In the story "The Black Cat" by Edger Allen Poe, what happened when the narrator tapped on the brick?

Toward the
end of the story "" the narrator
does more than just tap on the brick. He describes
his actions as "rapping
heavily" upon the brick wall with a cane. 

At this point,
the narrator has clearly lost his mind. He is ridden by guilt, anger,
the
toxicity of alcohol, his own personal demons, and the fear of being found out. He is
feeling
all of this at the same time. 

Yet, as the police
comes to visit and check
the premises "four days after the assassination",
the cellar is checked and all clears
out, but the
main...

What five humorous puns are delivered between Mercutio and Romeo and then Mercutio and the Nurse in act 2, scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet?

In this
lively scene,runs intoand . Although both friends think Romeo is still pining for Rosaline, he,
of course, has fallen in love with . Therefore, he is in cheerful spirits, no longer moping
around. Here we see two wordsmithsRomeo and Mercutiocross not words but swords. The puns
aboundand we get a deep insight into the friendship that holds these two together.

Mercutio wonders what happened to Romeo after the Capulet party the night before.
Mercutio says "you gave us the counterfeit last night." When Romeo asks what
counterfeit, Mercutio replies "the slip, sir, the slip." Slip is aon Romeo slipping
away from them and also slang at that time period for counterfeit money.

Romeo says that in such a "case" as his, he had a right to slip away. Case
here means both "situation" and "physical condition," meaning pining both
mentally and physically for a woman.

Mercutio catches that lust was part of
Romeo's "case" and makes a joke about Romeo having a worn-out "pump,"
punning on pump as meaning shoe and sexual organ. Romeo responds with the exclamation that this
is "single-soled jest," sole a pun on the sole of a shoe and one's soul.

As we can see, the two match each other word for word.

When he meets
Juliet's nurse, Mercutio puns on "hare" as meaning whore and then puns on the word
"hoar" as meaning both moldly and a whore. He thus implies that the nurse is both old
and a whore.

All of these explanations of puns come from footnotes found in
the Bevington edition of The Complete Works of
Shakespeare.

Compare and contrast realist and naturalistic theatrical styles.

These two terms
are best used to discuss two
separate but related aspects of the theatrical experience:  form

(naturalistic) and content (realistic).   The late 19th-early 20 century changes inwere
both
thematic and stylistic.  Dramas began to deal with realistic,
down-to-earth characters and
dilemmas (A Dolls House )
as opposed to kings, heroes, mythic characters,
etc. in larger-than-life
scenarios.  On stage, the teacup school began to draw...

`int t sec^2 2t dt` Evaluate the integral

`inttsec^2(2t)dt` 

If f(x)
and g(x) are differentiable functions, then

`intf(x)g'(x)dx=f(x)g(x)-intf'(x)g(x)dx`

If we write f(x)=u and
g'(x)=v, then

`intuvdx=uintvdx-int(u'intvdx)dx`

Now using
the above method of integration by parts,

`inttsec^2(2t)dt=tintsec^2(2t)dt-int(d/dt(t)intsect^2(2t))dt`

`=t*tan(2t)/2-int(1*tan(2t)/2)dt`

`=1/2t*tan(2t)-1/2inttan(2t)dt`

Now let's evaluate `inttan(2t)dt` by
using the method of substitution,

Substitute `x=cos(2t),=>dx=-2sin(2t)dt`

`inttan(2t)dt=int(sin(2t)/cos(2t))dt`

`=intdx/(-2x)`

`=-1/2ln|x|`

substitute back `x=cos(2t)`

`=-1/2ln|cos(2t)|`

`inttsec^2(2t)dt=1/2t*tan(2t)-1/2(-1/2ln|cos(2t)|+C`

C is a
constant

`inttsec^2(2t)dt=1/2t*tan(2t)+1/4ln|cos(2t)|+C`

 

Compare and contrast the Flood stories of the Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh? What are some differences in the story and what are some similarities?...

Evans Daniel

Similarities between the biblical account of the flood and the flood of
Gilgamesh:

In the Bible, Noah is told to build an ark, a type
of boat, out of cypress wood. Specific measurements of the ark are also given to him directly by
Yahweh, the living God. In , Utnapishtim is similarly instructed to build a boat, by one of the
gods, Ea. He is given specific measurements to use in building the boat.

Noahs ark is supposed to carry two of all living creatures. Similarly, Utnapishtims
boat is supposed to carry all living creatures.

In the Bible, Noahs ark
finally rests on...

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What is an example of "plain folk propoganda" in Animal Farm by George Orwell? If there is any quote and/or page number, that would be helpful.

I would
select 's speech to the animals, at the very start of the story, as a perfect example. , of
course, uses the terminology of real-life socialism by having Old Major address the others as
"comrade." The aging pig also uses the fact that he has not much time left on earth as
an element of persuasion. He has seen more of life than the other animals and has concluded that
Man is the source of all evil. "Man," he says, "is the only creature that
consumes without producing." This is Major's key point, although (as with much propaganda
in the real world) it is a falsehood, in spite of the element of truth in it from the animals'
perspective.

The most interesting thing about the speech, in my opinion, is
that it is capped off with a song, "Beasts of England," which, we are told, has a tune
somewhere between "Clementine" and "La Cucaracha." This is the
equivalent, one presumes, of the "Internationale," the anthem of world
Socialism. Any persuasive message in the...

In the following scenario, do you think it's fair that some qualify for these services and some don't? Is this ethical? What do you feel the criteria...

I would
argue that it is fair and ethical to
offer these services for some and not for others so long as
the people
running the program use appropriate criteria to decide who gets the services and
who
does not. 

You could argue that the fairest situation
is one in which
everyone gets exactly the same sorts of services when it
comes to health care.  However, the sad
truth is that not everyone gets the
same health care in this country.  A person who has no
health insurance, for
example, is not going to get much health care at all.  This is not fair,
but
it happens.  Therefore, it does not seem right to say that denying extras like the
program
discussed in this question to some...

In Macbeth, list and explain four quotes that refer to the idea of free will.

In act 1, scene 2, a
captain who has fought withandagainst the Macdonwald rebels and Norwegian army reports to the
king about the Scottish force's success in battle. He says, in part, that "brave ... /
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel...carved out his passage / Till he faced [the
rebel]" (1.2.18€“22).

The captain suggests with this statement that, if
"Fortune" or fate had its way, Macbeth would never have been able to do as he did. He
used his sword to carve a path to the enemy through an army of men; he ought not to have been
successful in this, but he was! The implication is that Macbeth's own will overpowered
fate.

In act 1, scene 3, Macbeth has received his supposed prophecy from the
Weird Sisters, as well as the news that he has been made Thane of Cawdor, as they said he would.
He stands in amazement while , Angus, and Banquo speak among themselves. In an aside, speaking
to himself, Macbeth says, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may / crown me /
Without my stir" (1.3.157€“159). He believes that chance, not fate, is in control of his
fortune.

Humans can affect chance with their will. We can increase our chance
of being chosen for a promotion by working hard and doing a good job, right? Notably, Macbeth
denies the presence of fate in these lines, and if there is no fate, then we must have free
will.

In act 3, scene 1, Macbeth expresses his fear that he has killedjust so
that Banquo's descendants will one day rule. Macbeth has no kids of his own, and the Weird
Sisters told Banquo that he would "get kings," though he would never be king himself.
Now, Macbeth says, "Rather than so, come fate into the list / And champion me to th'
utterance" (3.1.76€“77). He says that, rather than giving up his crown to Banquo's line, he
prefers to invite fate to do battle and oppose him to the death; again, this implies that
Macbeth could triumph over fate, with his free will and strong desire to retain the throne for
himself and his own line.

In act 4, scene 1,praises the Weird Sisters for
their work in deceiving Macbeth. She says, "I commend your pains, / And everyone shall
share i' th' gains" (4.1.39€“40). If fate were a guarantee, then there would be no need for
them to take "pains" to deceive Macbeth, to make him feel secure. Instead, they need
to manipulate Macbeth so that he feels that he is invulnerable; this way, they can conspire to
achieve the outcome they want. The fact that the sisters need to manipulate Macbeth at all shows
that he does, indeed, have free will, and his demise is not fated.

What are the six distinct traits of professionalism?

Kappa Omicron Nu, a collegiate honors
society,
describes professionalism as the feeling of support an individual has for their
chosen
profession or an individuals ability to positively represent the
standards of ones profession.
This organization outlines six characteristics
of professional style, or a professional way of
being, as enumerated
below.

Being ethical
requires
having a sound moral standard of conduct, both in personal and professional
contexts.
This means having the abilities to discern between right and wrong
and make decisions that are
in the best interest of everyone
involved.

Being
altruistic
involves having a basic interest in the well-being of
others. This is
specifically important when working in helping/ developmental professions
(e.g.,
medicine and education) or professions that involve large amounts of
teamwork. As a
professional, one must value the development of their clients
and colleagues in the same ways
they value their own development.

Being
responsible means having an
obligation to something or someone.
When you are responsible for something,
others depend on you, trust you, and will hold you
accountable for meeting
the needs or tasks you are responsible for. This also means that, when
you do
not meet your responsibilities, you must explain why they have not been met and how
you
plan to meet them moving forward.

Being

theoretical means that you understand the context and
values that
shape your profession and apply this knowledge when appropriate.
This can be learned in formal
educational settings, particularly college,
depending on the discipline you choose to
study.

Being
committed means being invested in
something or
someone for an extended period of time. As a professional, such devotion is

displayed through having an active and engaged interest in continuing to develop
ones
professional skills. One can do this by attending professional
development events (e.g.
conferences and seminars) in their field.

Being
intellectual means you are
actively and continuously seeking
opportunities to learn. This means you are
staying abreast of current and new developments
within your field and looking
for projects or activities in which you can develop or nourish a
new
skill.

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How is elasticity useful to business firms and government?

Elasticity
is the manner in which prices effect supply and demand. If something is inelastic, its supply
and demand do not respond much to changes in price, and if something is elastic, its supply and
demand do. This is an extremely useful principle for businesses and the government to be aware
of and use for their benefit.

For businesses, if a product they are selling
is extremely inelastic, they can typically increase the price, either to improve margins or
because of rising costs of production, and still maintain a significant demand. However, if one
of their inputs is very elastic, and the price drops drastically, the supply may decrease as
people purchase it in larger quantities.

The government also uses this to
their advantage when setting taxes or fees on certain goods. If a product is inelastic, they can
levy larger taxes on it and still see high demand.

Macbeth Deserves Death? Macbeth deserves to die at the end of the play: would you agree with this view?

This really
depends on whether you believe in capital punishment or not. certainly deserves the death
penalty, and they did have it in his kingdom.  He brutally murderedandfor no reason.  However,
perhaps his worst crimes were the killing of the completely innocentand s son and
wife.

What is the significance of the quilts in "Everyday Use"?

The
differing ways in which Dee and Mama view the quilts is representative of their difference of
opinion overall in this story about what constitutes African American, and family, heritage. To
Mama and Maggie, the quilts are living history. Although Maggie says, "I can remember
Grandma Dee without the quilts," the quilts are composed of her grandmother's dresses, and
pieces of her mother's dresses, and uniforms from the Civil War, and were
sewn by hand. They were made to be used, and for Maggie, to receive these quilts upon her
marriage and put them to "everyday use" would represent a rite of passage as she
becomes the next in a line of Johnson women, part of a family heritage that is not something of
the past.

Discuss the rift between Snowball and Napoleon as they are caught in their power.

Afterdies,andboth consider it inevitable that
they should revolt against Mr. Jones. Once they are able to do this, the rift begins with the
implementation of Animalism. While Snowball is more interested in educating the young animals by
teaching them to read and write, Napoleon is already preoccupied with forcing his dogma and
tenants on all members of the farm. After The Battle of the Cowshed, Snowball is easily the most
popular pig, and introduces his plan to modernize the farm by building a windmill. Napoleon
seeing this as a threat to his authority, has Snowball chased out ofby his dogs.

Napoleon and Snowball are allusions to Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, respectively.
Trotsky, once a high-ranking member of the Communist party, was stripped of all his positions
and titles over the course of a few years and was exiled and eventually assassinated for
opposing Stalinist bureaucracy.

Irony In Catcher In The Rye

Another
example ofin  is 's incessant use of the term "phony." Throughout
the text, he refers to the majority of his peers and adults around him as "phony." The
term, as he uses it, seems to suggest any individual who acts in a way that is contrary to their
authentic self or their true beliefs. For example, he accuses the girls in the nightclub of
being phony for pretending to be like New Yorkers when really they are from
elsewhere. 

But consider Holden's behavior: he does Stradlater's homework
for him when in fact he disdains him; he insults his teachers and...

What is the meaning behind "mysterious energy" in Paulo Coelho's book The Alchemist? I feel like he means superstition in a sense, but I'm not entirely...

In 's
, Melchizedek, the King of Salem, is speaking with the boy about how to
obtain one's Personal Legend. One's Personal Legend is fulfilling one's full potential in life.
For Santiago, he must find his treasure at the Egyptian pyramids as told to him in a dream. He
must go on a journey, though, and this journey is where he discovers more about himself than
just searching for treasure. Melchizedek explains that one's Personal Legend is different for
everyone and we all know what it is when we are children. However, the following eventually
occurs:

"But as time passes, a
mysterious force begins to convince them...

Write a critical note on Edmund Spenser's sonnets of his Amoretti.

In
his Spenser develops a unique sonnet form. The sonnet came to England
primarily through the sonnets of Italian poet, Petrarch, the premier sonnet writer of Italy.
Petrarch's sonnets were structured in two parts, an opening octet
and an ending sestet without ending . The
volta, or "turn" in the logic of the
subject of the sonnet occurs at the 9th line, the first line of the sestet. At the
volta, Petrarch introduced--in the sestet--the
sonnet's second but closely related idea leading from the problem introduced in the opening
octet. An octet, also called octave, has eight lines while a sestet has six lines. Petrarch's
sonnets have a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdccdc (with rgyme scheme
variations possible for the sestet), with the middle couplets (aa and cc) forming a concatenated
link between rhyme schemes.

Spenser varied this
structure by adopting three quatrains and an end couplet, with rhyme scheme of
linking concatenation at the 4th and 5th and 8th and 9th lines. This linking
concatenation (repetition of a rhyme in a couplet) allows a link between rhyme schemes and, even
more importantly, between the ideas in the sonnet. Petrarch presented two related ideas in
sonnets, the first in the octet and the second in the sestet, whereas Spenser can present three
related ideas, one in each quatrain, with the couplet posing the dramatic solution to the
problem introduced in the first quatrain. Spenser's rhyme scheme is ababbcbccdcd
ee, with an ending couplet.

The
concatenated lines are the spots at which Spenser introduces the
second and third closely related ideas. Spenser's structure allows for either an
evolution of the logic introduced in the first quatrain or,
dramatically, a reversal of the logic begun in the first quatrain.
Sonnet 1 demonstrates a sonnet in which the logic follows in an
evolution of an idea:

Sonnet
1
Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
Which
hold my life in their dead-doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in love's soft
bands,
Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.
And
happy lines, on which with starry light,
Those lamping
eyes will deign sometimes to look
And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,

Written with tears in heart's close-bleeding book.
And
happy rhymes bath'd in the sacred brook,
Of Helicon whence
she derived is,
When ye behold that Angel's blessed look,
My soul's
long-lacked food, my heaven's bliss.
Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please
alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

In contrast, Sonnet 54 shows a logical
reversal that occurs at concatenated line 9:

Sonnet 54    
Of this World's theatre in which we stay,
My love like
the Spectator idly sits,
Beholding me, that all the pageants play,
Disguising
diversely my troubled wits.
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
And mask
in mirth like to a Comedy;
Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits,
I wail and
make my woes a .
Yet she, beholding me with constant
eye,
Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart;
But when I laugh, she mocks:
and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart.
What then can move
her? If nor mirth nor moan,
She is no woman, but a senseless stone.

Sonnet 75 is another one that shows a
reversal of logic, but at concatenated line
5.

What is the savagery of Simon's death in "Lord of the Flies"?

's death
was the result of certain individual actions. The savagery of his death is only revealed after
all he has witnessed and all he has felt has been realized by the reader. Simon is steadfast in
the meaning of his delivery of the truth. However that delievery will never come to fruition,
Simon does not have a chance. Simon represents the ultimate sacrifice. It is only with his death
thatcan see and pursue the idea of survival. For all intensive purposes, (religious or not)
Ralph represents at the very least an 'alternative', if there is a...

In chapter 4, what reasons does Chillingworth give for not taking vengeance against Hester?

believes
that the shame of public humiliation is ample punishment for . The scarlet letter she wears is
enough to satisfy him.

When they meet and he gives her a medicinal draught,
she fears he is trying poison and kill her in revenge for her infidelity. He insists this is not
so, saying:

Live, therefore, and bear about thy doom with
thee, in the eyes of men and women,in the eyes of him whom thou didst call thy husband,in the
eyes of yonder child!

Public shame is terrible to
Chillingworth, which is why he wants to keep his marriage to her a secret. He also acknowledges
that he is partly to blame for her state, saying:

It was
my folly, and thy weakness. I,a man of thought,the bookworm of great libraries,a man already in
decay, having given my best years to feed the hungry dream of knowledge,what had I to do with
youth and beauty like thine own!

He understands that
Hester would be attracted to a younger and more handsome man.

There is more
than a bit of...

How does the conflict in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut emphasize the tone?

is
Vonneguts jab at making fun of the American fondness for the €˜lowest common denominator in
certain aspects of civic life. To the objective sociopolitical and anthropological writers POV,
it can often seem that intellectuality and the intelligeciaThe Eliteare under attack. And that
the old-guard ideal of American €˜society as meritocracy, is bankrupt as we drift further into
cultural homogeneity.

As such, the conflict generated is in what you perceive
as opposed to the ostensible situation. One part of Vonneguts is framed as documentary, but
expressed back-handedly, with a sort of horrendousthat you, the reader, must
sense is sarcastic. Vonneguts narrative stance is like that of the writing technique of the
€˜unreliable narrator, in which the text conveys two messages; what he knows and what the reader
knows to be a contradiction of character.

As another note, the handicapping
or forced behavior-modification in this story is similar to that of A Clockwork
Orange, though Harrison Bergeron is the earlier work.

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of some his earlier
short stories, which were once a major feature of popular print entertainment; including the
bustling magazinemarket. (Paperbacks themselves emerged about one third of the way through the
Twentieth Century, in time for WWII care packages to the troops could include the latest fiction
and entertainment in lightweight, inexpensive editions.) Im winging it a bit here, buthaving
survived his tour of duty in that world warhe happens to have been steeped in the paperback of
the day; that was indeed Private Vonnegut in his bunk reading James Jones, or another popular
author of that €˜manly but tender ilk.

In "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge," why does Farquhar want to destroy the Owl Creek Bridge?

Peyton Farquhar, we
learn at the beginning of Section II, was a "well-to-do planter, of an old and highly
respected Alabama family."  He was a slave owner and a secessionist, "ardently devoted
to the Southern cause."  In other words, he was very much in favor of the Confederacy
seceding from the Union (the southern states forming their own country, distinct from the
northern ones).  This story, then, we now know is set during the era of the American Civil War,
deep into the war when the army from the north was...

How does James Joyce depict Dubliners in "Eveline"?

Before
looking at howdepictsin his short story "," it helps to look at how he envisions the
inhabitants of Dublin in his short story collection (Dubliners) as a whole.
For the most part, Joyce sees Dubliners as "paralyzed" individuals. This does not mean
that they are actually physically unable to move; rather, Dubliners are paralyzed because they
are unable to grow, progress, or move forward in a meaningful way (at least, according to
Joyce's interpretation). Thus, many of Joyce's main characters are stuck in a largely
unfulfilled existence. Most characters realize this fact through climactic epiphanies, one of
Joyce's most famous literary tools.

Now, let's look at "Eveline"
within this context. The eponymous character of the short story is a young woman who leads an
abysmal existence. Her mother is dead, and so she is forced to work a dead-end job to make ends
meet and to help care for her younger siblings. To make matters worse, Eveline's father is an
alcoholic who drinks up much of her earnings and verbally abuses her. Eveline spends much of the
story looking out a window onto the street (an image which exemplifies exactly how trapped she
is) and ruminating on her sad existence. However, when she is given the opportunity to run away
with a man and leave behind the confines of her life, Eveline chooses to stay home.

It's clear, then, that Joyce's portrait of Dubliners in "Eveline" is
consistent with his depiction of the city dwellers in the rest of his short stories. Like her
urban compatriots, Eveline is stuck in a dead-end world that has little hope of progressing.
Thus, in "Eveline" and elsewhere in Dubliners, the inhabitants of
Dublin are metaphorically paralyzed. By depicting Dubliners in such a way, Joyce highlights the
oppressive experience of living in Dublin at the beginning of the Twentieth
Century. 

Discuss Animal Farm as a political satire.

Ais a work of
literature which uses humor,and exaggeration to criticize people, places or events. As such,
is 's attempt at satirizing the Russian Revolution of 1917 in which the
Bolsheviks came to power and the totalitarian rule of Joseph Stalin which began in 1924. This is
made clear from Chapter Two when the idealistic animals, who represent the Bolsheviks, overthrow
their human master, Mr. Jones, and take control of the farm for themselves.

Over time, one of the pigs, , rises to become the leading figure on the farm. Like
Joseph Stalin, Napoleon is single-minded, ambitious and prepared to use violence to achieve his
aims. Napoleon's conflict within Chapter Five, for example, mirrors the conflict between Joseph
Stalin and another Bolshevik leader, Leon Trotsky, which resulted in the latter's expulsion from
the Soviet Union.

By writing Animal Farm as a satire,
Orwell makes clear his views on the events in Russia and on the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
Specifically, he argues that Stalinism did not improve the lives of the people of Russia, just
like it did not improve the lives of the animals on the farm. In fact, Napoleon was even more
cruel than Mr. Jones, just as Stalin was far worse than any of his political
predecessors. 

Of what crime does Baldwin accuse his countrymen in The Fire Next Time?

In a
particularly searing passage in Baldwin accuses his country and his fellow
countrymen of the crime of having destroyed, and continuing to destroy, hundreds of thousands of
lives without knowing it or wanting to know it. For Baldwin, this is such...

What was Frederick Douglass's highly skilled manual labor job?

At the age of
seven or eight years, Frederick was separated from his mother and the rural Maryland setting
where he was born and sent to work as a houseboy in a home in Baltimore. He spent the next five
years of his life working in the home of Hugh and Sophia Auld.

As a houseboy,
his work could have included any number of tasks involved in helping the household and its
residents. He may have been responsible for tasks such as cleaning shoes or boots, fetching
items, delivering messages, and other chores as directed by his owners. The key formative event
that took place during this time in Frederick's life was the beginning instruction in reading
that he received from Sophia Auld, who taught him the alphabet.

It was when
he was older, during the 1830s, that Douglass began the skilled manual labor job of caulking
ships in Baltimore. This was to be the last job he would endure as a slave. From there, Douglass
escaped North in 1838 to find his freedom.

Name 7 instructions that are given in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid?

I would argue that far
more important than the instructions the girl is given (which you can easily pick out through
reading this short text) is the tone in which they are given and how this hints at the conflict
between the mother and girl. Note the way that the text suggests a non-stop barrage of
suggestions from the mother. How would you feel if you were the daughter receiving this advice?
When the daughter does try to get a word in, it is wilfully interpreted as a sign of sluttish
behaviour.

In the novel Never Let Me Goby Fazuo Ishiguro, Kathy tells readers, "How you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to...

The reason
behind putting so much emphasis on creativity is revealed later on
in a discussion between Miss Emily, Marie-Claude, Tommy, and Kathy at around page
239. During this discussion, Miss Emily reveals that
she was the only one who questioned whether or not Hailsham was
morally right. The morality of Hailsham can be questioned on
several different grounds: (1) Is it morally right to clone human
beings for the mere sake of harvesting their organs? (2) If human beings are cloned, are they
fully human, or do they lack human souls? (3) If cloned human
beings are not fully human, do they need to be treated humanely and with the same
civil rights as actual human beings?

It can be argued that
society's current method of organ transplants is
inhumane because ill individuals who need transplants must simply
wait until an organ donor passes on so that the ill individual can receive the organ. Many ill
patients who need transplants don't make it through the waiting
period. Hence, it can be argued that cloning human beings is a more moral method
of overseeing organ donations because more ill individuals are more likely to
receive the organ he/she needs. If more individuals are ensured the rights of
life and happiness, then more civil rights are protected for more
individuals. But while that's more moral for ill individuals, the question
arises, what about the clones? Should we even care about the rights of clones? As Miss Emily
states, their intention behind Hailsham had been to prove that there was a more humane way of
"doing things," such as donating organs to those who need it. But what's more, as
society developed the idea of creating clones to harvest organs, society also started
treating those clones as merely test tube subjects, not as human
beings. Miss Emily and other founders of Hailsham wanted to also ensure that the
clones were treated humanely. But of course the founders of Hailsham could only
prove that the clones were indeed being treated humanely if they could prove the
clones were being treated like human beings. The artwork became the
solution to the problem of inhumane
treatment.

Teaching the clones to be creative in
artwork became, they had hoped, the answer to that question as
to whether or not the clones at Hailsham were indeed
being treated humanely. As Miss Emily phrases it, they encouraged the clones to
create artwork because, "We thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely,
we did it to prove you had souls at all(it starting at we)."
Creativity is one of the very few things that separates human
beings from animals. If it can be proved that the clone children possessed the ability to be
creative, then it could be proven that they were fully human beings
and deserved to be treated humanely. Not only that, once it was
proved that the clone children had the ability to be creative, encouraging them to
be creative was a logical means of ensuring that the clones were
indeed being treated humanely, not as mere test tube subjects. As Miss Emily
later explains, they collected the colones' art work to put on
display all over the country so that prominent people could view the artwork, such as
"cabinet ministers, bishops, [and] all sorts of famous people." In displaying the
clones' artwork, it was there way of saying "'There, look! ... Look at this art! How dare
you claim these children are anything less than fully human?'" If the founders of Hailsham
could successfully make this statement, then they could ensure that the clones at
Hailsham would continue to be treated, as they hoped,
humanely.

Hence, encouraging
creativity was both their way of proving that the cloned children
were both fully human and worthy of humane treatment
and proving that the cloned children
were in reality receiving humane treatment.

What does the narrative reveal about the characters's feeling toward the girl?

The young
adolescent narrator of "" develops a crush on his friend Mangan's older sister, whose
family lives where he does on North Richmond Street. He feels physically attracted to her,
watching her as

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

She
becomes idealized in his mind as someone set apart. He idolizes and adores her from afar, noting
that he has hardly spoken more than a few words to her:

yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood

She represents romance to him. He pours into her all his intense and confused longings
and desires:

Her name sprang to my lips at moments in
strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears
(I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my
bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not
or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

He also says of her:

I
pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O love! O
love!" many times.

The narrator has turned Mangan's
sister into a fantasy figure. As readers, we have every reason to believe she is simply a very
ordinary girl. She dresses in brown, a color associated with the narrator's dull life in Dublin,
and she lives on the same "blind" or dead end street that he does, attending a convent
school. Her speech, when she does finally talk to him, is banal as she chatters about how she
can't go to the bazaar Araby because she will be at a convent retreat, saying "It's well
for you" that he'll be home.

In his blinded and lovestruck adoration, he
promises to bring her a gift from Araby if he goes. The girl and the dreamed of bazaar, both of
which symbolize his escape to more a romantic future, merge in his mind.

What steps did Roosevelt take to involve the US in supporting Great Britain before Pearl Harbor?

Although
the United States did not officially enter the war until 1941, Roosevelt did everything possible
to support Allied powers through several initiatives. With the memory of WWI still fresh in the
collective national memory, the American public was war-weary and suspicious of any attempt to
join Allied efforts.

The 1935 Neutrality Act forbade any American exports of
arms or ammunition to belligerent nations, and the Johnson Act of 1934 prohibited loans to any
country who had not repaid any debts incurred during WWI. Undeterred, Roosevelt repeatedly
lobbied Congress to repeal the Neutrality Act; his efforts paid off when Congress passed the
Pittman Bill in November 1939, which allowed the United States to sell arms to...

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Describe the main factors affecting tourism demand.

There are
several factors that affect the demand for tourism. One set of factors deals with the price
people have to pay. The cost of getting to a destination is a factor. Higher travel costs may
lower demand. The cost of accommodations, food, tours, entertainment, and local travel may all
also impact tourism demand. If these costs are high, demand may drop.

There
are non-price factors that impact tourism demand. The climate of a location is an important
factor. If the climate is too hot or too cold, demand will be impacted. The reputation of a
location is another important factor. If a place has many things to do and has many attractions,
tourism demand should increase. If a destination is known as a safe location, it will be
attractive to tourists. The condition of the economy at home and abroad also impacts tourism
demand. If the economy is good, people may be more willing to travel, since they may have more
disposable income.

There are several factors that affect tourism
demand.

Is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas based on a true story?

says that he had been a student of literature related to the Holocaust for many years. He had
always been fascinated by the subject and had read many books himself about how it impacted
individuals and the world. However, the entire story originated from an image in his head of two
boys sitting and talking with only a fence (around a concentration camp) dividing them. From
there, he began to form the rest of the story that would become . After
writing the first draft, Boyne did some research to decide how faithful to history he wanted to
be and examined the memoir that Rudolf Hoess wrote.

The story is a work
ofthat is based in the larger historical context of the suffering of the Holocaust but does not
represent the actual story of two little boys. An interview is linked below where Boyne
discusses the origins of the novel as well as his thoughts about how it has been transformed
into film and a stage production.

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Why was Adolf Hitler's foreign policy successful up to the 1938 Anchluss with Austria?

The
reason German foreign policy could be considered successful from the date of Adolf Hitler's
appointment as chancellor of Germany to the March 1938 union with Austria was because there was
relatively little to prevent it from carrying out its chosen policies. The 1930s were an
economically turbulent time for much of Europe, as well as for the United States. The Great
Depression was not limited to the United States; on the contrary, much of the world felt its
effects, and many governments were preoccupied with adopting measures intended to lift
themselves out of the depths to which they had descended. In addition, the rise of Nazi Germany
was not occurring in a vacuum. Benito Mussolini was already entrenched as the leader of Fascist
Italy. In the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, the Nationalists, a fascist movement led
by Francisco Franco, defeated the Republicans, a group supported by socialist and communist
movements from across Europe (and the United States). Imperial Japan...

What are three morals in Holes?

In the book
, we are introduced to Stanley, a young boy sent to a camp after being charged with a crime he
didn't commit. The book takes us on an emotional journey of heartache, gypsy curses, buried
treasure and eventually redemption. There are several morals in the story, but I think the three
that stand out to me are: our perception of luck and fate, the horriblethat was racism, and the
beautiful ability of friendship. In the book we are taken through several different stories that
all tie in to what Stanley is going through.

We see the moral of fate and
luck with Stanley's great-great grandfather, Elya Yelnats. He befriended a gypsy who offered him
a pig, and the deal was when the pig got older, Elya would carry the gypsy up a mountain. The
gypsy, Madame Zeroni, had only one leg and couldn't make the trip on her own. Elya became
charmed by a woman he thought he loved. When he found out the woman didn't love him, he forgot
about his promise to Madame Zeroni and left for America. It is said that Madame Zeroni put a
curse on Elya and his family. Some members of the family continued to believe in the curse,
while others thought it wasn't real. 

"A lot of
people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either,
but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe it or
not."

We then are introduced to Kate and Sam. Kate
was a school teacher who was in love with Sam, who was a black man. Sam sold onions for a
living. This was during the time, where it was illegal to even kiss a black person, and since
Kate had kissed Sam, the town turned against them. The two were going to escape, but were caught
and Sam was killed. Kate went mad and became known as Kissin' Kate; she would rob and kill
people. She robbed Stanley's great grandfather and stole his fortune. The grandfather survived
but never found his fortune. It is believed to be buried in the ground where the camp now
sits. 

Stanley and Zero have become the best of friends. They are both at the
camp, and they spend their days digging holes, looking for the lost buried treasure. The two
boys' friendship helps them survive the harsh conditions of the camp. They are there for each
other and support each other. It is a beautiful friendship and they end up finding a suitcase
that has several important things from Stanley's great grandfather. It is also revealed that
Zero is the great-great-great grandson of Madame Zeroni. By the two boys forming such a strong
friendship and being true to each other, the curse has now been broken.

The
morals we learn are that we need to keep our word to people, we need to not be so judgmental
about other people and we need to cherish the wonderful friendships that we
have.

How do Jean-Jaques Rousseau's philosophy and slavery conflict?

wrote
that there was a fundamental conflict between slavery and the rights of man. In chapter 4 of
, he wrote that only voluntary transfers of rights were valid. A
government, in other words, was only legitimate if people agreed voluntarily to...

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How does the setting in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle affect the characters?

byis a science /fantasy novel for young adults originally
published in 1963. The story moves across time and place, with a version of time travel being
essential to the plot.

The initial setting is a contemporary (i.e. early
1960s) town in the United States where the Margaret Meg...

On what page does Winston say that "freedom is the ability to say that two plus two equals four?"

In Part
One, chapter 7 of the online Planet Ebook Edition of ,writes in his diary,
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four" ( 103). As Winston is
contemplating the extensive authority and power of the Party, he recognizes that the government
will soon make citizens believe that two plus two equals five using the concept of doublethink,
which is when a person believes and accepts two contradicting ideas simultaneously. Winston
realizes that despite the Party's overarching control of society, he is able to maintain his
independence by thinking logically and rejecting the Party's manufactured perspective of the
world. Unlike the majority of citizens in Oceania, Winston rejects the Party's propaganda and
knows that government agents have been effectively altering history in the Ministry of Truth.
The Party is essentially practicing reality control in order to make every citizen perfectly
orthodox and ensure the Party's reign for eternity. In such a...

What made Robinson Crusoe popular in the days it was published?

The novel
by , which was first published in 1719, tells of an English sailor who
becomes a castaway on a deserted island and survives there for 28 years until he is finally
rescued. The book became instantly popular and went through four editions by the end of 1719.
There are several reasons why Robinson Crusoe became so popular in the days
after it was first published.

First of all, it was an
anomaly in the publishing world of the time. In 1719, the novel was not an established genre of
literature. The real author, Defoe, was not credited in the first edition. Many readers thought
that it was a true story and that Robinson Crusoe, an actual person, was the author. Defoe had
based his novel on the accounts of real sailors who had been shipwrecked, and the book'sthrilled
readers. Defoe was almost sixty years old when Robinson Crusoe was
published, and he had spent much of his career as a journalist. He was adept at depicting the
details of events in a way his readers would find interesting.

In the novel, Crusoe is presented as a common man that many readers of the era could
relate to. They could see themselves in Crusoe, and they could sympathize with the fears, joys,
and moral dilemmas that he goes through in the course of his struggles for survival. One of the
main things that Crusoe uses to cope with his solitude and despair is the Bible, and 18th
century readers could identify with that as well. His attitude of thankfulness to God helps him
endure his harsh circumstances and have mercy on his companion Friday, who he rescues from
cannibals and converts to Christianity. This would fit in with attitudes toward religion that
readers of the era would have held.

Some scholars also
suggest that Robinson Crusoe's tale of survival is an example of the hero's journey, a term made
popular by author Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand
Faces. Although readers in the 18th century would probably not have consciously made
this connection, they would have been unconsciously affected by this universal mythical
theme.

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What are some tips for analyzing a poem?

is
carefully selected words that are designed to evoke an emotion.  Poetry is different from prose,
or normal novel and short story writing, because it has a specific rhythm created by how the
words are put together into lines and stanzas.

The first thing you should do
when analyzing a poem is read it to yourself.  You can read it in your head and then out loud. 
This will help you get familiar with the language.  You can also take notice of the form.  Is
the poem a sonnet, a ballad, or a?  Count the number of stanzas and lines.  You can...

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What lessons do Jem and Scout learn from Tom Robinson's trial in To Kill a Mockingbird?

andlearn lessons from the trial that are without question some of the most harsh and brutal ones
that they will experience in their young lives.

Both learn that while
necessary, the justice system is fundamentally broken. When a prejudice permeates a society as
deeply as racism does in the deep south, the jury system cannot effectively function because
each and every juror will feel the same level of bias, making an unbiased jury impossible. This
is absolutely devastating to Jem, who has been mentally preparing for the trial under the
assumption that 's defense will operate on a playing field that is purely based on logic.
Atticus is like a god to Jemhe is morally upright and discerning, and he is a true hero. When
Jem has to watch his father's best efforts crumble under the weight of systematic racism, it
shatters him.

Scout, though more naive, has her eyes opened for the first
time to the ugly nature of the general opinion in Maycomb. She is still only vaguely
aware...

Compare Mathilda's life before and after the fateful dinner?

Before the fateful night
of the fancy party,
Mathilde Loisel's life is actually pretty good, though she doesn't know it

and is not exactly grateful for what she has. She is "pretty and charming,"
and
married to a good man with a good job, but she is not satisfied. She
"suffer[s]
ceaselessly" because she feels that she was "born for all the
delicacies and all the
luxuries" that she cannot afford. Another woman, the
narrator tells us, would not even have
been conscious of the deficiencies
Mathilde sees in her home, her possessions, and so on. She
actually has a
"little Breton peasant who did her humble housework," though the sight
of the
girl also makes Mathilde feel badly because she cannot afford better. Her husband
is
happy with her, happy with their food and their lives, but "she loved
nothing" but
dresses and jewels which she could not buy.

After the fateful party,
Mathilde learns what hardship really is.
In order to pay for the lost necklace, the couple had
to dismiss their
servant and even change lodgings. Mathilde "came to know what heavy
housework
meant and the odious cares of the kitchen." She grows old quickly, and she
and
her husband work themselves to the bone, day and night. She has changed
so much in ten years
that not even her friend who had loaned her the necklace
recognizes her anymore. "She had
become the woman of impoverished households
strong and hard and rough." Mathilde learns
that her suffering was little
before, back before the party, and it is much greater now. We can
only
imagine her response when her friend informed her that the necklace had not even been
made
of real diamonds!

Office 365 contribution Which aspects of office 365 describe here could have value to us when accomplishing student team projects? Explain why they...

One benefit
of Office 365 would be that it is cloud-based, which would allow for greater
collaboration...

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Why does Burke object to a polity founded on 'reason' and 'rights' rather than 'tradition' and 'responsibilities?' IN Reflections on the Revolution in...

The basic
reason for this is that Burke was a conservative.  He was skeptical about the ability of people
to create a perfect world and was more willing to trust the idea that centuries of experience
were a better guide than theories derived from reason.

Burke did not believe
that people could create a perfect system.  He believed that human nature was too negative to
allow this to happen.  Because of this, he was suspicious of a polity...

What is the effect of the authors minimal use of dialogue in the text?

The short
story "" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells of the reaction of a seaside village to the
arrival of an old man with large wings like an angel. However, the wings are damaged by a
rainstorm and the man can no longer fly. Instead of treating him with respect, the family in
whose yard he lands locks him in the chicken coop and charges admission for the villagers to
observe him. The old man is a popular attraction until a girl who has been changed into a spider
arrives in town as a carnival act. The chicken coop eventually falls apart, and as the old man
crawls about the family's house, he begins to heal. In the end, his feathers grow back and he
becomes strong enough so that he is able to fly away.

This story is an
example of a genre of literature known as magic , a type of literature that has realistic
settings but also deals with elements of the fantastic. The story contains only one line of
direct dialog and very few lines of indirect dialog.

Dialog serves several
purposes in literature and stories. It assists in character development, provides information,
advances the plot, and gives immediacy and dynamism. Refraining from the overuse of dialog,
Marquez causes the reader's perspective to step back from the immediacy of the situation and see
the story in a broader sense, as a sort of myth orthat reveals aspects of the human condition.
The characters, in turn, function as archetypes that reflect various facets of humanity. The
priest, for instance, becomes a theological authority figure, and the child represents the
innocence in human nature that is able to approach and appreciate the incomprehensible or
spiritual.

The story works only because the reader is able to suspend
disbelief and accept the elements of magic realism as if they were true. Too much dialogue would
have broken the spell of the suspension of disbelief that Marquez manages to cast over his
readers.

Why does what Meg sees make her angry? Why does Meg thank Mrs. Whatsit's, Mrs. Who's, and Mrs. Which's friend for making her angry?

The Happy
Medium wants to cheer up the children after showing them the Dark Thing and Camazotz. However,
her plan backfires. She reveals Calvin's unhappy home life in her crystal, and then she shows
Meg her mother. Instead of making her happy, the vision makes Meg angry, because her mother is
huddled up sadly in her lab at home. She has dropped her head to the paper she was writing on,
and her unhappiness is apparent. This is a side of herself she never lets her children
see.

Meg, who has been protective of those she loves throughout the book,
again wants to jump into action, this time to help her mother. Meg's response to her mother's
sadness is the following:

"Let's go!" she cried
harshly. "Let's do something!"

Meg's anger gets
her into trouble, but it also motivates her to take positive action to help people, which is why
Mrs. Whatsit tells her to hang on to it.

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, Act II, why did Eliza's father refuse the 10 pounds offered by Higgins? In Act II, Eliza's father askes Higgins 5...

Doolittle
doesn't want more money than he can blow for a single weekend  of fun:  "just one good
spree for myself and the missus."   He doesn't want to be bothered with saving it, managing
it, or...

What were some political arguments between the North and South before the Civil War?

While I
agree with the facts of the first answer to this question, I struggle to wholeheartedly blame
the institution of slavery for bringing about the Civil War. It's impossible to argue with the
facts presented in the prior answer to this question.  Slavery was indeed the moral issue of the
day; however, we must be careful not to oversimplify the underlying rift between North and
South.

Southerners were, generally speaking of course, more politically
conservative than Northerners.  This is a trend that exists even today.  The Bible Belt exists
in the southern region of the U.S. and the Christian revivals that took place in the South prior
to the Civil War indicate an overall devotion to faith and conservatism that was distinct from
the North.  

We must also not forget the largely rural setting of the South
and the much more urban setting of the North as another factor.  Southerners had to rely on
themselves much more in their environment, and the threat of revolting slaves on...

During one of the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging in Night, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?

Immediately prior to this scene, Elie and the other prisoners hear air-raid sirens,
which sends the SS officers running for shelter. They all believe that the lines of war are
inching closer to them at the camp, but Elie recognizes that he is no longer afraid of a death
in the name of liberation. Instead, every explosion the prisoners hear fills them with
"joy" and gives them "new confidence in life." The SS officers do not share
these same sentiments, so the approaching war has them in a state of tense anxiety.

Around this time, a boy is brought out to be hung; Elie notes that he has already been
imprisoned for three years and is still strong. Thus, his acts of insubordination are a further
threat to the SS workers.

As they prepare for his...

Explain at least two allusions from the poem "The Raven."

Let's
begin with a definition of an "."  An allusion is a a reference in a literary work
that references something else without saying so directly.  Often (but not always), allusions
are cultural or political references. (It can sometimes be difficult to "get" these
types of allusions when they are no longer culturally relevant.)  

However,
allusions in Western literature will often be to mythology, the Bible, and other well-known
works of literature. This is the case in Poe's classic poem "."

The
first allusion in the poem is a nod to mythology. In line 41, the speaker notices the raven,
"Perched upon a bust of Pallas."  "Pallas" is "Pallas Athena," the
Greek goddess of wisdom.  The fact that the raven chooses to sit there, upon her head, rather
than anywhere else in the room, might be interpreted in a couple of ways. First, it might be
taken ironically.  The bird only seems to know one word.  The speaker may be attributing, in his
idolatry of, more wisdom...

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From a supervisory perspective, why is the principle of unity of command so important?

The
principle of unity of command is important
from a supervisory perspective because it maintains
clarity within the chain
of command. From the bottom of an organizational hierarchy to the top,
every
employee and manager within the corporation understands to whom he or she is
principally
responsible. Respect for that chain of command is very important
because it minimizes the
chances of miscommunications regarding directives or
instructions while maximizing the prospect
of accountability. With a clearly
delineated chain of command in place, every employee knows
from whom he or
she receives orders and to whom he or she reports on the status of the
activity
in question.

Larger corporations usually have a
triangular organizational
structure with the highest ranking individual,
usually a chief executive officer or president,
overseeing a layer of vice
presidents or managers who, in turn, oversee supervisors and so on
down the
line. From a supervisory perspective, unity of command serves to simplify
each
employees task. By assigning to each employee a single point of contact
from whom he or she
receives orders and to whom he or she reports, there is
no confusion or competing
interpretations of directives with which employees
must contend. Responsibility for execution of
directives that are handed down
from above is clear. There is, or should not be, any
ambiguity.

If there is one obstacle or deviation regarding unity of command,
it
involves employees with grievances regarding management or work conditions. In companies
with
Human Resources Departments or legal offices assigned to respond to
employee grievances there is
often a specified avenue for individual workers
(or groups of workers within a specific
department who collectively share a
complaint, for example, regarding a supervisor deemed
excessively demanding
or prone to inappropriate conduct). This is mentioned because of the

break-down in unity of command that might be occurring. Employees, supervisors, et
cetera are
expected to report up their chain of command any grievances.
Jumping over direct supervisors to
higher level officials can be extremely
deleterious to the workplace environment no matter how
justified the
circumvention of the chain of command. By offering a formal, legitimate
channel
for employees who feel they cannot reasonably approach a supervisor
with a complaint, an
alternative channel for filing grievances is
appropriate.

Unity of command is
a basic principle of
management. Vital to the military, it is also important in most business

environments. Single points of contact and responsibility reduces the likelihood of
disruptions
caused by too many voices.

What is the concept of the play Pygmalion?

Shaw's basic
concept is to show that social
class, which is very important in a hierarchical society like
England's, is
not inherited genetically but learned. In other words, social class is a
product
of nurture, not nature. Many upper class people at the time (1913)
thought that superior genes
were passed down through parents and grandparents
and that people of lower-class
"stock" were genetically inferior to them. The
poor quite simply were born, to their
minds, unable to acquire the attributes
of middle- or upper-class people and must accept their
lowly status in life.
Shaw wanted to puncture and ridicule this myth.

To do

this, he has Henry Higgins, an upper-middle class linguist, enter into a bet that he
can
transform lower-class Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle into a person
who can be passed off
as a lady in the highest echelons of society. He does
this with stunning success by having Eliza
bathed, dressing her in good
clothes, teaching her upper-class manners, and most importantly,
teaching her
to speak with an upper-class accent. By the end of the experiment, even dukes
and
other aristocrats are convinced she is of their class. This proves that
class is learned, not
inborn.