How does Holden experience coming of age; that is, how does he mature from the beginning of the book to the end?

In the
famous final scene of the book, it's clear thathas indeed matured over the course of the novel.
As he watchesriding on the carousel, each time reaching for the golden ring, each time missing
it and still being able to laugh hysterically, Holden finally realizes what really matters in
life. It's not the golden ringthat is to say, worldly achievementsthat is most important, but
rather it's how we live our lives. In other words, it's the process of life that provides
lasting fulfillment, not the end results.

This may not seem like a
particularly stunning transformation on Holden's part, but it's significant all the same,
because now, for the very first time, Holden has found some meaning in a life previously
characterized by nihilism, or a belief that life is meaningless. Critics have long debated how
much of a transformation this change in attitude really is, but what cannot seriously be debated
is the fact that Holden, in his own little way, is more mature at the...

In the first scene, a cross section of English society is represented.What classes are represented by Liza, Pickering,Higgins and the Eynsford Hills?

Eliza
Doolittle represents the working class. Most people in the working class at that time were poor,
and Eliza is no exception. Although she works hard everyday selling flowers, she lives in a cold
room she rents, has never used a modern bathroom, and ekes out a very small living.

Pickering and Higgins are of the middle class. What that means, translated into modern
terms, is that they are wealthy people. They are well-educated, have plenty of moneysome of it
no doubt inherited and are able to do...

Interpret the closing passage in "Araby."

""
ends with this passage:

Gazing up into the darkness I saw
myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger.

The narrator speaks these words as he leaves the
bazaar after failing to find a gift for Mangan's sister that will impress her and win her love
and approval. The passage expresses his disillusionment and the end of his dreams. The bazaar,
Araby, had lived in the narrator's mind as a place of beauty and enchantment in contrast to the
drabness of his life on North Richmond Street. To him it held the allure of romance. He says,
"The syllables of the word Araby [sic] . . . cast an Eastern
enchantment over me."

The narrator's illusions about Araby coincide with
his feelings of first love for Mangan's sister. When he learns she wants to go to the bazaar but
cannot, he promises to bring her a gift from Araby. He thus goes on a quest to win the heart of
the woman he loves, a romantic adventure.

Araby turns out to be a cavernous
warehouse filled with cheap goods. There is no enchantment. Araby is ordinary. Arriving at
closing time, the narrator finds the lights going out and the help going home. He leaves, angry
and disillusioned. He blames himself for being so foolish in believing that somehow his life
could become more beautiful and exciting than the circumstances in which he
lived.

How does George Orwell's 1984 relate to modernism?

Modernism is a term that has usually been applied to artistic movements (modernism in
literature, in painting, music, and so on) or, less frequently, to general cultural attitudes
associated with the early to mid twentieth century (or even up to our own time). If we are
talking about the style in which 's is writtenin other words, about
1984 as a novelI would not regard it as
"modernist," in comparison with certain other novels, or literature in general, of
Orwell's time and earlier. Orwell gives us a straightforward third-person narrative as opposed
to, say, the stream-of-consciousness manner of James Joyce. Even in comparison with a much more
accessible writer like Hemingway there is, in my view, something much more traditional about
Orwell's prose style, almost harking back to the novels of Somerset Maugham, whom Orwell greatly
admired and whose influence he acknowledged.

If we are talking about the
content of 1984its story,, and charactersit describes a world...

What cinematography creates ideologies within the film The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson? I am studying the film so I would appreciate...

In terms
of cinematography, the perspective created by depth of field is quite revealing.  In many scenes
that depict Susie in the afterlife, she is proportionally much, much smaller than other objects
in the scene.  For example, during...

Why do you think Gregor changed in to an insect in The Metamorphosis?

Concerning
Gregor's waking up an insect in
Kafka's , I'm afraid there's no answer to
your
question.  The story is ambiguous concerning this point.  There is no
explanation
whatsoever about why the transformation occurs.  Any explanation
for his transformation is
speculation only.

Of course,
the omission is purposeful.  If the narrator
reveals why the transformation
occurs, the focus is shifted to the cause, and, apparently, that
isn't
Kafka's purpose.  The story isn't about what Gregor did to deserve this, or

what...

What narrative conventions has Harper Lee used to represent racism and how? (e.g., the structure of the neighbourhood)

Narrative
conventions are literary devices used by a writer to tell a story. One narrative convention used
byto represent racism is the conflict between a black man and a white man. The author also
employs the narrative convention of plot, telling a story that involves the interactions between
a black man and a white man. The fact that the novel takes place in the American South is also
meaningful. Harper Lee selected a setting, another narrative convention, that heightens the
racial tension between the two men.

On a more subtle level, Lee employs the
narrative convention of symbolism to represent racism. Tom Robinson's withered left arm
represents the extent to which blackness can be a vulnerability in the American South during
this time in history. When he was a child, Tom's arm got caught in a cotton gin, and this
accident resulted in his lifelong disability. That Tom's arm was injured by a cotton gin is
important; a cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibers from...

Write an easy examining the relationship between Perry Smith and Truman Capote, asserting how that relationship shaped the way Capote wrote his...

Over the
last several years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the late authorand the process by
which he produced his classic of American literature .  The release in 2005
of the film Capote and of Infamous the following year, which similarly explored the authors
relationships to his subjects and to the author of To Kill a Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, served to resurrect interest in this eccentric writer and his most well-known work. 
The most important development relevant to the matter at hand, however, was the discovery in
2013 of old records from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the agency that investigated the
murders that formed the basis of Capotes book, that strongly suggested Capote had been less than
truthful both in his reporting and his comments regarding the process by which he wrote
In Cold Blood.

All of this may or not be pertinent to a
discussion of Capotes relationship to convicted and executed murderer Perry Smith.  In
all...

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Discuss the historical significance of Frederick Douglass speech, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro." Discuss the historical significance...

You
know, all I could think about when I read your question was a scene from
Roots.  (Isn't it sad that I can't remember if the same scene is actually
in Haley's written account, ... the auditory of this particular scene really stuck with me for
some reason.)  All of the plantation owners and their families are all whoopin' and hollerin'
about the Declaration of Independence and Fiddler (the wonderful man who has befriended the
slave Kunta Kinte) says something dripping with sarcasm, "Oh, yeah.  I'm so glad all of
these white folks be free!  That's just what we be needin':  free white folks!"  Fiddler
puts a finger on just the issue.  Why should those seen as slaves celebrate the formation of the
country enslaving them?  Good point!  And further, the of it all hit me
like a ton of bricks.

Think about the role of money in the play, A Raisin in the Sun. How does it affect different characters?

Money is
a very important theme in . On the one hand, it's presented as something
that can offer African-Americans a chance to get on in white society. It's intended that the
money from Mr. Younger's insurance policy will buy the family a new house in a white
neighborhood, giving them higher status and social respectability.

Part of
the insurance payout is also to be used to putthrough medical school. Once she's qualified as a
doctor, Beneatha will be a well-paid, highly-respected professional able to take her place in
mainstream society.

However, the flip side of all this is that money can be a
curse as well as a blessing. Instead of seeing the insurance payout as a catalyst for social
mobility,just sees it as an opportunity to invest in shady schemes. His loss of the money ruins
so many of his family's plans, holding them back from fulfilling their dreams.

In A Raisin in the Sun , then, money is both a source of salvation
and ruination, as it can so easily...

What role did religion play in Sojourner Truths life?

The woman
who became known as Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree. She was one of
approximately 12 children of an enslaved couple named James and Elizabeth Baumfree. When her
first owner died, his son sold nine-year-old Truth, along with a flock of sheep, for $100. She
passed through several other owners and eventually ended up owned by a man named Dumont. Instead
of allowing Truth to marry the man she loved, Dumont forced her to marry a man named Thomas. She
had five children.

At the time, New York, where Truth lived, was working out
legislation to abolish slavery, and Dumont promised that if she behaved, he would set her free.
However, when she found out he had lied to her, Truth walked away with her infant daughter,
leaving her other children behind because she could not legally bring them with her.

This is where religion entered Sojourner Truth's life and began to play a major role.
She and her daughter were taken in by a couple named Isaac and Maria Van Wagenen. They paid off
her debt to Dumont. While living with the Van Wagenens, she had a religious experience that
changed her life. She became a devout Christian and changed her name to Sojourner Truth as a
testimony to her newfound faith.

After she left the Van Wagenens, she worked
for other preachers and eventually became a traveling preacher herself. She joined an
organization called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, which advocated for
abolition. She became famous for her speeches advocating for abolition and women's rights.
Because of her work for the abolitionist movement, she was invited to the White House, where she
met President Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, while she was attempting unsuccessfully to
obtain land grants from the federal government for former slaves, she went to the White House
again and met President Ulysses S. Grant.

Since Truth's conversion experience
during her stay with the Van Wagenens, her Christian faith strengthened her and defined her
activities and the content of her public speeches. She died in 1883. She is recognized in the
calendar of saints in both the Episcopal Church and the Lutheran Church.

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What is the importance of Operation Sea Lion?

The major
importance of Operation Sea Lion is that it was never carried out.  This was a plan that never
actually happened.  

Operation Sea Lion was the name given to the planned
invasion of Britain by the Germans early in .  The Germans, having easily swept across Western
Europe, were planning to invade Britain as well.  The operation was not given a specific planned
date, but it is widely believed that it would have happened in the fall of 1940.

This operation was never carried out because the German air force was never able to
achieve air or naval superiority over the English Channel. Without this, the operation would
have been too dangerous as British airplanes and ships could have devastated the flotilla
bringing the invading soldiers.

What kind of imagery does Jonathan Edwards use in his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an angry God"?

The
primary image thatutilizes is that of walking along a steep path and slipping or sliding off the
slope. This image is mentioned in the Bible, as he notes: "Their foot shall slide in due
time" (Deuteronomy 32:35). Edwards develops it along four different lines: emphasizing the
exposure to falling, the suddenness of destruction, the individual capability of falling, and
God's role in keeping people from falling. In all those explanations, he brings up some aspect
of the image of the physical act of falling, not just the metaphorical aspect of
damnation.

He also uses military, speaking of a prince as the defender of a
realm who has many followers and fortifications. In contrast to such a fortress, he brings up
images of the vulnerability of humans, comparing them to chaff, stubble, or worms. The soul
hangs as if by a thread, he says, that God can easily sever. These images also relate to the
physical location of hell, as a pit into which God can throw people (as...

At what point in the story did you begin to suspect the true identity of Charles in "Charles"?

The reader should begin to suspect the
identity ofwhen Laurie misbehaves
regularly, especially when his mother does
not attend the Parent-Teachers
meeting.

Charles is the name of the the bad boy in the
kindergarten.  Laurie,
however, is not well-behaved.  We see this clearly at lunch on the first

day.

At lunch he spoke insolently to his father,
spilled
his baby sisters milk, and remarked that his teacher said we were
not...

Why did Banquo begin to hate Macbeth?

Rather than
hate, it's probably more accurate to say that, following the encounter with the three witches,is
deeply unsettled by their words and now needs to treat his fellow commander with all due
caution. Their cryptic divination, which foreseesas the next king and Banquo as the source of
the line of royal succession, would appear to set the two generals at odds with each
other.

First Witch

All hail, ! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!

Second
Witch

All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of
Cawdor!

Third Witch

All hail,
Macbeth, thou shalt be king here after! (Macbeth 1.3.50€“53)

To Banquo's request for a prophecy, they reply,

First Witch

Lesser
than Macbeth.

Second Witch

Not so happy, yet much happier.

Third
Witch

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So
all hail Macbeth, and Banquo. (Macbeth 1.3.68€“71)

Although both men are, at first, highly dubious about the claims of
these wild creatures, 's arrival with the news thathas named Macbeth the new Thane of Cawdor is
chilling. Once Duncan is murdered, without knowing for certain the identity of the assassin,
Banquo suspects that it is Macbeth, but still wonders whether this does not "set me up in
hope" (3.1.10).

In this briefand the succeeding scene in which Macbeth
invites Banquo to dinner after a day of riding, there is no sense that the general feels any
antipathy toward theas a possible killer or feels any concern for his own life at the new king's
hands. Thus, it is impossible to say that even in his final moments, he feels anything like hate
for Macbeth. In like manner, it seems clear that Macbeth has no feeling that could be described
as "hate" toward a man he simply feels must be eliminated. It's business, not
personal, so to speak.

Romeo's behavior changes significantly after he meets Juliet at the Capulet estate. How does he act differently after their encounter, and what...

Before he
meetsat the Capulet party,is miserable, introspective, and confused. He is this way because he
is in love with a girl called Rosaline, who does not reciprocate his feelings. Romeo's father
says that Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play is "black and portentous" and that
Romeo locks himself in his room, "shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out / And makes
himself an artificial night." When we first meet Romeo, he talks in riddles and paradoxes:
"O heavy lightness . . . Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health." Such
language points to his misery and also his confusion. Feathers, for example, usually connote
flight and freedom, but for Romeo they are made of lead, implying that he feels weighed down,
trapped.

After he meets Juliet, he forgets all about Rosaline, and he becomes
happy and excitable. When Juliet asks him, for example, how he overcame the wall surrounding the
orchard, Romeo replies, "With loves light wings did I oerperch these walls. / For stony
limits cannot hold love out." Whereas before he met Juliet, Romeo felt weighed down and
trapped, now he feels free. He was a pessimist, and now he is an optimist. Arguably, the only
difference between Romeo's love for Juliet and Romeo's love for Rosaline is that his love for
Juliet is reciprocated, whereas his love for Rosaline was not. Nonetheless, the fact that Juliet
loves Romeo gives him, metaphorically speaking, the "wings" to rise from his previous
misery.

How does Squealer use language in Animal Farm?

Lucky for
you, this question is already answered!

 

What are some external and internal conflicts that Montag has in Fahrenheit 451?

Montag's internal conflict
concerns the realization that
he is not happy and lives a meaningless,
unfulfilling life. After meeting Clarisse, Montag
begins to analyze and
examine his life, only to discover that he is unhappy and miserable.
Montag
also struggles with the reality that he is in a stagnant relationship, which is void
of
love and joy. Montag gradually begins to lack the motivation to continue
living his mundane,
trivial life each day. Fortunately, Montag ends up coming
to terms with the fact that he needs
to change the trajectory of his life
immediately in order to have a meaningful
existence.

The
external conflicts that challenge
Montag
throughout the novel include Captain Beatty, the government's firefighter agency,
Mildred
and her friends, as well as Bradbury's dystopian society. Captain
Beatty attempts to convince
Montag that literature is worthless, confusing,
and harmful. Beatty even makes Montag burn his
home and attempts to arrest
him. The firefighter agency stifles...

What are some examples of conflict in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?

A conflict
is a struggle between opposing forces. Four major types of literary conflict appear in 's
novella . These conflicts could be labeled person vs. fate, person vs.
person, person vs. society and person vs. self. Person vs. fate is revealed in the book's title
which comes from the Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse." The poem suggests that fate
often intervenes in the plans "of mice and men" and those plans go astray and are
unrealized. In the book, 's, 's and Candy's plan of buying their own "little piece of
land" is shattered by fate when Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife. In fact, Steinbeck
imposes a rigid determinism on the character's of the book and none of them are able to break
free of their individual fates.

The major person vs. person conflict appears
in Chapter Three when Lennie, who has been innocently smiling over the dream of the farm, is
challenged and attacked by Curley, who beats Lennie badly, until George gives Lennie the cue to
fight. The seeds of the conflict are set up in Chapter Two, when George and Lennie first meet
the belligerent boss's son. The conflict is important because it sets up the fury for revenge
which overtakes Curley in the book's last two chapters.

Candy and Crooks are
characters who struggle against society. Candy is old and unable to work as hard as he did
before losing his hand, and so is helpless to the attitudes and prejudices of the other men,
especially Carlson, who takes a dislike to Candy's old dog and ends up shooting it when Candy
can't do it himself. Crooks is a victim of a society which looks down on his color and race. He
is segregated and because of this segregation, deeply lonely.

The major
internal conflict (person vs. self) of the book is within George. He loves his friend Lennie,
but after the incident in the barn with Curley's wife, George is no longer able to stick up for
Lennie. At the end of Chapter Five, he pleads with Curley to leave Lennie alone and not hurt
him, but Curley, bent on revenge, will not hear it. Rather than let Lennie fall into the hands
of Curley or the Sheriff, something Lennie would never understand, George steals Carlson's gun
and shoots his friend. Only Slim seems to understand George's conflict at the end of the book
when he tells George, "You hadda George. I swear you hadda."

At what point in the Shirley Jackson short story "Charles" did you figure out the ending? What led you to this conclusion at this point?

I was
actually pretty clueless before the surprise ending was revealed byin her short story,
"." I wondered about the imaginary Charles and why he had never been seen by anyone
but Laurie. After a rereading, the clues given by the author become more obvious. Laurie's
increasingly bad behavior at home should have been one clue of the bad habits he was picking up
in kindergarten. The fact that Laurie seems to enjoy telling of Charles' exploits is another
clue. Laurie's laughing "insanely" should certainly be yet another clue that the young
boy was in need of some counseling, and that Laurie may actually be suffering from a
split-personality disorder. Since the story was told from the viewpoint of the mother, who still
saw Laurie as her innocent, little boy, it is no wonder that the ending was so surprising to
most readers.

Why are the physical characteristics of the creature so terrifying? What about him makes him not human even though he has human body parts? The...

Within
the frame of s letters, the text is narrated by. All impressions ofare provided by Victor, who
provides only a brief description and a few reasons for his strong dislike, even horror, upon
first seeing him. Victor deliberately designed a giant, some eight feet tall, with the goal of
beginning a new species of human-like beings. When he successfully animates the assemblage of
body parts, he acknowledges that some of the features are appealing, as he had intended.
However, Victors craftsmanship was far from perfect. While the creature has shiny, flowing,
black hair and teeth of a pearly whiteness, he has a shriveled complexion, and yellow
skin that barely covers the bones underneath it, while his eyes are dull yellow or offwhite
and watery. We do not get a full description of the creatures appearance. Victor had such high
hopes for his experiment that he cannot accept less than total success, which would have
required a perfect-looking person. Instead, he is horrified that he did not achieve that.Feeling
horror and disgust, at the creatures aspect, he rushes off. The creature is left on its
own.

Many critics have speculated about the reasons that the creature cannot
be human. Because part of s objective was to point out the dangers of playing God, she did not
make Victor totally successful. The scientific, rational side to Victor was disconnected from
the nurturing aspects of human nature. He was motivated by his ego, thinking of his own success:
Victor can be seen as a tragic hero, suffering fromor excessive pride. The creature cannot
become human because his father rejected him and he has no mother. Never knowing the sensations
of comfort and love from the time he was born, he is fated to exist in a kind of limbo,
neither fully dead nor fully alive. One could argue that this uncertain state is what terrifies
the reader.

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Gimme
Shelter-Rolling Stones

The Wall-by Pink Floyd(the entire album)

Sarah Brightman-pretty much anything she sings is gorgeous

Pavorotti-same thing!

What are the roles and functions of the IMF?

The
International Monetary Fund was formed in 1944 when representatives of 44 countries met together
in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to formulate a new world economic order at the end of World War
II. The IMF was given three initial priorities: to promote monetary cooperation on an
international level, encourage trade and economic growth, and prevent disruptive economic
policies. On December 27, 1945, the original Articles of Agreement were ratified by 29
countries. The IMF had 39 countries by the end of 1946. As of 2019, 189 countries belong to the
IMF.

As part of its overall primary purpose of maintaining worldwide economic
stability, the IMF conducts fiscal surveillance of its member countries looking for possible
risks to stability and suggesting adjustments to strengthen individual economies. This includes
annual visits to member countries and discussions with government officials, bank personnel, and
members of businesses, civil society, and labor unions. The IMF also monitors the world economy
on a global level, watching for changes and trends in the global economy.

Another function of the IMF is the lending of money to member states to help with
domestic or external crises such as balance of payment problems when countries cannot handle
external debt repayments or large financial institutions become insolvent. Usually before the
IMF issues loans, the IMF and the government of the country in question agree on policies and
commitments to improve the economy.

The IMF also provides training and
technical assistance to the finance ministries, central banks, tax authorities, and other
institutions within its member countries. This training usually comes about as the result of
specific requests. It may include helping governments better handle taxes, customs, budgets,
debts, and social safety nets within public financial structures. It may also involve assisting
central banks in modernizing their systems and policies. Additionally, the IMF works with member
countries in optimizing their legal frameworks and financial data collection and
analysis.

The IMF leadership includes a managing director, board of
governors, and executive board. In all, there are 17 departments that handle the IMF's
multifaceted work around the world.

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Describe the horses in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The horses
in are
described as small but vigorous. They are Icelandic horses and
built for the
difficult and rugged terrain that Otto Lidenbrock, along with his nephew,
Axel
Lidenbrock, choose to cross on their journey to find the center of the
earth. They start this
journey with their guide, Hans Bjelke, and two more
pack horses. The pack horses follow along
behind them without any lead,
indicating that the little Icelandic horses are of above-average
intelligence
and extremely well-trained.

Otto Lidenbrock is so
impressed
with his little mount,...

How can I differentiate between a mass and oratorio?

In order to
distinguish between a mass and an
oratorio it is important to examine their formats and subject
matter. Both
musical pieces deal with religious subjects, and can be performed in churches
and
cathedrals.

The musical mass follows a set format,
which is in sequence of
the celebration of the liturgy of the Catholic,
Lutheran, or Protestant faiths. Early masses
were written for the Ordinary of
Liturgy so that daily masses could have musical components. A
mass can be
sung a cappella, without musical accompaniment, or it
can
accompanied by instruments from a singular organ to a full orchestra.
Throughout history the
musical mass has changed to include choirs, modern
instruments, and participation by those
attending the service, instead of
being sung solely by a choir. Although these changes occurred,
the format and
purpose, of presenting the liturgy through music, remains the same.

The subject matter of oratorios is also religiousoratorios portray the lives of
the
saints or passages from the Bible. The purpose of an oratorio differs in
that it is entertaining
and theatrical. Although the characters do not often
interact, the oratorio includes an
orchestra, choir, and soloists. This form
of religious entertainment is devoid of scenery and
props, and is considered
to be a concert piece.

Therefore, both masses and

oratorios are religious pieces of music, but a mass follows the format of the liturgy
of
worship, while an oratorio is performed as religious
entertainment.

What would be a good thesis statement for A Raisin in the Sun?

A good thesis statement
would relate to one of
the key thematic aspects of this play, which is dreams and their
importance
to the . It is very obvious from the early scenes in the play that each of the
main
characters has their own dream of how they can rise above the
circumstances that threaten to
keep them pressed down in society. , for
example, dreams of being a doctor,of having her own
business and Mama of
having a house for all of them where they can thrive. The dream of Walter
is
something he refers to when talking proudly toabout his future life when he has achieved
that
dream:

You wouldnt understand yet,
son, but your daddys
gonna make a transaction... a business transaction thats
going to change our lives... Thats how
come one day when you €˜bout seventeen
years old Ill come home... Ill pull the car up on the
driveway... just a
plain black Chrysler, I think, with white wallsnoblack tires... the gardener

will be clipping away at the hedges and hell say, Good evening, Mr. Younger. And Ill
say,
Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?

It is clear
from the details of this dream that
Walter's dream is made up of a combination of the
conversations he would have
heard working as a chauffeur and also his own impression of the kind
of
houses such people live in and the cars they own. However, the quote does continue to
talk
about him having a better relationship withand Travis being able to
study at any university,
which indicates his dream is not entirely
materialistic.

What happens during
the course of the play,
however, is that each character realises that the most important dream
for
them as a family is to own their own house, as it unites them as a family. Each one of
them
is therefore willing to put aside--temporarily perhaps--their own
personal dream in order for
them to pursue this dream. A good thesis
statement would therefore be:

The
characters in
each pursue their own individual dream, but by the end
put
their individual dreams aside to pursue a collective dream that they
recognise is vital for
their unity and survival as a family.

This allows for an exploration of
dreams whilst also ensuring that
the one dream of having a house is focused on with sufficient

importance.

"""I was developing a maturing recognition of the importance of hopefulness in creating justice." What does Brian Stevenson mean by this?""

Stevenson also
says in : A Story of Justice and Redemption that "there is a strength,
a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and
desire for mercy." With the above quote, ourand author, Brian Stevenson, realizes more and
more that the battle for justice and equity is uphill, but in that uphill climb, there is hope.
His mature recognition is coming to light. It is not fueled by hatred that leads to propagating
injustice; rather, it is a...

How did Scout's opinion of Boo Radley change during To Kill a Mockingbird?

's opinion of
Arthur Radley moves from believing that he is a malicious ghost to finding him to be a hero, a
kind man, and a friend.

As narrator, Scout introduces the reader to the
neighborhood and describes the Radley house as being "inhabited by an unknown entity the
mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end." She adds that
inside the house there lives "a malevolent phantom." Supposedly he sneaks around at
night when there is no moon and peeps into windows. He has not been out of the house for fifteen
years since he got into trouble, and his father did not...

Does Baglioni like Rappaccini? What does he say about him?

Professor Pietro
Baglioni does not like Doctor Rappaccini.  When Giovanni first brings up Rappaccini's name,
Baglioni's demeanor changes immediately, and he doesn't respond with the same cordiality that
has characterized his speech and manner until now. He says, "The truth is, our worshipful
Doctor Rappaccini...

Are there similes, metaphors, allusions, personification, or parallel constructions used in chapter 13 of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

The narrator says, of
,

The links that united her to the rest of humankindlinks
of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the materialhad all been broken. Here was the iron
link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break.

Here, the "links" created between people by their relationships are compared,
via metaphors, to flowers, silk, and gold (as weaker, more fragile
kinds of connections), as well as to iron, which describes the incredibly strong and powerful
connection that exists between Hester andas a result of their shared sin/crime.

The narrator also uses when he describes Hester's actions
whenever people in town are sick or in need of assistance. He says, "None so self-devoted
as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town." This gives pestilence, another word
for disease, the human ability to stalk, or purposefully stride, among the people and affect
them negatively.

The narrator uses a to
describe the letter as a symbol of hope...

What happens after Hamlet decides to pretend he is mad?

Immediately after Princespeaks with his
father's ghost and discovers thatcommitted regicide, he informsthat he will "put an antic
disposition on," which means that he will feign madness. 's decision to feign madness can
be interpreted as a way to protect himself from Claudius. Hamlet is aware that he is in a
dangerous, precarious situation and knows that Claudius is capable of killing him. Hamlet also
desires to get closer to Claudius in order to kill him and believes that feigning madness will
make Claudius less suspicious of him.

After Hamlet proceeds to feign madness,
Claudius andspy on him andis confounded and heartbroken by his unsettling behavior. Polonius
believes that Hamlet is mad because Ophelia has ended their relationship. Hamlet also has actors
reenact the death of his father and confirms 's story when he witnesses Claudius leave the
theater following the Mousetrap scene. Later on, Polonius spies on Hamlet behind an arras in 's
room and Hamlet kills him. Ophelia ends up committing suicide andreturns from France focused on
avenging his father and sister's deaths. In an attempt to get rid of Hamlet, Claudius sends him
to England with secret instructions for the king to execute him. However, Hamlet discovers
Claudius's letter, survives the journey, and returns to Denmark, where he eventually spars
Laertes in a deadly fencing match.

In the Introduction to The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom-House," in what war did General Miller fight?

In
's novel , the General
is a minor character who appears in the Introduction
called "The Custom
House." This Introduction, originally written by Hawthorne as an
independent
and unrelated short story, sets the frame from which the story of ,and
Reverendis
told. General Miller is the head
customs collector at Salem Custom
House, a government installation for
collecting customs duties on items coming into America
through the Salem
seaport. He enters the story because the narrator of "The Custom
House," who
is presumed to be Nathaniel Hawthorne himself speaking as the narrator, takes
a
position at there and thus meets that General and the other colorful
employees, who all shave
either inherited their rather low-key work positions
in customs or been awarded their positions
as retirement rewards for other
services rendered to the government.

Typical
of this
trend, General Miller was awarded his position for
his
service in and record as a war hero of the War of
1812. At the time
that the narrator meets him, he has served
twenty years at the Salem Custom House:

[T]he Collector, our gallant old General, who, after his brilliant

military service, subsequently to which he had ruled over a wild Western territory, had
come
hither, twenty years before, to spend the decline of his varied and
honourable life.

This Introduction is
relevant to the story of The Scarlet
Letter because it
is at the Custom House, or "Custom-House" as the
Introduction puts it, that
the narrator finds the package that tells the story of Hester Prynne.
The
General is important to the story because it can be argued that Hawthorne uses him
to
foreshadow both the great weight that an error can have on a conscience
imbued with keen
integrity and the ability of some, like Hester and Pearl, to
survive great plights:

His integrity
was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather
than a choice or a
principle; .... A stain on his conscience, ... would trouble such a man ...

though to a far greater degree ... I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the
situation
which he held.

How does Oedipus' curiosity ruin him at the end of the play?

I tend to
think that' curiosity is linked to his hamartia, or tragic flaw, of pride.  Oedipus' insistence
on the truth is one in which he is able to fully demonstrate his own curiosity.  Oedipus fails
to demonstrate any humility in this process.  His own desire to solve the riddle of why the
people of Thebes suffers and demonstrate a capacity to almost flaunt the power of
the...

In Coelho's The Alchemist, how are Santiagos sheep important? What lessons has he learned from them and how do they help him in his Personal Legend?

At the
beginning of Coelho's , Santiago has been a shepherd for two years. This is
a good amount of time to acquire many experiences and skills with any job. And Santiago is a
true shepherd who knows each of his flock by name--unlike a sheepherder who drives his sheep
around like dumb animals. This implicitly tells us that Santiago is kind, patient, and talks to
his sheep as if they were friends. (Consequently, the relationship with his sheep is also a
directto how Jesus refers to himself and his followers in the Bible.) The sheep represent the
boy's safety zone where he is at peace and sustaining a life of his own. He thinks about the
sheep often as he searches for his treasure because, if he fails to fulfill his Personal Legend,
he could possibly go back to them and that life.

At other times, he sees them
as a dead-end job. He describes this as follows:

"If
I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, they would become aware only
after most of the flock had been slaughtered. . . They trust me, and they've forgotten how to
rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment"(7).

Later, while facing obstacles and failure on his journey, he sees
them as a point of reference to either give up and go back to them, or as a reason to keep going
forward rather than go back. He rationalizes his thinking by saying,

"I know why I want to get back to my flock. . . I understand
sheep; they're no longer a problem, and they can be good friends. On the other hand, I don't
know if the desert can be a friend, and it's in the desert that I have to search for my
treasure. If I don't find it, I can always go home"(65).

We all have a safety zone that is scary to leave or a nice place to go back to if we've
left it. Remembering his safety zone helps the boy to make weigh the consequences of decisions
throughout the journey, and as a result, keeps him moving forward to achieve his
dreams.

What kind of beast is presented in William Blake's "The Tyger"? How it is related to the main theme of the poem?

The tyger is
a "fearful" beast. In the first
stanza, the speaker asks what "immortal hand or
eye" (God) could have created
him. In the fourth stanza, the speaker uses theof God as a
blacksmith
creating the tyger (tiger). Being born of fire and steel, the tiger is, in
Blake's
descriptions, something strong and fierce. In the following stanza,
the speakers asks if the
tiger's creator was happy about his
creation: 

Did he
smile his work to
see? 

Did he who made the lamb make thee? 

The speaker asks if God ("he"), who made the lamb,
also
made the tiger. The lamb represents peace and love. The lamb is often
symbolically synonymous
with Christ in Christian theology. So, the speaker is
asking if God could create something so
loving (the lamb) and yet also create
something so dangerous and ferocious. There are no answers
to the speaker's
questions. This leaves the poem open to different interpretations. Perhaps
God
did make both peaceful and dangerous things in the world to create a
balance and an analogue
with the good/evil dichotomy. Perhaps the tiger (or
other dangerous and evil things the tiger
represents) was created by a fallen
angel, a demiurge, or a devil. The speaker can only
ponder. 

Consider a gross simplification. The speaker asks who created the

tiger and why. This echoes similar questions such as: If God is loving, why did he
create
suffering? Blake goes much deeper in terms of theological and
philosophical questions. But the
general idea concerns how and why the world
contains love and hate, good and evil, peace and

destruction. 

Why do you think Beatty let the first alarm ride?"

The first
alarm occurs when Mildred's friends notify Beatty that Montag has been reading and reciting
poetry. We learn of this in Part 3 when he says he let this first alarm ride. It is abundantly
clear that Beatty has extensive knowledge of literature and philosophy. He is able to quote
classic works without hesitation and he uses these quotes to counter any insights Montag has
learned from his readings. In the final scene at the firehouse, while Beatty is doing just this,
Faber speaks into Montag's ear saying he is just trying to confuse Montag. Beatty is using
quotes out of context in order to challenge the notion that literature is valuable. At the end
of Part 2, Beatty hypocritically says "The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose."
In fact, this is what Beatty is doing. A few paragraphs prior to this line, Beatty says
this: 

Read a few lines and off you go over a cliff. Bang,
you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy
authority. I know, I've been through it all. 

Beatty lets
the first alarm go because he was once interested in literature as well. He recognizes that
people are just curious. As long as they get that curiosity out of their systems and return to
the world of banned literature, he will let it slide. Likewise, he lets the first alarm slide,
thinking Montag will come to his senses and get rid of the books. 

Who defeated Hitler? Explain whether it was the Russians or the US who defeated Hitler.

The defeat
of Hitler and the Nazis was due to several simultaneous factors, including the Allied powers,
various resistance movements, and Hitler's own strategic mistakes. Thus to ask for an either/or
answer is to assume something simpler than was actually the case.

The Allied
powers fighting against Hitler included the United States, Britain, Canada, China, and the
Soviet Union (of which Russia was part). The US and Britain operated on the "western
front", conducting an air war against Germany and invading and liberating much of Europe.
Heroic resistance fighters in several European countries aided the Allies.

The Soviet Union was the largest country on the Eastern Front and was also instrumental
in Hitler's defeat. Sometimes it is argued that the Russian winter itself was a major factor in
Hilter's defeat, as the German soldiers were inadequately equipped for the harsh conditions, and
many succumbed to frostbite and hypothermia and even those who did not die directly from the
cold were not effective in fighting in extreme winter conditions.

Many
military historians argue that Hitler's own bad judgment towards the end of the war contributed
to his defeat, especially attacking Russia while Britain remained undefeated, leading him to
fighting on two fronts, a position that was unsustainable.

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What is the idea of a right according to the Bill of Rights and the English Bill of Rights? Who has these rights?

The
English Bill of Rights is deliberately restrictive in terms of the scope of the rights it
provides and to whom those rights belong. The primary purpose of the Bill was to set out once
and for all the precise nature of the constitutional relationship between the monarch and the
propertied political elite that dominated Parliament. That being the case, the document is
mainly addressed to a relatively small class of people, those of sufficient wealth and social
prominence to be able to participate in the affairs of the nation.

Of course,
certain of the Bill's provisions had widespread applicability. The right for Protestants to bear
arms, for example, didn't simply apply to the social elite. Nevertheless, the Bill as a whole
was designed to protect the interests of the wealthy, property-owning classes against the
potential tyranny of an absolute monarch.

The Bill of Rights emerged out of
the Glorious Revolution, when the political elite rose up and deposed the Catholic King James
II. This had taken place for a number of reasons, but mainly because a large section of English
society felt that James was turning himself into an absolute monarch, hell-bent on trampling all
over ancient liberties.

Once James had been deposed, and William of Orange
established on the throne, it was therefore imperative to restrict the monarch's powers by
enshrining the ancient liberties of Englishmen in a formal document. In relation to the Bill of
Rights, therefore, a right can be defined as a claim against the powers of the
monarch.

How would you describe the role of the gods in Gilgamesh?

The gods in are very similar to the temporal kings and heroes who
serve them: powerful but not omnipotent or infallible and not always particularly wise.
Gilgamesh himself is two-thirds god and the gods interact with mortals on what are sometimes
surprisingly equal terms. Gilgamesh is able to reject Ishtar with impunity. Even her father Anu
will not help her by sending the Bull of Heaven against Gilgamesh until she threatens to raise
the dead. When the Bull of Heaven does attack Gilgamesh, he and Enkidu are able to defeat it,
and Enkidu shows the greatest disrespect to Ishtar by hurling the dead bull's body parts at
her.

The gods decide that Enkidu is marked for death. However, his arrogant
treatment of Ishtar does not seem to weigh with them in making their decision. He must die
because of his part in killing Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven. Gilgamesh, of course, also took
part in both these battles, but the gods are arbitrary. Shamash, the sun god, who
actually...

In Of Mice and Men, who does George say are the loneliest people in the world?

loves
to listen totalk because George is able to express what Lennie feels but doesn't have the
ability to put into words. In Chapter One, Lennie asks George to tell him the same little bit of
philosophy he has told so many times before that it has become like a poem or a
litany.

Steinbeck uses dialogue asthroughout this work. As in a play, what
the characters say to each other is intended to convey information to the reader. It was
Steinbeck's intention to convert the book into a stage play, and his heavy reliance on dialogue
made the adaptation easy. The play was produced in New York in 1937, the same year the book was
published. When George tells Lennie what he asks him to repeat, Steinbeck is using the dialogue
to convey to the reader, and to the future theater audience, the main message of his
story.

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words
rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. "Guys like us, that work on
ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.
They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and
the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail off on some other ranch. They ain't got
nothing to look ahead to."

Then in the final
chapter, just before he kills Lennie, George repeats some of the words that his friend loves to
hear.

George said, "Guys like us got no family. They
make a little stake an' then they blow it in. They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a
hoot in hell about 'em--"

The story begins and ends
in the same place, partly to suggest that guys like George and Lennie are going nowhere. When
George performs his mercy killing, it is as if he is saving him from a life that offers nothing
but toil and pain. George will be lonelier than ever now without his best friend. Like the other
guys who work on ranches, George "ain't got nothin' to look ahead
to."

How is comedy achieved in a variety of ways in "Pygmalion"?

There are a
few ways that come to mind:

1) Humor is found in the speaking patterns of
Higgins in contrast to the low speakers of different parts of London--in other words, accents
and word choice

2) Eliza's reaction to a hot bath and removing her clothing
for a bath is...

Assess the role & status of women in Christian thought & practise.

To a
large extent the answer to this question depends on which branch of Christianity one is talking
about, though it is safe to say that women's roles are contested in virtually all of them. Part
of this has to do with the ambiguous nature of women in both the Old and the New Testament, an
ambiguity that has been reflected by a number of later Christian thinkers. In some parts of the
Bible, women are portrayed as subjects rather than actors, and indeed their roles in the Old
Testament in particular are circumscribed. And the role of Eve, created for Adam as his
companion, and as the one who is tempted, is not to be downplayed. On the other hand, there are
a number of strong female characters in the Bible, including Ruth, Esther, and of course
Deborah, who is also a political leader. And it is also the case that Jesus, particularly in the
Book of Luke, converses with and treats women in many ways as equals. 

The
pre-Reformation...

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Who were the Jesuits?

The Jesuits
(officially, the Society of Jesus)
were formed as sort of an elite order of Catholics who would
dedicate their
lives to promoting and preserving the Catholic faith.  They were particularly

interested in combatting the Protestant Reformation that was going on around the time
that they
were founded.

The Society of Jesus was founded
in 1540.  It was created by a
man named Ignatius Loyola who had been
a...

What is a summary for chapter 13 of "Lyddie"?

Chapter thirteen begins with Betsy declaring
that the factory working girls are equivalent to slaves.  Diana agrees with her.   simply can't
convince herself that she is a slave.  After all, she is at least getting paid for her hard
work.  Because of the building tension between Lyddie and the two other girls, Lyddie begins to
avoid them.  She throws herself into her work, and is one of the factory's top producers.  She
is working up to four machines at one time.  

Lyddie also writes a letter
home to her family explaining her successes, hard work, and attempts to pay off all of the
family debt. I believe that she is looking for any kind of support that she can find at this
point.  As the chapter progresses, the reader learns that Betsy has indeed decided to sign the
petition for better working conditions.  Betsy is fired for it, and then she decides to apply to
attend Oberlin College.  

As Lyddie is stressed to max with her efforts to
work so many machines at one time, she is injured.  Fortunately, Diana is an incredibly loving
and caring individual and doesn't avoid Lyddie the way that Lyddie avoided her.  Diana helps
care for Lyddie's injury and even arranges for Lyddie to see a doctor friend of hers.  All at no
cost to Lyddie.  

In Macbeth, what is the significance of the quote by Macbeth to Banquo in act 3 in which Macbeth says, "We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed / In...

Before
's feast, he questionsabout his evening plans and attempts to quell Banquo's suspicions
regarding his involvement in King 's assassination by saying,

We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed In England and in Ireland, not confessing Their
cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention (3.1.31€“34).

Since Banquo was withwhen he received the favorable prophecies from
the Three Witches, Macbeth views him as a threat and does not want Banquo informing the other
Scottish lords of their fateful meeting because it would cast suspicion on himself. Macbeth also
fears Banquo and plans on murdering him to cement and protect his legacy.

By
informing Banquo ofand's apparent treachery, he is attempting to quell Banquo's suspicions until
he has the perfect opportunity to kill him. In this quote, Macbeth is simply placing the blame
on Malcolm and Donalbain to suppress Banquo's suspicions and manipulate him into remaining close
enough, where...

What is Tybalt's role in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Perhaps because no one
can really remember why the feud exists between the Capulets and Montagues, many people seem
interested in moving on. For example, in the first scene,is only interested in breaking up the
fight that develops between the groups associated with the families. Later,even encouragesto
leavealone when Romeo comes to their party, uninvited, saying that he's heard that Romeo is
actually a pretty decent kid. Tybalt, on the other hand, claims to hate peace; he is quite
willing to single-handedly keep the feud alive. He opposes Benvolio's attempts to keep the
peace, and he later disobeys his uncle and goes after Romeo. He seems to be representative of
hatred and violence in general, and theof the play does originate with Tybalt. Prior to his
challenge to Romeo, things are going pretty well for the young couple. It is only after Tybalt
disobeys his uncle's call for peace with Romeo that things begin to go wrong, and all the deaths
begin.

On what page in 1984 can I find the quote about the chocolate rations being "raised" even though they were being reduced?

A page
number can change based on the edition you are using, but the quote appears in part I, chapter 4
of the text. In my Signet edition, it is on page 36 and reads as follows:

As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a
promise (a "categorical pledge" were the official words) that there would be no
reduction of the chocolate ration during . Actually, aswas aware, the chocolate ration was to be
reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to
substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the
ration at some time in April.

Winston is one of the
people whose job it is to make the changes in the historical record that make it appear as if
the government never lies or contradicts itself. He will go back and change the government
pledge not to reduce the chocolate ration so that it matches the current reality of a reduction
in the chocolate ration. By having people like Winston constantly rewriting history, the Party
ensures that truth becomes hopelessly obscured. It then becomes ever easier for the Party to
assert that the truth is whatever the Party claims it to be. Meanwhile, people like Winston are
expected to engage in "doublethink," which involves both changing the historic record
and immediately forgetting that they ever did so. 

However, Winston commits
"thought crime": he does not forget. In chapter 5, Winston notes:

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big
Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he
reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a
week.

Winston would be acutely aware of all these
contradictions as he was the one who just changed facts on the chocolate ration to make the
reduction (now posited as an increase) seem consistent with past pronouncements. If you're
confused, that's the point: the government in Oceania never wants people to know what is really
going on.

Is the driver downshifts to drag us over the hill a hyperbole, alliteration, or personification?

The driver
downshifts to drag us over the
hill.

The quick repetition of the d sound in this
sentence is a great example of . (And it works effectively in this
example because it helps create the hard d-d-d sound of a car or motor.) Alliteration relies on
the repetition of a consonant sound (typically at the beginnings of words, though sometimes that
extends to other placements within words) within a sentence or line of poetry.

is the attribution of human characteristics to something
that is not human. Since the driver is human and ultimately drags "us" over the hill
with his car, that's not an example of personification.

A
is an exaggeration. While "drags" is a great verb
choice, more interesting than, say, drives, it isn't really an exaggeration. A hyperbole would
look more like this:

The driver downshifted to drag us
over the hill going a million miles an hour.

Since he
couldn't possibly drive "a million miles an hour," this would be a clear exaggeration
and a hyperbole.

What is the central conflict of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?

The central
conflict for a story revolves around the mainachieving a specific goal. The plot rises as the
main character encounters obstacles that get in the way of him or her solving the problem,
finishing a quest, or achieving said goal. The main character in 's is
Santiago, a young shepherd who must find his treasure and fulfill his Personal Legend. With
these goals in mind, many obstacles arise to meet him as he journeys to Egypt where his treasure
supposedly lies. Santiago first goes to a gypsy to help him interpret the dream that told him
about the treasure and he discovers the central conflict through her as follows:

"You came...