What is the significance of Winston's Job? In the Story? To the Party? To Winston? If His job exisited in the real world?

I agree with
the first answer, but I think there's more to his job with regard to the party.  To me, 's job
at the Ministry of Truth is really very important to the party.

One of the
majorof the book is how the party tries to manipulate the truth.  They do not allow people to
know or remember that the enemy in the war has changed.  They don't allow the people to remember
certain people.  By doing this, they control what the people know.  This is extemely important
to the survival of the party.

So, Winston's job is one that is very
important for...

What was Zinn's argument about World War I in A People's History of the United States?

In Chapter
Fourteen, Zinn argues that the official justification for American involvement in the warthat it
was undertaken to protect free trade and other rights of nationsis nonsense. He quotes historian
Richard Hofstadter, hardly a radical, who dismissed this as "rationalization of the
flimsiest sort." Zinn finds the real motives for entering the war in what Wilson called the
"righteous conquest of foreign markets" and a desire to achieve profits for
industrialists and financiers while promoting unity with the working classes. American
involvement in the war would open up tremendous opportunities for war profiteers, and victory
would ensure expanded American access to global markets. Zinn notes that J.P. Morgan and Company
issued massive loans to Great Britain, which obviously gave them a motive for seeing Allied
victory, even (or more accurately, especially) if that meant American intervention. Zinn spends
most of this chapter writing about how the American state sought to maintain a consensus for
fighting the war through propaganda, suppression of dissent, and especially crushing
working-class unrest. Socialist opposition was especially strong, as evidenced by Eugene V. Debs
and Charles Schenck, both imprisoned for voicing their distaste for the war, and the actions of
the International Workers of the World. In short, to enforce consensus on a war that many
Americans did not want, the "establishment" in the United States resorted to decidedly
undemocratic measures:

The patriotic fervor of war had
been invoked. The courts and jails had been used to reinforce the idea that certain ideas,
certain kinds of resistance, could not be tolerated.

What are 2 examples from Douglass's Narrative in which he uses sentimentalism and/or emotion to manipulate the reader?

One example in which
Douglass appeals to sentiment and emotion is in the first chapter. In this excerpt, he speaks
about being separated from his mother at a young age. He writes:

My mother and I were separated when I was but an infantbefore I knew her as my mother.
It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from
their mothers at a very early age.

His parting from his
mother is tragic, and his retelling of this separation is intended to point out the evils of
slavery to the white readership of his book. His appeal to sentiment is intended to convince the
reader of the evils of slavery, which includes the practice of tearing vulnerable children from
their mothers at a young age.

Later, in chapter 10, Douglass discusses the
harsh treatment he receives as a field hand under the barbaric Mr. Covey. When Douglass is in
chains, he is within sight of the Chesapeake Bay, and he sees the sailboats in the bay. He
writes of this sight: "You are loosed...

My landlord & I have verbal lease on a storage building that had no running water & after 4 years has yet to add one.

If I
understand your situation, you "leased" a storage building from your landlord with the
understanding that he would add running water, which has not been done, and you are, no doubt,
paying rent on it.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think the word...

What are themes depicted in Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and
floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the
orange sun rays
and dares to claim the
sky.

[...]

The caged bird sings
with fearful
trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is
heard
on the distant hill for the caged bird
sings of freedom

The two most prominent themes are those of (1) freedom versus
oppression and (2) duality. Angelou starts her poem (which bears the same title as her
first autobiographical book ) with a contrast between the free bird that "leaps
/ on the...

What are some good thesis statements for an essay on The Crucible?

is
chock full of so many interesting and complicated characters and a number of compelling themes
that your options for addressing it via a thesis statement abound.

You could
examine the issue of who is most responsible for the events that take place in Salem, as
represented by the play. For example, one might argue that John Proctor is to blame for the
tragic events because he had an illicit and illegal affair with Abigail Williams and because he
kept the information she shared with him from the court.

One could also argue
that Abigail Williams is responsible for the deaths of innocents because of her hypocrisy and
apparent lack of conscienceshe was attempting to practice witchcraft in the forest and kill
Goody Proctor, but then she began to accuse others, knowing it would result in severe
punishments.

You could even argue that Deputy Governor Danforth is
responsible for the events because he accepts spectral evidence (which cannot be empirically
proven) and because he is more concerned about preserving his authority than he is about
preserving the lives of innocent people. One could make a similar argument about Reverend
Parris.

In addition, depending on what you've studied, you could make an
argument about why Miller changed certain facts about the trials, fictionalizing them to some
degree. He made Abigail older than she really was, and he leaves no room for doubt that she is
conscious and aware of what she is doing and the havoc she is wreaking, all for her own
power.

For example, you could argue that Miller made these changes so that
the parallels between Abigail and Senator Joseph McCarthy would be more apparent, more
effectively commenting on the figurative witch hunt for Communists and Communist-sympathizers in
the 1950s and 60s.

You might even focus, simply, on the character of John
Proctor, making some argument about his moral ambiguity and its role in the play. For example,
you might argue that John Proctor's moral ambiguitythe fact that he does both morally good and
morally bad thingsleads to the play's theme: that redemption is always possible and integrity is
renewable.

Which of the five senses does the third stanza concentrate on? List examples.

William
Wordsworth's 1849 poem pays respect to the steady habits of a village blacksmith, a widower who
works hard, practices faith, and lives simply. The third stanza has many appeals to the reader's
sense of hearing.

"Week in, week out, from morn till
night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy
sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village
bell,
When the evening sun is low."

A
bellows is a tool that produces air to feed a fire. When it is operated, it produces a whooshing
sound. In using it, the fire would respond by flaring, which would also produce sound.

The sledge that is mentioned in line three is a sledge hammer, a tool composed of a
wooden handle and a blunt iron head. A blacksmith uses a sledge hammer to shape hot metal by
pounding it on an iron anvil. The sound that it produces is rhythmic and clamorous as metal hits
metal. It is a clanging sound. The poem's speaker describes the sound as slow, meaning that the
blacksmith pounds slowly and methodically. Using a , he compares it to the ringing of a church
bell for evening prayers.

Why does Chillingworth want to exact revenge on Mr. Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

In his conversation
within her jail cell,says, several times, of Hester's co-sinner, who turns out to be the
Reverend, "He shall be mine!" or "Thou wilt not reveal his name? Not the less he
is mine." He says that he will not "interfere with Heaven's own method of retribution,
or . . . betray him to the gripe of human law."  Therefore, Chillingworth vows that he will
not turn the father of Hester's baby over to the town authorities but that, instead, this man
will "be his." What can this mean? Hester is clearly concerned and interprets these
words as very threatening. She says, "Thy acts are like mercy . . . but thy words interpret
thee as a terror!" She means that what he says he will do sounds mercifulthat he will not
turn the man over to the lawbut the words themselves are frightening. Chillingworth does want
revenge because, as he says to Hester, this man "has wronged us both!" He feels that
he shares some responsibility for Hester's...

Which specific metaphors and similes in the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" were probably the most persuasive?

Two
metaphors (comparisons that do not use like or as) in Edwards's sermon that probably were
particularly effective are as follows:

The corruption of
the heart of the man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it
is like fire pent up by the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so, if sin
was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or furnace of fire and
brimstone.

Fire is a word we immediately understand, and
brimstone is sulfur that has been struck by lightning so that it smokes and gives off a
stinking, unpleasant odor. In the Book of Revelation, there is a lake of brimstone into which
Satan and his followers are cast by God. In Genesis, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah (sinful
towns) with fire and brimstone.

In the quote above, the heart of a sinful
person, who has not turned to Jesus, is compared to fiery oven that would burn the entire person
up immediately if he did not restrain his evil impulses. A sinful soulthat could explode and
engulf our bodies in the agony of fire and brimstone, as if we had doused ourselves with
gasoline and lit a matchis not a soul we want to have.

A quote I gravitate
toward every time I write about this sermon is the following:

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are
innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these
places are not seen.

Here, Edwards uses theof comparing
the journey of a person unconverted to Christianity to a perilous trip over a raging pit of fire
on a weak, rickety, rotting wooden bridge that could collapse at any time. This is a vivid and
terrifying image and one that sticks with a person.

What are your major concern about computer crime and privacy on the Internet. Explain. What are your major concern about computer crime and...

Like just about
everyone else that posted, my main fear is for my personal information and having that be stolen
in order for someone else to purchase things and use my information for their gain.  We become
so quickly and deeply dependent on this stuff in order to carry on our daily lives that we don't
think twice until something horrible happens.

The second is what would happen
in the event of a massive crash of the system.  I was in an area of PA that has a large Amish
population recently and I thought with some jealousy that their communities would be largely
unaffected because they haven't made themselves so dependent on technology to get by.  This is
another thing to consider that I think most people have given zero thought to.  What would I do
if cell phones go down?  If I am paying all my bills online, what would happen if the internet
had a real serious attack on it and was not working properly for a month?

I
think these are questions that won't get answered until they happen and that will be far too
late.

What are the symbols of God's wrath in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Gods
wrath is a central focus of .  The word is used about fifty times in the sermon.  In a
nutshell, the sermon is about how God is really angry at the sinners of the world; it suggests
that God should throw us into hell immediately.  Stated like that, the sermon isnt all that
scary; however, Edwardss sermon is one of the great examples of a fire and brimstone sermon.  He
uses graphicto describe Gods wrath toward his followers.  The goal is that terrified sinners are
repentant sinners and better Christians because of it.  

Whats nice about
this sermon is that the images that Edwards chooses are familiar images.  He gives the
congregation concrete examples of Gods wrath so that the people can better understand the image.
 In 1741 America, colonists had a lot to worry about.  Two of their major concerns were fire and
flood.  Fire, flood, and violent storms could destroy homes and/or entire towns.  They were
a...

How did the techniques of Civil Rights advocates reflect change in the African American Civil Rights Movement? How did the techniques of Civil Rights...

Martin Luther King's high-profile emergence
in 1963, through the power of his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," precipitated a change
within the Civil Rights Movement that shifted its techniques from paths of pursuing legal
redress, as in Brown vs Board of Education, and individual protests, like
Rosa Park's choice of a bus seat and local sit-ins such as the sit-in at Woolworth's, to large
scale organized events, like the March on Washington spearheaded by King, who delivered his
"I Have a Dream" speech before Lincoln's Memorial.

About what would be the best topic to reflect the social commentary element of Kundera's work?

In my
mind, I am not sure one can go past the initial construction of "lightness" and
"weight" that Kundera offers at the outset of the book.  This can become one of the
most profound elements of social commentary offered.  Essentially, the weight of eternal return
"crushes" the individual.  Being is seen as a repetition of constant weight and
pressure.  Yet, Kundera defines this as being...

In "The Necklace," who is the narrator, if anyone?

The narrator
of "" is a third-person omniscient narrator who stands outside of the story. This
narrator knows the entire history of Mrs. Loisel and can communicate the thoughts of both
Monsieur and Madame Loisel.

The narrator moves from providing summarized
background, most of it about Madame Loisel, to zooming in on certain scenes and, in those
instances, largely backing out as narrator. At those points, dialogue between characters
provides the information we need and moves the story along.

The narrator
follows the story as it unfolds for the Loisels, not telling us any more than they themselves
know. Because the story is told largely, though not entirely, from Madame Loisel's point of
view, we accept her versions of events. This allows Maupassant his ironic twist, for readers are
just as surprised as Madame Loisel to find out the diamond necklace was a
fake.

Whose expectations impact Danny the most in Mexican WhiteBoy?

The
answer to this question is subjective, and I believe that readers could pick a couple of
different characters to answer the question. Personally, I believe that the expectations of
Danny's father impact Danny more than any other set of expectations. I find that quite
interesting because Danny's father is never present during the course of the book's events.
Danny thinks that his father has run away to Mexico, and Danny does well in school and plays
hard at baseball because he believes that those efforts will allow him to get to Mexico to see
his father.

Danny even begins planning to get down to Mexico and start living
with his father, regardless of how much school is left or what his mother wants. Readers see
Danny writing letter after letter to his father, and the letters are a mixture of truth and
fantasy, but it is clear that his father's expectations and approval mean more to Danny than
anybody else's expectations and approval.

Calculate the limit n^2/( 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + n ), x->infinity

lim
n^2/(1+2+3+...+n)  n--> inf

We know that 1+2+3+...+n = n(n+1)/2

==> lim 2n^2/n(n+1) = 2lim n^2/ lim n^2+n

 Let us divide by the
highest power n^2

==> 2lim (n^2/n^2) / lim n^2(1+1/n)

Reduce similar:

==> 2 lim(1)/lim (1+1/n)   when n-->
inf

==> 2/1+0 = 2

 

What are the implications of the use of words like "daydreaming" and "dreamed" in the Odyssey?

In book 1, Telemachus is
described as a "boy daydreaming" (line 145) while he sits among the suitors vying for
his mother's hand. He is dreaming about his father's return as Athena first arrives. He dreams
that his father returns to displace the suitors. In this daydream, Telemachus is a boy who must
depend on his father to restore Ithaca to its rightful rulers. Athena, disguised as Mentes,
encourages Telemachus, who is in a deep depression, to tell the suitors to leave his house and
to go out in search of his father.

"Daydreaming" has theof inaction
and passivity. Telemachus cannot yet imagine doing anything active to help his father return or
to kick out the suitors from his house. Instead, he resorts only to imagining a better reality
for himself and his mother, Penelope. It is also notable that he is described as a
"boy." After he is inspired by Athena to go abroad in search of news about his father,
he begins to become more maturea process that is completed when he and his father take on the
suitors.

In the Odyssey, characters who dream are not
active and do not have the favor of the gods. Once they have won the gods' favor, they turn to
active pursuits and to engaging with life to achieve their goals.

Given that there is no institutionalized clergy in Islam, how does the religious system work? What is the nature of religious leadership in Islam?...

This
is a very interesting question! Islam is a fascinating religion to study and has some distinct
differences from other major world religions when it comes to leadership and the role of the
state.

A quote from the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality &
Equality helps us understand how the religious system works:

According to the Qur'an and Sunnah, religious leadership in Islam should be understood
as a system based on merit, whereby leadership positions are determined according to each
candidate's mastery of religious knowledge and acceptance by his or her community to lead as a
moral example. The purpose of this system is to ensure that the most competent person is
selected to lead the community and to educate those seeking knowledge, regardless of their
gender.

Instead of an institutionalized clergy, in Islam
the most qualified person is supposed to be chosen as a religious leader. This person would have
studied the holy books extensively and thus would be a reliable reference for others when it
comes to questions about the religion. Religious leadership, then, is based on study and
knowledge, and each individual's mastery of this would qualify him or her for a leadership
position.

In terms of the state's influence in religious matters, things get
more complicated. Islam is not just a religion but a way of life. This means that almost all
aspects of a person's life are dictated by the religion, if they follow it as written. More
often, we can see examples of how the Islamic religion influences state matters, rather than the
other way around. For example, this quote from Oxford Islamic Studies:

Islamic states are very different from each other in their most
important political aspects. Such countries might be similar in terms of applying so-called
Islamic penalties (ḥudūd) or of trying to avoid the receiving or giving of
banking interest taken to be forbidden (usury, or ribā), yet they are very
different from each other with regard to their political forms and constitutional arrangements.
Nor do they usually have mutual recognition of each other as being Islamic states.

Islamic states, as they are called, can have some rules based on
the Qur'an, such as no interest and specific penalties of law. However, in other ways each
majority-Muslim state can have its own political organization and does not recognize any others
as specifically Islamic states. Depending on each government's history, you would find vastly
different answers to the question of how state influences religion and vice
versa.

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Why did the United States stay neutral in the beginning of World War I? What are some events that led the United States into the war?

Michael Koren

Whenbegan, the United States was neutral. However, eventually the United States joined
the war on the side of the Allies. There were reasons for both of these positions.

When World War I began, the United States wasnt involved. This is because we werent
part of any of the alliances that existed in Europe. Once members of each alliance declared war
on each other, other alliance members joined the war. We werent a part of this.
Most...

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In 1984, what are some of the characteristics of the proles that, in Winston's eyes, make them the ultimate means for overthrowing Big Brother?

once
wrote in his secret diary, "If there is hope...it lies in the proles" ( , 89). Winston
has several reasons to have faith that the proles will one day rebel and overthrow the Party.
Unlike Party members, the proles make up 85% of the population and are not under constant
surveillance. They are not required to have telescreens in their homes or demonstrate unwavering
loyalty to Big Brother like Winston and the other Party members. Winston also recognizes that
the proles have retained their humanity to a certain degree. After witnessing a prole women
shield her child from watching a graphic scene in the movies, Winston becomes aware that they
value family, decency, and loyalty toward one another. The fact that their loyalty is not
directed solely toward Big Brother is significant in Winston's opinion. Their familial loyalty
allows them to be independent and protects them from becoming unscrupulous, devoted followers of
Big Brother. He also recognizes that the proles...

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four... explore the meaning of this statement using the novel i need three to four...

In this
book, all freedom of thought has been taken away from people.  This has been done in a number of
ways.  First of all, they are not allowed to have any feelings for one another or form any real
relationships.  Second, they are having...

What are some ways I could begin to relate themes between George Orwell's 1984 and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five?

Though
's takes place in a future dystopia, like most other novels of thisgenre,
it is a projection or exaggeration of trends and events occurring in the author's own time. In
1949, when Orwell published the novel, Europe was recovering from the still-recent devastation
of World War II. The conditions of deprivationmuch of his future London is like the bombed-out
city that actually did result from the German blitzand the presence of regimes (the three
Superstates of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia) which represent an even more extreme version of
totalitarian rule than the Soviets and Nazis, show that 1984 is the
endpoint of man's violence and folly which have dominated the twentieth century thus far and
nearly destroyed civilization.

This is identical, in some sense, to the world
depicted by Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five. The centerpiece of the novel
is the destruction of the German city of Dresden by Allied bombings in early 1945. When Billy
Pilgrim and the other prisoners...

Identify the plot, characters, setting, symbols and themes of the story The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso.

The Woman Next Door was
a seminal novel by black, South Africa-based, Barbadian author Yewande Omotoso about two older
womenone black and one whiteliving next door to each other at a time when the South African
apartheid state was still raging in full force.

The setting is an upscale
suburban neighborhood in the mid-twentieth century. The two main characters, Hortensia James and
Marion Agostino, interestingly, are often as similar as they are different. Hortensia (dubbed
"Hortensia the Horrible" by Marion) is black, childless, and a fighter who manages
beat back racism and start a popular fabric design firm. Marion (called "Marion the
Vulture" by Hortensia) is white, is widowed, and was a successful architect prior to
birthing her four children. While the women have lived next to each other for two agonizing
decades, hating each other, they both are mirrors of each othertough, proud, and professional,
the latter of which was particularly unusual for the time.

Things take an
interesting turn when the two are forced to live together in the same house after Marion finds
herself homeless and Hortensia becomes bedridden. This creates a perfect powder keg as the two
spar and spat over everything from money to marriage, kids to career, race to reasoning. But
eventually, hostility gives way to compassion as the two get to know one another and learn from
one another to see the world through the other's eyes.

Arguing eventually
becomes conversation and understanding becomes friendship in this story of forgiveness and unity
as each woman's sadness over lost opportunities becomes the cement that brings them
together.

How could technology potentially become the downfall of the party, despite how much it seems to be giving the party all its major control and power?...

The power of
technology depends on who controls it.  I would imagine that it's possible for someone to get
control of the technology and use it against the party (inner, I suspect you mean).  It's always
possible that the inner party will have some kind of "disruptive" incident that
would...

What is an example of "plain folk propoganda" in Animal Farm by George Orwell? If there is any quote and/or page number, that would be helpful.

I would
select 's speech to the animals, at the very start of the story, as a perfect example. , of
course, uses the terminology of real-life socialism by having Old Major address the others as
"comrade." The aging pig also uses the fact that he has not much time left on earth as
an element of persuasion. He has seen more of life than the other animals and has concluded that
Man is the source of all evil. "Man," he says, "is the only creature that
consumes without producing." This is Major's key point, although (as with much propaganda
in the real world) it is a falsehood, in spite of the element of truth in it from the animals'
perspective.

The most interesting thing about the speech, in my opinion, is
that it is capped off with a song, "Beasts of England," which, we are told, has a tune
somewhere between "Clementine" and "La Cucaracha." This is the
equivalent, one presumes, of the "Internationale," the anthem of world
Socialism. Any persuasive message in the...

Discuss the destructive type of love present in Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

I think
that the love presented in Williams' work is destructive.  Yet, I also think that the love that
is presented is demonstrated as one that yearns for what cannot be.  In a sense that love
becomes so very destructive for those who possess it.  For example, Blanche demonstrates a love
for a time and condition that have passed.  Blanche yearns for the stately manors and regal
tradition of the South, embodied in Belle Reve.  This has passed with a more modernized and
industrial visage in its place.  Blanche's love of the past proves to be destructive because it
makes her incapable of being able to adapt to the moder modernized reality that surrounds her. 
Stanley's desire to appropriate the world in accordance to his own subjectivity is also
destructive, but this destruction is wrought on others.  His love of this appropriation causes
him to violate Blanche, demonstrating carnal destruction.  In the end, the yearning for the
subjective to be mirrored in reality is a form of love that destroys bonds and cannot foster
connection or solidarity between people.

Explain the use of the cloth sheet. What does it suggest symbolically about the relationship between the sister and brother?

In s
, the cloth sheet represents Gregor Samsas deep sense of care for his
sister. In the famous opening line of the novella, we are told that Gregor has transformed into
an enormous insect and is forced to hide in his room. His family is horrified, naturally, and
afraid to go into see him. About a month later, Gregors sister enters his room, sees him, and
then immediately steps back out. Gregor realizes that his sister is afraid of him, but even in
his grotesque new form, he feels great love for his sister. So that she can enter his room
without being afraid, he carries a bedsheet over to the couch he hides under so that hell be
completely covered. This is no small feat for an insect with no thumbsin fact, it takes him four
hours to complete the task. Gregor knows this will spare his sister the fright of having to see
him, however, and he is glad to do it. The next time his sister enters the room, he can see the
gratitude on her face.

The relationship between Gregor and his sister is a
close one, as the anecdote of the bedsheet demonstrates. Gregors sister is also the one who
works hard to find food that he will eat as an insect (he no longer finds human food
appetizing).The Metamorphosis also has flashbacks to Gregors pre-insect
days that highlight this relationship. For instance, his sister loves music and playing the
violin, and Gregor had planned to pay for her to go to music school, even though it would have
been very expensive.

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why was the development of religions and government, in addition to guns, germs, steel and writing, an agent...

The
development of religion and government counted as an agent of conquest because it helps ensure
that a society will have the soldiers and the resources needed to fight other societies.  This
gives a society that has organized religion and government advantages over a society that does
not.

A society is likely to conquer another society if it has more soldiers,
more weapons and more of other sorts of resources.  A...

In To Kill a Mockingbird how are Jem and Dill affected by racism?

and Dill are
shocked and disillusioned by the way Tom Robinson is treated during the trial. First, Dill
becomes emotionally overwhelmed by the way Mr. Gilmer, the prosecuting attorney, speaks so
condescendingly and disrespectfully to Tom. He becomes so upset that he cries during the trial;
so Jem hastake Dill outside to calm down. Once they get outside, Scout tries to explain that
attorneys have to talk that way because that is their job. Scout even says something very
insensitive: "Well, Dill, after all he's just a Negro." This shows that Scout does not
have the mature perspective that Dill has, yet. Dill responds to her by saying the
following:

"I don't care one speck. It ain't right,
somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that--it
just makes me sick" (199).

Clearly, Dill understands
the nastiness behind the way Mr. Gilmer was speaking to Tom Robinson, but he can't articulate
it. Dill feels great empathy for Tom because of the racism and prejudice being displayed. He is
sickened and cries because of how much it frustrates him to see Tom treated so
poorly. 

Jem, on the other hand, understands the ways of attorneys and
trials; so, he puts up with Mr. Gilmer's attitude for longer than Dill can. With faith in the
justice system, and in 's arguments for the defense, Jem holds onto hope for Tom's acquittal up
until the disappointing verdict is read. This is when Jem breaks down and cries. Atticus does
his best to explain the nature of racism afterwards--although he doesn't use that word. He tells
Jem that a jury of white men simply could not acquit Tom because of a long-standing tradition of
prejudice and racism in the South. Jem has such a difficult time accepting this that he never
wants to talk about the trial again. For example, when Scout wants to understand the difference
between how Hitler treats Jews and the way her teacher, Miss Gates, spoke about African
Americans after the trial, Jem explodes as follows:

"Jem was suddenly furious. He leaped off the bed, grabbed me by the collar and
shook me. 'I never wanta hear about that courthouse again, ever, ever, you hear me? You hear me?
Don't you ever say one word to me about it again, you hear? Now go on!'" (247).

Even months after the trial, Jem still isn't ready to face the
facts of racism and prejudice--or at least he can't talk about them.

How has globalization made the world more Americanized?

First, we
must note that the world has not necessarily become more Americanized.  We can argue that the
opposite has happened.  As the world has become more globalized, other countries have become
more important.  China has become much more important in places like Africa, perhaps becoming
more influential than the US....

What characteristics of a ballad can be seen in "The Demon Lover"?

"The Demon Lover" is a traditional
ballad from Scotland. Like most traditional ballads, it adheres to a fairly rigid structure and
form. It is comprised of stanzas with four lines each, each of which has a simple rhyme scheme
-- in this case, ABCB.

Another characteristic of the ballad is that it should
be a narrative -- ballads tell stories. In this case, we are seeing a tragic love story. This is
another common theme of ballads, as is the idea of a promise exchanged between two lovers, which
can sometimes cause terrible and tragic outcomes, especially where some form of trick is
involved.

Repeated phrases also characterize the ballad -- in this case,
"O hold your tongue."

Because ballads were often written (or
rather, composed) to be sung, and often sung in local areas only, we also often find very simple
language which can show localfeatures. In this Scottish ballad, we find words like
"mair" which indicate Scots pronunciation.

Justinian Accomplishments

There is a
saying, famous in the American
lexicon, that states "behind every great man was a great
woman." Historians
are in almost complete agreement that Justinian, the Byzantine Emporer
from
527-565 was a great man. His legal reforms allowed the Eastern Roman Empire to endure
for
nearly a thousand years after his death. However, any study of
Justinian's political, artistic,
and economic achievements need to be
examined through the lens of the great woman behind
him.

One of Justinian's greatest accomplishments is that he married well.
His
wife, the Empress Theodora was a savvy politician in her own right.
Justinian treated her as her
intellectual equal and they for all intents and
purposes, ruled the empire together. In fact,
Theodora can be credited with
saving the throne in 532 when a riot threatened to overthrow
Justinian. As
Justinian and his court were set to flee the city in exile when Theodora's

impassioned plea to fight was heard. The rebellion was easily put down and Justinian
remained
emperor.

As emperor, Justinian made great reforms
in the areas of law, urban
development, and conquest. His Justinian Code
curbed bureaucratic corruption in the empire for
centuries. Theodora was a
partner in these reforms and convinced Justinian to reform the roles
and
responsibilities of women in the empire. Theodora was responsible for establishing
royal
decorum in the court that further legitimized the authority and respect
of the crown. Justinian
himself would credit Theodora for her guidance and
leadership in these realms.

Justinian's initial attraction
to Theodora may have been physical, but it did not take
him very long for him
to respect her intelligence and political abilities. His willingness to

promote Theodora's talents and allow her to have a voice on his court should be
considered one
of his greatest accomplishments.

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How are Conchetta and Mr Pignati like Lorraine's parents in "Pigman"? How are they different?

Conchetta and
Mr. Pignati are like Lorraine's parents in that both couples are incomplete.  Mr. Pignati has
been separated from Conchetta through death, and Mrs. Jensen's husband has left her after
cheating on her.  Both Mr. Pignati and Mrs. Jensen are profoundly affected by their abandonment
- Mr. Pignati is devastatingly lonely, and Mrs. Jensen is deeply bitter towards life and people
in general.

Conchetta and Mr. Pignati are more unlike Lorraine's parents than
they are similar, however.  Conchetta and Mr. Pignati shared a relationship that was based on
love, while Lorraine's parents' brief union was characterized by mistrust.  Mr. Pignati's and
Mrs. Jensen's past relationships have a significant effect on how they relate to Lorraine.  Mr.
Pignati dotes on Lorraine and treats her with care and a generous spirit; he has fun with her,
and likes her as a person.  He is so happy to have her company after being isolated and alone
that he goes overboard, wanting to buy her things and to make her happy.  Mrs. Jensen, on the
other hand, is unkind and hypercritical of Lorraine.  She is cynical and rarely has anything
nice to say about her daughter, is suspicious of her motives and her comings and goings, and
always puts her down for for her appearance and her aspirations.

What are some of Winston's fears in 1984?

fears rats.
This is first exposed in chapter 4 during one of his escapades within the room on top of Mr.
Charringtons junk shop. Julia spotted a rat poking its head from a corner of the room and this
terrified Winston to the point of screaming. He then revealed that he feared rats more than
anything else in the world. This same fear is what OBrien eventually used to get Winston to
betray his love for Julia. Winston had actually intended to keep his love for Julia in his heart
forever but upon transfer to room 101 and additional threats of a cage of hungry rats, he
betrayed Julia.

Winston also feared being executed for thought crime. During
one instance, he encountered three men who were executed for treason which they allegedly
committed during a party function when in reality they were in the same venue as he was during
the alleged time of the crime. Winston, noting this experience as real history, had kept their
photograph but later threw it into memory hole.

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martin luther king jr what did martin luther king jr do in his life?

King was a writer,
speaker and political activist who promoted non-violent resistance to unnacceptable rules of law
and conventions of society.

He helped to dignify a social movement that was
under attack from the start by refusing to respond to violence with violence, to hate with hate.
He once said that darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate, only love can do that.

He spoke well and by most accounts did very
well at living up to his word.

He was jailed for protesting and he was
honored by JFK and Lyndon Johnson. He was attacked and shot, and he was praised for his
eloquence, his compassion, his integrity, his courage, his will, his faith and his
intelligence.

He graduated early from high school and recieved a BA before he
was 20, I believe, and an MA and a Phd. (in separate programs) by the time he was 27.

He had a family. And he dedicated himself, despite the costs, to a life of social
change and service.

Why does Jonathan Edwards in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" compare sinners to spider and serpents?

In his sermon
"," the Puritan
minister, , preaches a fire and brimstone sermon in order to frighten
the
congregation into being more righteous. As part of his scare tactics, Edwards seeks
to
awaken the unconverted people by convincing them that theirs is a tenuous
situation:

...and your own care and
prudence, and best contrivance, and all
your righteousness, would have no
more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a
spider's web
would have to stop a fallen rock....

This
use of the spider  for the congregation continues as the people
are told of their weakness and
loathsomeness to God:

...The God that holds you over the
pit of hell,
much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors
you
...He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the
fire

In his Puritan zeal, Edwards also
continues to express the
congregations' insignificance as they are only
worthy of being cast into the fire.  And, if this
is not enough, Edwards
continues to explain how lowly God considers them in contrast to the more

abominable serpent,

you are ten thousand times
more
abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in
ours.  You have offended Him
infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did
his prince.

Of course, theto the
serpent is a comparison of those who are like the serpent in the
Garden of
Good and Evil, the penultimate insult.

What is necessary when writing a Response to Literature?

I think
that the previous post did a strong
job in addressing the questions that have to be included in
a literature
response.  I would also submit that being able to create these arguments with

specific support from the text is another critical element in literature responses. 
Answers
have to be able to discuss both ideas about the text as well as
support from it.  This may take
the form of direct
quotations...

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter what appears to be the author's attitude towards his Puritan ancestors?

As
Hawthorne begins, he tells his audience that new civilizations require two things from the
onset, a cemetary and a prision.  This suggests to his audience that he believes the Puritan
ancestors to be harsh and unforgiving people.  As the opening chapter continues by describing
the prision's door, it describes it as an ancient relic in the new world.  If everything in
Boston was built...

What is the contribution of Ralph Waldo Emerson to American literature?

Emerson was one of the
founders ofin America. An offshoot of the Romantic movement, Transcendentalism and its writers
focused on creating a uniquely American voice in literature. Part of a movement called the New
England Renaissance or the American Renaissance, Transcendentalism established the idea that
American literature should have its own concerns and voice and should not simply try to emulate
European literature. Instead, Emerson's writings, such as "," stressed the importance
of developing one's own talents and emphasized the importance of cultivating what is great in
oneself. By extension, his writings emphasized the importance of developing an American
literature that was not concerned with European models. Over time, as Emerson believed in the
freedom of each person, he became an advocate of abolition, and he inspired others to fight
against slavery.

In addition, Emerson's writings such as
 spoke of the wonders of the wild. In Nature, he
writes, "Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her
secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection." Emerson wrote about the
majesty, spirituality, wonder, and innocence one could find in the wild. Emerson's writings have
given rise to generations of nature writers in American literature. 

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What does this Party slogan mean? "Who controls the present controls the past, who controls the past controls the future."

First, the party
slogan in 's book
is actually "Who controls the past controls the
future:
who controls the present controls the past," not "Who controls the present

controls the past, who controls the past controls the future."

This
slogan first appears early in the book, in passing. Later, it
occurs in a more substantive
discussion betweenand . In Winston's perception,
the past has "never been altered,"
despite the fact there is unambiguous
evidence that the Party has regularly engaged in historic
revisionism. "All
that was needed," Winston recalls, "was an unending series of
victories over
your own memory."

In other words, the slogan posits that

actions of today determine the course of events tomorrow. It further posits that actions
taken
in the present are inspired by events that have occurred in the past.
In order to inspire
actions designed to advance the ideological cause of the
party, therefore, the presentation of
the past needs to be done in such
a...

What is a detailed analysis of the poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann?

Amira Lind, M.A.

"Desiderata" means "things wanted or needed." In the context of the
poem, the speaker is sharing with his readers what he desires them to do in the form of
directives such as "Go placidly amid the noise and haste" and "Avoid loud and
aggressive persons." We may assume these desires for the reader are desires the speaker has
for himself, in order to live a "cheerful" and "happy" life.

In order to find happiness, the speaker suggests to his readers that they stay firm in
their convictions but do so in a gentle way: "Speak your truth quietly and clearly."
Much of the poem focuses on not drawing a lot of attention to yourself; rather, joy can be found
in being "humble" and avoiding "compar[ing] yourself with others." The
speaker also urges us to put our faith in a master plan we do not understand, as "no doubt
the universe is unfolding as it should."

While words of advice are
given, caution is also shared, because "the world is full of trickery" and "sham,
drudgery, and broken dreams."...

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Why does Dr. Jekyll not reveal the details of his scientific discovery? From the chapter: Henry Jekyll´s full statement of the case.

Dr. Jekyll
explains that there are a couple of reasons why he will not tell exactly how it was that he was
able to turn into Mr. Hyde.

First, he says it is because people...

Alcohol In The Great Gatsby

Alcohol
is a central symbol in . Through it, the reader can see the importance of
appearances over truth in the minds of the central .

It is important to
understand that The Greattakes place during the prohibition era. During
this time, the production and sale of alcohol was illegal in the United States. However, the
laws made no mention of owning or consuming it. Regardless of where the alcohol came from, it
was incredibly popular, lending credence to the idea that banning something only makes people
want it more.

Over the course of the story, everyone drinks heavily and
often, but it is considered unseemly to question where the substance might be coming from. The
Buchanan family prides themselves on being made of "old money." They consider their
class to be valuable beyond their financial means, because they inherited their wealth. Because
of this, they consider Gatsby to be an upstart. Rumors circulate about where Gatsby may have
acquired his fortune, and a...

What gift does Mrs. Whatsit give Meg for her journey back to Camazotz in A Wrinkle In Time? What is Mrs. Whichs gift?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

Mrs. Whatsit gives Meg her love. Mrs. Which gives her information.

Meg is terrified to go back to Camazotz to try to save Charles Wallace. She knows that IT is a
powerful force and doesn't believe that she has the power to fight it....

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What does this quote mean? The cold, many words fell like so many stones into the quiet room.

When
given a quote such as this one, the first thing to do is to make sure that you understand theof
the sentence. Perhaps the most confusing section - syntactically at least - of this sentence, is
the bit that says "like so many stones." Upon an initial glance, it is tricky to
determine exactly what is meant by thebecause it also contains a quantitative word
("many"). However, if you read carefully, it seems that the author repeats the word
many to demonstrate that the number of stones dropped is equal to the number of words
spoken.

To elaborate about the meaning of simile itself, think about how a
stone would sound if it was dropped in a quiet room. Presumably it would seem quite loud and it
would draw attention to itself. Now think of each word spoken as a different stone dropping.
Each one makes its own sound and signals its own importance. In other words, what the author is
trying to say is that the each word that is uttered comes across loud and clear and that this is
emphasized due to the quietness of the room.

In the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, how is Dee responsible for the house fire?

Dee may
or may not have caused the house fire in 's short story " ." She does, however, watch
the fire consume the house as she stands nearby under a tree. Dee has only contempt for the old
house and what it represents to her. She surely must know that the loss of the house will
devastate Maggie and her mother, but she does nothing to try to prevent the house from burning
to the ground. Dee does not appreciate practicality or the life that Maggie and her mother live
in the old house. Dee only wants to take relics of the house to put on display; she does not
intend to use them or to...

In Zindel's The Pigman, has John matured since his freshman year in school?

In
Zindel's , John writes about being a troublemaker in school. He brags about
being called the Bathroom Bomber because he used to set off tiny bombs in bathrooms during his
Freshman year. He then brags about a prank he calls "the fruit rolls," which is when
he gets other students in class to roll old apples at substitute teachers. John says the
following about himself after bragging about his pranks:

"I gave up all that kid stuff now that I'm a sophomore. The only thing I do now
that is faintly criminal is write on desks" (3-4).

This does not mean that John has matured. Someone who has a mature outlook on life
wouldn't start a book that is supposed to be a "memorial epic" (5) by bragging about
himself. Not only that, but as John is writing the first chapter, he has just done something
very immature--he held a teenage party in Mr. Pignati's house without permission. During the
party, John had his friend bring alcohol, the girls tried on the deceased wife's dresses, and
police were called in to break it up. This does not demonstrate that John has matured. Even
though John is the one who wants to write about his and Lorraine's friendship with the Pigman,
which might seem honorable, he only suggests it to help Lorraine with her grief. Mr. Pignati
died after they held that party at his house and she feels as though this pushed him into the
grave. Therefore, John is not much more mature by his sophomore year. He is getting better, but
he still has a way to go before one might call him mature. 

How does Poe add tension to "The Pit and the Pendulum?" Use text examples to support your analysis.

One
way that Poe is able to build tension in
the "Pit in the Pendulum" is by making the
narrator of the story the victim
andof the story.  It's written in first person, so the reader
only knows as
much as the narrator.  Sadly, the narrator, and by consequence the reader,
knows
very little.  The vagueness and absence of detail is done by having the
narrator swooning in and
out of a stable state of mind.  For example, one
minute he sees candles, the next he sees
angels, and then everything fades
out again.    

And then
my vision fell
upon the seven tall candles upon the table. At first they wore the aspect of

charity, and seemed white slender angels who would save me; but then, all at once, there
came a
most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fibre in my frame
thrill as if I had touched
the wire of a galvanic battery, while the angel
forms became meaningless spectres, with heads of
flame, and I saw that from
them there would be no help.

Soon
after...

At what point were you most engaged as a reader?

Different
readers will find different parts of the play most engaging. When responding to this sort of
prompt as a student, one should note that there is no one "correct" answer but rather
that the question is asking for a personal reaction.

One way of answering
this is to note that the play is structured as a mystery, in whichis seeking out the causes of
the pollution affecting the city of Thebes. As he accumulates evidence, one could argue that
suspense builds and is maximized just before the pieces finally fit together and the audience
discovers that Oedipus has indeed murdered his father and married his mother.

For an ancient audience, however, this would not have been the case, as audience
members probably would have known the story before attending a performancethe subject was a
well-known legend. Thus, many people in the audience would have found different elements of the
play most engaging. Some would be most engaged by the spectacle of the choral odes with their
complex singing and dancing, while others would have been most engaged by the dialogue or the
psychological and ethical dilemmas of the .

How is social status represented in Jane Austen's Emma and Pride and Prejudice?

Austen presents many layers of social status in each of her novels, and
and are no exceptions. One of the most memorable
representations of social status in Emma is where the newly wed Mrs. Elton
declares that she will haveprecedence over Emma at dinner parties because she is a married
womanand married women always take precedence. Precedence is the concept ofgiving social
privilege to persons of higher social status. It literallyrefers to who precedes (goes in front
of) whom at social functions orsocial ceremonies.

WhenMrs. Elton refers to
the fact that she, as a married woman, now hasprecedence, she is indicating that she has more
privilege--and goes into dinner first or opens the dancing at a ball--than Emma has and thatEmma
has to walk behind her at social events.  This signifies thatsocial status has such importance
and runs so deeply that it evengoverns who gets to be seated or dance first ahead of
whom:

A bride, you know, my dear, is...

What are the symbols in the poem "Cooks Brook" By Al Pittman?

The main symbol in the
poem "Cooks Brook" is the water to which the divers must plunge into. The boys, poised
to take the plunge into the dark and dangerous water, consider the hidden challenges that lie
just below the surface of the water.

Symbolically, the dive represents the
leap into manhood for the boys. The boys know that

It
would be better to die
Skull smashed open in the water
Than it would be to
climb
Backwards down to the beach.

Therefore,
the leap not only symbolizes the transfer to manhood (only the bravest prove themselves to be
men by jumping), it also represents courage and strength--two characteristics looked highly upon
when one is being considered a man or not.

Can you discuss the poetic elements of "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" by Paul Simon?

The fact
that Simon uses repetition in thehelps to bring out the idea that there is always human freedom
to extricate oneself from challenging situations.  The chorus brings this home through
repetition and rhyme, almost as if there is a design deliberate in breaking free from
commitments.  The rhyme is so strong in terms of linking name to method of leaving
("Bus" and...

What is the most important element of fiction in this story? I need help, I am not sure what is the important element.

Like one of the posters
above, I also am struck
by the light and darkin the story along with the notion of blindness.
These
motifs dominate the story, rendering the ideas symbolic and
meaningful. 

In the end, it is the lights going out in the
hall that brings the boy his personal
illumination. He is accustomed to
standing in the shadows where he and his friends pretend to be
characters out
of a fantasy. When the lights go out in the hall of the bazaar, he realizes
that
is what he has been doing with his crush on Mangan's sister - just
playing a part in a
fantasy.

What is Dante's ideas of love? Thank You.

In the
first, the only one set on Earth, Dante hints at his idea of love in his description of the
greyhound, which can be read as a symbol for Jesus. The greyhound shall not feed on either
earth or pelf, But upon wisdom, and on love and virtue. In this way, the greyhound/Jesus
character embodies agape love, or a divine, selfless love that is concerned with the wellbeing
of others. Virgil, Dantes guide through Hell, demonstrates this sacrificial love toward Dante,
so it seems that Dante (the poet) privileged this type of love above all other forms. Virgil
expertly guides Dante...