What are the functions of a computer?

While the
functions and applications
of a computer are almost endless, we can sense four primary purposes
that are
all linked to data (information):  Entering data, manipulating data, viewing
processed
data, and storing data.  Computers are designed to transform raw
data into information.  The
computer operates under the control of
instructions stored in its own memory unit and can accept
inputted data,
process it aritmethically and through sequenced based logic, produce
information,
and store the results for future use.  All the applications of a
computer derive from this basic
starting point.

What is the difference between the long run and short run aggregate supply curves?

The
short-run aggregate supply curve slopes upwards because businesses supply more due to the
increase in prices. Usually, firms are limited in the short-run because they can't expand their
premises or buy new machinery to cater for the increased supply needs; therefore, they produce
as much as they can using the available resources.

The long-run aggregate
supply curve doesn't curve, but becomes vertical to show the maturity of the market. Firms have
had enough time to adjust to the market conditions and are not easily affected by changes in
prices. Businesses want to maintain the same profit level, and cannot risk increasing the
quantity supplied due to competition. If they increase supply, others might do the same; leaving
them with more unsold goods despite spending on production.

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What is the symbolism of the anise / licorice / absinthe ?

The short
story Hills like white elephants talks about a girl called Jig who is waiting to take the
express to Madrid with her American boyfriend. As they wait, they talk about an operation that
Jig is supposed to have. Their conversation verges on an argument as it becomes increasingly
clear that Jig is not keen on going through with the operation, even though her boyfriend is
totally for it. The operation in question is an abortion.

The couple orders a
drink called Anis del Toro, which they have with some water. Jig has never had this drink
before. Upon tasting it, she says, It tastes like licorice," to which the man replies,
Thats the way with everything." Jig then says, Yes, everything tastes of licorice.
Especially all the things youve waited so long for, like absinthe." Her companion is not
amused by her comment and says, Oh, cut it out."

In trying to
understand the symbolism in this part of the couples conversation, we need to understand the
meanings of licorice and absinthe in the given context. Absinthe is a distilled,
bitter-sweet, anise-flavored drink with high alcoholic content. It is mostly diluted with water
before consumption. It also has narcotic-like effects and tastes like licorice. It is worth
noting that absinthe was banned in most parts of the western world, in the early years of the
twentieth century, due to its narcotic-like effects on people. Licorice, on the other hand, is a
sweet tasting aromatic plant extract used in making candies and liquors. So when Jig says that
everything tastes of licorice, she could be referring to their life as a couple, a life that has
been focused on travels and drinking sprees, a heady life that has little real substance. It is
a bitter-sweet life, sweet because of the fun, and bitter because of the consequences of the
fun, such as the unwanted pregnancy. She compares their life to absinthe, perhaps drawing on the
narcotic-like effects of the drink. She could be saying that their heady life is addictive, so
that it is momentarily sweet, with dire long-term effects.

In what ways is Paulo Coelho's choice to relate The Alchemist in the form of direct address highly effective with the reader?

's
narrative choice to use direct address in his novel is a particularly
effective way to reach Coelho's audience.

First, this method of address makes
the story take on an immediacy (and "intellectual adjacency"). The ideas and precepts
do not necessarily take place in the past, but appeal to the modern audience as if the elements
of the novel could be taking place heretoday
and anywhere in the world. This timelessness
adds to the credibility of the story, which is not restricted to a particular culture, race,
religion or intellectual group. The book's themeslife truthsare universal. The manner of direct
address allows the reader to feel Coelho is speaking to each reader personally, and this creates
the story's credibility.

The author's choice of direct address makes the
reader feel as if he/she is being addressed almost conversationally. At first glance, one could
believe that this might rob the story of its subtle elegance. However, the
author's ability to speak so succinctly and clearlywhile presenting themes of enormous valueis
accomplished with grace and is something of a surprise. Interestingly (and worth noting), it is
not until the reader sits down with the book a second or third time that he/she realizes that
this is not a one-dimensional story, but something with multiple layers.
Each time we read the book, we learn and internalize something new. The method of using direct
address puts the reader at ease. We do not feel as if we are reading a technical journal or a
textbook, but we are reading a book about life. One might anticipate that the presentation of
such significant ideas might be much more sophisticated, but in avoiding a
tone of heaviness, the author can appealreach outto a wider audience. And although the reading
seems straight-forward and almost effortless, the depth of meaning is waiting beneath the
service if only the inquisitive mind chooses to pick it up and look for personal meaning between
the pages.

What is Prince Prospero's solution to the red death in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

Jennifer Carnevale, M.A.

Prince Prospero's solution to the red death is to run, hide, and ignore. He decides to
take one thousand friends and lock them away in one of his fortified abbeys. This
"castellated abbey" was surrounded by "a strong and lofty wall" with
"iron gates." Once inside, the occupants, including Prospero, seal up the doors and
weld them shut.

Inside, the structure had everything one could dream of, from
food to entertainment. It seems Prospero felt if he locked himself away from the outside world,
the red death could not get to him. From this moment forward, he chooses to pretend he is safe
and that the red death does not exist.

However, this tactic does not work.
One night during a festive ball, the crowd sees a masked figure walking through the colorful
rooms. No one is able to recall where this person came from, and the sight of the mask, which
looks eerily like the corpse of a plague victim, brings terror to the guests. At the end of the
tale, it's revealed that this masked person is, in...

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What is a summary of "Manifesto: the Mad Farmer Liberation Front" by Wendell Berry? What is the social commentary in the poem?

In
"Manifesto: the Mad Farmer Liberation
Front,"asks people to "denounce the
government and embrace the flag," meaning
live by the constitution that made the country
great rather than the current
leaders that are destroying it.

It starts in a
sarcastic
tone when he suggests that we should "love the quick profit" and ignore our

neighbor. He turns this on its head when he states "every day do something that
wont
compute"believe in God, embrace people, work for nothing, and don't live
for money. Instead
live for the "free republic" for which America
stands.

Give your approval to all you
cannot

understand. Praise ignorance,
for what
man

has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask
the questions that have no answers.

Invest in
the millennium. Plant
sequoias.

One
thing that comes across strongly is the
suggestion that we should learn to
find joy and laughter in everything we do. It's ok to be
happy as long we are
not hurting anyone to achieve it.

Though he calls on

women"please women more than men"not to go for what he calls the cheap option
of
power, he calls for men to help maintain a woman's interest in life and
suggests they take their
love to the field and swear their allegiance to
them.

The poem ends with
Berry saying that as soon as the
powers start to sniff out what you're doing leave as a fox
would do and don't
leave any signs that you were ever there, apart from signs of misdirection.

When they are gone you can go back and continue your lives. Or as Berry says,
"practice
resurrection."

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Discuss the importance of leadership behaviors in effective strategy implementation. What qualities and behaviors do you believe are the most...

Before you
talk about the leaders behaviors, you need to define strategy implementation. The simplest way
to define strategy implementation is that it is a process that deals with the enforcement of
business tactics. Strategy implementation helps the firm achieve its objectives.


Leadership behaviors are important in strategy implementation because they
determine whether the plans fail or succeed. For the plans to succeed, the following leadership
behaviors are important: empathy, communication, and a focus on
performance.

Strategy implementation is a team effort; therefore, you need to
pay attention to the needs of your team members. As a leader, you should have empathy. Be aware
of your team members emotional needs. When they are down or upset about something, ask them
whats wrong and listen to them. Reassure them that things will be fine, and they will be glad
that you took your time to help them. The result is a more motivated workforce.


You should also communicate your expectations to the employees if you want
the strategy implementation to be successful. Let them know what you want them to do and what
you expect from them. That way, you avoid confusion and duplication of roles.


Finally, make sure that your employees are doing what they are supposed to
do. Have they achieved what you wanted them to achieve? Do they finish their tasks on time? When
you focus on performance, you guarantee the success of the strategy
implementation.

What is the difference between deontological and teleological ethical systems for the control of ethical practices in criminal justice?

Deontological
ethics are concerned with absolute rules about what actions are acceptable, regardless of the
consequences of an action or the specific context.

Teleological ethics are
concerned with the result of actions, rather than absolute rules.

For
example, it's a deotological perspective to say that attempted murder is wrong, even if no harm
is caused. The choice is what matters, not the results. A strictly teleological perspective
would view accidentally causing someone's death as worse than trying but failing to kill
someone.

In thinking about criminal justice, a core question is whether a
system is ultimately about punishment or about results. A deontological perspective might argue
that it is proper to punish those who break the law and ignore the results of these
punishments.

On the other hand, a teleological perspective might note that
incarceration has generally been shown to only produce more violence and argue for the abolition
of prisons.

1984 Possible? Is the 1984 society possible? Explain your answer.

I don't think
it's an issue of whether we will actually become a , but how we are already adopting many of the
characteristics of that society in our own.  The issue of information/knowledge/truth is one
obvious similarity. actually rewrites the past because it was "possible."  The whole
idea was that that past was manipulated so that it could be used as a propaganda tool in the
future.  The problem today is that we get much of our information from the internet, and we
often do not know where it comes from or how accurate it is.  So the past begins to become
malleable.  A trivial example appeared in the paper last week.  After hundreds of years as our
greatest president, Washington was replaced by Lincoln.  Why did this happen?  Do the people who
were polled really know that much about either/both president?  I doubt it.  I think it's more
likely the result of Obama's endless praising of Lincoln having an indirect effect on the
people.

Another example is Obama's endless use of the word crisis, creating
fear in the population so that we are more ready to accept his solutions.  But how many of us
really KNOW that there is a crisis or that the administration's proposed solutions are the
best/appropriate?  Do we believe it because it is pounded into us almost daily by the media?  Is
it this easy to get us to believe things?  If so, how far are we from Winston's
1984?

Why does Telemachus need to go to see Nestor in books 1, 2, and 3?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

Telemachus travels to see Nestorwho he speaks to in Book 3because he wants to know more
information about where his father is.

Athena is the one who sends Telemachus
on the journey to see Nestor, though his palace is only the first stop. He's supposed to travel
to see Menelaus next. If he finds out his father is alive, he has to come home and wait for his
father while Odysseus makes his way home. If he discovers that Odysseus has perished, however,
he is supposed to come home, observe the proper mourning rituals, and then make his mother marry
another.

Nestor, King of Pylos, is a soldier who fought in the Trojan War,
much like Odysseus, Telemachus's father. Since they fought together, Telemachus believes that
Nestor might have information about Odysseus's whereabouts. Nestor says that he left without
hearing the fates of the others. He has heard of some men who returned home since then but he
doesn't know about Odysseus.

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How did the overall resources of the Union and Confederate armies compare?

There are
two kinds of resources for an army.  There are material resources and there are less tangible
resources.   At the beginning of the Civil War, the Union had much more in the way of material
resources but less in the way of intangibles.

In material...

What is the theme of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

"," one of the first modernist poems, has at its center a modernist theme:
the alienation, paralysis, and timidity of the early 20th-century man. Prufrock, whose interior,
stream of consciousnessis the poem, represents the impotent intellectual of
the pre-World War I period. The poem was begun in 1910, before the war began, and published in
1915, after the war had started.

Prufrock might possibly like to do daring
things, asking "Do I dare?"but in reality, he doesn't dare. Instead, he fritters away
his time at pointless parties, all the while knowing he is wasting his powers. He complains that
he "[has] measured out my life with coffee spoons," yet he is so paralyzed that he
continually turns away from the "overwhelming question" he seems to want to ask.
Instead, he focuses on petty issues: his bald spot, his thinning hair, whether to eat a peach or
not. Rather...

What song can relate to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

One good
possible song to relate to the deaths ofis "Arc of Time" by Bright Eyes. The song is
about death and also contains many images that relate to the play. The first four lines of the
first stanza refers to the uncertainty of time and plans because life ends so unexpectedly,
which captures the deaths ofandbecause, of course, they had planned to live happily ever after.
We can see the reference to time sabotaging plans in the lines:

You can make a plan
Carve it into stone
Like a feather
falling
It is still unknown. (1-4)

This passage
also contains an image that is reminiscent of the play, which is "feather." At the
beginning of the play, Romeo refers to the pain of love by calling it a "feather of
lead," meaning that love is something that makes your heart both feel light as a feather
and as heavy as lead due to the pain. Since both Romeo and Juliet decide to commit suicide
because they feel they can't live without each other, we see how the image from this song can
both relate to feelings of love in the play and their deaths.

This song also
refers to choices in the first stanza and how a person's choices amount to nothing due to death.
We see choices referred to in the lines, "You could choose the high / Or the lower
road" (7-8). We see the song argue that choices become meaningless due to death in the
lines:

As you curse or praise
All the things
you've done
...
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the
arc of time. (11-16)

Choices of course relate to Romeo's
and Juliet's deaths because they both could have made different choices to prevent their
deaths.

What is the one item Isabel secretly takes before leaving the Finch Farm?

Isabel
recognizes clearly the condition in which she lives.  She is to be moved from one setting of
enslavement to another.  Her own life and personal experience is moot in the face of the
institution of slavery, something that considers her an object that can be easily moved from
place to place.  She is forbidden to bring anything with her.  She wishes to do so, if nothing
else to validate her...

What Is A Stave

In
musical notation, a stave (or staff) is a set of five lines separated by four spaces. Each one
of those lines and spaces represents a different musical pitch. Dickens calls the chapters
in  staves because each individual stave is a stand-alone story with its
own distinctive mood. When taken together, all five staves combine to form a harmonious whole.
This is important to Dickens. He wants to convey a picture of Christmas in which disparate
characters ultimately come together to celebrate the true meaning of the holiday
season.

The title of the book also has great significance for Dickens. He
wanted his story to have the same kind of communal resonance as a Christmas carol; something to
be widely shared that would bring people together.

How important is the "intention" of the artist in considering a piece a work of art?

I would say
"not very." A great artist often writes "in the zone," and all sorts of
unconscious impulses drive his or her art.

One of my favorite examples is the
example of Sophocles. The common interpretation now of Oedipus Rex is that
it portrays an unconscious collective fantasy shared by all young boys: they want to kill their
fathers and marry their mothers, just as Oedipus does in the play, but they repress that desire
to join the social order. Sophocles could not possibly have known about the Freudian unconscious
when he wrote the play thousands of years ago: somehow, he simply plugged...

In the first chapter of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel", why did humans bother to leave Africa at all, and migrate to Australia and the...

's "Guns,
Germs and Steel" is attempt to explain some of the apparent differences in the development
of various human cultures; why were some cultures sailing the open oceans and developing
gunpowder while others were still hunter-gatherers using stone tools?

It should be noted that Diamond has received significant criticism for some
of his opinions, and the picture of human evolution is a constantly-shifting work in progress.
For an idea of the professional arguments leveled against Diamond, see the link in my sources
below, "Why Does Jared Diamond Make Anthropologists So Mad?".

To
answer the question, "why did humans emigrate out of Africa?", we should first clarify
what we mean by "human". There were many human ancestors and relatives who migrated
out of Africa....

What is the relationship between Abigail and John Proctor in The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

Abigail
Williams and John Proctor are former lovers who engaged in an affair seven months before the
start of the play. Abigail is John's former servant; she was dismissed from her duties after
Elizabeth, John's wife, discovered their affair. According to Abigail, it was a passionate,
exciting affair, and she desires to continue seeing John. In act 1, John Proctor visits Reverend
Parris's home to inquire about Betty's strange illness and briefly interacts with Abigail.
Abigail expresses her strong feelings for John, who insists that she forget about their prior
affair and move on with her life. Although John may still harbor feelings for Abigail, he is
adamant about remaining faithful to Elizabeth and regrets committing adultery.

As the play progresses, Abigail begins falsely accusing innocent citizens of
witchcraft and attempts to get rid of Elizabeth in order to have John to herself. Abigail then
stabs herself in the stomach and claims that Elizabeth sent her spirit out to kill
her....

How do you account for the popularity of Robinson Crusoe?

There is
a lot to be said for being marooned on a tropical island. You don't have to shave every day. You
don't have to go to work. You don't have to pay bills, bills, and more bills. You don't have to
file your income tax return every year. You can sleep whenever you like. You have nothing to
worry about but finding a little food, and if you get marooned on a good island in a good
latitude you can find plenty to eat, including coconuts. I think this is what appeals to
readers--the fantasy of being totally free and owning your own little domain. The author, , made
things even easier forby having the hulk of the wrecked ship wash up not far from shore. This
enabled Crusoe to supply himself with all kinds of useful things, including tools. He also saved
some domesticated animals, and he helped himself to a large quantity of weapons and a huge
supply of gunpowder. 

The movie Cast Away starring Tom
Hanks was obviously a sandwiched-together knockoff of Robinson Crusoe and
Enoch Arden. But the island on which the Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is
marooned is nothing like the tropical paradise of Robinson Crusoe. Chuck
Noland has a miserable life for the whole time he is marooned on a tiny, cold, inhospitable
island. He even thinks of committing suicide. And he has no tools to work with except for a pair
of girls' ice skates that washed ashore in a FedEx package. Then when he finally gets rescued he
discovers that his girlfriend has married somebody else (like the hero's wife in Enoch
Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson). There is something to be said for losing a
girlfriend, or a wife, too. Chuck Noland has years of back pay coming, plus retirement pay, plus
compensation for being in the FedEx crash. He can have plenty of girls, but he doesn't seem to
appreciate his good fortune. The movie is a downer, or actually a double-downer. Everything bad
happens to him. It made a lot of money, but I don't think many people would want to see it a
second time.

Robinson Crusoe remains popular because the
reader can fantasize about getting away from the rat race and going native in a place where the
sun shines every day and Mother Nature provides all his needs, as if he were in the Garden of
Eden. Naturally Crusoe eventually runs into troubles, because good things never last. But the
adventure part of the story also makes it interesting.

What country is the largest trading partner of the United States?

In the
United States today, when we think of our trading partners, we generally think of countries in
which workers get very low wages.  We feel that most of our trade is with countries like China
or Mexico because those countries are relatively poor and have workers who can undercut us by
working for low wages.  While China and Mexico are...

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In Pygmalion, how does Shaw depict women in general and Eliza in particular in order to create laughter? What are some relevant quotations?

Much of
the humor in and other plays by Shaw revolves around undermining
traditional gender expectations. Although the women in Shaw's plays often appear conventional on
the surface, they routinely prove stronger than the men, leading to paradoxical situations and
dialogue. 

In the initial confrontation between Higgins and Liza, we see a
clash of class expectations. Much of the humor results from Liza having quite conventional views
of propriety, despite being a flower girl, and Higgins being entirely oblivious to conventions,
good manners, or other people's needs and feelings. On one hand, Liza becomes someone we laugh
at for her ignorance of the middle-class assumptions we share with Higgins and Pickering, but on
the other hand, in her plans to better herself through lessons, we see another Liza: one who is
shrewd, practical, and brave.

Mrs. Pearce, the housekeeper, and Higgins's
mother exemplify a second type of typical female character we find in...

Abigail Williams Quotes

Abigail
is a young girl in Puritan Salem, and
she lies in order to protect herself. One way to pull
textual evidence
showing how she is manipulative is to find examples of these lies.

When the play opens, Parris is worried about his daughter, Betty, who is in a
comatose
state. He questions his niece Abigail about what happened when he
caught them dancing in the
woods. At first, Abigail denies any
witchcraft:

We did
dance, Uncle, and
when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then
she
fainted. And there€˜s the whole of it.

Soon after the
Putnams enter, claiming their daughter Ruth is
witched and...

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In The Crucible, Abigail Williams was selfish and accused other people of witchcraft. What are some quotes showing she did this?

There are a
couple of factors that motivated Abigail's behavior as portrayed in the play. First, she knew
she might get into trouble for engaging in dancing and other activities in the woods (conjuring
spirits, etc.), and that if she accused others of having bewitched her it would transfer the
blame onto them. Secondly, she thinks that if she can somehow remove Elizabeth Proctor from the
picture, John Proctor will fall in love with her and rekindle their affair, as she hopes to
marry him. Her obsession with Proctor motivates her to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft.

Abigail is emboldened by her position of power as an official of the court, and sees
her self as a sort of martyr figure. In Act II, Scene 2, the longest courtroom scene, Justice
Danforth suggests she might be deluded, and she...

night what message is Wiesel giving us readers through his example of Juliek and his violin?

This
novel never ceases to create a reaction in
me, and one of the most poignant moments is Juliek
and his violin.  It brings
me to tears each time I hear him play that beautiful, haunting  music
in the
midst of suffering and dying men.  In the midst of ugliness, beauty.  In the midst
of
loss, joy.  In the midst of deprivation, richness.  A lesson in beauty
almost without
words.

Describe the setting in detail.

's
poignant novel is largely set in what would appear to be a semi-rural area near Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. This is evidenced by the fact that when she came across her rapist and murderer,
Mr Harvey, Susie Salmon was taking a shortcut through a cornfield on her way home from
school.

The first setting which is described in detail is the underground
cavern which Mr Harvey has prepared for his victimit is equipped with lights, batteries and
shaving things, and has been meticulously prepared.

The other setting in
this great novel is Susie's heaven. It is described as looking like a typical...

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Please list some of the figurative language in "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Figurative
language adds to the mood and meaning of a piece of literature and helps differentiate literary
texts from informative or scientific works.

In this short story, Vonnegut
uses . Alliteration occurs when words beginning with the same
consonant are placed close to one another. An example of this is the repeated "h"
sounds in:

Harrison's appearance was Halloween and
hardware.

The alliteration puts extra emphasis on the
words beginning with h.

Another example of alliteration, this time using
"b," is when the thoughts of George, Harrison's father, flee him like "bandits
from a burglar alarm."

Vonnegut also uses
dialogue. When Harrison's parents, George and Hazel, converse, this
illustrates how the handicapping devices have made it difficult for them to have anything but
the most inane kind of conversation:

"That was a real
pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel.

"Huh,"
said George.

"That danceit was nice," said Hazel.

is description that uses any of
the...

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

At one point in The Catcher in the Rye, Mr. Spencer says to Holden, "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules" (8)....

One way
to interpret 's advice is through the theory of href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-contract">social contract,
a philosophical/theoretical agreement that exists, unspoken, in a civilized society. The core
idea is that in order to live in a peaceful, organized, and safe community, individuals are
required to give up certain rights and pick up some dutiesor, like Mr. Spencer says, to
"play the game." It is a state all people live in, although adults are understandably
more aware of it and more involved. , clinging stubbornly to adolescence, does not want to be a
part of it.

The social contract is necessary and
beneficial, however. Featuring heavily in the works of great philosophers like Hobbes, Locke,
and Rousseau, the opposite of the contract is anarchy. While that may appeal to some people,
history shows that sooner or later everyone is drawn to a more formal system. Holden thinks that
people who play the game of life are "phony," but the truth is that what he really
wants is to have all the benefits of the...

In what ways does McGahern make the relationship between the father and son so memorable in "The Stoat"? I need to make a detailed essay plan based on...

There are
many ways in which the author makes
the relationship between the father and son in this short
story so memorable.
The most obvious way is through the dialogue between the father and the son.

The structure of the story also helps to make the relationship memorable, as do the
son's
conversations with his uncle and the motif of death that runs
throughout the story. You might
organize an essay plan into sections
according to these different ways employed by the
author.

This is the approach I have taken below. I have endeavoured to offer

a few ideas for each possible section, and I have included also some key quotations that
you
might use in each section. I hope you find the ideas
helpful.

Dialogue

The dialogue between
the father and son in the story
suggests that their relationship is somewhat
fraught and unhappy. At the beginning of the story,
for example, the father
takes an opportunity to deride the son's relationship with the uncle,
and the
son, in return, takes the opportunity to deride the father's habit of poring over
the
obituaries and the advertisements for teachers in the newspaper. This
retort from the son is
described as a "counter thrust," implying that the
father and son's conversations are
like a fencing match, with each trying to
score points against the other.

However, there are also
within the story sections of dialogue which suggest a more
tender,
affectionate side to the relationship between the father and the son. When, for
example,
the son offers to make coffee and sandwiches for the father, the
father replies, "Good
man," and offers to "give [the son] a hand."

If you read
through the story again, you will be able to find plenty
of other examples of dialogue, some of
which imply that the relationship
between the father and the son is fraught and some of which
imply that there
is, nonetheless, some affection still remaining between the two.

The Embedded Narrative

The story begins with what is called
a frame
narrative before going back in time into what is called an embedded
narrative, or, more
commonly, a flashback. Within this embedded narrative we
learn that, one year previous, the
father asked the son's permission to marry
again. The father seems hurt when the son has no
objections. He seems hurt
because the son seems indifferent to the memory of his mother and
because the
son's indifference makes the father feel "as if his life [has] been brutally

severed from the other life" he had with the son's mother.

This
flashback helps us to understand why the relationship between
the father and the son seems so
fraught in the frame narrative. The moment
when the father asked the son for his permission to
remarry was perhaps the
moment when their relationship started to become as fraught as it seems
in
the frame narrative. This perhaps helps to make the relationship so memorable because it
is a
situation which so many readers will be personally familiar with and
will, therefore, be able to
empathize with.

The
Uncle

Through his conversations with
his uncle, the son
reveals the extent of his feelings toward his father. The son tells his uncle

that his father "bores him" and that he would like to live with the uncle rather
than
the father. "With his uncle," he says, "everything seem[s] open."
The
implication here is that he feels that, with his father, everything is
"closed," or
repressed, and this seems to ring true when we remember the
aforementioned fencingused to
describe the conversations between the father
and the son.

When discussing
with his uncle his father's
intention to remarry, the uncle says to the son:

any pair of imbeciles of age can go and take a marriage license out

and set about bringing up a child in the world, which is a much more complicated
activity than
driving an old car around!

The implication here is that
the uncle is criticizing the way his
nephew has been brought up. In this analogy, the father is
likely one of the
"imbeciles," and thus the inference is that the uncle does not
approve of the
way that his nephew has been brought up, possibly because of the closed,

repressed nature of the relationship alluded to above.

The
relationship
between the father and the son is memorable in part because of
what is not said between them,
and it is mostly through the son's
conversations with the uncle that we learn the extent of what
is unsaid. For
your essay, you might like to look at what is revealed through these

conversations about the son's real feelings toward the father.

Death

There is throughout the story a recurring motif of
death.
Indeed, the story begins and ends with the description of the dead
rabbit that the son discovers
on the golf course. When the son sees his
father with his prospective new wife, Miss McCabe, he
remarks that the sight
"disturbed him." He is disturbed because he interprets his
father's
relationship with this woman as a "defense...too brittle against the only end
of
life." In other words, the father, from the son's perspective, is trying
to guard himself
against the loneliness of old age and impending
death.

Toward the end of the
story, the father visits Miss
McCabe in her hotel room where she is recovering from a heart
attack. He
quickly decides to abandon her, explaining to the son that he doesn't want to be in
a
relationship with a woman who might die at any moment. The son understands
that "it was the
stoat the father had glimpsed in Miss McCabes hotel room,
and [that] he was running."
Thisis interesting because it suggests that the
father is running from death. In the metaphor,
the father is the rabbit. He
is relentlessly pursued by death in the same way as the rabbit was

relentlessly pursued by the stoat.

This revelation, that the father
is
fleeing from death, arguably makes the relationship between the father and
son more memorable
because the son's hostility toward the father becomes more
questionable. We might think that the
son should be more sympathetic toward
his father than he is, and we might question why he is

not.

Monday, February 16, 2015

How do the sound effects in William Blake's poem "The Tyger" help to contribute to the theme of the poem?

wrote
1794 and published it in a book of poetry Songs of Experience. The language of the poem makes
the it easy to read; however, the poem is steeped in rhetorical questions that are asked but not
answered.

The poem has both a literal and figurative interpretation. Summary
The poem consists of six quatrains. The poet began and ended his poem with the same stanza
except for changing one wordcould to dare.

There is really no story to the
poem. There are thirteen questions that are asked within the poem which speak to the tiger. Each
stanza focuses on a different aspect of the question presented in the first stanza. With the use
of apostrophes, the poem...

What could be the significance of the smoky atmosphere in the hall where the battle royal takes place in "Battle Royal"?

Feel
free to explore your own thoughts on this answer, as the narrator doesn't give a definitive
explanation about the significance of the smoke. It should be somewhat clear to readers that the
smoke is significant in this section because it is mentioned a dozen times. The smoke permeates
the air and is a definite physical presence in the space. The smoke is caused by the rich white
ruling class. They are smoking cigars in a way that clogs the entireof the room.

For those men, the cigars and resulting smoke are a sign of wealth and fun; however,
the smoke is choking and oppressive for the narrator and the other black boys. The smoke could
be significant because it is another item that the white ruling class has in its arsenal to make
the lives of the young black men more miserable. The white men have money, so they make black
boys try to grab it on an electrified floor. The cigars and smoke are just another item that the
white men have that cause the black boys pain.

The smoke
had become thicker and with each new blow it seemed to sear and further restrict my
lungs.

What aspects of contemporary family life do the Happylife Home and the nursery satirize? What exactly have the Hadleys purchased for their...

To
satirize is to mock and ridicule, to make fun of. , in this unnerving story, makes fun of
contemporary society's obsession with comfort and the desire to achieve it. Modern day society
has developed an obsession with everything that will seemingly make life easier. It has created
and developed machines that do what, in the past, were seen as regular, everyday chores, such as
washing up, cleaning the floors and, most importantly, raising children.

Many
of these elementary tasks are now being done by machines that are electronically controlled.
Tasks can be completed with the push of a button. Even parenting has found a substitute;
modern-day children probably spend more time playing with electronic devices than they do with
their parents. The machine has become a surrogate parent.

Bradbury
exaggerates these issues in his story. George and Lydia Hadley have bought a house and a nursery
that do everything. They and their children, Wendy and Peter, don't have to lift a
finger....

Sunday, February 15, 2015

In Animal Farmwhat does the ending have to say regarding Orwell's attitude toward both communism and capitalism? Does either system treat its "lower...

At the end
of this book, you can clearly see thatdoes not feel good about either capitalism or communism. 
The ending scene, withbecoming no different from the...

In Janice Mirikitani's "Suicide Note," identify the use of power creating justice.

This poem, which
reflects on theof certain cultures where women are so devalued that they choose to commit
suicide out of a sense of perceived shame, contains little sense of justice. We hear the voices
of girls on the cusp of womanhood who choose to kill themselves because they are not
boys:

If only I were a son, shoulders broad
as
the sunset threading through pine,
I would see the light in my mother's

eyes, or the golden pride reflected
in my father's dream
of my
wide, male hands worthy of work
and comfort.

What makes these girls feel like failures and consider themselves to be inadequate is
the high value that is placed on being male in such traditional and patriarchal cultures. To be
born a daughter in this poem is something to apologise for, as signified by the repeated refrain
of apologies that run through this poem.

The only power creating justice that
is evident in this poem is the act of creating the poem itself. The speaker, reflecting on all
the voices and "all the sorries" she hears, chooses to commemorate their loss in an
act of creation that clearly strikes a blow against such patriarchal societies and attempts to
bring justice to the girls who have chosen to end their lives:

Choices thin as shaved
ice. Notes shredded
drift like snow

on my broken body,
covers me like whispers
of sorries.

The poem ends with the speaker imagining her own suicide and her
remains being scattered over the earth, which is perhaps symbolic of how her ideas might spread
and result in change. There is little justice in this poem, however, and the power of artistic
creation is shown only as being able to give voice to the thoughts and feelings of these girls
rather than magically transform this terrible situation.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

How do I write a critical appreciation of a poem? What are the components?

It depends on
what your professor stipulates as the length for the final draft - but if this is a 2-5 page
typed paper, I would say focus on three categories of criticism.  Think about this as your
typical 5-paragraph essay - most good analysis is organized into three chunks - but instead of
only devoting one paragraph to each category - feel free to write more.

As
far as the "parts" of critical appreciation go - you have almost endless options with
this.  You can approach it from the "What are other people saying?" route - where this
paper is actually more of a research paper than a personal analysis - but your own assessment is
intertwined in how you present your information.

If outside sources are not
required than likely your professor wants only personal analysis.  Here, you rely on what you
learned in high school English: literary elements and rhetorical techniques.  What is this poem
trying to say and how effectively does it say it?

I'd say good critical
analysis combines any two of the following: tone/attitude, theme, and literary techniques
(things like figurative language, point-of-view, , symbolism, , etc.)  You can look at one main
theme of the poem and analyze 3 different techniques used to portray this theme.  You can
analyze the overall tone of the poem and look at the different themes
expolored through one tone.  Do you see how the combinations can be played in different
ways?

So again, while the exact structure of the 5 paragraph essay may not be
quite enough, use it as the framework to explore the poem in 3 categories - just make sure the 3
categories all revolve around a common focus (thesis).  The order of presentation (no matter how
many paragraphs are devoted to each category) is best as follows: 2nd strongest point, weakest
point, strongest point.

Hope that helps.

Friday, February 13, 2015

How do the concepts of "wyrd" and "fate" influence or affect Beowulf's actions throughout the poem?

Even
though in its current form was composed by a Mercian monk in 750-850 BCE
long after England became Christianized, the poem is an interesting amalgam of Christian and
pagan belief systems. This tells us that Beowulf, despite its Christian
makeover when it was composed, is a product of an oral tradition of the Scandinavian people from
an earlier age, who eventually settled large parts of England.

Not
surprisingly, then, remnants of pagansim, such as wyrd (fate), often sit
alongside the Christian term for the same thing. But the concept of wyrd, as opposed to God's
will, is so strong a remnant of the poem's pagan origins that it is woven into the characters'
minds and speech.

As the cornerstone of a pagan belief system,
wyrd retains its hold on the world depicted in Beowulf
because the characters know fate is the ultimate decider of one's life or death. Because
wyrd is the decider, men like Beowulf and Hrothgar, even though technically
Christians, are fataliststhey may know in an...

Analyze Mayella's and Scout Finch's characterization in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mayella
Ewell is Bob Ewell's oldest daughter and one of the antagonists of the story. Mayella is
portrayed as a lonely, ignorant teenager who is in desperate need of affection and fears her
unscrupulous, alcoholic father. Mayella's primary role in the story is falsely accusing Tom
Robinson of assaulting and raping her on the evening of November 21st. During the Tom Robinson
trial,exposes Mayella as a liar during his cross-examination. Mayella continually contradicts
her testimony and eventually becomes so upset and overwhelmed that she refuses to answer any
more of Atticus's questions. In Atticus's closing arguments, he comments on Mayella's motivation
to falsely accuse Tom Robinson of a heinous crime: Mayella knew that she had broken an unwritten
social code by tempting a black man and wanted to preserve her reputation. After Bob mercilessly
beat her, Mayella feared the consequences of not corroborating his story. While the audience can
sympathize with Mayella, they cannot overlook her malicious, selfish decision to falsely accuse
Tom Robinson of a crime he did not commit.

is theand narrator, who tells the
complicated story, in retrospect, of howcame to break his arm. Throughout the story, Scout is
depicted as a naive, curious tomboy growing up in the prejudiced community of Maycomb, Alabama.
Initially, Scout fears her reclusive neighbor, , and struggles to control her temper. As the
story progresses, Scout learns numerous life lessons from her father and neighbors and gradually
matures. Scout experiences conflict when she is forced to defend her father against her racist
family members and neighbors. Scout also loses her childhood innocence after witnessing Tom
Robinson become a victim of racist injustice.

Following the trial, Scout
morally develops into a compassionate, sympathetic individual, enhances her perspective on
Maycomb's community, and begins to recognize hypocrisy. Toward the end of the story, Scout and
Jem are viciously attacked by Bob Ewell. Fortunately, Boo Radley intervenes and saves their
lives. Following the attack, Scout meets Boo for the first time and walks him home. As she
stands on Boo's porch, Scout finally views the neighborhood from his perspective, which
emphasizes her maturation and moral development.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Why is Mr. Jones in a foul mood and what does he do at the Red Lion?

In
,writes that Mr. Jones had recently fallen on hard times and had become disheartened after
losing a significant amount of money in a lawsuit. Mr. Jones is deeply depressed and begins
drinking heavily each day of the week. Instead of maintaining his farm and taking care of the
animals, Mr. Jones spends the majority of his days reclining in his Windsor chair, reading the
newspaper, and drinking alcohol. Mr. Jones's men were also dishonest and idle, which only made
conditions on the farm worse for the animals. On the Saturday of Midsummer's Eve, Mr. Jones got
so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not return...

How did the Allied successes during the North Africa campaign impact the remainder of the war?

The Allied
success in the North African campaign had at least three important consequences. 

First, this was the first land action that the United States was involved in in the
European Theater in this war.  This was important because it gave the US Army real battlefield
experience which it had not had in that theater.  This helped allow it to prepare
for...

What is a social lens? Do things like racial or cultural identity count as social lenses?

A social
lens refers to how a person views a given situation. There are many factors that go into
developing a persons social lens or perception of the world. Race, culture, religion, and
economic status are just some of the factors that influence a persons view of the
world.

The experiences that people have had influence their views of the
world. These experiences explain why two people from different backgrounds may see the same
event very differently. If a person has experienced discrimination of some sort, whether it is
racial, religious, or gender, that person will view situations differently than people who
havent experienced this discrimination. We are seeing this play out in terms of how some people
view the actions of the police. If a person has had negative experiences with the police, they
will view them in a negative light. On the other hand, people who have family members who are
police officers, or people who have had positive experiences with them, will see the police in a
very positive manner.

If a political party has helped a group of people,
those people will likely support that party. After the Civil War, African-Americans viewed the
Republican Party very favorably. They viewed the Republican Party as being responsible for
ending slavery and helping African-Americans get more rights and more freedoms. As a result,
they tended to vote for Republican candidates for many years. White southerners were angry with
the Republican Party, as they felt this party destroyed the southern way of life. As a result,
they voted for Democratic candidates for many years. Members of different political parties
often see the same event very differently because of the different experiences of their
members.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

In act 1 of Romeo and Juliet, what are the iambic meters/iambic pentameter, and why are they there?

There are
already a lot of helpful answers about this question going over what iambic pentameter is and
how Shakespeare uses it generally. Here is one specific example of Shakespeare using meter to
structure and manipulate the text, that might put meter into better context. It concerns the
first wordsspeak to each other until they kiss, towards the end of act 1. Here is the
conversation in its entirety:

[To ]
If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender
kiss.

JULIET

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too
much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in
this;

For saints have hands that
pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to
palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO

Have not saints lips,
and holy palmers too?

JULIET

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in
prayer.

ROMEO

O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands
do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith
turn to despair.

JULIET

How does Hester use her punishment to improve herself in The Scarlet Letter?

Ironically, it
is the non-Puritan Hester, and not the Puritan minister Dimmesdale, who makes retribution for
her sin of adultery. Hester, for whom the scarlet A is a mark of
humiliation, willingly accepts this humiliation in lieu of drawing suspicion upon her partner in
sin. Thus, Hester's salvation lies in "being true" as Hawthorne exhorts in one of the
final chapters.

• When she is interviewed at the Governor's Hall,
  Hester defiantly accepts her punishment as she dressesboldly in crimson. She pleads to be
  allowed to keep Pearl:

God gave me the
child...in requital of all thing else....She is my happiness!--she is my torture, note the
less!....Peal punishes me, too!  See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being
loved,a nd so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin?

As a reminder of her sin, Pearl directs Hester's future
behavior.

• The scarlet letter becomes "...her passport into
  regions where other women dared not tread." She it is who cares for the ailing and aged;
  she it is who assists with the funeral arrangements for the dead, she it is who tends the
  wretched. After she spends considerable time nursing many in the community, the perception of
  Hester's A changes to become a symbol of her abilities: it is read as
  "Able" and "Angel" by members of the community and becomes "the symbol
  of her calling." To the "afflicted," the effect of Hester's scarlet letter for
  which she has done penance and performed many a good dead is that it has become a badge of her
  calling:

...the scarlet letter had the effect
of the cross on a nun's bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her
to walk securely amid all peril.

• In Chapter
  XII, after tending the sick late at night, Hester and Pearl pass the minister, who stands upon
  the scaffold. With Pearl, Hester joins the Reverend Dimmesdale upon the scaffold, feeling there
  is a responsibility towards him that she must fulfill.
• Another improvement
  to Hester as a result of wearing the scarlet letter is that Hester abandons passion for thought.
  In a sense, she becomes a modern woman, one who thinks for her self and considers existential
  problems. As such, too, she is able to reason with Dimmesdale in the forest in Chapter XVII and
  encourage him, providing him counsel about their future and about . For Dimmesdale, Hester
  becomes his "better angel!"
• Certainly,becomes a much stronger
  person as a result of her sin, its humiliation, and her repentance. And, unlike , "false to
  God and man," Hester has remained true.

What is the ultimate goal of Hinduism and Buddhism?

Hinduism and
Buddhism are known as Dharmic religions.  Dharma is defined as the sum of all moral
responsibilities and duties that adherents are expected to perform. Closely tied to the concept
of dharma is the process of reincarnation.  

Reincarnation is the belief that
upon death, the soul will travel to another living being.  The Dharmic religions teach that if a
person lives a moral life with regards to dharma, he will be reincarnated into another soul,
that is further along the path towards salvation.  

Hindus and Buddhists
believe that the source of the soul is a force known as Brahman.  The ultimate result of several
cycles of reincarnation is to be reunited with this force.  In Hinduism, the reunification of
the soul with Brahman is called moksha.  Buddhists have the same goal, but it is given the name
nirvana.  In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the ultimate goal is to end the cycle of reincarnation.
 

href="https://www.hinduwebsite.com/reincarnation.asp">https://www.hinduwebsite.com/reincarnation.asp

Justify the title of "Marriage is a Private Affair."

I think
that the title of Achebe's work is justified in the character of Okeke.  Through his own
evolution and change, the father ends up learning that marriage is, indeed, a private affair.
 Okeke is quite insistent that marriage be seen as a public matter.  In the opening of the
narrative, marriage is viewed as a public affair in how he selects a bride for his son and the
insistence with which he pursues his son's marriage.  While he shuns his son in a callous and
cold manner, he remains convinced that marriage is a public affair.

All this
changes in the resolution of the story.  The letter from Nene shows that the marriage between
Nnaemeka and Nene has been successful, and with children.  These children wish to meet their
grandfather.  Nene's letter proves that the title is justified as she asks Okeke to meet his son
and grandchildren.  For her part, she will remain in Lagos.  Such an action validates the
private condition of marriage.  It is something that she will not sacrifice for her father- in-
law.  Her asking him to meet his grandsons without her presence helps to justify how her
marriage is and will always be a private affair.  Okeke realizes this when he contemplates his
actions in shutting out his grandchildren, awaking with a fear that he might never have a chance
to right his wrong.  This realization demonstrates how he has come to understand that marriage
is a private affair, something that he has to concede if he wishes to see his grandchildren.  In
this, the title of the work is justified as the characters have come to embrace its truth and
validity.

What effect does slang have on society?

Use of slang creates
linguistic sub-groups that are only accessible to people in the know. For example, teens tend to
develop their own slang expressions, and these expressions are constantly changing. A person can
show that he or she keeps up with the latest trends by being aware of slang expressions. In
other words, slang is an expression of belonging and of being in an in-group. As people outside
the group do not understand slang, it keeps others out of this group.

Slang
also makes people at times unable or unwilling to use standard expressions. For better or worse,
the use of standard...

Explain what the Federal Reserve is and what it does ?

 The Federal
Reserve or Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States responsible for
managing the U.S monetary system. It was created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913...

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Literary Devices In Annabel Lee

's
"" uses many different types of literary devices. The first device is genre. In tone,
, and subject matter, "Annabel Lee" references the traditional genre of the ballad,
evoking the sentiments and historical associations of folk tales and songs.

As a poem, "Annabel Lee" uses the literary devices of rhyme and meter. As is
true with many ballads, Poe's poem mixes iambic and anapestic feet to give it a lilting, musical
quality. Poe also uses rhyme in this poem and repeated words at the ends of lines. There are
four words used multiple times at the end of lines in this poem: me, we, sea, and Lee. Two other
frequent rhyme words are "love" and "know." This degree of repetition adds a
hypnotic quality to the poem. There are also internal rhymes within lines such as "chilling
and killing" and "rise ... eyes".

Another frequent literary
device used in this poem is comparison, especially in the form of , as seen in the
lines:

The angels, not half so happy...

What does the note that Julia gives to Winston say?

The
note says "I LOVE YOU."  

It's an odd sequence in the book, because
other than , the reader sort of assumes that all of the other characters are emotionless
automatons.  Perhaps anger and fear are felt, but love?  That's not something the reader really
sees.  Nevertheless,discreetly passes the note on to Winston while he is on his way to the
bathroom.  Julia is walking toward him, fakes a trip and a fall right in front of Winston, and
Winston helps her get back up.  It's a completely innocuous encounter, and Julia uses the moment
to pass the note on to Winston.  

 Nevertheless it had
been very difficult not to betray a momentary surprise, for in the two or three seconds while he
was helping her up the girl had slipped something into his hand. There was no question that she
had done it intentionally.

The next few pages are a
lesson in building suspense, because the reader, and Winston, are not allowed to read the note
immediately.  Winston has to keep the note hidden, but deeply wants to read it.  He has to
unfold it within his pocket while using the bathroom.   Then Winston has to casually toss the
note on his pile at work, so as to make it look like a useless piece of scrap.  Then he goes
about working and tells himself to wait "five minutes" before looking at it.  Only
then does he read it, and he tries to make sure it looks like a normal part of his work routine.
 

Monday, February 9, 2015

What are some racism quotes from chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

There
are three references to racism inof
. The first reference comes whenis
talking about her
family's ancestor Simon Finch, who,

having forgotten his teachers dictum on the possession of human chattels,
bought three
slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks
of the Alabama River.

This homestead
is, at the time of the story, occupied by 's sister,
Alexandra. This brief,
seemingly insignificantto Simon Finch's possession of slaves is a
reminder
that slavery at this time was ubiquitous. Even the life of a liberal person
like
Atticus has racism in its ancestral roots.

The second
reference to racism is
when Scout is describing 's house. She describes it as
a frightening place, a place which the
people of Maycomb County would
associate with crime and wrongdoing. Scout explains
that

A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night,
he
would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he
walked.

A black
person...

What are some examples of symbolism in Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

is the most famous work
by , published in 1915, about a man named
Gregor who spontaneously turns into an insect (Kafka intentionally
left the specific animal unclear).

While the story is a fairly
straightforward account of Gregor's transformation and fall from humanity, it does contain some
symbolism, which suffered somewhat from the necessary translation to English. The first and most
important is Gregor's new form, that of an inhuman creature: in the original German, the
descriptive word literally means "unclean animal" or "vermin," but further
description and common conception make Gregor some form of giant beetle. This represents his
isolation in the world, and how both his job and family refuse to appreciate his hard work. In
fact, his first reaction to his transformation is frustration, since he is going to be late for
work, and only later does he realize his true fate. His family, meanwhile, are all irritated
that they will need to work to support themselves, instead of living off his wages; although
they are disgusted at his new form, they are equally disgusted that he has abandoned them,
although not by choice.

Another symbol, drawing on the first, is Gregor's new
form having a shell, making him an invertebrate creature relying on an exoskeleton. The term
"spineless," meaning coward, is implied early, when Gregor thinks about being late for
his job:

...the firm's errand boy would've waited for the
five o'clock train and reported the news of his absence long ago. He was the boss's minion,
without backbone or intelligence.

And yet Gregor himself
is spineless, because he will not quit his job for his own sake. Later, when his father throws
an apple at him, it gets lodged in his back, possibly cracking his exoskeleton and making him
even more "spineless."

There are other symbols in the text, each
referring to an aspect of Gregor's life and legacy, which in the end is only enough to free his
family through death.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

What was the secret omen?

The
"secret omen" the children had been waiting for is a shooting star, signalling their
ability to return to Egypt.    In my edition, this occurs on pg. 96. 

Here's
an excerpt:

"A shooting star!"  Everybody repeated it in whispered
unison as if they'd been rehearsed.  Then everybody looked at April.  She nodded.  "The
secret omen," she said slowly, making every syllable heavy with significance.  Marshall
started turning around and around, smelling the air. 

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Who is your favorite character? Who is your favorite character, and why?

I
do love , so much so that I gave serious consideration to naming a child after him. But since he
has been a popular choice here already, I'll share another top contenderand a more minor
character.

I adore Miss Maudie. Her approach to dealing withandis both
forthright and child-friendly. She doesn't take life or kids too seriously and enjoys sharing
their concerns and worries, always offering solid advice that helps the situation.

Miss Maudie is actually the one who delivers the significance of the title:

Mockingbirds dont do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . .
but sing their hearts out for us. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Here, she explains to the children that people should never try to
destroy innocent beings, a lesson the children can later...

Friday, February 6, 2015

What are the themes in Frances E.W Harper's poems "Ethiopia" and "The Slave Mother?"

Frances Harper was a female African American poet of the 1800s. Her poems
"Ethiopia" and "The Slave Mother" reflect on the pain and suffering of
slavery in the United States but also the legacy of slavery in Africa.

"Ethiopia" mentions the country's "cry of agony" and refers to
those who would enslave her people as the "tyrant," whose "yoke" and
"fetters" keep Ethiopia's people submissive and inferior. However, the poem suggests
that God will recognize Ethiopia's plight and will free the country from its pain and agony.
Eventually, the poet suggests, Ethiopia will "smile" and her "sorrows cease"
as she gains "redress" from God.

"The Slave Mother," on
the other hand, is a bleaker and more specific portrayal of the struggles of African American
women under slavery. In addition to the sexual assault that many female slaves were subject too,
women had to deal with the ever-present possibility that her children would be torn from her and
sold to another slave master. That is exactly what the...

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

What are some examples of figurative language in Walker's "Everyday Use"?

Instances of
, , and implied metaphor appear in
"."

Figurative language has many
effects. One is to make a
complex and idea (by nature abstract) spring to life in a more visual
manner;
another is to render a more concrete image in our heards (sensory description
with
imaginative resonance).

In the first paragraph, the
narrator (the mother)
talks about the yard "is not just a yard. It is like an
extended living room." An
outdoor space is being compared to an indoor.
Already an abstract concept is clarified for us:
that the narrator feels at
home outside, that she lives outside quite comfortably. Later she
reinforces
this idea with sensory detail, how she is comfortable outside in zero weather due
to
her fat, can kill a hog easily, and so forth: she is a competent farm
woman. How does this idea
of outside being "good enough" for the mother and
Maggie contrast with Dee's attitude
toward indoors/outdoors? To the theme
implied by the title, "Everyday Use"? This
initial simile taps into the theme
of functional, commonplace items being colonized by those who
feel they have
superior intellect and need to put them in a museum. No one would put this
yard
in a museum, but that's only because a well-combed yard doesn't have a
market value for
intellectuals such as Dee.

In paragraph
5, we get another simile: "my
skin like an uncooked barley pancake." Why is
it important that the mother picture her skin
tone in this manner? Later in
the story, as issues of race are explored in more depth (plus the
fact that
the mother works outdoors), we can assume that the mother's skin is definitely
darker
than an uncooked pancake. We have a strong sensory details here, sight
and taste with this
simile -- a light tan food item, not ready for eating,
decidedly a nonfunctional image (who
wants to eat something uncooked?) But to
get on a TV show, one ought to be lighter skinned, this
woman is saying.
She's also saying that with this color, she is "the way Dee would want me
to
be." So we have a concrete image with resonance: daughter wants mother to be a color
of
something that is useless, something "uncooked." To lighten one's skin is
about as
smart as eating something uncooked.

Implied
metaphor -- that Dee has a temper
and an effect on people that's hot and
dangerous as fire -- appears in implied
comparisons:

• "(Dee) burned us with a lot of knowledge we
  didn't
  necessarily need to know"; and
• "the scalding humor that
  
  erupted like bubbles in lye."

Take these images and
balance
that with the image of Dee watching the house burn. What do we learn
about Dee as a person,
where she fits in this family and the effect she has
on things and people who are best for
"everyday use"?

There's lots more to examine; these instances are
just a start. If
you're not sure how to find resonance in figurative language, start by
reading
the themes analysis (see below) and then examine the figurative
language to see where such
themes crop up.

Good
luck!

What are some poetic devices in the poem "Good Times" by Lucille Clifton?

"Good
Times" is a short poem in whichdescribes
some of the simple pleasures of poor
African-Americans in the middle part of
the 20th century.

The poem consists
of two stanzas, each
containing eight lines.  Most of the lines contain between 5 and 7

syllables.  The exception to this is the last 2 lines of each stanza, which are
a
refrain:

good times
good
times

In addition to the refrain,
Clifton also uses repetition, or , in
the second stanza:

and dancing in the kitchen
and
singing
in the kitchen

The poem's images are of
simple
pleasures at home.  This is enhanced by language that is simple and at
times colloquial, such
as, "the lights is back on," and "they is good
times." 

href="https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/good-times/">https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/good-times/

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

How does Juliet say that she refuses to marry Paris in Romeo and Juliet?

Whenrejects , she does
so with spirit.  Her mother tells her that her father has brokered a happy occasion in the midst
of their sadness ( has slain ).  She tells Juliet that Paris will make her a blushing bride in
just a few days, and Juliet -- without hesitation -- patently refuses the entire plan.  Juliet
thinks it's pretty strange that she will be getting married to someone who hasn't even had the
chance to court her yet.  Further, she says, quite cleverly, "I will not marry yet. And
when I do, I swear / It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, / Rather than Paris"
(3.5.121-123).  Juliet actually admits to her parents that she would rather marry Romeo than
Paris!  She does say that it's because she hates Romeo, which tells her mother just how
fervently she does not want to marry Paris.  When her father begins to lose his temper, she says
that she is grateful for what he's done for her because it was done in love, even though she
hates it.  She makes no bones about her feelings, freely admitting her complete and rebellious
refusal of their choice for her.  Her parents essentially say that they will cast her out if she
doesn't get herself to church on Thursday to do as they say. 

Sunday, February 1, 2015

How does the unification of India compare to the unification process in China under the Qin and Han Dynasties and in southwest Asia under the...

All of
these examples were ultimately achieved by military conquests and are closely associated with
legendary founders (who were also conquerors). The initial Indian unification was carried on by
the Maurya, under Chandragupta, and later continued by his decedents, most famously Ashoka who,
after the bloody conquest of Kalinga, converted to Buddhism and eschewed violence altogether.
You can observe similar military figures in the history of Chinese unification under Qin Shi
Huang, who arose after the dissolution of the Zhou Dynasty into a warring states period,
forcefully overcame all of his rivals, and unified China in the Qin Dynasty.

Finally, in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, you have the example of Cyrus the
Great, legendary founder of the Persian Empire. The stories of expansion and unification are
closely tied with military campaigns, often carried out by a dominant warrior king who stands in
the center of that story.

You can look at these examples through the
contexts of the...

How did the French Revolution create problems for the United States?

When
the French Revolution began in 1789, the US was supportive.  The French Revolution began with a
lot of the same ideals, enlightened thought, and drive as the American Revolution.  Unlike the
American Revolution, the French Revolutionaries became increasingly more radical with political
ideologies and liberalism as the revolution progressed.  The US became more neutral to the
French at this point.  Despite radicalism ending with the end of the Reign of Terror, the US
stayed cautiously neutral towards the French.

Once Napoleon took charge at
the tail end of the French Revolution, he began fighting many wars with other European
monarchies in order to spread French political influence and dominance throughout Europe.  In
order to finance these wars, because a growing rebellion in the highly profitable Haitian colony
was preventing profits from reaching France, Napoleon sold off the large plot of French land in
North America to the Americas.  This was the Louisiana Purchase.

Let's fast
forward to the War of 1812.  Napoleon and the British were fighting each other, and each were
trading with the United States.  In order to negatively impact the other's economy, both Britain
and France attempted to blockade trade between its enemy and the United States, thrusting the
United States into the middle of war.  This culminated with the War of 1812.

To recap: the French Revolution was supported initially by
the Americans, but as the French became increasingly liberal and revolutionary, the Americans
decided to remain neutral.  Because the Americans had trading relationships with both France and
Britain, when Napoleon went to war against Britain, the Americans became a focal point for the
conflict.  This led to increased tensions between the British, French, and Americans, and
erupted in a territorial conflict in America, known as the War of 1812.

Postwar Policies... What do you think changed as a result of the war in regards to: -Individual nation's policies -Relations among the great powers...

The end
ofsignified the end of massed warfare
-- never again will all the resources of one country or
nation be pitted en
masse against another -- once the Bomb existed, all-out warfare was a thing

of history.  WWII altered warfare.  Since that time throughout the world, there has been
armed
conflict, but that was contained by the aforementioned superpowers.
 It's interesting to see now
the rise of "indiscriminate" warfare, or
terrorism, as the other forms of warfare
expression have been
neutralized.

What is the difference between theater in 1900 and theater now?

Some aspects of theater have remained
remarkably constant over the last 120 years. To take Broadway theaters as a representative
example, the percentage of New Yorkers attending shows has fallen somewhat, due to competition
from various other forms of entertainment, particularly the cinema. However, due to the growth
in population over this period, the total number of theatergoers has actually risen
significantly. In 1900, there were thirty-three Broadway theaters, some of which only had a
capacity of a few hundred seats (see John Kenrick's Theater in New York: A Brief
History, 2004). Now, according to the Broadway League (website below), there are
forty-one Broadway theaters, most with a capacity of over 500 seats.

The type
of shows has also stayed relatively constant, with many of the biggest and longest-running shows
in 2019 being musicals, while in 1900 there was a fashion for operettas, such as those of Victor
Herbert, and light musical comedies. The biggest difference would have been the comparative
darkness and reliance on gaslight. There were no electric lights on Broadway until 1906, when it
suddenly became "the Great White Way," the most brilliantly lit section of
Manhattan.

href="https://www.broadway.org/broadway-theatres">https://www.broadway.org/broadway-theatres

What adversity did Billie Holiday faced on the movie "Lady Sings the Blues" and how did she overcome it?

I would
say that the life of Billie Holiday is one where adversity is a constant presence.  The fact
that she was raped and violated, both before and during her practice as a prostitute would
demonstrate the idea of dealing with adversity.  In her experiences of Northern discrimination,
which was covert and hidden, and its Southern counterpart, which was more overt, she faced
adversity.  In having doors closed to her because of her race and her lack of wealth, another
set of adversity was faced.  Finally, the dependency on drug use would constitute as another set
of challenges that needed to be faced were present.  As indicated in much of her music, Holiday
had many reasons to be a one who "sings the blues."

Is Dante's Inferno real? im just curious,anaway

The
notion that lies behind the Inferno is a spiritual one predicated on the idea of an exploration
of one's sense of religious devotion.  Whether this is real or not is dependent on the point of
view of the reader. ...

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