Chaucer as a poet of transition?

Chaucer is a poet
of transition between a conversational colloquial style and a lofty poetic style.

As Dante and Petrarch, two poets Chaucer cites throughout the Canterbury Tales, exalted
the Italian language through the refinement of their native Tuscan vernacular, Chaucer enriches
English. He does this first by choosing to engage with English when many of his contemporaries
preferred to write in Latin, and second by borrowing not just plots but words from other
languages, particularly French.

Beyond this, he is able to navigate the
idiomatic language of his pilgrim characters without debasing his high form. The language is
direct, emphatic and immediate, while still triumphing not just by evoking the literary muses,
but also in his high style particularly in the opening lines of the .

In Into the Wild, what are some quotes that support the idea that Chris McCandless is foolish?

The
opening interactions between Chris McCandless and Jim Gallien hold some solid quotes that
support the idea that McCandless is more foolish than adventurous. Readers are told that Gallien
is an accomplished woodsman, so he knows how to survive in the Alaskan wilderness, and he knows
that it is a difficult thing. One of things that Gallien reported to author John Krakauer is
that McCandless was not properly equipped for the sort of "adventure" that McCandless
was hoping for:

He wasnt carrying anywhere near as much
food and gear as youd expect a guy to be carrying for that kind of trip, Gallien
recalls.

Gallien points this out to McCandless and even
offers to drive him into town and help him properly supply. McCandless is so foolish and set
upon the idea that he will be fine that McCandless turns down the offer:

Gallien offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage, buy him some
decent gear, and then drive him back to wherever he wanted to go.

No,
thanks anyway, Alex...

Discuss if Animal Farm argues that human beings are divided into leaders and followers.

I think
that the book does display a clear division between leaders and followers.  However, I think
that the book shows very well what how individuals can lose sight of how they create their
leaders.  The book displays how individuals can be easily bullied into making their leaders
possess vast control over them.  For example, at one of the most intense moments of human
cruelty and political expediency, Clover sees it and still cannot bring herself to taking
action, instead resting with...

What does the prologue suggest about the values of ancient Mesopotamians in The Epic of Gilgamesh?

Margarete Abshire

Thecelebrates many values of the Mesopotamians, which Gilgamesh exemplifies. Chief
among these are beauty, wisdom, and courage, all of which Gilgamesh himself is an example. These
are traits that have a divine inspiration; Gilgamesh is said to be two-thirds god, one-third
man.

Beyond these personal attributes, the prologue celebrates some more
general values. For one thing, The prologue venerates antiquity in general; Gilgamesh's story is
important in part because it is old. The same is true for the walls Gilgamesh built at Uruk;
these are without peer in part because they have endured for so long.

Mostly, however, the prologue celebrates knowledge as a way of preserving a
culture....

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," does Reverend Hooper's veil have any positive effects during his long life?

This is
an interesting question in part because most readers conclude that the veil has only disastrous
effects--alienating Reverend Hooper's congregation from him; ruining his fiancee's (Elizabeth)
hopes for a life as a wife and mother; destroying Hooper's own life as a religious leader--but
Hawthorne makes it clear that the veil also has some unexpected, but positive effects, as
well:

. . . the black veil had the one desirable effect of
making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. . .  he became a man of awful power, over souls
that were in agony for sin. . . Dying sinners cried aloud for Mr. Hooper, and would not yield
their breath till he appeared.

Because some of Reverend
Hooper's congregation assumed that the veil represented Hooper's own hidden sins, they felt
comforted by the fact that their religious leader was, like them, a sinner who could the nature
of sin and sinning.

Later in Hooper's life, he was asked to give an
election-day sermon, in part, of course, because people were curious to see Hooper's veil, but
the sermon had an unintended effect:

. . . he stood before
the chief magistrate, the council, and the representatives, and wrought so deep an impression,
that the legislative measures of that year were characterized by all the gloom and piety of our
earliest ancestral sway.

In other words, Hooper's sermon,
certainly enhanced by the veil, affected the law-makers so powerfully that the laws they enacted
that year reflected a return to fundamental Puritan beliefs.

In summary,
then, even though the veil certainly had seriously negative effects on Hooper and everyone
around him, it provided comfort to some of Hooper's congregation on their deathbeds, and the
veil's influence was sufficiently powerful to return the state's law-makers to their Puritan
roots.

Instances of Revenge in "Hamlet" Identify three instances of revenge in "Hamlet", and describe them. Who is seeking revenge in each instance and what...

In
, manyseek revenge. Some of these characters, however, are more successful
than others in actually obtaining that revenge. In act I, at the very onset of the play, the
Ghost, who resembles 's slain father, implores Hamlet to avenge his father's death. The focus of
this revenge is , who murdered old . The Ghost literally tells Hamlet to "Revenge his
[Hamlet's father] foul and most unnatural murder" (1.5.25). Hamlet only succeeds in this
duty at the very end of the play, in act V.

Secondly,demands revenge on
Hamlet for the death of his father,

What does this mean, " life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing"

In act
5, scene 5,is informed that his wife is dead before he fights his final battle againstand
.responds by saying that his wife would have died someday and that the unfortunate news was
bound to come. Macbeth then contemplates time by mentioning that days creep by until the end of
recorded history and each day that passes brings fools that much closer to death. Macbeth then
famously says,

"Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor
player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And
then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,

Signifying nothing." (Shakespeare, 5.5.24-28)

Macbeth's perspective on life is melancholy and dark as he compares
life to a "walking shadow," meaning that life is empty and has no substance. He then
compares man to a "poor player," who struts on a stage and worries for an hour before
he is never heard from again. Macbeth'sportrays human existence as futile, trivial, and
transient. He goes on to compare a man's life to a "tale told by an idiot" that is
chaotic and meaningless. Essentially, Macbeth is expressing his dark view on life, which he
believes is futile, meaningless, and temporary. He has come to terms with his demise and has
nothing to look forward to before he participates in the final battle.

Mark Twains The War Prayer differs from most of his popular writing (Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, for example). What sort of statement do you...

In "The
War Prayer," Twain is criticizing war. He served briefly in the Confederate army, so he
knew about the horrors of war. In this work, he contrasts the martial celebrations of those
getting ready for war. He paints war as a grand adventure. He also describes the prayer given
before the soldiers go to war as being very patriotic.

Theof the short story
is when a messenger from God comes before the congregation and states that there was an unspoken
prayer to go with the minister's prayer for victory. The unspoken prayer is when the
congregation either knowingly or unknowingly prays for the death, dismemberment, and misery of
the enemy. The messenger is not heeded as he is branded a "lunatic" who knew
nothing.

This work is different from the other works of Mark Twain, such as
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. First, it's rather
short and to the point. There is little development of character or plotone does not know the
reason for the war or the result of the inevitable conflict. Also, one gets a sense of Twain's
anger at the human costs of war.

This work, written in 1904, reflects Twain's
political attitudes towards recent conflicts and world events. He was one of the most ardent
critics of the Spanish-American War because to him, it represented needless killing and
subjugation. While much of Twain's work is light-hearted, this work is quite serious and
contains a strong antiwar message from the author.

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What are the first three obstacles Phoenix Jackson encounters in "A Worn Path"?

Phoenix Jackson is shown
to have to battle through a variety of difficulties to get to her goal and receive the medicine
that her grandson needs. Firstly, it is shown that nature itself becomes an obstacle, as she has
to descend a hill and gets her dress caught on some thorns. Then she has to cross a log that is
lying across a creek, and then finally she needs to crawl through a barbed-wire fence. Through
all of these first three obstacles that she has to face, it is clear that she is tired and
hungry, and this makes her determination to endure all of these hardships all the more
remarkable. Note the way in which she addresses the thorns that have caught in her dress and
which she has to struggle to free herself from:

"Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass, no sir. Old
eyes thought you was a pretty little green bush."

Symbolically, we could argue that the thorn bushes and the other obstacles that Phoenix
Jackson faces so early on in her journey could represent the unexpected obstacles that one must
overcome on the path of life. Phoenix Jackson, through her determination and stubborness, keeps
on the path, moving onwards and overcoming every obstacle that she faces with gritty
stoicism.

In In Cold Blood, how does Capote show bias towards Perry Smith? Any quotes would be helpful.

In
, Capote portrays Dick Hickock as a cold-blooded mastermind of the killings
of the Clutter family, while Perry Smith is the vulnerable sidekick who goes along with Dick.
While Dick has a solid family and is motivated, in Capote's account, by sociopathy, Perry is a
more sympathetic character, who goes along with Dick to find acceptance.

For
example, Capote writes the following about Dick:

"Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'absolutely
sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded
deathblows. It was Dicks theory that such a gift could, under his supervision, be profitably
exploited."

In other words, Dick tries to manipulate
and exploit Perry into carrying out the murders. Dick falsely believes that Perry killed a black
man, but this is only a lie Perry tells Dick to gain Dick's admiration. Dick is portrayed as a
coldblooded manipulator and Perry as his victim. 

Perry is also portrayed
as...

Discuss the development of slavery in the United States beginning with colonization and going through the drafting of the Constitution.

Slavery in
America began during the days of the Jamestown settlement, which was the first permanent English
settlement in the New World. As the seventeenth century progressed into the eighteenth century,
Europeans saw African prisoners as a better option for workers than indentured servants, so
slavery became the enabling force behind crops in the American South, like tobacco and
cotton.

Only after the American Revolution, which took place between 1775 and
1783, did Americans link their own feelings of oppression by the English crown to the state of
oppression that they themselves had forced upon the slaves. The drafting of the Constitution
began in 1787, and at this point in American history, slavery was already a divisive issue among
the states.

Issues that related to commerce and business as well as
governmental representation eventually led the delegates to make an agreement called the
"Three-Fifths Compromise." This compromise meant that the Southern states would stop
bringing slaves from Africa by the year 1808.

Describe how the civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights make it more difficult for law enforcement to catch and convict criminals.

The Fifth
Amendment protects people against self-incrimination. One can also not be tried twice for the
same crime. This makes it difficult to convict criminals because the law has to make sure that
it has an ironclad case before going to court. This is difficult without many witnesses and
concrete evidence.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits police searches without a
warrant. Even when a warrant is supplied, it usually spells out explicitly what can and cannot
be searched. Even if the police find incriminating evidence, if it goes beyond the scope of the
warrant, it may be tossed out as inadmissible evidence in court. This means that the police must
be relatively sure of guilt before they can proceed to investigate. This gives the criminals
time to tamper with evidence or escape.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a
jury trial of one's peers. Prosecution must select an impartial jury, and the defense attorney
can also weed out potential jurors. When there is any doubt of a biased juror, that...

What do you know about the U.S civil rights movement? What do you know about the U.S civil rights movement?

This question can't
really be answered in so few words.Given the way it's put, I think if this is a homework
question you are being asked to write what you know now, without studying.You probably know
about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.What else do you know?]]>

Types Of Communication Context

Context
is one of the basic components of human communication. It refers to the setting in which
communication is taking place. However, there are several different kinds of communication
context to consider.

The first is physical context. This refers to the
tangible environment in which the communication is taking place. It is important to tailor one's
communication to the physical area; someone would scarcely speak the same way in a sports bar as
they would in a place of worship.

The second is cultural and psychological
context. Communication will be interpreted in different ways based on the general feeling of the
audience as well as the zeitgeist of the time. It goes without saying that there's a time and a
place for most points to be made. This context narrows the points that can be made effectively
to a certain group of people.

Finally, there is temporal context, or context
within context context. This is the context of when a certain point can be made, or a message
sent, within a conversation itself. Those skilled inknow that you can't just blurt out the most
stirring part of your speechyou have to build to it. Similarly, when delivering grave or tragic
news, it is best to place the hard-hitting information where the blow can best be
softened.

Please elaborate on why the Struldbrugs lament the perpetuity of their lives.

Gulliver assumes that
immortality would give him the opportunity to amass more money, to "excel all others in
Learning," and to become a walking, talking encyclopedia of knowledge because he would have
seen so much. However, the Struldbrugs are not happy about living forever because their lives
are totally miserable.  

They are typically pretty normal until they reach
the age of thirty,...

How does Stacey Logan show courage in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

Stacey
Logan shows courage throughout . Although he is best-friends with T.J., he
also isnt afraid to stand up to him. When T.J. tries to cheat on the test Staceys mother (their
teacher) gives the class, Stacey takes the blame because of his honor. After he is punished, he
goes to find T.J. to fight him. When T.J. gets Staceys mother in trouble for crossing out the
profanity in the textbooks they got from the white school, Stacey stops speaking to him, and the
rest of the school follows suit. Stacey goes with his father and Mr. Morrisson to Vicksburg,
even though its dangerous, not only to help but also to learn. And, at the end of the book, when
T.J. is in grave danger from the lynch mob, Stacey stays nearby while his siblings run for
Papa.

Douglass describes knowledge as "valuable bread" and the Liberator, an anti-slavery paper, as his "meat and drink." How does literacy sustain him?

Douglass, in
his memoir, tells the story of his new mistress, Mrs. Auld, unaccustomed to slaves, starting to
teach him to read as a child. She is quickly stopped by her husband and soon becomes an arrogant
slave owner, but she plants a seed inside of Douglass that continues to grow. He becomes
determined to learn to read, and when he can no longer obtain that knowledge at home, seeks it
from white boys on the streets of Baltimore as he is running his errands. He literally trades
them the bread he can bring with him from home for the more "valuable bread" of
knowledge. Reading is important to him because it opens up worlds normally closed to a slave.
From an early age, though oppressed by the idea of forever being a slave, he has a drive towards
freedomand learning to read is part of that drive.

After he does escape, his
reading skills allow him to peruse the abolitionist newspaper The
Liberator. He says the paper set his soul on fire. From the paper, he also learned
the principles of abolition and became a true believer in the cause. Reading, therefore, offered
him a counter-narrative to the propaganda of the slave owner, which was meant to keep the slaves
in their places. Reading, for Douglass, became a form of power.

What is the meaning of the songs in The Pearl?

The
songs in this book are important because they add historical and cultural depth to both the
setting and the characters. We are told that no new songs are being created, but the old songs
remained important.

The songs remained; Kino knew them,
but no new songs were added. That does not mean that there were no personal songs. In Kino's
head there was a song now, clear and soft, and if he had been able to speak of it, he would have
called it the Song of the Family.

The songs themselves
serve as a way to more deeply build Kino as a character and his family, and the Song of the
Family remains important through various parts of the story. The song serves as a way to remind
readers of the thematic importance of family, as well as being important to the family itself.
For example, we are told early in the story that a simple three note song was capable of endless
variety and therefore was able to endlessly function as a binding tie to the family.

Kino could see these things without looking at...

In Act III from Our Town by Thornton Wilder, how does the Stage Manager point out the universality of death?

In
by , the last act is reserved for the part of life that comes to allDeath.
The graveyard is the ultimate equalizer.  Whether a person is the mayor or the town drunk,
everyone someday will come to rest among his ancestors.  In Grovers Corner as in all cemeteries,
the tombstones indicate how much time has passed from the first grave to the last. Nine years
have gone by since the Act II.

The Stage Manager takes the audience through
the old part of the cemetery and comments on the dates of the first graves.  These were people
who dared to come to a new land and were willing to invest their new homes.

He also discusses genealogy.  People pay genealogists to come to the old cemeteries and
look up their relatives to see if they qualify for the Daughters of the American Revolution.  To
the Stage Manager, it is all right to do this€¦but he thinks that human beings do a lot of
nonsense.

On a more serious note, [Remember that the Civil War was only about
40 years in the past] the Stage Manager notes the graves of men who fought in the Civil
War. These men believed that the country should stay the United States of
America, and they were willing to die for that cause.

Most
cemeteries have a new section.  The old section runs out of room, so a new part is begun.  The
Manager lists some names that have been important to the play: Mrs. Gibbs, Mr. Stimson, Mrs.
Soames, and Wallace Webb are in the new section.  

A place like the cemetery
is filled with sadness and grief.  People come to the graveyard not knowing how they will be
able to go on living without their loved ones.  The passing of time, summers, rainy days€¦then
everyone is glad that their loved ones are in such a beautiful place.

The
Stage Manager gives a little sermon on spirituality and dying:

People know
that there is something that is eternal.  It cannot necessarily be seen.  It is a feeling that
everyone has.  The great philosophers for 5,000 years have been talking about this
eternity.

There something way down deep thats eternal
about every human being.

Speaking as though the dead have
thoughts and feelings after they die, the Stage Manager says that the dead do not stay
interested in the living for very long. The dead forget about the things that they loved on
earth even the people.

They get weaned away from
earththats the way I put it,--weaned away.

They wait
while the earthly human part goes away€¦then they wait for something big that is going to come.
The Stage Manager says that they are waitin for the eternal part in them to come out
clear?

There is nothing left when the memory of being human is gone€¦not even
a recollection from wherever a person comes. There are many types of burial places, but when the
one who is dead is left in the burial place, a part of the loved ones hearts are left with here
in the cemetery. The Stage Manager pauses and sees the people who take care of the cemetery. 
They have prepared a grave for Emily Webb Gibbs€¦

 

Foreshadowing In The Odyssey

When Odysseus
requests that the cyclops give him a gift which is required by the law of the gods, the cyclops
refuses. Odysseus informs the cyclops that it is the law of Zeus who insists the host show
hospitality to his guest. It is immediately obvious that Odysseus and his men are going to face
danger from the cyclops. The cyclops is not going to treat Odysseus very kindly. This is a sign
of , hinting that Odysseus is going to have problems from the cyclops. Odysseus's request for
hospitality from the cyclops is met with rude rejection. The cyclops in turn eats Odysseus'
men:

Scorning the gods, Polyphemus grasped two of Odysseus
men and slammed their heads against the ground. He then proceeded to eat them whole.

The cyclops is not going to welcome Odysseus and his men. Instead
he is going to eat them all if he gets the chance. The fact that he had two more men for
breakfast foreshadows the danger that is to come:

When the
Cyclops awakened in the morning, he ate two more men before taking his sheep to pasture, leaving
the dreaded boulder behind to block the exit.

It is
obvious that Odysseus and his men are in danger when the cyclops puts a boulder on the cave.
This is the foreshadowing or hinting that the cyclops is going to keep Odysseus and his men held
hostage. He is planning to have breakfast and dinner on Odysseus' men:

He devours two of Odysseuss men on the spot and imprisons Odysseus
and the rest in his cave for future meals.

No doubt,
Odysseus and his men are in trouble. They are going to be eaten by the cyclops. Odysseus and his
men were treated with a lack of respect. The cyclops showed no hospitality. Odysseus begins to
realize that he will have to devise a plan to escape the cave of the cyclops. He has no choice
but to blind the cyclops. 

Why did Mattie get invited to tea in Fever 1793?

It seems
that Mattie and her mother were invited for tea at the Ogilvie mansion because Pernilla Ogilvie
was feeling starved for conversation. Pernilla tells them that she has invited them over to help
put her in a better mood. She says that she is having a terrible summer. With most of the local
aristocracy out if the city for fear of the fever, Pernilla seems outright bored with a lack of
company. It appears that she has invited Mattie and her mother over to help pass the time and
provide some conversation as entertainment. As she says, "the rest of society has
vanished."

Mattie's mother had once lived the lifestyle of the Ogilvie's
before she was married. It appears that she knows Pernilla Ogilvie from this time in her life,
although they have not been in touch for many years. There are clues during the conversation
over tea that Pernilla thinks that Mattie's mother married down. She really only invited them
for tea because all the Phiedelphian's of the upper class have left and she cannot think of
anyone else who could come over.

Pernilla is at home with just her daughters
(and servants) which is likely why she included Mattie in the invitation. Of course, Mattie's
mother hopes to use this invitation as an excuse to enquire about matchmaking between Mattie and
Pernilla's son Edward.

Describe two ways that Eudora Welty develops the character of Phoenix in "A Worn Path" using examples from the story.

Phoenix
Jackson is theof "" by , and the author develops the woman's character by description
and action.

Phoenix Jackson is an old woman, which is clear from the first
lines of the story:

Far out in the country there was an
old Negro woman with her head tied red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her name
was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows,
moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a
pendulum in a grand-father clock. She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with
this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her.

These few lines give us a lot of information about Phoenix. She lives far from the
city, probably in some isolation; she is a very old Negro; she is a small woman with a red rag
tied on her head; though she is old and a bit unsteady (she uses a cane and walks very slowly),
she is walking slowly but deliberately through the woods on this cold day. She has lived a long
time in rather difficult circumstances, but she is still a bit whimsical (wearing a red rag,
after all). All of this reveals her as a woman of strong character and fortitude.

The journey she makes demonstrates her resilience and her humor, perhaps the reason she
is able to remain strong. She is on a mission, but the journey is rather comical. Phoenix talks
herself as well as to the animals. When she has to cross a creek by walking across a log, she is
not deterred. 

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the
log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her, like a festival
figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on
the other side.

She gets tangled in the thorns of a bush
and is toppled into a ditch by a dog. Here the old woman waits in what, for most of us, would be
the pinnacle of indignity; however, Phoenix has learned, over the course of her long life, to be
resilient and patient. So she just waits for someone to rescue her. 

In town
she is an object of derision and ridicule, but she is undeterred; her mission is to get some
medicine for her grandson and will not leave until she gets it. She displays humility by asking
a stranger to help tie her shoe but is subject to humiliation when others make fun of her and
assume she is a beggar.

This is a journey Phoenix makes often, a sacrifice
she is willing to endure for another, highlighting the sacrificial nature of this old and rather
humorous (and perhaps senile) old woman. 

Eudora Welty develops the character
of Phoenix Jackson through description and action. 

What is "The Chief's Annual Message" written by John Ross in 1831 all about?

This letter
from John Ross was written on behalf of the Cherokee people to the United States government.A
small contingent of the Cherokee tribe had entered into an agreement with the government to move
to the West in exchange for various protections and provisions.However, Ross knew that this was
not a fair deal, and they would be losing their ancestral lands.

In this
letter, Ross appeals to the president to reject the treaty and allow the Cherokee people to
remain in Georgia.He attempts to extract their feelings of Christian ethics and morality to
instigate the government to do the right thing in nullifying the treaty, but they refuse
to.Unfortunately, their rejection leads to the infamous Trail of Tears and the removal of many
Native Americans to western reservations.

In what situations in The Art of Racing in the Rain is the quote below true and not true? That which we manifest is before us; we are the...

There are a
few events in the book that emphasize the values inherent in the quote above.

Possibly the best example pertains to the havoc Annika causes in Denny's life through
her false rape accusation. On a winter trip to Methow Valley, Enzo worries that no good will
come from Annika's disturbing infatuation with Denny. Note Enzo's thoughts about this:

Denny was ignorant of her advances; I don't know if it was
deliberate or not, but he certainly acted as if he hadn't a clue.

Enzo clearly defines his fears when Denny lets Annika stay at his home for the night.
Annika makes sexual overtures to an exhausted Denny, but he repels the fifteen-year-old
temptress resolutely. Frustrated by his rejection, Annika eventually accuses Denny of molesting
her. So, be it "through intention or ignorance," the narrator proclaims that we are
ultimately the master of our own fates. Yet, Enzo extrapolates that the "true hero is
flawed."

The true test of a champion is not whether
he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles -preferably of his own making-in order to
triumph.

Enzo makes allowances for human fallibility and
hypothesizes that the true hero can overcome failures that result from his own ignorance or
intentions. He believes that Denny could have avoided his predicament but instead, chose to
"test his mettle" in a battle of his own making. So, while Annika's false rape
accusation sets off a chain of events that lead to Denny being temporarily incarcerated and
losing custody of Zoe, it is ultimately Denny's perseverance and steadfast character that saves
him from self-destructing.

Because of his exemplary lifestyle, Denny
eventually wins visitation rights. He is able to see Zoe and to reassure her that he is doing
everything he can to make sure that they will be a family again. Denny's actions reaffirm Enzo's
"faith in the balance of the universe." In a supervised meeting with Annika, Denny
pleads his case and asks Annika to consider the ramifications of her fury. During the exchange,
Denny is compassionate, eloquent, and considerate. He reassures Annika that his rejection was in
no way a repudiation of her person.

In the end, Annika drops her false rape
accusation against Denny. Because of his actions, Denny emerges victorious; his tenacity
obliterates the previous difficulties that were caused by his own "intention or
ignorance."

As for any examples that nullify your quote, consider
exploring the themes of death and reincarnation in the book. Essentially, no matter what we do,
none of us can escape death. Eve dies despite her doctor's care, and Enzo's death shows that
living beings are helpless in the face of organic decay. Yet, events in thesuggest that
reincarnation, if attainable, is one way human beings can transcend death. However, remember
that reincarnation is beyond human intervention or ignorance; thus it nullifies the values
inherent in the quote you provided above.

 

What does Scrooge mean by saying that they should "decrease the surplus?"

This statement
reveals a couple of things about Scrooge. First, it reveals his cold-heart; he would rather see
the poor people die instead of helping them, and by dying, they would be doing a service to the
world by "decreas[ing]the surplus population;" You must keep in mind that when Dickens
wrote the Carol, London, England was inundated with people looking for
work; this was due to industrialization where machines were replacing people who worked on
farms, so as they were replaced by machines, they began to flock to the cities looking for work.
Thus the city was over populated, which caused many problems and became a huge financial
burden.

Secondly, it reveals that Scrooge is a follower of Thomas Malthus who
in 1803 published an essay titled "Essay on the Principles of Population." His essay
posed the argument that

"A man who is born into a
world possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on which he has a just demand,
and if society do not want his labour, has no claim of right of the
smallest portion of food, and in fact, has no business to be where he is. At Nature's mighty
feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone . . ."

Men like Malthus and Scrooge believed that war, famine and
pestilence were necessary in order to keep the population down, especially the poor
people.

In what ways is the court system better suited to protect the individual than the elected branches of the government are? Write 150 or more words on...

While the
elected branches of the government obviously play a major role in protecting individual rights
in the United States, both the legislature, the elected body closest to the populace, and the
executive are too often too motivated by purely partisan or political considerations to
adequately ensure the preservation of individual liberty. Congress is, by definition and design,
a fractious and sometimes contentious body in which emotions and levels of experience vary too
greatly for the level of intellectual discourse needed to confront the most pressing issues of
the day. Yet, that is what it is expected to do to the best of its aggregate ability.

Also, the legislative branch of government (as originally envisioned) reflected the
realities of the newly established United States of America as it existed in the late-eighteenth
century. A collection of colonies/states comprising barely 3 million people and located
contiguously along the eastern seaboard is far different from the current collection of states
comprised of over 300 million people and covering a vast expanse stretching from Atlantic to
Pacific. There are 435 duly elected members of the House of Representatives and 100 senators.
Finding a consensus on most issues under these conditions is more difficult than the conditions
faced by the Founders in 1787, and even then, key issues proved intractablea situation that lead
directly to civil war.

The president of the United States is, of course, a
single individual elected by the country at large (through the exercise of the Electoral
College) to represent the nation as a whole. The nation as a whole, however, is too fractionated
and too diverse (which is a good thing) to allow for the emergence of a consensus on such
difficult issues as limits on individual freedoms like speech and assembly. Also, the executive
is every bit as political and partisan as is the legislature. That leaves the
judiciary.

Judges are viewed as repositories of experience and wisdom in the
practice of law, which involves considerable exercise in the interpretation of not just the
Constitution, but the thousands of laws passed since the countrys formation. While intellects
and levels of experience among judges across the nation vary widely (they are, after all, only
human), the parameters of their positions of authority make them ideally suited to the
preservation of individual rights. While most judges are partisan in that they belong to
political parties and/or view fundamental questions about the role of government and the meaning
of Constitutional provisions along certain ideological lines, they are, nevertheless, supposed
to be independent of day-to-day political machinations and are supposed to represent knowledge
and skill regarding the law.

Most importantly, the judiciary, unlike the
legislature and executive, does not make law. It may interpret statutes passed by Congress, but
it does not make and cannot ignore the law. Its role is to ensure that individual rights are
respected by the other branches of government, especially by the agencies of the executive
branch. That was the intent. In Federalist #78, Alexander Hamilton wrote the following regarding
the role of the judiciary relative to those of the other two branches of government:

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power
must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary,
from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of
the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive
not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only
commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are
to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the
purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no
active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely
judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of
its judgments.

As Hamilton went on to write,

The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly
essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains
certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall
pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be
preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it
must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without
this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

In short, the Judicial Branch of government is best conceptualized
and organized to protect individual rights. A system of checks and balances, we all learn, was
integral to the governmental structure envisioned by the Founders. No single branch was to
become all-powerful, especially that of the executive. Indeed, Article III of the Constitution,
which establishes the Judicial Branch of government, includes a provision seemingly completely
at odds with the notion of representative democracy: lifetime appointments of federal judges.
That provision, however, exists for a reasonto insulate federal judges from the aforementioned
political machinations that can adversely influence a judiciary too close to the elective
process. As such, judges are presumed to be sufficiently independent to resist the pressures
imposed on Congress and the presidency to follow the prevailing political winds into the
abyss.

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Regarding 1984, would you say that the novel's ending represents for Orwell an optimistic or pessimistic view for the future of our society ?

The novel's
ending represents a pessimistic point of view of the future of our society but not a hopeless
one.

is not a feel-good novel with a happy
ending.anddon't escape the Ministry of Love through daring exploits to blow up 's apartment
complex before escaping to a wild hinterland to start a new society based on humane principles.
Both become broken, pathetic people who betray each other in the face of torture. The state
emerges as seemingly all powerful, and at the end of the novel is as entrenched and secure as it
was at the beginning--this time with all hope of a rebellion eradicated. The state has won. The
boot in the face continues its apparently relentless march towards the future

Nevertheless,carefully plants a note of hope...

What are 1 or 2 of the damned "contrapasso" in the epic Dantes Inferno? Describe how the torments are made to suffer reflect the nature of their...

The
concept of "contrapasso" or counter-penalty is aprinciple usedby Dante by which the
soul is punished in Hellor Purgatory.The punishment reflects the sins committed bytheindividual
on earth. In ,the actual word "contrapasso" is used by Bertrand
de Born, who is punished in Hell amongthe Sowersof Scandal and Schism. Bertrand...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several references made to what "boys should do" and "girls should do." Find examples of this and explain whether...

Rebelling against narrow gender-based
expectations is a recurring theme in and thus appears in several chapters.
Jean Louise () is determined to enjoy gender equality with the two boys she is close toher
older brother, , and her younger friend, Dillas well as to act upon her own principles and in
accordance with her character. One of the main things she rejects is wearing girls clothes.
Scouts favorite outfit is overalls, and her Aunt Alexandra is hard pressed to get her out of
them, if only for Sunday school.

In contrast, however, she is flattered by
the attention Dill pays her and seems to take seriously his offer of marriage, in future when
they are adults. Being a wife seems to spell social acceptance in Scouts eyes, and she is not
ready to give it up. Scout is disturbed by Jems behavior, and jealous when Dill starts spending
more time with them. She feels that she is being excluded just because of her gender, as Jem and
Dill not only play together but her brother scornfully tells her their games are not for girls.
By the novel's end, however, she has developed deeper respect for the ladies of the town, and
she is not sorry that she put on a dress (albeit over her overalls) to serve afternoon
tea.

Although gender-aligned appearances and responsibilities have changed
significantly over the last 80 years, dress and comportment are still strongly associated with
gender. Not only tomboys like Scout but all girls routinely wear pantseven overalls. For boys,
dressing in girls clothes, such as skirts, is far less widely accepted.

In Animal Farm, why are the animals uneasy about Napoleon's decision to trade with humans?

The animals
have become accustomed to the idea that they can exist independently from humans.  They like the
idea of being self-sufficient, and that was s dream.  They dont trust humans, and a wary of
being under their control.

Why then do we continue in this
miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by
human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single
word--Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of
hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. ()

If the
animals are trading with humans, they have not removed them from their lives.  They could still
take advantage of the animals.

Once again the animals were
conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to havev any dealings with human beings, never to engage
in trade, never to make use of money--had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed
at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled? All the animals remembered  passing
such resolutions: or at least they thought that they remembered it. ()

As it turns out, the animals were right to be nervous.  The trade
with humans for things like alcohol only benefitted the pigs, and made them more like
humans.

 

 

 

How does Montaigne analyze the ethics of cannibals?

Montaigne analyzes the ethics of cannibals by comparing their ethical system to that of
Europeans. In one of his most telling lines, he argues that "we may then call these people
barbarous, in respect to the rules of reason: but not in respect to ourselves, who in all sorts
of barbarity exceed them." In short, he exercises what we would call today "cultural
relativism" in...

In "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" -- What emotions are evoked in the reader about the old man Pity? Fear? Disgust? wonder? How does the...

1. Although
the angel is "disappointingly ordinary and human," he evokes a number of feelings from
the reader:

• Repulsion - Originally described as a
  "ragpicker" with only a few strands of hair upon his skull, suggestive of a vulture,
  he also has "buzzard wings" that are "dirty and half-plucked." This
  repulsion is from the image of the old man with wings as well as the aura of death that
  surrounds him.
• Pity - As he speaks with some type of "sailor's
  voice," there is the suggestion that the old man with wings has been propelled from some
  violent storm and sea and is a castaway. Later, when he is abused by spectators and exploited by
  Elisenda and Pelayo.
• Fear - Because this old man with wings defies
  conventional description, the reader becomes apprehensive about what he truly is. This reaction,
  then, is the "fear of the unknown."
• Disgust - The old man with
  wings "took no part in his act." He is passive to those throwing stones at him, hens
  pecking at him, etc. "He tolerated the most ingenious infamies with the patience of a dog
  who had no illusions."
• Admiration - As he is able to regenerate
  feathers after suffering abuses and neglect, the old inspires a certain admiration for his
  survival and victorious flight.

2. The narrator evokes a myriad
of emotions from the reader with his realistic detail and his portrayal of the cruelty (he is
driven out of rooms and suffers "the most ingenious infamies"), foolishness (the
traveling carnival), and foibles (Father Gonzaga) of those who would exploit him as a carnival
attraction or transform him in their minds and with their language as something other than what
he is. The exploitation of the angel is best exemplified with the profits that Pelayo and
Elisenda make on him, but when he departs, the petty Elisenda merely "let out a sigh of
relief" that this "annoyance in her life" is gone.

Who founded the Ku Klux Klan?

In
opposition to federal agencies such as the Freedman's Bureau, the Ku Klux Klan was born of
ex-Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee 1866. Interestingly, its first leader referred to
as the Grand Wizard was the ex-Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. By the following year
local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan began springing up throughout the south. By the 1870's the
Klan organization was fracturing. They did have a resurrgence in 1915 with William Simmons
emerging as the new leader. In 1922, under Hiram Evans, the first Imperial Wizard Klan there
were over 4 million members to the organization. Since the 1920's Klan membership has greatly
declined but there are a couple of thousand members in the United States still
today.

Discuss the tone and irony in "The Destructors" by Graham Greene. Write two paragraphs for each.

The
overall tone is one of unremitting gloom. As Greene is putting forward a fairly grim view of
human nature, this is entirely appropriate. There's a horrifying sense of inevitability about
the delinquent actions of the Wormsley Common gang. They live in a part of London that was
pretty run-down before the war but which, in the aftermath of sustained German bombing raids,
has turned into a post-apocalyptic landscape. In such an environment, there is no hope, no
aspiration. Everything is ruined, both people and buildings alike, and the narrative's tone
reflects this.

Theof all this is that the boys, in wrecking Mr. Thomas's
house, are doing what the Germans couldn't do. That beautiful old house had withstood the might
of the Luftwaffe over many years, but now it's taken a bunch of kids a matter of hours to reduce
it to rubble. The greatest single act of wanton destruction in this part of town has come not
from the Germans, but from some of the people who actually live here.

Why does Chillingworth change his name in The Scarlet Letter?

has to change his name
because he does not want the town of Boston to know that he is 's husband. Hester has not been
sentenced to death for her crime of adultery (sleeping with someone other than her husband)
because her judges cannot be sure that her husband is actually alive; if he is dead, then she
has not actually committed adulteryif he is alive, then she has. The penalty for adultery is
typically death, as we learn from some of the Boston women who have come to see her upon the
scaffold. If Chillingworth reveals that he is Hester's husband, then the doubt about her
adultery will be erased and she could be put to death. He does not want that. In addition, he
wants to keep his identity a secret so that he can pursue her co-sinner, the father of her baby
daughter, so that he can punish this man for his crime against them both.

What are a few character traits of Amir from The Kite Runner?

Self-conscious-Amir
struggles to live up to his father's expectations as a child. He wishes to please his father by
joining the soccer team and acting masculine, but cannot seem to win his father's affection.
Amir is stressed out and becomes jealous of Hassan because he cannot please his
father.

Cowardly-As a child, Amir is afraid of
Assef and watches behind a stone wall as Assef rapes Hassan.

Deceitful-Amir not only lies to Hassan about the meaning
of certain words and stories, but also plants his gifts under Hassan's mattress in hopes that
Baba will make him leave.

Conflicted-Amir
experiences conflict in his relationship with his friend Hassan because Hassan is a Hazara. Amir
also feels bad about not stopping Assef from raping Hassan. Amir eventually travels back to
Kabul as an adult to save Hassan's son.

Determined-As an adult, Amir is determined to save Sohrab
from Afghanistan. He goes to extreme lengths to rescue Sohrab from Assef and bring him to the
United States.

How did Emperor Augustus change the Roman Republic?

Augustus was
made consul after his defeat of Cleopatra and made a big show of relinquishing his dictatorial
powers to the Senate. However, he wasn't done exercising his newfound power to reshape the
Republic in ways he thought appropriote. 

Augustus was able to retain the
loyalty of the army and keep contorl of most of the Republic's finances, which allowed him to do
as he saw fit despite what objections the Senate may have had. They even went so far as to make
his obvious power constitutional by making him commander of the provinces for ten-years.

Augustus revived the ancient religious rites and ceremonies from the earlies
days of the Republic. He created a police force and developed the Praetorian Guard. He passed
several marriage laws which outlawed adultry and rewarded children.

Augustus
insured leave for soldiers with families and instituted a system of discipline where riotus
behavoir was met with decimation (executing every tenth man)

 

Langston Hughes & Claude Mckay Compare/contrast the conventions of form and language in Hughess and McKays poetry. Compare/contrast how these...

In
the 1920s, the lives of African-Americans were strongly effected by racial prejudice emboldened
by groups that advocated extreme points of view including enforced sterilization of minority
ethnic groups. Langston Hughes wrote during this era. One poem he wrote in 1923 is "The
Weary Blues." The first four lines

Droning a drowsy
syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro
play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night

conflate the identities of the narrator and the musician, in fact it is not till the
third line that we have any idea there are two individuals represented. By doing this, Hughes
associates the narrator with the feelings and experience of the musician. Thus, when in the last
lines the narrator says,

"And I wish that I had
died."
[...]
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.

he is speaking of
the musician and for himself. This can be
taken one step further by...

Since "Animal Farm" is full of symbolism and allegory, what does Boxer represent in the story?

, the hard
working, loyal horse who stands byand believes in his lies is a representation of the individual
who accepted the propaganda from the leaders in Russia who told the people that life would be
better for everyone after the Czar was gone.

After the Czar was gone, Lenin
tried to institute a classless society, where everyone was equal.  Like in , when the animals
take over the farm, getting rid of Mr. Jones, they believe that they will all benefit from the
new leadership.  And, just like in Russia, the new leadership, Lenin, then Stalin, betray the
people and their lives got harder, not better and the small elite class or rulers that emerged
gained power and lived luxurious lives, while the peasants struggled to survive.

Just like in Russia, when Stalin staged the Great Purge, and millions of innocent
people were executed, tortured or sent to Siberia, Boxer, is betrayed by Napoleon. 
No...

In The Crucible, in what ways has Mary Warren changed, and what changed her?

In
outward terms, Mary Warren changes from a rather timid young girl into a much more confident,
assertive character. This is because, for the first time in her life, she's now the center of
attention. Adult authority figures in court hang on her every word, and this gives her a sense
of power and control. It also gives her the confidence to resist John Proctor's impassioned
pleas to tell the truth instead of blindly following Abigail Williams.

At
heart, though, Mary doesn't change all that much. Her newfound assertiveness is entirely
artificial, created by the strange circumstances of the Salem witch craze. Deep down, she
remains nothing more than a frightened child, unable to stand up for what's right for fear of
what the wicked Abigail might do to her.

Why do the revelers cease dancing and listen to the chiming of the clock, and who does the clock seem to affect more?

The
foreboding ebony clock in the seventh room of the imperial suite symbolically represents
mortality and death in Poe's classic short story " ." During Prince Prospero's
elaborate, bizarre masquerade, the ebony clock strikes a low, peculiar sound every hour, which
has a unique effect on the revelers and the orchestra entertaining the...

What officially makes Romney the Republican Party€˜s nominee for the presidential election?

Since
Governor Romney has secured the required number of delegates who have committed to him in the
course of the Republican Primaries, the only step left is for those delegates to officially
voice their support for the Governor at the Republican National Convention in August.  The
Republican National Convention held in Tampa this year is the formal location where Governor
Romney will become the Republican nominee for President.  It...

What were the goals in the beginning of the Civil War for each side?

Both the
North and the South hoped and even expected, to achieve a quick victory. They knew that a
protracted conflict would be disastrous. Many felt that it would be a short war and would be
over in a few months at most. Therefore their goal at the outset of the conflict was to score a
decisive victory that would compel the other side to give up. This hope was quickly dashed when
each side realized that the other was more determined than they had first assumed.

The overarching goal of the South was to break away from the Union and establish their
own nation where they would be free to continue practicing the institution of slavery.
Southerners had been growing concerned for some time that the abolitionist movement in the North
would eventually lead to a ban on slavery. For decades, the balance between slave-holding
interests and anti-slave movements had been teetering on a razor's edge. There had been many
efforts to halt the expansion of slavery as the country grew. Many southerners...

Why does Mrs. Murry think Meg and her brother Charles Wallace are smart?

Because Meg
and Charles Wallace are somewhat different from the rest of their small town, Meg is often made
to feel stupid, while Charles Wallace, who didn't speak until he was four, is also thought by
some of the townspeople to be slow. We as readers know early on that  the young Charles Wallace,
who speaks in full sentences, anticipates the needs of his mother and sister, and uses complex
vocabulary when he wants to, is intelligent, even if the community does not. However, Mrs. Murry
also has evidence that both children are smart because she and her husband have played games
with them that were in fact secretly IQ tests, and both children scored very well. Given the
later message in the novel about the severe problems with conformity on Camazotz, we can
understand Meg and Charles Wallace's tendency to be different as a valuable
trait.

Why didn't Laurie tell his parents the truth that he is actually Charles since he is already so naughty? Maybe Laurie thought it is fun to fool his...

Clearly
Laurie is living a double life. He is a terror at school and revels in telling about the
exploits ofwhen he gets home. He kind of has the best of both...

In the Communist Manifesto, why did Marx and Engels think that victory over the bourgeoisie by the proletariat was inevitible?

Marx and
Engels believe that the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie is inevitable for two
related reasons.  First, they say that the capitalist system makes it impossible for the
proletariat to continue to exist.  Second, they say that capitalism forces workers to come
together and unite, thus ensuring that they will defeat the bourgeoisie.

First, the capitalist system makes it impossible for the proletariat to exist on its
own...

Who were the Progressives, and what did they hope to accomplish?

The
progressives were people in the early 20th century calling for government reforms and, in
particular, the equal treatment of people throughout the nation. For example, they oversaw the
birth of the National Women Suffrage Association, who would win the right for women to
vote.

The introduction of mass production and its rapid spread across the
country was leading to economic and social problems. Individuals were struggling to make a
living and all the money, in what at that time was an economic boom, was going into the pockets
of cooperations and corrupt politicians.

The progressives weren't wholly
successful, particularly on sensitive subjects such as race. They decided, for example, to allow
the southern states the right to legislate themselves and therefore keep segregation.
Nonetheless, one could claim that the seeds of the civil rights movement were developed during
this time. For example, the Progressive era saw some of the first publication of African
American newspapers such...

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How did Andrew Jackson failed to enforce John Marshall's crucial decision in Worcester v. Georgia?

The
famous court case "Worcester v. Georgia" was brought to the Supreme Court to decide
whether it was lawful for Georgia to acquire Native American lands in a push for westward
expansion. John Marshall ruled that the federal government had the authority to deal
with...

Why does Ralph fail as a leader in Chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies?

Whilelooks the
part of a leader, he does not understand how to motivate the boys or organize them.

By Chapter Three of , Ralph has called several meetings, at which
the need for the rescue fire and the necessity of building shelters is stressed. These needs
Ralph communicates to the others; however, he does not know how to motivate the boys, so they
abandon the construction of shelters because it is frustrating work; often the shelter collapses
during its construction. Most of the boys go on hunting expeditions instead of struggling with
the construction of a shelter because there is excitement in hunting as well as immediate
gratification if one of the pigs is killed. The killing appeals to the boys' baser natures, and
they succeed in procuring food as well.

When Ralph argues with , he does not
convince Jack of the exigency of keeping a rescue fire burning and of constructing
shelters:

"I was talking about about smoke! Don't you
want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!"

"But we want meat!" Jack
retorts.
"And I work all day with nothing butand you come back and don't even
notice the huts!"
"I was working, too--" Jack claims.
"But
you like it! ... You want to hunt! While I--"

Since
their hunger and desire for meat and the thrill of the hunt are priorities for the boys,
shelter-building and keeping a fire going take a back seat.

In the book, Animal Farm, where is Napolean during the battle of Cowshed?

I think it's
intentionally left ambiguous. is simply "not there."  There are several places he SAYS
he is afterwards; however, he takes no true active part in the battle.  The key thing to note is
that afterwards, he usesas his "propaganda tool" to let the others know of his
influences during the battle.  In other words, he was probably hiding or watching, but in no way
to participate.  After all, if he was injured, what would the animals do then? It was
essentially his way of manipulating the animals to do as he said and believe what he
wanted.

If you are traveling 50 miles at 60mph how long would it take you to get there????

We are traveling
at a speed S = 60 m/h

The distance we are traveling is D = 50 m

We know that:

Speed (S) = distance (D)/ Time (T)

60 = 50 / T

==> T = 50/60 = 5/6 hour

==> T
= 5/6 * 60 minutes = 50 minutes.

Then, the time needed to travel 50 miles at
a 60m/h speed is 50 minutes.

What is a significant similarity between Jonathan Edwards and Frederick Douglass?

I think
that a significant similarity between both thinkers is their need to call for a change in how
things are into how things should be.  Edwards and Douglass sincerely believe that their
respective societies have to embrace a new path in order to ensure that what can be is better
than what is.  For Edwards, there is a demand that spirituality and a renewed faith
in...

What is catharsis, and where does it occur in Oedipus Rex?

Ais a strong
release of emotions. In theater, it is connected to a vicarious experience of emotions: the
audience bonds with a character in a play, then suffers what they suffer, feeling an emotional
release as the play progresses. Ideally, an audience emerges from a cathartic drama like
feeling cleansed.

Rex fulfills
Aristotle's definition of catharsis as a release of the emotions of fear and pity. We bond with
Oedipus because he is a well rounded character trying to do his best for the people of Thebes,
but also is blind (clueless) about his own involvement in the plague. We fear for him (Greek
audiences knew the story) because we know that the truth he is heading toward step by step will
have a shattering impact on his life, and finally, we pity himempathy is a better word for
today, since pity has a negative in his pain. We are able to effectively feel this 'pity'
because Oedipus blinds himself, which some critics contend is worse than deathit leaves him
alive but helpless.

By the end of the play, many in the audience will feel a
greater empathy for others and also feel purified by having gone with Oedipus through his tragic
story.

Freud would say the drama is cleansing in enacting an unconscious
drama that all boys go through when very young: a desire to kill their fathers and marry their
mothers.

Who approaches Dimmesdale as he invites Pearl and Hester to join him near the scaffold? Does this person want him to go on the scaffold?

In ,
Reverendhas decided to stand on the public scaffold, whereendured her humiliation years
ago.

Eventually, the Reverend Mr. Wilson passes by, but he does not note
Dimmesdale's presence on the scaffold. Two figures then pass by the scaffold, and Dimmesdale
recognizes the voice of .

Wrapped up in his emotions, Dimmesdale invites
Hester and Pearl to come up to the scaffold to stand with him.

After Hester
and Pearl accept Dimmesdale's invitation to ascend to the scaffold,approaches. Dimmesdale is
afraid of what Chillingworth's presence could mean, and he becomes visibly agitated.

As for Chillingworth, he greets Dimmesdale cordially and insists that the latter has
been sleep-walking and letting the "night whimsies" trouble him. It is Chillingworth
who coaxes Dimmesdale down from the scaffold. He invites Dimmesdale to walk home with him.
Chillingworth tells Dimmesdale that he will have trouble preaching the Sunday sermon if he does
not go home to get his rest.

For his part, Dimmesdale decides to let
Chillingworth lead him home.

I need help finding a thesis topic and sample thesis statement about symbolism in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Hemingway. What could I talk about?

Thesis
statements are debatable statements that make up the foundation of your argumentative essay.
Before writing a strong thesis statement, you need to find a topic that interests you enough to
motivate you to find the evidence you need to support your argument and analysis.

In terms of a topic, decide first if you would like to explore a character (like the
old man), an event in the story (the waiter's assumption about the old man's despair), or a
detail about the setting (the emptiness of the cafe). Once you have selected an element of the
story, pair it with a literary term. In this case, you have been asked to discuss symbolism, so
that part is easy.

Next, look for a good verb to connect your ideas; because
you are dealing with symbolism, the verbs "symbolize" and "represent" are
ideal choices. Does the emptiness of the cafe symbolize, or represent, the loneliness of old
age? Does the old man's drunkenness and loss of connection to reality symbolize the losses of
war suggested by...

In Cold Blood, what do Perry tears after listening to 'Oh Come Let Us Adore Him' indicate about his character and personality?

With his new
genre of journalistic ,presents facts through the vortex of the personal histories of the
victims and criminals, especially Perry Edward Smith, about whom Capote was intrigued because
like Capote himself, Perry possessed artistic talents and was marginalized by his
behavior--although Capote's homosexual behavior disapproved of by relatives finds no similarity
with Perry Smith's behavior.

Certainly, Capote's portrayal of Smith raises
questions. In her essay on Capote's book, Lydia Kim writes,

Perhaps portraying Smith in such a manner provided Capote with a much-needed and
perfectly oblique means ofand finger-pointing. Smith and Hickock are almost perfect
illustrations of Dickens' child symbols Ignorance and Want in €˜€˜A Christmas Carol.

Thus, Capote finds in Hickock and Smith "the wanton as well as
inexplicable nature of existence" in the human . For, the sensitive Capote, the complexity
of Smith's life, especially, does not permit a categorization of him simply as killer. Instead,
he is both victim and victimizer, perhaps wreaking revenge upon those who represent the American
ideal, an ideal which has never been within his reach. 

While they reside at
335 Ocean Drive in Miami, Christmas arrives and Perry asks Richard why he has not wished him a
"Merry Christmas." As it common, this season brings with it many sentimental memories
as well as feelings of loneliness for those not with family. So, perhaps, Perry is brought to
tears as he hears "O Come Let Us Adore Him" as he recalls his traumatic years in the
Catholic orphanages and other lonesome Christmases. For, with this song and its emotional
stirrings, Perry contemplates suicide--not an uncommon thought for many lonely souls at
Christmas, either. Perry cries for his lost youth, his lost family, his lost
happiness. 

...an exalted music that moved him to
tears--which refused to stop even after the music did. And as was no uncommon when he was thus
afflicted, he dwelt upon a possibility that had for him "tremendous fascination":
suicide.

This poignant scene illustrates that Perry is
not just a cold-bloodied killer; instead, he is sensitive and artistic at times. Through this
portrayal of Perry Smith as a complex character, this author condemns society as well as the
murderer in his "human tragedy." 

What do the out of town doctors do to try and cure Mercy?

In
chapter seventeen, a fever spreads throughout the children of Wethersfield. None of the town's
standard remedies seem to help like they usually would. The fever has to run its
course.

Judith falls ill and is tended by the other women of the household. A
doctor from Hartford arrives and tries to heal her by bleeding her. He also gives her a stew of
ground roasted toads. Kit falls ill too, but she is not as sick as Judith. With rest, the two
start to grow stronger.

Then, Mercy starts to cough. Mercy's sickness seems
to be much worse than what Kit and even Judith suffered. The doctor from Hartford comes twice to
try bleeding her. But the third time he comes, Mercy is too weak to lose anymore
blood.

Matthew sits and thinks with his Bible. Just as he decides to get over
his stubbornness and summon Gershom Bulkeley, the Reverend himself arrives at the house. The two
men put aside their political differences and Revered Bulkeley tells them about a theory he read
about. They make a poultice out of soft cooked onions and put it on Mercy's chest. The Reverend
tells them to keep this up, and he leaves to care for others. The next morning, Mercy's fever
has broken!

A mob arrives at the door looking for Matthew's assistance in
going after Hannah, who they think is a witch. They blame witchcraft for their children's
illness.

Accounts What can you learn about a company by analyzing its balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow and common size financial...

You can
learn quite a bit by studying a companys balance sheet and other financial data.  In fact,
assuming these financial records are accurate and there has been no attempt to defraud investors
or the government, a detailed balance sheet provides pretty much everything one would need to
know to grasp the companys financial health.  Balance sheets, by definition, represent,
sometimes in minute detail, both the assets and liabilities or debts a particular business holds
or is carrying.  By examining the data on these forms, one can ascertain the degree of imbalance
that may exist with respect to the amount of debt a company is carrying on its books relative to
the value of its assets.  The goal, obviously, is to have these sheets either in balance €“ in
effect, the company is breaking even between assets and debts €“ or, preferably, to have a
balance sheet that reflects assets that exceed in value the amount of debt or obligation
represented on the financial statements. ...

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Describe the conflict faced by the speaker in "Ulysses." Does Tennyson see Ulysses as heroic or as selfish and self-justifying? Explain your answers...

One
conflict faced by the speaker in this poem is the conflict between his age and his waning
strength on the one hand and his desire for more adventures on the other. Indeed,acknowledges
that he no longer possesses "that strength which in old days / Moved earth and
heaven," but, nonetheless, he is determined to "strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield."

Another conflict faced by the speaker is implied in your answer.
Ulysses must decide whether to stay and rule over the people of Ithaca or leave and fulfill his
own desires for adventure. He decides upon the latter course, and this may indeed be a selfish
choice. However, he does leave behind his son, Telemachus, who he says is "discerning"
and "pruden[t]." If Ulysses believes that his son can rule as well as he, then perhaps
his decision to leave them is not so selfish after all. Or, at the very least, his selfishness
is mitigated somewhat.

There seems to be far more evidence in the poem that
Ulysses is heroic rather...

In what situations in Romeo and Juliet does Shakespeare present honour as a constructive or destructive force?

In
Act 1, Scene 1, it is more than evident that the men from the houses of Capulet and Montague are
fighting for the honor of not only their respective houses but also for themselves. The men
trade insults, which eventually culminates in a sword fight. Both parties believe that they are
defending the integrity of their particular houses; their actions are honorable, for they do it
out of love and loyalty at the risk of suffering either injury or death. This particular
perspective is best encapsulated bywhen he tells his enemies:

Draw, if you be men.

The obvious implication is,
of course, that if they refuse to fight they are cowards and therefore devoid of honor. This is
a challenge that the opposition cannot resist.

The arrival of the Lords
Capulet and Montague adds fuel to the fire, and the brawl becomes such a disruptive affair that
the citizens of Verona fear for their lives. One of the upset citizens curses the feuding
parties for endangering them and disturbing the peace.

What is a summary of The Interpreter of Maladies?

The story
centers around a day in the life of an Indian tour guide, Mr. Kapasi. An Indian-American family
has come to India on vacation, obtaining his services as their guide. There are five in the
family: Mr. and Mrs. Das, along with their children Ronny, Bobby and Tina. Mr. Kapasi is quickly
struck with how "American" they are in dress, language and actions.

During their discussions on the road, Mrs. Das becomes extremely interested in Mr.
Kapasi's other job as...

In the play "Our Town", during the flashback in Act II, where does George take Emily after she accuses him of being stuck up?

After Emily
accuses George of being stuck up during the flashback in Act II, George takes her to Morgan's
drugstore to have an ice cream soda.

While they are at the drugstore, George
and Emily have a chance to talk.  Emily feels terrible that she said what she did, but George
takes it as constructive criticism and thanks her for her candidness.  George tells Emily that
he may be going to State Agriculture College in a year and asks if she would write to him. 
Emily says she will, but notes the possibility that "being away three years, (George'd) get
out of touch with things", and after awhile, her letters "wouldn't be so
interesting".  Encouraged by Emily's reaction, George thinks about his plans for awhile,
and decides then and there that he will not go away to college after all, because "once
you've found a person that you're very fond of...who's fond of you, too, and likes you enough to
be interested in your character...that's just as important as college is, and even more
so".  He asks Emily if he does "improve and make(s) a big change" in his
character, if she could be interested in him, and she responds that she already is, and always
has been.  George and Emily share the conversation that is the beginning of a serious
relationship right there at the drugstore counter - a relationship that eventually leads to
their marriage.

What bahaviors did Charles exhibit on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

In the
short story by , a young boy, Laurie, starts kindergarten and soon begins to relate to his
parents the strange behavior that one of his mates, Charles, is exhibiting.

In response to your question, there are two sets of Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
described by Laurie in the story, and on each of these six days (with a third Thursday mentioned
as well) Laurie reports disturbing behavior from his friend Charlie. During the first week, on
Wednesday Charlie hurts a little girl by hitting her head with the seat of the see-saw. On the
second Wednesday, Charles disrupts story hour by his screams. It is worth noting that, as
reported by Laurie the punishment for his behavior in the first instance is that he was not
allowed to go outside during recess, and by the second week his excesses are seen as routine. In
a sense the teacher is tolerating his outbursts.

On the first Thursday
Charles drums his feet on the ground and is made to stand in the corner, and on the second he
hits a boy in the stomach, making him cry. However, Laurie also mentions that on the third
Thursday Charles has become helpful, handing out crayons, and is so good the teacher gives him
an apple. (This is a good example of contrast.)

On Friday the first week,
Charles throws chalk and is punished by not being allowed to use the blackboard. The second
week, according to Laurie, Charles was again kept in detention after school, and all the other
kids stayed to observe him €“ same as on the second Monday.

Of course, by the
end of the story the author gives us a clear indication that Charles is a figment of Lauries
imagination and that it is in fact Laurie himself who is responsible for the disturbances in
class, which represents a twist in the tale, or an unexpected ending.

What are the three main aesthetic principles put forward by Stephen in A Portrait of the Artist as a young man?

A book entitled
The Future of Modernism, edited by Hugh Witemeyer, answers this very
question:

"In the notebooks of 1903-4 Joyce articulated the aesthetic
principles that Dedalus defends . . . that any theory of beauty must encompass the
conventionally ugly; that art is neither immoral or amoral but beyond conventional morality;
that the work of art should be a wholeness, 'selfbounded and selfcontained'; and that the third
of Aquinas's three phases of aesthetic apprehension must be understood (or changed) to mean not
enjoyment but stasis, 'the luminous silent stasis of estheic pleasure'"
(40).

That's actually four principles, but I hope this
helps.

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Why Did The US Enter WW1

The
United States entered the war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of
unrestricted submarine warfare, and the so-called "Zimmerman telegram," intercepted by
the British, in which Germany floated the idea of an alliance with Mexico. Unrestricted
submarine warfare, a desperate effort to counter the British blockade of Germany, would lead to
the sinking of American merchant ships heading for England, and had been employed by the Germans
before. They abandoned it in the face of US pressure earlier in the war. Its resumption was
enough to cause Woodrow Wilson to renounce his...

I need a summary of Icarus Again by Alan Devenish.

The poem "Icarus
Again" opens during what seems like a school science experiment on flight. The recognition
of the mythology character Icarus is needed.

Icarus, needing to escape from
Crete, uses wings his craftsman father, Daedalus, created for him. Daedalus warns Icarus not to
fly to close to the sun for the fact the sun will burn the feathers and melt the wax from which
the...

Did Winston know that OBrien was a part of the Party or not?

The answer to this
is not a straightforward one. Initially,does not know thatis really working on behalf of the
Party. This is shown by the fact that he visits his apartment and receives from him a copy of
Goldstein's book. In addition, in , when Winston is imprisoned in the Ministry of Love, he
wonders if O'Brien has also been caught and arrested. When O'Brien finally visits Winston in his
cell, Winston says:

"Theyve got you too!" he
cried.

This shows that Winston has no idea that O'Brien
works for the Party. However, in the next paragraph, Winston admits that deep down, he always
knew that O'Brien was working for the Party:

Yes, he saw
now, he had always known it.

This suggests that instead
of realizing that O'Brien really was a member of the Inner Party, working on behalf of Big
Brother, Winston allowed himself to be lulled into a false sense of security. Why? Because
Winston was desperate to rebel. He so badly wants to bring down Big Brother that he lets it
cloud his judgment. He chooses to believe in O'Brien, the Brotherhood, and Goldstein's book
instead of realizing that he could never overcome a force as strong as the
Party.

Define culture and explain its effect on the personality of a child?

Here are
a few points to consider:

1. All cultures are different and cultures have a
profound influence on people. Culture shapes their thoughts, dream, logic and so on.

2. In light of point one, culture has a lot to do with the personality of a child.
Culture educates a child in some of the basic aspects of life. What is acceptable, what is
unacceptable, what is natural, what is unnatural, etc.

3. Culture also
reprimands a child when he or she does not comply through various pressures and...

Financial and Managerial Accounting -- Compare and contrast the differences between them in terms of usefulness to managers for decision making.

For me, the
biggest difference between these two is that financial accounting is more for the benefit of
outsiders than for insiders.  It is meant...

What are literary and intellectual tendencies during the age of Chaucer?

First we
should establish what the "Age of Chaucer" is. Chaucer lived during the second half of
the fourteenth century. His life spanned an extraordinarily tumultouous time in English and
European history, one which witnessed the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Chaucer himself
served in the Hundred Years War.

More importantly, Chaucer represented a
growing trend throughout Europe to write in the vernacular. At a time when most scholarly
writing was done in Latin, and it was still a crime to translate the Bible into the vernacular,
as John Wycliffe did during Chaucer's life, this was an important stylistic choice that
connected Chaucer's work to a long tradition of vernacular poetry that included El
Cid and The Song of Roland. It is known that Chaucer read, and
translated a great deal of French poetry, and that he had also read the poetry of Dante,
Petrarch, and Boccaccio, all of whom wrote extensively in the vernacular. Some of his poems
explicitly draw from Italian themes. One of these themes is an interest in the secular (with the
notable exception, to some extent, of Dante's most famous work.) Chaucer too portrays a world
where actions have consequences, and people are driven to make choices by a combination of class
influence and individual free will.

Yet religion played a powerful role in
shaping the medieval worldview. His characters are, after all, on a religious pilgrimage. Just
as important, Chaucer's characters reflect a hierarchical chain, and indeed his contemporary
readers would have recognized the speech, manners and dress as stereotypical of the class to
which each character belonged. is best understood as a product of its own
time, and religion and class were as important in shaping his work as the influence of other
European poets. 

 

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How are Maggie and Dee alike in the story "Everyday Use"?

Both girls
come from the same background, and they are both beautiful in their own ways...Dee more
ostentatious and outgoing, Maggie in a spiritual and loyal way due to her scars and low
self-esteem.

Both girls are interested in the quilts and butter churn and
other items which constitute their "history", but for different reasons.  Dee wants to
put them on a wall or on a shelf to be admired as a long-lost art and part of the past, while
Maggie knows how to make these items and she wants them to remember her past but also to make a
present and future.  These items are part of her wedding dowry, and she is connected and
grounded to the part of herself and her family heritage which created them. 

They are also alike in their tempers, although it takes much more to get
Maggie angry than Dee.  Dee is used to being deferred to and getting what she wants--she is
beautiful and smart, and she takes matters into her own hands when they aren't going her way
(take the burning of the house she hated which scarred Maggie for instance).  Maggie is not used
to getting her way since her sister was always in the limelight.  Maggie did not go to school,
does not dress in colorful attention-getting African garb, and does not have a fancy boyfriend,
but she does slam a door which indicates her feelings about the quilts and butter churn her
sister has come to claim out fromunder Maggie's feet. The temper has flared, and Maggie gets her
quilts.

What is a summary and analysis of the poem "The Dream" by John Donne?

huntress

This is one
of those poems that Donne wrote before he turned religious. It's goal is seduction. In short,
the woman he is dreaming about awakens him. He tries to seduce her, but she refuses. He
understands but is disappointed and a bit bitter; as she leaves, he says go back to sleep and
dream of her again because otherwise he'd die. This poem is intensely sexual. 

 

Let's take it stanza by stanza. 

 

One: 

Dear love,
for nothing less than thee

Would I have broke this happy
dream;

            It was a theme

For reason, much
too strong for fantasy,

Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely;
yet

My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.

Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice

To make dreams
truths, and fables histories;

Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st
it best,

Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

I'll paraphrase: I wouldn't want to wake from this dream for
anything less than you being here in real life. It was a dream I want in reality, so powerful
that I don't want it to be just a dream. So, you were wise to wake me. But my dream didn't
stop...your presence here means it can continue. You are so real that thoughts of you are enough
to make dreams real, and to make unreal histories real. Come into my arms since you thought it
best that I not finish my dream--let's do the rest in real life. 

   As lightning, or a taper's light,

Thine eyes, and not thy
noise wak'd me;

            Yet I thought thee

(For thou lovest truth) an angel, at first sight;

But when I
saw thou sawest my heart,

And knew'st my thoughts, beyond an angel's
art,

When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when

Excess of joy would wake me, and cam'st then,

I must confess,
it could not choose but be

Profane, to think thee any thing but
thee.

I didn't even wake from a noise you made, but
from the fire in your eyes alone. Until now, I thought you were an angel since I met you. But
since you saw what was on my mind, that was more than an angel could or would do. You knew what
I was dreaming about and could tell that my dream would soon wake me up, anyway (he speaks here
of nocturnal emission). You came at that moment. Thus, it would be sacrilegious to think you an
angel. (He's strongly hinting that she is the kind of woman to crawl into bed with him so he can
"finish his dream.")

   Coming and staying
show'd thee, thee,

But rising makes me doubt, that now

            Thou art not thou.

That love is weak where fear's
as strong as he;

'Tis not all spirit, pure and brave,

If mixture it of fear, shame, honour have;

Perchance as
torches, which must ready be,

Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with
me;

Thou cam'st to kindle, goest to come; then I

Will dream that hope again, but else would die.

Since you came and stayed, I know you are for who you are, but since you're rising to
leave--a lady wouldn't lose her honor by having sex before marriage, after all!--I think you
aren't the sort of woman I thought you were. The kind of love that is crippled by fear is weak
(he's pleading with her, here). Real love is "pure and brave" and is not mixed with
fear, shame, or "honor." You're treating me like a torch that can be lit and put out
at will (guilt trip much?). You came to turn me on ("kindle"), but you're leaving me
now. So...I will go back to my dream and hope that someday you'll return and finish my dream for
me. If I don't, I'll die (yeah...definitely a guilt trip). 

 

John Donne was very sexually oriented. Even when he turned
to religious poetry, it was heavily tinted with sexual metaphors. He had a one-track
mind. 

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I am trying to find a respectable literary critic who discusses the ending of 1984. Is Winston's death physical or mental? My teacher and I had a...

The
short answer is that 's death is both physical and mental: the torture he
was subjected to in the Ministry of Love has destroyed his body but also, of course, has
resulted in the intended brainwashing that has erased his will to resist the Party. But there is
much more to it. It is a living death Winston is being subjected to, which
is emblematic of whatforesees, or is warning of, for the human race as a whole. There is also a
parallel with Orwell's own situation as he was writing the novel since he was dying of
tuberculosis and knew he had only a short time to live.

I do
not...

What are some examples of conformity in the book Stargirl?

You
could pick just about anything involving the students at Mica high and slap a conformity label
on it.  The school is rife with social groups and stereotypical cliques.  Jocks, nerds, band
geeks, cheerleaders, etc.  You name it, the school has it.  Sure, all of those groups together
display diversity, but a person must conform to be a part of those groups in order to fit in.
 You have to dress a certain way, talk a certain...

What is the moral of "The Minister's Black Veil"?

The theme of
"" is that secret sin exists in people, and they are hypocritical about their sins,
pretending that they are guileless.  This condition is especially true in Mr. Hooper's Puritan
congregation since revealing one's sins makes one vulnerable to public punishment or ostracism
by the community.  Because of the fear of punishment or ostracism, the congregation, therefore,
becomes very uneasy when the minister dons the black veil for his sermon, but does not discard
it afterwards:

Each member of the congregation, the most
innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them,
behind his awful veil.

So uncomfortable are the
congregation that those who normally invite him to dinner on Sunday, do not. Even his fiancee
breaks off their marriage plans after Mr. Hooper refuses to remove his veil.  Adamant to the
end, on his deathbed, the minister retains his veil.  He speaks to the "circle of pale
spectators":

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

The moral of
Hawthorne's story is much the same as that of his novel, "":  "Be true! Be
true!"  Do not hide sin; reveal your innermost heart to your friends so that you will not
be separated from the world by your sin.

What are some pros and cons of the U.S. legal system?

The
American legal system has many good points. Cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited by the
Constitution, and one has a right to a trial by one's peers, for example. Additionally, both the
prosecution and the defense have access to lawyers, who must argue their case in front of an
impartial judge. One is found innocent until proven guilty. Jurors are to be impartial, and they
are carefully screened during jury selection. While it is nearly impossible to have true
impartiality in a case, lawyers' questioning can ensure that the jury has not made up its mind
before the presentation of evidence. There are laws stating that one cannot be tried twice for
the same crime and laws against self-incrimination.

There are many flaws in
the system as well. The system seems to be stacked against minority defendantsjurors can be
biased by their preconceived notions of minorities. Rich people can afford better lawyers than
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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,

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