What is the thesis of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

was born in
the colony of Connecticut in the early 1700s. He was one of the preachers who had a large
influence on the Great Awakening, a time of spiritual revival in the 1700s. Edward's sermon
" " was characteristic of his style of preaching. This sermon centers on the sinful
nature of man and the wrath of God. In the sermon, Edwards writes, "All you that were never
born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and
before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God." This is
his basic thesis. Simply put, all of mankind has only two choices: a person can be spiritually
reborn into a new creation by the mercy of God, or they can remain dead in their sin and
experience the eternal wrath of God. A man's wickedness makes him poised on the very brink of
hell, and only because of the sovereign pleasure of God are men not cast immediately into hell
for their sins....

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Does Nick's attitude toward Gatsby change in chapters 5 and 6? Do you think that Nick is irritated in a way and feels sorry for ever setting foot upon...

I don't
believe thatis sorry he ever set foot on 's lawn. After all, as he says at the beginning of the
novel, Gatsby is the only person who redeems the other "foul dust" of that time in his
life. In , however, hearing thatwill relay a request to him from Gatsby, Nick thinks,

I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for
a moment I was sorry Id ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.

Nick does, nevertheless, go through with the request, which is for a meeting withat his
house, so that Gatsby can then take her next door and show her his mansion.

Nick does have moments of irritation with Gatsby in these two chapters. When Gatsby
follows Nick into his kitchen shortly after the reunion with Daisy and says it was all a
terrible mistake, Nick lectures him:

"Youre acting
like a little boy," I broke out impatiently. "Not only that but youre rude. Daisys
sitting in there all alone."

In , as Gatsby
complains to Nick that Daisy hates his giant parties, one of which she has finally attended with
, Nick knows this is true but lies to him (this is the man who claims that honesty is his
cardinal virtue!) and reassures him she does. Nick then says,

"I wouldnt ask too much of her," I ventured. "You cant repeat the
past."

This leads to Gatsby's famous declaration
which gets at both the heart of his motivations and theof the novel:

"Cant repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why
of course you can!"

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were
lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his
hand.

"Im going to fix everything just the way it was before," he
said, nodding determinedly. "Shell see."

He talked a lot about the
past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had
gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could
once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that
thing was€¦.

Nick becomes exasperated at times with
Gatsby's vulnerability and self-delusion regarding Daisy, a person he can see through more
clearly and who he understands more cynically than Gatsby does. Nick's attitude changes as he
gets to know Gatsby better, making Gatsby less a man of mystery to him, but Nick, nevertheless,
remains sympathetic to him.

What were the key characteristics of American culture and society during the 1950s?

The Fifties are
generally considered to be a stable period in American life. After the economic hardships of the
Great Depression in the Thirties and the challenges of World War II in the Forties, the United
States was ready for this period of relative calm.

However, hindsight gives
us a more interesting appraisal of what was going on in the Fifties. Several developments in the
areas of civil rights, literature, and music signaled the momentous changes that were coming in
just a few years as America entered the Sixties, possibly the most tumultuous of all American
decades.

Musically, the birth of rock and roll influenced society in terms of
more than just what people heard on the radio. Elvis Presleys success in combining black and
white music may have sparked protest among the white establishment, but it also led eventually
to increased inclusion of black culture in mainstream American life.

In
literature, the Fifties saw the birth of a literary group called the Beat Generation. The
website Literature Network characterized this group this way:

The taboos against frank discussions of sexuality were seen as unhealthy and possibly
damaging to the psyche. In the world of literature and art, the Beats stood in opposition to the
clean, almost antiseptic formalism of the early twentieth century Modernists. 

Although the Beats did not revolutionize literature the way that
rock and roll did music, they did pave the way for a more socially realistic literary tradition
moving forward.

Finally, and most importantly, The Civil Rights movement
continued to grow and increase its social impact. In 1955 Rosa Parks famously refused to change
her seat and move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Meanwhile, Martin Luther King
began to develop his arm of the movement, using nonviolent protest as a strategy, and in 1957
helped launch the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as its first president.

The United States was not simply locked in conformity in the Fifties. It was in
something more like a state of incubation, as new forces gathered before exploding into a social
revolution in the Sixties.

Discuss the beginnings of the Cold War in the Soviet Union and the United States. What led to the end of the Cold War in the Soviet Union?...

This is
quite a large question, as the Cold War is very complex. The Cold War originated when the Soviet
Union and the United States did not trust one another after WWII. The Soviets were angry that
the Americans did not share their atomic weapon technology, and the Americans did not like that
the Soviet Union continued to control Eastern Europe after WWII ended.

The
United States grew even more anxious when the Soviets clandestinely tested their own nuclear
device in 1949, years before American intelligence experts claimed that they would be able to.
This led to an arms race and the two superpowers fighting each other by proxy in Korea, Vietnam,
Afghanistan and various other nations. It also led to the United States supporting right-wing
governments in the developing world only because those leaders were against communism, even
though they had a dubious record on human rights. Finally, it led to the Soviet Union spending
millions of dollars sending their weapons throughout the developing world.

Many of the key events involved the developing world using both of these superpowers
towards their own ends. Fidel Castro used the Soviet Union and Khrushchev in order to overthrow
the American-backed Batista. Ho Chi Minh willingly took Soviet weaponry and advisers in order to
push out first the French and then the Americans. The Americans backed Diem in Vietnam only
because he was not a communist. Americans also backed the mujaheddin in Afghanistan because they
resented the Soviets invading their country.

Both superpowers backed leaders
and organizations they knew little about only because they were against the other side's
ideology. Minh was more of a Vietnamese nationalist than he was a true communist. Diem had his
own secret police and clamped down on freedom of speech, yet the United States backed him
because he was someone they could control. This lack of knowledge and interest about the
happenings in the developing world still has repercussions todaym as many places who took either
Soviet or US money and aid remain in turmoil.

The end of the Cold War
happened when the Soviet Union started to splinter with the exodus of the Baltic states and
Ukraine, followed by other nations. Russia gradually adopted capitalism, though with mixed
results. Berlin united after the fall of the Berlin Wallthis is probably the most graphic
demonstration of the end of the Cold War. American president Ronald Reagan is celebrated for
ending the Cold War, yet his military spending increased the national debt exponentially. The
United States celebrated as the world's lone superpower, but it soon faced challenges in the
form of non-state actors who would prove to be more difficult to target than another
superpower.

This is not an exhaustive list of the events of the Cold War, but
hopefully, it will be enough to get you started.

Describe the process by which the French Revolution evolved from moderation, to terror, to empire.

Well, this
is certainly a big question. Entire books have been written trying to make sense of it, and
there have been entire debates in scholarship over this subject. So, first of all, a brief
disclaimer: neither this answer, nor any other you'd find on this website, can give a truly
satisfying answer to it. The subject's too big and significant for anything less than a book to
fully approach.

That said, I would question whether one could accurately
call the French Revolution at any point a "Moderate Revolution." By this wording, one
usually refers to the Revolution's "first stage," which resulted in the Constitution
of 1791, but even if we were to call it "moderate" in contrast to the Revolution of
the Terror, taken in isolation, the Revolution of 1789 was itself an incredibly radical
departure from the Absolutist State that preceded it. We see in these years the abolition of the
Absolute Monarchy (replaced by a Constitutional Monarchy), and the complete restructuring of
French...

What are some questions you could ask to interview someone who has escaped human trafficking?

Human trafficking
is an incredibly delicate subject, and one that is still surprisingly prevalent in the world
today. Human trafficking can take many forms, from selling women and children into sexual
slavery to forced labor. Victims of this horrible industry should obviously be treated with
respect and delicacy, and any questions you ask should not cause emotional or psychological
harm. Yet, there is a great deal of wisdom and truth to be gained by people who have escaped
human trafficking, and their answers can help to expose its injustices to the world.

Below I have included several questions that I would ask of victims of human
trafficking:

• What effects have human trafficking had on your home
  country/town?
• How widespread is this issue in your home
  country/town?
• What can the average person do to help increase awareness
  about the injustices of human trafficking?
• What do you think needs to be
  done in order for human trafficking to be eliminated?

I hope this
helps!

How is authority (police, government, controlling political power) represented in the 1984(characters and events)? 1984 by George Orwell ? HELP PLEASE...

Authority
is represented as the overall dominating force in the lives of everyone in Oceania (and, we can
assume, elsewhere in the world). The sinister face of Big Brother, symbolizing the Party's
power, is completely inescapable in 's story of the future. Whencomes home, he feels the eyes of
Big Brother on him at all times, thanks to posters on every landing in the stairwell. It is the
same when he looks at a coin or cigarette packet. Each day, at the end of the Two Minutes of
Hate, all Party workers return to a state of calm when Big Brother appears on the
giant...

a theme within the lovely bones is acceptance, how can you relate this to the lovely bones?

Throughout
the story, the narrator (I'm sorry! I can't think of her name!) is working her way toward
acceptance of the fact that she is dead and other lives will go on without her; she becomes
increasingly aware of this fact as she nears that acceptance.  When...

Which indicators can be cited to show whether Macy's hase well-motivated leaders?

According to
the major theories of motivation, the process of becoming motivated goes hand in hand with
conditioning. This means that, in order to create momentum to the point of changing a behavior,
there have to be a series of factors present.

The first factor is the
motivator itself: whether it is money, success, fame, achievement, self-esteem, or any other
need for belonging, or achieving, the fact remains that these simple elements constitute the
basis for the accomplishment of major goals. Hence, the success of Macy's corporation must go
hand in hand with the benefits that the company offers its leaders. Their achievements in
keeping the company afloat even during a shaky economy, and without compromising their vision
and mission as an organization, speaks volumes of the...

How can this solution be justified? Solution:Contract with manufacturing companies operating in the U.S. A global sourcing representative for a major...

There are a
number of ways in which we can justify the idea of bringing this work back to the United
States.  Let us look at a few of them.

First, we can say that this move will
definitely result in better workplace safety and general working conditions for those who are
doing the work.  We generally do not think that it is acceptable to exploit children, even if
working long hours is preferable to the alternatives that they...

How did contact between the European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affect both groups?

The above
answer is an excellent one, and it is true that any single answer on a site like this is only
scratching the surface. That said, there are several small "impacts" that can be
gathered under one or two larger umbrellas. It can be argued that the colonization of the
Americas led to both a diversifying and narrowing of experiences and worldviews for both the
Native Americans and the Europeans. In other words, they both learned and lost
learning.

The Natives did indeed gain from the Europeans bringing items from
the "old world" over. For example, they gained access to horses and livestock, and
learned relatively modern animal farming practices, including the concept of dairy farming and
growing wheat. They were introduced to cheap paper-making and a more simplified writing system
than most tribes practiced. They were also introduced to cultures completely different from
their own and gained a greater breadth and depth of knowledge by being taught about the
"old world" and the...

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According to Thoreau, by what are our lives "filtered away" Walden by Henry David Thoreau

According to
Thoreau,

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest
man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten
toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two
or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep
your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are
the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man
has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead
reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of
three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce
other things in proportion.

He believed that most of us
waste our lives by being concerned about unnecessary details. We want too many things, so we
have to work to buy...

How does the state differ from other forms of political organization?

The
"state" differs from other forms of
political organization in very profound ways. 
Whereas "other forms of
political organization" can refer to political parties,

ideologically-oriented public policy or public advocacy organizations, political
fund-raising
organizations, and so on, "state" has a more substantive
meaning. 

Political scientists and international affairs
scholars routinely think in terms of
"state" and "nonstate" actors when
discussing the role of government and
nongovernmental organizations in the
making of public policy.  The term "state" has
certain connotations directly
associated with governing institutions that, at least in a
democracy, enjoy
the consent of the governed.  "States" are generally sovereign
entities the
existence of which are a result of political processes, including elections
and
parliamentary systems.  They are vested with the
authority...

In "Young Goodman Brown", if Young Goodman Brown, as the pious Puritan he is, knows he is setting out on an evil errand, why does he go? This is the...

This is a really
fascinating question and one
which has troubled me as well. You are right in identifying that
there is no
real "reason" established fordeciding to go into the woods and meet with
the
Devil. The only reason that I can come up with is that this is Young Goodman Brown's
last
frolic with evil before settling down for the rest of his life as a good
Puritan. Note what he
says to himself as he leaves Faith who is
reluctant...

Is there a personification in Charles, and if there is, what is it?

Thoughin
literature usually refers to animals or inanimate objects taking on human traits,
personification can also mean "an imaginary person that represents a thing or idea."
If we use this definition, we can see that there is personification in 's short story,
"." In the story, Charles is the personification or embodiment of anything perceived
to be mischievous or naughty.

 "With the third week
of kindergarten Charles was an institution in our family; the baby was being a Charles when she
cried all afternoon; Laurie did a Charles when he filled his wagon full of mud and pulled it
through the kitchen; even my husband, when he caught his elbow in the telephone cord and pulled
telephone, ashtray, and a bowl of flowers off the table, said, after the first minute, Looks
like Charles. 

In the quote above, we can see how Charles
has come to embody bad behavior. When the baby cries all afternoon, they compare her to Charles.
The fictional Charles is mentioned when Laurie pulls his wagon full of mud through the house.
And finally, when Laurie's father makes a mistake that causes the telephone, ashtray, and
flowers to fall, he compares this to something Charles would do.

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What valuable lessons did Roger learn from Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones?

Roger learns that
kindness can be far more effective than either discipline or punishment. Mrs. Luella Bates
Washington Jones could certainly have turned Roger in to the police or punished him in some
other way, but, instead, she seems more interested in whatever hardships have, perhaps, caused
him to feel that he must steal from others. She ascertains that there's no one at home to tell
him to wash his face, no one to make sure he's had his dinner, and no one to teach him right
from wrong or care for him. As a result of this knowledge, she tells him to wash his face and
she feeds him a wholesome dinner. She shares what she has with him rather than punishing him,
and she even assures him that she knows how he feels because she's been there too. Mrs. Jones
tells him,

"Well, you didn't have to snatch
my pocketbook to get some suede shoes [...]. You could of asked
me."

And then she precedes to give him the money
for the shoes he wants. He probably learns a great deal more from her kindness...

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, how does Santiago's father react when his son tells him that he wants to travel?

Santiago and
his father have a relatively short conversation about the fact that the boy would rather travel
than go to a seminary to become a priest. The father's position is that many tourists come to
visit in order to visit different places of the world, "but when they leave they are
basically the same they were when they arrived" (9). What he means is that traveling does
not change a person for the better. In fact, his father says that people become disillusioned
about the past and take their current life for granted because of traveling. The boy says he
wants to see where the tourists come from, but his father argues that their home is the best
because most of the tourists mention that they wish they could stay there forever. Nevertheless,
Santiago said he still desired to travel. At this point, the father drops the conversation and
suggests that since they come from a poor country, he should be a shepherd and travel that way.
His father is even nice enough to give the boy his inheritance right then in the form of three
gold coins. This interaction between father and son is nice because both views are discussed and
heard, but eventually the father supports his son's dreams.

In the novel The Alchemistby Paul Coelho, was it suggested that the closer you follow the path of your Own Legend, the more chance you have of meeting...

In the novel
by Paul Coelho, the idea is that above all else, you must follow the path
of your own legend.  Fatima, the girl with whom  Santiago falls in love, passes the test of
true love...

One of the themes of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is the limits of science and corruption that comes with...

s tale,
, reflects his deeply moral and Calvinistic bent. He was raised a
Presbyterian in the Church of Scotland, and thus believed in original sin. Because all men were
created sinful, it is impossible to be saved except for grace. Thus Dr. Jekylls efforts to try
to escape his own sinfulness by scientific means is not only futile, but like Lucifers
rebellion, an attempt to usurp the powers proper only to God. The story serves to reinforce a
message of moral responsibility (you have to struggle with your own moral imperfections) and of
humility (scientific ingenuity cant make living a moral life easy)

Explain the relationship between media and crime? Explain the relationship between media and crime by applying your theoretical knowledge and...

One item in your list
caught my attention: dramas.I admit it, I am a crime drama and police procedural fan.These
television programs often bring events from the media in and fictionalize them.The programs are
both evidence of the crimes that have captured public opinion and the issues that the producers
or writers think have been overlooked.]]>

What is the connection between the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution?

The Haitian
Revolution (1791€“1804) was important because it led to the creation of the second independent
nation in the Americasafter the United States. Saint-Domingue (Haiti) had been a valuable French
colony.

By the late eighteenth century, Haiti was a powder keg. The island
had been ruthlessly exploited since the Spanish arrived in the late fifteenth century. The main
causes of unrest were slavery and racial divisions. In 1790, about 550,000 people lived on the
island, and ninety percent were slaves. The others were whites or mixed-race Haitians
(affranchis). Both the slaves and the affranchis were discontented.

The
French Revolution had several impacts on this explosive situation. First, France fell into chaos
for a decade after 1789, and it could no longer administer its colony. Second, France's wars
with other European powersespecially Great Britainhindered its ability to maintain sea links
with its colony. Third, educated Haitians, especially the affrinches, were...

What are the internal and external conflicts of Ralph? Lord of the Flies by William Golding

If
there's a hero in , it's . He's the sensible, rational one, the boy who
realizes that, if this party of stranded schoolboys is to survive, there needs to be some kind
of rules-based order on the island. Otherwise, Ralph realizes with remarkable prescience, the
boys will descend into outright savagery.

Yet none of the other boyswith the
notable exception ofand are remotely interested in establishing any semblance of civilization.
Most of the boys just want to have fun. Free from sustained adult supervision for the first time
in their short lives, they'd much rather spend their time skinny-dipping or hunting than getting
down to the hard graft of building fires and constructing shelters. So right from the get-go,
Ralph finds himself in conflict with most of the other boys, even during that all-too-brief
period when they accept him as their leader.

At the same time, Ralph himself
is still a boy, and as such he has a natural desire to be one of the boys....

Imagery In To Kill A Mockingbird

There are
several examples ofand allusions in . You could list something from every chapter in the book.
Allusions are meant to give an expression to call something to mind without mentioning it
explicitly, an indirect or passing reference to something. 

The first use of
imagery, is the description of the Radley house. This is probably one of the most vivid uses in
the story. "The Radley place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one
faced its porch, the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white
with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate
grey yard around it. Rain rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept
the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard, a 'swept' yard that was
never swept where Johnson grass and rabbit tobacco grew in abundance." Just by this
imagery, you can picture what the Radley place looked liked. The descriptions of the house and
yard, tells you who the house once was, but has now become. This is just one example of imagery
in the story. 

Allusions are throughout the entire story. Here are just a
couple: The disturbance between the north and south, here is talking about The Civil War.
Dracula, in 1931, this was one of the most popular and famous stories on Dracula. Meridian,
Mississippi, just a quick mention of the town. No money to buy it with, talking about the Great
Depression.is setting up how most of the town is still dealing with the effects of the Great
Depression. Egyptians walked this way, hereis saying that Egyptians walk a certain way, based on
pictures he had seen. Mockingbird, this is probably one of the best allusions in the book, the
mockingbird is a bird found in North American, and known only for its vocal
imitations. 

As you can see, the book is full of imagery and allusions.had a
wonderful way with words. She describes things that make you feel like you are there. She
cleverly sets up your suspense and imagination from the very beginning.

What is the relationship between Okeke and Nene in Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"?

In 's
short story, "Marriage is a Private Affair," Okeke is Nene's father-in-law, who
refuses to have anything to do with her after she married his son, Nnaemeka. Nnaemeka is a young
Igbo man from the country, who travels to Lagos, where he meets and falls in love with Nene.
Nene hails from the cosmopolitan city of Lagos and laughs when Nnaemeka tries to explain to her
how upset his father will be that he rejected traditional marriage customs and got engaged. When
Nnaemeka travels home to tell his father, Okeke, that he is engaged to a woman named Nene, Okeke
is deeply hurt by his son's decision and shuns him for eight years. Okeke even refuses to accept
Nnaemeka and Nene's wedding photo and sends it back to them mutilated. After eight years of
marriage, Nene writes a letter to her father-in-law asking him to allow Nnaemeka to bring their
two sons to visit him. The story ends on a positive note with Okeke thinking about meeting his
grandsons for the first time and experiencing a change of heart.

in the egypt game What did noticing the locked door remind April and Melanie of?

I
believe that this question is asking about a brief bit of narration that happens in chapter 5
which is titled "The Evil God and the Secret Spy." The chapter begins with April,
Marshall, and Melanie returning to the abandoned lot, and they quickly figure out that
everything is exactly the way that they left it previously. April and Melanie then begin
clearing out weeds while Marshall stands guard in the alley. Once that is completed, they head
over to the "Temple" which is actually a wooden platform about 12 inches off of the
ground. The two girls sit down to rest for a minute on the Temple's floor, and April notices a
door on the opposite side of the lot. It is the only actual door that leads to the area, and the
girls notice that it is locked with a padlock from the outside. This locked door reminds the
girls that the Professor has access to this lot. This worries Melanie, and she asks what the
Professor might do if he caught them there. April doesn't believe that the Professor would mind
as long as they don't bother him or hurt anything. April also is quite confident from the
previous mess that nobody has been in the lot for quite some time. Melanie isn't quite so
confident, and she suggests that maybe the Professor spies on them through the overlooking
window. They check out the window and discover that it is so dirty that nobody could look
through it even if they wanted to.

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Why does the Ghost of Christmas Past show Scrooge the boarding school where he was left alone?

Ebenezer
Scrooge lives a solitary existence. Rich in material wealth, he has eschewed the company of man
seemingly destined to die as he has lived -- alone. , in his story ,
portrays Scrooge as miserly and perpetually bitter, treating all about him, especially his loyal
employee, Bob Cratchit, dismissively and contemptuously. Having depicted his "," early
in his narrative, in such a negative, unlikable way, Dickens then proceeds to follow Scrooge as
the elderly businessman arrives at his home and proceeds to his evening routine, all alone. In
Stave II, as warned by the ghost of Scrooge's deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge
is visited that night by a series of spirits, the first being the Ghost of Christmas Past. It
is, of course, during the old man's encounter with the first of the three ghosts that he is
transported back in time to a reminder of the solitary existence he lead even as a child. As the
ghost and Scrooge visit the scenes of the latter's early life, Scrooge is elated to recognize
individuals from his past. As described by Dickens, the scene is as follows:

The jocund travellers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew and
named them every one. Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them! Why did his cold eye
glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past! Why was he filled with gladness when he heard
them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads and bye-ways, for their
several homes! What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it
ever done to him?

The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. A
solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.

Scrooge said
he knew it. And he sobbed.

This poignant scene in
A Christmas Carol serves to enlighten the protagonist and the reader as to
the origins of Scrooge's current demeanor. This is an important passage as it reveals Scrooge's
inner need for the human companionship he has disdained in adulthood. He is overjoyed by the
sight of these people from his long-gone childhood, only to be reminded by the vision of himself
as a lonely child. For him, the joy in those around him never penetrated into his soul, and he
would grow into a man seemingly content to maintain invisible walls between himself and the rest
of humanity. It is this scene, as well as those that follow during the course of the night, that
helps Scrooge to recognize the error of his ways and to begin a new chapter in his life, one
that embraces those he previously spurned. The Ghost of Christmas Past has shown Scrooge his
loneliness as a child in order to display for the old miser the length of the road down which he
has traveled to reach his current state of being.

 

How did Lucille end up owning the Cook Coffee House and who are the important people who help her to run it?

Lucille,
Mattie's mother, ends up owning Cook
Coffee Shop because her husband, who opened it, fell off a
ladder, dying a
few months after launching the business.

Lucille's two
main
helpers in running the coffeehouse are Grandfather and Mattie, along
with Eliza, the free black
cook. As Mattie explains, a coffeehouse is a
respectable business for a widow and her
father-in-law to own
together.

Mattie would like to expand the business and
add
on to the shop so that they can serve more food than they do. As Mattie
states:

First we should buy another
coffee urn, to serve customers with
more haste, I said. I pointed a pickle
toward the north wall. Next is to expand into Mr.
Watsons lot. That way, we
could offer proper meals, not just tidbits and rolls."

However, her mother doesn't see a good market for
expanding.
Grandfather, on the other hand, believes that if they don't
expand, somebody else will come in
and fill the gap.

After
her grandfather dies, Mattie, with Eliza as her
partner, reopens the
coffeehouse and the two run it.

What's wrong with the first planet in chapter 5?

When Meg
arrives on the first planet, she feels an enormous sense of pressure, as if she is being
flattened by a steamroller. She can't breathe, because she can't get her lungs to rise and fall.
To her, this feels very different from not...

How does the film compare to the images of childhood represented in other movies or television programs you have seen?

The film has
a very realistic portrayal of
childhood. Especially in the way the children talk to each other.
They speak
as if they have their own world separate to the adults. This is highlighted in
the
sequence at the beginning when an unseen child is playing with her toys
using her own added
sound effects. Thecontinues through the children's
obsession with the legend of .

The realism reminds me of
British films about childhood such as Kes.
The children in
Kes are older and less innocent, but like To Kill
A
Mockingbird, the film portrays the children in a way the viewer
can strongly identify
with.

However, I think
most strongly resembles
Night of the
Hunter €“ a film made about 7 years earlier. There are
definitely
differences, but the children in the films have a similar background. Like in

To Kill a Mockingbird the children in Night of a
Hunter
are brother and sister from a small town in the south. In
the same way,talks to herself when she
plays with her toys, the young girl in
Night of the Hunter talks to herself
while playing with
her doll. In addition, both sets of children come from one-parent families.

The children in To Kill a Mockingbird are raised by their father and
the
children in Night of a Hunter are raised by their
mother. At the beginning of
both films this gives the children the freedom to
roam and play that they perhaps wouldn't have
had otherwise.

The difference between the two films is that To Kill
a
Mockingbird shows the child's imagination as wild and not necessarily based
in
reality while Night of the Hunter shows the child's
imagination as having
more than just a small element of truth to it. While in
To Kill A
Mockingbird, Boo Radley, the film's would be
bogey man proves to be harmless, in
Night of the Hunter,
the Reverend Harry Powell proves to be a psychopath. He
will do anything to
get his hands on money. Even hunt down and kill
children.

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In Tennyson's "Ulysses," whom does Ulysses address in the second half of the poem?

The
speaker, , is addressing his fellow sailors. He calls out to them directly as "my
mariners," and states that both he and they are now "old." Because they are all
old, Ulysses suspects that his mariners will share his views, and particularly his fears about
what is yet to come for them. He appeals to the sailors, telling them that although they are not
young men any more, it is not yet too late for them to do something else "noble"
before they die.

Ulysses' appeal to his fellow sailors is intended to
encourage them to join him on his voyage, a voyage which will be their final one. He
incentivizes the sailors by suggesting that they may yet meet again their old friend, Achilles,
in the Happy Isles, and find a "newer world" beyond the stars before the metaphorical
sun sets on their lives for good. In the stirring and oft-quoted final line of the poem, Ulysses
exhorts his fellow sailors to join him in this quest: they may no longer be as strong in
physical terms as they once were, but they still have the strength of will "to strive, to
seek, to find, and not to yield."

What are some examples of imagery in Night by Elie Wiesel?

Weisel's
memoir of the horrors of Nazi occupation and confinement in concentration camps is full of .
They are powerful, haunting, shocking images of what it was like for Weisel and other Jewish
people at the time.

One of the most striking images is that of fire. In the
train car, Madame Schachter becomes delirious and raves about a huge fire that will consume them
all. It won't be long until Weisel learns that her delusion was actually prophetic, that fire
awaits those who are not chosen to work.

Another image that haunts Weisel is
that of the young boy who is hanged for refusing to give information about weapons that had been
discovered hidden by one of the camp inmates. The boy and the man who had hidden the weapons
were hanged, but the boy was so small that it took him a long time to die. Weisel had described
the boy as having the face of an angel. After the hanging, there was nothing angelic about
him.

A third image is that of the violin. One of the inmates has managed to
keep his treasured violin with him, and on the night that they are made to run barefoot through
the snow to another camp, many men die of starvation and exposure. Weisel hears music and
wonders who could possibly play while corpses are piled all around them. It is the man who had
saved his precious violin, and in the morning he too is dead.

Death, hunger,
piles of clothing, ashes--all are images in this book.

About Dean Moriarty's portrait, what was the role in the novel and Sal's life?

Dean in many
ways is the guy that basically makes things happen for Sal and throughout the novel.  Even
though Sal knows that sometimes Dean is dangerous and that he isn't always very considerate (or
really considerate at all) he is still drawn to...

What is Toby like in "The Egypt Game"?

Toby Alvillar
is one of the most popular boys in the sixth grade.  Socially, he and his friend Ken Kamata are
"two of the biggest wheels in class, and if you (are) really hopeless they simply (don't)
notice you - it (is) as if you (don't) exist".  When Toby starts to teasingly call April
"February", Melanie knows that April, who is new in school, has been accepted, because
although "it (is) teasing...(it is) not the kind you use on outsiders" (Chapter 6). 

Toby and Ken are the kind of boys whom "everybody always vote(s)
for...and want(s) to be on their team".  Toby is also influential with adults; he is sort
of a class clown and has "a special talent for getting people off the hook (in the
classroom) by making the teacher laugh" (Chapter 10). 

Toby is a leader,
and is fun and creative.  When he discovers the Egypt Game, he is interested in it, and unafraid
to ask to be included, even though it may not be the "cool" thing to do.  Ken, who at
first thinks the game is a dumb idea, has little choice but to follow Toby's lead.  Ken ends up
being the one to "(carry) most of the stuff" when Toby, "overflowing with
ideas" to make the Game more interesting, comes up with plans to build an altar and devise
a system of hieroglyphics (Chapter 14).

Why did Shaw not mention the real name of the flower girl, the bystander, the gentleman and the mother in Act One?? Please i really need the answer

Let's reverse
the question and ask rather why should he?  If the identity of the characters and their
relationship to one another had been revealed in a kind of third person onmiscient point of
view, the story line would have lost its anticipation, and therefore, a lot of its
interest.

By gradually "unravelling" the truth about the
characters, their interpersonal...

Why does Charles Dickens use ghosts in A Christmas Carol?

We know
that Ebenezer Scrooge is a man with no friends and also a man who listens to no one but
himself.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the
grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and
self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Therefore,
Dickens needed someone to communicate with Scrooge in a way that would force him to listen, and
the ghosts accomplish what no living person can. Fred has already invited him to Christmas
dinner...

What is a good thesis sentence for an essay about fate versus free will in Oedipus Rex?

Thesis:and his birth parents exercise free
will in trying to avoid fate, which ultimately leads to their downfall.

The
Greeks believed that people could not escape fate. However, they also knew thatwas most people's
hamartia, or fatal flaw, and hubris sometimes causes people to feel above the law, which leads
them to using their free will.

At birth, Oedipus's parents were told of a
prophesy that Oedipus would grow up to murder his father, Laius, and marry his mother, .
Horrified and scared, his parents exercise their free will and try to avoid this prophesy by
sending Oedipus with a shepherd to be killed in infancy. Instead of leaving Oedipus on Mount
Cithaeron hung on a tree by his riveted feet, the shepherd pitied the boy and gave him to the
king and queen of the neighboring kingdom of Corinth.

Years later, as a teen,
Oedipus learns of the prophesy from a drunkard, and thinking that his adopted parents are his
real parents, he uses his free will in order to escape his fate, just as his birth parents had
done, and leaves Corinth. On his way to finding a life away from his adoptive parents, Oedipus
encounters his father, Laius, and kills him in a fit of road rage not knowing that he is his
father. Circumstances then lead him to save the kingdom of Thebes, and he wins the hand of the
queen, his mother, Jocasta. Before he is exiled for murdering the king, Oedipus's
uncle/brother-in-law says to him, "It is not your place to decide; the power you had has
not remained with you," meaning that the fate the gods have decided for you supersedes your
free will.

In Oedipus's case, his fate was prophesized because it
was destined to happen. It was not destined to happen because it was prophesized. The  happened
because Jocasta's, Laius's, and Oedipus's hubris made it happen.

 

 

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How does Nicholas spend his time while he is in the lumber room in Saki's story "The Lumber Room"?

In by ,
Nicholas implements his plan to enter
the forbidden room while his aunt searches for him in the
gooseberry garden.
Being just a little boy, Nicholas practiced using a key for days before he

had the opportunity to use the real one to enter the lumber room.

While he
was in the room, Nicholas was treated to a variety of items
that brought him great delight and
intrigue. One of the first things he did
was to examine the scene depicted on a piece of
tapestry. To the little boy,
the scene of a hunt came to life as he imagined the sights and
sounds
associated with the hunter aiming the bow and arrow at a stag as dogs joined in the
hunt.
But, the boy could see what the hunter could not. There were wolves
descending on the man and
dogs, which left Nicholas wondering how the story
would unfold.

First and foremost there
was a piece of framed tapestry that was evidently meant to be
a fire-screen.
To Nicholas it was a living, breathing story; he sat down on a roll of Indian

hangings, glowing in wonderful colours beneath a layer of dust, and took in all the
details of
the tapestry picture. 

The
tapestry was not the only
object of delight in the room. There were dust
covered rugs, lamps, paintings, pieces of china,
candlesticks, and a variety
of books. In addition, there was a plain bound book, which Nicholas
thought
would not hold any interest for him. But when he opened it, it was filled with
pictures
of exotic birds, the likes of which he had never seen.

Less promising in appearance was a large square
book with plain black covers; Nicholas
peeped into it, and, behold, it was
full of coloured pictures of birds.

Nicholas spent his time in the lumber room enraptured by its

contents of curiosities.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

What parts of speech in the classical rhetoric arrangement can be found in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech?

There are
six sections in a piece of classical , and King hits them all in
his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Below are the six parts with both
their informal and formal names, a description of each, and an example from King's
speech.

1. The introduction (exordium):
   The subject of the address is acknowledged, and the purpose is revealed. The ethos (credibility
   of the author and the argument) is established here. King's opening section announces that he is
   compelled to speak because, one hundred years after the Emancipation of Proclamation was signed,
   "the Negro still is not free."
2. Statements of facts
   (narratio): The speaker recites a narrative of events and
   establishes the nature of the argument. The narratio is the longest part of King's speech and
   details all the denials of civil rights African Americans in the United States suffer, including
   segregation of public spaces.
3. The division
   (partitio ): The part of the speech in which the speaker sketches
   out what will follow in the argument. In...
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What quotes show that Crooks is lonely in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?

In addition
to the fine quotes already provided, it is important to note that description, counterintuitive
as this seems, often conveys emotion. We can perceive Crooks' loneliness in the depiction of how
he is forced to live apart from the other men:

Crooks, the
Negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of
the barn. ... This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man. He kept
his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs.

His loneliness comes through too as he says to :

"I aint wanted in the bunk house, and you aint wanted in my room. Why aint you
wanted? Lennie asked. Cause Im black. They play cards in there, but I cant play because Im
black. They say I stink. ..."

We can imagine the
loneliness Crooks experiences at the kind of wholesale rejection he is subjected to because of
his race, segregated into a separate room with only a box of straw to sleep in.

Crooks' loneliness reveals itself for a moment in his expression of longing to be part
of the ranch Lennie,and Candy dream of owning. Crooks offers to work for nothing to be part of
this community:

. . . . If you . . . . guys would want
a hand to work for nothingjust his keep, why Id come an lend a hand. I aint so crippled I cant
work like a son-of-abitch if I want to.

Much as Crooks
accepts his loneliness, he would give almost anything to end it.

What prior information does Horatio explain to Marcellus and Bernardo?

In the
opening scene of the play, Marcellus and Bernardo showthe mysterious apparition that resembles
the deceased King . Horatio is astonished byand concludes that the Ghost's presence signifies
that something terrible is happening in Denmark.

Marcellus then asks Horatio
why he is standing guard at night while the country of Denmark seems to be preparing for battle.
Horatio responds by telling Marcellus and Bernardo that before Kingdied, he defeated Kingin a
duel and claimed some of Norway's territory. Recently, the son of the deceased king, Prince
Fortinbras, has raised an army with the intention of reclaiming his father's lost territory. As
a response to Prince Fortinbras's aggression, the country of Denmark is preparing to defend
itself. Horatio also wonders if the Ghost has anything to do with the country's preparations for
war.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

I need a poem about "silver" related to chemistry

How about
"Silver" by Naveed Akram :

Silver is a wonderful element,

A fierce wonder, much honoured;
And its help is great, forever,

And forever. I give in to silver.
For silver I take the number of
days
To be many for the occupation of mine.
The silvered men and
women
Are never the forgotten people;
So choose silver, and wise are
you.
Silver is the best metal
Too hard to possess.

There
are not a lot of poems that are about a specific element. You might try a look through href="https://www.poemhunter.com/poems/silver/page-1/">this link at
poemhunter , which is where I found the one above. There are also some neat ones at
the Poetic Table of the Elements - just click on "silver" and a list of them will pop
up.

How does Jurgis react to the tour of Durham's meatpacking plant?

In one of
the most famousnot to say, gut-wrenchingepisodes in Jurgis goes on a tour
of a meat-packing plant, which is supposed to open the reader's eyes to the horrors of
unregulated capitalism. The conditions in the factory are truly appalling. The animals sent
there to be slaughtered endure great suffering before they are finally killed. Not only that,
but hygiene is virtually non-existent. An inspector is supposed to make sure that diseased meat
doesn't get into the food-chain, but he regularly turns a blind eye to what's going on, choosing
to look the other way so as not to slow down production. The millions of people who will eat the
meat products produced at this plant have no idea of what they're putting inside
themselves.

Whatever the reader might think, Jurgis is actually rather
impressed by his tour of the plant. He's positively awestruck at this scene of mechanized
slaughter, with its remarkable speed and efficiency. It's quite unlike anything he's ever seen
before. At this early stage in the story, Jurgis is still pretty naive when it comes to the true
nature of American capitalism. But in due course he'll come to realize that it's not just farm
animals who end up being maltreated by this unregulated economic system.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

What is an explanation of the historical influences on the transcendentalist movement via Emerson's work?

Whereas
Europe, the Old World, had a breadth and depth of cultural sophistication, based on ancient
precedent, the all-too-recently founded United States (mid-1800s), in terms of arts and letters,
featured a more materialist, mercantile sensibility.

Although Benjamin
Franklin, for example, an honored pioneer of the domestic civic infrastructure, was celebrated
for his "emphasis on the humanistic values," as would befit a prominent American
representative of the Enlightenment, an emerging class of writers and intellectuals condemned
him for being...

In "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, what was the effect of the scarlet letter on Hester's personality, health, and abilities? If possible...

 

In terms of her
personality, the scarlet letter (and perhaps the sin behind it)
causedto be
preoccupied with punishing herself so as to be able to (hopefully) eventually

forgive herself for what she has done.

Hester did not have to stay in
the
community where everyone knew her.  She could have gone somewhere else
where her guilt would not
have been known.  But instead she chose to stay and
face the condemnation of the community.  As
Hawthorne explains ()

Here, she said to herself, had been the scene
of her guilt,
and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance,
the
torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out
another purity than that
which she had lost; more saint-like, because the
result of martyrdom.

As it turns out, she does
eventually manage to purge herself of the sin and becomes a
respected member
of the community.

What are three subjects Mercutio and Romeo make puns about in scene 4, lines 44€“70 of Romeo and Juliet?

In act
1, scene 4,andengage in a long exchange with numerous puns, sometimes playing off the others
preceding line. Some of the puns that Romeo makes:

Give me
a torch: I am not for this ambling;

Being but heavy, I will bear the
light.

Here, he uses heavy to mean low-spirited, and
contrasts it with light, referring to weight but also to the brightness of the
torch.

Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes

With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground
I cannot move.

After Mercutio tells him he must dance at
the party, he continues the heavyfor his mood, now saying that his soul is made of lead;
this use of "soul" is aon the sole of Mercutios dancing shoes.

Mercutio quips about a way to move:

You are a
lover; borrow Cupid's wings,

And soar with them above a common
bound.

Romeo replies with another pun, on
"soar," meaning to fly high; he says he is sore from love, as Cupid has shot him
with his arrow.

I am too sore enpierced with his
shaft

To soar with his light feathers . . . .

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Monday, June 4, 2018

What does the term "tao" mean for Confucianism?

The term
"tao" means something different to Confucians than it does to Taoists.  To Confucians,
the term means a sort of ethical system for human behavior.  To them, the tao is the way in
which human beings are supposed to act.

Confucianism was/is more of a
philosophical and moral approach to life than it is a religion.  To Confucians, the most
important thing is that human beings should act in the correct ways, in ways that will bring
harmony and stability to their society.  There is much less of an emphasis on doing the will of
a god or gods.  Instead, the emphasis is on the effects and implications of one's actions in
this life.

For Confucians, then, the tao is not so much a religious or a
mystical idea.  Instead, it is simply the way that human beings ought to behave in order that
their society can be harmonious and stable.

What is the theme in Oedipus Rex?

Another theme of the
text is that mortals cannot escape the gods' will. The oracle of Delphi, who delivers the
prophecy thatwould kill his father and marry his mother, is thought to be the mouthpiece of the
god Apollo. When Oedipus hears this prophecy, he decides that, rather than go home to Corinth,
he will stay away: this way, he could not possibly, even inadvertently, kill his father,
Polybus, and marry his mother, Merope. He doesn't know, of course, that Polybus and Merope
adopted him and that Corinth is not really his home. In his pride, Oedipus assumes that he can
escape the prophecy by outsmarting the oracle (and, by implication, Apollo), and this is
actually what enables the prophecy to come true. When he decides not to return to Corinth, he
goes to Thebes, where his birth parents are from. On the way, he encounters his birth father,
Laius, who he kills in anger, and he marries his birth mother, , shortly after he arrives.
Oedipus's pride drives him to think that he can outsmart the oracle, and so he tries to do so;
it is this very fact that actually enables the prophecy to come to fruition. It is said that
pride goes before the fall, and this theme applies to Oedipus as well.

What are the internal and external conflicts of Reverend Hale in The Crucible?

Reverend Hale's external
conflicts initially relate to his attempts to discern evidence of witchcraft in Salem, then to
find and arrest those who have been accused. Finally, he comes into (external) conflict with
Danforth and the court, attempting to convince them that the trials are based on false
evidence. 

Hale is also continually in conflict with Proctor, though the
conflict changes. First Hale and Proctor disagree over Abigail's accusation against Elizabeth.
Later, Hale tries to convince Proctor to save his own life by confessing to the crimes he has
been accused of committing. 

Hale's internal conflicts relate to his shifting
beliefs in the validity/reality of the claims of witchcraft in Salem.

Hale embodies many of the moral contradictions of the play: he is a
man of integrity who, although at times misguided and overzealous, is willing to change his mind
when confronted with the truth.

Hale undergoes a crisis
as he realizes that Proctor was right and Abigail has been lying the whole time. The charges are
all false. People have died because of Hale's belief in Abigail's stories and his own belief in
witchcraft. 

This leads him to repent and to suffer a rather extreme sense of
guilt, saying: 

there is blood on my head! Can you not
see the blood on my head!

Sunday, June 3, 2018

What are the differences between natural law and positive law?

The essential difference between natural and
positive law can be summed-up by a brief examination of Sir Leslie Stephen's famous remark in
The Science of Ethics:

If a
legislature decided that all blue-eyed babies should be murdered, the preservation of blue-eyed
babies would be illegal.

Positive law is whatever the
legislature says it is (or, in jurisdictions where case law is binding, whatever the judiciary
has ruled in cases which have not been overturned and constitute sources of precedent). It is
the sum total of all statutes and case law operating in a given place at a given time. If this
includes a law necessitating the murder of blue-eyed babies, that law is as valid as any
other.

Natural law is law which claims a basis in God, nature or reason. It
could not, therefore, include the murder of blue-eyed babies, whatever the statues happen to
say. According to the idea of natural law, rights are not conferred by statute but are
inherent.

It is generally assumed, as Aristotle assumed, that in a society
governed by the rule of law rather than by tyranny, positive and natural law will coincide,
since a positive law which was manifestly contrary to natural law would never be passed by a
legislature (and if it were passed, citizens would see no reason to obey it). In practice,
however, conceptions of natural rights differ considerably between societies, so some of the
positive law in any country will be certain to seem unjust (and therefore contrary to natural
law) to many people. This applies in particular to laws regarding such matters as controlled
substances or freedom of religion, about which there is little international
agreement.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

What does Winston believe that proles are capable of?

believes
that hope for the overthrow of the Party lies in the proles. While he can't quite believe at
first that they are capable of mounting a conscious rebellionwhen he looks at them, the idea
seems absurd to himhe recognizes that they have advantages Party members don't. First, there are
so many of them: they constitute 85 percent of the population. Second, the Party doesn't care
what they do, so they are not under constant surveillance. Winston realizes that Party members
can't ever come together in groups of more than two or three, which means they can't revolt. The
proles, however, can. As Winston puts it:

They needed only
to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow
the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.

At the same time,
Winston understands how limited the proles are in understanding or in consciousness that the
world could be different. He notes that putting his hope in the proles is an "act of
faith."

Shortly before he is arrested, however, Winston suddenly
realizes that the proles are human in a way Party members are not, because the proles are still
allowed to live ordinary lives:

They were not loyal to a
party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another. For the first time in his life he
did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring
to life and regenerate the world. The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened
inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious
effort.

He decides that because of their humanity they
will eventually be awakened and be capable of rising up and overthrowing the
Party.

What poems exemplify a manifestation of feminist attitudes?

As the
previous poster notes, the meaning of the word "feminism" has undergone a number of
changes, some dramatic and some more subtle.

The two names that stand out for
me are Adrienne Rich and Lucille Clifton, although those are just two of many women poets
writing feminist verse.

Lucille Clifton's poems are filled with an awareness
and even celebration of the commonly shared experiences of (some? many? or most?)...

What is the difference between literal language & figurative language, and why is poetry often figurative?

The
cat
Sat
On the
mat.

Whether this
qualifies as poetry
may be rather doubtful, but it is perhaps the first and simplest piece of

verse children learn when they are first discovering rhyme. It describes a simple
situation
which happens in many households and appears at first glance to be
entirely literal. An actual
cat of flesh, blood, bone, and fur sat on a real
mat. I am sitting at a desk as I write these
words. I am typing on a laptop
computer. Literal language like this attempts to convey the
physical universe
into words as simply and directly as possible.

However, it

is at least arguable that any writing is open to a figurative interpretation. What if
the cat on
the mat is a ? It could symbolize repose, idleness, contentment or
any number of other things.
The first and simplest reason why poems are often
figurative is that poems are analyzed more
closely than other writing and
people find figurative language in them which may or may not have
been
intended. If you prefer to interpret a poem in a purely literal manner, it is
often
possible to do so. Take one of the most famous poems in American
literature:

Two roads diverged in a
yellow wood,
And sorry I could not
travel both
And be
one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I

could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

It is
perfectly possible to say:

Robert Frost describes a walk
he took in a wood (which, rather
surprisingly, was entirely yellow). He stood and looked down
one road for a
while, then took the other. The poem has no metaphorical meaning whatsoever
and
certainly has nothing to do with making choices in life. It is purely a
narrative about walking
in a wood.

Most readers, however, have not interpreted
the poem in this
way.

I have written mainly about metaphors here since they

are some of the easiest examples of figurative languages to take literally, but it is
possible
to do the same with other figures of speech. , for instance, is
often taken literally as a
matter of sarcasm.

Miss Caroline Fisher What do you think of Miss Caroline Fisher as a teacher?

We need to
keep in mind that Miss Caroline
Fisher is presented comically through the eyes of six-year-old .
Would we get
a different impression if the story were told from Miss Fisher's perspective
or
from the point-of-view of a neutral observer? Could Scout be more of a
handful than she wants us
to believe?

Scout presents Miss
Fisher as an outsider who does not understand
the ways or social hierarchy of
Maycomb. Miss Fisher doesn't understand the Cunninghams. She
also has a
comical lack of common sense in that she puts what she has been taught about

how to teach reading ahead of the value of a child coming to
school
actually knowing how to read. It is less important to her that Scout
can read than that Scout
be...

Explain how mental health is a challenge for the criminal justice system

In a report
from the Council of State Governments Justice Center using a sample of local jails, 16.9 percent
of the incarcerated adults had a mental illness. This is a much higher percentage than is in the
regular population. After the de-institutionalization of state hospitals, state prisons have
have seen an increase in the percentage and number of mental health inmates. Therefore, mental
health presents a real challenge for the criminal justice system.

Law
enforcement officials throughout the country are partnering with local mental health advocates
and mental health service providers more and more in an effort to make it easier for law
enforcement to enable people with mental illnesses to receive much needed services. Studies also
report that 40 percent of individuals with serious mental illnesses have been in jail or prison
at some time in their lives.

In an interview with retired officer Mr. Dennis
Jones from United States Federal Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, the highest level
penitentiary before the super-max penitentiary in Colorado was constructed, the following
information was provided on the challenges of mental health in a prison setting:

Mental health has long been a challenge for the criminal justice system. While there
are psychological services that are available and at least one psychiatrist is on call at the
prison, there is normally no mental hospital available. Therefore, medication is given in order
to control inmates who have severe psychological problems; however, these inmates must be
carefully monitored to ensure that they actually take their medication. Even so, sometimes there
are inmates whose mental conditions become so elevated that they cannot remain in the
institution. They are then sent to a psychiatric hospital.

In addition, many
of the other prison inmates are frightened by those prisoners who have mental health issues,
especially if they talk to themselves, hallucinate, or self-mutilate. When these other inmates
are frightened and unnerved by the erratic behavior of mentally unstable inmates, there is the
potential for dangerous conflict between inmates.

Still another problem for
inmates with mental health challenges arises with their release, because they are often
uninsured in the months after their release. This, too, is a time during which the inmates are
susceptible to having an increased risk of medical problems and even death, but they are without
insurance to pay for medication and treatment.

If former
prisoners seek psychiatric help and are not covered by Medicaid or other financial assistance
programs, they will end up in the emergency room. Most emergency rooms are not equipped to
handle people who are mentally ill. In addition, most of the mentally ill have a co-occurring
disorder that needs treatment. 

If these former prisoners
end up in the emergency room, the taxpayer must absorb the costs that these people
incur.

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Friday, June 1, 2018

Discuss how power is shown in Animal Farm and "The Lottery."

In both
works, power is shown to be an exercise of exclusion.  The only way that power can be reasonably
executed is when there is a sense of exclusion present and when individuals are isolated from
it.  Power is not a shared and participatory experience as much as it is exclusionary.  
andeliminate, who actually wants to make power a shared...

Is the poem "Annabel Lee" a work of power, originality, or individuality?

First,
terms such as "power," "originality," and "individuality" are not
entirely objective terms, although of the three, the first two are most able to be analyzed
historically.

In terms of originality and individuality, Poe has a very
distinctive poetic voice, relying quite heavily on assonance,, and other figures of sound. Thus,
we can argue that in terms of literary style, the poem is original. In terms of subject matter,
this is a love poem, in which the lover is mourning the death of the beloved. This is not a
particularly...