Certainly,
there is a poignancy to this poem. Much like Paul Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy," in which
he writes, "I know why the caged bird sings,"continues this motif of the caged bird
who sings in order to keep his spirit alive. 

his wings
are clipped and   

his feet are tied

so he opens
his throat to sing.

 

He
"opens his throat" in order to release the outpouring of feelings, his frustration,
his sorrow, his despair. He sings because he must, and yet he also sings for the same reason all
birds sing: they communicate with one another; for, somewhere there is a free bird who hears
this caged bird, so that vicariously the bird whose feet are tied can feel free, at least in
spirit. 

This poem evokes the sympathy of its reader for the bird who
cannot soar under the sun with the wind beneath his wings. Still, the bird's spirit is resilient
and the imprisoned bird expresses his desire to soar despite his bindings. The overall tone of
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In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, how is the white man a victim of slavery as well, according to Douglass?

Douglass
argues that slavery is such a
fundamentally evil institution that it corrupts all who are
associated with
it, including whites. The best example of this that he gives in the

Narrative is that of Sophia Auld, the wife of Hugh Auld, his master
during
much of his time in Baltimore. When he arrived at their home, Mrs.
Auld was tenderhearted,
possessed with the kind of morality that drove her to
treat Douglass in particular with
kindness. This is manifested in her
successful attempts to teach young Douglass to read. When
Mr. Auld discovers
that she has taught him to read, he is angry, and he tells her that literacy

will make a bad slave of the child. Sophia Auld had never had a slave under her
supervision
before, a fact that Douglass sees as the source of her kindness.
Later, though, Mrs. Auld begins
to change. She began to behave with as much
contempt for her slaves as her husband. Under the
influence of slavery,
Douglass says, "her tender heart had become stone." He concludes

that...

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In The Scarlet Letter, was Dimmesdale doomed to make a serious error in judgment?

Upon
performing a close analysis of the character of , we find clues in his "story" that
could help us reach the actual center of his character and decide whether he is, in fact, doomed
from the start to make a serious error in judgment.

We learn that Arthur
Dimmesdale has always enjoyed the esteem, respect and superior admiration of his flock. This is
because Dimmesdale's upbringing shows higher intellect and sophistication which would make him
quite salient from among all the other villagers.He is also comparatively young and his
charismatic personality, along with his truly philosophical traits, have created a very
attractive persona; perhaps a little...

How did President Andrew Jackson justify Indian Removal?

President
Andrew Jackson's personal background, military career, political considerations, and assertive
character all shaped his view of Native Americans. Moreover, he waslike most white
Americansracist in his attitude toward Indians.

Jackson's personal experience
on America's frontier helped shape his hostile view of Indians. On the frontier, the Indians
were viewed as a perpetual menace. They also occupied land that settlers wanted to develop, so
the Indians stood in the way of progress.

As a distinguished battlefield
commander, Jackson won some of his most impressive victories against the Indians. He annihilated
the Creeks at the battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. His triumphal experience on the battlefield
contributed to his view of Indians as vanquished enemies.

As a president,
Jackson's support was strongest in the west, and frontiersmen were belligerent to the Indians.
Southeastern states were determined to deny Indians their rights and move them west of the
Mississippi...

What is Orwell saying about education? In what way does this relate to your education?

seldom speaks about
education directly, as in schooling. We, for example, learn almost nothing about 's school
experiences except that he was taught a false version of history. Females, Winston knows, are
indoctrinated in the importance of chastity in school.

It is clear, however,
that Party members in Oceania are taught that obedience to the state is paramount. Beyond that,
they have all learned that obedience cannot just be outward: it is supposed to be internalized
as well through censorship of thoughts.

It is clear that everyone in this
culture who survives practices doublethink, the skill of knowing and at the same moment
forgetting an inconvenient truth. For instance, once Oceania changes who it is at war with,
everyone "understands" that Oceania has always been at war with the new
enemy.

Winston also learns through reading Goldstein and conversations
withwhen a prisoner in the Ministry of Love that the goal of the state is to dumb education down
the least common denominator, in large part by reducing the language to as few words as possible
to limit people's ability to think. The educational emphasis is very strongly on indoctrination
and obedience.

You would have to relate this to your own education. Does your
school emphasize indoctrination, rote learning, and/or obedience to authority over critical
thinking? It is rare to encounter a school, which is after all an institution, that doesn't have
at least a little emphasis on the above, but the question for you would be, is it excessive, as
in Oceania?

What were the three most important factors in the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War?

There were
many factors which played a role in
shaping the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War, and I'd
hesitate to winnow
things down to just three. However, for the purposes of this answer, I'd

focus upon the Union's clear advantages in production and population (advantages which
proved
overwhelming in the long run), the impact of long-term military
strategy, and the South's
continued reliance on slavery, which would serve to
isolate it from potential allies such as
Great Britain and (after the passage
of the Emancipation Proclamation) would serve as a rallying
cry among those
opposed to slavery.

Of these three, I believe the most

important was the sheer quantitative advantages the Union possessed. The Union had a
much larger
population (giving it a far greater ability to replenish losses,
an advantage Grant would use
to...

How do belief systems affect a country's culture?

Even in
highly secular societies, religion and other belief systems play a huge part in shaping people's
lives. In many parts of the world, there is no distinction between religion and other areas of
lifereligion is an overriding and unifying force for how people move throughout the world. In
Amish (also called Pennsylvania Dutch) communities, every aspect of life exists in reference to
religion. The clothes people wear, the food they eat, and even the hobbies they take up are all
shaped by what is considered appropriate in this ethno-religious sect. 

That
might sound pretty extreme, but let's take a moment to consider some of the major world
religions. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there are rules about what kind of foods people
should eat and when, how to care for one's body, what kinds of clothing are appropriate, when
work is to be done, and what kind of gender, age, and familial roles are to be fulfilled. In
secular societies like the United Kingdom, people may adhere loosely or very strictly to their
religious duties while still maintaining their religious identity. For example, not all
Christians fast during Lent, and some Jewish people do not keep kosher. 

That
being said, some aspects of religious belief systems are more influential in a society than
others. Most cultures of the world today observe the Gregorian calendar (which was introduced by
Pope Gregory XIII) and observe the weekend. The cultural practice of not
working on the weekend is drawn from Jewish and Christian religious traditions, which forbid
working on the Sabbath. For the Jewish community, the Sabbath is held on Saturday; for
Christians, on Sunday. Regardless of whether someone is or is not Christian or Jewish, most
people today abstain from work on the week-end or consider it a time for leisure.

I'd like to make a distinction between religion and other belief systems. Religious
beliefs aren't the only worldviews which shape culturescientific belief systems and ethical
belief systems are also significant. Scientific belief systems outline how to go about answering
questions we have about the world and what answers have already been uncovered. For example, I
believe rain is the result of condensation of water vapor and occurs as part of the water cycle.
I believe this because scientific study provides evidence for it. Alternate answers have been
proposed, such as that rain is a gift from a deity, but I feel the rigorous investigation and
testing of science is more plausible. Most people in my culture agree that rain is the result of
natural temperature and weather patterns, so we do not adjust our behaviors in any way to try
and please the deity in charge of rain.

Ethical belief systems help us to
understand and investigate which behaviors are ethical, moral, or good, and which are not. In
some cultures, the ethical belief system dictates it is immoral to eat meat. This may be tied to
a religious belief (as in Hinduism and Buddhism) or may exist regardless of a religious
narrative. Ethical belief systems also guide us in our personal behaviors and relationships.
Having a culturally taught system of ethics helps prevent injurious action and may prescribe
appropriate penance. For example, in my culture, it is considered unethical to steal. In
exceptional circumstances, it may be excusable. For example, is it more ethical for an
impoverished mother to let her child starve or to steal food so they can eat? In my culture, it
would be excusable for the mother to steal to feed her child, but my government has set up
programs designed to prevent this dilemma from occurring in the first place. The overriding
ethic here is that all people should have enough food to eat. This may be phrased in terms of
religion or scientific value, but it is also a standalone matter
of ethical value.

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Hi! I'm currently studying "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards and am not quite sure what this piece of the text meant: "God...

"" is a sermon written and
delivered byand is arguably the most recognizable and studied sermon in the western world. He
wrote it out of a kind of despair that the believers he was speaking to (they
were attending church, after all) had not been living as they ought and
were in danger of eternal damnation because they were taking God's promise of grace for
granted.

The passage mention in your question comes from the last section of
the ten enumerations of God's wrath and judgment for those who do not turn to Him and
believe.

God has laid himself under no obligation, by any
promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises
either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are
contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the
promises are yea and amen. 

The simplest
"translation" is this: God has made no promises and is under no obligation to give
anyone eternal life (in heaven) or keep anyone from eternal damnation (in hell) EXCEPT for
("but for") the promises He has already made.

Those promises of
salvation and grace are contained in such verses as these, found in John 3:16-18:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might
be saved.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God.

Edwards's message was that God does not owe anyone
in the audience (or anyone else, for that matter) a free pass to heaven or from hell other than
the one He has already offered--the "covenant of grace" which these people had been
ignoring. The promises God has made will be honored, either to condemn or to save by
grace.

What simile does Romeo use to convey Juliet's beauty in Romeo and Juliet?

Whenfirst arrives at the Capulet party in act

1, the sight ofcaptivates him immediately, and he provides these
lines:

O, she doth teach the
torches to burn bright
It
seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear

(I.v.42€“44).

The fullextends through
the last
two lines of this quote. Juliet's beauty is so stunning that it
dazzles. Thehere relies on a
person of dark complexion (an Ethiopian) in the
night. This image of darkness upon darkness is
broken by a "rich jewel,"
which would visually stand out by contrast. Juliet's beauty
is the same. She
stands out and dazzles visually, and his eyes are immediately drawn to her.
She
is visually stunning. It is also a rare beauty, a rich jewel that is not
commonly found. Romeo
immediately follows this simile by also providing a ,
comparing Juliet to a "snowy
dove" in a flock of crows.

Romeo's language makes it clear that he is
utterly captivated by
Juliet's rare beauty and considers all others "crows" by

comparison.

What do the following quotes from The Catcher in the Rye mean? "That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because...

The first
quote speaks to 's concern with his own adolescent loss of innocence and his desire to protect
children like his sister in their own innocence. When he arrives at his old school to deliver a
note to , he sees "f**k you" written on a wall. He rubs it out, then sees a second
iteration elsewhere in the school. This one is etched in, perhaps carved with a knife, and he
can't erase it. He can't, in other words, remake the world to be innocent. At a nearby museum,
undoubtedly the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he meets two boys who have skipped school and want
to see the mummy exhibit. They chicken out, and alone by himself in the exhibit, Holden begins
to feel peaceful. Then he sees the words "f**k you" again. This is where the first
quote enters: Holden can find no place of innocence in which he can escape adult knowledge. He
can't return to the childhood garden of Eden. He is living in a fallen, imperfect world, and the
words "f**k you" come to represent that fallenness to him.

In the
second quote, the last line of the novel, Holden is feeling the pain of memory. His
"missing everybody" suggests that he is feeling positive emotions towards other
people, even people he dislikes. This ability to feel and have some nostalgia for his old life
signals hope for his recovery. 

What is Nick's first impression of the Buchanans and Jordan Baker in "The Great Gatsby"?

We
don't seeencounter the Buchanans, whom he first knew separately, for the first time.is Nick's
secound cousin, he had knownin college, "and just after the war I spent two days with them
in Chicago," so he has already known the two both separately and as a couple. Nick has a
particular impression that Tom especially would never settle permanently anywhere, but
"would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some
irrecoverable football game."

However, the Tom that Nick meets has
"changed since his New Haven years," and apparently not for the better. "Two
shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face," suggesting that this
arrogance was not so much in evidence before, and he gave the impression of "leaning
aggressively forward." His expression is "supercilious" and he wears
"effeminate" clothing as if to hide the power of his "cruel" body. Overall,
Nick seems to observe a general sense of arrogance and cruelty in Tom which...

How does the author create humor in "Charles"?

The humor
in this story is created from Lauries fanciful account of s behavior, and his parents clueless
reaction to it.  It is also funny that Lauries mother and father are so judgmental of Charless
mother, when Charles turns out to be Laurie.  Themakes it funny.

Lauries
behavior is funny in itself, or at least it would be if you were not his parents.  The fact that
his parents do not see the connection between Lauries misbehavior and Charles adds humor too. 
His parents are overwhelmed with the new baby and do not have time to pay attention to
Laurie.

Laurie comes barging in, slamming the...

Has religion had a generally negative impact on Hindu and Buddhist women? Has religion had a generally negative impact on Hindu and Buddhist women?

The
previous post is correct.  I cannot agree with these thoughts anymore.  I think that there are
some jumps made in the logic of the question that have to be assessed.  The first would be the
most elemental.  I am not sure that either religion casts women in a negative light or has
directly brought impacts upon women that have increased their lot to bear.  As with other
questions that collapse both religions into one, there is some risk of being inaccurate. 
Buddhism is not particularly demeaning to women in its...

What positive effect does the black veil have? Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"

As narrator of
","writes,

Among all its bad influences, the
black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. By the
aid of his mysterious emblem--for there was no other apparent cause--he became a man of awful
power over souls that were in agony for sin.

Within the
Puritan community, people hoped that they were among the "elect"; however, since there
was no way of knowing with certainty, they tried to live as exemplary a life as they could. 
With this ideological condition of being sinless, those who did transgress kept their sins a
secret.

Now, when the Reverend Hooper dons the black veil, the congregation
begin to doubt his sinlessness and become uncomfortable around him for this reason and for the
probability that he may recognize sin in themselves.Thus, the veil becomes "the symbol of a
fearful secret between him and them."  But, the veil "enabled him to sympathize with
all dark affections."  The dying call for him as a brother before whom they can confess
their hidden transgressions; he is "ever summoned to their aid in mortal
anguish."

Ironically, the Puritan minister comes to be called Father
Hooper; for, much like the Catholic priest, he is summoned to hear one's confession before he
dies.

In A People's History of the United States, how does Howard Zinn describe the development of socialism during the Progressive Era?

In Chapter 13 of
, "The Socialist Challenge," Zinn describes socialism as arising
from class anger that developed in response to the harshness of ordinary life. Famous writers
such as Mark Twain and Jack London were incensed by American military actions abroad during the
Spanish-American War and by the reality of life for the working class. As a result, they were
drawn to socialism.

In addition, Zinn writes that hundreds of thousands of
ordinary American workers were drawn to socialism in reaction to the police crackdown on
strikes, as the police and the law took the side of business owners. As a result, socialism
began to spread from circles of Jewish and German immigrants to states such as Oklahoma, where
socialism took root among tenant farmers, coal miners, railroad workers, and other members of
the working class. It also appealed to feminists.

Socialism was, in fact, so
popular that progressivism arose as a response to socialism. Zinn writes...

What were the steps Madame and Monsieur Loisel took to return the necklace to Madame Forestier?

When
Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel discover that the necklace is missing from her neck they begin
to panic. Mr. Loisel went back to every place they had been to see if he could find it. 
"He went to the police station,to the newspapers to post a reward, to the cab companies,
and anywhere else he might find hope in finding the necklace."  To no avail, the couple
could not find the necxklace and knew they had to replace it.  They wrote a letter to Madame
Forestier asking for a week because the clasp had broken and they wanted to get it fixed.  They
visited a jeweler with the case the necklace had come in.  He said he did not sell the necklace
just the case. They continued to go from jeweler to jeweler until they found a necklace that
looked exactly like the one they lost.  It was store in an area of Paris called, "Palais
Royal."  The jeweler would sell it to them for thirty-six francs.  Mr. Loisel had eighteen
thousand francs he inherited from his father and he "signed notes, made ruinous deals, and
visited loan sharks."  They were then able to buy the necklace and give it to Madame
Forestier.  She took the necklace and never opened the case.

From that point
on Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel lived horrid lives for the next ten years trying to pay
back all the debts only to find out that the truth is always the better
route.

Reference:  The Literature and Language
Book by McDouga Littell

Please add ideas to a few themes in Robinson Crusoe.

I am not too sure that I
fully understand all of your points as you have put them above, but one that I do think we can
definitely comment on is the way in which Crusoe's character develops and improves throughout
the course of the novel. At the end, he is depicted as being a much "better" man that
he is shown to be at the beginning, and this is primarily because he is able to accept the kind
of life that God has for him rather than feeling he needs to seek adventure and experiences
across the waves. The prime problem that Crusoe has, according to this book, is that he is
unable to be "satisfied with the station wherein God and Nature hath placed him." This
is what leads him at the beginning of the story to continuously seek new adventure, and this is
what leads to his experience of being a castaway on an island.

However, this
can also lead us to view the book allegorically. Crusoe, on his island, is forced in conflict
with nature. He eventually is able to win this conflict through retaining his rational and
practical outlook on life. Moreover, the book presents this struggle as being intrinsic to the
human condition as we struggle against nature for our own benefit. The success of Crusoe in this
conflict is something that he is enriched by, and when he metaphorically conquers nature, it is
shown to result in his own development as a character. Having triumphed, he is now happy to
accept his lot in life and does not feel the need to venture forth any
more.

Who or what is the conflict between?

There
are numerous external conflicts in the story; it is set during the Revolutionary War, after all.
But the most important conflicts are the internal conflicts within Jonathan himself. These take
on many different forms as the story progresses. At the start of the book, Jonathan regards war
as an awfully big adventure, a chance to prove his manhood and gain a reputation as a hero. But
fairly soon after he sets foot on the battlefield, Jonathan...

What is a summary of chapter 12 of Lord of the Flies?

In the
final chapter of s , all traces of civilization have left the island.is now
alone.died in the previous chapter whencrushed him with a boulder. He is alone and now at odds
with the rest of the boys. As the chapter begins, Ralph is hiding trying to recover from being
stabbed by Roger. Hes hungry, and by time that the night comes he can smell the pig roasting on
the other side of the island. As he makes his way to the beach, he sees the skull, the Lord of
the Flies, and believe its grinning at him. He smashes the skull and takes the spear it once
stood on. He goes to spy on the savages and sees them dancing and chanting "Kill the beast.
Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"

Ralph tries to get Sam and Eric to
come with him, but they refuse. They give him some food, but they warn him that Roger plans on
hunting Ralph in the morning. Ralph hides again and falls asleep. He wakes up to the smell of
smoke and quickly realizes that Roger set fire to the woods to try and push him out. Ralphs
abandons his hiding spot and runs past the hunter to the beach. Not paying attention to anything
except the boys running after him, he is surprised to look up and see a Navy officer. His ship
saw the fire and came to investigate. At this point, the other boys reach the beach and spot the
officer.

The officer is shocked by the story the boys tell him about what
theyve been up to and the truth that they killed two of them. The officer responds with
disappointment that the boys would behave in such a way: "I should have thought that a pack
of British boys...would have been able to put up a better show than that." Ralph and the
other boys, embarrassed by their actions, begin crying uncontrollably.

How can someone analyze Agostinho Neto's poem, "Western Civilization?"

The
poetry of Agonstinho Neto (1922-1979) was
largely a product of the time and place in which he
lived, not surprising for
any writer, but for one who would grow up to found the independent
nation of
Angola out of the remains of the former Portuguese colony, his poems are an often
sad
ode to the misery of that land both during the period of colonialization
and during the civil
war that followed.  

Angola during
under Portuguese rule was a depressing
place.  Additionally, unlike the
British, who at least bequethed their former colonies a
functioning
governmental structure including a trained civil service, the Portuguese showed
no
interest in developing their colonies' economies and governing
institutions.  When Portgugal
granted Angola its independence in 1974,
following a 13 year war for independence on the part of
the indigenous
tribes, the country was a veritable ruin.  The civil war that followed

independence, and which drew in the United States, Cuba, South Africa, and the Soviet
bloc,
exacerbated the levels of destruction and left behind thousands of
unexploded land
mines.

In the context of the extreme
poverty and minimal prospects for hope
in which Neto lived, his  indictment
of "western civilization," immortalized in his
poem, probably could not read
any other way.  The following description of poverty and despair
speaks for
itself:

"Sheets of tin nailed to posts/driven in the

ground/make up the house.  Some rags complete the intimate landscape...after twelve
hours of
slave labour./breaking rock/shifting rock/breaking rock...Old age
comes early/a mat on dark
nights/is enough when he dies gratefully of
hunger."

The hopelessness
and despair reflected in
"Western Civilization" leaves little room for interpretation.
 Life under the
Portuguese had no place in a civilization characterized by the freedoms

traditionally associated with the phrase "western civilization."  What it took for
an
"advanced" civilization to treat the less fortunate the way the colonizers
did was a
little difficult for Africans to
comprehend.

How are Joseph Stalin and Napoleon of Animal Farm by George Orwell alike?

Both
Joseph Stalin andrule as tyrants and cultivate hysterical, dangerous atmospheres, which allow
them rule as unscrupulous autocrats. Joseph Stalin attempts to assassinate Leon Trotsky, who is
forced to flee the country, in the same way that Napoleon drivesfrom the farm. Joseph Stalin
also has a violent, secret police force named the NKVD, which assassinates and arrests political
enemies. Similarly, Napoleon employs nine ferocious dogs as his personal bodyguards. The nine
dogs not only protect Napoleon but also intimidate and kill the other animals at Napoleon's
request. Stalin established a five-year-plan in hopes of industrializing the...

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What is the meaning of David Ferry's poem "At the Hospital"?

David Ferry
is the author of at least two poems titled At the Hospital. One of them is extremely brief and
reads as follows in its entirety:

She was the sentence the
cancer spoke at last,

Its blurred grammar finally clarified.

Like Ezra Pounds famous poem In a Station of the Metro, this work
depends for much of its effectiveness on its brevity and surprise. The poem alludes to a death
that has already occurred €“ a death that was apparently long in coming. (This fact makes the
abruptness of the poem all the more powerful.) The poem also benefits from various kinds of .
Thus, in this work, the human described is not the speaker but is the sentence spoken. The human
is not in controlled but is controlled. Also ironic is the fact that although we normally
welcome clarity, in this case the clarity is painfully regrettable. The poem implies the brevity
of life and how brief the precise moment of death can also be. The dead person is not compared
to a book but merely to a final sentence. The final word €“ clarified €“ seems highly
paradoxical, since clarification is typically something we desire, whereas here it is cause for
remorse. Note, however, that the tone of the poem is highly objective and matter-of-fact. The
speaker resistsand sentimentality. He does not openly grieve, but his grief is abruptly implied.
In one last note of irony, he answers the "death sentence" imposed by cancer with a
commemorative sentence of his own.

Ferrys other poem titled At the Hospital
is much longer and even more complex.  A simple paraphrase might make its meanings clearer. It
opens by describing at least two people moving down the brightly lit corridor of a hospital. In
some ways they move as quietly as angels might move, while in other ways they move with the
quiet, emotionless efficiency of policemen who are not supposed to reveal the purpose of their
approach. Line 5 implies that these approaching persons are bringing news of health and
gladness, but by the end of the stanza the tone has darkened, as the speaker mentions his
sister, nicknamed Betts, who lies dying on a wretched bed at the bottom of her room. The
speakers memory of this walk dates to the 1960s, a period of great turmoil in the United States
€“ turmoil to which the poem now alludes.

It was in 1968, for instance, that
Senator Robert Kennedy of New York was assassinated while running for President. His own
brother, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in 1963, and Martin Luther King, the
great civil rights leader, had been assassinated shortly before Robert Kennedy himself was
gunned down. Images of Robert Kennedy, as he lay dying in the hotel where he had been shot, were
broadcast over and over and over again on television.

Knowledge of these
facts makes sense of the opening lines of the second stanza:

Above her head, on the television screen,

Endlessly dying on the
hotel floor,

Lay Bobby Kennedy.

If the
first stanza had momentarily seemed to suggest hope for the dying sister, the second stanza
suggests the inevitability of death.

In both poems, then, with a certain
amount of irony, hospitals are associated not with health but with death.

 

How does Douglass portray slaveholders?

Douglass
illustrates that it doesn't matter if slaveowners are good or bad people, because the
institution of slavery corrupts all the owners. They simply have too much power and the slaves
too little. He also says that the owners not unreasonably fear the slaves will rebel against
such an unfair situation. The masters believe they must use fear and cruelty to keep the slaves
abject.

He talks about his horror as a young boy at seeing a female slave
stripped to the waist and beaten until blood ran down her back by her master for disobeying him.
In another instance, he answers charges that slaves, when asked, will say they are happy with
their lot. He tells the story of a slave who had never seen his master because the plantation
was so large and so many slaves worked the fields. When he was approached by a white man and
asked if he were happy, he told the truth about the misery of his condition. The slave later
found out that the man was his master. This slave was very openly used as an...

Why had Madame Loisel's husband set aside an amount of money in "The Necklace"? What was he going to use it for?

The mainfrom
"," Mathilde Loisel, is very much concerned with how she is perceived by society, even
as she aspires towards a lifestyle far beyond her current means. In this story, when she
receives an invitation to a ball, she reacts with mortification and will only attend if she is
given enough money to purchase a suitable dress. To this end, she determines that four hundred
francs would be sufficient.

For his part, while her husband does have four
hundred francs set aside, he had never envisioned spending it in this particular manner. He had
been planning to use the money for the purchase a new gun, as he had plans of going hunting in
the summer. It was to that end that he had been setting the money aside to begin with. However,
the four hundred francs is ultimately used for the purchase of the dress instead.

As the story continues, this purchase itself proves insufficient to assuage Mathilde's
concerns (for while she now has a dress, she does not have any jewelry to complement it). It is
to this end that she ends up borrowing the necklace from her friend, Madame Forestier, a
decision which will ultimately lead to disaster.

What is your opinion on year-round education? Write your answer in one short paragraph.

This
appears to be a writing prompt for a persuasive paragraph or essay. The topic is open for you to
be for year-round schooling or against it. My recommendation is to do one of three things. Pick
the argument that you are truly more in favor of. This works well for a persuasive paragraph
because your writing tends to feel more authentic and passionate to your reader. You also tend
to have more arguments for something you believe in rather than against something you don't
believe in.

The second option is to pick the argument that your reader likely
already supports. This is a smart choice because it automatically creates a positive reader.
They are likely to agree with your reasons because your audience already supports your initial
statement. The third option is to pick whichever argument is going to be easier to support with
existing evidence. If there are mountains of data that show year-round school correlates with
lower student achievement, then you should most definitely support traditional
schooling.

Once you have figured out which argument your paper is going to
support, then you have to craft a guiding thesis statement. This will be a single sentence that
makes an argument and guides the following supporting paragraphs. I truly do recommend at least
two paragraphs for this situation because it allows you to briefly discuss the other side of the
argument and explain why it isn't a solid option. For example:

Although many districts are attempting year-round schooling, the evidence
overwhelmingly supports that traditional schooling is better for student learning.

Why is some art very expensive and other art cheap? Is there a politic that enters the equation where the gatekeepers decide what is art and what is...

When it
comes to art, both beauty and value are in the eye of the beholder! 

 

The price of a work of art is influenced by a number of factors,
but we must also remember that "value" does not always refer to money. The value of a
work of art may be based on personal criteria such as emotional attachment and cultural
background. One of the reasons it is tricky for artists to assign monetary values to their own
works is that the artist comes from a place of bias- they have an emotional attachment to the
piece of art and have invested their time and money in creating it. In today's market, in order
for the artist's opinion of the piece of work (and the price they may set) to be validated,
someone else has to be willing to pay at least the set price for the piece of art. Art dealers
or brokers must carefully weigh the artist's labors, the current demand, special characteristics
like age and preservation, and how willing customers are to pay before assigning a price to any
piece of art.

Some...

Discuss the approach of the American government in promoting support for American involvement in World War I among its citizens, and evaluate the...

The
beginning of World War I for America was the beginning of modern-day propaganda. While there has
always been some form of subterfuge and propaganda in drumming up support for these sorts of
ventures, the American "spin" system went to work efficiently and effectively during
its campaign at the beginning of World War I.

Previously, America had
remained relatively neutral, deciding to stay out of conflicts with foreign interests. That was
one of the main benefits of being so far separated geographically from the rest of the Western
worldit was very easy to remain disengaged. However, America had already entered wartime
activities in a subtle way and was making sure to show its support however it could for Britain
and its allies, with supplies and resources being ferried to the European continent
frequently.

When one of these ships, the Lusitania , was
destroyed, Americans were sent into an uproarnot because they thought they were being attacked
for wartime activities, but because...

What is the setting (time, era, place)? What mood does the author creates through the setting?

The
setting of takes
place in 1980s Connecticut in a middle class, suburban
neighborhood. The book
begins during the fall season, which also creates a sense of nostalgia
about
family-oriented holidays. Little Janie Johnson and her family are close friends with
the
next-door neighbors and all seems as it should be. The setting creates a
sense of economic,
social, and familial stability and middle class normality.
Through these descriptions, the
setting creates a false illusion of security
for the readers as they are introduced to the
seemingly ordinary life of
Janie Johnson. When Janie discovers that her seemingly normal and
stable life
may not be as it seems, the setting serves to contrast sharply with this

discovery.

How does Macbeth's character change throughout the course of the play?

I
believe that 's character change is too extreme. From being a loyal subject and essentially a
good man, he becomes a terrible tyrant, and in the end he is behaving like a madman. It was not
logically necessary forto turn into such a hateful tyrant just because he committed a murder to
become king. Shakespeare made him a tyrant to justify the military intervention of the English
monarch. Asdescribes Scotland in Act 4, Scene 3:

Alas,
poor country,
Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot
Be call'd our mother,
but our grave. Where nothing,
But who knows nothing, is once seen to...

Who is the speaker in the poem Richard Cory?

The speaker
in the poem speaks from a third-person limited point of view. He counts himself among the many
admirers of , evidenced by the first word of the second line of the poem, "We." Since
he is not omniscient, he cannot enter the thoughts of the much-admired Richard Cory and explain
his state of mind or why a man who seemed to have it all would commit suicide.

The speaker is presumably not wealthy or capable of dressing with the quiet dignity
with which Richard Cory arrays himself. The speaker is like the other people in town who work
and go without luxuries and wish they were in the place of Richard Cory, until Richard Cory
surprises them all by fatally shooting himself.

what has winston discovered when he says the proles are the human beings. we are not human

I was unable to
find a quotation in Chapter 7 of 's stating that only the proles are
"human." Perhaps you are referring to this quotation:

Proles and animals are free.

The
"proles" are the simple laborers in 's dystopian world.  They constitute 80% of the
population; the other 20% are members of the ruling "Party."

Although the proles must work hard to earn their meager salaries, Orwell's hero, ,
feels that, in a certain sense, only the proles are free.

Party members live
drab lives in which every action is dictated and monitored by the Party.  They are even
discouraged from finding pleasure in their sex lives.  As Winston says:

The ideal set up by the Partywas something huge, terrible, and
glitteringa world of steel and concrete, ofmonstrous machines and terrifying weaponsa nation of
warriors and fanatics,marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and
shoutingthe same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting three hundred
million people all with the same face.

By contrast, the
proles are permitted to live a more natural and normal life:

They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed
through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were
middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of
home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all,
gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds.

Such a
life does not sound very exciting or intellectually stimulating, but it does allow people to
satisfy their most primal desires without being dictated to or observed by the Party.

This is what Winston Smith means when he says that only the proles are free; if being
human means to be free, then only proles are human.

Analyze the poem "The Sea" by James Reeves.

James Reeves's poem "The Sea" uses an extendedto describe the sea as a dog.
In the first stanza, the choppy gray sea is characterized as a hungry dog with "clashing
teeth and shaggy jaws." The waves roll and gnaw like a dog on the stones they churn around.
The onomatopoeic moans mimic the sound of the sea, and the spray resembles the tongue of a dog
"Licking his greasy paws." The image of the greasy paws evokes the way the light makes
a film over the gray sea.

In the second stanza, the sea makes a different
sound, howling, as dogs do, at the moon and beating its spray against the cliffs, like a wet dog
shaking itself. The sense of turbulence and tumult is increased by the roaring of the night wind
and the motion of the moon, which "rocks in the stormy cloud." As in the first stanza,
the effect is to increase the animation of the sea by describing it as a living thing.

In the final stanza, however, the dog is asleep. It is a warm, quiet day in May or
June. The repetitive rhymes...

Twice A Number

The
number "x" is represented as a letter because it is a variable.
This is the idea of the type of math that is named algebra. Replacing the
variables with single letters (sometimes English alphabet, sometimes Greek alphabet - because
the Greeks had a big role in inventing algebra, so we still use their alphabet today) is a
shorthand. When we work with long or complicated expressions involving one or more variables,
this shorthand makes it easier to follow through the steps on paper at a glance, concentrating
it down to the real essentials. It also saves on ink and time!

An example of
a variable that "x" might represent is the number of oranges a boy called Sam eats in
a week. If his friend Jenny always eats twice as many oranges in a week as Sam, then we can say
that she eats "2x" oranges in a week. It is a variable because it
varies each week, but the relationship between what the two friends eat always stays the same.
You can see that "x" is a shorthand way of saying "number of oranges eaten per
week". It is like when you write $ to mean United States Dollars. It makes comparing prices
at a glance easier.

How does the diary function as a literary device in 1984?

The diary functions as a symbol of s thoughtcrime, his private revolt against the
Party, and of the old times, before the Party came to power, which he is continually trying to
recall and discover. He records in writing his hatred for Big Brother and the Party, but even
before he writes in it, the book as a physical object (together with the old-fashioned fountain
pen he uses to record his thoughts) is already a symbol of everything the Party stands
against:

It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth
creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at
least forty years past. He could guess, however, that the book was much older than
that.

The diary, however, does not only function as a
symbol. It plays an important role in the . is above all a novel of ideas.
When the...

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what do the conflicts between Douglass and Covey reveal about slavery's effects on slaves and masters?

The
section of the book that the question is referring to is chapters 9 and 10.  In chapter 9,
Douglass is with Master Thomas for 9 months.  At the end of those 9 months, Thomas has decided
that Douglass is too unruly to continue keeping around.  Thomas decides to "lend"
Douglass to Edward Covey for one year.  That's when chapter 10 begins. 

Covey
has made a name for himself as one of the area's best slave breakers.  Thomas believes that
Covey can "train" Douglass to be a better slave.  

Some slaveholders thought it not much loss to allow Mr. Covey to have their slaves one
year, for the sake of the training to which they were subjected, without any other
compensation.

Covey's methods of "training"
aren't exactly kind.  He basically resorts to merciless beatings of slaves until the slaves
learn to do as they're told no matter what. Being more of a city slave, Douglass is unfamiliar
with the work that Covey requires of him.  Instead of teaching Douglass, Covey just beats
him. 

I...

In Act 2 of Pygmalion, what qualities does Liza reveal by coming to Higgins for a lesson?

In this
world of distinct social classes, language is one of the determining factors as to which class
one belongs.  Because Eliza is a flower girl and speaks like one, she is seen as being of low
class.  The only hope she has of moving up the world in any way is to change the way she
speaks.

When the opportunity is haphazardly offered to her, she dismisses it
without much thought.  She's more concerned with selling the rest of her flowers.  Overnight,
though, Eliza changes her mind and goes to see the Professor about the lessons he offered.  We
learn a lot about her just by looking at this decision she makes.

First, she
is motivated to improve herself.  She also has a good memory.  Higgins's address was simply
given in passing, yet she remembered.  She managed to make her way to the house--which was far
enough that others were taking cabs.  Eliza has done her best to clean up, though she's still
pretty bedraggled.  She's good at math; she's figured not just the simple calculations but a
more complex reasoning process whereby she knows what lessons must cost compared to French
lessons.  Finally, she is not daunted by approaching a Professor--probably because she
recognizes she has more class than he does!

What are some issues that Postcolonialism addresses?

deals
on some level with all the issues that people have faced since the breakup of the large colonial
empires. For England-oriented writers, this era is often marked as beginning with the
independence of the South Asian nations after World War II, especially the 1947 partition of
India and Pakistan. For the Americas, however, postcolonial theory has been applied much
earlier, as independence from Spain began to be achieved in the early nineteenth
century.

Three key areas that this body of theory addresses, often through
analysis of literary works, are race, hybridity, and self-determination.

Because European colonial expansion and control went hand in hand with the development of
theories of race and racial hierarchy, the imposition of white superiority as a concept was
accompanied by white supremacy in action. When nonwhite persons were judged mentally inferior,
they were considered incompetent to administer themselves and constituted the majority of the
subaltern. The...

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How does the author sympathize Shmuel and Bruno in Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

This
answer is subjective and left up to individual readers. The book is a young adult novel, so the
author focused on finding ways to make his main characters sympathetic to a particular reading
audience. In this case, that audience is young teenagers.

One immediate way
to make characters sympathetic to young readers is to have young protagonists. That is the case
in this book. Bruno is nine years old, and that happens to coincide with Shmuel's exact age as
well. Even adult readers are likely to sympathize with those two characters because adults are
likely to remember what it was like being that age.

The story's setting isn't
likely to have been experienced by any current readers, so the author puts his characters in
situations that resonate with modern-day audiences. For example, Bruno being angry at the move
and being basically friendless is likely to elicit sympathy from readers. Readers are also
likely to sympathize with Shmuel's loss of family members.

A result of the
author...

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Please show some examples of where power lies in the novel 1984.

Simply put,
power lies in the Party.  The control the physical power (the can start/arrange for convenient
wars that increase dependency on the government, and perhaps more importantly, they control
"informational" power.  You can never know anything for sure in their state.  They
control the present and past, so they can control the future by inventing an appropriate
past.

This is all clear in the...

What events in The Alchemist were foreshadowed, and how were they foreshadowed?

The book
is metaphysical in nature and therefore deals with a great many instances
ofthroughout. Santiago has dreams and visions at the beginning, which he believes portend his
eventual fate in finding great wealth, but they end up leading him on a detailed journey (he
does eventually find the money, but his journey is the true fulfillment he sought).

Santiago's conversation with Melchizedek, the ancient king of Salem, is the most
overarching and thematic passage in the novel and is also a deep instance of foreshadowing.
Melchizedek speaks to the importance of finding one's personal legend and what wonders and
powers spring from finding it. This is primarily brushed off until Santiago, having gone through
a long, arduous journey and learned a great deal, realizes his potential and is able to
transform himself into the windand eventually find the treasure he sought. This is the
culmination of his personal journey, and the weight and importance placed on it by...

What are the main points in Heck Tate's evidence?

In , Sheriff
Heck Tate testifies in court during Tom Robinson's trial; he answers to both the Ewells' lawyer
and , and there is a good deal of back-and-forth and clarifying and repeating of questions, but
the main points of his testimony are:

• He was called to the
  Ewells' home on the night of September 21; once there, Bob Ewell said his daughter had been
  raped.
• Mayella was "lying on the floor in the middle of the front
  room...pretty well beat up."
• He asked her who had done this to her,
  and she said it was Tom Robinson.
• He didn't call a doctor, because
  "Something sho' happened, it was pretty obvious," and there was therefore no need to
  verify that she was hurt.
• It had happened thirty minutes before he got
  there.

The most important part of Heck's testimony is the
information he had about Mayella's bruises. He says that:

• Her
  right eye was bruised
• There were bruises all the way around her neck, as
  though someone had tried to strangle her with their hands

This
last bit is very important, because we learn in the next chapter that Tom Robinson's left arm is
uselessit was harmed in a farming accident years ago, and he has been crippled ever since. So he
could not have been able to beat Mayella on the right side of her face, nor could he have
wrapped two hands around her neck.

What is Poe's intended effect/purpose through the repetition of "Nevermore" in The Raven?

When
someone loses a person he loves dearly, the thought inevitably occurs that he will never see
that person again throughout eternity, either in the flesh or in the hereafter. When King Lear
is talking to his dead daughter Cordelia, he says:

Thou'lt
come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!    (5.3)

And when the pitiful, mad Ophelia is mourning her father in
Hamlet, she recites the following verse:

And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is
dead;
Go to thy deathbed;
He never will come again.  (4.5)

In Poe's "," the black bird perches on the bust of the
Goddess of Wisdom, symbolizing that the one word it keeps repeating is the incontrovertible
truth which there is no negating and no escaping. When the poem ends with the speaker sitting in
utter dejection under the bird's shadow, it is that single word and the thought it expresses
that prolongs his hopeless mourning.

Name and explain three objectives of promotional strategy.

The main
objective of a company's promotional strategy is to make sure that the consumer is aware of the
product. To effectively communicate the differentiated benefits of your product to the
market.

Promotional Strategies include, advertising, public relations,
personal selling and sales promotion.

Creating the appropriate mix of
elements in the promotional strategy is vitally important to the product's success.

Presenting the product to the target market is accomplished through the promotional
strategy.

A second clear objective of promotional strategy is to create brand
loyalty.  In the first step of the strategy you create brand and product awareness, then the
marketing process attempts to create an ongoing relationship with the customer which will result
in repeat buying or brand loyalty.

A third key objective of the promotional
strategy is to stimulate demand for the product through the use of effective sales promotion
techniques such as free samples, coupons with both retailers and consumers to create short term
demand that you anticipate will develop into continuing long-term demand for the
product.

What caused the fire and what is its significance in the story "Everyday Use"?

I do not
believe that what started the fire is stated specifically, but it is significant that the house
that burned down had a shingle roof, unlike the tin roofs that are used now.  Shingle is more
natural, and has more beauty and character, while tin is cold; shingle, however, is more
vulnerable to destruction, it burns, while tin does not.  I think that the roofs might be afor
Black heritage, and what it means to truly appreciate it, according to the author.

Maggie was burned and scarred in the fire.  Her mother remembers carrying her away
"with her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little peppery flakes", while
Dee stood apart, watching the house burn from "under the sweet gum tree".  Maggie was
always the one who lived her heritage in the simple things of everyday, while Dee never touched
its richness, looking upon it with scorn. 

Dee wants only to escape her past,
denying the good along with the bad of the Black experience.  She thinks that she can keep her
heritage alive through artifacts.  Her concept of her rich African American roots is sterile,
like the tin roofs on the houses.  Maggie, on the other hand, has captured the spirit of her
culture.  Even though, like the shingle roof, its outward manifestations are subject to
destruction, its essence lives on in people like Maggie, who are not afraid to proclaim their
heritage through "everyday use".

Characterize snowball as a leader in Animal Farm. Do you think his reaction to the stable-boys death is the appropriate reaction to have during a...

During
the Animalist uprising, the big old shire horseaccidentally kills a stable-boy. Boxer feels
somewhat guilty about this, buttells him not fret over it as the only good human is a dead
human. This incident, and Snowball's reaction to it, shows us his ruthless side. Like the
fanatical ideologue he is, Snowball believes that the end justifies the means. If some
individuals get hurt or even killed in the course of a revolution, then that's just too bad. So
long as the revolution is successfully carried out, that's...

What is the relationship and significance between Charles and Laurie in the Shirley Jackson short story "Charles"?

In my
opinion, Laurie's parents are in denial about what their son has become. Laurie displays the
characteristics ofat home, and his parents ignore the behavior. Laurie is quite proud of the
tales of Charles's escapades, suggesting he is quite pleased with his own negative behavior. The
invention of Charles garners Laurie the attention he craves.

Remember that
Laurie is not the only child. He has a baby sister, and that has surely taken some of the
attention away from him. He is also a strong-willed child, as evidenced when the narrator says
he "renounced corduroy overalls with bibs." His parents are very mild-mannered and
likely don't have the first clue how to deal with a child like Laurie. They seem to have adopted
a gentle, encouraging approach to discipline when what Laurie needed was a firm hand. Consider
the first exchange with his parents after attending kindergarten:

He came home the same way, the front door slamming open, his cap on the floor, and the
voice suddenly become raucous shouting, "Isnt anybody here?" At lunch he spoke
insolently to his father, spilled his baby sisters milk, and remarked that his teacher said we
were not to take the name of the Lord in vain. "How was school today" I asked,
elaborately casual.

Notice that Laurie is not disciplined
for shouting, speaking insolently, spilling milk, or slamming the door. His mother glosses over
all of that and asks in a deliberately casual way how school was. Could it be that Laurie's
antics are all a grab for attention? When his mother still doesn't react, he comes up with a
story about Charles. It's actually a brilliant invention because he can brag about his bad
behavior without involving his parents in a talk with the teacher. It is not until the end of
the story that both the teacher and Laurie's mother figure out what he's done, because up until
that point they never communicated.

It is interesting to see the progression
of Charles. At school, he always receives a consequence for his bad behavior. Some consequences
seem mild and some are more severe, like having his mouth washed out with soap for saying a bad
word. This is in contrast to Laurie's home behavior in which he insults his father and has no
consequences.

Another possibility for why Laurie invents Charles is that he
may not want to go to school due to the fact that he is held accountable for his actions. He is
smart enough to figure out that he will not be allowed to stay in school if he is bad enough.
Consider this quote:

He kicked the teachers
friend," Laurie said. "The teachers friend told Charles to touch his toes like I just
did and Charles kicked him."

"What are they going to do about
Charles, do you suppose?" Lauries father asked him. Laurie shrugged elaborately.
"Throw him out of school, I guess," he said."

This may have been Laurie's plan all along.

In A Worn Path, What do all the obstacles Pheonix faces represent?

byis a
complicated story despite its seemingly simple plot about an old black woman walking to town to
get medicine for her grandson.   One key to the story is understanding the meaning of the
title.  A lot of time in literature when an author uses something like a path, road, or river,
it symbolizes a much different journey.  Because we travel on paths and roads, they become
representative of the larger journey of life.  The hardships Phoenix Jackson encounters on her
trip to town shows the obstacles she has had to face her entire life. 

A
phoenix is a...