What is the main theme in the short story "Stolen Party" by Liliana Heker?

The main
themes of "Stolen Party" are class discrimination and loss of childhood innocence. At
the beginning of the story, Rosaura gets invited to Luciana's birthday party and believes that
her invitation is a genuine sign of their friendship. However, Rosaura's mother, who is Mrs.
Ines's maid, warns her that the rich family views her as their maid's daughter and not as a
friend. Despite her mother's warning, Rosaura attends the party and helps pass out food to the
other children. Rosaura utterly enjoys herself during the party but realizes that her mother's
instincts were correct when Mrs. Ines pays her instead of giving her a present. Mrs. Ines's
gesture indicates that Rosaura is not accepted as a friend, and her invitation was to work at
the party. Rosaura's background and lower social status prevent her from being accepted by the
wealthy community. Rosaura's motionless, stunned reaction reveals that she has lost her
childhood innocence. Rosaura had naively believed that she would be viewed as an equal, which is
why Mrs. Ines's gesture is so upsetting to her.

What are the literary techniques used in the poem "The Soldier"?

Brooke's "The Soldier" is written
in sonnet form, meaning that it utilizes many literary techniques typical of this type of
poetry. The lines are written in iambic pentameter, meaning that each has five feet,
or five emphasized beats. You will understand this better if you read each line
aloud, counting out the places where you would naturally add emphasis when speaking. Brooke also
uses a sonnet rhyme scheme, but, interestingly, he varies this rhyme scheme between the first
eight lines (the ostet) and the second six (the sestet). In the first eight lines of the sonnet,
Brooke uses the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, ababcdcd. In the closing
six lines, he uses a Petrarchan rhyme scheme, efgefg.

The key concept in Brooke's poem is theof England, imagined as a mother who "bore,
shaped, [and] made aware" all these young men who are now heading off to die for their
country. Brooke uses repetition to emphasize England as the reason for which the young men
fight: the word "England" is repeated four times, and "English" is repeated
twice.

We can also detect the use of , particularly in the first octet, in
which Brooke alliterates on "th": "think," "this,"
"that," "there," etc.

What does Mrs. Hopewell mean by "good country people" in the story " Good Country People "?

Mrs. Hopewell uses this
term to describe people who are uncomplicated and uneducated. "Good country people"
are characterized also by possessing what Mrs. Hopewell considers good values. 

This phrase, for Mrs. Hopewell, is both complimentary and subtly derisive.

...she considers herself more intellectual than all of the good
country people around her...

There is an implication that
"good country people" are thoroughly understandable, understood, and will not surprise
anyone. 

This implication is eventually turned on its head and becomes ironic
when the traveling salesman steals Hulga's leg. Hulga, the most skeptical person of the family,
is fooled into believing that she understands the young man more than he understands
her. 

This false confidence turns out to be nearly tragic for Hulga. The
person she believed to be inferior, simple-minded and understandable turns out to be complex,
criminal and violent. 

What are the similarities between Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-lighted Place" and "Soldiers Home"?

In both short
stories, Hemingway captures the tragic essence of life. In "A Clean Well-Lighted
Place," the older waiter whose sympathies lie with the old man point to the existential
condition of a man whose life has been simplified to "nada"--nothing with meaning--and
he must struggle to find some light in the darkness of nothingness. He does this by finding a
place that is clean and well-lighted where he can be with others.  There, too, he can display
good form and conduct. Certainly, the old man with whom the waiter commiserates displays good
conduct as he sits in the cafe and "drinks without spilling."

Similarly, the wounded Harold Krebs, who has returned from World War I to his home in
Oklahoma finds that he no longer can relate to his family. Also, when "[A] distaste for
everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told,"
Krebs wants to leave town. Furthermore, he finds the girls in town "too complicated."
For, they, too, require certain lies and it "wasn't worth it. He did not want any
consequences."  Krebs knows that he can no longer talk to the girls because the world in
which they exist is not the same as the world he inhabits. 

So, Krebs,
sensing the tragic essence of life, tries to "keep his life from becoming
complicated." So, he packs his things to travel to Kansas City and goes one more time to
watch Helen play indoor baseball.  In Kansas City Harold can maintain some sort of honor and
balance in his life by becoming detached.

How does a space shuttle land on the moon after taking off from the Earth?

Actually, the
recently retired space shuttle line of space vehicles never landed on the moon.  The lunar
landings were conducted between 1969 and 1972 with the Apollo missions.  The space shuttle
didn't go into service until the early 1980's, so it never actually landed on the moon.  The
vehicle used to land on the moon for the Apollo missions was called the lunar module. 

The way the astronauts landed on and then left the moon is as follows.  The entire
spacecraft was fit into the top of a Saturn V rocket which took off from the Earth's surface. 
While climbing into space, the rocket would fall apart in stages until only the spacecraft
remained.  The spacecraft basically consisted of the lunar module (LM) attached to the
command/service module (CSM).  This spacecraft would reach lunar orbit and the lunar module
would separate from the CSM and begin a controlled descent to the lunar surface.  The LM would
control its descent by firing its thrust against the moon's gravity to slow the fall.  Upon
making a vertical landing, the LM would power down for the lunar stay.  When ready to leave, the
bottom portion of the LM would remain on the surface of the moon and act as a launch pad.  The
upper, lighter portion of the LM would fire a new rocket to climb into lunar orbit.  In orbit,
the craft would dock with the orbiting CSM, the astronauts would transfer to the CSM, and the LM
would be jettisoned to crash onto the surface of the moon.  The astronauts would then ride the
CSM back to Earth where the upper tip of it would re-enter the Earth'sand parachute land in the
ocean to be picked up by the Navy.  This is all demonstrated rather nicely in the movie
Apollo 13.  Another nice illustration of the entire moon missions is the
HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

Interestingly, the space shuttle could never land on the surface of the moon because it
depends on winged flight for its controlled descent to the surface of the Earth.  Since the moon
has no real atmosphere, the wings would not be able to glide the craft smoothly to the moon's
surface.

What is a critical analysis of the poem "The Capital" by W. H. Auden?

Audens poem begins with the first sights the tourist in the capital is likely to see,
the fashionable center where it seems as though the rich have nothing better to do than lounge
in cafes and wait expensively for miracles. The artificiality of the capital is emphasized
further in the second stanza. It has abolished the seasons and banished the natural rhythm of
life.

The reality of the city, its day to day existence, is in disposable
lives and the constant harshness of life which, in one of the poems most arresting images,
batters people into conformity as the sea batters pebbles into smooth shapes. In the end,
however, it is the illusion, not the harsh reality, which illuminates the sky, drawing in the
farmers children with the promise of a more exciting, brilliant life.

The
poem is unrhymed and written in loose alexandrines, slightly longer and less regular than the
iambic pentameter usually employed forin English. The language is emotive
("malicious,"...

How to make a timeline about the earth's evolution that describes the significance and formation of colonial organisms.

On your
timeline you would place the first colonial organisms at 233 million years BCE. "BCE"
means "before common era", and is how we represent in scientific terms how long ago
something happened. Colonial organisms are a step in the evolution from single-celled to
multi-cellular organisms. A colonial organism is defined as a 

collection of  genetically identical cells that are permanently associated but in which
little or no integration of cell activities occurs.

In
other words, colonial organisms are made of cells that are formed from the same, individual
cell, and live together permanently, but do not have any...

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What is the significance of the 30 pieces of silver in A Raisin in the Sun?

In referring to thirty
pieces of
silver,suggests that Lindner's offer to buy the family's new house from them is
a
bribe or "ransom" akin to the one that Judas accepted as payment for
betraying Jesus
Christ to the Romans. 

At this point in
the play (Act II: iii), Mama has
purchased a house in a "white
neighborhood."

" Younger uses her
insurance money to buy a house. She has bought it, however, in
a segregated
area, and though she is willing to face that battle when it comes, the
ominous
appearance of Lindner, who wants to buy out the Youngers to avoid
their moving it to Clybourne
Park, threatens future difficulties" .

Residents of the Clybourne Park neighborhood
have collectively decided to make an offer
to the Younger family.

Lindner is sent to deliver the offer from his
"people" and to deal
with the Younger family, which he repeatedly addresses through
the play's
last acts as "you people," objectifying the family in this way and

underscoring the categorical, impersonal, race-oriented point of view that he and his
offer
represent.  

"Our association is
prepared, through
the collective effort of our people, to buy the house from
you at a financial gain to your
family."

Throughout this scene, Lindner defines his
community as being
hard-working and decent and relatively understanding. When he finally

suggests that these qualities have led that community to make a "generous" offer
that
will collectively serve to maintain racial barriers, he does not realize
either theof his
statement or the fact that the neighborhood's decision
expressly mimics the systematic racism
that the family is struggling
against. 

His neighborhood group seeks to unify
against
change in racial dynamics in Clybourne Park. The racism inherent in this point is
lost
on Lindner, who feels that somehow his hard-working community should not
logically or
effectively include other hard-working families like the
Youngers. The fact that this
discriminatory action is intended to be
undertaken via purely financial means underscores the
troublesome economic
reality of a society that would keep one demographic down or excluded by

utilizing its major advantage - wealth (and access to wealth).

Lindner's
proposed action functionally betrays both the
neighborhood's avowed virtues (by repeating racist
exclusion-ism) and the
Younger family's moral sensibilities (as each family member strives to
find a
way to live with dignity and hope in a social world that too often works to deny
them
both dignity and hope). 

Thus, when Beneatha responds
to the proposed buy-out
with the bitterly sarcastic line, "Thirty pieces and
not a coin less!" she is
recognizing the ironies of the situation that
Lindner cannot or will not see. 

A further irony of this
scene comes in the immediate solidarity the family takes on in
the face of
Lindner's offensive offer. Whereand Beneatha had been opposed to the idea of
moving
into a white neighborhood and felt at odds with one another as well,
the brother and sister
unite in their family pride after Lindner comes and
attempts to insult that pride. 

We can note that this
family pride is exactly what is at stake through much of the play
and is
precisely the object that embattles Lena Younger and her children. She sees reason to
be
proud, despite hardship and limitations. They see a need for worldly
recognition, a shift in
material circumstances, or even a new foundation of
identity as necessary for a new basis for
family pride. 

When Lindner suggests that they betray their mother and her
efforts
to overturn (or, more simply, to ignore) racial boundaries, the family pride that
Lena
had argued for suddenly and reflexively comes to the fore for Beneatha
and Walter. 

While this moment of family pride proves to
be somewhat short-lived, it makes a return
in the play's- a fact that renders
the scene of Lindner's offer as a salient thematic moment in
the play,
demonstrating the nature of one of the thematic conflicts in the

narrative. 

Compare Blanche and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Stella and
Blanche DuBois are sisters, and so they have similar family backgrounds. Both come from a
Southern family that was at one time wealthy and respectable but has been gradually
deteriorating over recent years. Both are living in New Orleans during the period of the play;
Blanche has come to stay with her sister and her husband in their one-bedroom apartment. Both
women have gotten to where they are by riding the "streetcar named Desire." Stella has
a passionate physical relationship with her husband and overlooks his temper and abusive
tendencies because of the "colored lights" that get going when she and Stanley are
together. Blanche has ruined her reputation in her hometown by being promiscuous and by having
an affair with an underaged student when she was working as a teacher.

While
Stella was able to leave her childhood home at a relatively young age and then married Stanley,
Blanche remained at the homestead and had the task of caring for aged relatives until they died.
She...

Why didn't the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankensteincreate another partner for himself? He had Frankenstein's diary with him and was highly...

Let's
observe the fact that is, of course, a novel, a work of . As such, it's
creator, , was as free to conjure fictional worlds as herwas to ponder the nature of its
creator, . In short, thatdemanded of its creator that he build a female companion for itself in
exchange for disappearing into the vast jungles of South America thousands of miles away is but
a plot device the author employed for narrative purposes. We shouldn't read too much into that
detail. The creature makes this demand of Victor because that was the path Mary Shelley chose to
take in extending her premise. The point of Shelley's novel, beyond its origins as a story to be
shared between her husband and Lord Byron and herself, was to question the morality of pursuing
an enterprise without full consideration of the consequences of one's action. Why an intelligent
and capable being such as Victor's creation did not simply construct a female companion for
itself, therefore, was hardly the point.

That said, the question has been
posed and must be answered. What we know from Chapters 16 and 17 of
Frankenstein is that the creature viewed Victor as its creator, as the sole
being capable of duplicating what he, Victor, had succeeded in doing once earlier. The creature
learned, as he tells Victor during their meeting in the mountains, "that you were my
father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me
life?" The creature did not consider that it could replicate itself, and certainly not in
the female form. A further passage, in which the creature describes the experience of being shot
by a frightened villager, reads as follows: 

"The
ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at
any rate I had no means of extracting it."

By
claiming that it had no means of extracting the musket ball or bullet from its shoulder, the
creature is revealing that it lacks the technological means necessary to perform a simple
operation. If it can't perform such a simple operation, then how could it possibly build another
creature? The creature is convinced that only Victor has the knowledge and the means (e.g.,
access to the laboratory facilities necessary for such a complex undertaking) necessary to
construct a female companion. Note in the following passage the reaffirmation that only its
creator can create again:

"At length I wandered
towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning
 passion which you alone can gratify. . I am alone and miserable;
man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny
herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.
This being you must create." [Emphasis added]

In the above passage, the creature emphasizes that there is only one being capable of
creating a female version of itself, and that is the one who created it. The creature is
intelligent and capable, but it is no god. Victor, in the eyes of the creature, is a failed god,
but one that can be at least partially redeemed.

Highlight ten factors that can affect tourism demand and I will develop them myself.

Here are
ten factors that may affect tourism
and brief descriptions of each.

 

1. Weather- A tourist's preference
for
weather is a big factor in their decision to visit somewhere. If a person really enjoys
warm
weather, they are not likely to go somewhere cold unless there are more
important factors
influencing their decision.

2. Natural
disasters- This is somewhat
related to weather, but far more dependent upon
geographic features and
geothermal processes. The risk of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and

volcanoes may deter a tourist from visiting a particular location. 

3. Cost- A visit to another city, state, or
country can
potentially be quite expensive. A person's economic status
influences their decision on where to
visit based on how big of an impact a
trip would have on their finances.

4.
Health- People may be nervous about...

How do father-son relationships function in Things Fall Apart?

In Things Fall
Part, father-son relationships play a significant part in the narrative.

The first chapter discusses the ways in which s entire persona is shaped as a response
to his father, as Okonkwo determines to be everything his father wasnt. The chapters that follow
tell the story of , who becomes a sort of adopted son to Okonkwo and helps to illuminate the
conflicts that exist between Okonkwo and , Okonkwos real son.

Late in the
novel, Nwoyes break from his father helps to define the conflict between the Igbo and the
British colonizing forces and figures powerfully into Okonkwos sense of the cultural dissolution
happening around him.

These relationships of fathers and sons communicate
some of the major themes of the text.

First, Okonkwos relationship to his
father, , helps to establish the important fact that Okonkwo is a human being with a complex
internal life. His personal history creates intricate and intimate conflicts of the heart and
sows the seeds of specific social ambitions in Okonkwo that are far from the simple-minded and
outwardly caricatured ways of being existent in stereotypical views of Africa and Africans
(which Achebe was working against in this novel). Okonkwos relationship to Unoka, in other
words, offers a depiction of a depth of emotion, social consciousness and psychological distress
and thus makes Okonkwo a fully human, widely relatable character.

Second, we
can see the expectations and cultural definitions of masculinity and success through the lens of
these father-son relationships. Unoka stands as an example of failure in some ways, as he lives
in debt and does not provide well for his family. (He is also a kind man who has positive
traits.)

Unoka [€¦] was a failure. He was poor and his
wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him because he was a loafer, and
they swore never to lend him any more money because he never paid them back.

Unokas personality and behavior are contrasted to Oknokwos
attitudes and work ethic and so come to define the expectations for masculine success in the
culture of the village.

Fortunately, among these people
a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. Okonkwo
was clearly cut out for great things. He was still young but he had won fame as the greatest
wrestler in the nine villages. He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had
just married his third wife.

In raising his own son,
Okonkwo worries that Nwoye will be a failure like Unoka and so not be able to live a happy and
respectable life. This is a valid concern, most would agree, although Okonkwos methods of
shaping Nwoye are sometimes brutal and often rigorous and unfeeling. The costs of this method of
parenting become clear when Nwoye breaks from his family to join the Christians. Thus, Okonkwos
attempts to align his son with the expectations of masculine success in the village backfire.
Okonkwo cannot form his son into the mold of a successful Igbo man and so loses him to the
British.

The unbending perspective that Okonkwo brings to raising Nwoye is
yet another significant element of the novel and connects to the same unyielding insistence on
being right that is associated with the British missionaries.

Yet, because
the differences between Unoka and Okonkwo have been thoroughly described as reflecting the value
system and social expectations of the village, we can see that Okonkwos desires for his son are
not merely based on personal preference. In treating Nwoye as he does and trying to make him
into a certain kind of man, Okonkwo is attempting to perpetuate the values of his
culture.

This is an important aspect of the relationship because it suggests
that the father-son relationships in the novel are one important way that the Igbo culture
survivesor dissolves.

At the
beginning of the play, the Capulets host a feast at their home. 's friendtalks Romeo into
attending. Romeo has been heartsick for love of Rosaline, but Benvolio insists that if they
attend the party, Romeo will see plenty of other young women who will outshine Rosaline, and
he'll be cured of his love for her. So they attend the party, even though they are of the
Montague clan and therefore enemies of the Capulets.

At the same time as
Benvolio is talking Romeo into going to the party, 's mother talks her into attending in order
to check out , who intends to ask her father for her hand in marriage.and the nurse discuss the
fact that since Juliet will turn fourteen in less than two weeks, she is certainly of
marriageable age.

When Romeo comes to the Capulet home for the party, his
roving eyes immediately land on Juliet. He is stricken with her and asks a server who she is,
but he (surprisingly) doesn't know. Romeo moves in to meet her an begins the conversation with a
daringly brazen pick-up line. Taking her hand, he says:

If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is
this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch
with a tender kiss.

Juliet deflects the offer of a kiss
by saying that pilgrims touch palms in lieu of kissing on the lips. Romeo turns her words around
and steals a kiss, which she doesn't object to. After a couple more lines of banter, he kisses
her a second time.

Only at the end of the scene after
Romeo has left Juliet's home do they realize they've "fallen in love" with someone
from the enemy clan.

Are "dank memes" considered an art form?

Facebook
memes--the "dank memes" to which you refer--aren't showing up in art museums yet, but
we can't say what the future holds.

These little gags can be cranked out with
minimal effort by anybody with Photoshop, so they don't require a lot of effort to make. Of
course, "effort" is far from an absolute requirement of artistic merit. Artists from
Marcel Duchamp ("L.H.O.O.Q.") to Andy Warhol (who infamously autographed thousands of
soup cans and resold them at a 1,000% mark-up) have produced "masterpieces" with even
less effort. 

It's worth considering that great art challenges its audience's
cultural assumptions, whereas bad art reinforces them. The merit of dank memes, by contrast, is
measured almost exclusively by how much we agree with what they say, quite the opposite of other
kinds of modern fine art. Even a wonderfully, laboriously crafted meme that supports a noxious
viewpoint is soundly regarded as a "fail." By this criterion alone, dank memes are not
a valid art form. Yet.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what does plant domestication mean?

Chapter 7
describes the process of domesticating plants. Plant domestication is a crucial part of making
agriculture a sustainable process. Most wild plants offer small or less than palatable fruits,
seeds, leaves, or roots.

Domestication of plants first occurred around 11,000
years ago in the Middle East. By selectively breeding grains, these early farmers were able to
create a food supply that was easy to cultivate and yielded higher returns than wild grains
would have.

By replanting and cultivating strains of plants with desirable
traits, farmers have been able to greatly reshape the way humans eat and construct societies.
Domesticated plants are better able to survive certain weather events, they grow
faster,...

How does John Proctor show honesty and integrity in the play, The Crucible?

In
's , John Proctor is not a perfect man. He has has an adulterous affair
with Abigail Williams. He is aware of the implications of his actions. He has fired her from his
household and resists her efforts to lure him back into her bed.

I have a sense for heat, John, and yours has drawn me to my window, and I have seen you
looking up, burning in your loneliness...You are no wintry man. I know you, John. I know
you. She is weeping. I cannot sleep fordreamin'; I cannot dream but I wake
and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through some door. She clutches
him desperately.

Of course, pushing her away
and calling her "Child" can bring nothing but anger and resentment from her. It can be
no surprise that John's wife Elizabeth is accused of witchcraft, and that John is also
ultimately accused, but John shows his integrity by ending his affair. He further demonstrates
his morality by refusing to give in to...

What is the main idea of chapter 4 in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States?

Chapter 4
is in many ways a summation of the last fifty years of revisionist interpretations of the
American Revolution. In fact, Zinn essentially adheres to the old Progressive interpretation of
the Revolution, an early twentieth-century approach that stressed the economic, rather than
ideological, motives of Revolutionary leaders. Zinn focuses on a series of Revolutionary-era
conflicts rooted in class antagonisms: the Regulator movement in backcountry North Carolina; the
Stamp Act protests; and impressment riots in New York and Boston. But he argues that the
Revolution was at its core a struggle to protect the property interests of wealthy Americans
(without considering, it must be added, that Regulator leaders, many of whom were comfortable
landholders, might have had similar motives).

As is the case throughout
A People's History , Zinn's focus is on the disconnect between American
ideals and what he perceives as the actual motives of political leaders. In particular, he takes
aim at...

What do Big Brother and Golstien mainly symbolize?

Big Brother and
Emmanuel Goldstein, from s , may be regarded as fictional figures created
by the Party to carry multiple symbolic connotations.

Lets begin by
considering Big Brother.  From the myriad posters that display his image, he is a
larger-than-life figure, omnipresent, middle-aged and has a ruggedly handsome face.  Although
never glimpsed in real life, his exaggerated physical and psychological presence €“ Big Brother
is watching you - suggest he is a political phantasm to heighten the power and influence of the
party.   He is primarily a symbol of fear that sees and knows all things no matter how private,
how hidden.  The monitors are his eyes through which he controls individuals and abuses them
until they, like , end by loving Big Brother.   Some critics suggest Big Brother is a symbol
for all tyrants and dictators especially totalitarian dictators like Hitler or Stalin. 
Furthermore, he has religious overtones in his omnipotence and omnipresence.

The novel opens with Winston having the impression that Big Brothers poster eyes follow
him as he climbs the stairs to his apartment.  As he enters he is greeted by the voice from the
telescreen, used by the Thought Police to spy on all party members.  Through the open window, he
notices the ironic slogans of the Ministry of Truth: War is Peace.  Freedom is Slavery. 
Ignorance is Strength.  Within this setting, Winston embarks stealthily, but determined, on his
first Thoughtcrime.

Through the pain, deprivation, and oppression dramatized
in 1984, satirizes the inversion and falsification of reality and the
dangers of corrupt, power-hungry government to deprive the individual of rightful human freedom,
essential to maintain human dignity.

Emmanuel Goldstein, known to Winston
andas the leader of the resistance movement, the Brotherhood, appears to be symbolic of Leon
Trotsky, the leader of the Russian Revolution.  Author of The Theory and Practice of
Oligarchical Collectivism, which parodies several of the more modern political
treatises like Karl Marxs Das Kapital, Leon Trotskys The
Revolution Betrayed and Burnhams The Managerial Revolution,
Goldstein, in his opposition to Big Brother, becomes symbolic of all who fight
against enslavement and oppression.

While Goldstein and his book slows the
pace and makes the reader wait to have Julia and Winston arrested, they also focus the reader on
the folly of the content of such significant political content that empties the individual of
all human passion and ethos.

How would you describe Jonathan Edwards' views of God, Christ and humanity, as expressed in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

, in his
sermon "," presents God as loving but wrathful, omnipotent and infinite. 

Edwards spends quite a bit of time developing the idea that man is so far beneath God
that he is almost insignificant in comparison. He compares man to a loathsome spider that God is
holding by one leg, dangling over the fires of hell. This image shows man as a being that is
easily destroyed by God and far beneath Him in terms of ability, significance, and
worth. 

The idea that God is omnipotent is developed through His control of
the entire universe, how small and insignificant man is in comparison to Him, and by comparing
His wrath and might to earthly kings. Earthly kings seem majestic to us, but they are nothing in
comparison to God's power. In the quote below, Edwards speaks of God exacting his wrath on the
sinner: 

When the great and angry God hath risen up and
executed his awful vengeance on the poor sinner, and the wretch is actually suffering the
infinite weight and power of his indignation, then will God call upon the whole universe to
behold that awful majesty and mighty power that is to be seen in it. Isa. xxxiii. 12-14. And
the people shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire.
Hear ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The
sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.

The idea that God is wrathful is very well developed throughout the
sermon. The quote below shows not only God's wrath, but also the infinite nature of
it: 

It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to
suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all
eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you
shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts,
and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end,
any mitigation, any rest at all. You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages,
millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless
vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in
this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will
indeed be infinite.

God is also portrayed as loving
because he has sent the antidote to His wrath in the person of Jesus Christ. The work of Christ
is implied rather than stated explicitly; other than stating that Jesus has thrown the doors of
mercy wide open, Edwards focuses more on what will happen to those who do not receive Jesus
Christ's atonement. At one point, he passionately appeals to sinners to consider the danger they
are inthey are in danger of being the object of the wrath of God by not accepting
Jesus. 

Humanity is portrayed as depraved. It is man's wickedness that makes
the wrath of God burn. Humanity is also portrayed as frail and wholly at the mercy of God. God
can destroy everyone quickly and easily if he so chooses. 

What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth
trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down? They deserve to be cast into hell; so that
divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against Gods using his power at
any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment
of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, Cut it
down, why cumbereth it the ground? Luke xiii. 7. The sword of divine justice is every moment
brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and Gods mere
will, that holds it back.

What are your thoughts about Lord Capulet's behavior toward Juliet in Romeo and Juliet? What are your thoughts about Lord Capulet's behavior toward...

ask996 is correct in
remembering the times the play was set in. Any woman of that time would not really have been
able to marry for love. As a daughter you were an asset for your family to be carefully married
off to someone who could give the family wealth and/or connections. This is the context - it is
sometimes hard for us to remember that in our day and age where in the Western world at least we
are able to marry for love. The family was the most important unit at that time - individualism
was not something that would be respected. We have another example of this in the feud between
the Montagues and Capulets. All members of this family are drawn into the feud, whether they
like it or not. This sense of community was far more important than any individual hope or
aspiration.

What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem "The Tyger". Explian in detail.

Literal
Meaning:

"" is a poem of questions. The speaker
notes the form, power, and fearsome abilities of "The Tyger" and begins to question
how it came to be. Where was he created? How was he created? What tools were used in the
creation? The "tyger" is mysterious; there is only one declarative fragment (not even
a complete sentence) in the entire poem. Otherwise, the speaker is left to question the
"tyger" and his origins with no clear answers. The final stanza repeats the central
question of the first stanza with one important change: This is a daring
creation.

Figurative Meaning:

Blake references the "Lamb" in this poem, which is another poem he wrote and
which is often taught in conjunction with this one. The "Lamb" is symbolic of
innocence (and even Christ), which directly opposes theof a "tyger" in this poem. A
tiger is fierce, powerfully symmetrical, and merciless when on a hunt. The central question thus
becomes:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

The
Lamb is created by God, its innocence directly representing goodness. Did God also create the
tiger? The tiger comes to symbolize darkness (as seen in imagery in the poem such as
night, burnt, fearful, dread, and terrors). Did God
create both the innocent and the things which could
terrify?

This is a powerful theological question
that is still debated today, and Blake uses "The Tyger" to symbolically consider how
all of creation works together.

Who is Oedipus?

is the king
of Thebes, the classic tragic hero
of 's "."  Theof a play written around 430 B.C.,
Oedipus learns that his city
is beset by a plague. So, he sends his brother-in-law,, to the
Oracle of
Apollo at Delphi.  When Creon returns, Oedipus learns that the plague is on
the
city...

How did Lady Macbeth contribute to Macbeth's downfall in William Shakespeare's Macbeth?

Throughout the play, Ladyis depicted as a heartless, ambitious woman, who encourages
her reluctant husband to follow through with their plan to murder King . She also contributes to
the assassination by planning the crime, duping Duncan's chamberlains, and placing the bloody
daggers back into Duncan's chamber. Following Duncan's assassination,gradually develops into a
ruthless tyrant, who is plagued by his guilty conscience and bloodlust.

 

In act 1, scene 7, Macbeth tells his wife that he is no
longer interested in murdering the king.responds by challenging her husband's manhood and calls
him a coward. She says,

From this time Such I account
thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire?
Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own
esteem, Letting I dare not wait upon I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
(Shakespeare, 1.7.38-45).

Lady Macbeth...

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In one paragraph, can you discuss the positive and negative effects of the minister's notorious veil in "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel...

Aspresents the situation, the ministers veil has primarily negative effects. Although
the townspeople and members of his congregation are initially captivated by his unusual
appearance, they soon turn away from him. The power of the symbol, as emphasized in his sermons,
is eroded as he becomes stubborn, inflexible, and self-righteous.

The idea
that the veil symbolizes a mask or false front that people present to the world is appealing
when the minister delivers his first sermon while wearing the veil. The congregants can identify
with the secret sins that everyone hides away. The veil seems to be a prop that he is employing
to get their attention and makes the message and his style of delivery seem more
powerful.

However, this novelty is not a one-time attention-catcher but a
fixture of the ministers daily garb. Rather than look into their own souls for secret sins, they
increasingly speculate about secrets the minister might be hiding. While he intended the
veil...

What would be an example of the individual being obliterated by grouping citizens into a collective identity?

The
citizens of Oceania are both prevented and distracted from all forms of individual expression.
Holding personal...

How does "Hills Like White Elephants" reflect a dissatisfaction with modernity?

Consider
the fact that nothing is really resolved in the story.  There is little satisfaction in the
ending of the story.  The American might be satisfied, but is not really reflecting anything
like this. Jig is not entirely satisfied with the outcome of the discussion, and the reader is
far from satisfied with the trajectory of this relationship.  In this, Hemingway has been able
to develop an emotional sensibility into a philosophical one.  The dissatisfaction he is able to
evoke is one in which there is a fundamental dissatisfaction with Modernity.  The modern
predicament is one in which one finds futility with the advent of freedom. There is no
institutional structure that prevents the American and Jig from finding freedom and happiness.
 Yet, they are dissatisfied with their being in the world.  It is here where Hemingway is able
construct a narrative where there is dissatisfaction with modernity.  In doing so, Hemingway is
able to integrate the affairs of the heart into a larger philosophical tract.  Modernism is
something that either is absorbed by the individual or a social condition that reflects the
individual.  Dissatisfaction becomes the only absolute that results from the conversation
between Jig and the American and defines their being in the world.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

How did the animals who were not on Animal Farm view the rebellion?

In
s , the animals who
work on Manor Farm rebel and take over the farm. Their
goal is to achieve
better and more equitable treatment than they had received under the

management of Manor Farms original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. When he first approaches
the
animals with his idea,says,

Remove
Man from the scene, and
the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished
for ever.

Man is the only
creature that consumes without
producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too
weak to
pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all
the
animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum
that will prevent them
from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our
labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises
it, and yet there is not one of us
that owns more than his bare skin.

Following the rebellion, humans and animals on other nearby farms

learn of what has occurred at Manor Farm, which is now known as Animal
Farm.writes,

By the late summer the
news of what had happened on Animal Farm had
spread across half the county.
Every dayandsent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were
to mingle
with the animals on neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the

Rebellion€¦

Other farmers were very anxious to
prevent
their own animals from learning too much about it. Nevertheless, the
animals on adjacent farms
do learn about Animal Farm. The thought of
eventually being able to govern themselves gives
these other animals a new
sense of optimism and hope.

Rumours of
a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals

managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and
throughout
that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside.
Bulls which had always been
tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke
down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked
the pail over, hunters
refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side. Above
all,
the tune and even the words of Beasts of England were known everywhere. It had spread
with
astonishing speed. The human beings could not contain their rage when
they heard this song,
though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.
They could not understand, they said, how
even animals could bring themselves
to sing such contemptible rubbish. Any animal caught singing
it was given a
flogging on the spot. And yet the song was irrepressible. The blackbirds
whistled
it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the
din of the smithies and the
tune of the church bells. And when the human
beings listened to it, they secretly trembled,
hearing in it a prophecy of
their future doom.

Of course,
theis
that the animals on Animal Farm are working like slaves even in the early
days
post-rebellion:

However, back on
Animal Farm, ALL that
year the animals worked like slaves. But they were
happy in their work; they grudged no effort
or sacrifice, well aware that
everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and
those of their
kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human

beings.

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Are there any other reasons why Vera lies in the story besides simply enjoying it?

Vera's
behavior in 's "" suggests that she frequently makes up stories since she does so
twice within the tale.  When she lies to Framton Nuttel, Vera may be trying to prevent the man
who is recovering from a nervous breakdown from staying at her aunt's home.  Vera, the only
female child in the home, may feel that the newcomer's presence may threaten the amount of
attention she may receive from the family.  Since Vera lives with her aunt and uncle, it is
probable that she is an orphan and, as such, may crave the attention of others.  This seems to
be demonstrated in the tale she tells her aunt, Mrs. Sapleton, about Mr. Nuttel's supposed
terrible experience with a dog.  It is filled with exaggeration, and Vera seems to captivate the
family with her descriptions.  Their reaction and the narrator's subsequent comment about
how Vera is quite good at creating "romance at short notice" suggests that she is
successful in drawing the attention she craves.

Is change always good for a business?

No, change is
not always good for a business.  There are times when change is either a bad idea in general and
other times when specific changes are poorly done.  Change is often good, but not
always.

Change is often a good thing for a business.  Businesses have to
change to keep up with new technologies.  They have to change as customer tastes change.  If a
business never changes it can fall behind its competitors and lose profitability.

However, this does not mean that all change is always good.  Sometimes, a firm does not
need to change at a given time.  A firm can be on top of its market and might not have any
current problems.  It might want to plan for eventual change, but it should not necessarily
change if nothing is wrong at the present.  At other times, change might be needed, but it
really has to be the right kind of change.  For example, when Coca-Cola tried to roll out New
Coke in the 1980s, it was a complete disaster because that was not something that the market
wanted.

Thus, while change is necessary for businesses in the long term, that
does not mean that it is always good to make specific changes.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Where does the novel 1984 begin?

The novel
begins withreturning to his home, a small, drab flat within Victory
Mansions, in London.uses the scene to describe the dystopic world that serves as the setting for
the novel. He describes the nearly ubiquitous presence of Big Brother, who stares at Winston
from the posters and murals lining the streets of London as well as the stairways and halls of
Victory Mansions. He notes the monolithic structures that house the Ministries of Truth, Love
and Plenty, noting the bitter ironies that lay behind each of these names. He describes the
Party slogan that we read throughout the book, one which explains the Party's hold on the people
of Oceania:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS
SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

He makes it clear
that London is hardly the utopia that the Party would have its members believe. It is described
as a hellish, bombed-out nightmare. All of the images Orwell evokes are unpleasant: from
"gritty dust" that blows into Victory Mansions when he opens the glass door to the
smell of "boiled cabbage and old rag mats" that greets him when he walks down his hall
to the "sickly, oily smell" of the Victory Gin that he quaffs when he gets home. We
learn much about Orwell's vision of Oceania in this first chapter.

Monday, January 13, 2014

What kind of diction dominates McBride's work The Color of Water?

McBride's
is actually dominated by two separate types of , as it is written from the
point of view of two separate characters, interchanging based on odd and even chapters. McBride
interweaves his own autobiography with a tribute to the life of his mother, spoken from her
point of view.

The chapters narrated by McBride are indicative of his
education and skill. He speaks very formally with a practiced command of the literal and
figurative. He strays away from use of colloquialisms and any regionalin favor of an adept use
of literary techniques in clear, engaging storytelling.

The chapters
narrated by McBride's mother, Ruth, fall more so under the umbrella of employing regional
dialect. Ruth uses slang and terminology from her Jewish upbringing, such as "Mameh"
and "Tateh," when hesitantly referring to her parents. Furthermore, in accordance with
moving on from her old life and into her new, she shows language that reflects her becoming a
part of the black...

How does Shakespeare's use of stage directions in Romeo and Juliet impact elements such as character, conflict, and theme?

No
copies of Shakespeare's plays written in his own hand have been discovered, but most Shakespeare
scholars agree thatlikely wrote very few, if any, stage directions for his plays.

Scholars also agree that Shakespeare had little or nothing to do with the publication
of his plays during his lifetime. Early printings of Shakespeare's plays were
"pirated" versionsstolen copies of the plays or prompt scripts used in performance and
published by book printers hoping to make a "quick buck" on a popular play.

The modern published versions of Shakespeare's plays are scholars' and editors'
"best guesses" as to what Shakespeare actually wrote based on the different versions
of his plays that have come down to us over the years. The stage directions in modern versions
of are written by editors, not by Shakespeare.

For
example, modern editions of and begin act 1, scene 1 with "Verona. A
public place. Enterandwith swords and bucklers of the...

Which event had a greater impact on federalism: the Civil War or the Great Depression?

There is
a very good argument to be made for the notion that the Great Depression had a greater effect on
federalism than did the Civil War. The other answer posted here succinctly points out the vast
expansion in the role of the federal government that resulted from the Great Depression.
President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs injected the federal government into the
economy to an extent previously unseen. Jobs programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps and
the Public Works Administration; regulatory structures for the financial services and banking
industries such as the Banking Act of 1935, the Emergency Banking Relief Act, and passage of the
Glass-Steagall Act; unemployment compensation through the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration; and other programs all expanded the government's role in the private sector. To
that end, it is logical to conclude that the Great Depression had a greater impact on federalism
than did the Civil War.

The above argument for the Great...

How should I get better at singing? Am in a band and want to sing and play guitar at the same time. When I asked how I should do that, the person who...

No matter
what type of singing you want to do, proper breathing technique is important to support your
voice and minimize strain on your vocal cords.  Lack of breath support causes a lot of pitch
problems. For this, you need to sing from your diaphram, not your throat.  To get a feeling for
what this entails, put your hand on your chest and take a deep...

What is a passage in The Lovely Bones that represents the them of love, loss, and grief?

In the theme
of love is a prevailing one. The theme of love acts as a counter to the death and violence the
occurs throughout the book. One of the strongest showings of love is the love Susie has for her
family and the love they have for her. One quote showing this theme is: My mother had been the
one who knew the meaning of every charm on my bracelet €“ where we had gotten it and why I like
it. She made a meticulous list of what I'd carried and worn" (Chap. 2 Page 47). Abigail,
Susies mother, knows all the intimate means that the charms on Susies bracelet held. Her
knowledge of this shows how much love she had for her daughter. This quote appears at a point in
the story where Susie is pleased at being thought of and remembered those most important in her
life.      

Another quote that shows the theme of love is about Susies dad.
He christened the walls and wooden chair with the news of my death, and afterwards he stood in
the guest room/den surrounded by green glass (Chapter 3 Page 64). The quote is about Susies
father Jack throwing the ships in a bottle at the wall. He and Susie made these together, his
anger and despair in this moment shows how much he loved his daughter. This moment is made even
more significant because Jack Salmon sees the reflection of Susies ghosts in one of the
shards. 

Based on the poem "What is Red?" by Mary O'Neill, what is said to happen if you have a slight cut on your hand? What about a deep cut? What does the...

The main
theme of the poem "What is Red" by Mary O'Neill is how one color can evoke a vast
array of feelings and responses. Some of these responses are cultural ("red is a fire
engine"; "red is a rubber ball") and some are inherent in the human experience
("red squiggles out when you cut your hand"). 

Ms. O'Neill seems to
paint the idea of the color red in the very phrasing of each line of her poem. The sentences are
short and blunt and overtly specific. "Red is a lipstick. Red is a shout. Red is a signal
that says 'WATCH OUT'."

Despite the many varying shades and hues of red
that could be referenced (i.e., scarlet, crimson, magenta) Ms. O'Neill deliberately repeats the
specific word "red" over and over again, until like the very color itself, the word
red is impressed harshly upon the brain.

Many of the things Mary O'Neill
describes in the poem "What is Red" are unpleasant: embarrassment, anger, a sunburn.
There's a sense that the author doesn't particularly enjoy her experience of the color red and
yet she is struck by its influence and finishes her poem by considering: "Red is a
show-off, no doubt about it. But can you imagine living without it?"

Sunday, January 12, 2014

The Destructors Setting

At the
beginning of "," the August bank holiday is mentioned as the time when Trevor or
"T" joins the gang.  The August bank holiday in London is at the end of August, that
places the setting in late summer. It is some years after the Blitz, so it is approximately the
1950s.  The gang lives in Wormsley, a fictionalized area that could be a section of London,
Buckinghamsire, Essex, or Hertfordshire, since the Wormsley Common Underground Station is
mentioned, and the subway runs in the aforementioned locations.

The area in
which Old Misery and the boys live must have been a nice neighborhood at one time, given that
the house in which Old Misery lives was designed by the famed British architect Sir Christopher
Wren.  The area, however, is no longer upscale, as evidenced by the working-class speech of the
boys and the proximity of Old Misery's house to a parking lot. Moreover, many of the neighboring
houses have been completely destroyed or heavily damaged by The Blitz. 

How does Thoreau express the theme of self- reliance in Walden?

Thoreau
expresses the theme of self-reliance when he insists he wants to experience life for himself,
fully and directly, not only read about it (though he likes to read) or experience it only
through the protective layers of society. This desire to to see how little he needs to survive
animates him. It is what motivates him to move toPond, to buy and reassemble a tiny house, to
dig his cellar for his potatoes, and to spend, as he calculates, only $28.12 to set up his
entire homestead. He plants about two and half acres with beans for a cash crop, but also a
"small part" of it with potatoes, turnips, corn, and peas for his own use. He wants to
rely on himself.

Perhaps the best articulation of his philosophy of
self-reliance is in this famous passage, in which he talks about stripping away all the
props...

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Roger Chillingworth Quotes

While 's
, an Early American novel, does not have the detailed
character development evinced in more contemporary novels nor the dialogue that also reveals
character traits, there are yet observations made by the narrator that characterize the three
important personnages, Hester Pyrnne, , and . 

As the reader peruses the
novel, seeking pregnant passages, he/she may wish to select those passages representative of
important traits, and those which indicate significant actions or ideas that relate to
.  

Above
all, the warfare of Hester's spirit at that epoch was perpetuated in . (5)

Like all other joys, she rejected it as sin. (5)

Alone in the world,
cast off by it, and with this sole treasure to keep her heart alive, she felt that she possessed
indefeasible rights against the world, and was ready to defend them to the death. (8)

Hester's nature showed itself warm and rich....She was self-ordained a Sister of
Mercy....The letter was the symbol of her calling.  Such helpfulness was found in her,--so much
power to do, ... sympathize,--it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's
strength. (13)

She assumed a freedom of speculation....In her lonesome
cottage,...thoughts visited her such as dared to enter no other dwelling...(13)

... Was existence worth accepting even to the happiest among them?....At times a
fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to
Heaven, and go herself to such futurity as Eternal Justice should provide.

The scarlet letter had not done its office (13)

...Hester
Prynne...glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter...

Arthur Dimmesdale

...Arthur Dimmesdale, false to God and man, might be, for
one moment true!(17)

"The judgment of God is on me...It is too mighty
for me to struggle with!"(17)

"If .. I could recall one instant of
peace or hope, I would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy. But
now...wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his
execution?...Neither can I any longer live without her companionship; so powerful is she to
sustain,--so tender to soothe!  O Thou to whom I dare not lift mine eyes, wilt Thou yet pardon
me?" (18)

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the
true. (10

"Ha! tempter!  Methinks thou art too late!"..."Thy
power is not what it was!  With God's help, I shall escape thee now!" (23)

"But there stood one in midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not
shuddered!" (23)

"....It may be, that, when we forgot our
God,--when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul,--it was thenceforth vain to hope
that we could meet herafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion."(23)

Roger Chillingworth

[to Hester] "We have wronged each other" (4)

"He will be mine!" (4)

His form grew emaciated; his voice,
though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it. (9)

Had a man seen old Roger Chillinworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had
no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won
into his kingdom. (10)

"Thou hast escaped me!" (23)

Friday, January 10, 2014

I need an example of direct characterization and an example of indirect characterization from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Direct is when an author
explicitly describes a character
using adjectives or elaborates on their
personality, desires, and feelings.usesto describe
Dill's character. In
chapter one,andmeet Dill for the first time and Scout describes him by

saying, "...he wasnt much higher than the collards" (Lee, 4). After meeting Dill,
the
children become fast friends and spend the majority of their summer
together. Dill is an
entertaining, intuitive child and Scout uses direct
characterization to describe his fascinating
personality by saying,

Thus we came to know Dill as a
pocket Merlin,
whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

(Lee, 4)

In chapter three, Scout has her first
encounter
with a member of the Ewell family. Scout proceeds to use direct
characterization to describe
Burris Ewell by saying,

He was the filthiest human I had
ever seen. His
neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his...

Why is Burris Ewell hateful toward Miss Caroline?

In ,
Burris Ewell attends the first day of school, and a cootie crawls out of his hair. Miss Caroline
is frightened at the sight of the cootie and tells Burris Ewell to go home and bathe. Burris
responds by telling Miss Caroline that she cannot send him home and begins giving her attitude.
After Burris refuses to sit down, Miss Caroline threatens to call the principal. Burris responds
by cursing at his teacher and calls Miss Caroline a "snot-nosed slut of a
schoolteacher" before leaving the class. Burris's comments make Miss Caroline cry, and he
is portrayed as a disrespectful, ignorant child. The reason Burris Ewell acts disrespectfully
and hateful towards Miss Caroline is because he is raised by a malevolent alcoholic. Burris's
father, Bob Ewell, is the most despicable citizen in Maycomb, and he even attempts to
murderandtoward the end of the novel. Burris lacks a positive role model in his life and follows
in his father's footsteps.

What is an example of a poem that effectively uses technical and literary elements such as alliteration, imagery, symbolism, rhyme, and meter?

For , symbolism,and
rhyme, one might consider Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."  The
imagery of a horse and rider watching the snow fall in the woods on a winter night is done in a
way that appeals to the sense of both sight ("to watch his woods fill up with snow")
and sound ("He gives his harness bells a shake. . . the only other sound's the sweep of
easy wind and downy flake").  As the poem progresses, references to the darkness and
a...

The density of silver is 10.5g/cm^3. What is the mass (in kg) of a cube of silver that measures 0.62m on each side?

First lets
calculate the volume of the silver cube

The length of a side = 0.62
m

Volume of the cube  = (0.62 m)^3

                   
 ...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

How is the landscape's being broken up important? Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"

In
Hemingway's deeply significant story, the division of the landscape takes on a symbolic meaning
as the two main characters' dialogue develops.  For, it represents the isolation of the couple
from the rest of the world in their personal discussion as well as the division between the man
and Jig in their thinking.  In the opening paragraph, things in the physical
environment have counterparts.  For instance, the hills are two in number; they are sunny on one
side and shaded on the other. The shady side has no life, while the other side the land
contains much life:

Across, on the other side, were fields
of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro....The shadow of a cloud moved acress the field
of grain and ...the river through the trees.

Clearly,
the land that...

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

What are the challenges faced by teachers in teaching science in schools?

A modern
problem for science teachers, as with all teachers, is the proliferation of electronic devices
in the classroom. Students have grown up with smart phones in their hands, and
"Google.com" at the forefront of their brains when it comes to answering questions and
investigating topics in their academic courses. Ask a student a question and the first thing
many of them will do is simply type the question into their web browser. Worryingly, they often
accept the first answer they see, without conducting any kind of discriminating researcha
practice which is contradictory to the nature of the scientific method. This approach to science
does nothing to kindle a fascination with the processes that shape our lives and our
world.

Another problem science teachers face is student apathy. Science
courses are required for everybody, but many students do not pursue science majors in college or
scientific careers. Therefore, many students fail to see the value of science courses. The
age-old...

How did Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke improve democracy?

I think
that one way in which Burke's work helps to improve democracy is to bring out the failings in
the French Revolution.  Burke was convinced that political theory in this case can have real
world applications. After seeing the excessive zeal and lack of institutional control, he is
convinced that in detailing the shortcomings of the French Revolution, he can help his political
structure in England avoid some of the same mistakes.  This invariably helps democracy, as a
political concept, because Burke recognizes that democratic forms of government does not work if
so much emotion is evident in political expression.  Burke's idea of "constancy" in
democratic expressions does bring to light how the democratic form of government only functions
at its best when there is a sense of tranquility and stability in the social order.  It is for
this reason that the French Revolution ended up alarming Burke.  While the Reign of Terror had
not happened at the time of Burke's writing, one has to see its relevance given the death and
carnage that resulted.  The disintegration of a "civil society" is what alarms Burke
the most.  In this, one can see how Burke does believe that democracy is not advanced when all
of society is immersed in chaos.  Given what we see in many parts of the Arab world struggling
to understand the full implications of an Arab Spring move into an "Arab Autumn" of
sorts, I think that this is where Burke's work is valuable to a study of democracy and the
democratic government both at the time and in the modern setting.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

If you could interview someone (past or present) one on one who would it be and why? I'd choose to interview Eric Lander but who would you choose to...

There are any
number of people I would love to interview.  I would love to interview just about any major
figure from history.  I would love to interview many people who had a hand in changing various
sports that I am very interested in.  I would love to interview people who lived on the island
where I grew up during the earliest days of contact with Europeans and Americans.

However, if I had to pick, I think that I would combine personal and professional
interest and interview as many Japanese soldiers as I could who occupied my fathers hometown
during World War II.  This would be of great interest to me professionally as a history
teacher.  It would be of great personal interest because my father was 5 when the Japanese
invaded the Philippines and he doesnt know much about how things were from an adult point of
view.  He has often talked about wishing that he could find Japanese people who occupied the
town and talk to them about how things were.  This way, I could have an interview that was
interesting to me both personally and professionally.

Who killed Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird?

Tom Robinson was shot while
trying to escape from prison.

In a way, Bob Ewell killed Tom
Robinson.  He was the one who accused him of raping Mayella.  Since Tom didnt really do it, but
the jury convicted him anyway, Tom Robinsons death was partly Ewells fault.  It was also partly
the jurys fault. They convicted an innocent man.

Tom Robinson had already
been in jail for a while when he was convicted, awaiting trial.  He believed that the trial was
his one shot at justice.  When he was convicted, he was devastated. tried to tell him that they
could appeal the decision, but Tom didnt believe they would succeed.  He felt that his life was
over.

They shot him, said Atticus. He was running. It
was during their exercise period. They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the
fence and started climbing over. Right in front of them (Ch. 24)

With two good arms, Tom Robinson would have made it over the fence.  He was that
strong.  However, he only had one good arm and he didnt make it. The guards didnt want to shoot
him.  They shot some warning rounds into the air.  He didnt listen.  He kept going, and they
shot him.  It was what is called "suicide by cop."  He wanted to end his life on his
terms, since he couldnt control it.

Tom Robinsons death was a .  Even Mr.
Underwood, a blatant racist, thought that his death was a travesty.  He wrote about it in the
paper.

Mr. Underwood didnt talk about miscarriages of
justice, he was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin
to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Toms death to the senseless
slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children €¦ (Ch. 25) 

Tom Robinson never hurt anyone.  He was a kind man, and he was trying to help Mayella
because he felt sorry for her.  For his troubles he got a rape trial, and lost his liberty.  His
death is a tragedy because he was a scapegoat in his society.  Like Mr. Underwood said, it was
like killing a mockingbird.

Monday, January 6, 2014

What is the major connection between Snow Falling on Cedars and Never Let Me Go?

I would argue the major
connection between both
of these texts is the impossible love that lies at their core. For
Ishmael
and for Hatsue, just as for Tommy and Kathy, both couples eventually have to come
to
terms with the fact that they are doomed to not be together. For Ishmael
and Hatsue, this is
because of the racial and cultural divide that prevents
Hatsue from ever marrying outside of her
nationality, whatever her own heart
might tell her. For Tommy and Kathy, their love is thwarted
by their identity
too, but in their case it is their identity as clones that condemn them to

having their organs harvested and facing an early death. Happiness for both couples is
fleeting,
although they do try to convince themselves that they could enjoy a
happier future together.
Note, for example, how Ishmael daydreams about the
kind of future he might enjoy with
Hatsue:

Sometimes at night he would squeeze his eyes shut
and imagine how it
might be to marry her. It did not seem so farfetched to him that they might

move to some other place in the world where this would be possible. He liked to think
about
being with Hatsue in some place like Switzerland or Italy or France. He
gave his whole soul to
love; he allowed himself to believe that his feelings
for Hatsue had been somehow preordained.
He had been meant to meet her on the
beach as a child and then to pass his life with
her.

Ishmael desperately tries to convince himself
that
he is "meant for" Hatsue, even though he realises that in order to marry
Hatsue they
would have to leave their families and move to a different part
of the world. His dreams can be
compared to when Tommy and Kathy go and visit
their former headmistress, Miss Emily, to chase a
rumour that they have heard
that a couple who is really in love could gain a time free from
having their
organs harvested. However, they realise that there is nothing special about
them
because of the school they went to, and they hear Miss Emily tell them
that they face certain
death and the end of their love:

Poor creatures. What did
we do to you? With all
our schemes and plans?

Both
couples
therefore are in love, but this love is hopeless, but for different reasons.
Although
both texts tease the reader with the possibility that this love can
achieve something of a happy
ending, at the end of both stories the couples
are irreversibly separated and have to accept
that their love was not meant
to be in the worlds in which they inhabit. This is the major link
between the
two texts: the theme of impossible love.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Can the author or artist be completely left out of an art work?

This
is an extremely interesting question. I think it depends, mostly, on your definition of art
and artist. Also, this depends on the artists or authors goal in creating his or her work.
Some artists seek to portray something outside of themselves while others attempt to convey some
interior sense, belief, or emotion.

Art is generally considered a kind of
expression. In that respect, we assume that every artist creates something that expresses a
truth or belief that is important to him or herself. If we consider a work of art as the
expression of an individual artist, then we have to say no: it is not possible to completely
remove the author from their creation. This is especially true in the more abstract forms of
art, whether it be painting, poetry, or sculpture.

That is the difference
between an artist and a craftsman. The craftsman works with the end product in mind, and his
intent is to create it as perfectly as possible. Say, in the form of a table or cabinet. The
artist, on the other hand,

cannot work in this manner:
Artists dont know what they are going to express until they have expressed it is a watchword
of the expressionist. They cannot state in advance what a completed work of art will be like.
("Philosophy of Art,"
Encyclopedia
Britannica, linked below)

However, some artists work very hard to create a piece of art that does not reflect
themselves. Still life painters, for example, strive to paint the scene exactly as it
lookswithout exaggeration or changing the nature of any of the items. A photographer might also
fit into this category. Most would tell you, though, that even in the case where an actual image
is presented, unaltered, the artist is still there behind the scenes. The artist chose the
frame and set up the picture. Therefore, even if it is subtle, they are not completely removed
from the work. Indeed, the artist and the work are inseparable.

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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Why does Rufus like both Dana and Alice in "Kindred"?

Well, on the level of plot and symbolism, Rufus likes them both because they are related. This
gives Dana a direct stake in what's happening in her past (rather than just being a sort of
confused...

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Discuss Douglass' political importance in American History.

Douglass'
political impact on American History can be seen in a couple of ways.  The most evident is his
abolitionist stance.  Douglass was fervent in his belief that slavery had to be abolished and
worked tirelessly on political and social levels to make this a reality.  Douglass' political
stance on the issue was vitally important in helping to mold the hearts...

How is To Kill a Mockingbird political? What parts of the book are political?

is political in that it presents us with a picture of a rigidly
hierarchical society. As well as the deep racial prejudices that exist in Maycomb, there's also
a good deal of class prejudice. Aunt Alexandra's rampant snobbery reflects the general belief
that some people in town are inherently bad simply by virtue of their ancestry. The Ewell clan,
the disgrace of the town, have always been badso the theory goesand (what's more) always will
be. They are nothing but down and dirty "white trash," the lowest of the low in white
society.

At the same time, it's possible to be poor and respectable in
Maycomb. This dubious honor is afforded to the Cunninghams who, despite not having two cents to
rub together, do at least pay their way in the world, even if it's with green turnips. And
that's certainly more than can be said of the Ewells.

At the other end of
the social scale, you have the case of Dolphus Raymond who chooses to spend most of his free
time with African...

Discuss the character of Humbaba in the Epic of Gilgamesh, why Enkidu wanted to kill him and why Gilgamesh was reluctant to do so.

Humbaba
(Akkadian spelling, Huwawa, Sumerian) is a monster appointed by the weather god Enlil to guard
the Forest of Cedars. In Tablet I he is described by Enkidu as:

€€''When he
roars it is like the torrent of the storm, his breath is like fire, and his jaws are death
itself. He guards the cedars so well that when the wild heifer stirs in the forest, though she
is sixty leagues distant, he hears her"

€€In Tablet II:

€€"Humbabas roar is a flood, his mouth is death and his breath is fire! He can
hear a hundred leagues away any [rustling?] in his forest! Who would go down into his
forest!"

€€Essentially, the character of Humbaba is that of an inimical
force of nature, personified as a terrifying giant combining the characteristics of beast and
man magnified to superhuman size.

Initially, Enkidu is restless in Uruk, and
thus the quest. Gilgamesh initially is frightened, but Enkidu encourages him. Next, Humbaba
offers Gilgamesh all the cedars and himself as a servant, but Enkidu (1) wants the fame and
glory of killing him and (2) insists that if they do not kill him quickly before the gods
arrive, the gods will intervene and prevent the death of Humbaba and destruction and looting of
the sacred trees.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

As part of designing an IEP, how can I support a learner with emotional problems as well as physical and health needs?

This post is
not to answer your question
because post two has already done so.  This post is to remind you
that
the parents may have ideas you can use which may help.  I know that this idea is
fraught
with tension at times, but many parents know their children well and
could be of help.  For
example, I have a child who had an IEP starting in
grade six.  When he was in grade 7, the IEP
Teacher goals were for what he
should do in school as far as keeping track  of assignments,
bringing his
books  and homework to class etc.  My goals for him were to get up by the
alarm
clock, take a shower, get on the bus, go to school, and meet his para
all of which were before
he was ever in school. He had so many new issues
which kept appearing that the school thought he
was faking while I was
dealing with no speech, jumping out of a moving car, etc.  In other
words,
when he could be in school, my goals for him were to stay in class the whole time,
draw
to stay in control only as much as...

Identify a rhetorical message intrinsic to On the Roadby Jack Kerouac. The message should be examined through the lenses of theme, character, and...

The
rhetorical message of Kerouac's work exists in what he wants the reader to derive from it.
Kerouac's message embraces the need to pursue and cherish individual freedom.  Through different
elements, the narrative enables this message. Theof the friendship between Sal and Dean is one
way this message is enhanced.  Both characters believe their friendship to be free of social
convention.  It is evident in the freedom of mobility both possess, being able to move "on
the road" with ease and without attachments that might limit their pursuit and embrace of
individual autonomy.  Dean says as much to Sal:  "Why not, man? Of course we will if we
want to, and all that. There's no harm ending that way. You spend a whole life of
noninterference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody
bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way."  The need to "make it your
own way" is of vital importance both to their friendship, helping to advance Kerouac's
rhetorical message.

Kerouac's style in enhances
its rhetorical message.  This is throughout the narrative.  Consider one example when Dean is
talking to Carlo Marx:

 ...the only people for me are the
mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at
the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like
fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

In this quote, the choice and use of language helps to enhance the
novel's rhetorical message of freedom.  Consider the notion of "madness" that is
equated to an unrestrained sense of freedom.   of "spiders across the stars" and
"yellow roman candles exploding" both help to further the imagery of freedom through .
 Another example of how technique can enhance rhetorical message is seen in Kerouac's phrasing
of the road's meaning, in general:  "Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever
so on the road.  Freedom as moving forward and ahead is conveyed through the descriptive
language of the road.  Suchindicates that what is past is secondary to what is ahead, helping to
enhance the feel of freedom.  Throughout the work, Kerouac's language and word choice helps to
convey that external pressure or "distortion" must be repelled in the name of
individual freedom and action. Kerouac's style goes very far in carrying out his
message.

Kerouac is deliberate in his message of praising individual freedom.
It is communicated in theme and in stylistic elements.  Kerouac emphasizes it in the novel's
end, deliberately leaving the reader with the understanding of freedom being the only possession
of the individual.  Sal envisions America and how people see it:  "dreaming in the
immensity of it."  For Kerouac, the ending of the novel is one in which freedom is
synonymous with what it means to be in America.  This becomes an essential part of his
rhetorical message.  It is a message that is embedded not only in the characterizations and the
way in which they are described and enhanced, but also in the setting of America, itself.
 Kerouac chooses to end with a statement about how freedom and its pursuit is a part of both the
nation and the people who inhabit it.  In doing so, Kerouac's message about freedom and its need
to be upheld at all costs resonates with the reader upon the work's
conclusion. 

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

In my paper, I wrote that, "Frankenstein is in denial and even withdraws from interacting with anyone after his failed attempt to create a replica...

The
character of is complicated in part because he did not fully think through the consequences of
his project to bring a person to life. There are several components of the statement you quote
that might have prompted your professor to comment on the failure aspect of Victors project.
If we look at his goals, we can see that his objective was not exactly to create a replicawhat
today we call to clonea human being. In chapters IV and V, his goals, plan, achievements, and
disappointment are presented.

Victor took several steps in his process to
create a new creature that he expected would be a human being. First, he collected parts of a
number of dead bodies, and he next assembled them into one complete being. His exact method for
piecing them together is not specified. The final step was to bring that body to life, or
re-animate it.

Before he begins this project, Victor clearly states his goal
and his conviction that he could achieve it (chapter IV). He also tells , to whom he narrates
his tale, that he cannot reveal how he achieved the goal, for the reasons he will
provide.

After days and nights of incredible labour and
fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself
capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter€¦.

I see by your
eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be
informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be€¦.

In those early days after becoming convinced he had found this
cause, Victor is first euphoric and then cautious. It is his ego that prompts him to create a
human rather than some other animal. His exalted imagination allows him no doubt as to whether
he actually can accomplish this. He even decides to make a giant rather than a normal-size man.
From his statements showing unbounded , the reader can detectof his eventual failure, for it
seems he wishes to play God. His play goes beyond making a copy of a human: he will establish
a new species with the first creature he makes.

A new
species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe
their being to me€¦.

As Victor continues telling Robert
how he accomplished his goal to infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing (chapter V),
he makes clear that the problem was not failure to animate this pieced-together form. He
succeeds at that:

I saw the dull yellow eye ofopen; it
breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

When he first beholds the wretch, his emotions are mixed. He understands that he has
succeeded, and acknowledges some positive aspects in what he beholds. But he immediately begins
to despise the creature because he is not beautiful as Victor had intended, but seems to him a
travesty of that very concept. The problem, for Victor, is not one of absolute failure but of
his own perfectionism in the aesthetic aspect of the creatures external form. His expectations
were so high that he was bound to be disappointed.

How can
I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite
pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
features as beautiful. Beautiful!Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles
and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly
whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that
seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled
complexion and straight black lips.

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