June 2014

Monday, June 30, 2014

What is the significance of the discussion of Jesus in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

The
discussion of Jesus is significant for a few reasons. First, after praying aloud that Jesus keep
the Misfit from shooting a lady, the Misfit's response that only Jesus raises people from the
dead, and that he shouldn't have done that, seems to indicate that in the Misfit's head, the
Grandmother, like the rest of her family, was already dead. Her prayer isn't going to change his
decision to shoot her....

What is the magical realism in the story, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," by Gabriel Marquez?

Magicalis
the blending of fantasy and reality. This style is a cultural aspect of Marquez's native
Columbia and is a notable genre in other Hispanic cultures. In this story, the blending of
fantasy and reality serves to question notions of truth and .

Marquez plays
with uncertainty and this mix of the miraculous with the "every day" gives the reader
a challenge in trying to make sense of what is real and what is not. In the end, there is no
clear indication of the differentiation between reality and fantasy. This literary style allows
the author to stretch the imagination and gives the reader an unconventional reading experience
wherein he/she must deal with the uncertainties. Thus, the reader is forced to
"wonder" and this is 'wonder'fully imaginative but also frustrating for a reader who
wants things spelled out logically.

In the story, the couple and the people
of the town debate whether or not the old man is an angel. They seem to ignore the fact that,
regardless of whether or not he is an angel, there is an old man with wings. In fact, the doctor
thinks that the man's wings are so "natural" that he wonders why more people don't
have them:

What surprised the doctor most, however, was
the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural that he couldnt understand why other men didnt
have them too.

In the end, the old man's monetary cache
is trumped by a spider woman, another instance of magical realism.

Here is
one interpretation that deals with a way that magical realism is used in a critical respect. If
this story is interpreted as a critique of commercialism and materialism, the elements of
magical realism illustrate how mindlessly people pursue monetary gain. Even though they have a
miracle (angel or 'natural' man with wings) on their hands, they treat him as an annoyance
unless he is bringing them money. This shows how single-minded people can be and how they might
miss miraculous things in life, not to mention the opportunity to be generous and
caring.

Portraying the old man as an angel or winged, Marquez shows how
thoughtless and unimaginative people can be when they are too concerned with the trivial
things.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

What is the basic idea of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"? "A very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The central
theme of "" seems to be one of how people handle doubt and ambiguity. When the angel
arrives, Pelayo and his wife are frightened and do not know what to think. They call the priest
and a neighbor to explain the presence of this angel, for they lack the necessary imagination.
In their obtuse misunderstanding, they turn the presence of this angel into a sideshow, with
"the angel [being] the only one who took no part in his own act." Marquez writes that
the

majority understood that his passivity was not that of
a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.

This creature of "so much human truth" with such a "fearful
lesson" is not nearly as interesting as the Spider Woman who is still part human and
understandable. To her the people can assign an "answer," so they are satisfied.
But, with the angel, there is mystery and neither the characters nor the reader can arrive at an
absolute meaning.

Perhaps, then, the "human truth" that Marquez
writes of is the propensity of people to assign meanings to what they cannot truly interpret.
Yet, there are events that cannot be interpreted, solutions cannot be found. And, when one
insists upon assigning a "logic" to these events, he/she runs the risk of being as
foolish and credulous as the villagers.

Friday, June 27, 2014

In Animal Farm, what are five similarities between Napoleon and Snowball?

Whileandhave
different personalities, they share a number of common characteristics. They both have
aspirations of leadership, for example, as we see in Chapter Two
when they assume control of the preparations for the forthcoming rebellion. These preparations
also demonstrate their intelligence, as shown by their work on the
development of Animalism.

In addition, both Napoleon and Snowball are
ambitious. For Snowball, this is expressed through his many
education committees, designed to aid the intellectual development of the other animals. In
contrast, Napoleon demonstrates his ambition when he steals the cows' milk so that the pigs can
have it in their mash.

When the two pigs go head to head over the windmill,
we get a sense of how competitive they are and neither one is
prepared to concede to the other. This demonstrates their mutual
stubbornness and ultimately leads to the breakdown of their
relationship and Snowball's violent expulsion.

What is the paradox explored by William Blake in his poem "The Tyger?"

Thein
"" is framed in a series of questions which the speaker asks the tyger. Simply put,
the paradox is how a loving, all-knowing God, who makes things so wonderful and innocent as the
Lamb (referring to the animal and Jesus Christ), could also make something as terrible and
ferocious as the tyger (I'm keeping Blake's spelling).

Blake
was...

Thursday, June 26, 2014

What is the symbolism of the stripper in "Battle Royal"? Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

The
"magnificent blonde" with the yellow hair of a kewpie doll" is simultaneously a
symbol of the oppression of the young black men in the groupshe becomes the tool of their sexual
humiliation and possible punishment, if they dare to return her gaze. She is also an object of
the white men's sexual exploitationthe white male spectators place her in the ring to arouse
their own lust and to arouse that of the young black men while also forbidding the young men
from expressing that lust.

In this scene, Ellison luridly illustrates the
sexual hegemony of white menthat is, the way in which they ensured their own sexual dominance
through the violent control of black male sexuality and exerted control over white female
sexuality through the promise of racial privilege.

The blonde is a
caricature of femininity, with her heavily made-up face, and, as a blonde, an exemplary form of
white womanhood. In the era in which was published (1952), the most
celebrated Hollywood...

In the book 1984 how does George Orwell give internal events the sense of excitement usually associated with external action?

does this
by showing that the characters, especially, view internal acts of dissent as dangerous acts of
rebellion against the state. Big Brother does not just seek outward acquiescence to his power,
he wants to so totally dominate the consciousness of the people that any form of resistance is
inconceivable. We see this most clearly...

What are Nat's political views in "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"?

Although his
viewpoint is somewhat different from that of the Connecticut colonists who want to rebel against
the British Crown's attempt to take away their Charter, Nat is sympathetic to the Patriot
cause. He tells Kit,

"If the King respects our
rights and keeps his word to us, then he will retain our loyalty. But if he revokes the laws he
has made and tacks and comes about till the ship is on her beam ends, then finally we will be
forced to cut the hawser".

Nat believes that when
all is said and done, "A man is loyal to the place he loves". While he is a New
Englander of sorts, Nat's first loyalty is to the sea and his sailing
vessel. The Dolphin, and the right to manage it as he
sees fit, are as precious to him as the colony is to Matthew Wood and those who would stand up
against Governor Andros. Nat says,

"My father would
give his life for the right to sail (the Dolphin) when and where he pleases and so would
I...'twould do little good...to wait for orders from His Majesty in England. I suppose it's
like that for these people in Wethersfield. How can a king on a throne in England know what is
best for them? A man's first loyalty is to the soil he stands on".

Because of the difference in his lifestyle as a sailor, Nat is not
as involved as the others in the debate over colonists' independence. His sympathies lie,
however, with those who would defend their land (Chapter 12).

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

In Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," please identify several of the literary devices that she uses in lines 34 to 44.

In 's
"," in lines 34-44, she uses several literary devices.

In writing
of the fish's eyes, Bishop uses metaphors to describe them, comparing them
to tinfoil, and again to title="isinglass">isinglass.

...the
irises backed and packed€¨

with tarnished tinfoil€¨

seen
through the lenses€¨

of old scratched isinglass.€¨

Tin foil (also known as "aluminum foil"), as most people
may know, is a metallic sheet, thin like paper that is most often used in cooking in the oven or
on the grill. Because it is metallic in nature, it catches the light, reflecting it with some
brilliance. Because the author notes that it is "tarnished," the reader gets the sense
that it is a smoky-looking, the way foil looks having been used in a fire or left out in
the title="elements">elements ("environment").

"Isinglass" can refer to a transparent product made from fish bladders or to
sheets of title="mica">mica, which are most often href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/smoky?s=t"
title="smokily">smokily transparent, but also reflect light because of
the flat surface that can mirror light as well. However, note that the author describes the
surface as "scratched," so the reader knows it is not a clear reflection.

Sound devices (which appeal to the ear when the poem is read
allowed, and often give the poem a musical sound) are used in the poem as well. Note the
line...

... the irises backed and packed...

Assonance and href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html"
title="consonance">consonance are used
here. Assonance is the use of repeated vowel sounds (such
as a, e, i, o, u)
in a group of words. Consonance is the use of repeated consonant sounds
(such
as d, n, l, p, s, r,
etc.).

In this phrase, the "a" sounds
in "backed and
packed" use assonance, creating a pattern of
sound. Consonance can be found in these words as well:

...backed and packed...

Note the repetition of the
"ck" sound in
"backed" and
"packed," as well as the repetition of the
"d" sound in all three words.

We
see in "tarnished
tinfoil." Alliteration is the repetition of a similar sound at
the beginning of a group of words, here found with the use of the
"t" at the start of each word.

In all
of these devices, assonance, consonance, and alliteration, the pattern
is not found in using the same letters, but in
employing the same sound. This is what makes
them "sound devices!"

Bishop follows the href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/motif"
title="motif">motif of eyes in this section of the poem,
but not of sight!

Vision is an important sensory system for most species of fish.

However, the use of "shallower" indicates a lack of
sight, as does "tarnished tinfoil" and "scratched isinglass." This continues
with...

They shifted a little, but not€¨

to return my stare.€¨

--It was more like the tipping€¨

of an object toward the light.

There is the
sense, beyond a lack of eyesight, to a lack of conscious
thought, at least in "human" termsfor the fish does not "return my
stare." Note the use of special punctuation, "--", before "It was more
like..." This tells the reader to make special note of the difference between what eyes
usually do ("stare" or look) as opposed something done by eyes
that don't see well: catching the light, but not processing
sight.

Ais used in "more like the tipping / of an object
toward the light." This compares shifting eyes to a
"tipping...object."

Note another comparison at the beginning of the
author's eyes and those of the fish:

I looked into his
eyes€¨

which were far larger than mine€¨

but shallower,
and yellowed...

Literary devices are forms of for the
purpose of painting a mental picture for the reader.

Why is Daniel Defoe said to have written the first English novel with Robinson Crusoe?

Prior to the
publication of , novel-length works in English were rare. Most were
translations of texts from other languages, collections of essays, or rewritten works from years
before. Robinson Crusoe was unique in four ways: it was entirely original;
it was entirely fictional; it was very long; it was a tremendous success.

As
an entirely original and fictional work, Crusoe was...

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In "Hills Like White Elephants," the American is accompanied by the girl; the waitress is the woman. What can we infer about the age...

For my
part, I don't necessarily see the use of language such as "girl" or "woman"
to indicate anything unusual about the age difference in the couple. I think that there
probably is an age difference, but nothing that is extremely different from the norm. Given how
concerned Hemingway is with "the moment" and the emotional dynamic within it, I think
that the invocation of a significant age difference might take away from this recreation and how
the reader perceives it. Yet, this does not mean that the difference in terms of language
between "woman" and "girl" lacks significance. In my mind, Hemingway uses
"the girl" to describe Jig because, to a great extent, she feels like a child placed
in an impossible situation. Hemingway constructs her character to be posited in a predicament
where there are no easy answers, her helplessness coming across like a child in this situation.
She doesn't know what is going to happen to the child within her, to the relationship she has
with the American, as well as what will happen in her own life and how this perspective on the
world will change. She struggles with the notion of going back to the way things were and then
what the uncertain future will be. She has to reconcile all of this with how she feels about
the American and what that vision of the future will hold. I think that all of these
uncertainties makes her fundamentally different from all else, and while she has freedom and
might be a woman from a chronological point of view, it is evident she feels like a
"girl," a child searching for totality and absolutes and finding nothing of the sort.
The waitress is a woman because of the lack of complexity in her life, as she takes the couple's
orders and brings them back beer. There is a certainty there that removes the wonderment and
confusion of childhood, and reason enough for her to be a "woman." In doing so,
Hemingway brings out a painful reality regarding freedom and consciousness. Individuals
possessing freedom, rationality, and a capacity to make their own decisions from a chronological
point of view can be reduced to a sense of the helpless, enabling function to be smothered by
surmise, rendering them to the position of a child in the modern setting.

Syme 1984

Characters
might be flat or round, static or dynamic, but in , Syme plays a specific
role.

In my opinion, Syme is a foil to . A foil
is a character intended to help show a main character's traits by being opposite in many ways.
While Winston is just your average guy, Syme is depicted as rather intelligent. This
intelligence further demonstrates that intellect is not valued in this society, because Winston
knows that Syme will ultimately die. This discrepancy in how each man reveals his thoughts makes
readers empathize even more with Winston. Readers want him to keep living to keep the story
alive and hopefully watch him overthrow Big Brother.

Other differences that
help show contrast include devotion to Big Brother, level of excitement for the Party, and level
of directness in communication. Winston knows to be quiet about his thoughts, whereas Syme
blurts out his every idea. Syme clearly loves Big Brother, while Winston wants to take him
down.

This contrast also develops readers' eventual disappointment in
Winston. Readers realize he does not have all it takes because they have seen more intelligent
characters, like Syme.

How does Hemingway indicate tone in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Karyth Cara

In order
to understand how an author indicates tone in a work, you need to have a
correct understanding of the concept of tone in literature. Tone in
literature is the attitude, opinion, assessment the narrator has of the characters and events in
the narrative, and tone can be described in terms of attitudinal emotional quality (emotional
qualities related to attitude), such as playful, hopeful, pessimistic.
Narrators are not neutral, although some come close to being neutral. Each narrator has a
tone through which they narrateand plot development.

Tone
is external to the narrative in that it is not part of setting, characterization, character
interaction, plot action or mood (which is also called). Tone is also external to the narrative
insofar as it is a characteristic of the narrator; it is part of the narrative mode (also called
narratorial mode). This is less clear when the narrator is first-person, thus also a character
of the story, though it is more clear...

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Monday, June 23, 2014

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what does Benvolio vow to do?

In , after
the street brawl between the
Montagues and the Capulets,andtalk aboutand how sad and depressed
he has been
lately. Benvolio says he will attempt to find out what is bothering Romeo.
During
his discussion with Romeo it is revealed that Romeo is in love with a
woman who does not share
his love. Benvolio suggests Romeo should forget her
and "Examine other beauties." In
the next scene they come across Capulet's
servingman in the street. The man, being illiterate,
is unable to read the
party list Capulet gives him and is seeking out someone to read it for
him.
He bumps into Romeo, who reads the list out loud, discovering the name of Rosaline,
the
girl he loves. When Benvolio hears this he vows (though this word is
never used) to show Romeo
other girls that are more beautiful than Rosaline
at the party. Benvolio says,

At this
same ancient feast of Capulets
Sups the fair
Rosaline whom thou so
loves,
With all the admir¨d beauties of Verona.
Go

thither, and with unattainted eye
Compare her face with some that I
shall
show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Benvolio, of course, is quite right. Romeo
even uses the same language when he
seeslater that night. He simply replaces
swan with dove (both white birds). In , he says,
"So shows a snowy dove
trooping with crows."

Please cite specific examples of arete in the Iliad and The Odyssey.

Examples of arete are easy to find,
particularly in the
, since the main reason many of the
warriors, including Achilles, are there
is to achieve arete.
In later philosophical writing,
arete may
mean something close to virtue, but in 's heroic code, it means
the type of
excellence a warrior displays by fighting well.

It is
closely
related to the concept of glory (time), another
of the main reasons
Achilles is fighting. The warrior wins
time by displaying
arete. Homer is
impartial in the allotment of arete,
as in all else. It
is achieved by Achaean and Trojan warriors, as well as by nobly-born women

such as Andromache and Penelope.

Achilles is already cited as an
example of
arete in Book I of the Iliad when he is not
doing anything. As the greatest
hero, he always has arete,
though he always wants more.

However,
arete is primarily displayed by Hector and Diomedes in

Book V. Here, Diomedes has what is called an aristeia, a word
related to
arete , which means the greatest moment of a
warrior in
battle,...

What is "On Monsieur's Departure" about?

The poem
"On Monsieur's Departure" was written, it is believed, around 1582 by Queen Elizabeth
I. Because of the use of "Monsieur" in the title and the supposed date, it could refer
to the French Duke Anjou leaving England after their marriage contract was broken off. Duke
Anjou had visited England twice to court Queen Elizabeth and had succeeded in negotiating the
terms of their marriage, but it never happened. This failed courtship ended the "Marriage
Game" that Elizabeth had played for twenty years. It seems possible that she was truly
affectionate toward the Duke, whom she nicknamed "the frog."

Whether the poem was written by Elizabeth I or some other author, it is relatively easy to
discern what it is about. In the poem, the speaker wrestles with her own feelings and the
expectations of others regarding the discontinued romantic relationship. The speaker feels
constrained not to reveal her true feelings,...

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," what are the main events?

""
is not structured in a traditional manner with the events occurring in chronological order. The
story is divided into three parts, with Part II being a flashback; the events in Part II
occurred before those in Parts I and III. Arranging the events in the order they occurred, then,
becomes the reader's responsibility. Bierce further complicates the structure of the story by
including those events that happened in real time and those that happened only in Peyton's
mind.

That said, here are the events that make up the...

What does Buddha mean when he says, "In separateness lies the world's great misery. In compassion lies the world's true strength" mean?

I imagine
that you can interpret this in different ways, but to me, it is saying that what we human beings
need most is to feel that we are one with other people -- that we care for others and they care
for us.

In this quote, I think "the world" really refers to
people. We are miserable because we are separate from others and we can often feel that no one
cares about us. At the same time, though, we are capable of making others feel very good through
compassion. And what is compassion really? To me, it is understanding how other people are
feeling.

So what I get from this is that, when we feel compassion, we are
actually becoming more at one with others and we are no longer separate and alone.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Discuss dramatic irony and how it contributes to the theme and overall tragic vision of Oedipus the King as a whole. Discuss dramatic irony and how...

This is also a very
famous play.Despite what the very first audience was able to pick up during the showings, modern
audiences know the entire plot before starting.The dramaticthere is also that we have a larger
context and previous ideas about the play.]]>

List some of Facebook's stakeholders and explain how and why they are affected by or affect the activities of Facebook. Try to distinguish and...

The
community or the public is a key
stakeholder in Facebook. Most of them use Facebook to
communicate with
friends, colleagues, and relatives. Without these people, Facebook would not
be
the social media giant it is today. The traffic created by users of
Facebook helps the company
to attract advertisers and organizations
interested in knowing more about the customer. In this
case, we can say that
the community or public has an economic impact on Facebook.

The community or the public also has a social impact on Facebook. The users
come from
different backgrounds and cultures. Facebook has to respect the
culture of its users if it wants
them to continue using their platform.
Facebook has to implement policies and rules that ban
users who may be
disrespectful to other peoples cultures.

Government

officials have a political interest in Facebook. Legislators create laws that dictate
how
Facebook handles itself. Privacy and use of customer data have for a long
time been an issue. In
the...

Friday, June 20, 2014

In Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, why did the different areas of Austronesia develop so differently?

andrewhays0287

Austronesia is a term for the area including the islands off the Pacific coast of China
and Southeast Asia: Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Pacific Islands. Six thousand
years ago, this area exploded in population as peoples from China and Southeast Asia migrated
from the mainland to the islands. This migration can be traced with both archaeological and
linguistic evidence.

Despite their similar origins, not all Austronesian
cultures developed the same way. Those who left mainland Asia via Taiwan came to overrun the
indigenous cultures in the Philippines and Indonesia, but in about 1500 BCE, they reached New
Guinea and came to very different results. These results persist to this day. Physically, the
people of New Guinea are distinct from those of Indonesia, and their languages aren't clearly
related to other Austronesian languages.

According to Diamond's theory, the
indigenous people of New Guinea had developed a more sophisticated level of agriculture than the
Indonesians,...

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Why did the American colonists go from being proud, loyal citizens of the greatest empire in the world to rebels who wanted independence from that...

The basic
reason why this happened is that the Americans were "outgrowing" their role as a
colony just as Great Britain was trying to exert more control over them. This is analagous to a
family in which a child has been given a great deal of freedom, only to have it taken away when
he or she becomes a teenager. This is a recipe for rebellion.

Before the
French and Indian War, the colonies were given a considerable amount of...

What is the definition of the terms objective, subjective, relative, morality, and ethics, and what is an example of each?

Objective
and subjective are two opposites meaning concrete or based in facts and fluid or changing. Facts
are objective and unchanging, like the law of gravity, while opinions are subjective, like taste
in food. These things change and are not definitive or set in stone.

Relative
is related to subjective. Things that are relative shift based on the situation. Speed is
relative between two moving objects, while a car may be traveling 30 mph, it may only be
traveling 5 mph relative to another vehicle next to it.

Ethics and morality
are the final two concepts. Ethics is a code of behavior that is meant to determine right and
wrong and the best way to treat others. Morality is the act of being moral or following ethics.
Morality is more of a personal system of belief.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

How does Mattie change from the beginning to the end of Fever 1793?

Over the
course of the book, Mattie develops from a regular teenage girl into a mature young
woman.

When the story begins, Mattie has to be roused out of bed by her mom,
who needs her to do some chores. But Mattie is incredibly lazy and deeply resents having to do
anything that might resemble hard work. Contrast this with...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

What is a summary of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

' book
is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge, who is very selfish and mean. Early
in the book, two men come to see him to ask for a donation to help the poor, and Scrooge
refuses. He asks if all the jailhouses and poorhouses are full because that is where he believes
the poor belong. His nephew also visits him to invite Scrooge to a Christmas celebration, but
Scrooge tells him no as well. Bob Cratchit, a young man with a large family, works for Scrooge,
and Scrooge is so tight with money that Bob is forced to work in a room with virtually no heat.
His wages are very low, and he is expected to work on Christmas Eve. One of Cratchit's children
is Tiny Tim, a little crippled boy.

The book is divided into parts
called...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

What do we learn about Okonkwo and Obierikas relationship based on the invitation for Okonkwo to participate in the brideprice ceremony in Things...

In
chapter eight,visitsand discusses his role in 's death. Obierika does not conceal his feelings
and criticizes Okonkwo for his actions. After their discussion, Obierika invites Okonkwo to help
him negotiate the bride-price for his soon-to-be-married daughter, Akueke. Negotiating a
bride-price is an important element of the Igbo marriage tradition, and Obierika requesting
Okonkwo's help signifies their close bond and friendship. Okonkwo is one of eight men included
in the negotiations, and the men use bundles of broomsticks to decide how many bags of cowries
the suitor will pay for Obierika's daughter. After the men deliberate, they finally settle on
twenty bags of cowries as the bride-price. The men then proceed to discuss strange customs
practiced by neighboring villages.

Negotiating a bride-price is an intimate,
important affair, and Obierika's invitation for Okonkwo to participate underscores their close
friendship. Obierika is Okonkwo's best friend and acts as his foil throughout the story. Unlike
Okonkwo, Obierika is sympathetic and thoughtful. He is always in control of his emotions and
prefers to approach issues intellectually. During Okonkwo's exile, Obierika supports him by
selling his yams and taking care of his property. Obierika also visits Okonkwo in his motherland
and shares the news regarding the arrival of white Europeans. In the end, Obierika mourns
Okonkwo's death and blames the white colonists for his demise.

Why does Willy reject Charley's job offer in "Death of a Salesman"? how does Willy look at Charley?

Willy has too much
pride to accept Charley's offer of a job, yet Willy regularly goes to Charley when he needs
money to make ends meet. Although Charley is incredibly patient with Willy, Willy gets
exasperated with his neighbor because he doesn't seem to appreciate Biff's athletic ability when
Biff is in high school. Willy even insults Charley on several occasions when Charley is just
trying to make conversation such as when Charley asks Willy how to go about putting up a
ceiling. A gifted carpenter, Willy just retorts, "A man who can't handle tools is not a
man." Charley is never rude or abrupt with Willy. He even tries to tease Willy into a good
humor from time to time such as when he tells Willy that "Ebbets Field just blew up."
Willy, however, has little sense of humor.

Willy must respect Charley because
Charley has a successful business, but Willy is reluctant to admit he isn't doing well until
Howard fires him. Even then, though, Willy turns down Charley's offer of a job. Willy simply
can't allow himself to be obligated to Charley for more than $50 or so a week because Willy is
always hopeful that his business will get better---that is, until he makes the decision to take
his life. That decision seems to be the only choice that he sees to help his family. Willy
cannot understand how Charley, a man who doesn't seem to have what Willy thinks is necessary for
success--personality--can be so successful.

What are the issues concerning disputes over real estate or personal property rights?

The major
disputes that involve land use generally revolve around the tension between the needs of the
public and the individual's right to property.

The 5th Amendment states that
a person's property may not be taken without the due process of law or without compensation.
There are those who argue that the government is effectively taking our property away when it
regulates the way we can use that land. Let us say, for example that I could sell my property
in a single-family residential neighborhood to a developer who would like to build an apartment
building. The government's regulations would prevent me from doing this. When the government
does so, one can argue that it is taking away the value I could have gotten from the developer.
In addition, we can say that the government is taking away my right to do as I wish with my
property.

My right to do what I want with my property, then, comes into
conflict with the needs of the community. The other homeowners in my neighborhood have an
interest in keeping the neighborhood residential, but that clashes with my right to dispose of
my property as I wish.

Friday, June 13, 2014

How Are Winston And Julia Betrayed

andgot involved
in an affair, an act which the Party prohibited. The Party ideals advocated for hatred and
banned promiscuity among its members. This means that they were doing something wrong and if
caught they would be eliminated. They therefore sought to keep their involvement clandestine and
Winston rented a room on top of a junk shop owned by Mr. Charrington, the individual who had
previously sold him a diary. The two continue to meet in this room where they discussed very
serious matters including their intention to join the Brotherhood, an outlaw group led by
Goldstein, enemy of the people. They later met OBrien who recruited them into the Brotherhood.
However, during one of their secret meetings in the rented room, Julia and Winston were
arrested. They were betrayed by Mr. Charrington who was actually an undercover member of the
Thought Police and OBrien who was a devoted Inner Party member. Ironically, following their
arrest, Winston was tortured by OBrien himself in a bid to cure him. During an unplanned meeting
between Julia and Winston they both admit to having given in and betrayed their
love.

What makes Okonkwo a static character? What details establish static and round characters in Things Fall Apart? I am writing a 10 page paper and am...

Static
characters do not experience a transformation, and their personalities remain the same
throughout the narrative. Static characters also maintain the same perspective throughout the
story and remain unchanged. One could label 's character static because he remains resolute,
callous, and aggressive from the beginning to the end of the story. Okonkwo fears that he will
become like his unaccomplished father and overcompensates by acting hostile and intolerant.
Okonkwo is scared to be viewed as weak, which is why he participates in 's death, and his
violent nature leads to his demise.

Okonkwo interrupts the Week of Peace by
beating his wife and is exiled for seven years after accidentally killing a boy during a funeral
ceremony. Okonkwo also ruins his relationship withand refuses to accept the fact that his
village of Umuofia is rapidly changing. Tragically, Okonkwo tries to fight European colonialism
with violence by beheading a messenger and commits suicide before...

Thursday, June 12, 2014

What is the main tone of Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat?" This is for a literary analysis of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe; my theme is

Your
definition of tone is accurate. I think that the difficulty with 's "" is that his
tone is ironic.

The definition ofis the difference between what we expect to
happen and what really happens. The narrator starts by eliciting our sympathy, along with
establishing himself as a reliable narrator.

The narrator tries to convince
the reader that the occurrence of every day incidents lead to his fate, even when he stabs the
cat (Pluto) in the eye. By the time he kills the cat, the reader is
beginning to seriously suspect that what the narrator is saying is not
entirely accurate.

The narrator soon becomes an
unreliable voice; we discover he is in jail waiting to be executed, but it
is not until later that we realize he has committed murdersomething we may not be totally
prepared for. This is another "swoop" the plot takes as the narrator weaves his tale,
even as he reports the image of the cat hanging from a noose burned onto his house's wall (which
the author...

Is the relationship between George and Lennie one of friendship, or does George only feel obligated to take care of Lennie? What evidence can you find...

andare
friends, but because of Lennie's mental handicap, George does primarily take on a caretaker role
with him. Evidence of George's caretaking can be found througout the novella. One example would
be George's careful coaching of Lennie before they arrive at the ranch:

Now, lookIll give him the work tickets, but you aint gonna say a
word. You jus stand there and dont say nothing.

George
also carries Lennie's "work card" to make sure it won't get lost.

At the ranch, George is sufficiently unnerved by Curley that he again coaches Lennie on
how to behave. He tells Lennie that Curley is the type of person who will make trouble for him,
and then get him "canned" or fired because he is the boss's son. George tells
Lennie:

Look, Lennie. You try to keep away from him, will
you? Dont never speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the
room.

George promises Lennie to ask Slim for one his
puppies. George also takes care of Lennie by telling him over and over the story of what life
will be like when they own their own farm.

At the end of the book, George
takes on a very sad caretaking function when he shoots Lennie to save him from Curley's
vengeance.

In Kindred, why do you think Octavia Butler chose to write a book about time travel to discuss the history of slavery throughout the United States? In...

This is a great
question. I must admit, when I first heard about this book, I did think it sounded rather
strange to have a sciencebook about time travel discussing slavery in America! However, let us
consider what Butler achieves through such a topic. We, by following Dana, are forced into a new
realisation of the brutality of slavery and in particular the way in which ethics often had to
be compromised to ensure survival. In Dana we see a woman who tries to live her life from the
moral standpoint of a twentieth-century black feminist. This is something that, as she continues
to be drawn into the past and to stay there for ever greater amounts of time, she is unable
to...

How do Montresors name, attire, coat of arms, and family motto establish his character?

The name,
Montresor, in French, means "my treasure." This is ironic because it is his treasure,
namely "a pipe of ... Amontillado" which he supposedly keeps in his vaults, that he
uses to lure Fortunato into his trap. One might also infer that Montresor's treasure is his
reputation, which he believes Fortunato has somehow injured. It is this perceived injury which
motivates Montresor to get his revenge against Fortunato.

Montresor describes
his family's coat of arms as, "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a
serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel." He clearly sees himself as the
golden foot in this image, crushing Fortunato, who is represented by the serpent. The
implication is that Montresor believes that he is the hero and Fortunato the villain. He
believes that the crime he is about to commit is justified, because Fortunato, like the snake in
the coat of arms, has tried to injure him. Furthermore, he believes that the crime he is about
to commit is necessary, as Fortunato's "fangs" are "imbedded" and thus need
to be removed.

Montresor's family motto is "Nemo me impune
lacessit," which translates as, "Nobody harms me with impunity." This suggests
that Montresor is a very proud, vengeful man. For every perceived injustice done to him, he
feels that he must respond in kind. This motto, in combination with the family crest, is the
justification he uses for the cruel crime he commits against Fortunato.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

What is the symbolic significance of 2+2=5? I am trying to prepare an essay addressing what the symbolic significance of 2+2=5is and how it affects...

The
illogical math problem symbolically represents the Party's control over reality, which is a
primary aspect of their totalitarian regime. The Party employs various means of oppressing and
manipulating the population, and reality control is one of the most significant ways they
maintain complete authority over the dystopian society.

The Party
successfully controls reality by continually revising, destroying, and fabricating historical
records in order to make the Party seem omniscient. The Party members are also required to
practice doublethink, which is the ability to hold two completely
contradictory thoughts simultaneously while believing both of them to be true. The wide use of
paradoxes and strict control over language is another means of reality control. From the Party's
perspective, completely orthodox, obedient Party members can firmly believe that two plus two
equals five. By believing this illogical math problem, the citizen has allowed the Party to
successfully form and manipulate their reality.is not one of the Party members who believe this
lie, writing,

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus
two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. (, 103)

Overall, the illogical math problem symbolically represents the Party's control over
reality and is used as a gauge to assess a Party member's orthodoxy.

Monday, June 9, 2014

About Anse Bundren: On p.193, Armstid says, Well, thatll be the last theyll ever see of now, sho enough. Come Christmas time theyll...

In
addition to what the other educators have shared, I'll argue that Anse's complete helplessness
and uselessness as a person make him need other peopleand for those people,
such as his neighbor, Tull, to feel needed by someone is an extremely powerful
emotion.

Let's clarify Anse's neediness by finding some examples of him being
completely helpless on his own.

First, here he is, finding it a great
annoyance that he has to put on his own shoes:

He puts his
shoes on, stomping into them, like he does everything, like he is hoping all the time he really
cant do it and can quit trying to.

And here he is,
looking like he can't dress himself properly:

Anse's
wrists dangle out of his sleeves: I never see him with a shirt on that looked like it was his in
all my life. They all looked like Jewel might have give him his old ones.

Next, here's Anse being completely oblivious to his own
helplessness, repeating his mantra as he claims, again, that he doesn't want to owe anyone for
their help, even though he's constantly accepting it:

I
wouldn't be beholden, God knows.

And what do others make
of Anse's total helplessness, his complete dependence on others? Sure, they're annoyed, but at
the same time, they can't resist it. They have to help. They're drawn to his
neediness.

Here's Armstid, commenting on the ineffable quality of Anse's that
inspires others to help him, even when they don't want to, even when they know they'll regret
it:

Because be durn if there aint something about a durn
fellow like Anse that seems to make a man have to help him, even when he knows hell be wanting
to kick himself next minute.

I'd argue that what Armstid
is touching on here is, again, Anse's neediness.

When others need us, we feel
valued, important, empowered, and deeply connected to the person in need. According to the 2007
study cited below, feeling needed by and useful to others is not just a powerful and positive
emotion for us but may also be associated with living longer lives.

In other
words, feeling needed is essential to our humanity and to our existence.

I
suggest that this feeling is what inevitably draws characters like Tull and Armstid toward
helpless people like Anse.

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Please help me design a talk show about face-threatening acts including the concept of losing face, saving face and other things. It is better if it...

I am going
to assume that this is a talk show on the radio because that makes it easier to have guests who
participate only for short times.

My show will start with the host giving
something of a short . The host will introduce the topic for the day. They might say something
like Good morning, everyone. Today we are going to be talking about face: how you lose it and
how you can save it. This is something that is important for all of us in our everyday life.
We know how much it hurts to lose face and we could all use some tips on how to avoid that kind
of situation.

Then I would have my host welcome their first guest. This
guest is an expert on face who will be participating in most of the show. The host will welcome
the guest, establish the guests...

Sunday, June 8, 2014

What is the point of view in Kincaid's "Girl"?

I would like
to qualify Mshum's answer. She is
right, of course, that there is no narrative presentation of
setting,
description, or , but the implied setting of this story is very important.
Clearly,
the advice given to the daughter suggests the implied island setting
as well as its values and
routines. Critics suggest that the mother actually
symbolizes the repressive British
Colonialism, and that interpretation also
depends on the understanding of the island setting.
Students doing a close
reading of this story should go through it and cite specific clauses that
do
suggest its setting. Another possibility to consider is that instead of a , the story
could
be considered the girl's . Would the mother actually say all these
directives at once? It is
possible, of course, but it's also possible that
the girl hears all this advice in her head as
she reviews things her mother
has told her and other things she's observed in her mother's
behavior and
puts it all together.

What will be a good topic in describing the poem "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop"

A good topic
to treat Bishop's "" with is transformation.

The fish doesn't
fight with the speaker, and the speaker doesn't think much of it to begin with. She goes
through and relates an unemotional, objective description of the fish which includes faded
skin, lice infestation, bloody gills, and even the fish's entrails: hardly a flattering
depiction...

Saturday, June 7, 2014

What is the point of the novel The Lovely Bonesby Alice Seabold? May you also include quotes from the story to prove your point. Thank you.

One of the
major themes in 's has to do with the power of love to guide the process
of grieving and healing. When the novel opens, the reader learns immediately that Susie Salmon
is already dead. As the novel unfolds, Susie's family is shown at various points in their
grief over Susie's death and then grappling with the knowledge that she has been murdered.
Susie's father Jack takes Susie's death particularly hard and goes through every possible method
to try to find her body and her killer. He continues this struggle even after the authorities
have given up much hope. Some might argue that Jack becomes obsessed with his search for the
truth and that he is not allowing himself to accept Susie's death. However, as time moves on,
his love for Susie takes over him and he begins to process his grief so that he can move on with
his life.

Similarly, Susie is caught in the "in-between." She
cannot move on because there are many things that she has left undone, namely her unrealized
love for Ray. She regrets that she never got to have a first kiss, so she takes over the body
of Ruth so that she can come back to kiss Ray. After this expression of love, Susie can move on
into the afterlife.

So, The Lovely Bones has to do with
the power of love to aid in grief and healing.

What is the summary for chapters 18€“20 in The Shakespeare Stealer?

An
in-depth summary of each chapter follows:

Chapter
18: Widge walks into the prop room, where he finds locked trunks. He begins
searching through the trunks in order to find the script. He only finds weapons, shields, and
props that resemble human remains. Soon after, he hears footsteps approaching that go to lock
the theater. It is then that Widge realizes he is locked in the room for the night. He decides
he will not try and break open the locked trunks, as itll be obvious he stole the script if he
gets caught. He manages the rest of the night with no food or water and wakes up in
the...

In Romeo and Juliet, explain three doubts that worry Juliet before she drinks Friar Lawrences potion.

As she is
about to drink 's potion, 's first doubt is that the poison will not work ("What if this
mixture do not work at all?") and that she will awake in the morning and have to marry .
Thinking of this eventuality, Juliet places a dagger by her side, and says, "this shall
forbid it," implying that if the poison does fail to work, she will stab herself upon
awakening, rather than marry Paris and be without .

Juliet's second doubt is
about the intentions of Friar Lawrence. She worries that he has deliberately given her "a
poison" to kill her. She speculates that perhaps he wants her dead "lest . . . he
should be dishonour'd" because he married Juliet to Romeo without the permission of the
parents.

Thehere is that Friar Lawrence has given her a poison, for as he
states in act two, scene three, "Poison hath residence and medicine power," meaning
that a poison is simply the wrong dosage of medicine and vice versa. Friar Lawrence, of course,
believes that the poison he has given to Juliet is in the right dosage and will prove to be a
medicine of sorts, but at this point in the play, neither he nor Juliet (nor indeed the
audience) can be absolutely sure.

Thirdly, Juliet worries that she will
"wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem" her. She is worried that she will
be "stifled in the vault" and suffocate before Romeo can get to her, or, if she
doesn't suffocate, she worries that she will be awake among the spirits of her "buried
ancestors," and, "hearing them, run mad." She doubts her own mind in these
possible circumstances, and she worries that in her possible madness, she will "dash out
(her) desperate brains" with a bone from one of her ancestor's dead bodies. At this moment,
Juliet imagines that she sees the ghost of the murderedwalking towards her, and only then, out
of fear, does she finally drink the potion.

Friday, June 6, 2014

What are the ways the narrator in "The Black Cat" feels depraved? In other words, how does the theme of human depravity play into the story and how...

Depravity is defined as an action or series
of actions that are morally corrupt or even wicked. In s , the narrator, who is never named,
describes several actions which he himself identifies as depraved. The development of his
depravity is both interesting and frightful; readers do see a true descent into depravity as the
narrator, sentenced to be executed the next day, describes the events that brought him into his
present state.

A brief summary of the overall plot can help to illustrate how
depravity plays into the story and its overall development. The story is told in flashbacks as
the narrator is awaiting his execution. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my
soul. He narrates not only the events that led to his conviction; he also explains his childhood
and the early years of his marriage. He describes himself as gentle to a fault. So gentle, in
fact, that he was mocked for his kindness as a child. My tenderness of heart was even so
conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions.

He marries, and he and
his wife share a deep love of animals. His wife buys him a black cat named Pluto, whom he
describes as an animal of the most agreeable kind. In spite of his affection for the cat, the
narrator commits two acts of violence against it: he carves out its eye, and then he hangs it
from a tree by a noose. A fire soon after destroys their house and the narrators attention is
called to witnesses seeing a soot mark that resembles a cat with a noose around its neck right
above where his bed had been. The narrator explains the mark away, and, calm once again, he
seeks the company of another cat. Soon, a cat that looks strikingly like Pluto, except for a
large patch of white fur on its chest, seems to offer the narrator an opportunity for
redemption. The cat loves him and follows him diligently, but this loyalty only activates deep
rage within the narrator. One day, while he and his wife are walking to the basement, the cat
runs down the stairs and almost trips the narrator, inciting him into a rage. He tries to kill
the cat with an axe, but his wife stops him. Instead, then, he turns the axe on her and kills
her.

He hides her body behind a wall in the basement and believes that he has
successfully concealed his crime. As an added bonus, the cat seems to have been so frightened by
the murder that it runs off, leaving the narrator free of its constant attention. Four days
later, though, the police come to the door and ask to investigate. The narrator,
overly-confident in a manner similar to the narrator in , invites them in and raps on the wall
with his cane to show the solid construction of the house. It is at this point that a sound is
heard from behind the wall. The police tear it down and reveal the corpse of his wifewith the
black cat sitting on the top of her head.

Throughout his retelling of the
events that led him to his prison cell, the narrator cites several examples of his depravity,
and a clear development of the depravity is visible to readers. First, he describes how his
drinking, to which he refers as the Fiend Intemperance, changes his personality slowly but
surely. I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of
others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her
personal violence. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition. I not
only neglected, but ill-used them.

His depravity continues when, in spite of
acknowledging specific feelings of affection still remaining for Pluto, he commits an act of
violence against the cat after it nips his hand.

I seized
him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his
teeth. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul
seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence,
gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife,
opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the
socket!

The narrator knows that he has acted in a morally
corrupt, depraved way. The next day he is remorseful, but, as time passes, he slips deeper into
his alcoholic stupor and he forgets how upset he was by his own actions. Rather than use the
violence against Pluto as an impetus to change his behaviors, his depravity grows. He describes
his depravity in detail this time, which shows its development and escalation.

And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the
spirit of PERVERSENESS. Of this spirit philosophy takes no account. Yet I am not more sure that
my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human
heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the
character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly
action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?.... It was
this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itselfto offer violence to its own natureto do
wrong for the wrong's sake onlythat urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I
had inflicted upon the unoffending brute.

He hangs Pluto
from a tree with a noose, and the cat dies. The narrator isnt acting in a drunken rage, and the
cat has done nothing to trigger an angry reaction; the narrator kills him for no reason other
than, as he says, because he knows he should not.

Readers might think that,
following the murder of his cat, the narrator might have been horrified enough by his actions to
stop drinking and possibly reevaluate his life. The addition of a house fire that destroys
everything only supports this notion, as well as the narrators desire to adopt another cat in
order to make up for his actions against Pluto. He wants this opportunity for redemption so
badly that the fact that his new cat resembles Pluto down to the same missing eye (except for
the one difference of the white patch of fur on the new cats chest) doesnt bother him, though he
does notice quite specifically when the white patch seems to morph into the shape of a hanged
cat.

A descent into depravity, though, is hard to stop once it starts, and
its not long before the narrator feels the same stirrings of rage and violence toward the new
cat.

For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising
within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; butI know not how or why it
wasits evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed. By slow degrees, these feelings
of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.

The fact that his hatred is directly proportional to the cats increasing love for him
only serves to push the narrator into deeper depravity. Conscious all the while of his thoughts
and actions, the narrator knowingly gives in to his impulses and surrenders any remaining hope
of his goodness.

...the feeble remnant of the good within
me succumbed. Evil thoughts became my sole intimatesthe darkest and most evil of thoughts. The
moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from
the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned
myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of
sufferers.

The full extent of his depravity can be seen
in the final incident with his wife as he murders her. He flies into a rage at the cat for
nearly tripping him and tries to kill it, but his wife stills his hand. Readers see his
depravity in his intention: he doesnt kill his wife out of a lack of impulse control or because
he is in a blind rage; he kills her because she tried to stop him from killing the
cat.

Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than
demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon
the spot, without a groan.

A story that begins with a
character on death row will almost always have clear examples of moral corruptness, of
depravity, throughout, and The Black Cat is no exception. Readers see the tragic descent into
depravity of a character who was supposedly born docile and kind, but, for a variety of
reasonsthough he names alcohol, this is certainly not the only causeloses this part of himself
in an ocean of rage and evil. His first act of violence, cutting out Plutos eye as a retaliatory
action for Pluto biting him, leads the narrator deeper and deeper into the world of moral
corruption and depravity, the end result of which is the murder of his loving wife and,
ultimately, his own scheduled death.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

What is the major conflict in The Color Of Water by James McBride?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

The major conflict in has to do with racism in America and how it
affects all the characters as they attempt to go about their lives.

's book
is about the life of his family, including his white mother and black father. At a time when
interracial relationships socially taboo, they faced a lot of prejudice for deciding to be
together. Though her children are half-black and half-white, they face the same prejudices that
other black people in America face as they grow up. They also at times experience issues due to
living in poverty.

Eventually, James finds out that his mother had a
difficult past: her father was abusive. She grew up in Virginia when things were still
segregated and became pregnant in a relationship with a black boy, which wouldn't have been
accepted at all by the community. She moves to New York, has an abortion, and finds that she
prefers spending time around the black community there. She finds them more accepting and
welcoming to her....

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Alexander Hamilton Political Views

Hamilton
understood that the government set up under The Articles of Confederation had serious flaws
which would undermine the stability of the new nation. As a result he was instrumental in the
ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution advocated federalism, which divided
power between the federal and state governments. It gave specific powers to the federal
government, and certain powers reserved for state authority. Known as a 'Federalist' Hamilton
along with John Jay and James Madison wrote a series of articles under the pen name of 'Publius'
to argue their political position. These essays are now recognized collectively as The
Federalist Papers and are considered the finest example of Hamilton's political views
on ratification of the Constitution, as well as, a comprehensive overview on his
politics.

What are the inciting incident, exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement and climax in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles?

byis considered to be one of the best tragedies every written. It
chronicles a very short period of 's current life; most of thecenters around what happened
before the play begins and what happens after he finds out the truth about his past.

As the play opens, the priest and the citizens of Thebes have come to the royal palace
to beg their king, Oedipus, to do something to alleviate their serious problems.

For our city, as you yourself can see,
is badly shakenshe
cannot raise her head
above the depths of so much surging death.
Disease
infects fruit blossoms in our land,
disease infects our herds of grazing cattle,

makes women in labour lose their children.
And
deadly pestilence, that fiery god,
swoops down to blast the city, emptying
the
House of Cadmus, and fills black Hades
with
groans and howls.

The king listens, assuring them he has
already taken...

Explain how supply chain management decisions affect strategy?

Kyleigh Macejkovic

Supply chain management (SCM) is the active management of a supply chain (all the
activities included in generating a product or service) with the aim of achieving maximum net
value, enhancing customer satisfaction, leveraging the assets at disposal, etc. The supply chain
includes raw material procurement and storage, inventory, process, finished goods all the way to
the consumer end. SCM activities include product development, sourcing, production, logistics
and the information system needed to coordinate the above.

SCM decisions
are generally...

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

What happens after water comes from the hole?

Without a specific chapter to go on, I am making an educated guess that this question
is asking about an event sequence that begins at the end of chapter 40. During this chapter, the
men have returned to their raft, and they are sailing again. Unfortunately, their path is
blocked by a really big rock. The men decide that blowing it up is a good solution.

Well then, the powder, an explosion! Lets mine the obstacle and blow
it up!

They successfully blow up the obstacle, and they
quickly realize that their carelessness with the charges has now allowed the sea to rush
through...

What were the US's war goals during WWI?

The
official stated reason for enteringby
American leadership was to make the world a freer place.
There is no doubt
that American patriotism and ideals had an impact on the decision to go to
war
but we cannot ignore the actual incidents that also led to the decision.
The US actually had no
interest in entering World War I in the beginning. The
American public and politicians wanted to
stay out at first. We can say that
the US was encouraged to enter the conflict by the
developments that took
place in 1914 and 1915.

The death of 120 Americans on
a
British ship destroyed by the Germans in 1915 and the discovery of Germany's plans
to
cooperate with Mexicans for American territories caused the US to enter
World War I.

It was discovered that Germany was trying to
get Mexico to join World War I on the side
of the Germans. In return, they
were promised the territories which they had lost to the US

previously.

These incidents caused a shift in the view of the
American
public, who eventually supported the decision to enter World War
I.

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