Give some examples of solute and solvent.

Solute and
solvent are the two components of a
solution.

A solvent is a substance that
dissolves the
solute. And the solute is the substance being dissolved.

To
identify them, take note that if the subtance present in a
solution undergoes change of state,
it is the solute. However, if neither of
them change state, the reagent in smaller amount is the
solute.

Below are some examples of solutions. The solute and solvent are

identified.

Example 1: Mix salt and water to form a
solution.

When salt is dissolved in water, it changes from
solid to liquid. While the water
remains as liquid.

Hence,
in this solution, the salt is the solute and water
is the solvent.

Example 2: Vinegar

To make a vinegar,
acetic acid
and water are mixed together. These two substances are both liquid. And when
mixed
together, both of them remains in liquid form. There is no change of
state. However, the amount
of acetic acid is smaller compared to that of
water.

Thus, the acetic acid is
the solute and the water
is the solvent.

What is the profession of Professor Lidenbrock?

Professor
Otto Lidenbrock is a geology professor from Hamburg, Germany who is also is the curator of a
mineralogy museum. It is his purchase of an Icelandic saga that inspires the journey to the
center of the earth. The journey comes about because within the manuscript the professor finds a
note written in code by a sixteenth-century alchemist.

Lidenbrock is a
somewhat mador at least obsessiveprofessor and insists that all else must stop until the message
is deciphered. Finally, his nephew Axel cracks the code to discover that the message says that
by descending through a certain crater in Iceland, one can get to the center of the earth. This
excites Lidenbrock, who immediately organizes a trip to Iceland and, from there, deep into the
bowels of the earth. His expertise in geology and mineralogy will prove helpful on the
journey.

Which different parts of the United States does King mention in his speech?

King
mentions many parts of the United States in his "I Have a Dream" speech. This is meant
to be sure that his audience realizes that the entire country has made equality a dream deferred
for African-Americans. 

The first specific mentions begin on the third page
of the speech, when he refers to "the Negro in Mississippi...and the Negro in New
York" (3), the Mississippi Negro not being permitted to vote and the New York Negro feeling
he has no one he can vote for. He then exhorts his audience to go back and change the situation,
specifically mentioning Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and "the
slums and ghettos of our Northern cities" (4).  He wants to make clear that injustice is
not simply a Southern problem, but a Northern one, too.  He references Georgia and Mississippi
again, saying he dreams that slave owners and the descendants of slaves in Georgia will be able
to "sit down together at the table of brotherhood' (4), and that even Mississippi can be
changed, into "oasis of freedom and justice' (5). He then mentions Alabama, a state with
"vicious racists" (6), as being capable of being transformed into a place where black
and white children can "join hands" (6).

As King wraps up his
speech, with hisof highs and lows, he talks about "the prodigious hilltops of New
Hampshire" (6), the "mighty mountains of New York" (6-7), "the heightening
Alleghenies of Pennsylvania" (7), "the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado" (7),
"the curvaceous slopes of California" (7), "Stone Mountain of Georgia" (7),
"Lookout Mountain of Tennessee" (7), and finally, "every hill and molehill of
Mississippi" (7). 

King has managed, with his references to North and
South and a list that sweeps coast to coast, to make sure that his audience understands that the
bell of freedom needs to ring in every part of the land and that the playing field of his
metaphor is smooth, with no greater burdens for some than for others. This is a wonderfully
crafted speech, and it still has great power to move today. 

 

How can the value of cos 15 be found without the use of a calculator. Which formula has to be used?

The value of
cos 30 is usually known to all students.

cos 30 = (sqrt 3)/2.

Now we use the formula for cos 2x, which is:

cos 2x = (cos x)^2 -
(sin x)^2

=> cos 2x =  2 (cos x)^2 - 1

Now substitute
15 for x here.

We have cos (30) = 2 (cos 15)^2 - 1

=> 
(sqrt 3)/2 = 2 (cos 15)^2 - 1

=> 1 + (sqrt 3)/2 = 2 (cos 15)^2

=> (1 + (sqrt 3)/2)/2 = (cos 15)^2

=> cos 15 = sqrt [ (1 +
(sqrt 3)/2)/2]

=> cos 15 = sqrt [ 1/2 + (sqrt 3)/4]

You
will most probably need a calculator to find the value of the square root here, but you won't
need one which has values of cosine stored in it.

Therefore cos 15 can be
calculated without a calculator as sqrt [ 1/2 + (sqrt
3)/4]

What is Jared Diamond's thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel? Specifically how does Dr. Diamond explain the development of European economic, military,...

Diamond
explicitly states that his book was written to answer a question asked to
him by his friend Yali concerning why the Europeans had so much more "cargo" (material
goods and technology) than the natives of Papua New Guinea. The central claim of the book is
that the reason for this is mainly an accident of geography rather than inherent differences in
the character of their cultures.

Diamond begins by pointing out that his
personal experience is that people all over the world are equally likely to be hardworking and
intelligent. He is opposed to the sort of racist views that tend to explain differences in
wealth and technology by arguing for innate differences in intellect among people of varied
ethnicities. Given that stance, he says we must search for another root cause of the differences
in the speed at which economies and technology evolved.

He finds the
explanation in geography. He argues that the key factor in differential development of wealth
and technology has to do with natural resources such as plants and animals that can be easily
domesticated. Also important is the existence of accessible east-west travel routes that allow
the spread of crops and domestic animals. In these matters, areas such as Egypt, Mesopotamia,
and other parts of Eurasia had major natural advantages over many other
regions.

Why did the old waiter want a "clean, well-lighted" place?

A clean,
well-lighted place holds at bay the "nada" that he perceives in life: "What did
he fear? It was not fear or dread.  It was a noting that he knew too well.  It was all a nothing
and a man was nothing too." "Nothingness" or "nada," which he repeats
over ten times, goes beyond loneliness, consisting of a sense of meaningless in the universe
akin to existential angst--a sense that there is no reason for anything,that there is no purpose
or meaning to life. Loneliness is the immediate cause of this, perhaps, and certainly living in
the "light" would mitigate the discomfort of being in the "dark," where one
in fact can see nothing.

In "The Open Window," what are some questions Vera asks Framton about the peole and her aunt?

As the story opens,
and we are given some crucial background information regarding Mr. Framton Nuttel and his reason
for sojourning in the countryside amongst strangers, Vera very astutely asks two questions that
quickly establish how much he does and doesn't know about where he is. If we look at the story,
whilst her aunt is getting ready to descent,...

How does the governor relate to the other branches of government?

State governors
play an important role in America's political system. They are chosen for four-year terms by
popular vote. Most states have term limits. A governor's wide powers include giving executive
orders, drawing up the state budget, and vetoing legislation.

A
governor's...

What risk does Nene take?

Nene
seems to take two risks in the story.

First, she marries Nnaemeka even
knowing that his father, Okeke, would not accept her easily into his life. It's a risk because
the father's prejudice could make her marriage, and her life, quite difficult--especially if
children enter the picture, which they do. As we see later in the story, her decision to marry
Nnaemeka also means that she experiences judgment and prejudice of other local citizens, not
just Okeke; she also has to deal...

Which parts of Candide would be most disturbing to a European monarch?

I think the
easiest and most obvious answer to
this question would be to point towards chapter 26 of
,
in whichturns his vision of arbitrary fortune to reflect on the monarchs

themselves. In this chapter, rulers are shown to be just as subject to these cruel turns
of
fortune as every other human in the book. Cruelty abounds everywhere, and
no one (not even
rulers) can ever be secure against those tragic twists of
fate.

Taken from a
personal perspective, one can imagine
the thought of being deposed or overthrown would be
greatly disturbing to any
given monarch. That being said, I suspect in most cases, any
particular scene
within Candide taken in isolation (even a scene such as

that depicted in chapter 26) would be less disturbing than the effect of this book when
it
is...

Why does Coelho open with the modified myth of Narcissus?

The
shortof sets up much of the novel that follows. It does not tell the
reader anything about the plot of the book; instead, it briefly introduces us to some of its
central themes.

Unlike the traditional telling of the myth of Narcissus, this
version dwells more on the vanity of the lake as well as that of Narcissus himself. The
Alchemist expresses that this is a lovely version, perhaps indicating that he feels that vanity
is a virtue rather than a vice. This book is about finding love and worth in yourself, something
that the lake has done. In this way, the prologue subtly introduces the reader to the ideas that
are developed later on. These include transformative journeys, love, and fulfilling one's
personal legend.

This version of the myth of Narcissus also shows the idea
that individuals are not solitary beings. Everyone and everything is part of a greater unity,
and in many ways, we are all reflections of each otherjust as Narcissus's beauty and the
lake's...

What would be a good thesis for Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"?

A
thesis statement should declare what the writer intends to prove, defend, or discuss throughout
the paper and make a claim that others might dispute. A thesis statement not only focuses the
attention on the primary topic but presents an argument to the reader, which the writer will
defend for the remainder of the paper. There are numerous thesis statements that one could write
to examine the various literary elements, themes, and writing techniques utilized byin his
classic poem " ." The poem focuses on a wealthy man named Richard Cory, who is admired
by the lowly workers he passes on the street, and it is told from the narrative viewpoint of the
poor townsfolk. Despite having presumably everything a person could ask for, Richard Cory dies
by suicide one evening. A relatively easy method for writing a thesis statement would be to
explore why Richard Cory took his own life or to elaborate on a prominent theme of the poem. The
following are...

Is the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" insane?

The
narrator of "" is what's called an unreliable narrator. This means that we can't be
sure that what he's saying is true; we simply can't take him at face value. Instead, we need to
read his words carefully and see if we can construct a plausible account of what happened. Very
few of us are trained psychologists, so we can only surmise as to his true mental
state.

The narrator starts by telling us that he isn't mad; but he does
acknowledge that some degree of psychological disintegration has taken place. We sense that the
narrator is reluctant to acknowledge madness because of the shame and stigma that such an
admission will bring. In reading the story, we need to remember that people with mental health
issues in the nineteenth century were often treated appallingly by society, so we can understand
why the narrator doesn't want to be tarred with the brush of insanity.

Yet
the narrator undermines his own case by his meticulous account of the killing of his wife and
the...

I need an answer regarding the Constitution. What is the principle of checks and balances?

The
principle of checks and balances is one
where the writers of the Constitution wanted to be sure
no branch of
government could become too powerful. Thus, there are actions each branch of

government can take to control the other branches.

There are many
examples
of checks and balances. Congress can pass a law, but the President
can control that power by
vetoing the law. If the
President...

What does Pearl represent and how does her temperament drive the action and the reader's understanding of The Scarlet Letter?

s name,
ironically, comes from the bible:  a pearl of great price. names her this because her birth
came at great price to her mother.  Hester says she was purchased with all she [Hester] had. 
Pearl is the living Scarlet Letter; the representation, in the flesh, of Hester and s sin. 
Hester does her no favors by dressing her in beautiful clothing, mostly red and very
noticeable.  When Pearl runs through the town, everyone notices her, some people point at her,
and she knows, even at a young age, that she is somehow different.  Not even the children will
play with her, as they have been warned that she is unbaptized and therefore somehow
evil. 

Pearls temperament drives the novels action.  In fact, it is usually
Pearl who acts as a catalyst for the action.  One example is in the Elf-Child and the Minister
chapter when Pearl is being quizzed to find out if she should be taken from Hester.  When asked
who made her, at first she refuses to answer, then the child finally announced that she had
not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew
by the prison-door.  This causes the gentlemen to judge Hester very harshly, and it also causes
Dimmesdale to defend Hester.  Later in the novel, every time she sees Dimmesdale, Pearl asks why
he has his hand over his heart.  The reader, too, would like to know the answer to this
question.  In a way, the reader and Pearl are in the same situation.  There are things going on
and we need answers.  Pearl finds these answers out for us.  It is Pearl who asks if the
minister will stand with them in daylight.  The reader also wants to know if Dimmesdale will
ever acknowledge his child in public. 

Explain the structure of the heart and lungs, including tissue types and cells.

I
will explain the structure of the human heart, including the tissues and cells, here.

The human heart is shaped roughly like a human fist and consists of four chambers: two
atria and two ventricles. The atria (plural; the singular term is atrium) are the chambers that
receive the blood, while the ventricles are the chambers that pump the blood in our body. The
two atria are the left and the right atria. Similarly, the ventricles are also classified as the
left and the right ventricles.

The right atrium receives the deoxygenated
blood from the body and passes it onto the right ventricle through the tricuspid valve. This
deoxygenated blood is passed to the lungs for reoxygenation and is received by the left atrium.
This blood is then passed to the left ventricle through the bicuspid valve and from there is
pumped to the rest of the body.

The primary type of tissues present in the
human heart is cardiac muscle tissues. These tissues contain a variety of cells, including the
fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, and cardiomyocytes. It is interesting to note that the
movements in the cardiac muscle tissues are involuntary, which means that they cannot be
controlled by us, unlike the skeletal muscle tissues. The heart also contains the pacemaker
cells, which generate electrical impulses that tell the cardiac muscle cells to contract and
relax.

Hope this helps.

Important quotes from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? I am required to add 2 quotes and explain them in 300 words. I read the book and...

"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother
go to the devil in his own way."

As with any
interpretation, this is subjective.  Therefore, I can only give you my reasoning for what I
believe this quote to mean.

Many people know that Cain killed his brother. 
It was...

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What do you think of this, opinions please? Truth? I wonder if the torch will help me, If it will ever guide me, I wonder if it can show me the...

I'm
certainly not a poetry expert either, but I agree with the previous poster and have a few
observations of my own.

I think you do have a poetic sensibility, as you
include some more subtle elements without overusing them--such asin "Mystery always
misguides me." (This is my favorite line, by the way--and I'd like it more if you left out
always, which is a little hyperbolic and really not necessary to your interesting
meaning.)

I thought you were off to a great metaphorical start with the idea
of a torch--but then you just kept moving.  I'm thinking truth as a torch, and am mentally
preparing for some comparisons.  Of course they never come.  Perhaps that's because it's not a
particularly apt , perhaps that's because it's forgotten in the mix of all the other
images...I'm not sure. 

One thing I do try to encourage any poetry writers
to do is to use their punctuation effectively.  Not all poetry utilizes punctuation, of course,
and nothing says it should.  If...

Are the women of Kung oppressed or controlled by men? Are men "dominated" by the women? Why?

In her book
Nisa, anthropologist Marjorie Shostak studies the life of the !Kung, one of
the last remaining tribes to subsist on hunting and gathering, rather than agriculture. In her
interviews with members of this tribe, who live in the Kalahari Desert, Shostak found that the
women did the majority of gathering food, which constituted most of what the people ate, while
the men did the hunting. The women were considered important to the tribe's survival, and there
was a great deal of equality between men and women. For example, men helped the women with
gathering, and members of both genders carried out child-rearing tasks.

It is
more difficult to figure out whether women are considered equal in marriage and sexual
relationships among the !Kung. Nisa, the subject of the book, tells Shostak about her many
lovers and affairs outside of marriage, and taking lovers seems widespread in the tribe. Nisa is
unrepentant about having lovers. However, men are also allowed to beat their wives for taking
lovers. One of Nisa's daughters is killed for having an affair. Therefore, while there is some
equality between men and women, women in the tribe are also subjected to great violence. In some
ways, the women of the tribe are oppressed by the men, but women also are able to show freedom
of choice (though they do not dominate the men).

What was the cause of the planet being in perfect order according to Charles Wallace?

When
"It" takes over Charles Wallace on the planet Camazotz, he says:

You see, on this planet everything is in perfect order because
everybody has learned to relax, to give in, to submit.

We know this is a false view of the planet that reflects the influence of "It" over
Charles Wallace. Earlier,...

What are summaries of chapters 22 and 23 of "Lyddie"?

Chapter 22 begins with a very depressed . She has been dismissed from the factory for
"moral terpitude." She is no longer Mr. Marsden's best girl. She no longer has the
ability to earn the money she has been so desperately seeking all throughout the book. Lyddie
takes some solace from knowing that Rachel and Charlie are in good hands. Lyddie tells Mrs.
Bedlow that she will be leaving, and Lyddie's initial plan is to go back to Triphena and work at
the tavern. She then goes to the bank and withdraws her entire savings. Next, Lyddie goes to the
book store and buys Brigid a copy of Oliver Twist . Lyddie is still
frustrated that she doesn't know what terpitude means, so she also buys a dictionary. After
discovering the word's meaning, Lyddie rushes home to write some letters, then rushes off to
find Brigid. Lyddie explains to Brigid that if Mr. Marsden ever steps out of line in a sexual
way again, Brigid is to mail the letter to Mrs. Marsden that explains everything that happened
in the...

How old is the narrator of "Araby" when he tells the story?

We are not
told the exact age of the boy who narrates "," but the story indicates he is at the
cusp of a transition from boyhood to adolescence. He goes to school, he plays games with the
other boys in the streets until dark, and he is under the thumb of his aunt and uncle. He cannot
go to the bazaar called Araby if his uncle doesn't take him.

We know he is
more than just a little boy because of his awakening sexual desire, which he focuses on his
friend Mangan's older sister. As he puts it:

Her dress
swung as she moved her body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side. 

He watches her from afar, and she becomes an idealized object of
his desire. She doesn't have a name that we are told, but he conflates her with the Virgin Mary,
symbol of motherhood and purity, and with the exotic bazaar Araby, symbolizing the mystery and
sexuality of the Orient. As he views her one day, the word "white" stands in for the
mixture of purity and sexuality she represents to him:

The
light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that
rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing. It fell over one side of her dress
and caught the white border of a petticoat, just visible as she stood at ease. 

When she speaks to him of the bazaar:

The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul
luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me. 

Yet
like a young adolescent, his emotions are in turmoil, on a roller coaster ride, and quickly
crash into disillusion as the bazaarand thus the girldon't live up to his expectations. Like
many young adolescents, he is sorting out fantasy and reality as he gropes to come to self
understanding:

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as
a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. 

I need help with this question, it says what picture of god is the author painting? How do you think this relates to the author's purpose? can you...

puts god as a
hand that holds us over the fire-pit of hell, basically. These hands are unpredictable,
unexpected, and we have no control over them. Change and repentance must happen, and people must
go back to the faith or else that God is capable of burning us all not on a specific day, but
any day he chooses.

Now, he did this revival speech to the congregation of
Enfield, Massachusetts (later Connecticut) in July 1741. His group was falling apart and people
were becoming more interested in making it in the colonies rather than to preserve a religiosity
that takes over everything.

Edwards was quite upset about it, and did this
revival speech to persuade people to follow him. He does this persuasion through fear, which is
the most efficient way to convince.

How is the King of Salem related to and contribute to or detract from Santiago's journey's success in The Alchemist by Coelho?

Melchizedek, also known as the King of Salem,

contributes to Santiago's journey in by teaching the boy to learn
about
himself, to find the right path and to learn to be wise. The King of
Salem helps Santiago
understand that what people most want is to learn their
personal Legends, the idea about
themselves that is most true and to which
they must stay attuned and committed. He also
contributes to Santiago's
journey by giving hints and clues as to where to find his treasure. In

addition, he teaches Santiago to be wise by making a deal with him to trade one-tenth of
his
sheep for Malchizedek's clue to the treasure.

What is the significance of "singing benna in sunday school" in Kincaid's "Girl"?

All
throughout the short story "," the voice of the mother instructs the girl to never
appear slutty. Considering the language the mother uses, it's almost as if she cares more about
her daughter's perceived reputation than the actual truth of the matter. Regardless, it's clear
that other people's opinions are very important to the mother, who tries to set her daughter
right beforein her eyessome irreversible damage is done to her name.

The
significance of singing bennaa rude and gossipy folk songin Sunday school could be understood in
many ways. For one, as other answers have already pointed out, benna is not a "proper"
genre of music. It relies on talking badly about people and is not associated with good manners.
Therefore, the mother could be warning the girl about that. In addition, Sunday school and
church are holy places where people are usually on their best behavior. The warning could also
mean not disrespecting a place of worship with crude songs.

Another way
of...

How did mobilizing for World War I change the United States' economy and its relationship to government? Which of these changes, if any, spilled over...

American
mobilization forhad an impact on state
spending on procurement, with the federal government
beginning to employ an
ever-larger labor force and invest greater sums of money in the private

sector for the acquisition of weapons and munitions.

In terms of
labor,
during the four-year time period 1914 to 1918, more than 3.5 million
people were added to
military and civil service payrolls. The scale of this
personnel upsurge can be seen in the
change in unemployment during this
period, which dropped from 7.9 percent to 1.4
percent.

Government spending also increased dramatically, marking a

previously unseen level of central influence in the national economy. The cost of World
War I to
the United States' economy was 52 percent of gross national product,
most of which came through
federal appropriations. This was financed, in
part, by an increase in the individual tax rate
for high-income earners from
1.5 to 18 percent.

While the end of the war saw

downsizing of the military...

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What is the summary for Chapter 5 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone?

Hagrid goes
into the courtyard behind the Leaky Cauldron and taps a certain bricks in the courtyard wall.
Instantly the bricks shift and move to create an opening into a whole new city. This is Diagon
Alley, the place in London where wizards do their shopping. First, Hagrid and Harry must go to
Gringotts Wizarding Bank and withdraw money from the small fortune his parents left him.  Hagrid
also has to make a secret stop in the bank for Dumbledore. Gringotts is a very secure place,
managed little goblins who also use dragons to guard wizard fortunes stored in vaults. A goblin
named Griphook takes Harry and Hagrid on a crazy ride in a little cart along a track that is
part of a network that leads to the vaults. Hagrid gets very sick in the speedy ride. Once the
money has been obtained, Harry shops for his school supplies. He buys a robe, books and a
cauldron with wizard money --bronze Knuts, silver Sickles and golden Galleons. Hagrid buys him a
snowy owl named Hedwig for a birthday...

What were the major events in the civil rights movement in the 1950s, and what role did the Eisenhower administration play in them?

The
biggest single event in the 1950s in relation to the civil rights movement was the landmark
Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education (1954), which ruled
that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. President Eisenhower
was none too pleased at the Court's ruling, as he thought that the process of desegregation
should take place gradually over time. He was therefore reluctant to use his Presidential
authority to enforce the Court's ruling.

Yet after the authorities in
Arkansas openly defied the Supreme Court by maintaining segregation in their public schools,
Eisenhower realized that he no choice but to intervene directly. Using his authority as
Commander-in-Chief, he sent Federal troops into Little Rock to ensure that African-Americans
were able to attend schools that had traditionally been reserved for white students.

In subsequent years, Eisenhower's commitment to the civil rights cause would grow. In
1957, he signed a Civil Rights Act that made it possible for more African Americans to vote.
This came at a time when the vast majority of African Americans in the South were denied the
vote by all kinds of nefarious methods, not to mention outright intimidation by white
supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

In actual fact, the Civil Rights
Act of 1957 proved rather ineffective due to the many alterations made to the original Bill by
Southern Congressmen and Senators. It was largely in response to the inadequacies of the 1957
Act that Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which strengthened voting
rights protection by expanding the authority of Federal judges.

Why is it impossible for Tom Robinson to have done the things Mayella accuses him of in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

In ,
Mayella Ewell is called to the witness stand and testifies that on the evening of November 21st,
she called Tom Robinson into her yard to bust up an old chiffarobe. According to Mayella, Tom
followed her into the house, ran up behind her, and began to choke her around the neck. Tom then
proceeded to throw Mayella to the floor and rape her. Despite Mayella's cries, no one came to
her rescue and when she woke up, her father was in the room asking questions. Mayella then says
she fainted again and woke up to Mr. Tate.

Despite Mayella's confident
attitude,exposes her lies during his cross-examination. Mayella proceeds to contradict herself
by saying, "No, I dont recollect if he hit me. I mean yes I do, he hit me" (Lee, 188).
Atticus then makes Tom Robinson stand up and simply asks Mayella how a handicapped man with one
good arm could have possibly choked, beat, and raped her.

When Tom was a boy,
he caught his left arm in a cotton gin, which is why it is twelve inches shorter than his right
arm and completely useless. Due to Tom's severe handicap, he could not have been responsible for
the handprints encircling Mayella's entire neck and it would have been impossible for him to
choke her. It is also be highly improbable that Tom could have held Mayella down with his left
arm while he beat her with his right. Judging by the location of the bruises on Mayella's face,
a left-handed person would more than likely cause those specific injuries to the right side of
her face. Atticus then makes a moving, logical argument that Bob Ewell was his daughter's
perpetrator.

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How Does The Civil War Still Affect Us Today

The Civil
War had several long-term effects. One of these was that it ended slavery in the United States.
Slavery and the spread of it had been a growing concern in our country for many years. The Civil
War permanently ended slavery with the passage of the thirteenth amendment to the
Constitution.

Another long-term impact is that it reinforced the idea that
the power of the federal government was supreme. The southern states wanted states to be able to
nullify laws that they didnt like or that hurt them. This concept was put to rest with the
Souths defeat in the Civil War.

The concept of...

What was rousseau aiming to show with his anecdote ? It's an extract taken from Mary wollstonecfraft a vindication on the rights of a woman (1792). In...

Rousseau in
Emile insists
that women are "naturally" given to such behaviors
as being obsessed with
their looks and playing with dolls. He also asserts that woman want to be

subjugated by men because they are "weaker." He writes that having the same level
of
education as men is worthless for women, though they should be given some
education, if only to
be able to adequately raise their children. He says
women are the way they are because
nature made them that
way.

Wollstonecraft attacks
Rousseau's ideas sharply in
her Vindication. The book is an argument for
the better
education of women. Wollstonecraft very strongly asserts that women are

not, as Rousseau contends, born with traits of vanity, weakness,
and the
desire to please men. These, she argues, are all
learned behaviors, the
result of the poor education
women receive. She likens Rousseau's assertions about women's
failings to the
anecdote of the learned pig, a popular but false story in the eighteenth
century
that a pig could learn to read.

Wollstonecraft is
saying that some popular
and widely disseminated ideas and stories--such as
the learned pig anecdote and the idea that
woman are innately inferior to
men--are simply wrong, and she takes Rousseau to task for
repeating false
stereotypes about women. She goes after Rousseau because he was a popular and

respected figure, and she thought his views on women did them great
damage.

Wollstonecraft completely opposes Rousseau's
ideas, stating that with a rational and
sober education, girls would not grow
up into silly, vain, childish creatures but into good
helpmeets for their
husbands and better managers of their households, not to mention able to

raise sensible daughters.

In Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, why does Bruno think the Fury is the rudest person he ever witnessed?

"The Fury," of course, is Bruno's
erroneous pronunciation of Adolf Hitler's title: "the F¼hrer." The exact words from
the novel are that Bruno believes "the Fury" is the rudest guest I ever seen.  A few
of the main reasons why Bruno thinks this are that Adolf Hitler invites himself to Bruno's house
for dinner, marches inside, and immediately takes Bruno's father's head spot at the dinner
table.  Another reason that Bruno thinks Adolf Hitler is rude is the way that he treats Eva.
 When Eva spends too long visiting with the children, Bruno hears Hitler "roar."  Then
Hitler yells at Eva to come to his side by clicking his fingers as if she were some sort of
puppy dog.  It is obvious to Bruno that Adolf Hitler immediately gets everything he wants
despite his behavior.  There is also an indirect reason why Bruno believes "the Fury"
to be very rude:  "the Fury" is the reason why Bruno and his family had to move from
Berlin.  Because Bruno loved his home in Berlin (especially the banister and the fact that they
lived close to Bruno's grandparents), Bruno is especially disgusted to be living near the
concentration camp of "Out-With" (Auschwitz).

In "The Black Cat," compare the second cat with Pluto. How were they alike? How were they different?

The
narrator's first cat, named Pluto, is
described as "a remarkably large and beautiful
animal, entirely black and
sagacious to an astonishing degree." The narrator's wife is so
impressed with
the cat's sagacity, or wisdom, that she seems to suspect that it could, in

accordance with "the ancient popular notion," be the spirit form of a witch.
This
suggestion of evil is compounded by the significance of the cat's name:
Pluto is the name of the
Roman god of the underworld.

The
narrator's first cat, Pluto, at first
follows the narrator everywhere, and
the narrator is pleased to reciprocate the cat's love.
However, the narrator
soon becomes cruel and is seemingly possessed by a spirit of evil. He
starts
to violently abuse the cat. He cuts one of its eyes from the socket, and he then
hangs
the cat from the branch of a tree.

When he happens
upon the second cat, the
narrator notices that, in appearance, it is
remarkably similar to Pluto. The second cat is
"fully as large as Pluto, and
closely resemble[s] him in every respect but one." The
one difference between
the appearance of Pluto and and the second cat is that the latter has
"a
large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of
(its)
breast." Pluto, by comparison, was black all over. The second cat also
resembles Pluto
physically, conspicuously, in that it too has only one
eye.

In terms of its
behavior, the second cat, like Pluto,
at first follows the narrator everywhere. However, whereas
Pluto followed its
owner lovingly, like a companion, the second cat seems to follow the narrator

ominously, like a ghost haunting its victim.

Indeed, the narrator
remarks
that the second cat would follow him with "a pertinacity...difficult
to make the reader
comprehend." The implication of the story is that this
haunting, stalking pertinacity is
because the second cat is a reincarnation
of Pluto, returned from the dead to avenge its
death.

In 1984, cite four methods which the Party uses to destroy loving relationships.

The Party uses a
variety of methods to prevent people from forming loving relationships. First of all, the Party
controls the institution of marriage. If two people wish to marry,
they must be approved by a specially-appointed committee. If the two people appear to be
physically attracted to one another, however, the Party usually refuses its consent.

Secondly, the Party has formed organizations like the
Junior Anti-Sex League to promote the ideal of celibacy and
abstinence . By doing this, the Party ensures that children grow up without any
interest in forming a...

What are some similarities and differences between teenagers today and those in the 1520s (the time of Romeo and Juliet)?

Despite
the fact that Shakespeare's classic
play is set in the 1520s, the characters ofshare similar
traits with modern
teenagers in today's society. Modern teenagers are still extremely impulsive,

mercurial, emotional, disobedient, and romantic likeand . Romeo is initially depressed
by
Rosaline's unrequited love but demonstrates his mercurial nature by
instantly falling in love
with Juliet at first sight.

Both
teenagers impulsively get married and
disobey their parents by secretly
marrying their enemies. Similar to modern teenagers, Romeo and
Juliet lack
the personal agency to overcome society's conventions and are relatively helpless
on
their own. They rely on the help ofand the Nurse to advance their
relationship but cannot avoid
disaster. Romeo and Juliet also lack
perspective and discernment, which is typical of most
teenagers.

Despite the many similarities to modern teenagers, which

make Romeo and Juliet a relevant play in today's
society,...

How are Bruno and Shmuel alike?

The
short and simple answer is that both Bruno and Shmuel are, in the end, just two little boys. The
entire Nazi doctrine was built around the belief that they were somehow inherently different,
but the friendship they build during the novel symbolizes, through a , that when it came down to
it, they were quite interchangeable. The Nazi guards had absolutely no way of determining that
Bruno didn't belong in the camp; the novel's bleak ending serves to show the absurdity of the
Nazi worldview.

The truth of the matter is that, while Bruno and Shmuel
became friends partly thanks to some...

How did the fall of the Berlin Wall affect the rest of the world?

The
Berlin wall was both a fact of and a symbol of the Cold War. It was created as a result of the
way in which Germany was divided up following World War II (the Potsdam agreement). Berlin was a
divided city in a country that had been divided into spheres of influence by four different
allies: the United Kingdom (Britain), France, the United States, and the Soviet
Union. 

The part of Germany under Soviet influence, which was called the
"German Democratic Republic," had a very different political system from that of the
other allies and in the late 1950s decided to prevent defection from east to west through
building the wall. The western part of Berlin was actually deep within the German Democratic
Republic territory, so the east Germans built the wall all the way around West
Berlin. 

The attached picture shows the wall. On the western side was all
kinds of graffiti because western Berliners could approach the wall with impunity. The eastern
side had no graffiti because as east Germans increased the guarding of the wall and added more
barriers to the approach to the wall, people could not get anywhere near the it. Those who tried
to defect by climbing over the wall were shot. 

There were places in the
wall, called checkpoints, where people with the proper identification papers could get through,
but these were heavily guarded. Despite the wall, defectors still managed to get into West
Berlin by tunneling under the wall and even floating in balloons over the wall. Still, that was
risky business. 

The Cold War was a terrifying time for people around the
world, as the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States escalated. One never knew
when a leader might decide to use nuclear weapons against the other side and there were some
really close calls, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

In the late 1980s, the
Soviet Union began to fall apart and the fall of the Berlin wall marked this event with great
clarity. With the fall of the wall, families who had been divided by the two Germanys could
reunite, people finally had freedom, and the whole world breathed a sigh of relief that the Cold
War had finally ended. 

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

How are the inhabitants of Roaring Camp described at the beginning of "The Luck of Roaring Camp"?

The men of Roaring Camp are initially presented as a rough bunch with quite a bit of
tumultuous life experience behind them. Some of them are actual fugitives from justice. The
group has plenty of gamblers and a history of shooting each other to death. Some of the men are
missing various body parts: fingers, toes, ears. The best shot has only one eye and the
strongest man has only three fingers on his right hand. The narrator proclaims that "all
were reckless."

The importance of this description lies in the reason
the group is gathered in the beginning of the story: they await the birth of a baby. Since there
are no children in the town and the baby's mother has committed many "sins" which have
brought her to this moment, the childbirth provides multiple reasons that attract men's
interests.

"Cherokee Sal" dies shortly after giving birth, and
this "reckless" group is left with the task of raising a child. The story shows how a
pure and innocent love transforms a group of rough men and...

Anyone over 50+ years old just so I can do an interview for American History ? The interview is below these arent me asking for homework answers.Where...

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someone easily that you can interview.Why don't you try your parents or grandparents?Any person
over 50 might include...]]>

Sunday, November 29, 2015

What factors brought about the development of an American middle class in the early nineteenth century?

To me, the
more important factor in this development was the creation of a transportation infrastructure in
the United States.

Before the early 1800s, there was very little
infrastructure that allowed inland transportation within the US.  This made it so that it was
very difficult to get goods from one place to another.  Therefore, the US was really split into
a bunch of little markets -- people from one could not really sell their goods in another
because of lack of transportation.

Because of this, most people were
subsistence farmers who grew what they needed plus a bit that they could trade with people in
the vicinity.  Once transportation became available, trade became possible.  This made it so
that more people could stop farming and move to towns.  They could be supplied by farm products
that could be moved longer distances and they could produce goods that could be sold over longer
distances.

This does not really contradict the first answer.  Instead, I am
saying that the increase in transportation allowed the Industrial Revolution mentioned in that
answer to occur.

What are some quotes, from Atticus, that show compassion in To Kill a Mockingbird? Include chapter and page number.

is a
caring and compassionate father in . One quote by Atticus showing
compassion can be found inwhen he is talking with the children about Mrs. Dubose. One day, after
Mrs. Dubose hurls a particularly ugly insult at , he proceeds to take 's new baton and use it to
destroy Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. Atticus instructs Jem to speak to Mrs. Dubose, and as
retribution, Jem has to read to Mrs. Dubose daily. Soon after, Mrs. Dubose dies. Atticus
explains that she was able to kick her morphine addiction because Jem reading to her served as a
distraction. Atticus says, "According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and
nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." He shows compassion to Mrs. Dubose in
spite of the things she said about him.

In, after Atticus faces the Old Sarum
bunch attempting to lynch Tom, he is speaking with the children about the events. Scout is
confused because she thinks Mr. Cunningham is Atticus's friend....

What are the two major themes of The Book of Joshua in the Bible?

The Book
of Joshua is the sixth book overall in the Old Testament. It follows the five books of the
Pentateuch, which cover the creation of the worldthrough the exodus of the people of Israel from
Egypt and the giving of the law to Moses. Joshua is the first of what are referred to as the
historical books, which also include Judges, Ruth, the first and second Samuel, the first and
second Kings, the first and second Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.

The book of Joshua has both historical and theological themes. The two major historical
themes in the book include Joshua leading the people of Israel on a violent conquest of the land
of Canaan and the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes of Israel.

One of the most important theological themes is the importance of obedience. The people
of Israel are repeatedly told that only obedience to every specific instruction in the Law of
Moses will allow them to win battles, claim the land, and receive God's blessing.

Another...

In Chapter 7 of "A Wrinkle in Time", Charles Wallace says they cant make desicions based on fear. Do you agree? In Chapter 7 of "A Wrinkle in Time",...

Right
before Charles Wallace makes this statement, he exclaims that some force is trying to get to
him. We will later find out this is IT. Charles Wallace tells Calvin and Meg to hold his hands
and not let go. Calvin then says they should turn back and not go farther in search of Meg and
Charles Wallace's father. At this point Charles Wallace says:

"No," . . . "I have to go on. We have to make decisions, and we can't
make them if they're based on fear." His voice sounded old and strange and
remote....

Saturday, November 28, 2015

In the book 1984how are Julia and Winston alike in terms of rebellious acts they commit? examples of how winston and julia comitted rebellious acts??...

appears to be
consumed with a desire to do wrong, to stand up to the party by sleeping around, by bedding
members of the party, and then gets herself involved with "the brotherhood" because it
also seems risky and wrong.  She does not, however, likehave any sort of a political sense, the
idea that somehow she could inspire real change by helping the proles rise up, etc.  Hers is
simply a desire, like the previous post says, to slap Big Brother.

But the
release and the joy they find in breaking the laws together is something they share, not just
the physical pleasure of their illicit affair but the fact that they are sharing in their crime,
doing something together.  It is this sense of togetherness that is lost in the end after their
torture when they realize that they only care about themselves.

What are 3 rhetorical techniques used in the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? Are there any examples of figurative language as well?

Edwards uses

symbolism when he says that:

As he that walks in slippery places is every
moment liable to fall, he cannot foresee
one moment whether he shall stand or
fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once
without
warning.

He uses this example to describe
how,
just as one might physically slip and fall suddenly and without warning,
people who have not
accepted Christ and the gift of his grace are just as apt
to slip and fall, spiritually, and
without warning as wellexcept they will
slip and fall into the pits of Hell.

He uses
when he continues this point, saying that these

people:

are liable to fall of themselves, without
being
thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on
slippery ground needs nothing
but his own weight to throw him down.

Another person
might throw us to the ground, but
that is not what will happen here; when we are spiritually
"thrown down," it
will be by our own weight. This personifies our "weight"
as something that
can act of its own accord and will, emphasizing how much we are ultimately

responsible for our own spiritual destruction by choosing not to hearken to Edwards (and
to
God).

Edwards uses a when
he says:

Though hand join in hand, and
vast multitudes of God's enemies
combine and associate themselves, they are
easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of
light chaff before the
whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring

flames.

He compares God's enemies to chaff in the
wind or
cut crops that have dried out, burning up in a fire. (Even his
description of "flames"
as being "devouring" contains another use of
personification.)

Rhetorically, Edwards clearly uses a
great number of
allusions to the Bible. He can
refer, even very indirectly, to
itsecure that his audience will be familiar
with his references and find them convincing. He
employs logos
(i.e., reasoning with his listeners and trying to
persuade
them to convert), outlining the ways in which the Bible (a book of history for
him)
describes God's power and plans for the unbelievers. He also
employs
pathosusing expressions and language
meant to inspire fearin an
attempt to persuade his audience to
convert.

How was Curley's wife discriminated against?

Curley's
wife is the only woman on the ranch and is defined by her role as Curley's possession. Curley's
wife is one of the loneliest individuals on the farm and suffers from discrimination. The
workers on the farm purposely go out of their way to avoid Curley's wife and refer to her as
"jail bait" and a "tart." They believe that she wears too much makeup,
dresses like a "whore," and openly flirts with them, which threatens to put their jobs
in jeopardy. Curley's wife is not welcome in the bunkhouse, is excluded from the games the
workers play, and is isolated from everyone else on the farm. Her husband is an authoritative,
insecure man who desires to keep her nearby at all times to prevent her from cheating on
him.

Curley's wife also lacks agency and is not free to roam throughout the
ranch or leave the farm like the men. In , the healthy, younger workers head into town, while
Curley's wife is forced to stay behind with Candy, Crooks, and , who are the weakest members on
the farm. Even among the group of outcasts, Curley's wife is still discriminated against. She is
asked several times to leave Crooks's room, and they refuse to listen to her speak. The only
thing Curley's wife can do is lament about her missed opportunity to enter show business and
leave Soledad. Overall, Curley's wife is discriminated against because she is unfairly called
derogatory names, is purposely excluded from conversations and activities, and lives under the
oppressive influence of her pugnacious husband.

Whats the relationship between the characters and plot as seen in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

In
writing ,closely intertwined all elements of the drama with each other to
produce a coherent whole. Some plays are character driven, others are driven by plot; in
Rex the two go together, serving the drama's overriding needs. The plot of
the play is intimately related to Oedipus's , his overweening pride. This
pride is progressively revealed as the plot develops; it almost comes to take on a life of its
own, so much so that Oedipus's pride effectively is the plot for much of
the play. The pride is always there, in one form or another; what changes is how it manifests
itself and what the consequences are for plot development. Sophocles's purpose in writing
Oedipus Rex is didactic, that is to say he wants to teach and instruct. He
is keen to present the dangers of hubris, and as such
it's absolutely imperative for him that Oedipus's pride is integral to the plot, to the events
that unfold on stage.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Does Winston die at the end of 1984, or is the image of the bullet in his brain at the Ministry of Love a dream?

As one of the
previous answers pointed out,has been changed from the rebellious individual into a completely
obedient and subservient member of the party. This change in some ways mimics Winston's job as a
member of the Ministry of Truth. His task there was to find and destroy any reference to events
or people in the past that the Party wished to erase. Once found, they were changed and edited
out of existence and any trace of them was dropped down the "memory hole." 

The bits of Winston that the Party wished to erase have been erased. He no longer feels
any anger at the party. He no longer feels the lust and desire he had for . He no longer feels a
connection towhom he thought was a co-conspirator. He cannot even wish for the reality of a
bullet ending his life as it has now been given wholly to the Party. 

Had
they "allowed" him to die, the Party would have lost. By keeping him alive but
reducing him to his totally servile state, they have triumphed.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

What are examples of pun, refrain, foil, metonymy, and logos in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis? Why are they important?

Tamara K. H.

Logos is a logical appeal or logical argument. Anytime an
author or speaker uses facts, theories, or logical rationales to convince a reader of an
argument, we call that logos. In 's , while we
may not see any arguments in which the author, narrator, or even a character tries to convince
us of something, we do see the Gregor try to reason
his way out of his situations. One example can be
seen in the very first paragraphs of the book. When he awakens to find he has tremendously
transformed, he tries to rationally explain away the situation for himself. One
rational argument he makes to himself is posed in the form of a , "How would
it be if I kept sleeping for a little while longer and forgot all this foolishness ..."
(Ch. 1). By proposing more sleep, he is suggesting to himself that the changes he is seeing are
merely just a dream, which rationally makes sense on a level
considering the narrator also reports Gregor had "restless dreams" all...

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Monday, November 23, 2015

What are the chapter titles in Stargirl?

"Porcupine Necktie" is the phrase
that we first
see in this story. It looks like a chapter title: centered, bold, in all
caps,
printed halfway down the page with just the blank space above
it.

The phrase
"porcupine necktie" is a reference to the
funny accessory that the narrator is given
by his uncle, as well as the
second silly item given to him as an anonymous gift. (We'll figure
out later
that it waswho sent the second porcupine necktie!)

However,
after
this brief section, there's a new chapter labeled "1." So we can
understand that
the porcupine necktie section was actually the
, or the little bit
that comes before the main story, telling
us something that happens that will probably become
important
later.

Chapters 1 through 33 are simply labeled
with
those numbers. They don't actually have titles, like some book
chapters
do.

Finally, the book closes with
a section labeled "More
Than Stars." Again, it's in all capital letters, bold
and everything. This time, since we
already noticed that the prologue had the
same kind of label, we can understand more quickly
that "More
Than Stars" is the : the final, extra bit to
the story that
tells a little bit more about how things ended up. "More than stars" is
a
reference to the bigger impact that Stargirl made on the narrator, which he describes
here,
looking back on the whole story as an adult. And he also receives
another anonymous porcupine
necktie gift!

Why did Robinson Crusoe consider himself half-dead and half-alive? When he said'' and myself almost dead''

In Chapter
IIInarrates that he has a prosperous cane and tobacco plantation; however, he cannot be content,
but feels that he must leave and

pursue a rash and
immoderate desire of rising faster that the nature of the thing admitted.

And so, he casts himself into "the deepest gulf of human
misery" when he signs on with fourteen other men who set sail for Guinea in pursuit of
slaves for their plantations. For, when they are near the coast of St....

What are the most significant characteristics of cultural criticism in the light of the novel Emma?

Cultural criticism is
a branch of theory that takes culture and context as its defining quality. When exploring this
novel through the lenses of cultural criticism, we therefore need to be aware of how Austen
explores the context and culture of her time and how this culture is presented. This can easily
be seen is we examine the theme of marriage in this excellent novel. Consider how the story
presents us with a series of marriages that have either just happened or are eagerly
anticipated. Socially, what is key to realise is that each marriage consolidates the social
status of at least one of the parties. Life in Austen's era was all about social status, which
was a product of wealth, background and reputation. Marriage became a vital and important way in
which you...

Sunday, November 22, 2015

When thinking about religion, what is a secular age? Or what is the definition of a secular age?

In his book
A Secular Age, Charles Taylor writes,

One understanding of secularity then is in terms of public spaces. These have been
allegedly emptied of God, or of any reference to ultimate reality.  Or taken from another side,
as we function within various spheres of activityeconomic, political, cultural, educational,
professional, recreationalthe norms and principles we follow, the deliberations we engage in,
generally dont refer us to God or to any religious beliefs; the considerations we act on are
internal to the rationality of each spheremaximum gain within the economy, the greatest
benefit to the greatest number in the political area, and so on. 

In other words, Taylor states that a secular age is one in which a transition has been
made from finding it virtually impossible to not believe in God to one in which faith
in...

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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.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

What are some of the major themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Naturally,
a major theme in is love, but that theme has many different variations.

One variation explores the possibility of love at first sight. But beyond
that, the play explores love as an overwhelming force. Whencouncelsto forget about Rosaline, his
reply is "O, teach me how I should forget to think" (Act 1, Scene 1). Furthermore,
love is portrayed as a force that rushes Romeo and 's relationship at full speed until it final
leads to their demise. 

Another love theme is the portrayal of love as both a
blessing and a torment. Romeo makes this clear in his opening lines about Rosaline, referring to
love as "O brawling love!" and "O loving hate!" (Act 1, Scene 1).

Loyalty is also a recurring theme in the play. Juliet is expected to be faithful to her
family, while Romeo is expected to be faithful to his. However, since both families are at war,
their love for each other drives them to be disloyal. Juliet declares that she will cease being
a Capulet if Romeo would say he loves her (Act 2, Scene 2). Romeo even abandons his cousins and
friends to seek out Juliet in the garden (Act 1, Scene 1).

Finally, social
constraints is also a major theme. The Montagues and Capulets are constrained from continuing
their battles by . Romeo is restrained from being able to marry Juliet because she is a Capulet
and at war with his family. Juliet is constrained by her father, as head of the household, and
commanded to marry .

Thursday, November 19, 2015

What does Lizabeth in the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier realize as an adult?

As an
adult, Lizabeth realizes that at fourteen, she had had an epiphany about why Miss Lottie planted
marigolds. Lizabeth explains that her innocence was lost at the very moment she discerned the
truth.

 

Innocence involves an unseeing
acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. In that
humiliating moment I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person. This was the
beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence.

Throughout her childhood, Miss Lottie had always been the subject
of Lizabeth's childish contempt. She shared her brother, Joey's suspicion that Miss Lottie was a
witch. Since Miss Lottie never had any visitors, and no one knew how she maintained her living,
Miss Lottie became the subject of much speculation. Chief among Lizabeth and Joey's concerns was
that Miss Lottie's marigolds looked out of place on her property:

 

They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too
beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense. There was
something in the vigor with which the old woman destroyed the weeds that intimidated
us.

The enthusiasm and energy Miss Lottie displayed towards the
tending of her marigolds unnerved the children. As she reminisces about Miss Lottie, Lizabeth
also comes to realize that her perverse contempt towards the old woman had been the product of
her own childish, myopic view of life. She comes to understand that, to Miss Lottie, the
marigolds had represented an act of rebellion against the 'ugliness and sterility' of her
impoverished life. Now, as an adult, Lizabeth confesses that she has planted marigolds as her
own act of rebellion, during moments of her life when everything had seemed 'barren' and
hopeless.

 

Yet, there are times when
the image of those passionate yellow mounds returns with a painful poignancy. For one does not
have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town.
And I too have planted marigolds.

 

 

What impression do you form about the Radleys and Cunninghams when you read chapters 1 and 2 of To Kill A Mockingbird?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

The first thing you hear about the Radleys is thatstays inside;references the kids
deciding to make him come out. Next, you hear that there is an entity in the house scary enough
to make them behave for long periods of time. You find out that the house is unkempt, as if
someone stopped caring for it long ago. They are an isolated family who doesn't join
the...

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Explain how Mrs. Murry knows that Meg and her brother are very smart in A Wrinkle in Time.

At the beginning of the
book, Meg recalls that her father, before he went away, had told her that Charles Wallace had a
good mind and that Meg should not worry about him. Instead, Charles Wallace, like Meg, just did
things at his own pace. Meg thinks of herself as dumb, but her father reassured her that this
was not true. When she asked him how he knew that she was not dumb, her father told her that he
and his wife, Mrs. Murry, had played games with the children that were really tests of different
kinds. Among these "games" were IQ tests. Her father would not tell her what her IQ
was, but he said that she and Charles Wallace could do anything that they wanted to, given their
high intelligence.

Gregor ventures into the family room a third time in search of unknown nourishment (Kafka 44). Explain. What is it an allusion to?

The three boarders who
the Samsa family has taken in to make some extra money have asked to hear Grete, Gregor's
sister, play the violin. They treat her rather rudely, standing directly behind her and much too
close to her, which must be bothersome, as though they are watching her music to see what
mistakes she might make. She plays beautifully, however, which does not allow them to feel
superior, so they drift away to the window.

For [Gregor]
it was as if the way to the unknown nourishment he craved was revealing itself to him.

Gregor has lacked human connection and has clearly been deprived of
spiritual and emotional nourishment since his transformation, and maybe even longer than that.
We know that his life prior to changing into an insect was hardly fulfilling in terms of
relationshipsromantic or otherwise. He actually keeps a picture of a woman from a magazine in a
frame because he has no one else's picture to cherish. He dreams, now, of Grete choosing to
enter his room and remain with him voluntarily, to play for him often, because her music makes
him feel almost human again. It is the emotional quality of her playing that makes him feel
nourished for the first time in a long time, and he hopes even to make eye contact with her now,
to let her know somehow that he'd wanted to pay to send her to the musical conservatory before
his metamorphosis took place.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Is there dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven?"

There
are, indeed, examples of dramaticin 's , although the situational irony in
Poe's famous poem is, to this educator, more pronounced. Situational irony refers to instances
within a work of literature in which the opposite of what one expects to happen is what does
happen. In The Raven, there is no well-defined outcome; the narrator/ is
befuddled and emotionally-drained. Readers of The Raven anticipate some
resolution to the mystery of the large black bird that has invaded the sanctuary in which the
lovelorn narrator sits, alone and despondent. Poe, however, does not offer any such sense of
resolution, ending, as the poem does, with the narrator resigned to his diminished mental state
and the raven continuing to sit atop the bust of Pallas. That, to this educator, is situational
irony. An example of dramatic irony, however, definitely exists.

Perhaps the
best example of dramatic irony in The Raven involves the bust of Pallas on
which the bird is perched throughout the poem. Pallas is a figure from ancient Greek mythology.
He is a Titan, or giant -- among the most powerful of the gods. His stature, however, does not
protect him from the wrath of a woman, in this case, the goddess Athena, who kills and flays
him. That Poe's narrator is presented as an emotionally-ruined man, sitting forlornly alone in
his study in which sits a bust of this particular figure from mythology, is no coincidence. Poe
was clearly using that legend to reinforce the notion of his narrator as having been driven to
despondency by a woman, .

The Raven offers far more
pronounced instances of situational irony -- the mere fact of a bird being the interloper in the
narrator's chamber rather than a human is in itself an example of situational irony -- but Poe
did include dramatic irony in his poem as well.

In "How Body Modification Ended the War Against My Body," how does Haywood use body modification (tattooing and body piercing) to help her, in her...

Haywood
uses body modification to reclaim her
body and "end the war." The author describes a
study which concluded that
body modification was, at least in part, about exploring
self-identity. The
author agrees with this (2) and further in the same passage tells the reader

that part of her choice to use body modification was to "define" her body. She goes
on
to say that she has carefully chosen certain symbols to tattoo on her body
to remind her of her
courage, her strength, and to "keep going."

In addition to tattoos,
the first body modification that the author
got is her bellybutton piercing. While the tattoos
are of significant and
meaningful symbols, it is the location of the bellybutton ring that is

representative of her recovery: the belly was the site of the author's self-inflicted
pain
through her anorexia and bulimia, and so it is the first site of her
peace offering to
herself.

What evidense does Howard Zinn provide that "some people in the United States" always fought for justice?

I think
that Zinn's construction of American History is one where he presents how there has been the
development of power as a part of the narrative.  Yet, at the same time, Zinn wants to reveal a
part of this narrative whose dialectic shows people who wanted change, as well.  Zinn believes
that these individuals "always fought for justice" despite the fact that the power
construction tilted against them....

Monday, November 16, 2015

What will happen to Winston? part 3

will be shot
soon. Winston has finally given in and now loves Big Brother, yet he requires more alcohol than
before to get through the day. The purpose of his rehabilitation was not to return him to be
productive in society. It was important for Winston to be rehabilitated and forced to finally
love Big Brother before he is killed, because had he not been made to conform, than his
resistance would be remembered, and others inspired to resist, as well. As he is now, after his
death, no one will remember him.

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what attitude does Frederick Douglass have about slavery?

In the
narrative, Frederick Douglas reveals his
deep hatred of slavery. To Douglas, slavery was both
dehumanizing and
degrading in nature. He confesses that, after learning to read, he came to
see
his pitiful position in its true light. It was then that he began to
despise all slave
owners.

His earliest memories of slavery
were of his Aunt Hester being
flogged with a whip by Captain Anthony. Douglas
contends that Captain Anthony increased the
intensity of his whippings in
accordance with Aunt Hester's screams. The flowing blood and the

blood-curdling screams left an indelible impression upon Douglas.

Later in
the narrative, Douglas relates how Mrs. Auld taught him the
alphabet....

How does Hawthorne describe the veil in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

Hawthorne describes Reverend Hooper's black veil as a two-fold piece of black crape that hangs
from his forehead to the top of his mouth, where it is noticeably shaken by his breath whenever
he speaks. The black veil covers his entire visage, with the exception of his mouth and chin.
Hawthorne also mentions that Rev. Hooper's sight is not impaired by the black crape, and he is
able to see everything around him, with a "darkened aspect." Hooper's black veil is
also described as being perceived as a "gloomy shade," which startles his congregation
and his closest friends. Rumors surrounding the reasoning behind the reverend's black veil
quickly spread throughout the community, and Hooper...

How accurate was Orwell in his vision of the future, and in what ways does our contemporary society compare to his idea of society in 1984?

We don't
suffer the same level of material
deprivation of Outer Party members and the proles
in ;
in fact, many areas experience a high level of material comfort. Also,
we
don't live in socialist totalitarian regimes, where the government owns the means
of
production. 

However,was prescient about two items that
plague us in the
modern world. The first is surveillance. Not only have we
learned that the government engaged in
illegal domestic spying on US citizens
after 9/11/2001, we know that we are also legally under
surveillance in many
ways. Data is collected about citizens based...

Sunday, November 15, 2015

What was Operation Barbrossa?

Operation
Barbarossa was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union.  This invasion started
on June 22, 1941.  It was a surprise attack on the part of the Germans....

Why is discretion a necessary feature of the criminal justice system?

As
elsewhere in life, discretion is important in the criminal justice system. Courts often have to
deal with complex cases which don't result in easy answers. Yes, there are rules, but those
rules need to be interpreted by judges according to the specific facts of the case. Far from the
facts of the case being bent to fit the rules, the rules must be accommodated to fit the facts.
A "one size fits all" policy in relation to sentencing, though more predictable, would
undoubtedly lead to injustice, with disproportionate sentences becoming the norm.

Discretion is also important in that it allows...

Saturday, November 14, 2015

What are the three physical characteristics of the village blacksmith in "The Village Blacksmith?"

In the poem ""
by , the poet describes the
blacksmith as a large, strong man with long, black hair and a tan
face. In
stanza one, the reader discovers he has "large and sinewy hands."

Additionally, the poet compares the "muscles of his brawny arms" to "iron

bands" to emphasize the blacksmith's physical strength. In stanza two, the poet goes on
to
describe his hair as "crisp, and black, and long," and "his face is like
the
tan." All of these characteristics are physical.

However, as the poem
proceeds, the reader discovers more important
information about the blacksmith. In stanza five,
it is revealed that the
blacksmith is religious and attends church on Sunday with his children.
Next,
it is revealed that the blacksmith's wife is deceased, and he is raising his family on
his
own. He still grieves for the loss of his wife, throughout all the
difficulties and hard work he
faces.

"""She is the hopeful lady of my earth ..." What language technique does Shakespeare use here?""

In act 1, scene 2 of ,
Capulet andare discussing how soon Paris might be able to marry . Capulet stresses how much his
daughter means to him by emphasizing that she is his only surviving child. He says,

The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,
She is the
hopeful lady of my earth ...

There are a number of
literary techniques on display here. One is chiasmus, which means "crossing." The
earth and Juliet appear in the first line in that order, then the order is reversed in the
second line, creating the pattern of a cross. This is emphasized by the specific arrangement of
the words and phrases "The earth ... she / She ... my earth." The pattern is a
combination of epizeuxis in the immediate repetition of "she" and epanalepsis in the
repetition of "earth" at the beginning and end.

Shakespeare also
personifies "earth" in the first line, then uses it as a symbol (for death) in the
second. Death and earth (used in this sense) are perhaps slightly too close for this symbolic
usage to be regarded as a , but if we regard earth, or being laid in earth, as a part of death,
then we might regard this as a form of synecdoche. The"hopeful" is employed in the
sense of creating or causing, rather than experiencing, hope. If it were used in the modern
sense, it would properly attach to Capulet rather than Juliet, and the device would be that of
hypallage (transferred epithet).

What has education taught Dee from "Everyday Use" and Beneatha from A Raisin in the Sun about the importance of heritage?

Dee andshare some striking similarities, attempting to forge their own paths in a
spirit of fierce independence while making a conscious effort to separate themselves from parts
of their own heritage. This desire to more fully embrace their African roots begins in their
quests for a greater education.

Beneatha is in college and establishes the
goal of becoming a doctor. This in itself shows her fierce determination to exceed social and
cultural expectations before the Civil Rights Era. Dee shows her passions for education before
she even leaves home:

She used to read to us without pity;
forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant
underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned up with a lot of
knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read .
. .

In their quests for a rich education, both women
seek out men whom they feel more deeply reflect their African roots....

What were the pros and cons of Santiagos personal journey in The Alchemist?

The disadvantages of
Santiago's personal journey is of course the suffering, challenge and discomfort he experiences.
There is no sense in which this can be ignored, and it is important to remember that what
Santiago does is to step out of his comfort zone and to sacrifice being in a place of security
for striving to achieve his Personal Legend. It is clear that this is not always a happy
experience. However, at the same time the overwhelming message of the text is that what he gains
by risking everything is worth far more than he ever had in the first place, and this is of
course the major advantage to his personal journey. It is important to remember the crystal
merchant and how he acts as a salutory warning to Santiago: he has decided not to risk what he
has for some future and intangible gain, and as a result lives a frustrated life, as this quote
demonstrates:

But you are forcing me to look at wealth and
at horizons that I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense
my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the
things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Santiago's example of willing to risk everything, and suffer discomfort and instability
in order to achieve his personal dream is one that acts as a rebuke to the crystal merchant.
Although he has gained great wealth and a measure of security, he lives a frustrated and futile
life, because he has seen how "immense" his possibilities are but has done nothing to
explore them. Although there are significant disadvantages to Santiago's journey therefore, in
the suffering he experiences, what he gains through that journey is of far greater worth than
what he sacrificed and the negatives he experienced. He, unlike the crystal merchant, has had
the courage to take that risk, and it is clear at the end of the book that this is a decision he
does not regret.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Explain, in some detail, the economic factors that influence marketing decision making.

In
general marketing lingo, decisions made by companies are based off of what is called a
marketing mix which influence the development of a given marketing program. The most enduring
marketing mix framework was introduced by E. Jerome McCarthy, who developed the mnemonic the
four Ps, which stands for product, price, promotion, and
placement. By manipulating and responding to the various elements
that make up this mix, or, in other words, by making marketing decisions based upon the four Ps,
companies can develop increasingly successful marketing strategies.

The
product can be considered the "good" that satisfies one
or many consumer demands.

The price represents
both the economic cost of producing a product and the
value of a product as perceived by the customer.

Promotion refers to the spectrum of communication
techniques that are used to bring the publics attention to a given product.

Placement is also referred to as "distribution,"
and often refers to where a given product will...

In Flowers for Algernon, what is Charlie's relationship with his family after his operation versus how it was in the past?

Before the
operation, Charlie was more a victim to his family than in any sort of
"relationship."  He was more of someone who had to be dealt with versus someone who
could hold conversations and show love, etc...  Rose, his mother, was in denial for most of
Charlie's "early years" as to Charlie having any sort of problem at all.  She
constantly scolded him for not living up to unrealistic expectations and then was scared of him
and his disability.  Norma was just a child when Charlie was around her.  She resented his
presence because she would be the "responsible one" at home and at school.  Matt meant
well, but couldn't handle Charlie's disability nor his wife's attitude towards him.

After the surgery, when Charlie revisited the characters, Norma showed the most
change.  She had grown up and probably realized how childish and immature she was.  After all,
she was a child too when all of Charlie's problems were at the forefront.  She was kind and I
believe, if Charlie's surgery would have had a more lasting effect, the two would have develped
a successful relationship.

As for Rose, by the time Charlie revisited her,
she was going senile and was living in the past, assuming that nothing had changed with Charlie
-- including his age.  There was essentially no change in their relationship excepting the fact
that Charlie realized how cruel and ignorant she was.

When Charlie visited
Matt at the barbershop, he realized that Matt never meant anything wrong by any of his actions
towards Charlie.  Matt was simply stuck in the middle, trying to survive.  Since Matt didn't
even recognize Charlie, Charlie made the decision to not even tell Matt who he was.  I believe
he was trying to save Matt any guilty feelings for how things were when he was a
child.

Is it possible to have a positive view of religion? Can I have positive views on religion

is
a complex subject and is apparently responsible for wars and conflict the world over. Consider
those countries where there is no religion or where religion is frowned upon. Surely then, if
religion causes the problems, those countries - China, Vietnam, Russia- must be places of calm
and hope and prosperity - without conflict. Unfortunately not!

Historically,
wars aside, religion has created unity, community, ethical standards, compassionate
people, purpose, those who want to save and protect others and so on: that is not to say that
you must be religious to have these characteristics. Primarily however, those people who are not
religious but who are morally and socially responsible, compassionate and protective have been
exposed to religion and live in a society surrounded by religion:

religion likely served to explain natural events and create order out of the
world.

Missionaries still go to remote parts of the world
to bring a "message" of hope. They try to alleviate poverty and bring modern medicine.
Some believe that they interfere but, in this modern world, where communication is key and
CHOICE is the main issue, trying to reach others and help them, stop their suffering (famine,
disease, etc) and bring meaning to their lives can surely only be applauded.

The problem with many people is that they are opinionated, self-absorbed, narrow-minded
and above all, judgmental! No matter which religion a person belongs to, all religions teach of 
finding your own faults before looking for the faults of others. But people don't do that. They
are quick to judge but not quick to reflect.

People misunderstand the concept
of judging and being judged. Obviously crime must be judged but you punish the crime and hope
the criminal comes out the other side a better person. However, choice is the other thing about
religion. Blaming religion or God for the evil in the world reveals a lack of understanding
about choice.

We must "choose" to do the right thing and if we do
not God will judge us. We are tasked with protecting and that requires decisions that may seem
judgmental but objectivity is key and as long as that is present then the real judgment will
come from God.

Using religion as your excuse to do awful things is
reprehensible but that's not religion's fault - that's mankind and human nature. Christian
religions hide behind doctrine and attend church every week - but they may still judge the
pregnant woman next door instead of helping her, or run a red light (and create potential for an
accident) in an effort not to be late for church or even frown on the boy who goes in to church
in his flip flops! They may even commit terrible sexual crimes against children.  

Islam extremists  hide behind words that scare people like "jihad" and use
that to commit heinous crimes. Jewish militants hide behind the "Law" and the concept
of retribution that is so entrenched in their thinking and they involve innocent people in their
"eye for an eye" philosophy.

None of this is "religion."
All religion teaches respect for others and if we could all do that then wars and strife would
not have the religious significance it apparently has.

Religion unites people
- human nature divides them so let's make the choice and fight the selfishness and greed in us
and we can enjoy all the positive effects of religion such as  love for your fellow man, mutual
respect, sharing of resources, fighting poverty and enjoying the simple things in life.
         

 

Does the line "I stand up" in the poem "Miss Rosie" indicate that the speaker thinks that she is better than Miss Rosie?

I don't
think Clifton intended this poem to
mean that the speaker stands up in superiority over Miss
Rosie. But, I will
say that if you don't know Clifton's intent, the poem is totally vague on

this point. After a slew of insults, the speaker says "I stand up" and it really
seems
like she's saying "I am better than you; or this will never happen to
me." It really
sounds downright self-righteous on the speaker's part. Had the
poem ended with "why don't
you stand up" or "will you stand up."

"I stand up"
- "through your destruction." The use of the word
"through" just baffles me.
Through - as if the speaker is just plowing
through it; getting past it as you would through
some obstacle. In this
respect, I agree that it does sound like the speaker is being high and
mighty
here. And since I believe in the interpretation of the reader just as important as
the
inent of the author, this is a valid...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

What were the advantages and disadvantages of the wartime policy of unconditional surrender?

Unconditional surrender meant that there was
no ambiguity as to the precise moment the war ended. This gave all parties to the conflict a
much-needed degree of certainty, allowing them to plan for the post-war future. Isolated pockets
of resistance would doubtless remain in such a scenario, but they would be easily contained. At
the very least, the insistence on unconditional surrender would make it abundantly clear to all
concerned what was expected of them, and this was surely its main advantage.

On the downside, the demand for unconditional surrender, at least in the context of the
East Asian theater of war, merely served to encourage further resistance. The Japanese felt they
had nothing to lose by continuing to fight, even though it was obvious that they could never
actually win the war. The Japanese felt they were fighting for their civilization, which they
believed was under threat if they capitulated on America's terms. It was only after the United
States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the Japanese finally acceded to
demands for unconditional surrender. But in the meantime, loss of life on both sides continued
to mount.

Compare the elements of rock music, including tone color, rhythm, form, melody, and harmony, with those same elements from another musical period of...

This is a
fairly interesting topic.  I would say that we could broaden the topic to include "popular
music" with Classical music.  If this can be done, the link below could be an excellent
opportunity.  You can compare Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" or Beethoven's
"Fifth Symphony" to the disco versions of each song featured on the Saturday Night
Fever soundtrack.  This might be an excellent opportunity to examine tone color, rhythm
prevalent in a disco version of the classical piece, as well as the different harmonies present
in each.  If this cannot be done, I would suggest using Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the
multiple remixes and variations of it, most notably by Billy Joel as well as
UNKLE.

What role does hope play in our lives?

Hope is
the idea that something in the future might happen. Hope carries an element of optimism that the
future event, whether in this life or the next, will be beneficial. Human life is challenging;
we face and fear mortality and are constantly dealing with loss. Hope is one thing that keeps us
going in the face of our troubles and struggles. 

Hope also contributes to
our sense of purpose in life. If life is only struggle, people have a hard time being motivated
to do the things they need to do. Hope leads us to work harder at work in hope of a raise or
promotion, to love more deeply because we hope we will be loved back, to work for eternal things
that will influence what happens beyond our death. That may be based on religious beliefs about
the afterlife or the desire to leave an earthly legacy. Hope can be a tiny, sweet feeling that
keeps us going even when we are facing the storms of life.

href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-...

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

In Walden, what is Thoreau's attitude toward individuality and conformity?

All of
can be understood as a passionate argument in favor of living a
non-conformist, individualist life. This, according to Thoreau, is the only way to live life
fully.

Thoreau states in the first chapter that he has sought out the
simplest life possible, near Walden Pond, so that he can find out who he is as an individual and
what life is when stripped to its bare essentials. He argues that by accumulating material goods
and going into to debt to conform to society's ideas of an appropriate lifestyle, most
people

lead lives of quiet desperation.

He knows that spending a year at Walden Pond, not working,
subsisting in a tiny cabin, is a non-conformist choice. Nevertheless, he explains in one of the
most famous lines in the book that he

wanted to front only
the essential facts of life . . . and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not
lived.

Thoreau's goal is to "suck out all the marrow
of life," and he can only do this, he believes, by living in a way that does not conform
but is true to himself as an individual.

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