From To Kill a Mockingbird, what do you think of Miss Caroline Fisher as a teacher?

Miss
Caroline is a bit of an outsider in Maycomb. She is from Alabama but she's from Winston County
which, according to , is notably different that Maycomb. 

Miss Fisher is a
new, idealistic teacher. Apparently, she is a proponent of John Dewey's theories on education
which stress the importance of experience and education as social interaction. (We get this
information fromwho mistakes John Dewey's educational theories for the Dewey Decimal system.)
However, Miss Fisher, being a new teacher, is too single-minded. She chastises Scout for having
learned to read on her own, even though this would have fit one of Dewey's criteria that
education teaches one how to live and interact with others. Miss Fisher is also oblivious when
she tries to give Walter Cunningham Jr. a quarter for lunch, saying he can pay her back
tomorrow. It doesn't dawn on her that Walter might not be able to pay her back. Scout takes it
upon herself to educate Miss Fisher about the Cunninghams: 

The Cunninghams never took anything they cant pay backno church baskets and no scrip
stamps. They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have. 

Scout tells Miss Fisher that she's embarrassing Walter. Miss Fisher
pulls her aside and smacks her with the ruler. As they leave for lunch, Scout notices Miss
Fisher apparently crying. The class will also have to "educate" Miss Fisher that the
Ewell children come to school on the first day and never come back. Miss Fisher's surprise and
concern shows that she does care about her job and the children. 

Miss Fisher
seems like an idealistic, first-time teacher who had come to her first job with high hopes, only
to find that she (the teacher) still had much to learn via the actual experience of teaching in
a new place. 

What is a summary of the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz?

Soledad is a 2001 novel
by American author Angie Cruz (b. 1972). Cruz is an activist and teacher of Dominican descent.
This work features an immigrant family living in a humble Washington Heights neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan. Theis a twenty-year-old woman named Soledad, who, two years earlier, left her
poor neighborhood to attend Cooper Union (a famous and very selective college), reside in a
higher-income New York City neighborhood, and work at an art gallery.

Young
Soledad has moved up in the world in a very impressive way, but, after only two years of a new
and promising life, she is compelled to return home because her mother, Olivia, has fallen ill.
Olivias illness is described as a kind of psychosomatic malady, or a physical illness caused by
mental difficulty or stress. She is partly catatonic or comatose, and Soledads relatives believe
that her mother is resolving some difficult issues in her sleep. They also tell Soledad that her
return home is the only hope for her mothers cure. The novel is told in part from the point of
view of female relatives and includes Olivias dream narration and flashbacks.

Immersed once again in her family history and neighborhood drama, Soledad works to help
restore the damaged relationship she and her mother have. She also tries to tame the outrageous
behavior of a younger cousin, Flaca, and attempts not to fall for a local fellow. The author
examines issues such as the contrast and tensions between older and younger generations of
Dominican immigrants, family struggles and secrets, and the rejection and acceptance of cultural
background. The novel has been described as having an open-ended ending and has received mixed
critical reviews.

Which of The Seven Basic Plots would you say the story Interpreter of Maladies most resembles? Why? At the same time, how does it...

Lynn Ramsson

Christopher Booker, the writer behind the theory of the seven basic plots, might
suggest that the plot line that best suits 's short story "The " is the one of
the quest.

The plot line of the quest, in a
general sense, involves a journey. The Das family are on a journey themselves, as
Indian-Americans traveling in India on holiday, but Mr. Kapasi's emotional journey is
the...

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What literary elements are used in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

In the
story,alternates narrative with dialogue. He employs a third-person narrator, who provides
background, insights into the characters, and plot points. The dialogue shows the townspeople
discuss amongst themselves, which is often different than what they say to the minister; for
example:

"Our parson has gone mad!" cried
Goodman Gray€¦.

In the narrative, Hawthorne often
highlights a point by usingor modifiers, thus adding an ironic twist to the meaning. He refers
to the women who react strongly to the veil as having delicate nerves, and underplays
the...

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How we can apply the theme of feminism into Plath's poem "Mirror"?

In s ,
the mirror serves as the speaker who describes the different things it sees.

The theme of feminism comes into play in the second stanza, which focuses on the
unnamed woman who gazes at herself in the mirror daily. In exchange for reflecting her
faithfully, the woman rewards [the mirror] with tears and an agitation of hands. This shows
that the woman is unhappy with what she sees reflected in the mirror, her appearance as it truly
is. The fact that the woman looks in the mirror at the beginning of each day implies that she is
somewhat obsessed with her appearance. Specifically, the woman despised the old woman she is
becoming like a horrible fish.

This relates to feminism because of womens
often fraught relationship with beauty and aging. Societys ideal woman is both beautiful and
young, so women tend to become more self-conscious as they age. The mirror symbolizes societys
obsession with beauty, which unduly impacts women more so than men. Plath is voicing some of the
anxieties women experience about their changing bodies and faces, which can sometimes consume a
womans thoughts and even daily routines.

The emphasis on beauty for women is
a feminist issue because we tend to view older men as handsome/wise while degrading older women
as hags.

What New York department store was accused of racially profiling it's customers?

I believe
youre asking about the 2013 incident involving Barneys Department Store on Madison Avenue.  In
an attempt to curb a recent increase in shoplifting, store security at the time would single out
African-American and Latino customers, following them around the store.  In addition they would
question the ability of minority customers to actually pay for the items they were purchasing
and accuse them of using fake credit...

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Is it stupidity on the part of Oedipus or a defect in Sophocles's play that it takes the king so long to admit guilt?

In
by , it is neither stupidity on the 's part nor defect on the author's
that causesto take so long to admit guilt (by this, I assume you are speaking of his ability to
learn that he both killed his father and wed his mother). Rather, the reason for this has to do
with two separate propheciesone told to Oedipus, the other to . It is only once he possesses
knowledge of bothas well as learning of his true parentagethat he is able to comprehend exactly
who and what he is.

Oedipus is shown early on to be a dedicated and caring
ruler. When he discovers that the previous king's murderer was never found, he takes it upon
himself to uncover the truth for the sake of his people. Were he not so insistent upon finding
this out, he might never have learned the truth about his past. However, after being told by the
prophetthat he is the murderer, everything begins to unravel. While
speaking with Jocasta, she reveals to him a prophecy told to her long ago:

JOCASTA: An oracle came once to Laius. I do not say
From
Phoebus himself, but from his ministers
That his fate would be at his son's hand to die
-
A child, who would be born from him and me.

Though he has not yet discovered the truth, learning of this prophecy makes him believe
in the power of oracles. When he figures out that one of the men he killed just prior to
arriving at Thebes was Laius, Oedipus realizes that Jocasta's prophecy came true, at least
partially. Just as Jocasta did for him, he now reveals a prophecy told to him when he was
younger:

OEDIPUS: A man at a banquet overdrunk with
wine
Said in drink I was a false son to my father.
. . .
In secret
from mother and father I set out
Toward Delphi. Phoebus sent me away
ungraced
In what I came for, but other wretched things
Terrible and grievous,
he revealed in answer;
That I must wed my mother and produce
An unendurable
race for men to see,
That I should kill the father who begot me.

Though it becomes clear to the audience at this point that Oedipus
is Laius and Jocasta's son and that he did, indeed, kill his true father, he has not yet reached
the same conclusion. He has not yet put all the pieces togethermostly because he still believes
Polybus is his father. After acomes to tell him that Polybus has died, Oedipus is given a brief
reprieve from the weight of his prophecy. However, he soon finds out that the man
"overdrunk with wine" was telling the truth. Only once he has all this information
does he realize Jocasta and Laius are his parents. Additionally, though unbeknownst to him at
the time, by killing Laius in a chance encounter he ended up fulfilling the prophecy that said
he would murder his father and wed his mother.

To recap, it was not stupidity
or defect that caused Oedipus to take so long in learning the truth. Sophocles crafted the play
in such a way that allowed the audience to put the pieces together before the . Because of this,
it highlights thethat befalls both Oedipus and Jocasta once they learn the truth.

Note: For this response, the above quotations come from Ten Greek Plays in
Contemporary Translations, edited by L.R. Lind and published by the Houghton Mifflin
Company.

What implications does The Lovely Bones have on life? How is The Lovely Bones realistic?

's novel
is realistic because its characters grapple with grief in
"unheroic" ways.  Jack Salmon becomes almost obsessed with finding Susie's murderer;
and rather than dealing with his grief, Jack channels all of his feelings of loss into his
search.  His wife Abigail also cannot seem to properly deal with Susie's disappearance and
death, and she retreats from her family and eventually has an affair and temporarily abandons
her family.  These parents are not able to remain strong for their other children, and the
family suffers.  But Jack's and Abigail's responses to their daughter's death are very real and
understandable.  The Lovely Bones has implications on how we deal with
grief, and what we expect from others while we are dealing with grief.  The portrayal of the
Salmon parents in the novel suggests the harsh reality of dealing with the death of a loved
one.

How does "The Black Cat" relate to Edgar Allan Poe's life?

Poe's
story "" carries many details of his own personal life, like many of his stories.One
major commonality in his stories is an unreliable, alcoholic narrator.

struggled with alcoholism his entire life, eventually leading to his untimely death.This is
echoed in the narrator of the story here, who is a raging alcoholic who can't be trusted to
accurately relate the details of the story.

Beyond the alcoholism that is
evident in Poe's life and the story, this tale also features the death of a beloved female
character.The narrator's wife dies at a young age, leaving him distraught and heartbroken.In
Poe's own life, this is clearly seen, as his mother and other beloved women die at a young age,
leaving him forlorn and alone.

Finally, there is a level and sense of guilt
that pervades the story.Because of the death and the alcoholism that Poe and the narrator both
endure, they feel a hefty weight of guilt and responsibility for he events around
themselves....

With reference to a short fiction by Guy de Maupassant, discuss how he presents class difference. Also, discuss how he promoted social justice?

From the
start of the story, Maupassant tackles the issue of class when he explains that Madame Loisel
has been born into a place in the social hierarchy that limits her possibilities in ways she
doesn't like. He writes:

She had no dowry, no
expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished
man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public
Instruction.

Madame Loisel is lower-middle class and has
done well for herself in gaining a husband from her own class and a comfortable if modest life,
but she dreams of wealth and luxury that is out of reach. Therefore, she is constantly
dissatisfied because of her class. Being graceful and beautiful, she believes she deserves more
and:

she was as unhappy as though she had really fallen
from her proper station

Because of her dreams of wealth
and splendor, she notices limitations that another woman of her class would never have
noticed:

She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling,
from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the
curtains. All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never even have been
conscious, tortured her and made her angry.

Fine class
graduations emerge when her husband gets them both an invitation to a grand event. Madame Loisel
is upset, not happy, as her husband had hoped she would be. She doesn't want to be laughed at
for her clothes and isn't satisfied until her husband allows her an expensive (but to her just
barely acceptable) new dress. She is upset that she no jewels and perks up when her husband
suggests she borrow something from her rich friend.

When she loses the
diamond necklace she borrowed, and she and her husband have to go into massive debt to replace
it, Maupassant reveals the couple falling into a threadbare lifestyles, keeping their heads
above waters by pinching every penny. He shows the coarsening effect this has on Madame
Loisel.

Maupassant doesn't openly promote social justice, but he does show
social injustice. The rich can get away with wearing fake jewels because they are rich, but
beyond that, Maupassant suggest that the values Madame Loisel buys into are false. She can't
tell a fake diamond from a real one, which symbolizes that the world she admires so much perhaps
isn't worth all that much: it is perhaps fake too. Also, the sufferings that the Loisels endure
once they go into debt call into question a society in which the costly baubles of the wealthy
(whether they are 'worth it' or not) can economically cripple people of average
means.

What is different about the concerns of the Cherokee before and after the trail of tears?

Prior to
the Trail of Tears, Cherokees were most concerned with protecting their lands from encroachment
by white settlers. After the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, prospectors and squatters
overran the Cherokee, and with the government slow to respond, the Cherokee began lobbying
congress and other political bodies for support. They...

Please analyze some quotations from George Orwell's novel 1984 that involve the power of Big Brother.

The power of
Big Brother is emphasized almost immediately in s novel . Asreturns to
his small apartment, he is confronted, at the end of a hallway, by an enormous color
poster:

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a
meter wide: the face of a man about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly
handsome features. (p. 1)

This is our first glimpse of
Big Brother, although we do not yet know exactly whom the poster depicts. Only a few sentences
later does the narrator tell us that at the bottom of each poster (since these posters are
visible on every floor of Smiths apartment building), large letters declare, in boldface type,
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

The visual
details of this first encounter with Big Brother are worth discussing. His face is described as
being enormous €“ a trait that suggests his enormous power as well as the main purpose of
these posters: to overwhelm and intimidate anyone who looks at them. Big Brother is literally,
in these posters, Big Brother: he is larger than life, both literally and
symbolically. He is not depicted according to normal human scale; he seems, instead, almost
superhuman, or at least more than merely human. Even for a poster, this is
a large poster: the face is roughly three feet wide. Big Brothers face, as
it is depicted on the poster, could easily encompass a number of normal-sized human heads. The
mere size of the poster suggests that this is a very important person, especially since the
poster appears inside an apartment building, where one would not expect to find advertising of
any kind.

As depicted in the poster, Big Brother is young enough to seem full
of energy but also old enough to seem authoritative, confident, and wise.  He seems to be about
forty-five: neither too young nor too old to be dismissed either as immature or as lacking
vitality. His heavy black mustache makes him seem manlier, more masculine, more authoritative
and more powerful than he might have seemed without it. The fact that the mustache is black
implies that Big Brother is still in the prime of life; he has not yet begun to go gray. His
ruggedly handsome features suggest both physical strength and erotic attractiveness: he is the
kind of man whom others might find sexually appealing. In short, the image of Big Brother is
designed to convey many different attributes of power: strength, attractiveness, youth, size,
and authority.  The fact that his eyes (as we later learn) seem to follow the movements of
anyone who views the poster only makes him seem even more powerful.  It is
as if the poster itself is in some ways alive. Meanwhile, the slogan printed beneath Big
Brothers picture is more intimidating than any other aspect of the work. It is possible to
imagine how the mere picture itself might seem appealing and reassuring (especially if Big
Brother were shown smiling, with a friendly twinkle in his eye). Instead, the slogan seems
distinctly threatening and unnerving.

 

 

What is an example of irony in Animal Farm?

occurs
wheninitially criticizes and ridicules 's plan to build a windmill. During the debates, Napoleon
is vehemently opposed to Snowball's plan and believes that the windmill is a useless, wasteful
project. After Napoleon usurps power, he chases Snowball off the farm and, ironically, adopts
his plans to build the windmill. Once the windmill is complete, Napoleon names it
Napoleon Mill.

Dramatic
irony occurs each time one of the Commandments is altered. The reader realizes
thatis making minor changes to the Commandments in order to align with Napoleon's changing
policies, but the other animals are unaware of the changes being made.

Dramatic irony also occurs asis being driven to the knackers. Squealer informs the
animals that he was taken to a veterinary hospital and died a peaceful death with Napoleon by
his bedside. The reader understands that Squealer is simply fabricating the entire story, but
the animals believe everything he says.

It is also ironic that Napoleon
receives several military decorations while Snowball is labeled a traitor following The Battle
of the Cowshed. Napoleon did not play a significant role in the battle while Snowball fought
valiantly. Therefore, it is ironic that Napoleon is labeled the hero when Snowball is viewed as
a coward.

The fact that The Battle of the Windmill is considered a victory by
Squealer and the ruling pigs is also ironic. During the battle, the animals suffered significant
casualties, and the windmill was destroyed.

The most significant example of
situational irony is the fate ofafter the Revolution. It is ironic
that the animals revolted against Mr. Jones only to be tyrannized by
Napoleon.

What are the important similarities between Blake's "London" and Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"? Compare these...

William
Blake's "London" and Wordsworth's "" are both about London. Blake's poem is
four stanzas of four lines each and Wordsworth's is in sonnet form. 

In
Wordsworth's poem, he favorably describes London as it appears early in the morning. He begins
quite dramatically, saying that there is no sight "so fair" than this image of London
in the morning: 

The City now doth, like a garment,
wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 

Ships,
towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie

Open unto fields, and to the
sky; 

The city wears the morning's beauty like a garment
in the morning, before people are awake, before the noise and erratic movement of city life. It
is also before the factories and furnaces are churning out smoke into the sky. The speaker notes
that the sun shines more beautifully on the buildings than it ever has on valleys, rocks, or
hills. This is ironic because much of Wordsworth's poetry is about the beauty of nature and
its...

What are some techniques used by Shaw in Pygmalion?

Shaw's aim
in the play is to use humor to skewer middle-class theater-goer's pretensions about being
middle-class.

One misconception Shaw wishes to upend is the idea that class
is inborn and genetic. This was used to deny lower class people opportunities to advance, by
arguing it was impossible for them do to so because they were innately inferior. Shaw uses Eliza
Doolittle, the lower class flower seller, to show that all it takes is the right accent and
clothes for a person to ascend to the middle class.

Shaw employs a comedic
approach in doing this. For example, when Eliza is sufficiently advanced in her accent and
deportment, Henry Higgins takes her to his mother's and introduces her to his mother's guests as
a middle-class lady. Because of her perfect accent and good clothes, the other women accept
her...

What are some impacts of the Crusades? What are some impacts of the Crusades?

When I think of the
Crusades, I imagine all of those men traveling far and wide and experiencing new cultures, as
they attempted to dominate them.Nonetheless, they definitely brought back goods, foods,
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Assess the status of the relationship between the American and Jig have in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

I tend to
think that the state of the relationship between both characters in Hemingway's short story is
one that is in trouble.  Either way, this relationship does not seem to possess the lasting
power or sense of emotional balance or understanding needed for sustaining it. The fundamental
issue is that the man is desiring something that is opposite of what the woman is desiring.
 Even if one makes the argument that Jig is uncertain of what she wants, it's fairly clear that
she is not on the same page about the abortion as the American is.  For his part, the American
is more concerned with not moving the relationship towards a realm where roots are evident.  The
stickers on...

In The Scarlet Letter, how does Hester tell Pearl that Dimmesdale is her father?

In the Chapter
III, when Rev.speaks to , her baby that she clutches to her breast turns her "gaze towards
Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur." 
This reaction of babyindicates recognition of Dimmesdale as one who has held her before; she is
acquainted with the minister. 

In , Pearl notes a connection between her
mother and the minister, asking what the scarlet letter on her mother's breast means and
inquiring why the minister keeps his hand over his heart. She repeats these questions, an action
which suggests that Pearl senses a connection of Rev. Dimmesdale to her mother. InPearl is
called from across the brook to meet Hester and the Reverend:  "Now she fixed her bright
wild eyes on her mother, now on the minister, and now included them both in the same glance, as
if to detect and explain to herself the relation which they bore to one another."  When the
minister involuntarily puts his hand over his heart, Pearl becomes agitated until Hester
reclaims her discarded letter and restores it to her heart.  It would seem, therefore, that
Pearl intuitively understands the connection between her mother and Dimmesdale.  On the holiday,
Pearl asks why the minister does not acknowledge them in the daylight when he walked with them
in the forest and even kissed her head.  Pearl clearly senses her father as Dimmesdale; she
kisses him in the end.

What are two factors that lead to Mr. Pignati's death?

When John and
Lorraine first meet Mr. Pignati, his wife is dead, but he keeps himself busy by going to the zoo
every day to see a baboon named Bobo. He calls Bobo his best friend. As their relationship
with Mr. Pignati grows, it seems as if extended life also grows inside of the Pigman. Now the
old man has Bobo and John and Lorraine to keep him from suffering complete loneliness.

Mr. Pignati suffers a heart attack in chapter ten as he is playing tag with the kids
in his home one night. As a result, he winds up in the...

Northerners believed that the "Slave Power" had infiltrated the federal government and was having an undue influence on policies. Southerners, on the...

The Compromise of 1850
convinced many northerners that the government was in the hands of the "slave power."
This act was intended to deal with the territories that came into the Union as a result of the
Mexican War. In addition to other provisions, such as making California a free state and
outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C. (intended to placate the North), the Compromise of
1850 brought back a stronger fugitive slave law. This law provided for the recapture of slaves
who had escaped northward, and it was hated by Northerners. It made them feel complicit in
recapturing escaped slaves, whom many felt should be allowed their freedom in the North.
Northern abolitionists also disagreed with the 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v.
Sanford, which declared that slaves were property and could not sue for their
freedom. This case made many northerners feel that a slave power had taken over the federal
government.

The Southerners, for their part, were angered by Harriet Beecher
Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which they felt provided in inaccurate
picture of slavery as degrading and cruel. In addition, they were alarmed by John Brown's raid
on a federal arsenal in Virginia in 1859. They feared that the raid carried out by Brown, who
wanted to arm slaves for an insurrection, was a sign that the North was supporting wide-scale
slave revolts.

In what specific ways does the family's decision to "get rid" of the insect affect Gregor in The Metamorphosis?

Margarete Abshire

Grete's decision that Gregor has to "go" leads, in a way, to his death. It is
as if her repudiation of him is the final step in his transformation. When Grete tells her
father that he must "get rid" of the idea that the insect can be Gregor "(and
argues that, if it were Gregor, he would have realized that he could no longer live among humans
and left of his own accord), she is convincing herself of Gregor's subhuman status.

Gregor's reaction to this betrayal is oddly passive. He does not wish to create
problems for his family. He awkwardly retreats into his room, where Grete locks him in. Gregor
finds that he can no longer move; he dies peacefully a few hours later. He seems to have come to
accept his fate.

For the family, Gregor's death, while shocking, paves the
way for the family's improved circumstances. They get rid of their lodgers and decide to move to
a new apartment. Grete, released from having to care for Gregor, discovers that she is
beautiful, and the family looks forward to...

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, characterize Mayella Ewell.

Mayella
is Bob Ewell's oldest daughter, who is nineteen years old and responsible for raising her seven
siblings by herself. Mayella lives a difficult life and is forced to endure her abusive,
alcoholic father. Mayella is extremely poor, has absolutely no friends, and has very few
redeeming qualities. In , she is called to the witness stand to testify against Tom Robinson.
Mayella is depicted as a manipulative liar as she blatantly tells the jury the fabricated story
of how Tom Robinson assaulted and raped her. During her cross-examination, her terrible home
life is revealed and she begins to contradict her story oncestarts to ask her pressing
questions.views Mayella as the loneliest person in the world, who is ashamed of breaking the
time-honored social code of her society by tempting a black man. Mayella is not only ashamed of
herself for kissing Tom Robinson but also fears her father's wrath.

Despite
being a victim of circumstance and displaying her gentle nature...

What are the negative consequences of valuing private profitability over social need?

People who
hold to the ideas of communitarianism would say that there are many problems that come of
valuing private profitability.  Some of them include:

• Pollution.
   As we value profitability, we allow companies to do things that create problems for the
  environment.  We do this because we worry more about allowing the companies to make profit than
  we do about the consequences for the environment.
• Crime.  When we value
  profitability, we tend to allow a great deal of economic inequality.  This leads to a situation
  in which we do not do enough to help the poor get out of poverty.  Their economic needs and
  their psychological frustrations help lead to higher rates of crime.
• 
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What is a good conclusion for "A Good Man is Hard to Find" that follows from the foreshadowing?

Since theof 's
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" includes the mention of the Misfit and the fact that the
grandmother "wouldn't stay at home to be queen for a day," [a reference to an old
television program that awarded women gifts and travel], it would challenge the credibility of a
conclusion not to have the grandmother and the Misfit in it. However, it does some plausible
that the agent of grace can remain the Misfit, but the recipient can be other than the
grandmother. 

Still, verisimilitude with O'Connor usually calls for grace to
be received within violent circumstances. Perhaps, then, the setting of this violence could be
changed to Red Sammy's restaurant where the grandmother utters the same banal phrase to Red Sam
as she does the Misfit latter in the narrative: "...you're a good man." 

When Red Sam replies, "Yes'm I suppose so"...as if he were struck
with this answer" there would seem to be a credible indication that Sam is going
to be confronted with the opportunity to exhibit an act of faith.  So, an ending can be formed
after the grandmother and her family depart. Then, as they drive along the "hearse-like
car" passes them, heading toward Red Sammy's Famous Barbecue. As this
car nears the restaurant, flames shoot out from the kitchen. 

"Now, that ain't s'pose to happen," the Misfit says. "Let's see what we
can git."

Pulling the car to a stop in the lot, the
three men jump out and find Red Sam and his wife running from the flames. Suddenly, Sam and his
wife are halted by guns pointed at them. Red Sam's wife screams and begs them to help control
the fire or get help. But, the Misfit asks Sam where his "happy laugh" is
now.

"How's 'bout you rescuin' some'sat barbecue and
feedin' us?" he demands at gunpoint.

Sam replies, "Look, Ah just
been told that  Ah'm a good man, but I don't know as I kin do this."

With a dark, sinister look, the Misfit shouts, "Now, look!
We's hungry and it is nothin' to us if you is scared. You go git us some meat,
y'hear?"

It is at this point, then, that a similar ending can be
constructed in which Red Sam is the victim of the Misfit's violence and he, like the grandmother
who has not exhibited real faith until the gun is pointed in her face, can have the same
conversion to true faith. Thus, he can receive the grace to die as a martyr, saving his wife
from this fate because the Misfit orders the others into the car, saying, "No pleasure, but
meanness--let's go! The police may have heard this shot!"

What are important characteristics of being a teacher? What are the two most important qualities or characteristics that contribute to being an...

I believe the 2
most important qualities a teacher can have are empathy and the ability to adapt to
change.

Empathy is a necessity in the education world.  If we cannot make the
effort to understand where our students are coming from and why they are thinking/acting the way
they are, we cannot hope to successfully educate them or make a difference to them.  It is our
ability to emphathize and show them that we understand it is difficult to be a kid that allows
us to connect and forge an educational bond with students.  Think about it: it is probably the
students that you can least empathize with - for whatever reason (lack of experience, student
won't give any clues to self, etc) - that you have the hardest time connecting with and tapping
into.

The importance of the ability to adapt to change should be obvious to
those of us in the education world.  If a teacher cannot adapt on-the-spot, her day-to-day
lessons are less successful than they should be.  If she cannot adapt to change within the
educational research world - change in best practice theory - she will be unsuccessful.  We must
be able to change and adapt to new best practice in order to best educate ou
students.

Metaphor in the poem the red wheelbarow

There is
only onein this incredibly short poem, and it's expressed by the following lines:

"a red wheel
barrow

glazed with
rain
water..."

The red wheelbarrow is
presented to us as being "glazed," that is to say, shining, and with a certain
hardness to it. The narrator sees the wheelbarrow just after a shower of rain and with the sun
peeping through the clouds. The sun makes the wet surface of the wheelbarrow shine; it also
makes the white chickens gleam.

The metaphorical use of the word
"glazed" implies a certain fixity in the hard surface of the wheelbarrow. The weather
will change, and the seasons will come and go, but normality will always return. The chickens
will emerge from their hiding place after the storm has passed, and life will go on as before.
Yes, such moments of storm and stress will continue to recur throughout our lives, but they
never last. What matters is the sense of stability, the normal rhythm of our daily lives to
which we return after the moments of turbulence have elapsed. And it is upon those solid
foundations that "so much depends."

 

What are some songs that best describe Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter? Songs that describe Hester Prynne. If possible, something positive about...

When I thought
aboutfrom The Scarlett Letter, the first song that popped into my head was
"She's a Beauty" by The Tubes.

Not every bit of the song is
applicable to Hester, but the following lines are:

She's a
beauty ---
one in a million girls,
she's a beauty.

Hester was certainly one in a million. Her original mistake, the
sexual affair that marked her as an outcast, made her that. But she didn't let that defeat her.
In fact, the way that Hester handled her separation from Puritan society made her an object of
fascination to the rest of the townspeople. The following line from the song relates to the
effect that Hester might have had on others who contemplated her actions and her
life.

You can step outside your little
world.

This is because Hester certainly stepped outside
of the little world created by the society she grew up in.

The link
below will take you to a Youtube version of the song. You have to put up with a few commercials
first.

What is the climax in A Wrinkle in Time?

After many
strange events and adventures with the alien Mrs Ws, Meg has discovered that the universe is
threatened by a cloud of evil called "The Black Thing." Worse, her little brother
Charles allowed himself to be corrupted in order to find their father. Meg is nearly killed, and
the Mrs Ws cannot transport Charles while he is under the control of IT, an evil telepathic
brain. Despite their power, the Mrs Ws cannot help Charles, but they tell Meg that she can, with
a power under her control that can fight and defeat IT.

If
she could give her love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT
could not withstand love. But she, in all her weakness and foolishness and baseness and
nothingness, was incapable of loving IT.
(L'Engle, , Google
Books)

Meg is close to slipping into IT's control, and
she is sure that she cannot try to defeat IT with love, because she cannot love IT. However, she
realizes that she can love Charles, despite IT's control of him; she focuses her love on
Charles, ignoring everything else around her, and breaks him free of ITs mind control. With
Charles free, the Mrs Ws are able to transport them back to Earth, where they are reunited with
their father and family.

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Determine the present value of the bond's cash flows if the required rate of return is 16.64 percent. How would it change if the required rate of...

The bonds
issued by the corporation have a face value of $1000 and the coupon rate is 16% payable
semi-annually. The coupons mature after a period of 10 years.

The present
value of an amount A due after n years if the expected rate of return is r is given by A/(1 +
r)^n

For a required...

How to create a logo using a computer Are there any good websites that are known for making business logos?

Creating a
personal logo sounds like a great job for Adobe Illustrator, which allows a person to draw their
own designs on-screen or combine them with text, graphics or other downloaded
images.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, how is Scout affected by the outcome of Tom Robinson's trial? How does Scout change after witnessing Tom Robinson's trial?...

andhave
witnessed the entire Tom Robinson trial. They know that Tom is innocent, so it comes as a blow
to them when he is found guilty by the jury. They are still young enough to have hoped for
justice.

Jem seems to be the one who reacts most violently to the outcome.
His body jerks when the verdict is read as if he has been stabbed, and he cries at the injustice
of what has happened asand the children walk home.

Yet what Jem expresses
openly, Scout feels internally. She is beginning to grow up and learn hard lessons not just
about the world but about the evil in her own town,...

What does Thoreau mean in Walden when he says that most men live meanly?

Meanly, in
the nineteenth-century, meant to live an ungenerous, miserly, pinched life. It was the opposite
of living fully and generously.

When he says "Still, we live meanly,
like ants," Thoreau means we have become so focused on working and accumulating that we
live narrow, ungenerous lives.

According to Thoreau, what makes our lives
mean or narrow is that we allow too many details to accumulatemost of them worthless. We lose
the essential meaning of life in an endless pile of work and social details and perceived needs,
which divert us from the rich central core of life. Just as a miser accumulates piles of money
he can never enjoy, because he never spends them, so we accumulate work which should free us
after a time for the good life, but instead becomes an end in itself.

Soon
after asserting that most people live meanly like ants, toiling away but not thinking or really
living, Thoreau offers his solution to the problem:

Our
life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has...

How was World War II a total war?

According
to the Oxford dictionary, a total war is defined as follows:

A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants
involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are
disregarded.

With this definition in mind, we can easily
see howwas a total war. It was a winner-take-all contest. Whichever side lost would be forced
into a total, unconditional surrender. It was not a limited war with limited objectives that
used limited firepower to achieve a goal. Instead, the goal was the total crushing of the
enemy.

Neither side...

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Who said the following: "Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from."

In ,is
speaking with Myrtle's sister, . Nick reveals that he has recently been a guest at one of 's
parties, and it is Catherine who then says, about Gatsby, "they say he's a nephew or a
cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from." Kaiser Wilhelm was the
German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918.

In the same
conversation with Nick, Catherine also says that she is "scared" of Gatsby, and that
she would "hate to have him get anything" on her. This is likely an oblique reference
to Gatsby's connections with gangsters. These connections are implied throughout the story, and
are most strongly suggested by Gatsby's relationship with .

There are, in the
early chapters of the book, lots of curious rumors about Gatsby besides Catherine's suggestion
that he is a relation of Kaiser Wilhelm. In , for example, at one of Gatsby's parties, one of
the guests suggests that he "killed a man once," and another proposes that "he
was a German spy during the war."

How does the animal in "The Fish" by Elisabeth Bishop reflect some particular perspective about the world for the poet?

's childhood was
marked by dislocation and loneliness.  Her father died when she was an infant and her mother was
committed to mental institutions when she was four years old.  Bishop was sent first to a
relative of her father, then later to an aunt.  Themes of dislocation and loneliness are often
found in Bishop's poetry.

In " ," Bishop describes with painstaking
detail a fish that is dislocated and lonely.  As the poem begins, the...

Please give me a short summary of "The Catcher in the Rye."

Caulfield narrates the story of his expulsion from Pencey Prep and experiences wandering New
York City on his own before he checking into a mental sanatorium in California. Holden Caulfield
is depicted as a neurotic, hypocritical teenager, who is extremely cynical and fears entering
the competitive world of adults. Holden Caulfield also has a traumatic past and has not fully
recovered or accepted the death of his younger brother , who died of leukemia. As an unreliable
narrator, Holden is not in touch with reality and tells the audience blatant lies throughout the
story. After Holden leaves Pencey Prep at the beginning of the novel, he wanders around New York
City completely alone. He frequents hotels, bars, and even walks around Central Park. Holden
desperately seeks a companion and someone to talk to but continually approaches strangers and
refrains from interacting with the people who genuinely care about him. Holden ends up sneaking
home to see his sister,...

In "Mrs. Sen's" from Interpreter of Maladies, how was Mrs. Sen's regression of behaviors/attitudes evident?

In
Interpreter Of Maladies, Mrs. Sen's regression of behaviors is evident
through:

1) Her tendency to place Eliot in the role of mature
confidant.

When the fish vendor calls to inform Mrs. Sen that
he will set aside a particular fish for Mrs. Sen until the end of the day, she is excited. She
has Eliot put on his shoes and his jacket in anticipation that Mr. Sen will be able to drive
them to the fish market. However, when Mr. Sen appears to be engaged or unable to fulfill her
request, Mrs. Sen confides to Eliot her disappointment.

"Tell me, Eliot. Is it too much to ask?"

Before he can answer such a loaded question, Mrs. Sen leads Eliot into the bedroom
where she proceeds to open her bureau and closet. She shows Eliot all her saris, "of every
imaginable texture and shade," and asks another loaded question.

"When have I ever worn this one? And this? And
this?"

She is frustrated at her lonely and seemingly
meaningless life, a life she thinks is bereft of joy or purpose. In addition, she is frustrated
that her Indian friends and relatives probably have no inkling that she is suffering.

"They think I live the life of a queen, Eliot... They think I
press buttons and the house is clean. They think I live in a palace."

While her bewilderment and frustration is understandable, her
decision to engage an eleven-year-old boy in the role of confidant may be an indication that her
struggles have left her incapable of facing her personal problems objectively.

2) The husband-wife relationship seems to descend to the level of a
parent-child power struggle.

Because of her difficulty in
assimilating into American society, Mrs. Sen has trouble interpreting her husband's
protectiveness in anything less than a negative light.

Mr.
Sen: "You are going to drive home today.

Mrs. Sen: "Not
today."

Mr. Sen: "Yes, today."

Mr. Sen:
"Switch lanes, I tell you... Are you listening to me?"

Mrs. Sen:
"No more... I hate it. I hate driving. I won't go on."

On another occasion, she refuses Mr. Sen's offer to practice her driving, using the
excuse that Eliot is in the car, a factor that does not seem to bother her later on.

As she is still a student driver, Mr. Sen has admonished her against driving on the
main road without him. Driven to distraction by her need to preserve some semblance of the
rituals which have always been a part of her Indian identity, she sets out with Eliot on a
mission to purchase some fish. When she gets into an accident due to her inexperience, her grief
is compounded by her embarrassment and her sense of impotence. Conflict may be Mrs. Sen's only
way to preserve what she considers some semblance of autonomy in a foreign
culture.

Who is the implied creator of the "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"? A. Man; B. Blake (the author); C. God; D. Mother Earth.

The implied
creator of "The Lamb" is Jesus, the Lamb of God. The poem asks, "Little Lamb, who
made thee?" and the question is answered in the second half of the poem where the poet
says, "He is called by thy name; for he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek and he is mild, He
became a little child." Jesus came to earth as a "little child" to both atone for
the sins of mankind and to show the Creator's gentle nature and was himself described as perfect
and "gentle." In the Old Testament, perfect lambs were sacrificed in symbolic rituals,
or demonstrations of faith, so that God would one day provide a means of atonement. Because of
this, mankind could be returned to his prefall state and restored to intimacy with their holy
Creator. In this poem, Jesus the Lamb of God is the Creator, and Blake reminds readers that his
nature is "good" and innocent enough to bring the expected atonement.

In contrast, "" meditates upon the dangerous and violent animal, the tiger.
Some read the creator of the tiger to be Satan himself and point to Biblical interpretations of
Satan as a "roaring lion" and to the alluson to the fall of Satan and his angel
followers in the poem. Others say the tiger represents the evils of industrialization,
contrasting the "anvil," "hammer," and "furnace" (metalwork) to
thescenes of "The Lamb." Most would agree that the Creator is the God of the Old
Testament again, and that the speaker is baffled how a God who made the innocent lamb, and who
was the Innocent Lamb, could allow such a beast to exist. "Did he who made the lamb make
thee?" the speaker asks, in terror and wonder.

What role does Old Misery play in the short story, "The Destructors"?

Old Misery
comes to symbolize the hardship in the aftermath of WWII.  He's portrayed as living in a damaged
house with broken plumbing and electricity.  The house used to be beautiful, refined, and upper
class, but now, because of the war, it stands alone in a bombed out neighborhood.  Old Misery,
like his house, experiences isolation and subsistance living, in the aftermath of the
war. 

Why is the prisoner drugged in Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Although
the prisoner is not druggged at first, later on in the story, his torturers do drug him, in
order to inflict more torture upon him.  After he has explored his prison and discovered the
pit, he is exhausted and sleeps fitfully.  Then, he describes,

"Upon arousing, I found by my side, as before, a loaf and a pitcher of water. A
burning thirst consumed me, and I emptied the vessel at a draught. It must have been drugged;
for scarcely had I drunk, before I became irresistibly drowsy."

This food that is laced with drugs only occurs after he has found
the pit and failed to fall into it.  His accusers know that their little pit scheme has failed,
because after he falls, there is a brief flash of light into the chamber.  We can assume that
was one of his torturers, peeking into the prison to see if he had fallen into the pit.  Once
they realize that isn't going to work, they drug him and knock him out.  After he wakes up from
being drugged, he discovers that he is tied to a plank, and that there is a giant scythe slowly
descending upon him.

So, his tormenters drugged him in order to try a
different plan of action in regards to his demise.  The pit was plan A, and when he didn't fall
into it, they moved on to plan B.  Why they didn't just go into the prison and man-handle him
onto the plank is unknown; instead, they drugged him and tied him to it while he was
unconscious.  Perhaps they didn't want him to put up a fight, or didn't want him to know their
identity, or maybe they just wanted to confuse and disorient him, and to add to his torture by
having him discover, on his own, the gruesome death that awaited him at the blade of the
scythe.

I hope that helped; good luck!

What is the difference between a syllabus and a curriculum?

On the college
level, a syllabus is not only a breakdown of the weekly assignments, readings, papers, text
chapters, etc., but also a legal contract between student and college; it includes a statement
about accomodating students with special educational needs, a statement describing grading
criteria, etc.; it is designed semester by semester or quarter by quarter, individually for each
class.  A curriculum (circle of study) is a series of offered courses leading to a
specialization--for example, a curriculum in Shakespeare would include a course (with a
syllabus) in tragedies, a course in comedies, a course in histories, etc. This is the
fundamental difference.

I need to come up with a thesis statement for a research paper I chose to write regarding "the influence of women on theatre from 1700 to today" I...

"Influence of women onfrom 1700 on to today" is a very broad topic, so you
will want to narrow it down.  A good thesis statement should provide an assertion or opinion
about your topic and supporting subpoints that can act as your main body paragraphs. 

So the most important step for you is to narrow down your topic.  What is is about the
influence of women on theatre from 1700 on to...

Provide and explain five quotes from Macbeth that explore the idea of free will.

Textual evidence is always the strongest form
of proof in a literary analysis. When looking at the fate versus free will debate, we can see
many examples in that support one side or the other.

In
act 1, scene 2, the Captain is reporting on the battle:

But alls too weak;

For brave(well he deserves that
name),
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody
execution,
Like Valors minion, carved out his passage
Till he faced the
slave;
Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him
from the nave to th chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.

Macbeth refused to give in to fate, to lose the battle just because
he was outnumbered. Instead, his sheer will to win carried him to the decisive victory reported
by the Captain.

In the next act,reveals her decision to ignore the signs of
fate and do what she wants and needs to do after King 's murder.

Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the
dead
Are but as pictures. Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted
devil.

Here, Lady Macbeth chastises her husband for
believing in anything except his own actions. She takes over, returning the murder weapons to
the proper place, despite her husband's fears.

As
the play reaches a , Macbeth shows that he understands the importance of acting on one's own
free will and principles rather than fearing the unknown when he admits his own fears of
:

He hath a wisdom that doth guide his
valor
To act in safety. There is none but he
Whose being I do fear; and under
him
My genius is rebuked.

By admitting that
Banquo's wisdom and reasoned actions are superior to his own, Macbeth realizes his own need to
kill him. Thus, the murder of Banquo arises from Macbeth's belief inand in Banquo's
abilities.

In act 4, Macbeth revisits the witches,
seeming to give in to these elements of fate, and discovers that his plan may be going awry. He
decides that he will attempt to over come fate by taking matters into his own hands.

The castle ofI will surprise,
Seize upon
Fife, give to th edge o th sword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate
souls
That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;
This deed Ill do
before this purpose cool.
But no more sights!

Even though he is told that Macduff is fated to kill him, he chooses to attack his home
and kill his family. This decision does not actually recognize the prophecy's warning about
Macduff, but Macbeth ignores this part and dwells more on the situation of Macduff's birth.
Here, he is trying to choose both fate and free will at the same time.

In the final act, Macbeth seems to believe more in the prophecies of the
witches but does not understand their twisted logic. Thus, he allows his free will to be ruled
by them. When he is finally faced with Macduff, he finds out that he has been tricked and that
he will be killed by his former friend.

Accurs¨d be
that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man!
And be
these juggling fiends no more believed
That palter with us in a double
sense,
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope. Ill
not fight with thee.

Macbeth tries to avoid the
prophecy by refusing to fight. However, the reign of his own free will has ended. He is forced
to fight, and he loses, just as the witches predicted. While Macbeth attempts to act upon his
own free will, he allows the fateful promises of the witches to lead him to his death.

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The play begins with Emily as a young girl in school and ends several years later with her dying in childbirth and entering eternity. Explain two or...

Emily learns the most valuable lessons about
life after her life is over. In the third act of the play, Emily interacts with other dead from
her town, as she watches her family mourn her at her funeral. The other, more experienced dead
try to advise her to let go of her earthly life but she is not ready yet. Emily wants to visit a
moment in her life to interact with her family one last time; the other dead warn her against
this, but she does it anyway. She goes back to a somewhat ordinary birthday from her childhood.
Emily is overwhelmed with emotion and comes to the realization that people never truly
appreciate the moments of their lives while they are living them. Emily famously exclaims,
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?every, every minute?" The
Stage Manager replies, "No." This lesson seems to be a harsh one because it appears
that people can do nothing to change this while alive; they can only learn this after
death.

When visiting her past life, Emily also concludes that life "goes
so fast" and urges her family members to "look at one another." She sees now that
people don't really appreciate each other when they see each other each day. They take each
other for granted. But once you lose a family member, you finally understand how much you mean
to one another. These lessons come too late, of course. Wilder, though, presents the lessons
Emily learns as part of the life cycle, and as lessons that can only be learned after one's life
has ended.

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Explain how the following poetic forms are similar: a haiku, limerick, sonnet, and cinquain.

Each of
these poetic forms has something in common with at least one other form.

First, the , an old Japanese form of poem, is made up of three lines with a set number
of syllables per line. The pattern of syllables is 5-7-5: the first line has five syllables, the
second line has seven, and the third has five. There is no rhyme scheme. This means that the
last word of each line does not rhyme with the end of another line. For example, the 17th
Century poet Basho wrote the following:

Now the swinging
bridge (5)

€¨Is quieted with creepers€¦ (7)

Like our
tendrilled life. (5)

Note that the number at the end of
each line indicates the number of syllables in that line. There is no rhyme at the end of any of
the lines.

The cinquain is based upon the haiku and tanka forms (both
Japanese), but has its own syllabic pattern. The syllabic pattern used by the poet credit with
developing what is now called the American cinquain (Adelaide Crapsey) is 2-4-6-8-2. Unlike the
haiku and tanka, the cinquain is...

...a stanza of five
lines of accentual-syllabic verse.

The accented syllables
were set up with a pattern of stresses: 1-2-3-4-1.

Some
resource materials define classic cinquains as solely iambic, but that is not necessarily
so.

Iambic is defined as...

...a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable.

As an example, New York is said with the stress on
"York." The word (or in poetry in might be a syllable) that is stressed is not the
first, but the second. If we were showing how it was stressed just for the sake of exemplifying
the word, we might write it as:

new-'YORK

The mark before "YORK" is an accent mark. The American
cinquain has a syllabic pattern that it follows, but also one of meter.
Meter is defined as...

...varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less
stress.

However, similar to the haiku, there is no rhyme
employed.

The sonnet form originated in Italy, but was introduced into
England by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Like the Italian form, the Shakespearean or English sonnet has
fourteen lines and a particular meter and rhyme scheme. It is often referred to as the
Shakespearean sonnet because William Shakespeare used this sonnet form a great deal, writing 154
of them. Shakespeare placed the stress on every other syllable, using what is called href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/iambic-pentameter" title="iambic
pentameter">iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line, with a stress on
every other syllable). Unlike the haiku and cinquain (that both use only
syllabic patterns), the sonnet has href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html" title="end
rhyme">end rhyme, so that there is a pattern followed that dictates how the
last word of each line will rhyme with other lines. For example, the Shakespearean sonnet form
uses this rhyme scheme:

abab cdcd efef
gg

This means that the first and third
line will rhyme (a) and the second and fourth line will rhyme
(b), and so on. In Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, look at the pattern of
rhyme. In the first line, note below the syllables that are accentedevery other one...

When 'in
dis-'grace with 'for-tune
'and men's 'eyes

A sonnet is much harder to write than a haiku or
cinquain.

Auses meter and
rhyme, providing the poem with a distinctive lilting rhythm. A limerick is...

...light verse consisting of a stanza of five lines, rhyming
aabba...

It also has a
rhythm easily identifiable: 3-3-2-2-3. See href="http://kabubble.com/limerick_example.htm" title="Laura Black's
limerick">Laura Black's limerick:

There
once was a man from Peru,

Who dreamed of eating his shoe...

Source:

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_M.html#meter_anchor

 

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What is the effect of the change of setting in Part 2?

As far as
Meursault is concerned, he is a stranger wherever he goes.

Theis that the
change of setting (from the beach and physical freedom to prison) has no lasting effect on
Meursault's mental state. He is still free mentally speaking. In other words, he still has his
free will and the ability to make sense (or not) of his situation. It would be better to say, he
has the Absurdist disposition which allows him to accept his physical surroundings of prison
with the same indifference he would with the surroundings of the beach. He even mentions that a
man could spend 100 years in prison if he'd had one day of freedom out in the world (this does
imply, however, that one must experience at least some physical freedom in order to remember and
mentally practice it). Freedom, for Meursaultis mental.

He does miss things
that his physical freedom provided: women, cigarettes, etc. His indifference is based on the
idea that he accepts the absurdity of searching for meaning in the meaningless universe. Neither
religion or any real sense of community/humanity evoke him or offer any solace. However, despite
his mental agility at remaining so stoic, a sense of brotherhood with humanity does get to him
occasionally. It seems like common sense that it is normal for him to feel emotional at times
when he's confronting his own death, loneliness and so on. But this is an Absurdist novel. So,
iironically, it is these moments when he feels absurd and the moments when he's indifferent
(when the setting is arbitrary): that's when he feels at peace.

Tuesday 10 August 2010

How do Daoism and Confucianism work together?

While Taoism
and Confucianism both have the factors of philosophy and religion, Taoism and Confucianism
initially may seem to be polar opposites. They tend to display varying methods of viewing the
world around us and to impose separate behavioral codes and morals. However, one should take
into account that numerous individuals integrate elements of both philosophies in their daily
lives and believe strongly that the two can and do work harmoniously together.

A fitting example of how these two philosophies work together is that both philosophies
centralize the goal of self-improvement. In Confucianism, a person improves himself/herself
through orderly adherence with codes of conduct and respect for teachers, and the reward is
achieved strictly in this life. In Taoism, the individual improves himself through contemplation
of himself and universal energy, and the reward is primarily in the next life (i.e., through
reincarnation). With both philosophies in harmony the end goal of this self-improvement is an
improved social order that benefits all.

One could argue that their similar
goals have allowed them to co-exist successfully for thousands of years in numerous cultures and
societies. Many adherents of these philosophies make the case that without integrating elements
of both Taoism and Confucianism, an individual cannot be truly whole.

What is the purpose of Election Day in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

The purpose of the
Election Day celebration is to inaugurate a new man as governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony. explains tothat all the people have gathered in order to see the procession consisting
of the governor and magistrates and ministers, with soldiers marching before them and music
playing.  She says that "a new man is beginning to rule over them" and, as is
typically the custom since the first nation was founded, everyone has come together to make
merry as though in anticipation of a "golden year" about to begin under this new man's
leadership.  It is, frankly, a rather optimistic time by Puritan standards. 

However, in terms of the novel, Election Day is a good reason to have everyone out and
about in the town, just as they were when Hester was first shamed upon the scaffold some seven
years prior.  Children are out of school, people have left their homes and businesses, and even
some of the Indians have come to town to see the goings-on.  This equivalent scene bookends the
story: it began with Hester's public humiliation and ends with 's.  Just as she was called on to
speak her guilt before the entire community, so will he speak his guilt before the entire
community.  The Election Day crowd neatly parallels the crowd who gathered at the spectacle of
Hester's humiliation, and it allows Hawthorne to give Dimmesdale a scene as public and
significant as hers had been.

What factor accounted for immigration becoming a global phenomenon during the late nineteenth century?

I'd say there
were factors on both sides of the Atlantic.  Inthe United States, sudden and rapid
industrialization during the Gilded Age created a huge demand for labor at the same time as the
Western territories were being secured and cheap or free land became available.  This was an
irresistible magnet to people on in Europe and Asia as they sought to escape poverty and chaos
in their own nations.

In Europe, economic issues and political upheaval,
especially in Germany and France during that time, led to large numbers of germans, Poles,
Russians, Jews and Italians immigrating in the same 30 year time span.

What are three words to describe the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry?

To begin,
is a play by American playwrightfrom 1959.It was inspired by a poem by
Langston Hughes, an American poet who often wrote, as Hansberry did, about race and the
difficulties faced by African Americans.

The first word to describe the play
would be dramatic.It is meant to be a meditation on what it is to
be African American in a white-dominated society in the mid-twentieth century.Questions
surrounding assimilation, social justice, equality, and economic struggles emerge from the
situations theface.

A second word to describe the play is
timely.When A Raisin in the Sun debuted in
1959, the civil rights movement in America was in the forefront of the public consciousness.It
was groundbreaking because Hansberry was the first African American woman to have a play
produced on the Broadway stage.

A third word to describe the play is
enduring.Because questions surrounding race in America continue to
resonate in the first decades of the twenty-first century, Hansberry's play continues to be
relevant.

In Hamlet, what could Shakespeare be saying about revenge and justice?

Francis Bacon, Shakespeare's contemporary, wrote that revenge is a kind of wild
justice. This was not an expression of approbation, since Bacon, a lawyer who rose to be Lord
Chancellor, goes on to say that justice should be left in the hands of the law, rather than
being the subject of private vendettas.

What is one to do, however, when
dealing with those whose power places them above the law, as that ofclearly does? There is not a
single line inwhich might be interpreted as meaning that Claudius could be held to account under
the law for his murder. Indeed, Claudius states it as...

Monday 9 August 2010

How does Poseidon father Pelias and Neleus?

There is great
deal of controversy in the question of who actually fathered Pelius and Neleus.  One account
illustrates Poseidon as the father. The story is described:

Unbeknownst to
anyone, Tyro- the daughter of Alcidice and Salmoneus, abandoned her two twins Pelias and Neleus
after they were born.  Their alleged father, Poseidon, lay with her after having disguised
himself as the river where Tyro would chant her love for a river god whose name was
Enipeus.   Supposedly, a horsetrainer found them, and saved their lives. Eventually, they found
their stepmother Sidero and killed her on holy ground.

What is Old Sarum in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Old Sarum
refers to a rather rugged rural area in the northern part of Maycomb County where "an
enormous and confusing tribe domiciled." 

In ,recounts the history of
Macomb County and her family. Interestingly, Old Sarum is the name of one of the oldest
settlements of Salisbury, England; in fact, William the Conqueror (Norman Conquest of 1066)
established a fort there. While many places in Alabama have the names of locations in the
British Isles [Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography lists
seventy-one], theof this name as a bellicose area can certainly not be missed. Most likely, the
Old Sarum bunch are probably not far removed from their ancestral clan. (The vast majority of
Southerners, especially in the 1930's, before industry came to the South, were of Scot-Irish or
English descent.)

At any rate, the Old Sarum "tribe" is a rather
unruly group of "country folk" [sic]; Scout describes them as "the nearest thing
to a gang" in Maycomb. She adds that some of the male members came to town and loafed
around the barbershop, rode the bus to the town where there was a "picture show,"
attended dances at the county's "riverside gambling hell," and brewed moonshine
whiskey. Scout adds that whenas a teenager went around with some of the members of this
clan,

[N]obody in Maycomb had nerve enough to tell Mr.
Radley that his boy was in with the wrong crowd.

As a
result of his association with this group of wild young men, Arthur "Boo" Radley was
arrested with them for disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and other
charges. Thus began his cloister inside the Radley house under the supervision of his rigid
father, about whom Miss Maudie remarks, 

Sometimes the
Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.

Prior to Tom Robinson's trial, the sheriff and some of the
businessmen come to , asking if he can get a change of venue, as they are concerned about the
Old Sarum bunch. Their fears are warranted, as these men later show up at the jailhouse as the
stereotypical "liquored-up lynch mob." 

After Tom's trial is over,
Atticus perceives a glimmer of change in Maycomb County. The attitude of one of the Sarum bunch,
Mr. Cunningham, changed enough for him to vote "Not guilty" initially, which kept the
jury deliberating for a while.

Sunday 8 August 2010

What was Jonathan Edwards trying to accomplish with his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

believed
that too many people were falling away from what he regarded as the true faith. This is a common
theme of religious revivals such as the Great Awakening, of which Edwards was such a leading
figure. In his famous sermon Edwards rails against what he sees as growing immorality among the
people of New England. He notes with horror the "lewd practices" in which so many are
engaged, such as socializing between the sexes and the frequenting of taverns.

Strange as it may sound in our more secular age, Edwards genuinely believed that, what
for him were such immoral actions, placed those who practiced them in serious danger of going to
hell. This accounts for the urgency of Edwards's pulpit , and his lurid warnings of what happens
to sinners when they are consigned to the flames. He wants to put the fear of God into his
audience to shake them out of their complicity, to make them change their ways before it's too
late.

How does Beowulf incorporate the societal fears of the Anglo-Saxons, aside from the constant threat of invasion?

Beyond the
threat of invasion from a foreign army, untamed nature was a grave threat to Anglo-Saxon
society. Nature in the poem is usually dark, cold, isolating, death-giving, and represents chaos
and hell: who knows what a person will find there? Grendel emerges from this hell of nature, as
the poem describes:

Grendel who haunted the moors, the
wild/Marshes, and made his home in a hell./Not hell but hell on earth.

The wild moors and marshes are not places of beauty or romance, as
in nineteenth century literature, but hell. Grendel symbolizes the threat of this hellish,
savage nature to the mead hall. It's helpful to remember that at the time the poem was written,
Europe was underpopulated, with large wilderness areas providing a real danger to
humans.

The mead hall is everything nature is not: it is a place of warmth,
light, safety, plenty, order, and sociality. It is the center of human society, and as such,
represents all that is good. Heorot is the largest mead hall in the world and thus represents
the pinnacle of civilization. In attacking it, Grendel, the representation of nature's chaos,
carnage, and death, shakes the foundation of the civilized worldand expresses Anglo-Saxon
society's fear of untamed nature.

In 1984, what are some internal and external conflicts?

Most of
the internal conflicts arise from 's unhappiness with his life, and his suspicions that it is
the Party that is the cause.  At the beginning of the novel he is absolutely miserable, and that
misery is mostly caused because he hates the Party and feels like he is the only one. He cannot
be happy with it--it is an interna, Man vs. Self issue (even though his unhappiness is caused by
the Party, Winston is conflicted with his angst about it).  He struggles each day to even have
motivation to get up in the mornings.  He wishes so badly to know more--more people who feel the
same, more about the history of the Party, and more about what causes true happiness.

So, internal conflict comes from Winston himself.  After he meets , he is conflicted
constantly about his paranoia of being caught.  It is always there, like a haze over his
happiness.  He is also internally conflicted about whether or not to make himself known to; his
fear of being caught battles with his...

Friday 6 August 2010

In Chapter 2, of A People's History of the United States, Zinn argues that racism isn't natural; it's artificial. It is said that racism comes about...

In this
chapter, Zinn poses the question of whether the antagonism between blacks and whites is natural
or constructed. He answers that it is not natural, stating that in the American colonies in the
seventeenth century, white servants and black slaves, both despised classes, got along well. In
fact, they got along so well that laws were enacted to separate them, such as legislation
forbidding interracial marriage and providing for extra stiff penalties to white servants who
helped blacks escape.

Racism was socially constructed, Zinn argues, in
response to the pressing need for labor in the American colonies, the profits the slave trade
brought, and the need to control the slaves, who were naturally unhappy in their new condition.
In order to justify enslaving a group of people for life, whites had to develop a theory that
blacks were innately inferior, and they had separate poor whites from poor blacks because the
two groups could have joined together in a powerful bloc to confront the...

Please help describe the level of language the author has used in the story "Young Goodman Brown" to create a powerful affect on a reader.

Written as a
, Hawthorne's "" employs symbolic names of characters in
order to convey a characteristic ambiguity as well as to provideandthat eventually expose the
hypocrisy inherent in Puritanism, a theology that promulgates the innate depravity of man while
at the same time exempting the "elect," those born in a state of grace. At the end of
the narrative the young, innocent Goodman Brown, who claims at the beginning, "Faith kept
me back a while," and gives the devilish old man with the serpent-like staff...

Thursday 5 August 2010

Compare and contrast the literary elements in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin.

In
comparing both sets of literary elements in both autobiographies, I think we have to open with
one glaring distinction:  There is a vast difference in the narrative told by a slave vs. a free
man in America.  Without a doubt this reality tempers comparing the sets of literary elements in
both autobiographies.  I think that we can apply questions to better answer the literary
elements with this distinction...

Wednesday 4 August 2010

What are some examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in chapters 17 to 19 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all forms ofwhich make an argument stronger. This is
especially important as both lawyers are presenting evidence and questioning witnesses in the
trial of Tom Robinson.

Ethos is an appeal to
credibility and trust. In Tom's testimony,shows that he visited Mayella's place before, helping
with small jobs she needed and never asking for any money in return. This shows that Mayella
trusted Tom. Atticus also shows that Tom is employed by Link Deas, a white man in town who
stands up to defend Tom's honor during the trial by telling everyone that "that boy's
worked for me eight years an' I ain't had a speck o' trouble outa him." Atticus builds
Tom's character to show his credibility as a witness.

Pathos is an appeal to the emotions of the audience.
Atticus relies heavily on this technique in his interview of Mayella. By showing her living
conditions, Atticus also shows why she would lie and accuse Tom of such horrific crimes. Her
mother has died, she's...

From what point of view is "A Rose for Emily" told?

The point of view is that of
the town itself, told from an unnamed narrators perspective but sharing the towns
feelings.

 The point of view of
the story is first person, but not the typical first person.  There is not one named narrator
whose mind we follow.  Instead, it is our town.  It is almost as if the town itself is telling
the story, or one person is sharing multiple perspectives gleamed from rumors.  Small towns tend
to have a collective consciousness.  It is this consciousness that narrates the story.

As the daughter of the town patron, Misskind of belongs to the town.  It is a bit like
how we view celebrities today.  She is the object of scrutiny and curiosity.  Her father
considered the town to belong to him, so she did as well.  As a result, she belonged to the
town.

An example of this is the description of how Miss Emily stopped coming
out of the house.

That was two years after her father's
death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted
her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people
hardly saw her at all.

The use of we believed and
people hardly saw her at all demonstrates this collective consciousness.  The town puts its
information together, and the town is the narrator.

The result of this
narrative style is that it creates suspense.  We do not quite know what is going to happen,
because we never really get the entire picture.  Instead, it's like listening to a juicy rumor-
you know it is going to end in an interesting way, but you are not sure
how.

Tuesday 3 August 2010

What would be a character sketch of the Emperor of Lilliput from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels?

The
Emperor of Lilliput arrives early in 's , and he proves to be instantly
memorable, as Swift uses both the Emperor and his policies to illustrate the absurd nature of
politics and politicians. Swift characterizes the Emperor as a corrupt, pompous, and proud ruler
who delights in ridiculous political ceremonies and practices. The Emperor's reign is defined by
two tense conflicts: the conflict between the Low Heels and High Heels, and the conflict between
those who believe eggs should be cracked open at the little end and those who believe eggs
should be cracked open at the big end. Overall, it's clear that the Emperor is not only a petty
and absurd person, but also presides over and participates in petty and absurd debates that are
blown completely out of proportion. By crafting such a character, Swift makes fun of and points
out the many flaws of the political leaders of his day. Indeed, it's often thought that the
Emperor of Lilliput is meant to correspond to the real political figure of King George I, who
ruled England during part of Swift's lifetime.   

Monday 2 August 2010

Describe changes that could be made to the data collection process that would result in an experiment rather than an observation study. Also, offer...

In order to
make the observational study of bank tellers more scientific, it would be important to collect
data both before and after the tellers take the advanced training program. It would also be
beneficial to collect data on tellers from multiple banks, some of whom do not receive the
training or who receive a training that isn't intended to build relevant new skills. Comparing
these sets of data allows for more certainty that the teller's error rate is related to their
participation in the training program. This process relies on the idea of isolating the
independent variable (participation in the training program) so that it is the only thing which
could affect the dependent variable (error rate).

In the case of this
experiment, lurking variables which might go unmeasured but actually account for change in the
dependent variable include other training programs that the tellers participate in, life or work
stress faced by a teller, or how recently a teller was trained.

Unseen biases
may be expressed by the person who evaluates errors, as when they are more critical of some
study participant's performance than of others.

Where are the instances of power in Endgame, and how they relate to the themes of the story?

One theme of
the play is how the characters must depend on each other for their survival. Since Hamm is the
only one who has the combination to the cupboard, he exercises control over Clov, who depends on
Hamm to provide him with food. Clov has power over Hamm because he is Hamm's eyes and legs.
Hamm's parents, Nagg and Nell, are dependent upon Hamm as well. They have no legs and live in a
trash can filled with sand. They depend on Hamm and...

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what is the grandmothers idea of a good man? Whom does she consider good people? Why does she tell the...

The
grandmother considers herself a lady and dresses for the family road trip the way she thinks a
lady should, complete with a hat. She thinks "good people" are middle-class Southern
white people like her who behave like ladies and gentlemen. This means they are polite, helpful,
and friendly to one another.

The grandmother tells the Misfit he is a good
man because she is trying to appeal to his sense of decency. She is...

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