What is Stargirl about? Who is the main character? Basic summary? Author: Jerry Spinelli What is the story about?

is about
freedom and conformity. More specifically, it follows what happens when a strange and wonderful
young woman named Stargirl enters a public high school....

What does it mean to be an "African" versus a "Negro" in "All Gods Chillen Had Wings," and how does the tale define the process of being...

All Gods Chillen Had
Wings
is an African-American tale belonging to the larger Flying Africanof the

nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Since most of these narratives were first
orally
transmitted by plantation slaves, they differ in their telling. The
version I am referencing can
be found in Virginia Hamiltons The
People Could Fly: American Black
Folktales. It can also be found

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Before we unpack the folktale, understanding its historical context is useful.
As you
probably already know, the black slaves forced to work in the
plantations of the American South
under sub-human conditions, were torn away
from African countries as diverse as the (now)
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and many others.

Thus, the
Africans belonged to different ethnic groups and tribes, each with their own

rich cultural heritage and language. Many times, Africans on slave ships and plantations
could
not even understand each others dialects. Furthermore, families were
separated in the slave
trade and different members sold off to different
plantations. Once out of Africa, the Africans
were clubbed under the
derogatory racial marker Negros. Isolated from their cultural and
familial
ties, stories and songs became the primary way for the captured Africans to forge
new
bonds with each other and to preserve a common African identity. As time
went on, this became an
African American identity, based on their unique
challenges and experiences in the American
South.

One of
the motifs of this folklore was the flying African, where
sometimes
individuals, and often groups, gained flight to escape their oppressive overseers.
In
some tales the people transform into birds, in others they fly away "like
birds;" and
in some they head to the sky while in others, they fly back to
Africa. While some scholars read
these folktales as afor the power of the
human spirit to rise in the face of adversity, others
say the folktale may be
referring to the flight of runaway slaves, and others who managed to

overthrow the yoke of slavery through luck, ingenuity, and/or education.

Yet
another reading respects the assertion of the tellers that the
Africans actually flew. In
Chillen for instance, the speaker explicitly says
the man he himself heard the tale from was
there at the time and saw the
Africans fly away with their women and children. While it is true
the
Africans actually did not magically fly away, this last reading respects the power of
faith
as well as non-Western systems of common-sense.

Indeed, in Chillen and
other folk tales, the Africans chant
something specific before flying away. In Chillen, the
old man who is the
leader of the group that flies away made a sign in the masters face and

cried, €˜Kuli-ba! Kuli-ba! I dont know what that means." Other folk tales
report
similar-sounding words, which scholars like Winifred Vass have traced
to words from the Bantu
language. Thus, the slaves are performing a ritual
that enables flight as a part of their system
of rationale. Therefore,
interpreting this solely as metaphor and wishful thinking may be

reductive.

To come to your specific question, it is very interesting
to note
the way the folktale opens (emphasis mine):

Once all
Africans
could fly like birds, but owing to their many
transgressions, their wings
were taken away. There remained, here and there, in the sea islands
and
out-of-the-way places in the low country, some who had been overlooked and had retained
the
power of flight, though they looked like other men.

In
the beginning the people are Africans, imbued
with racial and geographical dignity, and blessed
with the power of flight.
Because the folktale needs to provide an answer for why some of the
people
are removed from Africa and flight, it includes the line owing to their many

transgressions, or sins. The sea islands and out-of-the-way places refers to tidal and
barrier
islands off the Atlantic coast of America, belonging to the states of
South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida. Thus, the dislocation of the Africans
is rooted to very specific places. In Africa,
they are Africans; once
dislocated they are forced to wear another label.

In
the
third paragraph of the story itself, the term Negros is casually introduced for the
first
time.

One day, when all the
worn-out Negroes were dead of
overwork, he bought, of a broker in the town, a
company of native Africans just brought into the
country and put them at once
to work in the cottonfield.

Note the
striking way the Negros are juxtaposed with the native Africans. Slavery,

subjugation, and so much overwork that it kills the people, transforms them from the
Africans of
the opening lines to Negros, their state in America. The change
symbolizes both their change of
circumstance, as well as the prejudice and
dehumanization they have had to face in the new world
because of their racial
identity. In contrast, those fresh from Africa are native Africans,
because
they still retain their cultural memory and identity.

Significantly,
it is this group, which still remembers the
knowledge-systems of the homeland, that starts the
flight away from the cruel
overseer in their cotton plantation. As the overseer repeatedly hits
a new
mother, slowed down because of her physical condition, she turns to an old man in
the
group.

She spoke to an old man near
her, the oldest man of
them all, tall and strong, with a forked beard. He
replied, but the driver could not understand
what they said. Their talk was
strange to him.

Their
shared language
as well as the young woman referring to the old man later as Daddy, indicate

this is a family who has not yet been separated. Thus, the cultural African ties are
strong
between them. After the overseer lashes at her a few more times, the
young woman is told by the
old man that the time has come, and away she flies
like a bird. Soon, another man flies away,
and then another, till:

The old man...said something
loudly to all the
Negroes in the field, the new Negroes and the old Negroes. And as he spoke to

them, they all remembered what they had forgotten and recalled the power which once had
been
theirs. Then all the Negroes, old and new, stood up together. The old
man raised his hands, and
they all leaped up into the air with a great shout
and in a moment were gone, flying, like a
flock of crows, over the field,
over the fence, and over the top of the wood, and behind them
flew the old
man.

Thus, the Negros "old and
new"
remember their African roots and inherent power of flight. In coming together,
the
peoples from different African cultures and races reclaim their power.
This can be read as a
metaphor for the importance of proudly owning their
African identity.

Some
critics have read the flight in
Chillen as a metaphor for suicide, and indeed, suicide
sometimes
can be an act of defiance and resistance; but I think the
flight
in Chillen has multiple meanings. One of them is the flight from being
African to Negro to
back.

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What is the point or purpose of each of the acts in "Romeo and Juliet"?

Look at the
parts of a plot line in a basic short story:

1. : background information, setting, character introduction, conflict.


2. Rising Action (and complications): events leading to theof the story.


3. Climax: the highest point of action in a story.
4. Resolution: the
   solution to the initial problem.

Each of the acts in
"" can be fit into one of these parts.

Thein Act 1 presents most of
the exposition of the story.  It is brief but complete.  The
characters (though not by name) are introduced, the...

What does the line "fair is foul, and foul is fair" mean in Shakespeare's play Macbeth?

"Fair
is foul and foul is fair," first uttered byin Act 1, Scene 1, is athat sets the stage for
the entire play.  At its most basic,  it means that "good is bad and bad is good."  In
the context of the play itself, it means that things that are good are also bad and vice-versa.
 For example: 's murder of Kingis good for , as it leads him to become the kind of Scotland, but
bad for King Duncan.  To continue to explore this particular example: Macbeth's reign is
initially good for him and , but bad for the country.  In Act 4, Scene 3,

In Romeo and Juliet, what does Romeo mean when he says, after killing Tybalt,"I am a fortune's fool"?

Your question goes to
the very heart of why this play is such aas it touches on one of the majorin the play - the
extent to which destiny rules our lives and we are just helpless playthings in the hands of
fate. Consider the situation thathas found himself in:has killed his best friend, , whom Romeo
is now honour-bound to kill in turn. However, he knows the decree ofthat if more blood is shed
between the Capulets and the Montagues, the person shedding that blood is to either be condemned
to death or must be exiled. Romeo, having married , recognises that forces outside of his
control are once again forcing a separation between him and his new wife, Juliet. This is why
these two lovers are described as "star-crossed", and this is also why, Romeo, when he
hears news of Juliet's supposed "death" before he receives the letter of the Friar,
shouts out "I defy you stars!"

This play thus recognises the force
of destiny in shaping our lives and how futile it is to try and go against it -in attempting to
"defy" the "stars", sign their own death warrant, as it appears that this
play shows that there are some romances and true loves that just aren't meant to
be.

How does Zinn refute Bernard Bailyns view of the creation of the Constitution?

Bailyn's
fundamental starting point is that aspects of American History such as the Revolution and the
Constitution emerged from an ideological reality shared amongst the Framers.  Bailyn believes
that in both public and private realms, specific ideas that espoused freedom and rights and
spewed disdain towards tyranny and oppression helped to form the nation:

And that leads to this whole expansion of their [the framers']
ideological commitments, as they grope to explain what it is they're trying to preserve and what
it is they're trying to oppose. So that by the time you get to 1776, there's an elaborate
structure of thought that's worked out that justifies this and that really sets American
constitutional thought on its path.

For Bailyn,
"American constitutional thought" emerges from the "expansion of" the
framers' ideological commitments.  Ideas, not social conditions, generated the creation of the
United States Constitution.

Zinn disagrees.  He believes that the presence of
material reality and the desire to accumulate more of it existed at the base of American
identity construction.  In both the American Revolution and the Constitution that followed, Zinn
argues that the desire to appropriate individual wealth is what enabled the Constitution to be
created.  The denial of voice that the "framers," wealthy and privileged white men,
imposed on women, people of color, and poor people are what Zinn uses to support his thesis.
 The only "idea" that the Colonists revered was power.  This is in stark contrast to
the Bailyn's thinking.

What is Pearl's Last Name in The Scarlet Letter?

Ever since the
establishment of the first colonies in America, the Puritans continued to enforce the same
Bastardy Laws as they existed in England as of the 1660's. Hawthorne was spot on in describing
the manner in which aldermen expected women who became pregnant out of wedlock to openly declare
the father of the child, since the pain that comes out of childbirth should not be bare
alone. 

According to Puritan law, a child who is born out of wedlock is
considered, like with , an "elfin" or something supernatural that will never make it
to heaven due to the sins of the mother.

A strange child!
remarked old . It is easy to see the mother's part in her. Would it be beyond a philosopher's
research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyse that child's nature, and, from it make and mould, to
give a shrewd guess at the father?As a result, some women would rather confess to fornication
than follow the humiliating consequences of bastardy laws.

Hence, since the children were not recognized by a specific family, the most likely
answer is that Pearl carried 's last name of "Prynne". This is ironic considering that
Hester's last name is that of her husband, Roger.

 

However, last names for the likes of Pearl were really not necessary. The girl was not
to be baptized, presented, nor allowed in church-related activities. She was to suffer the same
isolation as her mother. More than likely, Pearl was not even accounted for in the population
because, as a result of her mother, she would not be considered as a worthy community member.
Therefore, although her last name does not really matter (nor does it come up in the novel), the
likelihood of it being her mother's own last name is quite high.  

How might materialism affect theme in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe?

The
Webster-Merriam dictionary defines
materialism as "a preoccupation with...material rather
than intellectual or
spiritual things."

As the story begins, we find
that
Crusoe is an impulsive young man, not intellectually or spiritually centered.
 Crusoe's
father is rich enough to provide for his family, as well as to
educate his son so that he might
be a lawyer one day. "Things" come easily to
Robinson, and as is the case with so many
of us, he has no concept of what is
truly valuable until he has
nothing.

Crusoe feels driven to go to sea.  Although everyone he knows tries

to deter him, he will not be stopped. So Crusoe goes to sea. He barely survives the
ship's
destruction in a storm--but once he reaches land, even though advised
again not to, Crusoe
cannot resist the siren call of the sea.

This trip is
also a disaster: the ship is
captured by pirates.  Crusoe is enslaved for
two years.  When he escapes, he
eventually buys a plantation and is very successful.

One
example of Crusoe's...

How do these items relate to Harvey? (explain as Harvey being the narrator); Susie's bracelet, his note book, a knife, and a doll.

As a serial
killer and as a man who premeditates his murders, these items mentioned in the questions are
symbols of his disorder and are also symbols of how his disorder affects him.

Susie's bracelet is a trophy which killers such as Harvey would keep after committing
horrid crimes against younger victims. Real life and notorious criminals are known today for
keeping a piece of clothing from a victim as a way to horribly treat themselves into the know of
what they did. His notebook...

If a student is caught cheating on an exam, what is the best way to punish the student, so as not to affect his or her future later? Cheating in...

Cheating
becomes more prevalent and easier to do every year. With numerous sites online where one can
purchase an "original" paper, the temptation for students is greater than ever to not
do their own work. The "point and click, copy and paste" generation has not really
learned the lesson that research is a slow process. People want instant gratification, and that
means having a paper to turn in without doing any of the work. Many of the current generation of
students are risk-takers, as well. They figure that they will take the chance of getting caught
and deal with the consequences if they must. Many of them think that the teacher won't bother to
read their work anyway. They are invariably surprised when they get busted. Many even go so far
as to swear they don't know how that happened when the teacher has a copy of their word-for-word
plagiarized essay attached to the original document.

Many of them are also
surprised to discover that their teachers/professors are one step ahead of them. Every
generation thinks it's reinveinting the wheel with tricks and ways to cheat. So, while it is
easier to cheat, it is also easier to catch a cheater who uses the internet to buy or copy
his/her work. All one has to do is type a phrase into Google (or the search engine of choice)
and there it is. Plus, many schools now subscribe to Turn It In or other plagiarism detecting
tools.

As far as ruining a student's future, well, he or she is doing that
without the teacher's help, as most of the responders to this thread seem to agree. I make it
very clear at the beginning of each semester what the consequences of plagiarism are. If the
student still chooses to do so, he/she earned that zero.

Why is the average cost curve u-shaped?

The average
cost curve is u-shaped because costs reduce as you increase the output, up to a certain optimal
point. From there, the costs begin rising as you increase the output.

To
understand why this happens, you need to know what the average cost is. In economics, there are
two types of costs: variable and fixed. Fixed costs are those expenses that remain the same.
They include things like rent and bills for utilities. Variable costs keep on changing. Inputs
are examples of variable costs. You may need more inputs as the demand increases.

Average cost is defined as the total costs (fixed costs + variable costs) divided by
total output. As you increase the output and variable costs, the average cost reduces because
the output adds value to the consumer.

Assume that you are in a room full of
guests, and you give everyone a bottle of water because they are thirsty. You have paid for the
venue, which can host a specific number of people (fixed cost). Your variable cost is the amount
that you spend on water bottles. You may be forced to increase the water quantity as the event
progresses. Buying more water for the guests helps them quench their thirst. Here, the average
cost curve continues to slope downward.

However, there is a limit. After
everybody is satisfied, the guests begin to waste the water. At this point, your average costs
increase because the additional output doesnt add any value to the consumer. The average cost
curve suddenly starts sloping upward, forming a u-shape.

Should the federal government be responsible for drafting legislation on spoofing?

Douglas Carroll, Ed.D.

Spoofing is the
intentional act of disguising a piece of communication to lead the
recipient
to believe the communication is from a trusted source. Spoofing applies to more
than
just email communications. Phone calls, websites, IP addresses, and
other more technical aspects
of the communication system are all subject to
attempts of spoofing.

Currently, the FCC (Federal
Communication Commission) regulates spoofing by phone. A report by
Market
Watch (April 2017) estimated that consumers have lost about 9.5 billion dollars to
phone
scams. As of August of 2019, the FCC, in response to growing consumer
complaints, is proposing
new laws to target robocalls and caller ID scams.
Given their track record in the previous
years, this does not appear to offer
a much...

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What is the main pricing method used by Alibaba.com? [e-marketing]

The
main pricing method used by China's Alibaba.com is called "penetrative pricing" and
reflects Alibaba Group Holding Limited's business strategy of penetrating a succession of new
markets. Alibaba.com is the first of a series of websites owned by Alibaba Group and has a
specialized penetrative pricing policy designed to optimize revenue from its target market.


Alibaba.com is a business-to-business (B2B) providing small businesses with
low-overhead access to global buying and selling and fast shipping of small-lot orders of
materials and supplies. The pricing plan for this B2B marketplace is built upon transaction
commissions and upon advertisement purchases by sellers to boost their products'
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Why did Harper Lee choose to include Mr. Underwood's opinions about Tom's death in To Kill a Mockingbird?

As
Maycomb's owner and editor of its newspaper, Mr. Underwood has fairly dedicated his life's work
to the representation of the truth. Whenis surrounded in the dark by the mob who comes for Tom
Robinson before his trial, it is Mr. Underwood who calls down to him, "Had you covered all
the time, Atticus" as he leans out with a shotgun from the Tribune
office. Mr. Underwood wants what is right based on evidence and factsa clear departure from the
typical Maycomb citizen.

When Tom dies, Mr. Underwood writes a scathing
editorial in the newspaper.notes that he writes this piece in a manner simple enough for
children to understand instead of debating complex philosophical principles:

Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they
standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Toms death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by
hunters and children.

Tom poses no threat to the
community, and after Atticus's presentation of evidence, everyone in town is aware of that. Yet
in his escape attempt after being falsely convicted, he is horrifically gunned down. Scout
understands the importance of Mr. Underwood's piece:

In
the secret courts of mens hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella
Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Yet there is a
further significance to these published words. Mr. Underwood is a racist himself. In , Atticus
comments, "He despises Negroes, won't have one near him."

Perhaps
Mr. Underwood represents the possibility of change in racist hearts. Or perhaps he is just
complexa racist who also wants justice and the truth to emerge victorious. His character shows
that some people are neither all good (like Atticus) nor all bad (like Bob Ewell) but instead
are a bundle of human complexities.

What is your definition of a college environment?

What an
interesting question! I would have to say that the college environment incorporates all external
factors related to attending college. This means that the environment is not only the physical
space of attending college, such as dormitory rooms and the campus green, but the social and
biological factors as well. The social environment of college is quite different from anything a
student is likely to have experienced before or ever will experience again. College students are
typically young adults exercising new-found independence and liberties. Lots of people try to
"figure out" who they are during college by trying new hobbies, attending social
events, and testing the boundaries they had previously set for themselves. Compared to primary
schooling, the social bubble of college life is much larger, yet still somewhat
enclosed. 

In terms of the biology of college life, many changes may happen
at this time! Personally, I've observed that many people come down with difficult illnesses like
the flu during their first year of college. This is in part because of the sheer numbers of
people who visit college campuses every day, but also influenced by the stress university life
can put on a person's body. Students who have not yet learned to cook for themselves may choose
to eat at the campus dining hall, which might offer everything from fast food to home-style
meals to fruit smoothies. For most students, their typical diet before college and the diet
during college are radically different. Many students have to compromise between time, effort,
and nutrition when it comes to making decisions about what to eat.

The
college environment isn't limited to just the physical grounds where the
school sits, because a student who is enrolled in college may extend the environment to any
place they go. 

Use special products to expand and simplify: [(a+3)^2+(a+3)b+b^2][3+a-b] Show solution

You need
to use the special product `x^3 - y^3 = (x - y)(x^2 + xy +
y^2).`

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Does anybody know any good quotes that explores the theme of grief? Or any quotes which show Susie's, or her familys, acceptance of the murder? From...

The only cure
for grief is action. ~George Henry Lewes~ Waste not fresh tears over old grief. ~Euripides~
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.You must wait until it is digested,
and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson~ Grief teaches the
steadiest of...

In Chapter 7 of Night by Elie Wiesel, describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.

In the seventh
chapter of this novel, Elie and his fellow prisoners board a train car following a two night
long, freezing cold death march from Buna to Gleiwitz, as well as three additional days
afterward in which no food or drink are distributed. Prior to boarding the train, the prisoners
are given one ration of bread, which they consume along with spoonfuls of snow after spending
the majority of an entire week with little or no food, despite having run almost 80 kilometers
on foot.

The prisoners board the train in Poland and spend ten more days and
nights with no food, while en route to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. While the train
is stopped, a crowd of German spectators throw pieces of bread into train cars to watch the
starving passengers fight one another for the chance to eat. Elie witnesses an old man who has
hidden a piece of bread under his shirt being tackled and crushed by his son while attempting to
take a bite. The man's heart-wrenching words to his son read...

What is wrong with modern education as suggested by the poem "Modern Ode to the Modern School," by John Erskine?

According to Erskine's poem, the primary
failure of the modern school system is that it fails to teach students anything beyond the
absolute minimum necessary in order for them to do what needs to be done. The school board has
determined that nothing "superfluous" should be taughtthat is, if somebody wants to be
a bricklayer, the school will teach them how to be a perfect bricklayer, but nothing in addition
to this. The problem, as Erskine sees it, is that this allows somebody to begin a career but not
to advance within this career.

When the bricklayer in question was made a
foreman, he found himself unable to do it, so he went back to school in search of a course which
would teach him. He was taught, once again, exactly what he needed in order to become a good
foremanbut "nothing more." This meant that every time the man advanced in his career,
he had to go back again and again for more education. If his original education had taught him
transferable life skills, Erskine suggests, there would have been no need for all this
subsequent schooling, as the man would have been taught initiative and the capacity to improve
himself on his own, without having to return over and over to be spoon-fed only the bare minimum
of new information by the school board.

If your company plans to close a plant and has given 60 days' advance notice per the plant closing law, should you have any concerns as to the...

The Worker
Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, requires manufacturers to give employees a
sixty-day advance notice if they are going to close down a plant. The notice is supposed to help
the factory workers prepare for the job market through retraining. It also gives them time to
look for new jobs.

Since most factory workers depend on that job for their
livelihood, you are likely to come across disgruntled employees after the notice. These workers
may be more aggressive at work because they don't know whether theyll get work after the factory
closes down. Take extra security measures and increase the number of guards in case the workers
decide to vandalize the plant out of anger.

You should also tell your
supervisors to be more alert and make sure that their juniors are always in protective gear.
Anger often leads to mistakes by the workers. These mistakes can result in serious injury and
costly lawsuits. Therefore, be extra careful and monitor everyone.

Apart from
taking extra precautionary measures, make sure that you engage with the factory workers. Be
honest with them and tell them the reason why the plant is closing down. Create a rapport so
that you can make the process easy for them. Thank them for their service. If they are
professionals, they wont hold it against you. Instead, they will continue to carry out their
duties diligently until the final day.

In Ruth Forman's "Poetry Should Ride the Bus," how do the images in each stanza reveal the speaker's attitude toward poetry? Do you agree with the...

The poem
argues that poetry should be a bright, positive force that is interwoven into the fabric of
everyday life, not "out there" in a dusty library tome nobody reads.

In the first stanza, Forman uses theof a polka-dotted dress and doing cartwheels down
the street to show how poetry can brighten and sustain us in a childlike way even as we pass
unhappy scenes such as crack houses. This imagery and juxtaposition of poetry's brightness with
the dark elements of society continues in the second stanza, when Forman compares a poem to
"bright red lipstick" and being pretty even as men shoot "craps" around the
corner.

should also wear "plum suits" but not be so
"educated" it can't sit on the porch steps with ordinary people and chat. It should be
tucked between dinner foods like greens and chicken wings. Poetry should bring hope and
"revolution" into everyday life.

All these metaphors describe
poetry as a form that should be written in everyday language that anyone can
understand....

According to the sermon, what is a constant threat to all human beings?

Edwards
defines human "wickedness" as a constant threat to all human beings.  This condition
is what invokes God's anger and is what Edwards sees as the fundamental threat in being in the
world.  For Edwards, the basic condition of wickedness that is intrinsic to human beings is that
against which God directs his anger against:

So that it is
not because God is unmindful of their wickedness, and does not resent it, that he does not let
loose his hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such an one as themselves, though they
may imagine him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber;
the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the
flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath
opened its mouth under them.

Edwards sees the threat of
wickedness present in those who knowingly turn from God's grace and power.  He also sees it in
those who are "spiritually somnolent."  Edwards seeks to awake these individuals for
their actions cause God great anger, and thus pose a constant threat to individual salvation.
 It is here in which righteousness is defined in a clear manner:  One must be aware of and
demonstrate embrace towards the power of God.  One cannot live in slumber and expect God to not
take action against them.  "The hearts of damned souls" contain a level of
"wickedness" that causes God to be filled with great anger.  It is this condition of
being that Edwards identifies as critical to the spiritual awakening of humanity.  It is
critical to avoid the fate of condemnation from the divine.  Aspects of this include the
"rejection" of the divine in the form of God and Christ.  When this happens,
wickedness is present and this becomes the constant threat to all human
beings.

What is the difference between unitary and federal systems?

Put simply, the
difference between a unitary
and a federal government is that a unitary government puts its
power in one
central government while in a federal system the governing power is divided
into
federal and local governing bodies that connect to the national
government.

The Unitary governing
system:

€¢ Places
its power in one central
governing system

€¢ Very little political power
exists
outside the central government

€¢ The powers of this governing
system
are uniformly applied throughout

€¢ All major
government decisions are made
by the central government

€¢
If smaller government units are established they
are controlled by the
central government and can be abolished by such without their

consent

€¢ Many unitary governments are either dictatorships
or
totalitarian

€¢ France, although Democratic, is
governed by a Unitarian
body

€¢ Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Barbados, Morocco, and Spain are examples of
unitary monarchy
government

€¢ China, Afghanistan, Italy, Zambia, and the

Ukraine are examples of unitary republic government

The
Federal Governing System:

€¢
Distributes power from the
national government to local/state governments to
adopt laws that are reasonable to the country
as a whole and the
localities

€¢ Power may be diffused in the federal

system

€¢ Multi-national states often have a federal
system

€¢ Larger countries often adopt the federal system
since constituents may live in areas
remote to the location of the central
government

€¢ Ethnicities with in a
country may lead to a
federal system as their rules and laws may vary. An example of this is the

small country of Belgium which balances the needs two distinct ethnic
groups

€¢ The United States has a federal governing system
with a national government and
Constitution, in conjunction with states
governments and constitutions

Music and Film essay question: What are the differences between an original score, an adapted score, and an arranged score? Why would a director...

In music
terminology, an original score is music that is written for a specific film. An adapted score,
on the other hand, is based on music that already exists. It is used to accompany a film, but
instead of being written specifically for that film, a substantial part of it is borrowed from
an existing composition that was written for another purpose. The music remains recognizable,
but it is adapted, or changed, to suit the context of the new...

What is the origin of the creative mind, and what are the channels in the creative process?

For years,
some scientists have believed that creativity manifests itself when humans are confronted with
issues for which they do not have solutions. In other words, the technique by which we discover
answers is the actual creative process; in the words of the old adage: necessity is the mother
of invention. However, new research has some questioning that hypothesis.

Carel van Schaik, a primatologist who studies orangutans, has conducted studies showing
that orangutans in captivity tend to be highly innovative. Van Shaik posits that once the
orangutans have all their needs metfood, water, protection from predatorsthey lose their fear.
This ease of life and free time encourages the orangutans to explore new objects and situations
in ways they would never do in the wild. As van Schaik says: opportunity is the mother of
invention.

Research with humans reveals that this is a pattern with us, too;
if people are busy with the basic business of survival, they dont really have time to think
about much else. But if our elemental needs are met, we have the luxury of time to explore new
ideas. The ways in which individuals channel creativity varies tremendously from person to
person; some people prefer to work alone, while others delight in collaborating with
others.

In any case, Joe Henrich, an evolutionary biologist, suggests that
most innovations are usually not the product of just one person but rather are products of the
collective knowledge of a society. Ways in which we can help channel our creativity include
being in conscious control of our thought processes and striving to limit tension and
distraction in our lives.

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What are examples of indirect and direct characterizations of Scout Finch in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

An author
creates indirect when, instead of telling the reader exactly what
the character is like, the author implies or shows what the character is
like. An author can show a reader what a character is like through the
character's actions, dialogue between other , or even through the character's thoughts. In
, authordefinitely uses far moreto inform her readers of whatis like rather
than .

We see the first example of indirect
characterization of Scout in the very first chapter.
Here, grown-up Scout is narrating for us what her childhood was like. At one point in the
chapter, she particularly describes in detail what Calpurnia, the Finch family cook, was like.
Though she uses direct characterization to describe Calpurnia, she uses indirect
characterization to describe herself when she describes Calpurnia's
attitude toward her when she was a child. Specifically, Scout describes that
Calpurnia was always shooing Scout out of the kitchen and asking, as Scout phrases it, "why
I couldn't behave as well aswhen she knew he was older." She further relays that Calpurnia
was always ordering her home when she didn't yet want to come home, and their "battles were
epic and one-sided."

Through these indirect
descriptions, we actually learn a great deal about
Scout. First, we learn that Scout was very stubborn as a child, and her
stubbornness was, in part, due to still being very young. We also learn that Scout was very
opinionated and even argumentative as a child. Scout is definitely not as mild-mannered as her
older brother Jem.

In contrast to indirect characterization, an author
creates direct characterization by coming right out and describing
to the reader exactly what the character is like. The Literary Devices
dictionary provides us the following example of direct characterization:

Bill was short and fat, and his bald spot was widening with every
passing year. ( href="http://www.literarydevices.com/characterization/">"Characterization")

Though direct characterization is seldom used in describing Scout,
we can keep in mind that even clothing descriptions
count as characterization because what a character wears can say a
great deal about the character. We see Scout as the adult narrator using direct
characterization to describe herself when towards the end of the novel, in ,
Scout describes the ham costume she has been assigned to wear for
the first-ever Maycomb Halloween pageant.

Scout describes that Mrs.
Crenshaw, "the local seamstress," bent chicken wire into the shape of a ham and
covered it with painted brown cloth. But, one of the the most amusing descriptions is found when
Scout as the narrator relays, "Jem said I looked exactly like a ham with
legs."

The description of Scout's costume is actually very
revealing and closely ties in with things we already know about Scout. The term
ham has become anto describe someone who acts
up and is comical in their overacting. Throughout the book, we have certainly seen
Scout act as a ham.

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In "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, how does the description of the cat as "sagacious" contribute to the meaning of the story?

The
Merriam-Websterdictionary defines "sagacious" this way:

of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment.

The dictionary definition also uses the word "discerning" at some point.
Basically, a sagacious person, or cat, is an organism who could be described as
"wise." He or she is someone who is able to sift through a lot of incoming information
and make an appropriate decision based on that information. This isn't necessarily someone who
is going to win Jeopardy!, but it is someone who would be good to have on a
business/marketing team. In this particular Poe story, the narrator tells readers that the cat
is sagacious. It is a form of direct , because we are explicitly told about a particular
characteristic. If I'm honest, it is an odd way to describe a cat, and the narrator points this
fact out as well. He has no problem saying dogs are sagacious; however, the narrator seems
surprised to find the trait in a feline.

To those who have
cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of
explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable.

[...]

This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal,
entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.

It's an important bit of characterization because it specifically calls attention to
this cat being special and unique, and readers should begin immediately wondering how this cat
is going to impact the story and/or the narrator. This is especially true if the reader
remembers the story is titled "."

Why does the protagonist in Araby feel "driven and derided by vanity?

In 's short
story "," which appears in his collection , the young narrator is
captivated by the sister of Mangan; he watches the girl from his window and follows her through
the streets, entranced by the idea of her and in the throes of his own sexual awakening. When
the girl finally speaks to him, she inquires if he will be going to Araby, a church-sponsored
fair that will be happening in Dublin.

While the girl can't make it to the
bazaar, the narrator promises to go to it and bring her back a gift. He anxiously awaits the
arrival of the fair, but on the night that he is supposed to go to it, his uncle comes home
late; the boy hurries to the fair with the coin that his uncle has given him, but when he
finally arrives, the fair is closing down.

Witnessing this and overcome with
emotion, the narrator comments that he is a "creature driven and derided by vanity"
and that his "eyes burned with anguish and anger." The narrator feels this way because
he has failed on...

What is Nick like as a narrator ? Is he a reliable story teller ?How does the qualities as character affect his narration ? Is he a reliable story...

At the end
of the third chapter,makes a stunning statement about himself:

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I
am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Readers should always see a red flag when a narrator refers to himself or herself as
"honest." This usually indicates the opposite, as truly honest people are acutely
aware that they don't always tell the the truth, as nobody does. In Nick's
case, this statement is especially stunning. It comes immediately after he has described how he
is leading on the "girl" in Chicago thatandthought he was engaged to marry. Nick isn't
attracted to her, remembering the line of sweat that forms on her upper lip after a game of
tennis, but he hasn't quite managed to break off the relationship. He is, in other words, lying
to her. This is especially devious as he is becoming increasingly involved with. So one must
wonder what he is thinking in describing himself as honest...

What is the significance of the six kings in chapter 26?

Two of the
major themes of
are the arbitrary nature of fortune and the universal
nature of
misfortune. Chapter 26 represents perhaps the strongest statement of this theme, as
it
carries these observations across to the most privileged subset of the
eighteenth-century
socio-political order: kings.

In this
chapter, Candide and Martin are dining
with six strangers, all deposed
monarchs, who have come to Venice for the Carnival. We see here
the former
Grand Sultan, who previously deposed his own brother and has now been deposed by
his
nephew. Next, there is Ivan of Russia, who was dethroned as an infant and
raised in a Russian
prison. Then, we meet a...

What type of symbolism is found in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown. Symbolism is always part of Hawthornes works, found in names of...

Hawthorne's
"" is a moralthat serves to illustrate the Puritan doctrine of inherent depravity as
the Brown, the Puritan Everyman, tests his faith by entering the forest primeval by joining the
man "of grave and decent attire" for an evening in the wilderness. Clearly, then, the
symbols are of a religious nature.

NAMES

• 
  Goodman Brown - "Goodman" is the Puritan form of address
  for any man, so Brown becomes in this allegory an Everyman.
• 
  Goody Cloyse - "Goody" is the short form of
  "goodwife"; ironcally, the witch who rides upon a broom and accompanies
  Deacon Gookin (a real-life character) into the forest is given this
  name. She it is, Brown says, that has taught him his catechism. Using these real characters
  lends Hawthorne story more historical reality.
• The Traveler
  -  The old man who accompanies Goodman into the forest resembles Goodman,
  suggesting that evil is pervasive in his...
  
  • 
    

Provide examples of simile and personification in Walden.

It's not
surprising that Thoreau should usegiven his pantheistic worldview. Like all pantheists, he
regards everything in this worldfauna and flora, rocks and trees, man and animals, (indeed man
and God)as all linked together in a gigantic cosmic unity.

As far as Thoreau
is concerned, the features of the natural world he so deeply venerates have as much personality
as any human he's ever encountered; more so, in fact. We can see this point illustrated in one
particularly notable passage of , where he describes the lips of the
lake:

These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard
grows. It licks its chops from time to time.

The lake, of
course, isn't literally a mouth, let alone a human one. But Thoreau's use of personification
dramatizes the lake's presence in nature, allowing us to feel the same kind of connection to it
as Thoreau himself feels.

A great example ofcomes when Thoreau describes
humans in so-called civilized society as living "meanly, like...

What is the difference between a "request" and an "inquiry"?

As a
noun, the word "inquiry" is commonly defined as an act by which information is sought.
In this instance, it is used in the form of a question or a query.  Furthermore, the word can
also refer to a formal or official investigation. Synonyms in this regard would be
investigation, examination, probe, review, exploration, analysis, review, hearing, and
inquest.

As a verb, the appropriate form is "inquire" and it has
the same meanings as defined above. 

A request (in its noun form) is defined
as an act in which one asks for something to be done or given, mostly as a favor, solicitation,
or petition. Synonyms in this regard would be plea, petition, application, call, demand, appeal,
and entreaty.

If used as a verb, it means to politely or formally ask for
something.

The difference between the two words should be clear from the
above definitions. To further clarify the contrast, one may look at the context in which each
word is used, as in the following examples:

Inquiry:

The committee lodged an
inquiry in which it sought more information on what it believed was excessive
expenditure.

Upon my inquiry about her whereabouts, she explained that she
had been to the grocer.

A medical inquiry has a very formalized
structure.

At his inquiry, Peter informed them that he lived in Aberdeen and
that he had been unemployed. 

I instituted an inquiry to determine the facts
of the matter.

You should inquire why the task was not completed.

I inquired why such a large batch of documents had to be completed.

Request:

The teacher's request for more
funding was turned down by the board.

I rolled down the car window at my
passenger's request.

The agreement was signed after the president's request
that they come to some kind of accord.

The student was told that he should
request permission to leave the classroom.

"I hope I have fulfilled your
request for greater care," said Norman.

The community lodged a request
with the council for greater protection.

Which era, in term of treasuring enriched literature, contributed more: Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Norman?

Both periods
of English history have produced pieces of literature we treasure, but in terms of English
literature, more treasured pieces have come down to us from the Anglo-Norman period. This is not
to say that the Anglo-Saxons didn't value or produce great literature, but less of it has
survived.

The main work in the English literary tradition that is treasured
from Anglo-Saxon literature is Beowulf. It's difficult to overestimate the
value of this work. It has provided anof the knight-hero slaying the monster/dragon that became
a common motif in Anglo-Norman literature, usedin ways that were imitated by the Anglo-Normans
(not to mention modern writers), and provided a template that has in many ways, through writers
like Tolkien, become immensely popular in twentieth and twenty-first century fantasy
literature.

A greater volume of treasured literature, however, survives from
the Anglo-Norman period. At that point, the Normans had invaded and conquered England, and the
Germanic English language became heavily inflected with French and romance language elements.
The shift in language was so dramatic that it became called Middle English. This is the first
language that is close enough to modern English, at least in its London , that we can read as
recognizable, if alien, English.

This later Medieval period produced a great
flourishing of literature, and we remember such towering figures as Chaucer and the Gawain poet,
and the growth of such genres as rood poetry, allegorical religious drama, and Arthurian
romance. So many genres developed and flourished during this period, from bawdy humor to
deeply-felt emotional poetry that the Renaissanceand the modern erahas had much to borrow
from.

Is there any figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, symbols) in the poem "Smalltown Dance" by Judith Wright and what is their...

The
referenced poem, Smalltown Dance by  has several metaphors. The poem
features a sheet €“ or the operation of folding it €“ which it describes as a dance. The dance
begins with arms wide: together: again: two forward steps: hands meet and the reader can just
imagine the steps of the dance and at the end spread arms: then close them leaves the reader
with no illusions as the dance ends.

There is definite confusion within the
poem and the poet is conflicted. The sheets are referred to as high-scented walls in the
second verse but  "they wrapped and comforted bringing an element ofbut only briefly as we
return to the clean corridors of hiding. Furthermore,€¦ "saying, Your sins too are made
Monday-new is personification as the sky €“ the roof with blue-  encourages what is
apparently a child - to "see ahead.   This figurative language gives the second verse a
reminiscent quality, remembering a world of possibilities when there is still a change to
"run,run!". 

Life, however,  develops a fence and opportunities
to get out are few. The sheets are representative of the effort to get away as they struggle
from the peg but do not travel far. Life restricts the womens movement but there is no money
for travel and where danger lies personifies danger as if it is  tangible and more than just a
possibility so it is better to keep things orderly.

The use ofin the last
verse does give closure to any thought of those beckoning roads. Closing the cupboard door is
significant as dreams must remain dreams and reality returns.

To what degree were the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, the USSR, and Japan successful in regards to their efforts in economic mobilization during the...

This is
an enormous question that can't really
be answered fully in this small space. But a few
generalizations can be made.
Both Germany and Japan had put their economies on a war footing
years before
the actual outbreak of hostilities.An important factor to remember with respect
to
the German economy was that they used massive slave labor forces, as did
the Japanese in China.
The Soviet Union, having been accustomed to massive
mobilization efforts during the 1930s,
were...

How is American imperialism of the late 1800's similar or different to today's foreign policy?

There are
major similarities between these two foreign policies.  

In each case, the
policy was based on economic, military, and cultural/political ideas.  The US wanted an empire
in the 1800s in part so it could have access to raw materials.  Current foreign policy is very
concerned with keeping the world's oil supplies flowing.  In the 1800s, the US...

What is the significance of the title Hills Like White Elephants?

Eleanore Trupkiewicz

The title of the short story "" by Hemingway is significant because it is the
topic of conversation between the two characters represented in the story, the girl and the
American man, and yet the conversation they are actually having with one another, almost
entirely in subtext and with very few actual spoken words, has nothing to do with their
surroundings.

The story opens with a description of the setting to establish
place and, perhaps, to indicate the tone of the scene about to happen: Despite the hills in the
distance, "there was no shade and no trees," indicative...

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