What is an example of situational irony in "Harrison Bergeron"?

In a
work of literature, situationaloccurs when
there's a discrepancy between what's expected and
what actually happens. A
prime example of this takes place in " " when we're informed
that "April
still drove people crazy by not being springtime." This gives the reader
the
impression of normality, that apart from the weather, everything in this society is
just
fine. Yet...

Why does Hemingway make the hills look like white elephants? How does this symbolism relate to his overall message in the story?

It is the girl who first
says that the hills in the distance appear to look like white elephants. After they order
drinks, the couple begins to discuss something, without directly referring to it, but it seems
as though they are discussing the possibility of her getting an abortion. The man, Jig, says to
her "We'll be fine afterwards. Just like we were before." He says, "It's the only
thing that's made us unhappy." He encourages her not to be afraid and says that he doesn't
want her to do it if she doesn't want to. She seems most concerned that things will be
"like they were and [he'll] love [her]." Neither the man nor the woman seems
particularly forthcoming; they hardly even seem intimate.

A "white
elephant" has become a common term for an unwanted gift that is hard to get rid of. It is
really anto a legend referring to the King of Siam (now Thailand), who would give rare white
elephants as gifts to people who he did not actually like. On the surface, it seems like a
really cool gift, but it was expensive to maintain an elephant. The gift recipient could not get
rid of the elephant because it would offend the king, and so they would be financially ruined by
the exorbitant cost of the animal's upkeep. In this story, then, the baby that the couple is
considering aborting is the white elephant. The girl interprets the hills as looking like white
elephants because their symbolismbeing a costly and unwanted gift that doesn't feel like a gift
but an obligationmatches the way she and the man seem to feel about their
baby.

What are the underlying themes of the poem "Ten Thousand" by Roo Borson?

The main theme of "Ten Thousand" is Borson's contrarian view of being alive. The
logical conclusion of this contrarian view is that all that is valued or desired is the unknown
future. Borson begins establishing the contrarian perspective in his descriptions of nature: the
birds "dive up"; the "leaves off the ground" become "wheels";
"branches [are] planted against the sky." Things are not as expected. The end result
of this contrarianism is...

What is the internal and external conflict in "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?

Besides
the internal and external conflicts the other respondent posted, there are some other angles to
explore in Jacksons ironic short story .

Another obvious external conflict
is the one between Laurie and his kindergarten teacher, since he is constantly disruptive in
ever more dramatic ways. Laurie struggles to behave properly in the restrictive environment of a
classroom, and while he briefly behaves himself, Laurie acts out because of the stress that
starting school has caused him.

Besides Lauries internal conflict to cope
with the demands of school, Lauries mother experiences internal conflict as she struggles with
addressing her sons shifting attitude at home. She definitely notices a negative change in
Lauries demeanor, but she doesnt know how to acknowledge or correct the behaviors she finds
unacceptable. The mothers inability to decide how to fix these issues ultimately contributes to
Lauries continued misbehaviors at school.

Along a similar subtext, why is it important that Susie have the moment with Ray toward the end of The Lovely Bones? How is this a healing for...

The answer is
one very important word: closure.

Although underestimated at times, closure
is the final and the most transcendental moment that completes the grieving process. It is a
most courageous step to take: the act of finalizing pain and moving on. However, in
closure goes amiss. This is because the pain of Susie's death has left
such a deep dent in the psyche of the Salmon family that their grieving process seems almost
interminable. However, it is through this process, and only through grieving, that closure can
actually happen.

Grief takes center stage in The Lovely
Bones, as the agent of change in the novel. It is grief that defines each character,
and their reactions to grief color them withand intensity. Grief is the motivation behind the
most important life decisions made by Susie's mother and father, as well as the rest of her
family. However, what makes The Lovely Bones such a wonderful study in
human dynamics is that it is one of the few literary works which explores grief as it occurs
outside the nucleus of pain.

Ray's character is significant because he
represents Susie Salmon's essence of youth: the first crush, the ideal boyfriend, the first
signs of womanhood. Yet, when Susie is murdered, not only does her life becomes cancelled in the
real world, but also in the afterlife; Susie's spectral self remains, even years after her
death, as a 14 year-old girl. Her unfinished dreams and stranded development remains with her as
well. Hence, the final moment with Ray will bring closure to Susie's own grieving process: she
grieves for her lost life, and her missed opportunities. Now, she has had the one thing her 14
year old soul wanted: to be with Ray.

Conversely, Ray also suffers grief
after Susie's death. Although he does not express it dramatically, he did have an emotional bond
with her during her life. He also grieves the injustice of her death and the lack of justice
brought to Susie's perpetrator. Moreover, he also grieves (like Susie) for the lost
opportunities, and for the "what if's". Regardless of whether he has moved on with his
life, he never gets to have the closure of knowing what would have happened if he had the chance
to see Susie again. This final moment brings him the closure that he deserves as well.

Finally, this event also gives closure to Ruth, who accidentally became Susie's medium
after Susie's spirit brushed up against Ruth shortly after the murder. Ruth, a loner and a woman
very much like Susie, has always struggled with her own identity; she constantly contemplates
life, and her role within society. Susie was for Ruth a reason to find a purpose. However, Ruth
has grown up at this point and perhaps now understands that, like Susie, they both have to
"let go" and move on. By serving as Susie's channel to connect physically with Ray,
Ruth is giving Susie life; this is proportional to the life that Susie seems to have awoken in
Ruth when she connected with her cosmically. Therefore, Ruth, Ray, and Susie literally complete
the circle and bring closure to the life and death of Susie Salmon.

How does the lawyer spend his 15 years of imprisonment in "The Bet" by Anton Checkhov?

The impulsive
lawyer is sequestered in the banker's lodge where he can have virtually anything he desires
except human companionship.

After arguing against the banker that life
imprisonment is not less humane than capital punishment--"to live anyhow is better than not
at all"--the banker wages two million rubles that the lawyer cannot stay in solitary
confinement for five years. With the arrogance and recklessness of youth, the lawyer contends
that he can stay, not just five, but fifteen years. The banker accepts the bet, but he warns the
younger man,

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that
voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. 

So, while the lawyer tries to prove that living an isolated life is
not a hardship and win the bet of two million, he can have any of the books he wants, he is
given a piano and music, he is allowed to write letters, and he may drink wine and smoke. The
only outlet to the outside is a little window through which the books and letters and other
things are passed. 

During the first year, the prisoner is extremely lonely;
he spends a great deal of time at the piano. Because he is lonely, he refuses the wine and
tobacco; in explanation, he writes that wine stimulates the senses, only exacerbating his lonely
condition. Tobacco ruins the air of his little room.
In the second year, the prisoner
stops playing the piano, and he exchanges the light reading of his first year for the classics.
Then, in his fifth year, the prisoner requests wine, and he again plays the piano. During this
year, the lawyer mostly eats and drink and lies on his bed. But, at times he writes all night;
afterwards, however, he tears up what he has written, crying. 
Then, in the sixth year,
he begins to study languages, history, and philosophy. He immerses himself in these studies so
much that the banker is overwhelmed as he tries to furnish the books. After the lawyer learns
six languages, the prisoner writes his jailer in these languages; further, he requests that the
banker show them to experts and fire a shot in his garden if they are correct. The banker
follows the lawyer's instructions and fires two shots. Hearing these shots, the lawyer expresses
his happiness since he has mastered six hundred volumes of scholarly learning.
After
the tenth year, the lawyer abandons all reading, but the Gospels. Theology and philosophy are
his next readings. In the last two years of his confinement, the lawyer reads indiscriminately,
choosing Shakespeare, then a medical manual, then philosophy or theology.

His reading suggested a man in the sea among the wreckage of his
ship and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar, and then at
another.

Before he is released, the lawyer, now a man of
despair, writes that he despises freedom, life, and health--all that is called "the good
things of the world."

What message is Edwards conveying in the sermon?

The message
from Edwards's "" is that mankind is inherently sinful and it is only through God's
grace that Man is able to avoid eternal damnation and torment.Edwards's goal was to encourage
people to turn towards God and away from sin before it was too late.

Edwards
was a minister during the Great Awakening.This period is marked by emotional responses to
religion, a contrast from the more rational approach of the Enlightenment.In trying to make
people see the urgency in making a decision for God, Edwards focused on what would happen if
people stayed away from God's mercies; they could expect to spend eternity in Hell.Edwards also
pointed out the frailty of life and that the only way to assure oneself a place in Heaven was to
accept salvation right away.Edwards's sermon was printed as well as given from the pulpit, thus
giving him a larger audience.While Edwards's speaking style had a powerful effect on his
congregants, his words were still...

Rousseau gives a description of the original of amour-propre, which can also be translated as vanity. What is the origin of vanity as Rousseau...

Rousseau's
concept of amour-propre aligns more with the concept of vanity than with the
pure, innocent kind of self-love, because he sees this as a result of one's conscious idea of
one's place in society. He believes that amour-propre arises from this very
social sense of proportion. In effect, one's sense of self is determined by one's awareness of
oneself in proportion to others' sense of themselves. As a result, every man, woman, and child
wants to be seen in a good light against everyone else.

Rousseau traces back
the origins of vanity to when humankind was beginning to establish "a more settled manner
of life," as opposed to the more primitive, nomadic ways of their ancestors. As habits of
living together formed, so did families, and, eventually, communities. People did more
ritualized things together and prized each other for their company. Since primitive survival no
longer held sway over their lives, leisure and enjoyment became the norm. Here, they began to
regard one another more keenly, leading to each one desiring to be thought of well and spoken of
highly. We see the early beginnings of public esteem. Much value was suddenly placed on whoever
spoke the most eloquently, exhibited the most strength, or came to have the most exquisite
beauty, among many other qualities deemed socially remarkable.

For this,
Rousseau saw amour-propre or vanity as problematic. It paved the way for
inequality to rise based on such hierarchies, and it most certainly gave rise to envy, shame,
and contempt, especially among those less endowedleading to greater unhappiness. To him, it was
a flimsy form of self-love wholly dependent on individual comparisons within a community, which
only arose from man's shifting focus: from daily survival in the wilderness to an afforded sense
of leisure brought about by civic expansion and industriousness.

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?

One of
the most important advantages of social media is certainly the speed and efficiency in which it
allows communication between people. For example, in the 2013 protests which took place in
Turkey, social media played a vital role in communication. Many of the protesters were young men
and women, students, and they organized the protests using social media. The plans of where and
how the protests would take place spread through social media accounts rapidly, staging some of
the biggest protests that Turkish people had witnessed in the country's history.

This is a great example of how social media can be used for change and for public
mobilization. Similar examples took place during the Arab Spring and other incidents across the
world. Social media has given people, especially the new generation which is very computer
savvy, a new and effective instrument to come together for issues they believe
in.

Why was Germany disappointed with the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany was
disappointed with this treaty because it punished Germany very harshly.  It made Germany claim
complete responsibility and guilt for WWI.  On top of that, it did many things that hurt Germany
economically and/or took power from Germany.  Among these things were:

• Forced Germany to pay reparations for the war.
• Took
  various German territories (both overseas colonies and parts of its European territories) away
  from Germany.
• Prohibited Germany from having a full military.  The treaty
  allowed only a very small military with no air force or submarines.

All of these provisions disappointed and angered the
Germans.

In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, why was the children's art collected and why was their creativity encouraged?

The
children who grow up living at Hailsham
are clones from originals living elsewhere. Public
opinion is divided about
the value of education for clones because they will eventually die
after
donating their organs. Miss Lucy is a passionate...

Why is Jody interested in the mountains in "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck?

"The
Great Mountains" is the second story in Steinbeck's " ".  Jody is bored.  He is
in a bad mood and he kills a bird and then hides it so no...

What is your personal response to The Alchemist?

As with
much in way of a personal response, individual impressions and feelings will have to be
examined.  Perhaps a starting point here can guide the articulation of these conditions.  There
is something personal about the feel of the work.  The idea of individuals having to define life
as setting off on a journey of personal growth, individual differentiation, and being
fundamentally different from others is captivating.  It is an affirmation of being in the world.
 One distinct impression that is taken from the work is that Coelho speaks of a larger vision
that governs being in the world.  

However, the work lacks a specific
religious notion of the good.  There is an absence of dogmatism and ceremonial understandings of
spiritual identity.  Rather, Coelho, through Santiago and the Alchemist, seems to be suggesting
that individuals find their own voice and their own path.  The search for "treasure"
is an internal one and individuals can define both the voyage to find this and what its ends
result will be.  It is here in which there has to be some type of personal response to the work.
 The end message that emerges from it is personal and individualistic.  The reader winds up
seeking to take the lessons that are gained from Santiago and the alchemist and reflects on such
a presence in their own life.  This makes the personal response to the work, personal in
different ways.

What is the history of the color puce?

Origin and Definition of
"Puce"

Word
Origin
puce
1787,
from French puce meaning "flea," from Latin
pucilem (nom. pulex) meaning "flea," cognate
with Sanskrit plusih, Greek psylla, ....
"flea." It is the color of a flea. (Douglas Harper, Online Etymology
Dictionary)

Definition€‚
puce
adjective
1.
of
a dark or brownish purple.
noun
2.
a dark or
brownish
purple.
Origin:
1780€“90; 
< French:  literally, flea < Latin pÅ«lic-,  stem of pÅ«lex (Random House
Dictionary)

Historical Mention of
"Puce"

The earliest mention of "puce" in
history is in connection with French Queen Marie Antoinette (1755€“1793) who is said to have
held "puce" as a favorite color. href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce">Puce has a
similar origin to that of the color href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal">carmine.
Both these colors are derived from insects that secret blood-red
colorant that is used as a pigment in cloth dying and painting.
Carmine, used from antiquity, comes from the cochineal while
puce, as the etymology and definitions above make clear, comes from
the troublesome and often quite dangerous flea (e.g. bubonic plague and typhus). In the case of
the cochineal, the red comes from the resin of the bark that it eats whereas, in the case of the
flea, the red comes from the blood of this parasite's host.

While English
translations of Thomas Mallory's Le Morte dArthur, such as the translation
by Keith Baines, refer to Gareth, the Red Knight in "The Tale of Sir Gareth," as the
Puce Knight, this is merely a translation convention so as not to
confuse the heroic Sir Gareth with the villainous Red Knight of the Red Lands. Since we must
reject Le Morte dArthur as the historical beginning of "puce," we
find that the color puce has historical roots in the sensuous court of Marie Antoinette and
begins its life c. 1787, or between 1780 and 1790.

Source of
the Color Puce

The brownish purple color of puce is seen in
nature under two circumstances. Should a hapless sleeper have been bitten by a flea in the night
during the 1700s, dark spots may stain the snow-white linen (linen: cloth
made from reeds) sheets and be found upon awakening. Should an individual happen to espy a flea
upon their person or upon the person of another individual, if the flea can be caught and
smashed, the parasitic flea will release dark fluid resulting from biting its host.

Cultural Association Between Fleas and Puce

This raises the question of how a parasitic flea's secretions could be associated with
a Queen's new and favorite color. The answer, which bares directly on the history of puce, lies
in the historical association of fleas with the unbridled, i.e.,
uncontrolled, desires of l'amor, of love. By
the 1300s, the firmly established French(conveyed in English) "to have a flea in the
ear" meant to be provoked with amorous desire. French poetry of 1300 and 1400s speaks of
putting fleas in young women's ears to arouse desire in them. A French poem written in the 1600s
by Jean de la Fontaine illustrates the continuance of this idiom associating fleas with
provoking amorous desire:

A longing girl
With
thoughts of sweetheart in her head,
In bed all night will sleepless twirl.
A
flea is in her ear, tis said. ( href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fle1.htm">Jean de la Fontaine
qtd by Michael Quinion on World Wide Words)

Cultural Association of Fleas with Marie
Antoinette

Marie Antoinette had an unstable position in the
court of Louis XVI because his physical condition, phimosis, made
procreation of an heir a difficulty and an improbability. Since Marie Antoinette's sole role in
the royal household was to bear and rear the royal offspring and future Kings of France, the
absence of procreative relations with Louis made Marie Antoinette essentially superfluous.
Consequently, according to Mylynka Kilgore of the University of Texas, Marie Antoinette
established a role and position for herself by usurping that of royal mistress to the King, a
role represented by exuberance and extravagance in opposition to the representation of the
Queen's role through modesty and purity. As a result of willful association with the role of
mistress, Marie Antoinette's image was one of uncontrolled desire: Her image was one of a young
woman with a flea in her ear.

The color puce has as one of its sources the
dark spots that might be found on sheets after being in sleep. Marie Antoinette's sheets were
checked every morning for signs that her virginity had been overcome by King Louis. The color
puce came into existence. Puce was Marie Antoinette's favorite color. Courtier's for centuries
had written lewd poems about using fleas to induce sexual desire in pure young women.

History of the Color Puce

There is no
historical record that states the reason puce came into being or that says that the reason Marie
Antoinette favored puce was because she could not escape the ironic similarity between the spots
left by gorged fleas and by spots courtiers and ambassadors hoped would indicate the promise of
an heir to the French throne, but there certainly is an interesting cultural connection between
the idiomatic role played by fleas in French culture and the role of mistress Marie Antoinette
was forced to play in the French court. 

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What were some of the challenges that ex-slaves faced in the US after they were freed?

The American
nation did not make provision to integrate the freed blacks into society.  They were treated in
the north and west, and by the nonslaveholders of the South, as a pariah.

Many or most of the northern and western states had laws forbidding free blacks from
entering.  These states also had laws limiting the political and economic rights and
opportunities of the free blacks that already lived there.  Pretty soon, the South started
copying those laws.  Upon being freed, the only friend the blacks had was their former owners. 
After the Republican party used the blacks to put itself in power in the southern states, even
their former owners no longer thought well of them.

Under slavery, blacks had
food clothing and shelter from cradle to grave, in sickness and in health.  Under freedom, they
had these needs only so long as they could work, and very many of them had not had any training
or education under slavery that would help them cope with freedom; furthermore, they were
subject to laws that limited their movement and what jobs they could hold and so on.  It was one
generation before the southern whites recovered the average economic well-being that they had
know before the War Between the States.  It was three generations before the southern blacks
recovered the average economic well-being that they had known before the war.

The nation did not help them to homestead lands in the west, because western whites did
not want them there.  The nation did not break up plantations in the South to provide them
land.  (That would have been unjust to the owners, but the reason was that the nation wanted
cotton produced on those plantations, and small farms would not have been very good for
this.)

Two references:

Donald, Henderson H. 1952.
The Negro Freedman: Life Conditions of the American Negro in the Early Years after
Emancipation. New York: Henry Schuman. I found this book in a university library
near-by to my home. Your school librarian might be able to borrow it for you via Interlibrary
Loan, or you may visit a nearby university library yourself. If it is a state university, it
will probably let you check the book out yourself.

Livingston, Donald W.
2010. "Why the War Was Not about Slavery," Confederate Veteran,
68, 5 (September/October), 16-22 & 54-60. If you can't find a copy of this article, send me
a message, and I can send it to you.

How and why does the rebellion happen in Animal Farm?

The
Rebellion occurs because Mr. Jones starts drinking heavily after losing a lawsuit. Because of
his drinking, he neglects the farm, sometimes spending days at a time doing nothing but sitting
in a chair, reading the paper, drinking, and feeding Moses. As a result of his lack of
supervision, his farm hands do little work, and the farm goes to wrack and ruin: the fields are
weedy, the roofs are left unrepaired, and the animals are underfed.

Things
come to a head when Mr. Jones celebrates Midsummer's Eve, gets drunk, doesn't come back until a
day later, and then promptly falls asleep. His workers haven't been bothering to feed the
animals. Finally, the animals get so hungry that they break into the store shed and start
feeding themselves. When Mr. Jones and his men arrive and try to whip them out of the shed, the
frustrated animals fight back and run the humans off the farm.

The animals
had been secretly preparing for the rebellion they expected to someday take place, but they are
surprised at how quickly and spontaneously it happens.

Please help me find a quote in chapters 1€“8 of The Scarlet Letter for examples of text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections.

Inof 's
,is put in the public square so everyone can observe the "scarlet
letter" she must wear as punishment for adultery. This quote appears:

"A wise sentence!" remarked the stranger, gravely bowing
his head. "Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be
engraved upon her tombstone. It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should
not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!he will be known!he will
be known!"

Students can make text-to-self
connections with this quote in a number of possible ways. Questions to stimulate such
connections would include the following: Think of a punishment you or someone else received as a
child; decide whether it was fair or unfair and explain why. The woman refused to reveal her
partner. Think of a time when you tattled or refused to tattle on someone. Explain your
reasoning and how the situation turned out. In your...

Explain how the females are weak willed causing them to be morally corrupt and influences the core of the text (Do not include how they are easily...

In , women are
extremely stereotyped. Take a look at 's neighbor across the hall. SHe is completely unable to
take care of herself. She cannot fix her plumbing (although we know Winston is not strong and is
certainly no amazing handyman) even though she has watched Winston do it countless times. She
has been removed as a mother of her children and replaced by the government--they are little
spies who she cannot stop. 

In In Cold Blood, what are Dewey's two different scenarios for the crime?

Dewey has two ideas, or
"concepts," about how the murders of the Clutter family were committed. The first
scenario is that a single murderer, likely a casual acquaintance of the Clutters, committed the
crime. That person likely knew that the family did not lock the doors and that Mr. Clutter slept
alone downstairs while the rest of the family slept upstairs. This person would have cowed the
family dog, Teddy, who was afraid of weapons, and he would have forced Mr. Clutter to tie up his
family at gunpoint. The murderer would have then bound Mr. Clutter and killed all the victims.
However, this theory has several holes. First, Mr. Clutter and his son would have struggled
against the murderer, and all the bodies were bound and trussed in exactly the same way (not, in
this scenario, by two different peopleMr. Clutter and the murderer).

The
second concept is that the murder occurred along the same lines but that there were two
murderers. The accomplice to the murderer tied and bound all...

How is Okonkwo responsible for his own downfall?

Althoughis a successful, proud leader of
Umuofia, he is afraid of being viewed as weak or becoming like his effeminate father, .
Okonkwo's hypermasculinity and fear of being viewed as weak influence his aggressive demeanor,
which leads to several costly decisions, resulting in his downfall. Initially, Okonkwo disrupts
the Week of Peace by severely beating his wife, which offends the earth goddess. Okonkwo then
disobeys the Oracle by taking part in 's death. Okonkwo was Ikemefuna's surrogate father, and
the boy became an integral part of their family. Tragically, the Oracle declares that Ikemefuna
must be sacrificed, and Okonkwo is instructed to not play a role in his death. Since Okonkwo
fears being viewed as weak, he disobeys the Oracle by killing Ikemefuna.

Following Ikemefuna's death,becomes distant from his father, and Okonkwo remains
callous and insensitive. Okonkwo then accidentally kills Ezeudu's son when his gun goes off
during a funeral and is exiled for seven years. Once Okonkwo returns to Umuofia, he cannot
adjust to the rapidly changing culture. With the introduction of Christianity and the presence
of white missionaries, Umuofia has dramatically transformed. Okonkwo believes that his clan is
losing its traditional way of life and cannot control his anger. Okonkwo reacts with violence by
decapitating a white messenger and commits suicide before he can be arrested by agents of the
colonial government. Overall, Okonkwo's inflexible, aggressive nature influences his violent
decisions, which prove to be costly and lead to his demise.

In Romeo and Juliet, why does Romeo love Rosaline?

At the
beginning of the play,is infatuated with
Rosaline, who is not romantically interested in him and
has taken a vow of
celibacy. Romeo is portrayed as an emotional, impulsive teenager who is

heartbroken at the fact that Rosaline is not in love with him. In act 1, scene 1, Romeo
reveals
that he is physically attracted to Rosaline by telling ,

She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, To
merit bliss by making me despair.
(1.1.212-213)

Romeo again comments on Rosaline's beauty
by telling Benvolio,
"Show me a mistress that is passing fair; What doth her beauty serve
but as a
note Where I may read who passed that passing fair?" (1.1.225-227). Other
than
being physically attracted to Rosaline, the...

How is Scrooge affected by seeing the Cratchits in A Christmas Carol?

At the
beginning of the story, Bob Cratchit is not real to Scrooge as a flesh-and-blood human being. He
regards Cratchit merely as an expense and resents having to pay his miserable wages. He
particularly resents having to pay him for the day off at Christmas, seeing it as a swindle. He
knows and cares nothing about Cratchit's life and family. 

By the time the
Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see the Cratchit family celebrating their meager
Christmas, Scrooge's heart has begun to be softened. This is because of his visit to the
Fezziwig's Christmas celebration of years gone by with the Ghost of Christmas Past. Now, when
Scrooge sees the Crachits in their own home, they start to become real people to him. Scrooge
sees the family make much of a simple goose for dinner. He begins to care about them, especially
poor Tiny Tim, who can't get medical treatments because of how little Scrooge pays his father.
He watches as Bob Cratchit takes Tiny Tim's

. . .
withered little hand in...

What were Sparta's cultural achievements and legacy?

The
cultural achievements of Sparta include a well-organized society, gender empowerment, and
military prowess. Sparta was made up of three main communities: Spartans, Perioeci, and Helots.
The Spartans held the administrative and military positions. The Helots were Greeks captured
from other lands conquered by Sparta. They were used as slaves for menial jobs, such as
cleaning, farming, and other house chores. The Perioeci were passers-by, mostly traders that
visited Sparta to make money.

In all of Greece, Sparta was one of the few
areas where women were given the freedom to go to school, own property, and engage in
sports.

The government of Sparta paid for the Spartan's military training. It
was compulsory for all able-bodied male children to begin military training when they were 7
years old. The training taught them to be patriotic, obedient, and learn to endure tough times.
They would become secret police officers by 13, and then graduate to full-time soldiers by
20.

Sparta's legacy was that they had one of the strongest armies in the
world at the time.

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What is one quote that stands out to you as significant? This might lead to a deeper meaning, or perhaps hint at the theme.

He tried to think a little
about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been,
anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked,
so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something
the cat drug in.

This quotation brings out several of the
themes of "." First, George is trying to think, always difficult given the continual
barrage of noises to which he is subjected. The handicaps mean that no one can ever think
clearly and it is about the handicaps that he is trying to think. Is it really a good idea that
no one is better at anything than anyone else? Why should anyone watch dancers on television
when the dancers are "no better than anybody else would have been?"

This quotation is unusual, however, in suggesting a motive for all this equality. It is
not clear whether the thought comes from George or is added by the author, but the quotation
ends with the idea that the sight of "a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face"
would make the observer feel "like something the cat drug in." This means that the
policy of handicapping is motivated not by some abstract desire for universal equality but by
envy and feelings of inadequacy. Equality sounds like a grand aim but Vonnegut suggests that
those who aim at it may have mean and spiteful motives.

In "The Open Window," what conclusion can be drawn about Mrs. Sappleton's niece, Vera?

himself
concludes, "Romance at short notice
was her specialty." Vera is, indeed, glib and
clever,
disingenuous,"romantically" and cleverly capable of blurring the lines
between
the imaginative and the real.

Certainly, Vera must
be practiced in her skill
at telling a tall tale that seems real as she
weaves fact with , creating a verisimilitude
[hence, the name
Vera- as the Latin root for truth

(veritas)] that deceives the vulnerable listener, Framton Nuttel. This is the
touch
of "romance" to which the author alludes. Vera uses the actual details
of the
Stappleton men's departure through the large window as the husband
carries his "white
waterproof coat" and they walk with the "little brown
spaniel" to whom Ronnie
always sings, "Bertie, why do you bound?" in order to
cement Nuttel's credulity when
the men do return. 

Further, Vera fabricates the explanation that the window
is kept
open because her delusional aunt is convinced that the men are not dead and will
return.
Just to embellish the horror for the moment when the men return, Vera
adds,

"Do you know, sometimes on a
still, quiet evening like this, I
almost get a creepy feeling that they will
walk in through that window--"

Then,
when the men do, in fact, return, Vera, acting in accord with
her talent for
"short notice," pretends to stare out through this window "with
dazed horror
in her eyes" and the terrified Framton Nuttel flees. Clearly, spontaneous

"[R]omance" is her "specialty."

Describe a battlefield that had a significant impact on the state of Tennessee and/or the United States.

Named after a
nearby church in Tennessee, the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, just one year after the
beginning of the Civil War, was the bloodiest, most horrific battle fought to that date, and
quelled any speculation that might have remained that the war would be a short one ending with a
quick, decisive victory.  On the first day of the battle, the Confederates had the advantage,
prompting messages to Jefferson Davis that relayed same, predicting a major victory that would
prevent two divisions of the Union Army from joining up and moving...

How did Napoleon and Snowball disagree over the future of the revolution in Animal Farm?

We learn
thatanddisagree

at every point where disagreement was
possible.

A main point of dispute is the building of the
windmill. Snowball is vey enthusiastic about this and even draws up plans, but Napoleon is
completely opposed. Snowball believes that the electricity generated by the windmill will
eventually make life easier and better for the...

How does the fact that the society in 1984 cannot recreate history affect the possibility for a rebellion?

Big Brother
controls history in . Party leaders choose what to edit on a daily basis for their purposes.
Even the trace of human's existence is wiped out as are any extra scraps of paper. That means
there are no pieces of evidence to look back on to try to know how it used to be.

The threat of the Thought Police seems to keep people in check.worries that his
thoughts will be seen. Winston is excited about his diary, but afraid it will be...

Why can't Susie's dad find out who murdered her in The Lovely Bones?

He does know. He
can't prove it. Susie's dad knows from the way George Harvey looks at him, and Harvey's manner
when Susie's dad helps Harvey build the tent. One of the themes of the book is how Susie is
present in spirit in her family's life--she helps her dad, Jack, to know who her killer is. Jack
can't prove that Harvey is the killer, though, much to his frustration. Lindsey, Susie's sister,
also knows, which is why she breaks into Harvey's house looking for evidence. But even the
drawing she finds does not give the police enough evidence. Jack eventually finds the strength
to let himself heal. And the way I read Harvey's death, it seemed that Susie had something to do
with the icicle falling.

Explain the significance of Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon.

I think
that the primary significance of Picasso's Les Demoiselles dAvignon exists
on thematic and artistic levels.  In terms of the latter, Les Demoiselles dAvignon
was the primary work that elevated Picasso to the status of being an innovator of art
and the center of the Parisian art world.  Picasso used the opportunity of Les
Demoiselles dAvignon to silence any contemporary artists such as Cezanne or Matisse
from competition with him.  Picasso was able to use concepts of space and design to convey a
rather horrific view of both these women and the concept of unregulated sex, in general.  In
stark contrast to the romanticizing of sexuality that can be seen in works like Matisse's
Blue Nude, Picasso sought to create something else, something that brought
out a different side to sexuality.  It is here where the thematic significance is evident. 
Picasso was able to evoke the sheer disfiguring and horror of women in brothels.  Contrary to
the artistic imposed notion of sexuality whereby artists were able to paint a picture of
prostitution that was glamorous, Picasso evokes strict and straight fear.  The disfiguring of
these women reflect how prostitution chokes the life out of both servicer and those serviced. 
The masked and jagged nature of the subject matter reflects a sense of the "broken." 
At the same time, Picasso is able to convey his own fear that comes at the hands of unprotected
sex with multiple partners such as disease and infection.  In a time before the fear of STD's
was warranted, Picasso demonstrates his own fear of death and sickness and acts as a prophet for
the same fears that will dominate world culture about fifty years after the painting's
inception.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what news does Horatio bring to Hamlet?

has not
spoken tosince they both left
Wittenberg for 's father's funeral. Horatio now approaches Hamlet,
along with
the two guards, Marcellus and Barnardo. They greet and Hamlet says they will not
soon
see a man like his father again. At this point, Horatio says he thinks
he
has seen the late king. Hamlet is amazed and asks him
about it.

Horatio tells the story of the guards seeing ,
explaining that they were frightened and
came to him in secrecy to inform him
of sighting:

they,
distilled

Almost to jelly with the act of fear,

Stand dumb and
speak not to him. This to me

In dreadful
secrecy impart they did

It is clear that the guards
need someone
closer to Prince Hamlet in social status to approach him about the ghost. It
would
be too easy for Hamlet to dismiss the guards as crazy or superstitious.
However, they know if
they can convince Horatio of the ghost's reality, his
words will carry weight with the
prince.

Horatio at
first doesn't believe the
guards, but when he sees the ghost himself, he is
more than willing to share this news with
Hamlet. This information greatly
interests Hamlet, who is determined to see the ghost
himself.

Question: What is Hume's conclusions of Philo and Demea's criticisms? Book: David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Hume uses
Cleanthe as his mouthpiece, ostensibly to relieve Philo of the task of attacking the plethora of
religious doctrines. By using Philo in this...

What does ideology mean?

Ideology
can be defined as a set of beliefs of a large group of people; these beliefs are widely shared
and rarely questioned.

Perhaps the single most important theorist to reflect
on ideology is Louis Althusser (his last name is usually pronounced all-too-SAY). In
"Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," he writes that ideology creates social
roles (and social classes) and makes them appear "natural."

The
popular film The Matrix can be seen as a creative representation of the
powers of ideology. In the film, most humans believe they are living free lives when in fact
they are enslaved by and serve as living batteries for the computers and machines. Their real
purpose is too horrible to face, so they remain content with living virtual lives. Only with
great effort are some people in the film able to escape their bonds and to see
clearly.

In "Young Goodman Brown," what important facts does the reader learn about Young Goodman Brown at the begininng of the story? His personality at...

This story
reminds me of Hawthorne's "" and "," which deal with the "mystery of
sin" and hypocrisy of the Puritans.

In theof "," there is
Hawthorne's subtle , perhaps with an ironic tone.  The wife, in innocent pink ribbons, is named
Faith.  Much like ain names and theme,  a naive Goodman (he does remain good though at a
price) Brown sets forth on a journey, but not before putting his head back to his young wife. 
Later,  Brown sees his wife as a proselyte of the devil after wondering, "Where is
Faith?"  Clearly, he loses his innocent wife and his own faith in the goodness of the
townspeople as he sees the hierarchy of the Church present in the dark
ceremony.

More foreshadowing occurs withwhen Goodman thinks, "Poor little
Fath!....She talks of dreams, too.  Methought... there was trouble in her face, as if a dream
had warned her what work is to be done tonight."

More irony is in the
exposition when Goodman Brown, with "head being turned back" he beholds the older man
seated, waiting for him.  In the same position as when he kisses Faith, Goodman meets the
devil.  "Faith kept me back awhile..." Goodman explains his lateness to the
man.

There is a mystery to Goodman's trip, the reader learns, just as Goodman
will later learn the mystery of sin in the townspeople.

Analyze the artwork "The Capitoline Wolf" by Antonio del Pollaiolo using art language (such as texture, volume, color, etc.).

The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture in
the Musei Capitolini in Rome, though there are many copies, in bronze, stone, and other
materials, in cities throughout the world (see attached list). The statue is dark brown in color
and is mounted on a stone plinth. It shows the wolf turning her head to the left and baring her
teeth. Sheltering beneath her body and straining their mouths toward her teats with upturned
faces are two male children, Romulus and Remus. Like the wolf, they are facing to the left. The
wolf has unnaturally full udders but is otherwise rather emaciated in appearance, as the bones
of her ribcage can clearly be seen through her hide.

This may be a symbol of
self-sacrifice for the children and, by extension, for the future of Rome. The wolf's posture is
taught and tense, her ears pricked-up. The somewhat stylized pattern of the fur around her neck
and immediately behind her forelegs contrasts sharply with the smooth patina of the rest of the
bronze. It was this pattern in the wolf's fur that caused Winkelmann to attribute it to an
ancient Etruscan sculptor.

The two children underneath the wolf, who are
depicted in a slightly more naturalistic style, were added in the fifteenth century and may be
the work of Antonio de Pollaiuolo. The wolf was long thought to be an ancient sculpture, perhaps
from the fifth century BCE. Cicero describes such a sculpture as being among the sacred objects
kept on the Capitoline Hill. However, the age of the sculpture is now a matter of dispute and
many scholars believe it to be from the Carolingian period.

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What did Lyddie mean when she thought "The bear had won"?

The
reference to the bear comes from the opening scene of the story, when a big hungry grizzly
wanders into 's log cabin looking for some food. Although Lyddie eventually scares off the
animal, it comes to symbolize all the trials and tribulations she must endure throughout the
story.

In the short-term, the bear's appearance convinces Lyddie's mom that
the family should pack up and leave. The increasingly...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, how does Mr. Underwood, in his editorial on Tom Robinson's death, evoke the symbol of the mockingbird?

Tom Robinson
dies attempting to climb a prison fence with one good arm and one disabled. The prison guards
shoot warning shots, but when Tom doesn't stop, they fire to kill. Inof ,
B.B. Underwood writes an editorial in his newspaper about Tom Robinson's death, which is
interesting becausestated earlier that Underwood never liked black people. Whether that still
remains true by the time the editorial is unclear, but Underwood does compare killing Tom to
killing a mockingbird. The editorial included the following comments (as paraphrased by
):

Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill
cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the senseless
slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children (241).

Scout learns about the symbolism behind shooting mockingbirds inwhen Atticus tells his
children it is a sin to shoot them, but it is Miss Maudie who later translates the
meaning.

Your father's right... Mockingbirds don't do one
thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in
corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to
kill a mockingbird" (90).

Tom never did anything to
hurt anyone and he was a good man. It seems as though everyone in Maycomb believes, understands,
and teaches the principle of the mockingbird. Sheriff Tate later refers to the mockingbird
regarding . Mr. Underwood must have included the symbol of the mockingbird in his editorial
because everyone understands the phrase and will be able to connect the saying to Tom more
easily. Hopefully, people will understand it is never a victory when someone who has less of an
advantage in life is ridiculed and taken advantage of by the privileged, and it's even worse
when they are killed for it.

In 1984, Winston and Julia are at Victory Square and watch a convoy of trucks passing. What is their primary cargo?

In Part Two,
Chapter One,andsee a convoy of trucks pass through Victory Square. These trucks are carrying
human cargo: that is, a group of Eurasian prisoners. This prompts a
"din of shouting" and people to gather in crowds, eager to catch a glimpse of the
prisoners.

Remember that for much of the story, Oceania is at war with
Eurasia, hence the capture of these men. For the crowd, they are objects of hate but, for
Winston, they are people to be pitied:

"Their sad,
Mongolian faces gazed out of the side of the trucks utterly incurious."

These men are likely on their way to be executed as prisoners of
war. But later, in Part Two and during Hate Week, Oceania will switch sides, declaring peace
with Eurasia and war with Eastasia, and proving the Party's fickle
nature. 

If the density of ice is 0.91 gm/cc, then what volume of ice has a volume of 1000 cm^3 as liquid water?

The density of a
substance is its mass divided by its volume:

d=m/V

Ice is
less dense than liquid water so 1000 ml of liquid water, when frozen, will have a greater
volume. (Note that the unit ml is equivalent to cm^3 or cc.)  

In order
to...

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What type of economy did 1984 have and how does this compare to our modern day economy?

The economy
of  was
controlled by a small group of government officials. As in the
Soviet Union
of the 1940s, all major economic activity was centrally planned. There was a
free
market for minor goods and services among the impoverished proles, but
all the important
industries and agricultural enterprises were owned and
controlled by the state. In our modern
economy, we have, in contrast, free
enterprise, choosing to privatize many of our goods and
services and to allow
people to compete for market share. However, we also have a mixed economy,
in
which some sectors are run by the government, such as the armed
services. 

A society in which the state owns the means of
production is socialist. In theory,
this means all the profits from an
enterprise are distributed among the people, leading to
greater general
prosperity, but in the case of Oceania, the benefits flow only to a tiny
group
of Inner Party members. Most of the money that could make life better
for people in Oceania
is...

After Gulliver brought the ships to King Golbasto, the king told him to go back and get the rest of the ships. Why?

This
question refers to events that unfold in chapter 5 of 's satirical novel .
The main thing you need to be aware of when discussing this subject is that Lilliput
is opposed by a rival empire, Blefuscu. Gulliver's capture of the ships actually refers to his
capture of an enemy fleet.

With his victory, however, Gulliver...

Why do we live on earth? Why can't we live on other planets??

The first part
of this question has been thoroughly answered. However, the second part comes from an incorrect
premise.

We can live on other planets. It's just that we
need a very large amount of technology and supplies in order to do so. Currently, the cost of
this support is too large for us to feasibly establish a colony on another world, and there are
no locations we have yet discovered which do not require extensive life support just to get
there, let alone to live there.

Terraforming is one procedure that might
circumvent this. Terraforming is the act of altering a planet's ecosystem in order to be more
like Earth. Some extreme examples imagine turning Mars or Venus into "second Earths"
complete with oceans and atmospheres, but this is a bit of a stretch. Mars lacks important
features, such as an active magnetic field, that would be necessary for habitability and cannot
be engineered through current human technology.

However, terraforming could
create localized regions in which human life is, at least, more generously supported than the
rest of the planet. For example, living underground on Mars would be a lot easier than living on
the surface, or trying to alter the entire planet. 

What is the significance of the title page of Robinson Crusoe?

There are
several significant points about the title page. The first significant point is that the author
presents this fictional story as a personal autobiography, written
byhimself.

Secondly, the author gives the reader
a short summary of what they're about to read right in the title page. The great
part about this is that the topic and the genre of the book, and who the lead character is, are
clear from the very start. The author also uses descriptive words about the story and the work,
drawing the reader in.

The title page of Robinson Crusoe says the
following:

The Life and Strange Surprizing
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner:

Who
Lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near
the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque;

Having been
Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliverd by Pyrates.

Written by Himself. 

London: Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row.

Who is the lead character? Robinson Crusoe. Where is he from? York,
Mariner. What happened to him? He lived all alone in an uninhabited island for 28 years. Where
was the island? On the coast of America, near the Oroonoque river. How did he get there? He was
shipwrecked and no one else survived. How did he finally get away from the island? By
pirates.

The title page gives us all of this information and further presents
that this account is narrated by the lead character himself. This is a great example of a
literary summary. It tells us all that we need to know to understand the story and it also gives
us an idea of whether this is a story that we will enjoy.

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solve the system: x-2y = 5 2x-y = 3 solve the system: x-2y = 5 2x-y = 3

You may
also consider the alternative method, that uses determinants, such that:

x-2y
= 5

2x-y = 3

Form the determinant of the system such
that:

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You need to find the variable x such
that:

class="AM">

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You need to find the variable y such
that:

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Hence, evaluating the
solutions to the system yields and class="AM"> .

Why does Winston have to falsify production reports?

In
's , works at the Ministry of Truth. Like all the governmental ministries
in 1984 , the name "Ministry of Truth" is a misnomer, for really
it is a propaganda department. The Ministry of Truth exists to create and maintain the illusion
that Big...

Does Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone have religious undertones?

Religious undertones exist both in
and in the series as a whole. As mentioned in the other answers, Harry is
a Christ figure, a chosen one who is destined to end the tyranny of Voldemort, who represents
evil.

Sacrificial love is a strong concept in the Christian religion, since
Christ's love for humanity led to the cross, and it is much the same in Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, where Harry's mother died saving him. Her love continues to
protect Harry from evil, as represented in Voldemort when Quirrell tries to kill Harry during
thebefore the Mirror of Erised. Harry is knocked unconscious during this confrontation, which is
presented as a metaphorical death, since he confronted Quirrell in order to protect the school
and, indeed, the wizarding world at large from Voldemort.

The Sorcerer's
Stone itself contains religious connotations as well. The stone is said to grant eternal life,
which is why Voldemort wishes to possess it. In contrast, Harry is willing to risk his life to
procure the stone but not use it. This element of the story could be linked to the Bible verse
Matthew 16:25, "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his
life for my sake shall find it." At the end of the noveland at the end of the
seriesVoldemort's violent quest for immortality ends in death, while Harry, who sacrifices time
and again, ultimately gets to live a life filled with love and companionship.

The unicorn blood has similar religious significance. In medieval Christianity, the
unicorn was a symbol of Christ, since it was associated with purity and goodness. To kill a
unicorn is to kill something truly good. As Firenze tells Harry in the woods, "The blood of
a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You
have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a
cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips." Firenze's lines are reminiscent
of the biblical verse "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits
his soul?" (Matthew 16:26). Voldemort's killing a unicorn further cements his position as
an evil, even Satanic, figure, opposed to the values represented by Harry, the Christ figure
.

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How does 1984 make the reader feel (in terms of mood)?

I got
a feeling of claustrophobia.   goes to
great lengths to inform his readers of the incredible
oversight capabilities
of Big Brother and the Party.  The people in the story are not able to
have a
moment to themselves.  They are watched every minute of every day.  In order to sell
that
mood of claustrophobia,tells his readers that there are cameras
everywhere, even in the
bathrooms.  There are cameras on the streets,
bedrooms,...

What factors prompted the Progressive movement?

There were
three main factors that caused the rise of Progressivism. 

First, there was
the economic boom and growth of industrialization that came about at the end of the 19th century
and the beginning of the 20th century.  This boom created huge companies and an economy in which
many workers worked in large factories.  It also brought about intense competition between
businesses and the need for them to be as efficient as possible.  These factors meant that
workers were getting to be mistreated and...

Why did Mrs. Linde marry her husband?

is an old schoolfriend of 's who comes to
visit her inof . They have not seen each other for ten years, during which
time, Mrs. Linde has married and been widowed.

Mrs. Linde was once in love
withbut instead married Linde, even though she did not love him. He proposed at a time when her
mother was ill and bedridden and she alone had to provide for her two younger brothers. Linde
was rich (though his business was precarious and she was left with nothing when he died) and she
tells Nora that she could not in the circumstances justify refusing his offer.

According to her own account, Mrs. Linde married for money rather than love, but she
was actuated by a sense of duty to her family, and perhaps another kind of love for them, since
there would be no one to support and care for them if she married Krogstad. The idea that hers
is essentially a self-sacrificing nature is corroborated by her feelings of emptiness, rather
than the relief Nora suggests she must feel, now that she no longer has to look after her mother
and brothers.

What are the factors that enhance globalization in the third world countries?

One of the
factors that can enhance
globalization in Third World countries is ensuring widespread access to

modern technologies. Examples of modern technologies include the internet and
other
technological devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
These technologies will
improve communication and information
access.

Furthermore, the reduction of
trade barriers can
enhance globalization in these countries. Examples of trade barriers include

import tariffs. Reducing these barriers will encourage world trade and significantly
improve the
economic growth of the countries through job creation.

Another factor that
can...

Why should we study political theory?

Political
theory has value in that it provides a framework to answer tough political questions. It allows
one to compare different types of governments such as governments and dictatorships and how
these governments respond to internal and external issues they face. Political theorists also
allow one to think about a government's relationship to the peoplehow much government is needed
and at what point does government become a burden to people's individual will. Political
theorists also examine the responsibilities people have to the government, if any. Some
theorists argue that the state is greater than individuals, while some argue that individual
self-interest is above the needs of the state. Political theorists also examine a government's
priorities. This is important when thinking about how much a government decides to budget
towards defense, social welfare, and maintaining its infrastructure.

What were some of the sociological effects of suburban living after WWII?

Life in
post€“World War II America was largely characterized by mass waves of migration to suburbia and
other outlying areas around cities. While a mere 13% of Americans lived in suburbs prior to
World War II, that figure had spiraled upwards to 50% by 2010.

Sociological
effects were rampant and pronounced as suburbia's influence and importance expanded. Here are
just a few of the most critical points:

Suburban living became synonymous
with "the American dream," driving large numbers of Americans out of already
overcrowded cities. They were able to transition to property owners. Along with that transition
came new attitudes toward issues like community and privacy.

The economic
landscape shifted as the population boom required the simultaneous expansion of retail outlets,
office buildings, and other places of employment. The creation of these additional workplaces
not only expanded the economy, including facilitating a boom in construction, but also induced
further migration.

The racial and ethnic makeup of suburbia was largely
comprised of whites, who were more likely to view underdeveloped or newly developed areas as
places of opportunity. White groups previously divided by ethnicity, religion or nationality
(including Greeks, Poles, Italians, Irish, Jews and Eastern Europeans) found unity in their
"whiteness" and became more integrated. Blacks, Hispanics and other people of color
were largely excluded until the civil rights movement.

Families were largely
composed of young, married, heterosexual couples with children, with sharply defined roles for
men (breadwinners) and women (homemakers). However, even fewer women in suburbia worked outside
the home than their non-suburban counterparts. One study by Otis Dudley Duncan and Albert J.
Reiss Jr. claimed that only 9% of suburban women worked outside the home compared with 27% of
women nationwide. The fact that so many women stayed home while their husbands worked meant
women were largely in a position to shape the attitudes of their neighborhoods.

Suburbia became an incubator for political movements that were either motivated to
maintain the affluent, harmonious, picturesque and crime-free environment promised in "the
American Dream" or upend it. This ranged from grass-roots conservatism to environmentalism
to radical feminism to social justice.

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In chapter 2, what is accomplished by Hawthorne's allusion to the Madonna and child? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne'sto
the Madonna and child is
particularly interesting in the first chapter since it was against the
Church
of England, a church which broke from the Roman Catholic Church but yet maintained
its
same liturgy, that the Anabaptists of England broke.  In their attempt to
purify religion
from corruption, the Anabaptists eliminated a hierarchy of
clergymen and stripped the churches
of statues, stained glass windows,
crucifixes, and anything that they felt was superfluous or
distracting to
true worship.

But, in so doing, the austerity of the
Puritans
stripped people of their aesthetic and passionate needs; in so
doing, they corrupted what is
natural to humanity. With the image ofas mother
and child in a religious beauty in his first
chapter entitled "The Prison
Door," Hawthorne points to the loss of such a stringent
religion--one that
would deny true humanity and its beauty--and to the negative severity of a

creed that denies the basic needs of people. 

There are other such
portrayals
of the defeating severity of Puritanism in . 
For instance, when Hester
bringsin Chapter VIII to 's mansion for
questioning, he and the Reverend Wilson remark that
Pearl reminds them of the
children at holiday time in the court of James I.  And, in Chapter
XXI,
Hawthorne as narrator recalls what the Puritans have lost:

The persons now in the market-place of Boston had
not been born to an inheritance of
Puritanic gloom....Had they followed their
hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have
illustrated all events
of public importance by bonfires, banquets, apgeantries and processions. 
Nor
would it ahve been impracticable...to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity....The
dim
reflection of a remembered splendor....

In Chapter I,
Hester on the scaffold with her scarlet A, standing in
her beauty with her precious child, is
"a dim reflection of a remembered
splendor" a beauty of life that has been denied to
the Puritans.  Hester is
not so much in contrast to the sinless Mary as the
"bitter-tempered" and
envious grey-clad women believe.

Describe the historical significance of Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson
was one of the most influential American presidents of all time. He completely changed the
political landscape, and his message of populism still resonates today.

Jackson was seen as representative of the common man. In 1800, only white, male
property owners could vote in a majority of states. As the westward push continued and new
states entered the Union, suffrage expanded. This increase in voters would enable people like
Andrew Jackson to have a legitimate chance to become president.

The political
process was changing in America. New organizations at the state level increased political
participation and were a direct factor in Jackson being elected president in 1828. Jackson
participated in the political process through campaign events that featured buttons, free
drinks, and divisiveagainst his opponents.

Jackson was seen as a self-made
man of the frontier and symbolized the opportunities offered by the west. He was able to carve a
national identity during a time...

What is the moral or the lesson that we can take from "Young Goodman Brown"?

makes
it pretty clear what his story "" is intended to illustrate. Everybody has a dark and
evil side to his or her nature. Robert Louis Stevenson was doing the same thing in a more
restrained way in his famous story "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." In "Young Goodman
Brown," the hero is planning to attend a devil-worshipping ceremony out in the forest. He
says goodbye to his innocent little wife Faith and admonishes her to remain safe inside their
home until he returns.

Then God bless you! said Faith,
with the pink ribbons; And may you find all well when you come back.

Amen! cried Goodman Brown. Say thy prayers,
dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee.

Goodman Brown is accompanied on his journey by the devil, and when Brown gets to the
scene of the ceremony he recognizes many of the most righteous members of his community in
attendance. What is especially unnerving is that he sees his own wife Faith in the midst of the
devil-worshippers. 

Hawthorne softens his story by suggesting that it might,
after all, have only been a dream.

Had Goodman Brown
fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?

Be it so if you will; but, alas! It was a dream
of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not
a desperate man did he become from the night of that fearful dream. 

One of Guy de Maupassant's lesser-known stories is titled "Was
It A Dream?" Maupassant was a younger man than Hawthorne. The French writer's story
resembles "Young Goodman Brown" so closely that it seems likely he used Hawthorne's as
a model. In "Was It A Dream?" the narrator spends the night in a cemetery mourning the
death of his mistress who was just buried there that day. In the middle of the night he sees the
graves opening and the occupants emerging in order to revise the words on their own tombstones.
For example, one of them reads:

"Here lies
Jacques Olivant, who died at the age of fifty-one. He loved his family, was kind and honorable,
and died in the grace of the Lord."

The
ghost of Jacques Olivant takes a stone and scratches out his epitaph. Then he writes in luminous
letters with the tip of his forefinger:

"Here reposes Jacques Olivant, who died at the age of fifty-one. He
hastened his father's death by his unkindness, as he wished to inherit his fortune, he tortured
his wife, tormented his children, deceived his neighbors, robbed everyone he could, and died
wretched."

The narrator sees that all the
ghosts from all the other open graves are doing the same thing. They are replacing the false
epitaphs with the truth. 

"And I saw that all had
been tormentors of their neighbors--malicious, dishonest, hypocrites, liars, rogues,
calumniators, envious; that they had stolen, deceived, performed every disgraceful, every
abdominal action...and they were all writing at the same time, on the threshold of their eternal
abode, the truth, the terrible and the holy truth which everybody is ignorant of, or pretends to
be ignorant of, while the others are alive."

Finally
the narrator recognizes the ghost of his own beloved mistress who has just been buried here. He
sees that she has replaced her epitaph which read: 'She loved, was loved, and died.' 

"I now saw: 'Having gone out one day, in order to deceive her
lover, she caught cold in the rain and died.'"

Maupassant titles his story "Was It A Dream?" So it is not necessary for him
to end it with that question. Like Hawthorne, Maupassant obviously means his story to be taken
literally. Both Young Goodman Brown and Maupassant's anonymous narrator have to question whether
they only had bad dreams because they find it impossible to believe that what they saw
represented the real truth about human nature. We all have wicked sides, and we are all hiding
them from the world. Everyone else is hiding his or her wicked side from us! 

Robert Louis Stevenson was dealing with the same basic idea in his famous story
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Hawthorne also deals with it in "." That black
veil reminds everyone in Reverend Hooper's parish that they are hiding their secret sinful
selves from the world.

What is the author's purpose in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Irving is
part of an early generation of American writers establishing what we might call an American
mythology asserting US cultural superiority over Europe. His purpose is to show the fresh,
energetic spirit of the United States defeating the effete, nervous spirit of the
European.

Ichabod Crane represents the European mindset: he is thin and
effeminate and wants to marry his way to wealth. He is tied to the books and traditions of the
past, including a belief in superstitions.

Brom Bones, in contrast, is a red
blooded all-American he-man. He hangs out with the guysunlike Crane, who surrounds himself with
womenand the reader won't find the muscular Brom reading a book. He represents the vigor, the
wit, the ingenuity, and the pragmatism of the new country. He is hardworking and
forward-lookingand he wins the girl and the day.

All of this represents the
fresh new American spirit winning the day, which beyond writing an entertaining story, is the
message Irving hopes to convey.

What was Karl Marx's belief about the role of religion in a society?

Marx was
not a particular zealous advocate of religion.  He argued that religion was a condition that
impeded a critical view of existing structures that enveloped individuals.  For Marx, religion
was a a force that prevented individuals from recognizing the true essence of their being in
material reality.

Marx objected to religion occupying a significant role in
society because it precluded the full understanding of dialectical materialism.  In borrowing
from his teacher, Hegel, Marx suggested that the transcendent condition in being in the world
was the dialectical process, and...

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Who are the most important poets of World War I?

A number
of influential English poets sprang from the years of the Great War. Unfortunately, many of
their voices had been silenced by death before the war's end. Notable British poets who offered
their perspectives on the war and/or influenced later poets include Rupert Brooke, Siegfried
Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and T. E. Hulme.

Of these, Rupert Brooke was the one
whose poetry reflected the nationalism and patriotism that characterized the young British men
at the beginning of the war. Winston Churchill honored him by saying,

Why is there so much of the earths surface at or near sea-level?

According to the hypsometric curve (plot between elevation and % of earth's surface), only about
29% of Earth's surface is above the mean sea level, rest 71% has an elevation less than mean sea
level. There are a number of reasons for this observation. Erosion of land mass by water, wind
and other forces reduces the elevation of continental features. The...

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What were the problems caused by the Tariff of 1828, otherwise known as the Tariff of Abominations?

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The Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations) had been passed by Congress to protect
Northern industry; but was damaging to Southern states whose economy was primarily agricultural.
Southern statesmen, primarily John C. Calhoun, argued that Congress did not have the power to
pass a tariff for protection; but could only do so for revenue purposes. Southerners also feared
that if the Tariff were allowed to stand, the next debate would be over the abolition of
slavery, which was vital to the Southern economy.

It was
in response to the Tariff of 1828 that Calhoun anonymously published his South
Carolinaand Protest which said the individual states could by called convention
declare acts of Congress null and void...

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What is a detailed analysis of Elizabeth Jennings' poem "Reminiscence" in terms of summary, language, tone, imagery, and themes?

As the
title indicates, in this poem, Jennings remembers her childhood. She contrasts her childhood
state of mind with her adult state. As a child she lived without analyzing her world too deeply
and that was a happier state for her. Then she did not "fret at thought" (in other
words, worry) or try to figure everything out: she simply lived and did not try to "whittle
a pattern" (make sense of everything). Adult thinking causes her anxiety, making her
sometimes "numb with fear." She looks...