How does the exercise instructor compare her viewers to the nation's soldiers in 1984?

The instructor calls for particular ages to
line up in front of their monitors and then begins barking instructions at them. The young and
muscular instructor counts out their repetitions in a voice reminiscent of military precision.
And then she calls out to the group:

Come on, comrades,
put a bit of life into it!

A comrade
is another word for a fellow soldier, which also connotes some communist and/or socialist
periods of history. Therefore, the exercise period is not simply encouragingand his fellow
same-age peers to improve themselves physically. The instructor's language also unites them in a
common fight. Since exercise is required and monitored, this provides one more opportunity for
the Party to indoctrinate its citizens and carefully shape the way each person thinks. Here, the
idea that each man and woman is a soldier for the Party is carefully reinforced through the
language of the instructor.

What are Betsy and Amelia arguing about? Does Lyddie agree with either of them?

They are
arguing over whether or not to sign a petition calling for improvements in pay and conditions.
The Concord Corporation has been speeding up the looms again.is not too worried, as it gives her
an opportunity to make more money, but some of the other girls at the factory cannot handle the
pace. On the whole, the acceleration of production is taking its toll on the physical health of
the workforce. Amelia is so tired and crabby that she gets into a silly argument with Lyddie
when she will not put her book down and take a short walk by the river.

Betsy
has half a mind to sign the petition, but Amelia is none too enthusiastic about it. Lyddie does
not say anything, but she is concerned that if the petition succeeds, then the girls will end up
working fewer hours. If they work fewer hours, they will earn less pay. Lyddie has been working
hard to pay off her family's debts, and she is concerned that working fewer hours at the factory
will make it harder for her to do this.

How does Jem and Scout's relationship change as Jem grows up in To Kill a Mockingbird?

At first,  is
the "little sister"  takes to school and advises. At recess on the first day of
school, for instance, a disgruntled Scout complains to Jem about her teacher Miss Caroline. Jem
tries to allay her fears, telling her not to worry because his teacher says that Miss Caroline
is introducing a new method of instruction called "the Dewey Decimal System." (He has
mistaken John Dewey's pedagogical method with the system of arranging books in a
library.)

InJem reassures Scout as she begins second grade, telling her
school gets better as she advances.

Jem is the voice of wisdom to Scout at
times. For instance, when Scout attacks Walter Cunningham by rubbing his nose in the dirt for
causing her to be punished by Miss Caroline, Jem stops her and invites Walter home to eat with
them at noontime.

In another instance, Jem scolds Scout for taking gum from
the Radleys' tree's knothole.

As the protective older brother, Jem allays
Scout's fears at times. In one instance, he...

Can I get a summary of Chapters 17 and 22 of The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn?

Chapter 17 provides an
overview of the Civil Rights movement, which, as Zinn writes, was a surprise to many but should
not have been. African-American writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes had been
documenting the oppression and rage of African Americans for decades. Zinn documents the smaller
steps the federal government took to advance civil rights, such as Truman's decision to
integrate the armed forces in 1948, before the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Brown v.
Board of Education decision unleashed the Civil Rights movement. He details the
nonviolent movement of Martin Luther King, Bob Moses, and others and the eventual turn to more
violent methods of protest and the eventual emphasis on African-American economic
empowerment.

Chapter 22 is about the growth of opposition movements,
including the anti-nuclear movement, which started in the early 1980s as a grassroots movement
and grew to include prominent scientists. Public opinion began to turn against nuclear armament
and...

How are Robert Walton and Frankenstein similar? How are Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar people? Anything, from aspirations, hopes and...

Bothandcrave glory. They
both long to make some valuable contribution to the human race and to be remembered forever,
held up as heroes who accomplished something that no one ever had before. Captain Walton says to
his sister,

You cannot contest the inestimable benefit
which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the
pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by
ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an
undertaking such as mine.

He wants to make a real
contribution but, just as important, he wants to be recognized for his contribution to the
species. Walton even tells Mrs. Saville, his sister, that he has "preferred glory to every
enticement that wealth placed in [his] path." When Victor learns of Walton's plans, he
implores, "'Unhappy man!  Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating
draught?'" Victor obviously sees the similarities in their temperaments: the fact that both
are willing to risk life and limb in order to achieve their goals.

Further,
Victor tells Walton, "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope
that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."
Victor compares his seeking for knowledge and glory to being bitten by a snake, and he hopes
that he can give Walton the benefit of his experience and prevent his new friend from the same
sad fate.

What would be a good topic connected to relationships in The Unbearable Lightness of Being and how they change the characters?

The major relationship
that is explored within this book is that between Tomas and Tereza, and it is clear that their
relationship together has a massive impact on both of them. This is particularly true of Tomas,
who, in one sense, gives up so much so that he can be with Tereza. When he thinks about their
relationship, he is shocked to realise how much about it depends on chance and luck alone, as
the following quote suggests:

He had gone back to Prague
because of her. So fateful a decision resting on so fortuitous a love, a love that would not
even have existed had it not been for the chief surgeon's sciatica seven years earlier. And that
woman, thatof absolute fortuity, now again lay beside him, breathing deeply.

He sees Tereza as a "personification of absolute
fortuity," or, in other words, a result of complete chance and luck. At every stage in
their relationship Tomas is aware of the role chance and blind luck has played. Tereza, on the
other hand, sees that their relationship is a result of fate alone and is not disturbed by the
element of chance. For Tomas, however, Tereza represents a "fateful decision" that is
actually built on something that, to him, seems very precarious. He returns to Prague for her
and thus gives up his career and his dreams of happiness for her. The random element in his
relationship with her deeply disturbs him when he considers how much he has had to give up for
her. Therefore examining this relationship and its impact on Tomas, but also the different
perspective Tereza has about it, would be an excellent topic to explore in more
depth.

What does Oedipus mean by "A crown is won by numbers and money" in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.

This is a
good question. Let me give you the context of these words. These words come around lines 640-650
in 's . These are the words thatspeaks to , whom Oedipus accuses of trying
to usurp power from him. Oedipus thinks that Creon andare trying to trap him and take his
kingship away.

Within this context, these words are Oedipus's attempt at
saying that Creon is foolish if he thinks he can take the city of Thebes without numbers of
solider and money. Oedipus is basically saying that kings are made by money and power. Here is
the fuller quote:

"Has your face grown so bold you
now come
to my own homeyou who are obviously
the murderer of the man whose
house it was,
a thief who clearly wants to steal my throne?
Come, in the
name of all the gods, tell me this
did you plan to do it because you thought
I was a coward or a fool? Or did you think
I would not learn about your
actions
as they crept up on me with such deceit
or that, if I knew, I could
not deflect them?
This attempt of yours, is it not madness
to chase after
the kings place without friends,
without a horde of men, to seek a goal
which only gold or factions could attain?"

From
these words, it is clear that Oedipus is truly blind. No one was trying to take power from him,
especially Tiresias. Moreover, we an see his blindness in that the "kingdom" (Thebes)
was taken from him without money or men, but by his ownand actions in the past.

In the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales, why is the Wife of Bath on the pilgrimage?

The Wife
of Bath goes on pilgrimages to prove that she can. She's very much a proto-feminist at a time
when women are expected to be demure, submissive, and chaste. For most people, going on a
pilgrimage is an expression of their religious identity. But for the Wife of Bath, it's
differentit's a social ritual, an opportunity to be seen and admired. She's very much a woman of
the world, who has married several times and is independently wealthy and completely comfortable
in her own skin. She owes absolutely nothing to anyone and so has the time and the leisure to be
able to lead her own life. At a time when opportunities for travel were necessarily limited,
with journeys long and hard, going on a pilgrimage was a rare chance to explore another part of
the country.

Nowadays, members of the international jet set like to
congregate at fancy spas or fashionable ski resorts. In late 14th-century England,...

In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, why does Crusoe build his fortress with so many defensive features€”from what is he defending himself?

I believe
that in 's , with the construction of his fortress (or "castle"
as he calls it), Crusoe is concerned with several things. Completely out of his element, Crusoe
discovers how little he knows about the world (building things, farming, hunting, etc.) and how
much he must learn if he wishes to survive. He overcomes many obstacles through investigation,
analysis, and sometimes by accident. He analyzes the best place to build his
"fortress."

It will be recalled that in Defoe's
tale Crusoe decides to build his permanent dwelling on a hill with a view of the sea. "I
found a little plain on the side of a rising hill, whose front towards this little plain was
steep as a house-side, so that nothing could come down upon me from the top...

...though, as it appeared afterwards, there was no need of all this caution from the
enemies that I apprehended danger from."

Crusoe goes
to great lengths to deal with potential threats. Things that Crusoe is unaware of are the
dangers he could face on the island: is it deserted? could he be attacked by wild animals? He is
also confronted with the unknown conditions of the island's weather, and even his own lack of
knowledge, in general.

I believe that there is also a psychological element
to his work as well. The building of a "castle" gives Crusoe structure and purpose in
each day. With each achievement, he may experience a sense of humility. E.g. when he makes clay
pots, he is honest with himself:

I must needs say as to
the shapes of them, they were very indifferent, as any one may suppose, when I had no way of
making them but as the children make dirt pies...

Crusoe
does not worry for things that he makes crudely (like a suit of clothing made from animal furs
he has curedthey are functional); there are other times he describes his satisfaction in his
accomplishments, as with creating a "household" in his castle, including: a parrot, a
dog, a cat, and a very tame goat.

One day, Crusoe discovers a human footprint
in the sandafter being on the island for many years.

It
happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print
of a mans naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.  I stood like
one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition...

...but after
innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to
my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last
degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and
fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.

In light
of the foot print, Crusoe works to improve his fortress even more. The
fortress protects Crusoe physically, and provides mental and emotional stability as
welladdressing concerns he has about what he knows and those things he is not certain of. He
accomplishes a great deal in building a safe haven for himself on the
island.

Discuss the significance of "the woman" in the play Death of a Salesman.

Laurine Herzog

"The Woman" first appears in act one of the play. Willy is speaking with his
wife, Linda, but a moment from his past (and specifically from his extramarital affair with
"The Woman") intrudes upon his present. At first Willy hears the laughter of "The
Woman" and tries to talk over it, perhaps to prevent his wife from hearing it or perhaps in
an effort to defeat and suppress the memory.

The moment when the memory
overcomes the present coincides with the moment when "The Woman" says to Willy,
"I picked you." Willy is so pleased to hear her say this. In fact, he is almost
incredulous, asking her twice to affirm that it is true. The fact that "The Woman"
chose him gives him a sense of validation that he is increasingly unable to achieve in his
present reality. "The Woman" is thus significant because she helps us to understand,
by way of contrast, what Willy lacks in his life in the present.

"The
Woman" is also significant because she changes our emotional reaction to Willy. The
discovery that...

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In chapter 7, what quote suggest that Victor views the creature as a part of himself?

After a period of mourning, begins to return home. As he does approaches the place of
his brother's murder, he feels a darkness closing in around him:

Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still
more gloomily. The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw
obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings. Alas!
I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I
imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to
endure.

The wording in bold is eerily similar to the
phrasing that Victor also uses to describe :

How can I
describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the
wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to
form? (Chapter 5)

I beheld the wretchthe
miserable monster whom I had created. (Chapter 5)

The porter opened the
gates of the court, which had that night been...

What is Syme's role in the book 1984 by George Orwell?

Syme is
a minor character in the story and an Outer Party member, who works at the Research Department
and is one of 's "friends." Syme is portrayed as an intelligent philologist, who is
considered a specialist in Newspeak and is currently working on the eleventh and final edition
of the Newspeak Dictionary. Syme is described as being "venomously orthodox" and goes
out of his way to harshly criticize Big Brother's enemies.

Despite Syme's
ability to practice doublethink and his strong support of Big Brother, Winston predicts that he
will be vaporized by the Party for being too smart and outspoken. Winston's prediction is proven
correct when he eventually discovers that Syme has vanished from work.

Even
though Syme is a minor character, his role emphasizes the cruel, calculating measures the Party
takes to ensure its stability and prevent political dissidents from existing in their oppressive
society. Syme's fate also foreshadows Winston's fate at the end of the story, even though
Winston is not vaporized. The audience realizes that if an intelligent, loyal Party member can
be vaporized, Winston does not stand a chance of living as an independent, free-thinking
individual in Oceania.

What does Pickering offer to do in Pygmalion?

Act Two of 's
opens on Colonel Pickering and Professor Henry Higgins reviewing the vowel
sounds they both can pronounce in Higgin's home laboratory on Wimpole Street. They are surprised
when Liza, the flower girl who they had encountered in Covent Garden the previous day, arrives
at Higgin's home and insists to his housekeeper that she needs to speak with him. When given the
opportunity to do so, Liza informs Higgins that she would like to pay him for speech lessons so
that she can learn to "talk more genteel" and eventually obtain a position as a lady
in a flower shop.

Both Liza and Colonel Pickering are enchanted by Higgin's
earlier claim that in the space of three months, he could provide enough polishing to Liza's
English to pass her off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. Impressed by Higgin's
phonetic skills and research, but desiring to see him actively at work, Colonel Pickering
creates a wager with him: Pickering offers to cover all of the expenses of the
"experiment" and to pay for Liza's speech lessons if Higgins can successfully do as he
bragged he could do and pass Liza off as a duchess at the ambassador's garden party. This,
Colonel Pickering claims, would make Higgins "the greatest teacher alive." 

Higgins agrees to these terms, stating, "Yes: in six months--in three if she has a
good ear and a quick tongue--I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as
anything."

How does Tom Robinson show courage in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Although
Tom Robinson is a relatively meek and silent character throughout the novel, he displays courage
in several different ways. When Tom gets his chance to testify in court, he tells the truth
about how Mayella Ewell attempted to seduce him. He also admits that he felt sorry for Mayella
because nobody seemed to care about her. Tom displays courage by testifying that a
white woman made advances towards him which was a very controversial claim at the
time. Tom is not intimidated by the racist jury and boldly tells the truth during
his testimony. Tom also shows courage by attempting to escape from the Enfield
Prison Farm . He decides to take his fate into...

Contrast the teaching styles of Atticus Finch and Miss Caroline Fisher.

has an
exceedingly hard time on her first day of school because of Miss Fisher. When Scout tries to
point out that "Cunninghams don't accept charity..." she is punished, even though her
intentions were good. Miss Fisher's lack of cultural understanding accounts for this
conflict.

In contrast,would have informed Scout (in a gentle and reasonable
way) not to speak about others' financial condition. Atticus's guidance is usually delivered in
an accurate, laid-back fashion, not altogether different from his courtroom persona.

The other difference deals with reading: Atticus has taught Scout to read simply by
reading her the newspaper every evening, and Miss Fisher feels that Scout should not know as
much as she does about the subject. To defend her opinion, she asserts that Scout's father has
been teaching her to read "the wrong way." This also upsets Scout considerably, and in
the end, she vows never to go back to school, an opinion she has to be dissuaded from by Atticus
himself. 

What were the effects of the Sugar Act?

The Sugar
Act was meant to be a replacement for the earlier Molasses Act. The Molasses Act had been passed
by Parliament in an attempt to respond to complaints about trade between the British West Indies
and the American Colonies. The Molasses produced by the British West Indies was more expensive
than the imports from other European countries, and the West Indies had little use for the
barter goods the colonists had to offer. A tax on imported molasses was meant to help raise the
price of imported molasses, thereby making West Indies molasses more competitive....

What issues does Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish" raise?

The poem about
the fish takes the reader on a journey through three different states. The poet starts readers
from a point of pity and gradually elevates them to a feeling of admiration and finally to
respect.

The writer introduces the fish as a prisoner. The fish does not
fight, and its age shows through its skin, which resembles ancient wallpaper. The reader, in
this case, is made to feel sorry for the fish given its appearance. After describing the
physical state of the fish, the writer shifts to admiring the fish, which carries evidence of
previous attempts on its life by fishermen. The hooks in its mouth are displayed as medals or
battle scars. Finally, the writer releases the fish back into the sea.

This...

What factors contribute to the maintenance of the two party system?

One thing
that we must not ignore is the voting system that we have in the United States.  Our use of the
"winner-take-all" system of elections that we use.

In many other
countries, a system called "proportional representation" is used.  This means that
parties are represented in a parliament in proportion to the percent of votes they receive in an
election.  In such a system, a party that won 25% of the vote, for example, would get about 25%
of the seats in the legislature.

In the US, a party that won 25% of the votes
in an election would likely get 0% of the representation (unless there were very odd
circumstances with a large number of candidates splitting the vote).  In such a system, third
parties will have a tremendously difficult time breaking up the two-party system.  Small parties
cannot win any seats until they are able to win a plurality in a given district.  This makes it
hard for "third parties" to get going and helps to maintain the two-party system that
we have.

What economic troubles did France face in 1789?

Basically,
France had been in what amounted to a five-year long financial crisis by 1789, and it faced a
serious, multifaceted economic emergency in that year. One major economic problem the French
government confronted was a crippling national debt. This was the result of massive spending on
the administration of the royal bureaucracy, the financial burden of supporting the royal court
at Versailles, and especially military spending, much of which had been expended on French
participation in the American Revolutionary War. By 1788, the French government was no longer
even able to pay the interest on its growing debt. 

Another facet to the
economic crisis had to do with the structure of the French tax system itself. Under the outdated
social and political system, the French nobility was basically exempt from taxation, and
attempts by the ministers of Louis XVI to reform this system were met with opposition from the
French courts. This was both a symptom and a cause, because by diminishing confidence in the
ability of France to repay its debt, the French government made it unlikely that they would be
able to secure future credit, either from the sale of bonds or from foreign
investors. 

Finally, the year 1789 witnessed one in a series of crop failures
which led to a severe food shortage and inflation (rising food prices) especially in Paris and
other urban areas. This economic crisis struck at exactly the time the nobles, the monarch, and
the educated bourgeoisie were squabbling over the tax system, and when Louis's ministers were
scrambling to figure out how to service the debt. This even goes a long way toward explaining
why many ordinary Frenchmen supported the early efforts toward reform that led to the French
Revolution. As one historian puts it: "Hunger...did not abate, and the traditional bread
riot became more serious because it was occurring at a time of political
crisis."

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In 1936 Germany remilitarised the Rhineland. How did Hitler achieve this?

Hitler did
this by being bold enough to try it.  If the French had resisted, the Germans would have had to
retreat.  But the French did not know this and did nothing to stop the
remilitarization.

In remilitarizing the Rhineland, Hitler did not have to
fight.  There were no foreign troops in the area.  It is just that Germany was not supposed to
have any troops there.  After some consideration, Hitler sent three battalions of troops across
the Rhine into the Rhineland.  The French Army massed on the border between France and the
Rhineland, but did not enter to try to prevent the militarization.

Hitler
accomplished this, then, simply by being bold enough to send troops into the forbidden area.  He
got away with his gamble and the Rhineland was remilitarized.

How does Ebenezer Scrooge change throughout A Christmas Carol?

Ebenezer Scrooge's
transformation is one of the most significant in all of Western literature. In the beginning of
his story, he is described as

a tight-fisted hand at the
grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old
sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret,
and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

He seems
to carry the cold weather around inside him, and he is miserly and chilly toward everyone. No
beggars dare to approach him, no children speak to him, and even dogs avoid him. He likes to be
alone, and he hates Christmas. In fact, he feels that anyone who walks around wishing people a
Merry Christmas "should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
through his heart." He cares only for money and nothing for compassion. When two men
approach him for a donation to help the poor, he suggests that the poor can simply go to the
prisons or the workhouses (both...

In Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," why does the older waiter replace words in the Lord's Prayer with the word nada ?

In s short
story A Clean Well-Lighted Place, the older waiter, at the end of the story, contemplates a
personal version of the Lords Prayer that emphasizes the idea of nothingness:

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will
be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we
nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada . . . .

This skewed version of the prayer is significant for a number of
reasons, including the following:

• It suggests that not even God
  seems, to the old...

Why did civilizations develop along the Nile River?

There are
many reasons why civilizations developed along the Nile River. For one, people began to realize
that the Nile River was a good source of food. Food wasnt always easy to obtain since desert
regions surrounded much of the area around the Nile River. But people could get fish from the
Nile, and many fruit trees grew along the river. Additionally, the Nile flooded every year,
making the surrounding soil incredibly fertile for farming. Various crops could be grown, and
farmers learned how to make canals so water would be readily available for the crops.

Another advantage of settling...

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What does Sean O'Brien means in the poem "Leavetaking," especially about the patronne, things happening around him, and the end of the poem? This is...

O'Brien is
eulogizing Peter Porter who has passed (see the title, "Leavetaking"), but writing as
if Porter were still with him. O'Brien notes the setting: a place where O'Brien have both
visited on separate occasions (Chateau Ventenac). "Une pression" is beer (in French).
He recalls Porter would have preferred a Minervois (red) wine. O'Brien uses the
phrase,

Bad news prefers its poison cold and
long...

saying that good wine should not be wasted over
bad news (death), but saved until a more appropriate time, after an "acceptable"
interval (space of time) of mourning has passed. O'Brien writes that the wine
might be enjoyed at midnightwhen everyone sleepsin a spot where a Nazi
colonel once sat, waiting...a tidbit of information that Porter would have tucked away to think
on later; but gone, "there is no later..."

The author notes that
everyone must die, including flute-playing psychopaths. (This may refer to the Hitler Youth, who
were heavily involved in music.) But O'Brien refuses to...

What are the characteristics of English literature during the renaissance?

The English
renaissance was particular in its preoccupation with religion and the place of man in
relationship with God. England had undergone an especially fraught period in its religious
convictions with Henry VIII having taken the country through the reformation, the country having
gone from being Catholic to becoming Protestant, adherents of the newly formed Church of
England. Some might claim that the King James Bible and Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer stand as
particular examples of English renaissancethat were to be profoundly influential upon Englishof
the period.

The literary work of this period was particularly interesting in
its questioning of religious orthodoxy and in the questioning of religious authority.
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, for example, is set in the same
Wittenberg University in which Martin Luther, the first protestant reformer, nailed his 95
theses to the cathedral door. In a profoundon the questing spirit of the protestant reform,
Marlowe make Faustus an intellectual man who wishes to test his personal relationship with God -
one of the underpinning notions of protestant theology - by selling his soul to the
devil.

Equally, later works such as
Shakespeare's Macbeth sought to test the bounds of supernatural beliefs via
the presence of witches on stage and Macbeth's belief in his self-determination tested by the
prophecies of these 'weird sisters' whose prediction of his demise finally transpires to be
correct. Moreover, Hamlet, another Wittenberg student and rationalist, is also tested in his
belief in the power of the human intellect to explain God's creation when he witnesses his
father's ghost early in the play which defies his rationalist belief in 'ocular
proof'. 

The crowning glory of this change in religious attitude comes in one
of the triumphs of the late English renaissance, John Milton's Paradise
Lost and its reconsideration of the role of the ultimate acts of religious free will,
Lucifer's expulsion from heaven and mankind's original sin. Milton's puritanical religious
thought is made all the more interesting by his sympathetic portrayal of Satan as a beguiling
character, one of whose confrontation of God and later temptation of man are made understandable
by Milton. 

One might also look to the issue of changes in social status in
renaissance England for another major theme. In an early sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder,
'Whose List to Hunt' he overly reveals the constraints of monarchy in writing about his own
clandestine affair with Anne Boleyn who is represented as a 'hind' who he would 'hunt' but for
the fact that she has 'Noli me tangere' (do not touch me) on a collar around her neck. He, of
course, touched her and with it tacitly acknowledges a socially revolutionary act that was
echoed in much renaissance literature. One only need to look to the Machiavellian Iago and
Edmund of Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear to see
two characters who seek social advancement past their socially prescribed places in life while
Middleton and Rowley's De Flores of The Changeling serves a similar
purpose. None finally achieve their aim but all are exponents of the expediency espoused in
Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince and find their echoes in other examples
from renaissance drama in particular such as Henry V who, for example, is willing, as Prince Hal
in Henry IV Part II, to inform on his best friend, Falstaff to save his own
reputation and in Part I of the same play sequence, to plot his own rise
from infamy. As newly crowned monarch in Henry V he is willing to execute
an old acquaintance to maintain order, a reflection of the political expediency that one might
argue that Elizabeth I also showed in her execution of Mary Queen of Scots during a period of
anti-Catholic sentiment. 

How does Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners In the Hands Of An angry God" play a significant role in reinvigorating Puritan faith during the 1740's?

wrote and delivered this sermon in 1741, and it immediately gripped the audience through a
fear-inducing tone and compelling figurative language.

The audience was
gripped by images of their dangerous and impending relationship to Hell such as this
one:

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it
is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are
held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as
against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine
wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder...

Edwards compared the listeners to spiders being dangled over the
fires of Hell, and warned that any moment God could release His grip on them, letting them fall
into eternal flames. He therefore issued a stern plea for them to repent of their sins and
accept God's mercy before it was eternally too late.

The...

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Araby Theme

Another
theme revolves around religion and faith.  The narrator has grown up Catholic, and has been
sternly instructed in the dogma of this religion.  He associates his life with the images and
stories he has learned from church.  He is a religious hero who is honoring Mangan's sister as
an earthly "Virgin Mary."  His love for her is pure, and he assumes that she is
likewise pure, as his religion has taught him.  He has not learned yet that life is not as clear
cut as the lessons he is taught in catechisms.  When he sees the hypocrisy of the
church-sponsored bazaar, and hears the woman flirting, and recognizes finally that secular life
is not as pretty as his religion has suggested.  He sees church as shine and not substance.  The
suggestion is that not only has this experience caused him to question himself and the morality
of his society, but also his own faith.

What were Kit's political views in "The Witch of Blackbird Pond?"

Kit had come
to Westbrook, CT from the island of Barbados.  She was a loyal citizen of a British controlled
territory.  She was very loyal to King James and didn't understand why or how the people of the
colonies could question their King or his rules.  She often commented to Mercy, Judith, and Nate
that she didn't understand why the people would talk so harshly and risk treason against King
James.  It was Nate that explained to Kit the situation and this story line is never fully
developed.  We know where all the characters in the novel stand in their loyalties, but there is
no resolution.

What is the effect of introducing Aunt Hesters character in paragraph 1?

Aunt Hester
appears near the end of chapter one, not in the first paragraph of the book. The appearance of
her character is significant because hers is the first instance of vivid and specific cruelty
toward a slave that Douglass shows us. It occurs early on for two reasons: first, it had
shocking effect on the young Douglass and second, it has a disturbing effect on the reader,
setting the tone for the rest of the book.

In this episode, the master
angrily takes Hester, an attractive young slave, rips her clothing off down to the waist, ties
her arms above her head, has her stand on a stool, and whips her until she is bloody in front of
other slaves, including Frederick. Her crime has been to leave the plantation to visit a fellow
slave (her boyfriend, Ned) without permission.

The violence and brutality of
the scene horrifies the young Douglass, who quickly runs and hides. It is not too much to say
the event was traumatic for him, filling him with the helpless fear he would be the next victim.
He had never seen anything like it before.

For the reading audience, the
brutality is all the more unforgivable because its victim is a young woman who is treated with
disproportionate cruelty. It is hard for us not to react with revulsion since the beating is
inflicted on a helpless woman and because it seems so excessive for merely disobeying a rule. We
quickly come down on the side of Hester, who doesn't seem to deserve such cruel and inhumane
treatment.

On what page does Boo Radley save Scout and Jem, and provide quotes that support them caring about Boo?

It is
towards the end of of 's thatwitnesses
Arthur () Radley rescue her andthough she doesn't understand what she is witnessing until much
later.

Towards the end of Chapter 28, approximately 4 pages from the end,
Scout realizes a fourth person, aside from she, Jem, and whoever is attacking them, has appeared
under the tree. She hears one man cough "violently, a sobbing, bone-shaking cough" and
another man breath heavily. She then hears the man who was breathing heavily grope along on the
ground, "searching for something," and begin to "pull something heavy along the
ground." She feels along on the ground for Jem but only finds a bearded man who smells of
whiskey lying there. When she looks toward the street light, she sees a man
carrying Jem, staggering under the heavy load. The strange man and Jem are the
first to reach the Finch's home, and Jem is immediately carried into his room. Chaos erupts
inside the Finch household as both Dr. Reynolds and Sheriff Tate are notified. It's not until
after Dr. Reynolds arrives and examines both Jem and Scout that Scout is able to go into her
brother's room to see him. Once in Jem's room, she sees for the first
time the man who carried Jem home but
only recognizes him as "some countryman [she] did not
know."

It is not until the final page of
that Scout realizes who the man is and who rescued her and Jem. In
Chapter 29, she recounts the events of the attack as she remembers them toand Sheriff Tate in
Jem's room while he sleeps. As she recounts events and turns to the man in the room for his own
version, she notices the whiteness of his skin, sees his nervousness, and sees him timidly smile
at her. It's at this moment she realizes she is seeing her neighbor Arthur for the
first time, and the realization brings her to tears. As he smiles at her, she
describes that her "neighbor's image [became] blurred with [her] sudden tears." These
tears are tears of gratitude and a certain
sign she has finally shed all of the false assumptions she had developed about
Arthur and has come to feel affection for him; she now sees him as
the children's savior, which allows her to see him as the tender, caring, albeit reclusive, man
he truly is.

Though it took Scout nearly the entire book to develop affection
for her neighbor Arthur, Jem develops affection much
sooner since he is quicker to understand things than Scout due to his age. Jem
develops affection for Arthur the moment Jem realizes that it is Arthur who has been leaving the
children gifts in the knothole of the oak tree on the Radleys' property. Scout and Jem decide to
leave a thank-you note to whoever is leaving the gifts, and Jem is
devastated to find that Arthur's brother Nathan had filled in the hole with
cement. Jem is devastated because not only does he no longer have any means of expressing his
gratitude, he also has no means of making amends for having mocked Arthur. In fact, Jem is so
devastated that he is moved to tears, as Scout notes in the
following:

He stood there [on the porch, looking towards
the Radleys' property] until nightfall, and I waited for him. When we went in the house I saw he
had been crying. (Ch. 7)

Jem's tears, just like Scout's
tears later, are a certain sign that Jem early on had begun to see Arthur as a kind and caring
person and develop affection for him.

What are the main functions of a computer?

Computers
use inputs and outputs to do various tasks. Computers receive programs in various codes and use
them to do complex tasks. The first computers were the size of a room and relied on a system of
punch cards in order to receive data. As electronics have improved, computers have become
smaller. Computers can now take a given input and return a set product quite quickly and in a
lot less space.

Computers are also used to store data. This data is cataloged
into the electronic hard drive of the computer or the computer can send it to "the
cloud" where there is more data storage ability. This data can be used to track customer
data, medical records, and a host of other things. Computers can also read data from external
devices such as floppy disks, CD's, and Flash drives provided that they have the right programs
downloaded to do so.

Computers can also communicate with each other if
linked. This is probably one of the best-known functions of computers today as the Internet is a
system of linked computers who communicate with each other.

Identify one example of Farquhar's distorted perceptions in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

In Part
Three of the short story, Peyton Fahrquhar images that he falls straight into the water
underneath the Owl Creek Bridge, quickly loosens his bonds, and rapidly swims to the surface of
the water. As Peyton is swimming away from the bridge, he dives and weaves through the water to
avoid being shot by the Union soldiers on the opposite ridge. Peyton avoids being shot and
successfully swims to the surface, where he crawls onto the dry land.

Peyton's distorted perception is revealed through his description of the
surrounding natural environment. Peyton immediately digs his fingers into the
sand, which he believes resemble "diamonds, rubies, emeralds" and is utterly
astonished by the beauty of the landscape....

What kind thing did Bruno's father do for Maria? How did this make Maria feel conflicted?

Maria was
always distinctly uneasy about the move to Auschwitz. Nevertheless, she agreed to go along out
of loyalty to Bruno's father Ralf. And it's not hard to see why. Maria's mother once worked as a
dressmaker for Bruno's grandmother. When she retired, she gave Maria's mother a small pension.
When Maria's mother became seriously ill, Ralf paid for her medical care. Sadly, she
subsequently passed away, but even then Ralf continued to support Maria, providing for her
mother's funeral expenses and taking Maria into his household to work as a maid.

So one can understand why Maria feels so conflicted. She has every reason to be
grateful to Ralf for all that he's done for her and her family. At the same time, she cannot in
good conscience support what Ralf is doing at Auschwitz, playing a leading role in the murder of
so many men, women, and children. However, she chooses to keep her head down and remain quiet,
not just out of loyalty to Ralf, but also out of fear that she could end up in serious trouble
if she expresses her true feelings on the subject.

Which two times did the moving bird appear to Mattie in Fever 1793?

The
mockingbird appears to Mattie first on the morning of September 6, 1973, and then again two days
later in the afternoon. The first time is the morning of the day that her mother decides to send
her and her grandfather into the country to help try to protect them from the disease. Mattie
wakes that morning to mockingbird calls and to Eliza's hand on her shoulder; she feels anxious,
but she's glad that her mother is still alive.

The second time the
mockingbird appears is in the field when Mattie brings raspberries and water to her grandfather
because he is also sick (although not with yellow fever). The mockingbird calls right after she
finishes explaining her plans to him for how everything will be alright.

Describe your overall sentiment about the film.

Sentiments, or feelings and opinions, vary
widely based on personal experience. The film is based on the novel of the
same name by . Sentiments felt when watching a film based on a book such as Never Let
Me Go can depend upon both the prior life experience the viewer brings to a film and
the differences between the experience watching the film and what the viewer might have expected
after having read a book.

For example, my primary sentiment while watching
the film was sadness. I find the story of three doomed young people to be deeply moving. I am
also someone who likes a happy ending, and the fact that Tommy and Kathy die at the end makes me
sad, even if it is a realistic narrative in the dystopian society that Never Let Me Go
is set.

I also felt some frustration with the movie adaptation, as
it did not bring forward some of my favorite elements of the book. For example, I really
appreciated the friendship that Kathy and Ruth had in the book, where they would take turns
lying to help each other. I also felt that Kathy had a more interesting relationship with Tommy
in the book: although she loved him, she also had relationships with other people.

I also read the book and watched the film after having initially read The
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, which also takes on the subject of organ
donation by clones but has a very different ending. I personally appreciated how the two books
dealt with a similar theme in very different settings (England and the Mexican-American border,
respectively) and with characters with different psychological profiles.

Other people might have other sentiments, however, based on their own experiences. For
other readers who had read both books, the repetition might be frustrating, or one book might
seem much better than the other. Some viewers of the film might find that the aesthetics of the
movie perfectly capture what they pictured while reading the book. For viewers who have not read
the book beforehand, the plot of the movie might seem boring, or the characters might seem
unrealistic.

In the poem "Lament," explain and comment on and explain five literal devices (metaphor, simile, personification, etc.). "Lament" by Gillian Clarke

"Lament" by Gillian Clarke, uses a
variety of poetic devices to describe the many faces of war, all of which she mourns.

Ms. Clarke makes the following comment about her poem:

€˜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.

War cant be waged without grave damage to every aspect of life. All
the details in the poem came from reports in the media. There were newspaper photographs of
cormorants covered with oil - €˜in his funeral silk. €˜The veil of iridescence on the sand and
€˜the shadow on the sea show the spreading stain of oil from bombed oil wells. The burning oil
seemed to put the sun out, and poisoned the land and the sea. The €˜boy fusilier who joined for
the company, and €˜the farmers sons, in it for the music, came from hearing radio interviews
with their mothers. The creatures were listed by Friends of the Earth as being at risk of
destruction by oil pollution, and €˜the soldier in his uniform of fire was a horrific photograph
of a soldier burnt when his tank was bombed. The ashes of language are the death of truth during
war

"The soldier in his uniform of fire" refers
to a soldier burning when his vehicle is bombed. This is an example of a .

"The cormorant in his funeral silk" usesto describe death surrounding the
bird, describing that it has put on funeral garb in death's wake.

"The
veil of iridescence on the sand" isthat describes the oil slick on the sand from ships
being bombed in the water and washing up on the shore (or "bombed oil wells"). (Kuwait
lies on the edge of the Persian Gulf.)

"...the sun put out" is an
example of . It would be impossible to do so: this is figurative language, not to be taken
literally, and probably refers to the smoke from bombings that seems to obliterate the sun
before the dust settles.

"For the ocean's lap with its mortal
stain" useswith the use of "lap," which brings to mind that constancy of the
ocean, forever moving even in spite of war, but not unchanged ("mortal
stain").

"For [the green turtle's eggs] laid in their nest of
sickness" is a , a contradiction: a nest is supposed to be a safe place where eggs can rest
with their mother until they hatch; with the war raging, the nest is a dangerous
place.

All of these devices are used to bring pictures to the mind of the
reader so that they might visualize what the poet saw in reports on the Gulf War. The
devastation is far-reaching, touching not only the humans pitted against one another, but also
the earth and its "other occupants."

The poem has a haunting affect
on the reader because the images are so vivid. Those damaged by war are brought to the forefront
of the reader's mind, and the powerful verse leaves the reader shaken and touched, by things
occurring half a world away.

What's the fallacy in the following argument: Cancer cells can be eliminated by treatment. Aren't criminals cancer cells of society? Eliminate...

A second
fallacy lies in the grammar.The answer "eliminate criminals" ignores the prepositional
phrase of the statement "by treatment."Elimination is dependent upon the
treatment.Really the original statement should be reworded:Treatment...

What happens when Snowball speaks at the meeting, rallying his supporters, in Animal Farm?

In
,begins developing plans for an electricity-generating windmill, which will significantly
improve the standard of living on the farm and decrease the animals' workload. Snowball manages
to gather the majority of support and is described as an impassioned, eloquent speaker who is
able to influence the crowd to agree with his policies.

is Snowball's
opponent who argues that the windmill will be a complete waste of time and the animals should
focus on agriculture. Despite his lack of skills as an orator, Napoleon is the consummate
politician and is able to rally support behind the scenes. Napoleon is also a stoic, reserved
pig with an intimidating presence that demands respect.

During a pivotal
Sunday meeting, a vote regarding the windmill and the farm's defense is brought up before the
animals. As Snowball and Napoleon begin to debate, the animals find themselves agreeing with
whoever is currently speaking. However, Snowball eventually gives an impassioned, articulate
speech on behalf of the windmill that moves the animals in favor of his policy, and it becomes
clear that he will win the vote.

Suddenly, Napoleon gives a highˆ’pitched
whimper and nine enormous, ferocious dogs attack Snowball, who sprints out of the barn and is
chased off the farm. At his moment, Napoleon usurps power by declaring that there will be no
more Sunday meetings or debates and that all policy issues will be decided by a committee of
pigs, which he will preside over.

How does the party in 1984 manipulate its society and how is it related to Winston's existence? I'm not even up to the introduction! I really don't...

I think
that the primary level that you would want to investigate would be on the ways in which the
party seeks to control the lives of its citizens.  At some level, I believe you would want to
discuss how there is no private realm in this setting.  The government featured in's work is all
public.  The private lives of the individuals have to be...

What is the meaning of the title of the novel The Art of Racing in the Rain?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

The title refers to the difficult journey of life and how it's possible to navigate
through it successfully, even during the hard times. It refers to how a person has to be able to
control themselves and their reactions even when times are hard.writes,

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about
balance. It is about anticipation and patience. I know all of the driving skills that are
necessary for one to be successful in the rain. But racing in the rain is also about the mind!
It is about owning ones own body. About believing that ones car is merely an extension of ones
body. About believing that the track is an extension of the car, and the rain is an extension of
the track, and the sky is an extension of the rain. It is about believing that you are not you;
you are everything. And everything is you.

Enzo's owner
Denny is a race car driver. One thing he's very good at is racing the car even when it's raining
outside and conditions...

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Why Does Nick Change His Feelings Toward Jordan

It's
important in first person novels to question the point of view of the narrator, especially their
self-assessment, for who among us can see ourselves clearly? As readers, we question the point
of view or the reliability of a narrator by pitting what happens against the narrator's
assessment of what happens.

In , 's assessment of
himself as an honest person doesn't hold up under scrutinywe know, from his own admission, not
to mention an early dinner conversation withand , that Nick is not being entirely honest with
the "girl" from Chicago to whom he keeps signing letters "love" while he is
seeing and we know as well he is remembering the Chicago girlfriend primarily in terms of the
unattractive sweat mustache that forms on her upper lip after a game of tennis.

Nick has never felt too deeply for Jordan, either. He describes himself at the end of
chapter three as "flattered" to be seen with her, and as feeling a "tender
curiosity" about her. He thinks "for a moment" that he is in love with her, while
also finding her shrewd and dishonest. He finds fleeting relief from the loneliness of turning
30 in her company. Whenstrikes and Myrtle dies, Nick lacks the emotional commitment to her to
give Jordan the support she needs. She reaches out to him, wanting him to stay with her, Tom and
Daisy. She asks, "won't you come in, Nick," and he refuses. She calls him at work the
next day, wanting to work out their differences and even offering to come "to town"
from Southampton to see him, but he again refuses, saying he couldn't sit across a tea table
from her "if I never talked to her again in this world." Instead, he tries to call
Gatsby four times.

From these events, we can surmise that Nick is more
interested in Gatsby than Jordan, supporting a queer reading of the novel, and we can see that
Nick's feelings towards Jordan have been fairly superficial. He's never been deeply invested in
her, no matter what he might want us to believe, yet it takes a tragedy to make this apparent.
Jordan, imperfect as she might be, realizes this when she tells him he wasn't very nice to her
the night he leaves her at Tom and Daisy's. When he refuses to see her the next day, that ends
the relationship. There simply isn't enough there for Nick not to lump Jordan with Tom and Daisy
as people he wants to avoid. Gatsby, in contrast, as he tells us throughout the novel, is the
person who captures his imagination.

How does 1984 show a dystopian society? Does Winston really try to revolt against the government? The text has been difficult for me to understand in...

First of
all, a dystopia is the opposite of a utopia.  So it's a fictional place where people's lives are
about the worst they could possibly be.

So give that definition, you should
be able to see why the society ofis dystopian.  If you...

In 1984, what is a quote from pages 29-44 on the media? How can I analyze it deeply?

On page 36,is watching
the telescreen while his mind drifts. He begins to think about the way in which the Party has
erased the past while the instructor on the telescreen is forcing him to do exercises. Then, the
"shrewish voice" of the exercise instructor on the telescreen is directed at Winston.
The instructor calls him "6079 Smith W" and tells him to "bend lower!" Then,
there is the following description of Winston:

"A
sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely
inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give
you away" (page 36). 

This quote is about the way in
which the media, including telescreens, prevent everyone in Oceania from doing anything
subversive. The media is part of the way in which Big Brother maintains total control. In fact,
the control of the media is so pervasive that the performers on screen can see the audience (the
people at home) and monitor what they are doing. The telescreen wakes Winston up, and he is
forced to do exercises against his will. This type of media surveillance prevents people from
having their own thoughts, as they are not allowed any private time. Just as Winston begins
thinking about the way in which the Party controls what people remember about the past, the
instructor on the telescreen notices that he is not doing his exercises correctly and tells him
to bend lower.

In the quote above, Winston feels incredibly nervous and
anxious because he knows he is being watched and that the instructor noticed he wasn't doing
what he was supposed to have been doing. However, he keeps his face "inscrutable,"
meaning that no one can understand what he is thinking. He can't give any indication that he
feels upset with the Party, as even one movement of his eyes could give away his resentment.
Even a small indication of resentment would receive retribution from the Party, showing that
there is no individual freedom in Oceania. 

How does photosynthesis follow the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy? Explain in detail.

hart379 The law of conservation
of mass states that in a chemical reaction, mass is neither created nor destroyed.That means,
the total mass for the reactants needs to equal the total mass of the products.The reactants for
photosynthesis are 6 carbon dioxide, 6 water and sunlight.The mass of these...]]>

What is the message (topic/theme) that the writer is trying to convey?

The central
theme of Blues Aint No Mockingbird byis respect for others, including their social and
emotional situations. A two-man crew takes pictures around the Cains far, stating that they are
working for the county food stamp program. Granny is annoyed as they take pictures of her farm,
buildings, and the children at play. The men are taking pictures without asking permission, but
they assume that the Cains are the type of people who would need food stamps. They show little
respect for Granny or her family, even asking for interviews. They stereotype the family and
make it seem like a privilege to be included in the food stamp program.

To
make a point about respect, Granny tells a story of how a photographer took pictures of a
suicidal man who was trying to jump off a bridge. The photographer recorded everything and saved
some of his film for what he hoped would be the money shots when the man actually jumped. There
was no respect for the man, his anguished female companion, or the law enforcement personnel who
were trying to provide aid. The lack of respect made Granny angry.

When
Granddaddy Cain arrives home, Granny asks him to instruct the crew to get out of her flowerbed.
He goes further by taking his hammer to the camera, which sends the men running. Calmly,
Granddaddy cleans his shoes, and goes into the house with his quiet pride intact having taught
the county crew a bit about respect.

How does Oedipus develop and change throughout Oedipus Rex?

moves
fromor pride to humility and self-knowledge over the course of the play. At the start of the
play, it is completely incomprehensible to him that he could be responsible for the plague
devastating Thebes. He is blind to his flaws and his fate. He thinks he is a good, upright
person, a fine husband and father, and an able ruler. As the action of the play unfolds, he
comes to realize that he is the root cause of the disease in Thebes. Abandoned at childbirth and
left to die, Oedipus unknowingly killed his father on the road to Thebes years ago. Then he
married the queen, his father's widow, having no idea she was his mother. As he realizes what he
has done, his concept of self alters. He goes from thinking himself unblemished to being in so
much pain he voluntarily blinds himself. Ironically, this event marks his first true insight
about himself. He knows now he is imperfect, and this knowledge lends him wisdom and
humility.

 

What is the difference between optical and arbitary color?

Optical
color is more of an optical illusion than a stylistic representation in art. The idea of optical
color is that the eye can fill in images and create colors that aren't truly there. So, when a
piece of art has lines, dots, or images close together of differing colors, the brain may meld
the colors together to create a different one (many small red and blue dots close together would
give the impression of the color purple). So, optical color is tricking the brain into seeing
colors that are not present.

Arbitrary color is different in that it is
stylistic in intent. Essentially, the artist chooses an arbitrary color for an object to
represent something else or to simply subvert expectations. Abstract artists are known to do
this, using wildly different colors for common images to subvert
expectations.

Are we in a post-television era now?

As href="https://time.com/3547960/simpsons-world-hbo-streaming-tv/">James Poniewozik
wrote for TIME magazine in 2014,  the ways people engage with video media are changing
rapidly. Since television sets became popular household appliances throughout the Western world
in the 1950's, the pattern of engaging with television programming has remained fairly
consistent-- until the last few years. For the past half a century, people watched television by
turning on their set when their desired program was scheduled to air. This changed a little bit
with the introduction of the VCR and services like Tivo, which allow people to record a program
and watch it later. On-demand video services also allowed people to watch their programs on
their own time, but these...

href="https://time.com/3547960/simpsons-world-hbo-streaming-tv/">https://time.com/3547960/simpsons-world-hbo-streaming-tv/

Compare and contrast Lyddie and Ezekial in the book Lyddie.

The most
obvious comparison betweenand Ezekial is that both have experienced slavery.  Ezekial, a black
man, is a victim of the institution of slavery in the South.  Lyddie, a poor white girl in
Vermont, is a slave because of financial circumstances.  Her father has accrued much debt, and
she has been hired out at the tavern to help pay it off.  Lyddie does not think of herself in
terms of slavery at first, but after talking with Ezekial, she realizes there are many parallels
between his situation and hers.  She was forced to leave her home to work at the tavern against
her will.  In her inability to determine her own destiny, she is very much a slave.

Both Lyddie and Ezekial long for freedom, for themselves and for those they love. 
Ezekial runs away from the plantation, leaving his wife and children behind, in hopes of
reaching Canada where he can live as a free man and have his family join him.  When Lyddie is
let go at the tavern, she resolves "to go to Lowell and make real money to pay off the debt
so (she) can go home".  By becoming financially independent, Lyddie determines to regain
possession of the family farm so that she and her siblings can make their own choices, and be
reunited once again.

The main differences between Ezekial and Lyddie are
surfaceful - he is black, she is white; he is older, and possesses the wisdom gained from many
years of living, while she is still in her teens.  Their situations as individuals who do not
have the right of self-determination are similar, however, as are their characters.  Both
exhibit a proud dignity and an honest nature - Lyddie works tirelessly to a fault so that she
will be beholden to no one, and Ezekial scrupulously pays back what he owes, returning to Lyddie
the money she gives him, with interest, after the loan has long been forgotten by its giver. 
Also, both Ezekial and Lyddie have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and value literacy for
both the ideas and comfort it provides (Chapter 6).

What is a meaning of the Physical Jerks in 1984 by George Orwell?

The
Physical Jerks are a daily form of rudimentary exercise forced upon members of the Outer Party.
It is equivalent to the calisthenics that physical education classes generally have students do.
Every morning, the telescreen comes on and a person leads citizens through a series of stretches
and light exercises. Because the telescreens are capable of broadcasting and watching, the
effort of each citizen can be monitored.  

Suddenly, a
voice from the telescreen interrupts him, yelling out his name and identification number and
urging him to "bend lower." Feigning interest and determination,complies, and succeeds
in touching his toes for the first time in many years.

The Party sells the idea of mandatory exercise to the citizens by telling them the
government wants to prevent weight problems, but the Party is interested in more than the
general health of the population. The Physical Jerks are another way the Party displays its
absolute power over the people. It is another form of repression and control. This time, though,
the control is over people's physical states. The general propaganda is mental control, and the
Physical Jerks is physical control. Both allow the Party to maintain total control.
 

In Chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies, how does Jack try "to tempt" the rest of Ralph's group to join the hunters? What symbolic reference could this have?

In chapter
nine,tries to tempt the rest of 's group to join the hunters by offering them food, safety, and
fun, a potent mix that the boys find hard to resist. When Ralph andarrive at Jack's site, they
see piles of roasted meat and coconuts to eat. Jack sits on a log that is like a throne, painted
like an idol, surrounded by heaps of food. When he demands to be brought a drink, it is brought
to him.

There is a sense of excitement and sociality around his camp, and
also an underlying threat of violence. Jack himself exudes power:

All the boys of the island, except Piggy, Ralph, , and the two tending the pig, were
grouped on the turf. They were laughing, singing, lying, squatting, or standing on the grass,
holding food in their hands . . . and some held coconut shells in their hands and were drinking
from them.

This temptation is reminiscent of Satan
tempting Jesus in the desert. He offers the hungry Jesus bread if he will bow down and worship
him. The boys are being...

What are some metaphors in the book Fahrenheit 451?

Metaphors are comparisons between two
seemingly opposite things that have some common trait or relation. Bradbury utilizes numerous
metaphors throughout his classic novel in order to express nuances,
emotions, and images in an entertaining way.

Montag uses aduring a
conversation with his wife by saying, "Maybe the books can get us half out of the
cave" (34). Montag's metaphor describes the superficial, ignorant society by comparing
Bradbury's dystopian civilization to a cave.

Bradbury uses a metaphor when
Montag hears Captain Beatty's voice in his head saying,

Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful,
eh? Light the third page from the second and so on, chainsmoking, chapter by chapter, all the
silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn
philosophies (36).

Bradbury is metaphorically comparing
the burning pages of a book to black butterflies.

When Montag is attempting
to comprehend the information that he is reading on the train, he is continually interrupted by
the loud Denham's Dentifrice commercial blasting through the train's speakers. Montag begins to
remember a time at the beach when he unsuccessfully attempted to put sand into a sieve. Bradbury
uses a metaphor by equating the words Montag is reading to sand and his brain to a sieve.
Bradbury writes,

There were people in the suction train
but he held the book in his hands and the silly thought came to him, if you read fast and read
all,  maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve (36).

During Montag's conversation about the significance of literature, Faber uses a
metaphor by saying,

This book has pores. It has features.
This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in
infinite profusion (Bradbury, 39).

Faber metaphorically
compares the minute details and important information hidden throughout novels to the pores on a
human face.

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Why Did George Orwell Wrote Animal Farm

had been
shaped by his experience in the Spanish Civil War and by watching the way the revolution evolved
in Russia and then the Soviet Union. He was concerned, as so many in the West were, about the
rise of Stalin and what he saw as a "cult of personality" being raised around him.
This danger only appeared to increase as Stalin consolidated his power during the second world
war.

Orwell himself described as his first effort to
use an artistic novel to also try and accomplish a political aim. He was proud of the way he was
able to combine the two elements into this very memorable and significant story.

In particular, he felt it was a better representation of Stalin and the Soviet Union
than what was generally accepted in Britain at the time he wrote it. He wanted to push back
against the very positive image of Stalin held by some leaders and bureaucrats in the
government.

How does the poet describe the world of nature?

uses
rich natureto evoke the contrast between the caged and free birds. The caged bird can barely
sense the natural world outside the cage but retains hope that it will once fly outside in that
world. The free bird not only inhabits that world but thinks and feels its possibilities and
effects.

The free bird stanzas feature the sky and the earth as the full
environment open to the bird. The celestial features of wind and sun are paired with the
terrestrial ones of trees, worms, and grass. The sky belongs to the bird: he names the sky his
own. The wind and breeze, in particular, are shown in several ways: glossed as a stream on which
the bird floats, a breeze, and...

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How does Sheriff Heck plan to explain Bob Ewell's death in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In an
attempt to protectfrom the public limelight in the wake of savingand 's lives, Heck Tate covers
up Boo's heroics by stating that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife and accidentally stabbed
himself. Sheriff Tate also retrieved Bob's switchblade from the scene and lies toby telling him
that he took the switchblade off of someone earlier that night. Although the kitchen knife
belonged to Boo Radley, Sheriff Tate claims that Bob attacked the children using the kitchen
knife and accidentally stabbed himself between the ribs when he stumbled during the
altercation.

In...

In "Young Goodman Brown," what characters act in ways against the Puritan ideals?

In
Hawthorne's " ," if the perception of the witch-meeting is what Goodman Brown
remembers, then all the characters have acted in way against Puritan ideals of behavior that is
exemplary.  The problem is, however, whether Goodman Brown has fallen asleep in the forest and
merely dreamed all that has transpired, or whether it has all actually occurred.  This ambiguity
is never fully resolved in Hawthorne'...

In "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, what does the dancer represent? What's tattooed on her belly and why are they afraid to look? In what ways is the...

As part
of the evening's "entertainment," an exotic dancer takes to the stage. On her belly,
she sports a tattoo of the American flag. The symbolic significance of this is not hard to spot.
The exotic dancer with the tattoo represents what the young black boys cannot have. The American
dream, and all it represents, is not for them.

Furthermore, as the woman is
white, she's unavailable to the young black boys forced to participate in this tawdry spectacle.
This was a time and a place when racial mixing was considered taboo; many young black men who
were even suspected of looking at a white woman in a certain way were unceremoniously lynched.
That's why the boys in the story are so afraid to look.

The baying crowd of
white men treat the exotic dancer as little more than a piece of meat, an object for them to
leer at. By the same token, they look upon the narrator and the other young black boys as there
to provide amusement for them. The thought that the black boys, like the exotic
dancer,...

What differences in underlying attitudes and values emerge from the conversation? Which character seems to be more honest and mature?

The major
differences in attitude come from their different positions in the relationship and the
situation. That is to say, it seems likely that they'd thought they were meeting...

What role do all religions play in society (both religious and non-religious)? How does religion answer questions about human existence? How has...

Belief
systems help to shape our worldviews and the ways in which a culture organizes life. You may be
surprised to know that even in highly secular societies, religious plays a major part in shaping
society.

The archaeological record suggests that as long as the human species
has existed, we've had questions about our world, though not always the means to answer them.
One suggestion about the origins of religion is that supernatural answers could explain
questions about natural phenomena. It is harder to know what our ancient ancestors actually
believed, but we can make some inferences based on what they left behind. For example, the
burials at Shanidar cave of several members of a population of Homo
neandertalensis (our "cousins" in the Homo
lineage) display purposeful burial. From the finding of flower pollen around the bodies, we can
infer a respect for the bodies of the Shanidar dead, and perhaps a supernatural belief about
what happened to those people after death. 

Supernatural beliefs work on a
scale from localized folk-belief to organized, often wide-spread religion. They also may
function overtly or covertly in a culture. Most people, upon hearing a sneeze, will say
something along the lines of, "Bless you." This in itself is not a religious or
spiritual practice, and many secular people offer such blessings when hearing a sneeze. The
origins of this commonplace cultural practice, are religious, though. Another more covert
function of religion is society is the way in which we organize time. Many cultures consider
Saturday and Sunday to be the "weekend-" a time to abstain from work and enjoy leisure
activities. This has long been practice in cultures where the Abrahamic traditions prevail
(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), as Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath and Sunday is the same for
Christians. This is a predominantly Western practice, though it has spread to other parts of the
world. Even in cultures which are not officially religious, and for people who do not ascribe to
organized religion, abstinence from work on the weekend is a regular part of many people's
lives.

The degree to which religion influences life may be impacted by other
cultural elements such as language and education, geography, ethnicity or race, and societal or
governmental structures. As an anthropologist, I favor the idea that science and religion are
equally valid and serve the same purpose in life- to answer questions we have about the world.
However, as technology has advanced throughout history and continues to advance, the ability to
quantify the world around us can make religion seem less important. Supernatural belief has
always helped humans to make sense of the unknown, and we can be sure that as we answer more
questions about our world, new ones will always arise. Engaging with the supernatural, whether
it be through organized faith or hoping it wont rain tomorrow, offers humans a sense of comfort
in the face of the unknown.

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In The Lovely Bones, what behaviors could have given Mr. Harvey away, had they been discovered by others?

It's
rather telling that, even when his evidence of his strange behavior comes to light, Mr. Harvey
still gets away with his crimes. When Lindsey breaks into his house, she discovers a notebook in
which Harvey has sketched the underground structure of the cornfield where he murdered Susie. To
her, this is incontrovertible evidence that he's guilty as hell. Why else would he make such a
drawing? But Harvey explains away the sketch; drawing it was simply his way of coming to terms
with an appallingthat had affected him so deeply.

His...

In Chapter 5 of The Scarlet Letter, where do Hawthorne's sympathies lie?

The tone,
point of view, and narrative ofin 's TheScarlet Letter is clearly
sympathetic to Hester in several ways.

The chapter is titled "Hester at
her Needle", and two things of extreme importance are brought up. One, that Hester is free,
but not from the oppression of the sanctimonious villagers. The other, that Hester's talent with
needlework sets her aside from every other woman, and represents her shining inner
light.

Sympathy for Hester is evident, being that this chapter tells about
the moment whenis finally removed from prison. The narrator expresses how Hester's heart is
nevertheless "morbid" and "sick" with suffering. This is even the day when
her sentence was finally over.

Even though this is a moment of physical
liberation, it is obvious that this is not going to be a joyous moment for poor Hester. She will
have to live now in the free community and endure the daily judgement of her fellow
villagers....

How is individualism showed in Robinson Crusoe?

The
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines individualism as the concept that all duties, values, and
rights are derived from individuals rather than a group. Individualism expresses the idea that
the needs and rights of the individual are of supreme importance.

With that
definition in mind, we can clearly see how expresses individualism.
Crusoe, stranded all alone on a deserted island, is necessarily left to his own resources and
has to make his own practical and ethical decisions. Though he is lonely in his new home, he
forges onward and does what he needs to do to survive. When he...

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"""The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Is this generally true? ""

As
others have pointed out, Marx is arguing that the state apparatus exists merely to satisfy the
bourgeoisie, Marx's word for the ruling and materialistic middle class. I do not think that this
is a question that can be simply answered as true or not true, but certainly the answer changes
depending on what country one is talking about.

Certainly it is true in the
United States that many laws and regulations benefit the upper middle class, and that
increasingly the lower middle and the "middle" middle classes have been neglected by
the state. However, there are also government programs put in place to help the lower and
working classes - what Marx would call the proletariat - such as welfare and unemployment funds.

I would argue that no state apparatus - at least in the developed world -
exists only to satisfy the bourgeoisie, although there is certainly a case
to be made that the bourgeoisie benefit from most of the state's policies in some countries.
Many would argue (correctly in my...

What line is the phrase "In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds" in the story?

Vonnegut
describesas looking like a "walking junkyard" as his cumbersome handicaps hang from
his body without their typical military neatness. In addition to the extraordinary amount of
weight on his body, Harrison wears a "tremendous" pair of earphones and thick wavy
glasses that impair his vision. Vonnegut then writes, "In the race of life, Harrison
carried three hundred pounds" (3). Vonnegut is figuratively comparing life to a race and
describing the total weight of Harrison Bergeron's handicaps, which weigh three hundred pounds.
The oppressive government has forced Harrison Bergeron to wear three hundred pounds of
cumbersome handicaps for the remainder of his life in order to make him completely equal with
the rest of America's population. In Vonnegut's futuristic, dystopian American society, complete
uniformity is required and enforced by the agents of the Handicapper General. Since Harrison is
an impressive physical specimen, he is required to wear an extraordinary amount of weights to
impair his above-average physical capabilities.

What are the symbols of God's wrath in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Gods
wrath is a central focus of .  The word is used about fifty times in the sermon.  In a
nutshell, the sermon is about how God is really angry at the sinners of the world; it suggests
that God should throw us into hell immediately.  Stated like that, the sermon isnt all that
scary; however, Edwardss sermon is one of the great examples of a fire and brimstone sermon.  He
uses graphicto describe Gods wrath toward his followers.  The goal is that terrified sinners are
repentant sinners and better Christians because of it.  

Whats nice about
this sermon is that the images that Edwards chooses are familiar images.  He gives the
congregation concrete examples of Gods wrath so that the people can better understand the image.
 In 1741 America, colonists had a lot to worry about.  Two of their major concerns were fire and
flood.  Fire, flood, and violent storms could destroy homes and/or entire towns.  They were
a...

How could a manager use knowledge about personality and attitudes to form a high-performance work team?

Lorraine Caplan

Personality and attitude are central to the work performance of individuals or teams. 
An effective manager has a good knowledge of both in his or her people and capitalizes on them
to create a successful team. 

There are tools available to the manager who
would like to have a better understanding of personality, for example, the Myers-Briggs test,
which assesses personality along four different dimensions, such as whether one is an introvert
or an extrovert.  Having some understanding of this dimension alone can help a manager
create...

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What is the irony used in "The Open Window"? Explain this irony with quotes from the story.

Jamel Goldner

"" is a humorous short story, and part of the humor stems from theat work
within it. In the story, a man named Framton Nuttel is introducing himself around the
neighborhood as a means of "helping the nerve cure which he was supposed to be
undergoing."

In one instance, he is talking to the fifteen-year-old
niece of a woman named Mrs. Sappleton while he awaits the arrival of the aunt. Normally a
fifteen-year-old would be portrayed as someone impulsive and naive. However, the niece is
described as "self-possessed" and speaks to Mr. Nutter in an inquisitive,
almost...

Compare and contrast the experiences of Gulliver in any of the two lands that he visited as depicted Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

In the
course of his travels, two of the lands that Lemuel Gulliver visits are Lilliput and Brobdignag.
The people on the island of Lilliput are tiny in comparison to Gulliver, and so they perceive
him as a giant. Shipwrecked, he washes ashore unconscious. Understandably terrified to have this
monster invade their territory, they tie down the supine man, with ropes from many parts of his
body attached to stakes all around him. With few viable options, Gulliver agrees to serve the
emperor of the Lilliputians. He proves advantageous in helping them conduct a war against their
enemy, Blefuscu; he simply picks up their ships. However, he soon wears out his welcome and, to
avoid being punished for treason, escapes and eventually returns home.

His
next adventure with the Brobdignagians is the exact opposite: they are huge, and he is tiny. His
first few adventures including being picked up and imprisoned by a farmer who wants to put him
in on exhibit as a freak. He narrowly escapes getting eaten by a cat. The Queen of the nation
hears of him and buys him as a present for the King; Gulliver thus becomes a slave. Kept in a
box, he is carried around and shown off as a novelty. His rescue is dependent on a giant eagle,
which picks up the box and drops it the sea, where it is hauled in by an English
ship.

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What are three significant passages from "The Lovely Bones"? or a device of symbolism. and i also need the page num for each of those:) so please...

Here are
three important passages from that show how Abigail deals with the loss of
her daughter.

Chapter 3

She had a stare
that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from
me. I looked at what I had never seen as anything but Mom. . . . Ocean Eyes, my father called
her. . . . And now I understood the name. I had thought it was because they were blue, but now I
saw it was because they were bottomless in a way that I found frightening.

This first quote shows that Abigail wants more than just
motherhood. She had dreams and plans that were derailed when her children were born. She spends
time in the morning being a regular person, not just a mother. Susie sees this moment and feels
intrigued and confused by it. Abigail loves her children but resents the loss of herself and her
dreams.

Chapter 16

Weve had the
memorial, she said. Thats done for me. Whats done?. . . . She leaned slightly forward. . .
....

What did Robinson Crusoe name the island?

As readers, we
never find out the real name of the islandis shipwrecked on. He calls it "The Island of
Despair," saying,

I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe,
being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal,
unfortunate island, which I called The Island of Despair; all the rest of the ships company
being drowned, and myself almost dead.

Crusoe likely
dubs the island a...

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What philosophical, religious, or cultural ideas served to legitimize the class and gender inequalities of classical civilizations?

There
were a number of ideals that contributed to class and gender inequalities in classical
civilizations. In terms of class and nationality differences, there was a systemic belief in the
majority of civilizations that they were favored by their set of gods. The proximity of a
culture to its deities enabled them to believe that they were the chosen race and that other
races were lesser because they were farther away, such as the Greeks with Olympus and Egypt with
the Nile being a major factor in the religion. They would use the idea that the gods were close
to them as a rationale for enslaving and subjugating others.

Gender
inequalities typically stemmed from physical differences between men and womenwomen were
slighter, shorter, and physically not as strong, and this was instilled into their religions as
well. The greatest godsZeus, Ra, Jupiter, and so onwere all men, and they wielded the most
strength. This reinforced ideas that women were the "weaker sex" and should
be...

In "The Necklace," why was Mathilde unhappy in the early years of her marriage?

Mathilde Loisel is depicted as an unthankful, superficial woman who believes that she deserves
to enjoy a life of luxury. Instead, Mathilde Loisel is married to a lowly clerk who works at the
Ministry of Public Instruction. Mathilde Loisel desperately dreamed of marrying an aristocrat
and suffers from the poverty of her dwelling. She is completely...

What is significant about setting the story in December and during Christmas?

The story
"" shows readers a glimpse into a regular ritual for the main character, Phoenix, so
it's interesting that this glimpse happens to be at Christmastime. Phoenix herself never bring
up Christmas, but the other characterswhite people who are more connected to commercial society
than she ishold it as a focus, and the hunter even suggests that it's the only explanation for
her arduous journey. Phoenix makes this journey as an act of care for her grandson, and she's
been doing it every time he runs out of medicine for years now. This stands in stark contrast to
the two nickels she's given out of a Christmas-motivated sense of charity, which pale in
comparison to the acts of kindness she undertakes as part of her everyday life. Her decision to
spend the money on a paper windmill as a gift for her grandson, something short-lived and
insubstantial, further emphasizes Phoenix's feelings about the holiday
charity.

What is the impact of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon was regarded as radical and revolutionary, and stirred up great
controversy, first among Picasso's friends, and then among the arts public at large after it was
made public. However, it was recognized as a significant piece...

What arguments did the colonists use to object to the new taxes in the 1760s?

There were
three major arguments that the colonists used when objecting to the new taxes imposed by the
British in these years.

First, they argued that they should not be taxed by a
legislature in which they were not represented .  This is the famous "no taxation without
representation" argument."

Second, they argued that Parliament
should only tax for the purpose of regulating trade.  They argued that taxes that were meant
solely for the purpose of raising revenue went against the (unwritten) British
constitution.

Third, they argued that Parliament only had the right to impose
taxes on goods that entered and left the colonies.  They argued that Parliament had no right to
impose taxes on things that were not being traded into or out of the colonies.

All of these arguments were used at various times to oppose the new taxes imposed by
the British.