From To Kill a Mockingbird, what do you think of Miss Caroline Fisher as a teacher?

Miss
Caroline is a bit of an outsider in Maycomb. She is from Alabama but she's from Winston County
which, according to , is notably different that Maycomb. 

Miss Fisher is a
new, idealistic teacher. Apparently, she is a proponent of John Dewey's theories on education
which stress the importance of experience and education as social interaction. (We get this
information fromwho mistakes John Dewey's educational theories for the Dewey Decimal system.)
However, Miss Fisher, being a new teacher, is too single-minded. She chastises Scout for having
learned to read on her own, even though this would have fit one of Dewey's criteria that
education teaches one how to live and interact with others. Miss Fisher is also oblivious when
she tries to give Walter Cunningham Jr. a quarter for lunch, saying he can pay her back
tomorrow. It doesn't dawn on her that Walter might not be able to pay her back. Scout takes it
upon herself to educate Miss Fisher about the Cunninghams: 

The Cunninghams never took anything they cant pay backno church baskets and no scrip
stamps. They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have. 

Scout tells Miss Fisher that she's embarrassing Walter. Miss Fisher
pulls her aside and smacks her with the ruler. As they leave for lunch, Scout notices Miss
Fisher apparently crying. The class will also have to "educate" Miss Fisher that the
Ewell children come to school on the first day and never come back. Miss Fisher's surprise and
concern shows that she does care about her job and the children. 

Miss Fisher
seems like an idealistic, first-time teacher who had come to her first job with high hopes, only
to find that she (the teacher) still had much to learn via the actual experience of teaching in
a new place. 

What is a summary of the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz?

Soledad is a 2001 novel
by American author Angie Cruz (b. 1972). Cruz is an activist and teacher of Dominican descent.
This work features an immigrant family living in a humble Washington Heights neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan. Theis a twenty-year-old woman named Soledad, who, two years earlier, left her
poor neighborhood to attend Cooper Union (a famous and very selective college), reside in a
higher-income New York City neighborhood, and work at an art gallery.

Young
Soledad has moved up in the world in a very impressive way, but, after only two years of a new
and promising life, she is compelled to return home because her mother, Olivia, has fallen ill.
Olivias illness is described as a kind of psychosomatic malady, or a physical illness caused by
mental difficulty or stress. She is partly catatonic or comatose, and Soledads relatives believe
that her mother is resolving some difficult issues in her sleep. They also tell Soledad that her
return home is the only hope for her mothers cure. The novel is told in part from the point of
view of female relatives and includes Olivias dream narration and flashbacks.

Immersed once again in her family history and neighborhood drama, Soledad works to help
restore the damaged relationship she and her mother have. She also tries to tame the outrageous
behavior of a younger cousin, Flaca, and attempts not to fall for a local fellow. The author
examines issues such as the contrast and tensions between older and younger generations of
Dominican immigrants, family struggles and secrets, and the rejection and acceptance of cultural
background. The novel has been described as having an open-ended ending and has received mixed
critical reviews.

Which of The Seven Basic Plots would you say the story Interpreter of Maladies most resembles? Why? At the same time, how does it...

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Christopher Booker, the writer behind the theory of the seven basic plots, might
suggest that the plot line that best suits 's short story "The " is the one of
the quest.

The plot line of the quest, in a
general sense, involves a journey. The Das family are on a journey themselves, as
Indian-Americans traveling in India on holiday, but Mr. Kapasi's emotional journey is
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What literary elements are used in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

In the
story,alternates narrative with dialogue. He employs a third-person narrator, who provides
background, insights into the characters, and plot points. The dialogue shows the townspeople
discuss amongst themselves, which is often different than what they say to the minister; for
example:

"Our parson has gone mad!" cried
Goodman Gray€¦.

In the narrative, Hawthorne often
highlights a point by usingor modifiers, thus adding an ironic twist to the meaning. He refers
to the women who react strongly to the veil as having delicate nerves, and underplays
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How we can apply the theme of feminism into Plath's poem "Mirror"?

In s ,
the mirror serves as the speaker who describes the different things it sees.

The theme of feminism comes into play in the second stanza, which focuses on the
unnamed woman who gazes at herself in the mirror daily. In exchange for reflecting her
faithfully, the woman rewards [the mirror] with tears and an agitation of hands. This shows
that the woman is unhappy with what she sees reflected in the mirror, her appearance as it truly
is. The fact that the woman looks in the mirror at the beginning of each day implies that she is
somewhat obsessed with her appearance. Specifically, the woman despised the old woman she is
becoming like a horrible fish.

This relates to feminism because of womens
often fraught relationship with beauty and aging. Societys ideal woman is both beautiful and
young, so women tend to become more self-conscious as they age. The mirror symbolizes societys
obsession with beauty, which unduly impacts women more so than men. Plath is voicing some of the
anxieties women experience about their changing bodies and faces, which can sometimes consume a
womans thoughts and even daily routines.

The emphasis on beauty for women is
a feminist issue because we tend to view older men as handsome/wise while degrading older women
as hags.

What New York department store was accused of racially profiling it's customers?

I believe
youre asking about the 2013 incident involving Barneys Department Store on Madison Avenue.  In
an attempt to curb a recent increase in shoplifting, store security at the time would single out
African-American and Latino customers, following them around the store.  In addition they would
question the ability of minority customers to actually pay for the items they were purchasing
and accuse them of using fake credit...

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Is it stupidity on the part of Oedipus or a defect in Sophocles's play that it takes the king so long to admit guilt?

In
by , it is neither stupidity on the 's part nor defect on the author's
that causesto take so long to admit guilt (by this, I assume you are speaking of his ability to
learn that he both killed his father and wed his mother). Rather, the reason for this has to do
with two separate propheciesone told to Oedipus, the other to . It is only once he possesses
knowledge of bothas well as learning of his true parentagethat he is able to comprehend exactly
who and what he is.

Oedipus is shown early on to be a dedicated and caring
ruler. When he discovers that the previous king's murderer was never found, he takes it upon
himself to uncover the truth for the sake of his people. Were he not so insistent upon finding
this out, he might never have learned the truth about his past. However, after being told by the
prophetthat he is the murderer, everything begins to unravel. While
speaking with Jocasta, she reveals to him a prophecy told to her long ago:

JOCASTA: An oracle came once to Laius. I do not say
From
Phoebus himself, but from his ministers
That his fate would be at his son's hand to die
-
A child, who would be born from him and me.

Though he has not yet discovered the truth, learning of this prophecy makes him believe
in the power of oracles. When he figures out that one of the men he killed just prior to
arriving at Thebes was Laius, Oedipus realizes that Jocasta's prophecy came true, at least
partially. Just as Jocasta did for him, he now reveals a prophecy told to him when he was
younger:

OEDIPUS: A man at a banquet overdrunk with
wine
Said in drink I was a false son to my father.
. . .
In secret
from mother and father I set out
Toward Delphi. Phoebus sent me away
ungraced
In what I came for, but other wretched things
Terrible and grievous,
he revealed in answer;
That I must wed my mother and produce
An unendurable
race for men to see,
That I should kill the father who begot me.

Though it becomes clear to the audience at this point that Oedipus
is Laius and Jocasta's son and that he did, indeed, kill his true father, he has not yet reached
the same conclusion. He has not yet put all the pieces togethermostly because he still believes
Polybus is his father. After acomes to tell him that Polybus has died, Oedipus is given a brief
reprieve from the weight of his prophecy. However, he soon finds out that the man
"overdrunk with wine" was telling the truth. Only once he has all this information
does he realize Jocasta and Laius are his parents. Additionally, though unbeknownst to him at
the time, by killing Laius in a chance encounter he ended up fulfilling the prophecy that said
he would murder his father and wed his mother.

To recap, it was not stupidity
or defect that caused Oedipus to take so long in learning the truth. Sophocles crafted the play
in such a way that allowed the audience to put the pieces together before the . Because of this,
it highlights thethat befalls both Oedipus and Jocasta once they learn the truth.

Note: For this response, the above quotations come from Ten Greek Plays in
Contemporary Translations, edited by L.R. Lind and published by the Houghton Mifflin
Company.