What do the names Mollie, Mr. Jones, the sheep, and Mr. Whymper signify in Animal Farm?

The name
Mollie signifies that she is a servant: this is very much a servant's name of the time period.
Instead of serving in a maid in a house, however, she, as a horse, pulls the Jones' buggy. She
is the typical working-class person who is willing to sell out for a few luxuries. She can't
understand the goals of the Rebellion or that it is degrading to be dressed in ribbons to pull a
cart. She enjoys her degradation and wants her ribbons and sugar lumps back. She communicates
that some people will never be attracted by the idea of a new and better life.

Jones, similarly, is a very typical English name for an undistinguished person. Our Mr.
Jones is an Everyman who owns a small farm. His name, like Mollie's, signifies that he
represents a type more than an individual. He is the good, conservative, unthinking John Bull
Englishman with a portrait of the monarch in his parlor.

The fact that no
sheep are named is significant. They are a mass of very naive animals who are easily led
and...

How did the interaction between people and the environment shape the physical landscapes of the West in particular?

People
interacted a great deal with their environment in the West. People blasted tunnels through
mountains in order to build railroads. Large mining companies also used water pressure in order
to tear down mountainsides in order to quickly find ore. This work was dangerous and led to the
death of many railroad workers and miners. It also led to considerable damage that helped to
fuel the national park movement. Loggers cutting ancient trees on hillsides also left many
Western localities at the mercy of mudslides.

In order to provide water for
cities and irrigation, many sought to divert rivers using dams. These dams provide recreational
facilities for the area, but they also interrupt fragile ecosystems, as they disturb fish
migration habits.

Large-scale agriculture ruined the grassland on the Plains
that had existed for centuries. In the early-twentieth century, wheat speculators came West in
droves looking for quick profits. When the bottom fell out of the wheat market, they left,
leaving the topsoil at the mercy of the elements.

The 1930s saw drought come
to the region as well as high winds. These created the Dust Bowl, blowing away priceless topsoil
and creating sand dunes in the Midwest. Many places even today cannot support agriculture due to
this lack of topsoil.

Though the West is one of the most vital economic zones
in the United States, its development has come at a cost to the physical landscape. The natural
beauty of the West combined with the boundless capitalism of the Gilded Age helped to fuel the
need for the national park service so that everyone can enjoy the West in relatively pristine
conditions.

In Animal Farm, Chapter 5, what is the power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball?

andbegin to
disagree on every issue: 

These two disagreed at every
point where disagreement was possible. If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with
barley, the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats, and if one of them said that
such and such a field was just right for cabbages, the other would declare that it was useless
for anything except roots. Each had his own following, and there were some violent
debates. 

Snowball spends large amounts of time designing
the plans for the windmill. He wants the animals to start building upon completion of the plans.
Napoleon would rather spend their efforts on food production. 

Snowball wants
to incite rebellion in other farms but Napoleon wants to focus on the defense of their own farm.
Napoleon simply disagrees with Snowball no matter what the issue is. Napoleon has no intention
of working with Snowball or of considering any of his ideas. 

The day comes
when the animals are to vote on whether or not to start building the windmill. The rivalry
between Napoleon and Snowball comes to ahere. When it seems that the animals are going to side
with Snowball, Napoleon sabotages the vote and has Snowball chased off of the farm. Napoleon
(and ) downplay Snowball's role in the Battle of the Cowshed and Napoleon says the windmill will
be built and that he'd never opposed the idea. Napoleon will continue to rewrite history and the
commandments to suit his increasing greed for power. 

Throughout the sermon, Edwards reinforces the puritan belief that God holds ultimate control over a person's fate. Which line from the excerpt...

I am not sure with which
excerpt you have been provided, but there are a great many quotations that support the idea that
God has ultimate control over the fate of every person. In his fourth point, Edwards says that
"the reason why [people] are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's
appointed time is not come." In other words, people have avoided falling into hell not as a
result of their own goodness or anything they are doing, but because God has not decided it is
time yet.

Further, he goes on, "Men's hands cannot be strong when God
rises up." We are powerless against God's will; only God can determine our futures, and we
can have no effect whatsoever when he has decided against us. Later, Edwards claims that
"The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at
what moment God shall permit him."

The evidence of this belief abounds.
Search for quotations like this, and you'll be all set!

The word devouring is used in paragraph 1. What is the effect of this word choice on the mood of the openining

The word
"devouring" is not to be taken literally in this particular context. Nothing is
actually eating Charles Wallace; but he's certainly been taken over by IT. Firmly in IT's grip
Charles is like a different person. The words he speaks are not his own; IT is speaking through
him. "Devouring" immediately establishes a mood of unease, as we sense there's
something not quite right about Charles. If you devour something, you eat it, and whatever you
eat becomes a part of you. And Charles has clearly become a part of IT.

That
Charles is firmly in the grip of IT can be seen when he extols IT's supposed virtues to Meg and
Calvin, telling them that he is the "Boss" and the "Happiest Sadist". For
good measure, he advises the children that they should turn themselves over entirely to IT
instead of wasting their time looking for Mr. Murry.

There are no prizes for
guessing that these are the words of IT, speaking through Charles Wallace. IT, using Charles
Wallace as a mouthpiece, advises Meg to stop fighting and relax. Essentially, what IT wants to
do is to devour Meg and Calvin in exactly the same way he's devoured Charles
Wallace.

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How do male characters in the play act as a foil for Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman?

A foil is a
character that contrasts with another character in order to emphasize the characteristics that
differ between them.

Willy is insecure, so he acts arrogant, and he is lost,
so he pretends that making money is all there is to life. He spends his time judging himself,
and trying to climb the social ladder.

Charlie, in contrast, is self-assured
and doesn't mind if others don't like him. He is fairly successful in business and content in
his life, although Willy thinks he isn't trying hard enough to achieve success as Willy
envisions it.

These characters are so thoroughly foils to each other that
Willy even develops a grudge against Charlie for being so helpful! Charlie's character
emphasizes the hidden problems that Willy hasthe same problems that eventually destroy him, by
demonstrating what a character without those same problems looks like.

I need to have a detailed annotation of the poem "September 1, 1939" by Auden. I am particularly in need of having the literary techniques used in...

Auden's
poem is named for the day World War II began. The poet uses a blunt, conversational tone,
communicating both a sense of despair over what led to the war and a clear vision of what he
argues is the only way out of the predicament the world is in. Auden also uses literary devices
that show this is a poem, not a conversation, and that adds intensity and emphasis to what he is
saying. These include , , rhyme, assonance, and . 

The poem opens in the
first person with "I" as the poet directly addresses his readers using simple words of
one syllable: "I sit in one of the dives" and the next two lines locate him in
physical space, "On Fifty-second street," which would be in New York City, and locate
him psychologically, "uncertain and afraid." The use of such simple, stark language
that even a child could understand draws us into the poem. The fact that Auden places himself in
New York City is also important: the US was not in World War II on September 1,...

Contrast the rulers of Oceania with rulers in historical totalitarian states.

Many
readers have noted the similarities between 's Big Brother and twentieth century dictators like
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Like these real totalitarian authority figures, Big Brother is
worshipped by his followers and rules absolutely all aspects of his subjects' lives. Also like
Hitler and Stalin, Big Brother skillfully uses propaganda and paranoia in order to control the
populace and maintain a firm grip on power, and he relies upon constant surveillance and cruelty
to instantly squash any sign of disobedience. In creating Big Brother,is clearly commenting on
the very real totalitarian regimes of the modern era.

However, there is one
major difference between Big Brother and his real-life counterparts. While both Stalin and
Hitler cultivated personal mythologies to strengthen their claim on legitimacy, they were still
actual people who really created policies and interacted with their subordinates. In contrast,
Orwell suggests that Big Brother isn't actually a real person. Rather, he's an idea, a symbol
created by political elites to control the masses. As such, if one were to contrast Big Brother
with actual totalitarian rulers, then one should definitely acknowledge that, while people like
Hitler and Stalin existed, Big Brother is a construct created by the ruling political party to
maintain power.

`int 1/(1 + sqrt(2x)) dx` Find the indefinite integral by u substitution. (let u be the denominator of the integral)

Solving for
indefinite integral using u-substitution follows:

`int f(g(x))*g'(x) dx = int
f(u) du` where we let` u = g(x)` .

In this case, it is stated that to let u
be the denominator of integral which means let:

`u = 1+sqrt(2x).`

This can be rearrange into `sqrt(2x) = u -1`

Finding the derivative
of u :  `du = 1/sqrt(2x) dx`

Substituting `sqrt(2x)= u-1` into `du =
1/sqrt(2x)dx` becomes:

`du = 1/(u-1)dx`

Rearranged into
`(u-1) du =dx`

Applying u-substitution using` u = 1+sqrt(2x) `  and `(u-1)du
= du` :

`int 1/(1+sqrt(2x)) dx = int (u-1)/u *du`

Express
into two separate fractions:

`int (u-1)/u *du = int ( u/u -1/u)du`

                      ` = int (1 - 1/u)du`

Applying `int (f(x)
-g(x))dx = int f(x) dx - int g(x) dx` :

`int (1 - 1/u)du = int 1 du - int
1/udu`

                       `= u - ln|u| +C`

Substitute
`u = 1+sqrt(2x) `  to the `u - ln|u| +C` :

`u - ln|u| +C =1+sqrt(2x)
-ln|1+sqrt(2x) |+C`

 

 

 

 

In 1984, Winston experiences a certain conflict of emotions when Julia engineers a meeting with him. Why are they problematic for his status as a hero?

This section of the
novel occurs at the very beginning of Part II, whendeliberately trips up in front ofin order to
be able to hand him a note. Consider how Winston responds when he sees Julia trip and hurt
herself:

A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In
front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human
creature, perhaps in pain and with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward
to help her. In the moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged arm, it had been as though
he felt the pain...

Consider the relationship between organized religious authorities (especially the Catholic Church) and the ideas/thinkers of the Scientific...

The
relationship between science and established religious authority during the so-called
"Scientific Revolution" was a difficult one. Galileo, often seen as the father of
experimental science, was condemned and imprisoned (under House arrest) by the Church for his
assertion that the earth revolved around the sun. Copernicus's De
Revolutionibus, in which he argued for a heliocentric universe, was banned by the
Church several decades after the author's death. Generally speaking, the Church supported
scientific inquiry to the point when the findings of scientists conflicted with Church
positions. Astronomy, because it directly called the Biblical conception of the Earth's place in
the universe into question, was a particularly high-profile target for the Church. The Catholic
Church actually actively supported scientific inquiry in other fields (as in fact it did for
astronomy as well). From the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, many prominent scientists,
including Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes, and the Comte de Buffon were either Catholic clergymen
themselves, received their education from Jesuits or other clergy, or were patrons of the
Church. But the works of both Pascal and Descartes, as well as Francis Bacon, another father of
scientific inquiry, were eventually prohibited by the Church. Over time, the Church became less
strident in its stance against the findings of various scientists, while still maintaining its
authority to rule on matters related to the natural world. In Protestant countries, the works of
Isaac Newton (himself a devoutly religious man) John Locke, and others were criticized, but not
banned, by religious authorities, who often had little authority to do so in any case. So it is
too simplistic to say that science and religion were always in conflict, but for most of the
period in question, established churches took a dim view of scientific findings that
contradicted their orthodoxies.

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Why do you think Wally takes a cab home, after the dinner? He complained so much in the beginning about not having enough money when during the subway...

There is a
danger in concentrating on details like this in a piece designed to introduce large
philosophical ideas.  The author was not trying to depict a realistic, detailed mise-en-scene,
but rather a setting that would nurture the kind of quiet, thoughtful conversation between
friends that would induce and encourage this intimate, important exchange of ideas.  If the
transportation detail has any significance at all, it is a...

I'm having a bit of trouble finding the strengths and weaknesses in the novel Of Mice and Men, and I have to do a book review€”could someone throw...

As far as
the writing is concerned, the great strengths of the novella are its simple story line and the
believability of the relationship betweenand . Steinbeck doesn't sentimentalize the friendship,
but he does convey how strongly the two men are bonded, so that we fully feel George's grief
when he has to kill Lennie. The story has an effective and moving emotional payoff.

The thematic line is also easy to follow: two men have their simple dream of owning
their own farm snatched away by a cruel system that has betrayed the American dream and grinds
people up.

A glaring weakness in the novel is in its treatment of women.
Curley's wife doesn't even get a name and is characterized primarily as a sex object who is
dangerous to men. She is defined by her relationship to a man, as a 'wife' and nothing more. She
is also...

Explain the setting politically, socially, and psychologically. Describe precisely the world and political regime inhabited by Winston Smith, the way...

This
response will address the question about the setting of . The novel is set
in London, which is the center of Airstrip One, the former British Isles. Britain in turn is
part of Oceania, one of three mega-states that encompass almost the entire world. Oceania is
ostensibly ruled by Big Brother, a probably fictive leader that serves as afor the power of an
organization known as "the Party." Oceania is perpetually at war with either Eastasia
or Eurasia (the other two mega-states).

This state of war, it turns out
later, is a precondition for the exercise of power on the part of the Party. The Party controls
every aspect of the lives of its members, ostensibly in the name of establishing Ingsoc, or
"English socialism." The Party has its people under constant surveillance and has
established anin which even mundane expressions of discontent are treasonous. This is known as
"thoughtcrime," which is an example of "Newspeak," a language developed by
the Party in an effort to further control the people.

works in the Ministry
of Truth, which is the propaganda organ of the Party. His job is literally to erase history by
destroying references to things that the Party deems inconvenient for its people to
know.

Everyone dresses in uniforms and participates in public events like
executions, and every individual suspects that their fellow Party members, even their own
families, will betray them if they appear guilty of thoughtcrime.

Many former
English men and women are called "proles," and they live grim, dirty existences
outside of the Party circles. As this description suggests, 1984 depicts a
dystopia, one in which life is miserable and fearful.

What is the irony of the story "Hills Like White Elephants"?

I think anotherin the
story has to do with the fact that these two individuals, Jig (the girl) and her lover, only
known as "The American," have clearly been physically intimate with each other, and
yet they seem unable to name the thing they are discussing or even to discuss it in what feels
like a frank, open, emotionally-intimate way. Then, the fact that we don't know the man's name
and he only refers to the woman by a presumed nickname makes them seem all the more alien to us
and to each other. The man says, of the abortion, "'I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's
really not anything. It's just to let the air in.'" He keeps trying to reassure her about
the operation itself, while she continues to ask about if it will make them happy. He focuses on
the tangible aspects of their problemreassuring her that he'll be there, that it won't hurt, and
so onwhile she focuses on the intangible: their happiness and their love for each other, and how
those might be affected....

What are three of the difficulties that Farquhar seems to overcome while he is in the stream?

First he manages
to get his wrists untied. Then he claws the rope away from his neck. He fights his way to the
surface and bursts out of the water breathing in great gulps of air. He then finds he must then
dive deep down into the stream to avoid being shot. Once again he fights his way to the surface
and emerges downstream and continues to swim along with the current in his apparent attempt at
escape.

In The Bronze Bow, why does Joel think Jesus needs to be warned?

After Joel's
rescue, he returns to his home and finds out that the Rabbis at the Jewish Temples are angry
about the preachings of Jesus. They believe that he is changing and altering the laws they
received in the Old Testament, and that alteration is against the Word of God. This internal
dissent means that Jesus has enemies on both sides, from his own people and from the Roman
occupiers. Joel believes that the threat from within might actually be more dangerous than the
threat from without.

"I mean the elders of the
synagogue. The rabbis and the scribes. They can't understand him. They're furious at the things
he says and does. He is too free with the Law. They say he is trying to destroy all the
authority of the Temple. Some of them even say he is in league with the devil. [...] Some of
them hate him so much -- I think they would kill him if they could."
(Speare,
, Google Books)

The change between
the original teachings and laws in the Old Testament and the new interpretations and sermons of
Jesus is one of the most important aspects of the split between Judaism and Christianity. In
earlier times, religious disputes were more often cause for violence; Joel is scared that the
Rabbis might take the matter into their own hands to remove heresy. Therefore, while Jesus is
fully aware of the threat from Rome, Joel believes that he should be cautious even at
home.

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To what extent are autobiographical elements present in the novel The God of Small Things?

It is an interesting
question to consider how much a work ofreflects the life and concerns of its author. When we
examine this excellent novel in this light, we are able to detect some similarities.herself
studied architecture like her heroine, Rahel, though now no longer pursues it. Interestingly,
given the massive success of this, her first novel, she has never written another work of
fiction. Instead, she has involved herself in protesting against a variety of dam projects that
threaten to uproot and disempower indigenous people. She has been effective in using her
celebrity status to champion such causes. We can see her focus on the way that man alters nature
for the worst in her description of the river in Chapter Five:

One it had had the power to evoke fear. To change lives. But now its teeth were drawn,
its spirit spent. It was just a slow, sludging green ribbon lawn that ferried fetid garbage to
the sea. Bright plastic bags blew across its viscous, weedy surface like subtropical
flying-flowers.

Note how political opportunism and greed
is said to be responsible for the "death" of this river. Mankind's unthinking attempts
to control nature and bend it to man's will are shown to be destructive in every sense, which is
a true theme of Roy's work in protesting against large-scale damming
schemes.

How does the use of diction and structure help achieve the purpose of chapter 7 in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? How does it...

,
who began his life enslaved and without the possibilities of learning to read and write,
realized that his path to intellectual freedom lay in the power of literacy. Thus, he began an
insatiable quest to learn all he could and through whatever resources he encountered. In chapter
7, Douglass realizes that the poor white boys in the street could provide literacy lessons in
exchange for bread.

As his abilities in reading and writing increase,
Douglass'sincreases in complexity. Consider the following passage:

Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious,
warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorry or suffering for which she had not a tear.
She had break for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came
within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly
qualities.

Douglass uses strong and precise adjectives,
such as injurious , to project not only a voice for...

What are similarities between Jesus and the Book of Judges?

The book
of Judges is in the Old Testament and is considered to be one of the "history" books
in the Bible, a book that tells about events and people. Judges tells of events that happened
after Joshua and Caleb brought the children of Israel into the Promised Land but before Samuel
anointed Saul the first king of Israel. 

As a history book, Judges mentions
several important people and it would be possible to find connections between Jesus and a number
of them, but one of the most prominent people in Judges is Samson. Let's examine the
relationship between Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah, and Samson. 

Both
Samson's and Jesus's births were foretold and both were their mothers' first children. Samson's
mother was quite old; in contrast, Mary was a virgin and quite young. 

Both
Samson and Jesus were to have very special lives. Samson was dedicated before birth to be a
Nazarite, which means he had religiously-based restrictions on how he was to live. These
restrictions were meant to keep God in Jesus's mind as much as possible. Jesus, of course, did
not need restrictions, as God was completely central to his life at all times. 

The "ministries" of Jesus and Samson were completely different. Samson broke
his Nazarite vows and also had a weakness for the ladies. As strong as he was physically, he was
brought down by his essential weakness in his desire for women. Jesus, in contrast, led a
sinless life of service to others. 

Ultimately, both Jesus and Samson died in
the process of saving their people. Samson died, blinded, in a temple to the Philistine gods
because he found his strength and pulled supporting pillars down, thereby killing a lot of
Israel's enemy. Jesus also chose his death; since he was able to perform miracles, he certainly
could have gotten himself off of the cross. He wasn't powerless. He chose to die as the perfect
sacrifice (in Old Testament terms) so God's relationship with people could be restored. Jesus
suffered so everyone's sins could be forgiven. 

Across the Old Testament,
there are other instances of people who shared significant characteristics with Jesus. For
example, Moses is often compared to Jesus because he brought the children of Israel out of
bondage in Egypt while Jesus brought human beings out of the bondage of sin. As with Samson,
theis not perfectthere are contrasting elements because Moses and Samson were sinful. Still,
Moses and Samson foreshadowed what Jesus ultimately accomplished.

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Compare and contrast the transformation of Alfred Doolittle into a gentleman with Eliza's transformation into a lady.

Alfred
Doolittle, Eliza's father, is a less complex character than his daughter. He is unequivocally
miserable with his new status as a middle class man after he is granted a very generous stipend
from an American philanthropist. He goes from a person who was utterly ignored with no demands
made on him to a person of money and status who is expected to behave morally. He complains that
he is forced to marry the mother of his children...

In the poem "Annabel Lee," to whom might the speaker have been referring when he speaks of "highborn kinsmen"?

In the poem
"," the highborn kinsmen are Annabel Lee's relativesprobably her father and her
brothers, since it normally would be close relations who take a dead body away for burial in a
sepulchre. Because the speaker refers to them as "highborn," he probably is of a lower
status than they are. This suggests his less exalted status may have caused problems for the two
lovers.

Whoever they are exactly, these relatives, along with the chill wind
the jealous angels sent, represent an obstacle between Annabel and the speaker. They took her
away from him, just as the chill wind didas the speaker says, they "bore her away from
me." They don't seem to acknowledge that her lover has any rights of access to her or any
reason to mourn her.

In the book Eye Of The Needle, how does Follett demonstrate good vs. evil in the characters of Lucy, David, and Faber?

In Follett's
thriller about a German spy in World War II England, he introduces complex characters and a good
vs. evil struggle on several levels within and between Lucy, David and Faber.

Lucy and David, the married couple inhabiting the small island Faber hides out on, have
had marital problems since David's legs were lost in a car accident.  Lucy is lonely and feels
estranged from her husband, and has an affair with Faber, not knowing he is a German spy.  She
feels guilty and still loves her husband, and after his murder tries to stop Faber from carrying
out his mission.  In this way Lucy also represents "good" on the British side vs.
"evil" on the part of the ruthless and manipulative German spy.

David wishes he was a better husband and that he felt more complete, he just doesn't
know how to be.  He finds out about the affair, the "good" husband betrayed and
seeking revenge, but is killed in the process, he too being defined as the good British citizen
against the evil german spy.

Finally there is Faber himself, who is
"good" in the sense he is loyal to and fighting for his country, actually loves Lucy
(which is why he doesn't kill her) and in the end, transmits faulty information to his
government about the allied invasion force.  Yet he knowingly has an affair, manipulates Lucy
and kills her husband while spying for Nazi Germany.

What role dues the wind play in the poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"?

In
Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," Wordsworth describes a view of
the city of London early in the morning as the sun is just rising gently into the sky. He finds
the scene beautiful and emphasizes the serenity of the great city at that early hour.

There is no wind. We know this because Wordsworth emphasizes the stillness and calm of
the scene. He even says the waters of the Thames flow of their own accord:

The river glideth at his own sweet will

We can picture complete stillness, almost as if we are looking at a
painting. It is a moment of pause before the city awakens and starts its enormous bustle and
activity.

Since Wordsworth gains such solace from the quiet and serenity of
the natural world, it is no wonder this would be his favorite time of day as he experiences the
city. At dawn, London seems to be infused with a divine repose. The exclamation point in this
statement emphasizes the emotion that he feels:

Ne'er saw
I, never felt, a calm so deep!

These are words of great
praise, given how much more Wordsworth preferred the natural environs of the Lake District in
the north of England.

It is interesting to think about the role of absence in
a poem. The absence of wind is crucial to the mood of peace that the poem
conveys.

How does Alice Walker use point of view to show how honesty and integrity pitted against posturing and artificiality result in positive change?

This story is told by
Mama Johnson in a first-person objective point of view: this means that she is a participant in
the story's events and that she is narrating them, for the most part, after they occur. You can
tell this by the use of mostly past-tense verbs. Mama and Maggie, the quiet daughter, are both
honest and possess integrity, while Dee, Mama's other daughter, is the daughter who cares more
about appearances.

Mama and Maggie still use family artifacts in their daily
lives; they know who made what and when, and they actually possess the skills necessary to make
new artifacts, like quilts. Dee, on the other hand, never cared for her family, her home, or
their things until it became fashionable to embrace one's racial heritage. Only then does Dee
return for a visit and bring her partner.

Because the story is told by Dee's
mother, she can relate the personal history of Dee and the other members of the family, allowing
us to contrast Dee's former embarrassment of her family with her sudden, apparent, appreciation
for them (or, at least, their possessions). In addition, Mama has had time to reflect on her
relationships with both daughters as well as their behavior toward her and each other, and this
helps readers to see the contrast between Mama's (and Maggie's) candor and Dee's manipulative
behavior.

In chapter 6 of Night, what was Juliek's last act?

In
chapter six, the Jewish prisoners finally arrive at a camp in Gleiwitz after marching throughout
the night and are completely exhausted from the treacherous journey. Shortly after arriving at
the camp, the majority of prisoners fall down and Elie fears that he will be crushed to death.
Juliek, the violinist from Buna, also fears that his instrument will break under the pressure of
the exhausted prisoners. Elie then loses consciousness, and when he awakens, he hears the sound
of Juliek playing a fragment of Beethoven's concerto in the dark, crowded barrack. Elie is then
overcome with sleep, and when he awakens the next day, he discovers that Juliek died during the
night. Overall, Juliek's last act was to play Beethoven on his violin for the malnourished,
exhausted Jewish prisoners before he passed away later that night.

Fear and a sense of insecurity is one of the major themes in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Discuss

I think that
it is clear that fear and insecurity is a major theme in this book.  Just look at what Crusoe
does right away when he finds himself on the island.

After his first night up
in the tree, he starts to build himself fortifications.  He spends so much time on this --
without many tools he pounds stakes into the ground in a half circle that is 8 yards deep and 16
across.  That's a huge amount of stakes!

Later on, he plants all those trees
in front of his home to make it impossible for people to approach.  He makes himself his
"country home" just in case and then he starts using that cave as well.

On the other hand, you can argue that he's pretty bold with regard to people.  After
all, he gets himself all ready to go and try to kill 20 cannibals before he talks himself out of
it.  And he really does kill a group of them with Friday's help.

So fear is
not the only thing going on, but it certainly is important.

How does the society in Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" compare to modern society?

In the
short story, America has become obsessed with equality. Every individual throughout the nation
is perfectly equal in all facets of life. Talented and beautiful individuals are forced to wear
handicaps, which limit their abilities and disguise their beauty in order to be equal with
everyone else. Vonnegut's message is clear: individuals with natural talents should never be
forced to sacrifice their abilities for the alleged good of society. Vonnegut's dystopian
America satirizes and illustrates how civil rights laws, affirmative action laws, and equal
employment opportunities committees have attempted to equal the playing field at the expense of
rejecting more talented individuals. While these laws were instituted to promote equality in the
workplace and end discriminatory practices directed toward those of different races, religions,
and genders, a new set of problems was created. Affirmative action laws and policies force
companies to set targets and quotas concerning the...

Suburbanization After Wwii

Several
factors led to growth of the suburbs in the 1950s and have been mentioned in other answers,
including the rapidly rising U.S. standard of living, in which pay steadily outstripped
inflation, and the availability of low-cost mortgages, especially to veterans. A housing
shortage in major cities, such as Manhattan, also led people to look outside of their
"comfort zones" for housing, and the widespread availability of cars made living away
from the streetcar or subway line a viable possibility.

Innovations in home
construction that brought down the cost of the average house to an affordable level also
contributed to the suburban exodus. Pioneers in this were the Levitt brothers, who brought mass
production techniques to home building, enabling them to build 30 homes in a week. They used
precut parts and built on concrete slabs, allowing them to construct a small starter home for
just under $10,000. The first Levittown opened in 1947 on Long Island. These new housing
developments, built by the Levitts and a host of other builders, were wildly popular, but
generally excluded blacks, meaning that suburbanization remained largely a white phenomenon in
the 1950s.

Is friendship between the Indian & the British possible according to E.M Forter's A Passage to India?

Forster
repeatedly advised in his writings to "only connect" as the antidote to animosity and
enmity, but colonialism showed him otherwise. And he learned that the hard way, for Aziz is
modeled after a lover that meant a good deal to him in his life.  Consider the end of the novel:
Aziz says, "half kissing" Fielding, that after the English leave India, they will be
friends.  Fielding ressponds, holding Aziz "affectionately, 'Why can't we be friends
now?'" because they both want that. "But the horses didn't want it--they swerved
apart; the earth didn't want it....the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the
carrion ... didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, "'no, not yet,'" and
the sky said, 'No not here.'"  As all of these aspects of nature indicate (even the horses
draw apart), friendship between colonizer and colonized goes against the order of colonialism
for colonialism itself is unnatural.

What opportunities are available to you to increase your cultural intelligence and your ability to function in another country?

In a
multicultural country like our own, there are many such opportunities.  There are plenty of
people around who come from different cultures than our own and therefore have different ideas
and...

What is the Thing in A Wrinkle in Time, and which historical figures have opposed it?

The
Black Thing is never identified directly but it is defined indirectly through things related to
it and their antitheses. When Meg encounters IT, she learns IT is a means of telepathic mind
control. It overpowers Charles Wallace and keeps him captive on the planet when the others
tesseract and escape their captivity. After a near brush with the Black Thing, Meg returns to
rescue Charles. She succeeds in saving him through love since she has learned that communication
doesn't depend solely on rigidly correct formation of language.

The Black
Thing is thus identified as theof love and free, unrestrained human expression, i.e.,
communication. Those historical figures who have fought against The Black Thing and its minion
IT, were religious leaders, like Jesus, and philosophers, for instance,
Siddhartha.

What are George's handicaps in Harrison Bergeron?

In the
dystopian, radically egalitarian society depicted in "," those deemed by the
government to have a natural advantage over otherssuch as physical strength or intelligenceare
forced to wear so-called handicaps to bring them down to the same level as everyone else. The 's
father, George, is physically quite strong and so is required by the state to wear forty-seven
pound weights around his neck. Inevitably, these weights slow him down, impeding his movement
considerably. This is precisely what they're intended to do, as it's considered unacceptable in
this society for anyone to be stronger than anyone else; everyone must be equal.

In addition to being physically strong, George is also a highly intelligent man. This
also makes him a danger to the state's vision of total equality. The Handicapper General doesn't
just want to control how people behave; she also wants to control how they think. To this end,
George is lumbered by a radio which emits noise into his ears every twenty seconds, preventing
any kind of sustained thought or concentration. As well as serving the government's policy of
complete equality, this specific handicap also prevents naturally intelligent people such as
George from getting any ideas about challenging the prevailing system.

In the poem "Same Song" by Pat Mora, what does the title mean? Does the title just mean that even though the son and daughter are different, they...

Your
interpretation of this poem's title is a sound one, and is supported by the poem's final word,
"too." The poem is divided into two sections: one focusing on the speaker's daughter
and her concerns about her appearance, and the second focusing on the speaker's son and his
similar concerns. Although the two sections are divided, that final word, "too,"
unites themit is the note on which the speaker leaves us, and it resonates in conjunction with
the title. The girl's experience is, in many ways, different from the boy's: they are concerned
about superficially different things, but there is a sameness in their self-criticism that is
far greater than these differences. The girl's daily makeup ritual may look different to the
boy's weight-lifting and jogging, but both are fundamentally the same thing, "the same
song" of a teenage desire to improve what they see in the mirror, something that makes both
of them "frown."

Why do you think the Ghost of Christmas past brings Scrooge to see Belle's family?

Towards
the end of Stave Two, the Ghost of Christmas Past brings Scrooge to visit his former fianc©s
home as they celebrate the holidays. Belle's family is depicted as a joyful, boisterous group,
who loves each other and rejoices in the Christmas spirit. Upon entering his home, Belle's
husband is showered with hugs and kisses from his children, who are anxious to open their gifts.
Once the children go to bed, Scrooge watches as Belle and her husband have an intriguing
conversation about their day. Belle's husband proceeds to tell her that he saw Scrooge working
by himself while his lowly clerk seemed to be "upon the point of death." Belle's
husband then comments that Scrooge was "Quite alone in the world..." (Dickens, 43).
Upon witnessing Belle's lovely family and overhearing the conversation with her husband, Scrooge
is overcome with sorrow and begs the Spirit to take him home.

Given Scrooge's
reaction, one can surmise that the Ghost of Christmas Past wanted to give Scrooge insight into
the life that he missed out on by choosing business and money over love and happiness. By
showing Scrooge his former fianc©s happy life, Scrooge regrets his past decisions and realizes
that he made an awful mistake. The function of the three ghosts is to influence Scrooge to
change his character and transform into a benevolent, selfless man, who cares about humanity and
is interested in others. Scrooge's visit to Belle's home proves that a stable life with a caring
family is superior to experiencing a lonely life full of greed.

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What has Eliza learned at the end of Pygmalion? I want to know that why does she say that learning to speak properly was simply "learning to dance in...

Eliza has
realized that her education from Professor Higgins wasreally not about social etiquette
(speaking properly, dressing nicely,or dancing gracefully) but rather while Higgins was focusing
on herexterior, she was learning about how humans truly treat one another andwhat that says
about an individual. Near the end of Act 5, Liza thanksPickering and tells him:

"I shall always be a flower girl toProfessorHiggins, because he
always treats me as a flower girl, and always will;but I know I can be a lady to you, because
you always treat me as alady, and always will."

Thus, Liza's words about proper speech and dancing demonstrate her belief that those
skills are not enough to give someone self-respect or to make her feel like a lady.  Rather,
someone's treatment of another is what makes that person feel like a lady or a maid.  Shaw uses
Liza's observation about human nature to satirize the arrogance of his society's upper class and
to demonstrate that true "class" cannot be taught.

Participate in Lovely Bones questionnaire for producers/studios of the movie!!! I created this group to see if you would be interested in a quick...

I agree that the
survey should be posted here on the discussion board. Many diverse people would no doubt
participate. That being said, the movie was a good adaptation, but I think the book was much
stronger. More details, more descriptive. However, unlike some movies, if you watched
the...

In Stargirl, who does Stargirl change for herself? Leo or Mica High?

changes for Leo. A good place to start looking for information supporting this is chapter 23.
chapter 23 sees Leo really starting to feel the repercussions of hanging out with Stargirl. He
is being shunned just about as much as Stargirl is being shunned, so he starts to avoid her too.
The two characters finally get together and talk in chapter 25. Leo keeps saying things like
"nobody" likes her, and he tries to blame everything on a hypothetical
"them":

"Because nobody likes you," I
said. "That's why. Nobody likes you."

"Nobody?" she said.
Her eyes covered me like the sky. "Nobody?"

I tried to play dumb,
but that wasn't working. "Hey," I said, "don't...

Is Albert Camus' reconstruction of the Sisyphus myth in The Stranger approprate to Meursault's sisuation? How and why?

Scholars
often refer to Sisyphus and Meursault as Camus' Absurd heroes.  Absurd here does not mean silly
or even so much the Theatre of the Absurd often associated with Becket and others.  This is
Camus' version of Existentialism called Absurdism.  Both Meursault and Sisyphus find themselves
in seemingly futile and meaningless situations.  The Absurdist realizes that the universe is not
meaningless but humans are incapable of knowing it.  So, to cope with this humans have to choose
nihilism, false faith, suicide or acceptance.  Camus' Absurdist heroes Meursault and Sisyphus
choose acceptance. They embrace their situation and attempt to create meaning for themselves. 
And in finding meaning, via that search, each must do so individually.

Camus
imagines Sisyphus' tragic walk down the hill and likes to think Sisyphus, while tragically aware
of his hopeless existence, embraces the futility and with scorn pushes the rock up the hill
anyway pretty much in spite and thus, creates his own meaning.  Meursault, likewise, scorns the
priest, the trial and society in general and chooses being a stranger to stay true to himself as
he also embraces the fact that any real meaning that may come to him, must come from himself;
not from the social mores or laws of society, no matter what destination this leads him to. 
They're both tragic heroes, strangers to everyone but themselves. 

What are the simple sentences in the first chapter of Robinson Crusoe?

's novel
was published in 1719. No one can deny that writing styles, especially in
, have changed dramatically in the last three hundred years. The first chapter of this work
contains more than five thousand words, and among all those words, very few "simple
sentences" occur. Among modern authors, the short sentence is often preferred. Not so in
Defoe's day.

A simple sentence is defined as a sentence with one clause; it
could have a dual subject or a...

In The Bronze Bow, how does Daniel feel when he first meets Jesus at Simon's house?

When Daniel
first hears Jesus preach, he believes that Jesus is a born leader, a man who can ignite the
spark of revolution against the Romans. Daniel is confused when the spark is never born; Jesus
teaches peace and love instead of rebellion. When Daniel finally meets Jesus, this is thrown
into sharp focus; Daniel's hate is overwhelmed by the love he receives:

Filled with fight and warmth, those eyes, welcoming him with
friendship, yet searching too, disturbing, demanding.

"I am glad you
have come," Jesus said. Daniel could say nothing at all. For a moment he was afraid. Only
when the man turned away and his eyes no longer held his own, could he breathe freely
again.
(Speare, , Google Books)

Coming on the heels of Daniel's heart being opened to love by Thacia, and his mind
opened to different ideals by Simon, this is the first major crack in his personal philosophy.
Daniel has been driven by hate for so long that he doesn't understand how a person could love
anyone else, least of all him. Since Jesus has no judgement in his own heart, and since Jesus
looks on Daniel -- as he does on everyone -- as a beloved child of God, Daniel is confused and
bewildered. It is only later that Daniel recognizes this and accepts it into his own heart,
holding out friendship to a Roman just as Jesus held it out to Daniel.

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What disadvantages did the United States have in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

There
were several disadvantages the United States faced during the Cuban Missile Crisis. One
disadvantage was the unpredictability of the situation. By establishing a blockade around Cuba,
the potential for conflict increased dramatically. We had no idea if the Soviet Union would try
to go through the blockade, agree to honor the blockade, or launch some kind of attack on
the...

What kind of themes can be used for the topic of movement in the book The Elegance of the Hedgehog?

What an
interesting way to approach the theme of this book!  I would say there are two ways you could
broach the subject: by focusing on the movement of ignorance toward knowledge or by focusing on
the movement of loneliness toward fulfillment.  Both of these themes can and should be applied
to the characters of Rene© and Paloma; however, I will fully analyze Rene© in regard to the
first theme and Paloma in regard to the second in order to give you some wiggle room in your
assignment.

The first idea of movement and theme would be that of
"ignorance into knowledge."  Renee moves from one to the other in quite a literal
way.  She hasn't had a lot of formal education (unlike many of the tenants in her building), so
she schools herself by reading the classics.  Even Mr. Ozu realizes fairly early on that she has
named her cat Leo after Tolstoy.  But there is a deeper level that Rene© touches upon as well. 
At the beginning, Rene© is confined by her stuffy French society.

[Rene©]...

What is the significance of the conch shell in Lord of the Flies?

When you
see one particular object pop up again and again in a story, that's a good indication that the
item is a symbol, meaning that it has more significance than just its immediate function as a
thing. It stands for an idea. (Usually more than one.)

Whenfirst finds the
shell,gets excited and says "I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch
he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come."

Realizing
how useful it is to make a loud sound with the shell as a means of calling themselves all
together, the boys use the conch for that purpose. They also use it as a discussion tool: since
they make too much noise and get nothing accomplished when everybody talks at once, they make it
a rule that whoever is holding the conch gets to talk while the others listen.

Of course, as civilized behavior starts to break down among the boys and they turn into
wild beings, a shout of "I got the conch!" doesn't help establish order any longer.
The beautiful conch eventually gets shattered into tiny pieces--right at the moment that the
always-civilized Piggy is murdered.

So, throughout the novel,
the conch shell remains a symbol of authority (because whoever is holding it is in charge) as
well as unity and civilization (because it calls the boys together and keeps them in
order). When the conch is destroyed, so too are the last bits of reason,
cooperation, and civilized behavior among the boys.

What are some character traits of Stargirl Caraway?

Since
Spinelli's is written from Leo's perspective, readers see Stargirl from
the narrator's point of view. For example, many of the students, including Leo, do not believe
that Stargirl is authentic. Hillari tells everyone, "She's not
real," but they are in for a surprise because she turns out to be the only
"real" person at Mica Area High School (7).

Some of Stargirl's character traits that the students witness are her
friendliness, kindness, and originality. She is friendly because
she sings to others in the lunchroom on their birthdays. She is kind because she not only cheers
for the high school's team, but for the opposing team as well; more importantly, her originality
shines because of the way she dresses; she does not act like other teenagersat least not at
first. When she does try to conform in order to keep her relationship with Leo intact, she
discovers that she cannot be happy acting like anyone other than her true self.

A few other characteristics to include with the above might be that she loves animals
and that she is not prejudiced in this regard because she has a pet rat. (Something most girls
would not even touch!)  She is also naive to vanity or pettiness.
For instance, when the whole school is mad at her in chapter 25, not only is she clueless to
that fact until Leo tells her, she also does not understand why people are so upset. Leo tells
her something has to change and she thinks she has to change a bike tire! She is very
childlike.

What do Lyddie and Triphena overhear the two men talking about when they come into the inn in Lyddie?

overhears two men discussing
rewards for escaped slaves.

Lyddie overhears two hired men
discussing escaped slaves one day in the tavern.  She usually enjoys listening to the hired men
because they talk as they work, and she finds the conversations interesting.  On this day, she
is curious about the escaped slaves.  One of the men says another slave up near
Ferrisburg" was caught.

"The legislature can say
all they want to about not giving up runaways, but as long as them rewards are high, somebody's
going to report them." (Ch. 4)

The problem is that
slavery is legal in some parts of the country, and not in others.  The southerners practice
slavery, while it is illegal in the north.  Ultimately, this creates some confusion if runaway
slaves are escaping to the north.

The men use the example of owning a horse,
comparing owning slaves to owning other property.

€¦Man
buys a horse fair and legal, he sure as hell going after it if it bolts. You pay for something,
it's yours. If the law says a man can own slaves, he's got a right to go after them if they
bolt. Ain't no difference I can see." (Ch. 4)

According to Otis, slaves are property, and if you turn one in you deserve to collect
the reward like any other property.  Clearly these men would turn in a slave if they found
one.

Lyddie has never seen a black person, but she sympathizes with them. 
She feels trapped herself, sold into a kind of servitude by her family to pay off their debts. 
She considers what to do, based on the price of the reward.  Turning in a slave would allow her
to pay off her debts and return home.

Lyddie will have to face this choice
soon, when she encounters her first slave, Ezekial.  However, she does not turn him in to
collect the reward.  She helps him instead.  This shows that while Lyddie can be selfish, she
also has a good heart and is capable of making selfless gestures.

Why does Coelho open with the modified myth of Narcissus? How does the new version differ from the original one? How does it change the myths...

Coelho's
opening with a revised version of the Narcissus myth invites us, as the story begins, to be open
to seeing the world from a new perspective.

In the original myth, Narcissus
is beautiful and proud. One day, he sees himself reflected in a pool of water. He doesn't
realize he is seeing an image of himself and falls in love with it, believing it to be somebody
else. Eventually, he dies of longing and is turned into the flower called narcissus.

In Coelho's retelling, this judgmental tale of self love punished is turned around. We
see Narcissus from the point of view of the pool of water. The pool mourns Narcissus's death
because his beauty, reflected in the pond, was a gift to it. The message is that we all have
gifts we bestow without even knowing it. In a book that dwells on the positivediscovering and
embracing your own Personal Legendthis positive retelling of an old myth sets a tone that asks
us to rethink what we think we know and to be open to possibility and the life...

How does the setting foreshadow the story in A Worn Path," by Eudora Welty?

The setting
of Welty's story comes in the early morning of the last month of the year, symbolically
juxtaposing a beginning and an end.  The morning is bright and conceals nothing, yet Phoenix
moves in the shadows along the path "through the pinewoods," to create another
contrast.  Though the ground is frozen, Phoenix persistently taps her cane against it. One last
contrast is found when Welty's narrator describes the "still air" broken by the
"meditative" tapping of Phoenix's cane.

The setting foreshadows the
difficulties Phoenix will encounter in her journey to get medicine for her grandson.  The
threats and condescension she will experience are fresh, like the morning, but old, like the end
of the year, because racism, sexism, and ageism are perennial societal ills.

Phoenix walks in the shadows because society has put her there.  An old black woman is
of little value in her time and place. The bright morning symbolizes how openly and freely
discrimination takes place.

Ultimately, Phoenix prevails in her quest to get
the medicine her grandson needs.  The tapping of her cane against the frozen ground symbolizes
Phoenix's quiet persistence against the cold, solidified forces of discrimination that seek to
impede her progress. 

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What is the theme of the story "The Eyes Are Not Here" by Ruskin Bond?

Ruskin Bonds
short story The Eyes Are Not Here is very brief but is also intriguingly complex. Although
most worthwhile stories cannot be easily paraphrased or reduced to a single theme, this story
definitely seems to deal with issues of human perception. In this tale, three people, at least,
prove to be imperceptive in various ways: the unnamed man on the train, the unnamed woman on the
train, the storys reader, and, perhaps, also the new male passenger. Bonds story is the kind of
tale that makes readers want to read it immediately a second time as soon as they have finished
reading it once. Only on re-reading, in fact, does the story reveal its full richness and
complexity as a meditation on human perceptions and perceptiveness and how both are influenced
by the assumptions we make.

Briefly, the plot of the story is this: a man
(presumably a young man) is sitting in a compartment in a train when a woman (apparently a young
woman) also enters the compartment. The woman doesnt notice that the man is blind, and he does
not tell her. Instead, he asks her a series of questions that allow him to infer certain facts
about her. She also converses pleasantly with him. After she gets off the train at her stop,
another male enters the compartment and mentions in passing that the young woman who just left
the compartment was blind.  Thus, the young man on the train failed to perceive that the young
woman was blind, as did the reader of the story. The young woman apparently also failed to
perceive that the young man was blind, and this may also be true of the male who enters the
compartment near the end of the story.  In a very brief tale, then, Bond has managed to create a
remarkably complex story about the limits of human perception and perceptiveness and about how
people tend to make assumptions and then take those assumptions for granted in ways that
influence what they perceive or fail to perceive.

Once the story is re-read,
the reader notices various intriguing details and clues, including the following:

• The girls parents are very concerned about her when she gets on the train,
  but both we and the young man assume that there is nothing special about their concern. It
  doesnt occur to us that the girl may be blind.
• The young woman is startled
  when the young man speaks, but both we and he assume that she is startled simply because he is
  sitting in the dark. Once again, it doesnt occur to us that the girl may be blind.


• The young male, commenting on the fact that the young woman was startled, thinks to
  himself,

Well, it often happens that people
with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.

• Later, of course, we realize that this statement is a sly comment, by the
  author, on the imperceptiveness of readers. After all, it doesnt occur to us that the girl may
  be startled because she is blind. We make an assumption, and then we perceive all the rest of
  the events in light of that assumption. So, too, does the narrator, and so the narrators joke at
  the expense of sighted people is also a joke by the author at the expense of the narrator. 
  Rather than being offended by the authors sly trick, we ultimately appreciate all the ways in
  which he tricks both us the narrator, because we (both readers and narrator) ultimately learn a
  very valuable lesson about the influence of initial assumptions on the ways we perceive (or fail
  to perceive) the world and other persons.

 

How would you describe Phoenix as she deals with the hunter in "A Worn Path"?

In her
encounter with the hunter, Phoenix is very deferential. She plays the typical role of African
Americans in the south at that time. That is, she becomes subservient to him. She
lets...

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In "The Raven," does the speaker's conversation with the Raven make him more and more miserable?

Yes,
I believe that the mood of the poem's speaker gets worse as he "converses" with the
raven. But it should be noted that the speaker's mood does not exactly start all that happy,
either. We are told right from the first two stanzas that he is weak, weary, and full of sorrow.
He's grieving, and he is exhausted from it. The knocking at the door momentarily pulls him out
of his depressed state, and he puts on a cheery front.

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

Sir, said I, or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you.

The
raven will eventually enter the narrator's house and perch above his chamber door. At this
point, the narrator is actually somewhat amused and curious about the bird. He even goes so far
as to ask the bird its name. (Talking...

What is a conflict Meg Murry faces in A Wrinkle in Time that shows who she is as a person?

At the
beginning of  , Meg Murry is not at all confident of her abilities in
general. She does not feel intelligent; her teachers make it clear they don't think she is very
bright. Meg compares her looks to her mother's, and is not happy in that area, either. She
knows, though, that she has a special link to her younger brother, Charles Wallace. Their
father, a physicist, is missing, and although they and their...

How do Napoleon and Squealer use Snowball to solidify their own power base?

is
depicted as a champion of the people and draws blueprints to build a windmill, which will
dramatically improve the standard of living on the farm. Snowball is able to garner tremendous
support for his windmill plan but is forced to flee the farm aftersends his nine ferocious dogs
after Snowball.

Once Napoleon usurps power, he begins to tyrannize the other
animals. With the help of, Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat; he blames Snowball for every
mistake and the repercussions of every disastrous political decision. Napoleon also steals
Snowball's blueprints for...

Based on Romeo's line, "O, I am fortune's fool," how does Shakespeare utilize fortune in Romeo and Juliet, and how is Romeo fortune's fool?

The term
"fool," in the sense thatwould be using it in the line, "O, I am fortune's
fool!" (I.iii.138), would most likely refer to a person who is
kept, especially at the royal courts, to entertain and
amuse. Another term for a fool is a court jester.
However, the term "fool" can also refer to a person who has been "tricked or
deceived" into doing something "silly or stupid" (Random House Dictionary). In
this line, Romeo is personifying "fortune" to say that
"fortune" is either using him for entertainment as
"fortune's" court jester or using him as entertainment to do something
foolish or stupid. Either way, Romeo is claiming that fortune is using him for
"fortune's" own personal entertainment. In addition, the
term "fortune" can be interpreted to refer to either
prosperity, such as wealth and happiness, or things that are about
to happen, which is synonymous with fate. Therefore, Romeo is also
claiming in this line that either prosperity and happiness is using him for
personal entertainment, or fate is using him for personal
entertainment.

Personifying prosperity or
happiness in the term fortune and saying that Romeo is prosperity's fool
certainly fits in with a common theme in the play. We see from the
very start of the play that Romeo is plagued with sorrows. First he
is plagued with feeling desperately brokenhearted over Rosaline's rejection, so brokenhearted
that he has been seen each dawn under a grove of trees, "[w]ith tears augmenting the fresh
morning's dew," meaning crying (I.i.128). Now that he has met , he feels that he has
finally found happiness and prosperity. Not only does she love him in return, she has just
hastily married him in secret. At the moment when Romeo says the line in question, "I am
fortune's fool,"has just killedwhile Romeo attempted to break up the fight, and
Romeo sees the bitter of the situation. The situation is
ironic because Romeo and Tybalt, without Tybalt's knowledge, have
just become family members, which is why it is so important to Romeo not to get into a fight
with Tybalt. However, Mercutio becomes angered by Romeo's attempt to pacify the situation and
answers Tybalt's challenge to a duel on Romeo's behalf. Romeo tries to separate them, but as
Mercutio phrases it, "Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm"
(III.i.102-03). Hence, one thing ironic about this moment is that
death happened when Romeo was only trying to bring peace.
Another thing ironic about this moment is that now Romeo is
compelled to avenge his friend's death by killing
Tybalt who is now his own cousin. Therefore, at a moment when Romeo has just
found peace, prosperity, and happiness in his own life, he sees himself now being
tricked into destroying all of his own happiness, serving as
entertainment to "fortune," making him "fortune's
fool," or court jester, and since irony can be equated with
comedy, we can easily agree with Romeo that it does in deed seem as if prosperity
was intentionally making a fool out of him. In addition, since Romeo's circumstances with Tybalt
has a great deal to do with fate, we can also see how he has been
used by fate for entertainment or as a court jester through the
same bitter irony.

How does Shakespeare present Juliet in Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet?

At this
early stage in the play,is by far the more grounded of the star-cross'd lovers. She's the one
who's thinking through the consequences of the rapidly developing relationship between herself
and . Though as deeply in love with Romeo as he is with her, she's also aware of the dangers
involved in members of two warring families falling head over heels for each other. Whereas
Romeo can think of nothing but love during the famous balcony scene, Juliet's concerned about
what will happen if anyone from her family should catch Romeo lurking round the
orchard:

And the place death, considering who thou
art,

If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

Romeo replies, in gushingly romantic language, that he flew over the orchard walls on
wings of love. But Juliet's immediate response is to remind him once again of what will happen
to him if any member of the Capulet clan should see him:

If they do see thee they will murder thee.

Much is learned about the characters of In Cold Blood from the setting of the non-fiction novel. What is learned?

The opening of this
novel sets the scene by giving a thorough introduction to Holcomb and the attitudes of the
people who live there. Capote explores how this village is isolated and set apart, being on the
high wheat plains in Kansas, that even other people in the state of Kansas regard as the back of
beyond. There is, however, a curious dignity to life here, conveyed in theof the cluster of
grain...

Do you think African Americans have assimilated into American society? Do you think African Americans have assimilated into American society?

African-Americans help build this society.
This society wouldn't be what it is without the free labor (slavery) provided by Blacks. I
wouldn't consider American society to be different for Blacks. We have special, unique beliefs
just as any other ethnic group; however, we desire and participate in the same aspects of
"American" society: We work, we get an education, we abide by the laws, and we
contribute to the growth, development, and advancement of society.

What scene in 1984 shows media influence?

An
excellent example of how media influences the citizens of Oceania takes place in the first
chapter of the novel whenparticipates in the daily Two Minutes Hate ritual. During the Two
Minutes Hate, Party members gather in the hall opposite the big telescreen, where Emmanuel
Goldstein's image begins to flash upon the scene. Emmanuel Goldstein is Big Brother's foremost
enemy and founder of the Brotherhood, which is an enigmatic group of political dissidents
dedicated to overthrowing the Party.

As Goldstein begins to usher harsh
politicalagainst Big Brother and denounce their leader, the Party members become incensed with
anger and rage. Everyone, including Winston, begins yelling at the telescreen and cursing
Emmanuel Goldstein. The image of the powerful Eurasian army also flashes onto the screen and a
feeling of fear and hysteria enter the room. The entire room is whipped into a frenzy, and a
Party member even hurls a Newspeak dictionary at the screen.

This scene
depicts how the Party uses Emmanuel Goldstein as a scapegoat and directs the negative energy of
the Party members towards an enigmatic, distant adversary. Using media, the Party successfully
blames Emmanual Goldstein for society's ills and shifts the citizens focus outward.elaborates on
the use of media to manipulate the population by writing,

But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody,
although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers,
in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the
pitiful rubbish that they werein spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.
(17)

Overall, the Party employs media as a tool to
manipulate the population into viewing Emmanuel Goldstein as their enemy and uses his image to
direct their anger outward while simultaneously enhancing hysteria throughout
society.

What are Gregor's concerns in Section I of The Metamorphosis? To what degree would they differ if he had not been transformed into an insect?

It seems
that whether Gregor awoke in his insect form or in his human form, his concerns would be very
much the same. Despite waking up to discover he had turned into an insect, Gregor immediately
begins to think of how much he would like to quit his job. 

Gregor is
concerned with being an insect but only because of how it is affecting his ability to get out of
bed and get to work on time. In struggling to get out of bed, Gregor is more worried about
bothering others (his family) than he is about his own condition of being a giant
insect: 

His biggest worry was the loud crash he would not
be able to help making, which would probably cause anxiety, if not terror, behind all the doors.
Still, he must take the risk. 

When the chief clerk
arrives to inquire about Gregor's absence, Gregor's concerns and thoughts become fixated on his
job and his duty to support his family. When his sister starts to cry, Gregor supposes that she
is upset because Gregor won't open the door and is in danger of losing his job. Gregor tries to
put the chief's (and his parents') mind at ease because he is concerned about losing that job
that he hates; he still thinks he can catch the next train as long as his appearance isn't too
shocking. 

Even when Gregor realizes that his voice no longer sounds human,
and after he witnesses his family's horrific reaction to his appearance, he still tries to tell
them that he will be in to work. He says to the chief clerk: 

One can be temporarily incapacitated, but that's just the moment for remembering former
services and bearing in mind that later on, when the incapacity has been got over, one will
certainly work with all the more industry and concentration. 

If Gregor had awoken in human form, but been a little sick and unable to get out of
bed, his concerns would have been the same: feeling pressured to get to work to support his
family doing a job that he disliked. 

Does Mrs. Higgins approve of Pickering's and Higgins' attitude toward Eliza?

No. "You
certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll," Mrs. Higgins quips to
her son, Henry, in Act III of . Though Mrs. Higgins is a woman of society
and though she cares for her son, she does not believe that Henry and Colonel Pickering are
considering Eliza as a person. Pointing out that both men are looking at Eliza like a doll
clearly shows that she does not approve of their experiment. At the end of Act III, Mrs. Higgins
asks Henry if he's thought about what will happen to Eliza after his experiment is over. Henry
shrugs it off, saying she'll be fine and that there is no need to worry over such triviality.
"The advantages of that poor woman who was here just now! The manners and habits that
disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine ladys income!"
Shaw uses exclamation points to emphasize Mrs. Higgins' outrage at Henry's attitude and
disregard for Eliza's welfare outside of his experiment. She points out that if elevated in
society through her speech, dress and manner, Eliza will no longer have an easy time of finding
employment. She is already removed from her former social class and, if not taken care of, may
end up destitute. Mrs. Higgins is not at all happy with her son. Henry has little time to think
on the matter. He has to complete his social experiment and prove he can make a duchess out of a
flower girl from Covent Garden through the power of speech.

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What caused World War II to break out in 1939?

There were
several factors that causedto begin in 1939. Throughout the 1930s, Germany, Japan, and Italy
became very aggressive in their desire to control land. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and
China in 1937. Little was done about these invasions. Germany began to build up its military in
the 1930s, which was in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Germany also violated the Versailles
Treaty by moving its military into the Rhineland. Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. In each case,
little or no action was taken against these countries.

These aggressive
actions continued in the late 1930s. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. Germany announced it
wanted the Sudetenland, an area in Czechoslovakia where many Germans lived. The Allies made an
agreement with Germany that gave Germany this land in return for a promise to take no more land.
In 1939, Germany broke this agreement, called the Munich Pact, and took the rest of
Czechoslovakia. The Allies told Germany if Germany invaded any other countries, it would lead to
war. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France then declared war on
Germany, leading to the start of World War II.

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In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," is the reaction of the villagers and crowds normal considering that the old man actually has physical wings?

 

The world of the story is one of Magic, where elements of supernatural and outright
magic are considered ordinary. Because of this, the discovery of a man with wings is not
considered an extraordinary discovery, as it would in the real world, but instead something to
be pondered and examined; is the man an angel or simply a man who happens to have wings? The
people in the village are used to sideshow exhibits with strange mutations, and it is revealed
later that magical...

Why do you think the hunter is in the story? The lady on the street? The nurse?

During the
story, Phoenix interacts with each of these three characters, all of whom are white. Through
these incidents, the racial elements in the story are developed. However, each time Phoenix
interacts with the three, her own character is developed, as well, and we come to know and
respect her even more.

The incident with the hunter and his dog shows how
frail and vulnerable Phoenix really is as she makes the long journey into town on the cold
December day. She falls and cannot right herself. If the hunter had not pulled her to her feet,
she surely would have died there by the road. Phoenix risks her life each time she goes for the
medicine for her grandson whom she loves so much. Also, she shows no fear of the hunter's gun,
saying coolly that she had seen guns before. Her remark implies the racism she had encountered
as a black person growing up in Mississippi long before racial justice became a social issue.
The hunter's disrespectful attitude toward her also suggests the racism...

How should I approach the issue of voice in a poem? What do I look for?

Analysing
the voice of a poem is somewhat similar to analysing the narrator of a work of . The first step
is determining who is speaking and the point of view.

For point of view, you
need to loom at grammatical person first, which can be determined by pronoun
use:

1st person singular I, plural we
2nd person singular and plural
you
3rd person...

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Describe the Buddha's reaction against early Hinduism.

Buddhism
is built on Hinduism in much the same way the Christianity is built on Judaism. Guatama Buddha,
the figure whose teachings are the basis of Buddhism, was a Hindu himself. According to legend,
when he finally left his palace after a sheltered existence, he was depressed by seeing the old,
sickly, and dead, and his charioteer had to explain to him that everyone grows old. Buddha would
seek to defeat this cycle by leading an ascetic life.

Buddha was primarily
concerned with the suffering of man and finding a way to end it or at least a reason for it.
Buddhism maintains the concept of...

Why does Jonathan Edwards say that animals, the sun, the earth, and air are not here for our enjoyment?

Edwards is
trying to convey that nature was not put in place for mankind's pleasure but for God's pleasure.
Nature, which includes animals, the sun, the earth, and the air, are all under God's dominion,
not human dominion, except as decreed by God.

Edwards's anti-humanist
argument is urging people not to exalt themselves or to think they are the center of the
universe or equal with God. He wants his audience to understand how they look from God's point
of view, which is like insects. He wants them to acknowledge that God is much more powerful than
they are and could crush them in an instant.

Edwards says all this not to be
cruel (though we might wonder if he succeeds at that) but to try to save people. People who
singo against God's willare playing a very dangerous game in Edwards's opinion. God will let
them do their own thing for awhile, but he has the power at any moment to fling them into
eternal flamesand then there is nothing humans can do about it. Nature won't save
them....

How does Santiago's observation that "they have forgotten to rely on their own instincts" foreshadow later events in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist?

Perhaps
the most obvious incident foreshadowed by Santiago's comment that people have "forgotten to
rely on their own instincts," in 's can be seen at the story's end
when Santiago is beset by thieves as he travels to the pyramids.

As Santiago
travels across the desert, he comes to a sand dune, and there the omens tell him to dig. He digs
on and on until his hands are scratched and he is exhausted. Suddenly, he hears footsteps behind
him. The men tell Santiago that they have been displaced by the tribal wars. They are
poorthieves searching for money. Santiago is digging and they suspiciously want to know what he
is looking for. Santiago is certain he has found his treasure (at last) and doesn't want to tell
the men what he is doing.

...one of them seized the boy
and yanked him back out of the hole. Another, who was searching the boy's bags, found the piece
of gold.

"There's gold in here," he said.

This is all the...

What is is the main theme in chapter 4 (The Black Thing) in "A Wrinkle in Time"?

The main
theme or point of this chapter is to show Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin the reality of good
and evil. They learn that some planets are wholly good: darkness has not come to them. Some
planets, however, have gone over to the dark side and are wholly dominated by evil. Camazotz,
where they are heading to rescue their father, is a prime example. The Medium shows it to the
children as covered in darkness. This helps prepare them for what they will face when they
arrive.

The young people are disturbed to find that the earth is partially
shrouded in shadow. Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which explain to them that evil does have a
foothold on the earth but that spiritual people such as Jesus, Gandhi, and Buddha, artists such
as Michelangelo, da Vinci, Bach, and Beethoven, and scientists such as Madame Curie and
Einstein, have kept the darkness at bay.

The Medium reassures them that good
is stronger than evil and that evil "is being overcome all the time!" However, this
victory often comes at great cost. A person might have to die to win against the dark
side.

Identify and discuss how the use of imagery and symbolism are similar or different in James Joyce's "Araby" and John Updike's "A&P."

Theand symbolism used in
both of these stories are used to convey the central character in each story, and to develop the
themes that the stories raise. For example, in "A&P," the way Sammy refers to the
customers who come to the supermarket where he works expresses his sense of humour but also his
distaste for those who go along in life and just go with the flow. For example, note the way
that he talks about the "cash-register-watchers" who deliberately want to trip up the
cashier attendants. Consider the way he refers to the customers as "sheep." These
examples of imagery are very significant, particularly the last , as it demonstrates the theme
of whether it is right to go along with the crowd unquestioningly, or to stand up and challenge
the status quo when it is appropriate. The use of the metaphor "sheep" by Sammy
strongly foreshadows the stand that he takes at the end of the story; after all, he can hardly
mock customers for being sheep-like if he then is a sheep himself when challenged by his
boss.

In the same way, the imagery inis used to develop the theme of
appearance vs. reality, and how the narrator is unable to differentiate between the two. Note
for example how Mangan's sister is described in the following quote:

She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the
half-opened door. 

Firstly, Mangan's sister is always
associated with light, which makes her seem angelic. Secondly, the way she is described would
make her appearance very difficult to work out. The narrator seems to base his teenage hopes and
love on an insubstantial figure, which of course pre-empts his epiphany at the end of the story
where he realises the reality of his romantic hopes and dreams. The imagery in both stories then
help develop the respective themes and characters.

What obstacles do the division of power present to enactment of important legislation?

An
argument which suggests that division of power presents challenges to enactment of important
legislation resides in the difficulty to move legislation through a complex process.  The
separation of powers that is present in the divided government configuration ensures that
multiple voices are heard in the passage of legislation.  Some critics suggest that in times of
crisis or when the urgency of now is demanding, this configuration makes it difficult to pass
important legislation in a timely manner.  Indeed, separation of powers and divided
government...

Why did Napolean "change countenance when Boxer pinned one of the dogs in Animal Farm?

By , the pigs are firmly in
control, even though they are not the strongest animals.  This is because they use the dogs as
enforcers. seespinning the dog as a threat to his power.

Napoleon and the pigs use the dogs as their private security force.  Napoleons power is
cemented from the fact that the dogs intimidate the other animals.  When Boxer pins one of the
dogs, this is a thread to Napoleon.  Napoleon does not like threats to his power.

When three of the pigs flung themselves upon Boxer (ch 7), he defends himself but
then looks to Napoleon to tell him whether or not to kill the dogs.

Boxer looked at Napoleon to know whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go.
Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go,whereat
Boxer lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling. (ch 7)

Napoleons countenance (expression) changes because he sees the
other animals respond to Boxers strength.  He cannot have Boxer as a threat.  The dogs, not
Boxer, must remain the threat.