What do the names Mollie, Mr. Jones, the sheep, and Mr. Whymper signify in Animal Farm?

The name
Mollie signifies that she is a servant: this is very much a servant's name of the time period.
Instead of serving in a maid in a house, however, she, as a horse, pulls the Jones' buggy. She
is the typical working-class person who is willing to sell out for a few luxuries. She can't
understand the goals of the Rebellion or that it is degrading to be dressed in ribbons to pull a
cart. She enjoys her degradation and wants her ribbons and sugar lumps back. She communicates
that some people will never be attracted by the idea of a new and better life.

Jones, similarly, is a very typical English name for an undistinguished person. Our Mr.
Jones is an Everyman who owns a small farm. His name, like Mollie's, signifies that he
represents a type more than an individual. He is the good, conservative, unthinking John Bull
Englishman with a portrait of the monarch in his parlor.

The fact that no
sheep are named is significant. They are a mass of very naive animals who are easily led
and...

How did the interaction between people and the environment shape the physical landscapes of the West in particular?

People
interacted a great deal with their environment in the West. People blasted tunnels through
mountains in order to build railroads. Large mining companies also used water pressure in order
to tear down mountainsides in order to quickly find ore. This work was dangerous and led to the
death of many railroad workers and miners. It also led to considerable damage that helped to
fuel the national park movement. Loggers cutting ancient trees on hillsides also left many
Western localities at the mercy of mudslides.

In order to provide water for
cities and irrigation, many sought to divert rivers using dams. These dams provide recreational
facilities for the area, but they also interrupt fragile ecosystems, as they disturb fish
migration habits.

Large-scale agriculture ruined the grassland on the Plains
that had existed for centuries. In the early-twentieth century, wheat speculators came West in
droves looking for quick profits. When the bottom fell out of the wheat market, they left,
leaving the topsoil at the mercy of the elements.

The 1930s saw drought come
to the region as well as high winds. These created the Dust Bowl, blowing away priceless topsoil
and creating sand dunes in the Midwest. Many places even today cannot support agriculture due to
this lack of topsoil.

Though the West is one of the most vital economic zones
in the United States, its development has come at a cost to the physical landscape. The natural
beauty of the West combined with the boundless capitalism of the Gilded Age helped to fuel the
need for the national park service so that everyone can enjoy the West in relatively pristine
conditions.

In Animal Farm, Chapter 5, what is the power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball?

andbegin to
disagree on every issue: 

These two disagreed at every
point where disagreement was possible. If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with
barley, the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats, and if one of them said that
such and such a field was just right for cabbages, the other would declare that it was useless
for anything except roots. Each had his own following, and there were some violent
debates. 

Snowball spends large amounts of time designing
the plans for the windmill. He wants the animals to start building upon completion of the plans.
Napoleon would rather spend their efforts on food production. 

Snowball wants
to incite rebellion in other farms but Napoleon wants to focus on the defense of their own farm.
Napoleon simply disagrees with Snowball no matter what the issue is. Napoleon has no intention
of working with Snowball or of considering any of his ideas. 

The day comes
when the animals are to vote on whether or not to start building the windmill. The rivalry
between Napoleon and Snowball comes to ahere. When it seems that the animals are going to side
with Snowball, Napoleon sabotages the vote and has Snowball chased off of the farm. Napoleon
(and ) downplay Snowball's role in the Battle of the Cowshed and Napoleon says the windmill will
be built and that he'd never opposed the idea. Napoleon will continue to rewrite history and the
commandments to suit his increasing greed for power. 

Throughout the sermon, Edwards reinforces the puritan belief that God holds ultimate control over a person's fate. Which line from the excerpt...

I am not sure with which
excerpt you have been provided, but there are a great many quotations that support the idea that
God has ultimate control over the fate of every person. In his fourth point, Edwards says that
"the reason why [people] are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's
appointed time is not come." In other words, people have avoided falling into hell not as a
result of their own goodness or anything they are doing, but because God has not decided it is
time yet.

Further, he goes on, "Men's hands cannot be strong when God
rises up." We are powerless against God's will; only God can determine our futures, and we
can have no effect whatsoever when he has decided against us. Later, Edwards claims that
"The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at
what moment God shall permit him."

The evidence of this belief abounds.
Search for quotations like this, and you'll be all set!

The word devouring is used in paragraph 1. What is the effect of this word choice on the mood of the openining

The word
"devouring" is not to be taken literally in this particular context. Nothing is
actually eating Charles Wallace; but he's certainly been taken over by IT. Firmly in IT's grip
Charles is like a different person. The words he speaks are not his own; IT is speaking through
him. "Devouring" immediately establishes a mood of unease, as we sense there's
something not quite right about Charles. If you devour something, you eat it, and whatever you
eat becomes a part of you. And Charles has clearly become a part of IT.

That
Charles is firmly in the grip of IT can be seen when he extols IT's supposed virtues to Meg and
Calvin, telling them that he is the "Boss" and the "Happiest Sadist". For
good measure, he advises the children that they should turn themselves over entirely to IT
instead of wasting their time looking for Mr. Murry.

There are no prizes for
guessing that these are the words of IT, speaking through Charles Wallace. IT, using Charles
Wallace as a mouthpiece, advises Meg to stop fighting and relax. Essentially, what IT wants to
do is to devour Meg and Calvin in exactly the same way he's devoured Charles
Wallace.

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How do male characters in the play act as a foil for Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman?

A foil is a
character that contrasts with another character in order to emphasize the characteristics that
differ between them.

Willy is insecure, so he acts arrogant, and he is lost,
so he pretends that making money is all there is to life. He spends his time judging himself,
and trying to climb the social ladder.

Charlie, in contrast, is self-assured
and doesn't mind if others don't like him. He is fairly successful in business and content in
his life, although Willy thinks he isn't trying hard enough to achieve success as Willy
envisions it.

These characters are so thoroughly foils to each other that
Willy even develops a grudge against Charlie for being so helpful! Charlie's character
emphasizes the hidden problems that Willy hasthe same problems that eventually destroy him, by
demonstrating what a character without those same problems looks like.

I need to have a detailed annotation of the poem "September 1, 1939" by Auden. I am particularly in need of having the literary techniques used in...

Auden's
poem is named for the day World War II began. The poet uses a blunt, conversational tone,
communicating both a sense of despair over what led to the war and a clear vision of what he
argues is the only way out of the predicament the world is in. Auden also uses literary devices
that show this is a poem, not a conversation, and that adds intensity and emphasis to what he is
saying. These include , , rhyme, assonance, and . 

The poem opens in the
first person with "I" as the poet directly addresses his readers using simple words of
one syllable: "I sit in one of the dives" and the next two lines locate him in
physical space, "On Fifty-second street," which would be in New York City, and locate
him psychologically, "uncertain and afraid." The use of such simple, stark language
that even a child could understand draws us into the poem. The fact that Auden places himself in
New York City is also important: the US was not in World War II on September 1,...