Why is Phoenix taking the long trip to town?

Phoenix Jackson is
making the long, and somewhat dangerous, trip to town in order to procure some medicine for her
grandson.

A couple years prior to the beginning of the story, the little boy
swallowed lye. Lye is a rather volatile ingredient that is used to make soap, but it can burn
our skin, and, when ingested, it burns the esophagus and can even cause death. Phoenix's
grandson will never heal from his burns, but the medicine she goes to get from the doctor in
town at least soothes his raw esophagus and makes him feel better.

The doctor
has told his staff that, as long as she can make the trip to come and get the medicine for her
grandson, she will be allowed to have it at no cost to her. And, because Phoenix is the only
family member that her grandson has in his life, it is up to her to go for the medicine; there
is, simply, no one else to go on this errand. This is why this little old woman who can hardly
see must face all kinds of natural dangers, as well as frightening racism, to make the trip to
town.

What is the message presented by "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

byreveals the impact of society on peoples lives. The narration is provided with a third person
omniscient point of view. The primary characters include a young Puritan and his wife Faith who
have been married only three months. 

The story uses three events from
history to add to the reality of the story:  1675 Indian and colonists fights; the Salem Witch
trials of 1692; and the attempt to make illegal Quakerism.  These historical references are
utilized to create anmaking it feasible for the storys events to happen.  The setting of the
story Salem village has a dubious history.  This legacy integrates the historical roots of
Goodman Browns fascination with the devil and the dark side.

There is no way
to judge if the events in the forest really happened. What is apparent is that Brown functions
as every man for Hawthorne. In many of his stories, Hawthorne emphasized the idea that man is
continually tempted and is...

Why does Mary Warren change her testimony about Proctor and about pretending? (The Crucible Act III)

Initially, John Proctor
brings Mary Warren to the court to confess that she and the other girls were lying when they
accused people in Salem of witchcraft and that they were pretending when they fainted and seemed
to freeze in the courtroom in the presence of those accused.  First, the judges ask her to
pretend to faint again, alone.  She cannot.  Then, when Danforth begins to question Abigail's
integrity as a result of Mary's story, Abigail threatens him and pretends to feel "a cold
wind," looking straight at Mary.  The other girls join her, teeth chattering, accusing Mary
of sending a "shadow" on them.  Mary panics and tries to run. 

Soon
after, Abigail accuses Mary of sending out her spirit as a "yellow bird" who
"want[s] to tear [Abigail's] face."  All the other girls pretend to see this yellow
bird as well, and, as the tension rises, they begin, frantically, to repeat everything Mary
says, as though she has bewitched them all.  Finally, knowing that Abigail is laying the
foundation to accuse her of witchcraft, Mary turns on John in an effort to save herself.  It is
obvious that Danforth thinks Proctor is a liar, and Mary takes the opportunity to accuse him,
knowing that she will be believed, just as Abigail knew that Abigail would be when she initially
accused Tituba, a slave, of witchcraft. 

What master did Elie find to guide him in Cabala?

As an
adolescent, Elie was a deeply observant Jew and would spend the majority of his days studying
the Talmud or weeping over the destruction of the temple in the local synagogue. Elie desired to
learn the secrets of Kabbalah, but his father insisted that he was too young to study Jewish
mysticism. Elie's father also informed him that there were no Kabbalists in Sighet, but Elie
managed to find a master, whose name was Moishe the Beadle.

Moishe the Beadle
was a beloved foreign Jew who lived in utter penury and began teaching Elie the secrets of
Kabbalah. Moishe used to tell Elie that "every question possessed a power that was lost in
the answer" and that "man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him."
Despite being one of the poorest citizens living in Sighet, Moishe the Beadle enlightened Elie
for hours upon end by elaborating on the Kabbalah's revelations and studying the Zohar with him.
Tragically, Elie's intriguing lessons with Moishe came to an abrupt end when foreign Jews were
expelled from Sighet.

What were the objectives of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War?

There are
different levels of objectives that each side had in this war.

On the highest
level, the objective of the Confederate States was to become independent.  They wanted to break
away from the US and be recognized as a separate country.  The objective of the United States
was to prevent this from happening.

Of course, each side had lower-level
objectives that they needed to achieve in order to accomplish their overall goals.  For the
South, the main objective was to keep from losing.  If the South could manage to remain alive
long enough, the North might decide that the war was not worth it and give up.  For the North,
the goal was to take control of the South.  The North needed to actually invade the South and
control its territory.  It also needed to prevent the South from getting weapons and other
support from Europe so that the South would not be able to hold out as long.

The South had the easier objective to achieve in this war.  It only had to hold out
long enough to make the North give up.  By contrast, the North had to invade and control the
South.  This was a much harder objective. 

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When Ichabod arrives at the Van Tassel's party, what is his mood?

's ""
describes schoolmaster Ichabod Crane's encounter with a ghost in rural New York during the late
18th century. It juxtaposes this ghost story with an idyllic picture of life at this time,
thereby enhancing the effect the ghost creates and the personal impact it has upon
Ichabod.

The greater part of the story's first half is concerned with
establishing Ichabod's character and the life he lives. We are quickly informed of his gangly
appearance, as well as his love of food, and his infatuation with Katrina Van Tassel and the
bounty of her father's estate. His rivalry with Brom Bones is introduced, and has produced some
conflict, but has not yet come to a head; he is still primarily concerned with winning over
Katrina, and the invitation to the Van Tassel's party seems like a fine occasion to win a few
points in her favor.

Irving never directly states "Ichabod was in a
good mood!" or anything direct at all, but we may infer Ichabod's mood through the actions
and the author's focus in leading up to the party, as well as a few key lines.

• As soon as Ichabod is informed of the party (in the middle of the school
  day), "the scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping," implying
  that Ichabod is basically kicking them out early so he'll have enough time to properly get ready
  for the party. He goes on to spend extra time dolling himself up, and borrowing a horse, so that
  he'll make a proper entrance. From this we can guess that Ichabod is probably a little anxious
  to make a good impression.
• As he rides to the Van Tassel's, Ichabod
  observes various scenes of idyllic beauty; the colors of autumn in the trees, the many birds and
  their calls, the variety of food ready to be harvested (much to his delight) and the sunset over
  the Hudson river. The depth of description and prose that Irving dedicates to these paragraphs
  seem to be setting this up as a perfect evening, and the scenes before him certain to lift
  Ichabod's spirit.
• Finally, when he arrives at the party, Ichabod observes
  the "pride and flower of the adjacent country" - everyone looking their best. Once
  inside, he takes in the sight of the banquet that has been set out for the guests; this can only
  serve to increase his happiness. As Ichabod sets to work on the food, we are told:

He was a kind and thankful creature, whose heart dilated
in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer, and whose spirits rose with eating, as
some men's do with drink.

So we can assume that Ichabod
arrives at the party in a good mood, pleased with his ride, ready to make a good impression, and
it only gets better from there.

In Stargirl, what's the main conflict and how is it resolved?

The
original question had to be edited.  I would suggest that the main conflict in the novel is how
to navigate social assimilation in the high school setting.  This becomes critically important
forand Leo.  Both of them are impacted by this conflict in different ways.  Leo's reaction to it
is something that he does not fully understand until later on in his life.
 Stargirl...

How Does Big Brother Control Society In 1984

The way in which the
government in this future dystopia keeps control over its people is through a combination of
manipulation and fear. There is of course the ever-present threat of the Thought Police,
whichmakes clear in the opening chapter, who are able to watch everybody all the time and see
into their minds. Then there is the way in which the Party turn families against each other,
with children reporting their parents to the authorities for the slightest crime. The Party's
assault on families does not only seek to separate parents from children, but also wife from
husband, as it...

How does Scout mature by her understanding of the Tom Robinson case in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Before
witnessing the Tom Robinson trial,knows little of the overt prejudice throughout her community
and does not fully comprehend the details regarding Tom's case. As Scout watches Heck Tate, Bob
Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson testify, she gains perspective on the lives of those
involved in the case and understands Tom's predicament. Scout observes the malevolent nature of
Bob Ewell, Mayella's loneliness, and Tom's honesty. Following the verdict, Scout witnesses
racial injustice firsthand and loses her childhood innocence.

Following Tom's
conviction, Scout becomes more aware of the prejudice and hypocrisy throughout her community.
During Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle, Scout notices Mrs. Merriweather's hypocrisy and
questions Miss Gates's perspective regarding prejudice in America. Scout also becomes more
intuitive regarding the motivation of her prejudiced neighbors and fully grasps the significance
of her father's defense of Tom Robinson.

Unlike , who becomes jaded with the
citizens of Maycomb, Scout becomes increasingly tolerant and understands the inherent racism
throughout her hometown. Scout also learns the importance of protecting innocent beings from
watchingdefend Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Scout metaphorically applies Atticus's lesson
about not killing mockingbirds, which symbolically represent any innocent, defenseless
person.

What is an individual's reason for existence in Jonathan Edwards', "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God?"

I think
that Edwards seems to reduce what it means to have a purpose for existence to total submission
to the will of God.  For Edwards, there does not need to be any other form of existence.  The
Great Awakening was rooted in the idea that human beings have strayed from their original
intent, and their basic purpose of existence has been lost.  In the sermon, one sees clearly
that the reason for one to exist is to acknowledge failure and serve God in a capacity that
reflects complete submission, absolute willingness to embrace that which is a part of their
identity, and to ensure that God's arrow is not aimed at their own souls.  For Edwards, human
consciousness is a practice of submission to the will of the divine.  Acknowledging the anger of
God and doing whatever can be done to placate this condition becomes a major part of what
Edwards wishes to do in his essay.  At the same time, it becomes clear that Edwards sees the
individual as needing to assume such a position in being because of both their own sins and the
sins of others, ensuring that for Edwards the only reason for one's existence is to submerge
their own identity towards the will of the divine.

In Lyddie, what is one example of symbolism in Chapters 1 through 10?

An obvious
symbol throughout the book is the bear that Lyddie stares down in chapter
1 and which she remembers often. Lyddie's encounter with the bear represents her ability to deal
successfully with challenges and danger.

Another interesting symbol occurs in
chapter 4. When Lyddie starts working at the tavern, she gets to know Tryphena, the cook. As
Lyddie churns butter one day, Tryphena tells her the story of two frogs who fell into the pail
of milk. One drowned immediately, but the other one kept kicking and kicking until it formed a
pat of butter on which it could float. Tryphena explains the symbolism of the story: "Some
folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter."
The first frog could represent Lyddie's mother, who gives up on life after her husband leaves
the family. The second frog represents Lyddie, who doesn't give up and works with all her might
to save her family's farm and to try to make a better life for herself and her
siblings. 

The frog story brings to Lyddie's mind the private joke between
Lyddie and Charlie: "We can still hop." Their mother had written to them with her
incorrect spelling, meaning to say, "We can still hope," but instead writing, "We
can still hop." Lyddie's mother's approach, to hope vainly without "kicking,"
results in her drowning in her grief. But Lyddie, like the frog, can still hop. She kicks and
takes action, and that keeps her afloat until her life improves. 

When
Charlie comes to visit Lyddie, she finds little to talk about. After he leaves, she wishes she
had told him about the frogs. Connecting Charlie with the frog story symbolizes that he, too,
will survive because, like Lyddie, he can still hop.

In "A Wrinkle in Time", to what did Meg compare all the women who opened the doors on Camazotz?

Meg compared
all the women to a row of paper dolls.  She notes that their dresses have different patterns but
they still all look the same.  She observes them as they come to the doors, clap at
their...

Assess Blanche's pursuit of romance and illusion in A Streetcar Named Desire.

For
Blanche' the pursuit of romance is steeped in illusion.  Blanche's conception of love and
romance are colored by her desire to cling to illusion.  It is reality and all the seediness
that is intrinsic to it that drives her to clutch firmly to illusion as part of her pursuit of
romance. Her romance of the old South in the form of Belle Reve is an example of this.  Such a
romance of the past is tethered to the idea of illusion and what it represents.  Blanche does
not examine the conditions of a realistic view of the past, but rather understands it as
something in which there is illusion that provides a shelter from the storm of the present.  For
Blanche, the idea of romance is something that is too brutal and too painful to view without
illusion.  Her own experiences in romance are ones in which love has been extinguished such as
in her marriage or involved in something socially condemned such as in her time as teaching.
 One can even understand why her embrace of illusion in romance is evident when she is raped by
Stanley.  Illusion is her narcotic to the pain of romance.  While it is easy to condemn her as
being unrealistic, the reality of the situation is that Williams presents Blanche is akin to
what it means to be human; a condition in which the pursuit of romance is inextricably linked to
the condition of illusion, dulling its pain and making life more bearable.

What are the positive effects of imperialism?

Many people
would say that there are no positive effects of imperialism.  But if I had to say what good
imperialism can do, I would say

• Imperialism can be positive for
  the imperial power.  This country can (like Britain with India) get economic benefits from its
  imperialism.  It can gain raw materials, for example, that it could not have gotten otherwise. 
  (This no longer applies as much because there is so much more trade.


• Imperialism can also give the imperial power more prestige in the world.  It comes to
  be seen as a more important country.
• Imperialism can, ideally, help the
  colonized country.  If the imperial power is so inclined, it can help the colony advance and
  prepare for self-government.  You can argue that British rule, for example, brought democracy to
  India and put Hong Kong in a better situation than it would have been if it had remained nothing
  more than a part of China.

In Act 3, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, what plan does Friar Lawrence have outlined for Romeo's future?

Friar
Lawrence suggests that thatfly to 's
chamber to comfort her before fleeing to Mantua.  In
regards to comforting
Juliet, the Friar suggests that Romeo not stay  "till the watch be
set" (in
other words, until the night watchman takes his post at the gates of Verona)

because if Romeo leaves before this, he can flee to Mantua.  Just a few lines later,
Friar
Lawrence changes his mind and says, "Either be gone before the watch be
set, / Or by the
break of day disguised as hence" (178-179).  Friar Lawrence
is obviously making this up as
he goes along, realizing that Romeo can also
disguise himself to flee just fine with the
watchman present.

then suggests that Romeo live in Mantua until four things

happen:

Till we can find a time / To blaze your
marriage,
reconcile your friends, / Beg pardon of , and call thee back / With
twenty hundred thousand
times more joy / Than thou wentst forth in
lamentation. (3.3.160-164)

Hmmmm,
Friar Lawrence has quite a grandiose plan outlined for
Romeo's future,
wouldn't you say?  Friar Lawrence seems to be making this a personal goal of

his.  Of course, with that grand of a plan, at least part of it must go awry, but I
suppose that
is the stuff that Act IV and V are made
of.

What does Mark Twain mean in his statement about Austen's novels, relating his statement to Emma:Austen's novels make him feel "like a barkeeper...

Thiscomes from a fragment of a critical opinion by Twain on Austen titled "."
A fragment is a piece that was begun by an author and, for one reason or another, never
completed. This Twain fragment is stored at the University of California-Berkeley. Twain made
this remark in this fragment in relation to and but
it may be applied to as well because Austen wrote about the same social
sphere--her own--in all her novels.

What this Twain simile means, in terms
of its specific language, is that when Twain reads Austen, he feels as unrefined, unpolished,
uncivilized as would a scroungy Mississippi River barkeeper upon first entering polished, shiny,
orderly, well-mannered heaven. They'd both feel out of place, out of their element, overwhelmed
by manners and speech they had never encountered before--and--slightly repulsed by it for it's
strangeness and newness and for its opposition to everything they'd previously encountered. You
might...

How does Elie leave the concentration camps?

It's
April 1945, and the end is almost nigh for Nazi Germany. The SS officers in charge of the
Buchenwald concentration camp have got wind that the American army is fast approaching. So they
decide to evacuate and kill their remaining prisoners. Although the Germans manage to kill most
of the prisoners, they're unable to finish the job due to the rapid advance of the American
army. Not only that, but the resistance movement drives the SS out of Buchenwald, ensuring that
the Germans are unable to complete their murderous plans.

Not long after, the
Americans arrive at Buchenwald, and the surviving prisonersElie among themare liberated. But
Elie is so hungry that all he can think about is getting something to eat. He quickly comes down
with food poisoning and ends up in the hospital. While there, he looks at himself in a mirror
for the first time since leaving Sighet and is shocked to see what looks like a corpse staring
back at him.

What is the first torture in the "Pit and the Pendulum"?

The
first torture could be any number of
things, depending on whether you want to classify the
torture as only
physical or include psychological.  

If you include

psychological torture, I would say that the first torture is the narrator's sentencing.
 He
begins to break down and swoon the moment he is pronounced guilty.  He's
crazy with fear at that
point, because he knows what's coming, and he
essentially starts to hallucinate.  

I
saw, too, for a few moments of delirious horror, the soft and
nearly
imperceptible waving of the sable draperies which enwrapped the walls of the
apartment.
And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the
table. At first they wore the
aspect...

What are some dystopian elements in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go?

Some of
the key dystopian elements in are lack of individualism (with the
corollary of lack of choice), the prevalence of illness, and the failure of the educational
system.

A dystopia is a society that has deviated from its utopian
aspirations, turning the positive features into negative ones. The people who control England in
the future, asdepicts it, see themselves as individuals; each of them makes a choice to have
clones created so that they have a supply of body parts to replace theirs when the parts fail.
In order to achieve these perfect individual matches, however, each person must duplicate
themself and could conceivably create multiple copies. Their very effort to maintain their own
individuality has been doomed through this exact replication.

For the
clones, the lack of individualism extends to their lack of choice. As their originals do not
consider them human, they have no say in what will become of them. The choices that the original
humans make...

Howmight the man with the staff whom Young Goodman Brown meets in the woods equate with a Freudian psycholanalyst?

This is
a great question.

The detail in your question ("the man with the
staff") makes me think of the famous photographs of Freud with his cigar (see the second
source for one such image). Both staff and cigar serve as a characterizing feature somehow and
suggest a sort of phallic authority or mastery or, at the very least, a tool of self-discovery.
The man with the staff in Hawthorne's story, after all, makes a second walking stick out of a
maple branch and tosses it to

What are some of Benvolio's character traits in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

is a pacifist, spending
the first part of the first scene trying to mediate a conflict between the Capulets and
Montagues. When he walks into the conflict, he says, "Part, fools! / Put up your swords.
You know not what you do" (1.1.65-66). He immediately tries to de-escalate the tension,
tellingthat he's only trying to keep the peace. He then asks for Tybalt's help to prevent
further fighting (which, of course, Tybalt doesn't give). Benvolio seems reasonable and good,
especially when compared to Tybalt. Later in the scene, we see that Benvolio is caring and
compassionate. This is likely whyasks him to find out what's going on with ; Romeo's father must
have some sense that Benvolio is trustworthy and kind, traits that would encourage his son to
open up.

Further, Benvolio is honest and trustworthy. After Romeo kills
Tybalt, Romeo runs away from the scene in order to protect himself.arrives, and he asks Benvolio
for the truth of what has occurred. Benvolio describes, "Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's
hand did slay" (3.1.160); he doesn't attempt to lie and cover up his cousin's crime.
Although he tries to protect Romeo as much as he can (by encouraging Romeo to run away and
hide), he will not lie to the Prince either.

In the ending of the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it says that the angel is an imaginary dot on the horizon...

The nature of the angel
in the story is
ambiguous. By referring to the angel as "an imaginary dot," the author
could
be suggesting that the angel was a figment of the imagination. However, the author
could
also mean that Elisenda keeps watching the angel flapping away until
she can no longer see him,
not even the faintest trace of him, but she
imagines that she does.

The
story is written in the style
of magical. This literary style combines realistic and surreal
elements. The
angel is presented in a kind of matter-of-fact, even mundane way in the course
of
the story. In fact, he has ragged wings that are missing half of their
feathers, and he seems
far from being an angel of
myth....

What are the disadvantages of there being too much liquidity in a business?

There are very
few disadvantages to liquidity per se, but in practice (and in a
competitive financial market) there are downsides that more liquid assets (such as money) have
over less liquid assets (such as factories).

The most important one is
return, or lack thereof; more liquid assets usually don't pay very much
interest, and are usually not the sort of thing that directly earns revenue by itself. If you
keep your wealth in cash instead of investing it, you bear the opportunity cost
of the return you could have made on those investments.

There are
also often differences in how different assets are taxed; often more liquid assets are taxed
higher than less liquid assets in an effort to incentivize investment.

In
businesses specifically, excess liquidity is generally a sign that the company is being too
risk-averse, and failing to invest in new ventures such as research that carry risk but can also
yield great rewards. Cash is a safe asset (not perfectly safe, since there is inflation and
currency exchange to worry about, but safer than most other assets), but in part because of this
it actually yields a negative real return (due to inflation). Businesses often liquidate their
assets and hold cash during recessions, because they fear the future; but this actually tends to
exacerbate recessions by taking productive assets out of use and pulling cash out of
circulation.

Wise business managers maintain a balance, keeping some
liquidity in case they need it but not so much that they sacrifice the opportunity for
investment returns.

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Compare and contrast Ralph Ellison's view of the South in "Battle Royal" with William Faulkner's in "A Rose for Emily."

William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and 's "," a
chapter from his novel  that is also sometimes excerpted as a short story
in literary anthologies, are both set in the South in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. The
characters, circumstances, and narrative voices are all quite different, but both share the
Southern setting and the theme of racial relations in the South. 

Faulkner's
"A Rose for Emily" describes a town legend named Miss Emily Grierson whose family was
once important, rich, and powerful in the Mississippi community in which the story is set. The
narrative voice is the voice of the town itself, a gossipy perspective that gets all of its
information from outside observation, rumor, and town history. The narrator does not actually
know Emily; they are not friends and probably not even acquaintances. However, because of the
Griersons' reputation, the town pays attention to Emily's life from the time she is a young
woman...

Why Is Government Necessary

Government is necessary because human beings
aren't angels. Almost everyone is a mixture of good and bad, and, one could argue, it's the bad
side of human nature that needs to be restrained by the power of government. Otherwise, there'd
be complete anarchy, with the strong dominating the weak, the evil exploiting the good, and a
regression to the kind of primitive existence led by humans in their prehistoric state. Without
government, everyone would be able to do as they pleased, with potentially disastrous
consequences.

Government is also needed to arrange the life of a community
along strategic lines. Even the smallest community needs to plan for the future. But, as
everyone tends to be concerned with their own business, it's impossible for individuals, either
alone or in small groups, to develop the kind of strategic overview necessary to plan ahead for
vital social needs such as transportation infrastructure, national defense, and disease control.
Only government, in whatever shape or form it takes, has the ability to do this.

Additionally, only government can carry out certain functions whose fulfillment is a
necessary precondition for the operation of any society worthy of the name. As well as national
defense, which we've already mentioned, governments exist to provide a system of justice, as
well as a police force capable (at least in theory) of maintaining order and stability through
fighting crime.

Did Napoleon preserve the French Revolution or did he destroy it?

This is one
of the great questions on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, and a subject of
considerable debate (and you can probably make a case for either side of it). Of course, it
should also be noted that the French Revolution was itself extremely tumultuous. When speaking
of the principles of the Revolution, it might be worth asking: which Revolution? After all, the
Revolution was a continuously evolving drama: the Revolution of 1789 was radically different
than the Revolution of the Terror, which itself was followed by the Thermidoreans... The French
Revolution itself tends to be very, very complicated. It defies easy classification.

I'd suggest the same can be said of Napoleon. On the one hand, he represented the
restoration of autocracy and class distinction (and this included the return of noble titles),
and yet, this Napoleonic nobility was different in certain key respects than the nobility of the
Old Regime. As historian John Merriman points out:

Between 1808 and...

In "A Christmas Carol", what reason does Scrooge give for not joining his nephew at Christmas?

First, Scrooge
basically says that he does not like Christmas, and so he has no desire to celebrate it. He
describes it as the following:

"a time for paying
bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time
for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented
dead against you."

In other words, Scrooge seems to
feel that this is a time not only when people are financially irresponsible, spending money they
do not have, but also, by extension, that this is a generally unprofitable time for individuals
in general. Scrooge values money, and Christmas, to him, is just a time to spend money, so he
does not like it. He does not place value on family, relationships, compassion, love, and so
forth, and these things might compel him to go to Fred's house; he only values wealth, and
Christmas depletes it, so...

In Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus said, ''You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until...

Following 's rough first day of school in chapter three,teaches her an important lesson
on perspective and encourages her to view situations from other people's point of view in order
to better understand them. Scout eventually follows her father's advice and exercises
perspective throughout the novel, but she neglects his lesson in the following
chapter.

In chapter four,creates a game entitled "One Man's
Family," where they reenact's life story in their front yard. Scout is reluctant to play
the game because she fears that Boo will murder them at night, but she eventually participates
by playing the role of Mrs. Radley. One day, Atticus comes home and catches the children playing
the game. The fact that Scout does not take into consideration Boo Radley's feelings and
unknowingly contributes to the negative, unfair rumors surrounding him illustrates that she does
not follow her father's advice and exercise perspective. If Scout were to follow her father's
advice,...

Is O'Connor trying to make a point about formal education through the story "Good Country People"? Explain your thoughts by using support from the...

Hulga Hopewell has a PhD in philosophy and
reads books so abstruse and technical that her mother regards them as "some evil
incantation in gibberish." However, she is easily deceived and robbed by the Bible-salesman
calling himself Manley Pointer (an obviously fake name which she does not question) who seems to
share her nihilist philosophy. Hulga boasts: "I don't have illusions. I'm one of those
people who see through to nothing." Manley, however, later responds to this by pointing out
that a nihilistic outlook can be arrived at without a PhD in philosophy: "I been believing
in nothing ever since I was born!"

The story ends with Mrs. Hopewell and
Mrs. Freemanwho have also been deceived by Pointer's apparent piety but have not lost anything
by it. Hulga has lost her leg and her dignity. Her reproach to Pointer that he is not acting
like a Christian suggests that, after all, her atheism and nihilism do not go very deep, since
she still expects Christianity to be a guarantee of good behavior. While her education may have
provided her with some impressive theories, it has not helped her to attain the truth or even,
apparently, fully replaced the world-view she was taught as a child.

In Animal Farm, what makes the Battle of the Windmill against Frederick's men seem different from the Battle of Cowshed?

The spirit
of the animals has grown grimmer and more despondent since the early days of the Battle of
Cowshed. The animals have had to build the windmill twice, since the first time it fell down,
and the loyal Clover has to mask her discontent by singing the "Beasts of England"
song when it occurs to her that a regime of hard toil and public executions was not what she had
envisioned when the animals first dreamed of owning the farm. Right before the battle,sold their
timber to humans for cash, an act violating the principles of animalism. By the time of the
Battle of the Windmill, the animals are tired and the early euphoria of their revolt has worn
off. Napoleon's only plan for defense, apparently, is to hope Pilkington and his men will help
them out, but Pilkington instead sends him a note saying "serves you right." The
animals are routed, retreating to farm buildings, until the humans dynamite the windmill. That
act rouses them to fury and they then drive the humans out. A difference showing how attitudes
have hardened is revealed whendeliberately breaks the heads of three humans with his hoofs and
doesn't mourn this, whereas he had been distressed when he accidentally killed a farmhand in the
long-ago Battle of Cowshed. The animals instinctively know they have lost this later battle
because of the destruction of the windmill. Even Boxer, realizing he is 11 and not as young as
he used to be, wonders if his muscles have what it takes to rebuild. (He nevertheless
"braced himself for the task.") Whenannounces the battle a great victory and Napoleon
orders a celebration, however, the animals succumb to the propaganda and begin to change their
thoughts.

How do you fight the Black Thing in the book A Wrinkle in Time?

You fight the Black Thing with love.

The Black Thing is a manifestation of evil.  It overshadows Earth and other planets in
the universe, and it currently has Megs father captive on the planet Camazotz in the form of
IT.  IT is a bodiless brain who controls the entire planet, where everyone is in lockstep and
lives in fear of not conforming.  When Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which take the children
there, Charles Wallace falls under ITs spell, and now Meg has a problem.  Her father and her
brother both have been taken captiveone literally, and one mentally.

Meg is
able to get her father free using a trick (Mrs. Whos glasses) and her knowledge of science. She
uses her unique way of looking at the world and her love for her father.  She compares it to a
rice curtain at a beach house.

At first Meg had flinched
each time she came up to the curtain; but gradually she got used to it and would go running
right through, leaving the long strands of rice swinging...

What are some clues that Charles is actually Laurie in the story "Charles?"

Elizabeth Stover, M.A.

The author included some clues in the story that help the reader to believe that maybe
Laurie andare the same person. For example, on the first page of the story, Laurie speaks to his
parents about Charles however he is not looking at them, he is instead "addressing his
bread and butter." When his parent's ask about the boy's name, the author states that
Laurie has to think about it for a few minutes...

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According to Henry Evans in "I Was Trapped in My Own Body," who among us can reasonably be defined as disabled?

Henry Evans remarks that From a distance
all humans are disabled. He goes on to explain that we have adapted to our environment through
evolution and that the capabilities we have developed in this way are obviously limited. The
examples he gives are that we are unable to run faster than about twenty-five miles an hour; we
cannot fly; we cannot stay underwater forever (or even for very long), nor can we be in more
than one place at the same time. All these are limitations which could be seen as disabilities,
since they are things we are unable to do.

Of course, we are able to do many
of these things by using assistive devices. It is easy enough to travel at a rate of more than
twenty-five miles an hour using a car, or to fly in an airplane, or to stay underwater for long
periods using a submarine or diving equipment, or to simulate the effects of being in two places
at once using technology such as a video link. Evanss point is that we all use assistive devices
to overcome our disabilities and that we should remember this when we see and interact with
people who are conventionally regarded as disabled but in fact merely have one or two more, or
different, disabilities than the rest of us.

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In the poem "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, what images or metaphors are at work to convey the speaker's feeling about the death of animals?

A meditative
lyric, "" bydisplays what critic Lloyd Scwartz terms ut picture
poesis.  That is, the use of Nature is like art, as in a painting or in a poem, and
Nature speaks to the viewer or reader. Elizabeth Bishop's descriptive images of the fish urges
others to read the world around them.

In her efforts to have readers
interpret the world around them, Bishop's poem has a connectiveness of the image to a word,
creating a narrative, then, that exists outside the art. For instance, after the speaker has
caught the "venerable" and "tremendous fish," Bishop employs color images in
describing the"ancient wallpaper" with its patterns of dark brown, 

shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost throught
age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and
infested with tiny white sea-lice.

Further the images of
the gill "fresh and crisp with blood,"  and the

dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails

indicate the fish's struggle with death. The fish, perhaps a Muskie, is a large fish
who has escaped capture many times as the speaker notes the "five old pieces of
fish-line" that hang from hooks that have grown into his mouth. That this old fish has
beaten five other fisherman causes the speaker to revere the fish. She "stares" and,
in a beautifulobserves, "victory filled up the little rented boat." Looking in the
hull of the boat where oil has spilt and "spread a rainbow [metaphor for the image], the
speaker perceives everything as "rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!"

With
this philosophical epiphany, the speaker realizes the wisdom of revering life, especially the
life of one who has struggled to live and endure. So, with respect for the fish who has won five
previous battles she throws him back into the lake. Clearly, Elizabeth Bishop's verse is deeply
sympathetic to Nature: Beauty--"rainbow, rainbow, rainbow"--has emerged from
destruction. "I let the fish go" becomes, then, a metaphor for renewal of life because
the speaker renews life in the act of throwing the fish back, an act of reverence. The act of
reverence, then, becomes victory both for the fish and the speaker.

Johnny Rogers misread the manual for operating a guard on a saw and did not see his co-worker cutting into his hand. Can Johnny Rogers recover under...

Under
worker's compensation, Johnny will not be eligible for recovery compensation due to his injury,
so long as the company can prove he was using the saw incorrectly. Worker's compensation is
reserved for employees who, while performing their duties as assigned, are injured otherwise
compromised, or if the company refuses to pay for something. For example, if the company refuses
to pay for medical bills for work-related injuries that the employee received while performing
their duties correctly, worker's compensation would provide for them. Or, worker's compensation
can be used strictly as the means to pay for those expenses by the company.

However, if an employee is improperly using equipment, gets injured doing something
unrelated to their position or duties, or is injured outside of work, worker's compensation does
not apply. Because of this, Johnny has no legal ground on which to stand for receiving worker's
compensation. Unfortunately, it is Johnny's fault that he injured himself, because he misread
the instructions and was using the saw improperly. If he was unsure of how to operate it, he
should have asked for help or further instruction, but regardless, if he failed to perform his
job duties as assigned, he is not eligible for worker's compensation.

Now, it
is still possible that the company will pay for his medical bills or help him out with the costs
that he will incur, without going through worker's compensation. Many companies have additional
insurance and funds available for situations such as this, and can help when an employee injures
themselves through negligence or improper action. Now, there will still likely be some form of
averse action to Johnny because of his negligenceperhaps termination or probation, but he may
receive aid with his medical bills. Additionally, many employees have Accident Insurance
separately for their work. Often times these insurance policies will cover the gaps in their
regular insurance and help them defray some of the costs of treatment.

Upon their return from church, who was waiting for them on the front porch?

This
incident happens right at the end of part 2, , in . The children have just
returned from Calpurnia's church. When they arrive at their home, they find Aunt
Alexandra sitting on the rocking chair on their front porch, with her
luggage....

The color yellow appears throughout the book Fever 1793. What do you think it symbolizes?

Honestly? I
think it isn't intended as symbolic a lot of the time. I think that whenever it is used in
reference to yellow fever, it is literal. That's for the most part. It refers to the way the
fever makes the skin jaundiced. However, once the idea of the fever is introduced, the color
yellow takes on a host of symbolic meanings. The yellow fever plague was devastating, and so
itand the death that followedseemed to be everyone. Yellow came to symbolize death, suffering,
fear, helplessness, hopelessness€¦

Greg

Describe Gregor Samsa's relationship with his mother before and after the change?

caroline-harrison dir="ltr">As abruptly begins with Gregors transformation, it
is a bit difficult to discern exactly what his relationship with his mother was like prior to
the transformation. We know that Gregor has, until this point, been the primary breadwinner for
the family. His mother, like the rest of his family, was initially grateful for his financial
assistance but has now come to expect it.

dir="ltr">They had become quite accustomed to it, both the family and Gregor as
well. They took the money with thanks, and he happily surrendered it, but the special warmth was
no longer present. (Part I)

Despite
this, Gregors mother appears to care about her son when the novella opens. Unaware that he has
transformed into a giant bug, she gently reminds him not to be late in leaving for work. When
his manager comes to inquire about why Gregor is not at work, his mother defends Gregors
dedication to his job, demonstrating that she understands the degree to which he has sacrificed
his personal life...

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How did the opposition from legislative power, conservatives, and congressmen determine the failure of 1993 healthcare reform?

The Health
Security Act was President Bill Clinton's initiative for national healthcare reform. A major
thrust of his 1992 presidential campaign, it was a cornerstone of his domestic policy. Its
defeat in 1994 was a major setback for his administration.

The contents of
the law itself were the result of a national task force publicly led by the First Lady, Hillary
Clinton. It was introduced in Congress in late 1993. As one political scientist has written, the
causes of the collapse of the Clinton "lurked in the electoral upheavals of November
1994." The massive Republican victories in these midterm elections reflected a general
sense that the federal government under Clinton had become bloated and ineffective, pursuing
expensive initiatives that led to gridlock in Washington.

This critique
emerged in the debates over the plan. Conservative Republicans in the House of
Representativesmost famously Georgia congressman Newt Gingrichsuccessfully portrayed Clinton's
plan as ineffective, complicated, and above all, a massive overreach from the federal
government. It mobilized right-wing voters, including conservative media outlets that gave voice
to a libertarian-leaning faction in the Republican Party. They capitalized on the First Lady's
unpopularity by characterizing the plan as "Hillarycare." Less remembered is the
fairly tepid support the plan received from Democrats in Congress, many of whom sought to alter
the bill before giving it their support. Some even introduced modified or even rival plans that
muddied the waters in the congressional debates.

With low popular support,
and massive Republican opposition, the bill failed in the Senate, which declined to even bring
it to a vote, in the early fall of 1994. Ominously for the Democrats, it created anin which
Republicans, touting a "Contract with America," could win both houses of Congress in
the November elections.

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Based on this video on Travelocity, think about what consumers want from online travel services providers. What are five criteria that you think are...

Travelocity's focus group information architecture usability analysis showed that what
its customers want is an uncomplicated, unconfusing, simplified experience shopping for and
purchasing travel packages. As a result, Travelocity modified their online purchasing program to
be password-free for those who forget their passwords.

Travelocity's
partnership with AARP opened a door for offline direct mail, a marketing avenue Travelocity
wouldn't have engaged otherwise because their customers want online experiences, while AARP's
want offline experiences. 

Travelocity developed a control group of
customers that received no emails so other groups could be tested with variable kinds of emails.
They found, because...

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What is the role of relationships and intimacy in 1984? What specific function does the Party's directive on sexual interaction serve?

Relationships and sexual intimacy are anathema to the Party. The Party wants to keep
Party members sexually frustrated, isolated, and entirely devoted to the state. It wants its
people to experience only the emotions of hate, anger, fear, and triumph. As we learn from 's
ruminations, the Party also wants to characterize sexual intimacy solely as "duty" for
the Party; in other words, sex is simply a way to have children and is entirely devoid of any
other nurturing function.

Winston's relationship withis therefore key to the
novel, for it is through this relationship that he becomes fully human. Before he falls in love
with Julia, he sees her from afarand is sexually attracted to herbut he sees her wearing the red
chastity sash and has emotions of anger towards her. He imagines hurting and killing her. The
Party has successfully filled him with violent hate. After he enters...

Please discuss the influence of environment in Lord of the Flies. I know environment has a great effect on the boys, so does it mean that humans have...

Golding is
asserting in the novel that an innate evil lies buried in almost all humans. It is not
environment in terms of the boys being stranded on a tropical island that unleashes the evil
innate within them, but environment in the sense of the absence of civilizing institutions with
the power to restrain their atavistic impulses.

The novel, published in
1953, is a reflection on the evil that was unleashed under Hitler during the Nazi era. It would
not have been lost on readers at that time thatorganizing the boys into frenzied and warlike
rituals was similar to Nazi nighttime torch lit...

What is the social function of Things Fall Apart?

Published
in 1958, 's came at a critical time. In the United States, the civil
rights movement had come into full swing: people were protesting, demanding constitutional and
legal rights for African Americans to match those held by whites in America. Meanwhile, at
home,...

How does Jack manipulate the boys in "Lord of the Flies"?

plays
emotion in order to manipulate the
boys. andrepresent reason in the story, and try to reason
with the boys by
explaining the "truths", as they see them - the importance of the
fire, the
unlikeliness of the beast, etc..  However, Jack, as the symbol of emotion and

instinct, is ultimately more effective in the end, as we see in the breakdown of
civilization
upon the island.

The two emotions that Jack
focuses on the most are
excitement and fear.  The first he uses is
excitement.  He leads his choir boys into a hunting
party because hunting is
fun and exiciting.  It is primal, and it makes the heart pump.  The
boys
relish the adrenaline.  Even Ralph is pulled in by the excitment of the hunt.  After
he
hits the pig with the spear, he gets so caught up in the excitment that he
boasts:

"I hit him all right. The spear
stuck in. I wounded him."
 He sunned himself in their new respect and felt
that hunting was good after all.

In
the end, the boys turn the hunt into a play, and use Robert as
the "pig."  It
is this that eventually turns Ralph off, because he notices in himself
his
own desire to get at Robert, who ends up crying and hurt.  However, in all, the boys
are
enjoying their "games" and will remain loyal to jack for the
excitment.

Back at camp, Jack uses the emotion of fear as
a manipulation technique.  When Ralph
tries to emphasize the need for the
fire, Jack plays up the horror of the "beast" to
insist that there needs to
be more focus on hunting and less on the fire.  He scares the
littleuns into
hysterics, and Ralph loses control of the meeting, as Jack had

planned.

Who is Lanyon in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson?

Dr. Lanyon
is Mr. Utterson's oldest friend. The two went to school and to college together. They both like
and respect one another. Dr. Lanyon is described as friendly, good-hearted, and boisterous, with
a red face and white hair. He looks healthy and hardy.

Since both Dr. Lanyon
and Mr....

What is Gladwell's overall message about success?

Queen Langosh

Gladwell's overall message about success is described early in the book, where he says
that to understand how very successful people (i.e., "outliers") become successful, we
have to look outside the person themselves, at "the culture he or she is a part of . . .
who their families were, and what towns their families come from." We "have to
appreciate the idea that the values of the culture we inhabit and the people we surround
ourselves have a profound effect on who we are." In the context of success, this means that
successful people "don't rise from nothing." Their surroundings are as central to
their success as their hard work, intelligence, and other characteristics we traditionally
associate with very successful people, especially in the United States.

What
we should be asking when we look at the very successful is not what they are like, but rather
"where they are from." Hard work, intelligence, skill, and other factors are essential
to the success of these "outliers," and he...

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In The Odyssey, what are some examples that prove that Odysseus is arrogant? I already have the part of when Odysseus yells his name to the Cyclops.

One could
reasonably argue that Odysseus shows arrogance in wanting to hear the song of the Sirens, those
strange creatures who lure sailors to their deaths against the rocks of their island. The
Sirens' song is renowned for its extraordinary beauty, which is why so many sailors cannot
resist its beguiling charm. Odysseus doesn't want his men to suffer a similar fate, which is why
he insists that they plug up their ears with beeswax when they sail past the Sirens'
island.

As for Odysseus, and this is where his arrogance comes into the
picture, he won't block out the Sirens' song; he's going to listen to it. He wants to be able to
say that he's heard their song and yet lived to tell the tale. So he orders his men to strap him
to the mast as the Sirens do their thing. No matter how much Odysseus begs his men to set him
free as he undergoes the exquisite torture of listening to the song that ravishes his ears with
its heavenly beauty, they must ignore him.

Odysseus didn't really need to
listen to the Sirens' song. As with the case of insulting the Cyclops Polyphemus and revealing
his name, he was overcome with pride, the kind of pride that only a great warrior-king can
display.

In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, does Monsieur Loisel long for status as desperately as his wife does?

Monsieur Loisel
definitely does not long for status as his wife, Madame Loisel, does.When the couple sits down
to dinner together, he uncovers the soup and declares "with an enchanted air" that
there is nothing better than that.Madame is bothered by the three day-old tablecloth and the
mundane quality of the food, but her husband is delighted with it.When Monsieur
Loisel...

What is Faulkner's Nobel Prize winning literary work ?

The Nobel Prize for
literature is given for a body of work, not a single work, however, the Pulitzer Prize for
literature is given yearly for a single work.

Faulkner won the Pulitzer late
in his career for two novels: and . Neither of these
is considered to be one of his masterpieces.

How do "Gilgamesh" and Mesopotamian art reflect the same worldview?

There are many
ways in which The Epic of Gilgamesh and Mesopotamian art reflect the same worldview. First,
there are artistic representations of scenes from the epic itself. Second, many of the gods who
play parts in the epic appear in Mesopotamian art, interacting with heroes and rulers as they do
in the epic. Third, some of the cultural values that appear in the epic can be found reflected
in pieces of Mesopotamian art.

An example of the first kind is href="https://collections.mfa.org/objects/163908">this cylinder seal,
which depicts Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting the Bull of Heaven in Tablet VI of the Epic of
Gilgamesh. Cylinder seals were small carved cylinders that ancient Mesopotamians rolled over
their correspondence and other documents to make a kind of signature. They often were carved
with pictures of deities, heroes, and other important images. That this scene was found on a
cylinder seal shows that the Epic of Gilgamesh was well-known among the people of ancient
Mesopotamia.

Examples of the second type are found in art containing the many
gods and goddesses that appear in the epic, such as the two images of Ishtar on this page.
Ishtar (called Inana by the Sumerians) proposes marriage to Gilgamesh in Tablet VI of the epic,
but he denies her. As a result, she flies into a rage and unleashes the terrifying Bull of
Heaven on the city of Uruk. Ishtar a very prominent goddess in Mesopotamia, worshipped by many.
She was associated with love and lovemaking, but was also volatile and violent. Thus, her role
in the Epic of Gilgamesh matches images of her in contexts that are either erotic or
violent.

The third kind is found in many types of art. For example,
Gilgamesh's heroism, bravery, and dominance are praised throughout the epic, especially just
after the introduction in Tablet I and in the journey to the Cedar Forest in Tablets III-V. It
was very common for Mesopotamian kings to praise their own valor and might, and to decorate
their palaces with pictures of their conquests. These wall reliefs from the palace of
Ashurbanipal show him hunting lions and besieging the ancient Israelite city of
Lachish.

How did South Carolina's response to the 1832 tariff foreshadow secessionist sentiments?

In the 1830s,
South Carolina responded to the
tariff in two ways.  First, they asserted that they (and other
states) had
the right to nullify laws made by the national government.  Second, they
threatened
to secede from the Union.  Both of these foreshadowed what they
would do in 1860.

By saying that states had the right to
nullify federal laws, South Carolina was
essentially saying that the states
were sovereign.  They were saying that states could pick and
choose which
federal laws they would obey.   This really is the next thing to saying that
the
states can withdraw from the Union whenever they wish.  In additon, South
Carolina threatened to
withdraw from the Union if the federal government
tried to collect the tariff by force.  This is
much more explicitly a
movement towards secession.

Overall, South Carolina's

actions in the tariff/nullification controversy foreshadowed what it would do in 1860
because it
was asserting the idea that it was a sovereign state that could
choose to obey or disobey the
national government as it wished.

 

What dramatic elements emerge at the beginning of act 4, scene 3 of Macbeth?

The
dramatic elements that emerge in act 4, scene 3 are those of focus and tension.is being built up
as a suitable foil forand the ultimate adversary to face off against him in the play's .
Macduff, despite 's dreary hopelessness, speaks and thinks only of his hatred forand his
ultimate desire to see him dethroned, restoring honor and tranquility to Scotland. This is where
focus comes in. Macduff's character is being built as the pureto Macbeth. He is honorable and
selfless, and he cares deeply for the common people of his country.

Tension
comes in after Macduff listens to Malcolm'sin which he pretends to be depraved and lascivious.
Macduff passes the test: he says that Malcolm is not fit to rule if he is as evil as he says he
is. Satisfied with Macduff's commitment to the good of Scotland, Malcolm pledges himself to
Macduff's cause and even asserts that he has an army ready to do battle with Macbeth in one
final showdown. This is the...

How does Lyddie respond to her injury in Lyddie?

does not want to stop working
even after she gets hurt.

Factory work is a dangerous
business. Lyddie is very good at her job, but even someone like Lyddie can get tired and
careless. When this happens, the results can be deadly. Lyddie was hit in the head with a
shuttle one day. Although she did not die, it was a serious accident and she was badly
hurt.

Before she could think she was on the floor, blood
pouring through the hair near her right temple . . . the shuttle, the blasted shuttle. She tried
to rise, she needed to stop the loom, but Diana got there almost at once €¦ (Ch. 13)

Even though Lyddie has been hurt, she does not want to go home
because it is not quitting time. Money is very important to Lyddie. Although she is probably
partially in shock, she is also just a very dedicated worker. Even with the speed up, Lyddie
maintained her focus and managed four machines at once. She was one of the best
workers.

Even when injured, Lyddie thinks about money. She does not want
Diana to use her apron on the bleeding wound.

"How
about your stomach? Do you feel sick?" Lyddie shook her head, then stopped. Any movement
seemed to make the pain worse.

There was a sound of ripping cloth at Lyddie's
ear. She opened her eyes.

"Your apron," Lyddie said.
"Don't€" Aprons cost money. (Ch. 13)

Lyddie is
troubled by the incident. Diana takes her to her doctor friend. Lyddie is just happy that the
doctor does not charge her for the visit.

The pain is terrible. Lyddie wishes
she had some kind of painkiller. It is even hard to lie down, because it makes her head throb.
After the incident, Lyddie goes back to work and works as hard as ever.

What do you think of Eveline's father? Is he a good father? What examples support the argument?

's father
falls into the stereotype of a drunk. Not only is he is a drunkard, but he is also abusive to
his children, perhaps retaliating against them for his misery because of the death of their
mother. 

In his anthology of short stories about the residents of
Dublin,writes of the stultifying effects of the Catholic Church and the rule of the English (who
displaced many Irish in their economic positions), and, especially, the lower-middle-class
desperation in the crowded streets of Ireland's capital. Eveline's father probably joins other
men in the pubs in their grievance and resentment against the colonial government and their own
personally disappointing positions in life. Full of this resentment and drink, he returns home
and makes the children the target of his wrath and frustration.

The idea of
what Joyce viewed as paralysis drives the narrative of "Eveline." 

She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her
head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne.
She was tired.

Further, as Eveline contemplates marrying
Frank and moving away, she feels that

People would treat
her with respect then....She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now....she
sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence.

There is a clear reference to physical abuse. In addition, the father is
psychologically abusive. Eveline works as a shop girl and hands over her entire earnings of
seven shillings to her father, who refuses to give her any of it for her pleasure on a Saturday
night, telling her she squanders her money, and he is not going to "give her his
hard-earned money to throw about the streets."

Yet, despite the abuse,
Eveline cannot bring herself to really leave her family. While she is worried for her little
brother, who will bear the brunt of the abuse if she departs, Eveline also demonstrates the
pattern of many abused women in her paralysis as she finds the assertion of psychological
freedom impossible.

Why is the term Classic used to describe the musical style of the last half of the eighteenth century? Compare the lives of Mozart and Haydn in...

1. The term
"Classic" is used to delineate that the music is as an object, a
design in sound. That is, the listener's attention should not be focused upon the composer's
expression, but rather upon the music as a design in sound. For instance, if one listens to an
earlier symphony of Haydn, he is drawn to the balanced form, the elegance of its construction,
and its beautiful clarity, all of which stand apart from the composer that created it.

2. (A) Mozart, whose popularity endures to this day, was a child prodigy who began
composing at the age of five. From 1773-1777 he was employed by the Salzburg court, but his
salary was extremely low. He had much success with piano concertos, but he desired to compose
operas for which there was little demand in Salzburg. He went to Paris, but moved on to Vienna
where his opera Idomeneo  met with considerable success. His
employer, Archbishop Colloredo, did not treat Mozart well, either. When Mozart wanted to resign,
he was refused; shortly...

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