How can art both reflect and inform culture?

Art is
the human impetus to express and thus create. It is the product of human experience coupled with
skill and imagination, and it covers various creative activities such as painting, literature,
music, film, sculpture, and architecture, to name a few. While art exists first on the personal
level, it is undoubtedly a product of its own time and geography and thus society and politics.
Because of this, art reflects culture insofar as it mirrors the current landscape of a society's
experience. The very existence of art movements is a testament to this. For example, Modernism
as a movement reflects the phase in human history where skepticism, disillusionment, and a
desire to break away from tradition abound as a result of war and an increased interest in
experimentation.

It is evident in the works of...

What events led up to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

The main
events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were actions that Japan took in pursuit
of an empire in Asia and the Pacific.  Added to this was the United States reaction to Japans
actions.  The combination of Japanese actions and US reaction led to the attack.

In the time after WWI, Japan wanted to expand its empire in its general region of the
world.  It wanted to be a major power with a large empire just...

How do things fall apart in Things Fall Apart?

The title
of byis taken from the poem "The Second Coming" by William
Butler Yeats. The poem states:

Things fall apart; the
centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

This apocalyptic vision is intended as a view of the modern
condition in which religious belief, civic society, and the human connections to the divine and
other humans are severed as civilization regresses to a sort of individualist and alienated form
of spiritual and societal anarchy.

Achebe is applying this to the situation
in Nigeria under colonial rule. Traditional Igbo culture, religion, and civic society are under
threat from British colonial rule. While some people still follow traditional religion and
others convert to Christianity, many are caught between with no strong bonds either to
traditional Igbo culture or to the new British culture. Cynicism and individualism replace
community spirit, and people caught between the world of tradition (which is weakening)
and...

Describe the relationship between Willy and his sons in Death of a Salesman.

Willy
Loman has a difficult, tense relationship with both of his sons throughout the play. Happy and
Biff have not grown into the men Willy wished they would become. Biff is unsettled at the age of
thirty-four and has not achieved material success. Happy is also in his thirties and is
relatively unsuccessful in the business world. Willy feels that his sons, especially Biff, have
all the tools they need to be successful. However, Willy does not realize that he has not
instilled a sense of responsibility, work ethic, or morals into Happy and Biff. He feels that
Biff has refused to go to college and apply himself out of spite. Willy does not understand that
his affair traumatized Biff and was the moment that his oldest son lost all respect for him.
Willy blames Biff, instead of himself, for his shortcomings and places unattainable expectations
on his sons. Essentially, Willy feels disappointed in his sons and refuses to recognize his own
mistakes as a father.

What are the examples Martin Luther King provides in his "I Have a Dream" speech of the "rude awakening" that could be expected?

In his
famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin
Luther King is actually a bit
vague as to what
he means when he warns America "will have a rude
awakening" if Americans fail
to see the urgent need for change and return to their
everyday, segregated,
racist affairs because they believe African Americans will back down after

venting a little frustration. He is, however, very clear on what he believes the
"rude
awakening" should not

be.

In a later paragraph, he speaks out against
the
"militancy," or violence being promoted by the Black Power Movement of
the 1950s and
60s. Instead, as a staunch advocate of peaceful
protest, King
supports protests in the forms of boycotts,
demonstrations, sit-ins, and marches. We know the
"rude awakening" lead by
King would continue in these
forms because he
gives his people the following warning:

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty

of wrongful deeds.

He further warns, "We must
not
allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence." His use
of the phrase
"creative protest" implies that he will continue
to promote peaceful
means of protest, even in the face of
giving the nation a "rude
awakening."

While we are not
told specifically what to expect of such an
awakening, we are
told what triumphs he expects such an awakening

to bring. He expects true equality to be acknowledged, true freedom, true justice,
brotherhood
among whites and blacks, an end to oppression, an end to
discrimination, and an end to
segregation.

What is popular culture? How did television affect the social mores of the 1950s?

Popular
culture, or "pop culture," refers to
commonly acknowledged trends and social
references inspired or influenced by
the myriad forms of mass media, including film, television,
radio, social
networking, and books.  It is indivisible from mass media, as the wide-spread

dissemination of images, phrases, and concepts become part of the daily jargon of the
lives of
many people, especially those of younger ages, such as teenagers.
 Popular television shows, in
particular, have been responsible for
spreadingand ideas that found a niche with segments of the
viewing public
that grew into social phenomena. Phrases first uttered by popular characters on
a
television program are repeated among viewers until they become part of the
lexicon.  During the
1970s, television shows like Good
Times, Happy Days ,
and others spawned
phrases that became a part of the popular culture of the time, such as the

former program's character of J.J., who regularly employed the
phrase "Dy-no-mite!"
that...

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In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass stresses that killing a slave or colored person is not treated as a crime in Talbot County,...

In
his Narrative,  Douglass stresses that killing a slave is not considered a
crime in Talbot County, Maryland because he wants to make an ethical and emotional appeal to his
audience.  Douglass wants to stress to his audience that slaves are not regarded as humans by
slave masters:  he...

What are three similes in chapter 16?

Surprisingly, chapter 16 of 's
is not dense with similes. That's surprising in this book, because so
often Leo is trying to compare Stargirl with something or anything familiar, and he is unable to
do it all that well. Stargirl is far too unique to be easily compared to things.

Chapter 16 has Leo going to Stargirl's house. He has fully realized that he likes her,
but he is unsure of exactly how to proceed. Leo tells readers that he wanted to walk to her
house in order to feel the step-by-step progression of getting closer to her, and the slow
walking allows for his tension to rise "like fizz in a soda bottle."

Stargirl engages in the conversation first, and soon after that, Stargirl's rat makes
its way over to where Leo is standing. Leo is not too keen at first about having a rat near him
and on him, but he eventually warms up to the rat, and readers get a goodthat describes the
rat's eyes.

His eyes shone like black pearls.

The final simile of the chapter is also focused on the rat. Leo
eventually gets comfortable enough with the rat to allow it to lick him. Leo is shocked that a
rat would do that. He has never once considered that a rat licks, and readers get a description
of the small tongue and how it is rough like a cat's tongue.

What is the difference between Nature and Nurture?

This is a
convenient way to discuss the two dominant influences on human psychology:  the inborn, genetic
traits (strength, height, hair color, etc.) and the acquired behavioral traits from early
experiences (caution, risk-taking, adventure).  The question is which influence is strongest?
And how can Nurture alter Nature?  Does a persons behavior reflect his/her genetic beginnings
(love of sports, loyalty to race) or does the behavior reflect lessons learned as one grows up
(fear of heights, love of adventure).  The underlying assumption of psychologists is that a
persons choices are not automatically free, but influenced by earlier decisions, experiences,
etc.  Nature may give a person a predilection for choosing one behavior over another, but
Nurture guides those predilections by providing pleasure/pain reactions that direct our next
decision.

To what extent is Brown the symbolic "everyman" or representative of humankind in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown? "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel...

In 's
, Goodman Brown is symbolic of "everyman" or humankind in several
ways.

First, Brown believes that "what you see is what you get." He
never thinks to search beneath the surface of things, and takes everyone at face value. When he
finds that people in his community, as well as his own ancestors, have been "in league with
the devil," he is devastated. (It may not been that they served the devil at all, but that
they have "sinned" in general.)

Believing the best of everyone to
begin with is not Brown's mistake, but it is found in his belief that
others' mistakes make them evil. Goodman Brown lacks
faith in his fellowman. His short-sightedness blinds him to the good that there
is in the people around him.

The reader does not know if
what Brown saw in the woods was a dream or notonce again, however, he
believes what he sees without question. People have disappointed him
because they are not perfect, and unlike the precepts of his faith, he can
find no way to...

In Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Johnathan Edwards, what danger do sinners face and what is the only thing that can save them?

In ,
Johnathan Edwards is preaching a sermon about the dangers of eternal damnation. He emphasizes
the precariousness of the human condition, first comparing sinners to being in the position of
walking on a slippery slope on a precipice over an abyss. 

Theologically,
Edwards takes a strongly Calvinist position concerning the total depravity of humans. He argues
that we are inherently corrupt by nature or Original Sin and cannot attain salvation by our own
wills or acts. Instead, we are utterly dependent on the grace of God. 

He
illustrates this sense of dependency with the graphic image of a sinner being like a loathsome
spider dangling from God's hand by a single thin thread of its web over a burning pit. The only
thing that can save sinners is the infinite mercy and compassion of God, that was manifest in
the sacrifice of Jesus.

What would be some contrasts and contradictions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

To add to
the other Educators
response, another contrast that Hawthorne emphasizes is the concept of

justice or punishment.

never tries to publicly justify her actions
or make
excuses for her sinful behaviors. Instead, she bravely accepts the
punishment her society
believes is just. Rather than protest, Hester lives
with her punishment.

In
contrast,is unable to publicly
admit his sins. Because of his cowardice, he devises private
punishment for
himself. The only way to achieve justice, in his eyes, is to atone through
prayer
and extreme guilt. Dimmesdales punishment is personal and
internal.

The third
way in which justice is dealt with is
through revenge.takes the law into his own
hands,...

3x-2y=8 x=2y-4 solve for x and y

The answer
here is that x = 6 and y = 5.  Here is how you can find this:

The thing to do
here is to take the value that you have been given for x in the second equation and substitute
it into the first equation.  So then you have

3 (2y - 4) - 2y = 8

6y - 12 - 2y = 8

4y = 20

y = 5

Now you take this value of y and substitute it back in to the second equation to find
x.

x = 2 (5) - 4

x = 10 - 4

x =
6

In what city, province, and super-state does Winston Smith live in 1984?

resides in London, which is
the chief city of the province Airstrip One in the nation of Oceania. Oceania is
one of the three fictional superstates in 's novel along with Eurasia and Eastasia. The nation
of Oceania is roughly composed of the Americas, British Isles, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand,
Polynesia, and Southern Africa below the River Congo. Oceania is a dystopian nation governed by
a totalitarian regime that controls every aspect of society. Winston Smith, the , is an Outer
Party member, who works at the Ministry of Truth altering various pieces of written information
that will be used as government propaganda. Airstrip One, which was at one time London, is
depicted as a vast, ruinous city in decay. Over the course of the novel, Winston becomes a
dissident and unsuccessfully attempts to challenge the government but is arrested, tortured, and
psychologically tormented until he becomes a genuine supporter of Big
Brother. 

How is there a resolution if Bruno dies?

The
resolution is the conclusion of a story, where any unanswered questions are answered and loose
ends are tied up. In Boyne's novel , thetakes place when Bruno and Shmuel
are led to the gas chambers and die holding onto each other.

The resolution
follows the climax and concerns Bruno's family...

What were Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter's failures in domestic issues?

No leader ever
achieves all
their goals, particularly not in a democratic society where
those
goals can be countermanded by opposing parties. I wouldn't say that Nixon, Ford, or
Carter
were all especially successful or especially unsuccessful in terms of
domestic policy; they had
some successes and some failures.
/> Nixon's most significant failures in
domestic policy mainly involved
the Supreme Court; he appointed Warren Burger to the Supreme
Court, hoping
Burger would support his conservative views on various issues---but the Court

voted against Nixon's views several times, including school busing, wiretaps,

capital...

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Why does Lyddie not sign the petition? How does the speed-up affect Lyddie? How does it affect the other girls? How does Lyddie tend to her injury?...

Your
questions seem to be squarely focused on chapter 13 of  .  Lyddie has been
at the factory long enough where she is familiar with the rules of the factory and the
procedures of working a loom.  In fact, Lyddie is proud of herself and her work at the factory.
 She is up to working 4 looms at a time.  She is well on her way to achieving the...

Describe Burris Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Poor Burris
Ewell.  He is definitely a product of his environment.  He lives next door to the dump, has an
abusive father, and there is very little hope for a bright future.  He has taken on the
qualities of his father; he is mean, abusive, and ignorant.  Like his father, he has a nasty
reputation with his peers and intentionally makes Miss Caroline cry on the first day of school. 
He comes to school on the first day only because the law requires it. He is dirty and has a head
full of lice.  He has probably been abused like his other seven brothers and sisters, and Burris
must scavenge for basic necessities in the town dump.  Burris mothers whereabouts is unknown;
she is either dead or has run off from her abusive situation.  He has been raised by his sister,
Mayella, and has probably not experienced much love or affection.

In the
novel, Burris Ewell and his family are symbols of southern white poverty where the need to
survive causes them to do desperate things for respect and power. This is also shown through Bob
Ewell's attack onand , through his beating of Mayella, and through accusing Tom Robinson of
rape.  Burris is just following in his father's footsteps.

How does the fellow traveler undermine Goodman Brown's faith? I'm not sure thats why I'm asking you.... How does the fellow traveler undermine Goodman...

's faith was
undermined because it was a faith in people and good works, not a faith in God.  In the
beginning of the work, Young Goodman Brown declares that after that night, he will cling to his
wife's apron strings and follow her to Heaven.  Once he sees her, and the others he has put up
on a religious pedestal, at the witch meeting, Goodman Brown can no longer hold to
that...

How does Lady Macbeth dominate her husband throughout the play?

Almost the first thing
Ladydoes afterreturns home in Act 1, Scene 5, is give him instructions, showing that she is
certainly the more dominant partner in their relationship.  She says that, whenarrives, he
should "Look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't" (1.5.67-68).  In
other words, she directs him to appear loyal and good as he always has, but to harbor his
murderous intentions in secret.  In fact, the final line of the scene is hers: she tells
Macbeth, "Leave all the rest to me."  She will do all the planning of Duncan's murder,
and she actually intends to commit the murder herself,...

Literature Project, Story Map and Essay In my L.A. class, we all read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Now we are supposed to write an essay comparing...

Another
theme that you could address would be that of mystery, as in Sherlock
Holmes and Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

What were the goals of Reconstruction following the Civil War? Were these goals accomplished?

's aim was
to bring the South back into the
Union while protecting the rights and safety of the newly freed
slaves. At
the end of the Civil War, there were nearly 4 million former slaves in the South.
It
was the hope of Reconstructionists that they could be integrated into the
fabric of a free
society. Unfortunately, Reconstruction would fall short of
its goal.

The
original structure of Reconstruction was
largely designed by Abraham Lincoln. Had Lincoln lived
to see it, he may have
been able to guide Reconstruction through. His successor, however, was
Andrew
Johnson, a rare...

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If drama (the plays that are performed on stage) can help to mold the values of society, as Aristotle believed, which form of drama€”tragedy (think

Bothand comedy have always had a strong moral
dimension. Aristotle famously described tragedy as the fall of a great man through a tragic
flaw. Comedy is less clearly defined, largely because the second book of the
Poetics, which deals with comedy, survives only as an epitome or summary.
Aristotle does observe, however, that tragedy shows men as being better than they are, while
comedy shows them as being worse.

Tragedy also contains a strong element of
fate. Oedipus does not intend to kill his father and marry his mother. By any fair ethical
standard, he is not guilty. This element in tragedy clearly militates against its usefulness as
moral instruction.

Comedy, on the other hand, shows characters behaving in
avoidably ludicrous and disgraceful ways: the miser, the mountebank, the lustful old man or the
corrupt politician. It is easier for the audience to observe and eschew these vices than it is
for them to try to imitate the nobility and virtue of the tragic hero while avoiding his tragic
flaw. Comedy therefore appears to be more didactically useful than tragedy. This usefulness
might, however, diminish with time, since Elizabethan comedy is markedly less didactic than that
of Greece and Rome.

Of course, moral instruction is not by any means the only
social or individual benefit of drama. Another mentioned by Aristotle as an important attribute
of tragedy is , the release of and relief from powerful negative emotions. This release was
regarded as an important function of the Dionysian drama festival in ancient
Athens.

Why do you like the poem "To Autumn" by John Keats? Give your own ideas about the poem.

You are being
asked to analyze John Keats poem To Autumn in order to decide what you enjoy about reading it.
This question requires you to form an opinion based on the form, meaning, sound, or feelings
evoked by the poem.

One reason to enjoy the poem is its topic; the season of
autumn. For some people the passage of the seasons is one of lifes pleasures, and Keats
describes autumn with vivid . In addition, he compares it to spring by describing the
differences between the two seasons. He tells the reader to let go of spring and let the sights,
smells, and changes in nature advance. And, he explains how summer is coming to an
end.

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think...

Who is "The Raven" addressed to?

If
"" is addressed specifically to anyone, it would be to people such as Poe himself
whose mental world inhabits a region that's a mixture of fact and dream, of the world and a
fantasy that partakes of both heaven and hell.

The speaker is a man who,
probably like Poe himself and perhaps most other writers and artists in general, lives primarily
in the night. While studying, pondering at midnight instead of sleeping, the raven intrudes upon
him from the realm of dreams. He is already reveling in "fantastic terrors," and
moreover seems in a trance-like state, repeating the strangely musical words over and over
again. The raven initially offers hope. The speaker has been utterly alone in his murmuring form
of insomnia; the visitor appears at the door and speaks to him, but only, of course, with the
now-famous answer "nevermore."

Those to whom Poe addresses the poem
are the ones who themselves feel they can answer nothing, beyond that cryptic word, to their own
existential questions. The fate of the "lost ," and a possible reunion with her is
unknown. The fate of the speaker's own psyche is unknown as well, except for his conviction that
it will be perpetually in darkness:

And my soul from out
that shadow that lies floating on the floor,

Shall be
lifted--Nevermore!

As always in Poe, the mere sound of
the words has an importance that rivals their meaning. The reader is caught in a web of music, a
jingling sound that in the hands of a lesser poet might descend into doggerel. So finally I
would suggest that the verses are directed to the reader susceptible to this kind of
extra-linguistic feature of Poe, to a kind of musical mesmerism that seeks to soothe and terrify
in the same moment.

The way a work of art feels to the touch, or seems like it would feel to the touch (the surface quality of the work), is known as what?

The surface quality of a work of art is known
as "texture." This is a word that in any case refers to the feel or consistency of a
surface in everyday English, but texture in a work of art can be actual or simulated (sometimes
called visual). A painting has actual texture where the appearance of the paint corresponds to
the way it feels when touched. A very rough texture is often created using an impasto technique,
with very thick layers of paint standing out from the canvas. This approach was particularly
favored by Vincent Van Gogh in paintings such as Starry Night. To create a
more sculptural quality, the artist may use gesso, which involves mixing plaster and/or glue
with the paint, or building up a plaster background, generally on wood.

Simulated texture is a trompe l'oeil, or optical illusion, where the effect of a
particular texture, such as ripples on the sea or the hide of an animal, is created without
actual texture. It is particularly common in Renaissance painting, where the effect of fine
fabrics, heavy velvet, or embroidered silk is used to emphasize the wealth and power of the
subject. Albrecht Durer is particularly well-known for his use of simulated texture, as, for
instance, in his famous watercolor of a young hare.

What are some examples of sexist views in chapter 23?

In and
his children are discussing the details of the recent trial of Tom Robinson. In keeping with the
way he normally acts as a parent, Atticus endeavors to be open and honest with his children, not
holding back or in any way sugar-coating what he has to say.

During the
conversation, Atticus tellsabout some of the arcane traditions surrounding trial by jury in
Alabama. For example, Miss Maudie would not have been able to serve on the jury during the trial
of Tom Robinson as she's a woman. Scout is indignant upon hearing this shocking news.
Apparently, women in Alabama are prevented from serving on juries in order to protect their
frail sensibilities from the sordid details of such serious crimes as rape.

What we see here is an example of the old Southern ideal of womanhood in action.
According to this ideal, women are weak, fragile creatures who need to be protected by their
menfolk from the harsh realties of life. Women like Aunt Alexandra unthinkingly subscribe to
this sexist notion, but Miss Maudie most assuredly does not. And it's fair to say that when
Scout grows up, she too will reject this blatant example of male
chauvinism.

What is the strong desire in the mind of Ulysses?

In
Tennyson's poem "," the speaker, who is the great former king and warrior Ulysses,
also known as Odysseus, wishes to travel. He has lived a long life, and he remembers the voyages
he took in his youth, both journeying to and from battle and just general voyages he took in
life. In spite of his old age, he yearns from the feeling of being in a new land, because it is
invigorating and exciting to see something new that he has never experienced before.

Ulysses is aging, and he feels death coming for him. Because of this, he wishes to
escape and feel he is doing something adventurous and dangerous. In this...

In "Turtle" by Kay Ryan, what is the central figure of speech? My first guess is metaphor because the poem is comparing a person to a turtle. I'm...

As
the previous educator has noted, this whole poem seems to revolve around metaphors: the turtle
isnote that it is not described as being "like," as in aa "hard roll, a
four-oared helmet." Apart from the initial description of the turtle as a "roll,"
there is a thread which connects the metaphors into one extended image of the turtle as a sort
of transport vehicle: this semantic field of travel and transport is communicated through such
words as "oared," "rowing," and "track." First, the turtle is
seemingly a sort of boat, pictured rowing into the grass; then, she begins "dragging"
and becomes stuck to her "axles," as if she is a kind of amphibious craft. The
language makes us picture other vehicles...

How does Harper Lee present the attitudes and values of Maycomb County?

presents
Maycomb's attitudes and values through the setting and her . For the setting, she describes
Maycomb as an "old town" whose courthouse "sagged in the square" (5).also
says that the "people moved slowly then" and that there was "nothing to see
outside the boundaries of Maycomb County (5). These descriptions suggest that tradition has a
hold of the people as well as its town. Other descriptions of houses and the way people move
help to show that proper etiquette is expected and anything out of the ordinary is frowned upon.
For example, the Radley's show the town just how anti-social they are by keeping their shutters
and doors closed on Sundays. Scout says the following about the town's behavior as opposed to
the Radley's:

". . . closed doors meant illness and
cold weather only. Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore
corsets, men wore coats, children wore...

When Lyddies mother decides to go to her sisters farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do?

and
Charlie, although they are far too young to run the family farm by themselves, determine to stay
behind and keep things going while their mother is away. Lyddie secretly hopes her father will
return. Charlie goes with his mother and siblings far enough to help them board a coach; he
returns to Lyddie after about two weeks.

Together they manage to take care
of...

For what reasons did the Allied powers finally defeat Nazi Germany in Europe?

In my
opinion, the Allies defeated Germany by having more people to fight with and a much larger
industrial base to produce war materiel.  Very significantly, the Allies had the United States
to serve as a huge factory that could not be touched by the enemy the way German factories could
be bombed.

When you combine this industrial advantage with the fact that
Germany faced both the US and the Soviet Union (with huge populations -- I'm not discounting
Britain, but it's not a huge country) it is not at all surprising that the Allies won the
war.

likes and dislikes ? What do you like about this famous character and what do you dislike ? I like how he didn't went crazy when he discovers he is...

The racism is
definitely the biggest turn-off abour. It was considered normal (if still unacceptable by more
progressive...

In Cranes by Hwang Sun-won, what was Songsam's relationship with Tokchae like when they were children?

Although now torn
apart by war and the separation of North Korea and South Korea, Songsam and Tokchae were quite
close when they were children, as indicated by a few flashbacks throughout . In one
particularly touching flashback, Songsam and Tokchae are stealing chestnuts from a tree when
Songsam falls and suffers being pricked by chestnut needles all over his bottom. Tokchae
patiently removes the needles and then hands his friend a bunch of chestnuts to enjoy.

The pivotal flashback is to when the boys were twelve and decided to secretly catch and
keep a crane, only to let it go free when they feared it would be captured or killed by someone
else. It is this memory that triggers Songsams drastic act of compassion; he forms an idea,
using this memory of crane-catching, to let his old friend Tokchae escape capture and
execution.

When Mr. Browne asks the students to write about something that they did that was brave, what does Jack write about?

Each
monthgives his class a precept, a saying that helps a person make important decisions, and asks
them to write about it. His precept for December is "Fortune favors the bold." He asks
the class to write about a time when they were brave.

wants to write
about...

What are important characteristics within Beowulf that make Beowulf an epic hero?

embodies several traits that make him a textbook epic hero. Some of these traits include his
larger-than-life physical strength, his courage in the face of extreme danger, and his loyalty
to both his superiors and the men who serve him.

An epic hero is not perfect
or immortal, but he is a sort of superhuman. He is larger-than-life in the sense that his
qualities exceed those of regular humans. For example, an epic hero will have extraordinary
strength. Beowulf displays this best when he fights Grendel and rips his arm from his body.
Grendel is an imposing beast who has already easily...

What did the professor do with the piece of the paper that Axel put on the table?

At the
beginning of chapter 2, Professor Liedenbrock is a very excited man. He just bought a very old
bookseven hundred years old, to be precisewhich he is perusing enthusiastically in his study as
Axel walks in. The beautifully bound quarto is an original chronicle of the exploits of the
Norwegian kings who once ruled Iceland. It is a Runic manuscript meticulously handwritten
in...

In chapter 10 of The Scarlet Letter, what does Pearl see in Chillingworth?

Asandare talking at a
window of the home they share,sees the two men and says to her mother, ,

Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch
you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother, or he will catch you! But he
cannot catch little Pearl!

The Puritans often referred to
the Devil as the Black Man, referring figuratively to the darkness of sin and evilness of deeds.
Thus, when Pearl calls Chillingworth by this appellation, she seems to be identifying his
sinfulness and wickedness. She actually equates Chillingworth with the Devil himself, and though
she believes that he will not harm her, she fears that he will be able to harm her mother. It's
pretty insightful and astute: Chillingworth has already declared that he has no wish to harm the
child, and though he has no desire to harm the mother, either, the actions he takes against
Reverend Dimmesdale do, in fact, pain Hester. Therefore, Pearl recognizes not only his malice,
but also his intent to harm others.

What are the sources of evil and human misfortune in Voltaire's Candide?

The main
causes of human suffering and dissatisfaction in s come from a few select
sources. The top five are the following: religion, war/violence, nature, sex, and lack of
reason/intelligence. These ideas make up the majority of Voltaire's plot, as he uses them to
show a pessimistic world.

From the very first chapter, sex is used to create
a negative experience for two main characters. Candide is arrested for attempting to kiss
Cunegonde when she shows interest in him after hearing Pangloss having sex with a servant.
Pangloss is also punished, as he eventually contracts syphilis.

Violence and
war are prevalent throughout...

The Trout Summary

Julia always
goes running into the Dark Walk,a tunnel that is covered with bushes, and is not dry on the
pathway.  She invites her brother to come along, trying to terrify him as much as she was
terrified.  They came back home and boast that they had been through the tunnel.  Julia, age
twelve, was asked if they had seen the well.  She doesn't believe there is a well; so she said
Nonsense.  But she went back to the tunnel to look for the well.  She found a hole, scooped in
a rock, and a panting trout.  She brought her brother, Stephen, in to see it. They were so
fascinated that they no longer had any fear.  She even brought the kitchen-garden man down to
see it.  He asked how the trout could have gotten there.  She lifted the trout up because if she
found it, it must be hers.  Her mother and father made up stories as to the existence of the
trout.  

It bothered her that the trout was motionless.  She brought him
food.but he ignored it.  She heard her mother tell tall tales of the fish including fairy
godmothers and other fairy tale things.  She did not believe in that.  One night she goes down
and finds the trout and puts him in a pitcher and races to the rivers edge.  She was afraid that
he would escape from the pitcher,but she made it safely to the river. She releases him, sees him
swim away, and feels a great deal of joy in that act.   In the morning her brother comes
running, yelling that the trout was gone and demanding to know where he went.  She told him that
the fairy godmother came and got him.

In the book In Cold Blood, what was Dick Hickock's plan when he got to Las Vegas? Why didn't it work?

When Dick Hickock
arrived in Las Vegas with Perry Smith (in Part Three of ), Dick planned to
impersonate an Air Force officer. Capote writes that "It was a project that had long
fascinated him, and Las Vegas was the ideal place to try it out." Dick selected the name
Tracy Hand, which was the name of the warden he had known at the Kansas State Penitentiary.
Dressed in a uniform he ordered, Dick planned to visit the Las Vegas casinos, both large and
small, and pass worthless checks--a plan he thought might bring him three or four thousand
dollars in one day. He also planned to ditch Perry, who was annoying him with his superstitious
and strange behavior. However, Dick's plan was spoiled when the police spotted the car he and
Perry had been driving and noted that it had been reported as stolen. The police then picked up
Perry and Dick. 

In "Charles," who is the main character in the story? What's a reason for your answer?

I think
that the mother is the main character in Jackson's "."

Jackson
opens and closes with the mother's frame of reference.  The narrative begins with her reflection
about Laurie starting kindergarten.  It speaks to how she perceived a potential change in her
son when he "renounced corduroy overalls with bibs" in place of "blue jeans with
a belt."  This detail is striking because it shows how the mother sees her son drifting
away from her.  When she furthers this with how Laurie's start of kindergarten reminds her that
"an era of my life has ended," it is clear that we are seeing her son's experience
through her own eyes.  She tells us how he came home, the way he responded to his father, and
what he said.  Her narrative focus drives the story, and in doing so, helps to make her the main
character.

When we experience the ending of the story, our attention turns to
her. As it becomes clear her son is the classroom disruption, everything we once thought
changes.  She moves from being a concerned parent who has good intentions, but is limited in
what she can do to an oblivious parent who failed to see the changes in her son.  The problems
that she saw as someone else's are now her own and this shift is significant to her .  The
story's conclusion has a jarring effect on the reader because of how we see the mother and helps
to make her the main character.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, who is responsible for Romeo's and Juliet's deaths?

In the
final scene,speaks rightly when he blames Lords Capulet and Montague for not only 's and 's
deaths, but also for the deaths of the Prince's own relatives. The Prince blames their hatred
and their feud for all of these deaths. We see this accusation in the Prince's lines:

Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montage,
See what a
scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with
love!
And I, for winking at you, discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen.
All are punish'd. (Act 5, Scene 3)

However, others are
also indirectly responsible for Romeo's and Juliet's deaths. Whilebroke no law nor holy sanction
in marryingwithout parental consent, even though his motive seems noble, one has to question the
sensibleness of his decision. Friar Laurence agrees to marry them because he believed the
"alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households' rancour to pure love." In
other words, he believed that uniting Romeo and Juliet in wedlock would put an end to the feud.
The flaw in his plan is that the marriage was performed in secret with no immediate plan unveil
the marriage. Had he been wiser, he would have foreseen that the ongoing feud would prevent any
real relationship between Romeo and Juliet, sabotaging his efforts to create peace. Instead, he
should have postponed the marriage until he, himself, could prepare Lords Capulet and Montague
for the union. Friar Laurence continued to make things even worse by lying toin helping Juliet
fake her death. For all of these reasons Friar Laurence is indirectly responsible for their
deaths. However, he is rightly pardoned by the Prince, because ultimately, their deaths are the
fault of Lords Capulet and Montague.

is also indirectly responsible. Had he
not had such a hot-headed temper and instead agreed with his uncle to let Romeo alone for
crashing the ball, Tybalt, as well as Rome and Juliet, would have remained alive. Tybalt's death
led to Romeo's banishment, which led to both his and Juliet's deaths.

Finally
the Prince also holds himself indirectly responsible because he did not check Lords Capulet and
Montague sooner, nor try to stop the feud sooner. His personal blame is seen in the line,
"and I, for winking at you, discords too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen."

 

 

Who are the main characters in "Araby" - James Joyce.

The main
characters in "" are the narrator, an unnamed young man, Mangan's sister, and the
uncle.

• The narrator 

The youth
takes the reader on a journey of the mind as his perceptions, which certainly extend beyond the
temporal, are what are presented in the narration. His romantic illusions recreate Mangan's
sister, the object of his romantic desire, and imbue her with his shrouded lust as he stays in
the shadows and defines her "by the light from the half-opened door" in which she
stands. As he carries groceries for his aunt, he imagines that he is a knight who bears the Holy
Grail: "I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes."

Of
course, these illusions do not last, and after he goes to the bazaar, the narrator's fog of
adolescent lust clears and he sees himself "as a creature driven and derided by
vanity" in a crushing epiphany.

• Mangan's sister

Originally perceived as "shrouded in mystery," Mangan's sister is
more mundane than the narrator realizes. She, too, is not named in order to convey how
impractical and illusory the narrator's perception of her is. He has elevated her to an almost
saintly position as he sees her with an aura of light behind her. Yet, she is no spiritual
creature as she is described as turning "a silver bracelet round and round her
wrist." 

• The uncle

The
narrator's uncle seems to display little concern for the youth's desires. When the youth reminds
his uncle on Saturday that he wishes to attend the bazaar in the evening, his uncle answers
curtly, "Yes, boy, I know." However, he neglects to return until nine o'clock because
he has stopped at the pub and he has forgotten. He apologizes, but detains the youth as he asks
his nephew if he knows The Arab's Farewell to His Steed, and he begins to
recite the first lines.

What is the crowding out effect and what is an example of it?

The crowding
out effect occurs when public sector spending reduces private sector expenditure. It is an
economic principle that happens when a government borrows more money that it usually does to
cater to its needs. Governments pay for this type of spending by increasing taxes or borrowing
more money. Increased borrowing leads to a spike in interest rates resulting in private
companies reducing their spending. The private sector will be hesitant to borrow money because
of the costs associated with paying the loan; therefore, it will reduce its spending.

An example of a country experiencing the crowding out effect is Malaysia. The countrys
government focused on making investments in a number of companies, which reduced private sector
involvement in the economy. Increased government investments have seen the country having many
debt obligations. As it stands, the government is working towards reducing this
effect.

A multiple choice test contains 12 questions each offering 4 answers, only one of which is correct each time. A student knows the correct asnwer to 7...

There are 4
answers for each multiple choice question and each of them has only one correct answer. If any
answer is chosen at random the probability of it being correct is 1/4. The probability that it
is...

What is the moral of the poem "Annabel Lee"? In other words, what should the reader learn after reading this poem?

One theme of this poem
addresses the endurance and strength of love. The speaker of the
poem feels that he and his lover, the titular , actually "loved with a love that was more
than love"; he seems to believe that they are soulmates, that their souls can never be
"dissever[ed]," even in death. He believes that the love they share is so special that
not even the angels could understand it, and so they "coveted" this love; however, no
angels or demons can do anything to separate their two souls, even though, he believes, the
angels sent the wind that was responsible for "Chilling and killing" the beautiful and
young Annabel Lee.

We can also learn from the poem, however, that
an obsession with mortality can lead to some strange and perverse
behaviors. For example, the narrator seems unable to let go of the loss of his
lover, and he looks for someone to blame for her death; having no other option, it seems, he
chooses to blame the angels (which contradicts what most people who believe in angels would
suggest about them). In the end, he says that he goes to her tomb, where her body was interred
upon her death, and he "lie[s] down by [her] side." Now, we likely sympathize with him
up until now: he is in love and he has lost the woman he believes to be his soulmate. This is,
by all accounts, incredibly sad. However, learning that he goes to sleep by her dead body within
her tomb every night likely changes our perspective. Love is wonderful, and it is heartbreaking
to lose a loved one, but we also have to recognize that we continue to live, even
when they die.

What is the theme and tone in W.E.B. DuBois' short poem "A Litany at Atlanta"?

W.E.B.
DuBois was a deeply religious man, but one who drew very clear distinctions between the theology
and the practice of religion.  In other words, he was a Christian with a strong sense of faith,
but he viewed the practice of Christianity by the whites who dominated society as antithetical
to the true tenets of Christianity.  One can read "A Litany at Atlanta" has an eerily
prescient warning against the church bombing that would occur decades later (specifically,
September 15, 1963) in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four young girls, but DuBois poem was a
product of his anger at white hypocrisy and white brutality and its tone would be articulated
more scathingly in his essay "The Souls of White Folks," which immediately follows
"A Litany at Atlanta" in his Darkwater: Voices from Within the
Veil, the link to which is provided below.

Understanding the distinction DuBois drew between the theology and practice of
Christianity is essential for the understanding of "A Litany at Atlanta."  It is
essential because, reading this poem, one can easily question the authors commitment to a life
of Christ.  Read the first lines in this poem, and one can be forgiven for concluding that
DuBois was spiteful regarding the existence of a benign divine being:

O Silent God, Thou whose voice afar in mist and mystery hath left
our ears an-hungered in these fearful days

Hear us, good
Lord!

Listen to us, Thy children: our faces dark with doubt are
made a mockery in Thy Sanctuary. 

Our voices sink in silence and in
night.

Hear us, good Lord!

In night,
O God of a godless land!

DuBois is not, though,
questioning the existence of God, or even condemning God for the persecution of blacks.  Rather,
he is condemning whites who, in the name of God, would violate the fundamental tenets of
Christianity.  DuBois, in stark contrast to Booker T. Washington, was not willing to go silently
into the night and exist at the pleasure of whites, hoping that, by setting a good example,
blacks would be eventually treated as equals.  DuBois was a fierce advocate of racial equality
as it should have existed since the dawn of time, and believed that it was white Christians who
had systematically laid the groundwork for the destitution of blacks and for the social
dysfunction that was already plaguing black communities.  As indicated in the following stanza
from "A Litany at Atlanta," DuBois is taking aim squarely at white Christian
hypocrites:

And yet, whose is the deeper guilt? Who made
these devils? Who nursed them in crime and fed them on injustice? Who ravished and debauched
their mothers and their grandmothers? Who bought and sold their crime and waxed fat and rich on
public iniquity?

The tone is bitterness and righteous
indignation.  The theme is white perversion of Christianity and the resultant subjugation and
alienation of blacks.

Why does the Party not kill Winston? In other words, what is a more successful technique on their part to use instead?

The Party
may actually killat the end of the novel, but we don't "see" it happen.  I would say
it does not kill him before that because it wants him to see the error of his ways and it wants
him to accept the supremacy of the Party willingly.

I do not think there is
any real reason why the Party...

How is suspense created in "The Open Window" by Saki?

effectively uses elements creating suspense in the short story, "." The reader learns
within the first few lines that theof the story, Framton Nuttel, has fragile nerves for which he
is seeking a cure. This information provides the reader with a sense of concern regarding
Framton. In addition, Vera, the , is twice referred to as "self-possessed." A tone of
suspense is set by providing the reader with this information early in the story. There is some
apprehension at the meeting of these two characters.

When Vera discovers that
Framton has never met her aunt, the reader sees a change in Vera's description. The author then
refers to her as a "child." Suspense is again created around this sudden change in
Vera's manner as she goes from being "self-possessed" to being a "child."
Vera goes on to tell the story of her aunt's "great" that took place "three years
ago to a day." Again, the reader is persuaded to become concerned with poor
Framton's...

Anti-Semitism? Do you believe there is anything anti-semitic in the naming of traitorous "friends" of Hamlet, Rosencratz and Guildenstern?

malibrarian

In reply to #13:

I truly don't know about the etymology.  I tried to
do some research, but most of the genealogy databases required subscription.  However, despite
my lack of evidence, my gut tells me that like Shylock, the roots of the names would resonate: 
Rose, Rosen, Gold (read: Guild), Stern, Stein are all common Jewish surnames.  I doubt these are
recent trends. 

I really like your insight into "Guilt," especially
since he is the one of the pair who appears to show apprehension and distaste for his orders. 
 

 

That quote is from theprior to Act
II of "Henry V," when the stage is being set for the traitors in the pay of France are
to be caught by Henry. It's one of my favorite, and definitely fits with Mr. Guildenstern!
:)

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How does patriarchy play a part in The God of Small Things?

Roy tells
the stories of various husband-wife couples whose relationships are distorted because of the
patriarchal structure.  The most obvious example is that of Pappachi and Mammachi.  Pappachi
rules his household like a demented despot--beating his wife and children and destroying their
prized possessions.  Chacko, though less aggressively, than his father, is responsible for his
failed marriage.  He has no job, but he refuses to help out around the house, and turns into a
lazy slob.  Ammu's husband is willing to prostitute her to save his job.  Roy gives example
after example of...

How many Mexican Americans are in the American political system?

Political representation by Mexican Americans
tends to be strongest in the states where they constitute a larger percentage of the Latino
population. At the state level and in terms of nonpartisan activist organizations, Mexican
Americans are especially active in the Southwest and West. Along with serving in political
office, many activists have made a strong impact on the rights and representation of Latinos, as
well as Mexican Americans. The Chicago movement of the 1960s and the efforts of the United Farm
Workers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, made particularly notable
contributions.

The first three Mexican American U.S. Senators were from New
Mexico, beginning with Octaviano Larrazolo, who entered in 1928. The first female Mexican
American Senator is Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, beginning in 2017; she is currently the
only Mexican American Senator.

In the U.S. Congress, representation by
Mexican Americans began in the 19th century, with Romualdo Pacheco of California, who first
entered the House in 1877. After Pacheco, the next Mexican American from California wasEdward R.
Roybal , who entered in 1963 and served 30 years. Five Congressmen were elected from New Mexico
in the 1910s€“1960s; three of them went on to serve in the Senate. In particular, Dennis
(originally Dionisio) Ch¡vez had a long congressional career: served in the House 1931€“1935,
and the was elected to the Senatethe first Latino who was elected to a full termand served there
until 1962. Ch¡vez was also the first Senator born in New Mexico. While Texas has many active
Mexican American public servants, the first Congressman from Texas, Henry B. Gonz¡lez, entered
in 1961 and served until 1999. Barbara Vucanovich of Nevada, who served from 1983€“1997, was the
first female Latina Representative, not just the first Mexican American woman, as well as the
first woman elected from Nevada. As of 2019, there are more than 20 Representatives of Mexican
American heritage serving in the House, the majority of whom are from California.

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What literary devices can be found in Chapters 12-19 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

is littered with literary devices. Finding a , , oris as easy as
opening any page of the book and pointing to nearly any paragraph. Lee is a masterful writer who
uses many literary devices throughout the book. One literary device found in , which is more
described than used, is the political cartoon showingchained to a desk, with bare feet, and
wearing short pants while girls holler at him. The cartoon itself uses .
Satire pokes fun at important issues while
also criticizing certain aspects of it. For example, this cartoon makes fun of Atticus who is
chained to his work while missing out on the fun parts of life.

There is also
a passage in chapter 12 that uses many devices in just a couple of sentences and it is when Lula
is described by , as follows:

"Her weight was on one
leg; she rested her left elbow on the curve of her hip, pointing at us with upturned palm. She
was bullet-headed with strange almond-shaped eyes,...

Is there any forms of escapism in Frankenstein? If so, prove it with quotes (and don't forget the page number).

After the death of 's
younger brother , the conviction of Justine for William's murder, and Justine's subsequent
execution for her supposed crime, thefamily is miserable.Victor's father's health suffers as a
result of all the pain and trouble he and his loved ones have experienced, and Elizabeth has
become rather disillusioned with the world.Victor is feeling both guilty as well as enraged, and
he wishes that he could simply killto whom he gave life, even considering taken his own life.He
tellsthat he "was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried [him] away to a
hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe."All of these descriptions can be
found in Chapter 9 of the text.His family, thus, decides to go "to [their] house at
Belrive" and Victor reports that this change of scenery is "particularly
agreeable" to him.The rules regarding when the gates of Geneva must be closed had been
"very irksome" to him, but now he feels "free."In Belrive, he goes out onto
the lake, all alone at night, in order to be alone.Being in nature, and traveling through the
valleys of Servox and Chamounix provide even more of an escape from his grief and guilt.He says
that "A tingling long-lost sense of pleasure often came across [him] during this
journey."Thus, he uses the "soothing accents" of "maternal Nature" to
escape all of the negative feelings he does not want to experience any
longer.