What parts of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" show realism?

This
is a good question concerning this short story, and it is an interesting question because one
could argue there are parts of the story that are much more in line with fantasy than. An entire
camp being socially transformed because of the birth of a single child is quite miraculous;
however, there are strong examples of realism in the story. Generally, realism literature makes
use of an omniscient, third person narrator. That is true for this story. Harte's narrator is an
all-knowing narrator that jumps from character to character in order to give readers a more
in-depth look at the entire town. The third person narration lends itself to realism because it
allows for the narrator to be a bit more cold and distant than a first person narrator. Realism
tends to give a lot of detail about things, but it also doesn't try to be too poetic and flowery
in its descriptions. Realism tends to state things in a matter-of-fact style, and that is true
for this short story. For example,...

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Explain a theme that Stargirl represents in the novel.

The theme
of individual vs. society is something thatrepresents.  In another sense, she embodies the theme
of insider vs. outsider and how both dynamics impact the individual.  Stargirl experiences life
as both insider and outsider.  Spinelli'sreveals how she does not change her own sense of
identity even when the social classification to which she finds herself belonging changes. 
Stargirl remains the same person when she is an insider and an outsider.  The thematic
implication of this is the idea that if individuals find their own voice and develop the courage
to embrace this reality, then they will be able to fully appreciate being in the world and what
consciousness has to offer.  In this light, the thematic reality of how Stargirl goes from
outsider to insider and back to outsider is a theme that Stargirl represents and has tremendous
implications on the development of the novel.  It is in this light where Spinelli's main
character ends up becoming a force that exists  both within and outside the novel.  To this end,
Stargirl is a thematically definitive character in Leo's world and in ours, as well, because of
how she embodies and places a variation on the insider/ outsider theme.

 

What is an example of peripeteia in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

According to
Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, the noun peripeteia
refers to a turn in the opposite direction, a "reversal", a "sudden
change", or, among other definitions, a "sudden reversal of
circumstances."

With respect to ' play, the term peripeteia
became famous because Aristotle, in the Poetics (see 1452a22),
used it to describe the reversal that occurred when thefrom Corinth came to tellthat Polybus had
died. After Oedipus told the Corinthian about the dreadful oracle, the messenger thought that he
could relieve Oedipus of his fears by telling him that Polybus was not actually his
father.

My lord, since I came to make you happy,
why dont I relieve you of this fear? (Ian Johnston translation)

When Oedipus hears this news, though, he soon experiences, according to Aristotle,
peripeteia. Upon learning that Polybus and Merope were not his real father
and mother, Oedipus soon discovers that Laius andwere his parents. This discovery, of course,
leads to Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus blinding himself.

Ah, so it all came true. Its so clear now.

O light, let me look at
you one final time,

a man who stands revealed as cursed by birth,

cursed by my own family, and cursed

by murder where I should not
kill.

 

In A Wrinkle in Time, what is the thing and which historical figures have opposed it? Chapter 5

In the book, the
Thing is a representation of pure evil embodied by a very dark cloud which completely blocks out
light. This Thing that threatens the entire universe has already taken over planet Camazotz and
is currently moving in on earth and has covered part of it. In fact, on earth, the Black Thing
has been opposed by prominent figures such as Jesus, Rembrandt, Buddha and Bach over the
centuries. In Comazotz, everybody thinks and acts simultaneously because their minds are being
controlled by IT, a huge live brain that dictates evil and hate. It is in this planet that Megs
father is trapped because he failed to yield in to mind control by IT. Since the Thing knows
only evil, Meg uses the power of love to defeat it.

What is peat?

Peat is an
important and ancient form of fuel, particularly in Ireland, Scotland and the UK. It is composed
of partially decayed plant matter, particularly moss and grass, that has accumulated in a
low-oxygen wetland environment, which discourages microorganisms and many forms of vertebrate
life from consuming it. This has the side effect of making peat an exceptionally good
preservational environment,...

In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" the woman says: "And we could have everything and every day we make it impossible." What does she mean...

Much
remains unstated in the story. The American man and the girl he calls Jig are having a serious
but unproductive conversation in a cafe. They are clearly at cross purposes.

The man keeps encouraging Jig to have a medical procedure by downplaying its
seriousness and importance. The more he insists that it is no big deal and that it is her
choice, the clearer it becomes that it is very serious and that he is trivializing her concerns
about it and, most likely, about other decisions regarding their relationship.

"I think it's the best thing to do. But I don't want you to do
it if you don't really want to."

"And if I do it you'll be happy
and things will be like they were and you'll love me?"

They do not have everything yet, as they have a poor relationship, and the operation
will not improve things. He makes any improvement impossible because he disregards her feelings.
She believes he does not love her, and will not love her. He makes anything further
impossible.

Because the unnamed...

What were the three religious practices found in Mecca before Muhammad's revelations?

The religious
practices found in Mecca before the rise of Islam were of the sort that would typically be
considered pagan. There were three deities who were most central to the Arabic practices at the
time, sometimes referred to as the Daughters of God: The Goddess, al-Lat; The Mighty, or
al-Uzzah; and Manat, a goddess of destiny. There were also many more minor deities beyond this.
The Kaaba, which stands at the center of the great mosque at Mecca, was said to have been
surrounded by 360 idols. These divine beings were not fully personified, but rather were
represented symbolically, with worship directed, for instance, at large stones, or the morning
sun. There were other beliefs in beings that may be understood as supernatural or divine as
well, such as Jinn, or "the subtle ones."

If you were a lawyer and Lennie was your client, how would you make your case for his innocence in the killing of Curley's wife?

In
chapter five,is inside the barn lamenting the accidental death of his puppy while the rest of
the workers are outside playing horseshoes. Lennie is worried aboutbecoming mad when he
discovers that he accidentally killed the puppy and thinks he will lose the opportunity to tend
rabbits in the future. While Lennie is contemplating George's reaction, Curley's wife enters the
barn and attempts to strike up a conversation with him. Despite Lennie's attempts to avoid
Curley's wife, she stays in the barn and complains about her unhappy marriage. When she learns
that Lennie enjoys petting soft things, she instructs him to stroke her hair. Lennie follows her
directions and begins roughly petting her hair. When Curley's wife attempts to pull away, Lennie
panics and tightens his grip. Curley's wife proceeds to struggle and Lennie accidentally breaks
her neck while attempting to silence her.

If one were a lawyer arguing on
Lennie's behalf, it would be wise to describe Lennie's...

What are 5 symbols of Atticus Finch and why are these symbols? Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

1. The
"unsullied" Code of Alabama in 's office symbolizes his idea of fairness and his
belief that everybody is equal in a US court of law. Regardless of race, gender, class, or
religion, Atticus believes that everyone should be treated fairly. His firm belief in the
importance of justice is why he valiantly defends an innocent black man in front of a racist
jury.

2. The checkboard in Atticus's office symbolically represents his
calculating, astute nature as an expert lawyer. During the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus presents
a moving argument and cleverly proves his client's innocence. He always seems to be one step
ahead of the prosecution in the courtroom, which is why he is such an esteemed lawyer.

3. A newspaper is another symbol associated with Atticus and represents his affinity
for reading. Atticus is often seen reading a newspaper, andmentions that this is his favorite
pastime. Atticus's name and his commitment to defending Tom Robinson are also written about in
the...

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, how does Diamond challenge our assumptions about the transition from hunting-gathering to farming?

There
wasn't really a direct, clean-cut transition from hunter-gathering societies to sedentary
agricultural societies. Instead, agricultural societies formed over a lengthy period of time.
This gradual change, according toin , was directly related to a
significant decrease in prey population 10,000 years ago during a period of mass extinction; an
increase in human population and subsequent need to find more means of food production; and the
invention of agricultural technologies that certain tribes and groups experimented with. Around
8500 BCE, some groups of people were experimenting with agriculture, but it would some time
before groups were fully agricultural. Thus, the change was gradual, and there was overlap of
the two types of societies as groups experimented with agriculture while still
maintaining...

What does Hammurabi's Code reveal about Babylonian society?

Any law
code will show what problems a society is dealing with. If an issue is not a problem or causing
conflict, there is no need to make a law about it. Societies make laws to resolve or reduce
their conflicts so that their society can run more smoothly. Furthermore, laws reveal what a
society values and how the society is structured.

The Hammurabi Code reveals
that people in ancient Babylonia owned private property and needed laws and contracts to protect
their property rights. Laws in the Code, for example, dealt with who was liable for property
damage and helped regulate the inheritance of property. This shows that protecting private
property and enforcing clear ownership rules were important to this culture.

The Code also reveals that the Babylonians lived in a hierarchical society. Penalties for crimes
against a lower caste person, such as a slave, were less harsh than if committed against an
upper class person. For example, a doctor whose poor medical treatment allowed a
rich...

Themes What other themes could be conveyed through the novel Lovely Bones besides Loss and Grief ?. I've got exams coming up and my novel essay is...

Another
thematic topic to explore might be the human need to find the truth.  Jack and Lindsey continue
to pursue the truth about Susie's murder because they feel that they need to know what happened
in order to have some closure (and...

In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, is Stephen the hero he presents himself as, or something less?

byis a type of novel known as a
Bildungsroman or story of the coming of age of a. Although in some cases it
can have a heroic protagonist, more typical the genre explores the interior life of sensitive,
artistic young people filled with self-doubt, anxiety, and a certain degree of
self-centeredness. Novels of this...

How is Brom 's horse, Daredevil, similar to him in its appearance and action? I need to know what is funny about the horse which Ichabod riding as he...

The key
to the similarity between Brom Bones and his horse, Daredevil, is the word "mischief"
that the author uses to describe them both. The horse's name also gives a clue to his
personality. Physically they are alike as well, both being big and strong.

Ichabod Crane, however, is skinny bookworm. His horse's name is not really apt, as
Gunpowder is old, half blin, and vicious.Sadly his owner does not take good care of him, as his
mane and tail are tangled and not combed. His personality is like a devil. Because he and
Ichabod look similar, and Ichabod is not a good rider, they make a comical pair. In saying Crane
looks like a knight on a quest, Irving is alluding both to real medieval knights and especially
to Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante, the quintessential adventuring knight on a bony
nag.

Why did Alice want to name her daughter Hagar in Kindred?

Alice names her baby Hagar because, in the Bible, Hagar was a slave and
was freed.

Dana knows that she has a relative named Hagar, so
she is aware that Alice is going to name the baby that before shes even conceived.  In fact,
Dana actively awaits Hagars arrival through most of the book.

Rufus said it was the ugliest name he had ever heard, but it was Alices choice, and he
let it stand....

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How did Christopher Columbus' voyages change the world of exploration?

Not long
after Columbus set sail with his three ships in 1492, a number of other explorers, particularly
from Portugal, set out on their own voyages. Spain and Portugal led the world in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries in the number of explorers that each nation sponsored.

From 1497 to 1524, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama opened up a sea route from
Europe to the East after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern end of South
Africa. The cape had first been sighted by fellow Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias, who led
the very first expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and opened up a sea route to Asia
via the Atlantic and Indian Oceans four years before Columbus's first journey to find a direct
route west from Europe to Asia.

These explorers journeyed further than
Columbus did, and, unlike him, they were relatively successful in reaching their intended
destinations. Columbus's discovery had less to do with his being a pioneer in
navigationarguably, he was not, given that he got lostthan with his accidental sightings of
Dominica and Hispaniola. These sightings, and particularly the reports of the natives who lived
on these islands, made other explorers curious about the mysterious lands west of Europe and
about the mysterious people who inhabited them.

The Italian explorer Amerigo
Vespucci toured South America and the Caribbean under the sponsorship of the Spanish and then
the Portuguese between 1499 and 1502. He is notable for being the first explorer to realize that
he was on a separate continent, which is why both North and South America are named after him.
In 1503, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator who sailed for Portugal, made the first
circumnavigation around the world.

Succeeding explorers focused more on
conquest than on exploration. These included Francisco Pizarro, who conquered the Inca Empire in
Peru, and Hernan Cortes, a conqueror of Mexico's Aztec Empire and the capturer of its capital,
Tenochtitlan.

How did the creation of suburbs extend and reinforce economic and social segregation in the United States?

Suburbs make
their first real appearance in the United States in about the 1950s, and especially in the 1960s
as America's interstate highway system was completed, increasing peoples ability to move
themselves and goods and services more cheaply and easily. 

This came
shortly after the urban African-American population exploded during and after World War II.  I
don't think...

How is Gilgamesh a tyrant in the beginning of The Epic of Gilgamesh?

At the
beginning of , prior to the death of his friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh is portrayed as a tyrant in a
number of ways.

As two-thirds god and one-third human, Gilgamesh had immense
power. He was known for killing the sons of his own people and raping their daughters.

His actions showed him to be arrogant, conceited, vain and egotistical, and other gods
were disgusted by his behavior. Right from the beginning of The Epic, Gilgamesh invested his
time in anything that was despicable. Having been conceived by a goddess, he had not only
extraordinary strength, but status as well.

He would compel young men to
participate in an unknown activity which was despised by them. It is not known what this
activity was, but it was described as being forced onto the young men "day and
night".

As the eternal "bad boy" Gilgamesh irresponsibly led
his friend Enkidu into the Cedar Forest to fight Humbaba, despite having been advised that this
was a terrible idea.

It must be noted that...

How does Lord Capulet describe Juliets death in Romeo and Juliet?

describes his
daughter's death as a kind of awful mistake wherein 's dagger has become somehow sheathed, by
its own volition, in her bosom rather than in his scabbard. Capulet says to ,

O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This
dagger hath mista'en, for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom...

From Orwell's 1984, how does Winston Smith clearly not portray the qualities of a heroic character? What are some quotes that could be used to prove...

One of the pointscontinually makes is that any kind of decent life, let alone any
grandeur or magnificence, is impossible under the rule of the Party.and 's affair shows that
romantic love is impossible. The odious children of the Parsons family demonstrate that domestic
life is impossible. Ampleforth makes it clear that poetry is impossible. Heroism is just as
impossible as anything else of value. This is at least partly because of the universal worship
of strength and power. Orwell was constantly exploring this power-worship as a feature of
modernity and wrote in his essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" that to bring Jack the
Giant-killer up to date, one would have to rename him Jack the Dwarf-killer. The idol of the
Party is Big Brother, who crushes opponents with superior force. No one regards it as noble or
creditable to stand up to such force. It is a world without heroes.

Winston
is an unlikely candidate for heroism in any case. He is easily broken by torture.
As...

How did leaders like Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B DuBois shape African American thought at the turn of the century? What were their...

Booker T. Washington,
Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois advocated different approaches to advancing African American
rights at the turn of the 20th century. Washington was born a slave in Virginia and witnessed
the emancipation of the slaves as a young boy. He was a proponent of blacks gaining jobs in
areas where whites would provide them with work in the Jim Crow South. In his famous
"Atlanta Compromise" speech, he suggested that blacks first gain economic power and
later address political rights.

W. E. B. Du Bois had a very different
upbringing than that of Washington. Du Bois was raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and
was the first African American person to earn a doctoral degree at Harvard. He proposed that
well-educated blacks, whom he called "the talented tenth," push for political gains
and rights right away, and he came to disagree with Washington's stance of gaining economic
power first.

Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi. She later
became a journalist and launched an investigation into the lynching of African Americans. She
advocated both the advancement of civil rights and the advancement of women's rights. Her
position as a woman gave her a different perspective than that of other civil rights leaders at
the time.

How did the narrator change over the years?

The narrator
changes from a quiet, compassionate child to a madman, prone to uncontrollable fits of rage
and--in his own words--perversion in adulthood. 

He tells us that even from
infancy, he was "noted for the docility and humanity of [his] disposition," being so
compassionate that his peers mocked him. He particularly loved pets, and his parents got him a
variety of them growing up, and this is an affection that followed him into adulthood.
Apparently, the pets felt the same...

How does Narcissus die in The Alchemist?

Narcissus died because he was
looking at his reflection too long and fell into the lake.

The
alchemist finds a book that describes the legend of Narcissus.

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to
contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the
lake and drowned. ()

The alchemist thinks the storys
ending is interesting because it describes a goddess who asks the lake why it weeps, and learns
that the lake weeps because it can no longer look into Narcissuss eyes and see its own beauty
reflected. 

The alchemist clearly sees thein the story.  The lake where
Narcissus drowned turned out to be just as vain as he was.  This also reflects one of the main
themes of the story, that if we get too focused on one thing we lose track of what's really
important.  

This is what happened to Santiago when he went looking for the
treasure in his dream, only to realize that when looking for his Personal Legend and treasure,
when really all he needed in life was what he had all along.

In what ways can the study of psychology of religion benefit the teacher of religion? Examine the importance of psychology of religion to the teacher...

This is a
great question. Let me make a few point of how psychology of religion can help the teacher of
religion.

First, we need to realize that most of the people in the world is
religious. This might be an unbelievable statement, but it is true. People thought that
religious would decline, but we are seeing an explosion of it. Hence, it would be great to ask
the question, "why." An angle of that psychology provides might also be very
valuable.

Second, the way our minds work when it comes to religion can be a
very fruitful topic of exploration. This alone would merit teacher of religion to know something
about psychology.

Finally, when it comes to supernatural things, there is a
fine line between sanity and insanity. This intersection is worth exploration as
well.

What is the subject matter in the "Love poem"? There is no question of choice, but it takes a long time. Love's vacancies, the eye &...

In
analyzing any poem and in attempting to find its subject matter, one has to ensure that a level
of personal voice is evident. As with all art, poetry is not meant to be taken as dogmatic from
what others see and passed off as what one actually does see.  For example, in Manhire's
"Love Poem," I see the exploration of love as the primary focus of the poem.  The way
in...

Why do you think the author created the title The Scarlet Letter?

American
writer(1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and was a descendent of John Hawthorne, one
of the Puritan judges that sent innocents to a brutal death in the witch trials for which the
city became infamous. Hawthorne was deeply influenced by the Puritan legacy of his native New
England, and he used this time and place as a lens through which to examine the human
heartespecially in the context of group dynamics. Group dynamics refers to how humans influence
each other when they are in a group setting rather than as individuals. It is important to
remember that although Puritanism as a form of organized Christian religion did not last very
long, the strict judgmental attitudes that were its dark side continued to characterize New
England for many years to come.

I believe that one of Nathaniel Hawthornes
purposes in writing A Scarlet Letter was to demonstrate the harm that a
severely judgmental society can cause. By selectively using Bible teachings to...

Irony In Pride And Prejudice

A great
deal of Austen's wit is actually seen through the use
of . In , we see all three types of irony displayed:
verbal, situational, and dramatic.

The use of
verbal irony particularly expresses Austen's use of wit. Verbal
irony is usually recognized as sarcasm. It is the moment someone, such as a character or
narrator, says one thing, but means the complete opposite. One perfect example of verbal irony
can be seen in the very opening line of the book, "It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (Ch. 1). The
irony in this line is that, while the women of an English village in Austen's time might
"acknowledge" the truth above, the wealthy men the line is referring to actually might
not; therefore, the above is not really a "truth universally acknowledged." Instead,
this opening line is a perfect example of sarcasm, or verbal irony, and a perfect
example of Austen's
wit.

Situational irony describes
a moment when something occurs and the exact opposite was expected to occur. Either the audience
or thecan have the opposite expectations. One instance of situational irony can be seen early on
in the novel at a party that takes place at Lucas Lodge. Afteris asked to play and sing, the
party begins to dance. At the same moment that Sir Lucas is trying to convinceto join in the
dancing, Elizabeth begins walking towards them. Mr. Darcy so adamantly protests dancing to Sir
Lucas, even insulting the activity, saying, "Every savage can dance," that when Sir
Lucas sees Elizabeth and encourages Darcy to dance with her the reader as well as Elizabeth are
very surprised when Darcy "requested to be allowed the honour of her hand" (Vol. 1,
Ch. 6). Darcy's behavior in this instant is a true reversal of his earlier behavior, especially
at the Meryton assembly. Hence, this is a perfect example of situational irony. In addition, the
moment is also amusing due to the sudden change of behavior, also making it another
example of Austen's wit.
 

Dramatic irony occurs when the reader is aware
of something that the characters have no idea of. This scene is also a fine example of dramatic
irony. The reader has already begun to get the impression that Darcy feels an attraction for
Elizabeth, which the reader began to see when she was tending to her sister at Netherfield.
Therefore, the reader knows that Darcy's sudden interest in dancing with Elizabeth is actually
genuine while Elizabeth still believes that he dislikes her and is merely asking in an attempt
to be well mannered. Again the situation is amusing due to both Elizabeth's and Darcy's
reactions to the situation. Hence, again, this use of dramatic irony also
demonstrates Austen's
wit.

Explain Thoreau's concluding message at the end of the Conclusion.

Thoreau concludes his
Conclusion with the belief that the resurrection of humanity will occur. He speaks of the life
within us that is like water that is about to rise higher than it ever has before. He then
speaks of a new and wondrous bug that came out of a wooden table belonging to a farmer after the
bug had burrowed in the wood for untold years. He feels that people, like the bug who was long
buried, will arise out of the dullness of society. He likens the dullness and deadliness of
society to the stifling layers of wood that surrounded this bug and states that people can find
their way out of this wood to find something greater. While he does not think every person will
realize the greatness of which humans are capable, he feels that a brighter and longer day will
eventually arise on earth. 

Who or what is the antagonist of the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

I have
stated elsewhere my view that in a story of this type theandare great powers whose conflict
affects the fates of unimportant individuals like Peyton Farquhar (who seems modeled after John
Wilkes Booth). The protagonist and antagonist in my view would be the North and the South. Since
the North seems to have the momentum at this point in the Civil War, I would choose the North as
the protagonist and the South as the antagonist. The Union officers and soldiers do not seem to
be acting as individuals but as pawns being moved by some invisible force above and beyond them.
Even Peyton Farquhar seems to be moved by something he only vaguely understands. Hundreds of
thousands of men fought and killed each other without hating each other or really understanding
why they were fighting. It seems to me that this was the feeling that --famous as a cynic,
pessimist and nihilist--was trying to capture in his story.

What is George Orwell's message in the novel Animal Farm?

's
classic novella is a cautionary tale about the dangers of consolidating
political power in a communist state and a warning against authoritarian regimes and dictators.
Orwell's novella allegorically represents the events that transpired before, during, and after
the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, when Joseph Stalin usurped power and oppressed the entire
Soviet Union. Similarly,usurps power in the novella shortly after the Battle of the Cowshed and
develops into a tyrannical ruler, who oppresses his subjects by forcing them to work long hours
while continually reducing their food rations. Orwell's message warns readers about allowing
shrewd, selfish politicians to consolidate power and gradually take away civil rights and
liberties. He also warns readers about the various methods of manipulation and propaganda used
by authoritarian regimes to oppress and control the populace.acts as Napoleon's mouthpiece and
cleverly manipulates the animals using various rhetorical devices and propaganda strategies to
deceive the animals into believing and supporting Napoleon's selfish, oppressive political
agenda. Orwell's novella also emphasizes the dangers of government corruption and illustrates
how maniacal leaders and debased politicians can establish and create an oppressive, terrifying
society, where the majority of the population lives in fear.

What are some dystopian elements in 1984 by George Orwell?

href="https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/dystopia">Oxford Dictionaries describes
a dystopia as an "imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or
injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic." Dystopias can be
contrasted with utopias, which are also imaginary societies but are completely perfect. A link
to a good overview on dystopias in literature has been included below.

byis the quintessential dystopian novel and a touchstone for
comparisons to current societal failings. The most obvious and sinister dystopian element in
1984 is the constant and pervasive surveillance. How does this constant
surveillance makefeel and act?

Another dystopian aspect that is pointed out
in the link is the use of propaganda that brainwashes people to think a certain way. In
1984, we have concepts such as "thoughtcrime" and a telescreen
that is broadcasting propaganda that cannot be turned off.

Inconvenient
facts and records that are unflattering to the system are erased from the media and from
public...

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How does a management position differ from other positions within the healthcare organization? What qualities are needed to be successful in a...

Im
assuming you are asking about a healthcare services organization, which is different than a
healthcare products company. Those involved in healthcare management provide leadership and
direction to personal health services organizations and the divisions, departments, units, or
services within them. It might seem that healthcare management and healthcare administration
could be used interchangeably. In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics makes no distinction
between the two job titles, instead using the term Health and Medical Services Managers to
describe both healthcare managers and health administrators.

However, while
there can be some synergy between the two roles, their functions can vary depending on the
department they are supporting and demand for their services. Healthcare administrators
supervise the staff at a medical facility, which could...

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Identify three reasons why Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible?

The late
playwrightnever did the public the favor of conveniently listing one or more of the reasons he
decided to write hisof the anti-communist hysteria sweeping the country during the early 1950s. 
One can, however, get a good idea of the motivations behind his writing
from an article he wrote for The New Yorker
(October 21, 1996).  In this article, titled Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artists Answer to
Politics, Miller describes thein which he, a playwright, was immersed during a period in which
actors, writers, producers, directors, and others affiliated with the film industry and with the
theater were being pressured to implicate each other as communists or as individuals affiliated
in some way with the Communist Party of the United States, which was funded by the Soviet
Union.  Alarmed by the hysteria and by the injustices associated with this environment, while
simultaneously fascinated by the history of the Salem Witch Trials...

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Give an example of the law of increasing opportunity costs.

The law of
increasing opportunity costs says that, as we produce more of a particular good, the opportunity
cost of producing that good increases.  The main reason for this is the fact that not all
resources are created equal.  Some resources are better than others for producing certain goods
(or services).

Let us imagine an example where I am a farmer and I grow wheat
and chickpeas on my land.  For the purposes of our example, let us say that some of my land is
better for growing wheat, some is better for growing chickpeas, and some is equally good for
both.  Right now, I have wheat planted on the land that is best for wheat and chickpeas on all
the rest of the land.  At this point, the opportunity cost of raising the wheat is very low
because the land I am using would not grow many chickpeas.  Now let us imagine that I have
decided to grow more wheat. 

As I start to grow more wheat, I will need to
use some of the land that is equally good for growing both crops.  This means that my
opportunity cost for growing the wheat is rising because I am using land that can grow more
chickpeas than the land that is best for wheat.  Now imagine I decide to grow even more
chickpeas.  I start to use the land that is really good for chickpeas and not good at all for
wheat.  As I do this, I am giving up a lot of potential chickpea production in order to grow
more wheat.  This is an example of the law of increasing opportunity costs.

Because not all resources are equally useful for producing all things, we tend to
encounter rising opportunity costs as we increase production of a particular good.

Please follow the link below for a longer discussion of this topic, including a table
that illustrates this law in numerical form.

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How did Milton feel about religion during his time?

John
Milton is usually described as a Puritan, as indeed he was. But during the religious ferment of
the seventeenth century, there was significant variation in beliefs among Puritans. What we can
say is that he steadfastly opposed the established Church of England, a position that informed
his support for the overthrow of King Charles I. He shared with Puritans a belief that religious
institutions and beliefs must be founded upon Scripture, rather than the established traditions
of a formal church that lacked biblical justification. He was suspicious of a church that tended
to foster temporal hierarchies, writing that bishops and other officials occupied a
"misgoverned and haughty palace." Unlike many Calvinists, however, Milton was a
radical freethinker, and while he did not advocate total religious freedom (a concept virtually
unknown in Milton's day) he did believe that people could not be authentically compelled to
embrace religious faith. Rather, he regarded faith as the product of reason, which could only
take place if people were allowed to think--and write--freely about religion. This was one
reason he never really embraced the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, which ran counter to
his belief in free will, a theme often repeated in Paradise Lost. This was
also at the heart of his argument in Aeropagitica, his most famous
pamphlet, in which he argued against government restraints on publications. It should also be
added that Milton's religious beliefs changed throughout his life. So though his fundamental
beliefs were Calvinistic, he remained outside the mainstream of Puritan
orthodoxy.

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What country does Gulliver decide to go to at the end of his journey in Gulliver's Travels?

Gulliver
reluctantly decides to return home to England at the end of his epic journey. In truth, he'd
much rather have stayed with the Houyhnhnms, but after being asked to leave, he has no choice
but to head for home.

Because of all the wonderful time he's spent
in...

In "Self-Reliance," how did Emerson view the prayers of the people?

In
"," Emerson regards the prayers of most people, which are prayers of petition for
worldly goods or favors, to be "vicious." These prayers are wrong-headed, in his
opinion, because they rest on the assumption of a dualism between God and humans. In this
thinking, God is a benefactor, up in heaven, separate from us. As Emerson puts it:

But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.

Actually, Emerson says, God is within us. We are united with God. Therefore, our
prayers should be expressed through our actions, not our words. When a farmer, for instance,
kneels in a garden bed to weed it, he is kneeling in prayer. When a rower kneels in his boat to
pull the oars, this is prayer. When we show our oneness with God and our awareness of seeing
life and...

Compare and contrast 18th century, Romantic era, and Victorian era poetry.

While there
was some overlapping of the Neoclassicism of the 18th century into the Romanticism of the 19th
century, and the Romantic movement into the Victorian Age, there are distinct differences in
these periods such as the rejection of 18th century rationalism and control of nature to the
19th century Romantic exaltation of feeling, the supernatural, and the beauty of nature. Then,
although the Victorian Age embraced some Romantic ideals, it later gravitated toward Realistic
and Naturalistic perspectives.

• Eighteenth century
  poetry 

The Restoration period is not generally known for great
poetry as it adhered to a classical form, and verse was employed to display intelligence,
education, and a sense of discipline in the works. Early eighteenth century poetry was highly
influenced by the classic Greek and Roman authors. But a gradual move away from the formal
adherence to classical poetry came with Alexander Pope, who parodied the great literary works of
the past with his poem "The Rape...

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What lesson do you think Beckett is trying to teach us in Endgame with his depiction of the lives of Hamm and Clov?

First, lesson
is not the right word to describe Becketts motivation for writing.  He had no interest
whatsoever in showing the world how things work.  is a stage description,
in stage language, of Becketts view of the Cartesian duality of mind/body.  Hamm and Clov are
two sides of a master/slave...

How is love treated in poetry from the Elizabethan Age?

You dont believe in the
love that corrodes, the love that ruins?

No, laughed Zuleika.

You have never dipped into the Greekpoets, nor sampled the Elizabethan
sonneteers?

No, never. You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of
life has been drawn from life itself.

The above
quotation, from Sir Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, gives a necessarily
cursory and one-dimensional, but not entirely inaccurate, flavor of Elizabethan poetry as
concerning itself with the more tragic and painful aspects of love. The comparison with Greek
pastoral poetry is no accident, since the most influential figure in early Elizabethan poetry
was probably Sir Philip Sidney, whose Arcadia imitated and built upon Greek
pastoral models and whose sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, gave ample
descriptions of the pains of love. Poets such as Michael Drayton, Nicholas Breton and Fulke
Greville wrote along similar lines, but on balance, the corpus of Elizabethan poetry probably
contains at least as much religious verse about the love of God (by poets such as Southwell,
Forrest and Fletcher) as poetry on theof unrequited love.

It is Shakespeare,
though, with the agony and the ecstasy of love described in his sonnets, whose work has survived
the best. There is more of the joy of love in Shakespeare than there is in Sidney, but both
write of love's tragedy most frequently and between them, with the two great sonnet sequences of
the Elizabethan era, can be said to have created the penumbra of the love that pervades and
ruins that looms over Elizabethan poetry.

Comment on the following statement from Robinson Crusoe: '' ... and I must confess, my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate too,...

There are a number of
comments that we could make about this important quote from the novel. A major theme of this
work is that of religion and the movement of the eponymous hero from perdition towards salvation
and a prodigal return to the fold of the church and to reintegration into life and religion. The
incident that inspired this quote comes early on in the novel when Crusoe, finding some left
over grain from the remnants that he salvaged from his ship, throws them unthinkingly into some
grass. He is amazed a few weeks later to see that they have taken root and have begun to grow.
Although initially he remembers he was inclined to see this as some sort of miracle, he quickly
sees that this is nothing more than science rather than some form of divine
intervention.

Key to focus on however is the way thatis narrating his
adventure looking back on it having survived his shipwreck. The older and maturer Robinson
Crusoe has been challenged by his experiences to believe once again in God and to adopt
religion. He therefore includes in this quote reference to his new perspective on life and God,
saying that even though it was "common" for wheat to grow from seed he still should
have seen it as a "strange and unforeseen providence." This quote is an example of a
retrospective first person narrator, where an older narrator looks back on his life and comments
on his experiences with the benefit of hindsight and greater perspective. This quote you have
identified shows the journey of the narrator from being not interested in religion to adopting
Christianity once more.

Compare Tim O'Brien's short stories "On the Rainy River" and "The Things they Carried."

The
overriding theme and context of the short stories "On the Rainy River" and
"" byis the Vietnam War. They are both autobiographical and have the same narrator, a
fictionalized version of O'Brien himself. They both appear in the linked collection of short
stories, which is sometimes referred to as a novel, called The Things They
Carried. However, there are also some significant differences between the two
stories.

One difference between the stories involves the time frame in which
they take place. "On the Rainy River" concerns O'Brien's reaction to getting drafted
for the Vietnam War. He has not yet reported for duty and is considering running away to Canada.
In "The Things They Carried," however, the narrator is already with his combat unit in
Vietnam and is cataloging all the various items each person carries into battle as a way to
delve into their personalities.

Another difference is in the location.
"On the Rainy River" takes place in the United States at O'Brien's home, at a
slaughterhouse where he works, and at a fishing resort near the Canadian border. As mentioned
previously, "The Things They Carried" takes place in Vietnam.

Besides O'Brien, the characters are different in the two stories. O'Brien himself is
prominent in "On the Rainy River," and the other main character is the owner of the
fishing resort, Elroy Berdahl, a wise and gentle elderly man who rents O'Brien a cabin and
provides a measure of stability amidst O'Brien's turmoil of emotions. "The Things They
Carried" concerns the members of O'Brien's unit and has multiple characters that are
introduced in this story and then elaborated on later in the book.

The plot
outlines of the two stories are also dissimilar. "On the Rainy River" has a linear
plot which begins at one point in the story, moves through a series of events, and then ends up
at a different point. "The Things They Carried" does not have a linear plot but is
instead a collage of interrelated experiences and impressions.

Is "[you] used to be called" an example of an idiom found in "Miss Rosie"?

Anis an
expression that does not mean what the literal meanings of the individual words denote.  That
is, the meaning of the idiom cannot be inferred from the meaning of the individual
words taken by themselves.

Using this...

Myrtle is killed by a car in The Great Gatsby. Whose car actually hits her, and who did she think was in the car?

's car is
the one that hits Myrtle.is driving it, and after she runs Myrtle over, she keeps on
going.

Myrtle, however, believes the car belongs to . This is because Tom is
driving it when he stops to get gas at the station on the way to New York City. Tom tauntsby
pretending it is his own and asking him if he wants to buy it.

Myrtle thinks
Tom is driving the car when it is heading back home, as would make sense if it were his, so she
runs out to try to hail him down. She wants Tom to save her from George, who has found out that
she is having an affair and, therefore, plans to sell the garage and move them out of the
area.

George also believes Tom was driving the car and arrives at his home
planning to kill him in revenge for running over and killing Myrtle. Tom, however, callously
directs him to Gatsby, saying it was his car and suggesting that he was driving
it.

Does anyone know of any songs that have deep meaning and use figurative language? The criteria is to find a song with deep meaning and to identify...

Building
from number 2's post, "Like a Rolling Stone" is replete with images and comparative
language with the theme of how loneliness is unavoidable.  Bob Seger's "Feels Like a
Number" is a song that redescribes modern isolation in a number of ways.  Pink Floyd's
"Comfortably Numb" uses language that actually sound like what alienation would sound
like.  On a lighter note, the song "Lollipop" by the Chordettes features examples
ofand other poetic devices.  I believe it is currently being used in the new Dell Computers
Commercial.

According to Hammurabi's Code, what was the status of women?

Hammurabi's
famous code reflected ancient world beliefs regarding women and their status in society, but
does treat them fairly and protects them in some very progressive ways.

According to the code, a marriage contract was nessecery. This contract stipulated what
would happen if the marriage ended as a result of death or divorce.

The
husband did keep control of all family assets, but funds had to be set aside for the wife and
children's benefit should anything happen to them.

Adultry was designated as
sexual congress with a married woman. The marital status of the man didn't matter.

A man could divorce his wife without reason as long as she was childless. But if they
had children, he needed to return the dowery, she kept the kids and she got use of some of the
family property to support the kids. Women could also seek divorce, but needed the help of the
courts.

So, as you can see, the status of women was actually a great deal
more progressive than most other societies.

Describe Phoenix in "A Worn Path".

Phoenix is
the main character in this story.  She is a black woman who seems to be getting quite old.  She
is old enough that the walk to town is no longer easy.  She walks in small steps and uses a
cane.  She is old enough that, when she falls in the ditch, she is not able to get out on her
own and has to stay there until the white hunter comes and helps her out of the ditch.

Mentally, she is also getting pretty old.  For example, she imagines that there is a
boy giving her a piece of cake.

Why is it necessary to begin trading with other farms, and how do the animals react to this new policy?

In
,gathers the animals and explains that he will implement a new policy by beginning to trade with
humans from neighboring farms. Napoleon assures the animals that he is only trading with humans
for commercial purposes since there are many tools and materials needed to construct the
windmill that the animals cannot procure on the farm. After listening to Napoleon's new policy,
four pigs begin to protest but are abruptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.
Napoleon also announces that they will conduct business using an intermediary named Mr. Whymper.
Following the meeting, the animals feel uneasy about engaging in trade with humans and vaguely
remember there being a tenet of Animalism that prohibited trade and contact with humans.
However,eases their minds by assuring them that a resolution against engaging in trade and using
money had never been passed or even suggested.

What does the term 'kafkaesque' refer to and what would something described as 'kafkaesque-like' be in terms of The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka?

wrote
wherein Gregor is transformed into a huge insect. His sister is the only
person who still even attempts to care for him and his mother clings to the hope that her son
will resume his human form. He does not and eventually dies, his family having no more feelings
for him or even caring about his welfare. he is after all, just a giant bug!

A person who...

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Why did Hermia and Helena quarrel in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

The answer
to this question depends on which part of the play you are referencing.

At
the beginning of the text, Helena reveals that she is in love with a man named Demetrius who is
romantically interested in Helenas friend Hermia.

Hermia, however, is in love
with another man named Lysander, although her father has arranged her marriage to Demetrius.
While this does not necessarily constitute a quarrel, there is an underlying conflict between
the two women, since one of them is left alone without a suitor.

Later on in
the play, Hermia and Helena do engage in a verbal spat. This occurs after Puck mistakenly causes
Lysander to become infatuated with Helena. Under this spell, Lysander denies that he ever loved
Hermia. This causes Hermia to become angry with Helena, whom Hermia accuses of bewitching
Lysander.

Unable to believe that anyone could be in love with her, Helena is
perplexed by both Lysanders and Demetriuss professions of loveboth of which were given under the
influence of artificial love spells cast upon the men by the forest fairies. As a result, Helena
thinks that both men are making fun of her, and she accuses Hermia of joining in their
mockery.

Although this quarrel is resolved, the two women experience a test
of their friendship in the forest outside Athens. Each of them insults or mistrusts the other
because she lacks the full explanation of what occurs with the two male suitors. Ultimately,
their friendship is restored once the truth is revealed and the marriages secured at the end of
the play.

What was the goal of Reconstruction?

had
several goals.  The main goal was to rebuild the South.  After the Civil War, the South was
completely destroyed. This meant several things needed to occur.  First, the economy needed to
be rebuilt.  This meant diversifying the economy so it wasnt so farming dependent.  It also
meant rebuilding the infrastructure of the South.  The second part of rebuilding the South was
to bring the Confederate states back into the United States.  This meant developing a plan so
the southern states could write new constitutions.  Once these constitutions were written and
met the requirements set by the Radical Republicans in Congress, the states could rejoin the
Union.  A third goal of Reconstruction was to give the former slaves freedom, rights, and
opportunity.  There were government agencies, such as the Freedmens Bureau, that worked to help
the former slaves.  The goal was to provide equal opportunities for the former slaves.
 

In what ways does Frankenstein appear to relieve himself of any responsibility for what will come later on in the novel?

After reanimates the piecemeal corpse, he
immediately runs away, literally and figuratively. He finds his work to be an abomination and is
disgusted by what he's done. He can't bear to face , so he abandons it. He leaves the creature
to fend for itself and acts as if ignoring it completely will make the problem disappear. This
is how he relieves himself of any future responsibility, because no one knows where the creature
came from or that it even exists.

If no one knows about his science
experiment, that means no one can hold him accountable for the creature's actions. For
example,is found dead, and everyone immediately blames Justine because it would be ludicrous to
think a reanimated corpse is running around the local forest. Therefore, William's death falls
on Justine's hands, and because no one knows about the real murderer, Victor can never be
blamed. Victor knows this fact and decides not to speak up and save her life. This pattern
continues until everyone he's ever cared for is gone.

In The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, what would be Tillie's past, present, or future?

Matilda
"Tillie" Hunsdorfer is the main character of 's play . Everything
that is known about Tillie throughout the play comes from three sources: from Tillie's
monologues, from her mother Beatrice's words, and from the words of Tillie's sister,
Ruth. 

From the information that is given, Tillie's past can be easily
described, in not so many words, as chaotic. The youngest in the family, Tillie was born to a
dysfunctional marriage made up of her mother, an unstable, and narcissistic alcoholic, and her
father who presumably "deserved" the stroke that killed him, according to Beatrice.
From a very young age, Tillie has been somewhat warding off the toxic "radiation"
which has become the constant exposure to her mother's bipolar fits. As a result, Tillie has
developed into a very shy, but still extremely inquisitive and bright student.

Tillie's present is just as chaotic as her...

summary of pygmalion act 2

Act II
presents rising action and complications in the play, as well as important character
development. In Act II, Eliza goes to Higgins' house to ask him to teach her to speak more
properly. As she is presenting herself to him as a student, Pickering reminds Higgins' of his
claim the previous night -- that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at the Ambassador's garden
party. Intrigued by the challenge, Higgins embraces Pickering's bet (the cost of the experiment)
to prove that Higgins is the greatest teacher alive. Mrs. Pearce, Higgins' housekeeper,
confronts Higgins about the problems with this experiment, namely how the girl is to be kept in
the house and what will happen to her after the experiment is done. Higgins dismisses this
questions and proceeds to order Mrs. Pearce to clean Eliza and order her new clothes (burning
the old ones). Eliza protests at first, but is won over by promises of taxi rides and
chocolates.

While Mrs. Pearce is taking care of Eliza, Alfred Doolittle
(Eliza's father) comes to confront Higgins about his intent with Eliza. It quickly becomes clear
that Doolittle only wants money. He and Higgins strike a deal of five pounds in exchange for
Eliza. Doolittle is part of the lower class, and intends to stay there. He is a drunk, and
assures Higgins that the five pounds will be used that weekend.

When Eliza
returns, they are all shocked at the physical transformation that has already taken place. They
also acknowledge that they have undertaken an enormous task.

How does the hateful relationship between the families in "Romeo and Juliet" affect their children negatively?

Most
directly, the "hateful relationship" of the two families causes the death of . 
Thetells us this:

From forth the fatal loins of these two
foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd
piteous overthrows
Doth, with their death, bury their parents strife.
The
fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents rage,

Which, but their children's end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours
traffic of our stage;

It is the death of the children
that ends the "parents' strife."  Nothing else could make the rage go away.

How does it all come about?  Whenandmeet, there is an instant connection that is
shortly built to love in their minds.  They are both distraught to discover that the other one
belongs to the "enemy."  However, Romeo sneaks into the garden of the Capulets and
meets with Juliet at her balcony.  This fuels their attraction and love, and makes them eager to
overcome...

Why did Eveline give Frank no sign of love?

in
depicts the misery of living a paralyzed life devoid of happiness.is one
of his characters who has a chance at a new life but chooses to remain paralyzed.

Spending time with Frank is exciting for Eveline, whose life is less than perfect.
People do not respect her at work, but she dreams that, if she marries Frank, she will get the
respect she deserves. Eveline lives in fear that her alcoholic father will become physically
abusiveas he is already verbally and financially abusive. He berates her, saying "she [has]
no head," and withholds money that she needs to buy food for the family.

No matter how difficult her life is or could become, Eveline...

In "Caged Bird," what does the line "and his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream" mean?

The
"caged bird" of Angelou's poem is contrasted throughout with its opposite, the
"free bird," who "names the sky his own." The structure of the poem forces
the reader to continually view the differences between the two. Notably, the caged bird never
stops singing, despite its entrapment. He continues to "open his throat to sing" of
something "unknown, but longed-for still"that is, freedom.

In the
fifth stanza, the caged bird "stands on the grave of dreams." This suggests that his
dreams have, for the most part, been buried. But the following line"his shadow shouts on a
nightmare scream"makes us aware that the bird has not actually given up on all his dreams.
The shadow of the bird that once was hopeful is screaming, as if in a "nightmare," at
the thought of losing his dreams and aspirations. It is exactly because "his wings are
clipped and his feet are tied" that the bird is moved to sing, knowing that this is the
only thing he is still empowered to do. The "shadow" of the bird is the part of him
that refuses to concede defeat and sit silent in the cage. Instead, he recalls what he has
"longed for" and sings in support of freedom.

In Night, describe the Kapos. How do the prisoners in Elie's block survive the New Year's selection? chapters 4-5

The
Kapos are the leaders of the organized prison work units, who typically choose their own workers
from the large selection of prisoners. Since the Kapos are essentially prisoners with
preferential treatment who report directly to SS officers, they often abuse the prisoners to
gain favor. Unfortunately for Eliezer and his father, their Kapo is a brutal man named Idek.
Throughout their time spent at Buna working in the electrical warehouse, both Eliezer and his
father suffer severe beatings from Idek.

On New Year's, the prisoners try
their best to pass through the selection process. Before the selection begins, the Block¤lteste
urges each prisoner to limber up in order to give their bodies more color, and to run "as
if you had the devil at your heels!" Eliezer and the other prisoners follow the advice and
sprint when their numbers are called. Fortunately, Eliezer and his father survive both
selections.

Does Shaw believe that men are superior to women, or does he exaggerate Professor Higgins's dialogue in act 5 in order to highlight the idiocy of what...

Shaw does
not believe that men are superior to women, and he does exaggerate Professor Higgins's dialogue
in act V in order to highlight the idiocy of what he has to say.

By act V,
Eliza has more than proven her worth. She has convinced the aristocrats that she is indeed a
high-born lady. She has fought with Higgins over the way he treats her and has thrown his
slippers in his face. In every way, she has shown herself a competent, intelligent person, and
she is distressed that Henry cannot bring himself to treat her as a full human being because of
her class background.

In act V, Eliza, who has taken shelter with Henry's
mother, confronts Henry about his cruelty. Rather than understanding her point of view, he
belittles her, saying,

"You call me a brute because
you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers . . ."

Eliza tells him that her intent was not to "buy a claim" and states that it
is not dress or accent that makes a lady, but being treated with respect. Nevertheless, Higgins
has a virtually impossible time understanding that he owes her anything or that she is anything
more than the flower girl he found on the streets. Shaw is critiquing Henry's attitude as
cold-hearted, snobbish, and narrow-minded.

What is the insight of the story of Oedipus?

The Greeks often dealt
with the quality of , especially in their tragedies. For them, it
meant excessive, even overweening, pride, which more than likely resulted in defiance of the
gods; in ancient Greek, hubris led to nemesis, and the root of nemesis means "given what is
due." In other words, the quality of hubris leads to one's downfall and utter ruinwhat
other punishment could there be for a characteristic that runs counter to, even leading to a
disrespect of, the gods' will?

Whenvisited the Delphic oracle and heard the
prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, he heard directly from Apollo's
mouthpiece. In attempting to outwit the oracle (and his fate), Oedipus decides not to return to
his home in Corinth but, rather, to head toward Thebes; this way, he could not possibly fulfill
the prophecy, he thinks, because his parents live in Corinth.

He does not
know that he was adopted by them, having been given up for dead by his mother, the...

What is the quid pro quothat is being examined in the 2019 impeachment hearings? In other words, what is the President Trump being accused of, and is...

Quid pro quo is a Latin
expression which can be rendered into the famous English expression "You scratch my back,
and I'll scratch yours." In other words, if you do something for me, I'll do something for
you in return.

It has been alleged that this is the stance that President
Trump adopted in relation to his dealings with Vladimir Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.
Although Congress had authorized the sale of weapons to Ukraine to help it in its war against
Russia and her proxies in the Donbass, it is alleged that President Trump tried to block the
sale of those weapons until he got what he wanted from the Ukrainians. It is said that he wanted
the Ukrainian authorities to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, former Vice-President and one of the
Democratic candidates for President.

In other words, so the accusation runs,
Trump asked a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 presidential election on his behalf in
return for receiving a weapons whose sale that had already been authorized by
Congress.

Trump's opponents argue that this is blatantly criminal behavior
that is deserving of impeachment. Some of his defenders have countered by arguing that, although
the quid pro quo was highly inappropriate on the President's part, his
actions did not constitute a criminal offense and is not deserving of
impeachment.

On what page in 1984 can I find the quote about the chocolate rations being "raised" even though they were being reduced?

A page
number can change based on the edition you are using, but the quote appears in part I, chapter 4
of the text. In my Signet edition, it is on page 36 and reads as follows:

As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a
promise (a "categorical pledge" were the official words) that there would be no
reduction of the chocolate ration during . Actually, aswas aware, the chocolate ration was to be
reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to
substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the
ration at some time in April.

Winston is one of the
people whose job it is to make the changes in the historical record that make it appear as if
the government never lies or contradicts itself. He will go back and change the government
pledge not to reduce the chocolate ration so that it matches the current reality of a reduction
in the chocolate ration. By having people like Winston constantly rewriting history, the Party
ensures that truth becomes hopelessly obscured. It then becomes ever easier for the Party to
assert that the truth is whatever the Party claims it to be. Meanwhile, people like Winston are
expected to engage in "doublethink," which involves both changing the historic record
and immediately forgetting that they ever did so. 

However, Winston commits
"thought crime": he does not forget. In chapter 5, Winston notes:

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big
Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he
reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a
week.

Winston would be acutely aware of all these
contradictions as he was the one who just changed facts on the chocolate ration to make the
reduction (now posited as an increase) seem consistent with past pronouncements. If you're
confused, that's the point: the government in Oceania never wants people to know what is really
going on.

What effect do these adjectives from A Christmas Carolhave on the reader? Scrooge is "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous,...

First, those particular adjectives have fairly negative connotations. They give the
reader the impression that Scrooge is desperate in a lot of ways. Take the phrase "grasping
at straws," for instance. That's a hopeless image; as is someone who is "scraping the
bottom" of something. There is nowhere lower for that person to go.

It
might be interesting to discuss these words as they relate to advertising techniques. Two
advertising techniques stand out to me. The first is the name calling technique: an effective
way to get somebody to admire your product is to insult the competition. If readers are meant to
view Cratchit as positive, then it makes sense to insult his "competition." The other
advertising technique that comes to mind is something called "card stacking." Card
stacking occurs when an advertiser expounds benefit after benefit about a product. In general,
card stacking uses positive associations, but there is no reason a writer can't stack the deck
against someone or something...

How does Napoleon respond to criticism or resistance? Is there a parallel to his behavior in the history of the Soviet Union? If so, what is it?

The
relationship between Stalin andis fairly powerful.  Consistently embodying the
"principles" of Animalism, Napoleon seems to have inherited the mantle from 's call of
change.  In this light, Old Major is representative of Vladimir Lenin.  There are other
scenarios where Napoleon is Lenin, himself, and Old Major would be Karl Marx.  However, the
setting with Napoleon as Stalin is more meaningful because of the lengths that Napoloen goes to
in the consolidation of his power, the gap between what is preached by the leaders of the farm
and what is practiced, and the cold manner in which perceived opposition is
"eliminated" makes the link between Stalin and Napoleon quite
relevant.

In The Metamorphosis, how does Gregor feel about his job and how do you know?

At the beginning of
, Gregor explicitly mentions that he detests his job as a traveling
salesman. He says:

"There's the curse of traveling,
worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people
all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all
go to Hell!"

He goes on to say that he hates getting
up early and that he never gets sufficient sleep. He stays at his job, however, because his
parents' owe his boss money, and he needs to protect his parents and his sister. He thinks that
in five or six years, he will quit his job, once he's paid off the debt. 

Although he has already turned into a "horrible vermin," Gregor attempts to get out of
his bed because he's afraid of being late to work. As he struggles to get out of bed, the chief
clerk from his office comes around to his parents' house to check why Gregor did not get on the
train as he was supposed to. The narrator says,"Why did Gregor...

What are the names of the two hired hands at the tavern?

and
her brother successfully get themselves through the winter at their family home, but it is to no
avail. Their mother has sold them out to various people in order to help pay back family debt.
Lyddie is to be another worker at Cutler's Tavern. She arrives at the tavern in chapter three,
and the owner of the tavern is less than friendly. Lyddie is sent into the kitchen where she
meets Triphena. Triphena is the cook and a hard-working woman. She does not start out friendly
to Lyddie, but Lyddie's high work ethic eventually creates a friendship between her and
Triphena.

The other hired hand is mentioned only is passing in this chapter.
His name is Willie Hyde. He's a bit older than Charles and described as fairly useless; however,
Lyddie is jealous of the fact that his job involves some outside tasks.

In "The Scarlet Letter," what happens to Chillingworth after Dimmesdale dies and why?

dies
shortly afterpasses away. Though one might assume Chillingworth would be happy that the man who
helped cuckold him is dead, this is not the case. Chillingworth wanted vengeance on his own
terms, and the fact that Dimmesdale died in a state of grace thwarts his desire. Also, now that
Dimmesdale is dead, Chillingworth has no reason to go on living. He was so consumed with getting
revenge that he had no plans on what to do with himself once he achieved his goal. Now he has
neither achieved that goal nor has anything else to live for, since his marriage withis over and
his own personality, never particularly virtuous or loving, has become further warped by hatred.
Unlike Hester, who lives to raiseand help the community however she can, Chillingworth loves no
one else. Therefore, he wastes away and dies alone.

In the novel "1984", what are the various forms of privacy invasion in Oceania?

The world of 's  is characterized by its citizens' lack of privacy
and total government control and surveillance. The citizens are told that everything they say or
do is being heard and watched, so they must be extremely careful that they never so much as
utter a word that could be considered inimical to the government's wishes. Of course, the most
ubiquitous symbol of government surveillance in the novel is Big Brother himself. His image,
accompanied by the very apt phrase "Big Brother is Watching," appears throughout the
nation and is encountered by citizens multiple times a day, each day. No one knows who Big
Brother actually is, or if he is even one man. The members...

What is Roger Chillingworth's salvation in The Scarlet Letter?

Using the
literary meaning of the word salvation,

a.
Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.

b. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or
deliverance.

it is then safe to assume that, in the
case of , his salvation correlates to any opportunity or event that would have helped him to
move away from the constant cycle of anger, revenge, and spite that was, literally, eating away
his body and soul. His anger, which stems from feeling cuckolded by , and his sense of revenge
against Dimmesdale has brought upon Chillingworth a perennial evilthat is detectable even in his
appearance. So abrasive is his presence that even the townspeople begin to suspect something
almost weird and otherworldly in him. No longer can he ever attempt to look like an older, and
philosophical physician. His anger has transformed him dramatically

(he) had altogether vanished, and been succeeded by a eager,
searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look.

That Chillingworth would

mask this
expression with a smile, but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so
derisively that the spectator could see his
blackness all the better for it.

Shortly after Dimmesdale's death, however, Chillingworth realizes that he has
basically dedicated his entire elder existence to the destruction of another man. All the
essence of his soul sort of dies with Dimmesdale and Chillingworth realizes that, like his
rival, his own life will come to an end quite soon.

 

Hence, his salvation is defined by the moment when he really looks back and chooses
to transform his actions to that he can be moved away from evil. The way that he does this is by
leaving all of his riches and possessions to the most unlikely character: the very child born
from the indiscreet relationship between Hester and : .

So Pearl--the elf-child,--the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch,
persisted in considering her--became the richest heiress of her day, in the New World.

This completes the circle: Pearl's new status allows her to take
care of Hester who, in turn, can also benefit from her daughter's social respectability. In all,
Roger Chillingworth's leaving his fortune to Pearl is a way of paying back for all the pain and
suffering that he may have caused Hester. Giving support for Pearl may have been his way of
blessing and forgiving the adultery between Hester and Dimmesdale. However, there is always room
to wonder whether Chillingworth's own guilt and fear of going to Hades on his death bed are
behind his motivations to be kind.

Did Japanese leaders take into account the international repercussions of their policies in 1930? Do you think that the European war affected the...

I can offer
you my opinion, but my personal opinion would not be worth much. In dealing with a question such
as this, I would want to consult as many experts as possible.  Let me therefore dig around a bit
on the internet for you.  Here is some of what I found:

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/wwii.html

http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=59

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/world_war_2.htm

http://www.pacificwar.org.au/pearlharbor/pearloverview3.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=Japanese%20foreign%20policy%20in%20the%201930s&hl=en&prmd=ivns&biw=1138&bih=498&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp

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Thursday 3 December 2009

In "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," why does Granny resent the filmmakers and cameraman?

Granny also
resents the filmmakers because they appear to be investigating the extent of her wealth (or lack
thereof).

For example, the cameraman takes pictures of the pecan barrels, the
sled, the printed stones along the driveway, the trees, and the toolshed. It never occurs to the
filmmakers that they are infringing on Granny's privacy. It also never occurs to the men that
they may be insulting the property owner by their focus on material objects.

When the filmmakers comment that Granny has "nice things," she counters with
I dont know about the thing, the it, and the stuff . . . just people here is what I tend to
consider. Granny feels resentful because the men appear focused on gathering information to use
for or against the food stamp program. The author does not tell us about the exact motives of
the filmmakers.

The filmmakers also ask intrusive and patronizing questions.
They appear to hint that the food stamp program may not be necessary after all.

"Were filmin for the county, see. Part of the food stamp
campaign. You know about the food stamps? Granny said nuthin. Maybe theres somethin you want
to say for the film. I see you grow your own vegetables, he smiled real nice. If more folks
did that, see, thered be no need

In all, the filmmakers
have chosen to ignore Granny's wishes and have treated her with little respect. Thus, their
actions fuel resentment on Granny's part.

How do the actions of the pigs in Animal Farm compare to the actions of Russia's revolutionary leaders before, during, and after their successful...

In
, you'll notice a lot of similarities between the actions of the pigs and
those of Russia's revolutionary leaders.

Such as Lenin, for example,provides
the impetus for the Rebellion with his inspirational speech. By highlighting the unequal and
exploitative role of humans, he encourages the animals to overthrow them and to create a new
society. The same thing happened in Russia: Lenin and the Bolsheviks convinced the people that
the cause of their problems were those who owned the means of production.

As
the story progresses, we see more similarities. The rise of , for instance, mirrors that of
Joseph Stalin, who became Russia's leader after Lenin died. Like Stalin, Napoleon uses a
combination of propaganda and violence to consolidate his power. (His dogs, for example, are
anto Stalin's secret police, known as the NKVD.is also an allusion to Pravda, the Bolshevik-run
newspaper which transmitted propaganda to the people).

In the closing
chapter...

What are some examples of verbal irony in Romeo and Juliet?

Verbalis
usually defined as speech that has the opposite meaning of what the words actually mean. Sarcasm
is one example. Another type of verbal irony occurs when speech is misinterpreted so that one or
more characters take a different meaning than the speaker intends. Some examples of verbal irony
from are provided below.

Whenreceives the fatal blow
from ,asks him if he is hurt. He replies, "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch." Within a few
lines, he has died.

When the Nurse comes to tellabout Mercutio's death, she
enters into her typical circumlocutions and leads Juliet to believe thathas been killed instead.
The Nurse moans, "Alack the day, he's gone, he's killed, he's dead." Juliet asks for
clarification, and the Nurse says, "O Romeo, Romeo, Whoever would have thought it?
Romeo!" This leads Juliet to the wrong conclusion, and it takes the Nurse a frustratingly
long time to set the record straight.

Another passage of verbal irony occurs
whencomes to Juliet's room to discuss the date of her marriage to . Juliet chooses her words
carefully at first, hoping to deceive her mother about her love for Romeo. She says:

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold
himdead
Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed.
Madam, if you could find out
but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it,
That Romeo should, upon receipt
thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named and
cannot come to him
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that hath
slaughtered him.

This speech can be interpreted two ways.
Juliet means that she loves Romeo and would alter the poison meant to kill him so that it would
only make him sleep peacefully. She wants to bestow the love she felt for Tybalt as her cousin
on Romeo, her husband.

However, the phrasing allows her mother to believe
that Juliet wants revenge on Romeo for Tybalt's death. Juliet does not keep this ruse up for
long. When Lady Capulet announces the wedding date, Juliet clearly states she will only marry
Romeo. However, it's unclear whether Lady Capulet understands Juliet's words. She may take them
as mere Juliet's way of showing her stubborn refusal to marry Paris.

In
that same scene,uses verbal irony when he sarcastically insults the nurse. He refers to her as
"my Lady Wisdom" and "Good Prudence." Thus, Shakespeare employs verbal irony
in several intriguing ways in Romeo and Juliet.

Tuesday 1 December 2009

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, how did Diamond answer Yali's question?

Asexplains
in theto his famous book : The Fates of Human Societies, Yali, a local
politician, asks his question while they are strolling on a beach in New Guinea together in
1972. Yali asks, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to
New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Diamond writes that the
entire book is an answer to Yali's question.

In the years
since Yali and I had that conversation, I have studied and written about other aspects of human
evolution, history, and language. This book, written twenty-five years later, attempts to answer
Yali.

To New Guineans, the word "cargo"
represents the material goods that Western people developed and brought into their country. Many
Westerners considered themselves genetically superior to New Guineans and believed that the
answer to Yali's question had to do with race. Diamond found this explanation absurd, as he had
lived and traveled with New...

href="http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel.html">http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_St...
href="http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/transcript1.html">http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/transcript1.html

What does Gulliver experience in Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels?

In
Lilliput, the six-inch-high residents of that land capture Gulliver, who has washed up on their
shores. They bind him as he lies on the beach and shoot their tiny arrows in him, which do not
harm him, but are painful. The Lilliputians build a conveyance to transport him to their city,
where he becomes a sensation. Although they keep him on a chain, they feed him and give him a
large palace to sleep in. He learns their language and their customs. Some of their political
disputes and practices amuse and confuse him. For example, he learns that political leaders are
chosen not for their wisdom or negotiating skills but by how well they perform a rope dance. He
also learns of the ongoing animosity between the High-Heels and the Low-Heels (which is
reminiscent of the polarization that political parties caused in Swift's England). 

When the empress's apartment catches fire, Gulliver thinks quickly and uses his full
bladder, which he has not relieved that day, as a source of water to put out the flames.
Although this saves the building, the Empress is horrified and refuses to move back into her
rooms. Gulliver is given his freedom to move around the kingdom as long as he does not harm any
Lilliputians. Eventually the emperor recruits him to assist in the war against Blefuscu, a
neighboring island. The war that rages between the two islands goes back generations and
revolves around whether one should crack a boiled egg from the big end or the little end (which
satirizes the shaky ground on which many historical wars have rested). 

Gulliver assists Lilliput in the war by stealing a fleet of Blefuscu's shipswhich to
him is like playing with toy boats. But when he refuses to help Lilliput conquer the other
country, Lilliput sentences him to blinding. With the help of a Lilliputian friend, he flees to
Blefuscu, from where he is able to escape the land of the little people. 

Monday 30 November 2009

What does making her feel leaden mean in Lyddie?

To feel leaden is to feel heavy
burdens due to strong emotions.

To feel leaden is a .  Leaden
is afor emotions.  Metaphors compare unlike things.   is not really full of lead.

When Lyddie feels leaden it means that she feels very heavy or burdened by her
emotions.  For example, when she talks about her home and family, she describes herself as
feeling leaden with sadness.  This means she is so sad that she feels as if she cannot move,
like she was full of lead.

"There's no hurry. Wait
till your family comes. I don't know when my brother and I can ever get back." She felt
leaden with sadness. (Ch. 6)

This incident occurs when
she gives Ezekial money to help him run away.  He tells her that she needs the money and should
not give it to him, and she replies that she got it from selling her calf and does not need it
yet.  She feels a desire to help him.

Lyddie feels sorry for Ezekial because
he is one person worse off than she is.  Although Lyddie has lost her family farm and is on her
own, she still wants to help a runaway slave.  Lyddie shows compassion for Ezekial but helping
him is a way of feeling better about herself.  She feels that she has nothing.

Throughout the book, Lyddie fights an inner war between feelings of selfishness and her
desire to help others.  Lyddie is basically a good person though.  She is tenacious and
compassionate.  In the end, she always desires to help those in need.

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," why did Montresor seek revenge on Fortunato?

The
opening sentence of "" creates a puzzle that generations of critics and readers have
been unable to solve:

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I
had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Most readers reasonably expect Montresor to describe the insult
sufficiently to justify the revenge that drives him to kill Fortunato in a horrific manner.  But
Montresor simply moves on to explain how he has constructed his revenge, and readers and
literary critics are left to puzzle over the "insult."  A related issue is that
Montresor is the first-person narrator of this tale--everything we see and hear is filtered
through the eyes, ears, and mind of Montresor.  So, we have a narrator, upon whom we depend for
accurate information, who decides to kill a man in a particularly horrific manner because of
an insult.  We cannot be sure that Montresor is a reliable
narrator.

The short answer to your question, then, is that no one is quite
sure why Montresor decides to kill Fortunato, except that Montresor thinks the
"insult" is sufficient justification for murder.  This answer, of course, leaves us in
no better position than before because the answer is logically circular: Montresor decides to
seek revenge because.  That's about as far as readers can go.

Some critics
have speculated, among many things, that the insult has something to do with Montresor's family
and that Montresor is therefore obligated, as the last remaining Montresor, to defend the
Montresor family honor.  An intriguing word choice by Montresor may support this
theory:

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face
and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his
immolation.

The word immolation is
most often used to refer to a ritual sacrifice, not merely a run-of-the-mill murder.  Because
both Montresor and Fortunato are conscious of their family's status--at one point, Montresor
implies that his family's status is reduced--the possibility that Fortunato's insult is directed
at the Montresor family, not Montresor himself, becomes important, particularly when we have no
other idea why an "insult" would drive Montresor to such revenge.

Both Montresor and Fortunato are from the upper class, and both are from leading
aristocratic families in a country--Italy--where loyalty to family is both expected and
considered to be a virtue.  If, and I realize this is an if, Fortunato has
insulted Montresor's family name, it is reasonable to believe that Montresor would feel
obligated to take revenge on the family's behalf.  This if is supported, I
think, by the elaborate discussion of the Montresor family's coat-of-arms: a snake being crushed
by a human foot and, in turn, biting the heel of that foot.  The snake represents the
Montresors, and the foot symbolizes the Fortunato family.  One can argue, of course, that the
coat-of-arms simply represents the two men's struggle with one another, but coupled with
Montresor's use of the word immolation, the elaborate description of the
coat-of-arms may point to a family struggle, not a struggle between individuals.

Fortunato, therefore, becomes a sacrfice to the Montresor family's honor, which he has
insulted in some way.  And Montresor, as the last representative of his family, has lived up to
the sentiments expressed on his family's coat-of-arms: No one harms me without suffering
himself.

How did Andrew Jackson support slavery?

As Jackson
became President, the issue of slavery was dormant.  The nation had simply accepted the
condition of servitude that people of color occupied. While there might have been some limited
questioning of it, the intensity and fervor that would lead to the Civil War was not evident
during Jackson's time.

Thus, Jackson's support of slavery is seen in his own
actions. Jackson lived his life as a Southerner who made a profit from slavery.  In his early
life in the Carolinas and then as he made his fortune, Jackson did not oppose slavery. Jackson
never spoke out against it and made no claims about its inhumanity. Jackson could be seen as a
supporter of slavery because it helped him to generate profit and establish his name.  Jackson
"prospered" as a result of slavery.  He owned a plantation that produced cotton.  The
workers on this plantation were slaves, by some accounts up to 300 slaves.  At the same time,
Jackson participated in military campaigns that sought to increase the Southern, slave- owning
territory.  

In this, Jackson's support of slavery is once again evident.
 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was quite pointed in his critique of Andrew Jackson's support
of slavery:  "Jackson has to own that he owes his farm on the banks of the Mobile to the
strong arm of the Negro." Without questioning the system in which profit was tied to human
misery, Jackson must be seen as a supporter of slavery:  "..wealth accumulation was tied to
slavery...Jackson practiced and defended what had been the accustomed way for white men to make
money for 200 years."  It is in these respects in which Jackson supported
slavery.

href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

What is the easiest instrument to learn? Here are some 'listed' easy instruments that can help you in your decision; clarinet, trombone, double...

I have
tried to learn the piano, the guitar, and the clarinet, and I have found all of them not only
difficult but frustrating--but that's probably because I'm not cut out to be a musician. Some
people love guitars and can be happy sitting and strumming chords for hours at a time. I found
the fingering especially difficult because there are so many strings and you have to press them
tightly. It's true that you can learn a few chords and then hum or sing to them--but this isn't
really "learning" an instrument. I only tried playing a recorder once in my entire
life, and I found that I could play songs with ease. It is indeed a simple and limited
instrument, but it makes a good starter, and it really is a respectable musical instrument. But
I have given up on myself entirely as far as learning any musical instrument is concerned. I
don't have that peculiar patience that most musicians seem to possess. 

Sunday 29 November 2009

Why was land ownership so important to freed slaves once the war ended?

The
Southern economy was overwhelmingly agrarian and so land-ownership was the main source of wealth
in that part of the world. Therefore, if the freed slaves were ever going to take their rightful
place as equal members of society, it was essential that they be given sufficient land to be
able to provide for themselves and their families.

Unfortunately, the main
emphasis during Reconstruction was on providing wage labor for African Americans rather than
land. This represented a departure from the so-called "Forty Acres and a Mule" field
order proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln during the last few months of the Civil War. But then,
Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, was much less enthusiastic about any notion of racial
equality, and under his presidency, all of the gains in land-ownership made by freed slaves
during the Civil War were completely reversed, making it harder for black people to enjoy the
kind of independence envisaged in the "Forty Acres and a Mule"
proclamation.

In Lucille Clifton's "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" what is the significance of the rhythm in the last five lines?...

is an
African-American poet who went to visit Walnut Grove Plantation in South Carolina in 1989, and,
not surprisingly, it was this experience which prompted her to write "at the cemetery,
walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989."

This poem is an attempt
to expose an injustice, and in an interview with Bill Moyers, Clifton explains what she saw that
moved her to try to right that wrong. 

She was part of a group which took a
guided tour of the two thousand-acre Walnut Grove plantation, and while everything they saw was
original, well preserved, and fascinating, the guide mentioned nothing about the fact that this
family plantation had slaves. Not only was it obvious that a South Carolina plantation in the
early 1800s would have had slaves, but Clifton saw clear evidence of this reality when she
looked at the burial ground. She told Moyers:

Walnut
Grove Plantation has the family burying ground, and on the sides of the roped-off path leading
to that burying ground...

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