Compare the two time frames of Never Let Me Go and Frankenstein.

The
novels by Mary Shelley andare set in two different eras. Shelley's
Frankenstein is strongly associated with early 19th-century Romanticism. The
exact time period of , although Ishiguro wrote it in the late 20th century,
is not specified, but it seems to be the not-too-distant future.

The novels
are very similar in evoking contemporary anxieties, including ethical concerns, about how to
define human existence and the proper place of science and technology.

Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein on the border of science and religion as he takes
on the role of creator: he plays God. Victor also uses contemporary medical practices, which
made people anxious in his day, of using corpses. While others used the bodies to study anatomy
and physiology, he goes much farthertoo farin making new life. The creature also stands for the
alienation of the individual in the uncertain modern age. He feels human emotions, but others
reject him and see him as monstrous rather than human.

Ishiguro takes up the
theme of cloning, a post-World War Two scientific advance involving animals. He created a
fictional world in which cloning humans has become routine. We do not meet the scientists or
creators who make the clones, so their ethical dilemmas are not explored. Rather, the author
emphasizes the daily reality of the clones beings who, like Shelley's creature, struggle to
define their identity as humans or not.

Include three website/address details of businesses and how each of them can assist with building software macros (for instance, in Microsoft Word).

Macros are
small pieces of software code that you can use to automate steps in Microsoft Office programs,
such as Excel and Word.

Microsoft's Office 365 website includes href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-or-run-a-macro-c6b99036-905c-49a6-818a-dfb98b7c3c9c">detailed
instructions about how to create a macro for Microsoft Word.

Another resource that provides a wonderful overview of how to create macros for
Microsoft Word is Lynda.com. This video demonstrates in detail how to author and run a
macro.

You can use macros to automate steps that you would normally have to
do manually in the user interface of Microsoft Wordfor example, selecting several things through
a sequence of steps in the Microsoft Word Ribbon. (The Ribbon is the list of buttons and menus
at the top of the user interface in all of the current Microsoft Office applications.)

Current versions of Microsoft Office allow you to create macros from within the
application without having to write a single line of code. However, you can also use Visual
Basic, a coding language, to create a macro from scratch.

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How does Creon show Oedipus's pride and downfall in Oedipus Rex?

acts as
a constant and unwelcome reminder toof the fundamental fragility of his kingship. Although Creon
actually gave Oedipus the throne of Thebes as a reward for solving the riddle of the Sphinx,
Oedipus has never trusted his uncle/brother-in-law. He's so deeply insecure on the throne that
he's certain that Creon plans to snatch it away from him at every available
opportunity.

After all, Oedipus probably reasons that, as Creon gave him the
throne, he can just as easily take it back. This makes Oedipus incredibly paranoid. So paranoid,
in fact, that Oedipus openly accuses Creon of trying to overthrow him aftermakes his terrifying
prophecy.

The more Creon protests his innocence, the more stubborn Oedipus
becomes in his insistence that Creon wants to take back the throne of Thebes. Not for the first
time, and not for the last, Oedipus's overwhelming pride is getting the better of him. And it is
this pride that will ultimately lead to his downfall.

Although Oedipus's
pride would've been enough in and of itself to bring about his downfall, Creon inadvertently
plays his own part in this . So long as he's around, so long as he reminds Oedipus that there's
someone at court who can easily step into his shoes at a moment's notice, Oedipus has no real
incentive to do the right thing and face up to the terrible truth of his own actions. He feels
so threatened by Creon that he daren't confront the truth head on.

What is Homi Bhabha's theory in "The Commitment to Theory?"

In
"The Commitment to Theory," Bhabha focuses on the issue of translating theory into
action, or praxis, and the issue of the continued divide in post-colonial nations of the former
colonizers and the formerly colonized. For Bhabha, groups of people who were of the colonized
identity are still considered to be "the Other" in post-colonial societies. According
to Bhabha, there is still a deep divide that results in a continued power dynamic in which
formerly colonized people are still oppressed, either through an assumption of cultural
inferiority or a forced cultural hegemony, in a post-colonial society. For instance, Indigenous
people in what is now considered the United States may not be subjected to the Indian Removal
Act of the 19th century, but they are still the victims of hate crimes, cultural appropriation,
and cultural erasure in their own homeland. Additionally, Bhabha analyzes the need for theory
that encourages cultural diversity to translate into actual material reality in...

In To Kill a Mockingbird what are some quotes that show racism?

I like
the following quote that has racial implications.  

Lula
stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun herethey got their
church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?"

The quote is from chapter twelve.  The reason that I like the quote is because it
squarely putsandon the other side of racism.  The two kids have never been on the receiving end
of a racist comment.  They are white children, and even without making racist comments
themselves, they hear white people making nasty comments about black people.  This is the first
time they have heard and gotten a nasty comment about being white. 

The next
quote is probably the quote most often associated with , his parenting, and his views on racism.
 The quote comes from chapter eleven. 

"You aren't
really a nigger-lover, then, are you?"

"I certainly am. I do my
best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimesbaby, it's never an insult to be called what
somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt
you."

Atticus is teaching Scout an important lesson
about racism.  First, Atticus shows that words do have power, but only if you let them.  He also
explains that those negative kinds of words often teach you more about the person saying the
insult than it does about the person receiving the insult.  Lastly, Atticus is showing Scout why
he is a "nigger-lover."  It's because he is doing his best to treat everybody the
same.  Atticus isn't in favor of one race more than any other race.  Atticus is teaching Scout
about equality. 

 

In The Scarlet Letter, does Dimmesdale kill himself or does the letter A on Hester's chest kill him? I am writing an interpretative essay on The Scarlet...

From an
interpretive perspective it is arguable that the primary factor that motivatesto engage in the
practice of self-mutilation is the fact that he is the cause of 's punishment of wearing the
scarlet letter for the rest of her life as a token of shame.

Dimmesdale has a
strong reputation that precedes him and, as a result, he ends up believing in it: the townsfolk
see him as a sort of deity; he is referred to as the "divine" one and seen by everyone
as the epitome of the puritanical way of life. Surely the attention of his parishioners must
have fed Dimmesdale's ego, which is perhaps the reason why his speeches had always been so
eloquent and powerful. Even though he is a young man, he enjoys the respect and support of the
aldermen of the province. All of this points to a man who is of excellent character and
impeccable integrity.

Yet, he is not any of those things: Dimmesdale is a
hot blooded man with weaknesses like any other person. His attraction and desire
for...

In Of Mice and Men, Lennie strangled Curley's wife and killed her. Who was really responsible for her death, Lennie or Curley's wife?

One
could argue thatis more responsible for the death of Curley's wife. Although Curley's wife
initiated the interaction by starting a conversation with Lennie and allowed him to pet her
hair, she was completely unaware of his history and had no idea that he lacked
self-control.

Also, one cannot blame Curley's wife for forcing a conversation
with Lennie because of her loneliness on the farm. Curley's wife is portrayed as a lonely,
depressed woman, who left her dream of becoming an actress to live a secure life with a rather
ornery man. Despite the fact that Lennie rebuffs Curley's wife's initial attempts at having a
conversation, one cannot blame Curley's wife for searching for companionship. When she discovers
Lennie's affinity for petting soft things, she does not take into account Lennie's strength or
inability to control his emotions, which is not her fault.

During their
interaction, Lennie is the perpetrator, who refuses to let go of Curley's wife's hair despite
her pleas. The...

How does Winston from 1984 question authority? Examples, quotes, page numbers, etc. are all appreciated.

Winston's relationship withquestions and challenges their authoritative government
which has decided that their society will operate without romantic relationships (Part III,
Chapter 3):

We have cut the links between child and
parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child
or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends .... There will
be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big
Brother.

However, Winston finds an unexpected and deep
connection with Julia and defies the societal norms he's expected to follow. They both know that
it cannot last under the watchful eye of Big Brother:

Both
of them know--in a way, it was never out of their minds--that what was now happening could not
last long... But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of
permanence. (Part II, Chapter 5)

They find a
"sanctuary" from Big Brother when they...

What two stylistic directions did the Post-Impressionist artist take? Cite two representative artists from each direction.

The Post-
Impressionists sought to advance the genre from what they felt the Impressionists lacked.  Post-
Impressionists were not necessarily "impressed" with the Impressionist approach to art
and the results from it.  The Post- Impressionists sought to construct a new vision to art.
 Yet, as with all potency within new visions, it took on multiple forms, making it difficult to
fully grasp a singular focus to Post- Impressionism.  The result of was an artistic movement
whose style moved into at least two different directions.

One stylistic
aspect that the Post- Impressionists embraced was...

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Why is D-Day important in WWII?

took
place between 1939 and 1945 between the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, Italy) and the Allied
Powers (US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China).

Among the causes of
the war were unsettled disputes from World War I and the growing power of Nazi Germany. For the
US, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a major factor in the decision to enter the war.

D-Day is another name for the invasion of Normandy in which the Allied forces attacked
the German forces in a place called Normandy on the coast of France on June 6, 1944. There were
some 156,000 Allied troops that invaded that day. It was a turning point in the war.

"D-Day" is a military term meaning the day of a major military attack. The
other name for the invasion of Normandy was "Operation Overlord." The Allied forces
were victorious in this very important battle. The victory at Normandy is believed to have been
"the beginning of the end of World War II." It was a huge success for the Allied
forces. Had the result at Normandy been different, the result of the entire war could have been
different.

More than 4,000 Allied troops died on D-Day.

There are many films which have taken this famous invasion as their topic, the 1998
film Saving Private Ryan being one of the most
popular.

What did Henry George and Edward Bellamy propose to do about the unequal distribution of wealth?

Both Henry
George in Progress and Poverty, and Edward Bellamy in Looking
Backward attempted to come up with innovation ways to deal with the social problems
caused by unequal distribution of wealth in the late nineteenth century.

Henry George travelled both to California and New York and noted that poverty and wealth were
both more extreme in the older New York. He also noted that population pressures in both places
meant that land prices were rising. This meant the owners of the land could extract more in
rents without adding any value, and the people renting the land, either to farm in the west or
to have living space in a New York tenement, were paying more for it. The wealth inequality was
greater in New York because the land owners had had a longer period in which to extract rents.
This led to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. He proposed allowing people
to...

Is there gravity in outer space? Explain.

Gravity is
the longest range force that comprise our Universe, and is a property of matter, so where
there's matter, there's gravity.  On Earth we experience it as the phenomenon of "falling
down."  If you stand on the Earth and drop a teacup, it falls and smashes on the ground; we
say that gravity pulled it to the Earth.  However, the teacup, because it is also matter, pulls
the Earth towards itself, however weakly. Each piece of matter in the Universe is attracted to
and attracted by every other piece of matter.  For the most part, this attraction is extremely
weak, but extremely pervasive.  The force of gravity weakens over distance fairly quickly, but
it never becomes zero.  In outer space, for example, which is mostly a vacuum, there's barely
any gravitational force but it is in fact there; some estimates claim in deep space you may find
just one atom in a cubic metre of space.  Conversely, where there's a lot of matter, there's a
lot of gravity.  The gravitational force found near a star, for example, is huge because the
star is massive.  Bigger stars have more gravity; ultimately, Black Holes possess so much
gravitational force no piece of matter can move away from it if it gets close enough, and the
force it possesses is quite strong even at huge distances.

In Chapter 10, what does Chillingworth do while Dimmesdale sleeps, and what does his action symbolize?

At the
very end of , "The Leech and His Patient,"falls into a deep slumber.   It is midday,
and he has been reading.  The sleep is suspicious, which Hawthorne suggests through his
description of it.  First, it is early in the day and Dimmesdale was studying.  Second, it is a
very deep sleep.  Dimmesdale is not usually a heavy sleeper, "he was one of those persons
whose sleep, ordinarily, is as light, as fitful, and as easily scared away, as a small bird
hopping on a twig."  Here, he is out cold.  

Another reason that the
sleep appears suspicious is the way in which Chillingworth enters the room.  Rather than walk
quietly, so as not to disturb Dimmesdale, he enters "without any extraordinary
precaution."  He then "advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon
[Dimmesdale's] bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that, hitherto, had always covered it even
from the professional eye."...

In Chapter 1 of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where is the tension created, and how does this intrigue modern readers? Thanks

This
novel begins with a character describing an almost supernatural experience of terror and dread,
followed by the description of random act of violence by a man who shows no remorse.  The
tension results from a lack of understanding.  Why is this door so sinister?  How could a man
just trample a child and not care?  Readers are left feeling uneasy because of this image
unexplaniable human...

What does the second stanza of "The Raven" mean in modern day? Also what are the literary devices for that stanza?

The second stanza is
telling the reader that the speaker is recalling a gloomy December day or evening.  While he was
sitting in his study, the fire that he had in his fireplace was dying out and casting shadows
that reminded him of ghosts on the floor.  He is sitting down to read his book and wishing for
the day to be over while he thinks about his "lost love" named .  That is a modern day
summary of the second stanza.

Literary devices that are found in this stanza
are as follows:    

There is assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) in line
one -- "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" -- in the words
remember and December.  This also exemplifies internal rhyme.  The second line contains  in that
the burning logs were "dying" --  "And each separate dying ember wrought its
ghost upon the floor."  Lines 4 and 5 contain(repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning of consecutive words) -- these examples are "surcease of sorrow -- sorrow"
in line 4 and "rare and radiant" from line 5.

What are some examples of paradox in 1984?

Ais an
illogical or contradictory statement. Sometimes, in their seeming illogic, paradoxes illuminate
truths.

Party slogans in illustrate paradox. Here are
some examples:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Obviously, war cannot be peace and neither can
freedom be slavery. Through these self-contradictory, and hence paradoxical, slogans,parodies or
makes fun of similar political slogans from the twentieth-century, especially those produced by
totalitarian governments.

It is also a paradox that the ministry he works for
is called the Ministry of Truth when, in fact, its function is to produce lies.creates lies on a
daily basis as he rewrites history. Likewise, the Ministry of Love is a place of torture and
hate.

's insistence that two plus two equals five if the Party says so is a
paradox as well. Totalitarian governments operate on the premise that they can use their power
to bend truth to their wills,...

What does Sophocles intend to prove and illustrate in Oedipus Rex?

We can argue that the
central theme of this
play is man's ignorance and his subordinate relationship to the gods. The

story of the play clearly illustrates the folly of man's attempts to overcome the will
of the
gods. 

The idea is articulated directly in the
dialogue as well, as we see
here in these lines from :

JOCASTA: 
Why should a
person fear
when the ways of fortune 
are supreme, when there is no clear
foresight?
(1005) 
Its best to live at random, however one
can.

Theof' fate is that he is born
into a situation that dooms him (via prophecy) to live
out
a...

What are some elements in Emma that could justify some critics of suggesting that Austen is a liberal?

Critics who speak ofas a liberal, in the same vein as they
speak of Charlotte Bront« as a [literary] liberal, often refer to for
analysis, yet there are some identifiable elements of liberalism in
["liberal" here opposes the idea of literary conservatism that Marilyn Butler and
other critics of the 1970s Oxford school of literary criticism thought of as in keeping with the
conservative literary establishment (canonical works) and Tory tradition (Blackwell].

Liberalism can be seen most sharply in Mr. Knightley's actions toward both Harriet
Smith and Robert Martin. Though Robert Martin was a tenant farmer, Knightley genuinely respected
and trusted him and assisted him in making a success of his farm. This was far more than
lip-service because Knightly extended great personal and financial liberality to Martin, which
some found at least surprising.

"His rank in society
I would alter if I could, which is saying a great deal I assure you, Emma."
(Knightley; Vol....

How was a criminal executed in brodingnag?

On
Brobdingnag, Gulliver receives the dubious
honor of being invited to an execution. Gulliver's
normally averse to such
grisly spectacles, but his curiosity gets the better of him and he
agrees to
go along. The criminal in question is a murderer, and as is customary on
Brobdingnag,
he...

Was Reconstruction A Success

Michael Koren

Determining ifwas a success or a failure depends on if a person views Reconstruction as
a short-term or long-term event. If a person looks at Reconstruction as a short-term event, say
from 1865-1876, then there were many successes. The 13th amendment ended slavery. The 14th
amendment stated that a person born in the United States had the rights of citizenship. These
rights could not be taken away without due process of law. The 15th amendment stated that voting
rights could not be taken away based on race or color. The Freedmens Bureau helped the former
slaves adjust to...

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What is the characterisation of Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? What is the characterization of Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy...

Authors
achievethrough many techniques. Some
among them include:

• , in
  which the narrator
  describes the character's personality
• physical
  
  characterization, such as the character's look and manner


• interactions with
  other characters
• name
  symbolism

In
"," Irving uses name symbolism
for Ichabod Crane.  The name Ichabod means
"inglorious" in Hebrew, and a
crane is a long-legged and long-necked bird.  Both apply
to the character, as
Ichabod Crane is described as "tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow

shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that
might
have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung
together." He also leaves
Sleepy Hollow ignominiously.

Crane is described comically as having a
voracious appetite: "he was a huge
feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an
anaconda."  He is
characterized as greedy, and once he realizes the wealth and bounty

of...

Why does Candide decide to leave El Dorado?

El Dorado
is a place of bliss and beauty, the one rational place in the world of the story.stumbles upon
this magnificent city, where he essentially needn't worry about anything and has wealth, luxury,
and provisions as long as he could need...

What is the meaning behind the Beatles song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ?

Although it is
true that many songs represent periods in the artist's lives which deal with their emotions and
events at the time, I don't believe that there is any deep meaning behind this song. I believe
it is a universal message to all that heartache in love does happen, but hey, "Life
goes on."  It is saying that things will be alright.   

              
Broken hearts find your way
                  Make it through just this
day
                  Face the world on your own
                  Life will
go on, life will go on

The upbeat rhythm of the song fits
wonderfully with the message of the lyrics that lost love isn't the end of the world, "Life
goes on."  This song contradicts the emotions that most songs dealing with a broken heart
project by looking at it with a more positive view of surviving a lost
love.

What does the speaker in the dream tell Winston in 1984?

Although you
do not specify which dream of 's you are talking about, I think you are most likely talking
about the dream that Winston mentions in Chapter 2.  He thinks about this dream after he has
been helping his neighbor with her plumbing.

In the dream, he is walking
through a dark room.  There is someone in the room.  As he passes by the person, the person says
to him "We shall meet in the place where there isnodarkness."

Winston does not know in the dream who that is, but he comes to believe that it waswho
spoke to him.

In The Bronze Bow, why is Joel's hatred towards the Romans so intense?

Daniel has
lived under Roman oppression all his
life. Jews like himself are under Roman rule, and are
forced to abide by
confiscatory taxes and unfair laws that make them third-class citizens. While

young, Daniel did not fully understand these laws. However, he had them thrust upon him
long
before he was ready, when his father and uncle were killed:

"But my uncle had lost his head and tried to
fight his way out, and the soldiers
would not let him off. They said he would
go to the quarries to work off his debt.

[...]

So my father ... and four others hid in a cornfield and waited
till
the Romans started for the city with my uncle, and then they attacked. Of course they
were
all captured. ... They crucified all six of them, even my
uncle..."
(Speare,
, Google Books)

After this, Daniel
is sold into slavery to the
local blacksmith. Because of his losses and his adolescent feeling
that
unfairness should be fought against and beaten, he runs away and joins with Rosh, a
bandit
in the hills. For the next several years, Rosh instill a deeper and
deeper hatred of the Romans
in Daniel, knowing that he can manipulate Daniel
to lie and steal for him; Rosh knows that
Daniel is committed to the cause of
freeing Israel, and so reinforces Daniel's hate for his own
ends. It isn't
until Daniel meets Joel and Thacia, and experiences his own family life
again,
that his emotional health starts to improve.

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Discuss Winston Smith, O'Brien, and Julia in terms of who they are and how they relate to some of the other key characters in 1984. First, describe...

is
theof s novel. Winston is a man who works
as a propagandist for the Ministry of Truth,
constantly rewriting the news to
make it favorable to Oceanias government. Winston resents the
total control
that the government, embodied in Big Brother, exerts over his life. Winston
enjoys
the feeling of small acts of resistance to this control, but for a
long time he refuses to
acknowledge that even the tiniest act has set him on
a destructive path: Big Brother is
omnipotent. When he initially gets
involved with , he imagines that he is pursuing a sexual
relationship but
quickly comes to love her.

OBrien is a realist who seems

deeply loyal to Big Brother, butraises the possibility that it is the pragmatism
of
self-preservation rather than patriotism that motivates OBrien. This man
understands power in a
way that Winston cannot. By choosing to side with the
powerful, OBrien acknowledges that he will
be required to dominate and even
destroy the powerless. OBrien tricks Winston into believing he
is on the
rebels side, then betrays and tortures him.

Julia is both
female
and younger than the men. While she has no memories of the time before
Big Brothers regime, she
does not internalize her lack of freedom in the same
way that Winston does. Believing that
feeling free is the same as being free,
Julia superficially participates in the required groups
and rituals. However,
she also flaunts societys rules, apparently taking up with Winston out of

boredom rather than a desire to rebel. Her affection for him, while it surprises her,
also
renders her more vulnerable, and she too must face up to the
inevitability of
betrayal.

Assyrian Achievements

The
Assyrians had many achievements. One of them was that their empire rose a couple of times after
being defeated. Their empire covered a good deal of land, especially in the Middle East. They
also had control over Egypt.

The Assyrians were known for their fighting.
They were skilled at using chariots. They also developed iron weapons. This gave them an
advantage over their rivals who used copper or tin weapons.

Another
achievement of the Assyrians was the development of a famous library at Nineveh by King
Ashurbanipal. Many famous historical documents were in this library. Because some of the
documents in this library have been recovered, we know more about ancient history.

The Assyrians were also good at building roads. This allowed them to move their armies
quickly from place to place. They also built impressive cities. These cities were fortified by
walls and had canals, aqueducts, and palaces.

The Assyrians had many
accomplishments.

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In 1984, Winston suggests that they should break up before they are found out. Julia says no. Why?

In Chapter
7,thinks that he andshould break up before their affair is discovered. However, Julia disagrees
with him. She tells Winston that she's thought about the consequences and has decided that she
will stay with him, regardless of what happens.

Essentially, Julia believes
that to rebel is to be human. In the story, the government has greatly restricted the rights of
every citizen. Sexual relationships are forbidden and even social discourse is monitored. Each
citizen is to be Big Brother's mouthpiece and instrument, and no one is allowed to have autonomy
or individual agency. In this light, Julia sees rebellion as a sort of self-preservation. She
concludes that Big Brother...

From Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," is the Raven a bad person or a good person?

One way to
interpret characters in poetry is to analyze them both with a literal eye as well as a
figurative one. In Poe's "," a man sits grieving in his chamber over his lost love, .
The man is literally just a man who is grieving, but figuratively, he could represent anyone who
has lost a loved one. In the same way, the raven is literally a bird who accidentally flies into
the man's room. Figuratively, though, ravens have been messengers of truth in other tales, such
as the Grimm's Fairy . However, in the world of Poe, where insanity and darkness thrive on the
peculiar, the raven might represent the man's subconscious truth telling him to accept the fact
that Lenore is gone and to stop wallowing in grief. Therefore, the raven is neither good nor
bad; nor is he a person, but a raven, who symbolically attempts to reason with a desperate and
grieving man to accept his loss. If a person must be selected to be the antecedent of the raven,
then it would be the man's true consciousness striving to make him understand reality, accept
the truth, and let go of his grief. 

In Death of a Salesman, what harm and what good does Willy's death do?

I have changed your
question as it asked more than one question. The part of the play that you would benefit from
analysing is the Requiem, the last section when the characters are together after Willy's
funeral. It appears the impact of Willy's death on his family is overall negative. Linda in
particular has problems understanding Willy's motives for killing himself, and dwells on the
good times. There is a harshin the fact that they have just finishing paying off their mortgage.
Happy intends to dedicate his life to...

How does the plot help to illuminate the differing cultural viewpoints of Mr. Kapasi and of Mr. and Mrs. Das? Which cultural viewpoint is presented...

While Mr. and
Mrs. Das are of Indian descent, they come to their parents' homeland as tourists. To Mr. Kapasi,
a traditional Indian man, they are just as foreign in their behavior and in their speech as
"the elderly couple from Scotland" he had driven in his car the day before. The tour
that the Das family takes with Mr. Kapasi allows Lahiri to juxtapose...

Why does George take care of Lennie in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?

takes care
ofbecause he has promised Lennie's
Aunt Clara that he will look after him and protect him. This
promise and
George's moral astuteness bonds the men together. Lennie would not be able to

survive outside of an institution if George were not there to ensure his safety. George
views
his responsibility as a burden at times, but in certain moments
throughout the book one may see
his true affection for Lennie, particularly
through their mutual vision of a farm of their own.
This sadly unattainable
dream allows them to live outside of the stark reality of their lives.
George
views Lennie as a brother, friend, and partner in crime. Without Lennie, George would
be
lonely. It seems as though they need each other equally, although upon
first look it seems like
Lennie mostly needs George. This makes the ending of
the story all the more
tragic.

What is Brown's motive for going into the forest, what does he expect to find, and how does he expect the rest of his life to be? Nathaniel...

's purpose
is to go just one time on what he
repeatedly calls an "evil" or "wicked"
mission in the woods to participate in
a Satanic ritual or "witch-meeting."

He expects he might
find "a devilish Indian" lurking behind each tree or the
devil himself at
this elbow. He expects to be among strangers. Therefore, he is very surprised

to see himself amid the town's most religious and seemingly pious people, including the
deacon,
Goody Cloyse, and even his dear wife Faith as he arrives at the
meeting.

Brown is disillusioned by realizingor perhaps
dreaming, as Hawthorne brings up the idea
that the witch-meeting was all a
dreamthat so many of his neighbors, people he thought were good
Christians,
are actually evil. This turns him into a stern, fearful, and gloomy person
whose
religious faith is lost as well as his trust in
others.

What are the main features of romantic poetry?

Romantic poets tend to
focus on the experience
and feelings of the individual, the revelation of essential truth, and
the
sublimity of nature. Romantics believed in the importance of the individual's emotions
and
especially emphasized the representation and production of intense
emotions. Their ideas often
ran counter to those espoused by Enlightenment
philosophers who focused on empiricism and the
rationalism. The Romantics
privileged emotion over logic because they felt that feelings were
more
fundamental to the human experience than logic; we must be taught to reason but not
to
feel. They also wrote quite a bit about nature and natural objects as well
as the wealth and
truths revealed by nature and its effects on the
individual. Solitude also often plays a vital
role, as the revelation of
truths in nature most often occurs when the individual is alone with
his or
her own thoughts and feelings.

What is the significance of the title of the novel "The Lovely Bones"?

The title is
significant as it refers to Susie Salmon, the young fourteen-year-old girl who is brutally
raped, murdered, and dismembered in the book.  The bones for which her family and the police
search are hers, and as she is so innocent and vulnerable when her attacker pounces, they are
described as lovely.  The title goes further to include the bones of all
the girls who were victims of Susie's serial killer, Mr. Harvey.  All the girls were innocents
and suffered violent and undeserved crimes. Susie meets the other girls in heaven, and as she
watches from heaven, she observes events as they unfold in her old neighborhood...including her
younger sister, Lindsey, breaking in to Mr. Harvey's house to find evidence of his crime.  Not
everything that happens in the book is lovely, but the prose is beautiful and it takes the
reader through the pain Susie and her family suffer bringing us all out on the other side
changed forever.

a rose for emily What significance do you see in the strand of iron-gray hair found on the second pillow?

The hair suggests not
only that Misshas been
sleeping with the dead body in the attic bedroom, but that she has been
doing
so recently. If the hair were of a different color (not grey), we might have assumed
that
the habit of sleeping with the body was an old one, not a recent
one. 

Help needed with a thesis statement for comparing/contrasting Zaroff in "The Most Dangerous Game" and Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

I
recently answered a similar question. Hope...

In Charles, when does the reader realize Laurie was not telling the whole truth ?

This answer
will vary depending upon the person.  Some people may see it sooner and some may see it
later.

When I first read this story, I was suspicious very early on.  The
reason for this was Laurie's bad behavior. ...

What did Candide mean when he said "let us cultivate our garden"?

After many
horrific, over-the-top adventures traveling the world that Pangloss has taught him is "the
best of all possible worlds," the naivebegins to gain wisdom and rethink his tutor's
contention that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Having experienced a
panorama of slavery, warfare, rape, dismemberment, execution, torture, disembowelment, and other
such horrors, Candide, while staying in Turkey, happens to have dinner at the house of an Old
Turk. Candide marvels at the plentitude of the dinner, with its several sherbets and other good
food. He assumes the Turk must be very rich, but the Turk tells him he and his daughters live
abundantly by cultivating only twenty acres. They keep themselves busy, are content with what
they have, and lead a comfortable life.

Candide ponder this and decides that
"cultivating one's garden" is a better option than trying to make one's fortune in the
wider world. By "cultivating one's garden," Candide means more than just planting and
tending to a literal garden of plants. His point is that one should surround oneself with family
and close friends and then pursue one's talents. "Cultivating one's garden" is
developing one's gifts. An individual should keep busy and do what they do best. The wider world
can take care of itself. One does more for the world and stays safer, Candide implies, by
concentrating on quietly developing one's own gifts, rather than trying to make an egoistic mark
on the world.

If you were directed to end India's caste system how would you do it? If you were directed to end India's caste system how would you do it?

I suppose I
would begin by making a thorough study of the efforts that have already led to some diminishment
in the power of the caste system over, say, the past 50 years. I would try to discover what
strategies had already been successful, what strategies had backfired, and what the best
suggestions were for future progress. My instinct suggests that one way to diminish the power of
the caste system is to provide economic opportunities to people in the lower
castes.

List some of the people and actions Holden sees as phony, and then discuss how he is phony himself in The Catcher in the Rye.

Caulfield of
 is critical of many things and nearly everyone with whom he has contact,
including himself. However, he dearly loves his little sister, , as well as his deceased
brother, .

The phoniness of others

Pencey Preparatory School, where Holden has been expelled,
has advertised the school as having a polo team, but Holden states he has seen no horses there.
In the advertisements, there is a line that reads, "Since 1888 we have been molding boys
into splendid and clear-thinking young men." Holden contends that the school does no more
"molding" than any other school. Indeed, Holden, Stradlater, and Ackley do not seem to
meet the standard promised by the school's advertising (Ch. 1).

Holden's
brother D. B. was once an original writer, but Holden considers him
a phony since he has gone to Hollywood, where he is "being a prostitute." That is, he
has sacrificed his artistic talents for writing screenplays (Ch. 1).

Holden's
roommate, Stradlater, seems to look neat, but Holden declares he is
"a secret slob." Holden says Stradlater "looked all right," but his razor
was rusty with hairs and "crap" on it. Also, Stradlater has Holden write an essay for
him and plans to turn it in as his (Ch. 4).

A classmate named
 is described by his mother as "a very sensitive boy."
However, Holden comments, "That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as atoilet seat"
(Ch. 8).

Holden's phoniness

Holden
confesses to the reader that he is "the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life"
(Ch. 3).

He complains about Ackley's being in his room too long, but he stays
in Ackley's room and sleeps for hours in his roommate's bed (Ch. 7).

Holden
praises some of the faculty although he has earlier criticized them. He calls them
phonies because they "act like" teachers, meaning their demeanor is different in the
classroom than when they engage in a private conversation (e.g., ). 

Holden's phoniness (continued)

When Holden
meets Ernest Morrow's mother, Holden falsifies his name, telling her he is Rudolf Schmidt, the
name of the school's janitor. After  says that Ernest loves the school, Holden praises her son,
even though he regards Ernest with disdain:

Then I started
shooting the crap around a little bit... "He adapts himself very well to things. He really
does. I mean he really knows how to adapt himself." (Ch.8)

However, earlier in , Holden describes Eric in derogatory terms, calling him "the
biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey."

As the conversation
continues, Holden tells Mrs. Morrow that he is on the train home because he must have an
operation for a brain tumor. Then, when Mrs. Morrow invites him to visit, Holden says he is
going to South America with his grandmother. (Ch.8)

In another aspect of his
life, Holden is also hypocritical. He is upset with Stradlater for his cheap sexual exploits,
believing that people should not engage in sexual activity unless they care for each other
deeply and have respect for one another. However, he tries hard to lose his virginity, even
agreeing at a hotel to pay for a prostitute. Yet he also claims to value
innocence.

What is the last painting of Leonardo da Vinci?

In the
early 16th Century, Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint scenes from the Battle
Of Anghiari at the Great Council Chamber Of Florence. It follows that da Vinci was
supposedly miffed that a rival artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti, had also been commissioned to
paint scenes from another battle (Battle Of Cascina) in the same
room.

Legend has it that da Vinci never finished this painting. Around 1517,
the King Of France, Francis 1, offered him the position of Premier Painter and Engineer and
Architect Of The King. Accordingly, Leonardo brought along his two favorite apprentices, Salai
and Melzi, and three paintings: the Mona Lisa, John The Baptist, and The
Virgin and Child With St. Anne. It is this last work
that is officially considered to be Leonardo's last painting. Three years ago,
the Louvre finished a restoration of The Virgin and Child With St. Anne.

Despite this, there are new claims that the above work may not
have been Leonardo's last. One astounding claim is that made by href="https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/neglected-portrait-could-be-new-da-vinci-code-painting-1-2451072">Fiona
McLaren, who claims that a family painting is really the last Leonardo masterpiece.
Her book, Da Vinci's Last Commission: The Most Sensational Detective Story In The
History Of Art , details her hypothesis. To date, her claim has not been fully
verified by experts.

href="http://www.unmuseum.org/leonardo.htm">http://www.unmuseum.org/leonardo.htm

What statement might Shakespeare be trying to make about the nature of love, based on the actions and outcomes of the play? How so?

In my
opinion, Shakespeare is warning his audiences about the folly of impulsive behavior and
infatuation vs. real love.  Neithernorthink about their actions before they do them.  They
merely react to situations and go with their initial impulses.  Neither thinks ahead to look for
alternative solutions to the problem of their families' possible reactions to their love
affair. ...

What are some public functions that might benefit from more competition, including competition from private firms?

There are
several public functions that might benefit from competition. One such example is our system of
roads. If the construction and the maintenance of roads was turned over to private companies, it
is possible these companies could do the work more efficiently. Another example is education.
Some people believe that privatizing education would force the public schools to rethink the
ways they do things. The charter school movement, which is free from many union rules and
regulations, is very popular in some circles. These people believe that if there was competition
in the educational sector, the public school systems would improve.

Some
cities continue to provide for garbage and recycling collection. Other cities have turned these
services over to private firms because they have been...

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How do the characters in Kindred assume the roles assigned them? How do they resist?

In
, the person who has the most difficulty accepting her role in the past is
Dana. Although she understands that she must, at the very least, help Rufus stay alive, she
finds it morally repugnant to support a white racist and rapist. She feels that she can change
him for the better, not wanting to admit theof that perspective. The intellectual part of her
knows that sexual abuse of black women was widespread and that is therefore very likely that her
own...

Please can you discuss the phrasing in "The Witch" by Mary E Coleridge? Thank you.

In Coleridge's poem
"The Witch", the first two stanzas are written in first person. Here, the speaker is
discussing the challenges faced as walking the earth.

In the third stanza,
the narration changes. At the beginning of the third stanza, the woman opening the door for the
wanderer is...

What is the meaning of the Cherokee Memorial? What is its historical significance?

There
were several memorials sent by the Cherokee nation in the nineteenth century to the United
States Congress. These memorials were sent to petition congress to take action against the
infringement on Cherokee rights and lands by the state of Georgia and by Andrew Jackson. The
first of the series of Cherokee Memorials was a petition written and sent to the United States
21st Congress in 1829 by members of the Cherokee Nation. The letter was sent specifically by
The Cherokee Phoenix, a newspaper written and operated by members of the
Cherokee Nation.

They petitioned Congress to defend and protect the Cherokee
people from Andrew Jackson's plan to forcibly remove Cherokee people from their lands and move
them into lands west of the Mississippi River. They also wanted to arrest Georgia's attempts to
exert control and ownership over Cherokee lands. The memorial was tabled by House Speaker,
Andrew Stevenson, on February 8th, 1830. These memorials were an attempt by the Cherokee to
legally...

What audience is best to stick to just the facts and avoid emotional appeal?

At the risk of
giving a circular answer, the best audience for such an appeal is one that expects and demands
such a presentation. For example, if you know you're going to...

In "Young Goodman Brown", what are the stages of Brown's gradual disillusionment? And why doesn't Brown turn back, as he resolves to do?

Brown enters
the forest on a journey of personal discovery, an introduction into the world of the
less.than.perfect.  He moves from people he knows in the village to members of his family right
on to F/faith at the climactic scene at the "black mass" in the forest.  The closer
the person is to him, the more his disillusionment grows.  Lost of his F/faith is
the...