Do you see any conflict between your desire to be as profitable as possible and your desire to pay employees a living wage?

The two
ideas can coexist. One should agree to meet one's financial obligations to one's employees if
one agreed to pay them a living wage. Doing otherwise would be unethical. Profitability should
come second to one's morality.

One should also consider the cost of
constantly hiring new employees. Employees who are not fairly compensated will look elsewhere
for employment. The employer would then have to expend resources to find another employee and
train them to do the job. It would be unreasonable to expect a new employee to be as good at a
job as someone who had prior experience with the company. If compensation does not improve in
terms of salary, benefits, or both, the company will experience constant turnover, which will
eat into the profits.

While one's morality should be of primary importance,
there are also practical reasons to compensate employees with a living wage. Employees should be
motivated to work and not encouraged to look elsewhere for higher wages.

Write a critical appreciation of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

That 's
"" is a powerful and poignant poem is evinced in its immediate success, as well as in
the many imitations of this work. In fact, Samuel Johnson declared Thomas Gray the man who wrote
the English poem most loved by "the common reader."

Gray felt that
"the language of the age is never the language of poetry." Yet, although he uses
archaicand distortedat times, Gray'sbalances Latinate phrases with current English expressions.
Moreover, thematically it touches a common humanity that all readers can share. Johnson, who did
not care for Gray's poetry, recognized this elegy as one that would last forever:

The churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every
mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

In the neo-classical form of an elegiac poem, Gray expresses his individual estimate of
the world using eloquent classical diction. The verses carry a lofty tone and are composed of
heroic quatrains (four lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme
abab). The neo-classical use ofabounds in this formal work, as well, as in
the following stanza, which also exemplifies Gray's lofty tone:

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
    Their homely joys, and destiny
obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
    The short and simple
annals of the poor.

What lends the poem its beauty and
poignancy is the moving expression of thought and emotion that is purely Romantic, as it touches
upon Nature and sympathy for the unknown in the graveyard. The idea that 

Chill Penury repressed their noble rage,
     And froze the
genial current of the soul

is a poignant one, indeed, as
Gray raises the implicit question of social class at a time when ideas of equality were
exceptional. Also, the sentiment of remembrance for the "unhonored dead" who have
waged battles of their own but their "lot forbade" their renown is brightened by the
Romantic notion that Nature and the Eternal provide hope after death, as the soul reposes in
"The bosom of His Father and his God."

This line about the bosom of
God is the last of the elegy's epitaph. Traditionally, this elegy has begun solemnly with the
poet's lament, but ends with an insight that enables the poet to cope with the loss he
senses.

What does Eunomia suggest to her brother in The Pot of Gold? What is his reaction?

In
act 2, scene 1 of The Pot of Gold by ,
Megadoruss sister, Eunomia, engages in conversation with him in order to persuade him into
getting married. She prefaces her main point with quite an extended remark about women. She says
that she is going to talk to him about something important, something which is going to benefit
him. And as his closest relative she thinks that she is entitled to discuss this matter with
him. This is a private matter, and so she suspects that he might have some apprehensions about
the subject.

Knowing Megadoruss character and his prejudice against women in
general, she refers to a popular opinion which considers women troublesome. She does that in
order to forestall her brothers possible objections. She grants that all women are deservedly
considered very talkative. However (and she may be using ahere), they say at the present day
that not a single woman has been found dumb in any age.

Eunomia wants her
brother to consider the issue of marriage, and she succeeds. As Megadorus responds to her
remark, he addresses his sister as best of women. Continuing with her game, Eunomia pretends
that she does not take this appellation as addressed to her and she wonders, Where is she?
Who, pray, is this best of women?

This innocent question prepares for the
crux of the matter. Eunomia announces that she has come to give her brother counsel, That you
may enjoy everlasting blessings in being the father of children. Here she uses a traditional
rhetorical formula to announce something auspicious, and Megadorus readily accepts this
statement as a wish of something good in general. But in the very next line, Eunomia suddenly
changes her tone and puts it bluntly, saying, "I wish you to bring home a
wife."

Megadorus is astounded. He says that he is undone. He says that
she is speaking stones. He is so prejudiced against women that he proclaims:

Yes, for me to die before I marry. Let her who comes here to-morrow,
be carried out of the house the day after, sister; on that condition, give me her whom you wish
to give; get ready the nuptials.

As Eunomia notes that
she knows a middle-aged woman with a large dowry who may be a fit to Megadorus, he responds by
providing reasons against such a union. If he, an older man, dies before his child is born, the
latter will bear the derogatory by-name Posthumus. In addition, he says that he is not really
interested in money and wants to avoid all evils that come with marrying a rich woman.

Eunomia asks him who is she whom he would want to marry. Megadorus respond
that he would consider proposing to Euclios daughter. That the family is not well-off is not an
obstacle to him.

Finally, the brother and sister part. Megadorus intends to
see Euclio. Eunomia is satisfied that she has reached her goal of moving Megadorus to
action.

What lessons does Santiago learn by working at the crystal shop in The Alchemist?

Santiago learns a bit about Personal Legends and omens from the crystal merchant;
however, I do not think that is the most valuable thing that Santiago learns from the crystal
merchant. I think the most valuable thing that Santiago learns is a lesson about the importance
of action and actually seeking out his dreams and Personal Legend. Through the crystal merchant,
Santiago gets a very good example of what a person looks like and/or becomes when dreams stay
dreams and action is never taken to attain the dream. The crystal merchant has his own dreams,
but he is unwilling to actively do anything about them, and it is for a silly reason. He's
afraid that if he realizes his dream, he will have no motivating reason to keep on
living:

Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me
alive. That's what helps me face these days that are all...

Why did the South lag behind the North in manufacturing during the Civil War?

Manufacturing had always taken
a back seat in the South. The northern colonies and later states did not have the
climate and soil for vast commercial farming, and so had always been a society of small farms
and towns with more manufactories than the South. The North needed grain from the Mid-Atlantic
region, which needed the business of the North for it's grain production, but the South was
self-sustaining in food production. The big business of the South was tobacco farming until the
invention of the cotton gin, and then cotton became an economically viable mass
product.

The real problem for the South was the manpower
problem of mass cash crop farming in the 19th century, in other words, slavery.
But since slaves were not machines they had to be fed, clothed, housed and otherwise taken care
of. They were expensive to buy and expensive to maintain, and as human beings could not be
simply treated as farm machinery. Plus large Southern farmers and plantation owners were always
in debt to banks in the North for funds for the next year's farming. Capital was
simply not available for investment in large manufacturing concerns.

Complicating this was the fact that Southerners preferred to buy manufactured goods
from Europe, whose quality was higher than American made articles, and whose cost was lower.
Unfortunately, the import tariffs on such goods were so high that the cost became much higher
than Northern goods, and so Southerners were essentially forced by protectionist legislation to
support the economy of the North.  This funded the increasing manufacturing capability of the
North, as did the monies flowing into Northern banks from the South. This, plus the fact that
eighty percent of America's income derived from export duties on Southern agricultural products,
crippled the South's manufacturing ability and was the real cause of the Civil
War.

What is another example of sarcasm used by Jig other than the part where she mentions licorice?

A good
example of Jig's sarcasm occurs when the American tells her, "You don't have to be afraid.
I've known lots of people that have done it."

"So have I,"
said the girl. "And afterward they were all so happy."

 

Later he says, "And I know it's perfectly simple."

"Yes, you know it's perfectly simple."

 

Earlier she says, "They [the hills] look like white elephants."

"i've never seen one," the man drank his beer..

"No,
you wouldn't have."

What she means is not that he wouldn't have seen a
white elephant but that he wouldn't have seen a hillthat looked like a white elephant because he
doesn't have enough imagination to see how a hill could look like a white elephant.

In all three of the above examples, we can detect a note of sarcasm in her voice.
Hemingway rarely if ever describes how a character says anything. He only uses "he
said" and "she said," and often he doesn't even indicate who is speaking because
it isn't necessary. But his dialogue is so good that we can hear the tone in which the character
is speaking, as in "No, you wouldn't have." Sarcasm is always a matter of tone, as in
"And afterward they were all so happy." The word emphasized in that sentence would be
"so."

Jig is angry, hurt, bitter, disillusioned, and her feelings
come out as sarcasm.

 

What is the difference between The Lady Sings The Blues book and the play Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill?

The Lady
Sings the Blues was Billie Holiday's autobiography, written with the help of writer
and activist ; it was published in 1956. The book, written in Holiday's voice, was her account
of her life, and she made no attempt to cover up its rough patches, including racism,
prostitution, abusive relationships, and drug use. Since its publication, the book has come
under fire for its factual errors. For example, Holiday writes that her parents were married
when they were teenagers (and when she was three). However, her parents were never married.
Despite its inaccuracies, many people praise the book for capturing the essence of who Holiday
was and what jazz was like during its heyday. The voice in the book is distinctive and
genuine. 

The play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill ,
written by Lanie Robertson, opened in Atlanta in 1986 and was then produced Off-Broadway before
it opened on Broadway in 2014. During the play, the actress playing Holiday performs in a
seedy...

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