How does Charles let his pride get the best of him in chapter 7 in "A Wrinkle in Time"?

A great scene!
Charles lets his pride get the
best of him by trying to match It in two areas:...

How do I write answers for poetry so I can write better answers and give better interpretations? I wanted to know how I can write answers and...

For me,
poems tend to be different from other forms of writing in two ways: the form of the poem and the
use of language in the poem. Therefore, when writing about or interpreting poetry, I always try
to begin by considering those two things.

Under form, it might be important
to recognize that a poem is a sonnet or is written in open form, for example; the form of the
poem can often have a direction connection to the poem's meaning. The open form of Walt
Whitman's poetry matches the content very well; the poems seem inclusive, spontaneous,
liberated, etc. The sonnet form always seems, to me, to be much the opposite: formal, polished,
refined, practiced, etc.

Under use of language, it might be important to
identify and reflect on an image that is central to the poem. Other elements to consider might
include uexpected ways that the poem has of saying something, associations that you as a reader
have when you read particular words in the poem, etc.

If you can talk about
both form and language in poetry -- and, even better, make a meaningful connection between the
two (do they work with or against each other?) -- I suspect that what you write will be
good. 

There are other items that you might consider, of course. The link
below will take you to one of many online resources that walk through a set of questions that
you can apply when preparing to interpret a poem.

As a final note, I would
recommend focusing solely on the poem and not making any references to the poet. The poet's
thoughts about the poem are, as famously phrased by the New Critics, both unavailable and
undesirable.

Bring out the fundamental opposition between the past and the present in the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses.

' past
life was challenging, strenuous, and exciting. He "drunk delight of battle" with his
comrades, and saw the world, including "cities of men...councils, [and] governments"
who honored him for his achievements. His past was thus that of a epic hero. His present, on the
other hand,...

What theoretical weight of the oxide is formed when 28 grams of A is heated in excess oxygen and what is the % yield if 38 grams of the oxide is...

The
reaction would be:

`2 A + 3 O -> A_2O_3`

 

Moles of O in the oxide:

`= (2.4 grams)/(16.0 (grams)/(mol e)) =
0.15 mol es`

Since the ratio is 2:3 then:

`2:3
and?:0.15`

`= 0.15 * 2/3 = 0.1...

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how would i make an alphabet book for the book "The Scarlet Letter"? i have to have a word and an explanation for each letter of the alphabet.

morrol I would start with names
ofand important words...





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In Dante's Inferno, what does the minotaur represent in circle 7?

The minotaur
in circle 7 of Dantes
Inferno has, like much else in ,

been interpreted in various ways.  Anyone seeking full information about any of the
figures in
Dantes work should look for a fully annotated edition of the poem
(such as the one by Charles
Singleton).

Also helpful is a
search of Google Books, and even a regular
Google search can be useful, as
long as one proceeds with caution.  It was a regular Google
search, for
instance, that turned up the following information at
href="http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle7.html">http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle7.html,

one of the very best sites about Dante on the Internet:

The Minotaur, a bull-man who appears on this
broken slope (Inf.
12.11-15), is most likely a guardian
and symbol of the entire circle of violence. Dante . . .
clearly...

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What were the key accessories worn by men and women during the Ancient Roman--Roman Republic to Roman Empire--period, including hairstyles, headdress,...

Roman males and
females could wear a variety of accessories with their clothing.

Before a boy
was recognized as an adult male, he would wear a bulla, which was chain
with a round pouch that held some charms that would protect the boy from evil. Boys from the
upper classes might wear a golden bulla.

Adult males
often wore a seal ring, which they used as an official stamp on documents. In some cases, a
Roman male would wear a brooch to pin to keep their cloak secured. Such pins were much more
common for women.

The wealthier the woman, the more likely they would have
been to wear jewelry. Earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings are all quite common. Gold was
the most popular material. Pearls were also in high demand.

Roman men usually
wore their hair short, without sideburns, and shaved their faces. In contrast, the hairstyles of
upper class females could be quite elaborate and quite varied (often piled up on top of the head
or on the back of the head). Sometimes women wore hairnets.

Roman men and
women typically wore sturdy sandals when venturing outside the home. Shoes with elevated soles
are also attested, for those who wanted to enhance their physical height.

Ancient Rome

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Describe the role of the chorus in "Oedipus The King" how does it contribute to the play

This is a
great question. The role of theinplay is very important. I will mention three roles.

First, theacts as a voice of reason in Sophocles' play. The chorus, the towns people of
Thebes, urge moderation. They try to impart the Greek virtue that all things...

What is the mood of The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker?

The story
has a general mood of sadness. It is sad to see Rosauras dreams crushed at the end of the story,
when she does not receive a present, like the other children who attend Lucianas party. This
goes on to confirm what her mother has been trying to tell her, that Luciana does not consider
her a friend, rather, the daughter of their maid.

It is heartbreaking that
in spite of Rosauras great contribution to the partymade out of love for Lucianas familyshe is
still not considered Lucianas friend. When...

What is an analysis of Dickens's description of the Ghost of Christmas Present?

The narrator provides a
lengthy description of
the Ghost of Christmas Present in the third stave (or chapter) of the
novel.
It wears a "deep green robe," and the walls are all hung with "living
green"
as well, and the green color as well as the description of the evergreen
decorations
seem to connect him both to nature as well as to Jesus Christ,
through the symbolism of the
evergreen (that never dies). Similarly, on his
head, he wears a "holly wreath" that
can be interpreted similarly: it is made
of evergreen, which never dies, and is a circle, which
never ends (like the
life of Jesus, whose birth Christmas celebrates).

The

spirit's "breast was bare, and his feet are as well, which seems to signify that he
has
nothing to hide and that he has no need of protection from the world. He
has "dark brown
curls" that are "long and free," apparently symbolizing his
unconstrained nature.
Further, he has an "open hand" that signifies his
generosity of spirit; consider the
torch he carries from which he sprinkles a
kind of dust that makes people feel happy and
fulfilled. He wears an "antique
scabbard" and a rusty "ancient sheath," but
no sword. These symbolize his
peaceful nature; he has no need of weapons.

Consider,
later, when he tells Scrooge that people do bad or violent things in God's

name all the time but that they do those things of their own accord and that God does
not ever
love violence. In short, the spirit is not God, but he seems to be
God's representative,
connected as he is to the idea of immortality (though
he, himself, is not immortal), to
generosity, and to
peace.

How should we respond to Medeas escape at the end of the play? What does it suggest about the gods?

The
ancient Greek tragic play
Medea was written by Euripides (c. 484-407 B.C.),
and it
was first performed at the City Dionysia (the Festival of
Dionysus)
in Athens in 431 B.C. According to accounts of the time,
Medea was not
well-received at the Festival, due
primarily to the way in which Euripides changed the Medea
legend to include
the sensationalistic event of Medea's vengeful killing of her own

children.

In the ancient Greek legend, Medea and her children were
killed by
the people of Corinth for Medea's murder of King Creon and Princess
Glauce.

In Euripides's Medea, it
appears that Medea escapes punishment or
even any negative consequence for
her bad behavior, not only for killing her children but also
for a lifetime
of violence which culminated in the play with the murders of Jason's wife,

Princess Glauce; her father, King Creon; and Medea's two young sons, Mermerus
and
Pheres.

It's is not altogether unusual that Medea
didn't suffer directly for
these murders. The tragic heroes of many ancient
Greek plays suffer a tragic fall, but their
punishment is often limited to
the tragic fall itself. Like Oedipus, they go on living, albeit
under
significantly changed circumstances. Those who suffer the ultimate tragic fall,
like
Antigone, die as the result of self-inflicted but otherwise undeserved
punishment.

Medea's fate seems wholly disproportionate to
the gravity of the murders she committed,
particularly the murder of her
sons, which is viewed as particularly heinous.

The sun
god, Helios, sends a chariot of winged dragons to rescue Medea from the
people
of Corinth. She's carried away to bury her children at the mountain of
the goddess Hera, the
Queen of the Gods, then she's taken to Athens to live
out her life.

By the
direct intervention of the gods,
Euripides seems to be suggesting that the gods are sympathetic
to Medea's
plight: that of the wronged women driven to revenge by the oppression of a

male-dominated society.

Another consideration might be that, no
matter where
their sympathies lieeither with Medea or with the many people
she killedthe gods protect their
own. Medea is a niece of Circe, a goddess of
magic, and Medea is a granddaughter of Helios, the
sun god who sent the
chariot of winged dragons to rescue Medea.

This is

emphasized in the closing lines of the play, in which theremarks on the inability of
mere humans
to understand the minds of the gods.

CHORUS. And the end
men looked for cometh not,
And a path
is there where no man thought:
So hath
it fallen here.

As a side note, according to one version
of the
Medea legend, Medea continued her murderous ways in Athens. She married Aegeus, and
they
had a son together. Medea attempted to poison Aegeus's long-lost son,
Theseus, on his return to
Athens in order to secure her own son's
inheritance.

After her failure to
kill Theseus, Medea fled
back to Colchis, where her father, Ae«tes, was King. Ae«tes had been
deposed
by his brother Perses, and Medea killed Perses in order to restore the kingdom to
her
father.

Aside from her own children, who she killed
out of revenge against
Jason, Medea seems to have killed anyone who crossed
her, and she also killed innocent people,
including her brother, Absyrtus, to
thwart anyone who attempted to hold her accountable for her

murders.

Medea seems never to have suffered any remorse for any of
the people
she killed, and she even says that the remorse she felt for
killing her own children was
overshadowed by the joy she felt at having taken
the ultimate revenge against
Jason.

Please explain the idea of the social contract.

Although
Rousseau discussed the Social Contract, the two most famous proponents of the theory are Thomas
Hobbes and John Locke. Each agrees that the purpose was to create a government, they disagree on
the motives behind the creation of that entity.

Hobbes in
Leviathan proposed that people entered into a contract--that is created a
government--in which they surrendered certain rights to preserve
them from the dangers of the "war of all against all" in which "life is nasty,
brutish and short." The important element in Hobbe's theory is that people SURRENDER
certain rights for their own protection and the greater good. The bestmight be traffic signals;
they prevent everyone from entering the intersection at one time and the resulting chaos. Can't
say that I disagree with him.

Locke's famous work was his Two
Treatises on Civil Government. In the first, he argued against divine right and
absolute monarchy. In the...

How does George Orwell use language and rhetorical devices to develop the themes and achieve specific effects in 1984?

The
entire structure of Oceania relies on Newspeak, and the control of language by the government.
For example, the 3 slogans play off people's attraction to simple, easy-to-remember catch
phrases. Theirembeds them in the mind and ensures they will be repeated and believed.
Controlling language means one controls the population. If you can...

What do you think the hills represent in the story "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Well, what
you are talking about is symbolism. The hills represent some greater truth,
idea, or value than they do at first glance.

In order to get a good idea of
what the hills are symbolic of, the reader has to have a good idea of what the story is about.
 In short, the man in the story...

What other things does the Raven symbolize in Poe's poem besides depression and the constant memory of not being able to see his loved one again in...

The raven has
long been a symbol of several things. In Greek mythology the raven symbolizes both prophecy and
wisdom. It also is a brooding symbol of evil, death, loss, grief, and mental stress. 

In 's "," the weary student exemplifies the human need to torment oneself
with grief and relentless efforts to find meaning in what is without meaning. 

Prophecy and Wisdom 

In Poe's poem, the
speaker sees the Raven perched on the bust of Athena. This position of the Raven suggests the
powers of an oracle, who will impart wisdom. But, when the speaker asks him what his
"lordly name" is, hoping for words of wisdom, the bird simply says,
"Nevermore." This word then becomes a refrain which causes the speaker great mental
distress while also acting as a prophecy.

In line 85, the speaker believes
the bird does foretell the future; he addresses the Raven:

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil--prophet still, if bird or
devil!....
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if...
It shall clasp a sainted
maiden.... (ll.85-87)

Loss and
Despair

The speaker is in an agitated state, repeatedly and
urgently seeking relief from the raven only to be given the word "Nevermore." Hearing
this word repeated, the speaker begins to despair as he realizes thatis lost to him.  

Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of
'Never €“ nevermore.'" (ll.65-66)

Grief

As he grieves for Lenore, the
speaker calls out for relief:

Respite €“ respite and
nepenthe (a medicine for sorrow), from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this
kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore! (ll.82-83)

Evil and Death

In the final stanza the
speaker compares the Raven's eyes to those of a devil who looms over him, depressing his
spirit:

And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor
Shall be lifted €“ nevermore! (ll. 107-108)

As the poem ends, the bird still sits above the door, a brooding
symbol of the speaker's distress.

The Bet Summary

I beg to
differ.

I do think that the above answers are just as right as the one I am
about to offer. But, I see it as though the banker actually was right. The young lawyer grew old
far quicker than he would have if he had had the company of other people.

15
years in solitary confinement drove him to despise the 2 millions he was to be awarded if he
lasted out the terms of the confinement.  His time in solitary drove him to despise human
thinking, philosophy and all things "civilized".

The banker was
right in that it was a death by degrees. The young lawyer entered his confinement young and
energetic and left old and bitter at 40 years of age.

While morally, the
young lawyer won the bet as he could have easily stayed another 5 hours, he lost the bet because
he proved the banker right in that it was inhumane to be in solitary confinement for 15
years.

 

is a
literary device whereby non-human things and objects are endowed with human characteristics.
There are a number of such examples in "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September."
Wordsworth uses personification to make the city of London come alive, to convey the sense of a
city waking up to a bright, beautiful morning. Using personification allows us to get closer to
that sense of wonder that Wordsworth must have felt when writing his poem. The city is no
longer...

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What details about the setting help make the characters times and lifestyles seem real?

Boyne's
novel is an excellent piece of historical , and his detailed setting contributes to the
authenticity of the story, making Bruno's unique experience seem genuine and realistic. Boyne
includes specific details regarding Bruno's life in Berlin during WWII when the Allied forces
were bombing Germany. Bruno mentions that he hated turning off all the lights every night, which
is a detail that contributes to the story's historical authenticity. Regulated blackouts were
common in Berlin to prevent enemy aircraft from accurately dropping bombs on specific
targets.

Boyne's description of the Auschwitz concentration camp is also
accurate, as he depicts the Nazi camp as a desolate, forlorn place in the middle of nowhere.
Bruno initially hates "Out-With" and describes it as a cold, ominous area. The massive
barbed-wire fence surrounding the camp, the small huts inside, and the forebodingare details
that Boyne includes that contribute to the story's authenticity. Once Bruno enters the camp,
Boyne accurately describes the horrific conditions inside a Nazi concentration camp, where
Jewish prisoners were abused and herded into gas chambers. Bruno's frightening experience inside
the concentration camp contributes to the historical accuracy of the
story.

What is Pip and Miss Havisham's relationship like in Great Expectations?

Pip and
Miss Havisham have a complicated relationship.  She relies on him because she needs someone for
Estella to practice on.  Although she hates all men, and presumably boys, she does seem to take
a subtle interest in his life.  He continues to keep in touch with her as he gets older, and she
allows him to and even continues to push Estella his way.  She tempts and teases him, but she
never tells him the truth.  She allows him...

In 1984, through the consciousness of Winston, is the point of view third person omniscient or third person limited? Give specific examples.

is told from the
perspective of the , . This perspective is defined as the third
person point of view. This point of view is also
limited, as the reader only has access to Winston's thoughts and
feelings. (In contrast, an omniscient point of view would give the reader access to the thoughts
and feelings of many more characters in the book.)

To see this point of view
in action, take a look at Part One, Chapter Two, when Winston visits his neighbors, the Parsons
family. Winston notices Mrs. Parsons's unease around her children, and thinks, "with those
children. . . that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.

In this
example, our understanding of Mrs. Parsons's relationship with her children is told only from
Winston's perspective. She may well lead a "life of terror," but this is Winston's
observation, not Mrs. Parsons's. Because of this limited point of view, the reader will never
know how Mrs. Parsons truly thinks and feels.

Why is Julia against the Party and Big Brother?

has
an "open jeering hatred" for the Party when she talks toabout it. To look at, she
appears to be the sort of girl who would epitomize the athletic ideals of the Party and the
Junior Anti-Sex League, to which she ostensibly belongs. Julia notes that she never
"shirks" anything and indeed always "yell[s] with the crowd," as this is the
only way to be safe from persecutionshe is lucky in that she is able to hide in plain sight,
because her physique and her youth give the impression that she is the sort of person the Party
would support and who would support the Party.

In reality, however, Julia is
violently against the Party and everything it stands for. She hates the Party and its moral
crusade, and she rebels against it by indulging herself in the ways she prefers and which she
knows the Party would condemn. For example, specifically, she is a highly sexual person who
enjoys sleeping with men, something the Party is against. She hates the Party because it
attacks...

How do computers function?

Computers
originated not so much with a technology but with an idea. That idea was that it is possible to
break down complex activities, whether procedures or mathematical computations, into a series of
extremely simple steps. Thus programmers develop "algorithms" that apply a series of
simple steps to certain inputs to create outputs. 

The term
"computer" originally referred not to machines but to people who did computations.
Complex calculations, such as ballistics, were broken down into long series of simpler
computations solved by large teams of "computers" (workers who performed
computations). Gradually, machines were developed that could take the place of human computers,
doing a series of very simple calculations very quickly.

Most modern
computers input, store, and output binary information, i.e. strings of 0s and 1s represented
internally as positive and negative electrical charges. Computers can perform a limited number
of Boolean operations on either individual digits (the logical operator "not" which
changes 0 to 1 or vice versa) or pairs of digits ("and" or "and not").
Computers are also capable of storing information in various forms of volatile or nonvolatile
memory (RAM, disks), fetching information into processing units (CPUs), and processing
information. Computers are also connected to input/output devices (screens, printers, keyboards,
touchscreens) so that they can accept inputs and generate outputs. 

What are the main advantages of proprietorship, partnerships, and limited liability companies? Please explain your answer in detail.

The advantages
of sole proprietorship as a business form include: ease of establishment, no required business
taxes, and sole control of business decision-making.  Sole proprietorships are easier to
establish than a partnership, which requires legal partnership agreements to be drawn up, or a
corporation, which requires an expensive and lengthy application for a government charter of
incorportation.  Sole proprietors only pay personal income taxes on the profits of the business,
the business itself is not responsible for paying any taxes.  Finally, the sole proprietor makes
all the business decisions for himself/herself, without potential conflict with a partner or
board of directors.

The chief advantages of a partnership include: ease of
raising capital, the ability to attract quality employees, and no required business taxes.  It
is easier for a partnership to raise financial capital because partners represent a smaller risk
than a sole proprietor.  If one partner defaults on a business loan, the bank can still collect
from the other partner(s).  The possibility of "making partner," or being offered part
ownership in the business as a reward for hard work, is an incentive that partnership can offer
that sole proprietorships often cannot.  For this reason, partnerships can often attract more
quality employess.  Finally, like sole proprietorships, partners only have to pay personal
income taxes on their share of the profits.  The business is not liable for business taxes as a
corporation would be.

A limited liability company (LLC) is a hybrid of a sole
proprietorship or partnership, and a corporation.  While enjoying the advantage of not having to
pay business taxes like a corporation, the owners of an LLC are not liable for "the acts
and debts" of the business.  This addresses a major disadvantage of sole proprietorships
and partnerships, unlimited liabilty, which means that the owners are personally liable for
judgements against the business.

Are there any similarities between the introduction of The Scarlet Letter ("The Custom House") and the story itself?

"The
Custom House" is a longto , and when one has a good grasp on both, it
seems impossible to read one without the shadow of the other.

In "The
Custom House," Hawthorne offers a defense for his telling the story and tries to legitimize
the story through theof finding the artifact of the letter and the old Custom House officer's
description of the early days in the colony and of 's story particularly.

In
this prologue, Hawthorne also broods on his own family history, with attention to his
ancestors's participation in the Salem Witch Trials and their religious oppression of Quakers.
This intolerant mindset, for which Hawthorne feels an inherited shame, becomes the subject of
the novel's critique as well. Thesein the novel are the same ones who participated in the Pequot
War and whose children would prosecute villagers as witches. The novel seems to exist in between
those time periods, and we can see on a small scale in Hester's story the...

Why did Islam spread?

Islam
spread rapidly after the death of the
prophet Muhammed. During the Rashidun caliphate, the rule
of the first four
caliphs or successors to Muhammed, the new religion spread far and wide

through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries.

Many
of the
communities that came into contact with Islam for the
first...

One way to approach this assignment is to consider how male characters think and speak about female characters (human and/or divine). How do the males...

A few distinct moments
from stick out to me in regard to this topic.  First, early on, Zeus sends
Hermes to tell Calypso that she must give up Odysseus and permit him to leave her island to make
his way home to Ithaca.  She points out a double standard that really bothers her: gods are
allowed to sleep with whichever mortal women they choose, but goddesses are prevented from
having relationships with mortal men.  Calypso tells Hermes, 

Hard are you gods and envious beyond all to grudge that goddesses should mate with men
and take without disguise mortals for lovers.  Thus when rosy-fingered Dawn chose Orion for her
lover, you gods that live at east soon so begrudged him that at Ortygia chaste Artemis from her
golden throne attacked and slew him with her gentle arrows.  Again when fair-haired Demeter,
yielding to her heart, met Jason in the...

What were the advantages and disadvantages for British people living in India?

British people lived in
India first under the British East India Company (from about 1750-1850) and then in the British
Raj (from 1858 to 1947). During the Raj, Britain's crown ruled India. The advantage that many
British people gained in India was access to better jobs as members of the civil service or army
than they could attain at home. This was particularly true of the younger sons of aristocratic
or wealthy families, as the older sons often inherited the title to land. British people in
India often had servants, who they could not have afforded at home, and they had higher status
than they would have had at home. Finally, living in India provided them with a type of
adventure that living in England would not have.

The disadvantages were that
they were subject to cholera, smallpox, and other diseases. Civil servants serving in India
under the British East India Company died at twice the rate of those at home in England. British
people might also have felt socially isolated at times in a country that was not really their
home and in which there were very different religious and social practices than at home. In
addition, there were rebellions against British rule, including the Indian Rebellion of 1857
(also called the Sepoy Rebellion). After World War I, there was increased pressure on England,
in a movement led by Gandhi and others, to give India independence. Over time, sentiment
developed towards ending British hegemony in India. 

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Compare and contrast the U.S. health care system with that of another country. What are some of the major advantages and disadvantages inherent of...

The main
kind of health care system that other countries have and which is very different from that of
the United States is the single-payer system in which the government provides health care
services at no charge to the people.  Of course, people pay taxes, but outside of that, they do
not pay for their health care.

There are a number of benefits that
proponents of such a system believe the US would gain if it moved towards a national health
insurance program.  Let...

What lands does Gulliver visit in Gulliver's Travels?

, written by , follows
theGulliver as he travels to four distinct
locations.

Lilliput: His first stop is Lilliput,
a tiny society filled with tiny people. He lands here after a shipwreck in which he is the only
survivor. When he awakens, he finds himself tied down by tiny people who believe him to be their
enemy. You see, to the Lilliputians, he is a giant capable of great feats. However, after
Gulliver agrees to serve the Lilliputians, he is freed and allowed to meet their Emperor. During
his time here, he protects the kingdom by destroying the ships of the Blefuscu, the
Lilliputian's enemy, and learns about life at court, including the politics of the kingdom. The
Emperor and court soon grow weary of Gulliver because he requires far too many resources to be
fed, clothed, and taken care of. Eventually, after urinating on a fire, he is branded a traitor
and sentenced to be blinded. Gulliver escapes and finds an English ship, which takes him back to
England.

Brobdingnag: Gulliver's second stop is
when he is abandoned while trying to fetch water for the ship's crew. In Brobdingnag, Gulliver
finds a land of giants, in which he is just a tiny curiosity. Eventually, Gulliver is purchased
as a gift to the King, whom he delights with stories of England. After some time of touring the
kingdom while in a small box and other misadventures due to his small size, his box is carried
off by an eagle and dropped in the sea, where he is picked up by another English ship and taken
back to England.

Laputa: The third voyage finds
Gulliver's ship overtaken by pirates, who abandon him at sea on a small boat. After some time,
Gulliver arrives at the flying island of Laputa, a land of intellect where the people only care
about abstract ideas and vague speculation. The people here seem to be only interested in
mathematics, philosophy, and theory. While here, Gulliver visits the Academy of Laputa, where
scholars work tirelessly at useless ideas. During this trip, Gulliver also visits Glubbdubdrib,
an island of magicians, Luggnagg, a place where its inhabitants have eternal life though they
continue to age, and then Japan. As before, Gulliver returns to England.

Houyhnhms: Gulliver's final destination is the land
of Houyhnhms, a land of intelligent horses who use human-like creatures called Yahoos as their
servants. The Houyhnhms are distressed by Gulliver's accounts of England and how Yahoos seem to
be in control, though they are seen as only partially rational, so they decide to expel Gulliver
and send him away. Gulliver makes a boat, goes off to sea, is picked up by a Portuguese ship,
and returns safely to England, where he is a changed man, preferring the company of horses to
the humans he now finds disgusting and uncivilized.

In The Great Gatsby, how long did it take Gatsby to make the money to buy the mansion?

In
, it tookthree years to
accrue the money necessary to buy the house. Gatsby
goes about earning this
money in ways that are considered less than savory by the upper crust of
New
York. Although his business dealings are never explicitly explained, we do know that
Gatsby
was connected with . He likely engaged in illegal activities with this
shady man, including the
sale of liquor during the Prohibition.discusses
this, claiming:

"I found out what your
'drug-stores' were." He turned to us and spoke
rapidly. "He and this
Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in
Chicago and
sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked
him
for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far
wrong.

Unfortunately for Gatsby, all
the money in the world can't buy back 's affections after
Tom has exposed him
as a criminal. 

Should middle schools increase required classes and reduce electives? I'd love to hear your thoughts and any sources on this!

I
personally don't think so.  If a fundamental shift were to occur in American classrooms I would
say that teachers need to focus on truly engaging their students and not taking away electives. 
The mantra that more is better is not always true, and students need time to explore their own
self interests and electives often provide that framework.  Art classes provide opportunities
for creativity and expression, the connection between music and math is very well researched,
and with the obesity problem in the United States I think eliminating physical education
programs would be a monumental mistake.

With respect to Joyce's Eveline, what could be a thesis statement for a 4 paragraph thematic essay about Eveline's family relationships?

In my own
opinion, one cannot effectively craft an essay to fit a thesis statement; rather, the thesis
statement is crafted from the basic outline of your essay (whether this outline is formally
written or not). A thesis provides the core foundations of your argument, which (in this case)
must arise from your own perspective of the story in question. No one can tell you what your
thesis can be; it needs to emerge out of your own viewpoint, concerning this short story you
have read.

In any case, as a few notes of suggestion, I would keep in mind
that 's is focused around a young woman facing a dilemma in which she is
torn between two different possibilities and two different families (her current family, which
she was born into, and a potential family she can create through marriage). This is a short
story primarily focused on her own internal life, as she is torn between past and future,
between the comfort of the familiar (even if it is miserable) and anxiety of the...

What are some features of the author's style in "Young Goodman Brown"? What are some examples of indirection? lrony? Humor? Overt allegory? i woul...

Here is a link
to Hawthorne's...

What are the pigs trying to do?

The major goal
of the pigs becomes to manipulate and take advantage of the other animals' work and abilities.
The pigs claim to participate in the betterment of the farm by using their brains, but that
seems to be more of an excuse to the reader than the real reason. Based on the evidence of their
lifestyle within the farmhouse, it would seem that they are using the other...

What did Mrs. Who have on that made her look like an owl in The Wrinkle In Time?

In
Chapter 2, Mrs. Who's "enormous glasses
(catch) the light . . . and (shine) like an owl's
eyes." In other words, the
reflection of the light in Mrs. Who's glasses makes it appear as
if she has
two enormous eyes, like the eyes of an owl.

This is a

fitting...

What does the smashing of the coral paperweight signify in 1984?

The
coral paperweight not only symbolically represents the beauty of the past and a time before the
totalitarian regime, but also representsand 's intimate, secluded affair and loving
relationship. Similar to the coral enclosed in glass, Winston and Julia have created a unique,
transparent world, where they enjoy each other's company and share their intimate feelings in
the "privacy" of their rented apartment above Charrington's antique shop. The
attractive, colorful coral symbolically represents Winston and Julia's unique love for each
other in the midst of the dystopian society, which is completely controlled and regulated by the
agents of Big Brother. When the Thought Police raid Winston and Julia's apartment, they smash
the glass paperweight and Winston notices the tiny fragment of coral as it rolls onto the
floor.writes, "How small, thought Winston, how small it always was" (281). Winston's
observation is telling and corresponds to the symbolic significance of the paperweight. Similar
to the tiny, delicate nature of the coral, Winston and Julia's affair was never meant to last
and was always threatened by the massive government, which controls every aspect of society.
Therefore, the smashing of the coral paperweight symbolically represents the end of Winston and
Julia's love affair and the inability to recreate the past before Big
Brother.

In Lord of the Flies, how does Roger help in killing the sow?

In chapter
eight of , and his band find a sow to kill for meat. In the killing of the
sow, they show not only their savagery but also their descent into madness and evil. The boys
dont just kill the sow for meat, but their act turns into rape and tortureshowing the darkness
that lies at the human heart.

is Jacks Lieutenanthe is one of the cruelest
boys on the island, and he is the one who shoves his spear up the sows anus. He is also one of
the leaders on the hunt, and he is the one who attacks the sow after she collapses,

Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh
appeared....

What is Marxism?

At its simplest,
Marxism is the opposite of
capitalism.In capitalism, everyone tries to get as much for himself
as you
can.He who has the most toys wins.In communism, everyting is owned collectively, and
each
person works for and benefits from the good of the
group.]]>

Global conservation how can we protect the earth? And what does it benfit human

There are many
advantages to humans in our protecting the Earth.First of all, we live here too.We cannot really
understand the symbiotic relationship we have with so many life forms and environments.Making
small changes might affect things we take for granted.]]>

What caused sectionalism in the nineteenth century? What are some results of sectionalism?

There
were a number of causes of sectionalism in nineteenth-century America, but by far the biggest
was the vexed issue of slavery. To the vast majority of Southern whites, slavery was the
foundation of their economy, their societyindeed, their whole way of life. The very notion of
abolishing slavery was simply too horrible for them to contemplate.

In the
North and Midwest, however, it was a different story. Most people in these parts of the United
States believed that slavery was a cruel and barbaric institution that should never have existed
in the first place. Although many of such people didn't advocate the outright abolition of
slavery, they did argue that slavery was a moral abomination that had no place in civilized
society.

A number of political comprises were made in the nineteenth century
to try and reduce tensions between different parts of the country over the issue of slavery. But
in the long run, all they did was to kick the can further down the road and postpone dealing
with the issue head-on. Soon it became depressingly clear that the only way that the vexed
question of slavery, and many of the other political and cultural issues that divided the
nation, could be resolved was via armed conflict.

What is the definition of Marxist literature? What does he say about literature? How does he criticize literature?

You
have posted an interesting group of questions here because you ask for the definition of Marxist
literature, but then you request how Marx himself felt about the dealings of literature and the
criticism of said literature. In short, Marxist literature is simply literature written to
espouse the theory of Marxism.

The simple definition of Marxist literature
would be any work of writing that caters to the economic and political philosophy of Marx that
the struggle between the classes continues under capitalism and, therefore, all peoples should
work for a classless society instead. Marxist...

how do i find the probability for questions like this? A test consist of 10 true/false questions. to pass the test a student must answer at least 9...

We need to
find the probability that the student guesses correctly on 9 or 10 true false
questions:

(1) The most straightforward way is to use the binomial
distribution. Given the probability p of some event e, the probability of getting x events in n
trials is given as:

`P(e=x)= ` `_nC_x (p^x) (1-p)^(n-x) `

Here x=9 or 10, n=10, and the probability is p=.5 as there is an equally likely chance
of getting the question right or wrong. Since we have 9 or 10, and the events are mutually
exclusive, the total probability is P(x=9)+P(x=10).

`P(x=9)= ` `_(10)C_9 .5^9
.5^1=(10)(1/512)(1/2)=5/512~~.00977 `

`P(x=10)= `...

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What are eight differences between prose and poetry?

I wish
that I could say the differences between prose and poetry were really clear cut; however, that
isn't always the case. Prose typically uses straightforward language, while poetry tends to be
"decorated" with literary techniques, some of which are rhythm, rhyme, metaphors, ,
and . Although, there are times when poetry lacks many of those things. "When the Fat Girl
Gets Skinny" is a good example of that. It contains some of those things, but if it were
written in paragraph format, a reader might think it was stream of consciousness prose.
Additionally, prose can contain extended paragraphs full of descriptions that sound quite
"poetic."

Probably a more concrete difference between prose and
poetry is how they organize thought. Prose will use sentences to convey a complete thought.
Thoughts that are related to each other are grouped into paragraphs. Poetry will often express a
thought as a single line, and lines are organized into stanzas of various
lengths.

When writing prose, writers do not break a line early. The words go
to the far right margin before dropping down to the next line. Poetry will use lines of all
kinds of different lengths depending on what the poet is trying to do. Sometimes the line is
topically driven. Other times the line is short or long because it has to fit a particular
syllable pattern and count.

Prose will use capital letters to start new
sentences, but poetry will generally use a capital to start a new line regardless of where it is
in the "sentence."

I have heard it be said that prose is dull and
poetry is expressive, attractive, and exciting, but that is purely up to reader opinion. That
seems at odds with what I see in bookstores. Most of the books are prose, and the poetry section
is quite small. If prose was so dull, that stuff wouldn't sell, and stores wouldn't stock as
much of it.

Finally, I think the following does a nice job of conveying a
difference between poetry and prose:

• Poetry is best words in the
  best order.
• Prose is words in their best order.

Prose is words in their "best" order in terms of grammar, usage,
and the like. This is because a main goal of prose is to convey information. Poetry will often
ignore the best grammatical arrangement of words in order to best convey to readers an image or
feeling.

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In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," why does The Misfit kill the grandmother last?

It seems possible to me
that the Misfit kills the grandmother last because she is actually giving him an opportunity to
explain his life to someone. No one seems to have been interested in his professions of
innocence up till now, and the interaction with her provides him with the chance to really give
voice to the injustice done to himinjustice that, according to him, caused him to become the
criminal he is now. He claims that no one could ever show him the proof of the crimes of which
he was initially, wrongfully, accused. He says,

"That's why I sign myself now. I said long ago, you get you a signature and sign
everything you do and keep a copy of it. Then you'll know what you done and you can hold up the
crime to the punishment and see do they match and in the end you'll have something to prove you
ain't been treated right. I call myself The Misfit . . . because I can't make what all I done
wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment."

Even though the grandmother's interest in...

Which arguments about God are the most convincing? Of the three traditional agruments for God's existence, which argument do you believe is the...

alwaysng seems to
provoke interesting
responses doesn't it! I guess a lot of what Christians believe is based on

other presuppositions that you need to believe in for the Christian view to make
sense.
Obviously, one element of this is the role of the Bible in religion
and how Christians view it
as the word of God, therefore providing direction
for Christians. This also gives Christians a
book from which they derive a
number of their theological premises such as the omniscience and
omnipresence
of God.

What did Hamlet think about death in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet?

In
Shakespeare's , the play abounds with images of death from the very
beginning.

At the start,is struggling with his father's death; he greatly
resents his mother's hasty remarriage to his father's brother (and Hamlet's uncle) . He is so
distressed that he has considered suicide and is upset that God has forbidden it:

HAMLET:

O, that this
too too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a
dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon
'gainst self-slaughter! (I.ii.132-135)

At the beginning,
Hamlet does not seem to be concerned with dying. Hamlet is given to believe that life after
death is not pleasant, specifically for those who have died with sins still upon their souls at
deathwhich is the way his father, Old Hamlet, died.

By the end of Act One,
Hamlet goes to see ifon the battlements is really his father. Old Hamlet relates that he is in
purgatory where "for a time," he must walk at night and burn in the fires during the
day. The ghost...

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Why is the first sentence in Pride and Prejudice ironic?

This is an
oft-repeated, very famous example ofin English literature:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife.

Irony is saying the
opposite of what is meant. What is actually being "universally acknowledged" in this
sentence is that everyone in the village wants either themselves to marry or have their
daughters or female relatives wedded to well-off men. Everyone, in other words, wants a
well-to-do husband (having a fortune didn't necessarily mean wealth at that time, but having a
comfortable income) or a...