What is the theme of "Harrison Bergeron"?

The
primary theme in 's "" is that human beings will always reject control and oppression
of their individuality. The handicapper general, a woman by the name of Diana Moon Glampers,
enforces this desire to reduce individuals to a generic person without individual thoughts in
the name of "equality." However, the eponymous Harrison Bergeron rejects and strips
himself of the "handicaps" placed on him by Glampers, but ends up dead.

In this story, Vonnegut is successfully able to weave two competing ideas: the human
desire to be an individual and the political desire for control. Despite the fact that citizens
seem to prefer control in order to be "equal" (George Bergeron tells his wife this
when she suggests removing some of his handicaps: "If I tried to get away with it ... then
other people'd get away with itand pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with
everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that, would you?"), there
also seems to be the incorrigible human desire to express oneself. When Harrison arrives in the
TV studio, he finds a dancer and musicians willing to remove their handicaps in order to create
something beautiful. Even Hazel Bergeron, who has no handicaps because she
is already at the lowest common denominator, cries when Harrison is shot
because she understands that something "sad" has just occurred.

There are many sub-themes here, including the questions surrounding this idea of
equality, but the primary theme is definitely the human desire to express one's individuality
and talents regardless of oppression.

Why do you think Orwell organized 1984 into 3 parts? What effect does it have on the reader?

It is
quite common for plays to have a three act structure, andapplies it to .
The first act normally encompasses the ; the second act, the rising action; and the third act,
theand resolution. Adopting this structure feels particularly appropriate as it allows us to
accompanyon his long and tortuous...

How did Kit view slavery in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Kit grew up where slaves were a way of life,
but she is repulsed by the
thought of slave ships.

Growing up in Barbados as a member of
the upper class, Kit is used
to having slaves around to care for her needs.  She was not part of
a big
family, and never had a mother or siblings to take care of her.  When John asks her
about
her family, she mentions slaves as if they were a part of every
householdbecause they
were.

"Were there
no women to care for
you?"

"Oh, slaves of course. I had a
black nursemaid€¦ (Ch.
2)

Kit never
did any work.  She had slaves to do it.  It
was just the way things were done
where she came from.  It would never have occurred to her that
slavery was
wrong or to question it.

However, when Nat tells her that
there
could be people down in the hold on a slave ship, she
is...

No Men Are Foreign

This poem is
about all men being brothers -- that all people are essentially the same.

First stanza:

• All people are the same beneath their
  uniforms/clothes.
• All walk on the same kind of land and will all be buried
  in it.
• All are fed by the harvest and the harvests are ruined by
  war

Second stanza:

• Our hands are
  the same and we all do the same work.
• They sleep and wake as we
  do.
• Love is strong enough to conquer all people -- all people are the
  same

Third stanza:

• When we are told
  to hate others, it's ourselves we are hating.

Fourth
stanza:

• When we fight each other, we are defiling the earth we all
  live on and the air we all breathe.

All

Suppose you have been asked to lead a taskforce to develop a sales incentive plan at your firm. The taskforce is to generate a list of strategies and...

The
taskforce is attempting to create an incentive program, so your role will be developing a group
that can analyze what motivates peopleparticularly those in sales roles and similar positionsin
order to boost sales numbers and try to generate more income for your company. The best people
for the task group would be compensation analysts and human resources representatives who are
frequently tasked with understanding compensation, benefits, rewards, and incentives.

Once the group is assembled, the best starting material to discuss and look over are
incentive studies from the industry and academia as well as current sales reports and outlier
sales reports. You want to analyze the average and current sales projections to see what your
baseline will be and understand better what a typical months' sales look like. Then, by looking
at outliers, you can analyze both the highs and lows of sales projections and start to make
decisions based on what those highs and lows look like.

You can analyze the
high outliers to determine what the capability could be, and you could even discuss with the
individuals who created those numbers to understand what motivated them and helped them reach
those goals. On the opposite side, you can use the low sales numbers to understand what can
hinder sales and what things can act to deter motivation for salesmen.

Using
these boundaries, you can start to piece together what incentives you can create and what
targets you should aim for in the sales projections. The industry and academic reports will also
give you psychological and professional tools to use as motivation and help you design a
standard incentive package for those who reach higher sales targets. The goal will be to create
something that is enough of an incentive that those who are content with their sales numbers
will be motivated to go above and beyond.

Compare and contrast the kinds of courage exhibited by both Atticus and Mrs. Dubose in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Both
Mrs. Dubose and , in 's , display a similar type of courage in that they
are choosing to display courage in the face of significant odds against them.

In Atticus's case, this courage is reflected in his steadfast determination to
represent and defend Tom Robinson because he knows this is the ethical course of action and that
he must set an example of behaving ethically for his children. Atticus knows that the reality of
an extremely racist country will make it nearly impossible for him to win the trial in which Tom
Robinson, a black man, has been falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Mrs.
Dubose is addicted to morphine and, even though she understands the immense difficultly of
overcoming such an addiction, she chooses to engage in the battle and fight for her life. She
also displays courage in the face of the odds stacked against her.

How
thediffer lie in the motivations of the' courage. For Atticus, his courage and reasons
to...

Who are the hero and villain in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men?

As is always
true of great literature, there are various approaches to its interpretation because a literary
work is itself a living thing, emitted from not just the mind of its author, but his heart as
well. So if one turns the looking glass another direction and examines Steinbeck's work from the
heart of this writer sensitive to the socio-economic and existential dynamics of men, the
is the disenfranchised worker, the lonely and alienated man caught
in the machinations of a failed capitalistic society. Steinbeck himself said thatwas not meant
to characterize mental diminishment, but "the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all
men." Thus, each of the characters are alienated in different respects because of the
failed, imbalanced social circumstances. As lonely and alienated men, each knows fear:fears that
Lennie will create conflict; Lennie worries that George will become angry or leave him; Candy
fears becoming no longer useful and being discarded like his old dog; Curley is insecure about
his size and his wife and fears defeat and humiliation; Crooks is marginalized by the racial
code and lives in fear of his aloneness and of gratuitous cruelty being inflicted upon him;
Carlson, the brute, is cruel in reaction to his alienation, lashing out as a displacement of his
hostility about life. 

With as a social commentary by a
writer who viewed the fraternity of men and its collective power as the solution against the
ills of a failed system of government such as that in the Great Depression, theis
the existential aloneness of man which makes him vulnerable, an alienation
generated from the selfishness of powerful men. Only through the fraternity of men, Steinbeck
felt, could men strengthen themselves enough against this adversary. This is the dream of George
and Lennie--the community of men who work together and help one another--and it is strengthened
as more men join it; it is destroyed when the "keeper" of the dream is killed as the
fraternity is destroyed and the men are again alone.

George said softly, "---I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed
we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we
would."

What does Reeves mean by the line "he bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs"?

You have asked about the
twelfth line of the poem called "The Sea," written by James Reeves, a
twentieth-century British writer.In this poem, the speaker compares the sea to a "hungry
dog" that rolls on the beach and gnaws at the stones, moaning and licking his paws.In the
second stanza, the speaker describes the sea at night, how the sea "bounds to his feet and
snuffs and sniffs," shaking wet all over the cliffs and howling loudly.In other words,
then, it seems as though the sea becomes more wild at night.During the day, the "dog"
of the sea stays upon the beach and performs small actions, but, at night, the dog becomes quite
unruly, the waves coming in taller and louder, smashing into the cliff bottoms and spraying
their sides.To say that the dog bounds to his feet seems to reference the increased height of
the waves, and he "snuffs and sniffs" making loud and varied sounds as those waves
crash against the cliffs.

In Hemingways's story "Hills Like White Elephants,"what "things" beside tasting absinthe might Jig have been waiting to experience ?

I have
only been to Europe one time, and
truthfully I found it to be a big disappointment. There were a
great many
"things" I expected to find interesting, exciting, edifying, or enjoyable,

and I must have been expecting to discover a lot of other "things" to appreciate
that
I hadn't even expected to encounter.

Paris itself did
not seem especially
beautiful, and the food was mediocre at best. No doubt I
could have gotten wonderful food if I
had been willing to pay an exorbitant
price, but you can get wonderful food almost anywhere if
you pay a lot of
money. The part of the Louvre I saw was a letdown. It seemed to be full of

propaganda pictures, such as that famous one of the Napoleon crossing the Alps on a
white horse.
I hate to say this, but the "Mona Lisa" was a huge
disappointment.

Italy seemed dirty and many of the
Italians seemed loud and vulgar. I was happy to get
out of Italy and back
into France. Many of the French are cold and rude in a peculiarly French
sort
of way--but they are better than the Italians, who think they are doing you a favor to
let
you see their old ruins and stuffy artwork. I learned one thing I could
use if I ever went back
(except that I'm never going back). That is: Never
eat a places that are situated close to
famous tourist attractions. like the
Louvre or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They are usually
"tourist traps," and
the Italian ripoff artists aren't satisfied with merely
overcharging you;
they want to give you poor food and poor service as well.

Europe is old. A lot of it looks dirty and decrepit. I think Americans are
especially
sensitive to this. People live in buildings we would have torn
down a hundred or two hundred
years ago.

Hemingway
probably liked Europe because the exchange rate made
everything so incredibly
cheap in those days and because he could buy any kind of liquor he
wanted,
whereas Prohibition was the law in America. Europe was a great place for a writer or
an
artist. When the woman in "" asks for "Four reales" for the two beers,
I
think she was charging the equivalent of about two American
cents.

 

Find the gradient of the curve y = ln(5x + 1) at the point where x = 4

`y = ln(5x +
1)`

The gradient of the above curve at any point is given by
the...

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Give the climax and epilogue from the story "Battle Royal." Support your answers with examples from the story.

is
the title to chapter one of s book .  It is possible to identify theto this
chapter using a standard plot chart.  Lets start by listing some of the major events that happen
in the chapter.  The narrator is asked to give his speech to a group of prominent white men.
 Once at the meeting, the narrator is told that he is going to participate in the battle royal.
 The first event for the boys is being forced to watch a naked white woman dance in front of
them.  This is followed up with a blind boxing free-for-all.  The boys are all blindfolded and
forced to fight each other. 

A glove smacked against my
head. I pivoted, striking out stiffly as someone went past, and felt the jar ripple along the
length of my arm to my shoulder. Then it seemed as though all nine of the boys had turned upon
me at once. Blows pounded me from all sides while I struck out as best I could. So many blows
landed upon me that I wondered if I were...

In Orwell's 1984, what is Ingsoc?

Ingsoc is
short for English Socialism, and the shortening of the word into two basically meaningless
syllables is itself significant. Ingsoc is a word that can mean whatever the Party wants it to
mean at any given moment: it has been severed from its historic roots. This aligns with the
Party goal of creating a state that can rewrite history as it wills because it completely
controls language. As Syme, the Newspeak expert, notes while having lunch with , 

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak.

By this, Syme
means Newspeak is the attempt of the Party to simplify the English language so that the average
person will be incapable of all but the most basic kinds of thoughts. This will rid the Party of
thought crimes. Therefore, Ingsoc, at its core, is a political ideology that means to rob human
beings of the capacity for independent thought so the Party can more easily control
them.

Analyze the impact of setting in A Portrait of the Artist as Young Manby James Joyce and how he uses setting to communicate his theme or themes....

 The
overall setting of this novel is Dublin and its environs at the turn of the twentieth century.
There are the various Daedalus family homes, which dwindle in size and grandeur as the family's
fortunes decline, and the series of colleges that Stephen attends: first Clongowes Wood College,
then Belvedere College, and finally University College in Dublin. Interspersed with this is a
portrait of Blackrock, a Dublin suburb where Stephen spends his summer holidays, and also of
Cork, which he visits once with his father.

All of these settings are
crucial in illustrating Stephens developing consciousness as he passes from childhood to young
manhood in the course of the novel. The  novel follows his growth not just as a man, but also
his growth as an artist: his decision to reject early religious and family influences in order
to develop his own course in life, finding meaning and solace in aestheticism, the artists
creed.  This is the central theme of the novel, to show the growth...

In "The Cask of Amontillado," how would the story from Fortunato's point of view be different from the current narration in Montresor's point of view?

Many
people would react to this question by
saying it suggests a logical absurdity, because Fortunato
is killed at the
end and therefore can't be the narrator. Before we get to that issue, and the

inexplicable type of account this would be in which a man is killed but
somehow
"lives" to tell about it, here are just the surface qualities such a
story would have
to have, if so narrated:

1) Fortunato is
drunk, so the wording would
presumably show the difficulty he is having in
shaping his story. The overall drift, and the
individual sentences, would
lack cohesion and lucidity. The narration would anticipate features
of
stream-of-consciousness as it was to be employed by writers such as Joyce nearly a
century
after Poe. Perhaps even if they didn't go this far into a deliberate
absence of straightforward
storytelling, Fortunato's words would present a
kind of blur causing the reader to have little
or no clear idea of what the
story is about. A veil would be placed in front of the action,
a...

In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, why does Crusoe try so hard at preserving his English customs when he's so far away from home?

In reading
Defoe's , I believe that Crusoe does all he can to preserve and abide by
the English customs he was raised with in order to preserve his own sanity. In trying to conduct
his day in as normal a fashion as possible under the circumstances, it gives him a sense of the
familiar and well as a sense of purpose. It is a wise move in that he is on the island for many
years.

Finding himself alone in a deserted island, Crusoe
struggles to maintain reason, order, and civilization.

One of the story's themes is "industrialization." This is the concept of
being able to do things in a more modern way, such as making dresses that could be bought
"off the rack" rather than going to a dressmaker, who made one dress at a time. In
Defoe's time, this reflected the "specialized" services available in most villages.
For example:

People began to buy bread instead of baking
it.

Since one went to a specialist to have things done,
the skills one might have had before in doing many things within a
household or on one's property were now the "specialty" of those who
"specialized" in one thing, such as baking, carpentry, etc.

For
Crusoe, he does not have a grasp of doing many of the things that have been completed by one
trained in a specific area, so he must learn by improvisation or relearn things he has
forgotten, but these things become the projects that occupy his mind.

He immediately sets out to be productive and self-sufficient on the
island.

Crusoe strips the beached shipwreck of as much
usable material as he can gather and remove. This takes many days. He has to build himself a
shelter of sorts to protect himself from the elements and wild animals that he perceives
might be on the island when he arrives. He has to store his gunpowder in
little caches so that should lightning strike, he does lose his entire supply or his life. He
hunts. He builds. He eventually keeps wild goats. He fashions as much as he can to mimic his
life at home: building a table, a chair, and a shelf, for example. He also makes candles so that
he can have light after the day ends at 7:00.

I came
provided with six large candles of my own making (for I made very good candles now of goats
tallow, but was hard set for candle-wick, using sometimes rags or rope-yarn, and sometimes the
dried rind of a weed like nettles)...

When Crusoe is
shipwrecked he faces many challenges. One is fear:

[Crusoe] is forced to confront his fear about being alone...

It seems that the best way for him to address his fear and retain
his sanity is by maintaining a lifestyle as close to the one he knew in England. He also
reasons, after so much accomplishment, that in surviving as long as he has under dire
circumstances, can there be anything he need fear? It is with this frame of mind that Crusoe
faces his fear and is able to gain control over his existence and maintain his sanity for the
many years he is alone.

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Education," identify examples of rhetorical strategies in paragraph 13, and explain their effect.

The text that I can find
of this essay by Emerson gives the following in the thirteenth paragraph:

Whilst thus the world exists for the mind; whilst thus the man is
ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world, which
interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousness--it becomes the office of a just
education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.

In
terms of rhetorical strategies, what is interesting about this paragraph is the way in which the
pacing leads up to the conclusion that Emerson makes in the final section. Note that this
paragraph is actually all one sentence, and the thoughts and ideas expressed in the first half,
which basically argue that the world at the same time urges us to learn more whilst pointing out
our lack of awareness, is rounded off by the concluding statement that ends this paragraph,
which argues that the purpose of education is to help us realise both our lack of awareness and
knowledge and to aid us in discovering more about it.

How is the setting meaningful in "Hunters in the Snow"?

The setting
of "" is significant as the snow disguises objects and pathways, and many of the
markers and boundaries are hidden. The cold of this environment is also reflective of the
unemotional reactions of the two other men to Kenny's injury.

While the
three men hunt together, they seem to lack any real fraternity; there are no lines visible, just
as the snow covers the earth. In the snowy woods, any warmth that does exist among the men is
also covered over. Kenny ridicules Tub for his obesity, Tub lags behind and is not partnered
with either of the others, and Frank makes little effort to include Tubs or give him any
sympathy. Their selfishness is evinced early in the story as Kenny and Frank do not worry about
picking Tub up, and he must wait an hour...

How does Nora view motherhood?

seems to view
motherhood as though it is a kind of game. She is constantly playing with her kids, but we
rarely see her doing any serious child-rearing or disciplining. The kids seem to spend more time
with their nursemaid than they do with their mother. When the nurse, Anna, returns from outdoors
with the children, Nora says:

Did you have a game of
snowballs? Oh, I wish I'd been there. No; leave them, Anna; I'll take their things off. Oh, yes,
let me do it; it's such fun.

She wishes she'd been there
for their gamea snowball fight. Then, when the nurse goes to take the kids away to remove their
wet things, Nora says that she thinks it is fun to help them take off their clothes.

In other words, she likes to dress and undress them as one might dress and undress
one's dolls. She calls her youngest child, a girl, her "sweet little dolly." Nora even
expresses her wish to her friend, Christine Linde, about being free to "be able to play and
romp about with the children." She does not seem to think of them as actual people but as
playthings. She plays hide and seek with them, calling them "dear little dolly
children," even hiding under the table herself.

Motherhood is a series
of delightful interludes for hera fun gameat least untiltells her how mothers can morally poison
their home and kids.

What happens when Lyddie goes to sign the petition in Lyddie? What is her reaction?

Whengoes to sign the petition,
she learns that it has already failed.  She is devastated.

When Lyddie first hears of the factory workers petition, she does not want to sign
it.

"But we'd be paid less." Couldn't Betsy
understand that? "If we just work ten hours, we'd be paid much less." (Ch.
12)

Betsy tells her to think about the big picture,
saying that her time is is more precious than money.  The petition in question is from Diana
Gross.  She is a member of the Female Labor Reform Association.

The girls are
afraid to ask for their rights.  They assume, as Amelia says, that they will lose their jobs if
they complain or if they sign the petition.  Lyddie is upset because she needs the money to pay
off her familys debts.  She refuses to be a slave, but she is working because she needs to.  It
is her mindset that matters to her.

Unfortunately, Lyddie injures herself on
the job.  She wants to go to work even though she has a bad cut and part of her head is shaved. 
She didnt even want to leave work when she injured herself.  Even with this, Lyddie is still
refusing to sign the petition.  She is angry at Betsy when she does.  However, when Betsy gets
sick and loses all of her savings, Lyddie considers it.

When I'm ready to go myself, she thought, maybe I could sign that cussed petition. Not
for me. I don't need it, but for Betsy and the others. It ain't right for this place to suck the
strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind. (Ch. 14)

Just when Lyddie feels that she has almost all of the money she
needs and can sign the petition, she gets a visit from an uncle she barely remembers.  He tells
her that her mother has been sent to an asylum.  Lyddie is upset, because she did not feel that
her mother was actually crazy.  He tells her he is selling the farm, and drops off her little
sister, who is weak and seems more dead than alive.  Lyddie is horrified.  It feels like
everything she has worked for is gone.

Lyddie finally decides to sign the
petition, for Diana, and goes to find her at an association meeting.  There she learns that the
petition has already been submitted. They tell her she can try again the next time.  Lyddie is
devastated.

Lyddie stood there, openmouthed, looking from
Diana's thin face to the other woman's robust one. Too late. She'd come too late. She was always
too late. Too late to save the farm. Too late to keep her family together. Too late to do for
Diana the only thing she knew to do. (Ch. 19)

Learning
that Diana is going to have a baby, but cant marry the father, is another blow to Lyddie.  Her
friend had to leave, and Lyddie feels as if she was too late to do the only thing that she could
for her.

What evidence in the story suggests that Browns journey into the forest represents a journey into his own heart in "Young Goodman Brown"?

's
short story "," as your question suggests, is built on ambiguity: does Brown make a
physical trip into the forest in this visit to his dark side, or is his journey purely
psychological, occurring in a dream vision? Putting aside the very detailedwith which Hawthorne
describes Brown's journey and those he meets, readers with a modern sensibility believe the
journey to be psychological for several reasons.

The belief system of the
Puritans includes the conviction that evil in the form of witches and Satan himself are present
in their lives both spiritually and physicallySatan, for example, can torment and tempt a person
in dreams, and he can appear in life as himself or anyone else. Witches can appear in their
human form, and they can torment others in their "spectral" formthat is, as spirit
beings. So, it is quite possible that a young Puritan, testing his belief system, might actually
take a journey to see whether he can encounter...

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What are some quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird that show how Tom Robinson is judged unfairly because of his skin color?

Tom
Robinson is an innocent black man who becomes the victim of racial injustice after he is wrongly
convicted of assaulting and raping Mayella Ewell. Before the trial begins,understands that he
has no chance of winning the case because of Maycomb's racial prejudice. However, Atticus
valiantly defends Tom Robinson and proves his innocence. During the trial, Atticus makes Mayella
contradict her testimony, proves her motivation for lying, emphasizes Tom's handicap, and
suggests that Bob Ewell was responsible for her injuries. Unfortunately, Atticus's efforts are
not enough to win the case.

During Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination, he asks
Tom Robinson why he continually helped Mayella. Tom responds by saying that he felt sorry for
Mayella, which is a significant mistake. In Maycomb's racist community, it is unacceptable and
taboo for a black man to feel sorry for a white woman. When Mr. Gilmer repeats Tom's
answer,mentions:

The witness realized his mistake and
shifted uncomfortably in the chair. But the damage was done. Below us, nobody liked Tom
Robinsons answer. Mr. Gilmer paused a long time to let it sink in. (Lee 201)

Following Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination, Dill begins to cry as a
result of Mr. Gilmer's prejudice, and Scout takes him outside, where they meet Dolphus Raymond.
Dolphus understands Maycomb's racial prejudice and tells the children:

You havent even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step back
inside the courthouse (Lee 205)

Tragically, Tom Robinson
is wrongfully convicted, and the children lose their innocence after witnessing racial injustice
firsthand. Following the trial, Atticus discusses Tom's injustice with his son, andmentions that
the jury should not have been able to convict Tom because there was no evidence to prove his
guilt. Atticus responds by saying:

You couldnt, but they
could and did. The older you grow the more of it youll see. The one place where a man ought to
get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of
carrying their resentments right into a jury box (Lee 224)

Tragically, Tom is sent to Enfield Prison Farm, where he is shot and killed attempting
to escape. Mr. Underwood proceeds to write an article about Tom's death and likens it to the
senseless slaughter of songbirds. Scout reads the editorial and understands that Tom Robinson
never had a chance of winning the case because of his skin color. Scout says:

Senseless killingTom had been given due process of law to the day of
his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had
fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwoods meaning became clear: Atticus had used every
tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of mens hearts Atticus
had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. (Lee
245)

What are the symbols throughout the story of the black cat in Poe's "The Black Cat"? Also, how did Poe establish an atmosphere of fear and horror in...

Poe
establishes an of fear and horror in several different ways in
"." Firstly, the narrator, who is telling the story from the first person
point of view, describes himself as docile, humane and a lover of
pets. But this character ends up doing the most unimaginable things. He abuses, harms and kills
his favorite pet and later ends up killing his wife. Perhaps what is most horrific about the
story is the ease with which the narrator describes his deeds. 

The narrator
is frequently contradicting himself. He used to be docile but later turned murderous. He had
regret and even shame about harming his cat but later feels fine about having murdered his wife.
The fact that he can commit these dreadful deeds in cold-blood is very disturbing.

As for symbols, most readers agree that there are many
symbols associated with the two cats in the story. The first cat is
a completely black cat. In European history, black cats were thought to be unlikely, some even
thought that they were witches. In fact, the narrator mentions that his wife said the same about
the cat jokingly. This is an to the historical myth about black
cats. The narrator tries to give the impression that he is not superstitious and doesn't believe
these stories. But as he develops a progressively hateful attitude toward this cat that he once
loved, one wonders whether he truly believed the myth. (By the way, black cats are in fact lucky
as the gene that makes them all black [called melanism] also reduces their risk of disease. Cats
with melanin are the opposite of albino cats that are all white. The reason for their color is
the same, it has to do with the amount of melanin in their skin and hair).

The other symbolism about the first cat is his name,
Pluto. In Greek mythology, Pluto was the ruler of the dead and the underworld. So perhaps his
name was a premonition of his fate? Or perhaps his name convinced the narrator of his doubts
about the cat and whether the cat had something to do with witchcraft.

There
is also symbolism associated with the narrator's second cat, which
looked a lot like Pluto. He was black, except with a patch of white on his chest. Like Pluto, he
too was missing one eye. Although the narrator doesn't express it very directly, he seems to
dislike this cat in time because of his resemblance to Pluto. Maybe the narrator hated this cat
like he hated Pluto. Maybe he hated this cat because it reminded him of the terrible thing he
had done to Pluto (carved his eye out and later killed him by hanging him off a tree). The fact
that the narrator believes that the white patch on the cat is changing in appearance to look
like the gallows supports the narrator's growing guilt over his sin. 

The
narrator foreshadows various things in the story, such as that he
will be violent towards his wife. Seeing gallows in the cat's fur can be both about guilt and
also a foreshadow of the future that awaits him.

Some also associate the cats
with the narrator's wife. Like his wife, they are loving, nice animals. Despite the narrator's
alcohol abuse and ill treatment of his wife, his wife is patient and never complains. And his
wife is also fond of animals and especially loves the cats.

We must also
mention that the narrator appears to be highly disillusioned. He develops a sudden and difficult
to understand dislike towards his pets. He had taken both cats willingly and had liked them in
the beginning. But he finds them fear inducing and horrific after some time. The narrator seems
to imply that it's because of his alcohol abuse. He increasingly finds some kind of meaning in
random things. He seems to be struggling with his understanding and perception of what is
happening. He tries to find logical explanations for incidents and even finds ways to excuse his
behavior. But it's obvious that he is walking on a thin line of madness.

At the end of the poem "The Raven," what does the speaker want from the raven?

He wants
the bird to go away and leave no trace behind. His wish is not granted though.

The raven is clearly no ordinary bird. Not only does he speak (although only a single
word), but he also represents something else to the narrator, something dark. It's possible that
the raven represents the inevitable passage of time, suggesting that has gone will never return,
including the beloved . The raven becomes a burden, representing the impossibility of letting go
of sadness and melancholy to go on and live a peaceful life.

At the end of
the poem, the narrator becomes downhearted; he receives no hope from the raven and he falls into
despair. So he begs the raven to go away, to leave no sign of his ominous presence: "Leave
no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!" He wants to be left alone with
his memories.

But the raven never leaves. At the end of the poem, the
narrator realizes this is it for him, he is dead in spirit: "And my
soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be
liftednevermore!"

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National Reputation? So my mother-in-law mentioned tonight that the governor in Michigan is considering using NC as a model for an educational change...

In reply to #2:
California does NOT have good public schools.I have taught in several different areas of the
state.Although the upper middle class schools might be acceptable, even the Blue Ribbon schools
seem to be lacking in terms of actual teaching.The No Child Left Behind laws just made it
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Please provide a 3€“5 sentence overview of To Kill a Mockingbird.

is narrated by , a six-year old girl who lives with her father,
the lawyer , and her brother, , in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Jem and Scout, together with their friend Dill, are fascinated by their neighbor, a recluse
called , whom they have never seen but who seems to be leaving them gifts in a tree outside his
house.

When a black man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white woman,
Atticus agrees to defend him, even though this means disapproval and even violence against him
and his family from the white citizens of Maycomb, some of whom come close to lynching Tom.
During the trial, which is witnessed by Scout, Atticus proves that Tom's accuser, Mayella Ewell
is lying but Tom is convicted anyway and later dies while attempting to escape from prison.

Mayella's father, Bob Ewell, feels humiliated by his daughter's treatment
during the trial and embarks on a campaign of violence and intimidation against the...

Why was Juliek concerned about his violin after the forced march from Buna?

When the
Polish musician Juliek, who worked in the electrical warehouse at Buna, speaks to Elie among the
crush of men who have come to the barracks at Gleiwitz, he is fearful that his violin will get
broken in the chaos. He has brought it with him on the deadly forced march from Buna. Elie is
shocked that Juliek is worried about a violin:

I thought
he had gone out of his mind. What use was a violin here?

Later, after fighting for air and his life in the claustrophobic pile of dead and dying
men, Elie hears a violin. It was Juliek playing a fragment from a Beethoven concerto. Elie
realizes why Juliek has brought his violin. It is his last connection with life and
civilization. Instead of being reduced to a wild savage fighting for a morsel of bread, Juliek
plays the violin, proving his worth as a man and an artist:

He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the stringshis lost
hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play
again.

Juliek refuses to go out as a victim. He is,
instead, a rebel. Playing the Beethoven concerto was his last attempt at rebellion against his
bitter fate. The Germans had prohibited the Jews from playing compositions from German
composers. Juliek thumbs his nose at this restriction and in the last moments of his life. When
Elie wakes up the next morning, Juliek is dead and his violin crushed.

What is a theme statement in 'A Separate Peace?'

Several themes
can be drawn out of the novel, but the most evident one would read something like
"Sometimes one's greatest enemy is oneself." This is obviously the case
with Gene, an overly-scholarly, introvert "preppie" who can only exist in terms of
showing his superiority over others. In sharp contrast is Phineas, not so studious but
well-liked by both students and teachers. Finny's general good will and optimism are
flamboyantly shown by the pink shirt he wears along with the school tie uses as a belt. (Finny
is so disarming that he even gets away with it!) Despite their deep friendship, the
"monster" in Gene comes out for a split second when he intentionally bounces Phineas
off-balance on the limb of the tree at the water hole, making him fall.

Several other themes focus on the subject of guilt, confession and forgiveness. Make a
statement that best fits your interpretation of the message Knowles is trying to get across. Is
it the idea that love can forgive all, or that some
acts of violence are irrevocable and their consequences can't be undone?
(Remember in the backdrop of what happens at the school between Gene and Phineas, there is a
cruel war going on for which the boys are being "prepared.") Along these lines is the
idea of the inevitable loss of innocence in one's coming of
age.

Critics have sometimes esteemed this book as melodramatic and overly
sentimental. Personally, it is one of my favourites; I think it fairly accurately depicts the
nature of inner conflict and the difficulty of finding any real resolution or
reconciliation with self once one has betrayed a
"loved" one.

What is the forbidden experiment in the language acquisition?

What is
commonly referred to as "the forbidden experiment" in the research of language
acquisition is the use of feral children to conduct isolation experiments involving leaving a
child incommunicado in order to see what happens in the language acquisition process.

It was common practice centuries ago to...

What is a if numbers a+2,17,2a+2 are in arithmetic progression?

You need
to use the following properties of consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression
`a_(n-1),a_n,a_(n+1)` , such that:

`a_n =...

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What are examples of a non-didactic reading of Emma, by Jane Austen, through the lens of a formalist?

A
non-didactic reading of a text is one that discounts actual or
apparent moral teachings that may or may not be present by authorial intention in the
narrative. Formalist critical theory is predicated on the premise
that form is the narrative content.

Formalists attempt
objective, scientific analysis and understanding of a narrative
text through analysis of functions (e.g., hero function) and rhetorical or literary devices
(e.g., motifs, elements of structure, techniques). The aim is to determine a narrative text's
literariness, where literariness is the qualities that exist in literature
but not in other kinds of writing.

What were the political and social issues during Ralph Waldo Emerson's time?

was born
in 1803 and died in 1882. Thus, he lived through a period of major social and political turmoil,
perhaps more than any other time in American history. He witnessed the course of the Market
Revolution, the rapid territorial expansion of the United States, and the rise of industry in
the wake of the Civil War. But by far the most significant social and political turmoil in the
nation during his life was related to slavery, the issue that tore the nation apart and led to
the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

Like most Transcendentalists,
Emerson...

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Describe three instances when Frederick Douglass gains more freedom even though he is not free.

Of course,
Douglass did actually become free, which was not the case for most enslaved people who lived and
died the property of another. But while enslaved, Douglass underwent several experiences that in
many ways made him feel more free.

One such event can be found in Chapter
Six, when Mrs. Auld, the wife of his new owner, begins to teach him to read. Just as the young
Douglass, still a child, is learning his alphabet and a few simple words, Mr. Auld demands that
his wife cease teaching him immediately. When a slave learns to read, Auld said, he is no longer
fit for slavery. To Douglass, these words had the opposite effect that Mr. Auld intended. He
realized that if reading was dangerous to the slave master, it was good for the enslaved man.
"In learning to read," he writes, "I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition
of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress." He describes literacy as a major
stepping stone on his path to freedom.

In fact, Douglass remembers being sold
to the Aulds, who lived in Baltimore, as bringing personal freedoms in itself. He writes that a
"city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation." They were
better fed, better clothed, and, because masters did not want to appear cruel in front of their
neighbors, they did not engage in the kinds of sadistic beatings that characterized life on a
plantation. While in Baltimore, he made friends with neighborhood children, walked the streets
of the town, and even came across books, like the Columbian
Orator, a collection of speeches about freedom that, he remembers,
"roused my soul to eternal wakefulness."

Another incident in which
Douglass asserted his freedom under slavery involved Mr. Covey, and is described in Chapter Ten.
Covey, who leased Douglass from his owner, was a brutal man who "worked" Douglass, for
the first time in his life, as a field hand on a plantation. He suffered many beatings, and was
more miserable than at any other point in his life under slavery. But eventually, after another
bout of severe abuse from Covey, Douglass physically resisted him, grabbing him by the throat
and wrestling him to the ground. After the fight, Covey never again bothered Douglass. The
incident was so important to Douglass that he began his description of it by telling his
readers: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
man."

None of these events in and of themselves made Douglass a free
man. But each was an example of a young enslaved man asserting his dignity against slavery and
against the people who attempted to rob him of it.

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How does Thoreau express his ideas about slavery in Walden?

Thoreau
speaks explicitly, though briefly, to
the enslavement of African Americans
in 's longest
chapter, "Economy." Thoreau was an abolitionist,

but Walden is a work more concerned with a philosophy of living for
all of
humanity. Thoreau's focus in Walden was that
"what a man thinks of
himself, that it is which determines, or rather
indicates, his fate."

Thoreau acknowledges
in Walden that "it is hard to have a
Southern overseer;
it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the

slave-driver of yourself." Implicit in this statement is the idea that all men,
including
slaves, must re-conceptualize themselves as independent and free
beings in their minds, no
matter their physical circumstances. Thoreau
believed that men must not only have beliefs, they
must act on their beliefs.
This idea was more explicitly stated in Thoreau's 1854 speech
"Slavery in
Massachusetts" when he said, "The law will never make men free; it is
men who
have got to make the law free."...

What are some positive and negative aspects of the role of interest groups in democratic politics?

The
positive aspect of the influence or role of special interest groups in democratic political
systems is the opportunity such groups or organizations provide in influencing governmental
policies when those groups' perspectives might otherwise not be heard. In a country as
geographically expansive and heavily populated as the United States, and as diverse in terms of
ethnicities, political orientations, professions, cultures, and so on, the ability of any one
individual to make a difference at the national or even state or local level would be very
limited. The seat of the federal government, of course, is in Washington, D.C., on the eastern
coast of the United States. Individuals or groups in, say, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, or even
locations much closer to the nation's capital would have a very difficult time being heard in
the halls of Congress or in the Executive Branch if they did not unite and form what are
pejoratively called "special interest groups." In fact, so central is the...

In Death of a Salesman, Charley says: "No man only needs a little salary." To what is he refering?

This
quotation is taken from the requiem at the end of the play. Linda is speaking with Charley at
Willy's grave, and expressing her disbelief that Willy should commit suicide when they were so
close to paying off their debts. As Linda says, they "were just about free and clear."
She tells Charley that Willy "only needed a little salary" now that they were almost
"free and clear."

Charley responds by telling Linda that "No
man only needs a little salary." This response implies that men, or at least men like
Willie, need a big salary not necessarily because they need the money but rather because they
need the pride and the status that comes with the big salary. Willie was a very proud man, and
he struggled to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't, despite his repeated claims to the
contrary, "well liked." Willie needed a bigger salary to compensate for the fact that
he wasn't well liked.

How does the setting of Emma impact the character development of Emma and Harriet?

The setting inis
important to the novel as it represents a microcosm of society at the time. Each social class
from the landed gentry (Mr Knightley) to the poor have their place.

The
relationship between Emma and Harriet begins due to the distance between Emma's home, Hartfield,
and that of her former governess and confidante Mrs Weston, Randalls. As a married woman, Mrs
Weston can no longer visit Emma so frequently, and so Harriet, who is poor and values Emma's
friendship because of this, takes her place.

The setting also links to a
cause of conflict in their relationship and its eventual solution. Mr Robert Martin of Abbey
Mill Farm proposes to Harriet and is rejected, under Emma's influence, as she tells
Harriet:

"The yeomanry are precisely the order of
people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do."

This is Emma's snobbery at work. The link between Mr Martin and Mr Knightley (owner of
Donwell Abbey and the farm) indicates that, when Emma matures and marries Mr Knightley, the
relationship between Harriet and herself can continue.

What's the dealio

Adam Worcester

"Dealio" is a neologism, with a
meaningless "-io" attached to a
real word, "deal." It is used as slang, most
commonly in a sentence such as
"What's the dealio?" "Deal" in this sense
refers to specific situation. It
could be some type of negotiationin this
case, the question would mean, what am I (or we) going
to get, and what do we
have to give up? Or it could refer to a general situation, meaning that
the
question would express "what's happening?" or "what are we going to

do?"

Adding the...

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What social issues are relevant to "Hills Like White Elephants" other than abortion?

Keep in
mind the era in which the story was written: the 1920s. Social mores were much more conservative
then, and there was little public or private aid for unwed pregnant women or single mothers.
Spain in the 1920s was strictly Roman Catholic, and the only acceptable options for Jig would
have been marriage or adoption.

Another issue is abandonment. The man is an
American, but is Jig? Does Hemingway tell us? Even if she persuades him to marry her, there is
the possibility that he may just leave her.

What kind of life would the
child have if the couple did marry and have the baby? Would the parents...

How does Faulkner balance humor with grotesque and what effect does the tension between humor and grotesqueness have on the overall story?

The deep vile
self absorption of the characters is balanced by the ridiculous ends they pursue for ultimately
selfish goals. The horrific treatment of Addie's coffin, the effects of the water, the heat and
the fire create an image that is so uneasy it is only consumable with laughter. Dark humor
accentuates the difficulty of the scene instead of distracting from it.
Vardaman is
so lost and forgotten that the reader's burden of empathy is too great without some ridiculous
humor to ease the pain. Dewey Dell's mission was doomed to be foiled by the exploitation of the
next man she encounters, yet she willingly participates. Cash's injuries are so utterly
grotesque they provoke a chuckle and a shaken head from the reader.

What special literature is produced for the proletariat? How does Winston feel about his work and the creativity involved? agh! thank you for helping

works in the
Records Department in the Ministry of Truth and he loves his work, it is almost the only thing
that brings him joy in his mundane life. He has the power in his work to alter history, to
create people and destroy them, and he finds this power frightening and exciting, which is why
he revels in his work.

The literature that is produced for the Proles, is
produced in the Ministry of Truth (Winston's place of work). The proletariat literature had its
own department within the Ministry of Truth that generated all forms of entertainment. It was
different in that it was considered "rubbishy"or the cheapest,
lowest forms of entertainment for the lowest kind of humans. The Proles were also the only ones
allowed to look at pornography which was also produced by the Party and its production section
was called Pornosec.

"Here were produced
rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational
five-cent novelettes, films oozing sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by
mechanical means . . ."

What caused the Cuban missile crisis?

This depends
on how you mean the
question.

The most immediate cause of the Cuban Missile

Crisis was the fact that US U-2 spy planes detected Soviet missiles in Cuba.  The US
felt that
this was too much of a threat to US soil and therefore Pres.
Kennedy started to take actions to
force the Soviets to remove the
missiles.

If you take another step back, the
cause of the
crisis was the fact that the Soviet Union did not have missiles that could hit
the
US mainland while the United States did have missiles that could hit the
Soviet Union.  This
imbalance made the Soviets uneasy and led them to try to
even it out by putting missiles in
Cuba.

What kind of people were the writers of the Constitution.

In general,
the people who wrote the Constitution came from the elite of society.  They were certainly not
representative of the population as a whole.  This is why some historians (most notably Charles
Beard) have argued that the Framers created a constitution that was biased in favor of the
elites.

There were 55 delegates who showed up at the Constitutional
Convention at any point.  There were never more than 38 there at one time.  These men were
typically from the elite of society.  More of them were educated than was true of the general
populace.  More of them were wealthy.  Almost all of them had served in important governmental
positions.  Many of them were rich enough to have many slaves.  Others were speculators in land
and finance.  There were merchants and other such relatively middle-class people among them, but
the group was generally skewed towards the elite side of society.

This is
relevant because the Constitution that they produced was a somewhat conservative document that
seemed to favor the interests of the wealthy.  This might well have been good for the country
since it gave it a strong foundation for economic growth.  However, it does lead some historians
to claim that the Framers were looking out for their own economic interests and those of their
class, not for the general popular welfare. 

In what ways is Oscar Wilde mocking Victorian society in his drama The Importance of Being Earnest?

lived
during the Victorian period (i.e., the reign of Queen Victoria, which lasted from from 20 June
1837 until her death on 22 January 1901). It is important here to distinguish between the
Victorian period and the rather unfortunate use of the term "Victorian" as standing in
for a certain type of sexual mores which differ from those of the twenty-first century. As
satirical writer, Wilde made fun of what for him was contemporary society, something most
satirical writers do.

One of the main targets of Wilde'swas hypocrisy. He
himself was a gay man who was jailed for a homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. As
a gay man who married to conform to social conventions, he was very aware of how laws regulating
relationships led to certain forms of hypocrisy. He was opposed to various forms of double
standards and often portrayed characters whose veneer of respectability covered morally dubious
behavior.

Wilde's main audience was the upper-middle and upper
classes,...