In 1984, is Julia a spy? Please provide specific examples from the book. My teacher says that he knows of 17 pieces of evidence which proves that Julia...

There
is some evidence to suggest thatwas a spy throughout 's classic novel .
Julia portrays herself as a loyal admirer of Big Brother and is a celebrated member of the
Junior Anti-Sex League. In addition to her stellar pro-Big Brother background, Julia claims to
have slept with numerous Party members on a regular basis and is a relatively outspoken
political dissident. Julia's reckless behavior would have surely been detected before meeting
Winston, and she would more than likely have been murdered or brainwashed in the Ministry of
Love. The fact that Julia is still alive and...

What are examples of double entrende in To Kill a Mockingbird?

A double
entendre is a statement that has a double meaning: a surface meaning and secondary (usually more
important meaning).

In his closing statement to the jury at the end of the
Tom Robinson trial,says to the jury that the case should never have come to court. He then
states:

This case is as simple as black and
white.

This is an example of a double entendre. On a
surface level, it means the case is completely simplistic and obvious, as easy to determine as
the difference between such opposite colors as black and white. It is all clear-cut as far as
Atticus is concerned: the evidence shows clearly that Tom Robinson, because of his useless left
arm, couldn't have committed the rape as it has been described by Mayella and her
father.

However, the statement also means that the case is as simple as race:
it is a matter of a black man being accused of raping a white woman. If Tom Robinson hadn't been
black and Mayella white, the case would never have come to trial. In this meaning of the
statement, Atticus is asking the jury to understand the racist implications of what is going on.
It comes down to a man being accused of a crime simply because he is
black.

Why does George lie to the boss about his relationship with Lennie in Of Mice and Men?

lies to the boss because if he realizes that s mental deficiency is a
threat they wont get the job.

George lies and tells the boss
that Lennie is his cousin, and that they left the job in Weed because it was done.  George tells
the boss that Lennie is not smart, but does not tell him hes mentally challenged.

When the men arrive at the ranch, they are already in trouble because they were late. 
The boss is not happy about it.  He asks them questions, but only George answers them.  The boss
begins to get suspicious.

George broke in loudly,
"Oh! I ain't saying he's bright. He ain't. But I say he's a God damn good worker. He can
put up a four hundred pound bale." (ch 2)

The boos
thinks that Gerge might be taking Lennies pay because he is talking for Lennie.  He assumes that
since George seems to be in control, he is taking advantage of Lennie. 

George has to be careful, because if he annoys the boss they might not get the job.  He needs to
walk the fine line of...

Please explain what Emma means by saying the following to Mr. Knightly in Vol 2 Chapter 8 of Emma by Jane Austen. "Yes I should, I am sure I should....

The
explanation of 's remarks lies in Knightley's circumstances and inner
character as well as in the immediate situation.
Happily, Austen summarizes Emma's view of Knightley's circumstances and inner being two
paragraphs ahead of your quotation. She also privileges us to an account of Emma's
opinion on Knightley's circumstance and inner traits.

Knightley, the Austen-narrator tells us, has more health and independence
than he has spare wealth (this is
not to say he is in any way in tight financial
straits like Mr. Bennet of ), thus he prefers the exercise of walking to
the expense of keeping a carriage horse solely to pull his carriage. Emma disapproves of this
physical sacrifice of the dignity of his position as the chief gentleman of the district and the
lord of Donwell Abbey. Emma prefers to see him arrive at places in state, looking well kempt,
not disheveled by...

What are the post-colonial themes in Robinson Crusoe?

When
reading it's all too easy to overlook the uncomfortable fact that the lead
character's actually a slave-trader. And it is in this capacity that Crusoe heads off to Africa
in search of lucrative human cargo. But before then he ends up being sold into slavery himself.
It's somewhat telling, however, that even this first-hand experience doesn't persuade Crusoe
that slavery is a moral abomination. No sooner does he escape captivity than he's off on his
travels once more, looking to buy some slaves for his Brazilian sugar plantation. It is during
this voyage that Crusoe is shipwrecked and ends up stranded on a desert island.

One would've thought that Crusoe's own experiences might have brought home to him just
how morally repugnant it is to enslave another human being. That they don't is testimony to the
extraordinary power that colonialist ideology has on him. Crusoe doesn't believe that slavery is
wrong per se; it's only wrong if the "wrong" people are enslaved, i.e....

What are some examples of symbolism in the story and what is the story's theme?

Some of
the examples of symbolism in "" are:  The necklace is a symbol of wealth and power for
Madame Loisel.  This represents a world she longs to be in but will never be able to reach.  The
apartment that she lives in with her husband is a constant reminder of what she feels is a
miserable life that she doesn't deserve and that she was not born to.  Another symbol is the
sholder wrap her husband went to put on her shoulders after the reception which again was a
reality check as to who she really was and her social class in life.  She was ashamed to have
her husband put it on her with the beautiful dress and necklace she was wearing.  It was a total
contradiction of who she was trying or posing to be.

Is Boori Ma a real durwan or not in "A Real Durwan" in Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri, and why or why not?

"Durwan" is a word comprised of
Urdu, Hindi and Persian roots. According to Oxford Dictionary, it means a porter or doorkeeper,
yet in many cases, like Boori Ma's, durwans may only be cleaning women. These sorts of
doorkeepers can be found all around India, where they are called durwans, as well as all over
Europe, where they are often called "concierges" (this is similar to yet very
different from the concierges found in hotels). At the best levels, this sort of porter or
doorkeeper lives-in and oversees order in the building and cleans all the public areas. In
buildings where only rooms are rented, they clean water closets, bathing rooms and kitchens. In
Boori Ma's case, in the old building with cramped quarters, she is there to clean the public
stairs to the different floors and the different renters' dwellings.

"I live in two broken rooms, married to a man who sells toilet
parts." Mrs. Dalal turned away...

To be a real
durwan in this scenario one has to fulfill actual duties and implied duties. The actual duty for
Boori Ma is to sweep the stairs and keep the public areas in order. Boori Ma's implied duties
are the same as for higher level durwan and for European concierges: they ensure none but
residents and residents' guests enter the building. This is an important function for
doorkeeper: they keep the safety of the premises by restricting who enters the doors. According
to this, Boori Ma is a "real' durwan. She performs actual and implied her duties and, for
doing so correctly, she is given a place to sleep "underneath the letter boxes where she
lived."

Trouble comes to Boori Ma with the promotion and vacation of the
Dalal family. Everyone in the building is jealously inspired to make improvements because of the
improvements the Dalals made, even adding a public sink to the stairway. Boori Ma is anxious
"restless on the roof" because of the Dalals absence. She begins "circling the
neighborhood" going further each day and incautiously spending her savings on"small
treats"  at the surrounding shops (until she is robbed at the Bow Bazaar). The trouble
comes for her because, while she is out wandering, she is not being a diligent durwan since she
is not in the building guarding who comes in and out of the gate and doors. Had she been there,
it is presumed that she would not have allowed the thieves to pass, therefore, they could not
have stolen. The residents are irate and blame Boori Ma for not being diligent and thinking of
her duties above her own pleasure. In fury, they also blame her for helping the robbers by
giving them information.

This is hard criticism because all they give her is
a place for sleeping in exchange for sweeping the "stairs top to bottom." Nonetheless,
since she was away from the stairs and the gate and the door, and since thieves entered the
building, robbing and damaging it, Boori Ma is accused of failing and of therefore not being a
"real" durwan because a "real" durwan would not have abandoned her duty.
This is a cruel twist of situationally ironic fate because, after all her service and her own
robbery, her restless, aimless wandering leads to disaster and her looming destitution. It also
leads to the false accusations of complicity with the robbers. Thus, to the residents, she is
not a "real" durwan because a "real" durwan would never sidestep duty and
thus would never fall under suspicion of helping robbers.

   "This is all her doing," one of them hollered, pointing at Boori Ma.
"She informed the robbers. Where was she when she was supposed to guard the
gate?"
   "For days she has been wandering the streets, speaking to
strangers," another retorted.
   "We shared our coal, gave her a place to
sleep. How could she betray us this way?" a third wanted to know.
   ...
"Believe me, believe me. I did not inform the robbers."

What is a good quote for the theme of "trust" in Animal Farm?

In 's
anti-authoritarian novel , the theme of trust, and particularly how trust
is weaponized by politicians and governments, is central to the novel. Whenfirmly tells the
other animals

No one believes more firmly than Comradethat
all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves.
But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we
be?

he is insisting that the animals trust that Napoleon
knows what is best and that the animals should simply trust in Napoleon's ethics and strategies
rather than think for themselves. Rather than being encouraged...

In Pride and Prejudice, what does Jane Austen say about love with respect to the relationships between Elizabeth and Darcy, and Jane and Bingley?

To some
extent,and 's relationship shows Lizzie andthe path of true love. There's little doubt that,
right from the outset, these two lovebirds have fallen head over heels for each other. But with
Lizzie and Darcy it's a completely different story. They're held back from expressing their true
feelings by the twin vices of Darcy's pride and Lizzie's prejudice. To make matters even more
complicated, there's quite a large gulf in social class between them.

Darcy's social snobbery and standoffishness initially prevent him from enjoying a meaningful
relationship with Lizzie. By the same token, Lizzie's put off Darcy by his cold, aloof demeanor.
Yet Jane and Bingley's love...

What part does the gypsy woman play in Santiago's journey in The Alchemist? Describe the cause and effect of her interaction with him.

The
gypsy woman has an incredibly small amount of actual page time in ;
however, her importance to Santiago's journey is huge.

On the surface, the
gypsy woman does little more than interpret Santiago's dream, yet this hugely affects Santiago
because it provides him with the necessary push to get himself going to actually do something
about achieving a future treasure. Her push causes Santiago to react. From a physics
perspective, she is the action, and Santiago's journey is the reaction.

It is
also important to note that the gypsy woman shows Santiago that his treasure won't be obtained
for free. She charges Santiago a tenth of the treasure that he hasn't yet obtained. Going after
this treasure is going to cost Santiago, and it does. Santiago learns quite frequently that
obtaining his personal legend is no easy feat, and he is tempted to give up due to the various
people he meets or those that actually seek to do him harm.

Take the crystal
merchant as an example. His advice is nearly the opposite of the gypsy woman's advice. She
encourages him to get going, but the crystal merchant shows Santiago a different perspective.
Stay put; don't go for the dream. If you achieve the dream, you no longer have the
dream:

"I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll
have no reason to go on living."

Fortunately, he
perseveres, but without the gypsy woman causing that initial push, Santiago would likely not
have achieved all that he did.

In The Scarlet Letter, what was an example of Hester Prynne's penance?

does penance for her
sin by simply remaining in the colony in the first place. She could simply leave, go home or go
elsewhere in the colonies, and begin life anew with her daughter, but she chooses to
remain. 

Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of
her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so perchance, the torture
of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which
she had lost; more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.

Hester hopes that, by remaining in Boston, the process of atonement through the torture
of her shame and public punishment and humiliation will be more complete, so she will acquire a
certain kind of purity as a result. She's conscious it is her choice to stay, and she does so
with intention and purpose. She feels her daily shame in this place will eventually wipe clean
the sin from her soul, and though she can never be innocent of sin again, her choice to remain
will bring her a different kind of clarity and goodness.

Why did Lysander want to go to his aunt's house in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Lysander and
Hermia had been told by Theseus that they are forbidden to marry each other because Egeus,
Hermia's father, has decided she must marry Demetrius.

Hermia is in love with
Lysander, but under Athenian law her desires do not matter. A daughter is under the complete
control of her father and must marry the man he chooses for her. Although Hermia pleads with
Theseus a few days before his own marriage to see it her way, he will have none of it. He tells
her she must marry Demetrius or face either death or life in a convent.

As
one might expect, this makes Hermia very unhappy. However, Lysander mentions to her that he has
a widowed and wealthy aunt who lives outside of Athens. He suggests that, since he is like a son
to this aunt, she will accept him with open arms. The aunt lives outside of the jurisdiction of
Athens, so the two can freely marry there without having to fear repercussions. Lysander
explains the plan as follows:

I have a widow aunt, a
dowager

Of great revenue, and she hath no child.

From Athens is her house remote seven leagues,

And she
respects me as her only son.

There, gentle Hermia, may I marry
thee.

And to that place the sharp Athenian law

Cannot pursue us.

This plan makes Hermia
very happy, for she is not the type of person to take life lying down. She agrees to cross the
forest with Lysander, which, as we know, leads to many mishaps and adventures.

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, what does Gilgamesh gain from his epic quest? Does it change him?

ends as Gilgamesh is traveling home from his visit with Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh has lost the
magic plant that Utnapishtim gave him that conferred eternal youth, and Utnapishtim has told him
that an immortal life is not in store for him. When he returns to his city, Uruk, Gilgamesh has
a newfound appreciation for the beauty and sturdiness of the walled city he has built. The epic
states, "This too was the work of Gilgamesh, the king, who knew the countries of the world.
He was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before
the flood." Gilgamesh returns with a story of life before the flood, and he shares this
wisdom with his people. 

When Gilgamesh returns from his journey, he also
realizes that it is his destiny to rule wisely as a king but not to attain immortality. Enlil,
the father of the gods, had said of Gilgamesh's destiny, "You were given the kingship, such
was your destiny, everlasting life was not your destiny." Instead of trying to achieve
immortality, Gilgamesh turns his efforts to ruling as a wise and just king. He realizes that his
destiny is to be great on earth, not in a life of immortality, and he appreciates what he can do
as a mortal king. 

Is My Dungeon Shook still relevant today?

I
believe "" is still relevant, as is the other, longer essay included in 's
.

Most people would agree that the racial dynamic of the U.S.
today is not nearly as dysfunctional as it was in 1963, when Baldwin's essay was published.
Baldwin, in the letter addressed to his young nephew, was writing at a time when the Civil
Rights movement had begun only a few years before. The South at this time still had legalized
segregation of the races and severe discrimination against African Americans in voting, housing,
jobs, and access to public places. Though the northern states, even before the 1960's, no longer
had legal racial discrimination, the demographics of nearly all cities throughout the U.S.
showed that segregation was present everywhere, even if it was not backed up by specific
laws.

Much, of course, has changed since then, beginning with the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the ending of Jim Crow in the South. These events occurred shortly
after...

If the Admiral had never signed the order to unwind his own son, he never would have suffered the great guilt and finally decided to use the rest of...

This
is a tough question, and the answer is best left up to individual readers to defend.At the core
of this question is the debate between saving the one and saving the many.Because the Admiral's
son is unwound, thousands of kids are saved.If the Admiral saves his son, thousands of Unwinds
can't seek refuge at the Graveyard.

To answer the first question about
whether or not it was a good thing that the Admiral had his son unwound, I have to personally
say that it was not a good thing.I personally think that unwinding is a horrible thing.I
understand that the Unwind's parts go to save other people, but that is not the same thing as
current organ donation.A person has the choice to be a donor.A Unwind
doesn't have the choice.Somebody else made the choice for them.Unwinding ends the life of that
child, so in my opinion it is the same thing as murder.The Admiral's decision to have his son
unwound was morally reprehensible, and no amount of later saving work can undo that.

I'm not sure about the second part of the question.I don't know how he could undo his
choice short of time travel, but let's say that is an option.Yes, he should undo his choice and
save his son's life.That action wouldn't condemn those other Unwinds.They would still be left to
fend for themselves, and it is conceivably possible that another person steps into the Admiral's
former role.That is basic Butterfly Effect thinking.The Admiral saved his son which caused a
change, and that small change may have the effect of motivating another person to fill that
former role.The key is that the Admiral can't know any of those future possibilities.All he can
know is whether or not he is saving his son, and he should absolutely make the choice to save
his son.

How does Ruth support Walter in A Raisin in the Sun?

supports her husband by selflessly putting her own dreams and goals on the back burner and
remaining byJr's side as he struggles to find happiness. Ruth is portrayed as a tolerant,
supportive woman who loyally stands by her husband's side despite his capricious, irrational,
and selfish behavior. She desperately tries to please him and exhausts herself by maintaining
the household and working a part-time job to make ends meet. Despite disagreeing with her
husband on numerous occasions, she supports his dream by attempting to persuadeinto giving him
the insurance money to invest in a liquor business. Ruth also plans on having an abortion in
order to ease the financial burden on Walter Jr and...

What happens in the Battle of the Cowshed in Animal Farm? And explain to me the building of the windmill (chapters 4€“7).

In , Mr.
Jones and all his men enter the gates ofwith the intention of recapturing it.had anticipated an
attack and created an elaborate plan to defend the farm after studying a book on Julius Caesar's
campaigns. Snowball launches his first attack as a light skirmishing maneuver, intended to
create disorder, by sending pigeons and geese to peck the men. Snowball then leads a second
attack alongside Muriel, Benjamin, and all the sheep before quickly retreating.

Jones and his men proceed to follow the animals into the yard where they are ambushed
by three horses, three cows, and the rest of the pigs. The animals viciously attack the
unsuspecting men, andproceeds to wreak havoc on the humans by rearing his legs and kicking a
defenseless stable lad. Snowball also demonstrates bravery by attacking Jones after being shot,
and the humans eventually sprint from the farm as the animals chase them out. Within five
minutes of the invasion, the battle is over, and the animals retain control of the
farm.

In regards to building the windmill,makes the animals work sixty-hour
weeks, and Boxer bears the brunt of the heavy lifting. Boxer drags massive boulders to the top
of the quarry where the animals push them back over the ledge to break the stones into smaller
pieces. They then carry the broken stones back up the hill and use them to construct the
windmill. Unfortunately, the animals do not build the walls thick enough, and it is destroyed
during a violent storm.

How does the Inner Party help Big Brother maintain power?

According
to The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel
Goldstein, and also from 's conversations with , we learn that the Inner Party maintains power
in the following ways.

First, the Inner Party, which is about two percent of
the population of Oceania, understands that it is in power for the sake of power and that it
wants to stay in power forever. This group defines power as forcing people to do things they
don't want to do and to live in ways they would prefer not to live. Above all, this elite want
to maintain a rigid hierarchy, in which they are on top and control all the wealth and power. To
do this, they have to keep people poor. As Goldstein's book explains:

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great
mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn
to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize
that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a
hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

Therefore, the Inner Party ensures that Oceania is always in a
state of war, in order to use up excess material goods that would otherwise increase ordinary
people's standard of living.

The Inner Party also has abolished private
property, so everything belongs to the state. The lack of private ownership increases the
control of the tiny elite over people's everyday lives. In addition, the Inner Party uses
technology to put people under constant surveillance, so no rebellion can form and no misdeed go
unpunished. Further, the Inner Party has worked to destroy ties of love and friendship between
individuals and families so that people's only loyalty is to the state. Finally, the Inner Party
is dumbing down the language, removing all but the most essential words so that people will not
have the ability to think complex thoughts.

It's important to note that there
is no real Big Brother. He is simply a fictional figure the Inner Party has invented to
represent the state, just as the Pillsbury Doughboy is a fictional character that represents
Pillsbury products. As Goldstein's book says:

Big Brother
is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act
as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards
an individual than towards an organization.

Evaluate Einstein's contribution to the development of special relativity and the evidence confirming or denying the postulate that the speed of light...

Its
something of a misnomer to state that Einstein contributed to the theory of General and
Special Relativity, when he was, in fact, its creator and main champion for many years. Working
as a Swiss Patent clerk and tutoring in Physics during his off-hours, Einstein penned several
memorable theses that he compiled into one booka compilation of five pieces put together in
1905, which would lay the foundation for his theory of relativity. Famous for his mental
exercises he called Gedanchen or thought experiments, he pondered the question of what light
would look like if an observer was traveling at or near the speed of light. Because the initial
equations that dictated the travel of electromagnetic radiation, and therefore identified the
speed of light, were independent of observers, his conclusion was that light would look the same
to all observers, regardless of speed, and therefore time and space must expand or contract to
ensure that, relative to their speed, light remained constant.

He wrote all
of this down and challenged the scientific community, who widely panned the theory for the
longest time. Eventually, however, through his persistence, he was proved correct through
astronomical measurements. His efforts drastically impacted the field of physics as a whole, has
led to groundbreaking new revelations about the nature of space and time, and has educated
humans on the motion of planets and galaxies and also the nature of black
holes.

Can you offer advice regarding the development of a good thesis about Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, "Young Goodman Brown?"

's story
of "" introduces us to a pious Christian man who leaves his newly-wed wife to travel
in the forest for an undisclosed reason. At the center of the story is Brown's
perceptions of the world, compared with the
realitiesspecifically with regard to his religious beliefs.

This story includes themes common in Hawthorne's work:

...exploring the evil actions of humans and the idea of original sin.

As he enters the woods (where Puritans believed the Devil lived),
Brown meets an old man who is really the Devil, but Brown doesn't know this. As they walk, Brown
senses evil nearby and looks to his ancestors, his religious leaders and his wife, to strengthen
his own resolve to resist it. However, in each case, he learns none of them are what they seem
and that each has been in "congress" with the Devil. At the end, when the Black Mass
starts, Brown sees his wife and tells her to turn away from evil. In a flash, he finds himself
alone. Returning to town,...

Explain what happens to Phoenix when she gets to town in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

  bywas
written and published in the middle of the twentieth century. The setting of the story is
Natchez, Mississippi, and the surrounding area where the main character lives.  At this time,
the south has really not changed its attitude toward the black people who are treated as less
the human and meant to serve the white man.  The epithets of boy, granny, and nigger were
still part of the white mans vernacular for the black people.

Like the
mythological bird for which she was named, Phoenix Jackson rises to the occasion despite her
ancient age [she actually does not know how old she is] and failing mental and physical health.
Determined, dignified, and noblethese are the adjectives which describe this beautiful, raggedy
old woman who has one purpose in life: to make her grandsons life the best that it can
be.

The reader does not know how often Phoenix has to follow the worn path to
town.  Whenever her grandson needs medicine, she makes the dangerous trek to Natchez to fill his
prescription so that he can breathe better. 

The path is hazardous
particularly for someone who can barely see and sometimes forgets what she is doing.  When she
is lucid, Phoenix has common sense and a great wit. This is apparent when she outwits the hunter
and takes his nickel. The hunter treats her with a typical attitude that Phoenix has little
intelligence and is childish in her behavior.

Any confidence
that Phoenix has in her abilities is hindered because of the extreme fatigue that she feels
after her long walk.  As she arrives at the doctors office, Phoenix is obviously relieved. Her
movements have been laborious.

Here I be,
she said.  There was a fixed and ceremonial stiffness over her body.

A
charity case, I suppose, said an attendant who sat at the desk before her.

But Phoenix only looked ahead.  There was sweat on her face, the wrinkles in her skin
shone like a bright net.

Speak up, Grandma, the woman said. Whats your
name? Have you been here before?

The attendant becomes
annoyed by Phoenix's lack of response.  She treats the elderly lady as though she is stupid.
 The nurse comes in and says that this was just old Aunt Phoenix.  The nurse explains Phoenixs
purpose.

Phoenix is lost in her thoughts and does not remember why she has
come. Staring ahead and looking blank, her face has become rigid. The nurse continues to try to
get Phoenix to respond. Finally, the nurse tells Phoenix that she is wasting their time. She
also asks if Phoenixs grandson is dead. That question brings a response. Phoenix admits that her
memories take over her.

The reader learns that the grandson drank lye about
three years ago.  It burned his throat which closes, and he cannot breathe.  The medicine keeps
him alive.  Phoenix also relates that she never went to school.  She tells the nurse that she
and her grandson are the only two living of her family.  Her grandons's sweet spirit never gives
in to his terrible plight.

The nurse hands her the medicine.  The once harsh
attendant gives Phoenix a nickel in the spirit of Christmas.  Phoenix is thrilled.  With the ten
cents that she now has, Phoenix buys her grandson a Christmas present.  With renewed energy,
medicine, and a present, Phoenix journeys back toward her grandson awaiting a kiss and a
hug.

What strategy did the Allies use to defeat Japan in WWII?

The Allied
strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacific Ocean was a strategy called island hopping. After the
attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the American military in the Pacific
was severely depleted. As a result, the Japanese were able to capture much of the central and
much of the western Pacific Ocean area. Once we were able to rebuild our military, which was
done much faster than most people expected, we were able to counter these Japanese
attacks.

Two very critical battles in the Pacific Ocean were the Battle of
Guadalcanal and the Battle of Midway Island. At Guadalcanal, the Japanese were hoping to
position themselves so they would have a direct path to Australia and to New Zealand, which
Japan hoped to capture. At Midway Island, the Japanese were hoping to secure that island so it
could attack and capture Hawaii. In both instances, the Japanese were defeated. Japan lost
several of its aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway Island. As a result of the Japanese
defeats at Guadalcanal and at Midway Island, Japan would not go on the offensive again during
the war. Japan would now be in a retreating mode.

Once we won these battles,
we could then begin to implement our strategy of island hopping. We would slowly retake islands
in the Pacific that Japan had captured, often with a very high cost in terms of loss of life and
equipment, until we got close enough to Japan to consider either continual bombing of Japan
and/or an invasion of the Japanese islands. Several key battles occurred with this island
hopping strategy. Examples of some these battles included those at Tarawa, Guam, the
Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. As a result of this successful strategy, we were now in a
position to take the final steps to defeat Japan in World War II.

Why does Romeo call himself "fortune's fool" in Romeo and Juliet?

calls himself fortune's fool because he believes that his life was going well until he and his
friends ran afoul of . Now, however, he believes that he is being mocked by fate.

Romeo is happy when he meets . His broken heartcourtesy of his infatuation with
Rosalineis mended. They overcome the bad blood between their families and married in secret.
Everything seems to be going his way.

However,takes the place of Romeo in a
duel with Tybalt; Romeo refuses to duel because he is now kin to Tybalt (through his marriage to
Juliet). Tybalt then slays Mercutio. In a rage, Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona
as a result.

All the happiness that Romeo had experienced is now gone. He's
apart from the women he loves and separated from his family and friends. He feels that being
away from Juliet is as bad as a death sentence. Though he thought fortune had smiled upon him,
it appears to him that he was only being set up for a larger fall. If he had checked
his...

Why have most of the advances in civil rights come through the federal courts and not through our legislatures?

The courts
are responsible for determining whether or not a law is constitutional. Courts look at legal
precedents to determine this as well as their own reading of the Constitution. Justices
determine if the law violates the spirit of the Constitution which is supposed to give everyone
equal protection under the law. The justices can determine the laws as they deem best because
they are not accountable to any political group. Since they do not have to run for re-election,
they can determine constitutionality as they see fit.

Legislators, on the
other hand, are responsible to their voter base. Someone with progressive racial views may have
difficulty getting civil rights legislation passed if his/her constituents do not want it.
Legislators also use compromise to get bills passed. If someone does not receive a benefit for
their district, a legislator may find another bill to champion even though civil rights
legislation would be the best bill to pass. The legislatures are larger...

Who was Amalek?

In Bible
history, Amalek was the son of...

What is most appealing about "Our Casuarina Tree?"

I find
myself persuaded by the element of nostalgia for the past that is featured in the love of the
tree in the poem.  As I get older, I find myself searching and seeking out those objects that
tell a narrative that is relegated to the domains of what was.  In the horrific conditions of
what is and the uncertainty of what can be, I think that discovery of these objects, fossils
that show a pattern of existence and evidence of life, become extremely important to finding
happiness in being.  This is where I think that the poem is most appealing.  The tree carries
with it the remembrances of a past time that can no longer be replicated.  It is precisely for
this reason that the speaker, presumably Dutt, has nothing but love for the tree.  The tree
represents a portal, a door through which some connection with a time that is vastly different
from what is and what can be is experienced.  This love of something that has a transformative
effect in the subjective of the individual, but nothing in the external is what I find
devastatingly beautiful about the vision of the tree in the poem.  It is one in which there is a
pain about the past, but only because the past was something of pure joy and bliss.  The tree is
seen as a "carousel" of sorts, something that we enter and are transported within its
movements to a point in time where we know what it means to love and what it feels like to be
loved.  As the speaker has become older, she understands how painful being in the world is
without such an element, which is why she has such an attachment to the tree.  As I get older, I
find myself understand more and more what attachment is there and seek to find my own as she has
found hers.  In this, I think that the most appealing aspect of the poem is
evident.

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Describe Samuel Johnsons background.

Samuel
Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 to a middle-class family. His father was a bookseller.
From an early age, Johnson showed precocious or advanced intelligence, excelling at school. He
was able to attend Pembroke College in Oxford, but the family finances were so shaky (his
father's business was failing) that Johnson was forced to leave college for lack of
funds.

Johnson was forced to earn his own living but was hampered in getting
a steady and well-paying job as a schoolteacher because of a facial tic (which might have been
due to Tourette's syndrome) and his lack of a university degree. He therefore moved to London
with his student David Garrick, who became one of the most famous Shakespearean actors of all
time. Johnson himself became one of the most prominent literary figures of the eighteenth
century, as an essayist, critic, biographer, and author of A Dictionary of the
English Language.

Johnson was also famous for his salon, which
attracted many of the most important literary lights of the era. Johnson's many witticisms and
highly opinionated comments at his salon made him a talked-about celebrity figure in London
literary circles.

Johnson appreciated the measured, balanced Augustan prose
and steady moralism of the eighteenth century, and he left a very strong imprint on his
era.

What literary devices are used in chapters 1 and 2 of Into the Wild by John Krakauer?

In chapter
1, Krakauer starts the story in media res, or in the middle of the action.
This literary device puts us at a climactic point in the story, just as Chris is heading out on
his adventure to the Alaskan wilds. This captures our attention and draws us into the
narrative.

Krakauer also usesto place us at the scene of Chris hitchhiking in
Alaska with a rifle sticking out of his backpack. Krakauer recounts Chris's brief dialogue with
Jim Gallien, the man who picked him up. Both description and dialogue set us firmly in the
scene. Krakauer uses a mix of concrete description, such as an exact detail about eighty-five
cents in change, and dialogue to raise our curiosity about Chris and make us feel as if we are
there with him:

Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch,
his comb, and what he said was all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change. I dont want
your money, Gallien protested, and I already have a watch.

At the beginning of chapter 2, Krakauer uses...

What solution does James Baldwin offer to end America's racial divide?

The solution offered by
Baldwin in his book, , is an emotional-psychological and
social-consciousness solution to the (many) problems springing from the racial divide. Baldwin
does not advocate a specific course of political action as a concrete plan to erase the
"color line" but rather proposes that an effort to see others for who/what they are is
the best way to assuage the race conflicts in America. 

In the volume's first
essay, "," Baldwin writes to his nephew that black Americans might be called upon to
enact the kind of acceptance he sees as a solution because white Americans cannot reasonably be
expected to do so in mid-century America. 

"There is no reason for you to try to become like white people
and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they
must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that
you must accept them. [...] You must accept them and
accept them with love."

Baldwin expands upon this
argument in the...

Does racism still exist today in the United States?

Racism
still exists today. While one might think of it typically as relating to the relationship
between whites and African Americans, we find that other kinds of racism are present today and
growing.

There is a great deal of resentment today because of the attacks by
Osama bin Laden and his followersof Arabic descent. Suspicion drives the fear of many people
with regard to those who look Iranian or Afghani. It is racial discrimination when
all people of Arabic descent are judged as terrorists or treated badly
because of the actions of radical groups of the same culture.

Because of
employment today, some Americans experience feelings of racism when someone of a different race
holds a job that others believe should be given first to Americans.

Racism is
practiced against Asians, Indians, Latin Americans, etc. And just because things are
"better" than they were in the past, do not believe that African Americans are not
discriminated against today. Like any other race, some African Americans still experience racial
discrimination.

Jack Dovidio, a professor at the University of Connecticut
believes that as many as 80 percent of America's white population
"have racist
feelings..."

We've reached a point that racism is
like a virus that has mutated into a new form that we don't recognize... Contemporary racism is
not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle
ways...

Studies seem to support this sense that racism is
thriving in the American culture:

In the view of a network
of scores of US civil rights and human rights organizations, "Discrimination permeates all
aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color."

It would seem that racism is alive and well in the United
States.

 

Additional
Source:

http://articles.cnn.com/2006-12-12/us/racism.poll_1_whites-blacks-racism?_s=PM:US

Do you think The Scarlet Letteraccomplished what the magistrates intended? The way hesters life ends do you think the scarlet letter accomplished what...

I think it
depends on what you think it was intended to do.  If it was intended to shame her, to make her
an "example" of what happens to those who stray from "the way," then it
succeeded.

However, if it were intended to makea total outcast from the
community, then it did not accomplish what they intended.  Despite before isolated from the
community, being the one the preachers use as example of the consequences of sin, Hester becomes
the seamstress to the community and does a great deal of good for the downtrodden in the
community, even though they often scorn her after accepting the good...

What are symbols in chapter 6 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding?

While
the boys are asleep, an air battle takes place above the island, and a paratrooper is shot out
of the sky. The dead paratrooper ends up falling to the island and lands on the top of the
mountain. The dead paratrooper's descent onto the island
symbolically represents the presence and manifestation of evil on the island. The lifeless
paratrooper falling from the sky also allegorically represents Satan's fall from
heaven.

Oncereturn to the base camp, they begin describing the beast.decides
to organize an assembly and holds the conch. The conch symbolically
represents civility, democracy, and order. While the majority of boys respect the conch by
allowing the person holding the shell to speak without interruption,dismisses the conch's
importance by saying,

We dont need the conch any more. We
know who ought to say things...Its time some people knew theyve got to keep quiet and leave
deciding things to the rest of us.

Jack's attitude
toward the conch illustrates his...

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In "The Pit and the Pendulum," what happened to the narrator at the end of the first paragraph?

At the end of the first
paragraph, the narrator swoons.  

If you are like my students,
they do not immediately know what "swoon" means. It means to faint, to lose
consciousness, to pass out, and/or to black out.  

The reader does not know
for sure that the narrator has lost consciousness until the reader reads the first sentence of
the second paragraph.  At the start of that paragraph, the narrator flat out announces that he
"had swooned."

Swooning does carry a slightly differentthan a
simple passing out.  When a person swoons, it is often because of an emotional overload.  Having
the narrator swoon at the end of the first paragraph makes perfect sense, because the narrator
has just been sentenced to death.  From the moment that his death sentence is pronounced, the
narrator starts to lose touch with reality.  He admits that he no longer hears specific
words. 

The sentence -- the dread sentence of death -- was
the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears. After that, the sound of the
inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum.

By the end of the paragraph, the narrator is hallucinating and
wishing for death. 

And then there stole into my fancy,
like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

His mind simply can't handle everything that is going on, so he
swoons.  

Compare the use of verisimilitude in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Verisimilitude refers to how closely a fictitious literary work resembles reality and
is considered plausible to the reader. Verisimilitude is essential in a work ofto convince the
audience that the events taking place in the story are possible, given that the reader has
suspended disbelief.

When examining the verisimilitude of 's
 and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, one can delineate
a stark contrast in reference to the purpose of both fictional works. Swift's fantasy story,
which includes six-inch citizens, giants, floating islands, and talking horses, is an. His goal
was to satirize European culture, particularly the English...

In Kindred by Octavia Butler, why does Rufus want to be like his father?

Rufus Weylin doesn't intentionally set out to be like his father. When he is a young
boy and falls and breaks his leg, Tom's first comment is that the accident is going to cost him
a lot of money. Rufus doesn't gravitate toward Tom's rough and violent personality, but it is
important to remember the setting the two men live in. In this era, they were behaving as
society expected them to do. Even Dana, African American herself, notes this about Tom in
Chapter 4:

His father wasn't the monster he could have
been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man
who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. But I had seen no
particular fairness in him. He did as he pleased....

What are the differences between Victorian poetry and Romantic poetry?

Romantic poetry,
more so than Victorian, emphasized the power of the imagination and mans relationship to the
supernatural. One of the early romantic poets, William Blake, highlighted both of these romantic
attributes in his 1794 poem The Tyger.

The poem, composed of six quatrains,
poses a series of questions to what at first seems to be a tiger:

Tyger, tyger burning bright

in the forests of the night;

what immortal hand or eye,

could frame thy fearful
symmetry.

As the poem progresses, it becomes apparent
that Blake is doing more than addressing a tiger; he is wondering about Gods role in creating
the being (Satan) who introduced evil and sin to the world:

What the hammer? what the chain,

in what furnace was thy
brain?

What the anvil, what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly
terrors clasp.

This extended , in which Blake compares
Gods creative work to that of a blacksmith, is an imaginative way to express the idea of Gods
power. It also raises the question of why God would make something that he knew would someday
betray him. This imaginative questioning is typical of the romantic mindset, which usually
admitted and often explored the role of the supernatural in our daily
lives.

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Was joining the Vietnam War an easy decision for the United States? Why or Why not?

Lyndon
Johnson's choice to engage in Vietnam was no doubt a difficult one, and one that he probably
never wanted to make. Many political figures, including his own Vice President, advised him
strictly against it. Even he himself was quoted as saying that he did not think that Vietnam was
"worth fighting for." Nevertheless, he eventually did send troops to South Vietnam. He
was motivated by a number of obstacles which no doubt seemed insurmountable without America's
involvement in the war.

The first was the Johnson no doubt felt a certain
degree of insecurity as JFK's unplanned successor. Johnson was not elected president, the duty
had instead fallen on him in the absence of the nation's chosen leader. He no doubt was
constantly preoccupied with living up to JFK's legacy, and one priority that JFK had made
perfectly clear was a commitment to South Vietnam. JFK had staunchly believed that if South
Vietnam was taken, all of the "containment" policies placed in regard to communism
would have been for naught.

Another reason was the incredibly contentious
integration legislation that Johnson was attempting to pass at the time. Johnson was struggling
to keep support in the south, and he did not think that the southern states would tolerate the
abolition of segregation with the threat of communism's spread looming in Vietnam.


It is often speculated that the powers knew from the start that the Vietnam
War was an absolutely futile endeavor. However, these factors listed were pressing enough to
make them at least try, though it was no doubt one of the most uncomfortable decisions that a
president has ever made.

In Narrative, how did Douglass see the relationship between slavery and Christianity, especially as it related to white Americans?

Douglass
used the institution of Christianity to highlight the hypocrisy, brutality, and ultimately the
corrupting influence of slavery. He creates a dichotomy of authentic and false Christianities,
asserting that the brutality of slavery makes it incompatible with the faith. Throughout the
book, he points out that many brutal, sadistic slaveowners and overseers are pious, God-fearing
Christians on Sundays. This gap between their behavior and their affectations of Christianity
makes the evils of slavery all the more stark. But Douglass goes even further, recognizing that
slavery also, in a way, depends on this false Christianity, and indeed uses it as a prop. He
notes that religious slaveholders are the worst of them all:

I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could
befall me. For of all slave-holders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the
worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all
others.

Douglass explores the theme throughout the work,
showing how the "religious shouts" of the evangelical Christian masters drowned out
the "piteous cries" of his slaves. In this way, Christianity supplied a moral veneer
to the lives of people who were implicated in an institution characterized by unspeakable
brutality.

What are some literary devices used in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty?

Laurine Herzog

This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air that seemed
meditative, like the chirping of a solitary little bird.

This first quotation describes Phoenix Jackson's cane, which she uses to tap the ground
in front of her. The literary device used here is a , as the noise
of the cane tapping against the ground is compared to "the chirping of a solitary little
bird." This simile conveys the impression that Phoenix, like the bird, seems small and
delicate.

Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless
branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her
forehead

Another simile is
used in this second quotation. In this example, Phoenix's forehead is compared to a "little
tree." This simile creates a vivid picture of just how wrinkled Phoenix's face is. Her
wrinkles are like the branches of a tree, spreading out from her forehead.

We is the only two left in the world

In this third quotation, the literary device is a .
Phoenix is talking about...

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Who is Najma, and what did she contribute to music?

Najma
Akhtar was born in Britain and is an actor, songwriter, and vocalist. She grew up absorbed in
all things Bollywood, the entertainment industry of India. The music and showmanship of
Bollywood always fascinated her, and she began to sing as a hobby.

In college
she studied for a degree in chemical engineering; she also entered a UK music contest at the
urging of her family and friends. As a result, she got to record a solo album which proved to be
the launching of her musical career. The album was recorded in India and was a mixture of
Bollywood pop music as well as the light music of India and Pakistan. 

Since
that album, she has recorded many more, both solo efforts and collaborations with creative and
unique international musicians, and her work has been highly acclaimed for its
originality.

Najma is a self-taught musician, and she is always looking for
new sounds to inspire her. Her music exhibits elements of blues, classical Indian, folk, jazz
and semi-classical music. In 2009, she introduced a new element to her music in the form of
psychedelic sound. Her music is eclectic and unique, making Najma one of the most celebrated
young musicians in the world. She has received acclaim from many sources, including
The Rolling Stones magazine, MTV and a wide variety of celebrated
musicians.

Her concerts and personal appearances are always well received by
her audiences, and she has participated in nearly every significant international music festival
in the world.

She has

achieved a place
in World Music history. Her music and work has been recognised and acknowledged as pioneering,
as she has been the first person to create a new musical genre, using subtle jazz arrangements,
vocal harmonies, vocal counterpoints and other nuances with the traditional South Asian vocal
€˜Ghazal style....

Her music is haunting and memorable
and would be significant even if it were not groundbreaking in its content and style. Najma
offers something the world has never seen or experienced, and her music continues to grow and
change in the best of ways. 

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https://www.najmaakhtar.com/

Why can't father and son compromise?

In 's
short story "," Nnaemeka rejects the traditional Ibo marriage custom by choosing his
own bride and proposing to Nene without his parents' approval. In Ibo culture, it is tradition
that a man's father choose his son's bride and handle negotiations regarding the bride price.
Nnaemeka is aware that his father will be upset that he purposely rejected Ibo tradition by
proposing to Nene because his father is a strict traditionalist. After Nnaemeka tell his father
that he will not propose to Ugoye Nweke and that he is engaged to Nene, his father shuns and
disowns him.

While Nnaemeka makes several attempts to rekindle his
relationship with his father, his father refuses to respect Nnaemeka's decision and accept the
fact that he has rejected the traditional Ibo custom. Overall, Nnaemeka and his
father cannot compromise because Nnaemeka genuinely loves Nene and plans on marrying her
regardless of his father's thoughts or Ibo tradition. Likewise, Nnaemeka's father refuses to
accept his son's decision and cannot respect the fact that his son has rejected the traditional
marriage custom.

Why is Hamlet a renaissance man?

is a man
of the Renaissance in the sense that he's torn between two radically different worlds. On the
one hand, he lives in an intensely religious age, in which belief in God is near universal. This
is an age in which popular superstition is rife, with even educated people firmly insisting on
the reality of witchcraft.

On the other hand, this is an age which is also
rapidly becoming more secular. Scientific knowledge is developing at a considerable pace,
changing the way men and women think about themselves, the universe, and their place within it.
Some scholars have argued that many of 's troubles, especially his notoriously debilitating
procrastination, stem from his inability to reconcile these two paradoxical aspects of the
Renaissance in his personality.

Hamlet is a highly intelligent young man,
educated to the very highest traditions of Renaissance humanism. Yet he cannot entirely let go
of his belief in Christianity. Indeed, it is Hamlet's conception of himself as not just a prince
but a Christian prince that largely prevents him from settling scores
withfor murdering his father.

Like the Renaissance man he is, the
self-absorbed Hamlet is the center of his own universe. But he's still a Christian, and as such
sees himself as a small, insignificant part of a much bigger whole. In the troubled,
multi-faceted character of Hamlet we see, then, a living embodiment of the many paradoxes of
this most remarkable historical and cultural era.

How is the poem "The Raven" a psychological study in self-torment?

Edgar Allen Poe's life
was filled with the deaths of the women he loved most in his life. Not only did his mother die,
his wife (and cousin) Virginia died from consumption (tuberculosis). Poe watched Virginia die a
bloody death for five years.

His poem, ""," is one of his most
well-known poems. Given it simple repetition of "Nevermore," it has been a favorite of
classrooms and media alike (as in The Simpsons, during a "Treehouse of
Terror" Halloween special).

That said, the repetitious nature of the
word "nevermore," has led critics to examine the self-torture aspect of the poem. Like
Poe, the speaker of the poem laments the death of his beloved. A raven flies into the room, and,
in the speaker's mournful state, he turns the bird into a foreseer of the future. The raven
tells the speaker that he will never be reunited with his lost love--even in heaven.

The fact that the speaker is so torn apart by the loss of his (or her) beloved speaks
to the idea of self-torture. Instead of moving on, the lamenting becomes constant. This is an
example of self-torture, failure to accept things as they are and more forward from them.

How does the chorus respond to Jocasta's judgment of the oracle in Sophocles's Oedipus the King?

says,

Loxias said expressly [that Laius] was doomed
To die by my
child's hand, but he, poor babe,
He shed no blood, but perished first
himself.
So much for divination. Henceforth I
Will look for signs neither to
right nor left.

She believes that all will be well yet
forbecause Apollo's oracle said that Laius would be killed by his son, and she believes that her
son died as an infant on a mountain long ago. Therefore, she says, she will no longer trust in
oracles or prophecies. Theresponds with some concern, saying,

My lot be still to lead
The life of innocence and fly
Irreverence in
word or deed,
To follow still those laws ordained on high
Whose birthplace is
the bright ethereal sky
No mortal birth they own,
Olympus their progenitor
alone.

In other words, thesays that it has a duty to
continue to lead a life of innocence and piety, and they will not act or speak irreverently asit
is impliedJocasta has done. They will continue to trust the gods and the gods' laws...

Which conflict does Ulysses experience in the poem "Ulysses"?

I'd like
to focus on two main conflicts in Lord Tennyson's "": responsibility vs. the thirst
for adventure, and ambition vs. old age.

Let's start with old age.
Tennyson's Ulysses is an aged king long past his prime. He's old and (presumably) infirm, far
removed from his days of warfare and adventure. Despite these qualities, Ulysses still has
ambition to travel to far-off lands...

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What is the difference between internal and external taxation?

An
external tax was one imposed on imports into the American colonies.
A prime example of this would be the Sugar Act of 1764, which was imposed by the British to
raise much-needed revenue to help them pay for the upkeep of their troops on American soil. This
measure proved deeply unpopular and led to widespread civil...

Please explain the beginning to the Declaration of Independence (included below) in simple English. When in the Course of human events it becomes...

There are
two main parts to this excerpt from the beginning to the Declaration of Independence. The first
is a statement of purpose, telling why the document was written and signed. Basically, it says
that any time a country decides to declare its independence from another country, it should take
the time to explain to the rest of the world and its own people why it is doing so, the
"causes that impel them to that separation." The second part of the introduction
begins to make the case for American independence. It is most famous for stating
"self-evident truths" that are the basis for the Americans' claims.

The first "truth" is that all men are created equal and that they all have
"unalienable" rights (rights that can not be taken away). These rights include
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It goes on to say that the purpose of
government is to protect these rights, not to try to take them away. Governments are actually
created by people to do exactly this. Therefore,...

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What are the historical connections between WWI and WWII?

To a
large extent,arose out of various consequences of the post-World War I settlement. The
Versailles Agreement, which imposed harsh penalties on Germany for starting the War, caused deep
resentment among many Germans, who felt humiliated at being singled out for blame in this way.
Such resentment, combined with economic chaos, helped to generate support for extremist parties
of Right and Left, such as the Nazis and the German Communist Party.

One
additional connection between the two wars is the lack of an effective international body to
enforce the post-Versailles order. The League of Nations proved to be singularly ineffective in
combating the imperialist aggression of Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany. This
was mainly because the United States was unable to be involved in the League after an
isolationist Senate rejected President Wilson's proposals.

Without the active
involvement of the United States in the League of Nations, the principles of national
self-determination contained in the Versailles Treaty were little more than pious platitudes.
That being so, various unsavory regimes felt free to pursue their territorial ambitions with
impunity, safe in the knowledge that no one would try to stop them. Inevitably, this led to the
breakdown of the post-World War I settlement and led directly to the outbreak of World War
II.

What are techniques used to make the poem "Ulysses" more effective? Like assonance and alliteration.

Tennyson's "" is a defiant poem
about growing old. The eponymous speaker longs for the adventures of his youth and refuses to
slow down for old age.

In the second line, the speaker references "this
still hearth," which can be read as a symbol for the stillness of his old age. A hearth is
meant to be home to a fire, but the fact that there is no fireand thus the hearth is
stillsymbolizes how there is at this point no passion or life in his old age. He wants the fires
to burn again, meaning essentially that he longs to once more feel the passion and vitality of
youth.

A bit later in the poem, the speaker recalls how once he used to roam
across the world with "a hungry heart." The language technique here is . The speaker
personifies his heart as hungry to help the reader understand how he was hungry for passion in
his youth so that he had to constantly satiate that hunger with adventure. This for him was a
necessity, a basic need, just as eating food to satiate hunger is a basic need for us. The
phrase "hungry heart" is also alliterated, which helps it to stand out in the line and
emphasize its significance.

Further on in the poem, the speaker uses awhen he
describes the inactivity of old age as "rust unburnish'd." This metaphor helps to
create a vivid image of something that has been forgotten and that perhaps is no loner cared for
or no longer of much use. This is how the speaker feels in his old age.

Towards the end of the first stanza, the speaker declares that he wants again to
"follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." In
this quotation, Tennyson uses ato compare his desire to travel and discover new things to a star
that falls beyond the horizon. It's a romantic image and captures rather well the extent and
scale of the ambitions and desires that the speaker still has.

In the final
two lines of the poem, there is assonance with the repeated vowel sound in "weak,"
"seek," and "yield." The poem ends with a defiant pledge "not to
yield" to old age, with "yield" being the final word of the poem. The fact that
"yield" has the same strong vowel sound as "weak" and "seek"
creates a sense of finality, or closure, much like a rhymingsignals the end or close of a scene
in a Shakespearean play. The assonance means that emphasis is placed on the final word,
re-enforcing the sentiment behind the phrase. The speaker will not "yield" to old age
but will venture onwards and, as he says earlier in the poem, "sail beyond the
sunset."

What is the reason Napoleon took Jessie and Bluebell's puppies in Animal Farm?

In , Jessie and
Bluebell give birth to nine puppies.takes the puppies away, claiming that he wants to take
personal responsibility for their education. To do this, he takes the puppies to a loft,
accessible only by a ladder and far away from the influence of anybody else on the farm. Over
time, the other animals forget all the about them.

In , however, Napoleon's
true purpose for taking the puppies becomes clear when he sets them onduring the vote about the
windmill. Described as "enormous dogs," these former puppies are violent and obey
Napoleon's every command. Napoleon has, therefore, trained the puppies to become his own
personal bodyguard. This enables him to exert his will whenever he chooses because nobody will
stand against him, for fear of attack by his guard dogs.

What are some examples of tone in The Scarlet Letter? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

The prevailing
tone of Hawthorne's is one of .  Here are some examples:

SITUATIONAL IRONY

The Puritans, who have escaped religious
persecution in England, first build a prison on their settlement.  This prison and the scaffold
are sites where people are persecuted and castigated for their sins.  It is ironic that public
condemnation is considered reliable by the Puritans. 

The Reverend , who is
perceived as "ethereal" is as grievous a sinner aswho is sent to prison and made to
stand upon the scaffold in ignominy, scorned by the viewers and later ostracized from society as
she lives on the edge of the woods.  However, the Puritan community exalt Dimmesdale as a saint
while he is a terrible hypocrite in reality.

The governor of the settlement,
Bellingham, has a sister who is a witch, yet no one objects to her activities.  In addition, the
leader of the Puritans, whose ideology holds to simplicity, has a beautiful mansion complete
with diamond-like glass windows, suits of armor, pewter tankards with the remnants of beer
visible, elaborately carved furniture, and a serving-man who wears a blue coat, the
"customary garb ...in the old hereditary halls of England."  That the leader of the
community has these beautiful objects and enjoys a draft of beer points to the hypocrisy of
those who would deny gaiety and passion to their community.

The punishment of
Hester, the wearing of the scarlet letter, changes to a symbol of her ability and
her solicitiousness to the community as nurse to the ill and dying.  Thus, the meaning of the
scarlet A changes ironically to Able and
Angel. 

 who agrees to treat Dimmesdale's apparent
physical illness--which is ironically not a physical ailment--is really the minister's
torturer. 

VERBAL IRONY

In Chapter III,tells Dimmesdale,
"...the responsibility of this woman's soul lies greatly with you."

In Chapter IV, Chillingworth tells Hester, "Think not that I shall interfere with
heaven's own method of retribution."  Yet, he intends to violate the secrets of the
minister's heart and destroy him.

DRAMATIC IRONY

The
readers discover long before the townspeople thatis the child of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
and Hester Prynne.

Where does Homer show in the book Penelope's loyalty to Odysseus and how does this help Odysseus in The Odyssey?I'm trying to show how Penelope's...

Although
The Odyssey is, of course, primarily about Odysseus's
heroic wanderings, Penelope goes on a journey of her own without leaving the confines of home,
hearth and distaff. She displays truly heroic loyalty to her husband as she fends off the
insistent, unwanted advances of her multiple suitors. She has been apart from Odysseus for
twenty years, ravaged by grief and worry. She mourns for him as if he were dead and cannot get
to sleep without the aid of Athena.

Penelope's loyalty is not just to her
husband, but also to her various social roles as queen and mother. Amidst her unbearable sense
of loss and constantly having to fight off the attentions of suitors, she still has to maintain
Odysseus's estate and provide a good upbringing for Telemachus, one in keeping with his elevated
social status.

Her loyalty is inextricably linked with her cunning. Just
like her crafty husband, Penelope displays incredible ingenuity and guile in devising tricky
little plans that will hold off the...

In The Alchemist, what was the point of the boy becoming the wind?

The final test that
Santiago undergoes in this story is to transform himself into the wind. This is something that
he is only able to do with the help of the desert, the sun and the wind, and this section of the
book charts the conversations that he has with each of these entities. This is a vital part of
the process of transformation that Santiago goes through as he purifies himself in order to
achieve his Personal Legend. Santiago has to learn to communicate with nature in the common
language of the world. This helps Santiago to realise what the alchemist repeatedly tells him,
that all of nature is part of the same essence, however small or big, and if he is able to
connect with a grain of sand he is connecting with God himself. Note how his transformation into
the wind is described:

The boy reached through to the Soul
of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was
his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

This test of transforming himself into the wind is therefore so important because
Santiago needs to learn the pantheistic message that dominates this book, and how he is a part
of nature, a part of God, and therefore able to accomplish miracles. Santiago is only able to
achieve his Personal Legend through learning this vital lesson.

Who was responsible for the coming of the Civil War? Were strong personalities important? Could the war have been prevented?

The American
Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in national history, with the total number of
casualties estimated at around 620,000 soldiers.  In this war, the northern states (also known
as the Union) faced off against their southern neighbors, who had just recently seceded and
formed the Confederate States of America.  When it comes to placing blame for the genesis of
this war, though, neither the North or the South was fully at fault, for the Civil War arose,
and some scholars would argue its inevitability, due to tensions surrounding the two sides'
vastly differing economies and ideologies.

The northern economy prior to the
Civil War was largely an industrial one, with factories and mills in cities such as Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia.  This was due in part to the greater availability of natural resources
(i.e. coal) within the region.  Additionally, the mileage of railroad track in the North was far
greater than that of the South, enabling faster shipment of...

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I need some good quotes and techniques for "How Does Shakespeare Portray Romeo As An Unconventional Hero?"

This
question has already been answered.  Here is a...

What is the summary of the poem "Our Casuarina Tree" written by Toru Dutt?

At the
beginning of the poem 'The Casuarina Tree'  the poet likens the Casuarina tree to a giant
wearing a scarf of creeper. The creeper winds around the trunk like a python. We imagine the
tree to be very tall, as it's summit is described as 'near the stars.' The tree is described as
being gallant, and possibly brave, as few other trees could survive in the strangle-hold of this
creeper. The poet then goes on to describe the life that thrives amid every facet of the tree
(the baboon in its boughs, the crimson flowers,water lilies in its shadow.) But these are not
the main reasons why the poet holds the tree so dear. The other is that it holds memories of
loved ones, so strong that it brings tears to the poet's eyes. We then hear that the tree too is
sad, and cries a lament. The poet continues with a description of how strong the image of the
tree is, even when in lands far away. The poet wishes to consecrate the tree's memory and
importance for the sake of those who are now dead - and looks ahead to his own death, hoping
that the tree be spared obscurity (or that no-one will remember it.)

Can you help with my essay on To Kill a Mockingbird: are all men created equal? My essay question is "are all men created equal?" I need help on...

' speech
in is a classic, and he makes a compelling closing argument which contains
the line to which your question refers.  His use of the words makes an important distinction,
one which you will probably need to address in your essay in some fashion.  He says:

Now, gentlemen, in this country the courts are the
great levelers.  In our courts, all men are created equal.

Notice what he says and what he does not say.  He says that every person is the same
according to the law.  In other words, all men and women in this country have equal
rights.  He does not say all men
are equal.

What that means for your essay, then, is that
you have to distinguish between these two concepts.  For example, if equal means
"same," a quick look around will tell you that all men (humans) are not equal.  Some
are short, some are tall; some are skinny, some are not; some are brilliant, some are just
average; some can sing, some can't carry a tune; some can draw throw or run, and some can't.  We
are not all the same (equal), and that's a good thing.  This is not Atticus' position.

We do, though, have equal rights, both according to the Declaration of
Independence and according to Atticus' speech.  That means if a poor person and a
rich person each commit a crime, they are guaranteed a lawyer, a speedy trial, and a jury of
their peers.  We also have equal responsibilities as citizens.  That means the laws of the land
apply to the rich and the poor, the rural and the urban, the old and the young.  We also have
equal opportunities, with all that entails.  It's true that there is some "warping" of
these equalities, as those who are rich or who "have" can buy better lawyers, work the
laws to their advantage, and find more opportunities; however, the pure system is designed for
equality for all. 

Your essay can cover any number of these aspects, and
there are plenty of real-life examples to support them. 

 

Which animal did not attend Major's meeting in the barn in Animal Farm?

In , the only
animal who does not attend 's meeting in the barn is Moses, the raven. Instead of coming to hear
about Old Major's dream, Moses goes to sleep on a perch behind the back door.

There are a couple of reasons why Moses did not attend this meeting. First of all, as
Mr. Jones's beloved pet, Moses is not really a part of the animal community on the farm. He is
not subject to the same living and working conditions as the other animals, for example. In
fact, Moses is treated very well by Mr. Jones and is not expected to do any work at all. He also
enjoys better food because he is fed on crusts of beer-soaked bread.

In
addition, Moses is not concerned with overthrowing Mr. Jones. In fact, his tales of Sugarcandy
Mountain, which are similar to the Christian version of...

In what ways does the title Kindred encapsulate the relationships within the novel?

In 's
historical time-travel novel "," the most apparent significance of the title refers
toas the other two answers have statedthe familial relationships that Dana is
called back in time to save . Dana, a black woman from the 1970s, is summoned
back in time to save her ancestor, Rufus, a slave-owning white man, and ensure that he
impregnates Alice, a free black woman who he later buys as his slave and concubine. The
relationships Dana ends up forming with both Rufus and Alice are complex and difficult,
especially because time passes differently between the two periods. Over the course of just a
few weeks of 1970s time, Dana watches Rufus and Alice grow from small children into hardened
adults. Try as she might to morally influence Rufus as he ages, Dana is no match for the social
context of the antebellum South, and he turns into exactly the man she fears he will: a racist
and abusive slave-owner who takes advantage of and hurts the people he loves. And try
as...

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist,what might the following characters symbolize: the gypsy woman, Melchizedek, the crystal merchant, the alchemist, and...

'sThe
Alchemistis full of symbolism and the characters are just one part of it. Coelho merges
Christian and Islamicand symbolism to move his story and theme forward; hence, the main
character, Santiago, represents every man (or woman) born on the earth. Each of us can be like
Santiago and search for our personal legend. Opposite of Santiago might be the crystal merchant
who represents most everyone else in life; those who are older, have found their niche in life,
and feel comfortable in what they are doing to the point that they don't want to seek out their
personal legend. Melchizedek represents the spiritual guide, inspiration, or motivating force
that sets Santiago on his journey. Melchizedek is a biblical name that refers to a man who even
Abraham of the old testament paid his tithing to, so he is a great and powerful man and an image
of authority and credibility over the spiritual. (The fact that he has the Urim and Thummim also
help to solidify his credibility because those stones are also mentioned throughout history as
being spiritual tools.) The gypsy woman represents those who take truth and twist it for
personal gain, like soothsayers; andis the master teacher and Christ-like figure who teaches
Santiago what he needs to know to achieve his goals.

Compare and contrast Ulysses and Telemachus in Tennyson's "Ulysses."

A central
theme of "" is that of age: in this poem, we don't encounter the hero of The
Iliad and The Odyssey. Rather, we encounter that same hero in
his old age, with the glories of the past largely relegated to memory. In Tennyson's poem,
Ulysses seeks out one final journey in the limited time left to him.

It's
notable, that when the focus of the poem shifts towards Telemachus, the generational difference
is the first thing that's stressed, via the father-son relationship between Telemachus and
Ulysses. Ulysses is, by this point, an old man, well past the peak of his abilities. Telemachus,
his son, is younger and at such a point in his life that he's ready to inherit his father's
responsibilities and take on that mantle of kingship while Ulysses embarks on this one last
adventure. This generational dynamic is something that I think is perhaps worth thinking about
when it comes to comparing and contrasting the two.

Discrimination that arises from or is supported by government is known as what?

The term you are referring to is
"institutionalized discrimination." Institutionalized discrimination broadly defined
is any organization in which discrimination is overtly or covertly practiced. Discrimination is
not limited to strictly racial terms. Institutional discrimination includes race, class, gender,
age, religious, and sexual orientation among other categories.

Generally
speaking, in the modern era, there are fewer instances of overt discrimination, although it
still occurs. This is because there is a greater social awareness of practices that are
discriminatory and American society has made advances in rooting out unfair practices. Be aware
that progress is not the same as ending discrimination, as there still remains substantial
evidence (anecdotal and testimonial) that institutional discrimination is covertly conducted in
many organizations, including the government.

The word covert means the
instances of institutional discrimination are embedded in the daily practices of an
organization. Because they are not publicly discussed or because they are a part of the
corporate culture of the organization, they go mostly unnoticed except when a complaint is filed
highlighting the practice.

Institutional discrimination is a misnomer, as it
implies the institution is guilty of the practice when it fact discrimination is practiced by
individuals. The organization may condone it as a whole as a part of the corporate culture and
feign a lack of awareness that their practices are discriminatory. However, as social scientists
point out, discrimination is a personal act against another individual or class of
individuals.

If organizations want to truly eliminate unfair practices, then
they need to identify the individuals perpetuating the discrimination. This is an almost
impossible problem to solve, as everyone harbors some form of prejudice. The best solution is
for individuals to become more culturally and socially aware of how their actions are perceived
by others and how actions can have a negative impact on the lives of those being discriminated
against.

Some examples of overt institutionalized discrimination by the
American government include slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and separate educational facilities before
the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. These government sanctioned
activities have given way to a more insidious form of covert institutionalized discrimination,
such as racial profiling.

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Write an exponential equation given 2 points: (3,12) and (4,24).

We are asked
to find the exponential function that contains the points (3,12) and (4,24).

Exponential functions can be written in the form `y=a*b^x` . b is the base of the
exponential function. b determines if the function is an exponential growth function (x>0,
b>1) or an exponential decay function (x>0, 0 a<0 the graph is reflected over a horizontal axis.)

We need to find the
coefficient a and the base b. We are given two coordinate pairs so we can substitute those into
the general equation to get two equations in two unknowns.

(3,12) ==>
`12=a*b^3`

(4,24) ==> `24=a*b^4`

A good approach to
solving simultaneous equations is to solve one of the equations for one of the variables and
then substitute the resulting expression into the other equation.

Solve the
first equation for a to get `a=12/(b^3)` Now substitute this in place of a in the second
equation to get:

`24=(12/(b^3))b^4`

Using properties of
exponents we get 24=12b or b=2.

Take b=2 and substitute into one of the
original equations (to avoid errors.) Then `12=a*(2)^3` or 12=8a so that a=12/8=3/2.

We now know the base b=2 and the leading coefficient a=3/2 so we can
write the function:

`y=3/2 *(2)^x`

Since
2>1 this is an exponential growth function. We should check to see that the original (given)
points lie on the graph of this function.

12=3/2(2)^3 true and
24=3/2(2)^4=3/2(16) true.

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Tuesday 12 June 2018

What are the character traits for the characters in "Thank You, M'am"?

Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a strong and savvy woman who is able
to wrestle Roger to the ground when he attempts to steal her purse. Although she is physically
large and powerful, she has a tender heart. Rather than bringing Roger to the police, she forces
him to go home with her, where she feeds him dinner and gives him $10 to buy the shoes he
desperately wants. She says that she understands him as she wanted things in her youth that she
could not have, and she committed acts she wouldn't want anyone to know about. Though she forces
Roger to wash his face, she isn't preachy. She is sympathetic and generous, and she shares what
she has with the boy. She cares about what happens to him and advises him to be careful in the
future. She won't even really allow Roger to say thank you, as she closes the door in his face
as he is trying to thank her for the money.

Roger is about 14 or 15 and is
thin and frail. Though he tries to steal Mrs. Jones's purse, he is clearly afraid of her and
attempts to get away from her at first. He isn't trusting, and he tells her that he has no one
at home. He clearly has a difficult life, and he is amazed that Mrs. Jones will simply give him
the money to buy the shoes he wants. He is apparently not used to having sympathetic adults
around him or to getting what he wants, which is why he resorts to using force. However, he
isn't really the forceful type, and Mrs. Jones senses right away that Roger isn't a bad kid but
a kid who simply needs attention.

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Sunday 10 June 2018

What is Stephen Crane's view of war?

Crane in his various
works seems to present war with gritty . He explores such concepts as heroism and patriotism and
profoundly questions the extent to which traditional notions of these concepts are accurate and
even useful. Consider how ironic he is about war in his poem "War is Kind," which
features lines such as:

These men were born to drill and
die.

Point for them the virture of slaughter,

Make plain
to them the excellence of killing

And a field where a thousand corpses
lie.

Note how these lines bitterly compare to the title
of the poem. Crane seems determined to debunk the various myths surrounding war and the glory
and honour associated with it.

Likewise in some of his shorter , such as
"," similar problems are raised. In this story, Private Collins shows incredible
bravery in going and getting water across a field directly under the fire of the opposing army's
guns. Yet, in spite of being successful, this water is spilt when two officers fight over it,
pointing towards the futility of war and man's involvement in it.

Personally,
although I have (fortunately) never been in a war, I find lots of truth in Crane's view.
Ignoring the harsh realities of war allows myths to be created and sustained that say nothing of
the bleak, futile suffering of so many soldiers whose lives are
extinguished.

What does Faith symbolize in "Young Goodman Brown"?

's
"" is a complex tale of a young Puritan man's decision to leave his wife and village
and walk into the surrounding forest. Although the reason for this dangerous journey is
ambiguously described first as "his present evil purpose," we learn later that he is
taking a walk on the dark side to test his faith in his Puritan belief system, accompanied by a
guide who turns out to be Satan. The journey, of course, may actually be taking place in his
troubled mind in the form of a dream vision, but for Goodman Brown, the experience is
real.

Young Goodman Brown's wife is Faith, whose name serves both to denote
her role as wife and as an emblem of a 17th century Puritan's belief system. When she attempts
to dissuade Goodman Brown from his journey, we learn that she, too, is troubled:

"Dearest heart," whispered she, softly and rather sadly,
when her lips were close to his ear, "pr'ythee, put off your journey until sunrise, and
sleep in your own bed to-night....

Saturday 9 June 2018

Quotes Regarding Justice/Injustice in "To Kill a Mockingbird" In To Kill a Mockingbird, what are some quotes said by any character in the story...

"Folks
dont like to have somebody around knowin more than they do. It aggravates €˜em. Youre not gonna
change any of them by talkin right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont
want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language." -
Calpurnia

"As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every
day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget itwhenever a white man does
that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from,
that white man is trash."  -

"Mr Finch, if you was a nigger like me,
you'd be scared, too." - Tom Robinson

"I ain't touched her, Link
Deas, and I ain't about to to go with no nigger!" - Mr Ewell

", how
can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right here at home
-?" -

"The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is
not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just
us..." - Miss Maudie

"Im no idealist to believe firmly in the
integrity of our courts and in the jury systemthat is no ideal to me, it is a living, working
reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this
jury...." - Atticus

"The one thing that does not abide by majority
rule is a person's conscience." - Atticus

Explain the relationship between media and crime using two of the examples of different media formats below? Examples of different media formats -...

Crime is
one of the engines that allows media outlets to thrive.  This is especially true of various
types of television media.  I will look at two TV media formats -- 24 hour cable...

What do Okeke's friends believe has caused Nnaemeka's behavior?

Okeke's
friends believe that "other worldly" forces have caused Nnaemeka's behavior.

When Okeke's friends hear of Nnaemeka's desire to marry someone Nene, they demonstrate
a profound difficulty to understand why he has done what he has done.  One of Okeke's friends
argues that the Bible predicted this very scenario when children disobey their parents:  What
did Our Lord say?' asked another gentleman. 'Sons shall rise against their Fathers; it is there
in the Holy Book.  For this one of Okeke's friends, the only way to explain Nnaemeka's behavior
is through the Bible.  At the same time, another friend suggested that Okeke might be
"sick."  This friend argues that seeking the help of alternative medicine is the only
to cure what ails Okeke's son:  What is he then? The boys mind is diseased and only a good
herbalist can bring him back to his right senses. The medicine he requires is
Amalile, the same that women apply with success to recapture their husbands
straying affection.  In both situations, Okeke's friends cannot fathom why Nnaemeka would want
to marry Nene. The only possible explanations they can offer is "other worldly" ones.
 

Such beliefs reflect the extent of the traditionalism that Nnaemeka and
Nene fight against in their decision to be married.  This idea demonstrates how marriage might
not be necessarily seen as solely a "private affair" in many parts of the
world. 

In Coelho's The Alchemist, what does Santiago learn from his sheep?

In
Coelho's , at first Santiago believes that his sheep do not consider
anything beyond eating and sleeping. He believes that they have no way of understanding that
life might have a deeper purpose: after all, they are only animals. However, this is, in many
ways, the way Santiago has livedhow most people live. He has had dreams but
for some time, he has never acted on them. When he finally decides to set off and sees that
there is more to life than working each day in a long progression of repetitious
behaviorsthrough an seemingly meaningless lifethat Santiago learns that there is purpose in life
if one will only be willing to search it out.

There
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title="foreshadowing">foreshadowing in the first few pages to indicate
that this may not always be the case:

He...

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