I need three character traits for madame Loisel from "The Necklace"? Thank You.

Three
character traits that Madame Loisel possesses that are easily apparent when reading the short
story "" is she is ungrateful, selfish, and greedy. No matter what her poor, loving
husband does for her to satisfy her and make her happy, it just is never enough and she always
wants more. He sees that she is dissatisfied with lot in life. Although, it should be noted that
the Loisels are not poor. It's true they are not rich, but they are by no means living in
poverty. They are middle-class. She has servants. However, this is not enough for her. To cheer
her up, her husband brings home for her an invitation to an opulent party. This doesn't satisfy
her because she has no fancy dress to wear to the party. Her husband, who was saving money to
buy himself a gun, gives Mathilde the money instead so she can buy a dress for the party. This
is still not enough. She has no fancy jewelry to match the fancy dress. Therefore, she borrows a
necklace from her wealthy friend Madame Forestier. She's never grateful for what she has. She's
always thinking about what she doesn't have.

What is the setting of The View From Saturday?

The
academic bowl which serves as the heart of the plot of this story takes place at Epiphany Middle
School in Epiphany, NY, where paraplegic teacher Mrs. Olinski chooses four students...

What is The Brotherhood in 1984?

In , the Brotherhood is

first mentioned in Part One, Chapter One, and is described as a secret organization
which rebels
against the Party. Its head is Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy of
the state of Oceania:

He was the
commander of a vast, shadowy army, an underground network
of conspirators
dedicated to the overthrow of the state.

Because of their secretive nature, the very existence of the Brotherhood is
questioned
by . In Part One, Chapter Seven, for instance, he refers to it as
"the legendary
Brotherhood" because he does not understand how its members
can assemble when the watchful
eye of Big Brother seems ever present. In
fact, it is only when Winston goes to 's apartment in
Part Two, Chapter
Eight, that he changes his mind. This is because O'Brien tells him that the

Brotherhood is real and that their activities, like sabotage and blackmail, are designed
to
"cause demoralization" and to "weaken the power of the
Party."

In addition, O'Brien informs Winston that once he
has read 'the book,' he will be a
full member of the Brotherhood. This book,
penned by Emmanuel Goldstein, outlines the corrupt
nature of the Party and
provides the ideological justification for rebellion. O'Brien gives a
copy of
the book to Winston in the next chapter.  

Unfortunately for
Winston,
he has been the victim of a terrible ruse: Emmanuel Goldstein and
the Brotherhood are the false
creations of the Party and the book is, in
fact, written by O'Brien and other Party members. For
his rebellion, Winston
faces imprisonment and torture in the Ministry of Truth, with no hope of
The
Brotherhood, or any fellow rebels, coming to save him. 

Please paraphrase stanza 12 of "The Raven" and list its literary elements.

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But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned
seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to
linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- What this grim, ungainly,
ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore."

This stanza is basically the narrator describing how he was
intrigued by the raven and decided to sit in front of it in order to puzzle what the bird might
have meant by saying "nevermore." The stanza has a loose rhyme scheme; lines 1 and 3
possibly meant to have a soft rhyme as technically the "ing" at the end of each word
does rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 also have internal rhymes"beguiling" and
"smiling," "sinking" and "linking." There doesn't seem to be a
strict meter, so this is more of a . Poe usesin line 5 with "grim, ungainly, ghastly,
gaunt" that ties into the theme of repetition that is heavily present. He repeats phrases
and words "ominous bird of yore" is used twice in a row, and the word
"fancy" is used three times. This repetition can be read as a representation of the
mental circles the narrator turns in his head as he ponders the bird, which he describes as
"linking fancy unto fancy." It's a very surreal experience, and Poe uses these
literary devices to create anof a room outside of normal time and space.

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"""Romance at a short notice was her speciality." What does this statement mean and tell about Vera in the story "The Open Window?"""

Vera can be
described as a fun-loving and adventurous girl who is very inventive and shrewd. She uses her
ability to think on her feet to be a ruthless prankster. Shes not just a terrific story-teller
but is also a great actress. She will concoct stories according to the available situations, and
then she will narrate them with such believable earnestness that nobody can doubt what she
says.

The word romance used in the quote is meant to describe Veras ability
to come up with fictitious stories and narrate them in an interesting and convincing
manner.

Framton Nuttel is a nerve patient and has been in the countryside on
his doctors advice. He is on a formal visit to Mrs. Sappletons house. His sister had advised him
to interact with neighbors instead of locking himself up in his room. His sister used to be Mrs.
Sappletons neighbor before she had moved to some other place some four years ago. Nuttel knows
nothing about Vera's aunt.

These are few of the facts Vera learns during her
brief interaction with Nuttel. She must have found him to be a gullible person, because when she
spots the open window facing the lawn, immediately she is ready with a story to amuse herself at
the cost of Nuttels gullibility.

Using all her skills of an adept actress and
a convincing story-teller, Vera begins narrating her invented story about her aunt, Mrs.
Sappleton:

Her greathappened just three years ago€¦that would be since your
sister's time."

Nuttel is convinced that Mrs. Sappletons husband and her
two brothers had died tragically by drowning in a treacherous piece of bog. Since then, she
has been out of her senses. She keeps the widow open, believing they will be back home any
time.

Things turn out as Vera had wished. When three men and the dog are seen
through the open window walking towards the house, Nuttel is shocked and scared. Believing that
hes watching real ghosts walking towards him, he bolts out of the
house.

Vera must have been celebrating the success of her prank. But then
again, she does so in her unique style. Neither does she burst into laughter nor does she reveal
to others what has actually happened. Instead, she wears an expression of pity and seriousness
in her face.

When her aunt expresses disappointment over the way Nuttel had
left without a word of goodby or apology, Vera comes up with another story. She
says:

"I expect it was the spaniel€¦he told me he had a horror of dogs.
He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah
dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning
and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their
nerve."

Quite convincingly, she says this in her uniquely calm,
consistent and credible tone.

Thus, we see that the final statement of the
story aptly describes Vera:

Romance at short notice was her
speciality.

In the story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson, what are some similarities between Laurie and Charles?

Stephen Holliday

"," like 's most well-known short story, "," has a few surprises
and, certainly, a surprising ending. Within the story, however, Jackson has left a fair number
of clues that she has created a kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde story or, more precisely, a
Jekyll-and-Jekyll story. Laurie and Charles, who appear as distinct characters throughout the
story, seem to mirror each other so precisely that we begin to suspect, as Laurie's parents do
not, that Charles is Laurie's alter ego.

Our first encounter with Laurie is,
by itself, no clue to the story's ending, but it does foreshadow the behavior later attributed
to Charles. After announcing his arrival from school with a "raucous shout,"
Laurie

spoke insolently to his father, spilled his baby
sister's milk, and remarked that his teacher said that we were not to take the name of the Lord
in vain.

Implicit in this description is that Laurie has
taken the Lord's name in vain, but Laurie's parents assume, as they do with all...

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What does Emma have to offer to a modern audience?

Look at
the huge appeal of Clueless, a modern retelling offeaturing spoiled
teenagers in high school.  The match-making story line and humor of the original Emma has
tremendous appeal.  Emma has all of the most important things to offer the modern
audience--humorous and well-drawn characters, witty dialogue, and a great love
story.

Why was the Declaration of Independence in the Appendix of the novel? What purpose did it have?

The Declaration of
Independence was in the Appendix of the novel because it was used as an example of how obsolete
these foundational documents would be in the face of the Party and Newspeak. One of the purposes
of the Party was to rewrite history and  make it a fluid idea, not something concrete. The Party
changed history on a daily basis to fit its purposes. The point of Newspeak was to limit the
range of thought of the society members so that they would be easy to control. In fact, Newspeak
limits thought so much that the society would not have to rely on the Thought Police when it was
fully in place and no one remembered Oldspeak because there would hardly be any way to express
dissension. The Appendix explains the principals of Newspeak and it's basically saying that all
things written prior to 1960 would not even be able to be translated into Newspeak so there
would be no fear of someone coming across a document that supported freedom and equality so
boldly to translate it and try and follow those principles. Any person reading the declaration
would translate the entire section printed in the appendix into one word,
"crimethink" because all one would be able to gather is that it
promotes ideas that are related to thought crime. 

Explain the significance of Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Marc Antony
has ulterior motives when he speaks to the crowd after Caesars death.  Brutus has already given
the explanation for the death of Caesar.  Now, it is Antonys turn to convince the audience that
this is was a terrible wrong.  

In Act III, Scene ii,
by , Marc Antony turns the audience against the conspirators.  Antony begins:

€˜Friends, Roman, Countrymen, I come to bury Caesar not to praise him.

Even the first words of his speech serve a purpose.  Antony is placing himself on the
same level as the commoners.  As he promised Brutus, he tells...

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What is difference in the manners in which Ulysses descibes his people and his kingship when he hands over his kingdom to his son?

Your
question concerning Tennyson's " " is jumbled, filled with errors, and hard to
interpret, so I couldn't edit it and am not sure what you mean.  I'll assume you mean what is
the difference between how Ulysses describes his people and his kingdom in the stanza in which
he mentions that he is going to leave the...

In the short story "The Necklace", what is the most likely reason Madame Forestier gets annoyed when Madame Loisel returns the necklace late, knowing...

Madame
Forestier is depicted as an affluent friend of Mathilde Loisel, who seems relatively generous by
allowing her friend to borrow her imitation diamond necklace for an evening.

When Mathilde Loisel initially visits Madame Forestier's home, she looks through her
extensive jewelry collection and is not quite pleased until she spots the imitation diamond
necklace. Judging by Madame Forestier's extensive jewelry collection, one could surmise that she
is a relatively materialistic woman. The fact that she does not initially show Mathilde the
necklace suggests that she values it more than her other pieces of jewelry and is less willing
to let her borrow it.

Unfortunately, Mathilde loses the necklace, purchases
an authentic look-alike, and returns it to Madame Forestier three days later. When she returns
the necklace, Madame Forestier is annoyed and says,

You
should have returned it sooner, I might have needed it. (Maupassant, 11)

One could surmise that Madame Forestier is annoyed that Mathilde
did not return her necklace sooner because it is one of her favorite pieces of jewelry and she
may have planned on wearing it. Although the necklace is an imitation, Madame Forestier is
apparently a woman who values material objects and cannot stand to have one of her possessions
missing. She may have also thought Mathilde stole the necklace and is upset at the thought of
her friend betraying her.

The most likely reason Madame Forestier is annoyed
at Mathilde concerns the fact that she probably values the necklace more than her other pieces
of jewelry.

What does Atticus emphasize when questioning Heck Tate?

Heck Tate is the sherrif who answered the
call from Bob Ewell the night Mayella was "attacked." Whenquestions Mr. Tate, he
focuses on information surrounding Mayella's injuries. He wants to drive home the points that no
one called a doctor and that Mayella's injuries occurred on the right side of her
face.

First, Atticus makes the point that if someone is attacked and harmed,
their first instinct would be to call a doctor to assess the damage. Tate says it was clear
Mayella was roughed up, and he didn't need a doctor to reinforce that observation. He could see
exactly where Mayella was injured.

Next, Atticus focuses on the injuries. He
wants to ensure that everyone in the courtroom understands where her injuries were and which
side of the face was injured. Atticus does this because he knows that if the injuries sustained
were on the right side of her face, that means the person who hit her was left-handed. This
evidence would exonerate Tom Robinson, because he has a deformed left arm. It would be
impossible for him to cause damage to the right side of anyone's face.

Lastly, Atticus asks about the injuries on Mayella's neck. Tate agrees that he saw
finger marks, as if someone were strangling her. This also reinforces the fact that Tom couldn't
possibly be the culprit. One of his arms is disabled and a foot shorter than the other. He
physically couldn't hold Mayella down and hit her.

Atticus reinforces these
points because he wants to make it clear to the jury that Tom Robinson could not physically
carry out this attack.

Why is the Magna Carta important?

Although it
was written just over 800 years ago, Magna Carta remains important today largely because it was
the first statement of the idea of limited government in the modern world. 

Before Magna Carta (and, in many places, for a long time afterwards) governments were
above the law.  Governments were controlled by monarchs who had absolute power.  There were no
laws that monarchs had to obey.  A monarch and his or her government had no limits.  They could
do anything that they wanted to do and there was nothing that could stop them. 

Magna Carta was, in a sense, the beginning of the end of this idea.  Among other
things, Magna Carta set out a number of rules that the king of England agreed to obey.  Most
famously, it established that no free man (though this was a small group at the time) could be
punished for any crime unless they had been tried and convicted by a jury of their
peers. 

Even after Magna Carta, monarchs had much more power than we would
let our governments have today.  However, Magna Carta started the trend toward limited
government.  It set out the idea that even the government has to obey laws.  This is a very
powerful idea, one that has shaped the world in which we live today.

 

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Is the learner himself/herself a factor to be considered? And why?

I am not
sure whether you mean this question from a teachers perspective or a students perspective.  I
think that either way, a learner needs to be an active participant in the learning process. 
Learning is not a passive affair.  Sometimes students think that all they have to do is sit back
and listen to the teacher.  That is not the way at all.  Learning is about interacting with the
material, and that is something that the student has to play an active role in. 

The first thing a student has to do is listen. It may seem silly, but if you arent
paying attention in class, you are doomed.  If you are reading, you have to listen in your head,
I suppose.  Basically, you have to process the information.  An active learner will take notes,
and then ask questions.  You can ask questions in a notebook or out loud.  If you write your
question down, you can ask it later. 

If you are talking about teachers
designing lessons, learners are definitely a factor to be considered.  Obviously, a teacher
cannot design a lesson for each learner.  What a teacher can do is design lessons with groups in
mind and with the audience in mind.  Teachers can include pop culture references in the lesson,
for example.  Teachers can also use local locations and history, people, or trends in their
lessons.  This connects the classroom to the words students know, and makes things more
interesting.

Differentiating lessons is also a useful tool for teachers.
 That means that teachers can vary lessons based on students in the classroom by grouping
students.  Some students learn faster than others, and they get a different lesson with
enrichment, for example.  Other students who need more help might get review.  Differentiation
allows teachers to reach everyone's needs more easily.

In Act IV of Pygmalion, Higgins calls the whole show at the garden party as "what a tomfoolery." Discuss to prove Higgins' point.

Isn't
it ironic that Henry calls the very
social graces he is trying to teach his pupil
"tomfoolery."  I suppose he
means all the things he finds ridiculous.  Let's see,
 that means being
polite, speaking about things everyone can relate to, using good
manners...all
the things...

Explain how the main characters' views of each other change. Does this alter the story "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri?

 

bybrings to the surface unhappy marriages. Told from a third-person limited point of
view, the objective narrator reveals the perceptions of Mr. Kapasi, the main character. Kapasi,
a well-educated man, drives a taxi as a tour guide to supplement his finances that have been in
crisis since the death of his seven year old son.

The Das family is visiting
India from the United States.  They are of Indian heritage, but the entire family was born in
the US.   Kapasi views the Das family as disconnected from each other.  Mrs. Das hides behind
her glasses and wants to be left alone.  Mr. Das limits his involvement with the family by
reading a tour guide book.

Kapasi is taking the family to see a sun temple. 
On the way, he reveals to the Das adults that he is an interpreter for a doctor who does not
speak the ancient language of some of his patients. Mrs. Das becomes interested in Kapasi after
this and labels him an interpreter of maladies. 

Mrs.
Das includes Kapasi in a family picture and takes his name and address to send him a copy.
Kapasi begins to feel a connection with Mrs. Das. His perception of Mrs. Das begins to change.
He foresees them having a long distance correspondence. 

Both marriages lack
intimacy. Unfortunately for Kapasi, he has no one to talk to about his unhappiness.  His
marriage has become unsatisfactory because his wife has turned away from him since the death of
their son.  His wife does not want to listen to the events of his workday, because the doctors
office reminds her of her sons death.  Rather than talk about her problem with her husband, she
belittles his work.  Resentment has built in Kapasi, and he has become starved for
affection. 

When Mrs. Das says that she finds his job romantic, Kapasi
develops an infatuation for her. When she asks for his address, he dreams about them having a
long distance correspondence.  

On the other hand, the reader learns that
Mrs. Das actually sees Kapasi as a father figure, who because of his translator job for the
doctor, can help her with her problems. It is obvious that she wants to talk to Kapasi by
herself. 

Mrs. Das confides in Kapasi that she has had an extramarital
affair.  She feels guilty over her affair with her husbands friend and the subsequent birth of
her son Bobby. She wants advice from Kapasi.   He suggest that her terrible feelings arise
from guilt.  The diagnosis shocks and troubles her. A change in her seems to take effect
immediately. 

She turned to him and glared at him.  She
opened her mouth to say something, but as she glared at Kapasi a certain knowledge seemed to
pass before her eyes, and she stopped.  It crushed him€¦

Kapasi now dislikes Mrs. Das because of her trivial little secret. It is nothing like
the anguish he and his wife suffer with the death of her son and nothing like the silence he
must endure at home.

Both of the characters failed in their perception of the
other.  Through guilt and anguish, people look for something in the other person that may not be
there.

The problems for all the characters in the story come from lack of
communication.  No one has honestly confronted any situation and been honest with his mate. The
signs of an unhappy marriage Kapasi recognizes in the Das marriage because these are in his
marriage as well: long silences, lack of intimacy, and constant fussing over insignificant
things.

Describe the four steps in the control process.

The four
steps in the control process are: Establishing Standards and Methods for Measuring Performance;
Measuring the Performance; Determination of Whether the Performance Matches the Standard, and
Taking Corrective Action.

Concerning the Establishment of Standards
and Methods for Measuring Performance, a company must develop, document and explain
clear standards and methods for measuring particular performances. These must be specific and
understood so effective measuring of tasks and responsibilities can take place. In this way, an
enterprise can gain a good understanding of who is performing according to company objectives.
Proper standards and methods for measuring performance helps a company tweak their processes as
required for better results. Performance measurement helps them see where their processes and
procedures need improvement.

Concerning Measuring the
Performance, this must be done in a consistent, regular manner to facilitate proper
data acquisition to make informed decisions concerning performance. This regular measuring gives
management substantial information so they can again make adjustments as necessary to their
protocols.

Pertaining to Determining Whether the Performance
Matches the Standard, company management compares measured results with the standards
they previously established. Therefore, they can determine if performance is up to their
expectations - or not. With this comparing, they can decide to abandon certain policies,
procedures or tasks, modify them, or leave them in place.

As concerns
Taking Corrective Action, a company must use the information gathered from
the control process. Not taking action based on revealed information (which shows inefficiencies
and/or poor employee performance) means they wasted their time and resources instituting the
control process. They must take action that gives solutions to problems. They must then measure
these corrective actions some time down the road to see if they are performing up to corporate
expectations. Consequently, the control process is something that is ongoing in organizations to
make sure that the business is performing optimally.

 

In "The Bet," was the bet worth the results?

This
is a difficult question with a complicated answer. On the surface, the bet was not worth the
results for the banker because over the fifteen years his foolish choices had dwindled his
massive fortune down to just about two million exactly so that if the young man claimed his
winnings, the banker would be bankrupt and, worse yet, humiliated.

On the
surface, the bet was not worth the result for the young man either because he is described in
the most cadavarish terms when the banker approaches him to take his life. He is ill, weak,
broken, and barely a man any more. Yet, when his letter is read, it seems that the young man
gained more from his imprisonment than he could ever have to gained from a free and carefree
life of happiness.

Unless the thoughts in his letter are the Freudian
rationalizations of a distracted and fremzied mind, the young man may say that, in deed, the
fifteen years of imprisoned seclusion have given him gifts more rare than all life, love and
freedom could have ever done. As a corollary, the banker seems to have had an epiphany of sorts
about his pampered extravagance and vain selfishness because of what the young man wrote of
himself and his determination to break the bet so as to renounce the two million.

If the banker's epiphany is genuine and he will have an Ebenzer Scrooge type
transformation, then the banker may say his side of the bet--which was relatively effortless,
except for the heavy weight of immorality on his conscience--was worth the results.

The fact that the banker's last act in the story is to safeguard the letter of
renunciation in a fireproof safe doesn't bode well for the banker's spiritual awakening going
any deeper than relief at not going bankrupt and at not committing murder. Chekhov leaves just
enough doubt for us to question the young man's sanity and the banker's sincerity, and therefore
doubt the happy outcome of fifteen years of voluntarily imposed imprisonment. Despite the letter
and the tears of cleansing, it still looks to the reader that the bet was not worth the
results.

Do you believe Lennie was sincere in his offer to George to leave?

At the
beginning of the story,andare on their way to a ranch in the Salinas Valley to find more work.
They have been chased out of the town where they were previously working because Lennie touched
a girl's dress too enthusiastically. At this moment, George is frustrated because his life is so
much more difficult than it would be if he didn't have to look after Lennie. When Lennie
complains that there is no ketchup, George's frustration spills over, and he says to Lennie,
"When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts." In response,
Lennie offers to "go away and leave (George) alone."

Lennie says he
"could go off in the hills" and "find a cave." When George asks him how he
would eat, Lennie says he would "find things" and that he "don't need no nice
food with ketchup." George realizes that he's "been mean" and tries to apologize
to Lennie, but Lennie, "sensing his advantage," persists with his offer or threat to
leave. He says to George, "If you don't want me, you only jus' got to say so, and I'll go
off in those hills right there."

The phrase, "sensing his
advantage," implies that Lennie is not entirely sincere when he offers, or threatens, to
leave George alone but is rather intent only on eliciting from George a more enthusiastic plea
for him, Lennie, to stay. That said, Lennie throughout the book is so unfailingly loyal to
George, that if George did insist that he leave, he most likely would. However, Lennie knows
that George will never ask him to leave, and indeed George reassures Lennie and says, "I
want you to stay with me, Lennie." This is the response Lennie hoped to elicit from George
when he offered to leave and go to the hills.

How would you grade Andrew Jackson? How would you grade Andrew Jackson according to the Indian Policy (this includes Indian Removal Act, Worcester v...

I am not sure it's
fair to judge Jackson by modern standards.Most of his own people probably would have given him
high marks for efficiency.He had a problem, and he found a quick and efficient way to solve
it.Today we'd say he was wrong, but who knows?]]>

How does the current system of mass incarceration in the United States mirror earlier systems of racialized social control?

Michelle
Alexander has recently written that the current system of mass incarceration "looks and
feels a lot like an era we supposedly left behind." What she means is that the current
criminal justice system, both in effect and, she argues, by design, sets African American men
and women aside as a class, discriminating against them on a vast scale. In effect, African
Americans are criminalized by a society.

The numbers support this contention.
According to data collected by the NAACP, African Americans are incarcerated at five times the
rate of white men, in numbers vastly disproportionate to the percentage of the population.
Despite the fact that African Americans represent 12% of the overall adult population of the
United States, they make up over one-third of the people incarcerated. This is largely due to
systemic poverty and laws that have had the effect of criminalizing certain drugs, for example,
but it is also due to overt discrimination against people of color in the criminal justice
system.

The effects are dramatica sizable percentage of the African American
male population is statistically likely to wind up in prison. For each person involved, this
takes away many of their most productive years and makes finding a job more difficult, if not
impossible. Because many states do not allow former felons to vote, it disfranchises huge swaths
of the black community. It also sets black men in particular apart as a criminal
class.

Each of these has the effect of perpetuating discrimination in ways as
powerful as the African American community faced amid the depths of Jim Crow
segregation.

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How does Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers illustrate the sociological perspective?How does Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliersillustrate the sociological...

Sociology
deals with how society and social groupsas opposed to individual variations, which are explored
by psychologyaffect people. In Outliers, Gladwell challenges the concept
many people hold that success is won by individual characteristics that one is born with, such
as being born a genius.

For example, Gladwell credits many successful
people's success to their fortunate circumstances in being able to practice or work for a much
longer time, earlier on, than most other people could. For instance, The Beatles had a lucky
break, being invited to play in Hamburg for eight hours a day,...

What are the Biblical allusions in "Marriage Is a Private Affair"?

There are
two Biblical allusions in 's short
story "." Anis a reference to a statement, person,
place or event that is
known from literature, history, religion, myth or politics. In this case
the
allusions are to verses in the New Testament. When Nnaemeka describes Nene to Okeke,
he
brags that she is a good Christian and a teacher at a girls' school in
Lagos. The father is
unimpressed, noting that in his letter to the
Corinthians, the apostle Paul said that women
should keep silent in the
church. The actual verse is Corinthians 14:34 and it indeed forbids
women
from speaking in the church:

Let your women
keep
silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but
they are commanded to
be under obedience as also saith the law. (King James
Version, Corinthians 14:34)

Whether it
denies women from teaching is unclear, but Okeke holds
this against Nene. Of
course, his real objection to Nnaemeka's marriage to Nene is because of

prejudice. Nene is not from the Ibo tribe of Nnaemeka and Okeke, and so is outside their
ethnic
group. That his son would marry outside the group is abhorrent to
Okeke. The episode also
reinforces Achebe's theme of new against old and
modern society's refusal to adhere to the old
traditions and ways of
thinking.

Another Biblical allusion in the story is a

reference to Mark 13:12 where it is said that children will rise against
their
parents:

Now the brother shall
betray the brother to
death, and the father the son; and children shall rise
up
against their parents, and shall cause them to be put
to death. (King James
Version, Mark 13:12)

In this case, one of the men from
Okeke's village says, "Sons shall
rise against their fathers; it is their in the Holy
Book." The man is
referring to Nnaemeka's disregard for his father's feelings about his

interethnic marriage. In fact, Nnaemeka's marriage is a hot topic in Okeke's village,
making the
word "Private" in the story's title quite
ironic. 

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, I need five character traits about Romeo, with quotes that support the traits. Can you provide Shakespearean...

In
Shakespeare's ,is first portrayed as a love-struck
adolescent. In a conversation with , Romeo complains that time is passing too
slowly.

Ay me, sad hours seem so long.

Benvolio asks why Romeo's day moves so slowly...is it sadness?
Romeo responds:

Not having that which, having, makes them
short.

Intuitively, Benvolio asks if it has something to
do with love; Romeo says:

Out of her favor where I am in
love... (paraphrase and quotes of lines 157-164)

This
conversation relates to his infatuation with Rosalind who does not return his love, wanting to
join a convent instead. All Romeo is capable of at this point in the story is to sigh over
Rosalind's rejection.

It would seem that by Act One, scene five, Romeo is
changeable. When first he sees , thoughts of Rosalind are gone:

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright...For I ne'er say true
beauty till this night. (lines 42 and 51)

Romeo can also
be said to fall in love quickly . When Romeo climbs the orchard
walls...

What sad events turned Hamlet into very unhappy young man?

Because
we do not meet before the plays action begins, we cannot be sure that he was not always the
melancholy Dane. By the time we meet him, he is certainly unhappy. Two events are mainly the
cause of his misery, but it is compounded by a third. First and foremost is the death of his
father, also named . Second, which followed shortly thereafter, is the marriage of his mother, ,
to his uncle and fathers brother, . Hamlet strongly suspects, and spends much of the play
getting the evidence to prove, that Claudius murdered Hamlet Senior. He is alerted to this idea
by the third event, the appearance of his fathers ghost to tell him what transpired. Also
related, but not an event, is Hamlets emotional state: he becomes overwhelmed by guilt as the
evidence eludes him and he is unable to take revenge on Claudius.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, what is the name of the solicitor or prosecuting attorney?

Horace
Gilmer is the name of the solicitor or prosecuting attorney during the Tom Robinson
trial.mentions that Mr. Gilmer hails from Abbotsville, and he is portrayed as a callous,
prejudiced man who is primarily concerned with getting a conviction and winning the case. Mr.
Gilmer struggles with his disgruntled, ignorant witnesses, who make his job difficult. Despite
the fact that the prejudiced jury is on his side, Mayella and Bob Ewell continually contradict
their testimonies, andproves that he is a significantly better lawyer than Mr. Gilmer.

During the trial, Mr. Gilmer asks his clients relatively easy questions that he
believes they can answer but is perplexed by Atticus's moving arguments. When Tom Robinson takes
the stand, Mr. Gilmer shows his true colors by referring to Tom as "boy" and
continually talking down to him. Mr. Gilmer also emphasizes Tom's sympathy for Mayella and
relies strictly on the jury's prejudice to win the case. He is a rather unsavory
character...

In The Bronze Bow, why does Thacia refuse to greet Daniel?

This episode occurs in
Chapter 6, and is when Daniel has to find sanctuary very quickly after he insults a Roman
soldier. He runs to the only place that he can go to in order to find sanctuary, which is Joel's
house. However, Joel is not there, and it is only Malthace who is present, and she makes it very
clear that Daniel is not welcome, as he will bring trouble into Joel's life. Note what Malthace
says to Daniel when he tells her he must speak to Joel:

Nothing is so important as Joel's studies... If you cared anything about Joel, you woul
dleave him alone. He can be a famous rabbi someday. He's not going to risk his whole future
for a band of outlaws.

Malthace therefore refuses to
greet Daniel hospitably because she fears her brother's attraction towards Daniel's
revolutionary cause and ideals, and doesn't want her brother to jeopardise his future and
potentially become involved in something that would place him in danger. It is only Daniel's
sickness that causes him to stay in Joel's house and allows him to develop his relationship with
Joel further.

Which characters are dynamic in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby"?

A dynamic character has
to undergo some kind of fundamental and permanent change throughout the course of the story.
Desiree may be quite saddened by Armand's behaviorobviously she feels that she cannot go on
livingbut an emotional response that is in keeping with who she was early in the story really
doesn't qualify as a change. Desiree is "beautiful and gentle, affectionate and
sincere" from beginning to end.

Armand, however, does undergo such a
change, making him the only dynamic character in the story. When he first sees Desiree, his
passion "swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that
drives headlong over all obstacles." It would seem that his feelings for Desiree cannot be
altered by anything. When reminded of her "obscure origin," Armand "looked into
her eyes and did not care." Marriage and, then, fatherhood "softened Armand Aubigny's
imperious and exacting nature greatly."

However, as his son's skin
begins to darken, he changes yet again. He...

What are some of important contributions of the Sumerians to later societies?

As the
first major civilization in the Fertile Crescent, many of the accomplishments of the Sumerians
set the stage for the civilizations that would follow. For one thing, their innovations in
irrigating the farmland around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers showed future peoples how to make
the land prosperous. By demonstrating how water could be transported and saved in order to make
otherwise barren land fertile, the Sumerians set the stage for the rapid growth of civilization
in the region.

They also left the legacy of the wheel. While the Sumerians
seemed to have mostly used wheeled technology in the manufacturing and crafting of ceramics,
later peoples would adapt it for use in transportation. The Assyrians would take the wheel to a
whole new level in adapting it for use in weaponized chariots.

It is thought
that the Sumerians developed the earliest organized military formations. They divided up their
fighting forces between infantry, archers, and calvary, which all had various
levels...

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Floyd Wells

You might
say that Floyd Wells planted the seed that grew into the plot to murder the Clutter family. He
was the prison cellmate who told Dick Hickock about his time working on the Clutter farm and how
Mr. Clutter kept thousands of dollars in his home safe. When he got out of prison, Hickock and
Perry Smith decided to steal that money and leave no witnesses. There didn't get the money, but
they did kill the family.

When he heard about the Clutter murders, Wells, who
was still in prison, felt guilty about talking to Hickock and informed the warden about what
happened. He cooperated with the FBI, who had no suspects. Wells collected a $1,000 reward and
early release from prison for his information.

Willy Jay was a fellow inmate
and assistant to the chaplain at Kansas State Penitentiary. Perry Smith looked up to him as a
mentor and greatly admired him; their relationship may have been more intimate. There is some
speculation that Capote, the author of "," invented this character. I have not been
able to find any other information about him.

Visit the links below for more
information.

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Describe the merry war of wits between Beatrice and Benedict in Act 1 of Much Ado about Nothing.

Leonardo
describes the relationship between
Benedict and Beatrice thusly,

There is
a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedict and her.  They never meet but

there's a skirmish of wit between them.  

In the
very
next few lines, we see this "merry war" Leonardo is referring to.  It is
a war of wits
as each insults the other through puns, jokes, sarcasm, and .
 What is obvious to all but the
two young people is that they are in love
with each other, and their outward shows of wit cover
up their true feelings.
 The scenes in which they engage in this competition of insults, of
sorts,
are some of the most entertaining in the play.  

So let's look
at
their first dialogue more closely.  Beatrice begins the attack by claiming
that Benedick has no
need to talk because no one is paying attention to him.
 He returns the insult by calling her
"Lady Disdain" and feigns surprise that
she is still living.  She answers with the
claim that Disdain cannot die when
it has such meat as Benedick to feed on.  And Benedick vows
that all women
except Beatrice love him, but he loves no one.  And on it goes until Benedick

ends with comparing the speed of his horse to the speed of Beatrice's tongue.  But
Beatrice gets
the last word by saying that he always ends with a "jade's
trick."  This is a
horseman's term for an abrupt stop.  

You get the idea.  What is important to
note, however, is that
intellectually the two are matched very well.  Both are proud, smart,

quick-witted, funny, and not unkind.  Unlike in , Shakespeare does
not let
Benedick get the upper hand in the relationship (as Petruchio did).
 We see this through their
dialogue in Act 1 and are anxious to see how this
relationship develops.  

What should be a good thesis for the following essay topic of A Streetcar Named Desire? (give me several examples or samples of it) Explain why the...

Blanche
proves that "it's not just a river in Egypt."  She does live in a state of denial
about many things.  The first and most pressing level of disconnect in her own consciousness is
that she is unable to fully grasp that the world in which she matured and understood as being
the bedrock of reality, the traditional South, has given way to a new and more cosmopolitan
notion of the good.  These values which were so embedded in this world are no longer present in
this new setting.  Blanche has a difficult time balancing this disconnect,...

`(x^2)y + (y^2)x = -2` Find `dy/dx` by implicit differentiation.

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`x^2y+y^2x=-2`

Differentiating both sides with respect to
x,

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What is it like for a teenager to live in a market economic system?

A market
economy is controlled by the forces of
demand and supply. Since there is minimal government
intervention, businesses
are free to set the price of the product. However, the prices have to
be
reasonable since consumers also have a say in what happens in the market. If the prices
are
too high, consumers will not buy the product.

A
teenager living in a market
economy can benefit from competitive prices and a
selection of products. If investors see the
potential for huge profits in a
certain area, they will invest in it. They do so because they
want to make
money. As more and more businesses infiltrate that area, consumers get a variety
of
products as firms compete for buyers.

In market
economies, businesses are in
control of what they do. Firms thrive in such
environments because they can adjust their costs
and prices to maximize
returns. Unfortunately, some of the actions taken by the firm may be at
the
expense of the consumer. A teenager living in such an economy may get products that
have
poor quality because firms get rid of certain inputs to minimize costs
and increase
revenues.

A teenager living in a market
economy may also find that life is
difficult because things are too
expensive. Businesses are only after their interests. If they
see the demand
for their products has increased, they will increase the prices because they
want
to make more money.

Who are the souls tortured in Canto III of Dante's Inferno?

In3
of Dante's Inferno, Dante encounters those people not fully dead, yet are
no longer alive, who wait in the antechamber between Heaven and Hell. Here they're subjected to
the meaningless punishment of being repeatedly stung by "gadflies and hornets," and
the blood and tears which flow from their bodies is sucked up by "disgusting worms" at
their feet. Their meaningless punishment reflects their meaningless lives.

These are the self-serving cowards who refused to use their God-given talents, either
for good or evil"those / Who lived without infamy or praise"and instead chose a safe
middle ground and did nothing. Their lives were wasted and made pointless through no one's fault
but their own, and here they simply exist, waiting forever.

These people are
"Hateful to God and to his enemies." Heaven rejects them, and Hell refuses to accept
them. Heaven exists only for those who consciously chose a good and righteous way of life, and
Hell is reserved for those who deliberately chose an evil way of life.

These
people, who chose neither good or evil, have no fate other than this, and they must wait forever
in the antechamber between eternal bliss and eternal punishment.

Their
existence is hellish, but they're not awarded the relief of eternal damnation, nor are they
provided any means by which they can rise to Heaven to enjoy eternal happiness.

In , Dante also sees the souls of the damned waiting for Charon, the ferryman of Hades,
to ferry them to the other side of the river Styx that divides the world of the living from the
underworld of the dead and damned.

Even though this is just the beginning of
his journey, Dante is overcome by terror at what he sees and falls unconscious to the
ground.

For what value of t does the line (3t^2 + 2t)x - y = 21 not intersect the line x + y = 1

If two
lines do not intersect each other, they have an equal slope. The slope of the line (3t^2 + 2t)x
- y = 21 is 3t^2 + 2t....

What are some common themes/topics in Lucky and The Lovely Bones?

In both
Lucky, 's memoir of her own experience with rape as a college student, and
, Sebold's novel about 14-year-old murder victim Susie Salmon, both young
women lose their innocence at the hands of a violent criminal. In Lucky,
Sebold explains that her rapist took her virginity from her, which means that her first
so-called "real" sexual experience took place during this assault; Susie's killer, Mr.
Harvey, steals Susie's youth and her future when he murders her, which may be symbolic of
Sebold's personal experience with the death of her own innocence as a result of the
rape.

As well, both books contain a thread of humor that seems inappropriate
for the subject matter, but actually, this juxtaposition actually enhances the gravity of the
subject matter, making the events described more poignant for the reader. In
Lucky, Sebold is unsentimental and straightforward about her experience,
and even the book title is weighted with; Sebold was told by a policeman...

In what ways are Winston and Julia alike? In what ways are they different?

Similarities

€¢ Bothandare rebellious towards the Party and go against the laws that govern thought
and action

€¢ They both desire each other and engage in a covert
affair

Differences

€¢ Unlike
Winston, who is fearful and cautious, Julia is more free spirited, adventurous and takes risks.
Winston lives his life constantly dreading the party, calculates his actions and constantly
worries about being caught by the thought police and being vaporized.

€¢
Whereas Winston is interested in the past and preoccupies himself with finding out what the
party has hidden from everyone, Julia is just interested in the future. This stems from the fact
that Winston is older than Julia and thus recalls what life was like before the party took
over.

€¢ Winstons reason for rebelling is concrete and substantial; he wants
to bring down the government. Contrarily, Julia has no particular reason for rebelling other
than the fact that she hates big brother. Besides that, she is unconcerned about what the
government does.

Did Charlie die at the end of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes?

It is suggested that
Charlie dies at the end of
the short story "" (as well as the novel of the same
novel), as he is
following the same process as Algernon, the mouse. Algernon dies after his

motor activity slows and he loses coordination. A dissection after death shows that the
mouse's
brain had lost weight. Charlie realizes at the time that Algernon and
he are both subject to the
Algernon-Gordon Effect, which is the idea that
intelligence that is increased artificially slows
down at a rate that is
proportional to the increase. That is, as Charlie's intelligence improved

rapidly, he will inevitably lose intelligence quickly.

At the end of
the
short story version of "Flowers for Algernon," Charlie is showing all the
signs of
decline that Algernon the mouse did. He loses coordination, and he
begins to slow down. He also
loses the intelligence that he had gained and
shows signs of decline, suggesting that he will
die. At the end of the novel,
Charlie returns to the Warren Home School, and, in his last
letter, he asks
someone to put flowers on Algernon's grave, also suggesting that he knows he
is
going to die soon. 

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of spending two solitary years in a natural setting, like Thoreau did in "Walden"?

Rudyard
Kipling's poem "If" reflects upon the need for a balance in one's life, attachment
with detachment, righteousness without self-righteousness, etc.  So, too, does Thoreau suggest a
balance in one's life when he writes in ","

I
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of
life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.... I left the woods for as good a
reason as I went there.  Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and
could not spare any more time for that one.  It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall
into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ouselves.

So, to spend two solitary years in a natural setting seems a bit beyond moderation. 
Yet, some time alone away from the "world [that] is too much with us" as Wordsworth
wrote, would probably be good for most people's souls.  Certainly, communicating with Nature and
with one's inner self is always healthy.  Retreats...

Why should a student's free speech be restricted? For what reason should a student's free speech be restricted? Where in the Constitution does it...

Students really
do have overwhelming free
speech rights, even in a school setting.  But free speech is not
always
responsible speech, or appropriate speech, and a school setting is different than
the
general public.

By law, students are
required to attend,
so the rights of the student body
not to be repeatedly exposed to that speech which they, the
school and the
general public find offensive outweigh the individual right of the student to

free speech.  Courts have been very consistent on this point.

Does Postcolonial literature involve only the lieterature of colonized countries or does it also includes the literature of colonial countries?

The literature of the
Post-colonialists encompasses any texts which focus upon races, cultures, and the idea of
identity after the gaining of independence. This literature is not, necessarily, limited to only
countries which have gained independence from other oppressive and controlling governments, but
the colonization of any area throughout time.

Postcolonial literature, most
famously, comes out of America, Africa, The Middle East, and Asia. In all of these areas, people
have banded together to fight against the oppression of a governing power to declare their
freedom. When successful, the "country" maintains colonization. Other times, the
people may not be successful at removing oppressive power, but that does not take away the fact
that the literature of the period can be (and is) considered Postcolonial.

Given that Postcolonial texts are derived from the fact that people are tired of
oppression, sometimes brutal oppression, any text which depicts a desire and movement against
the oppressive power is considered Postcolonial.

What is the moral of Animal Farm?

One
important moral of the "" of is the ease with which language can
be manipulated and twisted for evil purposes.was a journalist who understood the power of words
and the power of propaganda. Therefore, he wanted to tell a tale that would urge humans to be on
guard against powerful groups or individuals who might want to twist words to help themselves
and harm others.

The animals are gradually re-enslaved because the pigs
change the wordsand hence the rulesof the farm. Most famously, the Seven Commandments are
reduced to one, and that one makes no sense by stating that all animals are equal but some are
more equal than others.

Most of the animals are fairly helpless against the
manipulations of the pigs because they are not able to learn to read, but almost all humans have
a high level of cognitive ability. Orwell is, therefore, encouraging people to use their wits in
ways the animals cannot.

Orwell was concerned that the totalitarian
dictatorship imposed by Stalin was being presented in left wing circles as benign socialism, and
he wanted people to look past propagandistic language to see the horror of what was really going
on.

What is an example of foreshadowing, setting, and direct characterization in "Lamb to the Slaughter?"

In ","
we can find an example ofafter Mary has murdered Patrick and is sitting in front of the mirror,
trying to regain her composure:

"The smile was rather
peculiar. She tried again€¦That was better. Both the smile and the voice sounded better
now."

This line foreshadows the alibi which Mary
creates (by going to the grocer's) and the lies that she tells to the police detectives who
investigate Patrick's death. This is significant because it lets the reader know that Mary has
no intention of admitting to the murder; instead, she plans on getting away with it.

As for the setting, the story takes place in the marital home of Mary and Patrick
Maloney, a typical suburban, middle-class house in England. While the opening description of the
home suggests that the setting is peaceful and idyllic (as Mary waits patiently for Patrick's
return), the heinous murder which she commits turns this idea on its head. It becomes, instead,
a place of violence and deceit. 

Finally, here is an example of direct ,
employed by Dahl when describing Mary's physical appearance:

"Her
skin--for this was her sixth month with child--had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the
mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than
before."

Why is Elizabeth so pleased with herself in The Egypt Game?

The
children haven't been able to play the
Egypt Game for some time. When they finally start playing
it again, they
figure that the gods must be mad at them for being away so long. So the kids
come
up with the idea of performing a sacrifice to the gods. In Ancient
Egypt, it was common to make
such sacrifices as a way of appeasing the gods'
anger. Of course, the children aren't about to
do anything gruesome like
sacrificing animals or humans, but they do at least want to make their

sacrifice look realistic.

It's then that Elizabeth makes an
unusual
suggestion. She says that the kids should prick their fingers and
then write a letter to the
gods in their own blood. This will be a way of
apologizing to the gods for being away from the
Egypt Game for so long. As it
will involve the children's own blood, albeit in minute
quantities, there'll
be an element ofabout it, as the shedding of blood was an intrinsic part of

sacrifices in Ancient Egypt.

The other children think that
Elizabeth's idea
is really cool. Not surprisingly, Elizabeth is rather
pleased with herself for having come up
with such a popular
idea.

What should be the roles of citizens in creating public policy?

In democracies,
citizens are accorded an opportunity to influence public policy through active participation in
the public decision-making process. It is important to involve citizens in public decisions to
ensure consensus and successful implementation of the decisions. Citizen participation creates a
sense of ownership among the public with regard to the policy, translating to a unity of purpose
and action.

Since public policies have a direct impact on the citizens, it is
rational to facilitate their participation. Citizens can participate in developing and
influencing public policy by:

• Lobbying their representatives to
  support or reject policies that are deemed destructive or oppressive


• Polling or participating in elections/referendums aimed at instituting, changing, or
  withdrawing certain aspects of public policy
• Holding peaceful
  demonstrations, protest marches, or picketing to express their displeasure at proposals deemed
  detrimental to the public
• Participating in local public meetings with an
  aim of exchanging ideas to inform appropriate decision making

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How do religious traditions contribute to "social transformation" How do religious traditions contribute to "social transformation"

Social
and religious change operate on each other reciprocally, with religious beliefs changing in
response to social changes and vice versa. There have been several dramatic instances of this in
the past few centuries.

The Abolitionist movement started as a religious one,
informed especially by Evangelical Christians such as Wilberforce. The Evangelical movement was
associated with Protestant churches not affiliated with the Church of England with members who
tended to be lower- and middle- rather than upper-class, and concerned with political and
religious freedom and social inequality.

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has been
opposed some conservative churches, but other churches, such as the Episcopal Church, United
Church of Christ, and Presbyterian Church (USA) not only perform same-sex marriages but offer
strong support to their LGBTQ+ members.

As of 2018, churches have been at
the forefront of the protests against President Trump's immigration policies, especially those
which involve...

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Young Goodman Brown Allegory

Anis a work
ofin which the symbols, characters, and events come to represent some aspect of its culture. In
American literature, allegories have often been used for instructive purposes around Christian
themes.  The story has a figurative meaning beneath the literal one: a story with two meanings. 
In American literature, the best example of an allegory is by . Written in 1835, the story
centers on the loss of innocence.

The story takes place in Salem during the
witch crisis and religious disagreements.  The allegory includes Christianity, Satan, and the
devil. From the names of the characters to the pink ribbons in Faiths hair, this is a religious
allegory.  The story centers on the journey of Goodman Brown into the woods to meet Satan.  He
is an innocent, yet he has made this appointment with the devil for some reason.

The trip itself and the scenes that Goodman Brown encounter are vague and uncertain.
Brown leaves his...