The setting is important because the story begins on earth and enters
space, allowing unique events to occur.
Setting is one of the
most important elements of a fantasy or sciencestory. Because the action of the story is in a
time and place...
Cherry tells Ponyboy two specific things in defense of the
Socs, and they are related
to each other. One thing that she tells Ponyboy is
that the Greasers are not unique in having
problems and rough lives. Cherry
tells Ponyboy that the Socs don't necessarily have easy lives,
eitherthey
have problems too. What is amazing is that Ponyboy believes her.
"I'll bet you think the Socs have it made. The rich kids,
the
West-side Socs. I'll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a
surprise. We have
troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know
something?" She looked me straight in
the eye. "Things are rough all
over."
"I believe
you," I said.
Cherry also explains to Ponyboy what
it is that
she believes the Socs struggle with most of all. The Socs are
kids...
As I see
it, a transactional leader focuses on
what the business is doing. In other...
Mrs. Das
is encouraged to confide in Mr. Kapasi because he has told her that he works as an . While
this job is oral translation for medical patients, she looks on it as more of a counselor. The
fact that he is a stranger with whom...
All of
kkosach's points in the previous post are true concerning 's point of view
in 's novel, . However, we must remember that Scout is telling her story in
retrospect--many years later and from an adult's perspective.
When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes
discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but ,
who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.
... We were far too
old to settle the argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted .
So, yes, Scout is recounting her tales through the eyes of a youngster (between the
ages of 5-8), but it is the adult Scout reverting back to her childhood to narrate. It is not
the...
The
mother calls the daughter a slut on three occasions in this short story.
The
first occasion is when the mother says, "try to walk like a lady and not the slut you
are." The word "slut" here is set up as a direct opposite of "lady."
Whereas a lady might be civilized, respectful, and chaste, a "slut," by contrast, is a
social outcast, unworthy of respect, and sexually promiscuous. The word "slut" is used
here as an antonym for "lady." Kincaid might have used a different word, like
"whore," but phonetically "slut" sounds harsher. The sharp "t" at
the end of the wordemphasized by the long vowel sound which precedes itevokes the harshness of
the mother's tone perhaps more so than the word "whore" might.
The
second instance of the word "slut" being used is when the mother is telling the
daughter how to dress so that she doesn't look "like the slut I know you are so bent on
becoming." I think that Kincaid chooses to use the same word for two reasons. The first is
the same as the reason that was outlined abovenamely, the word "slut" is phonetically
evocative of the mother's harsh tone, more so than most words that might have been used in its
place. The second reason is that the repetition of the same word helps to emphasize the
conspicuousness of the word. It is rather unexpected and shocking the first time we hear it; its
repetition makes it even more so.
This is true the third time that the word
is used as well, which is when the mother is telling the daughter how to behave "in the
presence of men" so that they "won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you
against becoming." With this third use of the word, the cruelty of the mother is emphasized
even more sharplyas is the pity we are encouraged to feel for the girl.
An excellent
book (although it's over 700 pages) on this subject is "Albion's Seed". It describes
the various social, economic and genealogical backgrounds of the colonists and the ways that
they informed the structure of the United States.
Some of the differences
include;
Time of Settlement: The colonies were
settled over the course of more than 100 years (Virginia in 1607 and Georgia in 1733); this was
partly due to the time it took to establish infrastructure, explore, and to negotiate the
various political boundaries.
Point of Origin:
Some colonies, for various reasons, had significantly more immigrants from a
particular Old World region, which subsequently influenced that colony's culture and politics.
For example, Pennsylvania is famously influenced by its initial status as a Dutch colony, which
led to a significant Germanic influence.
Economy:
This was an extremely influential point in the development of the colonies. New
England, for example, didn't have as much useful farming land for crops like corn and grain, and
instead developed greater manufacturing and trading industries.
Geography: The physical layout of the colonies also
influenced their development. A variety of factors led to a greater concentration of cities and
ports in the Northern colonies, while the South tended more toward a plantation-style land
management.
It is difficult to make generalizations about the settlement of
all 13 colonies at once; for example, it could be said that the southern colonies were more
rural than the northern ones, but the western portions of the northern ones were just as, if not
more wild, than their southern counterparts. Likewise, the political influences that led to the
formation of each colony were rarely uniform; factors such as the nearby Spanish and French
colonies, the wars in Europe, financial need, Native American alliances and threats, and slave
labor all influenced the final form of each colony.
France
between 1788 and 1791 experienced great changes both socially and politically. This ultimately
sparked the French Revolution that lasted from 1789 until 1799. The feudal system, monarchy and
a deteriorating economy were the major issues that the French people.
One way
the country changed during this specific period was that the monarchy acknowledged some of the
issues the non-aristocratic citizens were facing. A major tax reform that made the elite class
responsible for property taxes was established, for the first time in over 200 years. After some
hostilities over the reforms, the aristocratic and "old order" class finally caved and
the orders were accepted.
France essentially changed from 1789 to 1791 in the
form of a whiplash. A once feudalistic society, ruled by nobility and privilege, changed
dramatically in 1789 with the voting and property reforms. By studying French history, one could
see how this would be a surprising event. The moderate stage can be classified as a positive
step toward social and political reform.
However, while the changes were
promising, they did not go far enough for the radical revolutionaries. The end of the moderate
stage was signaled with the new French Constitution on September 3rd, 1791. What set off after
this was violence, bloodshed and the beheading of the King.
The labor
movement impacted our political system. Labor unions have generally supported the Democratic
Party since the start of the New Deal in the 1930s. They have supported Democratic candidates in
elections at the state and national levels. This gave them some clout with the Democratic Party.
This clout still is important today as unions tend to support candidates from the Democratic
Party.
The Democrats have generally supported pro-worker laws. They have
supported raising the minimum wage and allowing for collective bargaining between unions and
management. Through collective bargaining, workers were able to increase their pay and improve
their benefits. They also were able to improve their working conditions.
When
labor unions were at their peak levels of membership, there was a decrease in income inequality
between the rich and the poor. The standard of living of workers had increased. As unions
recently lost some of their power, these trends have been reversed.
Unions
also helped impact the participation rates of workers in elections. Union members were more
likely to vote in elections. Unions and their members were more likely to take a stand on
important issues that they faced.
The labor movement has had an impact on our
political system.
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There are two
views to this speech to( , I,iii). The first is an obvious comparison with
. His father is dead and cannot give Hamlet advice, except as a ghost, while Laertes has his
father still alive (at least for a few more scenes). If taken literally, the advice is standard
father-son talk, a little pompous (Neither a borrower nor a lender be) and not carefully
listened to. A far more interesting view is thatis giving advice that Shakespeare finds
hypocritical and falsely felt, that the speech is to be heard by the audience (and reader) as
the opposite of good advice. Is To thine own self be true really good advice (some critics
amend the ending: Thou canst then be false to any man); and is Polonius really a good father
or has he clustered all his fathering in this one sage advice to his already grown son?
Polonius as a character is a sort of sycophant to the new court, and his relationship toseems
self-serving rather than genuine. What was his relationship to Hamlets father? Few clues are
available. The actor playing the role must choose a tone that is either genuine or pompous. If
you factor in two other pieces of information from the play that he is also s father and that
his accidental death at Hamlets sword is hardly mourned except by Laertesyou can see how both
interpretations could be supportedwisdom and .
Different textbooks are inevitably going to
suggest different ways of sorting out job design, and the above categorization is certainly one
way, but there are others. Another way of approaching this is with the following four
classifications:
Job Rotation: Designing a job with job rotation means
building in a variety of tasks for all employees, thus eliminating boredom on the job, expanding
the employee's areas of competence, and providing more flexibility in staffing and work flow.
However, the drawbacks to this are that one cannot always realize economies of scale and
employees who have difficulty multi-tasking might find jobs like this difficult or frustrating.
There are work settings where this is a good idea, for example, in a medical office in which
front office employees have a variety of responsibilities, but there are work settings where
this is a bad idea, for example, on an assembly line.
Job Engineering: This
method of job design focuses on the tasks to be done, the time involved in doing the tasks, and
the efficiency of product or service flow through the process. There is no attention paid to
employees' job satisfaction or lack thereof in this design process, but in a highly mechanized
environment, there is usually a need for job engineering design. It would be difficult, for
example, to put together a machine or a vehicle without attending to these priorities.
Job Enlargement: This kind of job design returns again to the principles of job
motivation and satisfaction, building in a natural progression for employees to take on
additional tasks that are a logical extension of what they already do. This could just as
easily be called job expansion. The idea is to begin employees with one task and once they have
achieved mastery, they can add an additional task that is in keeping with the first task. So,
an employee might handle only the simplest sort of customer service calls and then expand to
more complex ones as time goes on. This is motivating, since, if Theory Y holds true, which I
believe it does, we gain internal satisfaction from acquiring new skills. We like to
learn!
Job Enrichment: Once again, this is a means of designing jobs to
motivate employees, also based on Theory Y principles. This is similar to job enlargement in
that the employee gets to do more tasks, but the focus is more on autonomy and responsibility in
the tasks that are part of the enrichment. An employee might begin with responsibility to sell
a product, and then be given the responsibility to service the accounts for that product, and
ultimately be given his or her own budget and control over his or her scheduling to do so.
Autonomy is one of the most powerful motivators in job satisfaction, so this is a highly
successful way of designing the work environment.
I do want to emphasize
that a particular text on human resources or on management could very well divide job design
into four entirely different categories, but this is a good approach to consider, providing
choices for the mechanized environment or for employee motivation and satisfaction. A good job
designer will bear in mind all the important attributes of each, to maximize job performance and
efficiency.
Certainly, there is a note of reasonability struck in your argument which has many in the way of
believers. In each religion, there is a sect or group that believes in a very strict
interpretation of scripture set against one that might accept a more liberal read of it. This
can also apply to the notion of the benevolence and power of God. There are those who believe
that it allows for a greater sense of worship to emphasize the powers of the divine and those
who believe that it might be better to stress its more tolerant notion. I think that each side
has merits because each side believes in the sincerity of its convictions. Part of where one
falls in this debate might have...
In this book Fatima is a
character who is shown to be the person who is able to connect with Santiago most of all. This
is shown through the instant bond that the two feel when they first meet. Fatima shows that her
love for Santiago is sincere when she passes the test of allowing Santiago to go on his way and
embark on his quest, even though that means leaving her behind. The narrator argues that love,
if it is genuine, is expressed by people who "genuinely wish us well and want us t obe
happy." Fatima acknowledges that if there love is true, then Santiago will come back to
her. Fatima is also important because she teaches Santiago an important lesson about the Soul of
the World and what happens to all living matter when she says to Santiago the following
important teaching:
..those who dont return become a part
of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from
the earth. They become a part of everything€¦.They become the Soul of the World.
Of course, at the end of the novel, when
Santiago has learned the truth that he has sought so determinedly, he and Fatima are rewarded by
their reunion. The last words of the novel indicate that Santiago will return to Fatima and they
will spend their lives together.
Dee left the house because she
wanted to go to college. She comes back not really understanding her
heritage.
Dee is not like her other family members. She
always wants more.
Dee wanted nice things. A yellow
organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit
she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me.
This
extends to Dee wanting to go to college and go out in the world, beyond home. When she returns,
she has her own ideas about her family.
I didn't want to
bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had
told they were old-fashioned, out of style.
Dee does not
appreciate the quilts in the same way her grandmother did. She thinks they are art, and does
not understand that quilts are meant to be loved, appreciated and usednot looked at.
This story is an example of the disconnect between generations. They try to pass on
values and ideas as well as possessions, but it does not always work because the kids don't
understand.
The basic
answers to all of these questions are the same. First, Christians believe these things because
this is what their scripture says. Second, these things are no more or less impossible than the
beliefs of any other religion.
In essence, every religion believes in things
that are impossible. If these things were possible, they would be part of the natural world,
not part of religion. For example, let us say that you believe that there is one god, who is a
being who has always existed and who created the universe. How is this believable and
possible? How can a being exist without having been born at some point? How can a being make
things (the universe) out of nothing, simply by willing it to be so? From our perspective as
humans, these things are impossible. If we believe that they are true, we believe them solely
because our faith tells us to believe them, not because our reason tells us that they are
clearly true.
If we accept that every religion teaches us to believe in the
impossible, then the impossible aspects of Christianity are not hard to accept. If Christian
beliefs seem impossible and unbelievable to you, it is only because you have not grown up
believing they are true. If we can accept that a god could exist without having been created,
what is so strange about saying that there is a god who has three parts and yet is still one
God? In general, religious belief is not subject to reason. We cannot prove our religious
beliefs are true or false and we cannot say that someone elses beliefs are unbelievable. All
religious beliefs are unbelievable and impossible unless you happen to share that particular
faith.
The Book
of Job and Song of Songs have both been both problematic and fertile sources for theological
reflection among Christians, and were among the books most often selected as topics for
commentaries in late antiquity and the middle ages.
The Song of Songs has
been interpreted as anof Gods love for the Church. Since humans cannot comprehend the depth of
Gods love, commentators have argued, this love is portrayed in...
This question
deals entirely with density and volume displacement. Density is a measure of the mass of a
substance per unit volume, usually given in grams per milliliter. The more dense a substance
is, the heavier 1 mL of it will be in comparison to 1 mL of a less dense substance. Since the
volume of a rigid solid is not easy to directly measure, the easiest way to determine its volume
is to measure how much water it displaces in a tub filled with water.
In
the story above, when the mass...
Okeke
opposes Nnaemeka's choice of a wife for three reasons. The most important reason is that Nene is
from a different ethnic group than Nnaemeka. She is Ibibio and he is Ibo. Even though both
groups are from southeast Nigeria, they rarely entered into mixed marriages until modern times.
The couple have moved to Lagos and broken tradition by marrying each other. The men of Okeke's
village agree with him in his disapproval of the marriage. One man says, "It has never been
heard" and...
The issue
of racism in Maycomb has a
significant effect onandin three ways: 1) through their relationship
with
their father, , 2) through their interactions with other children at school, and 3) at
the
end of the novel when they have to endure an attack by the racist Bob
Ewell.
Because Atticus is the lawyer who is representing
Tom Robinson, a black disabled man in
the Maycomb community who has been
accused of rape of a white woman by her cruel and vindictive
father, the
court case comes home with Atticus every evening. Jem in particular takes an
interest in the case, and his idealism about the world and notions of justice is rattled
when
Tom is found guilty despite his obvious innocence.
Scout deals with the
effects of racism when other children at school
make racist and derisive comments about her
father and his work as a lawyer
defending Tom Robinson. Scout is too young to understand exactly
what the
words mean, but she knows that the tone and the meanness with which the insults
are
delivered are hostile gestures toward her beloved father.
Finally, both Scout
and Jem are targeted by Bob Ewell, the father of
the girl who accused Tom Robinson of rape. Bob
takes revenge on Atticus by
attacking Jem and Scout one evening as they are walking by
themselves in the
dark. During the attack, Bob breaks Jem's arm and terrifies Scout, who is
protected by an absurdly solid ham costume.
Both children learn hard
lessons
about fear and violence as the novel progresses. The impact of racism
on both children is
significant as evidenced by the events
above.
Doublethink
is essential to the Party maintaining control of Oceania and also to 's brainwashing.
Doublethink is holding as true whatever contradictory ideas the Party says are true at
any given moment. It also means the ability to instantly switch one's thoughts and beliefs to
align with whatever new reality emerges from Party headquarters.
On a
surface level, it's essential because chaos and confusion would ensue if people stopped and
questioned what was going on in their world. For example, when the Party announces that the
chocolate ration is going up when it is actually going down, if people were to say, "hey,
wait a minute, none of this makes sense," it would be much more difficult for the Party to
stay in control. Therefore, everyone must be terrorized into acceptance and obedience.
However, the Party's goal, asexplains to Winston, is far greater than extracting
outward conformity and obedience from the people it rules. Its concept of power means forcing
people to...
Whenattempts to break up the fight betweenand , he accidentally inhibits Mercutio,
allowing Tybalt to land the fatal blow. Romeo displays his impulsive nature throughout act
three, scene one, when he reacts to Mercutio's murder by immediately fighting Tybalt. Following
Mercutio's death, Romeo says:
"Alive in triumphand
Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity,And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. Now,
Tybalt, take the villain back again That late thou gavest me, for Mercutios soul Is but a
little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company"...
It is 's job to purge the written records of anything
contrary to the mandates,
visions, and approval of his government:
Winston's job was
to rectify the original figures
by making them agree with the later ones . . . As soon as
Winston had dealt
with each of he messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the
appropriate copy of the times and pushed them into a pneumatic tube. Then, with a
movement which
was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the
original message and any notes that he
himself had made, and dropped them
into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
This image of fire destroying the truth provides a powerful
image
of the control of the government. It is reminiscent of a Holocaust and
provides aof a Holocaust
of the truth. This government isn't just controlling
its citizens; it is literally rewriting the
history of the world as they know
it to be more in line with its own goals. Winston notes in the
same chapter
that so much of the...
The
idea of having a future apart from donation, possible service as a carer, and then completion is
not encouraged by the Hailsham teachers and administrators. The children grow up with little
knowledge of society beyond the institution. Only...
The
Watergate scandal happened when FBI and CIA officials broke into the Democratic headquarters at
the Watergate hotel and stole official papers pertaining to the McGovern campaign. When The
Washington Post broke the story, Nixon tried to hide any responsibility, though it would turn
out that he was involved and may have even hired the burglars. Nixon was seen as a crook in the
eyes of the people and, on August 9, 1974, chose resignation over impeachment. Many historians
think that if the impeachment trial ran its course, Nixon would have been found guilty. Nixon
was later pardoned by his vice president, Gerald Ford. Though it was claimed to be a corrupt
bargain, Ford claimed that he only did this to put the nightmare of corruption behind so that
the nation could have a fresh start.
In the short term, Gerald Ford's
presidency was largely forgettable, though he ran for the office on his own in 1976, only to be
defeated by a relatively unknown politician named Jimmy Carter.
In the long
term, this diminished the office of the presidency. People are now more likely to refer to their
elected officials as corrupt. People now look at political outsiders as being untainted with the
scandal of Washington, even if they have other scandals as well as a lack of experience. Nixon's
legacy was permanently tarnished, though he did lead the way to better relations with China, and
he is responsible for pulling American troops out of Vietnam.
The title of "The Choice"
immediately suggests that it is related to the notion that people given enough rope are likely
to hang themselves, since this idea is all about making bad choices. Rope in this idea is
analogous to freedom, the great American obsession, but Dorothy Parker is as cynical about
freedom as she is about everything else, nowhere more so than in the arena of romance. The poem
uses the trope of a woman who choses the poor man whom she loves over the rich one who offers
her prosperity and comfort. The references to "a lilting song" and "a melody,
happy and high" in the first stanza suggest a poet or a musician, whom she chose over the
man of substance, the landowner who would have showered jewels upon her.
The
same contrast is repeated in the second stanza, in which the poor man has only to whistle for
her to follow him, a rather more disturbing and degrading image in which the man seems to be the
master and she the faithful hound. Even this image, however, does not prepare the reader for the
bathos in the last line:
Somebody ought to examine my
head!
The speaker has been given enough rope and now
regrets her choice. If she had not been free; if, for instance, her parents had chosen a spouse
for her, they might have selected more wisely. She may well have regretted their choice just as
much, but at least she would have been able to do so in the lap of luxury. The poem therefore
supports the idea in the title and gives a specific example of how it might work in
practice.
Scrooge is
very happy when his sister Fan comes to take him from boarding school, a scene the Ghost of
Christmas Past has him revisit. Fan, who is younger than Scrooge is, comes in overjoyed and
says:
I have come to bring you home, dear brother! said
the child, clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh. To bring you home, home,
home!
When we learn some details of the boarding school,
we come to understand that it was a miserable place, where the students were kept frightened,
ill fed, and cold. For example, the schoolmaster puts Scrooge in "a dreadful state
of...
Modernism has come to
be identified with a few specific stylistic methods and a few over-arching themes. Faulkners
exemplifies the hallmarks of modernism in both of these areas as the work
utilizes a stream-of-consciousness style (informed by the
popularity of psychoanalysis) and takes up themes of social
fracture and an unraveling of a previously stable social fabric.
Style and theme, in As I Lay Dying, work together to reinforce a
central conceit regarding social fracture and fragmentation.
This is a story
about a single family, yet it is also the story of many minds. While each character in the
Bundren family is responding to the same death, they each react differently. The style of the
novel makes the psychological differences between the characters exceptionally clear.
Faulkner chooses to take on the mental voice of each character, depicting the internal
life of Vardaman as being in stark contrast to that of Cash, which is in turn in stark contrast
to Darl or Dewey...
We can begin to assess
the narrator'sin the very first paragraph of the chapter. He says,
A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats,
inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a
wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.
We would refer to this level of diction as
"standard": it is a higher level of diction than conversational,
what we might hear in everyday conversation, and lower than elevated, which
refers to language that is generally thought of as so sacred that we rarely, if ever, change it.
For example, the narrator uses throng instead of
group, a more conversational word, and steeple-crowned
instead of pointy. Further, he uses edifice instead of
building and studded instead of
covered. Word choices like these indicate that the narrator is using a
higher or more formal level of diction than the language that we use to speak casually to one
another.
The...
The
colonists wanted to break away from Britain for many reasons. They had enjoyed a great deal of
autonomy before the French and Indian War due to the British policy of salutary neglect. After
the war, Parliament became more strict in demanding money. The colonists wanted to keep the
money and not give it to Parliament, in which they were not represented. Parliament responded
that members do not necessarily represent their district; rather, one member can speak for the
good of the entire realm.
The colonists also protested the Proclamation
Line of 1763, which gave Native Americans land west of the Appalachians. A considerable part of
the colonial economy was made up of land speculationthe colonists needed this new land and
resented being told that they could not have it. Also, many colonists started to question
whether this move was actually for their safety. Some suspected that it was designed in order to
make them easier to tax on the coast.
Finally, the colonists felt as though
their rights had been abridged. Colonial tax dodgers could be taken to Britain and placed in
front of a panel of judges rather than being judged by a trial of their peers back in the
colonies. The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers fired upon a mob near a customs
house. The Tea Act made the colonists pay a tax on tea whether they actually used it or not.
As a result, some colonists dressed up as Indians and threw the tea into Boston Harbor.
Parliament then levied the Intolerable Acts. This led to the city of Boston being occupied as it
would be if it was conquered enemy territory. The colonists felt oppressed and felt as though
Britain was not treating them as British citizens. This is why they decided to obtain
independence.
The phrase "the
place with no darkness" is actually introduced into this excellent novel in Chapter 2 at
the very beginning, when Winston dreams of , and is repeated at various other stages throughout
the novel. The impact of this dream and phrase is to foreshadow the future thatfaces and how
crucial a part O'Brien will play in that future, even though it is in a radically different way
from what Winston imagined. Note how this phrase is introduced in Chapter 2:
Seven years it must be--he had dreamed that he was walking through a
pitch-dark room. And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: "We shall
meet in the place where there is no darkness." ... It was O'Brien who had spoken to him out
of the dark.
As the novel develops this association of
the phrase with O'Brien is cemented more and more, so that when Winston finally reaches the
Ministry of Love, and meets O'Brien there in a place with no darkness, he instantly feels that
he recognises this place. This is one of many ways thatforeshadows the future in this novel and
points towards its rather grim and unrelenting close.
When I look at
the scientific evidence of how our world and our planet came to be, I cannot understand a
disbelief in God. It is too perfect and too precise to have happened by chance. As to how many
Gods there are, I personally believe there is only one. I agree that some cultures have
invented gods and/or goddesses to explain the world around them. For instance, it is often
believed that the Greeks invented the story of Zeus to explain the lightning. However, I do not
believe that all stories of any god are a myth. As to the difference between humans and God, I
would say we are as different as the potter and the clay. God is a supernatural being while we
are carbon based life forms.
Given
Joplin's wide range of work and his fame, I think there could be many responses here. I would
say "The Entertainer" might be his most famous piece. It symbolized much of the
Ragtime tendencies that became so closely associated with Joplin. While his music was
prominently featured in Marvin Hamlisch's musical score of the 1973 film, "The Sting,"
most people recognize the opening credits as being composed of Joplin's "The
Entertainer." The song itself has been called a "two step," indicating its
presence in dance and a fast pace which made it so representative of Joplin's Ragtime
style.
's entire
poem is filled with rhetorical questions that show awe toward the creative force behind the
powerful and dangerous tiger. The first question asks "what immortal hand or eye could
frame" such an impressive beast. In the second stanza the speaker asks what hand could
"dare seize the fire." This suggests that the maker of the tiger had to be more bold
and daring than the beast itselfhe had to be able to grasp...
Whenwrites an
essay about 's glove for his roommate, Stradlater is furious with him. Why does he write about
the glove? The assignment was to describe an object or a room, and Holden writes about an
object that is important to HIM with little regard as to whether or not Stradlater will
appreciate it. In fact, he probably knows that Stradlater will NOT. This choice prepares the
reader for several things: 1) Holden is "different" or at the very least, he feels
"different" than others his age. 2) Allie is a very important person to Holden and
he probably has not grieved sufficiently for hi. He "needs" to write about the
glove.
The answer
to this can vary according to a person's point of view. It is also, of course, different for
WWII in Europe and WWII in Asia/the Pacific.
In Europe, the one person most
responsible for the war was Adolf Hitler. You could argue that the Treaty of
Versailles...
"" bytakes place in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The short
story depicts the financial ruin of the Loisel family because of a lost necklace.
In , the setting always provides important clues about literary elements like
characters, plot, and theme. In a short story, setting is even more important, because it is
crucial for the reader to use all of the information available to make inferences as quickly as
possible.
Authors use time and place to create setting. "The
Necklace" takes place at the end of the 1800s. In France, this was a period of prosperity,
peace, and high fashion. Consumerism was on the rise, and even people of modest means aspired to
join in the trends.
The characters live in Paris, the "City of
Light" and capital of France. The Champs-‰lys©es lies seemingly just outside their door.
It is no wonder that Mathilde Loisel, even though her husband is only an education clerk, is
desperate to wear beautiful jewelry. She lives in...
In
Coelho's , the Englishman seems to provide part of the answer to this
question. The Englishman is caught up in words: he believes that everything he needs to know he
has read in his books. However, when Santiago speaks to the alchemist, the older man explains
that the Englishman still has more to learn: he has to learn to understand the desert. This
cannot be learned from a book, but from one's hearta heart that listens to the world and
searches for omens.
The alchemist's words echo those of the Bible verse,
Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there your heart
will be also.
The alchemist says:
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your
treasure.
My understanding in looking at the Englishman's
methods (which the alchemist does not dismiss) is that he depends
too much on words and not enough on faith and listening to his heart. For
while the world and its words will betray one, the heart will speak the truth...if one will only
listen. And the heart...
The way
the narrator describes their yard in this story is significant not only in her description of
the physical place, but also in the way the narrator describes and relates to the house that
sits behind the yard.
The narrator describes her yard,
in the opening lines of the story, as an extension of her living room. The yard is swept clean
as a floor and anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes
that never come inside the house. This shows that the yard is open for others to come and visit
with her, and also that it is more physically comfortable to sit outside than sit inside. The
narrator also makes references to her old house which burnt down, scarring her daughter
physically and emotionally. The narrator tells us that she has deliberately turned [her] back
on the house.
In this story, the narrator feels more at
home in her yard than she does inside her house. By extension, she is rejecting the artifacts
that her daughter Dee (Wangero) is so intent on removing from that house and displaying instead
of using. For the narrator, these objects and places have practical uses: the quilt is for
keeping warm, the house is for sheltering, the churn top is for making butter. For Dee, they
have ethnocultural uses: the quilt is for hanging, the house is for visiting, the churn is to be
displayed as a centerpiece. For the narrator, the yard is somewhere she feels comfortable for
practical reasons: its where she does what shes good atkilling and cleaning animals using her
rough, man-working handsand where she can, with her daughter, [sit] there just enjoying,
until it was time to go in the house and go to bed. For Dee, the yard was a site to photograph:
to document and reinforce her feelings of authenticity at having grown up on a poor
farm.
Reverend
Hooper's disturbing black veil is
described as an "appropriate emblem" for the funeral
that he attends in the
afternoon. The sombersurrounding the black veil corresponds to the
melancholy
mood of the young maiden's funeral. When Reverend Hooper bends down toward the
young
maiden's corpse, the narrator writes that his veil hung at an angle,
where the deceased maiden
would have been able to see his face if she were
alive. Suddenly, Mr. Hooper seems aware of this
possibility and quickly grabs
his veil to cover his face. A superstitious old
woman mentions
that she witnessed the maiden's corpse shudder for an instant when Mr.
Hooper's
facial features were accidentally exposed. Reverend
Hooper then proceeds to give
a moving, passionate prayer at the end of the
funeral. After the funeral, several of the
community members comment on their
suspicions that the minister and the young maiden's spirit
seemed to be
walking hand-in-hand, which suggests that they had been lovers while she was
alive.
There's an
interesting distinction to be made when speaking about Inferno between the
God of Christianity, and the Greek and Roman pagan influences. In Inferno,
Dante weaves these two cosmologies together, with the Pagan influences ultimately suborned to
the higher, cosmic divinity represented in Christian revelation. With that in mind, first of
all, we should recognize that the universe of Dante is monotheistic, with power and authority
radiated downwards from heaven and the God of Christianity reigning supreme. He can never really
be escaped within the pages of this poemthis is a Christian universe, and the demons of hell are
ultimately subordinate to the will of heaven.
At the same time, however,
Dante's depiction of hell does have powerful parallels with ancient pagan mythologies. For
example, we see Minos, one of the judges of the Greek underworld, resuming his role as a judge
of the damned. We also see the presence of mythological figures,...
You know,
when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, we really only had one style to wear. Whatever was in
style is what we wore. I'm sure there were people on the fringes and edges who flaunted the
norm and chose their own styles, but in my world we were all kind of stuck in the same rut. I
just don't think that's true today. There are clearly some trends, but it's much more okay to
do your own thing and wear what you like. I feel as if it's kind of the same with music. We
had a few kinds of music which were popular but we kind of just picked one and went with it. (I
know I'm not the only one, because when I visit with contemporaries, we narrow our music choices
to popular, rock, or hard rock--and that's it, every time.) Today, their music choices are as
eclectic as their style opportunities. What that reflects, I think, is the diversity of this
generation. The ipod has made it easy to be diverse, since they can purchase a song or two from
all kinds of genres and artists without committing to a complete album...or eight track...or
cassette...or CD.
The
theme of poverty contributes to the development of the play by serving as the primary catalyst
forYounger's financial decision to invest's insurance money into a liquor business, which drives
the plot and increases the suspense of the play. The Younger family lives in the
poverty-stricken South Side, where they desire to move out of their outdated, cramped apartment
using Lena's insurance money. The ten thousand dollar insurance check is a significant amount of
money to the poor Younger family and each member plans on...
