Does the writer allude to biblical or mythological literature? for what purpose? and What aspects of work create deep universal responses to it?

In
the poem href=""> by href="">Edgar Allan Poe, the
author makes biblical references in relation to the raven. For instance, he calls the raven a
prophet, but is also not sure if the bird is a prophet or a devil. Poe writes:

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!prophet still, if
bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here
ashore"

When the bird arrives, the author is
lamenting his lost love, . Like a mythological creature, the bird has human-like capabilities.
He does this to imbue supernatural qualities in the bird. Specifically, the raven can talk.
However, maddeningly for the author, the bird says only Nevermore. Regardless of what the
author asks, the birds response is always Nevermore.

Because the author
thinks the bird is a mythical or biblical creature like the seraphim, also mentioned in the
poem, he asks about Lenore:

By that Heaven that bends
above usby that God we both adore
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the
distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore

Again, all the bird will say is Nevermore. This pattern of asking
the bird and getting back only Nevermore begins to drive the poet mad. In fact, the bird might
really be nothing more than the reflection of the authors own increasing madness, as his
obsession with Lenore grows.

In another biblical reference, the poet asks the
bird, Is there balm in Gilead? Balm of Gilead represents a cure, presumably for his love
sickness. It is mentioned in the New Testament. In other words, will the poet ever get over
Lenore or find her again?

The reader can sympathize with the authors deep and
unrequited love. The meter of the poem, plus the use of the supernatural dialogue with the
stone-faced bird help build the rising tension, as the poet continues to berate the bird. In
this way, the poem evokes intense responses by general readers.

name two laws that were plased apon the Jews

In
his book
href="">Night,
author
href="">Elie
Wiesel writes of his experiences during World War
II and the horrors the Jews endured
both before and in the death camps during
the Holocaust.

When the Wiesel
family is deported, the
Nazis are vicious as they load people into the railway cars. "There
are
eighty of you in the car," the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing,
you
will all be shot, like dogs." Elie writes, My father was crying. It was
the first time I
saw him cry. I had never thought it possible.

The Nazis passed laws that
circumscribed what Jews could do. They
passed a law that Jews must wear Jewish stars on their
outer clothing to
identify themselves as Jews. Wiesel writes that in response to this law, his

father said, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal €¦" (Poor Father! Of what
then
did you die?)

The local police who worked with the
Nazis were often
instrumental in enforcing the various Aryanization laws and
the Nuremberg Laws. The Hungarian
police were screaming. That was when I
began to hate them€¦They were our first oppressors.
Wiesel writes:

"The same day, the Hungarian police
burst into
every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry,
or
any valuables. Everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under
penalty of death. My
father went down to the cellar and buried our
savings."

During the roundup of Jews,
it was forbidden to go outside, so people relieved
themselves in a corner.
During the long march to the death camps, Nazi law forbade Jews to
stray.
According to :

One by one,
the
houses emptied and the streets filled with people carrying bundles. By
ten o'clock, everyone was
outside. The police were taking roll calls, once,
twice, twenty times. The heat was oppressive.
Sweat streamed from people's
faces and bodies. Children were crying for water. Water! There was
water
close by inside the houses, the backyards, but it was forbidden to break
rank.

At the camp were more laws. Days
without food or water. We were
forbidden to leave the barrack. The door was
guarded by the SS. In addition, Wiesel writes that,
We were forbidden to sit
down or to move.

The penalty for breaking the law
was
steep and generally involved some form of execution. Wiesel notes that a prisoner
was
condemned to hang for stealing:

"In the name of
Reichsf¼hrer
Himmler€¦prisoner number€¦ stole during the air raid€¦according
to the law€¦prisoner number€¦is
condemned to death. Let this be a warning and
an example to all prisoners."

Nobody
moved."

Why did President Harry Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

There are
several important reasons. First, Japan had rebuffed all talks of surrender of any kind. They
had turned down the proposed Potsdam Declaration, taking the stance of
mokusatsu, "to kill by silence." It appeared that the Japanese
would defend their islands to the last man, as they had previously at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Secondly, Allied estimates concerning an invasion of the islands calculated that losses would
probably be at about one million killed, wounded and/or captured. The Allied command decided
that dropping the bombs would save hundreds of thousands of American, English and other Allied
forces' lives. They also figured that the atomic bombs would show Japan the depth of the Allies'
new power and force a surrender.

Who were the main writers during the age of Chaucer and list one of their literary works?

Chaucer
(ca. 1343€“1400) often called the "father" of English poetry because he chose to write
in the vernacular, more specifically, the Englishof southern England and London, was surrounded
by writers, both in England and the Continent, whose works bridged the period between
medievalism and what became known as the Renaissance.

In addition to Dante
Alighieri (The Divine Comedy, ca. 1308€“21), Giovanni Boccaccio
(The Decameron, ca. 1353), and Guillaume de Machaut (Le Remede de
Fortune, ca. 1361greatly admired by Chaucer), all of whom provided Continental
inspiration and models for Chaucer's work, Chaucer's contemporaries in England were turning out
works of profound importance to the English literary canon and the development of modern
English.

The writer known as the Pearl Poet (ca. 1360€“1400), whose work
included the dream vision poem, Pearl, and the Arthurian romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was writing in highly-alliterative verse
in a West-Midland dialectin a sense, looking backward from Chaucernevertheless provided Chaucer
with a familiar genre for his own dream vision poems in , House of Fame,
and Parliament of Fowls.

At about
this time, William Langland (ca. 1332€“1400) wrote The Vision of William Concerning
Piers the Plowman (ca. 1362€“1387), another dream vision, a satiric view of late
medieval secular and religious society couched in an allegorical framework that puzzles scholars
and readers today because it is, to be quite blunt, sometimes readable and sometimes maddeningly
obscure. Langland uses unrhymed alliterative verse, unlike the Pearl Poet, whose alliterative
verse has a highly-structured rhyme scheme. Despite its sometimes confusing narrative structure,
Piers Plowman is considered one of the most important works of the late
fourteenth century.

John Gower (ca. 1330€“1408), who was once ranked as equal
to Chaucer, is now generally considered to be at least a half-step below Chaucer as a poet, but
Chaucer himself referred to Gower as "moral Gower" because some of Gower's workssuch
as Vox Clamantis ("The Voice of One Crying")addressed social
upheavals within English society (for example, The Peasant's Revolt of 1381). Gower's most
well-known work, however, Confessio Amantis (The Confession of a
Lover), is both a critical look at English society and religion and a series of tales
not unlike some of Chaucer's moral examples in .

As we can see, among Continental and English writers in the fourteenth
century, there were several writers whose works clearly influenced Chaucer or provided ideas for
subject matter. Models of the dream vision, for example, which Chaucer used extensively
throughout his own works, were highly developed by the mid-fourteenth century, perhaps achieving
their greatest expression in Chaucer.

In what ways does the veil affect Mr.Hooper's relationship with his congregation, in The Minister's Black Veil?

was known
for his stories based in New England and dealing with Puritan religion. His works of literature
have become synonymous with sin and righteousness, and the judgments of townspeople.

is no different. Parson Hooper is the reverend in the town of Milford. He shows up at
Mass one morning wearing a black veil that covers his eyes. Immediately the townspeople start
gossiping about why he is wearing the veil. Some of the people say that he has gone mad, while
others say he is covering a shameful sin. Soon the children of the congregation become afraid of
him and the adults continue to gossip about him. Though the townspeople are curious about this,
no one has the nerve to ask him why he is wearing the veil. The only person who asks him is his
fiancee, Elizabeth. He won't even tell her why he wears the veil. The relationship with his
congregation changes dramatically. They now start seeing their own sins that they have been
hiding. Most of the people start to have less and less to do with him. Elizabeth, even though
she loves him, ends up leaving him, because he won't tell her why he wears the veil and won't
take it off for her.

Now that he is alone, he actually begins to become a
better clergyman. He begins to gain many converts who feel like they are living beneath a black
veil, as well.

"All through life the black veil had hung between him and
the world: it had separated him from the cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, and kept him in
the saddest of all prisons, his own heart; and still it lay upon his face, as if to deepen the
gloom of his dark-some chamber, and shade him from the sunshine of eternity".

This quote sums up how he was now living his life. Elizabeth never married and was with
him when he was dying. He tells everyone around him that they all wear black veils. He is trying
to show everyone that there is always something hidden within us.

need help!!!! can you help me with the theme of this poem Anne Frank huis by Andrew Motion????

I think
the dominant theme is liberty. The poem says that those looking at the pictures above Anne's bed
find "not only patience missing its reward," but "one enduring wish for chances
like my own: to leave as simply as I do..." and walk through Amsterdam. The kind of liberty
Motion is talking about is as simple and basic as it gets, but it was a reward that was denied
to Anne and her family despite their patience. The last stanza of the poem seems to speak to his
recognition of the difference between his life and hers, and it obviously struck a nerve with
him.

How does John Edwards use syntax and diction in his sermon?

Edwards'is, to be
frank, overwhelming. Rather
than develop sentences that are simple to understand, especially for
people
who are only listening to him and cannot see his text in front of them, Edwards seems
to
purposefully try to overwhelm his listeners with evidence of their own
destruction in an effort
to compel them to change. For an example of this
overwhelming sentence structure, we can
actually look at the very first
sentence of the text:

In
this Verse is
threatned the Vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, that
were
Gods visible People, and lived under Means of Grace; and that,
notwithstanding all Gods
wonderful Works that he had wrought towards that
People, yet remained, as is expressed,
ver. 28. void of
Counsel, having no Understanding in them; and that, under
all the
Cultivations of Heaven, brought forth bitter and poisonous Fruit; as in the two
Verses
next preceeding the Text.

He
divides clauses with
semicolons, clauses thatwith
minor...

What are the main economic problems due to overpopulation?

One of
the main economic problems for any country with an overpopulation problem is the shortage of
food, minerals, fuel and other resources. This applies particularly to third world countries
where harvest failure and famine are frequent. Populations which survive on subsistence farming
are particularly badly hit, as without their crops and animals they will starve. Such people are
only able to support themselves in the most basic way, and do not have disposable income to pay
taxes with. The result of this sort of overpopulation is that there is no money in the country's
kitty or treasury to provide social security, pensions or a basic health service for a
burgeoning population. Some countries have even put a limit on the number of children families
can have.

Sikhism began as an attempt to unify Hinduism and Islam. What makes this attempt inherently problematic? Is it more productive or counterproductive to...

I think
that the initial presupposition within
the question is an interesting one. There is both a
desire to unify spiritual
beliefs that are posited as being opposite.  There is also an
intrinsic
challenge in doing so.  The initial presentation of Sikhism to unify Hinduism
and
Islam is problematic because both spiritual notions of the good start out
from opposite points
of reference.

In Hinduism, the
fundamental starting point is the belief in
Atman, defined as "the true self
of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the
essence of an
individual."  Atman is presented as a...

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Why does Napoleon stop sharing information with the animals in Animal Farm by George Orwell?

Whenis introduced in , he is described as
"not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way." This
immediately differentiates him from the only other two pigs to be mentioned by name,and , both
of whom are remarkable for their eloquence. At the end of the chapter, after the pigs have
milked the cows, Napoleon sends the other animals away to gather in the harvest so that he can
drink all the milk.

It is clear throughout , therefore,
that Napoleon, who has none of Snowball's intellectual power and verbal abilities, achieves the
upper hand through a policy which makes secrecy a matter of course. He never shares information
with the other animals unless he has to and, once in power, builds an effective propaganda
machine with Squealer at its head to spread disinformation.

One of Napoleon's
most masterly secret plans is to take away the puppies from Jessie and Bluebell and sequester
them in the hay loft until everyone forgets about them. Later, when it becomes clear that
Snowball with be elected leader, Napoleon has nine enormous dogs, trained to obey him, to chase
Snowball off the farm.

Tyrannical regimes do not share information. An
important aspect of 's depiction of a tyranny in the making is the way in which Napoleon manages
systematically to hide and distort the truth, until he is at least as bad as the human tyrant he
replaced.

What was the relationship between George and Hazel?

George
and Hazel are 's parents, who live a difficult, oppressed life under the government's strict
equality policy. In Vonnegut's celebrated short story "Harrison Bergeron," the United
States government has amended the Constitution to ensure complete uniformity and equality in all
facets of life. In the year 2081, agents of the United States Handicapper General ensure
complete equality by forcing talented or attractive individuals to wear cumbersome handicaps
that limit their potential and above-average abilities. In the story, Harrison Bergeron is an
athletic genius who is imprisoned for attempting to overthrow the government. Harrison's
parents, George and Hazel, struggle to remember their son and live a bleak existence.

Hazel has normal intelligence, which means that she can only think in short bursts and
is rather ignorant. Despite her ignorance, Hazel is a sympathetic, gentle woman who shows
compassion for her husband. In contrast, George was born with above-average intelligence and is
forced to wear a tiny mental handicap radio in his ear, which emits periodic loud sounds to
interrupt his thoughts. George is also forced to wear a forty-seven-pound bag of birdshot as a
physical handicap; he refuses to remove a single metal ball in fear of being severely punished.
George and Hazel both witness their son attempt to take over the country on national television
before he is brutally murdered by the Handicapper General. Tragically, George and Hazel cannot
remember anything they witnessed on the screen after the program switches.

What conflicts do you see emerging in the play "A Raisin in the Sun?"

's  is a drama that contains the conflicts of Person vs. Self,
Person vs. Person, and Person vs. Society.

Person vs.
Self

 struggles with her identity as
she tries various hobbies. She wants to be able to express herself honestly, and she wishes to
become a doctor and be independent. She wrestles with trying to assimilate into a white world as
she straightens her hair. She feels some pressure to marry into money, but she does not love ,
and she is conflicted about marrying Asagi and going to Africa with him. 

 is dissatisfied...

What do Fan and Belle say to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

Upon first
glace, the role of women in A Christmas Carol seems very limited.  However,
while the majority of the narrative focuses on Scrooge, minor characters such as Scrooge's
sister Fan, his ex-fianc©e Belle, and even Mrs. Cratchit play significant roles in his
development.  Of these three characters, two of them have direct interactions with him, both
occurring during the memories conjured by the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Fan,
Scrooge's younger sister and mother of Fred, who is now Scrooge's only living relative, played a
major part is Scrooge's childhood.  As a young boy, Scrooge was sent away to boarding school. 
While the reader is never given a specific reason why, Fan's words suggest that Scrooge's home
life was far from ideal.  Scrooge views one memory of himself in which Fan arrives at the
boarding school, hugs him and claims "I have come to bring you home, dear brother!" 
She goes on to state,

"Father is so much kinder than he used to
be, that home's like Heaven!  He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed,
that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should;
and sent me in a coach to bring you.  And you're to be a man!"

Fan's words illuminate her close relationship with Scrooge.  However, this happy memory
is cut short by the spirit's statement that "She died a woman."  One of the most
loving relationship that Scrooge experienced ended in a heartbreaking loss, which could explain
why he has distanced himself from Fred.  He very well could be afraid to allow family
in.

As Scrooge grew, he started to develop a different type of relationship
with Belle.  After the spirit takes Scrooge through the revelry of Fezziwig's Ball, he shows
Scrooge a much bleaker scene.  In this memory Scrooge is older, "in the prime of life"
and sitting beside Belle, with whom he had fallen in love.  As was the case with Fan, Belle's
words reveal the truth of the memory.  Belle states, "Another idol has displaced me,"
meaning that Scrooge has come to love money as he once loved her.  Scrooge protests, but Belle
continues,

"[...] if you were free to-day, to-morrow,
yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl - you who, in your very
confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false
enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret
would surely follow?  I do; and I release you.  With a full heart, for the love of him you once
were."

Thus, Belle ends the relationship because she no longer
wants him to feel obligated to someone he no longer loves.  For the second time, the reader sees
a once beautiful become tarnished, this time by greed.  These two instances mark two of the
major reasons for Scrooge's misanthropic view of the world.  One love was taken away by death,
the other by his growing greed. While their words to Scrooge are few, they speak volumes.  His
loss of the love represented by the two women is one of the major reasons he became the cold,
hateful man we meet at the start of the tale.

Gold has a density of 19.3 grams per cc. If a gold nugget has a mass of 45.6 kg, what is its volume?

Gold has a
density of 19.3 g/cc.

The density of a substance is defined as the mass of a
unit volume of the same. If a substance has a density of X g/cc, 1...

How did Meg and Calvin relate to one another?

Meg and
Calvin in a lot of ways are opposites, and we all know the saying about opposites
attracting!

Meg comes from a loving, tight knit family that is supportive. 
But since her father went missing and the turmoil of being an adolescent girl which makes a
chemical fiesta in your body, she's often angry and impatient. ...

Africans traditionally are said to have no sacred writings. Where can one find important information regarding these religions?

Lorraine Caplan

Traditional religious practices in Africa are by no means lost to the world, in spite
of there not having been any written sacred texts.  There is oral tradition and also, African
religions have been studied by scholars for a very long time, for example, anthropologists,
theologians, and linguists. 

People practiced their religions and handed
them down to succeeding generations well before there was writing. Even once man began to write,
few people were literate, so most religions were passed on this way for a...

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What happens to Diana's parents in the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson?

Diana, the
worker at the mill who befriendsand helps her learn to do her job, has no family. When Lyddie
goes to Diana's room after Lyddie's first day on the job, Diana draws Lyddie into speaking about
her family and personal situation. Lyddie realizes she may have talked about herself too much,
so she says, "But I reckon you know how it is with families, eh?" Diana explains that
she can hardly remember her family. She had an aunt who cared for her until she was ten, but the
aunt has since passed away. 

When July comes around, the month when most of
the girls go home to see their families, Lyddie doesn't expect Diana to take a vacation. When
she finds out Diana will be taking time off, she asks her where she will be going before she
remembers that Diana has no family. Diana then responds that she was "orphaned young."
She has worked in the mill for fifteen years, having started as a doffer when she was just ten
years old. Diana considers the other workers at the textile mill to be her family, which may be
one of the motivations she has for being so active in the Female Labor Reform
Association.

Please explain the two deaths, Piggy's and Simon's, in Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

There are
actually three deaths in 's novel , but the two you mention can be
classified as murders and are therefor more egregious. The first death is the little boy with
the mulberry birthmark who is inadvertently killed in an out-of-control fire in chapter two; 's
death borders on accidental but 's death is flagrant murder.

Simon is killed
on a dark, stormy night after he has discovered the truth about the beast from the Lord of the
Flies. He is weak and exhausted, but he wants to tell the others that the beast is in all of
them, is part of them. He crawls through the dense foliage to get to the spot on the mountain
where the boys have all gathered to celebrate a successful hunt and eat meat. 

The boys have all gathered into a circle and begin to chant the same words as they do
on a hunt: Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in! Some ofassume the role
of a pig and a kind of a mock hunt ensues. The lightning, thunder, and rain are crashing around
them, and it is clear the boys who are chanting in a circle have gotten caught up in theand
emotion of their setting--and then Simon appears, crawling out of the woods in the dark. He
crawls to the center of the circle and tries to talk to them, but his words are unintelligible
to them and they do not listen.

The sticks fell and the
mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its
arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body
on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the
rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on
to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing
of teeth and claws.... Presently the heap broke up and figures staggered away. Only the
beast lay still, a few yards from the sea. Even in the rain they could see how small a beast it
was; and already its blood was staining the sand.

Simon
is dead, killed by the other boys, and the next day onlyseems to feel any sense of
responsibility or remorse for this act.

While Simon's death was an accident,
Piggy's was not. Whencomes and steals Piggy's glasses one night, Piggy has had enough. While he
has always been afraid of Jack--and probably still is, to some extent--he is ready to fight
back. It is not going to be a fair fight, however, because Piggy can barely see and, though he
has Ralph and the conch, Jack has a tribe of savages who no longer recognize the authority of
the conch. 

Piggy asks Which is betterto have rules and agree, or to hunt
and kill? It is not a difficult question for Jack, and he allowsto lever a boulder to drop on
Piggy, smashing both the boy and the conch. 

When the naval officer arrives
to rescue the boys, Ralph 

Ralph wept for the end of
innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend
called Piggy.

In The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, what is the signifigance of Santiago becoming a shepherd rather than a priest as his parents had hoped?

Another
significant aspect of Santiago
becoming a shepherd instead of a priest is that it shows that he
is very
brave: he goes against his parents' wishes during a time when children were expected
to
obey their parents unconditionally. Santiago makes the courageous choice
to follow his heart,
which leads him to discover his Personal Legend. This
encourages young readers to do the sameto
pursue their own interests and
passions instead of following their parents' wishes without
question.
Furthermore, the adults that Santiago meets on his journey serve more as guides
than
as authoritative figures. The king, the gypsy, and
the...

How is the understanding of the Zone of Proximal Development and the concept of Scaffolding useful to the preschool teacher?

The Zone of
Proximal Development takes into consideration each student's strengths, weaknesses, and
preferences. The ZPD is the stage at which the student is considered "instructional."
Compare this to an independent stage, in which the child has already mastered all of the skills
being presented and can apply those skills without teacher or peer assistance and to the
frustration stage, in which the skills are too difficult for the child to complete with an
appropriate amount of peer or teacher assistance. At the ZPD, the child is ready to learn a new
skill through teacher modeling, several examples of guided practice, repeated independent
practice, and then assessment and follow-up. 

Scaffolding is essential, as
students enter preschool with varying degrees of knowledge about important concepts such as
shapes, colors, numbers, alphabet knowledge, rhyming, etc. Some students may arrive already
counting to 100 and recognizing numerals through 20, whereas others do not know how to count nor
do they recognize any numbers represented in written form. The same lesson will not meet the
instructional needs of both students, as they both are at very different levels of development
(ZPD). Therefore, the lesson can be scaffolded to allow for instructional opportunities that
will leave each child with a successful learning experience. For example, the child who can
already count and recognize numbers could work on counting groups of objects and writing the
numeral that represents the group, while the child who does not have 1:1 correspondence or
number sense would learn to count orally to 10, learning the names of the numbers and their
order. 

Reading is another great example of where the ZPD and Scaffolding is
important in the preschool classroom. One child may not have had many experience with print, and
not know how to hold a book, to retell a story, or recognize any letters of the alphabet. On the
other hand, there may be a student who can sing the ABCs, recognize the alphabet, know letter
sounds and maybe even know some sight words. The first child would be frustrated by a lesson on
blending 3 letters together to read a word, while the second child would be completely bored if
asked to sit through "letter of the week" lessons. Therefore, the lessons would be
scaffolded to allow each child to work at their ZPD to learn something new that is appropriate
to their current level of knowledge. 

I need to write a 5 page paper on Marx and Nietzsche - I need to compare and contrast their conceptions of human nature and discuss how these...

Both of
these men, to say the least, held views of human nature that were complex, but they can be said
to have one thing in common: they both argued that society, as currently arranged, tended to
inhibit, if not destroy, the fulfillment of man's nature. Marx viewed human nature as
essentially social. One clear statement of this concept can be found in his essay "On the
Jewish Question," in which he argued that political rights and human rights were not the
same thing. He described man as a "species-being" that was unnaturally alienated from
others by the very concept of political rights. Man's urge was fundamentally social. This
concept was underscored in his later writings, especially Das
Kapital, where he argued that the economic forces in society, i.e.
capitalism, tended to alienate men from each other by making them into mere economic agents in
competition with others. He expanded this thesis by pointing out that a capitalist system also
alienated people from the value of their labor, both socially and economically.

Nietzsche thought of human nature in terms of the need each person has for
actualization, for the fulfillment of natural urges. The word he often used to describe these
urges was "will," and the "will to power" was an especially powerful aspect
of human nature. The nature of this "will" has been debated by Neitzsche scholars, but
it was fundamental to life, the ultimate human drive. Where Marx saw man as ultimately social in
nature, Nietzsche viewed human nature as radically individual, and his writing, though
aphoristic and often contradictory, tended to emphasize struggle among people. But like Marx, he
thought that basic institutions and societal forces alienated people from their authentic
nature. Moral codes, particularly those imposed by Christianity, struck Nietzsche as especially
repressive, keeping men from fulfilling their deepest urges. A focus on the ways these thinkers
both believed modern man was restrained from living in a natural way, that is according to human
nature, would be a good starting point for an essay.

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In the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," was Peyton Farquhar a good person?

Whether you
believe Peyton Farquhar was a good person or not may depend to some degree on whether you favor
the cause of the Union or the cause of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. In Part II of
the story, we learn Farquhar's background. He was a plantation owner, so he probably owned
slaves, and he was for secession; he actively worked as a civilian toward the goals of the
Confederacy. He basically believed that "all is fair in ... war." The extent of his
crime is not clarified, but it seems that he intended to sneak past a "picket post"
guard, overcome the sentinel guarding the bridge, and set fire to the bridge, all in an effort
to hamper the advance of the Union Army into Southern territory. It also seems that he may have
tried to hang, and may have successfully hanged, the sentinel guarding the bridge. This is
suggested by his words to the scout, "Suppose a mana civilian and student of hanging"
in describing himself. We might wonder how he became a "student of hanging." Had he
hanged other Union soldiers before? We know that the "gray-clad soldier" who tells
Farquhar about the bridge is actually a "Federal scout" who is trying to entice
Farquhar into a "sting" operation. For the Union Army to have singled Farquhar out in
this way suggests that he may have been a formidable foe whom they seriously desired to
eliminate.

A few details of the story may help the reader be more sympathetic
toward Farquhar. He was dedicated to his side in the war and willing to take personal risks to
advance the cause of his homeland. There was "no adventure too perilous for him to
undertake" for the Confederacy. The fact that he was deceived and trapped by the Union Army
may make some readers take Farquhar's side. During his imaginary escape, his thoughts of his
wife and children as he walks toward home and his joy at being reunited with his wife when he
sees his house are details that suggest he is a loving father and husband. 

created a character in Peyton Farquhar who could be good or bad, depending on how one reads the
story and how one views the Civil War. However, most readers put their feelings about Farquhar's
morality behind them while reading of his miraculous, and indeed fantastical, escape. The story
impresses upon the reader that life is precious and survival is dear to anyoneUnion or
Confederate, soldier or civilian, good or bad.

In Night, who says "take this knife?"

The
"inheritance" becomes a powerful moment in the middle of the book.  In the selections
that will determine who will live and who will perish, it is announced that Eliezer's father's
number has been read off as remaining behind in the camp.  The moment in which he gives Eliezer
his knife and spoon is what Wiesel terms as "his inheritance."  Eliezer's father gives
his son these belongings because he simply does not know what will happen to him.  In
doing...

Why does Dickens use ghosts in A Christmas Carol?

On
Christmas Eve, right before he goes to sleep, Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits: The
Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future or
Christmas Yet to Come.

Dickens uses ghosts because they are the only
'beings' that might actually convince Scrooge to change,...

In In Cold Blood, what does Dick question about Perry, and why?

Dick
questions whether there isnt something actually wrong with Perry. He bases this on his
observation of Perrys strange ways from the days when they were prison cellmates, when Perry
would suck his thumb and wet the bed and cry out for his dad in his sleep, just like a child.
Dick also wonders at his obsession with finding buried treasure and such-like adventures €“
again, which appears quite childlike.

 Dick doesnt understand what a
detrimental effect Perrys rough life of neglect and deprivation, dating back to his early
childhood, has had. In many ways Perry is still a child, emotionally
immature, seeking comfort and protection, and dreaming unrealistic dreams. However, there is
also the whole other side of him which hints at his potential for violence and which is borne
out on that fateful night in the Clutter home.

It is ironic that Dick
considers Perry to be peculiar while remaining seemingly unaware about his own aberrations. He
is a habitual liar, thief, and braggard, and has a taste for sex with underage girls. Yet he
considers himself wholly €˜normal.

He thought himself as
balanced, as sane as anyone €“ maybe a bit smarter than the average fellow, thats all.

Unlike the introspective Perry, Dick shies away from
self-examination, and just goes on doing what he pleases, with hardly a thought for
consequences.

What is an example of imagery in Night by Elie Wiesel?

is a
literary term for descriptive language that appeals to the reader's five senses.employs imagery
when he describes the harsh winter in the concentration camp. Wiesel writes,

"Winter had arrived. The days became short and the nights
almost unbearable. From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip"
(77).

He goes on to say,

"The stones were so cold that touching them, we felt that our hands would remain
stuck. But we got used to that too" (Wiesel 78).

Elie's use of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of touch and feel.
The reader can imagine the harsh gusts of freezing winds and the burning sensation of touching
extremely cold stones in the middle of winter.

Elie Wiesel
again uses imagery to give the audience an understanding of the environment in the camp during
his last night at Buna. Wiesel writes,

"Through the
frosty windowpanes we could see flashes of red. Cannon shots broke the silence of night...There
was whispering from one bunk to the other..." (83).

The reader can visualize the red flashes from the bullets and hear the
loud cannon shots outside of the building. Elie Wiesel is appealing to the reader's auditory and
visual senses throughout the paragraph.

If the first stanza of the woman's song has a significance, what is the significance of the second stanza?

Here's the
second stanza of the woman's song:

They sye that time
'eals all things, 

They sye you can always forget; 

But
the smiles an' the tears across the years 

They twist my 'eart-strings
yet!

gives us the analysis himself in his
narration:

She knew the whole drivelling song by heart, it
seemed. Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of
happy melancholy. One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June
evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand
years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish. It struck him as a curious fact that he had
never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed
slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself. Perhaps it was only when
people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about.

The significance of the song is not the lyrics; it's the fact that
she sang "alone and spontaneously."  Whereas the Party members recite nationalistic
verses in unison and without feeling, the woman sings a folk song, a kind of blues that aches
with comic and tragic feeling.

Psychoanalytically, a woman hanging diapers
must remindof his mother, whom he lost.  Her lyrics about "time heals" and "never
forget" and "smiles and tears across the years" reveal his desire to be nurtured
and loved.  There, with , must be the first time in years that's he's felt that safe and
vulnerable, so her song triggers his memory of childhood.

Why do you think Montag, Granger, and the rest head toward the ruined city?

Toward
the end of the novel, Montag and the group of traveling intellectuals watch from a distance as
Bradbury's dystopian society is destroyed by an atomic bomb. Following the blast, Granger
creates a small fire and tells the intellectuals that they will have a bite to eat before
walking toward the destroyed city. Granger then begins talking about the phoenix, a mythical
bird that would burn itself every few hundred years before rising from the ashes, and relates
the story to how civilization will eventually rebuild itself. The group of traveling
intellectuals then walks towards the ruins of the city in hopes of rebuilding a literate society
that cherishes knowledge, history, and literature. Granger elaborates on their mission by
telling the group of men,

We're going to meet a lot of
lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what
we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run
(Bradbury 76).

As intellectuals who have studied and
remembered significant works of literature by heart, Granger, Montag, and the group of hobos
wish to educate the surviving citizens and positively impact the next generation. While Montag
is walking toward the city, he begins to remember verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes and
Revelation that correspond to his situation. To conclude, Montag and the traveling
intellectuals walk toward the city in hopes of rebuilding a literate, civilized society by using
classic works of literature and knowledge they preserved from the past to educate the surviving
citizens.