increases the general
happiness is right, regardless of the motive for which it was taken.  With such a
consequentialist view of right and wrong, there can be no mistakes.

Presumably, then, we must look for an example of how something that was done for a bad reason
had a good result from a utilitarian point of view.  We can see this in...