What are two specific events in the story "Battle Royal" that are meant to explain certain aspects of the African American experience before the Civil...

One small
event that explains certain aspects of the time before civil rights movement is the fact the
narrator and the other nine young men who are to take part in the boxing battle are crowded into
a servant's elevator. As the narrator says:

I didn't like
the manner in which we were all crowded together in the servants' elevator.

It's not clear at this point if this is because the narrator
dislikes being treated like a servant or if he dislikes being so close to his other nine peers,
to whom he states he feels superior. But in terms of the civil rights movement, segregated
public facilities, such as water fountains, lunch counters, and rest rooms were important
rallying points in the struggle for equality. Being segregated reinforces the idea that blacks
are different and inferior to whites. In the story, whether the narrator realizes it or not,
even before he becomes entertainment for the white audience, he is being "put into his
place" as a black by having to ride in an inferior...

Describe how the structure of "Battle Royal" underlies the story's attract on racism. i would like to know i have a paper to write about it

The
narrator and the other black boys involved are lured to the site of the Battle with other
bait--for instance, the narrator has been told he is there to read his essay/speech which is
deemed the best at his school.  He is lured there with the hope of impressing the white audience
with his intellect and writing ability and ends up wrestling and wallowing around half-naked on
an electrified mat for a few coins.  It is painful and...

In Chapter 2 of Animal Farm, what causes the animals to rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farm hands?

The
revolution started when Mr. Jones was too drunk to feed the animals or to milk the cows; due to
'sabout the animals being better at running the farm than the humans, the animals revolted.
 This was not Jones's first negligent offense--other farmers remarked that Jones's farm was
poorly run.  In the animals' eyes, Jones was also cruel, as he would kill the animals after they
had outlived their usefulness.  His farmhands follow their employer's example, as they are
equally negligent.  The farm is not run to the satisfaction of the animals--they see that they
should receive the fruits of their labors, not the drunkard Jones.   They wait until he is
intoxicated, then rush to overthrow him.  Since the animals are fueled by the rhetoric of the
now-passed Old Major and Jones is definitely not expecting organized resistance from his
"dumb" animals, it is little wonder that he and his employees are chased off the
premises.  

Use the context clues to define the word "abhor" in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

The sermon
spoken on July 8, 1741 byexplains in the "Application" part that
the purpose of the sermon is, basically, to scare the puritans back to their original system of
belief.

The use of this awful subject may be for
awakening unconverted persons in this congregation. This that you have heard is the case of
every one of you that are out of Christ.

The
once devoted Puritans seemed to be running astray, thus going against the very cause for which
they had left England in the first place: their right to worship, among other things. Seeing
that the flock is going awry, Edwards wrote this sermon using the most scary representations of
evil possible in order to instill in his flock the purpose of their religion.

This is the context in which Edwards would use the word "abhor". To
"abhor" something is to regard something with horror, with anger, contempt, and
detestation. The word is used in two different contexts in the sermon.

• The Puritans must work themselves to abhor any sinful practice in the
  knowledge that

if God should
withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold
up a person that is suspended in it.

• God abhors sin and sinful practices and thus nobody will be missing out on
  their wrath. However, Edwards goes further by stating that God ALREADY hates all of us for being
  sinful and that God cannot wait for the day that he comes back to give us our
  punishment.

The God that holds you
over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the
fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you
burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the
fire.

The hating then moves toward what will
happen when the day of the final judgement, when every sinner is already punished and done for

And they shall go forth and look upon the
carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all
flesh."

Basically it says
that, regardless of being dead and punished, bad is always bad. Therefore, whoever is lucky
enough to survive that day will find the spectacle of seeing the fire that consumed these
sinners still burning, as sin never dies. And they will look at all of the dead bodies in horror
(abhorring unto all flesh), praying and hoping they never EVER make God mad again because it is
clear that he does not take sin lightly,

Therefore, the context cues, as
well as the historical context of the sermon, show us that the word abhor refers to the disgust
that sin causes in the eyes of God, and how we too should feel the same way about sin.

 

It could be argued that both Tateh and Ruth run their households in a tyrannical manner. Why does Ruth succeed and Tateh fail? How are they the same?

Ron Michael Miraflores

is a memoir by American writer . The autobiography focuses on the
life of his mother, Ruth, as well as James McBride's close relationship with her. Ruth was a
white woman of Jewish descent who married James's father, Andrew Dennis McBride, an African
American pastor during the 1940s, a time when interracial marriage was uncommon and looked down
upon by society.

Ruth decided to abandon her family and her Jewish faith,
mainly due to her father's tyrannical and devious behaviors. Her father, a rabbi nicknamed
Tateh, was a hypocrite in his beliefs. Examples of cognitive dissonance include cheating on his
crippled wife with other women whilst preaching the teachings of the...

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Assuming this experience to have been a dream, analyze the psychological message coming from G.B's unconsious mind. Assuming this experience to have...

If the
experience of Goodman Brown is a dream, it expresses  unconscious doubts about his own goodness
and that of the Puritans.  At the end of the story he is buried with "no hopeful verse upon
his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom."  This last description hints at the
innate darkness in the soul of the man.

This darkness is suggested early in
the story when Goodman encounters the old man by an old tree, who remarks that Goodman is
late. ...

In "The Minister's Black Veil," why do the villagers bury Mr. Hooper without removing the veil?

When the Reverend Mr.
Clark sits by Father Hooper's deathbed, Mr. Clark asks Father Hooper to allow him to remove the
veil from Father Hooper's face so that he can meet eternity without it.  Father Hooper, however,
is horrified by this idea, and he shrieks, "'Never! [...].  On earth, never!'"  It is
clear that Father Hooper wishes never to have the veil removed, and this may be one reason that
his parishioners do not remove it.

Further, everyone gathered at Father
Hooper's deathbed still seems to fear the mysterious veil.  Mr. Clark even suggests that it
signifies some terrible sin Father Hooper had committed.  However, Father Hooper
asks, 

"Why do you tremble at me alone? [....]
Tremble also at each other!  Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed
and fled, only for my black veil?  What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made
this piece of crape so awful?  When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover
to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely
treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have
lived, and die!  I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!"

It seems to be, in part, this "mystery" that Father
Hooper describes that so terrifies the people.  They seem always to have had an obscure idea of
what the veil symbolizes -- that each of us has secret sins that we attempt to hide from each
other, ourselves, and even God -- but no one wants to admit that they might understand because
that would be tantamount to admitting that one has these secret sins on one's soul, and what
everyone wants the most is to hide this very fact.  If, in truth, these people really do have
even a vague understanding of the veil's meaning, then they would not want to remove it
after Father Hooper has died because it is a meaningful and accurate symbol; if, on the other
hand, they really don't have a concept of the veil's meaning, then they would not want to remove
it because it is such a mystery, and we fear mysteries.