Why is Friar Laurence responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

is responsible for s deaths because he agreed to marry them in secret
and then gavea potion to fake her death so she would not need to marry
.

Friar Laurence believed thatand Juliets marriage would end
their parents feud.  Thats why he agreed to secretly marry them.  Although Romeo told him that
he loved Juliet and she returned his affections, Friar Laurence had his doubts.  He believed
that Romeo was too flighty, loving one girl and then the next.  It is usually best not to come
between children and their parents, but Friar Laurence wanted to bury the feud for
good.

FRIAR
LAURENCE

O, she knew well
Thy love did read by rote
and could not spell.
But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect
I'll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your
households' rancour to pure love. (Act 2, Scene 3)

Secretly marrying the...

Characterize the narrators state of mind in "The Raven." Find two pieces of evidence to support this claim.

Edgar Allen Poe's
begins with a sense of quiet, calm melancholy. The narrator is looking through a number of
"curious volumes of forgotten lore" for some words of solace to relieve his sorrow for
"the lost ."

"Suddenly there came a tapping," which
surprises the narrator and lifts him out of his reverie. He seems excited by the prospect of
having a visitor at his door who will distract him from his melancholy and relieve his
sadness.

The narrator is frightened, but expectant.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
curtain
Thrilled mefilled me with fantastic terrors never felt before...

He opens the door, but sees nothing but darkness.

Disappointed, but still excited by the prospect of someone at the door, he turns back
into the room and hears the tapping again.

This time, he goes to the window
and enthusiastically flings open the shutter. In steps the raven, flapping and fluttering, and
it takes its place on the bust of Pallas above the door.

His melancholy
momentarily forgotten, the narrator is beguiled and amused by the raven. He smiles, and he
marvels at the raven's ability to speak, even if the only word he speaks is
"Nevermore."

The narrator pulls a cushioned chair in front of the
door, below the raven perched on the bust of Pallas and muses about what the raven means by
"Nevermore."

The narrator leans back into the violet velvet
cushions on the chair, and his melancholy suddenly returns when he remembers that Lenore will
never again lean into that same cushion as she did so many times before.

The
narrator reacts violently to being shocked back to reality and reminded of his "lost
Lenore." He shouts at the raven, ordering it out of the room and back into the night, but
the raven doesn't move. It sits on the bust above the door, its "fiery eyes" burning
deep into the narrator's heart and soul.

The narrator slumps back into the
chair, and he falls into what Poe called in "," a state of "mournful and
never-ending remembrance."

In "To Kill A Mockingbird," who uses the 'N' word ?

Although
severalin use this pejorative racial term for African-Americans, perhaps
the most offensive use of this word comes from Mrs. Dubose and Bob Ewell.

Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is an older neighbor who is frequently wheeled out in her
chair onto her porch. From there, she passes judgment on the Finch children who walk to meetas
he returns home from his office. "She was vicious,"narrates. On the day following 's
twelfth birthday, he is anxious to spend his money, and because he has enough to purchase a
coveted baton for Scout, the two children head to town. When they pass Mrs. Dubose's house, she
hurls several personal insults at the children. Finally, she utters her greatest invective
against Atticus: "Your father's no better than the nrs and trash he works for!" With
these words, Mrs. Dubose places Atticus at the very bottom of the social stratum in Maycomb as
she equates Atticus with the lowest of the African-American community and with "white
trash," the lowest social level of caucasians.

Arguably the most
offensive use of "the N-word" comes from the mouth of Bob Ewell, who is included in
Mrs. Dubose's terming of "trash" (i.e., white trash) in the Maycomb community. It is
offensive to call anyone the N-word, but when Ewell calls Tom Robinson a nr in the courtroom,
his use of the word is particularly hostile and meant to do injury to Tom's character. By
implying that Tom Robinson is a person who deserves no more than to be given such an identity,
Bob Ewell also attempts to elevate himself in the only way he can. Further, his use of the term
is meant to dehumanize the kind, polite, and hard-working Tom Robinson.

What were Julius Caesar's contributions to the change from the Roman Republic to the Empire?

Caesar was
one of many Roman military leaders who parlayed his success on the battlefield into political
power. What was different about his actions, however, was that they ushered in a civil war that
ultimately resulted in the rise of his nephew and adopted son Octavian to the position of
Emperor of Rome, which spelled the end of the Republic. After his election as consul, Caesar
formed alliances with two other powerful politicians, Crassus and Pompey. The three men (called
the triumvirate) drew the ire of the Roman aristocracy by their populist appeals, but these also
gained them considerable influence.

When Caesar left office, he became
governor of provinces in Gaul, and eventually added to his fame by conquering all of Gaul and
even making inroads into Britain. His alliance with Pompey and Crassus fell apart, however, and
when Pompey secured the Senate's approval of a measure calling on Caesar to return to Rome
without his legions, Caesar responded by invading Italy, sparking a civil war. He emerged
victorious, and had himself named dictator. While serving in this role (well past the customary
one-year term) he initiated a number of reforms that empowered his office as well as currying
favor with the common people of Rome.

Eventually, he became dictator for
life, and because he also held the title of tribune and consul at various points, he functioned
more or less as an emperor. Indeed, he used his power to force the Senate to grant him titles to
that effect, though he never officially became a king. His death at the hands of the
conspirators paved the way for yet another series of civil wars, first between the conspirators
and his lieutenants Marc Antony and Octavian, and then between Antony and Octavian themselves.
Octavian, whom Caesar had named as heir to his estate, emerged from these conflicts victorious.
With resistance in the Senate crushed, a people hungry for peace and order, and his rivals dead,
he completed what his uncle/adopted father had begun.

What is the evidence of sacrifice in Arthur Miller's The Crucible?

is full of sacrifice. Some sacrifice themselves, some sacrifice
their neighbors, and others sacrifice their principles. One of the most insidious aspects of the
witch-trials is that they make sacrifice of some kind necessary: anyone who is called upon to
make a false confession or die cannot avoid sacrificing something, whether it is life or
truth.

John Proctor declares in act 4 that he is no saint and will have his
life even if it means making a false confession. Yet when he is asked to implicate Rebecca
Nurse, Mary Easty, and Martha Corey, he is prepared to sacrifice his own life rather than
theirs. Deputy-Governor Danforth, in sharp contrast, is always blustering about his integrity
and honesty yet is perfectly prepared to sacrifice justice to expediency. In act 4 he decides to
execute seven people merely because "reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of
them that died till now."

The Reverend Hale is a contrast to Danforth
in that he is willing to sacrifice his...

What are five examples of symbolism in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and explain what they may represent?

describes
the perfect murder in . No one
discovers the body of Fortunato during the lifetime of the
murderer
Montresor.  The entire story is a flashback narrated by Montresor looking back on
the
crime fifty years later.

It was
about dusk, one evening
during the supreme madness of the carnival season,
that I encountered my friend.

Poe was
a master in the use of symbolism in his stories. One of the
first symbols
employed by Poe is the choice of (1) settings for the

story.  The "supreme madness of carnival season" represents a
jovial
time. The carnival provides Montresor the opportunity to entice
Fortunato to go with him to look
at the wine.

As the story
progresses, the action moves to the catacombs under
the city or underground
graveyard. Dead bodies abound. As the characters journey through the

catacomb, Fortunato moves from freedom to imprisonment.

Another
symbol comes
from the (2) title of the story . 
The cask of amontillado is the
ruse that...

Explain the quote "a perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world."

Burke writes that democracies are shameless
and fearless because the men who wield power in them do not expect to be held to account for
collective actions. Even the most tyrannical king has his power somewhat limited by the
reflection that he may one day be overthrown and have to answer for his abuses of power. In a
perfect democracy, however, no single person bears enough of the blame for any decision or
action to make him ashamed or fearful. Also, since the democratic representatives regard
themselves as speaking and acting for the people:

Their
own approbation of their own acts has to them the appearance of a public judgment in their
favour. A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. As it is the
most shameless, it is also the most fearless. No man apprehends in his person that he can be
made subject to punishment.

Burke goes on to point out
that, since democracies and, indeed, the people themselves can act more despotically than any
king, and can generally do so with impunity:

It is
therefore of infinite importance that they should not be suffered to imagine that their will,
any more than that of kings, is the standard of right and wrong.

It is the possibility of tyranny in a democracy that makes the rule of law so vitally
important as a safeguard against collective abuses of power.

In what city and state do the first chapters of Fever 1793 take place?

The first
two chapters take place in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early days of the new
United States.

Anderson locates us quickly in this setting as Mattie informs
us:

My favorite place was the waterfront. I squinted
eastward. The rooftop of the State House, where the Congress met, was visible, but the August
haze and dust from the street made it impossible to see farther than that. On a clear day, I
could see the masts of the ships tied up at the wharves on the Delaware River.

The locale moves from Mattie's home (where she wakes up in the
morning) to the coffeehouse her father opened before he died, which is still run by Mattie's
mother and grandfather.

Philadelphia was a major city theneven more so than
it is todayand Anderson captures some of its energy from the start of the story, mentioning, for
instance, technological innovations such as the "remarkable" air balloon that Mattie
describes as like a "yellow silk bubble" that now resides in the courtyard of the
nearby Walnut Street prison. However, there are also locations that indicate that this is still
an eighteenth-century town: such as the blacksmith'd forge, which Mattie is none too fond
of.

Who is to blame for the killing of King Duncan? Is it the witches, Lady Macbeth, or Macbeth himself?

is
ultimately responsible for killing , but Ladyand the Weird Sisters bear some moral
responsibility for encouraging and assisting him in the commission of his crime.

claims that she herself would've carried out this wicked act herself if Duncan hadn't
resembled her own father as he slept. But we must take this with a large pinch of salt. It's
almost certain that Lady Macbeth wouldn't have plunged in the dagger herself, whatever the
circumstances. Though she may have actively planned the whole thing, it was always understood
that it was Macbeth who'd have to wield the knife. Nevertheless, Lady Macbeth is fully complicit
in this heinous act of villainy, and she must share some of the blame for what's
happened.

As indeed must the Weird Sisters. It was they who planted the
demon seed of ambition in Macbeth's mind. They were the ones who encouraged Macbeth to take the
fateful step of making himself king of Scotland, irrespective of the methods used to
achieve...

Provide a metaphor found in Lord of the Flies that applies to one of the characters.

In
chapter 4,throws stones at Henry, but his
conscience doesn't allow him to aim directly at Henry.
Golding describes the
metaphorical "space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into
which
(Roger) dare not throw." Theis extended when the space is also described as
"the
taboo of the old life." This metaphor highlights how, at this early
point in the novel,
Roger and most of the other boys are still governed by
the morals they learned in their
"old life." Their consciences are still tied
to the civilized lives they led before
the island.

At the
beginning of chapter 5,is described as having "lost
himself in a maze of
thoughts." This metaphor emphasizes how thoughtful and also how
confused
Ralph is as he thinks about how to bring the group of boys into line. They haven't
been
following the rules, and Ralph is thinking about how best to organize
them into a more
effective, efficient, and cohesive unit.

In chapter 12, Ralph is chased and
hunted by a group
of's...

What is the role of English in postcolonial writing?

I think
that one can find the role of English to operate as both an act of oppression and an act of
resistance in Postcolonial writing.  For many Postcolonial writers, English was the
"oppressor's tongue."  British imperialism meant that indigenous languages were out
and English was in.  Schools popped up where "the natives" were taught how to speak
and, essentially, "be English."  English was the language that many Postcolonial
writers learned in school, many times at the expense of their own indigenous language.

This is where English's role is complex in Postcolonial literature.  On one hand, it is
the language of the oppressor, coming at the cost of one's own original language.  At the same
time, it is the way in which voice is activated.  To tell a Postcolonial writer who was raised
with learning English that they need to go back and write solely in "their own
language" acts as another form of silencing voice.  Therefore, these writers use English as
a way to deconstruct the English.  In other words, the language operates as
both representative of oppression and the resistance against it.  This shows English to be a
complex entity in Postcolonial writing.

How should I define the Character Sketch of Vera in the Story "The Open Window" written by H.H Munro?

In H.H.
Munro's (also known as ) short story of teenage mischief "", the main character is
Vera; a fifteen year old young lady who is also the niece of Mrs Stappleton. The latter is the
woman whom Mr. Frampton Nuttel comes to visit as a formal guest to be able to spend some time
away after having suffered a nervous breakdown.

Vera's characters is
well-foreshadowed in the very beginning after he meets Mr. Nuttel. When she welcomes him in,
Saki describes the following:

MY aunt will be down
presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessedyoung lady of fifteen; "in the
meantime you must try and put up with me.

Here we see
that Vera is "self-possessed" which means that she has the manners, the attitude, and
the persona of someone who is well-under control of herself. This, when compared to the present
state of Frampton, serves as an indicator that the two contrast greatly. However, it tells us
also that, out of the two, it is Vera who has the potential of controlling the entire situation
to her wishes. This is why she subtlety adds that one sentence which foreshadows her:

You must try and put up with me.

From that alone, we can sketch Vera as a cunning, mischievous (she is not necessarily a
"bad" kid, just a mischievous, trying, and curious one), and as quite much wiser than
we think.

During her story about the open window, which is false and
calculated to scare Frampton, Vera shows a myriad of well-planned mannerisms that account for
her love of mischief: She dramatizes, elaborates, embellishes, takes away truths, adds lies, and
controls her story just for the sake of driving Frampton crazy. She does this for no other
reason than to please herself. This helps us sketch Vera further as dramatic, creative,
inventive, artistic, and of course, a bit perverse.

After witnessing the
arrival of the three - MUCH alive- house men coming from hunting, Frampton has become so
enthralled with Vera's story that, when he saw the supposedly dead men arriving back to the
manor he blasted off in panic.

Vera does not acknowledge nor makes much of
the situation. She simply explained to her aunt how curious Mr. Frampton was in coming and going
this way. This seals the deal: Vera is a girl who may have become so bored with life in the
country (as many other country Victorian estate young ladies did), that she has excelled at the
art of storytelling. We cannot take away the hint that Saki gives us with Vera: She, her wit,
her storytelling techniques, and her bit of malice reminds us of another witty, malicious
storyteller: Saki, himself!

In Kindred, both Kevin and Dana know that they can't change history. They say: "We're in the middle of history. We surely can't change it" (100) and...

Let me
start by answering the final question in a more concrete way. The reason that the reader is
experiencing Dana's journey in lockstep with her is because the narrative point of view is first
person. What Dana experiences, we experience. What she feels and thinks is what we experience,
and what she learns, hopefully we learn. I believe that is the larger question here. Why is it
important that Dana and the reader experience what we experience? The answer to that question is
much more subjective and best left up to individual readers.

What Dana
experiences back in time is horrible, and it is tough for her and us to know that she can't do
anything about it. I think that is an important message for readers. You
can't change the past, but that doesn't make it any less important. It's
important to know your past and where you came from in order to better understand where you are
now. That is a valuable lesson that Dana learns from her experiences, and
readers hopefully learn it too.

How does Chirstine view motherhood?

Christine Linde is depicted as a rational,

intelligent woman, who had to face some life's most difficult challenges. Unlike Nora,
Christine
has not been coddled or given fair opportunities. She has
experienced a difficult life by
marrying a businessman so that she could
support her dying mother and two younger brothers. In
order to care for her
family, Christine chose financial stability over love and broke up with .

Tragically, Christine's mother and husband passed away and her brothers grew up, leaving
her
completely alone in the world without anyone to care for. Although
Christine is independent, she
desires to become a mother and hopes to
rekindle a relationship with her former lover Nils
Krogstad.

In act three, Christine reunites with Nils and the two speak openly

about their feelings and current situations. During their conversation, Christine
compares
herself to a "shipwrecked woman clinging to some wreckage" and
suggests that she join
forces with Nils. Christine proceeds to elaborate on
her feelings towards motherhood by
saying,

"There is not the least pleasure in working
for one's self. Nils,
give me someone and something to work for" (Ibsen, 33).

Although Christine is a capable, independent woman, she is
not
content and believes that caring for others is significantly more
emotionally fulfilling.
Essentially, Christine cherishes motherhood and
desires to raise Krogstads children. She goes on
to say,

"I want to be a mother to someone, and your

children need a mother. We two need each other" (Ibsen, 34).

Unlike , who rejects conventional motherhood
altogether at the end of the play,
Christine desires to care for a family and
is willing to raise Krogstads children. Christine
Lindes views regarding
marriage and motherhood are more traditional and her relationship with
Nils
is based on equality, respect, and understanding.

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In "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, why does Phoenix Jackson talk to herself?

Phoenix
Jackson in byhas a mission---to travel the worn path and get the medicine that her grandson
desperately needs. She has been making this trek for three years since he swallowed lye and
burned his throat.

This journey is not easy for Phoenix.  The author
describes her as quite old.  Phoenix does not know her age. She carries an umbrella that she
uses as a cane to ward off any critters that try to attack her.  Her poor vision often deceives
her; for example, she sees a scarecrow that she at first thinks is a man and later a
ghost.

Her attitude toward life amazes the reader.  She humorously jokes
about the difficulty of the path and the things that she encounters. 

Her
banter serves two purposes. It tells the reader about Phoenix and her beautiful personality. 
What she says provides much of the humor to give some lightheartedness to a serious story. 
Phoenix may have always talked to herself to keep company.  Much of what she says is addressed
to the outside forces that might prevent her from accomplishing her goal.

It
is interesting that Phoenix has learned how to respond to the prejudice of the white people she
encounters. When the hunter calls her granny or implies that she is going to town to meet Santa
Claus, Phoenix does not argue or try to set him right.  She keeps her mouth shut and goes on her
way. Of course, she is elated that he dropped a nickel that she now has in her pocket.

One of the obvious aspects of Phoenix comes from her memory failure.  Everything works
as good as possible for Phoenix except that she has spells of drifting off in her
thinking:

A big black dog came up out of the weeds by the ditch. She was
meditating, and not ready, and when he came at her she only hit him a little with her cane. Over
she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.

Down there, her senses drifted away. A dream visited her, and she
reached her hand up, but nothing reached down and gave her a pull. So she lay there and
presently went to talking. 'Old woman,' she said to herself, 'that black dog come up
out of the weeds to stall you off, and now there he sitting on his fine tail, smiling at
you.'

Because of her age, senility, dementia,
or strokes are possible reasons for her forgetfulness and her talking to herself.  When she
drifts off or does not remember what she is doing, it is obvious that Phoenixs body may outlive
her mind.  

Describe the subterranean forests in Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

The
mushroom forest in the subterranean regions has a very strange aspect. At first Axel takes the
mushrooms for tall and peculiarly motionless, colourless trees. Here, however, the forests
contain not trees, as on the surface of the earth, but various growths that on earth normally
remain small and underfoot. Due to the...

How is Pearl compared to the babbling brook in The Scarlet Letter?

The chapter you want to
refer to in order to answer this question is Chapter Sixteen, which describes a walk thatand her
daughter take into the forest, and how they sit next to the babbling brook. It is important to
realise that while the text asserts a comparison betweenand the brook, it also points out that
there are a number of differences between them as to behavior as shown in the following
paragraph:

Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the
current of her life gushed from a wellspring as mysterious, and had flowed through scenes
shadowed as heavily with gloom. But, unlike the little stream, she danced and sparkled, and
prattled airily along her course.

Thus we can see that
the brook and Pearl are compared in the way that they both come from obscure origins and have
seen much "gloom" and darkness in their lives. However, the central difference between
them is that Pearl is not overshadowed by this darkness, and is able to "dance and
sparkle," in contrast to the sombre brook that Pearl finds to be "foolish and
tiresome" because of its sadness.

What is a description of Joel's character in The Bronze Bow?

Joel from the start of
this excellent novel is paired up with Daniel. They are both eighteen years old and appear
together in the first chapter. Likewise, both Joel and Daniel are filled with nationalistic zeal
against the Roman overlords that have controlled their country for so long. Both desire and
yearn for the end of the occupation of the Romans. Note how he is described in Chapter
One:

He was Joel bar Hezron, the red-cheeked boy who used
to come to the synagogue...

Who are the characters in Canto 3 of Dante's Inferno?

After
Virgil and Dante enter through the gate of Hell, Dante is greatly perturbed by a hideous
cacophony of screams, moans, and shrill, faint voices. He asks Virgil where these terrifying
voices are coming from. Virgil says that these are the shades of those sinners who have
"lost their intellect." This circle of Hell is occupied by those who failed to choose
between good and evil, the "coward angels" who stubbornly refused to take sides in the
eternal battle between God and Satan. One of these unfortunate characters is Pope Celestine V,
whose abdication paved the way for Dante's personal and political enemy, Boniface VIII, to sit
on the papal throne.

InIII, we're also introduced to the grotesque figure of
Charon, who has the unenviable job of ferrying dead souls across the river Acheron. When he sees
Dante and Virgil, he refuses to take them across. After all, Dante isn't yet dead. But Virgil
soon persuades him otherwise, and Charon reluctantly takes them on board, allowing Dante and
Virgil to continue on their epic journey. 

Who or what is the subject of The Fire Next Time?

Put
simply, the subject of 's is the problem of race in America. At the heart
of the book lies a question: why is it that race actually is a
"problem"? What is it, one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that has
resulted in African Americans still being oppressed, assigned a different status than that of
white people, by the Establishment?

In grappling with this question, Baldwin
is analyzing his own thoughts and reactions, throughout his life, as much as he's examining the
historical forces and the present-day attitudes (in 1963) which have perpetuated a dysfunctional
situation. While critical of the attitudes of white people, he also states forcefully his
disagreement with certain black leaders such as Elijah Mohammed who, in Baldwin's view, are
putting forward unrealistic solutions and have created a racial mythology of their own as
dangerous and self-defeating as that of the whites.

That the book is still
relevant, fifty-five years later, is an indication that even with the very real progress that
has taken place during these decades, much, much more needs to be done. Without offering any
direct "solution" to a situation of enormous complexity Baldwin's implied answer is
that all Americans need to accept (and to accept as a positive thing) the inevitability of a
truly multicultural and multiracial society. Only then can the United States fulfill its promise
to mankind made at the beginning of its history.

Describe in detail the Age of Chaucer, including background events as well as social, political, and literary works.

The Age
of Chaucer was a very interesting time period and you can see it reflected in his works. On the
one hand, it was a time of extreme unrest and uncertainty. The plague had wiped out a large
percentage of the European population, there was much political upheaval, and people were
generally uneasy.

On the other hand, the Catholic Church held a stranglehold
over the entirety of western civilization, and they were largely unquestioned and held in high
esteem. So while people were extremely distrustful and uneasy, they took deep comfort in
religious iconography and looked to Catholic ceremony...

Why was Germany so succesful in its early military victories? Discuss the part of the Allies in Germany's early success. Why was Germany so succesful...

These are
very thorough answers, but in short the world did not take Hitler seriously because he was not
their problem.  He was targeting Jews, an unpopular people, and he was in a country far away
targeting other countries we were not allied with.  Until he attacked England and France, we
stayed out of it.

My exams are in two months, and I need all the important essay questions and answers (broad ones) that will cover the complete overview of Never Let Me...

A Homework
Help answer can't contain answers to all possible questions, but I'll try and get you on
track.

If you're in a rush to re-familiarize yourself with the plot and
characters, the 2010 film adaptation is quite faithful and might help jog your memory.

Questions could cover topics as far ranging as:

• the...
  

Compare the United States economic system to that of Japan.

This
century both the United States and Japan have ranked in the top five largest economies of the
world by GDP (Nominal), with the US consistently maintaining the top position. In 2018,
according to the International Monetary Fund, the US ranked number one with a GDP at $20.4
trillion versus Japan's $5.2 trillion at number three. This gap can be attributed partly to the
fact that the US was home to 327 million citizens by 2018, compared with Japan's population of
127 million, according to Worldometers.info.

Both countries are strong
exporters of high tech. Japan's industrial sector relies on imported raw materials and fuels.
Both governments provide substantial subsidies to farmers and have high crop yields that feed
the world. While the US has transitioned from a manufacturing to a service economy with real
estate, professional and businesses and government as leading industries, Japan's top industries
are automobiles, consumer electronics and computers.

Unlike the US, which
enjoyed an...

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In the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass, what does Douglass have to say about the consequences of slavery for Americans, black and white, North and South?

vividly describes the horrors of institutionalized slavery throughout his moving narrative and
illustrates the tragic consequences slavery has on both black and white individuals involved in
the system. For black slaves, slavery was a dehumanizing experience, which resulted in a life of
oppression, fear, and hard work. Frederick recalls witnessing brutal beatings, interacting with
unscrupulous, insensitive slave owners, and remembers the various methods owners used to
manipulate and control their slaves.

Enslaved black people were separated
from their families, forced to work long hours, and suffered unmerciful beatings at their
masters' whims. Slave masters purposely censored knowledge, spied on their slaves, and would
often cultivate distrust among their slaves to prevent a rebellion. As a result, black slaves
developed into cautious, anxious individuals who were afraid to rebel and did not trust their
peers. Enslaved black people also lost much of their heritage and...

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What did Scrooge do after his visitor left?

More
details, please. Which visitor are you asking about? In addition to the four spirits (Marley and
the three ghosts of Christmas) who come to Scrooge, he is also visited by his nephew and by two
men seeking a donation for charity. Your question cannot be answered without more
details.

Who is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

There is no one person
responsible for s death, but they are each partly to blame.

takes responsibility forand s death because he secretly married them, he gave Juliet the potion
that made Romeo think she was dead, and he failed to get word to Romeo that she wasnt.  However,
there are many other people who can be considered responsible, including Montague and Capulet, ,
, , and Prince Escalus.

The two lovers would not have died if Juliets parents
had not insisted that she marry Paris, so a large part of the blame belongs with them.  Montague
is also responsible for continuing the feud between the two families that led the two lovers to
keeping their marriage secret.

If Mercutio had not fought Tybalt, and Tybalt
had not returned to fight Romeo, Romeo would not have been banished for killing
Tybalt.

Now, Tybalt, take the €˜villain back
again

That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul

Is but
a little way above our heads,

Staying for thine to keep him
company.

Either thou or I, or both, must go with him. (Act 3, Scene
1)

is also partly to blame, because he could have found
a better way to deal with the feud.  He seems very frustrated with the two families, because
people are dying in the streets due to the silly feud.  Considering the circumstances of Romeos
killing Tybalt he just banishes him, but he could have looked into the situation a little more.
If Romeo had not been banished he would not have fled and then returned to find Juliet
supposedly dead.

Finally, you cant forget to lay blame on the star-crossed
lovers themselves.  Romeo and Juliet act impulsively, irresponsibly, and foolishly from the
beginning of the play until the end.  They did not need to marry in secret, Juliet did not need
to fake her death, and Romeo did not have to kill himself as soon as he saw her.  Likewise,
Juliet might have put some thought into it before killing herself when she awoke to find Romeo
dead.

Although the deaths of the two lovers do bury their parents strife,
it is certainly at a high cost.  Rash actions on most of the characters parts resulted in theof
the young love cut short.  It is a lesson to us all to think before we
act.

Was photography accepted as a legitimate art form in the 19th century?

As far back as
the tenth century, Arabian physicist and mathematician Ibn Al Haitam experimented with images
seen through the pinhole. Then, in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci observed that if the
facade of a building faces the sun and a hole is drilled through a wall that is also facing this
direct direction, images of everything all the objects that are illuminated by the sun will be
projected upside down upon the wall facing the sun.  This phenomenon he termed "oculis
artificialis" [artificial eye]. From this observation, men began the process of developing
the camera. Much later in France, inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce experimented with
camera obscura and silver chloride. Certainly, at this point camera images
were a scientific study.

With the advancements made in photography, many
artists saw this medium for recording visual images as a tremendous threat to their
professions.  With the invention of the Kodak No. 2 Brownie box by George Eastman in America,
the camera became an affordable and popular item. In fact, in 1862, a group of French painters
became interested in the perspective that the camera's "eye" presented as opposed to
that of the human eye. One impressionistic painter whose perspective imitated the camera's eye
is Edgar Degas, who depictions of ballerinas is from unusual and cropped perspectives.  In May
of 1874, French artists exhibited impressionistic photographs; moreover this group continued for
twelve years and had work exhibited by such greats as Cezanne and Gauguin.

Nevrtheless, despite the movement of Pictorialism in which men like Peter Henry Emerson
exhibited their aesthetic and emotionally charged photographic images, photography
was really not recognized as an art until the twentieth century with such
artistic individuals as Ansel Adams, who made use of "Zone System" and
"F-64" in which everything is in focus. With filters and other devices, in
his beautiful photographs from the National Parks of the U.S. he recreated dimension and detail
as well as magnificent panorama.

What are some ways in which the colonizers benefited from imperialism?

There are at
least three ways in which colonizers benefited from imperialism.  They benefited (or at least
could potentially benefit) economically, militarily, and politically.

A
major reason for imperialism was economic.  Colonizers were industrialized countries that needed
sources of raw materials and new markets in which to sell their goods.  If they colonized
countries that had resources that they needed, they could take those resources for themselves.
They could produce finished goods and sell...

At what age group is Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde aimed?

While Stevenson is noted for writing
children's adventures like and , the
novel  is categorized as an adult horror novel. The striking thing about
the origins of this story is that it was inspired by a nightmare from which Stevenson awoke
screaming. The dream was of a villainous monstrous transformation induced by a white powder. One
can only speculate that his fear resulting from the dream convinced him that adults were the
proper target for such a frightening horror tale about the consequences of rejecting the need
for controls on the powers of evil.

The most significant textual evidence
that this is a story for adults is that much of the story revolves around a philosophical
discussion of the nature of good and evil as in Jekyll's letter:

it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the
mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the
perennial war among my members. ..., I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, [...] It was on
the moral side, ... that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; ...
the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, ... I was radically both; ...,
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, ... on the thought of the separation of these
elements.

The internal debates within the text regarding
the nature of good and evil are of an esoteric nature and not composed for the consideration of
any but an adult mind. Another textual proof that it is a story for adults is that there are no
youthful heroes or heroines: the characters of interest are exclusively adults, like the
intended audience.

What is the significance of the pink ribbons in this story?

We associate the pink
ribbons with Faith, Goodman Brown's young wife, whose innocence and devout character are seemed
to be represented in part by the colour of her ribbons. I think potentially that the falling to
the ground of these ribbons can symbolise one of the themes of the story, which is the fact that
we are all sinners - none of us are so good as to avoid the taint of sin on our lives entirely.
It is clear that at the beginning of the story Goodman Brown idolises his wife, and yet the
'dream' he has in the forest causes him to doubt his impressions of her. It is this 'fall' from
the pedestal that he has put her on that is symbolised by the fall of the
ribbons.

What modern songs relate to the acts of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

To pick
songs related to Shakespeare's acts in , we would first identify a major
theme in each act. Then, it's easy to perform Google keyword searches on songs based on the same
theme and pick the ones that interest you.

In the first act of the play,
Shakespeare introduces the theme concerning violence and juxtaposes it with love to show the
inanity of violence. Many popular antiviolence
songs exist. One song was released by the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas in
2003 and titled "Where is the Love?" As a song that covers many topics, including
racism, terrorism, senseless killing, pleas to God for help, and love, the song ideally
expresses the central theme found in the first act of the play.

The play
opens with servants of the Montagues and Capulets breaking out into a senseless brawl in the
streets of Verona. echoes the cries for peace found in The Black
Eyed Peas' song when he declares, "Part, fools! / Put up your swords; you know not what you
do" (I.i.50-51). Similar cries for peace are found throughout
the song, such as in the following two lines of the fourth stanza:

Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love,
y'all, y'all.

In asking their audience to "take
control of [our] minds," the performers are asserting, just like Benvolio, that we are
being foolish, even insane. And, just like Benvolio, the performers are asserting that the only
way to establish peace is by being calm, rational, and finding love in our
hearts.

What's the epiphany in "Araby"?

The
epiphany in 's short story " " takes place when the young boy overhears a casual,
meaningless conversation between an English woman and two men while he is standing at a stall
about to purchase something for Mangan's sister. As he listens to the meaningless conversation,
the young boy experiences an epiphany and realizes for...

What is a matrix structure in an organization? Please explain.

Ok, a Matrix
structure is one of the ways that an organization sets up its control and delegation of tasks. 
Lets start by comparing the matrix structure to something that it is not.  Think of a typical
organization with workers, a supervisor, a regional manager, and corporate office management. 
This is a hierarchical structure. 

Think of a matrix structure as the
anti-hierarchy.  Each set of employees is broken up into projects or teams.  The team does not
have a specific "boss," but may have a lead member that helps coordinate activities. 
Each individual employee may belong to several teams, working on many projects at once.  They
might be a leader in one team and a member of another.  By splitting up tasks without delegating
from a central authority (such as a manager), some advocates of matrix organizations claim that
employee creativity and freedom are maximized.  A good example of a matrix organization might be
a software company that is developing several new products.  Each product or project might have
5 members (or more).  These teams are responsible for getting their products into production
without a higher overseeing authority.

What is the overarching message from the Book of Jonah that helps us today? What are the ways that we can get confused about or struggle with God's...

The
overarching message of Jonah is that we must obey God's commands, even if they go against our
wishes and desires. The second overarching message is that mercy is a great goodone which God
models in sparing Nineveh.

Jonah is instructed by God to tell the people of
the Assyrian city of Nineveh to repent of their sins or they will soon be destroyed by God.
Jonah doesn't want to do this, so he flees and gets passage on board a ship. However, God sends
a great storm that threatens to destroy the ship. When Jonah admits he is the cause of the
storm, the sailors throw him overboard. He is swallowed by a great fish, often said to be a
whale, but after he prays to God for deliverance and promises to do his will, he is vomited from
the whale.

At this point, he preaches to Nineveh that they have 40 days to
repent or be destroyed. They do and are spared. Jonah is angry about this and sulks. God grows a
gourd to shade Jonah and then kills it. Jonah is upset over this act. God says to him:

Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not
laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should
not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that
cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

We can get confused and struggle with God's purpose when we mistake
our own ideas of what God's purpose should be for God's purpose. When God's ideas don't align
with our own, it is easy to decide God is wrong and that we don't have to obey. Furthermore, we
tend to be angry when sin is forgiven rather than punished because our sense of justice kicks
in. But we have to remember, as Jonah is reminded, that mercy is a great gift and virtue, and
one that God has the right to dispense.

What are some quotes that show how Scout is being influenced by Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Becauselives in Maycomb, she is constantly
influenced by her community. As she grows up a bit during the course of the novel, she
increasingly realizes that many aspects of her familys way of living and thinking are different
from that of the dominant society. Nevertheless, she interacts with her fellow community members
on a daily basis.

One negative feature of Maycomb is that the townspeople
tend to gossip, and stories about Arthur () Radley circulate widely. Scouts na¯ve acceptance
of the more outlandish, violent tales show how the town has influenced her. In , Scout tells
what she knows about the misery of the Radley house and says that most of her information
comes from neighborhood legend and whatpassed along that he had heard from Miss Stephanie, a
neighborhood scold, who told him how Boo stabbed his father.

But there are
positive influences to offset the gossip. Another way that the community affects her is through
the example of several adult women. Scouts mother died long ago, and she has grown up with her
father alone; their housekeeper often provides child care. In , after Jem and Dill begin to
exclude her, Scout grows closer to their neighbor Miss Maudie. She becomes an important part of
the positive influence of Maycomb on the young girl, as she speaks to her like an equal and
gives her good advice about not paying too much attention to rumors. She offers perspective on
Arthur Radley, whom she knew as a child and speculates about the negative influence of his home,
encouraging Scout to feel compassion.

Why did Richard Cory commit sucide in Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory"? Uncovering motives in literature-the understanding of phychological aspect of...

committed
suicide because, despite all the things he had, his life was empty.  The poet's message in the
poem is that the traditionally sought-after objectives in life - social stature, money, and
material comfort - are not enough to make life meaningful.

Richard Cory
appeared to have it all.  Everyone wished "that (they) were in his place".  He was
"a gentleman from sole to crown", and he was good looking, "imperial and
slim".  Not only that, he was dignified and classy, "quietly arrayed" and
"skilled in every grace", and he was nice as well, "human when he talked". 
People were in awe of him; like celebrities of our time, "he fluttered pulses when he said
"Good morning".  And best of all, he was "richer than a
king".

The speakers in the poem are not so fortunate.  They must toil
hard just to get by, "work(ing) on and wait(ing) for the light".  Their lives seem
like drudgery, nine to five, probably surviving paycheck to paycheck, but they have no choice
but to labor on.  They look at Richard Cory with awe and a little envy, hoping one day they can
be just like him, because he seems to have everything.

The poet doesn't flat
out state why Richard Cory killed himself.  He makes a pretty clear case though, for the
position that all those things he has that everyone else wants are not enough.  He is
"human", but although people admire and envy him, they do not connect with him on a
personal level.  He lives in loneliness and isolation, and, despite his material possessions,
his life is not worth living.

Please paraphrase the poem "The Wife's Lament" as translated by Ann Stanford. Please when you finish explaining a stanza, tell me that you moved...

I
would really recommend reading this poem in the original Anglo-Saxon, with a line-by-line
literal translation to help you if necessary, as well as looking at Stanford's translation.
Think about the fact that the title is one imposed upon the poem by later scholars: it makes us
think about the poem in a certain way, but it is not the title of the original poet.

When you are asked to paraphrase a poem, what's being asked of you is to convert the
poem's meaning into plain Englishessentially, to make it into straightforward prose. You're
being asked to show you understand what the poem is saying. This can be especially hard with
poems translated from another language, as this one has been: Anglo-Saxon is so far removed from
modern English that Stanford has had to make careful decisions aboutand phrasing in order to
keep the rhythm and sense of the original.

The first stanza, then, is saying
something like this:

This is a song about myself, to
express the sadness of my journey. I, a...

Why shouldn't the United States have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan? Please answer with three criteria.

The most
commonly cited argument against the use of the atomic bombs against Japan is that they were
inhumane. They killed over 200,000 people in the blasts alone. Many more died later as a result
of burns and radiation-induced sickness. The bombs killed civilians indescribably. The atomic
bombs were not used against military targets, but rather against whole cities and their civilian
populations. It is true that the firebombings of cities occurred throughout the war. Tokyo
itself had already been devastated by the use of conventional firebombs resulting in around
100,000 deaths. However, it has been argued that the type of injuries and wholesale destruction
caused by nuclear fission is completely unacceptable in war.

It has also
been argued that the use of atomic bombs was unnecessary because Japan was already on the verge
of defeat. By the summer of 1945, their Pacific empire had been dismantled by the American
island-hopping strategy. They had retreated from much of mainland Asia and...

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What are some quotes that show Romeo being impulsive in Romeo and Juliet?

impulsively
moves from being the courtly lover to becoming the impetuous, impulsive lover and fighter, and
then the depressed lover.

Act I

Early in the play Romeo reacts emotionally to the news that his beloved Rosaline is
going to a convent as he speaks dramatically in oxymorons: "O heavy lightness! serious
vanity!" (1.1.168). But in a few scenes, he is excited again, and becomes instantly in love
at his first sight of :

Oh, she doth teach the torches to
burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like  a rich jewel in
an Ehiop's ear--
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! (1.5.43-45)

After seeing Juliet at the Capulet masque, Romeo rushes toward her
when he finds a chance to speak with her, recklessly disregarding the fact that she is of the
opposing family: 

If I profane with my unworthiest
hand
This holy shrine,... (1.5.87-88) 

and he
even boldly asks to kiss her:

Then move not while my
prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged. (1.5.
102-103)

Act II

After his passionate meeting with Juliet, Romeo rushes in the night to be able to see
her, and, perhaps, again speak with her. Risking death if the Capulet guards see him, he scales
the wall of the orchard and stands beneath her balcony. And, when Juliet comes out and speaks
about Romeo and his name being their only impediment, Romeo boldly and impetuously declares that
he will gladly change his name for her:

I take thee at thy
word.
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized.
Henceforth I never will be
Romeo. (2.2.50-51)

Then, after exchanging their vows of
love for one another, Romeo rushes toto ask him to perform the marriage ceremony for Juliet and
him. Although the priest warns Romeo about being so impulsive--"These violent delights have
violent ends" (2.6.7)--he feels that marrying the two may help to end the feuding of the
two families. So, after knowing each other for only hours,are married.

Act III

When Romeo finds his
friendsandengaged in a heated exchange with , he rushes to stop the aggression between Mercutio
and Tybalt. Unfortunately, he rashly thinks that his words of good will can soothe Tybalt, even
though Tybalt has no knowledge of any change having taken place in this Montague. Unfortunately,
Mercutio is stabbed because Romeo impulsively steps in the way, preventing Mercutio's sword from
defending him.
Rashly discarding his good will after Mercutio dies, Romeo attacks
Tybalt, crying out: 

Away to Heaven, respective
lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
Now, Tybalt, take the
"villain" back again (3.1.85-87)

In his frenzy,
Romeo kills Tybalt, an impetuous act which causes his banishment from Verona. 

Act V

When Romeo is misinformed bythat
Juliet is dead, he rushes to an apothecary, demanding poison. Becauseis poor, he gives Romeo the
poison he wants. Then, Romeo hurries to the Capulet catacombs. Shortly thereafter, he encounters
, "Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee"(5.3.70), and he kills the count.

Finally, when Romeo discovers Juliet and believes her dead, he does not think things
through at all. For, even though he notices that her face does not have the appearance of
death--"Why art thou yet so fair?"(5.3.111)--he does not hesitate before he decides to
join her in death. 

Amidst the whirlwind of his emotions, Romeo acts
impulsively, thinking himself driven at times by Fate. But, more than his being "Fortune's
fool," in his rash decisions and actions, Romeo himself seems to work against his own
well-being and good fortune.

What does the red ear of corn signify in Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

The red ear of
corn mentioned Chapter 13 signifies a
colonial tradition. As described in Chapter 13, just like they had
barn raisings and house raisings in which they turned difficult labor into a community event and
celebration to help complete the work faster, the colonials also held cornhusking
bees in which they made a festivity out of husking
the year's corn harvest to have it ready in time to be stored for the winter. As Judith
describes to Kit, the cornhusking bee was like a great big party full of music, "cakes and
apples and cider." What's more, red ears of corn, which are a
different breed of corn and rarer than yellow corn, were treated as a type of
prize. Due to the red color, the colonials
attributed romantic symbolism to the corn, much like we see the
color red symbolizing love and romance today. Hence, the colonials used finding a
red ear of corn as a courtship ritual, and those who found red corn were
permitted to the publicly kiss the person of his/her choice, an
activity that would normally be scorned by the Puritans ("Oh Shucks!,"
"Activities," p. 5.).

While one has to read between the lines a
bit, the prize one wins by finding a red ear of corn is explained in the final
passage of Chapter 13 in which Judith husks a red ear of corn. Since she has just
become engaged to marry John Holbrook, she feels she has no need for a courtship ritual and
throws the ear of corn to William who is still pursuing Kit to be his wife, as we see in the
lines:

"I haven't any need for a thing like that! ...
What am I offered for it?" Without waiting for an answer, she tossed it straight across the
[husking] circle into William's hands. There were a few quick giggles, a hush of curiosity. Kit
sat helpless, her cheeks on one, and then the laughter and the cheering left her giddy as
William stepped resolutely forward to claim his forfeit.

Here, the word "forfeit" means fine, or fee. William was given/has won the
red ear of corn; therefore, he is owed a fine or a prize, and the fine he takes is
a kiss from Kit. Hence, we see that a red ear of corn was significant in colonial
days as a courtship ritual.

For how long will the damned suffer in hell, according to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards?

"" by , a Puritan minister, is arguably the most famous sermon in American
literature. It was delivered in 1741 at the peak of a revival of spirituality in America called
the Great Awakening to a rather recalcitrant church. The sermon is full of vividdesigned to
awaken fear and inspire faith in listeners, and by most accounts, it worked. 

In the fourth point of the "Application" section of the sermon, Edwards
reminds the people sitting in the pews--many of whom by this point in the sermon
are...

What was the cause of African-Amercans' discontent?

Long after the
Civil War there was racial segregation throughout the United States as the U.S. Supreme Court in
1883 declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. Federal workplaces and the U.S.
military were segregated. In the North, African-Americans were restricted by hotels and such as
to where they could stay. Also, there were patterns of segregation in banking practices,
housing, and employment. In the South, African-Americans experienced segregation in every facet
of their lives. The Jim Crow Laws had established that there were to be "separate but
equal" facilities for blacks and whites, but such was not the case. Schools were run down,
housing was in the most unfavorable areas, only lowly jobs were available--every place was
segregated. In some places voting rights were denied. Although in a landmark decision in 1954,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated
schools were unconstitutional, the Jim Crow Laws were not overruled until 1964 when the Civil
Rights Act and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed.

The Reverend Martin
Luther King became a civil rights activist in the 1950s as he participated in the 1955
Montgomery (AL) Bus Boycott. He embraced the non-violent protest methods of Mahatma Ghandi and
helped to organize non-violent protests in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. It was there that he was
arrested and wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." King, who helped to
found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, organized a march to Washington, D.C. where
he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

In his speech, Dr. King
uses theof a promissory note to describe the promises of the U.S. Constitution that were denied
African-Americans, declaring that they are calling in this note.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be
guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar
as her citizens of color are concerned. 

African-Americans wanted the freedoms to which they were entitled under the
Constitution, King explains.

...Now is the time to lift
our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the
time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

African-Americans do not wish to be denied their Constitutional rights any longer, King
contends in his speech. For it is this denial of their rights that has caused the discontent of
many and led them to march on Washington, D.C.

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What is the central idea of William Blake's poem "The Tyger"?

byis a poem exploring
the nature of the Creator. Throughout the poem, the speaker lists attributes of the tyger and
then poses a question about how such a thing could be made. For example, in the fourth stanza,
the speaker says:

What the hammer? what the
chain,

In what furnace was thy
brain?

What the anvil? what dread
grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors
clasp!

Here, he is questioning what it would
take, and who would be able, to create something that strikes fear into those who see
it.

The fifth stanza closes on this line: "Did he who made the
Lamb make thee?" This question helps to illuminate the purpose of the poem, as
we understand that the speaker is struggling to believe that a Creator who could fashion
something as peaceful and sweet as a lamb could also create something as powerful and deadly as
a tiger.

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In the story "Young Goodman Brown", what do the pink ribbons symbolize?

I see the pink
ribbons symbolizing the ambivalence that Goodman Brown is experiencing in continuing his journey
further into the woods.  The color pink is created when you mix white (purity, innocence) with
red (evil, devil).  Therefore, the pink ribbons floating down from the sky when Goodman Brown is
troubled about what he is experiencing on his journey symbolizes his torment that he is
experiencing in trying to resist evil. The two colors mixing together symbolizes the
"mixing" if you will of the fight within Goodman Brown between thoughts of good and
evil.

The pink ribbons also symbolize that good and evil are mixed and
inherent in every human being as Goodman Brown realizes when his journey takes him to the
Devil's altar at the end of the story.

What are the boys and girls of noble family taught?

In
Lilliput, children are educated in large
public nurseries where they are taught the skills and
knowledge appropriate
to their social standing. Boys and girls of the Lilliputian nobility are

taught honor, justice, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of country. Life's pretty
hard in
the nursery for both sexes: they are never allowed out of the sight
of their professors and must
never talk...

Why was working for wages resisted by ex-slaves struggling for freedom after emancipation?

Ex-slaves
resisted working for wages after emancipation for several reasons.  One reason was the former
slaves were used to having all of their basic needs taken care of by the plantation owner.  As
long as they had been alive, they didnt have to worry about these needs. Some former slaves
preferred to have this arrangement continue after being freed.  Since the former slaves had no
experience in buying food, getting clothing, as well as locating and securing a place to live,
it was easier for them to stay on the plantation and work there in exchange for having their
basic needs covered.  Also, many former slaves had no idea what a good wage would be for their
labor.  Additionally, some plantation owners told the former slaves they were not free to
leave.  Since the slaves had been used to following orders their entire life, many continued to
believe in and listen to the planation owners.  Furthermore, many slaves found life to be very
difficult after being freed.  In some cases, white landowners wouldnt rent them land. In other
cases, the sharecropping system kept some former slaves in a slavery-like condition (because of
the constant debt), that some slaves preferred to work on plantations, not for pay, but for
having their needs taken care of by the plantation owners. There were several reasons why former
slaves resisted working for wages after they were freed.

What Advice Does Thoreau Offer To Those Who Live In Poverty

Henry
Thoreau doesnt specifically offer advice to anyone already living in dire poverty, per se.
Instead, in the Economy chapter of , he recommends simplifying ones life
as much as possible. This simplification extends to career choice and bank book tally. He sees
wealth as a burden, not a benefit. He tells us in paragraph 96 that he found by working about
six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. He did surveying work, wrote,
lectured, and did some manual labor. In paragraph 98, he says, In short, I am convinced, both
by faith and experience, that to maintain ones self on this earth is not a hardship but a
pastime, if we will live simply and wisely. His needs were few, and he figured out how much
money he needed to live the way he wanted to live. He didnt need to accumulate more, just for
the sake of having it.

He continues with this theme in the next chapter,
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, where he tackles the topics of material possession,
including land ownership. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can
afford to let alone, he says at the end of the first paragraph. He fostered living not only a
simple life, but a deliberate one. We dont need to surround ourselves with a lot of meaningless
stuff. He never owned property, either. As long as possible live free and uncommitted, he says
in paragraph 5. If you owned a house or land, you were chained to it unnecessarily and
permanently. This was not something he was willing to do. Yes, he lived in a simpler time, in
some ways. Yet his suggestions are still good reminders for us today: prompting us to take the
time to analyze what are the most important aspects of our lives. Work and possessions may not
be as important as we are often led to believe, especially by advertisers and marketing
experts.

You can find more of Thoreaus advice along these lines in his essay
Life Without Principle, as well as in the letters that he sent to friend H. G. O. Blake,
compiled in the book Letters to a Spiritual Seeker (Edited by Bradley P.
Dean, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004).