In the Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, what makes the contrast between the sinners who have accepted God and the unrepentant sinners so...

Edwards'sis
magnificent and moving. It contrasts the sinners who have accepted God and those who are
unrepentant so powerfully that members of Edwards's congregation were asking throughout the
sermon, "What must I do to be saved?" (or something along those lines). 

Edwards's sermon focuses primarily upon the wrath--nay,
the fury--of God. God is so powerful than nothing can stop him; he can
easily cast men into hell; they deserve it; they are already sentenced to hell; the devil is
there waiting for them (the devils are "like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and
expect to have it, but are for the present kept back; if God should withdraw his hand, by which
they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls"); God is under no
obligation to save any man, etc. And finally, the classic line: 

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some
loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you
burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he
is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times so abominable
in his eyes as the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.

God has the power, he is furious with you, and he's dangling you over the fiery pit
like a loathsome insect (and there's nothing you can do on your own to avoid this horrible
fate). Contrast this to what awaits the repentant: They will be in a "happy state,
with their hearts filled with love to him that has loved them and washed them from their sins in
his own blood, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God." They are "feasting"
and "rejoicing and singing for joy of heart." 

Most of the sermon
expounds upon how horrible hell is. He doesn't spend much time talking about how wonderful
heaven is. Threats are more motivating than rewards. 

What is the reason for the plague in Thebes in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

, king of
Thebes, is determined to find out the cause of the plague ravishing the city, little suspecting
the cause is him.

He sends , his brother-in-law, to the oracle at Athens.
Creon informs the court on his return that the plague will lift once the person who murdered the
late King Laius is banished from Thebes. Oedipus angrily declares that justice will be done to
this murderer. When the seerwarns him not to investigate the matter any further, Oedipus pushes
his advice aside. Oedipus is so filled with pride orthat he can't imagine he could possibly be
the wrongdoer.

Unfortunately, the story comes out that Oedipus murdered Laius
on the road from Corinth to Thebes, when Laius and his party would not move aside to let him
pass. Oedipus also learns that Laius is his father and that, his wife, is his mother.
Ironically, Oedipus thought that by leaving Corinth he was beating the prophecy that he would
murder his father and marry his mother. He did not know...

How did materialism affect the arts of the Renaissance period? What is a Renaissance man? Why might a person be called that? What is the...

Being
uncertain of what ¨Humanities of fine Art form"signifies, the answer will be posted and,
hopefully, the student can re-format it.

1.
Materialism - Economic growth and material development occurred during the
Renaissance in the thirteenth century. Such developments as the commercial infrastructure, joint
stock companies, international banking, double-entry bookkeeping, foreign exchange market
system,and a gold standard began during this time.
    Also during the Renaissance,
wealthy patrons supported such artists as Michelangelo and others in Florence and in Rome.
Consequently, these...

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  In the incipit of the novel, why is "them" in italics in the sentence "Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters." What does it mean?

  In Chapter 1 of s , the
  character of Miss Taylor, recently married and now Mrs. Weston, is introduced soon after Emma
  herself. Jane Austen writes:

  Sixteen years had Miss Taylor
  been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters,
  but particularly of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of
  sisters.

  The italicized word them
  refers to Miss Taylor and Emma, contrasting their relationship with that of Miss Taylor and
  Emmas elder sister, Isabella, and also, by implication, with the relationship of Emma and
  Isabella. At the time the novel begins, Isabella has been married for seven years. Since Emma is
  nearly twenty-one, this means that Miss Taylor has been her governess since she was around five
  years old. She was always a kind and indulgent governess to both girls but, since Isabella left
  home seven years ago, when Emma was fourteen, Miss Taylor has become much more than a governess.
  She and Emma have enjoyed a relationship of equal footing and perfect unreserve throughout
  Emmas teenage years. Miss Taylor was therefore closer to her at a crucial time of her life than
  her actual sister.

  This opening, emphasizing Emmas closeness to Miss Taylor,
  makes it clear that Miss Taylors marriage and removal from Hartfield will leave Emma in a state
  of boredom and solitude, which she will attempt to alleviate, setting the stage for her
  friendship with Harriet and her ill-judged matchmaking schemes.

  What does Romeo mean when he says that he loves Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet?

  has been
  spoiling for a fight with , especially since seeing him flirting with , Tybalt's cousin. Tybalt
  dislikes the Montagues intensely and wants to defend Juliet against a lovelorn specimen like
  Romeo. Romeo, having already stormed the Capulet citadel, and having, unbeknownst to Tybalt or
  any other Capulet, married Juliet, very much wants to avoid a quarrel.

  Tybalt
  is now no longer Romeo's enemy, but his cousin. When Romeo says he loves Tybalt, stating "I
  . . . love thee better than thou canst devise [imagine]," he means he loves Tybalt as a
  relative because he has married Juliet. Romeo also says he loves Tybalt to try to convince him
  that he really doesn't want a fight: if you love a person you don't
  want...

  Why did Hawthorne chose Puritan New England as the setting for The Scarlet Letter? Does that location help him get his main message across?

  Puritanism
  is characterized by the advocation of purity, piety, and conservativism.  The Puritans held
  strong religious beliefs, especially in regards to sexuality, which amplifies the depth of the
  sin of adultery thatis charged with committing.  Hawthorne used Puritan New England as the
  setting of...

  
  

  
  
  
  

  In Oedipus Rex, how is the concept expressed in the words of the chorus--"All seeing time discovered you unwillingly"--central to the play?

  Playing an
  integral part in the play, theof , the men of Thebes, are orginally
  supportive, then critical, and finally, sympathethic to . In the line cited above, themakes the
  critical observation that no one can escape fate, for in time Fate will find him because free
  will has its limitations of time and character. Thus, this line is central to the themes of
  Oedipus Rex.

  • Fate is
    innate

  While it is his pride and intelligence that
  assists Oedipus in solving the riddle of the sphinx, ironically, this pride and quick temper,
  his fatal flaws, are also agents of his undoing as his refusal to learn of his past allows his
  destruction since there is enough time for all those with this knowledge to appear and reveal
  the truth. Despite the warnings ofthat he

  ...will never
  tell you what I know.
  Now it is my misery, then, it would be yours. (316-317)

  
  

  Oedipus persists until with time, his past is revealed by
  messengers and the shepherd.

  Certainly, as the secondsays in the
  EXODOS,

  The greatest griefs are those we cause
  ourselves.(1262)

  • Human free will
    has its limits

  Despite the efforts of the parents
  of Oedpius,and Laius, to prevent their son from fulfilling the prophecy about him, by their
  binding and leaving him out for a certain death, Oedipus is rescued by a shepherd. Later,
  Oedipus inadvertently encounters his real father and kills him without realizing the magnitude
  of what he has done. So, while he has been free to kill, Oedipus unconsciously seals his fate as
  he is made king of Thebes and marries his mother after Laius's death and his solving of the
  riddle of the sphinx that curses Thebes.

  Further, despite the efforts of
  Oedipus to learn the truth so that he can quell the plague that torments the citizens of Thebes,
  he cannot change his fate that he is cursed and the cause of the plague himself. When the
  shepherd tells Oedipus why he rescued him as a baby,

  I
  pitied the baby, my king,
  And I thought that this man would take him far
  away
  To his own country. 
                  He saved him--but for what a
  fate!
  For, if you are what this man says you are,
  No man living is more
  wretched than Oedipus. (1113-1117)

  Oedipus realizes that
  he has been victimized by fate and his choices have been limited since his fate has loomed over
  him from his birth. Above all, his ignorance of his past has prevented him from helping his
  subjects and even himself.

Why does the Party permit marriage but discourage love?

Three Newspeak
Dictionary terms are applicable here:

ownlife: individualism and
eccentricity; desire to do something for your own benefit. (i.e. hobbies, ownership of property,
love, or any other Thoughtcrime)

good sex: sex for the purpose of producing
children for the party; opposite of sexcrime

sexcrime: having sex for
enjoyment or in the hope to create a family of your own

So, marriage is
permitted only if it is state sanctioned.  All children produced are for the party.  Love and
sex for pleasure are not condoned because they lead to ownlife.  Ownlife is a thoughtcrime, in
that it is individualistic.  Again, the purpose of the state is to destroy
individualism.

What does Elizabeth Johson mean by "The symbol of God functions"?

The
phrase used by Elizabeth Johnson is both a critique of religion in general and a commentary on
the sociological idea of religion and deity. Her quote "The symbol of God functions"
is intended to say, first, that God is inherently a symbol and nothing more. This lines up with
the ideas of many philosophers from the 1700's and 1800's, that God is simply a human construct,
designed to give us something towards which to strive and to keep us in line morally.

The second point is the identify that that symbol serves a purpose, as was similarly
stated. The symbol andof God serves a purpose in this world, and the way we use that symbol
shapes our worldview, which religion...

Are Confucianism and Daoism religions or philosophies?

The
question of whether Confucianism and Taoism are religions or philosophies is complex and is part
of the ongoing theological discourse in both academic and religious circles.

Traditionally, religion deals with questions of the afterlife, cosmology, and eschatology. These
components are not present in either the Confucian or the Taoist tradition. There is no mention
of what...

In A Wrinkle in Time, how does Charles Wallace know that the robotic inhabitants of Camazotz are not actually robots? Please reply ASAP. Thanks

It sounds like
you are talking about when the Murrys first got to Camazotz. Everyone looked very robotic, and
the children were outside bouncing balls and jumping rope in unison. All of them appeared to be
robotic, but then they noticed one boy who was NOT in sync with the rest. Mothers
appear,...

What odd question does Leah ask Daniel about children seeing Jesus in The Bronze Bow? Does she ask about the girl who almost died, is that the...

Leah asks
Daniel if children come to see Jesus.  When he affirms that they sometimes do, she asks,
"Do they hurt the children...Jesus wouldn't let them hurt the children, would he?" 
Traumatized as a very small child by seeing the crucifixion of her father, Leah has been afraid
to venture out of her house through all the years of her growing up.  Since Thacia has been
coming to visit her, she has had a glimpse of "a whole new world".  Leah has heard
about Jesus, and longs to see him, but she is too afraid.  She is just beginning to...

How is the cat's process of justifying stealing the fish quite similar to the human characteristic of rationalizing?

In order
to provide some guidance for your question, let us begin with a look at how The Oxford
Dictionary defines the verb rationalize: To attempt to explain or justify
ones own or anothers behavior or attitude with logical, plausible, reasons, even if these are
not true or appropriate.

We come across an instance of rationalization in the
first chapter of . The cat who narrates the story tells the reader how he
was taken out of the warm basket he shared with his siblings and dear mother by a
shosei (a student who does minor chores in exchange for room and lodging)
and pitched with violence into a prickly clump of bamboo grass. As a nearly helpless kitten,
the narrator is stunned, confused, and very hungry.

Driven by intense hunger,
he manages to enter the kitchen of a house where he meets an unkind servant woman named O-San.
No sooner had she seen me than she grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and flung me out of
the house. Hunger and cold drives the kitten to return to the kitchen. O-San flings him out
again. The process repeats itself several times, until the master of the house tells the servant
woman that the kitten may stay.

Understandably, the cat bears a grudge
against O-San for her cruelty. He explains how he dealt with this feeling. The other day I
managed at long last to rid myself of my sense of grievance, for I squared accounts by stealing
her dinner of mackerel-pie. Rationalization can be a kind of skewed and self-administered
justice that, at least in the mind of the aggrieved person, sets things right.

Unfortunately, people are not always able to clear up differences or have conversations
about things that have gone wrong between them. When one person feels like he or she is owed
something, rationalization may come into play in order to settle the feeling of a grievance
within oneself. The emotion-influenced reasoning involved in rationalization can give a persons
conscience permission to do something he or she might otherwise consider to be unethical. This
is clearly a human trait that is cleverly portrayed in the anthropomorphized narrator of the
cat.

Is Emma a coming-of-age novel?

The typical
coming-of-age novel tends to focus on a person even younger than MissWoodhouse. She is only
twenty-one, which is certainly plenty youthful, but she is not exactly a child in the world.
Most novels that can be described as having athat comes of age deal with...

Why does Hawthorne begin The Scarlet Letter with a refection about the need for a cemetery and a prison?

Hawthorne
writes:

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of
human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized that among
their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and
another portion as the site of a prison.

 Hawthorne
suggests that whatever Utopia is established, there always will be death, and there always will
be crime, that this is just part of humans living in a...

Discuss the source of the animosity between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The
intense animosity between Blanche and Stanley has a number of sources. For one thing, Blanche's
arrival disrupts the rhythm of Stanley's home life. He's used to being number one, master in his
own house. But now that Blanche has arrived he's no longer the center of Stella's attention, and
he's insanely jealous of Blanche for taking away that attention from him.

Blanche is also a tad too refined for the hulking, brutish Stanley. Although she's not
quite the paragon of Southern refinement and respectability she'd have us believe, her superior
demeanor and ladylike mannerisms drive Stanley up the wall. Stanley's an uncomplicated man;
certainly he hasn't much in the brains department. But what he lacks in formal education, he
makes up for with street smarts, and this allows him to see right through Blanche's delicate
facade.

The two characters are like chalk and cheese. There was never the
remotest chance that they'd ever get along. Though a thoroughly disreputable character,
Blanche...

What is the treatment of faith in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Young Goodman Brown"?

In both
"" and "Good Country People" the main characters, Goodman Brown and the
grandmother, assume that they are good Christians who will attain heavenly reward when they die.
 While Hawthorne examines the Puritanical/Calvinistic tenets that have stringent,
albeit nebulous ones, parameters with which Goodman cannot find redemption, Flannery
O'Connor affords her character the opportunity for grace with which to redeem herself.

In the beginning, though, both Goodman Brown and the grandmother set forth on their
trips convinced that they are righteous people. Confident that he is among the elect, Brown
ventures forth on a journey into the forest primeval, telling his wife Faith that he must go
just one time; for he feels he must confront evil and test himself so that he can return knowing
that he is, indeed, saved. Likewise, the grandmother departs, feeling secure enough in her
Christian faith  to dress up in case her family and she suffer a fatal wreck. When her son
Bailey stops for lunch at The Tower where Red Sammy Butts manages the eatery, she commiserates
sanctimoniously, much like Goodman Brown, with Red Sam who says that "[A] good man is hard
to find." 

As the two narratives continue, the main characters of both
stories find their spiritual confidence challenged. Confronted by the hypocrisies of Deacon
Gookin and Goody Cloyse, who taught him his catechism, Goodman Brown questions the sanctity of
those believed to be among the elect. Then, when he sees his wife Faith, he cries out, but her
pink ribbons merely waft to the ground from the air. In a dremlike state, he loses his
consciousness, but wakes, disillusioned and bereft in his faith. Henceforth, it is a 

A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a
desperate man...from the night of that fearful dream.

For, Goodman believes only in the "misery unutterable" of man and has lost
his faith in believing himself among the elect. Consequently,"his dying hour was
gloom."

Without tangible proofs, there is a rejection of God by Goodman
Brown. Much like him is O'Connor's Misfit, a former gospel singer, who complains that
"Jesus thown everything off balance" because Convicted for no reason without
documentation, the Misfit says he was never shown evidence. Since there is no rational reason
for things, the Misfit has lost his faith, as has Goodman. Even when he shoots the grandmother,
the Misfit finds "no real pleasure in life."

Ironically, however,
the grandmother, once so staunch in her sense of Christian righteousness, and shaken by the
encounter with the criminals who kill her son and family, is redeemed in her darkest hour when
she learns that she, too, is a sinner. For, in her epiphany, there is a "moment of
grace," as the she sees the Misfit's twisted face near hers and, recoginizing her
sinfulness, says softly, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"
reaching for his shoulder. In this violent moment of grace in which she has learned that
she,too, is a sinner, the grandmother is saved spiritually. 

With the
characters of Young Goodman Brown and the Misfit, faith alone is not sufficient to save them,
nor can they simply be chosen by God. Goodman Brown has not lost his faith; instead, he has
learned the terrible significance of the doctrine of predestination. But, in her Catholicism, it
is opportunity for grace that saves the Christian, O'Connor tells the reader. 

 

What is the importance of Manuela in The Elegance of the Hedgehog?

The importance
of Manuela in 's is that she serves as the connection between the reader
and the main character of Renee (Mdme Michel).  It is clear that Renee holds a secret that
intrigues just about everyone from Ozu, to Paloma, to us as the reading audience. Manuela is the
only person who knows that secret. She has been the one person who has faithfully remained by
Renee's side since prior to the death of Renee's husband. After all, she is the typical matron
maid of a lot of families in the building.

The secret, as we know, is that
Renee's sister is violated by an employer of the upper class, and dies after giving birth. This
situation not only shamed the family, but increase and solidified Renee's prejudices against the
upper classes. The class system in France at this time is extremely snobbish and separatist.
Renee belongs to the lower part of the system. She feels as if she cannot win for even trying.
Manuela's support is the factor that eases Renee's inner fears.

Therefore,
Manuela is the link of Renee to her past, her present, and her future.

Why is the grandfather's speech important?

The speech
is also important in relation to W.E.B. DuBois's concept of "double-consciousness"that
is, having one's own sense of identity but also being obligated to behave according to the
expectations of white supremacy. The narrator's grandfather encourages him to placate white
people, to behave according to their expectations. Both the narrator and the grandfather know
that this obsequious behavior is a ruse.

What is ironic about the speech is
that the narrator's grandfather believes that the maintenance of this ruse is a part of
"the good fight." The "fight," in other words, is the will to survive in a
system that is bent on killing black men. Thus, the narrator's grandfather is telling him to
satisfy white expectations, however demeaning, so that he can live.

The
grandfather implies that he has been complicit in a system that has attempted to diminish his
manhood. When he states that he has been "a spy in the enemy's country" ever since he
put down his gun during Reconstruction,...

Interesting Articles For School Magazine

I really like the
magazine called "The Week" that focuses on current events and politics.The articles
are always short and very well written.They scour the country for important or interesting local
news, and do the same tning for the world media.

What are the ethos,logos,and pathos of chapters 1-4 in Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Ethos,
pathos, and logos refer to href="https://louisville.edu/writingcenter/for-students-1/handouts-and-resources/handouts-1/logos-ethos-pathos-kairos">three
modes of persuasion, or persuasive appeals. They deal with the manner in which a
speaker (or author) tries to draw their audience toward their point of view. 

Briefly, ethos appeals to the ethics, or moral standards, of the reader. This is when
speakers suggest reasons why they can be trusted and relied upon.

Ex: That
teacher has never had a student fail their final exams, and he always speaks kindly to
students.

Pathos appeals to the listener's emotions, or feelings:

Ex: Don't be the only student who fails the exam; study, because you
can pass the test!

Logos appeals to the logic of the
listeners:

Ex: Over 50% of consumers agree that this new product is the most
comfortable pillow in our modern world. 

began his speaking career as
fugitive slave, meaning a slave who had run away to the north. His mother was a slave and his
father was an unknown white man. He was raised by his grandparents and was estimated to be 23
years old when he...

Where is a good quote in Lord of the Flies to show how Jack uses violence to gain control and dominance?

In
,is disappointed and surprised that he is not the natural choice for leader
and, instead, the boys, stranded on a deserted island, vote foras chief. It is something of a
consolation that Jack, as "chapter chorister" of a group of some of the boys will be
in charge of, as he calls them, the "hunters." Jack does have a respect for Ralph, at
first, although he does regularly challenge authority. Determined to catch a pig, Jack wants to
camouflage himself which disguise gives him an exhilarated feeling to the point where his
laughter is described as "a bloodthirsty snarling." The reader is told that,"Jack
hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness," (ch 4). The reader is thus forewarned
and is being prepared for what may follow as Jack continues to show signs of what lengths he
will go to in order to exert his authority. 

is afraid of Jack, who bullies
and makes fun of him. In chapter 5, Piggy who is insightful and intelligent tells Ralph that he
is scared of Jack:

If you're scared of someone you hate
him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself that he's all right really, an' then
when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe. I tell you what. He hates you
too, Ralph-"

As the plot unfolds, Piggy's words
prove to be correct and it is Jack's ability to lead by fear that allows him to form his
"tribe." Jack has his tribe chanting "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his
blood!" This is the same chant which has the tribe in such a frenzy that they killwithout
recognizing him.

In chapter 11,Piggy will suffer a similar fate at Jack's
hands but, before this, Jack seizes an opportunity to capture Samenric, shouting angrily at his
tribe to "grab them!" It is obvious that they are operating on Jack's
orders:

The painted group moved roundnervously and
unhandily...."Tie them up!"...Now the group... felt the power in thier hands...Jack
was inspired..."See? They do what I want."

Jack
is proud of his "solid mass of menace," and before long, morestrikes as Piggy is
catapulted through the air. He is dead but Jack can only relish his position as the obvious
"Chief," when he says "See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that!"
 

Simon and Piggy are both dead and Ralph's life is in danger. Ralph,
especially as he realizes that he will be unable to persuade Samenric to help him create an
"outlaw" tribe against Jack, can only hide away now as Jack seems to become more
powerful as he becomes more savage.    

1. Explore the role of situational irony in this short story. Please share three examples.

Situationaloccurs when the unexpected
happens.  Situational can relate to the characters' expectations or the readers'.  In the case
of Vonnegut's "," the situational irony involves the overall irony of the story, a
surprising ending, and some unpredictable twists throughout.

The central
irony of the story is the handicap system used by the government to ensure that all members of
the society are equal.  Instead of allowing everyone to have the same advantages so that each
can reach his or full potential, the constitutional ammendments in this futuristic society has
disadvantaged its members so that no one is better than any one else.  No one is smarter or more
talented than any other person. Equality is usually interpreted as everyone having the same
advantages, not the same disadvantages.

The second irony involves Harrison
Bergeron who because he is the brightest and most talented of all is the most handicapped.  His
gifts make him a prisoner who must wear heavy weights around his neck and an ugly mask to hide
his ugliness.  Instead of allowing such an intelligent person to rise to the top of the society,
Bergeron is punished as if he is a criminal, forced to be weighed down so that he is
"crippled, hobbled, and sickened."

Lastly, when Harrison Bergeron
escapes his handicaps and begins to dance a beautiful dance with a ballerina who has also shed
her handicaps, he is mercilessly shot by Diana Moon Glampers.  Instead of their actions being
applauded and recognized for their grace and passion, they are killed as if they were criminals
committed a horrible crime.  And also ironic, is the fact that Bergeron's parents who are
watching their son's murder on television are so heavily handicapped that they have no idea what
has happened.  All they know is that something sad happened on tv.

 

Is Rappaccini a good botanist? Why or why not?

Yes,
Rappaccini is a good botanist.  He has a flourishing garden that attests to the devotion he has
for his craft and his science.  Professor Pietro Baglioni even admits to Giovanni that
Rappaccini's knowledge and abilities are second to none.  

"The truth is, our worshipful Doctor Rappaccini has as much science as any member
of the faculty. . ."

Baglioni continues to describe
some of the successes that Rappaccini has had as a botanist.  The reader, and Giovanni, learn
that Rappaccini has been able to...

How was alienation displayed in The Crucible?

In , Salem is portrayed as a small community with a high degree of
homogeneity in backgrounds and professed beliefs. This, however, has not made it at all
cohesive. In fact, alienation is one of the keynotes from the very beginning. The Reverend
Parris is alienated from his congregation, most of whom did not choose him and many of whom
regard him as an avaricious and mean-spirited man who never mentions God in his sermons. Parris
has brought Tituba and Abigail into the community. The former is alienated by race and religion,
the latter by her status as a poor relation and her traumatic childhood.

Thomas Putnam and Giles Corey are alienated from the community by their litigious
natures and suspicion of their neighbors. John Proctor is alienated from his wife by his
adultery. The first people to be accused of witchcraft, Goody Osburn and Goody Good, are
alienated as outcasts who do not conform to the moral and social norms of Salem.

In a community where so many people are...

Who else in the novel Things Fall Apart does Enoch resemble?

Enoch is
depicted as a zealous Christian convert who is antagonistic and hostile toward others. Enoch's
father was a snake-priest, and there were rumors that Enoch killed the sacred python. Under Mr.
Brown's leadership, Enoch's energy and excessive zeal are restrained. Achebe describes Enoch by
saying:

His feet were short and broad, and when he stood
or walked his heels came together and his feet opened outwards as if they had quarreled and
meant to go in different directions (144)

Once Mr. Brown
leaves the region, Mr. Smith takes over and encourages his followers with excessive zeal to
express themselves and challenge those living in sin. Enoch takes his instructions to heart and
sparks the great conflict between the white Europeans and the villagers by unmasking an
egwugwu during a ceremony. His action disrupts the entire village, and the
tribe responds by burning the Christian church. Violence erupts, and the Europeans send their
reinforcements to Umuofia.

Enoch's character resembles theof the story: .
Similar to Enoch, Okonkwo is an aggressive, violent man who is passionate and hostile toward
others. Both men are impetuous and act before thinking. Enoch and Okonkwo both commit violent
acts which have devastating consequences.

Enoch unmasking an ancestral spirit
directly leads to conflict between the villagers and the Christian missionaries, and Okonkwo
beheading a messenger influences him to commit suicide. Both characters' violent, rigid
personalities contribute to their fatal mistakes, which negatively affect their village. Through
Enoch and Okonkwo's characters, Achebe illustrates the consequences of intolerance, violence,
and excessive zeal.

In 1984 how has Julia's sash changed in Winston's mind?

Beforeknowsbetter, he has a strong dislike
for her, and that is represented by the sash.  To Winston, the sash represents

theof hocky fields and cold baths and community hikes and general
clean-mindedness.

It represented loyal Party vigor, and
Winston hated the Party.  It was literally an emblem of the Anti-Sex league, which recruited
young women and drove a hatred of sex into their brains, making them loathe it for the rest of
their lives.  As his wife, Katharine was one of those types, Winston particularly detests what
that sash symoblizes.  It seems to indicate that Julia was an avid Party member who was
completely indoctrinated to hate sex, thought, or anything that questioned the Party's god-like
attributes.

However, as Winston coms to realize, Julia does not, in fact,
represent any of those things.  The sash is just a costume that she wears in order to fit the
part of dedicated citizen.  The sash, in fact, is rather ironic; it is anti-sex, anti-rebellion,
anti-individuality, when Julia herself loves sex, rebels all of the time, and is a total
individual in her opinions.  As time goes one, Winston comes to see the sash as part of Julia's
appeal; instead of inducing hatred for her, it "was just tight enough to bring out the
curve of her hips," and he notices with pleasure on their first meeting that she flings the
sash into the trees.  It has changed for him, just as Julia has changed for him.  I hope that
those thoughts helped; good luck!

Please give an example of a thesis statement for an essay about The Scarlet Letter.

One
interesting way to analyze is as an early feminist novel. The novel'sis a
strong woman who shoulders the burdens of the two morally and psychologically weaker men who
will not allow their weaknesses to be exposed to their insular society.

If
this were the approach to the essay, a thesis statement could look like this:

Hawthorne creates an early American feminist novel through theof ;
her strength stands in contrast to the weaknesses of her husband and lover.

In the essay, then, there should be textual evidence to contrast
Hester's independence and strength with Roger Prynne's malicious victimization ofand
Dimmesdale's shame. Scenes that highlight Hester's strength include when she is released from
prison, when she visits , and her willingness to keep 's identity concealed and Dimmesdale's
paternity a secret.

Scenes that highlight the weaknesses of the men include
Chillingworth's...

Identify and explain at least three benefits of using the "contract first" approach to SOA solutions. What are the implementation concerns each of...

Contract
first SOA design is a schematic where the design team recognizes that the most important part of
a service is the interface.The functions and accessibility will be determined by what actions
are necessary to make the interface work properly, and so you can design the best solution to
fit the interface by working from the top to the bottom.

One benefit is that
this approach ensures the interface is the best one possible for the customer.The focus on the
interface creates a more aesthetically pleasing, user-friendly, and marketable interface.This
can cause some trouble, however, if the interface has desired functions that are difficult to
coordinate on the back end.

Another benefit is that the system is invisible
to the customer.By focusing on the interface first, you can make the functions transparent to
the customer, reducing the need for simplistic and navigable databases and
programming.Essentially, the programming just needs to get the job done so that it comes out the
other side functioning well.This can end up with some illogical code or unwieldy
solutions.

A final benefit of this solution is the ability to use multiple
different programs to reach the solution.Since it is transparent to the customer, you can use
whatever systems necessary to make the final product.This can cause communication errors and
issues with resolving multiple databases and programs to ensure they work together
properly.

What does William's depiction of Blanche and Stanley's lives say about desire?

Williams
obviously meant the theme of desire to be prominent in his play since he put the word in the
title. Several ideas about desire are communicated through Blanche and Stanley's
lives.

First, desire leaves a trail of destruction. Blanche's desires caused
her to ruin her reputation in Laurel, MS, and to violate her position of trust as a teacher by
having relations with a minor, one of her students. By the end of the play, Stanley's desires
have plunged Blanche into insanity and have caused a rift between Stella and her sister which,
although not obvious within the time period of the play, will certainly bring continued
heartache to Stella in the future.

Second, Williams makes a gender
distinction with regard to desire. Stanley is someone who follows his desires moment by moment;
thus he gets into brawls, physically abuses Stella, and rapes Blanche. However, at the end of
the play, he retains his position of power in his home and among his friends (although Mitch
shows some...

Describe Daniel's home on the mountain in The Bronze Bow.

In the
beginning of , Daniel, the , lives in the mountain camp of Rosh, who leads
a band of men dedicated to overthrowing Roman rule. Daniel's mountain home is rustic, but there
are things about it that he loves. To reach the camp requires a difficult climb up a rocky
mountainside. The men who live in the camp, including Daniel, sleep in a cave on top of animal
skins. They cook meat over an open fire outside the cave. Daniel has a rough forge outside the
cave in the open air where he performs his blacksmith duties. Food such as raw vegetables and
water in goatskins are kept in the back of the cave to stay cool. Daniel loves the freedom of
living on the mountain, the fresh air, and the wind. More than the physical setting, however, he
loves the lack of responsibility; the distance from the Roman soldiers, who he hates; and the
feeling of knowing he is doing something to free his land of Roman rule. 

Why do you think concept of Volksgemeinschaft was so popular among Germans particularly during the Weimar Republic and the early days of the Third...

During the
Weimar Republic, Germany was badly weakened and was often in chaos.  The country had been
devastated economically and psychologically by the end of WWI and by the Treaty of Versailles. 
The reparations that had to be paid and the taking of much of Germany's coal hurt the economy
badly.  The taking of Germany's territories and the restrictions on its military hurt the
people...

What is the role and significance of Mistress Hibbins in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

Toward the end of the
novel, afterandhave determined to run away together, Hester seesin town.  Mistress Hibbins says
a number of things that make it clear that she understands the relationship between Hester and
Arthur.  When Hester feigns confusion, Mistress Hibbins asks her,

"Dost thou think I have been to the forest so many times, and have yet no skill to
judge who else has been there? . . . I know thee, Hester, for I behold the token.  We may all
see it in the sunshine! and it glows like a red flame in the dark.  Thou wearest it openly, so
there need be no question about that.  But this minister! . . .  When the Black Man sees one of
his own servants, signed and sealed, so shy of owning to the bond as is the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale, he hath a way of ordering matters so that the mark shall be disclosed, in open
daylight, to the eyes of all the world!"

In other
words, Hibbins claims that she knows sin and temptation well enough to know who else has
experienced it.  She says that though Dimmesdale tries to hide his sin, the Devil still knows of
it.  Her words even foreshadow the ending, where Dimmesdale finally confesses (sort of) and then
dies on the scaffold. 

Apparently Mistress Hibbins has known for a long time
that Dimmesdale is Hester's co-sinner, and she has kept this knowledge to herself.  It turns
out, then, that she is more discerning as well as more compassionate than her Puritan peers. 
Those "self-constituted judges," as the narrator described them, wanted Hester branded
or even hanged for her crimes.  This society had little sympathy for her and was ready to treat
her co-sinner the same way.  Rather than "out" him, however, Mistress Hibbins has kept
her knowledge to herself, reserving judgment because she knows that he will be judged by a
higher power (though, for her, it is the Devil), in the way these so-called Christians ought to
have done.  The contrast between the so-called good, God-fearing Puritans and the godless witch
actually makes the Puritans look even more self-righteous, officious, and
merciless.

What are Vera's main characteristics in Saki's "The Open Window"?

Vera
might be compared with adolescent Briony Tallis in the novel Atonement by
Ian McEwan, published in 2001. The novel was made into an excellent motion picture in 2007 and
won many prestigious awards. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and was nominated
for six other Academy Awards, which is quite unusual for a foreign film. The photography,
costuming, and settings are all exceptionally good. Both Vera and Briony appear innocent and
ingenuous, but both have hidden mean streaks. Vera's transgression is comical, but Briony's is
very serious. Both girls tell untrue stories, but Briony's story gets an innocent man sent to
prison.

The 1950's are often depicted as the Happy Days era of modern America. How much of this is true? The 1950's are often depicted as the Happy...

The Happy Days were a
time of prosperity and innocence.Did they really exist?I think that to a certain extent they
did.People still had all of the same problems, but they hid them well.Money makes everything
easier, and there was plenty of it to go around.The future was bright for the baby boomers, the
generation that would shape our country for years to come.]]>

How does Daisy Buchanan represent/symbolize the American Dream, in "The Great Gatsby"?

The idea of
the "American Dream" can be dated back to the book The Epic of
America by James Truslow Adams (1931). The author describes the American Dream
as 

 "that dream of a land in which life should be
better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or
achievement. [...]

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but
a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
stature [...] regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

The character ofreunites every one of those traits. She is the
"better and richer"; she has also attained a "fullest stature", and to make
things even better for her, she was born under "fortuitous circumstances of birth AND
position". 

These traits make her quite a desirable woman, especially to
a man like Jay who visualizes her more as a piece to complete his American dream puzzle than
anything more. 

Like the idea of an American dream,...

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What is the negative aspect depicted in the story "Dusk" by Sakl (H. H. Munro)?

If a
stranger asks us for money on any pretext, our instinct is to say "No." We don't like
to part with our money. But we sometimes tell ourselves that we are being too selfish, too
negative, too cynical, too stingy, too suspicious. In "," the viewpoint character
Norman Gortsby is feeling unsympathetic towards the unfortunate people he sees wandering about
in the twilight.

He had failed in a more subtle ambition,
and for the moment he was heartsore and disilllusioned, and not disiinclined to take a certain
cynical pleasure in observing and labelling his fellow wanderers as they went their ways in the
dark stretches between the lamp-lights.

When the young
man plops down beside him on the park bench, Gortsby is probably anticipating a hard-luck story,
and no doubt he takes "a certain cynical pleasure" in listening. The fact that he
obviously has spent many evenings observing people and "labelling his fellow
wanderers" strongly suggests that he has heard so many hard-luck stories that...

Please describe the main characters in Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck.

The two
primary characters in 's novella  are George and Lennie. The two men are
nearly polar opposites in every way. While Lennie is a giant of a man who is mentally
challenged, George is a small, spare man with a quick mind. George once promised Lennie's
nearest relative, an aunt, that he would take care of Lennie; he has kept his promise, despite
the fact that his life would have been much easier without Lennie. 

is an
amazing worker, but because he has the mental capabilities of a child, he often gets himself
(and by extension George) in trouble. He likes to pet things, like mice, puppies,and soft
material, but he is unintentionally too rough and inadvertently kills things, including a
woman.

, like Lennie, is an itinerant ranch hand who is forced to move more
than he would like because of George. He is the "brains" of the duo and often acts
like he does not like Lennie; however, the truth is that George could dump Lennie any time but
does not.

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go
around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they
get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most
of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.

When Lennie kills Curley's wife, George knows that Lennie could
never survive a trial and prison. Though he does not want to do it, George performs one final
act of kindness for his friend and kills him.

The one thing the two men share
is a dream for something more. Their wants are simple: a small plot of land on which they can
plant a garden and (for Lennie) raise some rabbits. While George, at least, knows that this
dream will probably never happen, he maintains hope for both of them.

These
are the primary characters in the novel, but they meet several others at the ranch where the
story takes place. Some are misfits (like Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife) who connect
themselves to George and Lennie in some way. The ranch owner's son, Curley, acts like he is not
one of them, but he is also a misfit because of his own cowardice. Carlson is oblivious, rough,
and careless about the things that matter. Slim is his opposite, observant and aware,
compassionate but realistic.

This cast of characters converges on a ranch for
a few days, and most of them are not the same for having met. 

How does Lyddie arrange for Rachel to stay?

When Uncle
Judah brings Rachel toat the boarding house, Lyddie has a dilemma. Only factory workers are
allowed to live at the boarding house; no children, except the children of the woman who
operates the home, can live there. Lyddie pleads with Mrs. Bedlow to let Rachel stay for two
weeks, no longer, until Lyddie can make arrangements for her sister to live somewhere else, and
Mrs. Bedlow reluctantly agrees. Of course, Lyddie will have to pay to support
Rachel...

What purpose does the Chorus serve in speaking with Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King?

As in many of
our surviving Greek tragedies, the , generally speaking, represents the viewpoint of someone who
is not a king, queen, prince, princess, or other upper-class person.

In '
the King, theis given the persona of elderly men from Thebes. In their
initial conversation with Oedipus, they advise him to consultabout the murder of Laius (and
Oedipus follows their...

How did art change during the Renaissance?

One key way art changed during the
Renaissance was in a shift to the natural world as a primary subject choice. Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo, and Raphael all flourished during this time period, and their various art forms
reflect this focus. Consider the visual appeal of the following works:

• Michelangelo's David
• Michelangelo's
  The Creation of Adam
• Leonardo da Vinci's
  Vitruvian Man
• Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
  Lisa
• Raphael's La fornarina


• Raphael's Three Graces

These
works represent not simply some of the most well-known artwork of the Renaissance Period but
some of the most renowned artwork of all time. The attention to the details of the human body,
the relationship between man and God, and the beauty inherent in our world are all themes that
were repeated and explored by many artists and in many pieces during this period.

Light and shadow were also explored in artwork of this time period. Artists also became
more mathematically open to perspective in their artwork, and the ability to create depth and
space were improved through the use of parallel lines and a vanishing point. Filippo
Brunelleschi was an architect who brought this sense of depth to the art world of the
Renaissance and helped other artists begin to generate a three-dimensional feel in their
art.

The inspirational qualities of art during the Renaissance reflects
societies who were looking at increasingly hopeful social mobility than in the Middle
Ages.

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What makes a movie entertaining?

The
ability of a film to entertain its audience is the product of a number of factors.

Film, like paintings and novels, is a form of art.  How one responds to that art is
entirely dependent upon the personal tastes of each individual viewing or reading the item in
question.  Not surprisingly, whether a film, novel, or painting is "good" is entirely
a subjective matter.  We each have our own opinion of what we like and dislike.

In the specific case of film, which more than the other forms of art can manipulate the
emotions of the audience, the people making the film strive to accomplish goals consistent with
the underlying story line.  In short, what makes a film entertaining is how it captures the
audience's attention.  If the film is a comedy, it's entertainment value can be measured in
terms of the how much the audience laughs.  If the film is suspenseful, the filmmakers hope that
it captures the attention of the audience and makes it nervous, frightened or angry.  So-called
slasher films respond to the desire on the part of many film-goers for violence and bloodshed,
usually at the expense of people who "had it coming."

What makes a
film entertaining is whether it accomplishes its objective.  If audience members exit the
theater humming or singing a song from a musical, that film probably succeeded at entertaining.
If they exit the theater discussing the identity of a murderer, the "who dunnit"
succeeded in capturing and holding the audience's attention.  If you liked the film, then it was
entertaining.

In Hamlet, why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius in Act III when he has the chance?

You are of course
refering to Act III scene 3. This is whenis stricken by his guilt after seeing The Mousetrap
play especially put on for him by , and goes to pray to God.passes him by on his way to his
mother's chamber and has the perfect opportunity to kill him. Note what he says to himself as he
surveys the praying Claudius:

Now might I do it pat, now
he is praying,

And now I'll do't, and so he goes to Heaven,

And so am I reveng'd: that would be scann'd,

A villain kills my
father, and for that

I his sole son, do this same villain send

To Heaven.

The belief in Elizabethan times was
that if you were killed whilst praying you would go straight to heaven and bypass the fires of
Purgatory, where your sins during life were dealt with. Hamlet therefore chooses not to kill
Claudius because he wants Claudius to suffer for his sins and actions during his life, rather
than merely kill him and give him a ticket straight to heaven. He does not want to kill Claudius
when "he is fit and season'd for his passage" as he says in the same scene. That would
be no revenge whatsoever, especially as his own father's ghost is still languishing in purgatory
as he tells Hamlet.

What does the statement, "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us," mean?

We
have to pay to ride on the railroad. In order to be able to pay, we have to work to earn the
money. So although we seem to be traveling in fast and without effort we do not take into
consideration the amount of labor we had to put in to pay for the train ticket. In Thoreau's
opinion it would be better to walk to wherever we are going, and probably better still not to go
very far at all. His friend Emerson said, "Travel is a fool's paradise." Thoreau
wrote: "I have traveled quite extensively, in Concord." He didn't believe you had to
travel very far to see interesting and beautiful sights....

In chapter 16, how does Holden feel about actors?

In Chapter
Sixteen of ,declares that he hates actors. He finds actors exaggerated and
inauthentic:

They never act like people. They just think
they do.

Holden concedes that good actors do act slightly
like real people, but this depiction of real personalities is only superficial and, therefore,
not "fun to watch." If actors are really good, Holden adds, then the audience can
usually detect that they are aware of their talent, and this self-awareness then spoils the
effectiveness of their performances. As an example of his point about the phoniness of actors,
Holden mentions Sir Laurence Olivier, a famous British actor who played in major films and in
the 1948 production of Hamlet. Holden feels that in playing Hamlet,
Olivier portrays a man who is "like a general" rather than a "sad, screwed-up
type guy."

Then, in a rather revealing statement, Holden mentions that
he must read the play himself that he views because when he attends a play, he keeps
"worrying about whether [the actor is] going to do something phony every minute." It
becomes apparent, therefore, that Holden again perceives another facet of life through his own
faltering psychological lens. 

Comment on the expression ''dreadful deliverance'' in Robinson Crusoe.

This
suitably ambiguous expression adequately sums up how Crusoe feels right after his shipwreck. On
the one hand, he has been delivered from what at one point seemed like near-certain death. But
on the other, it's a dreadful deliverance in that he finds himself marooned on a desert island,
far from the civilization whose benefits he'd always taken for granted.

Note
also how Crusoe, in using this expression, shifts responsibility for his predicament onto
Providence. Yet he's only in this mess because of his own recklessness and greed. Had he not
embarked upon such a risky slave-trading expedition then he wouldn't have ended up being
stranded on a desert island in the first place.

At this stage, Crusoe is
quite happy to blame his misfortunes on Providence, but not as yet willing to acknowledge that
that...

What is gregors role in the family? How is that role about to change? Why does he have so much responsiblity? In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis,...

Up
until his metamorphosis, Gregor was the sole breadwinner for the family, which consisted of his
parents, his sister, and himself. Gregor's father was both demanding and demeaning, expecting
Gregor to pay off his debts and support the family, even though it is traditionally the father's
role to be the provider. Gregor went along, submitting to the humiliation and sacrificing his
own desires to please his overbearing father.

It make the transformation into
an enormous bug an interesting choice. Insects have exoskeletons, meaning they are restricted to
certain and limited types of movement. Exoskeletons also mean there is no spine. Gregor
certainly shows no evidence of a "spine" in our modern vernacular. He doesn't stand up
to his father, nor does he refuse to pay his father's debts. He simply crawls along, doing what
it expected of him even though he is miserable doing it.

Gregor's movements
are also limited, both figuratively and literally. Since Gregor submits to the expectations of
his father, he limits himself in career choice, lodging, and social circle. He lives at home
without friends or hobbies. Once his metamorphosis occurs, he cannot easily move even to leave
his bed. He is ultimately paralyzed by the exoskeleton he created first in his mind, and then in
his own actuality.

How might an organization with a good strategic idea within the area of Information Technologies be limited in its ability to implement that idea if...

As anyone
with a computer knows, the technology inside that computer became obsolete the second it was
purchased.  Information technologies become dated extremely quickly, and transformations or
revolutions in the development of information technologies exceeds anything we have witnessed
before.  The internal combustion engine was invented hundreds of years ago and, while it has
certainly evolved greatly over time, it is still the basic mechanical structure that propels the
automobiles billions of people rely on every day.  In comparison, the evolution of computing
technologies has occurred at the speed of light, with computing power typically doubling in a
matter of months, and bulky desktop computers being replaced by laptops and laptops by tablets. 
The U.S. Government used to measure computing power in terms of millions of theoretical
operations per second.  Today, millions is an inadequate measure, so teraflops is being
increasingly used to reflect the astronomical increase in computing power just over the past 20
years.

The purpose of this background is to illuminate the difficulties
facing any company seeking to update its information technologies without also being willing to
replace its existing architecture.  There are limits to how much existing hardware and software
packages can be upgraded; at some point, the entire system has to be replaced.  Over time, it
becomes disproportionately costly to try to maintain aging €“ and, again, in IT terms, aging
might mean one or two years €“ equipment as the industry supporting it moves on to better
things.  Replacement parts cease to exist, and technicians become focused on the next generation
of systems to come along.  Additionally, compatibility with clients and among branches of an
organization begins to degrade as systems are replaced piecemeal and technologies continue to
advance.  In short, a strategic plan for improving an organizations information technologies
that fails to take into account the probable requirement to invest in an entirely new
architecture may be doomed to fail.  Technologies simply advance too quickly in this area, and
older systems are not always compatible with newer technologies.

Why is Emily's dying during childbirth not totally unexpected in Our Town?

Reaching the play's
final act, the audience/reader should understand that this is a play about the basic cycle of
life. Pronouncements to this end are made at several points by the Stage...

How is George Orwell's text Animal Farm about the betrayal of truth and trust?

's novel
spotlights the pigs' betrayal of 's ideas of equality and freedom and how
the pigs instead decide to emulate the behaviors they previously despised in Mr. Jones. The pigs
end up oppressing the other farm animals, just as they had all been oppressed under the farmer.
Animal Farm is a story about how easy it is for hierarchical patterns to
emerge in resistance movements that claim to be fighting against such
hierarchies.

The pigs betray the idea of truth because they take control of
what constitutes truth and falsehood, denying the other animals the ability to believe their own
experiences, which is perhaps the most complete form of degradationeven worse than what they
experienced under Mr. Jones.

Explain the following quote from Blake's "The Tyger." Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make-thee?

The central question
that lies behind this famous poem concerns the origins of evil. The tiger in this poem is seen
as a pure expression of malevolence and power in its strength and majesty. However, when read
with its companion poem, entitled "The Lamb," the speaker is greatly troubled that
both are part of God's created natural order and yet both are so incredibly different in terms
of form and power. Thus the speaker finds himself profoundly disconcerted about the presentation
of the tiger and has to ask himself, again and again, "What immortal hand or eye / Dare
frame they fearful symmetry?"

The quot you have highlighted represents
two more rhetorical questions that discuss the origins of the tiger and, by extension, of evil
in the world. The speaker finds it difficult to understand how God could have "smiled"
to see the tiger, because it is such a powerful and ferocious creature. He has to ask whether
the tiger originates from the same God that made the lamb, as the two creatures are so
incredibly different.

How did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany?

The
Germans were forced to accept guilt for starting the war. This was highly debatable in light of
events in the summer of 1914, but it served as justification for the harsh punishments assessed
in the rest of the Treaty of Versailles. These included:

• Germany
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Hyperbole In To Kill A Mockingbird

In ,uses ato
describe Miss Caroline. "She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop." Scout uses
another simile to describe/compare learning to read with learning to tie her shoes and learning
to button her union suit. 

Now that I was compelled to
think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my
union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. 

Miss Caroline uses what could be described aswhen she stops Scout's
story about how her name was once "Bullfinch." Miss Caroline says, "Let's not let
our imaginations run away with us dear." Imaginations, although part of a person's
consciousness, do not physically run as a person would. So this loosely functions as
personification. 

When some of the children get out their buckets for lunch,
Lee/Scout usesto describe the reflections from the buckets on the ceiling. "Molasses
buckets appeared from nowhere, and the ceiling danced with metallic light." 

's description of an entailment is another simile. Jem says an entailment is "as a
condition of having your tail in a crack." Since this comparison uses "as," it is
common to call it a simile. 

When Scout is whipped by Miss Caroline, she
notes that a "storm of laughter" broke out in the classroom. Following this, when Miss
Caroline threatens the rest of the class, the class "exploded again" and became
"cold sober" when Miss Blount came in.is ain which a thing, idea, or action is
referred to by a term usually denoting another thing, idea, or action. The metaphors are
describing laughter as a "storm" and as an explosion. The class, when it becomes
quiet, is described as "cold sober" which describes their silence and attentive
demeanor in terms usually used to describe levels of intoxication. 

Ais an
exaggeration. These can be subtle or dramatic or somewhere in between. At lunch, when Scout
says, "Molasses buckets appeared from nowhere," this is an exaggeration, hyperbole. It
was also an example of hyperbole when Miss Caroline scolds Scout, telling her that she's
"started off on the wrong foot in every way." Scout was merely trying to help Miss
Caroline understand Maycomb families; and Scout also had no idea (in Miss Caroline's eyes or
anyone's) that learning to read from your parents was wrong. It was clearly an exaggeration on
Miss Caroline's part to say Scout was wrong in every way; Miss Caroline was nervous and tried to
get control of her class by making Scout an example. 

What are the main religions in Dubai?

Dubai is a
large, modern city in the UAE (United Arab Emirates). The primary religion is Islam. According
to the 2005 census, approximately 76% of the population of the UAE is Muslim, which is the term
for a person who follows the religion of Islam.

Muhammad was the founder of
Islam. He lived in two towns, Medina and Mecca, in the central Saudi Arabian desert on the Saudi
Arabian peninsula. This peninsula is now predominated by the large country of Saudi Arabia. The
UAE is located on that same peninsula. In the late 500s AD, after Muhammad is said to have
received his revelations from Angel Gabriel, he set about to establish and spread his new faith,
which was dominated by the belief that there was one God. During his time, many of the people
living in this desert were polytheistic, which means that they believed in many gods. They lived
in tribes that often warred over land, animal, and water rights. In order to spread the faith
and the peace that he envisioned the faith would bring, Muhammad often had to battle these
tribes. But over time, he gained many followers who were drawn to his message, and he conquered
territory after territory. By the time of his death in 632, he had conquered almost the entire
Saudi Arabian peninsula, which includes the territory that is now the UAE. These lands also
adopted the faith of Islam.

Subsequent Muslim dynasties continued the
expansion into Northern Africa and even into the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Spain and
Portugal).

The next dominant religion in Dubai is Christianity, which
accounts for 13% of the population of the UAE according to the 2005
census.

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, what is the relationship between Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield like? The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and...

Enfield and Utterson are distant relations
who share a similarity of temperament, suggesting that their temperament are a long established
family trait owned by many predecessors. This is important to the story since Utterson is set up
as the counterpoint to Hyde: They have similar traits of coldness, but Utterson's eyes are
sparked by "something eminently human" that may not show itself in his conversation
but does however show itself in his actions; quite the contrast to Hyde.

Enfield and Utterson, two dark brooding men, the former (Enfield) endowed with a social
inclination and a Hyde-like love of adventure that the latter (Utterson) lacks, are inseparable
and utterly devoted to each other, proving in double exposure that dark brooding natures do not
exclude the human qualities of love, compassion, loyalty, mercy and unity of soul just by virtue
of their character traits and natures. This relationship of loyalty and deep human virtues
dramatizes the inhumanity of Mr. Hyde and underscores the falsity of Dr. Jekyll's
experiments.

Enfield and Utterson are companions and confidants who dearly
enjoy each other's company, and cling tenaciously to their Sunday walks. Stevenson uses
Enfield's social nature to acquaint Utterson with the existence and nature of Hyde and the
reader with a outsider's perception of Mr. Hyde.

What were some of the hardships the initial colonists endured?

The greatest
hardship the earliest colonists faced was fear. They were outnumbered in a new land. Upon first
arrival, the first colonists had to find sources of food and water. In the case of the Pilgrims,
they found Native American caches of food. In the case of Jamestown, they found water, but they
located their colony in a tidal swamp that was a breeding ground for mosquitoes. As a result,
many of the original colonists of Jamestown died of mosquito-borne diseases, while many of the
earliest settlers of Plymouth died from malnutrition and exposure to the elements.

There was also the hardship of ensuring proper governance. Jamestown looked to John
Smith in order to build a stockade and plant valuable tobacco. The Pilgrims created the
Mayflower Compact, the first attempt at self-governance in the Americas. Without proper
governance, there would be no way to ensure law and order, and no colony would survive the
stresses of being in a new land without some sort of security.

There was also
worry about the Native Americans in the area. The Native Americans initially outnumbered all of
the colonists. There were fears of these people. Initially the colonists got along and traded
with the Native Americans; it was not until the colonies sought to expand and take more land
that conflict occurred.

How is "The Devil and Tom Walker" a good example of American romanticism?

A love of
the paranormal or supernatural is also a key element in Romanticism. 

In
"" there are several events which qualify as unexplainable beyond a shadow of a doubt
or strange and eery.  One of these is the legend of the hidden pirate treasure and the other is
the old Indian fort nearby where Tom and his wife live.  Both of these factors hold the people's
interest and intrigue their imaginations based on the lure of treasure and the strange and
unfamiliar Indian ceremonies and burial grounds.

Another is the
disappearance of his wife who was never seen or heard...

How do I talk about how Hemingway's use of third person point of view in "Hills Like White Elephants" impacts readers? I need some help staying on...

Hemingway
uses third-person omniscient point-of-view in this story, but the key point is that his narrator
only offers externals. He never gets inside the characters' heads to tell you what they are
thinking. He instead relies on the dialogue and outwards cues to convey emotion and situation.
Hemingway doesn't even use the kind of explanatory cues common to most writers, such as
"she sighed" or "he said with exasperation." It's good to imagine the
narrator as simply a video camera recording a scene. There is no voice over, no explanation to
give us context, just the raw footage placing us in the scene and letting us overhear what the
two characters are saying to each other. This makes the point of view seem detached and
objective.

This minimalist approach to narration means the reader has to be
more attentive to pick up on what is going on. Hemingway uses repetition and the response of one
character to what the other has to say to convey the insincerity, tension, and acrimony in
this...

What entities are marketed in marketing?

A quicker
question to answer would have been "what entities are NOT marketed in marketing?" The
simple answer to your question is that just about anything can be marketed.

Think of the myriad advertisements that you see every dayeach advertising a different
product or service. Each of these advertisements is the result of a marketing campaign and
strategy. From fast-moving consumer goods and clothing to luxury cars, electronics and
everything in between, every type of product gets marketed.

The same can be
applied to services offered. Think of all the promotions you have seen for beauty...

How much autonomy could slaves attain and what did slave owners do to control them ?

Autonomy
is control over one's life. Slaves in the American South, by definition, had very little
autonomy. However, conditions varied by place and by owner. Frederick Douglass, for example,
records how much more relative freedom he had in Baltimore city than on a rural plantation on
Maryland's Eastern Shore. Being sent to run errands in the city gave the young Douglass the
opportunity to stop, talk, and visit with people, and even to have others help him with his
reading. On the plantation, he would not have had that autonomy. He argued that, in general,
slaves were treated better in urban...

What are the salient features of a post-industrial society?

One of
the most important features of a post-industrial society is the relative weakness of labor
unions. During the era of industrialization, most union members worked in manufacturing, so when
manufacturing began to decline labor unions inevitably lost members and with it, the relatively
important political and economic clout they'd previously enjoyed.

Many of the
jobs that have replaced the old industries, such as part-time roles in the service sector, are
especially resistant to union organization. Employee turnover in this sector is relatively high,
making it more difficult for labor unions to gain a foothold in the workplace. Such a rapidly
shifting workforce is inevitably much harder to organize than the old industrial plants with
their secure, well-paid jobs.

The end result of all this is that labor unions
are considerably weaker than they once were. This has allowed businesses and their supporters in
state legislatures to sponsor a series of so-called "right to work" laws that have
made it harder for labor unions to organize workers and insist on compulsory union membership as
a condition of employment contracts.

At the end of Lord of the Flies, what three boys do not make it off the island?

The ending
of 's is dramatic and emotional. The growing suspense of the chapters
leading up to this point lead the reader to wonder ifwill survive the primitive rage of the
other boys; after all, the deaths ofandat the hands of the youngsters do not bode well for
Ralph.

At the end of the novel, the forest is on fire, an apt symbol for the
destructiveness of the boys and their inability to hold on to their civilized, rational selves.
The fire is intended to smoke Ralph out from his hiding place in the safety of the forest, and
thanks to Sam and Eric, Ralph knows that onceand his followers find him, he will be
killed.

Ralph runs for his life through the forest, armed with the stake that
held the pig's head as a weapon, and when he finds himself on the beach, he falls to the ground.
Ralph feels death is imminent, but when he looks up, he sees a grown-up. A naval captain, whose
ship noticed the smoke from the fire Jack set, is standing on the beach. Ralph weeps, in relief
for his safety and in sorrow for the many losses he and the others have sustained.

The ending of the novel is deeply ironic. Ralph's idea to keep a fire going to attract
the attention of potential rescuers never works, but Jack's fire, one meant to cause harm, does
bring safety. The naval captain, a symbol of the violent war against which the novel takes
place, ironically comments on the lack of control he observes in the boys.

Finally, though rescue should be cause for celebration, the boys are too stunned by the
presence of an adult, a reminder of their old lives, to feel anything but confusion, signaling
that most of them have descended too far into their primitive selves to understand what rescue
actually means.

Why is it significant that the town is named Greenwood and that the other briefcase comes from Shad Whitmore's shop?

The
significance of these names is open to interpretation.

Both are mentioned in
thescene in the novel's first chapter, which is sometimes extracted from
and read as a short story. Greenwood is the town that the narrator comes from. The MC announces
him as "the smartest boy we've got out there in Greenwood." The most obvious reference
is to the bustling black community of Tulsa called Greenwood, nicknamed "Black Wall
Street," which had been destroyed by white people. Ellison was a native of Oklahoma City,
so he would have known about the community and its destruction in riots. The Battle...

How can I improve my writing skills?

You can
learn to be a good writer in the same way that you can learn too play the piano. That of course
means practicing every day. There is no substitute for writing and writing and more writing,
along with revising and revising and re-writing.

I liked the movie
A River Runs Through It. The younghad to spend every morning writing a
composition. Then he would give his manuscript to his father at noontime and would be free to go
trout fishing all afternoon. Meanwhile his father would mark it up and give it back to him for
revision the next morning, and this would continue until the father was satisfied and would give
his son a new assignment. This movie was based on the autobiography of a man who was accepted by
some of the best universities in the country and became a famous professor.

I
once read some successful writer who said that if you write a million words you will become a
good writer. (I think two million words might be better.) It doesn't much matter what you write
about. The important thing is to keep writing regularly. Eventually you will find your own style
and your own voice. Writing will become as natural as talking. There isn't any other way to
become a good writer. Writing a certain word-quota every day may seem like a chore at first, but
then it becomes a pleasure, and finally it becomes a necessity. That's when you know you are a
writer.

Elucidate the theme and critical overview of "Our Casuarina Tree."

This poem celebrates a
particular tree in India that seems to symbolise not only the speaker's childhood, but also
comes to stand for the former friends and family members who have died and passed on. The tree
is described as being so immense and powerful that even a thick creeper, which would strangle
any other tree, only appears to adorn the tree as though it were a scarf. The importance of this
tree however is summed up in the following...

What were the two goals of the Declaration of Independence?

The first
goal of the Declaration of Independence was to outline the legitimate complaints of the
colonists against Parliament. Keep in mind that many in the colonies still saw a compromise as
possible between the colonies and Britain. Several people were worried that independence would
lead to unintended consequences such as a domestic tyranny or foreign takeover. Jefferson
outlined the abuses against Parliament and even stated that the people had a right to abolish
the government when it did not protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Jefferson
even states that the decision to overthrow the government should not be taken lightly. By doing
this he makes the colonists appear quite reasonable. Jefferson hoped that this document might
push some colonists into supporting the independence movement.

The second
goal was to state what the ideals of the new government would be if and when the colonists
succeeded in gaining their independence. It is easy to forget that the colonists did not know
how the revolution would end. Jefferson stated the lofty goals that government existed by
consent of the governed and that the people should have the rights of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. This was an ideal government, as in the colonies at the time everyone did
not enjoy these rights as slavery still existed.

What is Scrooge's attitude towards having a responsibility to the poor in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

When two
gentlemen stop at Scrooge's offices early in Stave I of , one of them asks
Scrooge to make "some slight provision" for the "poor and destitute, who suffer
greatly at the present time." He adds there are thousands who are in need of just the
common comforts.

Scrooge gruffly asks the man if there are not any prisons,
or workhouses, and he is told that there are. Then Scrooge inquires if the Treadmill and the
Poor Law are yet in effect. Now, the two gentlemen begin to understand the innuendos of Scrooge,
so they tell him that those places do not furnish Christian cheer. They wish to buy some
meat...

How do I view "Young Goodman Brown" from a Freudian point?

Freudian
analysis is based on a number of assumptions. For example, Freud believed that the conscious
mind often seeks to suppress the unconscious; thus, repressed emotions percolate in the realm of
the unconscious, intentionally ignored.

Through psychoanalytic literary
criticism, we can see this at play in some works. Let's take "," for instance. In this
story, what the author never intended (the repressed elements of malevolence, profane desire,
and irreverent behavior in human nature) is in conflict with what the author intended (the moral
nature of the devout).

In fact, there is a fascination with the macabre in
the story. Additionally, the dream-likecasts doubt in our minds, as it does in Goodman Brown's.
Like him, we are led to ask: are the pious really joined in harmonious empathy with the
wicked?

But, irreverently consorting with these grave,
reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins,
there were men of...

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Argue for one side of this point: we should have limits on our freedom.

We
already do have limits on our freedoms in respect of the laws that we are expected to obey.
Legally at least, I don't have the freedom to steal something that belongs to someone else, and
nor do I have the freedom to hit someone if I feel aggrieved. In this sense, legal restrictions
on our freedoms are absolutely necessary for a civil, ordered society that we can all live in
peacefully.

Another restriction on our freedom that is legally enshrined in
most democratic societies is the restriction of our freedom of speech. At first...

Presentation: https://youtu.be/alJaltUmrGo 7. The presentations tell you that only Liberia and Ethiopia remain independent. What happens to...

This
response will address the main question submitted, which has to do with explaining why only
Liberia and Ethiopia existed as large independent states during Age of Imperialism in Africa.
Liberia's independence through this period had to do with its origins. It was founded by
expatriated free men of color from the United States. This was part of the efforts of the
American Colonization Society, which argued for emancipation and deportation of enslaved people.
As thousands of American expatriates moved to the region, they established, with the support of
the American and British governments, a nation-state, which the United States reluctantly
recognized in the 1860s. In the years that followed, the United States essentially guaranteed,
at least in principle, Liberian independence amid the "Scramble for Africa" among
European powers. For this reason, Liberia remained independent throughout the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.

The nation-state of Ethiopia, on the other hand, was
not of colonial origins. Rather, a long power struggle between rival factions in that country
ended with efforts to create a centralized nation-state in response to the threat of European
incursion and colonialism. That said, the kingdom, which had ancient origins, was under threat
of colonization by Italy during much of the period. The European nation, desperate to stake a
claim alongside France, Great Britain, and Germany as a colonial power, declared a protectorate
over Ethiopia and attempted to establish military and political control over the kingdom in the
late nineteenth century. But in 1896, Ethiopian forces under Menelik II, the emperor of a
newly-unified nation-state, inflicted a humiliating defeat on Italian forces at the Battle of
Adowa. This Ethiopian victory preserved the independence of Ethiopia until 1935, when Benito
Mussolini, hoping to avenge this old affront to Italian national pride, ordered the invasion of
the kingdom.

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What are some contemporary issues relating to commerce and art?

The relation of
Art and Commodity has always through history been a complicated one.  Shakespeares plays, for
instance, now considered Art, were purely enterprises to make money, and their popular appeal
often goes against their poetry and aesthetic appeal.  Many scholars have difficulty reconciling
these two impulses.  In Renaissance times and on into the 19th century, Art was sponsored by
rich patrons whose artistic desires were actually simply class/status needs; even such famous
art as Mona Lisa and the Sistine Chapel were actually commodity paid for not by aesthetes
but by social elites.  In modern times (20th and 21st century), visual art (painting, sculpture,
photography, even architecture) is seen as an investment.  The modern ability to reproduce
visual art has brought out the problem of whether we see art in a reproduction of an original,
or only in the one-of-a-kind original.  For example, expensive jewelry is often reproduced in
paste for public wear, to avoid the possibility of theft.  Performance art (dance, theatre,
song) is also capturable with modern technology, so the value of liveness is brought into
question.  Finally a modern problem is the geometric proliferation of entertainment, a form of
art deliberately aimed at markets of profit.  Is there anywhere
an artist who does not concern himself/herself with making a living with
art?

Boo Radley Quotes

First
quote:

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to
themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. (9)

Second quote:    

   "Do you think they're
true, all those things they say about B--Mr. Arthur?"

    "What
things?"

    I told her.

    "That is
three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford," said Miss Maudie grimly.
"Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him
looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make
room for him? That shut her up a while." (45)

Third
quote:

Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People
said he existed, butand I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was
down, and peeped in windows. When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had
breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Once the town
was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were
found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in
Barker's Edd, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial
suspicions. (9)

When does Jocasta begin to suspect the truth about her marriage? Discuss her reaction, and its culmination in her suicide.

's last
speech before her life starts to unravel is this:

"Fear?  Why should man fear?  His life is governed by the opreations of chance. 
Nothing can be clearly foreseen.  The best way to live is by hit and miss, as best you can. 
Don't be afraid that you may marry your mother.  Many a man before you, in dreams, has shared
his mother's bed.  But to live at ease one must attach no importance to such
things."

Ironically, after dismissing the
predictions once given by the Oracle, her next line (except for one) is where we know Jocasta
has probably put two and two together and is now simply hoping to keep others from knowing what
she knows. 

The Corinthianhas arrived; and, at ' prodding, tells the story of
Oedipus' arrival at the home of Polybus and Merope--those he thought were his parents.  He and
Jocasta had sent for the shephard who could corroborate this story--and who had obviously headed
back to the hills once Oedipus arrived in town so he would not have to tell
it--and Oedipus asks Jocasta if she remembers if the shepherd from the story is the same one
they sent for.  Her reply is telling, as she obviously tries to dissuade him from pursuing the
matter:

"Why ask who he means?  Don't pay any
attention to him.  Don't even think about what he had said--it makes no sense."

This is clearly the first time Jocasta's words speak of
her horrific realization.  When her husband/son refuses to let it drop, Jocasta knows she will
not be able to live with the shame and horror.  Her road to suicide begins here, though it winds
back to the very beginning when she and Laius tried to thwart the predictions of the
Oracles. 

Where is Lorraine's father in Paul Zindel's The Pigman?

Lorraine's father is not in the story. He
died six years before the events of the story take place. Lorraine doesn't even remember
anything about her father, because Lorraine's mother legally separated from him right around the
time of Lorraine's birth. The reason for the legal separation is because Lorraine's father had
an extra-marital affair during the pregnancy and contracted a venereal disease of some kind.
Lorraine's mother found out about all of this and filed for legal separation. The discovery was
shocking to everybody involved, because Lorraine's parents had been childhood sweethearts. This
information can be found in chapter 10, and it explains a lot about her mother's general hatred
of men.

It must have been awful for her when she found out
about him. She never talks about him nowjust how awful men are in general. Shes what the
psychologists call fixated on the subject.

Lorraine's
mother simply hasn't ever gotten over the awful end to her marriage. She is incapable of viewing
men differently than she views her former husband.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pro forma balance sheet for strategic planning purposes and explain the advantages and...

To
talk about pro foma balance sheets in the context of
strategic planning, it is first necessary to understand strategic
planning. Note that strategic planning examines a company's present
to measure it against its past so to plan for its future while a pro
forma balance sheet projects a company's accounting into the future based on
hypothetical "as if" assumptions about the company's activity.

Strategic planning is planning a company does to move to a
new set of objectives and goals; to renew or update its vision for itself and its values for its
conduct in the marketplace and in the world; to evaluate performance compared to expectation as
established in the original company business plan.

Pro forma balance sheets
provide information about future asset management and about projected financial soundness,
especially by highlighting debt-to-equity ratios. Pro forma balance sheets include current and
long-term assets as well as current and long-term liabilities.

An
advantage to using a pro forma balance sheet during strategic
planning relates to strategic planning identification of strengths, weakness, threats,
opportunities (through SWOT analysis) while identifying areas of needed or desired development.
A pro forma will provide for strategic planners the projected financial position to inform on
what expected resources might be used to meet development interests and needs. A
disadvantage to a pro forma balance sheet is that all information
is "best estimate" of "as if" data: estimations based on accounting as if
the company continues at status quo. It is "a projection showing a
business's financial statements after the completion of a planned transaction" or after
strategic planning is implemented (FinancePractitioner.com).

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Analyze the interactions between Winston and the old man in the pub, Syme, and Mr. Charrington. How do Winston's interactions with these individuals...

's hope
has been to find some key to the past through the proles. The proles are those least affected by
the Revolution and the domination by the Party of the populace, if only because the Party
considers them "sub-human." This fact is supremely ironic because the Party, just like
the actual Communists of 's time, claimed that they had created a "worker's state," a
society in which everyone was equal or would become so once the transitional period from
capitalism to socialism had been completed.

Winston is frustrated because
the old man he speaks to cannot give him any clear information about the way life was in the
past. The man apparently has a mild form of dementia and can only remember little scraps of
details which do not provide the proof Winston desires that things were better for the average
person before the Revolution took place. If anything, the encounter makes his wish to rebel even
stronger, to find some other means of confirming his own assumption that,...

in the boy in the striped pajamas by Jhon Boynce what did Bruno like about his house?

Before
moving to Out-With, Bruno enjoys a simple life in his family's magnificent home. Bruno mentions
that his home in Berlin is enormous and has four floors, including a basement, where the
family's cook and servants live. The large home is also ornate with massive oak doors and an
impressive banister, which runs from the very top floor to the ground floor. Bruno mentions that
the banister is his favorite thing about the Berlin house and comments on the extensive amount
of nooks and crannies that he loves to explore. Bruno continually slides down the banister and
pretends to be an explorer as he looks for undiscovered places to hide.

He
also enjoys looking out of the small slanted window on the fourth floor, which overlooks the
city. Bruno also is fascinated by the mystery surrounding his father's office, which he is not
allowed to enter without permission. In addition to the home's massive size, ornate features,
and extraordinary banister, Bruno also likes the fact that his grandparents live nearby.
Unfortunately, Bruno is forced to move to Out-With when his father receives a promotion from the
Fury. Bruno's new home in Out-With is not as impressive or comfortable as his home in Berlin and
he initially cannot stop complaining about their new residence. However, Bruno ends up meeting a
Jewish boy named Shmuel and gradually adapts to his new environment.

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What were the differences between the Democrats and the Whigs?

To some
extent, the Whigs were the natural successors of the Federalist Party of John Adams, second
President of the United States. They favored commerce and manufacture over agriculture, believed
in a more centralized system of government, and harbored a deep distrust of unchecked democracy,
which they saw as potentially leading to tyranny.

Whigs tended to represent
the political and economic interests of the social elite, especially those on the East coast who
saw themselves as the natural leaders of society. But they also established a firm base of
support among the emerging middle-class, who were becoming an increasingly important segment of
society both politically and economically.

All of these characteristics set
the Whigs apart from the Democrats. Under Andrew Jackson, the Democrats became the champions of
a form of agrarian populism, which sought to protect the little guy and his interests from
bankers and plutocrats, who were frequently demonized in Democratic propaganda as using their
wealth and power to crush small farmers and tradesmen.

Democrats were also
staunch supporters of states' rights, which went down well with their Southern base, who were
constantly worried about threats to slavery posed by Northern abolitionists. Although the Whigs'
position on slavery was always rather ambiguous, there were certainly enough Whigs, especially
in New England, to make the Democrats decidedly nervous about their
intentions.