Notes: March 2017

The speaker(the
Roman name for "Odysseus") delivers a reflection on old age and mortality to other
elderly veterans who may have fought with him in the Trojan wars. His reflection culminates in a
rousing speech intended to convince this same audience of warriors to take hold of life again
and to find one last great adventure. Consider the following passage:

Free hearts, free foreheadsyou and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all:
but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be
done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

Death is inevitable in this poem, but he is suggesting here that
there is a better way to spend the last bit of his life. Rather than waiting at home to die,
unhappy and feeble, the former warriors should set out on a new adventure, knowing that they
will not return. As a previous answer has pointed out, Tennyson has taken liberties with the
story of The Odyssey , because all of Odysseus's crew was killed on their...

Tuesday 28 March 2017

What do we understand clearly when Travis asks his father if hes drunk?

In act
two, scene two,Jr. remains depressed and intoxicated after learning that his dreams will never
come to fruition.

Afterbought the home in Clybourne Park, Walter realized
that his dreams would never come true and believes that his mother and wife have completely
dismissed his personal goals. He wallows in self-pity and spends the majority of his time
drinking at the Green Hat. At this point in the play, Walter feels as if he has nothing to live
for and is severely depressed.

Upon seeing Walter's condition, Lena
recognizes that she has contributed to Walter's demise by neglecting his dreams. She blames
herself for Walter's condition and decides to give him the remainder of the insurance money. She
instructs Walter to save three thousand dollars for 's education and keep the rest for his
business ventures.

Walter is overcome with happiness and astonished by his
mother's benevolence. Shortly after giving Walter the money,walks into the room and asks if his
father is drunk. Walter responds by saying,

No, Daddy
ain't drunk. Daddy ain't going to never be drunk again. (Hansberry, 37)

By analyzing Travis's question, the audience is aware that he has
been exposed to his father while he is under the influence of alcohol. Travis seeing Walter
drunk is nothing new or out of the norm, which reveals that Walter has been in a depressed,
intoxicated state before. The audience also understands that Walter's drinking is directly
associated with his inability to attain his dreams. Essentially, Walter drinks to ease the pain
of his unfulfilled dreams. After receiving the money, Walter will be motivated to attain his
dream and no longer drink.

How can you argue that globalization is bad for developing countries?

You can
argue this in at least two ways.

First, you can say that globalization
exposes businesses in developing countries to competition from rich countries. This competition
can overwhelm the firms in the developing countries because...

Provide a list of the motifs in part 1, chapters 4 and 5.

The principal motifs that appear inof
Nineteen Eighty-Four are:

1. The erasure of history.has
to rewrite official documents, newspaper articles and Big Brother's speeches, to give the
impression of infallibility by making them predict what actually happened. This is a constantly
recurring motif which is picked up most obviously when Oceania is suddenly at war with Eastasia
and four years of history have to be erased.

2. Secrecy. Workers in the
Ministry of Truth have little idea what other workers are doing. They even have to guess at how
to complete their own assignments, since those who are to be edited out of history are never
publicly denounced.

3. Newspeak. Syme, who is working on the Newspeak
dictionary, talks about how it will make political unorthodoxy impossible by narrowing the range
of language to the point where it is impossible to express an unorthodox thought.

4. Razor-blades. Both Syme and Parsons ask Winston for razor-blades, which symbolize
all the unavailable consumer goods and basic supplies amidst the constant boasts of prosperity
put out by the Ministry. Other shortages, such as tobacco, are also mentioned.

5. Dirt and Decay. This is a recurring motif throughout the novel. Everything around
Winston is in poor condition, battered, coarse-textured, greasy,
foul-smelling.

What is the poem "Time is Running Out" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal about, and what is the author challenging in Australian dominant ideology?

In order
to understand what the poem "Time Is Running Out" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is about and
how it challenges Australian dominant ideology, it is important to know some details about the
poet's background. Noonuccal is of Australian Aboriginal descent. She was born Kathleen Jean
Mary Ruska, and after she married Bruce Raymond Walker, she initially published her poetry under
the name Kath Walker. She changed her name to Oodgeroo Noonuccal in 1988 to highlight her
Aboriginal heritage. Throughout much of her life, the Australian dominant ideology was white
supremacy. The concept of White Australia meant that immigration was discouraged, and Aboriginal
peoplethe original Australianswere considered lower-class citizens. Noonuccal became a political
activist to fight this white oppression, and her poetry reflects her political
viewpoints.

In the first stanza of "Time Is Running Out," we
encounter a stark vision of a miner violating the earth "for the sake of greedy
trade." The second...

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Monday 27 March 2017

Analyze the song "The Circle Game" by Joni Mitchell. Include the tone, mood, poetic devices used in the poem and what it says about identity. ...

In 1970, at
a concert in London, Joni Mitchell claimed that she wrote this song in response to Neil Young's
song "Sugar Mountain." Young wrote the song about lamenting losing his youth:
specifically in response to turning 21 and being too old to go to his favorite club. Mitchell
said she wrote "The Circle Game" for Young: the songs have similar themes.
(Interesting to note that the song is about youth and time passing and that she claimed to have
written it for "Young.")

"The Circle Game" is about
youth, nostalgia, regret, hope, and the passage of time. The tone and mood fluctuate between
nostalgia, regret, and hope. The first stanza/verse starts at the beginning of life. The child
is initially full of wonder. It is a rural, natural scene characteristic of the Romantic poets
(i. e. Wordsworth and Keats) where the child is emotionally affected by his natural
surroundings. Theestablishes the main theme of the song/poem: the passage of time. Mitchell uses
theof a carousel...

How does Pip answer to the convict when asked where he lives?

In the
opening chapter of the novel, Pip is visiting his parents' graves when an escaped convict
frightens him and demands to know his name. Pip is both stunned and terrified by the threatening
convict, and he immediately tells the stranger his name. When the convict asks where Pip lives,
he responds by pointing toward his...

Sunday 26 March 2017

Where were the Ewell children when Mr. Link Deas stops by with Helen and why?

Mr. Link
Deas hires Helen, Tom Robinson's widow, after Tom is killed. However, he notices she is coming
to his house from the wrong direction. When he asks her about it, she tells him she walks a mile
out of her way because she is harassed by the Ewell children if she goes past their
house.

Although she asks him not to, Link Deas confronts the Ewells. He walks
her home past the Ewells, stopping at the gate to their house. He calls out to the Ewells, but
gets no answer, and nobody is in sight. Link Deas cries:

I
know every last one of yous in there a-layin€˜ on the floor!

The children are hiding because they are afraid of Mr. Deas, who used to be Tom
Robinson's employer. They don't want to get into a tussle with him. In fact, he threatens to put
Mr. Ewell in jail if he or his family continue to bother Helen.

Friday 24 March 2017

In The Lovely Bonesdoes someone say, "You loved him more than he loved you"? I've been thinking of this quote since I read the book last week and can't...

I just
read Sebold's novel once again with your question (as well as many others) in mind. I can
firmly tell you that this quote is most certainly NOT in the book. However, there is certainly
a discussion of love in some form. Ray Singh has a romantic love for Susie. There is also
agape love in the novel itself. Susie's father feels that kind of unconditional love for his
daughter. This is probably best revealed on page 279:

His devotion to me had made me know again and again that I had been beloved. In the
warm...

Why is it important to examine history from different perspectives/ points of view, knowing that we can't change history?

Every
account of history is from a human perspective. Even history textbooks, which are trying to be
objective, show us what the writers value by what they include, what they leave out, and how
they frame their historical accounts.

The particular benefit of first-person
accounts of historyand the importance of fictional thought experiments like the novel
is in the subjective human perspective. In primary sources like letters,
diaries, and oral histories, there is no pretending that one is capturing the whole story. It is
a very specific story. But it is through the combining of many specific stories
that we are able to see a clearer whole.

The importance of
Kindred as historicalis in the way Dana is able to immerse herself in
American history (and her history), and the reader's vicarious journey to the past through Dana.
Not only does Dana consider the slavery of the antebellum South in the context of her present in
the 1970s, we as readers consider both levels of the past in the context of our present.
This is important because it shows us the ways society has changed and not
changed, and gives us a context for the society we live in now. The racism of our
present moment, and the 1970s racism that made Dana's and Kevin's families disapprove of their
interracial marriage, are direct descendants of American slavery. Just as Dana can
trace her personal roots back to Rufus and Alice's nonconsensual union, we can trace the roots
of our 2018 America back to the massive impact of the institution of
slavery.

To travel back in time as Dana did, and to form close
relationships with both slave-owners and slaves, has the effect of humanizing the people of the
past. Unlike the "objective" history books, which paint the people of the past as
monoliths and therefore distance us further from them, first-person accounts remind us that
people created, supported, allowed, resisted, and fought the institution of slavery.
Kindred, as a fictional version of first-person accounts, not only gives us
a clearer picture of the pain and humiliation that slaves faced, it also does the difficult work
of showing slave-owners as complex and contradictory humans. Often history can
dehumanize the "villains" in an attempt to show how far we've come, but it is
incredibly important that we make the connection between ourselves and the people who caused or
enabled suffering. Humans (flawed, complicated, and afraid as we are) are
entirely capable of monstrosities like slavery, especially when it is the
status quo, and the majority goes along with it. Studying history, and
understanding what we are capable of, is an integral part of changing society for the better,
now and in the future.

What is Swift satirizing in Gulliver's Travels?

was one
of the leading satirists in English literature. In , he satirizes many
aspects of literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, even critiquing the "tall
tale" or travel adventure story itself.

Swift, who became Dean of St.
Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, was especially concerned with the way that factions within the
Church of England and the opposition of the Anglican Church to Roman Catholicism in Ireland had
a negative effect on the church's greater mission of spreading Christianity and caring for the
poor and oppressed. He viewed many of the...

Thursday 23 March 2017

In The Scarlet Letter, what is 'Old Manse' and what is its relationship to the Custom House? are they the same thing or...?

"The
Custom House" is an autobiographical addendum thatincluded as the introduction toThe
Scarlet Letterafter he felt that the novel itself was a bit too short for publication. It also
serves as a wonderful foundation that gives a nostalgicto the re-telling of the story of , and
her vicissitudes.

In "The Custom House", Hawthorne also explains
the rationale behind writing about his experience in the Salem Custom House is because he had
already published a story of a very similar style about his experience at an Old
Manse.

to which Hawthorne refers is a historically-famous dwelling located
in Concord, Massachusetts, which was built in the 1770's by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather,
the Reverend William Emerson.

This place held a lot of sentimental value to
Hawthorne because he lived there with his new bride Sophia Peabody for around three years. Those
seem to have been particularly happy times for the couple, motivating him to publish in 1846 a
collection of short stories titledMosses from an Old Manse.

Hence, to
specifically address your inquiry, The Old Manse and the Custom House are completely different
places; they are places to which Hawthorne had lived and worked at respectively, and he mentions
them both in the autobiographical introduction ofThe Scarlet Letterjust as a clever stylistic
device.

Wednesday 22 March 2017

What does the word ''Bunbury'' represent in The Importance of Being Earnest?

"Bunbury," or
"Bunburyism," refers to the imaginary friend of Algernon called Bunbury that he uses
to enable him to get out of awkward social engagements and to lead a double life. Bunbury finds
his parallel in Ernest, Jack's equally imaginary brother, whose wayward exploits allows Jack to
live both a respectable life of being an older, more responsible brother, but also he is able to
be more reckless and live as he wants to in town. Bunburyism refers therefore to the double life
that is such an important theme of the play, pointing towards the hypocrisy at the centre of
Victorian society. Both Ernest and Bunbury give Jack and Algernon respectively the appearance of
being much more virtuous and noble characters than they actually are. Note what Algernon says to
Jack when Jack tells him that when he marries Gwendolen he will be able to kill off his
brother:

Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and
if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know
Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

This is typical humour from Wilde: Algernon suggests that, far from
removing the need for a double life, marriage necessitates it, and that living in close
proximity to somebody as in marriage makes it vital to have a double life in order for the
marriage to work successfully. There is a rather dark humour to this announement of Algernon's,
as on the one hand it clearly is a very funny comment, but on the other hand it points towards
the widespread hypocrisy within Victorian society and highlights the reality behind
marriage.

What is the theme "Hunting Snake" by Judith Wright?

The major theme that is
addressed in this powerful poem is the conflict between man and nature, and the way that even
today, in our technological age, nature is, in some cases, still dangerous enough to represent a
real threat to mankind. This is shown through the snake that the walkers, the "we" in
the poem, come across. The snake is described in such a way as to highlight both its beauty but
also its killer instinct and the massive threat that it represents to humans:

The great black snake went reeling by.

Head-down,
tongue-flickering on the trail

he quested through the parting
grass;

sun glazed his curves of diamond scale

and we lost
breath to watch him pass.

Note the reference to the way
the "sun glazed his curves of diamond scale." So impressive is the snake in fact that
the narrator reports the group of walkers "lost breath" to see him, both through
wonder but also through fear because of the danger he represents. The snake is later described
as "Cold, dark, and splendid," and it seems clear from this that the emotions the
snake creates in the watchers are thus based both on admiration and danger. In fact, so fearful
are the human observers that after the snake vanishes they "took a deeper breath of
day" and carried on their walk. The theme of this poem is thus based on man's vulnerability
to nature and the way that creatures such as snakes represent danger that it is important to be
respectful and mindful of. The title, "Hunting Snake," highlights both the danger of
the snake as it was "questing through the grass," but also perhaps the need that
humans have to "hunt" out such experiences in order to remind them of the healthy
respect they need to have for nature and the natural order.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

According to the Englishman, what are the parallels between reading and alchemy in Coelho's The Alchemist?

The Englishman
uses his books to understand alchemy like a cook would use a recipe to create a beautiful dish.
He wants to learn everything about the subject in order to understand a simple text written on
an Emerald Tablet. He figures that if he understands everything there is to know, from
alchemists' lives to discovering the Master Work by patience and a long-suffering search. The
Englishman says:

"The alchemists spent years in their
laboratories, observing the fire that purified metals. They spent so much time close to the fire
that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of
the metals had led to a purification of themselves" (81).

Sadly, after Santiago read the books, too, he realized that there were drawings and
codes that he didn't understand, so he wouldn't be able to discover the Master Work. When he
asked if it would be best to just understand what was written on the Emerald Tablet, the
Englishman was disappointed because to him, alchemy was an art that depended on books, magic,
codes, and the like in order to create the Master Work.

What is an example of propaganda from Animal Farm?

Propaganda as
an appeal to emotion is practiced widely by the pigs. , the public-relations pig, often uses
faulty logic to convince the other animals that the pigs need to have better comfort to keep the
humans from returning:

"Do you know what would happen
if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely,
comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his
tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"
(,
, msxnet.org)

Because the farm is
supposed to be operated equally by all animals, with all animals responsible for the well-being
of all the others, this argument makes little sense; if the pigs "failed in their
duties," the other animals should be able to step up and provide the same duties. However,
the bogyman of Jones is enough to convince the other animals that the pigs absolutely need to
have better food and accommodations, as well as not performing the same labor. After all, no
animal wants to be blamed for aiding the return of Jones; in this fashion, the pigs improve
their own station at the expense of the other animals.

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Monday 20 March 2017

Can "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" be given a Lacanian psychoanlytical interpretation?

In order to
answer this question, we first need to explain what a Lacanian psychoanalytical interpretation
is. Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst who followed concepts set out by Freud. Lacan's
methods were interdisciplinary, including linguistics, mathematics, and
philosophy.

Lacan devised what he called the three psychoanalytic orders: the
real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. According to the University of Chicago's online text
"Theories of Media" (cited below):

In the Lacanian
arena, the symbolic-real-imaginary forms a trio of intrapsychic realms which comprise the
various levels of psychic phenomena. They serve to situate subjectivity within a system of
perception and a dialogue with the external world.

So if
you consider Joyce's text to be his exploration of what is real, what is symbolic, and what is
imaginary in language and writing, then, yes, you can apply a Lacanian interpretation to it. For
instance, Stephen is constantly aware of words as not simply a means of communication but as
things. When he thinks back to his first communion, he contemplates the word
"wine."

The word was beautiful: wine. It made you
think of dark purple because the grapes were dark purple that grew in Greece outside houses like
white temples.

The real is the wine. The imaginary is the
image of the grapes growing in Greece. The symbolic? I'll let you decide that
one.

Sunday 19 March 2017

Importance Of Studying Literature

is also a
form of time travel that helps put today in context. All those apocalyptic lamentations about
how "things used to be so much better" are controverted in literature of the last
generation, the last century, all the way back to Shakespeare and beyond. Conversely, reading
about how people lived in the past can really make you appreciate what humanity is able to
accomplish and endure. In the classics, you may read about political battles, domestic abuse,
prejudice and civil rights, unwanted pregnancy, binge drinking on college campuses, gangs and
juvenile crime, homelessness, nationwide economic crises caused by speculation--as Solomon wrote
thousands of years ago, there is nothing new under the sun. History tells us what people did;
literature tells us what they were thinking.

Thursday 16 March 2017

What kind of friend has Uno become to Danny?

The
development of the friendship between Danny and the other kids is a theme throughout the book.
Although Danny feels like an outsider much of the time, he does gradually get to know the
others, and he becomes friends with some people who initially did not make him feel welcome. His
participation in baseball both advances and impedes some of those changes. His friendship with
Uno is among those we follow through the book.

Baseball initially is a wedge
driven between Uno and Danny. At first, Uno resents Danny for being...

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Show how the authors use of imagery and/or symbolism reveals theme. Include examples from the book. State your thesis (your main point about...

In delivering
his theme about a young man's reluctance to leave childhood behind and his dread of joining the
adult world,usesand symbolism in characterizingCaulfield.

Salinger's
description of Holden belies his desire to remain safely in the innocence of childhood. Holden
is quite tall, with a gray streak in his hair. Nonetheless, Holden tries to forestall his high
school graduation and entrance to adulthood by intentionally flunking out of prep school after
prep school. Moreover, he wears an ironic red hunting hat that in some way recalls the red hair
of his beloved late brother, . His desire to hang out withand the interest he takes in children
he encounters, such as the boy in the movie theater, the boy singing in the street, the little
girl from Phoebe's school, and the boys in the museum, are symbolic of his desire to remain
young himself.

Holden's realization at the carousel (a symbol of childhood)
that he can no longer repeat the cycle of childhood is symbolic. He knows that for now, Phoebe
belongs there, but his refusal to join her on the ride suggests that he has begun to accept the
inevitability of leaving the protections of childhood behind.

Wednesday 15 March 2017

In the begining of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo rejects his father. Later, Okonkwo is rejected by his own son, Nwoye. Do you feel this pattern evolves...

The
theme of generational conflict (and, especially, of father and son relations) is significant in
.is involved in several episodes that relate to parental-type
responsibilities and in which his behavior creates problems. His conflicts between caring forand
his clan loyalty, which lead to his killing the captive boy, create moral and ethical dilemmas
that stir up feelings he cannot fully understand. Although it is accidental, his role in killing
a boy who is the clan patriarch's sonand thus in a sense everyone's sonis the inciting event
that drives him into exile and away from his own son.

His specific
relationship withbecomes more crucial in the latter half of the book. The years of exile take
their toll, and upon his return, Okonkwo finds that the British have made significant inroads in
their quest to take over. Missionization is one of the main arms of their colonizing strategy.
Rather than just a...

What is the historical background of "Everyday Use"? Also, what similarities are there between Walker and her story?

In her short
story ","exposes the tensions between black urban life and black rural life, between
generations, and between black people who have had access to education and those who haven't.
She also considers how the black consciousness movement wasn't always about building a stronger
community; some, like Dee, may have used it to distinguish themselves from a past for which they
felt shame.

Dee wants to distance herself from her poor, rural roots and uses
her education and her awareness of Afrocentricity to cast herself as superior. Walker seems to
be exploring these unspoken divisions in the black community, which arose with black militancy
and the black consciousness movement in 1966. I use 1966 as a marker because this was the year
in which Stokely Carmichael took leadership of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) and coined the expression "Black Power." It is also the year in which the Black
Panthers first organized in Oakland, California. Around the same time, Ron (Maulana) Karenga
instituted Kwanzaa as a holiday in an effort to help black people feel more connected to their
African roots (it seemed irrelevant that Kwanzaa is a Swahili word, derived from Kenya, while
most black people from the Americas are of West and Central African descent) and to help them
develop shared community values based on the holiday's tenets. Kente cloth, derived from the
Akan and Ashanti people of Ghana, was also commonly worn at the time.

Undoubtedly, Walker was very aware of these socio-cultural currents and wanted to use
them to explore how the black consciousness movement was a positive thing but also something
that would force younger generations to question the social compromises their parents made to
survive in a white supremacist society. Walker, like Dee, came from rural Georgia. Unlike Dee,
Walker speaks positively of her parents, who were sharecroppers, and particularly of her mother,
who insisted that Walker would get an educationeven to the point of standing up to the
plantation owner who dared to say that Walker needn't bother with going to school.

Maintaining tradition was as key in Walker's family as in that of the Johnsons. In her
best-known essay, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens," Walker writes about the great
care that her mother took in raising her own garden while living on a plantation. Walker
maintained this tradition when she settled in Northern California.

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Referring to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, is it possible to live a fulfilling life without ever achieving your Personal Legend?

The
story makes it clear that one cannot attain complete fulfillment without pursuing one's Personal
Legend. While those who don't are not necessarily miserable wrecks, they do have a sense of
regret which taints their overall contentment about the way their lives have unfolded. For
example, the Baker always wanted to go to Mecca, but the trip is expensive, so he kept putting
it off to get more money as a baker. He eventually grew used to this comfortable way of living
and has still yet to visit Mecca.

Coelho is warning the reader against the
temptation of contentment. There is nothing wrong with satisfaction, but the truth is that these
people are not wholly satisfied. They have longings which go beyond mere material wealth or
romantic desire, and they should take the worthwhile risk in pursuing their dreams. Judging by
how Santiago leaves Fatima and claims he will return to marry her later, one might assume Coelho
puts things the opposite of the Baker: follow your dreams now, then put...

Monday 13 March 2017

Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. What was he warning us about?

's novel
cries out in protest against totalitarianism, loss of collective memory (history) and loss of
language. , though written in reaction to the abuses of Stalin's government
in the USSR, was more generally a polemic directed against totalitarianism in whatever form,
with Orwell imagining what a totalitarian state would look like in the context of English
culture.

The novel warns the reader of the dangers of letting too much power
flow into the hands of too few people, and it focuses on the ways a government can maintain too
much power. For Orwell, a concentration of power leads to abuse. In the novel, Orwell depicts
power in negative terms--the boot in the face--and defines it throughas precisely the ability to
force people to do what they hate.

Orwell depicts a dystopian state which
controls every aspect of an individual's life, subjecting Party members to constant surveillance
and, by making nothing an explicit crime, making everything a potential crime....

Sunday 12 March 2017

How is awareness of rank observed in the drinking of the palm wine in Things Fall Apart?

Even
before the palm wine is served in the ritual depicted inof , alerts his
readers that the serving of the wine will be a means through which prestige is affirmed and
misconceptions about relative rank corrected. For example, before the wine arrives, Ogbuefi
Ezenwa remarks:

I hope our in-laws will bring many pots of
wine. Although they come from a village that is known for being closefisted, they ought to know
that Akueke is the bride of a king.

In this passage,
Ezenwa expresses status anxiety about his in-laws's opinion regarding the rank of the bride.
When the guests show up bearing no fewer than 45 bottles of wine, their hosts are very pleased
because the rank of the bride (and by extension, their own rank) has been affirmed. The pots of
wine serve as material tokens of the recognition of rank. Once the moment of...

What is the viewpoint of Edward Said as expressed in Oreintalism and what links the text of Orentialismwith lieterature, including novels, film, or plays?

The
viewpoint Edward Said expresses in is founded
upon his three-point definition of his concept of
"Orientalism":

an academic field within multiple
disciplines.
a conception of reality based on the binary form of
"Occidental" opposing "Oriental" [Occident, West; Orient, East].

Imperialistic philosophy and mechanization's of the Occident to dominate and control
the Orient.

Said's particular interest as expressed in
Orientalism is the Muslim Middle East, due in part to Said's own ethnic
background. Thus the particulars of Orientalism--as an academic field and as a binary form--as
it relates to...

How did the ex-slaves exert their new found freedom?

First of all,
we must recognize that not all of the African Americans who had been slaves reacted in the same
way after the Civil War made them free. Different individuals reacted in different ways, and
there were even some former slaves who stayed with their former owners. However, for the most
part, the ex-slaves exerted their freedom by doing the things that they had not been able to do
under slavery.

One thing that many ex-slaves did was to exercise their right
to work for themselves. The freedmen tended to try to do whatever they could to have economic
autonomy. They tried to get land to farm for themselves. Those who had trades tried to set up
in business. They tried to avoid being dominated by other people economically.

A second thing that the freed slaves did was to claim their religious freedom. In
slavery, black religious rights had been severely curtailed because whites were afraid that
black church services would be used as ways for slaves to meet and plan escapes or rebellions.
The whites also wanted churches to convey the right message about slavery. When the African
Americans became free, they created their own churches that would be free from white
control.

Perhaps the most important thing that the ex-slaves did was to
create their own official families. Under slavery, black families had no standing and no
rights. Slave marriages were not officially recognized under the law. Slaveowners could and
did break up families by selling wives, husbands, and children when it was economically
advantageous for them to do so. After emancipation, African Americans wanted to have families
that could be stable and secure. Many of them tried to find loved ones from whom they had been
separated. They rebuilt their families and tried to make sure that they would be able to live
together as families should.

In all of these ways, the freed slaves tried to
exert their new-found freedom after the Civil War.

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Saturday 11 March 2017

Explain the differences between Dr. Deveze and Dr. Rush and how they treat Yellow Fever patients in Fever 1793.

Dr.
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a prominent doctor in
Philadelphia in 1793. He believed that Yellow Fever could best be cured by ridding the body of
toxins that had collected in the blood, and espoused a very aggressive treatment of bleeding and
purging for his patients. Dr. Jean Deveze, a refugee from Santo Domingo, was the primary
physician in the asylum for the sick established by Stephen Girard, a French-born merchant. Dr.
Deveze disagreed with Rush's practices, and treated his patients by...

In Into the Wild, how does Chris McCandless feel about his family, and how does Chris' family feel about him? Are there any differences?

In the
book, , by American writer , it is shown that Chris McCandless is essentially indifferent to
his family, except possibly for his sister, Carine, one of nine children in the family. His
parents were Walt and Billie McCandless.

What is notable, concerning his
feelings for his family, is that Chris never really spoke of them. In addition, it is an
indication of his thoughts on his family that he concocted a new moniker for himself,
Alexander Supertramp, deciding to no longer go with the family name as he traveled.

As stated in the first answer above, it is revealed in the book that Chris believed his
parents were too controlling. Chris, like his father, had a stubborn streak in him and a
penchant for losing his temper. Quite revealing, regarding his feelings about his family is that
they held to and practiced middle-class traditional values, while Chris became increasingly
antagonistic to these values his family held dear. This is a prime example of a major difference
between him and his family. Chris McCandless began to put away materialism and eventually
virtually dispensed with it altogetherwhen he hitchhiked to Alaska and walked unaccompanied into
its vast wilderness.

Walt and Billie McCandless had high hopes for their son.
They believed he would further his life ambitions through enrolling in law school. They wanted
the best for their son and no doubt were positive about this hope. Eventually, as Chris journey
went on and he was not heard of, or to be found, Walt and Billie did engage the services of a
private investigator to find Chris. They loved him. Chris, deep down, may have loved them, but
did not ascribe to their traditional way of life any longer.

The major
difference between Chris and his family was philosophical and based on different world views of
what one needs to do to be happy in life.

Analysis of Poem Lament by Gillian Clarke I didn't understand these particular stanzas... Stanza 3 "For the ocean's lap with its mortal stain....

For Gillian
Clarke's poem "Lament," the stanzas shown useand metaphors to describe the realities
of what occurred in the Gulf War. ( is very subjective, speaking to different people in
different ways. These are my perceptions only.)

"For the ocean's lap
with its mortal stain" refers to the blood of those killed that fills the water. (See note
below.)

Gillian Clarke comments on her poem in the following lines:

€˜Lament is an , an expression of grief. It can be a sad, military
tune played on a bugle. The poem uses the title as the start of a list of lamented people,
events, creatures and other things hurt in the war, so after the word €˜lament, every verse, and
11 lines, begin with €˜for."For the ocean's lap with its mortal stain" refers to the
blood of the dead in the water.

"For Ahmed at the
closed border" may simply refer to someone who cannot return home because of the
war.

"The soldier in his uniform of fire" brings to mind a soldier
who is on fire, perhaps the result of a the crash of a vehicle, or being hit by mortar
fire.

"The gunsmith...armourer, The boy fusilier" (soldier who
carries a light musket...gun) all refer to those responsible for making the trappings of war, or
using them. The poet laments (mourns) for them.

"The farmer's sons, in
it for the music" may refer to young men who lived in the country and wanted to be a part
of something bigger, drawn perhaps by radios other soldiers carried, or even for the idea that
people might sing of their exploits as has been done in the past for soldiers.

"For the burnt earth and the sun put out" could speak to the bombing of the
earth that has scorched its surface, and the rising smoke from this that blocks out the sun
because it is so thick.

"The scalded ocean and the blazing well"
brings to mind the terrible heat from missile fire that destroys wells, and the ocean's surface
because Kuwait (where this fighting takes place) rests on the shore of the Kuwait Bay/the
Persian Gulf).

The last line refers to vengeance, and the sorrow the poet
feels for death caused by a need for it; she also mourse for the loss of language, or the loss
of voices to speak the language, perhaps the loss of the opportunity to find words of peace to
stop the fighting.

From The Epic of Gilgamesh, assess if Gilgamesh is a hero.

I think
that a strong case can be made that Gilgamesh is a hero. In being able to develop this
argument, Gilgamesh's heroic sensibility lies in both his own sense of strength and austerity,
moving him to accomplishments that defy the capacity of what can be done. At the same time,
Gilgamesh is heroic because of the lessons he learns, lessons that show how when insight and
truth is absorbed and understood, anyone can be heroic.

When examining how
Gilgamesh is heroic, his birth represents a marvel of heroism. Forged by "Two thirds they
made him god and one third man," Gilgamesh is heroic because he is able to do what others
could not do. Part of lies in his killing of Humbaba. A force of the darkness that few could
even consider slaying, Gilgamesh is a hero because he does what others could not do.

Humbabas mouth is fire; his roar the
floodwater;

his breath is death. Enlil made him guardian
of the
Cedar Forest, to frighten off the mortal

who would venture there. But who
would...

Why did the American colonies choose to declare independence?

In the
Declaration of Independence, the Revolution is framed as a revolt against tyranny. In it,
government is understood as contractual in nature, having been originally created for the
purpose of safeguarding natural rights. The revolutionaries accused Britain of having broken
that contract, acting as an oppressive force where the colonies were concerned. On these
grounds, they argued, revolution was a morally justified action.

Moving
beyond the realm of argumentation and discourse, you must understand that the American
Revolution emerged out of a very gradual escalation of tensions which...

In what year does The Elegance of the Hedgehog take place?

I don't
believe that the book explicitly states a year that the story takes place. In reading it, there
was a feeling of a previous time period, but I think that was just because of the Old
World...

On what pages does the author describe the characters Ralph, Piggy, Jack, and Simon in chapter 1 of Lord of the Flies?

Depending
on which edition of the book you are using, page numbers will vary, but I will give the location
of the descriptions according to my version. The first sentence of chapter 1 refers to "the
boy with fair hair." This is . The eighth paragraph of the chapter introduces , whose
"naked crooks of his knees were plump," showing he is heavy-set and wears shorts. He
is also described as shorter than Ralph, "very fat," and wearing spectacles. About
five pages in, more description of Ralph is given: he is just over twelve years old with
relatively broad shoulders, a mild expression, and a "golden" skin tone.

About sixteen pages in,appears leading the choir boys. He is "tall, thin, and
bony." He has red hair and freckles, and his face is "ugly." His eyes are blue.
Shortly after Jack's introduction,is described briefly as the boy who faints. When he regains
consciousness, he is described as having a pallid smile, which can mean either pale or lifeless.
Since he has just...

Friday 10 March 2017

In Romeo and Juliet, how does Juliet feel about love?

is very
young, barely a teenager, and has no experience of love before she meets . Yet the character's
speech demonstrates that she is an intelligent and sensitive young woman with a rather mature
take on love and romance. After falling in love with Romeo after meeting him at the dance, she
stares out her bedroom window and speaks aloud of her love for him, not realizing that he can
hear her. She complains about his name, because the feud between their families, the Capulets
and the Montagues, means they cannot be together. She tries to think of ways to solve this
problem. "Deny thy father, and refuse they name. Or if thou wilt not, then be but sworn my
love and I'll no longer be a Capulet!"

She means that if they marry, her
name will be the same as his and perhaps this will negate the feud. She appears to be displaying
the impetuous and idealistic temperament of a young girl in love: first, by fantasizing about
marrying a boy she has just met, and send, by assuming that the feud between two two clans could
be erased by something so simple as changing her last name.

But once she
realizes Romeo is there, she immediately warns him of the danger: "the orchard walls are
high and hard to climb, and the place death, considering who thou art, if any of my kinsmen find
thee here." She is both embarrassed that he overheard her, but also concerned for his well
being. Her nurse calls her inside repeatedly, and she worries she will be found out. She is torn
between her duty to her family and her newfound love, which inspires her to be impulsive. She is
ready to submit to Romeo utterly and offers to marry him and go wherever he wants. "All my
fortunes at thy foot I'll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world." For Juliet,
love is all-consuming and infinite.

As the play goes on, Juliet's view of
love is portrayed as wise beyond her years, and even grandiose at times, as when she speaks of
Romeo while she waits for him, saying "Give me my Romeo, and, when he shall die, take him
and cut him out in little stars; and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world
will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun." These words play on the
"star-cross'd lovers" theme of the play, the notion that fate has destined them to be
together, in this world and into eternity. Juliet believes she is destined to be with Romeo
forever.

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If the whole world is "globalizing", then won't all countries eventually turn out the same?

There are
many things to consider when answering this question.

First, we have to
consider the element of time. It may well be true that all countries will end up the same in
the long run. The problem is that we have no way of knowing how long this will take. We cannot
simply look at the world today and say that countries will never become identical. All we can
say is that they have not yet done so. For all we know, countries may eventually all be
identical but it could take centuries for this to happen.

Second, we must
consider how...

Describe the unique features of Mesopotamian art.

One of the
salient features of Mesopotamian art was their so called "artisitic iconography" and
this meant that they made statues of gods or people in different sizes that reflected their
importance and value. The larger the statue, the more important the figure. So in a group of
smaller statues that were worshipped in homes or in temples, the important gods would be largest
and the worshippers would in fact be relatively small.

These objects were not
thought of the same way that we we think of art but they were viewed as functional in that
worshipping them would provide benefits for the worshipper.

One particular
feature of many Mesopotamian statues was the very large eyes that were important in helping the
people consider them as live or sentient stand-ins for either gods or people that had
died.

What is the significance of the name Godhigh? How does Julians attitude towards his ancestors and towards the Godhigh family home reflect the...

Julian's mother takes
great pride in the fact that his grandmother "'was a Godhigh.'" To his mother, this
means that Julian should take great pride in his family and his heritage, because his ancestors
were prosperous and powerful. She believes that her parents' and grandparents' status and
identity are part and parcel of her own, and Julian completely disagrees. He says that

"Knowing who you are is...

What would happen in the market for car tires if there was an increase in the price of rubber used to produce tires and a decrease in the price for...

As prices
decrease, demand increases. A drop in the price for cars will increase the demand for cars and,
therefore, sales of cars. The question assumes that increases in tire prices, which would drive
up new car prices, still result in a net decrease in car prices. As new car sales increase, the
demand for tires would increase, as well, further driving up tire prices.

At
some point, given consistent supply, there would be equilibrium in the marketplace for cars as
tire prices rise to offset the reduction in new car prices. But there is more to this than the
effect on new car prices and tires that come equipped on new cars.

There is
a market for tires outside the new car market....

What is an example of a simile in Chains?

A quick scan
of the novel reveals a great number of similes, which are literary comparisons using the words
like or as. These comparisons are used to clarify and give unique definition to something, so
that it strikes the reader with the peculiar feeling or scene that it evokes.

Early in the book (page 6), the author describes Mr. Roberts frustration by saying the
following: Mr. Roberts mouth tightened like a rope pulled taut. This scene shows how tightly
his lips come together to reveal the extreme irritation he feels and the self-control he must
maintain to keep calm in his frustration. Thein the phrase evokes a specific image of the
tightness of his lips, that is not conveyed as clearly without such a
comparison.

Thursday 9 March 2017

Laurie's mother worries that kindergarten is unsettling for Laurie. Why does she worry about Charles's behavior?

Each day
when Laurie comes home from school, he elaborates on 's misbehavior and tells his mother about
Charles's audacious and violent exploits. Laurie reacts like any concerned mother would and
begins to worry that Charles's bad behavior will rub off on her son. After the
first week of school, Laurie's mother asks her husband if kindergarten is too unsettling for
their son and mentions that she fears Charles is a bad influence on Laurie.
Despite her concerns, Laurie's father tells her not to worrythere will always be bad people like
Charles in the world, and Laurie might as well meet them now. Ironically, Laurie's parents fail
to see that their son is the child causing all of the trouble, and Charles is his pseudonym.
Interestingly, they never chastise their son's behavior when he speaks disrespectfully toward
them at home or leaves the table without being excused. Laurie's parents also seem to show more
interest in Charles than they do their own son; they are constantly questioning Laurie about
Charles's most recent exploits. However, they do show concern that Charles may be a bad
influence on their son and fear that Laurie will pick up Charles's bad
habits.

What struck James as odd about his father in chapter 12?

Hunter
Jordan, James' stepfather, was a very unusual man. James was struck by the old fashioned clothes
that Jordan wore, the fact that he was not interested in civil rights or the Mets...

What is the source of optimism at the beginning of act 2 in Death of a Salesman?

Throughout , optimism is indicated by Willy Loman's references to
gardening. Whenever Willy is feeling positive about his life, he mentions that he intends to
plant some seeds. At the beginning of act 2, as Willy gets ready for work, Linda comments on the
upcoming changes. The two sons are making a show of unity and planning for the future with their
new business ideaselling sporting goods in Florida.

This concept is
important in part because they will be their own bosses; they won't work for someone else. The
specific cause for optimism is the potential that Bill Oliver will provide Biff with a start-up
loan. Linda tells her husband that Biff has a "hopeful" attitude. This prompts Willy
to comment that he wishes to plant some seeds. The young men's unity and...

Why did the villagers call Brom Van Brunt Brom Bones? Does he resemble a character from a modern movie or story?

According
the narrator of "," Brom Van Brunt was called Brom Bones by the entire community of
Sleepy Hollow. He earned the nickname:

From his Herculean
frame and great powers of limb

He is described as broad
shouldered, double jointed, and very strong. He has a "buff" face. He is coordinated,
athletic, and quite active.

His name is in marked opposition to Ichabod
Crane's. "Bones" are solid and strong, while a "crane" is delicate and
hollow boned. All through the story, the red-blooded, sharp witted, he-man Bones is contrasted
to the weak, bookish, superstitious Crane.

The first figure Bones could be
compared to that pops to mind is Paul Bunyan. A modern figure might be a superhero. Hercules, to
whom Brom is compared, had superhero-like strength, and Brom is described as being
"foremost" or first in most athletic competitions. I might compare him to Mr.
Incredible, Bob Parr, from the movie The Incredibles. Both of these men are
very strong and good natured. Bob is a family man, and Brom's motivation for driving out Ichabod
Crane is his own desire to be a family man himself: he wants to marry Katrina, and Crane is a
rival for her hand.

Brom is a very American type hero, contrasted in the
story to an effete European-type schoolteacher. In the early days of the United Stateswas
participating in nation building, helping the young country forge an identity as robust and
pragmatic.

William Golding drew from the work of a famous psychologist who believed that there is evil in everyone that is kept in check by the conscience. Who...

The
psychologist who believed that our tendencies toward evil are kept in check by our conscience is
Sigmund Freud. Freud said that everybody has an evil side, and if it weren't for our conscience,
we would all act on it. Golding has examined this idea through and has
shown its many shades through the characters.

When the book begins, we don't
really see evil among the characters. Some are scared, and some embrace the leadership their
situation necessitates; we even see the possibility for the abuse of power. Yet it isn't until
life on the island devolves and hope for rescue diminishes that we begin to see the more primal
side of the boys emerge, and with it, evil.

is the epitome of the evil that
Freud believes most people are suppressing. As the group becomes more desperate, Jack takes a
greater leadership role, wresting it from . This position allows him to create chaos and wreak
havoc, destroying the balance of the group and resulting in death. Ralph experiences a similar
loss of conscience, but because he is beginning with a greater moral compass, his ability to
keep his conscience in check is greater.represents the conscience staying intact and is a
constant reminder to the group of where they are going astray.

Wednesday 8 March 2017

How would you compare Dante's idea of Hell and Jean-Paul Sartre's famous idea that "Hell is other people?"

The idea
that "Hell is other people" comes from the end of Sartre's play No
Exit, in which three "sinners" are locked in a room together, all of them
possessing dispositions that fundamentally conflict with each other. It is unknown if the nature
of this Hell is similar for other sinners or strictly for these three. They cannot close their
eyes or leave the room, forcing them to spend all of their time interacting with one another.

The interesting thing in this depiction of Hell is that most of the
punishment occurring is self-inflicted. In fact, there comes a point when the door to the room
opens, but the characters simply will not leave due to the absurd nature of the conflict that
has arisen between them. Absurdism and existentialism are at the heart of Sartre's play, which
contrasts heavily with Dante's very literal idea of eternal punishment.

Dante's Hell is a physical place that he is able to discover simply by traversing to obscure
areas of the world. In keeping with that theme,...

Where does Winston Smith live?

lives
in a dilapidated, old apartment building known as Victory Mansions.
Victory Mansions is a dingy, disgusting building in need of major renovations. At the beginning
of the novel,describes Winston's apartment complex and flat. Throughout the halls of Victory
Mansions, there is an overpowering smell of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. Winston is also
forced to walk past giant posters of Big Brother hanging from the walls on the way to his
seventh-floor apartment. Inside Winston's tiny apartment, there is a telescreen hanging on the
right side of the wall. Unlike the setup of most apartments, the telescreen is not located at
the end of the wall, where it has command of the entire room. There is also a shallow alcove
next to the telescreen, where Winston writes in his diary without being seen. Later on in the
novel, Winston begins to rent a small room above Mr. Charrington's antique shop. There is a bed,
stove, and an antique chair in the room, as well as a hidden telescreen disguised as an old
painting.

Tuesday 7 March 2017

What are some strengths and weakness of the character Macbeth?

The
audience learns in act 1, scene 2 of 's tragic play thatis a decisive,
courageous, strong-willed, and ruthless warrior of heroic stature.

SERGEANT. For brave Macbethwell he deserves that name
Disdaining fortune, with
his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor's minion
carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave,
Which ne'er shook hands, nor
bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And
fix'd his head upon our battlements. (1.2.18€“25)

Macbeth
has almost single-handedly won a battle against an overwhelming invading force from Norway, and
he's secured a victory for Kingand for Scotland.

In act 1, scene 3, the
audience gets a glimpse of another aspect of Macbeth's character. Three witches prophesize that
Macbeth will be made Thane of Cawdor, and that Macbeth will soon be king.

FIRST WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of
Glamis!

SECOND WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of
Cawdor!

THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!
(1.3.50€“53)

Angus andcome to tell Macbeth that King
Duncan has awarded him the title and property of the Thane of Cawdor. This seems to give
credibility to the prophecies and stirs up some suppressed ambitions in Macbeth.

Until now, Macbeth has appeared absolutely loyal to Duncan. The audience realizes,
however, that Macbeth has thought about being king before. Perhaps he's even thought about
killing Duncan and usurping his throne.

MACBETH. This
supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it
given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.
If
good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my
hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature?
Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet
is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is
smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not. (1.3.141€“153)

Macbeth's ambitions towards the throne become even more apparent
when Duncan names his son, , Prince of Cumberland and selects him as his successor.

MACBETH. The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which
I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your
fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand;
yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.55€“60)

In act 1, scene 5, Macbeth appears to agree withto kill Duncan, but
after further consideration, he changes his mind.

MACBETH.
We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honor'd me of late, and I have
bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in
their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon. (1.7.34€“38)

His reasoning is rational and understandable, but his vacillation seems
uncharacteristic of the decisive warrior Macbeth appeared to be.

Macbeth's
further conversations with Lady Macbeth reveal other unexpected aspects of his
character.

Macbeth allows himself to be cajoled, insulted, and bullied by
Lady Macbeth.

LADY MACBETH. Was the hope
drunk
Wherein you dress'd yourself?...

Art thou afeard
To
be the same in thine own act and valor
As thou art in desire?...

What beast was't then
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When
you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you
would
Be so much more the man. (1.7.39€“57)

Macbeth is indecisive and fearful.

MACBETH. I
dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

[...]

If we should fail? (1.7.51€“52, 66)

Lady Macbeth told the audience long ago, however, that this was
Macbeth's true nature.

LADY MACBETH. Yet do I fear thy
nature;
It is too full o the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness
should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play
false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win. (1.5.14€“20)

In time, all of Macbeth's strengths dissipate, are squandered, or transform into
weaknesses. His decisiveness fails him when he's faced with Lady Macbeth's constant manipulation
of his vulnerabilities and emotions. His ambition negates his courage and his valor. His murder
of Duncan unnerves him.

His ruthlessness still exists, but he uses it solely
for evil in killing Duncan and ordering the deaths of , , and 's family to maintain his wrongful
place on the throne.

Guilt and despair ultimately overwhelm him. After Lady
Macbeth's death he doesn't really care what happens to him.

Macbeth's
fearlessness abandons him in the presence of Banquo's ghost, and his strength of will vanishes
entirely when Birnam Wood moves toward Dunsinane and he comes face to face with Macduff, a man
who is "none of woman born."

MACBETH. Accursed
be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And
be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double
sense,
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.
I'll not fight with thee. (5.8.21€“26)

For a brief
moment, however, Macbeth gives the audience a brief reminder of his former heroic
self.

MACBETH. I will not yield,
To kiss the
ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's
curse.
Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no
woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield!
Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough!
(5.8.32€“39)

What is one way Auggie has changed in Wonder?

One
important way thatchanges is in his development of social skills. Before August began attending
school, he was not only homeschooled but kept away from regular social interactions with
children his age. While his academic development progressed according to his grade level and
sometimes went beyond it, his other developmental markers did not keep pace. In attempting to
protect their son, his parents delayed his emotional development, made him very self-conscious
about his appearance, and greatly increased his vulnerability to being bullied. It was very
challenging for August to...

Monday 6 March 2017

In Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, who is responsible for Macbeth's downfall?

There can
be a great deal of discussion about who causes 's downfall in
Shakespeare's.

Macbeth is a man of honor, a valiant and
loyal soldier in the Scottish army, serving King . At the beginning of the play, he is described
in battle as a force to be reckoned with:

For brave
Macbethwell he deserves that name
€¦with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked
with bloody execution,
€¦carved out his passage
Till he faced
the slave€¦
Till he unseam'd him€¦
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
(I.ii.18-22, 24-25)

There is no question that he is
Duncan's man. This is one of the reasons that Duncan is so vulnerable because up until this
point, Macbeth's only ambition has been to serve king and country.

In Act
One, scene three, however, three witches who serve(queen of ) show up (as they previously
arranged) to speak with Macbeth andon the moors as they return from battle.

The witches' job (and the Elizabethan audience would have believed this wholeheartedly)
is to trick human beings so as to win their immortal souls to eternal damnation. It is in this
scene that the hags offer their first set of predictions to Macbeth, in order to win his
confidence. Banquo dismisses the predictions they offer him, and warns his
best friend that sometimes the powers of evil will win one's confidence with little details,
only to betray one later when something really important is at stake. (And this is exactly what
happens.) However, Macbeth starts to ponder their words and what they might mean to his life, in
particular the news that he will one day be king.

One might argue that the
witches are responsible for tricking Macbeth. I would disagree: Macbeth is obviously a smart and
experienced solder. He knows the difference between right and wrong. Even his best friend warns
him to be cautious of the witches. Hecate tells the Weird Sisters (the witches) that a man's
biggest enemy is a false sense of security.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and
fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
(III.v.30-33)

It is true that the witches' six
predictions seal this illusion in Macbeth's mind, but it is only because he first gives in to
his worst character flaw that he willingly considers the witches' words. In giving rein to this
flaw, he ultimately develops a false sense of security.

Some might argue
thatis at fault. It is true that she pushes Macbeth to commit murder because she wants to be
queen. She insults her husband and questions his bravery. She is a frightening character when he
begins to change his mind about their agreed upon plan, saying that had she
promised to do so, she would have killed her nursing child, and not think twice about it.
However, though it seems clear that Macbeth loves his wife, can one believe that this stalwart
and fearless warrior that has seen the worst of death and destruction on the battlefield would
ultimately be forced by a nagging wife to kill his king? If he had been unwilling, he would have
put a stop to the plan.

The fault can be found first and foremost in
Macbeth's flawed character.

Macbeth is considered a tragic hero according to
Aristotle's five characteristicsone is that the character must have a tragic flaw, and Macbeth
readily admits to his: his vaulting ambition.

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting
ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other(I.vii.25-28)

In order to realize his ambition to be king, Macbeth will do
anything. He even gives away his most precious possessionhis soulto the devil.

...mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man...
(III.i.67-68)

Hecate (an unlikely judge) comments on
Macbeth's character: he is selfishhe wants what benefits him and cares for
nothing else, including the witches. (This angers Hecate because Macbeth has no fear or respect
for the witches.)

Macbeth murders Duncan, his guards and Banquo (his best
friend who suspects that Macbeth murdered Duncan). The murder of Duncan speaks directly to the
depravity of Macbeth's character: for Duncan was not only his king, but also his friend
and his cousin. He was also Macbeth's guest. The King's safety should have
been guaranteed while under Macbeth's roof according to a long-established and recognized rule
of hospitality.

It is Macbeth's flawed character, galvanized forward by
selfish ambition that causes his defeat. He is responsible for his
downfall.

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How does the author show or build suspense in "The Sniper" through characterization, setting, or point of view?

O'Flaherty builds
suspense through setting.The narrator tells us early on that theis
on a rooftop and that he is a "Republican sniper" facing the Free Staters in the Irish
civil war.The city of Dublin lies in "darkness" and the sound of "heavy guns
roared."One can hear "machine guns and rifles" in the silence, and the sniper's
eyes have "the cold gleam of the fanatic" because he is "used to looking at
death."All of these details -- the war, the darkness, the imminent danger, the sniper's
description as somewhat ruthless and accustomed to death -- build suspense because they create
such a foreboding and menacing mood.

The sniper's
also contributes to the suspense in the story because we see that
he is young and does not always make the smartest decisions.This makes the reader fearful,
perhaps, that he will do something to jeopardize his own safety, and he does.For example, he
pauses to consider whether or not he should light a cigarette.Common sense...

What are some quotes about Piggy's specs with page numbers in Lord of the Flies?

[] wiped his glasses and adjusted them on his button nose. The frame
had made a deep, pink V on the bridge. (p.11).

Piggy's
glasses are an essential part of who he is. And it's of vital importance for him that he keeps
them clean. The glasses symbolize Piggy's ability to see things more clearly than the other
boys. Hence they need to be wiped clean and properly adjusted on his nose.

pointed suddenly. "His specs€“use them as burning
glasses!" Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. "Here€“let me go!" His
voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face. "Mind out! Give
em back! I can hardly see! Youll break the conch!" (pp.55-56).

Jack couldn't care less about Piggy's eyesight; he just sees his
specs as being a useful means of starting a fire. Piggy's glasses are a symbol of reason and
intelligence, and the conch shell symbolizes order. When Jack abruptly snatches the glasses from
Piggy's face, it represents a victory of savagery over...

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What was the Progressive Movement's position on racial segregation?

The
Progressive Movement was a reform movement that brought many changes to American society in the
early 1900s. Child labor laws were passed to protect children. Many political reforms were
passed to help get the average person more involved in the political process. The referendum,
initiative, and recall are some examples of the attempt to get more regular citizens involved in
the political process. Laws were passed to control big businesses and to help workers. The
passage of worker compensation laws, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission, and the
passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act are examples of actions to regulate big businesses and to
help workers. Laws were passed to help protect consumers. The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure
Food and Drug Act are examples of these laws. Many reforms were made during the Progressive
Era.

One area of improvement that is significantly lacking in the Progressive
Movement was the passage of laws or the taking of actions to deal with racial issues. The Jim
Crow laws, which allowed segregation, remained in place. Lynching continued to be a common
tactic used in the South. Economic and political opportunities remained limited for
African-Americans. While much progress was made in improving society, one area where this did
not occur was in the area of racial segregation. Racial segregation remained alive and well
before, during, and after the Progressive Era.

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Sunday 5 March 2017

What is the bias of Howard Zinn in A People's History of the United States?

(1922€“2010)
believed that common people were the real driving force behind history. Most historians had
traditionally viewed history in much different ways. For example, many historians were
influenced by the idea that great menkings, generals, and presidentsmade history. Zinn's view,
which emphasized the primacy of ordinary people, was a direct and forceful challenge to this
conventional view.

In Zinn's view, the Founding Fathers were aristocrats who
did not trust the people. For instance, the Presidency, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives were important institutions in the new government of the United States. Of the
three, however, only the House was to be elected by popular vote. Moreover, slaves, Native
Americans, and women could not vote at all. Only white male property holders enjoyed
suffrage.

The public shapes history, according to Zinn. One example he gives
of this is in his chapter on the Vietnam War. Protests against the war spread and
ultimately...

Many Americans insisted that the nation was fighting to ensure freedom during the bloodshed of World War II. However, freedom had different...

This is
really a two-part question. Regarding freedom during, many Americans were technically not
really free. Racial discrimination was widespread in many parts of America in the 1940s via
both Jim Crow laws and decades of bigoted patterns. And although segregation policies targeted
African Americans living in the Southern US, they were not the only group who suffered from
ethnic and cultural bias. Other groups who experienced prejudice included black people living in
Northern US regions, Latinos, Native Americans, Filipinos, Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans,
Japanese...

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Saturday 4 March 2017

What are some quotations from the middle and end of Lord of the Flies that show how Jack uses fear to control the boys?

, theof
, successfully uses the idea of fear to usurp power.

In
chapter 5, Jack displays his intellect and deep understanding of the power fear
wields.

The thing isfear can't hurt you any more than a
dream.

Jack understands that fear is a figment of the
imagination with immense persuasive power. By controlling and manipulating the boys fear, Jack
can hold power over them and convince them to partake in actions they otherwise would outright
reject.

Later, in chapter 8, Jack directsto mount the dead pigs head on a
sharpened stick as an offering to the beast. The pigs head becomes the Lord of the
Flies.

In chapter 12, the final chapter, the idea of the sharpened stick
returns when Jack instructs Roger again.

Sharpen a stick
at both ends.

This quotation works twofold. First, the
assumption is thats head will be mounted on this stick, which reinforces the boys fear that Jack
is willing to hunt, murder, and display the severed head of his...

Within the study and practice of psychology, what ethical issues must be considered and protected?

As with
all areas of medicine, psychologists accept and endorse a set of standards, including ethical
guidelines, that are designed at least in part to protect the interests of the patient or of the
research subject.

The first and foremost ethical or moral standard under
which psychologists, as with all other practitioners of medicine, abide is encompassed in the
Latin phrase "primum non nocere," which translates as
"first, do no harm," which was derived from the Hippocratic Oath ("...I will do
no harm or injustice...").

Psychologists conducting research on
living subjects have a moral obligation to protect those subjects from harm. When studying the
effects of external stimuli on research subjects, for...

The ionization energy of hydrogen is often expressed in units other than kJ/mole. What would it be in joules per atom?

Ionization
energy of an atom or molecule is the energy needed for a an electron to be removed from gaseous
atoms or ions. It is also called Ionization potential.

How does Boo show courage in To Kill a Mockingbird? Explain with text evidence, quotes and page numbers.

As was
mentioned in the previous post,demonstrates his courage the night of Bob Ewell's attack. Boo
Radley was watching asandwere passing his home and witnessed Bob Ewell suddenly attack them. Boo
Radley courageously ran out of his home and fought with Bob Ewell to protect the children.
Despite the fact that Bob was wielding a knife, Boo Radley was able to dislodge Bob's weapon and
use it against him. Following the struggle, Scout recalls seeing Boo carry Jem home. Scout
says,

"The man was walking with the staccato step of
someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying
Jem" (Lee 161).

Later on that evening, Scout
explains her story to Sheriff Tate and describes the attack. She says,

"Mr. Ewell was tryin' to squeeze me to death, I reckon...then
somebody yanked Mr. Ewell down..." (Lee 165).

Boo's
selfless, courageous act saved Jem and Scout's lives. It was also one of the very few times that
Boo Radley left his home throughout the novel. After Scout walks Boo home, she stands on his
porch and thinks about her reclusive neighbor. She says,

"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair
of good-luck pennies, and our lives" (Lee 171).

Friday 3 March 2017

Why did axel not want to go on the trip?

is a novel by ,
originally published in French in the year 1864. The story is narrated by Axel Lidenbrock, a
young man who lives in Hamburg, Germany with his uncle Otto Lidenbrock, a professor of
mineralogy.

Axel assists Otto with his experiments, and definitely takes
after his uncle in terms of having a scientific mind. As he says himself:

I will admit that I devoured geological science with great relish; I
had mineralogists blood in my veins, and never felt bored in the company of my precious
pebbles.

When Otto finds a manuscript written in
Icelandic runes in a shop, he takes it home, and a separate piece of parchment with a message
jumbled in a runic code falls out. Axel, almost by accident, figures out how to decode its
secret message before Otto does. Axel reads it and finds that the message describes a way to
travel in order to reach the center of the earth. Knowing immediately that his Uncle will want
to take this journey, he says the following:

€˜No! Im not
going to tell my uncle. It would be terrible if he got to know about such a journey. Hed just
want to have a go himself. Nothing would stop a geologist of such determination. He would leave
anyway, against all obstacles, whatever the cost. And hed take me with him, and we wouldnt come
back. Never. Not nohow!

Later on, after Axel eventually
gives in and tells his uncle how to read the code, and Otto declares that they're going to go on
this journey, Axel tries to reason with him, saying:

All
right, I accept that this Saknussemm wrote the message, but does it necessarily follow that he
actually carried out the journey? Couldnt the old parchment just be a practical joke?

And so, we see that Axel does not want to try to go to the center
of the earth because he doesn't fully believe that the feat is possible, and thinks that they
would die trying.

(Note that any quotes I used in this answer may be slightly
different from the ones in your own copy of the book, as there are multiple different English
translations of Journey to the Center of the Earth.)

What are five important paragraphs in the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier? The paragraphs from the story can be memorable, interesting,...

Marigolds situates Lizabeths personal story of growth and change within the largest
context of the extreme poverty of the Great Depression. She includes her mother, father, and
brother in the story, but in many ways it focuses on her relationship with an old woman she
barely knew, Miss Lottie. As your question asks for a variety of types of importance, the plot
need not drive your choice.

The most important paragraph might be the last
one, because at the end the reader finally understands the full weight of the experiences
Lizabeth recounts, as she can see them clearly from a distance. The worlds have taken me
worlds and years away, [...] And I too have planted marigolds.

Also, the
paragraphs that explore the family dimensions are important to situate the reader in Lizabeths
immediate world. Paragraph 6 begins, "By the time I was fourteen, my brother Joey and I
were the only children left [...]. Another paragraph begins to reveal her parents characters,
and her insights...

Thursday 2 March 2017

Paraphrase the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

reported
to a friend that Frank Avery had shot and killed himself with a shot gun. This was the
inspiration for the poem . The narrator of the poem is a citizen of the town in which Cory
lives. The poem is full of complexities and contrasts.

Paraphrase

The poem has four
quatrains. It follows a set rhyme scheme of ABAB in each stanza.

Stanza 1

When Richard Cory is in town, the
common people watch him. His manners denote him as a complete gentleman from the top of his
head to the bottom of his feet. He was handsome and regally slender.

Stanza 2

His style of dress was not
over stated. When he talked to the people on the street, Cory did not sound condescending.
Yet, his persona caused the ladies react with a quiver inside when he spoke to them or said:
Good morning. As he walked through the town, he appeared to shimmer.

Stanza 3

Cory was extremely
wealthyeven richer than royalty....

Thursday 30 March 2017

Wednesday 29 March 2017