What was one year in which Doug's father was a boy in Ray Bradbury's short story "The Rocket Man"?

's short story
"The Rocket Man" is one of many in his anthology titled . In this
story, Doug is the son of a man who works as a Rocket Man, traveling through space. Doug's
father, referred to as Dad in the story, is frequently gone for three months at a time, leaving
Doug and his mother to miss him terribly.

Early in the story,
Dad has returned once again from a mission. The first day he is
back, Dad absorbs himself in the earth through...

Weigh in on an Argument about Emerson ans Society? In Emerson's essay "Nature" what was his attitude towards society and what was his purpose in the...

I think the key
is in the opening paragraph when he asks, "Why should we not also enjoy an original
relation to the universe."    He says this in response to the question that precedes this
question:  "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their
eyes."   If there is any contempt in this, it is the same contempt he shows for slavish
"following"  that runs through all his writing, particularly "."  We should
not live vicariously, through the experience of other generations, but through our experience of
God through(intuition).  When he writes "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the
manhood of every one of its members," it's not the institution of society, although that
plays a part in it, but more the structures that force us to be what we are not ... to imitate
and not be the original force that each of us is.

 

What are some major advantages and disadvantages of fishbone diagrams?

The
fishbone diagram was designed by Japanese quality control expert Kaoru Ishikawa. His purpose was
to provide a means of identifying underlying causes of problems so that solutions were not
misapplied to secondary causes; if underlying causes are missed, larger problems develop. The
fishbone diagram is meant to detect root causes of problems through group thinking by asking why
each potential cause happens. The fishbone diagram is traditionally worked from right to left
with "bones" for each cause branching from the center bone. The complexity of the
fishbone lies in the smaller branching bones supporting each potential cause and answering
"why"
(whatis.techtarget.com).

Advantages
Major
advantages to the fishbone diagram accord with the purpose and method of the fishbone.

• It identifies cause and effect relationships in problems.


• The method operates through the function of joint brainstorming
  discussions.
• Brainstorming allows for broad-ranging thinking, steering
  teams away from "in a rut" thinking patterns.
• These diagrams ask
  "why does this happen" again and again at each stage as each potential cause is
  identified.
• Fishbone allows for prioritizing relevant causes so the
  predominating, underlying root cause is addressed first.

Disadvantages
Some major disadvantages relate to
the greatest strengths of the fishbone diagram.

• Brainstorming
  produces irrelevant potential causes along with relevant ones, resulting in a time and energy
  drain.
• Brainstorming is as often based on opinion as on fact and evidence
  ( href="http://fishbonediagram.org/limitations/">fishbonediagram.org)


• A very large space for working out the diagram is needed for complex problems with
  many branching bones and "why"-bones.
• The complex
  interrelationships of multiple factors are difficult to show on a fishbone
  (worldbank.org).

Here is an illustration of a detailed fishbone
diagram.

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What is the american expanison?

The second half
of American expansion is the imperial era of the United States, starting with the
Spanish-American War in 1898 and continuing, some would argue, until today.  After the 1899
Treaty of Paris ending that conflict, the US came into possession of Puerto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines, as they were formerly Spanish colonies.  This was the birth of the American
Empire.

Its growth continued as Roosevelt declared the Carribbean Sea an
"American lake" in the Roosevelt Corollary, and in the years following, the
US...

How should I write an in-depth analysis for Abigail in "The Lovely Bones"? I need to write a 6 pager paper, analysis, on the character, Abigail....

This
story in large part deals with how to handle grief - each member of the family, including Susie,
has to process his/her own grief and each one does it very differently.  Abigail is a prime
example.  A no-nonsense type woman to begin with, she isn't quite sure what to do with her
overwhelming feelings of loss and guilt.  Unlike her husband, she is not in touch with her
emotions.  She reacts in a personally destructive way, seeking physical...

What is the importance of marketing in a global economy?

Marketing plays
an important role in how businesses operate. According to the Four Ps of marketing
(Marketing Mix), the process is focused on four aspects of the
business, which are Product, Price, Promotion, and Place. Marketing ensures that the product
produced is needed in the market and can satisfy those needs. The process also ensures that the
price set for the product or service is both profitable to the business and affordable to the
target customers. Additionally, marketing ensures that the market is informed and made aware of
the product and the problem it solves. The process also ensures that the product is available
when and where the customer needs it.

Marketing is important in the global
marketplace place because it keeps a business aware of the challenges of logistics and the
opportunities presented by the global marketplace. For instance, the global marketplace provides
the opportunity of a large customer base, but it also presents challenges because of the diverse
needs...

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Please provide two quotes from book nine of Homer's The Odyssey illustrating how Odysseus shows intelligence.

Theof 's
is Odysseus. Odysseus's heroic ability (or most important characteristic)
is his great intelligence. His intelligence proves the saying "brains [intelligence] over
brawn [physical strength]." 

Book nine offers numerous examples which
highlight Odysseus' intelligence. In this book, Odysseus is telling the Phaeacians the story of
his travels. 

-When Odysseus finds his ship in the land of the Lotus-Eaters,
"three of [his] tasted it and all they wanted was more." Odysseus, knowing that the
men would not desire home if the lotus kept its control over them, tied the men to a pole and
set sail away from the lands. 

-Another quote which illustrates Odysseus'
intelligence is found when he is describing his trials in the cave of the cyclops: "But I
realized that only he could unstopper the mouth of the cave." Odysseus realizes that he
cannot kill the cyclops (Polyphemus); instead, he must outwit the cyclops in order to get him to
move the bolder which blocks the exit. 

-As the other cyclops in the area
come to find out what Polyphemus is screaming about, the cyclops screams that Nobody is hurting
him. Nobody is the name Odysseus gave to the cyclops ('My name is Nobody,' I told him. 'It's
Nobody!' bellowed Polyphemus.). The other cyclops believe that nothing is really
wrong. 

-Lastly, Odysseus, needing to hide from the blinded cyclops, creates
a plan where his men will hide under three sheep tied together. "When it was time to let
them out to pasture, the Cyclops ran his hands over their backs but did not notice the men
underneath." 

All of these quotes illustrate the great intelligence of
Odysseus--a trait he could not have survived without. 

In Coelho's The Alchemist, what happens when the alchemist and the boy are both taken into the military camp?

When the
alchemist and the boy are both taken to the military camp, the alchemist uses all of Santiago's
money that he has saved for years to buy them three days time to save their lives. The alchemist
tells the chief of the tribe that the boy is an alchemist who could destroy their whole camp by
one swift command of the wind. The chief calls his bluff by saying that he wants to see the boy
do that. The alchemist says that he needs three days, but he won't destroy the camp; he will
only turn himself into the wind to demonstrate his powers. Santiago can't believe what the
alchemist just put him up to prove. He doesn't know how to turn himself into the
wind! 

Over the course of the three-day grace period, Santiago talks to the
desert, the wind, and the sun. They all can't help him. He discovers that he needs to talk to
the Soul of the World in order to pull off this trick. As a result, he learns that he is a part
of the Soul of the World and that same soul is a part of God. In addition to the Soul of the
World being God's soul, he also realizes that God is love. If everything is connected in the
world, and God, love and the Soul of the World are all one, then he is also part of God. If he
is part of God, then he also has the power to turn himself into the wind. Needless to say,
Santiago discovers the power within himself to save his and the alchemist's life by turning
himself into the wind in front of the military tribe. They are so impressed by the boy's power
that they allow the two travelers to go on their way towards the pyramids.

How can I write "The Cask of Amontillado" from Fortunato's point of view?

To maintain the dramatic and psychological interest, I would be inclined to adjust the
timing. Most of the story is spent in the journey through Montresor's vaults, which is not
particularly interesting from Fortunato's point of view, since he is oblivious to the ironies
contained in the references to the masons and Montresor's coat of arms. As far as he is
concerned, they are simply walking through a damp vault to reach a barrel of sherry. I would
therefore spend less time on this part of the story and more on Fortunato's reflections and
regrets after his imprisonment.

One interesting approach might be to open
the story with Fortunato already immured in the vault and awaiting death. He could then reflect
on what brought him there and when he first realized Montresor's plan (presumably after the last
possibility of escape). Montresor refers to the "thousand injuries" Fortunato had
inflicted on him, as well as at least one insult. What were these? Clearly, Fortunato did not
imagine they...

What do you think attracts Stephen to the priesthood? Why do you think he rejects it? In what ways is his later vocation (or "calling") as an artist...

In s influential modernist bildungsroman , Joyce portrays the life
of young Stephen Dedalus as he struggles with his simultaneous religious and sexual awakenings.
Stephen is attracted to the priesthood because he pictures the respect and gravitas that is
associated with the position. Indeed, a priest actively attempts to convince Stephen to consider
priesthood:

To receive that call, Stephen, said the
priest, is...

What are some quotations from The Great Gatsby that support the idea that money and fame can't buy happiness?

In s
classic novel, , though many of thehave more money than imaginable, they do
not have the happiness we would expect to come with it.andare a super-wealthy married couple,
but Toms numerous affairs demonstrate the lack of love and happiness in their relationship. In ,
Tom confronts Daisy andabout their affair, and in the process, he admits to his numerous
affairs. He confesses to everyone in the room that hes cheated before he claims hes always loved
her:

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool
of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time (141)

At the end of the chapter, Gatsby stands outside of Toms mansion
watching him and Daisy. He tellshes there to make sure Tom doesnt hurt Daisy because he wants to
protect her. Gatsby confesses that it was Daisy who drove the car that killed Myrtle; he
details how she was so distraught on the drive...

With what internal conflict does the speaker struggle in "The Raven"?

The
speaker in "" is agonizing over the death of a beloved maiden named . He finds it so
painful to remember her that he is struggling not to think about her. But he keeps remembering
her throughout the poem, and the raven who intrudes into his home and takes up permanent
residence only keeps reminding him of his great loss. He transfer his internal struggles to a
dialogue with the black bird. But the raven only makes the speaker's suffering worse by giving
him nothing but what appear to be nihilistic answers.

In the opening stanza
the speaker is trying to forget Lenore by immersing himself in books.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and
weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I
nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber
door
Only this, and nothing more.

At one point
in the poem the speaker asks the bird if there is balm in Gilead. This is the same as asking if
there is any hope to be found in traditional religion as promised in various places in the
Bible. The speaker is still thinking about the lost Lenore. What troubles him the most about
losing her is the thought that she is gone forever--who knows where? This is the thing that
troubles most people who have lost a loved one. When King Lear's beloved daughter Cordelia dies,
the old man speaks an unusual line which expresses that obvious but somehow unbelievable
truth:

Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never,
never, never.     (5.3)

The raven knows only one word.
But that one word seems all too appropriate to the speaker's thoughts and feelings. Therefore
the bird itself comes to symbolize the speaker's sense of hopelessness. The bird refuses to
leave. By perching on the bust of the goddess of wisdom, Pallas Athene, the bird further
represents the cold, hard truth that Lenore is dead and it is useless to imagine any way in
which the speaker could ever be reunited with her. In the end the speaker is totally defeated in
his internal struggle to "find surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore." He
gives in to eternal grief. Nothing can relieve his anguish but his own death.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is
sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes
have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o'er him
streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor
Shall be liftednevermore!

's wife Virginia, whom he married when she was only thirteen, was still alive in 1845
when he published "The Raven," but she was in poor health and died of tuberculosis in
January of 1847. It seems likely that he was expressing his feelings about his pending loss of
Virginia in "The Raven."

 

 

 

 

What were the similarities and the differences in the North American Indian societies? My text for this is Bentley and Ziegler's Traditions &...

In your text,
the discussion of the natives of North America lists differences between various societies, but
no similarities that hold true for all North American Indian societies.  Let us look at
differences noted in the text, at some things that many cultures held in common, and at one
major similarity between all Native American societies that is not mentioned in the
text.

The text mentions one difference between various Native American
societies that is of paramount importance.  It notes that some societies had large-scale farming
while other societies did not.  This is very important because it affected the ways of life in
those societies in important ways.  Agricultural societies could have larger populations.  They
were able to have more complex societies and become more militarily powerful than societies that
lacked agriculture.  This difference is a very important one.

One thing that
many societies had in common was a hunter-gatherer economy.  These Indian societies lacked the
resources that would allow them to farm.  Instead, they lived by hunting animals and by
gathering plant resources that grew wild.  This brings us to another difference. 
Hunter-gatherers in different regions had different food sources.  Your text mentions, for
example, that regional peoples consumed fish while those in the interior based their diets on
large land animals like deer and bison. 

The major similarity between all
these societies is that they lacked metal technologies.  None of the North American societies
knew how to make bronze or iron or other metals that could be made into tools and weapons. 
Therefore, they all used stone technologies for things like arrowheads and knives.  This was to
be a major disadvantage for the natives when the Europeans came to the
Americas.

Could someone explain to me the ballad "Get Up and Bar the Door"?

This
is a humorous ballad about the relationship between a husband and a wife. At the start of the
pudding, the "goodwife" is busy at her chores: making puddings. The cold wind blows
across the floor, and the woman's husband asks her to "gae out and bar the
door."

The woman tells her husband: look, I'm busy. If he wants the door
barred, he must bar it himself. The pair of them agree that whoever speaks first will have to
get up and bar the door.

Then, at twelve that night, two gentlemen approach.
They ask whether this is a rich man's or a poor man's house, but neither the husband or the wife
will say anything. So the two gentlemen come in and eat the puddings the wife has been making,
and neither husband nor wife says anything because of their pact.

Eventually
one of the gentlemen says to the other that they should cut off the husband's beard and kiss the
wife. One of them complains to the other that there's no water in the house; the second
gentleman replies that there's nothing wrong with the "pudding-broo" or the boiled
water in the pan.

This incenses the goodman, who angrily demands to know
whether the gentlemen intend to kiss his wife in front of him and then scald him with pudding
water.

His wife, far from being upset too, "skips on the floor" in
delight at having won their argumentbecause her husband has "spoken the foremost
word," he must now get up and bar the door himself.

The point of the
ballad, essentially, is that husbands should know better than to try and tell their wives what
to do; the stubbornness of women will usually outlast that of men.

How would you explain Thoreau's reasons for leaving Walden Pond?

The
other answers rightly quote Thoreaus own stated reason for leaving the woods: because he had
begun to fall into a rut in his forest existence, and he was no longer far from the beaten path
but treading it daily. He believed it was time to move on because he had other lives to live and
had spent quite enough time and energy on that one.

Earlier in chapter 18,
Thoreau addresses the question of travel for its own sake and suggests that this is pointless
unless one is able to learn something new. Having left the woods, he feels that his experiment
taught him an important lesson: that if a man strives for his dreams, this will teach him a new
way of seeing the world, and new paths will open themselves up to him.

In
pursuit of his dreams of learning, then, Thoreau must move on because the woods have nothing
else to reveal to him, but also he is now convinced of the value of going where dreams compel
him to go. Thoreaus quest is not for love or money, but for truth, and he...

How does Scout mature in To Kill a Mockingbird?Please give multiple examples.

matures and morally develops as the story progresses by carefully listening to her father's life
lessons, gaining valuable perspective on her hometown, and experiencing a loss of childhood
innocence. Towards the beginning of the novel, Scout fears her reclusive neighbor, , and
believes the rumors and neighborhood legends surrounding him. Scout also struggles to control
her temper and is ignorant of her community's prejudiced culture. She also does understand the
importance of 's defense of Tom Robinson and is not able to recognize the hypocrisy of her
neighbors and family members.

As the story progresses, Scout matures and
gains perspective on her neighbors racist ideology and Maycomb's prejudiced community. In part
2, Scout discovers that Boo Radley is not a "malevolent phantom" and is simply a
compassionate, shy neighbor. Scout also heeds her father's advice and learns to control her
temper. Scout then loses her childhood innocence after witnessing racial...

Why would the Union army need to resupply Fort Sumter?

There are at
least two reasons for which you can say the Union needed to resupply Fort Sumter.

On one level, you can say the Union needed to resupply the fort because the fort was in
Southern territory.  The fort was in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.  That meant that
it could not get any supplies on its own since the South felt it was an enemy outpost.  It was
running out of supplies and had less than a months worth of provisions.  Therefore, it needed to
be resupplied from the North.

On another level, however, we can talk about
why the North felt it needed to keep Fort Sumter.  The major reason for this is that it felt to
many Northerners like a point of pride.  They did not want to feel as if they were giving in to
the South.  If they had simply let the South chase them out of Fort Sumter, they would have felt
weak.  For this reason, they felt that they needed to keep the fort.  If they were going to keep
the fort, they had to (as discussed in the previous paragraph) resupply
it.

What Does Gatsby Reply When Nick Asks Him How He Makes His Money? Why Does Nick Find That Significant?

In addition to
the great response above, it is good to add that this particular point in the novel is one of
personal victory to . He is there with , and he is about to show her around his house. Showing
off how "well" he has done for himself means, to Gatsby, that he is finally worthy of
Daisy. Havingthere serves as further proof to Gatsby that he is distinguished and admired by
many.

However, in the conversation that ensues as Daisy goes to wash her
face, we notice that there are cracks in Gatsby's surface that reach straight to the core of his
insecurities and his feelings of worthlessness. After all, Gatsby is not about who he is, but
what he has.  

"The house looks well, doesn't
it?" he [Gatsby] demanded. "See how the whole front of it catches the
light."

I agreed that it was splendid.

"Yes." His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. "It
took me just three years to earn the money that bought it."

"I
thought you inherited your money."

At this point,
Gatsby gets nervous realizing that he has been caught in a lie, a type of lie that would push
him quite low in the social ranking of the peers that he is desperately trying to impress. The
society that Gatsby wants to dominate is one where everything is given for no reason. They are
idle heirs and heiresses with not a worry in the world who have never had to work for a living.
To that society, working for a living is something done by the poor by birthhence, their
feelings of entitlement and debauchery with the money and all the many things they inherit just
for being who they are. Gatsby does not share this origin, and it gnaws at him inside. This is
why the next exchange makes Gatsby more guarded still. 

"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in the
big panic -- the panic of the war."

I think he hardly knew what he was
saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered, "That's my affair,"
before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply.

After telling Nick off, basically, Gatsby immediately tries to gain ground by
retracting his reply and adding that "he has been many different things."  This is
evidence of Gatsby's inner fears of his origins and his backgroundand also of the fact that he
knows he is deceiving others as well as himself. 

1. Write a sentence that illustrates the objective case. Clearly label the object and objective pronoun using parentheses. 2. Write a sentence that...

Indo-European languages were originally highly inflected. What this means is that nouns
changed form to indicate how they functioned grammatically in sentences. The different forms of
nouns are known as "cases" and the ways in which ending change to reflect their
syntactic functions is known as "declension." In other words, while the term
"conjugate" describes the way verbs change with respect to number, tense, and mood,
nouns are "declined" with respect to gender, number, and case. In Old English, all
nouns were declined but in modern English only pronouns are declined. In English, there are
three pronoun cases:

1. Subjective or Nominative: This case is used
   for subjects of sentences and subject complements. Examples would be "I,"
   "we," and "she."
2. Objective or Accusative: This case is
   used for direct and indirect objects of verbs and objects of prepositions. Examples would be
   us, him, or them.
3. Possessive or Genitive: This form is used to
   indicate possession such as the... href="https://web.ku.edu/~edit/pronouns.html">https://web.ku.edu/~edit/pronouns.html
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Why does Daniel reject Rosh?

When
Daniel first meets Rosh, he believes that he has found the perfect leader. He admires the rebel
insurgent and wants to believe that he is indeed the messiah. Daniel's entire personality is
based upon his hatred of the Romans. He has watched his father and uncle be crucified by them
and has seen his little sister succumb to madness due to their heinous acts. Rosh gives Daniel
the means to kill as many Romans as he can, and this is more than enough for Daniel to live
meaningfully.

However, Daniel eventually begins to have his heart changed by
seeing Jesus and his message of kindness. While Jesus understands Daniel's feelings, he insists
that violence simply begets more violence, and that love is the only true way to change the
world. In time, Daniel rejects the dogma of Rosh and makes the change to follow
Jesus.

Why do you think James McBride's The Color of Water has been on bestseller list for so long? What makes it so good?

I enjoyed
reading for several reasons which contribute to its maintaining its
bestseller status.  First, McBride is incredibly honest and self-reflective.  He does not try to
present himself as a victim or as perfect person.  Instead, he discusses his struggles and the
inner conflict he encounters as he comes to see his mother in a new light.

Secondly, McBride possesses and incredibly interesting and unusual background.  His
Jewish mother's decision to marry an African-American man is not a common one, and then McBride
and his siblings' relationship with their stepfather is also quite unique.  How many men buy a
house for their wife and children, love their wife and children, but yet just can't live under
the same roof with them?

The blending of McBride's self-awareness and his
fascinating upbringing with his fluid writing style make his autobiography interesting and
readable for a wide audience.

What is the Narrator Trying to Tell us in "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison What those the narrator trying to tell us in the reading?

Part of the message, as
I take it, is that the boys in the fight are desperate and terrified. Their relationship to the
society they live in is, essentially, one of abuse. 

These boys are so needy
that they agree to this crazy fight, where they hurt one another and humiliate
themselves.

They seek approval from the people who humiliate them. There is a
sickness at the bottom of the message, in my view.

"
" presents a startling scene of violence, naivet© and economic powera scene
that...

Describe the alternatives to a jury trial that exist for deciding a lawsuit. Identifying Alternatives.

There is no legal
requirement that lawsuits be settled by jury at all.  The decision can rest in the hands of a
judge alone.  Having a jury, though is usually to the advantage of the defendant, because you
have a statistically better chance of avoiding a conviction if a majority of 12 have to make the
ruling as opposed to merely one, so you tend to see more jury trials in lawsuits than
not.

Another alternative is called binding arbitration.  To avoid the
prolonged time frame and cost of a trial, both sides submit to the decision of a third party
arbitrator, someone who weighs the evidence individually and his/her decision is final, as both
sides must waive their right to appeal to use this option.  Many times, a plaintiff will choose
this option because by avoiding all of the appeals, they can be assured of getting some money
much sooner.

What does Fortunato believe is actually happening in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Fortunato prides himself on being a
connoisseur of wines. He also believes that he is still good friends with Montresor. Montresor
lets readers know from the beginning of the story that their friendship is tenuous at best and
that he is planning on getting revenge against Fortunato. Montresor seeks out Fortunato during
the carnival celebration and lets it be known that he has miraculously obtained a full pipe of
Amontillado sherry. Montresor states that he isn't convinced it is real, and Fortunato excitedly
volunteers his palate and tells Montresor to lead the way to the wine vaults.

Come, let us go.

Whither?

To your vaults.

This is all part of
Montresor's plan, so he begins taking Fortunato to his home. Fortunato believes that he is going
to get to taste an amazing wine when, in reality, he is being led to his
death.

Why Was The Boston Massacre Important

On March
5, 1770, what started as an exchange of insults between a British Private and a wig-maker's
apprentice escalated into extreme violence. After Private John White struck Edward Garrick on
the side of the head with a musket, a crowd began to form around Private White, antagonizing
him. White was eventually relieved by six other privates. The crowd continued to press around
the soldiers until tensions mounted to the point of one of them firing, causing the rest to
shoot into the crowd.

was one of the most important events leading up to the
war. It was significant in that it played a huge role in turning colonial sentiment against King
George III and the authority of British Parliament. Though five years passed between the
massacre and outright revolution, John Adams would write that "the foundation of American
independence was laid" on that evening.

Postcolonial Criticism

Post-colonial criticism is an attempt to
reveal the story of oppressed people from their own point of view by correcting or critiquing
the perspective of the powerful. It is often called the view from below. For centuries, the
story of colonialism was told almost entirely from the perspective of the victorious colonizing
culture. Thus, Shakespeare's Caliban is depicted as a monster, a brute, and a savage because he
looks different, dares to desire a European woman, and resents obeying his new overlord. But if
we look at the story from his point of view, he generously came to the aid of helpless
shipwrecked people who would have died without him, only to have them use what he taught them to
enslave him, treat him with disdain, and steal his land. Likewise, Kipling's concept of the
colonized person as the "white man's burden" is a particularly notorious example of a
white colonizer, in this case England, brutally invading and subjecting a land and then casting
themselves as sacrificial heroes for imposing their will upon people who would love nothing
better than for them to go away. Because the narrative of the powerful is often blind to how
life looks and feels to the powerless, it has been important to critique how the literature of a
dominant group depicts the people below it. 

In Interpreter Of Maladies, how does Jhumpa Lahiri portray cultural displacement in the stories 'Mrs Sen's', 'When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine' and 'The...

In the
three short stories, Lahiri portrays cultural displacement as a melancholic experience for
individuals.  It reminds them of how alone they truly are in a new world.

Cultural displacement lies in Mrs. Sen's heart.  Eliot is perceptive enough to catch on
quickly that there is something beneath Mrs. Sen's exterior.  He recognizes that India means the
world to Mrs. Sen, and that world's disappearance has impacted her tremendously:

The mention of the word [India] seemed to release something in her.
 She neatened the border of her sari where it rose diagonally across her chest.  She, too,
looked around the room, as if she noticed in the lampshades, in the teapot, in the shadows
frozen on the carpet, something the rest of them could not.  'Everything is there.'

Mrs. Sen experiences cultural displacement in a physical and
emotional way.  Physically, all of her belongings are in India. She in a world with few things
that remind her of home. Emotionally, "everything is there." Nothing...

Why does Medea think it is necessary to kill her sons to get revenge on Jason?

kills the
children to spite Jason. The core focus of the play is on the fact that Jason is going to marry
a Greek princess, and Medea, who is a foreigner, will be relegated to mistress statusher
children by Jason would presumably also be illegitimate once the new marriage is contracted,
although this is not stated outright. Medea is furious because she helped Jason significantly
during his travails with the Golden Fleece, but Jason's only response is that he has to marry a
Greek woman, so unfortunately this cannot be Medea. She replies that shes left everythingfamily,
homeland, language, godsto be with Jason, and hes casting her aside without ceremony. Jason
effectively tells her to calm down and get over it.

In response, then, Medea
feels she can only punish Jason properly by taking everything away from him in order to impress
upon him her feeling that everything has been taken from her. She achieves
this by poisoning his new wife, murdering his children (whom he presumably was going to
disinherit in favor of his new legitimate children), and then running away to Athens to marry
the king there. She takes the childrens bodies with her so that Jason cant even hold them or
bury them, and she makes a point of saying shell bury them by Heras templeHera being the
ultimate representation of the wronged wife in Greek mythology. She didnt
want to kill the children, but she wanted to make the point that she lost
everything to be with Jason, and since he no longer cares, shell rip everything away from
him.

Who are the Seven Sages?

The Seven
Sages or Apkallu were of human descent, created by the god Ea (Enki) to instil wisdom, social
conventions, and craftsmanship in society. They were especially known to be the authors of texts
on omens, magic, and ancient wisdom. They were considered the protectors of mankind against
demons and disease. The legendary Seven Sages purportedly existed before the...

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Does an organization have any ethical responsibility to share with all of its employees the results of its forecasting of HR requirements and...

The
ethical implications of this question become much more obvious if you translate it from the
jargon intended to obscure the underlying realities to simpler English. Assume you have a
reasonably good estimate of your human resource needs for the next year. There are three
possibilities: staffing levels will stay the same, you will need to hire more people, or you
will need to lay off people. If you need to hire people, it makes good business sense to inform
employees so that they can circulate...

Why is the 1830s considered the age of democracy?

In a
limited sense, the United States had become steadily more democratic throughout the early
nineteenth century. American citizens turned out to vote in very large numbers, took an avid
interest in political affairs, and participated in quasi-political events like parades, riots,
and public commemorations. But in many states, voting was limited to people who owned property,
and with the advancing Market Revolution, property ownership, and therefore enfranchisement,
were tenuous.

In the 1830s, the electorate began to expand. Several states
held constitutional conventions that dropped most property qualifications for voting and took
measures to create equal representation in state legislatures. By the 1840s, almost all white
men could vote in most states.

With this change in the electorate came a
democratization of American political culture. Politicians had to appeal to ordinary American
males, and so they presented themselves in that light. Andrew Jackson, who was styled as
"Old...

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What is the best way leading to the revival of reading habit in the school children? What is the best way leading to the revival of reading habit in...

I agree that
in some capacity, everything mentioned here certainly helps.

But to be
honest, I have personally found success in all of my high school classrooms at encouraging a
reading habit by providing exactly two things: (1) books the students are interested in, and (2)
time to read.

That's it.  The magic formula.

Technology
had absolutely no part, though I don't discredit that there are a lot of great websites
available to help students find their reading likes.

Parental involvement (at
the HS level) had very little part, though, I admit most students who do read for pleasure
habitually, also have parents who read for pleasure.

I think at our core,
humans are naturally inclined toward stretching our imaginations, increasing knowledge, and
finding pleasure in reading.  This generation of learners has simply had such a gift replaced by
TV, iPods, cell phones, parenting techniques which encourage over-stimulation, and general
busy-ness.

I didn't have much time for pleasure reading in HS....

What is an example of a counterargument Defoe uses in "The Education of Women"?

Defoe's
essay on the education of women was, for its time, very unconventional.  Most men, even
enlightened men, subscribed to the belief that women were not equipped intellectually to deal
with the complexities of the world.  Samuel Johnson, for example, one of the most accomplished
writers of the 18thC, is reported to have said in response to a question about a Quaker female
preacher, "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is notdone
well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."  Johnson's observation, unfortunately,
articulates the average educated man's attitude toward women in the mid-18thC.

In "The Education of Women," Defoe tries to convince by every logical
argument he can muster, including appealing to religious sensibilities:

If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the
sex, GOD Almighty would never have given them capacities; for he made nothing
needless.

In other words, if God gave women the capacity
to learn, then he expected them to become educated or he would not have given them the capacity
in the first place.  This argument was designed to appeal to enlightened men on two bases--logic
and religion.  If God gave women the brains to learn, then withholding education from them was
an affront to God, not to mention a waste of human potential.

Defoe goes so
far as to suggest the appropriate curriculum for women: languages, particularly French and
Italian;and elocution, "the graces of speech;" reading, so they could understand
history and "understand the world."  There is, in the midst of Defoe's argument, a
fair amount of male chauvinism remaining in Defoe--"Tempers, indeed, may in some degree
influence them. . . ."  Women, for all their capabilities, are still more subject to
emotions than men.  What can one do?

The counter argument against educating
women is expressed in the negative, that is, if we do not allow women to be
educated, this is what we get: women will be "impertinent and talkative;" if a woman's
temper is already bad, ignorance will make her "haughty, insolent, and loud;" even
worse, if she is a passionate  person, her lack of education will make her "much
at one with Lunatic."  Defoe's counter arguments, then, establish several
propositions that are not actually true but sound like legitimate arguments.

A secondary counter argument, one that would naturally comfort men, is Defoe's
assertion that he is not "exalting the female government in the least: but . . .I
would have men take women for companions, and educate them to be fit for it."
Defoe wants to assure men, of course, that when he argues for women's education he is
making a practical suggestion in order to make women better companions for men, not to exalt
them above men.  Defoe is not, in the end, a feminist--he is simply trying to improve men's
lives by upgrading their companions.

How does Golding present the idea of death in Lord of the Flies?

presents
death throughout the novel as a way to illustrate the boys loss of order and morality. It also
signifies the groups loss of innocence overall. When the boys first find themselves on the
island, the young boy with the mulberry markdies in a fire.Before landing on the island, the
boys lived a life full of optimism and opportunity. Landing on the island is the first
realization that life can be dark. The young boys accidental death marks the first realthat the
boys experience, and is a sign that all is not well.

Next,is accidentally
killed when he is mistaken for the beast and is beaten to death. His death shows that the boys
have lost their sense of right and wrong. While they did not intend to kill Simon, they did not
ensure that they were indeed fighting the beast, and were willing to release their wild
instinctson an unknown form. This resulted in the ultimate tragedy, and marks a further loss of
innocence.

Finally, Peggy is killed intentionally whenhas a boulder rolled
on top of him and his conch shell.is devastated by Peggys death and this contrast shows just how
far from humanity the group of boys has become. All order and sense of right and wrong is gone,
and they are lost and wild with no remorse. This death also signifies the depth of darkness that
life can bring about.

Connect the author's life to the plot, setting, characters or symbols in the novel

's book
ends with a very bleak tone.   is reduced to a walking zombie, a stark contrast from the
resistance he strove to bring about in his own life and the sensuousness displayed at moment
with.  He learns to "love Big Brother" and then he dies.  Orwell's bleak ending to the
book might find some connection with his own life as the book was the last one he was to write.
 He died upon its completion, when tuberculosis was taking its toll on him.  Violating the
doctor's orders to limit work to only one hour a day, Orwell pushed himself to finish the book
at a point where he knew he was dying, something brought out in the bleakness of its ending.
 Another element present was how Orwell envisioned the new world order...

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, how does Hester represent the rose bush in front of the prison door? Provide quotes and page numbers.

In
Chapter II of s The Scarlett Letter,stands as a figure of singular
innocence and enchantment amidst the ugliness and vituperation of the community that has
condemned her for the sin of sleeping with a man not her husband.  Her punishment for this
transgression €“ for which she has been harshly judged €“ in addition to the large, prominent
A she was forced to wear on her breast, signifying her adulterous nature, was time in the
local prison.  Hawthorne, in the opening chapter (excluding his extensive , The Custom-House
Introductory) describes this place of enforced confinement in unsurprisingly bleak terms, with
its ugly edifice and its decaying structure.  It is here where Hawthorne first discusses the
rose bush that adorns one side of the prison entrance:

.
. . a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be
imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the
condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could
pity and be kind to him.

Lest anyone underestimate the
significance of this rose bush, Hawthorne proceeds to invest it with a divine meaning, noting
that the community has associated it with a one-time Puritan spiritual leader:

This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in
history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness . . . or whether, as
there is far authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann
Hutchinson as she entered the prison-door, we shall not take upon us to determine.  Finding it
so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that
inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it
to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be
found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and
sorrow.

Hawthorne clearly intended this rose to represent
the moral purity that Hester similarly represents among the shrill, judgmental hypocrisy in
which this beautiful young woman exists.  If Hawthorne ascribes to the rose bush a spiritual
meaning that invests it with inordinate importance, he also suggests that Hester is of one with
the roses that blossomed on its stems.  How else can one explain the references to scripture
common among those who condemn Hester, such as in the following exclamation from one of the
women gathered outside the prison door to protest the leniency shown this adulterer?  It is
surely no accident that the protester most vocal in calling for Hesters execution on the grounds
of biblical prophesy is the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted
judges. That this decidedly unattractive woman should call for Hesters death €“ This woman has
brought shame upon us and ought to die €“ is part of Hawthornes theme regarding false piety. 
Hawthorne was a subscriber to Puritan principles, but recognized the distinctions between Gods
Word and those of mere mortals.  For added emphasis, Hawthorne contrasts the dour, virtually
evil town official who releases Hester from her confinement with the disgraced woman:

The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared,
in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of
the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage
prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law,
which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the
offender.

Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her
dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how
her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was
enveloped.

As with the rose bush, Hester represents a
higher level of spirituality, as does her daughter, , borne out of that illicit affair. 
Describing his s emergence from the darkness of the prison cell, Hawthorne introduces not only
Hester, but her child as well, imbuing in the baby a Christ-like aura:

 . . .stepped into the open air as if by her own free will. She
bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its
little face from the too vivid light of day;

Next, in
Chapter VIII, Hawthorne reintroduces the figure of Reverend , a great scholar and a man of
kind and genial spirit, who nevertheless, in response to his questions regarding the young girls
knowledge of her origins, looks askance at Pearls suggestion that she had not been made at
all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the
prison-door.

Finally, at the end of Chapter XII, Hawthorne returns the theme
of rose bushes and their relationship to his protagonists.  Visiting the mansion of , Hawthorne
noticeably adorns this fanciful estate with rose bushes, and connects these beautiful flowers to
Pearl:

There were a few rose-bushes, however, and a
number of apple-trees, probably the descendants of those planted by the Reverend Mr. Blackstone,
the first settler of the peninsula; that half mythological personage who rides through our early
annals, seated on the back of a bull.

Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began
to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified.

The
role played in The Scarlett Letter by the rose bushes clearly
suggests that the author intended a direct connection between them and his protagonists, Hester
and Pearl.  The flowers represent virtue and stand out in the novels settings for their rarity
€“ just as with Hester.

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What is the difference between the British Parliament and the US Congress?

In the
British Parliament, the party that governs is, by convention, the one that can command majority
support in the House of Commons. Once that majority is secured, the government is entitled to
propose whatever legislation it wishes. In the United Kingdom, Parliament is sovereign and there
exists no other institution with the power to strike down legislation in the same way as the US
Supreme Court. The British constitution is unwritten, and so there is no mechanism by which
judicial review may be used to void Acts of Parliament. English courts can certainly rule
government actions unlawful, but it cannot strike down legislation.

Both
houses of Congress are wholly elected. In the United Kingdom, however, this only applies to the
lower house, the House of Commons. The unelected House of Lordsthe upper chamber in the UK
Parliamentcan certainly delay legislation and inflict defeats on the government of the day.
However, if needs be, the government can always enforce the Parliament...

How does the cold, hostile environment in "Hunters in The Snow" relate to its meaning?

In
some ways, this story is reminiscent of pieces written by Naturalism writers like Stephen Crane.
A major component of those pieces is nature's uncaring attitude toward the plight of human
struggles. Humans simply exist and shouldn't be given much more thought than that. We don't
deserve nature's kindness. Readers can see that in this story in how nature never seems to help
out the three hunters. They struggle to find deer, they struggle to move through the snow, and
they struggle to get over, through, and around natural obstacles. There seems to be a cold
indifference or even hostility from nature toward these three men. Those feelings fit quite well
with the story because nature is essentially reflecting how the three men treat each other. The
men might be friends, but readers can't help but think that maybe each man would be happier
without the others. Kenny ridicules everybody, Frank intentionally feeds Tub's gluttony, and
nobody seems to care that Kenny is wounded in the cold...

In Rappaccini's Daughter what is the significance of Giovanni seeing "that a drop or two of moisture from the broken stem of the flower descended upon...

Let's
set the stage for the significance of this line, which can only be understood knowing what has
occurred before and what occurs after. Giovanni is a young student who takes lodgings in rooms
that were the top floor of what appears to be a gloomy old mansion. An old woman, Lisabetta, who
may be a servant, a concierge, or Giovanni's landlady (this is not clear), points out to
Giovanni the view from his window, which is a magnificent and flourishing garden, the garden of
Doctor Rappacini, who, Lisabetta tells Giovanni, is said to create potent medicines from what he
grows. She also tells Giovanni that Rappacini has a daughter, whom he might see from time to
time in the garden.  

Giovanni continues to look at the garden as time goes
on and one day observes an elderly man tending the garden.  He notices that the man avoids any
direct with anything growing in the garden,

...with a
caution that impressed Giovanni most disagreeably; for the man's demeanor was that of one
walking among malignant influences, such as savage beasts, or deadly snakes, or evil spirits,
which, should he allow them one moment of license, would wreak upon him some terrible fatality
(para. 9). 

Giovanni finds this odd and even frightening
as he thinks to himself that this garden is a perversion of the original Eden and the old man a
very odd sort of Adam. 

As he is contemplating this, he sees the old man
approach a plant and place a mask on his face, with which he is apparently not satisfied. The
old man calls "Beatrice," who appears in the garden, a beautiful young woman who is
the old man's daughter.  She is able to approach this plant and even to embrace it, clearly
without risk of harm.  

Giovanni dreams of the girl and the garden, and the
next day, when he visits a professor of medicine from his university, Professor Baglioni, he
learns that Doctor Rappacini has the reputation of caring far more for the pursuit of knowledge
than he cares for anything else, willing to sacrifice human life in the name of science. 
Giovanni also learns that having been trained by Rappacini, Beatrice is as brilliant as she is
beautiful, and all the young men are in pursuit of her.

Intrigued and
infatuated already, Giovanni buys a bouquet of flowers for Beatrice, and he lingers at his
window, hoping to see her.  He observes Beatrice moving freely amongst the flowers, finally
plucking one and pressing it to her bosom, not only with no ill effects, but also seeming to
bring her energy and health. 

This is when Giovanni sees the drops fall upon
the lizard.  And then he sees that,

For an instant, the
reptile contorted itself violently, and then lay motionless in the sunshine (para.
32). 

A few minutes later, he observes an insect flying
into the garden, also to die, at Beatrice's feet. And his bouquet, which he tosses to her,
starts to wither as she goes back into the house.

These are all warnings to
Giovanni, Rappacini's avoidance of the plants, the cautions of Professor Baglioni, the death of
the lizard, the death of the insect, and finally, the death of his bouquet.  And in the midst of
all that toxicity and death, Beatrice is clearly thriving. 

All of these
warnings are a form offor the reader, who understands, quite likely before Giovanni does, that
Professor Rappacini has done something to his daughter to allow her to be in this garden, with
the suggestion that not only can she coexist with these plants, but also that they somehow
nurture her. 

As the story unfolds, we see this is what has happened.
Giovanni becomes embroiled in Dr. Rappacini's machinations as he falls more and more deeply in
love with Beatrice.  She attempts to protect him from the poisonous garden, and Professor
Baglioni tries to warn him of the danger of his love, for because of Rappicini's
"experiments," Beatrice herself is poisonous.  Giovanni, with the help of a potion
from Professor Baglioni, plans to "cure" Beatrice and rescue her from her father. He
sees that he himself has become toxic, killing off ordinary flowers in his own presence, and he
grows more determined now to rescue both of them.  As Beatrice takes the potion, Rappacini
appears, appearing to lament the loss of his work, rather than the loss of his daughter.
Beatrice dies at the feet of her father and Giovanni, from the potion, which releases her from
the evil her father has wrought, and we are left to imagine Giovanni going on, a sadder but
wiser young man. 

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How did the English exprience in Ireland affect English colonial policy in the Americas?

The English
had a long history of colonial policy making in relation to Ireland. Years and years of
bloodshed and dissent had made the English so sensitive to popular protest that when the
American colonies began their own protest movement it was met with what may have been overly
harsh measures by the British government.

For generations Ireland had been
harshly managed by the British government as a sub-standard colony. Violence, imprisonment and
several quashed rebellions had resulted in a tense relationship between the two islands, but
English colonial policy had undergone a transformation. There was little tolerence for
disruptive or disobdient behavoir. British policies and acts of law were expected to be obeyed,
regardless of what may or may not be fair in the eyes of British subjects. 

After the French and Indian War when the British began taxing the American colonists
there was much anger in parliment over what was, for the most part, a non-vilolent protest
movement by the colonists. What the British saw instead was a total lack of respect for the
authority of the British crown. They passed the Declaritory Act fairly soon after, stating the
total control of the British government in making policy decisions for the colonies. This was
not well recieved by the colonists in America because the same law had been used to crush a
similar protest movement in Ireland several years before, and suddenly whispers of
"tyranny" became louder and louder.

The Americans also worried
about miltary force when the Coersive Acts were passed and Boston harbor was shut down. When
similar acts in Ireland had occured, mass jailings and bloodshed was close behind. As a result,
the American colonists began arming themselves for self-defense, and act that eventually led to
the battles of Lexington and Concord and the outbreak of war.

 

 

 

 

What is the tragic flaw Sophocles gave the leaders in his three Theban plays?

A tragic
flaw is a personality trait that leads to a character's downfall. There are many such examples
in 's Theban plays, as there are in Greekin general. Tragic flaws are normally given to heroes,
but by no means exclusively. In , for example, the relevant leader is
Creon, and he hardly fits the traditional mold of a classic hero. His character flaw is a common
one in Greek tragedy, and one shared by all the leaders in the Theban plays:
, or overweening pride. Creon has made the fateful decision to defy the
gods in refusing to allow Polynices's body to be...

What are some examples of morality in To Kill a Mockingbird?

s novel
contains numerous examples of people who behave based on their moral convictions as well as
quite a few whose morality is in doubt.

The primary character who exhibits
such behavior is . Most of the novel is dedicated to showing how Atticus acts according to what
he knows is right even though that means going against social norms. Atticus decides to defend
Tom Robinson in the rape case because he believes Tomdeserves a fair trial. Although he knows
that is almost certainly impossible in small-town Alabama at that time, he is convinced that as
an attorney and as a human being he must stand up for Tom.

Tom Robinson
himself shows that he acted according to his sense of morality when he helped Mayella Ewell. Tom
knew that Mayella needed help, not only with moving furniture but in terms of her social
isolation. Tom decided to help her even though he knew that the predominantly white town would
not appreciate his efforts on her behalf. Mayella, in contrast, behaved immorally when she
falsely accused Tom of rape.

In Shaw's Pygmalion, why does Liza allow herself to marry Freddy?

The
tale ofis an adaptation of the Roman legend of Pygmalion the sculptor found in Ovid's work
Metamorphosis and, as Shaw mentions at the end of theof
Pygmalion, Galatea (the "flower girl" of Ovid's tale who was
actually a sculpture brought to life) never does come to really like Pygmalion, according to
Shaw, because he is too aloof and cold in a god-like fashion. Since Shaw is following this
model, no truce is ever really called between Higgins and Liza, even though the real possibility
of it develops in Act V prior to Eliza's reluctant departure to attend her father's
wedding.

In this act, Higgins shows real sincerity and genuine feeling and
rather eloquently tells Liza what he thinks of her, while nonetheless insisting that his
behavior is fixed and unchangeable ("I cant change my nature; and I don't intend to change
my manners"). However, Liza misses the import of Higgins' words ("I think a woman
fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight") and insists that his view of her is that
she is lowly and a convenient service for slipper-fetching.

Since she and
Higgins can't come to any amenable resolution between them, and since Liza declares she doesn't
want love from Higgins of the sort that Freddy gives her ("I want a little kindness. ... 
we were pleasant together and I come--came--to care for you ... but more friendly like"),
Liza will want to marry someone else. Being young and lovely and being pursued ardently by
Freddy, despite the fact that he is incompetent because his mother couldn't afford his education
(or wouldn't?), Liza marries him. In addition, Higgins' callousness and refusal to offer a
recanting apology of the fashion Pickering offered causes Liza to decline to resume her
residence on Wimpole Street, which eliminates the possibilities of Higgins finding a Duke or
Earl to propose to his "Duchess."

Comment: the story "The Necklace" is about the futility of trying to keep up appearances.

This
short story byillustrates the futility of trying to keep up appearances by depicting Mathilde
Loisel's insistence on wearing expensive jewelry to the ball in order to impress the guestsand
wasting ten years of her life attempting to pay back the debt she acquired to replace Madame
Forestier's lost necklace. Despite living a...

In the poem "Raleigh Was Right" By William Carlos Williams, what is the theme?

As the other educators indicate, the "Raleigh" referenced in the title is Sir
Walter Raleigh, and in this poem, Williams aligns himself firmly on Raleigh's side of the
Marlowe/Raleigh debate.

This poem was written in 1940 and in a time of great
industrial growth in America, with unemployment down significantly and the country finally
rebounding from the Great Depression. The world was at war once again, and the United States was
right on the precipice of joining this effort. In the midst of this climate, Williams criticizes
the long-held belief of some that nature is an escape from the worries of the world. Williams
says that "the country will bring us / no peace," isolating those final two words on a
line to emphasize the inherent loneliness in nature. He asserts that nature itself provides no
guidance and cannot provide wisdom on its "furry stems / in the long grass."

Williams also uses ato connect love itself to nature:

Love itself is a flower
With roots in a parched ground.

He...

What's the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale?

is Reverend Dimmesdale's
torturer and secret enemy. He gradually torments the sensitive reverend after he learns about
Dimmesdale's affair with . Roger Chillingworth initially recognizes that
something is suspicious about Dimmesdale and pays particularly close attention to the reverend's
affliction and mysterious illness. Given the fact that Roger Chillingworth is known throughout
the Puritan village as a practiced physician, he volunteers to help the sick reverend. After
Chillingworth succeeds in living with Dimmesdale, where he can closely investigate the
suspicious man, he continually asks the reverend leading questions in hopes of discovering
Dimmesdale's dark secret. One evening,

In the play The Crucible, what are the consequences of Abigail and John Proctor's affair?

On the
domestic front, the affair leads to a breakdown in trust between Elizabeth and John Proctor.
John had always been such a good husband, yet now he's been exposed as an adulterer. Elizabeth
doesn't know if she can truly trust him anymore. If he could cheat on her with Abigail then why
not with someone else?

The most serious consequence of the affair, however,
is that it gives Abigail an excuse to exact a terrifying revenge on John and Elizabeth. Abigail
didn't want the affair to end, and when it did, she felt like she'd been discarded like a piece
of trash. Furious at how she's been treated by both John and Elizabeththe mistress of the house
fired Abby after the affair came to lightAbigail sets out to destroy the Proctors.

Later on in the play Elizabeth will try to defend her husband's reputation by openly
denying in court that he had an affair with Abigail. It's a complete lie, of course, but one
that Elizabeth hopes will ensure that the...

What are the controlling ideas of the book? What statement is the author trying to make about society/life/human nature?

The main
ideas or themes in the book are centered on the human condition. One is that written documents
and accounts cannot fully describe and represent the horror and degradation of the slave
experience. To put into words the lives of the slaves limits the...

Why is the portrayal of nature important in the poem "Hunting Snake" by Judith Wright?

The
portrayal of nature is important in this poem as it focuses on a creature that is usually the
object of great fear - the snake - and shows it in a positive light, in a way to command not
only our respect but also our admiration. The poem describes the snake in vividly majestic
terms: it boasts 'diamond scales', is of 'fierce intent', and leaves a considerable impact on
those who see it: 

Cold, dark and splendid he was gone,

into the grass that hid his prey.

We took a deeper breath of
day,

 looked at each other, and went on.

The last two
lines here suggest that the viewers appreciation of the natural world, of life itself, has been
enhanced by this encounter with such a magnificent creature; they now have a €˜deeper awareness
of their surroundings. Although the element of fear is perhaps also present €“ €˜we lost breath
to see him pass €“ this is subsumed in the wave of great awe and admiration. We can conclude
that these human witnesses feel truly privileged to have seen the snake.

The
poem can be compared to other pieces that celebrate the natural world such as those by the
famous English writer D.H. Lawrence, who also wrote a poem about meeting a snake, which is full
of praise for the animal at the expense of the humans that so often fear and mistreat snakes and
other animals. The snake is described as €˜one of the lords of life while of himself the poet
ruefully remarks, €˜I have something to expiate/ a pettiness. In Wrights poem there is no such
condemnation of human beings but there is unquestionably the same sense that the snake is
something of a superior creature.

From The Odyssey, what are some quotes where it becomes clear that Odysseus just wants to return home to Penelope?

Early in the epic poem,
Zeus sends Hermes to tell Calypso that she must release Odysseus and stop holding him prisoner
on her island, as her lover. After pointing out the double standard at work that male gods are
allowed to have relationships with mortal women, but female goddesses are not allowed to carry
on with mortal menshe tells Odysseus that he might not be so quick to leave her if he only knew
of all the hardships he will still have to endure. She is, after all, offering him immortality
and a life with her. Also, she seems to know that Odysseus misses his wife, Penelope, more than
anything else, for she asks, "'Hardy right, is it, / for mortal woman to rival immortal
goddess? / How, in build? in beauty?'"

Odysseus replies,

"All that you say is true, how well I know.
Look at my
wise Penelope. She falls far short of you,
your beauty, stature. She is mortal after
all
and you, you never age or die . . .
Nevertheless I longI pine, all my
days
to travel home and see the dawn of...

How did industrialization and imperialism play a role in the onset of World War I?

Historians agree
that imperialism was a long-term cause of . Increasing greatly in the nineteenth century,
imperialism, or the desire to extend a countrys influence by building an empire, caused tensions
between various European countries. There were particularly strong tensions between Britain and
Germany, for example. This was because Britain had a much larger empire than Germany and,
crucially, allied with France in 1904 in what is known as the Entente Cordiale. Conversely,
Germany allied with Austria-Hungary, and so the scene was set for the two opposing
sides.

Similarly, industrialization also played a role in causing the war
because it enabled these European countries to arm themselves on a massive scale. If you look at
the production of the dreadnought battleship, for example, you will see how it caused
competition between Germany and Britain (see the reference link provided at the bottom of this
post). Moreover, the fact that Britain had produced more dreadnoughts...

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From The Alchemist by Coelho, describe Melchizedek (The King of Salem) with two facts.

Melchizedek, the King of Salem in
is a mystical figure who Santiago, the shepherd boy, meets on his journey
while traveling with his sheep.

When Santiago meets the king, he thinks he is
just an old man.  The shepherd boy is slightly preoccupied with what an old gypsy woman has told
him about a recurring dream he has had.  In this frame of mind, Santiago thinks the man is
unimportant.  When the old man asks about the book Santiago is reading, the man proves to be
very knowledgeable not just because he can read, which the boy had first doubted, but that he
has read the book already and has a low opinion of it. The man tells Santiago that he is a king,
which the boy doubts at first; however, once he is convinced, he is in awe of the king and
listens carefully to what Melchizedek has to say.

Melchizedek is very wise.
 He knows a great deal about life and what can bring a person personal happiness and
fulfillment.

The old king is rather mystical as well.  He not only knows
things about Santiago that he could not possibly know, but he also can read the boy's
mind.

Last, Melchizedek he is slightly prideful.  He is not filled with
self-importance.  After the boy leaves, when the king talks to the Lord (God?), he is humble and
honest about himself.  He admits that he is giving into vanity, but wishes that after the boy
left that Santiago might remember the old king.

Melchizedek is a man aware of
the characteristics of human nature.  He is patient and non-judgmental. He is also kind in that
he fervently hopes that Santiago will be successful in his journey.

 

 

Examples Of Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

There are many
examples of courage in Lee's fine novel. Two in particular stand out for me. One isfacing the
rabid dog. Yes, he has a rifle, but he's an older man, with failing...

How can I apply the theory of feminism to the poem "There is a Girl Inside of Me " ?

is at her
best, I think, when she's writing about the full range of experiences of the female body, both
good and bad. Her poem "There is a girl inside" may seem at first to be quite
different from her poems showing a female speaker who loves her own big hips or feels grief over
her abortions, but it in fact it is much like them in how it, too, is closely tied to a woman's
life experiences.

There is no one theory of feminism, of course, and the
types of feminism that might best apply to "There is a girl inside" are perhaps ones
(often called "radical feminisms" or "essentialist feminisms") that embrace
the female body and see it as the foundation of female identity. Adrienne Rich and Monique
Wittig may represent this sort of feminism.

The poem itself seems to
challenge stereotypes about what girls and women should be, perhaps even by literally rewriting
the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, which has often been taken as a tale of female
maturation (e.g. the red hood might symbolize menstrual blood and the wolf might symbolize
rampant sexual desire). Indeed, the open lines of Clifton's poem calls this girl "randy as
a wolf" and very different from a grandmother. If you follow this perspective, you may find
it helpful to compare Clifton's poem to Angela Carter's prose rewritings of the same fairy
tale.

The speaker in this poem is no longer willing to wait "patient as
a nun." She embraces her sexuality, curses, has multiple lovers, and so on, but these
developments are hardly presented as destructive. They afford her the opportunity to fully
explore herself and her world.

 

I need to write a letter for Winston Smith warning Winston about Big Brother in 1984.

This
letter is a really cool premise.is writing to himself a warning. All kinds of really cool
timepossibilities exist with this kind of set up. For example, by writing this letter, Winston
is hopefully alerting his past self to the potential dangers that exist in defying Big Brother
and the Thought Police. The letter could contain all kinds of warnings about not trusting or
anybody else, for that matter. The letter could even contain information about his future
torture and eventual admittance that he will betrayand admit that he loves Big
Brother.

By writing this letter, Winston could be looking to have his past
self make different decisions and create an entirely different timeline or future self. That's
really cool. On the other hand, I would seriously consider writing a
letter to his past self that convinces himself to take exactly the same actions as he did in the
book. This might seem like a goofy thing to do; however, keep in...

What is the theme of "In Flanders Fields," a poem by John McCrae?

The theme of this poem
is that the living must continue to flight for the soldiers killed in the war. McCrae, writing
about World War I, describes the poppies that blow across the field of graves and the larks that
float above. The dead, who were alive only a short time before, are now buried in Flanders
Fields. He writes that the dead are asking the living to fight for them and to hold aloft the
torch that will continue to light their way. He says that if the living give up their fight, the
dead will not rest peacefully. This poem is about how the living must carry on the work of the
fallen soldiers to ensure that the soldiers have not died in vain. Otherwise, the soldiers'
deaths will be meaningless. 

In chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Calpurnia's vitalization of two dialects confuses Scout. What valuable lesson does Scout learn from Calpurnia's...

Peter Lantaigne, M.A.

The visit to First Purchase Church has a lasting impact onand . The members of the
congregation are proud and generous, and some of them are a little suspicious of the children's
attendance. The chapter's most important revelation is that Calpurnia speaks differently with
the Finches than she does around her friends and family. This concept is novel to Scout, and Cal
shares this insight with her:

It's not necessary to tell
all you know. It's not ladylikein the second place, folks don't like to have someone around
knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin'
right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's
nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

The lesson that Scout learns inis about privilege. Beyond being
mindful of speaking respectfully, Scout speaks however she pleases wherever she goes. She knows
Cal as an adult and an authority figure. The...

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What are the functions of ministers in a parliamentary system of government?

A minister
acts as the leader or director of various organizations within a parliamentary government. The
parliament is divided into subgroups, with organizations that take care of specific areas (in
America, the president's cabinet can be seen as similar to the Ministers of Parliament, where
there is a Director of Treasury, Director of the Armed Forces, etc). Each minister presides over
a different ministry and directs its actions.

Essentially, within the
parliament, each ministry acts as its own miniature government specifically focusing on a
certain task or area. Within these groups, the minister is the ruling member, or president per
se, and acts to lead and guide the organization. They have the power to enact executive orders
in their specific areas, and all legislation, funding, and decisions typically run through that
individual.

How did the peace settlement after World War I lead to World War II?

The peace
settlements after World War I (1914€“1918) led directly to World War II (1939€“1945) because
they were too punitive in nature. The victorious nations were headed by three leaders: Woodrow
Wilson for the United States, Georges Clemenceau for France, and David Lloyd George for the
United Kingdom. Italy, which had fought on the winning side, played a somewhat lesser
role.

Wilson had hoped to bring about reconciliation with a moderate peace
treaty. But he was opposed by the British, French, and Italian delegations. Those countries had
suffered enormous casualties, so a lenient treaty was not politically feasible for their
leaders.

The losers of World War I were forced to sign harsh...

Write your own creative speech for the character Napoleon in Animal Farm.

Here are some
other things that may help you as you draft your speech: It would be useful to examine some of
the speeches of leaders who were similar to .had Stalin in mind with Napoleon's character, but
you can look to other dictators or despots who used the sorts of rhetorical strategies that
Napoleon does. As the previous answer pointed out, Napoleon will be devious and re-direct
inquiries about the prosperity the animals were promised to focus instead on something like the
heroics of the animals in battle or vague promises about other aspects of the future.

In order to avoid the difficult questions of logistics and specifics, despots like
Napoleon will also return to the grander ideas of the revolution, the enemy, and the importance
of fearing/ hating the enemy, as well as finding new enemies or threats to focus on rather than
the hardships the animals are facing. 

You can find contemporary speeches
that do similar things if you consider how different politicians re-direct attention from the
difficult domestic issues of poverty or racism and instead want to focus on things like the war
on terror or the war on drugs. Napoleon often used threats or perceived threats as ways to turn
attention away from what the animals saw as their conditions not only failed to improve but
continued to worsen under his rule.

In the story Things Fall Apart, why did Okonkwo kill himself?

Throughout
the whole novel,struggles with the changes taking place in his tribe.  He is initially known as
one of the strongest, most honorable tribesmen, but as the white man begins coming in and other
tribal members begin to change as a result, particularly his own son, Okonkwo cannot handle the
change.  He sees these other clansmen as weak, like he saw his father was weak.  The one thing
Okonkwo fears the most is weakness.  By novel's end, Okonkwo has tried to remain strong against
the tide of change, but he appears to be the only one.  When he kills the colonial official in
the...

Do you agree that Eliza in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion represents the new woman?

I would have to say
that I disagree that Eliza, from Shaw's represents the new
woman.

Eliza does not wish to change herself until it is brought to her
attention that she needs to be changed. Therefore, she does not represent the new woman because
the new...

How does Shakespeare develop the them of "fate versus free will" in act 4, scene 1, of Macbeth? How has the theme evolved since the beginning of the...

There is an
interesting tension within between free will and fate: on the one
hand,does clearly assert agency (after all, he actively engineers his rise to power and the same
can be said of his eventual downfall), but at the same time, you might get a sense, reading this
play, that the power of fate is something too great for any one person to truly resist or
overcome.

This is perhaps most clearly illustrated in the example of , whose
children are prophesied to become kings. If we look toward Shakespeare's own time, Banquo was
believed to be an ancestor to the Stuarts (including Shakespeare's own patron, King James I of
England and Scotland). This particular prophesy, then, would ultimately be fulfilled across a
span of centuries.

Thus, there is a great deal of complication as to where
free will begins and where it ends, because Macbeth is simultaneously culpable for his own
crimes (an agent of his own ambition), but he is also subject to the manipulations and demands
of fate (and even perhaps a pawn to them). The events of act 4, scene 1, maintain this tension;
when the subject of prophesy returns, the repercussions of which will loom over the rest of the
play.

In this scene, Macbeth again meets withand receives new prophesies
(which he will misinterpret, to his eventual doom). Three apparitions are conjured. The first
warns him of , the second famously states:

Be bloody, bold
and resolute: laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall
harm Macbeth (4.1.79€“81)

The next reads:

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam wood
to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him. (4.1.92€“94)

These prophesies describe Macbeth's eventual destruction at the
hands ofand Macduff. As we find out later in the play, Birnam Wood will (in a sense) go on the
march, and (later still) we'll learn that Macduff had been born from a C-section.

Thus, these prophesies are directly alluding to Macbeth's eventual downfall, but
Macbeth himself misunderstands the meaning of the prophesies as relating to his own
invulnerability. Thus, in his arrogance, he will proceed to underestimate the threat Malcolm and
Macduff representa factor which does play a role in his eventual defeat.

In
this respect, we again see the intertwining of free will and fate because, ultimately, while
these prophesies are fulfilled to a certain degree, it's worth wondering how much they actually
depend upon Macbeth's misinterpreting them to take effect (which brings us back to the subject
of agency vis-a-vis Macbeth).

What does Milan Kundera mean by "the unbearable lightness of being?" themes about the novel

Kundera's
title of the work reflects a passage in which he sought to distinguish between
"weight" and "lightness."  When he speaks of weight, he is speaking of the
weight of our experiences, our memories.  This weight defines who we are, what we do, and how we
proceed.  It is brought on by our choices in these domains.  It is a part of us, but it is also
crushing.  We are pinned underneath it, as he says, and it is painful at times because weight
usually is.  At the opposite polarity is the notion of lightness, where we transcend our
experiences and seek an "idyll where nightingales sing," (to paraphrase from another
Kundera work,

In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," what is the character sketch of Mathilde Loisel?

Maupassant's
"" is written in 3rd-person omniscient, which means that the narrator does know all
about Mathilde. However, he chooses to sketch Mathilde by way of indirect description; that is
to say, even though he does mention that she's unhappy, most of her character is determined by
how she reacts to situations and consequences detailed throughout the plot-line. For example,
the mood surrounding Mathilde is whining and complaining. She tells the maid to clean up more in
order to make the dull house look better than it is. She complains that she doesn't have money
for a dress or jewelry, too. Mathilde truly doesn't realize what she has; neither is she
grateful for anything in her life. The indirect inferences force the reader to piece together
Mathilde's character throughout the whole story without the narrator needing to blurt out that
she is an ungrateful woman. Sadly, she learns the hard way about what it means to be grateful
for what she has.

Where is "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker set?

The setting of
"" is rural Georgia in the early 1970s when the Black Nationalist Movement
emerged.

Many African Americans struggled for cultural and political identity
as they sought to bring into the American consciousness the contributions of their race. In
reaction to their history of repression, "white" names were discarded by leaders such
as Malcolm X, who excoriated those who retained the surnames of former slave owners. Following
the example of the movement of Malcolm X, Dee adopts another name, Wangero, and her boyfriend,
who has renamed himself Hakim-a-barber, seems to represent the militant groups. These names are
mocked by Dee's mother, for she feels that one's past, whether positive or not, is part of a
person's history and development.
Mama also recognizes the hypocrisy of her daughter
and boyfriend, as they wish to take family heirlooms and put them on display like a museum piece
rather than use them the way they were intended to be.

When Dee attempts to
take the quilts sewn from pieces of family history and put them on display, her subservient
daughter Maggie tells the mother that her sister may have these quilts. Mama suddenly has an
epiphany:

When I looked at her like that something hit me
in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. . . I did something I never had done
before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss
Wangero's hand and dumped them into Maggie's lap.

The
mother's actions are a recognition of the lives of African Americans. Whether for better or
worse, the quilts represent the historical travails, love, and authenticity of her family, a
heritage that she recognizes all the more when it is threatened. She wishes to protect the quilt
from Wangero, who would pervert this history by displaying the quilt as an artifact.

After Dee and her boyfriend depart, Mama and Maggie sit in the yard and watch as the
Georgia dust settles behind the car.

What is the history of one famous feud? Between families, nations, religions, or even people? Anything would help, thank you! (:

The
Hatfields and McCoys were a famous example of feuding families in the United States.  The feud
began during the Civil War as the Hatfields and the McCoys found themselves on opposing sides of
a war.  The Hatfields, living near the border of West Virginia, fought for the Confederacy. 
Meanwhile,...

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