How do irony and humor make "The Open Window" by Saki interesting?

It
can be argued that the only humor in "" is
ironic humor. If one were to analyze Framton Nuttel's escaping flight at the end
as humorous, it would be at the expense of (1) ignoring Vera's possibly unkind motives as an
enfant terrible (young person intentionally bent on harming weak adults)
and (2) ignoring Framton's emotional and mental exhaustion that causes him to need a "rest
cure" (does she drive him completely mad and does she hope to?). Since these analytical
oversights would be serious ones, critics generally agree that 's humor is ironic
humor that is meant to satirize groups of
individuals (i.e., weak, foolish, and nervous adults) and society as a whole, which is largely
made up of foolish, weak, nervous adults.

Ironic humor is found in both
Framton's and Vera's remarks. In addition, the narrator expresses some of Framton's ironic
thoughts as well. Humor is defined as the quality of being amusing
(it's a quality in something). Ironic humor in literature is
defined as expressing thoughts contradictory to what seems intended for the purpose of adding
humor (i.e., amusement).

An example of this contradictory spirit of
humor in is expressed in Vera's first remarks to Framton. Her aunt, Mrs. Sappleton,
is occupied when Framton comes to call, so Vera says he will have to "put up with"
her. "Put up with" is anmeaning to make do with something inferior. Vera, this
"self-possessed young lady," has not the slightest notion of herself as inferior in
any way, yet she says he will have to "put up with her." This is ironic humor: she
means the opposite of what she says and intends it to be amusing; she has no expectation that
Framton will find her inferior.

"My aunt will be down
presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the
meantime you must try and put up with me."

There are
many such examples, like Framton wondering if Mrs. Sappleton "came into the nice
division," meaning he wondered if she would be unpleasant to know, yet the most significant
is arguably the last ironically humorous statement Vera makes by way of explanation of Framton's
sudden escape. We know that he has been terrified by Vera's ghost/corpse story into flight from
the hunters' return, yet Vera ironically supposes he bolted because of the spaniel, which
reminds of some event Vera is in the process of inventing. Of course, the only one amused here
is Vera and the readers since she and we are the only ones who know she means something quite
different from what she says.

"I expect it was the
spaniel," said the niece calmly; "he told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once
hunted into a cemetery somewhere ... by a pack of pariah dogs ...."

Irony and its humor of contradiction add
interest by developing themes, such as the
theme of whether Vera is a playful though unthinking innocent or a malicious and spiteful
enfant terrible (wicked young person), through the introduction of
contradiction and curiosity. It also adds interest by allowing readers to know
secrets that characters don't know, such as the secret truth behind Vera's
explanation about "pariah dogs." This secret knowledge creates
situational irony in which readers know more than all or some
characters. It also adds interest by making the content intellectually
challenging because readers must sort out the contradictory real truth from the
apparent truth and the real motive and intent from the seeming motive and
intent.

What was the prize for the best storyteller among the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?

The
innkeeper of the Tabard Inn is absolutely delighted to have his hostelry patronized by so many
clients, most of them quite well-heeled. In medieval times, pilgrimages were big business, not
just for religious houses or hawkers of relics, but for anyone needing to cater for the needs of
pilgrims. The journey from London to Canterbury was quite an arduous one in those days; pilgrims
needed to be fed, watered and restedtheir horses too. So we can well imagine how lucrative the
pilgrimage is to the Tabard's innkeeper.

In gratitude for his windfall, the
innkeeper offers a lavish prize for the best story-teller among the pilgrims: a feast in their
honor once they have returned to the Tabard from Canterbury.

Imagine you are Walter in A Raisin in the Sun. You are informing Mr Lindner of your decision to move to Clybourne Park: "Well€”what I mean is that we...

Mr.
Lindner has come to pay a visit toand his family to tell them that he wants to buy their
newly-acquired property in order to stop them moving into their new neighborhood. Lindner
represents the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, which is uneasy at the thought of an
African American family moving into their all-white neighborhood.

Initially,
Walter...

In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, does his dismissal of his pact with God make Crusoe a hopeless rebel? Even though Crusoe presumably had been raised...

In 's
, I don't know that Crusoe's change of heart towards God indicates that he
is a "hopeless rebel." I assume this term means that he cannot help but be a rebel.
Human nature may tend to push one naturally toward Crusoe's behavior. In the heat of the moment,
when fear is so overwhelming, the basic instinct of a human being is to do whatever is necessary
to survive.

After the fear has passed, it is also not unusual that promises
made under duress would be forgotten as quickly as they were made. Crusoe admits that this is
what happens to him. However, he does not wholly lose sight of his brief encounter with
God:

I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and
the serious thoughts did, as it were, endeavour to return again sometimes; but I shook them off,
and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and
company, soon mastered the return of those fitsfor so I called them€¦

Crusoe speaks of God numerous times throughout the story. He
reports that when he first is washed ashore while everyone else perishes, he does not thank God
(we assume he infers "as he should have,") but runs about wringing his hands like a
madman until he collapses.

With the "miraculous" growth of corn on
the island, Crusoe once again "sees" God, but this, too, is temporary.

...and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my
religious thankfulness to Gods providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all
this was nothing but what was common...

A permanent
change eventually does come over the castaway. At one point, when he becomes
seriously illclose to dyingCrusoe begins to think about his lack of a
relationship with God, his father's prediction that rejecting his parents' wishes would not bode
well for him, and it might well be that God's hand is present in his current separation from
civilization:

I had no more sense of God or His
judgmentsmuch less of the present affliction of my circumstances being from His handthan if I
had been in the most prosperous condition of life.  But now, when I began to be sick, and a
leisurely view of the miseries of death came to place itself before me; when my spirits began to
sink under the burden of a strong distemper, and nature was exhausted with the violence of the
fever; conscience, that had slept so long, began to awake, and I began to reproach myself with
my past life, in which I had so evidently, by uncommon wickedness, provoked the justice of God
to lay me under uncommon strokes, and to deal with me in so vindictive a manner.

What began to work in Crusoe earlier in the story disappeared when
the threats were gone. He was, however, younger then, and as he himself concludes, this
independence from God is not unusual for a young man who believes all is well with his lifethat
he need depend on no one.

Human nature shows that when change is about to
come over us in whatever fashion, it may take several "life-altering kicks" before we
are aware that life is trying to get our attention. Crusoe was raised in a good home, and in
that he is growing as a personseeing how insignificant he is, alone in the universeI would not
assume that he is truly a hopeless rebel. I would think simply that he will stop fighting life
and look for a peace regarding his circumstances which will allow him to survive. Recognizing
that God has a hand in this disaster, he can see, too, the blessings Crusoe has
received.

In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, what does Oedipus say when he stabs his eyes?

In 'the King,
the title character discovers that he has killed his father, Laius, and married his mother, .
When Oedipus is on the verge of discovering the truth, Jocasta rushes back into the palace
because she realizes that Oedipus is about to learn his true identity.

After
Oedipus learns the truth, he also rushes back into the palace in search of Jocasta. When he
finds her, she has hanged herself. Oedipus then takes her down, removes the brooches that
Jocasta was wearing on her dress, plunges them into his eyes. When he does this, he cries out to
his eyes:

"You will no longer see

all those atrocious things I suffered,

the dreadful things I did!
No. You have seen

those you never should have looked upon,

and those I wished to know you did not see.

So now and for all
future time be dark!"

(A.S. Kline translation)

 

 

Compare perversity in "The Black Cat," "The Imp of the Perverse," and "The Cask of Amontillado."

"The Imp of the Perverse" is evidently intended as a scientific explanation
by Poe of the innate human tendency to do the wrong thingto perform some action simply because
we know it is improper, dangerous, or destructive. In Poe's description it sounds much like a
manifestation of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). The other two stories to which you refer,
"" and "," show the horrifying results of this obsessive urge which Poe
analyzes in technical-sounding language in "The Imp of the Perverse."

In "The Black Cat," the narrator abuses and then murders Pluto not because
he hates him, but, as he tells us himself, precisely because the cat has loved him and done him
no harm. He describes himself in tears as he is slipping the noose round the cat's neck,
committing this cold-blooded act of sadism against his own will, as it were. In part, the
narrator attributes his cruelty to substance abuse, admitting that he is an alcoholic and
claiming that in...

How are Thaddeus Sholto and his home described? What is the purpose or possible effect of this description? - (Sign of four novel)

At the end
of chapter three, Holmes and Watson arrive at what the author calls a "questionable and
forbidding neighbourhood." Watson describes a line of dark brick houses, most of which are
uninhabited, illuminated only by the gaudy public houses on the street corner. They stop at the
only house with a light on and knock on the door.

In the next chapter,
entitled "The Story of the Bald-headed Man," they enter what Watson calls a
"sordid and common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished." They continue into another
room, Watson calls an apartment, which as he says "looked as out of place as a diamond of
the first water in a setting of brass." In comparison, to the hallway it is luxurious;
decorated in a fashion inspired by the east. Expensive tapestries, curtains, and tiger skins are
draped over the walls, oriental vases sit on sills, a huge hookah stands on a mat in the corner
and a dove-shaped lamp hangs from the centre of the room. Watson says the carpet is so soft that
his feet sink into it "as into a bed of moss."

Thaddeus Sholto is
standing up to greet them. Watson describes him as a small man with a line of red hair skirting
around a shining bald scalp and a set of irregular yellow teeth that he is so conscious of he
tries to hide them with his hand. Despite his appearance, Watson says he is only 30 years
old.

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How does the opening chapter in A Wrinkle in Time leave the reader wondering about the future of Meg or her father?

As for Meg's
father, the opening chapter leaves us with a cliffhanger. We know the father has disappeared and
that this a cause for gossip in their New England village, but we don't know where he has gone.
Then, at the end of the chapter, Mrs. Whatsit matter-of-factly tells Mrs. Murry that tesseracts
are real. This causes Mrs. Murry to turn white and clutch her chair for support. Does this news
about tesseracts, whatever they are, have anything to do with Meg's missing father, we wonder?
And if not, where has he gone? And what does the very odd but charming Mrs. Whatsit have to do
with it all? Surely she's arrived for a reason.

As for Meg, we end the first
chapter wondering what will happen to this girl who seems such an interesting misfit, who
worries about storms blowing the house down and tramps invading with knives, and who is so
protective of her brilliant little brother that she'll fight for him. She's a girl who seems
smart, curious, and brave. We might be beginning to guess she will go on an adventure to find
her father, but as of yet, we don't know.

Describe the relationship between Mama and Walter in the play "A Raisin in the Sun"?

Younger and her son,Jr., have a unique, complex relationship throughout the play. Initially,
Lena dismisses Walter Jr.'s wish to use the insurance money to invest in a liquor business.
Lena's initial decision to not support Walter Jr.'s dream creates conflict in their
relationship, and Walter feels that his mother is overlooking him like the rest of society.
Walter becomes deeply depressed, refuses to go to work, and drinks all day long. After Lena
witnesses her son's reaction to her spending most of the insurance money to buy a home in
Clybourne Park, she sympathizes with her son and decides to give him the remainder of the money
to invest in his liquor business and pay for 's education. Mama displays her affection for her
son by telling Walter Jr.,

Listen to me, now. I say I been
wrong, son. That I been doing to you what the rest of the world been doing to you.

Walter Jr.'s attitude instantly improves after receiving the
insurance money, and the audience gets a glimpse...

How does Dianna help Lyddie in Lyddie?

Diana helpslearn to use her
loom and makes her feel at home.

Diana is the mother figure
for all of the factory girls. She has endless patience, and whenever a new girl comes to the
factory she shows her how to operate the machinery so that she wont get hurt. When Lyddie starts
at Lowell, she has no idea what she is doing. It is Diana who shows her the ropes.

Lyddie is given the machine next to Diana. It never seems to bother Diana that she has
to maintain her own machines and help the newcomers learn theirs. She doesnt complain about
reduced productivity or slow learners. She is only patient and supportive.

Diana asks Lyddie if she likes to read, and Lyddie admits that she hasnt had much
schooling.

"Well, you can remedy that," the
older girl said. "I'll help, if you like, some evening."

Lyddie
looked up gratefully. She felt no need with Diana to apologize or to be ashamed of her
ignorance. "I'm needing a bit of help with the regulations..." (Ch. 9)

Diana does help Lyddie with reading and writing. She gives her
paper and encourages her to write to her mother and brother. No one in Lyddies family is
well-educated, and Lyddie left school when her father left. She just couldnt trust her mother
with the farm or her younger siblings.  Diana carefully helped Lyddie write the letters and
insisted on giving her postage. Before that, Lyddies brother and mother had no idea where she
went when she left the tavern.

Diana is a force of comfort for Lyddie. Since
money is so valuable to her, Lyddie worries about signing Dianas workers rights petitions, but
Diana is so important to her that she eventually goes to a meeting. Diana confides that she is
going to have a baby, and the father is married. She has to leave so she wont hurt their cause.
It is a terrible blow to Lyddie, who feels like she is losing another family
member.

In The Scarlet Letter, what significance is there to Hester viewing the crowd from atop the scaffold?

of
, titled "The Marketplace" explains, among other things, the
purpose and goal of the scaffold. According to the narrator, the use of the scaffold was to
promote good citizenship. It instilled the same horror as "the guillotine" did with
the "terrorists in France". The goal of it was to prevent the culprit from
"hiding their shame" and to make the accused stand in front of the crowd, admitting to
the fact that a transgression has been committed.

The very
ideal of ignominy was... made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron. There can be no
outrage... more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the
essence of this punishment to do.

's particular
punishment was to stand at the scaffold for a period of time and render herself susceptible to
any comment, sneer, or criticism coming from the crowd that looks at her. She is holding her
child at this time, making the magnitude of her indiscretion even more evident. However, Hester
is at all times defiant. She is defiant when her guard removes her from her cell, and she is
also defiant when the crowd begins to sneer at her. The importance of this exchange of glances
is that Hester is quite aware that her village is a mere settlement of people who follow each
other sheepishly and without questioning a thing.

Of an impulsive
and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of
public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult

Hester is aware of the ignorance and hypocrisy that permeates the settlement. She knows
thatis weak and that he fell into temptation even though he is the most respected elder in the
village. She knows that , 's own sister is a witch who is allowed to practice her beliefs
without being punished; that the entire leadership of the town is as prone to corruption as she
was. Therefore, Hester looking down at them is a symbol of how, in the end, they are just as
sinful as she is. However, the fact that she stands at "a shoulder's height" above
them is allegorical to Hester STILL being at a higher spiritual and intellectual level than all
of them. This is because, even though Hester committed a sin, she is aware of her actions and
does not sell herself to religion like the rest of the villagers; she is what we could consider
a modern thinker in that respect. Hence, to have an entire town of ignorants looking up at a
person, and to have that person look down on them is a symbol of Hester's natural higher rank
than theirs.

What is the main idea of "A Worn Path"?

A southern
writer, in this story Welty seeks to explain the racism of the south through theembedded in the
title.  Phoenixs path in life is set in place, well traveled by her and other blacks as a
result of the indignities of racism.  Paths are limited and narrow; they...

In 1984, where do Winston and Julia succeed in making love?

andfirst
make love in a country spot Julia
knows of outside the city. It is an idyllic setting, lush with
bluebells.
Julia meets Winston on a path and leads him to a tiny clearing completely
surrounded
by trees. She believes they will have privacy here, away from
microphones and cameras:

They were in a
natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by
tall saplings that shut
it in completely.

Later, Winston
is
able to rent the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, and the couple meets there from time
to
time. They make love and sit together and read and talk and drink coffee
like a normal couple
from the old days. Again, they believe they have found
privacy in a room owned by an old Prole
in territory the Thought Police, they
think, will leave alone. Winston thinks of their room as
like the coral in
the Victorian paperweight he has purchased: a safe, old-fashioned space safe

from the state.

In both cases, they are able to make love and develop
a
relationship, but in both locations, unbeknownst to them, they are being
spied on and
recorded.

What are some adjectives that descirbe these characters in The Crucible? Abigail, Reverend Parris, Tituba, Proctor, Putnam, Goody Nurse, Mary Warren,...

Here are two adjectives for each character, with
brief explanations.

Abigail is guileful and
underhand

Abigail is not a likeable
character, but she is
the product of childhood trauma, followed by living as a poor relation in
the
house of Reverend Parris. These misfortunes, together with the repressiveof Salem, have
led
her to develop habits of concealment and dishonesty.

Reverend Parris is
paranoid and avaricious

The
Reverend Parris is constantly worrying about his
unpopularity in the parish
and trying to improve his status and salary.

Tituba is
deracinated and powerless

Tituba has been taken out of a

society that makes sense to her and placed in one where her only function is to serve
others.
She has no independent existence and is only addressed at all about
her relations with Betty,
Abigail or the Reverend Parris (or, of course, the
Devil).

Proctor is
independent and impetuous

Proctor develops throughout the play and there are
adjectives that
would only apply to him at certain...

Explain Amir and Hassan's friendship in The Kite Runner.

In
, Amir and Hassan are close friends who come from different classes. As
children, Hassan lives in Amir's family's househis father is a family servant. However, he
shares a deep friendship with Amir. The two are playmates and run around playing as long as
Hassan does not have any chores or work to do. Hassan has a deeper devotion to Amir than Amir
does to him, in large part because Amir is somewhat spoiled as a child.

When
Hassan is attacked and raped, Amir witnesses the event but does nothing to stop it or intervene,
nor does he tell anyone after the fact. Hassan knows this, and their friendship is forever
changed by the eventas they no longer play together and they speak much less frequently. There
seems to be a wall between them. As Amir grows, he feels great remorse for his actions towards
Hassan, and they drive him to seek him out later in life.

Find the area bounded by y=x, y=1/x and the x-axis, between x=1 and x=3

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What is frightening to the children about the Radley house in To Kill a Mockingbird? What lives in the house, according to Scout?

The
Finch children are frightened of the menacing Radley Place, which is a dilapidated, slate-gray
house with rain-rotted shingles three doors down from their home. The Radley yard is also
unkempt and full of long johnsongrass and rabbit-tobacco. In addition to its decaying appearance
and neglected yard, the enigmatic Arthur "Boo" Radley lives inside the home.

refers toas a "malevolent phantom" and the children believe the unfavorable,
disturbing rumors and neighborhood legends about him. The children have never seen Boo Radley,
but are told that he peeks into people's homes at night and is responsible for committing nearly
every small crime around town. Since the Radley yard adjoins Maycomb's schoolyard, the local
children also believe that the pecans from the Radley trees are poison.goes on to describe Boo
Radley as a threatening creature with sharp teeth.

The numerous rumors
surrounding Boo Radley and his home stem from the family's unorthodox behavior. Unlike the
majority of Maycomb citizens, the Radleys are religious fanatics, and Boo's father is not a
friendly man. They do not socialize like their neighbors and remain isolated in their
dilapidated home.

As the novel progresses, Boo Radley becomes a sympathetic
character who the children no longer fear when they mature. Later on, Jem, Scout, and Dill
discover that Boo Radley is a compassionate, vulnerable individual who was a victim of his
father's oppressive nature and is unfairly discriminated against by his
neighbors.

Who is Eurymachus in the Odyssey?

Eurymachus is one of
the suitors in the Odyssey who has taken over Odysseus's home. In Book II,
after Zeus sends down two eagles as a sign that Telemachus's warning to the suitors to leave
Odysseus's palace should be obeyed, Eurymachus replies, "Im a better hand than you at
reading portents. / Flocks of birds go fluttering under the suns rays, / not all are fraught
with meaning." Eurymachus blithely avoids listening to the signs of the gods, and he says
that Odysseus is dead and that Penelope should marry one of the suitors. He also discounts
Telemachus as a threat. He constantly disobeys the signs of the gods and flouts the Greek laws
of hospitality.

For a while,...

Discuss how The Lovely Bones deals with sexuality? How does Susie's views toward sexuality change in the light of events that take place in the...

The most honest
thing to say about' treatment of sexuality is that it varies. By that I mean, it is treated as
something powerfully good and important when it creates...

What are the common points between Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion the Greek myth? Why did Bernard Shaw choose Pygmalionas the title...

In the
Greek myth that Shaw uses as the basis of his play,takes a block of marble and sculpts it into a
beautiful statue of a woman. He falls in love with his work of art and prays that the statue be
brought to life so that he can marry it. His prayer is granted.

Likewise,
Henry Higgins takes an unformed block of matter (as he sees her) in the form of Eliza Doolittle,
an uneducated Cockney, and transforms her through elocution lessons, new clothes, cleanliness,
and lessons in manners and deportment into a lady. By the time he is through with her, she is,
like Pygmalion's statue, transformed. She even convinces dukes and duchesses that she is well
born.

Shaw used "Pygmalion" as his title because he understood
that his middle- and upper-class audience would know the original story from Ovid. He knew, too,
that to his audience it would seem as miraculous to transform a working-class London woman into
a lady as it would to transform marble into...

How do you change decimals into percents?

To convert
a decimal into a percentage, all you have to do is multiply the decimal by 100 and add the
percent symbol.

For example, 0.14 x 100 = 14%

The word percent means per hundred (in
Latin, the word for hundred is centum). This is why we use the number 100
when were converting numbers into percentages. Lets take a closer look at why this
works.

In the number 0.14, the 1 is in the tenths place
and the 4 is in the hundredths place, so we call this fourteen hundredths. If you divide a
square into 100 sections, each section equals one hundredth, or 1/100. You can test this by
doing the division: 1/100 = .01

If you fill in 14 of the
sections in your square, you have fourteen hundredths, or 14/100. 14 divided by 100 =
0.14

Remember, the word percent means per hundred. If we
have 14/100, we dont even have to do the division, we can see that we have 14%. If we do the
division, or if we already had a decimal number to begin with, we can undo the division by using
its inverse operation: multiplication. 0.14 x 100 = 14.

Here are a few more examples:

0.857 x 100
=85.7%

0.29643 x 100 = 29.643, rounded to two digits after the decimal,
29.64%

1.44 x 100 = 144%

What techniques should a high school principal use in administering the institution for which he or she is responsible?

The
responsibilities of high school principals are considerable.  Charged with authority over and
responsibility for potentially thousands of students as well as teachers, coaches and support
staff, including the safe operation of school cafeterias, high school principals are expected to
have skills commensurate with the requirements of the position for which he or she has been
hired. 

When seeking applicants for the position of principal, school
district officials or school boards will solicit applications from individuals with experience
in classrooms, advanced graduate school degrees, the requisite...

Does the word "luve" mean "love"?

The short
answer: Yes.

Standardized spelling is something very new to the English
language, as strange as that may seem to us. Go back just two hundred years or so and you'll see
people spelling words all sorts of ways. There wasn't the standardized educational system that
we have today, and there were far fewer dictionaries and other sources that we now turn to when
we want to check the "correct" spelling of a word.

, the author of
the poem you name, lived from 1759-1796, toward the end of the stage of English known as the
Early Modern Period. By this time, a standardized spelling had pretty much already been
developed and disseminated, at least to the middle and upper classes, but it wasn't identical to
our standardized spellng today.

Here are some words from his poem paired with
a modern (American English) spelling:

luve =
love

melodie = melody

weel = well

On a final note, I don't have much proof to support my claim, but I
believe that Burns did not write his poem in the way that he actually would have spoken in
everyday life. He uses the word "thou" in the poem, for example. The
word "thou" had already pretty much been entirely displaced by "you" and
become a fossil by the time he was writing this poem.

In which ways is 1984 by George Orwell similar to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey? I know that both novels touch on the themes of...

Both novels
point out some of the faults of systems that are based on the system over everything else.  If
you look at the ways that Big Brother and Nurse Ratched maintain control over the inmates or the
population, theis that both of them are incredibly abusive and destructive...

Our English project is to make up a hell. We have to rank the sin and explain why we put them there. Can you give me example you would add to...

In Dante's time,

terrorism did not exist (at least not in the form in which
it
exists today). Crimes of terrorism could be added to a hierarchy of sins
and given a special
place within the larger category of murder. 

Of course, terrorism is a
complex term and the behaviors the term
describes are varied. Acts of terrorism that we can all
agree fit into the
definition of the term include using bombs to destroy non-military facilities

like the World Trade Center, subway trains and markets. These events also kill
innocent
people. 

The non-military and arbitrary nature
of terrorism targets makes
this kind of act especially cruel and thus can be
argued to be a greater crime than killing out
of a pointed anger or killing
an enemy that has caused previous harm. The fact is that this mode
of
selecting targets has an intended effect - to frighten and...

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Which values does King evoke in his "I Have a Dream" speech? Are these values appealing to both black and white people?

The chief
values that Martin Luther King evokes in his "I Have a Dream Speech" are justice and
equality. King argues that a century before his speech, black people were promised that if they
were patient, justice and equality would come their way. They would become equal participants in
the American Dream.

King says that black people have waited long enough for
equal treatment. They have been given a promissory note, and that note is now due. They are not
willing to wait any longer because they have suffered already for too long. They are still
subjected to segregation and often denied the chance to vote.

The value of
justice appeals to both black and white people. Nobody likes the idea of being unfairly treated,
and most people hold to an ethic called the Golden Rule: wanting to treat others as they would
like to be treated.

Equality is also an important value to both racial
groups. Equality is a concept that is foundational to the United States and is enshrined in the
Constitution; for...

What do you see as the real reason for Young Goodman Brown's journey in "Young Goodman Brown"? By: Hawthorne

This is a
good question. The story "" opens with a strange exchange between the title character
and his wife, Faith. Faith wants him to stay home, but he replies that he has business in the
woods at night:

"My love and my
Faith," replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year, this one night must I
tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done
'twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but
three months married!"

Young Goodman Brown
clearly has some sort of business in the forest, the reader is told, and this business must
take...

What exactly is the lyrical subject/object in poetry?

A lyrical
poem is primarily about emotions the poet has experienced. They try to recapture these feelings
in verse.

Almost always, these emotions are connected to some event, place,
or experience in the poet's life that gives them substance. It could be something traumatic,
like the death of a parent, that evokes the intense emotion, as in Dylan Thomas's "Do Not
Go Gently into that Good Night," a poem in which he implores his father to fight fiercely
for his life. The emotion could also be caused by loss of a child, as in Ben Jonson's "On
my First Son," in which he mourns the loss of his beloved young son, who meant more to him
than any poem he could write. It could also be as simple as the intense emotions experienced
when gazing at a vase, which Keats records in "Ode on a Grecian Urn," or from wishing
a butterfly would stay in his garden, as Wordsworth does in his poem "To a
Butterfly."

Whatever the case, the lyric poet conveys to an audience the
deep feelings he has experienced. In the best lyric poetry, we as an audience connect strongly
and passionately with these feelings and the language in which they are expressed.

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," why is the narrator held captive? Why is he happy that he falls on his face? How does he escape the pendulum? What...

We do not learn why the
narrator has been taken captive. When the story begins, he is in the midst of his trial, and
while he sees his judges speaking, he is unable to hear them. He is overcome with horror. Later,
he is so happy to have fallen on his face because, had he taken even one more step, he would
have plummeted to his death in the pit in his pitch-black cell. He says,

my chin rested upon the floor of the prion, but my lips, and the
upper portion of my head, although seemingly at a less elevation than the chin, touched nothing.
At the same time, my forehead seemed bathed in a clammy vapor, and the peculiar smell of decayed
fungus arose to my nostrils.

He realizes that he'd fallen
just off the edge of a very deep and circular pit, and this fall has actually saved his
life.

Later, the narrator escapes the pendulum by rubbing the oil and fat
from the meat left for him onto the ligaments that bind him beneath the weapon and allowing the
rats to come and gnaw on them until he is free....

In chapter 3, "The Afterlife," of the book "Whirligig," how does Brent seem to be changing?

Chapter
three is called The Afterlife. Here we learn that Brent wasnt sentenced to jail time or to a
stint in a detention center, as a result of causing the car accident that killed Lea Zamora.
Instead, during a mediation session with Leas mother, Brent was asked by Mrs. Zamora to atone
for his crime by building versions of Leas favorite wooden toy, a whirligig, and placing them in
the four corners of the country: Washington, California, Florida, and Maine. For the first time
in a long time €“ or maybe, ever -- Brent has a project to attend to that he has to put ahead of
his own interests. Now it seems as though hes figuring out strategies to use to curb his anger.
Several times in the process of building the whirligig in Washington state, he has to stop and
step away from the wood and the tools. When he makes a mistake, he is frightened by his anger
in the face of this setback.  Before the accident, he probably would have just gotten angrier
and angrier until he exploded and destroyed everything aound him. When he finally finishes this
first whirligig and sees that it works, he feels a tingle of success. He has accomplished
something worthwhile on his own. And he needs to feel as though he is truly atoning for thehe
caused. We readers can be optimistic that hell be able to keep on finding success and some sense
of peace with the whirligigs and what they stand for.

What is Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw, and how does it lead to their destruction?

A
tragic flaw in literature refers to a shortcoming in a character's nature which leads to his or
her downfall. The Greek term for this is hamartia, and it is a literary
technique used by writers in a drama to teach the audience a moral lesson. The audience can then
learn from the mistakes committed by the character(s) and avoid doing the same.

's primary character flaw is their lack of judgment. They
were both unable or unwilling to carefully consider their actions and those actions' outcomes
because they were ruled by passion and, therefore, acted on impulse. Their impetuous acts lead
to their tragic end.

Throughout the play, there are a number of examples
which illustrate this aspect. After they first meet and fall for each other,andmeet...

In Kindred, how many times does Dana travel back to the 1800s?

In the novel
, Dana travels back to 1800's Maryland 7 times. The first time, she arrives
to find Rufus, drowning in the river and she pulls him to safety. When she returns to Maryland
the second time, only a few minutes after the first, she rescues Rufus from himself after he set
fire to his bedroom drapes while angry at his father for selling a horse he admired. 

Her third trip to Maryland comes as a result of Rufus falling out of a tree and
breaking his leg, but this time Kevin comes with her by holding on to her when she is
transported back in time. However, when she returns on her fourth trip to Maryland, when Rufus
is being beaten to death by Issac, Alice's husband, she finds that Kevin has left the state and
must survive in the Weylin household without him.

Her fifth trip to Maryland
occurs after Rufus has found himself so drunk that he is face down in a puddle. And when she
returns the sixth time, she arrives to find that Rufus is a much harsher man than he was when
she left. On her seventh and final trip to Maryland, she arrives as Rufus has nearly committed
suicide. She tries to save him from himself, but when he attempts to rape her, she stabs him
twice and returns to 1976 South Carolina for good. 

 

How do you feel about the use of animals for scientific research? Does the type of animal make a difference in your answer (e.g., a dog versus a cat...

This is
definitely a matter of opinion, but I can give you a few different ways of thinking about it.
The first thing that comes to mind is that "scientific research" is a pretty vague
term. Certain types of scientific research are purely observational and dont require any
interferencefield studies, mainly.

Assuming you want to focus on experiments
in a lab setting, its even more a matter of opinion. Some people believe that humane treatment
of lab animals is impossible (because they are out of their natural environment) and that any
kind of animal research is wrong. (However, replicating the animals environment as closely as
possible is often a crucial aspect of setting up the experiment.)

Others
believe that animal research is a necessity for scientific progress and that, as long as the
animals are treated well, theres not really an ethical dilemma. Nowadays, there are laws in
place to protect animals and to give precise definitions of what constitutes humane treatment.
Institutions (such as universities) will often have committees that evaluate proposed
experiments involving animals and determine whether those experiments will be allowed.

The type of animal might make a difference to you. Insects (such as fruit flies) are
often used in research because they breed quickly and are relatively easy to care for. This
question, as well as your third question, depends on your point of view.

The
last question seems very similar to the first oneyoull find people on both sides of the debate.
Medical research can be more invasive, but the essence of the issue is still the same, and my
original points still stand.

Compare and contrast Taoism with Christianity, including monotheism or pluralism, salvation, afterlife, heaven/hell, suffering and justice, works,...

Taoism and Christianity are both systems of

religious and philosophical thought based on ancient texts, the origins of which are at
least
somewhat obscure. Tao Te Ching, the central text
of Taoism, is attributed
to a philosopher called Lao Tzu, of whom nothing is
known, though various myths and traditions
surround him. It may have been the
work of more than one hand and was written in the third or
fourth century
BCE. The Christian Bible consists of the Jewish Tanakh

together with the much shorter New Testament, which deals principally with the life
and
teachings of Jesus Christ. It was written over several centuries and
compiled by the Church
Fathers long after the crucifixion of Christ. This
makes it quite a different type of book from
the shorter, more unified
Tao Te Ching, even if the latter was composed by
more
than one author.

Although the Tanakh or
Old
Testament was clearly composed in a polytheistic society, by the time of
Christ, Judaism had
become a monotheism, and Christianity is similarly
monotheistic, though the doctrine of the
Trinity holds that there are three
Gods in one: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In Taoism, Lao Tzu
himself is
regarded as a deity and forms part of an immense pantheon, from which the Taoist
can
choose to concentrate on whichever gods seem most appropriate to the time
and place. None of
these gods are regarded as omnipotent or even eternal.
They represent the energy of the
cosmos.

The Tao in Taoism
is usually translated as the way. Jesus Christ
also referred to himself as
the way. However, while the Taoist way refers simply to the
correct way to
behave, the most harmonious way and the way which causes least suffering to

oneself and others, most Christians make far larger claims for Christ, claiming that he
is the
only way to God, the path of salvation by which one may attain Heaven
and avoid Hell. Taoism
originally had no concept of Heaven and Hell. In
China, however, these ideas were adopted and
grafted onto Taoism from other
religions, but they were never a central part of Taoist
philosophy and are
most prominent in religious art.

Taoists, like Christians,

believe in eternal life, but Taoists take a somewhat different perspective, since they
believe
that nothing really dies and each apparent death is merely a
metamorphosis into something else,
which ultimately leads to immortality in
becoming one with the Tao. Christians generally believe
in a personal God and
the resurrection of the dead. Christians also often regard suffering as a

positive thing if it leads the sufferer to penitence and ultimately to God. A Taoist,
however,
would view suffering as a sign that one had departed from the true
path of the Tao.

The Christian position on good works is
divided, with the Catholic tradition generally
encouraging them as pleasing
to God, whereas most Protestant churches, while sometimes
performing good
works for their own sake, emphasize that works have no effect on salvation,

which can only be achieved by accepting the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and transferring
your sins
to him. Taoism teaches that one who is following the Tao will act
virtuously and harmoniously.
This involves keeping to the laws of nature,
which Lao Tzu says people are too inclined to
violate. Justice is achieved by
the same process, whereas in Christianity, Justice comes from
God. However,
since the Christian God is personal, he also shows mercy (principally in
sending
his son to bear the burden of sin). Mercy is the suspension of
justice, and such a suspension
cannot occur in Taoism since there is no
omnipotent personal God.

It is
important to bear in mind
that these two systems of thought, which have influenced countless
people for
millennia, have been interpreted in extremely diverse ways. In Christianity,

particularly, every person who claims to be a Christian is regarded as a heretic by
someone else
who claims to be a Christian. About the central precepts of
Taoism, particularly the Tao itself,
there is more agreement, but this is far
from universal.

In what ways did settlement patterns, family life, population growth, and so forth differ in New England and the Southern colonies in the seventeenth...

Many people
in the Southern colonies sought to make money and then go back to England where they could enjoy
their riches. At first many young men came without families, but families eventually came to the
Southern colonies. The richest families relied on chattel slavery for their labor needs and thus
did not need many children. Since it took a lot of land in order to make money with the cash
crops, one was often far away from one's neighbors. It was not uncommon for people to die at
young ages due to malaria and yellow fever outbreaks.

In New England,
families settled there in order to raise their children as both English in culture and Calvinist
in religion. Many families had several childrenthe average family had 5.5 live births per
household. These children combined with extended kin made up the labor force of the
self-sufficient farms. Since the church was the most important part of the community, people had
small landholdings and lived close to each other.

Women were more
likely...

What does Mary Warren do after she tells the truth? What causes this change?

After
what seems like an eternity, Mary Warren finally plucks up the courage to tell the truth about
what really happened in the woods that night. She also tells Judge Danforth that Abigail has
been lying and that what she, Mary, said about Elizabeth Proctor was pure fabrication.

However, Mary's courage in speaking out is all to no avail as the court is unwilling to
listen to her. For good measure, Abigail and the other girls claim that Mary's been sending out
her spirit to attack them. Mary's credibility as a witness is further undermined by her
inability to faint. This indicates to the court that such fainting cannot be faked and that
Abigail and the other girls have been telling the truth all along.

As Mary's
testimony has been decisively rejected by the court, she recants it. She realizes that there's
simply no point in telling the truth; no one will believe her. Without the protection of the
court, Mary knows that she's very much on her own. This would be a scary situation for most
adults, let alone a frightened child. Justifiably scared of what Abigail will do to her, Mary
feels that she has no choice but to recant her testimony.

Has the American Dream truly been lost according to President Obama? Has the American Dream truly been lost according to President Obama?

Obama would be the
last person to suggest that the American Dream is dead, but he does say it is threatened.This is
because the American Dream rests mostly with the middle class.The middle class is shrinking due
to our economic problems, especially the housing crisis.The American Dream in America relies on
home ownership.]]>

What is the setting of Chapter Four of A Wrinkle in Time?

Chapter Four
of  is set on the planet of Uriel, the third planet around a very distant
star, Malak. This is quite confusing to Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace; not only is the
weather and the countryside different, but Mrs. Whatsit changes form, revealing her true self to
be some sort of flying centaur.

The main problem with the children, Mrs. Who,
Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit being on the distant planet is that it has happened in an instant.
It is an impossible distance to travel, even at the speed of light. Mrs. Which explains that
they have instead brought the two distant points together, rather than traveled between them.
The book gets its title from this "wrinkling" of time and space.

The other important aspect of the planet Uriel is that is the first place the children
see the dark cloud of the evil that their father is fighting.

What idioms are in Harrison Bergeron?

An
is an expression that has a meaning which cannot be derived from
the combined meaning of its words. To put it somewhat differently, the words's literal meanings
do not seem to come together to mean whatever the idiom does.

Idioms are
particular to a language and culture and are, therefore, often difficult for non-native speakers
to understand. In this story, Hazel says to her husband, George, "'You been so tired
latelykind of wore out," and the expression that one can be "worn out" is
idiomatic because the combination of these words does not add up to mean very
tired or exhausted.

When George tells Hazel
that he'd be afraid to try "to get away with" taking some of the weights out of his
handicap bag, he uses another idiom. He's not trying to physically move away from something with
something else; he'd be attempting to do something illegal without being found
out.

Explain "wholeness, harmony, and radiance."

This
quotation comes from by . It forms part of Stephen Daedalus's
interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic theory, which he patiently explains to one of
his schoolmates. The great medieval philosopher set down three criteria for what is truly
beautiful, which can be translated from the original Latin as wholeness, harmony, and radiance.
Each of these essential qualities corresponds to a specific phase of artistic apprehension.
Let's take the example that Stephen Daedalus uses, that of a basket.

The
first stage of aesthetic...

What do you think Jesus means by the words he spoke in the synagogue in Chapter 4 of The Bronze Bow?

When Jesus
speaks in the synagogue, he says that "the kingdom of God is at hand".  Although many
in the crowd assume that he is talking about a kingdom for the Jewish people released from the
oppression of Roman rule, in reality he is speaking of a kingdom which is not of this world. 
Jesus says,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim release
to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are
oppressed, to proclaim...

Explain how Crusoe's father believes his son to be in a "middle state." Explain how Crusoe's father believes his son to be in a "middle state."...

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In To Kill A Mockingbird, what is the relationship between Jem and Scout?

Besides
being brother and sister,andare also best friends, playmates, confidantes, and partners in
crime. Aside from Dill, who becomes both Scout's "permanent fiance" and Jem's best pal
during his stay with his Aunt Rachel each summer, neither of the children have any close
friends. The tomboyish Scout has no girlfriends, and instead of playing with dolls, she sticks
close to Jem and shares his outside interests. Likewise, Jem has no close male friends, and he
usually includes Scout on his imaginative adventures, especially those concerning . They both
share a love of reading, and they defend each other when necessary. Scout strikes out at one of
the lynch mob when he manhandles Jem:

I kicked the man
swiftly... I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too high.  ()

while Jem comes to Scout's rescue on the trail home from the
Halloween pageant when they are attacked by Bob Ewell. The two begin to grow apart as Jem grows
older, but they remain close even into...

Eulogy for Susie: The Lovely Bones If you had to do a eulogy for Susie what character would you pick to do the eulogy and why that particular...

Look over
the significant characters in the book to determine who you think would most likely have good
insight into Susie's life. I would imagine it would be one of her family members,...

In "Young Goodman Brown," what is revealed about the character of Goodman Brown and Faith in the first 7 paragraphs?

One of
the enduring questions about Hawthorne's "" is Goodman Brown's motivation for leaving
his loving wife, Faith, and taking a physical or spiritual journey into the wilderness, which
represents, to 17thC. Puritans, the home of the Devil, his Indian allies, the abode of pure
evil.  No Puritan in his right mind would voluntarily go into the wilderness at night and alone.
 Central to that question is Goodman Brown's character and, to a lesser extent, Faith's
character.  As is common with several of Hawthorne's short stories and novels, the analysis of
character is difficult because we have a third-person objective narrator who cannot see into the
hearts and minds of the characters.  We cannot look into a character, so our analysis is based
only on a character's speech and actions.

Our first insight into Faith's
character comes in paragraph two in which she pleads with Goodman Brown to stay with her.  In
the process, Faith's speech establishes her strong Puritan faith and the fears that accompany
that belief system:

A lone woman is troubled with such
dreams and such thoughts that she's afeared of herself sometimes.  Pray tarry with me this
night, dear husband, of all nights in the year.

Faith
exhibits one of the most important beliefs of Puritans in the early to late 17thC., that is, the
belief that Satan can attack a person of faith during a dream.  Puritans believed not only that
Satan could take physical form and intervene in the daily lives of people but also that
individuals could be attacked and lured into evil while they slept.  In this case, Faith's
concern is a completely conventional Puritan response to the threat of evil--she wants and needs
to be protected by her husband even while asleep.  Faith is, in short, the perfect example of a
Puritan woman whose faith is strong but who recognizes that evil is always a present threat.
 Her concern is also heightened because Goodman Brown's journey is taking place ("of all
nights of the year") on October 31, All Hallow's Eve (Halloween), one of the most dangerous
nights of the year.

Goodman Brown, a seemingly good example of a Puritan
married young man, is intent on taking a journey that is both dangerous physically--there are
Indians in the forest--but also spiritually--the forest, the wilderness, is where evil resides.
 In essence, he laughs off Faith's concerns:

What, my
sweet, pretty wife, does thou doubt me already, and we but three months married?

Hawthorne makes it clear that, despite his Puritan belief system
and his love for his wife, Goodman Brown is intent on taking a journey that can have no good
ending.  Given the description so far, we can only assume that Goodman Brown, like many youths,
wants to explore the dark side while he can and does not perceive the spiritual danger he is
placing himself in.

That Goodman Brown understands some, but not all, of the
risks he is taking is clear in his last view of Faith, which elicits his observation that he is
a "wretch . . .  to leave her on such an errand!"  At this point, there can be no
doubt that Brown understands that his journey is a betrayal of both his wife Faith and his
religious faith.  In allegorical terms, Faith represents religious faith, and the name Goodman
Brown becomes ironic because Goodman is no longer good.  His betrayal of wife and belief system
is indeed wretched and exhibits a flawed character.

Goodman Brown's last
comment before he enters the forest indicates his very conventional belief that Faith's strong
faith will be sufficient to redeem him:

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, in Brown's view, Faith's beliefs
are strong enough to bring Brown back into the Puritan fold even after he has made a conscious
decision to reject his beliefs, his faith, on a temporary basis and to look for the devil in the
forest.

In these few paragraphs, then, Faith's character exemplifies a
conventional and strong Puritan belief system--she is faith personified--and Brown, sad to say,
is depicted as a young man whose moral compass is wavering and beginning to point south, and
this weakness will ultimately destroy Brown's and Faith's lives.

Hawthorne's
story, however, is not just about Young Goodman Brown's weak character or Faith's faith.
 Hawthorne's purpose is to show how a repressive religious belief system can twist a person's
mind to the point where that person rejects everything he has been taught to
believe.

Why does Winston Smith hate the Party in 1984?

In
,hates the Party and detests Big Brother. Winston, an intellectual and
naturally curious individual, is frustrated with the stifling nature of the Party's intellectual
policiesnotably rewriting history, which is ironically exactly what Winston does for a
career.

Being older and able to remember the times before the Party's
complete control, Winston knows what the world was like and could be like without Big Brother's
control. He is dissatisfied on an intellectual level because he cannot convince himself of the
lies and constantly shifting history of their country. He is very intelligent and seditious in
that regard, simply because his own natural curiosity prevents him from shutting off his brain
and accepting the lies of the Party out of hand.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem, "Power of Hope"?

The
rhyme scheme of this poem by Leonard Rebello is, as the previous educator said, irregular. For
the first half of the poem, he uses end rhyme in every other line, but does not repeat the same
rhyming sound, so we see: A B C B D E F E. Then, the amount of rhyme in the poem intensifies
somewhat, as we see a GHGH rhyme scheme appear, where the first line of this section rhymes with
the third, and the second line rhymes with the fourth. This happens only once, and then the poet
returns for four lines to the original poetic structure, where the second and fourth lines of
the quatrain rhyme, while the first and third do not. Finally, the poet employs an entirely
different kind of rhyme in his final quatrainin reality, not rhyme at all, but pararhyme or
assonance, where the vowel sound of a word is similar to that of the one with which it is
paired. In this case, there is assonance on "heart" and
"dark."

Explain what you think is the key line in "Ulysses" by Tennyson.

You will undoubtedly
receive a variety of different answers to this question, as one's reading of poetry is
essentially a personal affair. For me, one of the key phrases in this poem is the
descriptiongives us of how experience can never be satisfied or exhausted:

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams
that untraveled world whose margin fades

Forever and forever when I
move.

This of course captures the central theme of this
poem, which is the way in which Ulysses is not able to accept a quiet life and is determined to
live his life to the full, making the most of every single second he is given to gain new
experiences and not become stagnant. Thein this quote is a beautiful rendition of how each new
experience we gain only leads us on to gain yet more new experiences, and how we are unable to
ever reach the limit or end of experience. It points towards a true questing spirit that can
never be happy sitting idle, and is a model to all of us.

What does Chinua Achebe's story "Marriage is a Private Affair" say about the relationship between fathers and sons?

A
poignant story about love conquering even the
staunchest of cultural norms, Achebe's
"Marriage is a Private Affair" has
much to say in regard to the relationship between
fathers and sons. It is a
lesson that despite their own personal misgivings, fathers cannot
dictate
their sons' destinies for them for any reason, and certainly not for the societal
or
religious prejudices that may be outdated or even flawed. In the beginning
of the story,
Nnaemeka has chosen a wife very carefully, but he is quite
nervous about revealing his
intentions to his father as his intended, Nene,
is not of the Ibo tribe.

Indeed, when Nnaemeka's father, Okeke,
hears of his plans, he is furious and even considers the
match to be a plot
by the devil. Unable to sway Nnaemeka away from his love, Okeke resolves to

simply disown his son in his heart and to cut him completely out of his life. Nnaemeka,
however,
has faith that his father will eventually change his mind. Indeed,
when Nnaemeka and Nene
finally bear...

From 1984, what effect do you think Winston's actions had in the society where he lived? Given his rebellion on sexual grounds, why do you think the...

Given how
there was a lack of privacy and a world in which the subjective was suppressed in the name of
the external, 's actions speak to a world outside of Big Brother's control.  Winston's actions
are all in the name of the private.  Being able to carry on his affairs with, envisioning a
world of private emotions and memories, and developing writing and communication that existed
outside of the world of the external are all examples of this subjective reality
are...

In What Ways Did Progressivism Include Both Democratic And Anti-democratic Impulses?

Progressivism included
democratic elements in that the movement attempted to restore a measure of fairness and
competition, particularly by breaking up monopolies that were thought to have an unfair
stranglehold on the economy. Progressives were concerned that too few people had too much power,
and they wanted to break up the power of conglomerates in order to make the market more open for
others. This was a democratic impulse. In addition, Progressives wanted to root out corruption
in local politics, particularly in urban areas, to make the political process more
democratic.

On the other hand, some Progressives were nativist, meaning that
they were anti-immigrant. They were not necessarily in favor of immigrants gaining the right to
vote. Temperance, the movement to outlaw the consumption of alcohol, was also a strain of
Progressivism that showed its nativist tendencies, as Progressives believed (wrongly) that
Catholics were more prone to drinking. Overall, Progressives (with some...

Vertical Consolidation

Vertical
consolidation and horizontal consolidation are ways for businesses to reduce competition. With
horizontal consolidation, competing companies merge into one big company. If five oil companies
are competing against each other, and they merge into one big company, this reduces or
eliminates competition. These competing businesses may agree to merge, or they may be bought out
by one of the competing companies. This allows the bigger company to control supply and possibly
raise prices.

Vertical consolidation is when one company controls every
aspect of a specific industry. For example, a company that specialized in the meat industry
would control the cattle ranches, the slaughtering houses, the packaging plants, and the
vehicles that deliver the meat to the stores. In this situation, one company has total control
over every aspect of the industry. This allows that company to control the supply of the
products, which will affect the prices that can be charged.

Both horizontal
consolidation and vertical consolidation are business techniques that reduce competition and
benefit the business owners.