Compare and contrast "morality" and "ethics."

Douglas Carroll, Ed.D.

Morality is a set of principles which guide our behavior within a particular community.
We think of moral questions as framed by religious doctrinal beliefs, but that is not always the
case. Morality in the modern world is influenced by the culture of a society and is not as
quickly defined as it was in the pre-modern twentieth century, where religion dominated
philosophical considerations. Morality and ethics have become conflated, making a distinction
between the two more difficult.

Ethics is behavior confined to a specific
category. For example, ethical behavior on the athletic field may...

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What do you think the secret knowledge of "Beasts of England" signifies? How do events in 1990€“1991 correlate with this?

The
message of "Beasts of England" is universal. It is a call to arms for poor, repressed
masses, wherever they may be, to throw off the shackles of oppression and stand up to tyranny.
The song's universal message means that it can apply to a variety of different situations,
whether it's in the case of farm animals overthrowing the hated human oppressor or the masses of
Eastern Europeans rising up in the late 1980s and early '90s to end several decades of Communist
rule.

Both Animalism and Communism set themselves up as liberating
ideologies, yet both provided the basis for repressive regimes that turned against the very
groups in society whose interests they were meant to serve. The inspiring lyrics of "Beasts
of England" act as a reminder of the promise of all emancipatory ideologies and what can
happen to the "Tyrant Man" if that promise is not fulfilled.

Why does the narrator compare Chillingworth to a miner? Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In his
interview withwithin the prison,declares that he will discover the identity of who is the father
of Hester's child, and this man will be his and he will own the man's soul.  Then, in Chapter X
of , Hawthorne writes that Chillingworth has become the physician of the
Reverendinitially to merely to attain the truth; however, as he has proceeded with his
investigation, "a terrible fascination" has seized upon the old man, and he has become
obsessed.

[He] dug into the poor clergyman's
heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton
delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom,
but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption. Alas for his own soul, if these were
what he sought!

And, like the miner who seeks the mother
lode, Chillingsworth continually probes, questioning Dimmesdale on all sorts of topics,
constantly watching the minister, delving deeper and deeper into the soul of the minister.  As
he questions Dimmesdale, Chillingworth tells himself, "Let us dig a little further in the
direction of this vein!" as he seeks the secrets of Dimmesdale's heart.  Finally, the
physician strikes the vein that contains gold.  For, while the minister sleeps, the
"miner" pulls aside the vestment of Dimmesdale views that which makes him feels
ecstasy: he has discovered the mother-lode.

How Does Religion Affect Culture

Ultimately
religion and culture are inseparable in many ways. For thousands of years, various societies
have had some form of religion at the center of their cultural beliefs and practices.
Frequently, such as in ancient near eastern societies or even in early Rome, the practices of
religion were so ingrained into the belief systems of citizens that the religion and culture of
the society in question were indistinguishable.

As a tangible example of
this, many of the architectural elements in ancient Egypt, such as the adornment of buildings
with carvings and hieroglyphics, are regarded as...

What does Holden's relationship with his family in The Catcher in the Rye show about him?

has a
unique, complex relationship with his family throughout the novel, which reflects and explains
his instability and uncertainty about his future. Holden has a difficult relationship with his
parents and older brother D.B, who he thinks has prostituted himself to Hollywood. Holden's
negative views towards the older members of his family reflect his perception of all adults.
While he feels that some adults have good intentions, he also views them as phonies, who do not
fully understand him. Holden's affinity forandreflect his love for children and childhood in
general. Holden feels like Phoebe can truly understand him, and he views his younger sister as a
genuine, compassionate person. The fact that Holden relates to Phoebe the most also reveals his
immaturity. As an adolescent suffering from anxiety, Holden fears entering the world of adults
and feels more comfortable around his younger sister.

Holden's feelings for
his deceased younger brother also explain much of...

Physically describe August Pullman.

At the beginning of the
novel,says, "I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably
worse" (page 3). August, who suffers from mandibulo-facial dysostosis, does not want to
disclose how he looks. 

Via, his sister, provides some clues in her section
of the book. She says that his eyes are halfway down his cheeks, about an inch below where they
should be. She describes his eyes as downward-slanting, as if "someone cut [them] into his
face" (page 88). The left eye is much lower than the right eye, and because his eye
cavities aren't deep enough, his eyes bulge out. She also says that he doesn't have any eyebrows
or eyelashes, and his nose is too large for his face. His head looks crushed on either side of
his face, and he lacks cheekbones. Instead, he has deep fissures on either side of his face,
making it look as if he had been burned and the skin had melted. From his many surgeries, he has
scars on his face, including one large one from his upper lip to his nose. His jawbone is far
too small, though he had a piece of his hipbone implanted in his jaw when he was younger. He can
now keep his tongue inside his mouth and can eat and talk (he formerly had a feeding tube). He
can also hear.

What does the man with enormous wings represent in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?

"" plays
heavily on ambiguity.

Garcia Marquez never allows the
reader to settle comfortably into one attitude or the other...

For this reason, identifying a single meaning in the winged character is quite
difficult. A number of symbolic meanings are available depending on our
interpretation. 

The most compelling reading of this character sees him as a
representative of people's faith, both in humanity and religion. Like religion in the context of
the story, the man is open to interpretation. Also, religion in the text is...

The novel 1984, Winston secretly begins to write in the diary he is starting. Why isn't this action illegal? What consequences could it have, however?

Whensecretly
begins his diary, he thinks about the likely consequences of doing so (this is very early in
Chapter 1).

He knows that keeping a diary is not illegal.  The reason for
that is that there are no laws in Oceania so nothing is actually illegal.  The point of that is
that laws would require the government to follow them.  If there are no laws, the government can
do whatever it wants.

Even though keeping the diary is not illegal, Winston
knows that it will probably get him executed.  At the very least, he expects, he'll get
sentenced to 25 years at hard labor if he's caught.

What characteristics of lyric poetry can be inferred from "Why so pale and wan fond Lover?" by John Suckling?

John
Suckling is a 17th century Cavalier poets who wrote many forms of lyric poetry including ballads
and sonnets .From Suckling's lyric Why so pale and wan fond Lover? it can be inferred that
lyric poetry may have a repeating refrain in a different metrical pattern than the other verses
(lines of poetry): trochaic tetrameter versus trochaic trimeter in the refrain. It can be
inferred that lyric poetry may have large repeating patterns that encompass more than a single
verse (line) of distich (): the pattern of the stanzas repeat. It can be inferred that lyric
poetry may have a patterned rhyme scheme, such as ababb cdcdd etc.

It can be
inferred that lyric poetry may address personal feelings of the poetic speaker (whether in the
poet's own voice as with Edmund Spenser's lyric sonnets or as a fictional poetic speaker).  It
can be inferred that lyric poetry may address topics of love, in particular unrequited love
(unfulfilled or unreturned love). It can be inferred that separate stanzas may address separate
topics: "why so pale? / ... / why so mute? / ... / The devil take her!" It can be
inferred that lyric poetry may have a turn of diametrical opposition to the starting position:
"Will ... / ... / Looking ill prevail? / ... / Nothing can make her."

To check these inferences, some of the acknowledged features of lyric poetry follow.
Lyric poetry expresses personal feelings. It is rhymed. It may be sung. It has the repetition of
large metrical patterns that extend beyond individual verses or distiches. Some lyric forms have
refrains that repeat exactly or in variations. Most forms contain a turn in topic before
presenting a resolution to the emotional problem addressed.

What was it about Mr. Jones in the second chapter that causes the animals to rebel in Animal Farm?

Oncedies
"peacefully in his sleep," the second chapter features a combination of factors that
lead to the animals' rebellion.  On one hand, the Pigs' taking up the leadership mantle that Old
Major left was a part of this process. shows that the pigs were going around the farm and
fomenting the revolutionary flair and feel, almost to the point where it seemed inevitable that
the animals would...

Many common chemicals are considered carcinogens and interfere with our hormone function. Research a few of these and look through what you have in...

There
are a large number of known and probable carcinogens. Some, but not all, products containing
known carcinogens have been removed from sale; older products that precede such bans or those
whose makers have successfully campaigned to keep them on the market (such as tobacco products)
may still be found in peoples homes. Products containing probable carcinogens may continue to be
sold while scientific studies are being conducted to gather further information about their
involvement in causing disease.

Two common chemicals that may cause cancer by
disrupting hormones are butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). They
are often found as additives in cosmetics, such as lipstick, in which they serve as
preservatives or stabilizers.

Other common hormone-disrupting ingredients are
parabens. This group includes propylparaben, isopropylparaben, butylparaben, and
isobutylparaben. This preservative is found in makeup, moisturizers, shampoos, conditioners,
lotions, and shaving cream, among other products. Sunscreen is among the products most likely to
be labeled or advertised as paraben-free.

Siloxanes (some of which end in
the suffix -methicone) also disrupt hormones. These chemicals, used to
soften and moisturize, may be found in hair care products and deodorants.

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The animals divide in to two factions. What slogans did they come up with?

Shortly
after the animals permanently oust Mr. Jones and his workers from the farm during the Battle of
the Cowshed,andbegin making plans for the farm's future. Snowball draws elaborate plans for a
windmill in hopes of mechanizing the outdated farm. Snowball plans for the windmill to provide
the farm with electricity, which will dramatically improve conditions and bring the animals into
the industrial age. The majority of animals are astonished and excited about Snowball's plans
for a windmill. However, Napoleon opposes Snowball's agenda and believes that food production is
the most pressing concern for the farm at the moment. Napoleon tells the animals that if they
spend their time building a windmill they will surely starve to death. The animals then split
into two factions supporting either Snowball or Napoleon.writes,

"The animals formed themselves into two factions under the slogan, "Vote for
Snowball and the three-day week" and "Vote for Napoleon and the full mange."
Benjamin was the only animal who did not side with either faction. He refused to believe either
that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work. Windmill or no
windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone onthat is, badly" (18).

During a Sunday vote among the animals, Napoleon ends up chasing
Snowball off the farm and usurps power. He then steals Snowball's plans for the windmill and
commissions building to begin.

In George Orwell's 1984, How does Julia explain the Party's sexual puritanism?

Unlike
,fully grasps the Party's agenda regarding sexual puritanism and displays her acute awareness of
the subject by explaining to Winston how the Party suppresses citizens' sexual desires to create
anof hysteria directed towards the Party's political opponents. Julia explains to Winston that
the Party wants the populace full of energy at all times and believes that if Party members are
sexually satisfied, they will lose their motivation to work or engage in community functions
that benefit the government's agenda. Julia tells Winston,

If youre happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the
Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot? (167)

Essentially, Julia understands that the Party purposely bottles up
its members' sexual impulses and directs their repressed emotions towards Oceania's enemies,
effectively creating a hysterical environment. Repressed sexual impulses manifest as rage and
anger,...

What is the relationship between international imports and the balance of payments?

The
relationship between imports and the balance of payments is that a change in the level of
imports will change the nature of the balance of payments.   This is because imports are one
part of a countrys current account and the current account is one part of the balance of
payments.

Every country that trades with other countries has a current
account.  This is what economists call the sum of all of the countrys imports and exports of
both goods and services.  When a country imports goods...

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What motives were behind the United States decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?

Since 1945,
the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been the subject of
tremendous controversy.  However, at the time, there was little controversy over it.  The bombs
were essentially seen as another tool of war that could and should be used to bring an end to
the war as quickly as possible.

Since 1945, people have suggested that the
US had ulterior motives for using the bomb and that it should have tried other options.  People
suggest that the US dropped the bomb so as to scare the Soviets and to make them...

List three specific techniques Edwards uses in this sermon to persuade his congregation.

, or
exageration, as he is angry and trying to depict an image of the nature of man
which is basically evil, and worthy of punishment and pain. He also uses hyperbole to actively
describe the cause and effect of the ruin of man.

He uses
social engineering, or the gathering of fake data to comply with
what people need to hear and convince them to do what he wants them to do. I am not saying what
he was saying was totally fake, that is up to his belief system, but certainly the manner in
which he is decidedly willing to feed them this information about who we are, and what they are
doing, and about how bad it is to deviate from his ways, is deceptive to a point, and geared to
proving his point right.

Without knowing it, he is using the
classical Monroe Motivated Sequence of persuasion which consists on:

Grabbing the Attention- If he hadn't he wouldn't have had
an audience.

Trigger the need of the listener
(the fact that, according to Edwards their ways will send them to hell)

Proposing a way for them to not go and burn due their
actions (by changing their ways)

Visualization of an
objective (in this case, he let them visualize themselves as the title states
"in the hands of an Angry God" and about to be dumped in the burning flames of
Hades.

Action: When he is done telling them all
that they will suffer, he subtlely suggests a change of hearts and behaviors, so that they
sinners can be saved.

What are three reasons George was right to kill Lennie in Of Mice and Men?

First, 's
killing ofcan be understood as a mercy killing. We know that Curley is a bully who was already
angry at Lennie before Lennie accidentally killed his wife. George realizes that Curley is
assembling what is essentially a lynch mob. He understands that Curley wants Lennie to suffer as
much as possible. Therefore, shooting Lennie in the back of the head while talking to him about
their dream farm is a merciful alternative to what otherwise would be a needlessly cruel
death.

Second, George must understand that as much as he loves Lennie,
Lennie is a threat to the people around him. He doesn't...

Douglas writes parts of his slave narrative as a series of incidents or adventures. Discuss ways in which those various incidents and adventures are...

As the title
of the book indicates, this is the story of the life of . What holds the book together are the
events that befall Douglass himself: almost all of the incidents and adventures he accounts are
the eye-witness experiences of a slave.

Luckily for the structure of the
narrative, Douglass's life was divided into distinct periods, demarcated by his movement from
one place to another. The early chapters of the book, therefore, cohere around the first seven
or eight years of his life on Colonel Lloyd's plantation. All of the additional stories he tells
or comments he makes that are not directly about his life in this period nevertheless relate to
what life was like for a slave on a large planation. For example, the story of the slave sold
south because he dared to say he was unhappy comes out of Douglass' early planation
experience.

Douglass uses his geographic moves as a hinge with which to usher
us into different parts of his narrative. For example, he states:

I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd's
plantation. I left it with joy. I shall never forget the ecstasy with which I received the
intelligence that my old master (Anthony) had determined to let me go to Baltimore, to live with
Mr. Hugh Auld, brother to my old master's son-in-law, Captain Thomas Auld.

He then changes his focus to Baltimore andthe life of a house slave
in a big city, which he finds superior to that of a plantation slave, though darkened by his
growing realization that he will always be a slave.

The next hinge is his
move back to the plantation, and so it goes until Douglass escapes to freedom, when he offers a
short account of his time after slavery and the fear with which he still must live.

Without the physical moves, Douglass would have had a harder time structuring his
story, but with them it has the feeling of a bildungsroman, a novel of a young person's journey
or development in their formative years, a story that never loses sight of the sins of
slavery.

In the musical Showboat, why does Magnolia choose to sing the song "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" in her audition to get the job at the night club?

Magnolia, at
the beginning of the musical, is a rather naive teenager whose dream is to become an actress on
the stage, such as the leading ladies she watches on her father's show boat. Magnolia is friends
with Julie, the leading lady for the current show on the Cotton Blossom, and looks up to her
every move...

How did the Berlin wall affect East and West Berlin differently?

When the
Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961, it effectively created two Berlins. For the residents of
West Berlin, the construction of this wall served to make them feel more isolated from the
outside world than before. They were unable to freely travel by land to nearby parts of their
own city and neighboring parts of their country. They could only travel to West Germany by a
limited selection of routes. This reality resulted in imparting on West Berliners a sense of
isolation. They also lived with the anxiety that should direct conflict between the Societ Bloc
and the West occur, they would be trapped on the front lines. However, as an island of democracy
surrounded by a sea of communism, West Berliners saw themselves as a symbol of freedom. Many
highly public demonstrations of freedom took place with the wall as a backdrop.

For East Berliners, the Berlin Wall became more than a symbol. Before the wall's
construction, people in East Berlin had the possibility of escape across to the...

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In the 1800's, what was important in the story?

was a short story
published in a collection called The Sketch-Book in 1819 and 1820 in
installments.   brought forth the popularity of the American short story with The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the 1800s.

The story itself took place
in the late 1790s.  There were several important happenings in the story.  One was that Ichabod
Crane became infatuated with Katrina Van Tassel.  He visited her often and tried to woo her.  He
went to a party at her father's farm, seeking to impress her.  Instead, he heard Brom Bones tell
a story of the Headless Horseman who was said to haunt the area.  Ichabod was already
superstitious, and he nervously rode his horse home later that night.  Suddenly he came across
what appeared to be the Headless Horseman.  He was chased away and never heard from
again.

Mention hints given along the narration that prove that Farquhar's escape is an illusionAt what part of the story does the illusion begin?

As Peyton
Farquhar is getting executed, by hanging, as the noose is put around his neck he begins to dream
about the possibility of escape.  There are several clues in the narration that give the reader
an idea that the escape is a fantasy.  Once he drops into the water, he magically escapes the
bullets that are fired at him.  All the soldiers are shooting at him, and he does not get hit. 
He manages to swim a great distance with superhuman strength, he doesn't tire.

Once he reaches land, he runs and runs tirelessly trying to get home.  He is chased
and shot at,...

What is a passage from In Cold Blood that describes Capote's attitude towards Dick and Perry's relationship?

Early in
Chapter 2 of , titled "Persons Unknown," Capote reveals his
attitude towards Perry and Dick's relationship with these three lines of dialogue:

"Perry, baby, Dick said, you don't want that burger. I'll
take it.

Perry shoved the plate across the table. Christ! Can't you let me
concentrate?

You don't have to read it fifty times. (85)

This brief exchange reveals telling information about each man's
personality and temperament while demonstrating Capote's willingness to contrast Dick's pushy
self-centeredness with Perry's sensitivity. Dick's assumption that he can help himself to
Perry's food as well as his mockery of Perry's need to focus positions Dick as an antagonistic
person. At the same time, Perry, with his mild cursing and futile protests, is presented as a
victim of Dick's bullying.

As the events and the plot line continue to
unfold, the relationship between the two killers becomes an important focus of In Cold
Blood , and Capote's sympathetic...

Explain Hester's "bewildered and appalled" statement in chapter 4 of The Scarlet Letter: "Thy acts are like mercy . . . But thy words interpret thee as...

Let's
look at the context here.has come to visitin prison. He takes her some medicine, which he tells
the jailer will make her easier to control. The jailer doesn't know that Chillingworth is
Hester's husband; to him, he's just a doctor come to render medical assistance to a prisoner.
When Hester sees Chillingworth, her blood runs cold, and things get even...

Two cars are driving towards each other from towns that are 150 miles apart. The first car is traveling 45 miles per hour, and the second is traveling...

To solve,
refer to the figure.

Let d1 be the distance traveled by the first car and d2
be the distance traveled by the second car.

Since the two cars are 150 miles
apart at the start, when they meet, the sum of their distances traveled is 150 miles.

`d_1+d_2=150`

Then, express the equation in terms of time. Let t be
the number of hours that the cars been...

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Can you give me information about Lucille Clifton's poem "There is a girl inside" from a feminist viewpoint?

I read the
poem as an announcement in the voice of an older woman. The message is that the older woman will
not embrace the social expectations of old age, which require her to be non-sexual. Instead, in
her advanced age, she will embrace her youthful self, though the courage she feels with age will
allow her to express her sexuality and her needs in ways that she could not as a girl or a young
woman.

The poem's use of voice is tricky. We do not know if it is the older
woman speaking, or a distant omniscient narrator. It is certainly not the girl speaking, because
that persona is referenced as "she."

The first stanza is a
description of the boldness that lies within:

There is a
girl inside. 
She is randy as a wolf. 
She will not walk away and leave these
bones 
to an old woman.

It is interesting that
Clifton casts this young persona as a "girl," and not as a "young woman"
which is the clearest opposite to an "old woman." A girl is generally considered too
young to be sexual, though the...

Describe how the Crachits celebrate Christmas in A Christmas Carol.

When Scrooge
and the Spirit of Christmas Present first arrive at the Cratchit residence, Mrs. Cratchit and
the older children are boiling the potatoes for Christmas dinner while the younger children can
hardly contain their excitement about the goings-on of the day. Martha arrives and barely has
time to hide before Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim enter the house after attending Christmas worship
at church.

As Peter and the younger Cratchits leave to fetch the Christmas
goose, Bob stirs up a special drink "compounded in a jug with gin and lemons", Mrs.
Cratchit  reheats the gravy, Peter mashes the potatoes, Belinda finishes the applesauce, and
Martha sets out the plates.

The goose is carved and served, accompanied by
much acclamation as to its perfection. "Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness,
were themes of universal admiration." When all the goose, sage and onion stuffing, apple
sauce and potatoes had been consumed, Mrs. Cratchit brings in the Christmas pudding to finish
the feast.

When dishes are put away, the cider is shared along with fresh
fruit and roasted chestnuts as the family toasts each other with affection and enthusiasm, and
then Mr. Scrooge, with much different emotions.

It should
be Christmas Day, I am sure...on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard,
unfeelinf man as Mr. Scrooge...I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's,...not for
his.

Having gotten that distasteful duty out of the way,
the family is able to resume sharing time with each other, dreaming of a future that would hold
better days for them all. They loved and laughed and treasured the company of each
other.

about what do dr.gersholm bulkeley and matthew argue? the class is reading

Dr. Gershom
Bulkeley is a Loyalist. As such, he is loyal to the King of England and upholds the idea of
colonial obedience to the crown. He is rewarded for this loyalty by being made a justice of the
peace for the colony.

Matthew Wood is a colonist whose Puritan ancestors have
been given the right to worship as they wish and settle in the New World to make his living.
These rights were stated in the charter granting Connecticut the freedom to practice whatever
religions the settlers wish to and freedom to be English citizens living in a colony that is to
be self-sustaining. These rights are threatened with a revoking of the charter, so the colonists
steal the charter and hide it to keep these actions from occurring.

The two
are directly opposite in their political views which will be reflected in the up-coming American
Revolution. Even though the two have a falling out, they remain friendly enough to help out in
the time of sickness and justice.

Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor because it wanted to have an empire in East Asia and it feared that the
United States would prevent that from happening.

Japan had, at least since
the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, thought of itself as a major power.  It felt that it should have
an empire like those of the other major powers.  However, it was prevented from getting an
empire because much of the area around Japan was already colonized by other
countries. 

Oncestarted in Europe, this changed to some degree.  The Germans,
who were allied with the Japanese, had defeated France and the Netherlands.  This meant that
Japan could hope to take French colonies in Indochina and Dutch colonies in Indonesia.  The
Germans were fighting the British, and the Japanese could also hope to take British colonies in
the area.  The main problem was that the US did not want that to happen. 

For
example, when Japan took French Indochina, the US stopped selling oil and scrap iron (we were
Japans major source for these important commodities) to Japan.  Japan calculated that it would
run out of oil in about two years.  Therefore, it needed to take the oilfields in Indonesia or
else it would run out of oil and be at the mercy of any country that wanted to push it
around.

Japan decided to go ahead and take an empire.  But first it needed to
make sure the US could not interfere.  Therefore, it attacked Pearl Harbor to try to destroy the
US fleet and make it impossible for the US to interfere.

Are there any examples of the Victorians' reactions to the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

There are
indeed examples of Victorian reactions to s . Shortly after the novella was
written, reviews began to appear in newspapers. Many thousands of copies of the novella were
sold during its author's lifetime, which alone is evidence of its popularity during this period.
Its at-the-time sales may have been bolstered by the excitement shown in the novella's
reviews.

One 1886 reviewer, Andrew Lang, praised Stevenson for his treatment
of the idea of double personalities (good and evil) existing within a single person because
Stevensons execution of the idea was unique compared to previous authors who had used a similar
concept (Langs review provided by The British Library).

Another reviewer
anonymously wrote of Stevensons genius in creating such an intricate piece, saying that it is a
work that goes deeper than similarly dark stories by Edgar Allan Poe and that readers would
certainly need to read it twice (Anonymous review provided by The British Library).

If you need to find exact quotes, digital scans of these reviews are available in the
online collection of The British Library at the links below.

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Why do Patrick and Omri get kicked out of the main hall in the story Indian in the Cupboard?

Patrick and
Omri get kicked out of the main hall because Omri creates a disturbance. Patrick is actually not
involved in the specific ruckus, but gets blamed anyway.

Omri had brought
Little Bear to school, and had kept him in his hip pocket all morning. Right around third
period, when the students were all in the main hall listening to the headmaster speak, the
Indian decided he had had enough of being cooped up, and began stabbing Omri...

What are the kennings used during Beowulf's battle with Grendel?

Ais
basically a two-word description in place of a more common one-word noun or name. Kennings are
often seen in Anglo Saxon poetry, which was originally transmitted orally. In
, as in other poems of the time, the poet uses kennings to add variety to
the wording and to more vividly paint a picture of the action for the reader.

In the section of the poem where Beowulf fights Grendel, we see a couple of kennings to
describe Grendel. The poet calls Grendel a "terror-monger," which is a kenning that
conveys the fear evoked by Grendel. Grendel is also referred to as a "hell-serf,"
which shows that he is a servant and devotee of Satan. Both of these kennings enhance the
description of Grendel as evil.

A couple of other kennings are used
throughout the battle to describe places or things. Grendel's presence in the mead hall is
referred to as "a hall-session," which, unlike the kennings applied to Grendel, seems
to de-intensify the event. Grendel's sinews, muscles, or tendons are referred to twice as
"bone-lappings," a vivid description of Grendel's physique that adds to the gore and
violence of the battle scene.

Beowulf is described as "the earl-troop's
leader" in a kenning as well. This kenning indicates his position and contrasts with the
more loaded descriptions of Grendel discussed above.

These kennings give the
poem more stylistic variety than if the poet had used Grendel's name or simple nouns. The poetic
descriptions also enhance theand mood of the scene.

How are women of color included or excluded from feminist theory?

has
broadened itself to ensure that women of color are included in its theoretical foundations.
 Feminist theory has evolved to recognize that women should not be in the position of having to
value their experience of being a woman at the cost of other aspects of their narrative.  To do
so would be to replicate the patriarchal conditions of silence and marginalization that prompted
feminist theory in the first place.  Feminist theory has grown over time to examine the
conditions of race, class,...

What are some of the reasons Leo Borlock has as to why Stargirl has become so popular?

Early on
in the narrative, Leo is able to identify whyhas captured the imagination of the students at
Mica Area High School.  Part of the reason has to do with the school's social setting
itself:

We all wore the same clothes, talked the same
way, ate the same food, listened to the same music. Even our dorks and nerds had an MAHS stamp
on them. If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly snapped back
into...

What are the features of africanness in this text (Things Fall Apart)? as regards language in African literature.

One of
Achebe's main purposes in writing the novel was to bring an awareness of Ibo culture to the
Western world. Thus, although he writes in English, he Africanizes the language of the novel.
Specific Igbo words and complicated names are used freely. Profound philosophical concepts such
as chi and ogbanje are explained in the text or
glossary and are fundamental to the story. The use of idioms and proverbs also clarifies the
conflict, expresses different points of view, and instructs the characters as well as the
reader. Thus, although the point of view is third person, the cultural context is quite personal
and revealing. The use of native proverbs offers a look at the situation through the psychology
of the tribe, in contrast to the attitudes of the British.

Achebe also uses a
third-person omniscient narrator in this novel. There is also very little dialogue, which gives
the impression of oral story-telling. The importance of oral story-telling is evident throughout
the book, as the Ibo people honor and uphold the tradition. Although there is no dominant point
of view, the narration shifts between characters throughout. This shifting viewpoint allows the
reader to consider all sides of the conflicts, & reach his/her own conclusions about their
outcomes.

Even though the third-person narrator maintains an objective point
of view, the interjection of vivd /figurative language and Ibo vocabulary suggests an underlying
purpose. Achebe has stated publicly that one of his goals in writing this novel was to combat
the stereotype of Africa as the "dark continent." Thus, he presents his novel in the
form of a tradition oral story, highlighting the richness of Ibo culture, and the dangers of
immutability.

According to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, where does the government get its power?

Both the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment
and especially by the theories of John Locke concerning the source of power or legitimacy for
governments. 

Hereditary monarchies had drawn their authority from legitimacy
of descent, in which monarchs passed their power down to their children. A second theory,
popular in theocracies such as Egypt or ancient Mesopotamia and revived in early modern Europe,
was the "divine right of kings," which argued that kings drew their authority from
God. Another notion was that raw power itself constituted a form of authority or legitimacy
("might makes right"). 

The radical Enlightenment notion found in
these two documents was that a government draws its power and legitimacy from the people and
governs with the consent of the governed. Thus the Constitution begins with the phrase "we
the people," who are seen collectively as the holders of power. Public
servants such as presidents, congressmen, and civil servants do not have
power themselves but are chosen by the people to do certain necessary administrative
tasks.

Why did George Orwell originally call his novel Animal Farm a "fairy story"?

Fairy
tales, despite being aimed at children, nonetheless contain important adult . As such, they are
a useful vehicle for conveying moral messages. There are quite a few fairy tale elements in
Animal Farm, from the use of talking animals to the
widespread belief in the existence of Sugarcandy Mountain. But whatever elements of the fairy
tale he chooses to employ,is always making a very serious point. The form of the book may be
that of a fairy tale, but the substance assuredly is not.

There's also
something about the whole project of Animalismmeant to reflect Communismthat makes it seem as if
it could only really happen in a fairy tale. And yet, when denuded of its allegorical trappings,
the events at Manor Farm eerilyand deliberatelyparallel those in the Soviet Union under
Stalin.

is a fairy tale in that it has all the outward
characteristics of a story told to children. But internally, in its, characters, and various
plot developments it is very...

Please analyze the character of Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter.

I love watching
the strength inthroughout . She is one of thosethat serves as a model for
us as members in a society, because she grows. Many people accept life as it is and work for
nothing more than the status quo.

Hester's life started out with a terrible
stain, not only does she accept it, but she takes what it is and does the honorable thing at
every turn even if it causes scrutiny, and that doesn't feel good. Maintaining a love for a
child that increasingly tries to hurt her, keeping the secret of a man who would have a
reputation destroyed, and being completely modest in her work and appearance all contribute to
her character's strength and growth. Looking for quotes that illustrate these three qualities
would help develop a strong paper if you are writing about this.

In The Scarlet Letter what is the symbolism of Dimmesdale's and Chillingworth's house?

Inof
, "The Pastor and His Parishioner"famously tellsthe true identity
of the man with whom he has been sharing his dwelling. She also warns Dimmesdale against
"that man", who is crushing the soul right from within Dimmesdale's weakened
body.

Thou must dwell no longer with this man, said
Hester, slowly and firmly. Thy heart must be no longer under his evil eye!

Aside from the obvious conflict, another reason why Hester is very
concerned about Dimmesdale and

In James Joyce's "Araby," why are some characters unnamed?

I would
argue that Mangan's sister is unnamed because she represents an ideal object of the boy's love,
and as such, is unattainable. His love for her is just a pipe dream, a boyish fantasy which
never had the remotest chance of becoming real. She sends him off on a fool's errand to the
bazaar, which itself perfectly epitomizes the unreal world the boy has been inhabiting. If
Mangan's sister were given a name, then that would give his amorous feelings a specific object,
something tangible and real. But his boyish infatuation has no object as such. Instead it is
caught up in a general desire to escape from the restrictions and frustrations of a life that is
impoverished, both materially and emotionally. The lack of a name or any specific object for
these turbulent emotions, means that they have nowhere to go, and so the frustration
continues.

Jane Austen "takes the point of view of her heroines." Examine the validity of this statement with reference to the novel Emma.

The answer to this
question is both yes and no. Austen generally, in all of her novels and not just in
, uses the omniscient narrator to guide us through the trials and
tribulations of her characters. Any cursory examination of this novel reveals the author's voice
speaking in to the situation and commenting on her heroine and giving us information about what
she is like. Consider the following quote, for example:

The real evils, indeed, of Emmas situation were the power of having rather too much her own way,
and a disposition to think a little too well of herself: these were the disadvantages which
threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was...

What are some key evidences of the purported idea of Hailsham? Analyze their significance.

allows
the reader to learn gradually what Hailsham is. Through using Kathys point of view as she looks
back, he restricts the information to her recollections of how she learned about its purposes.
Thus the ominous character of the school itself, as well as the larger social project into
which it fits, grows in scope and intensity until the reader is fully absorbed in the dystopian
horror of her society and comes to understand what she means by the completion she
anticipates.

At first it seems like Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are students at a
posh public school. The students have sports and extracurricular enrichment activities such as
art. Kathy learns from Tommy...

How does 1984 represent power? What danger does George Orwell' s novel 1984 warn us against?

Power in
is portrayed as flowing from Big Brother and the Party. It is they who, as
the slogan emblazoned nearly everywhere in's world says, "are watching you." The Party
controls information, language, the food rations a person receives, the clothing that they wear,
their personal relationships, and virtually everything else. But the Party's power extends
beyond these external factors. It even controls the way people think. Part of this is through
the use of language, as referenced above, and the Thought Police tasked with enforcing
conformity. But Winston even fears that his very...

Why are Hulga and Manley drawn to each other in "Good Country People"?

There is a
sense of "otherness" about both of them which draw them to each other.  She rejects
those around her--her mother, her mother's friends, others in the community--for being ignorant
and uneducated.  She rejects their "happy" attitudes by changing her name from
"Joy" to "Hulga"--you can't much uglier than...

In The Stranger, Meursault is never given a first name, an age, or any physically defining features. What is the reason for this?

To give a
first name to Meursault would signify admitting that he is, in fact, someone who has a defined
identity. Even as an absurdist character, Meursault does not unite the characteristics that
would deem him as an "equal" to the rest of society. He does not know how to
understand people, he refuses to abide by the social canons and is overall a dispassionate
person who lacks any knowledge about himself as a person. 

Since Meursault
does not really make any meaningful connection with the rest of the world, not with a higher
power, nor with his inner self, he is more like a non-entity that merely "sticks" to
things and then lets them go. Hence, the fact that he is so detached from normalcy and his
indifference to being a part of a whole are good reasons Camus could have chosen not to give
this man a name. 

After Meursault finally comes to his senses (or so it
seems) and wants to reclaim his spot in society, he seems to have had his humanity renewed, even
accepting the concept of destiny:

 "Were all elected
by the same fate."

Still, his contradictory nature
really does not let us conclude whether this change is temporary or not. 

Paraphrase "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."

Superfluous
items are those that are unneeded, that are more than enough. Thoreau is saying in the first
sentence that unneeded wealth can only buy us unneeded things. These things distract us from the
essentials that are truly important in life.

We tend to view money as the
most important item to attain. Thoreau says in the second sentence that on the contrary, money
can't buy us the things the soul truly needs.

Thoreau makes these statements
in the context of arguing for the value of owning far fewer material goods. Having fewer goods
actually makes our lives better, not worse. As Thoreau puts it:

if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most
significant and vital experiences ... It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Thoreau states a little further on that money matters far less than
truth. He recounts attending a party full of dishonesty and insincerity. Despite the fine wine
and food, Thoreau went away feeling hungry.

Throughout ,
Thoreau pounds away at his central point: the pursuit of ever more material goods hurts us more
than helps us. We can experience life more fully and truly when we live
simply.

What are three quotes that show Atticus is determined to defend Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird? Please include page numbers.

Whenquestionsabout his role in the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus says the following to
her, showing that he is determined to offer Robinson the best defense he can, because it is the
right thing to do:

Simply because we were licked a hundred
years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Atticus is clearly under pressure from Aunt Alexandra not to fight too hard for Tom
Robinsonpressure he deflects by saying the following, which Scout hears:

I walked home with Dill and returned in time to overhear Atticus
saying to Aunty, . . . in favor of Southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for
preserving politeat the expense of human life, a pronouncement that made me suspect they had
been fussing again.

During his closing arguments,
Atticus shows his determination to do more than a mock defense of Tom Robinson by pointing out
the truth that whites and blacks share a common humanity. Whites can lie and blacks can tell the
truth, for all that the racist...

In what ways is Winston's fatalism self-fulfilling?

I would
say that 's fatalism helps to become self- fulfilling because Winston has taken the form of that
which he detests.  I think that many of his actions are driven by the fact that Winston has a
disdain for Oceanic social and political orders as well as his life, in general.  The detesting
of such realities has impacted him so much that he ends up taking the form of that which he
hates.  This might help why he keeps the diary, why he engages in the sex with , and even why he
has such a bizarre affinity for.  In the end, Winston has become so trapped by his hatred for
Oceania and its control that he can no longer be apart from it.  This is why his love for Julia
cannot be fully experienced as it rose out of a condition of hatred, preventing...

I am writing about the supernatural in The Lovely Bonesand am struggling to find some good quotations to show how Susie describes her heaven in a...

In
, Susies heaven is the furthest thing from threateningit's wish-fulfillment.
She describes heaven initially as the following:

We had
been given, in our heavens, our simplest dreams (chapter 2).

The point is that heaven provides everyone who goes whatever they might desire or dream
ofand as those desires and dreams change, so does heaven itself. It is a positive place in that
a lot of the annoyances or pains of Earth are absent. For example, Susie says,

The boys did not pinch our...

How did Victor's personality change while he was working on the monster?

During the time that he
works on his creature,says that his "cheek had grown pale with study, and [his] person had
become emaciated with confinement."He rarely went out or participated in anything aside
from his work.He clung to hope, even in the face of failure and "with unrelaxed and
breathless eagerness, [he] pursued nature to her hiding-places."He claims that "a
resistless and almost frantic impulse urged [him] forward," and he feels that he lost
"all soul or sensation" except for the one goal: making his creature.Victor calls the
attitude with which he worked a "passionate...

What are your first impression of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet? What is the audience's first impression of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet?

The
audience is first introduced toin act 1, scene 1, when he arrives on the scene to discover that
the Capulet and Montague servants are fighting asattempts to break them up. Tybalt immediately
pulls out his sword and threatens to kill Benvolio, who responds by saying that he is simply
trying to keep the peace. Tybalt then comments that he hates the word "peace" as much
as he hates the Montagues and proceeds to fight Benvolio. Tybalt is initially depicted as a
hot-headed, violent man who prefers to take action rather than talk things out. Tybalt is also
portrayed as a vengeful man with a fierce...

What were the southern advantages at the start of the Civil War?

Despite
its much smaller population9 million to the North's 23 millionthe South began the Civil War with
an army almost equal in size to that of their Northern opponents. Not only that, but the South
could rely on some of the finest generals in the United Statesmost notably Robert E. Lee, whom
General Winfield Scott tried to persuade to join the Union...

What is a example of microeconomics?

A
major component of the definition of microeconomics is the word "individual." The
emphasis is on the singular and/or small scale. "Individual" might make someone think
of a single person, and that would fall under the category of microeconomics.

An example would be the budget that a high school students sets for themselves. That
student has various sources of income types and expenses. Managing those incomes and expenses is
microeconomics, since microeconomics deals with the financial choices that individuals make and
what factors affect and influence those choices. Those choices involve decisions about using,
distributing, and managing scarce resources; therefore, issues of supply and demand enter into
an individual's microeconomic system whether that person realizes it or not.

The category of microeconomics is also broad enough to cover individual families and
even individual businesses. As the "individual" is broadened, the microeconomic system
gets more complex and will switch over to macroeconomics once the subject is the overall economy
of a city or country.

Provide a critical view of Blanche's mental State?

Blanche is a
woman in a state of inner and outer decay. She is the shadow of her former self, and theof all
she had hoped to become.

She is a woman who once enjoyed the most desirable
wants in life: beauty, status, money, company, freedom. She was a gorgeous lady, married to a
husband she loved, and member of a prestigious Southern family.

With time,
all the very things she was made of began to fall apart: Her husband turned out to be gay, and
killed himself. The sound of the shotgun still resonates in Blanche's mind and leaves her
paralyzed with astonishment each time she remembers it. This shows a post-traumatic stress
disordered mind which has lost more than just a husband.

As the family
fortune turned around, Blanche lost now 2 symbols of status, money and marriage. The lack of
both happened too suddenly for her to be prepared for such a fall. Hence, he hangs on to the
only thing she has left: looks.

Since her reputedly good looks are all that
she has of remembrance from the woman she was once, she hangs on to them with such exaggeration
that sex became her power tool.  Yet, she abused it. She slept with one of her students, and her
reputation tarnished for good.

Running on empty, she fled to her sister's
dysfunctional family home pretending to still be who she used to be: Haughty, proud, snobby, and
still lusty and lecherous. Yet, there she is finally finished off by Kowalski, who openly shows
the world who she really is, rapes her, and then institutionalizes her.

In
the end, she was a trainwreck with no destination. That was her sad truth.

What are some quotes (including chapter/page #) from Simon in Lord of the Flies that really summarize who he is?

is the
introspective and kind character of the . Despite the fact he has a quiet
nature, he generally commands respect among the group who understand he speaks a lot of sense.
His kindness is apparent when he reaches up to pick fruit for the smaller children and when he
goes down the slope to fetch 's glasses afterknocks them off. It is one of the tragedies of the
book that the group murder him, and just after he finds out the beast is in fact a
man.

On page 137, in the chapter "Shadows and Tall Trees," Simon
tells , "You'll get back all right. I think so, anyway." As Ralph contemplates later
on in the novel, Simon says you and not we. It is as if he knows that he is destined to
die.

On page 110 in the chapter "Beast From Water," Simon says,
"Maybe there is a beast.. Maybe it's only us." He is intelligently suggesting that if
there is a beast, the beast is inside each one of them and if they are not careful they will
release it and cause havoc. It is...

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In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what are some specific examples of romanticism?

Romanticism often focuses on elements of the supernatural,
which is definitely a feature that appears in "."This seemingly prophetic bird knocks
at the narrator's chamber not once--but twice. First the narrator hears a tapping at his chamber
door but opens it to find only darkness. Then the tapping quickly seems to come from his window.
The raven calmly "steps" in and then perches upon a bust of Pallas. This bird tortures
the narrator, repeating the word "Nevermore" over and over as the narrator questions
him about the lost. Clearly, the raven has unearthly powers in its...

Monday, 10 December 2012

Why is globalization and marketing are important in today economy?

This is a
good question. Let me start with the importance of globalization and then talk about
marketing.

First, globalization is important, because nations are no longer
insular. They work together, trade with each other, and draw from each others strengths. When it
all works well, then globalization can make things more efficient, more profitable, and more
beneficial for all people. In light of these benefits, it is important to consider globalization
when it comes to business. Let me give one example. We manufacture many of our goods in China,
which makes it cheaper for us, and at the same times benefits the Chinese economy by granting
employment. With this said, there are also weaknesses, but that is for another post.

When it comes to marketing, it too is important, because it seeks to study the best way
to introduce products or services to customers. This is the intersection between a company and
the public. It, therefore, seeks to get customers, retain them, and mark them loyal in the long
run. All of this gives a competitive edge, which is key.

Why does Hamlet repeatedly say to Ophelia, "Get thee to a nunnery"?

says to ,
"Get thee to a nunnery" so that she will stop enabling people, like her father, , to
spy onand undermine him:

HAMLET:

Get
thee to a nunnery! Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? ... Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Where's your father?... If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as
chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. Go,
farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters
you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly too. Farewell.

And Hamlet has also had it with women, in general, and his mother, Queen ,
specifically. Nuns have none of the traits he so reviles in other individuals of their
gender:

HAMLET:

I have heard of your
paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You
jig, you amble, and you lisp; and nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your
ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't! it hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages.
Those that are married alreadyall but oneshall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
nunnery, go.

Hamlet wants honesty and loving kindness
from women, yet gets none of it from the women in his life. Better for them and him that they
make their way to a nunnery.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

I need please an explanation of the values, influences, themes, techniques, subjects and characteristics of the period of style for Bernini's...

First let's
consider that Bernini is, in every sense, "a Renaissance man". Not only was he versed
in sculpture as an artist, but he was also an architect, a historian, poet, dramatist, and avid
in literature. Bernini read the diary of St. Teresa de Avila's The Life of Saint
Teresa of vila by herself, Chapter 29, where she explains how one of her may
visions led her to the Via Unitiva, one of the three Renaissance Catholic communions that
extreme Catholics such as Theresa, and San Juan de la Cruz, to cite another example, would
engage into to ultimately meet with God. In her writings, Teresa said that, to her left side,
she saw an angel that, out of nowhere came and stabbed her with a spear that..

was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness
caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one cannot possibly wish it to cease, nor is ones
soul then content with anything but God..

These
seemingly extreme ways were common in 16th century Spain. Bernini wanted to...

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With our ever increasing global economy and ability to communicate across the world in real time, how does a global perspective help when examining...

In
sociology, culture can be defined as all of the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, material objects,
and other things that define a particular group of people.  The people who share a culture and
live in a certain geographical area are defined as a society. seeks to study society.  It seeks
to understand how ones place in society, defined by such things as the groups one belongs to,
have an impact on ones life.  Clearly, culture has a large role in determining this.  For
example, if a particular culture holds that women are inferior to men, that belief
will...

Was Phoenix Jackson's journey successful? Was Phoenix Jackson's journey successful?

Yes,
Phoenix Jackson's journey is successful. Despite a few mishaps along the way, she makes the
physical journey. It is a familiar and arduous trip, but she perseveres and there is
satisfaction for her in making this journey. The day she can no longer make this sojourn is
probably the beginning of the end for her, as she will have lost her purpose in
life.

Saturday, 8 December 2012

In act 3, Why and what are the reason for Mrs. Higgins' impatience with her son and Colonel Pickering?

In chapter 3
of the playMrs. Higgins is "at-home", which means that it is a day to expect and
receive visitors

As Henry Higgins enters his mother's house uninvited, his
mother reprimands his entrance because his behavior is so rash and improper that none of her
friends what to visit when they find out that Higgins is there.

However, the
reason behind his visit is to tell his mother about the Eliza project and to tell her that Eliza
will be visiting.

Later on, after a visit from the Eynsfords and Eliza's
entrance, Mrs. Higgins begins to lose...

Friday, 7 December 2012

Why did Judge Taylor appoint Atticus to Tom's case?

In
chapter sixteen,enters the courthouse and is astonished to overhear one of the members of the
Idlers Club comment that Judge Taylor appointedto defend Tom Robinson. Judge Taylor specifically
chose Atticus to defend Tom Robinson instead of the inexperienced Maxwell Green because he
believes in justice and knew that Atticus would valiantly defend Tom. Following the trial, Miss
Maudie explains to the children that numerous people in Maycomb's community supported Atticus
and Tom Robinson. She makes sure to bring up the fact that Judge Taylor specifically chose
Atticus because he believed Tom was innocent and knew Atticus would defend him to the best of
his ability. Judge Taylor's decision to appoint Atticus reveals that he values justice and
equality. He is aware that Atticus is a morally-upright man and trusts that he would not succumb
to the peer pressure from his racist neighbors, which is why he chose him to defend Tom
Robinson. Judge Taylor also knows that Atticus is...

What were Atticus' personal reasons for defending Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird?

has
several personal reasons for defending Tom Robinson. Atticus is a morally upright man who
believes that African Americans should be treated equally. He also realizes that Tom Robinson is
innocent and feels like it is his responsibility to protect Tom from the racist community
members of Maycomb. Atticus also stated that he could not live with himself if he did not defend
Tom to the best of his ability. It would go against Atticus' morals and values if he chose not
to defend Tom Robinson. Atticus' conscience does not allow him to walk away from the case. As
was mentioned in the previous post, Atticus also defends Tom because he wants to be a positive
role model for his children. Atticus wants to lead by example and valiantly defends Tom Robinson
in a hopeless case.andlearn integrity and courage from witnessing their father defend Tom
Robinson in front of a prejudiced jury. Atticus also wants to be the catalyst for social change
in the backward town of Maycomb. 

What are several of the major themes in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe?

's
novel  tells the story of a man cast away on an isolated island who
attempts to create a life for himself. An important thing to note in reading the novel is that
Daniel Defoe was himself a Dissenter and a strong advocate for the rights of Dissenters to
freedom of conscience. Many of his 's spiritual developments reflect this.

The first theme in the book is one of survival. In his experience being shipwrecked,
Crusoe must think about what is absolutely necessary for physical survival. 

The theme of survival leads to a second theme, which is awareness that in our lives in
civilization we constantly long for many things we do not actually need. Thus Crusoe reflects on
the theme, or sin, of covetousness:

Those people cannot
enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them.
All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for
what we have.

The next theme is spiritual growth. Away
from the regular life of civilization Crusoe begins to understand that religion does not require
elaborate rituals or priests, but faith, a position which was the central tenet of many
Dissenters. 

Another important theme is the value of self-sufficiency and
hard work. Crusoe makes a life for himself on the island by setting goals and achieving them
through self-discipline and hard work, a point that might be expressed in Virgil's phrase
"labor omnia vincit."

Another major theme is
colonialism as it appears in Crusoe's relationship to Friday, which is a microcosm of the
British empire's relationships with indigenous peoples.

An additional theme
is fear. It is only by overcoming his fears that Crusoe can create a happy life on the
island.

A final theme is money, which is essential in the civilized world,
but useless in the world of the island.

Thursday, 6 December 2012

What are some important quotes and their meanings in chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies?

The
following quotes are all from chapter 3 of Golding's The .

His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they
dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling
sunburn.

This description ofcreates an image of a boy who
is in the process of succumbing to the natural elements that surround him. The relentless sun
has bleached his hair and damaged his skin, and both of these effects of the strong sun
represent the powerful effect of nature and the island environment on Jack. As well, the passage
of time is observed in the growing length of his hair.

He
tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.

"I went on. I thought, by myself"

The madness came into
his eyes again.

Jack's primitive instincts are beginning
to take over his rational mind, as evidenced by his obsession with hunting and killing a pig for
meat. In this passage, Jack is talking with, who continues to be able to...

What is the conclusion of The Face on the Milk Carton?

At the end of
the book, Janie is convinced that she was kidnapped, and fears that her adopted parents -- who
she loves very much -- are actually the kidnappers. She tries, and fails, to get through her
fears on her own, but the loss of a letter to her possible biological family convinces her that
it is time for adult intervention. Her adopted parents, seeing all the information she has
gathered, realize that their daughter Hannah lied about giving birth to Janie after joining a
cult. In fact, Hannah kidnapped Janie from her real parents, the Springs. Janie is overcome with
the emotion and pleads with her adopted parents to leave it alone.

"Then I'm not going," said Janie. "I've had enough emotion. I just want
this to end happily ever after.

"Not everything does, Janie," said
her father. "Hannah didn't. I don't see how this can."

[...]"It has to!" cried Janie. "Tell the Springs, Lizzie. Tell them it
has to end happily ever after."
(Cooney, , Google
Books)

Janie's adopted mother Miranda, however, knows
that Janie's real mother has been living the last decade in terrible agony; losing a child is,
for a parent, the worstpossible. Despite Janie's request, Miranda calls the Springs and hands
over the phone to Janie. In the last sentences of the novel, Janie speaks to her real mother for
the first time in her memory.

The conclusion of the book functions in two
ways. First, it is a cliffhanger; it leads directly into the next book in the series, and allows
the reader to be expectant and eager to continue Janie's story. The cliffhanger structure is a
classic method of making the reader want more. Second, the end acts as afor all the emotional
drama that precedes it; as the event is taken out of Janie's hands, she is finally able to
relax, knowing that her loving adopted parents are working to help her. Janie has spent most of
the novel under intense stress, and now with the revelations of her birth and the contact with
her parents, she can finally begin to heal.

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What are the symbols and allegory present in "Young Goodman Brown"?

Anis a story
with a moral message. The author uses symbols to help reveal the theme. The main message of this
story is often said to be Hawthorne's rejection of the Puritan belief system, which was a belief
in predestination---a person is saved and goes to heaven not on the basis of what he does,
necessarily, but on whether God chooses to save him. However, people that have been chosen by
God will act like in Godly ways. Obiviously, his can leave one in doubt about their salvation,
as Goodman Brown discovers. The symbols in the story include Brown's name. It is a common name
and he is meant to represent the common man. His wife's name, Faith, is also significant. She
makes him late for his meeting ("Faith kept me back awhile.") However, her pink
ribbons, which represent innocence, are left behind while she attends the forest meeting with
the Devil. So, after his forest experience, Brown does not know whether to believe in
"Faith" or not.The old man Brown meets is obviously the devil. The first clue is his
staff which looks like a serpent. In Western literature, the forest is often a symbol for the
unknown or the far corners of the mind. Thus, Brown's walk with the devil is a spiritual journey
in which he moves from from innocence to recognizing that evil exists in the hearts of
everyone.

Identify and describe two ways to express three-dimensional attributes in two-dimensional work.

Three
ways to create three-dimensional effects are shading, anaglyph, and perspective.

Shading is applied to a drawing of an object or figure to make it seem that it is
lighted from a particular direction and casting a shadow.

Anaglyph refers to
the addition of colors, usually red and cyan, to create a stereoscopic effect. The colors are
encoded separately for each eye, and the optical combination with both eyes creates the 3D
impression (with special glasses).

Linear perspective is used in drawing a
scene. It may be one-point or two-point perspective. Linear refers to drawing a line to a point
that draws the eye toward it, creating the appearance of depth. One-point perspective guides the
eye to a single vanishing point where two lines meet. Two-point employs two vanishing points,
usually at opposite sides of the composition.

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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

How did the government in Fahrenheit 451 gain control of this society?

The government
in Farenheit 451 gained control over the society by slowly and
strategically limiting the public's right to think for themselves. This was slyly done under the
auspice of promoting equality and political correctness, urging others to conform.

One of the largest ways that the government "leveled the playing field" of
the public mind was by banning certain books. This was made palatable to people through the
introduction of mass media, sports, and other forms of entertainment that would draw people away
from critical thinking and intellectual dialogues. As modern life sped up and became full of
opportunities for distraction, books were abridged and then eventually burned.

Ultimately, this movement toward total authority was not difficult, as people were all
too willing to give up their power. 

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

How does Jane Austen convy her own views and values through the novel Emma? Please include key scenes/examples.

It is important
to remember that part of Austen's style is the use of . There is a tension between the surface
meaning and Austen's intended meaning. One of the key scenes which demonstrates this is the Box
Hill incident (Chapter 43).

In the opening paragraph, Austen indicates,
through her use of...

In "Young Goodman Brown", how does Goodman Brown view his action in relation to his family history?

There is quite
a bit ofto be read at those references to Goodman Brown's family members.  Brown believes that
he comes from a long line of faithful and upstanding citizens of the Puritan community and the
Devil agrees and brings up two examples examples.  He says, "I helped your grandfather, the
constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly throught the streets of Salam."  To
Brown's ears, the actions of his grandfather are good because Quakers were not of the truth
faith and needed to be punished for their practice of their varient religious beliefs.  But we
as readers recognize that Hawthorne is illustrating the narrow-minded and cruel behavior of the
Puritans. 

The second example the Devil mentions is that it was he that
"brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled in my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian
village."  Again, Brown sees his father's action against the innocent Indians as an
appropriate thing because the heathen Indians were "bad,"  but Hawthorne...

Illustrate how a buffer works using the C2H5NH2/C2H5NH3+ buffer system. Show with equations how base/conjugate acid system affects bases/acids

A buffer
solution is an aqueous solution that contains a weak acid and its conjugate base and weak base
and its conjugate acid. Ethylamine (C2H5NH2) is a weak base with pKb = 3.3 and its...

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Monday, 3 December 2012

What are some examples of idioms in the book Wonder by R.J Palacio?

Anis a
word or phrase used in a language that has a meaning different from its literal or original
meaning. Slang is one typical type of idiom; another is foreign words incorporated into a
language. Extreme exaggeration () can also create an idiomatic usage of a familiar
term.

The kinds of idioms that appear in the book are those that would be
customarily used by an adolescent boy asis the first-person narrator. The text is his own speech
or what he reports in dialogue with his family and social circle.

Augusts
parents take him to visit his new school during the . When they meet his homeroom teacher, Mrs.
Garcia, he shakes her hand and she comments the firmness of his grip. His father says that he
has a killer handshake. Here killer is used metaphorically to mean extremely powerful, not
that it would literally kill anyone.

When Augusts parents are conversing with
his school principal,, they mention that his older sister will be...

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In this lesson you're going to write a story. Think of an event, or a series of events, which would be embarrassing, silly, or clumsy, and make up...

In
order to write your story for this assignment, you must first be familiar with Freytag's
Pyramid. This is a structure used to ensure a successful, dramatic story. It has seven key
steps.

1. , which means setting the scene.
2. 
   Inciting Incident, in which the character reacts to something that happens.


3. Rising Action, where the story builds, often in response to some challenge or
   complication.
4. , the height of drama and intensity, where the story reaches
   its peak. This might be a confrontation between the main character and their archenemy, for
   example.
5. Falling Action, in which the effects of the climax are gradually
   brought down. Often the character reflects on what they have learned, or how they have
   changed.
6. Resolution, where the original problem is now solved or the
   challenge met in some way.
7. , which is otherwise known as the ending. It
   can be happy or sad, depending on the type of story you want to tell.

So your job is to pick an event that would make a good story, and fit it into this
dramatic structure. Then, identify the parts that highlight Rising Action, Climax, and Falling
Action in your story. Here is a very brief example of how that might look:

Last weekend, at the zoo, I saw something amazing. Near the penguin exhibit, a child
was playing with a toy shark. By accident, the shark tumbled into the penguin cage. The child
cried out in alarm as several penguins dived for the shark toy. Water splashed and penguins
thrashed, all trying to catch it. Finally, one penguin emerged triumphant, with the shark in its
beak. However, when trying to swallow it, the toy got stuck in the penguins throat. It started
to choke! The child was crying and everyone was running around, calling for help. Luckily, a
zookeeper came running in and grabbed the choking penguin. With expert hands, she plucked the
toy shark out. The penguin squawked in relief. The zookeeper then returned the shark to a
tearful child, after washing it clean of penguin spit. Alls well that ends well, but it was a
dramatic day at the zoo.

In my example, the Rising Action is when the toy
shark falls into the penguin exhibit. The Climax is when the penguin tries to eat the toy, and
ends up choking. Falling Action is when the zookeeper saves the penguin and returns the toy. I
hope this is helpful in guiding your storytelling project!

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From J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, what is Holdens attitude toward religion?

is a
self-proclaimed atheist. In fact, he claims that he and all of his siblings are atheists. He
also notes that his parents are of different religions, but he doesn't say which ones. It is
interesting, though, that an atheist would feel inclined to pray or even have an opinion on the
life of Jesus Christ. However, Holden does feel like praying after the prostitute leaves his
room inand he also shares his opinion of Christ. 

After the prostitute leaves
Holden's hotel room, he gets himself ready for bed and his thoughts reach back to memories of
his dead brother . Thinking about Allie may have prompted to feel like praying, as discussed in
the following passage:

"I felt like praying or
something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In
the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for
most of the other stuff in the Bible" (99).

Thinking
about the Bible then prompts Holden to think about his opinion about the Disciples, too. As
stated above, Holden likes Jesus, but he says the following about the Disciples and the
Bible:

"Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy
the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and
all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they
did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If
you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic
and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones" (99).

From this passage, the reader can infer that Holden has at least
read the New Testament of the Bible because he reflects on events that happen during Christ's
life and after his crucifixion when his followers take over leading his church. Holden is well
read for his age, so it would make sense that he might have read the Bible for literary purposes
rather than for religious ones, but these facts are not mentioned. Since Holden identifies with
atheism, it is also questionable as to why he would feel like praying when his family is also
not very religious. It can be inferred that maybe Holden feels scared and lonely like a little
child at this point in his adventure and he unexpectedly feels the urge to pray. 

In , Holden meets a couple of nuns who are also teachers. He likes talking to the one
who teaches English about certain books or plays. He even gives her a ten dollar donation
because he has such a good time with her, but he doesn't care much for Catholics, either, which
he elaborates on as well. Other than that, Holden doesn't discuss any other religions or
feelings towards them. This suggests that Holden probably doesn't know much about Islam,
Hinduism, or any other world religion either. And what he does know about Christianity is
limited; therefore, his attitude towards religion is limited and he must not think much of it
because he also claims he is an atheist.

Please suggest a topic sentence for a compare and contrast essay on "Battle Royal" (Ralph Ellison) and "Sonny's Blues" (James Baldwin).

A compare
and contrast topic sentence for these two stories might look at a theme the two stories share
(comparison) and then make a claim about how this theme is handled differently in each story
(contrast).

Two themes are fairly prominent in each story, but they are
handled differently. The first theme is that of identity. Both main characters are young men who
are trying to figure out who they are despite very strong influences around them. The contrast
here, of course, is that the influences are quite different, even if they have some of the same
effects. The narrator in "Sonny's Blues" is influenced by his parents and their lack
of support for his brother, and he is influenced by his brother, Sonny. The narrator in "
" is influenced also by familynamely the memory of his dead grandfatherand also by the
prominent white men in his town who arrange the boxing match. It is also worth noting that the
narrator in each story is nameless, further emphasizing this idea that...

What symbolism might there be to the fact that it is the Bible scenes on Scrooge's mantle that undergo change in A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge's fireplace appears to be based on
the one at 18 St. Mary's Place, The Brook, Chatham, where Dickens lived briefly as a child in
1821€“22. This too was surrounded with painted tiles illustrating scenes from the Scriptures.
Dickens gives a list of the illustrations in Stave I:

There were Cains and Abels, Pharaohs daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers
descending through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting
off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts

The selection of Cain and Abel certainly seems significant.
Scrooge's callous statement that the poor are not his business echoes Cain's question: "Am
I my brother's keeper?" This question is answered in the affirmative by Marley when he says
that mankind was his business, to which he failed to attend in his lifetime. Pharaoh's daughter
offers a contrast, since she looked after Moses, who was very far from being related to her and
whom she merely found in a basket.

The Queen of Sheba may not fit into the
list quite so well, since she is the only figure dropped by Dickens in his public readings of
. She is certainly associated with gift-giving, however. There are so many
stories about Abraham that it is difficult to know which one Dickens has in mind; perhaps the
near-sacrifice of Isaac, which would fit in with the themes of death, infancy, and
responsibility. Belshazzar, though a neutral figure in the Book of Daniel, was a tyrant in later
Jewish tradition and, like Scrooge, was famously weighed in the balance and found wanting by a
ghostly power.

Describe a time when you witnessed or experienced cultural incompetence in the delivery of health care. Knowing what you now know, discuss what you...

Cultural incompetence in
healthcare delivery refers to the failure of medical professionals to adequately understand and
respond to cultural differences among their patients. There are many examples of cultural
incompetence in the delivery of both behavioral and other healthcare.

For
example, as the article below from the National Council explains, providers of behavioral
healthcare should be aware that Latinas in grades 9€“12 have much higher suicide rates than
other groups. This can help them assess the mental health of their patients from different
groups and understand the cultural context of their mental illness. In addition, transgender,
lesbian, and gay adults are more likely to have mental illness than other adults.

A culturally competent healthcare provider takes the time to assess the mental and
physical wellbeing of different kinds of patients with an understanding of how cultural
variables might affect them. For example, a culturally incompetent provider might not ask a
transgender patient about the trauma or stress that person has experienced as a result of their
sexual identity. To make this encounter with a healthcare provider more culturally competent,
the provider should assess this patient's substance use, anxiety and depression levels and ask
about the person's personal support structure. Cultural competence involves asking questions to
understand the totality of a patient's life.

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Sunday, 2 December 2012

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, what is a Personal Legend?

In 's
, Santiago first hears about Personal Legends from the King of Salem,
Melchizedek, who tells him the following: 

"But, as
time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince [people] that it will be impossible for them
to realize their Personal Legend . . . The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness.
And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's destiny is a
person's only real obligation. All things are one" (21-22).

From the above passage, Melchizedek explains that the universe
wants people to achieve their destinies. A Personal Legend is not just the result found at the
end of one's life, though. It is more than simply reaching a final destination. A Personal
Legend is achieved when a person fulfills the complete measure of his or her creation. This
achievement is different for each person and can only be discovered by interpreting and
following omens that lead one through an educational journey. By going through this journey,
people learn what they need to know in order to fulfill their unique Personal Legends. Only
after people achieve this end can they experience true joy and satisfaction in life. Those who
do not reach this goal are left to wonder what their destinies could have been. They never find
out what they could have accomplished in life. Santiago elaborates on Personal Legends when he
comes closer to achieving his:

"It's true that
everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each
thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until
someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only" (150).

From the passage above, Santiago comes to the understanding that Personal Legends are
realized when a person completely transforms himself or herself into something better than he or
she was before. In alchemy, for example, lead is turned into gold. Lead makes a complete
transformation from its ordinary self into something better. Therefore, Personal Legends help
people to become the best they can be because they achieve their fullest potential.
Furthermore, as stated above, the universe wants everyone to discover his or her own Personal
Legend because the Soul of the World will achieve its destiny in the
process. 

How does Mrs. Conlan feel about John's drinking and smoking?

Mrs.
Conlan unfortunately doesn't do much about letting her opinion on John's drinking and smoking be
known. She does things like interrupt every argument with a trivial offer of a pleasantry or
with cleaning or with vacating the locale. Most attribute Mrs. Conlan's behavior to
insensitivity and perfectionism that prevents her from noticing or caring about John's harmful
habits. However, it may be that, after a long marriage to a man that is a trial and a sorrow,
and after seeing some of the same traits arise in her beloved son, Mrs. Conlan may be using
these avenues to escape the heartbreak she feels and the heartbreak she envisions coming.


If the first scenario of insensitivity and perfectionism is true, then Mrs.
Conlan's attitude toward John's smoking and drinking would most logically be callous unconcern
or blind disregard. If the second scenario of escapism from overwhelming unhappiness and dread
is true, then her attitude toward John's behavior would most logically be frightened disapproval
and paralyzed worry.

What are two differences between the native peoples of North and South America?

I can think
of two major differences between the cultures of North and South American indigenous
populations. First, North American indigenous populations were far more mobile than those in
South America. As far as we are able to discern from archaeology and historical studies, First
Nations peoples of North America practiced a hunter-gatherer subsistence lifestyle. They might
spend one season in one region, hunting deer or catching fish, and travel during another season
for the purpose of gathering wild foods like berries. Some First Nations tribes did practice
small-scale subsistence agriculture, but nothing like that of South American tribes. In South
America, life was far more centralized to city-kingdoms. In fact, several prosperous and highly
stratified societies developed in South America. For example, the Inca empire had a range of
very wealthy elites to (relatively) poor laborers. Wealth became concentrated in the capital
city of Cuzco, as people were required to send goods to this administrative center as tax
payments. Not only were luxury goods from the reaches of the empire sent to the capital; food
produced in the agricultural parts of the empire was redistributed through the capital as a sort
of security system in case of crop failure. This was a far more stratified and administrated
society as compared to the relatively egalitarian, nomadic lifestyle of North American
peoples.

Another major difference, which manifested itself in societal
structure, were beliefs about the relationship between the sacred and the profane. Most North
American indigenous cultures held that there was no difference between the world we live in and
the spiritual realm. The god(s) were in all things, all people, and all places, and it is our
duty as humans to co-exist with all of nature as a part of the same spiritual entity. By this
same belief, god(s) or the sacred did not really become concentrated in or limited to just one
individual. Anyone could "channel" god(s), and it was not off-limits to anyone in
particular. However, in most South American indigenous cultures, things were quite different.
The leaders of the great empires and city-kingdoms I mentioned before were often considered
god-kings. This means they might have been considered an earthly manifestation of god(s,) or
they were believed to be the best and most direct advocate for the people in dealing with
god(s). Sometimes rulers were believed to have been descended from god(s) themselves. It is in
part because of this belief that so much wealth was concentrated centrally in South American
indigenous cultures-- sending as much wealth as possible to the person who negotiates with
god(s) is sure to get you on their good side! 

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Why is it important for the narrator to have an understanding of his surroundings in "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

The struggle of the narrator to place himself
in his surroundings is mirrored by the struggle of the reader to place this story appropriately
in historical context. The narrator conveys early in the story that his torture is part of the
Spanish Inquisition, which lasted for around 700 years from the early 1200s to the early 1800s.
That's a wide historical time span. We learn toward the end of the story that the French army
(Napoleon) has entered Toledo, so this lets us know that the story's setting is near the end of
the Inquisition. If that's true, how can we make sense of these very medieval forms of torture?
Theroom with the pendulum doesn't seem a likely setting for the era in which the story is
set.

We also don't know why the narrator has been given
this sentence or how he has offended those who have condemned him. As his sentence is read, he
reflects that "the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy
indeterminate hum." Does he deserve this punishment which has been handed to him? Should we
feel empathy for his situation?

This mental struggle on the reader's part is
reflected in the narrator's struggle to place himself in his surroundings. He clings to the
walls, investigating every crevice, trying to get a sense of where he is. Reading of his torture
provides the same experience for the reader. Poe weaves a tale of historical fact and
fantastical imagination to create a plot from which it is difficult to extract the truthjust as
the narrator finds it difficult to extract the truth of his own physical
surroundings.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

What is the name of the Hebrew holy book?

When you ask
about the Hebrew holy book, I assume that you are asking about the scriptures that are held by
Jews to be sacred.  If that is the case, different people use different names for this
scripture.  Non-Jews often refer to the Jewish holy book as the Old Testament.  The scriptures
are also sometimes called the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, or the Written Torah.  However, the most
proper name for these scriptures is the Tanakh.

While many Americans use the
term Old Testament, Jews do not use the term because they do not recognize the Christian New
Testament as part of scripture.  Since there is no new testament in their minds, there is no
reason to call their scripture the Old Testament.  Many people also use the term Torah to
refer to Jewish scripture.  However, that term most properly refers only to the first five books
of the Old Testament, also called the Pentateuch.  The proper term for the Jewish scripture as a
whole is Tanakh.  This term is an acronym for the three sections of the scripture.  The first is
the Torah, or law.  The second is Neviim or the prophets.  Finally, there is the Kethuvim, or
the writings.  The beginnings of these three words are made into the acronym Tanakh.  This is
the term that should be used to refer to the holy book of the Jews.