what are 4 puns from act 1 scene 4(Queen mab speech) of Romeo and Juliet? :)

Ais a
word or phrase that has multiple meanings and is often used to create ambiguity about which
meaning the writer intended. They are used for humor. The phrases "pun intended" or
"pun not intended" refer to this.

Here are some from Act I Scene
IV, the pun is in bold:

Give me a torch: I am not for
this ambling; 
 Being but heavy, I will bear the
light.

[Light is a pun. Romeo is
feeling "heavy" meaning sad/upset. So light here not only refers to the light of the
torch but also the lack of lightness in Romeo's mood.]

_____________________________________

Nay, gentle Romeo, we must
have you dance.

ROMEO Not I, believe me: you have dancing
shoes 
 With nimble soles: I have a
soul of lead 
 So stakes me to the ground I cannot
move.

[sole and soul are spelled differently but pronounced the
same, they are puns]

______________________________________

ROMEO I dream'd a dream
to-night.

MERCUTIO And so did I.

ROMEO Well, what was
yours?

MERCUTIO That dreamers often
lie.

ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream
things true.

[dreamers lie, as in, do not tell the
truth]

______________________________________

ROMEO Is
love a tender thing? it is too rough, 
 Too rude, too boisterous, and it
pricks like thorn.

MERCUTIO If love be rough
with you, be rough with love; 
 Prick love for
pricking, and you beat love down. 

[the other meaning of prick here is "urge," most probably in this
context, it refers to sexual urges. Mercutio may be suggesting that Romeo overcome his
heartbreak and pain by becoming intimate with another woman] 

Why do we study American literature? I mean, what can be learned from its study?

Why study
American literature? The question is not about literature but rather about the American aspect. 
Studying American literature encompasses understanding society.  From this study, society can
only improve by analyzing the writing in any culture.   American literature has produced some of
the most significant prose and poetry the world has seen. By analyzing the technical aspects of
famous American poetry, essays, short stories, dramas, and novels, the reader can learn how to
improve the future of American literature.  

American literature begins with
British literature.  The...

What is meant by the slogan personal is political?

What this
slogan means, in its most common usage, is that there is no real difference between womens
political issues and their personal issues.  It was used to argue that issues that people
denigrated as personal issues that women should take care of on a personal level were really
political issues that should be dealt with as a society.

In the late 1960s
and early 1970s, many womens issues were not taken very seriously by many people.  When women
wanted, for example, more help from men in terms of childcare and housework, it was seen as a
personal issue.  When women talked about the pressure that society put on them to be attractive
and about the problems that caused with things like body image, the issues were dismissed as
personal issues that women should deal with on their own.

The personal is
political was used as a slogan to argue that all of these were truly political issues.  It meant
that all of these issues came about because of overall societal factors.  When women wanted more
help from men, it was an issue of society-wide attitudes about what constituted mens work and
womens work.  When they worried about body image, it was because of issues about how society
portrays women and about what factors cause women to be valued or not valued. 

Thus, the slogan was meant as a way of arguing that womens issues should be taken more
seriously on a political and social level.

Provide quotes that describe Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird (with page number)?

Calpurnia is the Finch family's cook and is an integral part of 's and 's
lives.completely trusts and respects Calpurnia, and he defends her when Aunt Alexandra suggests
that he get rid of her. As a child, Scout continually argues with Calpurnia, who is quick to
chastise her for misbehaving or acting rude. Despite their disagreements, Scout learns to
appreciate Calpurnia and is aware that Cal truly cares about her. In , Scout gives a vivid
description of Calpurnia:

"She [Calpurnia] was all
angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice
as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldnt behave as well
as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasnt ready to come. Our battles
were epic and one-sided....

What are the overall lessons that Scrooge learned from the ghosts, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

Scrooge learns that the
purpose of life is to take care of other people when one can. Marley tells him early on,
"'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business [...]." In other words,
he ought to have been spending his time engaged in the business of life rather than the business
of profit. Marley also says that

It is required of every
man [...] that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and
wide, and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is
doomed to wander through the world [...] and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared
on earth, and turned to happiness!

Thus, Marley makes it
clear that what we are supposed to do in life is to travel around among other people and to
share a...

In Walden, what did Thoreau believe is important to life?

Thoreau is a Transcendentalist author.  The
best way to describe them is to more or less say that they are extreme Romanticism authors.
 Romanticism is a literary time period and genre that has some key features to it.  Carpe diem,
emotion over reason, and a deep reverence to nature are all key features of romantic literature.
 Transcendentalists take it "one step further."  Simply put, a transcendentalist
believes that a person can gain special, transcendent knowledge about creation, god, faith, etc.
from being close to nature.  

Thoreau's  is his written
explanation of how he spent his time living alone on the banks of Walden Pond in Condord, MA.
 I've been there.  It's beautiful.  There's even a mock up of the house that he built for
himself to live in.  It's a simple, small affair.  And that is the key to Thoreau
and Walden.  Simplicity is paramount to achieving true happiness, peace,
life, and transcendent knowledge.  Without simplicity, it isn't possible to live life to the
fullest or really be able to be an integral part of nature and man's surroundings.  Thoreau best
sums it up with the following lines.  

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, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise
resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of
life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a
broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, . .
. 

How can I paraphrase The Tyger?

In order to paraphrase
a text, one needs to simply restate what the author is saying using words other then those used
by the author of the text. Therefore, in order to paraphrase the poem (by
), one simply takes the poem, line by line, and provides different words (one is simply
rewriting the poem in order to make is match their own ).

Therefore, an
example of a paraphrase of the...

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, how did Bruno's life change from moving to Auschwitz from Berlin?

Bruno's life dramatically changes when he moves from his lovely, five-story home, "if you
include the basement," in Berlin to Auschwitz, which Bruno refers to as Out-With. In
Auschwitz, Bruno does not have his three best friends to play games with, and there are no
bustling town streets to walk up and down. His new home at Auschwitz is significantly smaller,
uncomfortable,...

Why does Frederick Douglass describe literacy as being so important in his Narrative?

In
chapter VI of his Narrative of the Life of , An American Slave, Douglass
describes the experience of being taken into the home, at the age of seven or eight, of Mr. and
Mrs. Auld. Mrs. Sophia Auld, the young Frederick discovers, is initially very kind, having never
owned slaves before and is unaccustomed to treating other human beings harshly solely because of
the color of their skin. When Frederick is first taken into the Auld home, then, he is treated
far more kindly than by previous owners and by whites in general. Mrs. Aulds humanity manifested
itself, among other ways, in believing that the young slave in her charge should be as capable
of reading as other children. Very early in the learning process, however, Mr. Auld discovered
that his wife was teaching a slave how to read and put an immediate end to Fredericks education.
Mr. Aulds rationale for prohibiting slaves from learning to read was explained by Douglass in
this chapter of his narrative:

. ....

What is the difference between Drama and Narrative? And how could you explain it in the light of Oedipus?

By my
understanding, "drama" here refers to the action that propels the plot forward and
keeps the story moving in a logical and exciting sequence of events that ensures we stay on the
edge of our seats (think action movie: all drama, big event after big event). By
"narrative," I understand ""a character's narration of events that we don't
actually witness; the character just describes them to us (think monologues).

's  is a story that strikes an unusual balance between drama and
narrative. The style in Sophocles's day was to keep the time covered by a play relatively
shortall the play's events should elapse in 24 hours or less, and take place in more or less the
same geographical space. 's tale traverses many years and several cities; but Sophocles, in true
Ancient-Greek fashion, shows us only a day of Oedipus's life. Through the narration of
differentwe must listen to the events of the past rather than witness them.
Examples of this occur when thetells Oedipus how he was given a child by a shepherd, and when
the shepherd arrives to recount how he saved the baby he was told to abandon.

Oedipus Rex is a play heavy in narration and exposition, but there
are scenes where the action (or drama) progresses before us on the stage, propelled by the
decisions characters make in the present. For example, at the play's conclusion, the blind
Oedipus addresses his citizens andleads him out of the city.

How does Hawthorne use irony in "Young Goodman Brown" to illustrate the hypocrisy of the Puritans? What characters act in ways that are against the...

As an /, 's
short story "" makes
ironic use of the symbolic figures in the narrative as well as
verbal and
dramatic  to depict the Puritan hypocrisy.  For instance, Young Goodman Brown's
name
itself certainly has a an ironic twist put upon its meaning as the
narrator remarks that
Brown possesses "a considerable resemblance to the
traveller with the snakelike staff. 
Later on, this resemblance is
underscored by the witch Goody Cloyse, who remarks that the young
man is made
"in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown," a remark that

contradicts the traveller comment that he has been

"as well acquainted with [his] family as with
ever a one among the Puitans; and
that's no trifle to say."

Find Dy/dx By Implicit Differentiation. X2 ˆ’ 4xy + Y2 = 4

Note:- 1) If y = x^n
; then dy/dx = n*x^(n-1) ; where 'n' = real number 

2) If y = u*v ; where both u & v are functions of 'x' ;
then

dy/dx = u*(dv/dx) +
v*(du/dx)

3) If y = k ;
where k = constant ; then dy/dx = 0

Now, the given
function is :- 

(x^2) + xy - (y^2) = 4

Differentiating both sides w.r.t 'x' we get,

2x + x*(dy/dx) + y - 2y*(dy/dx) = 0

or, (2x+y) = (2y-x)*(dy/dx)

or, dy/dx
= (2x+y)/(2y-x)

`f''(theta) = sin(theta) + cos(theta), f(0) = 3, f'(0) = 4` Find `f`.

`f''(theta)=sin(theta)+cos(theta)`

`f'(theta)=int(sin(theta)+cos(theta))d(theta)`

`f'(theta)=-cos(theta)+sin(theta)+C_1`

Now let's find constant C_1 ,
given f'(0)=4

`f'(0)=4=-cos(0)+sin(0)+C_1`

`4=-1+0+C_1`

`C_1=5`

`:.f'(theta)=-cos(theta)+sin(theta)+5`

`f(theta)=int(-cos(theta)+sin(theta)+5)d(theta)`

`f(theta)=-sin(theta)-cos(theta)+5(theta)+C_2`

Now let's find
constant C_2 , given f(0)=3

`f(0)=3=-sin(0)-cos(0)+5(0)+C_2`

`3=-0-1+C_2`

`C_2=4`

`:.f(theta)=-sin(theta)-cos(theta)+5(theta)+4`

In Into the Wild, what can be learned from Chris McCandless' story? In Into the Wild, what can be learned from Chris McCandless' story?

Of course this question
is going to receive a
range of different responses, and I think it is testament to the
incredible
re-telling of the story of Chris McCandless in this novel that it is able to evoke
so
many different responses. My own feelings about the story of Chris
McCandless are ones of
sadness at theand the waste of his life. I feel very
attracted to his personality and the way
that he lived what he believed so
defiantly, even up until his death, and I must admit that I
admire the way he
met his death as described in the last chapter of this account before the

:

He is smiling in this picture, and there is
no
mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a
monk
gone...

Compare and contrast Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Perhaps one
of the most interesting aspects about the characters ofand Ladyis how their roles reverse by the
end of the play.

At the start of the play, and through the murder of King ,is
the one who sees violence as the answer and it is she who comes up with the murder scheme, while
her husband is racked with guilt and indecision, seeing and hearing things, his mind starting to
snap. She mentally bullies him into taking action and after he kills the king and comes unglued
("Macbeth hath murdered sleep!"),she contemptuously...

Which of the following is the most common relationship of screen duration to story duration: summary relationship, real time, or stretch...

Here are
the definitions of the three terms, taken word-for-word from Looking at Movies: An
Introduction to Film (W.W. Norton & Co, 2006;
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/film/movies2/glossary.aspx).

real time: The actual time during which something takes place. In real time, screen
duration and plot duration are exactly the same. Many directors use real time within films to
create uninterrupted "reality" on the screen, but they rarely use it for entire films.
Compare cinematic time, stretch relationship, and summary relationship.

stretch relationship: A time relationship in which screen duration is longer than plot
duration. Compare real time and summary relationship.

summary relationship: A
time relationship in which screen duration is shorter than plot duration. Compare real time and
stretch relationship.

Alongside those definitions, this
source identifies a fourth...

How are the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke expressed in the Delcaration of Independence? Or in what ways were their ideas modified in the...

If Hobbes
had no
influence on the Declaration of Independence, then I must ask why in

Leviathan Hobbes clearly discusses natural rights and freedoms and
how men
and women establish governments in order to secure peace. How is this
not the social contract
theory that Jefferson argues in favor of? Locke later
borrowed this theory from Hobbes. He
changed it because he didn't believe in
the absolute right of governments to rule like Hobbes
did, but the concept is
still very much the same.

Check the link below for
more
information.

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, why does Major ask the animals to meet in the barn after Mr. Jones has gone to sleep?

wants
to gather all the animals together in the barn so he can give them an inspiring speech. He
doesn't have much longer to live and so it's a matter of urgency that he deliver the speech as
soon as possible. Once Mr. Jones is fast asleep and all the animals have been gathered together,
Old Major launches into his speech, which is nothing less than a...

How are Snowball and Napoleon's ideas about building the windmill different?

It is in Chapter
Five of that the subject of building a windmill first emerges. For , the
windmill is an exciting prospect because it can be used to build a "dynamo" which can
supply the farm with electricity. Once the farm has electricity, Snowball plans on building a
range of "fantastical machines" which will improve the lives of the animals by giving
them lighting, heating, and labor-saving devices.

In contrast,really
disapproves of the windmill. In fact, at one point, he urinates all over Snowball's plans as a
means of expressing his discontent. In addition, Napoleon argues that the animals should focus
on increasing food production instead of building the windmill. In his mind, the windmill
represents a waste of time and energy.

Ultimately, Snowball wins over the
animals, but Napoleon will not let Snowball be victorious: he runs him off the farm, never to be
seen again.

What are the three main conflicts in the novel 1984? How are they resolved?

Man vs. Society: This is the central conflict of the
novel, astries to forge his own way in a society that does not allow for individual thought. He
begins to write a journal reflecting his hatred of Oceania and the way this life which is forced
upon him isn't a life at all. He longs for the freedom to make his own choices and to be free
from the Thought Police and Big Brother's watchful eye. Of course, he also wants to live, so he
doesn't say these things outright, even hiding his writing from the telescreens, and is careful
with whom he shares his true feelings. Eventually, society wins after the Thought Police learn
of his deviation from their norms; they torture him and push him to sacrificein order to save
himself. Big Brother converts Winston to follow their prescribed order of society, leaving no
one in Oceania with the power to think for themself any longer.

Man vs. Technology: The Party monitors all movements,
conversations, and even thoughts of the people in...

How does the physical description of the characters from Hunters in the Snowhelp the reader to understand them? How is Tub's obesity relevant to his...

Perception
goes a long way in understanding . The three friends have distinct
personalities and the reader is introduced to "Tub," with sandwiches and cookies
falling out of his pocket immediately recognizable as short and fat, just by his name and his
need to retrieve his beloved food from the sidewalk as if it is the most important thing he
needs to do. The description of Tub as "a beach ball with a hat on," such as Kenny
describes him, creates a vivid image of his appearance and gives the reader a comical, pitiful
impression which will endure throughout the story as Tub remains the subject of endless jokes.
His inability to understand his friends, particularly Kenny, will lead to tragic consequences.
Being fat is what defines Tub and everything he does revolves around it. When he finally admits
that there is nothing wrong with his glands and that he is fat because he overeats, he is almost
released from living a lie and the fact that he feels that Frank finally understands
him. 

There is something unreal about Kenny and the fact that he "looked
like a cartoon of a person laughing..." suggesting that everything he does is exaggerated,
such as a cartoon character is made comical by its overemphasized characteristics and actions.
When he shoots the dog, it seems so extreme to his friends who do not know that he has been
asked to shoot the dog because it is old and sick. This behavior leads Tub to misinterpret his
intentions as he is always - similar to a cartoon character- erratic and will do anything for a
laugh. This will cost him dearly when his friends ignore his needs and do not take him to
hospital.  

Frank is also, as his name suggests, a person who does not mince
his words although he does eventually stick up for Tub when Kenny mocks him. The description of
Frank's "hairy knuckles" invites the reader to think of him as a tough character and
his "heavy" wedding band, although subtle, hints at his unsatisfactory or at least
difficult marriage. He becomes a more like-able character when he shows sympathy for Tub and
shares his own problems. 

Does Young Goodman Brown dream the Black Mass or actually see it? How do you know? Does it make a difference in your interpretation of the story?

We cannot know for sure
whether Goodman Brown actually saw the Witches' Sabbath or if he dreamed it because there are no
absolutely definitive clues that establish the truth one way or the other.  However, it doesn't
actually matter whether it was real or a dream.  We do know that Brown left his home, abandoning
his wife, Faith, symbolic of Christian faith in general.  On his way into the forest, he thought
to himself,

Methought [...] there was trouble in her face,
as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done to-night.  But, no, no!  't would kill her
to think it.  Well; she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I'll cling to her
skirts and follow her to Heaven.

In other words, then,
Brown makes the...

What is the first indication that history, in Fahrenheit 451, has been re-written?

In , the first
indication that history has been rewritten occurs when Montag first meets Clarisse and she asks
him about his job. She enquires whether it is true that firemen once used to put out fires
instead of starting them and he replies confidently that this is not the case: houses have
always been fireproof and firemen have always been book-burners.

Later,
Montag recalls these words and hesitantly asks Beatty the same question: have the firemen always
started fires rather than extinguishing them? In response the other firemen, Stoneman and Black,
refer to their rulebooks, which contain brief histories of the Firemen of America (apparently
regarded as authoritative despite the fact that books are illegal). The histories say that the
fire department was started in 1790 to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies and that
the first fireman was Benjamin Franklin. This confirms for the reader that history has been
rewritten. The idea that firemen have always burned books is officially sanctioned with a
falsehood about the role of one of the Founding Fathers, a sworn enemy of censorship, which
shows that Montag was not merely mistaken but indoctrinated.

How did Robinson Crusoe's character change spiritually? Can you identify at least three examples that would be controls in a research paper of how...

Stephen Holliday

Although it is a cliche to say that Defoe's The Life and and Adventures ofof
York, Mariner (1719) is a spiritual biography, the novel is just that: before his
ill-fated voyage, Crusoe is at odds with both his father and his God,

and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness
to which it has since, reproached me with the contempt of advice, and the breach of my duty to
God and my father (http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/defoe/crusoe.pdf (7),

and at the conclusion of his voyage, he comments that his life has
been characterized, so far, "Providence's chequer-work" (259), acknowledging the role
of God in the outcome of his adventures.

At many points after Crusoe's
religious conversion, he makes very conventional statements about "God's grace" and
the "power of Providence" as an integral part of his life.  These are statements that
any outwardly religious person might make on a daily basis, but in his fourth year on the
island, Crusoe discusses his...

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At what were the people in the theatre laughing?

I assume you
are talking about an episode recounted in Part I, Chapter 1.  In this chapter,starts writing in
his diary.  His first entry talks about an experience he had...

In the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," why does the author say it's a children's story?

In
magical , the genre of "," it's hard to tell exactly why anything is what it is, which
is one of the drifining features of magical realism. There are clues to why the story carries
the subtitle A Tale for Children.

First of all, the story is about an angel
which is a favorite topic for children to think and...

How and why did English colonial policy change after 1763?

Prior to
1763, which marked the end of the
French and Indian War, the British government took a mostly
hands-off
approach to manage the affairs of their North American colonies. They felt that,
as
long as the colonists behaved well enough, they were happy to live and let
live. At times they
had attempted to take more direct control, such as with
instituting the short-lived Dominion of
New England and the Navigation Acts.
However, these attempts at British management were poorly
received by the
colonists who had come to expect a certain degree of independence from the

powers in London. As a result, the British mostly handled the colonies according to
their
unofficial policy of Salutary Neglect. This meant that they usually did
not strictly enforce
Parliament's laws that were meant to exert control over
the colonies.

This
all changed in 1763. The French and
Indian War had been expensive for the British. They were
left with large
debts to pay off and felt that, since the war was largely...

What does the Alchemist tell Santiago to try to convince him to go on?

Santiago is traveling with the Alchemist through an area in which tribal fighting is as its most
intense. This is clearly a very dangerous part of the world and Santiago can be forgiven for not
wanting to continue on this potentially fatal trek. Indeed, he openly tells the Alchemist that
his heart tells him...

What is your opinion of progressivism? What is your opinion of progressivism?

Personally, I feel
like some elements of progressivism were naive and ultimately did more harm than good.However I
do agree with many of the progressive ideas.I do think that laws are sometimes necessary to make
sure people do the right thing, because people always act in their own
self-interest.]]>

List three literary elements that Poe used as sound devices in "Annabel Lee" and give an example of each from the poem.

Many
literary sound devices contribute to the hauntingly melodic effect of "." In addition
to those noted in the other responses, Poe uses repetition, euphony, , and a lilting but
unstable rhythm to craft the beauty of his poem. 

Of all the sound devices,
certainly the most notable in this poem is the repetition. "In
this kingdom by the sea" repeats (with minor variation) in the first three stanzas and
takes on an ominous tone in the last two by changing the "kingdom" to
"demons" and a "sepulchre." The final two stanzas repeat "Of the
beautiful Annabel Lee." 

Euphony is the use
of pleasant-sounding phrases that roll off the tongue and create a melody of their own. The name
"Annabel Lee" is quite euphonic in itself; one finds oneself wanting to say it over
and over again, which this poem allows one to do. Other especially euphonic phrases are as
follows: "Than to love and be loved by me," "we loved with a love that was more
than love," and "Can ever dissever my soul...

href="https://literary-devices.com/content/euphony/">https://literary-devices.com/content/euphony/
href="https://literarydevices.net/anaphora/">https://literarydevices.net/anaphora/

Based on Martin C. Albi's book Reason, Faith, and Tradition: Explorations in Catholic Theology, what are scriptural hermeneutics? What is the...

Scriptural
hermeneutics, or biblical hermeneutics, simply
refers to methods in which we interpret the Bible. Several
different models for interpretation have been born, including the historical-grammatical model,
the Dispensational model, the Covenantal model, the New-Covenantal model, and many others ( href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics">"Biblical
Hermeneutics").

According to Martin C.
Albi in his book Reason, Faith, and Tradition: Explorations in Catholic
Theology, theologian and philosopher Paul Ricoeur argued
that a problem exists with respect to biblical
interpretation through the modern worldview. The essential problem is that the
biblical text means something different to the modern reader than it would to the
"prescientific reader." Ricoeur classifies this problem using what he terms the
"hermeneutical circle." His circle simply poses the
problem that "we must understand in order to believe, but we must believe in order to
understand" (p. 63). According to Albi, Riceour also proposed two
stages through which a modern reader
can...

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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics

Discuss the new developments in Renaissance music and dance.

The major
new developments in Renaissance music and dance reflect increasing secular patronage of these
art forms and development of new modes and venues for presenting performances.

Two major developments in Renaissance music were a significant increase in
the...

What method does William Golding use to characterize Jack in Lord of the Flies?

This is
an interesting question because it asks how the author accomplishesrather
than just asking whois. I like it. In ,reveals Jack's character through
both direct and .

is what Golding tells us directly about Jack. For example,
Golding tells us Jack has red hair and is wearing an elaborate choir robe when we first meet
him. Most physical description an author uses is considered direct characterization, but it can
also include statements about Jack's character.

In this novel, Golding relies
more heavily on indirect characterization to reveal Jack's character. Indirect characterization
uses the character's own actions and words and their effects on others to reveal character.
Readers have to take what they hear Jack say and do, along with how other characters react to
him, and make their own judgments about him.

For example, when we first meet
Jack, he says:

I ought to be chief, said
Jack...

How does Mr. Hooper's veil benefit him in his role as a clergyman? How do these details suggest the theme of the story?

One way in which Mr.
Hooper benefits from the
veil is that he can now affect his parishioners to a much greater
extent than
he ever did before he put it on.  The narrator tells us that, on the day he
first
wears the veil, his sermon was "marked by the same characteristics of
style and
manner" as his sermons always were, and yet

there was
something, either in the sentiment of
the discourse itself, or in the imagination of the
auditors, which made it
greatly the most powerful effort that they had ever heard from their
pastor's
lips.

Despite the fact that Mr. Hooper speaks
as
mildly as usual, this sermon is somehow more persuasive, more poignant
than any he has delivered
before.  In fact, every listener "felt as if the
preacher had crept upon them, behind his
awful veil, and discovered their
hoarded iniquity of deed or thought."  They feel more
understood by him than
they ever have; it's as though he somehow knows them more fully, and this

feeling makes them extremely uncomfortable because there is something they wish to
hide.
 Moreover, when he goes to pray over the body of a recently deceased
girl,

The people trembled, though they
but darkly understood him when he
prayed that they, and himself, and all of
mortal race, might be ready, as he trusted this young
maiden had been, for
the dreadful hour that should snatch the veil from their faces.

We begin, now, to understand what this veil represents.
 That his
audience feels that he, with his veil, has "discovered their
hoarded iniquity of deed or
thought" and that it is death, alone, that will
"snatch the veil" away, helps us
to see that the veil must have to with our
secret sinful thoughts or actions.  Our pretense --
portraying ourselves to
the world as sinless -- separates us from one another, preventing us
from
truly knowing each other, and will only be lifted when we die.  If the thing we fear
most
is the revelation of our sinfulness to another person, then we can never
realize that
we are all sinners (a popular Hawthorne
theme), and it is our
unnecessary deception that ultimately -- and
unnecessarily -- alienates each of
us.

Furthermore, if Mr. Hooper were to just come out and accuse
each of
them of being a secret sinner who purposefully hides their true, sinful, natures,
his
message would seem a lot less palatable to his listeners. Wearing the
veil, however, not only
engages them in some critical thinking about why he
would wear it and what it represents but
also precisely conveys the point
that we all do this.  Even the minister hides his true nature,
recognizes the
universality of the pretense, and STILL doesn't have the nerve to tell them
what
the veil means.  Therefore, this need to present ourselves as
sinless creatures seems
to be a real deep-seated human impulse.
 Not even the minister can escape
it.

In "The Stranger," what do we learn of Meursault's work, his attitude towards it and towards promotion?

Meursault is a
man of great indifference. When his mother passes away, he is neither disturbed nor particularly
grieved. He tends to hold this apathetic attitude throughout most of the novel, and while he
continues to live his life, he continues to lack any strong feeling about it as a
whole.

This apathy is carried over to his work, which he feels obligated to
do, but which he avoids particularly caring about. He tends to remain objective about things;
for example, when he describes taking time off in order to attend his mother's funeral, he
says,

"I have fixed up with my employer for two days'
leave; obviously, under the circumstances, he couldn't refuse. Still, I had an idea he looked
annoyed, and I said, without thinking: 'Sorry, sir, but it's not my fault, you
know....'

Upon waking I understood why my employer had looked rather cross
when I asked for my two days off; it's a Saturday today...."

His work isn't something he enjoys or dislikes. It is what he feels naturally obligated
to do. The same can be said about his potential promotion; Meursault's boss speaks to him one
day, offering him an opportunity to move up in the company by moving to Paris. Meursault
muses,

"I told him I was quite prepared to go; but
really I didn't care much one way or the other.... I answered that one never changed his way of
life; one life was as good as another, and my present one suited me quite well."

His boss, naturally, is quite offended at Meursault's lack of
excitement. Meursault isn't against the idea of being promoted; he simply isn't any more
for it than he is opposed to it. To him, promotion or
not, his life will generally remain the same because he will generally
remain the same. His absurdist point of view suggests that life is generally meaningless and
that he might as well just be; a promotion, a marriage, and the death of
his mother are surely not able to influence him too significantly in any
way.

What were the causes of the movement for women's rights, in the early nineteenth century?

The major
cause of this movement was a general movement towards reform that was going on in the United
States during the 1830s and 1840s.

During the 1820s and 1830s, the US
economy and society were changing.  The economy was moving away from subsistence farming and
barter and more toward a "commercial revolution."  This caused great upheaval in
society.  These...

I want an acrostic poem on the drug of ecstasy please help? please help by writing donot say what it should be focusing on

I think
that the best way to approach an acrostic poem about any drug is to have each line represent
some facts about the drug.  I think that this might be rather effective in conveying what is
known about the drug.  For example, "E" could stand for its "street name." 
I think that being able to focus each particular letter on an aspect of the drug would be
effective in being able to relay what is known about the drug, facts surrounding its use, and
the side effects when ingested into the body.  Any acrostic poem has to be able to convey
something of meaning about a topic and with a drug, I think being able to explore its multiple
dimensions both socially, behaviorally, and from a pharmacological point of view could be quite
relevant.

After Tom Robinson's trial, why does Jem say Boo Radley wants to stay inside? Provide quotes with page numbers.

After
witnessing racial injustice for the first
time,loses his childhood innocence. He is deeply hurt
by the outcome of the
Tom Robinson trial and becomes jaded with the prejudiced community of

Maycomb. At the end of ,and Jem are having a discussion about the various types
of
"folks" in their community. Jem tells Scout that he used to think there
was only one
kind of folks, but cannot understand why they don't get along
with one another. He goes on to
say,

"I
think I'm beginning to understand why 's
stayed shut up in the house all this
time...it's because he wants to stay inside" (Lee
139).

One of the prominentthroughout the novel
concerns
the idea of prejudice. Throughout the Tom Robinson trial, Jem
witnesses the destructive nature
of hate and prejudice. Following the trial,
Jem sees his neighbors as prejudiced individuals. He
is disgusted with their
decision to wrongfully convict an innocent man and does not want
anything to
do with them. Jem does not blame Boo Radley for not coming out of
his
home because he understands the dangers of prejudice and hate that exist
throughout
Maycomb. 

How does Flannery O'Connor portray the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find?"

The family,
specifically the grandmother, are alazons (those who think they are better than they really
are); they are essentialists (those who believe in a perfectible human nature); they are lost on
the road (spiritually and physically); they are "once saved, always saved" hypocrites
("wingless chickens" who think they are going to heaven and, therefore, do not take
responsibility for themselves or others).

"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...

What was so important about Albert Speer?

What was
most important about Albert Speer is that he was the highest ranking member of the Nazi Party to
admit to doing wrong and to be very open about what he had done.  It is from him that we get a
good deal of our understanding of how the Nazi regime worked.

Albert Speer
was the Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Nazi...

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What are Zinn's points of argument in Chapter 1 of A People's History of the United States?

titled
the opening chapter of his A Peoples History of the United States
Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress to further establish his argument, discussed in his
introduction, that the discovery of America represented anything but progress to the people
who already lived here, the indigenous tribes or Native Americans. Zinn begins this chapter with
the following quote from Christopher Columbuss journal, in which the European explorer describes
an early encounter with a native tribe:

They . . . brought
us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the
glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were
well-built, with good bodies and handsome features. . . . They do not bear arms, and do not know
them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance.
They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane. . . . They would make
fine...

How does the poet reveal the plight of the caged bird?

"" is a poem by African American
writer(1928€“2014), originally published in her collection Shaker, Why Don't You
Sing? in 1983. The poem consists of six stanzas written in . It is narrated in the
third person and contrasts free and caged birds, with the first and fourth stanzas focusing on
the free bird, and the second, third, fifth, and sixth stanzas focusing on the caged bird. The
third and sixth stanzas are identical and thus form a refrain. Thus, the first way Angelou
emphasizes the plight of the caged bird is through contrasting it with the free bird.

The first major contrast is spatial, with the free bird roaming across an open sky,
soaring in the wind, and seeing vast territories spread out beneath it. The caged bird is
described as being confined to a small space, with its visual field limited by bars and with its
wings clipped rather than functioning.

Next, Angelou contrasts the dreams and
thoughts of the free bird with those of the caged bird. The dreams of the free bird, of fat
worms and fresh breezes, are things a free bird can reasonably expect to experience. The caged
bird stands on a "grave of dreams" and instead is described as living in a nightmare,
singing of the freedom it cannot have.

The two main ways the plight is
revealed are directly, through description such as clipped wings and tied feet, and indirectly,
through comparisons and descriptions of the two birds' songs and dreams.

How can I apply the theory of formalism to Lucille Cliffton's "There is a Girl Inside"?

Formalist
theory focuses on a work's or a poem's literariness; what makes it different from everyday
speech. Formalists want to distinguish literature/poetry from everyday language. Formalists do
not see literature as an exact reflection of reality, but an artistic interpretation of reality.
Since formalists focus so closely on text and form, they attempt to ignore or put aside cultural
and historical implications. This method has its proponents and opponents. Opponents claim you
cannot separate art from history, but most do not dismiss formalism as a valid literary
practice; they just think it should be complemented with cultural, historical, feminist, etc.
interpretations.

A formalist analysis would look at the line breaks, the
grammar, the word choices and the themes as the poem exists as autonomous; sort of outside
history. Generally, the poem is about the young girl inside the poet who refuses to die; so it
is about keeping a young perspective even into old age despite. Formalism does focus on themes
but moreso on the actual literariness of poems. So, what about the poem makes it a poem? What
makes this poetry different from everyday speech? What makes it an unfamiliar way to speak? One
thing is thewith €˜thyme where the narrator will blossom into thyme meaning something new
(blossoming into; second coming) and blossoming into €˜time as growing into the world of linear
time.

The comparison between the narrator and the tree, as well as the woods
with other people, is an example ofor . It shows a comparison/ between humanity and
nature.

€˜Green can mean natural, young but also na¯ve, or new. A formalist
analysis would look at literariness and that means finding the different possible meanings; as
authorial intent or reader interpretation. Puns, metaphors, synecdoche, metonymy are all
elements to be aware of with formalist analysis.

In Act II of Pygmalion, when Doolittle says, "I'm undeserving, & I mean to go on being undeserving," why does he not want to better himself?

In
, Alfred Doolittle is Eliza's father.  With the character and values that
truly mirror his compound name containing the words "Do" and "Little," it is
no surprise that Doolittle boasts with this statement.  Let's look at a little bit more what he
says in Act II with a certain "gift of " that eventually gets him in
trouble:

I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving
poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle
class morality all the time. ... I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more. I don't
eat less hearty than him; and I drink a lot more.

Considering he finds himself "undeserving, and I mean to go on being
undeserving," even his daughter Eliza (of the same metal as her dad, of course) is
absolutely disgusted.

You see, Eliza is, in fact, trying
to better herself.

Alfred Doolittle considers himself as one of the
"undeserving poor."  Why?  Because he does not do any work, doesn't want
to do any work, and never plans to do any work, no matter what. 
Oh, there's a wonderful song in My Fair Lady (the musical version of
Pygmalion) that deals in this very issue:  "With A Little Bit of
Luck." How's this as the answer to your question:

The
Lord above gave man an arm of iron
So he could do his job and never shirk.
The Lord gave man an arm of iron-but
With a little bit of luck, With a little bit of
luck,
Someone else'll do the blinkin' work!

Sums Afred up quite nicely, eh?  Not sure if Shaw could have said it better
himself.

Back to the point, though.  Why doesn't Alfred Doolittle want to
"better himself"?  Simple!  Alfred Doolittle is perfectly happy the way he is living
and has no desire to change it.  Ah, but that's about to change thanks to Professor Higgins.  :
)

In Romeo and Juliet, does Shakespeare seem to consider a self-destructive tendency inextricably connected with love, or is it a separate issue?

That's an
interesting question. The two
characters in the play who fall in romantic love
do
commit suicide, so it could be easily to conclude that Shakespeare is

pointing the finger at romantic love and saying it is
inextricably
connected with self-destructive tendencies.

However, I would argue this is
not the case. As Shakespeare points
out in the play's, it is the feud between the...

Write briefly about the themes of Pygmalion.

One of
the themes you might like to consider is the fluidity of identity. On the face of it, it would
appear that Eliza Dolittle's identity is fixed. She's a humble Cockney flower seller who looks
set to remain in this lowly condition for the rest of her days. And yet Eliza, as a result of
Higgins's experiment, is able to morph into a lady of quality and is able to take her place
among the upper echelons of society without arousing the least soup§on of suspicion.

This stunning transformation would appear to suggest that identity is anything but
fixed. On the contrary, Eliza's experience shows how it's possible for someone to put on a new
identity and leave behind one's former self in the past. It's by no means an easy task, to be
sure, and there are lots of bumps in the road along the way. But the very fact that someone from
Eliza's humble background can become, to the outside world, a lady of refinement, bears eloquent
testimony to the fluidity of identity in a society where appearance is
everything.

What is Hawthornes attitude toward Puritan people and Puritan beliefs in The Scarlet Letter?

Hawthorne is pretty scathing on the whole about the Puritans and their beliefs in
. Observe the preamble, where the narrator tells us how the book came to be
written. His detailed description of the Custom House where he works and the surrounding wharf
speaks of backwardness and decay.

Though it's several centuries since the
events of the story took place, it would appear that Salem is still stuck in the past, unable to
adapt itself to the present day. To a large extent, this is because of the Puritan attitude that
hangs over the town like a permanent thundercloud, enshrouding everyone and everything in a
funereal pall of gloom.

The very visible signs of decay that disfigure the
Custom House and its surroundings nearly symbolize the lack of cultural and intellectual
progress in this part of the world. The world has moved on, but Salem hasn't. Although young
women may no longer be publicly humiliated and paraded before the town for the sin of committing
adultery, the...

Who is Se±or Saguaro in Stargirl?

The giant
cactus with the Spanish name is the boon companion of the eccentric retired teacher Archie
Brubaker. Se±or Saguaro isn't just a plant to Archie; he's a conversation partner. Though
admittedly their conversations are a little one-sided.

Nevertheless, Archie
is clearly one of those people who finds great wisdom through contemplating the world around
them. Nature is often the source of answers to many of life's most perplexing questions, and as
Archie is regularly engaged in providing answers to some of those questions for the benefit of
the kids in the neighborhood, his regular consultations with the colossal cactus in his backyard
are perhaps not quite as weird or as eccentric as they might first appear.

As
well as providing answers, Se±or Saguaro is also pretty adept at asking challenging questions
that force Leo to think about his relationship to . There's something more than a little unusual
about her; it's as if she's a force of nature. That being the case, it makes sense in a funny
kind of way to find out more about her by consulting a feature of the natural worldsomething
that can relate to Stargirl in a way that no mere human can.

I have to make a concept map on the relationship between Mass-Media and tyranny. Starting from Orwell's 1984 any other ideas?

's
was written in 1948, after World War II, at the end of the Print Era
(novel, newspaper) and beginning of the Analog Audio/Visual Era (TV, film).  It was written in
the worst time period in human history during which the world suffered global war, the
Holocaust, political purges, nuclear strikes, and the threat of a nuclear war.  's novel attacks
both sides of these tyrannies, that of the political far right (Hitler and Mussolini's fascism)
and political far left (Lenin and Stalin's communism), in a synthesis of both extremes found in
Oceania's Inner Party.  His immediate audience, of course, was his home country of England, but
in a larger sense, his novel served to warn all nations of Western democracy.  

The role of mass media in 1984 parallels the role of mass
destruction.  Each are used in a kind of double movement: the state-controlled media uses open
lies (Doublespeak) through a ubiquitous medium (the telescreens) to both unify the masses in
ignorance...

Summarize the primal religions according to Huston Smith.

Primal religions are thought to predate most well-known historical religions, and some
of those continue around the globe, in places like Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands,
and North and South America. In these religions, there is a blending of the experiences of life
and the mythical world, and adherents typically reach far back into their ancestries to form
common bonds with nature and time.

Most people who practice these religions
are not literate. Instead, they rely on the beauty of an oral tradition to convey truth. This
tradition involves using rhythms, intonations, and pauses as need to convey meaning. Each member
of the religion learns these stories, becoming a part of the tradition and a walking library of
information.

These religions also have a unique attachment to space and
place. A place is concrete (one specific lake), but a space is abstract (one cubic foot of space
is the same anywhere). Adherents to primal religions consider their surroundings with
great...

What is Goodman Brown so surprised about by the people he sees in the forest? What kinds of people are they? Why is Goodman Brown surprised when...

Goodman Brown is surprised by all of the people that he sees in the forest consorting
with the Devil, because previously Goodman Brown thought that each of those people were good
Puritans.  Not only good Puritans, but highly revered, respected Puritans for their general
goodness and work within the community in tasks that helped bolster the faith of the rest of the
community.  Take the following quote about Goodie Cloyse.  

As he spoke he pointed his staff at a female figure on the path, in whom Goodman Brown
recognized a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism in youth, and was
still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin.

Goodman...