What is the meaning of Hamlet's soliloquy, "How all occasions do inform...," in Act 4, Scene 4?

is reminded
by the King of Norway's resolve that he has been cowardly in pursuing his dead father's wishes
for revenge regicide against . The King of Norway has shown, through his determination and
desire for honor, that he is indeed kingly. By contrast with's lack of resolve, he has made
Hamlet realize how difficult all decisions are and yet how important it is that he follow
through with his dead father's ghost's request to murder King Claudius. Hamlet berates himself
for not using his God-given powers of reason; by not doing so, he wonders if he has sunk into a
"bestial...

What are the advantages of a market economy?

The major
advantages of a market economy are that such an economy provides the greatest personal freedom
for its people, gives them with the greatest possible variety and quality of goods and services,
and offers those goods and services at the best possible price. By doing these things, the
market economy allows a country to be richer and freer than it otherwise would be.

In a market economy, people have the right to do more or less with their property as
they wish. The government allows people to start businesses doing whatever they want (outside of
illegal things like drug dealing). It does not tell them what they must do with their money and
it does not create companies of its own that prevent private enterprise from growing. If we
believe personal...

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In A Christmas Carol, what business is Joe in and who is the woman to whom he is speaking?

Old Joe is a pawnbroker,
someone who buys used
items cheaply and then sells them at a higher price for a profit. He
speaks
to the charwoman, a woman who is employed to clean houses and office spaces, as well
as
the laundress (named Mrs. Dilber) and the undertaker's assistant. These
individuals enter right
around the same time, each carrying a heavy bundle,
and "they all three burst into a
laugh" when they realize that they each had
the same idea to steal from Scrooge and then
sell his belongings. The
charwoman and laundress likely worked for Scrooge and the undertaker's
man
probably assisted with Scrooge's body after his death. They all easily justify
their
actions; to this end, the charwoman says of his possessions

If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a
wicked old screw, . . . why wasn't he
natural in his lifetime? If he had
been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was
struck with Death,
instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.

They feel that Scrooge basically compelled them to steal
from him
in death because he was so stingy and mean during his life. He had
no one to sit with his body,
to protect him from such thieves, because there
was none who loved him enough to do so; he
pushed everyone away. Because he
was not "natural" during his life, he died all alone,
vulnerable to thieves
and to people like old Joe, the pawnbroker, who could profit from
Scrooge's
death.

What do the images lilke the bead-curtain, white hills, dry plains, etc.,convey about the incident in the short story? Mainly the subjective uses...

The most
interesting and most touching image in
the story has to do with the bead-curtain. At one point
Jig reaches out and
rolls a couple of these wooden beads back and forth between her fingers. It

is obvious that she is reminded of the wooden beads that are so common on infants'
cribs,
play-pens, strollers, and toys. The poor girl is thinking how much she
would enjoy having a baby
and doing all the things that mothers do with their
babies.

The landscape is
desolate. It seems to symbolize
the isolation of these two people in an enormous, indifferent
cosmos. In a
few minutes they will board the train and leave--but the landscape will remain
here
for millions of years after their little drama has been forgotten, just
as it had been there for
millions of years before they passed through. They
are just a man and a woman having a baby--or
not having a baby. I am reminded
of Adam and Eve getting evicted from paradise.

Jig doesn't
really care about the hills. She is just trying to make conversation. That

has been her function and concern since the beginning of their relationship. She loves
the man
and wants to keep his interest and his love. She will do whatever he
wants. What he wants from
her is to be a bright and cheerful companion. These
qualities were what attracted him to her in
the first place.

 

What does the Finch house look like in To Kill a Mockingbird, with direct quotes?

As
mentioned in previous educators' answers, the Finch house is elevated, with a large porch. One
can easily picture it as a wrap-around porch, wide enough to accommodate chairs and tables.
Though the story doesn't state it explicitly, the porch is most likely enclosed by mosquito
netting. There is a living room off the front part of the porch, and the kitchen is off the back
part. A swinging door separates the dining room and kitchen. It is a one-story house, with four
bedroomsone for , one for , one for , and one for guests.

The fence
surrounding the yard is wire, and the child protagonists duck through it easily. There is a
backyard treehouse, which rests between "giant twin chinaberry trees" and overlooks
the school. It is on Maycomb's main residential street, which isand quiet; the business core of
the small southern town is a fair walk away.

Compare the three Reconstruction Plans: Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan, and the Congressional Reconstruction Plan, in...

There
were three plans of . President Lincoln had a plan, President Johnson had a plan, and there was
the Radical Republican plan.

President Lincolns plan called for several
things to occur. His plan called for ten percent of the voters to take an oath of loyalty to the
United States. New state governments could form. These governments had to ban slavery when they
wrote the new state constitutions. His plan would offer amnesty to all white southerners, except
Confederate leaders, if these people pledged loyalty to the United States.

President Johnsons plan was different from President Lincolns plan. His plan called for granting
amnesty and returning people's property if they pledged to be loyal to the United States.
Confederate leaders had to apply directly to President Johnson in order to request amnesty. Only
people who promised to be loyal and who were pardoned could vote for delegates to the
conventions in each state that would write the new state constitutions....

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In Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People," what ironies does Joy/Hulga not realize about herself?

Joy Hulga
Hopewell is one of the most ironic characters ever created by Flannery OConnor, an author who
lovedof almost every kind. One of the most ironic aspects of Hulga (one of the main characters
in ) is that she understands herself so little, even though she prides herself on her wide
reading and deep knowledge.  Examples of such irony include the following:

• Hulga realizes that she has a weak heart physically, but she has no idea just how
  weak her heart is spiritually and in terms of compassion and concern for other
  people.
• At one point, Hulga exclaims to her mother,

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see
what you are not? God!

The irony here is exceptional: of
course, it is really Hulga who never looks inside and Hulga who has no idea what she is not. It
is also Hulga who fails to realize that she isn't God -- aO'Connors' phrasing here
permits.

• Similarly, Hulga also quotes Malbranche as saying We
  are not...

In Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond, what happened if someone did not adhere to religious laws?

In Puritan
Connecticut, religion and laws were closely intertwined.  Most laws in Puritan societies were
based on Biblical principals.  Punishment for law breaking was often severe.  In the town of
Wethersfield, there was "a pillory, a whipping post, and stocks"
(, Chapter 5).  All of these...

What does Bruno think of Eva?

In
,gives an interesting perspective on Eva Braun that contrasts with the
typical historical understanding. On the night that Bruno's family is expected to have "the
Fury" over for dinner, Bruno's father is very on edge. He expects for Bruno and Gretel to
be on their best behavior and to stay in their room while the adults eat dinner. They are not to
speak unless spoken to, but are to answer respectfully if they are. With all this build up,
Bruno thinks that the Fury must be an impressive man indeed. When it is finally time to meet
him, Bruno is sorely disappointed. He is, however, completely enamored with the Fury's
companion, who Bruno knows only as Eva.

The first thing that Bruno notices
about Eva is how much taller she seems in comparison to the Fury. He immediately is struck by
her, calling her "the most beautiful woman in the world." While the Fury completely
ignores Bruno, Eva stays to talk to the children for a short period of time, until the Fury
snaps at her to join him at the table. In a moment of cool defiance, Eva rolls her eyes and bids
the children farewell. Bruno does not care for the Fury at all, and Eva's beauty and
unwillingness to conform to the former's every whim makes her seem almost
divine.

With reference to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, discuss the Lomans' favorite game of escaping reality.

One of
the primary themes of byis the idea of illusion and reality. Every member
of the Loman family spends time and energy clinging to illusions, primarily because facing
reality would be too painful for them.

Willy is undoubtedly the worst
offender and pays the highest price for it. He is a traveling salesman who believes many untrue
things about his job, about people, and about life. He believes that success in life is based on
how well people like him and how much money he makes. He claims to be a successful salesman, but
all the evidence we have--most of it through his own mouth--suggests that he is a miserable
failure at his job and has never been successful at it. He obviously still needs the money or he
would not still be on the road at his age. The evidence is clear: he fails miserably on both
counts, which is why he eventually takes his own life. 

Almost as bad, Willy
believes his sons are fine young men based on the same flawed standards. Once...

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What are some words to describe Kit from The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Katharine
Tyler, or "Kit," is the sixteen year-old heroine of 's . She is
best described as fiercely independent, intelligent, and curious... perhaps even a little too
curious for her own good! After sailing to Wethersfield, Connecticut, from her home in Barbados,
Kit finds herself to be a bit of a "fish out of water" in this new and strange land.
She is not used to the customs of a Puritanical society and her lavish lifestyle and attitudes
are not received well in a settlement that is predicated on humility and hard work. It takes
awhile for Kit to acclimate to the routines of Wethersfield, and even after she does, her
curiosity about the world, rebellious nature, and cheeky spirit often get her into loads of
trouble!  

What are the possible positive benefits of following a religion?

Being a member of an organized religion
offers several benefits. Some are intangible, while others have been proven by the medical
community and scientists to be favorable to physical, emotional, and mental health. The most
obvious is the social benefits derived from membership in organized religion. Most religions
encourage members to fellowship or to meet regularly in and out of religious services. Members
can make connections resulting in long-lasting relationships and friendships. Social contacts
made lead to business referrals or assistance in finding new employment. The financial aspects
of being part of a religion cannot be underemphasized.

A study by Harvard
Business School concluded religious affiliation resulted in benefits to improving health and an
increase in longevity as compared with non-religious people. Religious affiliation seemed to
improve the overall mental attitude of members resulting in a more positive feeling about the
future as well as improved self-esteem. These findings were substantiated by the National
Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), who also reported lower levels of stress and an increase in
feelings of self-empowerment.

Here is an offbeat benefit you wouldnt expect
reported by Live Science. Apparently, being affiliated with a religion helps you resist junk
food and is tied to lowering your blood pressure! Live Science compiled their list from research
done by other health institutes. These findings are pretty consistent across several platforms
and several research studies.

Finally, and probably the best reason to
affiliate with religion, is most religions engage in a significant amount of charitable work.
There is no higher calling than to serve others. The benefit derived from helping someone less
fortunate provides purpose and meaning to life. These are just a few of the positive benefits of
religion or spirituality.

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I need an explanation of the poem "Cat!" by Eleanor Farjeon: Cat! Atter her, atter her, Sleeky flatterer, Spitfire chatterer, Scatter her,...

The poem
describes a dog chasing a cat up a tree. The persona the poet takes is that of a dog, so the
entire poem is written from the dog's point of view and in the dog's own words.

The first line of the poem is simply, "Cat!" We can imagine a dog out in the
yard and suddenly spying a cat. "Atter her, atter her" is probably just another way to
say, "After her!" either in aor in rushed speech. If you say the words out loud, they
sound like a panting dog, and we get the idea that the dog breaks into a run here.

Why doesn't the dog like the cat? It is a "sleeky flatterer"that is, one that
can't be trusted. Cats have a less direct way of seeking attention from humans compared to dogs,
who directly ask for love from their owners. The dog, however, sees the mean side of the cat; it
is a "spitfire chatterer" when it hisses and meows. These are reasons enough for the
dog to want to "scatter her."

The next stanza provides the dog's
internal commands to himself. "Git her" means "get her."...

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In act 3, Eliza's first test is a "precious bit of drama". In what respects and aspects is this true?

It is quite
acceptable to deem Eliza's first test in Act 3 as a "precious bit of drama" in many
respects.

In this Act we find Mrs. Higgins at her in-house, around 4 to 5 in
the afternoon expecting visitors who have send in their calling cards to visit her that
afternoon. In this case, it was the Eynsford-Hill duo of Mrs. Eynsford and her daughter, Clara. 
Mrs. Higgins, like Mrs. Eynsford, belong to a sophisticated and conservative middle class which,
in Victorian England it would translate to our American equivalent of an upper-middle class.
This is the reason why Higgins chooses to test Eliza'sand poise in that environment.

The only person who is out of place there, however, is none other than Higgins. He is
pedantic, abrupt, cynic, mean, sarcastic, obstinate, selfish and indifferent to the presence of
others. He will speak, say, and act whichever way he pleases, making his mother quite
uncomfortable.

In comes Eliza Doolittle. The moment she enters the scene the
description is so comical that one can almost see her, a flower girl, posing in the most
imperious, exaggerated, and insufferably snobbish way. It almost brings the audience back to
every comedy of manners in which one character stands out for its extreme posh behavior. A
character that stands out is Lady Bracknell from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being
Earnest.Being that Shaw and Wilde are contemporaries on stage, one cannot avoid
sensing each other's influences in the creation of their character.

This
aside, Eliza's description reads:

Speaking with pedantic
correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?
[She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite
successful]. Mr. Higgins told me I might come.

So here we see Eliza, inhaling and exhaling her H sounds, cutting her sentences to a
bare minimum to demonstrate familiarity with the current situation, and imperiousness to
separate herself from the rest..as if she already were a Duchess.

However,
although at the beginning things seem to go OK Eliza begins to slip in semantics, not so much in
her intonation. Her strength in expressing frustrations is so strong that she cannot keep it in
check even under monitoring. This is precisely when Freddy finds her to be a unique and precious
individual aside from everything else. Here is Liza explaining how her father is an alcoholic
but that the drink has not really harmed his life all that much.

LIZA:Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I
could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. [Cheerfully] On the
burst, as you might say, from time to time. And always more agreeable when he had a drop in.
When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not
come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like. There's lots of women has to make
their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. [Now quite at her ease]
You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's
sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him
happy. [To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter]Here! what
are you sniggering at?
FREDDY:

The new small talk. You do it so awfully well.

After Eliza
leaves, her imprint is official in Freddy. Yet, she is able to be herself and talk the way she
truly wishes to express herself. For this, she charms most, if not everyone, she comes across
with.

What is the difference between monism and polytheism?

Monism is not
a religion or a faith per se.  Instead, it is a metaphysical way of looking at the world.
 Monism holds that everything in the universe is really part of one substance or one nature.  A
monistic religion would hold that there is a god and that all of creation is really part of that
god.  Most scholars see Hinduism as an example of such a religion because Hindus believe that
everything in the world is part of Brahman.

Polytheism can be monistic as
well.  In polytheism, there are held to be many gods.  However, it is possible that these gods
can all be seen as part of one overarching nature.  Hinduism is also an example of such a
religion.  As this link shows, many Hindus believe in many gods, but see those gods' separate
beings as somehow illusory since the gods are really part of one overall being.

But there are also purely polytheistic religions.  A religion is polytheistic so long
as it believes in many gods.  It can believe that the many gods are all truly separate entities
and therefore it can be polytheistic without being monistic.

Why is it important to study literature?

As a history
teacher, I encourage my students to read books from the time period that we are studying because
literature is a window into the past. Any study of the Great Depression, for example, is brought
to life by reading Steinbecks Of Mice and Men because although it is a
fictional story, it is a product of that time and place. We learn so much about the lives of
migrant workers and attitudes toward women and African-Americans in this novel. Similarly,
Orwells Animal Farm might be called a fairy story, but it reveals a lot
about British attitudes to the Russian Revolution and development of the Soviet state.

I also encourage a study of literature because reading and comprehending a text
improves literacy rates. By encountering both familiar and unfamiliar words, students not only
improve their own vocabulary but also their cognitive skills, as shown in this article from the
Reading Agency (See Reference 1).

Of course, studying literature also fires
the imagination and promotes curiosity, which will help students in every subject they study and
every path they take in later life.

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What details in Act I of Pygmalion suggest conflicts that might follow?

Some
conflicts that are foretold in Act I of are foreshadowed in Liza's
hysterical encounter with Higgins, The Note Taker; her encounter with Pickering; her encounter
with Freddy, Higgins encounter with Pickering; and Clara's encounter with ... herself. Liza and
Higgins begin on a high pitched note and they stay there throughout the play. Higgins offers
Liza a chance for a transformation of their relationship to one of "fellowship" but
she doesn't believe him and their conflict persists throughout the Sequel.

Liza's encounter with Pickering of a different sort. She speaks civilly, not
hysterically, with him and he responds in kind with returned civility. He then responds with
courtesy and spare change when she asks him to buy a flower and he cannot. Contrast this to
Higgins who responds with discourtesy but tosses her a fistful of considerable money, enough
money for her to treat herself to two taxi rides and language lessons (or so she thought
...).

Liza's encounter with Freddy shows a conflict of a different kind. she
tells his mother that she called him "Freddy" just like anyone would do wanted to
speak pleasantly to a stranger. When Freddy falls in love with Liza, his love isn't fervently
returned, which presents a conflict of a different sort for Liza and for Freddy. However, Liza
marries him anyway, which is the fulfillment of her "pleasant" feelings for him
foretold in Act I.

Higgins' and Pickering's encounter establishes from the
very start that Higgins is a bachelor and will remain a bachelor because he wants to be a
bachelor and because he won't change his nature or his manners for anyone. This introduces the
central conflict between Liza and Higgins: She may not be romantically in love with Higgins--or
she may have taught herself not to be (there is some ambiguity in her behavior in Act V)--but
she wants to be treated like a lady and with kindness. Higgins counters with the idea that he
may not treat her the way Pickering does, but the real question is whether he treats anyone
better than he treats her.

And Clara--well--the Sequel makes it clear that
all throughout the time period of the play, Clara has been in conflict with most people and with
most elements of society. Her mother could not manage to buy her an education, as the Sequel
says, and so she is not intellectually or culturally at one with the social groups she thinks
she ought to belong to. One day, she chances upon H.G. Wells, has the good fortune to meet him,
and has her own life transformed (more of Shaw's belief in Life force) and new avenues of
possibility opened up to her.

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

If
theVera intends to tell Framton Nuttel had actually happened, it would certainly have been known
about and talked of all over the county. She has to establish that Framton is a complete
stranger to the area; otherwise, he might wonder why he never heard anything about the incident.
If Vera's aunt had been driven insane by the gruesome tragedy, that would also be the talk of
the families for years. Vera first has to establish that Framton knows nothing of
any...

In "The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable," why do the parishioners have such an intense response to seeing the minister's veil?

Mr. Hooper's
parishioners have an intense reaction to his black veil, at first, because it is extremely
off-putting.  They are very confused by it because it is so uncommon a thing for a person to
cover up their face in this way; we especially like to see the eyes of any person to whom we
speak.  They first wonder if it is even their minister behind the veil, and then one old woman
says that "'He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face," and
another man cries, "'Our parson has gone...

How would you characterize American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

I would say
that American foreign policy in the 1920s was rather different from that of the 1930s.  In the
1920s, the US undertook diplomatic endeavors that were meant to make another war impossible or
unlikely.  In the 1930s, the US largely gave up on this approach and turned to
isolationism.

In the 1920s, the US tried to use diplomacy to reduce the
chance of another major war happening.   The two main undertakings that are associated with this
effort are the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 and the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22.  At
the naval conference, the US and other nations set limits on...

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In "The Giver", what new information does Fiona give Jonas about the treatment of the old?

Once the
twelves are given their assignments
in , Fiona is assigned to the House of
the Old.  We
already know that the rules and awkwardness about nudity are
not...

What is the significance of Mrs. Ochuba and Amalile in "Marriage is a Private Affair"?

Nnaemeka's father,
Okeke, is completely opposed to his son's marriage to a woman who does not come from their
people and who is not an Ibo. The father's friends recommend that the son be administered a
medicine called Amalile, which apparently allows straying husbands to be attracted to their
wives again. Mrs. Ochuba intended to give this medicine to her husband for this purpose, but it
was given to the herbalist instead, who died as a result. Some of the men around Nnaemeka's
father refer to Mrs. Ochuba as a murderess. 

Okeke refuses to administer this
medicine to his son. At the end of the story, Okeke regrets having distanced himself from his
son's family when he learns that his son and his wife have two sons who want to meet him. It is
then that he begins to relent, and it is the sons who are truly the Amalile, or the medicine
that will bring Okeke to reconcile with his son and his son's family. 

Agents of globalization are such things as: trade, migration, mass culture, and communications. How much do these differ from previous centuries? How...

We often
think that globalization has only come into being in the last few decades.  This is, however,
not the case.  Globalization has been going on for centuries.  The agents of globalization today
are essentially the same as agents of globalization in past centuries.  The only real
differences are differences of speed and scale.

In this question, you say
that agents of globalization include mass culture, trade, migration, and communications.  All of
these things existed in past centuries.  Let us look at a few examples.  The United Kingdom was
trading with India 300 years ago.  There was migration from Germany and Ireland to the United
States in the 1840s.  The first cable to link North America to Europe by telegraph was completed
in 1858.  All of these things helped to create globalization. 

However, these
agents of globalization work faster and on a larger scale today.  Instead of communicating by
telegraph between stations, we communicate by internet or telephone directly with one another. 
Instead of having trade or migration that goes by sailing ship, we now use airplanes or much
larger and faster ships than in times past.  Our mass culture is disseminated across many
countries very quickly through movies, TV, and the internet. 

From this, we
can see that the agents of globalization have not changed over the centuries.  They have simply
become faster and allowed for globalization on a much larger scale.  This has changed the
structure of civilizations by making them more similar.  In the past, different civilizations
could be structured very differently and rulers could keep their societies from interacting with
the outside to a much greater degree.  Today, this is much less possible, which means that
rulers in any given civilization lack the ability to maintain their civilizations separation
from the rest of the world.

What are some good topics for research in the classroom or educational field? What are some good topics for research in the classroom or educational...

I would add
that if you intend to do this project again, ask THIS YEAR's students what would have helped
them with this assignment.  What could YOU have done differently? What would THEY have done
differently?  What would they have found helpful?  Have them look at the assignment sheet and
find out what was confusing.  Have them tell you what worked--directions, topics, time, anything
they found that worked well for them.  This can be a real eye opener and the approach must be
that you and the students are working together to improve a necessary
assignment.

In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, why does Blanche say that she has left her teaching job to visit Stella?

play
focuses on an aging Southern belles attempt to find a place for herself in
her sisters life.  Her encounters with her aggressive brother-in-law force her to retreat into a
place in her mind that can handle the horrors she faces. All of the characters are flawed and
psychologically fragile.  But it is Blanche DuBois who loses her last hope for
survival.

At one time, Blanche was the belle of her plantation and town. When
her husband killed himself, Blanche never recuperated from his loss.  Stella, her sister, left
Belle Reve and moved to New Orleans where she married a brutish man, Stanley. 

Now, Blanche comes to New Orleans in hopes that she can find a life with her sister.
Stella is all that Blanche has left.  As an English teacher, there has been some
scandal.

Blanche: €¦You havent asked me how I happened to
get away from the school before the spring term ended. 

Stella: Well, I
thought you would volunteer that informationif you wanted to tell me.

Blanche: You thought Id been fired?

Stella: No, I thought you might
have---resigned

Blanche: I was so exhausted by all Id been through
my---nerves broke.  I was on the verge oflunacy, almost! So Mr. Graves suggested that I take a
leave of absence€¦

Blanche tends to stretch the
truth. Although she does not tell her sister, Blanche has lost her job. Blanche has always been
delicate; she has suffered a bit of a breakdown.  This is the excuse that Blanche uses to
explain why she leaves her job. Her nerves are broken. She also tells Stella that the plantation
has been lost to bankruptcy.

Actually, Blanche resents that she had to stay
at home and take care of the family.  Stella has made a new life for herself and is now
expecting a baby.  Blanche is also horrified that her sister is living in a dump like this one
when they both come from such a wealthy, elite background.

Blanche is her own
worst enemy.  She does not mince words about her displeasure in Stella or herself having to stay
in such crummy accommodations. Stanley does not like Blanche intruding on his life; he is
infuriated when he hears that Stellas part of the plantation has been lost.

It is obvious that Blanche has a drinking problem. This fact and her attempt to create
a fa§ade of southern comfort annoy Stanley.  He determines to find out the truth about what
happened to their plantation.

Stanley does ask around and discovers that
Blanche has been lying about what happen in her hometown. Apparently, she was fired from her job
as a schoolteacher after she was discovered having an affair with one of her high school
students. She then sank further into scandal, entertaining gentlemen callers at a place called
the Hotel Flamingo until she was asked to leave town.

Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? What impact did it have on American support for intervention in World War II?

The Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor because they
wanted to knock the US Navy in the Pacific out of action long
enough to allow
them to consolidate their empire.  When they did, they swung American opinion
on
WWII.  Where Americans had once been reluctant to join the war, they were
now eager to do
so.

The Japanese wanted an empire in Asia
and the Pacific.  They felt it was
their due as a powerful nation and they
also felt that they needed it so they could have a
guaranteed source of
natural resources.  However, they realized that the United States would

oppose their attempts to get an...

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What are the main themes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

I would say
there are a great many themes to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
One of the major ones is discovery. For most of his life, up to this point, Harry is raised by
his magic-hating Aunt and Uncle, in ignorance of the magical world and his own place in it. In
the course of the first book, he will be introduced to an entire secret world of magic, a world
in which he is viewed as a hero.

In addition, there are broad themes of good
and evil introduced in this book that will be woven throughout the larger series that follows.
Harry Potter's confrontation with Lord Voldemort at the end of the book will only be the first
in a series of battles, with Voldemort being the main villain of the series as a
whole.

Additionally, I would note that also addresses
themes of privilege (which is represented by Harry's school rival, Draco Malfoy), and
friendship, with Harry forging friendships with fellow students Hermione Granger and Ron
Weasley. These...

In Hamlet's "look here upon this picture" speech, how does Shakespeare use language to characterize Hamlet's relationship with his mother? I need help...

This is
probably the main scene in that caused Freud, allegedly, to have first
considered naming the "Oedipus Complex" afterinstead.

Hamlet pours
out his rage against his mother ostensibly over her having chosen to marry his uncle . His point
initially seems to be that Claudius is so far below Hamlet's father in appearance thatmust have
been insane to be attracted to him. Yet Hamlet's speech is itself an instance of
"protesting too much," to use his own mother's words in a different context. Not only
does he go on and on, but his language is exaggerated and inflated beyond all
expectations:

Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove
himself,

An eye like Mars to threaten and command,

A
station like the herald Mercury

Thus in three lines
Hamlet likens his father not to one or even two or three but four mythological figures.
Claudius, by contrast, is a "mildewed ear," a "moor" (in comparison with the
"fair mountain" Hamlet's father was). Hamlet then launches into insulting his mother
by saying that at her age, she can no longer feel actual love because

The heyday in the blood is tame.

After she attempts a response he gets to the point of what is really inflaming him
most:

Nay, but to live

In the rank
sweat of an enseamed bed,

Stewed in corruption, honeying and making
love

Over the nasty sty

Much of the
wording makes one think of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Thefocuses
upon the unsavory physical detail with which Hamlet conceptualizes his mother's love
life.

The enormous gulf Hamlet sees between his father's qualities as a man
and his uncle's is what he uses to rationalize this condemnation of his mother. But nothing else
in the play objectively supports Hamlet's view. We might ask if at this point Hamlet is still
engaging in his ruse to make people think him insane. If not, the frenzied
quality of his tirade would prove that he has genuinely gone over the line into psychosis. His
resentment of his mother as a sexually active woman is, arguably, what has provoked this. Even
afterhas appeared to warn him, Hamlet continues his criticism of his mother and her intimacy
with Claudius:

Good nightbut go not to my uncle's
bed.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

The explicitness of this scene is shocking in its way. Yet the extremity of emotion and
the inflated language are the essence of Shakespeare. Whether or not these lines are evidence of
Hamlet's unbalanced mind, they are overwhelming as sheer poetry.

How Can Supreme Court Decisions Be Overturned

There are
three major ways in which a Supreme Court decision can be overturned.

If the
decision is based on a law that Congress has passed, Congress can simply change the law.  The
Court sometimes has to rule on how they think laws made by Congress apply to certain cases.  If
Congress thinks the Court has gotten it wrong, they can change the law to make things
clearer.

If the decision is based on the Constitution, the Constitution can
be amended.  For example, the Supreme Court has said that the Constitution bans school-sponsored
prayer.  If enough people wanted to, they could pass an amendment allowing such
prayers.

Finally (and this is the most common way of overturning Court
decisions) a later Supreme Court can decide that a certain decision was wrong.  For example, the
Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education effectively
overruled the decision in made 58 years before in Plessy v.
Ferguson.

Examine how prejudice is expressed in Romeo and Juliet. I'm having trouble finding quotes to support the prejudice between the two families.

The reason for the enmity between the households of the Montagues and the Capulets in
Shakespeare's isn't explained anywhere in the play. There aren't any
tantalizing clues, no subtle hints, and no hidden meanings in the dialogue as to why or how the
feud began.

Why the families were feuding seems to be of
no consequence whatsoever to Shakespeare. The only thing that matters to him, and to the play,
is that the families are feuding. The feud drives the play forward from the very first scene to
the tragic end of the star-crossed lovers who get caught in the middle of it.

: Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona,
where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny . . .
(1.Pro.1€“3)

It's an "ancient grudge." That's
the only thing we're told about the feud. How did it start? Nobody says. There's no discussion
about it. Maybe nobody even remembers how the feud started.

Perhaps the feud started in much the same way that the recent brawling in
the...

Is Rufus Dana's great grandfather or her great great grandfather? I want to know their relation to each other

I would
say that Rufus is her great great Grandfather."" is set in two eras: Present day 1976
and the 1815.

The

What role does catharsis play in the play Oedipus Rex?

In terms
of Ancient Greek drama,refers to the
purging, or purifying, of the audience's emotions by the
provoking of fear
and pity. In the Poetics, the Greek philosopher
Aristotle
argued, in contrast to his mentor Plato, that there was nothing
wrong per
se with the expression of emotion by an
audience. Excess emotions, however, were a
different matter. They put the
various elements of the soul out of balance, and thus needed to
be purged and
purified by pity and fear, which Aristotle regarded as wholly rational

emotions.

For Aristotle, provided the classic
example
of how catharsis should work.excites pity because he is basically a
good man who comes to grief
through actions whose consequences he could not
reasonably have foreseen. Yes, Oedipus can be
criticized for certain of his
actions, such as willfully ignoring the prophecies of . But
ultimately
Oedipus is a victim of fate, and this excites pity among the
audience.

As well as pity, we also experience fear as the
action unfolds. We immediately grasp
that what's happened to Oedipusnot to
mention is an appalling , which cannot but incite feelings
of terror. The
gruesome nature of Oedipus's final actions in the playgouging out his own
eyesis
designed to inspire fear among the audience, providing them with an
emotional release which
curbs excess emotion.

Should schools be allowed to block cell phone voice and data service?I am trying to help my middle school debate team get ready for their first...

Interesting
question...however, let me rephrase
it just a bit and see if any opinions change.

As
educators, think of the costs associated with provided technology in
secondary
education. The capital expense, the upkeep, network costs, damage,
loss, etc. Computers become
outdated, damaged, obsolete. Most school
districts are required to run levys or bonds to acquire
computers that become
outdated before they are even installed and running. Most schools can only

provide computers in special computer labs and maybe schools have 2 or 3 labs for use.
It's even
worse in each classroom where perhaps there are half a dozen units.
Certainly not enough for
each student. Using them becomes a management
nightmare.

Now consider this:
what if I showed you a way
where EVERY student can have their own computer in class? What if I
told you
there would be no cost to the school district? No updating, no maintainance costs,
no
liability for damage or loss? Sound too good to be true? Well, that's
exactly what a smart phone
is. A computer more powerful than most desktops of
only a few short years ago.

The challenge, of course, is
helping students (and parents) understand the appropriate
use of this
technology. Like it or not, as long as there is electricity, students will have
cell
phones. Trying to limit their use is as fruitless as trying to eliminate
gum chewing. Better to
establish the proper way to use them than trying to
limit them. Get on board or be left behind,
I think.

How does Odysseus search for his identity in the Odyssey?

Odysseus seeks
his identity in several ways.

The first is that in his literal searchfor a
way homehe is also searching for himself. Hes been away from home for years. Hes been out having
adventures, but hes also been places where people dont know him, or where they meet him for the
first time. At home, his wife and old dog, who knew him before his travels, wait for
him.

A second search is for Penelope. Yes, thats another person, but shes
his wife, and the great love of his life. She is...

What source does Douglass rely on to learn how to read and write as explained in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?

Mrs. Auld is a weaver by trade and has never had slaves "under her control
previously," so she treats Douglass with kindness initially, just as she would do for any
other human being. She realizes that he cannot read and first teaches him how to recognize
letters and then how to form short words. This basic instruction completely changes Douglass's
life, as it gives him the needed tools to begin to build a sense of order in the printed world
around him.

Mr. Auld's reaction solidifies the importance in continuing this
journey. When he tells his wife that she cannot give Douglass any further instruction because
Douglass "should know nothing but to obey his masterto do as he is told to do,"
Douglass realizes the power of literacy. His quest to further his literacy instruction becomes
his passionate desire, and he gets pretty creative in following up on that...

What is President Trump's effect on business law and foreign policy?

It is important to note that Presidents have
less effect on the economy than is generally believed (see attached New York
Times article by Neil Irwin, January 17th 2017). In foreign policy, the President has
far more direct influence, particularly since, whatever his theoretical powers in the matter of
declaring war, the President can, in practice, deploy troops unilaterally.

It
may well be the case, however, that President Trump's behavior, so far as it has been
influential, has had markedly different effects in the two spheres of business law and foreign
policy. Trump's much touted "Doctrine of Unpredictability" (see attached
Democracy Journal article by Michael H. Fuchs, January 26th, 2017) holds
that a leader gains more power over a rival country by being unpredictable. Other states will be
more careful in their dealings with the USA if they think its President capable of any action or
retaliation, including starting a nuclear war.

However, this very
unpredictability is detrimental to the economy and to business law, since a functioning system
of regulation and a stable economy requires calm, predictable leadership.

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In 1984 why does Winston believe that the hope of government overthrow lies in the hands of the proles?

At the very
beginning of chapter 7 in part 1, in the very first sentence,gives at least one of the reasons
that he believes the Proles are the only hope at successful revolution.  He mentions that they
are at least "85% of the population," so, they have numbers on their side.  Because
there are simply so many of them, they are the only ones that could be a large enough
"force to destroy the Party."  He said that rebellion was so difficult under the
watchful eye of Big Brother, but that the Proles who had more freedom from that ever-watchful
eye, could simply unite by "rising up and shaking themselves like a horse shaking off
flies."  So, by the mere fact that there are so very many of them, all they would have to
do is rebel, and their numbers alone would ensure success.

Secondly, they
aren't under the oppressive eye of Big Brother as intensely as non-Proles are, so they have more
freedom to move about and form a rebellion without being detected.  Because of this, they are
more free; Winston envies that freedom a bit, in fact, and wishes they would use it to overthrow
their oppressors.

Unfortunately, through very clever and insidious propaganda
and constant war-mongering to elicit a fury of patriotic devotion from the Proles, they never do
rebel. They are constantly pitched to a fever of rallying to the cause of the nation in wars
against its enemies, and the propaganda.  The masses are so controlled by this, in fact, that
the Party has no worries whatsoever about the Proles.  Their busy workschedules, their
exhaustion, and their being brainwashed into devotion to the cause, all keeps those masses in
check.

I hope that helped; good luck!

What kinds of ions do acids and bases form in water?

Acids
produce hydrogen ions, H+, in water. Bases produce hydroxide ions, OH-.

A hydrogen ion is a bare proton that associates with a water molecule so the H+ ions
produced by an acid exist as H3O+ ions:

`H^+ + H_2O -> H_3O^+`

There are three accepted theories defining acids and bases:

1. The
Arrhenius theory defines an acid as substance that dissociates to produce H+ ions in solution
and a base as a substance that dissociates to produce OH- ions in solution, as per the answer to
your question.

2. The Bronsted-Lowery theory defines an acid as a proton
donor and a base as a proton acceptor. (Remember that a proton is the same as an H+
ion.)

3. The Lewis theory defines an acid as an electron pair acceptor and a
base as an electron pair donor.

Here are a few examples of these
definitions:

HCl is both an Arrhenius acid and a Bronsted-Lowry acid. It
dissociates to produce hydrogen ions in aqueous solution, and it donates a proton to a base.
These are two different ways of describing the same behavior.

Bases that
contain the hydroxide ion OH- are both Arrhenius and Br¸nsted-Lowry bases because they
dissociate to produce OH- ions that "accept" or bond to protons:

`H^+ + OH^(-) -> H_2O`

H+ is a Lewis acid because it will
"accept" or share a non-bonding pair of electrons on another atom or ion. For example,
it accepts an electron pair from the Lewis base F-:

`H^+ + F^(-) ->
HF`

Ammonia, NH3, is an example of all three types:

`NH_3
+ H_2O --gt NH_4^+ + OH^-`

Ammonia produces OH- by reacting with water. It
can also be said that it accepts a proton from water and that it donates an electron pair to an
H+ ion.

How does Juliet lose her innocence in act 3, scene 5, in Romeo and Juliet?

On a
surface level,loses her sexual innocence. At the beginning of the play, she was a virgin who had
never even thought of marriage. Now, after Juliet has met and married , the two have consummated
their relationship, hence their waking up together after the wedding night. However, Juliet also
loses her innocent reliance upon her family and even her society.

Once Romeo
has run off to find refuge in Mantua until he and Juliet can at last live together as husband
and wife openly, Juliet finds herself speaking with her parents about a possible marriage to
Count . Juliet refuses to marry Paris, obviously because she is already married to Romeo, but
her parents view this as mere ingratitude and grow angry, even threatening to throw Juliet out
of the house if she does not comply.

Then, when the Nurse suggests Juliet
just marry Paris since, in the eyes of Verona's society, Romeo is as good as dead anyway, Juliet
is asked to forsake the values she grew up with (as well as her...

How does "Hills like White Elephants" depict women?

The one
woman shown in any detail in the story, Jig, is depicted as frustrated and unhappy. She is
trapped in a dead-end relationship.

She is pregnant and clearly wants to
keep the baby. She seems to hope her lover will accept her wish and that somehow they can be a
family. He, on the other hand,...

What are the literary movements and trends of the early 20th century? What are the literary movements and trends of the early 20th century?

You also would benefit
to look beyond modernism to postmodernism, which in many ways rejects some of the key tenets of
modernism and "plays" with literature and genre in often highly amusing and different
ways. One excellent example is the author David Mitchell, who writes postmodernthat really
"breaks the mould" of what we have come to call a novel - Cloud
Atlas is one of my personal favourites.

Why was the United States so reluctant to enter World War I?

The United
States did not feel immediately
threatened in 1914 when the war began.  The government did
perceive some
threats, but it was mainly from the anarchist and labor movements.  The
United
States hoped to trade with both the Entente and the Central Powers,
though it soon switched to
mainly trading with the Entente Powers because the
Central Powers did not have the navy to get
past the British blockade.  The
United States thought that it could count on being surrounded by
two oceans
to protect itself from a European struggle.  The progressive activists in the
country
feared that war would get in the way of their domestic
agenda.  

Even when
war came to the United States in the
form of submarine attacks on American citizens and goods,
the United States
refused to get into the war.  Woodrow Wilson claimed that the United States

was "too proud to fight."  There was a concern that the United States military was
not
prepared to fight the huge armies of the Central Powers, as the army's
last meaningful
experience was in the Spanish-American War.  The people of
the United States saw the war as a
squabble among European powers over
territory that did not concern the United States.  The
United States only
went to war after the discovery of the Zimmerman telegram, which promised

Mexico the American West, and the continuation of German unrestricted submarine warfare,
which
sank many American ships.  Even when the United States joined the war,
it did not join as an
ally of Britain and France. Instead, the United States
was described as an
"associated" power.  This was done so the United States
could still claim the moral
high ground when the conflict
ended.  

In The Lovely Bones, how did Jack and Abigail deal with the loss of Susie? What are some similarities and differences?

After
Susie Salmons death, both parents suffer from their loss and their guilt over the difficulty of
helping the other children because of the weight of their own grief. Abigail, her mother,
concludes that her own recovery must proceed separately from the rest of the family, and she
moves away. Her physical distance makes her seem more remote to Susies spirit. However, she
later realizes how tight the bond was with her husband; after he suffers a heart attack, she
returns home.

Susies father, Jack, expresses grief through anger. He shows
this in part by attacking things that he shared with his daughter, notably the ships in bottles.
This action draws Susies spirit closer, and he understands that her presence continues as part
of his life. Jack more than Abigail concentrates on solving the murder and tracks down clues
himself. Jacks common sense fails him as he undertakes rash actions, however, and his health
suffers from the burden of grief, as he has a heart attack.

What was Thomas Hobbes idea for the government?

Thomas Hobbes
was an english philosopher who lived predominately in the 1600's. His idea for government was
that in order for people to be able to live together and survive, they needed to be governed by
a single sovereign ruler. This idea was put forth in his book, Leviathan,
where Hobbes states that if people are left to rule themselves, they will only focus on
self-preservation. He counters this argument by saying that while living under a sovereign ruler
the people in society will enter into a "social contract" with one another, and the
sovereign. In this social contract, all people of the society give up their "right to all
things", except for the sovereign, who is in control of all. By entering into the social
contract, the people are able to coexist with one another based on the rules, regulations, and
laws the sovereign puts forth. It is important to note that Hobbes never stated that this
sovereign should be one person. He argues that in addition to a single ruler such as a King or
Queen, small groups, such as those seen in a democracy, or the British parliament, could also
serve as the sovereign to govern a nation.

Hope this
helps!

What are some examples of Edwards using fear to get his point across to the congregation in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Edwards set
out many examples illustrating how the members of his congregation are in extreme danger during
the course of his sermon. He based his sermon on a text referring to the sliding of people's
feet over a period of time and interpreted this to be a reference to God's wrath at those who
fall away from following His will as time goes by.

The Application portion of
the sermon then explained exactly what awaited those whose feet had slipped off God's intended
pathway.

the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the
wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor
any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air;

Edwards made it very clear that no one was safe; no one was exempt
from the punishment awaiting those who had sinned.

However
you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may
keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing
but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting
destruction.

 

What is the theme of Friar Lawrence's speech in the beginning of Act II, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

likes
to collect various herbs, plants, and flowers that he uses to make all kinds of potions and
medicines. Doing so allows him to gain a deep understanding of the natural world, of how the
good is so often mixed in with the bad. Everything in nature has a purpose and can conduce to
the good if used properly. However, if the bounteous fruits of nature are misused, then the
consequences can be unpleasant:

For naught so vile that on
the earth doth live / But to the earth some special good doth give. / Nor aught so good but,
strained from that fair use / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. / Virtue itself turns
vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified. (Act II, Scene iii).

As we can see from the last lines of the above quotation, Friar
Lawrence extends this insight to human beings. Vice can often come out of virtue, and vice
versa. There is some interestinggoing on here. Later on in the play, Friar Lawrence will try to
overcome the...

What is the one power found in found in one but not the other two of the following: Declaration, Constitution, Articles of Confederation?

There are
many powers that are found in the Constitution that are not in either of the other two
documents.  This is because neither of the other two documents was meant to give much power at
all to the national government.  The Declaration of Independence essentially gives no powers to
anyone.  It is...

What point of view does Steinbeck use in The Pearl?

uses an omniscient
third-person
point of view (POV) in .The POV is

"third-person" in that the narrator seems to be on outsider looking in on the
story's
events. (Think: an outsiderthe third personobserving two peoplethe
first and second persontalk.)
And the POV is omniscient ("all knowing") in
how the narrator is able to reveal the
thoughts, actions, and perspectives of
other characterseven minor characters, such as the priest
in The
Pearlwho are not the main .

The
Pearl
uses the omniscient third-person POV to observe events at a
distance, while
occasionally closing that distance by jumping into the minds
of Kino, Juana, the doctor, etc.
Due to the narrator's lack of personality or
subjectivity, we can reasonably assume that the
narrator is providing a
trustworthy, untainted account of events within The

Pearl.

What does Frederick Douglass understand a man to be?

In
discussings concept of humanity, or what he considers a man to be, one can pretty much begin
with a quick reference to French philosopher Ren© Descartess oft-quoted dictum cogito, ergo
sum, or I think, therefore I am. For Douglass, the essence of the discussion was encapsulated
in the fundamental distinction between humans and animalsin effect, that the former can be
defined by the pursuit of knowledge. Perhaps nowhere was this adage better articulated than in
an address Douglass gave in 1872 titled Self-Made Men. Recognizing at the outset of his
remarks the propensity for individuals to interpret that phraseself-made menas indicative of
one who has propelled himself upward socially, professionally, and economically entirely of his
own accord, Douglass immediately rejected any such notion without going to another extreme by
suggesting that personal initiative and skill played no role at all in ones success.
Rather,...

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Discuss the blend of realistic and fantastic details. Does this blend make the story more or less effective? Does it require a different type of...

"" is an intriguing blend  of the ordinary and the supernatural, of reality
and the fantastic.  Consider the following:

• A girl disobeys her
  parents (real) and is turned into a giant spider (fantastical).
• A very sick
  little boy was healed (real) and, among others, a blind man did not have his sight restored but
  did grow three new teeth (supernatural).
• A very old man (real) has
  enormous, and very natural-looking, wings (unreal).
• Angels (or should I
  say, winged creatures who are apparently responsible for at least one actual miracle) are true
  and respected religious symbols (real) but this particular one is kept in a chicken...

What conditions did African Americans in the south face in 1900?

African
Americans faced very rough conditions in the South in 1900. White attitudes toward African
Americans were very negative and had changed very little since the end of the Civil War. Many
whites thought that African Americans were inferior. Laws known as the "Jim Crow laws"
were passed to reflect this way of thinking. As a result of the separate but equal doctrine
established in the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court case, African Americans
were legally segregated from whites in many places, including educational settings, train cars,
bathrooms, and other places of public accommodation. African American men also had a difficult
time getting well-paying jobs and were often forced to work on farms as hired
laborers.

Additionally, African Americans faced other obstacles. The pursuit
of equal rights could not advance, and in many cases, the struggle to be seen as human was a
matter of life and deathSouthern whites were regularly lynching blacks with impunity. African
Americans also found it difficult to vote, as poll taxes and literacy tests, instated
specifically to suppress the black vote, served their purpose. Many African Americans couldn't
afford to pay the taxes and/or couldnt pass the literacy tests because they had little income
and/or little to no educational training. African Americans were also threatened and intimidated
by groups like the Ku Klux Klan that tried to terrorize them and committed heinous crimes
against them. Life was very difficult for most African Americans in the South in
1900.

Compute the principal for the loan. Use ordinary interest when time is stated in days. Rate =9% Time= 6months Interest=$675

Find the
principal (original) amount if $675
"ordinary" interest accrues after 6 months.

Depending on
your definition of "ordinary" interest as being
simple interest:

P = ? (the unknown)

rate (`r` ) = 0.09
(or
`9/100` ) /

time period (`t` )= 6 months which is 0.5 of a
year
/

interest accrued (`I` ) = $675

We know that `I = P times
r times t`

Substitute
what you know into the formula:

$675 = `P` `times 0.09
times 0.5`

Now solve for `P`

`675 =
P times 0.045 `

`therefore 675/0.045 = P`

`therefore P = $15000`

There is
another
definition of "ordinary" interest being based on a 30-day month (=
360 days in a
year), in which case a standard 6 months (ie of 365 days)
becomes 0.50694 of a year of 360 days
instead of 0.5 of a standard year.

Answer based on a standard calculation of
simple interest
= `$15000`

What are 15 personality traits of Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird?

1.
Athletic:loves sports and wishes to start playing on the football team.

2. Respectful: Similar to , Jem treats others with respect
and is a morally upright individual.

3.
Empathetic: Jem understands whenis upset and does his best to calm her
down.

4. Humorous: Many of Jem's explanations
are humorous and addto the story.

5. Leader: Jem
takes on the role as the leader of their group throughout the novel.

6. Proud: Jem is proud of his father for killing the rabid
dog in one shot.

7. Gullible: At the beginning
of the novel, Jem believes the untrue rumors about .

8.
Inquisitive: Jem is a curious individual who is continually asking his father
questions. 

9. Naive: Before the Tom Robinson
trial, Jem does not realize the overt prejudice in his community.

10. Loyal: Jem refuses to leave his father's side when the
Old Sarum bunch surrounds him.

11. Protective:
Jem is protective of Scout and makes her spit the gum out that she found in the Radley
tree.

12. Jaded: Jem becomes jaded with the
community members of Maycomb following the trial.

13.
Talented: Jem can play various roles in the children's rendition of Boo Radley's
life story.

14. Adventurous: Jem is not afraid
to go on a nighttime raid in an attempt to get a look at Boo Radley.

15. Vindictive: Jem takes revenge on Mrs. Dubose by
destroying her camellias.

What objects does a child get at each age in The Giver?

In the community, the changes
presented at the ceremonies are symbolic.

These are the most
significant ceremonies.

At the ceremony of one, the Newchild gets a name and
is recognized for the first time as more than just a number.

For the earliest ceremony, the Naming, the Nurturers brought the newchildren to the
stage. (ch 6, p. 41)

Newchildren also get a family at
one.  The family consists of a Father, Mother, and one child of each gender.  The family units
only exist for child-rearing purposes, and the couple has to apply for a child and be approved
by the committee.

describes the ceremonies of Two, Three and Four as
boring.  Children are not really considered significant until Three. Dream-telling began with
Threes (ch 5, p. 35) and language instruction is important at this age.

The
ceremonies of Four, Five, and Six are basically just the children aging one more year.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back
so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. (ch 6, p.
40)

At Seven, children get front-button jackets.  This is
significant because until that point the jackets have buttoned in the back. This change is the
first sign of independence (ch 6, p. 41).

At Eight, children begin volunteer
hours, and yet another sign of growing independence.

Lily€¦ became an Eight and received the identifying jacket that she would wear this
year, this one with smaller buttons and, for the first time, pockets, indicating that she was
mature enough now to keep track of her own small belongings. (ch 6, p. 45)

At Nine, children receive one of the most coveted gifts: the
bicycle.  They have been secretly taught how to ride them.  The bicycle is a strong symbol of
moving away from the family unit, out into the community.

Tens get a haircut,
so the ceremony is a bit more time consuming.

[Each]
child's hair was snipped neatly into its distinguishing cut: females lost their braids at Ten,
and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair and took on the more manly short style
which exposed their ears. (p. 46)

Elevens are pretty much
just waiting to be Twelve. The females get bras and the children get clothes with special
pockets for a new calculator.

Twelve is the most significant ceremony in some
ways, because it is the last one.  At Twelve children are no longer really children.  They are
young adults.  They no longer are designated by age, but rather by occupation.  Their
occupations are chosen for them by a committee of Elders.

Lowry, Lois
(1993-04-26).(Newbery Medal Book). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle
Edition.

What is the significance of Maggy's smile in "Everyday Use"?

Maggie's
smile represents a victory.  Throughout the story, Maggie never seemed to be happy and was
always hiding in the shadows of her sister.  When her mother told Dee that the quilts were for
Maggie, she was surprised and smiled because, for once, she was able to receive something
instead of her sister.  Her sister turned the quilts down when she left for college because she
felt they were old-fashioned. Now that she is all into showing off her heritage, she wants them
to display. She always felt like Dee got everything and she even said, "She can have them
Mama."  She didn't need the quilts to have the memories.  Dee says, "Maggie's brain is
like an elephant's."  This comparison indicates that elephants have good memories and
Maggie would use those memories and put the quilts to "."   When they walk Dee to the
car at the end of the story, Dee tells Maggie she should make something of her life and
insinuates that as long as she and her mother stay in that house they will never improve their
life.  Maggie smiles because she knows they have the best life of all.  They respect their
culture and memories and know that memories are meant for "Everyday Use" so one can
always remember the past.

Reference:  The Language and
Literature Book by McDougal Littell 

In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, what does Meg have to do break the spell of the dark thing?

Meg has
learned that she cannot break ITs power
over Charles Wallace by mere brute force. This has a
limited effect on
Charles Wallace, breaking his concentration for only a minute. She remembers

that Mrs. Whatsit gave her the gift of her faults, so she tries to figure out how her
flaws can
help her in this situation. Her impatience has made her persistent,
willing to return to
Camazotz to rescue Charles Wallace, even though her
father is close to giving up. It is the
simple yet complicated act of loving
Charles Wallace that rescues him. Meg realizes that this is
the one thing
that IT cannot understand, the unselfishness of love toward someone else. It
has
tried to spread peace by convincing everyone on Camazotz to be like
everyone else. There is
peace through uniformity. Yet it is not the same.
Similarity is not the same as being
identical. It is through the uniqueness
of love for the flaws in ourselves and our
self-sacrifice for someone else
that can overcome evil.

How does Oedipus fail as a king in Oedipus Rex?

It is
agreed by many scholars that not only is 's ultimate failure a result of hisbut that his failure
occurred before he had ever even taken the crown. Indeed, Oedipus had already unknowingly
slaughtered his own father before he had won the hearts of the people of Thebes. In this sense,
he never had any hope of being a good king, or even any true king at all.

Oedipus's cursed existence is slightly more forgivable, seeing as it seems that fate
was against him from the beginning. In the final moments of the play, we feel an overwhelming
pity for Oedipus as he blinds himself, claiming all of his miserable titles. What is less
forgivable, however, is how he dismissed those who tried to warn him of his folly.


Though Oedipus had already committed a heinous moral crime, he could have at
least remained a just and loved king in Thebes. After all, it was his own strong sense of
justice that motivated him to search so relentlessly for Laius's killer. However, by spurning
the advice of , he spurned the wisdom of the Gods themselves.

Had he only
listened to the seer, and later his wife, he might have lived his life blissfully unaware of his
terrible crime and could have even been a just and good king to the people of
Thebes.

What is the purpose of the short story "The Open Window" by Saki?

The purpose
of "" is to show that people can be deliberately malicious and cruel, especially to
people who reveal their vulnerabilities. We know that the main character, Mr. Nuttel, has shared
his nerve disorder with his hosts. In fact, his hostess, Mrs. Sappleton, says he "could
only talk about his illnesses."

The fifteen-year-old Vera, Mrs.
Sappleton's niece, also finds out that Mr. Nuttel barely knows her aunt. She takes advantage of
this information to deliberately frighten Mr. Nuttel with a false story. Vera lies and says that
her aunt's husband and two children disappeared one day while hunting. She explains that Mrs.
Sappleton keeps the window (what we would call a French door) open in the deluded hopes they
will walk back through it one day. Of course, they are quite alive. When they come in, Mr.
Nuttel runs off, thinking he's seen ghosts.

The story implies that Mr. Nuttel
is a bore about his illnesses and that Vera is getting revenge. It warns that people like Vera,
despite polite manners, are not all sweetness and light. They are capable of manipulation and
amusing themselves through cruelty. We all have an aggressive streak, which can come out
passive-aggressively in how we treat people. The message of the story is not to assume that
people have your best interests at heart.

In what ways did World War II change the American worldview?

One change
was that the nature of the war dealt a serious (but not fatal) blow to American isolationism as
a mainstream political view. American public opinion in the wake of the war was far more
friendly to involvement in geopolitics, particularly participation in alliance systems (like
NATO) and international organizations (like the United Nations. Part of this was due to the war
itself, which was won by the Allies in no small part due to the efforts of the United States,
especially in the Pacific. Part was due to the obvious need for global leadership in the
devastation and turmoil wrought by the conflict. Yet another reason was the outbreak of the Cold
War, itself a legacy of .

The war, as well as the Great Depression, also
altered Americans' views of the role of government in the economy and in people's everyday
lives. The New Deal had been the single largest expansion of the federal government in American
history, but the war effort dwarfed Roosevelt's peacetime programs both in expense and in
extent. Massive investments in industry during the war were not totally abandoned in its wake,
and the postwar period saw some continuity in government social programs, most conspicuously the
GI Bill of Rights.

Finally, the war, fought as it was against a totalitarian
regime that based its rule on racial tenets, helped to accelerate the discussion about civil
rights in the United States. Black soldiers who had served  abroad chafed under Jim Crow at
home, and many white liberals changed their thinking about white supremacy. Of course, this
sparked a massive backlash from whites, especially in the South, but historians widely consider
the war as a watershed moment in race relations in the United States. 

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Compare and contrast Keats and Shelley.

The poets
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley have numerous similarities as well as some important
differences. The poets were contemporaries, writing in the early nineteenth century, and are
considered pillars of the Romantic movement. As representatives of the Romantic poets, they
wrote verse that is rich in emotion, demonstrates an awe of nature, and idealizes the
imaginative power of humankind. Both wrote in traditional verse forms, penning many sonnets and
making heavy use of iambic pentameter in extended narrative and reflective poems.

The two poets gravitated toward different subject matters. Keats is considered
"less mature" in his art, primarily because he was younger and did not have the time
to perfect his style. He died at the age of twenty-five from tuberculosis, and although he only
wrote poetry for six short years, his poetic genius and the rapidity with which he improved his
poetic skills is astounding. In 1819 alone, he composed multiple masterpieces, including his
five...

Why does the author leave it unclear whether Goodman Brown's experience is a dream or real in "Young Goodman Brown"? How is this noted in the story,...

Early
nineteenth-century writers were preoccupied with examining unusual mental states, the power of
imagination, and the borderline between illusion and reality. The literary preoccupation with
these concepts was symbiotic with developments in philosophy. Beginning especially with the
works of Immanuel Kant, and his successor (in some sense) Arthur Schopenhauer, philosophers
believed the external world, as we perceive it, is basically a projection of our minds,
different from actual, unmediated reality, or the "thing in itself" as Kant referred
to it.

Hawthorne is part of this literary trend that sees the outside world
as what could be an illusion, or sees the power of the human mind as such
that it can create its own reality. His stories generally possess a dreamlike quality even when
there is no explicit mention of the supernatural. What is important in " " is the
moral concept behind the story; the unanswerable question of literal reality versus dreams
or...

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what do Victor and the monster talk about?

Dr.and his
monster discuss several different things after his creation.comes to life loquacious and
intelligent, and so he is able to converse well in spite of the fact that he was just
created.

One of the first things that the two discuss is s disgust at the
monster he created. Victor assumed his creation would be beautiful and a much more impressive
feat, but the monster is heinous and questions his existence, which frustrates Victor, thinking
it was a failure even though he was able to manufacture life from nothing.

Victor eventually curses the monster and wishes him dead. He does this several times,
hating the murderous creature he designed. His monster believes him to be a hypocrite since he
created this beast. In the end, Victor demands the monster to leave him, but he ends up
listening to the tale his creation begs him to hear.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a free market economy? And what are the roles and needs in the business cycle?

A free market
economy has two key advantages. First, it allows for individuals to innovate. Individuals have
the freedom to create new ideas, new products, and new services to sell for profit. They are not
required to only produce what the government tells them to produce. Due to this freedom,
competition is created, forcing companies to create new products and features. A clear example
of this is the cell phone market. New phones come out each year, as individuals create new ideas
and new features for their consumers.

The second major advantage is that
customers drive decisions. If a customers wants a certain product or feature, the producer must
meet their needs in order to survive. This ultimately drives the price, as customers determine
the price of products.

However, disadvantages are created from some of the
advantages. Profit motive drives businesses, but can create dangers. Poor working conditions and
unethical decisions can be made as entrepreneurs seek higher profits. Secondly, free markets can
lead to market crashes as we saw in the great depression and the economic downturn in the early
2000's. Unemployment can lead to devastation of families.

These advantages
lead to economic growth and expansion during the business cycle. However, during times of
crashes and downturns, government regulation usually occurs to spur expansion
again.

Consider the following quote from Walden: "Wealth is the ability to fully live life." Please write one short paragraph that describes the extent to...

The
assignment is based on a quotation from 's , an autobiographical work
concerning two years (1845€“1847) Thoreau (July 12, 1817, to May 6, 1862) spent living in a
cabin by Walden Pond. The quotation expresses a sentiment that one does not need material goods
in order to be happy but that happiness is found in one's experiences, independent of material
circumstances.

This represents part of a longstanding philosophical debate.
In antiquity, the Cynic school of philosophy argued that people would be happier living in
accordance with nature and ridding themselves of human conventions and possessions. Diogenes
famously owned only a cloak and a bowl. Other philosophers such as Aristotle argued that a
moderate amount of material prosperity was important to happiness, as it was necessary for
physical comfort and security. For example, Aristotle would claim that someone living in Canada
might be happier having access to a home with adequate heating than living outdoors in the
woods.

As a student writing on this topic, one should be aware that there is
no one right answer. Philosophers over the centuries have disagreed about the nature of
happiness. Some consider it entirely an internal matter, having nothing to do with experience at
all, while others argue that happiness is a product of how we live lives in relation to others.
Theologians would say that happiness is found in a relationship with the divine.

As a student writing about the topic, you should simply state what you consider the
nature of happiness and whether you feel that it requires some degree of material wealth or
whether one's greatest "wealth" is a storehouse one builds up of memory or experience,
as, for example, Boethius argued in his Consolation of
Philosophy.

According to Shaw, Professor Higgins has "touches of sweet". Bring out the pathos in Higgins' character in light of Shaw's observation.

This
question misunderstands Shaw's quote in the preface to . When Shaw mentions
"touches" of Sweet in the play, he means Henry Sweet, a renowned phonetician and
grammarian who studied accents and pronunciation, just as Higgins does. What Shaw writes is the
following:

With Higgins's physique and temperament Sweet
might have set the Thames on fire.

When Shaw adds that
there are "touches of Sweet " in the play, he is not referring to "sweet"
aspects in Henry Higgins' personality. According to Shaw's preface, Henry Sweet was anything but
"sweet," having a "Satanic contempt" for people who disagreed with his
views.

Nevertheless, the question asks us to explore whether Higgins has a
"sweet" side or "pathos" to his character. Higgins is rude from beginning to
end, but his pathos is that he is rude without any intention of being spiteful or malicious. He
is rude simply because he speaks his mind bluntly. There is a pathos in his blindness to how
much he bullies Eliza and the extent to which he treats people as objects to be used rather than
as human beings. His pathos may lie in how often he lacks self-awareness of the ways in which he
offends people. 

For despite all his rudeness and bullying, Higgins also has
moments of insight that add pathos to his character. When he and Eliza are quarreling and she
says she wants to be independent, he says:

"We are all dependent on one
another, every soul of us on earth."

A few moments later, he
acknowledges his appreciation of her, revealing that he can have some awareness of
others:

"Five minutes ago you
were like a millstone round my
neck. Now you're a tower of strength: a consort battleship. You and I and Pickering will be
three old bachelors together instead of only two men and a silly
girl."

We feel sympathy for Higgins because he is trying to be kind but
doesn't understand that Eliza has no desire to be an "old bachelor" like
him.

 

 

 

Does A Raisin in the Sun ultimately answer Langston Hughes's question, "What happens to a dream deferred?" Does A Raisin in the Sunultimately answer...

It seems to me that
reading the play as an extension of the poem and an exploration of the questions posed therein
might be a bit more helpful than reading the play as an answer to the questions of Hughes'
poem.

The poem presents us with the notion that a dream can be a challenge, a
burden, a weight when it is not fulfilled. The Youngers have a dream of moving out of poverty in
a very literal way. This dream presents a very real challenge to the family as many road-blocks
emerge as they move toward achieving this dream.

cannot see past his own
limitations.cannot find any redemption within the confines of the family. The neighborhood where
the Youngers plan to move is resistant to that prospect. The dream of moving out of poverty is
certainly deferred.

Theare embittered by this deferment. They are beaten.
They are hopelss, at points. But they don't give up...

Explain the relationship between Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies." Why does Mrs. Das feel comfortable with Mr....

 s
presents three adults who suffer from their own maladies.  The story takes place in India in
modern times. The Das family, who are Indian, has come to holiday in India although they are
Americans.  The other character in the story is Mr. Kapasi, the tour guide and driver, who is
also the interpreter of maladies.

 Mr. and Mrs. Das are not a happy
couple.  Mr. Kapasi describes them as acting like brother and sister.  The husband sticks his
nose in a travel guide and ignores the family as much as he can.  Mrs. Das seems to be the
ultimate self-centered woman who wishes that she were someone else and someplace else.  She does
not share her snacks, tries to avoid doing anything with her children, and subtlety fusses with
her husband.

Mr. Kapasi is not only a travel guide but an interpreter of
maladies.  He works for a doctor that does not understand the language and interprets for the
patient what he is suffering from.   His...

I am having trouble finding direct characterization examples and indirect characterization examples for Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter.

The
introduction of Reverendinto the story of comes through an
indirect as well as a .
Characterization reveals the traits, values, beliefs, appearance,
etc. of a character. reveals these things through
dialogue or actions or reactions to events or other . Direct
characterization reveals these things through a narrator who
states directly that a character has specific traits, beliefs, etc.

When
Reverend Wilson--the "eldest clergyman of Boston," is
speaking toin --makes references to Dimmesdale, these references
tell readers that Dimmesdale had been Hester's clergyman,...

In "Eveline," what is the pattern or structure of the development of the plot?

Michael Del Muro

"" is broken up into two parts: the first part consists of Eveline sitting at
her window, reminiscing on her childhood and on her family, and the second part consists of her
attempted escape with Frank. The first part of the story explains why her attempt to flee
Ireland fails and highlights one the main themes of Joyce's :
duty.

In the first part of the story, the third-person narrator describes
Eveline as she "leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of
dusty cretonne. She was tired." Then the narrator goes on to describe the changes to
the...

Please discuss the contributions of Chaucer as the architect of Modern English.

After the
Norman Conquest of 1066 in which William the Conqueror of Normandy (part of France) and his
Norman noblemen eradicated Harold of Hastings and the Saxon nobles, French became the official
language in England.  All written works were put in French including literature.  (For instance,
the Arthurian Legends are in French). 

Then, , whose last name is the French
form of the word shoemaker , came along in the second half of the
thirteenth century (1343-1400).  Chaucer, who was bilingual, as were many in his time, was
greatly influenced with the matter and style of French poetry.  However, when he realized how
people of his time delighted in stories, he gave these to them.  Thus, the Canterbury Tales
began.  Perhaps because this work is about the...

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How and where do Taoists worship?

Taoism or
Daoism is a religion that originated in China in approximately the fourth century BC. It is
polytheistic with many deities and ritual practices. There are several different forms of ritual
and worship in China, and many western offshoots of Taoism have created innovative synergies
with local religions.

In China, the two main centers of worship for followers
of Taoism are monasteries, which are inhabited by people who have devoted their lives to a
strict schedule of worship and ritual observance, and temples, which are the center of rituals
open to the laity.

There are also many practices which might be characterized
as "folk religion." These may include festivals and parades held outside the temples
and other community events, meditation, divination, and personal prayers. 

Many followers of Taoism have shrines to their ancestors in their homes and make
offerings of incense and food to the spirits of their ancestors. Divination may also be
practiced in the home.

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Describe the feelings of young Robinson Crusoe during his first voyage.

begins his
first voyage upon the invitation of a friend and his friends father, beginning his career as a
sailor. On his first night aboard the vessel, he experiences the turbulence of the ship as it
enters the sea and feels stark terror, in addition to seasickness, believing this turbulence to
be a result of a terrible storm in which he will soon die. In his fear, Crusoe prays to God and
swears that if God will save him from the terrible storm, he will return home and beg his
fathers forgiveness, just as the prodigal son did in the Biblical. He feels
especially...

What action has Oedipus taken to find an answer to the city's problems?

, as a
good Greek, knows that things like
pestilence are a sign that not all is well with the gods. The
priest comes to
Oedipus and confirms this point. Oedipus knows that he must seek counsel. The

place to go is clear - the Oracle of Delphi. So, he sends his brother-in-law,
.

When Creon returns, Creon asks if Oedipus wants to hear
the counsel of Apollo in
private. Oedipus wants him just to speak. Creon
does. Crean reveals that Laius, the former ruler
of Thebes was murdered. The
oracle also gives a directive. The murder, who still dwells in
Thebes, must
be driven out. Oedipus is shocked by this revelation. 

Oedipus,
therefore, knows what he needs to do: find the murderer and
drive him out. Therefore, he is
passionate about finding the murderer to save
Thebes. 

When the problem
proves to be intractable,
Oedipus sends for the blind prophet, .  Tiresias is cryptic in his
speech, as
he knows the truth. When Oedipus persists in pressing the prophet, Tiresias
finally
divulges the truth. In the end, Oedipus assumes responsibility and
the play ends. Oedipus is
truly a tragic hero. 

In "Everyday Use," what is the significance to the family members of Dee's having changed her name to Wangero?

Dee's having
changed her name is symbolic of the conflict between two definitions of the family's heritage in
's story. For, as part of the new movement of Black Nationalism, Dee has rejected what Malcolm X
called "slave names," names. Her hair now is in an Afro hairdo.When she alights from
the car, Wangero greets her family in African, "Asalamalakim, my mother and
sister!" 

Clearly, Dee/Wangero has adopted a new identity. As a Black
Muslim, she will not eat pork, a meat she ate regularly as a child. Her perspective of the old
butter dish of Grandma Dee now intrigues her as well as the butter churn; however, she does not
wish to use them. Instead, she desires them as museum pieces since she is now part of a new
culture.

When she asks for the quilts which represent for the mother the
connection of the family's past and their roots--their real heritage-- the mother refuses,
snatching them from Dee's hands and giving them to Maggie, who appreciates the history of those
who have toiled on these quilts. For, Maggie will use these quilts and not put them on
display.

"You just don't understand," she [Dee]
said, as Maggie and I came out to the car.

"What don't I
understand?" I wanted to know.
"Your heritage," she said..then she
turned to Maggie....It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd
never know it.

After Dee departs, Maggie smiles "a
real smile, not scared." She is now a person of her own, no longer in the shadow of her
sister who has forfeited her family history for an identity that has become merely
fashionable.