What is the summary of the poem "No Men are Foreign" by James Kirkup?

Kirkup's
1966 poem "No Men are Foreign" focuses on the commonalities between all people. The
poem's speaker states of foreigners:

They, too, aware of
sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by wars long winter
starvd.

We are all united, the poet says, by sharing the
same planet, as well as by work, by sleep, and by love. The speaker does not identify himself
with any nationality, tribe, or group: he could be anyone from anywhere reaching out to fellow
humans and expressing what we all share. This may reflect the fact that Kirkup, although
English, did live in various parts of the world, including Asia and America.

The poem becomes an expression of anti-war sentiment as it states:

whenever we are told

To hate our brothers, it is
ourselves

That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

When Kirkup ends the poem with the line:

no men are foreign, and no countries strange

he echoes John Donne's idea that "no man is an island."
We are all one, bonded together in a common humanity.

Today we would most
likely use the word human or humankind instead of "man" or "men" (also, we
tend to call people from other parts of the world not foreigners, but internationals), but
Kirkup means to include all genders in his poem. His simple, straightforward language makes a
clear point: since we are all one, we should try to get along.

What is the tone of Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

's "
" is one of his many Gothic short stories. As with most American Gothic literature, the
tone (or mood) of the story is one of the primary elements that make it Gothic. In this story,
prisoner of war is in a torture chamber. Due to the first person point-of-view, the
audience...

What are the differences between Julia and Winston in their understanding of the Party? Part 2

cares more
about having fun and enjoying her life (her little trists with all her man-friends) than she
cares about bringing down the Party.  If fact, Julia thinks 's ideas about rebellion and his
faith in the Proles is a silly waste of time.

Winston is obssessed with the
past (the paperweight,the old songs, books, pens, inventions) and the beauty of the way things
were before the Party took over and subjected everyone to their overly controlling rules and
laws.  The Proles, to Winston, are an excellent example of this.  They are free enough to sing
and enjoy life beyond the stifling control of the Party--it is with these people who can love,
sing, move around and speak with whomever they please that Winston puts his faith.  They are the
ones who will rebel and overthrow the Party.

They both rebel in their own way,
but they do not have the same ideas about how that should occur or what should happen once the
Party no longer exists.

From Into the Wild, who was Chris McCandless?

A vigorous
debate broke out in the early 1990s over the question of who Chris McCandless was. This debate
helped inspireto expand his popular 1993 Outside Magazine article on
Chris's death into a best-selling book. As readers argued about Chris's death, two factions
emerged: those who thought Chris was an arrogant fool who went into the wilderness unprepared
and deserved to die, and those who understood Chris as a sensitive visionary whose death was an
unfortunate byproduct of following through on his idealsideals that made him deliberately reject
some of the precautions he was condemned for not taking.

Krakauer falls
openly in the latter faction: he writes the book out of his identification with and sympathy for
Chris and his quest. He presents Chris as an idealistic, if angry, young man searching for his
identity. His Chris is a passionate reader of writers like Tolstoy and...

What does the singing prole woman symbolize and represent for Winston and Julia?

The singing Prole
woman fromhas a number of
symbolic meanings forand .

First of all, she
symbolizes
fertility. This is shown clearly by her physical description, like her

"mare-like buttocks," which makes Winston question how many children she has
given
birth to. Winston comes to the conclusion that although she has been
"blown up to monstrous
proportions" by the number of children she has
birthed, she is a beautiful woman.

In addition, the Prole
woman also symbolizes freedom. This is shown most clearly by
the fact that
she is singinga pastime which the Party does...

What is the most intellectual religion today?

This is a
question that is difficult to answer. With that said, I would say that the most intellectual
religion in the world today is Christianity for several reasons. 

First,
Christianity has been around for a long time. For this reason, there has been much reflection
and study. Many of our best universities have been started by Christians for the study of
Christian theology. 

Second, Christianity also encompasses much of Judaism,
which actually predates Christianity and is also very intellectual. From one perspective,
Christianity has taken some of the best intellectual fruits of Judaism.

Third, Christianity has shaped the modern world - even from a global
perspective. 

How can you tell that Jem is concerned about his father in chapter 14? Cite a specific quote from the text to support your answer.

In
this chapter, rumors are beginning to swell around town concerning 's defense of Tom Robinson, a
black man on trial for rape. The threat to the reputation of the family greatly concerns Aunt
Alexandra, and this causes some friction between her and Atticus, her and the children, and then
Atticus and his children.

responds with disrespect to one of Aunt
Alexandra's questions in this chapter, and this leads to Aunt Alexandra telling Atticus that he
needs to let Calpurnia go.

, the older and wiser sibling, pulls Scout aside
and asks her to try to find some peace with their aunt. Scout is ruffled and asks her brother if
he's trying to tell her what to do. Jem's comment shows his growing concern for their
father:

He's got a lot on his mind now, without us
worrying him ... It's this Tom Robinson case that's worrin' him to death

Jem understands that Atticus is in a precarious position. He is
trying to protect his children and Calpurnia. He is trying to maintain peaceful familial
relationships between his sister and his children. And he is trying to defend to the best of his
abilities an innocent black man despite the overwhelming dissatisfaction of the majority of
townspeople. Though he maintains his composure at home, Jem realizes the worry Atticus carries,
and this statement shows that he perceives how complex Atticus's position is without Jem and
Scout adding to the angst.

What is the main idea of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles and what is the play about?

The two
main ideas of the play are
these: the first is that that we are blinded by our own pride. This
is called
, and it is what Oedipus suffers from. The second idea is that we can't escape
our
destiny.

It is foretold that Oedipus will murder his
father and marry his
mother. To try to prevent this fate, his parents place
the infant outside to be exposed and die.
He is, however, saved and raised in
Corinth. He has no idea who his real parents are. He thinks
they are the
people who raised him. Therefore, when he hears the prophecy, he flees Corinth
in
horror.

On the road, he meets and kills his father,
not knowing who he is.
When he arrives at Thebes, he solves the riddle of the
sphinx and becomes king. He marries his
mother Jocasta, not knowing she is
his mother. When a plague comes to Thebes because of his
sinskilling his
father and marrying his motherOedipus has too much hubris to imagine he could
be
the cause of the plague. He has to accept finally that he has not
been...

In story "Charles," why does Laurie begin to cooperate at school?

Laurie adjusts to kindergartens

expectations and begins to behave better when the teacher asks him to help

her.

When Laurie first starts kindergarten, he is a
real
terror.  His parents have no idea that he is misbehaving, because they
never talk directly to
the teacher and the teacher never talks to them. 
Although Laurie misbehaves at home, they never
seem to make the connection
that he may be misbehaving at school.

Laurie
makes up a
little boy namedthat he tells his parents behaves badly at school.  His
parents
believe every word of it, and even seem to enjoy the stories of the
bad behavior Charles does at
school.  They do not notice that Laurie is a
problem at home and may be the one who is the
problem at school. 

It is clear from the beginning that Laurie is a brat.  He
is rude to
his parents and they do not seem to be able to control him.

At lunch he spoke insolently to his father, spilled his baby
sisters
milk, and remarked that his teacher said we were not to take the name
of the Lord in
vain.

As his journey to
kindergarten continues, Laurie
brings home stories of how Charles is
punished.  Obviously the teacher does not ignore his
behavior.  He is
spanked  several times, forced to miss recess, and made to to stand in a

corner during storytime for being disruptive, rude, or violent. 

In
each
case, Laurie does not appear to be resentful or contrite.  Then again,
he is telling his parents
that someone else is the one being punished, so he
may not want to give too much detail.  Just
making up a story shows that he
has some feelings about.  It is his way of trying to communicate
with his
parents.

Lauries parents worry that Charles is a bad influence
on
their child.  Laurie comes home one day saying that "Charles" and the
whole class had
to stay after school.  The incident seems to upset him more
than the other punishments, but he
continues to get in trouble.  His mother
misses the Parent-Teacher meeting, so she still knows
nothing. Too bad!  If
she had gone, she would have learned what was going on that much

sooner.

Laurie seems to realize that he is not going to get kicked
out of
school for being bad.  About a month into kindergarten the teacher
begins to ask him to help
her, and he grimly determines that he might as
well.  He gets into trouble a few more times,
but less often, and when
Lauries mother goes to the meeting, his teacher confirms that he is
mostly
better.

We had a little trouble adjusting,
the
first week or so, she said primly, but now hes a fine little helper. With
occasional lapses,
of course.

It seems
that Laurie has accepted his lot.  He
is in school to stay.  He is not going
to get himself kicked out.  He seems to like being the
teachers helper. 
There are only so many ways he can be bad.  With the occasional relapse, he

has settled in to behaving himself and being socialized to school.

This story
is a good example of an ironic twist ending.  You do not
realize the first time you read it that
Charles is not real.  There is a lot
of judging going on by the mother.  Of course, it is easy
for the reader to
judge her too.  If you look carefully though, you will notice that she is

probably just overwhelmed.  She has a young son who is a handful, and a baby too.  The
reader
would do well not to make the same mistake she does, and be too
judgmental of her
either.

You roll 2 dice. Find P (even number on one die and 1 on the other).

Each
die has 6 sides, each of them has the same probability to show itself (of course, this
probability is 1/6). There are 3 even numbers on each die, 2, 4 and 6. Also, the outcome of the
second die does not depend on the outcome of the first one.

There are two
disjoint possibilities to get the desired outcome: 1) 1 on the first die and 2, 4 or 6 on the
second and 2) 1 on the second die and 2, 4 or 6 on the first.

Each of these
disjoint events has the same probability of `( 1 / 6 ) * ( 3 / 6 ) = 1 / 12`(we multiply 1/6 and
3/6 because those events are independent). Now we have to add 1/12 and 1/12 because these two
events are disjoint. This way, the final answer is 1/6.

Another way is to count how many outcomes are suitable out of 36 possible: (1,2),
(1,4), (1,6), (2,1), (4,1), (6,1): 6 of 36, i.e. 1/6 again.

In The Crucible, are there any quotes that highlight a woman as less powerful in the community of Salem?

In
Salem's patriarchal Puritan society, women do not occupy positions of authority and are expected
to be passive, quiet, and obedient. Women are oppressed individuals and expected to live up to a
certain moral standard or risk their reputations. There are numerous examples throughout the
play where women are portrayed as less powerful in Salem's community. In act one, Reverend Hale
arrives and Abigail confesses that Tituba was conjuring spirits in the forest. As a black female
slave, Tituba has no rights and is a voiceless individual with no authority. When Reverend Hale
begins to question her about being in contact with the devil, Tituba vehemently denies the
accusation and Reverend Parris says,

You will confess
yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba! (Miller, 44)

Reverend Parris's comment illustrates Tituba's powerless status in
Salem's community, where she is completely subjected to the will of distinguished men like
Reverend Parris.

Miller once again...

Why is the quote "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" so important? This quote is found in...

Shakespeare writes about love a lot.  This
quote is about that theme, but what I like about this quote is that it doesn't support the
"love at first sight" notion.  In fact, the heroictakes sight completely out of the
love equation.  Shakespeare is telling his audience, through Helena, that love is a matter of
the heart.  It is more dependent on an emotional bond rather than a physical attraction.  The
idea is nothing new to Shakespeare.  He writes about the same thing in a couple of his sonnets.
  explains how his mistress is definitely not attractive, but he still loves her deeply.
 

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as
rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Sonnet 141 is along the same lines; however, it specifically mentions the eyes just
like Helena does in the play. 

In faith, I do not love
thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note; 
But 'tis my
heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view is pleased to
dote....

As a general rule of love, I feel that the quote
is teaching an important lesson.  In terms of the play, the line foreshadows events to come.
 Most notably, the line foreshadows Titania falling in love with Bottom despite the fact that he
has a donkey's head.  

Another example of how this quote shows true love
being blind can be found through the character of Demetrius. When the play begins, he's in love
with Hermia, and Helena indicates that the main reason is because Hermia is prettier.  By the
end of the play, Demetrius has found his true love in Helena.  He was looking for love with his
eyes; however, he wasn't finding true love.  As soon as he stopped relying on his eyes, he was
able to discover the love that he and Helena share.  

What is the relationship between Meursault and his society in The Strangerby Albert Camus? I mean how they view each other, is there any connection...

In
by , Meursault and his society are at great odds with each other.  At the
beginning of the novel, Meursault learns of his mother's death, and he engages in a vigil to
show his respect.  However, after this, Meursault appears to be unmoved by the death of his
mother, and others around him think that he should show a deeper sense of mourning.  Meursault
does not see why it is necessary to show overwhelming sad emotions--he cannot change the course
of nature, and he is not shocked by the death of his mother.  Eventually, Meursault is put on
trial for murdering a man and is convicted not because he is presumed guilty, but more because
he has not shown sympathy for his own mother's death.  The society in the novel expects people
to behave in a particular way upon the death of a loved one, and Meursault's actions do not
follow this line of social normality.  Thus, the relationship between the two is fraught with
tension, and one of the themes of the novel emerges--the existence of the absurd among accepted
social norms.

What are six common features of religion?

Many
scholars have attempted to provide comprehensive yet concise descriptions of what is common to
all religions. I think that Huston Smith, a Doctor of Religious Studies, has best summarized the
features of religion without some sort of bias or favoritism towards a particular tradition. He
describes these features as the following:

First, religion offers
explanations. Who are we? Why are we here? What do we do now?seeks
to answer big questions like this as well as questions about more minute aspects of life.
Religious explanations often cover topics like eschatologywhat happens after death or at the
"end of the world"and cosmologyhow the world (or universe) is organized and how it
came to be. 

Second, there is a sense of mystery
in religion. Some faiths explicitly address the sense of mystery (as in Catholicism) while
others may be more subtle (as in Buddhism.) As humans, our experiences and understandings are
finite by the very nature of what it is to be a human being. Religion is empowering for many in
that it transcends the finite boundaries of human experience and offers a means for negotiating
that which we cannot know.

Often times this negotiation occurs by way
of ritualthe third feature of religion. Rituals are prescribed,
repeated behaviors with desired and intended outcomes. Ritual and habit are somewhat similar in
that they are repeated behaviors which offer a sense of comfort. Where ritual differs from habit
is that ritual is understood to be in accordance with some supernatural force and it is carried
out with specific intentions. 

Ritual can give way
to tradition, and may even transform through tradition. For
example, the Christian baptism stems from the Jewish mikveh. The mikveh is used for ritual
immersion (or bathing) in order to be spiritually pure. When Jesus Christ was baptized, he was
undergoing a form of mikveh initiating him into the Priesthood. Today, most Christians are
baptized to initiate them into the faith either by immersion or a sprinkling of holy water.
Notice how this tradition began with total bodily immersion and an intent of marking someone as
spiritually pure and has since transformed into only requiring a sprinkling of water to mark
someone as of a particular spiritual identity.

All religions have a sense
that there is a right way to live and act, and if we do this, we reap some sort of spiritual
benefit. In Christianity, this is often called grace, and this is
the term Smith uses. However, I feel using the term "grace" is Christo-centric and
seems to exclude religions which do not employ a concept of God. Some other examples of
"being right with all that is" would be the concept of dao in
Daoism (Taoism) and kamma (or Karma) in Buddhism.

Finally, all religions have a sense of authority in
regards to religious matters. In some cases, the people with religious authority are priests who
undergo years of training and education to fulfill their role. In other faiths, emphasis is
placed on an internal authority and personal understanding of how to live in the
world.

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According to O'Brien, what makes a martyr? Why are there no martyrs in the Ministry of Love?

According to
, martyrs are created when men are
killed out in the open while they are still unrepentant. 
Because they are
dying because they will not abandon their true beliefs, their death is
glorious
and later in history others take up their cause.  The Ministry of
Love makes sure there are no
martyrs in two ways.  First of all, their
brainwashing is so complete that "all the
confessions that are uttered...are
true...(they) make them true".  The confessors have had
their minds altered
to the point that they truly believe that
"two-plus-two-equals-five"; they
are emptied of themselves and filled instead with the
Party and Big Brother. 
Secondly, they are "lifted clean out from the stream of
history".  The basis
of the Party's method is to literally rewrite history.  Since the
Party
controlls the media, and, for all intents and purposes, memory, in their altered
version
of the truth, no one will know about men who have been martyred
because there will be no record
of them ever having
existed.

How would you compare Bruno's and Gretel's characters in the different ways they treat Maria? What are some surprising things you find out about...

Judging by
their treatment of Maria, Bruno and Gretel are certainly different: Gretel seems to feed off her
father's new superiority and harshness, while Bruno is more sensitive like his mother. Unlike
Gretel, Bruno strives to understand more deeply his surroundings and new situation, and as he
talks with Maria, he learns of her past.

In Chapter 6, Bruno lies on his bed,
looking at the ceiling, bemoaning the poor condition of the house in comparison to his Berlin
home. Maria enters with folded laundry and he says,

"I expect you're as unhappy about the new arrangement as I am...Everything here.
It's awful, isn't it? Don't you hate it, too?"

As a
servant, Maria knows not to offer her opinion. Instead, she asks, "Don't you like it
here?" Bruno replies that it is "awful"; there is no one with whom
he...

What are some examples of racism in the story To Kill a Mockingbird?

In , Lee
reveals the predominant prejudice throughout the town by illustrating Cecil Jacobs's comments
about Atticus. Cecil announces on the playground that "s daddy defended niggers" (Lee,
77).

In ,and Scout walk past Mrs. Dubose's home when she begins to make
derogatory, racist comments about Atticus. Mrs. Dubose reveals her racist personality by telling
Jem,

Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he
works for! (Lee, 105).

In , the Old Sarum bunch arrives
at the Maycomb jailhouse the night before the trial and attempts to lynch Tom Robinson. Their
actions reveal their racist ideology. Fortunately, Atticus prevents the mob from lynching Tom
Robinson.

In , Jem and the children are sitting outside of the courthouse
discussing the backgrounds of various citizens when Jem mentions that Dolphus Raymond has mixed
children. Jem goes on to comment that mixed children are "real sad." He tells
Scout:

They dont belong anywhere. Colored folks wont have
€˜em because theyre half white; white folks wont have em cause theyre colored, so theyre just
in-betweens, dont belong anywhere (Lee, 163).

Following
Tom's unfortunate death, Scout reiterates the town's racist reaction by saying,

To Maycomb, Toms death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and
run. Typical of a niggers mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind
first chance he saw. Funny thing,mightve got him off scot free, but wait? Hell no. You know how
they are. Easy come, easy go. Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he
kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneers
mighty thin. Nigger always comes out in €˜em (Lee, 244).

In , Scout recognizes her teacher's hypocrisy when she mentions that people in America
do not believe in persecuting anybody. However, Scout recalls overhearing Miss Gates make a
racist comment while leaving the courthouse. Scout tells Jem:

I heard her [Miss Gates] say its time somebody taught em a lesson, they were gettin€˜
way above themselves, an the next thing they think they can do is marry us (Lee, 251).

In "Robinson Crusoe," the Bible and the gun were Crusoe's guarantee for survival. Why is that?

Crusoe
rescues a gun and much ammunition from the shipwrecked boat, and this allows him to dominate the
island, hunting for game and protecting himself from predators, including the cannibals he meets
years later and frightens by firing this weapon.

The Bible provides Crusoe
with a moral compass that helps him make sense of what is happening to him. For the first time,
he develops a real Christian religious faith. He begins to understand God's...

What significance can you see in the fact that Grendel attacks at nignt in Beowulf?

There are two
general answers to this. The
simplest and most literal answer is, in this time of primitive
technology, a
night attack is most...

What are some examples of Kathy's personality from Childhood and personality during Adulthood in Never Let Me Go that show that she has changed...

One of the most defining
characteristics about Kathy as a charater and how she develops from childhood to adulthood is
the way in which she becomes more and more accepting of her lot in life and the kind of fate
that awaits her. Whereas when she was at Hailsham, her life was filled with jealousy and envy of
Ruth and her possession of Tommy, what comes to characterise her life later on is a stoical
acceptance of what must be, although this is often tinged with the capacity of thinking of other
possible futures. For example, examine the following quote that describes Kathy's acceptance of
life and what it brings her:

We all complete. Maybe none
of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

The underlying aspect of life for Kathy is the way that she knows
she will complete some day, just like every other clone (and human). Other issues, such as
understanding the value of our life and its experiences, and feelings that we haven't had enough
time, are completely secondary to this reality.

If we examine another aspect
of Kathy's character we see that when she looks back on the kind of life she and Tommy and Ruth
experienced, she is very introspective and thinks about what could have been done
differently:

It never occurred to me that our lives, until
then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was,
I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like
that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then--who knows?--maybe we'd have kept a
tighter hold of one another.

Kathy learns through the
experiences that she undergoes as part of becoming an adult, and recognises the value of
clinging on more tightly to those you love in a vain attempt to try and have more time together
before accepting the inevitable.

"""Sorrow was not allowed to enter the palace." What picture do you get about the palace of the prince from these words?""

From these
words, I imagine a palace isolated
from poverty and misery, surrounded by high walls. Inside, I
imagine
beautiful gardens and a large, lovely palace.would be surrounded by young,
attractive,
healthy people whose job it would be to make sure he stayed
cheerful. The prince would know
nothing but good times with plenty of food
and shelter and all his material needs taken care of.
He would not be aware
of the poverty, suffering, and sadness in his kingdom, as that might take

away from his joy. It's easy to imagine, too, that the people around him might want to
keep him
from knowing about poverty to preserve the status quo and their own
privileges.

As the prince himself describes it, he lived
in such a high-walled palace that he
didn't know what tears were (because of
how sheltered his life was). He states he was pleased
with his
life.

It is only after he has died and turned into a statue in
the
center of the city that the prince realizes what suffering is. He has
been thrown out of his
life of illusion, and when the Swallow meets him, he
is crying tears for the pain he now can
see. As a statue, however, he can do
nothing about it, as he might have done when he was still
alive. This why the
Swallow is so valuable to him now.

His story is

reminiscent of what is told about Buddha, who was a wealthy prince kept from all
knowledge of
suffering. When he learned of suffering, he renounced desire and
spent his life doing
good.

What are the details about the transition from the Classical Era to the Romantic Era in the arts.

Although the terms
"Classical" and "Romantic" are often used to describe periods in artistic
history, they are also approaches to art.  Art of the classical approach will emphasize orderly,
balanced forms depicted in an objective, rational way.  Classical art is often associated with
the Age of Reason, also known as the Enlightenment, when thinkers and philosophers such as John
Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and even Ben Franklin were ruminating in writing on the
possibilities of the human mind and questioning...

Similarities Between WW1 And WW2

While
there were certainly many differences between World War I and , there were also many notable
similaities worth examining. This list could be very extensive, but I will mention some of the
more striking similarities below.

For starters, the motives of the aggressor
nations were largely based on imperialistic nationalism. Trying to conquer new territories and
control more resources out of a sense of nationalistic entitlement brought major powers into
direct conflict with each other.

In terms of the waging of the war itself,
both conflicts are marked by their exceptionally high casualty rates. In both cases, the
different militaries took advantage of and developed new technologies that...

What are Thoreau's views on conformity and nonconformity?

Like his
good friend and fellow transcendentalist Emerson, Thoreau believed that conformity was most
often the path to misery. He argued that nonconformity was the way to find your truest and most
joyful self. Thoreau asserted that the mass of humankind live in "quiet desperation"
because of conforming to society's dictates.

In ,
Thoreau recounts the joys of living a nonconformist life in a tiny cabin on the shores of Walden
Pond. His goal was to simplify his life as much as possible in order to get at the essence of
living, unencumbered by the baggage of material goods.

In this book, he
writes to praise nonconformity to the world's ways. He writes that the joyful life is the
highest good a person can achieve, though it is not one understood by society:

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and
life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more
immortal,that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily
to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.

Thoreau uses the dullof dusty and rutted roads to describe
conformity. Then, mixing metaphors, he describes an alternative path of standing on the deck of
a ship to see the world's beauties. This path of nonconformity is preferable to sitting closed,
like an ordinary person, in a cabin below:

How worn and
dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I
did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the
world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

Thoreau makes one of the most eloquent pleas for nonconformity in
all of literature, in my opinion.

In "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," why does the older waiter like to keep the caf© open late into the night?

The old
waiter likes to keep the cafe open until late at night because it provides a refuge or safe
haven for people against the nothingness and darkness of the outer world. It is quiet, without
music, and customers can sit at a table, not have to stand at a bar. It is clean, well lit, and
orderly; a cut above a bodega. As the older waiter puts it:

"Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the
caf©."

"Hombre, there are bodegas open all night
long."

"You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant caf©.
It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the
leaves." 

The old waiter shows he has empathy for
others who are lonely. When the younger waiter says that the deaf old man who is preventing them
from closing the cafe can drink at home, the old waiter says it is not the same to be at home.
The younger waiter agrees but he has his own life to live, he wants to get to his wife, and he
cannot relate to the deaf man drinking brandy by himself. The young waiter says:

"I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He
should have killed himself last week." 

But the old
waiter has a deep well of humanity that understands the human need for a little warmth and light
in a meaningless world.

In act 4 and 5, How does Henry Heggins get " some of his own " back in act 4 and 5?

When we hear
the phrase of "getting some of one's own" means the same as to get a taste of your own
poison, or getting a taste of your own medicine. In Higgins's case, it means to finally come to
the realization of how his actions affect Liza and those around her. 

Once
again, we find a man so selfish and into himself that he still denies that he has caused any
damage to Liza by treating her like an object, and not a person. He also uses the...

Write a page about "Health Care and Social Inequality" in the United States.

If you are
going to write a page about health care and social inequality in the United States, there are at
least a couple of ways you could go about it.  First, you could write about ways in which social
inequalities contribute to people having different levels of health care.  Second, you could
write about the ways in which health care contributes to social inequality in the US.

On the first topic, you could write about the ways in which poorer people have a
harder time getting access to good health care.  You could write about the fact that
we...

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What are the pros and cons of juries in the English legal system?

There are
pros and cons to the English system of jury trials. The original English system of jury trials
dates back to King Henry II, who had twelve lawful and free men hear a case and issue a verdict.
These juries acted on previous knowledge that they had.

Eventually, this
system was replaced by one in which the jurors heard the case at the trial. There are advantages
and disadvantages to this system. One advantage is that it ensures that people who are peers to
the person charged with a crime will hear the case. As juries have become more diverse, this
means a more representative portion of the community will serve on the jury. Another advantage
of jury trials is that community members determine a persons guilt or innocence. This means that
the government cannot abuse its powers when prosecuting. Since both the prosecution and the
defense usually screen jurors, it reduces the likelihood of jury bias. It also means that people
who serve on juries tend to become more aware of the legal process in the country in which they
live.

A disadvantage of the jury system is that it may be hard to find
impartial jurors. There are times when cases are so widely publicized that it becomes hard to
find people who have not already formed an opinion on the case. Additionally, a jury that is
representative of the community, may, by nature, have its own biases. People from a specific
group may be more sympathetic to a defendant who is from that group. It is difficult to
determine what a good mix of jurors really should be. Finally, sometimes a jury may be asked to
rule on a case that is outside of their experience.

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How does knowledge of operations management assist a company in the decision making process?

Operations management knowledge is always crucial to the decision-making process.  A company
that is making a product needs to know whether to make more or less of the product, whether the
product can be made with less expensive materials or less labor costs, whether machinery is
doing its proper job, whether a new technology is worth investing in, whether there
is...

Why are there so many different methods of performance appraisals?

This is a
great question. There are many different methods of measuring performance for several reasons.
Let me give you a few of the nontechnical ones from a commonsense point of view. 

First, it is not easy to measure performance. So, the more a person has to measure
performance, the more accurately performance can be measured. For example, when measuring
performance, do you measure productivity, speed, wise decision making or something
else. 

Second, in connection with the above point, different aspects of
performance are measured with each appraisal. Moreover, since all people are different, certain
appraisal are better than others depending on the person, who is being evaluated. 

Finally, there are many different tasks in any workplace. So, to measure each task
requires different appraisals. For more technical information, see the reference link
below.

How would you describe the Knight?

The
knight at first appears to be a bad
character. The tale begins with the knight raping a woman he
finds alone in a
deserted place. No explanation is given for his behavior, and the sense is
that
such crimes are all too common. It is only when the many people petition
the king that the
knight is brought to trial.

When the
knight receives his sentence, which is
to travel for a year and a day trying
to find out what women want most, he obeys and travels far
and wide in search
of this wisdom. When he finds the aged fairy, who reveals to him that women

want to be masters, he is relieved and agrees to do something for the fairy in
returnmarry her!
The knight is revulsed but honors his word. But when it is
time to consummate the marriage, he
balks. The fairy makes him a deal: he can
enjoy her as she is, old and ugly, and have a happy
marriage, or she can
become young and lovely, but disgrace the knight and make him a cuckold. In

exasperation, the knight decides to let her choose! By...

In A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, how does the hunter address Phoenix?

First, the
hunter calls Phoenix "Granny." She is very old and this might have been a term of
endearment. But given the hunter's overall treatment of Phoenix, the term "Granny" is
probably intended with condescension. He does help her up, but he also belittles her. He treats
her like a child: 

I know you old colored people! Wouldn't
miss going to town to see Santa Claus! 

In his ignorance,
he assumes she is simple-minded. It would never occur to him that she is a clever, determined
individual. Phoenix manages to steal a nickel that falls out of his pocket. When he points the
gun in her face, she is stoic and shows her courage. He then lies and says he'd give her some
money if he had any. Everything about the hunter's behavior with Phoenix shows his pathetic
attempts to assert his superiority. He helps her up but treats her like a child. He pointlessly
aims his gun at her to test his ability to intimidate. His rudeness is based upon racism and
ignorance. Phoenix treats this like the any other hindrance on her journey: just another
obstacle to overcome. 

What are some examples of personification in the story "The Veldt"?

or the
attribution of human characteristics to
non-human entitiesis largely used within 's short story
"" in order to
provide a sinister tone to the events which take place within the
"HappyLife
Home" that has been purchased by the Hadley family.

The

other educator who responded to this question has done quite a thorough job of
outlining
instances of personification within the story, but I will elaborate
in order to provide more
context.

After Lydia and George
first encounter the lions voraciously feeding
on a dead animal in the the
African "veldt" that has been manifested by the nursery,
the couple is faced
with the problem of dealing with their children's obsession with the room.

Lydia has begun to regret purchasing the house, which in meeting her initial desires
of
relieving her of parental duties has also rendered her useless to her
children, as she vocalizes
by saying,

That's just it. I feel like I don't belong
here. The house is wife
and mother now, and nurse for the children. 

The personification of the house as having assumed the marital and

motherly responsibilities is quite disturbing, and foreshadows the couple's
later
demise.

After Lydia and George discover the children
are disobeying their
orders to stay away from the nursery, it is noted
that:

Although their beds tried very
hard, the two adults couldn't be rocked to sleep for
another hour.

Again, we are given a sense of artificial,

human-like comfort being provided by the house.

A psychologist who
comes to
assist George and Lydia decides the couple spoils their children,
which has resulted in
resentment now that nursery access has been blocked.
When observing the room, he
states,

No
wonder there's hatred here. You can feel it
coming out of the sky. Feel that
sun. 

The house i no
longer just
acting. It is also feeling and expressing emotions.

The
sense
that the house is a living thing is once again reaffirmed when Peter
begins screaming,

"Don't let them do
it!" cried Peter to the ceiling, as if
he was talking to the house, the
nursery. "Don't let Father kill
everything."

The children clearly regard the house
as a living, breathing entity,
and the suggestion that to power it down would be to "kill
it" only makes
that concept more alarming. Ultimately, this sense of agency is manifested

when the lions projected by the house kill the parents.

What are 3 quotes from The Catcher in the Rye that suggest Holden has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

One would
be:

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying ...
to feel some kind of good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was
leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave
a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. (1.8)

In here he is trying to make a connection with others, but his PTSD
makes him fear making connections, and leads him to describe his feeling as "hatred"
when in fact it is fear.

Another good one is:

Then I went over and laid down...

In A Raisin in the Sun, why do you think Mama changes her mind and gives Walter the insurance money?

AfterYounger initially informs her family that she spent the insurance money to buy a
house in Clybourne Park,Jr. sinks deep into depression and begins drinking every day at the
Green Hat. Walter Jr. feels as if his mother has completely shattered his dreams and cannot
forgive her. Lena is disturbed and feels guilty for overlooking and stifling Walter Jr.'s
dreams. Lena tells Walter Jr. that she had been treating him like the rest of the outside world
and says that she hasn't ever wanted anything more than her children to be happy and content.
She then tells Walter Jr.,

"There aint nothing worth
holding on to, money, dreams, nothing elseif it meansif it means its going to destroy my
boy." (107)

She then proceeds to give her
son...

How does Mr. Pignati treat John and Lorraine during their first visit?

John and
Lorraine's first visit
happens in chapter five after they have conned Mr. Pignati over the phone

into giving them money for a fake charity. They show up to collect the money from the
poor old
man and he treats them with kindness and respect. He also treats
them like adults by offering
them some homemade wine. This suggests that he
does not realize that they are teenagers. He then
engages in small talk about
his wife being in California, followed by explaining to them how he
memorizes
ten things at once through mental pictures. Once John reminds Lorraine that they
have
stayed too long chatting, she asks for the money. Mr. Pignati seems sad
for them to leave, which
suggests that he is very lonely and doesn't usually
have many visitors. In an effort to have
future visits, Mr. Pignati invites
the two kids to go with him to the zoo sometime. Just before
the kids leave,
Mr. Pignati also shows them his pig collection:

"The table had pis all over it. And the shelve had pigs all over them. There
were
pigs all over the place. It was ridiculous. I never saw so many pigs. .
. There were glass pigs
and clay pigs and marble pigs" (46).

Mr. Pignati is
so kind to John and Lorraine on
their first visit. Not only does he treat them like adults, and
with great
kindness, he also shares different aspects of his life from his memory game, to
his
love of the zoo, and his personal pig collection. He is so nice, that the
kids actually wind up
visiting the zoo with him in chapter six and a good
friendship begins.

Foreshadowing In The Cask Of Amontillado

There are
several specific moments ofin the text. Montresor gives both his audience and Fortunato hints as
to his real motives throughout. As they are moving through the catacombs, Fortunato begins
coughing violently & Montresor feigns concern, telling him they will turn back for his
health.

Come, I said, with decision, we will go back;
your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I
was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I
cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi

Enough, he said; the cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill
me. I shall not die of a cough.

Truetrue, I replied; and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you
unnecessarilybut you should use all proper caution. A draught of this Medoc will defend us from
the damps.

Fortunato claims he will not die of a cough,
& Montresor replies "True-true." He is telling the reader and his victim that he
is well aware of how Fortunato will die, for Montresor himself will cause his death. This is
just one moment where Poe combines verbaland foreshadowing to build the suspense in the
story.

One other example of foreshadowing is Fortunato's costume. He is
wearing the traditional garb of the fool for the Venetian carnival. Poe describes it
thus:

The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting
parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.

Thus, Fortunato is dressed as a jester, a clown. This foreshadows
the role he will play in the story-Montresor's fool. As he becomes progressively more drunk, he
becomes sillier and more pathetic, fulfilling the clown role.

What is the domain of the function f(x) = sin^-1x

Domain is a set
of values that a fuction can be defined. So the fuction provide a value for each...

How does the meaning of Montresor's name in "The Cask of Amontillado" relate to what "makes" him seek revenge upon Fortunato?

Montresor
means "my treasure" or "my valuables." Taken in tandem with other family
emblems, it would indicate that what he values is family pride. Since Montresor suffered a
thousand injuries patiently and then felt compelled to seek revenge when Fortunato
insulted him, we can assume that Montresor's sense of honor is his
treasure. As Montresor puts it:

The thousand injuries of
Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed
revenge.

In other words, Montresor can bear being
harmedperhaps economically or even physically, by Fortunatobut what he can't stand is having his
pride hurt. Somehow, Fortunato has belittled or acted superior to Montresor or his family in a
way that is unforgivable.

This connects well with the family motto,
"Nemo me impune lacessit." This motto promises revenge, saying that no one who harms
the family will escape punishment. The family crest shows a foot crushing a snake that has its
fangs imbedded in a heel.

If Montresor is to be...

What happens the night in the forest?

Brown left his
"Faith" and entered a journey, a journey that he does not want to take but one which
he (we) must (all) take.  We have absolutely no way of knowing what "actually"
happened ... whether the journey was a physical journey where he actually wound up a strange
satanic service in the forest, or whether it was an imaginary journey (as though the first
option weren't :)), something he dreamt when he fell asleep in the forest.

The fact that we do know is that he came to see people differently; he came to see them
as much more evil than they probably were because his original vision was totally unambiguous: 
he saw people as  either good or bad, but they weren't a combination of each.  Since they
couldn't meet up with his expectations, he rejected them ...
including his faith/Faith.  As a result he died a miserable and unhappy man.

So what happened was that a young man was fronted with the ambiguous reality of his
friends and neighbors, was unable or unwilling to accept it, and became a miserable man as a
result.

The enemy of the good is the perfect.

 

 

In what way is Winston the "last artist" in 1984?

could be
called the "last artist" in for several reasons. First, he is
old enough to have memories from the time before the Party came into power. He recalls, for
example, fragments of "Oranges and Lemons," a traditional English nursery rhyme in
which the church bells of London talk to each other, and he tries hard to preserve this memory.
He is drawn as well to...

Identify the three famous figures of speech that Edwards develops in the the fourth through seventh paragraphs. What things is he comparing?

Three famous
images from this section of "" are as follows:

Slippery ground: Edwards alludes to the Bible when he says
people walk on slippery ground. The material world we depend on can fail us at any timewe are
only kept from slipping and falling down by the will of God, and God has no reason, beyond his
own desire, to keep us from falling. If we do slip and fall, we will slide in the pit of
hell:

he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on
the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is
lost.

Fires of hell: Perhaps
the most famousin the sermon is that describing hell. The hellfires are ready to burn us and
consume us if we fall:

the pit is prepared, the fire is
made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and
glow.

The rotten bridge:
Life is like walking over a rotten bridge. At any moment, we might fall through it into the
flames of helland we can't even see where we are going. As Edwards puts it,

men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are
innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these
places are not seen.

These vivid visual and spatial
images emphasize how close hell is to ordinary people and how terrifying it is. Edwards used
these images to encourage people to seek a proper relationship with God
immediately.

Distinguish between accounting costs and economic costs.

The Economic
cost is the monetary value of all resources employed in the course of business. It also refers
to the opportunity cost of the inputs used in the enterprise. For example, a business that
operates from a building it owns forfeits the rent that it would have otherwise received if it
rented out the building. In this case, the opportunity cost is the rent forfeited due to
business functions. Economic costs also focus predominantly on implicit costs. Implicit costs
are costs that the business incurs from the use of owned resources. A monetary value for the
resources can be determined, but the resources are not paid for in monetary terms.

Accounting costs, on the other hand, are based on explicit costs incurred by the
business. Explicit costs are costs incurred in normal market transactions. For instance, wages
paid to workers are an explicit cost. Explicit costs are incurred in the purchase of productive
resources.

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Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?

In
's , Belle is the beautiful young woman to whom Scrooge was once engaged.
Scrooge manages to see Belle again when the Ghost of Christmas Past reveals a pivotal moment
from their relationship.

Belle is described as a "fair young girl in a
mourning dress... in whose eyes there were tears." Belle tells Scrooge that he has too much
fear of the world and that everything important to him has receded in the face of his desire to
be beyond the world's reproach. Belle claims that Scrooge's noble aspirations have been left
behind and that he is only interested in gaining. 

The two had entered into
their engagement when they were both poor. Since Scrooge has developed an obsession with
accumulating wealth, he has changed dramatically. Belle, thus, decides to end their engagement,
citing his "changed nature" and telling him that she is still full of love for the man
he once was. 

This is significant to Scrooge because it shows him exactly
what his greed has cost: the love of his life and his only chance for marital
bliss. 

Where does Dana find herself when she regains consciousness?

The
first time that Dana travels through time, she wakes up near a river. It is 1815, and Dana is an
African-American woman in the Southern United States. She comes upon a young, white boy drowning
in the river. She pulls him out of...

What evidence does Thoreau offer for this statement from Walden: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"? What are his solutions?

In the
paragraph of that precedes the one from which this quote comes,discusses
slavery in literal and figurative terms. He offers the example of a teamster (driver of a team
of horse) who works for a squire and is caught up with the daily realities of feeding and
watering the horses rather than being concerned with his own destiny. Thoreau discusses the
importance of a person's self-opinion as the factor that "determines, or€¦indicates, his
fate."

He argues that people become resigned to their situation because
they lose hope and spend their time covering up their true, desperate feelings. Even animals,
such as muskrats, may be more courageous than some people. We cannot avoid our emotions through
mere distractions because we still must go back to work:

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is
confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to
console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair
is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in
them, for this comes after work.

Thoreau continues by
saying that people confuse necessities with desires. We should attend more closely to "what
are the true necessaries and means of life" and not be swayed by the "mere smoke of
opinion." What we learn from our own experience is more valuable than heeding the advice of
others. He goes on to advocate living simply in order to find out what are the real
"necessaries":

It would be some advantage to
live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to
learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain
them.

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What are conflicts that Stella and Blanche deal with in A Streetcar Named Desire?

Stella and Blanche deal with a great many conflicts throughout the story.  I'll break
the conflicts up by character, and then I'll further break them down into internal and external
conflicts.  

I'll start with Stella Kowalski.  I believe that Stella's main
internal conflict is her struggle with knowing that her sister, Blanche, doesn't approve of her
life, residence, relationship with Stanley, etc.  She feels beholden to both her sister and her
husband, but Stanley and Blanche are on complete opposite ends of a spectrum.  For most of the
play, Stella fervently supports and protects...

What does the setting of Chapter II of The Scarlet Letter tell the reader about the Puritans and Hawthorne's view of them?

Chapter
II of continues Hawthorne's description of the Puritan town.  In the
opening paragraphs he hints to why there is such a large gathering in front of a prison door. 
He points out that the reader could assume that someone was guilty of a horrible crime and being
prepared to be executed; however, he is quick to point out that the reader shouldn't make such
an assumption.  As these people, the Puritan people, are a much harder group of people, the
cause for their gathering could be for a smaller crime.  He lists possible crimes, which are
designed to show the Puritans as quick to punish and unable to forgive.

It might be...

Discuss different methodologies of teaching. Experience of English Teachers sought.

Since you
seem to be asking about teaching English, I would argue that using actual literature is very
important.  This includes novels and nonfiction, short stories and poetry.  English teachers
also need to directly teach writing, and not simply tell students to
write.

Where is the climax of the story, "Hunters in the Snow"?

Theis when
Frank and Tub stop to warm up, and
they start bonding with each other. Both of them are totally
unconcerned
about Kenny, who is cold and...

Think about the rhetorical devices in King's speech. Which device had the strongest effects?

Martin
Luther King, Jr., used many rhetorical devices in his "I Have a Dream" speech,
including tone, , figurative language, repetition, , and allusions. To choose one device that
made his speech most effective is difficult; each person would have to decide which one touches
him or her the most. 

For me, one of the most moving parts of the speech is
near the beginning where he combines anto the Declaration of Independence with theof the
"promissory note." This metaphor calls upon ethos (appeal to authority), logos (appeal
to reason), and pathos (appeal to emotions) all at once. 

In a sense we have come to our nations Capital to cash a check. When the architects of
our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall
heir.

This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the
inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

What were the factors that led to the spread of authoritarianism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s? Be specific in your answers.

In the 1920s and
1930s, authoritarianism arose in three important countries: Russia, Italy, and Germany. Each of
these countries turned to a charismatic leader who became a dictator. World War I (1914€“1918)
played an important role in undermining the traditional governmental structures in these three
nations. Economic collapseespecially in Germanyfacilitated the rise of Nazism in that
country.

The first country to succumb to authoritarianism was Russia. Russia,
which had been ruled by the Romanov family for three hundred years, suffered terrible losses
during WWI. The country simply could not handle the demands of a modern war and fell apart under
relentless German military pressure. Also, the evil monk Rasputin personified the widespread
corruption that the Russian people loathed. The Czar's government fell in 1917 and it was
eventually replaced by the world's first Communist regime after a civil war.

Italy had fought on the winning side during WWI, but most Italians believed their
country had not been rewarded sufficiently for its sacrifices. After the war, Italy was plagued
by social and political unrest as well as labor strikes. Benito Mussolini, a veteran and former
Socialist, took advantage of Italy's turbulence to seize power in 1922. Mussolini's Fascists
eliminated all political rivals, and he became dictator of Italy for two decades.

Germany emerged from WWI a defeated and humiliated country. It had to accept the harsh
Versailles Treaty, and it had to pay reparations to the victorious powers. Germany also
experienced severe economic problems, including hyperinflation. By the early 1930s, there were
pitched battles in the streets between Communist and Nazi forces. Like Mussolini a decade
before, Adolph Hitler sensed his opportunity and became chancellor in
1933.