Who is Napoleon Hill and why is he so successful?

Napoleon Hill is known as "Americas most beloved motivational author." He was born in
1838 in Virginia and began his writing career as a reporter for a small newspapers in the area.
In addition to writing, Hill spent his life teaching and giving lectures about the basic
principles of success. He also served as an adviser to President...

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How does Steinbeck present or use setting in Of Mice and Men? Need a few brief points in order to conclude my essay.

Steinbeck
presents three settings in this novella. The first is the pool of water near the Salinas River,
the place where the novel begins and ends. In this peaceful and natural setting of trails,
water, and willow trees,andachieve a respite from the grinding work of being itinerant ranch
hands. This is a liminal space, not a dream world, but, at the same time, removed from the
harshest elements of civilization.

The ranch, where most of the story takes
place, is a harsh environment. The men have few amenities in their bunk house, work hard, have
no security, and are subjected to a social hierarchy that is oppressive and intrusive. For
example, Curley, the owner's son, can enter the bunk house at any time and start pushing people
around.

A third setting that recurs throughout the novel is the imaginary
landscape of the small farm George and Lennie dream of owning. This idyllic space, where the men
can have privacy, dignity, autonomy, and plenty, contrasts sharply with the...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what did Jem do that made Scout say "he broke the remaining code of our childhood"?

Part of
growing up is being able to figure out what is right and what is wrong, especially if there will
be serious consequences for not doing what is right. For , this means turning in the runaway
Dill, who is hiding under s bed. Dill feels at home in Maycomb because of the unique friendships
he has with Scout and Jem, and he also admiresfor being the type of father he never had.  Poor
Dill feels unloved and neglected by his own family, who doesnt seem to have time for him.
Maycomb is a refuge for Dill where he feels wanted and appreciated by his friends.  

Jem telling Atticus about Dill running away and hiding breaks the code of childhood
where you dont rat on one another. For example, Dill covers for Jem when Jem loses his pants
to the Radley wire fence, and it is an unstated rule of childhood to not tell on each other even
if you have to lie. However, Jem understands that Dills disappearance is dangerous, and Dills
family will probably be in a panic over where Dill is. Jem shows that he is growing up and is
learning to make adult decisions that supersede any kind of childhood pact that he once
made.

What is normal reading speed for a person with dyslexia?

There is no
concrete answer to your question. The signs and symptoms of dyslexia tend differ from person to
person. Each individual with the dyslexia will have a unique pattern of strengths and
weaknesses. Individuals with dyslexia generally have an inability to translate sound from their
written...

In 1984, what is the concept of doublethink?

In
, the concept of "doublethink" centers on the practice of
accepting two opposing opinions as truth.

explains it as the ability
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully
constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out." The book
provides an example of "doublethink" through how the government treats proles (the
proletariats or working-class citizens).

On one hand, the Inner Party claims
the proles needed to be freed from the clutches of capitalism; according to the ruling class,
men "had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged,
women had been forced to work in the coal mines...children had been sold into the factories at
the age of six." On the other hand, the Inner Party asserted the proles were nothing more
than "natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals." The two claims
are contradictory, but the Inner Party insists on the right to disseminate lies masked as
truths.

Later, we are told "doublethink" is central to Ingsoc
(English Socialism). The Inner Party uses it as a way to maintain an appearance of
"complete honesty" while working to make "conscious deception" acceptable to
the masses.

To tell deliberate lies while genuinely
believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes
necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the
existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one
deniesall this is indispensably necessary.

In the book,
even the names of certain government entities contain elements of "doublespeak" and
"doublethink."

The Ministry of Peace concerns
itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the
Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result
from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in DOUBLETHINK. For it is only by
reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.

The purpose of "doublethink" is to delude the masses and
keep citizens destabilized enough to distrust their own senses and realities; this is one way
the ruling elite maintains its hold on power.

What message does Chinua Achebe convey in Things Fall Apart? Prove in-text citation.

There are several messages in
, but perhaps the most important is that the Englishmen who destroy the
tribe are not, as they believe, imposing civilization on savages. They are eradicating another
complex civilization, which has much in it that ought to be preserved. Achebe emphasizes this by
the care with which he records the Igbo customs and the dignityan austere kind of poetrywith
which he invests their speech. This is evident throughout the novel, particularly in the
theological debates between Akunna and Mr. Brown:

"You carve a piece of woodlike that one (he pointed at the rafters from which
Akunnas carved Ikenga hung) and you call it a god. But it is still a piece
of wood.

Yes, said Akunna. It is indeed a piece of wood. The tree from
which it came was made by Chukwu, as indeed all minor gods were. But He made them for His
messengers so that we could approach Him through them."

Akunna's perspective makes perfect sense. Although Mr. Brown is vastly better than Mr.
Smith, he still does not treat the Igbo as equals. Yet anyone unfamiliar with Christian ritual
who saw people in church kneeling before a cross would also think that they were worshipping a
piece of wood. Mr. Brown does not quite appreciate this, and Akunna seems more sophisticated
than the English pastor in his understanding of religion.

What is an example of foreshadowing in Chapter 12-13 in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Some examples ofinclude Dill's letter, Calpurnia's church's reaction
toand , and Alexandra's arrival.

Foreshadowing is a hint that
the author makes about something that is going to happen later in the book.  It keeps a reader
guessing and interested in the story.  Lee uses foreshadowing many times throughout the
book.

One example of foreshadowing is the description of Jems moodiness.
Scout is annoyed by it, but she is told that Jem is just growing up.  This foreshadows the
events of the trial, because it is a major time of maturing for Jem.

Another
example of foreshadowing is the comments Dill makes about his father.  

But summer came and Dill was not there. I received a letter and a
snapshot from him. The letter said he had a new father whose picture was enclosed, and he would
have to stay in...

What is the theme of "Identity" by Julio Noboa Polanco?

The
key theme of this poem by Julio Noboa Polanco is individuality and the freedom that comes with
retaining one's own personal identity. Polanco uses an extendedto imagine himself as a weed,
which, unlike the "flowers," may be ugly but will never find itself
"harnessed" to a pot in which it must remain contained.

The weed,
Polanco goes on to say, is "unseen" and may be "shunned," but at least is
able to feel exposed to the sky and the breezes. The weed has a soul and is able to spread its
"seed" into places the flowers could never reach.

Flowersthose who
allow themselves to be circumscribed by the rules of a constraining societymay be pleasant
smelling, beautiful, and appreciated, but they grow in "clusters." There is nothing to
distinguish them from one another.

By contrast, to be a weed may mean being
viewed as "ugly" and foul smelling, but at least it means that one is an individual
and retains individual freedoms.

It can feel dangerous at times to defy
convention and break outside of the "pots" within which the other people live. There
is a certain "madness" in being a rebel. However, although a weed will not be praised
as flowers are, it also will not be "plucked," either.

Polanco
describes humans as "greedy," suggesting that they praise these well-behaved flowers
in part only because they ultimately want to be able to harvest them. People are taught to be
and behave in a certain way so that they can be commodified. Weeds are considered ugly because
they cannot be purposed in this manner; but at the same time, the weed itself knows that it is
free.

IN Book 2 chapter 7 and 8 is the Monseigneur another name for Marquis? If they are not the same please explain

Monsignor is
a title given to important people in the Catholic...

What problems does Danny face?

Danny
faces a variety of problems throughout this book. One problem helps to explain the book's title.
Danny struggles with his cultural identity. He shares a Caucasian and Mexican heritage, and that
causes him to be a part of both of those communities without ever truly feeling like he belongs
in either.

Danny also struggles with feeling as if he somehow is to blame for
his father leaving. Danny desperately wants to be reunited with his dad, and readers see Danny
writing letters to his father without actually knowing exactly where his father is. Danny
searches for his father's approval, but his father is no longer in the picture.

Danny faces baseball problems too. He is a pitcher than can hurl the ball with great
velocity; however, Danny struggles to control the pitch when the pressure is on. When he and Uno
play together, his pitches do not suffer at all. He can paint all corners of the strike zone
without an issue, and it is Uno that helps Danny to develop the confidence and skills to pitch
accurately in high pressure situations.

Give a stanza by stanza analysis of the poem "Ulysses" by Tennyson. Give the main idea of the poem.

""
is a dramaticwritten inbut it can best be divided into three sections. In lines 1-33, Ulysses
(Odysseus) is thinking, thus an , about his adventures and dreading a life of relative idleness.
He does not find much meaning in his new life as a king, pronouncing rewards and punishments to
his citizens who do not even know him or his truly adventurous spirit: 

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race, 

That hoard, and sleep, and feed,
and know not me. (3-5)

In the subsequent lines, Ulysses
recalls his adventures, all the people and places he's seen, and he notes that these adventures
and interactions have defined him. "I am a part of all that I have met." However, he
notes that as his being has been defined by those adventures, now that they have ceased, his and
others' conception of himself as that adventurer also fades. For Ulysses, he is what he does.
Therefore, to be an adventurer, he must continue to venture. To cease is to become
"dull" and to "rust unburnished, not to shine in use!" (23). 

In the second section, lines 33-43, Ulysses continues the monologue by introducing his
son, Telemachus, whom he says will eventually succeed him as king and be successful in that
occupation. In fact, Ulysses believes that Telemachus' natural disposition is more suitable to
being king whereas Ulysses is more naturally suited to be a warrior and a traveler. Thus, he
concludes, "He works his work, I mine." (43). 

In the third
section, Ulysses turns his attentions from his lamentable present to the possibilities of
adventure in the future. He addresses his traveling companions ("mariners") and
implores them that their courageous days might not yet be over. "Some work of noble note,
may yet be done, / Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods." (53-54). Ulysses acknowledges
the passage of time and in spite of that, he urges his companions (and himself) to press on. He
is willing to take the risk of adventure even if it kills him. Ulysses acknowledges that he and
his men are older and weaker, so he's counting on their will power to embolden them enough to
embark on an adventure again. 

Ulysses is not just frustrated with his old
age and his less than exciting retirement. He is genuinely anxious that he is losing a sense of
himself and his zest for life by accepting this new idle life. In the end, he is determined to
brave the struggle of adventure again. Ulysses believes that to do otherwise is to deny himself
and to not fully embrace life. So, he determines to continue "To strive, to seek, to find,
and not to yield." (70). 

Who killed Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby?

Wilson shotwhile
he was swimming in his pool.  Wilson suspects Gatsby of killing his late wife, Myrtle, because
he recognized the car model from the scene of the crime.  However, Wilson doesn't realize that
Gatsby wasn't driving; instead, it wasdriving, and Gatsby mentions tothat he knows Daisy meant
to kill Myrtle.  This is likely due to the fact that she knows her husband, , has been having an
open affair with Myrtle.  Rather than allowing Myrtle to get caught for murder, Gatsby is
willing to take the blame for the crime, proving just how much he loves her, despite the fact
that Daisy more or less used him just to make Tom jealous of her for having an
affair.

Write a summary on the poem "Time" written by Allen Curnow.

Allen
Curnow was at the forefront of New Zealand literature in his day.  He lived from 1911 until
2001.  His writing reflected the beauty of the New Zealand landscapes, captured "as if no
one had quite seen New Zealand in the English language until Curnow saw it."

The concise use ofcreates startlingly vivid sights and smells for a boy at a farm.  The
sensory images are so intense that the reader can assume that the boy has not grown up on the
farm; had he, the freshness of each assault to his senses would not be as precise, but more and
"every day" occurrence.

The lure that draws the youngster there
that day is the chance to go on an airplane ride as it takes off and lands in one of the farm's
open fields.  As one of the pilots asks if the child wants to take a ride, the boy's father is
hesitant, but the boy quietly pleads by pulling at his dad's hand.  The fact that he does not
let go of his father's hand may indicate a silent insistence for permission, but may also
reflect the half-fear that is coupled with the excitement the boy feels.

Curnow points out the hold the child has on his father's hand and then compares it to
the hold of the land, so much more physically powerful: the immovable mountains, the sky...all
"in place for ever." Though the boy's experience of flying changes from what
could be, becomes what is, and finally, what
was, the landscape does not change.

Which character changed the most in Of Mice and Men? Why?

is the
character that changes the most. He realizes at the conclusion of the story thatwill never
change. Since Lennie's violence has escalated into murder, George must give up his dream of a
farm and kill Lennie. Curley's Wife is accidentally killed by Lennie before she has the
opportunity to evolve. Unfortunately, Crooks remains bitter due to the instutionalized and
social racism that exists in 1930s California.

What factors enabled Christianity to spread within the Roman Empire?

Great
question. Here are a few points to consider:

1. The most important factor for
the growth of Christianity was that it wanted to grow. This factor might seem small, but this
makes all the difference. Most religions in the Roman world did not seek out converts. The
followers Epicurus and the Jews might be the only exceptions. Christianity, on the other hand,
wanted to grow. Just look at Paul's missionary journeys.

2. Because Rome had
such a great empire in terms of travel, any religion that wanted to spread could. In other
words, Christianity came at the right time.

3. Christianity also had
a...

What are three examples of irony in Chapter 12 of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

An example
of dramaticoccurs in a conversation betweenand Calpurnia after church. In the chapter, Scout
seems to be oblivious to the percolating tension that surrounds the Tom Robinson case. While she
knows that Tom Robinson is in jail because "he's done somethin' awful," she has no
idea what "awful" entails and how the white community really feels towards the
Robinson family at present.

Because of her innocence, Scout doesn't
understand why no one seems to want to hire Helen, Tom's wife, for any work. She reasons that,
if the Ewells are Tom's accusers, Helen should have no problems finding work. After all,
"everybody in Maycomb knows what kind of folks the Ewells are." At this point in the
story, Scout has no idea that, before the trial is over, her faith in humanity and in the
goodness of her fellow citizens will be severely tested.

Another example of
irony from the chapter involves what the First Purchase Church is used for. The church was
purchased with the initial earnings...

Is the windmill, when it first comes up, something that is associated with Snowball or Napoleon in Animal Farm?

Initially,comes up with the idea of building
a windmill, which will operate as a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. In
addition to developing the concept of the windmill, Snowball also draws elaborate blueprints and
spends a significant amount of time planning its construction.

At
first,dismisses Snowball's idea of building a windmill and believes that it will be a complete
waste of time. Instead, Napoleon argues that the animals should focus their energy and time on
agriculture. Napoleon even urinates on Snowball's blueprints, which reveals his contempt for
Snowball and his progressive policies.

In , an assembly is held, and the
animals plan to vote on Snowball or Napoleon's policies. Snowball initially wins over the crowd
in favor of his idea but Napoleon suddenly usurps power by calling his ferocious dogs to chase
Snowball off the farm. Once Snowball is driven from the farm, Napoleon adopts his plans for the
windmill and claims that he originated the idea.also tells the animals that Napoleon's apparent
opposition was simply a tactic to rid the farm of the corrupt Snowball.

Under
Napoleon's reign, the windmill collapses before it is completed because its walls are too thin.
The windmill is then rebuilt and named Napoleon Mill before it is destroyed by Frederick and his
men.

What happened to the old woman who surrounded herself with mirrors

This complex poem begins with the speaker
recalling a thriller that he has just watched. Of course, he has watched the show at night,
which adds to the eerie tone of the show and thus the way it is portrayed in the poem. The
show's plot centers around an egotistical woman who is so conceited that she "surrounded
herself with / many mirrors." This conveys that she enjoys looking at herself, making sure
that every aspect of her appearance is perfect. As time passes, she is no longer content to
simply surround herself with mirrors; instead, she locks herself indoors with her mirrors, and
they become her entire existence. The trappings of pride consume her, and she is unable to leave
her house. It's also worth noting that the word "mirrors" appears on a line by itself,
emphasizing how isolated and lonely the woman's life has become.

Villagers
come for the woman, though it is not explained why. To further isolate herself, the woman
somehow disappears into the mirrors and becomes part of them.

She never
emerges, but she does still impact those who try to live there. As different tenants establish a
residence at this home, the woman steals a young person: first a little girl, then a young
woman, then the young woman's (presumably young) husband.

Why did she do
this? Is she envious of youth? Was she obsessed with losing her own youthful appearance, leading
her to become increasingly dependent on mirrors in the first place? Does she realize the error
of her isolationist tendencies and long for company once trapped in the mirrors?

Her reasons are unknown, yet her story furthers the themes of isolation and loss that
continue in the subsequent stanzas of the poem.

Explain the combination of genres in Pygmalion.

The Shavian
play belongs to popular theatrical genre of the time known as the
"well-made play." This means that it contained a strong plot complete with a solid
main story that it follows directly, without allowing the theatrics to alter the message of
independence and social unfairness that the play intends to convey.

However,
aside from being a well-made play, it also contains several elements of Romantic literature in
that the situations that are shown in the play are realistic, not adorned, and quite relevant in
social terms. Here we have a woman whose cockney accent is a problem for her potential future.
This shows the real silly social discrimination issues taking place in a growing Victorian
England, where snobbery and haughtiness was the daily bread of the new middle classes.

Additionally, the potential romance between the two main characters is not resolved.
This is another aspect of the play that makes it mix with Romanticism: The fact that the romance
does not come to a full circle. After all, doall romances come to a happy ending in real life?
It is this use of what gives Pygmalion its unique, Shavian taste.

In contrast to many other plays of his time, we also see a lack of flowery-overused
language, and we find roughness and toughness when necessary. Yet, we can also experience the
touch of sarcasm that was used by many other dramatists for comedies of manners.

In all, we can conclude that Pygmalion can be both a comedy of
social issues as well as a romance where we witness journey into the hearts of Liza and
Higgings. It is, in all, a play that shows the social, the emotional, the psychological, and the
comedic aspects of human reality.

Atom How do you determine the number of electrons, protons, neutrons in an atom?

I concur to
previous posts.  Each element on the periodic chart has its own square.  At the top of the
square is a number called the atomic number,...

Explain the difference between the demand curve facing a monopoly firm and the demand curve facing a perfectly competitive firm.

The key
difference between the demand curve in a perfect competition and the demand curve in a monopoly
is their movement. A firm in a perfect competition can sell an unlimited number of goods on a
fixed price because the price of the output is determined by the market and the market
conditions in which the firm operates. In other words, the firm accepts the preexisting price of
the output that has already been established on the market. As a result, the demand curve in a
perfect competition is a straight, horizontal line. In fact, because the competitive firm sells
an article that has a lot of perfect substitutes, it faces a perfectly elastic demand
curve.

On the other hand, because the monopoly is the only manufacturer on
the market, its individual demand curve is also the markets demand curve. This means that it
faces a downward-sloping demand curve. Monopolists can change the price of their output
depending on its quantity in the market. If they increase the price, naturally, the costumers
will buy less of their goods. Furthermore, if they lower the quantity of their output, the price
will go up.

In chapter 17 of The Scarlet Letter, what does Rev. Dimmesdale tell Hester about their sin and Chillingworths' sin?

class="MsoNormal">"I do forgive you, ," replied the minister at length,
with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.  "I freely forgive you
now.  May God forgive us both.  We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world.  There is
one worse than even the polluted priest!  That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. 
He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.  Thou and I, Hester, never did
so!"

"Never, never!" whispered
she.  "What we did had a consecration of its own.  We felt it so!  We said so to each
other.  Hast thou forgotten it?"

"Hush,
Hester!" said , rising from the ground. "No; I have not
forgotten!"

 Dimmesdale clearly points to
what was called a sin of "passion" and compares it to a sin of "will."   A
sin of the will has always been viewed as worse.  However Hester goes further saying that what
they did had a "consecration."  This is a very special word to Catholics; it is the
moment in the Mass where bread and win become the body and blood of Christ.  But in their case,
it resulted from a feeling ("we felt it so").  And there lies the problem:  can we
create the "right" because we "say" it is so?  Can we make actions
"moral" because we say we feel they are?

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Unmatched Foes? Is Claudius a poor foe for Hamlet? Why would Shakespeare not create a more savvy adversary?

Claudius is
too worried about people finding him guilty...Hamlet is a popular prince and Claudius doesn't
want to be in bad graces with Gertrude and the people of Denmark.  Had he been a more formidable
enemy, Hamlet would have been dead much earlier in the play? 

Explain how the Federal Reserve limits deviations of the market's Federal Funds rate? Explain how the Federal Reserve limits deviations of the markets...

The
"corridor" or "channel" system, which the Fed did not use in the past, sets
boundaries on the federal funds rate. The ceiling, or upper limit, of the "corridor"
for deviations in the federal funds rate is the discount rate. The floor,
or bottom limit, of the deviation is the interest rate on excess reserves.
This is how the corridor system limits deviations (i.e., changes in) the federal funds rate: it
cannot go higher than the discount rate nor lower than the excess reserve rate.

http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/pdf/10q4Kahn.pdf

What is one major theme of Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises?

If youre doing
a project on the novel, you might consider it as a chronicle of what has been called the lost
generation, or the generation traumatized by the first World War.  This generation has been
characterized as alienated, and the languorous behavior of the Americanin Hemingways novel has
been interpreted as a classic example of that zeitgeist. 

At one point, a
friend describes Jake Barnes to himself: 

Youre an
expatriate [Bill explains]. One of the worst type. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get
precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become
obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You
hang around cafes. 

Like many famous authors of this
period, including Hemingway himself, Jake has left America in order to find a better way of life
in another country.  His obsession with the Spanish bull fights, to the extent that even native
Spaniards acknowledge that he is an aficionado, is one example of Jake trying to involve himself
in a greater interest.  Similarly, he (and his friends) try to immerse themselves in rural
Spanish past times, like fishing in the country, in an attempt, perhaps, to get in touch with
the soil, as Bill says.  You might consider reading the novel as Hemingways answer to the
malaise of the lost generation; a message of a more vital way of life that might be salvation
for an alienated generation.

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What is the overriding theme of "Our Casuarina Tree" by Toru Dutt?

I would suggest that the
main theme of this poem has to do with the existence of a harmony between human
beings and nature. The tree is associated with the animals who live and play in
itthe baboons and the kokilasas well as the cows that enjoy its shade. The tree's shadow also
covers the body of water beneath it, where water lilies grow in such great number that they look
like snow. The speaker goes on to describe the way she and her "sweet companions" used
to play beneath the tree's boughs. The tree rises up in her "inner vision" and brings
her happiness and peace, perhaps because it does symbolize the union of nature and humanity,
achieving a unique kind of beauty, meaning, and innocence. Many descriptions make this tree's
home sound like the Garden of Eden, but there is no tragic fall from grace to be had here: the
snake is only a vine wrapped around the tree that is covered in flowers. Grace survives as the
tree brings all beings together in harmony.

How does Hemingway, the author of "Hills Like White Elephant," create a view of the female character Jig as naive or innocent using language.

To
be naive can mean to lack worldly experience or to have a simple, unaffected nature with no
artificiality. The female character in Hemingway's short story "" would fit the second
meaning of having a simple, unaffected, open nature. She shows she is experienced in worldly
matters when she says "So have I..." to her companions comment that he has known lots
of people who have had the "simple operation."

To be
innocent,...

In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, what was an an average day like for Linda Brent, living under Flint?

Just to take one
example, note how Linda is treated when she tells Flint, her owner, about her plan to marry a
freed slave in Chapter Seven. When she tells Flint about her plan to marry, he first hits her,
jumping on her "like a tiger" and giving her a "stunning blow" and then
threatens her, shouting at her with the following words:

By heavens, girl, you...

What are examples of symbols in Fever 1793? I am trying to help my 4th grader with his book report. He has to find pictures to go along with the...

Paris,
the city of lights, is another important symbol in the story. For Mattie Paris represents a
dream world full of glamor and excitement. It's a place where she can buy trinkets which she
hopes to sell to her customers in the coffee shop. Mattie has grown up very quickly in the midst
of this terrible epidemic, but she still has her dreams, and those dreams allow her to transcend
her immediate surroundings, with all their death and suffering. However, they are not pipe
dreams; as we've already said, Mattie has grown up considerably due to her experiences. Her
visions of Paris and all they represent are still rooted in what is practical: they will help to
expand her business.

In Gabriel Garc­a M¡rquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," why does the angel appear in the form of a very old man who speaks like a...

In 's
"," the author might be trying to get you to ask almost the opposite question, i.e.
Why shouldnt an angel appear in the form of an old man with an odd
accent?

On the accent, the villagers are not presented as the sort of
cosmopolitans who can identify specific foreign accents, so that rather than Norwegian it is
better to think of his voice as different or not local.

Next, if you
think of the angel in the Christian context in which Marquez lived and wrote, consider that
Jesus, the son of God, appears in the Bible not as a handsome aristocrat, but as a poor
carpenter from the hick town of Nazareth and many people in the New Testament are seen as
reviling him and not taking him seriously because he is poor and uneducated.


The angel, as Jesus, serves as a test of peoples moral character. The people
who mistreated the angel, because he was a poor shabby old man, like those who reviled Jesus,
are showing themselves unworthy of the gifts that God gave them, a facet of their characters
they might not have shown if God had sent more outwardly impressive
messengers.

What factors contributed to the collapse of the US economy at the end of the 1920s?

The Great
Depression (1929€“1939) was the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States.
Although there had been an extremely severe depression in the 1890s, the Great Depression was
much worse and more prolonged. The Great Depression, like the Civil War of the preceding
century, was an existentialist threat to the nation. The stock market crash of 1929 touched off
the Depression, but it was not its only cause.

Another key cause of the Great
Depression was income inequality. Although the nation's businesses were profitable during the
1920s, wages barely increased. Therefore, consumers relied on installment plans to purchase
vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and other products; this created a great deal of consumer
debt. Affluent Americans were engaged in dangerous speculation on Wall Street; more than a third
of the nation's wealth was owned by one percent of the population.

Third,
farmers were in a desperate economic situation even before the collapse of 1929. Prices for
agricultural products were low during the 1920s. The Great Depression exacerbated the plight of
farmers.

Finally, the complete failure of the banking system and a reliance
on the gold standard were important. Relying on the gold standard had a negative impact on the
money supply, and citizens lost their savings when many banks failed.

According to the play Our Town, what does the "American Dream" consist of? Give at least one direct quote.

In
, the American Dream is achieved through small-town normalcy, ordinary stability, and
savoring the small moments in life. As Mrs. Gibbs says,

.
. . choose an unimportant day. Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important
enough.

Our Town is a celebration of
small-town normalcy in Grover's Corners, in a white America settled by pilgrims. It is a hymn to
places where dogs can sleep all day in the street undisturbed and everyone knows everyone
else.

Soldiers from different wars are buried in the cemetery in Grover's
Corners. We learn, too, that the American Dream was actualized by Union soldiers who went to
fight in the Civil War because it was self-evident that holding the United States together was
the right thing to do:

All they knew was the name,
friendsthe United States of America. The United States of America. And they went and died about
it.

Wilder's vision of the American Dream in this play is
different from the dreams exemplified in other works of American literature. It is not a dream
of remaking the world afresh in your image or of finding a source of easy wealth. It is most
similar to the simple dream that the characters in Of Mice and Men long
for: a house, an ordinary life, some independence, and some roots in a community.

In what ways did the power of the American government expand as a result of WW1?

The major
expansion of American government power was directed at the war effort; not at long time changes
in governmental policy. The Lever Food and Control Act created the U.S. Food Administration to
garner resources for the war effort. Under the leadership of future President Herbert Hoover,
the Food Administration urged Americans to observe meatless Tuesdays; wheatless Wednesdays, and
porkless Saturdays. The Espionage Act of 1917 provided penalties of up to twenty years for
interfering with the war effort, or inciting insubordination, disloyalty, or  refusal to serve
in the armed services.  Similarly, the Sedition Act of 1918 made it illegal to interfere with
the sale of war bonds, or say or write anything,

disloyal,
profane, scurrilous, or abusive about the American Government, Constitution, Army, or
Navy.

Among those prosecuted and convicted under the
Sedition Act was Eugene V. Debs who famously stated he was against all wars except one, and that
was the worldwide worker's revolution.

It is highly doubtful that the two
acts cited above would stand Constitutional muster during the present; however they were
challenged and upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of Schenk vs. U.S.in
which Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:

The most
stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a
theater and causing a panic .

The Court held in the
Schenk case that the First Amendment did not apply when there was a
"clear and present danger" of evil results.

In 1984 what is the role and function of the protagonist, Winston Smith? Through setting, theme, point of view, other characters, symbols...

The main
role ofis a platform forto describe and show his vision of this dystopian future that he has
created.  Through Winston's eyes, we can learn both about the workings of party members, their
everyday lives and routines, the philosophies of the party itself, and even the life of the
proles that exist outside of the minute control of the party.  Orwell needed a character that
was a part of the party itself, but also someone who could show the life of the proles; for
that, he needed a discontented party member who would wander about and show the lives of other
people.  But, being a party member allows Orwell to explain, in detail, the inner workings of
the party itself, and its many...

How is sociology helpful for a teacher?

is the
study of the social relationships of people and organizations. Teachers and students do not
function in a vacuum, but in the social relationships of their milieu. Therefore, sociology is
of profound importance to a teacher. First, a good teacher needs to understand how his or her
own students' sociological backgrounds have an impact on their educational experience, second,
the teacher needs to attend to the sociology of the classroom as an organizational entity, and
third, the teacher is empowered by having insight into the sociological environment of the
school and the school district. 

Students come from a variety of
sociological backgrounds, and in order to connect and engage with each student, the teacher must
have some understanding of those backgrounds. This enables the teacher to best tailor learning
to meet each student's particular needs.  A student from an impoverished home and a student from
a wealthy home are likely to have significant differences, for...

How did the animals react when they listened to Napoleon and Snowball in Animal Farm?

begins with 's vision
of a farm without human intervention, where all the animals will be treated fairly and equally.
It is his inspiration which leads to the animals taking over the farm. However, right from the
start, there is the question of whether birds and other small creatures are to be included in
the vision for the farm and already the reader sees that "some animals are more equal than
others." There is also the mystery of the milk which the animals come to accept is needed
by the pigs as "brain " food. Whilst the pigs are securely placed as the
leaders, there is something of a power struggle for leadership asand , both of whom see a future
for the farm, have very different ideas of that future. 

Snowball has
convinced the animals that building a windmill is the best way forward and the animals call a
meeting as Napoleon thinks it is a bad idea and is opposed to it. He intends to persuade the
animals to vote against it. The animals get excited when Snowball starts speaking but then the
sheep start bleating and eventually, upon Napoleon's instruction, there is a complete breakdown
of the meeting as Napoleon unleashes the pack of dogs which chases Snowball off the property.
The animals are confused and are already afraid of Napoleon. He is therefore established as the
leader and the animals, through 's persuasion, come to think of Snowball as a troublemaker, set
on ruining their chances of success. 

For a Playlist Project for the book Emmafor a class presentation, where I find fitting modern songs relaying the theme or stage of Emma's development...

You might
consider turning to the movie Clueless for inspiration for your modern song project; this movie
is a modern day adaptation of's classic novel.  For Mr. Knightley's...

What question is repeatedly asked in the poem "The Tyger"?

The question
that is asked repeatedly in 's "" is who is the creator of this "fearful
symmetry," this correspondence of evil that exists in the awesome forces of
nature?

In six quatrains, the question about the nature of the tiger's
creator is asked in various ways. The main question is asked in the fifth stanza: "Did he
who made the Lamb make thee?" The speaker asks this question because he wonders how to
reconcile the creation of something that is as dangerous and deadly as a tiger with that of the
gentle and harmless lamb.

Perhaps, in order to have innocence and beauty,
experience and evil must exist. This duality is necessary in life. In fact, William Blake
envisioned all reality as a duality of good and evil, peace and violence, and innocence and
experience. Blake writes of these issues in his Songs of Innocence and Innocence and
of Experience.

What quotes in Macbeth reveal Lady Macbeth's ambition and desire to be queen?

Ladyis a
character with two sides. One side is the ruthlessly ambitious woman who wants her husband to
wear the crown of Scotland, no matter what it takes. For this, she is willing to
"unsex" herself, as she puts it and is practically willing to sell her soul to the
devil to achieve her goals. Beneath this, however, is a gentler, more stereotypically womanly
side to her personality: the one which can't murderbecause he reminds her of her own father
(though she is capable of goadinginto it) and the side that is so overwhelmed with guilt that
she later sleepwalks constantly...

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Can you explan the poem "Nobody loses all the time" by e. e. cummings?

"Nobody
Loses All the Time," by e.e. cummings, is--on a superficial level--the tale of the author's
Uncle Sol.

Sol is a perennial loser.  He starts off as a vegetable farmer,
but his chickens ate all the vegetables.  So, he became a chicken farmer, "till the skunks
ate the chickens."  Sol then became a skunk farmer "but the skunks caught cold and
died."

Sol finally gives up, "drowning himself in the
watertank."  He now becomes something of  pathetic joke.  This man who was always a loser
is presented

  upon the auspicious occasion of his decease
a scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and
everything.

In the end, even Sol manages to make
something of himself:

somebody pressed a button

 (and down went

 my Uncle Sol

and started a worm
farm)

Perhaps Uncle Sol can be viewed as a sort
of existentialist hero; that is, a man who may not win life's battles, but finds a certain
dignity in striving to live.  In Sol's case, he finally achieves dignity in his death, when he
is feted with an elaborate funeral and finally accomplishes something worthy by becoming food
for worms.

Check out the link below for some other thoughts about this
poem. 

 

Why are benchmark jobs critical to job evaluation methodologies?

Benchmark jobs
remain consistent across diverse organizations and enterprises; this allows them to be used as a
basis for analysis and assessment. These jobs are usually consistent between departments and
organizations and data is readily...

What is the meaning of the metaphor of The Jungle?

, the author
of, was a well-known socialist. In The Jungle, Sinclair is reacting to the ideas of social
darwinism or the idea that those who are successful in society are those who are the most fit to
survive. This idea was popular during the time Sinclair was writing his novels and The Jungle is
meant to show the pitfalls of Social Darwinism's beliefs. The people who survive in his novel
are not necessarily the most fit, but the most corrupt and brutal. The Jungle metaphorically
paints a picture of the economic situation Jurgis and his family face in the Chicago meatpacking
plants. They are treated like animals amid terrible working conditions and a system which preys
on naive immigrants. The houses they buy are substandard; they catch diseases...

How did the boys on the island in Lord of the Flies fail to effectively govern themselves and what were the consequences of their failures in relation...

Initially, the boys attempt to establish a
civil society on the uninhabited tropical island by voting for a chief and organizing
themselves. As chief,initially establishes rules regarding the conch and creates a signal fire
on the top of the mountain, while stressing the importance of being rescued. Ralph also divides
necessary duties among the boys, which they gradually begin to neglect. Unfortunately, Ralph
fails to punish disobedience, and there are no consequences for breaking the rules like there
are in an effective criminal justice system. Offenders likewould be punished and stripped of
their leadership roles in an effective justice system. However, Ralph fails to enforce the rules
by establishing consequences, and civility eventually deteriorates.

As the
story progresses, the boys become less concerned with following Ralph's directives and develop a
reverence for Jack, who is a successful hunter. Onceclaim that they witnessed a beast on the top
of the mountain, chaos quickly ensues as boys rapidly descend into savagery. The majority of the
boys join Jack's tribe of savages at the opposite end of the island and follow their primitive
instincts. The savages become obsessed with hunting and eventually begin acting violently toward
each other. The boys murderon the beach after mistaking him for the beast;brutally kills ; and
the boys hunt Ralph. In an environment with no rules, consequences, or punishments, civilization
cannot exist, and the boys revert back to their primitive nature.

Can I get 2 detailed and explained genres on Animal Farm?

himself
calls this a fairy tale, so that's one genre.  It's also a , so there's genre number
two.

A fairy tale is a story in which the characters aren't particularly well
developed--just enough to make the story believable.  They are often caricatures or stereotypes
(i.e., a wicked witch or a sleeping beauty or a handsome prince).  They are generally pretty
black or white, good or evil, without much gray in between.  The story usually has a moral
ending--moreso in modern fairy tales than in, say, the old Brothers Grimm Tales--where the wolf
in Little Red Riding Hood ends up in the cooking pot, for example.  The
modern fairy tale is more polished and certainly more kid-friendly.  To some degree,
is, then, a true fairy tale.

We usually classify this
work as a fable, though.  A fable is similar to a fairy tale but usually has animal characters. 
Those characters often have the physical characteristics of animals but the also the more human
qualities of speaking and thinking.  That's exactly true in this novel.  The four-footed animals
cannot, for example, walk on two feet--until they learn.  They do, however, speak, think, and
react as humans would.  They are also symbolic caricatures, in that they represent something
beyond the actual (i.e., Benjamin represents the intellects,is the symbol of the working
class).  The best examples of fables come from Aesop's Fables, of course, where animals learn
lessons and present morals for the reader.  To that extent, Animal Farm is
also a fable. 

I've included some more detailed sources below. 
Hope that helps!

How did the band The Sundays contribute to pop music?

One
distinct way in which The Sundays contributed to pop music was to usher in the Alternative Era
of music that defined the musical landscape of the 1990s.  The Sundays were able to develop this
style of music in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.  

The Sundays stood on
the forefront of a musical transformation in a couple of distinct ways.  Their music was a
contrast to the bubble- gum and consumerist popular music of the 1980s.  Hard dance beats were
replaced with an almost acoustic musical feel.  This was seen in "Summertime," one of
the band's biggest hits that really operated in a more folksy style as a contrast to what was
being...

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What does The Epic of Gilgamesh reveal about the Babylonian relationship with their rulers?

shows us that the
relationship between ruler and ruled in ancient Babylonia was akin to that of master and slave.
At the beginning of the poem, Gilgamesh is presented as a cruel and vicious tyrant, almost
psychopathic in his utter contempt for human life and dignity. Yet the subjects who groan under
the lash of his despotic rule have no choice but to yield to their king's wishes. Gilgamesh is
an absolute ruler: what he says, goes. All that his oppressed subjects can do is cry out to the
gods for divine assistance. But as Gilgamesh is himself two-thirds god, it's not surprising that
their desperate pleas go unanswered for so long.

Kingship is given to us in
the poem as being divinely sanctioned. Gilgamesh owes his exalted position to the gods, and he
answers to them, not his subjects. Though Gilgamesh's behavior is utterly deplorable, there's
nothing in the least bit strange about it. Babylonian rulers were virtual gods and could do
pretty much as they pleased. The notion of a monarch constrained by law and custom simply didn't
exist at that time.

What is the main theme in 1984 by George Orwell?

One way to isolate a
single central theme as a means to discuss the several topics of the novel is to point to the
notion of liberty beset by ideology in
.

While the people of Oceania are not in prison and are
free to make certain choices about how to live their lives, they are
functionally imprisoned - especially mentally.

At his
most radical,writes in his diary:

Freedom is the
freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else
follows.

When such a simple statement of fact
is the extreme limit of this man's mental freedom, we have to question the nature and quality of
Winston's actual liberty under his government. 's novel explores the conflict
between the individual's intellectual freedom and the interests of a totalitarian political
state - interests which necessarily oppose any and all mental
freedoms. 

Winston is not free to think and act however
he likes. He understands that the behavioral and intellectual expectations of his society
(dictated by Big Brother) are more than merely conventional norms - they are the law and they
are strictly enforced. 

Winston, like the other citizens of Oceania, is a
subject of a totalitarian regime, which is to say that he is subjected to its ideology. The aims
and posture of the Big Brother regime serve to protect the state while also defining
it.

The misinformation, reflexive moral/political justifications and the many
practices of brainwashing and enforced ignorance all also function as the character of the
government and as means to defend the integrity of that government.

This is
ideology at work in its most complete and obvious form. Set against a framework of emotional,
social and intellectual totalitarianism, the central (political) message of the novel seems to
be the suggestion that individual liberty is impossible when the very foundations of thought are
corrupted by political machinations (propaganda, cult behavior, fear mongering, etc.).

"The concept of free will, an individuals liberty to make his
or her own choices, is a threat to the totalitarian state. This is presented
throughout 1984 as free will in ones actions, thoughts, and information.
Free will encompasses not only a choice, but also a choice made on the access to true
information" .

Seen in this
light, 1984 presents a central theme of liberty imperiled by ideology. The
ideological symptoms of a totalitarian state are precisely equal in their totality as the state
is in its oppression of freedom. These symptoms are, in essence, the full and natural expression
of the political body.

What are the main ideas in Stuart Hall's "Cultural Studies and its Theoritical Legacies"?

Hall's
intent in this paper was to define what is meant by "cultural studies." The issue, as
he presents it, is that the term is far too broad and can even be counterproductive or
derogatory, hindering sociological research instead of improving it. Hall takes a look at the
various aspects of cultural studies and their intent and tries to distill what the necessary
aspects of these studies truly are.

The problem, he states, is that a
cultural study must necessarily be fluid because there is no set definition for a culture, and
therefore every culture examined will be different and will need to be examined differently. He
states that cultural studies can really only be performed in the first personeverything is
autobiographical, because culture is unique and personal as well as fluid between individuals. A
major issue is trying to tease out the beginnings of a cultural study, because you cannot know
how to properly study a culture without knowing something about it. Hall spends much
of...

What do you believe became of Ichabod Crane? What do you believe became of Ichabod Crane?

Great
question for the discussion board!

I just finished teaching this story to my
American Literature II course and we discussed what could have happened to poor Ichabod!
 

In my opinion, Ichabod was "kidnapped" by Brom Bones and taken to
an undisclosed location, where he was told to leave town or be physically hurt (I do not believe
Brom Bones would have threatened to kill him) because he and Brom Bones were rivals for
Katrina's affection.  I do not believe that the Headless Horseman was real...I definitely think
that Brom Bones was behind Ichabod's disappearance.  After being threatened by Brom Bones, I
believe Ichabod immediately left town without looking back!

In "Hills Like White Elephants," did the woman go for an abortion?

The
dialogue between the American and Jig makes it clear that she doesn't understand a word of
Spanish. This means that she is most likely a native English speaker but probably not an
American. Here she is in a foreign country, pregnant, perhaps without any money of her own, and
completely dependent on this man who is taking her to Madrid to have an abortion. Instead of
asking whether she actually had the abortion, one might ask if she actually got on that
train.

Towards the end of the story the woman who is waiting on them tells
them, "The train is coming in five minutes." If the girl gets on...

Where is the narrator as he tells his tale?

At the
very beginning of , the narrator tells his readers that he is currently
awaiting his own execution for the crimes he committed. He does not specify where exactly he is,
but I think it is safe to assume that he is in a cell in prison, where most
criminals...

What do the sun and moon symbolize in Romeo and Juliet?

Shakespeare plays with images of light and
darkness throughout ; indeed, many of the scenes happen either late at
night or early in the morning. In act 2, scene 2, however,provides some of the most famous lines
in all of English literature:

But, soft! What
light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, andis the sun.
Arise, fair
sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.
(II.ii.44-47)

In these lines, Romeo compares
Juliet to the sun. This is after the Capulet party, and Romeo is awaiting a glimpse of his
beloved as he waits below her balcony. It is dark, late at night, and Romeo believes that
Juliet's beauty is enough to transform the night into day, much like a sunrise.

It's also important to remember that Romeo has been through his own symbolic
"night" recently over Rosaline's rejection. In fact, just before this party,has to
persuade Romeo to even attend, telling him to "Compare her face with some that I show,/ And
I will make thee think thy swan a crow" (I.ii.87-88). It could also be argued that Rosaline
is the darkness that has encapsulated Romeo's heart, and Juliet is the sun that breaks through
that darkness with her beauty.

Romeo goes on to ask Juliet to appear at her
window ("Arise, fair sun...") and "kill the envious moon." Here, the moon
symbolizes the passions Romeo held before, whose light and beauty pale in comparison to the
bright and beautiful Juliet. Romeo realizes that anything he considered love before beholding
(and kissing) Juliet is inconsequential.

What were the major turning points of WWII? Please be specific, this may include a specific battle or leadership.

I would have to say
that the dropping of the bomb is the most significant turning point.For most of the war, both
sides were attempting to outdo one another with technology.The dropping of the bomb affected not
just , but the politics of the world thereafter.]]>

What are the benefits for the consumer of a monopoly market?

There really
aren't any, except in certain rare circumstances.

Monopolies are great for
business owners; monopolies restrict production and raise prices, leading
to much higher profits. But both of those things are extremely bad for
consumers, and in fact it turns out that the harm to consumers is almost always larger than the
benefit to business owners, to the point where we could literally just take some money from
consumers and hand it to business owners, then establish a competitive market, and everyone
would be better off than they were under the monopoly. (Not that we necessarily
should, but we could, in
theory.)

Competitive markets are provably optimal for consumers in the long
run, as they produce the most efficient amount of goods and sell them at the most efficient
price.

There are basically only two circumstances where monopolies can be
beneficial for consumers.

The first is if there is an economy of
scale. If the good is actually produced more efficiently in larger quantities, then a

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, what advice does the horseman give to Santiago?

The
horseman in 's is actually the alchemist that Santiago has been searching
for. However, when the boy (Santiago) first sees the rider come pounding up to him, he has no
idea of the man's real identity.

The first thing the horseman demands to know
is the identity of the person who has dared to read the omen of the fighting hawks.

Suddenly he heard a thundering sound, and he was thrown to the
ground by a wind such as he had never known...Before him was an enormous white horse, rearing
over him with a frightening scream...

(The presence of
the wind here is .) Santiago gets his first glimpse of the horseman who has all but trampled him
with his animal. The man is dressed completely in black, with a falcon resting on his arm.
Drawing his sword, the man speaks.

"Who dares to read
the meaning of the flight of the hawks?" he demanded so loudly that his words seemed to
echo...

Santiago does not hesitate, but identifies
himself as one who has "dared to do so." The boy is prepared to die by this sword if
he has done something to offend, but calmly explains that he has saved lives by doing so. Rather
than killing Santiago, the horseman asks why he read the omen of the birds. Santiago answers
that he "read" what the birds wanted him to know, which was that
the oasis was in dangerin this way, he could save the people there. The man in black then
asks:

Who are you to change what Allah has
willed?

The boy explains that Allah has created all
things, as well as the birds who gave him the message. The horseman lowers his sword but warns
Santiago:

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title="prognosticate">prognostications...When something is written, there
is no way to change it.

Santiago says that he had a
vision, and then tells the man that he is following his Personal Legend, thinking that this man
could not possibly understand what that is. The man
does know (and so much more that Santiago could never imagine at that
time), and points out that he had to see how brave Santiago waswhich is why he seemed so
threateningfor bravery is absolutely necessary if the boy is to understand the "Language of
the World."

The man's final advice to Santiago is that he must not give
up on his quest. Then he warns him:

You must love the
desert, but never trust it completely. Because the desert tests all men: it challenges every
step, and kills those who become distracted.

Santiago now
knows he must be more vigilant than ever. The man in black tells Santiago that "if your
head is still on your shoulders at sunset," the boy should find him. The young man asks
where the horseman lives, and the direction in which the man points lets Santiago know he has
finally met the alchemist.

Whats does Mollie represent in Animal Farm? Why?

Mollie is
described as "the foolish, pretty white mare who (draws) Mr. Jones's trap." When the
animals are discussing the rebellion predicted by , Mollie asks if there will still be sugar and
wether she will still "be allowed to wear ribbons in (her) mane."rebukes her by
telling her that the ribbons she desires are "the badge of slavery." He tells her that
"liberty is worth more than ribbons." However, Mollie seems unconvinced, and soon
after the rebellion she is spotted on a neighboring farm, being fed sugar by a "fat
red-faced man" and wearing "a scarlet ribbon round her forelock."

Mollie arguably represents those among the working classes who prefer the life of
servitude they have become accustomed to over the independent life that they could have if they
were prepared to work for it. The life of servitude has its comforts, represented in Mollie's
case by the sugar and the ribbons, and many people, like Mollie, like to have rules to follow
and masters to serve because it means that they don't have to think for themselves. It is
sometimes comforting to have other people think for you and tell you what to do. And this is
certainly easier, if you are accustomed to it, than a life of liberty where you have to (perhaps
for the first time) think and act for yourself.

What do you think is the reason for Cory's death?

Ultimately, we can't know whydecided to kill
himself. The poem is from the view of the people who live near him; they don't know his
innermost thoughts or the problems he might have in his life. They know him as someone to pass
on the streets; they don't know him as a real person.

When Richard Cory
shoots himself, the people in the town are surprised. They had no idea that he was unhappy about
anything. They see him as living a blessed, successful life and see themselves as less in
comparison.

There's no mention of Cory having a family or friends. They don't
say whether he's in good healththough they have no indication to the contrary. There is no real
indication of why he ultimately shot himself. He was deeply unhappy about something and decided
to commit suicide because of it.

It is said Squealer would turn black into white; how is this shown in Animal Farm?

In the
opening of ,is described as the best known of the male pigs (aside fromand Snowball). He could
"turn black into white" because he was a very persuasive talker. 

He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult
point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very
persuasive. 

Notice that asis being hailed for his
persuasive speech, it is his "skipping from side to side and whisking his tail" that
made him persuasive. This indicates that he was good at distracting those he spoke to and he was
very good at changing his positions (going from side to side) in order to win arguments or in
order to justify his new positions. 

There are many times in the novel when
the commandments are changed and Squealer is able to fool the animals that the commandments have
not been changed. Therefore, he is able to change his position (from black to white) without the
animals even knowing it. At the end of , the pigs start sleeping in beds. This contradicts the
initial fourth commandment which stated that "No animal shall sleep in a bed." When
Clover suspects something, Muriel spells out the commandment which had been updated to state
that "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets." Squealer
assures them that the commandment was always stated in this way: to only outlaw beds with
sheets. 

You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever
a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a
bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. 

What quotes describe how Scrooge changes in A Christmas Carol (Stave 3)?

Scrooge begins to care about
other people in Stave Three.

At the beginning of Stave Three,
Scrooge has already begun to change.  The journey into his past demonstrated to him that he
chose to be alone.  It also reminded him of the people who used to be in his life, and the pain
that he has experienced in the past.

Scrooge is extremely reflective as he
watches Christmas present unfold.  Part of the experience is seeing people go about their lives
and be happy as they celebrate the holiday together.  When he watches his clerk Bob Cratchit and
his family, he shows that he is changing by the question he asks the ghost about Tiny
Tim.

Spirit, said Scrooge, with an
interest he had never felt before, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.

I see a vacant seat, replied the Ghost, in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch
without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the
child will die. (Stave 3)

Before this, Scrooge never paid
any attention to Cratchits family and didnt care about their health or anyone elses.  He told
the men collecting for charity that he supported prisons and workhouses, not charities.  Yet
here he is, asking about Tiny Tim and feeling sad when he learns that he might die.

Another example of Scrooges change in perception and behavior is his reaction to
Ignorance and Want.  These are the children hiding under the Ghost of Christmas presents robe. 
When Scrooge inquiries about them, the ghost throws his words back at him.

Have they no refuge or resource? cried
Scrooge.

Are there no prisons? said the Spirit, turning on
him for the last time with his own words. Are there no workhouses? (Stave 3)

The ghost is reminding his charge that he has a lot to atone for. 
Scrooge was not a friend to his fellow man.  Now Scrooge is obviously a very different man.  He
actually cares about Tiny Tim and the children.

When the third ghost appears,
Scrooge tells him he is ready to learn whatever lessons the ghost has to teach.  In his mind, he
is a new man.  He demonstrates this again when he sees his headstone, reminding the ghost that
he would not have been shown the visions if there was no hope for him.

Dickens is telling us that anyone can change.  In theof the story, Scrooges own words
are thrown back at him.  He realizes that, as Jacob Marley said, mankind is his business.  From
this point on, Scrooge vows to change and he does.  Scrooge is a different man after his journey
with the ghosts.  He allows people into his life, and does his best to help the needy anywhere
he can.

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In The Scarlet Letter, how does the setting contribute to the overall theme of the book?

There are many aspects
of the setting that can be analysed as part of answering this question. One of the most
significant parts of the setting is arguably the location of Hester's abode where she chooses to
live and raiseafter the end of her imprisonment. Note how this setting is described in
:

On the outskirts of town, wihin the verge of the
peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched
cottage. It had...

How does Beckett's Endgame alter/add to the theatre of the absurd? How does it add to or differ from Ionesco and Brecht?

is one play of the
Theatre of the Absurd in which, at least in my opinion, the themes are made relatively clear.
This is not necessarily to say that Beckett's usual message about the meaningless nature of life
is not present here. But the situation that unfolds is afor a recognizable reality experienced
by people throughout the world, even if it's stated here in an exaggerated and especially
trenchant form.

A bare stage is the setting, in which two men, who are both
disabled in different ways, are arguing with each other, while two other people are sitting in
trash cans. Hamm is physically disabled and blind; Clov cannot sit down; and Hamm's parents,
Negg and Nell, are living in the trash cans. The world seems to have been depopulated apart from
these four people. Obviously this is aof the restrictive nature of real life, in which people go
through the motions and act as if they are doing things of consequence, but it's actually all
without meaning. It is as if humanity has shrunk down to these pathetic specimens who, like the
objects of a , are an over-emphatic representation of some negative and unforgivingly absurd
quality.

How or why is this different, if indeed it is, from other modernist
works? In my view, Ionesco's plays, for example, are more openly without a definite message of
any kind, other than the assertion that life is without purpose. Brecht, on the other hand,
clearly has a collectivist (as Ayn Rand would put it) social agenda. Beckett straddles the fence
between these two extremes, most obviously so in Endgame. Despite the
fantasy-apocalypse of its setting, it is more concrete in its metaphorical reality than
. One can even judge the situation of Nagg and Nell as an uncomfortable
picture of the neglect and abuse of elderly parents. And the work has characteristics of meta-:
Hamm and Clov posture for the audience with a semi-awareness that they are actors in a stage
work. Endgame, moreover, partakes of the dystopian genre as well, serving
as a warning (though Beckett would probably have strenuously denied any such purposeful message)
that humanity can degenerate into this skeletal remnant if it proceeds on its current
course.

Please write a character sketch of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. I didn't really get the book.

If one of
Shaw's goals in is to demonstrate that social class is based on nurture
not nature (i.e., education not genetics) another is to illustrate that being middle class is
not all it is cracked up to be. The happy-go-lucky Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, is the
chief mouthpiece for the freedoms of a working class lifestyle.

When Alfred
first appears, he shows himself to be an inadequate parent out to get what he can from Henry
Higgins even if it means blackmail. Later, we meet this impoverished dustman (garbage man) after
he has been given money by an American philanthropist. This wealthy man, Ezra D. Wannafeller,
bestows a stipend of four thousand pounds a year, a huge income in 1913, on the hapless dustman,
all because of Higgins's joking recommendation.

Alfred is a careless hedonist
who wants to be left alone to have a good time. He has no interest in middle class morality or
taking care of his health and no interest in his relatives. He complains bitterly that now that
he is a respectable middle class man he is forced to marry his partner, go to the doctor for any
and all ailments, and deal with swarms of relatives who are suddenly interested in him due to
his money. He was happier, he says, in his drinking, loafing, ne'er do well former existence in
which nobody cared if he lived or died. Now he feels hemmed in and beset on all sides.

Alfred lives in the moment and puts pleasure first. He is lively, irrepressible, and
outspoken, and doesn't in any way try to hide who and what he really is.

How did the South after Reconstruction compare to the South before the Civil War?

After, the
South was still trying to recover from the Civil War.  The infrastructure in the region was
still in shambles, especially in the Lower South, along the route William Sherman took on his
March to the Sea.  Politically, poor and middle class whites had more power than they did before
the war, though poor whites were still sharecroppers in many instances.  The region's economy
was starting to diversify, with Alabama starting to produce more iron and textile mills coming
to North Carolina, in order to take advantage of the surplus of labor in the South.  The South
remained a rural region and sharecropping would be a way of life and generational poverty until
WWII.  Reconstruction brought the end of slavery, but many places passed their own "black
codes" which made it a crime for blacks to travel with passes or to loiter.  Many blacks
were arrested and put on chain gangs in the post-Reconstruction South.  Even though slavery was
not an institution like it was...

How does Orwell develop Winston Smith in 1984?

does
a great job with the character of .  The reason I say that is because Winston is so relatable.
 He's an "average Joe."  He's 39 and has an office job.  He smokes. He drinks. He has
a gross itchy ulcer. He doesn't exactly scream hero type.  Of course that's a standard hero
introduction motif: introduce them as boring and mundane (Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Peter
Parker, etc.) -- all "nerds." Winston fits the bill.   

Orwell
lets the reader know that Winston, beyond his physical...

What is the theme of this quote, "I was a pathfinder, an original settler," which Nick says in the beginning of the story? How would this quote be...

I think onethat can be
extracted from this quotation, spoken by , the narrator, in , is that one only feels new until
someone newer comes along. Further, the present is always moving into the past and we can never
go back.

Nick says that he felt lonely after he moved to West Egg until one
morning, a man asked him for some directions. Nick told him what to do and then realized that he
no longer felt lonely. The man "had casually conferred on [Nick] the freedom of the
neighborhood." Thus, Nick stopped feeling like the new guy as soon as a newer person came
along. At this point, he might as well have been an "original settler" because, to the
new guy at least, he seems that way. Instead of feeling lonely, as Nick did prior to being
stopped for directions, he began to feel free. It seems, then, that it was all a matter of
course: new eventually becomes familiar and loneliness turns into freedom, all when viewed
through the lens of one interaction.

always hoped...

Reasons Why Doctors Are More Important

Doctors work
to improve and preserve life, whilst teachers teach us the skills to function in life and
hopefully educate and improve future generations. Without teachers a doctor would not have
learned the skills nessesary to become a doctor. So yes a doctor can help you when you are sick
or injured, but their work is in the "here and now". Teachers are educating the minds
of the future and to me it is more important that the human race moves
forward.

Give a counter-argument to fate in Macbeth€”acknowledge the argument of free will, and prove the argument of free will wrong with quotes that support...

The argument in favor ofexercising free will
is a strong one. He himself remarks,

If chance will have
me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.

In other words, if he is fated to be king, why does he not simply wait for the
operation of fate to crown him, without committing any murders? The fact that he decides not to
take this course only whenbecomes Prince of Cumberland and is named 's successor supports this
argument.also seems to be swayed by his wife's lust for power, which suggests that the decision
is ultimately his, however persuasivemay be.

However, the structure of the
play supports the notion that Macbeth is a plaything of fate. As early as act 1, scene 3, he is
informed of his new title, Thane of Cawdor, bymoments beforeand Angus bring the same news from
the king. This on its own might be a coincidence, but it is the first of many incidents in the
play that lend the witches tremendous plausibility. They even end up having the support of ,
goddess of magic. They are, in fact, always right in literal terms, though liable to
misinterpretation. Their prophecies for , who scorns the witches and takes no advice from them,
are as accurate as their prophesies for Macbeth; Banquo seems to be as fully subject to fate as
Macbeth, while taking the opposite course.

Immediately before Macbeth kills
Duncan. he sees a ghostly dagger pointing him toward Duncan's chamber. This type of
hallucination would certainly have suggested a portent to the medieval mind, or even the
Jacobean minds of Shakespeare's audience. This audience may at one point have included the new
king of England, James I, who believed himself to be a descendant of Banquo and wrote books on
witchcraft and demonologygood reasons for Shakespeare not to treat these subjects
lightly.

A final argument in favor of fate lies in Macbeth's defeat and death
at the hands of . Macbeth is the greatest warrior in Scotland. In act 1, scene 2, he is mowing
down armies of kerns and gallowglasses:

Disdaining
fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution...

Why is he unable to defeat Macduff, who does not seem to have
distinguished himself in battle before? The answer is in one of the play's most famous
exchanges. Macbeth is supremely confident that he is protected by fate:

Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant
air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on
vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of
woman born.

The reference to "a charmed life"
clearly shows that Macbeth thinks he is protected by fate. Macduff, however, replies that he is
the man fated to destroy Macbeth:

Despair thy charm;
And
let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's
womb
Untimely ripp'd.

This has an immediate effect on
Macbeth, who now realizes that he is fated to lose.

Accursed be that
tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!

Macbeth dies, as he has lived throughout the play, at the hands of
fate.

In Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl, when and how does Stargirl first become aware of Leo Borlock?

Leo
Borlock is the narrator of 's novel entitled . Leo first becomes aware of
Stargirl Caraway in chapter one of the novel. His friend Kevin hints at it, asking him "Did
you see her?" in the opening line of the chapter. Then Leo hears her name for himself as it
is called in his Earth Sciences class. Here is Leo's description of the first time he sees
Stargirl:

"And then I saw her. At lunch. She wore an
off-white dress so long it covered her shoes. It had ruffles around the neck and cuffs and
looked like it could have been her great-grandmother's wedding gown. Her hair was the color of
sand. It fell to her shoulders. Something was strapped across her back, but it wasn't a book
bag. At first I thought it was a miniature guitar. I found out later it was a ukelele."

In Chapter 10, Kevin finally secures Stargirl's
agreement to appear on the Hot Seat, a video program that Kevin and Leo
create and produce. The first interaction between Leo and Stargirl is in chapter 12 when she is
on the set of Hot Seat and uses her rat's paw to wave at him. She says the
words "Hi, Leo," as if she is speaking for the rat.

In the , Leo's
mom puts information in the local newspaper about his interest in porcupine neckties, and the
next day a tie shows up with no name attached. Later in the book, Leo finds out that it is
Stargirl, but since Leo did not know it was Stargirl at the time, I don't count it as the first
time he became aware of her.

What kind of fiction do people most enjoy reading and why?

To a
large degree, what sort ofa given person enjoys reading is a matter of personal taste. In
general, most readers tend to prefer one specific genre or type of novel over others.

Something first pointed out by Hery Mansel in his astute analysis of...

What are some symbols in "Richard Cory"?

I
believe the main symbolic image in this poem ishimself.  He symbolizes fame and fortune.  The
poem's narrator directly tells readers that Richard Cory was wealthy beyond imagination.
 

And he was richyes, richer than a king

Additionally, Richard Cory is schooled in perfect social graces,
and physically fit.

He was a gentleman from sole to
crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

He is who everybody wants to be.  He's the town celebrity that
makes everybody stare as he passes by and stutter when he talks to them.  Richard Cory is
revered like a king.  

 

Richard Cory is not a king, but he essentially symbolizes that role to the people of
the town.  It's why the narrator uses so many kingly and royal words to describe Richard Cory.
 Words like "crown," "imperially," "glittered," and
"king" are all used to describe Richard Cory.  

 

What I find most interesting about Richard Cory as a kingly symbol of wealth is that
the symbolism teaches a very cautionary message.  Richard Cory is so wealthy and graceful, and
the townspeople are in such awe of him that Richard Cory is an incredibly lonely and distanced
person.  Readers are told that Cory makes huge efforts to be treated like a regular member of
the town.  He goes to town, doesn't dress fancy, and talks about normal topics.  He's trying to
engage the people of the town, yet they never quite accept him; therefore, he's lonely.
 Eventually, he commits suicide to end his loneliness; therefore, I also see Richard Cory's
wealth as symbolic of depression and loneliness.  His money simply couldn't buy him happiness
and acceptance.

How does the answer he gives to the Sphinx's riddle foreshadow Oedipus's own life? Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Theof 's life
in is that he intends to find the truth and instead meets his fate.  When a
drunken man tells Oedipus he is not his father's son, Oedipus seeks the truth by traveling
to consult a Dephic oracle; however, the oracle says merely that Oedipus would kill his father
and beget children by his mother. Resolved to avert such a fate, Oedipus determines to never
return to Corinth where he has grow up with Polybus and Morope, the king and queen. 
Unfortunately for Oedipus, along the way from Delphi, he becomes angered at a man who orders him
off the road, killing him.  Later, outside Thebes, Oedipus encounters the Sphinx and solves its
riddle.  As a reward, he is made King of Thebes and is given the hand ofin marriage.  Thus, he
has fulfilled the prophecy of the oracle, ironically, because he has made such efforts to prove
him wrong. 

Indeed, it is this pride, or , which seals
the fate of Oedipus the king. His burning demand to know the truth brings him to Delphi; his
return from Delphi effects his encountering of the man in the chariot who--unbeknowst to
Oedipus--is his father, and it is his insistent pride that causes Oedipus to demand the truth
fromandso that he can rid Thebes of its plague.  Finally, with more irony, Oedipus seals his own
fate as he calls for an investigation of Laius's death, an investigation that will not
"bring what is dark to light," but, rather, bring about Oedipus's blinding, as in
guilt and agony, Oedipus removes his own eyes.

As in Robert Frost's poem,
"The Road Not Taken," Oedipus takes the path that seems the right one, but

knowing how way leads on to way,

he cannot turn back and not know what he knows now.  His life is altered beyond
anything he ever has imagined.

Sunday, 1 May 2011

What would the climax of the short story "Charles" be?

Theof a story, also sometimes referred to as
the crisis in literary terms, refers to the turning point of the story that informs the reader
of the general way the story is going to end. Most of the time, this occurs near the middle to
end of the story.

In , the plot action builds
throughout the story almost until the very end before the reader realizes the climax and how the
story will end. In fact, the author wrote the story with a rather ambiguous ending, allowing the
reader to predict the continuing details of how things will work out for the main character,
Laurie.

Laurie, who has deceived his parents regarding a fictional character
he made up, Charles, spins tales his parents at first believe but then begin to become confused
about as the story unfolds. Each day, Laurie returns home speaking of the misbehavior of a
fellow kindergarten student, Charles. His parents become more and more concerned about the
influence this "Charles" may have on their son until at the end, mom decides to ask to
speak with the teacher.

The climax comes with Laurie's mom asks the teacher
how she handles all the antics of the ill-behaved Charles. The teacher replies that there is no
Charles in their entire kindergarten. The reader is left to conclude that the mother at this
point, figures out that Charles is really Laurie.

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