Is "Oedipus Rex" premised on the notion that Oedipus is bound or free? Is he the puppet of fate or the creator of his own fate?

The pull
between fate (or destiny) and free will is a primary theme of the trilogy.  While modern
thinking typically scorns the idea of a pre-determined fate, there seems to be something that
attracts audiences to the idea that some things will go wrong, no matter what we do to try to
redirect or change our lives. 

Freud wrote about this topic in The
Interpretation of Dreams and the Oedipal dilemma. "There must be something,
" Freud argues,

which makes a voice within us ready to
recognize the compelling force of destiny in the ...His destiny moves us
only because it might have been ours." 

Oedipus
cannot escape some of his fate:  he does marry his mother and kill his father as predicted.  But
what he does with his life after the prophecy is fulfilled is his
decision.  He could have killed himself, but he chooses to go on.  He might have spurned his
daughters, but chooses to embrace them. 

As Robert Fagles points out,
"We expect to be made to feel that there is a meaningful relation between the hero's action
and his suffering, and this is possible only if that action is free, so that he is responsible
for the consequences." 

' play, therefore, is a combination of both
created and creator fate. 

What were the aims of the Ku Klux Klan when it first formed?

When the
Ku Klux Klan first formed in the South, its purpose was to reverse the improvements
African-Americans received as a result of Reconstruction. White southerners werent happy that
African-Americans had the same rights as white people had. They didnt like that African-American
males could vote and run for office. They werent happy the former slaves were free to leave the
plantation and pursue other economic opportunities. Thus, the Ku Klux Klan developed ways to
take away or minimize the rights African-Americans had received.

Once
Reconstruction ended, the Ku Klux Klan began to intimidate African-Americans. They threatened
them with the loss of their jobs. They hinted that there would be violence against
African-Americans and their property if they exercised their rights. In some cases,
African-Americans were killed. They developed the poll tax and literacy test to keep
African-American from voting. They used the grandfather clause as a way to exempt whites from
the literacy test and poll tax. Eventually, the Ku Klux Klan controlled politics in the South.
As more whites voted, they vote for candidates of the Democratic Party. Thus, the Democratic
Party controlled southern politics for many years. The Ku Klux Klan wanted to minimize the
rights that African-Americans achieved as a result of Reconstruction.

What happens to Fred in The Old Curiosity Shop?

Christopher Jerde

Fred's major goal in is to get his sister Nell to marry his
friend Dick Swiveller so that he can inherit the fortune he erroneously believes his grandfather
possesses. While Fred is a major force in the early part of the novel, by the time Nell and her
grandfather are on the run from Quilp, he becomes much less of a threat to them.

At the end, it is revealed that Fred drowned in the Seine after getting...

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In The Crucible, Hale says, "They [the books] must be [heavy]; they are weighted with authority." What is the significance of this remark?

This statement, spoken
by the renowned witch hunter Reverend Hale, shows the tremendous faith he has in his own
education, as well as his overconfidence and even cockiness when it comes to his ability to find
witches. His arrogance, which stems from the amount of reading he has done on the subject of
witches, is on full display when he says things like,

No,
no. Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the
marks of his presence are definite as stone.

Standing in
a room with at least a few intelligent people, some with more education or experience than
otherssand even another minister, the Reverend ParrisHale champions the knowledge he's gained
from his weighty books. He is the expert here because
he has read and studied all of these texts. In fact, he refuses even to continue his
investigation unless the others are "prepared to believe" him should he determine that
Betty Parris is not the clutches of hell. He believes that "all the...

What is the point-of-view used in the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

belarafon

, by Jame Joyce, is a 1916 novel that
loosely covers parts of Joyce's own life.

While the novel is written in the
stream-of-consciousness style that made Joyce famous, it is more accessible than some of his
other works. The story is told in a third-person personal style, where the narrator is not a
character but frequently delves into the thoughts of the,...

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Regarding the Reconstruction Era, did the nation achieve the goals desired by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?

The nation
achieved some of the goals. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments passed, thus
ending slavery and giving African Americans both citizenship and suffrage. As for Lincoln's goal
of peace, there were no major Confederate trials for treason, and most of the former Confederate
soldiers were pardoned. The nation was reunited with the end of militaryin 1877 though the South
would continue to lag behind the rest of the nation economically.

Douglass
believed in equality for African Americans. Terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan sprang up
in the South in order to maintain the racial status quo. Though Grant pursued the Klan, many
localities still banned travel by blacks and arrested them in disproportionate numbers in order
to work in chain gangs.

The Freedmen's Bureau, an organization designed to
help poor blacks as well as white refugees of the war, was never fully funded by the
Reconstruction presidents. The former planters still managed to hold power through sharecroppers
where they used a surplus of unskilled labor and kept them tied to the land by debt. Segregation
would ultimately be the law of the land with the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson
ruling. This case only legalized what had been going on in the South for yearsthe
creation of separate facilities for whites and blacks.

In a sense, Lincoln's
plan was realized with the ending of slavery and no further civil wars. One does not know if
Lincoln's view on races would have evolved or if he would have had disagreements with a Radical
Republican Congress, as he was tragically assassinated days after Lee's surrender. Douglass's
view of greater equality and opportunities would not be realized during the Reconstruction era.
The use of segregation, poll taxes, and other laws at the local and state levels maintained the
racial status quo in the South for years after Reconstruction.

How did Hammurabi justify this law code to the people he ruled?

Hammurabi
justified his law code to the people by simply being himself. By claiming himself king and a
servant of the god Marduk, he was imbued with the power to mete out justice in any way he saw
fit throughout his lands. Initially, this was a simple matter, because Mesopotamia had not yet
been unified; however, as Hammurabi absorbed more cities into his kingdom, he faced the unique
challenge of winning over subjects who were not necessarily as committed to worshipping Mardukor
any god(dess)as he was.

As a ruler, Hammurabi genuinely cared for the
wellbeing of his current and future subjects, and so rather than rely upon the assumption that
everyone served Marduks will, he codified his 282 eye-for-an-eye-style laws into a much more
secular collection that still respected individual worshippers choices of patron deity. This
way, there would be no confusion about one god or goddess requiring more or less in terms of
punishments depending on the city of worship.

Hammurabi also recounted the
divine inheritance of the laws in afor the Code and peppered self-praise throughout the stele,
lest his subjects forget how divine and merciful he was.

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What are the short-term causes of World War I?

What
ultimately triggered the conflict was, of course, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of
Austro-Hungary by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. But the immediate cause ofwas the
complex system of diplomatic alliances that had been painstakingly constructed over the course
of the previous century.

Ever since the defeat of Napoleon, European powers
had been convinced of the benefit of mutual alliances between nations. They believed that such
agreements would make it harder for one nation to cause as much havoc and upheaval in Europe as
Revolutionary and Napoleonic France had done. The thinking behind the alliance system was that
it would provide a balance of power in Europe. It was believed that large states would be
reluctant to attack smaller ones if they were under the protection of other large states under
this system.

In theory, this seemed the perfect solution to the massive
upheaval and disruption caused by French armies from the Revolution onward. In practice,
however, the system of alliances ignored the facts that the precise boundaries of nations could
not always be determined with any degree of accuracy and that ethnic nationalism often
transcended borders. So, in 1914, when Serbia found itself subjected to impossible demands by
Austro-Hungary and its German allies, it was inevitable that the Russians would intervene on
behalf of their fellow Slavs. Soon, other nations piled into the incipient conflict, fulfilling
commitments to mutual assistance treaties that they never thought would come to
fruition.

What is the significance of the closing scene in Oedipus Rex?

There is
also significance in the final scene of the King that extends beyond the
boundaries of this one play.  It was part of a trilogy, and like any good serial, needed to set
up the plays to follow.  In this case they were:  and
.

Both plays are foreshadowed here in the final scene. 
First, Oedipus begs to be allowed to leave Thebes, andgives him permission, hinting that the
Gods also agree.  That sets up Oedipus at Colonus.

Oedipus also ends the play by asking to hold his daughters, Antigone and Ismene,
daughters of himself and(his mother/wife).  It is significant that Oedipus is more worried about
these girls and what will befall them than his sons, since the play
Antigone is very focused on the dilemmas that especially Antigone faces. 
Creon commands him to leave the children, and though he does not want to, Oedipus complies. 
Creon reiterates Oedipus' fall from power with the lines (1523-24):

Do not seek to be master in everything,

for the things you mastered
did not follow you throughout your life.

So the future
lives of the children of Oedipus, cursed by their parents' incest, are hinted at here, as is the
power (that Creon has claimed throughout the entire play not to want) that now falls on Creon as
the ruler in Thebes.  Creon and his role as ruler plays a very important part in the
play Antigone.

 

On Apollos Temple at Delphi these two sayings are inscribed: Know Thyself and Moderation in All Things. How does the play deal with...

"Know
thyself" is interesting, because, simply, ifreally had known himself, he likely would have
become a successful king and never suffered the tragic events of the play.

Among other things, is a play about identity.  Oedipus takes on
the identity of king of Thebes without knowing the truth of his past.  The
trouble really started in the kingdom of Corinth, when Oedipus, as a young man rather than
a...

What is the moral code that Jane Austen constructs in Emma?

The moral code that is
clearly the message of this witty yet thoughtful novel points to the dangers of trusting in our
instincts and imagination rather than in the facts of the situation. What makes this novel so
hilarious is the many mishaps suffered by both the eponymous heroine,Woodhouse, but also by
various other people, such as Mr. Knightley. Both of these central characters form a number of
opinions that are based on nothing more than hearsay or their own idea, which prevent them from
looking at the situation with objective, dispassionate judgement.

For
example, Emma clearly misinterprets Mr. Elton's actions, even though Austen makes it very clear
to the reader that he is not in love with Harriet, because the force of her imagination has
decreed that he is love with Harriet and not her. Note what she later confesses:

She had taken up the idea, she supposed, and made everything bend to
it.

In the same way, Mr. Knightley is unable to consider
Frank Churchill in an objective way because of the attachment he sees forming between Frank and
Emma. His jealousy forces him to disapprove of a man whom he has no solid basis to disapprove
of. Consider the following quote, which acts as the moral message of the play, which comes after
Mr. Knightley and Emma's betrothal in Chapter 50:

Seldom,
very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that
something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though
the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

This quote is important because it points towards the impossibility
of gaining complete truth in any situation, because of our own personal biases and emotions.
Austen's moral code is therefore that all humans need to be very chary of claiming to have
"complete truth" and acting on it, because so often humans can be mistaken about that
"truth." The only remedy is to trust in the wholehearted and honest emotion that
springs from the human heart.

Do you think that sexuality is socially constructed in the United States?

There are
some ways in which sexuality is not socially constructed, but there are many ways in which it is
socially constructed.

Of course, the basic urge to have sex is not socially
constructed.  It is something that comes about naturally when we reach a certain age.  Even a
person who is totally ignorant of sex will feel urges without having been told what those urges
are or when to have them.  In this sense, sexuality is...

Why does Hemingway use "Hills Like White Elephants" for his title?

The
hills represent objectification and symbolize permanency while simultaneously symbolizing
illusion, specifically, the illusion of how one thing can be reminiscent of another wholly
dissimilar thing.

Hemingway chose this representation and symbol for the
story title because the story's themes include

• objective point of
  view and objectification of an issue.
• the question of permanency in
  seemingly impermanent post-World War life.
• illusion and illusionary
  relationships.

It is "the girl," Jig, who sits gazing
at the hills and seeing in them reminiscence of other unrelated things. First, however, the
narrator introduces the hills as the first and foremost part of the setting:

The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this
side there was no shade and no trees ....

Then Jig is
shown by Hemingway as being preoccupied with the hills: "The girl was looking off at the
line of hills." In her distancing preoccupation, she identifies the hills with something
whimsical and far-fetched: "They look like white elephants." Jig's preoccupation is in
part escapism and in part distancing and in part, perhaps, also yearning, too.

She escapes the saddening conversation about the unstated topic by submerging herself
in daydreams about the hills as one might submerge oneself in daydreams about clouds. She
distances herself from the topic and conversation and from "the American" by gazing
at, thinking about, and talking idly about the distant, illusionary hills.

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

Permanency and illusion represent the relationship Jig has with the
American man. The longest exchange of dialogue in the story begins with a repetition of whether
or not they can "have everything," with Jig quietly insisting that they cannot have
because it is taken away. Jig insists their happiness has no permanency.

Illusion applies to the hills--their illusion of being like "white
elephants"--and to the relationship between Jig and the man. The illusion of their
relationship is revealed to Jig and to us when he slips and says "if it means anything to
you." Jig, noticing, asks, "Doesnt it mean anything to you?" His reply continues
the illusion, "Of course it does," then shatters it again, "And I know it's
perfectly simple."

In summary, Hemingway chose the title for all that
it represents and symbolizes, especially as it symbolizes the illusionary and impermanent nature
of the man's relationship with Jig and the opportunity created in which they "could get
along."

As an aside, the issue of abortion is pinpointed as the man
describes the "procedure," a description that fits abortion as performed in that era.
Also, Jig is drinking beer and absinthe because it was only in the 1960s and 1970s that
significant attention was given to whether pregnant women should or should not drink. This story
is set in the post-World War I era as it was first published in 1926.

Marriage Is A Private Affair Summary

Nene and
Nnaemeka are a young couple living in Lagos, Nigeria, who plan on getting married. In the
opening conversation between the two characters, Nnaemeka expresses his concern about notifying
his father about their upcoming marriage. Nnaemeka's father, Okeke, is from the Ibo tribe, where
traditionally the parents choose a bride for their sons, and he will not accept Nnaemeka's
decision to marry a woman on his own. Since Nnaemeka has received a letter from his father
stating that Okeke has chosen him a bride, Nnaemeka decides to visit his father and tell him the
news face to face. When Nnaemeka informs his father that he plans on a marrying Nene, who is
from a different tribe, Okeke disapproves of the marriage and shuns his son. Nnaemeka leaves for
Lagos and hopes that one day Okeke will relent and accept him and Nene into his life.
Unfortunately, Okeke remains obstinate and refuses to acknowledge Nnaemeka and Nene because they
have broken tradition. Years pass and the married couple grows into a loving family and is
accepted by the Ibo members living in the city of Lagos. At the end of the story, Nene sends
Nnaemeka's father a letter informing him that he has two grandchildren. Nene asks Okeke if she
can send them to visit their grandfather. After reading the letter, Okeke begins to feel guilty
and looks out into the stormy weather as he worries if he will ever be able to make it up to
them. 

In A Wrinkle in Time, what is tessering, and how does Meg feel about it?

Tessering, a significant part of theof
, is a mode of travel in the fifth dimension that utilizes the shortest
route. It can be used in space and in time. When used in space, it combines the straight line of
the first dimension, the square of the second dimension, the cube of the third dimension, and
the Einsteinian space-time continuum of the fourth dimension to create a circular space across
what Einstein called the "fabric" of space-time. This circuitous fifth dimension works
equally across space and time. This concept, called a tesseract, and the concept of traveling by
tessering, are illustrated when Mrs. Whatsit has Mrs. who fold the fabric of her skirt to allow
a wrinkle in space (the fabric) to provide a short commute for a bug from one location to
another across the wrinkle.

Charles said, ... "Well
the fifth dimension's a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel
through space without having to go the long way around. ... [in terms of] Euclid, or
old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two
points."

Meg tries to understand tessering and the
tesseract but is not able to grasp the full meaning of the things she is told, though the
illustration using Mrs. Who's skirt of the wrinkle shortening space travel is clear and
comprehensible. Then Charles tries to explain it for her and for a glimmer of a moment she can
see its meaning:

"I see it!" she cried. " I
got it! For just a moment I got it!I can't possibly exp-lain it now, but there for a second I
saw it!"

Nonetheless, Meg still bases her
understanding of knowledge upon rational thought, and a fifth dimension that enfolds all other
dimensions is somehow still out of her notion of rationality. When the Happy Medium asks her to
name other darkness fighters, she names Euclid and Copernicus--two of the most rational of men,
both mathematicians and one an astronomer:

"Oh,
Euclid, I suppose." Meg was in an agony of impatience ... "And
Copernicus."

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Absolutely! 
I agree with #2!  I love it when authors give the readers the opportunity to envision what
particular things in the story are to us...for instance, when events occur offstage in
drama (the battle scenes in Shakespeare)or they are vaguely described (Grendel in...

Discuss the character of Faith in "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

bypresents a problem for those readers that need to have a definitive answer about the truth of
the events in the forest.  No one knows for sure what really happened to Goodman Brown or Faith.
When Goodman Brown wakes up in the forest after the events or dream, Goodman Brown has lost his
(F) faith.

The story can be divided into three parts: the times before
Brown goes to the forest; his day and night in. the forest; and his return to society.  Each
event adds to Browns journey toward his loss of faith.

Faith, Browns wife,
begs him not to go on his errand. Apparently, Brown has made a pre-ordained agreement with
Satan. He is hesitant to go, but something drives him on. Goodman Brown travels to the forest to
meet the devil at an appointed time and place. On the other hand, Brown looks to her for his
moral guidance and uses her as his reason for being late and his need to turn back from his
journey. After this one night, Brown intends to follow his wife to heaven by clinging to her
skirts

The reader must determine for himself whether he believes that the
events in the forest were real or a dream which occurred in the mind of Brown. The truth of
Faiths character is contingent on this decision.

The character
of Faith

Faith appears to be a young woman who loves her
husband desperately.  The character of Faith is the picture of innocence. She is described as
sweet, pretty, and angelic with pink ribbons on her cap.

The pink ribbons
that adorn the cap which Faith wears are a badge of feminine innocence. The ribbons are in fact
an direct link between two conceptions of Faith, connecting sweet little Faith of the village
with the woman who stands at the Devils baptismal font. The pink ribbon from Faiths cap flutters
down from the sky and is caught on the branch of a tree. This is the tangible evidence of Faiths
going over to the other side.  Yet, Brown does not grab the ribbon for his proof.

Faith appears to be na¯ve and trusting. When Brown hears her on the path from his
hiding place in the woods, Faith seems to be being coerced by the others she is traveling with.
They encourage her to continue on. Faith is submissive and wants to please the others even
though she has doubts and seems sorrowful. Thus, when Brown perceives that she too has been
corrupted, he shouts "My Faith is gone" and rushes madly toward the witches
gathering.

Then Brown hears a scream:

€˜Faith! Faith!
cried the husband, €˜look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one! Whether Faith obeyed, he knew
not.  Hardly had he spoken, when he found himself and amid calm night and solitude, listening to
a roar of the wind which died heavily away through the forest.  

Was this
real or the nightmare of Brown? Only Faith knows that really happened and she did not share. No
one knows whether she was at home waiting for her husband or in the forest cavorting with the
devil.

What is the thesis of the "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King?

I think that if we can
choose one sentence of this speech that represents its main, central claim, it would be the
following sentence from the sixth paragraph:

This
sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an
invigorating autumn of freedom and equality1963 is not an end but a beginning.

Prior to this, Dr. King has established that the discontent felt
by African Americans at this time in history is absolutely "legitimate" and warranted
by the treatment they have received at the hands of white Americans. He has given several
reasons for the legitimacy of African Americans' dissatisfaction with their rights in a United
States of America that promises equal rights to all people but does not actually enforce them:
it oppresses racial minorities, especially black people, through economic privation, a lack of
social mobility, segregation and Jim Crow laws, discrimination, police brutality, and more. He
explains that African Americans are merely...

What is the literary time period for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle?

This is
a tough question because scholars (and literature texts) often disagree on this. While some
scholars think the literary period in American Literature here is as general as saying it is
part of "literature after 1861," other texts will insist that it is a part of
Contemporary American Literature. I...

what were the environmental consequences of the industrial revolution

One of
the unfortunate side effects of the great advancements made in the industrial revolution was an
extraordinarily negative impact on the Earth's natural environment. With advances in living
standards as well as medicine, there came a population boom due to increased life expectancy and
reduced infant mortality. With such an increased population came an increased need for goods and
services, and nations burned through natural resources with reckless abandon. Though the spirit
of human advancement and innovation was in the right place, we often approached new and emerging
technologies as miraculous new substitutes for labor without fully understanding the
environmental ramifications.

For instance, the popularized use of coal
devastated the living conditions in cities by producing smog and poisoning water supplies.
During the time of the industrial revolution, human beings were not as acutely aware of global
scale as we are today by being connected with the entire world through the web. It was not as
plain at the time to see that for every bit of coal an individual would burn, hundreds of
thousands of others were doing the same. It was very easy to brush off a small amount of
pollution as "no big deal." Of course, we see the consequences of this today.

Where does Santiago find the answer to the question how do you turn a man into the wind?"

Santiago speaks
with the desert, the wind, and the sun to find the answer of how to turn into the wind, but none
of these elements knows. While conversing with the sun, though, the boy's own thoughts reveal
that he knows more about the Language of the World than he originally thought. During this
conversation, the boy realizes that love is the most powerful force in the universe, and the sun
does not have much experience with it. In fact, he recognizes that the sun, the desert, and the
wind are all on their own paths of learning and cannot provide him with the answer he needs.
Therefore, the sun suggests that Santiago ask the hand that created the world in order to find
out how to perform the miracle he desires. "The Hand" must mean the universe or God,
so Santiago prays in his heart without words. It is as though he connects his heart with that of
God's and discovers the following:

only the hand
understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six
days of creation had evolved into a Master Work. The boy reached through to the Soul of the
World and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own
soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles (152).

Based on the passage above, Santiago discovers that he is a part of the Soul of the
WorldGodand he has the power within to perform a miracle and change himself into the wind. This
is an amazing discovery because the power to perform miracles is found within himself as he
connects his soul with that of the Creator's. The process of finding the answer he needs is a
complex one, but it suggests that once we all discover that connection with the Soul of the
World, we too can perform miracles because we are all a part of God. As a result, Santiago finds
the answer he seeks within himself.

In Part 3 of "1984", how are common criminals and political criminals treated differently in the temporary lock up?

In the
temporary lock-up, the guards treat the common criminals

"with a certain forbearance, even when they (have) to handle them
roughly...positions of trust (are) given only to the common criminals, sepecailly the gangsters,
and the murderers, who (form) a sort of aristocracy...all the dirty jobs (are) done by the
politicals". 

Even more astonishing is the
"difference in demeanor between the Party prisoners and the others".  The Party
prisoners are always "silent and terrified", while the ordinary criminals show no
fear.  They fight back with the guards, write obscenities on the floor, openly eat smuggled
food, and even defy the voice on the telescreen when it tries to keep order.  Some of the common
prisoners even seem to be on good terms with the guards, and it is conceivable that
"bribery, favoritism, and racketeering of every kind" abound.

Thoughtcrime is looked upon in the society as the worst transgression imaginable, far
more lethal than ordinary lawlessness and vice.  's belief that mind-control is far more
dangerous and effective than ordinary societal constraints is evident in the dichotomy between
the treatment of common and political prisoners.  Although it appears that ordinary insolence
and lack of fear are more effective in guaranteeing survival, however, the commoners are unaware
of the power they might wield.  If they were to join together and rise against Big Brother, they
could rule, but in their ignorance and focus on only themselves, they are insignificant (Book 3,
Chapter 1).

What are some comparisons and contrasts between Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther in their attitudes and roles to the reform of the Catholic...

Both
Erasmus and Luther were acutely aware of the many problems with which the later Medieval Church
was beset. They understood just how deeply corrupt the institution had become over the
centuries; how it was infested from top to bottom with every conceivable vice and how it had
largely forfeited its right to moral leadership among Christians. The Church, which was supposed
to be the physical expression of the Christian community, was in a truly sorry state, and
something needed to be done to purge it of its numerous abuses.

The question
was: How was this to be achieved? And it was in answering this question that real differences
between Luther and Erasmus emerged. Initially, Luther, like Erasmus, had wanted to reform the
Church's abuses from within. But the heavy-handed response of the Pope and the Church leadership
to his criticisms led him to the realization that the Church was beyond redemption and that a
new Christian Church, based solely upon the authority of the Bible, was...

What happens in Chapter 8 of The Egypt Game?

In this
chapter, which is entitled "Prisoners of Fear", Elizabeth turns out to be a perfect
addition to the Egypt Game group because she is "just crazy about every part" of it. 
The four children have fun in Egypt, with Marshall playing the role of the young pharaoh,
Elizabeth being the queen, Neferbeth, and April and Melanie acting as priestesses.  Their play
in interrupted, however, when a little girl who lives in the neighborhood is killed, and her
body found in the marshland near the bay.  Because the same thing had happened about a year
before to a little boy, and the police think the perpetrator might be someone who lives in the
area. 

Parents become very frightened as a result of these incidents,
and...

What were the postive and negative impacts on American families during World War II?

The
obvious negative impact was that thousands of American families suffered the loss of a family
member during the war. There is, of course, no way to measure the impact of these losses on
families, but a sense of loss was pervasive in the United States during . Virtually everyone
either lost a father, husband, son, or brother, or knew someone who did. 

Additionally, many American families suffered financially as a result of the war,
primarily from lost income. The war also put a strain on both wives and their children, as they
were forced to take on additional roles in the absence of men. Families were forced to deal with
rations and shortages of items ranging from sugar to gasoline.

On the other
hand, the aftermath of the war created enormous opportunities for returning servicemen and their
families. Young men, including those with families, had the chance to receive an education or
job training through the GI Bill of Rights. Additionally, many young families could buy homes
with low interest government loans. For many people in war-related industries, the war also
represented a boom, as average wages almost doubled, even among lower-income
Americans. 

What is the line-by-line meaning of the poem "The Lost Dances of Cranes" by Juliet Wilson?

carolynosborne

Juliet
Wilson's poem "The Lost Dances of Cranes" reflects on the changeover from endangered
species to the development of cities via construction cranes. In this poetic analysis, lines
from the poem will be in italics and commentary in regular print.

 

"The Lost Dances of
Cranes"

From the very beginning, in the title, the poet
signals that the poem is about something from the past that is no longer available in the
present. The title is unified by some of the sounds of the words (consonance), such as the /s/
of "lost," "dances," and "cranes." 

 

Your fields are empty now.

Part of the reason the whooping crane is on the verge of extinction comes from the
drastic reduction of wetlands due to the human desire to expand land on which things can be
built. 

Only your ghosts dance

Dancing is part of the mating rituals of whooping cranes. Since so many
birds have been lost, they would be only memoriesghosts. 

While cranes of another kind
Dance cities into
being.
The poet connects construction cranes to the birds, which makes
sense, since they resemble each other in lankiness. The dance here doesn't yield eggs and more
birds but, rather, the cities that are ironically destroying the birds. 

All that remain of you are 
A fading crackle
of your energy
And some grainy video
footage
By using the word "you," the poet personifies the birds.
The birds are fading quickly and the poet mentions what we have nowmemories and video. This
stanza sets up the next stanza with the specific things it
mentions. 

That people in the new
cities 
Will watch to marvel
At the
wonders the world

This stanza captures an essentialof modern
living: we who live in cities think that we are getting the "real thing" by watching
nature videos. In fact, a video is a worse than poor substitute for the actual birds. It is
worse because it fools us into thinking that we are fully appreciating the natural beauty of our
world through nature documentaries. 

 

A poem like
this implicitly challenges its readers to do something besides watching television about the
losses of the natural world. href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/juliet_wilson/poems/22026">http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/juliet_wilson/poems/...
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In Fahrenheit 451, what does the firehouse look like?

Bradbury's descriptions of the firehouse in
are pretty mundane, which is surely deliberate. The place looks almost
identical to any other firehouse we might encounter. From the showers where the firemen wash off
the accumulated filth and soot to the card tables where they play games until the next call
arrives, the layout of the building is familiar to anyone who's ever been inside a
firehouse.

And yet the firemen who work here are anything but similar to what
we might see in the real world. Their job isn't to put out fires but to start them. This makes
the normality of their working environment all the more jarring and unnerving. The sheer
ordinariness and banality of the firehouse stand as a stark contrast to the grotesque subversion
of the fireman's duties in which Beatty, Montag, and the other men regularly
engage.

How did the war to preserve the union become a war about black freedom?

The Civil War
(1861€“1865) was fought over the issue of slavery. But Abraham Lincoln was cautious about
publicizing his strong opposition to slavery.

One reason for Lincoln's
carefulness was he believed there were Unionists in the South, and he did not want to alienate
them. In fact, there were few Unionists outside western Virginia.

Another
very important reason for Lincoln's caution was the status of the border states (Missouri,
Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland). If Lincoln had proclaimed a war against slavery at the onset
of the war, those four states might have joined the Confederacy. If that had happened, the
North's position would have been untenable. When the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) was made
in the second year of the war, it did not apply to the border states.

Slavery was the primary reason for the war, so the issue was never far from the surface. The
South had left the Union because it feared Lincoln's plans for slavery. Also, the North did not
want England and France to...

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

What is the predicament of the unconverted, including those among his listeners?

Edwards'
tactfully chosen quotation from Deuteronomy 32:35 might help here:  Their foot shall slide in
due time.  While Edwards aimed those words at those who were not taking heed of God's word, I
think that the unconverted could definitely fit into this category.  Edwards did not
make...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

What is life like for Daniel in the caves in The Bronze Bow? Why is he living there?

Daniel is
living in the caves at the beginning of because he has fled the master to
whom he had been sold into indentured service. Amalek had been a hard master, often flogging
Daniel. When he could stand it no more, he ran away, and Rosh found him "lying flat on his
face, starving, half frozen, his back still raw from the last flogging." Living with Rosh's
band in the hills is better for him, especially since Rosh initially showed him kindness.
However, Rosh runs the band as a dictator, and his word must be obeyed. Even if Daniel doesn't
agree with a decision...

Can you give me a thesis title about foods related to courses in culinary arts or skills?

A
"thesis statement" consists of one or two sentences summarizes the main argument of a
paper. Thus, deciding on a thesis statement is really a shorthand for
taking an overall approach to a topic. There are several different issues one could argue
concerning food arts, depending on the nature of the specific course and assignment.

One important area being discussed in the field is ethical sourcing of ingredients. One
could argue that people involved in the culinary arts have an ethical responsibility to source
foods in such a way as to reduce carbon footprint and encourage sustainable farming. As well as
ethical arguments, one could support such a thesis by pointing out that increasing trends for
socially responsible consumerism make ethical sourcing a good marketing decision.

Another possible thesis would argue for or against appropriation of ethnic cuisines.
For example, one could argue that a Caucasian chef offering Native American ancestral cuisine is
being fundamentally exploitative and inauthentic. On the other side, though, the same chef,
working closely with a local tribe and sourcing foods from tribal farms, could be paying homage
to Native American traditions and sustaining them.

Monday, 18 January 2010

Compare and contrast the loss of immortality suffered by Gilgamesh and the fall from grace suffered by Adam and Eve.

In both
the Biblical story of Genesis and the Epic of
Gilgamesh we find a story of the decline of humanity from an idyllic state to our
current mortal state. In both cases this decline is attributed to offending one or more
gods. 

The two narratives, however, follow a different path. Adam and Eve
initially are immortal, and as we read through the book of Genesis we
discover how they lost their immortality. In the case of Gilgamesh , the
hero is...

In Lyddie, why does Lyddie's family leave the farm? How is life different after Lyddie's mother leaves, and what are things like for Lyddie in the...

's father
walks out on the family, which leads to his abandoned wife going insane. As one can imagination,
these traumatic events place an enormous emotional and financial strain upon the family. With
her mother in a mental institution and her father nowhere to be found, Lyddie is forced to step
up to the plate. She has no choice but to go out into the big, wide world to earn enough money
to support her family.

Her first port of call is Cutler's Tavern, where she
works as a housemaid. It's a paying job, but the wages and conditions are lousy. Lyddie has to
get up at the crack of dawn each day to put in a sixteen-hour (!) shift. It's hard,
back-breaking toil, and poor Lyddie never gets a moment to herself. To make matters worse, her
boss, Mrs. Cutler, is a mean woman who watches Lyddie like a hawk all day long, ready to pounce
on the slightest mistake. She also doesn't trust Lyddie, thinking that she'll steal at the drop
of a hat unless she's under constant surveillance.

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Comic Relief Examples

provides an
interlude in a tragic world. In  there are two comic figures, the Nurse and
. In fact, Mercutio is more than comic, and is such an interesting character that Shakespeare
removes him in Act III because he threatens to overpower 's character in personality and
importance.

• The Nurse

With her
bawdy humor and ridiculous appearance, the Nurse is a figure who appeals to the groundlings at
the Globe Theatre and continues their interest through the more profound passages. In Act I, she
is silly, prattling aboutas a baby untilscolds her, "Enough of this."

Then, in Act II when the Nurse goes to meet Romeo as Juliet's envoy, she is the target
of almost slapstick humor as Mercutio notices her abundant attire, shouting, "A sail, a
sail!" After she returns in , she toys with Juliet who is so eager to learn what has
transpired, complaining of her aches and rambling again instead of telling Juliet what Romeo has
said. When she finally informs Juliet that Romeo wants to marry her at 's cell, the bawdy Nurse
teases her about their marriage night and what will happen as "climbing a bird's nest"
is vernacular for copulation:

Hie you to church; I must
another way,
To fetch a ladder, by the which your love
Must climb a bird's
nest soon when it is dark.
I am the drudge, and toil in your delight;
But you
shall bear the burden soon at night. (2.5.74-78)

• Mercutio

A masterful comic, Mercutio teases Romeo
continually and makes use ofand bawdy jokes. His view of love is a counterpoint to Romeo's
courtly love and unrealistically romantic ideals. In Act I, for instance, when Romeo bemoans his
unrequited love from Rosaline, Mercutio makes the ribald observation that Romeo should go out
and find a woman that will "requite" his passion with physical passion:

If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love
for pricking, and you beat love down. (1.4.4)

Even as he
dies in Act III, Mercutio goes out in comic fashion, making a pun upon the gravity of his wound
and using the language of the lower characters, rather than speaking in verse:

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church
door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me to-morrow,
and you
shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I
warrant, for this world. A plague o both
your houses!
Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to 
 (3.1.97-103)--

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Which factors do you believe should be most important to a member of Congress in making decisions?

There
are really only two factors that are important to a member of Congress when they make decisions.
You can phrase them differently depending on your point of view, but the political science
literature can be reduced to these. First, what is good for my chances of getting reelected?
Second, what is good for my constituents? The first factor is about the member. The second
factor is about the good of the country, "doing the right thing," or adhering to some
moral or ideological imperative.

There's an old saying in politics that the
first job of any elected official is to get elected, and the second job is to get reelected. If
a member of Congress makes too many decisions their constituents don't like, or if they break
the rules or the law, their chances of getting reelected go way down. So they've always got an
eye on the odds of winning their next election, whatever else they do. That's different than
doing what their constituents want or what the member thinks is good for them....

Compare and contrast "A Rose For Emily" and "Battle Royal."

The narrator
in A Rose for Emily describes how the townspeople thought of Emily and her father as a
tableau: a pair of figures riding in a buggy, Miss Emily in white, her father holding a whip.
If we think of a tableau as an illustration of meaning, a performance of sorts, we can see
that Emilys tableau is the performance of gendered roles in the South where womens bodies and
their contained sexuality were highly significant and at the center of culture. To protect the
white womans body, its sexuality and status, meant everything to those who had lived through and
fought the Civil War. But for Emily, protection also meant...

What are three main settings from The Catcher in the Rye with supporting quotations?

Caulfield, the first-person narrator andof , is living in Southern
California, in an unspecified institution, probably a private hospital or retreat, while he
recalls the events that led up to his moving there. In that regard, the institution can be
considered one of the novels settings. On page 1, Holden refers to the "crumby place"
that "isnt too far . . . [from] Hollywood" where his brother lives; he is staying
there in order to "take it easy" after the "madman stuff" that had happened
around Christmas. On the novels last page, he mentions a "psychoanalyst."

Within Holdens narrative, one main setting is the prep school from which he has just
been expelled as the novel begins. On page 2, he names Pencey Prep, which is in Agerstown,
Pennsylvania.

Several other settings are located within Manhattan, the
borough of New York City where Holden lives with his family. In New York, there several settings
than can be considered primary,...

Are there any good quotes from Romeo and Juliet that speak about the pair not wanting to live without the other?

The two fall absolutely head-over-heels in love, and they hardly talk about anything
else. They are consumed with being together eternally, and their lines begin to reflect this
quickly.

In act 2, scene 2,declares:

Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized.
Henceforth I never will be
Romeo.

asks Romeo to give up his last name, as that is
all that stands between themyet it's a significant barrier to cross. In these lines, he says
that he's willing to even relinquish his identity if he can be "baptized" anew as
Juliet's lover because he can't live without her.

Just a few lines later,
after Juliet asks him how in the world he managed to get into her family's property, Romeo tells
her:

With love's light wings did I o'erperch these
walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares
love attempt.
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.

He tells her that he cannot be stopped by her relatives and that his love causes him
to be daring because he is so drawn to...

Friday, 15 January 2010

What might be the symbolism in that Santiago ends up working in a crystal shop in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist?

In 's
, the crystal shop may be symbolic of where Santiago finds himself in the
pursuit of his Personal Legend. In one interpretation, we might see that the crystal acts like a
window, allowing Santiago to see what might lie ahead of him. It is here that he learns from the
crystal merchant what can happen when one does not "seize the time." The merchant also
had a dream, his own Personal Legend to travel to Mecca. However, he puts it off, builds a
business (which he cannot leave) and by the time he can afford to go, he is
too old. This disappointment can be Santiago's if he loses faith, so the
crystal could be showing him what life might look like for him. However, it would be important
also to remember that when looking through crystal, the image on the other side is distorted, so
this would suggest that Santiago would have to decide with his heart, and not by
what...

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Compare Dr. Jekyll and Lanyon's character in "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Dr. Lanyon
and Mr. Utterson are Jekyll's oldest friends. Lanyon and Jekyll are both scientists. Jekyll has
a pleasure seeking "gaiety" beneath his grave, serious manner, and Lanyon has a
similar personality, though his "boisterous" self is not hidden beneath a facade.
Utterson describes him as follows:

a hearty, healthy,
dapper, red faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and
decided manner.

When Utterson begins to question him
about his relationship with Jekyll, Lanyon says he has not seen much of him in the last ten
years. He says...

Compare and contrast Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Lanyon from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

There are
few similarities between Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll aside from their friendship with Utterson and
the obvious fact that they are both doctors. Dr. Jekyll values reputation above character. He is
supposedly pious and does good works without understanding that it is not possible to live a
moral life without possessing integrity. He seeks to avoid responsibility for his actions. The
flamboyantly evil Mr. Hyde represents Jekylls darker side, but there is a slyness, weakness, and
lack of reason in Jekyll that has given birth to his ugly twin.

Dr. Lanyon is
a friend of Jekyll and Utterson and is the character in the book who is most wedded to
rationality. He withdraws from Jekyll when he perceives that Jekyll has rejected science and
reason. Jekyll turns to Lanyon when he needs reliable and dispassionate help. Contrary to
reason, Lanyon does not refuse Jekyll, and this has dire consequences.

How is Oedipus Rex an admirable character?

In my
mind, the most admirable quality Oedpipus possesses is his commitment to the citizens of
Thebes.  He recognizes that his people are suffering and accepts his responsibility to do what
he needs to ensure that their pain is alleviated.  On many levels, this is powerful.  The
initial recognition of political self with personal self creates an image of the leader who is
willing to ensure suffering for the sake of his people.  Another level of positive attributes
revealed here is thatpossesses no fear in terms of acknowledging what has to be done.  Consider
the leader who realizes that his suffering will end...

Does the short story "Young Goodman Brown" demonstrate the devil's claim that "Evil is the nature of mankind"? Explain the concept of evil in the...

The story
demonstrates that evil is the nature of mankind in two ways: first, Brown is evil in rejecting
his faith (Faith) that people can also be good; and second by the fact all people in the story
participate in evil in some way. This fact, however, does not cancel the fact that people might
also be good. What the devil does not say is that goodness is also the nature of mankind, but
the lives the people in the village lead demonstrate this. It is not that they are hypocrites;
rather they are both good and evil, for such is the real human condition as a result of our fall
from Paradise (within the context of the theme of the story). Hawthorne wants us to understand
this dualism in which we all share: we are simultaneously good and evil, and to reject one or
the other results in alienation from the greater community of humankind. Not to accept this
results in distrust, and not to realize the possibilities of our dark side results in
hypocrisy. Thesealienation from others and hypocrisyare, in Hawthornes view, the greatest
sins.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Need help with this precalc question

The
Mathematical induction has two steps:

1) Base case: show that statement is
true for first natural number, typically...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

How is divinity represented in Dante's Inferno?

Dante's Inferno is the first part of the three that make up the
epic poem The Divine Comedy, the second being
Purgatorio and the third, Paradiso. In it, Dante, both
as a poet and a pilgrim, embarks on a journey through hell, accompanied by the ancient Roman
poet Virgil. Together, Dante and Virgil visit all of the nine circles of hell and see the people
who were banished there to bear the punishment for their sins. God and other divine creatures
are not physically present in hell; however, they are often mentioned.

In
Inferno , those who are divine are presented as the...

Explain two of the "Great debates" of the constitutional convention. How were they resolved? What impact did these resolutions have on the further...

There were
a number of contentious points at the Constitutional Convention that were settled in the
so-called Great Debates. One of the major sticking points was over the power and representation
afforded to small states and large ones. Many felt that congressional representation should be
determined based on population size. States with larger populations, such as Pennsylvania and
Virginia clearly favored this idea. However, representatives from smaller states, such as
Delaware and New Hampshire, were worried that this would mean that they could be easily
side-lined in Congress.

William Paterson, of New Jersey came up with a plan
in which each state would get an equal number of representatives regardless of size. This became
known as the New Jersey Plan. The larger states objected, saying that that would allow unfair
representation by giving undue weight to small populations. Their plan would create a
representative body based solely on population size. This was called the Virginia
Plan.

Roger Sherman of Connecticut came up with a compromise. He proposed
that both plans be combined to create a bicameral legislature in which one part (The House of
Representatives) would be based on population. The other part (The Senate) would give each state
equal representation. This is known as the Connecticut Plan or The Great Compromise. It is still
the current system today and functions to balance the needs of small and large states.

Another debate involved the issue of slavery. Already, there were strong anti-slavery
movements at work in the young nation. The Southern states, whose economy was largely dependent
on slavery, wanted to make sure that the institution of slavery would be protected. Southern
representatives argued for constitutional clauses that would protect the slave trade. There were
those, such as Luther Martin of Maryland who argued against slavery, saying that keeping people
in bondage was antithetical to the notions of freedom on which the country was founded. There
were many who agreed with him and a lively, and sometimes nasty debate ensued.

However, fearing that pushing too hard against slavery would result in the complete
loss of the Southern states, the anti-slave faction eventually gave up. In a compromise, they
kicked the can down the road. They agreed that no law limiting the slave trade would be passed
until 1808. By avoiding a conclusive agreement over the existence of slavery in the United
States, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention merely put the issue off for future
generations to rectify. This would result in nearly a century of debate and conflict that would
cumulate in the Civil War.

How did life in the South change for blacks after the Civil War ?

With the
exception of a short time during Reconstruction, life for African Americans in the South did not
change that much, particularly in the economic and political realms.

Politically and economically, African Americans remained very much marginalized.  There
were, of course, some African Americans who participated in the Reconstruction governments.
 However, this did not last long at all.  Within two decades, blacks would be essentially
disenfranchised and have little more in the way of political rights than when they were
enslaved.  Economically, African Americans remained on the very bottom.  Most blacks were
sharecroppers or tenant farmers.  They were often indebted to the extent that they were
essentially tied to the land on which they worked. 

Socially, there were some
real changes.  Most importantly, African Americans were free.  They were able to keep their
families together without fear of being sold.  African American women were no longer subject to
the sexual whims of their owners.  African Americans were able to start creating their own
vibrant communities in ways that had not been possible under slavery.

Monday, 11 January 2010

How can we differentiate between two points of view in Eveline? What is the purpose of having two points of view?

s short
story is told from two points of view; the narrator and Eveline, both in
third person. We can differentiate between these two points of view by paying attention to what
is known by the person relaying the story. The narrator sees her sitting by the window in the
beginning of the story: She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. This
narrator describes the scene, the history that took place on Evelines street, the people who
lived there before and what life was like. Then, the point of view becomes inside Evelines head:
Home! . . . Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never
dreamed of being divided. The story alternates between the narrators view on Evelines story and
Evelines thoughts.

The purpose of these two points of view give us both the
realities surrounding Evelines predicamenther mother and brother are dead, her other brother is
often gone, her father is a...

Sunday, 10 January 2010

How does Winston's physical appearance differ from O'Brien's in 1984 by George Orwell?

In
, there is a strong contrast between the physical appearances ofand .
Winston has a small frame and weathered features, much like a typical worker:

He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the
meagreness of his body merely emphasised by his blue overalls... His hair was very fair, his
face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razors. 

In contrast, O'Brien is a much larger and stronger-looking man,
perhaps representative of his role in the Inner Party:

OBrien was a large, burly man with a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, brutal
face.

In Part Three of the novel, these physical
appearances change significantly when Winston is being tortured by O'Brien in the Ministry of
Love. Winston is described as a "bowed, grey-coloured skeleton" with
"battered-looking cheekbones." O'Brien looks very different, too:

His face€¦ looked coarse and worn, with pouches under the eyes and
tired lines from nose to chin.

In Part One of the novel,
then, Winston and O'Brien look very different, but by Part Three, their similarities become
apparent. Both men are battling rebellion, albeit from different perspectives (Winston is the
rebel while O'Brien is the punisher). The emotional impact of this time is evident in their
changing physical appearances. This is, perhaps, 's way of stating both men are not so different
after all because both, by the end, will love Big Brother. 

How is an aggregate demand curve derived? What would cause the aggregate demand curve to shift to the right? Macro Econ 3rd ed., McEachern

In an
economy, the total demand for goods and services is referred to as the aggregate demand. The
quantity of goods and services bought is dependent on the price. The aggregate demand curve is a
graphical representation of the price versus the gross domestic produce; or the GDP at different
prices levels.

The shifting of the demand curve to the right implies that for
the same price, the total goods and services being bought has increased. There are many factors
that can result in this. Some of these include changes in interest rates, changes in government
spending and investor demand. If the government were to increase spending to boost the economy,
the aggregate demand curve shifts to the right. Similarly, a decrease in interest rates leads to
the aggregate demand curve shifting to the right. An improvement in the state of the economy
with rising income levels also increases the GDP at any particular price. This again shows up as
the aggregate demand curve shifting to the right.

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Saturday, 9 January 2010

Identity Salience

Identity salience is defined by the
University of Pennsylvania as the degree to which your idea of your self is in harmony with the
role you are preforming; the corresponding degree to which you invest effort in the role; and
the ultimate degree to which you then succeed in that role:

Important in identity theory because the salience we attach to our identities
influences how much effort we put into each role and how well we perform in each role.
(Desrochers & Thompson)

This is related to the idea
of integrity as it relates to being whole, entire and undiminished. What the definition of
identity salience means is that if we feel a role we perform is out of harmony with our vision
of our self-description (identity) or, worse yet, opposed to our vision of self or, even worse,
antithetical to our self-vision, then we will not invest effort, inspiration, energy in the
role. Thus success in the role will be impeded to varying degrees, to the degree to which we
feel the absence, or lack, of identity salience.

An example may be taken from
the play The Glass Menagerie. Tom's vision of self was that he was a
writer. His role was as bread winner and factory worker. Tom felt no identity salience with his
job role, where they called him "Shakespeare" for his propensity to write. Tom's
investment of effort at the factory was minimal and he failed utterly by abandoning his role
altogether and running away. Tom felt no identity salience. There are degrees of identity
salience. Tom's example is virtually zero identity salience.

What are some puns (with act numbers) from The Importance of Being Earnest?

Here are four
very popular ones. The one below shows that for the first time Jack has been honest about
something without even trying nor wanting to. Since his "christian name" would be
Earnest, like his father's, he had been technically telling the truth all along, which even was
a shock to him.

Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've
now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
(III.180-181)

(Act 3)- This is the part when Earnest
discovers his father's name was Earnest, making him a true Earnest after all. The way he uses
thisis sort of to justify himself to Gwendoly and her mother, and perhaps to give himself a
squeeze for actually telling the truth for once.

I always
told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I? Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean it
naturally is Ernest. (III.170)

Algernon figures that
marriage is a demoralizing state, and throws a pun at it while commenting with Lane and placing
emphasis on the champagne in married homes.

Algernon: Why
is it that at a bachelor's establishment the ... servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask
merely for information.

Lane: I attribute it to the superior quality of the
wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a
first-rate brand.

The origins of Jack back in the railway
station make Lady Bracknell mock him, and as far as his possible relationship with Gwendolyn,
she remarks to the end of their acquaintance as a "Terminus", a double entendre which
means both "end" and "terminal station" as in the one where he was
found.

Lady Bracknell: Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all
connected ... with any of the larger railway stations in London? I merely desire information.
Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a
Terminus. [Jack looks perfectly furious, but restrains himself.] (III.61)

Hope this helps!

How would explain the link between post-romantic music and the freer thinking music of the 20th Century? How would explain the link between...

There can
be many factors which can explain the change in thought of how music was composed and envisioned
in the 20th century.  I would say that the expansion of individual freedom and its near
universal embrace as a fundamental...

Who was Douglass's second master? [Hint: he worked for Colonel Lloyd.]

's first
master was Captain Anthony, who is an extremely violent, cruel man. As a child, Douglass recalls
witnessing Captain Anthony brutally whip his Aunt Hester, and it is implied that the Captain was
also sexually interested in her. Douglass's first master, Captain Anthony, has three children:
Andrew, Richard, and Lucretia, who is married to Captain Thomas Auld. All three of Captain
Anthony's children live on Colonel Lloyds estate, where Douglass grows up as a slave. In chapter
five, Douglass is around seven or eight years old when he is selected to go to Baltimore to live
with Captain Anthonys son€‘in€‘laws brother, Hugh Auld.

Upon arriving in
Baltimore, Douglass is greeted by his new master, Thomas Auld, and
his lovely wife, Mrs. Sophia Auld. Initially, Mrs. Sophia Auld is
kind and gracious to Frederick Douglass. Tragically, Thomas forbids her from teaching Douglass
to read and write, which motivates him to learn on his own. As time passes, Douglass notices
Mrs. Sophia Auld develop into a callous, severe woman. Douglass uses her dramatic transformation
as an example of how institutionalized slavery negatively affects the masters as well as the
slaves.

Friday, 8 January 2010

According to Rousseau, where does a government obtain power?

According to
Rousseau, the government gets power from the consent of the people it rules.  It does this
through the creation of a "social contract."

According to
Rousseau, people in the state of nature are...

According to George, is Lennie dangerous? Explain your answer with a quote from the book.

understands
thatdoesn't mean to hurt anybody and doesn't have a mean bone in his body, but he also
understands that Lennie is dangerous. Lennie is large and very strong, and, because of his
mental disability, he doesn't know his own strength. He also doesn't know when to stop, so he
can kill an animal or a person before he realizes what he has done.

Because
George knows all of this about Lennie, he is fearful about Curley, a physically small man who
likes to prove himself by picking fights. George shows he recognizes the danger Lennie
represents when he says the following:

But this Curley
better not make no mistakes about Lennie. Lennie aint handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get
hurt if he messes around with Lennie.

George also appeals
directly to Lennie, urging him to stay away from Curley. George says to Lennie:

Look, Lennie. You try to keep away from him, will you? Dont never
speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room.

George's advice to Lennie to have no contact at all with Curley
arises out of his fear of what Lennie might do if he does get into a tangle with the smaller
man. Lennie is an asset in that he can work very hard on the ranch, but this same strength is
precisely what makes him a problem. Therefore, George has to think ahead and anticipate that
Lennie will get into trouble. This is why he tells him exactly where to go and hide in case an
unpleasant situation arises.

As it happens, Lennie does prove a danger to
Curley's wife because he doesn't know he has hurt her until it is too late and she is
dead.

What lines inform of Annabels death in "Annabel Lee"?

In 's poem "," there are actually a few lines that convey the death of his
beloved maiden whose only thought was to "love and be loved by" the speaker.

In stanza three, the tone shifts from one of adoration to a more somber reflection. In
lines three and four in this stanza, he recalls,

A wind
blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

A wind here is...

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Is there an example of appearance vs. reality in act 4 of Hamlet, regarding the revenge plotline?

In ,andplot
a deceptive revenge onfor his killing of . Claudius is desperate to get rid of , knowing that
Hamlet knows that he, Claudius, killed his father. Laertes quite simply and hot-headedly wants
revenge and wants it now. Claudius uses this to his advantage.

The two plot
to arrange a sword fight between Hamlet and Laertes. Laertes will use a blade that is sharpened,
not dull (as would be normal for such a contest). Laertes will also poison the tip of his blade,
and Claudius will make sure a cup of poisoned wine is on hand in case all else fails.

This will appear to be a "ceremonial" fencing match where nobody gets hurt,
but in reality, it will function, Laertes and Claudius hope, as a way to murder
Hamlet.

What changes occurred in American popular culture in the thirties, despite the Depression?

Popular
culture in the 1930s had a close relationship with radio and the movies, which had recently
advanced to include sound. Hollywood movies began to profit in the middle of the decade, and the
studio system was a powerful force in determining content. Musicals, horror films, comedies, and
gangster movies were popular genres and gave rise to the careers of Mae West, Bela Lugosi, and
the Marx Brothers, to name a few. Epics such as Gone With the Wind,
The Grapes of Wrath, and King Kong were also brought
to the screen during the era and were immensely popular with broad audiences. Radio was widely
accessible, as many people could buy them or gather with neighbors to listen. Radio plays, soap
operas, comedians and music were popular forms of entertainment, and political figures gained
wide audiences through the medium.

Gospel, jazz, and blues music gained
popularity, especially in the North, and jazz swing bands that played dance music were wildly
popular both on the radio and in live performances at which people could swing dance, a radical
departure from comparably conservative nineteenth century waltzes, for example. Musical theater
was also a big draw and brought the music of Gershwin, Rodgers, Hart, and others to the
masses.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

What are the subject, tone, and mood of "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Edgar Allen
Poe's poem "" tells the tale of an unnamed narrator who falls in love with a beautiful
woman named Annabel Lee. This romance takes place in a "kingdom by the sea" and begins
when the two lovers are quite young. Despite their age, they love fiercely. Tragically, the
relationship is cut short by Annabel Lee's death, and her family takes her body away to have it
buried. Still, the narrator cannot forget the woman.

Although it begins
cheerfully enough, both the tone and mood of this poem turn quickly toward the gloomy, morose,
and somber. The poem deals, like so much of Poe's work, with untimely death and with the feeling
of being "haunted." We can see this in both the subject matter and the word choice
used ("chilling and killing," "dissever my soul," "demons down under
the sea," and so on).

Monday, 4 January 2010

How did the creature feel after killing William and framing Justine, and what does he tell Frankenstein about the locket?

's
Creature feels empowered after killingand framing Justine. He has nothing against either of
them, as people. In fact, he originally planned on having William for a friend, before he
learned that the kid was related to . However,realizes that hurting these two will hurt Victor,
the one individual most responsible for the Creature's outcast place in the world.

The Creature projects its rage against mankind onto Justine. He tells Frankenstein that
he placed the locket on her to frame her for the crime. He feels he is receiving retribution for
how he will never have a woman look upon him with compassion. By allowing Justine to be framed
and executed for a wrong she did not commit, the Creature is getting vengeance for being treated
as a monster even before he committed a single wrongdoing.

In Coelho's The Alchemist, what kind of magical realism do the Urim and Thummim stones represent?

Coelho has a
gift of combining biblical symbolism with magicalin his novel . The Urim
and Thummim appear in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 Samuel, Ezra, and
Nehemiah in the Bible. They mean "lights and perfections" in Hebrew. They were stones
through which prophets saw revelations from God. More specifically, seers used the stones to
translate texts from one language to another, thus shedding a perfect light on
translations.

Coelho, however, uses the stones like compasses to help
Santiago if he ever has a problem interpreting the omens sent by God through dreams and nature.
The King of Salem, Melchizedek, takes the stones off of his gold breastplate and says the
following:

"They are called Urim and Thummim. The
black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help
you to do so. Always ask an objective question"(30).

The only time that Santiago uses the stones is right after he has landed in Africa and
thieves have stolen his money. Down and distraught, the boy asks the stones "if the old
man's blessing was still with him"(41). The answer turns up yes, but when he asks if he
will find his treasure, the stones slip through an unknown hole in the pouch and drop to the
ground. In the midst of , the boy decides that omens are all around him and he should rely on
himself. The Urim and Thummim remind him that a king once took stock in him and has faith in him
and that keeps him moving forward. So even though the Urim and Thummim may have had magical
powers, Santiago uses them as omens once and as objects of comfort for the rest of his
journey.

In The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, how do Bruno and Shmuel die?

As
different as the lives of Bruno and Shmuel are in The Boy in The Striped
Pajamas, they suffer the same cruel fate, highlighting the futility of war and how no
"fence" can protect anyone, especially when the evil is to be found on the outside of
the fence, as much as inside it. Bruno's family, except his father will shortly return to
Berlin. 

Bruno has forged a friendship with Shmuel and they find many things
to talk about although Bruno never understands the extent of Shmuel's suffering as he sits on
his side of the fence. Eventually, he ventures into the camp shortly before his expected return
to Berlin. Shmuel brings him a pair of "pajamas" and remarks how they look almost
"exactly the same.". With his shaved head and now in his own "pajamas,"
Bruno blends in and the reader is chilled by Bruno's recollection of his dressing-up at his
grandmother's house; "You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person youre
pretending to be," he remembers his grandmother saying. 

Bruno discovers
that the idyllic life he perceived is nowhere to be found. He longs to go home but cannot
disappoint his friend and the boys search fruitlessly for Shmuel's father. Just as they are
returning to the fence, they are caught up in events and are ushered into a room that
is surprisingly warm. The "best friend(s) for life" hold tight to one another as
they, along with the crowd, are gassed.   

Although it may seem inconceivable
to some that any such event could ever have happened and some people are offended by any
suggestion that Nazis suffered as Jews did, Boyne plays with the idea that it could have
happened to anyone; the tables could have been turned and the boys could have been anyone's
children! 

Sunday, 3 January 2010

What is Goody Osburn's background information and personality?

Goody Osburn is described by Mary Warren as a
poor drunken old woman who sometimes begs for food and drink from the more prosperous
householders of Salem. She is a social outcast with no family or friends and no one to defend
her, and her miserable position has done much to make her ill-natured and envious. She is,
therefore, an obvious candidate for early accusations of witchcraft. Elizabeth Proctor contrasts
her own position with Osburn's, saying that no one will dare accuse her, since she is "no
Goody Good that sleeps in ditches, nor Osburn, drunk and half-witted."

Goody Osburn defends herself against the charge of mumbling curses which caused Mary
Warren's sickness by saying that she was only mumbling the ten commandments. However, when asked
to repeat them by Judge Hathorne, it transpires that she does not know a single one. This
ignorance, combined with the rather obvious subterfuge, suggests a low level of both
intelligence and education.

Goody Osburn, who is to hang, and Goody Good, who
confessed, are mentioned together in act II. There is a point in the act where Mary Warren
appears to confuse them, beginning by talking about Goody Good and then referring to Goody
Osburn's muttering and failure to say her commandments without any clear change of
subject.

Saturday, 2 January 2010

How does John mature throughout The Pigman?

When
we are first introduced to John, he thinks very little of how his actions might have
consequences. He considers himself a bit of a "bad boy" with a devil-may-care
attitude. In general, he has a serious problem with authority. It's why he sets off firecrackers
at school and does his ridiculously stupid fruit roll prank. I really believe that John is the
way that he is because he figures nobody cares about him. If nobody cares about him, John
figures he shouldn't care about how his actions affect the lives of other people. Lorraine and
the Pigman are what cause John to start changing. Through those two characters, John learns what
it feels like to be loved and respected by a peer and an adult. Unfortunately, that isn't
enough. John has to see the hurt he causes in the Pigman due to the party in order for John's
heart and personality to really begin changing. Readers only get a very brief glimpse into
John's drastic change, but we do finish the book believing...

What is an example of irony in Oedipus Rex?

A
particularly good example ofcomes when , the blind prophet, confrontsand accuses him of being
the one who killed King Laius. Oedipus is outraged at such a suggestion and refuses to listen to
Tiresias. If he really is guilty of such a heinous crime, then it also means that the woman who
is his wife, , is also his mother. And that's just too horrible for him to
contemplate.

The irony here is that Tiresias, though blind, has the gift of
foresight. This was given to him by the goddess Athena as compensation after she took away his
sight. (Athena made Tiresias blind after he accidentally saw her bathing one day.) Despite his
disability, however, Tiresias' extraordinary powers of foresight make him a wise and respected
seer, someone whose unique abilities to divine the will of the gods mean that his prophecies
must always be respected.

Yet, in a further irony, it is Oedipus who is
figuratively blind in this particular scene. And it is his blindness, his stubborn...

Friday, 1 January 2010

What admirable trait is revealed about Oedipus when he finds out the whole truth in Oedipus Rex?

athenaia86

's is a lesson about the inevitability of one's fate in which
several otherwise-innocent people are drawn together to unwittingly create and perpetuate an
appalling situation which violates all social taboos. Each character is, in some way, trying to
thwart destiny. Laius andare told that their child will grow up to kill his father and marry his
mother. They try to avoid this fate by abandoning the infanton a mountainside to die. The
servant charged with abandoning him tries to prevent Oedipus's death sentence by giving the baby
to another man, who then brings the baby to Oedipus's foster parents, Polybus and Merope.
Polybus and Merope raise Oedipus as their own son, but when he learns as a young man that they
are not his real parents, he demands to know the truth of his origins. Polybus and Merope refuse
to enlighten Oedipus, so Oedipus goes to the oracle at Delphi, where he learns that he is
destined to kill his father and marry his mother....

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Does imperialism as a foreign policy result in more harm than good?

There are
two ways to look at this question. I will share both views, and then you can decide if
imperialism does more harm than good.

There are benefits to imperialism. The
imperial country has an opportunity to gain many things. There is an opportunity for economic
gain. By getting resources cheaper and having a place to sell finished products, the imperial
country may have significant financial gain by having colonies. This may also lead to economic
growth for the imperial country. The imperial country may gain politically. By controlling
various places, the imperial country may be able to spread its influence and its power
throughout the world. There is an opportunity for military gain. By having colonies, an imperial
power may have military bases around the world where its military can be stationed. This may
allow for the imperial power to establish itself as a world power.

There are
some negatives to imperialism. There are costs associated with imperialism. Running colonies may
become very expensive. Setting up and running a government, developing an economic system, and
protect the colonies are very costly. If the people dont want to be ruled by the imperial
country, this may lead to issues for the imperial country. If the people being ruled rebel for
their freedom, the military costs to end the rebellion may be very high. The imperial country
may be viewed very negatively as a result of its imperialistic actions. They may be considered
as occupiers of the land or as suppressors of the will of the people. For example, many Latin
American countries view the United States as a big brother because of our constant intervention
in Latin American affairs in the past. This may cast the imperial country in a negative light in
the court of public opinion. 

Now it is your turn to decide if imperialism
does more harm than good.

A thesis sentence about Perry and Dick which are evil why?

I'm not
sure whether I can give you a thesis sentence, but I think that what you ought to say in such a
sentence is that both of these young men were dangerous characters but they wouldn't have
committed the terrible crime they did if they hadn't been brought together like two chemicals in
a testtube. It is often the case that two people will do things that neither of them would do
separately. I think you can see in the book how they both seem to be trying to impress each
other with how bad they are.

It occurs to me that Shakespeare was
demonstrating the same truth about human nature in Macbeth. Lady Macbeth
could not have committed the murder of King Duncan by herself, and Macbeth pretty obviously
would not have committed it if his wife hadn't kept encouraging him to do so.

You should use Perry's and Dick's full names in your thesis sentence.

Like certain chemicals, antisocial people who are relatively
harmless by themselves can form a lethal partnership when they are thrown together; this is what
happened with Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

That is my
suggestion for a thesis sentence for you to tinker around with. I believe thatfelt that way
about the two killers and may have actually said something like that in his book.

In the famous Loeb and Leopold murder in the 1920s, the two young men would never have
committed the crime separately, but somehow they became lethal when brought together. And the
fact that there were two of them made it possible for the police to use one against the other,
just as they did with Dick and Perry.

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