In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what additional traits does Edwards attribute to God towards the end of the sermon?

It is hard to see
anything attractive in the presentation of God that Edwards presents us with in this sermon, and
the techniques that he employed have been parodied so many times that in some ways it is
difficult to read his words without thinking of hellfire and damnation preachers and their ilk.
The many images that Edwards employs presents God as a...

How did Oedipus demonstrate love for his people during his regime as king in Oedipus Rex?

shows his
love for his people in two main ways. First, he is determined to get to the bottom of the plague
disrupting Thebes. He sendsto the oracle at Delphi to find answers. When he learns the disease
has been sent because of a crime,...

In "A Worn Path," how does Phoenix Jackson demonstrate unconscious heroism?

Phoenix does
demonstrate tremendous heroism without being aware of it. She doesn't think of herself as being
brave. She is just doing what she must do to take care of her little grandson, and she has done
it many times. Her path to town is "worn," suggesting that she has traveled it many
times.

Phoenix faces great danger making her trip to town. She is very old
and frail and almost blind. The weather is cold because it is December, hard winter. Phoenix
climbs a hill, makes her way through briars, climbs through a fence, and crosses a stream by
walking on a log fallen over the water. If she had fallen into the stream, she would have frozen
to death. When she falls in a ditch after the hunter's dog comes after her, the hunter has to
help her up. She cannot get to her feet by herself and would have died there without his
help.

When Phoenix gets to town, she is treated very hatefully by one of the
women in the doctor's office. Phoenix swallows her pride and ignores the woman's insults so that
she can get what she came for--her grandson's medicine. That took courage, also. Phoenix is
very heroic; she risks her life and sacrifices her pride for one she
loves.

Maths VS Science Why do your'll prefer maths more science or vice versa?

I enjoy science
more than math because science explains the world around us, and that makes it very relevant to
my life, even though I am an English teacher by profession. I still like to know how the systems
of my body work; why the weather works the way it does; how to make my garden grow well; and how
to at least begin to decipher the ingredients list on some of the foods I
eat.

What are some possible themes of Kindred by Octavia Butler?

Like many of the novels
which speak to the "human condition" and living life, the themes illuminated in 's
novel are slavery, choices and consequences, appearance and reality, and
the idea of differences.

Each of these themes are important when dealing, or
examining, the issues related to slavery. The themes are highlighted through Butler's
examination of Dana's perspective and understanding regarding the harshness and realities
associated with slavery.

For Dana, her experiences with...

In The Scarlet Letter, what is Dimmesdale's tragic flaw?

Reverendhas
two basic tragic flaws: his feebleness of character and his lack of moral strength.

His feebleness of character is evident, first and foremost, in that he did not resist
the temptation of becoming involved with . This is also indicative of his lack of moral
character. If he had both, strength and morality, he would have perhaps even directed Hester in
to seeking comfort elsewhere. Similarly, if Dimmesdale had strength of character and a stronger
sense of morality he would have forgiven himself for his bad choice and would have accepted the
responsibility of what he did, no matter what consequences it would bring.

Instead, Dimmesdale willingly leads a double life where he attempts to moralize his
flock while he knows of the sin he has committed. He continues to enjoy his position as an
alderman and, although he suffers inside, he does not deviate from fulfilling his role as a
celebrated priest. This choice is further evidence of his low moral strength.

So low is Dimmesdale's strength that he pathetically begs Hester for help... to get rid
of . The man who once Hester may have seen as strong, intelligent and superior has obviously
fallen into decay, all because his strength, intelligence and sense of superiority are all mere
appearance.

The judgment of God is on me, answered the
conscience-stricken priest. It is too mighty for me to struggle with!

Heaven would show mercy, rejoined Hester, hadst thou but the strength to take
advantage of it.

Be thou strong for me! answered he. Advise me what to
do.

Is the world, then, so narrow?"

This conversation, which takes place in the forest, shows how the character and
strength of Hester towers over Dimmesdale, ultimately rendering him as a weakling in
comparison.

Ironically, although it is Hester who has to tolerate the
punishment and humiliation of the villagers, she comes out triumphantly as a character while
Dimmesdale's choices as a weak man set him aside as what could be deemed a "saint of
clay".

Which conflicts and thems are present in the story "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway?

Among the
conflicts and themes present in the story "" are the problem of an unwanted pregnancy,
the relationship between men and women, and the aimlessness and emptiness of expatriate
life.

The central conflict in the story stems from the fact that the woman,
called Jig, is pregnant. Her partner, who is unnamed, wants her to get an abortion, and although
he insists that she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to, it is clear that he himself wants
her to get rid of their unborn child. The man tells Jig repeatedly that "it's really an
awfully simple operation," and that if she will consent to have it, "everything will
be fine." He also says that he doesn't want anybody but her; he doesn't want "anyone
else" - meaning a baby. The woman, however, is not so sure that having an abortion will
make things better for them. She understands that things will never be the way they were,
arguing that "once they take it away, you never get it back."

A
second conflict and important theme in the story is the relationship between men and women. The
woman is clearly subordinate to the man in the situation described; the man speaks to her
rudely, and disregards much of what she says. The reader gets the sense that the woman is
considering having an abortion she does not want just to please the man and to avoid losing him.
She says to him pathetically, "if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were
and you'll love me."

A third theme in the story is one that recurs in
many of Hemingway's works - the aimless, empty life of American expatriates in Europe in the
years between the two world wars. The two main characters in the story are expats in Ebro who
are waiting for a train, and as they share drinks and argue, the woman says, "That's all we
do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks."

What dramatic techniques does Sophocles employ in Oedipus the King?

In his great
, ,employs the dramatic techniques of , symbolism and . In form, he also
employs thefor various purposes.

Foreshadowing

While there are several
occurrences of foreshadowing, one striking example occurs whentellswho returns from the oracle
at Apollo,

For whoever he was who killed that
man
would as soon kill me with that same violent hand.
Helping that one,
therefore, I am helping myself. (ll.150-152)

Another
example of foreshadowing occurs when Oedipus declares that he will punish the man who is
responsible for the plague in Thebes:

I ban this man,
whoever he is, from all land
over which I hold power and the throne.
I decree
that no one shall receive him....
but instead that everyone must expel
him
from their homes, as this man is the source
of our pollution, as the
oracle. (ll.240-248)

Symbolism

While the seer Tieresias is
physically blind, Oedipus is symbolically blind. For instance, Oedipus says that he could not
fail "to see...

What are 5 major events that occur in the first section of The Alchemist?

The five major events
that dominate the first section of this powerful book are, in order:

1) The
dream that Santiago has repeatedly of a child telling him to seek treasure at the foot of the
Egyptian pyramids. Significantly, Santiago has this dream when he sleeps underneath a particular
sycamore tree.

2) Santiago goes to a gyspy woman to interpret the dream for
him, and, much to his surprise, she tells him to go to Egypt and pursue his dream.

3)...

What sort of things happen to you before death if you are caught by the thought police?

The
obvious answer to this is found in 's own story. He is imprisoned, tortured and
"re-educated" so that his heretical thinking against the Party is wiped out.redefines,
or more precisely, obliterates the concept of objective reality for Winston, convincing him that
the evidence of his own senses is invalid if the Party tells him so. In other words, just as in
the phrases we have ourselves heard in political discourse recently, the Party has instructed
him in their "alternative facts" and in their principle that "truth is not
truth." Winston emerges from his incarceration a virtual zombie, a derelict with no
meaningful activity in his life apart from sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, drinking gin all
day, listening to the telescreen as he waits for news of some great "victory" over
Oceania's enemies.

For most of those arrested for Thoughtcrime, there is
evidently not even this much detail of their fates. Syme, for instance, has been
"vaporized," disappearing without a trace, never to return. We also never learn what
happens to Ampleforth and Parsons, both of whom Winston encounters in the holding cell as all of
them are waiting to be "processed" by the prison system. If Winston's treatment is
different from that of the others, the explanation must lie in O'Brien's telling him that he is
taking special trouble with his case. Winston is unusual and therefore worth the trouble of
these long and literally agonizing re-education sessions.

"Brainwashing" is the conventional term for what happens to Winston. But
O'Brien's reasons for regarding Winston such a special case requiring this make little sense,
unless O'Brien is doing it on a mere whim (which runs counter to the machine-like, inhuman
nature of O'Brien). That the Party would release a prisoner back into the world as a washed-out
zombie incapable of productive work seems a purely sadistic act, without having a conceivable
purpose that would serve even a totalitarian state. The real-life history upon whichbased
Winston's arrest and interrogation was largely that of the Stalinist purges of the 1930's, as
fictionalized in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. In Koestler's account,
the prisoner Rubashev, like his historical counterparts, is interrogated, forced to confess to
crimes he didn't commit, and then executed in the prison cellar with a bullet to the back of the
headthe typical method used by Stalin's secret police. Winston believes from the start that he
will be shot, and O'Brien actually tells him that he will be, but the execution turns out to be
a symbolic one. At the novel's close Winston imagines that the "longed-for bullet" is
finally entering his head. It is a spiritual death for Winston, because now, we are told,
"he loved Big Brother."

In 1984, what is the incident of "the chocolate bar" that Winston stole as a boy? What is the Newspeak dictionary?

has a dream
of the last time he saw his mother, which triggers a real memory. In this memory, he is with his
mother and younger sister and is always hungry. Because of his hunger, he is steals bits of
foods from his sister's plate, pilfers food if his mother doesn't guard it, and makes incessant
demands for more food. One day, due to rationing, his mother gets a bar of chocolate. Though it
should be split three ways, his mother gives in to Winston's demands for it and splits it so
that he gets three-quarters of it and his sister one-quarter. Even so, Winston grabs the extra
piece of chocolate from his sister's hand and runs off. After he has eaten the chocolate and
gotten hungry, he comes home, feeling a bit guilty, but his mother and sister have disappeared.
He never sees them again and wonders about what may have happened to them.

The story illustrates Winston's status as an ordinary person: he is not a saint. It
also illustrates what hunger, deprivation and the fight for survival can do to a person. It
connects to Newspeak, because it is just the sort of series of memories and thoughts that
Newspeak is designed to eradicate. Newspeak, represented by the Newspeak dictionary that Syme
discusses with Winston, means to reduce the language to the bare minimum number of words needed
for people to communicate. By reducing the number of words in the language and making them as
simple as possible, the regime hopes to eliminate as much thought as possible. This way, the
Inner Party can control people more fully. Ideally, in Newspeak, Winston would be unable to
retrieve even the relatively simple memories that lead him to think about the past and to dwell
on issues of guilt, possibility and need. 

Could someone actually summarize the whole Odyssey? I have to do a timeline of it too. If any teachers respond, it's not the whole book. It's a...

I've
looked up the book you mentioned, but can't find a listing of exactly which exceprts from the
epic you are reading.  I am going to assume that it deals with Odyssey's journey from Troy only
- Here is a quick chronological timeline. 

Odysseus leaves Troy with 12
ships.

Land at Ismarus in Thrace and steal from natives; crew is attacked,
and they leave.

Ships blown off-course and land at Land of the Lotus
Eaters.  Some of crew goes on shore and...

How does her father being a lawyer influence Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird?

When the
situation with Tom Robinson came up and the case was assigned to , both Atticus and his children
were affected by the situation. At first,did not understand it. Then, she realized the hatred
with which the townspeople would regard her dad, and how she, herself, was called all kinds of
names.

However, Scout also witnessed how lawyers have to stick to their
clients, and defend their innocence and their rights against people, against society's opinion,
and against the environment itself. Scout saw how Atticus fulfilled his duties in and outside of
the courtroom, and she saw from the top of the courthouse the depth of passion that Atticus
employed. She also observed and appreciated the amount of pressure he widthstood, and she even
stood up for him during the incident outside of Tom's cell.

Therefore, Scout
learned from her father's profession the importance of justice, and for the first time saw what
Macomb was really like, hence, appreciating even with more greatness how he stood against the
world as he knew it for the sake of saving an innocent man.

What is the moral of Oedipus Rex?

The moral
lesson in , as the other answers have indicated, is that it is impossible
to escape one's destiny and a sin to try to do so.

In the Greek worldview,
one of the worst sins a person could commit was to think he knew better than the gods. This is
whatdoes when he attempts to escape his god-ordained fate.

One feels for
Oedipus, as he is handed a terrible future. The prophets foretell that he is destined to kill
his father and marry his mother. Most people would try to escape a future that has such terrible
consequences for their parents.

Oedipus is trying to protect
the...

What does the idea of "labels from all the hotels where they had spent nights" reflect about the couple?

The
labels on the luggage "from all the hotels where they had spent nights" suggests to me
that this couple has been together for a long time and that they are either married or have been
representing themselves as married. I am more and more inclined to believe that they are
actually married. The labels actually advertise the fact that they have been living together in
hotels, which was a lot more sensitive issue in the 1920s than it is today. Some hotels would
actually refuse to rent rooms to unmarried couples. Most European hotels required guests to show
their passports and even leave the passports with the desk clerk for a short time while he
presumably checked the local police.

The relationship between the man and
the "girl" is not casual or temporary. They are carrying a lot of luggage, another
indication they have been together a long time. The American tells Jig no less than five or six
times that she can have the baby if she really wants to, but there is no mention of marriage by
either of them. This also makes me assume they are married already, because Jig certainly
wouldn't want to have a baby out of wedlock. If they were not married, the American would say,
at least once, "We'll get married and you can have the baby."

Another reason for thinking they are married is that Hemingway often wrote stories that
were autobiographical. In the late 1920's he was married to his first wife Hadley and they had a
baby they called Bumby. Hemingway was trying to be a freelance writer and was having very little
success. They were living in Europe partly because it was much cheaper than the U.S., and Spain
was probably the cheapest place of all. It seems entirely possible that when Hadley became
pregnant, Hemingway tried unsuccessfully to talk her into having an abortion.

Hemingway said that he often wrote stories to "get rid of things," and he may
have written "" to try to get rid of his guilt feelings about Hadley, from whom he was
divorced at about the same time "Hills Like White Elephants" was
published.

How did Christopher Columbus' discovery change history?

While
Christopher Columbus and his crew of explorers were not the first Europeans to set foot on land
in the western hemisphere (i.e., temporary Norse timber colonies of Leifsbudir and Straumsfjord
circa 1000CE, in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Canada), they were the first such explorers to be
heralded for their "discovery" of new lands to the west.  The Viking explorations
centuries earlier were accomplished by seafaring peoples with no written language or histories,
so the knowledge of such North American settlements was lost until recent archaeological
excavations and the so-called Vinland documents.  Nevertheless, it is Christopher Columbus and
his crew who are remembered as being the first Europeans to discover the new world.  This
discovery brought with it rapid colonization by the western European powers (namely, England,
France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands), new trade commodities, advances in seafaring and
supply preservation, and new contacts between cultures.  Unfortunately, Columbus' discovery of
the new world is also shrouded by the violence and death directly and indirectly inflicted on
peoples indigenous to the western hemisphere.  

Christopher Columbus'
discovery undoubtedly changed history by opening up new lands for the European imperial powers
to colonize and conquer, signaling the end of western hemisphere civilizations that were pushed
to extinction or collapse, introducing products such as corn, potatoes, tobacco and chocolate to
the rest of the world, and by laying the foundations for the new states of the western
hemisphere.  

What role does Polonius play in €˜Hamlet and why is he significant to the play?

provides
a much-needed sense of stability in the play. He represents certainty in an uncertain world.
Thanks largely to ' murder of old King , and 's increasingly strange behavior, the Danish court
has been plunged into turmoil. This is the very last thing the country needs withand the army of
Norway threatening to invade at any moment. So it's important to have someone on hand like
Polonius to remind everyone, however irritatingly, of their duties and
responsibilities.

The problem, however, is that Polonius himself is caught up
in the complicated web of court intrigue. Although he likes to think of himself as the very font
of wisdom and good sense, in actual fact he's storing up considerable trouble for himself by
getting himself deeply embroiled in the various shenanigans going on at Elsinore. Polonius is so
full of self-regard, so utterly convinced of his own cleverness, that he fails to notice that
the situation at court is nowhere near as straightforward as he'd like to believe. Polonius'
miscalculation proves to be a fatal one as he ends up dying at the point of Hamlet's
sword.

One could argue that with the death of Polonius all the old values die
with him. From now on, life at court will only become ever more chaotic, with no one quite sure
of what's going on. Pompous, two-faced bore though he may have been, but Polonius nonetheless
acted as a reminder of the importance of duty and decorum. But once he's out of the way there's
no one left who's prepared to step into the breach and act as a responsible figure of authority
ought to. That onerous responsibility will fall upon the shoulders of Fortinbras, whose arrival
at the play's end heralds the reimposition of rules, order, and stability upon this fractious
kingdom.

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What does Poe refer to when he said, "...a crime of dark dye (having reference to the "young lady") has been committed..." ?

In
"", the Reverend Mr. Hooper begins to wear a black veil that obscures most of his
face, suprising and confusing his congregation. It is strongly suggested that Hooper is wearing
the veil because of a woman who has recently died; at her funeral, the following
transpires,

The clergyman stepped into the room where the
corpse was laid, and bent over the coffin, to take a last farewell of his deceased parishioner.
As he stooped, the veil hung straight down from his forehead, so that, if her eyelids had not
been closed forever, the dead maiden might have seen his face. Could Mr. Hooper be fearful of
her glance, that he so hastily...

In The Scarlet Letter, what value does Hester place upon her life?

has a
rather ambivalent attitude toward her life's value. In truth, she lives for, and Hawthorne
speculates that if Hester did not have Pearl, she most likely would have been someone completely
different--perhaps even the leader of a religious sect.  His reason for describing her in such a
manner, is that as time passes in the novel, the townspeople come to view Hester as a sincerely
virtuous woman because she does only good for others and yet has no ulterior motive
for...

Where did Miss Maudie stay after her house burned down in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In
To Kill A Mockingbird, Miss Maudie is a unique character and she is not
like most of the other residents of "the tired old town" (ch 1) of Maycomb County,
with a voice "to shut anyone up" (ch 5). She observesandbut doesn't interfere and, at
first, she is "a benign presence" who allows the children to play as long as they do
not spoil her precious garden, especially her azaleas. Scout soon considers Miss Maudie her
friend and asks questions knowing that she will always get an honest answer from Miss Maudie.
Miss Maudie loves her garden and considers time spent inside her house, except for when she's
baking, as time "wasted." 

It is apparent that Miss Maudie is not a
"foot-washing Baptist," because, as she tells Scout, they believe that she spends too
much time in her garden when she should be reading her Bible, to the point of even telling Miss
Maudie that she and her beautiful flowers are "going to hell" (ch 5).

One winter day, the children make a snowman and are very pleased with their
achievements. The weather is very cold and when Miss Maudie's house burns down in the middle of
the night, the children watch on helplessly as it "devours" her whole house. Luckily,
some of her belongings have been preserved by some of the men trying to help. Progress is slow
because of the fire truck and the inadequate fire hoses. Eventually, however, the fire is
brought under control and extinguished. In ,tells the children that Miss Maudie will stay
with Miss Stephanie Crawford, another neighbor who Scout knows is "the neighborhood
scold" (ch 1). She is a sharp contrast to the honest and forthright Miss Maudie; she prides
herself on her local knowledge while actually she is just a gossip. 

Why is Jem moody at the beginning of chapter 7? Is Scout able to understand by ''climbing into Jem's skin''? What does the rest of the chapter reveal...

At the
beginning of ,tells us that " stayed moody and silent for a week." That's a hint for
us to go backwards a little bit to find out what already happened to make Jem feel
moody. 

We saw back inthattold the kids to leavealone. But then in , Jem
tries to sneak into Boo's house. (He has to make a quick getaway, and he leaves his pants behind
when he gets caught on the fence.) He feels guilty about it, especially because his dad told him
not to do it--and his dad has never had to punish Jem physically (by "whipping" him or
giving him a "licking," as the kids call it). "We shouldna done that tonight,
Scout," he says.

Now it makes sense why Jem is "moody and
silent:" he feels sad and guilty for disobeying
Atticus.

Scout tries to see things from Jem's point of view
("climbing inside his skin") by imagining how she would feel if she had been the one
trying to sneak into Boo's house: "if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the
morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon," she says. But she mostly just
leaves Jem alone; she doesn't understand him any better by trying to step into his
shoes.

Later in the chapter, we find out that when Jem went
back to get his pants, they weren't exactly where he left them. They had been folded neatly--and
the hole in them had been sewn up! That reveals that Boo actually helped Jem: didn't want to
creep him out, didn't want to get him in trouble, and actually wanted to help him keep the
secret by fixing the pants. What a change--Jem had thought that Boo was a creepy bad guy, but
then he learned otherwise because of the pants. Because Jem realizes that he had
misjudged Boo and treated him badly when Boo had been kind to Jem, now we understand even more
why Jem is so moody.

What choices does Dickens make when describing the meeting of Pip and Miss Havisham?

Dickens
makes the choice to go back and forth between the of the young Pip and the adult Pip in this
very famous scene.

The young Pip is filled with wonder at what seems like a
scene from a perverse fairytale and hardly knows what to make of it, while the adult Pip
provides a more detached commentary.

For example, we hear the voice of the
older Pip in the following, speaking of the dressing table. The second sentence, in which he
refers to the strangest lady he "shall ever see" is also the voice of the adult Pip:
the young Pip could not know how strange Miss Havisham is, though he realizes she is
odd:

Whether I should have made out this object so soon if
there had been no fine lady sitting at it, I cannot say. In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting
on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or
shall ever see.

It is also the adult Pip describing in a
coherent way the various bridal objects scattered around the room. We know this, because he
tells us his memories are a compilation of more than what he took in in the first few moments in
the room as a child:

It was not in the first few moments
that I saw all these things, though I saw more of them in the first moments than might be
supposed.

Then, we return to what the young Pip
saw:

But I saw that everything within my view which ought
to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and
yellow.

This layering of the two perspectives adds
richness and complexity to this scene.

Describe Mdme. Loisel's reaction on reading the invitation in "The Necklace."

When her
husband comes home with an air of "triumph" and hands her the invitation to the
ministry ball, he expects his wife to be delighted. Instead,Madame Loisel tosses the invitation
aside disdainfully and asks what he expects her to wear. When he mentions the dress she wears to
the theater, she begins to cry. She and her husband have the following conversation:

"What's the matter? What's the matter?"

With great effort she overcame her grief and replied in a calm voice, as she wiped her
wet cheeks:

"Nothing. Only I have no dress and so I can't go to this
party. Give your invitation to a friend whose wife has better clothes than I do."

When her husband tells her she can have the 400 francs she needs
for a dress, an amount she somewhat craftily extracts by considering how much she can
realistically expect to get from him, she is still unhappyuntil he mentions that she could
borrow jewels from Madame Forestier.

This scene shows how important her
appearance is to Madame Loisel. She is not...

What are some literary devices in stanza 12 of "The Raven"? I would like to know the allusion, parallelism, strong imagery, anaphora, and assonance

's
"" is one of great balance and rhythm; it is noted for its melodic qualities in its
rhyming trochaic octameter.  Stanza 12 of this poem certainly exemplifies the beauty of Poe's
poem. In it there are several literary devices employed:

Poe makes reference to the bust of
Pallus, the bust of Athena, the godess of wisdom.  Also, he refers to the raven as "this
ominous bird of yore"; the raven has been historically connected to magic, having been
associated with...

Discuss the main features of education from prehistory to the present and describe in some detail each of the features.

Due to the
nature of history itself, it is difficult to understand the history of prehistoric education, or
of education in early historical periods as it pertains to skills other than writing. It is
certain that there have long been systems for passing down knowledge to new generations, and
there is strong evidence that these systems of instruction were not limited to parents teaching
their own children. That said, language education is a core skill in known formal educational
systems from the very earliest known formalized school, during Egypt's Middle Kingdom, until
today. For large parts of history in many geographic regions, learning to read and write was the
core reason to attend school, and the knowledge that language-learning allowed access to was
often considered secondary.

Schools have also always been places for cultural
education. This is reflected in many ways: in addition to language, early schools on the Indian
subcontinent taught the Vedas, schools in China taught Confucian values, and schools in the
Islamic world taught philosophy and theology. This function of education continues today, and
there are significant discourses about the ways that knowledge, especially in history and the
humanitiesbut also, more insidiously, in science disciplinesis structured in ways that
communicate cultural beliefs rather than factual information.

How does Atticus Finch show good parenting in To Kill a Mockingbird?

was an
effective parent because he lead by example. Where many parents can "tell" their
children how to behave and to treat others equally, Atticus "practiced what he
preached." He was a kind and giving man, who encouraged his children to view human beings
equally and to treat them as such. Good parenting is also portrayed in Atticus's dedication to
his children as a single parent. During a time period where the parenting often fell to either
the mother or to a member of hired help, Atticus had as active a role as possible in the raising
of his children. His career dominated his time (by necessity), but where he was able, he gave of
himself and his time freely and unconditionally to his children.

What is your assessment of the long-term attractiveness of the industries represented in Kraft Foods business portfolio?

Kraft
Foods has great long-term attractiveness for a variety of reasons, especially its diversity.
Kraft initially began in the 1920s with dairy products, but it has since expanded drastically,
encompassing cereals, condiments, snacks, and much more. Kraft made an intentional decision to
diversify its portfolio to protect against weakness in any single area of the market and has
therefore created horizontal integration by owning product lines in most areas of food
production.

The size of the company, coupled with the variety of different
foods it offers, makes Kraft Foods a particularly attractive investment. It does its best to
guarantee profits, because it reaches a large number of consumers with its variety of brands. It
has placed itself in an ever-growing market (food production) and has continued to diversify and
improve its portfolio to meet market demands. In recent years, it has merged with Heinz to
consolidate competition and further diversify its portfolio of product...

What is the impact of unemployment on society?

Unemployment,
if it is high enough, can have many impacts on society.  These impacts can be economic, but they
can also be seen in areas like crime and the family.

The most obvious impact
of unemployment is that it hurts the economy.  People who are unemployed have less money to
spend.  They are able to buy fewer goods and services, thus making businesses less profitable. 
This can lead, in turn, to even more unemployment.  High unemployment, then, has very negative
economic impacts.

Unemployment can impact society in ways that go beyond its
economic impact.  For example, unemployment can be very psychologically hard on a worker.  It
can make that person doubt his or her value as a person.  This can lead to stress within that
persons relationships.  Unemployed people are less likely to get married and more likely to get
divorced as their lack of work puts stress on them.  Stress can also lead to poorer health in
the unemployed, which is exacerbated if they have less access to health care than they
previously did.  Finally, unemployment can potentially lead to crime.  A person who has no job
still needs the necessities of life.  Such a person may turn to crime to be able to get the
things he or she needs.

There are many other ways in which unemployment
impacts society.  In general, it can have both an economic impact and an impact that is more
social than economic.

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How did World War II impact Australia? List the long-term and short-term effects.

As a
member of the British Commonwealth, Australia enteredwhen Britain declared war on Germany. The
Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Gordon Menzies, made the announcement on September 3, 1939.
In total, almost 1 million Australians served during the war in Europe, North Africa, Southeast
Asia, and throughout the Pacific region. Precise statistics vary across research sites, but
approximately 39,000 were killed, and 30,000 were taken prisoner.

Within the
country of Australia, the war in Europe seemed remote, but when Japan entered the war in
December 1941, invasion loomed as a very real threat. The first attack on the mainland occurred
in the northern city of Darwin, which was bombed by Japanese warplanes on February 19, 1942. In
that attack, approximately 200 civilians were killed. Other attacks of northern Australian
cities followed.

Because Britain was unable to send troops to aid in
Australia's defense, the United States assumed responsibility for the protection of
the...

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Why is personification essential to Animal Farm? The characters in Animal Farmare examples of personification, the assigning of human qualities to...

's
classic novella is anfor the Russian Revolution and the early years of the
Soviet Union under Stalin's leadership. Orwell's novella is also a , and he utilizesby giving
the animals in his story human characteristics. These animals allegorically represent historical
figures. Orwell's story can be viewed as a morality tale and a warning against authoritative
regimes. By utilizing personification, Orwell appeals to a larger audience, and his messages
regarding the dangers of totalitarianism are not limited to the scope of the Soviet Union.
Readers can associate the animals with other politicians and archetypes in similar governments
or social circumstances around the world.

The personified animals also
contribute to Orwell's biting . By personifying unscrupulous, greedy politicians as pigs, Orwell
adds humor to the story and lightens the mood. The personified animals also characterize the
people they represent. For example,is a strong...

To what extent does Hamlet correspond to classical, medieval, or Renaissance notions of tragedy?

Its
clear that Shakespeares is a , right from its full title: The
Tragedy of , Prince of Denmark. Shakespeares originality shines through in the way he
blends elements of classical, medieval, and Renaissance tragedy all at once.

Theres a clear element of Renaissance revenge tragedy in the play: its central plot is
that Hamlet seeks to avenge the death of his father, whom his unclemurdered. The action of
ancient Greek tragedies traditionally takes place in a limited time frame and focuses on the
single story of the tragic hero. Thus, the plot of Hamlet differs from an
ancient tragedys because it features side elements, likeand the play-within-a-play.

Like an ancient tragic hero, as defined by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, Hamlet is
flawed in a fatal way: hes obsessed with seeking revenge, causing him to kill others until he
himself is killed. Unlike an ancient tragic hero like Oedipus, however, Hamlet is a much fuller
character. He doesnt just seem to be pulled around by the external forces of fate and gods and
goddesses, but also by his own internal psychology. Throughout the play, he waffles about what
to do: whether or not to seek revenge, and whether to trust in Gods judgment of Claudius. Theres
even lots of evidence that his sanity and mental health are in danger (think the famous To be
or not to be? ). During the Renaissance, as the secular world flourished, a greater emphasis on
individualism emerged.

Medieval tragic stories essentially had one purpose:
showing how individuals fell into disaster because of weaknesses and sin. These stories had
clear morals and were designed to encourage people to accept religious teachings to set them on
a path to follow God. So, even with all of the Renaissance individualism, theres still an
element of medieval tragedys moralizing in Hamlet. The decision of whether
or not to seek revenge weighs heavily on Prince Hamlets mind (he wonders if it is right or
wrong), and the self-destructive end of the tragedy certainly leaves audiences wondering about
what was or would have been a just reaction to the situation.

Why does Mrs. Merriweather tell Scout that she is "a fortunate girl" in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In ,is pretty much forced out of her comfort zone and into the company of Maycomb's
social elite; this group has gathered for a "lesson" led by Mrs. Merriweather, who
claims she wants to bring home a message she's heard about the poor Mruna tribe in Africa. She
tells Scout and the other women who have gathered that the members of this tribe are living in
poverty and darkness and that she needs to help the missionary J. Grimes Everett spread his
message. By contrast, she tells Scout that she is fortunate that she lives in a "Christian
home with Christian folks in a Christian town."

Her statement stands in
sharp conflict with her next statements about Tom Robinson's wife. Just sentences later, she
tells the group that they need to go to Tom's wife and tell her that "we've forgiven
it" and goes on to comment that "there's nothing more distracting than a sulky
darky." In fact, she's had to chastise "her" Sophy for not being a
"Christian" following the trial, as she was full of...

Mention the majestic qualities of the snake in the poem "Hunting Snakes" by Judith Wright.

's narrator in
"Hunting Snake" offers readers very specific qualities which define the snake as
majestic. Line four offers the first majestic quality of the snake: "the great black
snake." Here, the speaker defines the snake as great. In line seven, the speaker reveals
the "diamond scale" of the snake. The snake's possession of the diamonds proves his
majestic nature. 

The eighth line offers a double meaning, if looking at the
majestic nature of the snake. While "we lost breath to see him pass" could mean that
the snake frightened the couple enough to make them stop breathing in fear, this could also
refer to the fact that the snake's presence was enough to make the couple gasp for breath as if
they were in awe. 

Line thirteen offers the final descriptive word
illustrating the snake's majestic nature. The snake is described as "splendid." Again,
this word speaks directly to the magnificent nature of the snake. 

How does Orwell show his ideas about communism through Animal Farm? How does Orwell show his ideas about communism through Animal Farm?

It is greed that
corrupts the communist ideals in .I think thatis telling us that although the idea is good, and
everyone can get behind it, it is not so easy in implementation.It was 's greed that did them
in, and there will always be a Napoleon.]]>

Which quotes in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" support the theme of generational differences?

Although quite
brief, "A Clean-Well-Lighted Place" is full of interpretative possibility.  One theme
is indeed generational difference--a conflict that was also mirrored in 1920s American and
Western European culture.

This theme is introduced early in the text.  The
young waiter is unable to understand how the old man in the story could be depressed since he
had "plenty of money."  Of course in Hemingway's , a closely examined life reveals a
long list of depressing realities.

The young waiter in the story is more
concerned about his late nights than with the old man's difficult existence.  Unable to think
beyond his immediate needs of money and companionship, the waiter notes that "An old man is
a nasty thing."

The older waiter is more sympathetic to the old man's
plight.  Hemingway describes him as "unhurried" (hurry is generally not positive in
any of Hemingway's fiction as at implies an inability to stop and savor life's brief moments of
beauty and goodness).  The older waiter tells his colleague that he has "youth, confidence,
and a job."  The younger waiter has "everything," but he lacks wisdom. The young
waiter rushes home to his wife; the older waiter recognizes that "there may be someone who
needs the cafe."

The two waiters represent two different approaches to
living.  The younger waiter is rash, egotistic, and naive.  The older waiter, like the old man,
has seen the dark side of life--the death, decay, and loss that is "nada" : "a
nothing that he knew all too well."  The cafe--bright and dignified--could offer a respite
from nada.

It is this awareness of nada that separates the waiters and is
here dramatized as a generational difference.  This awareness of nada is not only a function of
age and wisdom, however, but in this story, the confidence and youth of the younger waiter
insulates him from nada.  It is, however, a false insulation.  In Hemingway, nothingness is
pervasive.

 

 

In Animal Farm, once the humans have been chased from the farm, what do the animals do?

With the
unceremonious departure of the drunken farmer Mr. Jones, the hated human oppressor has been
defeated once and for all. 's political vision of Animalism has come to fruition at long last.
The animals are now in charge of the farmno longer Manor Farmthat's a human namebut
Animal Farm. Things are going to be very different from now on.

At first, the animals are positively giddy with their newfound freedom. They gallop
round the boundaries of their extensive new landholdings, making absolutely certain that there
are no humans around. Confident that they are now masters of all they survey, they then race
back to the farm buildings to destroy every last vestige of the old regime.

The animals are particularly keen to get rid of all the tangible symbols of their
erstwhile oppression: bits, harnesses, dog chains, nose rings, and those horrible knives that
Jones used to castrate pigs and lambs. Each and every one of them is gathered up and flung down
a well. Then it's time to get hold of all those items used by humans to control and objectify
horsesnosebags, reins, halters, blinkers, ribbons, and whipsand make a gigantic bonfire out of
them. The animals are particularly happy to see the whips go up in smoke; to them, it symbolizes
the end of their oppression.

Can anyone give me a brief summary of "The Worship of the Wealthy" by G.K. Chesterton?

In "The
Worship of the Wealthy," Chesterton criticizes the way very wealthy people are written
about in the popular press. He begins the essay by contrasting the way wealthy and powerful
people were written about in the past to the way they are presented in Chesterton's time. In the
past, he says, writers knew the wealthy were ordinary. As a result they simply went straight for
over-the-top, vastly exaggerated praise. They might, for example, compare a king to a sun at
noonday or say with his single sword he had conquered the world. The "safety" of this
was that it was so artificial it bore no relation to the real person.

Chesterton says, in contrast, that the way we praise the wealthy now is much more
"poisonous." This happens in several ways. First, ordinary traits or hobbies, such as
hating doctors or liking cats, are treated as if they are extraordinary. Because a person is
wealthy, boring and mundane things about the rich man are treated as if they are stunning and
special.

Second, even if the person is stupid, he will be treated as if he
were intelligent, his very dull and ordinary thought framed as if he had read and rejected
sophisticated philosophy.

Third, his lavish way of life will be treated as if
it is "modest" and "simple" and "quiet." This is especially
annoying when the funerals of the rich are described as modest and simple, when they include
lavish flowers, for example, and are attended by all the most important people. Chesterton mocks
this, asking: are they simple because there was no human sacrifice on the grave?

In sum, Chesterton argues that if we are going to lie about the rich, we should do it
in the old-fashioned way by out-and-out exaggeration, not by pretending their ordinary traits
are extraordinary or by declaring their lavish lifestyles are modest and
simple.

For each of the following scenarios, describe the confounding that the careless researcher forgot to eliminate.a.A researcher tested whether students...

In this scenario, the
researcher forgot to remove the confounding variable of what the lecture covered. The researcher
changed two variables in each experimental condition instead of just one. In one experimental
condition, the researcher used slides when speaking about the biochemistry of emotion. In the
other condition, the researcher used handouts when speaking about the biochemistry of memory.
The independent variable, in other words, was the type of presentation (slide or handouts), and
the dependent variable was the students' performance on a quiz. The students could have
performed better on the quiz following the slides because the topic of emotion was more
interesting to them or the professor knew the subject matter better than in the other
experimental condition (among other reasons).

To test which format helps
students more, the researcher would need to present the material to two matched groups. in one
group, the researcher would use slides, and in the other group, the researcher would use
handouts.The groups in each condition would be matched for several variables. For example, they
would be the same ages and genders and have similar grade point average, etc. Then, the
researcher could determine whether the slides or handouts were better tools for learning, as the
material would be exactly the same.

What is the irony in the words "festival" and "carnival" in the poem "This is the dark time my love" by Martin Carter?

Theis in the juxtaposition of
normally pleasant words with words that are very unpleasant.

Irony is when something is unexpected.  You would expect a festival to be fun and
games, and you would expect a carnival to be similarly harmless.  In this case, though, the
words are used to describe a lot of somethingbad things.

It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears.
It is the festival of
guns, the carnival of misery

The word festival is contradicted by guns and the word
carnival is contradicted by misery.

The dark time is not a time of
peace.  It is a time when you are a target.  While you are sleeping, the enemy is coming for
you.

How does Dimmesdale react the the truth that Chillingworth is Hester's husband and what does that say about chillingworths actions?

Whenfinally
reveals towho Chillingsworth is, he finds himself experiencing a number of intense emotions.
First he is furious that Hester has waited so long to tell him, wearing a frown so fierce the
author comments that Hester has never seen one quite so black. However, this fury does not last
long, and Dimmesdale collapses onto the forest floor mourning his inability to listen to his gut
feeling regarding the physician's ill will toward him. When Dimmesdale blames Hester aloud for
keeping him in the dark for so long, she finds herself desperate for his forgiveness, flinging
herself into the leaves next to him. She frantically pulls him in for an embrace she hopes will
alleviate his obvious pain. She feels as though she can bear any punishment, but Dimmesdale's
disapproval. After a time he tells her that he forgives her. He then faces a comforting
realization, there is someone who has committed a far crueler and greater sin than he and
Hester, Chillingsworth. Chillingsworth was deceitful, he led Dimmesdale to believe that he only
had Dimmesdale's best interest at heart, but he really was acting out an extreme form of
revenge. Chillingsworth's cruelty allows Dimmesdale to briefly feel less pain and
guilt.

Compare and contrast the short stories "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Bear" by William Faulkner.

The
first most obvious contrast between the two short stories is authorial style. Hemingway writes
short sentences that are enhanced by , symbolism, and . His sentences tell as much about the
story indirectly as they do directly. For example, Hemingway's opening
description of the deaf old man provides a metaphor to support his thesis that life, after the
verve of youth is gone, is "nada" and "nothing." It also providesof the old
waiter'sand solitary experience with seeking dignity and lying in a sleepless bed, which so
sharply contrasts with the young waiter's warm bed.

Faulkner, on the other
hand, writes long sentences, for example,...

What is Winston's job in book 3, chapter 6 of 1984?

is the ,
or main character, of 's novel . He works for the government of Oceania, specifically the
Ministry of Truth, an organization tasked with changing all records to support the ideology of
Big Brother. His job title is records editor in the Records Department at the
Ministry. 

The Party believes that in order to maintain power it needs to
control the flow of information not just about the past but also about the present. For example,
Oceania has been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. The Party, for some reason not
known to Smith, decides that they are now allied with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia. In order
to maintain control of the truth, the Party insists that they have always been at war with
Eurasia and has the Ministry of Truth rewrite history to reflect this. Smith puts in 90 hours at
work in five days to make this change, going through past books and newspapers and editing them
to reflect the current reality. 

How would you describe Johnathan Edward's view of God, Christ, and humanity in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Edward's
intent in his sermon was to portray God as "angry" because of the depraved and
completely sinful nature of humanity. The "wrath of God" burns against people, but God
has not yet called down destruction, punishment and eternal damnation upon humanity. "God
stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy; you may cry now with some encouragement of
obtaining mercy."

God "is dreadfully provoked" by
the...

Explain the line "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

The speaker of
T.S. Eliot's poem "" is a disillusioned and discontented middle aged man who is
reckoning with his own anxiety, alienation, and indecision. When Prufrock says, in the poem's
seventh stanza, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," what he means is
that his life has always been carefully controlled and predictablein other words,
measured.

The image of the coffee spoon is one of middle-class domesticity.
The idea of measuring one's life with such an instrument implies a lack of risk or excitement;
instead of big decisions or milestone events defining the course of his life, all Prufrock has
with which to mark his time on earth is the quotidian coffee spoon. The reader can easily
imagine Prufrock going through the motions of a daily routine of making a cup of morning
coffee.

The line also serves as an indicator of Prufrock's age. That he is
looking back on his life and making this kind of observation makes it clear to the reader that
he is no longer a young man.

Was the breakdown of the global multi-polar distribution of power during WWI through WWII (1914€“1945) highly probable?

The
breakdown of the world order between the two world wars was likely if not inevitable. The end of
WWI saw the destruction of the Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. France and
Britain lost a great deal of their fighting men to the trenches on the Western Front. Russia
would be in near-constant turmoil from 1917€“1924 with civil war. Germany would also suffer
catastrophic losses. All of the European powers affected would lose so much blood and treasure
that keeping up their overseas possessions would be difficult if not impossible.

After WWI the United States, the chief creditor to the victorious Allies, did little
to help Europe rebuild. The European economy sagged between the world wars and it was only hurt
further when the United States underwent a massive economic depression in 1929. The shock of the
losses from WWI combined with economic downturns led to the rise of fascist regimes in Germany
and Italy. Japanese totalitarianism had its roots in anti-colonial backlash...

What is a company profile? What must I include in it?

A company
profile is just what the name implies. It is a document explaining what your company is and what
you do. It is a public-facing document, so one should take care to not include any confidential
information, such as private financial details.

A good company profile should
include a brief history of the company, including the date that it was founded. A list of all
owners, directors, and shareholders should be included. Arguably, the most important part of a
company profile is a brief synopsis of the services that are on offer. For example, if I were
writing a company profile for a marketing company, I would mention that the company specializes
in advertising campaigns, online media, social networking, copywriting, and graphic design.
Lists of achievements and awards won should also form part of the company profile.

The company's vision and mission statement should be included, as should all contact
details. A detailed company profile could also include an organogram of all staff members and
how they work together.

What is the theme of nature in Romantic literature?

In works
falling into the genre of Romanticism, nature was highlighted as being theto what the writers of
the period were protesting against. Their portrayal and oftenof nature was a reaction against
the industrialisation of the period and the issues that came with it. Writers in this movement
saw industrialisation as a process that destroyed the agrarian economy and gave rise to poverty,
crime and overcrowding in the cities. Their descriptions of cities are very bleak. Images of the
cities are juxtaposed with those of the natural world....

Why does Hester name her child Pearl? Of what might the name be symbolic?

I
believe that early in the novel it is explained thatnamed her daughteras anto ain the New
Testament, which I quote here from Matthew 13:45-46 in the King James Bible:

45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant
man, seeking goodly pearls:

46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great
price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Hester has had to give up a great deal for the sake of her little girl, but she
considers it worth the sacrifice because her daughter is so precious to her. The little girl
does indeed seem like a pearl because she is beautiful and angelic. It is ironic that such a
lovely child should be regarded as a source of shame and disgrace. She compensates with Hester
for the ostracism and humiliation she has to endure, which is symbolized by the scarlet letter
she is forced to wear.

It is sometimes said that Reagan ended the Cold War. Most scholars would argue against this and claim the factors that resulted in the end of the Cold...

It's a
moot point whether Reagan was personally responsible for ending the Cold War. However, there can
be little doubt that his policies contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union and by
extension ended the Cold War.

Reagan departed from the approach of his
predecessors in adopting a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union. He wouldn't simply
maintain the status quo and continue with the policy of containment that had characterized the
approach of successive US administrations; instead, he would actively seek to weaken the Soviet
Union through a massive increase in defense spending and the provision of more economic and
political assistance to international allies, especially those in Latin America, who could be
relied on to hold back the Communist tide.

Reagan understood that a more
proactive approach would effectively force the Soviets to expand their own defense budget to
match the astonishing sums being spent by his administration. But the chronically inefficient
Soviet command economy proved too weak to provide the necessary resources, and the ensuing
strain generated considerable political tensions within the USSRtensions that in due course
would lead to its full-scale collapse.

Though Reagan himself would be out of
office when this momentous event in world history took place, there can be no doubt that the
policies he pursued during his presidency greatly contributed to the USSR's collapse, and with
it the end of the Cold War.

Why does Montresor vow revenge on Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?

's
chilling short story "" is a tale of retribution. In the outset, the first person
narrator Montresor vows revenge against his supposed friend Fortunato over some
"insult." The affront, which must have been significant, is never revealed. It is,
however, egregious enough for Montresor to devise a devious and horrible plan to lure Fortunato
into the catacombs below his estate with the pretense that he wishes to have Fortunato's opinion
about a bottle of rare wine. While in the underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunato to the
catacomb and proceeds to wall him in with brick and mortar. There are two important elements to
Montresor's plan. First, it must be well known to Fortunato that Montresor is the one bringing
about his demise. Second, Montresor sets up his plan so he will never be apprehended for the
crime. Fortunato simply disappears. Some critics believe Montresor is telling his story to a
priest at the end of his life, revealing a certain amount of remorse on Montresor's part.
Whatever the reality, the reader is never made aware of the exact motive which prompted
Montresor to kill Fortunato in such a ghastly way.     

How can the D.H. Lawrence quote "at its best, the novel.....can help you" be related to 1984 by George Orwell?

Lawrence's quote reveals the essence of literature.  The novel is shown to be helpful
to individuals in answering the critical questions of who we are and what we should do.  It is
in this regard that 's novel can be seen as embodying the tenets of Lawrence's quote.
   does not offer much in the way of redemptive restoration.  However, it
provides a vision of a world that the individual must avoid.  The...

Polypeptide chains (protein) are made on the?Golgi apparatus lysosome smooth endoplasmic reticulum rough endoplasmic reticulum

A
polypeptide is a long chain of amino acids. These are produced on the ribosomes, during protein
synthesis. Messenger RNA contains the genetic code to assemble the polypeptide. Transfer RNA
carries the appropriate amino acids to the growing polypeptide chain. Eventually, a stop message
is reached. The polypeptide detaches from the ribosome and proceeds to fold into a three
dimensional protein. This process occurs along a ribosome. Some of these are found in the
cytoplasm and others are located along the endoplasmic reticulum. The rough endoplasmic
reticulum contains many ribosomes. Thus, the answer to the question is choice
4.

What is the significance of Pygmalion's title?

The origin
of thestory lies in ancient Greek myth. Ovid's Metamorphosis continued its
fame (Ovid being one of the more important Classical writers in the English Renaissance). The
Pygmalion myth has elements of male fantasy, as the sculptor creates a "perfect" woman
after becoming disenchanted with real women (most notably prostitutes). The perfect woman, in
this sense, is a beautiful creature with no artifices to challenge male security. Pygmalion
remains frustrated that he cannot possess his Galatea statue as a woman utterly under his
control, subject to his desire.

Elements of this art-becoming-life story can
be found in Pinocchio as well as in Shakespeare's The Winter's
Tale. In Othello, at the end of the play, Othello makes a
reverse wish, wanting Desdemona to be an alabaster statue that he can love without fear of her
disloyalty. In these stories, we find fodder for psychological interpretations of wish
fulfillment and control.

When Shaw picks up the myth and its traditions, he
offers a distinctly social . Higgins reforms Eliza through speech and demeanor, polishing her as
a sculptor would his creation. The point is to show the excellence of his art. Eliza's own
living self chafes at the uselessness of her training in a world that insists on class structure
rather than personal ability. After some resistance regarding a less expected happy ending
(Higgins and Eliza marrying), Shaw persists in the value of his own ending, where Eliza marries
Freddie:

When Eliza emancipates herselfwhen Galatea comes
to lifeshe must not relapse. She must retain her pride and triumph to the end. When Higgins
takes your arm on 'consort battleship' you must instantly throw him off with implacable pride;
and this is the note until the final 'Buy them yourself.' He will go out on the balcony to watch
your departure; come back triumphantly into the room; exclaim 'Galatea!' (meaning that the
statue has come to life at last); andcurtain. Thus he gets the last word; and you get it too
(Letter from Shaw to actress playing Eliza, cited below, page 43).

Underscoring Eliza as a living Galatea who can take full independence from her creator,
Shaw offers an inversion of Victorian sentimentality, which he stubbornly
satirized.

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How does Holden's reaction to his brother Allie's death contribute to the novel as a whole?

The loss of
his brotherprofoundly affectsbecause he will no longer allow himself to connect with other
people after this . Also, rather than seek a complicated judgment for various people, Holden
makes hasty categorical judgments about them.

After his death, Allie becomes
the ideal by which others are judged by Holden. Holden now rejects those who have lost their
childhood innocence and lack integrity and are "phony." This loss is symbolized in
Holden's mind not only with his brother's death, but also with the savagely forced suicide ofat
Elkton Hills. Even his brother D.B. is not exempt from Holden's judgment. Holden claims that
D.B. once wrote authentic stories, but since he has been in Hollywood, he has prostituted
himself and written stories that are not good at all. They have just been written for the
money.

Holden views the world darkly, castigating nearly everyone for being
"phony." For instance, when he hears that Stradlater has gone on a date with

Which Lines In This Excerpt From Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" Show That The Fish Has Given Up Struggling For Survival After Living A Hard Life?

One of the
interesting things about "" is that the reader discovers the significant aspects of
the fish as the speaker of the poem does. The other interesting device of the poem, in terms of
style, is that the speaker reveals her understanding and appreciation for the fish through .
She, the speaker, withholds her thoughts and emotions until the very end of the poem. 

First, note that the poem is not about the "victory" of catching the fish.
The entire poem is of the objective (eventually becoming subjective) perception of the fish. In
objectively describing the fish, the speaker and the reader discover things which lead to a more
subjective appreciation. 

Although the fish doesn't put up a fight, he
continues to fight, to breathe that "terrible oxygen." Upon catching the fish, the
speaker describes it as "battered and venerable / and homely." She has respect
("venerable") for this battered fish and feels pity for its plain, unattractive
("homely") look. This is the objective perspective becoming subjective and more
personal. 

The speaker describes the fish's skin/scales like armor rusted
over time, "shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost through age." She
describes the fish like an old warrior or an old warship adorned with barnacles and sea weed.
Following these subtle praises of the evidence of the fish's history of survival, the speaker
imagines the fish's colorful insides. She tries to intuit some meaning by looking into the
fish's eyes but sees only a semi-transparent surface ("isinglass") which shows how she
is struggling to achieve a personal understanding of the fish by making objective
observations. 

Acknowledging the five hooks and fishing lines dangling from
the fish's mouth, the speaker thinks of them as signs of wisdom and medals of valor: 

Like medals with their ribbons

frayed and
wavering,

a five-haired beard of wisdom

trailing from his
aching jaw. 

Realizing that this battered, rusted fish
has battled to stay alive so many times, the speaker appreciates the fish's perseverance and
appreciation for life. Seeing the rainbow dispersed on the surface of the oil, the speaker
translates this abundance of color to vitality and symbolic vibrancy with which she thinks the
fish must have lived. The fish might look like old brown wallpaper but it has come to symbolize
the fullness of life which is comparable to the fullness of colors in a rainbow. It is now with
this subjective perception (appreciating life in its full splendor of color and vitality) that
she looks upon everything: the rusted engine, oarlocks, gunnels, and of course, the
fish. 

Slave narratives are an important part of African American literature from the very beginning to the present. What is the significance of slave...

Slave
narratives are important pieces of literature in the sense that they tell the story of an
enslaved race. They provide family histories and give people a sense of their culture. They
provide an alternative to the white version of antebellum history, and they allow historians to
see the slaves as individuals rather than as a mass of oppressed people who had the same
experiences no matter where they lived or who owned them.

Slave narratives
also provide a glimpse into slave culture by the people who lived it. One can see how slaves
viewed themselves as well as the whites they interacted with on a daily basis.Slave narratives
may also include events such as violence against slaves or escapes that were not recorded in
other histories. They can also be used to trace one's family history as slave families were
often broken up in slave auctions.

Slave narratives provide a sense of
cultural pride and history to African Americans, as they demonstrate how slaves persevered under
unfavorable conditions. For these reasons, slave narratives have value as literature as well as
history.

Hello I need help with this precalc question! - Thanks!!!

The
dividing out technique is used where direct substitution leads to a 0/0 scenario and when a
common factor exists between numerator and denominator.

Lets evaluate each of
the four options here:

1) Denominator is x+3 and limit approaches 3. This
equation will not have a 0/0 scenario.

2) The numerator x^2-16 can be written
as (x-4)(x+4). We can see that numerator and denominator have a common factor (x-4).

The equation can be simplified as (x+4) after canceling out common factor
(x-4).

And dividing out technique gives the answer as 4+4 = 8.

3) We do not have a 0/0 scenario and there is no common...

What are some of the more important lessons Santiago learns in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist?

One of the
first lessons that the boy learns comes after he is robbed in Tangier. As he looks at the people
around him the next morning, he realizes the following:

He
was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and
weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. . . He realized: If I can learn to
understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. (43-44)

Most young people want to understand the world in which they
livethe boy isn't much different. Consequently, not only does he want to understand the world,
but he wants to carve out a life for himself by realizing his Personal Legend and finding
his treasure. Therefore, after being robbed, he examines his choice: to go back to his old life
or to continue forward with his journey. It is at this point that he realizes that he must get
back up and try again whenever he is knocked down, if he is ever to succeed. As a result,
Santiago pays closer...

What are Hester's views concerning womanhood? How does Hester identify herself as a woman?

dbello's
answer covers most of the ground, but I have another view of her last comment, that her
"sin" was her freedom. was "free" before her sin; she had an open attitude
toward life that allowed her to see her failing as a violation of civil law but not a violation
of her internal law.  After her sin, she was clearly less free; there were places she could not
go, she had, at least temporarily, lost the respect of her fellow citizens, she had to raise

How does Bob Cratchit's attitude toward Scrooge differ from his wife's in A Christmas Carol?

After the Cratchits'
Christmas feast, Bob expresses a desire to toast to Mr. Scrooge, his employer, whom he calls
"'the Founder of the Feast.'"  Mrs. Cratchit, on the other hand, expresses her
absolute disgust at such an idea when she says,

The
Founder of the Feast indeed! [...]  I wish I had him here.  I'd give him a piece of my mind to
feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.

She scoffs at the idea that Mr. Scrooge is the founder of their feast, very likely because her
husband works so hard and earns such a meager wage from his employer.  She claims that if she
had Mr. Scrooge there to yell at, she'd have quite a lot to yell.  This is somewhat funny
because it does seem a bit of a gender role reversal for the time.  The wife would typically be
thought of as the one who would behave meekly and mildly, and the husband would be more
assertive, in terms of speaking up for himself.  And yet, Mrs. Cratchit has quite strong
opinions on the subject of Mr. Scrooge, and...

In The Necklace, why did Monsieur Loisel expect his wife to be pleased to recieve the invitation from the Minister of Education?

Much like in
the story of Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Maupassant's character Mdme Loiselle grew up expecting
that her life would turn into everything she ever dreamed of.

Also, similarly
to Mdme Bovary, Mdme Loiselle's husband was aware of the dissatisfaction of his wife. As
husbands, both Bovary and Loiselle felt responsible for the mental condition of their wives. The
men are meant to be providers, and the anchor of the household- if the wife is not happy, is
proportional to the ability of the head of the household to provide.

Hence,
both husbands in both stories came upon a chance to somehow provide their wives with a chance to
reach that summit which they so much dreamed about: A brush with glamour.

Monsier Louiselle felt that, as a result of the invitation, hewould have finally been
able to please his wife's dream of glamour. Unfortunately,she was already way too submerged in
her own fantasy world to appreciate what he did for her.

In the roles of Germany and Japan during World War II, were their aggressions fundamentally similar or fundamentally different?

While there
were some differences, the aggressive actions by these two countries in the years leading up
towere essentially the same.  They were both essentially driven by a desire to upset the status
quo and to gain more power for themselves. 

It is true, of course, that
Germany was a loser in World War I while Japan was a winner.  However, they were both unhappy
with the status quo after that war.  Germany was unhappy because it had had its empire taken
away and because it had been humiliated and weakened in a multitude of ways by the Treaty of
Versailles.  Germany engaged in aggression because it wanted to be seen as a first-rate power. 
Japan was unhappy because it lacked what was, in its eyes, a sufficient empire.  It felt that it
should have more power in its region when, instead, European countries held Asian colonies such
as Indochina and Indonesia.  It engaged in aggression because it wanted to be seen as the
dominant power in its region.

Germanys aggression did have more of a racial
element to it.  However, the Japanese did also see themselves as superior to the peoples they
conquered.  Japan was not interested in genocide, but it did believe that its people deserved to
be the lords of their region.

In these ways, the aggressive actions that
these two countries took before WWII were essentially similar.

How does sociology help us to better understand how our own society functions?

provides a framework which allows us to consider how humans all fit together on this planetand
hopefully how we can strive toward more meaningful interactions with each other. It helps us
inspect our own place in a diverse world and how we individually influence group actions.
Sociology looks at customs and norms of groups, making the social world seem less haphazard as
we begin to see patterns of behavior that extend across cultures and then highlight the
contrasts that are unique to individual societies.

The need to belong is an
essential part of the human experience; people who cannot understand how societies work are more
likely to live on the fringes of it and feel isolated. Sociology provides a way to intentionally
learn about the constructs of societies, helping to both understand those on the fringes and the
needs of the societal group.

Sociology examines group behaviors, families,
customs, values, governments, principles of economics, and more. By examining these...

How was Nathaniel Hawthorne affected by Puritanism, and how did Puritanism influence his short story "Young Goodman Brown"?

Hawthorne was very
interested in guilt and sin, in part because of his great-great-grandfather's participation in
the Salem Witch Trials.  In fact, he was so embarrassed by his ancestor's guilt that he actually
added the "w" to his last name in order to separate himself more fully from Judge
Hathorne.  Much of Hawthorne's work focuses on the effects of guilt and sin on individuals,
especially when they remain secretthink of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale of
or Father Hooper of "." Like those characters,would likely be much better off if he
were simply honest about his sinfulness.  He tries to hide it from his wife, Faith, and if he
had simply told her where he was going, then perhaps things would not have gone so terribly
awry. Likely, they would have gained a better understanding of one another, bringing them closer
together in their relationship.  Many people, perhaps beginning in America with the Puritans,
seemed to try...

In The Crucible, what are some quotes that show Abigail Williams being blind to the truth ?

When John Proctor and
Abigail speak personally in Act One, he tells her, "Abby, I never give you hope to wait for
me."  However, she is incapable of grasping that their sexual relationship, a relationship
that ended seven months prior, does not mean to him what it has meant to her.  He insists,
"Abby, you'll put it out of mind.  I'll not be comin' for you more."  Again, she is
unwilling to accept the truth of what he's said: their relationship is over in every possible
sense.  She thinks John is "surely sportin' with [her]," but it is clear to us that he
is not.  Her insistence that he must be joking indicates her inability to see the
truth.

Though John does confess that he may have some lingering feelings for
Abigail -- he admits to looking up at her window -- he has determined to put those feelings to
rest and never act upon them again.  He says, "I may think of you softly from time to time.
 But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again."  She assumes that his
statements have more to do with a controlling wife rather than anything to do with herself, and
she begins to insult them both, saying, "Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a
sickly wife be--," before John cuts her off.  It seems that John was Abigail's first love
-- and first lover -- as she says that he "put knowledge in [her] heart" and she
insists that he still loves her, no matter if its a sin.  She cannot recognize that this is not
true; there is simply no evidence that he ever loved her or that this was
anything other than a sexual relationship for him.  

Is Christopher Columbus a hero? Why or why not?

This
is, of course, a matter of personal opinion.  Your answer will depend on your definition of a
hero and on how much bad a person can do and still be considered a hero.  My own view is that
Columbus is not a hero.

To me, a hero is someone who knowingly does something
that benefits humankind and who does so for reasons other than personal gain.  I do not feel
that Columbus meets any of these criteria.

We can certainly argue that
discovering America, on balance, helped humankind. It definitely harmed the natives of the
Americas, but it greatly benefitted the Europeans who came to the Americas as colonists. The
creation of the United States (which came about because of the discovery of...

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What does Orwell mean by the statement "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

, in his
1946 essay, "", argues for an inherent connection between
political freedom and clear language. In many ways, 's ideas derive from John Stuart Mill's
essay "On Liberty`which argues that the most important form of liberty is free speech,
because it is only in an open marketplace of ideas, where viewpoints are questioned and tested
against one another that truth can emerge. Improvements in society, whether political, ethical,
or commerical all depend on the ability of citizens to put forth new ideas and discuss them
openly; where there is no free speech, there is only stagnation and tyranny. Orwell adds to
Mills concept of free speech the addition of clear speech. In an era with increasing power of
mass media, Orwell sees that the putative freedom of speech possessed by citizens in mass
culture was illusory of part of the debate was framed in speech so unclear that the fundamental
mechanisms of liberty, those of open debate, were undermined by language so obfuscatory that
those in control of the media could constantly reframe the grounds of debate to reinforce their
own power, as do the rulers in . Mass communication  shifts the locus of power in the novel to
those who control the means of communication.

How is the setting of The Sun Also Rises symbolic?

Gertrude Stein
coined the phrase "The Lost Generation" and Hemingway portrays characters who are very
much apart of this group. The lost generation felt disillusioned post WWI, and many fled to
Europe to escape the facade of the american dream. Yet, they led very superficial lives.
Drinking, travelling, forming no real attachments, this group believes they have left behind the
hypocrisy of America, but still represent America whereever they go.

How is the style in which My Bondage and My Freedom is written related to Douglass's purpose?

In
My Bondage and My Freedom,revises his popular autobiography published ten
years prior in 1845. In his earlier edition, , Douglass writes in declarative
sentences that balance his trustworthy, credible account with his deceptively subtle
pathos.

My Bondage and My Freedom reconsiders the events
of Narrative from a new perspective, one further removed from both bondage
and brevity. The revisions include such considerable stylistic differences that multiple papers
defending and maligning them can be found in academic journals.

No longer
writing simply in a journalistic style with an authoritative tone, Douglass adopts in places a
grandiloquent voice and a formal style. Scenes from Narrative are retold more
dramatically, which is not to say they are embellished. They are reflective
and imbued with philosophical meaning that Douglass now prefers to explain to the reader. They
are often parables, a style reminiscent of...

Discuss the theme of love in Candide Voltaire.

Love is
not an especially prominent theme in . But it's there all the same.
Candide's love for Cun©gonde is the catalyst for his weird and wonderful odyssey. Candide has
been separated from Cun©gonde by the Baron because he wishes to break things up between them.
Candide sets out to get her back, and his epic quest to be reunited with his lady love echoes
throughout the story.

But the downside of love, hintscynically, is that it
invariably lands you in hot water. This is certainly what happens to Candide himself. Love leads
to desire, and desire leads to seemingly endless conflict and trouble. Yet all this love, and
all this desire, is ultimately worth it in the end. For when Candide finally catches up with
Cun©gonde once more, he finds that her appearance has changed, and not for the better. Despite
Cun©gonde's somewhat homely appearance, however, Candide still loves her, and insists on
marrying her. True love is contrasted here with the shallow desires of the likes of Dr.
Pangloss, who contracts syphilis after conducting what is euphemistically described as "a
lesson in experimental natural philosophy" with the chambermaid
Paquette.

1. How did Starbucks initially use segmentation to targeted coffee markets? 2. Did the Starbucks customer or the Starbucks Experience change...

1. Market
segmentation is a very common strategy where instead of trying to appeal to the whole mass
market which requires a sort of "least common denominator" approach that is acceptable
to all but ideal to none, a company instead targets a specific group of people and tries to give
them exactly what they want.

Starbucks did this expertly, targeting
specifically young-adult to middle-aged upper-middle class urban professionals. While most of
their competitors (e.g. Dunkin' Donuts, Tim Hortons) were simply offering coffee as cheap and
fast as possible, Starbucks instead offered what they called the "Starbucks
Experience": a comfortable coffee shop environment, standardized so it would be familiar
and consistent when people travel (as this demographic travels extensively), with high-quality
coffee that appeals to socially responsible customers by being organic, Fair Trade, and locally
sourced. To pay for this, Starbucks needed to charge higher prices, but they knew this
demographic has a...

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What is your opinion about these lines from Robinson Crusoe? Discuss. I desended a little on the side of that delicious vale, surviving it with a...

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has been popular with generations of readers because of  its escapist
appeal. It is presented as a problem, but it is actually a fantasy. Many people have fantasized
about being alone on a deserted island where they would have peace...