How does the story "Eveline" by James Joyce illustrate Eveline's fear of love? I am arguing a point that Eveline didn't leave with Frank because she...

's
"" is a story written as an internalof the main character who finds herself in a
quandary:  she does not know whether to flee her home, trusting her life with a sailor
ironically named Frank, or to stay at home and care for her father and brother.  Her conflicts
involve the ambiguous nature of Frank's proposal to run off with him: While his name indicates
honesty, his profession is rather dubious regarding honor. And, his proposal to Eveline to run
away with him, a sailor, to Buenos Ayres suggests both the adventurous and...

What is the character analysis of Mrs. Pearce from Pygmalion? What is the role she plays? (in detail)

Mrs.
Pearce provides a way into the drama and its characters for the audience. She gives us a little
glimpse beneath the surface of other characters in the play, especially Henry Higgins. It is
through Mrs. Pearce that the contradictions of Higgins's complex personality are revealed. As
well as calling him out for his breathtaking arrogance and rudeness, Mrs. Pearce forces Higgins
to confront his singular lack of self-awareness; he wants to change Eliza, but perhaps, she
subtly insinuates, he should start with himself.

As with most of Shaw's
audience members, Mrs. Pearce is middle-class. This is important as it gives the audience a
voice, a means of articulating the generally negative feelings they hold towards Higgins and the
corresponding sympathy they feel for Eliza. But as Eliza starts to grow in poise, confidence,
and self-respect, there is no longer any further need for a character on stage to express our
sympathy for her. It is notable, then, that Mrs. Pearce's role in the play diminishes
accordingly, as now Eliza, neither the humble Cockney flower-girl she once was, nor quite the
lady of quality of Higgins's imagination, has effectively become a younger version of Mrs.
Pearce: respectable, middle-class, and more than capable of standing up for
herself.

Discuss the significance of Winston's fascination with the past. Discuss the significance of Winston's fascination with the past.

's fascination with the
past and objects that come from that time to me symbolises his desire to combat Big Brother and
recover these lost times. Winston's attempt to reach through the propaganda and discover more of
what happened in the past is in direct violation of what Big Brother is trying to achieve
through preventing any other perspective entering the consciousness of his citizens than that
which he wants them to hear.

How is Scout Finch courageous in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

, though
young, demonstrates tremendous courage throughout the story. There are several instances which
describe her courage well, but perhaps none more so than when she intervenes with the mob
threatening her father, .

Some people argue that this doesnt display much
courage, since Scout is somewhat unaware of the danger she and her father are in during this
scene. However, she is clearly afraid in the situation, even if she doesnt understand quite how
dire it is. When she intervenes and begins talking with the men in the riot, she shows that she
is unafraid and able to stand...

What did Frederick Douglass mean by "fruit of abolition"?

Chapter 7 opens with Douglass recalling the roots of his
literacy. He recalls how
Master Hugh earlier predicted that teaching a slave
to read and write would would lead to great
discontentment, and as he reviews
both the speeches of Sheridan and The Columbian
Orator,
he finds that his soul is both "tormented" and "stung."
Literacy has provided
him with the tools to dispel the myths of slavery but not with the tools
with
which to escape it. He begins to listen to the people around him speak of slavery, and
he
learns a new word: abolition. Although he learns that the word refers to
those who seek to
abolish slavery and that this idea is picking up momentum,
the context in his own environment
has a negative .

He
hears people talk about slaves escaping. He hears people
narrating how slaves
have killed their masters. He hears about slaves setting fires to barns and

other "terrible" acts done to their slaveholders. In each of these, they refer to
the
slaves' acts as "the
fruit...

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What are the similarities between Pedro Pietri's life story and Juan Flores's four moments in his essay on the structuring of Puerto Rican identity in...

Just
like including every migrant community from Japan to Sri Lanka under an overarching
"Asian" identity is problematic, clubbing all immigrants from Latin America and the
Caribbean under the broad umbrella of "Hispanics" is equally reductive. In his essay
"The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity in the US," (From Divided
Borders, 1993) Juan Flores argues that the Puerto Rican identity in particular is
distinct from the Chicano or Mexican identity.

Flores argues that, while
Chicanos find an affinity with Native Americans, Puerto Ricans are more closely aligned with the
Black community in the US. This no doubt has to do with their respective racial and cultural
roots. The observations of his Chicano friend Francisco bolster Flores's own long-held views on
the subject:

He heard Nuyorican poetry and salsa, and
detected more Afro-American language and rhythms than anything familiar to him in Chicano
expression.

But how does this distinct identity develop?
Flores traces the development of the unique identity of the Puerto Rican diaspora, or Nuyoricans
(a portmanteau of the terms New York and Puerto Rico), through four important moments. I'll
first examine these moments and then try to apply them to the life of the Nuyorican poet href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/arts/pedro-pietri-59-poet-who-chronicled-nuyorican-life.html">Pedro
Pietri. Of course, these moments don't always flow in a strict sequence in an
individual life, as we will see in Pedro's case. There are always idiosyncratic overlaps as well
as chronological blips.

Coming back to Flores's essay, he structures the
contemporary Afro-allied Nuyorican identity along four crucial moments. The first he traces to
the immigrant's arrival in the US. This is a moment of alienation and abandonment from their own
cultural context and a disillusionment with their new home, America. The reality of their bleak,
poverty-ridden existence hits the immigrant hard:

Prior to
any cultural associations or orientations, there are the abandoned buildings, the welfare lines,
the run-down streets, the frigid winter nights with no heat.

The second is the idealization of the homeland left behind. This longing for Puerto
Rico, Flores notes, has more to with a psychological and spiritual dislocation rather than
geographical distance. In this state, Puerto Rico appears as a land of perfect harmony,
representing the wholeness the migrant seeks. Flores quotes Pedro's poetry to show this
idealized representation of the homeland. In the poem, Pedro first details the bleakness of
immigrant life for "Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Olga" and then exhorts them to rise from
the dead and be transported to a beautiful place:

where
beautiful people sing
and dance and work together
where the wind is a
stranger
to miserable weather conditions
where you do not need a
dictionary
to communicate with your people. (From Puerto Rican Obituary
1971)

The third moment is "located back
in New York." Flores terms this moment the immigrant's psychological re-entry into America,
when they begin to assimilate into their new homeland. However, Flores notes this assimilation
is not as much a function of an accommodating environment, as of the Puerto Rican diaspora's
"deliberate self-insertion into the urban landscape."

The migrant
begins to assert their own ethnic identity as well as recognize the points in which they can
connect with the urban culture around them: one of these connections is Spanish-English
bilingualism. What confronted the Nuyorican initially, now becomes a sign of "potential
enrichment and advancement."

Lastly is the moment of reaching out to
communities with which Nuyoricans feel the closest proximity, "not only spatially, but
because of congruent cultural experience." For Nuyoricans, these communities are firstly
Black Americans and then communities from the Caribbean and Latin America. However, this
cultural connection should not be mistaken for a way to assimilate into the dominant surrounding
culture. Rather, it is a means of "growing together," a means for these communities to
form their own vibrant, synergistic bonds.

To apply these moments to the life
of Pedro Pietri (1944€“2004), I have referenced a detailed biographical interview, which can be
found href="https://blackartscourse.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pietri_interview001.pdf">here.
Pedro is credited as a co-founder of the Nuyorican movement, a movement of poets, singers, and
other artists that gave voice to the emerging Puerto Rican identity. A master of the
spoken-poetry form celebrating the rich Puerto Rican tradition of oral poetry, Pedro also helped
found the Nuyorican Poets Caf©, a place where Nuyorican poets could read and perform verse, hip
hop, music, theater, and other art forms.

At the age of three, Pedro moved to
the US with his extended family, the move an unfortunate consequence of "Operation
Bootstrap," which refers to the rapid industrialization of Puerto Rico after World War II.
Though intended as a policy to turn Puerto Rico into a developed nation, Operation Bootstrap has
been heavily criticized for breaking down the island's flourishing agrarian economy and leading
to widespread unemployment and emigration. Forced to sell his land, migrate to America a pauper,
and "disillusioned with this question of the American dream stuff," Pedro's
grandfather committed suicide in 1948.

On New Year's Eve of the following
year, Pedro's father, unfamiliar yet with the severe New York winter, went out inadequately
clad, contracted double pneumonia, and died soon after. Thus, the bleakness of their new life
hits Pedro's family very hard and mirrors disenchantmentthe first moment of Flores's
essay.

Furthermore, as Pedro grows up and deals with discrimination, he
begins to build the idea of an idealized homeland. He describes a school teacher who forbids him
from speaking Spanish, threatening to send him "back to Puerto Rico" if he doesn't
speak in English. Pedro grows up in the "housing projects" and, despite earning a
high-school diploma, ends up doing blue collar jobs anyway. However, a job at the Columbia
University library exposes him to both Spanish and English literature, which is a turning point
in his life:

I read everything I got my hands on: I read
Faulkner, I read the Wasteland, I read everybody, everyone.

But shortly after, he is drafted into the Vietnam War. His experience in Vietnam is
extremely traumatic. It is after his return from the war that Pedro processes the events in his
life and writes his most famous book of poems: Puerto Rican Obituary. In
the book, he details the horrors of immigrant life and calls out for a return to the spiritual
homeland of Puerto Rico. Through this sequence of events, we see Flores's second moment play
out.

A parallel to Flores's third moment of cultural assertion can be found
in the development of Pedro's poetic sensibility and his use of Spanglish in his poems. Pedro
discovers a "point of enrichment" (Flores) in the very English which was his nemesis
in school and uses his knowledge of English literature to enrich his writing. But studying in
the English medium has removed Pedro's felicity in writing in Spanish. When he visits the real
Puerto Rico after 25 years, he experiences another cultural dislocation: he is not considered a
Puerto Rican writer since he doesn't write in Spanish. This causes dissonance within him
initially, but Pedro overcomes it by writing in Spanglish, owning his bilingualism and asserting
his Nuyorican identity.

Finally, Pedro is greatly influenced by Black and
Caribbean artists and rhythms as well as the oral tradition of the Caribbean and Africa. His
religiosity too has more of a link with African cultures than with Christianity, a point he
specifies. Though his mother raised him as a Christian, protecting him from the "voodoo,
black magic, the African religions" she herself grew up with, Pedro finds an affinity with
these very cultural practices:

I like to hold candles, I
like the incense, the dances€¦That has always been in me. Christianity just interfered with
that.

Thus, though his alliance with aspects of Black and
Caribbean culture, we see Pedro enact Flores's fourth moment of "growing
together."

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How does the way Mr. Underwood describes Tom's death relate to the title of the book To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mr. Underwood says that it is a
sin to kill cripples, which is similar tosaying it is a sin to kill mockingbirds, making Tom
Robinson a symbolic mockingbird.

The title of the book comes
from Atticus telling his children not to shoot mockingbirds because they are harmless.  What he
is really telling them is that a mockingbird is a gentle creature that deserves respect, because
he does only good for others, and does not do anything against others.

"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know
you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a
sin to kill a mockingbird." (Ch. 10)

Mr. Underwood
writes in the Maycomb paper a scathing editorial in response to Tom Robinsons death after he is
convicted and shot trying to escape.  He is upset that anyone would shoot Tom when he is
obviously incapable of defending himself.

Mr. Underwood
didn't 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.
(Ch. 25)

The connection to the title continues when Mr.
Underwood likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children,
basically saying that killing Tom was like killing a mockingbird.  Tom Robinson is a
metaphorical mockingbird.

Tom is an innocent man who did nothing wrong, and
he is twice wronged by the legal system.  He is convicted in court simply because he is black,
and then he is shot in prison.  True, he was trying to escape, but Mr. Underwoods point is that
he was shot because he was black.  He was harmless, because he was a cripple, and it was
completely unnecessary.  It was racism through and through.

What are the boys wearing to the party in act 1 of Romeo and Juliet?

Short
Answer: , , andare wearing masks to 's ball.

In act 1, scene 5, Lord Capulet
hosts a masquerade ball where the attendees all wear masks covering their faces. These
traditional masquerade parties were very popular at the time and would have given Lord Capulet
an opportunity to flaunt his wealth.

Within the narrative, the party is also
a prime opportunity for eligible suitors like Countyto meet Lord Capulet's daughter, . Romeo,
Mercutio, and Benvolio arrive at the party wearing masks that conveniently conceal their
identities and allow them to remain unnoticed while they are in their enemy's estate.

Mercutio and Benvolio want Romeo to get over Rosaline and believe that Capulet's
masquerade party is the perfect place to meet another girl. During the masquerade, Romeo falls
in love with Juliet at first sight, andrecognizes his voice. Since Romeo is wearing a mask like
the other attendees, Tybalt is only able to recognize Romeo from his
voice.

The story of Shino: Mystical Spirit of the East, how does it compare with stories you know?

Although it would have been helpful to be a bit more specific as to where you have
found this story, my guess is that you are referring to Shino: Mystical Spirit of the East as
part of the Kaminomi light novels. In this case, you would be referring to Shino Akuragawa who
is a miko from the Toyoboshi Shrine at Mout Uryu.

Further, in order to do a
comparison, let us review Shinos story. Shino is beautiful and compassionate. She is also a bit
stubborn, especially as she pursues the Ghost (Moegami ) who was released many years in the
past...

What were the three main elements of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

If you're
after certain structural elements instead of simple partitions of the story, consider these
-

Use of the third person limited point of view
-  The story takes place from the viewpoint and understanding of
theonly.  Most of what happens is only in his mind, as the reader learns at the end of the
story.

Use of flashback and
virtual reality - Although the reader is not aware of it at first, the
"events" in the story don't happen in chronological order but are subjectively
selected (between real and imaginary ones) by the character of Farquhar.

Use of dramaticand a surprise ending
- Up until the very end of the story, the reader "lives" the
events of Farquhar's fantastic escape. Just as he "makes it," though, the reader
realizes it has all been an illusion as Farquhar's neck snaps under the tension of the
rope.

The pigs discover they were paid in fake bank notes. Why were they so easily taken advantage of by Frederick (man)?

In Nineteen Eighty-Four,
the Party in Oceania uses a constant state of war with one of its two global rivals, Eurasia and
Eastasia, to control its own population.employs the same idea on a smaller scale in
, where the pigs use conflicts, real or imagined, with two neighboring
farms for the same purpose. Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield and Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood are on bad
terms with each other andshifts his allegiance between the two as advantage dictates.

Napoleon's energies are focused on these diplomatic and financial negotiations, which
eventually result in his selling a pile of firewood to Frederick at twelve pounds more than the
sum originally offered. Moreover, Frederick had wanted to pay by cheque but Napoleon insists on
cash. As he and the other pigs are congratulating themselves on their financial acumen, Whymper,
the lawyer, discovers that the banknotes are forgeries. The pigs had been too distracted by the
intricacies of their negotiations, raising the price and avoiding the obvious pitfalls of taking
a cheque, to notice this.

In addition to these distractions, there is the
simple point that the pigs have presumably seldom seen money before, particularly in such large
denominations and a forgery would not have to be particularly sophisticated to fool them. It is
only towards the end of the book that they become more used to regular transactions with
humans.

What were the major goals involved with World War II?

Of course,
the goals of the Axis and the Allies were very different in this war.

The
Axis started the war because their goals were more aggressive.  The Axis countries felt
the...

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, who is the smartest animal on the farm and why?

There are various candidates for smartest animal on the farm, all of them pigs. The
selection among the pigs really depends on one's definition of "smart."

is the visionary, the one who has worked out for himself the nature of the animals'
existence and the forces that shape their lives. Although he is only present at the beginning of
the book, his is probably the most powerful and insightful intellect.

is the
most inventive and brilliant of the pigs. He is smart in the sense of being an ideas man, as
well as, like Old Major, a utopian intellectual.

has the most practical mind
among the pigs. We might describe his variety of intelligence as "street smarts."
While he lacks Old Major's breadth of vision and Snowball's theoretical brilliance, he is able
to defeat his enemies by being more strategically-minded.

is an example of
the type of intelligence which allies itself with power and provides legitimacy, while receiving
numerous privileges. Unlike Napoleon...

In The Stranger, is Meursault a threat to society?

Meursault is indeed a threat to societynot just to French society, but to any society.
The main danger that he poses is that he doesn't believe in anything. As such, there's little or
nothing that society can do to control him. No positive inducement to conform to society's norms
and expectations will ever work on someone so thoroughly nihilistic in his moral outlook. For
someone like Meursault, killing someone is like crossing the road or putting on a pair of pants.
So long as such people are at liberty, there's simply no telling what they might do.

In fact, Meursault's amorality is considerably more dangerous to society than the
immorality of the violent pimp Raymond Sintes. Sintes's actions,...

What is the teacher's role in developing a behavior intervention plan for students with challenging behaviors?

The
teacher plays an essential role in developing a behavioral modification plan for a student with
challenging behaviors. The teacher is the person who sees the child every day. The teacher knows
what behaviors the child displays as well as what modifications have and havent
worked.

However, the teacher should not be developing this plan alone. The
teacher should consult with the school psychologist, the guidance counselor, other members of
the grade level team, teachers from previous years, and the parents or guardians of the student.
It is possible the principal should also be involved....

One of the most interesting characters in the book is Dolphus Raymond. Explain how his lifestyle is different and why he is allowed to do the things...

Dolphus Raymond is one of the most
interestingin the entire book. He actually prefers the company of African Americans and has
several children with an African American woman. He is frequently seen drinking out of a paper
sack and weaving a little, leading people to believe that he is a local drunk, thus giving the
upper echelon of white society a reason to explain his "unexplainable"
preferences.

However, when Dill leaves the courtroom and is offered a drink
from Mr. Raymond's sack, he realizes that it's nothing but Coca-Cola. The kids question Mr.
Raymond, and he explains his intentional deception this way:

I try to give 'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
When I come to town ... if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus
Raymond's in the clutches of whiskeythat's why he won't change his ways. He can't help himself,
that's why he lives the way he does.

He goes on to say
that white Maycomb citizens could never understand that he prefers to live this way, so
deceiving them is a way for them to excuse his behavior and leave him alone to enjoy his life on
his own terms.

This fascinatesas she has "never encountered a being who
deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself." Yet this fraud allows Mr. Raymond the
personal freedom to live as he desires and shows yet another example of a person who has to make
societal compromises because he doesn't quite fit within the confines of the expectations of
Maycomb life.

In her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," why did the Harper Lee choose the word "meditative?"

Twice in
her classic of American literature authorused variations of the word
"meditate," meaning deeply thoughtful or deeply felt, or to be in a state of deep
mindfulness. The first instance, quoted below, occurs in the opening chapter:

'There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into,' murmured
Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard. We looked at
her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people."

The second instance of Lee's employing a variation of the word
"meditate" occurs in Chapter Seven, which occurs within the context of Mr. Radley's
having filled the hole in the tree that was used byand by the children as a means of human
interaction that would otherwise not occur:

'Trees
dying. You plug €˜em with cement when theyre sick. You ought to know that, .'

"Jem said nothing more about it until late afternoon. When we passed our tree he
gave it a meditative pat on its cement, and remained deep in
thought. He seemed to be working himself into a bad humor, so I kept my distance."
[Emphasis added in both examples]

Only Lee knows with
absolute certainty why she chose to use this word, not once but twice, in her narrative. What we
can presume, however, based upon our knowledge of thein To Kill a Mockingbird, and the context
in which the word is used in each instance, is that the author chose it precisely because she
wanted to convey the sense to the reader that these , Calpurnia and Jem, are expressing
deeply-felt sentiments. In the first example, Calpurnia, the Finch family's African American
housekeeper, and a sort of surrogate mother for Jem and , utters her contemptuous comment as the
remains of the now-deceased Arthur Radley are transported past the Finch's home -- a curious
comment as the previous discussion of the Radley family gave no indication, save the
irresponsible rumor-mongering that inevitably surrounded the somewhat mysterious and reclusive
family, that Mr. Radley was anything other than a little eccentric and protective of his family.
Lee's use of the "meditatively" in this context suggests that Calpurnia believes the
unfounded rumors and has harbored a deep fear and loathing of a man she probably barely
knew.

The second example of Lee's use of the word "meditate"
occurs, as noted, within a specific context as well. The tree in question held a special meaning
for Jem, Scout and Dill. It was the tree inside of which Boo Radley hid small gifts for the
children, whose fascination with the elusive figure spawned one of their favorite summertime
games. Jem's "meditative pat" of the cement that now filled the hole in which the
gifts were hidden suggests a mournful passing of a special time in his life. The tree symbolized
the innocence of summer and the connection to a human being whose presence, up to now, could
only be felt in a spiritual sense.

What are the direct and indirect characterizations of Abigail Williams in Miller's The Crucible?

Direct
is when we are told, directly, what traits a certain character possesses.
is when we must examine a character's behavior and speech in order
to make inferences about their traits.

One example of theof Abigail is
created when, in between characters' speech in Act 1, Miller says that Abigail is
"strikingly beautiful" and has an "endless capacity for dissembling." We
learn that Abigail is very good at lying and deceiving others. Later, however, Abigail is
indirectly characterized by her threats against the other girls. When her cousin, Betty, accuses
her of drinking a charm to kill Goody Proctor, Abigail "smashes her across the face"
and warns the others that she will "come to [them] in the black of some terrible night and
[she] will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder [them]." In other words, she
literally threatens them with murder; this indirectly characterizes her as a selfish, vengeful,
and manipulative person...

What are some of the causes of World War II?

There
were several causes of World War II. One cause was the German anger with the harsh Versailles
Treaty. Germany believed the Versailles Treaty treated them unfairly. This treaty required
Germany to pay the Allies $33 billion in reparations. It also required Germany to accept the
responsibility for World War I. Germany felt this was unfair because Austria-Hungary started the
war by declaring war on Serbia.

Two additional causes of World War II were
the Allies ignoring the violations of the Versailles Treaty by Germany and the aggressive
actions of the Axis Powers prior to the start of the war....

Give reasons why the animals rebel against the pigs in Animal Farm.

In Chapter Seven
of , the hens rebel against the pigs afterstrikes a deal with Whymper who
sell their eggs. As a result, the hens raise a "terrible outcry" and begin to lay high
up on a rafter so that the eggs fall to the floor and smash. 

For the hens,
the selling of their eggs is tantamount to "murder" and this is why they choose to
rebel. In...

Why cant Biff tell his father what happened with Bill Oliver?

The
problem Biff has with trying to tell his
father what happened when he went to see Bill Oliver is
symptomatic of the
problems Biff has been having communicating with Willy for much of his life.

Willy is a good talker but not a good listener. He has an unrealistic picture of his son
Biff
and consequently has unrealistic expectations of him. Willy wants Biff
to be a highly successful
businessman to make up for Willy's own inadequacy.
Biff has tried to please his father because
he loves him and wants his
approval. But Biff is finding it harder and harder to go against his
own real
character. The meeting with Bill Oliver, such as it was, brought Biff's inner
conflict
to a head. Even though he cannot get through to his father at the
restaurant, Biff will
eventually force him to listen. Even so, Willy will not
agree with Biff's self-assessment or
with his son''s assessment of him. Biff
says a lot when he says:

I am not a
leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a

hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of
them.

It is almost comical when,
earlier during this climactic showdown
between father and son, Willy
says:

I am not a dime a
dozen! I am
Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!

Ironically, this statement makes them both seem all the more what they truly
are--a
couple of nobodies, a pair of losers.

Compare and contrast three plays: George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, and Athol Fugard's Master Harold... And...

The
three plays are similar in that all three are written in English. One play is set in England,
and the other two are set in former colonies; Louisiana, currently in the United States, was
formerly in a colony of France and Spain; South Africa was formerly a Dutch and British
colony.

All three plays have class change and class conflict at their center.
In , the people are English and all of white European heritage. Eliza
Doolittle's family, however, like many working-class English people at the time, is of Irish
heritage, as was Shaw himself. In Streetcar, the class conflict is also
between white people. Although set in the U.S. South, there are no black characters. The old,
French heritage, plantation-based society of the DuBois family is contrasted to the newer
Eastern European immigrant, working class, embodied by the Polish-heritage Stanley Kowalski. In
Master Harold , the class conflict is distinctly
racial, as "Master" Harold is of the ruling class and the men in service
to...

How is the windmill destroyed in Animal Farm? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball?

Towards
the end of , a violent storm hits the
farm and the strong gusts of wind destroy the windmill. In
the morning, the
animals are devastated when they discover that the windmill has been
destroyed
andimmediately blames its destruction on. Napoleon uses Snowball as
a...

What do you think about the function of each of the main characters in Death of a Salesman (Willy, Linda, Biff, and Happy)?

Linda functions as a
surrogate for the audience in this play, offering ways to sympathize with both Willy and Biff.
She can be said also to represent a conscience in the play and to function as a stand-in for a
formal .

The men in the family form a three-part character structure with
Happy and Biff both serving as explorations of Willy's nature. Biff and Happy are very similar
to their father, but represent...

What does Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist teach the reader about the significance of struggle in the quest for true love through the hero's journey?

The
ultimatein s , of course, is that the treasury Santiago, the authors
youthful , seeks in the distant deserts of Egypt, and for which he struggles mightily to
survive, was his for the taking all-along under the sycamore tree growing inside the abandoned
church where he slept, and where he experienced the dream that precipitated his journey.
Santiago is desperately poor, and lives a meager day-to-day existence tending to his sheep.  He
is content to sell the wool of those sheep to merchants, and thinks little of establishing
himself in the Andalusia region of Spain, where lives the merchant who not only has purchased
wool from Santiago in the past, but whose daughter is a source of great romantic interest on the
part of the young shepherd.  Coelho makes clear, however, that Santiagos ambitions are modest,
as in the following passage from early in his novel:

He
owned a jacket, a book that he could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. But, most
important, he was able every day to live out his dream. If he were to tire of the Andalusian
fields, he could sell his sheep and go to sea. By the time he had had enough of the sea, he
would already have known other cities, other women, and other chances to be happy. I couldn't
have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.

Santiagos dreams, as noted, precipitates his journey to North
Africa. In those dreams €“ he experiences the same dream twice €“ a boy comes to him and tells
him that a hidden treasure awaits at the site of the Egyptian pyramids.  Unfortunately, the
shepherd awakens before learning the exact location of the treasure, prompting him to seek out
the advice of an old lady known to be practiced in the art of interpreting dreams. 
Interestingly, before he thinks of the old woman, he comments to himself on the relationship of
dreams to life itself: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life
interesting, he thought . . .

The old woman is entirely mercenary, demanding
a cut of the shepherds treasure should he succeed in making the journey to Egypt and locating
the hidden treasure, but her suggestion of working on a contingency basis serves the boy well,
as he can keep the little money he has for his trip rather than pay now for the counsel. 
Santiago, of course, sets off on his journey, encountering challenges along the way, including
from warring tribes in the vast Saharan desert.  With the alchemist, Santiago makes it to Egypt,
although the wise old man leaves his young disciple alone for the final stage of his journey to
the pyramids. 

Santiagos journey is not, of course, a journey for wealth,
although that happens; rather, it is a spiritual journey, as he discovers what in life is truly
important.  He has struggled mightily along the way to Egypt only to find that the treasure he
sought lied beneath the ground under the very tree from which his journey began.  Through the
wisdom of the alchemist, Santiago has found a form of wealth far more meaningful than the chest
of gold coins he will uncover once back at that old church in Andalusia.  As Coelho has his
protagonist contemplate the journey he has taken, he reflects upon the gifts he has been given,
none of which involve material wealth:

He thought of the
many roads he had traveled, and of the strange way God had chosen to show him his treasure. If
he hadn't believed in the significance of recurrent dreams, he would not have met the Gypsy
woman, the king, the thief, or€¦ €˜Well, it's a long list. But the path was written in the
omens, and there was no way I could go wrong" he said to himself.

Arriving back at the church, Santiago commences digging, elated at
the irony in having traveled so far only to have the hidden treasure be right where he
started.:

"You old sorcerer," the boy shouted up
to the sky. "You knew the whole story. You even left a bit of gold at the monastery so I
could get back to this church. The monk laughed when he saw me come back in tatters. Couldn't
you have saved me from that?" "No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I
had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't
they?"

This shepherd who had once been content to
live an aimless existence among his sheep while wooing the merchants daughter has discovered the
joys of experiencing life far from the only world he has known.  He now understands the
importance of struggle and of broadening his horizons.  And, he has learned about role of God in
a life properly lived.  He had struggled against the wind €“ a prophetic development €“ to dig
into the sands in search of the treasure that he will learn soon enough was never in this
location after all.  Prior to going their separate ways, the alchemist relates a Biblical story
to Santiago that instills in the latter a deeper regard for the mysterious ways of the Lord, a
story that ends with the following quote from Matthew: "My Lord, I am not worthy that you
should come under my roof. But only speak a word and my servant will be healed."  The
alchemist, as have the others who Santiago encountered along the way, has contributed to the
shepherds spiritual healing when all Santiago had initially sought was material
wealth.

In chapter 20 of The Scarlet Letter, how has Dimmesdale changed physically since his last meeting with Hester?

The narrator says
that

The excitement of Mr. 's feelings as he returned from
his interview with , lent him unaccustomed physical energy, and hurried him townward at a rapid
pace.

Physically, then, Dimmesdale has an incredible
energy that he has not possessed for at least as long as we have known him in the novel. He
moves rapidly instead of languidly or languorously. He, himself, cannot help but recollect how
"feebly" he had walked the exact same ground just a few days prior, comparing the
relative "toil" of that travel to the ease and spryness with which he now moves. He
actually turns pale and tremulous when he encounters the old deacon, as he is so tempted to
utter blasphemous statements which would shock the old man that it costs him a great deal of
energy to keep himself from doing so. In short, the minister seems to have so much physical
energy that it threatens to come bursting out of him in inappropriate
ways.

What sets Jainism apart from other religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism?

The key beliefs of
Jainism are that the way to achieve freedom  and liberation of the soul is to live a life
characterised by peace and sacrifice. In addition, there is a massive emphasis placed on caring
for all living forms of life, including the universe itself. For example, Jainism states that
all living creatures have their own souls, just like humans, and that these souls are equal.
Therefore, each living creature must be treated in the same way as humans. This is why Jainists
are vegetarians, and believe in eating and living in such a...

In what ways does Dana explode the slave stereotypes of the "house nigger"? In what ways does she transcend them?

Dana brings her
modern mentality with her as she travels back in time. She is free, and she refuses to let
anyone take that from her.

By speaking to Rufus as an equal, she explodes the
slave stereotypes. When he uses a derogatory term, this is her response: I dont like that
word, remember? Try calling me black or Negro or even colored. Over time, she even tries to
teach him to be a better person, to treat others better, and to see the world in terms of
equality rather than in the barbaric terms his father has set up; in so doing, Dana transcends
slave stereotypes. She knows she is not only Rufus's equal; with her views on equality, she
actually transcends his small-minded ways. She will not lose her freedom, she will not back
down, and she will not accept the world as it is.

Of course, slaves she
meets also desire freedom and also stand up to tyranny. They...

How does Beckett's construction of his metaphors reflects his own age in Endgame?

What is key to realise
about the work of Beckett is that it is linked to a  literary movement entitled the Theatre of
the Absurd. This was a literary movement that questioned the value of life itself and proposed
that life is actually much more bleak and depressing than we would believe. In particular, works
that are attributed to this literary movment try to make the audience see that life
is...

Why do we still teach To Kill a Mockingbird?

I
have taught this novel with students who are
as young as eighth graders and have analyzed it
much more deeply with
students in AP English Literature. Although the book was published almost
60
years ago, I find that it is a favorite work among my students, regardless of age. And
I
think that is due to two major reasons:

It
poignantly describes
a period of American history that left deep scars in our
culture. Maycomb,
Alabama, in the early 1930s was a place
representative of many places in the South (and some
places in the North,
which isn't highlighted in many history books). Racial tensions ran deep,
and
the Civil Rights Movement was still a couple of decades away from really beginning to
pick
up steam. As a result, readers are made aware of the injustices that Tom
Robinson faces, and the
story is told from a non-biased lens via .

Scout simply reports the facts of
her town as she understands them,
and she is supported through her father, who is the only
lawyer the judge
trusts to give Tom a shot at fair representation. This moment in America's

history, which is told through such well-developed and complex , makes it a novel which
keeps
pulling readers in many decades later.

Theof the novel show
that beauty can live in
unexpected places.doesn't just show a flawed Southern
town
during his era in history. She shows that despite its flaws,
goodness
still exists there. It exists in , Miss Maudie, and even the
unexpected . She doesn't allow
readers to walk away from the book with a
singular portrait of Southern life.

She even shows the
hope that exists in the transformation of Mr. Cunningham, who at one
point is
part of a lynch mob against Tom Robinson and later leads the group away from
violence
when Scout confronts him. Another Cunningham serves on Tom's jury
and is willing to acquit Tom
at the beginning of deliberations. This shows
that racial hatred borne out of ignorance can be
overcome, and that's a
powerful theme that is important for all generations to keep

hearing.

While young students are able to appreciate the basic
history and
its place in American culture, older students are able to really
do some deep analysis oflike
Mayella Ewell and Mrs. Dubose. The novel is rich
in discussion material because it has deep and
meaningfuland well-constructed
characters.

When will Mr. Bingley move into the neighborhood in Pride and Prejudice?

In 's
, 's arrival in the Bennett family's neighborhood is an event that produces
much excitement. The novel opens with the news that he has, in fact, already moved in. Because
his father had made money in trade "up north," Bingley seems eager to establish the
family among the landed gentry. To do this, he must purchase a property, and Netherfield seems
like a fine choice since it is far enough away from the labor that initially earned the wealth
and which would have barred his father from entering the gentleman class, and it is near London
and available.

Mrs. Bennett laments that her husband seems unwilling to make
the effort to introduce himself to the young man, a courtesy that seems required for the
daughters to also then consider him an acquaintance on the way to marrying him. Of course, Mr.
Bennett already has met him, the entire neighborhood attends a ball in Meryton, andand Bingley
become entranced with each other.

Complications occur whenandtake a dislike
of the Bennett family, convincing Bingley to leave Netherfield for London. While they hope this
will cool Bingley's and Jane's affections, they are mistaken about the depth of the couple's
feelings. The return to Netherfield, however, seems impossible without Darcy's approval, which
he grants only late in the novel when he learns that Jane did have genuine affections for
Bingley.

When theare all sorted out, with Darcy andplanted at
Pemberley,andfar away up north, and Jane and Bingley married, we learn that Bingley gives up his
lease on Netherfield and buys a house closer to Darcy and Elizabeth.

So,
after the first few episodes at Netherfield (the ball, Jane's illness) and the brief reunion and
proposal in Volume 3, Bingley spends little time at Netherfield or in the
neighborhood.

In what style of writing is the book The Art of Racing in the Rain?

The
Art of Dancing in the
Rain by , is written from an interesting point of view.
The author
uses a the stylistic technique of having a narrator as the storyteller but in
this
novel the storyteller is Enzo, a dog facing the end of his
life.

The reader
has to decide how to interpret what Enzo
says since his words reflect the ideas of a dog
including his heightened
sense of smell. Enzo says, "And yet, how I yearn for the moment my
soul
inhabits one of these poorly designed bipedal bodies and I, too, assume the health
concerns
of a man!"

When asked about writing in this
style, Garth Stein responds
to the question by saying,

Honestly, I didn't think too
much about that.
Enzo believes he has a nearly human soul, so it was more about writing from
the
point of view of a soul who is trapped in a world in which he can't
communicate or interact as
he would like. Secondarily, it was fun to think
from a dog's eye view!

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Explain Walton's reference to an albatross.

The
reference is to an episode in the famous Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which the title character kills an albatross, thus
bringing great misfortune upon himself and his crewmates. In one of his letters to his
sister,says that he shall kill no albatross and that therefore his sister should have no need to
worry about his safety. The implication is that Walton believes that killing an albatross would
bring him as much bad luck as the ancient mariner, and so he promises his sister that he won't
make the same mistake.

The poem means a lot to Walton. As he goes on to
explain to his sister in the same letter his passion for the ocean was kindled by Coleridge's
masterpiece. It was The Rime of the Ancient Mariner that first gave him a
taste for adventure on the high seas.

How did people in the early to mid-1800s try to reform American society?

There
were so many reform movements, including religious and social movements, in this era that the
early nineteenth century is often called the Age of Reform in American society. Two notable, and
often intersecting, aspects of these movements were the promotion of religion and the
condemnation of specific social problems, such as drinking alcohol and the injustice of
slavery.

One religious movement that gained considerable traction was the
Second Great Awakening (1830s), which featured the teachings of Charles Grandison Finney. Finney
traveled around speaking at revival meetings, advocating the need for a return to devotion.
These meetings included public demonstrations of Christian service based in the genuine desire
to live a pious life and reject temptation, following the doctrine of perfectionism.

Finney was a supporter of abolitionism. Among the other white ministers who supported
the cause was Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian who founded a temperance society and staunchly
advocated against alcohol. One of his children was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the famed author of
Uncle Toms Cabin.

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What role should a company's unique selling proposition play in the companys advertising strategy?

One of the key components to effective selling and marketing is called the unique
selling proposition (USP). The reason that the USP is important is because most businesses are
quite homogeneous; therefore, it is advantageous to figure out what is unique and slightly
different about your company or product that makes it stand out in some way compared to
competitors. Maybe the USP allows your company to fill some kind of niche in the market, but
that isnt necessary for a USP. The USP is simply something that makes customers feel that your
product is somehow more worthwhile than another product.

For example, there
are dozens of barbershops and hair salons within a five-mile radius of my house. They all do the
same thing: they cut hair. However, one barbershop...

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organizational Behavior discuss two reasons cited for the failure of the U.S. expatriate managers. Then discuss two competencies that ensure success...

A major
reason is probably a lack of cultural awareness on the part of the Americans....

In The Lovely Bones, what are the ways each of the Salmons mourns Susie's death?

The
members of Susie's familyher father (Jack), her mother (Abigail), her sister (Lindsey), and her
brother (Buckley)all show different ways of grieving and coming to terms with the death of their
loved one.

Jack's grief initially manifests as rage, and he smashes the
collection of ships in bottles that he and Susie had created together. Later, through a sense of
intuition, he begins to rightfully suspect his neighbor Harvey of being his daughter's
murderer.

While Jack dedicates himself to finding Susie's killer, his wife,
Abigail, finds herself pulling away from her family and turning to Detective Fenerman for
answers.

Buckley handles his childlike grief by asking an array of questions
about the sudden absence of his sister.

Besides Oceania, what 2 countries in the novel make up the rest of the earth?

Eurasia and
Eastasia are the other...

binomial probability distribution question #4 A student is taking a multiple choice exam in which each question has 4 choices. Assuming that she has...

You need
to use binomial probability formula to determine what is the probability that the student to
get 5 questions out of 5 correct, hence:

`P(r) = C_n^r*p^r*q^(n-r)`

Notice that the 5 questions are 4 choice questions, hence the probability to get one
correct choice out of 4 is: `p = 1/4 = 0.25` .

You need to remember that
`p+q=1 =gt q = 1 - 1/4 = 3/4 = 0.75`

Hence, the probability not to get a
correct answer is of `3/4=0.75` .

Evaluating the probability that the student
to get 5 correct answers out of 5 such that:

`P(5) =
C_5^5*(0.25)^5*(0.75)^(5-5)`

`P(5) = 1*0.0009*1 =gt P(5) =
0.0009`

Hence, the probability that the student to get 5
answers correct is of 0.0009.

In Charles, what do you think of the way the parents deal with Laurie ?

This is, to
some degree, dependent upon the reader's beliefs about how children should be raised.  I,
personally, am appalled at the way that Laurie's parents deal with him.

The
two things that stand out most to me are the way they deal with him when he takes the cookie
without permission and when he...

Give a summary of Old English Elegiac poem Deor's Lament? A summary of each stanza

Stanza 1
Summary:

Deor talks about Weland who went into exile and
suffered major emotional and physical pain. Weland was in a cold dungeon and was in effect a
displaced person who had to endure exile with courage in the hopes it would pass and he would be
freed once again.

Stanza 2 Summary:

Beadohild is distraught over the death of her siblings and her pregnancy now. She
believes her life is on the wrong track now and that she has no future hope. However, again, the
indication by Deor is that this time of trouble for Beadohild may pass and she may come through
it to a happier stage in her life.

Stanza 3
Summary:

In this stanza, Geat's laments for his loved one -
Matilda. He missed her so much that he couldn't even sleep. Deor indicates in this stanza that
time will heal is sorrow somewhat - that this terrible time will pass.

Stanza 4 Summary:

The indication in
this stanza is that Theodric ruled his realm with an iron hand and that the inhabitants of this
realm were burdened by this and hoped that this time of oppression would end.

Stanza 5 Summary:

Ermanaric, similar to
Theodric above, ruled his kingdom without mercy on others. He was a cunning king - likened to a
wolf - and even warriors feared him and wished his rule would end. Deor again gives a word of
hope that this terrible time passed away - as did the terrible times mentioned above.

Stanza 6 Summary:

In this stanza, Deor
says that a man, if he constantly dwells on his troubles and plight, will feel that his problems
are unsolvable. He then says that the Lord gives honor and a good station to some in life, and
hardship and trouble to others. This happened to Deor who was replaced by another -  he held a
good position in the kingdom - but then was replaced and this is Deor's Lament. He hopes this
time will pass and that he will be restored to his fine position serving his
overlord.

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What is the importance to the rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" in 1984?

Oranges and Lemons connectswith Charrington, OBrien, and, rather unexpectedly, , each
of whom supplies him with some of the words. It seems appropriate that OBrien should complete
the eighteenth-century rhyme, as he reminds Winston of an eighteenth-century nobleman, with his
charm of manner and incongruously civilized appearance.

In Ray Bradburys
Fahrenheit 451, another book-burning dystopia, a group of dissidents manage
to assemble a human library, having memorized some of the great books of the Western canon. The
Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four has effectively censored great works of
literature by translating them into Newspeak versions, but it seems to have wiped out
traditional popular verse, such as nursery rhymes, so thoroughly that several people are needed
(at least two of them, ironically, undercover agents of the Party) to piece together a very
brief rhyme. It is a furtherthat Winston spends so much time trying to recover these fragments
of the past...

In 1984, does Winston eventually lose his humanity, leaving the Party and Big Brother in complete control?

No,has not
completely lost
his humanity at the end of . The Party
and Big Brother
are not in complete control. The Party believes they have taken his entire

humanity after Winston betrays , which is why they release him, but they are wrong. They
are not
as all powerful aswould have Winston believeor as O'Brien himself
arrogantly believes.

The evidence comes at the very end of
the novel. Winston is an undoubtedly shattered,
hollowed out man, with no
desire left to challenge the Party's version of events. He has learned
it is
better to conform than to fight, and he no longer has much will left to
live.

While sitting in the Chestnut Cafe, however,
watching the telescreen and drinking
Victory gin, a memory of his childhood
comes unbidden to Winston. He recalls a day when his
mother bought he and his
sister a cheap cardboard version of a game called Snakes and Ladders.
He and
his mother played it while his baby sister watched. As Winston
remembers:

For a whole
afternoon...

In what time period does A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, take place?

The novel is
set in and reflects the mores and
technology of a small town in New England in the early 1960s,
the time when
the book was written. There are no personal computers, no microwaves, and no
cell
phones. A radio issues hurricane warnings. We learn that Meg and her
mother struggle with Meg's
hair, having trouble "putting it up," which would
mean using pin curls or curlers,
something we seldom, if ever, do
today.

When the children arrive at Camazotz,
the
neighborhood is described as a typical 1950s housing development and acts as a
commentary on
the "conformity" people worried about in that period, when
modern identical
subdivisions of the Levittown variety had only been built
for about fifteen years. We learn
that:

The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike,
small square
boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with
a
straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the
door.

The children on Camazotz deliver
newspapers on bicycles, bounce balls, and skip ropes,
all activities we
associate with bygone eras. 

The book thus is both science

, complete with interstellar travel and alien beings, and a period piece reflecting
white
middle-class life in an era roughly 55 years
past.

What are the similarities between cellular respiration and fermentation? What are the differences?

Cellular
respiration and fermentation are both reactions that occur within organisms that use
glucose as a reactant and produce energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate.

The largest difference between cellular respiration and
fermentation is the presence or absence of oxygen. Cellular
respiration is referred to as aerobic respiration because it uses oxygen (aero = air or ).
Fermentation is called anaerobic respiration because it does not use oxygen (an = not, aero
= air or atmosphere). Another big difference between the two processes is the
amount of ATP produced.

Each process is described in more
detail below.

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Respiration= Aerobic Respiration

When we breath,
aerobic respiration is occurring because we are using the oxygen that is brought into our lungs
when we inhale. Cellular respiration occurs within mitochondria of eukaryotic cells. During
cellular respiration, the oxygen gas that we inhale reacts with the sugar called glucose in
order to produce water, carbon dioxide gas, and ATP. Overall, aerobic respiration produces a net
of 34-36 ATPs.

Fermentation =
Anaerobic Respiration

Fermentation is a metabolic
process that convert carbohydrates, such as starch or sugar, into lactic acid or alcohol in the
absence of oxygen.   Compared to aerobic respiration, fermentation produces much less ATP. Only
a net of 2 ATP is produced during fermentation.

Ethanol fermentation and lactic acid fermentation are the two types of fermentation.
 Ethanol fermentation and lactic acid fermentation differ in the products they make. Each
process is described below.  

• Ethanol fermentation is the type
  of fermentation that produces alcohol. It is done by yeast and some strains of bacteria. During
  ethanol fermentation, pyruvate from glucose metabolism is broken into ethanol and carbon
  dioxide.  Because ethanol fermentation produces alcohol, it is used to produce beer and wine.
  The carbon dioxide produced by ethanol fermentation is advantageous in the making of
  breads.
• During lactic acid fermentation, six-carbon carbohydrates, such as
  the pyruvate molecules from glycolysis or lactose, are converted into cellular energy (ATP) and
  lactic acid. Lactic acid occurs within muscle cells during intense intervals of activity when
  energy is needed at a faster rate than oxygen can be supplied. The lactic acid produced is the
  burn that athletes feel after an intense workout.

 

What factors cause demand for a product to be elastic?

Certain types
of products are generally more elastic than others. For instance, if a product is nonessential
it will obviously be far more elastic. For instance, raising the price on a pack of baseball
cards is probably going to decrease sales more than raising the price on a lifesaving medicine,
especially if there are no alternatives. This is an extreme example, but it applies to other
areas. Gasoline, while certainly responsive to price, is relatively inelastic. People still need
to get to work even it is going to cost them.

Additionally, some products
that are not essential are perceived as being that way. Cigarettes are a perfect example of
this. Smokers will generally continue to purchase this product when taxes go up or the price
increases. That is because the addictive nature of the product makes it appear as if it is
essential. Any product that is either essential or for some reason a staple of daily life is
going to be less elastic, as long as competitors are raising prices at a similar rate. People
will always buy toilet paper, milk, eggs, etc, even with small price increases. This has been
shown many times with the price of eggs, for example. 

Other goods, that are
more optional, are much more sensitive to change. 

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, what is Shakespeare saying about the theme "action vs inaction?"

In
Shakespeare's , not only is Shakespeare passing judgment on the value of
taking action and the folly of not doing so, but literary critics have long held the same
opinion. In fact, as a tragic herodemonstrates his tragic flaw in his
"indecision."

The basis for the concept of "action vs
inaction" is Hamlet's failure to avenge his father's death quickly. The idea has been
presented multiple times that had Hamlet done so, he and , and his
household, would not have died.

I struggle with this for several reasons.
Hamlet is written when the audience deeply believed in the...

Does the reader's inability to trust the narrator increase the suspense in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

The
answer to this question is based on an individual reader's opinion.It is possible for a reader
to believe and defend that the narrator's lack of trustworthiness actually decreases the
suspense in the story; however, I believe that most readers would support the idea that the
suspense is increased through our inability to trust the narrator.

The
narrator alerts readers in the very first paragraph that he is somebody that readers should not
openly trust.The narrator questions why we should think that he is crazy.He then tells us that
his mental disease gave him extra sharp senses that allowed him to hear things that mere normal
people can't hear.This is somewhat believable, but then the narrator tells readers what sorts of
things he was hearing.He was hearing things from heaven and hell.That should immediately make
all readers think the narrator is crazy and should not be trusted.This lack of trust in him and
knowledge that he is crazy enhances the suspense and tension of the story because while we know
that the narrator should not be trusted, that does not change the fact that he might not be
lying to readers.Just because a person isn't trustworthy doesn't mean they aren't telling the
truth from time to time.Additionally, because the narrator is crazy and untrustworthy means that
readers legitimately suspect that he is quite capable of just about any horrific bit of
work.

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What is the theme, or message, in the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier?

An important
message or theme of the story is that the ability to understand and see other peopleespecially
outsidersas fully human is the beginning of maturity into adulthood.

Lizabeth
is a young adolescent who remembers vividly the day she led the other children in taunting old
Miss Lottie as a witch and destroying her beautifully tended marigolds.

We
can understand how Lizabeth vented the rage she felt at her own constricted, impoverished life
on an old woman who couldn't easily fight back. The story is set in the Depression, and Lizabeth
and her brother Joey live in a shack with her parents. Her mother works all day as a maid, and
her father goes out each day in search of the work he never finds. Lizabeth feels a sense of
affront that, amid all the squalor and ugliness in which they live, Miss Lottie would dare to
grow beautiful flowers.

In tormenting Miss Lottie and ripping up what she
tried to create, Lizabeth expresses some of her own internalized rage. However, as she looks at
Miss Lottie, she suddenly feels ashamed, realizing she has victimized not an "other"
or a "witch" but a real human being like herself. Instead of wanting to continue to
express wrath at her, she feels compassion for this older woman.

Learning to
view others with empathy is an important theme the story illustrates: compassion, to Collier, is
the essence of adulthood.

What is the significance of the title of A Doll's House?

The
significance of the title of the play , by , is that it foreshadows the
dynamics that take place in the Helmer household. Moreover, it also helps unveil the real role
thatplays within her family; that of a mere entertainer to her husband and children. In the end,
the title of the play becomes sort of a misnomer, since Nora actively moves away from the role
of a "doll" and moves on to try to become a fully-grown, and real woman.

From the very beginning of the play, we notice how Nora's playful ways are quite
enabled, and even encouraged, by her husband, . It encourages the audience to question the
purpose of two adults conducting their communication in such a way. However, later we realize
that this is perhaps one of the many tricks that Torvald uses to somewhat manipulate Nora's
childish behavior, as well as to reinstate his role as the "man" of the house. It is a
condescending way to treat people, nevertheless.

We also get to the
conclusion that...

What was the impact of the Trail of Tears?

The impact
of the Trail of Tears was that the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia, western
North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. This was the culmination of a more than decade-long
removal process championed by President Andrew Johnson. By 1838, virtually all of the Native
peoples in the Southeast--the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and to a lesser extent the
Seminoles--had been forced off their lands and into Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma.
Each of these peoples had suffered grievously in the process, with thousands dying of disease.
The Cherokee experience was no different. The tribe had split into factions, with one smaller
group moving more or less voluntarily. A much larger faction, at least 15,000, refused to leave.
Under orders from President Martin van Buren, they were forced from their lands by the US Army
and marched to Indian Country. Around 5,000 died of disease and exposure. So the result of the
Trail of Tears was the expropriation of Indian lands and widespread disease and death among
Indian peoples. On the other hand, Indian removal cleared the way for the expansion of
plantation agriculture into the fertile Southeast. Thousands of would-be planters brought their
slaves to the region to raise cotton.

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Discuss the political, social, and economic issues affecting the home fronts in the North and South during the Civil War and the way these issues...

Some of
the most significant problems that both the Union and Confederate sides had to contend with
during the Civil War were the rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental circumstances
that the conflict had caused. In the North, tax revenue, primarily derived from the sale of
agricultural products, was only able to cover about 20 percent of the costs of the war, forcing
the federal government to begin issuing its own paper money. This resulted in a devaluation of
the value of gold and silver, as the new paper money was not backed by anything other than a
government guarantee of its value (known as fiat money) and damaged some banks that still
relied on the gold standard. Furthermore, some businessmen were able to trick government
contractors by providing them poor-quality goods for quick cash exchanges, making a fortune in
the process.

The Southern economy relied heavily on import and export duties
for its wartime revenue, but these too were too little to cover all of...