What can Hermes do with his wand in Book Five of The Odyssey?

Hermes
is the messenger of the gods and is often used by them to convey messages of great importance to
mortals such as Odysseus. In this case, the gods have decreed that our hero should be freed from
his captivity on the island of Ogygia and allowed to make his way back to Ithaca.

As an outward sign of his authority, Hermes wields an impressive-looking wand called a
caduceus, which consists of a short staff entwined by a couple of snakes and adorned with wings.
Hermes doesn't strictly use the caduceus when he rocks up on Ogygia; its mere presence is enough
to intimidate Calypso into conforming to the will of the gods. She takes one look at that big
old wand and realizes that the gods have a very important message for her, one that she must
obey to the letter. When she finds out what that message is, she's...

In the novel 1984, how does syntax reflect Winston's sexual frustration with Julia?

In the
early part of the novel, before they actually meet,both sexually desires , a coworker at the
Ministry of Truth who he sees at group events such as the Two-Minute hate, while at the same
time loathing her for what he interprets as her frigidity. They work in different departments so
he only sees her in passing and doesn't yet know her name.

As Winston focuses
his attention on Julia during the Two-Minute hate, 's use of words like "suddenly,"
"violent effort," and  "wrench" in a long sentence in which the more sedate
main verb "succeeded" follows a dependent clause full of jarring images shows how hard
Winston has to work mentally to transfer his inchoate rage and aggressions onto Julia:

Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches
ones head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from
the face on the screen to the...

At what point in The Scarlet Letter does Pearl undergo a change and why?

undergoes a change
when she perceives the difference wrought in her mother afterhas taken down her hair and removed
the scarlet "A." Hester has been speaking with the Reverendin the forest, and when
Pearl returns, Pearl's demeanor changes because "since [she had] rambled from her
[mother's] side, another inmate had been admitted within the circle of the mother's feelings,
and so modified the aspect of them all" and "Pearl, the returning wanderer, could not
find her wonted place, and hardly knew where she was." Seeing her mother so close to
another personwhen it has always been only Pearl and Hester against the worldshook Pearl to her
core. On top of this, she's only ever known her mother to wear her hair hidden under the cap and
to wear the scarlet letter; now, with her hair down and the letter gone, Pearl finds her mother
to be frightening and foreign.  

As a result, Pearl will not approach her
mother and remains on the other side of the brook. She will not...

Favorite Ice Breakers? Looking for some fun/interesting first day ice breakers for college level (fresh/soph) students. Kind of tired of the ones I've...

For college
classes I like to begin by having students tell three things about themselves: their favorite
color, their favorite book and one thing you wouldnt know by looking at them.  The first is kind
of silly and tells us something about a persons personality in a noninvasive way.  The second
lets us a little bit more into a persons soul, and gives us something to have in common.  The
third allows us to get to know a person better and look beyond the outer
shell.

Why didn't Frederick know how old he was when he was sold away from Colonel Lloyd's plantation?

would not
have known for sure how old he was when he was sold because he would not have had any education
and because his age would not have been emphasized.

We always now how old we
are because our society emphasizes it and because we are educated enough to always be aware of
what year it is.  By contrast, slaves would not have had either of these things be true.  Slave
masters would not have made big deals about their slaves' birthdays.  The slaves would not have
had calendars.  So even the parents would not have known exactly when their kids were
born.

Even my grandparents (from the Philippines) did not know their
birthdates for sure.  They were told that the were born around some particular time on the
Church calendar, but not the exact date.  They were not told the year because that wasn't really
seen as all that important.

So when your society doesn't really think your
age is important, and you and your family are not educated, how are you going to know how old
you are?

According to Edwards, what do healthy, strong members of the congregation foolishly believe? Why do they think this?

As
Edwards make abundantly clear, believers, no matter how strong they may be, can be cast down
into the fiery pit of hell just as quickly as anyone else. The same goes for those who are
healthy. An individual's health, no more than his or her care, prudence, or righteousness, is
enough to keep them out of hell. If God is angry with you, then you're going to hell, and
there's nothing you can do about it.

What Edwards is challenging here is the
notion that there's something believers can do to prevent themselves from being cast down into
hell for all eternity. Evidently, some backsliders among Edwards's congregation have got in into
their heads that their strength and good health are clear signs that they are part of the elect,
predestined to go to heaven.

Edwards wants to disabuse anyone of such a
belief. He takes great pains to emphasize that the decision to send sinners to hell is God's and
God's alone and that therefore no one has the right to be so complacent as think that
they're...

How did globalization affect the US economy in the 1990s?

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