In the epic French poem "The Song of Roland, what is the overall mood? What is it talking about?

The Song of Roland
(La Chanson de Roland) is an epic poem written sometime between 1040 and
1115. It concerns events that occurred in a real battle. The Battle of Roncevaux Pass of 778 was
an attempt by the Basques to avenge the destruction of the walls of Pamplona by the armies of
Charlemagne (April 2, 748€“January 28, 814), the Frankish king. It is considered a national epic
of France, much in the way that Homer is a foundational epic for Greece and Virgil for
Rome.

Theof the epic was also a real personRoland, a nephew of Charlemagne
who died on August 15, 778. Other than his position as military governor of the Breton March and
his death at Roncevaux Pass, there is little historical record of him, but he is a major figure
in medieval literature.

The epic opens with a war between the Muslims and
Charlemagne that has been going on for several years. The Muslim King Marsile decides to
negotiate with Charlemagne but the cowardly Ganelon who is sent to negotiate on behalf of
Charlemagne betrays the Franks. Roland leads a heroic but doomed fight to save the Frankish
army. Roland and his command die, but Charlemagne arrives at the pass in time to take revenge.
Ganelon's treason is eventually revealed and punished.

The tone of the poem
is serious and heroic, infused with a sense of grandeur. The point of view is deeply pious, with
religious faith an important part of the virtues of noble knights.

What is the role of business in national development?

Businesses are
essential to a nation's development because:

1. They offer job
   opportunities to the citizens of that nation. This in turn helps the people to generate incomes
   and improve their living standards.
2. Businesses offer an opportunity to
   governments to generate revenues in order to run the country and administrative operations
   through the taxes they pay. This directly fosters development as these funds are channeled
   towards improving aspects such as security and infrastructure.
3. Businesses
   help different countries to foster cordial relations as seen through import and export business.
   Countries rely on each other for particular goods and this translates to improved
   relations.
4. is essential in national growth because it helps the countries
   to focus on improving the quality of their products and services. This benefits both the
   population in terms of superior offerings and the government in terms of improved
   revenues.

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In the poem "The Raven" by Poe, do you think there is really a raven in the speaker's chambers? Why or why not?

An
interesting question. You could make a fair argument for both answers, particularly because Poe
is of course a writer who delights in the supernatural: things often appear in his works which
do not "really" exist in our world but which, nevertheless, are real to the characters
in the work. In this poem, the raven who appears in the speaker's chamber could arguably just be
a real bird that has come in through the window out of the storm. He doesn't really speak to the
narrator at any lengthhe only says "nevermore," one word. Corvids, including ravens,
are notoriously capable of imitating human speech; the narrator is in a sad state of mind and
may be imagining that the Raven, with its one learned word, is actually responding to what he is
saying.

On the other hand, we can argue that the speaker has imagined the
raven, not least because at the beginning of the poem, the speaker is falling asleephe
is...

In "Charles," why did Laurie create Charles?

Laurie
createdas a means of hiding his behavior at school from his parents. Specifically, Charles
provided Laurie with an alter ego, one that could help him navigate the emotional transition
from the domestic to the public sphere.

Adults often underestimate the
difficulty of this transition for very young children. However, Jackson shines a light on this
coming-of-age shift with humor and compassion.

In this story, Laurie imputes
every willful infringement of the rules to Charles. Thus, Charles becomes a convenient
scapegoat. Charles is also something else, however: he is the means of helping Laurie process
his ambivalent emotions about growing up.

Essentially, Charles helps Laurie
experience aof sorts. The result is nothing short of miraculous. By the third or fourth week of
tumultuous classroom...

Are Atticus, Jem and Scout black people?

,andare most
certainly white, but they represent the individuals closest to the boundary between the black
and white communities in Maycomb (except perhaps Dolphus Raymond). Atticus is content to defend
any man against injustice and accepts his cases on need and merit, not colour. He extols his
egalitarian values to his children, Jem and Scout, and strives to teach them to consider each
individual in terms of character rather than colour. It would be interesting to consider how
different the story would be if these mainwere indeed black. Of course Atticus would not be a
recognised legal representative, and the children's perceptions on the ways of society at the
time may be tinged with more fear and trepidation than the real Scout and Jem
show.

Who is Najee, and what are his contributions to music?

Background

Jerome Najee Rasheed grew up in the Jamaica sector of the Queens Borough of New York
City. He started his musical career by learning to play the clarinet in elementary school and,
by middle school, he was playing the saxophone with neighborhood groups. In high school, his
music instructors introduced to the big band sound and paved his way to study at Boston's New
England Conservatory [of music] (a combined preparatory school and undergraduate college) where
he studied with George Russell and Jaki Byard while being mentored by jazz greats Frank Foster
(soprano saxophonist), Frank Wess (jazz saxophonist and flautist) and Jimmy Heath (jazz
saxophonist) and classical music flautist Harold Jones of the the New York Philharmonic. It was
Wess and Jones who inspired him to add the flute to his musical repertoire. Together, his
collected mentors reinforced the need to study classical music while perfecting his ability in
jazz, a radical message that changed the foundation of Najee's art because previously his
influence had been popular R&B: "I was mainly into Kool and the Gang (jazz, R&B,
soul) and James Brown (funk, soul)."

Overview:
Najee

Najee's smooth-pop jazz style, heavy on rhythm and blues
(R&B) from his earliest influences, makes him one of the leading smooth jazz stars as
attested to by his string of gold albums. Like big band great Artie Shaw, Najee has a commercial
understanding of how to deliver music that people want to hear. Nonetheless, this commercial
savvy has brought him criticism from some circles that would prefer more experimentation. Najee
commented on this criticism to Deni Kasrel of Jazz Times Online:
"[W]hen critics come to my concerts, they see the other side. I mix it up ...." A
fuller criticism of Najee's style is that there is a dearth of jazz improvisation (in jazz,
featured musicians perform "head arrangements" of improvised passages) though his
considerable range and stylistic flexibility are rightly acknowledged.

As of
2013, Najee has released sixteen successful albums:

• 
  Najee's Theme (1986)
• Day by Day
  (1988)
• Tokyo Blue (1990)
• 
  Just an Illusion (1992)
• Share My
  World (1994)
• Live at The Greek
  (1994)
• The Best of Najee (1995)
• 
  Songs in the Key of Life (1998)
• Morning
  Tenderness (1999)
• Love Songs
  (2000)
• Embrace (2003)
• 
  My Point of View (2005)
• Rising
  Sun (2007)
• Mind Over Matter (2009): number
  1 hit "Sweet Summer Nights" on Smooth Jazz Song Billboard
• 
  Smooth Side of Soul (2012)
• The Morning
  After (2013)

An exciting deviation from his earliest
albums was the 1998 release Songs in the Key of Life, a tribute album in
honor of Stevie Wonder's 1976 album of the same name: Songs in the Key of
Life. The difference between the original and the tribute is that Najee's tribute
album is an all-instrumental interpretation for which Najee plays the soprano and bass
saxophones and the flute. Najee takes an original approach by using the flute as the
substitution for Stevie Wonder's voice.

Early
Bands

During his teen years, Najee played saxophone with a
group called Area Code. In between the end of his preparatory studies and the beginning of his
undergraduate studies, Najee performed with Ben E. King (American soul, former member of The
Drifters) and The Main Ingredient (soul, R&B) and was part of the select support band for
the Miss Black America
World Tour in 1976.

After completing his studies at the New England
Conservatory, Najee returned to New York, participated in the N.Y. Jazzmobile program that
provides jazz instruction for professional musicians, public school students and jazz
enthusiasts, then began a series of professional engagements, playing with The Fatback Band and
Chaka Khan, until Charles Huggins of Hush Productions introduced Najee to executives at EMI
Records who signed him to a contract to record for the EMI label.

Recording Career

Najee's debut album
for EMI was Najee's Theme (1987). The success
of his debut album launched a worldwide tour with singer Freddie Jackson (soul, R&B) and
began the development of a worldwide fan following for Najee's style of smooth jazz with a
strong undertone of rhythm and blues. His second and third albums, Day by
Day and TokyoBlue, became Gold Albums [the
current standard for "gold" is the sale of 500,000 units (records, CDs etc)]. Najee's
fourth album, Just an Illusion, was notable for the integration of light
saxophone segments around the vocals, which were implemented without drowning out the singers,
as in Will Downing's vocals in "Deep Inside Your Love." His fifth album, Share My
World, painted a smooth jazz R&B landscape that showcased Najee's "jazz chops" on
his soprano saxophone.

Songs In the Key of Life, Najee's
1998 Stevie Wonder tribute, was born from the inspiration of EMI president Davitt Sigerson who
thought a change in direction would best continue Najee's building momentum. Producer George
Duke produced the resulting idea for an all-instrumental rendition of the 1976 Stevie Wonder
classic that lent its title, Songs in the key of Life, to Najee's tribute
album. Duke was dedicated to having the musicians recording Najee's album use the same type and
era of instruments and equipment that was used on the Stevie Wonder original.

Duke had built his reputation as a producer in the 1970s when Stevie Wonder was at his
zenith and so was an expert on the period instruments and equipment that had been used by
Wonder. He and Najee were both dedicated to including every song from Wonder's classic and to
having them all in the original order, even though this meant compiling and shortening some of
the tracks since Wonder's hit release had been a double album and Najee's was planned as a
single. As special feature that Najee added was a medley sung by his son Jamal combining
"Isn't She Lovely" and "Joy Inside My Tears." While Najee is showcased as an
instrumentalist on soprano and bass saxophone and on the flute, a host of well known artists
played with Najee on various numbers, with arrangements by Jorge del Barrio:

• Stanley Clark on bass
• Freddy Washington on
  bass
• Ray Fuller on guitar
• Phil Upchurch on
  guitar
• Paul Jackson, Jr., on guitar
• Herbie Hancock on
  keyboard
• Ronnie Foster on keyboard
• Paulino DaCosta on
  percussion
• Sheila E. on percussion

As Najee
said in an interview for VIBE Magazine, "[Recording
Songs] was an incredible learning experience ...
[Songs was] my opportunity to take us back to this beautiful era
...."

Recent Albums and Featured
Artists

• 2003 Embrace
  featuring special guests Roy Ayers and BeBe Winans
• 2005 My Point
  Of View featuring his good friend, vocalist Will Downing
• 2007
  Rising Sun featuring Phil Perry
• 2009 Mind
  Over Matter featuring singer Eric Ben©t
• 2012 The
  Smooth Side Of Soul, which was critically acclaimed
• 2013
  The Morning After - A Musical Journey featuring "diversity in
  [Najee's] recordings" for Shanachie Entertainment recording label

Touring

Najee has done a goodly amount
of touring and playing at international jazz festivals and has played with many renowned artists
such as, Quincy Jones [video with Ray Charles and Chaka Khan], Stanley Clarke, Larry Carlton,
Billy Cobham, who helped Najee transition from "smooth jazz" to classical jazz. His
first tour was in 1993 and 1994 and he spent 2001 to 2003 touring with Prince; he plays in
Rainbow Children and One Night Alone on Prince albums.

International

The 1990s brought many
international opportunities for Najee, including playing in South Africa for a Nelson Mendela
birthday celebration and playing for President Bill Clinton at the White House while Clinton
honored President Jerry Rawlings of the Republic of Ghana. Najee's latest album, The
Morning After - A Musical Journey, features international artists and a tribute to
the courage of those in developing countries who face hardship and destitution everyday. The
song "Mafalala" was inspired by the villagers in the township Maputo in Mozambique
who, as described by Najee, suffered poverty and daily hardship yet withstood its effect on
their resolve to live and conquer:

The town is very poor
where some homes have no running water or electricity and the living conditions are very
difficult according to our Western standards, recalls Najee. What impressed me and the members
of my band, was in spite of the poverty, hardships and challenging living situations, the people
did not let it reflect their inner resolve. When you see their faces, their spirit reflects a
sense of pride and inner glow. This song is tribute to the courageous and strong people who live
there. ("Najee" NajeeMusic.com)

Source: Debra Reilly.
"Najee." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 21. Gale Cengage, 2006.

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What are the similarities and differences between a democracy and a monarchy?

Government

The major similarity between monarchy and democracy is that they are both forms of
government. Government is dedicated to establishing hierarchy of authority, rule of law, social
order and security. With this comes government taxation, government military needs, government
assistance for the poor and disabled (e.g., workhouses, pensioners homes, Welfare and food
relief).

Monarchy

Monarchies
are limited, also called constitutional, or absolute. In limited,
or constitutional, monarchies there is a division between the
governing body and the ruling body so that an independent body, usually a parliament,
establishes laws, while the ruling body, the monarch, remains influential in affairs of state
and public welfare. With the monarchy limited by a constitution, as Great Britain's monarchy is,
the role of the monarch is defined constitutionally.

In
absolute monarchies, except for monarchical advisers, there is no
body other than the monarch his- or herself who makes laws and sets the governmental taxes. One
thing that confuses the roles of a monarchy is that lesser heads of state, such as dukes and
earls, originally had overlapping powers, such as to raise an army and to levy taxes on the
people living on their land (once called peasants), but this overlap was on a lesser scale and
only mimicked the absolute authority and power an absolute monarch has. Modern-day absolute
monarchies exist in Saudi Arabia and in United Arab Emirates.

Monarchs are
not elected nor are they appointed. Monarchs gain their power, during a peaceful
succession, by hereditary right. Generally, the crown of a monarch is passed to
the eldest son upon the monarch's death or abdication. If there is no son in line of succession,
the crown may go to the nearest relative, sometimes to a girl, as in the case of England's Queen
Elizabeth I, but often to a male relative.

During a militant
succession, in which the right to rule is contested or challenged, as was usually
the case in the ancient Scottish monarchy, the crown of the monarchy is passed to whoever is
most powerful in the battle that ensues over the right to rule. It is during these militant
successions that new dynasties or forms of government are introduced, as when Cromwell was a
signature to the beheading of Charles I (January 1649) and the monarchy was deposed altogether
to be replaced with short-lived republican rule in the Commonwealth of England.

Democracy

Democracies are governed by
elected heads of state, usually a President or a Prime Minister. The right to make laws, levy
taxes, raise a military and engage in war resides in the legislative
bodies, a parliament or a congress, that have also been elected by the populace.
The president or prime minister of a government works in tandem with the legislative bodies,
while the court system tests and validates or challenges laws and actions that are called into
question. The paramount difference between an absolute monarchy and a democratic (and/or
republican) government is that there are safeguards in place in a democracy so that any action
taken by a head of state or a legislative body can be challenged in the highest court and,
possibly, rescinded. The flaw comes in that courts cannot ultimately be challenged; when the
highest court gets it wrong, it usually stays wrong.

Power is transferred in
democracies in peaceful elections that may usher in new leadership
and, possibly, new ideology, as when a Communist wins an election instead of a republican in a
South American democracy. It is true that the process of peaceful democratic election can be
thwarted if certain groups join together to overpower or corrupt
the process. This may happen in the case of a military coup or in the case of election tampering
and/or intimidation. Some historians hold to the idea of election tampering in Florida during
the 2000 presidential election pitting George W. Bush against Al Gore.

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What does To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question mean? Kindly enlighten me in detail.

This is
one of those all too brief moments in the poem when Prufrock seems on the brink of seizing the
day and abandoning himself to his carnal desires. In the quoted line above, Eliot alludes to a
similar line in Marvell's "To his Coy Mistress," where the speaker urges his beloved
to roll up all their combined strength...

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In A People's History of the United States, why does Howard Zinn name Chapter Ten "The Other Civil War?"

"The Other Civil
War" is about the ongoing class war in the United States during the 1800s. This is the
other civil war, alongside the Civil War that was fought between the forces of slavery and those
of freedom. Zinn discusses several revolts of the oppressed working class against the ruling
class, including the Anti-Renter movement in the Hudson Valley against the patroon system and
the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, which agitated for electoral reform so that more
working-class people could vote. In answering these questions, the Supreme Court decided it
would essentially be conservative. It deferred to the legislative and executive branch, and the
federal government defended business interests.

In this climate, revolts by
working-class people, including Lowell factory girls and other unions, continued. Though the
poor lived in squalor and working people toiled in unsafe conditions, the government remained a
staunch defender of the rich and of the business class. The government did...

What character transforms the most in A Raisin in the Sun?

The
character who changes the most isYounger, Jr. One of the most important things about Walters
transformation is that he is an adult whose views seem to have been set and, throughout much of
the play, seem unlike to change. Walters stubbornness, his patriarchal attitude toward women,
and his irresponsible approach to money are a dangerous combination. Rather than trust in his
mother and wife, Walter is easily swayed by his male friends, which results in his getting
swindled. Walter clings to an antiquated model of success that depends on male superiority and
rejects a collaborative attitude. For example, he prioritizes dream of having a
businessselling alcohol in a very poor neighborhoodover his mothers plan to create a solid, safe
home for the whole family and his sisters dream of becoming a doctor. When Walter is finally
forced to confront the hypocrisy of their white future neighbors in Clybourne Park, his eyes are
finally opened and he takes a stand on behalf of the whole familyand, many have argued, for all
black peopleby refusing Llinders buyout. This act marks Walters reaching full adult status as he
re-evaluates the meaning of manhood.

What's the setting of the story in "Eveline" by James Joyce?

Most simply
put, the setting of any story is the time and place in which a
story unfolds. However, in a larger sense, setting also refers to a story's
overall greater environment and establishes the
mood of a story. Setting can include "social conditions, historical time,
geographical locations weather, immediate surroundings, and timing" (Literary
Devices, "Setting").

In 's short story "," the
story opens with the title character and , Eveline, sitting at a
window in her father's home, at
dusk, watching dusk turn to evening. Therefore, the window, the
home, and the approaching evening all count as aspects of the setting.  

As
we continue to read, due to the narrator's reference to Belfast and
the list of Irish names, we learn that the story is more specifically set in a
small, unnamed village in Ireland. The narrator's description of change in the
village is also part of the setting; more specifically, the narrator reflects on how Eveline
used to play in an open field with the other village children, but the field has since been
covered with new houses by a "man from Belfast."

Further aspects of
the setting include several factors that help identify the culture and
society in which she lives: (1) She works as a shop girl for very low wages; (2)
her father is a drunkard; (3) her mother is deceased, and she must work very hard to take care
of both the household and her youngest siblings; (4) she is afraid to run off with a man to
escape her living conditions because she is afraid of ruining her reputation; and (5) most
everyone she grew up with has emigrated out of the country.

Due to these
cultural references, we know the story is also most likely set around the time that Joyce wrote
the story, which was 1914, the same year that World War I started.
The hardships the character endures reflects Joyce's own experiences living in
Ireland.

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Examples of direct characterization in Of Mice and Men.

Directis a
literary device. A href="https://literary-devices.com/literary-devices/">literary device is
a format or structure used by authors to add more meaning, description, or uniqueness to the
typical words that are used in writing.

consists of describing a character
both inside and out. This gives the reader a clear picture of what the character looks like, and
sometimes it could provide us with information about the character's personality traits. Direct
characterization can come from the narrator or from another character who describes themselves
or other characters outrightor "directly."

In
Steinbeck's , we find direct characterization as early aswhen the narrator
describes the two main characters. In this particular novel, direct characterization serves
several purposes aside from illustrating the characters. The first is to accentuate how
physically different and contrasting these two characters are from one another. The second is to
show how their physical traits are dissonant with their personalities.

For
example, the men are described in the following way:

Both
were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless
hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders.

is described with special emphasis on his small size and strong
hands:

The first man was small and quick, dark of face,
with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong
hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose.

The author
then moves on to , who is described as George's "opposite:"

Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with
large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little
. . . His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.

We can immediately tell that the narrator wants to emphasize the "sloping,"
"loose" way that this "huge" man's limbs hang in comparison to George's
"small but strong" arms. There, we can tell that size does not matter when it comes to
who is the dominant male in this relationship. All this is possible thanks to direct
characterization. 

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Discuss why the theme of "Money can't buy happiness" in The Great Gatsbymakes it a great piece of American fiction. Please answer in detail and with...

It is not thethat makes a great work ofbut the way the theme is handled. Anyone could
write a work with the message that money cannot buy happiness. Onlycan show the squalid, empty
lives of the rich in such a way as to make us feel it and draw the conclusion for
ourselves.

is about unhappy people. Some of them are
rich, likeand the Buchanans. Some are not, like the Wilsons.is not rich but hopes to become rich
in the bond business. Nick seems to think at the beginning of the book that he will find joy in
making money. He describes his bond books as golden treasure:

I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood
on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining
secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.

There is poetry in money so far as Nick is concerned. He still feels it when talking
toand talking of her to Gatsby. They agree...

In A Separate Peace, what is the point of the rivers being described as they are?

The two rivers in the
book are described in symbolic ways. The Devon School sits between two rivers, the Devon and the
the Naguamsett. The Devon is described as a place of fun, and it is the river into which Phineas
leaps from his canoe. Later, it is the place in which the boys jump from a tall branch into the
water and where Phineas has his accident.  

The other river, the Naguamsett,
is a saline river whose movements are mysterious. Gene describes it in the following way:
"its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream, the Polar Ice
Cap, and the moon." The boys do not use this river, which runs to the ocean. This second
river, unlike the freshwater Devon, is not an idyllic place; it is a river fringed with muck and
seaweed.

These two rivers represent boyhood (the Devon) and adulthood (the
Naguamsett). The Devon is a seemingly innocent place in which Finny frolics until he experiences
his fall. The other river, which is connected to the wider world and which also straddles the
school, represents the less idyllic nature of adulthood. When Gene destroys the innocent nature
of the boys' experiences on the Devon by shaking a tree branch and causing Finny to fall into
the river, he moves from boyhood into adulthood. The idyllic nature of the Devon then ends
forever for him.

What are the effects that the operation had on Charlie Gordon in Flowers for Algernon?

The operation on
Charlie resulted in rapid development of his intellect. It took a while before Charlie started
to recognize the results of the operation. However, he made progress and got smarter. He learned
new things and started to understand his environment and relationships better.

After the operation, Charlie was able to beat Algernon, the mouse who earlier underwent
the same operation. He got better at reading and writing. Charlie also got to know that those he
considered his friends were only out to make fun of him.

Then I walked home. It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others
liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me.

Charlies progress became noticeable, and his workmates became frightened of his new
status. He was eventually dismissed from his workplace because of his new condition. He studied
the experiment performed on him and realized that his progress was not permanent. His research
improved on what the doctors knew. In a way, he made his mark on science, an achievement that
made him proud.

Anyway I bet 1m the first dumb person in
the world who ever found out somthing importent for sience. I remember I did somthing but I dont
remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepullike me.

What are the main points to be noted while doing a Postcolonial criticism of an Indian novel?

This is a really
broad question as we should be equally careful to make "Postcolonial criticism" and
"Indian novels" homogeneous entities.is a diverse and pluralistic critical formation,
while Indian novels treat many different themes. However, the plurality of postcolonial studies
could be a good point of departure to address the question. A postcolonial reading
of...

How can I describe the elements of music in the song "Holy Ground" by Taylor Swift? Elements of music include rhythm, tempo, beat, pitch, melody,...

The best way to
analyze a song is to ask yourself critical questions about the piece of music you wish to
analyze. Lets take a look at some questions in some of the categories you mentioned, with an eye
for how each category contributes to the overall feeling, message, and emotion of the song. As a
previous answer to this question did an excellent job of breaking down some of the specifics
here, lets zoom out and ask some why questions.

Lets start with rhythm, tempo, and beat---...

According to Jonathan Edwards' sermon, what is a constant threat to all human beings?

In his famous
sermon ","uses strongand effective persuasion in an attempt to convince his
congregation to repent their sins and turn to God before it is too late and they are sent to
hell forever. Edwards truly believes that people are in constant danger of being sent to hell to
spend an eternity in terrible pain and anguish. One example out of the text that shows this is
the following quote:

"Oh sinner! Consider the fearful
danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire
of wrath, that you are held over by the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed
as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with
the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it
asunder." 

This precarious image of hanging only by
a thread creates worry and near panic in the listener.  Edwards believes the only reason people
haven't already been punished has been that God has been holding them up - but God's patience is
wearing thin, and they are in immediate danger. 

Another example that
illustrates the immediacy of the danger they are in is thecomparing God's wrath to a bow bent
with an "arrow made ready." This image of God's wrath as a weapon ready to spring
further elicits strong emotional reaction - mainly fear.  

Provide examples from The Odyssey to support why you think Odysseus is or is not a great hero.

My students
said NO WAY!

Yes, they found him wily and clever, but they did not find him
admirable at all.

Here are a few reasons:

When Odysseus is
"stuck between Charybdis and Scylla," he chooses NOT to tell his men about the
impending danger because he knew they would become panicked and would put the entire crew and
the ship in danger; instead, he said nothing, hid himself below, and allowed 6 men to be
eaten!

They also did not like the fact that he was so "unhappy"
with Calypso...yeah right.  The laughed at the fact that throughout that portion of the poem he
claims he does not love her but...

Explain the irony in the chapter title, The Old Testament, in The Color of Water by James McBride.

is a
contrast between what is and what is expected, and chapter five of 's
contains many ironies. The chapter is titled "The Old
Testament," so it is not ironic that the entire chapter is dedicated to a narrative about a
Jewish rabbi and his family; however, the fact that this Jewish rabbi is revealed as being
anything but man of God does create some irony.

Ruth's father is a traveling
Orthodox Jewish rabbi whose contract did not get renewed (meaning, of course, that he was not
doing an acceptable job). He opens a grocery store but treats his children like slave labor and
totally disrespects his wife, a woman who does everything...

How did World War I affect American society after the war?

As the
previous educators mentioned, the First World War resulted in both spiritual and physical
disfigurement. Many soldiers returned home with disfigured faces, due to shrapnel explosions,
and physically handicapped, missing limbs. 

Many also returned home
disillusioned, unsure of how they could fit back into American society after experiencing
horrors in Europe. Some were "shell-shocked," a condition that we now refer to as
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is common, though not limited to, soldiers
returning from war zones.

They also began to question the American values in
which they had previously believed, thinking that morality was not as clearly defined as they
had thought and that the institutions that had existed for their instruction were fallible. This
sense of social alienation resulted in some of the best literature of the twentieth century.
Prominent figures in modernist American literature include Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald, both of whom served in the First World War.

What is less often
mentioned is the contribution of black soldiers during the war, and particularly their
experiences after the war. Those who returned home, especially to Southern states, faced
retaliation from white citizens over the perception that veterans would expect rights on par
with those of whites. Anger and fears over racial equality caused major riots in several
American cities, particularly St. Louis, whose bloody riot became known as "Red
Summer."

In Harlem, on the other hand, they were welcomed back with a
major parade. Some veterans remained there and contributed to the cultural flowering that is
referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. A few others remained in Europe, particularly in France,
and contributed to the popularity of jazz in Paris. The best known of these veterans turned
expatriates was James Reese Europe who had fought with the 369th Regimentthe "Harlem
Hellfighters"and worked as a bandleader.

How is the experience of seeing a movie different from other forms of entertainment, such as reading?

Probably the
most significant difference between watching a movie and reading a book is that movies are, by
their nature, linear. They continue at a steady pace without the viewer's direct involvement;
they are passive entertainment, capable of reaching the viewer on an emotional level without the
need for purposeful imagination. In contrast, a book is written in a linear format, but the
reader can experience it at leisure. The book can be skimmed, highlighted, annotated, reread,
and the reader can flip back through the pages to connect some past idea with the current page.
This is certainly possible with movies, especially today with advancements in home video
technology, but it is harder and requires more effort. With a book, the reader experiences the
story through the mind and the imagination, only seeing the descriptions of the writer for
guidance. With a movie, the viewer sees what the filmmaker intends the viewer to see; there is
little scope for reinterpretation or imagination. This is not a negative aspect; many films
contain intense emotional and narrative content explicitly created by the filmmakers. However,
the experience of reading is very different from watching; the viewer is less likely to be
emotionally committed to the movie, since it plays through and is finished. The reader can
continue to experience the book over and over, with less effort than pausing and rewinding the
movie.

Discuss the mood in Part One and Part Two of 1984 by George Orwell.

In Part One
of , the mood is sombre and oppressive. In the opening paragraphs, we learn
of 's dilapidated and run-down accommodation block, Victory Mansions, which is pervaded by the
smell of "boiled cabbage." We also learn the famous party phrase "Big Brother Is
Watching You," and find Winston overcome with guilt about writing in his diary. 

Part One also introduces us to the presence of telescreens, through which the Thought
Police monitor every movement of Oceania's citizens, and of the ongoing war with Eurasia. In
Chapter Four, we learn about Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth, where the party rewrites
history, and of the rationing of food and the shortage of basic items like shoelaces and razor
blades.

In stark contrast is Part Two of 1984. Here, the
mood is hopeful and optimistic: Winston meets and falls in love with , and they spend an
intimate afternoon in the woods in Chapter Two. They begin to spend time together in secret, and
Winston rents a room above Mr Charrington's shop for this purpose. Later, in Chapter Eight,
Winston and Julia go to 's apartment and learn about the underground resistance movement. He
also receives a copy of Goldstein's book, which further encourages his rebellious feelings
against the party. 

But this optimism does not last. Part Two closes with
Winston and Julia's arrest by the Thought Police and the realisation that O'Brien is really an
inner party member who tricked them into believing in the resistance. The scene is now set for
their torture and imprisonment in the Ministry of Love.

I was assigned a project to pick four items that describe Boxer (from Animal Farm) & asked to describe how each object reflects him. For example to...

is a die hard
believer.For that I might include a book or a Bible.He is also a very hard worker.How about an
alarm clock?He got up earlier than everyone.A bottle of glue might be a bit morbid, but how
about a miniature windmill?]]>

Difference Between Politics And Political Science

The term
"political science" derives from the Greek word "polis" (plural:
"poleis") which means "city state". In Greek philosophy, human affairs and
the science of understanding them are divided into three categories, ethics, which studies the
human as an individual, economics, which studies the individual household (from
"oikos" or household, only later taking on the sense of finance), and politics, which
approaches humans as they interact in larger social groups. 

The main
distinction between the terms "politics" and "political science" is that the
former refers to the actual process of how humans interact in groups and the latter the
scientific study of the former. Aristotle, who is the origin of much of our terminology in this
matter, defines humans as "political animals" meaning that we tend to form large
social groupings but refers to the science of studying these groupings as
"politikª epistªmª" (political science). 

Politics constitute an
activity, e.g. "John's response to Mary's report was based as much on office politics as on
close analysis", but political science is an abstract system of knowledge, e.g.
"Political scientists are increasingly using 'big data' to correlate voting and shopping
patterns."

How is the life of Eliza changed through the experiment in Pygmalion?

This is an interesting
question, because I would want to argue that the biggest change that is evident in Eliza by the
end of this excellent play is actually internal. It is easy to focus on the success of Higgins's
experiment, and the way that he is able to pass Eliza off as a upper-class lady, and certainly
we see that Eliza is treated very differently by all concerned compared to when she was a
caterwauling cockney flower seller. However, at the same time, the biggest and most enduring
change...

In chapters 11 to 12 of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, why does Holden travel to New York City?

travels to New York City for a variety of reasons. For one thing, he does not want to have to
face his parents, because the reason he's coming home early is that he's been kicked out of
school. This is the third time this has happened, and Holden knows his parents will be less than
pleased. Holden also wants time to rest up and think about where he's going and how much the
adult world terrifies, fascinates, and disgusts him.

In chapters 11 and 12,
Holden is mostly aimless during his time in NYC. He thinks about , a girl with whom he had a
close relationship one summer. He is anxious over whether or not she did anything sexual with
Stradlater when she went on a date with him. Then he takes a cab to a nightclub in Greenwich
Village, but his conversation with the cab driver about where the ducks go during the winter
makes him feel more alone, since the driver responds rudely, and he is frustrated by what he
perceives as phoniness in the nightclub patrons.

During all
this...

How did Annabel Lee die in this poem?

We do not
know exactly howdied in this poem.

We are told two things that might be
relevant.  First, we are told that a cold wind blew from a cloud and that was (it is implied)
what killed Annabel Lee.  So from that, you could...

In what chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird does Scout's teacher talk about the Holocaust?

Cecil Jacobs
brings an article about Hitler's treatment of the Jews for his current events assignment in .
Inquiring third-grade minds urge Miss Gates to explain how one man can lock up so many people
without the government locking him up instead. She answers them by discussing the difference
between a democracy and a dictatorship. Then she introduces them to the
word prejudice as follows:

"Over
here we don't believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.
. . There are no better people in the world than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn't think so is a
mystery to me" (245).

The discussion continues about
religious persecution, but Miss Gates never makes the connection for the children that they are
all prejudiced to blacks by the way they treat them in their very own community. Cecil Jacobs
even asks about the Jews in Germany without batting an eye, "They're white, ain't
they?" (245). Clearly, this class needs some real guidance, but they don't get it from
their racist teacher. Onlyrealizes the hypocrisy--she just doesn't know that word
yet. 

In the poem "Ulysses," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, what qualities does Ulysses say or imply that he shares with his mariners?

In s poem
titled , the title character states or implies that he shares a number of qualities or
characteristics with his men.  These characteristics include the following:

• Mutual affection (9).
• Mutual courage in battle
  (16).
• Mutual toil, as when Ulysses refers to his mariners as

Souls that have toil'd and wrought, and thought with
me--  (46)

• Mutual joy in undertaking quests
  and adventures (47).
• Mutual determination and confidence (49).


• Mutual old age (49).
• Mutual strife with the gods €“ that is, a
  mutual commitment to challenging fate (53).
• Mutual commitment to adventure
  (57).
• Mutual dedication to physical challenges (58-59).


• Mutual willingness to risk death (62-64).
• The possibility of
  mutual existence after death (63).
• Mutual admiration for the great hero
  Achilles (64).
• Mutual resilience despite advanced age (65).


• Mutual diminishment of the physical strength they had when younger (66).


• Mutual achievements when they were younger (67).
• Mutual temper
  of heroic hearts (68) €“ in other words, mutual courage.
• Mutual commitment
  to their new adventure despite their limitations (69-70).

Something extra: Tennysons poem invites
attention from any critical theory that emphasizes the importance of
intertextuality, or the way one text can allude to other texts.  Tennysons
poem almost demands to be read in light of the presentation of Ulysses (Odysseus) in both the
Iliad and especially the Odyssey of the great ancient
Greek poet known as Homer. Tennyson takes great liberties with Homers depiction of Odysseus,
Penelope, and Telemachus.  A biographical or historical critic might want to explore why
Tennyson did this and how his adaptation of the Ulysses legend was received by his own
contemporaries.

 

 

Does Hamlet become corrupted and just as evil as Claudius, or is he justified in his actions?

This is a
very interesting question. We tend to identify withas a character because we experience so much
of his interiority through his soliloquies, which reveal his inner thoughts and feelings. We
identify with 's anguish over his loss of his beloved father and his deepening anger and sense
of conflicted emotions as he learnsmurdered his father. We sympathize with Hamlet's sense of
justice as he runs an experiment through the Mousetrap play to find evidence that Claudius truly
is a murderer, rather than rashly murdering him on the mere bidding of a ghost.

Nevertheless, Shakespeare never loses sight of the fact that Hamlet is a powerful
prince, and neither should we. Hamlet, as the play goes on, participates in some cold-blooded
acts. We might overlook his murder of , as Hamlet is in a frenzy at that moment and thinks it is
Claudius hiding behind the arras. However, it is difficult to justify his cold-blooded
manipulation of the foolish and sycophantic but largely innocentto be killed on their arrival in
England. It is also difficult to justify his cruel treatment of .

Nevertheless, Hamlet never becomes as corrupt and evil as Claudius. Even near the end
of the play, he is questioning the price of revenge and wondering if it is worth it for the
highly praisedto bring an entire army to Denmark and sacrifice so many lives to reclaim a few
feet of land. He reconciles withat the end and doesn't kill Claudius until he realizes Claudius
poisoned his wine, murdering , who drinks it by mistake. To the end, Hamlet is thinking with
compassion about other people (if imperfectly), which is not an attribute of a wholly evil or
corrupt person. Claudius, in contrast, seems to lack all compassion. Hamlet may not be entirely
justified in all his actions, but he is largely justified and sympathetic.

Examine how the WBC (Westboro Baptist Church) sees President Obama as an "Anti-Christ."

As much
as one can explain the reasons for an illogical supposition like this, here are the reasons why
the WBC believes that the President is an Anti-Christ figure:

The Westboro
Baptist Church feels very strongly about the issue of gay marriage.  They fervently believe that
their interpretation of sacred scripture forbids the issue of gay marriage and that those who
either participate in it or support it are essentially condoning sinful behavior. The WBC
believes that the issue of gay marriage is the underlying reason behind so much that
happens:

The Westboro Baptist Church blames gay marriage
for the shooting of two firefighters...

What are two effective vocal strategies Martin Luther King, Jr. uses in the second half of his "I Have a Dream" speech? How were these strategies used...

Beginning
with his rhetorical repetition of "I have a dream," two effective vocal
strategies Martin Luther King, Jr. uses in his "I Have a Dream" speech
are pause and pitch
inflection.

Effective public speakers use
pauses between points to emphasize them and let their points sink
into the minds of the audience. King effectively uses pauses after each time he says the word
dream and even varies the length of the
pauses. For example, the pause between the words dream and
that in the sentence beginning with "I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up" is twice the length of the pause after he says the clause, "I
still have a dream." Both pauses create dramatic emphasis, but
the second pause is even more dramatic because it falls where there is no punctuation. The
dramatic second pause gives him time to accumulate the breath support he needs to powerfully
rise in pitch inflection upon the word one.

Aside from
pauses, King also uses rises and drops in pitch inflection to
create emphasis and emotional impact.
One example of varied pitch inflection can be seen in the sentence, "It is a dream deeply
rooted in the American dream." In the word American, King rises in
inflection at the syllable -mer; he then begins dropping in inflection
starting at the syllables -i and -can.
King's greatest drop in inflection occurs at the word
dream. His rise during the word American helps capture
the fact that, despite Americans' failings, King values and has
faith in his country. His dramatic drop at the word dream
helps capture his sorrow that African American's own dreams for
freedom still have not yet been fulfilled in America, despite the fact that their dreams are
deeply "rooted in the American dream."

In the first three books of Homer's Odyssey, are there any examples of parallelism?

This kind
of question is somewhat tricky when you consider that most modern audiences would be dealing
with the Odyssey in some form of translation (which automatically entails
at least some degree of alteration on the translator's part). However, at the same time, you
must remember that the Odyssey was originally an oral poem, passed down
through memorization and meant for recitation (and these origins are reflected in the text as it
has come down to us).

refers to a specific kind of rhetorical structure, and
it can certainly be observed within the Odyssey's first three books. It can
even be found in the Odyssey's opening line, in the invocation to the muses
(note that, for this answer, I am using the Robert Fagles translation, published by Penguins
Classics in 1996):

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of
twists and turns

This statement that opens the
Odyssey is itself an example of parallel structure, where two separate clauses have
been balanced against one another. In the very...

What poem or poet is Nathaniel Hawthorne referring to in "Rappaccini's Daughter" when he writes, "The young stranger, who was not unstudied in the...

The
opening of "" bystates that 

The young stranger,
who was not unstudied in the great poem of his country, recollected that ... this family, ...
had been pictured by Dante [in] ... his
Inferno.

Thus, the end of
the sentence from which you have quoted specifies that the "great poet" is Dante
and...

What are the themes in Animal Farm?

The
overarching theme or meaning of is that a revolution will turn into
tyranny very quickly if ordinary people (or in the case of the book, animals) don't pay close
attention to what is going on. Closely related to that theme is a subject dear to 's heart:
language. He believed very strongly that words matter. Groups that want to grab power and
oppress others are clever in their use of propaganda (distorting the truth)to deceive others and
to serve their own ends.

From early on, but especially afteris driven off,
the pigs use language to grab unfair privileges for themselves. , however, always has a smooth
explanation that sounds plausible on the surface. Nobody ever pushes back hard enough or
challenges what is said in order to stop the pigs from taking what they want.

Another way the pigs set up a tyranny is through violence. Again, this happens because
nobody is paying attention.goes away with the puppies and by they time they return, he has
trained them to be killer dogs loyal only to him.

Be careful about how
language is used, the book warns. Look at words very closely to make sure they make sense. Push
back against ideas that are absurd, even if they are made to sound reasonable. Be careful too
not to let any one group amass too much potential for violence. All of this will help protect
against tyrants.

Who are the thought police?

It's pretty
much what it sounds like. In their society they have police to monitor all your actions; they
also have special "police" to monitor your thoughts.  This is possible because you can
commit "thought crime" in their society.  Their task is to go beyond hunting down
criminal acts and instead hunt out criminal thoughts, which are any thoughts that go against
those approved by the state.  For example, it is a crime to stand up and shout, "Down with
Big Brother," and in their society, it is also a crime to even think it.  

This view that thought can be a crime is shared by many totalitarian societies; Stalin
is thought to have had 20 million of his own people killed, many of them on suspicion of
thoughts against the state.  It's pretty easy to control people if they know their neighbor
disappeared last night for what he/she thought.

Parsons is a good example in
the book (although he is almost comic).  He is turned in by his children
for thought crime and thanks them for it because, as he says, he wasn't even
aware that he was committing thought crime.

Pretty
scary...

Explain the significance and meaning of the opening scene in Animal Farm.

In the
opening scene of the novella, Mr. Jones stumbles to bed in a drunken stupor while the animals on
the farm gather in the barn to listen to the revered boar, , elaborate on his strange dream. Old
Major proceeds to lament about the terrible conditions on the farm and blames humans for their
laborious, oppressed lives. He then argues that is imperative to remove Man from the scene in
order to improve their existence and encourages the animals to rebel against their human
masters. Old Major then tells the animals about his magnificent dream, where the animals
establish and rule over their own egalitarian society without the negative influence of
humans.

The opening scene in the novella is significant and serves as theof
the story. The reader learns that the animals suffer from severe oppression at the hands of Mr.
Jones and their thoughts of rebellion are justified. Allegorically, old Major represents
Vladimir Lenin while Mr. Jones represents Czar Nicholas II. The...

Does Kit from "Witch of Blackbird Pond" ever get married?

At the
story's end, Kit and Nathaniel are reunited.  Although the story ends before they are actually
wed, there is no doubt that their marriage is imminent.

Nat had asked Kit to
go with him before, but Kit had demurred, and, as far as he knew when he saw her last, she was
going to marry William Ashby.  Realizing that they were not right for each other, however, Kit
had broken off her engagement with William, who ended up marrying Kit's cousin Judith, a much
better match for him, instead.  After surviving the typhoid epidemic and being accused of
witchcraft, Kit had come to accept that she would never be at home in Connceticut Colony, and
"all her plans now turned toward Barbados", and Nat, whom she finally perceives as
being the one who has loved her all along, just as she is.

When Nathaniel
arrives and learns that Kit has not married Ashby, he knows from Kit's demeanor that she will
accept his own proposal this time.  Being a proper gentleman who wants to do things right,
Nathaniel resolves immediately to ask her Uncle for her hand.  Kit wants to see the new boat Nat
has managed to acquire, but Nat refuses.  He wants her to wait until they are married; when he
takes her aboard, "it's going to be for keeps".  The book ends with the two of them
walking to the Woods's residence, to get the approval of the family and make their plans
official (Chapter 21).

Was the end of Kindred satisfying or disappointing or a mixture of both?

The ending
of is somewhat unsatisfying, because the reader and Dana never find out
what really happened.  By the , the reader already knows that Dana lost her arm in a strange and
almost supernatural incident.  We really want to find out what happened.  We read the whole
book, and we learn about Rufus grabbing Danas arm and Dana killing him, but we do not actually
find out what happened after that.  She goes to the future, and by researching the past she
learns that his death was attributed to the fire.  She never really finds out what else
happens.

On the other hand, not telling the reader everything can also be
satisfying.  This way, the reader can imagine things and try to determine for his or her self
what happened after that.

What are good articles that discuss sight, blindness and knowledge in Oedipus Rex?

Claude Calames
essay is excellent:

Calame, Claude (1996). Vision, Blindness, and Mask: The
Radicalization of the Emotions in in M. S. Silk,  and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and
Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996

Calame draws on
Aristotle to discuss issues of spectacle and explain the importance of visual knowledge in the
plays language and actions. He also discusses the blind mask, which was to have been worn by the
actor portraying(after the blinding). According to Calame, self-blinding is a "gesture that
calls into question the very foundation of tragic 'discourse,' the convention of masked
representation as performed at the cult of Dionysus Eleuthereus."

There
is another article responding to Calame:

Buxton, Richard (1996). What can
you rely on in Oedipus Rex?

You could also
read:

Thumiger, C. (2013). Vision and Knowledge in Greek
Tragedy. Helios, 40(1), 223-245.

What is a summary for Chapter 3 of "Lyddie"? The book is by Katherine Paterson.

is reluctant
to go in when she arrives at Cutler's Tavern because she feels that once she does, she will not
be free anymore.  A stagecoach arrives and drops off some passengers, and Lyddie notices a
grand-looking lady in a silk gown.  The tavern is busy when Lyddie goes in, and Mrs. Cutler, not
pleased with Lyddie's disheveled appearance, turns her over to the care of the cook, Triphena. 
Lyddie is embarrassed by her worn clothes and remembers how she could not afford to have a new
dress since her mother became more and more distant after the birth of her youngest sister and
the bulk of the household responsibilities fell to her.  She resents her developing body and
wishes she were a boy, figuring that if her father had had a son to help on the farm he would
have been able to make ends meet and would not have had to leave.  Lyddie is given a
store-bought calico to wear when she is on duty, and although she feels stifled by having to be
inside all the time and misses Charlie terribly, she resolves to work hard at the tavern and
never give her exacting mistress cause to complain.

In September, the lady in
the silk dress returns to the tavern and tells Lyddie that she works at a mill in Lowell,
Massachusetts.  She notes that Lyddie is industrious, and outlines the advantages she would have
if she worked at the mill too.  Lyddie doesn't believe what the girl is saying, but it gives her
something to think about.

Describe a hardship faced by the English settlers.

The
English settlers faced many hardships. One hardship some of the settlers faced was the lack of
food. When the settlers arrived, they did not know the condition of the land on which they
settled. They did not know what crops would be likely to grow and what crops would...

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According to Guns, Germs,and Steel, why did the east-west axis allow for "diffusion"?

The reason
for this has to do with climate.  Think about what happens to the climate as you move in a line
from north to south.  Typically, the climate gets warmer as you go (if you are in the Northern
Hemisphere).  Now think about what happens to the climate as you go from east to west.  In most
cases, the climate does not change all that much.

Now think
about...

Jacob's Wake, by Michael Cook, is a play written with Newfoundland English€”which for me is very hard to understand€”and it has many allegorical...

While
Jacobs Wake is set in Newfoundland, it is primarily a drama about family
relationships. In order to write an effective character analysis, an initial step is to identify
which of those relationships you think are most significant. The character of the father,
Skipper, dominates the story in many ways because most of the other characters are his children
and their spouses.

In addition, most of them are male; there is only one
daughter, Mary. She is the most devoutly Christian member of the family. If Christianity is a
major theme that you want to consider, Mary would be a good character to focus on. You could
address the disparity between the Christian principles she advocates and her behavior, as the
others frequently point out to her. Her uniqueness as a female member of the family could also
be a subject to address: is she realistically depicted as an individual? How does she compare to
her male family members?

Another type of character study could address the
type ofthat the author employs. As in the title, the play is in many respects an extended wake
for the deceased son, Jacob, who was lost at sea. Yet he plays a significant role in their
lives, especially that of the father, who seems consumed by guilt over his
death.

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Why was the life of the slave who was the master's child more difficult? From Chapter 1.

In Chapter 1
of his autobiography,says that many people believed that his owner was also his father.  He says
that this does not matter -- he would still be a slave.

He goes on to say
that slaves who were the children of the master had a harder life.  He says that they were
likely to get picked on by the master's wife because she would be mad at them as evidence that
her husband was sleeping with the slaves.

He also says that such slaves often
get sold because it is too hard for the master to deal with having them
around.

In The Crucible who was dancing in the forest with Tituba, and what were the motivations of each person?

The
audience knows that Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, Betty Parris, Ruth Putnam, and Mary Warren
danced in the forest with Tituba before the beginning of the play and were caught by Abigail's
uncle, Reverend Parris. According to Goody Putnam, she sent her daughter Ruth to instruct Tituba
to conjure the dead spirits of her deceased babies. Being that Tituba is from Barbados, Goody
Putnam assumes that she has experience in the dark arts and is capable of speaking to spirits.
Therefore, Ruth was in the woods to do the bidding of her mother.

It is also
revealed that Abigail Williams drank chicken blood during the escapade in an attempt to place a
malevolent charm on Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail has strong feelings for Elizabeth's husband and
desires to kill her. Tituba was simply following the girls' instructions. As a slave, Tituba
lacks personal agency, is relatively voiceless, and is forced to obey the girls.

Reverend Parris remarks that he saw someone dancing in the nude, which turns
out...

What Is Thoughtcrime

Thoughtcrime
is thinking of anything that the Thought Police and the Party deem is illegal. Illegal is
anything that creates individuality--not the best thing for the Party as a whole. They want
Party members to remain isolated so that no one can band together and rebel like the
Proles.

For example,continually looks around during the Two Minute Hate and
peruses the crowd for others who might give away for even the briefest of seconds that he/she
might also be against Big Brother like he is. This is where he thinksis against the whole Party
thing, and also where he repeatedly finds himself staring atbefore they formally meet.

Julia's passing the note to Winston is also thoughtcrime. It proves that she has been
"thinking" for a while about having a relationship outside of the Party which is
forbidden. Therefore, the affair she and Winston have is absolutely
illegal.

Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends,And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest...

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loaded with paradoxes--absurd, self-contradictory ideas. 

Friar Lawrence is
referring to the "violent delights" of 's hormone-driven passion for(as they are about
to be wed). He realizes that Romeo's passion, like that of most young men, will pass with time
and leave him with the woman he married who he doesn't even really know at this
point. 

When he says "These violent delights have violent
ends," he means that the overwhelming passion the two feel now will die as quickly as it
rose. He adds that they will "in their triumph die"--a , as those who triumph as
usually the ones left living. He compares youthful passion to "fire and powder, / Which, as
they kiss consume," which is somewhat paradoxical in the sense that kisses normally fuel
passion--not consume it. 

Consider also that "the sweetest honey / Is
loathsome in his own deliciousness / And in the taste confounds the appetite." More
paradox: How can something sweet be "loathsome" because it
is so delicious? How can it be so delicious that you don't want any of
it? 

He ends his speech by warning them to "love moderately"
because "long love doth so"--that is, those who have loved for many years and made
their passion last have not spent it too quickly. Then ends with this odd paradox: "Too
swift arrives as tardy as too slow." The meaning of this line is unclear, but it seems to
suggest that it's important for the lovers to choose the right "pace" for their
passion, as too fast or too slow can destroy it. He states it in a way that makes no rational
sense, though: how can something that is too fast be as "tardy" as something that's
too slow?  

What are the connections/simalrites between Lovely bones and Alice Sebold's experiences?What are the connections/simalrites between Lovely bones and...

In her
memoir Lucky, Sebold recounts her being raped while a college student.
While she, of course, survives unlike Susie in , the books do have some
similarities.

1. Sebold like Susie's family is irrevocably changed and
haunted by the rape. Even at the end of Lucky, the author acknowledges
that she questions why it happened to her and finds it very...

What was the goal of Enlightenment writers such as Hobbes and Locke? Ex. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Although
Hobbes and Locke were arguing for very different ideas, they had a major thing in common -- both
were using the idea of rationality and experience as opposed to arguing from authority.  This,
as you can see in the wsu.edu link, was one of the major ideas of the Enlightenment.  Their
goal, therefore, was to use rational argument and human experience to explain how the world is
and how the world should be.

In previous times, a thinker might argue for
monarchy (as Hobbes did), but they would have done so on the basis of the divine right of kings,
not on the basis of logic as Hobbes did.  So what these two men have in common (their common
goal) was to explain how things came to be (and what they should be like) on the basis of reason
and experience, not on the basis of faith and authority.

In Chapter 4 of Just Mercy, what are Bryan Stevenson's views regarding death penalty laws and the changes made by the supreme court in 1989?

s mission is to
challenge racial and economic bias in the U.S. justice system, and his clients are people on
death row, people of color who have been marginalized in society, victimized by the system, and
convicted of crimes they didnt commit. Stevenson sees what the public does not see and has
little awareness ofa criminal justice system that is badly brokenand he struggles to show mercy
to his clients in a system that amounts to nothing short of institutionalized racism. It
persecutes people of color and and puts many innocent people to death.

In
1989, the Supreme Court ruled that people who commit crimes at the age sixteen or seventeen are
not exempt from the death penalty. Based on Stevensons experience, the majority of these young
people are poor people and African Americans. In chapter four of ,
Stevenson witnesses an execution for the first...

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Talk about Brett's personality in "The Sun Also Rises."

Many
characters in the novel find Brett not only attractive but also sexually alluring. Bretts desire
for various men (and their competing desires for her) makes her perhaps the...

What is Doubleplusgood?

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Newspeak, a language created by the party that reduces English to as few words as possible to
eliminate the beauty of it, making it Utilitarian, but more than...

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What is Nathaniel Hawthorne's tone towards Hester in Chapter One of The Scarlet Letter?

actually
introducesto us in chapter two of . The chapter is titled "The
Marketplace," and that is where everyone has gathered to watch Hester emerge from the
prison and make her shameful walk to the scaffold where she will be the object of scorn for the
entire town to see.

Before Hester ever appears, we learn what the
townspeople, or at least the town's women, think of her. The majority opinion seems to be that
Hester is not being punished severely enough to satisfy them. One wishes she and four of her
other "mature" (older) friends had been the ones to determine her fate, as they would
not have gone as easy on her as they feel the magistrates did. Another thinks Hester should have
had the letter A branded on her forehead rather than simply wearing a scarlet letter, as she can
adorn it or cover it up if she is just wearing it. 

The harshest comment of
all is that she should have forfeited her life for the sin she committed. One quiet voice speaks
on Hester's behalf, but the majority want Hester's punishment to be more oppressive and
onerous.

It is against this backdrop that Hawthorne presents Hester Prynne,
and the first thing she does is shrug off the hand of the beadle from her shoulder, "an
action marked with natural dignity and force of character." Before we learn anything more
about her, we learn that she is a strong and independent woman. Hawthorne's view of Hester is a
sharp contrast to how most of the her fellow citizens view her.

Though her
first instinct is to cover the letter embroidered on her breast with the child she is carrying,
"wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another,"
Hester relaxes her hold on the child and walks boldly forth into the hostile crowd. 

Though the "A" is spectacularly ornamental,

[t]hose who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by
a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out,
and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. 

Hawthorne's view of Hester is most revealed in his comparison of
her to the Madonna, to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Though Hester is far from an unsullied virgin,
there is something about Hester holding her child which reminds him of this saintly and sacred
image.

Hester's temperament is strong, and Hawthorne is clearly sympathetic
to the plight of this strong woman in the midst of this awful punishment. 

The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under
the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her
bosom. It was almost intolerable to be borne. Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had
fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely wreaking itself
in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of
the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with
scornful merriment, and herself the object.

Hawthorne
clearly admires Hester Prynne. While he does not glorify or condone her sin, his tone is one of
reverence and respect for this woman who bears what she must in the face of insults and hatred.
He also seems to connect with her, as if he would feel the same way she does if it were him on
the scaffold that day. 

I need to write a paper that explains what literary devices are used to describe Claudius's character in Hamlet. These examples must be from act 1,...

In act 1,
scene 2,is characterized by his own words and through 's .

Claudius uses the
high, formal speech of a king as he addresses the court and various courtiers as well as .
Shakespeare characterizes Claudius as a smooth speaker, a man who uses the literary device of
juxtaposition to segue into his own concerns. Claudius juxtaposes wisdom and sorrow and deftly
turns from mourning for the dead king to thoughts of himself:

Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature

That we with
wisest sorrow think on him

Together with remembrance of
ourselves.

Claudius uses awhen he chides Hamlet for
grieving his father, showing he doesn't want to speak directly about his nephew's grief,
referring to it instead as "clouds":

How is
it that the clouds still hang on you?

We
also witness Claudius as a persuasive speaker and master manipulator, piling up words with
negative connotations such as "obstinate," "impious," "stubborn,"
and "unmanly" to criticize Hamlet's grieving:

Thursday, 3 February 2011

In "The Cask of Amontillado," how does Montresor lure Fortunato farther and farther into the catacombs?

Montresor
lures Fortunato further and further into the catacombs through appeals to his vanity, through
reverse psychology, through flattery and through keeping him drunk. 

Montresor begins to spring his trap even before they enter the catacombs and will
continue it as they go deeper and deeper.

Montresor first pricks Fortunato's
vanity and plays on his rivalry with Luchresi by telling him about the amontillado, and then
saying:

"'I am on my way to Luchresi. If any one has
a critical turn it is he. He will tell me'"

Fortunato responds as expected: "'Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from
Sherry.'"

Montresor then uses reverse psychology, insisting Fortunato is
too busy to taste the amontillado (and also mentions his rival again):

"'My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature. I
perceive you have an engagement. Luchresi'"

Fortunato again responds on cue: "'I have no engagement;come."

Montressor continues to use reverse psychology, flattery and Luchresi within the
catacombs. When they are deep inside, Fortunato, sensitive to the nitre (mold) and the damp, has
a coughing fit. Montresor responds:

"'Come,' I said,
with decision, 'we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired,
beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We
will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is
Luchresi'"

Again, this works like a charm (one
wonders what would have happened if it didn't): 

"'Enough,' he [Fortunato] said; 'the cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me.
I shall not die of a cough.'"

This gives the
well-prepared Montresor the opportunity to further disable his victim by offering him more to
drink:

"'Truetrue,' I replied; 'and, indeed, I had no
intention of alarming you unnecessarilybut you should use all proper caution. A draught of this
Medoc will defend us from the damps.'

Here I knocked off the neck of a bottle
which I drew from a long row of its fellows that lay upon the mould.

'Drink,'
I said, presenting him the wine."

Fortunato is
already quite tipsy, as we know because he "leers" and the bells on his cap jingle as
if he is unsteady. At this point they are so far into the catacombs that Montresor has won, all
by manipulating his friend into insisting on walking into the trap.

What factors influenced George Bernad Shaw's Pygmalion?

, Shaw's
play about an impoverished East End flower seller who passes as an aristocrat after she is
coached by the rich and highly insensitive Henry Higgins, find its roots in Shaw's socialism.
Shaw grew up in poverty and embraced a form of socialism called Fabianism. Fabians, unlike
Marxists, believed in gradual reform of society rather than revolution.

Shaw's interest in the suffering and plight of the working class informed his writing
of Pygmalion. He doesn't romanticize or prettify Eliza's situation before Higgins takes her
under his wing. She is cold, hungry and very dirty. Shaw hoped to show middle class audiences
that the working class lived brutally hard lives.

The play critiques the
callousness with which the upper classes used and discarded working class people. Higgins'
interest in Eliza extends only so far as to being able to pass her off as an aristocrat to other
members of the upper class. Once he does this, he callously throws her out, feeling he owes her
nothing. Shaw is highly critical of this attitude, expressing that Higgins now has a
responsibility to Eliza as a human being, having unfitted her for her prior, working class
life.

Shaw also critiques the idea that the upper classes are naturally
superior on the basis of birth. Though he believed in eugenics or a gradual improvement of the
human race through selective breeding, he hardly located all the best genes in the aristocracy.
Eliza is exhibit A in his quest to show that the intelligence and talent to move in the highest
circles is available even to a person from the lowest rung of the economic ladder, if she is
given the proper education and training. 

Which characters were unfaithful to their spouses or partners in The Great Gatsby? I understand that Tom cheated on Daisy with Myrtle, but did Daisy...

Both
Tom andcheat on each other and carry on affairs in Fitzgerald's classic novel
. Tom proceeds to carry on an affair withand even rents an apartment in the
city where they spend time together away from their spouses.

After Daisy is
reintroduced to her former lover, , at 's modest home, she proceeds to carry on an affair with
him. Jay Gatsby believes that he will convince Daisy to eventually leave Tom and even stops
hosting his magnificent parties. Daisy cheats on Tom by routinely visiting Gatsby's home in the
afternoons. Gatsby even dismisses his servants to prevent gossip regarding his affair with Daisy
from spreading to East Egg.

Afterdiscovers that Daisy has been cheating on
him,...

How might one analyze the poem titled "Western Civilization," by Agostinho Neto?

The poem
Western Civilisation, by Agostinho Neto, presents a grimly ironic depiction of a life lived in
crushing poverty and hard work €“ a depiction that contrasts satirically with the poems title.
That title suggests lofty cultural development, an achievement of high standards of culture and
of social development.  The conditions depicted in the poem, however, suggest quite the
opposite.  The title suggests that western civilization is in some way connected with, and
perhaps even responsible for, the conditions the poem describes. The title suggests that the
people who live civilized lives in the western countries (especially in Europe and North
America) benefit materially from the exploitation of the kind of people the poem depicts.  Such
exploitation contradicts the ideal of civilization.

The poem opens by
describing appalling living conditions. The opening presents a house that hardly even deserves
to be called a shack:

Sheets of tin nailed to
posts

driven in the ground

make up the house.

Some rags complete the intimate

landscape.    (1-5)

The tin, the posts, and the rags all suggest the flimsiness of this
structure. The word intimate is especially ironic, since intimacy is usually associated with
privacy and comfort. The word house is carefully postponed until the very end of the third
line, so that it comes as a kind of shock to think that people actually live in such conditions
and consider this kind of habitation a home. Obviously this kind of house can offer little
comfort and little protection from the weather. The word landscape is a bit surprising; a word
such as abode might have seemed more appropriate. Perhaps, however, the word landscape was
chosen to suggest that this shack is just one of many like it and surrounding it.

The next section of the poem presents the return of the houses inhabitant:

The sun slanting through cracks

welcomes the
owner

after twelve hours of slave

labour.  (6-9)

Since the sun is shining when the laborer returns, and since he has
been laboring for twelve hours, perhaps he works partly in the night. Working in darkness would
be symbolically appropriate to his situation. In any case, the reference to the shining sun
seems ironic here; normally the bright sun is associated with life and vitality, but here the
reference merely implies once more how flimsy this mans house is.

The next
several lines are especially effective poetically:

breaking rock

shifting rock

breaking
rock

shifting rock

fair weather

wet
weather

breaking rock

shifting rock  (10-17)

These lines, with their short lengths, strong accents, heavily
emphasized verbs, and highly repetitious phrasing, suggest the sheer monotony of the laborers
life.  His breaks rocks, but his own soul and spirit are surely being broken as well. The
rhythms of the line mimic the strong physical labor involved.

In the final
lines, the speaker once more emphasizes theof the mans life, including the irony of being
grateful to die of hunger. The man has grown old in a kind of literal and symbolic darkness. The
word hunger may also be both literal and metaphorical. He has been hungry for food, but
perhaps he has also been hungry for a better kind of life as well.  We cannot know of the latter
kind of hunger, since the mans situation is presented objectively, from a distance, so that the
poem avoids sentimentality and does not become a piece of overt political propaganda.

 

 

 

 

Why did the colonists feel they weren't being treated fairly?

The
colonists felt that the British werent treating them fairly. The colonists were very concerned
about the tax laws that were being passed. The colonists were upset that the British Parliament
passed the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts without the colonists having representatives in
Parliament to speak about and to vote on these proposed laws. In Great Britain, citizens have
representatives that can vote on proposed taxes. The colonists were British citizens, yet they
didnt have representatives in Parliament that could vote on these proposed tax laws.

The colonists felt the British werent being fair to them by passing the Proclamation of
1763. The colonists wanted to own land. They saw the land the British got from France as a
result of winning the French and Indian War as a great opportunity to get land. This law
prevented that from happening since the colonists were prevented from moving west of the
Appalachian Mountains. To make matters worse, the British required the colonists to providing
housing for the British troops that were enforcing this unpopular law.

The
Boston Massacre also upset the colonists. The colonists didnt like the way the British soldiers
were treating them. When the British soldiers fired shots and killed five colonists, the
colonists were very concerned. As time went on, relations became more strained between the
colonists and the British.

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

What is the importance of the Saints Cuthbert and Bede in the establishment of the early Christian Church in Britain?

Saint
Cuthbert and Saint Bede were two of the earliest monks and eventual saints in the British Isles.
Cuthbert, a native of the region, was born and became a Christian not long after the King of
Northumbria, a region in Northeast England, became a Christian.

Cuthbert was
renowned for his kindness and devotion to scripture and missionary practice. He was no
revolutionary figure, not inspiring massive waves of saints...

What is the main feature that differentiates marsupials from other mammals?

The main feature that
distinguishes marsupials from other mammals is the pouch used to carry their
young. In fact, the name "marsupial" refers to the name for this
special pouch: the marsupium. The reason that marsupials have this pouch is because the babies
emerge at a much early stage of development than other mammals. The gestation period (the length
of the time the offspring spend developing inside the mother) is relatively short for marsupials
because unlike most mammals, marsupials do not share a blood supply with the mother to gain
nutrients during gestation. Instead, they rely on a system similar to the yoke of an egg for
nutrients for the developing young during this time. After birth, the young are still completely
helpless and extremely small. They climb from the birth canal into their mother's pouch where
the nipples are (marsupials are still mammals, so that means milk for the young) and continue to
develop. Even when they have grown large enough to venture outside of the pouch, the young
animals return to it to nurse and for safety in some situations. 

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What is the flashback and foreshadowing of the short story "The Araby"? I need a brief answer in less than 3 sentences. Thank you.

A flashback
defines the part of story where the narrative is interrupted to recount something that happened
prior to the start of the story. In "," this occurs in the second paragraph, where the
narrator jumps back to his memories of first moving into his house, once owned by a priest, and
what he found there. He also offers some wry information about the priest himself that is not
included in the quote below:

Air, musty from having been
long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with
old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were
curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq.
I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. . . .

hints at what is to come next in a story. Although the narrator is wrapped up in
dreams of Araby, he...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

How did the philosophies of Rousseau, Locke, and Montesquieu influence the U.S constitution?

These
Enlightenment thinkers held much in the way of persuasion over the Framers in the construction
of the Constitution.  On one hand, the notion of individual and unalienable rights that Locke
developed would represent a major benchmark of the Constitution.  The idea that there are
specific rights that cannot be taken away by any external force is an underlying assumption
behind the Bill of Rights.  At the same time, the idea of Roussau's general will, that political
self determination is the only possible way to achieve an sense of internal liberation and
freedom is vitally important to the principle of popular sovereignty, which is present in the
Constitution.  Finally, Montesquieu's vision of divided government with specific branches and
outlined responsibilities is vitally important to the structure and purpose of government as
present in the Constitution.

What is the point of the comparison of the hills to white elephants in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Hemingway attached great importance to making
the reader feel present at the scene of the story. He was willing to sacrifice the
who-what-where-why-when of an event in order to go straight after the feeling of "being
there." He was an admirer of Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad. Both of these older writers
were noted for their ability to make the reader feel present at the setting where the action was
taking place, as can be seen in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Crane's
The Open Boat. "" is a good example of his technique. Among other
things, Jig's reference to the hills in the distance establishes the perimeter of the setting.
The hills are bleached white by millenia of blazing sunlight. The man mentions that the weather
is hot, which is why they decide to drink cold beer. Hemingway appeals to all the senses with
the possible exception of the sense of smell. He has both characters talk about the taste of
licorice, which is very effective because every reader knows what licorice tastes like and can
almost taste it from reading the word. We can taste the flavor and coldness of the beer. The
girl feels a few of the beads in the curtain advertising Anis del Toro.
They feel the heat. The American feels the weight of the heavy bags when he carries them over to
where they will board the Madrid train. We can visualize the hills in the distance and can
almost see and hear the big train even before it will pull in with all the squeaking,
screeching, and squealing of the locomotive. We ought to be able to smell the odors of liquor
and urine emanating from behind the bead curtain. We can hear the intonations of Jig's and the
man's voices and the exotic tones of the few words spoken in Spanish, which so quickly and
effectively reinforce the idea that we are in a foreign country. The story only gives us a
glimpse into two people's lives, but we have shared their problems, regrets and sorrows while
they were here. We have felt their feelings, including their guilt. Maybe we shouldn't try to
judge them. 

What are the numbers such that their is sum is 57 and the product is 800?

Let us assume
that the numbers are x and y.

Given that the sum is 57. Then we will
write:

x + y= 57 ............(1)

Also we know that the
product is 800.

As a child development specialist what do you think are the pros and cons of categorizing children into three basic temperaments (easy...

The pros and
cons of categorizing children into three general types of temperament both have to do with the
fact that there can be a great deal of variation within each temperament.  That is, not all
children who are categorized as easy (for example) are identical to one another.  This brings
about both pros and cons.

The major pro is the fact that categorizing
children makes it easier for us to understand them to some degree.  As mentioned above, there is
a great deal of variation within each temperament and each child is different.  Categorizing
children allows us to have some hope of understanding them better without having to study every
aspect of their personality.  We can simply look at a child and say that they are easy or slow
to warm up instead of having to try to understand every facet of their personality. 
Categorization, then, saves us the time and trouble of having to study each child in great
detail. 

But this is also the problem with categorizing children.  When we
categorize them, we overlook the differences between them.  If we have, for example, three
children that are all generally categorized as easy, we might treat them all in the same way. 
This may be less than ideal because the children may be different in important ways.  By
categorizing them, we gloss over these differences.  When this happens, we do not treat the
children in the optimal way.

With regard to individualist and collectivist
societies, it is hard to be objective since we (I am American) are members of what is often said
to be the most individualistic society on earth.  Therefore, individualism seems normal to
most Americans and collectivism will often seem to be disadvantageous.

I
would say that individualism is good because it teaches children to be independent and
self-reliant.  This allows them to take care of themselves in a variety of situations.  On the
other hand, individualism can make children more self-centered than they otherwise would be.  It
can teach them not to care as much about others as would be ideal.  I would say that
collectivism has the opposite advantages and disadvantages.  It encourages children to care
about others, but it can also make them less able to do things for
themselves.

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