At one
moment the free bird is up in the sky and at the next its floating effortlessly down the gentle
current of a river. And then again it takes off and pleases itself with the warmth of the sun.
It drifts and glides as if the whole sky belongs to it. It flies in the endless sky
unrestrictedly and unthwartedly.
and he names the sky his
own
It revels in the pleasant breeze and hears
the sighing treeswhen the soft trade winds blow through...
Through
the end of the story with Okeke, Achebe is suggesting that African traditionalist notions of the
good must be integrated within modern conditions of change.
Okeke is shown
as insistent on his traditional notions of the good. Okeke believes that the traditional ways
are the best, and he believes that Nnaemeka should marry as culture dictates. When Nnaemeka
does not adhere to custom, Okeke is intensely focused on marginalizing his son and his daughter-
in- law....
Unlike some leaders in ancient Greek plays, likein , for
example,doesn't make a public "show" of his power or demand obeisance simply to
demonstrate his authority over the Theban people.
Oedipus came to be King of
Thebes when he solved the riddle of the Sphinx and released Thebes from her tyranny. (In ancient
Greece, the Sphinx had the body of a winged lioness and the head of a woman. The Egyptian Sphinx
had, and has, the body of a lion and the head of a man.) In addition to being made King, Oedipus
was also given the hand of the former Queen, , in marriage. Oedipus knows that he's King only
through a twist of fate and as the result of a remarkable series of events.
From all appearances, Oedipus is a benevolent king, and the people of Thebes revere and
respect him. The Priest refers to Oedipus as "our peerless king." Oedipus repeatedly
refers to his people as "my children."
In the opening scene of the
play, Oedipus commiserates with the supplicants who have come...
Thacia
disguises herself as a man so that Joel
can gather information. Daniel accompanies her to town
so they can be seen,
thus taking suspicion off of Joel. While there, Daniel suggests waiting for
Jesus to appear so they can listen to one of his sermons; Thacia refuses, claiming that
she
doesn't want to risk giving themselves away. After a little while, Daniel
presses her on the
issue, and she gives this explanation.
"It's just
that I don't want to face Jesus with a
lie. I couldn't bear the way his eyes would look at
me."
"If he understood the reason he wouldn't blame
you."
"Yes, I think he would," she said thoughfully. "I
think that for
Jesus a lie is impossible, no matter what the reason."
(Speare,
, Google Books)
In other
words,
Thacia doesn't want to show her human fallibility, knowing that the
reaction would be sympathy,
but also pity. She doesn't want to be pitied for
doing something she considers morally correct,
even though she knows that she
is breaking laws to do it. Her "lie" of dressing like a
man to decieve others
is enough to make her ashamed -- not of the action itself, but of being
discovered in the action -- and so she doesn't want to expose herself to
pity.
You need to
use the product rule to evaluate
the derivative of the function, such that:
`h'(t) = (sqrt
t)'(1 - t^2) + (sqrt t)(1 - t^2)'`
`h'(t)= (1 -
t^2)/(2
sqrt t) - 2t*sqrt t`
Hence, evaluating the
derivative
of the function, using the product rule, yields `h'(t)= (1 -
t^2)/(2 sqrt t) - 2t*sqrt t.`
In framing a response to your question, we
need to add some historical context to the American historical themes of political science.
Pre-1900, political science was rooted in sectionalism and reconstruction politics. The notion
of federalism and states rights dominated the political climate. By the 1920s, political science
shifted towards how the American Industrial Revolution shaped urban and rural policy. The
influence of the Progressive Movement, with its emphasis on the plight of workers and, to some
extent, greater civil rights, became the prevalent framework in which political scientists
operated. The Great Depression, World Wars, and FDRs presidency shaped the political landscape.
Political science broadened its scope to include societal problems and a global perspective.
This perspective led to an economic interpretation of politics and a rise in Marxist
construction of the American political landscapes. The turbulence of the sixties led to the
emergence of a new analysis of America by political scientists. This view became known as a
neo-Marxist view.
Neo-Marxists further broadened the scope of political
inquiry by maintaining the Marxist economic notions of class but expanding the Marxist
interpretation to include new categories of race, gender, and other marginalized members of
society as part of their study. Some political theorists argue the American political science
culture is still primarily a neo-Marxist framework, while others argue political science is in a
state of transformation to a view influenced by globalization, technology, and political
movements (climate change, for example.). These frameworks are, of course, an overgeneralization
of the transitions in political theory but are necessary for discussing the traditional and
modern view of political science.
Here are a few ways political scientists
have traditionally and continue to approach the field of study. Political science looks at
political events and movements from the perspective of political parties and voters. The
criticism of this method in the United States political system while divided between the
monopolies of the Democratic and Republican party voters tend to function on a personal
levelparties call these kitchen table issues. It is hard to draw a general conclusion of voters
when different kitchen table issues affect individuals in very different personal ways. The
unemployed factory worker in Ohio has little in common with the high-tech employee of San
Francisco or the farmer in Nebraska. Voting patterns are discernable, but the reasons a person
chooses to vote are not as simple as party affiliation.
Another way political
scientists study society is through the power structures and how power operates in the
community. Power structures are informal and formal networks. The criticism is determining how
these networks operate. It is easy to see the effect of a political decision. It is much more
complex to decide on how many choices were influenced by corporate, community, or other
interests. Power structures are not transparent or easily discernible. There is the study of
political science from the perspective of how politics influences the average citizen. Similar
to power structures but much different in focus, this study focuses solely on the impact and not
on how the decision was made. Divorcing the decision-making process from the decision is
problematic on many different levels. The criticism of this kind of research is that the
underlying assumption is citizens are not interested in politics unless it affects them
directly. The average citizen is oblivious to decisions made by political leaders and is
perfectly willing to allow someone else determine the political future as long as it doesnt
involve them on a personal level. A good example is how citizens view the former military draft,
who fights wars, and when or where war is fought.
The distinguishing factor
between the traditional approach and the modern approach in political science is the use of
social data. Political scientists tend towards incorporating large amounts of social data in
their research which until early in the twentieth century was not the case. Some outside and
inside the field question the relevance of political science as a field. It seems much of the
field involves so much social research that other fields have made political science irrelevant.
That is a different sort of argument.
Meg tells
Calvin to use his gift of communication to try to free Charles Wallace from the control of IT.
You can read all about this in chapter 8.
In that chapter, both Meg and
Calvin realize that Charles Wallace is a shadow of himself. Frustrated at their inability to
help him, they each take hold of Charles. However, Charles is now far stronger than either Meg
or Calvin. He...
So many
pyramids were constructed during
Egypt's Old Kingdom that it is sometimes referred to as the Age
of Pyramids.
It was during this period most of the pyramids at Giza and Sneferu were
built.
Pyramids of the Old Kingdom were almost always utilized as
elaborate
royal tombs. They were constructed of stone blocks, although
sometimes bricks were also used.
While it is missing today, the pyramids were
originally covered with a surface of smooth
polished limestone which would
gleam in the sunshine. The tips of these pyramids were crowned
with a
capstone of basalt, granite, or other hard rock and often covered with shining metal
such
as gold or silver. Some of these pyramids were extremely monumental. The
largest, the Pyramid of
Khufu, was nearly five hundred feet tall. Some were
much smaller, such as the so-called Queen's
Pyramids, which are under one
hundred feet in height. Pyramids were usually built near other
pyramids and
not far from temple complexes.
The tombs themselves were
placed
inside of these grand structures in a series of tunnels and chambers.
The grandest of these
chambers were reserved for the mummified body of the
Pharoah. Nearby would be smaller chambers
for the bodies of servants and
other members of the royal family. Inside all these rooms were
places for
objects meant to accompany the deceased to the world of the dead. Since it
was
believed that the souls of the deceased traveled with the setting sun to
the underworld, most
Old Kingdom pyramids were constructed west of the Nile
River.
I think you
could have a lot of fun with stagingand their tellingof what they foresee for his future. The
scene sparks the theme of ambition in-- he is presented with the picture of himself as king --
and it is a very tempting picture for a man who has accomplished most everything else he has set
out to accomplish up to this...
believes at
first, when he hears this phrase in a dream, that it means that he will meet someone (perhapshe
learns later) in the Golden Country. He believes this place to be a place of freedom and release
from the world and society in which he now lives. He comes to learn that the "place where
there is no darkness" is actually, or literally, the Ministry of Love. Upon his arrest he
is taken there for having committed several crimes against the Party and he notices while he is
there that not a soul can tell the time or the day. The lights are always on and there are no
windows in the Ministry of Love. This is where criminal Party members go to be reconditioned on
their loyalty to Big Brother. Figuratively or symbolically it could also mean that the mind has
no darkness in it about life and the mission of the Party and Big Brother. In this place one
does not leave until they love Big Brother with the depths of his soul. He does not leave until
he has pledged his undying loyalty to Big Brother with every fiber of his being often betraying
the person closest to him. It is at this juncture that a person has a mind, the Party would
consider, without darkness upon which they are released back into the Party.
It is hard to
imagine how someone could say that there were any positive effects of the Atlantic slave trade.
This was one of the most evil things that one group of people has ever done to another. I
suppose there are things that came out of it that were not bad, but they could have been
accomplished in other ways. Let us look at two such effects.
One positive
effect of the Atlantic slave trade might be that people in the Americas became much richer than
they might otherwise have been. It is possible to argue that the United States would not have
become the wealthy and powerful country that it is if it had not been built on a foundation of
slavery. You could say that this is good, but you might also note that this is like saying that
it is good when someone robs a bank because that person and their family become
wealthier.
Another positive effect of the slave trade, from a certain
perspective, is that the United States ended up with a more diverse society than it otherwise
would have had. African Americans have contributed a great deal to American culture. For
example, black music has influenced American music so much that the two are essentially
indistinguishable. Because of the slave trade, we are able to live in a country that is more
racially diverse than it would have been and we get to reap the benefits of that diversity.
However, this same benefit could have been gained from voluntary migration and there was no need
to commit a horrific crime against humanity to accomplish it.
In short, I
would argue that you have to really stretch the definition of positive effects to argue that
the Atlantic slave trade had any such effects. The slave trade is a terrible stain on our
history, one which should never have happened.
In
"" much of the phrasing and vocabulary is
reminiscent of fairy tales. For instance,
the poem begins as do many tales
with the idea of "long ago/once upon a
time":
It was many and many a year ago,/In
a...
In act
3, scene 3,learns fromthat he, Romeo, has been banished from Verona for killing . Romeo's
reaction is melodramatic and senseless, given thatcould have given orders for Romeo's execution,
and Friar Laurence tries to make Romeo understand his situation more rationally.
As regards Romeo's mindset, Friar Laurence advises him to "Be patient, for
the...
Traditional, or liberal, feminism is
concerned exclusively with issues pertaining to gender. Perhaps the earliest womens movements
were ones concerned with womens suffrage (i.e. right to vote) and reproductive issues (access to
birth control and abortion). Another major focus of womens movements was money €“ specifically
womens ability to own property and to work in the same jobs as men for equal pay. A more
theoretical strand of feminism became concerned with ideologies of oppression. Marxist feminism
related the oppression of women as a gender to the more general oppression of various
disempowered groups including those marginalized by race and poverty. For Marxist feminists,
gender inequality is one of many manifestations of the inherent exploititiveness and inequality
inherent in capitalism, and the consider these rectifiable only by change in the entire system
of oppression, not by incremental changes such as affirmative action within an inherently
hierarchal and oppressive system.
I'm
unsure of which version of the text you have, so the page numbers might be off a little bit.
Bob Ewell and his family are brought up very early in the story.is telling
her readers about how the Ewell children always show up at school on the first day and then
never again. Scout goes home and askswhy she can't have the same arrangement. Atticus then tells
Scout a little bit of the family background of the Ewells. He tells Scout on page 31 that the
Ewells are granted certain privileges in Maycomb because the rest of the town intentionally
turns a blind eye. He then gives the specific example of Bob being allowed to hunt out of
season.
He said that the Ewells were members of an
exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously
allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells
activities. They didnt have to go to school, for one thing. Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell,
Burriss father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season.
Scout is appalled at that and asks why. Atticus then explains, on the same page, that
Bob is a drunk, and his family suffers because of it.
Its against the law, all right, said my father, and its certainly bad, but when a
man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger
pains. I dont know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their
father can hit.
Atticus then finishes the conversation
about Bob Ewell by saying that Bob is more or less a lost cause. This quote can also be found on
page 31.
". . . hell never change his
ways."
Page 125 has a great line about Atticus's
opinion of Bob Ewell. Scout has just asked Calpurnia why people are upset at Tom Robinson and
his family. Calpurnia explains what Bob is accusing Tom of, and Scout says to Cal what Atticus
says about the Ewells.
Mr. Ewell? My memory stirred.
Does he have anything to do with those Ewells that come every first day of school an€˜ then go
home? Why, Atticus said they were absolute trashI never heard Atticus talk about folks the way
he talked about the Ewells."
On page 168, Mr. Gilmer
is questioning Heck Tate about the night that Bob Ewell reported the supposed crime. The quote
is important because it helps to show how racist Bob Ewell is.
Mr. Tate said, It was the night of November twenty-first. I was just leaving my
office to go home when BMr. Ewell came in, very excited he was, and said get out to his house
quick, some niggerd raped his girl.
On page 175, Bob
Ewell is being questioned on the stand, and that's when he forcefully and publicly states his
accusation against Tom. Again, Bob can't even say Tom's name.
He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. I seen that black nigger yonder
ruttin on my Mayella!
On the next page, readers are told
just how proud Bob is of himself for so completely taking control of the courtroom's mood with
his statement.
As Judge Taylor banged his gavel, Mr. Ewell
was sitting smugly in the witness chair, surveying his handiwork. With one phrase he had turned
happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps
lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pinkpink: the judge
might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.
Although's long since skipped town, it's difficult for people to stop talking about
hersuch is the enormous impact she had on their lives. Yet despite the general fascination with
Stargirl, no one can really say that they ever got to know her well. And that bugs Leo. Even
though he's...
Jr. is
depicted as a desperate dreamer who is fed up with his current occupation and desires to become
a successful businessman. Walter Jr. dreams of using Mama's insurance money to invest in a
liquor business, in an effort to eventually become financially stable. However, Mama anddo not
support his dream, which pushes Walter Jr. to the edge.
During a
conversation with Beneatha, Walter Jr. criticizes her for wanting to use...
The two
contrasting settings (the secluded pond
and the ranch) present diametrically opposed
environments in whichandlearn to
exist. At the pond, George presents it to Lennie as a place of
refuge, where
Lennie is to go in case of trouble at the ranch. It is uncivilized, as opposed
to
the civilization of the ranch. It is a place of food and drink, where
shelter is not even
necessary as they sleep under the stars. All that
is...
The poem, a
ballad, strives to maintain a regular rhythm and rhyme: abab,...
Any form of
rebellion in the society of is definitely significant, because it is
putting your own life and sanity at risk. In their society, people are so very closely watched
and analyzed that rebellion, whether in rule only or against the entire system, is a
life-threatening risk. knows this, and yet rebels against the system anyway. She has spent
quite a bit of time rebelling against it, and it has improved her quality of life while she
has. Unfortunately, getting caught will mean the end of any form of independent living or
thought whatsoever. Yet, it is still worth the risk to her.
So, because of
this, I don't find her rebellion insignificant. Anything that one endeavors to do at the risk
of your life is not a light-hearted, flippant thing. Julia, although maybe not rebelling
against an entire system, sure has a hatred for all that system does, and risks her rebellion at
the cost of great sacrifice. I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!
Estimate
`lim_(x->0)(cos2x-cosx)/(x^2)`
From the graphs
it...
has no
intention of usingfor her usual services. He is lonely and depressed, and he has no one to
comfort him. He cannot go home, because his parents would know he failed out of school again if
he comes home too early. He is feeling terrible about failing and devastated still about losing
his brother. He has no other avenue to pursue, since there is no one there for him. He had
previously tried to think of someone to call, but he found a reason to rule out everyone he
could think of. Holden is seeking assistance because he knows he is falling, but he does not
know where to turn.
Holden meetsin the elevator and is taken by surprise at
Maurices blunt questioning. Because he does not know how to answer, he ends up agreeing to a
prostitute.
It was against my principles and all, but I
was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very
depressed, you can't even think.
When Sunny arrives,
Holden is only interested in talking, because that is what he so desperately needs to do. Holden
feels sorry for Sunny, as he imagines what her life as a prostitute must be like. He offers to
pay her for talking, because she is upset at being awakened to come to his room. He must purge
his feelings in order to get past them and begin healing. He really needs a therapist, but Sunny
will have to substitute, just as various otherwho listen to Holden must do. His teachers, the
nuns, , , the girls at the bar, even all these characters function as substitute therapists for
Holden. He does not know exactly what is bothering him, but he is trying desperately to reach
whatever it is. He strikes up bizarre conversations with all of these people, yet he can never
feel better, because they are not trained professionals who can help him
recover.
There are
numerous things that we can conclude from World War 2. Among them is that we shouldnt use atomic
weapons and that Nazism and fascism are destructive. The main thing to understand, however, is
that warfare has vastly changed and technology is the new face of battle.
To
the first point, warfare prior to the World Wars was typically done in lines and straight on,
meaning that a sheer numerical advantage would usually lead to victory. These wars created
trench warfare and eventually led to guerrilla warfare, an entirely different strategy based on
more advanced tactics.
Technological dominance is the second conclusion of
importance, and one that America and the Soviet Union both took to heart immediately following
the war. Germanyand then later the United Statesproved that the more technologically advanced
nation would have a supreme leg up on the competition. U-boats, smaller tanks, and improved
airplanes led to Germanys dominance of the European sphere of battle, but American planes,
warships, submarines, code breakers, and eventually nuclear weapons prevailed mightily, showing
that technological development was paramount to victory in an international
conflict.
The My Lai
Massacre occurred on March 16, 1968. The tragic event, which resulted in the deaths of about 500
civilians, represented the utter failure of America's efforts in the Vietnam War. It was a
microcosm of the futility, senselessness, and lawlessness of the entire conflict.
The slaughter of civilians stemmed in part from Charlie Company's frustration with the
enemy's hit-and-run tactics. American troops had spent weeks patrolling the area around My Lai
and had suffered dozens of casualties to enemy booby traps. In spite of this, they had not yet
engaged the enemy. Finally, Captain Ernest Medina informed his men that they would be going into
battle. In fact, the enemy troops were dozens of miles away, and the village, My Lai, was full
of civilians. The American troops encountered no resistance, but they raped and executed
helpless civilians.
Communist Vietnamese forces usually avoided pitched
battles with Americans and their overwhelming firepower. Because of this, the Vietnam War was
unlike America's previous conflicts. American generals were vexed by their enemy's
strategy.
America was supposed to help the Vietnamese stave off the evils of
Communism. Killing civilians was counterproductive because it buttressed support for Communists
throughout the Vietnamese countryside. For this reason, rural areas not under the direct control
of American or South Vietnamese forces were usually pro-Communist.
After
World War II, the United States played a key role in putting Nazis on trial for war crimes.
Nazis who claimed to be carrying out orders were not pardoned. Many hoped that the Nuremberg
Trials would set a precedent for future war crimes. But only one American officer, William
Calley, served any time for the My Lai Massacre: he was a scapegoat.
Industrialization precipitated the rise of New Imperialism. Since industrialization
improved production in American and European economies, countries began implementing
protectionist policies to guard infant businesses against competition from foreign firms.
Britain's economy was under threat because it relied on international trade. Its goods were
heavily taxed in foreign markets, and most English businesses were losing money from rising
costs. As a result, Britain was losing its dominance in world trade and needed a new solution to
regain its power. John Ruskin, a British professor, was one of the first people to propose
imperialism and the acquisition of colonies as the new role for Britain. Benjamin Disraeli
shared Ruskin's sentiments and believed that Britain could solidify its superiority on the
international stage through acquiring colonies.
The term "New
Imperialism" refers to colonization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most
notably, this involved large-scale...
As the
novel establishes from the very beginning, and as Meg says, she's the one who is closest to
Charles Wallace, and while she doesn't fully understand him, he understands her. Her father has
been gone for so long that he...
The dual self is
represented by the character of . She eventually begins to question society and society's
rulesthe very rules to which she has outwardly conformed for so long. For example, prior to
Edna's figurative awakening, she kept a regular reception day, as dictated by the upper-class
mores of New Orleans society. On Tuesdays, Edna would remain at home, wearing a "handsome
reception gown" and receiving visitors all day long. She has done this every day for her
six-year marriage, until she and her family returned from Grand Isle this time. She does not
remain at home one Tuesday, and she tells , "I simply felt like going out, and I went
out." Leonce is appalled because "'people don't do such things; we've got to observe
les convenances if we ever expect to get on and keep up with the procession," he says. But
Edna really does not care about "keeping up" with society at this point. Where she
once conformed, she is no longer willing to do so.
Edna wants freedom and
independence from society's rules, but she also wants to be accepted by society, and these two
things really cannot go together, as we see with Mlle. Reisz. Reisz has more freedom than most
women at the time, but she is never invited to parties except to play the piano and entertain
others. She lives alone, which grants her a great deal of independence, but she remains on the
fringe of society, never to be accepted by its inner circle, as Edna desires to continue to be.
For example, she wants to leave her husband and become 's mistress, and she tells Robert,
"We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any
consequence." However, Robert cannot accept these terms; he wants to compel Leonce to
divorce Edna so that Robert can marry her, but Edna laughs at this idea, shocking him too. He
must know that shunning society's rules will result in society's rejection, as he leaves her a
note that says, "'Good-byebecause I love you.'" He tries to save her from social ruin
by abandoning her, because he evidently realizes what she does not: that one cannot turn one's
back on society and still enjoy the privileges of acceptance.
There seems
to be some confusion here
aboutversus symbolism. A symbol is something that stands for some
larger
idea. It could be a color, object, place, person and so on. An allegory is when we
can
understand the entire story as a symbol. The two concepts are related but
distinct.
If you are talking about taking the entire story
as an allegory, then you could argue
that Hawthorne is delving into issues of
sin, guilt, hypocrisy, and women's rights. If you want
to interpret the whole
story as an allegory, you could look at how he uses the governor and the
townspeople to point out the hypocrisy of people in power and how malleable public
opinion is.
You could also consider that was written
right around the Seneca Falls
Convention and that Hawthorne knew several
people who were active in the abolitionist and
women's rights movements. You
could make an argument that 's struggle is symbolic of the
struggle of many
women in the face of patriarchy.
If, however,
you...
At the beginning of ,says that because of his father's
advice,
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit
that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran
bores.
We soon learn that it is simply untrue that Nick
is inclined to reserve judgments, since he quickly offers us a series of judgments aboutand goes
on to judge most of the majorin the book, including people like , whom he is meeting for the
first time (and with whom he has an affair, despite his disparaging comments). Nick's judgments
are highly unreliable and subject to immediate revision.describes an entirely fictitious
background of great opulence:
I lived like a young rajah
in all the capitals of EuropeParis, Venice, Romecollecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big
game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that
had happened to me long ago.
Nick correctly judges this
to...
""
means that the work of art inspires or brings about a reaction in the viewer/listener/reader of
an association or relationship (emotional or otherwise) to something outside the work of art.
It may be an emotional response where the viewer feels an association with an event in his or
her own life; it may be a mental association of the artwork with an historic event, or a
philosophical concept; it may be the work actually refers to some real world event or cultural
ideal or human condition to inspire the asociation within the viewer's mind. Puns, symbols and
allusions are often used in this context.
In , there is an
example of propaganda relating
to . Three weeks afterviolently expels Snowball from the
farm,tells the
animals that Napoleon was never really against the building of the windmill.
Moreover, he says that the plans for the windmill were never even created by Snowball.
Snowball
had, in fact, stolen the plans from among Napoleon's
paperwork.
The purpose
of this propaganda is to blacken
Snowball's reputation while simultaneously raising Napoleon's
prestige. By
making it look as though Snowball had lied about his support for the
windmill,
Napoleon ensures that the animals side with him and believe
that...
Throughout the play, both characters
challenge
each other, as Proctor ends up fighting for his life and Reverend Parris does his
best
to remain in his important position. Initially, John Proctor disagrees
with Reverend Parris's
decision to send for Reverend Hale to investigate the
use of witchcraft. Reverend Parris
believes that John Proctor is part of a
faction attempting to usurp his power and immediately
challenges him by
mentioning his unflattering Sunday service attendance. John Proctor then
begins to discuss why he doesn't support Reverend Parris and mentions that Parris only
preaches
about Hell. Proctor also views Reverend Parris as a greedy, selfish
man who is more concerned
about his wealth and status than his obligation to
serve the Lord. Proctor cannot stand that his
tithe money is spent on golden
candlesticks and even refuses to have his child baptized by
Reverend Parris.
Reverend Parris sees Proctor's adversity as an attempt to overthrow his
authority and tries to convince the Court officials that Proctor is a rogue troublemaker
who
should burn with the other witches.
In s
poem , the reflecting surface is also afor a reflective or contemplative state. By itself, the
mirror, which Plath describes as the four-cornered eye of a god, has no preconceptions,
showing only the truth, without cruelty. Most often the mirror contemplates the speckled wall it
faces, which demands no answers from the mirror.
Here, Plath alludes to the
magical mirrors in Snow White and other fairy tales, which were tasked with
answering important questions such as Whos the fairest of them all? In Plaths poem, the mirror
suggests it doesnt like answering questions, which is why the silent, undemanding wall has
become a part of its heart. The wall treats the mirror as what it is, expecting no magic,
which makes the mirror fall in love with it.
However, the mirrors
contemplation of the wall is disturbed by both faces and darkness. Out of the two
interruptions, it is the face of a womanprobably its ownerthat ruffles the mirrors honest
quietude the most.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over
me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those
liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She
rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
Unlike
the wall, which asked nothing of the mirror, the woman wants something momentous from it. She
treats the mirror as a lake, a three-dimensional body which hides answers. From this lake, the
woman wants to fish out selves, both lost and ideal. However, the mirror is just a
two-dimensional mirror. It may be god-like, but it is bound by its nature, which is to show the
truth. It can only reflect what is in front of it, but the woman doesnt like what she sees,
rewarding the mirror with tears.
With the aid of liarsthe forgiving light
of candles and moonthe woman hopes the mirror can work some alchemy, but the mirror fails her.
At another level, we can also say that the woman sees in the mirror what she
wants to see, which is herself as inadequate. Thus, the mirror reflects
both the womans external and internal realities. What the woman wants is to retrieve perfection
and the past, which the mirror suggests is impossible. At the same time, she dreads the future,
her eventual mature self, rising up to meet her.
I am
important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the
darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises
toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Through
the metaphor of the mirror, Plath also comments on the unrealistic beauty standards to which
women have been subjected through the ages. Just like with the Queen in Snow
White, the woman in the poem is forced into believing youthful beauty is her only
source of power. In the quest to appear young and pretty, the woman develops a toxic
relationship with the mirror, depending on it to validate her existence. If only she could
accept the truth of aging and the inherent beauty of growth, she would be as objective as the
wall, and the mirror would show her a brighter reality.
Gladwell
discusses the K. Anders Ericsson study in chapter 2 of Outliers.
The study in question divided a class of violinists at the Berlin school of music into
three groups based on their ability levels. Each student was then asked to calculate how many
hours he or she had spent practicing since they first picked up the violin.
The study found that students in the top, elite group had practiced an average of
10,000 hours, steadily increasing the number of hours per week as they got older. The conductors
of the study then conducted the same survey with piano players with similar results.
Gladwell infers from this study that people need to spend 10,000 hours on a specific
skill before they can become masters of it. He also takes note of the fact that the study found
no naturals or grinds, or people who were able to make it in the top tier on talent alone or
hard workers who still fell short of their goals.
Therefore, Gladwell
concludes that if someone is willing to put in the time required to master a desired skill, then
he or she will reach the top of his or her field. In fact, he insinuates that this hard work is
what makes a marginally talented person into an exceptional talent.
Hemingway is
often referred to as a minimalist; his understated manner of expression in objective and terse
prose characterizes his desire to describe without frills, and without the imposition of an
attitude. His repetition of words and phrases establish order in a world of nothingness. If a
person exposes himself to the vicissitudes of life, Fate will overcome him; however, if he can
find rules to live by, he will survive.
In "A Clean Well-Lighted
Place," the older waiter understands that the old man needs a clean and pleasant cafe
to stave off the emptiness of his life; he needs "a light for the night." After the
other people leave, the waiter stays, turns off the light, and converses with himself,
It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be
clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music....What did he
fear? It was not fear or dread. It was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it
needed and a certain cleanness and order....he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada
y pues nada. Our nada who art in
nada....nothing, nothing is with thee...
A "clean well-lighted place" order is all that man can establish to keep from
"nothingness." When the waiter goes home, he lies in bed until daylight comes; then,
he can sleep. As Hemingway writes in another story--",--the narrator expresses the
feelings of the waiter:
If I could have a light I was not
afraid to sleep, because I knew my soul would only go out of me if it were dark.
The waiter, like Hemingway, is a man of few words and few regrets;
he accepts pain, anguish, and regret with stoic dignity. The repetitions of "clean,
well-lighted place," "nothing," and "nada" convey the nihilism, the
dark of Hemingway, that is held back by order. The wait tries to convince himself that the
awful void he feels inside himself is nothing to worry about, only something he fears when he is
alone. But, Hemingway's terse prose also implies something else. He once wrote,
All stories, if continued far enough end in death and he is no good
storyteller, who would keep that from you.
The
predominant interpretation of the symbolism of the macaroons in 's is
thathas no power in her relationship withand must resort to buying and eating macaroons in
secret in order to assert her independence and demonstrate her personhood, even if only to
herself. Scholars assert that Nora's purchase of the macaroons is an act of rebellion against
Torvald's oppressive, if not abusive, treatment of herand, by extension, against society's
oppression of her as well.
An alternative interpretation might be that
Torvald and Nora's verbal sparring over the macaroons in the opening scene of the play is a game
that Torvald and Nora play. Torvald knows quite well that Nora bought macaroons on her shopping
trip, but he acts like he has no knowledge of it in order to reinforce and maintain his dominant
role in the relationship and to reinforce Nora's subservience to him:
HELMER [wagging his finger at her]: Hasn't Miss
Sweet Tooth been breaking rules in town today?NORA: No; what makes you think
that?HELMER: Hasn't she paid a visit to the confectioner's?
NORA: No, I assure you, Torvald
HELMER: Not been nibbling
sweets?NORA: No, certainly not.
HELMER: Not even taken a
bite at a macaroon or two?NORA: No, Torvald, I assure you really
HELMER: There, there, of course I was only joking.
NORA
[going to the table on the right]: I should not think of going against your
wishes.HELMER: No, I am sure of that; besides, you gave me your
word[Going up to her.] Keep your little Christmas secrets to yourself, my
darling.
Torvald acts like he believes every word Nora
says even though he knows that she's not telling the truth. However, Torvald is oblivious to the
fact that he's playing a game with Nora that Nora has already won.
Nora gets
whatever she wants from Torvald. It's simply a matter of Nora playing the subservient role,
letting Torvald think that he's being magnanimous and taking care of his "little
squirrel," perhaps pouting now and again, and reaping the rewards of her manipulation of
him.
Torvald's reaction to 's letter totally undermines their relationship.
It's when Torvald changes the game and disrupts the balance of power and destroys the mutual
respect that Torvald and Nora have had for one another that Nora decides to fully assert her
independence:
HELMER [sadly]: I see,
I see. An abyss has opened between usthere is no denying it. But, Nora, would it not be possible
to fill it up?NORA: As I am now, I am no wife for you.
HELMER: I have it in me to become a different man.
NORA: Perhapsif
your doll is taken away from you.
In
,speaks withabout her first day at school. Scout says that she doesn't want to go back. She
tells Atticus about her teacher, Miss Caroline, who told her to tell Atticus to stop teaching
her how to read. Miss Caroline also punished Scout by striking her across her hand with a ruler.
Atticus tells Scout,
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk
around in it.
In other words, Atticus suggests that Scout
should try harder to empathize with people, including Miss Caroline. After all, Miss Caroline is
new to Maycomb County and must be finding it hard to adjust.
In, Calpurnia
takes Atticus through to the kitchen to show him all of the gifts of food that the African
Americans of Maycomb County have left for him to express their gratitude for the effort he put
into his defense of Tom Robinson. In response, "Atticus's eyes filled with tears." He
tells Calpurnia to pass on the...
I would say in a
nutshell, Bruno understands that Maria is a human being. She is not an extension of his needs,
but a fully formed person with her own past, needs, wants and desires.
You
could say in some regards, this is also what Maria's insight into her past helps Bruno see about
his own father. This is a common part of development in adolescents, as they learn to accept
their parents and other family members as individuals and not just as part of their
lives.
There is some more info on the Bruno/Maria relationship in the source
link provided below.
Clara shows
up early in the play, while Eliza is selling flowers on the street. She treats Eliza haughtily,
even wanting change from the sixpence her mother has her offer Eliza for a bouquet of flowers.
They're only worth a penny Clara says to her mother, annoyed when her mother tells Eliza to keep
the change.
Later, Clara and her mother show up at Mrs. Higgins's after Eliza
has developed enough of the speech and manners of a lady to be introduced into society. Eliza is
visiting there during Mrs. Higgins calling hours, and Clara now treats her deferentially as a
lady, not recognizing her as the flower girl she once treated arrogantly on the street. Now that
Eliza has the accent and dress of a lady, Clara defends her after Eliza bursts out with
"Not bloody likely," bloody being a shocking and unacceptable term in polite society.
After the surprise that accompanies Eliza's utterance, Clara says
Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right. People will think we never go anywhere or see
anybody if you are so old-fashioned.
This acceptance of
Eliza's use of "bloody" satirizes or pokes fun at notions of class. Were Eliza, the
flower girl, to use the term "bloody" while wearing her shabby clothes and speaking
with a Cockney accent, the word would have revealed her unworthiness, and she would have been
judged coarse and crude. However, when she uses the word as a lady, suddenly it is acceptable,
the new thing, and not to use it is "old fashioned." We see by this example how
unfairly the lower classes are often judged, condemned for what gets a pass if only someone has
the right clothes and accent. Shaw thus uses Clara to poke fun at middle class
hypocrisy.
Mr. Hooper has never
been a particularly "energetic" preacher; he has been generally mild rather than
adopting a fire and brimstone style of speech.
The sermon
which he now delivered was marked by the same characteristics of style and manner as the general
series of his pulpit . But there was something, either in the sentiment of the discourse itself,
or in the imagination of the auditors, which made it greatly the most powerful effort that they
had ever heard from their pastor's lips. It was tinged, rather more darkly than usual, with the
gentle gloom of Mr. Hooper's temperament.
Now, however,
Mr. Hooper's style of speaking is having a very different effect on his congregation since he
has donned the black veil. Despite the fact that he has changed nothing else about his style,
his listeners are much more greatly affected than they ever have been before. Though he
continues to speak mildly and gently, his sermon today feels a great deal more powerful. "A
subtle power was breathed...
This is
an interesting question because usually instructors give particular lists of vocabulary words
for the books that they teach; however, I am happy to suggest some vocabulary words that I use
for this particular chapter. We will begin with the title of the chapter, "Absolute
Zero," and continue with other vocabulary words.
"Absolute
Zero" is the lowest possible temperature, where molecules are unable to move at all.
Another vocabulary word from this chapter could be "consciousness," which is the state
of being aware (and has to do with Meg coming back to awareness after being controlled by IT).
Yet another word is "deliberately," which means consciously making an effort to do
something (and has to do with Charles Wallace making that conscious decision to enter IT). A
fourth word could be "straightforward," which means understandable (and has to do with
a reference to our own time on earth). A fifth word could be "humbler," which means
not proud (and has to do with Meg's father coming out of his experience being less
prideful).
A sixth vocabulary word could be "paralyzed," which
means completely unable to move (and has to do with how Meg can't move at one point after they
find her father). A seventh word could be "faintly," which means hardly able to be
heard (and has to do with Meg admitting that she feels frozen when paralyzed). An eighth word
could be "fragrance," which means smell (and has to do with the way the gray planet
smells like spring. A ninth word could be "teetered," which means going back and forth
(and has to do with Meg going back and forth between love and hate for her father while she is
still affected by IT. A final word could be "indentations," which means notches or
shallow recesses (and has to do with the "eyes" of the creatures on the gray
planet).
Germany was
not the instigator of , but it was a key player in the war. Germany signed a treaty with
Austria-Hungary promising support if the nation was threatened. After the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, Austria-Hungary gave
Serbia a list of unreasonable demands to meet or else it would be invaded. Serbia, a Slavic
nation, appealed to Russia, as Czar Nicholas II claimed to defend all of the Slavs. Russia
started to mobilize in an attempt to intimidate Austria-Hungary into backing down.
Austria-Hungary secured German backing for its own mobilization. Germany feared Russian
mobilization as well and it declared war on Russia. France, bound by treaty to defend Russia,
then entered the war against Germany.
The Central Powers included Germany,
Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, and Bulgaria. The Ottoman Empire was in this
coalition because it was angry at Russia after the Balkan Wars and wanted...
The Party uses two-way
telescreens to spy on
people. The telescreens are positioned in people's homes, as described in
Part 1, the first few chapters, so that most of the area is visible to the camera. This
gives
people few places in which they have privacy. The Party shows
programming on the telescreens
such as exercise programs and politicalbut it
also can see into the rooms. The telescreens
aren't just in people's homes;
they are everywhere such as restaurants, bars, any place where
people might
be. Additionally, there are hidden microphones and people never know when
the
Party might be listening or watching everything said or done. Even if no
one is currently
watching or listening, the people don't know when the Party
might be and they have to assume
that they are always under surveillance.
This constant fear of being watched allows the Party
to control the
population. People see enough instances of others being taken away by the
Party,
never to be seen again, to have cause to constantly worry about their
own well-being. This fear
makes the people easy to
control.
In the
poem " " by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator tells that, long ago in a kingdom by the
sea, he and a maiden named Annabel Lee had a profound love for each other. The poet claims that
their love was so intense that the angels in heaven reacted by becoming envious of it. The poet
writes...
The main
way that the government alienates the people is by taking away any sort of possibility of strong
human relationships. Marriage and sex are supposed to be only about having children, for
example. The government is...
The very
first initiative taken by Santiago that shows he has the courage to follow his heart is the
following. His family has sent him to a seminary to learn languages and study so that he can
become a priest. The family, though very poor, is willing to struggle to put him through
seminary because having a priest in the family will bring honor to them....
This
question can be answered through a close reading of the text; Dahl doesn't directly state the
reason, but it can be inferred from clues given. If you look carefully at the story, it
indicates that Mary was waiting contentedly for her husband to come home from work. He does,
and she waits on him hand and foot, wanting to please him and make him happy. However, he
seems a bit distracted this evening, and drinks his entire cup of whiskey all at once, and is
nervous. Finally, he tells her that he is leaving her. writes,
"And he told her...he
added... 'Of course Ill give you money and see youre looked after. But there neednt really be
any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldnt be very good for my job.'"
These lines hint at the fact that he has just relayed the horrific
news that he didn't love her anymore and didn't want to be with her. Dahl doesn't relate the
exact words that he says, but we can infer it from the fact that he says he will give her money,
that he doesn't want any fuss, that it is bad news, etc. And, Mary's shock at the news also
implies that her husband, who she was very happy with, appears to be abandoning her and their
unborn child.
This is reason enough for her to lose it. In a daze, she goes
down to get meat for dinner, and before she even realizes what she has done, she bashes her
husband over the head with the frozen leg of lamb. The reason is her shock and dismay at a man
who she loved so dearly betraying her and leaving her and her baby to fend for themselves in the
world.
I hope that those thoughts clear things up a bit; good
luck!
The voyage to
the land of the Houyhnhnms shows
the ultimate destination of the unfortunate Gulliver; through
each prior
voyage he has held steadfast to the morality and dignity of his homeland and
his
countrymen, although his ideals were challenged many times. However, when
confronted with what
seems a perfect Utopian society, one in which humans are
animals and horses are intelligent and
civilized, Gulliver's alliance breaks
down at last. He cannot argue with the rational arguments
of the Houyhnhnms
and becomes a self-loathing Yahoo.
...I
entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind... in what I said of my
countrymen, I
extenuated their faults as much as I durst before so strict an
examiner; and upon every article
gave as favourable a turn as the matter
would bear. For, indeed, who is there alive that will
not be swayed by his
bias and partiality to the place of his birth?
(Swift,
, gutenberg.org)
Thecomes
when
Gulliver accepts that he is most at home in an inhuman society; on his
return to England he can
barely be in the same room with other humans.
Throughout his travels, he always found the means
and the need to return to
his home life and land, both physically and mentally; at the end of
the book,
he is safely home, but trapped among creatures he abhors. Gulliver has completed
his
journeys and found the reason and purpose he sought, but at the cost of
his link to human
society.
