Take a position: Product functionality is the key to brand success versus product design is the key to brand success. The form versus function...

In many
products, form and function complement each other. Take the example of a fast car like a
Ferrari. The car is designed to be aerodynamic and reduce drag as one speeds down the road.
Thats why it accelerates faster than most cars. The sleek body design contributes to the cars
functionality. Another example is that of modern phones. Nowadays, smartphone manufacturers are
focused on creating products with two to three cameras because they believe that is what the
market wants. The manufacturers cant just put the cameras anywhere, they have to make sure that
design and function complement each other if they want to sell their products. However, if I
have to choose between the two, I would go for design over functionality.

If you want your brand to stand out in a competitive market, you have to
make sure that it has a unique design. We live in a society thats obsessed with image and
beauty. Thats why social media sites like Instagram and Snap Chat are so popular.
People...

Explain three unities related to Oedipus Rex.

The unities of time, place, and action were derived from Aristotle's
Poetics by an Italian theorist, Lodovico Castelvetro, in 1570.

In Poetics, Aristotle proposes the unities of time and action
(unity of place isn't mentioned in Poetics) as guidelines rather than
actual rules, which are based on what Aristotle observed in Greek tragic playsnot what he
intended to impose on the writing of tragic plays. Castelvetro and French classical playwrights
like Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (better known as Moli¨re)
interpreted these observations as requirements and adhered to these unities in their
plays.

According to Castelvetro, the unity of time imposed a twenty-four hour
time limit on the action of the play, the unity of place meant that the action of the play
should occur in a single location, and the action of the play be restricted to a single, unified
plot line:

endeavors, as far as possible, to confine
itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but...

What are the similarities and differences between Augustine and Aquinas when it comes to faith and reason?

In a
sense, both of these theologians are on the same side of the debates over faith and reason. In
antiquity, there was a major controversy over whether secular learning was of any value to the
Christian, famously expressed in Tertullian's question "What has Athens to do with
Jerusalem?". 

Augustine's response in De Doctrina
Christiana was to use theof the gold the Jews took from Egypt. He argues that pagan
learning, like the Egyptian gold, could be put to good use. The study of grammar, ars
recte loquendi et enarratio poetarum (the art of correct speech and interpreting
texts), was needed for reading the Bible, and other elements of the seven liberal arts were
useful in interpreting the literal meaning of the Bible.was important for Christian preachers;
although faith and a morally good life were essential for preachers, skill in speaking was
necessary to inspire an audience. In the Middle Ages, the phrase "Egyptian gold" was
frequently used in discussions about the...

What did Mrs. Whatsit say to Meg to comfort her about her father?

In the
novel , Mrs. Whatsit tells Meg not to despair. She wouldn't have brought
Meg, her brother, and Calvin through the travel in time if there was no hope of saving her
father. At this point, they have already traveled to the planet Uriel so the children could get
a glimpse of the Dark Side and understand evil.

Meg and Charles...

`f(x) = (x^2)tan(x)` Find the derivative of the trigonometric function.

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2) If y = x^n ; where 'n' = constant ;
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I need an outline for my term paper about national identity in Things Fall Apart.

Hi,
hamada:

I don't exactly know your specific topic or thesis, but
here's what I would highlight in terms of major points.

I. In , national identity is clearly
passed down through the male patriarchy by:

A.
 Titles

B. Yam production

C. Wrestling matches

D. Accumulation of cowries

E. Numbers of wives, male children, and their
obis.

II. Identity is agrarian

A. Survival of male children - high importance

B. Cultivation of...

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How does Steinbeck use the character of Crooks in the novel as a whole to convey ideas about America in the 1930s? How would you write the...

Crooks is
an interesting character because he offers Steinbeck a way to examine racism in his account of
oppressed workers in the 1930s.

Crooks is only known by his nickname, which
refers to his crooked back, the result of being kicked by a horse. Through Crooks, we see how
racist the other ranch hands are.

Crooks has to sleep by himself in the
harness room off the stable. Unlike the other ranch hands, he has only a box of straw, rather
than a bunk bed. The other hands don't want him in the bunk house because they think he stinks.
He is often left out of their activities, such as playing cards, and has learned to deal with
his loneliness through reading.

As we see whenpops into his room, Crooks is
intelligent man with a strong sense of dignity. He is embittered by what people have put him
through, but he warms up a bit to Lennie. He becomes excited for a moment at the idea of
participating in the dream of the farm, but he soon realizes that such a dream is not open to a
black man.

What is Medea's tragic flaw?

One of the
reasons as to whyis such a compelling character is because she does not have one particular
tragic flaw.  Her tragic condition is the result of a convergence of flaws.  I think that these
can be summarized by the idea of Medea not recognizing any balance in her emotions.  She fled
her father's home with an intensity of emotions invested in Jason that were never calculated nor
any type of deliberation present.  This same abandon is seen when Medea kills her brother.  It
is also evident when Medea cannot accept that Jason has stopped loving her and loves another. 
While Medea does consider the implications of killing her own children, it is to no avail as the
intensity of her emotions overcomes all reason.  When the Nurse understands Medea's true nature,
the 's flawed condition is revealed:  "She'll not stop raging until she has struck at
someone." This lack of emotional balance is what ends up driving her desire for revenge,
causing her to kill her own children, and is the lasting remnant of her
character.

On "The Raven," is the raven actually there? Or is he just saying that because that's what he thinks because he is going crazy?

This is
a question relevant not only to "" but to other works of Poe and to much of Romantic
and modernist literature overall.

Beginning with the Romantic period, writers
began self-consciously to explore the relationship between illusion and reality in unprecedented
ways. Poems and stories began to be written where there was a deliberate emphasis upon
irrational states of mind and the question of what part of reality is a
projection of one's psyche, of one's thought, as opposed to existing
objectively in the external world. Though Poe is not generally classified as a Romantic writer,
his writing is nonetheless influenced by the trends of the era.

Think of the
oddities in "The Raven" and what they suggest about the mental state of the speaker.
He tells us he is "nearly napping," and this indicates the unusual way we tend to
think and feel when we're falling asleep, in which ideas run together and are freely associated
in a manner that's different from both our normal waking state...

How does Irving in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" make use of American folklore tradition? Identify the gothic, the sublime, and correspondence as...

In the
eighteenth century, writers began to explore the sublime. The sublime is characterized by the
awe a person feels while observing a natural scene that has a striking beauty or majesty. The
feelings evoked by the scene put us in touch, the eighteenth-century school of sensibility and
the Romantics believed, with God's presence in the world. Trying to put this feeling into words
led Romantic writers to compose long passages of lovely description. The sublime can be found in
this story in the following scene that Ichabod sees from afar as he rides along:

The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy,
excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the
distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them.
The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that
into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the
precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark-gray and
purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with
the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed
along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.

Gothic elements are more prevalent than the sublime in this story,
though they are framed in comic tones. The Romantics were interested in the Gothic because it
countered the cold rationalism of Enlightenment thinking. The Gothic is characterized by the
dark, the irrational, and the uncanny. The uncanny is that which is disturbing, most often
represented by the corpse. Ghosts are also emblems of the uncanny. A headless horseman would be
uncanny: a headless man must be a corpse, but it is irrational and disturbing that a corpse
could ride a horse.

Irving utilizes Gothicthroughout the story, although he
does so in a lighthearted way that pokes fun at it. I will quote one example, but you can easily
find more. This is Ichabod's view of the headless horseman:

Huge, misshapen, black, and towering. It stirred not, but seemed gathered up in the
gloom, like some gigantic monster ready to spring upon the traveller.

I am not sure what you mean by "correspondence," but
correspondence is a literary device in which a person is made to correspond with an animal or
some aspect of nature. In this story, Ichabod corresponds with the ghostly, Gothic imagery of
the story. For example, he is always reading about old superstitions, witches, and ghosts. He is
thin and associated with "famine descending on the earth" [namely, death and the
uncanny]. Both Brom and Katrina, on the other hand, correspond with concrete, material,
life-giving images. Katrina, for example, is associated strongly with the solid, material world
Ichabod lusts after. At her house he finds,

The doughty
dough-nut, the tenderer oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling kruller; sweet-cakes and
short-cakes, ginger-cakes and honey-cakes, and the whole family of cakes. And then there were
apple-pies, and peach-pies, and pumpkin-pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef. .
.

What type of unemployment is it when the minimum wage increases? Is it structural, frictional, cyclical, or voluntary unemployment and why?

Structural
unemployment is unemployment related to structural, or systemic, changes in the economic
system. Therefore, unemployment directly related to raising the minimum wage is called
structural unemployment. The issue in the system is that the amount of profit each company
receives will remain roughly the same; therefore, margins will decrease in terms of paying
employees, so employees will have to be let go.

While an increase in the
minimum wage would mean that the individuals who are paid the increased wage will have more
disposable income, the argument does not hold up that it would cause an increase in spending to
offset the loss of profit, because fewer people would be receiving that income (if a company
chose not to cut spending in other areas, such as to its CEO's salary). Unemployment is a
complex system, but in the end, drastic changes in minimum wage will cause a state of structural
unemployment.

Describe what Emily sees when she relives her 12th birthday in Act III. Why does witnessing these events upset her so much?

Emily
Webb, who dies in childbirth, is only a teenager herself when she passes away. Despite the other
deceased characters' advice, she decides to revisit one day in her small-town life.

On her twelfth birthday, Emily observes the town before the recent changes: there are
many horses and no cars. She recognizes people she knew, such as Constable Warren, whom she
knows has since passed away. The constable speaks with her father, just returned from a city
visit, about once having saved a man who might have frozen outside in the winter, but he
downplays Mr. Webb's suggestion that it was heroic.

Emily's parents' age
makes an impression. She remarks on their youthful appearance. She sees her mother in the
kitchen of their home and chats with her over breakfast. Her efforts to speak about events since
that day are futile.

Emily finds the whole experience unbearable and goes
back to the afterlife setting. Realizing how much daily life occupies people, Emily is saddened
by the waste of precious time. She asks rhetorically, "Do any human beings ever realize
life while they live it?"

How does Shakespeare rehabilitate Brutus's and Cassius's characters after their deaths in Julius Caesar?

By
act 4 of Shakespeare's historical, Caesar's assassination seems like a
distant memory. Assassins Brutus and Cassius escaped to Greece and raised an army, and within a
year, Rome is embroiled in a civil war. The Triumvirate of Mark AntonyOctavius Caesar (later
known as Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome)and Lepidus rules Rome and its western empire, and
Cassius and Brutus command a rebel army in control of Rome's eastern empire.

In act 4, scene 3, Brutus has cause to remind Cassius about Caesar's assassination
while they argue about bribes paid to Lucius Pella by the Sardians. The argument deteriorates
into personal attacks between Cassius and Brutus. They challenge and threaten each other until
Cassius offers Brutus his dagger and tells him to kill him with it.

Shakespeare is demonstrating that, despite his faults and the role he played in
Caesar's assassination, Cassius is still an honorable man who is willing to die for his beliefs
and for his honor.

Likewise, Shakespeare begins to rehabilitate Brutus by
having him forgive Cassius for challenging him, and he reconciles with Cassius as a friends and
comrade-in-arms.

In act 5, scene 1, Cassius and Brutus agree that if they
should lose the coming battle with Mark Antony's and Octavius's forces they will commit suicide
rather than be taken back to Rome to be debased and dishonored.

The battle
ensues. Cassius mistakenly believes that Mark Antony and Octavius have been victorious, and
Cassius fulfills the vow he made to Brutus. Shakespeare has Cassius killed with his own sword
(demonstrating his honor) by his slave, Pindarus in exchange for his freedom (demonstrating
Cassius's nobility).

Brutus is ultimately defeated by Mark Antony and
fulfills his vow to Cassius by running onto his own sword.

Shakespeare gives
Cassius and Brutus honorable deaths, each of them believing that what they did was right for
Rome, and each of them calling on Caesar as they die:

CASSIUS. Caesar, thou art revenged,
Even with the sword that kill'd thee.
(5.3.45€“47)

BRUTUS. Caesar, now be still;
I kill'd not thee with
half so good a will. (5.5.56€“57)

Nothing more is said
about Cassius, but Shakespeare has Antony speak on Brutus's behalf, extolling his virtues and
validating his motives for assassinating Caesar for the good of Rome:

ANTONY. This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the
conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He
only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of
them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might
stand up
And say to all the world, This was a man! (5.5.74€“81)

Shakespeare completes Brutus's rehabilitation by having the
victorious Octavius honor Brutus with a burial befitting a general and a statesman:

OCTAVIUS. According to his virtue let us use him
With all
respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,
Most
like a soldier, order'd honorably. (5.5.82€“85)

Friar Lawrence, Right or Wrong? Was it right for Friar Lawrence to marry Romeo and Juliet?

as a member
of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church is clearly in the wrong for his performing a marriage
ceremony for .  , who was a closet Catholic exposes in this place some of the corruption of the
clergy of the Church, perhaps in order to ingratiate himself with Queen Elizabeth, who was a
patron of the theatre.  For, in the Catholic Church marriage bans must be posted six months
before couples are married, and no couple can marry until there are no objections to their
marriage at the end of the six months.

This is the first of Friar Laurence's
acts which break his vow of obedience to the Church.  His making of certain potions would at
least be frowned upon.  Then, his giving of a vial of these potions towould clearly be brought
before his superiors. 

What is the meaning of "nevermore" repeated by the raven? How does it change throughout the poem?

The brilliance
of Poe's immortal poem "" is this: an ordinary corvid flies into the narrator's house
one night, perches over his door, and starts squawking (as birds are wont to do). Due to the
extremely fragile state of the narrator's tortured mind, this simple, simple soundrepeated over
and overcauses him to go hopelessly mad. 

"Nevermore" is the sound
that the narrator hears when the raven opens its mouth. It's no great surprise that his mind
created something unusualafter all, we hear the words "cock-a-doodle-doo" from
roosters. The word does not immediately cause stress upon his brain, just as the melodic chimes
begin sounding beautifully in Poe's "" before they turn to gradually to a cacophony of
torture. 

In both poems, a lovesick man hears a neutral external noise and is
driven mad by his own mind's inability to find peace in its agony. "Nevermore" becomes
a cruel mantra; it becomes the jeering of the gods at his own attempt to mourn his lost love; it
becomes the beak in his heart and the shadow upon his soul.  

What are the differences between respiration and photosynthesis ?

The two are
opposite ends of the same scale.

Photosynthesis is used to collect energy
from the sun and store it as chemical energy in sugar.  Respiration releases this stored energy
and uses it for other things e.g. movement. 

Photosynthesis chemical
equation: `6CO_(2)+6H_(2)O ->C_(6)H_(12)O_(6) + 6O_(2)`
Respiration Chemical
equation: `6O_(2)+C_(6)H_(12)O_(6)->6CO_(2)+6H_(2)O`

Plants and plankton
carry out both Photosynthesis and respiration, Other living things carry out only respiration. 
Organisms that carry-out photosynthesis are producers.  Organisms that only carry-out
respiration are consumers. 

I hope this helps. 

What religious groups lived in the Virginia Colony?

Beginning in
1624, the law in the Virginia Colony stipulated that white Virginians worship in the Anglican
church, also known as the Church of England.However, there were plenty of religious dissenters
who lived in the colony from its earliest days, and they represented various Protestant sects.
Over time, the religious diversity of the colony grew.

By the mid-18th
century the influence of evangelicals, especially Baptists, drew in many converts, among them
African American slaves.Presbyterians and Methodists were two other Christian denominations that
grew in popularity in the colony.

Anglican leaders chose not to challenge the
existence of Protestant sects, but they were intolerant of the belief systems of Native
Americans.Moreover, they were intolerant of the belief systems that some African Americans had
brought with them to the colonies from Africa.

what is Miss Maudie's attitude about the outcome of the trail

In , , ,
and Dill visit Miss Maudies home the day after the trial and she proceeds to feed the children
pieces of her famous Lane cake as she attempts to console Jem about the unfortunate verdict.
Miss Maudie begins by encouraging Jem not to fret and tells him that things are never as bad as
they seem. Although Jem is too upset and hurt to agree with Maudie's assessment of the trial,
she begins to name the numerous people who supportedthroughout the proceedings. Miss Maudie
informs Jem that Sheriff Tate, Judge Taylor, and the entire black community supported Atticus's
defense of Tom Robinson.

Miss Maudie also comments on the fact that Judge
Taylor specifically named Atticus to take the case, instead of the inexperienced Maxwell Green,
because he knew that Atticus would valiantly defend Tom. Despite the outcome of the trial, Miss
Maudie is able to see the many positives and believes that it was a small baby-step in the right
direction towards racial equality. Although Miss Maudie supported Atticus, she was not naive
enough to believe that he would win the case. However, she is able to exercise perspective and
acknowledge the many positive aspects of the trial. Overall, Miss Maudie is optimistic about the
outcome and believes that the prejudiced community of Maycomb made an important step in the
right direction.

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In act 5, what has happened to Alfred Doolittle?

Alfred
Doolittle is a man changed by wealth at the end of the story. He returns to reflect how money
has hurt his lifestyle since his earlier appearance. He complains that while earlier in life he
was able to put on airs and receive favors from others, now the expectations on him are greater
due to his wealth. He had little need because he could ask for money or charm people into
helping him because he wasn't wealthy, but now his role is reversed where people are trying to
charm him into money or favors. In addition, his girlfriend, or lady, wants to marry him because
of his newfound wealth. This makes his life duller and more difficult and he wishes to return to
the simpler times of before.

Why don't the girls have names (Jamaica Kincaid's "Girls")?

's "Girls" is
a very short story. Written using 650 words, no periods, and only one sentence ending
punctuation (the question mark), the story's narrator (a mother) tells her daughter about the
trials and tribulations of being a girl. The "dialogue" contains advice and warnings
by the mother and only two responses by the daughter (one where she denies singing
"benna" on Sundays and, with the second, asks what will happen if the baker does not
let her touch the bread). The mother's conversation limits the daughter's ability to respond,
since she continues to talk throughout the whole of the text (even ignoring what her daughter
does say). 

The names of the girls (mother and daughter) do not matter. This
conversation could be held by, essentially, any mother and daughter. For this reason, the author
seems to refuse to name the characters. By not naming them, readers are able to engage and
understand the conversation in a completely involved way. Some readers may even feel as if it
could be a conversation which could take place between them and their own mothers. It seems as
Kincaid wants readers to feel apart of the text (by not naming the
characters). 

How do Jack and Abigail question their parenthood after Susie is killed in The Lovely Bones? Support with examples and quotes.

This is
an excellent question!  Sebold deals with these two characters in totally different ways, in my
opinion a genius stroke of word choice, directly reflecting the characters thoughts themselves. 
Let's deal with them separately:  Abigail and then Jack.

Abigail deals with
Susie's death by completely withdrawing from family life (first through washing the dishes,
later by having an affair, and finally through flight).  It is through Abigail'sthat I first
noticed the genius of Sebold's writing.  Abigail reveals nothing through words or thoughts, only
through actions.  As a result, as a reader, I was continually struggling to understand her
position and her thought process.  Ah, that's as it should be:  Abigail withdraws from family,
reader withdraws from Abigail as a result of.  In fact, although her actions reveal Abigail
questioning her parenting (with her flight from the family to the other side of the country
being the...

Why Do We Need To Study Literature

is one way
for us to hear the voices of the past and work with the present.  It is a way for the present to
connect to the possible future.  Story telling is one way for humans to reach out to other
humans.  It is therapy, confession, entertainment, and knowledge all in one.  Why do we study
it? 

We learn about history we didn't experience, customs we are not familiar
with or that lead to what we do and perform now, hear voices of men, women, children, dragons,
elves, slaves, aliens, and other characters in order to spark imagination. 

We learn to think outside the literal box by reading.  It forces your mind to picture
places and experiences and activates our gestault thinking, which is crucial next to just
spitting back information.

We can also relate to a character, real or
fictional, that may have or is going through an experience like us.  Or who is going through an
experience that we would like to have.  Or through an experience we would like to
avoid.

What was the connection between The Liberator and Frederick Douglass?

"The Liberator" was a weekly anti-slavery newspaper by abolitionist William Lloyd
Garrison, beginning in 1831.  Garrison's extreme views offended...

In Hills Like White Elephants, are both characters static, and is there indirect characterization?

As with most
of Hemingway's work, there is much indirectand plot progression in his story "." This
operates on what Hemingway callsand what many critics callthe Iceberg Theory; the idea is that
the majority of the significance and meaning of a story is hidden, much like an iceberg,
underneath the surface.

The characters are active
throughout the story, but they are seemingly static. Hemingway sort of straddles the line
between nothingness and significant action. After discussing seemingly trivial things, such as
the hills looking like elephants, and the name of the drink they're trying, the girl
says:

"I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we
do, isn't itlook at things and try new drinks?"

They are, in a sense, static, because of the great unimportance of their dialogue. Of course,
this quickly changes, and Hemingway unloads a heavy plot point upon the reader. Through
discretion and indirect speech, it is revealed that the couple plan...

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We are told his ulcerous sore "had begun itching unbearably." For what could this ulcerous sore be an objective correlation?

This is a
tough one.

Remember, T.S. Eliot's formalist theory says that

The objective correlatives purpose is to express the characters
emotions by showing rather than describing feelings...

AND

this action of creating an emotion through
external factors and evidence linked together and thus forming an objective correlative should
produce an authors detachment from the depicted character and unite the emotion of the literary
work.

Let's track the ulcer:

pg. 1: a varicose ulcer above his right ankle

pg. 4: Moreover his varicose ulcer had begun itching
unbearably. He dared not scratch it, because if he did so it always became
inflamed. The seconds were ticking by. He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the
page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a
slight booziness caused by the gin.

pg. 17: His veins had swelled with the
effort of the cough, and the varicose ulcer had started
itching.

pg. 41:reached down and cautiously
scratched his varicose ulcer. It had begun itching again. The thing you
invariably came back to was the impossi- bility of knowing what life before the Revolution had
really been like. He took out of the drawer a copy of a childrens history textbook which he had
borrowed from Mrs Parsons, and began copying a passage into the diary:

pg.
48: and his varicose ulcer was throbbing

pg
87: He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving
only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had
stopped. The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make
faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice. Now that they had a secure
hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet
infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. What mattered was that the room over the
junk-shop should exist.

pg. 158: Here and there under the dirt there were the
red scars of wounds, and near the ankle the varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass
with flakes of skin peeling off it. But the truly frightening thing was the
emaciation of his body. The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton: the legs had
shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs. He saw now what OBrien had meant about
seeing the side view. The curvature of the spine was astonishing. The thin shoulders were
hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending
double under the weight of the skull. At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a
man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease.

pg. 160: They had
dressed his varicose ulcer with soothing ointment. They had pulled
out the remnants of his teeth and given him a new set of dentures.

Notice,is showing us how Winston feels, rather than telling us.  Orwell is connecting
the ulcer to the journal and, later, to .  The ulcer stands for emotional/intellectual
rebellion, rather than itself.

"He dare not scratch it" is to say
"he dare not write it" (in his journal) or "think it" (thought crime).  As
he grows fatter, more comfortably rebellious, it subsides.  Then, after he is caught, O'Brien
and the Ministry treat it, soothe it with ointment.  They torture him; control his body.  He no
longer thinks or writes.  The ulcer never was.  I has become an unulcer.

Remember, a satirist must always concern himself with, according to Kubrick,
"precious bodily fluids."  So, which would you rather have?

Emaciated and rebellious = itchy ulcer

Fat and rebellious = nonitchy
ulcer

Emaciated and not rebellious = no ulcer

What are the characteristics of Postcolonialism that can be found in literature? (For example the poem "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara)

is, as the
word parts indicate, a period of time after the end of British or French colonialism in various
parts of the world. As can be expected, it is characterized by opposition to the colonial
conquerors, frequently focusing upon racial relationships and the effects of racial domination;
in addition, the literature often indicts white and/or colonial societies. One such example of
Postcolonial literature is this vituperative passage written by Elaine Potter Richardson, who
changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid. She was educated in British schools in Antigua:

Antigua is a small place, a small island . . . . settled by
Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe,
who used enslaved but noble and exalted human beings from Africa . . . . to satisfy their desire
for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence, so that they could be
less lonely and emptya European disease.

Despite the
progress that is brought to countries under European colonialism, there is usually a resentment
toward the Europeans who have conquered and subjugated the native people,leaving them to feel
that they have lost their voices in their own land as a result. This conflict of identity is
often an issue that postcolonial literature deals with as in Albert Camus's story "The
Guest" in which the main character's loyalties are torn between the native culture and the
French Colonial government.

In "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara,
the speaker expresses the affect of both cultures upon him; he cannot remove himself from the
Colonial culture despite his love for his own. The first two stanzas describe a certain primal
excitement, "simple paths" of feeling as the speaker is in touch with the land. Then,
in the third stanza, he is transposed to a more complex world of "tear-furrowed
concerto," the rule of those colonists from "far-away lands/" There are mixed
feelings:

....But lost in the labyrinth
of its
complexities, it ends in the middle
of a phrase of daggerpoint

And I
lost in the morning mist
of an age at a riverside keep
wandering in the mystic
rhythm
of jungle drums and the concerto

The
"daggerpoint" is connotative of the danger and damage of colonialism that has affected
the speaker who feels "lost" and "wandering" in a rhythm of the spirit that
includes the duality of the African "jungle drums" and the European piano
"concerto."

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In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo states that Juliet is the sun, and she says that he is the night. How is this an oxymoron?

At the beginning of act
2, scene 2,climbs into 's garden and calls her the "fair sun" who can kill the
"envious moon" (2.2.3). He implies, with thiscomparing Juliet to the sun, that she is
as vital to his life as the sun might be: that she is the very center of his universe. He also
claims that the sun is far more beautiful than the moon. Then later, in act 3, scene 2, Juliet
awaits her new husband's arrival at her bedroom. As she waits, she addresses the coming
nighttime, saying that, when she dies, the night should:

Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven
so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to
the garish sun. (3.2.24€“27)

Although Romeo has
associated Juliet with daytime and the sun, she clearly associates him with nighttime and the
stars. While he held the sun up as beautiful, she denigrates and insults it, calling it
garish. This seems to be a bit ofthat the two will never be able to live a
life together, just as the sun and the night must always exist apart. It is not an , however; it
is most accurately described as figurative language that foreshadows their untenable
future.

How does the setting of Emma impact the characters' actions and the plot?

The novel's
setting has the biggest impact on , through whose eyes we see the story. The novel is placed
entirely in Highbury and the adjoining Hartfield, where Emma and her father live, as well as
Donwell Abbey, home of Mr. Knightley. The farthest the action of the novel spreads is a few
miles away, to Box Hill. Significantly, Emma herself has never been farther from home than Box
Hill, which she visits for the first time during the course of the novel.

Because Emma's entire life has been set in a quiet provincial village, this influences
how she sees the world and her own place in it. She has never been anywhere else, so she has an
outsized sense of her own importance. She also places too much confidence in her own judgments,
with comicand potentially not-so-comicresults. She is clueless, to a large extent, because she
has seen so little of the wider world.

Highbury is well delineated as a
social world in the novel. We follow Emma and Harriet as they visit the poor in the...

Compare the musical elements of classical music and impressionistic music.

When
contrasting classical music and impressionist music, let's assume "classical" refers
to the music of Haydn and Mozart's era. With that being the case, these are two very different
types of music. 

The most obvious difference is tonality. Classical music
draws on the tonality codified by J.S. Bach, that of major and minor scales. In contrast,
impressionist music uses expanded tonality, where the chords are not so clearly major or minor.
These composers stack notes upon notes such that there is much less of a sense of a key
center. 

A second difference would be instrumentation. Orchestras of Haydn's
and Mozart's time had fewer instruments, and some of the instruments were not in their final
form. For example, the French horn of the classical period was a natural horn (no valves). In
contrast, impressionist music makes use of a wider range of instruments and the instruments are
advanced enough that they are much less acoustically limited. Impressionist orchestrations
reflect this fact. 

Related to the differences in orchestras between the two
periods, there is a contrast between composers' approaches to tonal color. During the classical
era, composers did not "paint" with sound in quite the same way as the composers of
the impressionist era did. You can hear this in the opening bars of Debussy's "Afternoon of
a Faun," where the flute and the harp establish a rich sonority that signals the beginning
of a story, the sonic equivalent of a play taking place in one of Monet's garden
paintings. 

What are some symbols in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?"

There are a
number of symbols that play a significant role in the development of themes in Marquezs A Very
Old Man With Enormous Wings. The old mans wings are described as buzzard wings, dirty and
half-plucked . . . forever entangled in the mud. The wings emphasize that he is earthly and
human when he arrives in Pelayos home with dirty and torn wings. At the same time, however, the
presence of even these broken wings makes the observers believe that he is an angel, or not from
this world. With this duality established, the old man, by the end of the story, recovers his
strength and flies off under the power of his now strong, angular, and majestic wings. The
duality represented by the wings, then, can represent the theme of appearance versus reality and
the notion that there can be magic in that which appears to lack magic.

The
duality of the wings can also lead one to view the Old Man as a Christ figure. Christ is
believed by many to be both man and God, sharing the dual nature seen in the Old Man. Like a
Christ figure, the old man comes to the town as a poor, humble, broken man and saves the boy and
performs other miracles. He ends up being spurned and humiliated by the people he
saved.

The Spider Woman that comes to the town as a part of a freak show is
also important to the development of themes in the story. While the villagers first flock to the
old man with enormous wings, after time, as the miracles he performs become more mundane, or
consolation miracles, the villagers look for something new to worship. The Spider Woman at the
freak show fulfills this purpose. They leave the old man and start to spend time with the Spider
Woman, and they listen to her stories with pity. She comes to represent the shallowness of human
faith. The Spider Woman shows us that people are fickle and flock to shiny new beliefs, looking
for immediate results. Through Marquez's use of magical , the symbols in the short story all
develop the complex nature of faith as well as mans struggle to remain faithful in a confusing
and chaotic world.

What is Bierce's likely interpretation of the death experience? What is Bierce's likely interpretation of the death experience?

I think the focus of
this story is how, in those precious seconds before we die, our consciousness and mind plays
tricks on us to such an extent that we can deceive ourselves so convincingly. Farquhar's
"escape" takes hours, but in reality it is played out against the backdrop of a couple
of minutes before Farquhar is hung. Bierce therefore is playing with the way that death
experiences affect our understanding, consciousness and perception.

Does anyone have an idea about a website that provides excellent lesson plan ideas? Does anyone have an idea about a website that provides excellent...

This may not be
exactly the type of thing you are looking for, but honestly I have gotten quite a few ideas from
perusing the TED talks, some of them about education, some about more specific subjects, but
they lend a great deal of insight and challenge the way I approach planning and teaching in a
way that has been really helpful.  You can find them on ted.com or if you know who or what topic
you are looking for most of them are on youtube.com as well.

In the "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God," what actions does Edwards appeal in order to sway his audience?

The main
action that Edwards is warning against, possibly even threatening with, the that the unbelievers
can be cast into Hell for their unbelief. He points out that man is not able to save himself
and...

Was Andrew Jackson similar to Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton?

Jackson
was far more similar to Thomas Jefferson (who actually disliked and distrusted him) than
Alexander Hamilton. Like Jefferson, Jackson had a vision for the United States that emphasized
white landowners, or, as it is often portrayed in textbooks, the "common man."
Jackson, like Jefferson, promoted widespread suffrage, and many states removed property
restrictions for voting during his time. He promoted expansion, and made the removal of Native
peoples central to his presidency. He championed the cause of the "common man" in his
so-called "bank war," vetoing and "killing" the Second Bank of the United
States out of a belief that it benefitted the wealthy at the expense of ordinary
Americans.

He also opposed the program of public works funded by the national
government. Jefferson favored what he described as "small" government, encouraged
western expansion, and was most popular among the small landholders who benefited from the
relaxation of voting requirements. Hamilton, on the other hand, openly favored eastern cities.
As Secretary of the Treasury, he instituted many policies that Jackson sought to undo. Chief
among these was the Bank of the United States, which he championed over Jefferson's objections.
Hamilton also promoted manufacturing as the heart of the new American economy, and favored high
tariffs to encourage domestic industry. In Jackson's day, Hamilton's ideas were best represented
by Henry Clay, the founder of the Whig Party and promoter of an American System that featured
many ideas that dated back to Hamilton's time. He was opposed at almost every turn by Jackson.
So, Jackson had far more in common with Jefferson than Hamilton.

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What is a summary of The Best American Essays 2017?

This essay
collection groups together the best selected essays from the previous year, compiled by a single
editorin this case, Leslie Jamison. In light of the 2016 Presidential election, which uncovered
a lot of vitriol and unpleasantness on both sides of the aisle, this collection of essays has a
decidedly political outlook. Particularly with regards to violence, racism, and sexism, this
anthology collection gathers together essays that explore people's experiences with pain and
despair.

From essays like "White Horse" which explores a rape that
was brushed aside by the courts, to stories from the military about death and coping such as
"If I Only Had a Leg" and "Two Shallow Graves", and even stories about
racism and police brutality like "Sparrow Needy" and "The City that Bleeds".
This collection explores some very serious topics and deals with the darker aspects of human
nature on a national scale.

How does Welty's description of Phoenix's appearance, speech, and behavior identify her with nature and with time itself in "The Worn Path"?

In the
story's opening paragraph, Phoenix Jackson is described as "very old and small" as
"she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows." She is further described as "moving
a little from side to side in her steps" like the "pendulum in a grandfather
clock." In this way, Jackson is identified as a person of advanced age and moving in a way
reminiscent of increments of time passing. This motif is further emphasized by the tapping of
her cane, which could be construed as her marking time as she walks.

Jackson
is also identified with nature; as she taps her cane along the ground, the narrator likens it to
"the chirping of a solitary little bird." The old woman does not follow a road;
instead, she cuts through a natural landscape with thickets and woods and even balances on a log
to cross a creek. She walks among denizens of the forest, unafraid and unmolestedif not entirely
at home. She talks to the animals, saying "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls,
beetles,...

1. Of all the characters in Lord of the Flies, it is Piggy who most often has useful ideas and sees the correct way for the boys to organize...

is by
far the most intelligent, rational boy on the island and vehemently supports 's leadership.
Piggy attempts to solve problems pragmatically and offers several logical solutions to improve
the standard of living on the island. Piggy suggests that they make a list of names, supports
Ralph's rule regarding the conch, and attempts to logically solve the problem concerning the
beast's identity. Piggy also suggests that they make a sundial, continually reminds Ralph about
the importance of a signal fire, and even proposes that they start a new fire by the platform
instead of on the top of the mountain. Piggy's character symbolically represents knowledge,
rational thought, and civility but he is continually criticized, mocked, and ridiculed by the
other boys on the island.

One of the primary reasons Piggy is ridiculed by
the other boys concerns his physical appearance. Piggy is unattractive, significantly
overweight, and out of shape. Piggy is also rather annoying and is...

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Describe the government of Oceania.

The
dystopian government of Oceania in 's novel can be identified as a totalitarian regime, which is
a form of government where that state has unlimited authority and strives to regulate every
aspect of society. Throughout the novel, Big Brother is the symbolic figurehead of the
government, and the Party controls its populace through various means of propaganda, economic
disparity, manufactured hysteria, and intimidation. While the majority of the citizens, who are
referred to as proles, live in poverty and ignorance, the Inner and Outer Party members are
subjected to strict government surveillance and regulations.

The...

In "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," whom do you expect to have more understanding, the old man or the younger waiter? Why?

To clarify,
there are three characters in the story, two of whom are older than the young waiter.
Hemingway's "old man" is a deaf patron of the cafe who stays late to drink alone on
the terrace. The young waiter, wanting to close and go home early, resents his presence and
treats him rudely. The other waiter, however, is an older man himself, developed in contrast to
the young waiter.

The reader logically might expect the older waiter to
demonstrate more understanding simply because he has lived longer and experienced more of life;
this inference would be correct. The older waiter is far more understanding and empathetic than
is the younger man. The young waiter shows his ignorance of life and human experience early in
the story when he talks about the old man's recent suicide attempt, saying the old man had no
reason to despair because "[h]e has plenty of money." 

The older
waiter lacks the young man's brash confidence; he knows life better:

I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe . . . With all those
who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night . . . Each night I
am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe.

When the older waiter does leave work, he does not go home. He goes
to another bar, not as nice as a cafe, but a place of light, as well. Eventually, he must leave
even this place:

Now, without thinking further, he would
go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep.
After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

Unlike the young waiter, the older man understands personal
loneliness and the ultimate spiritual loneliness that comes from the belief in "nada":
"It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing
too."

Describe the main characters in "Lamb to the Slaughter".

The
two lead characters in the story are Mary and Patrick Maloney, a married couple who are not very
high up the social ladder since they are a single income family with Patrick being the
breadwinner and Mary a housewife. They probably live in a middle class neighbourhood
since, Patrick works for the Metropolitan police, he is entitled to a number of social benefits
such as subsidised accommodation, medical benefits and so forth.

The story's
primary focus is Mary. Dahl's physical description of her in her pregnant state with the focus
on her mouth and her eyes, accentuates how innocent and harmless she appears. It is the type of
mouth one would expect to never utter a vindictive or disgusting word, and eyes which convey
innocence and trust, like those of a young child: 

Her
mouth and her eyes, with their new calm look, seemed larger and darker than
before.

There is, however, a slight hint
of some malevolence in the description of her eyes as being 'darker
than before.' This, up to now, suppressed element of her nature, later shockingly comes to the
fore when she murders Patrick, creates an alibi, has the investigators eat the evidence, and
then giggles about it.

Mary is clearly a devoted, loving wife, who literally
spends more than a fair portion of her day anticipating and preparing for her husband's arrival
from work. She obviously dotes on him and has adopted a servile attitude. There is no mention of
her having friends or family in the story, so her world naturally revolves around Patrick. He
seems to provide meaning to her existence so she most probably is obsessive about him. It is
clear that Mary lives quite a mundane life and she has developed an almost monotonous routine in
preparing for her husband's daily arrival home. The author makes this quite clear: 

When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a
few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the car tires on
the stones outside, the car door closing, footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the
lock.

For her, this was always a wonderful time of
day.

it is pertinently clear that she
admired Patrick and had great affection for him and she at pains to ensure that he is satisfied,
as Dahl illustrates: 

... she was satisfied to sit
quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house. She loved the warmth that
came out of him when they were alone together. She loved the shape of his mouth, and she
especially liked the way he didn't complain about being tired.

Patrick Maloney's insensitive, abrupt and brusque manner towards Mary's kindness
immediately makes him an unlikable character. He is a policeman stationed at the local office
and he is clearly not in an affable mood. Mary intimates that he is dissatisfied with his
current position when she comments: 

"I think it's a
shame, ... that when someone's been a policeman as long as you have, he still has to walk around
all day long."

Patrick probably sought some kind of
promotion which he hasn't received and he has to remain on the beat - a mind-numbing and
frustrating position to be in. He is exhausted at the end of the day, for he has had to walk the
same area he patrols. He has most probably become exasperated with this routine and the routine
at home that he has gone to seek, and found, some excitement.

When Patrick
tells Mary about his decision to leave, one assumes that he might have become involved in an
extra-marital affair. Mary, like his job, has become too routine, too dull and he wanted out.
His offhanded and uncaring manner informs of a cold and heartless individual. 

"And I know it's a tough time to be telling you this, but there
simply wasn't any other way. Of course, I'll give you money and see that you're taken care of.
But there really shouldn't be any problem. I hope not, in any case. It wouldn't be very good for
my job."

Patrick clearly cares more about his
mundane job than he does about his wife and unborn child. This makes the reader feel that he
deserves his come-uppance when Mary retaliates (probably in a moment of temporary insanity) and
kills him.

In Oedipus Rex, could Oedipus have avoided his fate?

The entire play is
built around an inevitable fate for . He is a character who was born to suffer this . In a
sense, the play's intensity and tragic ending relies on the huge dramaticthat exists: from the
very beginning, the audience knows the true identity of Oedipus, but this is only something that
he gradually becomes aware of before the final realisation. There is no sense therefore
in...

How are each of the Seven Commandments broken?

The
Seven Commandments, as set down by , are supposed to form the basis of the new Animalist utopia
built by the animals after Mr. Jones is sent packing from the farm. But over time,and the other
pigs start making subtle changes to each Commandment, to provide cover for their many nefarious
acts and to give them free reign to do as they please.

The
First Commandment states that whatever goes on two legsi.e. is a humanis an
enemy. Yet Napoleon blatantly violates this Commandment by engaging in lucrative trade with the
nearest town and with local farms.

The Second
Commandment states that whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend.
But try telling that to the hens massacred on the orders of Napoleon for refusing to hand over
their eggs. Some friendship this is!

The Third
Commandment states that no animal shall wear clothes. Napoleon, however, fancies
himself as a bit of a sharp dresser, so ends up disregarding the commandment entirely. The pigs
like wearing...

Why did John Holbrook enlist in the militia in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

John Holbrook
enlisted in the militia because many men from the Connecticut colony were coming down with
diseases and getting hurt in a battle with the Indians. This is an important
transitional...

In "The Black Cat" what earlier mention of violence foreshadows what the narrator does to his wife?

I am
assuming that you are referring 's short story "."  The narrator explains that before
his drinking problem, he had been a very nice man, amiable, with a fond love for animals. 
However, his drinking effected a pretty drastic change upon him; he became irritable and
violent, lashing out at his pets, and even beating his wife.  Any one of those acts might be ato
the brutal murder that he later commits. One particular incident is when his black cat, Pluto,
bites him as he grabs him violently.  The narrator becomes incensed with rage, and without
thinking,

"I took from my waistcoat-pocket a
pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes
from the socket!"

Fortunately, the cat recovers from
this incident, but the narrator showed his tendency to inflict severe harm in fits of rage. 
This foreshadows the later, much more dramatic fit of rage that later ends with his wife
murdered.  He laters hangs the cat, but this incident was done calmly, with "tears
streaming" from his eyes, and not in a violent fit of anger, like with the original
brutality--the original harm to the cat mimics more closely his state of mind when he kills his
wife.  Later, he takes an axe to the other cat that had followed him home one day--this raising
of the axe could foreshadow what happened next:

"Uplifting an axe, and forgetting, in my wrath, the childish dread which had
hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved
instantly fatal had it descended as I wished."

Instead of killing the cat, however, as his wife tries to stop him, he turns on her and
kills her instead.  On the whole, given the narrator's tendency to have violent fits of anger
and rage, and to beat his wife and torture his animals, the end result should not be as
surprising as it could have been.  I hope that helped; good luck!

Why does Tim O'Brien (as the writer) "kill" Ted Lavender and not any other character? What is significant about his death?

I'm not sure
what you mean by "kill."  O'Brien doesn't use the active verb "kill."  It's
the passive verb phrase "was shot," "was dead," and "was shot and
killed."  All of it is in passive voice.

The first mention of Lavender's
death is on page 2:

Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried
tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of
Than Khe in mid-April.

The death is described
matter-of-factly, in passive voice.  O'Brien describes the death as if it were an everyday
occurrence, like the rain or a new mission.  It's part of war.  It's something else to
carry.

There is no one physically responsible for the death in Alpha Company.
 We must assume that a VC sniper took Lavender out with a head shot.  Morally, all the men feel
guilty for it, Cross the most.

Later, the third-person omniscient narration
says on page 7:

...now Ted Lavender was
dead because he lover her so much and could not stop thinking about
her.

So, it is Lt. Jimmy Cross who feels the most guilt
for Lavender's death, not O'Brien.  He carries the weight of the dead body literally and
figuratively (on his conscience):

But Ted Lavender, who
was scared, carried 34 rounds when he was shot and
killed outside Than Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than
20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper
and tranquilizers and all the rest, plus the unweighted fear.

O'Brien has Lavender killed to serve several purposes: Lavender is a symbol of
unweighed fear.  The function of Lavender is to be a doppelganger, a ghostly twin to haunt Cross
(a Christ-figure), the one who feels the most guilt for his death.  The novel begins with a
death here, much like Hamlet does with the Ghost, and Lavender's death
hangs over the story and novel as a whole.  Like the Ghost in Hamlet,
Lavender will keep reappearing.  A major motif, as you know, is the ghost in
.  Observe some of the titles of the other stories: "Ghost
Soldiers"; "Lives of the Dead"; "The Man I Killed."

The purpose of storytelling, according to O'Brien, is to bring the dead back to life
through memory: it is to resurrect ghosts.  That is both the painful and joyous task of a
writer: to turn a war story into a love story by honoring the dead.

How does betraying Boxer benefit Napoleon?

The last
paragraph ofreports,

On the day appointed for the banquet,
a grocer's van drove up from Willingdon and delivered a large wooden crate at the farmhouse.
That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a
violent quarrel and ended at about eleven with a tremendous crash of glass.

I think this wooden crate arrives as obviously a bunch of booze.
The money made fromturned into 's new hobby: drinking. The evidence lies in the actions listed
in the quote above.

In "A Streetcar Named Desire," where do you consider Tennessee Williams' final view toward illusion and reality to lie? Does he align himself with...

I think
that Blanche is presented as a threat from the beginning. Stanley and Stella have a happy life
together and she is expecting a baby. When Blanche moves into their small apartment she creates
conflict between herself and Stanley, between Stanley and Stella, and between Stanley and his
friend Harold Mitchell. She is theand Stanley is the. She is threatening him and his family,
while he is defending himself and his...

What is Dr. Gibbs suggesting as a reason for Simon Stimson's drinking?

No one in the
play is very psychologically oriented or astute, and that includes the town doctor, Doc Gibbs.
That's as it should be, considering when the play takes place. No one knew much about the
various forms and sources of depression, or about bi-polar disorder, or the myriad mental
problems that we have so many names for (and pills for) these days. Doc Gibbs says that Simon
has seen "a peck of troubles," and he leaves it at that.

In the
last act, a dead Simon reveals how negative he still is about life. He says that people, in
their ignorance, trample on the feelings of others. Simon has been scarred by life and the
outward sign of his pain was the drinking he did while he tried to escape his tortured
existence. His final escape was suicide.

Give an example of the propaganda technique of testimonials that the pigs used in Animal Farm.

It's
often the case that people will buy a particular product they've seen advertised on TV because
it's endorsed by a celebrity. And in , certain ideas are accepted by the
animals simply becauseendorses them. A good example of this comes when the heroic, but not very
bright, work-horse adopts the slogan " is always right."

Among
other things, this means that Napoleon can successfully evade responsibility for all the things
that go wrong on the farm. If there's a chronic shortage of food, or a windmill collapses, then
no one can blame Napoleon. He can pretty much get away with anything. Why? Because he's always
right. But there has to be an explanation for such setbacks, and this allows Napoleon andto pin
the blame for everything that goes wrong on , whose reputation they proceed to trash.

Boxer's unthinking adoption of the notorious slogan makes it easier to keep the other
animals in line. On the whole, the animals tend to look up to Boxer, seeing...

In "Araby," what does the Araby bazaar symbolize or represent to the narrator?

The bazaar
first becomes a symbol of the exotic and romantic; later it represents his
disillusions.

The young boy, who acts as the narrator of 's story, becomes
infatuated with the sister of one of the boys in the neighborhood. Mangan's sister inspires in
the boy romantic dreams as the light of his door catches "the white curve of her
neck." As he watches Mangan's sister, the boy conjures dreams in his bedroom at night and
he sees her image on the pages of the book he tries to read.

The syllables of the word were called to me through the silence
in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.

When the boy has the opportunity to speak to Mangan's sister, she
asks him if he plans to go to Araby. Further, she informs him that she has
a retreat to attend, so the boy promises to bring her something if he goes. Unfortunately, the
boy's expectations of an exotic place are ruined when he arrives late at the bazaar. Having had
to wait for his uncle to return home and give him some money, the boy arrives when nearly all
the stalls are closed. He overhears a young woman talking with two men in English accents as
another man counts money. Disillusioned by this tawdry place and with Mangan's sister, the boy
finds himself initiated into the real adult world: "derided by vanity, [his] eyes burned
with anguish and anger."

What is the nature of Willy and Lindas relationship in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. What does Linda believes is wrong with Will?. Why...

In
, Willy and Linda Loman have a complex relationship in which Linda serves
largely as an enabler to Willys dreams and fantasies.  A devoted and supporting wife €“ within
certain limits €“ Linda takes care of the home and cooks the meals.  In addition to enduring
Willys complaints and insults, Linda also serves as his defender against the criticisms of their
sons, Biff and Happy.  From the outside, the Lomans marriage would appear normal.  Behind the
fa§ade lies the truth about Willys affair and the dysfunctional relationships that permeate the
home....

What is ironic about Meursault wanting to say something in his own defense in "The Stranger"?

Meursault
has taken little interest in his own trial up to the point where he wants to testify. However,
after hearing people talk about him, he realizes he is being...

What do(es) the quote(s) "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength" mean?

The answer
rests with the paradoxical nature of the Party itself. How it rules is the exact opposite of how
its propaganda says it controls.It goes directly into the concept of doublethink, which Emmanuel
Goldstein explains through the word "blackwhite":

But it means also
the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget
that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made
possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in
title="Newspeak">Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the
power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of
them.

Thus, according to the Party, "war is peace" means that they
continually "fight" wars in order to keep peace at home. During times of war, nations
generally unite. Of course, if the people are focused on a common enemy, they are much less
inclined to notice how unhappy they are in their own lives. So they make less trouble for their
government. "Freedom is slavery" can be thought of in the same way. the slavery of
Party members equals freedom for Party leaders. Finally, "Ignorance is strength" can
be read "Your ignorance is our strength", again meaning that the ignorance of the
people translates into the strength of the government.

What are the setting and conflict in "The Raven"?

The physical setting of
this poem is the narrator's den.  He describes this room only as a "chamber," but
because it houses books and a bust of Athena, it seems to be a study of some kind (line 16).  In
terms of time, the setting is late December, a "bleak" month that is often symbolic of
the end of life because it is, literally, the end of the year (7).  Further, it is midnight, and
a "dreary" one -- it is probably cold and windy and kind of creepy and bare outside
(1).  Midnight is also often used as a symbol of death because it is the end, or death, of
day.

The poem's conflict seems to be one of the character vs. Nature
variety. ...

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, discuss Marlows attitudes toward the natives. What do they mean to him?

In 's
, 's character sees the natives as a race of people who are being exploited
by the white race.

When King Leopold II of Belgium established a colony in
the African Congo, he proclaimed it was for humanitarian reasonshe wanted to enlighten the
natives. While there was mention of bringing Christianity to themand he even allowed Protestant
missionaries to travel and live in the CongoLeopold was motivated only by sheer greed.

When Marlow travels into the Congo, the Company has hired him to retrieve , one of
their best agents in securing ivoryin fact, there is some jealousy expressed toward Kurtz by
others because no one can compete with the amount of ivory he exports from
the Inner Station.

For Marlow, this begins simply as an assignment. He has
never traveled to this part of the world before. Though there is someby the captain that takes
Marlow to the Lower Station, nothing could prepare him for the way the white men are treating
the indigenous people of what was then called the Congo.

Revulsion grows within him over the white man's dehumanizing colonization of the
Congo. 

Marlow hears the natives described by the whites
as "enemies" and "criminals," but he sees men who have
been enslaved. They walk like they are zombieseven though their bodies live, their spirits are
dead. Marlow is horrified. The men are "...connected together with a chain..." Their
eyes "...stare stonily..." They walk past Marlow "with that complete, deathlike
indifference..."

Marlow leaves the sight of the chain gang behind,
trying to put them out of his mind. We can infer in the reading that he is struggling to
maintain a semblance of self-control.

You know I am not
particularly tender; I've had to strike and to fend off. I've had to resist and to attack
sometimesthat's only one way of resistingwithout counting the exact cost, according to the
demands of such sort of life as I had blundered into. I've seen the devil of violence, and the
devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty,
red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove menmen, I tell you.

This passage reveals that Marlow is struggling to maintain his composure in
circumstances that make no sense. When he sees men...

...scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of massacre or
pestilence...I stood horror-struck...

Marlow is not an
innocent, untried youth. He has had to face hard times in his life, fighting "devils"
of many kinds. This experience, however, has taken its toll.

Marlow cannot
look at the natives as the violent Europeans do; he cannot abide how atrociously they are
treated. Marlow does not see them as criminals, or lesser creatures. He recognizes not
only that they are men, but that those who are driving themenslaving themare demons:
"red-eyed devils."

Marlow's job is to bring Kurtz back. Had he
needed the help of the natives, there is nothing to indicate that he would have treated them
badly. Because Marlow is a man of some moral standing (demonstrated by his reaction), the
treatment of the natives affects him deeply. This foreshadows the horror that still awaits him
on the remainder of his journey. Unlike the Company men, the natives are not a means to Marlow's
success or material wealth. They are flesh and blood as he is. And he is mortified not just by
seeing what is happening to them, but in realizing there is little he can do about
it.

How do Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel? How do they remain the same?

Throughout the course of the novel,andboth
mature and gain perspective on the world around them. Both siblings lose their childhood
innocence after witnessing racial injustice firsthand and begin to perceive their community of
Maycomb differently. Jem becomes jaded with the racist community members and begins to realize
the importance of his father's decision to defend Tom. In contrast, Scout does not become jaded
with her community but begins to recognize the prevalent prejudice and hypocrisy throughout
Maycomb. Both Jem and Scout also become more sympathetic and tolerant towards...

In The alchemist, the king makes a claim that everyone believes the worlds greatest lie, that at a certain point we lose control of what's happening...

When
the King of Salem, Melchizedek, is offering Santiago advice, he identifies fear as a common
obstacle that many encounter on their spiritual journey. The fear of having nothing left to live
for after achieving union with the Soul of the World holds many back from seeking the real
alchemy available to them. The theology of the alchemists is based on the idea that personal
legends are the driving and unifying force that binds the universe together. The mistake that
people make is believing that they only get one personal legend or one opportunity to transform.
The core of the story teaches the reader that this is the myth that human beings must put aside.
Santiago is able to transform from a shepherd to a spiritual seeker, to a man in love, to the
wind itself. If we are held back by the belief that when we lose control we lose ourselves, then
we will never be able to achieve union with the Soul of the World.

How do the events shown in the movie 2081 compare to the events in the short story "Harrison Bergeron"?

Great
question! The film 2081 closely follows the plot and dialogue ofJrs short
story , but there are several differences.

The opening lines of the film
and story are identical. In both, they are used to introduce the dystopian society, the
rationale of handicapping for equality and the Handicapper General. However, in the film
version, much of the dialogue between characters is condensed to be grittier and more realistic.
Some of Vonneguts lines are flowery, such as Harrison claiming to be "Emperor of the
world." Most similar lines are cut from the film 2081.

Harrisons handicaps are also less visible. For example, he does not have the red
nose from Vonneguts story, and...

What are the narrative techniques used in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

The third person
point of view is utilized in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .
Nevertheless, this does not mean there is an omniscient narrative voice like in many literary
works before Joyce (for instance, Dickens's novels).  Joyce was not interested in providing a
depiction of exterior details and overview of the main action. He desired to focus on the mind
of an individual and how the world...

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, who has the light and who has the darkness?

's
represents an ironic reinterpretation of who holds the qualities of light
and dark. The speaker, Marlowe, has all the standard belief of an Englishman of his time in
London as the greatest city on Earth; in real work being done in giving the advantages of
civilization to the native peoples of Africa; and in the superiority of European intelligence
and virtue over the primitive ways of those whao are native to the African continent. In an
ironic twist of fate, Marlowe comes to compare the integrity and dignified behavior of the
cannibals traveling on his ship to the behavior of the Europeans on his ship for...

Select a theme, use threads or cords to complete an art piece that indicate movement. Use at least five types of lines in this art piece.

The
projects theme and the goal of creating the appearance of movement are two components of the
assignment that need to be considered together. Themes that include subjects like animals in
motion, such as birds in flight, lend themselves to this type of assignment. Creating the
illusion of movement in a static work is a basic design principle, and there are several
fundamental ways that artists usually accomplish this goal.

The contrast
between static and dynamic lines is one of those basic methods. Strong vertical and horizontal
lines tend to convey a static appearance, while diagonal lines tend to indicate movement. Using
several different diagonals can further enhance the illusion of movement. The diagonals can go
in one direction or more than one. A classic example of movement indicated through line is
Marcel Duchamps Nude Descending a Staircase, where overlapping, angled
lines indicate the persons moving legs. The use of color may significantly change these
impressions; straight lines in strongly contrasting colors may be used, as in op art, to make a
flat surface seem to pulsate.

Combining straight and curved lines can create
a complex composition that may indicate more than one object or figure moving in relationship to
each other. Working with different thickness of thread, as your assignment requires, can help
provide the sensation of motion. The thicker yarns can suggest the main direction of the
movement, supported by thinner yarns. In three-dimensional compositions, the weight of the piece
tends to make the diagonal lines curve, accentuating the appearance of art. Kay Sekimachi is one
notable artist who has mastered such techniques.

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What is the poem "Richard Cory" about, and what is the theme of the poem? Can you personally relate to the poem, and why or why not?

The poem
"" by Edward Arlington Robinson is about two types of isolation:  isolation from
others, and isolation from physical comfort.  Written in 1897, Robinson's poem recalls the
economic depression when the citizens of America had to subsist on bread, often day-old bread.
These are the people "on the pavement" who work and "curse the bread" in
their miserable lives.  They view Richard Cory, who is above them socially, as almost
royalty:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

But, he,
too, is discontented, for he ventures into town and speaks to people--"Good
morning"--but no one talks with him; instead, he is perceived as glittering like a king and
watched with envy:

In fine, we thought that he was
everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

Sadly, the people's envy is unjustified as Richard Cory is
desperately lonely, so lonely that he kills himself.  It seems that social isolation is the
greater burden.

Sarah Margaret Ferguson, the Duchess of York, wrote how
lonely it was when she was married to Prince Andrew.  She was confined to one floor of Windsor
castle with little lighting, and could only come to other rooms at certain times.  Much like
Richard Cory, she was isolated from the communion of others, one of the basic needs of all
humans beings.  Hers is not an unusual situation for those who are wealthy and
famous. 

What changes would you like to see in the education system? What changes would you like to see in the education system?

Agreed
about the problems with funding education.  I'd love to see some people look at radical outside
the box thinking like students pay back one percent of their annual salary back to their high
school after a five year grace period from college up until they retire. 

There is no need for high stakes testing, because teachers would get more money back to
their school if they put out doctors vs. cashiers.  It's not a perfect plan, but its thinking
outside the box.

Explain what brought about the economic depression of the late 1830s and the emergence of the Whig party.

The
economic depression of the 1830s occurred because of a series of poor decisions made by Andrew
Jackson and state banks. Andrew Jackson disliked the national bank and, in 1832, vetoed the
extension of its charter. However, the national banks charter ran until 1836, meaning the bank
would continue to exist for the next four years. To reduce the effectiveness of the national
bank, President Jackson deposited federal funds in state banks (also called "pet
banks"). These banks had more lenient lending policies, and many Americans went to get
loans from these banks in order to buy western land.

Who finds Juliet first after she drinks the potion in Romeo and Juliet?

Nurse is the first one to
findafter she takes the potion that makes her seem dead.

Juliet is married secretly to , but Romeo has been banished.  Her parents want her to
marry .  To avoid this, she goes to the man who married her to Romeo.  He gives her a potion to
feign death, and although she is afraid, she takes it.

asks Nurse to wake
Juliet on her wedding day.  Nurse enters and calls Juliet a you slug-abed, but the girl will
not wake up.

Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's
dead!(15)

O well-a-day that ever I was born!

Some
aqua-vitae, ho! My lord! my lady! (Act 4, Scene 5)

Nurse
calls Lady Capulet, and she enters to see that her daughter is fully dressed and lying cold in
bed.  She andare very upset, because they find that their daughter has died on her wedding
day.

Adidas Mission Statement

Karyth Cara

Mission Statement

A
mission statement, by definition,
expresses a company's purpose for existing. Though brief and concise, consisting of one or
several sentences, the mission statement includes identification of a company's core purpose and
focus, its intended direction in the marketplace, and of the various business facets that funnel
the purpose, focus and direction into actual business practice and transactions. The mission
statement defines how a company's philosophy will be translated into daily actions in policy and
standards of conduct and of operation. The essential elements of a mission statement
are:

• the nature of products and range of product offerings, which
  includes competitive position in the marketplace and methods of competing


• the intended customers and intended company-customer relationship


• the marketing considerations of price, quality, customer and product service,
  geographic range of product marketing
• the nature of relationships with
  employees and shareholders, suppliers,...
  
  
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Was Frankenstein mean at first?

As a
creation that was man made, not heavenly created, has no soul.  Shelley is very clear to
illustrate this.  He is not "nice" or "mean" but merely full of purpose.  He
struggles not with a moral code that governs most of human society, and feels no remorse for the
crimes he commits.  He is apathetic to the world outside of...

How to motivate school students to learn English? How to motivate school students to learn English?

I think the key
to being successful at teaching any topic, but particulary one that students are reluctant (I'm
being diplomatic!) to learn is knowing your motivation. Why is it important to you and can you
truthfully and specifically answer "Why do we have to learn this?" without resorting
to "because it's the curriculum" or other such responses. If you don't know why you
are teaching it, then they won't know or care why they are learning it. I think the poster who
talked about bringing in a former student was on the right track. Maybe it worked in past eras,
but the nature of today's students is that they cannot be taught in a vacuum. Learning for it's
own sake is beautiful and precious, but is a skill that students must come to on their own.
First we have to show them why and how English not only important and neccessary, but beneficial
to them. The more real world type assignments you use, the more this will make sense to
them.

Discuss the relationship between Winston and Julia in 1984?

andhave a unique, loving relationship, which is prohibited and threatened in their dystopian
society. Initially, Winston and Julia's affair is strictly physical, and Winston views their
sexual relationship as a political act and a blow against the Party. However, Winston and
Julia's relationship develops, and the two dissidents fall in love over the course of the story.
Both characters feel a strong connection to each other and continue to risk their freedom and
wellbeing by carrying on their secret affair.

Winston even rents an
apartment above Mr. Charrington's shop, where he...

Is this 1984 society possible? Explain why you think this could be the case.

Good question for
the discussion board! :)

On one hand I think that this society is possible and
that perhapshad it right on the money when he created the book without fully realizing the
possibilities. The government has a lot more power over its people than it did in the 1940s and
the US government continues to progress in that direction. With the advancements made in
technology it's possible to have a Big Brother type society. There is hardly a place on the
planet left that a person can go and not be found. Computers, GPS, the Internet, this age of
information makes it easy to be watched. If people continue to value ignorance over intelligence
and give the government too much power then I thinkis a probability in our future. People today
would rather someone else think and do for them and with everything being "PC" all the
time our speech is being diminished as well, just like the creation of Newspeak.

On the flip side of the coin because we have so much technology it is
difficult to know all, all of the time. If people start to take more responsibility for what
they do, we might be able to avoid it.

 

What aspects of religion are revealed in Robinson Crusoe?

The novel
by , which tells the story of a man who becomes a castaway on a remote
island for 28 years, is full of religion and religious references. Defoe was a Puritan who wrote
guidebooks on how to be a good Christian, and he wrote the book as a fictional account of a
sinner who has a conversion experience.

In the beginning of the story,
Crusoe leaves home and goes to sea against his father's wishesdespite his father's warning that
God will not bless him if he does this. Crusoe...

In 1984, which quotes show that Julia is resourceful?

In
, 's resourcefulness is one of her most striking characteristics, and this
is shown from her very first meeting with . After falling over in front of the telescreen, Julia
takes Winston's hand and is able to transfer a slip of paper to him, without anybody noticing,
even Winston himself. In fact, it is only after the meeting that he realises what has
happened:

"In the two or three seconds while he was
helping her up the girl had slipped something into his hand. There was no question that she had
done it intentionally."

In addition, Julia is very
resourceful when it comes to arranging meetings with Winston. It is her idea, for example, to
meet in the woods, and she uses her knowledge of the Party's surveillance techniques to keep
their liaisons secret and to avoid detection:

"We can
come here once again," said Julia. "Its generally safe to use any hide-out twice. But
not for another month or two, of course."

Finally,
Julia is also very adept at overcoming the problem of rationing to secure certain goods for
herself and Winston. She procures chocolate from the Black Market, for instance, using her
clean-cut image to deflect attention from her activities, as she explains to Winston:

"I always look cheerful and I never shirk anything. Always yell
with the crowd, thats what I say. Its the only way to be safe."

How does "The Raven" relate to Poe's real life, aside from paralleling his grief for his wife Virginia?

Perhaps it
doesn't.

If you want to, you can definitely point out the
various tragedies of Poe's real life, the struggles he endured that involved everything from
gambling debts to drinking to strained familial relationships to the death of his wife, and you
can find reflections of those struggles in his stories and poems about tortured souls,
especially in his poem "." In fact, Richard Kopley suggests in his introduction to
The Raven and Other Poems that "an appreciation of the losses that Poe
had endured in his life increases our understanding" of Poe's work.

But if you're trying to look too closely to confirm your guess that the
poem and the poet's life have deeper parallels, you may not be
successful.

However, we do have some hints about what Poe was
thinking when he wrote "The Raven."

For example, we do know that he
wanted us to interpret the bird as a symbol of memory. He wanted us to understand the raven
itself as the embodiment of a terribly sad, ongoing remembrance. (I'm getting this from Kopley's
introduction that I mentioned a moment ago.) This makes sense when you think of how the bird can
only say the same phrase again and again: it reveals how we find only limited comfort in our
memory of people we've lost, since we can only access recollections of the finite things they
said and did, since they will no longer say or do anything else or continue to interact with
us. 

We also have some extensive commentary from Poe himself on what he was
trying to accomplish, literary-wise, by writing "The Raven." You can find his thoughts
in his published essay entitled "." You'll find a bunch of insights there, including
the fact that he purposefully wrote that poem to appeal to popular taste as well as to the taste
of the critics. That fact alone might convince us that Poe was primarily working to create a
masterful (and profitable) piece of literature rather than use it to subtly express his own
personal struggles.

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Would it be desirable to hire people only according to the person/organization match while ignoring the person/job match?

Whether
it would be wiser to hire people according to the person/organization match rather than
according to the person/job match is at least partly dependent upon the organization's
assessment of the individual(s) ability to be trained into the job(s) in question.

There is no question that individuals should be capable of performing the duties for
which they were hired. The importance of the individual's ability to perform those duties,
however, varies according to the individual's age, academic background, and prior work
experience. Corporations may, and often do, determine that certain individuals would be a good
fit for their organization. In almost all instances, such assessments include a calculation of
the individual's anticipated ability to perform according to expectations and ability to grow
with the organization. In other words, the distinction between "organization" and
"job" is usually minimal.

Corporations and small businesses have
cultures. Those cultures are often a...

Which is the value of the sum cos 75 + cos 15?

cos75 + cos15 =
?

We know that:

cosx + cosy = 2cos(x+y)/2 *
cos(x-y)/2

Then :

cos75+cos15= 2 cos(75+15)/2 *
cos(75-15)/2

                  = 2cos(90/2) * cos(60/2)

                   = 2cos(45)*cos(30)

                  =
2(sqrt2)/2) * sqrt(3)/2

                  = sqrt(6) /2

In chapter 6 of The Bronze Bow, where do Joel and Malthace hide Daniel and for what purpose?

In
chapter 6, Daniel is confronted by two Roman soldiers while he is leaving Hezron's home and they
demand that he water their horses. Unable to control his temper, Daniel throws the water into
the soldier's face and suffers a serious blow to his ribs but manages to escape. Daniel ends up
staggering back to Hezron's home, where Malthace meets him at the door and ends up hiding him in
a storage closet. She is aware that her father will refuse to allow Daniel back into their home,
which is why she immediately hides him. When Joel arrives, he mentions that he is afraid that a
servant will open the closet and discover Daniel. Joel then remembers a secret room that he
discovered as a child, which is hidden between two walls. The space is very small and is only
two cubits wide, which is equivalent to three feet. Malthace and Joel proceed to drag Daniel to
the hidden room in between the two walls to prevent anyone from discovering him. Malthace then
attempts to nurse Daniel back to health by dressing his wounds and giving him wine. She also
provides Daniel with a sack of grain for a pillow and he ends up staying in the secret room for
five days and five nights until he regains his strength to leave Hezron's home.

In Into the Wild, what was Chris McCandless's biggest challenge?

On a
pragmatic level, Chris Mccandless struggled with gaining the skills to survive on his own. His
determination to live alone and far from the world of capitalism and greed that he abhorred was
a way of rejecting his own participation in that system. But by avoiding having a community,
Chris made certain he would have no one to turn to when he needed help. In the end, it was
solitude that killed him, not only because having people around could have helped Chris avoid
starvation but because other people could have helped him see he was being naive and stubbornly
idealistic.

Despite being well...

How does this chapter prepare for what is to come later in the novel? Example : What image of bleakness are presented, what abuses of people's...

The opening sentence
lets the reader know the setting of the story is not the current day because our clocks do not
strike 13. The reader also is quickly aware of the bleakness of the setting when the description
of the smells refers to boiled cabbage and old rag mats.  A general air of gloom and depression
is pervasive in the introductory description and a definite sense of foreboding is present in
the revelation of the caption under the huge poster of Big Brother. ...

What does the reader learn about Hester's childhood? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In , as
Hester is standing on the scaffolding, we get an outline of her childhood. I will first quote
the entire passage, then unpack the important points:

Standing on that miserable eminence, she saw again her native village, in Old England, and her
paternal home; a decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty-stricken aspect, but retaining a
half-obliterated shield of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility. She saw her
fathers face, with its bald brow, and reverend white beard, that flowed over the old-fashioned
Elizabethan ruff; her mothers, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always
wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a
gentle remonstrance in her daughters pathway. She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty,
and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in...

Business Of Business Is Business

People often
talk about how businesses should have a "social conscience."  They mean that
businesses should act in ways that are meant to promote some greater societal good.  This quote
is saying that that is a silly notion -- instead, the only reason for a firm to exist is to do
business.

I agree with this statement, at least for publicly traded
companies.  If a company issues stock, its only real responsibility is to make money for its
shareholders.  Of course, it must obey laws along the way, but its responsibility is to make as
much money as possible.

Privately held firms are different.  Their business
is to do whatever their owners want.  If the owner wants to use the firm for philanthropic
purposes, that is fine.  But fundamentally, the point of a firm is to make money, not to have a
social conscience.