What are 3 mistakes that Santiago makes in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist?

Within the
context of the novel, Santiago's mistakes aren't mistakes as such, but lessons that he needs to
learn to achieve his Personal Legend.

Arguably, the only true mistake he
makes is at the very beginning of his travels when he entrusts his money to the Arab man in the
bar on the flimsy basis that the man speaks Spanish and dresses in Western-type
clothes.

The new arrival was a young man in Western dress,
but the colour of his skin suggested he was from this city. He was about the same age and height
as the boy.

His distrust of the other people in the bar,
who act and talk more like locals, is highlighted when he comments on their smoking
habits,

"A practice of infidels," he said to
himself. . . . The boy felt ill and terribly alone. The infidels had an evil look about
them.

The loss of his money, however, liberates him. Now
he has to trust the so-called infidels in order to survive. This quickly leads to him getting a
job at the crystal shop.

After this, his only other mistakes,
if...

What is the subplot in Fever 1793? Explain how it relates to the main plot of the novel.

The main
subplot in the novel concerns Mattie's ambitions to be an entrepreneur. After her close friend
Polly dies of yellow fever, Mattie takes on a much bigger role in running the family coffee
shop. Although it's a bit of a chore at first, she eventually develops into something of a
businesswoman and sees an opportunity to expand the coffee shop by investing in a vacant
property next door. This puts her at odds with her mother, who'd much rather save money than
invest it.

The subplot relates to the overall plot in that it shows how
Mattie has matured in response to the public health disaster sweeping the city. The yellow fever
epidemic has forced Mattie to grow up fast, to put aside childish things, and to take her place
in the adult world. The fever has changed the people of Philadelphia in so many different ways.
In the case of Mattie, it's turned her from a girl into a woman.

What is the main conflict in the short story "The Open Window" by Saki, and how is the main conflict resolved?

The main
conflict in "" byis the nebulous line between imagination and reality.

This blurring of the lines of reality and imagination generated by Vera, whose
"specialty" is "[R]omance at short notice," is the main conflict because it
is the one which produces the internal struggles of Framton Nuttel. Further, this conflict
effects Nuttel's discomfiture and fears, which, in turn, effect his final desperate act of
panic.

In this witty and mischievous story by Saki, it is a fragile Framton
Nuttel who arrives at the Sappleton home in the country for a "rural retreat" meant to
help heal his shattered nerves. Ironically, however, Nuttel has the misfortune of being
entertained by Mrs. Sappleton's niece. deceptively named Vera. For, it is her confluence of
truth with reality that lends a macabre conclusion to her tall-tale. And, this act of Vera of
blurring the line between imagination and reality causes the nervous Nuttel to break down as he
witnesses the real-life return of the Sappleton men through the window that Mrs. Sappleton has
purportedly left open in her delusion that the men engulfed years ago in a treacherous bog will
somehow return. 

Why do George and Lennie run away from Weed in Of Mice and Men?

Weed was
actually named after a man named Weed. It is still a very small town in a mountainous, heavily
forested region, with a population of just under 3,000 by the last census. It would have been
smaller in 1937. It is located just below the Oregon border. It was an unlikely place forandto
be working, but Steinbeck wanted to put it as far away as possible because he didnt want anyone
around Salinas to have heard the real truth about the incident. That real truth was probably
that Lennie attacked a very young girl without really understanding what his sexual motivation
was. Something similar happened with the idiot Benjy in William Faulkners The Sound
and the Fury. Jason had to have Benjy castrated. The girl Lennie molested started
screaming and attracted a mob of local men who intended to lynch both Lennie and George. George
was not present when Lennie molested the girl. They were immediately on the run, so George only
got the story from Lennie--and Lennie shows in Chapter One that he lies to George all the time.
Furthermore, Lennie didn't understand his own motives because (1) he is mentally retarded, (2)
his sex drive is new to him. When George sees the dead body of Curley's wife, he will understand
what was really happening in Weed. Lennie didn't just want to feel the dress. He might have torn
the dress right off the girl if George hadn't intervened.

How does religion affects one's career choice?

For the most
part, this is a question whose answer depends on the attitudes and beliefs of the individual who
is choosing a particular career.  There are a very few careers that people only choose because
of their religion.  However, for the most part, religion plays a different role in affect
different peoples career choices, even if they choose to enter the same careers.

There are a few careers that people only pursue because of religion.  Presumably no
one (or very few people) enter the ministry for reasons...

Which terms and sentences tell us about the economic conditions of the family? Highlight and write these terms and conditions

When Martha, the eldest
Cratchit child, arrives
at home for Christmas dinner, she is late because, as she says, she had
a
"'deal of work to finish up last night [...] and had to clear away this
morning
[...].'"She obviously must work quite hard for her living as she has
to stay up late to
work and get up early again to continue it.Further, the
narrator describes how happily two of
the Cratchit children go to fetch their
goose for dinner, as though it were a "phenomenon
[...] -- and in truth it
was something very like it in that house."The fact that having a
goose to eat
is so rare is another indication of the family's depressed economic

condition.Moreover, the narrator describes the goose dinner as being merely "Eked out
by
the apple-sauce and mashed potatoes," and he says that the dinner is
"sufficient"
for the entire family; the implication is that this is not
really a feast, and that what is here
has been gotten with great
difficulty.Finally, the Cratchits do not have an abundance, or even
an
adequate number, of pots and dishes: the same pot that is used for laundry must also be
used
for the dessert (i.e. "pudding") and the "family display of glass"
consists
of two tumblers and a broken custard-cup that everyone must
share.All of these descriptions and
details let us know that the family does
not have much money and that they make do with what
they have, feeling
grateful for it.

Explain with lines from the play why Jason is the tragic hero in Euripides' Medea and how his pride leads to his downfall.

According to Aristotle in
Poetics, a tragic hero in an ancient Greek tragic play suffers from a
tragic flaw (hamartia) that causes their tragic downfall. The tragic hero
also undergoes a reversal of fortune (peripeteia) and makes a critical
discovery about themselves or their situation (anagnorisis).

Jason's tragic flaw, which he shares with many ancient Greek tragic heroes, is his
excessive pride (). This hubris is clearly evident in
his attitude towards women.

JASON. Not thine own self
would say it, couldst thou still
One hour thy jealous flesh.'Tis ever so!
Who
looks for more in women? When the flow
Of love runs plain, why, all the world is
fair:
But, once there fall some ill chance anywhere
To baulk that thirst, down
in swift hate are trod
Men's dearest aims and noblest. Would to God
We mortals
by some other seed could raise
Our fruits, and no blind women block our
ways!
Then had there been no curse to wreck mankind.

Jason's hubris and his misogyny permit him to commit adultery and
to indulge his ambition, which drives him to abandonand their children and to marry Glauce, the
daughter of Creon, the King of Corinth. Jason's actions, motivated by his
hubris, inevitably lead to his tragic fall.

Jason's
reversal of fortune (peripeteia) occurs when Medea fulfills her own curse
against those who have wronged her, and she kills Glauce, Jason's new wife, Glauce's father, the
King of Corinth, and her own children.

Jason's
anagnorisis is the moment that the realizes that due to his own
hubris and his own actions, he now has no family and no future.

MEDEA.Thy broken vows, thy friends beguiled
Have shut for
thee the ears of God.

Jason's fate also provides the
audience with a , an essential part of a Greek , which is the release of
the emotions of pity and fear that the audience feels for Jason's inevitable
downfall.

What are several of the major themes in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe?

's
novel  tells the story of a man cast away on an isolated island who
attempts to create a life for himself. An important thing to note in reading the novel is that
Daniel Defoe was himself a Dissenter and a strong advocate for the rights of Dissenters to
freedom of conscience. Many of his 's spiritual developments reflect this.

The first theme in the book is one of survival. In his experience being shipwrecked,
Crusoe must think about what is absolutely necessary for physical survival. 

The theme of survival leads to a second theme, which is awareness that in our lives in
civilization we constantly long for many things we do not actually need. Thus Crusoe reflects on
the theme, or sin, of covetousness:

Those people cannot
enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them.
All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for
what we have.

The next theme is spiritual growth. Away
from the regular life of civilization Crusoe begins to understand that religion does not require
elaborate rituals or priests, but faith, a position which was the central tenet of many
Dissenters. 

Another important theme is the value of self-sufficiency and
hard work. Crusoe makes a life for himself on the island by setting goals and achieving them
through self-discipline and hard work, a point that might be expressed in Virgil's phrase
"labor omnia vincit."

Another major theme is
colonialism as it appears in Crusoe's relationship to Friday, which is a microcosm of the
British empire's relationships with indigenous peoples.

An additional theme
is fear. It is only by overcoming his fears that Crusoe can create a happy life on the
island.

A final theme is money, which is essential in the civilized world,
but useless in the world of the island.

How did Wilson's refusal to compromise doom the Treaty of Versailles?

President
Woodrow Wilson made several errors that doomed the Treaty of Versailles and the League of
Nations covenant. These were the two primary agreements made at the end
of(1914€“1918).

First, he made some bad decisions at the end of the war. He
alienated Republicans by asking voters to support only Democrats in the 1918 election. Second,
he spent a long six months in Paris at the peace conference, and he lost touch with developments
back home. Also, he did not include any Republicans on his peace delegation.

In Paris, Wilson placed too much emphasis on the importance of the League of Nations.
He had formidable opponents back in the United States. Former president Teddy Roosevelt opposed
him. Henry Cabot Lodge, Roosevelt's friend, was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Lodge and others argued that the League could drag the country into a war and that
only the Senate had the power to declare war.

When Wilson returned home, he
was needlessly confrontational with Republicans. His personal enmity with Lodge doomed any
chance of a compromise. There were sixteen "irreconcilables"mostly Republicansin the
Senate, who opposed Wilson. Trying to go around the Senate, the president embarked on a speaking
tour of the nation. His health failed and he collapsed. He never fully recovered, and his
impaired health made him even more reluctant to compromise. The United States never did sign the
Versailles Treaty or join the League of Nations. Wilson's grand plans for a new, post-war world
order ended in abject failure.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, the book of Genesis, and Metamorphosesall have stories of a creation, a fall, and a flood. What are major similarities &...

The flood
narrative is a relatively small portion of all three stories. The Flood is mentioned in all of
them, and there are many similarities in the overall ideas presented, but there are also plenty
of differences between these stories.

First and foremost, Genesis and
Metamorphoses both have explicit Creation narratives detailing the first
humans and original sin. These ideas explain why the flood occurred and were also used to
explain the beginning of the world and humanity. In these stories, the flood is a punishment for
sin. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, however, the flood is a historical event
that is discussed with many of the same features, but fewer references to creation and the fall
of man.

In each story, there is a righteous or chosen individual who
survives the flood and carries on humanity after the cataclysm. In all the stories, there is
also mention of ancient humans, who live for countless ages (700 to 900 years each in some
cases). In the end, they are all religious stories...

In Animal Farm, how does Napoleon control the food supply?

After the
Rebellion, one of the first things thatdoes is take control of the food supply. In , for
example, it is revealed that he has taken the milk and apples to mix into the pigs' mash.
Through , he claims that it is necessary for the pigs to have these foods because they are
"brainworkers." However, by giving the pigs extra rations, Napoleon creates a division
between the pigs and the other animals. It is clear that the pigs are now in charge and, as a
result, they enjoy a higher standard of living.

In addition, Napoleon
controls the food supply in order to make the...

In A Christmas Carol, how does Dickens use the Ghost of Christmas Past to make an effective story?

Dickens uses the
Ghost of Christmas Past to
give the reader an insight into Scrooge's early life. On their
journey
together, the reader learns about Scrooge's childhood, for instance, in which he led
an
isolated existence at boarding school. The only love and kindness he
received came from his
sister, Fanny, but she died in her youth. Moreover,
the reader also learns about Scrooge's
failed engagement to Belle, the memory
of which evokes much pain.

These
memories are significant
because they enable the reader to understand why Scrooge became such a

cold-hearted man. In addition, by confronting these experiences, Scrooge takes the first
steps
on the path to redemption. The Ghost of Christmas, therefore, is
instrumental in bringing
Scrooge's past to the forefront of the story so that
he might understand the importance of love
and of Christmas, more
generally. 

Is Willy Loman In "Death of a Salesman" crazy? Is Willy Loman In "Death of a Salesman" crazy?

Willy is not
"crazy" as in "insane" but he is one of the most washed-out, non-affirmative
characters around. He is unable to take control of anything and seems to be a victim of life
itself. Between the precarity of his job and his family obligations, Willy is held in
stalemate. 

At first Willy thinks looking smart or positive thinking is the
key to success. He truly believes that a little "luck and pluck" Horatio Alger style
will bring him clients and contracts. As his short quips in the dialogue portray, Willy is
looking for a magic formula, a foolproof recipe, a quick fix to resolve his problems -  but to
no avail.

Ironically, his suicide at the end of the story (in hopes of
procuring insurance money for his family) is the only time Willy Loman ever manages to assert
himself. Athough he has been a failure as a parent, husband and businessman, he manages to
"provide" for his family.

Was Willy really that desperate or had
his life simply become a humiliation? Even his death is an anitclimax (it isn't even portrayed,
but just alluded to); life goes on for his wife and sons, and finally they are better off (at
least financially) without him.

Why is Crusoe worried when he sees the footprint?

By the
time Crusoe discovers a footprint in the
sand, he has been on the island for around eighteen
years. Although the novel
is filled with his many adventures and challenges of survival, this is
one of
the first times the reader is granted a glimpse into the psychological damage
isolation
has on a person. Crusoe is mainly concerned that perhaps he is not
alone on the island after
all. After finding the footprint Crusoe quickly
runs back to his fort,

looking behind
[him] at every two or three steps, mistaking every
bush and tree, and
fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.

Crusoe suddenly feels threatened and watched. Alone in his fort, Crusoe
begins
imagining what may have put the footprint there. His first thought is
that it is the devil
taunting him. His greatest fear is that it may be some
"savages" who, if they found
his boat, would want to kill and eat him. After
extensive prayer to God, Crusoe begins to think
that perhaps it was his own
footprint. After braving a trip to the footprint, however, he finds
the print
to be much larger than his own foot, which indicates that somebody else must
be
around. He then spends two entire years alone in his fort, unwilling to
venture outside the
walls.

three map points Compare Contrast for either two stories Rose for Emily, Hills like white elephants, or The things they carried. I dont see the three...

How about
theme? In some ways, both Emily and Jig are isolated--Emily has isolated herself from the rest
of the community, and Jig feels isolated or alienated by the man's attitude toward her
pregnancy.

What impact or effect does genocide have on the world today?

Genocide is
as much a product of culture as it is responsible for cultural change and development. Such
violence may be "supported" by ideology but based in other cultural conflicts, like
resource competition. Genocide may also be associated with forms of violence which serve to not
only eradicate an extant group of people but also their history. For example, the Islamic
extremist group ISIS (also called "ISIL" or "Daesh") has been responsible
for the killing and displacement of millions of Syrian people since 2011. The systematic
violence ISIS employs is not limited to taking lives-- they have destroyed many historical sites
in order to erase the cultural heritage of the nation of Syria. The destruction of sites like
Palmyra disrupts historical and cultural continuity between the people and the land, making it
that much more difficult for them to retain or re-establish Syrian identity.

Throughout history as well as today, genocide has the goal of eradicating a particular
group of people. One of the unintended consequences of this conflict-- which in no way excuses
it-- is cultural change and development resulting from displacement. Consider the long-term
effects of the Jewish diaspora in response to European Antisemitism in the early 20th century.
Many Jewish people fled from the violence of the Holocaust and established new communities with
new, blended identities around the world. More than anything, cultural change in response to
genocide proves that identity is both persistent and adaptable. Cultural or national identity
may be based on the survival of that which a group in power sought to kill.

When we talk about genocide, it is important not to fool ourselves into thinking that
the systematic killing of a people is something that has only occurred in the past. We may study
past examples of conflict to identify patterns of violence, but it is important to bear in mind
that culture is ever-changing, and so are the causes and effects of
genocide.

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Why Does Gatsby Tell Nick About His Life

In Chapter IV
whenandride together into New York, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, in Gatsby's words
"something about my life." He then tells Nick of his wealthy Midwestern family
background and his Oxford education--a family tradition, he said. When his family died, he
inherited "a good deal of money" that allowed him to travel throughout the European
capitals where he collected jewels, hunted big game, painted, and tried to escape a sad, sad
memory. His story continued as he recounted his military service in World War I and his
decoration for heroism, a medal presented to him by Montenegro.

Throughout
his recitation, Nick found Gatsby's speech and manner to be laughable; in fact, he had to make
an effort to keep from laughing aloud. Nick found Gatsby's story to be beyond belief, including
his birth in that famous Midwestern city, San Francisco. Nick was convinced that Gatsby's whole
story was one lie upon another, until the end of it when Gatsby showed Nick two of his
souvenirs: a photo of himself at Oxford and the medal from Montenegro. Both seemed very
authentic, to Nick's complete astonishment, and convinced him that Gatsby's story was "all
true." We find later that parts of it were true, at least.

Gatsby shared
information about his life because he wanted Nick to think well of him. As Gatsby said, "I
don't want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear." As Chapter IV
continues, we find out why. Gatsby wants a reunion with , and he wants Nick to arrange their
meeting.

What does the following line from Romeo and Juliet mean?: "Then I'll be brief! O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die."

The line
is from act 5, scene 3. After waking from her drug-induced slumbers,has just discovered the dead
body of her beloved . As one can imagine, Juliet is utterly devastated by this appalling . The
only way she can now be with Romeo is in death. There's nothing for it, then; she's going to
have to kill herself.

Juliet can hear the sound of a watchman and's page fast
approaching, so she knows she doesn't have much time to lose. That's what she means by
"Then I'll be brief." As for "O happy dagger," this refers to what is for
Juliet the fortunate discovery of Romeo's...

How does the weather contribute to the narrative in Orwell's 1984?

at first
is such a creature of the indoors that sunshine elicits a negative response from him. When he
looks out the window of his apartment early on and sees the sun and blue sky, the world seems to
him "cold" and "harsh," without color. When he meetsin the woods for the
first time, he feels that the sunshine exposes him:

The
sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves daunted him. Already on the walk from the
station the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the
sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.

But as
they relax...

What are ways "The Deep River" by Bessie Head relates to the theme of identity? Include both personal and cultural identity issues in your discussion.

Heads
story is about identity and individuality. The Monemapee live with one face under the rule of
their chief. The chief makes all the decisions, such as when to plough, when to harvest, and
when to prepare the crops, and the people simply follow his orders. The unity and security of
this arrangement is what is meant by the deep river of the titlethat is, the tribe is at peace
and protected as if they were suspended in a deep river. The phrase also suggests another river:
the River Lethe, the river of forgetfulness in the Greek underworld. The communal memory of the
tribe is reduced to a single wordTalaote. The tribe may act as if they have one face, but
during their journey southwards, they have forgotten where they came from and what their
original language was. 

When the old chief dies, his eldest son, Sebembele,
announces that he is in love with the old chiefs youngest wife, Rankwana, and that the old
chiefs youngest son, still a baby, is in fact...

What is the mass, in metric tons, of a cube of gold that is 43.8cm on each side? (1 metric ton = 1000 kg, d = 19.3 g/cm3)

v = length x width x
height

v = 43.8cm x 43.8cm x 43.8cm

v= 84,027.672
cm3

D = m/84,027.672cm3

19.3g/cm3 =
m/84,027.672cm3

19.3 x 84,027.672 = m

mass =
1,621,734.0696g

mass = 1.62 metric tons

What is the role of music in dance?

This is a
complicated question because music means something different to dance depending on the genre,
movement or period that contextualizes the dance. However, to answer the question simply, it
might be helpful to look at the differences between classical and postmodern dance. These two
dance forms represent two very different ways that music influences dance. 

In classical dance forms, such as Indian classical dance and...

What are the most prominent attributes of God in Genesis 1 ("The Beginning") and Genesis 2 ("Adam and Eve")?

Almost all
scholars of the Bible agree that
Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4 onward were written by two
different authors
and then placed together in the same book at a much later time. The two

different authors present creation differently and also present God somewhat
differently. They
even refer to God with different names: the author of
Genesis 1 uses the Hebrew word
elohim, which simply means
God, while the author of Genesis 2 uses Gods
proper name
Yahweh (which is often translated LORD).

The differences do not stop at the names of God, however. In
Genesis 1, creation is presented as
the triumph of order over chaos, and God
is the creator of order. He operates according to a
well-structured
and...

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What is the definition of heaven from the catechism in light of the consummation of the human experience that is depicted and discussed in the...

The exact
nature of heaven is never described in the catechism. However, the text does stress that the
redeemed will "'see him [God] as he is,' face to face."

This
connects with the primary theme of The Cloud of Unknowing, which says that
God is ultimately indescribable. As the text says in the sixth chapter:

For of all other creatures and their works, yea, and of the works of
God's self, may a man through grace have full head of knowing, and well he can think of them:
but of God Himself can no man think.

And therefore I would leave all that
thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. For why; He may
well be loved, but not thought. By love may He be...

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What are Ulysses' feelings about aging?

This
question, the question of confronting the process of aging, is at the heart of Tennyson's
"." The poem is essentially theof an aging Ulysses (the Latin form of Odysseus)
reflecting upon his life from the boring comfort of his home, Ithaca. Throughout the poem,
Ulysses rails against his advanced years, hating his old age for the perceived weakness and
uselessness it brings.

Ulysses gives us several clues as to his feelings
about old age, but there are a few particular examples that are worth noting. Consider, for
instance, the following lines:

How dull it is to pause,
to make an end,

To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
(22-3)

In these lines, Ulysses compares old age
to...

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Solve the system: x+2y -z=3 2x-y+2z=8 x+y+z=3

x+2y
-z=3......(1)

2x-y+2z=8......(2)

x+y+z=
3......(3)

First we will add(3) and (2):

==> 3x +3z =

11........(4)

Now multiply (2) by 2 and then add to
(1):

==> 5x +3z = 19.....(5)

Now
subtract (4) from (5):

==> 2x = 8

==> x= 4

Substitute in (5) :

5(4) + 3z = 19

==>
3z=
-1

==> z=
-1/3

Now
substitute in (3):

4+ y -1/3 = 3

==> y=
-1+1/3

==> y= -2/3

 

 

What evidence can you find to indicate that Farquhar is experiencing great pain, despite his feelings that he is escaping?

The
evidence that Peyton Farquhar is suffering and in great pain, despite the feeling that he is
escaping.

"He thought he shouted these words to his
hands, for the undoing of the noose had been succeeded by the direst pang that he had yet
experienced. His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; his heart, which had been
fluttering faintly, gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth. His whole body
was racked and wrenched with an insupportable anguish! But his disobedient hands gave no heed to
the command."

"They beat the water vigorously with quick, downward
strokes, forcing him to the surface. He felt his head emerge; his eyes were blinded by the
sunlight; his chest expanded convulsively, and with a supreme and crowning agony his lungs
engulfed a great draught of air, which instantly he expelled in a
shriek!"

In the above passages, Farquhar experiences
supreme pain, feeling it all over his body.  The whole time that he is swimming then running, he
is struggling to breathe, dodging bullets, trying to stay ahead of the soldiers who are
determined to shoot him dead.

Even though he is daydreaming of the escape, it
is rough and painful, it is certainly not an enjoyable daydream for Farquhar.  It is filled with
panic, fear and desperation.  The only moment of joy that the daydream brings is when he sees
his wife.  Since it was his daydream, he should have been able to hug his wife, but that is not
the case in this story. 

How can Never Let Me Go be viewed through a Marxist lens?

In s novel
, a dominant system of exploitation prevails in a world where clones are
raised for the sole value of their harvestable organs. The narrative follows students at the
Hailsham School, whose ultimate fate is governed by their status as disposable clones, perceived
by non-clones as lacking in humanity. In this world, this system of donation is perpetuated by
what Georg Lukacs calls reification of the mind in his Reification and the
Consciousness of the Proletariat. This is a form of alienation that works through
distorting the consciousness of the people within the system. However, also present in the novel
are structures of feeling, described by Raymond Williams in Marxism and
Literature. The novel seems to portray the small fragments of resistance which break
through the wall of reification, the structures of feeling, through the fervent fantasies of the
characters.

The idea of a structure of feeling is a
complex and subtle concept. As opposed to fixed forms of social ideology, structures of
feeling are present, active, and relational. They are concerned with meanings and values as
they are actively lived and felt, and the relations between these and formal or systematic
beliefs are in practice variable. Williams uses this term to more closely relate the personal to
the social. Consciousness, experience, and feeling are not removed from the structure of the
system as a whole. These are modes of thinking that are interrelated to the way people
understand the system and their own roles in it.

The
significance of a structure of feeling lies in its relation to the reality. It forms in the
true social present, and thus is the most relevant form of consciousness to an individual within
the system. Rather than representing something that is rigid and static, it represents something
that is constantly in flux. It is defining a social experience which is still in
progress. Because structures of feeling are still in progress, they are imbedded in
living processes. However, they are often indeed not yet recognized as social but taken to
be private, idiosyncratic, and even isolating.

In
particular, structures of feeling have a special relevance to art and literature. This
relationship indicates the strength of Williams concept, despite the understanding of structures
of feeling as inconstant and subjective. The idea of a structure of feeling can be
specifically related to the evidence of forms and conventionssemantic figurewhich, in art and
literature, are often among the very first indications that such a new structure is forming. As
employed in works of art, they can become a form of modification or disturbance.

In Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, a work of art
itself, these structures of feeling are exposed through the shifting consciousness of the
characters. The narrative unfolds its horror in a way that normalizes the stark exploitation.
Life in this system thus seems ordinary. However, there are small instances of alternatives that
sometimes appear through the naturalization. In the beginning, this manifests in the students
lives as indications of an element of specialness. Hailsham students often speak of a desire for
a normal life. One of their guardians, Miss Lucy, informs them that:

None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars.
And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day.
Your lives are set out for you. Youll become adults, then before youre old, before youre even
middle-aged, youll start to donate your vital organs. Thats what each of you was created to do.
Youre not like the actors you watch on your videos, youre not even like me. You were brought
into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.

Kathy makes an interesting observation about
Miss Lucys outburst to the students. Her classmates reacted little to it, saying, Well so
what? We already knew all that. However, Kathy notices something quite profound. As Miss Lucy
said, the clones had all been told and not told about their fates. Their minds have been
reified, so even if they do not understand the full consequences of the system they live in,
they consider it natural. Nevertheless, the fact that the students even wonder about lives
outside of the system seems to demonstrate that the reification of their minds is not complete.
All of these indications that a desire for something other than their reality exists are cracks
in the perception that the clones reality is the only possible reality.

Lukacs explains this normalization of their own bodies as disposable
commodities as the consequence of reification. In a capitalistic system, the labor-power of an
individual becomes a commodity. This transformation of a human function into a commodity
reveals in all its starkness the dehumanized and dehumanizing function of the commodity
relation. The distance and abstraction of the workers individual capacities from the work itself
results in an inhuman, standardized division of labour. However, for the system to work, the
minds of the individuals within the system must somehow comply with this
dehumanization.

Reification turns human consciousness
into an isolated, abstracted, and discrete object in the mind. The reified mind has come to
think of the conditions of reality as common sense. Even though the lived experience might be
one of constructed exploitation and brutal dehumanization, the reified mind necessarily sees
it as the form in which its own authentic immediacy becomes manifest andas reified
consciousnessdoes not even attempt to transcend it. This cruel reality becomes regarded as the
true representatives of societal existence. Thus, it is clearly demonstrated that the clones
of Ishiguros novel have reified minds. Even though they live in a system where the most core
parts of their bodily functions, their internal organs, are turned into commodities in the most
violent manner, they have been so desensitized to the system that they regard it as ordinary.
The clones inability to feel the true magnitude of the system in which they live, and what they
are producing, shows how their minds have been reified.

According to Lukacs, there are opportunities for glimpses at the innards of the system,
even through the haze of reification. These moments of crises poke holes in the pretense
that society is regulated by €˜eternal, iron laws. These crises are intricately related to
Williams structures of feeling. The dominant system will always attempt to distort the reality
in some manner, so the first task to break through the dominant system is to understand,
its own concrete underlying reality lies, methodologically and in
principle, beyond its grasp. The structures of feeling in the lives of the
clones disrupt the formal laws of the system. Then, these €˜laws fail to function and the
reified mind is unable to perceive a pattern in this €˜chaos. These moments are glimpses past
the reification.

Interpreting the novel through these
lenses illuminates the consciousness of the clones, how it has been distorted and the moments
which bring a brief clarity to the distortion. Even though Hailsham students know their ultimate
fate as organ donors, they hold this knowledge in a very vague manner. Clones cannot have any
lives other than what they were made for, yet these students still dream of different lives.
Despite the powerful reification of their minds, feelings of unease still bubble up for these
clones.

One of the most obvious theories that the clones
perpetuate amongst themselves is the theory of possibles. Kathys explanations of this idea are
tinged with hope. Since each of us was copied as some point from a normal person, there must
be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life. This means
that for the clones, there is always the possibility of finding the person they were copied
from. One big idea behind finding your model was that when you did, youd glimpse your future.
This is profound because the clones obviously do not have the same future as the normal people
on which they were modeled. Yet, there still is a structure of feeling that pervades, in which
the clones have an experience of wondering about a different, better life. Many of them even
have dream futures. Kathy notes that we probably knew they couldnt be serious, but then
again, Im sure we didnt regard them as fantasy either. The clones attempt to live in a cosy
state of suspension in which we could ponder our lives without the usual boundaries. Even though
they know their own realities in the system, a structure of feeling in these possibles and
dream futures permeates their common sense. Ruth especially becomes obsessed with this
notion. Her dream future is to work in a modern, normal office. When the Hailsham students
fellow clones from the Cottages, Chrissie and Rodney, tell them that they might have seen Ruths
possible living Ruths dream future, they embark on a journey to find the possible. Even though
there is very little hope in this situation, Ruth desperately wants to find this woman who seems
to represent who Ruth could have become. The exploited people in the system, the proletariat
clones, are not comfortable in their reification, and this shows in their structures of
feeling.

Moreover, the most hopeful fantasy of the
clones is one that leads to the final confrontation between Kathy, Tommy, Madame, and Miss Emily
in the novel. Chrissie and Rodney tell them of a rumor theyve heard about Hailsham students who
in the past, in special circumstances, had managed to get a deferral. The rumor says that if a
couple could show that they were truly in love, then they could ask for donations to be put
back by three, even four years. This information lights a certain hope in the hearts of the
Hailsham students. This shows that they do not simply accept their fates, even if the system
ultimately consumes them. There is resistance in some form, and there is the consciousness that
the system is not perfect or entirely normal.

According
to Williams, these structures of feeling have the potential to become contradiction, fracture,
or mutation within a class. This has powerful implications for our own world. The idea that
Kathy, Ruth, Tommy, and the other clones have the ability to imagine a life beyond their system
shows that their reification can be broken. Even if their consciousness was not completely
illuminated, there were still points of light that broke through the fog. Simply put, this means
that there is still hope for raising consciousness in the system. Being able to see, feel, and
perceive a world beyond the dominant system is a complex and difficult task, but it is the first
step towards change.

What is an example of alienation in The Stranger by Albert Camus?

If we define
alienation as the state of being estranged or separated from a group to which one belongs, there
are many examples of Meursault's alienation from the society that surrounds him. In the first
chapter, he is unable to respond appropriately to the caretaker who offers to take the lid off
his mother's casket and questions why Meursault doesn't want to see her one last time. When
Meursault watches his mother's friends at the vigil the night before her funeral he acknowledges
that he sees them across the room, but he thinks "it was hard for me to believe they really
existed." He doesn't overtly grieve the way the others are and is relieved when he can
finally escape. 

After his arrest and imprisonment, Meursault's alienation
from his society deepens. He is put on trial for the death of the Arab, but his very character
is also put on trial as his seeming indifference to his mother's death becomes an issue to the
prosecutors. His indifference to his imprisonment and his lack of...

Solve the equation : 2*sin^2 x + cos x - 1 = 0

The equation
`2*sin^2 x + cos x - 1 = 0` has to
be solved for x.

This trigonometric
equation has both sin
x as well as cos x. It is possible to write `sin^2x = 1 - cos^2x` . This

eliminates sin x and would allow the equation to be written as a quadratic in terms of
cos
x.

In James Joyce's "Eveline," what is it that renders Eveline paralyzed?

This is a
tough question, partly because there
is no clear answer. One of the enduring confusions about 's
"" is the 's
unwillingness to leave with her lover, Frank, and escape from the
miserable
life she so clearly detests. Eveline is clearly desperate to escape her
backbreaking
life caring for her younger siblings and living with her abusive
father - "Escape!"
she thinks to herself at one point. "She must escape!
Frank would save her." (41) -
and yet, when Frank urges her to leave with
him, Joyce says Eveline "set her white face to
him, passive, like a helpless
animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or
recognition" (43).
What are we to make of Eveline's paradoxical behavior?

While Joyce characteristically offers no definite answers to this conundrum,
there are
a couple of potential solutions. For one thing, it could be that
Eveline is unwilling to leave
her younger siblings. It's clear that her
alcoholic father is unable to take care of anyone or
anything, and so Eveline
functions as her younger siblings' only parental caregiver. If she were
to
leave, her siblings would probably suffer considerably. As such, it's possible that
Eveline's
paralysis at the end of the story might result from a selfless
desire to protect her family from
harm.

Alternatively,
Eveline's paralysis could be a result of her
unwillingness to rely yet again
on a man for salvation. One of the most important themes of
Joyce's short
story is the oppression of women in Irish society. Eveline is trapped in her
dour
situation because she is forced to rely on a man, even a man as
loathsome and useless as her
father, to survive. In that case, escaping with
Frank would only be more of the same; Eveline
would once again be relying on
a man to survive. It's possible that Eveline realizes this fact
and, even
though she has little to live for at home, decides not to leave with Frank in order
to
rebel against the sexist laws that govern her society. 

In the end, it's
impossible to say for sure exactly why Eveline is
paralyzed. However, the complexity of the tale
ensures that plenty of
possibilities exist, including those touched on in this

answer.

Robinson Crusoe's perspective on life has changed drastically since he rebelled against his father's wishes as a young man. Describe what has become...

is a true
emblem of the British Empirewhich is to say, even in redemption, a very problematic character.
He trades in human life, invests in plantations tilled by slaves, and embarks on an Atlantic
slave ship in order to bring more slaves from Africa.

However, the fact of
his (semi-)redemption is significant. Early in life, he is obstinate and stubborn. There is an
air of rebellion in his decision to go...

How does Winston Smith link to the plot and the themes of 1984?

The plot is
the action in a novel that unfolds step by step. The theme is the message or meaning the author
is trying to convey.

is central to both the plot and the theme of the novel.
The story centers around what happens to him as sets out on a path of rebellion against the
state. The story also follows his development as he moves from being largely dehumanized by his
environment to regaining his humanity as he falls in love and enters into an old-fashioned
romantic relationship with . The second half of the novel focuses on how the state breaks
Winston and causes him to betray his beloved.

The plot illustrates the
novel's theme, which is that a humane, decent society is not built around constant surveillance,
lies, and terror. We must not, as Winston's story shows, abandon old fashioned human values of
love and decency. Truth matters, history matters, language matters, and democracy mattersbecause
democracy spreads power widely across society, preventing the kind of abuses that Winston must
endure.

Winston is called the "last man" because he tries to cling
to the idea that there is a truth beyond raw power, a truth that lies in love, in facts (two
plus two is four), and in human beings being allowed to think and reason for themselves. If he
is crushed, he also acts as warning that we must not let the state attain too much power over
individual lives.

Where can I read the book "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck online for free?

You can read
the introduction to at books.google.com. You can also read a portion of
the book at amazon.com. Search for the title, then click on the link to "search inside this
book." This book is still under copyright, so it is not yet in the public domain for free
access. You won't be able to read the entire book online unless you purchase and download it
from a bookseller. For instance, amazon has a Kindle edition, and Barnes & Noble (bn.com)
has a digital ebook.

I'm sorry that I can't be more helpful to you than this.
Good luck!

What effect did the entry of the U.S. have on WWI?

The U.S.
made major contributions to the war for a major effect despite coming in only one year before
the Armistice was signed.

The weary allied soldiers enthusiastically welcomed
American troops in the summer of 1918. They arrived at the rate of nearly 10,000 per day at a
time when the Germans were not able to replace their losses. This shifted the momentum of the
war from a near deadlock to a slow but steady offensive march toward Germany. The American army
played a central role in the Hundred Days offensive that eventually forced the Germans to
surrender at the end of 1918.

The U.S. Navy meanwhile helped guard convoys
across the Atlantic. The also sent a battle group to the Scapa Flow to join the British Grand
Fleet.

American largest contributions came at the peace table, where
President Woodrow Wilson helped draft the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson also helped to create the
League of Nations, forerunner to the modern UN. Although the U.S. Senate didnt approve the final
treaty, the U.S. still played a key role in global politics until the Great Depression focused
them to look inside their own borders rather than beyond them.

In "The Crucible" why does Mary Warren turn against John Proctor? What techniques are used in that scene?

The
hysteria that permeates the town of Salem and the surrounding environs in 's play
, a story intended as anfor the "witch hunts" that took place in
the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fears of communism and the Soviet
Union gripped much of the nation, causes the region's inhabitants to act irrationally and
viciously towards each other. Friends turn on friends; family members turn on family members.
Fear of being accused of sorcery is sufficient to cause people to make ill-founded accusations
in order to deflect suspicions away from themselves. Such is thein which Miller's play takes
place. From its opening scene, in which Reverend Parris frantically tries to deal with his
daughter's apparent coma following her and her friends' peculiar and highly suspicious
activities in the woods, The Crucible depicts a society on the threshold of
a Hell of its own making.

As Miller's play progresses, the hysteria reaches a
fever pitch, and old grievances become the fodder for new ones, all intended to ensure one's
survival. At the center of this drama are Abigail, whose actions precipitate the tragic chain of
events, and, increasingly, Mary Warren, Abigail's replacement in the Proctor home following
Abigail's dismissal for engaging in sexual relations with John Proctor. Proctor's relationship
to Abigail continues to plague him, and he becomes dependent upon Mary's testimony in court to
absolve him while indicting Mary's friend, Abigail. Mary knows of Proctor and Abigail's affair,
and is caught between her employer and her friend. As Miller depicts the scene late in Act
Two:

Mary Warren: . . .Abby'll charge lechery on you, Mr.
Proctor!

Proctor: She's [Abigail] told you!

Mary Warren: I
have known it, sir. She'll ruin you with it, I know she will.

Proctor is desperate to ensure Mary's testimony will exonerate him in the witch trial
that is tearing the town apart. In Act Three, Proctor testifies before the court that Mary is
prepared to confess that charges of sorcery, or witchcraft, have been fabricated, and that her
previous statements were false. As Mary is questioned by Danforth, however, Abigail and the
other girls enter the court room. Danforth questions Abigail regarding Mary's deposition and
testimony, and Abigail accuses her now-former friend of lying when Mary denies any kind of
Satanic activities. Abigail succeeds in turning the tables on Mary and, by extension, John
Proctor. Abigail pretends to be experiencing symptoms of demonic influence, which casts new
suspicions upon Mary, who is now, again, suspected of sorcery. Abigail, as we know from the
play's previous activities, is far more duplicitous in nature than the more simple-minded Mary
Warren, and the latter breaks down, lending credence to Abigail's intrigues.

In short, Mary is sufficiently frightened by Abigail's tactics that her fear
overshadows any commitments she has made with Proctor. 

As noted, Miller
intended his play as an allegory about the anti-communist paranoia that permeated the nation
during the early 1950s. The point he makes in The Crucible, especially
during the trials, is that innocent people suffered unjustly because of the paranoia about
threats that did not, or only marginally, existed. Honest people felt compelled to accuse others
in order to deflect attention away from themselves.

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, during Dimmesdale's vigil, there were other people walking by the scaffold. Who were they, where had they been and...

In Chapter
Twelve of
Hawthorne's , while the Rev. Mr.is on the scaffold late
one
night, several people pass by. One is the Rev. Mr. Wilson, who Dimmesdale
calls out to.
Obviously Wilson does not hear him, and as they do not speak,
we cannot be certain where Wilson
has been. We can
assume that he has been where others passing by have
also
been.

Dimmesdale is surprised to see Hester
andwalking by as well.

Pearl! Little
Pearl! cried he, after a moment's pause; then,
suppressing his voice,Hester!
! Are you there?

Hester
answers and he
stops them, wondering why they are out so late:

Whence come you, Hester? asked the minister. What sent you
hither?

Hester answers Dimmesdale; she
and others have been out for the
same serious purpose:

I have been watching at a
death-bed...at Governor
Winthrop's death-bed...

Hester
infers
that the governor has died for she also notes that she is on her way home now, with
the
dead man's measurements, to sew his
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title="shroud">shroud or "robe." Dimmesdale asks them to join

him on the scaffold.

The three of themDimmesdale, Hester and little
Pearlare
suddenly startled to see a meteor (shooting star) crossing the night
sky, casting a reddish glow
on all beneath it. Dimmesdale (who is the father
of Hester's child) believes he sees
in the fiery trail
of light, the shape of an "A," reminding him
of his guiltfor Hester never
revealed his identity, and he has never admitted to his involvement
with
her.

Another person is out that evening; it is Pearl who sees
him
first:

[Pearl] withdrew her hand
from Mr. Dimmesdale's,
and pointed across the street. 

Dimmesdale is still
entranced by the passing
meteor, and the significance of what he

believes he sees; but at the same time, he is somehow aware not
just that
someone else is there in the shadows, but exactly who
is there:

All the
time that he gazed upward to the zenith, he was,
nevertheless, perfectly
aware that little Pearl was pointing her finger towards old
...

Chillingworth is Hester's long-lost husband,
though
he has made her swear not to tell anyone. He has also been caring for
Dimmesdale who is in poor
health, but doing so even while knowing that
Dimmesdale was his wife's lover. And without
knowing who Chillingworth really
is, Dimmesdale still abhors the man.

Chillingworth, a physician, has also been to the governor's home,

waiting at his side as the man died.

It seems
that those
who are out so late have been at the governor's home, as he was
dying.

What role does society play in The Elegance of the Hedgehog?

The
upper-class, classicist, cosmopolitan and uber rich Parisian society serves as the backdrop to
the lives of two very intelligent, yet, very different narrators: Renee and Paloma.

The society under which these two women live sets every rule that there is to be
followed regarding who is who, what issues should matter, and what is to be considered
"worthy". Moreover, the things that are considered worthy in this society are often
superficial and fastidious. This is what sets the frustrated mood of our main characters, and
what causes their individual dilemmas. 

Since society decides who is who, and
what is important, that means that Renee Michel, her great intelligence, her poise, decorum, and
good treatment of others goes completely ignored simply because she is a concierge. Society, and
its prejudices, cause Renee to hide her intellect from others so that she can fit the stereotype
that society has created of her, just because of what she does for a living. 

I correspond so very well to what social prejudice has collectively
construed to be a typical French concierge that I am one of the multiple cogs that make the
great universal illusion turn [..] And since it has been written somewhere that concierges are
old, ugly and sour, so it has been branded in fiery letters on the pediment of that same
imbecilic firmament that the aforementioned concierges have rather large dithering cats who
sleep all day on cushions that have been covered in crochet cases.

Even the death of Renee's husband, Lucien, goes unnoticed.  In this case, society
basically sets the bar and places a very low value on Renee's existence. In other words, society
plays the role of reducing Renee to a by-word at the fashionable 7, Rue de Grenelle

Since we were concierges, it was given that death, for us, must be a
matter of course, whereas for our privileged neighbors it carried all the weight of injustice
and drama. The death of a concierge leaves a slight indentation on everyday life,[...] for the
apartment owners who encountered him everyday in the stairs or at the door to our loge, Lucien
was a nonentity who was merely returning to a nothingness from which he had never
emerged...

Contrastingly, in Paloma's life, society is
illustrated in her parents, who are basically too busy with their wealth and position to really
provide substance to her life. Moreover, Paloma is an intellectually gifted child who has come
to the realization that all of her wealth and fortune does not amount to anything worthy. This
is why she develops a plan to kill herself at the age of 13, and burn the fashionable apartment
where she lives in 7, Rue de Grenelle- the workplace of Renee Michel. Paloma describes the rich
society to be "as good as rich". This shows that, aside from money, and what it can
buy, (an education, a network, and maybe even a title), there is not much else to
offer. 

My parents are rich, my family is rich and my
sister and I are, therefore, as good as rich. My father is a parliamentarian and before that he
was a minister: [...] my mother isnt exactly a genius but she is educated. She has a Ph.D. in
literature. She writes her dinner invitations without mistakes and spends her time bombarding us
with literary references 

Hence, society plays the role
of giving worthiness to the lives of others based on how much you have, and not on what or who
you are as a citizen, and as an individual. 

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How many syllables are in each line? In the chill spring air clouds white with the full moon's light move slowly, slowly. The moon, the...

A syllable is
"a unit of organization for a
sequence of speech sounds."  In English, "a
syllable is typically made up
of...a vowel...with optional initial and
final...consonants".  The easiest
way to determine the number of syllables in a word is to
say it slowly and
count the number of 'beats' the word has.  You can also try resting your hand

under your chin as you speak and count the number of times your chin drops.  For
instance, each
word is one syllabe in the first two lines of your poem. 
Dispite the difference in word length,
each word contains only one syllable. 
The word slowly, however, contains two syllables.  Note
the difference
between the words spring and slowly.  Spring has only one vowel while slowly
has
two.  Sometimes a word has more than one vowel per syllable.  For
instance, the word mountains
contains two syllable even though it has four
vowels.  Notice that with the word mountains the
vowels are separated into
two groups by consonants.  The same separation can be found in the
three
syllable word katydid.  Each group of consonants and vowels forms a separate

syllable.

Why was Leo surprised when he saw Stargirl's house, particularly her bedroom?

When Leo
goes to 's house to meet her parents, he's surprised to find that they're so incredibly normal.
Given Stargirl's many strange quirks, he'd expected them to be every bit as wacky as their dippy
daughter. But it would seem that, in Stargirl's case, the apple fell some considerable distance
from the tree.

If Leo is astonished at how normal Stargirl's parents are,
he's even more flummoxed by the normality of her bedroom. This, after all, is her inner sanctum,
the place where you'd expect her to give free reign to her quirky personality. And yet it's all
so conventional, with nothing out of the ordinary.

Nevertheless, there's
always something interesting about Stargirl, and her bedroom is no exception. As Leo explores
the bedroom a couple of interesting objects capture his attention. First of all, there's a bowl
of hair. Like most people, Leo finds this all rather icky, if fascinating in a weird kind of
way. But for Stargirl this is her way of giving something back to the natural world which she
adores, and with which she has such a close affinity. For the hair in the bowl is freely
available for birds to use as nesting material.

The second object is a tiny
wagon full of pebbles. Whenever Stargirl's feeling happy, she adds a pebble to the wagon. And
whenever she's feeling a little blue, she removes one. So the little wagon with the pebbles acts
as a kind of barometer for Stargirl's mood. Leo notices that there are seventeen stones in the
wagon, a clear indication that Stargirl's very happy with her life.

Why were boycotts an effective method of protest during the revolution? Why were boycotts an effective method of protest during the American...

Refusing to
trade may hurt you, but if you've got nothing to lose, it may convince the other party to change
their ways if they're suddenly losing lots of money. Charles Boycott (1832-1897) was an Irish
landlord whose rent practices caused tenants to refuse to work on his farms.  The workers went
further, destroying his property and equipment, burning him in effigy, and socially isolating
("shunning") him and all that might to business with him.  "To boycott" now
means to apply these actions towards a given business or individual.  Although the term did not
exist at the time of the American Revolution, these were the same practices colonists exercised
to convey their displeasure over Parliament's governance.  In 1765, the Royal Lieutenant
Governor in Boston, Thomas Hutchinson (descended from Anne Hutchinson) along with other tax
agents had their homes ransacked, were beaten, and burned in effigy.  In 1767, after the passage
of the Townsend Acts, which taxed a variety of British manufactured goods, merchants along the
Atlantic coast organized a boycott of all British goods.  In addition to hurting British
merchants, it stimulated manufacturing within the colonies. The boycott caused huge losses to
British merchants; the duties imposed by the Townsend Acts, if they could even be collected,
wouldn't have offset the deficit.  Parliament, pressured by the merchants, was forced to alter
course and repealed the Acts, excepting the tax on tea, which lead to the "boycotting"
of that item in Boston on December 16, 1773.

Why is the concept of price elasticity of demand important to a business?

The concept
of price elasticity of demand or PED is very important for a business in pricing its products
appropriately to achieve the required sales revenue.

Price elasticity of
demand is the percentage change in the quantity demanded for a percentage change in the price of
the...

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What is the plot of "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Early
in his career as a freelance creative writer Hemingway was having much trouble getting his
stories published because editors considered many of them to be "sketches" and
"vignettes" rather than short stories. "" doesn't have much of a plot, and
it lacks any definite conclusion. In fact, many readers have wondered whether Jig went ahead
with the abortion or changed her mind.

The plot, such as it is, is simple. A
man is taking a young woman to Madrid to get an abortion. She has reluctantly agreed to go
through with it, but she obviously doesn't like the whole...

What is Syme's observation about Winston's appreciation of Newspeak?

In Part One,
Chapter Five, Syme observes thatdoes not have a "real appreciation" of Newspeak. He
bases this opinion on Winston's writing, like his articles for The Times
newspaper, which demonstrate that he prefers the original form of English, or Oldspeak, as the
Party calls  it:

"In your heart you'd prefer to stick
to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning."

For Syme, this is a sad state of affairs. He thinks that Winston
does not appreciate the inventive and unconventional nature of Newspeak, a language which is
based on the "destruction of words" and prides itself on "narrowing the range of
thought."

In contrast, the fact that Winston does not appreciate
Newspeak shows that he wishes to return to the old way of living, before the Party took control
and when people had the freedom of self-expression. In other words, by rejecting Newspeak,
Winston rejects the Party's rule.

In what way is Endgame a play by Beckett treating issues and using techniques present in his other plays as well? His other plays are...

Beckett found
solace in repeating motifs in his work; scholars began collecting them in the Journal
of Beckett Studies .  In his plays, for example, characters are always paired, one
character representing mind and one representing body; that is, one character represents our
physical existence and one represents our self-consciousness, our mind and reasoning
ability. ...

If planning is so crucial, why do some managers chose not to do it?

Some
managers are poor at managing.
They do not have much experience in the day-to-day actions of the
business,
so they do not understand things like seasonal fluctuations in sales or
staffing
needs. Some of the best managers work their way to the top of a
company in order to understand
how each department works. These managers have
real-world experience in running their
organizations.

Some
managers micromanage aspects of the business so much that
they do not see
longer-term goals. This may happen in a short-staffed organization where a

manager has to take on the role of one or several hourly employees. While the manager is
getting
work done, he/she is not paying attention to the organization's
long-term needs. This may also
lead to manager burnout if he/she feels as
though his/her hard work is not helping the business.
A burned out manager
may also be inattentive to the organization's long-term needs.

Some...

In the poem "This is the dark time, my love" by Martin Carter, why do you think the poet uses soldiers and guns in association with nature?

Interpretation of the
poem will differ with individual readings and,therefore, understand that this is my own personal
interpretation andanswer to your question.

In the poem "This is a dark
time, my love", Carter shows the power that artificial elements have over those which are
natural. (Artificial elements are guns and soldiers- soldiers because they are made into
soldiers by man.)

A specific line in the poem that supports that man is seen
as superior to nature is:

Whose boot of steel tramps down
the slender grass

The narrator is warning his love that
this is a time of war. During war, nothing weak is able to survive. The sun must hide itself and
the red flower (or rose), a symbol of love, must bend its head (personified to show that the
rose, which depicts love, cannot exist). The narrator is also warning his love that even her
dreams are not safe from the weapons of man:

It is the man
of death, my love, the stranger invader
Watching you sleep and aiming at your
dream.

Here, one could interpret that the lines again
personifies death as having a human body which can invade ones life and kill their dreams. While
death does kill ones dreams, one cannot dream when dead, it is much more significant when taken
in the context that dreams are natural and can be killed by man.

What was the relationship between WWI and WWII? What impact did WWII have on the civilian population of Europe? Discuss Hitler's aims in regards to...

The end
of the Great War, or what would later be known as World War I, planted the seeds of World War
II. The treatment of a defeated and demoralized Germany at the end of World War Iin effect, the
conditions set forth in the Treaty of Versailles, such as a German admission of guilt for
starting the war (the requirement that Germany pay reparations while ceding control of
economically vital territories like the Rhineland, and accepting limits on its military) fed
into the bitterness and resentment among many Germans already rendered financially ruined by the
costs of the war.

World War I had been a particularly nasty affair, with the
brutal conditions associated with trench warfare and the introduction of automatic weaponry and
chemical weapons. All of this was noticed by an early and eager advocate of Germanys entry into
war: a young Austrian named Adolf Hitler. Hitlers rise to power would rely greatly on his
exploitation of popular resentments among Germans and Austrians, and his identification
(actually, his amplification of a group of people already targeted for discrimination) of
Germanys Jewish population as bearing principal responsibility for the war that left Germany in
tatters.

In short, then, the end of World War I began the path to World War
II, with Hitler having served in the German army and been mobilized by his experiences as well
as his belief in the role of Jews in facilitating Germanys destruction. Add to this the effects
across Europe of the global depression that had ravaged major economies, including in the United
States, and the enormous physical and psychological destruction that had occurred during the
war, and the roots of the most destructive conflict in human history were deeply
planted.

There is no secret to Hitlers aims regarding what was eventually
labeled the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem. As noted, antisemitism was already rampant
in much of Europe, including in Germany. While the road to the Final Solution evolved from the
end of World War I into the mid-phase of World War II (it was at a conference attended by high
ranking Nazi officials in the town of Wannsee on January 20, 1942, that the plans for the final
extermination of Europes Jews was formulated ), Hitlers views on Jews and on Germanys situation
were very clearly laid out in Mein Kampf, written while he was in prison
for his political activities, and in a series of speeches and conversations that followed
publication of his book.

The importance of Mein Kampf in
understanding Hitler cannot be overstated. Hitler did not engage in subtle aphorisms or nuance.
Note in the following quotes from Mein Kampf the authors unambiguous perception of Jews, and of
Bolshevism, the ideology that seized Russia following that countrys revolutions (and bearing in
mind Hitlers categorization of Russians and Slavs in general as racially inferior and the
prominent role played by Jewish communists like Leon Trotsky, Karl Radek, Maxim Litvinov and
Grigori Zinoviev in the rise of communism in Russia) and what he believed was the Jewish role in
Germanys failures:

The ultimate and most profound reason
of the German downfall is to be found in the fact that the racial problem was ignored and that
its importance in the historical development of nations was not
grasped
...
Not satisfied with the economic conquest of the world, but also
demanding that it must come under his political control, the Jew subdivides the organized
Marxist power into two parts, which correspond to the ultimate objectives that are to be fought
for in this struggle which is carried on under the direction of the
Jew
...
The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland,
with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its
cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate. For as long as a people remain
racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by
the Jew. Never in this world can the Jew become master of any people except a bastardized
people.

Hitlers obsession with Germanys Jewish population
knew no bounds. Jews were an easy and unpopular target in much of Europe, including Poland and
France, two countries that would among the first victimized by Germanys armed forces. His belief
in racial purity and of conspiracies involving Jewish plans to taint German blood with that of
its own was overtly reflected in high profile speeches by the German leader after his ascent to
power. In a September 1938 speech at the Nuremberg Party Conference, Hitler declared:

Because we are National Socialists we can never suffer an alien race
which has nothing to do with us to claim the leadership of our working people.

And in November of that same year, Hitler wrote for a Nazi
publication:

So, we are going to have a total solution to
the Jewish question. The programme is clear. It reads total separation, total segregation!...No
German can be expected to live under the same roof as Jews. The Jews must be chased out of our
houses and our residential districts and made to live in rows or blocks of houses where they can
keep to themselves and come into contact with Germans as little as possible.

Statements like those above leave no doubt regarding Hitlers
intention to eliminate Jews from German society. He had by this point sufficiently demonized the
Jewish population and provoked ever more violent reactions to the mere sighting of Jewish
citizens and businesses as to make the execution of his more perfidious plans more
likely.

German Jews, as well as those in occupied countries, especially
Poland, forcibly moved into walled-off ghettos and, eventually, into concentration camps where
six million would be exterminated during World War II. What began as a plan to force Germanys
Jewish citizens out of the country evolved into a carefully designed and zealously executed plan
to murder every Jew possible.

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What are some quotes demonstrating rivalry in Romeo and Juliet?

The main
rivalry in Shakespeare'sis that between the Montagues and Capulets. Shakespeare never gives a
reason for the feud but we know, from the very beginning that there is a great deal of hatred
involved. It sometimes spills over into the streets, as in Act I and Act III. There are several
quotes in each Act that demonstrate the intensity of the rivalry.

The opening
lines of theannounce the rivalry between the two wealthy families of Verona:

Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona,
where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil
blood makes civil hands unclean.

Inthis dispute
erupts in the streets as men of the house of Capulet,and , confront the Montague men by
"biting their thumb" at them, which is an insult. Sampson says,

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb
at
them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

When , a Montague and's cousin, arrives on the scene,
he tries to calm...

What is the significance of the title in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

The title of
Sinclair's novel is significant because it encapsulates his theme: that unfettered capitalism
has created a "dog-eat-dog" world in which people prey on each other just as animals
do in the real jungle. Some of the chief people preyed upon are the innocent and largely
defenseless immigrants who arrive in Chicago hoping to build a better life through hard
work.

In this work, they are largely cheated and exploited by those who
mercilessly take advantage of their naivet©. Sinclair blames this on a system that sees people
not as human beings but as widgets in a profit-making machine, to be used up for what money they
can make for others and then cast on the trash pile.

Sinclair does not place
the answer in becoming hard and savage to survive the system but in changing the system itself,
advocating socialism as a more equitable system to protect the weak and vulnerable and to help
them keep the profits of their hard work so that they can achieve the American
Dream.

Monday, December 5, 2016

What views does Edmund Burke express about social classes and his vision for society at the time in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France

In his
political pamphlet , certainly does portray
himself as a devoted monarchist. In fact, Burke had such a strong
faith in the "natural order of things" that he felt whatever exists, in whatever
state, should exist. He believed that human governments would simply evolve into something else
if they weren't already the best possible. As a devoted monarchist who believed in natural
order, he also felt no qualms about the existence of
social class structures. However, he also believed it was the duty of the higher
classes to assist those in the lower class, and he believed it was only through that assistance
that society could become equalized.

Burke grew up in Ireland during the
period of Protestant Ascendancy (1691 - 1801), which refers to a
time period in which Ireland was dominated by a few Anglo-Irish landowners of the Anglican
Church. Even though Ireland was a separate kingdom, it was controlled by Great Britain, which
had separated itself...

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Explain the significance of Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 2, scene 2, of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Please include literary devices.)

'sis
important for a number of reasons.

Firstly, he
made a pledge to his father's ghost to act swiftly to avenge his father's murder. In the
soliloquy,expresses anger at himself for not having yet done anything. He
compares himself to one of the visiting actors who, in acting out a
scene, expresses emotion in a profound way, causing the audience to feel what he feels even
though he has no real reason to do so. In contrast, Hamlet cannot
do the sameeven though he has all the reasons in the world to do so. The contrast makes it clear
that Hamlet believes himself a coward. He asks a number of rhetorical
questions in this instance:

Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? who does me
this?

Hamlet states that if anyone should do these things
to mock or humiliate him for his intransigence and his weakness, he should not feel...

Identify three famous figures of speech that Edwards develops in his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".

Edwards uses a
, a comparison of two unalike things that uses
like or as, when he writes, "That they were
always exposed to destruction; as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed
to fall." Here, he speaks of the Israelites who, he says, could not know from one moment to
the next whether or not they would fall from grace, just as someone who walks on slick spots
never knows when he or she will physically slip and fall.

Another famous
simile occurs when Edwards writes, "God will not hold them up
in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then at that very instant, they
shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of
a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost." He
compares the Israelites' inevitable fall from God's grace to a person who is on a slippery hill
near a pit; when that person is let go of, he surely falls and is lost forever, just as they
will be....

In Ernest Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants," what is a "white elephant"?

The term
"white elephant" is commonly used to describe a useless or burdensome possession. In
Asianit is said that white elephants were sacred, but because of their sanctity could not be
used to perform any manual labor. Thus, the elephant became useless to its possessor and quite
expensive to maintain. The term white elephant is still in use today as friends or office
workers gather and give and receive white elephant gifts, mainly just for the fun of it. Most
people have these useless gifts around the house somewhere.

In Hemingway's
short story, Jig refers to the hills in the distance as looking like white elephants in her
conversation with the man. In this case, the term is a veiled reference to the unborn child she
is carrying. It becomes a way for the idea of abortion to be introduced into the story. That the
girl believes the hills look "lovely" seems to indicate she wants to keep the child. A
little later she even says they don't resemble white elephants, further strengthening her
argument that they should keep the baby. The man seems to disregard this comment and continues
to argue for an abortion.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

What are the key differences between "solid modernity" and "liquid modernity" as described by Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity?

Zygmunt
Bauman was born in 1927 in Poland to a
Jewish-Polish family. Throughout his life, he was twice
forced to move to a
different country for his religious views, once to the USSR and once to

Israel.

Following military service, Bauman went back to school, began
to
lecture at universities, and eventually became a prominent social
theorist.

His work Liquid Modernity
was groundbreaking, as it reframed the
way in which people think about
modernity and postmodernity. Previously, modernity was treated
as a
sociological era governed through an adherence to rules and order. When
postmodern
thought...

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Who was the lady who touched Jesus's clothes?

I believe
your question is in reference to a woman mentioned in the Gospels of href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9&version=ESV">Matthew,
href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+5&version=ESV">Mark,
and href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+8%3A43-48&version=ESV">Luke. These
portions of the Gospels describe many miracles performed by Jesus Christ, including healing the
sick and impaired. As the story goes, a woman had been suffering from blood loss for twelve
years. She had seen many doctors and spent all her money on treatment, but her condition only
worsened. When she saw Jesus passing through the town, she reached forward, touched his
clothing, and was instantly healed. Jesus is said to have then turned to her and said, "By
your faith, you are healed." 

The term most commonly used when
referring to this woman's ailment is "discharge," which is used throughout the Bible
to denote an emission of bodily fluids considered to be the result of something unnatural (like
an illness) and which causes spiritual impurity. It is also quite specifically used to refer to
emission of fluids of the urogenital system. This story took place in Gerasenes, which
was...

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In "The Tell-Tale Heart," what might the vulture's eye symbolize?

The narrator
tries to justify his murder of the old man by blaming it on his "vulture" eye, the old
man's staring blue eye covered with a film. The eye creeps the narrator out, and because he
describes it as vulture-like, we know he associates the old man with death. He seems to believe
that, like a vulture, the old man is waiting for him to die so he can pounce on him and in some
way metaphorically devour him. Or perhaps the care-taking the narrator has to provide feels like
being devoured.

This assertion of a vulture eye seems, given the context, to
be a classic case of psychological projection. In projection, we deny we feel certain impulses
that are unacceptable to us. Instead, we attribute them to other people.

We
know that the narrator wants to murder the old man because he acts on this impulse and does so.
However, this is an unacceptable desire, and as the story shows through the beating heart, the
narrator feels intensely guilty about it. He knows it is considered immoral in our culture to
murder a vulnerable older person who can't defend himself. Therefore, the narrator has to
project and envision the old man as an existential threat to his own life and being. The vulture
eye symbolizes this. By seeing the old man as ready and waiting to devour himrather than vice
versathe narrator can ethically justify his murder: after all, it now becomes, on an unconscious
level, self defense.

The narrator clearly has not thought this all out: as
psychology would tell us, this all occurs unconsciously. The tip off is theof the eye as vulture
like.

What is a willing suspension of disbelief in A Wrinkle in Time? How does having a willing suspension of disbelief help Mrs. Murry?

I think the
phrase you are referring to is a willing suspension of disbelief. On its own, this is the idea
that we can suspend or set aside our logical and realistic thoughts and ideas in order to
embrace something that is outside our experience. It might help to think of it as it relates to
attending a theater performance; you know that what is happening on stage is not real, but the
actors and crew invite you to suspend your disbelief in order to enter into the world being
created on the stage. This suspension allows you to feel and experience what is happening as
though it were real. Without suspending your disbelief, you cannot try to experience what you
dont quite understand, because you are bound by your past ways of believing.

There are numerous examples of this in ; so many, in fact, that
one could argue it is a theme of the story. Calvin sets aside what he knows of the Murry family,
and this allows him to make friends with them and be taken...

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Why are the proletariat a "genuinely revolutionary class"?

The
proletariat is called a "genuinely revolutionary class" because it is the only class
capable of meaningful revolution. Marxism states that in a capitalist society, the only two
tangible classes are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, as any middle class is destined to
fade into obscurity as the society enters the stages of late capitalism. The proletariat can
function as a revolutionary class due to their sheer number and revolution being in their best
interest.

In a capitalist society, it will inevitably be the contention of
the bourgeoisie that there are no classes and that no issue of...

What are the caged bird's privileges and obligations toward freedom?

Throughout the poem, Angelou's speaker refers
primarily to the caged bird's desires and restrictions. Classifying the bird's attitudes or
emotions as privileges or obligations requires a shift in perspective.

It
could be argued that this bird has no privileges. Whoever has caged them has established the
conditions. Perhaps the bird's continued ability to sing could be called a privilege, but it is
a natural ability: it has not been bestowed by another.

The caged bird is
obligated to stay in the cage and not to fly, as his wings are clipped. Because his voice is
heard in the distance, reminding others that some birds are still not free, it might be
considered his obligation to warn others of that fact. He sounds a warning to others of the
value of their freedom.

What is the symbolic meaning of darkness in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

Darkness in
this short story symbolizes despair. It is first associated with the deaf old man who stays late
at the well-lit cafe drinking. He sits

in the shadow the
leaves of the tree made against the electric light.

We
learn that he recently tried to commit suicide by hanging himself but that his niece cut him
down.

The darkness outside the clean, bright cafe is associated with the
chaos and meaninglessness that the light and order of the cafe keeps at bay. The older waiter
associates the darkness with "nada." In Spanish, nada means nothing. The older waiter
uses the word to signify inner emptiness or meaninglessness, a sense of despair.

The older waiter therefore praises the orderliness, light, and cleanliness of his cafe,
as well as the fact it offers seating, something the brightly lit bars don't. All of these
features, taken together, represent a humane way of living, a contrast to the nada and darkness
without.

While the younger waiter is impatient with the deaf old man for
lingering when he wants to get home to his wife, the older waiter, who has experienced nada,
understands why he stays. He feels compassion towards him and understands that the little things
in life, such as the safe haven a comfortable, well-lit cafe offers, are not trivial in a dark,
uncertain world.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Examine the importance of the following line from Oedipus Rex: "All the generations of the mortal man add up to nothing! Show me the man whose...

I tend to
think that this particular line captures much of the basic thematic significance of the drama.
 Thethat is intrinsic to human consciousness is illuminated in this line.  The "generations
of mortal man" are fairly insignificant, although humans place a primacy on it.  In the
final analysis, the accomplishments ofdo not really stack up to much in comparison to the larger
issues of fate and predestination posited against him.  Oedipus is shown to be an individual who
has to come to such a realization in the most brutal of manners.  In the end, his own sense of
happiness was an illusion, shattered by the reality of what confronted him.  His was on of
"illusion followed by disillusion."  He could not see this as a mortal, with physical
sight.  It is for this reason that he blinds himself, in order to gain greater sight and greater
significance in vision into his own sense of self and his place in the world.  The quote brings
out the predicament of Oedipus as well as the thematic reality that governs the play.   vision
of humanity is one in which myopia reigns supreme, reflecting how individuals see the issue of
their own happiness as being real, but in actuality being nothing more than
disillusion.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Why does Atticus think he can't win Tom Robinson's case?

understands that winning the Tom Robinson case is virtually impossible due to the systemic
racism and prejudice that is prevalent throughout Maycomb, Alabama. In ,asks her father if he
has a chance of winning the case, and Atticus says, "No, honey"
(Lee 48). Scout then asks her father why he is even trying, and Atticus says,
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for
us not to try to win" (Lee 48). Later on, Uncle Jack asks Atticus if he has a
chance of winning the case, and Atticus says,

"It couldnt be worse, Jack. The only thing weve got is a black mans word
against the Ewells. The evidence boils down to you-didI-didnt. The jury couldnt possibly be
expected to take Tom Robinsons word against the Ewells'" (Lee 55).

Atticus realizes that the jury will not accept Tom's testimony as
truth for the simple fact that Tom is an African American. In 1930s Alabama, segregation was
commonplace, and Jim Crow laws were enacted to separate and discriminate against black people.
The Post-Reconstruction era promoted systemic racism
throughout the South and Atticus is essentially challenging the entire culture by defending a
black man. The jury could not possibly rule in favor of Tom and subject themselves to the
cultural taboo of favoring "Negroes."

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