What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau established by Congress in 1865?

At Abraham
Lincoln's instigation, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands, informally known as the Freedmen's Bureau, on March 3, 1865. This was just two months
before Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox in
Virginia, the event which effectively ended the Civil War. The bureau's purpose was to assist
millions of recently emancipated blacks and poor whites to recover from the war by providing
them with food, clothing, and housing, as well as seeing to their medical, educational, and
legal needs.

Although the bureau was hindered by a lack of funds and
personnel, it managed to feed millions of impoverished African Americans and whites, construct
hospitals, and provide medical care. It also helped blacks locate missing relatives, legalize
their marriages, learn to read and write, and negotiate labor contracts with plantation owners.
The Freedmen's bureau played an integral part in establishing many schools for African
Americans, including institutions of higher learning such as Howard University, Hampton
University, and Fisk University.

The bureau was originally meant to last for
only one year after the close of the war, but Congress renewed its tenure in 1866 despite
President Andrew Johnson's attempted veto. Due to ongoing controversies over the bureau's
effectiveness, expense, interference with states' rights, and other issues, the Freedmen's
Bureau was dismantled in 1872.

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I am doing an assignment on the effects of Hamlet's tragic flaw. One of the effects I have chosen is the downfall of Denmark/the kingdom. What are...

's
tragic flaw is widely regarded to be his reluctance to act upon his plan to kill . Instead, he
ponders and hesitates, eventually causing the downfall of his kingdom.

's
reluctance to kill Claudius is most clearly expressed in Act III, scene iii when he is
completely alone with Claudius. In this scene, Claudius has his back turned to Hamlet and is
praying for forgiveness for the murder of Hamlet's father. Seeing this, Hamlet decides not to
kill Claudius, claiming that if he killed the king during prayer, then his soul would go to
heaven.

While some critics take Hamlet at his word, most tend to agree that
Hamlet is simply continuing to delay taking his revenge. Although Hamlet outwardly professes his
hatred of Claudius, his actions in moments such as these suggest that he is not so sure of
himself. In fact, Hamlet often acts much more vicious to his mother than he does towards
Claudius.

Ultimately, Hamlet's repeated delays lead not only to his own
death, but to the deaths of , Claudius, , and . All of thesedie as a direct result of Hamlet's
actions (or inactions, as it were). Had Hamlet killed Claudius when he had the chance, Denmark
could still have a chance to be under Danish rule. Instead, it is seized bywho is able to easily
take over as everyone of stature is dead.

What happens in Chapter 4 of the book Lyddie?

Chapter 4 begins by telling the reader more
about how grueling a time thatis having while working in the tavern.  Mrs. Cutler is a cruel
task master and Lyddie is afraid of her and disappointing her as well.  

The first few nights Lyddie was fearful that she would not wake up
early enough in her windowless room and slept on the hearth all night, so as to be sure to be
the first up in the morning. 

That's rough.  Lyddie must
be the first up to light the fires, and I am sure that she is one of the last to go to bed.
 Then on top of that, she isn't even sleeping in a bed.  She's sleeping on a hearth.  

Lyddie's attention to detail and hard working ethic earn her the respect of Triphena.
 Soon into the chapter, Triphena tells Lyddie a story about two frogs that fell into a pail of
milk.  One of the frogs "drowned right off."  The other frog kept kicking and kicking
until the milk turned to butter, and the frog could easily float on it.  Triphena's story is
meant to point out that Lyddie is like that frog.  She'll keep kicking and working until
something good happens.  

Autumn eventually comes and with the darkening days
comes Lyddie's darkening mood.  She begins to really miss her family.  Charlie does come for a
brief visit, but it does little to lighten her overall mood.  In order to combat the depression,
Lyddie throws herself into her work.  

It's during this time that Lyddie
overhears conversations about runaway slaves and the reward money that is offered for turning
them in.  The money offered is significant and Lyddie daydreams a bit of what she would do with
it. 

Would they really give you a hundred dollars for
turning in a runaway slave? Surely, with that much money, she could pay off her father's debts
and go back home.  

How does Big Brother control every aspect of the Outer Party's lives?

The
previous post covered the most important facets of Big Brother's power over the people in 's
novel, . Additionally, the watchful eye of Big Brother created an aura of
fear in most of the party members. Even those members who were loyal to the party or completely
honest in the actions of their daily lives were affected by the knowledge that anything they
might say or do was being monitored. The people were forced to control...

How has Tennyson portrayed death and old age in the poem "Ulysses"?

To me, one
of the major themes of this poem is that the speaker () wants to keep experiencing and learning
new things.  He thinks that a life spent in one place, doing the same thing over and over again,
would be terrible.

This is,...

Why did the author use repetition at the end?

By using
repetition at the end of the story with George and Hazels meaningless conversation, it shows
that Harrisons attempts to rebel against the government failed horribly, and the way the
government controls its citizens will continue.  George and Hazel dont even remember seeing
Harrison killed, and they will not remember Harrisons valor because of the handicaps placed on
them.  At the end, Hazel reacts to what happened with Harrison on TV, but then she quickly
forgets when George asks her why shes crying.  George tells her to forget sad things and is
then blasted by a noise in his ear causing him to wince. His handicap has caused him to forget
theas well.  It is here that Vonnegut inserts the joke, You can say that again and Hazel says,
That must have been a doozy for the second time.

I think Vonnegut is
showing how difficult it will be for this society to change.  The society will just keep being
controlled by the government and remain ignorant of the rights the government is denying them. 
The repetition shows the mindless, oblivious state in which they will continue to exist.  Like
the repeating lines spoken by George and Hazel, society is also repeating its willingness to go
along with the government's attempt to make them equal and the same.

How does the "who controls the past" quote show people in Oceania struggling for control of the past?

The full
quote is as follows: "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past."

In your question you ask how the quote shows the
people of Oceania struggling to control the past. I actually don't think it does and I don't
think the pages around it do either.

The quote argues that the government's
control of what people believe about the present allows it to control both the past and the
future.  But no one other thanseems to be fighting back against the lies and even he is only
doing it in his own mind.

We know that Winston remembers facts that don't
match up with the official histories, but we don't see anyone else struggling like he
does.

What are Henry Evans's contributions to creating assistive devices like the laser-finger and the remote-controlled shaver, as mentioned in Brian...

In the first place, Henry Evans's
quadriplegia
gives him a practical insight into the problems disabled people face and what
might
be their highest priorities on a daily basis. He began his work with an
idea for a head-mounted
laser pointer which would be able to turn switches on
and off. Having made a sketch of the idea
on his computer, he sent it to a
professor who worked in robotics and who assigned his students
to build a
prototype.

Later, Henry was able to test this appliance
and
others, establishing the pattern for other robotic devices which would
perform tasks such as
scratching itches, opening drawers, and even shaving.
Brian Eule's article refers to Evans as an
"idea generator and test pilot,"
ideally placed both to come up with the concept and
to test and report back
on how well it works in practice.

Henry Evans
collaborates
with robotics experts and computer scientists, providing them with interface

designs that he thinks would work best for him. This is then used as a basis when they
design
the hardware. Chad Jenkins, a computer scientist at Brown University
who works with Henry Evans,
says that having him test the robotic solutions
is a valuable part of the process
since:

If you don't get robots out of the lab and into the
world, you're
usually working with assumptions that aren't true.

What specific sins does the devil promise the potential communicant he will learn to recognize? In the story "Young Goodman Brown" what moves does the...

While young
Goodman Brown is out that night,
the devil tells him that he will show Goodman Brown all the
ways in which the
"good" people of the village are really sinners.  He...

What is the tone in each one of the acts of The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

There is an overall tone of oppressive conformity and
unease in the play, which
pervades all the acts. However, each act also has
its own distinctive .

Act IRising
Panic

The act begins with
Betty lying
insensible on the bed with Parris, Tituba and Abigail all worrying about what
may
happen to her. The hysteria rises, particularly with the entrance of Mrs.
Putnam, who is
triumphantly certain that satanic forces are a work. The
advent of Reverend Hale is supposed to
calm things down but instead stirs up
Tituba and Abigail so that the scene ends with a torrent
of terrifying
accusations, creating a superstitious panic.

Act
IISuspicion and Doubt

The scene begins with John and
Elizabeth tiptoeing around each
other, trying not to mention Abigail. It is obvious that
Elizabeth no longer
trusts her husband and doubts his motives for staying away from Salem.

Reverend Hale tries and fails to allay his own doubts about both the Proctors and the
trial. The
arrests and the discovery of...

In The Scarlet Letter, why can Hester be seen as a heroine?

Admittedly,
, an adulteress who has a child by a man not her husband, might come across as a hard sell for
the heroine of a drama set in Puritan times. Nevertheless, she is the moral center of the novel
and the strongest person in it. Unlike bothand , she has the courage to do what is right rather
than doing what is expedient.

Dimmesdale, though ironically seen as an
emblem of purity in his society, wishes he had Hester's strength. Much as he would like to come
clean and publicly acknowledge himself as Hester's lover and 's father, he falters at the idea
of sacrificing his position and reputation. Likewise, Chillingworth is ashamed to be known as
Hester's cuckolded husband, so he has Hester promise to keep their relationship secret.
Meanwhile, he goes around in underhanded ways to get revenge on Dimmesdale.

Hester is an admirable character in that she stays and faces up to what she has done, rather
than going off with Pearl and starting a new life where...

The poem
by Sir John Squire, a sonnet, which begins with the opening line "There was an Indian"
is about a Native American coming upon the landing of Christopher Columbus and his party along
a sunlit beach. The land and its people are about to undergo dramatic change in the years ahead
as Europeans descend on the continent and transform the culture and society of the Native
Americans.

This Indian of the poem has led a rather peaceful life in his
element. He has known no change and is probably happy to carry on so, steeped in his
traditions. He is content in his station in life and is not really seeking variation, although
change is coming whether he likes it or not.

The Indian is prospering quite
nicely in his pristine, natural environment, and is enjoying his walk along the quiet bay.
However, he is rattled by the appearance of huge ships, in comparison to the canoes he is used
to using. He is also confronted by the fluttering coloured signs and clambering crews. This
represents an upset to his quiet and ordered way of life and he doesnt know what to make of this
commotion, and to him, this intrusion on his homeland.

Therefore, the Indian
is in fear. It is the fear of the unknown. It is a fear that things may change for the worse for
him and that what is now happening is beyond his control. This force before him ready to land is
something that he is uncertain of how to deal with. This leads to him hiding behind a stone as
he contemplates what is happening. He sees but does not comprehend the significance of this
event. He just knows that his existence may be challenged by the seamen who are ready to land
and stake their claim on this shore.

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Describe Walter's relationship with Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun.

andhave
a difficult relationship and are not happily married to each other throughout the play. Their
love has grown cold over the years and their financial struggles have taken a toll on their
relationship. Walter, who harbors dreams of getting wealthy through investing his mother's
insurance money in a liquor store, feels that his wife does not support his vision. He is also
sick of being a chauffeur, and his negative self-perception affects his relationship with Ruth.
Walter's antagonistic, callous nature is a manifestation of his own failures, which are emotions
he takes out on his wife.

Ruth loves her husband and realizes that she cannot
give Walter what he needs to make him happy. Ruth also has problems of her own and struggles
with the decision to have an abortion or have a child. The Younger family's financial issues
make having another child an extra burden, which is something Ruth is willing to prevent. Along
with Walter's depression, she also has to deal with his continual drinking. Despite their
unhappy marriage, Hansberry suggests that things for the couple may improve after Walter
dramatically refuses Mr. Lindner's offer.  

In reference to the poem "A September Night" by George Marion McClellan, explain how personification is used to describe the bayou in Anguilla. What...

The poem
"A September Night" by George Marion McClellan describes, from the perspective of a
white colonist narrator, a scene that he is watching and that he considers beautiful. The
narrator personifies the bayou to try to describe this apparent beauty by saying it has a
"face...gemmed with stars," referring to the reflection of the night sky all over the
surface of the water except for the places which are obscured by the shadows of trees. The
narrator also describes the waters of the bayou as "half-asleep" and as creeping and
stretching in the manner of a sleepy person all along the edge of the island and through the
reeds. These descriptions, which are rooted in comparisons to human traits, are all considered
.

Describe the tone used in the poem, "Richard Corey."

""
is a great example of how a poet can use more than one tone in a poem to achieve a theme that is
unexpected or startling.  

The speaker's tone in describing Richard Cory in
lines one through fourteen is admiring, even envious.  He is a man who seems to have it all: the
attention of people in town, a kingly physique ("imperially slim"), and a manner that
is neither self-aggrandizing nor arrogant.  He is wealthy, well-mannered, and the envy of those
who encounter him.  His gifts stand in contrast to those less well-off who "went without
the meat" and waited for things to improve. 

The final lines, fifteen
and sixteen, are delivered in a dispassionate, matter-of-fact tone:

"And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head."

Edward Arlington Robinson shifts the tone in his poem at the end to remind readers that
we can never fully understand other people's interior lives.  The poem was written when many in
the country were struggling through the aftermath of a severe economic downturn, and though
Richard Cory apparently put a brave face on his situation, he carried repressed
burdens.

 

 

What was the outcome of the Trojan war?

There were
actually several different wars in ancient Troy as the city was built at an important commercial
crossroads where the Aegean Sea communicates with the Black Sea via a narrow strait. Modern
archaeologists think that the Troy described by Homer was probably what is now called Troy VII,
a mound at Hisarlik, in modern Turkey that was inhabited from c. 1300 to c. 950 BC and suffered
military damage in an ancient war.

Although the actual fall of Troy is not
described in Homer's Iliad, other historians and literary works describe it
as happening after the death of Achilles. After additional stalemate, the Greeks used the
stratagem of the Trojan horse to sneak into the city and kill Trojans in their sleep and sack
the city. The returns to their homes of the victorious Greeks were the subject of many poems and
plays.

Menelaus returned home with Helen. Agamemnon returned home with
Cassandra and was killed by his wife Clytemnestra. Odysseus returned home to Penelope. Achilles
was killed by being shot in the heel by Paris and did not survive to see the end of the war.
Ajax the Lesser raped Cassandra at the altar of Apollo, violating the sanctity of the temple,
and drowned on the way home. Nestor, due to his moral conduct, has a safe, swift, and happy
return home.

What literary device does the word "nevermore" represent in The Raven?

The repetition of the
word "Nevermore" is a refrain, coming in the final line of each stanza where it
appears. First, the speaker asks for the raven's name, suggesting that it comes from the
Underworld, and it responds, "Nevermore." Next, the speaker assumes that this is the
bird's name. Third, he starts to think that the word is the one word that the bird learned from
its former owner. Fourth, he pulls up a chair to consider the raven and what it might mean by
"croaking 'Nevermore.'" The fifth repetition of the word comes when the narrator
considers that his dead lover will never sit against the cushion of his chair ever again. Next,
the raven speaks the word again when the narrator decides that, perhaps, the bird was sent to
distract him from and help him forget his grief over . This implies that he was not sent by God,
as the narrator wonders. Seventh, he asks if there is "balm in Gilead," ostensibly
some kind of cure for his grief (as a balm in Gilead means a cure of some
kind), and the raven answers, "Nevermore." Next, the speaker orders the bird to leave
him forever, and the raven refuses. Finally, the speaker says that the shadow of the bird will
be "lifted" from his floor "nevermore!"

What is the "worn path"? Why is the story named after it?

The
metaphoric path that elderly Phoenix Jackson treads is long established. She is a woman who has
toiled throughout her long life, and the journey she takes in the story is common to many women:
she is looking after a childin this case, her grandson.

The path has deeper
symbolism because Phoenix is African American, elderly, and remembers the end of the Civil War.
She is...

Explain the subtitle of "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."

Discuss the representation of Native people in the play Walsh by Sharon Pollock.

There are
differing views of the Native
Americans presented in Pollock's
Walsh.

Most of the "Indians" are similar to
those of
any race: they fight to defend themselves, and they are
realists
that work hard to survive even in the face of adversity.

Louis is a Metis
scout, extremely knowledgeable about other tribes,
and human nature. Of
Walsh he says:

He care a lot and so he yell a lot,
eh?

He also tells Clarence that books can be harmed
by
the elements and be gone ("pouf!"), but what must really be studied is
what is in
one's head and heart, and getting along with one another, and with
the world at large. Louis is
a realist as well. He knows that the Indians
that live at Fort Walsh will never be able to farm,
just as Walsh knows. But
Walsh also believes the Indians must prepare for change. Louis
responds, the
stage directions note, almost gently:

Ever since he was born, he has eaten wild meat. His father
and his
grandfather ate wild meat. He cannot give up quickly the customs of
his fathers.

In In Cold Blood, where does Capote show sympathy for Perry?

Through
depicting Perry as a lonely and remorseful, Capote shows compassion for him and makes him
sympathetic to the reader.

Capote constructs an internal life for both Perry
and Dick, but Dicks internal monologues are ruthless and selfish, while Perrys tend to show
self-pity and internal conflict. For example, Capote presents Perrys motive for meeting
up...

How were Gilgamesh and Enkidu different from one another?

Despite
his wild origins and thick jungle of body hair, Enkidu is more recognizably human than
Gilgamesh. Mind you, that was only after making love to Shamhat for a whole week. Though still
technically two-thirds animal, Enkidu is 100% more of a human than the initially cruel and
tyrannical Gilgamesh. It's this very human quality of his that rounds off some of the corners of
the man who becomes his close and trusted friend. Enkidu adheres to quite a strict moral code
that differentiates him from Gilgamesh, whereas Gilgamesh himself has an insatiable appetite for
sex, wealth, and power. Having grown up and lived with wild beasts, Enkidu is inevitably much
closer to nature than Gilgamesh. This helps him keep his feet on the ground, so to speak,
allowing him to act as a restraining influence on his powerful, semidivine
friend.

How did the American preacher Jonathan Edwardss preaching style compare with the British preacher George Whitefields?

Both men
preached in a style that appealed to the hearts and the emotions of their congregations. They
used vivid(Edwards famously compared the souls of men to spiders dangling from a thread over a
pit of fire) and a pathos-laden delivery to drive home a more or less shared message: that
people had turned their backs on God in the pursuit of worldly things. They also shared a
critique of the Enlightenment-era rationalism that they saw as to some extent incompatible with
Christian faith. Their theology was mostly similar--both preached that people were inherently
sinful and that only God's mercy could save their unworthy souls. While both men preached in a
fiery, emotional manner, Whitefield took it to new extremes, and was perhaps the first man in
American history who could legitimately be called a celebrity. Unlike Edwards, who preached in
traditional church settings, Whitefield preached wherever he could, delivering sermons from
stages set up on town greens, in marketplaces and courthouses, and other public spaces in
England and the colonies. 

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Provide three thesis statements from chapters 1 through 11 from the book Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

One approach you could take to creating a
thesis about Romantic Outlaws would be to discuss the effects of their
different upbringings on Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Chapter 2 says that their
upbringings could not have been more different. Explore the ways that their different
upbringings might have shaped their paths in life. You might say something about Mary
Wollstonecraft feeling invisible in her family and choosing to be bold to get attention while
Mary Shelley was born into an unconventional and bold family.

Another
approach would be to examine Wollstonecraft's theories on women and discuss how Shelley was
shaped by these even after the death of her mother. You could say that despite Wollstonecraft
dying soon after her daughter was born, her influence on her daughter is obvious when examining
Shelley's life that her mother had a profound influence. Evidence for this could include her
bold character. You could draw from Chapter 5 and discuss how Shelley believed she deserved
equal treatment and felt enraged and wronged when she didn't get it when compared to her
stepsister.

You could also write a thesis about Chapters 10 and 11 if you
examine the differences in Wollstonecraft's and Shelley's young adulthood. You could argue that
Wollstonecraft felt more determined to succeed on her own while Shelley had the support of her
husband and Jane as she explored young adulthood. These two chapters include evidence that shows
the differences and similarities between the two women during that time
period.

Will Dana be able to change Rufus's attitude about gender and race in Kindred?

Early in the novel, there is great hope that

this will happen. After all, Dana rescues the young Rufus from drowning, so it would
make sense
that he could recognize that a woman of color should not be judged
based on either her race or
her gender.

That is a fantasy
within the reality of the setting, however.
Rufus is a privileged white man
who has always gotten whatever he wants. The setting is a
plantation in the
early 1800s, and the idea that one black woman can overcome Rufus's entire

society is a pretty far-fetched idea.

By chapter 4, Rufus has grown
into a
man who seems incapable of becoming a decent human being. After the
failed rape attempt of
Alice, a slave on the plantation, he asks Dana to help
him get what he wants (once again). When
Dana tries to refuse, he tells
her,

Go to her. Send her to
me. I'll
have her whether you help or not. All I want you to do is fix it so I don't have
to
beat her. You're no friend of hers if you won't do that much!

Rufus lacks a moral compass because of his
society and his raising, and his actions
become increasingly more violent as
the plot progresses. For these reasons, he seems destined to
follow in the
racist path of his father.

What role has technology played increasing the power and reach of presidents? write 150 or more words

Technology
has allowed the president to instantly reach hundreds of millions of people with a simple Tweet.
It has also allowed the media, which operates across television, the radio, and the internet to
disseminate their message around the clock. A century ago, presidents had little direct
interaction with the masses outside of public speeches. However, that has certainly changed,
much with the aid of modern technology.

President Franklin Roosevelt was the
first American president to harness technology to directly reach the people of the United
States. His Fireside Chats brought his voice directly into American households and allowed him
to talk directly to the people. These so-called chats were a few dozen informal speeches, not
made at a lectern and reported in the press, but much more personal as Americans could hear the
president's own voice as if he were sitting with them in their living room. This made Roosevelt
seem much more relatable than a distant power figure and helped quell much of the early
Depression Era anxiety in the country. The relatively new technology of the radio made this
possible and later politicians and presidents would take advantage of this as well, although
seldom to the same effect.

We have come a long way since these simple radio
chats. Now, presidents can make grandiose or mundane public statements on live TV from the White
House. These get beamed all over the world and greatly increase their influence. President
Donald Trump has taken this a step further with his unfiltered and direct contact with the more
than 67 million people who follow him on Twitter. His Tweets are then often retweeted and
reported on in the media, furthering their reach even more. It seems that the technology of
social media has become a tool that presidents, as well as other politicians, can use to amplify
their voice and influence like never before.

What similarities and differences can be drawn between Never Let Me Go and The Stranger?

The main
similarity that can be drawn between these two works ofis that they both have the central theme
of alienation. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy in and Meursault in The
Stranger experience a profound separation between their understanding of their
identities and the way the rest of society lives. There are notable differences, however, in the
way that alienation came about and in where it leads. In s novel, the characters have almost no
choice about their social functions, and are physically as well as emotionally alienated. They
are isolated from the rest of society because of their identity as clones, which was chosen for
them before they came into being. In addition, they will die at the hands of society. In Albert
Camuss novella, Meursault is a human being with free will, but his actions sometimes seem to
happen without him making conscious decisions. A clear distinction between Meursault and the
clones in Ishigurus novel is that he kills another man; nevertheless, a similarity is that they
all die at the ends of the respective works.

What makes Dimmesdale a good minister in "The Scarlet Letter"? what ways did dimmesdale torture himself?

Ironically,
because he feels like such a sinner, Dimesdale's sermons become more fiery and effective. In
addition, people believe he is holy because many times on the pulpit he confesses that is the
worst of sinners. What he always plans on doing is going on and confessing he is the father of.
But, he never does. So people assume that if such a good man thinks he is an awful sinner, he
must...

What are the similarities and differences between Pavlov and Skinner?

Pavlov and
Skinner were two psychologists who pioneered the ideas of conditioning, contributing greatly to
behavior theory and helping to develop new ideas and techniques for training and changing
behavior. Both of them were deeply involved with the idea that behaviors were conditioned and
therefore learnedand thus could be changed.

Pavlov, famous for his experiment
with feeding dogs while ringing a bell to train them to salivate at the sound of said bell,
believed in what he called "classical conditioning." He trained behaviors based on
external events. He placed an instigation signal and stimulus to train unconscious behaviors in
the dogs. He believed that a stimulus would create a reflexive response, and that response could
be adapted.

Skinner, on the other hand, dealt with conscious behaviors and
decisive actions of individuals. Experimenting primarily with rats, he rewarded and punished
certain behaviors, training them to do specific things such as pulling levers. His belief
was...

Compare the two-party political system of the 1830s' New Democracy.

The first
two-party system of the early Republic had different issues than the one in the 1830s. The first
one made an issue over which side to back in foreign policy. The Federalists favored the British
while the Democratic-Republicans favored the French. The Federalists also believed in weak state
governments while the Democratic-Republicans believed in stronger states. The Federalists also
believed in a strong national military while the Democratic-Republicans believed in strong state
militias.

The two-party system in the 1830s formed due to the presidency of
Andrew Jackson. Jackson believed in a federal government that was more friendly to Western
states. He did not approve of the renewal of the National Bank, nor did he approve of federal
funds being used to support infrastructure projects at the state level. Jackson used his veto
power liberally, all of which led to the rise of the Whig Party. The Whig Party was
pro-infrastructure and also pro-banking reform. It was led primarily...

Can anyone tell me which New York regiments fought at Weldon Railroad, Virginia on June 21-23, 1864? Thank you.

The
first Battle of the Weldon Railroad (June
21-23, 1864), now more commonly referred to as the
Battle of the Jerusalem
Plank Road, was part of the Petersburg Campaign. The end result was
another
poorly led plan of attack by Union forces, primarily consisting of Brig. Gen. Lewis
A.
Grant's 1st Vermont Brigade. The Vermonters were opposed by Confederates
under the command
of Brig. Gen. (later Maj....

What is the importance of doublethink to the Party's control of the citizens of Oceania?

Doublethink is a
form of "reality control" in which people accept two ideas, even when these ideas are
contradictory.  For the majority of the novel, for instance, Oceania is at war with Eurasia but,
suddenly, during Hate Week, the Party declares that it is fighting against Eastasia and always
has been.

You will notice from the text that nobody questions this sudden
change, even though they can remember the war against Eurasia. This is why the Party is so
successful in maintaining control: it manipulates the popular understanding and perception of
the past and the people of Oceania willingly accept it because they have been brainwashed to do
so. On a practical level, this means that the Party can do as it pleases, safe in the knowledge
that nobody will ever question its actions. 

This is, perhaps, best summed up
in the following quote from Emmanuel Goldstein from Part Two, Chapter Nine:

"For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in ones own
infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes."

What problems or issues did Andrew Jackson face?

One should
not overlook the Tariff issue of 1828; which nearly divided the nation. Calhoun had issued his
South Carolinaand Protestdeclaring the right of a State to declare acts of
Congress null and void within its borders. South Carolina did attempt to declare the Tariff
unconstitutional, and this led to Jackson's Nullification Proclamation. It was this controversy,
not the Bank issue, that was his most serious issue; as he saw the Union about to dissolve
before his eyes. It was as a result of this controversy that, during the Jefferson Birthday
dinner, Jackson in his toast glared at Calhoun and uttered his famous pronouncemtn: "Our
Federal Union. It must be preserved!: His greatest issue was preserving the Union, which he did
by sheer force of will. The Bank issue was also a problem for him; but he held his ground, and
destroyed the bank. One should also not overlook the issue of the Cherokee Indians. When John
Marshall declared them a dependent nation within U.S. borders, Jackson ignored the Supreme
Court, and forced them to move West.

I would like to know what the similarities and differences are between the book and the movie.

's 1819
social"" and the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow,directed by Tim
Burton, have little in common.

The similarities are
found primarily in the setting of Sleepy Hollow, a hamlet north of New York City. It is largely
populated by Dutch Americans, and it is a mostly agrarian community. Many of the characters'
names from the short story are used in the film, but the characterizations are different. Both
the story and the film center on a character named Ichabod Crane who comes to Sleepy Hollow as
an outsider to this Dutch American enclave, and both feature a character called the Headless
Horseman, purportedly a supernatural manifestation of a Hessian soldier decapitated in the
Revolutionary War.

The differences between the film and movie are many. In
the story, Ichabod Crane is a Connecticut schoolteacher who comes to Sleepy Hollow, sees the
bounty of its beautiful farms, and works to ingratiate himself with the prosperous Van
Tassels...

In what ways are Snowball and Trotsky similar to one another in Animal Farm?

In my
mind, the fundamental and best comparison betweenand Trotsky is that both of them represent the
intellectual angle towards revolution.  Trotsky and Snowball both see the revolution as a
testing ground for the theory that animated them.  For Trotsky, this is Marxism and for Snowball
this is Animalism.  When the pigs gain power, Snowball is responsible for developing committees
to run the farm. takes the pups and develops his own secret police. Snowball is not really
driven by power, while Trotsky was more concerned with how the revolution and post- revolution
Russia would represents the theories of Marx and of Communism.  Trotsky's intellectualism was
seen as something that was going to be challenged by the power driven sensibility of Stalin,
whose love for theory only went as far as his ability to control and be at the center of all
power.  In this light, Trotsky was seen as meddling threat, someone who could undermine Stalin
because of his keen understanding of theory and its application.  This is where Snowball, whose
military understanding helps the animals win at the Battle of Cowshed and whose idea to build
the windmill helped provide power to the farm.  In this, Snowball becomes a formidable threat to
Napoleon, who ends up running him off, similar to the manner in which Stalin ran off
Trotsky.

What is a quote that establishes the setting of "Araby" by James Joyce?

The story takes place on North Richmond Street in Dublin, Ireland, around
the turn of the twentieth century.

There are many quotes you
can pull from this very descriptive story, but the following is very meaningful.

I sat staring at the clock for some time and. when its ticking
began to irritate me, I left the room. I mounted the staircase and gained the upper...

What factors caused problems and tensions between Native Americans and whites?

There were a
number of factors that caused
these problems.  Let us look at two of the most important ones

here.

First, a major factor was racism on the part of the white
settlers.
 (If the Indians were racist, it had much less of an impact since
they lacked the power to act
on any racism they may have felt.)  White
Americans tended to feel that the Indians were
inferior to them.  Therefore,
they treated them in ways that were sure to bring about
conflict.

Second, there was the simple fact that so many white settlers were

coming in to the various places where the Indians lived.  The fact that there were so
many
whites meant that they were constantly going to need to move out into
Indian lands.   As the
population grew and grew, conflict became more and
more likely.  

I should
note here that many people would
talk about different conceptions of land ownership between the
whites and the
Indians. They would say that Indians did not believe in owning the land where

whites did.  However, I would argue that this does not matter much.  Even in places
where (as
with the Cherokee and other tribes in the Southeast during Indian
Removal) Indians did believe
in land ownership and sedentary farming, there
was still conflict.  Whites still wanted the
Indian lands and were still
willing to push the Indians out to get it.

Can you list some sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures you experienced within The Lovely Bones?

Your
question vividly refers to "sensory images," images that focus predominantly on one of
the five senses:  sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.  Even before reading what you wrote, I
was already very aware of and impressed with Sebold's ability in this arena.  I challenged
myself to find one of each sensory image on a single page.

I didn't need to
look very far.

In fact, I didn't need to look any further than the rape
scene:  haunting images, yes, but also very memorable ones.  First, the words from the
text:

"We're having string beans and
lamb."

I was the mortar, he was the pestle.

"Your brother has a new finger painting, and I made apple crumb
cake."

Mr. Harvey made me lie still underneath him and listen to the
beating of his heart and the beating of mine.  How mine skipped like a rabbit, and how his
thudded, a hammer against cloth.  We lay there with our bodies touching, and, as I shook, a
powerful knowledge took hold.  He had done this thing to me and I had lived.  That was all.  I
was still breathing.  I heard his heart.  I smelled his breath.  The dark earth surrounding us
smelled like what it was, moist dirt where worms and animals lived their daily lives.  I could
have yelled for hours. (14)

All five senses are
represented here in these very few lines.  Every single one is a negative image, and rightly so
(except for the few images of the family's life at home).  Although some of these images can be
dual images, in that they may represent sight/touch/taste, I will use the main sense to
represent each one here.

SIGHT:  Ironically, the
most common sensory image (sight) is the one found LEAST here.  The most disturbing one is the
"mortar" and "pestle" image here to represent the actual act.  However there
is also the "finger painting" as well as the sight of the "dark earth" with
its "worms" and "animals."

SOUND:  Susie is incredibly conscious of the sounds around
her during this scene even using the word "listen" to precede the images themselves: 
"beating of his heart," "the beating of mine," "his thudded,"
"I could have yelled for hours."

SMELL:  Susie's sense of smell focuses on the earth around
her which "smelled like what it was, moist dirt . . . " trying to drown out the fact
that she "smelled his breath."

TASTE: 
One of the most interesting things to me about this excerpt is how Seabold chooses to pair
positive taste images with that of the violence of rape.  The positive taste images, of course,
are coming from an unknowing Salmon family going about dinner time at the exact moment this is
happening to Susie.  So the reader hears about "string beans and lamb" as well as
"apple crumb cake."

TOUCH:  One cannot
read a rape scene without experiencing at least a few touch images.  Mr. Harvey makes Susie
"lie still underneath him" as she notices the "moist" earth around her and
takes usual sound images of a beating heart and turns them into touch images as hers
"skipped like a rabbit" and his "thudded, a hammer against cloth."

Furthermore, it is a chilling scene, but it is Seabold's sensory images that help it
remain so, . . . possibly etched into our memory forever, . . . and certainly a LOT more graphic
than the movie could ever be.

How is Winston physically, emotionally, and mentally transformed in 1984?

After
being tortured by ,is shocked and appalled at his physique and appearance when he looks into the
mirror. Physically, Winston is emaciated, dirty, and his skin is the color gray. Winston can see
his ribs and his knees are thicker than the bones in his legs.writes, "At a guess he
[Winston] would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant
disease" (342). However, Winston slowly begins gaining weight as he emotionally and
mentally begins to accept Big Brother. Winston becomes healthier in the Ministry of Love as his
feelings and thoughts regarding Big Brother become more orthodox.

Winston is
emotionally broken after he experiences complete terror in Room 101. Winston stops resisting the
Party and begins to revere Big Brother by the end of his captivity in the Ministry of Love. In
the final scene of the novel, Winston is depicted as a shallow, content man with an affinity for
Big Brother. The Party successfully transforms Winston...

What imagery is depicted in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter Two?

uses different
types ofin Part Two, Chapter
Two of . In the opening paragraph, for
example, Orwell
creates an auditory image of doves
"droning" in
the background and, later, of a person stepping on a twig, which makes a

"crackling" sound. He also evokes the "sickly" smell of bluebells, which is

an example of olfactory imagery.

Orwell
uses
visual imagery, too. Firstly, there is the
image of the
"overflowing" carriage, which he uses to travel to this clearing
in the woods. Later,
there is an image ofholding a large bunch of bluebells,
which he has picked for .

The purpose of this imagery is
to create a stark contrast between this clearing in the
woods and the city.
For Winston, the woods are reminiscent of the past, of a time before the

Party came to power, and of his hopes for the future. The city, in contrast, represents
the
brutal and oppressive regime of the Party.

Camus shows the absurdity of watching films in Ch. 2 and 4. Explain the contradiction.

In
, Camus gives us an absurd hero in Meursault
who loves life, hates death, and scorns the gods. He
also loves swimming, sex, sleeping, eating, smoking, and going to the movies--all
life affirming activities.  As such, Camus would rather his hero laugh at a movie
rather than cry at a funeral.  Movies celebrate life; funerals celebrate only death.

Merusault's mother dies Wednesday or Thursday.  The vigil is Friday, and Meursault
meets Marie Saturday for a swim, movies, and sex (she spends the night).  Together, they see a
comedy starring Fernandel, a French actor.  Marie notices Meursault's black tie, and she
realizes that he is supposed to be in "mourning."  She thinks it's a bit odd that he
would want to swim, go to a comedy, and have sex so soon after his mother's death.  Later, in
Chapter 4, Meursault and Emmanuel go to see two movies together during the work week
nights.

Movies are places where people come together to view something as
part of a cultural ritual.  Movies are not Camus' targets.  Movies are used to
juxtapose the other ritualistic places where people gather to celebrate death: funerals, vigils,
churches, courtrooms, and public executions (all of the people in these places will judge and
condemn Meursault later). Movies are harmless compared to these institutions.
 These places are the "gods" that Camus says his absurd heroes should scorn.

Camus is using the act of going to a film to show that Meursault is not affected by his
mother's death.  He can go to a funeral one day and then see a comedy the next.  He does not
reject casual relationships the week after the funeral.  Is that so wrong?  Camus thinks
not.

To laugh when one should cry may look like a contradiction of emotions,
and it may look like Meursault is a cold, apathetic person.  Meursault rejects social
expectations that limit a person's freedom and love of life.  Society expects him to wear black,
look sad, and refuse entertainment and casual dates.  In effect, society expects Meursault to
act like he is dying.

Camus rejects this culture of death.  Why can't he go
to the movies and see comedy?  Why can't he go swimming?  Why can't he have sex that night?  Who
makes these silly cultural rules about the mourning process?

At the end of
the novel, Merusault, just before he is to be executed, will say that no one has a right to cry
over his mother's death.   Merusault loves life: the water, the sun, girls in bathing suits,
funny movies, sleeping, eating, drinking.  All these acts are celebrations of life.  Wearing a
black tie and locking oneself in an apartment all week only celebrates the culture of death that
Camus' absurdism wants us to escape.

Identify an observation that can be made between the book and film version of The Help by Stockett.

I think
that one observation that can be made between the book and the film versions ofis that the
endings in both are similar, but different.  While both conclusions focus on Aibileen, the
emphasis in each ending is a bit different.  In the book, Aibileen is shown to be more focused
on what she will do once she is dismissed from her job as a member of "the help."  She
will take up the column in the newspaper that Skeeter gave her.  In addition, there is a greater
sense of...

What is the concept of gravity and how does it affect us on Earth (as compared to the Solar System)?

Gravity is a
natural force of attraction between two physical objects.  The gravitational force between two
objects is directly proportional to the masses of the objects and inversely proportional to the
distance between them.  In other words, the more massive the objects, the stronger the gravity. 
Also, the further the two objects move apart, the smaller the gravitational effect becomes. 
So...

Would you say that Goodman Brown was heroic in the story "Young Goodman Brown"? I have to argue either he was or was not a hero in the short story. I...

As
the question states, it is possible to argue either way on this question.  The support that you
give your argument is what is most important.  

Let's look at a few well
recognized heroes.  Captain America, Spider-man, Luke Skywalker, and even Beowulf are all
characters that use violence to fight against the forces of evil.  They are all young, white
males, and each character has special powers that make each character able to successfully fight
against a great evil.  Each character is loved by the public for his heroic acts, and each hero
saves helpless innocents from being hurt or killed.  Goodman Brown can't claim any of those
things other than being a young, white male.  He goes off into the forest by himself.  He is
shown that everybody he knows and loves is a servant of the devil, and he returns a broken and
scared man.  He didn't physically fight anything, and he didn't rescue anybody either.  We are
told that Goodman Brown became "a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative,...

Please compare and contrast the expansion of different empires. What factors caused the continuance and expansion of Roman imperialism? How did...

The
continuance and expansion of Roman imperialism began around 260 B.C. with their first war
against their main rival and neighbor Carthage, which was seen as a powerful threat due to their
domination of trade in the Mediterranean Sea. To trade in the Mediterranean as well, the Romans
defeated Carthage after more than 100 years of war called the Punic Wars, ending in 146 B.C.
With that victory, the Romans became the most powerful Mediterranean state, starting their
expansion.

The Romans also had superior military tactics, which contributed
to their European domination. They knew that the further they expanded, the more wealthy Rome
could be. Thus, Rome utilized military tactics such as the Phalanx (borrowed from the Greeks),
the most advanced equipment at the time, and superior training. Roman military culture was
focused on war, even in times of peace, with soldiers often training in one-on-one combat daily
when not at war.

Conquering new lands raises the possibility of uprisings
and...

Describe the transition from Roman Republic to Empire in the 1st century B.C.E.

This is a
great question. There are many things that can be stated. So, here are four points.

First, during the second century B.C., Rome faced some very difficult hardships. More
and more of its free citizens were in turn off land they did not possess.  The poor rose up in
revolt.  So, the Gracchi brothers, first Tiberius then Gaius, sought to redistribute land to the
poor from the...

Why does Juliet think that kissing for the second time is a sin?

This
isn't actually whatis saying. In her
playful conversation with , she teases him by saying that
although pilgrims
and saints do have lips, they should be using them for prayer, not kissing.

This is after Romeo has described his own lips as "pilgrims."

Juliet says primly that saints "grant for prayers' sake"that is, saints
stand
still and grant people's prayers. Whereupon Romeo says, rather
cheekily, that she should stand
still while he takes what he's prayed forthat
is, a kiss. In doing so, he says, "my sin is
purged."

This
is where the sin comes inJuliet complains that, while
Romeo's sin may now be
gone, Juliet's lips have "the sin that they have took."
Essentially, she's
saying "maybe your sin's gone, but look, now it's on me instead!"
Romeo then
takes this as the invitation it is, saying that in that case, he'll have his
sin
back"give me my sin again." It's an excuse for him to give Juliet another
kiss, under
the guise of taking his own sin back from her. Throughout the
conversation, they're discussing
"sin" as if it's a piece of chewing gum
being swapped between them, rather than with
any
seriousness.

In Oedipus, list and explain five quotes that refers to the idea of fate.

. Before thou didst assume
the helm of State,
The sovereign of this land was Laius.

. I heard
as much, but never saw the man.

CREON. He fell; and now the god's command is
plain:
Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be.

OEDIPUS. Where are
they? Where in the wide world to find
The far, faint traces of a bygone
crime?

CREON. In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall
find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."

OEDIPUS.
Was he within his palace, or afield,
Or traveling, when Laius met his fate?

The dramaticof Oedipus's last line above is that the audience knows
from the ancient myths and legends that Oedipus killed Laius, but at this early point in the
play Oedipus is wholly ignorant of that fact. Oedipus doesn't realize that his fate and Laius's
fate are the same, and inextricably linked with one another.

Likewise, the
fate of Oedipus andare the same, at least at the moments that they intersect, when Oedipus kills
Laius, and when Oedipus and Jocasta are married.

An interesting aspect of
fate in is that all prophecies have been fulfilled, and Oedipus's fate has
already been sealed before the events of the play begin.

Free will never
truly enters into Oedipus's life. Oedipus has already killed his father and married his mother.
His fate can't be changed.

JOCASTA. ...An
oracle
Once came to Laius (I will not say
'Twas from the Delphic god himself,
but from
His ministers) declaring he was doomed
To perish by the hand of his
own son,
A child that should be born to him by me.

The irony continues, in that Oedipus starts to realize that he might have had something
to do with Laius's death, but Jocasta is unaware of the prophecy that Oedipus will marry his
mother.

Oedipus tells Jocasta about the people he believes are his parents,
King Polybus and Queen Merope, and, although Jocasta is aware of the prophecy that her son will
kill his father, Laius, this is the first time that Jocasta hears the prophecy about Oedipus
marrying his mother.

OEDIPUS. ... So privily without their
leave I went
To Delphi, and Apollo sent me back
Baulked of the knowledge that
I came to seek.
But other grievous things he prophesied,
Woes, lamentations,
mourning, portents dire;
To wit I should defile my mother's bed
And raise up
seed too loathsome to behold,
And slay the father from whose loins I sprang.

Aarrives from Corinth with news that King Polybus is dead. Oedipus
is saddened by the news, but Oedipus and Jocasta are also delighted at the implications of the
Messenger's report of Polybus's death.

Oedipus believes that he escaped his
fate, the prophecy he would kill his father, and Jocasta believes that Oedipus cannot be her
son, or the man who killed Laius.

Oedipus expresses some concern, however,
that he might nevertheless fulfill the part of the prophecy by marrying his mother, but Jocasta
dissuades him from that kind of thinking.

OEDIPUS. Must I
not fear my mother's marriage bed.

JOCASTA. Why should a mortal man, the
sport of chance,
With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?

In a sense, Jocasta tries to relieve Oedipus of his fears by
implying that he's done nothing that was foretold in the prophecies, nothing was told to him
about his true fate, and he can't be responsible for another man's fate.

Oedipus also confides his fear of marrying his mother to the Messenger, who assures
Oedipus that this isn't possible because Merope wasn't his true mother. The Messenger explains
that Oedipus was adopted by Polybus and Merope, so there's no possibility that Oedipus can
fulfill that part of the prophecy.

Thelater confirms the Messenger's story,
and tells Oedipus that he was the son of Laius and Jocasta. The Herdsman says that Laius ordered
him to take his baby boy into the mountains to be left to die so that the child might not
fulfill a prophecy that he would kill his own father.

. O
heavy hand of fate!
Who now more desolate,
Whose tale more sad than thine,
whose lot more dire?
O Oedipus, discrowned head,
Thy cradle was thy marriage
bed;
One harborage sufficed for son and sire.

Everyone realizes that the prophecy of Oedipus's fate has been
fulfilled. What remains is for Oedipus and Jocasta to determine their own fate from this time
forward.

Jocasta is unable to live with the knowledge that her son killed his
father, or with the shame of marrying her own son, and she commits suicide. Oedipus blames
himself for everything that has happened. He blinds himself, and, in time, he exiles himself
from Thebes.

OEDIPUS. This much I know full surely, nor
disease
Shall end my days, nor any common chance;
For I had ne'er been
snatched from death, unless
I was predestined to some awful doom.
So be it. I
reck not how Fate deals with me...

The supreme irony is that none of what happened to Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta that in
any way fulfilled the prophecies was Oedipus's fault. Oedipus was wholly a victim of fate in
every aspect of his life. There is nothing that Oedipus or anybody else could have done to avoid
his fate.

It wasn't Oedipus who tried to defy the prophecy that he would kill
his father and marry his mother. Oedipus's own father and mother set in motion all of the events
and circumstances that conspired against him, until the entirety of his story was revealed by
Oedipus's own efforts.

The only thing that Oedipus did was discover the
truth.

At the end of the play, Creon provides the lesson of the play, that
applies equally to Oedipus and to everyone else.

CREON.
Crave not mastery in all,
For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy
fall.

Examine the philosophical approach used in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

I think
that one of the strongest examples of a philosophical approach employed in Edwards' sermon is
the construction of the divine as a force of anger.  Edwards borrows from the time period of the
Great Awakening in the belief that God is angry.  This notion of the divine places the divine in
the philosophical paradigm of a wrathful and rather vengeful notion.  In this, Edwards hopes to
control the ethical conduct of the listener or the reader in aligning their own actions towards
the anger of God.  This is philosophical in its approach to constructing the nature of reality
as one in which individuals cannot escape the wrath and anger of God.  The relationship that
individuals must carry with their divine is one of immediate subservience to the anger of God,
caused by the actions of the individual.  Edwards seeks to ensure that the philosophical
rendering of the divine is one in which individuals recognize that their own actions represent
the reason that God is angry and that they continue to carry themselves in the light that
ensures individual compliance with the will of the divine.  The use of Biblical passages to
illuminate this brings out the idea that individuals lack hope without understanding the
construction of God as one filled with anger at the transgressions of
individuals.

Why has English become a lingua franca in our globalized world?

English has
become one of the most widely used
languages across the globe, and this can be traced back to
English
imperialism and colonialism. At the height of its dominance, the British Empire
was
present in most parts of the world spanning from Africa to Asia. In the
interactions between the
English and the natives, the English always imposed
their language on the natives through
education. Thus, it became the official
language between the English and their hosts from the
different
countries.

The English managed to maintain their presence in
the
different regions even after this period,...

When is a bronze bow mentioned in the book The Bronze Bow?

The bronze
bow is a recurring motif in 's novel. It is first introduced in chapter 7 when Joel reads
scripture to Daniel while he is recuperating in the secret passageway. The three friends take a
vow to fight for God's victory, and then they agree to "mark some sign on the wall" of
the secret entrance to Hezron's home if Daniel needs to get a message to Joel. Thacia suggests
using the sign of the bronze bow from the scripture passage. The friends then discuss the
passage, with Thacia suggesting it means "that when God strengthens us we can do something
that seems impossible."

In chapter 12, when Daniel forms the band of
village men working to assist Rosh, they decide to "carry the sign of the bow in our
minds" and to use it as "our password."

In chapter 15, when
Daniel is beginning to take more pleasure in his work in his blacksmith shop, he fashions a tiny
bronze bow with a pin as the arrow that can be used as a cloak pin. He hides his creation away,
deciding to "keep it to remind him of his purpose."

In chapter 24,
Daniel has become discouraged because Leah has taken a turn for the worse. He has given up on
Jesus as being the one to deliver the Jews from Rome. In his despair, he thinks, "God did
not mean the bow of bronze for him." But when Jesus arrives at his house to heal Leah,
Daniel responds to Jesus' love for him. He realizes that "only love could bend the bow of
bronze." Thus the first and last mention of the bow come full circle, showing that through
the power of love, Daniel has been able to do what had seemed impossible, namely, give up his
hatred of the Romans.

These are some of the main places where the bronze bow
appears in .

Why can't the question "Was life better before the revolution?" ever be answered?

tries
desperately to remember for himself what his life was like but he can only get back so far
before his memories recede into the distance.  He also has to be careful how and where and when
he asks about it because if a Party member...

How does Rappaccini treat his art with more importance than his daughter and her lover?

Rappaccini seems to
attribute greater importance to his art than to his daughter because he has condemned her to a
life of solitude in a poisonous Eden for the sake of his experimentation. He raised her to be as
deadly as the beautiful purple-flowered shrub by the broken fountain, and she must live with the
knowledge that though her heart is loving and kind, her breath and her touch are unwholesome and
damaging.

Further, Rappaccini never consults Giovanni or his daughter when he
decides to convert the normal youth into a poisonous being like his daughter. For the sake of
science, he has raised a poisonous girl from her infancy, and now he seeks to transform a grown
adult into her poisonous match.  He never took his daughter's feelings or future into
consideration when he experimented on her; neither does he take Giovanni's feelings or future
plans into consideration before experimenting on him. He gives them no choice. In this way,
Rappaccini has placed his science (or his art, as Baglioni refers to it) ahead of Beatrice and
Giovanni.

What is significant about setting the story "A Worn Path" in December and during Christmas?

There are
two main things it seems the author was trying to accomplish by setting the story ""
near Christmas time: one is positive while the other is negative.

On the
positive side, it reinforces the theme of charity and love. Christmas is a time of family and
giving, typified by selflessness and sacrifice. In the story, Old Phoenix is acting extremely
selflessly in an attempt to help her grandson's sore throat. She is braving the elements and
going into town to help him, which is sacrificial and kind, and the salve she seeks is
representative of a Christmas gift.

In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what qualities about the family are meant to be taken seriously?

 

O'Connor would want us to care about the family's souls.  She would want us to ask,
"Why does this family, if 'saved' by the blood of Jesus, try to save themselves from
death?"  Her implicit answer seems to be that most people ironically worry about their
souls most when they are about to lose them.  If this is the case, she seems to be saying that
we should live every day as if we had a gun to our head.  She certainly did: she was diagnosed
with a fatal case of lupus, which was a death sentence that looms over all of her
writing.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955) tells the story of a
family en route from Tennessee to Florida for vacation. Through a series of the mishaps by the
grandmother and her cat, the family car wrecks near some woods in Florida. Two witnesses from a
following car stop to aid the family, all of whom are relatively unscathed. The grandmother
identifies one of the witnesses as The Misfit, a mass murderer on the loose.

Her admission is a death sentence for the family. The Misfit's accomplice takes the
family into the woods and shoots them. The grandmother tries to save herself by pleading to the
Misfit, "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady! I know you come from
nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady. I'll give you all the money I've
got!"

The Misfit responds:

Jesus
was the only One that ever raised the dead and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything
off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything
and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you
got left the best way you can--by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other
meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness.

Just before it
is her turn to be shot, the grandmother says:

Why you're
one of my babies. You're one of my own children!" She touches the Misfit on the shoulder,
and he springs back "as if a snake had bitten him and [shoots] her three times through the
chest.

The Misfit tells his accomplice to throw the
grandmother into the woods with the others, adding: "She would have bee a good woman if it
had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

What choice did Gretel make in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

In
, Gretel is Bruno's twelve-year-old sister. The children are homeschooled
by a private instructor who teaches them Nazi beliefs about the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler. At
first Gretel is naive as to what is taking place during the Holocaust, but the teachings she and
Bruno receive, along with her obsession...

Does Oedipus have the courage to face his downfall? Although he accepts his fate, but doesnt plucking out his eyes means his lack of courage to face...

does accept his fate,
and we don't necessarily have to read his act of self-blinding as a sign of his unwillingness to
face up to truth.  Throughout the play, Oedipus had many opportunities to stop seeking the
truth, and even once he began to understand some of the awful truth, he continued to press on so
that he would know all.  It is for the good of the kingdom, after all, which suffers cruelly as
a result of Laius's unsolved and unpunished murder.

All this time, however,
Oedipus has been figuratively blind: unable to see how his own pride and anger could lead to his
downfall.  Compare him to, a prophet who cannot literally see but who can figuratively see;
Oedipus was...

Discuss how approaches to problem solving can be used as a way to improve reading comprehension in students as referenced in your text

Students
at any reading ability level definitely need to be coached on how to problem solve and think
critically as active readers in order to improve overall reading comprehension.  Overall reading
comprehension ability stems from several factors:  vocabulary level, recall and memory, reader
background knowledge, fluency, motivation, and knowledge of reading comprehension strategies. 
Active readers who employ a variety of problem solving skills and metacognitive
strategies...