How did the Potsdam Conference lead to the Cold War?

The Allied
Powers during(1939€“1945) were Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Those
three nations held a number of conferences during the conflict to coordinate their strategy
against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). By May 1945, the war in Europe was over.
Therefore, Potsdamwhich took place from July 17, to August 2, 1945was the last of these
meetings.

The main reason why Potsdam was the beginning of the Cold War was
Germany's complete defeat. The Anglo-American alliance with Soviet Russia was an unnatural one:
only a common hatred of Nazi Germany had kept them together. There had been a lot of hostility
and distrust between Moscow and the West before the war, and they resurfaced after Germany's
surrender. In addition, the West feared the Soviet troops might Communize the lands they
occupied.

Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, had attended all of the
previous meetings of the Big Three and he was present at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, British
prime minister, was also experienced at these conferences. Stalin and Churchill did not trust
each other. Churchill was especially suspicious of Stalin's motives and machinations in Eastern
Europe, and talks over the fate of Poland were fraught. Potsdam was the first conference for
America's new president, Harry S. Truman.

The leaders of the three nations
discussed the occupation and administration of Germany and Austria, the establishment of Polish
borders, reparations, and the unfinished war against Japan. The Potsdam Declaration, which
demanded Japanese surrender, was issued.

The Potsdam Agreement, which ended
the conference, was open to diverse interpretations. It broke down within a couple of
years.

In Act 1 Scene 5 how does Romeo praise Juliet?

In addition to
's remarks above, as he first encounters , he speaks to her in a religiousin the first quatrain
of a sonnet that conveys the theme of Romantic love:

If I
profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is
this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To
smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

First, Romeo
adresses Juliet with the metaphor "This holy shrine," and personifies his lips as two
"holy pilgrims" that wish to worship the shrine by touching and kissing.  Juliet
demurs, thinking his advances too strong; she suggests that the pilgrims' hands can also touch
the saints' shrines, and such a touch is equal to a kiss.  Undeterred, Romeo then calls Juliet
"dear saint" and asks her if he can do what pilgrims' lips do in prayer, and he steals
a kiss.  Then, in a final metaphor, Romeo suggests another kiss that, by her kiss, his "sin
is purged,'' thus continuing the metaphor of a saint who can obtain for a person the forgiveness
of sin.

What are Boo Radley's physical features in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Without having met , , ,
and Dill imagine Boo as a kind of monster who is "about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging
from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch." Jem imagines that
Boo has a long scar on his face and bloodstained hands. 

Interestingly, when Scout meets Boo after Boo has saved her life and Jem's, she offers
a very scant physical description of Boo. He has a white face and white hands, hollow cheeks,
gray eyes that are almost "colorless," and hair that is "dead and thin, almost
feathery."

Scout describes the way Boo movesuncertainlyand says that Boo has a
cough and takes a handkerchief to his mouth. Boo speaks very little and communicates with Scout
by squeezing her hand to let her know he wants to go home. He only says, "Will you take me
home?" as a scared child would. She takes him home and mentions that he has to stoop to do
so, indicating that he is taller than she is. She says she never saw him again. The reader knows
little about how Boo actually looks, but can tell from his motions and actions that he is an
exceedingly gentle and scared soul.

Which is the value of the sum x1+x2+x3, if x1, x2, x3 are the solutions of the equation x^3-3x^2+2x=0?

The equation x^3
-3x^2 +2x =0

is a third power polynomial . Then it has 3 roots:

x1, x2, and x3

In the standard form of third power
polynomial:

ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0

Viete' relation states
that:

x1+x2+x3= -b/a

Then in our equation:

a= 1

b=-3

c=2

d=0

Then x1+x2+x3= -b/a= 3

What are Boxer's thoughts in chapter 4?

During the
Battle of the Cowshed,becomes whatcalls "the most terrifying spectacle of all" when he
rears up on his hind legs and kicks a stable boy in the head and kills him, causing the men who
saw the attack to run off in a panic.

For his bravery
Boxer is rewarded the "Animal Hero, First Class " medal. However, Boxer is not
entirely happy with himself. Upon killing the boy, he says he had forgotten that he was wearing
iron shoes.tries to tell him he has done a good thing, but Boxer is too sorrowful to listen. He
says, "I have no wish to take life, not even human life." It seems that in the
excitement of the battle, he had forgotten his own strength.

Books that can compare and contrast with A tales of two cities (URGENT) So i'm been debating to whether do the essay on these two books, pride and...

Contrasting a
Tale of Two Cities and Pride and Prejudice might be interesting since they present two different
kinds of societies: one stable, one highly unstable; one English, one French; one traditional,
one revolutionary; etc.

In the book The Egypt Game, chapter 10, "The Return to Egypt," what is the confusion about the word "sign"?

On
Halloween, the three girls make plans to leave the group of trick-or-treaters they will be with
to make a brief stop at Egypt. Elizabeth nervously asks what they are going to do, and April
says that they will stick close together and wait for a secret omen, or sign, showing them that
the time is right to separate from the others. Marshall, who overhears much but usually says
little, asks whether the sign will be a pigeon feather, and April replies mysteriously that they
will know it when it happens. 

As soon as they join the large group, Marshall
stops in his tracks and says he wants a sign. The girls are mortified that he would speak
publicly about their secrets. He had never blabbed before. They scold him for speaking of their
game out loud in the hearing of others, but he clarifies: "Not a secret sign. ... A sign to
carry." Melanie realizes that Marshall thinks they are part of a demonstration. He has
never gone trick-or-treating before, but he is aware of peace demonstrations that were common in
California in the 1960s, the time period in which the book is set. 

The confusion about the word "sign" is that the girls think
Marshall is referring to the secret omen they discussed earlier, when he really is referring to
a physical sign like the sign a demonstrator would carry. 

Why was Farquhar hanged?

In Part
II of "" the Union scout posing as a Confederate soldier tells Peyton
Farquhar:

The commandant has issued an order, which is
posted everywhere, declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its
bridges, tunnels, or trains will be summarily hanged.

"Summarily" means without delay, without the customary formalities such as a
trial. Peyton is caught red-handed trying to set fire to the Owl Creek Bridge. His capture is
not described in the text, but the reader can imagine the scene. One of the
reasons the reader can imagine the capture scene so vividly is thathas already described it in
considerable detail in Part I.

When Farquhar is talking to the
Union scout he asks him:

"Suppose a man--a civilian
and student of hanging--should elude the picket post and perhaps get the better of the
sentinel," said Farquhar, smiling, "what could he accomplish?" 

This shows that he has a strong intention to set fire to the
accumulated dry driftwood under the bridge. He might even be thinking about killing the
sentinel. Then at the very end of Part II, the reader comes to the ominous lines:

The lady had now brought the water, which the soldier drank. He
thanked her ceremoniously, bowed to her husband and rode away. An hour later, after nightfall,
he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come. He was a
Federal scout.

The reader can visualize Farquhar leaving
his horse hitched to a tree and sneaking up to the bridge with a big can of kerosene and some
kitchen matches. There are soldiers waiting for him in the dark because their officers have been
warned to expect him. Suddenly the scene lights up as the soldiers uncover their dark lanterns.
Peyton Farquhar is carrying all the evidence his captors need to convict him of arson. He will
be "summarily hanged" the next morning. This is how Part I of the story
opens.

A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern
Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his
back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. 

When Farquhar walks into the trap, the reader can not only imagine
the silent scene with the Union soldiers waiting in the dark and posted in various places near
the bridge to forestall any escape, but the reader can even imagine Farquhar's feelings when he
realizes he has lost his life, his family, his home, his plantation--everything.

Then Ambrose Bierce, the notorious cynic, plays a sadistic trick on the reader. For a
long while it looks as if Farquhar is going to make a miraculous escape. The contrast between
most of Part III and the hanging scene in Part I is exhilarating. The reader has been standing
in Farquhar's boots waiting to fall to his death, and suddenly it seems as if this is not a
story about a man being hanged but about a man escaping that terrible fate. But there is no
escape after all. This is , not romanticism.

Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side
beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

What made Gilgamesh, from The Epic of Gilgamesh, such an epic hero?

The
difficulty in answering this question is that it can almost be asked in the reverse. Gilgamesh
is, arguably, the original epic hero in world literature. He was the king of Uruk, an ancient
Mesopotamian city famous for its impressive walls, and is regarded as being two-thirds god and
one-third man. His connection to the gods (being two-thirds god and also denying the advances of
the goddess Ishtar and eventually slaying her monstrous bull) and the pure scale of his strength
and achievements help to put him on the level of the epic hero.

He also
undergoes an epic questperhaps the first epic quest ever recorded. Following the death of his
best friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh seeks immortality. In the style of a true epic quest, such as the
search for the Holy Grail or Odysseuss voyage homeward, he faces many monsters and overcomes
many challengesboth internal and external. Though he ultimately fails to find immortality, he
returns to Uruk as a wiser man and a nobler king than he was...

What do you think were the major opportunities open to Americans in 1801? What challenges faced the American people at that time?

One major
opportunity for Americans 1801 involved settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. When the
country was a colony of the British, settlement in this region was forbidden. In the young
United States, there was a considerable desire to settle this newly opened land, particularly
the Ohio River Valley. In 1798, Ohio became an official territory of the United States. Numerous
settlers and land speculators were flocking there to establish enough of a population for it to
become a state, which would happen in 1803. Therefore, I believe that settling in Ohio and
starting a farm or business would have been a good opportunity for someone at the
time.

Challenges they would have faced would involve communication and travel
with the East Coast. The National Road had not yet been built. Therefore, there was no
well-established or safe route over the mountains to this territory. Furthermore, parts of the
land were still occupied by Native Americans. Occasional but bloody conflicts were fought to
gain control of this region during these years.

Other opportunities existed
in East Coast cities for enterprising merchants and businessmen. As a young nation, the United
States was just starting to build its business presence on the world stage. New trade
arrangements were being made with other nations, particularly with France. This was a time when
many banks and insurance firms were being founded in East Coast cities to support this trade.
This would provide many new opportunities for lucrative work.

A challenge
here would be that competition was fierce and failure was common for many commercial
enterprises. As a result of this high risk, many banks only issued short-term loans. This made
it difficult to make big high-risk/high-reward type investments. However, those who were able to
succeed grew wealthy and established long-lasting legacies.

What emotions are expressed in act 2, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet?

In act 2, scene 2 of Shakespeare's
, we find some of the most iconic lines from the play. The scene focuses
onandsharing their feelings of infatuation and their fears connected to their last
names.

As the scene opens, we hear the famous, "But soft! What light
through yonder window breaks?" . Here, Romeo is watching Juliet on her balcony, talking to
himself about how beautiful she is. He talks about her eyes and how nothing compares to the way
they shine. Romeo is enchanted by Juliet and feels lustful feelings for her outer beauty. He
does not yet know her but feels he must have her. He feels she is the one he has been waiting
for.

Juliet, not knowing he is there, responds by talking to herself about
her feelings for Romeo with her famous, "What's in a name?" reflection. She feels
infatuated with Romeo but also feels frustrated and disappointed because Romeo is the son of her
only enemy. How could they ever be together?

Romeo finally reveals himself,
and for the remainder of the scene, the two confess their loving (and more so, lustful) feelings
for each other. They barely know each other but feel that being separated would bring them great
pain and sorrow. They decide to secretly get married the following day and will do whatever it
takes to make their relationship work.

Overall, the two are deeply infatuated
with the idea of each other. They feel they are meant to be together, and that nothing can stand
in the way of their love, even if it means betraying their families.

In Macbeth, which character is most responsible for Macbeth's death? I need to write a six-paragraph essay about which character is most responsible...

is responsible for his own death. The direct agent of his demise is , but it is
entirely s fault that Macduff hates him so bitterly. Many commentators follow Macbeth himself in
placing at least some blame upon , but Macbeth continually goes beyond the advice of the witches
in his ambition and, towards the end of the play, his tyranny.

His treatment
of Macduff is an excellent example of this. The apparition conjured up by the witches tells
Macbeth to Beware Macduff. Nobody tells him to murder Macduffs wife and children. This is a
decision Macbeth takes on his own account, and it is this that leads Macduff to swear vengeance
against him.

The...

What are some similarities and differences between the characters Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras in Hamlet?

Initially, these threeseem to have little in common, but they do share some
similarities: all three have lost their fathers. 's father killed 's father. 's uncle killed the
former . And Hamlet kills 's father.

They have all suffered great loss, and
thus all three seek to right the injustices they have suffered. Hamlet wants to avenge his
father's death (at least he gives it great thought for much of the play). Laertes wants Hamlet
to pay for the death of , and he also seeks justice for Hamlet's mistreatment of his sister and
Hamlet's former lover, . And Fortinbras wants to reclaim the Norwegian territory on behalf of
his father's honor. Beyond that, the three are pretty different.

Hamlet is a
man of inaction. He can't decide whether the ghost is real or not. He can't decide if he should
killor not. He breaks his commitments to Ophelia and wallows in self-pity (whether real or
feigned to achieve his own purposes) for much...

In the play "The Crucible", what does Mrs. Putnam say about Goody Osburn when Tituba accuses her?

This is
actually a very interesting and revealing part of the play, because it shows Goody Putnam's
previously held biases and prejudices.  Earlier in the act, she confesses that she sent Tituba
out to discover "who murdered [Ruth's] sisters."  All of Mrs. Putnam's babies had died
(seven of them), except for Ruth, so, Mrs. Putnam jumped to the illogical and rather ignorant
conclusion that it must have been a witch that had cast a spell upon the babies at their birth,
and that was what had caused their deaths.  She has even formed her own guesses as to who might
have done it; the midwives who helped her to give birth to her children would be
"likely" suspects.

When Hale is first questioning Tituba after
Tituba "confesses," Putnam rather conveniently tosses out Good and Osburn's names,
supplying Tituba with possible candidates for witches.  Tituba is put under severe pressure to
name the names of the women who she "saw" with the Devil, so she grasps conveniently
for the names already mentioned, that of both Sarah Good and Goody Osburn.  After Tituba
mentions them, Mrs. Putnam bursts out with,

"I knew
it!  Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times.  I begged you Thomas, did I not?  I begged him
not to call Osburn because I feared her.  My babies shriveled in her hands!"

As Osburn's name is called out by Tituba, Mrs. Putnam throws in her
emphatic reassurance that this must be true, since her babies died after Osburn helped to birth
them.  This statement reveals that she had already had Osburn in her mind as a suspect
character.  It also shows that the Putnams have great prejudices against some people of the
town, and are ready and willing to supply names that the accusers can then just pick up and use
as scapegoats.   I hope that thest thoughts helped; good luck!

What joke did African Americans make about the New Deal's National Recovery Act? Explain.

The above
answer is absolutely correct in saying that the National Recovery Administration, as well as
many other New Deal programs was not fair to African Americans.  As she says, they were
discriminated against quite badly.  This happened largely because it was whites who had
political power and therefore it was whites that Roosevelt had to please.

In
general, the NRA money was given to states to administer.  Therefore, it's not surprising the
white leaders of the South administered it in ways that were not helpful to blacks.

Some jokes were made using the initials "NRA."  I don't know how often the N
was used to mean "negro" and how often it was used as "ni***r" when these
jokes were made.

So, it was known as the Negro Run Around, Negro Removal Act
and Negroes Robbed Again.  I hope at least one of those is what you were supposed to
know...

What success did Frederick Douglass have in promoting reform?

The largest
reform that Douglass pushed for was of course the abolition of slavery, though it is difficult
to pin down how much of that was due to his own efforts as there were quite a large number of
factors that played a role in that coming to pass.  His eloquence and erudition were certainly
important in convincing many in the North of the equal nature of African Americans and he
certainly played a role in the fight for abolition.

Some of Douglass' success
was not immediate so it may be tenuous to give him credit but there are a number of reforms he
campaigned for along with of course his great fervor for the abolition of slavery.  He was also
a great champion of women's rights including suffrage and often spoke in favor of
them.

Identify the major theme, character, and settings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown".

Perhaps
because his Puritan uncle, a magistrate who ordered the public whippings of a Quaker woman and
his son John, a judge who presided over a witchcraft trial were both sanctimonious hypocrites
themselves, andwas so disturbed by the heinous sins of his relatives, this self-righteous
character emerges throughout the works of Hawthorne.  In "" Brown himself is such a
character. 

He is so certain that he is one of
the Puritan "elect" that he dares to go into the dark, sinister forest with the devil
himself.  The social contextof Goodman's encounters with Goody
Cloyse and Deacon Gurkin--real persons who participated in the involved in Devil's worship--is
significant.  The time period is more significant than the place. 
For, the time of the Puritans is pivotal to the development of character and theme. This outer
reality is pivotal to the development of character in "Young Goodman Brown."

Theme, the central and unifying idea about human
experience that grows out of all the other elements of the story, also develops because of the
setting.  In "Young Goodman Brown," after his experience in the forest, Goodman
concludes that all human beings are hopelessly corrupt, totally damned, and must, therefore, be
rejected.  He remains a sanctimonious hypocrite because he rejects others when he himself
"lost his Faith" figuratively, rather than literally as he interpreted the
incidents.

__________________________________________________

If the reader interprets "Young Goodman Brown" as an , the Goodman represents
a type of Everyman-- "Goodman" was a title beneath "gentleman"--who must
test his faith.  His wife Faith represents Goodman's devotion; he tells others that "Faith
has kept me back a while," but he plunges into the forest one night.  The dark
primeval forest represents the environment in which Goodman explores his doubt as he pursues the
Black Mass which symbolizes his descent into Hell where like a dream, he awakens and knows that
he has lost his Faith.

 

What are Tom's, Laura's, & Amanda's obstacles (problems) and escapes in the Glass Menagerie? Act 1 - Scenes 1-3 alot of information please...

Tom's problem
was that he could not find himself, nor his place in society, was overall disillusioned with
life and his life prospects and he just had nothing in common with his mother and sister. He was
supposed to protect them and be the male figure of the family, but he certainly did not want to
play the part. His escapades were to go to the movies and idle a couple of hours away submerged
in fantasy and imagination.

Is Odysseus a hero? How would you argue that Odysseus is NOT a hero?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

Many people consider Odysseus to be a hero but ultimately it's a matter of personal
perspective. Odysseus isn't very heroic when you consider how careless he is with the lives of
his men and some of the decisions he makes.

Odysseus isn't a careful person.
His men die repeatedly on his journey home because he isn't more careful. For example, he
attempts to sail past Charybdis and Scylla and doesn't give anyone else information about what
could happen. Because he's aware of the dangers, he survives. Some of his unwitting men,
however, are killed.

All of Odysseus's men are dead or missing by
the...

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What were two ways that Lyddie's life at the factory differed from the farm in Lyddie?

Although the factory is larger
and nosier than the farm,is not happy in either place.  Still, she finds independence in the
factory by standing up for herself.

Lyddie left the farm to go
to the city for opportunity, but she had little choice.  Lyddie and her brother are isolated in
the cabin, but Lyddie is also isolated in the factory.  Although she is surrounded by people,
she has no one.  She has escaped one prison for another.

Both the factory and
the farm are dangerous, but the difference is that the danger at the farm comes from wild
animals like bears, and the danger at the factory is man-made, coming from unsafe working
conditions.

How can I even stand straight and look out
upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.  (ch
19, p. 148)

One of the main differences is that while
Lyddie was powerless on the farm and then powerless in the factory, in the factory she found a
way to take power by joining the workers rights movement and advocating for safer factory
conditions.  She was able to escape her prison, go to college, and have a
life.

In "Harrison Bergeron," how does George feel about his handicaps?

Vonnegut does
not give us access to much of George's inner landscape. He gives us a few snippets of what
George feels, and for the rest of the story, we have to deduce what George feels.

So, start with what we're told directly. George's handicaps hurt him. We're explicitly
told that "George winced" when his handicap triggers at one point. Later he is
"white and trembling." He suffers for his gifts.

We're also told
that when his handicap triggers, "His thoughts fled in panic€¦" That means the
handicaps cause him stress and anxiety. Through the handicaps, he is punished for thinking above
and beyond the norm.

At one point we're told George tries to think about the
ballet, but can't, so we can conclude he feels frustrated by the handicaps.

Since his handicaps mark him as more gifted than the norm, it is also possible that on
some level George is proud of his handicapsbut that's a conclusion based on reader speculation,
not something Vonnegut says directly.

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What do we learn about Boo Radleys universe of obligation in chapter 8 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird? Do his actions in chapter 8 reveal him...

In , while
Miss Maudie's house is burning down on a very cold night,andwatch the fire by the Radley gate,
standing wherehas told them to stay. While they are absorbed by the fire,sneaks out of his house
and drapes a brown blanket around Scout's shoulders. He does this to help her stay
warm.

I would not call this part of a universe of obligation on the part of
Boo. He is not in any way obligated to help the Finch children. However, I would characterize it
as part of the world of compassion Boo tries to embody. He feels a strong connection with the
children, who he realizes are trying to reach out to him in their own way. They show an interest
in him, even if it is perverse, and he tries to communicate to them as well as he can (without
having to interact with them face to face) that he is not the bogeyman or monster they think he
is. He leaves them gifts in the hollow of the tree for as long as he can, he repairs Jem's torn
pants, and he drapes a blanket...

To what extent does Knowles make the reader sympathise with Gene While he is in the butt room?

One of
the ways in which Knowles makes the reader sympathize with Gene is by having him caught off
guard by the accusations levied against him. Although Gene has thus far been unable to admit to
himself that he intentionally caused Finnys accident, he is (and we, the readers, are) aware of
a hint of guilt that he is starting to feel. Genes creeping realization that his own dark
jealousy may be responsible for Finnys accident, and the guilt that he is feeling, makes him
less of a monster to us and more human. This allows us to not hate Gene but to almost feel pity
him and his demons. When he goes down to the Butt room to have a cigarette, Brinker suddenly
makes Finnys accident the focus of the roomin particular Genes role in it. Gene is caught off
guard and is fighting his own inner battle while trying to deflect attention from himself. He
deflects what has become an interrogation by his curious classmates by embracing the role of the
villain and getting into character. He pretends as though it is obvious that he caused the
accident, and in a flamboyant manner, he describes all the ways he may have done it. He singles
out his questioners and embarrasses them, and we are relieved when the group does not suspect
him of his crime but laughs with him. Even though we know that what Gene has done is wrong, we
cant help but feel conflicted about his fate, as we understand his motives as well as his
regret; it isnt hard to imagine that his error was made in a split second that he would take
back if he could.

How does the boy lose his innocence in "Araby"?

The
young narrator in the short story is infatuated with Mangan's sister, who he happens to have a
brief conversation with outside and listens as she laments about not going to the bazaar. In a
moment of excitement, the young boy promises to bring Mangan's sister something back from. The
boy tortures himself with the idea of presenting Mangan's sister something from the bazaar and
gaining her affection. He loses sleep thinking about the upcoming bazaar and focuses entirely on
the possibility of pleasing the girl he loves. Sadly, the boy runs into numerous obstacles that
impede his journey to Araby. The young boy is forced to wait for his uncle to return, rides an
empty train, pays the adult fee to get into the bazaar, and is disheartened to learn that many
of the booths have already closed. As he approaches one of the few stalls open, he listens as a
young woman behind the counter engages in casual banter with two young...

How is work and leisure represented in Hart Crane's poem "To Brooklyn Bridge"?

In his
poem to the Brooklyn Bridge,conjures up a vision of the majestic, sweeping panorama that the
bridge creates across the river. He raises images of the workers who built the bridge as well as
the New Yorkers who work during the day and use the bridge to take them to their leisure
activities after work.

Among the images of work are

Some page of figures to be filed away;

Till
elevators drop us from our day . ....

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What are the main concepts Diamond brings up in Guns, Germs and Steel which later Mann expands on in 1493?

The central argument
of Diamond's classic work on world history and social anthropology is based around his central
argument that attempts to respond to "Yali's Question," an acquaintance of his who
asked Diamond one day why it is that the whites in the world had done so well and achieved a
position of supremacy over other ethnicities in the world. Diamond's answer to this question is
fascinating in so many ways, but it principally states through his research and hypothesis that
supremacy in the history of man is not due to differences of ethnicity but due
solely...

I need help on a thesis. It's on Winston, and how he has external and internal conflicts with himself over the Party.

You are pretty
close to a strong thesis if you just invert your question a little bit. Think about what it is
you want to prove with your essay.

If you are wanting to express that these
external and internal conflict contribute to the overall message thatshares with readers then
state that.

Are you needing to cite literary devices for your...

If the first stanza of the woman's song has a significance, what is the significance of the second stanza?

Here's the
second stanza of the woman's song:

They sye that time
'eals all things, 

They sye you can always forget; 

But
the smiles an' the tears across the years 

They twist my 'eart-strings
yet!

gives us the analysis himself in his
narration:

She knew the whole drivelling song by heart, it
seemed. Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of
happy melancholy. One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June
evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand
years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish. It struck him as a curious fact that he had
never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed
slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself. Perhaps it was only when
people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about.

The significance of the song is not the lyrics; it's the fact that
she sang "alone and spontaneously."  Whereas the Party members recite nationalistic
verses in unison and without feeling, the woman sings a folk song, a kind of blues that aches
with comic and tragic feeling.

Psychoanalytically, a woman hanging diapers
must remindof his mother, whom he lost.  Her lyrics about "time heals" and "never
forget" and "smiles and tears across the years" reveal his desire to be nurtured
and loved.  There, with , must be the first time in years that's he's felt that safe and
vulnerable, so her song triggers his memory of childhood.

What are some myths surrounding the Mona Lisa, painted by Da Vinci? I am trying to finish this study guide for one of my exams and the last question is...

Among the
myths, legends and uncertainties that surround Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa--the most famous painting in the world:

• The
  background of the painting was influenced by Chinese art.
• Leonardo, as well
  as his mother, had earlier been rumored as the original sitter.
• At one
  time, the painting was believed to have been altered in size; historians now believe
  otherwise.
• At one point it...
  

In the novel Never Let Me Go, why do the students and Hailsham's administrators attach such high value to creativity?

On the
surface, the students of Hailsham value creativity and art skills because of the social status
they infer. Tommy, for example, gets made fun of by his classmates because of his lack of
artistic talent. Creativity and churning out good paintings, drawings, or poems is a means of
grabbing attention, praise, and social statusi.e., fitting in.

What the
students don't knowat least not initiallyis that being creative is a sign
of being human. The teachers know this and use the connection between creativity and humanity to
argue that their students do, indeed, have souls just like natural human beings, even though
they're clones.

Eventually, Kathy and Tommy realize just how high the stakes
have been, as they discover that Miss Emily and Madame have been using the students' artwork to
prove their humanity all along. They weren't looking for the soul of an artist in the students'
work; they were looking for proof of a soul, period.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird," how do the two central plots connect? There are two plots in this book - Tom Robinson's trial and Scout, Jem and Dill's...

These two
plots in the story line are connected because they are both part of 's childhood experience. The
story is related as a narrative flashback; events are perceived through the eyes of a child but
'filtered' by the mind of an adult.

The two plots are also related in theme.
Both deal with the topic of preconceived ideas towards ostracized people. In the adult world,
the trial focuses on an innocent man who is convicted of rape simply because he is a Negro. (His
word will not stand against that of a white woman.) Scout's,'s...

How do the people Wiesel interacts with strengthen or diminish his hope and desire to live? Discuss his father, Juliek (the violin player), the...

Mikayla Bruen, M.B.A.

In href="">Elie
Wiesels href="">Night,
the people with whom Wiesel interacts in the death camp strengthen his desire to live.

Elies interaction with Juliek show how people became inured to death. Elie and Juliek
watch a hanging. Juliek whispers, will it be over soon? I'm hungry." Conversely, when
Elie, Juliek, and others are being crushed together and gasping for air, Julieks actions are
heart-wrenching. Elie hears a violin in the dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of
the living. It was Juliek playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Elie writes that, Never
before had I heard...

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The presence of dialogue in a story is very important because it reveals important information about the characters and the plot. However, the absence...

It
isn't actually true that there's only one instance of dialogue (if we mean spoken words within
quotation marks) in this text. If you look towards the middle of the story, the narrator
describes how the old man leapt up in bed when he heard the narrator approaching, and cried out
"Who's there?" Obviously it is notable that there is no response to thisthe narrator
does not say anything. He has appeared like a ghost and sits extremely still, not wanting to
engage in a dialogue with the old man. So, in a sense, if a dialogue is a conversation between
two people (its literal meaning) then there is no dialogue in this story at all. The old man
speaks, but he does not get a response. The narrator is not interested in engaging with him; his
mind is already made up.

In the next paragraph, there is more spoken dialogue
from the old man, who is pictured talking to himself, attempting to "comfort himself"
by detailing aloud what he thinks might have caused the noises in his house, such as "the
wind" or "a mouse" or "a cricket." Once again, however, this is
one-sided.

The statement in the final paragraph, then, is notable because it
is the only expression of speech aloud from the narratoralthough, as discussed, not the only
example of words spoken aloud in the text. By keeping his narrator quiet, Poe has forced us to
live entirely within his head. The narrator has not responded to the dialogue from the old man.
He has not wanted to engage in any discussion with anyone other than the voices in his head
becoming "louder! louder! louder! louder!"

This explosion from the
narrator at the end, then, is notable because it indicates the breaking of the tension, the
first example of the narrator actually engaging with the world around him because the madness he
feels has become too much to contain, and has eruptedhe can no longer bear his guilt, and must
explain himself.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the main character (Macbeth) receives a prediction about his future in act I, scene 3. Describe this prediction.

At
the beginning of act 1, scene 3 of , the "Weird Sisters" (the
three witches) are gathering to meet , which is something they arranged in the first scene of
the play:

FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet
again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH: When the
hurlyburly's done;
When the battle's lost and won.

THIRD WITCH: That
will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH: Where the place?

SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH: There to meet with
Macbeth. (1.1.1€“8)

are already "on the heath"
in scene 3 when Macbeth andshow up. The witches have been standing around talking, basically
killing time until Macbeth shows up, and one witch shows the others a thumb that she got from a
sailor who lost it in a shipwreck; they all seem pretty excited about the sailor's
thumb.

When Macbeth and Banquo arrive, they're a little taken aback when they
see the witches.

BANQUO: . . . What are these
So
wither'd, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants
o'...

In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, what is Crusoe like before being on the island and after being in the island?

An
impressive aspect of DeFoe's  is the change Crusoe undergoes. He is first a
young man of the comfortable middle class; then a slave; a wealthy man of
commerce (and slave owner); next he lives fearfully and alone on a desert
island; and finally, he is a man who experiences a true awakening on several levels.

The catalysts for change are his isolation, his survival, and his eventual relationship
with a man he saves from deathwho he names Fridaya native from a nearby island. This
"autobiographical " was written when slavery dominated Europe. We cannot assume that
DeFoe's story is meant to challenge the practice of slavery. However, it is difficult to miss
Crusoe's changing regard for human beingsas people, not href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chattel?s=t"
title="chattel">chattel. 

Crusoe is a member of the
middle classthe son of a retired merchant. The young man's parents plan to send him to school to
be a lawyer, but Crusoe runs away to be a sailor.

At the start, Crusoe sees
nothing wrong with slaverybut then he is pressed into slavery. Freed, he is
deeply saddened by the eventual sale of Xury, the young black man that helped him.

He offer'd me also 60 Pieces of Eight more for my
Boy Xury, which I was loath to take, not that I was not willing to let the
Captain have him, but I was very loath to sell the poor Boy's Liberty, who had assisted me so
faithfully in procuring my own.

However, his concern over
personal freedom is obviously not challenged enoughCrusoe eventually
purchases land and a slave, becoming a successful plantation owner in Brazil. Planters and
merchants ask him to sail a ship to Guinea and take on a cargo of slaves for their
plantations. Though Crusoe worried over Xury's loss of freedom, he is
not concerned about taking the freedom of others at this
point.

After Crusoe is stranded on a deserted island for many
years, he saves a native about to be sacrificed by others indigenous to the area. Crusoe has
been very lonelywishing another sailor had survived:

O
that there had been but one or two; nay, or but one Soul sav'd out of this Ship, to have escap'd
to me, that I might but have had one Companion...

Rather
than making Friday his slave, Crusoe is satisfied when their relationship is like that of father
and son. 

...for never Man had a more faithful, loving,
sincere Servant, than Friday was to me; without Passions, Sullenness or
Designs, perfectly oblig'd and engag'd; his very Affections were ty'd to me, like those of a
Child to a Father.

Crusoe sees Friday in a way
reminiscent of his fondness for Xury. Crusoe also finds a closer connection with God, an
appreciation for the power and plenty of the natural world, and he conquers his fears. He cares
about Friday as a person.

When the natives return with
another sacrificial victim, Friday and Crusoe save the man. Friday looks into the victim's face
and realizes it is his father. Crusoe responds in a deeply caring way...a
new Crusoe:

...when Friday came to
hear him speak, and look in his Face, it would have mov'd any one to Tears, to have seen
how Friday kiss'd him, embrac'd him, hugg'd him, cry'd,
laugh'd...

Crusoe finds the value in things that never
before mattered. He is a man much more aware of, and compassionate for, others in the world
around himhaving suffered and been delivered himself. We cannot say with
certainty that this was DeFoe's intentthe plot development increased sales
of his stories! But it is hard to miss the serious changes in Crusoe.

Why Did The Revolutions Of 1848 Fail

While the
reasons why the revolutions of 1848 failed differed from country to country, there are some
common elements that doomed many of them. One was a lack of a unified message or cause of the
revolutionaries. This was the case in Germany, Poland, and Italy, where different elements had
different goals. Factions were unable to cooperate and present a united front against their
opponents, and their movements fell apart.

Another common cause of failure
was an inability to form a strong military resistance. For instance, while Hungary had initial
success in forcing out the Austrians, it was powerless to stand up against the massive Russian
army that invaded shortly thereafter.

Newly established republics also faced
economic hurdles. When it was established, the nascent Italian Republic was practically
bankrupt. To pay its much-needed military, the Italians simply printed more money, which
devastated the economy by leading to runaway inflation. Without a well-funded military,
the...

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The first act of Our Townby Thornton Wilder shows a single day in the lives of the people in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Describe the events of...

in his
innovative play eliminated the fourth wall of the stage and allowed his
Stage Manager to directly address the audience. The Stage Manager controls the play through his
monologues and interruptions of the characters actions.

To show the passing
of life, each of the acts identifies a major event in the lives of most people---falling in
love, marrying, and dying.  Using the barest minimum of props, the author creates anof this
could be anywhere. The descriptions of the town and the local people are meant to represent the
oneness of humanity. 

The first act presents the details of the play under
the watchful eye and voice of the Stage Manager.

1. The setting of
   the play €“time of year, the surrounding landscape, the events in history, the historical
   background
2. The introduction of the two primary families---the members of
   the families, the occupations, the differences between men and women in their
   thinking
3. The minor members of the Dramatis Personae


4. The future for some of the characters
5. The everyday, ordinary
   conversations between family members
6. The political and religious views of
   an ordinary town
7. The first real encounter of the lovers---Emily and
   George
8. How the day ends for most families
9. The
   relationship between siblings

Through the actions of each of the
family members, the day passes.  Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs go about their daily chores. In
addition, they prepare the breakfast and get their children off to school. Then, they briefly
exchange conversations with each other and with their husbands who go off  to work.

While the children are away at school, the Stage Manager fills in the details of the
town with a scientist; an anthropologist; and Mr. Webb, the editor of the paper.  

Emily and George find each other. After their first realization that this is someone
that I like, each of them goes home to his/her parents and tries to talk to them about his/her
feelings. This was a time before sex or love was discussed with parents and their children.  The
parents avoid the subject and let the children learn on their own. George is asked by his father
to help his mother more.  George ashamed of himself agrees.

Mrs. Webb and
Mrs. Gibbs attend the choir practice. The women gossip, and  the audience learns of the ever
present town drunk. 

The end of the act comes when the Gibbs' daughter tells
about a letter that had been postmarked in an unusual way.  The author intends for the audience
to understand  that this symbolically represents the  importance of even a small town in New
Hampshire in the big scheme of life:

I never told you
about that letter Jane Crofut got from her minister when she was sick.  He wrote Jane a letter
and on the envelope the address was like this: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grovers Corners;
Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States...Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere;
the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe; the Mind of God---Thats  what it said on the
envelope€¦.And the postman brought it just the same.

The
first act ends with the audience taking a break while the scenery on the stage is changed since
no curtains are used in the play.  Now, the audience knows almost everything there is to know
about the average American small town around the turn of the twentieth century.   The naivety of
the people, their values, and the inner workings of an average family---the play brings
Our Town, which could have been anywhere in America, to
life. 

What measures did wartime governments take to control public opinion? WWI

In
amplifying the previous posts, I would suggest that the passage of the United States Espionage
Act in 1917 represented a severe measure to control public opinion after the United States had
entered the First World War.  The idea of being able control dissent or any opinion that
"is to be used to the injury of the United States" represented one of the most lucid
examples of how war is "the health of the state."  In this light, a nation that
entered the war on the premise of "making the world safe for democracy" had to answer
on its own domestic front for its suppression of it.  The idea of being able to pass such
legislation by a wide majority, enforce it to a great extent, and bolster it with the
preponderance of pro- war propaganda helped to drive home the fact that war centers on the
consolidation of Status Quo power.

In "Battle Royal", what does it mean to the narrator to have the superintendent of school at the hotel give his speech?

The narrator is at
first quite honored to find that the superintendent of schools is among the men at the gathering
in the hotel. Then when the white men's behavior becomes rude and offensive because of their
blatant racism, the narrator is appalled and then disgusted by them. The superintendent is among
those who are drunk, and this fact shocks the narrator as well. His view of the community
leaders is shattered because the white men behave so abominably toward the young black men. Only
when he is given the briefcase and scholarship does he feel some sense of appreciation, but even
then his reaction is mixed because he has been humiliated, beaten, electrically shocked, and
told to deliver his speech after this ordeal.

How did life change in Hawaii and at Pearl Harbor after the attack?

The day after the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. entered . Hawaii was at that time
a U.S. territory, rather than a state. The day after the attack, Hawaiis Territorial Governor,
Joseph B. Poindexter, declared martial law, which suspended some civil liberties and imposed a
curfew on the island to maintain security. National Guard troops were mobilized on the island to
maintain order.

About one third of Hawaii's population at the time was made
up of people of Japanese descent, who had been coming to the island to work on the plantations
since the 1800s. In fact, there were more people of Japanese descent in Hawaii than in the
mainland U.S. While Japanese and Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps on the
mainlanda process that clearly violated the Constitutionvery few people of Japanese descent
(about 2,000 out of 157,000) were placed in internment centers in Hawaii. They were too
essential to running all sectors of the economy and there were too many of them to be interned
on the island.

Large numbers of military personnel came to the island and
were stationed at Pearl Harbor. Commercial shipping was paused during the war, as all shipping
operations were related to the military. Before the war, Hawaii's economy was mainly
agricultural, and its main exports were pineapples and sugar. However, the Great Depression had
hit the island hard, and the economy was in the doldrums. World War II caused a huge growth in
the island's economy, as new businesses developed to meet the needs of the arriving military
personnel. In addition, the construction industry boomed. 

Labor union
activity was not allowed during the beginning of the war, and, under martial law, wages remained
frozen. In 1943, restrictions on labor were ended, and many of the workers at the Hawaiian sugar
plantations began to unionize. In fact, workers were unionized at all but one of the island's 35
plantations. However, the plantations faced a decline in the midst of an ongoing construction
boom and the growth of other industries, and they never recovered after the war. Following the
war, tourism became one of Hawaii's main industries, and it became a state in
1959.

What are the roles of the inner party and the outer party in Orwell's novel 1984?

As was
mentioned in the previous post, the Inner Party is the highest social class in Oceania. The
Inner Party is an enigmatic group of privileged individuals who manage and control Oceania's
society. They function as the final authority concerning the orthodoxy of Party members, control
the state-run media, and approve the work of Outer Party members in various
ministries.

does not go into detail about the lives of Inner Party members
but does give the reader a glimpse into their world whenandvisit . The Inner Party members are
still subjected to a rather laborious lifestyle, but they enjoy luxuries. O'Brien has access to
quality goods and is able to turn off the telescreen for a short time. Inner Party members
appear to have more privacy and freedom, but even that is limited.

The Outer
Party consists of relatively intelligent individuals who do most of the work for the government.
They are employed in the various ministries throughout Oceania and have a censored, difficult
life. Many of the characters throughout the novel are members of the Outer Party. Winston and
Julia both work in different departments of the Ministry of Truth. Outer Party members are
expected to work long hours and attend community functions that exalt Big Brother. They are
under constant surveillance, and their lives are essentially miserable. Although they are
considered above the proles, the Outer Party members share an austere existence under the
constant watch of the Inner Party.

What is the theme of Tennyson's poem "Ulysses"?

Throughout this
excellent and memorable poem, the key focus is on the age of , but at the same time his
uncompromising desire to carry on living his life to the full and not to allow himself to
stagnate and just sit there, awaiting death. Note how this wanderlust and desire for adventure
is captured towards the end of the poem:

'Tis not too late
to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my pupose holds

To sail beyond the sunset,
and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

Ulysses is not a character that will let death take him without a
fight. He expresses an inexorable determination to extract every ounce of pleasure, adventure
and enjoyment of life and will not allow himself to meekly and submissively wait for death to
take him. Another moving moment in the poem comes right at the end:

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and
heaven, that which we are, we are,--

One equal temper of heroic
hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To
strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Although time
will obviously take our strength away from us, we must remain true to who we are as individuals
and never stop seeking knowledge and adventures. Although our physical strength will decline and
our life will fade away, our will to live never weakens. A great reminder for those of us who
are not as young as we used to be!

What is the definite integral cos x*(sin^2 x) from x = 0 to x = pi

The value of
integral `int_(0)^(pi) cos x*sin^2x dx` has to be determined.

`int cos
x*sin^2x dx`

Who is Frederick Douglas?

Frederick
Douglas offered much insight to the life of an African American living the United States during
the 1800s.  Douglas was a former slave who managed to earn his freedom.

Whom does Ulysses address in the second half of Lord Tennyson's poem? In the concluding lines of the poem, what qualities does he emphasize?

Towards the
middle of the poem,speaks of his son, Telemachus, in a manner that suggests he is pondering the
end of his rule and the shift of those responsibilities to Telemachus. He remarks on how
Telemachus has a good character and implies that he will be a good king, but seems to visualize
a rift or distance between them; "he works his works, I mine." It's almost as though
Ulysses is already half-departed.

His attention then turns to "[his]
mariners" - if we are to interpret this literally, he means the men who have sailed with
him before, probably the same ones that accompanied him on his earlier journeys as chronicled in
the Odyssey. Metaphorically, he might also be speaking to those who share
his sentiments, and long for exploration, and to "seek a newer world." In this sense,
if he is addressing any who share his feelings, including the reader, then he is speaking not to
specific characters but to an unseen third party in the sense of arather than a direct
conversation. 

The final lines of the poem, 

One equal temper of heroic hearts, 

Made weak by time and
fate, but strong in will 

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.

imply that he values strength of character
rather than of body; he knows that he and those like him are old, and not as strong as they once
were, but they retain a number of other virtues, such as their will. He exalts the ability of
the willful person to impose that will upon both nature and their own bodies, and resist the
slow and quiet decay that preys upon the old and inactive.

Winston commits a thought crime by writing what statement in his diary?

In the
opening chapter of the novel,returns home from work at the Ministry of Truth for a lunch break.
As he sits down in the corner of his apartment, where the telescreen mounted on his wall cannot
see him, he drinks some Victory Gin and begins to reflect on the events that transpired earlier
that day during the Two Minutes Hate ritual at the Records Department. As Winston thinks about
being followed by an attractive dark-haired woman, he feels a kindred spirit with , who he
believes is a fellow political dissident. As Winston thinks about the look in O'Brien's eye, he
unconsciously commits thoughtcrime by writing "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER..." (, 23). In the
dystopian nation of Oceania, citizens can be arrested for thoughtcrime, which is essentially
when a person thinks of anything that the government deems dangerous, independent, harmful, or
threatening. Winston loathes Big Brother and is completely opposed to the Party, which prompts
him to commit thoughtcrime by writing the anti-government statement in his secret
diary.

What are some of the cultural differences highlighted in the story "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri?

byexplores the unhappiness of people in loveless marriages. This problem crosses cultures. This
story involves a man who has lost a child and his wife who blames him for her unhappiness.  On
the other hand, the femalein the story lives with the guilt of an affair; her husband is unaware
of the reason for their marriage difficulties.

Since the author of the story
is from both the American and Indian cultures, she has conflicting selves. Using this aspect of
her own life, what cultural differences can be found in the story?

• When the main character Mr. Kapasi introduces himself, he presses his palms together
  in greeting.  This is an Indian greeting called Namaste which translates as I bow to you.  It
  is accompanied by the pressing of palms as a gesture of respect.  Mr. Das, the Indian/American
  shakes hands typical of the American greeting.
• When Mr. Das refers to his
  wife as Mina to his daughter, Mr. Kapasi finds this odd....

How is it that the truth of life is now hidden by the transition of perspective ? How is it that the truth of life is now hidden by the transition of...

Truth and perspective--interesting. There are some things that are TRUE. These would be
scientific facts or mathematical certainties. Other than that, the truth is filtered through
individual perspective, and that truth might only be truth for that moment in time. For example
in my perspective murder is wrong, but I have no doubt that I could kill someone if s/he was
endangering my family. That being said lets consider this, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Why did people settle in Mesopotamia?

Included in area
of The Fertile Crescent and named "The Cradle of Civilization," Mesopotamia was a
desired designation for people to settle due to its fertile, rich soils and nearby water
sources, as well as its advancements in society. Mesopotamia was positioned between the
Euphrates and Tigris rivers in present-day Iraq, with the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
nearby. While the geographic features of the area also include vast dry, desert sections
surrounded by mountain ranges, abundant oases exist in the area. Irrigation systems were easy to
establish in Mesopotamia because of the rivers running through the region.

With the establishment of irrigation systems, organized labor systems, and abundant
farming, Mesopotamia attracted people to settle in its borders. It became known as the cradle of
civilization due to its successful urban sectors. Mesopotamia claims the distinction of forming
the concept of the first city (or urban center) of the world. The area hosted diverse people
from many different cultures, allowing for cultural diffusion to occur.

Mesopotamia also attracted many people due to its abundance of centers for learning.
The area sponsored many temples and schools, in which people could pursue their intellectual
queries on religion, astrology, law, reading and writing, as well as medicine. Mesopotamia
claims the inventions of both writing and the wheel. Infrastructure (such as temples and homes)
for settlers was also established in Mesopotamia through ziggurats and homes made from reeds or
clay brick. Small cities emerged as people settled. Architecture became more advanced over
time.

As Mesopotamia grew, there was also a myriad of lucrative jobs for
travelers and settlers, including farming, weaving, fishing, healing, metalwork, teaching, and
serving as a priest or a scribe. Additionally, this land was attractive to women, as they had
unique rights and opportunities for that time and in that region: they could enter into
contracts, own land and businesses, and divorce.

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How would you explain the title of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

The title of this
excellent short story comes from Red Sam when he discusses what is going on in the world with
the grandmother, who has just called him a "good man" because he let two strangers
fill up their car with gas and promise to come back and pay. Needless to say, they did not
return. Note what Red Sam says:

"A good man is hard
to find," Red Sam said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember the...

Are there any similes and/or metaphors in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Late in Poes
career "" made him popular.  It was reported that children would chase Poe around
until he would turn toward them, raise his arms and yell "Nevermore." As far as your
question is concerned, yes there are examples of similes and metaphors in The Raven.  There
are also examples ofand .   Quoth the Raven €˜Nevermore (Raven: 48) is one example of
personification.  Birds cant really speak so the fact that Poe gave the raven a voice is
personification.  The raven says Nevermore.  A very good example of ais And his eyes have
all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming.  In this quote Poe is comparing the ravens eyes to
a demon.  An example of ais when he uses a comparison to express the narrators grief to the
ravens reply to him.   That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. (Raven:
56)   I hope this helps.

"Final associations of the
bird with evil occur in the words demon and shadow. The connection between the Ravens
shadow and the speakers soul in the last line of the poem suggests that the speaker believes
himself to be cursed by the birds presence."

What literary devices, with examples, are in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

There are lots of
allusions present in the text. For example, on the first page, Mr. Utterson is quoted as saying,
"I incline to Cain's heresy . . . . I let my brother go to the devil in his . . . own
way." Cain and Abel were the first two sons of Adam and Eve, and when God preferred Abel's
sacrifices to Cain's, Cain grew angry and slew his brother. When God came to him to ask him were
Abel was, Cain replied, "'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?" Thus, Utterson
compares his own attitude toward his fellows with Cain's; it is not his job to keep track of
others or to regulate their behavior.

Using another, Mr. Enfield says that
Hyde "was like some damned Juggernaut." We now use the word juggernaut (with a
lowercase "j") to refer to some unstoppable force, but it was, originally, the name
for a giant wagon bearing a statue of the Hindu god Krishna, under which devotees would allow
their bodies to be crushed as a sacrifice to the god. Hyde moved like just such a wagonas
though...

Langston Hughes is one of my favorite poets
to read, so I'm happy to share with you a couple of my favorites. But do note that the Elements
oflink that is included in this assignment applies more to short stories and novels than poetry.
I'm assuming that your instructor is actually looking to see that you can identify some of the
poetic techniques in each poem, so I'll provide some comments on each of those.

"Mother to Son" is a wonderful poem utilizing colloquial
language to convey some truths about life's difficulties. The language lends an
easy, conversational cadence to the poem, similar to what any mother might employ. As the title
suggests, the speaker is a mother who is talking to her son. There are lots of
metaphors in this poem, including "Life for me aint been no
crystal stair." In this example, a crystal stair connotes the easy life, one of delicate
simplicity. A crystal stair could not take any pressure, or it would crumble. Instead, this
mother has faced "splinters" and "places with no carpet on the floor." These
are metaphors for pain and emptiness. The poem has a tone of
resilience; the mother is strong, refusing to give up just because life is "kinder
hard."

"Let America Be America Again" is another poem with
great meaning. In this poem, there are two distinct voices. Most of
the poem is told by one speaker, an African American who feels invalidated by the current state
of America. His inner voice is noted by the comments in parentheses, as he silently questions
the idea of the great American dream. He feels that the great riches of opportunity in America
have never been fully extended to him. His inner voice shifts to become his outspoken voice when
questioned by a second voice, the one in italics. This voice asks who dares to question the
greatness of America, and the main speaker then begins to list all of the oppressed people who
do not share in the realization of the American dream:

I
am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,

I am the Negro bearing
slavery's scars.

I am the red man driven from the land,

I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek.

The poem's tone shifts several times. It begins as a
poem of resentment, noted in the questions within parentheses. It then changes to anger, noting
the various groups who have toiled with great effort on behalf of America yet not realizing
their own dreams. And it ends in hope that "yet I swear this oath / America will be."
There is also repetition in this poem to remind readers of the
diverse population that exists in America and struggles to keep working toward an American
Dream:

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not
me? The millions on relief today?
The
millions shot down when we strike?
The
millions who have nothing for our pay?

There are some excellent poems by Langston Hughes included on this list. Take some
time to read through a few more and see which ones really speak to you. You can also use the
link below to determine what poetic devices might be present in other
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In "Flowers for Algernon", why does Charlie say that in some ways he was better off before the operation?

With great
intelligence comes a greater awareness of the fault of everything and the greater the chance
that he is isolated or alienated. Charlie realizes that before he had no realization of the
truth of things. Ignorance was his best policy. He was not aware of people treating him
differently and did not have to worry about fitting in or becoming smarter than anyone else. He
had his routine, he did his work, he was peaceful and comfortable because he didn't know any
differently. With a greater awareness and greater intelligence, he could see what was wrong with
things and he is now the object of jealousy and resentment.

What were the economic consequences of the English Revolution?

There were
economic consequences of the English Revolution, called the Glorious Revolution, of
1688.

One consequence was that the power of British monarchy was weakened.
For example, the British Parliament got control over the levying of taxes. The Parliament also
was able to have influence over royal secession, have a say in declaring war, and have influence
over political appointments.

Great Britain was also changed financially.
Because the wars that Great Britain had fought had cost so much money, Parliament began to
examine the royal expenses much more closely than it had done in the past. Key financial
institutions, such as the Bank of England, also formed.

The war ended a
monopoly that the Royal African Company had over the trading of slaves. This allowed slavery to
grow as a result of the revolution. It was ironic that while this war was designed to give the
British people more freedom, it also led to more slavery for some
people.

This revolution also impacted the British colonies in North America.
The colonists began to think that they should eventually have more freedom in the colonies. They
heard about the constitutional reforms that were made in Great Britain as a result of the
Glorious Revolution. They also knew this was a popular uprising. In Boston, in 1689, the people
revolted against the governor of the Dominion of New England. The people were unhappy that the
British government had more control as a result of changes made by James II in 1686. The colony
returned to the previous form of government, which was run by the Puritans. Another rebellion
occurred in New York. After a series of events that led to the death of a prominent person in
the revolt, Jacob Leisler, a representative assembly was created. There also was a revolt in
Maryland that led to a new government being established. 

While the colonists
were able to make some changes as a result of these revolutions, the British still wanted to
maintain a firm grip on their colonies. This would eventually lead to policies that the
colonists strongly opposed. As a result of these policies and other incidents, the Revolutionary
War, which had a significant financial impact on the British, began in
1776.

The English Revolution had economic consequences that were felt
throughout the British Empire.

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What is Lennie eagerly talking about toward the end of the chapter 2 of Of Mice and Men?

has just
overheard Slim tell Carlson that his dog, Lulu, has just given birth to some puppies. Slim has
drowned four of the nine because nine is too many for Lulu to nurse. Slim is keeping one for
himself.

Lennie, who loves animals, is looking excitedly at . George says he
will ask Slim if Lennie can have a puppy:

A brown and
white one, Lennie cried excitedly.

George responds that
he isn't sure a brown and white one is available. Lennie persists in asking George to find out
about a puppy, fearing that Slim might decide to drown more of them before Lennie can get one.
George says he will and then urges Lennie to get off the bunk so they can go to dinner as the
meal "triangle" has sounded.

Lennie's excited conversation about
and desire for a puppy is juxtaposed with worrisome appearances by Curley's wife and Curley in
the bunk house. Both George and Lennie get a bad vibe from Curley and his
wife.

What are some literary devices from the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

In his
narrative, Douglass's intent is to convince white audiences of the horrors
and evil of slavery. He uses literary devices to convey the inhumanity of an institution in
which one group of people has total power over another. These devices include
, point-of-view, and
dichotomy.   

Douglass uses vivid
imagery to convey to his audience the reality of the life of a
slave. He doesn't just state that slaves were whipped: he describes it using sensory details so
that readers can feel the pain and humiliation of the slave. He writes:

I have seen Colonel Lloyd make old Barney, a man between fifty and
sixty years of age, uncover his bald head, kneel down upon the cold, damp ground, and receive
upon his naked and toil-worn shoulders more than thirty lashes at the time.

Douglass always tells his story from the
point-of-view of the slaves, and he uses this technique to dispel
comforting myths that whites tell themselves about slavery not being so bad. For example, he
writes in chapter two that...

What is the game calld that Leo and Stargirl play at the mall?

The
answer to this question can be found in chapter 21. This chapter explains the "game"
thatplays and teaches to Leo. They play three rounds of it during this chapter; however, readers
and Leo are not told that the game has an official name. If I had to name it or guess what
Stargirl might call the game, I would call it the "Empathy Card Game." The chapter
begins with Stargirl telling Leo where she gets her information about people and what they might
need to make them feel better. She reads the "filler" sections of the newspaper. She
eavesdrops on conversations at places like the hair salon, and she reads bulletins boards around
town. Stargirl then asks Leo if he wants to play "a card game." Leo immediately knows
that she isn't talking about a game with an actual deck of cards. He agrees to play, and
Stargirl explains the game to him.

She poked me. Hey,
want to play a card game?

I had a feeling she wasnt talking about
poker.

Sure, I said.

She said she invented it. All you
need is your eyes and one other
person. I pick somebody on the street, the mall, a
store, wherever, and
I follow them. Say its a her. I follow her for fifteen minutes,
not a
minute more. I time myself. The game is, after fifteen minutes
of
watching her, I have to guess what kind of card she needs.

Leo likes the idea of the game, and he agrees to play it, but he is
confused about how to get the cards to the person if they don't know the address. Stargirl
explains that the person is never sent an actual card for that reason, and that is why it is
only a game.

But how can you get it to her? I said.
You dont know where she
lives.

True. Thats as far as it goes.
Thats why its just a game. Its just for
fun. She snuggled into me. She whispered in my
ear, Lets play.

What is the difference between Old Historicism and New Historicism? Please give examples.

Historicism is a process
that examines the impact of local factors on regional developments. In the development of
Historicism there has come to be two distinct "types" of Historicist thought: old and
new historicism.

Old Historicism explains literary works in terms of the
"influence" of history upon them. This influence might take the shape of wars, social
upheavals or equally cultural traditions. An Old Historicist therefore would ask such questions
of a work as: What are the author's political inclinations? Do we see any reflections on
historical events in this work? What aspects of culture are important to this work? These
questions would identify the influence of history on the production of the work.

New Historicism starts off from debating the concept of history and knowledge by asking
how we receive our knowledge of history and questioning its veracity as an objective fact. New
Historicism therefore argues that what we call "history" is not necessarily
"true", but that history is actually a narrative which will exclude some event and
characters just as much as it will include others. New Historicism therefore identifies
oppressed voices and allows them to have their say in history. These oppressed voices might be
women, or working class, or ethnic minorities (such as slaves). New Historicists go beyond this,
however, by arguing that, like Old Historicists, all texts are formed by history. The crucial
difference lies in that New Historicists believe that the history that influences texts is
likewise, only just another text that needs to be interpreted and probed.

Please comment upon the use of situational irony in "Harrison Bergeron."

Let us remind ourselves
that situationalis based on plot, and is the term used to describe a sudden twist in the course
of events that makes the precise opposite of what we expect to happen occur. A classic example
would be a rags-to-riches story in which a poor person suddenly becomes rich at the
end.

If we examine this term in relation to this excellent tale, we can see
that the situational irony relates to 's sudden appearance on the TV show and how it is dealt
with. The way in which Harrison bursts onto the show, crowns himself Emperor and takes one of
the dancers for his Empress, then proceeds to dance in a way that defies gravity itself, leads
us to believe that he will mount a successful revolution against handicapping and end this era
of forced equality and no competition. It is therefore a great shock and surprise to us when
this ending does not occur, and the dance is rudely interrupted:

It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio
with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were
dead before they hit the floor.

The grim situational
irony of this story therefore relates to the way in which Harrison Bergeron's revolution is
cruelly crushed with his violent and sudden murder, and the change that the story looked to
offer us never comes to pass.

What does the quilt mean to Dee and Maggie in "Everyday Use?"

Dee is the
narrator's daughter in "." She has grown up and moved off to the city to live a new
kind of life. She has turned her back on her family heritage and taken on an African-American
name. She has no time or desire to connect to "her" people, those who have come before
her and lived in the United States for generations, working hard and loving hard, in order that
she might have the life she now has. To Dee, the quilt is nothing more than a piece of art:
something that would look nice in her new place.

For Maggie, Dee's sister,
life is very different. She has stayed at home. She has not experienced the same success Dee
has. She is much more closely tied to her family, and is making plans to marry. Where Dee is
attractive and larger than life, Maggie is quieter and plainer. She is a simple person, with
down-to-earth expectations of life.

The quilt becomes a "bone of
contention" when Dee insists that she should have it. At the same
time, however, she does not want it because of the loving family hands that have toiled over it.
She has no emotional connection to it at all. However, when the narrator hears her daughter
Maggie speak of how much the piece means to her, it gives her pause.

Maggie
wants the quilt, but says that Dee can have it if it means so much to her; Maggie explains that
she does not need the quilt to bring her close to the hands that have worked so hard on it,
specifically her grandmother. Her grandmother lives in her heart.

Hearing
this, without hesitation, the narrator gives the quilt to Maggie because she wanted it for all
the right reasons.

What is the symbol and irony in the story "The Black Cat" and how is it being used in the story? I'm having trouble getting this essay together,...

The black cat
symbolizes the state of the narrator's soul-which is black, mutilated, and decaying. The black
cat is symbolic because it is the cat's meowing that draws attention to the wall, and the
perverse pleasure the black soul of the narrator takes in believing he has gotten away from
it.

There are many ironies in this story. One is the way the narrator worries
that after he relates his story, others will not give it much thought-it is just an ordinary
event. Yet, the narrator is telling the story from his prison cell awaiting his death-and his
tale is of his murderous rage. This seems very far from ordinary.

Other
ironies include his description of the torture and mutilation of the cat as a "silly
action" done for no real reason, and also the clam retelling of the murders of both his
wife and the cat, and then going calmly on with his life.

The majoris that his
pompous arrogance is really what led to his being apprehended. He was so sure they would never
discover his secret, and his nonchalant tapping of the wall leads the cat to wailing, and
ultimately to his being caught.

Describe how A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a study of the conditions of the development of an artist.

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byis chiefly concerned with describing the development of Stephen
Dedalus not only as a young man, but also as a writer and an artist. In many ways, the narrative
is a quintessential example of the bildungsoman, a story that tells of the growth and maturation
of a character and that often functions as a coming-of-age tale. In addition to describing
his...

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Edward Said Orientalism Summary

This work by Edward
Said has been crucial to postcolonial studies and criticism. I will give you a brief summary of
the main ideas and how it contributes to postcolonialism, but obviously, there is no substitute
for reading the book yourself!

Said identifies a series of assumptions that
are made by the West about the Orient. Said himself is Palestinian, and he identifies a series
of assumptions that the West makes about Arabs: they are irrational, anti-Western, menacing and
dishonest. He explores how these assumptions are constructed in opposition to what the West
thinks about themselves, and...

On what pages are quotes about Kit's changes in "Witch of Blackbird Pond"?

About 5 or 6
pages into Chapter 20, Kit and William are discussing his expecations of a wife's behavior.Kit's
reaction to what he says shows that she has become more understanding of herself and others
-

"A month ago Kit's temper would have flared.But all
at onec she realized that William could not really anger her.She had had a long time to
think...'Tis no use, William,' she said...'no matter how hard I tried, I know I...

In The Divine Comedy by Dante, how did the main character, Dante, reeducate his will toward goodness when he took the journey?

Dante's will was reeducated toward goodness on his journey through the levels of the
after-life by encounters with spirits who told their stories at each level; by discourse with
the poet Virgil; by the guidance of his beloved Beatrice; by examination by the Saints in the
eighth Paradise; and by the recommended prayers of Saint Bernard.

With
Virgil as his guide and beginning at shores of suffering that led to the ten lower realms, Dante
began with an encountered with those being punished for having no regard for good or evil and
descended through ten dank regions, ending with...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what experiences did Scout learn life lessons from?

When
Calpurnia takesandto her church, this is the first time Scout really considers Cal's life beyond
the Finch household. Scout marvels that this had never occurred to her. 

That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea
that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her
having command of two languages. 

Scout also notices
that Cal speaks differently around black folks than she does around white folks. Scout learns
that there are cultural differences between the two which makes Cal's "double...

What is the difference between a plan, a project and a program?

A project is
defined as a temporary activity aimed at achieving specific/narrow organization objectives.
Programs, on the other hand, are organization activities aimed at achieving broader organization
objectives by coordinating a group of projects. Thus, programs are much wider in scope compared
to projects. 

Projects have a predefined end date, while programs may
continue to run in predefined cycles without an end date. Programs are made up of a higher
number of participants, which includes participants in the different projects. Projects run
within short time periods compared to programs, which require longer time periods to achieve the
set objectives. Often programs deliver intangible results because the results are a combination
of achievements in the different projects. On the other hand, projects often deliver tangible
results.

A plan provides the steps to be carried out in both programs and
projects. Thus, it establishes the goals, deliverables, and the level of collaboration for both
programs and projects.

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What symbols would each character symbolize in a game of chess?

An
"" in chess is when only two kings are left on the board. Neither can win or lose. All
that happen is that they can endlessly move around, and around, and around, never putting each
other into check, and the game only ending when it is aborted as a stalemate.

In that sense, Hamm and Clov are both kings, unable to finish anything (note the first
and last lines of the play!) moving around the chess board.

But, it's
important to say that the characters share characteristics which are perhaps supposed to suggest
other chess pieces. Hamm (who sometimes openly utters "Me to play") is most like the
King, a very weak and vulnerable, but also a very powerful piece: to defeat the king is to win
the game.  Like a chess king, his movement is restricted, and he relies on another piece to
protect him (Clov!)

Clov's odd movement patterns and his staggering walk seem
closest to the odd "L" movement-turns of a Knight. Nagg and Nell are weak, and
unimportant pawns, the loss of whom is insignificant. Nell's death bothers no one.

But the key chess point is that, ironically, the "Endgame" means the game can
never end, but must continue and continue and continue.

Why doesn't Hamlet show guilt after he kills Polonius?

has
just begun to express his feelings to his mother about her marriage and her intimate relations
with , which he considers disgusting, adulterous, incestuous, and wicked. It is impossible for
him to add any additional feelings to those which have already driven him half mad. His anger
frightens his mother so badly that she cries for help. Then , who is behind him and hidden
behind a tapestry, begins calling for help.is not only consumed with anger but confused. He
suspects that he has walked into a trap, because both his mother and Polonius are calling for
the guards. If the guards arrest him he will be put in a locked room, or possibly even into a
dungeon. He may lose his liberty forever, and be at the mercy of his enemy King Claudius. When
he kills Polonius it is impossible for him to add any more feelings to those he is already
experiencing, which include pent-up anger, disgust, hatred of Claudius, suspicion, fear of
arrest, and fear for his own life.

He...

One of the main goals of the Populist movement was the regulation of what?

The
Populist movement also wanted to regulate the banking system, which they felt was unfair to
American farmers. The Populists harked back to the days when Republicans such as Jefferson
railed against the establishment of a federal bank. Then, as now, it seemed that a centralized
banking system existed purely to serve the interests of the east coast banking and commercial
elite, ignoring the interests of the agrarian economy.

The Populists proposed
to put an end to the federal banking system, a policy that was not widely supported despite its
antecedents in American history. The thinking behind this measure was that state banks would be
more responsive to the needs of the agrarian economy, especially in places like the South and
the Midwest. Whereas under the present system, the Populists argued, the interests of farmers
and small businesses were routinely sacrificed to generate profit for the big banks and other
financial institutions.

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother is hypocritical, manipulative, and selfish. Is the best theme?

I agree
that the grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is hypocritical, manipulative,
and selfish, and I don't think O'Connor wants us to forget any of that. At the same time, I
believe she pushes us to look a little further and a little deeper. O'Connor was a devout Roman
Catholic and is, at the story's end, trying to make a point about God's grace. She wants to
illustrate that God's grace is capable of...

What devices does Poe use to create and heighten the suspense in the story? Is the outcome ever in doubt?

In
","creates tension out of his use of dramatic . In the story's very beginning, his
narrator, Montresor, vows vengeance against Fortunato, giving the reader insight into his
motivations. Yet Fortunato himself remains ignorant of Montresor's designs, continuing to trust
in him even as he is brought deeper into his enemy's web.

I would suggest
that this tension is key in Poe's creation of suspense. With that being said, however, keep in
mind that Poe does not reveal everything to his readers right away. While Montresor's malice is
clearly expressed throughout text, the specific details concerning his vengeance are withheld
until the end. This only creates further tension in the story. We can assume Montresor plans to
exact some monstrous revenge against Fortunato, but we don't necessarily know what that revenge
entails.

how did consumption and importation opium (or first opium war) negatively impact the Qing China culturally, politically and economically during the...

The
cultural, political, and economic aspects of the opium trade in China were in fact highly
intertwined. Opium was cultivated in Central and South Asia, and marketed in China by the
British East India Company (EIC). Of course, opium is a highly addictive drug, and its use led
to widespread addiction of epidemic proportions in Chinese cities, especially among young men.
Contemporary sources indicate that untold thousands of opium addicts died as a result of the
drug.

The economics of the opium trade were fairly simple. The EIC imported a
variety of goods from China, especially silk, and opium was seen as a way to gain a favorable
balance of trade that would not drain British reserves of hard currency. In many ways, the opium
trade, and the widespread addiction that accompanied it, were seen by the ruling Qing dynasty of
China as symbolic of the ways in which the Chinese were victimized by Western trade,
particularly with the British Empire. Opium was also seen, justifiably, as an example of the
corrupting influence of trade. The trade had long been outlawed by the Qing for this very
reason, and politically, EIC defiance of the ban, which amounted to flagrant, state-backed drug
smuggling, called the authority of the Emperor into question. Matters worsened when the EIC's
monopoly over trade expired, which allowed dozens of independent companies to enter the
lucrative opium trade in the late 1830s. Thus Chinese authorities undertook a program to stamp
out opium use, even confiscating it and threatening to execute those caught selling
it.

Faced with the loss of a lucrative trade, the British government went to
war, with the Royal Navy devastating several Chinese cities. The war ended in defeat for the
Qing, and had the effect of exacerbating the trade, and giving the British even more
control--economic and political--over China. As a direct consequence of the war, British
merchants gained valuable and direct footholds over Chinese coastal cities, particularly Hong
Kong.

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What is Zinn's main argument in Chapter 2 of A People's History of the United States?

In
chapter 2 of , entitled "Drawing the Color Line,"argues that the
first black Americans, though technically considered servants, were likely treated like slaves
from the time they were first brought to Virginia in 1619. Zinn also asserts that the
circumstances in Jamestown agitated in the direction of the rapid institutionalization of racism
and race-based slavery. Food was scarce, but the white settlers were not inclined to work and
could not entirely enslave the local native population. They needed someone to farm corn for
their subsistence and to grow tobacco, which they had begun to plant in 1617, for export. The
black Africans had already been treated as slaves by the Spaniards and the Dutch for about one
hundred years, so there was a precedent for enslaving blacks. Furthermore, the English settlers
were in desperate straits and likely embarrassed at their inability to use their proclaimed
"cultural superiority" to their material...

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What is Mr. Jones' main vice in Animal Farm?

Mr. Jones' vice
mirrors the struggles of the Romanov family at the end of their reign. Considering why people
are drawn to alcohol, the reasons may be many, but prior to the Russian Revolution (and probably
afterward), the Romanovs began to care less and less about the Russian people. They drank for
reasons maybe of boredom or even depression because of their inability to engage the people.
Thus,creates an interesting piece of Mr. Jones character for us to seek as followers of the
.