What's the point of view in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Poe uses a
first person objective narrator, a man called Montresor, to narrate
this story. We can tell that it is a first person narrator because he uses the pronoun
"I" and is a participant in the events that take place. We can tell that it is an
objective telling because the events have already been concluded, and Montresor is telling the
story after the fact; note that the verbs are past tense: he "had borne" Fortunato's
insults, he isn't "bearing" them currently. A first person objective narrator can be
more reliable than a subjective narrator because they have already lived through whatever events
they describe; people in the midst of action are often emotional and have not had time to
reflect on the situation.

An objective narrator, howeverat least in
first person (it is different for third person)knows how things work out.
They know the end, and so they can be more measured and accurate in their narration. In the
final paragraph of the story, Montresor actually says that no...

What are the roles of Marketing Information System and Marketing Research in advertising, personal selling, and sales promotion decisions made by a...

Firstly,
let us define some terms. A marketing information system is a database in which information
about a target market or a company's clients is stored and disseminated from. Marketing research
is the process of obtaining quantitative and qualitative data about clients and prospective
clients.

All decisions pertaining to advertising, personal selling, and sales
promotions are based on the target market and their likes, dislikes, desires, and needs. Thanks
to information obtained by carrying out market research and stored in marketing information
systems, marketing managers are armed with a plethora of knowledge. They can then make decisions
about campaigns and promotions that will resonate with the target market and ultimately garner
new business for their company or their product.

WHEN did education start? WHEN did education start?

If you are referring
to the free access to public education we enjoy, it began in the mid- nineteenth century.We
follow what is known as the Prussian model.It was based on the idea that the working class
needed a basic education and nothing more, but that the country was better off with a literate
working class.]]>

What are some good quotes for Snowball from Animal Farm?

At the
beginning of the story,directly characterizesby writing,

"Snowball was a more vivacious pig than , quicker in speech and more inventive,
but was not considered to have the same depth of character" (7).

Snowball is utterly dedicated to the cause and risks his life
during the Battle of Cowshed. Snowball not only plans the attack against Jones and his men but
willingly puts himself into harm's way by charging directly at Jones. Orwell writes,

"Snowball now gave the signal for the charge. He himself dashed
straight for Jones. Jones saw him coming, raised his gun and fired. The pellets scored bloody
streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead. Without halting for an instant,
Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs" (17).

Snowball is also a motivating leader throughout the novella . He
continually encourages the animals to work together to attain goals and promotes the tenets of
Animalism. On the first day of the harvest without Mr....

Could it be correct to assume that the animals present in this story reflect human violence and madness in the story "The Black Cat"?

There
are two elements to consider in this question about " ." When interpreting a literary
work, one draws on the information that the author presents. This information enables one to
form an argument or thesis statement which can then be supported with further evidence from the
text. An "argument" is different from an "assumption" as the latter is based
on ideas that the reader had before reading the text. Because an assumption stems from the
reader's ideas, it cannot be...

What country do you think suffered the most as a result of World War I? Explain your answer. What country do you think suffered the most as a result...

I agree with
the responses above that Germany suffered the greatest consequences from . Germany is sometimes
blamed for the start of the war and for that reason the price at the end of the war was the most
burdensome. The Treaty of Versailles claimed much of German territory to be turned into the
possession of the surrounding countries. It was also given a great amount of fine which lead to
the collapse of German economy and huge inflation in the market. Such results contributed to the
rise of Nazi regime and could be considered long term causes for future actions taken by
Germany.

What is the mother's true motivation for giving the flower girl sixpence?

In Act I of the play
by , the audience meets Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl. The setting is
Covent Garden during a torrential rain storm. Freddy, hurrying to do his mother's bidding,
rushes off to find a cab. Unfortunately, he bumps into a flower girl, Eliza, and all her flowers
are ruined: "Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad" (Act I). When her violets are
trod in the mud, Eliza protests to Freddy's mother who gives her a sixpence
for the ruined flowers.

Afterwards, the mother asks the flower girl how she
knew her son's name. Eliza answers offhandedly that Freddy or Charlie, it's all the same to her.
She was merely trying "to be pleasant." Therefore, the mother's motivation is to repay
Eliza for the damaged flowers and then after to question the flower girl as to how she may know
her son's name.

Does the information that comes from the primary sources archaeologists and historians use to find out what the Ancient Egyptians wore provide...

This is, of
course, something for which we cannot know the answer.  We cannot know what the Ancient
Egyptians wore because we have little direct evidence.  We do have some primary sources like
statues and wall paintings, but we do not have evidence that can tell us how complete or how
accurate the picture we get from those primary sources is.  I would argue that the information
that we get does not provide completely accurate information about what was worn.

There are at least two reasons for this.  First, the kind of evidence we have is, in
many ways, propaganda.  When...

What were some similarities and differences between the democracies of ancient Rome and ancient Greece? Which is closer to the American form of...

The word
democracy (demos, 'people' and 'kratia' power or rule)
was coined about 2500 years ago to establish a classless government -- one that would not be
dominated by the aristocracy, and would include what we would understand to be the middle class
(slaves, of course, had no influence in government.)  The new Athenian democracy was composed of
three institutions, the ekklesia, or Assembly, which was the sovereign
governing body of Athens, similar to our concept of the Senate.  The second was the
boule, which dealt with day to day matters, and might be considered
analogous to our House of Representatives. It was here that the concept of a direct
democracy evolved. The third was the dikasteria, or the courts.
 This system of governance lasted about 200 years, at which time it reverted back to an
aristocracy.

At the same time in Rome, the concept of a Republic
(res, 'concern' and publica, 'people') evolved.  The
aristocracy at the time was attempting to take absolute political power from the Etruscan Kings.
However, they needed the assistance of the rest of the population, promising them some political
say in the only governing body, the Roman Senate.  This was done, but Rome established a
representative democracy, where some of the people could vote for a
representative in the Senate (a Tribune.) The Roman Republic lasted about 500 years, at which
time the Republic devolved into the dictatorship of the Emperor.

Since, in
theory, the United States splits its government into seperate branches,  the legislative branch
having an upper and lower house, and the judicial branch dealing with court matters, it is
similar to Athenian Democracy.  However, its elections are for candidates that represent the
people, so it functions similar to the Roman Republic in that respect.  In either case, these
ancient experiments in "people's governance" failed.

 

 

Was there an organization that was against the United States joining World War I?

There was
no one group dedicated to keeping America out of WWI, but there were many groups who were
interested in keeping America neutral.  German groups in America did not want the United States
to join the Allied side--they were also equally against arms supplies going from the U.S. to the
Entente powers because they viewed it as a violation of American neutrality.  Irish independence
groups in America also did not want America to join any side which advanced British interests.
 Socialists saw the war as a way to make money for capitalists interests in America, and leading
Socialist Eugene Debs actually went to prison for criticizing American involvement in
the...

Why did Monsieur Loisel expect his wife to be pleased to receive the invitation from the Minister of Education?

Monsieur Loisel
expects his wife, Mademoiselle Loisel, to be delighted about the invitation he managed to secure
to the ministerial ball. He understands that his wife is not content with her simple, lower
bourgeoise life. He knows that she dreams of luxury, wealth, and mingling amidst the upper
class. He presents the invitation to her with anticipation that she will be utterly ecstatic
about the opportunity to converse with dignitaries and dance under the admiring eyes of the
upper class. Sadly, she quickly determines that she has nothing suitable to wear to such a
formal event. Monsieur Loisel fails to see that his wife will only be happy if she can suceed in
creating the false appearance of being one of the upper class. After all, Mademoiselle Loisel's
beauty is only skin deep. She is consumed by appearances which will, in turn, be her
downfall.

Describe the change in Laurie's clothing on the day he starts school.

The other
response does an excellent job of explaining why Jackson included the details about Lauries
clothing at the beginning of .

To add, I think it is important to
understand what the two types of clothing represent.

The corduroy overalls
are a symbol of childhood innocence. Young children often wear overalls because they are easy to
slip on and off and dont require keeping up with multiple matching pieces when it is time to
dress. The fabric is also significant because it is soft and reserved for casual wear; this
shows that the clothing of childhood fits the need for comfort over style.

In
contrast, Laurie wears blue jeans and a belt on his first day of kindergarten. Made of a
sturdier material considered more formal than corduroy, jeans are representative of Lauries
entry into the adult world. While it is clear that Laurie is still a child, the jeans make
Laurie feel more mature and independent from his mother. This explains why Lauries mother reacts
the way she does to her son in the jeans: her baby is trying to grow up.

What does Pearl inform her mother in chapter six of The Scarlet Letter?

In , entitled
"," the little girl asks her mother, , to tell her who sent her into this world.
Hester replies, telling Pearl that her "'Heavenly Father'" sent her. The narrator
says, however, that Hester somewhat hesitates before offering her response, and Pearl picks up
on it.

Whether moved only by [Pearl's] ordinary
freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger, and
touched the scarlet letter. "He did not send me!" cried she, positively. "I have
no Heavenly Father!"

Thus, Pearl informs her mother
that she has not been sent to Earth by God, that she has, in fact, no heavenly father at all.
The statement horrifies her mother, and Hester tries to chasten Pearl, to make her understand
Hester's religious beliefs, but Pearl demands a different answer. Hester cannot give her one,
though, because she does not really know herself. Hester feels herself to be "in a dismal
labyrinth of doubt." Some people have suggested that Pearl is a...

What does Romeo mean when he says, after killing Tybalt, I am fortunes fool?

In
, 's fatalistic nature is established early in the first act when he
expresses his misgivings about going to the Capulet fete:

I fear too early. For my mind misgives

Some consequence, yet hanging
in the stars,

Shall bitterly begin his fearful date

With
this night's revels, and expire the term

Of a despised life closed in my
breast...(1.4.113-117)

So, analyzing Romeo's remarks in
the context of his character and not just the statement of the moment, which will provide more
insight, the reader discerns that Romeo is haunted by his previous forebodings and now
understands that the "fearful date" of the stars has come; consequently, he realizes
that he is a "fool" since he has earlier sensed the ominous presence of Fate, and,
acting rashly and with effeminency--as he accuses himself--he has allowed himself to meet its
"date." 

Why do all liquids evaporate at different rates?

Evaporation is a physical change in which a
substance changes from the liquid state to the gas phase. This is typically seen when heat is
added to a liquid. This increases the kinetic energy of the molecules and they are able to
escape the attractive forces of other similar molecules and enter the gas phase.

A number of factors affect the evaporation of a liquid. The boiling point is one of
them. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius; other liquids have different boiling points. Pressure
is also a significant factor. At higher altitudes, a drop in pressure means that the boiling
point of water decreases. The density and surface tension of the liquid also affect its rate of
evaporation. Liquids with higher densities and higher surface tensions have lower rates of
evaporation.

This means that there are a number of factors which may affect
the evaporation rate of liquids and since these factors may vary from liquid to liquid,
different liquids have different rates of evaporation.

Hope this helps.
 

I need help writing a narrative poem. My poem needs to include: -2 examples of imagery -2 examples of alliteration -2 similes -1 metaphor ...

First of all,
remember that a narrative poem is one that tells a story. And, while there may be elements of
narrative in the poem you have posted, it seems to be rather more a confessional than a
narrative poem. So, it is in your best interests to take a different approach to your
poem. 

One approach that you could employ is to compose a setting in which
there is the usual development of a story with a distinct beginning to the action, a middle, and
an end.  Certainly, you can still use this section of your poem:

I leave to save my guardian

The[explain in the first part what this
irony is] is killing me

As is the oncoming danger ahead.

I
am about to fall

Its [what is it

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What political and moral gains did African Americans make during the Reconstruction and the years following?

The gains for
African-Americans in the Reconstruction Era were huge. The obvious one is
that slavery was ended, and millions of African-Americans who had been enslaved were freed.


Much of the African-American population moved out of the South, or tried to
reunited with family members they had been separated from due to slavery. Some traveled hundreds
of miles in order to do so.

But the gains went much further than that; for
the first time in US history, African-American men were given the right to vote and hold
office---and several African-American men were elected to local and state offices in several
states. African-American families were allowed to send their children to school for the first
time, and did so in droves. Literacy among African-American children skyrocketed from almost
zero to near parity with White children.

This new enfranchisement also gave
the Republican Party a large number of seats (remember, Lincoln's Republican Party was actually
the liberal party at the time), and also led to the formation of uniquely
African-American churches, mostly variants of Baptist and Methodist.

For a
time, it really seemed as though White and African-American people might finally be able to live
together in harmony.

Sadly, this was not to be, at least not yet. The new
laws in Reconstruction, along with the Civil War itself, fomented resentment among many White
people in the South, resulting in the formation of various White Supremacist organizations
including the Klu Klux Klan.

Eventually the Reconstruction laws collapsed,
and were replaced with a series of discriminatory laws called the Jim Crow laws. Racist White
leaders were unable to completely roll back the clock---slavery remained illegal, for
instance---but they did manage to suppress the political representation of African-Americans and
generally make life awful for them once again. Racial segregation began during this period, and
would not be eliminated by law until the 1960s. (De facto, it arguably has
not been eliminated today!)

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How is Oedipus Rex a Greek tragedy?

First,
has a tragic hero: an essentially good person
who possesses a tragic flaw (a flaw that will contribute to the
hero's ultimate downfall) and makes an error in judgment (or a series of errors) that leads to
his destruction. This error produces suffering for theand arouses sympathy from the audience.is
the...

How did World War I make the federal government more powerful?

The
military mobilization to meet the challenge ofindeed made the federal government far more
powerful than it had ever been before. In many ways, the war created an opportunity for many
reforms advocated by Progressives to be implemented, not to foster equality or to achieve
lasting reform, but to meet the exigencies of war.

World War I was in many
ways the first modern war, and it required industrial production at levels never before seen.
The War Industries Board was a federal organization with some coercive power, assembled with the
aim of organizing the economy and managing production to meet quotas that it set. Businesses
were awarded government contracts to produce certain items, an unprecedented step for the US
government. The federal government never had to implement a rationing program like it did in
World War II, but the Food Administration, headed by future president Herbert Hoover, did
institute price-fixing along with a steady campaign that urged Americans to...

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What contributed to the rise of totalitarianism in Europe prior to WWII?

Whole books
have been written on this subject, such as Hannah Arendt's On
Totalitarianism. After World War I, three totalitarian regimes emerged in Europe:
communist Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy. In all three cases, a prime reason for
the rise of an extremely controlling dictatorship led by a ruthless strongman was economics.
Towards the end of World War I, the Russian economy was in such a shambles that a revolution
broke out, overthrowing the monarchy. In defeated Germany after the war, the economy was also in
a shambles, and Italy also had severe economic problems. In all three countries people didn't
have jobs, suffering was widespread, faith in existing institutions was low, and people were
looking for a messianic leader and/or movement that would change society and save
them.

Second, both fascism (of which Nazism was a version) and communism
worked from the premise of completely reforming society to get rid of the corruptions of the
old: this rose from the sense...

What are some political events that happened in the 1950s?

There were
several political events that happened in the 1950s. Some involved the United States and other
countries while some only impacted the United States.

In the realm of foreign
affairs, there were several significant events that occurred. In 1953, the conflict in Korea
came to an end. This conflict, which began in 1950, left the boundary between North Korea and
South Korea unchanged. Additionally, South Korea remained noncommunist. In 1956, the Vietnam War
began. When South Vietnam didnt hold the elections that were scheduled to be held in 1956, North
Vietnam went to war against South Vietnam. In the 1950s, our involvement in the Vietnam War was
minimal. That would change dramatically in the 1960s. The United States and the Soviet Union
entered the Space Race. The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into space
in 1957. This set off a panic in the United States that we were falling behind the Soviet Union.
In 1958, we launched our first satellite into space.

Domestically, there were
several major events, especially in the area of civil rights. The Supreme Court ruled that the
concept of separate but equal was unconstitutional in the Brown v Board of
Education case in 1954. The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in 1955 and ended when
segregation on buses was declared unconstitutional. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the leader of
the nonviolent civil rights movement.

The 1950s was a time of significant
progress and development. People began to move to the suburbs. There were new medical
breakthroughs such as the development of the polio vaccine. People were buying new items such as
air conditioners and television sets. Many new highways were built as a result of the passage of
the Federal Highway Act. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1952. He won reelection
in 1956.

The 1950s was a busy decade both at home and
abroad.

Mayella Ewell Quotes

An
interesting glimpse into the character of Mayella Ewell occurs inof 's novel
. The story's young narrator, , is describing the Ewell family in
less-than-flattering terms, emphasizing the clan's primitiveness and sloven ways. Scout's
description proceeds as follows, beginning with a recitation of the artifacts found on the
Ewell's lawn, before seguing into an observation regarding the possible influence on the
surroundings of Mayella:

" . . . the remains of a
Model-T Ford (on blocks), a discarded dentists chair, an ancient icebox, plus lesser items: old
shoes, worn-out table radios, picture frames, and fruit jars, under which scrawny orange
chickens pecked hopefully. . .One corner of the yard, though, bewildered Maycomb. Against the
fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for
as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a
geranium on her...

In Macbeth, why does Macduff refuse to attend Macbeth's coronation?

In act
2, scene 3,and the other Scottish nobles are horrified to discover that Kinghas been
assassinated.and his wife act like they are also astonished, andcomments that he regrets killing
Duncan's chamberlains out of anger. Macduff responds by questioning Macbeth's actions, which
implies that he views him with suspicion and thinks that he may have played a role in the king's
death. In the next scene, Macduff tellsthat he will not attend Macbeth's coronation at Scone and
will instead return to Fife. Macduff's refusal to attend Macbeth's coronation at Scone is
significant and reveals that he does support Macbeth's new title as King of Scotland. Macduff's
actions also indicate that he is suspicious of Macbeth, which is later confirmed when he visits
England and vows to support. Macbeth takes note of Macduff's absence and acknowledges that he
has become an enemy. In response to Macduff's absence, Macbeth has Macduff's entire family
slaughtered while...

How did government policy change American agriculture in the period 1865€“1900?

The
Homestead Act opened up land in the West to new settlement. Many German and Eastern European
immigrants came to the Great Plains and saw land that looked a lot like home. They planted wheat
and made the United States the breadbasket of the world.

The United States
also underwent a railroad boom after the Civil War. The Transcontinental Railroad, finished in
1869, united California with the rest of the United States. The federal government also gave
land grants to railroads, thus giving them incentive to build more branch lines. Thanks to the
railroad, cattle from Texas could be driven to rail heads in Kansas and then shipped East where
the demand for them was quite high. Railroads also controlled shipping prices and often gouged
farmers. This led to the Grange...

What dimension is mostly seen today in US culture?

This is a
controversial question, and the answer that follows is admittedly based as much on anecdotal
evidence as it is on objective mechanisms such as surveys and opinion polls. It is also a
question intertwined with US politics and one's answers to it will probably be based to some
degree on one's political and even economic views.

The conservative scholar
Dinesh Desouza, in his book What's so Great about America (2002), asserted
that, although the popular view of America is that it is a religious country, in reality,
religion has relatively little authority and influence upon or within the US public. Despite
this being a view, we'd think would more probably be expressed by a figure on the liberal side,
it is difficult to refute what Desouza has written on this point and what was true in 2002 is at
least as valid in today's society. Whatever dimension of religion does still hold away in US
culture has little effect on the personal and everyday lives of most people, including those who
identify as religious believers. Some examples:

1) The so-called "blue
laws" through which retail stores were kept closed on Sunday were long ago abolished. In my
own anecdotal experience, I've observed that even devout Christians do not think it a sin to
work on Sunday, though several generations ago such activity was in fact
seen as morally wrong.

2) Fewer people than ever, including regular
churchgoers, believe that divorce is a sin. At the same time, the number of couples living
together without being married and the number of single-parent households is higher than ever.
One sometimes hears statements to the effect that "Mormons [or another minority sect] do
not believe in living together before marriage," as if people in general are unaware that
this used to be a standard (and rigid) belief of all Christians and
practically all major religions.

3) The routine depiction in mass media of
violence, killing, profanity, and explicit sexthe extent of which would not have been
countenanced by religious people several decades ago.

One could argue that
all of the above indicate simply that religion itself has changed and that people are still
devout in spite of favoring or accepting behaviors that would have been condemned by the
religious in the past. This is partly true. But at the same time, the dimension in which more
traditional religious precepts still play a role in the US is politics. It's hard to deny that
the thrust of the conservative movement, at least since the Reagan administration, has been at
least partly grounded in religion. One key issue that motivates conservatives is abortion, and
the opposition to abortion rights is usually described as having a religious basis. So is the
opposition to "socialism." Conservatives regard liberalism as merely a cover for
"socialism," and probably at least a subconscious reason socialism is so fully opposed
is that to many people it is equated with communism. In its manifestations throughout history,
communism, of course, has been officially atheisticin Karl Marx's philosophy, in the Soviet
Union, and in Communist China. Therefore to many Americans socialistsknown instead as liberals
or progressives in the US, since "socialism" is thought a "dirty" wordare
considered irreligious and atheistic as well.

The movement in the US to deny
that climate change is a reality (or at least to deny that it's man-made) also has, at least
partly, a religious dimension. Many Christians believe (as Ronald Reagan publicly asserted 35
years ago) that events signaling the end of the world are coming together. This view then sees
climate change, even it is an actual phenomenon, as either the work of God or as something it
would be useless to try to ameliorate since the end times are approaching anyway.

One could enumerate further instances of a religious dimension in US politics despite
Desouza's point being largely true about the relative lack of religious influence or authority
in US public life and behavior. What is undeniable is that there is a larger
religious dimension in any aspect of American culture than exists in any of the
countries of Western Europe and perhaps even in Canada. For example, every US President or
political candidate routinely ends every speech with the phrase "God bless America." A
few years ago, a Canadian commentator appearing on a US talk-show opined that any candidate in
his country who ended a speech saying "God bless Canada" would "never be
elected."

How does survival of the fittest demonstrate Lucy to be the strongest character in the novel?

Part of
Lucy's ability to outmaneuver Faber is a survival of the fittest. In being able to deny Faber
the ability to use electrical means of conveying his message to Germany as well as being able to
kill someone towards whom she had feelings represents a survival technique in which survival of
the fittest can be seen.  At such a point, Faber realizes either he will be successful or she
will be.  Yet, I think that Follett constructs her...

What were some of Jean Jacques Rousseau's major works?

was
fairly prolific, and his works rank among the most widely-read and important in the
mid-eighteenth century Enlightenment. 

Rousseau's two most widely-read works
were Emile and Julie, or
Heloise. Both of these books were novels, but were also, in particular
Emile , didactic in the sense that Rousseau used them to advance his
philosophy that emphasized the cultivation of virtue and the corrupting...

State an important theme of the play Our Town. Analyze how the dramatic elements of the set, the characters, the events, and the symbols help convey...

's
focuses mostly on the common experiences of everyday life. The first act
of the play is basically an introduction to the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.
The life of the town is fairly simple and is meant to represent life in any American small town.
Perhaps the only distinguishing feature is that it's in a part of the country that was settled
earlier than other parts, so there is a longer history in that region.

As the
play continues, we see two of the characters, Emily and George, get married. The play emphasizes
that marriage and the jitters that accompany the time immediately before the wedding are common
experiences. This is mostly conveyed through the conversations between the younger characters
and their parents, who describe how similarly they felt before their weddings.

Finally, in the play's final act, we learn that Emily has died in childbirth. Her
family gathers at her funeral, but we also see Emily and other now-dead characters in
this...

From what point of view is this story told?

In
literature and cinema, point of view refers to the perspective from which we see and hear the
action in a text. Generally, points of view are the first person, where an I narrates the
story; the second person where the narrative is addressed to a you; and the third person where
the narrator is a he, she, or a name. Third-person narratives can be omniscient, where an
unnamed, all-knowing narrator tells us the story. On the other hand, a third-person limited
narrative translates the story through one character's observational lens.

As
you can infer from these definitions, the point of view in s short story (1948) is first
person. The story is told from the point of view of Lauries mother and in her "I"
voice, so everything we are told is colored by her perceptions. In the passage below, I have
highlighted the first-person words to illustrate the perspective.

The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced
corduroy overalls with bibs...

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How are the people of Montaigne's society inferior to the cannibals?

Montaigne points out various ways in which Europeans are inferior to the cannibals he
describes. The cannibals, he says, are much healthier. No witnesses have observed any of them to
be "paralytic, bleary-eyed, toothless, or crooked with age." This may be because their
lifestyle is pure and, in particular, their cooking is simple and wholesome.

Montaigne also says that, though the cannibals are always fighting, their wars are
"noble and generous," undertaken for the purposes of chivalry and valor rather than
for the conquest of new lands. They are not interested in such conquests, being innocent of
avarice: "they only covet so much as their natural necessities require." Because of
this, they live in a true spirit of fraternity with one another and are innocent of
envy.

The essay even turns the chief charge of barbarity levelled against the
cannibals to their advantage. Their sense of honor is so keen that:

There is not a man amongst them who had not rather be killed and eaten, than
so...

What is theme?

Riley Lebsack, M.S.

Theme can be understood in a couple of different ways. I like to think of theme as the
overlying idea or "message" in a text. There is even a fun little trick to help you
remember this: Theme is THE MEssage. You can see the word "theme" as the first five
letters of "the message"! That helps me remember what it means. Some people prefer to
think of theme as the main idea of a text.

Finding and understanding the
theme of a work of literature is often a bit tricky. Theme tends to be an...

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Why was Enzo alone and locked in the house?

Enzo was
alone and locked in the house by accident. Because she was so ill, Eve neglected to think about
Enzo's welfare when she left the house with Zoe (her daughter).

According to
the text, Eve had awoken the morning of Denny's race with a terrible headache. She had vomited
profusely into the sink and complained of pressure against her skull. Panicked at this new
development in her illness, Eve had then packed a bag with clothes for herself and Zoe before
leaving for her parents' home.

For his part, Enzo understood why Eve forgot
all about him. He reasoned that Eve's illness had affected her judgment. To survive, Enzo drank
water from the toilet bowl and nibbled on stray scraps of food around the house. Because he
could not leave the house, Enzo carefully made sure that he only urinated and defecated on the
mat by the back door. After three days and two nights, Denny returned home. Although he was
furious when he found Enzo alone, Denny eventually came to realize how ill Eve
was.

How do I describe Santaigo in terms of who he is, what is his job, and where he lives in The Alchemist?

Santiago is a shepherd and a nomad.

Santiago is a shepherd boy.  He loves the travel, and that is the reason he became a
shepherd.  His father told him only the rich could travel.  

His purpose in life was to travel, and, after two years of walking the Andalusian
terrain, he knew all the cities of the region. (ch 1)

However, Santiago...

How many prisoners had been in the wagon in Night?

Soon after
Elie and his family are moved to a smaller Jewish ghetto, they are deported to Auschwitz. As
Elie says with some sense of , they are moved on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest.

The Jewish community had come to an agreement with the Hungarian police that they would
organize themselves. They all gather at the synagogue, where they waited twenty fours for the
convoy. The women waited upstairs, and the men waited downstairs.

The
synagogue was a sign of what was about to come. It resembled a train station: "The altar
was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare." There were so many
people in there that Elie says it was hard to breathe. Some people are so afraid to go outside
that they defecate in the corner.

In the morning, they walked to the train
station, and the awaiting Hungarian police loaded them into what Elie calls the cattle cars.
Elie says that they fitted 80 people into each wagon. The police
gave each wagon bread and a few pails of water and put one person in charge of the wagon. They
told them that if someone tries escape that person would be held responsible and shot.

Inside the wagon, Elie says there was very little air and space. Most people had to
stand. Some people lost their inhibitions and "caressed one
another."

What lesson does Rev. Dimmesdale learn in chapter 20 of The Scarlet Letter?

It is a
profound lesson about himself that the Reverend  learns after his forest visit withand their
child. For, while he has traversed the forest path after having decided with Hester that they
will leave the Massachusetts colony and return to England, Dimmedale has felt a sense of release
from his secret sin; this release is, however, a wicked one as he has been tempted to commit
"wild wicked things" as he encounters various members of his congregation along the
way. When he meets , she recognizes in Dimmesdale his wicked temptations and laughs at his
protestations that he has not go into the forest "to seek a potentate."

After this chance meeting with Mistress Hibbins, "the old-witch lady," the
minister wonders,

"Have I then sold myself...to the
fiend whom, if men say true, this yellow-starched and velveted old hag has chosen for her prince
and master!"

Dimmesdale concludes that he has indeed
"made a bargain very like it!"  Tempted by the dream of escape, Dimmesdale has yielded
himself to "what he knew was deadly sin."  His encounter with Mistriss Hibbins has,
thus, brought to light his ridicule of good and evil, his "unprovoked malignity" and
"gratuitous desire of ill." 

Returning home, Dimmesdale enters the
room where he has been working on the Election Sermon.  As he peruses the unfinished sermon, the
minister perceives that now, after his forest visit, he is not the same man,

But he seemed to stand apart, and eye his former self with scorful,
pitying, but half-envious curiosity.  That self was gone.

Dimmesdale learns that another man has come from the forest; he is a wiser one, one
with the awareness of "hidden mysteries" which the simplicity of his former self has
not admitted.  Arthur Dimmesdale fully recognizes his great sin--"A bitter kind of
knowledge that!" as he admits to himself his great hypocrisy and guilt for which he knows
he will be punished.

What is the setting of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

The setting
of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is significant because one of the story's major themes is the
conflict between "country" people and "city" people. The original settlers
of the Tarry Town area were Dutch, and they are depicted as strong, hearty farm people. Abraham
"Brom Bones" Brunt and the Van Tassels are examples of these people. On the other
hand, Ichabod Crane is an outsider from Connecticut. He is a Yankee--an city man with English
ancestry. 

Sleepy Hollow is a secluded and very small glen off of the Tarry
Town settlement area. This also helps set the mood for the spooky and comic events of the
ending. If it were a city, or even a larger town, Brom Bones's Headless Horseman trick would not
have worked against Ichabod Crane. Also, at the Van Tassels's party earlier, Brom Bones and the
other Dutch farmers told old ghost stories from the area in order to lay the groundwork to scare
Ichabod Crane. This worked because Crane is an outsider, whereas the Dutch farmers are the
original settlers of Sleepy Hollow. Brom Bones knows the land and the history behind it, but
Crane does not. In the end, when Brom Bones disguises himself as the Headless Horseman of legend
(said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper from the Revolutionary War), he chases Ichabod Crane
all the way to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, a church and cemetery yard in Sleepy Hollow. In
this Dutch colonial setting, the "country" man essentially wins over the
"city" man. 

It's clear thatthought of the place where his story
takes place as very significant. After all, the name of the town is in the title--"."
Even more evidence is that fact that Irving begins the story with a lengthy and vivid
description of the town and its surroundings. It is a sequestered area with an aura of magic and
dreaminess. Sleepy Hollow lies in a little valley two miles away from the small market port of
Tarry Town, and it is "one of the quietest places in the world." 

The other consideration of the setting of Washington Irving's "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" is the time period in which the story took place. Although Irving published
his story in 1820, it takes place around 1790, 30 years earlier. The American Revolutionary War
ended in 1783, so the story takes place in the years very soon right after the war. This was
intentional, because the Revolutionary War is an important aspect of the narrative. The Headless
Horseman himself is said to have been a soldier (a hired German trooper by the British army) in
the war. Furthermore, Ichabod Crane's status as a Yankee, a "American" on the side of
the colonies, is very prominent. 

What is a quote about courage and Boo Radley? It would be helpful if it was the part when Boo goes and saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell. Please...

is an
interesting character in literary history. For most of the story, Boo Radley hides in his home,
away from society. When two of the main ,and , need Boo's help, he hurriedly comes to their
aiddespite knowing that these children believe him to be a scary person. Throughout the story,
Boo strives to become friends with these children by leaving them small gifts in a tree. At the
end of the story, Scout realizes that Boo has been a great neighbor and that she and her brother
are lucky to have him as a friend.

One quote from the story that shows the
courageousness of Boo Radley appears at the very end of the story when he asks Scout, "Will
you take me home?" Although Boo almost whispers this, this quote shows that Boo has finally
made a friend in Scout. Boo is now seen as his "real"...

What is the movement of a poem?

If you are
asking about a specific poem, you need to submit another question and give the title of the
piece you are analyzing.

In general, many readers of poetry find a sense of
movement in the poems they read is imparted by the combined use of rhythm and rhyme. Rhythm
refers to the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables frequently used in poetry and most
obvious when the poems are read aloud. Different combinations are used by authors to create the
effect they are attempting to convey. The boldface syllables are the accented ones in this
"poem."

Twin-kle
twin-kle lit-tle
star!

How I
won-der what you
are.

Rhyme contributes to movement by connecting
the lines of a poem. The reader feels anticipation as s/he recognizes the pattern being created
by the repetition of certain combinations of letters and sounds. In the poem "Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, the 1st, 2nd and 4th line of each stanza rhyme.
The 3rd line of each stanza rhymes with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th line of the next stanza.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the
village though;
He will not see me stopping
here
To watch his woods fill up with
snow.

My little horse must think it
queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near
Between the woods and frozen
lake
The darkest evening of the
year.

He gives his harness bells a
shake
To ask if there is some
mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind
and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and
deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I
sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

On his death bed, what does Mr. Hooper say he sees on the everyone's faces, and why is this so important to the story of "The Minister's Black Veil"...

As Mr.
Hooper is dying in his bed near the end of the story, another minister attempts to remove Mr.
Hooper's black veil. He wants people to see Hooper's "triumphant" face as he passes
over into eternal life. He also wants whatever Hooper may be hiding by the veil to be lifted
from him before passing on to God's judgment. Hooper forcefully grabs the veil and says that he
will never remove the veil "on earth." Then in a moment of great strength, Hooper
addresses the people in the room around him, and he tells each of them that he sees a black veil
on each of their faces.

I look around me, and, lo! on
every visage a Black Veil!

This is important to the
overall meaning of the story because readers are meant to interpret the veil as a concrete
symbol of a person's hidden sins. People sin, and they try to hide it from God and friends
alike. Hooper's veil is physically expressing this concept of people trying to hide the sin in
themselves. Hooper never comes out and expressly tells people this is what the veil is for;
however, on his deathbed, he finally announces to those around him what the veil is symbolic of.
The revelation hits the people like a hammer blow because they immediately understand and even
fearfully "shrank" away from each other. Hooper knows they finally understand, and he
lets a rare smile be seen.

While his auditors shrank from
one another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with
a faint smile lingering on the lips.

What is Billie Holiday's relationship to truth in her memoir?

I think
that any autobiography has a challenging relationship with truth.  It is a challenge because one
has to speak about a life or narrative from a point of view that seeks to be transcendent, but
is highly contingent.  Truth, the idea of an overwhelming or identifying nature of universal
quality, is a challenging element.  I think that the memoir does a...

Please paraphrase the poem "The Wife's Lament" as translated by Ann Stanford. Please when you finish explaining a stanza, tell me that you moved...

I
would really recommend reading this poem in the original Anglo-Saxon, with a line-by-line
literal translation to help you if necessary, as well as looking at Stanford's translation.
Think about the fact that the title is one imposed upon the poem by later scholars: it makes us
think about the poem in a certain way, but it is not the title of the original poet.

When you are asked to paraphrase a poem, what's being asked of you is to convert the
poem's meaning into plain Englishessentially, to make it into straightforward prose. You're
being asked to show you understand what the poem is saying. This can be especially hard with
poems translated from another language, as this one has been: Anglo-Saxon is so far removed from
modern English that Stanford has had to make careful decisions aboutand phrasing in order to
keep the rhythm and sense of the original.

The first stanza, then, is saying
something like this:

This is a song about myself, to
express the sadness of my journey. I, a...

Explain how John and Lorraines relationship changes the night they stay at Mr. Pignati's house. What might it imply about their growth as...

The night that
John and Lorraine's relationship changes is the night they stay at Mr. Pignati's house alone.
They dress up in the clothes they find, and Lorraine cooks dinner. There are a lot of
implications in this scene that John and Lorraine are putting on the costumes and behaviors of
adulthood and trying out how they feel, representing their development into adults. That night
they kiss, finally realizing the feelings they have for each other. They also drink a toast
"to the Pigman", which is symbolic of the ways that they value their friendship with
Mr. Pignati. John and Lorraine's change from people who wanted to take advantage to Mr. Pignati
into people who cared for him as a friend is an important piece of their development as
characters.

Who allowed Jesus to use the upper room for the Last Supper?

Unfortunately, we are never given the name of
the man who lets Jesus use his home for one of the most important meals in all of
history. 

We know, from the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, that Jesus
sends several of his disciples into the city to find a man. In Mark and Luke, the disciples
would know this man because he would be carrying a jug of water. At the time, men did not carry
water around. That was a woman's job. So it would have been out of place for the disciples to
see a man carrying water. Thus, the man would likely have been easy to spot. They were to follow
the man with the jug to his house, and then ask where the room to hold Passover was. 

In Matthew's Gospel, we get even less information. We just know that the disciples were
to go find "a certain man" (Matthew 26:18). Then, when they found this random man,
they were to ask him to use his house for Passover. 

This might be a man
Jesus already knew and had made plans with or it may be an example of a
miracle. 

What are the main functions of managers in business?

The function
of managers in business is for leadership, direction, help, and specialization. There are many
different functions a manager will take on, but typically they will engage in the same work
alongside their employees.

A manager is there to guide and lead their
employees and ensure theyre on task. By providing leadership, managers ensure that company goals
are met and that employees are successful, which in turn helps the business. They offer
counseling and advice to improve performance and establish long term goals.

Managers also contribute discipline as needed. There are, unfortunately, occasions when
employees need to be let go or reprimanded for poor performance.

Finally,
managers are in place for specialization and delegation. They can focus on particularly
difficult projects and also know the skill sets of those around them so they can distribute
projects and work to where it would get accomplished the most efficiently.

Should schools have lockers? should locker systems be introduced in schools?

I am in a small
school also, and i would say that about half my students use their lockers regularly and the
other half never use them. The lockers provide secure storage for things not needed until later
in the day, which is a huge boost for students involved in sports, musical instrument lessons,
or other after school activities.

I sometimes ask students to weight their
backpacks and consider using their lockers to lower the amount of weight they are hauling; I am
concerned about their physical health from carrying such loads, especially since most only use
one shoulder strap.

One really valuable thing that lockers do, but that no
one ever considers, is to separate clothing and keep it from touching. Having students hang
their coats on hooks on a common wall is actually a terrible idea, as it allows lice, bedbugs,
etc. free travel from one item of clothing to the next. In many states, health codes are being
implemented setting minimum distances between coat hooks or requiring vertical barriers between
them so the clothing doesn't touch.

How was Augustus different compared to other Roman rulers?

This is
an interesting question. Augustus was like many other leaders of Rome. There was nothing about
Augustus that made him completely different. He might have been better at politics and better
at hiding his lust for power than others, but for the most...

What is the major situational irony in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

I think an
argument can be made that the major ironies of are dramatic ironies more
than situational ones. Keep in mind, the story ofwould have been famous among the Ancient
Greeks, and so ancient audiences would have been well aware of the intricacies of Oedipus's own
history and . They would have known that Oedipus murdered his father and married his mother long
before Oedipus himself learns that truth, and this, I would suggest, is the chief ironic tension
that hangs over the play.

In any case, rather than reiterate what has already
been written by earlier contributors, one example of SituationalI find quite interesting is the
play's use of blindness as a motif. When Oedipus is investigating the murder, he summons , the
famous blind prophet of Greek mythology. The situational irony of this scene lies in the
realization that it is the blind man who has the clearest vision as to the reality of Oedipus's
own life, about which Oedipus himself is blind.

In 1984 (part 3 - chapters 4-6),what is Winston's hallucination?

In the fourth
chapter of the third book,has a hallucination about . He has this moment after he had been
daydreaming about the Golden Country.  In fact, the hallucination is so strong that he shouts
Julia's name out several times. Look directly at 's words:

She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him. It was as though she had got
into the texture of his skin. In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done
when they were together and free.

This recollection of
Julia makes him feel like he had committed a crime against the Party. He knew the act was
morally wrong according to their expectations of acceptable behavior. The facts that he uttered
her name out loud, and had such a human and emotional experience deeply convicted him. He feared
this scream would result in execution, and listened for footsteps of the Thought Police to come
and get him.

Do Elie's experiences cause him to lose all faith in Night? Who else besides Elie lost their faith? Please give examples/quotes with page numbers.

Mikayla Bruen, M.B.A.

In 's , the author writes of his experiences in the death camps
during World War II, giving testimony to the horrors prisoners endured. Elie's experiences did
not cause him to lose all faith, but to become doubtful about a
just and merciful G-d. He also rejected the religious life he led before the camp and rebelled
against what he perceived as a distant, silent G-d.

In the original Yiddish
manuscript, Wiesel explains the transformation from innocent acceptance of G-d and goodness to
skepticism and doubt. He wrote:

In the beginning there was
faithwhich is childish; trustwhich is vain; and illusionwhich is dangerous. We believed in God,
trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a
sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his
soul a reflection of God's image. That was the source if not the cause of all our
ordeals.

Upon first entering Auschwitz, he
writes,

For the first time, I...

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About 95% of the world's population live outside the US so why don't small businesses engage in global trade?

First of
all, there are many small businesses that do engage in global trade.  There are, for example,
hay farmers in my area that sell their products to places like Japan.  However, it is true that
small businesses are less likely to engage in international trade.  The reason for this is that
there are serious costs involved in such trade.

In order to engage
in...

What do discoveries at Rome and Pompeii tell us about daily life in the Roman Empire and in what significant respects did it differ from life today?

The
great contribution that the discovery of Pompeii gave to our understanding of Ancient Roman
history was that it allowed us to see the daily life of those living under Roman rule in a way
in which the grand buildings, left open to the air, perhaps could not. Life in the capital city
of a grand empire could not be compared to life of common people in a town like Pompeii, whose
way of life was preserved forever when Vesuvius erupted to cover it.

Evidence of the ways of life of common people from the Roman era have been best shown by
discoveries from other parts of the empire. From the ruins of the Roman Baths at Bath in
England, for example, we are able to see not only that attending public baths was a common part
of daily life for Romans all over the Empire, but also see evidence of how their under-floor
heating system worked. Roman graffiti, surviving on clay tablets and on the walls of the
buildings at Bath, tell us about the everyday concerns of those who visited.
Another...

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What are three reasons why Friar Laurence is to blame for the deaths of the lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

It's important to remember thatis a 13-year-old girl when the play opens. She looks to
the Friar as a trusted and reliable source of guidance. When she shows up for her marriage, the
good Friar wastes no time:

Come, come with me, and we will
make short work,
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till Holy
Church incorporate two in one. (2.6.35€“37)

For a holy
man to guide a (very) young girl in deliberately disobeying her parents and to hide the truth
from them himself is not an example of providing wise (or holy) counsel.

also uses the couple as a pawn piece to bring about peace between the...

What are three reasons why Ms. Schachter is a mad woman?

Mrs.
Sch¤chter is traveling with her ten-year-old son on the train to Auschwitz in s memoir
. On the third day of the journey, she begins screaming that she sees a
fire outside of the train, but no one else sees it. She yells, "Fire! I see a fire! I see a
fire!" Her commotion terrifies the rest of the people on the train because they do not know
what waits for them, but they just brush her off as crazy.

Mrs. Sch¤chter
has reasons to be mad, or, as Wiesel describes her, as if she were possessed by some evil
spirit (25). Unlike the rest of the train, she knows what is coming at the end of the train
ride. First, she has been separated from her husband and two older sons. Wiesel tells us that
the separation had totally shattered her (24). Second, she knows about the furnaces at the
concentration camps and what will most likely happen to the people on the train. Third, as she
screams inconsolably, the people on the train bind and gag her and then eventually beat her to
quiet her down.

The people on the train learn too late that she wasnt just a
madwoman; instead, she was warning them of what was to come.

In "The Minister's Black Veil," does Mr. Hooper's smile symbolize anything?

I
agree with the previous answer. I do not believe that Mr. Hooper's smile is symbolic of
anything. The veil is the predominant symbolic image throughout this story.

Mr. Hooper's smile is not an emotionally happy smile, though. In fact, it is frequently
described as "sad." The smile is also described as "faint" several times.
Hooper is not grinning ear to ear with pleasure. His smile is a smile of. He knows the reason
that he is wearing the black veil. It is symbolic of secret sin. He also knows that every other
person also wears his or her own metaphorical black veil. Hooper smiles because he knows that
there is a sad...

How are the announcers handicapped in "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?

In this
futuristic dystopian society, everyone is "made" equal through the use of handicaps
that hinder their talents and abilities.  So, good dancers are given weights to keep them from
being graceful.  Beautiful singers are told to sing horribly.  Tall people are weighed down, and
intelligent people are shot with loud bursts of noise to keep them from thinking straight. 
These handicaps also apply to announcers.  Typically, television announcers get the job because
they can speak well, fluently, quickly and elegantly. However, in Vonnegut's future, he writes
thatas the announcers come on the air with a bulletin,

"It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer,
like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment."

He goes on to describe that it took the announcer so long to stutter out "Ladies
and Gentleman" that he just gave up and had a ballerina read the bulletin instead.  So, if
you have a serious speech impediment, like stuttering, you were given the job of announcer. 
That way, you don't make anyone feel bad because you are too eloquent or well-spoken.

I hope that helped; good luck!

Evaluate the ending of Harry Potter and The Sorceror's Stone. A quote would help as well

J.K.
Rowling's first novel Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone ends extremely
well, fulfilling the promise and anticipation created through the suspense of the plot.  One
rewarding aspect of the novel'swas that the reader finally witnessed a confrontation between
Voldemort and Harry, via Quirrell, and despite the fact that Harry did not defeat Voldemort, the
reader still felt rewarded that Harry...

Why is World War II known as the Good War?

It seems
weird to call one of the bloodiest wars in history the good war, but that is the nickname
thatis known by. World War II took place between 1939 and 1945, and its nickname of the good war
is most often used by the United States.

There are two primary reasons why it
is known as the good war. One is because in the most basic terms, World War II was an epic
battle between good and evil, and two, the United States came out of the war on top with little
damage to their own country.

The United States entered the war for a good
reason: to stop Hitler from taking over the...

My Family Paragraph

I very much
enjoyed your paragraph and the portrait of your family! If you'd like to revise with a focus on
only grammatical issues (as opposed to the questions of style and personal taste that mwestwood
addresses above), here's where I would start:

There's an article missing in
the line "She was a single mom for long time"the phrase is usually "for
a long time." (Articles are tough.)

The
sentence "My younger brother is studying in grade 10 at Overfelt high school" sounds
grammatically correct to me, but "studying in grade 10" is a phrase that I've heard
less often. The more typical way to express that idea might be: "My younger brother is
in 10th grade at Overfelt High School." (Also, in the name of
the high school, the words "high school" are usually capitalizedso "I go to high
school" is just fine, but if you say "I go to Overfelt High School" it has to be
capitalized as part of the name "Overfelt High School.")

"He
always walks or takes the bus to school because he doesn't has driver" is really close!
"Has" should reflect the auxiliary verb "does" (or here "doesn't")
next to it: "He always walks or takes the bus to school because he doesn't
have driver." "Driver" also needs an article:
"he doesn't have a driver."

"He
always jokes and tells something funny" is also really close! The only thing is that
"tell" usually takes a direct object (meaning you have to
tell someone). So how about: "He always jokes and
says something funny"? Or maybe "He always jokes and
tells me funny things"?

"He is a
dynamic and talkative" gives me a great picture of your brother's personality! The only
grammar problem here is the article (again, articles are tough). "Dynamic" is an
adjective (not a noun) so it doesn't require an article. You can just say, "He is dynamic
and talkative."

I understand the phrase "we always spend a good
time together" with no problems! I think the more typical phrase, though, is "we
always have a good time together."

Those
are the only grammatical questions I had! Your family sounds wonderful. Best of luck with your
studies!

Student Punishment How can we change one students bad behaviours in the class? Is it ok to use punishment? What kind of?!

If you have
a student doing something you don't want, you need to determine the cause of the behavior and
address it.  Rules and consequences are important, but you can't take a one size fits all
approach.  That will only backfire on you.

How can I find peer-reviewed articles on The Odyssey that reference the theme of heroism?

Walter Fischer

, needless to say, is a classic that has been studied for
centuries.  There is no shortage of scholarly work that has been published on s epic of
Odysseus/Ulysses and his ten-year journey home to his beautiful wife Penelope and now-grown son
Telemachus.  It is entirely possible -- and it is surprising that university librarians have not
been able to assist a student seeking help locating sources -- that the use of the phrase peer
reviewed has confused people.  While the definition of a scholarly work is one that has been
submitted for review by ones professional peers, many scholarly articles are not subjected to
that process.  Rather, the individual scholar qualifies his or her research on the basis of the
primary sources utilized in preparing the manuscript and the scholars own academic
bona...

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What are 10 examples of figurative language in The Scarlet Letter? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

With his
seminal novel, Scarlet Letter,sets in motion the American predilection for
symbol.  And, while symbols are the predominant literary device, there are others that are
employed such asand :

SYMBOL

• which first
  represents the sin of adultery that Hester has committed.  Later in the
  novel, this symbol's meaning changes to that of Angel as Scarlet so
  selflessly devotes herself to helping the ill of the community.  Then, as Hester nurses the
  ailing and aged, and sews for others, her symbolic A represents the word
  Able.
•  The
  characterherself is a symbol, representing the sins and passions of her parents, Scarlet and the
  Reverend .  In the forest Pearl arranges eel-grass to form a green A on her
  own breast.
• Theof the Reverend Mr. Wilson , andare symbolic of the Puritan
  worlds of church, state, and witchcraft respectively.
• The groups of unnamed
  somber and self-righteous Puritans in the market place who talk of Hester are also
  representative of Puritanism in general.
• The iron door, "the black
  flower of society," and scaffold are symbols of the restrictiveness and humiliation doled
  out by the Puritan community.
• The scaffold also represents the open
  acknowledgment of personal sin.
• The rose outside the prison is the
  tenacious passion and independence ofthat no scaffold or punishment can kill.


• The letter A upon the breast of the Reverend Dimmesdale
  represents his guilt over his secret-sin.
• The letter A against the black
  background on Hester and Dimmesdales' tombstone serves to unite them in their transgression and
  love.
• Night is used as a symbol for concealment and day for exposure.
  
• The sun is used as a symbol of untroubled, guiltless happiness; it also
  represents the approval of nature and of God.
• The forest represents the
  world of darkness and evil.  It also represents the natural world away from the Puritan
  community where Pearl can run freely and where Hester can take down her hair and be affectionate
  with Dimmesdale.

IMAGERY

• Light/dark imagery comes into play especially when Hester and Pearl are in
  the forest and the shadows fall on Hester.
• Gray is a predominant color used
  to represent the Puritan austerity.  The opening paragraph of the novel depicts the Puritans' in
  their "sad-coloured garments and grey, steeple-crowned hats..." before the iron dor
  studded with "iron spikes."
• Green is used to refer to nature. In
  the forest, a natural setting away from the Puritan community, Pearl makes an A
  upon her breast with green eel-grass.
• Black is used to connote
  evil and the sinister character ofas well as the "Black Man" who performs the Satan's
  Mass in the primeivel forest.

IRONY

• When Hester brings Pearl to the governor's mansion, the governor, himself a
  Puritan, has a fantastic home with suits of armor with a sword and resplendent ornamental
  English garden and stained glass windows. There the Reverend Wilson, a prominent Puritan
  clergyman, both delight in the sight of the crimson-attired Pearl, who recalls for them their
  "days of vanity, in old King james's time, when [the governor] attended a mask."  And,
  the Rev. Wilson recalls,"Methinks I have seen just such figures, when the sun has been
  shining through a richly painted window, and tracing out the golden and crimson images across
  the floor.  But that was in the old land. [An Anglican church!]  The leaders of the Puritan
  colony are themselves hypocrites, yet they condemn Hester.
• When Rev.
  Dimmesdale confesses to the congregation that he is "the worst of sinners," the
  congregation interprets his words as an attempt at humility, and, instead, "did but
  reverence him  the more."  While Dimmesdale wants the crowd to shun him, but they do and
  think just the opposite.

What are some phrases which describe the scenery in Lord of the Flies?

From the
start, some of the phrases with describe the scenery of flora and fauna on the island sound
ominous. For instance, in chapter 1, a boy

was clambering
heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed
upwards with a witch-like cry ...

Creepers, broken, and
witch-like are descriptive words which create an unsettling tone. In fact, the word
"creeper" is used 38 times in the novel to describe the thick jungle vines, as in

I cant hardly move with all these creeper
things.

In chapter 4, too, the scenery is described in
terms of a mirage:

Strange things happened at midday. The
glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the
few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would
quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of
mirrors.

Words like "strange,"
"stunted," "plucked apart," and "odd" add to sense of the setting
as eery or off-kilter. It also contains "snapping sharks," while the sun is likened to
an "angry eye."

In chapter 9, the scenery continues to be ominous
and oppressive. For example:

revolving masses of gas piled
up the static until the air was ready to explode.

We
learn, too, of a "brassy glare" and that nothing "prospered" but flies.
There is a sense of foreboding in this description of setting:

Colors drained from water and trees and pink surfaces of rock, and the white and brown
clouds brooded.

By the end of the novel, after the huge
fire:

the island was scorched up like dead wood

There is much sense of desolation and foreboding in this setting,
which reinforces the theme that evil will explode and destroy in a natural, untamed setting.

In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is 13, but how old is Romeo?

is the very famous
story of the two "star-crossed lovers" ( to Act I, line 6) who are doomed to fail in
their attempts to overcome the feud which has dominated the Montague and Capulet families for as
long as anyone can remember. They clearly underestimate the stubbornness of their parents and
the hatred in their hearts which even extends to the servants who bear as much animosity towards
the opposing household as they would towards a true enemy.

and 's inability
to grasp the true depth of feeling involved in this "grudge" (Prologue, line 3) gives
an indication of just how young they both are. Neither Juliet nor Romeo appreciates the
complexity of the problem and they even believe that denying their ancestry may be enough.
Juliet ponders that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (II.ii.44)
suggesting that a family name should not have any bearing on her relationship with Romeo and she
has come to the conclusion that it is "but thy name that is my enemy" (38). Romeo is
also willing to renounce everything for her because as he says, his "name is hateful to
myself" (55). Romeo is not yet old enough to understand that he would be expected to uphold
the resentment and loathing in honor of his family name.  

The ages of Romeo
and Juliet are significant in understanding how they come to such a tragic end because it is
their youth and inexperience and their inability to see beyond their immediate circumstances
that causes them, Romeo in particular, to act so irrationally. Romeo is so overwhelmed by his
circumstances and so immature in his actions that he is apparently just a teenager of perhaps
sixteen years old, definitely younger than eighteen because by eighteen a young man of his
standing would be expected to be able to lead men into battle and so he would not act so
impulsively. 

What are two things Brom does to get back at Icabod for trying to steal his girl?

Brom and
Ichabod both want to marry the lovely and wealthy Katrina. Brom realizes they are rivals and
itches to fight it out openly with Ichabod, the winner taking Katrina. Ichabod, skinny and
weaker than the tall, broad, muscular Brom, naturally evades that kind of battle. As the
narrator puts it, this avoidance of battle ("pacific system") is very irritating
("provoking") to Brom:

There was something
extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw
upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes
upon his rival.

Brom, therefore, gets together with his
"gang" and they play the following "practical jokes" on Ichabod
Crane:

They stop up the chimney and smoke out his singing school.

They break into his school at night and ransack it (turn it
"topsy-turvy").

Brom teases ("ridicules") Crane in front
of Katrina and teaches his dog to whine when he sees Crane.

Finally, Brom
fakes up the "headless horsemen" and terrifies Crane into running away and not coming
back.

Brom is popular, robust, and the "hero" of the piece, but he
comes across as a bully. We wonder how Katrina will fare with him as a
husband.

What effect did developments in technology have on the American way of life in the 1950s?

Technologies that had been developed earlier than the 1950s were bottlenecked by the
economic collapse of the 1930s and then by World War II, so many technologies first became
widespread in the 1950s in the US as the standard of living rose and people could afford to
adopt them.

Labor-saving devices such as fully automatic washers became far
more prevalent in the 1950s, making life easier for housewives. The widespread use of
refrigerators and freezers also eased the burden on housewives, as they did not have to go the
market as often to buy perishable food items. Small appliances became more affordable and also
reduced the housewife's workload. By the end of the decade, women were increasingly able to
leave the home to take on part-time jobs. Women's desires for fuller lives would explode into
the woman's movement of the 1960s.

Advances in medical technology meant
that, by 1955, people could be vaccinated against polio, getting rid of fear of a dreaded
disease. Increased access to...

Compare and contrast how the labor unions, the Populists, and the Progressives responded to the changes wrought by industrialization and corporate...

Ultimately,
this question refers to the political and economic realities taking shape under the Gilded Age,
when business operations were getting larger and larger, as the United States transitioned into
the Industrial Age. The thing to keep in mind about this era is that it was defined by
laissez-faire capitalism, and there were no regulations in place to protect the rights of
workers as there are in today's United States. Poor wages, dangerous working conditions,
extraordinarily long hours, child labor: these were all common to the time period in
question.

In some respects, the most difficult part of your question to
address is the subject of unionization. Unlike the Populists and the Progressives (which tend to
reflect specific political movements), there were multiple approaches and organizations which
have collectively shaped the history of labor in the United States. The earliest national
unionization movement (The National Labor Union), for example, looked towards
political...

In the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, what does Edwards mean when he says, The bow of Gods wrath is bent, and the arrow made...

In the
sermon , Edwards admonishes his audience to turn to God before they are
damned to Hell because of their own inherent wicked nature. Edwards spends a great deal of the
sermon reminding his listeners not to waste time and to make a decision for God right away. By
providing theof a strung bow, Edwards demonstrates the swiftness of God's wrath, which is
symbolized by an arrow. Edwards also demonstrates through this metaphor that God is in control
of the sinner's fate just as an archer is in control of when and where to shoot the
arrow.

While many in Edwards's congregation might not have fired a bow, they
realized that the bow was a more reliable weapon than the firearms of that time. By using this
metaphor, Edwards made sure to drive home the point that God's wrath was sure if the listener
did not repent. If the listeners did repent and turn to Jesus, then they would be spared the
wrath of God, just as archers can change their minds...