What does Ulysses think of his wife?

gives
the impression that he's as bored with his "aged wife" as he is with all other aspects
of his kingly life. Penelope reminds him just how old he is and how far away he is from that
golden youth of heroism and adventure. There's more than an element of misogyny in Ulysses's
lamentations. He gives the impression that a life of wedded bliss is no such thingthat marriage
saps what little energy he has left. The only real life for a man, it would seem, is a life away
from his wife. A real life is one spent on the high seas in pursuit of new worlds and new
horizons.

In Ancient Greece, women were forced to occupy very limited roles
in society; their lives were largely restricted to home and hearth. Ulysses's complaints about
his life of stultifying domesticity could be said to express fears that, as well as losing his
energy so long as he remains at home with Penelope, he's also losing his masculinity.
Essentially, he's becoming feminized. For a noble Greek warrior like Ulysses, that's a
humiliation too hard to bear. The only conceivable way he can regain his masculinity is by
leaving Penelope behind to embark upon yet another epic voyage.

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Why are the archaeological site at Harappa and the artifacts found there important?

The
Harappan Civilization sites are located along the Indus River in contemporary Pakistan and
India. Within the larger Indus Valley Civilizations that developed from about 3300 to 1300 BCE,
the most well-known sites are those located near the towns of Harappa, first excavated in the
1920s, and Mohenjo Daro (the latter is now a UNESCO World Heritage site); more recently, the
larger Rakhigahri has also been excavated. More than 1000 sites and settlements
have...

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What are some hypothetical interview questions for John Smith?

An assignment like this one is really asking you to sort through John Smith's
biographical information and discern the most notable parts of his life. How did he influence
American culture and/or history? One you decide on those areas of focus, you'll want to create
open-ended questions that show your knowledge of your subject. Here are some ideas to get you
thinking:

• At one point, you faced captivity in Hungary. What did
  you learn from this experience that helped shape the Jamestown Colony?
• You
  immediately emerged as a leader in the new colony. What personality traits or experiences do you
  think shaped you for leadership?
• You faced what seemed imminent death
  multiple times in your life but managed escape each time. Which instance seemed the most
  insurmountable to you?
• Your story with Pocahontas has become legend. Which
  parts of the modern story are true, and which have changed over time?
• How
  did your relationship with Powhatan evolve over time?
• Conflict with fellow
  colonists seemed to...

Who is responsible for Macbeth's downfall and his death?

is
wholly responsible for his destiny. He should take the blame for whatever happened to him. The
fact that he was driven by ambition was a choice he made. 

When we meet him,
we hear about a soldier who is loyal and courageous. A man who was driven to defeat his
country's enemies and utterly destroy them, whatever it took. He receives generous praise and is
rewarded for his noble actions. 

We soon learn, however, that he harbours a
pernicious desire to achieve the Scottish throne by illegitimate means. He admits that he is
driven by 'vaulting ambition' which clearly indicates that he does not wish to ascend by having
to follow the natural rules of succession. His desire is to become king as soon as possible, by
hook or by crook. When he andmeetand they greet him by a new title as well as inform him that he
will be 'king hereafter', he is sceptical untiland Angus arrive.

When Ross
informs him that he has been awarded the title thane of Cawdor as the witches...

In The Pigman, why does Lorraine hate the Baron Park Zoo?

There are
a couple of reasons why Lorraine is not a fan of Baron Park Zoo. Firstly, she doesn't like
seeing all the creatures kept in captivity just so that people can gawk at them.

Secondly, she is of the opinion that the attendants who work at the zoo are not all
that intelligent.

She had stopped going to the zoo a few years earlier, after
watching the sea lions being fed. The zoo employee did not bother to throw the fish up in the
air one at a time and in different parts of the tank so that the sea lions could have a good
time and get some exercise. Rather, he simply dropped all the fish into the water while standing
on the diving board.

In short, Lorraine is an animal lover and does not agree
with the way things are done at this zoo and probably at zoos in general.

What are Eveline´s reasons for staying in Dublin in james Joyce's "Eveline"?

Duty
and paralysis are two of the major themes of 's , and the eponymous
character in "" suffers from both when she is incapable of leaving Dublin to Buenos
Ayres.

The vast majority of the story occurs with Eveline sitting at her
window, looking out at the streets of her childhood and noticing how things have changedthe
neighborhood, her family, her relationship with her father. Throughout the story, Joyce employs
free indirect discourse, delving into the mind of Eveline and revealing that she keeps thinking
about the promise she made her mother to "to keep the home together as long as she
could." Near the end of the story, she recalls the last thing her mother told her:
"Derevaun Seraun," Gaelic for "at the end of pleasure, is pain." These two
memories in which Eveline feels duty-bound to her family, especially to her dead mother,
effectively paralyze Eveline and prevent her from boarding the ship with
Frank.

How did Progressive reform make the government more democratic? I'm studying federal reforms like amendments and state reforms like initiatives,...

The American
Progressive movement is generally considered to have originated in the late nineteenth century
as a reaction to the abuses of big business and the problems that plagued the lower
socio-economic classes of that era. 

The first post to this question gave
some of the electoral reforms enacted by progressives. The movement as a whole could be
considered democratic in the sense that it was concerned with helping the little guys who
could not help themselves. So progressives took on government and big business, often in the
form of increased regulation, to help make it more responsive to the needs of people in
general. Many people feel that this movement led to Roosevelt's implementation of the New Deal
during the Depression.

In modern America we see the influence of
Progressivism in movements like Occupy Wall Street, which seek to limit the power and influence
of big business.

Some consider Donald Trump to be a progressive in some ways.
His call to help American workers by encouraging businesses to stop exporting their jobs abroad
is progressive in the sense that it uses governmental power to influence business for the
benefit of common Americans. Whether or not this will actually work to America's advantage
remains to be seen. Trump, however, is decidedly not progressive in other ways, such as his
attitude toward immigration and business regulation.

In Albert Camus's The Stranger, what is Meursault actually on trial for; his actions or his eccentric character?

In
strictly legal terms, Meursault is on trial for murdering the Arab. But at the same time, he's
also on trial for his nihilism and his shameless flouting of the accepted norms and values of
the society he's come to reject. The prosecutor makes great play of the shocking way that
Meursault treats his girlfriendeven though his behavior was hardly out of the ordinary at that
time. The prosecutor also launches a furious attack against the prisoner in the dock for his
indifference towards his late mother. For a young man not to honor his mother is treated by the
prosecutor as almost a crime in itself, one worthy of total condemnation.

The evidence for Meursault's guilt in carrying out the murder is overwhelming, but the
authorities know that it's not enough that he must be punished for this most serious of crimes.
He also needs to be made an example of. Meursault's nihilism, his alienation from society, are
potentially contagious, especially among the young. It is as essential,...

Can Candide be seen as a heroic figure? Can Candide be seen as a heroic figure?

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heroic figure. He does rise to the occasion and kill Issachar when he has to do so, and the
inquisitor as well. He certainly goes through enough...

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I'm writing an essay on the book 1984 by George Orwell, and I'm writing from the critical lens marxism, the differences in social classes. I need help...

We have
limited access to any "groups" in .  We only have 's limited perspective.  He doesn't
even know much about his own class.  So, much of your paper will be inferential.  We only know
what Winston knows: we can't trust(inner party) or(outer party)--both of which are probably
double-agents.

Winston is fascinated with the Proles; he sees them as the key
to revolution.  Look at Winston's journal entry for his "stream-of-conscious" Marxist
criticism on the party vs. the proles:

April 4th, 1984.
Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being
bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by
shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him
wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters
gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly
as though the holes had let in the water,

Does the play suggest that true love is possible and good?

It
depends how you define "true love".  If defined in the romantic sense, then this play
does not represent that.  Higgins and Eliza do not share romantic love.  Eliza shows no desire
for romantic love, but is more considered with her identity and her position in society. 
Likewise, Higgins is only concerned with intellectual pursuits, with being...

What is negative character trait for Diana in the book Lyddie?

Diana shows poor judgement when
she gets pregnant with a married man.

Diana is a saintly
presence.  She is endlessly patient and supportive of the other factory girls.  She has worked
at the factory for fifteen years, and she acts as teacher and mother to new girls. finds her to
be a source of support and friendship.

When Lyddie gets a new girl to train,
Brigid, she has trouble at first.  Lyddie likes to focus on herself and takes pride in being
fast and efficient.  Having a trainee just annoys her and she feels like the girl slows her
down.  Diana comes to the rescue and is calm and caring to the girl when Lyddie cant
be.

When Brigid has trouble with a knot, Lyddie shouts at her, irritated that
she has not learned how to do it herself yet.  Diana steps in to help them.

The girl burst into tears again, and before Lyddie could decide what
to do with her, Diana was there, slapping off the loom. Burning with shame, Lyddie glanced over
as Diana, without a quiver of impatience, helped the girl retrieve the broken ends and tie a
weaver's knot. (Ch. 14)

Diana looks out for the girls in
bigger ways too.  She is part of an organization lobbying for a ten-hour workday.  Lyddie doesnt
like this, because girls can get in trouble for signing the groups petitions.  The factory
considers them trouble makers.  Diana is more interested in everyones safety.  She takes up
collections when people get hurt or sick.

When Lyddie finally decides to sign
one of Dianas petitions, she learns that the saintly Diana has a secret.  She has gotten
pregnant, and the man is married.  He is Dianas friend the doctor.

"He€he's not free to marry. There's a wife ... in Concord. She wouldn't come to
live here in a factory town. Though her father is one of the owners." Diana's laugh was
short and harsh. (Ch. 19)

Diana has to quit her factory
job before she begins to show, because she doesnt want to bring dishonor to the movement.  She
is such an important part of it that the factory would use her to discredit it.  Diana is strong
and independent.  She finds a job as a housekeeper right away, and plans to raise her baby by
herself.

Diana is a genuinely nice person, but having a baby out of wedlock
was considered very immoral.  She also had an affair with a married man, which is definitely
inappropriate.  This does not mean that Diana is a bad person, but she definitely exercised
flawed judgement.

For a two-tailed hypothesis test at the significance H0:u=u0 will be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis Ha:u‰ u0 if and only if u0...

We are asked
to find the interval in which we would be unable to reject the null hypothesis.

When hypothesis testing we generally state the null hypothesis, the alternative
hypothesis, and the claim. Then we find the critical values; these values delineate the regions
in which we will reject the null-hypothesis (the critical region(s)) and the region where we
fail to reject the null-hypothesis (the non-critical region). We then use the data to find the
test value, determine if the test value is in the critical region and decide whether to reject
the null-hypothesis or not.

1. `H_{0}:mu=mu_{0}`

`H_{1}:mu
ne mu_{0}`

Here `H_{0}: mu=4.8`

`H_{1}: mu ne 4.8` (This
is the claim.)

2. We now find the critical values. Note that we are doing a
two-tailed test. (If we were checking only less than or greater than, it would be a one-tail
test.) Since we are using data from a sample, in particular we do not know the population
standard deviation, we will use the Student's T-table to find the critical values.

Since the size of the sample is n=20, the degrees of freedom are 19. We are running a
two-tailed test with `alpha=.05` so we want a 95% confidence.

From the table
we find the critical values to be `+- 2.093`

This is denoted `t_{alpha/2}`
.

3. The test value is found by
`t=(bar(x)-mu)/(s/sqrt(n))=(4.33-4.8)/(2.247/sqrt(20))~~-0.935`

Since the
test value is within the noncritical region we would not reject the null-hypothesis.

Essentially, the confidence interval about the mean of the sample will give the
boundaries of the noncritical region.

The confidence interval is given
by:

`bar(x)-t_{alpha/2}(s/sqrt(n))

`4.33-2.093(2.247/sqrt(20))

Thus the confidence interval is
`3.2784

Any value in this range will not allow us to reject
the null-hypothesis.

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How would a woman in this story present the circumstances that happened in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"? A man is presenting the story,...

This is a tricky question because, in a day of strides toward humanity as one instead
of as divided into groups and sectors, it suggests that men and women authors have vastly
different perspectives. Perhaps it might be better to ask "How would it be different if
told by a non-minimalist and non-modernist?" Perhaps it would be better to ask "How
would it be different if told by someone from the 21st century instead of from the 20th
century?" or "... if by someone who had never experienced World War instead by someone
who had?" or "... if by another man?"

Having said this, let's
assume the woman...

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What does the line "Pastoral Scene of the gallant south" in Lewis Allan's "Strange Fruit" poem mean?

This poem was
written in the 1930s as a protest again the lynching of black men in the American South.  In the
second verse, we see that The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth of a body hanging in a poplar
tree is a scene of the gallant South.  This is an ironic description, heavy with sarcasm and
yet revealing of the cultural climate of the day.  Here Allan is indicating that this practice
of killing African-Americans and stringing them up in trees was an undeniable contour of the
landscape of the South at that time, and any gallant Southern traditions €“ those famous
Southern manners, the dignified rural plantation life €“ all of it boiled down to and was
overshadowed by these lynchings.  This horrible discrimination was as much a part of Southern
cultural identity as the pastoral scenes and gallantry associated with the region.  And by
comparing the dead men in the tree to fruit, Lewis implies that these hate crimes are the direct
result of seeds sown within the Southern culture, a culture that could somehow turn a blind eye
to this sort of discriminatory violence while at the same time laud itself for the beauty of the
its nature and the cultivation of its people.

Who are the main characters in "In Cold Blood"?

In 's
jounalistic novel "" the Clutter family--particularly the farmer, Herb Clutter--is
victimized by Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, two ex-cons who believe that
Clutter keeps large amounts of cash in his house.

Members of the Clutter
family are

• Herb, a wealthy farmer who has taken out...

What is Mesopotamia?

Mesopotamia
is Greek for "the Land Between the Rivers" and refers to the areas between the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers that developed as part of the Cradle of Civilization, namely Sumeria,
Babylonia, and Assyria. 

Located in present-day Iraq, this region was home
to the first developed civilizations that organized themselves in city-states, developed one of
the earliest writing systems in cuneiform and built the first sophicated bits of...

Consider the physical traits and personality traits of Harrison, in the short story, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Why is he considered a...

Harrison, inJr.'s
short story, "," is considered a threat to the society he lives in for a few reasons.
First of all, his physical strength surpasses just about anyone's.  He has been held down by all
kinds of physical contraptions to keep that strength at bay, but in the story, he easily rips
off his "handicaps" and proceeds to rip off those of the ballerina and musicians, too.
His physical strength alone is enough to worry the people of power in his society where everyone
is supposed to be "equal in every way."  However, not only is Harrison big and strong,
he is also highly intelligent, and this is an even bigger threat to his society. He, if given
the chance, can tell people what is going on, he can explain that by being "equal,"
they are not equal at all, that they are oppressed and all opportunities have been taken away
from them. Sadly, in this story, Harrison is killed off before he has the chance to explain this
to the people of this oppressive society. 

"'Even as
I stand here--' he bellowed, 'crippled, hobbled, sickened--I am a greater ruler than any man who
ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!'" (Vonnegut
6)

Harrison knows he is smarter and stronger than
everyone else. He knows what the rest of society does not - he is much more than what the
authorities want him, and everyone else, to think he is.

From Into the Wild, what were Chris McCandless's main ideals?

Chris
McCandless believed in transcendentalism, as demonstrated by his ideas, thoughts, and actions.
He was greatly influenced by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom he referenced a
number of times in his journal. Thoreau and Emerson were both transcendentalists, and Chris
sought to emulate their idealistic lifestyles. The basic principle of transcendentalism is the
pursuit of truth through communicating with nature and finding oneself. McCandless loved to be
alone with nature, as witnessed in his adventure to Alaska, as well as in several previous
trips.

McCandless believed in independence and nonconformity and that evil
accompanies materialism. For this reason, he abandoned all aspects of modern life, cut off
communication with family, disposed of all his money and possessions, and ventured into the
wilderness, believing himself capable of self-sustenance. Unfortunately, his very beliefs caused
him to venture out ill-prepared, and he died of...

Who is the loneliest character in Of Mice and Men?

I would say
Crooks is the loneliest person in the novel. He is black amid a white culture, and, because of
his race, he is not allowed to live in the bunkhouse. He lives in a room off the stable, almost
as if he is an animal. While the men in the bunkhouses have straw pallets to sleep on, Crooks
doesn't even get a pallet:

Crooks' bunk was a long box
filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung.

Crooks is a "cripple" in addition to being black, and unlike the other men,
who are seasonal, he has become a permanent resident at the ranch. All of this divides him from
the others. He is described as holding himself "aloof," and he does spend much time
alone, so one might think he chooses his fate. But his palpable longing to become part ofand 's
dreamed-of farm shows how deeply lonely he really is:

"I seen guys nearly crazy with loneliness for land, but ever' time a whore house or a
blackjack game took what it takes." He hesitated. "...If you... guys would want a hand
to work...

The grandmother thinks of herself as a lady, and a good Christian woman. Is she?

The answer to this
question will depend, in part, on your definition of a good Christian woman. Were the definition
charitable or forgiving, then the grandmother might well be described as a good Christian woman.
She loves her family and strives to act according to what she believes is right. 

However, the grandmother's sense of right is highly convenient and selfish. She is
deceitful, arrogant, manipulative, bitter and judgmental. As a person who seems entirely to lack
generosity of spirit and who ultimately disavows the Christian miracle of Christ raising the
dead, the grandmother does not seem likely to fit most narrow definitions of a good Christian
woman. 

Early in the story, the grandmother demonstrates her negative
traits. The text of the narrative overtly suggests that in telling her son, Bailey, that the
family should go to Tennessee for their vacation instead of Florida she is attempting to
manipulate her son. The family wants to go to Florida, but she wants to go to...

What is Beatrice doing physically on pages 53-56 regarding her life?

In Act I of
's play  the character of Beatrice is seen in her true colors. Beatrice is
a divorced mother who lives with her daughters and an aging boarder in modest accommodations.
That does not prevent Beatrice from dreaming of a lifestyle that she could only attain by living
above her means, and under very different circumstances. 

It is clear that
Beatrice does not play the role of the sacrificial mother who goes above and beyond for her
daughters. Instead, she enjoys to play the victim by consistently complaining about her
conditions, and by whining about the things she would rather be doing. She goes as far as
crying...

What is Hester's sin in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

In s
, the is condemned for committing adultery. The novel is set in 17th
century, orthodox Puritan Society in Boston America. Adultery was one of the very serious sins
in the Puritan society. , Hester's husband, had left her almost two years ago. Hester gave birth
to a daughter namedin the absence of her husband. This made everyone in the town suspect that
she is guilty of adultery. Because of this, Hester is made to stand on a scaffold where she
bears immense public humiliation. As a punishment of her sin, she...

Is the movie of In Cold Blood similar enough to the book?

While the 1967
film of the same title that stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith faithfully chronicles the
journalisticof , who was very involved in the making of this movie, there is no substitute for
having read the book which provides insights into characters and much more detail.  However,
since the limitation of time is a factor, reading the study guides on themes, character
analysis, as well as the summary will certainly help.

Capote's book is
divided into four parts, which are extensively detailed:

1. The
   character of the Clutter family, their social status and activities during the last day prior to
   the murders 
2. The planning and plotting of the killers


3. The detailed investigations of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI)
   agents
4. The capture, trial, and execution of the murderers.

So, you may wish to examine each section, especially part II in which a
psychological study is made of Perry by Capote, who explores the theme of "Nature vs
Nurture."  Capote become sympathetic to Perry Smith, whose history is one of physical abuse
and neglect and, thus, raises the question if Smith should be held completely responsible for
his actions when he is a product of his environment.

P.S. There is really
never any substitute for having read the main literary work.

In Macbeth, how is Macbeth responsible for his own downfall?

One of the
advantages of watching a play or reading as book is that audiences or readers form opinions of
their own. Over the centuries, 's accountability in and Shakesperare's
intent have been discussed at length. A modern audience may feel that Macbeth is answerable for
his actions as the notion of the noble soldier has dramatically changed with time. They would
not feel sorry for a man who cannot be "so much more the man" (I.vii.51) except
through deceit and murder.

Macbeth starts scheming right from the start
asreveal the possible extent of his future rise to king. He is faced with a similar future asand
yet his actions are very different. Banquo even wonders " "Good sir, why do you start,
and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?" ((I.iii.51) The witches have been proven
right in the first context of the Thane of Cawdor, so why not wait for the next, natural event.
Banquo even warns Macbeth of "the instruments of darkness."(I.iii.124)

Although stereotypes do still exist, in Shakespeare's day, they abounded and we
seebreaking with stereotypes in her efforts to "unsex" herself but at the same time
conflicted by her need to nurture her husband and "Partner of Greatness"(I.v.10) such
as Macbeth calls her. This reversal of gender roles could have confused Macbeth but, as the
previously valiant, courageous soldier, he later has no difficulty reaching past this as he
continues on his killing spree having successfully killed . He uses his position of power to
commit the most heinous deeds. It is his fear of discovery that sends him into a madness that
cannot be described or recognized, under the false belief that "none of woman born shall
harm" him.(IV.i.80)

Therefore some will argue that he is responsible for
his own downfall due to his own schemes and refusal to keep his ambition in
check.

What kind of mood does "The Cask of Amontillado" have?

"" has a dark,
ominous mood, established fairly quickly by the narrator, Montresor.  He speaks so formally that
he immediately impresses the reader as being very smart and somewhat cold.  His first line --
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon
insult, I vowed revenge" -- relies on(also called overstatement) in order to impress his
audience with just how incredibly injured Montresor felt.  Then, his declaration that "I
must not only punish, but punish with impunity" lets us know that he is both intelligent
and calculating; it isn't enough for him to simply exact revenge, but he must do so without any
chance of being punished in return.  This means that he will have to employ a great deal of
deception in order to achieve his brutal goal because no one can know that he is guilty of it.
 Further, he seems intelligent and calculating enough to achieve such a goal.

Montresor also says, in the second paragraph,

It
must be understood, that neither by word or deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good
will.  I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile
now was at the thought of his immolation.

These lines
also help to show how cunning and successful Montresor is at hiding his real intentions from his
victim.  The fact that Montresor's goal is Fortunato's "immolation" -- a word that
typically means complete destruction by fire -- indicates both the severity of his anger and the
violence of which he is capable.  Words like "insult" and "impunity" and
"immolation" help to darken the mood of the story, rendering it ominous and
suspenseful, and to foreshadow Fortunato's horrific ending.

The more time that John and Lorraine spend with Mr. Pignati, how do they feel about him compared to their parents in The Pigman?

To
contextualise, it is clear from early on that John and Lorraine have dysfunctional relationships
with their respective parents. John has deeply entrenched problems with authority at large,
causing him to be disruptive at school. Playing into this is his relationship with his father,
whom he considers moronic. He is outwardly manipulative and proudly destructive.

His father, in turn, says things like "Thank God Kenneth isn't a lunatic" in
relation to his other son. He belittles John's...

Who is referred to as a free bird in the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou? Why?

The free bird is one
that "leaps" onto the wind and "floats downstream" on its breezes. He
"dips his wing" in the orange rays of the sun and "claims" the sky as his
own. He fears nothing, and he seems to have no cares in the world, confident in his ability. His
life is dramatically different from the caged bird that "stalks" around his confines
and sees through "bars of rage"; his "wings are clipped"he is unable to fly
at alland his "feet are tied" so he cannot run. He is not even given the opportunity
to test his ability.

It is the caged bird who sings as a result of his
terrible confinement and his desire for freedom. It seems, then, that the caged bird is symbolic
of anyone who is limited or prevented from attaining freedom or independence, while the free
bird is not limited in this way. The free bird possesses privilege, the magical tacit currency
that permits it a freedom that the caged bird lacks, a freedom that allows it to even take its
freedom for granted because it has never known anything different. This could be white
privilege, the privilege conferred on a person due to their wealth, or male privilege even. The
free bird is a privileged member of society.

Who should not read the book THE ALCHEMIST by Paul Coelho? Can you give me 3 example of who should not read the book nd why, like skeptics or...

I think
is for people who want to examine the meaning of life.  I guess you could
argue that a person whose philosophy is that ignorance is bliss would not appreciate it.  The
person who appreciates the book is going to be someone that wants to look beyond the face of
looks at deeper, innermost thoughts.

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

2x-3y
=8......(1)

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

We will use the elimination
method to solve:

First, multiply (2) by -2 and add to (1):

-7y = 2

==> y= -2/7

Now substitute y= -2/7 in (2):

x+ 2y= 3

x+
2(-2/7) = 3

x -4/7= 3

Move -4/7  to the right
side:

x= 3+ 4/7

x= 21/7  + 4/7 = 25/7

x= 25/7

In "Hills Like White Elephants," what is the tone of communication between the two main characters?

Hemingway
is quite skilled at developing a tone of communication between both main characters that
displays an existence in different realms.  Both speak in what is almost dual .  While they are
physically together, it is evident through their tone of communication that they are emotionally
distant.  This is evident from the first exchange between both characters:

'They look like white elephants,' she said.

'I've
never seen one,' the man drank his beer.

'No, you wouldn't have.'

'I might have,' the man said. 'Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove
anything.'

The tone between both main characters is
reflective of existing on opposing planes.  Neither one of them is able to merge with the other.
 Each exists on their own level.  One says that the mountains seems to appear in a specific
manner, the other brings it back to themselves, and the tonal dynamic is one necessarily one in
direct conflict, but rather on different planes of existence. This is further seen when the
woman says, "You started it...I was being amused. I was having a fine time" and is
further enhanced when he says, "Well, let's try and have a fine time."  This is the
tone that underscores the decision to have an abortion.  There is never a tonal quality that
reflects full understanding of the implications on either side.  The tone of communication
between the two reflects how each of them is unable to embrace the other with full immersion.
 The ending shows this tone in full bloom:

'Do you feel
better?' he asked.

'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I
feel fine.' 

Hemingway has created a tone where there is
communication, but its core is one of emptiness because of the dual planes in which each lives
in reference to the other.  This disconnect is the foundation of their relationship, something
that is illuminated in the communication tone that emerges between both of
them.

Is there a life after death?

Of course,
no one who is alive knows this for sure.  Many people
believe something about this, but no one can be sure.

Most religions believe in life after death.  Christians, for example, believe in a
life after death in which...

In the "Battle Royal" section of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man, what are examples of tone, diction, and irony, particularly with respect to the...

The
episode of s novel can be examined in terms of such literary techniques as
, tone, andand also with regard to the theme of the influence of the past on the
future.

Ellisons diction (or choices of
particular words) in this section is especially worth noting. The Battle Royal episode is
narrated in first person, by the very character who experienced the events he describes.
Therefore, the narrators word choices inevitably reveal a great deal about his character and
personality.  In general his diction is clear, straightforward, and unpretentious.  The style he
chooses encourages us to trust him as a reporter of events, especially since he is willing to
criticize himself, as when he says,

I was na¯ve. I was
looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could
answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my experiences to achieve a
realization everyone else...

How was Mikhail Gorbachev different from past leaders of the Soviet Union?

After a long line
of party bureaucrats including the almost colorless Leonid Brezhnev, the KGB geriatric Yuri
Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and others that seemed to be almost xerox copies of each other,
Gorbachev was a breath of fresh air for people on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

He had a personality.  He was pleasant, even charming at times.  He smiled and gave
interviews to foreign journalists, on one occasion even leaving his limousine motorcade on a
whim while in New York City just to shake hands with Americans on the sidewalk.  In this way he
resembled more an American politician than a Russian dictator.

He also
approached communism differently.  While he believed in the system still, he thought it should
be "adjusted" to fit the more modern economic realities of the 1980s.  He instituted a
program called perestroika which meant "restructuring".  He
allowed limited private businesses and private property as an experiment to harness Soviet
ingenuity and creativity.  He then announced the new policy of Glasnost, or
openness.  He allowed newspaper reporters more freedom to write what they wanted, even to
criticize the government a bit.  He put an end to shadowy KGB arrests for simply speaking an
opinion in public. And he engaged the West and Ronald Reagan, negotiating over nuclear weapons. 
His most decisive moment came when he decided not to send the Red Army in to crush revolts in
Eastern Europe, letting the Warsaw Pact countries go their own way.

Today, he
is more popular in America than he is in Russia.

In the book Stargirl, why does Leo decide to follow Stargirl instead of simply talk to her?

Leo decides
to followinstead of just talk to her because he is ridiculously shy; he is afraid of her, the
way she makes him feel, and the teasing he will get from his schoolmates if he does actually
instigate a conversation with her.

Leo actually follows Stargirl twice before
he starts going out with her.  The first time is in Chapter 3, soon after she arrives at Mica
High.  Leo does not know what to make of Stargirl.  He is intrigued by her, but she makes him
uncomfortable, because she is like no one he has ever known.  He says that "the feeling (he
has)...when (he sees) her...(is) something like panic".  Leo is actually drawn to Stargirl;
you might say, he kind of likes her.  In this sense, he is experiencing the normal shyness and
embarrassment a teenager might feel talking to someone to whom he is a little infatuated with
for the first time.  But Leo also doesn't like to call attention to himself.  He likes to blend
in with the crowd, and he knows that if he talks to Stargirl, the other kids will make a big
deal about it.  Leo is curious about Stargirl, so he follows her, but he doesn't have the nerve
to actually talk to her.

The second time Leo follows Stargirl is in Chapter
16.  This time, Leo knows that Stargirl likes him, because she has given him a special card in
school.  Leo, excited and shy, is actually "thrilled", but obviously woefully
inexperienced.  He is still afraid to talk to her, he is "nervous, afraid...more
comfortable with her as history than as person".  Giddy with the knowledge that
"Stargirl Caraway...likes me", he finds her house, happy just to see it, then, when
she comes out the door, he ludicrously "dive(s) behind the car in the driveway" so she
doesn't see him".  Stargirl knows he is there, however, and that he is following him once
again as she walks into the desert.  This time, Stargirl acknowledges that she knows he is
following her - she actually knew he was following her the first time but didn't say anything -
and breaks the ice, instigating a conversation whereby he can communicate with her without
actually letting himself be seen.  Leo is afraid of his own feelings for Stargirl, which are new
and exciting for him, but Stargirl, with her uncanny perceptiveness, allows him to get used to
her by being assertive but unthreatening, allowing him to keep the distance that he needs to
feel comfortable with her.

hare an event that has impacted your life or one from current events that show how lives can be changed based on a deviant behavior related to drugs...

In a
news article dated November 25, 2019, titled "How this couple ran a €˜redneck meth empire
in an Appalachian county ravaged by addiction," we can see the devastating impact of drug
addiction on behavior.

The story is about a couple who were addicted to
crystal meth: Roger Dale Franklin and Lisa Dawn Wentworth.Upset with how unreliable their dealer
was,Roger and Lisa decided to start selling drugs themselves so they had a more direct access to
their addiction.Roger told his girlfriend Lisa that he had connections, but what Lisa didn't
understand was that those connections were with the C¡rtel Jalisco Nueva Generaci³n, or CJNG,
a relatively new but dangerous Mexican drug cartel that has saturated the U.S. with ultra-pure
methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

Lisa, who started using meth
in her 40's, went from using the drug to selling the drug throughout her home state of North
Carolina, becoming a local dealer and becoming part of the drug trafficking business for
CJNG.Lisa and her boyfriend Roger were part of a larger ring of drug traffickers throughout the
South, and they got involved with the cartel because of their addictions to meth.

While they trafficked drugs, deaths from methamphetamines rose from 1,887 in 2011 to
6,762 in 2016.

There is a connection between drug abuse and poor
decision-making; long term substance abuse impacts behavior and decision-making skills,
encouraging addicts to pick immediate gratification despite negative consequences; this is what
allows addicts to continue to abuse drugs, despite knowing the consequences and understanding it
will make things worse.The quick fix drugs give them is worth it.For Lisa and Roger, getting
addicted to drugs opened them up to a world where they were motivated by having access to
meth.It changed their behavior to one where they were willing to set up a drug trafficking
business in North Carolina and become connected to a dangerous drug cartel in order to have
access to the drugs and power associated with selling.Their lives changed based on deviant
behavior as a result of prolonged drug use and addiction.

Lisa and Roger were
arrested in 2015 during a traffic stop when Roger made an illegal u-turn.Roger died of a heart
attack in 2017 in prison, and Lisa was released after spending two years in jail.She's been
clean ever since, but still reports to a parole officer and lives in a halfway house.She now
works as a support counselor for those who struggle with addiction and mental health
problems.

href="https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/crime/2019/11/24/cartel-drugs-addiction-duo-ran-redneck-meth-empire-appalachia/4087610002/">https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/crime/2019/...

What are some advantages and disadvantages of individualism and collectivism? (at least 3 each please)

Kale Emmerich

Individualism and collectivism are competing views of the concept of
society.Individualism is the belief that the individual being is the most important building
block of society, while collectivism champions the group over the individual.These can lead to
significant conflict, but they are both vital factors to consider when discussing society as a
whole.

Individualism supports individual rights and needs above everything
else, which is a major benefit.This belief ensures that every human is taken care
of.Additionally, individualism supports creativity and free expression - since every individual
is important, their ability to be unique and express themselves is just as vital.Finally,
individuality also allows for more freedom.If individual freedoms are championed, one can pursue
more wealth, creativity, or inventiveness as long as you are not harming others.

Collectivism supports society and ensures that the group will prosper at any
cost.Additionally, collectivism...

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Which quotes prove infatuation of Romeo and Juliet? Quotes from the Friar, Juliet, and Romeo that prove infatuation.

Whenfirst sees , he provides this famous line:

For I neer saw true beauty till this night. (I.v.56)

He hasn't even spoken to her yet, so this line supports that he is immediately
infatuated with her beauty. When he sneaks onto her family's property and spies on her before
the balcony scene, he notes that

Oh, that I were a glove
upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek! (II.ii.24-25)

Again, Romeo is seen admiring Juliet's beauty, wishing to simply be
her glove so that he could touch her cheek. Not aware that Romeo is below her balcony, Juliet
muses on the Montague name and decides that it is not a name that makes a man. She declares that
roses would smell just as wonderful if they had any other name and then says,

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear
perfection which he owes
Without that title. (II.ii.48-49)

These sentiments lean toward her infatuation as she considers
Romeo's own "sweetness," similar to the rose. She hears something down below and
calls...

How does Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts speak to America's identity?

In
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson frequently brings up issues surrounding
American identity, using both theory and personal history. One turning point in the book is her
marriage to her partner, Harry, in the brief period when it was legal to get married in
California as people born of the same sex. This section, which speeds up her adoption of Harry's
child and her pursuit of her own biological child, engages with the recent history of legal
battles in queer American identity. She speaks to this constant upheaval in America's
identification as liberal or conservative, as evolving or constant. Her telling of that decision
to get married haphazardly before Proposition 8 passed indicates her disdain for and awareness
of the passive American identity.

Another area in which Nelson speaks to
American identity is when her biological child is born and she explains her reasoning for giving
the child a name of Native American identity, telling the story of an approving nurse. She is
aware of her position of power as a white American and pays attention to the history of Native
Americans on US soil with this passage. Nervous about cultural appropriation, she tells this
story in minute detail to defend her decision to the reader. She tries to break down the parts
of America's identity in this way and to complicate the difficulties that it often
presents.

In World War I, how did English soldiers travel to France? Were they in good conditions? I have to write a letter home from World War I to family,...

Aviation was
in its infancy during the First World War, so British troops traveled to France via ferry across
the English Channel. Once in France, the troops made their way to the front by train, by car, or
(often) on foot.

The conditions in which the troops travelled varied
depending on their rankofficers tended to travel in better style than enlisted menbut the
conditions generally deteriorated over the course of the war, as more and more strain was put on
transport services by the amount of men and material crossing the Channel.

As
a point of interest, there was an extensive network of railways in Belgium and France which was
heavily used by the French and the Germans; however, the static nature of the railways made them
vulnerable to attack, and they were often sabotaged (by both sides) to disrupt troop transport
and supply lines. The British adapted to this problem by importing large numbers of motor
vehicles and horses, so British troops originally traveled to and around the front by car or
horse-drawn transport. This made the British army more mobile than their French and German
counterparts, but limited the number of men and supplies they could move. Later in the war, the
British decided to build their own light railway systems to augment their transport
capabilities, so troops spent more time traveling by train.

You may find the
Imperial War Museum's article on Transport and Supply useful:

href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/transport-and-supply-during-the-first-world-war">https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/transport-and-supply-during-the-first-world-war

The IWM also has a collection of letters from British troops to their families, which
might give you helpful details about life at the front as the troops experienced it:

href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/letters-to-loved-ones">https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/letters-to-loved-ones

Why is the reader upset to learn that the little boy is being punished for dropping the ball? How did the author cause the reader to react emotionally...

When we
first meet the unnamed little boy on Camazotz, he is the only "aberration" in an
eerily perfect suburban landscape in which everyone is synchronized and performs every action
perfectly. The other children "play" more like emotionless robots than real children.
We feel sympathy for the boy from the start because he is seemingly the only "real"
child in the neighborhood. The frightened way his mother whisks him into the house when he fails
to bounce his ball perfectly then raises our curiosity. A short time later, when Calvin, Meg and
Charles Wallace go to the door of his house to return the ball, we again sympathize with the boy
because of the fear his mother exhibits. She denies her son dropped the ball, says the children
in her section "never drop balls" and turns "very white" when Charles
Wallace holds out the ball. Her terror seems entirely out of proportion to the "mistake
"her son has made.

When we see the boy again, in a little room in the
Central Central intelligence headquarters, bouncing a ball and screaming "as if in
pain" every time the ball bounces, we again feel sympathy because we know, having witnessed
it, that the boy's "crime" is completely minor. Our sympathy is heightened by the fact
that Charles Wallace, under the spell of IT, giggles at the boy's pain and seems to take a
savage pleasure in the fact he is being punished and won't deviate again. Our distaste for the
soulless planet and for the mind-controlled Charles Wallace leads us to identify more strongly
with the boy who behaved in a way we understand to be normal.  

If a persons beliefs conflict with the law or lead to bias against groups, should the government protect the exercise of those beliefs? Why or why...

A good way
to think through this is the "harm principle" of John Stuart Mill. This principle
states that an individual's liberties should only be restricted when exercise thereof would do
harm to other people.

This suggests first that thought and speech should be
free. A person may express a repugnant idea so long as that expression does not advocate or lead
to direct harm of others. So, for example, flat earthers are silly but do not harm people. If
someone believes that people with red hair are genetically inferior, again the belief is silly
but the government should only step in if that belief results in discrimination in hiring,
school admissions, housing, or other practical areas.

A more serious case
might be medical beliefs. For example, a Christian Scientist might reject various medical
treatments for themselves but refusing the best medical treatment to their children could
constitute child abuse. Similarly, the anti-vaxx movement can endanger many people and the
government has the right to ban people who are unvaccinated from endangering the lives of
others.

href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/30/time-get-much-tougher-anti-vaccine-crowd/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/30/time-g...

What are some similes from The Egypt Game?

Auses the
words "like" and "as" to compare two often unconnected items. There are
quite a few examples of similes in the novel:

He was tall
and bent and his thin beard straggled up his cheeks like
dry moss on gray rocks. His eyes were dark and
expressionless, and set so deep under heavy brows that from a distance they looked
like dark empty holes.

Here,
the author uses similes to describe the children's initial feelings of apprehension about the
professor. He is a figure of mystery to them, and they hardly know what to make of him.
Essentially, the professor's reclusive habits fascinate the children, and they engage in
speculations about his true character.

They didnt say a
word, but with widening eyes and small taut smiles they sent a charge of excitement dancing
between them like a crackle of electricity.

Here, the children discover what they later call "Egypt."
This location is actually the storage yard behind the professor's store. When the children enter
the yard, they see a broken birdbath, a statue of Diana the Huntress, a stack of wooden porch
pillars, and a bust of Nefertiti. April, Melanie, and Marshall are thrilled at their discovery.
The author tells us that a "charge of excitement" passes between April and Melanie,
and it is like "a crackle of electricity." Throughout the novel, similes like the ones
above reinforce the importance of fantasy play in the children's lives. For someone like April,
it is one way to navigate feelings of abandonment and loneliness after her mother goes on
tour.

What does the book Animal Farm By "George Orwell" and the B.P Oil Spill have in common? I ask this question because i have to write a New Historical...

In both
cases, the weak are at the mercy of the greed of the strong.  The animals onare not able to
defend themselves from the pigs' influence.  In real life, it is not just the animals that
suffered from others' greed as a result of BP's greed.  Fishermen and everyone who made a living
based on tourism or Gulf-trade...

What is the meaning of the following quote from Fahrenheit 451? "We're going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the...

Granger says this to
Montag at the end of the novel, after their civilization has been destroyed in a war and the
survivors are camping by the river. Granger is speaking about civilization rising anew from the
ashes, like the Phoenix, and he says that the survivors need to think about all the mistakes
their civilization has made and how to improve it. He believes that remembering the past and the
mistakes of the past is the key to improving the future. He says that they are going to
"build the biggest goddam steam-shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and
shove war in and cover it up." He realizes that war must become a thing of the past if
civilization is to have a rebirth.

When he says that they are going to build
a mirror factory, he is speaking metaphorically. He means that in order to rebuild their
society, the survivors must take a long, hard look at themselves and think about their faults
and mistakes. They must first reflect on what society has been before they can attempt to
rebuild it along better lines in the future.

In the novel The Bronze Bow, what gift did Leah receive that made Daniel upset?

In
Chapter 22, Daniel is rather upset and depressed after returning home from seeing Thacia dance.
Daniel explained to Thacia that he took an oath, meaning that he could not have a relationship
with her because he had one goal in life which was to fight for his people's freedom from Rome.
When Daniel returns home, Leah is excited to see him and wants Daniel to tell her all about the
girls who danced. Daniel kindly explains what the girls looked like and comments to his sister
that she is prettier than most of the girls. After they eat supper, Leah brings
out a woven basket with fresh fruits in it. Daniel questions her about who gave
her such fresh fruit because no Galilean ever kept fruit like this on their table.
Leah tells Daniel that it was a present from Marcus. Daniel asks Leah who
Marcus is, and she tells him that he is the Roman
soldier who comes by on a horse. Daniel spits out the fruit in his mouth and
kicks the basket over. He loses his temper and grabs Leah by her shoulders. He begins cursing in
her face and Leah fears that her brother is going to hit her. Leah tells Daniel that she's been
talking to Marcus since last summer, but she never let him inside the house.
Daniel's hatred for the Romans makes him furious at the fact his sister has been
communicating with Marcus. Daniel tells Leah that she is never allowed to see
Marcus again, and says that Leah has brought shame upon their family.

Explain in your own words how composers Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner were able to transform and deliberately alter the main characteristics of...

It could
easily be argued that Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner were the end point of the transformations
that took place in nineteenth-century European music. Liszt and Wagner dispensed with the
well-codified forms of the nineteenth-century and instead began to experiment with fantasy
through-composed compositions as well as tone poems. As they moved away from strict forms, their
music began to wander through chromaticism instead of existing within key structures.

Another of their innovations was the technique of using leitmotifs to aurally depict
specific characters within their compositions. While Liszt did use the leitmotif to a great
extent, especially in his symphonic poem Les Preludes, it was Wagner who
took the technique of the leitmotif to its logical conclusion in his operas. Wagner used the
leitmotif to musically depict the characters of his operas to both foreshadow them in the story
and accompany them while on stage.

At the end of the nineteenth century, many
European composers felt that the techniques of Romanticism had run their course. The heightened
dramatic techniques of Liszt, Wagner, and (later) Mahler were the catalyst that sent music in a
new direction. Composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Satie turned to Asian and folk music for
new ideas and new directions. Their move away from the binary major/minor system of tonality
ultimately led to the Abstract Expressionism of Arnold Sch¶nberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, and
Igor Stravinsky.

Why is the quote "There was one odd thing, though, that I never understood: in spite of Atticus's shortcomings as a parent, people were content to...

At
this point in the book,is trying to figure out how to feel about the trial. Everyone in town
talked about it and saw 's defense of Tom Robinson as a kind of moral failing. While Scout
andare not blamed ("neither of us could help having Atticus for a parent") the trial
and the ugly feelings it stirred hangs over the Finch family "like smoke."

The quotation you mention points out an inconsistency in the town's attitude toward
Atticus. The fact that he is reelected to the state legislature "as usual" suggests
that people are able to feel prejudice against blacks while at the same time recognizing Atticus
as worthy of representing them.

It is like the story that immediately follows
of how Miss Gates can hate Hitler's persecution of the Jews while at the same time approving the
verdict against Tom. Scout is confused about how people can think two different things at the
same time.

Examine the seemingly supernatural events Brown experiences as he penetrates ever deeper into the forest. Can the reader determine whether those...

Because
the other answer did such a good job of examining the supernatural events that may or may not
actually occur, I'm going to focus on the second part of the question: the purpose of the
ambiguity.

Hawthorne is deliberately ambiguous because his focus is not on
whether or not the events of the forest actually took place. In fact, none of that matters,
because to , the events did happen and he shifted his entire existence accordingly. Never again
could he look upon the townspeople as he had before entering the woods. His relationship with
both his wife Faith and his spiritual faith is destroyed, because every symbol of religion
around him, from Goody Cloyse's catechism to Salem's minister, is forever associated with the
sin he believes occurred.

Rather than focusing on the validity of YGB's
forest visions, Hawthorne instead wants us to focus on what we know happened: YGB knew that he
was embarking on an evil journey, and did it anyhow. Upon leaving Faith at the...

What are the chief aspects of the primal religions and how are they reflected in this culture?

The term
primal religions often refers to the religions of peoples indigenous to Africa, the Americas,
Southeast Asia, and Oceania.

One major aspect of these religions is that they
rely heavily on oral tradition. In societies that formed their religious tradition prior to
developing a system of writing, oral storytelling is a key component. Whether through song or
story, the religious traditions of these societies are passed down through the generations
orally.

Another aspect of primal religions is that they are practiced on a
local scale. Usually, their practitioners are limited to a small community or group of families.
Proselytization is rare, and these religions seldom spread at all beyond their initial
followers.

Primal religions are also often polytheistic, meaning they worship
many gods. Some gods are certainly ranked higher or lower than others in terms of power,
ability, and importance, but there are a pantheon of deities.

Animism is
another common component of primal religions. This is the belief that objects and creatures all
have a spiritual component. This usually plays out as a respect and reverence for all aspects of
the natural world. This even extends to revering a specific location as places can be imbued
with a spiritual essence as well.

Shamans are more common in primal
religions. These are individuals who serve as intermediaries between ordinary people and the
world of the deities and/or the land of the dead. They can serve the role of healer, teacher,
and spiritual guide.

Ancestor worship is practiced frequently in primal
religions. Since they are usually specific to a small group of families, the religion can serve
as a vehicle for remembering and respecting the common ancestors of the community.

There are a number of ways that these religions are reflected in other cultures. Most
other religions have intermediaries or guides to assist their practitioners in their religious
life. Song and storytelling exist in every culture, even if not used for a religious purpose.
Many parts of a culture can derive from a former religious origin even if that is not its
purpose today.

What do you think would be the greatest challenges in staging a real performance of Death of a Salesman? Identify one of the challenges and propose...

Because the
play moves back and forth in time and shifts between real action on the stage and the internal
workings of Willy's mind, staging it presents special challenges. Fortunately,provided very
specific and detailed stage directions within his script which should be followed exactly so
that the audience does not become lost in the play's structural complexity.

Special attention should be paid to the color and placement of the lights, since it is
largely through the lighting that Miller indicates the shifts in setting and the play's
external/internal action. 

Do governments and scientists have a responsibility to coastal dwellers in the context of global warming?

To the
extent that governmental policies and practices contribute to the long-term warming of the
climate, then governments do have an obligation to the hundreds of millions of people around the
world who live on or within 100 miles of coastlines.  If researchers are correct, and global
warming is (a) occurring and (b) resulting in rising sea levels, and more numerous hurricans and
typhoons of ever-greater intensity, then that obligation is absolute.  While scientists are
doing their job of studying weather and climate patterns, and the effects of human interaction
with the environment, and informing the public of those findings, then they are fulfilling their
responsibilities to mankind.  While there is no consensus on any of these issues, the changing
patterns of catastrophic weather appears undeniable, as regions not normally associated with
such weather begin to experience it.

An estimated 40 percent of the world's
population lives in coastal areas, with many millions more living...

In The Scarlet Letter, what is Chillingworth's most serious sin?

's most
horrible sin is this: In seeking revenge, he sets out to deliberately and methodically destroy
another human being, . When Chillingworth comes into the settlement to find his wife standing on
the scaffold with another man's baby in her arms, his shock turns quickly into a lust for
retribution. When he meets within the jail after she is taken down from the scaffold, he
extracts from her the promise that she will not reveal his identity. His intent is clear;
protected by the veil of anonymity, he intends to discover and pursue Hester's partner in sin.
Hester's husband's plan for revenge has already formed in his mind, and he takes up his new
false name, Chillingworth.

Living in the village as the physician he is,
Chillingworth waits and watches, obsessed with determining which man fathered . Once he suspects
the minister, he moves in with Dimmesdale, pretending to be his caring physician. Chillingworth
uses his position to probe Arthur's conscious and subconscious mind, tormenting him
psychologically, and perhaps, it is implied, poisoning him physically. When Chillingworth
discovers the "proof" he has sought (something shocking appearing on Arthur's chest--a
second scarlet letter?), he dissolves into a state of complete moral corruption, overcome with
joy at the pain and suffering of another. Chillingworth has not only betrayed his morality as a
human being, he has corrupted his profession, using his skills as a physician to destroy rather
than heal.

Until the novel's dramatic conclusion, Chillingworth uses all his
power to keep Arthur from making a public confession. So long as Arthur hides his secret sin, he
remains trapped in Chillingworth's devious daily torture. When Arthur finally does confess,
standing on the scaffold with both Hester and Pearl, he frees himself from the physician's grip,
as Chillingworth acknowledges:

"Hadst thou sought the
whole earth over, said he, looking darkly at theclergyman, there was no one place so secret,no
high place nor lowly place,where thou couldst have escaped me,save on this very
scaffold!"

The greatof Roger Chillingworth's
revenge, however, is that Dimmesdale grows in spiritual insight and achieves peace, whereas
Chillingworth wastes his own life, destroys his own integrity, corrupts his own soul, and spends
what's left of his life trying to make up for his most terrible sin.

 

Why study the theory of perfect competition if no real -world market completely satisfies all of the theory's assumptions?

You are
definitely correct that no markets in the real world are truly perfectly competitive.  However,
studying this market structure is still useful because it serves as a sort of a model or a
template for understanding market structures that really do exist (it's also true that there are
some markets that come very close to perfect competition).

The way I would
think of this is by thinking about how things like physics and biology textbooks work.  Perfect
competition is sort of like how in physics you always assume that friction doesn't exist.  Or
like in biology where you have these Punnett squares even though most physical characteristics
are determined by more than one set of genes.

So it's really just a model
that we can use to look at how things "should" be.  With that model in mind, we can
compare real-world market structures to it and see how they fall short of
"perfection."

Act II What are Mrs. Pearce's objections when Higgins decides to keep Eliza in his house?

Mrs. Pearce has
two main objections when Higgins wants to have Eliza stay at his house. The first is that it is
simply not proper in that time and place. Eliza is a young, unmarried woman, and such things are
not done by proper people. Mrs. Pearce also knows Higgins well, and is concerned with what will
become of Eliza after Higgins is finished with her. Eliza will be someone with the correct
social skills and accents to fit in with the wealthy people, but will have no resources after
Higgins is done with her. There is also fear on her part of what the interaction will do to
Higgins--it seems there is some part of Mrs. Pearce that is simply distressed about how Higgins
treats people as subjects, and what it will do to him eventually.

In Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation," why do only three of the characters have names?

Hollis Sanders

Technically, four characters are named in the story: Mrs. Turpin, Claude, Mary Grace,
and Miss Finley. However, Miss Finley is a character with a momentary appearance of no
consequence whatsoever, so this answer will focus on the first three. The titular revelation
that occurs in the story is that the preconceived notions about class and status that Mrs.
Turpin perceives as virtues are at best misguided and at worst deeply prejudiced and vain.


The story is written in free-indirect style from Mrs. Turpin's point of
view. Characters other than her beloved Claude are referred to by their most superficial
characteristics. Mrs. Turpin's view of the world revolves around her perceived hierarchy of
human value. She...

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Although S¶ngsam and Tokchae in "Cranes" represent opposite sides of the war, they share similarities. Compare their characters and their situations.

Ron Michael Miraflores

In the short story " ," S¶ngsam and Tokchae are two childhood friends who
lost contact throughout the years and find themselves on the opposite sides of a conflict. The
latter is a member of a communist agrarian collective whilst the other is an officer. Although
they are, politically, on opposing ends, they are...

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Who is speaking in "Girl"? What do we know about him/her?

The
speaker in 's very short piece is not identified. It may be inferred that this person is an
adult speaking to a child, probably an adolescent. It is possible that the speaker is an older
child, such as a big sister. Regardless, the speaker feels qualified and duty-bound to advise
the person addressed. All of this may be deduced by the use of second-person direct address
(speaking to "you"; commands). A very likely scenario is a mother speaking to a
daughter. Their excessive critical concern over potential or recent inappropriate sexual
behavior ("slut") is an indication.

An equally plausible
interpretation is that no one is speaking aloud. There seem to be several speeches run together.
The "speaker" may be alone and remembering things they once said to the
"girl." The girl herself may be remembering all her mother's or other older people's
typical lines heard throughout her youth.

What kind of man is Mr. Harvey in The Lovely Bones? How does he behave after Susie's murder?

By
anyone's standards Mr. Harvey is a throughly nasty piece of work. As a child-murderer and
pedophile he's not exactly someone who invites much in the way of sympathy. Though he
undoubtedly had a fairly traumatic childhood, that's no excuse for his going on to carry out
such appalling crimes. After killing Susie, he goes on committing senseless murders, including
that of a waitress in Connecticut. He clearly has a deep urge to kill, an urge which cannot be
assuaged by the occasional killing of a dog or a cat.

There's evidence to
suggest that Mr. Harvey's penchant for murder is actually destroying him from inside. He no
longer has any stability in his life which he can use as a facade for his numerous crimes. He
tries desperately to control the beast within, to fight his warped, sadistic urges, but he
always succumbs to them eventually. This would appear to suggest that this is not a man who will
ever change. So long as he's on the streets he represents a serious danger to women and
girls.

What is the social and historical context surrounding Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Scene 1 of Act 3
is the moment thatcomes to demand 's answer in response to challenging Romeo to a duel. In order
to understand the social and historical context of the scene, we
must understand the social and historical background and significance of
dueling.

Contrary to today's opinion,
dueling in older centuries was actually not considered a barbaric
activity. Instead, it was seen as the only respectable way for a man to preserve his honor.
Dueling was especially common for men in the higher classes. Hence, Tybalt
challenging Romeo to a duel due to the fact that he felt insulted by Romeo's
presence at the Capulet ball was a socially acceptable and normal thing to
do . In fact, dueling was so common that under France's King Henry IV, 10,000
gentleman were thought to have died as a consequence of dueling. Dueling became popular when,
especially in the Middle Ages, a judicial court as we know it today did not exist. Dueling was
considered the only way for two...

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In Chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies, why is Simons dead body being carried out to sea a type of glorification?

Your
question suggests that Golding's description, in this regard, placesin an exalted position, that
he is deemed greater than he really is. In a religious sense, this would mean that he is, in
some way, the moral superior of all others.

The description makes it clear
that Simon holds a special place, to such an extent that even nature responds differently and
makes his water bound burial especially significant. His death is an almost spiritual event in
contrast to 's later sudden and graphically brutal demise. Golding describes the event as
follows:

Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the
advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes. Here and
there a larger pebble clung to its own air and was covered with a coat of pearls. The tide
swelled in over the rain-pitted sand and smoothed everything with a layer of silver. Now it
touched the first of the stains that seeped from the broken body and the creatures made a moving
patch of light as they gathered at the edge. The water rose farther and dressed Simons coarse
hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became
sculptured marble. The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors,
busied themselves round his head. The body lifted a fraction of an inch from the sand and a
bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop. Then it turned gently in the
water.

The descriptors in the paragraph all deliberately
convey an event which has a surreal and extraordinarily supernatural value. It indicates a
special event and its significance is emphasized by the use of phrases such as "coat of
pearls," "a layer of silver," "patch of light," "brightness,"
"cheek silvered," and "sculptured marble." The images all convey light in
the surrounding darkness, not only in a physical sense but also metaphorically, for the boys
have been enveloped by the blackness of their innate evil. It is as if the reader is witnessing
something holy and only realizes that the text describes an otherwise ordinary event on reading
that "a bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop."

Simon's exalted state is further emphasized in the final paragraph where the journey to
his final resting place is given special significance. His body is surrounded by a halo (caused
by "a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures") to signify his spiritual purity and his
innocence.

Simon's demise symbolizes the death of innocence. He has become
the sacrificial lamb, as it were, for Man's inherent brutality. His burial, therefore, is
significant, for it indicates the final incarceration of Man's innocence. This further implies
that there is no going back -- Man is doomed to forever suffer from the consequences of his
iniquity.

What is the climax of the book On the Road?

Theof the novel is Dean
and Sal's wild excursion to Mexico City. It seems like they have found something alive and vital
there. Sal says, "We wandered in a frenzy and in a dream." All of Mexico seems full of
the kind of life and bohemianthat they have been searching for, and they abandon themselves to
find its pleasures and secrets, such as the "closet-size bars" that line the streets.
Sal remarks on the way that the street life in Mexico never stops and the way in which no one he
sees around him is inhibited. It seems like they have reached the zenith of the bohemian, free
life they are seeking.

However, Sal suddenly develops a fever and
becomes...

Rome empire What factors in the social structure of the Roman Empire contributed to the rise of Christianity?

Another factor is
that Christianity was monotheistic.It'd easy to come up with a completely new idea and make it
seem superior.One God, the one true God, was an attractive thought.Christianity offered them a
new way of life, and protection and support if they converted to it.

What clues does the author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge provide to show that Peyton Farquhars escape is only an illusion?

Although
most readers fall for 's trick and are surprised when Farquhar swings from the bridge after all,
Bierce leaves plenty of clues that the escape is imaginary. For example, although senses may be
heightened under stress, the exaggerated abilities Farquhar possesses strain credulity. While
swimming away in the river, he can see the veins in the leaves of the trees on the shore and the
insects upon them. He can see the eye of the sharpshooter looking at him through the sights of
the rifle. Though frantically swimming away from the bridge, he can observe the actions of the
sentinels on the bridge. A bullet fired at him lodges between his collar and neck, and he
snatches it out.

His walk toward home is similarly impossible and contains
other hints. He sees a "roseate light" and hears "aeolian harps," both
representative of the afterlife. He hears "whispers in an unknown tongue," anto the
Bible passage that begins,...

Where are accomplices shown in In Cold Blood and True History of the Kelly Gang?

Both novels contain
figures who work in partnership with other people to accomplish their deeds. For Ned Kelly, he
is clearly associated with other people, as the title suggests. His "gang" becomes
very important to him, as although they commit crimes and are hunted by the police, they as a
group achieve a heroic status amongst the poor people, who see them as championing their cause
and fighting against injustice. Ned Kelly is supported in his final stand to the end by his
gang, with figures such as Byrne, Dan Kelly and Hart dying in the final stand where Ned Kelly is
captured alive and taken. Ned Kelly is thus supported by his gang and this allows him to build
his heroic status.

In Capote's account of the infamous Clutter killings,
Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are shown to work together in the killings, although the novel
suggests that Perry Smith committed the murders himself with Dick Hickock acting as accomplice.
In this text, however, the crime is obviously an act that is unquestionably wrong and does not
gain Hickock and Smith the kind of popularity as Ned Kelly and his gang gained. What is
interesting about this criminal partnership however is the way that Capote clearly focuses the
reader's sympathies on the figure of Perry. Note the following description of how Perry
encourages Dick to pick up some hitchikers:

But Perry,
little old big-hearted Perry, was always pestering Dick to pick up the damndest,
sorriest-looking people.

The description of Perry as
"little old big-hearted Perry" clearly indicates Capote's bias towards Perry. Even
though in this text Perry is shown to be the one who committed the murders a very interesting
picture of Perry develops with Dick presented as more of a "true" criminal. Perry, it
is suggested, is "better" than his accomplice because of the suffering he experienced
as a child.

Is there an epic simile in Book 4 of Homer's The Odyssey?

There
is an epictoward the end of Book IV of , on lines 790€“794. It describes
Penelope lamenting the fate of her son after she hears about the suitors' plan to ambush
Telemachus on his return:

And even as a lion is seized
with fear and broods amid a throng of men, when they draw their crafty ring about him, so was
she pondering when sweet sleep came upon him.

is
comparing Penelope's fears for her son's well-being to a lion being chased by hunters, and the
fear it has when it knows it could be captured and killed at any moment. Her emotions are so
riled up that she feels like something bad is closing in on her and her son, like a hunter
stalking its prey. This could also directly reference the fact that Telemachus is about to head
into the suitors' trapif we compare Telemachus to the lion and the suitors to the
hunters.

It's also worth noting that Penelope calls her husband, Odysseus,
"lion-hearted"another tie-in to this simile and the rest of the epic.

Would our legal system work better if our punishments resembled those in the Code of Hammurabi?

I think our
legal system likely would not work better if our punishments resembled the Code of Hammurabi, or
we would have stuck with that code. The Code of Hammurabi was the basis of many legal systems
around the world for centuries, but we changed to modern systems for a reason.

There are some things modern legal codes share with the Code of Hammurabi. One is
clearly delineated laws formally spelled out in writing. That was probably the Code of
Hammurabi's central innovation; instead of rules being vague social norms people more or less
learned by assimilation, Hammurabi's rules were explicit, codified laws that were written down
and couldn't be argued with. It established a system of land ownership and taxation not too
different from what we use now.

Many aspects of Hammurabi's code are
appalling today. For one, the Code explicitly defines people into upper, middle, and lower
classes, and explicitly grants more legal rights to the upper class. The Code includes a number
of regulations on slavery, meaning slavery was allowed and considered a legitimate institution.
It grants extreme power to the king (who wrote it, after all)essentially the authority to
override any rule or property right at will.

The only part I can see anyone
really wanting to go back to today is the criminal justice system, specifically its very harsh
punishments which are specifically tailored to the crime. It is what we call a lex
talionis, a law of retaliation, under which the way things work is that if someone
does something to you, you can do it back to them. If someone punches you, you can punch that
person back. If someone pokes out your eye, you poke out that person's eye.

This didn't really work for more abstract crimes like fraud; if he defrauds you, can
you really defraud him? Instead, the Code prescribed physical punishments for non-physical
crimes. Theft and fraud resulted in your hand being cut off (something still done on occasion in
Saudi Arabia). Indeed, a great many crimes were assigned the death penalty, ranging from
kidnapping and murder to trespassing and selling unlicensed alcohol.

What
would happen if we did this today? Revolution. Violent revolution is
essentially the only logical result of such a legal system. Historically, that is ultimately
what happened, although Hammurabi conquering a whole bunch of neighboring countries clearly
contributed to that.

Why? Because almost everyone breaks some laws on
occasionoften for fairly low-risk crimes such as parking improperly, speeding, and jaywalking.
If the penalty for all crimes was death, then once you've committed a small crime, what's your
incentive not to commit a larger one? If you're going to be executed for jaywalking, why not go
ahead and aim for treason, since the punishment is no worse? Treason at least offers the
potential for an escape: If you overthrow the government, the government can't enforce its rules
on you. Since everyone breaks some laws, the revolution will have a huge amount of popular
support.

Modern legal systems are lenient on purpose,
because they retain their legitimacy by making punishments feel fair even to most of
the people being punished. A $50 parking ticket is annoying, but if you did really park
illegally you can't really argue with it, and the legitimacy of the fine or the government
executing it is not really in question. If parking in a fire lane carried a sentence of hanging
instead, everyone who has ever parked in a fire lane would rise up against the government,
because we'd have little to lose and no real other way to try to survive.

There's aabout this, usually told as a Chinese general:

"General, we are late for the rendezvous with the Emperor!"

"What is the penalty for tardiness before the Emperor, Lieutenant?"

"Death, sir."

"I see. And what is the penalty for
revolution, Lieutenant?"

"Also death, sir."

"I see. Revolution it is, then. We march on the palace at dawn."

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In The Metamorphosis, how did the family survive financially when Gregor turned into an insect?

In the second chapter,
Gregor learns that "in spite of all their misfortunes a bit of capital, a very little bit,
certainly was still intact from the old days, which in the meantime had increased a little
through the untouched interest." In other words, there was some money left over after his
father's business failure, the failure that meant Gregor would have to work in order to pay off
his father's debt. One might imagine that this money would be put toward Mr. Samsa's debt, but
it was not.

Further, Gregor learns that the money he's been earning each
month "had never been completely used up and had accumulated into a tidy principal."
This is, of course, a surprise to Gregor because he assumed all of that money, except for the
very few dollars he kept for himself, had been used to pay down the debt. Had it been used in
this way, he would have been free of his horrible job sooner, but now, at least, he is glad that
his father exercised such "forethought." It likely seems to the reader,...

What does the physical act of sex symbolize in chapter 2, part 2

Seeing as no
one else has answered this, I'll take a shot, but I'm a little unsure of what you mean.  Do you
mean that it actually is symbolic of something other than sex?  Or are you asking what meaning
it has outside of just being a sexual encounter?

The second of these is much
easier to answer.  Whatandare doing is much more than just satisfying their sexual urges. 
Winston,...

In 1984, the government is using children to reinforce their political agenda. Why is the fact that they are using children significant?

This idea refers
to the Junior Spies, an organization for children tasked with reporting any cases of
disobedience or disloyalty from Party members. The Junior Spies are represented here by the
Parsons children, whommeets in .

The fact that they are using children
is...

Antithesis In Romeo And Juliet

really drives the tension in from the beginning. In the sixth line of the
play, the couple is described as "star-crossed lovers," meaning that the events that
follow have been predestined by fate. However, in act 5, scene 1,declares, "I defy you,
stars!" when he learns of 's death, indicating that he is taking his fate into his own
hands, changing the course of his destiny. This balance between fate and free will weaves
throughout the play. How much is pre-written in the stars for this couple? Was it their fate to
die together? Or did they make their own choices along the way, each one leading them closer to
their deaths? These questions drive much of the conflict between this couple and those around
them.

Another example of antithesis is the struggle between love and hate,
captured perfectly by Juliet in act 1, scene 5: "My only love sprung from my only
hate!" If there is anyone Juliet has been taught to hate, it is a member of the Montague
family....

What arguments against slavery did Frederick Douglass make in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

A closer
reading of Douglass's narrative brings out more intricate details about slavery.

As a child, he suffered from abuse, starvation, and cold. He recounts how slaves would
be forced to sleep together in the same room. This clearly points to the miserable conditions
that slaves were kept undera fact that many slaveowners at the time denied. He further states
that this experience was quite typical and not unusual.

He also points to the
extremely dehumanizing experience of slavery. First, he states that he does not know exactly
when he was born. He recalls being separated from his mother at an early age and only ever
seeing her four or five times throughout his life. Furthermore, he has no knowledge of who his
father was, other than rumors that it was a former master. This gives historians an idea of the
real brutality of slavery and how it stripped African Americans of their identity and
family.

Douglass makes it clear that slavery was also a mechanism to take
away a man's identity....

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In Oedipus Rex, how does Scene 1 compare with the Prologue in presenting the character of Oedipus?

Asbegins his search for
the person responsible for the misfortune of Thebes, there is tremendous dramaticas each of
thethat come forth to present evidence are reluctant to do so, as they either know or suspect
what Oedipus has yet to discover - that he is searching for himself. This demonstrates the
change in Oedipus between theand Scene 1.

In the Prologue Oedipus is
presented as a model king:

Tell me, and never doubt that I
will help you

In every way I can; I should be heartless

Were I not moved to find you suppliant here.

Clearly Oedipus shows that he is...

What caused America's inner cities to decline in the 1950s?

Inner cities
were developed before the Second World War and hosted diverse people in terms of race and social
class. The cities also served a variety of purposes, such as hosting government institutions,
industrial plants, commercial centers, retail areas and also provided housing to the people of
that particular area.

After the war, the inner cities went through a period
of decline. The cities started to lose their luster and suffered increasing problems related to
poverty among a section of the population. The cities experienced a surge in crime, drug abuse,
and unemployment. The situation led to an exodus of the upper and middle classes to the growing
suburbs. Businesses also shifted to the suburbs further compounding the problem taking root in
the inner cities. In order to facilitate the growth of the suburbs, sections of the inner cities
had to be brought down to provide space for infrastructure and utilities serving the suburbs,
which led to the destruction of established neighborhoods.

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What instructions does Nausicaa give Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey?

Nausicaa tells Odysseus
to "follow the mules and wagon," walking with her maids toward town, while she leads
the way. Once they begin to approach the city, she tells Odysseus to stop and wait in her
father's orchard, giving her and her maids time to get to her father's house within town.
Nausicaa does not want people in town to see her with Odysseus, because they will assume that
she is behaving too boldly and improperly for a young woman. After waiting for some timeenough
time for the princess and her maids to get homeOdysseus should walk to the city and ask someone
the way to the king's palace. As soon as he reaches the mansion, he should go "quickly,
across the hall until [he] reach[es] [her] mother." Nausicaa encourages Odysseus to
approach her mother, Arete, and "grasp [her] mother's knees" instead of greeting her
father, the king, first. She says that this is the best way to guarantee her parents' help so
that he will live to "see the day of [his] return" to his home in Ithaca. The queen
must "take [him] to her heart" in order for this to happen.

Create two persuasive arguments relating to the roles and influence of female characters in the core texts: George Orwell's 1984 and William...

The role of women in
both of these texts are particularly interesting, because they seem to be divided between women
who are strong and assertive, such as Gertrude and , and women who are anything but assertive,
such as Katherine, 's wife, and Ophelia. Note how Julia in is presented as
being competent, assertive, and organised. It is she who conducts the affair, telling Winston
where, when and how they will meet again, as the following quote describes:

And now listen, dear, we're going to fix up about the next time to
meet. We may as well go bck to the...

Why didn't Laurie's mom realize that Laurie was really Charles in Shirley Jackson's short story "Charles"?

is most
widely known for her chilling short story "" but she also wrote the very charming, and
in some ways disturbing, short story "."

From the beginning of the
story Laurie is portrayed as quite a rude and obnoxious little boy:

"At lunch he spoke insolently to his father,
spilled his baby sisters milk, and remarked that his teacher said we were not to take the name
of the Lord in vain."

When asked about his first year in school Laurie
can only talk about "Charles," who is always getting in trouble and bringing the wrath
of the kindergarten teacher. Laurie has really invented Charles because he does not want to
admit he has been acting out in school. Unfortunately, Laurie's mom never dreams that Laurie
could actually be the class bully. She is obviously in a state of denial over the behavior of
her son. She can only see "my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot" and not the boy that
could "hit the teacher."

Throughout the story Jackson usesto show
us that Laurie is not a well behaved child and the situationalat the end of the story probably
comes as no surprise to the reader. Of course, Laurie's mother may be shocked to learn that
there is no Charles. She has not been able to recognize the evidence that her son is a brat
because she loves him dearly and sometimes people fail to recognize the negative in those that
are closest to them. 

How does Oedipus show weakness of character in Oedipus Rex?

shows weakness in
several areas. His(conceited pride) is discussed in the answer above and can be seen as his
tragic flaw and most significant weakness. However, Oedipus shows weakness elsewhere as
well. 

In dealing with , Oedipus acts unreasonably and is unable to control
his anger. Paranoia, anger and impatience all propel Oedipus into a rash conclusion.

Oedipus feels threatened by Creon and believes that he covets the
throne...

When others, like ,and Creon attempt to advise
restraint, Oedipus grows impatient and angry with them. This lack of self-control is a
weakness. 

Oedipus is desparate to know the truth about his situation. His
emotion overwhelms his reason, leading to self-control issues, paranoia and
anger.

How does some of the power of Edward's sermon derive from his use of parallel constructions?

In his fire
and brimstone speech,makes effective use of parallel constructions in order to create images and
elicit emotions that will generate an understanding in his congregation of the precariousness of
their situation on earth.

The repetition of a grammatical structure,is an
effective rhetorical device used to link together related ideas, and thereby provide clarity
and...

What is the significance of the title A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man? How does it relate to the growth and evolution of Stephen Dedalus?

The title
of 's novel, , refers to it's main , Stephen Dedalus. The novel follows
Stephen throughout his childhood and adolescence, chronicling his life as a toddler, a
schoolboy, and, finally, as a young artist setting off into the world to pursue his art. In the
title, the words "artist" and "portrait" refer to Stephen's identity as an
artist; though Stephen is an aspiring writer, the word "portrait" illustrates his love
of art and his ambition to create representations of reality. Furthermore, the final words,
"young man," allude to Stephen's youth, inexperience, and growing pains. All in all,
the title has come to signify one of the greatest coming of age stories in English
literature.

It must be noted that the word "portrait" is a
deliberately strange choice here, and so it warrants further inspection. A portrait is a static
object, something that neither moves nor evolves over the passage of time. This is a strange
word, therefore, to choose as the title of a novel. One can speculate, however, that by using
the word "portrait," he meant to add a static form to his novel and to the development
and evolution of Stephen himself. Rather than following the easy chronology of earlier works,
Joyce was set on creating something truly experimental, a work of literature based on a series
of vignettes rather than a traditional narrative. Thus, "portrait" signifies the
novel's nearly cubist aesthetic, as it accurately describes the way in which Joyce stitches
together scenes from Stephen's life and growth without actually forcing a definite meaning or
narrative upon them.