In chapter 4 of "Lord of the Flies", when Ralph is mad at Jack for letting the fire go out, Simon says that he is afraid. Why is he afraid?

does not say that he is
afraid, the narration says that he "...looked now, fromto , ..., and what he say made him
afraid."  Simon is the first one in the story to realize that the biggest fear the boys
have is of their inner savagery.  He realizes it is no outside beast who will bring them down;
it is themselves that will bring them down.  He sees the anger on Ralph's face and the brutality
on Jack's painted face.  He seems to sense that these two boys represent the opposing forces on
the island and that the brutal, savage force (Jack) will win.  Jack has painted his face for the
first time, giving him a mask to hide behind as much as a mask to hide him from the pig. Simon
has a good sense of right and justice, which is why he gives his portion of meat toat the end of
the chapter.  This sense of right tells him that Ralph is right regarding the need for fire, but
it also tells him that the boys are beginning to fall apart; that the savage force is beginning
to take over.  He especially sees that in Jack, though he also understands the need for food
that Jack provides.

In the short story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson, why were Laurie's parents looking forward to meeting the kindergarten teacher?

Lauries parents were looking

forward to meeting his teacher so that they could find out more about
.

Laurie did not adjust well to
kindergarten.  He was a spoiled child, and the rules and
order of school did
not suit him.  He came from school each day complaining about a classmate

named Charles who got into a lot of trouble.  Laurie and his parents thought that
Charles was a
lot of fun.

Well, he
said, Charles was bad again
today. He grinned. Today Charles hit the teacher,
he said.

Good heavens,
I said. I suppose he got spanked
again?

He sure did, Laurie
said.

As Laurie continues to come home day after day
and
describe the horrible things Charles does, his parents are curious but
not overly concerned. 
After all, their son is no angel.  He talks back,
harasses the baby, and generally wreaks
havoc.

When the
night of the Parent-Teachers meeting comes, Lauries mother
stays home because
the baby is sick.  As a result, she does not get to meet Lauries teacher. 

She continues to listen to his reports about Charles, the scourge of the
kindergarten.

When Lauries mother finally makes it to the
PTA meeting, she looks for any woman who
might be Charless mother and then
seeks out the kindergarten teacher.  The teacher is polite and
they discuss
Laurie.

Hes had some trouble getting
used
to school, she said. But I think hell be all right.

Lauries mother asks about Charles, and learns
that there is no
Charles.  Then she realizes the truth. 
Charles is not real.  Her son made him up.  Everything
that he has described
has been his own behavior.

Of course, it is truly
ironic
that Lauries mother is so judgmental when, overwhelmed with a baby, she has not
really
been paying attention.  Both of Lauries parents have let his behavior
go, when they should have
realized that it would have an effect on his school
life.  Charles was his way of telling them
that he needed help, and they
missed it completely.

 

 

Can we compare Jackson's "The Lottery" to Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" in terms of theme?

Shirley
Jackson's short story "The Lottery" and 's short story "" do share a
similarity in theme, particularly in terms of questioning the Status Quo, and the tolerance of
counterproductive social practices for the sake of obedience. There is also a similarity in that
both stories show two very homogeneous societies that aim to maintain their unity through common
practices that lead more to cause fear than to lead towards change. Furthermore, in the process
of maintaining these traditions, both societies remain stagnant.   

In
"The Lottery" we find a village which is blinded by the fact that they have maintained
an old practice without even questioning its purpose, nor its rationale. The practice, which is
to carry out a lottery in which the "winner" will be stoned to death, is narrated in
the story as an everyday occurrence that, to this day, nobody has ever questioned- even as
morbid and inhumane as it is.

The people of the village
began to gather...

What are the common features of religion?

There are
many different organizational frameworks for identifying common features of religion. Emile
Durkheim offered a sociological theory of religion. In this view, the salient common feature of
religious experience is its ability to bind people to each other; through shared rituals, shared
values, and shared transformative spiritual experiences. The result is that individuals come to
view themselves not just as a collection of people, but as a group; a unit; a
community.

A more contemporary model is that of Mindfulness Meditation
teacher Shinzen Young. According to Young's view, religion contains a dual set of practices. One
the one hand, religion contains practices that help a person go beyond self
and the world (or see beyond). At the same time, religion also contains practices that help a
person to improve self and world. Practices that help a person go beyond self
and world are, for example: prayer, mystical practices, rituals. Practices that help a person
improve self and the world are, for example: charity, discipline, and loving kindness.

In this view, self-help or self-development alone is not a religious practice, since
(traditionally) psychological self-help contains no practices of seeing
beyond self and world. Likewise, devotion to taking certain consciousness-enhancing
psychedelic drugs doesn't count as religion because, while such drugs may help a person see
beyond self/world, they do nothing for helping a person improve
self/world.

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What is the main point of "Eveline" by James Joyce? What does Joyce do to make this point?

As
usual, it's difficult to pinpoint a single "point" in any work of literature. However,
if one were to talk about the point of 's "," then it would be most accurate to say
that the major point of the story is to illustrate the oppression of Irish women.

In Joyce's short story, Eveline is a young, working-class woman burdened with
hardship. Her mother and one brother have passed away, and her father has fallen into
alcoholism. Eveline...

How Is West Egg Different From East Egg

In , there
are two cities that are separated by the Valley of Ashes. These two cities are knows as East Egg
and West Egg and there are two different classes of wealth in these cities. They are new wealth
against old wealth.

East Egg has people living in it that are from old money.
They are born into money and have never known anything different. Their parents and grandparents
have all come from money.and her husband Tom are from old money and live in East Egg. The people
in East Egg are known for being well educated usually at ivy league colleges, such as Yale and
Harvard. 

The people that live in West Egg are from new money. These are
people who have worked hard and earned their own money. They haven't depended on inheriting
money and just worked hard. They  have not had ivy league educations and some of them didn't
even go to college. They just went to work. The people in East Egg are seen as corrupt and mean
spirited because they have always had money and never had to work for anything. They are more
concerned about material things. The people in West Egg are seen as less sophisticated and more
innocent about how the elite live their lives.comes from old money, but decides to live in West
Egg.

"I lived at West Egg, the- well, the less
fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a
little sinister contrast between them...Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable
East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I
drove over there to have dinner with the 's. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I'd
known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in
Chicago."

The contrast between these two cities is
great. In East Egg, the people are seen as the wealthy and the elite. In West Egg, they are
looked down upon, only because their money is new money and not old money passed down from
generation to generation.lives in West Egg. He is from new money and his house looks straight
across the water to Daisy's. He has always tried to prove that he is worthy of Daisy and he
thinks that having this money will show her that. 

The two cities represent
the vastly different lifestyles of Daisy and Jay and sets up the tragic events of the
story.

Where are pathos, logos, and ethos found in Animal Farm?

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all forms ofwith
the intention of persuasion.

Ethos is an appeal
to a person's (or, in this case, animal's) sense of ethics. The speaker tries to solidify his
position as a credible source or as an authority on the subject. A good example of ethos in
is in 's speech at the beginning of the novel:

"I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as
I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this
earth as well as any animal now living.

Here, Old Major
establishes himself as an expert on life because of his experience and wisdom. He is credible
because he has experienced so much. Therefore, he is an authority on life.

Pathos is an appeal to a person's emotions. In this form
of rhetoric, the speaker tries to appeal to emotions or uses a convincing story to build
credibility. This can be found in this excerpt:

At the
graveside,made a little speech, emphasizing the need for all animals to be ready to die for
Animal Farm if need be.

Here, Snowball is seen
appealing to the animals' sense of loyalty, duty, and honor, trying to rally their spirits by
uniting them under the cause of Animal Farm. This sense of emotional camaraderie is
pathos.

And logos is an appeal to a person's
sense of logic. In this form of rhetoric, it is common to find data: facts, statistics, graphs,
and percentages. An example of this is in :

"On
Sunday mornings , holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to the
animals lists or figures proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased
by two hundred percent, three hundred percent, or five hundred percent, as the case might
be.

In this example, the other animals have some
sense that the rhetorical appeal isn't quite right. It seems that maybe they are working harder
than they were before. But when they are faced with the data that Squealer provides, they don't
question it.

When used effectively and in
combination (as in Old Major's speech), the three forms of rhetoric have the power to really
bolster the credibility of the speaker.

In Journey to the Center of the Earth, why does Axel not want to go on the trip?

Axel does
not want to go on the trip because he is, in a word, frightened. The journey seems to him to be
fraught with danger, what with having to go inside a volcano (albeit an extinct one) and deep
underground.

Axel conveys his emotions vividly as he ineffectually attempts
to persuade his uncle Lidenbrock to turn back. However, Lidenbrock is inexorable. He is eager
and willing to take any risk in his pursuit of scientific exploration. Indeed, he behaves as
though there were no risks at all, for example when he refuses to take along enough water for
the journey, counting on underground springs to see them through. Axel is dismayed at
this:

The fears I had expressed as to the quality and
temperature of these springs, and indeed as to their existence, had been totally disregarded
(chapter 11)

Lidenbrock, then, refuses to listen to Axel,
the voice of reason. Axel is taken aback at such a dismissive attitude, and his fears are borne
out in this case when they nearly die of thirst at one point during the journey.

His uncles irresponsible attitude increases Axels qualms about the whole expedition.
However, Axel learns how to face up to his fears and sees the journey through to its
unexpectedly successful conclusion. Indeed, he, his uncle and their accompanying guide Hans all
return as heroes.  

How do Christians impact our society?

It's
difficult to underestimate the impact of Christians to "our society," by which I
assume you mean primarily US society. It's worth noting, however, that Christianity is
responsible for the modern global calendar, with the year 0 set as the year of Jesus Christ's
birth.

The first permanent European settlers in the United States, the
pilgrims, were Christian. The strict Puritan (Christian) tone they set still reverberates in
parts of the US. Due to the Christian precept of resting on Sundays, most businesses were closed
on that day until about 50 years agoand many businesses still are (notably the fast-food
restaurant Chick-Fil-A). Our Christian heritage has resulted in the words "In God We
Trust" appearing on US money, and the words "one nation, under God" in our Pledge
of Allegiance. Witnesses in US courts used to swear to tell the truth "so help you
God," while placing their hand on a Christian Bible. Nearly every United States president
has been an avowed Christian, ritually...

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Explain how women are objectified in Annabelle Lee or Ligeia in light of Poes statement, which follows. In The Philosophy of...

I am not sure if
Poe's statement in "" is an example of the sexual objectification of women.  Is Poe's
statement that the death of a beautiful woman is "the most poetical topic in the
world" equivalent to saying that a woman is merely an object to be used for a man's sexual
gratification?  Or is he saying that a beautiful woman's death is catastrophic because of the
totality of her beauty, both physical and spiritual?

In "" the
descriptions of the beauty of the narrator's lover are brief and rather unremarkable.  She is
twice referred to as "beautiful," and there is a mention of her "bright
eyes."  This hardly sounds like objectification to me.

What we do find
is a strong spiritual love between Annabel Lee and the narrator.  They loved each other
"with a love that was more than love."  Their love was so strong that the "winged
seraphs of Heaven / Coveted" them.  The love of these two youths for each other was
"stronger by far than the love / Of those who were older."

For
further information, take a look at the second link below.  You will find there a list of
factors that can be used to determine if a person is being objectified.

In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what are some specific examples of romanticism?

Romanticism often focuses on elements of the supernatural,
which is definitely a feature that appears in "."This seemingly prophetic bird knocks
at the narrator's chamber not once--but twice. First the narrator hears a tapping at his chamber
door but opens it to find only darkness. Then the tapping quickly seems to come from his window.
The raven calmly "steps" in and then perches upon a bust of Pallas. This bird tortures
the narrator, repeating the word "Nevermore" over and over as the narrator questions
him about the lost. Clearly, the raven has unearthly powers in its...

Thursday, October 26, 2017

In A Separate Peace, why is Saturday "battleship gray?"

The author's
depiction of Saturday as "battleship gray" is highly symbolic. On a literal level, it
is late winter, and the sky is, in fact, a deep, dull, overpowering gray color. Symbolically,
however, the color of the sky represents the ominous reality of the war which overshadows
everything that winter of 1943.

Earlier in the chapter, the winter sky is
described as "an empty hopeless gray," which in the context of the story reflects the
inexorable encroachment of the war on the lives of the youths at Devon. The halcyon days of
summer are over, and although Leper is the only one so far to take the initiative to actually
join the armed forces, it will not be long until the others will be swept along with the tide as
well. As the author states, "only Phineas fail(s) to see what (is) so depressing;"
doomed by his injury to be left behind when his comrades will inevitably be taken by the
military machine, he creates his own world of carefree innocence, the titular "separate
peace." For one day, the boys are swept into Phineas' version of reality, as they are
seduced into participating in his "Winter Carnival," his "choreography of
peace." Despite the merriment Phineas creates, however, the sky remains "battleship
gray;" the oppressive presence of the war will not go away. The reality of the situation is
brought home abruptly at the end of the chapter, when Gene receives an urgent telegram from
Leper. Its contents jolt the boys back to the real world, and its stormy, threatening conditions
which cannot be denied (Chapter 9).

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

What is the ruling idea of A Streetcar Named Desire?

Probably
the title says it all in this play. Williams focuses on the power of "desire," not
only in a sexual sense, but as a ruling force by which the behavior of people is governedoften,
if not primarily, to their own detriment.

It's hard to avoid asking why the
collection of characters in Streetcar act as they do. The only answer is
that self-destructive desire is an element of "human nature." The relationship between
Stella and Stanley is dysfunctional, governed by his abuse of her. At first sight they would
seem to be mismatched, given that Stella is from a supposedly genteel background which her
sister, Blanche, still cherishes and believes in. But the implication is that Stanley's
crudeness is his principal attraction for both

What were some of the changes in the speaker's emotional state during the course of the poem "The Raven"?

The speaker goes from isolated and miserable to avoidance to confronting the
raven, and then being entertained by him. 

Throughout the poem,
the speaker seems to pass through some of the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining,
depression, and acceptance.

When the poem begins, the speaker comments that
it is late on a dismal night, and he is weak and tired.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a
quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping €¦ (stanza 1)

The speaker is
miserable with grief because he has lost his love, .  He is studying not because he wants to,
but because he is trying to distract himself from his sorrow. 

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books
surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore €“ (stanza 2)

He is deep in the denial stage.  He knows that Lenore is dead, but he is trying to
distract himself.  The knocking on the door is...

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

What is the importance of public art in modern day society?

In the link
I've provided below, I believe Lloyd Goodrich lays out some extremely valuable ideas of the role
of art in modern society.

In the past, when the church had heavy control of
religion, art became a unifying banner that the people rallied around. It was a...

What does the quilt symbolize to the narrator and her daughter, Maggie?

The quilts
represent an intimate bond to community and family identity for Maggie and Mrs. Johnson.  To a
great extent, the quilt embodies the personalized connection that both mother and daughter share
to one another and their past.  They both understand the patchwork to the quilt and what each
element in the quilt encompasses.  Given how Maggie has a memory "like an elephant,"
both quilts represent the shared memory that both women have about their own identities as
African- American women:  

They had been pieced by Grandma
Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted
them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them
were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa
Jattell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox,
that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War.

Both women understand the history of the quilts. They embody the
pain and joy in their lives and in their family's narratives.  They understand the narratives
woven within its frames and recognize its value as embodiments of their family.

Dee does not fully grasp this.  Initially, when Mrs. Johnson offered a quilt to Dee
upon her leaving for college, she rejected it as "old~fashioned, out of style."  It
becomes clear that Dee likes material possessions and "wanted nice things."  Dee is
described as one who "had a style of her own: and knew what style was."  Dee
recognizes and covets the quilts for their fashionable value, as objects that will enable her to
construct her fashion narrative as "embracing" African- American identity and
nationalist notions of the good.  The quilts become an accessory, something that
"fits" a larger narrative as opposed to being the narrative.

It is
in this regard where Maggie and her mother differ from Dee.  Maggie and Mrs. Johnson understand
the symbolic connection to the quilts and their symbolic significance. Even if Maggie is going
to ensure that she put the quilts to "everyday use," it does not matter because Mrs.
Johnson knows that Maggie understands the intrinsic meaning to the quilt.  The ending is one in
which Mrs. Johnson validates this condition in her daughter, a condition of loyalty and honoring
her past as a reflection of her identity.  While Dee rebukes both in failing to understand their
"heritage," Mrs. Johnson sits with Maggie, convinced that she understands the heritage
and symbolic value of the quilts just fine.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Scan the following poem and name the meter of the poem. I thought they loved me, did me grace To please themselves;' twas all their deed; God...

In order to
determine the meter of a poem, you must first read the lines and pay attention to which words or
syllables are stressed, or ACCENTED.  In order to do this, read aloud and listen to where the
natural stresses fall; identify the stress of multiple syllable words by using a dictionary to
identify stress, or accent.  I have bolded the stressed (accented) syllables in the lines
below:

I thought they
loved me, did me
grace

To please
themselves; 'twas all their
deed;

God makes, or
fair, or foul, our
face;

If showing
mine so caused to
bleed

My cousins'
hearts, they should have
dropped

A word, and
straight the play had
stopped.

Once you have the
stressed, or accented, syllables marked, then you need to look for the pattern established.  In
this case, you can see the da DUM da DUM pattern.  This pattern helps you to identify
the metrical rhythm. This rhythm is called an iamb, which is an unstressed syllable followed by
a stressed syllable.  Next you count how many repetitions of the pattern appear in each line of
the poem.

In this case, there are 4 repetitions of iambs per line, which
means that this poem is a tetrameter: four repetitions of a patterns.  The meter of the poem is
a  two-part name created by the identification of the predominant rhythm, which is iambs, and
the number of repeated feet per line. That means this poem is in iambic tetrameter. You can
learn more about the various metrical feet by reviewing the links below.

What are some quotes from Into the Wild that support the idea of McCandless being ignorant?

Whether or not Chris McCandless was completely ignorant and very lucky most of the time
is up to each reader to decide.  There are going to be readers that find McCandless inspiring,
brave, and highly intelligent; however, I do believe that Krakauer provides solid evidence near
the end of the novel that supports the idea that McCandless was ignorant of how seriously
dangerous his sojourn into Alaska could be.  Krakauer includes some letters that he received
from readers of his earlier articles about McCandless.  One of those letters includes the
following quote.  

His ignorance, which could have been
cured by a USGS quadrant and a Boy Scout manual, is what killed him.

What is the irony of the story? (there is more than one main irony example)

Oh, indeed, this
play is replete with .flees Corinth, believing he's escaping the prophecy by running away from
his parents, but he doesn't know that Polybus and Merope are his adoptive parents. Oedipus then
runs right into Laius, his real father, whom he kills, and is awarded the queen of Thebes,, when
he solves the riddle of the Sphinx. She, unfortunately, is his...

Sunday, October 22, 2017

What is the resolution of conflict in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place?

's
story "" doesn't necessarily have a resolution, which gives the story greater meaning.
The story'soccurs when the older waiter replaces the words in the "Our Father" with
the word "nada." The story ends immediately afterward with the narrator explaining
that the older waiter would prefer a "clean, well-lighted cafe" to a bar or a bodega,
similar to the...

What is the significance of the title of A Streetcar Named Desire?

The title of this play
comes from a line that is uttered by Blanche herself in Scene 1 of this play just after she
arrives at her sister's home. Note what she says:

They
told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride
six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!

It is
important to realise that the names of these different locations have immense importance. Desire
is precisely what Blanche has followed, and as a result she has experienced a kind of death,
indicated in the name of Cemeteries, as she has been branded a social outcast. Now, she has
arrived...

Saturday, October 21, 2017

How does Philip K. Dick use the novel to reflect on the themes of what is real and what is human? What are some quotes to support this?

One of
the issues we need to deal with in answering this question is the fact that the blurred line
between humans and androids has been explored so often in sciencethat it could now be regarded a
clich©. Philip Dick nevertheless presents the puzzle of distinguishing between the human and
artificial in an especially striking wayat least as it was at the time his novel was first
published over fifty years ago. Interestingly, as just one similar example in science fiction,
the episode "Requiem for Methuselah" of the original Star Trek
appeared in the same year as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This also features a young woman character who is an android without at first knowing
she is.

Most readers are probably struck by the coldness of Deckard as he
begins his investigations at the Rosen company. We have already been told about the complexity
of the Nexus-6 androids, which have "two trillion constituents plus a choice within ten
million possible combinations of cerebral activity." One has to wonder if this might be a
greater degree of sophistication than human beings have.

Still, if being "human" resides in something intangible and separate from the
physical complexity of the brain and body, then what is that quality? Is it empathy? Deckard,
after administering the Voigt-Kampff test to Rachael, peremptorily announces, "You're an
android."

He's correct, but evidently he hasn't considered the
possibility that the Voigt-Kampff test has failed, or (which is actually the case) that Rachael
is an android but doesn't know it. Or perhaps Deckard doesn't care. If an artificial human has
been programmed not to know they're an android, then what, in terms of the
being created this way, is the actual difference between "human" and "not
human"? Both Deckard and Mr. Rosen seem to act in a less human fashion than Rachael does.
Rachael turns pale when she is given what appears to be proof of her being an android.

The artificial being comes across as the most sympathetic character in the story at
this point. Deckard has coldly asked, "Does she know?" Presumably since he's a bounty
hunter, even in normal circumstances one would expect Deckard to be a typically hard-boiled
character, as in "conventional" detective fiction. Dick's combination of that genre
with the science-fiction/dystopia format gives a different slant to the scenario, going back at
least as far as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which we, as readers, are
faced with both the moral and the scientific implications of what being "human"
actually means.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Explain how people working with radioactive materials nowadays are protected from the hazards of radioactive emissions.

There are
three main ways in which individuals who work around radiation protect themselves from
over-exposure. These three ways are typically referred to as time, distance, and shielding.
All these methods differ to greater or lesser degrees on the precise amount of radiation present
in the .

Radiation is a natural element in the Earths atmosphereemanating
from various substances like uraniumand is also emitted from the Sun (most of which radiation is
absorbed before entering the atmosphere by the planets ozone layer). Radiation produced through
man-made processes, however, exceed that which exists naturally and requires special protective
measures for people whose jobs expose them to abnormally high levels of radioactivity.

Various doses of radioactivity will damage human tissue after a certain amount of time
has passed. Limiting exposure through established periods of time during which individuals are
exposed to radioactivity is a common method of protection. Workers operating in environments in
which unsafe levels of radioactivity are present typically wear dosimeters, small devises that
track time and exposure. Once a certain threshold is reached, those workers must remove
themselves from the environment or risk unhealthy levels of exposure.

Similarly, employees may wear special outfits that are lined with lead or other metals
through which radiation cannot pass. Individuals are also protected from radiation through
construction of buildings or rooms designed to prevent the passage of different types of
radioactivity (e.g., gamma rays, alpha particles, or beta particles).

Most of
us have had x-rays taken of various parts of our bodies to identify broken bones or other
injuries or illnesses. We are provided lead-lined aprons to protect those parts of our bodies
where the imaging is not required, and medical technicians remain behind lead-lined walls while
the image is being taken. Simultaneously, the equipment used in modern medical facilities for
taking x-rays has improved over time to further limit exposure times on the part of
patients.

Time, distance, and shielding are three legs of a triangle by which
people who work around radiation are protected from unsafe levels of exposure. A failure in any
of the three legs of the triangle may result in hazardous doses being absorbed by
individuals.

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How does Animal Farm reflect the Russian revolution?

's
characters and the events that transpire throughout the story symbolize and correspond to
historical events associated with the 1917 Russian Revolution and the early years of the Soviet
Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.symbolically represents Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin,
and the school of thought known as Animalism that the pigs develop allegorically represents
communism.represents the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky, andsymbolizes Joseph
Stalin.represents Stalin's propaganda machine, while the nine ferocious dogs symbolize Stalin's
secret police force.represents the proletariat working class, while Mollie represents Russia's
bourgeois middle class. The initial Rebellion allegorically represents the 1917 Russian
Revolution, ending with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, who is symbolically represented by
Mr. Jones in the novella. The Battle of the Cowshed represents the infighting during the Russian
Civil War of 1917-1922, and the Battle of the Windmill represents the Battle of Stalingrad, when
the Soviets defeated the German Army in 1943.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Who is the antagonist of "Eveline"?

The
character who represents 'sis her father, Mr. Hill.  Eveline feels trapped, mistreated, and
unloved.  It is her drunken and abusive father that makes her feel this way.  He is overbearing
and doesn't listen to her wants or needs.  Rather than discussing with Eveline the relationship
she has with Frank and trying to reason with her about it, he forbids her to see him.  Part of
why Eveline feels so trapped is that she has so many responsibilities.  Her father has
squandered money.  He mistreated her mother to the point of driving her insane, and the
suggestion is that this was the cause of her death.  It is on Eveline's shoulders "to keep
the family together."  But she doesn't want to remain so long in her father's world to end
up the same way as her mother.

The more abstract antagonist of this story is
society, however.  Eveline is trapped by the traditions of the time period, which require women
to be subservient to men and enforce "rules" of proper behavior.  These rules hinder
Eveline's decision to leave with Frank, because it could be scandalous.  In a less retrictive
environment, her decision would have been easier to make.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

What is the the plot of Pygmalion?

In
, Henry Higgins, a
linguist, happens to run into Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney
flower seller on the
streets on East London. He bets he could pass her off as high-born lady
just
by changing her speech patterns.

The next day, to his surprise,
Eliza
turns up on his doorstep and offers to pay him for elocution lessons.
He laughs at her, but
enters into a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering
that in six months he can convince people
she's an aristocrat. She agrees to
live with him and be trained to speak and act as a lady. He
has her bathed
and dressed in decent clothes and works with her on her accent and

manners.

The comedy in the play is that he is
able to
pass her off as higher classin a scene at his mother's, the other
women are so sure she is a
lady they imitate her when she uses the decidedly
lower-class word "bloody."
Meanwhile, her derelict father has been granted a
yearly allowance from a trust fund and is
upset that he now has to behave
like a middle-class man.

Eliza does pass
muster as a
duchess at a ball, and Higgins wins his bet, showing that class is not a matter
of
genetics.

Monday, October 16, 2017

In "Young Goodman Brown," who is the strongest and weakest character?

This is of course a
very subjective question and your answer to it is going to depend on a number of other questions
concerning the story and how you interpret it. Is it just a dream, or does it have some basis in
reality? This is a key question that will definitely influence your answer to the question you
have asked.

From my perspective, I actually think that strongest character
is Faith and the weakest is Goodman Brown. If you consider that Goodman Brown's experiences were
a dream, it is Faith who shows herself to be...

Who was Jonathan Edwards's audience?

"" was a sermon delivered in 1741
by , a theologian of the Congregationalist Protestant sect. The sermon was initially delivered
in Massachusetts and then, more famously, in Enfield, Connecticut.

The text
of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is considered by scholars as a historic
literary work that showed the early beginnings of the First Great Awakening, or Evangelical
Revival. It also offers a glimpse into colonial America's Puritanical foundations.

The title of the sermon itself indicates the type of audience it was intended for:
sinners. Edwards warned the colonists of eternal damnation if they continued to commit sinful
acts. At the time the sermon was given, the people of the Thirteen Colonies were still attuned
to Puritan traditions, but the fast economic progress of the colonies provided more
opportunities for the citizens to commit sins.

Jonathan Edwards saw instances
of these sinful acts and believed the sermon would be an effective way to proliferate his
Protestant philosophy. The sermon addressed his own congregation directlyparticularly in
Massachusettsbut it was also intended for the general public.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

what is the relationship between history and literature? what is the relationship between history and literature?

No literature exists
in a vacuum.It is influenced by history, and it is also influenced by the present.If you are
reading a piece of literature written in the past, you need to understand the historical time
period in order to fully appreciate and understand that literature.]]>

Discuss the character of Phoenix Jackson from "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

The Phoenix
in Greek mythology is a bird-like
creature that matures to an extreme age before it bursts into
flames and is
reborn from the ashes. As it matures and ages, its beauty and colors of red
and
gold intensify.  The Phoenix always rises up again with its main
characteristic of
determination.  Cleverly, s Phoenix Jackson, thein ,
parallels the mythological bird in
description and actions.  She is an
unforgettable character.

Described by the
author as
elderly and small, Phoenix measures her steps carefully as she travels through
the
woods to complete her mission. She carries an umbrella as a cane and to
ward off any creatures
that might be in her path. Her black face is so
wrinkled that it seems to follow a specific
pattern and an undercoating of a
golden color.  Dressed in a neat and tidy fashion, her shoes
are untied
because she cannot tie them anymore.  This is a woman of subtle grandeur that
few
would look deep enough to see.

Driven...

Saturday, October 14, 2017

According to A People's History of the United States, what was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?

The ultimate
fate of the Arawak Indians was to
die out.  They were killed off by a variety of factors that
were connected to
the coming of the Spaniards to the New World.

In Chapter 1

of this book, Zinn is trying to emphasize the idea that Columbus was not really a very
good
person and that we should think of him as someone who was guilty of
genocide.  Zinn starts the
chapter out by talking about how good the Arawak
people were.  He argues that they were generous
and friendly.  He is trying
to contrast this with the greed and the desire to dominate others
that the
Spanish felt. 

Zinn emphasizes this because it is important to
him
to point out that these gentle people were utterly destroyed by the
coming of the Spanish. 
Therefore, he tells us that the Arawaks died out
completely.  He says

A report of the
year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or
their descendants left on the
island.

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

What are Newton's three laws of motion?

Newton's
three laws of motion, which he made public with the publication of Principia
Mathematica in 1687, are as follows. The first says that an object in motion, or at
rest, will remain in motion at the same rate of speed unless it is acted upon by an
outside...

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

How are Stella, Stanley, Blanche, Eunice, and Steve interrelated in A Streetcar Named Desire?

Stella
and Stanley are married. Eunice and
Steve are married. This makes Blanche seem all the more the
solitary and
needy outsider. Eunice and Steve are friends and neighbors of Stella and
Stanley.
There are only two flats in this small building, upstairs and down.
Eunice and Steve live
upstairs. They are lower-class types like Stanley. All
three of these characters are vulgar but
honest and strong. Stanley and Steve
are poker-playing and drinking buddies. Stella and Eunice
are girlfriends who
share their troubles with each other. Stella, like Blanche, comes from the

upper-class Southern world represented by their...

In the book A Wrinkle in Time, what were the key events that happen on the dark planet as Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin seek the home of the Thing?

During
their time on Camazotz, the three children first receive instructions and warnings from Mrs.
Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. Specifically, they tell Meg that her faults will be her
greatest strengths. Conversely, Charles Wallace's gift will become his strongest temptation.
Calvin must use his communication skills wisely, and the children must remain
together.

Left alone, Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace begin to observe the
eerie uniformity of the planet. All of the children bounce balls and jump rope to the same
rhythm. By questioning a delivery boy, Meg and her companions learn more about the society and
its regulations. They opt to visit CENTRAL Central Intelligence, the seat of the government, in
pursuit of Mr. Murry.

While at CENTRAL Central Intelligence, the children
meet a teacher. Alarmed at their questions, the teacher reports the children for
"reprocessing." As a result, the children are ushered into an enormous room, where
they encounter a creepy man. The man speaks unnaturally, as if he is being spoken through. He is
under hypnosis, like everyone else the children have met.

Offering Charles
Wallace valuable information, the man hypnotizes Charles as well. Now entranced, Charles leads
Calvin and Meg to Mr. Murry. Along the way, Charles Wallace explains that everyone in Camazotz
shares the same mind through something called "IT." With the help of Mrs. Whatsit's
glasses and Mrs. Who's quotation, Meg and Calvin rescues Mr. Murry from the column he is trapped
in. Unfortunately, Mr. Murry has no power to break his son's hypnosis. Instead, Charles Wallace
leads the group to IT, a massive, pulsating human brain.

Just as Meg and
Calvin begin to succumb to IT's power, Calvin urges Mr. Murry to "tesser." Together,
father, daughter, and friend leave behind Camazotz.

In Chapter Six, how does Napoleon react to the destruction of the windmill? Whom does he blame and why?

In Chapter Six,
the animals awake to find that the windmill has been destroyed. Initially, 's reaction is one of
shock: he paces "to and fro" in silence, for example, and his tail is
"rigid" and "twitchy."

Suddenly, Napoleon declares that
it waswho destroyed the windmill. To emphasize his anger at Snowball's betrayal, he roars
Snowball's name in a "voice of thunder." He then goes on to pass the sentence of death
upon Snowball, "the traitor," and offers half a bushel of apples to any...

Monday, October 9, 2017

How is the Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis 6€“9 related?

Both
and chapters 6€“9 in The Book of Genesis deal with the gods or God
flooding the entire world due to mankind's wickedness. However, a chosen few are warned in
advance, allowing humanity a second chance after the waters have receded. In the biblical story,
Noah and his family are the lone survivors, while in Gilgamesh, the chosen one is Utnapishtim.
Both stories end with the boat carrying all that remains of life on earth settling on a
mountaintop, followed by Utnapishtim/Noah sending out three birds to survey the
landscape.

The previous answer did a good job pointing...

Why did the United States abandon its neutrality and enter World War 1 in 1917?

The
United States's motivations to break the declaration of neutrality and enterwere rooted in
economic and strategic motivations. The United States had given several Allied countries huge
financial loans, and as events progressed, the United States became more concerned with ensuring
the success of the Allied countries and their abilities to pay back the loans. The United States
also had a vested interest in the ending of the war, as Britain and France had enacted a trade
blockade against several Baltic and mid- or Eastern European neutral countries. This move by the
Allied countries angered US merchants, but US public sentiment was generally much more
sympathetic to the British and French than to Germany, Austria-Hungary, or Turkey.

In 1915, a merchant ship that left from New York, the Lusitania,
was sunk by German submarines. Public opinion in the United States became even more hostile
toward the Central Powers and more drawn to the idea of US military involvement. In
1917,...

Saturday, October 7, 2017

What are three things that Kit does for Prudence in Witch of Blackbird Pond?

The first
time Kit helps Prudence is on the boat trip from Saybrook to Weathersfield.  Prudence drops her
doll overboard, Captain Eaton will not turn back for it, and Prudence's mother only gives her a
scolding.  Taking things into her own hands, Kit leaps overboard and retrieves the child's toy,
not realizing that, in Puritan New England, for a girl to swim is scandalous.

Another way Kit helps Prudence is in...

Friday, October 6, 2017

What evidence is there in "Ulysses" that the speaker does not wish for a life of adventure but instead wishes for death?

There is
a fundamental tension throughout the poem between 's continuing taste for adventure and
exploration, and a desire to face up to his old age and mortality. Ulysses (or Odysseus as he
was known to the Greeks) was a great warrior, a noble explorer who undertook many dangerous,
perilous journeys and voyages throughout the known world. It's not surprising, then, that
Ulysses should still retain a strong sense of wanderlust.

But Ulysses is
also mortal, so he's getting older. He's now confronted with the question of how to live out the
rest of his days. Should he slip quietly into...

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Thursday, October 5, 2017

In The Odyssey, how do Odysseus and his companions expect to be treated by the Cyclops?

This is one instance in
which the fearfulness of Odysseus's men's would actually have served them better than their
leader's bravado and courage. When they arrive at the island of the Cyclopes, Odysseus's crew
advises caution; they "pressed [him] strongly" to take some food and a few animals (to
eat later) and return to the ship. Odysseus ignores their entreaties, however, opting instead to
remain and wait for the owner of the cave to return. He hopes this clearly prosperous owner will
"offer gifts" to him. The reason he might expect this is the same one that other
commenters have mentioned: the Greek notion of hospitality, called xenia. If it were within his
means, not only should a host offer the best food and drink he has to a traveler, but he is also
supposed to offer a guest-gift as well, and this is what Odysseus hopes will
happen.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

How does the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find'' compare with the famly in "Barn Burning" by Faulkner?

About the only
comparison I can see between the two families is that they are led into trouble by family
elders. The grandmother in O'Connor's story accidentally causes the family's demise because she
wants to visit a place she thinks she remembers; her self-centered behavior and unfortunate
habit of speaking before thinking leads to their encounter with the deadly Misfit. Bailey's
children are annoying and poorly disciplined; their parents pay their bad behavior little
attention. The family is depicted more humorously than maladjusted. It's the shocking ending
that surprises us.

Faulkner's story portrays a miserable Snopes family at the
mercy of a malicious father who is cruel to his family and commits petty crimes, even demanding
his son Sarty to lie for him. Sarty, the youngest, is especially the victim of abusive
discipline. This family suffers; we see no humor here. They have to live in pitiful
circumstances because of Abner's vicious ways. Although Sarty wants to be proud of his father as
a war veteran, he is confused by Abner's harshness and anger.

The grandmother
and her family all die ironically, but Sarty, who alerts Major de Spain to Abner's intent to
burn his barn, escapes his cruel life. Faulkner's characters don't seem to deserve death while
Abner, the only character to die in "Barn Burning," does.

Did Baglioni know that the antidote would kill Beatrice?

It is unclear whether
or not Baglioni knows that his antidote would kill Beatrice. On the one hand, when he sees her
die after drinking it, he calls out "with horror," asking Dr. Rappaccini if his
daughter's demise is the final outcome of his experiment. The fact that his voice contains
anything like horror makes it sound as though the outcome was not exactly what he expected.
Further, the...

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

What are the rules for sex and marriage among party members in 1984?

We can
piece together the following rules for sex and marriage. A Party committee has to approve a
marriage, and it won't do so if suspects there is any genuine physical attraction between the
two people in question. As for sex, the Party's desire is that it be strictly for procreation.
They don't want people, in or out of marriage, to enjoy sex or find any erotic charge in it,
because they don't want individuals to form loyalties outside of those to the Party and Big
Brother.

Monday, October 2, 2017

What does the title of A Streetcar Named Desire refer to?

The
title refers to the streetcar Blanche takes to get to the Kowalski residence. However, it also
refers to the thing that drives the characters of the play: desire.

Physical
desire is a key element of the play. Stella stays with Stanley primarily because of his sexual
charisma. She knows he is a brutish man, but his raw sexual prowess keeps her enthralled with
him. Blanche wants to remain desirable to men, dreading the approach of middle age.

However, desire also manifests itself in less carnal ways. Blanche's ultimate desire
is to escape the dreariness of her sad, lonely life. As she says to Mitch, she...

Sunday, October 1, 2017

What rumors have circulated the town about Betty Parris?

In the
opening scene of the play, Reverend Parris's daughter, Betty, is incapacitated in her bed after
being caught alongside the other girls dancing in the forest the previous night. Ruth Putnam
also suffers a similar mysterious ailment and is confined to her bed. The local doctor is
confounded by Betty and Ruth's...

In what way is Pygmalion is a play about speech and phonetics?

is all about speech and

phonetics, which are the cornerstones of the British experience of social
class.

At the start of the play, Henry Higgins gambles
with Pickering over his experiment with
Eliza's speech; by making the bet in
the first place, Higgins is treating the acquisition of
so-called "proper"
speech and pronunciation as a sport, which reflects Higgins's
position of
privilege within British society. Only someone so confident in his or her
position
could make light of it in this way.

Later in the
play, Eliza is very
convincing after she has been schooled by Higgins, which
suggests that social class is utterly
meaningless; if the trappings of high
class can be learned so quickly and so thoroughly by
someone of such low
position as a flower seller, what value does it carry, really?

Ironically, though Shaw might be able to make the meaninglessness of speech
and
phonetics apparent, through Higgin's treating speech like a sport and
through Eliza's rapid
progress, the harsh reality still persists: speech and
phonetics in Britain remain significant
markers of class that divide the
people of Britain still to this day.

Foreshadowing - How do the actions/setting hint about the events which occur in the last text.

In 's short
story "", the character of Vera is a 15 year old girl who seems to enjoy mischief in
the form of telling stories that cause fear. As the story reads,

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

This
means that Vera's mind is always on the go, especially if it means creating fantasies in her
mind.

In the story, Vera tells Frampton (a house guest coming to rehabilitate
his nerves) about the reason behind her aunt's leaving the window open on a foggy day. She
claims that the reason is that her aunt has a fascination with her husband and her husband's
brother, who supposedly disappeared years ago during a hunting trip.

According to Vera, the window is left open in hope of their return. However, this is
not the truth: The window is simply open for no reason at all. The men are not missing either,
they are actually hunting outside. Vera is making everything up so that, when the men return,
Frampton would think it is the ghosts of the men coming back.

The moment in
the story where you can almost foreshadow the disclosure at the end is at the beginning, when
Vera tells Framptom on account of her aunt's absence from the home: \

MY aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," ..... in the
meantime you must try and put up with me.

Since ais what
tells us that something might be happening sometime in the story, the best thing we can get from
this specific foreshadowing is that Vera is already determined to cause Frampton some sort of
grief. Often, foreshadowing is easier to identifywhen you read the story twice. When you read
"The Open Window" twice, the giveaway is that Vera basically warns Framptom from the
get go that he will have to put up with her.

In which line does Dr. King state his purpose? What other seminal US documents does Dr. King cite in his speech?

King
states the purpose of the March on Washington in the third paragraph of his famous speech. He
says that he and the many others who've made this march to the nation's capital have come to
"cash a check". What he means by this is that the civil rights movement is now
demanding the fulfillment of the promise of American freedom as set out in Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence.

King invokes
Lincoln's famous speech to remind those millions of people watching at home than the civil
rights movement aren't demanding anything radical, something that might undermine the very
foundations of American government. They are simply demanding what they were promised by Lincoln
a century ago, a promise that was never fulfilled.

King's invocation of the
Declaration of Independence has much the same purpose. He wants to show the world that the civil
rights movement, far from consisting of dangerous radicals, stands firmly in the tradition of
American liberty, a...

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