How did the First, Second, and Third Estates impact the French Revolution?

In some
ways, this question points toward one of the common misunderstandings of the French Revolution.
There's a tendency among many to cast the Third Estate as the sole driving force of the French
Revolution. The historical reality is significantly more complicated than that picture would
attest.

Before getting to that point, however, I think you should keep in
mind that the Estates System, taken as a whole, represents a social structure. That was the
foundation of the Ancien R©gime, and ultimately, that structure was what the Revolution
dismantled: an entire system of privilege and particularities was swept aside by a more modern
political understanding based in equality under the law. From this perspective alone, the
Estates are deeply important to the French Revolution.

Ultimately, I think
there is a tendency to underestimate the liberalism which existed within the Second Estate,
viewing it (along with the First Estate) as a collection of reactionaries, opposed to the
Third...

I need help comparing and contrasting "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy with "Richard Cory" by Edward Arlington Robinson€”in a 1000-page poetry...

To write
an essay comparing and contrasting "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy and "" by ,
I would begin with a thesis statement in my introductory paragraph. Concentrate on the
commonality of the poemssocietal expectations vs. the truth of what exists beneath one's
appearance. Also include something about what makes the themes so
different: one is a woman's title="anthem">anthem against unfair social stereotyping regarding the
perfect woman, while the other refers to the perceptions of people regarding the perfect
man.

To structure my paper, in the body I would present a short summary of
"Barbie Doll" to support the stance that the almost impossibly perfect woman depicted
by this glamorous toy sets an unfair example of what women should aspire to look and act like. I
would include things that most "baby boomers" would recognize as normal for little
girls in the late '50s and 1960s:

...presented dolls that
did pee-pee

and miniature GE stoves and irons

and wee
lipsticks the...

What are the similarities and difference between the exodus story and the seder meal?

The Exodus
story is one of the Biblical stories, and the foundational myth of Israel. It tells how the
Israelites were slaves in Egypt and by the grace of God (Yahweh) were led to freedom by
Moses.

The Seder meal of Passover is focused around Exodus and involves a
retelling and discussion of the story of the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt. Passover,
the Seder, and the Exodus story are foundational to Jewish identity, as it is believed that
without God's intervention, Jewish people would still be slaves in Egypt.

The
Seder meal involves several foods symbolic to the Exodus story. They are:

• Beitzah,  a hard boiled egg,...
  

Is terror at Tinker Creek a chapter in Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or a stand alone essay?

Terror
at Tinker Creek is not a name of a chapter in . However, it does aptly
describe the readers feeling once he or she reaches the books via negativa
section, which begins with the chapter titled Fecundity. In this chapter,expresses her growing
discomfort and disgust with the immense scale of the earths living creatures. Particularly from
a human perspective, this cycle of life and death seems wasteful and pointless. Here, Dillard
begins to grapple with the thought that the universe, rather than being a place of wonder and
awe, is an uncaring cycle of reproduction and death. 

After a long search, I
also do not believe that Terror at Tinker Creek is a stand-alone essay. Dillard herself does
not mention it in her websites Essays section, Stories section, or Odd Bits section, and
it does not appear in any search engines. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else found this
essay, and I wonder if perhaps it is a scholarly essay written about Dillard's Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek. However, if that is the case, I am still unable to find a
satisfactory result for it. 

For a full list of chapter titles, as well as
short summaries, I suggest reviewing the link at the bottom of my
answer.

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How does Capote's use of stream of consciousness impact In Cold Blood?

Capote's
use of stream of consciousness style is most evident in his descriptions of Perry and Dick (the
murderers).  One of the major appeals of at the time it was published and
one of the reasons it has endured is because of Capote's choice and ability to...

What is the atmosphere of the story?

The
prevailingis one of oppressive absurdity. This is a world in which citizens are forced to wear
handicaps as part of an attempt by the government to make everyone equal. The physically fit,
like Harrison, are lumbered with weights, whereas those who are intelligent, like Harrison's
father, have their thought processes disrupted by headphones which emit loud blasts of noise at
irregular intervals.

As a work of , however, "" also has a
decidedly humorous edge to its overwhelming air of absurdity. One cannot help but be amused by
the references to dancers who can't dance and musicians who are tone-deaf. At the same time, one
cannot ignore the oppressive atmosphere, in which all semblance of individuality is ground down
and crushed by the brutal regime of Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper-General. It is this
invocation of several different moods that makes "Harrison Bergeron" such an effective
work.

In A Raisin in the Sun, what is Ruth's relationship with the other family members?

Overall,
s relations with the other family members are very good.is the family matriarch and the mother
of , but she and Ruth generally get along as a mother and daughter would. Lena may empathize
with her because she also married into the family. During the period the play considers, Ruth
and Walter are going through a rocky patch because of the pressure over the insurance money.
Ruth has decided that she will stay out of the conflict, but Walter tries to draw her into it.
Finally she speaks with Lena but stops short of campaigning for Walters projected use of the
money because she does not fully support it.

The burden of her
responsibilities has taken a toll on Ruth. She takes care of her own son and seems to do much of
the cooking and housework. But it is the constant worry over money and the living in shared
circumstances because she and Walter cannot afford their own place that really wear her
down.describes her as once having been

a pretty girl, even
exceptionally so, but now it is apparent that life has been little that she expected, and
disappointment has already begun to hang in her face.

As
mother to , she must push and pull at him, worried that their neighborhood will drag him down.
She also has the challenge of living with two additional adults in addition to his father, all
of whose authority may contradict her own views of childrearing.

Ruth sees
thatwill have choices that were not available to her. While she supports the younger womans
freedom to choose her own path, she also thinks her sister-in-law in spoiled and selfish. She
calls Bennie fresh and tells her mother that this child aint sweet on nobody but
herself.

The conflicts with Walter relate both to his personal ambitions,
which Ruth thinks are misguided, and his treatment of her. Rather than treat her as an equal
partner, Walter withdraws from her to go out with his friends. At one point she exclaims, let
him go on out and drink himself to death! He makes me sick to my stomach!

After the money situation is settled, Ruth becomes more elated than anyone else. She
buys curtains for the new house, and she and Walter go to the movies; when they come out, she
tells Beneatha, they are still holding hands. Clearly it is not the money itself but the
prospect of transforming their lives that has renewed Ruths hope, as well as changing her mind
to carry her baby to term.

Explain the term "stream of consciousness" with reference to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Stream
of consciousness is a radical style perfected by modernist writers likeand Virginia Woolf. In
general, stream of consciousness is a style of writing that mimics the way real people think.
For the most part, people don't think in tidy, grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs;
instead, our thoughts flow together in run-on sentences and fragments, tumbling all over the
place like a "stream" of our own "consciousness." Writers have approached
the representation of this fact in many different ways. Joyce, for instance, painstakingly
wrote, edited, and rewrote his prose so that it had the appearance of...

A 2 m piece of wire is cut into 2 pieces. One piece is bent to form a square and the other piece is bent to form an equilateral triangle. Where...

The length
of the wire is 2 m. It is cut into two pieces one of which is used to create a square and the
other to create an equilateral triangle.

Let the length of the wire used to
create the square be L. The length of the wire used to  create the equilateral triangle is 2 -
L.

The area of the...

What are three things that show Jem and Scout see the need for change in To Kill a Mockingbird's Maycomb County?

JURIES. sees a definite need for a change in juries after
witnessing the travesty of justice perpetrated by the jury of the Tom Robinson trial. He wonders
if "we oughta do away with juries," and he recognizes that the absence of women--such
as Miss Maudie--is also a miscarriage of justice. "Soon's I get grown--"

MAYCOMB'S SOCIAL ORDER.  Jem is pretty accurate when he
describes the town's social pecking order:

1. "... the ordinary
   kind like us and the neighbors..."
2. "... the kind like the...
   

   
   

The author repeatedly employs irony to make the point of how absurd this type of governmental interference is. In this society, one must be average...

's
celebrated short story "" is considered a dystopian scienceshort story that is
satirical in nature. In "Harrison Bergeron," Vonnegut creates a dystopian American
society set in the year 2081, where the Constitution has been amended to ensure complete
uniformity and equality in every facet of life. In order to create a completely uniform, mundane
populace, the oppressive United States government forces talented individuals to wear
cumbersome, debilitating handicaps that severely limit their capabilities.

Vonnegut's short story is considered a work of dystopian science fiction because the
story is set in the future, incorporates technological innovations, and involves great suffering
in the imagined state. Vonnegut's work is also considered abecause it humorously takes aim at
governments and politicians by taking egalitarianism to incredible extremes. Vonnegut's biting
satire is depicted through his exaggeration of complete equality and the ludicrous laws, which
force readers to question certain government policies and analyze the concept of
equality.

Explain the evolution of Hinduism from animism to henotheism.

Hinduism
is comprised of many different belief systems spanning a large and diverse geographical region.
Early Hinduism grew out of the animistic practices of specific clan-groups. Later, as feudalism
and monarchy rose to replace the tight-knit clan based system,...

How did Theodore Roosevelts New Nationalism differ from Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom, and how were they similar?

In 1912,
Theodore Roosevelts Progressive party platform of New Nationalism demanded the establishment of
a strong, regulatory welfare state capable of preventing corporate abuses and guaranteeing the
economic and social rights of individuals, including women. The platform contained demands for
an eight hour workday, a living wage for workers, national labor legislation, and national
healthcare. In many ways, it prefigured the later New Deal policies.

During
the same election campaign season of 1912, Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom slogan rejected the
Progressive party idea of big...

Is Journey to the Center of the Earth fiction or nonfiction?

These
days, since bookshelves and television series are absolutely filled with amazing, real accounts
of explorations of the earth, the oceans, and space, it's a good idea to pause for a moment
before reading 's novel  to ask yourself if this is the account of a real,
historical exploration or if it's a fanciful work of . After all, the story starts out with the
skeptical characters investigating what they assume is a hoax, just like the guys do on that
show MythBusters, which is all real (as far as we know).

However, the novel is fiction: it's not a real story, but a made-up
one.

As you start reading, even though the narrator, Axel,
describes things in vivid scientific detail as if he's writing for a science journal, you can
tell that impossible things start happening. And it's really fun to read about them! Let's list
some:

1. While ninety miles underground, the explorers find a sea surrounded
by a forest full of ancient plants.

2. They find monsters. (Although, you
might prefer to call them animals resembling monsters!)

3. They
"ride" a burst of volcanic lava and arrive safe and sound back on the surface of the
earth!

All these events and more make the novel a fantastic adventure, but
it's definitely not one that could actually happen.

Best Science Fiction for the Curriculum What do classroom teachers feel are the best science fiction works to introduce in a literature class, and why?

I love classic
scifi like Asimov and Harry Harrison.  I have used Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in class,
where students tried to find potential problems with those laws and come up with a fourth law
that could solve them.  Harry Harrison (author of "Make Room, Make Room!", which
became the film Soylent Green) is rarely read nowadays, but his stuff all features jaunty heroes
whose hearts of gold are hidden by their gambling or theiving ways. Most of them are pretty
short, and they're lots of fun.

My all-time favorite author is Marion Zimmer
Bradley, who is mostly known for her bestsellerThe Mists of Avalon but was incredibly prolific
and wrote an astonishing number of books. I particularly like her Darkover series, set in a
world where the top technology is psi power, not machine/computer technology.  It does a great
job of using the alternative world to examine conventions in our own world and history,
particularly those having to do with interpersonal communication, gender...

A fence 6 feet tall runs parallel to a tall building at a distance of 6 feet from the building. What is the length of the shortest ladder that will...

Let x be the
distance from where the ladder hits the ground to the fence, and let h be the height on the wall
where the ladder hits the wall, and let l be the length of the ladder.

Then
using the pythagorean theorem we get :

`l^2=(x+6)^2+h^2`

Also, the triangles formed by the wall and the fence are similar, so:

`h/(6+x)=6/x` so `h=36/x+6`

Then

The major cause for the boom in the economy of the 1990s was the growth of internet technologies. Respond to the statement and include facts in your...

It was known as the
dot com bubble.Technology created an instantaneous market.That made the market even more
susceptible to emotions, and the emotions of more people.People didn't want to be left out, and
started flooding more and more money into the markets.Thus the boom.When it all turned out to be
smoke, the bust.]]>

What was the US economy like during the 1990s?

The American
economy in the 1990s was changing and growing at a rapid pace, particularly later in the decade.
 This pace would turn out to be unsustainable as it was built on something of a
"bubble."  After a recession in the early part of the decade (that helped get
President Clinton elected), the economy took off as the internet fueled a boom.  The changing
technology in this and other sectors combined with rapid globalization and the rise of the
service sector to drive economic growth.  

Of course, this growth was not
shared by all.  Manufacturing jobs continued to be lost both to foreign competition and to
technological changes.  However, these losses were outweighed by jobs in new sectors of the
economy.  These factors made the late 1990s a very optimistic time in the US
economy.

How did the North and South each finance the Civil War?

During the Civil
War, the North and the South used a number of methods to fund the cost of fighting. In the
North, for example, the government used taxation to raise 21
percent of the necessary funds. This came from a combination of income tax and taxes levied on
other products and services, like legal documents, liquor and advertising. While the South also
used taxation, it was not as lucrative as in the North, creating only 6 percent of the money
needed. (See the first reference link provided).

The South also raised the
necessary funds by printing paper money. In fact, this funded about
60 percent of the cost of war, though printing so much money caused a huge increase in
inflation. It also borrowed money from the wealthiest people in
society, as did the North. (See the second reference link).

Finally, both
sides sold war bonds as a means of raising extra money. This tactic
was more successful in the North, where wealthy families were encouraged to support the war
effort by purchasing bonds, and they did so in their millions. In the South, early bonds sold
well but they declined in popularity due to rising rates of inflation (because people realised
that their return would not be high). (See the third reference link).

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Iago's Motives

Iago's
motives are to seek revenge onand Cassio both. Iago has these motives because the Moor has
overlooked him for the lieutenant position and on Cassio because he was awarded the title. Iago
also...

What are the sources of ideas in concept generation for a design? the sources of ideas in concept generation for a design

The
brainstorming stage of concept generation allows all inputs; the most fruitful have proven to be
consumer comments and serendipityrandom but alert pairings and combinings of previously existing
ideas.  An example would be the Olympic torch design for the Canadian Winter 200 Olympics.  By
looking at the design of skis and snowboards, and by observing the mountain terrain, then
incorporating new nanotechnologies, and factoring in the unique weather conditions of Canada
(cold and wind), the designers built a unique torch.  At the front end of product design is
usually a check-off list of required features; these features can range from weight limitations
(one of the torchs requirements was that it be light), to uniqueness (immediate visual
recognition), to cost, to relation to other products already in the line.  The designer must, on
the other hand, resist as many restrictions as possible, avoiding the trap of previous
acceptance and really giving conception free rein, before restrictions of practicality,
normalcy, safe-ness, etc. intrude on the design process.  In business there are many
gatekeepers before a design goes from idea to realization: bean-counters, unimaginative
superior managers, engineers afraid of innovation, conservative marketers, etc. etc., all of
whom will take a less creative view than the designers.  One of the designers most valuable
qualities is the ability to take inspiration from all sources at the inception stage, including
his own imagination, and then find a design that answers all the consumers and business
needs.

What is the significance of the title in a work of literature and how do we define the author's purpose?

It is a
fact that many writers add a title to their work AFTER they have finished it. This can have
advantages and disadvantages.

Knowing the title of the proposed piece of
literature BEFORE he or she starts can help keep the author focused and prevent rambling
sentences. Adding a title at the end can ensure that the work is aptly named and the name
reflects the content. Either way, a lot of consideration is required before naming a literature
piece.

Despite the cliche that a person must not judge a book by its cover, a
reader when faced with shelves of books will often scan those shelves for a title that appeals
to him making the title the difference between a book at least being considered and being
rejected outright.

The author's purpose also needs consideration when
choosing a title because the purpose will be lost if the author cannot attract the target
audience for which his book was intended. The author's intention is the main emphasis in
revealing his purpose.

Titles can also encourage readers and

• uninspiring topics can be energized and readers may tackle the subject
  because they are drawn to the title.
• an author who
  shows creativity in the choice of a title also encourages readers to research other books of the
  same author
• ensuring that the message is conveyed
  starts with the title.
• a good title can set the mood from the onset and
  establishes a theme.

It is essential therefore to give great
consideration to the title of any piece of writing.

 

 

What effect does humour have in the play Pygmalion by GB Shaw?

In at least
some instances, the humor in  is directed against the supercilious
Professor Higgins and his social class that are so impressed with appearances and place so much
value upon how one speaks, dresses, and acts when they are so easily deceived by Eliza as she
performs correctly. Also, a couple of instances of humor illustrate that although Eliza is
well-trained to appear as if from the upper class, she does not know how to think and to react
as a gentlewoman, so she commits some rather humorous faux pas. So,
Professor Higgins can not really take a human being and change her into a quite different
human being by creating a new speech for her.

When, for instance, Professor
Higgins visits his mother and asks permission to introduce Eliza, she makes an impression
"of remarkable distinction" and when ask if it will rain, answers with pedantic
correctness of pronunciation and :

LIZA The shallow
depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There
are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.

However, the conversation takes an ironic turn as Freddy thinks she
is parodying those that consider the weather of more importance than it deserves when she
replies in a similar manner a second time; he laughs, telling Liza she is "awfully
funny!"

When Mrs. Eynsford Hill remarks that she does not want the
weather to turn cold; she adds that there is much influenza around and spreads through
families. 

LIZA My aunt died of influenza: so they
said.
MRS HILL [clicks her tongue
sympathetically]!!!
LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But
it's my belief they done the old woman in
MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled]
Done her in?
LIZA Y-e-e-e-e-s, Lord love you!...They all thought she was dead; but my
father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off
the spoon....What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of
influenza?

In addition to the humor of Liza's ingenuous
failure of falling out of her pretentious role, Shaw satirizes the upper class of the Victorian
Age as Freddy delights in her language, believing it the latest "small talk" and Clara
Hill leaves after repeating "Such bloody nonsense!" [Bloody means
By our Lady and constitutes swearing] because Liza says it and the party believes she is using
the latest form of fashionable talk.

What is the relationship between Bruno, Gretel, father and mother in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

The most
evident answer is that the relationship between all four characters is that they are a family,
the central family, in Boyne's novel.  They are all linked by blood and the relationship they
share.  As a family of four, they are the center of the narrative.  On a more symbolic, the
German family might be seen to represent the different aspects of German society during the
Holocaust.  Father is a believer in Nazism, representing the significant part of German society
that embraced Hitler's ideology and what it meant.  Gretel is one who becomes infatuated with
the power that accompanies Nazism, not fully aware of its implications.  The mother of the
family struggles between the support of her husband and the need to shelter her family from what
she knows is wrong.  Bruno could come to represent the portion of German society that stood up
to the Nazis.  While not significant in mass numbers, there were Germans, good Germans, who
recognized what Hitler was doing as wrong and stood up, paying the ultimate sacrifice, because
of it.  I think that this might be where the relationship between the family members can come to
represent more than the central characters in the Boyne novel.

In The Color of Water by James McBride, what is especially unique about James' experience growing up?

writes
his autobiography in , and in it he chronicles his search for his mother's
heritage. James is one of twelve children, and his father dies before James is born; he later
has a stepfather who died. All of this makes Jame's upbringing a little different than most;
however, it is his mother and her unique background which makes James's growing-up years so
distinctive. 

First of all, James's mother is obviously a white woman, but
she lives as though she is a black woman. This creates a sense of...

What kind of girl did Nnaemeka's father want him to marry? Why?

Nnaemeka's father wants him to marry a girl
from the same tribe as him. More specifically, he wants his son to marry "the eldest
daughter of [their] neighbor." This girl is, he says, "a proper Christian" and
has received, at the home of a pastor, "all the training a wife could need." This girl
also "reads her Bible very fluently." Nnaemeka's father hopes that they can
"begin negotiations" for the marriage to take place as soon as possible.

Nnaemeka remembers this girl from his childhood. He remembers her as "an Amazon of
a girl who used to beat up all the boys, himself included." It doesn't seem to matter to
Nnaemeka's father that Nnaemeka doesn't love this girl. In fact, he seems surprised that his son
should think that this matters. When Nnaemeka tells his father that he doesn't love the girl,
his father responds with, "Why should you?" He tells his son that what one should look
for in a wife is not love, but "a good character and a Christian
background."

When Nnaemeka tells his father that the girl he wants to
marry is a teacher, his father tells him that "no Christian woman should teach." This
confirms that Nnaemeka's father wants him to marry a woman who conforms to very traditional,
very conservative ideas of what a good woman and wife should be. He wants for his son a wife who
will be subservient, reserved, and well-versed in Christian morality.

What are some examples of naturalism in the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

In texts which rely on
a naturalist perspective, characters are often the pawns of natural forces beyond their own
control. Peyton Farquhar is certainly in a dire and dramatic situation, but the forces that
control it are not natural; they are, rather, social. He, a Southern secessionist, has been
captured and sentenced to death for attempting to burn a railroad bridge (we assume, based on
the information in Part II) held by the Union army during the American Civil War. As he falls to
his death, at the end of the noose, Farquhar feels that time is slowing down; as he listens to
the "ticking of his watch," he perceives that "The intervals of silence grew
progressively longer; the delays became maddening." Some instinctive or fundamental action
of his brainsomething that is natural to humans, then, that he cannot control (here is the
naturalism) is affecting his perception of reality. During this incredibly brief space of time,
a second or two perhaps, Farquhar actually imagines...

Why is efficiency no longer necessary?

I think
thatconstructs Big Brother in such a manner that even if the government was inefficient, who
would complain?  Who would listen?  Who would launch a campaign to change it?  Who would care? 
It is in this setting that Orwell suggests the real terror of centralized government without any
recourse or limitation.  This helps to enhance his thematic...

What were treatments for yellow fever in 1793?

The yellow
fever epidemic in Philadelphia moved quickly and killed thousands of people. As mentioned in the
previous answer, Dr. Benjamin Rush tried a number of herbal treatments to help patients. He
continued to use various unorthodox treatments in order to try and assist the many people
suffering from the epidemic. He apparently found success by using what were even then considered
medieval-era treatments: bloodletting and leeches. These methods are used to remove infected
blood and, although considered archaic for hundreds of years, contemporary hospitals have begun
using leeches in limited situations, and bloodletting is finding renewed interest as a holistic
treatment. Dr. Rush also administered a mercury compound known as calomel as a way of purging
the bowels, which was also helpful to victims of yellow fever.

Records show
that Rush did manage to "decrease mortality" with his controversial methods. Rush at
one point contracted yellow fever himself, and after directing his assistants to administer his
prescribed treatments, he survived and was later praised for the work he did to address the
epidemic.

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What is the importance of Christian relics?

In
Christianity, relics are objects which have a special spiritual essence about them. Many relics
are bodies or body-parts of saints or things which once belonged to important religious figures
like Jesus of Nazareth, the Apostles, or the Saints. Some Christian denominations do not believe
in relics and reject them as idolatry, but the Catholic traditions (for the most part) believe
that looking upon or touching a relic allows a person to connect with God in a physical
way. 

Any object might become a relic, but a significant number of relics are
body parts from Saints or other religious persons. So what makes something like the finger of
St. Thomas so special? It is believed that certain people lived in a way so Godly, or were
specially endowed by God, that they carried a certain essence of "Godliness" or
holiness with them. This essence is believed to be throughout the body of the person, even after
death, so many bodies or parts of Saints have become important relics. The essence of holiness
that I described can "rub off" onto certain objects, so items like the Shroud of Turin
or a piece of clothing owned by St. Benedict are considered to have been endowed with the same
essence. 

In some traditions, people may take some of the essence with them
by touching one of their own belongings to a relic. The item itself does not become a relic but
is considered to be endowed with the same essence. Think of it like using one candle to light
others-- the flame passes on but does not diminish. 

Relics can serve as a
focal point for prayer or as inspiration for Christians to also try to become so in tune with
God that their bodies become holy, even after death. Beyond that, relics draw thousands of
religious tourists to sites like the Notre Dame and the Scala Sancta every
year!

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What are the similarities and differences in the regimes of Mr. Jones and Napoleon in Animal Farm?

The
similarities: Both regimes are totalitarian states, one run by a Monarchy, one by a
Dictatorship.  They repress the population by a lack of education, brutal work conditions and
lack of food.  This keeps the working animals looking for survival more than anything else.  At
the end, when the animals cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the Mr. Jones, it is
meant to represent that the other animals just traded one harsh reality for another, and their
lives are no different

The differences: While Mr. Jones represents a top down
type of repression, within place, the animals feel, at the beginning, that they are in control
of their destiny.  At the end they find out differently.

What is the lesson of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams?

The moral lesson of
is that one can try to escape the past and one's ties to family, but to no
avail. The hold one's family and past has on one is tenacious and strong. At the end of the
play, Tom Wingfield leaves his mother and sister, Amanda and Laura, respectively, though his
mother believes that he will protect and care for them forever. Instead, the pressure they place
on him drives him away, as it had driven away his father years before.

Tom
believes that he has escaped his sister's memory and her call for help, but wherever he goes, he
sees her in his mind and thinks of her. He says at the end of the play, "Oh, Laura, Laura,
I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!" The entire
play is Tom's recollection of his sister and...

In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, who carried Jem home after he and Scout were attacked by Bob Ewell, and why is this significant?

Arthur Radley, whom
the children referred to as "", had emerged from his home for the first and only time
in the novel when he realized the children were in danger, and killed Bob Ewell before Ewell
could kill the kids--which he fully intended to do, having insinuated it within earshot of some
townspeople in the weeks after the trial.  The significance of this lies in Arthur Radley's
knowledge of the children's impending danger--he knew they were in danger because he had been
watching them from within his home, where he had been more or less imprisoned for years.  He had
laughed at their hijinks, repaired 's pants when Jem lost them in an ill-conceived adventure to
look into the Radley home, left them little gifts in the hole in a tree (until his brother
cruelly filled the hole with cement), covered 's shoulders with a blanket when she stood
freezing on the street as Miss Maudie's house burned down--and finally, as the kids returned
alone on that dark Halloween, he somehow knew they were being followed and was able to get to
them, and Ewell, before Ewell could carry out his drunken, crazed plan.  When Radley carries Jem
into the house, no one is surprised to see him except Scout, when she figures out who he is.  It
is an interesting and somewhat sadto the even sadder story of Arthur Radley.  In fact, Scout
says as much when she reflects on the things Arthur had given them over the years:

Boo was our neighbor.  He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and
chain, a pair of good luck pennies and our lives.  But neighbors give in return.  We never put
back into the tree what we took out of it; we had given him nothing, and it made me
sad.

There is also someworth noting in Boo's saving the
children, because when they first become aware of him, at the novel's beginning three years
prior, they are terribly frightened of him and what they have heard about him.  Thus, his
returning Jem to safety at the novel's conclusion creates a kind of full-circle, and dramatic
ending to the novel.

The process of producing documents is an iterative process involving drafting, checking, and revising the document. It should continue until a...

One should
begin with some sense of what a document needs to be. Perhaps a document is being prepared for a
customer or a boss. Alternatively, a document might be the kind of standard report that is
regularly produced internal to a business. From this, one should be able to determine the
characteristics necessary for the final product: does it need to be formal, or is informal
writing sufficient? What length should it be? How should it be formatted?

From here, if the document needs to be high-quality and one is not familiar with
writing documents of this type, it would make sense to review similar high-quality
documents.

Following this, many find it helpful to write an
outline.

From an outline, it makes sense to write a full draft.

The draft should be reviewed and edited as many times as needed, until the author feels
confident in it or hits a dead end.

At this point, if needed, it would make
sense to send the document to someone else to review.

Upon receiving comments
from the reviewer, the author can return to anywhere in this process. Ideally, only light
editing is needed, but in some cases, going back to the literature review or outlining stages
may prove best.

Allow me to be controversial The following link to Sir Ken Robinson's famous - very famous - TED lecture is perhaps well known. If not, do watch it....

An
independent candidate for the presidency in 2012 says wisely that if elected, he would work for
the termination of the federal Department of Education. When bureaucracies run
education--federal and state--there is no possiblity for educating children in the true sense of
the word.  Bureaucracies by their very nature are about forms, objective standards, and
measurements and all things that can become statistics.  The problem is that students are not
commodities.

With governments hovering over every school, of course there is
political correctness and bureaucratic paperwork and shuffling...

In regards to "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what other technological, economic, and social changes did the U.S. highway system enable the 1950s?

"A
Good Man to Find" offers an important slice of social history about the way highways opened
up society in the 1950s. First, the new and improved highways allowed families like Bailey's in
the story to hop into a car and take a family vacation. Before Eisenhower expanded the highways
in 1950s, poor roads kept Americans closer to home or encouraged them to take trains. As we see
in "A Good Man," however, the family now has the...

What is Yalis question to Jared Diamond?

The title of
Diamond's book refers to some of the factors which are traditionally considered critical in
explaining European dominance in world affairs; essentially, that the Europeans had superior
technology and, by coincidence, far more deadly diseases than many of the non-European cultures
they encountered, which led to an easy subjugation. This evolved into the modern prevalence of
European culture, if not direct political rule.

Yali is introduced in aset in
the 1970s, when Diamond was doing research in New Guinea. At the time, part of the island was
attempting to establish political independence from Australia, essentially a microcosm of the
global question that the book investigates. Yali was a local politician who, in Diamond's view,
was still far less well-off than his white counterparts despite being the equivalent of a
political celebrity among his own people. Yali and Diamond had a discussion about their
respective cultures, culminating in Yali's question:

"Why is it that you
white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had
little cargo of our own?" 

Cargo referred generally to the manufactured
goods developed by whites which broadly defined the "before" and "after"
contact changes in New Guinean culture. Diamond's book is an attempt to answer Yali's question;
however, it should also be taken into consideration that Yali had a view of material goods that
was nearly religious, and his reasonings and motivations behind the question were probably not,
in my opinion, aligned with Diamond's interpretation of it.

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Symbolic Retribution

Dante is very
clever! All of his punishments correspond directly to the sin. For example, Lucifer, the greater
sinner of all, is in the lowest level of hell, where he sits stuck in a frozen lake. The lake is
frozen because his large wings constantly blow cold air, keeping it perpetually cold. Dante
gives Lucifer three heads, which is a twist of the Christian Divine Trinity (God the Father, God
the Son, and the Holy Spirit), each of which eat three of the most well-known traitors from
history-- Brutus and Cassius (betrayed Caesar), and Judus the Iscariot (betrayed Christ). With
this...

What is The Scarlet Letter about in chapter 3? chapter 3 scarlet letter

of the
Scarlet Letter is titled "The Reveal" and it is a very important moment in the story
of .

In this chapter we are taken back to when Hester Prynne had just been
sentenced and placed for 3 hours of public humilliation at the scaffold.

We
also know that her child is around 8 or 9 months old and that she is also on the scaffolding
with her mother receiving the hisses and insults from the people of the settlement.

The most important part of this chapter, however, is that a certain man from out of
town, a stranger, is looking closely at Hester while he is being told by one of the people of
the town what Hester did and that she was punished to wear a scarlet letter A for the remainder
of her natural life. This strange man asked if anyone knows who is the father of Hester's child,
to which the townsman replies that Hester will not tell.

We know here that
the stranger has also gotten the attention of Hester, who is terrified at him more than she is
of the crowd, the Governor, or the pastor () who is questioning her in the
scaffolding.

We learn later that this strange man is her presumed-dead
husband whose new name is Robertand is in town ready to destroy Hester and to find out who was
the man who got her in that condition.

Another important happening of this
chapter is that Hester outright refused to give out the name of the father of the child even at
the insistence of both Rev. Wilson and Rev. Dimmesdale. Although later on we know that it is
Dimmesdale whom she had the affair with, it is interesting to see how sheepishly he asks her to
reveal the name of the man who got her pregnant, even taking the risk of her breaking down and
revealing it. But to notice the solid character of Hester in resisting we also get a glimpse of
her passionate nature and we can foreshadow that she is a fearless and dignified woman who was
accused harshly.

How does the title of Judith Wright's poem,"Smalltown Dance," link to what it is about?

The content
of the poem uses the laundry dance as a . So while the title links to the laundry dance, that
link is only the pathway to the link to the greater idea for which the dance of folding sheets
is a metaphor.

That larger idea is that dreams and aspirations and the
ability to run free in a wider world "of green" opportunity is folded and put away in
exactly the same (metaphorical) way that sheets are folded and put away: as each girl there
grows up and learns to fold sheets, she also learns that there is no way for her to escape and
run out into the broader...

What was Khubilai Khan's legacy? My text for this is Traditions & Encounters by Bentley and Ziegler.

In your
text, the authors do not simply come out and say the legacy of Khubilai Khan was€¦  Instead,
we have to infer what sort of legacy we can attribute to him.  In order to do that, we must look
at what Khubilai did while he was in power.

Khubilai was just one of the
Mongol rulers who ruled various empires that had been created out of what Genghis Khan had
conquered.  Khubilai was the ruler of the easternmost of these empires.  Under Khubilai, the
Mongol rule over China was consolidated.  He came to dominate China and its surroundings in a
way that had not previously been accomplished.  

Khubilai allowed the
Mongols to rule all of...

How can I improve my writing skills while writing an essay-type question in English literature from exam point of view?

Since exams
in English literature classes are usually essay questions, you will want to hone your skills at
writing paragraph and essays, first of all.  When you are given an essay question on a literary
work, for instance, the most important thing is to really answer the question and not write
about extraneous matters.  This answer is what constitutes the thesis of the essay or topic
sentence of the paragraph that is the response.

Using the paragraph essay
[like a mini-essay] as presented in The Practical Writer  as the format for
your response is a good way to organize.  For instance, if...

What role did the personalities, philosophies, and ambitions of individual political leaders play in the Cold War?

The three most
important world powers at the beginning of the Cold War were the Soviet Union, Great Britain,
and the United States.

Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union into the Cold War.
He was a ruthless and paranoid dictator who eliminated both real and imaginary opponents. These
traits, which had been evident during the 1930s, intensified after the end of World War II in
1945. He sought to expand his power by taking over countries in Eastern Europe after WWII. In
addition, those countries provided a territorial buffer against any future German aggression. He
needed enemies abroadthe United States and Great Britainto justify his iron grip on his
subjects. Stalin was a dangerous and cruel man whose paranoia contributed to the Cold
War.

Winston Churchill, Great Britain's leader during WWII, distrusted
Stalin. In 1946, he accused Stalin of creating an "iron curtain" across Europe as
Russian troops cut Eastern Europe off from the West. He wanted a strong Anglo-American alliance
against against Communism. He also was an advocate for European unity.

Harry
S. Truman became president in 1945 as WWII was ending. As a new president, he faced Soviet
aggression and expansionism in Eastern Europe. His most important role in the Cold War was his
Truman Doctrine: he promised to help Greece and Turkey remain non-Communist nations. Truman
started the Containment policyAmerica's strategy for the Cold War.

What are the two ceremonies that Reverend Hooper directs on the same day? How does the veil affect the mood of each?

The
first ceremony that Reverend Hooper conducts that day is a funeral service. The color of the
veil he wearsblackis entirely appropriate for such a sad, somber occasion, even if it still
looks a little strange on a minister of religion. An old lady at the funeral observes that when
Reverend Hooper leaned over the coffin, his face would've been partially revealed to the
deceased girl, causing her dead body to shudder. Her...

How can I explain this quote by Emerson "life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy". how can i use examples and what could it be a good topic...

What he's
trying to say here is that you shouldn't spend a lot of time trying to think about stuff or
whine about stuff, but rather take everything as it comes, deal with what life gives you.  In
this same passage, he speaks well of people "who can enjoy what they find, without
questioning."

As far as examples go... it's easier for me to think about
examples of not whining or criticizing.  I bet you can think of things in your own experience
where you can see that it's better to just deal with stuff than to waste energy
complaining.

As for not thinking, the only thing I can think (LOL) of is the
idea that you can paralyze yourself by overthinking things rather than just going with what you
feel.

Good topic sentence?  Depends on what your essay is about.  I'd say
something like "People often make themselves unhappy by thinking too much and worrying too
much."

How does Ulysses bring out his thirst to "drink life to the lees?"

makes it
clear early in the poem that he is bored with his sedentary life as king of Ithaca, and indeed
with the responsibilities and drudgery of kingship. He longs to live out his days in the same
way he has spent most of his life, in a spirit of adventure, seeking honor, fame, and new
challenges alongside his faithful mariners:

My
mariners, 
Souls that have tol'd and wrought, and thought with me- 
That ever
with a frolic welcome took 
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed 
Free
hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; 
Old age hath yet his honour and his
toil; 
Death closes all:  but something ere the end, 
Some work of noble note,
may yet be done, 
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

Ulysses has been an adventurer all of his life, and now, in his
twilight years, Tennyson portrays a man who does not seek leisure, but further challenges. By
drinking "life to the lees," Tennyson means that Odysseus hopes to get as much out of
life as he possibly can. Even though his body is old and fragile, Odysseus is still "strong
in will," and believes that there are still adventures to be had.  For some people, a
quiet, settled life might be something to aspire to. Not so for Odysseus.

What is the theme of "A Wrinkle in Time"?

The novel
is the epitome of a "good vs. evil" story. The theme of the
novel is that evil is an active, constant, present force that is consuming worlds and
dimensions. This is on prominent display when the three witches show the children the Earth from
a great distance, wrapped in a dark shroud with occasional bursts of light illuminating its
surface. This represented the lives and actions of good and pure people.

At
theof the novel, Charles Wallace does mentally battle with a physical manifestation of evil, the
disembodied brain IT, eventually winning out because of his love for Meg and their
father.

The primary theme in this novel is that there is a true and constant
battle between good and evil, and the only way to combat it is through good and charitable
loving actions for humanity.

Please help me dramatize the lesson learned in the poem "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This poem,
unusual in that the first-person narrator is declaring an association to beauty, is both a
salute to the Rhodoras beauty and a declaration that the narrator is of the
same stuff.  It creates a moral universe in which even the plainest observer of Beauty is
entitled to the same blessings as the flower, rival of the rose.  And just as the rhodora has
its season, and is to be found in remote places, out of public display, it can still be
appreciated by those who find it in private scenes and recognize its beauty.  When the poet is
asked Whence (from where) is the flower? the response is  "Beauty is everywhere" €“
Beauty is its own excuse for being.  The narrator, far from questioning why the flower
existed, supposed that the Creator who made this flower, this beauty, made the narrator also. 
So the dramatic lesson to be learned is that the very fact of Creation is beautiful, and we
are all part of it€“thus, we are all beautiful.  The rhodora was there into please the desert,
the brook, even the red-bird whose beautiful plumage is cheapened by the flowers beauty.  In
this age, when social pressure is on everyone to be attractive, this poem gives a wise
response.   

I want to write a blurb for Lord of the Flies, and it shouldn't be like a summary. Could you help me please?

A blurb
is a brief description of a book that is written for promotional purposes and is typically
located on the back of the book cover. Blurbs are not meant to summarize the entire story but
give the reader a short synopsis of its content to create interest in the novel. When writing a
blurb, authors should introduce theof the story, elaborate on the conflict, reference the
central theme, and create a sense of intrigue around the story. A well-written blurb should
briefly describe the story and its main characters without giving away any spoilers. Readers
should also be interested in the story and should desire to learn more about the characters and
conflicts by reading the book.

In regards to writing a blurb for 's classic
novel , one would begin by introducing the author and mentioning his
accomplishments to give the book credibility. For example, one could begin the blurb by
writing:

From Nobel prize-winner William Golding,
Lord of the Flies explores humanity's darkest corners as a group of British
schoolboys attempts to create a civil society after crash landing on an uninhabited tropical
island.

One would then continue to introduce the main
characters and elaborate on 's struggle to maintain control of the boys while cultivating a
civil society. The following is an example of what a blurb might include:

After being elected chief, Ralph is given the difficult task of
leading the group of English schoolboys to develop a civil, organized society. However,threatens
Ralph's leadership and the primitive nature of the boys is awakened in an environment without
adults, rules, and regulations. Alone on the island, Golding presents an epic struggle between
civilization and savagery as Ralph battles Jack for control of the island.

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In the novel 1984, the three party slogans on the side of the building are paradoxes. Explain why.

In
, the three Party slogans are as follows:

1. War is Peace
2. Freedom is Slavery
3. Ignorance is
   Strength

They are paradoxical,
meaning that they are contradictory but still can be true at the same time. Upon first reading,
they seem to just be contradictions: obviously, war and peace are opposites, as are freedom and
slavery. Ignorance and strength, though not exact opposites, can be contradictory ideas because
ignorance is often tied to mental weakness.

On one hand, these statements
can be true in the world of 1984 . With Oceania at
constant war with external enemies, its citizens are likely to focus on that conflict and not
focus as much on the oppressive actions of the Party, which would lead to rebellion. Therefore,
Oceania's war (with others) is also Oceania's peace (internally)....

What is a simple definition of the physical environment?

A
physical environment can be described as anything we can physically experience through our
sensestouch, smell, sight, hearing, and/or taste. The physical environment includes both the
natural environment and the human-made environment. For example, the physical environment of a
house can include the human-made structures such as the walls, the pipes, and the appliances, as
well as the natural environment, such as the air circulating in the house, the water flowing
through the pipes, and the trees, plants, and animals that exist in the yard.

One should consider the elements of the surrounding physical environment when deciding
how to interact with that environment. For example, perhaps it is the height of summer and there
is no air conditioning in the housein this case, opening the windows and using ceiling fans
would improve the physical environment in terms of human comfort.

What problems did Andrew Jackson's administration face?

Most wealthy
Americans looked down on Andrew Jackson as a hick.They thought he was course, uncoth and
irresponsible.He practiced cronyism as an art form.His policies were unpopular.He was disliked
by politicians and the wealthy, but loved by the people.]]>

What action must the cell take to regulate the amount of plasma membrane when it carries out endocytosis?

Endocytosis is the process through which a
cell ingests foreign particles and transports them into the cell, where it can be digested. It
accomplishes this by surrounding the target with plasma membrane, which it then uses to isolate
the foreign particle inside itself. The plasma membrane surrounds the living cell, protecting it
and functioning as a barrier between the cell and the outer environment. Cells also ingest and
"recycle" their own plasma membranes.

During endocytosis, the cell
sends out its plasma membrane to create a pocket around the particle it plans to ingest. The
cell uses only enough of the membrane to completely surround the particle. Then, the cell
"pinches off" the part of the plasma membrane that is covering the particle, creating
a new intracellular vesicle. This looks like a bubble inside the main cell with the particle at
the center. At that point the cell, is done with endocytosis and thus takes no further action
with its plasma membrane.

From there, the cell can take action to consume or
destroy the target particle. Various actions taken by the cell all have their own specific
names. An example is phagocytosis, where the cell "eats" whatever it took in during
the endocytosis process.

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What suggests that the speaker of the poem "Richard Cory" is speaking for the entire town?

In the poem
"," the speaker indicates his/her position as representative of the citizens of the
town with the repeated use of the pronoun "we." This pronoun aligns the speaker with
the others who are poor, both in their economic plight and in their sentiments.

Initially using the expression "we people on the pavement," the speaker
represents the citizens who suffer during the hard times of the depression of 1893, in which
people could not afford to purchase meat and subsisted mainly on bread that was often a day old.
Thus, the disparity between the citizens of the town and Richard Cory, who is "richer than
a king" is marked. Further in the verses, the contrast between Cory who "glittered
when he walked" and the people becomes even more defined. And, each time this contrast is
mentioned, the speaker is aligned with the townspeople as always "we/us" heads the
description of feelings: "we thought...," "to make us wish...,""we
worked and waited for the light," and so forth. 

Along with the other
citizens, too, the speaker never inquires as to why Richard Cory has come to town, and why he is
"always human" when he speaks to them. Instead, this speaker and the others feel that
the only misery is in their condition, failing to understand that a rich gentleman can also
suffer misery, albeit a different kind. 

 

 

Christopher Columbus represented what country on his voyage?

Christopher Columbus represented Spain on his
voyage. Columbus was looking for a different, shorter way to Asia. Traveling by land was
difficult. Columbus thought there might be a shorter water route to Asia. Instead of going by
water around Africa to Asia on a voyage that could be filled with danger because of bad weather,
Columbus believed it might be easier to go to Asia by heading west. While some doubted that
Columbus would be successful, the King and Queen of Spain were willing to take a chance on his
voyage. Thus, they sponsored his voyage.

The King and Queen of Spain viewed
his voyage as a way to gain fame and fortune. If Columbus was successful, they might be able to
claim any minerals he discovered. They also might be able to spread their religion,
Christianity, to other places. Columbus also could receive fame and riches if he was
successful.

Of course, we know the Columbus didnt find that shorter route to
Asia. In fact, he wasnt the first to find the Americas. However, he did lead four voyages for
Spain to what we now call the Americas. The fortune he hoped to find never really materialized
as a result of his voyages.

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How does Stargirl embarrass Leo in the lunchroom in the book Stargirl?

embarrasses
Leo in the lunchroom by coming over in front of everybody and singing "Happy Birthday"
to him.

It is Stargirl's idiosyncratic habit to sing to whomever's birthday
it is that day in the lunchroom, but even though she sings to Leo, it is actually not his
birthday. It is, in fact, Hillari Kimble's birthday, but Hillari has made it quite clear ahead
of time that there will be dire consequences if Stargirl performs her routine and sings to her
that day. Stargirl still gets up at lunch and sings "Happy Birthday" with Hillari's
name as the birthday girl, but, in cheeky deference to Hillari's expressed threat, she does not
actually sing the song to Hillari. Instead, she walks right past her and
stops at the table where Leo sits with his friends, and sings the song to him.

The students in the lunchroom express their appreciation of Stargirl's handling of the
situation "with wild applause." Leo, of course, is confused and completely embarrassed
to have been singled out. When Stargirl is asked why she chose Leo to sing to, she adds to his
discomfiture by responding mischievously, "He's cute" (Chapter
6).

Name the two feuding families in Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet.

From Act I, Scene
I, we learn that it is the Montague and Capulet families who are at war with one another. What
we learn from this scene is that the feud between the families is so deep-rooted that it even
extends to their servants. It is , a Capulet servant, who starts biting his thumb in an attempt
to lure some Montague servants into a fight. Sampson is successful, and a fight ensues, thereby
shattering the peace on the streets of Verona.

By placing the feud in the
opening scene of the play, Shakespeare ensures that it stays at the forefront of the reader's
mind. This is important because when we meetlater on, we know that their love will be challenged
by this bitter war between the Montagues and Capulets.

What are some similarities and differences between "Araby" by James Joyce and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

""
and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are similar in being first-person narratives in which a
narrator is trapped in a situation from which or he/she would like to escape from but
cannot.

The unnamed boy narrator of "Araby" is increasingly
oppressed by his "brown" and dull life on his "blind" (dead end or
cul-de-sac) alley in Dublin. He dreams of a better, more exotic life. He pins his dreams on
Mangan's sister, on whom he has a crush. When she expresses regret that she can't go to the
bazaar called Araby that is coming to Dublin, the boy wishes to go and buy her a gift there.
Araby and the girl merge in his mind as a fantasy of escape to a higher, more poetic realman
escape that he realizes at the end of the story will not occur.

Likewise, the
narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" wishes to escape from entrapment in the room where
her husband, a doctor, is keeping her so she can "rest" and recover from a nervous
disorder. Although she tries to tell her husband this is the worst possible cureshe needs
activityhe refuses to listen. She feels trapped and oppressed by the yellow wallpaper just as
the boy feels trapped by Dublin.

A main difference is that in the end the boy
has an epiphany or moment of insight in which he realizes fully that his fantasies about the
bazaar and the girl are futilenot a real means of escape. But while he faces the anguish of
awareness, the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" increasingly falls away from
awareness and into a psychosis that erodes her grip with reality.

In brief,
the boy moves toward awareness while the woman moves toward a break with reality. Further,
"Araby" is about the oppressive effects of ethnicity (being Irish) and a lack of money
while "The Yellow Wallpaper" is about the oppressive effects of
patriarchy.

In The Scarlet Letter, what is Hester's punishment, and what do the Puritan magistrates hope to accomplish with this punishment?

When the
colonial city wherelived found out that she was pregnant, though unmarried, she was subject to
the laws of the Puritan government. By those laws, adultery was punishable by death. However,
the ministers who were in charge of enforcing the laws on behalf of the church decided to grant
her leniency. They recognized that she had lost her husband at sea and decided to lessen her
sentence and allow her to live. She served some time in prison, spent three hours in the public
square on display in the pillory, and was required to wear a scarlet letter
A , which stood for adultery,...

The Odyssey

There are
many definitions of what an epic poem is. However, all poets and academics agree that the
Odyssey is one of the classic examples of epic poetry.

To be classed as an
epic, a poem must be long. But how long?
often book
length, but there's no set length for which a poem goes from non-epic to epic.

Does an epic need form?
No, but they are often in
verse form. As long as they are a narrative. Think of epic poems as a way to pass on historical
events, in an entertaining, oral, fashion.
Both the Illiad and the Odyssey are
in dactylic hexameter, but this is not a requirement of epics. However, it is the usual form of
Greek and Latin epic poetry.

Elements often included in
epics:
superhuman deeds, heroic adventures. Illustrative language -
remember the first audience for epics were listeners, rather than readers.

How have epics changed?
Lord Byron and Alexander
Pope both wrote epics, but utilised them for comic effect. Twentieth century poets rekindled
interest in the long form, but the work of (e.g.) Charles Olsen and Frank Standford is usually
described as a 're-envisioning' of the epic style.

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What are the similarities and differences between job analysis and competency models?

On
one hand, some theorists and practicioners incorporate job analysis
and competency modeling into a functional pair when discussing or
performing job assessments for a business or corporation. On the other hand, href="https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234738.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199234738-e-7">some
theorists state that job analysis is redundant of the
more contemporary competency modeling and is therefore out-moded or
even "dead."

In the first case (functional
pair), job analysis is seen as
the information gathering phase of job assessment during which either (1) worker/person-oriented
job analysis or (2) work/task-oriented job analysis is undertaken to determine (1a) the personal
attributes needed to complete the job (often called job specifications),
e.g., motives, personality, values, interests, or to determine (2a) what gets done (e.g.,
packing cans; keeping accounts) and how the job is done (e.g., machinery, forklift; analyze
data, graphs showing data analysis) (often called job description).
Competency modeling is
different from job analysis because it follows job analysis
and...

In 1984, what realization does Winston make regarding the proles?

In
chapter seven of Book One, Winston writes in his journal, "If there is hope . . . it lies
in the proles" (, 89).realizes that the proles make up the vast majority of society and
account for 85% of the population. He mentions that if the proles ever became conscious of their
own strength, they would simply rise up and easily defeat the Party like a horse shaking off
flies. Unlike the callous, frightened Party members, who are aware of the Party's strength and
oppressive tactics, the proles have relatively free lives and are almost forgotten by the Party.
The proles also possess a vague sense a love, family, and loyalty to each other, which is
demonstrated when Winston witnesses a prole woman cover her child's eyes during a graphic scene
at the movies. However, the proles are too ignorant to understand their oppressed status or
recognize their own strength. The Party views them as mere animals and understands that they are
completely ignorant citizens, who are only concerned about consuming and satisfying their
primitive desires without posing a real threat to authority. Despite their ignorance, Winston
believes in their strength and innate sense of humanity, which is why he writes that hope lies
in the proles.

How does The Lovely Bones book represent a journey-narrative?

This novel is
narrated through the viewpoint of a murdered girl, Susie, who is watching her family from
heaven. The story unfolds the painful journey her family goes through in trying to cope with her
death. Each person in her family has a different journey and copes with her death in different
ways. Also, her friends cope with her death in...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what does Scout's statement that "she [Mayella] was even lonelier than Boo Radley" mean?

During
Tom Robinson's trial in ,observes Mayella discussing her solitary life. The
woman lives alone with no friends or family to speak of and goes about a very isolated routine.
Mayella is also mixed race, and so she has a hard time identifying with members of either the
White community or the African-American one, which makes her life even more isolated and
secluded, which Scout reckons must be even more isolated than her neighbor, 's.

Tom comes around occasionally, showing compassion by helping her with chores and taking
care of things around the house. He is a gentle and kind man, but Mayella uses his visits as an
opportunity to take advantage of him and harm himeventually sending him to his death in jail.
While she is lonely and takes solace in the one person who visits her, she is still willing to
turn on him and frame him for a crime he didn't commit.

How does the use of caesura and enjambment reinforce Juliet's struggle in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when she hears the news...

Both
caesura and enjambment serve to capture 's emotional state as she digests the news that her
newly wed husband has just killed her beloved
cousin.

Caesura is known as a pause in the
middle of a line of poetry. It can be created with punctuation in the middle of the line, or it
can simply be created as a natural pause in the words. Juliet's lines 76-88 in Act 3, Scene 5
contain several instances of caesura. We can especially see caesura in the string of oxymora
Juliet uses to describe . When we hear the pauses between elements of the oxymora, we can feel
Juliet's mind working to grasp the conflicting ways she now views Romeo and to grasp the idea
that she feels she can no longer trust him. We especially see caesura in the lines:

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring
face!
...
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven!
wolvish-ravening lamb! (76-79)

In the first line, the
comma between "heart" and "hid" creates caesura, while the exclamation
points create caesura in the other two lines. The pauses created by the punctuation serve to
emphasize the contrast between the images in the lines. They also serve to emphasize Juliet's
emotions as she now realizes that what she thought was beautiful and wonderful can now actually
be evil and deceptive.

Enjambment is the
opposite of caesura. Through the use of enjambment, a person reads one line of poetry into the
next without any stops. Instead of the reader's eyes stopping at either the middle or the end of
line, the reader's eyes are automatically carried down into the next line because there are no
stops. The effect can produce a sense of speed, which when capturing emotions, can create the
sense of rambling thoughts that one can think in times of intense emotion or stress. When one is
faced with an earth shattering realization, such as Juliet is being faced with, our thoughts
sometimes blend into one big, messy whole. Shakespeare's use of enjambment in this passage
creates just such an effect. We can especially see enjambment in the lines:

O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst
bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? (83-85)

Since there are no punctuation marks in these lines to force a
reader to stop, a person reads one line into the next at rapid speed. The speed at which we read
these lines shows us that this is a question Juliet feels she absolutely must ask. It does not
make sense to her that her God, or nature, would create someone who looks as beautiful as Romeo
who could also do such evil deeds. Through reading these lines created with enjambment, the
reader better sees just how much the issue of 's death is weighing on Juliet's mind and
soul.

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What arguments can be made for the point of view that the government should not protect workers from unfair jobs?

The main way
to make this argument is to say that it is exceedingly difficult for the government to determine
what constitutes an unfair job.  This is something that is beyond the ability of the government
to judge.

It is one thing for the government to protect workers from things
like unsafe jobs.  It is much more possible to decide in an objective way what jobs are unsafe. 
We can look at things like workplace injuries and deaths and say that a job is unsafe.  It is
also clear that workers should not be subjected to unsafe conditions while at work. 

By contrast, things are very much more difficult when it comes to the issue of
fairness.  There is no objective way to determine (for example) whether it is unfair for a fast
food restaurant in New York City to pay its employees $8.00 per hour after they have been
working there 2 or 3 years. 

Because of such issues, it does not make sense
for the government to protect workers from unfair jobs.  It is simply impossible to determine
what jobs are unfair when it comes to things like wages or opportunities for advancement. 
Therefore, (we can argue) the government should not try to make these
decisions. 

What was President Jackson's Indian policy? I would like to know how Native Americans fared under his administration.

Andrew Jackson's
policy toward Native Americans has been viewed skeptically by historians. It is best known for
the Indian Removal Act, which was first proposed by Jackson during his 1829 State of the Union
address and later championed through Congress by him. Jackson signed the act into law on May 28,
1830.

Prior to the Indian Removal Act, George Washington had treated Indian
nations as sovereign states with whom treaties had to be negotiated, a policy more or less
followed by his successors. This changed with the passage of the Indian Removal Act. While the
act, officially, permitted the president to barter with Indian tribes for lands in the unsettled
West if the tribes would cede more desirable eastern territory, Jackson's use of the military to
coerce resettlement saw 100,000 Native Americans compelled to relocate, in some cases leading to
open conflict, such as during the Seminole Wars in Florida.

How do fate, free will, and destiny relate to each other in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist? Are there any examples of a connection in the book?

These three
themes are taught to Santiago by Melchizedek, the King of Salem, at the beginning of the book.
First, Melchizedek tells him that fate is the greatest lie that everyone believes in life. The
lie is, "that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us,
and our lives become controlled by fate" (18). Later, the king teaches Santiago that he has
discovered his Personal...

What are 3 reasons that Winston Smith from the book 1984 is or is not a hero?

Reasons he is
a hero:

1.  He stands up for something he believes in.  Though there is
incredible pressure to simply go along with Big Brother, and though there appears to be little
hope of success and certainly none of material reward,decides that it is...

What is the the meaning of the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart? What examples might support this answer?

The title
of  byderives from a line in a poem by William Butler Yeats, "The
Second Coming." The third and fourth lines of the poem are:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed
upon the world ...

The significance of this has to do
with the Christian notion of the "second coming" of Christ. In Christianity, Christ
first entered the world in the Incarnation, when he was born of the Virgin Mary. According to
the Nicene Creed, "He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the
dead." Before the second coming of Christ, there is supposed to be a period of chaos and
general misfortune.

Achebe is writing about the arrival of British
colonialism and accompanying Christian missions causing chaos in Africa as they come into
conflict with traditional Igbo culture and religion. 

Yeats was an Irish poet
who supported the cause of Irish independence and was part of a revival of tradition Celtic
beliefs and folk culture, against what he saw as the cultural as well as political imperialism
of the English. Thus Achebe's title draws attention to the parallels between the English
oppression of Ireland and its oppression of Nigeria. 

represents both an
agent of the chaos engulfing his village and a victim of it. Probably the best example of the
chaos that unfolds with the destruction of the old religious order is when Enoch unmasks
an egwugwu. This leads to an anarchic clash among the villagers and Okonkwo's
suicide.

How did the Union win the Battle of Gettysburg?

The Southern
invasion of the North known as the Battle of Gettysburg was won by the Union, soundly defeating
Pickett's Charge on the 3rd Day of Battle on July 3, 1863. This foolhardy attack was designed to
force the Union to abandon their central position on the battlefield, known as Cemetery Ridge.
The two previous days of battle had involved Confederate attacks on the outer Union lines, with
many casualties on both sides, but the South were unable to capture the Union flank. Based on
this great success, General Lee thought he would be able to crown the victory with the bold
strategy above on the 3rd Day. It didn't work out that way.

This is largely
due to two things; the South had fought largely defensively against Northern invasions to this
point in the war, and their smoothbore weapons were better for defense. Second was because Lee
underestimated the Union's ability to resupply their central lines. The first massive strikes on
the 3rd Day by sustained cannon fire were largely inaccurate and failed to move the Union forces
off the ridge. As the charging Confederate forces had over a mile to walk between their base and
the Union position, they were prime targets for Union cannon fire, especially the dreaded
"canister" fire, which was basically a giant shotgun type of fire. Failure was all but
guaranteed, even though the Southern soldiers believed in the mission, few would return alive or
unscathed with nearly all of the 15,000 involved in the attack killed or wounded.

Even though the Union choose not to pursue the Confederacy following the failure of
Pickett's Charge, Lee agreed to retreat and fight another day. Ultimately, the battle of
Gettysburg was won because of the superior defensive positions that the Union found themselves
in, and the South was unable to use their often superior tactics to dislodge them. The War would
continue for years to come...

How would I explain that Emma is a snob in Emma?

is a
snob because of the manner in which she treats others. She is condescending toward Miss Bates (a
kindhearted but eccentric spinster) and ends up reducing Miss Bates to tears because of her own
superior attitude. Similarly, when Jane comes to town, she dismisses her without even getting to
know her (because Jane is a rival in beauty and accomplishment). Most significantly, Emma is
snobbish toward Harriet who is supposed to be her friend. Even though Emma seems to want what is
best for Harriet, she assumes that she would know better than Harriet (based solely on her high
opinion of herself and because she holds a higher position in society than does Harriet).
Harriet agreeable goes along allows Emma to discourage (at first) from associating with Mr.
Martin because he is "common" and a farmer.

Fortunately by the
novel's end, Emma has matured and realized her flaws, and most of the effects of her
snobbishness have been righted (Miss Bates forgives her; Jane makes a respectable marriage match
for love, and Harriet and Mr. Martin marry).

How is our society impacted by globalization?

Different
societies are affected in different ways by globalization.  I will answer this from the
perspective of the society of the United States.  US society is impacted by globalization in
many ways, both good and bad.

Perhaps the most important impacts of
globalization on US society are economic.  The most commonly discussed impacts of globalization
on our society are negative.  These are the jobs that are lost as things that were...

Discuss the product and process-oriented approaches towards course evaluation. give answer indetail

Process and
product-oriented approaches respond to two different types of assessments that take place within
a course. An assessment is defined as a "measure of worth". The information acquired
through different types of assessments help to determine whether the course is complying with
the goals and objectives that it must set prior to the start of teaching
interventions.

Now, let's be clear on the fact that process and
product-oriented approaches are merely two out of 10 types of assessments that must be included
in course evaluation. Angelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993) in the textbook
Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers cite the
following possible assessments within a course. They are:

• Formative (progressive) vs. Summative (readiness for progression)


• Informal (casual) vs. Formal (detailed)
• Continuous (ongoing) vs.
  Final (terminal)
• Divergent (inconclusive, comprehensive, such as project
  based learning) vs. Convergent (one-answer, final)

Therefore,
process-oriented approaches consist on a range of projects and tasks geared for students to
demonstrated the different problem solving techniques that they use to go about an activity.
These problems solving techniques include deductive thinking, critical thinking, making
inferences, and other types of divergent and convergent techniques.

The
product-oriented approach, as the name implies, aims to get that final demonstration of mastery
that will demonstrate the readiness for progression that is typical of similar kinds of
summative-type assessments. In an ideal scenario, the form of assessment using a
process-oriented approach would be part of formative assessment, and the product would be the
summative measure.

How is this important to course evaluation? It is
important because the implementation of these types of approaches demonstrates that the student
is the center of the instruction and not the instructor. It also shows a shift of paradigm from
a centralized, routine, and almost rigid system of learning into one which is developmentally
appropriate for the students. Not having opportunities to observe progression through a
process-based task is the same as giving up 50% of the complete data that would enable us to see
progress. Products are not the final answer, and it is in the process where teachers can see the
most growth. Growth is the ultimate goal of a course and we want to ensure that growth is
ever-present in every course evaluation.

 

What advice did Martin Luther King, Jr. give to black people in his "I Have a Dream" speech?

Martin
Luther King Jr. gave three pieces of advice to black people in his speech "I Have A
Dream." He admonished them to never meet violence with violence, he encouraged them to
continue to hope, and to never be satisfied as long as the status quo remained.

King encourages black people to be guiltless and blameless, never returning violence.
He explained to them that undeserved suffering is redemptive, meaning that it ultimately saves
them from evil. He explained that they should never be filled with bitterness or hate in their
struggle to gain the freedoms guaranteed to all citizens in the Declaration of Independence.
King believed strongly in nonviolent protest for two reasons: his strong faith in Jesus Christ
and the example of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent protest which brought about change in his
country.

And that is something that I must say to my
people who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of
gaining our rightful place we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy
our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever
conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Next, King encourages his people to continue to have hope that change will happen. He
paints an image of what life can be when they achieve the equal status they are seeking with the
section of the speech that repeats the phrase "I have a dream." King paints a picture
of hope that his children will grow up in a world without racism, violence, and fear.

When we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring from every city
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will
be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free
at last, Great God a-mighty, we are free at last."

Finally, King encourages his followers to never be satisfied until the unjust laws were
eliminated. He was encouraging them to see the movement through to its natural conclusion, and
not to get satisfied with just a little progress.

We can
never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their adulthood and robbed of their
dignity by signs stating "whites only." We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro
in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream.