What is inplied about the characteristics of the creator of the tiger

In
"" the speaker seems to question that such a creator could even exist, by
saying:

What immortal hand or eye

Could
frame thy fearful symmetry?

At the close the question is
rephrased slightly as:

Dare frame thy
fearful symmetry?

The speaker is trying to come to grips
with the fact that any being has created the tiger, and is trying to fathom
the nature of that being.

One has to ask what is so unfathomable or
spectacular about the tiger that the speaker is mystified by the nature or identity of its
creator.Blake uses the tiger as aof what we might equate with the Dark Side. This is what much
of his verse is about, not just here but in general. How or why, he seems to ask, would God (for
he's obviously talking about what most people, of any religion, or perhaps of no actual religion
at all, are conceptualizing as God) create the Dark Side? Perhaps the most significant stanza is
the penultimate one:

When the stars threw down their
spears

And watered heaven with their tears:

Did he smile
his work to see?

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

This implies several unexpected ideas that perhaps change the
direction of the poem. First, "the stars" are a kind of alternative creator. It is
they who "threw down their spears," symbolizing violence of some kind, but wept while
doing so, as if regretting the action of creation. Yet the speaker reverts to the singular
pronoun "he" as if returning to the more conventional belief in a single Creator, but
again questioning that the creator would approve of his own work, and also was capable of
creating such opposites: the lamb and tiger, good and "evil."

Blake's philosophy is one that merges these opposing forces and either tries to
reconcile the two, or states that both must be accepted as facts, as reality. Yet in "The
Tyger" he asserts, essentially, that the Creator is unknowable or inexplicable in having
made a cosmos in which such divergent elements can exist side by side. It is even possible that
in the repeated questioning about the nature of this life-giving force, Blake is making an
agnostic assertion: that he does not know if a Creator even exists.

Explain how the Freedmens Bureau helped reform education in the South.

The
Freedmen's Bureau helped to reform education in the South mainly by helping to create a system
of public education in that region.

Before the Civil War, there was very
little in the way of public education in the South.  Southerners typically felt that education
was something that should be provided by the family or the church.  This meant that it was
mostly well-off white people who got educated.

During Reconstruction, the
Freedmen's Bureau helped to create schools for the freed slaves.  By doing so, they also helped
to create the idea that state governments should be responsible for providing education not only
to blacks but to whites as well.

What is the significance of the countryside setting where Winston and Julia meet for the first time?

The
setting is one thathas seen before in a recurring dream. He calls it "the Golden
Country," and in the dream a woman appears, flings off her clothes, and makes love to him,
just asdoes in reality. To Winston, the Golden Country is a kind of Eden, an unspoiled place
that represents the world as he imagines it was before the reign of the Party. Both the woman in
the dream and Julia are emblematic of the uninhibited sexuality Winston believes has the power
to defeat the Party.

's use of this setting is also part of a tradition in
literature of contrasting rural purity with urban corruption and ugliness. It's interesting that
in his earlier novel Orwell shows a similar tryst in the countryside
outside of London between his protagonists Gordon and Rosemary. This takes place in the 1930s,
during the Depression, but is thematically similar to the episode in . In
each case, a couple flees the city's harsh realityin the 1930s, a reality...

In the poem, what is the blacksmith's swinging of his sledge compared to?

The poem
says of the blacksmith:

You can hear him swing his heavy
sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village
bell,
When the evening sun is low.

The village
bell is the church bell. In the past, this was often the only way people who could not afford
clocks or watches knew what time it was. The sexton was the...

Please explain the following quote from Thoreau's "Walden" -- "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

If you read
the paragraph the quote was taken from, it's all there:

I went to
the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and
see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had
not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to
practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the
marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to
cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest
terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and
publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able
to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a
strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily
concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him
forever."

Thoreau went into the woods to live a bare, spare,
and essential existence... no modern conveniences to help him make things easier, no creature
comforts to lighten his load. He went into the woods to learn what it meant to really live this
life as it is, free of all the man-made accouterments that take the life out of life. Put in a
more modern way, Thoreau wanted to live without the remote control.

His idea
was that all the things we have concocted to make life easier for us to live, at the same time
take the substance out of living, the morrow out of the bones. If you turn on the water spigot
and water comes pouring out, you don't have to pump it yourself. But it is in the very act of
pumping the water yourself, that you feel the weight and substance of the water. In your hands,
in your arms.

If things got tough for him, so be it; experience the
toughness. If winter winds chilled him to the bone, so be it; feel the cold... know it from
within. Thoreau went alone into the woods to learn how to live the way his maker intended to
live.

What is a detailed analysis of Elizabeth Jennings' poem "Reminiscence" in terms of summary, language, tone, imagery, and themes?

As the
title indicates, in this poem, Jennings remembers her childhood. She contrasts her childhood
state of mind with her adult state. As a child she lived without analyzing her world too deeply
and that was a happier state for her. Then she did not "fret at thought" (in other
words, worry) or try to figure everything out: she simply lived and did not try to "whittle
a pattern" (make sense of everything). Adult thinking causes her anxiety, making her
sometimes "numb with fear." She looks...

What are the reasons Macbeth would kill King Duncan, and what are some reasons not to?

Yes,wants the glory of being King of Scotland. Yes,have dangled this promise in front
of him, and he's seen two of their other promises come to fruition.

But one
compelling reason thatfeels that he must move forward with killing Kingis that his own wife has
insulted his manhood. This isn't well-received in our own modern society, and it certainly
wasn't well-received by men who fought battles of valor to the death in hand-to-hand combat. She
provokes him in his hesitation, noting,

When you durst do
it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so
much more the man. (I.viii.54-56)

Macbeth feels that he
has to defend his manly sense of honor and strength, not cringing in what his wife labels
as...

Why is Tybalt to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

is the
embodiment of the hatred that has long existed between the Capulets and the Montagues. Even
Capulet himself has to restrain the hot-blooded Tybalt when the young man recognizesat the
Capulet party (wherefirst meet). This encounter causes Tybalt to bear an insatiable grudge
against Romeo, which leads him to the fight that, it could be argued, leads directly to the
deaths of the two lovers.

In the first scene of Act III, Tybalt encounters
firstand , and then Romeo, in Verona. The Capulet has been looking for Romeo in order to gain
satisfaction for the insult he gave him by attending the Capulet festivities in secret. He
challenges Romeo to a duel, calling him a "villain." When Romeo, having (unbeknownst
to everyone involved) just married, refuses to fight, Mercutio jumps in, decrying Romeo's
"vile submission," and Tybalt kills him, in part because Romeo restrained Benvolio
while they were fighting. When Tybalt returns to the scene,...

What were the economic consequences of the Black Death?

In an odd
way, the Black Death was actually beneficial to the economy of Europe.  Of course, it only
benefitted those people who were still living.

The Black Death led to a
situation where labor was at a premium.  Because so many people had died, workers were in short
supply.  This made the workers' wages go up.  At the same time, there was something of an
oversupply of goods because of a drop in demand as people died.  As demand dropped, so did
prices.  This led to a situation in which people had more money and things cost less as well. 
This meant that people could buy more and their standard of living went up.

In the short term, then, the main economic impact of the Black Death was an increase in
the standards of living for many of those left alive.

According to Hobson, who benefits the most from imperialism?

John
Hobson had strong views on imperialism. He believed that those who benefited from imperialism
were the countries and the investors in the countries that were doing the colonizing. Hobson
believed the talk about helping underdeveloped nations learn and grown from being a colony of a
more developed nation was just a way to divert attention from the real goals of a country being
imperialistic. It wasnt about bringing civility and religion to different groups of people. It
was all about economic gain.

Hobson believed countries used imperialism as a
way to profit financially. He felt that countries and businesses...

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Chronological Order of "A Rose for Emily" The events in the story "A Rose for Emily" are not in chronological order. Why did William Faulkner write...

Key to
understanding Faulkner's framing of the story with the old chivalric code of the ghostly Old
South's past with Part I and Part V, is his creation of a gothic horror with the gruesome
details of a past perverted by noblesse oblige and the lost moments of
youth tainted with age and grotesquely reclaimed in the present. Indeed, Faulkner has arranged
his narrative in the order of one of his statements:

Thus
she passed from generation to generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and
perverse.

 

 

Delete The Adjectives

In order
to answer this question, 's words deserve to be read again:

He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didnt see how they got
anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented
toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadnt?

In this context, Jem is enthralled to be in 6th grade. In
particularly he loved the section on the Egyptians. He, therefore, began to even imitate the way
they walked "sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him." 

Whenquestioned him about this, Jem responded by touting the great inventions of the
Egyptians. This is where ' wise words come in. 

Atticus basically tells Scout
to strip down what Jem is saying to it essential meaning. The Egyptians created some important
things that help us even today. In other words, they were inventive. 

Another
way to look at it is by actually taking out the adjectives, as Atticus advises. If we did that,
we would have: paper and embalming. The Egyptians did invent these two. 

What inspired Orwell to write Animal Farm?

was inspired to write
this short novel by the Russian Revolution of 1917. Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his
role as Emperor of Russia, and he and his entire family were assassinated a year later by the
Bolsheviks. The character of , the pig who dies early in the story, is inspired by Vladimir
Lenin, andthe pig is Joseph Stalin whereasthe pig is Leon Trotsky.

Nicholas
was an...

In which ways do you think psychology is important in the business world?

Psychology
is fundamentally important in the business world for many reasons, but most of all, psychology
is important simply because businesses are made of people, and psychology is the key to
understanding people. Within an organization, psychology helps with Human Resources issues such
as deciding who would be the best fit for a position or team, the best ways to resolve
interpersonal conflict, and how best to motivate or improve work ethic. A solid understanding of
psychology can seriously improve a companys inner workings.
Outside the company,
businesses utilize psychology in order to...

In the 3rd and 4th stanzas of the poem "Postcard from Kashmir" by Agha Shahid Ali, why does the poet break the line into more than one? Postcard...

There could
be a variety of reasons why Ali chose to use enjambment in the third and fourth stanzas of
"Postcard from Kashmir." Out of your three choices, the least likely is three.
Enjambment is a literary device used in poetry that affects the flow of the piece and the
words/phrases that are focused on. Hardly ever will a poet use it to make reading
"convenient."

The second option is the most likely: force the
reader to notice specific phrases. Enjambment is a good technique to use when you do not want to
use bold or italics for emphasis. Because of the natural pause that arises when you finish a
line of a poem before moving on to the next, the reader is left focusing on the last phrase or
word of that line. For example:

This is home. And this the
closest
I'll ever be to home. When I return,

The
sentence continues to the third line, but let us focus on these two lines. The first line
emphasizes the word "closest" because of where Ali broke the sentence and created a
new line. The reader is focused to feel the emotion left hanging by the first line and embrace
the importance of that feeling in the context of the poem.

Your first option,
a visual representation, could be correct for some poems. However, in Ali's case, there is not
really a shape to be made. That said, even though it is not the best choice, enjambment is a
technique that is also used to make a poem more visually appealing on the page. Although it is
not being used in Ali's case to create a shape, it is used to prevent long lines from extending
from one side of the page to the other.

How can I identify the elements of transcendentalism in Emerson's "Nature"?

Five
predominant elements ofare nonconformity, self-reliance, free thought, confidence, and the
importance of nature. These concepts are liberally sprinkled throughout Emerson's essay
"." 

When Emerson says that we should "demand our own works
and laws and worship," he espouses nonconformity. 

Free thought is
similar to nonconformity. Emerson encourages readers to avoid doing what their peers or
predecessors do; rather, they should think for themselves. In the introduction, he bemoans the
fact that "speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous." This suggests he
values speculation, or free thought.

In Chapter 1, Emerson asserts that, as
long as he has nature, he can be complete. His belief that "in the woods ... nothing can
befall me in life" shows self-reliance and confidence. 

The key tenet of
Transcendentalism displayed in "Nature" is the importance of nature. That is what
Emerson is writing about, after all. He begins by stating in the introduction that "all
science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature." In Chapter 1, he discusses the
stars and how we take them for granted, but that they nevertheless "awaken a certain
reverence." He suggests that, although no one "owns the landscape," the poet who
appreciates it possesses it in a sense. He says that nature can produce "a wild
delight" in a man even amid sorrows. He becomes eloquent when describing the effect of the
woods on him. It makes one feel perpetually young, and "all mean egotism vanishes." He
feels as if he is "part or particle of God" when he is out in nature. 

To identify elements of Transcendentalism in "Nature," keep looking for
expressions of nonconformity, free thought, self-reliance, confidence, and the supremacy of
nature.

What are the gothic elements present in The Scarlet Letter?

Though 's
1850 novel is generally considered Romantic, the author did incorporate elements of the American
gothic genre, particularly with regard to darkof sin, guilt, and psychological
torment.

's obsession with what he considers the greatest sin of his life,
fatheringoutside marriage, destroys his physical and psychological health. He lacks the courage
to face the judgment of his...

How did technology affect World War I and its outcome?

came at
the time of massive technological advancement. Consequently, technological advances such as the
heavy machine gun, long-range artillery, poison gas, airplanes, the armored tank, and the radio
greatly impacted the outcome and course of the war. One issue that led to the stalemate and
massive casualties, especially on the Western Front, was that military tactics had not kept up
with this technology.

Many of the military tacticians and generals were
eager to adopt these new technologies but did not understand how to effectively fight a war that
involved them. Some were still...

Describe Mathilde.

Mathilde's physical appearance is not
described much in the first part of the story. When she has the eponymous necklace around her
neck, she is said to be "prettier than all the other women, elegant, gracious, smiling, and
full of joy." We might infer from this description that Mathilde is, at least at this point
in the story, rather beautiful.

In the second half of the story, however,
after ten years of abject poverty, Mathilde is described as "look[ing] old." She has
become "strong, hard, and rough like all women of impoverished households." Her hair
is "half-combed," and her hands are "reddened."

There is
much more description, throughout the story, of Mathilde's personality. At the beginning of the
story, for example, she is described as "unhappy" and "suffer[ing]
endlessly" because of "the poorness of her house." The poor furnishings in her
house "torment ... her and [make] her resentful," and she dreams enviously of
"vast living rooms furnished in rare old silks [and] elegant furniture loaded with
priceless ornaments."

In the second half of the story, after she has
been reduced to a state of even greater poverty, Mathilde is described in more positive terms.
She is described as adapting to her altered circumstances "heroically." She might also
be described as stoical. Indeed, she doesn't complain or try to avoid her debt; rather, she
accepts that "the dreadful debt must be paid." She works hard every day for ten years,
"fighting over every miserable sou," until the debt is paid off.

Who are the community leaders in Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison?

's initiation
story "The " is the first chapter in his novel .  The unnamed
narrator and other black young men in "The Battle Royal" fight blindfolded in front of
a group of the town's prominent white leaders:

Suddenly I
heard the school superintendent, who had told me to come, yell,
"Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring up the little shines!"

And:

They were all there:
bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, fire chiefs,
teachers, merchants. Even one of the more fashionable
pastors.

The scene is like
Mardi Gras.  The white men have been drinking, and they crave sex and
violence.  They lure a half-nude white woman in front of the boys.  They even dupe the young men
by placing electrified coins on the floor for them to pick up.  The story is full of symbolism
and anthropomorphic : the white men are compared to animals, a pack of wolves surrounding a
prey.

The focus of an initiation story is the journey to self-discovery, and
the Invisible Man has a long road ahead.  After battling it out with Tatlock, the biggest of the
boys, the Invisible Man must give a speech, his mouth full of blood.  The , of course, is that
at the white man think they are doing the Invisible Man a favor by listening to his speech and
giving him a scholarship to an all-black university.  After being fed to the wolves and then
given some carefully selected scraps, the narrator is more confused than honored,the existential
predicament of anyone in an alien and hostile world.

How does Robinson Crusoe's state of mind enable him to live on the island?

More than
anything else, 's a businessman, and a very hard-headed businessman at that. He looks at the
world largely in terms of the bottom line, of profit and loss. Over the course of his business
career, he's encountered quite a few serious setbacks, the most serious of which was undoubtedly
his mercifully brief experience of captivity as a slave. All things considered, then, being
washed up alone on a desert islandespecially one that has everything he needs to surviveisn't
really that big of a deal to him. He's been in far worse situations before, yet has always
managed to come out on top in the end.

Crusoe's life experiences have given
him the kind of practical, down-to-earth mindset that he'll need if he's to survive in his new
environment. At the same time, it also makes him more than a tad complacent; at no point does he
acknowledge the hand of God in his good fortune, and for someone living in the seventeenth
century, that would've been unusual, to say the least. Thankfully, Crusoe snaps out of his
arrogance due to a dramatic religious conversion. From now on, he'll adopt a more humble
demeanor toward the world, even though there will still be many moral lapses along the bumpy,
treacherous path of righteousness.

How does Voltaire's Candide exemplify the ideas of the Enlightenment?

Whilehad
many of the philosophical credentials of his fellow Enlightenment philosophersnamely, a belief
in the power of reason, the importance of independent thought, and the rejection of religion as
the sole bearer of truthhis perspective was somewhat less rosy. In ,
Voltaire fleshes out his unique, and somewhat more pessimistic, perspective on human
nature through the use of cutting .

Optimism was central to Enlightenment
thinking, as philosophers believed that happiness could be achieved through human thought and
action. In other words, the goal of life was not to achieve happiness on another plane but
rather to achieve happiness in the present. Voltaire's Candide undermines
that idea entirely though the satirical character of Pangloss, the optimistic
philosopher.

Many Enlightenment thinkers believed that society should be
governed by the "general will" of the people, usually through direct democracy. In
Candide, Voltaire creates characters who are generally...

Describe the economy of the North, and its views on slavery, before the Civil War.

The Economy of the
North and Views of Slavery before the War to Prevent Southern Independence:

The economy of the North was mixed, but industrialism was dominant because of its
wealth.  If a farmer or craftsman had products for sale, the populations of the factory towns
and industrial cities comprised his market.  If a farmer or craftsman borrowed money, he
probably borrowed it from the banking industry.  The antebellum North was an industrial social
system because industry determined the welfare of everybody: farmers, craftsmen, factory
workers, industrial owners.

Abolitionists viewed slavery as a sin that must
be abolished immediately without regard to how much such haste might disrupt society or throw
many slaves (newly freed) out of a means of supporting themselves.

Many
Northerners viewed slavery as a source of Southern political power.  Since Southern politicians
opposed import tariffs which subsidized industry at the expense of agriculture, and opposed
spending tax dollars for improvements of harbors and for other subsidization of northern
industry and trade, these Northerners opposed slavery.  In fact, for this reason more than any
other, most Northerners opposed slavery, though they were far less enthusiastic in their
opposition than the abolitionists.  Fanatical abolitionists were fewer in number than mildly
anti-slavery Northerners.

Many northern working men opposed the abolitionists
because the abolitionists refused to recognize northern labor problems.  The laborers were
concerned about their own plight and their own liberation.  The abolitionists were concerned
only about the plight and liberty of far-away slaves.  Emancipation of the white man was the
great labor objective, and working men's conventions rarely gave any consideration to the
anti-slavery issue.  There were instances of riots by factory workers against abolitionists
because the factory workers feared that the end of slavery would result in many blacks migrating
to the North to work in the factories.  This would have brought the level of factory wages
down.  No doubt factory owners looked forward to this.

Horace Greely, a New
York newspaper man, had a similar opinion: "If I am less troubled concerning slavery
prevalent in Charleston or New Orleans, it is because I see so much slavery in New York which
appears to claim my first efforts."

References for this
answer:

Gara, Larry. 1975. "Slavery and the Slave Power: A Critical
Distinction" in Robert P. Swierenga, ed., Beyond the Civil War Synthesis:
Political Essays of the Civil War Era (1975), 295-308.  [College-level
reading.]

Rayback, Joseph G. 1943. "The American Workingman and the
Antislavery Crusade," The Journal of Economic , 3, 2 (Nov.), 152-163. 
[Senior high school and college-level reading.]

How did northerners feel about Reconstruction?

The northern attitudes
aboutchanged over time. After the Civil War ended in 1865, many Northerners believed that they
had to rebuild the South to make sure it was reformed. They pushed for the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Amendments to, respectively, end slavery, confer citizenship on former slaves, and give all men
the right to vote. In addition, the federal government established the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865
to help former slaves reunite with lost family members; over time, the Freedmen's Bureau tried
to teach former slaves to read and write. However, Reconstruction did not generally involve
providing most former slaves with land, and many southerners sought to overturn the gains that
African-Americans had made during Reconstruction by instituting Black Codes. These laws often
tied former slaves to plantations and did not permit them to work freely; the laws also limited
the right of former slaves to vote and to exercise other rights.

In 1867, the
federal government instituted Military Reconstruction, which carved the south (except Tennessee)
into five military districts, each overseen by a Northern general. The southern states were
required to pass the 14th Amendment and to create new state delegations and constitutions. The
southern states were all permitted to rejoin the union by 1870.

By the 1870s,
many northerners began to lose interest in Reconstruction for several reasons. First, some felt
that they had done all they could to help former slaves with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and
15th Amendments and the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau and Military Reconstruction.
Second, violence in the south conducted by the KKK and other forces was weakening the power of
the Freedman's Bureau, which was terminated in the early 1870s. Finally, the Panic of 1873, a
financial crisis, lessened northerners' interest in spending more federal funds to reconstruct
the south. Reconstruction ended in 1877 with the election of President Hayes. The 1876 election,
between the Democrat Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford Hayes, was disputed. In
exchange for allowing Hayes to be President, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops
from the south, ending Reconstruction. This agreement is known as the Compromise of
1877.

 

In what ways was the economy of the New South different from and similar to the economy of the past?

While many
economic changes happened in the period referred to as the New South, racial segregation and
abusive labor practices for poor and especially black people are still a major hallmark of the
era. Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal" policies worked to keep black people from
accessing economic or political resources and kept massive numbers of black people in jail where
the 13th amendment worked hand-in-hand with convict leasing systems to keep a huge number of
black people suffering under systems of captivity and forced labor.

The
primary changes that did occur were in the forms of labor people participated in. Plantation
labor transformed from slavery into the nearly identical "sharecropping," but
factories were also built, and mining operations and railroads expanded tremendously. Many poor
descendants of rural settlers, who did have land, were also coerced during this time by factory
and mining operations, which worked to move them to cities or company towns. This
created...

Irony In 1984

The novel
abounds with , and specifically the names and functions of different institutions convey irony
in an intentional manner. The Ministry of Love, for example, is a place where prisoners are
tortured in the process of interrogation.

It is also ironic that , a member
of the Anti-Sex League, wears a red sash (red being a potent visual symbol often associated with
sexuality), and furthermore she turns out to be sexually assertive and adventurous in her
relationship with .

The ultimate irony is that Winston, a symbol of rebellion
and protest, is ultimately bested by the system he hates and fights against, and at last is made
to see the world in the topsy-turvy, nonsensical way the novel describes; this becomes clear
when he admits that he loves Big Brother.

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In "Araby" by James Joyce, what does Mangan's sister do to make a trip to the bazaar so important to the narrator?

All Mangan's
sister does is to mention how much she would like to go the bazaar called , which is coming to
Dublin. She thinks it will be "splendid," but she is going away on a school trip, so
she can't attend.

The narrator has a crush on Mangan's sister, who has no
other name in the story, so when she speaks to him about the splendid bazaar, it gets conflated
(combined) in his mind with his desire for her. His desire for her is heightened as she speaks
about Araby, for the light illuminates her neck and the white hem of her petticoat. He mentions
getting something for her at the bazaar:

If I go, I said,
I will bring you something.

From that time on, the
narrator dreams of going to the bazaar, and can't concentrate on anything else. School,
schoolwork, and the neighborhood seem dull and mundane against his expectations:

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

However, the enchantment will prove to be an
illusion.

How old does the Englishman say the alchemist is? How has he come to be that old?

The
Englishman is obsessed with alchemy. The text tells readers that he spent most of his father's
fortune in pursuit of learning the secrets of that mysterious art. In one of the textbooks about
alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone, the Englishman read about a very old and knowledgeable
alchemist. The alchemist is supposedly more than two hundred years old.  

He had spent enormous amounts of time at...

What is the turning point of The Fighting Ground by Avi?

There are
arguably many turning points in 's young adult novel , which follows
twenty-four hours in the life of thirteen-year-old Jonathan, a boy who joins the military forces
in the fight for American Independence from the British. 

The first turning
point happens when Jonathan--who was previously very eager to fight in the war--sees horrific
carnage and the death of a family friend during battle, causing him to...

What were the major differences between northern presidential and congressional plans for reconstruction and which was more important.

To answer
the last part of your question, I think it must be said that Congressional, or Radical , was
most important.  First, it was the plan that went into effect and was how the southern states
were readmitted into the Union.  Second, it must be considered most important because the
Radical Republican plan contained the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the
Constitution.  The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.  The 14th Amendment did many
things.  It said that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen of the U.S.  This made all former
slaves citizens.  Next it said that no state
could deprive any person of life, liberty or property due process of
law. It also said that no state shall deprive
any person the equal protection of the law.  The 15th Amendment stated that no person could be
denied the right to vote on account of race.  This allowed African Americans the right to vote. 
The passage of these three amendments makes the Congressional Plan for reconstruction the most
important.

What is one example of direct characterization of Scout Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird?

Jean
Louise Scout Finch is the principal character and narrator of s novel .
She is six years old when the novel begins and nine when it ends, although Lees story is told
retrospectively by an adult Jean Louise Finch. As Lee did use her mainas narrator, direct
characterizations of Scout had to be attributed to other , especially her older brotherand, most
importantly, her father . An early example of such aoccurs in the opening passages ofwhen the
tomboy Scout has tackled the desperately poor Walter Cunningham and is holding him on the
ground. Jem intervenes in the one-sided scuffle by inviting the hapless Walter home for dinner
and explaining that his sister is crazy and wont fight you anymore. Jems characterization of
his sister as crazy is not intended to be taken literally. Scout is free-spirited and
strong-willed and has been raised under a strict code of...

Identify a key theme in Homi Bhabha's "The Commitment to Theory."

One theme
in Bhabha's writing is how the relationship between nations needs to be reconfigured to ensure
that there is a "commitment to theory."  In this case, the theory that is being
examined is whether that we have escaped the colonial or imperialist condition in which nations
relate to one another.  This theme takes on different forms, but drives the article.  Bhabha's
notion of exploring the relationship in which the theory of internationalism is merely used to
prop up "First World capital to Third World labor" is a part of this
exploration.

For Bhabha, the commitment to theory has become a new way to
pursue the ends of colonial control.  "The Other" has become relegated to a condition
in which control is being advocated through new and surreptitious means.  Bhabha's example of
the film festival in which the entry from India depicts the most hopeless and destitute helps to
enhance the condition in which "First world" nations feel little in way of reticence
to ensure that messages are communicated that suggest that national identities should be formed
in accordance with "Western" ideals.  The relationship between both "the
other" and those who benefit from this configuration is a significant theme in his
work.

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In "1984" by George Orwell, what are some aspects of Oceanias governmental policies that we can equate with factual or historical characteristics of...

1. Doublethink: In the novel, doublethink is the ability
to hold two simultaneously contradicting concepts at the same time, which essentially cancel
each other out and allow the person to accept the given statement fully. While this concept is
not entirely mirrored throughout our society's political arena, the inception of
"alternative facts," which was coined by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne
Conway, is similar to doublethink. Essentially, American citizens have a choice as to what
statistics or facts they choose to believe as opposed to there being an actual fact of the
matter. A person's choice typically centers around their political beliefs and party
leanings.  

For example, the left wing media outlets reported that President
Trump's inauguration attendance was less than that of Obama, while right wing media outlets
challenged this opinion and backed President Trump's statement that,

This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration,
period, both in person...

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What did Frederick Douglass have to say about his escape from slavery?

In terms
of his narrative speaking to the predicament of slavery, Douglass' work reminds us of the
barbaric stain that is a permanent part of American History.  In the depiction of his escape,
the reader is made aware of the idea that at one...

What does Edwards assume about his audience's belief?

I would say
that the main things that Edwards assumes his audience believes are A) the existence of God, B)
the existence of the Devil, C) the existence of Hell.

In this sermon,
Edwards is only trying to persuade his...

What do we learn about Scrooge's home life when Fan visits him at school?

We learn
from Fan's visit that Ebenezer Scrooge came from an emotionally abusive home and that Ebenezer's
relationship with his father was not close. Ebenezer had been sent away to boarding school, and
as the scene opens, he seems to assume that he won't be able to go home for Christmas, even
though all the other boys have left the school for the "jolly holidays." When Fan
comes in, she hugs and kisses him and calls him "dear, dear brother." The way Fan and
Scrooge compliment each other shows that they know how to express affection and warmth, but
apparently their father did not do so until very recently. Fan states that "Father is so
much kinder than he used to be, that home's like Heaven." This suggests that previously
their home was the opposite, that is, a...

Comment on the characterizations in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

In s , the characters
that are included are a part of the grand scheme of life that the author is trying to convey to
the reader. In some ways, the characters are very much like parts of a spider web. Santiago (at
the center of the web) feels the effect of what each person does to him or says to him. By
meeting each of themeven the young man that robs himhis life is altered, and he is moved along
in the direction in which he must go.

The characters often offer help, or
wisdom, or lives that are metaphors, serving as examples to Santiago. When Santiago works for
the crystal merchant, he sees a man who has missed his chance to pursue his Personal Legendan
experience which provides the impetus for Santiago to eventually continue searching for
his Personal Legend.

The Englishman gives Santiago the
opportunity to learn from books rather than from the world around him. Book learning is
worthless to Santiago, and to the Englisman; where Santiago can see this,
the Englishman cannot, and so he makes no progress in searching for his
Personal Legend.

Fatima represents true treasure, and therefore, happiness.
When Santiago meets her, he realizes that love is one of the greatest
treasures in the world, and Fatima is his treasure. He believes at that
moment he could die and see to Fatima's happiness, as well as knowing he is one with the
world.

The characters in the story either provide, by contrast, information
about the character of Santiago, or they are placed in a specific part of the story to move the
plot along, while developing the story's themes.

For example, for the theme
of "perception," several characters are instrumental in conveying this message to the
reader. The old man (Melchizedek) allows Santiago to see the world from a new perspective, as
does the alchemist and even the Englishman. The theme of patience is seen when Santiago is
forced to work for the crystal merchant in order to replace the money that was stolen from him.
Santiago must bide his time, though while he is tempted to turn his back on his Personal
Legend.

The characters are formed and "wielded" in a truly
effective way by this master "storyteller." Each one is of particular importance, and
that is one of the aspects of the novel that is so appealing: there is nothing wasted here, and
all the parts provide the perfect balance of "the whole." Paulo Coelho's characters
are the "life blood" of his novel's central theme, which is about reaching for one's
dreams and never stopping until it is done, regardless of life's
obstacles.

How is the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde important to the theme of duality?

The
relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is integral to the theme of duality. When we
discover that they are the same personthat is, that Dr. Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hydewe
understand the point thatis trying to make about the duality within us.

The
two personas have different appearances and different personalities. They are so different that
they are essential opposites of each other. Their opposite nature develops the idea of having
two opposite sides to oneself.

Hence, although I had now
two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old
Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already
learned to despair.

Dr. Jekyll recognizes Hyde as an evil
being. For the most part, Jekyll hates Hyde.

I, who
sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this
attachment,...

How do the near-death experiences widely discussed in the popular press compare with the experience of dying envisioned by Bierce in "An Occurrence...

Present day near-death experiences, which are growing in incidence as techniques for
resuscitation improve and become globally more widespread, most often involve a bright white
light that shines in the center of one's vision as one's field of vision narrows from peripheral
to tunnel vision. Often a sense of leaving one's body, which is commonly within vision below, is
reported. Another common feature is a feeling of painlessness and cummunality (a gathering of
people, well-known and otherwise) who collect to greet the person having the
experience. 

As a side note, science has begun to identify the areas of the
brain responsible for the out-of-body phenomenon, the light and the narrowing tunnel vision.
Researchers have been able to stimulate these areas with currents from electrodes and replicate
experiences of being removed from one's physical self, of...

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Shelly is a Romantic poet but his beliefs differ from those of other Romantic poets. Comment with examples?

Shelley
followed much in way of Romantic tendencies in his work.  Yet, I also believe that there were
some distinctly different elements in his writing.  Whereas thinkers like Byron and Wordsworth
were animated by the expression of Romanticism in the present, there was often a condition of
the future tense invoked in Shelley's writing.  He is concerned with his place in poetry, how he
will be perceived, and how art has the capacity to last longer than more human endeavors.  For
example, in the poem "Ozymandias," the theme is to explore the immortality of human
deeds and actions.  While the individual will be reduced to dust and ashes, the question that
emerges is what does last.  In "Ode to the West Wind," the probing issue throughout
the poem is how Shelley, as a poet, will gain immortality and how will his work live on even
when he does not.

In George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," does Eliza represent a new type of woman?

The answer to this
question poses a very subjective answer. While some may agree that Eliza does represent the
"new woman," others may disagree.

On one side, Eliza has become a
woman of the times--educated, well-spoken, and dignified. On the other hand, others may believe
that Eliza was much better off as she was--a street-smart woman with quick wit and natural
intelligence. Therefore, the answer would depend...

Refer to the poem "No Men are Foreign,"and say what shall happen if we take up arms against each other.

The essence of
Kirkup's poem is that in attacking others deemed foreign, we end up attacking our own and deny
the basic element that makes us human.The challenge here is that there might be some situations
where taking up arms against an aggressor is needed.To stop Hitler, for example, attacking
"our brothers" was a necessary step.Hitler was not listening to words nor was he
paying attention to much else.In rising up against Hitler, it could be argued that more of
"our brothers" and sisters were saved from death camps.On a more local level, the
situation at Columbine High School might be another moment where "taking up arms" was
a necessary step.Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were approaching students and shooting them based
on random questions such as, "Do you believe in God?"Their rampage was borne out of a
deep seeded anger that could not have been stopped through discussion and empathy.In the end,
arms was needed to stop further aggression and save human life.I think that examples such as
these might lie outside the scope of where the poem is intending to take the reader.Another
alternative might be that we have to admit that we fall short of Kirkup's standard for universal
brotherhood when we take up arms against one another.Yet, it might be a criticism worth taking
if such an action is to prevent the loss of others' lives.

Elie says concentration camps murdered his God.What images show this throughout the chapter? How does this show the concentration camps didnt only...

Thanks for
the question!

In the third chapter of s Holocaust memoir , the author claims
that his first night in the concentration camp murdered my God and murdered my soul€¦ This
shows that Wiesels experience in the extermination camps didnt only rob him of his family and
health; it forever destroyed his faith and innocence.

Before this moment,
fifteen-year-old Wiesel had been keenly interested in the Jewish religious tradition. The memoir
opens with Wiesels fascination with Moishe the Beadle, who the author believed could lead him
to eternity. Wiesel states he had spent years seeking my God as a teenager. This worldview
would soon change with a brutal introduction to the concentration camps.

In
Chapter 3 of Night, the foundation of Wiesels faith begins to crack even before he enters the
gates of the concentration camps. On the train ride to Auschwitz, he begins to burn with anger
against God,

For the first time, I felt anger rising
within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the
Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

As Wiesel is separated from his family and begins to understand the gravity of the
Jewish peoples predicament, he famously states,

Never
shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the
nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall
I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

These lines demonstrate that Wiesels faith and innocence were lost
at Auschwitz.

Wiesels struggle with his belief in God becomes a motif
throughout the remainder of the memoir. However, it is important to point out that Wiesel does
not become an atheist €“ he simply refuses to believe a just, compassionate deity could permit
the atrocities of the Holocaust to occur.

I would also note that Wiesel
wasnt alone as he wrestled with his faith. The struggles of many other Jewish prisoners, such as
Akiba Drummer and Hersch Genud, to reconcile their faith with the daily horrors of life in the
concentration camp shows the devastating impact the Holocaust had on Jewish cultural traditions
and belief-systems.

I hope this helps!

Weve got to have rules and obey them. After all, were not savages. Were English, and the English are best at everything. (42) What...

In
chapter two, the boys are on the top of the mountain whendeclares that they should designate
people to maintain the signal fire and states that there should be more rules. Ralph is
attempting to establish a civil society, andresponds by saying,

I agree with Ralph. Weve got to have rules and obey them. After all, were not savages.
Were English, and the English are best at everything. (Golding, 58)

Jack's comment underscores Golding's primary theme regarding
civilization vs. savagery. Jack is under the impression that the boys are civil because they are
English. Jack was taught that England is superior to other nations and his homeland is primarily
responsible for spreading civilization throughout the world.

As an English
man, Golding challenged this popular, prejudiced view regarding civility and superiority by
illustrating the boys' descent into savagery. As the novel progresses, the boys begin to revert
back to their primitive, savage nature and completely reject civilization. By depicting a group
of English boys as ruthless, barbaric, and savage, Golding is commenting on mankind's inherent
wickedness and suggesting that civilization is simply a thin veneer.

Jack's
comment regarding the English being the best at everything also underscores the theme of power
and authority. Jack is quick to agree with Ralph and believes that he is a superior leader. As
the novel progresses, Jack attempts to usurp power and ends up establishing his own tribe of
savages on the opposite end of the island, where he rules as a brutal
tyrant.

How does Madame Loisel change as a result of her experience in "The Necklace"?

In
"" Madame Loisel's appearance is greatly altered as, in her pride, she refuses to tell
her friend that she has lost the borrowed necklace.  Instead she and her husband repay the
"frightful debt" by M. Loisel's working nights.  For ten years they work; doing all
the housework, Mme. Loisel becomes "heavy, rough, harsh, like one of the poor.  Her hair
untended, her skirts askew, her hands red, her voice shrill...." No longer is there any
trace of the "pretty and charming girl."

However, Madame Loisel has
not changed in her attitude; she is still proud and values material things over spiritual ones. 
For, she does not demonstrate any gratitude to her husband for his sacrifices on her behalf. 
Just as she is ungrateful for his using the money he has saved for a rifle to buy the gown for
the reception in the beginning of the story, she demonstrates no gratitude for his years of
labor and sacrifice.  It is only important to have the gown, or to earn the money to repay their
debt on the diamond necklace.

When Mme. Loisel encounters her former friend
from whom she has borrowed the fateful necklace, she approaches the lady, telling her proudly
how she has replaced the borrowed necklace and paid for it:

Mme. Forestier stopped short. 'You mean to say you bought a diamond necklace to replace
mine?' 

'Yes.You never noticed, then? They were quite alike.'

And she [Mme. Loisel] smiled with proud and simple joy.

To the end Mme. Loisel tragically retains the perverse pride she has in valuing the
wrong things, one of which is "only paste."

Why it is significant that this cat will not leave the narrator of "The Black Cat" alone?

After the
narrator kills the first cat, following gouging out one of its eyes, a second black cat appears,
also with a missing eye. It is huge like the first cat but differs in that has a white mark on
its chest.

The significance of the second black cat not leaving the narrator
alone is that the narrator comes to hate and fear this new cat terribly. The narrator is very
upset when he decides the white mark on it is in the shape of a gallows. Further, this new cat
constantly torments him by reminding him of his guilt over the cat he abused and killed. This
guilt keeps him from abusing this new cat, but his sense of dread grows and grows.

Because the shape of the gallows on the cat's breast seems like a punishment from God
and because the cat is always around, reminding him of his wrongs, the narrator is unable to
rest. Finally, he gets to the point where he can't stand it anymore and tries to kill the cat
with an axe. He misses, hits his wife's hand, and then sinks the axe into her brain.

From the narrator's point of view, if the cat had not constantly been with him,
haunting him, he would not have been tormented to the point of swinging the axe that killed his
wife.

We have to imagine the narrator is more than a little delusional, but
the constant presence of the cat acts as a catalyst to his criminal
behavior.

What similarities can be seen through the human experiences in Orwell's 1984 and the poem "The Lesson of the Moth" by Don Marquis?

In both and "The Lesson of the Moth," there is a desire
to find the beauty in life instead of simply living a long time.

In
1984,decides to deviate from the mandates of Big Brother and pursues an
illegal love affair with . In this, he finds beauty that he didn't know existed, but he becomes
increasingly certain that his thought crimes and crimes of passion will eventually lead to his
own demise. He feelings are similar to the moth in these lines:

it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with
beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while

Winston Smith is also just an ordinary guy. His last name is the
most common in the English language, and he...

How did music reflect the fast paced industrialized world of the 20th Century? How do you think the recording industry changed music?

marbar57

How
did music reflect the fast paced industrialized world of the 20th Century?  

How do you
think the recording industry changed music?

 
Recording studios want to sell what the public will buy.  They are looking for profits and
aren't going to push something that's going to make them lose money.  Sometimes a song is good,
but it doesn't even get off the ground because no studio will record it!  So, whether they
realize it or not, the recording industry is controlling the type of music that everyone listens
to these days! 

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Evil Characters in Orwell's "1984" Which character(s) in 1984 is most evil? Why are his/her evil acts so seductive? What draws us into this...

Good
question!

I think that the most evil character in the novel is actually the
Inner Party- the people who are controlling the Outer Party and the Proles, to some extent,
whereandand everyone else reside. The Inner Party are the people who have constructed this
society, its norms, its rules, its telescreens. The Inner Party is seductive in that it can
reduce the ration of chocolate one day and the very next day make the same reduction appear to
be an increase. The Inner Party can channel sexual energy into pure unadulterated hatred with
pictures on a screen and they can change this violent hatred into pure love and worship of Big
Brother instantaneously. The Inner Party knows what people's thoughts are, they can make you
betray anyone, they always have absolute power and loyalty from every
member of the Outer Party no matter how serious the dissension might seem at any given time from
any number of members. The Inner Party can make a person believe that Oceania has always been at
war with Eurasia, even though a day ago they were at war with Eastasia. The Inner Party can
create people and wipe them from existence.

In "Young Goodman Brown," why do you think Brown goes into the forest on a journey which he knows is sinful?

"" is often said by critics to be, among other themes, a comment on the
strict religious culture of the early Puritans. In such a strict culture, the people/characters
are faced with an irreconcilable opposition between goodness and evil. As such, those adhering
to the radical religious codes and laws would react with outrage at anything remotely evil. This
was theof the Salem Witch Trials. And in the story, Brown himself reacts with similar outrage.
In fact, after witnessing (as a dream or in reality) that evil exists among his pious
townspeople, Brown decides that all is lost....

What are some literary devices in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

's
"" is a delightful story because of the comic ability and clever  of its author,
Washington Irving. The names of the characters in this narrative are certainly humorous: 
Ichabod and Brom Bones, Old Baltus Van Tassel, Hans Van Ripper, etc. The huge daughter of Van
Tassel is humorously referred to as "the peerless daughter."

In
addition, Irving employs figurative language. For instance, in describing Brom Bones, Irving
writes,

This rantipole hero had for some time singled out
the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth
gallantries,[] and though his amorous toyings [metaphor for his
attempts] were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a
bear,[]...

Certain it is, his advances were signals for
rival candidates [metaphor] to retire, who felt no inclination
to cross a lion in his amours...[metaphor]

There are many more metaphors and similes in this comical history.  For example, when
Ichabod is frightened he is "appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which,
like a sheeted spectre, [simile] beset his very
path!"  When Ichabod enters Katrina's house "the conquest of his heart was
complete" [figurative language].

In discussing how "women's hearts
are wooed and won," Irving writes,

It is a great
triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain
possession of the latter, for the man must battle for his fortress [metaphor] at every door and
window.  He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who
keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette, is indeed a hero.

Ichabod Crane would be such a hero as he borrows a horse from a
farmer and mounts it, "issued forth, like a knight-errant in quest of
adventures [simile].  It is here that Irving's satiric humor also takes hold as
Crane, an "unskillful rider," is compared to one of the knights-errant in King
Arthur's tales who rides to the "castle of the Heer Van Tassel."

In
addition to his humor, Washington Irving is renowned for his creative .  His descriptions of the
fields that Crane passes, taking note of the fruit, contain many sensory words:

vast stores of apples; some hanging in oppressive opulence on the
trees;...great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts,
...fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odor of the bee-hive, ...

One paragraph replete with imagery is as follows:

The small birds were taking their farewell banquets.  In the
fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping, and frolicking, from bush to
bush...capricious from the very profusion and variety around them.  There was the honest
cock-robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the
twittering blackbirds flying in sable coulds; and the golden-tipt tail, and its little monteiro
cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light-blue coat and white
underclothes; screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on
good terms with every sonster of the grove.

What's ironic in Graham Greene's short story "The Destructors"?

It would seem
thatexpresses in his story, "" that the greatestof the World War II Blitz on London is
that the children of this era do not find destruction as an aberration. Rather, it seems to them
the norm.  This is why the boys who are lead, significantly, by an architect's son, imitate what
has occurred to buildings throughout their city; for Old Misery's house to be standing seems
somehow wrong to them. Their act of taking the house apart in such an ingenious way is, in
effect, an inverse form of architecture, a deconstruction.

Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the
seriousness of creators--and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination
had seen this house as it had now become.

The underlying
climate of war is present in the descriptions:

• "They
  squatted in the ruins of the room...." Later, "the doors
  were all off,the furniture pillaged and ripped and
  smashed...."
• "...the slow warm drops...
  

What are Santiago's personal flaws in The Alchemist by Coelho; what holds the character back from reaching his goals?

In 's
, there seem to be very few things that hold the character back from
achieving his goals. In terms of personal "flaws," he trusts too easily and he
experiences self-doubt after he is robbed.

When Santiago decides to sell his
sheep, he is too quick to trust someone that he does not know. Part of the difficulty is that
the bartender tries to warn Santiago, but they do not speak the same language. Santiago also
does not spend much time in a community of people, traveling alone except for his sheep. This is
not a personal flaw as I see it, but inexperience. He
is disheartened and momentarily loses faith in himselfand
this might well be seen as a personal flaw that temporarily stops his
progress toward realizing his dream.

It might be considered a personal flaw
that he believes that true wealth is found in things of material value. He does not understand
that things of true value are often intrinsic in nature. However, one of Santiago's positive
traits is his willingness to open his mind to new ideas, and he soon learns that he has been
mistaken.

The other instance where Santiago is harshly tested, which stops
his quest to fulfill his Personal Legend is when he goes to the crystal merchant for a job. Two
important things happen here. First, the merchant tells Santiago that even if he worked for a
year, he would still have to borrow money to travel to Egypt. At this moment everything the boy
has learned and wished for almost ceases to exist.

There
was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep. No sound from the
bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. No hope, no
adventure, no old kings or Personal Legends, no treasure, and no Pyramids. It was as if the
world had fallen silent because the boy's soul had. He sat there€¦wishing he had died, and that
everything would end forever at that moment.

In this we
see Santiago's complete loss of faith. The heroic young man with such
towering aspirations and optimism is crushed in a single moment when an enormous obstacle
appears in his path. This may well indicate a personal flaw: it certainly stops him from moving
forward. In factand this is the second thing that happensSantiago loses faith in his dream, his
Personal Legend. In this instant he resolves to work for the crystal merchant to earn enough
money to buy sheep and return to his old life.

This is exactly
what Melchizedek, the King of Salem, had referred to when he had shared with Santiago the
experience of the miner who had almost given up his Personal Legend after
working so hardand at this point Melchizedek had stepped in to help. However, this
"flaw" in Santiago is understandable. His ability to overcome it takes eleven months.
It seems, as is common in this story, that the universe "conspires" to help the boy
achieve his goal. This time is well-spent in that he has the chance to think about his life, his
goals, his strengths, and his dreams. He is also able to discover the universal language that
leads him to watch for omens, as he tells the crystal merchant. Standing up to the merchant's
suggestion that he return to his sheep, we see how much the boy has grown.

Whatever impediments that stand in Santiago's way because of his "flaws," he
ultimately puts asidehe regains his faith in the world and himself, and is
able to once again move toward his goal. Eventually the boy finds more wealth than he could have
ever imagined.

 

What are some major themes of the story "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

Isolation is another important theme in the story. Roaring Luck itself is some way
removed from civilization, both culturally and geographically. This wild, remote outpost
provides a suitable home for the colorful cast of characters who are among society's
outcasts.

Yet the characters' isolation from so-called respectable society
paradoxically brings them closer together. For the denizens of the old mining camp, it's very
much a case of Roaring Camp against the world. This attitude of close-knit solidarity can be
seen in the case of Cherokee Sal, who herself is isolated on account of being the only woman
about the place. The men of the camp protect her, thus ensuring the safe delivery of her baby.
(Though sadly Sal herself dies in childbirth.) Before she passed away, Cherokee Sal's status as
Roaring Camp's lone female, combined with the power of the ruling patriarchy, meant that she
remained an isolated figure, even in the midst of a largely supportive...

When analyzing linguistic features, what sort of concepts should be looked at?

Douglas Carroll, Ed.D.

Analyzing linguistic features in a text can be a challenging task. For one thing, there
are several linguistic features and intentional, writer-designed elements in a text that are
specific to the style of writing. For example, explanatory or informational texts contain
different linguistic features from narratives, or texts that tell stories. The first step in
analyzing a text is to identify the type of text you want to analyze.

Once
you have identified the type of text, then the author's purpose for writing the material should
be clear. Why is it important to understand the author's purpose? Because the author's purpose,
to a great extent, will determine the linguistic features and conceptual framework of the text.
Using informational or explanatory texts as an example, it would be highly unusual for a writer
to use puns or idioms in a serious informational text. The type of text and the author's purpose
are two frameworks from which to draw out the concepts and the linguistic...

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What is the difference between "character" and "characterization" according to the paragraph below? Character is essential to plot. Without...

Christopher Jerde

According to this paragraph, a character is a person in a story whereasis a device used
to create a character and make him or her seem vivid and real.

A character is
literally just a figure in a story whose actions drive the plot. A character need not be a
personit can be an animal or even an object. All that matters is that the character provides a
reason for a plot to occur.

Characterization usually occurs through dialogue,
action, and what the author tells us outright about a character. These elements make a character
seem like a real person. This keeps the reader invested and interested in the story.

So according to this paragraph, character and characterization are quite interrelated.
One cannot exist without the other. Characterization cannot exist without character, and a
character lacking characterization is nothing but an emotionless puppet the reader will be
unable to care about.

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Identify examples of imperative sentences in paragraph 13 of Emerson's "Education."

An imperative sentence
can do a number of things, but they all amount to one goal: an imperative sentence tells someone
what to do. Most often, they amount to a command or a piece of instruction. Thus, there is not
actually an imperative sentence in the thirteenth paragraph of this essay. That particular
paragraph reads,

Whilst thus the world exists for the
mind; whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by
the shows of the world, which interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousnessit becomes
the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.

The first independent clause, which precedes the semicolon,
describes the world. The second independent clause, which...

Why would some people want to teach at a rural school? Why would some people want to teach at a rural school?

I just
moved to a rural area, and it is absolutely booming. In fact so many people want to teach here
that it's nearly impossible to get a job here. This dictrict pays well, has high test scores,
and decent morale in comparison to some other districts. This district certainly has the latest
and greatest technology, as they just received a grant where all students in grade 3 through 12
will receive a personal laptop.

I think that this area is much different from
a typical rural area because it is on the Gulf Coast and has beaches and a lot of tourism. I
think that has made a difference, but it is certainly an area where many people want to teach. I
myself am hoping for a Homebound teaching position.

Compare and contrast Judean, Roman, and Carthaginian responses to Hellenistic influences. How receptive was each society to Greek cultural influences?

Each of
these societies during the Hellenistic period had complex and nuanced responses to the
cosmopolitan Greek culture. It should also be noted that none of these responses were uniform;
each of these societies consisted of hundreds of thousands of individuals with a wide range of
opinions. Some Romans, for example, embraced Greek culture and others rejected it.

Jewish reactions to Hellenistic culture were varied. Some Jews in Alexandria, for
example, were Hellenic cosmopolitans who barely spoke Hebrew. The Old Testament was famously
translated into Greek (the Septuagint), and many Jewish writers such as Philo and Josephus wrote
in Greek and embraced certain elements of Greek paideia. Other Jews were
opposed to Gentile culture, seeing it as a threat to Jewish identity, and emphasized the
importance of distinctive Jewish practices, such as dietary laws and circumcision.

Among Romans, Horace famously stated,

Captive
Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought the arts...

Describe the four essential elements of structural functionalism.

Structural functionalism is a theoretical
construct associated with early€“ to mid€“twentieth-century British social anthropology. Its
overall emphasis is on the structural elements and associated functions of societies. One
central element is its holistic perspective, the idea that social institutions work together to
constitute the social structure, and society is a well-integrated whole. A second premise is
that each institution has specific functions which are not duplicated in any of the others.
Closely related is the third idea, that those institutions function together to maintain balance
or equilibrium so that the society remains in harmony. The theory emphasizes the importance of
kinship, which establishes the preferred relationships among individuals, as the basis of the
social structure. A fourth element is the emphasis on permanence and the conviction that culture
change is superficial and short-lived and does not substantially affect the underlying
structure. The denial of the lasting effects of change and lack of attention to culture are
often considered the major shortcomings of this theory.

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How are intermodal and multimodal freight network models used to transport goods around the world?

Intermodal and multimodal transportation use
two or more forms of transportation, such as the use of railways and semi-trucks, to carry goods
to a set destination. The difference between intermodal and multimodal transportation is through
how companies handle the transportation process.

In multimodal
transportation, one contractor handles the entire transportation process, from one mode of
transportation to another, until the product has arrived at its destination. For example, in
multimodal transportation, a single contractor may oversee the entire operation of a shipment of
electronics being shipped via airway from Europe to the United States and then via trucking from
the airport to the location(s) where the electronics will be sold in the United
States.

In intermodal transportation, more than one contractor may handle
different legs of the shipping journey. For example, one contractor may exist to handle the
logistics of shipping via railroads, while another contractor may deal solely in overseeing the
logistics of shipping via maritime shipping.

There are pros and cons with
choosing either form of shipping via more than one mode of transportation. With intermodal
shipping, a company can choose experts in each field of transportation to oversee the logistics
of specific shipping processes. However, there are more contractors to coordinate with and
multiple tracking procedures. With multimodal shipping, a company only has to coordinate with
one contractor for the entirety of the shipping process. However, there is less flexibility in
being able to pause the shipment and less ability to find the cheapest option because each leg
of the shipment process is included in the one price of the single
contractor.

Describe the speaker in the poem by Lucille Clifton called "Homage to My Hips." I think she is obese and talks about herself before someone else does.

To
understand the intention of the poem "Homage to My Hips" by , it is important to know
something about the author. Clifton was a celebrated poet, twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her
collection Two-Headed Woman, in which "Homage to My Hips"
appears, focuses positively on the experience of being an African American and a
woman.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, homage is "an
expression of high regard: respect." The word comes from a feudal ceremony in which a
vassal offers his allegiance to his lord. In other words, to offer homage to something means to
acknowledge that you greatly respect it.

We can see, then, that this poem is
not intended to offer readers the voice of a weak, overweight woman but rather a strong woman
who is celebrating her womanhood. The text of the poem acknowledges this.

At
the beginning of the poem, Clifton states that "these hips are big hips," but there is
no indication that they are not shapely and well-proportioned. Many models and...

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Solve for X. e^2x - 3e^x + 2=0

e^2x-3e^x +2
=0

Let us assume that e^x =y.

Now substitute:

==> y^2 -3y +2 =0

Factorize:\

(y-2)(y-1)=0

y1= 2==> y1=e^x1= 2 ==> x1=ln2

y2=1==> y2=e^x2= 1 ==> x2=0

The solution for the equation is
:

x= {0, ln2}

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What are some visions of the future portrayed in Orwell's '1984'?

The proposed
future thatoffers in  is one in which everything, from the atmospheric
backdrop, to the thought processes, language, and human relations of each individual are
manipulated and controlled by a ruling political party. 

shows a future,
dystopian society which is easily dominated, indoctrinated, and manipulated. The motivation
behind the social submission of each individual lies in the spread of a false sentiment of
patriotism from a party that promises to take care of its own. Most of the strength of the party
comes, ironically, from children. This is because children are indoctrinated from a very young
age to comply with the ethos of the Oceania party, which is: 

"WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

Hence, the way in which the government of Big Brother puts these
axioms into practice is through the control of the very basic actions that people conduct in
human life.

The party creates...

What is an example of mystery and suspense in chapter 5 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

One example
of mystery and suspense in chapter 5 concerns what has happened to the horrible creaturehas
created. The last we see of it after Victor has recoiled from it, repelled over how it looks
when alive, is this:

He [] held up the curtain of the bed;
and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered
some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not
hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed
downstairs.

After this encounter, Victor runs into his
friend Clerval. He then has a fit and nearly dies, kept alive only by Clerval's nursing. It is
spring by the time Victor returns to his senses and regains his health. The mystery is: where
has the creature been all these months between November and spring? What has he been doing? The
suspense comes from the reader wondering when he will be encountered again.

We are left with only...

What is Holden's educational background in Catcher in the Rye?

is
only sixteen years old. He has been to three prep schools and has been expelled from all three
of them. Therefore, his educational background is minimal. He must have had very little
high-school-type education, and he shows that he has no self-discipline. At age sixteen he
should have completed a couple of years of high school. But if he was expelled from Whooton
School and at Elkton Hills, and has just been expelled from Pencey as the novel opens, he cannot
have acquired much learning during his high-school-level career to date.

His
conversation with the old teacherin Chapter Two tells almost everything about Holden's
educational background. We realize that he got expelled, not for bad conduct, but for academic
indifference, for flunking out of everything but English classes. He is obviously on a slippery
slope academically speaking. Once a student starts flunking because of nonattendance and
noncompliance, it is nearly impossible for his teachers to turn him...

Who does Dr. King refer to by the epithet "Great American"?

In his I Have a
Dream speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. refers to Abraham Lincoln as the great
American.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Lincoln during
the Civil War in 1863 (100 years, or five score years, before Kings speech in 1963), freed the
slaves in the South. (It was not until the Thirteenth Amendment that slavery would formally be
abolished throughout all of the United States.) But King argues that Lincolns words have not
been fulfilled.

One hundred years later, the Negro still
is not free.

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial, in both the literal and symbolic shadow of Lincoln, King makes many allusions to
Lincolnnot only to the Emancipation Proclamation but also to the Gettysburg Address. Kings
phrase five score years ago recalls Lincolns phrase,

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.

Lincoln wanted to ground his words in history by
connecting his words and actions to the Founding Fathers, who established this nation with the
Declaration of Independence, which emphasizes that all men are created equal. King also makes a
similar connection to history, making a timeline that starts with the Declaration of
Independence in 1776 and continues to the great American, Abraham Lincoln, signing the
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. King then extends the timeline to his present moment, the
fierce urgency of now, August 28, 1963. On that day, King exhorted the crowd and all of his
fellow Americans to keep working toward the dream promised since the very beginning of the
country, a dream that Lincoln and all great Americans work toward, a dream in which every
person, no matter the color of his or her skin, will finally be free.

This will be the day when all of Gods children will be able to sing
with a new meaning, My country, €˜tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountainside, let freedom
ring.

How do Islamic perceptions of heaven and hell differ from those of Christianity?

This is a
difficult question to answer, because theologians are constantly arguing with each other about
views on heaven and hell. So, there is little consensus even among theologians of each religion.
In light of this, I will limit myself to general points.

From a traditional
point of view, both Christianity and Islam believe in heaven and hell. Christianity says that
heaven is a place where there is no sorrow, no pain and blessedness. There will be a new heaven
and a new earth and God will be there and this will...