How is John Proctor, in a manner, to blame for the witch trials? Give 3 examples.

One could argue that
John Proctor is (at least partially) responsible for the Salem Witch Trials in this play because
he contributes to the political unrest and social instability in the town, engaging in all
manner of heated debates even prior to Betty's illness. He puts others down, for example, when
Mr. Hale arrives. He says, "I've heard you to be a sensible man, Mr. Hale. I hope you'll
leave some of it in Salem." He implies that Parris and Putnam, the unofficial town leaders,
lack common sense; this will win him no allies and only sow division. Later, he jokes that he
wants to join the "faction" that Parris believes is mobilizing against him. By
antagonizing others unnecessarily and rather tactlessly, John makes himself, and his friends,
targets for retribution.

Further, John broke religious law when he committed
adultery with Abigail Williams. He knew it was wrong, as Miller tells us that he now thinks of
himself as a "fraud," but he did it anyway, and he even admits to Abigail
in...

In The Alchemistby Coelho, how does the Alchemist assist Santiago on his journey?

The alchemist is
presented as rather a mysterious and magical figure in this novel, who possesses the knowledge
and resources necessary to enable thim to transform any metal to gold. The alchemist's role in
this story is mainly as a teacher or a guide to Santiago, though much of the advice that he
gives his youthful charge is in riddles, as he expects Santiago to work out the meaning of his
teachings for himself.

Focusing on the teachings of the alchemist allow us to
consider how the overarchingof this story of alchemy, which means the transmutation of one
element into another element that is more valuable, applies to Santiago's own development and
journey. The wisdom of the...

In A Wrinkle in Time, what is Camazotz, and why have the children gone there? What is the most unsettling characteristic about life on Camazotz?

Camazotz is
a planet shrouded in darkness or evil, and Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace have been sent there
by Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace's father, who is
being held prisoner in the capital. Camazotz is particularly unsettling because of its emphasis
on complete, synchronized and unthinking conformity. For example, all the children bounce balls
on the sidewalk at exactly the same time of day in exactly the same rhythm. When one child fails
to conform to the bouncing pattern, Meg, Calvin and Charles Wallace later see him being
retrained to bounce correctly in a cruel way that involves electric shocks. The society,
controlled by an evil entity called It, runs on the premise that complete conformity keeps
everything in order and that order and control lead to happiness, though people are so
brainwashed and controlled that they are devoid of will and hence of any real
joy. 

When Peyton finally reaches the shore, what does Bierce compare the sand to, and what is he trying to say about Peyton's new perspective on life?

As was
mentioned in the previous post, when Peyton Fahrquhar imagines that he is flung onto the
southern embankment of the river, he crawls onto the beach and digs his hands into the sand.
Peyton begins to joyfully throw the sand into the air over his head in celebration,
and Bierce writes that the sand resembles diamonds, rubies, and
emeralds. Bierce is suggesting that Peyton appreciates every small
aspect of life and is simply grateful to be alive. Peyton is then reminded that
he is still not safe when the cannon fires grapeshot at close range. Peyton then dashes into the
forest and eventually walks to his home. On his walk home, Peyton notices the beautiful natural
environment. He is overcome with a feeling of ecstasy and peace as he imagines that he is
reuniting with his wife and children before he dies. Bierce suggests that Peyton has come to
terms with his death and his new perspective on life allows him to appreciate the natural
environment like never before. Peyton becomes aware of the beauty found in the blades of grass,
grains of sand, and constellations as he is standing on the plank awaiting
death.

What are the generational differences between Mama, Beneatha, and Walter?

Younger is in her sixties and is the head of the household. She is a conservative Christian who
fails to understand and connect with her children on certain levels. Lena is disturbed at her
daughter's atheist views and motivation to become a doctor. She refuses to allowto use the
Lord's name in vain and blaspheme God under her roof. Lena also doesn't understand Beneatha's
affinity for African heritage. Lena fails to seeJr.'s dream and cannot understand his
fascination with becoming wealthy. Lena associates masculinity with hard work and integrity,
which is opposite of how her son views manhood.

Walter, who is in his
thirties, has an entrepreneurial spirit and dreams of one day running a successful business. He
is not concerned about how others perceive him and is willing to take extreme measures to meet
his goals. Wealth and financial security are Walter's priorities. In regards to integrity and
character, Walter fails to demonstrate these positive traits for the...

While Winston is reading chapter 1 of Goldstein's book, he stops for a minute. Examine why he would stop.

Asis
reading Goldstein's book, he realizes the importance of both the act and the work he is
absorbing.  Winston recognizes the gravity of what he is reading and also understands that the
act itself carries defiance.  It is at this moment that Winston has to pause in acknowledging
the resistance he is exhibiting in both his act of reading and choice of what he is reading.
 This is not lost on Winston in his pause while he reads:

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading,
in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to
glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against
his cheek. 

Winston has to pause to appreciate the
intense urgency of the moment.  He pauses in his reading because he is reading away from the
prying eyes of Big Brother.  The work he is reading flies in the face of the Party and the
Status Quo of control and repression that is intrinsic to Oceania.  It is for this reason that
he pauses. In this pause, Winston recognizes that he is completely alone, immersed in a
condition of freedom.  Seeing how this is so absent in Oceania, Winston pauses to appreciate it
and to revel in it.   captures the metaphysical experience of reading, something that Winston
has to absorb not only in the act of reading but in the sense of touch that accompanies it.  In
touching the page and experiencing the moment, Winston pauses to immerse himself in an
experience that many in Oceania are denied and an experience that those in the position of power
wish to suppress from the body politic.

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Discuss biblical references in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave written by Himself.

I think
that one of the most stunning images or reference to religion is how Douglass describes the
ringing of "the church bell" and the ringing of the "slave auction bell" as
one in the same.  The implication here is that the institution of slavery was assisted through
Christianity.  This is not to say that the religion made slavery possible, but rather brings out
what Douglass sees as a fundamental hypocrisy.  The most brutal of slaveowners were
also...

Which chemical is used to produce anti-iron properties in copper ?

I think you
must be mistaken with your phrase "anti-iron."  I have never heard of this phrase
before.  A quick search around the internet shows absolutely no credible mention of the phrase
"anti-iron."  I think you might be talking about antimicrobial uses of copper metal. 
There have been numerous studies over the years of the antimicrobial effects of copper metal. 
There does not need to be any chemical added to copper to make it antimicrobial.  Pure, clean
copper metal does appear to kill many strains of disease causing bacteria completely on its
own.  In fact, the FDA has allowed for some copper metal products to be advertised as
antimicrobial agents for disinfectant type uses.  Hospitals can use copper doorknobs and bed
railings to help prevent the spread of disease.  Other disinfectant uses include having copper
shopping cart handles and computer keyboards.

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why do white men have more cargo than New Guineans?

In 's
book , he talks about an encounter he had with a Guinean chief named Yali.
Yali asks the now famous question, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo
and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Before we
look into the theory, let's break down the question: what Yali is really asking is why the
Western World ("white people"), which includes Western Europe and the United States,
has better goods, services, and technologies ("cargo") than the rest of the world, for
example, places like Papua New Guinea. This is also a concept known as Western hegemony, or
dominance. Why did Europe become dominant over time and not places like Papua New Guinea?
Diamond writes Guns, Germs, and Steel in part to answer that question, and
the main answer is the concept of geographic determinism.

Geographic determinism, sometimes called environmental determinism, is the idea that
the success of a civilizationwhy it may have more cargois contingent on its
geography. For an article that discusses this, please check out the link below. Diamond and
others in the geographic determinism camp believe that a nation's location on earth, its access
to oceans, raw materials, certain climates, and physical barriers, impacts how it is able to
develop. In the aforementioned and linked article, "Location, Location, Location and How
the West was Won," Professor Ian Morris of Stanford University makes the argument that
because Western Europe was situated on the Atlantic Ocean, and once Atlantic trade overtook the
Silk Road's trade in the 15th century and beyond, it propelled Europe to dominance. Diamond
argues that because Western Europe and the United States enjoy a favorable climate, relatively
few natural barriers (there's not a massive mountain chain blocking off the continent like, say,
the Himalayas in Asia or the Andes in South America), and an even distribution of plant and
animal species, it was able to develop quickly and with interactions between the different
populations.

Diamond makes the argument that on island nations, there was
less interaction, and on continents that run north-south, there is too much
biological diversity and natural boundaries, thus preventing long-distance trade. Proponents of
geographic determinism would use the argument that these factors led the West to gain hegemony
over the rest of the world once technologies like navigational instruments, gunpowder, steam
power, and medicine enabled them to conquer continents.

For more information,
or a nice, quick, visual way of understanding geographic determinism, please check out the video
linked below, which succinctly summarizes Diamond's theory.

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What is an analysis of the theme of "Mirror?"

Certainly a
rather melancholy poem, critic Jo Gill notes that the poem "" is
"catoptric"; that is, it describes while it represents its own structure with two
nine-line stanzas that are balanced and dual in nature. While the mirror reflects
objectivity--the opposite wall that is "pink with speckles"--at the same time, it is
false in its superficial reflection of mere physicality when the woman peers into it as a
measure of herself. And, it is this falseness that is represented by the terrible fish that
arises from the mirror, that unadultered self that does not conform to mere
reflection.

Thus, the theme of Plath's poem arises from the duality of the
mirror. While it reflects a true superficial image, it cannot define a person.  It is the inner
person that one must cultivate on her own, defining oneself by one's own values, not as a
reflection of the values of others.  Herein lies the theme: No mirror can report the soul, the
essence of a person; it can only reflect the visage of a person, a visage which at times may be
false, "a terrible fish."

Now I am a lake.  A
woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really
is....

I am important to her.

The
person in the mirror searches where she can find no answers, for the soul does not emerge from
the search for self.  It is, however, reflected in the heart. This is surely the
theme.

 

 

I need to write a parable on the saying "Money can't buy love."

Ais a
short, simple story intended to reveal an underlying or universal human truth. The key to a
parable is its simplicity. It should not be populated with realistic three-dimensional
characters or plots with many twists and turns. Instead, it should have a basic plot trajectory
and characters that illustrate the universal traits that are the main subject of the parable.
Often, characters in a parable do not even have names but are simply called a "Rich
Man" or "Loving Mother" or "Beautiful Young Girl."

Every action and detail in the story should support its main point.

A typical parable on the theme of money not buying love might be about a miser who
spends all of his time making and saving money hoping to gain the love of a girl next door. By
the end of the story, though, the girl, despairing of finding love with him due to his neglect
of her, has married a poor but attentive farmer.

Keller writes that Light! Give me light was the wordless cry of [her] soul. What was the light Keller longed for, and how did receiving...

From the
beginning of Keller's education, Anne "Annie" Sullivan was convinced that there was a
great torment in Keller's soul and that the torment came from being fundamentally unable to
communicate with the world around her. Worse yet, Annie observed that Keller's parents seemed
far less concerned with actually helping her find her way out of this darkness and more with
simply having her trained enough to not be a menace in day-to-day home living.


This turned out to indeed be true, and the "light" that Keller was
referring to was language. Language allowed Keller to communicate with the world around her and
to understand and contextualize its meaning as it related to her. After that fateful afternoon
by the water-pump, where Keller learned her first word, she was able to feel less like a lost
child alone in a dark, silent world. She understood the people around her cared for her and that
she was a part of the world of the living.

information about Frederic Chopin

You can
learn a great deal about Frederic Chopins life, music, and influence at www.classicfm.com as
well as www.npr.org. In National Public Radios online article, The Life and Music of Frederic
Chopin (March 10, 2010), author Ted Libbey writes that Chopin was the first composer of genius
to devote himself solely to the piano and asserts that No one before or since has contributed
as many significant works for the pianos repertoire, or come closer to capturing its soul.
Chopins work is also known for introducing what Libbey calls emotional ambiguity.

Frederic Chopin was born in 1810 near Warsaw, Poland. His father, Nicholas, was French
and his mother, Justyna Krzyzanowska, was Polish. Chopins father was a bookkeeper who later
worked as a tutor for children of aristocratic families and was very supportive of his sons
musical abilities. Chopin began to play the piano at a very early age and by the time he was
seven years old, had already published his first composition. By 1818 (at the age of 8) he was
performing in renowned music salons. Chopin attended the Warsaw Conservatory of Music from
1826-1829. At the age of 21, he settled in Paris (a great center of European culture) where he
found ample employment as a teacher and success as a composer. Chopin was fortunate to receive
recognition for his work within his lifetime and to be able to earn enough money to live
comfortably.

In 1838 he became romantically involved with French novelist
Aurore Dudevant, more commonly known by her pen name, George Sand. The couple lived at Sands
family home north of Paris for seven years. Although diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1839, Chopin
recuperated and went on to compose some of his most famous masterpieces, including
Sonata in B Minor, the Opus 55 Nocturnes, and the
Opus 56 Mazurkas during his years with her.

Chopins
relationship with Sand ended in 1848. That year he toured the British Isles and returned to
Paris exhausted and sick. He died in 1849, at the age of 39, though no one is sure of the
causes. Chopins body was interred in Paris, but his heart was taken back to Warsaw (per his
deathbed request), preserved in a jar, and laid to rest within a pillar of Holy Cross
Church.

What is the conflict in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas?

In the novel,
the conflict is majorly brought out by the , Bruno. The first instance of conflict is introduced
in the first chapter. Bruno is distraught by the news of their sudden relocation plans from
Berlin, due to his fathers new role in Auschwitz. Bruno does not want to leave his home; he
likes it there, because the house is spacious and he can explore. He had also made friends there
and his grandparents, of whom he was fond, resided there. The conflict is heightened when they
arrive at their new residence in Auschwitz. The house is not only in poor condition, with
cobwebs and chipping paint, but is also small and isolated.   

The main
conflict is encountered after Bruno meets Shmuel, who is in the concentration camp adjacent to
Brunos new home. The two, oblivious of the social order dictating how the Nazis and Jews should
interact, establish a close friendship. Bruno sympathizes with Shmuel and often brings him food.
He decides to help Shmuel find his father,...

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What version of the tragedy appeared in the newspapers? How would you account for the fact that this version went unchallenged and uncorrected?

Few
people knew thatrandown. In his mistaken idea thatwas the driver,murdered Gatsby and then took
his own life. Then, asphrases it, the holocaust was complete. Wilson was soon called a
madman who was deranged with grief; Nick calls the faulty newspaper accounts a
nightmare.

One of the most important aspects of the tragic events was the
related parties need to cover it up, and quickly.is a wealthy, influential man with deep roots
in the Eggs. As such, he was in an ideal position to influence or even dictate what appeared in
the newspapers. For Tom, the most important thing was to avoid the consequences of public
knowledge of Daisys involvement. Not only would there be a scandal, but she could very well be
charged with numerous crimes, such as vehicular manslaughter and fleeing the scene of an
accident. Far from correcting the false reports, the "careless" Buchanans leave
town.

In Frankenstein, how can Victor be described as a spoiled child acting rebelliously?

Chapter one of 's
defines Victor's early childhood and his parents' admiration of him. The
following excerpt from chapter one defines Victor as the "apple" of his parents' eyes.

They seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection
from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me... I was their plaything and their idol...
bestowed on them by Heaven...to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to
direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me...It may be
imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of
charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of
enjoyment to me.

was most certainly loved by his
parents. They desired nothing more than Victor's happiness. His happiness was the only thing
which mattered to them. Being an only child, their time was spent showering him with everything
they possibly could.

As Victor grew, his passion for science grew as well.
His father, being a man concerned with his child's fate and existence, fostered Victor's
appreciation with science. He obtained him the books he desired and taught him about the idea of
dissecting previous scientific thought. Charmed by this, Victor became more engrossed in science
than before.

In regards to Victor being a spoiled child, acting in
rebellion, one could easily state (and support) that Victor was spoiled. One idea that may take
some time and support is the idea that Victor acted rebelliously. While he did follow his desire
to reanimate life without concern for his own health and family, it does not necessarily mean
that he acted in rebellion (towards his family). Instead, they supported him.

One could state, however, that Victor was rebellious against the world of science. This
may not be a result of his spoiled childhood; instead, one could relate it to his rebellion
against his teachers at the university, new and emerging scientific thought,  and science
itself.

In Kindred, Nigel wanted to escape slavery, but accepted it when?

The true horror of
slavery is shown in the way that blacks and whites can play together as children but then, as
they gradually grow older, are forced to lead very different lives that remove them from each
other. This is of course shown in the example of Nigel, who was the playmate of Rufus as a boy.
However, as an adult, he obviously lives and moves in a very different kind of
world....

What were the eight simple, short words that changed Elie's life forever?

The eight
short words that change Elie's life forever are "Men to the left! Women to the
right!"

These are the words barked at Elie and the other prisoners by an
SS guard after they arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Upon arrival, the prisoners
are divided up according to gender. This means that Elie's family, like so many others, is torn
apart. For many families like Elie's, this separation was the last time they saw each other;
this is precisely what happens in Elie's case. He and his father are ushered off to the left
with the other men, while his mother and sister go off with the other women. Elie does not
realize it at the time, but he will never see his mother and sister again. That's why those
eight little words change his life forever.

Why do you think the poet decided to give so many details about the fish in the poem "The Fish"?

provides a
great deal of descriptive information about the fish because she wants the reader to have a very
clear understanding of what has been caught. This is no ordinary fish. This creature is
"tremendous" in size and amazing in appearance. Instead of smooth scales, his age was
apparent.

his brown skin hung in strips
like
ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like
wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age

Most notable of all, however, was the evidence that this fish was a
fighter. It had been caught and had escaped from other anglers in battles from long
ago.

from his lower lip...
hung five
old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still
attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.

Recognizing what these remains indicate about the fish now caught,
the poet at first is "filled up" with pride at having succeeded in catching this
prize. Upon further consideration, however, the poet concludes that the fish is too magnificent,
too deserving of respect in homage to his age and experience, to become a stuffed trophy on a
wall. "And I let the fish go."

Bishop wanted readers to
understand the wonder of the fish, and the reasons for letting it go. Lots of details were
needed to convey this information effectively.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a teenager? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a teenager?

I think the
teen years are extremely difficult for many people. You are trying to find your place in this
world, you are discovering the harsh truths of this world, you are trying to understand yourself
better, and going through way too many hormonal changes to even think straight. You are not a
"child" anymore, but you are still not an adult, but you have adult urges, and are
slowly gaining adult responsibilities.

I would never want to relive my teen
years. The only advantage I can think of is that you're young, very young.

Why is a work of art worth a huge amount of money?

There are
many ways in which to answer this question. Let me make a few points.

First,
not all works of art are worth a lot of money. Some will never be worth a great amount, even if
it is a good piece of work. There are other factors that have a bearing on price.

Second, when it comes to price, there are several factors: skill of artist, public
willingness to purchase, and level of rareness.

The skill of the artist does
play a role. Some artists are singular in terms of their skills and creativity. People will pay
a premium for artists like Vincent van Gogh. He was groundbreaking.

The
public willingness to pay for art also hugely impacts price. In a strong economy, people will
pay much more and in a down economy, art work will be discounted.

Finally,
the most significant factor in the price of art is how rare a piece of work is. Originals will
fetch the greatest price, because there is only one. Signed lithographs also are very costly,
because there is a limited amount. The less of something, the more the
price.

What is film criticism? And what would you criticize in a film? and what would you criticise in a film

You can use
the same criteria for a novel, play or short story and apply it when evaluating a film. Such
aspects as setting, characters, plot or intrigue, symbolism and themes all need to be
considered.

As mentioned in the previous comment, a basic knowledge of
film-making and film jargon (terms) is needed as well. This is especially true when considering
the way a scene is shot (for example, a close range as opposed to a stock shot) and the manner
in which it is "set" into the rest of the fillm. Is a scene suddenly there or does it
fade or in or out?

A good source of study is Gore Vidal's television play
"Visit to a Small Planet" in the MacMillan edition Insights into Literature
since a glossary of such terms is provided.

 

What are the different types of conflicts that take place in "Hills Like White Elephants."

Perhaps one of the most
important elements of conflict which has not been suggested by the answer above is the way in
which the title suggests a larger conflict. It seems that there is a conflict between the
imagination and the ability to see in metaphors and the inability to use the imagination, as
expressed in Jig's ability to see the hills that surround them as if they were "white
elephants." This of course is linked to the question of the abortion.

Jig's reference to herresults in a squabble between the two lovers, which ends in Jig
deliberately choosing to dismantle her vision in an attempt to regain his love and affection.
Note what Jig says:

"They don't really look like
white elephants. I just mean the colouring of their skin through the trees."

Thus we can see in this comment the way that her abortion is
foreshadowed. Just as the imagination is conquered by a dull, practical view...

Which Ancient Principles Can Be Found In American Government Today?

Since the
first 2 posters covered political ties and architecture, I'll focus on art & philosophy. In
addition to finding the fundamental basis of our republic, the seeds of our ethical codes and
ideas of individual thought can be found in writings of Plato and Aristotle.  Many modern
educational techniques are rooted in the Socratic method. In fact, "Socratic seminars"
are a highly praised strategy in the classroom. Also, classical Greek tragedies have influenced
our contemporary theatre. The Greek dramatic tradition is alive in nearly every theatre in
America.

How did Americans see their natural rights as being infringed upon in the time before the Revolutionary War?

Actually, the
major complaint of the colonists was that they were denied their "rights as
Englishmen" as guaranteed under Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights of 1688. They
DID NOT want representation in Parliament, as the above post implies; such representation would
be infeasible considering the distances involved. What they did want--and demand--was that any
taxes levied on them be levied by their duly elected representatives, in this case the colonial
legislatures. They had paid taxes levied by the legislatures in the past; and had not raised
major objections to the Navigation Acts which had been instituted for regulatory purposes only.
They did resent--bitterly--Parliament's attempts to tax them for revenue
purposes only. This they believed was the sole province of their
assemblies.

Also, they believed their rights to trial by juries of their
peers was violated when customs cases were transferred to England. Colonial juries uniformly
found in favor of defendants charged with customs violations, and the British transferred
jurisdiction to British courts to increase the chances of conviction. This to the colonists
violated their rights under Magna Carta.

In the Declaration of Independence,
Jefferson lists a number of offenses by George III in great detail. The true sense of violation
of their rights--as Englishmen as well as their natural rights--is as set forth above. It is
well worth noting that even after the war commenced, the colonists sent George III an Olive
Branch Petition offering to return to his governance if they were only granted their rights as
Englishmen.

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How did Jesus view mankind in The Bronze Bow?

Jesus in regards
mankind as entirely equal. He associates with adults and children, man and women, Jews and
gentiles on exactly the same terms. He is happy to break with laws and traditions and shows that
he thinks people are too concerned with observing the letter of their man-made laws and do not
care enough about the spirit in which he believes God intended them to act. When someone
complains that they have not washed their hands before dinner, for instance, Jesus
replies:

Let us make sure that our hearts rather than our
hands are worthy to receive this gift.

Jesus's apparent
disregard for the law has upset the rabbis at the synagogue. However, Jesus never shows contempt
for those who observe the law and is generally less of a firebrand than the Biblical Jesus. He
behaves with consistent love and tolerance, though it sometimes appears that humanity makes him
rather tired, particularly when people abandon themselves to hatred.

How did the United States prepare for World War II?

Even though
the United States did not enteruntil the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, it had been
preparing for the likely possibility of joining the conflict for some time. Naval forces around
the Pacific had been actively operating drills and exercises to stay sharp and prepare as
tensions with Japan increased. As the Japanese Empire expanded closer to the Philippines,
President Franklin Roosevelt issued a national emergency declaration that gave him significant
authority to oversee military and civilian coordination.

As late as 1940,
Roosevelt had been corresponding frequently with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill about
contingencies should the United States join the conflict. Although he assured the nation that he
planned to keep the United States neutral, privately he wanted to join the fight against
fascism. The two leaders frequently discussed how the countries would assist each other in the
war. In fact, diplomatic missions between the United States and Great Britain, the Soviet Union,
and China increased significantly during this time.

Roosevelt also bolstered
the Office of Naval Intelligence in its efforts to gather information through clandestine
operations around the globe. US intelligence officers were stationed in many countries involved
in the war to gather as much useful information as possible.

Aware that the
United States might become a target as a result of its support of Allied forces, coastal
defenses were built up around major American ports. The country also instituted a draft in 1940
to shore up its defense forces: the only peacetime draft in the country's history. The pre-war
period was also marked by increased military recruiting.

Furthermore, the
manufacturing of supplies and equipment vital to the war effort was ramped up, particularly the
production of munitions, tanks, military trucks, and warplanes. In fact, after the fall of
France in 1940, Roosevelt asked Congress for one billion dollars to be used in warplane
manufacturing.

Roosevelt also reconvened the National Defense Advisory
Commission (NDAC). This body of industry leaders and public consumers was first created during
World War I. It served to advise the government and act alongside it to implement private sector
efforts to prepare for war. In January of 1941, the president replaced the relatively toothless
NDAC with the Office of Production Management (OPM). This body was charged with encouraging
industrial production to aid a potential war effort.

How does the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) compare and contrast with the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)? What changes would you suggest to...

This is a
great question, as we often hear these different terms in the news. Let's start by defining what
each is.

The Uniform Crime Report is overseen by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and is comprised of data from nearly 20,000 city, federal, county, and state
law enforcement agencies, according to the FBI website. Note here that the UCR then is made up
of crime data from law enforcement agencies.

The National Crime Victimization
Survey relies on data collected from households, as the name implies. It is overseen by the
Bureau of Justice Statistics.

With any data collection, it is going to be
impossible to collect data on every single crime committed. There are a few ways we could make
the data more reliable. First, while nearly 20,000 agencies is not comprehensive, it is still a
large amount of data. We can take the data from the UCR and compare it to the National Crime
Victimization Survey to judge the accuracy of both.

Second, both reports
could benefit by trying to be...

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href="https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr">https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr

What are the things that symbolize good in A Wrinkle in Time?

Some of the things that symbolize good (aside from the
good witches) are love, humility and wisdom, light, dance, Meg's name: these all add up to the
human heart and brain working together, which is, of course, theof (the opposite of) the symbol
of pure evil represented by the bodiless brain that...

How does the author of Oedipus Rex use dramatic irony to create tension?

The interaction
betweenand the blind prophet, , creates a great deal of tension as a result of dramatic .
Oedipus calls the prophet to the palace in order to gain some insight into Laius's murder.
However, when Teiresias refuses to tell Oedipus what he knows, Oedipus becomes irate and accuses
Teiresias of being in cahoots with his own brother-in-law (and uncle), . He rashly claims that
they must be plotting against him to put Creon on the throne. Oedipus rails against the prophet,
insulting and mocking him, his own anger growing and growing. All the while, the audience knows
that Teiresias is only trying to protect Oedipus from the all-too-painful truth: that the king
has, in fact, killed his own father and married and sired children with his mother. Their
interaction builds tension as it creates so much anger within the tragic hero, causing him to
behave impulsively and without due consideration of the warnings he is given by well-meaning
others.

What is ironic about the newscaster?

The
premise of 's short story "" is that in this futuristic society, everyone has become
equal. Anyone who has an extraordinary talent or any kind of superior physical attributes is
handicapped in various ways by the Handicapper General's office so that no one has an unfair
advantage over anyone else.

Theof the newscaster is that he can't do his job.
He has a speech impediment that makes it impossible for him to report the news. He ends up
handing the news bulletin to a ballerina who had been dancing on the show before the news
bulletin that interrupts programming. The narrator explains in the story that all news
announcers had a speech impediment, but stops short of saying that it is a handicap they all
receive. Readers can infer that there is a good possibility that all news announcers receive a
speech impediment as a handicap or that they are chosen for the job due to their challenges.
Either way, it is ironic that someone whose job it is to report the news is unable to do so due
to speech difficulties.

The television program was
suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was
about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half
a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, "Ladies and
Gentlemen." He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read. "That's
all right," Hazel said of the announcer, "he tried. That's the big thing. He tried to
do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so
hard."

"Ladies and Gentlemen," said the ballerina, reading the
bulletin.

Atticus Finch Quotes With Page Numbers

"Simply
because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to
win" A.F. pg. 76

"Jack!  When a child asks you something, answer
him, for goodness' sake.  But don't make a production of it.  Children are children, but they
can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles them."  A.F.
87

"I told you that if you hadn't lost your head, I'd have made you go
read to her.  I wanted you to see something about her- I wanted you to see what real courage is,
instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand." A.F.
112

What is the irony in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

There are
three major situational ironies in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Situational ironies
occur when events in a story work out differently than characters or readers might
anticipate.

In the first situational , the Grandmother discovers that all the
defenses she has surrounded herself with to set herself apart are meaningless when she finally
does meet an existential threat to her existence. For example, she makes a great deal of fuss
over dressing in the hat and frock of a "lady," thinking this will gain her respect
and protection. However, when she tries to appeal to the Misfit on the basis of herself as a
lady and he as coming from "good" people, this has no resonance with the
Misfit.

Money, which also gives her a sense of protection, is another item
she offers the Misfit. The idea that he should exchange her money for her life is laughable from
the outset: the Misfit knows he can take her money as soon as she is dead, and he treats her
proposal with the appropriate...

How was the Progressive Party important in the Progressive Era?

While the
Progressive Era was very important, most of the progressive actions were taken by the Democratic
and Republican Parties.  The Progressive Party (better known as the Bull Moose Party) was not
very important.  In fact, its main importance comes from the fact that its existence allowed
Woodrow Wilson to win the presidential election of 1912.

In 1912, Theodore
Roosevelt lost in his attempt to supplant President Taft as the Republican nominee for
president.  When this happened, he and others created the Progressive Party.   The presence of
Roosevelt and the Progressive Party split the Republican vote in the election and allowed Wilson
to win with 42% of the popular vote.

Who does Stanley's family blame for all of their problems in Holes?

Stanley
Yelnats and the members of his family blame their bad luck and misfortune on their
"no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." According to Stanley's
family history, his great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, once "stole" a pig from an
old woman in his town, and as a result, she cursed Elya along with all of his descendants.
Because of this family legend, whenever something goes awry in the Yelnats family, they all
blame Elya for their problems.

Later in the story, the audience learns that,
when Elya Yelnats was very young, he fell in love with an attractive (but empty-headed girl)
girl: Myra Menke. When Elya sought her hand in marriage, another man had already approached her
father asking for her hand. So Myra's father requested both men to give him a pig, declaring
that whoever had the fattest pig could therefore have his daughter. Elya knew that he had no
chance of bringing Myra's father a fatter pig than Igor Barkov, so he solicits advice and help
from one of his friendsan old woman named Madame Zeroni.

After trying to
dissuade him from his choice of bride, Madame Zeroni proceeded to give Elya a little piglet,
instructing him to carry the pig every day to the top of a mountain where the water flows
upstream. She told him that if he sang a special song to the pig while it drank, it would become
very large. She promised that, by the day of Myra's fifteenth birthday (when he and Igor would
need to present their pigs), Elya's pig would be bigger than Igor's, and Elya would win Myra's
hand in marriage.

However, Madame Zeroni also instructed Elya that he needed
carry her up the mountain and sing to her as she drank from the stream in
exchange for her help and the pig. Unfortunately, Elya forgets his end of the bargain, and he
leaves Latvia (after deciding that Myra is not worth marrying) without carrying Madame Zeroni up
the mountain.

And ever since Elya ignored Madame Zeroni's instructions, his
family has suffered an incredible streak of terrible luck (culminating in the events that land
Stanley at Camp Green Lake), leading them to attribute all of this bad luck to Madame Zeroni's
curse. It is only after Stanley carries Zero, Madame Zeroni's descendant, to the top of God's
Thumb while singing to him that the long-standing family curse is broken.

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In Animal Farm, what happens to Boxer?

In ,has a
split hoof and it take a long time to heal. He does get somewhat better, but as the work
progresses in building the windmill, he collapses from overexertion. When this happens, some of
the animals tell . Squealer says that they will bring him to a human hospital to get him
cured. 

When the truck comes to take Boxer, Benjamin reads the sign on the
truck and he realizes that Boxer is going to a slaughter house to be made into glue. The other
animals scream. Here is what the text says:

€˜Alfred
Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels
Supplied. Do you not understand what that means? They are taking Boxer to the
knackers!'

A cry of horror burst from all the animals.

Later Squealer tries to tell the animals that the human hospital
bought the truck from the knacker but did not change the sign. It was all a lie, of
course. 

What we see here is theof Boxer, the hardest working animal, who is
killed when he can no longer produce. 

What is Higgins' attitude toward Eliza's feelings in Act IV?

Act IV
begins to illustrate a change in Higgins' attitude towards Eliza. When Pickering, Higgins, and
Eliza return to the Wimpole Street laboratory after the party, both Higgins and Pickering
proceed to freely discuss the night's happenings.

While Pickering admits that
he was nervous during the evening, Higgins maintains that he became immediately bored when he
realized that they were going to win the bet. Higgins then continues to speak insensitively
about how weary he became of training Eliza after the newness of teaching phonetics to a novice
wore off. Meanwhile, Pickering insists that the venture was well worth the time and effort; as
both continue to discuss their thoughts about the evening, neither Higgins nor Pickering bothers
to acknowledge Eliza's presence in the room.

Meanwhile, Eliza has brought
Higgins' slippers to him, but he hardly notices her efforts to make him comfortable. Greatly
offended, Eliza eventually throws the slippers at Higgins, and this prompts a measure of
corresponding anger from the man. Eliza accuses Higgins of having no more consideration for her
than he does for his inanimate slippers. She thinks he is self-absorbed and callous in his
disregard of her and demands to know what will happen to her now that she has won his bet for
him.

Meanwhile, Higgins refuses to acknowledge Eliza's efforts; he angrily
maintains that it was he who had won the bet, and he accuses Eliza of being presumptuous.
Higgins' attitude towards Eliza is one of paternal concern; he thinks that she is emotionally
overwrought by the whole affair and that she just needs to sleep her anxiety away. However,
Eliza finds his attitude patronizing and she continues to press Higgins for more details about
her future. Insensitively, Higgins suggests that Eliza might marry or even open her own
florist's shop.

The exchange ends on an emotional note. Eliza angrily returns
the ring Higgins had given to her in happier moments, while Higgins accuses his protege of being
a 'heartless guttersnipe' who is ungrateful for all he has done for her. So, you can see that
Higgins' attitude towards Eliza evolves from initial incredulity at her offended feelings to
actual distaste and mortification at her sullen anger.

What traits does Harrison Bergeron have?

For every
quality of physical or mental excellencepossesses, there is a corresponding handicap that he
must wear to bring his abilities down to the level of the "average" person so that all
members of the society can be equal. Thus, because he is wonderfully
handsome, he has to wear a "rubber-ball nose" to make him
look like a clown and black caps on his teeth. Because he is highly
intelligent, he must wear not just a "little mental handicap radio in his
ear," but a "tremendous pair of earphones." He also wears eyeglasses that would
cause headaches and interfere with his vision to further hamper his intellect. Instead of a
simple bag of birdshot around his neck like his father wears, he has scrap metal hanging all
over him because he is so strong and powerful. He is
seven feet tall, and there is nothing the handicappers can do to
hide that. He is also non-compliant, which creates a problem for
his dystopian keepers. He can dance gracefully while hovering in
the air. Despite Harrison's god-like attributes, he is not impervious to
bullets, succumbing easily to Diana Moon Glampers' "double-barreled
ten-gauge shotgun." 

What does Hammurabi's Code tell us about the status of women in Mesopotamia and the relationship between social hierarchy and justice in Mesopotamia?...

Hammurabi's Code creates a picture of a society that was, by
modern standards, extremely patriarchal and highly stratified by class. On the other hand,
despite that stratification, the paternalism of the code as well as its introductory remarks,
emphasize that with such power comes responsibility and that the king was responsible for
enforcing a form of divine justice that emphasized protecting the weak from the impunity of the
wealthy and powerful.

In general, rather than justice being applied
uniformly, how a crime was punished depended on the social status and gender of both the victim
and perpetrator of a crime. Women and slaves lacked economic and personal freedom and yet did
have some recourse to the law in the case of mistreatment.

Both Spartan and
Athenian society had class and social inequalities, with slavery accepted and women having few
rights. The Spartans tended to emphasize military prowess more as a virtue and the Athenians
education and culture.

What persuasive techniques are used in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech?

Martin Luther
Kings I Have a Dream speech is one of the most often studied, cited, and referenced speeches
in American history. While its true that some of its appeal is derived from the context of its
creation and delivery (the 1963 civil rights watershed moment called the March on Washington),
its power is chiefly due to the effective use of the persuasive and rhetorical techniques that
we all studied in high school.

In reading the text of Kings speech, it doesnt
take long to uncover several of those techniques. Lets look at the second paragraph.

Technique: Transfer

Transfer is used to
link the speakers cause with something else, usually something that is well respected and
accepted. If it works, some of that respect and acceptance is transferred to the speakers
cause.

Five score years ago, href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln">a great American, in
whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the href="https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents">Emancipation
Proclamation.

Listeners knew that King was
referring to Abraham Lincoln, a president who is now revered as possibly the greatest American
leader. By mentioning Lincoln, King sought to align the civil rights cause with Lincolns
reputation, which would give it a legitimacy that some Americans were not yet willing to
recognize. Respect and acceptance is transferred from Lincoln to the civil rights
movement.

Technique: Emotive words

Emotive words are words used to create an emotional response from the reader. This
usually involves taking a simple idea and phrasing it with words that will sway the readers
perception. The following line does this well.

This
momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope
to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of
withering injustice.

King could have
said this instead: The Emancipation Proclamation gave hope to enslaved
negroes. By using the italicized words, King elicits a stronger, emotion-based
response from the reader.

Persuasive Technique: Figurative
language (more specifically,and symbol).

The third and final
sentence of the paragraph is:

It came as a joyous daybreak
to end the long night of their captivity.

This persuasive
technique is also a common rhetorical device. We call it persuasive here because its function is
to convince listeners to agree with the speaker.

Speakers and writers create
metaphors and symbols to help define their ideas. By telling what something is by comparing it
to something else, they shape the listeners perception of their message. The words joyous
daybreak and long night are figurative terms, they are not literally true. The slaves did not
suffer for just one long night, it was really many thousands of nights. And their freedom wasnt
really a daybreak, it was a legal right conferred upon them. But by using these metaphors,
King imparts a greater emotional power to the idea that Lincoln freed the slaves from one kind
of tyranny, although, as evidenced by the marchers protests, not all kinds of tyranny.

Near the end of the speech, Kings tone changes a bit. He knows that many Americans are
not yet accepting of minorities as their equals.

Technique:
Fear

And there will be
neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship
rights.

The fear King is stoking here is the fear of
civil unrest. While he is not directly encouraging violent protest (in fact in directly argues
against it in a subsequent paragraph), he knows that many Americans have been dismayed by the
scenes they have witnessed on television, as protesters have been attacked and riots have
occurred. He is appealing to their fear of further violence and protest (note that the violence
was almost always committed by whites against the protesters, not the other way
around).

As you can see, there is a lot going on in this speech. King also
uses other techniques, such as repetition, parallel structure, , slogan, etc.

We should also note that this speech is exceptional because of Kings oratorical skills.
He can deliver a speech with charisma and power. If you havent actually seen and heard the
speech yourself, watch it on YouTube (or wherever). Theres no better speech anywhere.

 

Describe the presence of colonialism in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Colonialism
is defined as...

...the
establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people
from another territory. 

England was for a long while, by
far the most powerful and widely spread colonial empire in the world. For instance, there were
the American colonies, as well as a British presence in China and India. In fact, it is only in
the last ten years that Hong Kong reverted from the English back to China.

Colonization occurred primarily in...

...the late
15th to the 20th century...the justifications for colonialism included...Christian
missionary work, the profits to be made, the expansion of the power of the href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/metropolis?s=t"
title="Metropolis/Metropole">metropole and various religious and
political beliefs.

Portugal was, at one time, a dominant
colonial force in Europe, as was Spain. Their position as colonial powers faltered in the
seventeenth century, while England and France surged ahead to become the prevailing world
powers. 

In DeFoe's , colonialism is clearly apparent.
To put the literary work into its proper context, it should be noted that the story was
published in 1719, and England was enjoying the prosperity of the American colonies. England had
adopted the stance that "God is on the side of the English" during Queen Elizabeth I's
reign (after defeating the Spanish Armadathe strongest naval fleet in the world); this attitude
had not diminished. Surely it only increased as the nation's holdings increased, which also
included "islands in the West Indies."

Based upon the time in which
it was written, Crusoe would have found the benefits of his country's "international
policy" in keeping with his own capitalist endeavors. Colonialism is seen in the story
after Crusoe leaves the islandfor while he is there, he realizes that the things he valued in
England, Brazil and on his travels revolved around money. He has no need of money on the island,
but he does value materials that will aid in his survivalsuch as gunpowder and fresh water.
Returning to civilization, his desire for money emerges again.

When I took leave of this island, I carried...the money I formerly mentioned, which had
lain by me so long useless that it was grown rusty or tarnished, and could hardly pass for
silver...

Colonialism is also seen in how Crusoe treats
Friday once they leave the island. Crusoe's answer to prayer, one who he looked to like a son,
he "civilizes" so that he can become a part of the great land of England, but not as a
brother or friendonly as a servant. ("My man Friday" indicates a sense of servility on
Friday's part, and "ownership" on Crusoe's...even though he was technically not a
slave. This reflects the English's attitude towards natives of countries which they href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/assimilate?s=t"
title="assimilate">assimilated.

...my man Friday accompanying me very honestly in all these ramblings, and proving a
most faithful servant upon all occasions.

Finally, we see
a clear representation of colonization with regard to Crusoe's island. He
has discovered and claimed itin the same spirit as England's explorers and military leaders had
claimed England's own colonies. When he is rescued, the ship's captain tells the mutineers that
Crusoe is employed by "the governor."

Crusoe "owns" the
island and instructs those living there just as if he were the
"governor" or political leaderjust as any British colony would be governed.

Additional Source:

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What is the genre of Animal Farm?

The genre
ofis defined as a long work of prose . The first component of the genre is that it is written in
prose, as opposed to verse or poetry. The term "fiction" means that it is concerned
with imaginary people or events. Unlike such nonfiction genres as history or autobiography,
fictional works are not primarily focused on the lives or actions of real people. Short works of
prose fiction are called "short stories," medium length works are called novellas, and
long works (usually over 40,000 words) are called novels.

Another major
generic distinction is between novels and plays or dramas. A play consists primarily of dialogue
and is meant to be performed by actors pretending to be the characters the author has imagined.
A novel is designed to be read rather than performed and usually contains a mixture of dialogue
and narration.

There are many different types or "subgenres" of
novels. Animal Farm can be described as an "animal story" because
its main characters are animals, and as an "" because the animal characters represent
certain human character types. The use of animals to represent moral types of humans is
characteristic of the "," although traditional fables tend to be very short and
simple. Finally,himself referred to the work as a fairytale.

Can you give me a questionnaire about the following topic: science fiction and fantasy in literature? SCI_FIC IN AVATAR AND THE FANTASY IN THE LORD OF...

I would
say that the short answer is no, I am not sure anyone can devise a questionnaire for you
because the specific elements have not been identified. Any questionnaire must address some
fundamental issues such as what is being identified through the questions, or what hopes to be
accomplished through it. These are not present in...

How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 kmhr? What is the formula with givens: Time, Distance, Speed...

Hello!

The formula for an
average speed is a distance travelled divided by a time spent,

`V=d/t.`

 

In our problem the average speed `V`
and the distance `d` are given, and we are looking for the time `t.` It is simple to find
it:

`t=d/V.`

In numbers it is  `(350km)/(80 (km)/h)=`
4.375 hours, or 4 hours and 22.5
minutes.

What is the historical context in Octavia Butler's novel Kindred?

s 1979
novel takes place in two periods of time, 1976, when the , Dana, has just
turned 26 years-old, and 1819, decades before the Civil War would finally put an end to
slavery.  Dana resides in Altadena, California, which is in Los Angeles County.  On that day in
1976, she is for the first time mysteriously transported back in time to a plantation on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland where slavery was very much a part of the local industry.  As Dana
notes with respect to the peculiarity of her situation,

Time travel was sciencein nineteen seventy-six. In eighteen nineteen - Rufus was
right - it was sheer insanity.

The Rufus to whom Dana
refers is Rufus Weylin, the son of a slave owner, and a troubled boy whose survival, Dana
discovers, is essential to her eventual birth.  Not unlike the film Back to the Future, but of
considerably greater moral weight, Dana discovers that she must ensure not only Rufus survival,
but that of Alice, the daughter of a free black who becomes enslaved as a consequence of helping
another slave escape the plantation.  Alice is impregnated by Rufus, beginning a lineage that
eventually produces Dana.

What is hurlyburly?

Hurlyburly is an old-fashioned expression,
though one still occasionally in use today, which refers to something loud, chaotic, or unruly
going on. An alternative might be "hubbub" or "ruckus."

In , the expression is used by the Second Witch in the play's
opening scene:

When the
hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and
won.

The Witch is referring here to the chaos and
bloodshed of the nearby battle, where the braveis in the process of distinguishing himself in 's
service by leading a decisive rout of enemy forces.

The above lines come in
response to a question from the First Witch as to when the Weird Sisters will meet again. The
Second Witch says that this will happen when all the hurlyburly, or noise and chaos, of battle
is over, and one side has won and the other lost. Once the battle is safely out of the way, the
Weird Sisters will be able to tell Macbeth of their prophecies, thus planting the demon seed of
ambition in his mind.

Thehere, of course, is thatare about to create quite a
bit of hurlyburly themselves. By encouraging Macbeth's ambitions, they will unleash chaos,
disorder, and bloodshed upon the kingdom of Scotland. In other words, they need to wait for the
hurlyburly of battle to subside before they can create their own very special brand of
hurlyburly.

Explain how Ruskin Bond uses irony in the story ''The Eyes Are Not Here."

The Eyes
Are Not Here [also known as The Girl on the Train and The Eyes Have It] is a short story by
Ruskin Bond, an Indian writer. The story exudes . The story uses first person point of view. 
Not far into the story, the reader discovers that the narrator is blind but apparently has not
always been.  Riding on a train and sitting in a compartment provides the setting of the
story. 

This story is an excellent example of situational
irony which employs a plot device in which events turn out contrary to
expectation yet are contrarily appropriate.  Further use of irony involves verbal
irony when a character says one thing but means another.

The
narrator listens as a couple sends their daughter off on the train to visit an aunt.
  Initiating the conversation, the narrator becomes intrigued by the girls voice.  She is quite
surprised to find someone else in the compartment.

Hoping to keep her from
realizing that he is blind, he describes the scenery from his memories. He asks the girl a
question, and she tells him to look out the window for himself. 

To continue
the ruse, the narrator tells the girl that she has an interesting face.  She remarks that people
normally tell her that she has a pretty face. Her trip is short, so soon she gathers her things
and bids good-bye to the blind man.  One thing that he remembered after she left was her
perfume. 

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you
will, but the scent of the roses will linger there still€¦

A man coming into the berth runs into the girl. The blind man decides to play a game
with this new train companion. Pretending to be observing the scenery, the blind man stays
silent.  Finally, the other man comments that the narrator must be disappointed that the new
fellow traveler is not as nice looking as the girl. Remarking that she was interesting, the
narrator ask about the girls hair. 

Finally, the cat is out of the
bag:

€˜I dont remember, he said, sounding puzzled.  €˜It
was her eyes I noticed, not her hair.  She had beautiful eyes but they were of no use to her. 
She was completely blind.  Didnt you notice?

Much like
the endings of O. Henry, the reader receives an extra jolt at the end of the story when he
learns as does the narrator that the girl was blind.  The blind man was not only able to fool
the young girl but himself as well.  Both blind-- neither realizes that the other one is as
well. Ironically, the narrator makes a statement that had he not been trying to fool the girl,
it might have clued him into her blindness:

Well, it often
happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.

The new travel mate does not grasp that the man is blind either
until he admits that he did not know how long the girls hair was. 

Mason
Cooley stated: Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. The truth here is that
everyone was duped.  Ironically, Bond employs two blind people as his main characters, yet
neither knows that the other is blind. After listening to the parents conversation with the
daughter, the narrator could not distinguish any unusual advice or information that led him to
believe the girl had any handicap herself.  The narrator fooled himself. Apparently, he also
misleads the girl because she did not realize that her fellow traveler was blind
either.  

What might Romeo have written in his final letter to his father? What might Romeo have written in his final letter to his father?

My guess
is that 's final letter to his father would mirror his final speech in Act 5, Scene 3 of
.  This speech, of course, reveals Romeo's despair in losing hisand has a
hint of happiness and honor in finding a final resting place near Romeo's great love.  Seeing
that Romeo's audience would be his father, I'm guessing that Romeo would stress the great honor
in his act of sacrifice as well as the greatin his proximity toand .  Finally, in considering
the number of times that Romeo and Juliet curse the dreaded feud between their families, I'm
sure Romeo would include this in his final letter as well.  This would, of course, be a
wonderful precursor to the actual end to the feud caused by the death of Romeo and
Juliet.

In Guilliver's Travels, what two accidents hurt Gulliver while he is in the garden of the court?

In
Gullivers Travels, Gulliver goes to the garden of the court in part 2,
chapter 5. There he is seen as extremely small among the large people of Brobdingnag, and his
stature makes him extremely vulnerable to injury and danger. In the garden, Gulliver has all
sorts of adventures, like rowing a boat in a river created by the queen and outrunning giant
falling apples.

The two instances where Gulliver is hurt occur because of
animals that happen on him in the garden. The first is when he is interacting with birds in the
garden. Gulliver attempts to attack one of the birds and capture it, but the bird is close to
his size, and it wakes up...

Why does Mollie run away from the farm in Animal Farm?

The
venerablecomposed the lyrics to "Beasts of England" in 's novel,
. The song was "a stirring tune," meant to be sung to the music
similar to "My Darling Clementine" and "La Cucaracha." Once it was
determined that "Beasts of England" was no longer pertinent,led a group of sheep for a
week's practice. When he presented the new song, it was a simple one: "Four legs good, two
legs better!" It marked the first appearance of the pigs walking on two
legs.

Why does Emerson say The use of nature history is to give us aid in supernatural history. The use of the outer creation, to give us language for...

This
passage comes from the fourth section of s major essay (1836). This essay is one of the
defining documents of the nineteenth-century American literary, intellectual, and spiritual
movement known as . Indeed, the quote you have selected demonstrates the essence of
Transcendentalist ideas.

Transcendentalists believed that spiritual truths
extend throughout all of creation, and that those truths can be grasped by an individual persons
intuition alone. That is, individuals can realize the truth simply by contemplating
nature/creation, without the aid of anything elseindependent of science, organized religion,
etc. To put it another way that gets at the name of the movement, spiritual truth
transcends creation.

With that in mind, we can turn back
to the quote from Nature. The fourth section of Nature is titled Language, and in it,
Emerson focuses on how the words we use everyday point to truth.

Lets take
the first part: The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history. Its
perhaps surprising to say that natural history (another way of describing science) points to
spiritual or super-natural ideas. But Emerson says this is absolutely clear from the language we
use. He provides specific examples of words, looking at them etymologically. For instance, he
says, the word spirit originally meant simply wind, and transgression originally meant
to cross a line in a completely literal sense. All of the ideas we have about spiritual ideas
like spirit, Emerson says, are rooted in our experience of the material world (phenomena like
wind). Since observation of the material world is also key to science/natural history, this
means that experiencing nature, no matter the reason, ultimately leads to spiritual
truth.

To put it another way, this means, once again, that truth transcends
the different ways we approach nature or purposes we have for observing it. The second half of
the quote can now be understood to say essentially the same thing as the first half: the use
of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
Experiencing and describing nature (a.k.a. outer creation) gives us, in a very literal sense,
the words that in the end turn into the language we use to talk about the mind, soul, or spirit
(a.k.a. inward creation).

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Situational Irony In Romeo And Juliet

In
this scene,andhave witnessedclimb the wall surrounding the Capulet property and jump into their
garden. They desperately wish him to be with them and cry out to him, to no avail; Romeo is deaf
to their call, for he has only one purpose in mind - to be with .

Mercutio,
in order to see Romeo, mentions that he will use magic to at least see or hear his friend utter
even a sigh. He beseeches Romeo to say but one loving word, so that he may know that he is
unharmed. However, his appeal goes unanswered. He realises that Romeo is not going to respond to
his call and that he must "conjure" him, making references to
Rosaline. Because of this, Romeo would appear to them.

Benvolio comments that if Mercutio should use Rosaline's
name in such a way, Romeo would be upset, but
Mercutio says that he only wishes to "raise" Romeo, i.e. awaken him, make him respond
to their call, and therefore it is fair that he should so 'abuse' Rosaline's name.

The situationallies in the fact that Benvolio and Mercutio are under the impression
that Romeo is in love with Rosaline and all their remarks revolve around her. Mercutio's lewd
sexual references have Rosaline as the subject. The two are completely unaware of
the fact that Romeo has now fallen head-over-heels in love with Juliet and any references to
Rosaline would have no effect on him at this point.

Furthermore, they are next to the Capulets' wall yet they speak about
Rosaline, when in actuality, they should be making references to Juliet. However, they do not
know of Romeo's new romantic interest.

How does Boyne show the effect that Bruno's disappearance has on his family in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

I think
that the breakup of the family reflects the seismic effect of Bruno's disappearance.  When he
disappears, his mother and sister leave for Berlin, convinced that he would have gone there.
 His father remains at Auschwitz and searches for his son.  In the end, this shows the effect
that Bruno's disappearance has on his family.  They could not progress with their life as if
nothing had happened.  Bruno's role in the family and his absence created such a great hole that
the family experienced fragmentation.  Boyne creates a setting in which Bruno's importance is
accentuated when he disappears.  It is at this moment that the Holocaust has become a
personalized reality for the family, something that the father already knows and recognizes in
his revelation.  

Bruno's absence enables the pain of the world constructed
by the Holocaust to be realized in the most intense of manners.  It is for this reason that his
disappearance has a profound impact on the family at the conclusion of Boyne's work. It is in
this light that the effect of Bruno's disappearance is extremely significant in the narrative.
 When Bruno leaves, the sense of transcendence from the world disappears with it.  The reality
of the world comes crashing down on the family, resulting in the family's scattering apart from
one another.

Summarize Acts One and Two of The Crucible.

In Act One, Betty
Parris, the daughter of the minister, has taken ill, and Reverend Parris doesn't know why. He is
especially concerned, however, because -- last night -- he found his niece and daughter and a
number of other local girls dancing in the woods, one naked, while his Barbadian slave chanted
and swayed over the fire. News has already gotten out about his daughter's illness because
another girl in town, Ruth Putnam, has taken ill too. Her parents arrive and confess that they
charged Ruth to go to Tituba, the slave, and try to conjure the spirits of the seven dead Putnam
babies in an effort to find out what (or who) killed them. The Putnams suspect it was witchcraft
and fear for Ruth's life now that she is ill. When the girls are left alone, Betty says that
Abigail also drank blood and used a...

Why do Elie and his father leave Buna?

They
really have no choice in the matter; either they must leave or stay put in the infirmary. And
that's no choice at all because both Elie and his father are convinced that the SS will not let
them live. Rumors have been swirling around the camp that the Red Army are fast approaching. The
Germans decide to evacuate the camp; it's now only a matter of time before the Russians arrive.
Having treated Russian prisoners of war so appallingly, the Germans can expect the same
treatment if they fall into enemy hands.

Elie and his father figure out that
if they leave with the Germans, they still have a much better chance at survival than if they
stay behind in the infirmary. They'll be put on a forced march, one that will be brutal and
unforgiving, but they feel that this is their best shot at making it through their terrifying
ordeal. More than anything else, they want to live, and this they feel is the best course of
action.

What is the Narrator Trying to Tell us in "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison?

Part of the message, as
I take it, is that the boys in the fight are desperate and terrified. Their relationship to the
society they live in is, essentially, one of abuse. 

These boys are so needy
that they agree to this crazy fight, where they hurt one another and humiliate
themselves.

They seek approval from the people who humiliate them. There is a
sickness at the bottom of the message, in my view.

"" presents a startling scene of violence, naivet© and economic
powera scene that implies the philosophical depth behind the institutions of racism and the
pathos of asserting an identity in the shadow of historical .

In America and Western Culture today, how do the areas of education (university) and our forms of entertainment (literary, visual, performing arts)...

One of
the most important values of what many people consider Western culture is democracy. The
related rights of all humans, from ideas that were developed during and after the Enlightenment,
pertain to self-governance and the concomitant responsibility to be good citizens. In U.S.
universities, there are numerous departments and programs in which democratic ideals and
practices, and related concepts of civil rights and human rights, are usually taught. These
include history, the social sciences including political sciences and sociology, and
interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies and African American Studies. Within the
realm of entertainment, ideas about rights and democracy have recently received considerable
attention. The popularity of Lin-Manuel Mirandas musical, Hamilton, is
especially notable in this regard as few people predicted that a musical about the Founding
Fathers would become a smash hit.Its role in encouraging Americans to reflect on the early days
of the republic and the principles it embodied has become known as the Hamilton
effect.

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What is an internal and external conflict in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

The
story is set during the American Civil War, so one external conflict that is present is the
conflict that is raging between the Union and the Confederacy.  The war was over many things,
but the two main issues were states' rights and slavery.  

Another external
conflict is the conflict between Peyton and the Union soldiers that are going to hang him.
 Peyton was caught trying to sabotage a bridge, and his punishment is death by hanging.
 Peyton's escape could be viewed as an external conflict.  He is struggling to not drown, get
shot, etc.  Of course that is all happening in his imagination, so maybe it is an internal
conflict too.  

A better choice for internal conflict is the conflict going
on inside of Peyton before he gets captured.  The story tells readers that Peyton really wanted
to take a more active part in the war, but he was prevented from doing so for some reason.
 

Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is
unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which
had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the
inglorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier,
the opportunity for distinction. 

Now he has been given
the chance to earn some distinction for himself, but he must wrestle with the risk.  If he
fails, he will die and leave his family without a provider.  

Another
internal conflict occurs in the beginning of the story.  Peyton is about to be dropped to his
death, but he isn't panicking, nor is he begging for his life.  He could be doing either, but he
attempts to maintain a proud southern outward show of bravery.  Even seconds before he dies, he
is still thinking of escape.  

"If I could free my
hands," he thought, "I might throw off the noose and spring into the
stream."

Why were the mountains dear to him and terrible?

The
mountains are dear and terrible to Jody for two reasons. First, he knows little about the
mountains surrounding his home. They remain a mystery to him, and since he is not allowed to
explore them on his own, the mountains take on an added charm for him.

Second, the mountains are terrible to Jody because they are so imposing. They tower
above everything in his surroundings, and all he can see of them are jagged ridges and dangerous
cliffs.

To Jody, the mountains are a mystery. His parents know little about
them and aren't especially interested in the secrets they hold. When Jody voices his desire to
explore the mountains, his father scoffs at the notion. He tells Jody that there is nothing in
the mountains worth discovering. Meanwhile, his mother placates him with a reference to a line
from a popular children's song: "The bear went over the mountain, To see what he could
see."

Jody becomes exasperated and decides to ask Billy, the ranch hand,
about the possibility of there being ancient lost cities in the mountains. Billy's answer
corresponds with that of Jody's father. These unsatisfying answers further increase Jody's
curiosity about the mountains. The mountains are dear and terrible to him at the same time. They
represent an unknown but important aspect of his surroundings. Yet, their imposing heights are
terrifying to him.

How do Lyddie and Charlie react when their mom leaves them to live on a farm?

It's been
patently obvious for some time thatand Charlie's mother, Mattie, has been suffering from some
kind of mental illness ever since Papa left home. Since then, Mattie appears to have been
gripped by a religious mania, becoming obsessed about the end of the world, which she sees as
being imminent. She shares this crazed obsession with Lyddie's aunt Clarissa, and her husband,
Uncle Judah. It's no surprise, then, when she leaves Lyddie and Charles behind to go and live
with Clarissa and Judah on their farm.

As one can imagine, Lyddie and Charlie
are not exactly enthused by their mother taking off, especially as it was not that long ago that
their old man did much the same thing. Nevertheless, the Worthen siblings settle down to life on
their own and manage to make it through the winter without any serious problems. However, no
sooner have they become comfortable with the idea of fending for themselves than they receive
some terrible news. Mattie has written them a letter telling them that she's hired them out to
work: Lyddie will work at Cutler's Tavern, Charlie at Baker's Mill.

Lyddie's
immediate reaction on hearing the news is to burst into tears. Charlie tries to be more stoic
about it, but the anxiety on his face is there for all to see. Still, he manages to find
something to laugh about in his mother's appalling spelling. (She spells "hope" as
"hop.") And Lyddie joins with him in laughing, though, as she ruefully reflects, it's
the kind of laughter that feels very much like pain.

Simplify: `(3*c^-4*d^5)^2*12*c*d^-4`

The
expression `(3*c^-4*d^5)^2*12*c*d^-4` has to be simplified.

`(3*c^-4*d^5)^2*12*c*d^-4`

Use the...

Describe the purposes of rhetorical devices used in The Scarlet Letter, Chapter VII. I have identified the allusion of the Garden of Eden and...

Rhetorical
devices are persuasive devices.

In ,sets out withto the governor's mansion to
plead with him that she should be allowed to keep custody of Pearl. She has heard rumors that
people want to remove Pearl from her care under the theory that her adultery makes her an unfit
mother.

Hawthorne wants to persuade the reader to be on Hester's side as she
makes her way to face the governor. To do that, Hawthorne uses anto the David and Goliath story
from the Bible. This puts Hester in the position of a David, the underdog facing a far more
powerful opponent. It is a match:

between the public, on
the one side, and a lonely woman, backed by the sympathies of nature ...

However, we also notice Hester's assurance and courage, for to her
it seems "scarcely" unequal to go up alone against the combined weight of the
community.

Further, in a novel in which nature is often depicted as a good
vis-a-vis the artificial and stifling constraints of the Puritan social order,...

Compare Elliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with R. Frost's "The Road Not Taken."

These two poems make an interesting pair for comparison. In structure and form, they
are quite different; Eliot's Shakespearean allusions and internal rhyme make his poem a
modernist masterpiece that is, on the face of it, very different from Frost's
regularly-structured musing on the road "less traveled by." However, there is
certainly a point to be made about the similarities of theme between the two, with Prufrock's
eternal musings on the "decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse" standing
in contrast to Frost's speaker, who, ultimately, after looking down both possible paths,
"took the one less traveled by."

In both poems, the speakers muse
about how their decisions will be viewed in the future. Frost's speaker considers that, at some
future time, he will "be telling this with a sigh, / Somewhere ages and ages hence,"
perhaps wondering what would have happened if he had taken the other route. He is, after all,
"sorry I could not travel both." Eliot's Prufrock imagines...

What happens when you remove a price ceiling in a market?

The
answer to this depends on the situation. Historically, price ceilings are established when
prices have become very high due to extenuating circumstances, like rapid inflation. If there is
a very high demand for a good, establishing a price ceiling could limit supply, because the
profits that producers can get for providing the good or service would be limited. In this
situation, removing a price ceiling would incentivize producers to put more of the good or
service on the market. On the other hand, if there is a very high demand for the good or
service, it could lead to prices rising dramatically.

One example of this
phenomenon is housing in urban areas. It is in very high demandso much so that producers can
charge very high rents that are not affordable for anyone but very affluent people. In some
places, price ceilings have been established to check the phenomenon of
"gentrification," where many longtime residents are driven out of neighborhoods by
changes in demand. In this...

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To what form of life does the king first compare Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels?

We never
get to find out exactly what a splacknuck is, but we can fairly sure that to be likened to one
is hardly a flattering comparison. It certainly sounds pretty repulsive. In Lilliput, where
Gulliver is so much bigger than everyone else, he's something of a curiosity, a one-man freak
show providing endless fascination and amusement for the natives. Now Gulliver gets to see what
it's like for animals back in his own world. He discovers how it feels to be stared at, pointed
at, attacked, never fully accepted as an equal. Literally speaking he looks down on the
Lilliputians but in figurative terms they look down on him,...

Why were the Assyrians so strong?

There were a
number of factors that allowed the Assyrians to become the most feared fighting unit in the
world. Geography, especially the lack of natural protection from attack played an important
role. The Assyrians came to realize that their survival depended on a strong
national defense. King Tiglath Pileser III established, by decree, a standing
professional army that would be composed of highly trained
professional soldiers. The idea of a soldier working in the military as a full-time profession
was unique in the ancient world. This army was also the
best-equipped outfit in the entire world, particularly because of
their ability to produce a wide range of iron weapons.

Another aspect of the
Assyrian army that led to its success was the specialization of
jobs within the military. Some of these positions included infantry, bowmen,
charioteers, and engineers. The Assyrians also benefited from a reputation for
brutality. This allowed the Assyrians to grab territories without even having to
fight a battle.

 

 

 

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How does the tone in the first half of the book belie or contradict the second half of the book ?

While the
environment surroundingin the first half of the book is grim, he holds on to the hope that a
rebellion is possible and finds encouragement whenintroduces him to a supposed dissident
underground fighting for change. Winston also finds love throughand experiences an old-fashioned
domestic life in the room over Mr. Charrington's shop. Winston and Julia find a haven in nature
as well. While they assume they are doomed, they can't help but hope that somehow they can keep
the tiny world they have created for themselves aliveat least for one more day.

In the second half of the book, all these hopes are shattered, just as Winston's coral
paperweight is shattered by the Thought Police at the end of part 2. In part 3, we no longer
encounter any comforting domestic spaces. The geography of the Ministry of Love is completely
dehumanizing: windowless, alway brightly lit, always stark. O'Brien, through starvation,
beatings, and torture, works to stomp any vestige of hope out of Winston's mind. While a thin
thread of optimism, largely through Winston's thoughts, animates part one, the second part of
the book (specifically part 3) has a tone that is relentlessly
pessimistic.

How might we read Victor Frankenstein's warning to Walton that he "ardently hopes that the gratification of [his] wishes may not be a serpent to sting...

Like ,
Walton is full of ardent hopes and ambitions. 's are to find and explore new lands in the Arctic
regions of the earth. As he writes to his sister, he wishes to "triumph" in his
journey; he asks her,

What can stop the determined heart
and resolved will of man?

Victor realizes that Walton is
a privileged and innocent young man like he once was: ambitious and willing to take risks to
make a mark on the world. Therefore, he decides to tell Walton his story of creatingin hopes
that it will function as a cautionary and moral tale not to let one's ambitions overtake one's
life.

In the quote "I ardently hope that the gratification of your
wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been," Victor is saying that getting
what you wish for can come come back to bite you and poison your life, which is similar to being
bitten by a snake. The snake is also anto the Garden of Eden, where the snake tempted Eve to
give in to her desires and eat of the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and
evil.

Both Victor and Walton are scientists and value knowledge. But Victor
is warning that knowledge can be dangerous and that gratifying one's monomaniacal desire for it
can throw a person into a hellish existence. As he alludes to his sorrowful story, which neither
Walton nor the reader has yet heard, he fills us with curiosity about what happened to him to
lead him to misery and to this desolate region of the earth.

Please evaluate the following statement: Managers should not focus on current stock value because it leads to an over-emphasis on short-term profits...

This is a
good statement to keep in mind, because stockholder value can fluctuate wildly, and you dont
want to harm your overall production capability by focusing too much on it. Now, conceptually,
it is far more complicated, because shareholder value and stock value can improve your operating
income and give you liquid capital with which to work.

Overall, however, the
job of managers is to keep their employees working and ensure long term profitability. Things
exterior to the production ability and work force can drastically alter the stock price;
examples include supply chain issues,...

Who was the original founder of Thebes?

The original
founder was...

In The Bronze Bow, what does Daniel think his vow really means?

Daniel makes
three vows during the book: one to himself, one with Joel and Thacia to God, and a repetition of
the second vow to Jesus. His first is made at the age of eight, when he witnesses his father and
uncle crucified: Daniel swears to live his live in pursuit of vengeance, to his dying
breath.

"I vowed I would pay them back with my whole
life. That I would hate them and fight them and kill them. That's all I live
for."

His second vow comes later, as his mind begins
to expand; he influences Joel and Thacia to join in his mission, but they move the vow in a
different way:

"Then we will make a new vow,"
[Joel] said. "The three of us together. We'll swear to fight for Israel--for--for--"
He hesitated.

"For God's Victory," said Thacia
swiftly.
(Speare, , Google Books)

The second vow changes Daniel's focus. He is no longer driven by his need for direct
revenge, but instead is working towards a freed Israeli nation. Because of this, his mindset
towards Rosh changes; Daniel starts to see that Rosh never cared about avenging the dead, but
only about enriching himself. Because of this new vow, Daniel's heart and mind are opened to the
possibility of leaving his anger behind and embracing love and forgiveness; this is shown
directly in his third vow, to live and die for God's victory, which he only understands when he
accepts the teachings of Jesus.

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Discuss "To be or not to be" in Hamlet's soliloquy.

Part of
what makes 'sso powerful is that it cannot offer a definitive answer to consciousness and being
in the world.  's nature of doubting, questioning, acting so that his "function is
smothered by surmise," had already been evident throughout the play, but this particular
moment highlights it to a very strong degree.  The notion of wondering how to exist without
pain, or to prefer a state of "non- existence" in comparison to the one offered are
both powerful elements in Hamlet's speech.  Through Hamlet, Shakespeare reveals quite a
modernist element to consciousness.  Individual consciousness is steeped in pain and confusion,
and the alternative might be preferred, only to understand that this is illusory, for there is
no real escape to pain in consciousness and in the modern setting.  In the final analysis, the
power of questioning "to be or not to be" is so vivid because it strikes at the pain
which exists at the heart of being in the world.