How does Hester's character evolve in Chapter 5? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Chapter V of
portrays Hester's departure from prison as she takes now an
"unattended walk" that begins a "daily custom" which she must endure or
"sink beneath."  Hester is faced with her new position in the community, realizing
that her individuality is gone.  For, now she is to become the general symbol for the preacher
of the living figure of sin.  And, strangely enough, it is this sin from which she could escape
by moving somewhere else that somehow fatally keeps Hester in the Puritan community:

Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the
soil. It was as if a new birth....had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every
other pilgrim and wanderer, into 's wild and dreary, but life-long home. All other scenes of
eartheven that village of rural England, where happy infancy and stainless maidenhood seemed yet
to be in her mother's keeping...were foreign to her in comparison. The chain that bound her here
was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but never could be broken.

With this sense of doom, therefore, Hester sets forth on her new
path in life. Then, too, there is also the pull of the force of her love for the man who
has been her partner in shame; she cannot leave because of her love for him and because she
feels she may be able to purge her soul by playing the role of martyr. And, so, lonely and
friendless, Hester establishes herself on the edge of the community in a dwelling that faces the
west. Yet, she is not without means as she can do elaborate needlework.  And, while ornateness
is forbidden the Puritans, those assuming power or positions of eminence have need for the
ornateness that Hester could create. Her work was evodemced on the governor and other officials,
on the baby, but never on the bride.  Often, however, Hester turned her needle to the crude
handiwork of clothing for the poor, perhaps as a means of penance. As narrator, Hawthorne writes
of her talent with the needle,

To Hester Prynne it might
have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life. Like all other
joys, she rejected it as sin. This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter
betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful,
something that might be deeply wrong, beneath.

While
Hester sews, it seems, there is something of the psychological which enters into her artistic
actions.  While they express her creativity, at the same time, Hester perceives her talent as
expressions of a sinful pride just as her original sin of adultery has been. This distinction,
also, sets Hester apart from the others,

She stood apart
from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside,
and can no longer make itself seen or felt....

Having
become a social pariah, Hester holds the insults of others quietly in her heart.  When she
attends religious services, she often finds herself as part to the text of the sermon.  Children
often let her pass by, but then run after her,calling her names, and whenever she passed anyone,
they invariably stare at her letter, first with astonishment and fear, then with repulsion.  So
tortured is Hester that she is anxious upon each encouter with others, more sensitive with each
"new torture."  But, sometimes it seems that Hester sees a sympathetic eye. Still,
Hester believes that none are guilty but her. 

In "A Streetcar Named Desire," what does the streetcar named Desire symbolize?

There is
definitely symbolism in the title of thisplay, and in the reference early in scene 1 to . The
story takes place in a decidedly low-income section of New Orleans. It is a blue-collar
neighborhood in which the men perform manual labor during the day and bowl and drink during the
evening. Stanley Kowalski and his friend Mitch are theof Williamss vision for the setting of his
play. It is with the introduction of Blanche, however, that the full-meaning of the streetcars
name becomes evident. Williamss stage directions introducing the character of Blanche evoke the
image of a woman who has seen better times and who is aging more quickly than her years would
otherwise suggest. Notice in the...

In Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People," what ironies does Joy/Hulga not realize about herself?

Joy Hulga
Hopewell is one of the most ironic characters ever created by Flannery OConnor, an author who
lovedof almost every kind. One of the most ironic aspects of Hulga (one of the main characters
in ) is that she understands herself so little, even though she prides herself on her wide
reading and deep knowledge.  Examples of such irony include the following:

• Hulga realizes that she has a weak heart physically, but she has no idea just how
  weak her heart is spiritually and in terms of compassion and concern for other
  people.
• At one point, Hulga exclaims to her mother,

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see
what you are not? God!

The irony here is exceptional: of
course, it is really Hulga who never looks inside and Hulga who has no idea what she is not. It
is also Hulga who fails to realize that she isn't God -- aO'Connors' phrasing here
permits.

• Similarly, Hulga also quotes Malbranche as saying We
  are not...

To what extent is our nation better off because of globalization?

Our nation
is better off in many ways because of globalization.  However, there are also ways in which we
are worse off.  Overall, I would say that we are somewhat better off because of
globalization.

Typically, we hear most about the down sides of
globalization.  We hear about how jobs have left the US and have gone to places like China or
Bangladesh.  This is very true.  We are...

Realism in The Scarlet Letter: Where are there examples in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

For his
magnum opus, , chose a real historic setting: the years 1642-1649, the
period in which John Winthrop, whose death is represented near the middle of the novel,
established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This Puritan colony had as its intent the
establishment of an ideal community with civil and religious perfection.  In order to maintain
this ideal, strict moral regulations were established; in fact, a prison was constructed as a
place of enforcement for the enforcement of these regulations.

Another real
person added as a character to Hawthorne's narrative is , who represents Richard Bellingham, who
came to America from England in 1630, and who was governor of the colony in 1644, 1654, and
1655.  Another real character is the governor's sister, , who represents Ann Hibbins, a Puritan
woman executed in 1656 for witchcraft.  Still another real character is , an active and strong
figure of Puritan intolerance, who also arrived in America in 1630.

And,
while Hawthorne's discovery of the scarlet letter on the second floor of the Customs House is
fabricated, the author's re-creation of the stigma placed upon a woman such asis lent reality as
similar ways of marking trangressors was certainly done by the Puritans.  Certainly, placing
this worn scarlet letter in the real, ancient Customs House where Hawthorne actually worked,
lends a realistic overtone to the letter.

At the same time, however, the
reader should understand that Hawthorne takes authorial liberties with historical events and . 
For, his use of different events, while meaningful, is also powerfully symbolic.  For instance,
in his first chapter, "The Custom House," Hawthorne recreates for the reader this
ancient building and all that is associated with it in order to lend both authenticity and the
"Puritan guilt" which permeates his narrative.  Thus, Hawthorne introduces his
narrative as his moralas well as a retelling of some real events and
people.

What are some possible explanations for Holden's lack of motivation in school? Provide and discuss 4-5 examples from the novel.

AlthoughCaulfield is an intelligent adolescent, the only class he passes at Pencey Prep
is English. Holden's failing grades have more to do with his negative attitude towards school
and those teaching him than they do with his intelligence.

One possible
explanation for his lack of motivation concerns his perception of his teachers. Holden views
them as phony individuals who are more concerned about looking good in front of the headmaster
than they are about...

Was World War II a "just" war?

Whether or not
a war is just is always a matter of perspective.

In the case of the Second
World War, I think that the Nazis did all they could to justify their actions; after all, the
harsh terms and demands of the Treaty of Versailles had left many Germans bitter and
disillusioned, and had set the stage for what was to follow. In the minds of those Germans who
felt resentment and who were looking for revenge, the war was just.

On the
other end, the British and the French remembered the suffering endured during the First World
War. The French especially had a well-founded mistrust of their German neighbor, and they knew
what destruction awaited them, should history repeat itself. Although Germany had not invaded
Britain, there was a real fear that this was Nazi Germany's ultimate goal, to be followed by
world domination. Had it not been for the Battle of Britain,...

What is the overall meaning of "Battle Royal" as a story?

The
opening battle in the novel The is extremely significant, as it sets up
the thematic setting of the rest of the story. The main character is persecuted, punished, and
oppressed in a racist system in spite of his obvious intelligence and skill. In this
introductory battle, he is shown being given tantalizing opportunities or temptations (such as
the naked white women or the apparent gold coins) which are stripped from him and he is punished
for even pursuing (by fighting in the ring or electrocution upon picking up the coins, which
turn out to be brass and worthless).

This sets up the ideas of racism and
oppression that he will experience and combat throughout the book. Opportunity is presented
before him, only for him to be punished and turned away many times for even thinking of pursuing
it because of his race. He is belittled and taunted and eventually becomes just what was forced
upon him, fighting and scraping for scraps and small opportunities that are much
less...

Give and explain a few reasons or importance of studying psychology of religion

I would
say that there are many reasons it is important to study the psychology of religion. First, if
you are studying religion or people, then you need to know something of how they think. This can
give you invaluable information. This point alone makes such a study...

What question was asked in the bar?

's life is
defined by a kind of perpetual confusion: given how he is trapped within the Party's
manipulation of truth, while he remains self aware as to how artificial that manipulation
actually is.This is one of his great frustrations with life in the world of
: he believes in truth, even as he lives in a society which continually
manipulates facts to achieve its designs.Worse still, as a member of the Outer Party (which must
live under the full weight of 1984's surveillance apparatus), he is given
no recourse for discerning the truth from the propaganda, because everyone else within those
circles is just as trapped in the manipulations as he himself is.

In Chapter
8 of Part 1, Winston Smith travels into one of the Prole neighborhoods (who, it should be noted,
are largely left in squalor).Here, he spots an old man going into one of the pubs.For Smith,
this is a deeply important opportunity, because all real memory of time before the Revolution
has been erased within official circles and rewritten by propaganda (leaving it impossible for
Winston himself to decipher where truth ends and the lies begin).But here, he finds someone who
has actually lived through those changes, and could be expected to remember the world as it had
been before.

Hence, as he goes to speak with the old man, he imagines the
questions he wants to have answered (which would guide the conversation that would
follow):

He would go into the pub, he would scrape
acquaintance with that old man and question him.He would say to him: "Tell me about your
life when you were a boy.What was it like in those days?Were things better than they are now, or
were they worse?" (, 1984, chapter 8)

What follows is a conversation.It is a frustrating experience for Winston, however,
because the old man's memory has been affected by age (leaving Winston without the clear answers
he is searching for).This conversation culminates when, in desperation and frustration, Winston
asks the main question he needs an answer to: whether life had been better in the present or in
the past.

What issues does oedipus king address?

In
his fifth-century BCE tragic play ,explores issues of free will, fate, and
the consequences of intentional ignorance.

At the appearance in the play of
's wife, , the audience learns the prophecy of Oedipus's fate that relates to the death of her
husband, Laius, the former King of Thebes. It's very likely that most of the people who attended
the performance of Oedipus Rex at the Festival of Dionysus in 429 BCE
already knew the story of the play from the Oedipus myths and legends they had heard from
childhood, but Jocasta repeats it for dramatic purposes, and for later audiences unfamiliar with
the story..

JOCASTA. An oracle
Once came to Laius
... declaring he was doomed
To perish by the hand of his own son,
A child that
should be born to him by me. ...
As for the child, it was but three days
old,
When Laius, its ankles pierced and pinned
Together, gave it to be cast
away
By others on the trackless mountain side.
So then Apollo brought it not
to pass
The child should be his father's murderer,
Or the dread terror find
accomplishment,
And Laius be slain by his own son.

Oedipus cannot escape or in any way change his predetermined fate. No matter what he or
anybody else does, Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, and
he did.

King Laius, Oedipus's father, was far more concerned with his own
life that with Oedipus's life when he ordered a shepherd to take the baby Oedipus into the
mountains and leave him there to die. Laius's actions didn't alter Oedipus's fate in any
way.

When Oedipus heard the same prophecy from the Oracle when he was living
as the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope in Corinth after being saved from death in the
mountains, he decided not to return home to Corinth in order to avoid the prophecy.
Nevertheless, Oedipus fulfilled the prophecy when he killed Laius on his way from the Oracle to
Thebes.

Free will seems to exist in the ancient Greek world to the extent
that the day-to-day decisions that a character like Oedipus makes are essentially unimportant
and inconsequential. The gods are far more concerned with the major, life-changing events in
Oedipus's life. They have better things to do than decide what Oedipus is going to have for
breakfast or which sandals he's going to wear.

Laius and Oedipus can do
whatever they choose to try to avoid Oedipus's fate, but their free-will choices to avoid
Oedipus's fate don't make any difference.

Sophocles also explores the
consequences of intentional ignorance. At the opening of the play, Oedipus is truly ignorant of
some important events in his life - being taken to the mountains to die, being adopted by
Polybus and Merope - and he's also ignorant of the importance of events of which he is
aware.

As the play continues, and as facts and circumstances begin to point
to Oedipus as Laius's murderer, Oedipus becomes resistant to this new knowledge, and closes his
mind to it. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, Oedipus repeatedly denies that he is the
man who killed Laius and thrust Thebes into the depths of blight and plague. The facts are
there, but Oedipus refuses to acknowledge or accept them.

There's no
immediate consequence of this intentional ignorance for Oedipus himself - he'll eventually come
to know and accept the truth of the matter - but the consequence for the people of Thebes is
that their suffering due to the blight and plague is unnecessarily prolonged.

Oedipus is enabled in his intentional ignorance by Jocasta. Early in the play,tells
Oedipus that Laius was murdered by a band of robbers.

CREON. Robbers, he [the survivor] told us, not one bandit but
A troop of
knaves, attacked and murdered him.

In the same speech
cited above, Jocasta refers to the report of the survivor of Oedipus's deadly encounter with
Laius that "so at least report affirmed," Laius "Was murdered on a day by
highwaymen."

Later in the same scene she reinforces this
point.

OEDIPUS. In thy report of what
thesaid
Laius was slain by robbers; now if he
Still speaks of robbers, not a
robber, I
Slew him not; "one" with "many" cannot
square.
But if he says one lonely wayfarer,
The last link wanting to my guilt
is forged.

JOCASTA. Well, rest assured, his tale ran thus at
first,
Nor can he now retract what then he said;
Not I alone but all our
townsfolk heard it.

Eventually, Oedipus and Jocasta
suffer the consequences of their intentional ignorance. Jocasta kills herself in shame and
grief, and Oedipus blinds himself with the gold pins in Jocasta's robe when he discovers her
body.

In Animal Farm, how does Napoleon use propaganda effectively, and how does he change history?

As with
all dictators,uses propaganda as a means of consolidating his power. Having become the sole
ruler of the farm, he is determined to make sure that he remains in charge. Through his
propagandist-in-chief, he constantly churns out the message that everything he does is for the
good of the animals. We see this in one particularly notorious example when Squealer tries to
justify the pigs eating all the apples and drinking all the milk by claiming that they're only
doing it because they need the extra nourishment for their superior brain power. A shameless act
of greed is...

What is the Imagist movement in American poetry? Imagism

This movement
resulted from a reaction to Victorian poetry that  Imagist poets felt was too sentimental,
moralizing, and too conventional is itsand form. Rejecting the conformity of such poetry, the
Imagist poets sought to concentrate on the precise rendering of images in .  Ezra Pound and
F. S. Flint first documented the Imagist Movement in the second decade of the twentieth
century.  They called for three primary precepts:  conciseness, musical rhythm, and the direct
treatment of the 'thing,' whether it is subjective or objective.

Between
1915-1917, American Amy Lowell edited a volume of the anthology Some Imagist
Poets.  One of her poems is entitled "Generations."   This poem is concise,
it has musical rhythm, and it treats its subject directly.  In this poem, Lowell initially
declares,

You are lke the stem

Of a
young beech-tree,

Straight and swaying,

Breaking out in
golden leaves.

Just as directly, Lowell ends her
poem:

But I am like a great oak under a cloudy
sky,

Watching a stripling beech grow up at my feet.

In conveying the contrast, Lowell employs much
light/dark : 

Your shadow is no shadow, but a scattered
sunshine:

And at night you pull the sky down to you

And
hood yourself in stars.

Earlier in the story, the alchemist told Santiago when you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you...

At
one point on Santiago's quest for his Personal Legend, he and the alchemist are travelling
together toward the Pyramids. They encounter some armed Arabs that stop the alchemist and
Santiago. The robbers demand to know what Santiago and the alchemist are doing and where they
are going. The alchemist has items that the other men simply do not understand, and the
alchemist's answer mystifies the men.

"What are these
things?" he asked.

"That's the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir
of Life. It's the Master Work of the alchemists. Whoever swallows that elixir will never be sick
again, and a fragment from that stone turns any metal into gold."

The Arabs' response is to laugh at the answer, and the men then
leave. Santiago immediately asks why the alchemist did that, and the alchemist responds with the
quote in question.

"Are you crazy?" the boy
asked the alchemist, when they had moved on. "What did you do that for?"

"To show you one of life's simple lessons," the alchemist answered.
"When you...

What is the main conflict or problem?

I think it is possible
to classify the main conflict as one of the character vs. self variety. In this story, the
narrator must learn to control his extremeand warrantedanxieties and fears. He knows he's been
condemned by the Inquisition and that his fate must surely be death, and he must will himself
not to go crazy in this pit. At various moments, he seems to faint, overwhelmed by his fear, and
he must battle back to consciousness and critical thinking again and again. He suffers from a
"hideous dizziness" and a "vague horror" in his heart, and he
"relapse[s] into insensibility" more than once. He decides to figure out the size of
his cell and devises a clever way to ascertain its approximate dimensions. He keeps his mind
employed, distracting himself from the fears that would otherwise drive him crazy.

Later, when he finds himself strapped under the pendulum, he eventually feels the
"keen, collected calmness of despair" and formulates a plan to compel the rats to gnaw
through the ligaments that bind him. He again escapes danger, fighting to make the most of his
own mental resources under terrible duress. "[H]urried by [his] two-fold escape," the
Inquisition prepares another death for him: the walls of his cell are rapidly heated, and they
begin to close in so that he will be forced into the pit. He clings to them and screams, and is
rescued just a moment later. Had the narrator not fought with himself to maintain his sanity and
critical faculties, he would surely have perished before now, but in doing so, he manages to
prolong his life enough to be rescued by the French army.

Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird?

It is a sin to
kill a mockingbird because a mockingbird is innocent. The mockingbird is a symbol for Tom
Robinson, the innocent man condemned to die by a racist town in the book.

What are some important events in Stargirl?

is full of important
events. I think one of the events should be Stargirl's coming to school for the very first time.
She is an outsider in so many ways, but the school eventually embraces her to the point that she
is on the cheerleading squad.

I would include in your list the time that Leo
goes to Archie's house to ask about Stargirl. Leo just can't figure out if she is the real deal,
and Archie confirms that she is.

The list should include the disaster that
Stargirl's appearance on the Hot Seat show turned into. I believe any list should also include
the time that Hillari Kimble slaps Stargirl, and Stargirl's response is to kiss
Hillari.

One more important event would be when Stargirl decides to change
herself and act "normal" in order to please Leo. Her transformation is not a good
thing, and she begins to feel depressed quite often.

How does George interact with Lennie in John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'?

Kelly Flanigan, Ph.D.

George is Lennie's caretaker, first and foremost. Based on an agreement with Lennie's
Aunt Clara, George watches out for Lennie, who is severely mentally disabled yet overly
physically strong. 

George is a man of his word, and he takes Lennie in to
watch over him. George sees himself and Lennie as a team of two. George knows that, while he can
be annoying sometimes, Lennie provides George with companionship that the other men simply do
not have. Because of this, he has a level of respect and admiration for Lennie that...

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Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God Meaning

Jonathon
Edwards was a Puritan minister who preached hellfire and brimstone during a period in history
known as The Great Awakening. 

During this time, there was a waning interest
in religion and Edwards took a part in making his congregation understand that all mankind
stands at the mouth of hell.  He was particularly known for his references to hell and how each
day, every person must fight the battle to keep his soul from being drawn into temptation, and
from the mouth of hell itself. 

"His sermons were
intended as a wake-up call for those who underplayed the majesty of a holy God and
overemphasized their own worthiness as decent, hard-working, successful
citizens."

"He begins his sermon by pointing out four features of
walking on a slippery slope: The threat of destruction is constant, that destruction is imminent
and it is self-generated, and the delay of that destruction is due to Gods restraining hand. He
is clearly establishing here the foolhardiness of those who choose to walk in such slippery
places and that a fatal slide into the yawning abyss is an inescapable
certainty."

He emphasizes that the day of repentance
is at hand, seek forgiveness now, the time has come, you do not want to be caught after the
opportunity for God's mercy has past.  He injects a great urgency into his appeal, feeling like
he had to save his flock from damnation.

He believes that Christianity is the
one true religion.  Therefore your salvation depends on your belief in Jesus Christ as your
savior.

"For the unconverted, therefore, and for the
unredeemed sinner and those who have not embraced Christ as savior, perdition is but a breath
away.  Only faith in Christ will bear them up. That may not save their life, for they are mortal
still, but it will save their soul."

What is the most important event in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid and why?

It is
difficult to identify any specific events in the story "," as the entire story is
afrom a mother to her child, with only two interruptions by the daughter and no writing that is
not dialogue. Still, one can infer from the words spoken what might be going on. 

In looking at places where the mother repeats herself, one big event, or possibly
character change, stands out. From the beginning of the story, the mother accuses the girl of
doing things that will turn her into "the slut [she is] so bent on becoming." Despite
the mother's best efforts to teach her daughter the good, proper, and effective ways to behave,
the girl insists on doing things like walking the wrong way on Sundays and not fixing the hem
that comes out of her dress, all of which makes the girl seem like a slut, according to the
mother. There is still hope that if she starts listening to her mother's instruction she can
turn into a good and proper woman €“ the kind of woman who the baker will
let squeeze the bread. Still, the mother is not confident that the girl will obey.

Later in the story, the slut admonishment changes a bit: "this is the way to
behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't immediately
recognize the slut I have warned you against becoming." Now the mother assumes that the
slutty quality is inherent in her daughter, making the new goal to disguise her daughter's
sluttiness from others. The event that would spark such a change is less clear. Has the daughter
done something specific, like an encounter with a boy? Or is the mother just responding to
numerous instances in which the girl has failed to live up to her expectations? Is the
admonishment even related to sexual behavior at all? It's hard to say. Regardless, it's clear
that the girl is not inspiring confidence in her mother, who seems to think the girl will never
live up to be the kind of woman who can maintain a reputation as clean and virtuous and thus
survive in their patriarchal society.

Describe Janie in detail

Initially, Janie is a happy, carefree young lady. She leads a good home life, with loving
parents there to guide and protect her. In common with many people of her age, Janie has a very
vivid imagination and a strong sense of curiosity about the world around her. And it's this
particular characteristic of hers which leads her to discover the disturbing truth about her
background. Those parents with whom she's lived such a happy, fulfilling lifeMr. and Mrs.
Johnsonare not really her parents after all. Janie finds out that she was kidnapped at
the...

suppose that the position of a particle as a function of time (in seconds) is given by the formula s(t)=6.5+4t^2-t^4,t>0 the time at which the...

The position
function is given as `s(t)=6.5+4t^2-t^4` for t>0

The velocity function is
the first derivative of the position function, and the acceleration function is the derivative
of the velocity function (or the second derivative of the position function.)

`v(t)=s'(t)=8t-4t^3`

`a(t)=v'(t)=s''(t)=8-12t^2`

(a) The velocity is zero when `8t-4t^3=0`

`4t(2-t^2)=0 ==>
4t=0,2-t^2=0` Since t>0 we have `t=sqrt(2)~~1.41`

The
velocity is zero at approximately 1.41 seconds.

(b) The
acceleration is zero when `8-12t^2=0`

`t^2=2/3` . Since t>0
`t=sqrt(2/3)~~.82`

The acceleration is zero at approximately
.82 seconds.

(c) The velocity is maximum when the acceleration
is zero; since t>0 this only occurs at t approximately .82 seconds.

In Animal Farm, how does the battle over the windmill affect the animals?

The destruction of the
windmill that the animals have worked so hard and suffered so much to put up occurs inof this
great novel. The men are successful in blowing up the windmill, but then the animals turn on
them viciously and force them to flee. However, although they are "victorious" it is
clear that this is a hollow victory at best:

They had won,
but they were weary and bleeding. Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm. The sight of
their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. And for a little while
they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. Yes, it was
gone, almost the last trace of their labour was gone! Even the foundations were partially
destroyed. And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen
stones... It was though the windmill had never been.

In
spite of 's cheery optimism and characteristic warping of the truth, the animals recognise that
the destruction of the windmill symbolises the end ofas they know it. Interestingly, earlier on
in the novel, the windmill symbolised the desires ofand the progress and prosperity of the Farm,
but now its destruction indicates how impossible Snowball's desires now are. Therefore the
battle of the windmill represents a crushing defeat in so many ways for the
animals.

Watch this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/stanley_mcchrystal.html after which, I would like you to reflect on the topics of creating a vision,...

Despite
its conventions and traditions, particularly the levels of discipline and commitment involved,
the American military is very much a reflection of the society it serves.  Just as that society
has evolved in a certain direction over the span of many years, so has the military, comprised
entirely of volunteers, evolved in many ways.  Prior to the abolishment of the draft and its
replacement with an All-Volunteer Army in 1973, the U.S. Armed Forces functioned very much as
an antidemocratic establishment in which obedience to superiors and unquestioning commitment
were the mantra by which that organization functioned.  The All-Volunteer Army, however, changed
some of the culture of the military.  No longer were drill sergeants and junior officers
responsible for conscripts over whom they enjoyed total control; now, they were responsible for
the recruitment and care of volunteers no longer subject to enforced servitude in
life-threatening situations.

General Stanley...

Why was the story Animal Farm written?

is a scathing critique of the Russian Revolution and Soviet Communism, but at its
heart, like many of 's works, it is a critique of dictatorship. The story itself shows the
gullible nature of people and the ease with which movements and governments are subverted and
destroyed. Orwell, who was a socialist, wrote the story as a cautionary tale for anyone who held
up Soviet Russia, the Russian Revolution, or Communism as examples to follow.

In a letter to his friend Dwight Macdonald, written in 1946, Orwell explains
that:

What I was trying to say was, "You can't have
a revolution...

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How do Winston and O'Brien contrast in their perception of Big Brother?

in
,shows bothand OBrien as shifting constantly in their attitudes toward Big
Brother and the Party.

One of the novels centralis the inability for
Oceanians to find stability, because truth is presented as mutable and unreliable. Although
Winston understands this dilemma because of his work at the Ministry of Truth, he wants to help
improve his society so that moral and ethical behavior becomes possible. This is one reason he
turns to OBrien. Winston initially hopes to believe that Big Brother is more than omniscient and
omnipotent: that he is also completely benevolent. The idea that their leader stands for
goodness appeals to him, but he loses this romantic notion as he finds himself dreaming of
bringing him down.

OBrien, in contrast, espouses noble principles, but the
reader is encouraged...

Please comment on the symbolism of the axe in "The Black Cat."

Your question appears to
indicate an uncertainty about the term "symbolism," especially as it is applied to
this excellent short story by Edgar Allen Poe. When we talk about symbolism in literature, we
are referring to an object, event, person or animal that stands for both itself and also for
something else. Consider a very common symbol in our culture: a red rose. It clearly stands for
both itself on the literal level, a red rose, but also has come to symbolise love, devotion and
affection.

When we think of "," therefore, it is difficult to see
how the axe is actually a symbol of anything. Note how its use is described by the unreliable
narrator who so chillingly slaughters his wife:

Uplifting
an axe, and forgetting, in my wrath, the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I
aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended
as I wished.

It is difficult to see how the axe itself
symbolises anything therefore. Clearly, the action of the narrator in trying to kill the black
cat definitely could be said to symbolise his anger and the way that the black cat has
psychologically dominated and haunted him, but the axe itself seems to be difficult to attach to
a symbolic meaning.

What are the differences between how African-American kids were treated during slavery and how white kids were treated during slavery? How can I make...

There are
some similarities and differences between African-American kids and white kids during slavery.
The similarities are fairly basic. Both groups of kids had a desire to learn. If
African-American kids would have been given the opportunity to learn during slavery, they would
have done this. Many African-American kids dreamed of being able to go to school. Both kids
enjoyed the playtime when the time allowed for it. Also, kids are kids. They go through similar
stages of cognitive, emotional, and physical development.

There are far more
differences between African-American kids and white kids...

In Jane Austen's novel Emma, to what extent do the characters uphold a static social class system? To what extent is this system disrupted?

deals with a fairly narrow slice of the
English class system, from the upper ranks of the yeomanry and professional classes to the
landed gentry and the lower reaches of the aristocracy. In , there is a
series of minor disruptions to the system, ultimately caused by Emma herself. This is ironic
because she, along with Mr. Knightley, represent the unchanging order of the static class
system.

Emma takes on Harriet Smith, a girl of no particular family or
fortune, as a prot©g©. She persuades Harriet not to marry Robert Martin,
a yeoman farmer who would have been an eminently suitable match from a social point of view, and
instead to set her sights on Mr. Elton, a clergyman who is Harriet's social superior but Emma's
inferior. Mr. Elton intends to marry Emma and, when he is snubbed, marries the nouveau
riche Miss Hawkins, whose snobbery and social gaffes are the major source of comedy
in the novel. The Eltons are upstarts who attempt and pretend to be on the same level as the
Woodhouse and Knightley families but constantly show that they are not.

The
Eltons are the principal socially disruptive force within the novel, though Frank Churchill also
marries out of his class. The social order is to some extent reconfirmed in the eminently
suitable match of Emma and Mr. Knightley.

What does the judge ask Meursault about his mother in The Stranger?

In
by , Meursault is implicated in the murder of an Arab man. The Arab is the
brother of Raymond Sintes' mistress. Raymond (Meursault's friend), raises the ire of his
mistress' brother when he beats her up for her supposed infidelity to him (Raymond).

When Mersault shoots the Arab dead, he is himself thrown into prison to await trial for
the murder. At his trial, the judge asks him why he put his mother into a nursing home. Mersault
answers that he did not have enough money to take care of her on his own. The judge then asks
whether the parting with his mother had caused him any distress. To this question, Mersault
neglects to answer either yes or no. Instead, he tells the judge that neither he nor his mother
expected much from each other or anyone else. Because of this, Mersault claims that both he and
his mother did not experience unnecessary hardship or suffering in adjusting to the new
circumstances.

His first question was: Why had I sent
mother to an institution? I replied that the reason was simple; I hadnt enough money to see that
she was properly looked after at home. Then he asked if the parting hadnt caused me any
distress. I explained that neither Mother nor I expected much of one another, or for that
matter, of anybody else; so both of us had got used to the new conditions easily
enough.

Identify and describe one major geographical feature of ancient Egyptian civilization. World History

When one
thinks of ancient Egypt, the pyramids of Giza immediately come to mind. The Giza
Necropolis, found on the edge of the desert about 15 miles outside the capital of Cairo,
consists of the three large stone structures known as the Great Pyramids as well as the Great
Sphynx. One of them, the Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops), is the
last surviving structure of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Word. At one time, they were the
largest structures in the world, standing nearly 500 feet tall. Made of stone blocks primarily
constructed by slave labor, the pyramids took hundreds of years to complete; they date to
earlier than 2300 B.C.

What similarities are there between the 1984-society, the Nazi-regime and the Soviet regime, on the views on relationship between man and woman?

As you know,
is a dystopian novel which satirizes the totalitarian governments of the
extreme left (U.S.S.R.) and extreme right (Nazism).  The political spectrum is not linear, but
circular: in other words, both political systems are so extreme that they come full circle and
converge into one.  So, it's difficult to distinguish between the too after a point.  But,
here's a big-picture look at all three dystopias.

All three
societies:

• Use torture as a means of quelling political
  dissidents
• Use...

Give examples of personification in the poem "Our Casuarina Tree" by Toru Tutt.

is giving
human qualities to inanimate objects or plants and other animals. In the first stanza, the tree
wears the scarf. The scarf is the vine that is growing up the tree
like a python in the trees old age. The song sung darkling from our tree might be the wind
rustling through the branches and/or the leaves. Trees dont €˜sing. This is personification.
Other examples of the personification of the tree are €˜the trees lament and its €˜eerie speech,
which could just be the speakers manifestation of the trees pining it its old age or it could be
the wind in the leaves or the creaking of an old branch.

Another example is
the waves kissing the shore. Dutt personifies the tree because it represents the nostalgic link
to her past and by willing the immortality of the tree in the last stanza, she is also willing
the immortality of her memories, which includes she and presumably her departed loved
ones.

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why did New Guineans ultimately not lose out to invading Europeans?

The answer to
this can be found in Chapter 15.  Specifically, it can be found starting on p. 317 and ending on
p. 319 of the paperback edition of the book.  Throughout this book, Diamond says that
geographical factors are the basic cause of most things that have happened in the long run of
world history.  It is geographical factors that he credits for allowing the New Guineans to
escape being conquered by Europeans.

The first geographical factor that
helped New Guineans was the presence of malaria and other tropical diseases in the New Guinea
lowlands (317).  This made it very hard for Europeans to get a foothold in New Guinea.  Diamond
says that Americans and Europeans have trouble living in New Guinea today, even with modern
medicine.  It was worse, of course, before modern medicine.

The second factor
is the proximity of New Guinea to Indonesia.  This proximity meant that many Indonesians came to
New Guinea over the years and brought germs from Asia.  Therefore, New Guineans had some
immunity to Eurasian diseases.

The third factor was that European crops and
livestock do not do well in New Guinea.  Crops from the West have not grown well.  Animals that
are brought to New Guinea suffer from indigenous diseases and likewise do not do well.  This
meant that the Europeans could not really set up their own sorts of economies in New
Guinea.

All of these geographic factors prevented Europeans from dominating
New Guinea.

Why is price elasticity of demand important to firms?

The price
elasticity refers to the degree of responsiveness of demand as a result of a change in
price.

The price elasticity of demand is important to firms because it helps
them in pricing their products. The firm needs to know whether their product has an elastic or
inelastic demand.

A product with elastic demand is more responsive to a
change in price. Such goods have numerous substitutes; therefore, the consumer can go for
another brand if their favorite company is charging more for the product. If the firm finds out
that their good has elastic demand, they might try to differentiate the...

What do you think of the use of fear as a motivator in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"? What motivation might work better than fear?

Fear is the
ultimate motivator. If you look at history, or even current events, fear gets us to act. Take a
look at how travel has changed within the United States because of terrorism. We fear what could
happen on a plane and therefore, millions of travelers daily go through a routine that adds an
extra 5-60 minutes to their travel plans. These aren't minutes spent for fun, they are spent in
response to fear.

I agree that it is not right to motivate religiously out
of fear, however, according to Christian theology hell is very real. If you read the bible,
God's wrath and grace come across...

In chapter 4 of The Scarlet Letter, why does Hester react the way she does to Chillingworth's medicine.

of
, titled "The Interview", narrates how, after returning to
prison, Hester was in such a state of nervousness that she was put under watch. This is, of
course, because she had just seenfrom the scaffold. Seeing her presumed dead husband under the
current circumstances where she is must be the biggest terror that Hester could
experience.

To make things worse for Hester, it is Chillingworth whom the
jailer summons to care for Hester, since Chillingworth had entered the settlement registered as
a "practitioner" of medicine.

Since Hester is now dependent on
Chillingworth for her daughter's health, and her own, she knows that she is the perfect target
for him to exact his revenge for the adultery that Hester has committed. Hence, when the man
hands a draught made for the child, it is obvious that Hester would think that he would poison
her and her child as payback.

Hester repelled the offered
medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.

Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe? whispered she.

However, Chillingworth does nothing of the kind. In fact, he takes
the blame of his anger away fromto replace it back on Hester's conscience. Even he also gives
her a draught for her own health, he is also clear in that letting Hester live a life of misery
is a better revenge than to kill her.

Dost thou know me so
little, ? Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? ...what could I do better for my object than to
let thee live,than to give thee medicines against all harm and peril of life,so that this
burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?

Therefore,
although Hester has good reasons to doubt Chillingworth, it is also true that Chillingworth is
better off seeing her suffer than seeing her buried. If she died, he would never get to know
what he really wants to know: who is Pearl's father and why is Hester keeping it a secret to the
point of sacrificing her life forever.

 

What is the setting in the Robert Louis Stevenson novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

's
dramaticof good and evil, is set in Victorian London with itsDr. Henry
Jekyll seeming to embody the conflicting drives of that burgeoning society.

The swift economic growth of the early stages of the industrial revolution in England
produced vast disparities in wealth and social class. Standards of behavior for both the upper
classes and those striving to enter them had become increasingly exacting. Religion, morality,
the work ethic, and sexual restraint were dominant forces in both private and public
life.

The public manifestations of Victorianism, which sought to end
inhumane practices and physical cruelty, such as the abolition of the slave trade, the end of
child labor, the reform of the treatment of prisoners, and the elimination of sadistic sports
such as cock-fighting and bull-baiting were undoubtedly positive achievements. However, the
sexual repression and newly restrictive codes of behavior that...

How are Winston's character and Julia's character different and how are they the same?

is
much more interested in the inner-workings of the Party thanand is determined to express his
individuality in some way, shape, or form. Winston is focused on finding concrete evidence that
life before the Party was more enjoyable and is also curious about joining the Brotherhood.
Despite his grasp on how the Party controls the population, Winston desires to know why Big
Brother oppresses its population and makes living conditions in Oceania virtually unbearable. He
is also sexually oppressed and wishes to have a meaningful relationship with a woman.

Julia is similar to Winston in her distaste for the authoritarian regime and affinity
for being...

What are two examples of alliteration in "The Necklace"?

is the
repetition of sounds at the beginning of a set of words in close proximity. For example, tongue
twisters are alliterative because they tend to repeat the same sound at the beginning of
adjacent words (i.e., She sells seashells down by the seashorethe s sound is repeated).
Alliteration is a device used to draw the readers attention to specific important details that
they might otherwise pass right over. By drawing the readers attention, the author is helping
the readers understand something deeper within the text, usually something related to theme or
.

Example 1

In paragraph four of the
story, Maupassant uses alliteration when describing some of the finer things that Mathilde
desires. In the paragraph, there is alliteration to focus on things like shining silverware,
fairy forests, and delicious dishes. Each of these things is a fantasy that Mathilde
entertains while her husband enjoys the simple dinner they can afford....

OBrien uses many long descriptive paragraphs. Choose one example and explain and identify his purpose and techniques.

A fantastic
example of the way that Tim O'Brien uses long, descriptive paragraphs comes early in theof the
short story "The Things They Carried," which gives its name to O'Brien's most famous
collection. The second paragraph goes on for nearly and entire page, and it opens with a list of
many of the things in the soldier's packs; it lists the things they all have and alternates this
list with specifics about the particular items that different individuals carry for
themselves.

The purpose of this paragraph is twofold: the items they carry in
common give a window into the environment that the characters find themselves in, and each
character's individual items give an intimate, if tiny, picture into those characters lives and
habits. This single paragraph is incredibly effective in establishing the exposition for the
story.

How did processor Liedenbrock discover the hidden secret in Journey to the Center of the Earth?

In May of
1863, geologist Professor Otto Lidenbrock, theof 's 1864 novel finds a
coded note written on parchment in the runic manuscript of a medieval Icelandic saga that he has
recently acquired.

With the help of his young nephew Axel, he transliterates
the text of the norse runic letters into those of the Latin alphabet only to discover that the
text is still incomprehensible. Declaring that the seemingly random letters actually are a
cipher, Lidenbrock is determined to crack the code.

The Professor observes
that the note is written in a hand different than that in the book, employing characters that
were only in use two hundred years after the date of the manuscript. Examining the manuscript
with a magnifying glass, Lidenbrock is able to make out the name of Arne Saknussem, a celebrated
scholar and alchemist of the sixteenth century and realizes it must be he who has left the
baffling cryptogram.

The professor suddenly ordains that not only he but also
Axel and the entire household must go without food until the cryptogram has been deciphered. He
then runs out of the house. In his uncle's absence, Axel happens to pick up the parchment to fan
himself and realizes he is able to read the coded message backwards upon glancing at the reverse
side of the document.

Yet Axel refuses to tell his uncle what he has
discovered, realizing he would immediately leave on a dangerous voyage that would put his life
at risk. At length, he finally relents and reveals the contents of the message to the rapt
professor:

Go down into the crater of Snaefells Yocul
which the shadow of Scartaris caresses before the calends of July, O audacious traveller, and
you will reach the center of the Earth. I did it. Arne Saknussem.

What is the central conflict of Winston's behavior at the end of the story 1984?

The central
conflict at the end of the story is 's love for.  Even when the brain washing begins to take
hold...

How does Steinbeck present Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men?

Steinbeck essentially wanted to create a
story about two humble working men who dreamt of owning their own farm, ending with one killing
the other out of compassion and destroying the dream. The author created Curley's wife to serve
as the catalyst. He gave her the character traits she needed to fill the role of both cause and
victim. She is young, sexy, and flirtatious. Her self-revelation toin the barn suggests that she
is young and slender for Lennie to kill her so easily by shaking her. She also has to be very
young and naive not to sense that Lennie could be a dangerous person to flirt with.

Her youth is emphasized by the fact that several men refer to her as
"jailbait," meaning an underage girl with loose morals who can get a man sent to
prison for statutory rape.

One of the men asks ,
"Seen the new kid yet?"

"What kid?" George
asked

"Why, Curley's new wife."

The fact that he calls her a kid suggests that she must be quite young.

Steinbeck wanted the reader to feel some sympathy for this girl but not so much
sympathy that the reader would lose identification with Lennie and George, who are the main
viewpoint characters. Therefore Steinbeck uses several strategies to keep the reader from
becoming overly emotionally involved with the girl. For one thing, he never gives her a name but
only refers to her as "Curley's wife." He also stages her death in such a way that she
seems to be bringing it on herself. She seeks Lennie out in the barn. She flirts with him. She
moves close to him and invites him to stroke her hair. Most significantly, she creates a very
bad impression of her character when he intrudes into Crooks' room and, after refusing to leave,
threatens to accuse Crooks of molesting her.

"Well,
you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even
funny."

This exposure of the cruel side of her
nature is pretty obviously intended to modulate whatever sympathy the reader might feel for her
when she is killed. There is also Candy's angry outburst when he is left alone with her dead
body:

"You God damn tramp," he said viciously.
"You done it, di'n't you? I s'pose you're glad. Ever'body knowed you'd mess things up. You
wasn't no good. You ain't no good now, you lousy tart."

 

What does Edwards hope to accomplish with his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

delivered this sermon to his congregation in Northampton on July 8, 1741 and establishes his
purpose with the two Biblical readings with which he chooses to open this sermon:

Though they dig down to the depths below,
from there my
hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,
from there I
will bring them down.
Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
there
I will hunt them down and seize them.
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of
the sea,
there I will command the serpent to bite them (Amos 9:2€“3, NIV).

It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will
slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon
them(Deuteronomy 32:35, NIV).

These verses paint a
particular image of God: He is a mighty force who will condemn sinners.

Edwards seeks to do nothing less than terrify his congregational members through this sermon and
convince them of the need to repent of their sinful ways to escape the wrath of Godand Hell
itself....

IN "THE MINISTERS BLACK VEIL" BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE THE STORY IS A PARABLE, DISCUSS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARABLE.

Ais a short
tale illustrating a moral lesson. A parable is often anthat tells a story on a literal level but
has an allegorical meaning on an abstract level. Unlike Hawthorne's "," " "
is not quite an an allegory because it does not have characters representing abstract ideas.
Instead, Hooper wears his veil for a particular reason. In fact, he...

What is the main conflict in the story "Hills Like White Elephants"?

In this
story, the American and the girl, Jig, are a couple in love who travel around, seemingly
carefree. And although this story consists mostly of dialogue and small talk, the couple are
actually having a debate on whether or not Jig should have an abortion. The man clearly wants
her to have the abortion because he does not want anything to interrupt their carefree,
traveling (yet somewhat empty) lifestyle. I mention empty because as Jig notes, "That's all
we do isn't it--look at things and try new drinks?" 

A white elephant is
something rare in nature. In certain religions (Buddhism) and cultures, it is sacred. The image
of the hill (womb) looking like a white elephant is Jig's way of saying this is something new
and perhaps promising even if it interrupts the lifestyle they've become accustomed to. The man
looks at the potential child as a burden. This is the main conflict. While he presumes to be
supportive of her decision, he is definitely pushing for her to have the abortion. She, on the
other hand, agonizes over the decision in order to make the best choice. The man wants to
continue their way of living. Symbolically, he wants to continue looking at hills as hills. But
with this pregnancy, the woman begins to see things differently. She dares to wonder about a
different kind of life. So, she starts seeing things differently. The hill looks like a white
elephant. It is something unexpected and perhaps something she (and he) should think about with
more consideration. 

What are the differences between modern and postmodern music?

In any art
form, one style is almost always a reaction, often an opposing reaction, to the characteristics
of the previous style.  Modern music, which came about at the end of the nineteenth century and
matured in the early twentieth, was an attempt to go beyond the tonal system of music.  Ushered
in by Debussy and taken to its zenith by Stravinsky, modern music brought in music from
non-Western cultures and, at times, sought to completely erase the tonal system.  Some of the
most profound modern music was created while the Western world was being destroyed by World War
I.  A great deal of the music from this period reflects the emotional scars caused by that war. 
Postmodern music, like all other styles before it, sought to correct what it saw as an injustice
done to the art form.  Postmodern music inhabits the time after World War I and continues
through World War II into the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Although it saw a return to the tonal
system, postmodern music retained...

Why does Hemingway use the title "Hills Like White Elephants" in the short story, "Hills Like White Elephants"?

This
is an interesting question that has more than one answer. The best and most accurate way to
understand Hemingway's title is as a double symbol that also represents the
overarching theme of the story. First: The title
represents Jig's interior references to "hills like white elephants,"
thus pointing out the main meaning and overarching theme. In other
words, that Jig speaks of "white elephants" is a central motif and a central theme of
the story that is pointed to and emphasized by the title; thus "white elephants" is
the key titular phrase that unlocks the deepest meaning of the story.

Second:
"Hills like white elephants" is a double symbol: it
symbolizes two things, one of which also symbolizes the other thing. You might think of this
double-compound symbol as one umbrella with two people sharing it.

To begin
with, "white elephants" are a symbol for that which is
holy and sacred. White elephants are a rare kind of elephant, which are not
Albinos, that are held sacred in some countries, like India, and in some religions, like
Hinduism and Buddhism. Thus the "hills like white elephants" represent a natural
monument (hills) that is sacred and powerfully good.

To go one step further
into the second symbol, the "hills like white elephants"--now tagged symbolically as
sacred and good--symbolize Jig's pregnancy,
the natural monumental event that is also an obstacle to advancing along life's path, just as
hills can be obstacles on journeys. Now we have two closely related symbols underneath the
representative "umbrella" of the title.

Therefore, Hemingway uses
the title "" to point out the deepest meaning of the story; to symbolize the sacred
nature of propagating children; to symbolize the pregnancy that is being debated by the American
man and Jig. 

What are some likes and dislikes of the play Oedipus Rex?

According
Aristotles Poetics,is the perfect example of a ; I cannot agree more. In
light of this, there are few negative points that I can make about this masterpiece. The only
aspect of the play that I do not like is that the reader is left wondering what will happen to .
Yes, hisled to his downfall, but he is a noble charactercan he be redeemed?will give an answer
in a later play, . That said, some indication, even a line, would have been
great.

As for what I like, I will have to limit myself to a few comments. I
loved the theme of blindness and sight. Thehere is insightful. Oedipus only truly sees who he
really is when he is blind physically; , the blind old seer, sees the whole time. This literary
point is applicable to our world today: those who should see often do not, and those who seem to
know little see almost preternaturally. Here is one quote from the work that plays with this
theme:

. . . blind, though...

Difference Between Speed And Velocity

The short
answer is that velocity is the speed with a direction, while speed does not have a
direction.

Speed is a scalar quantityit is the magnitude of the velocity.
Speed is measured in units of distance divided by time (e.g., miles per hour, feet per second,
meters per second, etc.).

Velocity is a vector quantitywhen giving the
velocity we must specify the magnitude (the speed) and the direction of travel. For example you
might drive 100km/hr (the speed) in a northerly direction.

This is analogous
to the difference between distance (a scalar quantity) and displacement (the distance with
direction).

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What progression does Edwards trace in speaking of the threat to the sinner's existence in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edwards
begins by discussing a passage from Deuteronomy, "Their feet shall slide in due time."
In hisof this passage, he extrapolates several conclusions: First, that people are always
exposed to destruction; second, that this destruction will be sudden; third, that they will fall
of their own free will; and finally, that the only reason they have not fallen yet is because
"God's appointed time...

What were some inventions during the Civil War? Just doing a research project so it does not have to be replicated or anything.

There were some
remarkable weapons invented or first used during the civil war.More advanced rifles, which were
extremely accurate even by today's standards, were used by the North.They also had the Gatling
gun, which was basically the first machine gun.]]>

Could you write an ending to "The Cask of Amontillado" from Fortunato's perspective? Could you write an ending to "The Cask of Amontillado" from...

Fortunado
did not realize he was being tricked.  You might have him start to be suspicious when Montresor
produces the trowel.  He is quite drunk by then though.  He definitely wakes up and sobers up by
the time Montresor is bricking him in, so you could have him thinking that he hopes it's a cruel
joke until he actually dies.

In "Romeo and Juliet", what are Romeo's first impressions of Juliet and how does he describe her?

first seesin Act 1,
scene 5 during the Capulet's party in which Juliet was supposed to meetfor the first time. 
Romeo's first impressions of Juliet are clearly about her beauty.  He is completely taken aback
by how beautiful she is.  His first statement upon seeing her is "O, she doth teach the
torches to burn bright!" (A.1, s5, line 46).  This tells us that he is infatuated with her
beauty.  Further along in the same speech he seems to have forgotten all about his precious
Rosaline when he says "Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne'er saw
true beauty till this night." (A. 1, S. 5, lines 54 - 55).  It is clear from this that his
first impressions of Juliet have nothing to do with anything except for her
beauty.  

Compare the love that Romeo feels for Juliet with the love he felt for Rosaline.

Actually,
to be totally frank, there is one school of thought that says we never really find out ifhad
'true love' for each other. Theof the play ' and 'byis, of course, that they both die so young
that they (and we) never get to find out if it was lasting love or infatuation. Romeo, though,
knows what infatuative 'love' is. It is more like 'love of self' and often people are in love
with the way the other special person makes them feel, rather than experiencing a 'giving' kind
of love which relies more on caring for the other person and their needs. Many readers like to
believe that Romeo has already experienced this kind of infatuative love and so would recognise
it if turned up again - if his love for Juliet feels different, then we can hope he realises it
is not the same as the superficial feelings he had for Rosaline.

What makes it easy for Vera to fool Mr. Framton Nuttel in "The Open Window"?

Another
thing that makes it easy for Vera to fool Framton Nuttel with her ghost story is the fact that
the whole family leads such a monotonous, routine existence. Vera knows in advance exactly what
her aunt is going to say about the open window and exactly when the three hunters will return
for tea. She even knows that Bertie will be singing the same song, with the refrain:

"I said, Bertie, why do you bound?"

It is because of the monotony of her own existence that this
bright, imaginative fifteen-year-old girl decides to inject a little diversion and humor into
her dull family.

Vera also finds it easy to fool Framton Nuttel because she
has such a vivid imagination. She can invent the wildest stories spontaneously and make them
entirely convincing. She may have been toying with the plot for her ghost...

Discuss the plot of the play in relation to the Pygmalion myth.

In the
ancient Greekmyth, Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he carves out of
ivory. Pygmalion makes the statue in honor of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. He secretly
wishes that he could have a bride in the exact likeness of the statue. Aphrodite grants him his
wish, and when he returns home, he finds that the statue has been turned into his ideal
woman.

In Shaw's reinterpretation of the myth, Henry Higgins, a professor of
phonetics, sets out to transform a lower-class London flower girl by the name of Eliza Dolittle
into his ideal of a high society lady. As well as being a frightful snob, Higgins also does not
have much time for the intellectual capacity of women. To him, Eliza is little more than an
object, a guinea pig in a scientific experiment that is inherently exploitative and
manipulative.

However, this "statue" also comes to life, though not
in the same way as in the Greek myth. Over the course of the play, Eliza develops a great deal
of confidence, poise, and self-assurance. By the end, she is a lady, and, at the same time, she
has also broken free from Higgins's overbearing tutelage. In this sense, Shaw's
Pygmalion can be seen as a feminist twist on the Greek myth. Eliza may
look, talk, and behave exactly like Higgins's ideal of what a lady should be, but, crucially,
she is an independent woman, a human being in her own right, with the ability to make her own
decisions in life.

solve for x and y: x+y= 8 2x-3y = 3

x+ y =
8...........(1)

2x - 3y = 3............(2)

using the
eliination method:

multiply (1)...