When is Holden Caulfield "phony" in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye? What are some examples of Holden being a phony, and who does he think is a...

As a
neurotic, troubled adolescent,Caulfield is extremely critical and considers anyone acting
insincere or attempting to portray themselves in artificial light to be phony. For example,
Holden believes his former headmaster Mr. Haas is a phony for shaking parents' hands and
pretending to be happy to see them when they visit on Sundays. Holden also views some of his
peers at Pencey Prep as phonies and labels anyone who is successful, popular, or charismatic to
be a phony. Holden even considers people who use the term "grand" to be
phonies.

Despite Holden's extremely critical nature, he...

In what ways do operations managers add value to a company's products or services? Determine which single activity adds the most value.

Operations managers add value to companies'
products and services through ensuring quality control is always at the forefront of production
systems. I agree with an above post that states that an operations manager must make sure that
products are produced efficiently - without wasting a business's resources. This ensures a
competitively priced product reaches consumers due to production costs being reduced without
compromising on the quality of a product.

Along with the basic
responsibilities of controlling the efficient and effective production of goods, and overseeing
the provision of top-notch services, an operations manager has a deeper responsibility that adds
significant value to a product. This is their responsibilities concerning long-term
planning.

Long-term planning contributes to the sustained health of the
company, their products, and their relationships with consumers. Long-term planning is essential
to the continued financial and operational health of a business entity. Long-term planning
involves recognizing and planning for new product innovations, product redevelopment, product
enhancement, and complementary products that can be sold with an existing successful product and
service.

This long-term planning also contributes to continued operational
excellence as a company plans for and implements production line upgrades. Long-term planning
puts in place the systems, processes, procedures, and resources that continually result in
first-rate products that always meet their target market's needs.

In The Egypt Game, when the Egyptians return after a long absence, what happens after their ceremony?

The
long absence that this question mentions begins in chapter 8. The kids have been forced to stay
inside because a little girl went missing and was later found dead. The kids are not allowed to
go anywhere or do anything that isn't supervised, so their Egypt game...

Why does Armand believe that Desiree is the reason the child is not white?

It seems that Armand
Aubigny believes that his wife, Desiree, is the reason their baby is not white because her
history is unknown. Desiree had been a foundling, encountered by Monsieur Valmonde, the man who
would become her adoptive father, asleep at the gateway to his property. She was of a
"toddling age," and when she awoke, she began to cry for her "'Dada.'" The
narrator says that most people believed she'd been left, on purpose, by a group from Texas which
had been passing through earlier that day. Rather than investigate Desiree's provenance,
however, Valmonde's wife decided that Desiree must have been "sent to her by a beneficent
Providence to be the child of her affection" since she was unable to bear any biological
children. They, therefore, raise the girl as their own daughter from that point on.

It is possible, however, the Armand knows that it is he who is the cause of his child's
dark skin color. In the end, we see him burn a letter written to his father by his mother, a
black woman. It is unclear whether or not he knew about that letter before he threw Desiree out
or if he only found it when he was cleaning out a drawer.

What is the role of gossip in Emma and how does it drive the plot of the novel?

Gossip in
s is how information is circulated and how perceptions are constructed
throughout the novel. Austen provides ample entertainment by satirizing a social circle of
landed gentry in the Georgian/Regency England of the early nineteenth century. Gossip becomes a
way for Austen to socially critique gender dynamics and social class; gossip also becomes that
which completely alters Emmas disposition by the end of the novel, as she discovers that this
ready belief in gossip can also circulate (mis)information and suspicion, and eventually lead to
false assumptions and emotionally upsetting results.

Emmas relationships to
other characters in Highbury shape her perception of relationships. She frequently uses her
social standing to influence characters around her. She persuades Harriet to pursue a
relationship with Mr. Elton and, as she muses in her own head, for Mr. Elton and Harriet to
meet in a charitable scheme. The phrase charitable scheme here...

Describe a typical morning in the Cook Coffeehouse. Include details about the food, the customer, and the service.

Cook
Coffeehouse, owned by Mattie's family, is in downtown Philadelphia, on the corner of Seventh and
High Street, two blocks from President Washington's Philadelphia home, a central location in the
city.

Mattie describes the coffeehouse as taking up most of the first floor
of her family's home. It is a large room with four windows and a small kitchen in the
back.

It is a respectable business for a widow to run, since it doesn't serve
alcohol. It does serve food and coffee, and people play cards there and sometimes gamble, to
which Mrs. Cook turns a blind eye. Customers seem to be almost entirely men and include
politicians, gentlemen, and businessmen: in other words, a good class of people.

The coffeehouse offers "tidbits" or snacks to customers, such as cinnamon
rolls or gingerbread. Mattie, however, would like to expand the business to include an upstairs
meeting room. She would like them to serve meals, such as mutton chops and roasts. Mattie also
wishes to buy a second coffee urn, to speed up the service.

Since the mother
is not a good cook, the family relies on the skills of Eliza, a free black woman, to do the
baking for the coffeehouse.

The coffeehouse helps convey the flavor of late
eighteenth century life in the middle of a bustling city in the new United States.

When creating an artwork, the human brain needs to use which side predominantly in order to focus on the artmaking process?

The
discovery in a difference in the way of thinking of the two halves of our brain can be
attributed to research by a psychobiologist named Roger W Sperry. His work revealed that the
right half of the brain is responsible for processes that involve intuition and the ability to
process information in a simultaneous way. Artists first have to be able to create a complete
picture of...

Can someone explain Motivational interviewing?

Motivational
Interviewing is a guidance and counseling approach model studied by Miller and Rollnick (2002),
where the role of the guidance counselor, or prison counselor, is geared more toward making the
inmate feel accepted and not judged in order to instill in the inmate a natural want
(motivation) for change.

When using motivational interviewing, the counselor
is patient, reflective, and passive. The...

What was the name of the "hospital" where Mattie woke up in Fever 1793? What was its former reputation? Isn't the name of the "hospital" Bush Hill?

The name of
the "hospital" where Mattie wakes up is indeed Bush Hill. Bush Hill is a mansion with
a terrible reputation. According to local gossip,

"Bush Hill (is) one step away from Hell, filled with dead bodies and criminals who
(prey) on the weak. It (is) a place to stay away from, not a place where a young girl should lay
about and sip broth..."

Bush Hill is a real place in
Philadelphia, a mansion owned by Andrew Hamilton which was converted into a fever hospital
during the epidemic of 1793. The hospital was run by the famed French physician Dr. Deveze, who
was especially knowlegeable about the disease yellow fever.

When Mattie wakes
up and discovers she is at Bush Hill, she immediately asks to leave, because of the reputation
of the estate as a "dangerous place." She is assured by the attending nurse, Mrs.
Flagg, that "Bush Hill is now a respectable place." Mr. Stephen Girard, a rich French
merchant, importer, and banker," has taken over the establishment, getting rid of the
unsavory element who has given the place its bad reputation. Mr. Girard has made Bush Hill into
a place where fever victims could be taken care of under the wise and watchful eye of Dr. Deveze
(Chapter 14).

Now that Eveline has decided to leave, what has she begun to notice?

Oncemakes
the decision to leave her life in Dublin to marry the sailor Frank and go abroad, she begins to
second guess herself and starts to notice all she might losing. She wonders, for
example:

What would they say of her in the Stores when
they found out that she had run away with a fellow?

She
describes a job she dislikes and a home life where she has never been loved, favored, or
appreciated. She remembers working hardas she still doesand not feeling respected. But as the
time to leave approaches, she remembers her father. It occurs to her that her father is getting
old and might not be able to get on without her. She remembers a rare act of kindness from him
that happened recently:

Not long before, when she had
been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and...

Which of the following was the most important cause of World War One: Alliances, Empire, Arms race and the assassination?

There is no
objective way to determine which of these factors was the most important in bringing about the
start of .  All of the factors had an impact and it is not possible to accurately measure each
of these impacts.  I would argue that the most important overall factor was the desire for
empire and power.  This desire caused alliances to form.  Once the alliances were formed and the
various countries were completely suspicious of one another, the assassination could ignite the
powder keg and cause the war to begin.

The most important of the factors
that you mention was the...

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Did World War I make the world safe for democracy?

did not
make the world safer for democracy to flourish.

As said by previous
educators, the failure of the League of Nations in establishing a powerful body which nations
respected led to a breakdown of international relations among the more powerful
nations.

Arguably, it was this breakdown that led to World War II, either
directly or indirectly.

However, if we analyze political situations in
several countries, we can see that democracy was far from safe. In Germany, for example, the
Treaty of Versailles imposed serious economic and military restrictions on the nation after WWI.
Despite...

Why is it important to examine history from different perspectives/ points of view, knowing that we can't change history?

Every
account of history is from a human perspective. Even history textbooks, which are trying to be
objective, show us what the writers value by what they include, what they leave out, and how
they frame their historical accounts.

The particular benefit of first-person
accounts of historyand the importance of fictional thought experiments like the novel
is in the subjective human perspective. In primary sources like letters,
diaries, and oral histories, there is no pretending that one is capturing the whole story. It is
a very specific story. But it is through the combining of many specific stories
that we are able to see a clearer whole.

The importance of
Kindred as historicalis in the way Dana is able to immerse herself in
American history (and her history), and the reader's vicarious journey to the past through Dana.
Not only does Dana consider the slavery of the antebellum South in the context of her present in
the 1970s, we as readers consider both levels of the past in the context of our present.
This is important because it shows us the ways society has changed and not
changed, and gives us a context for the society we live in now. The racism of our
present moment, and the 1970s racism that made Dana's and Kevin's families disapprove of their
interracial marriage, are direct descendants of American slavery. Just as Dana can
trace her personal roots back to Rufus and Alice's nonconsensual union, we can trace the roots
of our 2018 America back to the massive impact of the institution of
slavery.

To travel back in time as Dana did, and to form close
relationships with both slave-owners and slaves, has the effect of humanizing the people of the
past. Unlike the "objective" history books, which paint the people of the past as
monoliths and therefore distance us further from them, first-person accounts remind us that
people created, supported, allowed, resisted, and fought the institution of slavery.
Kindred, as a fictional version of first-person accounts, not only gives us
a clearer picture of the pain and humiliation that slaves faced, it also does the difficult work
of showing slave-owners as complex and contradictory humans. Often history can
dehumanize the "villains" in an attempt to show how far we've come, but it is
incredibly important that we make the connection between ourselves and the people who caused or
enabled suffering. Humans (flawed, complicated, and afraid as we are) are
entirely capable of monstrosities like slavery, especially when it is the
status quo, and the majority goes along with it. Studying history, and
understanding what we are capable of, is an integral part of changing society for the better,
now and in the future.

Please summarize chapter 25 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Chapter 25, the
last chapter in 's book, deals
with two topics: the disputed presidential election of 2000 and
America's
reaction to the terrorist attack of 9/11.

The presidential
election
was a contest between Albert Gore and George W. Bush, Jr. Gore was
serving as Vice President
under Bill Clinton. Bush, Governor of Texas, was
the Republican candidate.

Zinn is highly critical of Bush
and only slightly less critical of Gore. Specifically,
Zinn disparages Bush's
record as Governor and his pro-oil business policies. He is also critical
of
Gore's selection of Senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. The Democrats,
Zinn
contends, were only slightly less pro-business and pro-military than
their Republican
opponents.

Zinn also criticizes the
two-party system which prevented the
third-party candidate, Ralph Nader, from
participating in the television debates. Because
neither of the two main
parties represented most voters' interests, voter turnout on election
day was
not strong. In addition, Zinn strongly condemns the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore
case,
which awarded the presidency to Bush.

Zinn also
disapproves of Bush's
response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A "war on
terror" cannot be won. Bombing
innocent civilians in Afghanistan does not
address the issues that motivated 9/11such as
America's support of Israeli
occupation of Palestinian land. He criticizes the
"jingoism" that was
prevalent in post-9/11 America. Finally, America's reaction to
9/11 was
motivated by revenge rather than by logic.

What circumstances cause Winston's varicose ulcer to bother him in 1984 by George Orwell?

's ulcer
frequently affects him during his mundane daily life in abiding by the seemingly pointless party
rules, most particularly due to his sexual chastity. When Winston represses anything, whether it
be sexual desire, creativity, individual thinking, or general individuality, the ulcer becomes
engorged and enlarged. While partially acting as a phallicfor painful sexual repression,
Winston's ulcer also serves as a result of repressing his own identity.

Of
course, when Winston is around , with whom Winston is allowed to be sexually and individually
frank, the ulcer completely subsides and ceases to bother him. Later, once the two lovers become
inevitably separated, the ulcer returns with a vengeance.

The ulcer acts as a
sort of metaphor for the spiritual and physical negative effects that such archaic repression
can have on an individual. The effects of stress can be dangerously detrimental, as can the
effects of not allowing one to be oneself.

In The Metamorphosis, why has Gregor stopped eating, and what is the significance of the familys habit of putting in this room things for which...

Gregor has largely
stopped eating because he has become so depressed. His father has gone back to work, his sister
has mostly stopped caring for Gregor, and she has become incredibly irritable to boot. Gregor is
also still suffering from the wound inflicted and continually exacerbated by the apple which is
lodged in his back. This wound impacts Gregor's ability to move freely and reminds him that he
is essentially only "endure[d]" by his family at this point. He is also made to feel
terrible by the cleaning woman, as she calls him an "old dung beetle," and she taunts
him rather than actually cleaning his room.

The narrator also tells us that
"People had grown accustomed to put into storage in his room things which they couldnt put
anywhere else, and at this point there were many such things [...]" because the family is
renting rooms to boarders in order to bring in a little more money. If something cannot be put
to use to improve the boarders' experience and, thus, earn money for the family, then it is
deemed inessential and extraneous and added to the pile in Gregor's bedroom. It is notable that
Gregor's room becomes the repository for things that have nowhere else to go, for things that
serve no necessary purpose, as he has nowhere else to go and serves no necessary purpose, in
their eyes, either. Without the ability to work and support his family, he too becomes
superfluous and unimportant to them.

Why are Nene and Nnaemeka distinct characters in "Marriage is a Private Affair"?

In his
short story "Marriage is a Private
Affair,"attempts to portray the difference between
modern Nigeria as
represented by Nnaemeka and his wife and the old traditional ways of

Nnaemeka's father, Okeke. In the world of Nnaemeka and Nene, women and men tend to be
equals.
They can be considered distinct characters because of this equality
and because, although they
are married, they are independent in their
thinking. In many ways, Nene is a modern woman and is
not afraid to express
herself. In the beginning of the story she is outspoken in her insistence

that Nnaemeka talk to his father about their upcoming marriage. Because she is
socially
liberated in her role as a spouse, she cannot imagine any problem
between Nnaemeka and Okeke
over the marriage.

Nnaemeka,
however, is not so sure and eventually learns
that his father does not
approve of the marriage. Okeke's opinion of marriages and women is
quite
different from his son's. For Okeke, a man's marriage should be arranged by his father
and
the wife should be quiet and submissive. When Nnaemeka tells Okeke that
Nene is a teacher, his
father claims that women should not be teaching and
points to a section in the bible which
indicates women should remain silent.
Rather than submitting to his father's will, Nnaemeka
marries Nene, asserting
his independence while offering the idea that the world has changed and
that
people should marry out of love and not simply because of cultural
traditions.

In the end, Nene again asserts herself by
writing a letter to Okeke informing him that
the couple has two sons who
would very much like to see their grandfather. It is this letter and
Nene's
initiative that are pivotal in the softening of Okeke's heart in the final lines of
the
story when it is suggested that he will give in and see his son's
family. 

What part of her body does Julia have in a sling?

You can find
the answer to the question in the
first few sentences of Chapter 9.  Whathas in a sling is her
right
arm.

This is before she andhave...

In act 1, scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, what literary devices in Hamlet's soliloquy help characterize him?

At the
beginning of the ,complains that God has "fix'd / his canon 'gainst self-slaughter."
The metaphorical canon is, of course, a powerful weapon and indicates that 's desperation to
commit suicide can only be frustrated by such a large, powerful weapon.

Hamlet also uses listing when he lists adjectives to describe his depression. He says
that the world is "weary, stale, flat and unprofitable." The listing here creates a
cumulative impact. Each adjective has negative connotations, and these negative connotations are
compounded and emphasized with each adjective. This reflects Hamlet's depression, and how he
feels that misery is piled upon misery after misery.

Hamlet again uses awhen
he refers to his life as "an unweeded garden." Weeds are unwanted and often harmful
plants. They also reduce crop yield, or growth of more desirable plants, by competing with them
for natural resources. Hamlet's life is thus an "unweeded garden" because it is full
of undesirable...

In section three of The Metamorphosis how do his concerns change?

As the story continues,
we see that Gregor, in his transformed state, becomes more and more withdrawn and disengaged
from his family and more and more preoccupied with his own concerns and wants. Even though he is
aware of what his family is suffering, and dreams about asserting himself like he did to
"take over the family's affairs," he does nothing, and instead...

Did Christianity spread through trade?

Christianity was able to take full advantage of an extensive network of trade routes to
spread its radical message. Trade brought people from different cultures, religions, and walks
of life together, making it an especially effective means of spreading religious ideas across
vast swathes of territory.

In relation to Christianity, maritime trade
routesmost notably across the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceanbecame a highly useful conduit
for the dissemination of its teachings. Trade introduced people to religious traditions that
they would otherwise never have encountered.

Christianity had the added
advantage in that neither of the two main religions at that time, Judaism and Roman state
religion, had any tradition of proselytizing or preaching. This left the field open for the new
religion to make substantial inroads into the many territories that lined the trade routes of
the known world. In the wake of traders and merchants came Christian preachers, each one
determined to...

The Great Gatsby How does Gatsby represent the American dream? What does the novel have to say about the condition of the American dream in the...

In a
way,represents the American Dream because he came from 'nothing' into wealth, power, and
privilege.  Of course, we know he earned much of his financial assets from illegal activities. 
That part of Gatsby cannot be considered the American Dream.  Generally, we think of the
American Dream as someone with little rising to fame, financial security, or some other powerful
position.  We also see a different side to this dream in .  Although many
of theare popular and wealthy, they are not happy.  Even Gatsby is not entirely satisfied with
his new position in society.  We see in this novel that sometimes when we get what we wished for
we find out that it isn't what we wanted it to be.

What is meant by the principle: "communication is inevitable, irreversible and unrepeatable"? Explain what is meant by the principle: "communication...

Talking about
miscommunication or misunderstanding might be helpful here.

The idea behind
the quote, it seems to me, refers to an understanding of communication as a "transferrence
of information". This information does not have to be true or accurate, but can be purely
emotional, as many examples above have pointed out. 

But once the
transferrence of information has occured, we can only correct a misunderstanding. We cannot undo
it, just like we can't undo a thought. 

Where in the poem "Annabel Lee" does it suggest that Annabel Lee was wealthy?

In the third stanza there is a
reference to s high-born kinsmen, which is a reference to her wealth.

In those days, it was not uncommon for even a wealthy person to succumb to illness even
if the person had money.  They simply did not have the technology to combat some of these
illnesses, such as the respiratory illness that killed Annabel Lee.

In the
second stanza, we fight out that Annabel Lees family had money.

A wind blew out of a cloud by night

    Chilling my Annabel
Lee;

So that her high-born kinsmen came

    And bore her
away from me€¦

The term high-born kinsmen suggests that
at least Annabels ancestors and relatives had money.  It is an interesting choice.  Poe uses it
to show that she was special.  It is one of the many ways he sets her apart from others in the
poem.

 

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What are some literary devices that Shakespeare uses in Act I, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

One literary
device Shakespeare makes use of in Act I, Scene III is figurative
language, such as puns. Since puns twist words, or
give more than one meaning to a word, they are a perfect example of using language in a
non-literal way, otherwise called using figurative language. We especially see 's Nurse making
puns in . For example, when asked how old Juliet is, Nurse makes a out of the
word "teen" in the lines:

I'll
lay fourteen of my teeth--
And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but
four--
She is not fourteen. (15-17)

What she is
literally saying here is that she's so certain that Juliet is thirteen, almost fourteen, that
nurse would bet "fourteen of [her] teeth" on it. However, she makes a further joke
saying that she actually only has four teeth. The word "teen" is a
pun because literally it can be translated to mean
sorrow, but it can also refer to Juliet as a
teenager. Therefore, what Nurse literally says in line 16 is
"to my sorrow be it spoken, I have but four [teeth]," but she can also be saying,
"I confess to my teenager [Juliet] that I only have four
[teeth]."

A second literary device
Shakespeare makes use of in this scene is ; he especially uses
imagery to characterize . For example, Nurse calls him a "man
of wax," referring to a wax statue, meaning that his beauty is statuesque, he is very
handsome (80). Bothand Nurse add to his physical description by referring to him as a
"flower." Lady Capulet further portrays Paris's beauty when telling Juliet to consider
him at the ball that night, saying:

Read o'er the volume
of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Examine
every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content. (85-88)

In saying this, Lady Capulet is telling Juliet to notice how
handsome Paris is, to notice how "beauty" has written on his face with her pen and how
all of the lines of his face work together well, creating balance and strength. Characterizing
Paris as a handsome, desirable man helps us to see later on that marrying Paris really would not
have been such a poor decision for Juliet to make.

In "The Minister's Black Veil" how does the congregation respond at first to Mr. Hooper's black veil? Why?

At first, the
congregation is "wonder-struck" as the Reverend Mr. Hooper greets them on the way to
the pulpit inside the church.

In theof "," the sexton awaits the
appearance of the Reverend Hooper so that he can toll the church bell. Soon, he sees the
minister appear. It is with "astonishment" that he asks, "But what has good
Parson Hooper got upon his face?" Then, as the minister passes others in the congregation,
they are amazed at the sight of his face, which is covered by a dark veil.

A rumor of some unaccountable phenomenon had preceded Mr. Hooper
into the meetinghouse....He seemed not fully to partake of the prevailing wonder....That
mysterious emblem was never once withdrawn. It shook with his measured breath...it threw its
obscurity between him and the holy page....Did he seek to hide it from the dread Being whom he
was addressing?

Mr. Hooper's veil generates such wonder
and mystery that women of delicate natures are forced to leave the meetinghouse lest they faint.
Perhaps, too, the "pale-faced" congregation is also a "fearful sight to the
minister" as his veil is to them. 

What frightens the congregation is,
first of all, the appearance of the minister and their wonder at why Mr. Hooper wears this dark
veil over his face. The sexton says that he is unable to believe that Mr. Hooper's face is
really behind the black piece of crape. After the parson speaks from the pulpit about
"secret sin" and "those sad mysteries" which everyone hides from even their
family and friends, the congregation is unnerved and the veil begins to inspire a feeling of
dread. Later, they ask if the parson has "gone mad" and why he has transformed himself
into "something awful." For, people wonder if Mr. Hooper has done something himself
which he wishes to hide, or if he has knowledge of their failings and wishes to hide this
awareness.

 

Describe the nature and components of executive compensation in various US industries.

Does Walter have any doubt about what he does in A Raisin in the Sun?

One of
the features that makesYounger a
dynamic, round character is that he is constantly plagued by
doubts about the
correct path to take. Throughout the course of the play,shows Walter as

changing from a young man who still lived under the shadow of his deceased father,
Walter Sr.,
to becoming capable of taking the leadership role in his family.
Walter often talks a big game,
but his actions frequently contrast with his
words.

One way we see Walters
doubt is in his attempts at
secrecy. If he had confidence that his mother would have backed his
plans, he
would have been honest with her. Because he knows that the liquor store plan
and
partnership with the other men has great risks, he hides his actions from
.

The most important place where the relationship between
his convictions and his doubts
emerges comes near the end of the play.
Although Walter claims that he opposes the move to
Clybourne Park because he
believes that his mother should have spent her money differently, it
is clear
that he has major reservations about the Youngers being the first black family
to
integrate an all-white neighborhood.

He originally
supports the deal with ,
ostensibly motivated by the desire to recoup Lenas
investment. The turning point in Walters
growth as a man, who will henceforth
be a tremendous role model to his children, comes when he
decides to oppose
accepting the community associations bribe for them not to move

there.

What stylistic devices are used in Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in act 1, scene 5?

An
additional literary device used by Ladyin
heris , which is the
repetition of a word or
phrase at the beginning of sentences or clauses. So, for instance, we
have,`
`

That
wouldst
thou holily; wouldst not play false,

And yet wouldst
wrongly win.
Thou'ldst have, great Glamis,

That which
cries, Thus thou must do, if thou
have it...

In
this particular excerpt, Ladyis
emphasizing the essential goodness of her husband, how he lacks
the mean
streak and ruthlessness necessary to fulfill his life's ambition. All the more
reason,
then, whywants her husband to hurry home as soon as possible so that
she can persuade him to put
aside his moral qualms and do whatever's
necessary to take the throne of Scotland.

Anaphora allows Lady
Macbeth to list all the reasons why Macbeth is incapable of going after the

big prize without her assistance. In each case, she's referring back to Macbeth and why
his
ambitions are ultimately thwarted by his essentially
good...

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why were Europeans able to conquer many of the groups in the Americas?

Diamond
argues that Europeans were able to conquer the natives of the Americas because of geographical
luck.  The Europeans had had better geographical luck and, therefore, they had the guns,
germs, and steel that allowed them to conquer.

The Europeans had been born in
a continent that had had agriculture for much longer than the Americas had.  Their agriculture
had been more effective as well.  This is partly because there had been more species of large,
domesticable animals in Europe than in the Americas.  It is also because the types of grain
available in Europe were more nutritious than those in the Americas. 

What
this meant is that Europe was able to have larger, denser populations from much earlier than was
the case in the Americas.  This gave them the ability to create more kinds of technology.  It
also gave them the massive populations and the proximity to animals that led to the existence of
epidemic diseases.  It was the technology and the diseases that were mainly responsible for the
conquest.

Thus, the Europeans had technological advantages and the advantages
conferred by their diseases.  These factors, which were caused by geographic luck, allowed them
to conquer the Americas.

In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, how could we consider Hailsham as a golden cage for the "students" ?

The golden
cage image (or what is also commonly called a "gilded cage") is one that suggests one
lives in luxury but without freedom. Hailsham appears to be a very high quality boarding school
in the English countryside. In its early days, the dystopian experiment to raise children who
have been cloned for use of their organs attempts at first to determine if these human clones
are like other humans. For example, do they have emotions or hopes and dreams? Having Hailsham
resemble a normal school allows the government (who is presumably responsible for this practice)
to perform a kind of experiment. The school is in a scenic...

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Provide quotes made by Dill Harris with page numbers.

Starting
from page 12, Dill Harris appears throughout the story as a good friend ofand . The following
quotes come from their first few meetings.

Dill first introduces himself to
Jem and Scout as "Charles Baker Harris," telling them: "I can
read."

On page 13, he states:

I
just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do
it.

Jem gives him the cold shoulder until Dill tells him
he has seen Dracula. Their conversation then moves on to books and films.
On page 14, Scout asks Dill where his father is. Dill replies:

I haven't got one.

On page 18 and 19, Dill
becomes interested in the reclusive . He asks

Wonder what
he does in there?

and

Wonder what he looks like?

On page 19, he tries
to persuade Jem to go up to the Radley's house by saying,

You're scared [. . .] You're too scared even to put your big toe in the front
yard."

He further challenges Jem on page 20 by
saying,

You gonna run on a dare?

On pages 20 and 21, he tries to reassure Jem by telling
him...

How does the teacher react to the girl's tricks?

's
autobiography from her early life, called , reveals that Annie Sullivan is
Helen's teacher. Helen was debilitated by an illness as a baby; "the illness which closed
my eyes and ears and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a new-born baby." Her family
does not know what to do or how to help her after Helen is left blind and deaf after the
illness. Helen remembers the day that Annie came as "The most important day I remember in
all my life."

In The Miracle Worker, by William
Gibson, Annie arrives at the Keller household and is immediately mistrusted by Captain Keller,
Helen's father, who is disenchanted when Annie refuses his "southern hospitality."
Annie is young and inexperienced, and whereas Annie sees those as advantages, the Keller family
is concerned about her capacity to manage Helen. Keller questions how anyone can expect
"one blind child to teach another."

Annie is not perturbed by the
family's reaction to her, and even when James mocks her efforts to teach Helen the sign for
"doll," Annie remarks how "bright" Helen is just for mimicking her actions.
When Helen has a tantrum, Annie persists, making Helen spell words back to her, even if they
have little meaning. Annie is happy with Helen's capacity to "imitate now; understand
later."

Helen's continued mischief does have an effect on Annie when
Helen hurts Annie and then locks her in her bedroom. Annie is sometimes haunted by her late
brother's pain but shuts it out and deals with the problem at hand, being carried down a ladder
by Helen's father, much to Annie's embarrassment and dismay.

Alone with
Helen, Annie watches what Helen does with the key, and can't help but admire the little
"devil." She effectively challenges Helen as she has "nothing else to do,"
and act I ends with a determined Annie and a resolute Helen.

Annie is
unwavering in her efforts to help Helen "without breaking her spirit," but she is
sorely tested by Helen's apparent willingness to cooperate, which is swiftly followed by
destruction. Annie knows that Helen's behavior is a result of years of being pitied, but she
does not want the family to pity Helen and wants to show them that Helen's tantrums need a
different approach. When Helen folds her own napkin, Annie knows that she can reach Helen.
Helen's mother, Kate, is sufficiently affected and impressed by the folding of the napkin as to
persuade Captain Keller to let Annie stay, which he is otherwise not inclined to do.

Annie realizes that she cannot teach Helen in her home environment, and she has
sufficiently affected Kate that she is allowed to take Helen to the garden cottage and work with
her alone.

The breakthrough for Annie with Helen comes after their return
from the garden cottage when Helen has the sudden realization that she can communicate. Helen no
longer has a need for "tricks" in order to attract attention, and the future looks
bright.

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Were Anglo-Saxons kind or mean?

The Anglo-Saxon
people ruled the British Isles for centuries.  The Anglo-Saxons had long lasting impacts on the
area.  Their various dialects evolved into what became Old English, the foundation for the
English language.  Christianity prospered in the region, and many churches and cathedrals were
built.  Local governments were established in different areas.

In any
culture, there will be people who are both "kind" and "mean."  If you wish
to label the Anglo-Saxons as a whole, you will...

In terms of improving our prison system, wouldn't it be more beneficial to focus more of our efforts on rehabilitation rather than just...

The answer
to this question is a matter of opinion.  Different people have very different opinions as to
the relative merits of rehabilitation and punishment.  Let us look at the arguments for each
side.

On the one hand, we could certainly say that rehabilitation would be
better for us.  First, it would be better because it would reduce the amount of crime in the
United States.  With our current focus on punishment, when prisoners leave prison, they are
often unequipped to get jobs or to live in society. This leads them to commit crimes again.  If
we would engage in rehabilitating prisoners, this source of crime would be reduced.  Second, it
would be better because it would cost...

What are some questions Calvin asks Meg in A Wrinkle in Time?

Calvin is full
of questions! When first meeting Meg, he asks her questions about her father, which are
important to show he cares about her as a person and important because her father's absence
propels the plot. One example is "Looks kind of like Charles Wallace, doesn't he?" As
Meg answers, the author develops Meg's love for her family and the connection between Charles
Wallace and their father; this becomes important later in the book when they need to confront
IT. Parallels exist between what happens to Meg's and Charles's father and what happens to
Charles...

In the scarlet letter how is the 'A' reinterpreted and how/why is this significant?

In"Another View of Hester" from

we see how the town's view of Hester and her ignominious letter
has
changed over the past seven years.

Because she has
sinned, she has the
ability to not only see it in her fellow Puritans, but
she is also able to support and comfort
them.  The letter still stands out to
the town, but it has begun to serve as a lighthouse for
those searching for
comfort and a place to find solace.

There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
Elsewhere
the token of sin, it was the taper of the sick-chamber. It had even
thrown its gleam, in the
sufferer's hard extremity, across the verge of time.
It had shown him where to set his foot,
while the light of earth was fast
becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach
him.

Unlike those who were so quick to turn their
backs
on her, she was willing to offer a shoulder to cry on.  By calling her
a "self-ordained
Sister of Mercy," Hawthorne is showing the reader how Hester
has taken it upon herself to
tend to the sick, help the poor, and listen to
the brokenhearted.

In such emergencies,
Hester's nature showed itself warmand rich; a well-spring of human

tenderness, unfailing to every realdemand, and inexhaustible by the largest. Her breast,
with
its badge ofshame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed
one. She wasself-ordained
a Sister of Mercy; or, we may rather say, the
world'sheavy hand had so ordained her, when
neither the world nor she
lookedforward to this result.

Unlike
the harsh gossips who judged and criticized her in , she has the power to

sympathize and listen to her fellow man. Surprised by this change, the town begins to
stop
regarding her letter as a symbol of her "adultery" and more a symbol
that she is
"able."

The letter was the
symbol of her
calling. Suchhelpfulness was found in her,so much power to do,
and power tosympathise,that many
people refused to interpret the scarlet A by
itsoriginal signification. They said that it meant
Able; so strong was , with
a woman's strength.

In Pygmalion, what traits of the poor flower seller's mentality are shown in Act 1?

Dictionaries give two distinct meanings to the word "mentality" the origin of
which is an English derivation dating from 1690 that combines "mental" with the
abstract noun forming suffix -ity, which indicates a state or condition.
The first meaning is mental power, endowment, or capability. The second meaning is one's mode of
thought, one's turn or cast of mind, how one's view or outlook is set. In relation to The Flower
Girl in Act 1 of , the second meaning promises to be the more interesting,
though information provides enlightenment on the first meaning as well.

The
Flower Girl, according to the first meaning of natural mental endowment and capabilities, is
shown to be rational and intelligent. Though spoken in an almost impossible to decipher , her
remark to the Mother is telling of significant mental endowment and capability. She says (in
translation),

"Oh, he's your son, is he? Well, if
you would have done your duty by him as a mother should, he would known better...

Did the American colonies have representation in British Parliament?

No,
the Colonies did not have actual or direct representation in Parliament. It is important to
note, however, that many citizens who actually lived in England at the time did not have
representation and could not vote either.

To pacify the colonists, British
officials argued that "virtual representation" should...

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Write the undelivered letter to Romeo from Friar Lawrence in that how he himself might have written it. Include info that Friar would have found important.

Dear
,

The last time we spoke, you thought exile was a fate worse than death. I
hope you have now had time to reflect, and I hope you realize how fortunate you are. You might
have been sentenced to death for what you did to , but you are free, and you andstill have a
chance to be together.

Once I hoped that your union with Juliet would help to
heal the rift between your family and the Capulets. I still hope that one day it can, but now
I'm not so sure. Juliet is desperate. Her father threatens to disown her, unless she marries .
Juliet is losing hope, and says she would rather be dead than married to someone else.

I have a plan that might help you both. It's desperate but so is your
situation. I have given Juliet a potion, that, once taken, will quieten her pulse, and make her
appear as if she is dead. Juliet will take this potion the night before the day of her arranged
marriage with Paris. In the morning, she will appear dead, and her family will take her to
the...

Why did Emile Durkheim see religion as society worship? How did he define religion? What did he see as its purpose in life?

‰mile
Durkheims view of religion is primarily social. He attempted to understand why people in any
collectivity develop a cohesive set of perspectives. Rather than understand religion as any one
persons attempts to understand the supernatural or as given through divine revelations, he
looked at the common bonds between people that are expressed through religion. The norms and
practices within any organized religion, including what was then called primitive religion,
became requirements for all members of a given society. In this regard, it was society itself
that became the object of devotion. Seeing that adherence to rules and ritualsboth those that
prescribed and that forbade certain activitieswas deemed necessary for social participation and
community membership, Durkheim concluded that what people were worshiping, rather than or
another manifestation of the divine, was society itself.

In
Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim defines religion as

a unified...

How did the Black Death bring about a crisis and recovery in Europe?

The Black
Death brought about a crisis in Europe because it killed such a huge number of people.  Because
records for the time are so sketchy, we do not have an accurate figure for the number or percent
of people who were killed.  However, if we say that around 50% of the population of Europe died
because of the Black Death, we are probably not far off.

Imagine what a
crisis this would be if it happened today.  If that many people died, our society would be
devastated.  We would lose many of our leaders and teachers.  We would lose many people who own
companies and create jobs.  We might lose large numbers of police and firefighters.  When half
your population dies suddenly, all sorts of important people die and society is thrown into an
uproar.  Now add to that the fact that Europeans of the time had no idea what was happening. 
They did not understand why diseases happen or how they are spread.  From their point of view,
people were dying terrible deaths at random with no discernable reason.  This eroded faith in
the Church, which was a major institution in those times.  It also just caused people to be
frightened, perhaps more than we can even comprehend.  In these ways, the Black Death caused a
major crisis in Europe as it weakened society in many ways.

However, by
killing so many people the Black Death brought about economic opportunity and economic change
for those who survived.  Excess crops and food stores meant that food prices dropped and people
could afford more food than they previously could.  Because so many workers of all sorts died,
those who remained were much more valuable.  They could command higher wages.  They could force
their employers to treat them better in order to keep them on as workers.  Many people who had
been serfs and peasants left the countryside and moved to cities where they helped to drive
economic growth.  In short, the Black Death created a situation where the workers had more power
and could build better lives for themselves.  This helped drive an economic recovery in Europe
and may have helped pave the way for modernization and further increases in prosperity.  In this
way, the Black Death may have caused a crisis at first, but it (at least arguably) was good for
society as a whole in the long run.

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How can companies prepare their managers to be successful expatriate managers? How can companies prepare their managers to be successful expatriate...

It is
definitely important to understand the culture and traditions of the country or countries your
company is going to be operating in.  It is also important to respect those practices.  I
suggest giving your managers a crash-course in local customs, especially taboos and things to
avoid.  For example, in some countries a bribe is polite, in some its offensive, and in some
its...

On what topic are the animals divided in Orwell's Animal Farm? What's Snowballs platform? What is Napoleon's platform?

The whole farm was deeply
divided
on the subject of the windmill. 

The farm is
divided
on the issue of s windmill.  Snowball believes that modernizing and
electrifying the farm will
be good for all of the animals.  He works out
extensive plans.  Some of the animals are
concerned, however, that the
windmill will be too much work. 

Snowball did not deny that to build it would be a difficult business. €¦ But
he
maintained that it could all be done in a year. And thereafter, he
declared, so much labour
would be saved that the animals would only need to
work three days a week. (Ch. 5) 

The
greatest opponent of the windmill is .  He opposes all of
Snowballs ideas. 
Snowball has all of the animals placed into committees and is trying to

organize them.  He tries to teach all of the animals to read.  Napoleon thinks that all
of this
is a waste of time, but his greatest objection is the
windmill. 

Napoleon, on the other hand,
argued that the great need of the moment was to increase
food production, and
that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to
death. (Ch.
5) 

Snowball and Napoleon both try to

convince the animals that they are right.

The
animals
formed themselves into two factions under the slogan, "Vote for
Snowball and the threeˆ’day
week" and "Vote for Napoleon and the full
manger." (Ch. 5) 

Napoleon runs
Snowball off the farm, saying that he is a traitor
who was working with the
humans.  Then, miraculously, it comes out that the windmill was his
idea all
along and he is going to do it.  Napoleon needs the windmill, now that Snowball
is
gone, to keep the animals busy.  His goal is to make sure it never gets
finished so the animals
are always building it and he can work them
constantly.

The windmill,
representing technology or
innovation, is an example of how the animals idealized .  Napoleon
used this
idealism against them, making sure to take over all aspects of life.  All
Napoleon
cares about is power, but Snowball really did have the interest of
the animals in
mind.

When do Jem and Scout show respect in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

In 's
, thoughandhave their moments of youthful rebellion and display a great
deal of independence, they have in general been raised to be very
respectful children.

One example of Jem showing
respect can be seen in . Jem has already turned 12 years old and learned a great
deal from Mrs. Dubose's death. In this chapter, Atticus must also leave the children to
Calpurnia's care because urgent business with the state legislature has called him away.
Calpurnia, not trusting the children to be alone at their own church, decides to bring them with
her to the African-American church as her guests. Once the children have been welcomed into the
church and are settled in, Calpurnia hands each of them a dime to place in the offering. Jem
protests, saying their father had already thought to leave them money for the offering.
Calpurnia replies, "You keep it ... you're my company." Scout further narrates,
"Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his
innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket." Hence, Jem shows
respect towards Calpurnia by accepting the dime she offered to him as her guest
at her church. One reason why he hesitates is because he knows Cal is making a great sacrifice
in giving the children the dimes since she earns far less money thanand times are hard due to
the Great Depression. However, Jem knows that accepting the dime shows respect and courtesy
towards Cal, so he very quickly decides in favor of accepting the dime.

One
example of Scout showing respect can be seen in her acquiescence to
stay with Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle for refreshments at her aunt's persistence. Also at
her aunt's persistence, Scout appears dressed in her "pink Sunday dress, shoes, and a
petticoat" (Ch. 27). Scout dutifully stays for refreshments because she knows her aunt is
on a "campaign to teach [Scout] to be a lady," and she wants to please her aunt,
showing us that this is a perfect example of Scout treating her aunt respectfully (Ch.
27).

Is the Eliza-Higgins relationship in Pygmalion a complex one?

Absolutely. 
For one thing, Higgins takes on Eliza as a student due to a dare with a friend.  Higgins,
without regard for Eliza as a person at all, takes the dare that he can make her speak like
Royalty so well that no one will detect the fraud in very little time.

For
another thing, Eliza and Higgins come from two very different backgrounds and social classes. 
Neither truly understands the other, although Eliza is a good student and she learns quite a bit
more than the speaking patterns in her crash course.  Regardless, her "new" self
leaves her in limbo--she doesn't fit in her old world, and she doesn't really fit into the new
one either.

Higgins never expects or plans for emotions.  He approaches
everything from the perspective of an experiment.  It doesn't work that way when people are
involved.  His mother points this out, as does Pickering and Eliza
herself.

Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair

Okay, you've got
a ton of answers here, but what I believe is the intention behind these words, (the reasonsay
them), is because they are making an incantation. They are not just making an observation about
the nature of things as they see them. In theatre, every character is engaged in action. The
witches are powerful characters and Shakespeare has them at the beginning of the play for a very
specific purpose, which is to set up thefor the whole of what's to come. The lines we are
addressing are deliberately spoken....a state of affairs willed into being....by the witches. We
are witnessing the creation by the witches of a reversal in the ordinary nature of things. Here
we witness an incantation creating an environment for the whole play that follows, which turns
right into wrong, good into bad, and all things bright into gloom. This incantation helps to set
the tone and direction for the play.

What was a main theme in The Masque of the Red Death?

One major theme of the
text is that no one can escape death. Prince Prospero believes that he, with all of his wealth
and resources, can elude death and live happily while his kingdom is decimated by disease. He
calls a "thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his
court, and with these retires to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys."
Surrounded by its "strong and lofty wall" and its "gates of iron," this
abbey sounds like a veritable fortress, indeed. All of the gates are welded shut so that
nothing, the courtiers and the prince believe, can...

What does Mr. Underwood compare Tom's death to in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mr. Underwood compares Tom
Robinsons death to children senselessly killing birds.

When
Helen Robinson hears the news of her husbands death, she does not react at all.  She falls to
the ground, and Dill compares it to a child squashing a bug in the dirt. 

"[She] just fell down in the dirt. Just fell down in the dirt,
like a giant with a big foot just came along and stepped on her. Just ump-" Dill's fat foot
hit the ground. "Like you'd step on an ant." (Ch. 25)

This is related to Mr. Underwoods scathing comparison of Toms shooting children
shooting birds, just as the title of the book suggests.

He
likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb
thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery
Advertiser. (Ch. 25)

This is a reference to s comment
earlier thatandshould not shoot mockingbirds with the guns they got for Christmas, because all
they do is make sweet music that people like to listen to.  Underwood, and therefore Lee, is
reminding us that Robinson is a mockingbird.  He was an innocent who was wrongly targeted for
someone elses benefit.

Helens inability to respond to her husbands death is
more than just a showing of grief.  It demonstrates how she has been treated by society.  She is
the bug. Just as children play with bugs and squish the roly-poly bugs for no reason, because
they can, there is literally nothing she can do about her husbands death.  She and her husband
are helpless.  Society will not help them.  Although she is grieving for her husband, she also
feels the pain of knowing that she is helpless.

One of the mainof the story
is that the people that society throws away are the ones that it should value most.  Tom
Robinson was a kind man, who took pity on a young girl and tried to help her when no one else
would.  Like the other mockingbird in the story, , he is disenfranchised and helpless, but
society is better off for having him in it.  The people of Maycomb who look out for them, like
Atticus, Mr. Underwood, and the children, cannot help them alone.  It will take more than a good
closing argument and a scathing editorial to bring about change.

Please summarize Chapters 13-14 of The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood.

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Chapter 13: This chapter begins with Widge worrying about
how he will be able to transcribe Hamlet without being caught in the act.
On the following Sunday morning, Widge and Sander entertain Mr. Pope's orphans by telling them
stories and giving them horseback rides.

They then attend church, and
afterwards, Sander suggests that they visit St. Paul's Cathedral. He offers to pay for the
Thames crossing. Upon arrival at the cathedral, Widge is stunned to see that the cathedral
courtyard is packed with visitors and vendors' booths. Here, Sander also pays for him and Widge
to go up the St. Paul Tower. At the top, the two can see the queen's London residence and the
Tower prison.

After descending from the Tower, the two walk through the
cathedral courtyard. Widge is surprised to see the works of Shakespeare on sale. The only work
he does not see, of course, is Hamlet . While strolling through the
courtyard, Widge suddenly sees Falconer. He panics and takes off with Sander calling after
him....

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How is natural law incorporated into the American Legal System? Explain how Natural Law encourages the protection of the rights of those accused of...

Natural
law is the idea that humans have basic and undeniable rights which should not be taken from
them. Natural law protects humans from losing those rights, and it is a specific, fundamental
code that transcends religions, governments, and social groups.

Thomas
Jefferson incorporated natural law into the Declaration of Independence from the very beginning,
stating that men are entitled to "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." These
rights are all things that people should not have restricted, because they are natural and
inborn in human beings. This was the pinnacle of what Jefferson desired in America's
governmentthe idea that humans should have their basic rights protected and fought
for.

Since then, natural law has been expounded upon and extended to take
into account differences of gender, religion, sexuality, and much more. As the nation has grown,
it is understood that there are many individuals in society who are still not protected and who
deserve the same freedoms...

According to Lepores essay, what was Dickenss response to the United States after his first visit there?

Dickens
visited the United States in 1842. Though somewhat eventful, it's fair to say that the trip was
not to Dickens' liking. For one thing, the American press tore into him for what they perceived
as Dickens' money-grubbing tendencies in his campaign to reform the copyright laws. Though
Dickens' books sold widely in the United States the absence of legally-enforceable international
copyright law meant that he made very little money as it was all too easy for pirated versions
of his works to be published. Dickens was perfectly justified, then, in his complaints, but many
Americans were none too sympathetic over the spectacle of an already rich man demanding more
money.

As Dickens' American journey progressed, things got even worse. The
Republic of the writer's imagination bore no resemblance to the real-life America of the mid
19th century. Dickens was particularly scathing of the American political system, which he saw
as tending towards bitter division and paralysis. He was also less than enamored of the behavior
of Senators, whose violent denunciations of their opponentsand, in some cases, acts of
violenceutterly horrified Dickens. He'd never seen anything like this on the floor of the House
of Commons in all his years there as a parliamentary reporter.

All in all,
Dickens couldn't wait to leave after his six months in the United States. And although Americans
would continue to count themselves among his most avid readers, most of them were only too glad
to see him go.

What does the authors choice to tell the story through the voice of such a familiar and chatty narrator contribute to the overall meaning of the...

The urbane and civilized narrator of
"" gives a sense of ironic distance to the narrative. The story is one of simple
country people, of a very different type from the well-travelled sophisticate . This is most
evident when he is describing Ichabod's reputation for learning:

He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read
several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mathers History of New England
Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.

The narrator's familiarity with the reader here creates a sense of
distance from Ichabod and his superstition, which is understood by both narrator and reader to
be rather ludicrous and the product of very little learning. The same is true of the extensive
descriptions of Baltus Van Tassel's wealth:

Here rows of
resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag
of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of
Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls,
mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor,
where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors...

This is impressive to the schoolmaster and the people of Sleepy
Hollow, but not to the author of Tales of the Alhambra. Irving's
confidential tone with the reader lets us in on the joke in these preliminary descriptions and
has the same effect on our perception of the headless horseman. The author does not need to
spell out what happens for us to distance ourselves from Ichabod's point of view and see this as
a piece of comicrather than a horror story.

How does the novel characterize America's post-9/11 political, social, and cultural atmosphere?

deals with the rise in

xenophobia in the United States after 9/11, particularly in regard to Muslims and
Middle
Easterners in general. The , Changez, goes from trying to assimilate
to American culture while
studying and working in the United States to
embracing his former heritage once he deems
American culture too shallow and
prejudiced.

Changez finds himself
condescended to a lot
while abroad. The Americans assume all of his people are backward and

violent, easy prey to fundamentalist terrorists. Without saying it openly, the Americans
assume
they are more civilized than the Middle Easterners. They only accept
Changez so long as he
adheres to American dress and manners, which he does
for a long time, even though it makes him
feel as though he is betraying his
homeland and heritage.

The tension between
the two
cultures culminates in the scene where Changez sees coverage of the 9/11 attacks on
the
news. Much to his surprise, he smilesnot because he is a fundamentalist
or because he approves
of the murder of hundreds of innocents, but because
for once, the Americans will know what it is
to be vulnerable, much as his
people and those in their neighboring countries often
feel.

Soon, Changez feels the xenophobic sentiments burst into full bloom

within the United States. He encounters prejudice at an airport and at work. Someone
even refers
to him as a "fucking Arab." In the end, he returns to Pakistan,
but because of
politically controversial statements he made regarding the
United States, he feels like he lives
with a target on his back. The novel
even ends on an ambiguous note, with the reader left
questioning whether or
not Changez has been killed by an American
assassin.

How was propaganda used between the Japanese and the U.S. to depict one another?

As is so
often the case in the heat of conflict, propaganda was used by the Americans and the Japanese to
dehumanize each other. The Japanese routinely portrayed the United States as a decadent country,
morally weak and enervated by luxury. The war that the Japanese were waging was presented as a
moral crusade as much as anything. The Americans were also depicted as colonial oppressors, from
whom the Japanese were liberating the subject peoples of East Asia. Westerners in general, but
Americans in particular, were shown as shallow and materialistic, incapable of comprehending
higher values such as sacrifice, duty, and honor. According to Japanese propaganda, Americans
weren't just the enemy, they were "devils."

For their part, the
Americans played on the popular opinion of the Japanese as being racially inferior. Racist
caricatures abounded in war-time propaganda, in...

What gives Vera confidence to weave her story about the tragedy in "The Open Window" by Saki?

In
"," Vera gains the confidence to fabricate her tale about her aunt's brothers and
husband after Framton Nuttel says he knows "[H]ardly a soul" in the area. 

When Framton first arrives at the Stappleton's house, he finds himself talking to Vera,
a girl of fifteen, who is the niece of Mrs. Stappleton and a "self-possessed young
lady." She asks Framton if he knows many people in the area, and Framton replies,

"Hardly a soul. . . My sister was staying here, at the rectory,
you know, some four years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to some of the people
here."

"Then you know practically nothing about my aunt?" the
girl asks.

"Only her name and address."

With the knowledge that Framton Nuttel will not know what is true
and what is not, Vera spins a tale of how Mrs. Stappleton suffered the tragic loss of the male
members of her family, and now delusionally believes they will return. Knowing Mrs. Stappleton
will watch for her husband and her brothers to return through the open window, Vera hopes to
play a practical joke on Mr. Nuttel.

Vera's ruse works so well at blurring
the lines between what is imaginary and what is real that when Mr. Stappleton, his sons, and the
dog return, Framton Nuttel flees in terror, and Vera's joke is complete.

Who narrates the The Pearl, and is there a point that the author (Steinbeck) is trying to make by using this narrator?

In 1940joined
his biologist friend
Edward F. Ricketts on a sailboat to collect marine invertebrates from the

beaches of the Gulf of California. While they stopped in the harbor town of La Paz,
Mexico, they
heard a story about a poor Indian boy who had discovered a
magnificent pearl. Steinbeck took
this tale and wove his novel as a , a tale
told in order to present a moral lesson.

The narrator of
this parable is an omniscient one; he knows what is in the minds and
hearts
of...

What is the Two Minutes Hate throughout the novel?

The Two
Minutes of Hate is a daily exercise where members of the Party are required to hysterically
express their negative feelings towards enemies of the state, particularly towards Emmanuel
Goldstein and whichever army Oceania is currently fighting. Members of the Party pack tightly
into a room where images of Goldstein and the opposing army are displayed on a telescreen. The
Party members begin to shout, cry, and viciously scream at the enemies on the screen as they
work themeselves in a frenzy. The Two Minutes of Hate is the government's way of...

Julio Cortazar's The Axolotl Question !!! I just need to know what the narrator was so interested in about the Axolotl's? What made him so obsessed?...

The
narrator feels that he has some kind of deep connection with them.  The...

Why did Phoenix Jackson set out on her journey?

Phoenix
Jackson is a redoubtable old lady and thinks nothing of making the long trek on foot from her
home in the country all the way to Natchez. She embarks upon this journey twice a year to pick
up some medicine for her sick grandson. We get the impression that the old lady must really love
her grandson if she's prepared to make such a long, hard journey at her time of life.

As well as the numerous obstacles and dangers she encounters on her journey, Phoenix
also has to endure the humiliation of being treated like a charity case when she finally arrives
at the clinic. But Phoenix is prepared to go through all this for the sake of her grandson, who
suffers from a sore throat after swallowing lye. Lye is an alkali used in the manufacture of
food. It's also used in detergent and drain cleaners, and swallowing it in this particular form
can be lethal. Phoenix's grandson has clearly had a lucky escape, but he still requires medicine
for a throat burned by the swallowing of such a caustic substance.

For the poem, "An Ordinary Day," by Norman Maccaig I need a line by line explanation along with figures of speech used, such as personification,...

In "An
Ordinary Day," the poet describes a number of ordinary phenomena of nature that he saw when
he took a walk.  Some of these things are:

*"The
light glittered on the water"

*"Cormorants [a type of bird] stood
on a tidal rock

With their wings spread out,
Stopping no
traffic"

*"Various ducks

Shilly-shallied [moved
in an undecided way] here and there"

*"Small flowers"
attracted bees

*"Long weeds in the clear water" swayed in the
wind

*"A cow

Started a moo but
thought
Better of it"

The poet concludes
with the observation:

how ordinary
Extraordinary
things are or
How extraordinary ordinary
Things are

The poet seems to be asking: Are these beautiful sights really
extraordinary, but we think they are ordinary because we do not pay enough attention to them?
 Or, are all ordinary things really extraordinarily beautiful, if we only would pay attention to
them?

This style of turning around simple phrases to create questions is a
primaryin this poem.  Other examples are:

*I took my mind
a walk

Or my mind took me a walk

*The light glittered on
the water

Or the water glittered in the light.

*And my
mind observed to me

Or I to it

The
poet also uses more conventional figures of speech; some examples are:

 (speaking of non-human objects as if they
were human):

Small flowers
Were
dong their level best
To bring to their kerb bees

Flowers don't consciously try to bring bees to themselves (at least I don't
think they do!)

(a comparison that does not use the
word "like" or "as"):

Long weeds in the clear
Water did Eastern dances

Weeds don't actually dance the way people do; they appear to be
dancing as the wind causes them to sway.

(a comparison that does use the
word "like" or "as"):

Small
flowers
Were dong their level best
To bring to their kerb bees
like
Aerial charabancs

A charabanc was a kind of open-topped horse-drawn bus that was common in England in the
1920's and '30's.  The poet is comparing the flight of the bees to the movement of
charabancs.