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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edwards uses

symbolism when he says that:

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

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

He uses
when he continues this point, saying that these

people:

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

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

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

Edwards uses a when
he says:

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

flames.

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

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

How was Curley's wife discriminated against?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tamara K. H.

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

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What are the chapter titles in Stargirl?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In his book
A Secular Age, Charles Taylor writes,

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

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

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What is the summary of the poem "No Men are Foreign" by James Kirkup?

Kirkup's
1966 poem "No Men are Foreign" focuses on the commonalities between all people. The
poem's speaker states of foreigners:

They, too, aware of
sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by wars long winter
starvd.

We are all united, the poet says, by sharing the
same planet, as well as by work, by sleep, and by love. The speaker does not identify himself
with any nationality, tribe, or group: he could be anyone from anywhere reaching out to fellow
humans and expressing what we all share. This may reflect the fact that Kirkup, although
English, did live in various parts of the world, including Asia and America.

The poem becomes an expression of anti-war sentiment as it states:

whenever we are told

To hate our brothers, it is
ourselves

That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

When Kirkup ends the poem with the line:

no men are foreign, and no countries strange

he echoes John Donne's idea that "no man is an island."
We are all one, bonded together in a common humanity.

Today we would most
likely use the word human or humankind instead of "man" or "men" (also, we
tend to call people from other parts of the world not foreigners, but internationals), but
Kirkup means to include all genders in his poem. His simple, straightforward language makes a
clear point: since we are all one, we should try to get along.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

 

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

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What will happen to Winston? part 3

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

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

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

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

blood-curdling screams left an indelible impression upon Douglas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was Operation Barbrossa?

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

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

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

Discretion is also important in that it allows...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What role does hope play in our lives?

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

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

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

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

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

lead lives of quiet desperation.

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

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

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

MUSIC-Do you think music is important in life? To me,yes. I'm a kind of person who is not that much into study matters.I am not so fond of music and...

I think that
listening to music is important, as someone else has stated it can lift our spirits when we are
down. If you are fortunate to have the talent to actually play music it is even more
important.

In The Scarlet Letter, what does Dimmesdale have upon his chest in chapter 12?

Inthere is
only one mention of 's chest, and it is after the meteor is witnessed by the villagers, when he
stood at the scaffold withand Hester in what is described as an "electric chain"
formed by the three.

At that point, the narrative reads:

And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and ,
with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the
connecting link between those two.

At this point in the
narrative,had been suspecting that something other than physical is gnawing away at the
minister. He discovers that Dimmesdale, out of the guilt and sadness he feels from what occurs
with Hester, has carved a letter "A" on his chest. This act of self-mutilation is
essentially his own way to "share" the pain of Hester's humiliation. Unfortunately, he
still refuses to divulge the true nature of his sin and continues to keep it a secret. No matter
how many letters Dimmesdale carves on his chest, he still needs to come out clean and redeem
himself the proper way.

Therefore, the reason why Dimmesdale continuously
puts his hand over his heart is because that is the location of the letter that he had put on
his chest, and the pain that he carries due to it is bad enough to keep him in a consistent
state of ailment.

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In "The Cask of Amontillado," what is the meaning of the phrase "A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser"?

In Poe's
classic short story ", Montresor is the unreliable narrator andwho is obsessed with seeking
revenge on his enemy, Fortunato. Before Montresor elaborates on his brilliant plan to get
revenge, he expounds upon his strict definition of revenge. Montresor begins by stating that one
must not only punish their enemy but do so with impunity. In other words, Montresor believes
that it is necessary to not get caught while taking revenge. Montresor goes on to say:

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser (Poe
1)

The word unredressed means "not set right"
or "unfixed" while retribution is a punishment inflicted upon someone as vengeance.
Therefore, Montresor is saying that a wrong will not be fixed or set right if punishment
overtakes the person seeking revenge (redresser). This is another way of saying that one must
avenge their enemy with impunity and avoid being punished for their actions. Essentially,
Montresor is adamant about not being caught, arrested, or punished for getting
revenge.

He feels that in order to get revenge one must maintain their wits
and focus by concealing their intentions and carefully executing a foolproof plan, which is
exactly what he does. For the remainder of the narrative, Montresor describes how he cleverly
manipulated Fortunato into following him into the depths of his catacombs, where he proceeded to
bury him alive. Montresor ends up getting away with his crime, which proves that he followed his
own advice regarding vengeance.

Why was the American Civil War inevitable?

I think a
more appropriate answer would be that
the Civil War was inevitable from the founding of separate
colonies in the
Chesapeake area and New England in the 1600's. The southern economy was

agricultural because the area had good soil and long growing seasons which lent itself
to large
scale agronomy. This situation did not exist in the North, where
thin soil and short growing
seasons made shipping and manufacturing the only
reasonable method of economic
success.

Differences
between the two arose not so much over slavery
(although it was always the
gigantic elephant in the room) as over issues such as the Tariffs
imposed to
protect Northern industry which were injurious to the southern economy. The
first
serious threat...

What does total darkness symbolize in "The Pit and the Pendulum?"

In 's
horror story "," the narrator, after being sentenced and swooning, wakes up in a cell
that is pitch black, which he feels is "the blackness of the eternal night." This deep
blackness represents the depths of fear that the narrator
experiences--the exact fear that is a key tool the inquisitors use as part of
their torture. This fear has three aspects: fear of the unknown, fear of the future, and fear of
death and the afterlife. 

The first thing the narrator wonders when he
experiences the darkness is whether he may have been buried alive. Not knowing whether he may be
in a...

theme of violent tendecies how can the theme of violent tendencies be analised

Poe was fascinated
with violent tendencies.Most of his stories explore violence....]]>

In The Lovely Bones did it ever clarify who removed Susie's monopoly piece from Buckley's room?

The monopoly
piece in byis significant because it used to be Susies favorite piece. In
fact it is this piece that Jack uses to try and help Buckley understand that Susie will never
come back. Jack gives the piece to Buckley, but it mysteriously disappears from Buckleys
dresser. The author never clearly indicates...

Need help with a 400 to 500 word personal response to Paul Simon's poem "Richard Cory."

The song
"" sung by Simon and Garfunkle is easily accessed online.  The tone of Paul Simon's
lyrics are somewhat cynical in comparison to that of Robinson's poem.  The character of Cory
seems rather dissolute as he has parties and even "orgies."  Also, his arrogance seems
apparent as he "owns half of this ol' town" and he has

political connections to spread his wealth around....

He had
everything a man could want:  power, grace, and style.

Because of this portrayal of Richard Cory, his giving to charity and his demeanor may
seem artificial when contrasted to the "imperially slim" Cory of Arlington's poem who
is "human when he walked" and "flutters pulses" as though people not only
envy him, but admire him. 

You may wish to look at how the element of
surprise is, perhaps, more pronounced in the end of one of the works.

 

Realism, Fantasy, and "Young Goodman Brown"What makes it realistic?if so can it also be false? What makes it a fantasy? If so can it also be...

Goodman
Browns experience in the forest€“whether dream or reality€“causes him to lose his faith in
others and die an unhappy man. Note the last words of the story: They carved no hopeful verse
upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom.  
 

 Goodman
Brown discovers that even highly respected people in Salem fall victim to the forces of
darkness. Today€“when corporate executives cheat stockholders, politicians lie to
win...

What was Thoreau's attitude concerning the role of the government?

Thoreau's
attitude towards government is best expressed in his essay "."  This essay starts with
a phrase that is commonly heard today: "That government is best which governs
least."

As a Transcendentalist, Thoreau believed that people should
follow their own consciences rather than doing what society expects of them.  This idea can very
often be at odds with the idea of having a government.  In Thoreau's case, the government
believed that fighting Mexico in the Mexican-American War was the thing to do.  Thoreau believed
it was wrong and therefore refused to pay his taxes.

So -- Thoreau believes
that government is bad because it tends to prevent people from following their consciences as
they should.  This led him to say "That government is best which governs not at all"
soon after the line I quoted above.

In "The Minister's Black Veil", who is the nurse at Hoopers deathbed?

The nurse at
Hooper's deathbed is Elizabeth, his former fiancee. 

Not much mention of
Elizabeth is made at this point in the story, other than to name her as the nurse. This may be
because it is more important for Hooper's personal story arc for her to simply be present,
rather than to really do much of anything. 

Hooper's choice to wear the
mysterious veil, obscuring his face, comes as much of a surprise to Elizabeth as it does to
everyone else. Like others, she asks Hooper to remove it for her, appealing to their personal
relationship. This was probably meant to fully round out the depiction of Hooper's resolution,
showing that no common or earthly temptation was enough to change his mind. However, Elizabeth
comes to fear the veil as others do, and breaks off the engagement when she sees that the veil
will always separate her from Hooper. Hooper finds it sad that a piece of cloth should have this
effect.

Elizabeth's presence at his bedside as he dies, with her affection
for him having "endured in secret" tells us that she never stopped caring for Hooper,
and while the veil had a powerful effect on his life, some people still saw him for who he was
and were not completely superficial about it. It also signifies that the veil had a permanent
isolating effect, preventing Hooper from having things that would have been available to him
whenever he wanted, had he taken off the veil.

Explain how Douglass uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to make his experiences vivid for his...

's work stands as a first-person testament to the horrors of slavery, and his purpose
was to help others see that as well. Ultimately, he wanted to open the eyes of Americans who
were ambivalent or outright ignorant of the actual experiences slaves endured. To accomplish a
powerfully persuasive narrative, he relies on many literary devices throughout his
book.

One of the sharpest and most painful images is when Douglass recounts
witnessing the beating of his own aunt as a young boy:

I
have often been awakened at dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of
mine, whom [Captain Anthony] used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she
was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed
to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped;
and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip to make her scream, and
whip to make her...

As the poem progresses, how does the speaker's attitude toward the raven change?

The
poem "" by Edgar Allen Poe is, like most of Poe's work, rather dark, but we see a
definite change of tone from the first stanza to the last.

In the first few
stanzas of the poem, the narrator hardly even acknowledges the raven. He thinks it's a visitor
of some sort, and he is unconcerned and unbothered. However, the tension rises when the narrator
opens the door and finds only darkness on the other side. He then opens the window, and finally,
the raven enters the poem.

At first, the narrator is more curious than
anything. Even the bird's speech, "Nevermore," mostly just surprises him. He is fairly
ambivalent about the raven; in fact, he even mourns the fact that by morning, the raven will
surely have flown away.

After a long time of watching the raven, the narrator
begins to think again of his lost love, and he begins to grow angry at the bird for the memories
it evokes. He begs the raven for any other word, but the bird's bleak response is the same. The
torment drives the speaker to shouts of desperation and hatred, as though the raven represents
every suffering he has gone through in life.

What was the purpose of the Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet?

is a character who is more complex than
initially given credit for. Most see him as a
superficial representation of
the feud between the Montagues and Capulets, and that is true.
However, he is
a deeper character than simple a symbolic representation of
feuding.

First, it should be noted that he doesn't
dislikepersonally. Whenspots him at Lord
Capulet's party and tries to cause a
scene, Capulet defends Romeo:

Content
thee, gentle coz. Let him alone.
He bears him like a portly

gentleman,
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous
and
well-governed youth.
I would not for the wealth of all the
town
Here in my
house do him disparagement.
Therefore
be patient. Take no note of him.
(I.v.70-76)

Lord Capulet's character shows from the
beginning that there is hope
in ending this feud. Although this is the child of his sworn enemy,
he
acknowledges that Romeo is generally well-respected and behaves like a gentleman. He
also
refuses to create a scene at this gathering, showing that he has a
fairly relaxed personality,
generally speaking, and is not prone to creating
conflict--unlike his younger cousin,
Tybalt.

Lord Capulet
also serves as a contrast to his wife's parenting
styles. Whileis ready to
rush her daughter into marriage, Lord Capulet thinksis too young and
responds
to 's inquiries this way:

But saying oer what
I
have said before.
My child is yet a stranger in the world. />She hath not seen
the change of fourteen years.
Let two more
summers wither in their pride
Ere
we may think her ripe to be a
bride. (I.ii.7-11)

He
doesn't see the
need for such a rush and thinks that she's being asked to grow up too quickly
by
this proposed union at such a young age. (She's not yet 14.) Of course,
when he finds out that
Juliet does not plan to marry Paris (and therefore
goes against his wishes), he reacts pretty
violently:

Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient

wretch!
I tell thee what: get thee to church o Thursday,
Or never
after look
me in the face.
Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer
me.
My fingers itch.Wife,
we scarce thought us blest />That God had lent us but this only child,
But now I
see this
one is one too much
And that we have a curse in having her.
Out
on
her, hilding! (III.v.154-162)

Lord
Capulet also shows,
therefore, the ultimate system of patriarchy that Juliet
faces. Her decisions are seemingly not
her own. Paris convinces her father
that she should be his bride. Her father orders Juliet to
submit to his
wishes. And when she refuses, her father calls her a "curse" and says
that
she is basically dead to him if she doesn't comply.

Juliet's
relationship with her father is complex, showing that she
is loved by him only as long as she
bends to his
desires.

What are the core ideas of President Obama's approach to world affairs? How can common security and common humanity be addressed within this?

President Barack
Obama (2009€“2017) was determined to make a new start in America's foreign policy. Obama
rejected the unilateral approach to diplomacy favored by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Obama's foreign policies were generally multilateral and reflected a long-term strategy. He
sought to avoid making big mistakes, and he wanted to engage the rest of the world. In general,
he preferred patient diplomacy and economic cooperation to large-scale war.

Obama's presidency was welcomed by the world community. Most nations had grown tired of
Bush's unilateralism and aggressiveness. Most world leaders hoped that Obama would usher in a
new era for American diplomacy. In 2009, at the beginning of his first term in office, Obama
received the Nobel Peace Prize. American criticsespecially Republicansargued that he had not
done anything to deserve the honor.

When Obama was sworn into office in
2009, the country was mired in large-scale wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Those wars, which
had begun in 2001 and 2003, respectively, seemed futile. Obama had long opposed the Iraq War and
he was determined to end it. He actually sent additional American troops to Afghanistan,
though.

Obama's multilateral approach to foreign policy was best illustrated
by the Iran nuclear deal (2015) and the Paris Climate Agreement (2016). These multilateral
agreements dealt with nuclear proliferation and climate change.

President
Donald Trump took the U.S. out of both of those agreements. Trump also undid Obama's Cuban
diplomacy. In fact, he has sought to unravel all of Obama's foreign
policies.

How does the setting affect Meursault, in The Stranger by Albert Camus?

The setting that
impacts Mersault most pointedly is that of the hot beach at the end of the first part of the
novel. This setting affects Mersault in its connection to the earlier setting of his mother's
funeral. 

While Mersault is emotionally affected by a number of settings in
the novel (as evidenced by the thoughts presented in his inner , if not by a traditional or
overt sentiment), the overbearing sun at the beach causes Mersault to commit murder. 

When Mersault's mother dies, he sits in vigil at her rest home then participates in the
funeral the following day. Bored, annoyed and seemingly oppressed by theof the rest home,
Mersault is again cognizant of a sense of discomfort and oppression on the walk to the burial
ceremony. 

"Evenings in that part of the country must
have been a kind of sad relief. But today, with the sun bearing down, making the whole landscape
shimmer with heat, it was inhuman and oppressive." 

Later at the beach, Mersault becomes aware of the...

What effect did the European settlement have on the Native Americans?

The effect
of European settlement in the Americas was devastating to the indigenous populations. It is
thought that the native population was reduced by as much as ninety percent in the first century
after first contact as the result of diseases inadvertently introduced from Europe. Whole
civilizations vanished and societies crumbled.

The survivors of these plagues
were left with little of their old ways of life to hold on to. Many native peoples were too weak
and disorganized as a result to put up much of a meaningful resistance to European encroachment
on their lands. Many of them were enslaved, particularly in Spanish controlled areas but also in
some of the English colonies. Others were pushed aside and marginalized. Many were forcibly
brought to education centers that sought to remove any vestiges of their traditional ways of
life.

To this day, Native Americans continue to be marginalized in society.
In the United States, Native American unemployment rates are significantly higher than the
population in general. Rights to their lands are still being denied to them in some places.
Child and maternal mortality rates tend to be higher than average. All this can be traced back
to European settlement that did much to destroy the way of life of countless native
peoples.

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What is the main theme of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

The main theme of this
sermon byis that all sinners will be judged by a God who will not hesitate to cast
them into the depths of hell, to endure a more painful and dreadful eternity than they can
possibly imagine, if they do not repent of their sins now, before it is too late.
He argues, for example, that

There is nothing that keeps
wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

Edwards argues that God certainly has the power to cast us into
hell, or the will to allow us to "slide" there like people walking on slippery ground.
He argues, further, that we deserve to go to hellthat we are, in fact, already damned to hell.
God is already angry with us, Edwards says, and it is not because he is unmindful of us that we
do not now go to hell. The devil is ready and awaits us whenever God gives the go-ahead. The
fact that one might feel no present and immediate danger does not mean one is safe. Nothing but
accepting Christ can prevent a wicked person from going to hell.

In 1984, how does Big Brother maintain his power over the certain social classes (Inner Party, Outer Party, and Proles) and in relation to...

Big
Brother maintains complete control over the population of Oceania through various means of
manipulation, intimidation, economic disparity, and constant surveillance. The Ministries of
Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth play a significant role in controlling the population and
creating a hysterical, threatening. Political dissidents and enemies of the state are tortured
and brainwashed in the Ministry of Love, which strikes fear into unorthodox citizens who despise
Big Brother or struggle to conform to the Party's standards. The Ministry of Peace is
responsible for engaging in continual warfare, which creates a hysterical atmosphere throughout
the nation and uses up valuable resources to lower the standard of living. The Ministry of
Plenty is also responsible for maintaining economic disparity and cultivating an atmosphere
where citizens struggle to attain necessary resources while the government dramatically inflates
statistics. The Ministry of Truth is responsible for...

Please discuss the importance of Friar Lawrence's quote in II.VI of Romeo and Juliet. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they...

I think we need to see
this important speech fromas a caution to . Note how Friar Lawrence has seen Romeo overwhelmed
by his sudden love for . He has cast aside his romance with Rosaline and now speaks using
intense language to describe his affections for Juliet. Note what Romeo says immediately before
this speech:

Do thou but close our hands with holy
words,

Then love-devouring death do what he dare--

It is
enough I may but call her mine.

Of course, there isin
this speech, as "love-devouring death" does do what he "dares," and Romeo
finds it is not enough to just be able to call Juliet his. Thus it is that the Friar begins by
cautioning that "violent delights have violent ends." There is a sense in which Friar
Lawrence foreshadows the ending of Romeo's relationship with Juliet. He tries to counsel Romeo
to not be in so much of a hurry and to "love moderately" because love that lasts a
long time does this; it does not consume itself as fire or power.

What are Mattie's likes and dislikes in Fever 1793?

Mattie dislikes work and
cleaning, though she has to do a great deal of work in her mother's coffeehouse. She
particularly dislikes working in the heat and getting up early, and she longs for
winter. 

One place she loves is the waterfront in Philadelphia, and she
enjoys escaping from the coffee shop where she has to work to see the docks. Mattie is
particularly fond of Eliza, the freeborn African who cooks at the coffee shop that Mattie's
family runs, and she is secretly fond of Nathaniel Benson, the young man who flirts with her.
She also likes the idea of being an entrepreneur and owning an entire block of stores, including
a dry goods store where she can sell imported French goods such as combs and jewelry to the
ladies of Philadelphia. She enjoys thinking about working for herself, and she does not
particularly like the idea of her mother marrying her off to a rich eligible suitor such as
Edward Ogilvie. She instead likes to make her own choices. 

WHY DOES CROOKS CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT THE DREAM

In
chapter four, Candy enters Crooks's room to findand begins discussing their dream of one day
owning an estate, where they will live off the land and enjoy a life of independence. After
listening to their dream, Crooks ridicules Candy, , and Lennie and says that they will never
earn enough money to purchase an estate. According to Crooks, nearly every migrant worker on the
farm has dreams of owning land but their dreams never come to fruition. Crooks believes that
Candy, George, and Lennie are simply fantasizing and does not take their dream seriously. He
even tells Candy that he will remain a swamper on the ranch until the day he dies and assumes
Lennie will leave in two weeks with George.

However, Candy responds to
Crooks's criticism and negative perspective by mentioning that George has the majority of his
money in the bank and with his help, they have enough money to purchase an estate. Candy also
informs Crooks that George already has an affordable place picked out and it is only a matter of
time before they buy it. Once Crooks hears that Candy, George, and Lennie have enough money
saved and a placed picked out, his attitude and perspective changes regarding their dream.
Initially, Crooks is astonished to hear the news and gradually begins to share the same fantasy.
Crooks then attempts to contribute to their dream by telling Candy,

"...If you... guys would want a hand to work for nothing- just his keep, why I'd
come an' lend a hand. I ain't so crippled I can't work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to"
(Steinbeck, 39).

Before Candy can respond to Crooks's
comment, Curley's wife enters the room and interrupts their conversation. Overall, Crooks
changes his mind regarding Candy, George, and Lennie's dream when he learns that they have saved
enough money and picked out a home.

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Analyze how Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric deal with Simon's death in Lord of the Flies. How can their reactions be applied to the novel's theme of...

Toward
the beginning of chapter ten,acknowledges that they killedduring the violent storm butrefuses to
accept responsibility for participating in the brutal murder. Piggy proceeds say that he was on
the outside of the circle and tells Ralph:

It was an
accident...thats what it was. An accident. (Golding 225)

Whenarrive, the twins also refuse to accept responsibility for their actions and claim
that they left the beach after the feast. Other than Ralph, Piggy and Samneric attempt to
suppress their feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse. Despite being proponents of civilization,
the boys could contain their inherent savage desires and took part in Simon's brutal
murder.

Unlikeand his tribe of savages, Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric regret
their actions and are ashamed of succumbing to their primitive desires. Their participation in
Simon's brutal murder underscores Golding's primary theme regarding the inherent wickedness of
mankind.

In an environment without rules, regulations, or adults, seemingly
innocent adolescents can transform into savage murderers. The fact that Ralph, Piggy, and
Samneric have difficulty acknowledging their actions indicates that they are still affected by
civilization's rules and view their actions as taboo.

Explain the war between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia in 1984. Who is Oceania actually battling? Is there even a war?

In
, the world is divided into three states: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia.
Oceania is constantly at war with one of these states while at peace with the other. For the
majority of the book, Oceania is at war with Eastasia and is allied with Eurasia. , however,
clearly remembers a time when Eurasia was the enemy, but the party have rewritten the official
history and nobody is prepared to contradict this (). So the party continues to vilify Eastasia
by encouraging public hatred of the country and by executing its war criminals.

Suddenly, in the middle of Hate Week, an event designed to encourage hatred of
Eastasia, Oceania switches its enemy. This happens without any warning and, all of a sudden,
Oceania is at war with Eurasia and the war with Eastasia never existed. This happens in , and
brings the realisation to Winston that the entire history of the last five years will need to be
rewritten. 

But, asnotes in , the enemy is not really significant: "It's
always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway." In other
words, it's not the enemy who matters but rather the fact that Oceania is constantly at war.
Whether the war is even happening is another non-issue: again, it is the fact that the party
maintains a constant state of war that is truly significant. As Goldstein comments in his book
in Part 2, Chapter 9, by keeping the people in this constant state, the party is able to
perpetuate an unequal distribution of wealth. It is this unequal distribution which keeps the
citizens of Oceania controlled and conquered.

What is customer service in today's business environment? As an employee, what are some of the ways in which you can affect your company's culture?...

In today's
business environment, customer
service representatives are charged with the responsibility of
serving a
customer base made up of many different kinds of people with different
personalities
and needs. An employee must take into consideration the
particular needs of a company and their
consumers. Additionally, it is
important for employees to consider the varying needs of
consumers from
special populations (such as the disabled). This assignment requires you to

consider several questions related to this topic. Of course, I can't answer the
entire
assignment, but I will offer tips to help get you started.

What
is customer service in today's business
environment? This question asks you to
define "customer
service" with attention to today's environment.
It may
be helpful to consider how the idea of customer service has changed over time. It
may
also be helpful to consider how business environments and shopping habits
have changed over
time. Consider the difference between
one-stop...

In the novel "The Lovely Bones," how many years does Abigail leave her family for?

Abigail
leaves her family for seven years to take care of herself.  She walks out in 1975.  She is
profoundly unhappy and  has deep grief and guilt over Susie's death. 

"Her need to find herself, reclaim her place in the
world as an individual, and escape her intense grief propel her to relocate to California. There
she seems to find some solace, working in a vineyard and leaving motherhood and wifehood
behind."

In The Great Gatsby, what is the difference between the East Egg and West Egg?

The main
difference between the two Eggs is that the East Egg contains mostly families with hereditary
wealth; "Old Money," passed down through generations. Their belief is that breeding
and station comes from within, with their families set up as symbolic nobility for the rest of
the city. The West Egg, in contrast, contains many families of "New Money," who have
earned or otherwise come into their wealth recently, perhaps in a single generation. The East
Egg looks down on the West Egg, considering them to be pretenders who aspire to a social status
to which they are not entitled. Evenis somewhat disgusted by West Egg:

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place"
that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village -- appalled by its raw vigor that
chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along
a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed
to understand.
(Fitzgerald, , mrbye.com)

Her upbringing is opposed to the work that has created wealth
instead of inheriting it, and she cannot see past her prejudices to understand how similar the
two Eggs really are. , who fast becomes a star citizen for his parties, is a symbol of New
Money, and he is scorned by the East Egg, even though his behavior is almost identical to their
own. What they share is wealth; what they do not share is an inclusionary mindset.

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what was mayellla's behavior like when she was on trial?

Mayella,
although a sturdy girl used hard work, seems fragile toon the witness stand. She is out of her
depth, confused about what is going on, and she quickly bursts into tears, afraid ofand his
questioning to comeeven though at this point it is only Mr. Gilmer asking her questions. She
comes across as nervous and tearful, twisting her handkerchief.

When Atticus
questions her, at first she shows that she is again in over her head. She is so used to being
treated with contempt that she gets angry and thinks Atticus is mocking her when he calls her
ma'am and Miss Mayella.

Atticus's questions rattle Mayella, who contradicts
herself and at times says she doesn't remember what happened. Atticus shows clearly that
although she says she tried and failed to fight off Tom Robinson, the crippled Tom (his left arm
is useless, having been caught in a cotton gin when he was a child) could not have raped her as
she said.

As Atticus's questions back her into a corner, and it becomes clear
she has not been telling the truth, she suddenly rises up to the occasion. She sobs and then
gets angry, telling Atticus and the courtroom that she will not answer anymore questions and
saying:

I got somethin€˜ to say an then I aint gonna say
no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me an€˜ if you fine fancy gentlemen dont wanta do
nothin about it then youre all yellow stinkin€˜ cowards, stinkin cowards, the lot of
you.