What were the effects of World War II on American women and minority groups in the United States, and were they positive or negative?

After a
decade of Depression,brought a full employment economy. Factories ran night and day to produce
the planes, tanks, ships, weapons, and supplies needed for war machine. The war opened up
widespread economic opportunities for women and minorities.

Mexican
Americans, for example, prospered during the war. For the first time, they were offered the same
wages at whites. Their employment in shipyards, for example, increased over the course of only
three years from nothing to 17,000 by 1944. They also had opportunities to serve in the
military. Further, the Bracero program, though criticized as exploitative, brought an extra
168,000 farm workers, many of them Mexican into the U.S. during the war years.

World War II is famously the period of "Rosie the Riveter," the muscular
poster woman who could do a man's work. Women took on all sort of duties once the province of
men alone. They earned money (often a lot of it, with long shifts and overtime) and showed their
competency in...

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Discuss Atticus's approach to parenting.

This
question has already...

What are some examples of metaphors in chapter 13?

A
is a comparison of two unalike things where one thing is said to
be the other. In , the narrator describes the spiritual connection created byand Reverend 's
common crime as an "iron link," as opposed to the connections that have previously
united her to other humans"links of flowers, or silk, or gold," and which have all
been broken. However, the "iron link" of their connection can never be severed by
either one of them.

In describing Hester's selfless service to others in the
town, especially when their houses are touched by sickness, the narrator says that
"Elsewhere the token of sin, [the scarlet letter] was the taper of the sick-chamber."
Here, the badge of her dishonor is compared, via metaphor, to a candle that brings light and
comfort to people in their need.

The narrator describes the effect that the
scarlet letter has had on Hester's appearance. He says, "All the light and graceful foliage
of her character had been withered up by this red-hot brand, and had long ago fallen away,
leaving a bare and harsh outline." Her former physical beauty is compared to the leaves
that adorn a tree, and it is as though all the leaves have fallen, leaving her "bare"
like the tree in winter. Further, the scarlet letter is compared to a red-hot brand, as though
it has burned away the beauty she once possessed.

When Hester throws down her scarlet letter, the transfiguration that was foreshadowed occurs, and Hester's beauty returns.

To be
sure,had never really lost her beauty; it was simply that she was forced to obscure it after her
public branding as an adulteress. However, in the woods, far away from the prying eyes of the
Puritan townsfolk, she can revel in her beauty in a way that would be unthinkable in the town.
Here at least she can be free, free to be herself in all her glory.

What this
episode illustrates is the sharp distinction between nature and civilization. Hester, no less
than , is a child of nature, a free spirit who cannot be contained by society and all its
customs, rules, and conventions. Throwing off the scarlet letter symbolizes Hester's rejection
of that society and the reestablishing of a connection with her true self.

Compare and contrast the characters of Napoleon and Snowball in Animal Farm.

andare
the two leading pigs on the farm at the beginning of the story, who take center stage following
the Rebellion and the Battle of the Cowshed. Both pigs are portrayed as intelligent and take the
initiative to lead the other animals. Napoleon and Snowball also enjoy their privileged status
and are not afraid to express their opinions by addressing the animals in public.

Despite the minor similarities, Napoleon and Snowball have completely different
personalities and styles of leadership. Snowball is depicted as being more "vivacious"
and in-touch with the other animals than Napoleon. He takes it upon himself to establish various
committees to improve the standard of living on the farm and gives the other animals a voice in
government decisions. Snowball is also a more articulate speaker and has plans to build a
windmill, which will provide electricity to the farm and make life significantly easier for the
animals. He also values the opinions of others and subscribes...

In 1984, why does Winston feel that he murdered his mother?

has only
hazy, dreamlike memories of his mother and sister. In reality, there's no evidence he murdered
her: she and his sister disappeared one day after he snatched a small piece of chocolate from
his starving sister's hand and ran away. When he came back, they were gone. Rationally, he
understands that his mother might even be alive, in a work camp, and that like him, his sister
might have been sent to a center for orphaned children.

Whiledoesn't tell us
precisely why Winston believes he murdered his mother, the narrative makes it psychologically
realistic that Winston would believe that. First, Winston remembers being constantly hungry and
continually grabbing food from his mother's plate, as well as "pilfering" food she
didn't guard constantly. So, in a literal sense, he was contributing to killing her through
accelerating her slow starvation. Second, he recognizes that she behaved in a giving and loving
way he could not reciprocate: she could sacrifice herself out of love for him and his sister. He
could only behave, as a child, selfishly. On an intuitive level, he realizes he had a brute
survival instinct that she was willing to give up for him. Third, he has highly symbolic dreams
in which he is somehow killing his mother and sister, who are at the bottom of a pit while he is
at the top. The dreams seem to be Winston's way of understanding that he, to some extent,
survived at their expense, at least when they were all together, through his willingness to grab
more than his fair share of food. Further, it would be realistic for a child whose mother has
disappeared to fantasize he was responsible. Finally, until he falls in love with , Winston
leads a dehumanized existence: he has a hard, if not impossible, time feeling emotions beyond
fear, guilt, hate and anger. Almost the only way he is able to experience anything emotionally
(though he is able to appreciate beauty) is to feel something negative. So, since he does have
feelings for his mother, they would probably manifest in a negative way, such as in the sense he
killed her. After all, the only way he is initially able to feel emotion towards Julia is
through a desire to hurt and kill her, a violent fantasy. After he is rehumanized through loving
Julia, Winston is able to recognize that he didn't murder his mother. 

How would you analyse the poem "Evening in Paradise" by John Milton? What literary devices appear in it?

"Evening in Paradise" is from the epic poem Paradise
Lost written by John Milton.

In summary, the poem describes the
approach of evening and the animals settling in for the nightexcept for the Nightingale that
will sing all night long. Then stars appear in the sky and are then joined by the moon: they
illuminate the darkness with light.

In the first two lines, the reader
recognizes theused in the form of .

Personification
is:

...ain which abstractions, animals, ideas, and
inanimate objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities

"Evening" is referred to with the possessive pronoun
"her," and the poet describes that she has "clad"
(clothed) all things in the color of "Twilight gray." The idea of clothing
somethingand being clothedis a human behavior, and the "Evening" is not human, but
given human characteristics.

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What different attitudes do the two waiters express about the old man?

Even
though the two waiters understand that the old man is lonely and has recently attempted suicide,
the younger waiter remains unsympathetic. He himself, he says, would not want to be that old; an
old man "is a nasty thing," he says, even though the older waiter points out how clean
the old man is. The younger waiter is impatient because the old man is the last customer and is
keeping him from going home to his wife.

The older waiter, on the other hand,
is more understanding of the old man's loneliness. As he says to the younger waiter,

I am of those who like to stay late at the caf© . . . With all
those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.

Unlike the younger waiter, who has "youth, confidence, and a
job," the older waiter understands the nothingness the old man faces the sense of
uselessness or used-upness that perhaps led him to attempt suicide and that causes him to stay
late at the caf© . The older waiter understands the appeal of a "clean and pleasant"
place with good light and no music.

It's not clear what the root cause of the
old man's troubles might be, but the specifics of his situation are unimportant. What matters is
that the older waiter is sensitive to the same sort of emotional void the old man feels. At the
end of the story, for lack of a better term, the older waiter labels that void as
"insomnia."

What is the plot of "Eveline" in Dubliners?

was the
second story of the volume that Joyce wrote, and it was first published on September 10th, 1904,
in the issue of the "Irish Homestead" (Fargnoli and Gillespie 52).

As far as the plot is concerned, there is not much happening in this story because the emphasis
is on the mental struggle of the heroine, her thoughts, concerns and memories. The story is
about a young woman, Eveline, who feels stifled by the monotonous routine of her Dublin life,
household responsibilities, and her abusive father. Therefore, she seems to want to escape with
Frank, the man she likes, to Argentina in order to start a new life. The whole...

Cahokia is an ancient Hopewell City in North America that may have been home to as many as 100,000 inhabitians. Where was Cahokia located?

The
ancient ruins of Cahokia are located in southern Illinois within the city limits of
Collinsville. This places the ancient city less than ten miles from downtown St. Louis, Missouri
just across the Mississippi River. Being so close to this major waterway had many...

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Physical Jerks 1984

In 's
futuristic dystopian society, the Physical Jerks are a daily part of the lives of Oceania's
citizenry.  The ubiquitous telescreens that enable the Party to both propagandize to and monitor
the citizenry broadcasts every morning, at 7:18, a mandatory exercise program.
 Nineteen-Eighty-Four, of course, depicts a totalitarian society in which
the government controls every action and attempts to dictate every thought on the part of each
individual.  Its apparatus of control knows no limits.  The constant propagandizing and the
manipulation of terminology for the benefit of the Party are integral parts of that apparatus.
 The physical conditioning of citizens, however, is not neglected, and the Physical Jerks serves
as the regime's instrument for ensuring that all members of society are in the proper state of
condition.  As 's main , , arises each morning, he is greeted by the harshness of the
broadcast's dictates:

Thirty to forty group!
yapped a piercing female voice.Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to
forties! Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a
youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared. Arms
bending and stretching! she rapped out. Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two,
three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three four! One two, three,
four! . . .  

Orwell's fictional society is
one of absolute subservience to the will of the Party.  The Physical Jerks are but one component
of the Party's strategy for total control.

In Oedipus Rex, how can the choragos refer to God--"How can God's will be accomplished best?"--when I thought the Greeks were polyatheists?

Often in the
translation, god(s) is simplified to god or even God.  You are right in that the Greeks were not
only polytheists, but this referral to "God" likely isn't the same God we recognize
most in Western culture.

At the beginning of the play,sendsto speak to the
Oracle at Delphi.  This means he was seeking wisdom from the god Apollo.  Historically, medicine
and healing were both associated with Apollo. Likewise, was looked at as one who could inflict
ill health and plague.  Oedipus appeals to Apollo because the city of Thebes is suffering from a
pestilence and plague.  Very likely then, unless otherwise specified,...

How does the story "Eveline" end? Does Eveline decide to stay or run away with Frank?

The
reader would like very much to seedecide to run away with Frank, in spite of her misgivings and
in spite of the fact that they are not married. She is not only overwhelmed by her sense of duty
to her family and by her strict Catholic upbringing, but the poor girl just does not have the
strength of character to do such a radical thing as to leave her whole world behind her and
travel to Argentina with a man she really does not know very well. When Frank urges her to come
to the boat, she cannot go through with her decision to escape from Ireland.

She gripped with both hands at the iron railing. . . . No! No! It
was impossible. . . . Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.

The reader feels that this may be her only chance to escape from
the drudgery and misery of her life. She is not just losing Frank but losing all hope of
freedom. She is like many of the other characters in 's who seem to be
living in a sort of vaporous limbo.

What are the three main parts of cell theory?

The cell
theory is a scientific theory that defines the characteristics that all cells should manifest.
Cells were first discovered by Robert Hooke in the 17th century. Matthias Schleiden,
Theodor Schwann, and Rudolf Virchow are also accredited with being contributors towards the cell
theory. 

The tree main parts of the cell theory are:

1.
All living things are made of one or more cells (so, if the thing is not made of cells, then it
is considered to be non-living).

2. The cell is the smallest unit of
life

For example, parts of cells called organelles are not considered living.
Nor are viruses because they are not made of cells. 

3. All cells come from
other cells. In other words, "life comes from life". You cannot get something living
from something that is non-living. 

This is known as biogenesis. It is in
opposition to spontaneous generation. 

explain the christian themes in the book

In
the Christian theme is first shown in the symbols which, apparently in ,
are thought necessary in combating vampires. When Jonathan Harker is on his way to the Castle
one of the local women gives him a crucifix for protection. What is interesting is that Harker
tells us that as an "English Churchman" he has been taught to regard crucifixes as
"idolatrous."

One does not know if Stoker is alluding to this
difference within Christian denominations (that some are opposed to iconographic portrayals of
Jesus, while others are not) simply incidentally, or if it has some relevance to his overall
theme of good versus evil. The setting of Dracula's home embodies a , in that the surrounding
population are devout, while right in their midst a gigantic source of evil exists in Dracula. A
passenger in the carriage, overwhelmed by the beauty of the mountains, utters the words
"Isten szek!" which Stoker (and Harker) correctly translate from
Hungarian as "God's seat."

The paradox of religion alongside evil
is extended and developed when Dracula begins narrating his and the region's history to Harker.
The Ottoman conquest of the previous centuries pitted Islam against Christianity. Dracula
proudly and emotionally describes his (or his people's) defense of the region--in which they
were upholding their Christian faith--by alluding to the one who pursued and "beat the Turk
on his own ground." But Dracula has essentially set himself up as a kind of alternative god
among those local people who are loyal to him. "The Szgany have given me these,"
Dracula tells Harker about the letters Harker had thrown to the man in the courtyard in hope of
getting word to the outside about his imprisonment. It forms a contrast with the way others in
the region have regarded Dracula with fear and loathing, almost as a kind of
Antichrist.

The use of Christian symbols later extends to Van Helsing's using
the Eucharist (the Communion wafer symbolic of Christ) as the team prevent Lucy, now a vampire,
from returning to her tomb and continuing her existence as one of the undead. Van Helsing thus
approaches the problem of vampirism both as a scientist, and as a religious man. Killing Lucy is
an act of mercy because it is the only way her soul will find Christian salvation. Even Dracula
himself, when the band track him down and kill him, seems to be granted this salvation when his
face finally shows a look of peace at the end. And the story overall is a kind of pre-enactment
of the apocalyptic defeat of evil prophesied in Christian thought.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, chapters 26€“27, what literary devices are used?

In , Lee
uses the literary device of humor to talk about 's re-election. This reinforces that we are
seeing everything from the point of view of a child, who understands the world in her own
way:

in spite of Atticuss shortcomings as a parent, people
were content to re-elect him to the state legislature that year.

Of course, we know that Atticus is an excellent parent and that the townspeople respect
him, but 's depreciation of him prevents him from coming across as too perfect, which we as
readers would likely resent.

This chapter also uses the literary device of
voice in dialogue to excellent effect. First, Miss Gates, Scout's teacher, talks about Hitler as
an evil dictator persecuting the Jews for no good reason, obviously missing the hypocrisy of
condemning Hitler for his racism while ignoring what just happened in her own backyard with Tom
Robinson. Her dialogue has a heavy ironic effect. Later, dialogue in terms of's angry response
to Scout's questions about...

How is the Catholic Church represented in the story "Eveline" from James Joyce's Dubliners?

In
"," as in most of Joyce's short stories, the Catholic Church is presented in a
distinctly unflattering light. This is entirely in keeping with Joyce's fervent conviction that
the Catholic Church was, to a large extent, responsible for what he saw as Ireland's cultural
paralysis.

The Church exerted a great deal of influence on Irish public life
in Joyce's day and would continue to do so for many decades thereafter. For many artists and
intellectuals like Joyce, such influence was wholly pernicious and held Ireland back from
contributing to the European cultural tradition.

In "Eveline," the
title character could be said to symbolize Ireland in that she too is held back by the Catholic
Church. In her case, she is prevented from joining her lover for a new life in Argentina by a
guilt complex, the kind often associated with Catholicism.

Eveline has made
a number of promises to God that she is loath to break. Implicit in these promises is the notion
of sacrifice; Eveline has spent...

I need to approach an essay about "Annabel Lee" by Poe from either a biographical or an historical critical approach.

While the losses in Poe's life through the
deaths of beautiful beloved women--his mother, his friend's idolized mother, his young wife--is
reflected in his poetry--just as his years living in England under the sway of Gothic influences
is reflected in his poetry--his intellectual aesthetic of poetry is also reflected in his poetry
since it is through this aesthetic theory that he builds his poetry. An historical approach to
discussing "" might take the route of discussing Poe's historic influence on the
theory and development of literature.

According to the Critical Survey of
Poetry, Poe, who was one of the few early American poets to be famous while still living,
influenced the Symbolist movement in poetry because of their admiration of his conceptualization
of "ideal beauty," the musicality of his verse (which some critics derided), and his
ability to createin poetry. Renowned poets who have similarly attributed admiration and
influence to Poe are Yeats, Baudelaire, Eliot, and Dante Rossetti, along with playwright George
Bernard Shaw and composers Stravinsky and Debussy.

Other impacts Poe had on
the historical development of literature were to devise and advocate a criticism for poetry and
book reviewing that exposed bad poetry and writing by insisting that judgments must be made on a
system of standards that identifies defects. Along with this, he was a pioneer in defining a
poem as a purely aesthetic object that could be justified on purely aesthetic grounds regardless
of thematic meaning or truthfulness, as was advocated by the "art for art's sake"
movement.

In conjunction with these ideas, he advocated leaving the realms of
truth and logic to works of prose, such as the novel or short story, because poetry, an
aesthetic art form, was primarily occupied with producing an effect on the reader. "Annabel
Lee" can be analyzed in terms of Poe's theory and aesthetics and in terms of the qualities
that made his work such a widespread and strong influence of other writers and on whole
movements.

How is the setting at a Spanish railroad crossing appropriate to the theme?

The two
people seem to be in the middle of nowhere. The hot, barren setting with the bleached mountains
in the background is nearly surrealistic. This is a junction. They are waiting to transfer to
the train to Madrid.

It was very hot and the express train
from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went
on to Madrid.

This information adds drama and suspense
to the story. It provides what editors call a "ticking clock." Time is of the essence.
Once they board that train to Madrid they are committed to doing what they have been talking
about--finding an abortionist in Spain's major city, where they have the best chance
of...

How would you describe the town of Maycomb, Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird as a complex character?

Jennifer Carnevale, M.A.

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first
knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the
courthouse sagged in the square ... A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There
was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing
to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

This is
how , the young narrator of by , introduces us to Maycomb, Alabama, in the
first few pages of the story. Scout's naive perspective paints a picture of boredom, yet her
words reflect a small town in the depths of The Great Depression. No matter who you were, you
were touched by the economic troubles the entire country was facing at the time. Maycomb is a
true reflection of the hardships the US faced.

Yet within the county itself,
life was going on as usual. Kids went to school and played in their yards, people worked doing
what they could, and the town itself...

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What was "boogie-woogie" music, and how did Albert Ammons influence this genre?

Boogie-woogie is a style of piano-heavy jazz
whose origins date to the early 1930s.  Boogie-woogie enjoyed wide popularity throughout the
1930s and 1940s, perhaps because it actively involved the audience, getting them up on their
feet and dancing to its contagious rhythms.  For example, here is an excerpt from an early
boogie-woogie hit tune by blues pianist Clarence Pinetop Smith, called Pinetops Boogie
Woogie:

Now, when I tell you to hold yourself, don't you
move a peg.

And when I tell you to get it, I want you to Boogie
Woogie!

While Pinetop was popular, and others were as
well: if you wanted to crown one person as the king of Boogie Woogie, that person would be
pianist Albert Ammons. 

Ammons was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September
23, 1907.  His family was a musical one; both of this parents were pianists and Albert himself
played well by the age of ten.  Albert didnt stop at piano. By the time he was a teenager, he
had mastered percussion and learned to play the bugle.  He began performing in the local club
scene during his high school years.  In those venues, he was exposed to, and became interested
in, the blues, primarily through influential people in his life like pianist Hersal Thomas.
During these years,  Ammons developed the powerful piano style for which he would become well
known.  Jazz and blues historian, Scott Yanow, (author of href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/scott-yanow-mn0001078311">All Music
Guide), calls Ammons one of the big three of late-'30s boogie-woogie,
along with Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis."

Of course, fame did not
come immediately.  In the early 1920s, Ammons was a cab driver for the Silver Taxicab Company. 
While picking up fares in Chicago, Ammons met another cabbie who also played piano, Meade Lux
Lewis.  The two musicians hit it off and began playing together wherever they could find gigs. 
Some of the places they played were called house €˜kados. These were underground
establishments that served alcohol during prohibition.

House €˜kados could be
dangerous gigs to accept, for they were frequently raided by the police.  In his book
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Russell recalls that When a house party was raided, Albert and Lux hid outside on
the window sill; after the Law had cleared out the mob they climbed back inside and finished the
unemptied jugs."  It seems that both Ammons and Lewis were good cabbies as well as
sought-after musicians.  Their cab company eventually created a clubroom on the premises, so
that the friends could be found when fares called for rides. 

In 1934, when
Ammons was twenty-seven, he formed is own band at the Club de Lisa, where he remained for two
years.  The band members were Guy Kelly, Dalbert Bright, Jimmy Hoskins, and Israel Crosby. In
1936, Ammons recorded Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings for the influential jazz label, Decca
Records.  The gamble was a good one for Decca; the Rhythm Kings interpretation of Swanee River
Boogie sold a million copies. 

Although he could have stayed in Chicago and
enjoyed his success, Albert was ready for a new challenge and moved to New York City.
Boogie-woogie was enjoying enormous popularity as the 1930s continued, and would continue,
through the 1940s.  So popular was the style in general and Ammons in particular that he was
invited to play at Carnegie Hall in 1938.  The program he appeared in was called Spirituals to
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At Carnegie, Hammons took the opportunity to make a powerful political statement. He
pointed out that the majority of the artists performing in the concert were forced to work
menial jobs to make ends meet, and that most received very little compensation from the
performance.  His frequent partner, Meade Lux Lewis, for example, continued to work in a garage
and often made as little as nine dollars a week from his music. 

While Ammons
assertion did not change anything for musicians at the Carnegie immediately, his words did
garner much attentiton.  Jazz historian Colin Davey explains:  "Although this concert also
included Count Basie, Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman ... and many other top jazz and blues
performers of the period, the Boogie Woogie Trio, as they came to be called, stole the show.
Almost instantly, they became international celebrities."  The attention brought more work
to Ammons personally as well.  He worked with trumpeter Harry James and the two recorded for the
Library of Congress.

Of all Ammons accomplishments, perhaps his most enduring
is the label he help found, Blue Note records, a name that is now synonymous with jazz.  Ammons
continued to play for many years, although in 1941, a freak accident with a kitchen knife
sidelined him for a couple of years (while making a sandwich, Ammons accidentally cut the top of
one of his fingers, and then suffered paralysis in both hands for some time). 

The boogie-woogie craze was dying out by 1945, but Ammons had no trouble still booking
gigs.  He toured as a solo artist and recorded for Mercury records.  He was so successful that
he was asked to perform for the Presidential Inauguration of Harry S Truman in 1949. 

Albert Ammons died suddenly following a performance in 1949 at age 42.  The exact cause
of his death was never determined.

Source: Contemporary
Musicians, ©2006 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. 

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Discuss if there is an ongoing parallel between today's real estate crisis and the issues outlined in The Jungle.

This is a
real interesting question.  The short answer would be, depends on whom you are asking.  I think
that the one overriding connection between both Sinclair's depiction as well as the ongoing
challenges in the modern setting with regards to the housing crisis is that regular people,
middle class or individuals on the lower economic end, are left holding the bag.  These are the
people who are left challenged by the larger configurations of capitalism.  Certainly, one could
argue that there consumers should have exercised more prudent...

What are examples of moral paralysis in "Eveline"?

This is
an interesting consideration. Moral Paralysis is widely used as a political term; it typically
refers to a condition of countries and governments, rather than individual people. The term was
originally coined to describe the inaction of France and other Western European countries as
Germany very obviously built up its military while planning for the events of World War II. It
is seen as a paralysis that is brought on by a conflict between moral and consequential
thinking, and it is often met with blame after the fact.

While 's
"" has little to do with matters of state, it could be said that the titular character
does experience something quite analogous to a moral paralysis. Over the course of the story, as
Eveline is recalling all the events that have made her resent her family and want to run away
with her lover, the reader assumes that she is steeling herself for her betrayal and talking
herself into going through with her escape. However, it becomes more obvious that she isn't
truly making any tangible decision. She has simply said "yes" to two conflicting
forces and is waiting, horrified, for any eventuality to happen. Yes, she has written a letter
to her father, whom she will presumably abandon, but only because, to obey the will of her lover
and her inner voice telling her to seek freedom, writing that letter is a necessity. She obeys
both sides for as long as she possibly can.

Of course, when the moment comes
to finally make a choice, she is absolutely frozen, unable to get onto the boat because it means
choosing a side. She stands still while her lover and the idea of freedom leave her forever, and
she presumably returns to the only life that is left for her.

What were the two scenes seen by the caged bird?

The caged
bird doesn't see very much. Indeed, as the speaker says in stanza two, the caged bird "can
seldom see through / his bars of rage." Throughout the poem, we are told only what the
caged bird does not see.

In the fifth stanza, the speaker says that the caged
bird "stands on the grave of dreams." This is of course a , and the caged bird does
not literally see this grave. Nonetheless, the image implies that the caged bird sees,
metaphorically, only the bars of the cage and the death of its freedom that those bars
symbolize.

The fact that the caged bird sees only the bars of his cage is in
stark contrast to the scenes that the free bird sees. The free bird sees "the orange sun
rays" and "the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn." These images of course
emphasize, by contrast, the dearth of scenes available to the caged bird.

Why doesn't Bruno like Lt. Kotler?

Lt. Kotler is
the stereotypical Nazi officer from concentration camps: He is brutal, sadistic, and
opportunistic.

From the first time that he has encountered Lt. Kotler coming
out of his father's office, Bruno feels a certain discomfiture in his presence. In Chapter 7
when Bruno wishes to make a swing, he asks Kotler who is talking with his sister Gretel if there
are any old tires that he can use to make a swing. Kotler calls to the prisoner Pavel, who works
in the kitchen in a biting voice, using a pejorative term for Jews as he does. He orders Pavel,
using a very pejorative term, to take Bruno to a storage shed where there are some
tires. 

Further in the narrative, Lt. Kotler is invited for dinner and when
Pavel tries to pour wine for him, his hands shake so badly that he spills some of this wine on
Kotler; Bruno witnesses the enraged young lieutenant react violently to Pavel. Then, in Chapter
15, in preparation for a birthday party for his mother, Shmuel is brought to the house to clean
and dry some very small glasses because Pavel's hand is too large. When Bruno sees him there, he
is happily surprised. As he talks to Shmuel, Bruno eyes some chicken in the refrigerator; he
takes some offers three pieces to his friend, who is at first afraid to eat it because of Lt.
Kotler, but his hunger persuades him to gobble some down, anyway. Unfortunately, Kotler enters
the kitchen and accuses Shmuel of eating. Shmuel tells Kotler that Bruno is his friend and he
offered the chicken to him; however, out of fear Bruno denies knowing Shmuel or having given him
any chicken. After this incident, Shmuel is missing when Bruno tries to apologize by going to
the fence where they meet; several days later, though, Shmuel appears with terrible bruises on
his face. Bruno suspects that the brutal Kotler has inflicted punishment upon poor
Shmuel.

Also in Chapter 15, Bruno has several specific reasons why he detests
Kotler:

1. Lt. Kotler never smiles; instead, he appears as though he
   figuratively "was trying to find someone to cut out of his will."


2. Whenever he addresses Bruno, he calls him "little man," and Bruno resents
   this because he is uncomfortable about not having yet had his growth spurt.


3. Lt. Kotler seems to always be in the living room joking with his mother who
   "laughs at his jokes more than she laughs at Father's."
4. Whenever
   his father is called to Berlin and is gone overnight, Kotler is at the house, acting as though
   he is in charge. There is obviously something going on between Bruno's mother and him because
   Kotler is at the house even when Bruno goes to bed at night and "in the early morning
   before he wakes up." Then, one day Bruno hears his mother call Kotler "precious"
   as she tells him she has some free time then, but she stops short of saying more when she sees
   Bruno. While Bruno does not comprehend the sexual implications, he resents his mother's
   affection for Kotler.
5. When Bruno has Treasure Island
   under his arm one day, Lt. Kotler asks where he has procured this book, but he does not pursue
   this topic when told that Bruno's father has given it to him. However, the cruel officer takes
   the book and holds it above Bruno so that the boy cannot retrieve it. Nevertheless, Bruno is
   quick enough to grab his novel when he can reach it.
6. Bruno resents Kotler's
   supercilious tone of speech to him.
7. Bruno does not like Kotler's talking
   and joking with his sister Gretel.

What is the rhythm and the style of writing in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

The
rhythm and style in are dictated by , the novels narrator. Nick Carraway
is new to the both the East Coast and West Egg, moving there following the war as he tries to
break into a career in the bond market.

The reader sees the , their actions,
and New York City through the eyes of Carraway, a native Midwesterner. Carraway implements a
lyrical and aesthetically pleasing rhythm to his writing style, which mirrors his perception of
the Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties was a period of economic prosperity and cultural edge
which followed Americas involvement in World War I. This materialist period put an emphasis on
decadence and social standing while showing a lack of regard for humanity, as evidenced by the
constant infidelity and lack of remorse following death. Throughout the narrative, the
characters seem more concerned with partying and displaying their wealth than living moral
lives.

Carraway comments ons voice, which...

What is so provoking and humorous about Pygmalion?

Henry
Higgins is a provoking character, rude and obnoxious and lacking in self-awareness about how
badly he treats Eliza. There's a dark humor as well in how he addresses her, calling her a
"squashed cabbage leaf" and other insulting names.

The main humor
in the play, however, lies in how easily London society is tricked into accepting Eliza, a
lower-class flower seller who they normally would despise. Those...

What is Helens attitude about the poor in The Story of My Life?

feels great
compassion towards the poor. She loves the sunshine and fresh air of her country home, but has
also gone to visit the tenements of poor people crowded in the cities of her era. She
writes:

Several times I have visited the narrow, dirty
streets where the poor live, and I grow hot and indignant to think that good people should be
content to live in fine houses and become strong and beautiful, while others are condemned to
live in hideous, sunless tenements and grow ugly, withered and cringing.

She speaks too of the children of the poor, who she describes as
"half-clad" and hungry. She says they shrink away from her hand as if fearing they
will be hit by her. She wonders at the gnarled bodies of the poor she has touched. She says that
her experiences of encountering poverty haunt her and fill her with pain. She is angry that
people don't do more to help the poor. She wishes that all people could enjoy the beauty of
God's free gift of air and sun.

It's not surprising that Helen feels
compassion for the poor. It is something Anne Sullivan has taught her. It also arises from her
own experience of being blind and deaf, a poverty of the senses that has hampered her. As she is
aware in her essays of the privilege of getting nice gifts on Christmas, she must also have been
aware that without her parents having had the money to take her East to see specialists and hire
Anne Sullivan as a full-time companion, she would have been as lost as any poor person in a
tenement. Like most people who have felt gracedand Keller describes Miss Sullivan's arrival as a
miracle like the parting of the Red SeaKeller wishes to spread the bounty
around.

What is the meaning of the pink ribbons in "Young Goodman Brown"?

Faith's pink
ribbons in 's "" essentially represent innocence, and serve as a contrast to Faith's
apparent lack of moral soundness.

Pink is traditionally associated with
girlhood and innocence; in the cultural setting of the short story, Faith seems to just want to
wear the pink ribbons to stand out against the grey and dreariness her fellow Puritans wear.
However, as Goodman Brown takes his journey through the woods, he soon realizes that the ribbons
are more than just setting Faith apart from the grey crowd, but that they symbolize the
difference between being and seeming. Consider this quote from the beginning of the
story:

"So they parted; and the young man pursued his
way, until, being about to turn the corner by the meeting-house, he looked back, and saw the
head of Faith peeping after him, with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons."
(paragraph 6)

Notice the "melancholy air" Faith
possesses "in spite of her pink ribbons." This important detail about the pink ribbons
helps us understand that though Faith may look childlike, girly, and innocent, she really has
lost her moral grounding. 

What kind of moral and emotional responses does the novel "Never Let Me Go" provoke? Does the novel examine the possibility of human cloning as a...

Ishiguro's
novel can be interpreted as a warning, demonstrating to readers that the
technological advancements around human life are not without complex ethical and moral issues.
These issues are displayed in the clones' deep emotional responses and powerful relationships
with each other, so their treatment in the novel provokes intense emotion in many readers. Some
readers may feel pity for the clones, who have little agency in their lives, and others may feel
a deep sense of sorrow and guilt that the clones must suffer for others deemed more valuable
than they. In terms of ethical responses, some readers may question what qualities separate
humans from clones after all; is the inability to procreate enough to treat the...

How can Paul include self control (Gal 5:23) as expressive of freedom and the Spirit? Isn't self control the opposite of freedom? How can Paul include...

Part of the key to understanding why "self-control" is added as part of being
"called for freedom" is to consider the nature of the things that are antithetical to
being "called to freedom." These are:

the works
of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21
envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like

When
self-control is considered in light of these antithetical characteristics, it is clearer that
self-control--which is missing in cases of fornication, sorcery, etc--is a precursor to personal
freedom and is a fruit of the Spirit--who gives freedom from the law--within those who are
converted to the way of Christ (of course, the term "Christian" was not in use during
the period being discussed).

In March, by Geraldine Brooks, what were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoroeau's opinions of slavery in the novel? What solutions do they seem...

Both
Emerson and Thoreau were for emancipation and against slavery. According to the novel
, by, Emerson was "passionately eloquent" on the subject and did
not mind taking credit for creating change. Thoreau was more modest in his...

What are the major differences between realism, liberalism and constructivism theories of international relations?

The previous
answers are already quite good, but I have a bit more to add that I think will draw them out in
high relief.

Realists believe that nations are motivated by
self-interest.

Liberals believe that nations are motivated by
ideals.

Constructivists believe that nations are whatever we make them to
be.

In a fundamental sense, the constructivists are obviously right; nations
are entities we created (relatively recently!) by collective action, and we could make them
differently if we all agreed to do so. The harshest criticism one can really make about
constructivism is that it may be too vague to be useful; it is undeniably
true.

But there are aspects of liberalism and even so-called "" (I
hate that name; "rationalism" isn't terrible, but I think I'd go with something like
"atomism" or "self-interest theory") which are true.

Many nations are in fact motivated by ideals and capable of cooperating with one another to make
the world more like what they wish it to be. International...

What is a good thesis statement involving good and evil from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson?

A good thesis statement
about good and evil from is that good and evil are not distinct from each
other but are intertwined and defined by each other. Dr. Jekyll, the quintessentially morally
upright man in the eyes of society, has long contended with the secret darker side of himself.
He writes a letter in which he explains his understanding of the dualistic nature of
humans:

I learned to
recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that
contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was
only because I was radically both.

In other words, he
realizes that he can only be good and upright because he also has a darker and more evil side to
himself. He also realizes that all of humankind also has this duality and that good can only
exist alongside evil because it is defined by its opposite.

When Dr. Jekyll
tries to use a drug to separate his evil side, Mr. Hyde, from his good side, he finds this
situation untenable. The evil actions Mr. Hyde has carried out make Dr. Jekyll so repulsed that
he winds up killing himself. Dr. Jekyll recognizes that good and evil must exist alongside each
other and temper each other and that they cannot exist ever as unadulterated good or
unadulterated evil. It is instead our internal battle between good and evil that defines us as
human beings.

How is Tennyson's Ulysses a dramatic monologue?

Tennyson'sfollows the pattern of a few other
poems by Tennyson in being written in the voice of a character in Homeric epic, but either from
a viewpoint or perspective not found in Homer. In the case of Ulysses, the poem is narrated by
Odysseus after he has returned to Ithaca, settled down, and found domestic life in the poor
rocky island lacking in the grandeur and drama of his time fighting the Trojan War and returning
from Troy.

Generically, a dramaticis a stand-alone work written entirely in
the voice of a narrator distinct from the author addressed to either an explicit audience with
the reader understood as implicit audience or not having an explicit audience but being a
"dialogue of the mind with itself" which the reader can be said to overhear. Ulysses
conforms to this pattern, although it differs from Browning's dramatic monologues in that we
sympathize with rather than distrust the narrator.

 

Pride And Prejudice Short Summary

The Regency
novella tells the story about a family of 7 made of Mr. andand their five
daughters. The time is the Napoleonic Wars circa the 1810-1820 and women had a low status within
society unless they married well. It was a struggle throughout the story for elder sistersandto
comply with the obstinate ways of their mother in that they should marry a man of means, rather
than a man they loved. Still Jane and Elizabeth were able to stick to what they believed and
found love in the end despite of the drawbacks that their lack of aristocratic status (and
dowry) made them encounter.

In all, the novel is about how Elizabeth and Jane
seek and find love without compromising their dignity, and with the full intention of marrying
for love and not for financial gain. The attitude of Mrs. Bennet and her husband, and that of
the othercolor the novel with comedy since they represent the typical characters of aristocratic
and country upbringings that are mocked through the story.

Discuss the significance of the three-pillory scenes in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

The platform
of the pillory, or the scaffold, is an actual platform that a guilty person must stand on for a
length of time in order to be put on display for their sins and suffer public
humiliation.

1st scene:

who:and (baby) . 

when: Noon
reason:
Hester's punishment as dictated by the laws of the colony for comitting
adultery
significant spectators: the entire colony, the
magistrates and ministers,(who has just arrived)
outcome:
Hester will not reveal who the father of the baby is, even when persuaded byhimself (sit. );
Hester shows no signs of remorse nor fear - looks very proud.

2nd
scene:

who: Dimmesdale then Hester and Pearl
with him
when: middle of the night about 7 years
later
reasons: Dimmesdale seeks resolution and forgiveness
for hiding his secret sin; in this symbolic act of repentance (in front of no one) he believes
this will provide his soul with relief
significant
spectators: no one, but Chillingworth shows up at the very end and it is a
mystery how long he's been there and how much he has
seen
outcome: Pearl and Hester join Dimmesdale and for a
moment he has an unusual feeling of strength; Pearl asks him, "Will you stand with us, we
three together, tommorrow noon-tide?"  She continues to condemn him for keeping the secret;
a shooting star then bursts through the sky leaving what looks like a large letter "A"
behind it; the next morning the townspeople who saw it say it was an A for "angel" as
the great Gov. Winthrop died the night before; also, Dimmesdale forgets his glove on the steps,
and when it is found the next morning the townspeople say that Satan himself must have taken it
and placed it there.

3rd scene:

who: Dimmesdale, Pearl,
Hester
when: middle of the day, just after the annual
election day speech made by Dimmesdale
reason: Hester and
Dimmesdale plan to board a boat and leave for England; this is Dimmesdale's final action to
absolve himself of his sin; he climbs the steps first then encourages Hester and Pearl to join
him
significant spectators: the entire colony plus a bunch
of visitors
outcome: Dimmesdale rips his shirt off and
although it is not said exactly what is there, it is assumed he has his own scarlet
letter on his chest; the entire colony finally knows the truth of who the father is;
Chillingworth approaches the steps and tries to get Dimmesdale to come down, then says,
basically, this is the one and only place you could have escaped me - confirming that the only
way for Dimmesdale to truly repent was to come clean before the people; oh yes, and Dimmesdale
dies.

Who was Willie-Jay and why did he take to Perry?

Willie-Jay is a friend
of Perry's who is being released from Kansas State Penitentiary. Willie-Jay is described as
"a slender Irishman with prematurely gray hair and gray, melancholy eyes." He is the
chaplain's clerk who is in jail for a series of small robberies, and, after Perry approaches
him, he seeks to become friends with Perry to have a better chance to bring Perry to salvation.
Willie-Jay senses that Perry is a poet, something rare and savable. Perry paints a technically
adequate portrait of Jesus, but he never truly reforms himself or finds Jesus, which Willie-Jay
knows. When Perry is about to be released from jail, Willie-Jay writes him a heartfelt letter
warning him about his tendency towards explosive reactions. However, Perry feels connected to
Willie-Jay, because he is one of the few people, Perry thinks, who understands his worth. When
Dick proposes that Perry return to Kansas, part of why Perry accepts the invitation is to see
Willie-Jay again after Willie-Jay is released from jail. 

How does Shirley Jackson set the tone in her narrative, "Charles?"

Jackson wrote the story "" in a
light and humorous, yet somewhat reflective, tone. The very first paragraph includes phrases
describing the mother of the story reflecting on the way that she watched her little boy, no
longer a toddler, walk off to school without so much as a glance back to her. The tone is light,
even in this slightly sad, reflective sentence. The author does not allow the main character to
reflect about this incident in a sad way but only as a reflection of life passing by. The author
allows the main character Laurie to bring out the humor in the story with short, funny phrasing
in the voice of Laurie, jokes and childishly rude behaviors that the family does not take too
seriously. This allows Laurie's actions to remain humorous and set the main story tone as a
humorous one.

The story would not have been as effective as a humorous,
reflective story if written in the third person because written as it is, the reader lives the
story through the point of view of Laurie's mom. It is by having her voice be the narration of
the story in first person, that we can experience the humorous side to Laurie's actions. His
actions are funny because we see them as a parent would. Had the story been written in third
person through the eyes of an anonymous narrator, then the story would lose some of the humor
and would not draw the reader into the experience as much.

Compare the backgrounds of Jefferson and Paine; did Paine have an advantage or disadvantage by not being born in the colonies? Explain.

Thomas
Jefferson was born into a privileged family, studied law, and lived a more than comfortable
life. It has been documented that he owned over 600 slaves over the course of his lifetime as a
planter and fathered six children with his slave Sally Hemings. In 1774, he wrote in his
"Summary View of the Rights of British America" that the Virginia Colony was not
seeking to separate from Britain, though he did emphasize that George III was "no more than
the chief officer of the people." However, in 1776, he altered his position in drafting the
Declaration of Independence.

English-born Thomas Paine did not enjoy the
same kind of wealth and comfort as Jefferson. He tried and failed at several professions before
heeding the advice of Benjamin Franklin and emigrating to the American colonies in 1774. Unlike
Jefferson, Paine's belief in independence for the American colonies was immediate. His
publications of "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" made strong
arguments for American...

What does Kazuo Ishiguro try to tell us through his novel Never Let Me Go ? What is it all about?

The novel
points a dystopian future where human beings are cloned to provide a supply of organs for
transplant. This practice, while based in science and a plausible topic for a work of
speculative , is also a richthat may be at the root of the author's purpose in telling the
story. The clones, who don't have parents and who are wards of the state, who are in fact
possessions of the state, could be seen to represent the poor or underprivileged classes of
Great Britain. They are treated not only a ssecond-class citizens, but as subhuman. The belief
that they are not truly human, and that their expressions of emotion or creativity are simply
glitches and not evidence of their having a soul, could be seen to parallel the notion, not
unheard of in modern Britain, that the lower classes are intellectually and socially inferior to
the upper classes. This reinforcement of social hierarchy is a theme that also occurs in other
novels by Ishiguro.

It is also not inappropriate to suggest that the novel
offers a commentary on the breakdown of the medical industry in Great Britain, which once had
one of the finest healthcare systems in the world. Its transition from socialized to partly
privatized has been disastrous, and the novel could be exploring what it would mean for the rich
to be the recipients of the best medical care while the poor are exploited by this
system.

the message you think the author is sending and consider your personal world as well as the society and world you believe you live in. the message...

I think
that is speaking on two levels. There actually used to be people who spent
their lives searching for a way to turn common metals into gold. Alchemy received a great deal
of attention for many, many years, however, this book is all about symbolism. There is a much
deeper meaning to the idea of changing something common into gold versus finding wealth in
things that do not have "worldly value." What is the old saying? "All that
glitters is not gold."

On deeper level, I feel that Coelho may well
have been speaking to that which is "treasure" for one is not necessarily
"treasure" for another. After all...

On what page does Winston say that "freedom is the ability to say that two plus two equals four?"

In Part
One, chapter 7 of the online Planet Ebook Edition of ,writes in his diary,
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four" ( 103). As Winston is
contemplating the extensive authority and power of the Party, he recognizes that the government
will soon make citizens believe that two plus two equals five using the concept of doublethink,
which is when a person believes and accepts two contradicting ideas simultaneously. Winston
realizes that despite the Party's overarching control of society, he is able to maintain his
independence by thinking logically and rejecting the Party's manufactured perspective of the
world. Unlike the majority of citizens in Oceania, Winston rejects the Party's propaganda and
knows that government agents have been effectively altering history in the Ministry of Truth.
The Party is essentially practicing reality control in order to make every citizen perfectly
orthodox and ensure the Party's reign for eternity. In such a...

The Emigree Analysis

Carol Rumens work
of poetry entitled The Emigree is about a child being forced to leave her home and flee to
another land. It is a fantastic work, and can teach us much about the refugee situation
exploding as a result of wars in the Middle East.

The child is viewing her
home city through rose-tinted glasses, meaning that she only remembers the best aspects of
living there. She writes, my memory of it is sunlight-clear, which I believe to be significant
because sunlight brings forward theof warmth and happiness (Rumens). Rumens follows this up soon
after with the following lines: The worst news I receive of it cannot break / my original
view, the bright, filled paperweight (Rumens). This means no matter what news she hears of how
awful things are in her original city, she has a paperweight holding the memories firmly in
place, again with the imagery of brightness. In the following lines, we learn the reason she was
likely forced to leave: It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, / but I am branded by
an impression of sunlight (Rumens). Apparently she is leaving a war-torn country ruled by
tyrants, but the sunlight in her mind cannot be erased. Her memory, therefore, is colored by
nostalgia. It is in the same manner that one might think of an old girlfriend or boyfriend,
remembering the good times and disregarding the bad.

Of her vocabulary, or
language, she notes, It may by now be a lie, banned by the state / but I cant get it off my
tongue. It tastes of sunlight (Rumens). The lie banned by the state could refer to anything
positive she has to say about her homeland. Again, we have the sunlight coming into play, in the
shape of pleasant memories. It is notable that sunlight is used as a taste, because it can be
interpreted to mean anything which tastes pleasant. The poet could have used some type of candy,
but used sunlight because it works on different levels, and because it is a recurring theme
throughout the work.

She also personifies her city, noting I comb its hair
and love its shining eyes (Rumens). This can mean that she maintains her memories by reliving
them within her mind, always ensuring the beauty does not fade.  The closing five lines are a
bit trickier to analyze:

My city takes me dancing through
the city

of walls. They accuse me of absence, they circle me.

They accuse me of being dark in their free city.

My city hides
behind me. They mutter death,

and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.
(Rumens).

Again, she personifies her city, and it takes
her dancing through the city of walls. The walls she refers to could be the walls of a refugee
camp. The walls surround her, and accuse her of negativity, believing she should happy in this
free place where she feels uncomfortable. Her city does not protect her from this new city of
walls; rather, she protects her original city from the new one. It hides behind her, within her
mind, and she defends the memory from those who would taint it. Her shadow falling as evidence
of sunlight could be proof to the other city that she maintains her love for her homeland, and
is not willingly going to adopt the new customs, language, and overall culture of her new
home.

The poem is a great example of childhood
idealization.

What are the five most important things Zinn says about Columbus?

1.
While the Arawaks were "remarkable for their hospitality," Columbus embodied the greed
that characterized Europe in the Renaissance. His expedition was motivated by the gold he was
sure he would find.

2. He immediately enslaved the natives and forcefully
enlisted them in his futile quest for gold. (There was very little in the Caribbean.)

3. Power-hungry, he sent a wildly exaggerated report to the king and queen of Spain
about the gold he had found and was then sent on a second expedition with seventeen ships to
bring back gold and slaves. However, the majority of the slaves died in...

Referencing Huston Smith's The World's Religions and Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, how did the emergence of sacred thought affect...

Smith
and Durkheim both maintain that sacred thought was a primary motivator in early societies.
Huston Smith from his post-World War II perspective, aims to counter the dominance of secular
views, while ‰mile Durkheim formed his ideas in the late 19th century. Smith, while clearly
influenced by Durkheim in positively valuing the belief systems that predated organized
religion, does not see religion as primarily social, which was Durkheims position. Also
similarly to Durkheim, Huston Smith bases much of his analysis in Australian Aboriginal society;
both analyze their contemporary beliefs for insights into religion in ancient times.

Huston Smith discusses the earliest or primal religions as moral guides that encoded
positive values and enabled society to develop. He also calls them tribal religions, noting
how they reflect the tribal thinking that binds people. Claiming that they predate writing and
were transmitted orally, he emphasizes the importance of memory at the...

Explain how Iago is manipulative, include specific examples and quotations.

In
, Iago is extremely manipulative. Iago is a master at manipulation. Through
his mere words, he plants seeds of doubt in Othello. Truly, Iago is subtle in his accusation as
he merely suggests that Cassio may be having an affair with Desdemona. No doubt, Iago
manipulates the situation to convince Othello that his wife is unfaithful with Cassio. When
Cassio and Desdemona are merely talking, Iago leads Othello to the scene. As Othello views the
scene, Iago plants seeds of doubt and jealousy in Othello. He uses hesitation as he speaks. This
causes Othello to question what Iago is really saying. With Othello's insistence, Iago gives in
and expresses his dislike of Cassio and Desdemona talking to one another:

Ha! I dont like that.

When
Othello questions Iago in saying, "What did you say?" Iago begins scheming. Iago
pretends to be hesitant in his accusations:

Nothing, my
lord.

Artfully and cleverly, Iago is causing Othello to
think that Cassio and his wife should not be talking.

When Cassio realizes
that Othello is coming, he quickly leaves the scene. Iago uses this moment to make Othello think
that Cassio is stealing away because he is guilty of having an intimate talk with Othello's
wife. Iago comments about Cassio quickly fleeing from the scene:

I cannot believe
That he would steal away so guiltily,
Seeing you
coming.

Later on, Iago uses Cassio's genuine support of
Othello to tempt  Cassio to become intoxicated, thus causing him to brawl with Roderigo. Of
course, Iago is a master manipulator:

Come, lieutenant, I have
a bottle of wine; and here outside are a number
of
Cyprus gents that would happily drink a round to the
health of black
Othello.

Although Cassio initially
refuses to drink, Iago uses his gift of scheming and talks Cassio into getting drunk.

After setting the scene, Iago moves on to further his evil plot. After Cassio and
Roderigo fight, Othello releases Cassio from his position as lieutenant. Iago furthers his
devious plan by manipulating Desdemona. Using Desdemona's prime weakness, naivety, Iago puts
Cassio up to seeking Desdemona's help in getting his position as lieutenant back.

With the scene set, Othello begins to believe his beautiful Desdemona has been
unfaithful with Cassio. Iago realizes Othello's insecurities and benefits by them. Othello is
too trusting of Iago. Iago ever so subtly points out that Desdemona is capable of
lying:

She deceived her father by marrying you;

Iago is a crafty manipulator. He definitely causes Othello to
question Desdemona's integrity. At the same time, Iago assures Othello that he has only
discredited Desdemona because of his love for Othello:

I
hope you will consider that what I have spoken
Comes from my love;

Iago craftily apologizes for loving Othello too much:

I humbly beg your pardon
Because I was loving you too
much.

Convinced of Iago's love, Othello states that he is
forever indebted to Iago:

I am bound to you
forever.

No doubt, Iago is a master at deceit.
Iago is an excellent actor. He is convincing in his false sincerity. Because of Iago's expert
manipulation, Othello smothers his beautiful wife.   

What does our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter mean?

Researchers suggest that this quote, while
often repeated by politicians, is probably not authentic. Rather, it is a sort of paraphrase of
multiple quotes that urged taking positive action against oppression. One of these quotes was in
reference to civil rights protests in Selma, Alabama, where King urged people to stand up for
their political rights even though it might mean their deaths. Other, similar quotes from King's
sermons and public speeches have been documented. Whether or not the quote is fully authentic,
it certainly gives voice to a belief that was central to the nonviolent direct action at the
heart of the Civil Rights Movement. People who engaged in this kind of protest did so with the
knowledge that they confronted a segregation regime whose protectors were willing to use (and in
fact often did use) violence against people who challenged it. King faced repeated assassination
attempts, including house bombings, long before he was murdered in Memphis in 1968. Many other
civil rights activists, rank and file and leaders, also faced violence and even death. Without
the belief that some things were worth dying for, nobody would have been willing to participate
in the direct action that made the movement successful. So this quote, while perhaps not
entirely accurate, is completely consistent with King's philosophy and that of the Civil Rights
Movement as a whole.

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Discuss English colonization of North America.

It is hard to
know how to answer this question as there are many aspects to the English colonization of North
America.  I will discuss a few important aspects of that colonization.

First,
it is extremely important to realize that the English came in relatively large numbers to North
America.  This is something that was not true of either the French or the Spanish.  This had at
least two important consequences.

One consequence was that the English
created what has been called a frontier of exclusion.  What this means is that they did not
include the Native Americans in their society.  Unlike the Spanish and the French, the English
were so numerous that they did not need the Indians for much and therefore did not include them
in their societies.

A related consequence is that the English therefore
simply pushed the Indians off their lands.  The English wanted the land and did not want the
Indians.  Since they were more powerful than the Indians militarily, this meant that the Indians
had to either leave or die.

A second important aspect of the English
colonization is that it created a democratic society.  England was already relatively
democratic, so its colonies were too.  The colonies were also rather egalitarian and therefore
more able to sustain democracy.

These are some of the most important aspects
of the English colonization of North America.

what would be some elements when referring to the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell in the part of culture legacy

In
chapter 6, which is also part of the novel, Gladwell begins with a description of Harlan, and
how this little known rural town was popularized by two immigrant founding families. He sets
this description up to make it clear that this unassuming place, with all of its simplicity and
beauty, was still rocked by the actions- and culture- of how people were raised, and how they
were born.

Gladwell goes on to say that individual families fighting each
other is a feud, but multiple families fighting in this way is a pattern (See page 166). This
pattern has been most notably explained as a culture of honor.

In essence, a
big takeaway is that people are products of not only how they are raised, meaning their
environments, but also how they are raised. To see evidence of this, Gladwell explains that the
region along the Appalachian Mountains, which includes Harlan and many of the scenes for the
most violent and notable family feud, is due in part because of the people who settled that
area. Those individuals were of Scottish-Irish decent, and they fully believed in honor and a
code of such in their lives. For them, this culture of honor is as intrinsic in their lives as
the blood that courses through their veins. 

Gladwell further explains this
code of honor by illuminating the Southern region of America. He explains that the South is more
violent than others places, due to this same culture of honor. He states,

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long
lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and
social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in
directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them (See page
173 of Outliers).

What is Mediated scaffolding? How can it be implemented to support students in learning the English language regardless of whether the first language...

In my years
of teaching, I have found that the terminology used to described teaching methods is more
difficult that it needs to be. Jerome Bruner coined the term scaffolding.
That said, teachers use scaffolding in every lesson they teach. Scaffolding is the steps you
take to insure your students get it and starts with simpler skills, concepts, etc. and moves
toward the more difficult. The teacher may also make sure similar knowledge or skills are
isolated so that the student learns them without interference (such as /p/ and /b/ in a phonics
lesson).

Students are expected to acquire knowledge and become
self-regulated/independent learners. Some students, such as those with learning disabilities or
English Language Learners, need more individualized attention. Hence, the term
mediated scaffolding, i.e., instruction that is closely guided by the
teacher.

The amount, sequence and selection of information
enhance the probability that information will be learned.

In mediated scaffolding, as the learner makes progressknowledge,
skills, and abilities increasethe degree of scaffolding changes. The teacher may change the
design of the task to be completed or the amount of assistance offered.

The
University of Oregon Center for Teaching and Learning web page Big Ideas in Beginning Reading is
an excellent example of scaffolding in early reading. Each section gives examples of
mediated scaffolding. The Big Ideas web page can be found href="http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/comp/comp_dr_1.php">here. 

Students in ELL or ESL are as diverse as the students in any other classroom. Mediated
scaffolding will follow the same principles for those students as students learning any other
content.  This href="http://esl.fis.edu/teachers/fis/scaffold/page1.htm">link will take
you to a good example of scaffolding for ESL. 

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Review the song and lyrics to "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell with regard to environmental ethics, and interpret Joni Mitchell's song in your own...

In Joni
Mitchells Big Yellow Taxi, she sings of a world that has no awareness that it had devastated
nature to a sorrowful extent. The lyrics describe how natural paradisemeaning trees and other
foliagehas been replaced by growing industrialization and establishments such as a hotels,
boutiques, parking lots, and entertainment centers. Mitchell also adds an element ofto this with
the following lyrics:

They took all the trees, put em in a
tree museum,
And they charged the people dollar and a half just to see em.

This is in reference to the Foster Botanical Garden of Honolulu,
Hawaii, a living museum of rare and endangered tropical plants. Here, she demonstrates how
twisted the logic of industrialization isthat it eradicated greenery from public spaces, where
it rightly belongs, and forced it to move into privatized spaces, where only privileged
individuals can access and so appreciate the beauty of nature. It is clear in Big Yellow Taxi
that Mitchell laments how natural beauty is simultaneously undervalued and capitalized
on.

In the fourth verse, she likens this shift to the abrupt and hurtful
departure of a loved one:

Late last night, I heard the
screen door slam,
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.

Notice that Mitchell used the image of a big yellow taxi in
connection with the aforementioned parking lots paved over previously fertile and grassy ground.
This also serves as commentary on how the way we treat the environment has an impact on our
relationships with each other.

The sentimental tone of Mitchells song only
serves to express her sorrow and regret over environmental devastation. In an interview with the
New York Times, she shares how she came to write the song:

when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw
these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot
as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart ... this blight on paradise.

Why did the author write the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

In Edwards'
sermon "," he uses the fear factor to compel people to turn to God. He condemns the
people, hoping this will straighten them out. His Puritanism was the driving force behind his
message:

The Puritans emphasized the covenant of
works, which was in the control of human beings, and the covenant of grace, which was in God's
power to bestow.

Edwards believed that the
works of mankind could save. In other words, it is in mankind's control to save himself. He
believed God's grace could be limited. He insinuated that God can be judgmental and angry.
Edwards' belief in God was that He was ready to throw people into hell.

Edwards used his sermon to prove that the people were worthy of hell and only God's
restraints kept God from tossing the people into a lake of fire:

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would
presently ignite and burst into flames of hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There
is laid in the very nature of all unsaved men, a foundation for the torments of hell.

Edwards believed man was so corrupt until hell was waiting. He
believed that mankind could burst into flames at any moment. He preached that God had restraint;
otherwise, mankind would be destroyed by hell's fire.

Edwards was judgmental
and self righteous. Had he search out the true loving nature of God, he would have found in John
3:16-17 that God sent his son into the world to save them, not condemn them.

Edwards preached as if he were angry with the people. He was the one who insisted that
God was so angry until He was about to throw the people in hell. For some people, the sermon may
have been successful. Needless to say, for those who had an image of God dangling people over
the fires of hell, no doubt some would run to the altar in repentance:

What distinguishes this most famous example of Puritan revival
sermons is its use ofso vivid that it left people in the pews trembling and weeping.

What feelings and opinions does Alice Walker evoke in her readers with her short story Everyday Use?

Another
feeling that Alice walker evoked in reading the story is sentimentality.  It is felt by
visualizing the items being discussed in the story as part of the past.  The quilts, the
bench, and the churn were all things made with time, love, devotion and
sometimes hardship. Appreciation is another feeling the story conveyed to me. It made me have a
greater appreciation for things from my past.  I have alot of embroidered pictures, tablecloths
and napkins that my grandmother made and I haven't used them because I've been afraid I would
ruin them, but after reading this story I have begun to use them and reminesce about my own past
and moments that I had with my Grandmother.  The power of words is amazing!  They can make your
life take on a whole new meaning.

What do you know about Nnaemeka's father in "Marriage is a Private Affair"?

Achebe
offers significant details throughout the short story "Marriage is a Private Affair"
that characterize Nnaemeka's father. Nnaemeka's father is depicted as a strict man who abides by
the traditional customs of his tribe. Throughout the short story, Nnaemeka father's shuns his
son for choosing to marry a woman from another tribe on his own. Nnaemeka's father stubbornly
insists that his son follow the traditional custom of marrying the woman his parents choose.
Nnaemeka's father is deeply hurt that his son neglected his advice to marry Ugoye and instead
married Nene. Nnaemeka's father is also depicted as an austere Christian, who constantly reads
the Bible and quotes scripture. However, he is also portrayed as a hypocrite because he does not
demonstrate the Christian ideals of forgiveness and mercy. He harbors hate and resentment in his
heart, which makes him a depressed, conflicted man. Toward the end of the story, Nnaemeka
father's is portrayed as man filled with guilt, who wasted valuable years shunning his son and
grandchildren. 

How did the narrator in "The Black Cat" try to justify his sin?

As an
unreliable narrator, the narrator of "" sets up his entire story to try to excuse his
actions, despite the ruse of trying to "unburden his soul" before his execution. The
sin of killing the first black cat, Pluto, is justified by the narrator's sad slide into
alcoholism. He claims that his: 

"General temperament
and characterthrough the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance had (I
blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse."

Here the narrator shirks responsibility. Alcoholism is a thing that
happened to him, a villain that attacked him, not a choice he made. When he cuts out Pluto's
eye, his "original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from [his] body." When he
actually kills the cat, he goes on a whole philosophical speech on the destructive nature of
mankind, saying,

"Perverseness is one of the
primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments,
which give direction to the character of Man."

Through all of this confession, the narrator has not fully taken responsibility for his
actions, but rather blamed alcohol, the supernatural, and human fallibility for the death of
Pluto.

When it comes to the murder and burial of his wife, the narrator says
little to justify it, which shouldn't be surprising as he started beating her before he started
beating Pluto when the alcoholic rage started. He merely talks about the fear and hatred of his
second cat boiling him into a frenzy, during which he attacked it with an ax. When his wife
tried to stop him, he couldn't help but kill her instead.

Clearly, the
story's narrator is either insane or completely unwilling to take responsibility for his
choices.

In Chains, what challenges did Isabel face and how do they change her?

Isabel
encounters numerous challenges in her life, especially after the demise of the kindhearted Miss
Finch. However, her most notable challenge is her quest for freedom. Their troubles start
immediately she and her sister are sold off to the Locktons after failing to prove that Miss
Finch had freed her family in a will. Ruth is forced to take on backbreaking labor at the
Locktons estate, which she perseveres through while remaining determined to find a way out to
freedom. She detests the inhumane conditions under which she and her sibling live, and she would
go to any extent to gain freedom.

After her encounter with Curzon, she
becomes a spy and exchanges information with different groups with the hope of gaining freedom
in return. Her hopes do not materialize as the groups only use her to gain crucial information
to advance their agenda. Finally, Isabel realizes that nobody but herself will help her secure
freedom, which she does at the end of the book when she manages to sneak Curzon from prison and
row the boat across the river to Jersey.

Among other challenging encounters
for Isabel is the loss of Ruth. She wakes up one day and discovers that Madam Lockton has sold
Ruth off to another owner. Isabel becomes momentarily defiant, an act that forces her to run
away from Locktons estate only to end up beaten and in jail. The judge rules that she be branded
upon Madam Locktons suggestion. The branding is a painful experience for Isabel; it is a
permanent mark and reminder of her slave status. Isabel sinks into depression soon after due to
the loss of Ruth and her dwindling hope of ever being free. However, her attitude towards her
branding changes, and instead of shame, she takes it as a proud survival symbol, just like the
one her father had.

How is existentialism portrayed in this book?

While
existentialism isn't an overt theme in the book, there are elements of it, nonetheless. One such
element is the need to impose meaning on an inherently meaningless world. That's precisely what
the animals do when they take over the running of the farm from Mr. Jones. Where once they were
slaves, now the animals have meaning and purpose in their lives.

Existential
freedom is another important element. In...

importance of religion what is the importance of religion in our life?

It depends
on the person whether religion is important in one's life.   plays a key role in many peoples
lives, and almost no part in others.  However we all need to be sensitive to religions and
religious differences, so religion is important to everyone.

How is the individual vs. society presented in 1984?

In the case of the
novel, the individual is clearlywho is joined byin his stand against society. The society is the
dystopian future created by the Party, who is shown, from the very beginning of the story, to be
a force that seeks to control not just every aspect of the physical life of their people but
also their psychological, mental and emotional life as well. Independent thought is something
that is the anathema of the party, and the propaganda, the constant fear of surveillance and
everything else about the party is designed to undermine mankind's ability to think
independently and to criticise, dream and imagine. Note the following quote from Book I Chapter
7, which perfectly sums up the society that Winston is in conflict with:

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or
later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the
very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.

This is a key quote, as Winston is looking at a children's history
book and he marvels at the Party's ability to control the minds of its populace and make them
accept what they say as the truth. This quote is therefore about psychological manipulation and
the way that the Party influence their populace to greatly. Winston's stance against this
society is hinged on the simple sum. Note what he writes in his diary: "Freedom is the
freedom to say that two plus two makes four." At the very end of the novel, when he traces
"2+2=5," the reader is shown how his stand against society has been a failure. He
conforms.

The major problem in the world of Jane Austens novels is that of getting the characters properly married. Discuss the feature with particular...

Marriage does seem to be
a universal concern for Austen's characters. Marriage was of course the only way that a woman
could raise herself up the social ladder and thus the person you married was of key importance.
However, what is interesting about the presentation of marriage in this novel is the way that
Austen suggests rising too high above your social class is something that can actually lead to
unhappiness. The first marriage of Mr. Weston to a woman socially his superior was one that only
brought sadness to both parties. In the same way, Frank Churchill must keep his attachment to
the socially inferior Jane Fairfax secret because of his fears of being disinherited by his
aunt. Lastly, note howthinks of Harriet when she admits to entertaining hopes of a marriage to
Mr. Knightley, a man who is socially well above her:

How
Harriet could ever have had the presumption to raise her thoughts to Mr. Knightley!--How she
could dare to fancy herself the chosen of such a man till actually assured of it!

Theof this passage is two-fold: Harriet is only free to entertain
such "presumption" because of Emma's own work in encouraging her to think of herself
as the secret daughter of some noble gentleman, and it is only when Emma finds out Harriet is
interested in Mr. Knightley that she realises she is in love with Mr. Knightley herself. Emma
causes Harriet to forsake a marriage to a man more in keeping with her social station, but
fortunately Harriet herself seizes the initiative and accepts Robert Martin. Marriage may be a
vehicle for upward socal mobility, but in so doing, Austen seems to warn, characters may commit
themselves to bitterness and unhappiness. Happiness in marriage is something that is only
achieved through equality of social status and temperament.

What is Nestors opinion of Odysseus?

Odysseus's son, Telemachus, has embarked on an epic journey to find out what's happened
to his father. On the first leg of that journey he winds up on Pylos, where he meets King
Nestor, one of Odysseus's former comrades at the siege of Troy.

At a huge,
lavish feast thrown in honor of the sea-god...

What is the atmosphere in "A Worn Path," and would it change if the setting were different?

At first,
it's tempting to say that thein the story is ominous: Phoenix Jackson is making her long,
lonesome way through the countryside, and she's quite old; her eyes are failing her and every
step must be carefully measured in order for her to stay safe. Indeed, it's a pretty precarious
position: her shoes are unlaced, and it seems like the entire landscape is trying to catch her,
and hold her:

Seem like there is chains about my feet,
time I get this far . . . Something always take a hold of me on this hillpleads I should
stay[,]

she says to herself at one point. Once over the
hill, she gets caught in a thorn bush, and the hot sun beats down on her. She has to clamber
over a barbed-wire fence, and through the "maze" of "dead corn," after the
"dead trees, like black men with one arm."

All of these images
seem likely to create a suspenseful atmosphere, and indeed, there is a kernel of suspense in the
story, particularly when the man who helps Phoenix out of the ditch points...

What are the various elements€”scientific, technological, economic, and societal€”that came together during the eighteenth century to culminate in...

England
is known as the first country to bring about a full-scale Industrial Revolution in the
mid-eighteenth century. The country's Agricultural Revolution, rise of a middle class, control
over and use of colonies, and rise of industrial and scientific inventions were major causes of
the country's broad and impactful industrial revolution. England's Industrial Revolution brought
ever-increasing wealth disparities between rich and poor, a rising middle class, wide-scale
pollution, urbanization, massive exploitation of workers, and the destruction of common spaces
and communal lands.

Technologically, the mid-eighteenth century brought about
the invention of machines such as the flying shuttle, the Spinning Jenny, the water frame, and
the power loom. These innovations greatly increased the quantity and speed of textile
production. The invention of the steam engine dramatically transformed transportation and thus
the transportation of raw materials and manufactured goods.

Economically,
England's colonies provided an overseas consumer market. Additionally, India provided the
country with the raw resources for the textile mills. Additionally, England's colonies also
provided an overseas market.

Socially, the rising middle class sought to
distinguish themselves from poor and working-class folks through their consumption of
manufactured clothing and goods. As food surpluses grew, so did economic consumption of a
growing Victorian-era middle class.

Scientists contributed to the creation of
new energy sources and the rise of the chemical industries.

Santiago explains to the sun why alchemy exists and what alchemists do. What does he say? What does it mean?

Earlier in
the story, the Englishman tells Santiago that one is closest to the Soul of the World when one
yearns exclusively for a specific purpose. The Englishman also contends that the Soul of the
World is always a positive force.

Santiago discovers that there is only one
way to find the Soul of the World, and it is through alchemy. Alchemists believe that a metal
can be purified through fire. Once purified, the metal will be free of its individual properties
and become the Soul of the World. The Soul of the World is supposedly filled with all wisdom and
has knowledge of all earthly things. The alchemists call the discovery of the Soul of the World
the Master Work. They believe that turning lead into gold will give them the Soul of the
World.

By extension, once humans have the Soul of the World, they can acquire
the wisdom to become their best selves.

Later in the story, Santiago meets
the sun and has a conversation with it. He explains why alchemy exists and what alchemists
do.

Santiago says that alchemy exists to inspire people to become their best
selves. He likens the journey of transforming into one's best self to a search for treasure.
Once our treasure or purpose is found, we will be inspired to grow mentally and spiritually. We
will be inspired to become better than we were before.

Santiago contends that
alchemists have a special purpose in life. They labor to turn lead into gold. It is an arduous
process, but they are undaunted by the challenges they face. The process of turning lead into
gold is a mission, a constant push to improve and innovate. When alchemists strive against all
odds to turn lead into gold, they are setting the rest of us an example.

According to Santiago, the alchemists are showing us that, when we strive to become our
best selves, we also inspire others to change. In turn, the world becomes a better
place.

What is the feminist perspective of "Girl"?

""
highlights the ways in which the nuclear family functions to pass down gender roles to children.
Framed as a mother giving advise to her daughter, we see the way in which the mother is trying
to convince/coerce her daughter into being a specific type of woman (one who cleans, is focused
on the needs of men, follows a traditional kind of sexual morality, etc.) whether or not her
daughter wants to be that kind of woman.

From a feminist perspective, we can
say that this shows the way in which gender roles, tradition, and the power structure of the
family all function to suppress...

A sample of a radioactive substance decayed to 94.5% of its original amount after a year. a) What is the half-life of the substance? b) How long would...

Denote
the relative amount of the substance remaining after `t` years as `R( t ).` We know that after
`H` years (the half-life period) `1/2` will remain: `R(H) = 1/2.` Then after `H` more years the
remaining amount will be `1/2` of `1/2,` i.e. `1/4,` then `1/8` and so on.

It
is a logarithmic decay function with the base 2, `R(t) = 1/2^(t/H).`

a) First, we want to find the half-life H given that `R(1)
= 94.5%:`

`1/2^(1/H) = 94.5% = 0.945, 2^(1/H) = 1/0.945.`

Now take natural logarithm `ln` on both parts: `(1/H)ln(2) = ln(1/0.945),` `H =
ln(1/0.945) / ln(2) approx 12.25 (years).`

We used `ln` because it is present
on most calculators.

b) Now we know `R(t) approx
1/2^(t/12.25)` and our goal is to find for what t it will be 15%. It is the same as solve the
equation `1/2^(t/12.25) = 0.15` for t. It is not hard:

`2^(t/12.25) =
1/0.15,`

and now repeat the same steps we performed at a), apply ln and get a
linear equation. I got about 33.5 years.