How does Aunt Alexandra display prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

As a Southern
lady, Aunt Alexandra's racial prejudice is more subtle than that of others in Maycomb since it
is connected to her social level of society as well as with race.

Alexandra's
haughtiness and disdain extends to "white trash" (e.g., she frowns on 's desire to
have Walter Cunningham come "home to dinner" in ) as well as the "Negroes."
So, when she expresses her distaste with the children's having attended Calpurnia's church,
there are elements both of class and racial bias. She believes that such behavior is "just
not done" by a Finch.
Likewise, whentakes the job of defender for Tom Robinson,
Alexandra views this task as somewhat below the status of an accomplished lawyer and member of
the political set of Alabama. She also it distasteful for a Southern gentleman to be involved
with the dealings of Negroes. She asks Atticus if there is any way he can avoid this
assignment.

What is the significance of the use of windows and doors in "The Metamorphosis"? I need to know about the use of doors and windows as motifs and how...

In one
sense, door and windows play a highly conventional role as motifs in 's novella,
, in that they figure as thresholds. They are boundaries between
experiential worlds (public and private, individual and collective), rather than merely means of
spatial demarcation. Kafka's originality lies in the multiple uses to which he puts these common
motifs. Here, I shall discuss windows first and then doors.

We hear of the
window in the 's bedroom very early on. Notably, the window is not used to signify a portal to
the outside world (which is appropriate as, for the moment, Gregor is completely absorbed in his
own experience) but rather as a repository of sounds that are an inducement to
melancholy:

The dreary weather (the rain drops were
falling audibly down on the metal window ledge) made him quite melancholy.

Here, neither the reader nor Gregor "sees" anything out
the window; rather, we "hear" it.

Kafka also uses the bedroom
window to signify Gregor's...

What is the falling point in Pygmalion?

I would
say it comes shortly after thein Act IV, when Henry suggests that Liza essentially prostitute
herself by marrying a rich man if she can find no other means of support.Liza has gained more
than a large vocabularly; she has gained self-respect.She shoots back at Henry: "I sold
flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything
else."

After Liza returns the ring Henry had given her and he throws it
into the fireplace, things are winding down, thus the "falling action."Act V will be
the actual , with Liza deciding that she will marry, but also teach phoentics, thus asserting
her independence but also securing a more comfortable future.

How would you compare and contrast the Wife of Bath with the old woman in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?

The
old woman in the Wife of Bath's story is one of several examples of the 'loathly lady'in
medieval poetry. Readers of the tale would have been broadly familiar with her story: she is
ugly, and indeed 'a fouler wight ther may no man devyse' (1005). She is also of low birth and is
older than the ideal wife, making her far from the preferred marriage partner for the knight who
weds her. The loathly lady knows, however, that despite these considerations, the knight has
made a binding promise to her, which she repeats before the court. She achieves her ends through
shrewdness and strategy. 

This level of strategy and cunning is one of the
reasons many comparisons have been drawn between her and the Wife of Bath herselfshe is also
skilled in, as is made evident in the speech she delivers to her husband on issues such as the
advantages offered by old age and poverty, and the true source of gentility. Like the Wife of
Bath, she is a woman above marriageable age who...

How does Susie feel about her father going through grief in The Lovely Bones?

It is clear that, as the
novel progresses and Susie's father becomes ever-more frustrated by his increasing certainty
that George Harvey committed the murder but without any evidence to prove it, he becomes more
and more isolated and slightly deranged. It is clear that his inability to let his daughter go
and move on results in the estrangement that his marriage suffers. Susie is shown to be
incredibly protective of her father as he goes through this period of his life. Note how she
describes a scene in her father's study:

In his low green
easy chair he now felt the most comfortable. It was where I often saw him sleep. The room like a
vault, the chair like a womb, and me standing guard over him.

Susie explictly reverses the normal father-daughter dynamic, as she becomes the
protector over her father and longs to see him move past this stage. The reference of the room
and the chair being like a "vault" and a "womb" respectively shows how Jack
seeks protection and safety from his study. The way in which Susie is shown to be her father's
protector demonstrates her own sadness and pity at how her father is showing his inability to
cope with her death.

What happened to "Annabel Lee?"

The speaker
begins the poem by recalling a time many years ago (like the beginning of a fairy tale) in a
kingdom by the sea where he an a maiden namedlived and were in love. Although they were only
children, their love was incredibly strong, so strong that angels were jealous of
them: 

But we loved with a love that was more than
love--

I and my ANNABEL LEE;

With a love that the winged
seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me. 

According to the speaker, the angels, in their jealousy, sent a wind from a
"chilling cloud" which led to Annabel Lee's death. The narrator repeats this
accusation, that the angels sent a wind to chill and kill Annabel Lee, evidently making her sick
enough to die and she is carried by her family ("high-born kinsman") to her tomb or
sepulchre. 

However, the narrator adds that their love was/is so strong that
neither the angels nor the demons (nor death) could ever separate his and Annabel Lee's souls.
After her death, he still sees/senses Annabel Lee in the moon beams, the stars, and the
sea. 

Modern Political Parallels? Give some examples from today's leaders who have used language to distort reality.

Everyone
is jumping on the Bush whacking (ha!) but sadly, he is hardly the first nor the last to use
language to distort reality for political power.  Bill Clinton famously parsed the little word
"is" into mincemeat.  Name Nixon rings any bells for anyone?  How about LBJ's fun
little incident called the "Gulf of Tonkin"? 

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm

In "Everyday Use," what levels of meaning are in the story's title?

The title
"" is a referent not only to the quilts, but also to one's culture, which in this case
is reflected by gender, race, geography, language, values, and vocation.

Mrs.
Johnson sees the quilts as constructs of an African-American, matriarchal, agrarian,
self-sufficient Southern culture.  More specifically, she wants to put the quilts and her
culture, race, and language to everyday use to honor the older matriarchs from her family,
namely Grandma Dee (who lived during slavery).

If her daughter Dee/Wangero is
ashamed to put this extant culture to everyday use, then she dishonors those slaves and the
daughters of those slaves during the Jim Crow South.  If Dee/Wangero takes her pre-feminist,
pre-Civil Rights, agrarian culture for granted and fails to use it every day, then she will be
passed over by Mama as the future matriarch of the family.  Instead, the honor goes to Maggie
who practices the culture daily in her domestic duties and staggered speech.

The story is very much a kind of revisionist Cinderella myth retelling with the
domestic servant (Cinderella, or Maggie) being rewarded with the slipper (or quilts), but
instead of marriage to a Prince and becoming queen, Maggie becomes the next matriarch (Mama, and
then Grandma Dee).

Find similar questions: Marcy takes two types of medicine. She takes one every six hours and the other medicine every four hours. She takes both...

The initial
question gives the following information: Marcy takes two kinds of medicine; one every 4 hours,
and the other every 6 hours. We are told that Marcy took both medications at 10 a.m., and we are
asked to find when Marcy will take both medications.

This problem can be
solved in a number of ways. You can always use a brute force approach: list the times for each
medication and note when they are the same.

M1:
10a,2p,6p,10p,2a,6a,10a,2p,6p,10p,2a, etc.
M2: 10a,4p,10p,4a,10a,4p.10p,4a,10a,
etc

You should notice that the first time the medications
are taken together is 10pm; the next time is the next morning at 10am; then again the next day
at 10pm. So they are taken together every 12 hours.

A more efficient approach is to recognize that you need the least common multiple of 4
and 6. To find the LCM, we factor each number, then the LCM is the product of every factor in
either number raised to the highest power in either factorization. Ex:

`4: 2*2=2^2`

`6: 2*3`

The factors of the LCM are 2 and 3. 2 will be squared, as that is
the highest power, and 3 is to the first power.

So the
LCM(4,6)=`2^2*3=12`

It is not a coincidence that we get 12 and the times the
medications are taken together are 12 hours apart.

Other problems of this
type include:

1) Running/biking around a track at different speeds (easiest
if the speeds are in laps per hour).

2) Pizza ovens are dedicated to cooking
pizzas with different cooking times (e.g., 15 min and 20 min).

3) Replacing
fluids in a car (e.g., change oil every 5000 miles and flush/refill radiator every 40000
miles).

All of these problems have something in commontwo activities occur at
two different rates, and the situation involves cycles (e.g. time on a clock, going around a
cyclical path, etc.).

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What do you think Harrison means when he says, "Now watch me become what I can become" in Harrison Bergeron? What does this statement tell you about...

When
Harrison makes this statement, he is
weighed down by all his handicapping gear. After he says
it, he begins to rip
off everything that is weighing him down, such as his handicap body
harness,
his handicap head harness, and his rubber nose. He declares that he is an emperor
and
chooses a...

In Jane Austen's Emma, how does education affect the novel as a whole?

Although the
novel's opening sentence describesas "handsome, clever, and rich," the novel shows the
problems that arise from her lack of a good education. Emma's mother died when Emma was very
young. Miss Taylor, who marries and becomes Mrs. Weston as the novel opens, was Emma's
governess. A kind companion, she never was able to enforce discipline, so Emma is half-formed.
Emma, for instance, envies Jane Fairfax's skill at the piano, but doesn't have the
self-discipline to apply herself to the art. As Mr. Knightley says of Emma, she is always
drawing up reading lists, but not actually doing the reading. He says to Mrs. Weston:

I am done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She
will never submit to anything requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to
the understanding.

The novel shows that the lack of
self-discipline that has kept Emma from reading and learning in a systemized way leads her to
jump to conclusions based on "fancy" and not on solid facts. Emma's half-baked
education has bad effects on the people around her, for she misunderstands people's motives and
takes on as her companion Harriet Smith, a pretty young woman who reads romance novels and has
"scrambled" her way into a "a very indifferent" education at Mrs. Goddard's
school, but who is not likely to elevate Emma's mind. Emma's "fancy" leads her to jump
to false conclusions, such as that Mr. Elton is in love with Harriet, creating the madcap
confusion about love that gives the novel its Midsummer Night's
Dream quality.

As Mr. Knightley points out, Emma "is spoiled
by being the cleverest of her family." At ten, he says, she could "answer questions
which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured . . ." But without
a solid education, this intelligence is frittered away and misused.

Jane
Fairfax, on the other hand, was taken from Highbury at a young age and raised by her father's
friend Mr. Campbell. She has received "an excellent education." Emma admires and
envies her for her "elegance." Jane is discreet and doesn't matchmake and meddle as
Emma does.

The novel as a whole condemns the improper education of rich young
women like Emma, who spend their time drawing, reading novels, keeping books of
"charades" and flitting from one activity to another while becoming good at none. Emma
is bored and this leads to trouble. It's better, Austen implies, to provide a solid and
structured education for women, so that they have resources to fall back on other than meddling
in other people's lives.

Why do you think Stargirl joined cheerleading?

This
question is up to individual reader opinion. Readers are simply not told whyaccepts Mallory's
offer to join the cheerleading squad in chapter 5. What we do know by that point is that
Stargirl is her own person. She either doesn't care what other people think, or she is
completely...

How did Tarrytown get its name?

In
","explains the naming of Tarrytown as such:

This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the
adjacent county, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village
tavern on market days.

In short, Tarrytown was named for
its neighbors' tendency to loiter in its village bar.

Tarrytown is indeed a
village located on the eastern banks of the Hudson River in New York. However, Irving's fanciful
explanation of the town's name is not accurate. Originally, the area was inhabited by
Weckquaesgeeks Indians and settled in 1645 by Dutch farmers, fisherman, and fur trappers. The
soil in this area was ideal for farming wheat, as it was filled with loam and provided excellent
drainage. As such, locals referred to it as "Wheat Town." "Tarwe" means
"wheat" in Dutch, and historians have speculated that the village was called
"Terve Town," which became pronounced "Tarry Town" over
time.

The tire swing is commonly used by a lot of characters. What themes or ideas does the swing convey through this?

After
settling in at "Out-With," Bruno gradually starts to explore his new surroundings, but
with no one to play with, he finds himself bored most of the time. To make the time pass more
easily, he builds himself a tire swing. He gets the spare tire from Lieutenant Kotler, grabs
some rope from the garage, ties them together, and hangs them from a large tree.

At first, the tire swing is an agreeable way for Bruno to fight off boredom, but the
fun doesn't last very long...

At the end of To Kill a Mockingbird,Scout says that telling people Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell would be "sort of like shootin' a mockingbird." What...

In
,tells his children that it is considered a sin to kill a mockingbird. Miss Maudie elaborates on
Atticus's statement and explains his reasoning by mentioning that mockingbirds do nothing to
harm or annoy anyone, and simply make beautiful music for people to enjoy. Mockingbirds are also
vulnerable, defenseless beings, which is why people should not shoot them. Throughout the novel,
mockingbirds symbolize innocent, harmless, and defenseless beings, like .

At
the end of , Atticus and Sheriff Tate are discussing who murdered Bob Ewell, and Heck Tate
indirectly tells Atticus that Boo Radley killed Bob. However, Sheriff Tate refuses to inform the
community about Boo Radley's heroics because the unwanted attention will harm Boo, who is
extremely shy and reclusive. When Atticus asks his daughter if she understands Sheriff Tate's
reasoning for protecting Boo, she says,

"Well, itd be
sort of like shootin€˜ a mockingbird, wouldnt it?" (280)

Essentially,metaphorically applies her father's lesson by depicting Boo Radley as a
symbolic mockingbird. Given the fact that Boo Radley is a shy, vulnerable person, who spreads
joy by giving Scout andgifts, his portrayal as a symbolic mockingbird is
accurate.

Identify a line from Edwards' sermon that puts forth its direct purpose.

You will
have much from the sermon that can serve as lines that reflect Edwards' direct purpose.  Edwards
did not obscure his sermon with lines that did not hit upon his major ideas of individual sin,
God's anger, and how redemption is only possible with complete submission to the divine.  I
offer a line, but there could be quite a few from the sermon that can represent its direct
purpose:

There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any
moment, out of Hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

I
think that this quote can represent the direct purpose of the sermon in a couple of ways.  The
first is that it makes the point that human beings are creatures who sin.  One of Edwards'
primary motivation in the sermon is to bring out how a part of human nature is that of sin and
transgression, something that has plunged humanity into a predicament where damnation is almost
a foregone conclusion.  Another element that is critical to the purpose of the sermon is the
role of the divine.  Edwards brings light to the idea that human beings can only be saved
through the force of the divine, something that is seen in the line of "mere pleasure of
God."  In this, another one of the major points of the sermon is revealed in that God is in
control of the condition of humanity.  I think that the quote is representative of the sermon's
purpose in that it highlights an urgency in which human beings must recognize God's awesome
powers or suffer the grave consequences.  This line helps to deliver the overall purpose of the
sermon.

What was the end outcome for Gilgamesh in The Epic of Gilgamesh? Did he spend time in the afterlife where his friend was?

What happens to
Gilgamesh after his death is
not elaborated upon in this epic text. The reader merely witnesses
the lament
to Gilgamesh and the way that everybody--gods included--mourn his passing.
However,
looking back at the text, it is clear that the mortality of man is
one of its principle themes,
and it does in places explore the afterlife and
what happens to those who die. Note, for
example, the following
reference:

The common man, the
noble
man,

Once they have reached the end of life,

Are
all
gathered in as one,

By Anunnaki, the Great
Gods...

This quote is of course a
reference to death as a force of
equality, who does not respect class, rank
or status. However, note too the indication of what
happens to people when
they die. The phrase "gathered in as one" does seem to point to
some kind of
reunification in the afterlife. Thus it can be safely concluded that Gilgamesh
in
death is finally reunited with his beloved Endiku. This is something
however that the reader is
left to surmise from the text: there is no
description at the end of this epic classic of what
happens to Gilgamesh
after his death. In a sense, the main theme of this text is the mortality
of
man and that all humans, however mighty, must die and have limited days. This of
course
supports one of the main messages of this text: being limited in our
mortality as humans, we
must therefore consider very carefully how we live
the days we have.

How were "organized human beings" able to defeat "organized modern technology" in Chapter 18 of A People's History of the United States?

What Zinn is
talking about here is the ability
of the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong (the organized human
beings) to
defeat the US military (the organized modern technology).  Zinn argues that this
was
possible basically because the communists were popular among the people
and the US-backed
government was not.

Zinn argues that Ho
Chi Minh and the communists had the
backing of the majority of the people of
Vietnam.  He goes on to point out that the Diem
government and those that
followed it had very little support among the people.  All they had,
Zinn
says, was the support of US military technology.

Zinn, then, is
painting
this war as a victory of people fighting for an idea they believed
in over what he sees as an
oppressive military using its technology to try to
make up for the fact that the cause it was
supporting completely lacked
legitimacy and popular support.

How is the theme of assimilation treated in "A Raisin in the Sun"?

Hansberry examines the theme of assimilation primarily through theofand Joseph Asagai.
Beneatha is a forward-thinking young woman, who struggles to find her identity as a black woman
in America. Joseph Asagai is an African student, who is completely against assimilation and
influences Beneatha to connect with her African heritage. When Asagai first arrives at the
Younger's apartment, he gives Beneatha a gift of traditional Nigerian robes and criticizes her
for the way she "mutilates" her hair. Beneatha takes offense to Asagai's criticism and
boldly denies that she is an "assimilationist." She is attracted to Asagai's
enchanting description of African culture and listens as he encourages her to move back to
Africa with him.

Later on, Beneatha dresses in the traditional Nigerian robes
and wears her hair naturally, which disturbs , who embodies assimilation and the Western
civilization view of success.Jr. also criticizes Beneatha for her traditional...

In The Scarlet Letter, what are two things that made Hester Prynne express herself even though she was punished?

What your
question seems to be asking is what two things motivatedto speak her mind and express herself as
an individual despite of being considered a pariah by the elders and the other
settlers.

If this is your question, then those two motivators are first, ,
and, second, the scorn that she secretly feels against the hypocritical society that condemned
her.

Going back to, "Hester at her Needle", we find that, even
though she has been freed from prison and has been told to leave the settlement if she wishes,
Hester still remains there. She does not dare to pray for those who still punish her daily for
being the carrier of the scarlet letter, for fear that she (who considers herself as quite
unlucky and fallen from Grace) might end up cursing them. Nevertheless, Hester expresses herself
through her needlework. This is far...

According to the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is not an area very suitable for food production?

In
,is not particularly
interested in parts of the world that are not suitable
for food production. 
For Diamond, places that are never going to be suitable for farming are
not
terribly important.  Diamond does discuss such areas, for example, at the beginning
of
Chapter 5.  There, Diamond tells us that there are large areas of the
globe where ecological
reasons make food production difficult or impossible
even today.  There are some places, like
the Arctic or deserts, that are
completely unsuitable for food production.

However, these
types of places are not particularly...

What does the Globe Playhouse have in common with a modern outdoor music/concert venue?

Just like
the original Globe Theater, many modern venues today are open to the weather. The Globe also had
name recognition that many outdoor venues do today. The Globe's had outstanding acoustics
meaning that a stage whisper could be heard throughout the theater. Today's modern venues have
great sound quality even though they have electronics which were not present in Shakespeare's
day.

Many outdoor venues use pyrotechnics to amplify the effect of shows.
Gunpowder was also used in Shakespeare's day, most notably when some wadding set the thatched
roof on fire, thus burning down the stage. The Globe also made use of various props, scenery,
and wardrobe changes similarly to how outdoor venues use props and costumes in order to create
good shows. Even in Shakespeare's day it was not enough to hear the wordsone had to have a
visual stimulation as well.

Finally, the Globe had preferred seating in a
similar fashion to many outdoor events. The groundlings paid the least but they had...

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Analyze Gulliver's Travels as a satire on humankind.

satirizes many of humankind's most negative traits. In the first and second parts, including
Gulliver's trips to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Swift draws attention to the way in which we
resort to war or physical conflict to solve many of our problems. Swift also satirizes the way
we feel the need to control others' basic ways of life, in terms of religion, when he has
Gulliver describe the Trameckstans and Slameckstans and their disagreements. Further, by showing
the response of the peace-loving Brobdingnagian king to Gulliver's prideful boasting about
gunpowder and other weaponry, Swift emphasizes our brutality and savagery.

Swift satirizes the contemporary rage for conducting useless experiments in the name of
progress and science, even when they have no benefit whatsoever for humankind. Experiments like
attempting to extricate sunshine from cucumbers or return human fecal matter to its original
food matter are depicted as a waste of money, resources, and brainpower. Science can be
incredibly useful, and its potential benefit to humanity should perhaps be the way in which we
measure whether an experiment is worthwhile or not.

Swift also points out the
way in which human beings are incredibly animalistic in part four. The Yahoos are very like us,
a similarity that we ought to find somewhat troubling, given how disgusting and loathsome they
are. Swift satirizes our greed and selfishness through these creatures.

Can you explain what were the changes the Civil War brought to civilian society in both the North and the South?

Here is my take on
the changes to civilian society in both North and South brought by the outcome of the American
War of 1861-1865.

The entire nation was set upon a course to
industrialization.  The family farm was set upon a course to destruction because people are more
valuable to industry if they are standing in line at the factory door begging for a job,  (The
more people who seek jobs, the lower are the wages that the factory must pay.) than if they are
making a living by themselves on a farm.  (I speak of farming for family subsistance.)  Thus has
evolved a body of regulations and tax structures that make the family farm unprofitable.  Farms,
to be approved of by our industrial and corporate managers must be producing for market needs. 
Production for family subsistance is not allowed.  Hence the reason that so much good land is
idle in the United States, land on which individual families could be leading a superior (though
not wealthy) life-style.

And what of the small businessman?  The small
businessman has fared better under industrialization and corporate big business than the
subsistance farmer.  This is because the small businessman is the most productive segment of
society, and the taxes paid by small business are drawn upon to subsidize corporate big
business.  Thus, small business is allowed to survive to the extent that it is needed for a tax
farm.  Big business has never been content to survive on its own earnings; it has always sought
to transfer wealth created by other segments of society into its own pockets; that is what, in
my opinion, distinguishes capitalism from private enterprise.  If the small business sector gets
too big relative to the need it fulfills as a tax farm, tax structures and regulations beat it
down, so that those small business employees excess to the need are forced into the job line at
the factory door.

What was life like in the 1950s?

The fifties were not
all fun and games.After all, there was the Cold War and McCarthy to contend with.But it was a
period of prosperity and the rise of consumerism.There was always a new gadget, and the fast
food and music was fun!]]>

Themes in Robison Crusoe Dear colleges, Actually I decided to form this topic in order to discuss together the main themes of the novil "Robison...

I teachto
my 8th English class every year, and because I teach in a Christian school, we discuss the theme
of listening to God and...

Detail the events that happen in Oedipus Rex?

is a play set in the
ancient Greek city of Thebes. As with many Greek tragedies, the events actually portrayed on
stage are caused by things that happened in the past, some of which would have been known to the
audience from mythology and some of which are gradually revealed over the course of the
play.

's parents were King Laius and Queen . Laius, during a period of civil
strife in Thebes was raised in the court of Pelops (part of another of the cursed dynasties who
are the subject of many tragedies), but ended up raping and abducting Pelops' son. The gods
cursed Laius to bearing a son who would kill him and marry Jocasta.

At the
beginning of the play, Oedipus is king of Thebes, and married to Jocasta. A great plague has
befallen Thebes, brought about by a divine curse. , who is the brother of Jocasta, goes to the
oracle of Apollo to find out the cause of the curse and returns to tell Oedipus that to lift the
curse, Oedipus must find the murderer of Laius. The blind seerfirst urges Oedipus not to delve
into the issue and then, in an argument, states that Oedipus himself is to blame for the
plague.

The audience then finds out that Laius was murdered by robbers at a
place where three roads met in Phocis. Oedipus then reveals that although he was raised as the
son of Polybus of Corinth and Merope, he later heard rumors that he was adopted. He also
remembers the incident at the crossroads where he did kill an old man. As Oedipus delves more
deeply into his own past, he finds out that in fact he was a foundling, adopted by the childless
rulers of Corinth. Next, the audience discovers that when Jocasta bore a son, Laius, to avoid
the prophecy of his being killed by his own son, asked a servant to take the baby and expose it
on a hillside. Instead, the servant gave the baby to a shepherd who in turn gave it to the
Corinthian royal family. That baby was Oedipus.

Jocasta, horrified by this
information, hangs herself. Oedipus blinds himself by stabbing his eyes with pins from Jocasta's
dress and abdicates. Creon takes over as king, agrees to look after Oedipus's daughters, and
leads Oedipus offstage.

Describe Marley's Ghost in A Christmas Carol. Explain how he got his chain and why he must always travel.

Though
Ebenezer Scrooge's old partner, Jacob Marley, has been dead for seven years, he does not rest
soundly in his grave. Instead, he has been doomed to wander the world in a ghostly state because
of his miserly ways and his unconcern for the people around him. Scrooge first saw Marley's face
in his door knocker, a "horrible" appearance with its wild hair, wide-open eyes and
"livid colour." Scrooge next heard Marley before he saw him, as his old partner
ascended the stairs with his clanking chains. When Scrooge first witnessed the ghost of his old
friend, he saw the same face as he had seen in his door-knocker:

... the very same. Marley in his pig-tail, usual waistcoat, tights, and boots; the
tassels on the latter bristling, like his pig-tail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his
head. The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long, and wound about him like a
tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers,
deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. His body was transparent: so that Scrooge, observing
him, and looking through his waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind.

Marley had no bowels, and Scrooge could see right through him, and
he could feel "the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes." When Scrooge asks
Marley's ghost why he must carry the chain, the "Shade" responds that

     I wear the chain I forged in life, replied the Ghost. I
made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free
will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?

The ghost is allowed no rest nor peace, only torture and remorse.
When Scrooge asks for comfort, Marley's ghost tells him that

I have none to give, the Ghost replied. It comes from other regions, Ebenezer
Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers to other kinds of men... I cannot rest, I cannot
stay, I cannot linger anywhere... and weary journeys lie before me!

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Why does Emma say that she will never marry in Jane Austen's Emma?

Though discusses her reasons for never marrying in a couple of placesthroughout
Austen's novel, a neat encapsulation of it occurs inChapter 31, or Chapter XIII of Volume II.
Emma is contemplating thevarious ways that Frank Churchill might propose to her following
hisdeparture from Highbury in response to a summons from the Churchills.The ball has to be
cancelled. Emma is bereft of the pleasant attentionsof the handsome and charming Frank. Most of
all, she is certain he wason the verge of declaring his devotion when Mr. Weston came to the
doorto fetch him back home for a speedy return to the Churchills.

In Chapter
30, Emma's response to Frank's first try at revealing his feelings,

When and why does Goodman Brown abandon all faith?

This is a
great question because it gets to the heart of the ambiguity of the story. When Brown leaves to
go into the forest, he says "Poor little Faith!....What a wretch am I to leave her on such
an errand."  Because this is an , where concrete items represent abstract concepts, we need
to understand his farewell to his wife here also as his farewell to his "faith" in
either God, the goodness of humanity, or other variations of faith that enable us to love each
other in a community. As for despair, some aspects of Christianity (and puritanism is one) teach
that despair is the greatest sin because it forsakes God, putting one's own sadness above his
wisdom. I would argue, too, that Brown's despair signifies his loss of faith, which is the final
comment Hawthorne makes about human nature and evil in this story.

Do you agree with the statement that Emmais a novel of marriage and courtship in early English society? Illustrate your answer with examples from the...

Yes,
is a novel of marriage and courtship in early-nineteenth-century English
society. The novel opens, for instance, with the marriage of Emma's governess, Miss Taylor, who
becomes Mrs. Weston, and that change in Emma's life triggers the rest of the novel's
action.

Emma insists she made the Taylor/Weston match and decides to engage
in more matchmaking, this time with her new friend Harriet Smith. Her attempts to orchestrate a
marriage between Emma and the Highbury rector, Mr. Elton, misfire comically because Emma is
blind to the fact that it is she, not Harriet, that Mr. Elton wants to marry.

On a more serious note, in a culture in which marriage was almost the only viable
option for a woman, Emma interferes with what would have been an excellent match between Harriet
and Mr. Martina result that could have had dire consequences for Harriet's future had events in
this novel not worked out in the end.

Emma enters into a flirtation with
Frank Churchill and toys with the idea of marrying him, though eventually decides she doesn't
want him. What she doesn't know until the end of the novel is that he is secretly engaged to
Jane Fairfax. As with Harriet and Mr. Martin, this is a vitally important match for Jane, who is
poor and very much dependent on marrying the wealthy Frank to save her from a life as a
governess.

Of course, a central courtship throughout the book (though the
main players don't realize it at first) is between Mr. Knightley and Emma, who eventually do
marry.

The novel, which alludes directly to A Midsummer Night's
Dream, a play also about courtship and love and all their mishaps, is centrally
concerned with the importance of the status and security of marriage to a woman in this society.
As the above examples show, almost the entire plot of the novel revolves around matchmaking,
courtship, and marriage.

In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, what does Nat do to make Kit want to marry him? Who is Nat Eaton?

The plotline
between Kit and Nat is one of those classic love stories when the characters initially don't
like each other, but later grow fond and eventually marry.

Kit first meets
Nathaniel Eaton aboard the Dolphin on her way to Wethersfield. Nat is the
first mate and the captain's son, as the ship belongs to his father. He thinks Kit is arrogant
and spoiled. She refers to the ship as "filthy," and Nat finds this offensive since
the ship smells because the Eatons make a moral choice to transport horses instead of
slaves.

When Kit jumps in the water to save Prudence's doll, Nat jumps in
after her. He is furious when he jumps in the water to save Kit, only to find that she can swim.
He feels foolish and is forced to wear wet clothes all day as he has soaked the only ones he
owns during his attempted rescue.

Nat is the first person to warn Kit that
"only the guilty ones stay afloat," referring to witch trials that took place during
this time period.

Later, Nat's feelings toward Kit soften when he sees that
she is a good friend to Hannah Tupper. Nat has been friends with Hannah since he was a boy and
Hannah found him crying in the Meadow, similar to Kit. They become friends as they work together
to thatch Hannah's roof.

Nat becomes jealous when he hears that Kit is going
to marry William Ashby and he and some of his sailor friends put jack-o-lanterns in William's
windows as a prank. This lands them in the stocks and Kit is distraught to see the townsfolk
jeering and throwing apple cores at Nat.

Nat eventually comes to Kit's rescue
when she is accused of being a witch by Goodwife Cruff. He brings Prudence, who reads out of the
Bible and convinces Goodman Cruff and the town that Kit is not a witch and all charges are
dropped.

Nat returns to Wethersfield with a new ship, his own, that he has
named The Witch. He tells Kit about it and his hopes for their
relationship, and Kit is eager to sail on her namesake, but Nat won't bring her aboard until she
agrees to marry him.

Is there a trade-off between the firm's need for low expenses and the workers need for safe working conditions?

There is a
tradeoff between these two things, particularly if companies are not punished severely in cases
where unsafe working conditions actually end up harming workers.

Companies
need to have the lowest possible costs.  Often, making a workplace safe costs money.  There may
be...

How accurate was Orwell in his vision of the future? How accurate was Orwell in his vision of the future? in what ways does our contemporary society...

As
chilling as the society is thatpaints, it is evident that much of what he described had its
genesis in the societies of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. The idea of citizens simply
'disappearing' and then never being mentioned again was a hallmark of the terror caused by
Stalin's secret police, whilst indoctrinated children spying on adults was encouraged and
rewarded in Nazi Germany. Perhaps the 'hate' sessions in has chilling
simililiarities to modern society. Osama bin-Laden's image constantly being flashed on our TV or
computer screens provided a neat focus for us to vent feelings of anger and hatred (in much the
same way as the image of Goldstein). 

In Romeo and Juliet, how does Juliet feel about Tybalts death?

The scene
in whichlearns and then processes the
news of 's death is one of the most challenging for an
actor playing this
role. Beginning with her anticipation of consummating her marriage
to("Gallop
apace . . ."), she is then thrown into anxiety and despair at her

misinterpretation of the Nurse's distress, thinking it is Romeo who has been killed. As
she
begins to straighten out the news the Nurse brings, Juliet confronts many
of the tensions
driving this play. In addition to her desire for love to be
spiritual, rather than the merely
physical act others in the play
present,...

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How does Emerson feel about the ownership of nature?

Emerson
differentiates between the ownership of land and the ownership of the landscape of nature. He
writes as follows:

The charming landscape which I saw this
morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke
that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property
in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no
title.

Different people may own this or that farm or
woodland and use it to grow crops or trees and turn a profit. However, it is the poetthe
visionarywho in another way owns the landscape. The poet is the one who can perceive the beauty,
splendor, and spiritual qualities of nature spread out before him and integrate these qualities
into one whole. He may not own the title to land he sees, but he possesses a special insight
into the landscape that the literal owners may not.

To the poet, nature
offers a special delight and harmony. He feels a kinship with it, as if he and nature are in
communion. His mood is reflected, too, in how he perceives nature at any particular time, for
example reflecting sadness when disaster has hit the poet:

always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of
his own fire hath sadness in it.

This kinship, to
Emerson, is a very special and potent form of ownership, an ownership based on spiritual
affinity.

What three important life lessons did Scout and Jem learn through the course of events in To Kill a Mockingbird and how do they learn them?

1: The children
learn a significant lesson regarding the importance of protecting innocent beings throughout the
novel. In ,tellsandthat it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because they cause no harm and simply
bring joy to the world. Mockingbirds symbolize any innocent being, and the children
metaphorically apply Atticus's lesson. After witnessing racial injustice, Jem becomes
sympathetic to the needs of defenseless beings, and Scout comprehends the importance of
protectingfrom the community's limelight.

2: In,
Atticus forces Jem to read to their chronically...

Calculate the value of the sum cos40 + cos60 + cos120 + cos140.

cos40 + cos60 +
cos120 + cos140

Let us rewrite:

cos40 + cos60 +
cos(180-60) + cos(140)

But cos(180-60) = - cos60

==> cos40 + cos60 - cos60 + cos(140)

==> cos40 +
cos(140)

We know that:

cosa + cosb = 2cos(a+b)/2*
cos(a-b)/2

cos 40 + cos(140) = 2cos(90)*cos(-50) = 0

==> cos40 + cos60 + cos120 + cos140 = 0

What are some conventions of the post apocalyptic genre in works such as Z for Zachariah and The Matrix? Post apocalyptic genre conventions for Z for...

The idea
of life as one knows it having come to an end and the struggle a select few to live it becomes
one of the critical elements of this genre of .  In both works, one sees how the issue of
resistance is still evident even in the post apocalyptic world.  While life has been wiped out
for all practical purposes, choice has not and Neo as well as Ann must make conscious choices or
decisions to make sure that they use their choice to repel the forces of encroachment which seek
to make them like all other aspects of humanity.  The post apocalyptic setting that is described
in both works helps to bring out that human choice will never leave.  While this is both good
and bad in both, it is distinctly human.  Individuals must make choices to define their
existence even though existence, in general, has been threatened.

In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," what is an example of something being both real and magical?

The most
obvious example is the angel itself; human beings do not have wings of any sort, and for a human
to have large wings that eventually prove capable of flight is itself a magical thing. Not even
the most advanced surgical skills could transplant wings onto a human without rejection,
infection, and probably death. The fact of the angel's existence is itself magical because
it...

In Brooks' novel March, why do Southerners who support slavery not want slaves to learn how to read and write?

Brooks'
novel reflects the Southern reality regarding the education of slaves.  There is little doubt
that some of the slaveowners were simply cruel, regarding their slaves as objects or non-
humans.  In this light, it would simply make no sense to spend the time or the effort in
teaching an object how to read or write.  At the same time, these slaveowners were convinced
that slaves were not human.  In teaching them to read and write, there is a human connection
present which would undermine many of these slaveowners' construction of how slaves were
seen.

However, some Southerners simply lived with the contradiction of
seeking benevolence,...

What caused Scout to change her mind about being a lady in To Kill a Mockingbird? Any quotes you have to back up your answer would be much...

is a
tomboy for most of the book. She prefers the company of boys and men and doesn't see the value
of being a lady, despite Aunt Alexandra's admonitions.marks a turning point in Scout's opinion
of being a lady, however. In this scene, Scout finds herself wearing her "pink Sunday
dress, shoes, and a petticoat" at Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle tea party. Although
she would have rather been swimming withand Dill, since they were skinny-dipping, she wasn't
allowed to join them. At the beginning of the chapter, Scout "admired the ease and grace
with which [Clapurnia] handled heavy loads of dainty things." She tries to mimic
Calpurnia's backing out of the swinging door of the kitchen, but she isn't strong
enough.

During the tea party, Aunt Alexandra is pleased with Scout's efforts
to act like a lady. She gently guides her to avoid responding inappropriately to some of the
women's comments. She is able to read the tension Aunt Alexandra feels when Mrs. Merriweather
tosses a veiled criticism ofinto the room. She notes the look of gratitude her aunt gives Miss
Maudie, and "wondered at the world of women." She recognizes the bond of mutual
support that Alexandra and Maudie share and seems intrigued, although she finds the world of men
more straightforward and less hypocritical.

When Scout learns of Tom
Robinson's death and realizes that Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie both side with Atticus's views
on the rights of blacks rather than with the townpeople's racism, she seems to recognize that
both women show the same strength and integrity that she admires in her father. At first she
believes Aunt Alexandra is crying behind her hands, but when she sees her aunt pull herself
together and face the women who have just said unkind and stupid things, she can't help but
respect her resilience. Aunt Alexandra shows bravery, integrity, and strength--all
characteristics that until that point, Scout had associated more with men and boys than with
ladies. She follows Aunt Alexandra's example, accepting her as a role model:

I carefully picked up the tray and watched myself walk to Mrs.
Merriweather. With my very best company manners, I asked her if she would have some. After all,
if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.

In "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas," why does Bruno's family have to move?

Bruno's
father has risen through the ranks of the Nazi regime and has even entertained Adolf Hitler at
his home in Berlin, Germany. Bruno's father ends up earning a promotion and accepts the position
of commandant, which is the chief position within a Nazi concentration camp. In
order for Bruno's father to serve as commandant, Bruno's family must relocate to the Auschwitz
concentration camp, which is located in southern Poland. Since Bruno is only a
naive nine-year-old boy, he refers to Auschwitz as "Out-With" and does not fully
understand his new environment. Bruno's parents argue about moving the family to Auschwitz, and
Bruno absolutely hates his new home. Bruno describes the environment of his new home as
depressing and barren. However, Bruno ends up becoming close friends with a Jewish prisoner
named Shmuel. The position of commandant and the new home negatively affect Bruno's parents'
relationship. Bruno's mother turns to alcohol as his father remains busy with running the death
camp.

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, compare Bruno's old home to his new home.

In
, the reader is introduced to this "empty, desolate place" to
which the family has relocated and which does not appeal to Bruno at all. It is a sinister
placethe tragic events that will follow. Bruno loves to explore the house in Berlin with all its
"nooks and crannies" but this house, in "Out-With," is much smaller with
only three storeys, one bathroom, an average ground floor and a basement for the servants. It
seems more like "the loneliest place in the world."

There is an
office in the new house but Bruno never even finished exploring his father's office in their
house in Berlin because it was always "Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions."
This new office will no doubt have the same restrictions which means that Bruno's play area is
much- diminished. Bruno loves the banister in the old house as he can slide all the way from the
top (fifth) floor to the bottom and the view out of the window at the top - if he stands on his
toes - is very different from the view from his window in the new house. 

Bruno cannot believe that this place is their new home and he thinks that "this
was a bad idea." The house in Berlin is on a quiet street, in a neighborhood with similar
houses and similar people to his own family, plenty of children with whom to be friends or to
clearly stay away from and a familiar . The new house has neither houses nor, consequently,
friends nor "trouble." The house is "in the middle of nowhere." Bruno will
also be far away from his grandparents at the new house as they live close to the old
one.

In the new house, Bruno does nor feel at home, or safe and "no one
looked as if they could ever be cheerful again." 

Which is the domain of the function f(x)=x/(3x-1)?

f(x)=x/3x-1

First we need
to
determine x values where f(x) is not defined. Since f is a ratio, then the function is
not
defined when 3x-1=0

3x-1=0

==>
x= 1/3

then the domain is R-{1/3}

In act 2, describe Higgins's reaction when Eliza offers to pay him a shilling for the lesson. What do his calculations tell us of him?

Professor Higgins is amused and delighted
when Eliza offers to pay him at the rate of a shilling a lesson. The absurdity of the situation
obviously appeals to him. He casually threw well over ten times that amount into Eliza's basket
at the end of act 1, and if she had any idea of the cost of keeping rooms and a laboratory in
Wimpole Street, she would realize what a tiny sum of money a shilling is from Higgins's point of
view.

Higgins's whimsical calculations tell us rather a lot about him. His
active brain immediately sets itself to working out what the world looks like from Eliza's
financial perspective. He grasps that for her, a shilling is a substantial sum of money.
However, he entirely neglects to consider what her feelings will be when he starts mentioning
enormous sums such as sixty or seventy guineas. He does not reflect or care that she will not
understand or appreciate his joke. He is amusing himself, as he always does, and riding
roughshod over everyone else's feelings.

This episode also shows that Higgins
is financially secure and not particularly interested in money. Although he makes a sporting bet
with Colonel Pickering, he takes Eliza on as a pupil for the sake of the challenge, without any
interest in financial gain.