Write one of the letters referred to in Eveline by James Joyce, that Eveline intends to leave behind.

In the
short story by , Eveline is faced with a critical decision. She has
decided, age nineteen, to escape her life of duty and hardship that has little prospect for
improvement and escape to a better life in Buenos Aires with her "fellow," Frank.
Eveline is conflicted in what she must do as she promised her mother before she died that she
would "keep the home together as long as she could." She also has two young children
that are in her charge whom she ensures attend school and eat well.

She has
written a letter to her...

What's the plot of the story?

's short
story "" has a plot that rises steadily to athat occurs very close to the end of the
story, followed by a brief. The inciting incident is the birth of a child to Cherokee Sal, the
lone woman at the camp, a prostitute, who immediately dies. The child, then, is left to be
raised by a group of very rough men, most of whom have no experience with babies or children.
However, the men are determined to give the...

What was the most likely reason that Jem continued to defy Atticus's requests for him to take Scout and Dill and leave?

In
,gets a "feeling" that he needs to head downtown, so the kids all head for 's office.
When they get there, they realize Atticus isn't at work, so they decide he could be visiting Mr.
Underwood. To reach his office, they must pass by the jail, and that's where they find
Atticus.

They arrive unexpectedly and are not noticed, at first, by the mob
gathered outside the jail. Atticus sits outside Tom's cell, quietly reading the paper, when the
mob confronts him. They are there to lynch Tom, and they order Atticus out of the way; he
refuses.

It is around this point thatrealizes that Atticus is in trouble and
bursts onto the scene, followed by Jem and Dill. Atticus clearly recognizes the trouble this
could cause for his children and asks Jem four times to take Scout and Dill home.

Jem squares up to Atticus and refuses.

Scout knows this is
significant (the two children obey Atticus almost always):

I...felt Jem had his own reasons for doing as he did, in view of his prospects once
Atticus did get him home.

Jem, a bit older than Scout,
realizes that Atticus is not going to simply stand aside and allow the lynch mob to take Tom
Robinson. He is a man of honor and justice, and this is the man he will defend...to the death,
if necessary.

As the second-in-charge man of the house, Jem likely determines
that he can help Atticus with the crowd if things turn violent, or he is hoping that the crowd
won't resort to violence with Atticus's own children standing present.

Luckily, Scout manages to salvage the situation by reaching out in very human terms to
Mr. Cunningham, and the near disastrous confrontation melts away, at least for that
night.

Explain this quote from Act 1, Scene 3 of Othello: "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father and may thee."

Christopher Jerde

Brabantio's lines here are significant because this is the first timeis made to doubt
Desdemona's character. Brabantio is bitter about Desdemona's deception of him and Othello's
marrying his daughter without his blessing (which he never would have given since Othello is a
Moor) so he is trying to make their marriage begin on shaking ground by pointing out to Othello
that Desdemona does have the capability to be unfaithful to some degree.

These lines haunt Othello later in the play as Iago starts making the case that Desdemona is
violating her marriage vows. While Brabantio's words are the product of anger and perhaps even
hurt, Othello does not consider this. He begins to view them in a prophetic light. Desdemona's
willingness to break social mores (unquestioning obedience to the father) to be with the man she
loves ends up becoming a weapon against her: instead of proving that she loves Othello more than
anyone else, her actions instead paint her as wayward and duplicitous to...

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How does Friar Laurence respond to Romeo's behavior in act 3, scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

, impulsive,
emotional, and living very much in the moment, is so distraught at being banished from Verona
that he tellshe wants to kill himself.

As usual, Friar Laurence has to
counsel Romeo to tamp down his overblown emotional fever. When Romeo mentions suicide, Friar
Laurence rebukes him roughly, telling him he isn't making any sense. If he lovesso much that he
can't bear to be apart from her, and he is convinced she loves him, why would he even be
thinking of putting her through the pain his suicide would cause her? Friar Laurence
says,

Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,

Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish . . .

In other words, suicide would be a violation of the love he has sworn to Juliet and
would show it to be a lie. If you love somebody, you don't hurt them that way.

Friar Laurence also tells Romeo he should be gratefuldidn't have him executed for
killing , as he could have done. He advises Romeo to pull himself together, spend his wedding
night with Juliet, and then leave Verona. Friar Laurence assures Romeo that he will reveal the
secret of the wedding as soon as it makes sense to do so and plead with the prince to have mercy
and allow Romeo to return. The friar is the level-headed adult who tries to get Romeo focused on
coming up with a plan and thinking of tomorrow.

What is the meaning of the following quote from 1984? There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be...

is
explaining toat length what the future will look like under the rule of the Party. He says the
Party is remaking humankind in its own image. In fact, as he describes it, the Party is planning
to dehumanize the human race. He says that the Party is working on engineering test-tube babies,
and is planning on eradicating all emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self
abasement.

O'Brien continues on that train of thought in the quote above. He
says that the pleasures that are currently part of what make people human, such as curiosity,
will be completely destroyed. He says that what will remain--the one pleasure--will be a kind of
power that exults in triumphing over another person. All that will be left to enjoy will be the
thrill of smashing your boot on some helpless person's face.

O'Brien is
trying to convince Winston that the Party is all powerful and always will be. He is
communicating his idea that Winston's faith in the human spirit and such positive attributes as
love for another human being, kindness, and compassion is misplaced. O'Brien has a very grim
vision of the future.

How does the killing of Candy's dog portray the key topic of strength and weakness?

In ,
Carlson enters the bunkhouse and begins complaining about Candy's ancient dog. He comments on
the awful smell of the old dog and mentions that it can barely eat its food. Candy's old dog is
essentially useless and barely living. Although Candy shares a special bond with his old dog, he
cannot deny that the ancient dog is close to death. Carlson lacks sympathy and offers to shoot
the dog to put it out of its misery. Candy hesitates to allow Carlson to follow through with
shooting his dog until Slim gives Carlson the okay. Once Slim agrees with Carlson and tells him
to put the dog out of its misery, Candy is helpless and does not stop Carlson from taking his
dog outside and shooting it.

The fate of Candy's dog underscores the
relationship between the strong and weak on the ranch. The ranch is a hostile, threatening
environment, where only the strong survive. Candy's dog is old, useless, and extremely
vulnerable. Therefore, Candy's ancient dog cannot defend itself from strong, aggressive
individuals like Carlson. This scene not only foreshadows 's tragic death but also underscores
Steinbeck's theme regarding the relationship between the strong and weak. On the ranch, strong
individuals ruthlessly wield their power by oppressing and harming weaker people. Steinbeck
continually depicts how stronger, callous individuals take advantage of weaker characters. For
example, Curley immediately challenges Lennie because he knows that he is mentally disabled, and
Curley's wife threatens Crooks because he is a powerless black man. Similarly, Candy's dog is
weak and vulnerable, which is why Carlson ruthlessly kills it.

Both Dr. Deveze and Dr. Benjamin Rush have their differences, but what are there similarities in Fever 1793.

Dr. Deveze
is a Frenchman who had dealt with the yellow fever before, probably from the colonies near the
equator that France had. Dr. Benjamin Rush was a Scotsman who had not encountered the disease
before. The primary...

As a teacher, analyze the way some teachers teach English at primary school? As a teacher, analyze the way some teachers teach English at primary...

One of the most
important ways teachers teach English at the primary level is through vocabulary instruction.It
seems to be almost all vocabulary.I do think that it is important to use stories and give kids a
chance to talk to each other and practice their language skills too.]]>

Analyze the style Jonathan Swift used in Gullivers Travels to satirize society.

One
aspect of Swift's style is to make Gulliver (and by extension, Swift's contemporaries) appear
ludicrous through trying to explain human institutions to the various peoples he encounters. His
attempts to describe the various causes of European wars to the leader of the
peaceful Houyhnhnms, is a particularly relevant example:

Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread,
or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a
vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire...Sometimes the
quarrel between two Princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his
dominions, where neither of them pretends to any right....

Why did Romeo and Juliet kiss all the time?

In Act I,
scene v, of "", the two characters meet at the party at the Capulet's house.  This is
the only scene where Shakespeare actually includes a "kiss" as a part of the action of
the plot.  The kiss is part of a series of flirtatious "pick up" lines that they use
on one another.  Here is the scene:

[To ] If I
profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with
a tender kiss.

JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too
much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that
pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO
O,
then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to
despair.

JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers'
sake.

ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

JULIET

Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO
Sin
from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

Romeo first implies that by touching her with his hand, he might
have been wrong - all because she is too worthy to be touched.  He offers to kiss the place that
he touched in order to make up for it.  Juliet is coy and responds that his hand is plenty
worthy, and that lips should be used in prayer.  Romeo keeps pressing on to say that he is a
sinner, and must kiss her lips to get rid of his sin - which he does.  Then Juliet teases him
into kissing her again by suggesting that he has given his sin to her, and must take it back
again.

Shakespeare is just showing us two teenagers at a party, behaving as
teenagers do - flirting and kissing.  By having Juliet request the kiss back, we can see that
she is just as interested as he is, and that she is bold enough to be that
forward.

What is "willing suspension of disbelief"? How does having a willing suspension of disbelief help Mrs. Murry?

To have a
"willing suspension of disbelief" means to be able to forget what you know to be true
and accept things that are not realistic according to science. This ability helps Mrs. Murry,
who is a scientist. As a scientist, she is trained to test ideas, or hypotheses, and decide if
they are true or false based on physical evidence. However, by suspending her disbelief, she is
able to accept and believe things that...

In Candide, chapter 30, work keeps Candide, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo from what three great evils?

In
the final chapter of , Candide, Pangloss, Martin, Cacambo, Cunegonde, and
the old woman settle down and decide to "cultivate the garden." The Turk whom they
speak to in this chapter tells them the following:

You
must have a vast and magnificent estate, said Candide to the Turk.

I have
only twenty acres, replied the old man; I and my children cultivate them; our labour preserves
us from three great evilsweariness, vice, and want. (Chapter 30)

Here, the Turk says that his family's "labour," or work, protects them from
"weariness, vice, and want." In other words, their work keeps them from being
world-weary or hopeless, stops them from committing immoral acts, and makes them feel satisfied
enough that they do not "want" for anything more. The act of workin Candide and his
friends' case, tending to the gardenkeeps people occupied and out of trouble.

Work is here presented as an alternative to philosophizing, which is what our
characters have been doing for most of the novel. Pangloss continues to try to prove his flawed
optimistic theory in the final chapter of the novel, but Candide seems to have moved past it,
just wanting to work in the garden. The characters experienced and witnessed the most extreme
events imaginable in their journeys around Europe and South America. It makes sense that they
now want to settle into a calmer and more stable life. The ending can also be read as one of
resignation; after not being able to find the best world that Pangloss taught him about, Candide
sort of gives up and lives a simple life instead.

What was D-Day in World War II?

Stephen Holliday

D-Day, which is sometimes thought to
mean Departure-Day, is the name given to the invasion of Europe by Allied
troops under the overall command of General Dwight David Eisenhower on June 6, 1944--the
official name given to the operation is Operation Overlord .  In a practical
sense, D-Day began in the early morning hours of June 6, when about 24,000 American, British,
and Polish paratroopers landed behind the main assault beaches to secure bridges, roads, and
causeways to allow the main body of troops to land on the beaches and move inland quickly.
 Beginning about 6:00 a. m. on the morning of the June 6,  approximately 160,000 British,
American,...

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What happened in Chapter 5 of Lyddie?

has
been working hard at Cutler's tavern, and I mean really hard.  Mrs. Cutler is a serious task
master, and Lyddie can barely catch a moment to herself.  Fortunately, Lyddie is a hard worker,
and that earns her the respect and friendship of Triphena.  That's helpful to Lyddie in Chapter
Five, because in this chapter Mrs. Cutler decided to go to Boston to sell the maple sugar and
visit some family.  Because of the reduced workload (Mrs. Cutler isn't there anymore), Triphena
encourages Lyddie to go visit her family as well.  

Lyddie first goes to see
Charlie at the mill, but she is surprised that she can't find him there.  The reason is that
Charlie is still in school, which upsets Lyddie.  She's being worked to the ground, and
Charlie's family is allowing him to go to school. Lyddie is disgusted at the situation and
slightly worried that Charlie will forget his real family.  

The next place
that Lyddie decides to visit is their former farm.  To her surprise she finds a runaway slave in
the house.  This is a new experience for Lyddie for two reasons.  One, she has never seen a
runaway slave before and thoughts of the reward money do creep into her head.  Two, Lyddie has
never seen a black man before.  

What are the disadvantages of computers?

Computers have become a part of our lives and
a large number of people spend more time online than offline. While computers definitely have a
large number of benefits, there are several disadvantages as well. With so much personal and
financial data now in digital form, our finances and personal lives are always at risk of data
theft. A large number of celebrities learned this in 2014 when their personal pictures were
released. Apart from security concerns, prolonged exposure to computer screens is not good for
eyes or overall growth and development. Computers also use a lot of electricity, generate large
amounts of heat, and could be potentially hazardous to our environment, if disposed of
inappropriately. A number of other concerns, such as job loss and diminished human interactions,
also exist.

Hope this helps.

Aside from personal glory, what two benefits to mankind does Walton hope to achieve?

One need
not read very far into s classic of Gothic literature, , or the Modern
Prometheus, to ascertain the answer to the question, what, in addition to personal
glory, doeshope to accomplish on his voyage. In the opening letter to his sister Margaret,
Walton asks rhetorically what may be accomplished by his journey to the frigid Arctic and the
North Pole:

What may not be expected in a country of
eternal light? I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may
regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming
eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part
of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of
man.

Later, within the same correspondence, Walton goes
beyond his admittedly self-aggrandizing adventure in describing his...

What is the climax of the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

The tension in the
story rises higher and higher as we, and the grandmother, realize that her family is being
murdered by the Misfit's henchmen, one by one. The Misfit begins to tell his story, how he
cannot remember being a "'bad boy,'" but that "'somewheres along the line [he]
done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary.'" She tells him he should have
prayed. He continues, explaining that he cannot remember whatever he was supposed to have done.
Again, she tells him to pray for Jesus's help. Once she's alone with the Misfit, she realizes
she's lost her voice and can only stammer, "'Jesus. Jesus.'"

Suddenly, though, the Misfit turns her words on her and blames Jesus for what's wrong in the
world, for the unfairness that's happened to him in his life. When he becomes emotional, almost
crying, "His voice . . . about to crack," the grandmother...

I need two quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird that show the coexistence of good and evil? Thank you! :)

In ,
the readers are introduced to Maycomb's most notorious racist, Mrs. Dubose. Asandwalk past her
home, she yells,

"Your fathers no better than the
niggers and trash he works for!" (Lee, 105)

Her
derogatory comments infuriate Jem, who ends up destroying her camellia bush. After Atticus makes
Jem read to Mrs. Dubose for two hours each day for over a month as an apology, she ends up
passing away from a chronic illness. After Mrs. Dubose dies, Atticus explains to his children
her difficult situation and tells Jem, "You know, she was a great lady" (115). Atticus
elaborates on her valiant battle to break her morphine addiction and says,

"She was the bravest person I ever knew" (116)

Despite being an ugly, outspoken racist, Mrs. Dubose
is also a courageous, forgiving woman, who earns Atticus's respect and demonstrates her
compassion by giving Jem a white camellia.

In, Miss Maudie
bakes the children cakes and offers words of encouragement following the Tom
Robinson...

How does the grandfather's deathbed speech influence the narrator's life?

You'll
find a helpful answer at the following link:

What present did the children give the Professor in "The Egypt Game"?

The children
gave the Professor the gift of the company of others.  Through his secret and silent observation
of their game, he was inspired to care again about living.

The Professor
explains what the children did for him in the form of a story.  He relates that when he was a
young man teaching at the University, he fell in love with one of his students.  The Professor
himself was always "a very quiet and reserved person", but his vivacious Anne brought
enthusiasm, optimism, and fun into his life.  They were married, and traveled much together, he
doing research and she working with the suffering people of the forgotten places they visited. 
Tragically, in one particularly downtrodden area, there was an uprising, and Anne was
killed.

The Professor returned home alone, with "no desire to
teach".  He moved into Anne's store, but "broke off...the contacts that Anne had made
and let the store become a junk shop".  The Professor says that "the store and (he)
became dusty junkyards, and after a while (he) didn't care".

For
twenty-five years the Professor lived in self-imposed imprisonment, having eliminated contact
and involvement completely from his life.  It wasn't until the children started the Egypt Game
in his backyard that the Professor took an interest in anything, and after he finds the courage
in himself to help April, he discovers the joy of community and renewed interest in his work
(Chapter 23).

Biblical Allusions In Frankenstein

There are two main
biblical allusions found in 's novel . The firstis found in chapter four of
the novel and the second found in chapter fifteen.

In chapter four,is
defining the importance of his success in re-animating life. For Victor, the re-animation of
life insures that he will be blessed as a "creator and source." Essentially, Victor
defines himself as a god. Given Christian ideology supports and believes God to be the only one
who is able to create life (outside of giving birth), Victor sets himself up as a god. This,
more specifically, speaks to...

Compare and contrast Hamlet and Fortinbras in William Shakespeares Hamlet. How are the two figures alike? How are they different?

The tenseat the beginning of the play is explained byas being due principally to the
Danish fear of young"Of unimproved mettle hot and full" attacking to recover the lands
his father lost. He is therefore quickly established as a contrast and a foil to , in a similar
position but of a very different temperament: hot-headed yet determined.

himself contrasts the two of them when he sees Fortinbras making ready "to go gain a little
patch of ground." He describes Fortinbras satirically:

Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender
prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Makes mouths at the invisible
event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and
danger dare,
Even for an egg-shell.

But there is
some admiration in his, and the contrast is ultimately to Fortinbras's advantage. If it is
faintly ridiculous that the Norwegian prince will do all this "for an egg-shell," it
is worse than ridiculous that...

Discuss the significance of the title of the novel Great Expectations.

The title of
's second-to-last work in which he writes with what critics term "extravagant
didacticism" and stylistic decorations that "exceed all bounds" indicates
the grand expectations he had for the novel. Perhaps, however, Dickens' efforts underscore the
meaning of the lines of Sir Phillip Sidney in his Astrophil and Stella
sonnets as he refers to

. . . that friendly
foe,

. . .

since while many reviews
were negative, readers were so eager for this novel that it had five printings.

Indeed, the novel is a "friendly foe" for many of the characters as well as
for the author. That Mr. Jaggers is the first to utter this phrase at the Three Jolly Bargemen
certainly points to its paradoxical meaning, for Jaggers, who knows the secret of his
benefactor, is fully aware that Pip's expectations will exceed what is realistic:

"Very well,....And the communication I have got to make is that
he has Great Expectations....He will come into handsome property....immediately removed from his
present sphere of life and from this place and be brought up as a gentleman--in a word, as a
young fellow of great expectations." 

And, it is
these grand hopes, these "great expectations" that links so many of the characters in
Dickens's grand effort of narrative:

• Magwitch hopes to vicariously
  redeem his tragic life
• Pip expects that in becoming a gentleman, he will
  become superior to others and worthy of Miss Havisham's respect and Estella's love. 


• Herbert Matthews aspires to secure a respectable position and to marry


• The orphaned Biddy hopes to find a meaningful position in life.


• Mr. Wopsle parodies the expectations of Pip in his ridiculous hopes of becoming a
  serious actor.
• So, too, does PumblechookPip's excessive expectations in his
  claim to having brought about Pip's success.
• Mr. Wemmick's exaggerated home
  displays a lightly comical image of great expectations.
• In a sinister form
  of expectations, Orlick hopes to destroy Pip who has always been his rival.


• Miss Havisham, who has had great expectations of a happy life, seeks to regain some
  peace of conscience with Pip's forgiveness.
• Estella's great expectations to
  break men's hearts become tragic as she marries a cruel husband and becomes aware of her
  limitations in receiving love.
• Finally, the readers have "great
  expectations" as they hope to see Pip succeed and attain his only love,
  Estella. 

The novel clearly has an relevant title as
paradoxically there is in its narrative the unfulfillment of many of the expectations of
characters while at the same time, as critic Angus Calder notices, Pip attains the
other "great expectations" of many readers as 

Pip does not merely see what has been there all the time; in the cases of Miss Havisham
and Magwitch, he actively helps them to become better people near the end of their
lives.

And so, the "friendly foe" of Sir
Phillip Sidney, "Great Expectations" is, indeed, an appropriate title for the grand
work of Charles Dickens.

What are some examples of metaphors throughout "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

As George
Lakoff explains in his "Why It's Difficult to Replace the Fiscal Cliff ," geographic
metaphors are among the most powerful, anduses these abundantly in "." For example, he
employs the metaphors of the slippery slope and the yawning abyss to make abstract concepts such
as sin and hell vividly real to people. We can all create a visual and tactile image in our
minds of sliding down a slope and imagine what it would feel like (painful) to fall into an
abyss. Further, this abyss is filled with fire, a physical metaphor for the pain of remorse a
sinner experiences in hell. The pain of remorse might be abstract to people; the pain of being
burned by fire would not. Edwards uses as well the physical metaphor of humans walking over hell
on a rotten covering. This would bring to mind the idea of walking on a bridge made of rotten
wood that could collapse at any time, though in Edwards' telling of the story, people would
plunge not into cold water but into fiery brimstone. These powerful images, along with everyday
images that would be familiar to a rural society, such as worms crushed underfoot and chaff
blowing in the wind, powerfully impress on people's minds their own precarious, weak and
helpless situation before hell and the devil, and the need to be saved by
Christ.

What is Zinn's main argument in chapter 23?

Zinn's argument in
Chapter 23, "The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy," is that progressive
movements in the United States starting in the 1990s and going forward would have to originate
from the people, not from the two main political parties, the Democrats and Republicans. Zinn
describes the Clinton administration as not representing the will of the people, as half of
eligible voters did not go to the polls to re-elect Clinton in 1996. Zinn also describes the
ways in which Clinton moved the Democratic party towards the political center and away from
causes such as ending poverty, creating jobs, and improving education and towards causes such as
increasing military spending.

While the political parties and
the...

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In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, who were the Moors who had invaded Spain?

On pages
twenty-six and twenty-seven of 's , several times the boy mentions the
Moors. First he notes:

From [the ramp], he could see
Africa in the distance. Someone had once told him that it was from there that the Moors had
come, to occupy all of Spain.

Later, as the boy studies
the city before him and ponders the situation he finds himself in, he mentions the Moors
again:

The wind began to pick up. He knew that wind:
people called it the levanter, because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern
end of the Mediterranean.

Sources identify the
"levanter" as a common sea term in Spain which indicates a wind coming from the east
"while at sea."

So the Moors came from the east to infiltrate
Spain. However, the term "moor" does not refer to a distinct cultural group. It can
include "historic and modern populations of Berbers, Black Africans and Arab descent"
coming from the northern part of Africa, arriving in Spain as conquerors. They invaded and
settled on the Iberian Peninsula, where they remained for eight hundred yearsthey were mostly
Muslim.

Mainstream scholars observed in 1911 that
"The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value."

There does not seem to be a significant co-relation between Santiago's situation and
the choices he must make. Perhaps he feels the wind, associated with the invasion of the Moors,
as a sweeping change he feels he is going through, having left his life as a shepherd. Or it may
beon the part of Coelho to indicate the way new knowledge and a new understanding will come over
his life, much the way the Moors invaded, changing the "landscape" of Santiago's life
forever.

What is a summary of the poem "Cat!" by Eleanor Farjeon?

Eleanor Farjeon's poem
"Cat!" can be described as a shape poem. If one were to examine the choice of line
length, over the course of the poem, he or she would notice that the line lengths vary greatly.
Some lines include only one word, while others total four words. This is important because it
describes the actions of a cat: from crouching away from a dog (signified by a one word line
"Wuff") to climbing a tree (the longest line signifying the top of the cat's world).
One can see the cat skittering over the floor, crouching in defense, and climbing to high
perches.  Essentially, the movement of the poem (the line length) moves as a cat does.

As for summarizing the poem, the meaning is simple. The poem speaks to the
daily life of a typical cat. Through analysis, one can assume that the narrator has come in
contact with a cat she (assumed given the gender of the poet) does not wish around. It is
through the closing line that the narrator reveals her intent, to get rid of the cat:

Scat,
Cat!
That's
That!

The narrator wishes the cat to be gone, denoted by the
"scat," and after the cat leaves, nothing more needs to be done ("that's that!).

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Why is Oedipus Rex considered to have a complex plot?

The
play's plot is complex in that it doesn't follow a precise linear pattern. We might expect this
to be something like the ancient Greek equivalent of a detective story, withsetting out to find
his father's real killer only to discover, in a shocking twist, that he was the murderer all
along.

But the actual plot of is so much more
complexand dramaticthan this. And this is largely down to the peripeteia,
or reversal of fortune, provided by the , who brings news that Polybus and Merope were not
Oedipus's real parents. The messenger thinks he's being helpful, but in actual fact he's
providing the catalyst for the shocking revelation to follow.

What
is...

What is the gravitational force between Earth and the Sun?

By
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, there is the gravitational forces between any bodies
having mass. Each body attracts another body, and the direction of this force is along the
straight line that goes through the bodies.

 

The magnitude of this force is  `G*(m_1*m_2)/R^2,` where `m_1` and `m_2` are the
masses, `R` is the distance and `G approx 6.7*10^(-11) (N*m^2)/(kg)^2`  is the universal
constant called gravitational constant.

The bodies are considered to be small
with respect to the distance (point masses). For a bodies of a complex shape it is necessary to
consider small pieces and add up forces.

 

Earth and the
Sun may be considered as point masses. The mass of Earth is about  `6*10^24 kg,` the mass of the
Sun is about `2*10^30 kg` and the distance is about `1.5*10^11 m.` So the force is

`6.7*10^(-11)*6*10^24*2*10^30/(2.25*10^22)=3.6*10^22(N).`

This is
the answer.

Is there a religion that agrees to the use of child labour? I need more Buddhist views on child labour. Is there a religion that agrees to the use of...

In prior
civilizations, views of child labor were quite different than in ours.  The structure of society
was different in pre-industrial times.  Children worked alongside their parents...

What ethical issues are involved when laying off employees?

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economic considerations, market factors, etc. There are a number of ethical issues related to
laying off employees and they mostly relate to how and why.

• Ethics of laying off workers: Why a company is laying off employees is an ethical
  concern. Typically companies do not lay people off just for the sake of it and in general, it is
  an exercise to downsize in order to increase productivity/competitiveness.  There should be good
  reasons for laying off workers.
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Why does Telemachus doubt that it is indeed his father, Odysseus, who he sees enter the swineherds hut?

Telemachus last saw his father twenty years ago when he (Telemachus) was a very young
child. He spent the first four books of the Odyssey searching for his father to no avail and
seems to have given up hope. He has not the least idea what Odysseus looks like, though he
assumes he will look like a king. Odysseus does look more regal after Athena touches him with
her wand and he returns to the hut, but Telemachus recognizes that this is the same stranger
with whom he has just been conversing and leaps to the conclusion that he is a god in disguise,
since only a god could alter his appearance so thoroughly.

It is only when
Odysseus says that the change in his appearance has indeed been brought about by divine power,
that of the goddess Athena, that Telemachus finally accepts that his father has
returned.

It is obvious that, despite their difference in rank, Telemachus
has come to look upon Eumaeus as a father figure, and there is a strange prefiguring of his
reunion with Odysseus when he...

What is a short summary on Merchant of Venice?

needs money
to woo the wealthy . He asks his friend , a wealthy merchant, for a loan. Antonio's money is
tied up in merchant ships carrying back goods from different parts of the globe. Antonio has no
money to spare, but because he loves Bassanio very deeply he takes a loan for his friend, from
.

Shylock is a Jew. They were the moneylenders in Venice, as Christians were
not able to charge interest on loans. Antonio had insulted Shylock in the past for being Jewish,
so Shylock wanted revenge. He loans Antonio the money, but he insists on a pound of Antonio's
flesh, taken from any part of his body Shylock chooses, if the money is not repaid on
time.

As is declared in her father's will, Portia is not able to choose her
husband. Instead, she must marry the man who picks the right one of three caskets, one gold, one
silver and one lead. Several suitors select the wrong casket. Bassanio chooses the right one,
made of lead. He also falls in love with Portia, although he initially wished to marry her for
her money.

Meanwhile, all of Antonio's ships appear to be lost. Shylock  then
insists on his pound of flesh. He wants it from Antonio's heart, which means Antonio will die.
The two go to court to plead before the Duke. There, Portia and her maid Nerissa show up,
disguised as a male lawyer and his male clerk. Portia proceeds to appeal to Shylock's sense of
mercy, and when that doesn't work, reverts to the letter of the law, as Shylock has done. She
insists that Shylock can take Antonio's flesh but must not spill one drop of his blood or his
own life will be forfeit, a sentence the Duke supports. Shylock is humiliated and defeated, and
is sentenced to  give up half his fortune, and to convert to Christianity.

After the trial, the disguised Portia and Nerissa insist that their fiances give them
rings that they had promised never, ever to part with under any circumstances. They had given
them, however, to the "male lawyer and clerk" as repayment for the positive outcome of
the trial. Later, they tease their beloveds about this, but all works out harmoniously in the
end, especially as three of Antonio's ships arrive at port after all.

Describe the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its implications for management.

The most
important provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have to do with holding executive officers
accountable for the content of their firms' financial reports.  Chief executive and financial
officers must now certify each quarterly report.  The act also criminalizes any attempt to
influence or mislead auditors.

The main implication for management is that
this law forces managers to keep many more records than they once did.  This is one of the major
complaints against the law.  The amount of paperwork that is involved with keeping records so as
to be able to prove the accuracy of financial statements is seen by many conservatives as a drag
on the economy because it takes up so much of managers' time and
attention.

Provide a characterisation of Deianeira and Heracles in Sophocles' Women of Trachis

Women of Trachis, also
known as The Trachiniae and The Trachinian Maidens, is
one of the lesser-known of the seven plays written bythat have survived in their
entirety.

Women of Trachis is notable because it's named
for the Trachinian women who form thefor the play. This is a departure from the traditional
Chorus of men found in most ancient Greek tragic plays. Keep in mind that all of the women
characters in ancient Greek plays, including the Chorus in Women of
Trachis, were acted by men who wore masks representing the female characters they
were portraying.

Deianeira is the wife of the Greek hero Heracles (known as
the Roman demigod Hercules), son of the god Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene. Deianeira is
portrayed in Women of Trachis as a fearful, unhappy, insecure woman.
Nevertheless, she loves Heracles unconditionally, and chooses not to blame him for the many
military quests that take him away from his home, and she forgives him for his many
lovers.

Heracles was said to possess extraordinary strength, as well as
remarkable courage and sexual prowess. He's portrayed in the play as angry, boastful, and
recklessly violent. He has no remorse for killing his herald, Lichas, or for the murder of his
lover Ioles brother, Iphitus.

Deianeira is a sympathetic character, even with
all of her faults. Heracles appears as a heroic but wholly unsympathetic character.

At the opening of Women of Trachis, Heracles has concluded a
successful siege of Oechalia, and he sends a number of captured women back to Trachis. Among
them is Iole, who Heracles sends to live at his own home with Deianeira, who is unaware at the
time that Iole is Heracles's concubine.

Deianeira discovers Iole's identity
and that Heracles is in love with her, and in order to win back her husband's love, Deianeira
sends him a robe dyed with what she believes is a magic love potion made from the blood of the
centaur Nessus.

The love potion turns out to be deadly poison that causes
Heracles excruciating pain when he first wears the robe. In his pain, he threatens to kills
Deianeira, and is taken back to Trachis.

When Deianeira learns what has
happened to Heracles, even though it was through no fault of her own, she kills herself in
shame.

At the end of the play, Heracles is no longer able to bear the pain.
He begs to be killed, and is taken away to be burned alive to relieve him of his
suffering.

What role does the Stage Manager play throughout Our Town?

The
Stage Manager has the same kind of role that would be filled by a minor character who is the
narrator of a short story or novel. His main function is to provide . He introduces most of the
other characters by their names and tells the audience something about them. One advantage of
this rather unusual dramatic device is that the characters do not have to go through the usual
rigamarole of addressing each other by their names so that the audience will know who they are.
The characters are not forced to provide much in the way of exposition disguised as
conversation. They just live their lives.

The Stage Manager differs from the
typical minor-character narrator of a short story or novel in that he is omniscient. He not only
knows all the people and all about their business, but he knows what is going to happen to them
in the future. Here is an example. Joe Crowell, Jr. is delivering the morning paper, as
everybody in the audience can see. It is early in Act I.

STAGE MANAGER
Want to tell you something about that boy Joe Crowell there. Joe
was awful brightgraduated from high school, head of his class. So he got a scholarship to
Massachusetts Tech. Graduated head of his class there, too. It was all wrote up in the Boston
paper at the time. Goin' to be a great engineer, Joe was. But the war broke out and he died in
France.All that education for nothing.

The Stage Manager
tells us that the day is May 7, 1901. Joe is still a kid. But the Stage Manager can tell us that
he died in World War I, which America entered in 1917. His prescience has an uncanny effect. He
is talking about the past, present and future all at the same time. The boy we are watching
delivering his papers is already dead. Time is treated differently in . It
seems as if past, present and future are all somehow the same.

The Stage
Manager strikes us as being a small-town philosopher as well as a manager and narrator. He has
the ability to move in and out of people's homes and even to listen to the dead men and women
conversing at the town cemetery. In Act II we learn that his name is Mr. Morgan and he owns the
town drugstore, where he makes ice-cream sodas for Emily Webb and George Gibbs. This is the
present, but it is also the past. Emily and George will be married. Emily will die in 1913 and
join the other dead townspeople at the cemetery. But she will return to Grover's Corners briefly
in 1899 on a sentimental journey which proves to be a heartbreaking disappointment. It is easy
to see why the Stage Manager, who knows everything about the future and remembers everything
about the past, is needed to hold this play together.recklessly violates Aristotle's unities of
time, place and action, but the audience does not have the slightest trouble following or
understanding what is happening, thanks to the Stage Manager.

How does Lady Macbeth's character change throughout the play?

Ladyis a
complex character. The main constant in her character is her strong sense of duty. She sees as
her first duty as a wife supporting her husband and being responsible for his success, being a
sort of power behind the throne. On the other hand, an important part of what she understands as
her role as a woman is to be tender, empathetic, and a moral compass. In order to support the
ambitions of a husband too filled with "the milk of human kindness," she must
temporarily suppress or repudiate her feminine nature. In ashe states:

... Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal
thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me  ... full [o]f direst cruelty.

The contradiction between the strength Ladyneeds to commit evil
acts and her feminine nature drives her insane as the play progresses, and her strength
ultimately gives way to remorse. One could say that in the beginning of the play she succeeds by
strength of will in "unsexing" herself but that her feminine nature (as femininity was
conceived by Shakespeare) eventually reasserts itself as the play
progresses. 

What is the conflict in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Dr.
Jekyll's conflict is that he wants to be both wholly good and wholly bad at the same time. He
realizes that these two sides of his nature can't be reconciled.

He fully
wants to be the morally upright, dedicated, virtuous, exemplary man that most of his friends
believe him to be. However, he also dislikes having to control his darker, more aggressive, and
more atavistic (primal) instincts. He wants this more dangerous part of himself to have freedom,
too.

Therefore, he does experiments that allow him to separate his good and
bad sideshis superego and his id, in Freudian terms (though Freud was not yet on the scene)into
two separate people. Dr. Jekyll represents his good, socially acceptable side, while Mr. Hyde
embodies his selfish, evil, and murderous side.

Unfortunately, being more
primitive and ruthless, Mr. Hyde gains the upper hand. This leads Dr. Jekyll to a second
conflict: what can he do to stop Mr. Hyde and his anti-social behavior? Dr. Jekyll is caught
between the need...

What does Thoreau mean by his comment, "It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail"?

This quote
is found in paragraph 5 of the Where I Lived, and What I Lived For chapter in . It follows
Thoreaus recounting of a time when he considered buying a farm. He did not purchase the
property. He ends the story with a vow of advice to himself and perhaps to his readers as well:
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are
committed to a farm or the county jail.

Thoreau liked to use wordplay and
literary devices in his writing. Here he uses two different meanings of the word committed to
add a twist to his conclusion. To be committed to a farm is to be bound to it by ownership and
dedication. To be committed to the county jail is to be put into official custody of law
enforcement authorities. The first one is by choice, the second one is by force. In the first
one, the person is in charge of everything. In the second one, other people are in charge. But
Thoreau sees these ties as being similar. Owning a property is a full-time responsibility that
he equates with doing time in prison. You are chained to the place, one way or
another.

Other than the house he built and lived in at Walden Pondand only
that building itself, not the land that it sat on (which belonged to Ralph
Waldo Emerson)Henry Thoreau never owned real estate. He lived with his parents or with the
Emerson family. He discovered that he could enjoy his lifestyle more by being free of this
responsibility. Besides, he did a lot of work as a property surveyor. In this job, he could
scrutinize every inch of a property temporarily, and not be tied to it
forever.

Critical analysis of Richard Ntaru's poem "The Pauper." Give a brief analysis of the poem "The Pauper" by Richard Ntiru.

Richard
Ntiru is an African poet from Uganda in East Africa. There is little biographical information
available on Ntiru but critic Rosette Francis called him "one of the young writers" in
1971. Critics generally agree that the underlying impetus of Ntiru's work is to show the
"tensions and conflicts" embedded in the "cultural confusion" (Yeshufu) that
juxtaposes Ministers of Parliament having "triple" chins with paupers who "lean
on a leafless tree" (Ntiru) in order to dramatize "the futility, corruption,
injustice, poverty, moral decay" (Yeshufu) in the confused culture of man. This poem
certainly is illustrative of these elements of tension and conflict, juxtaposition of power
corrupted with the injustice of abject poverty, the cultural confusion that pits the pauper,
framed in shining headlights and snapshots, against the beautiful.

Ntiru's
poem "The Pauper" is structured in five-line stanzas with
no end rhyme. The underlying rhythm is
built upon iambic tetrameter but that is varied with the absence of
meter or with alternate meters. An example of iambic tetrameter giving way to no meter follows
in these lines:

What brutal force, malignant element
[tetrameter]
dared to forge your piteous fate? [tetrameter]
Was it worth the
effort, the time? [no meter]

Note that the first of these
three lines is varied by the addition of a fifth metric foot while the second is varied by being
"headless," or having a missing opening unstressed beat:

What bru' / -tal force,' / ma -lig' / -nant el' / -e -ment'

--
dared' / to forge' / your pit' / -eous fate?'

Was it worth' the ef' -fort,
the time?'

While there is no end rhyme, Ntiru does employ
line internal assonance to tie lines together. Assonance is the
repetition of a consonant sound within or between lines. A good example is in the early part of
the poem where there is line internal assonance on the /s/ sound:

your eyes
in all
directions, in no direction!
What brutal
force, malignant element
dared to forge your
piteous

, the repetition of the first letter, is shown in
"limply lean on a leafless." Another repetition Nitru employs is word
repetition: "Pauper, pauper, craning yours eyes
in all directions, in no
direction!"

The
theme extends beyond the description of a pauper with feet so
hardened that jiggers (parasitic fleas) are unable to penetrate the
thickened pad-like flesh. The theme raises the question of the
creation of the pauper and asks about the motives and reactions of the Creator.

What brutal force, malignant element
dared to forge your
piteous fate?

The Creator is questioned while Nitru
subtly connects this Creator to the parliamentary government that periodically raises the Pauper
Question for discussion. In our imaginations we can hear the Pauper
Question being raised: "We must take pity on the poor pauper, but what shall we do about
him? After all, he is of some economic interest as tourists snap photos of him, but what are we
to do about him?"

Pauper, pauper crouching in
beautiful verandas
of beautiful cities and beautiful people.
Tourists and I
will take you snapshots.
And your MP with a shining head and triple chin
will
mourn your fate in a supplementary question at
question time

For additional discussion on thematic elements, see: A. Rasheed
Yesufu. "Darkness and Light: the Interplay of Pessimism and Hope in the Poetry of Richard
Ntiru."

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What were Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas regarding solitude?

's
prot©g© Henry David Thoreau had more experience and inspiration with regard to solitude as he
spent so much time living in isolation and seclusion (by choice).

In March 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin on land belonging to Emerson beside
Walden Pond near Concord. He lived there from July 1845 until September 1847 and kept a
journal...

Emerson was a much more public person. His
writing comes from his journals that encompassed fifty-five years of writing.

The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, written
over a period of fifty-five years (1820-1875), were ultimately the source of everything else
[Emerson] wrote. These have been edited in ten volumes...

Emerson's journals contained the source of his poetry and essays ("although many
of his addresses and speeches" were not assembled until after Emerson had died). However,
Emerson was also a noteworthy lecturer. In light of a career that saw a more public life rather
than a secluded one, it is interesting, perhaps even amazing, that Emerson was able to so
clearly capture the sense of solitude as he did. However, Emerson was also a man of deep
introspection and self-awareness, and this must have served him in finding a grasp of seclusion
or even isolation.

(It would be difficult to argue that isolation can be
experienced in a theater or stadium when one notes that isolation can also be found within,
and...

'Emerson takes "solitude" to refer,
first, to a sense of being alone or the acting and thinking conducted within the
self.')

Emerson was a writer who did not rely
on a standard "method of composition:" he was not a formula writer, as, for example,
was Edgar Allan Poe. Emerson relied more on inspiration. It flowed out of him as his feelings
and ideas came to him.

Using his intuition and his inspiration, Emerson also
relied on "sad self-knowledge," as he put it. His belief was that solitude can be
found anywhere, regardless of where we find ourselves: theater or
stadium.

...we will be able to summon solitude wherever we
are and under whatever circumstances we are thrust.

Emerson insisted that a poet may exist in a metropolis but be isolated, for
inspiration provides solituded.

...'the poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still. Inspiration makes
solitude anywhere.'

Emerson was able to find a balance in
living his life and the interaction with others while finding the inspiration that not only
provided him with a solitude that enabled him to work, but also an insight into inner-solitude
that inspired his writing on the topic.

...[Emerson]
constantly juggles the necessities of life with self and others, favoring a solitude that is
refined, mature, enlightened, and transcendent.

Of the
pieces written by Emerson concerning solitude, three that stand out
are , , and .

How to propose a research design on certain aspects of college students life

Research design is a critical element in
research proposals. Explaining how and the rationale for choosing a particular design requires a
lot of thought and planning. The research design is analogous to architectural plans and
builderspoor design results in less than satisfactory results.

The first step
in selecting the design of a research proposal is to define the research topic narrowly. One way
to do this is to start with a broad topic and continually refine the topic until it is
explainable in one concise sentence. For example, "certain aspects of college students'
life" is too broad. What aspects of college students' life does the researcher intend to
study? Social life, academic, student participation in clubs, or the use of social media are
more narrow subtopics than the original topic. Here is an example; 'The research intends to
study how students' use of social media affects academic proficiency.' This statement can narrow
further. 'The researcher intends to study how students' use of FaceBook affects academic
proficiency.' Narrow the focus of the research until the topic is unmistakably
precise.

Once the topic is narrow, the research design will often become
apparent. Some research designs are not appropriate for certain types of research, whereas
others fit like a glove! Using the previous example, the research design probably applicable is
a quantitative design or use of statistical data gathered from surveys or other similar sources.
It is possible to use a qualitative design or survey the existing research on the topic and
summarize the preponderance of the studies. Choosing between quantitative or qualitative methods
of research will narrow the focus some more.

Once the focus is narrow, then
there are several sub-groups of proposal design to choose from. Descriptive using observations,
surveys, and case studies are one subgroup that seems to pair well with the subject.
Correlational studies where the researcher uses statistical analysis to correlate cause and
effect or establish if there is a relationship between two variables is a possibility. The type
of research design in the proposal is dependent on three factors. The first is the subject, the
second is the applicability of the design to the research, and the third is the comfort level of
the researcher with the chosen design. Many researchers are not comfortable with quantitative
design because of the heavy emphasis on statistical analysis. Others feel qualitative research
lacks mathematical power and is not as valid as a quantitative study. Whatever the design choice
is, ultimately, the person conducting the research will provide a rationale for its use and
thereby held accountable for the final result.

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What is an allegorical significance in Robinson Crusoe?

As others
have noted,  functions as a religious , but perhaps it functions more
interestingly from a modern perspective as an allegory for colonialism, with Crusoe as the
representative or allegorical European "master" and Friday as the representative
"good savage."

When Crusoe shipwrecks on an island, like a proper
European colonialist he immediately lays claim to it as his domain. He sees it, as European
colonialists saw the "New World," as a resource base to be exploited for his own
purposes. When he does encounter a native in the form of Friday, he understands Friday (the
colonialist assuming the right to impose a name on the "savage") as a lesser human, a
"primitive," there to serve his needs and to be guided by Crusoe's
"superior" white beliefs and ideology. Friday becomes Crusoe's servant, never his
equal, and Friday's imperfect command of English becomes a symbol of his inferiority. Friday
fulfills the white European fantasy of how a native should think and behave, adopting the
ideology of the master:

 €˜You do great deal much good,
says he; €˜you teach wild mans be good, sober, tame mans; you tell them know God, pray God, and
live new life. €˜Alas, Friday! says I, €˜thou knowest not what thou sayest; I am but an ignorant
man Robinson Crusoe myself. €˜Yes, yes, says he, €˜you teachee me good, you teachee them
good.

When native "cannibals" arrive on the
beach of "his" domain, Crusoe uses his superior technology to frighten and intimidate
them with his musket. Natives are given pejorative labels and driven off, with no thought that
they might have rights to what the white man has staked out as his domain. They are
"cannibals" and "savages" who deserve to die. In Robinson
Crusoe, we may be said to have colonialism in microcosm.

In "The Crucible" how did Mary Warren accuse John Proctor?

Mary Warren
went to the courts in act three determined to confess that she and the girls were merely
pretending.  John Proctor helped to convince her to do this, because he is desperate to get his
wife, Elizabeth, freed.  Mary knows that it is all a fraud, but thus far has been too chicken to
come forward and state it.  She is worried that if she does, "they'll turn on me," as
she says in act two, meaning, Abby and the other girls will accuse HER of being a witch.  Mary
is terrified of this accusation; she knows what power Abby has over the courts, and that if she
crosses Abby, Abby will take revenge on her.  Mary doesn't want to be accused of being a witch;
she fears it and avoids it at all costs.

However, after Elizabeth Proctor is
arrested on the ridiculous claim that she stabbed Abby in the belly with a needle, John
convinces Mary to be brave and tell the courts that she and the other girls are all pretending. 
And, she tries to do this, she really does.  She gets up there, tells the judges that "it
were all pretense" and tries to explain how that could be.  After the judges turn on her
and command her to faint, she says that she can't, that she's all alone, and when she fainted in
the courtroom all of the other girls were screaming and fainting "and you seemed to believe
them," and so she got caught up in the mass hysteria of it all.  However, as soon as the
judges start listening to Mary, Abby turns on her.  Abby starts pretending to be super scared,
and to see a "yellow bird" that is supposedly Mary's spirit, that wants to come down
and pluck her eyes out.  All of the other girls follow suit, and pretty soon Abby has the judges
believing that Mary is sending her spirit out to attack her.  Mary sees how Abby has turned the
judges against her, and because she fears being accused of being a witch, she denounces her
previous claims of having pretended, and accuses John of influencing her.

So,
instead of sticking to her guns and being brave, Mary, in order to get out of being accused of
being a witch, turns on John and calls him a "devil's man" who came to her and forced
her to sign his "black book" and told her that she must come to the courts to
overthrow them.  As soon as she does this, Abby stops with the ridiculous (and fake) bird act,
and accepts Mary back into her good favors.  John ends up being accused of witchcraft, and Mary
saves her own neck.

I hope that clears things up for you a bit; it's a
confusing scene with lots going on in it, so I hope that helps.  Good
luck.

Araby Symbolism

In
"," Joyce employs much religious symbolism to bring one of his major themes to
fruition: the incongruity of the secular and the sacred. The entire story is a religious quest
revolving around Mangan's sister, who functions as the Virgin Mary. The "quest" is for
the Holy Grail, or her love, but the boy has confused religiousity with lust.

This confusion of the secular and the spiritual begins right away. Consider the second
paragraph, which depits the dead priest's library where the boy likes to spend much of his time.
The three books that are his favorite are not tomes of religious instruction, but secular works
of intrigue. His moral instruction has been compromised from the beginning.

We see how quickly the boy makes Mangan's sister the object of his devotion and
shrouded lust. As he observes her unawares, the boy describes "her figure defined by the
light from the half-opened door." Think about how much like the glow of a halo around the
Virgin Mary this seems.

In the following...

In Homer's Odyssey, how does Odysseus treat women? I am writing a paper about the women in the Odyssey and how he treats them to get what he wants.

A agree that
Odysseus was not a woman hater, on the contrary I think he loves women. I do think that Odysseus
has the mentality that what Penelope doesn't know won't hurt her. He is very concerned with her
faithfulness, while never calling into question his own unfaithfulness. While Calypso did have
power over him, he was not an unwilling prisoner in the least. When he had power over Circe, he
continued to add to his list of indiscretions by bedding her as well. I think that Odysseus was
a wonderful husband to Penelope, but that his faithfulness was severely lacking. Women were not
of high importance in Ancient Greek culture and polygamy was a fair practice so Odysseus I'm
sure saw very little if anything wrong with what he did, but had Penelope been unfaithful I'm
certain she would have paid dearly perhaps with her life for such a treasonous act against a
king.

What are some of the achievements of Mohenjo-daro?

The
achievements credited to the citizens of Mohenjo-daro center around their urban planning skills.
The level of sophistication in urban design was unprecedented in the world at the time. An urban
sanitation system that removed waste from individual homes was employed. A rain sewage system,
developed separately from the waste sewage system, was also constructed. The planners of
Mohenjo-daro designed a grid-like system for their streets and avenues.

The
Dravidians, who occupied the city, were masters at brick construction and design. Homes, public
buildings, public baths, and grain storage towers were all constructed of brick. Many homes were
multi-storied. A brick wall was built around the entire city and in different districts
throughout. The wall was most likely as a flood control measure. Much of the brick construction
has survived at the site even today.

Mohenjo-daro was also economically
developed and did not seem to be interested in militarism or warfare. They developed a system of
writing and were amongst the first to establish a uniform system of weights and measures. The
trade network from Mohenjo-daro extended south into India and as far west as Mesopotamia. The
wealth acquired through trade was used to strengthen the city.

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Scientists talk about the 6th mass extinction happening right now. What is it, and how is it different from the last 5?

Five
mass extinctions have already been recorded throughout Earth's history, and we are in the midst
of a sixth. Scientists are not always certain of the cause, but most agree with the idea that
extinctions resulted from climate change. The six mass extinctions are:

• End Ordovician (-444 million years), during which sea levels and temperatures dropped,
  resulting in extinction for 86% of species.
• Late Devonian (-375 million
  years), in which many new plant species evolved and changed the composition of the seas, killing
  75% of species.
• End Permian (-251 million years), called "the great
  dying" and considered the worst mass extinction to date. 96% of species perished, including
  all the corals, nearly ending life on Earth completely.
• End Triassic (-200
  million years), in which Earth lost 80% of species, but scientists are puzzled as to the exact
  reasons why it occurred.
• End Cretaceous (-66 million years), the end of
  most dinosaurs and ammonite sea species. Likely caused by an asteroid impact; 76% of species
  died.
• Present Day: the Sixth Mass Extinction.

It is incredible to think that we are in the midst of a mass extinction today, but all
the evidence is pointing in that direction. Like the others, this one is caused primarily by
rapid climate change. However, there are some significant differences between this sixth
extinction and the other five. Notably, it is occurring all over the world in every climate. No
pockets of life are being spared the effects of this extinction. Countless species of plants and
animals are under threat. Scientists estimate that as many as 50% of all species could become
extinct by the middle of the century.

The most important thing to remember
about this current mass extinction is that humans have made the largest contribution to it.
Human activities have hastened global warming, destroyed habitats, and eliminated endangered
species. At no other point in Earth's history has a species actually, knowingly contributed to
the extinction of others. However, just as humans are the major cause of this crisis, humankind
also has the possibility of moderating it. If humans come together and take action, it is
possible to limit the effects of this extinction and perhaps prevent the worst of it. In that
respect, the sixth extinction is both more frightening, and more inspiring, that the five that
preceded it.

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What images and figures of speech might have helped Edwards' listeners to feel the peril of their sinful condition?

A fire and
brimstone preacher, the Reverendemploys fear to motivate his congregation. He creates images to
make his listeners feel the horror of the sinful condition in which their souls dwell. Here are
some of theand figures of speech that the minister employs:

Edwards tells his
listeners that they have provoked God with their sins and they are done nothing to appease the
Lord.

• Hell is gaping with "the dreadful pit of
  the glowing flames of God's wrath." There is nothing to stand on or hold
  onto; it is only the "power and mere pleasure of God" that keeps them from falling
  into the pit.
• The sinners are weighted down by
  their "wickedness" which makes
  them "as heavy as lead" and it is only
  "the hand of God" that keeps them from
  falling.
• The "wrath of God" is
  further compared to "great waters" that are dammed';
  these waters increase and gain strength and set water speed.
• God's wrath is
  then compared to a bow in which an arrow is
  poised; it is only the hand of God that holds the
  arrow back from striking people.
• These sinners are "ten times
  more abominable in God's eyes than the "most
  hateful venomous serpent." 
• Hell is described as a
  "great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit." This
  pit is filled with fire, with the flames of divine
  wrath flashing all around.
• The sinners hang over
  this fiery pit, held only by "a gossamer
  thread."

Edwards also uses repetition
effectively. For instance, he repeats the word nothing to impress upon
people that they cannot be saved by their actions, but only through acceptance of
grace.

 

What is the meaning of James Blunt's song "no bravery?" What is the song about?

I was
unfamiliar with the song so I did some preliminary research. I found the lyrics, and also found
a video made with that song as the background. If you are unfamiliar also, I suggest you do the
same. I believe "he" is symbolic of the American soldier in Iraq. The song questions
our country's motives for being there, and interprets the soldier's current attitudes toward
being there. I get the impression the narrator thinks the soldiers are no longer sure of the
reason either. Instead of feeling "brave," they are merely
"sad."

 I also think this song leaves a great deal of room for
personal interpretation. Maybe look at it in a variety of contexts. Good luck.

Contrast Scrooge's Old Christmas Celebrations With Those Of The Fezziwigs

Fezziwig
and Scrooge are complete opposites as bosses. Scrooge is a miserly, misanthropic loner,
described as follows:

Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand
at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old
sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret,
and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

We learn
that his clerk, Bob Cratchit, literally has a small fire, perhaps of one coal, and doesn't dare
ask for more because he knows Scrooge will threaten to fire him if he does. Cratchit huddles in
his comforter and tries to warm himself with his candle. Scrooge even begrudges him the day off
for Christmas, saying that because he has to pay him for it anyway, it is a way of picking his
pocket. Scrooge gives no Christmas party or Christmas treat. He doesn't even offer well wishes
to Cratchit.

In constrast, when the Ghost of Christmas Past transports
Scrooge back in time, Scrooge witnesses the joyful...

Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau in jail during his life?

Rousseau
was not in jail during his life. However, one of the most important moments in his life involved
jail. He was visiting Diderot, the famous philosophe who had been
imprisoned for impiety, when he learned about (apparently through a flyer, or pamphlet) a
composition contest sponsored by the Academy at Dijon. The topic was whether the advent of
science had improved the morality of mankind. Rousseau's response, which took the negative, was
published as A Discourse on Arts and Sciences, brought him into prominence
as a thinker. 

The fact that Rousseau never spent time in jail should not
obscure his reputation as an iconoclast in eighteenth century France. Part of the reason he went
to Britain (at the behest of Robert Hume) in 1762 was to avoid arrest. He spent time there, and
in other countries, before convincing himself that the British government was about to imprison
him. He returned to France, where he was no longer viewed as controversial, and died there in
1778. While he was never actually imprisoned, he did endure a self-imposed exile, and he lived
most of his life on the fringes of what was socially and legally acceptable in
eighteenth-century France.

Which ghost has the biggest impact on Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and why? Show evidence to back up your point.

The
answer to this question is subjective, and no answer is technically more correct than another
answer. I believe that most readers would probably say that the Ghost of Christmas Future has
the biggest impact, because Scrooge makes his massive change shortly after this ghost's visit;
however, I think that is short-sighted. In my personal opinion, the Ghost of Christmas Future
would not be effective without the the presence of the other two ghosts, and the other two
ghosts would not have been as effective without the future ghost presenting Scrooge with the
final set of images.

If I had to pick the ghost that has the greatest impact
on Scrooge, I think I would have to go with the Ghost of Christmas Past. I would go with this
ghost for two main reasons. First, this ghost shows Scrooge a time in his life when he wasn't
miserable and miserly. Scrooge gets to re-experience that moment in his life at Fezziwig's party
with wonderful friends. It's an incredibly positive...

In James Joyce's "Eveline," what does Eveline's father think about Frank?

In 's
story "," Eveline's father forbids her from having anything to do with Frank because,
as he says, "I know these sailor chaps." There are two ways in which this can be
interpreted:

1. Eveline's father is attempting to protect his
   daughter from  this "sailor chap." 
2. Eveline's father would object
   to anyone who courts his daughter because it would disrupt his lifestyle.

Like all Joyce stories, the answer is probably not simple and is perhaps a combination
of the two possibilities. 

Eveline's father...

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What is a quote from To Kill a Mockingbird that shows Scout benefited others?

Perhaps
the best example ofbenefiting others comes at the end of . After the attack
by Bob Ewell and his death at the hands of, Sheriff Tate has a decision to make: Should he tell
the truth and begin an investigation (which will implicate Boo and bring him into the
"limelight")? Or should he simply call Bob's death one of self-infliction? Tate
humanely chooses...

Why did the woman choose to continue the pregnancy in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

This
short story clearly shows s skillful craftsmanship in part through the way he conveys the idea
that the girl is pregnant without anyone ever saying so. The dialogue between the man and the
girl reveals that they are enmeshed in a serious disagreement, but the exact subject is never
stated.

The man seems to believe that he is behaving reasonably, as he tries
to cajole the girl into doing what he wants her to do. That action seems to be terminating the
pregnancy. He imagines that, if she did so, their relationship would continue the same as before
she got pregnant. She knows better. His attitude toward the possibility of having a baby is
teaching her what an immature, selfish person he is. As she will likely have to accept complete,
solo responsibility for the child, perhaps she will be able to rejoin her family and get some
support from them.

There were many risks involved in abortion, which was
illegal everywhere in those days. Depending on the country, those risks included surgical errors
that might cause excessive bleeding or perforate the uterus, and numerous future complications
including infection or hysterectomy and even death could occur. Furthermore, both doctor and
patient might be arrested.

In Great Expectations, how does Estella treat Pip when they meet?

Estella
treats Pip very scornfully when they first meet. They first encounter one another when she lets
him into Satis Hall, where he has come to meet Miss Havisham. From the start, Estella seems
haughty and proud. She makes no effort to smile or be pleasant, and she calls Pip
"boy" over and over, although they seem to be the same age. As Pip recounts:

She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful
and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a
queen.

Estella has been raised to be...

What are the poetic devices used in the poem "Richard Cory"?

There are a
number of different poetic devices at work in ." This poem uses , repetition, and vividto
portray this royal-seeming yet depressed man.

Alliteration is used often in
the poem. Phrases like people on the pavement," we went without," and we worked,
and waited show repetitive beginning sounds. This is used to show the strict regimen and routine
adopted by the individuals in the story, which is abruptly changed by the titular characters
suicide.

Repetition is also used in the story, especially in the second
stanza, as the collective speaker repeats the phrase and he was always when describing Corys
being and actions. This serves to give continuity and reinforce these ideas of Cory, making the
audience believe they truly know this man.

Finally, vivid imagery is used to
great effect. Richard Cory is compared to royaltythe speaker calls his head his crown"
and claims that he barely seems human.

What is your opinion of Julia? Is she a realist or a cynic?

I'm not sure
I've ever figuredout.   does a masterful job of tricking us andabout her.  Is she who she says
she is?  Or is she a spy for ?  Does she become an unperson like Winston?  Or is she only acting
like one?  It's hard to tell...

This year my students are convinced that
she...

Is abortion a theme in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Well, interesting
question, because the answer to this is that yes, abortion is definitely a theme, but I would
argue it is linked to the far bigger theme of how the partner subtly forces Jig to get the
abortion.

What is interesting about this story is that although the abortion
hangs over this couple, nowhere is the word actually used. Reference is only made to the
"awfully simple operation" that is "not really an operation at all" and is
"just to let the air in." It is a topic that is avoided head-on by the couple,
especially Jig, who, while her partner gives her his medical opinion about abortion first
pointedly "looks at the ground" and then "says nothing."

What is clear as you read the story carefully is that Jig does not want the abortion,
but the unnamed partner does. Jig has to choose between saving the baby and saving her
relationship, which, to be honest, doesn't look that good anyway. The partner shows incredible
lack of empathy and understanding. From his point of view her unwanted pregnancy is "the
only thing that bothers us" and he promises that everything will be "alright" and
"nice again" once she has had the operation performed. What is particularly sinister
is the way that the partner keeps on repeating, again and again, the phrase "But I don't
want you to do it if you don't really want to." The fact that he keeps on bringing up the
topic and keeps on saying this, even when Jig is desperate to change the topic and not talk
about it even more, indicates that he will make sure Jig has the abortion but he wants to come
across as reasonable and not pressuring her:

"All
right. But you've got to realise--"

"I realise," the girl
said. "Can't we maybe stop talking?"

They sat down at the table and
the girl looked across at the hills on the day saide of the valley and the man looked at her and
at the table.

"You've got to realise," he said, "that I don't
want you to do it if you don't want to. I'm perfectly willing to go through with it if it means
anything to you."

As we read the story it becomes
clear to both the reader and Jig that the partner will have this abortion one way or another and
the imposition of his will against Jig reveals his dominance and brutality. Theof the story is
that it ends with Jig saying she is "fine" when it is obviously a
lie.

How does Winston's behavior change in 1984?

As the
story progresses,gradually becomes more rebellious. He's no longer prepared to accept life as a
humble functionary in the Outer Party; he wants to play his part in overthrowing the tyrannical
state which he serves. Deep down he knows that one day he'll be crushed by the regime as with so
many others before him. But if he's going to go down, then he might as well go down
fighting.

This attitude of quiet defiance leads him to act recklessly, taking
risks that will bring him one step closer to being vaporized: the recording of subversive
thoughts in the diary, the illicit love affair with, the involvement with...

How does Steinbeck's description of the life under the sea differ from that of life on land in The Pearl?

In
, the land is generally the realm of concrete fact and the undersea a world
of possibility. On land,describes many settings in detail, which gives the reader a solid sense
of such things as Kinos and Juanas living situation. With small details, such as Kino watching
the ants dig traps and fall into them, the author both...

Why were the colonies "unfairly represented" in Parliament?

It's
not so much that the colonists were unfairly represented in Parliament; they weren't represented
at all, and this was a major point of contention between the Americans and the British. A
growing number of American colonists believed that it was unfair that they continued to pay
taxes without being represented at Westminster (evident in the rallying cry, "No taxation
without...

What is Ichabod Crane's favorite reading material? Washington Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

About Ichabod
Crane, the school master,writes in "A Legend of Sleepy Hollow":

He was, in fact an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple
credultiy.  His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally
extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region.

Ichabod Crane digests Cotton Mather's (a Puritan preacher)
"History of New England Witchcraft," a book in which he firmly and "most
potently" believes.  He spends many hours reading Mather's work, and "fluttered by his
excited imagination" he believes that he is "struck with a witch's token" at
times.  To drive away the evil spirits, he sings psalm tunes. Nevertheless, Crane still delights
in the supernatural, so he spends winter evening with the old Dutch wives who exchange tales of
ghosts and goblins around the fire.  In turn, Ichabod entertains them with Mathers's reports on
witchcraft, as well as predicting what the sounds in the winter air portend. 

However, daylight always put an end to any fears.  That is, until Ichabod Crane meets
Katrina Van Tassel.  When Ichabod vies for her attentions against Brom Van Brunt, "the hero
of the country round," his superstitions are the weapon his adversary uses against
him.

 

In Lyddie, what dreadful news does Lyddie receive in chapter 20?

gets a letter telling her that
her mother died.

Since she was a little girl, Lyddie wanted
nothing more than to get her family back together.  Her father left when her youngest sister
Agnes was born, and her mother was never the same after that.  She slumped deeper into
depression until she left the farm to go to Lyddies uncles house, taking Lyddies two little
sisters with her and leaving Lyddie alone with her brother.

After taking the
job at the factory, life was full of loss for Lyddie.  First she learned that her youngest
sister Agnes died.  Then her uncle came to tell her that her mother was being sent to an insane
asylum.  That left Rachel, who stayed with Lyddie until her brother Charlie came to take her
home to his new family.

After Rachel left, Lyddie began to realize that she
had to let go of the dream of getting her entire family back together again.  Agnes was dead. 
Charlie and Rachel were adopted, her mother was institutionalized, and no one had heard from her
father for years.

Then Lyddie got a letter saying that her mother had
died.

A letter arrived in September, on thick, expensive
paper, the addressdecked out in curlicues. "We regret to inform you of the death of Maggie
M. Worthen ..." They hadn't even got her name right. Poor Mama. Nothing ever right for her
in life or death. (Ch. 20)

Lyddies mothers name is
Mattie, not Maggie.  Lyddie thinks to herself that her mother has been gone from them for
years.  This is just the final loss.

The only family Lyddie really has left
is Brigid.  Although they are not related, they are close.  Diana is gone, and Lyddie enjoys
teaching Brigid how to read.  One day she goes to find her friend and sees Mr. Marsden, the
overseer, trying to assult her.  Lyddie beans him with a bucket and rescues Brigid. 
Unfortunately, he trumps up charges against her and gets her fired.

 

What is the significance and meaning of the shattered conch in Lord of the Flies?

In
chapter 11, , , andapproach Castle Rock and demand thatreturn Piggy's glasses. Ralph and Jack
proceed to engage in a physical altercation, and Piggy shouts at the top of his lungs to end the
brawl. Piggy holds onto the conch as he addresses Jack and his savage followers. Piggy proceeds
to tell the boys that they are acting like a crowd of kids and asks if it is better to remain
sensible like Ralph or dress like painted Indians. Piggy then asks:

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up? (Golding
259)

As Piggy is addressing the boys, Ralph hears the
sound of a massive boulder rolling down the side of the cliff directly toward Piggy. Before
Piggy can move out of the way, he is struck by the boulder and the conch breaks into "a
thousand white fragments."

The destruction of the conch is a significant
moment and indicates the point of no return. Throughout the novel, the conch symbolically
represented civilization, democracy, and order. Therefore, its destruction symbolically
represents the loss of hope and the end of civilization on the uninhabited tropical island.
Without the conch, order and civility do not exist on the island, where anarchy reigns
supreme.

Following Piggy's death, Jack and his savages begin hunting Ralph
throughout the island, and there is no longer a possibility of creating a functioning, civil
society.

In Paul Zindel's The Pigman, what does each of the three omens foreshadow in Chapter Six?

The first omen
that Lorraine says is a bad one is the woman selling peanuts. She doesn't hear Lorraine's order
right, so she barks back at her like she doesn't like kids. At least that is how Lorraine takes
her attitude. Then the peacock attacks her on the trail and she takes it as a bad omen because
she's paranoid everyone or everything is out to get her. The third omen is when Lorraine sees a
weird little boy staring at her in the Mammal Building. Lorraine explains her concerns as
follows:

"He made me feel as though I was a bat in a
cage and he was on the outside looking in at me. It made me feel very nervous"
(59).

Lorraine is a very paranoid person as it is, but
the omens do have symbolic value. The first two omens might represent Lorraine's mother because
like the woman selling peanuts, it seems like her mother doesn't like her own daughter, let
alone other kids her age. Then, the peacock attacking Lorraine could parallel when Lorraine is
brought home by a cop in Chapter 14. Lorraine's mother responds by smacking her around when she
finds out about Mr. Pignati, the crazy party, and all of the lies she's told. Finally, the
little kid with the smirk on his face could represent Norton's creepiness and threatening
attitude towards her and Mr. Pignati. Eventually, it is mostly Norton's shenanigans that ruin
everything for Lorraine and John and their relationship with Mr. Pignati.

What is the role of Chillingworth in "The Scarlet Letter"? Is it a tool to punish Arthur Dimmesdale or is there another role for him ?

has a role
of a victim in this story as well as punisher.  Chillingworth takes a part of the blame for the
sin, spelling things out a bit when he visitsin the jail cell.  He left to pursue enlightenment
outside of the colony and did not contact Hester at all.  Also, he refers to their life before
he left as not perfect, he was scholarly, she was his maid.  This could be the reason why
Hawthorne focuses on the /Chillingworth connection. 

As victim, he is the
"one on whom was cheated" and asks not to be revealed to the colony as Hester's
husband.  If he were to reveal his true identity, Hester would be put to death, name of the
father notwithstanding.  Not to mention, he would forever carry the stigma of being the one who
was not good enough to keep...

What are some key points for the argument "Why is school necessary"?

If you are
referring to education in schools, then I would argue that teachers are
college trained professionals in the subject of student learning and in their specific content
area.  Even smart people don't know everything and need guidance and feedback from the people
who know more than they do. For example, I was always a very good reader, but it took my high
school and college education to open my world to a more critical appreciation of the craft of
the writer.

How do the settings and surroundings contribute to 1984's meaning?

Throughout the novel,wanted to depict what life would be like in a totalitarian
dystopian society, where citizens have no individual rights or freedoms, and the government
controls virtually every aspect of life. The setting of takes place in
London, which is the chief city of Airstrip One in the nation of Oceania. London is depicted as
a barren, dirty city, where goods are rare and government agents roam the streets in search of
dissidents. Wilson's apartment complex is dilapidated and outdated, and posters of Big Brother
hang throughout the building. The fact that there is a telescreen in his room emphasizes that
lack of privacy in society and is a constant reminder of the government's control.'s workplace
at the Ministry of Truth illustrates the extensive, complex operations involved in controlling
the entire society of Oceania. The Ministry of Truth is a massive, foreboding structure that
stands out in the city of ruins and represents the government's absolute...

What is meant by the phrase " We now dug into poor Clergyman's heart like a miner searching for gold"? Is it meant literally or symbolically or both?

Well, first,
isn't the phrase "He now dug€¦"?

That aside, it is deeply symbolic,
but it may also have some minor literal meanings. By that I mean, in

In "Rules of the Game," why does Waverly feel unhappy about shopping with her mother and see it as a duty she cannot avoid?

As a
renowned chess prodigy, Waverly is recognized throughout town for her accomplishments and
receives praise from her neighbors and local businesses. Every Saturday, Waverlys mother makes
her come to the local market and introduces her to nearly everyone she meets. Waverly
understands that her mother is simply showing her off and is embarrassed but feels like it is
her required duty. Waverly begins to resent her mother for showing her off on Saturdays and
eventually expresses her displeasure in the middle of the market. Waverlys comments offend her
mother and cause a significant rift in their relationship. Waverly ends up briefly running away
and must figure out a way to break free from her mothers authority and control.

Does Eliza improve her self-confidence in Pygmalion?

Yes, Eliza
does markedly improve her self-confidence. This comes about as she learns the speech and manners
of a lady. Her confidence increases as she gains the acceptance and approval of
upper-middle-class people, the love of Freddy, and finally, the acceptance of the nobility, who
embrace her as one of them on the basis of her accent, clothing, and demeanor.

We know she has gained self-confidence because by the end of...