Drawing from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, why Dick and Perry deserve the death penalty? I have two reasons: they are a threat to society, and they...

One way
to approach the issue of rationalizing or justifying the imposition of capital punishment in the
specific case of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock is to cite the comments made by County Attorney
Duane West in Part IV of s account of the real-life 1959 murder of the Clutter
family, .   Addressing reporters, West was quoted as
saying:

I feel that due to the violence of the
crime and the apparent utter lack of mercy shown the victims, the only way the public can be
absolutely protected is to have the death penalty set against these defendants. This is
especially true since in Kansas there is no such thing as life imprisonment without possibility
of parole. Persons sentenced to life imprisonment actually serve, on the average, less then
fifteen years."

Utilizing this quote,
which includes the two reasons specified in the question €“ punishment for the crime and
protection of society €“ one can note the extension of that second reason: the fact
that,...

In "The Open Window," do you think that Framton Nuttel is a suitable victim for Vera's prank?

This is a great question
to consider, because really, there are two ways of answering this. Firstly, we can say that
Framton Nuttel is the perfect victim for Vera's ingenuity and skill in storytelling because of
his unspecified nervous condition. We are told that he is undergoing a "nerve cure"
which makes us think that Framton Nuttel is a rather delicate and sickly individual. This is
something that clearly Vera is able to ascertain very quickly when she is left alone with
Framton Nuttel, and thus she is able to recognise that he would be rather susceptible to her
arts. This of course makes him an excellent victim.

However, to take another
angle on this question for one moment, we could argue that Framton Nuttel is a very bad choice
of victim, because his nervous condition means that he is going to be profoundly and adversely
impacted by hearing and believing Vera's stories. This makes him very unsuitable, because the
susceptibility that makes him likely to believe her also indicates that he is going to be
profoundly traumatised by the stories, which is shown by the swift way in which he leaves the
household when the "ghosts" return:

Framton
grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were
dimly noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had ot run into the
hedge to avoid imminent collision.

Such a strong reaction
should make us think that actually Framton Nuttel is a bit too suitable a victim for Vera's
storytelling, and that what she does is actually rather cruel.

Have we really guaranteed freedom and equality to all Americans? This is my US history final question, and I have to write an outline for it. My...

We have not
guaranteed freedom and equality to all Americans.There is no way we can, because there are too
many social inequities.Even if everyone was equal under the law, there would still be
discrimination.The only way to guarantee equality is to limit freedom.]]>

Why does the narrator use Amontillado to lure Fortunato?

The classic
horror short story "" bytells of a man named Montresor who vows revenge after
Fortunato insults him. However, he does not take his vengeance right away. He says that at
length, or after some time, he would be avenged. First he devises a complicated plot that
involves preparing a chamber in his family catacombs where he can imprison his victim, having
his servants leave the house, and somehow persuading Fortunato to voluntarily follow him to his
doom so there will not be an outcry that would attract attention.

Montresor
uses the cask of Amontillado, a type of sherry wine, to lure Fortunato because he knows that
Fortunato considers himself a connoisseur of fine wines.

He had a weak pointthis Fortunatoalthough in other regards he was to be a man respected
and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship of wines.

Montresor is able to play upon this weakness to make Fortunato not
only willing but eager to follow him to his doom. He heightens Fortunato's resolve by
threatening to go to another man, Luchresi, for his opinion. This intensifies the desire of
Fortunato to accompany Montresor for the tasting because he considers Luchresi a poor judge of
wine and he wants to prove himself better. It really is a cunning and devious plan that
Montresor uses to get Fortunato to voluntarily accompany him to the dark, damp creepy vaults,
not knowing that Montresor is leading him to his death. Only at the end, after he is already
chained to the wall, does Fortunato realize that there is no Amontillado and that he has been
deceived.

What is the conflict in the beginning of The Egypt Game?

I think you are refering
to the second chapter of this excellent book, because the book actually starts in
media res, or in the middle of things, and then cuts to the beginning in the second
chapter. This chapter introduces a very important character and her central conflict. April Hall
has been sent to live with her grandmother by her mother, however April deeply resents this and
feels that this is just a temporary arrangement, and that her mother will send for her very
soon. Note how this second chapter introduces the scenario:

Exactly one month before the Egypt Game began in the Professor's backyard she had come,
very reluctantly, to live in teh shabby splendour of an old California-Spanish apartment house
called the Casa Rosada. She came because she had been sent away by Dorothea, her beautiful and
glamorous mother, to live with a grandmother she hardly knew, and who wore her grey hair in a
bun on the back of her head.

April's conflict thus lies
in the way that she has been effectively sent away by her mother to live with a stranger. She
refuses to settle down in this place, as this would signal that she recognises her mother is
highly unlikely to send for her and ask her to come and live with her
again.

In "Our Casuarina Tree," What does the poet mean by the expression "sleepy cows"?

The speaker
is describing a morning scene as she wakes up and opens her casement (window) to look outside.
She sees a rural world, including her beloved casuarina tree. She mentions other items that come
into view, such as a baboon who has gotten up to greet the sun and the kokilas, which are birds.
Then she sees the sleepy cows heading toward the meadow to graze. She calls them sleepy because
it is early morning, and they have just woken up.

The speaker associates her
casuarina tree with rural India, where she grew up, and she tries to evoke the beauty and the
peaceful, natural aura of the scene with her descriptive details. Cows going off to graze are
part of that tableau. Because they are sleepy, we can imagine them perhaps moving slowly or
blinking their eyes as they wake up and take in the morning light.

What appreciation, if any, does Higgins show for Eliza's hard work and achievement in Pygmalion?

In Act Four of
, Eliza, Colonel Pickering, and Professor Higgins have just returned from
successfully passing Eliza off as a duchess at a series of socially significant events (a garden
party, a dinner party, and the opera). Despite the tremendous success of her performance,
Higgins shows no appreciation for Eliza's hard work and achievement. While Higgins relaxes in
his chair and discusses the evening with Pickering, Eliza busies herself with making him
comfortable (fetching his slippers, etc.), which also goes unnoticed by Higgins.

In fact, the two gentleman speak about Eliza as if she was not present in the room.
When Pickering first mentions Eliza having done "the trick, and something  to
spare..." to Higgins, Higgins simply responds, "Thank God it's over!" In a
continued statement on the night, Higgins comments:

   
 "I knew she'd be all right. No, it's the strain of putting the job through all these
months that has told on me. It was interesting enough at first, while we were at the phonetics;
but after that I got deadly sick of it. If I hadn't backed myself to do it I should have chucked
the whole thing up two months ago. It was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore...
When I saw we were going to win hands down, I felt like a bear in a cage, hanging about doing
nothing. The dinner was worse: sitting gorging there for over an hour, with nobody but a damned
fool of a fashionable woman to talk to! I tell you, Pickering, never again for me. No more
artificial duchesses. The whole thing has been simple purgatory."

With this speech, Higgins manages to singlehandedly dismiss the
efforts that Eliza had put into developing her duchess "character" and improving her
speech and self. Instead, he focuses on the tremendous "consequences" he's faced as a
result of the experiment: boredom, the waste of time, etc.

Higgins' first
direct address to Eliza in this scene is a mundane domestic order to turn off the lights and to
inform the housekeeper that he would like tea in the morning instead of coffee. When Eliza
reacts violently to this, Higgins hurls his most presumptuous insult yet: "YOU won my bet!
You! Presumptuous insect! I won it!" Higgins--charming fellow that he
is--not only fails to appropriately recognize Eliza's efforts, but also takes sole credit for
their joint triumph.