Why did South Carolina want to secede from the Union?

The South
seceded because they did not want the North to be able to tell them what to do.  In specific,
they did not want the North to be able to do anything that would hurt the institution of
slavery.  They feared that the North would do that once Abraham Lincoln became
president.

Lincoln had been elected without getting any votes from Southern
states.  This made the South believe that he would govern only for the benefit of the North.  As
part of this fear, they were afraid that he would abolish slavery in the South.

The South wanted to be left alone to rule itself, which meant having slavery.  They
feared that Lincoln would not let them have slavery, so they seceded.

Why is Alexander the Great considered the first true superhero of the Western Civilization?

The term
"superhero" is not really used to refer to Alexander the Great, as superheroes are
fictional beings with supernatural powers. Instead, Alexander is considered one of the great
military leaders of the world due to his success in conquering vast amounts of
territory.

Alexander III of Macedon (356 BC €“ 323 BC), usually known as
Alexander the Great, was the son of Philip of Macedon. His father, whose accomplishments are
often overshadowed by those of his son, was in fact an impressive military leader and capable
administrator, who greatly expanded Macedonia, transforming it from a rather small and
unimportant barbarian kingdom to an empire spanning much of northern Greece and becoming the
de facto ruler of much of the rest of what is now the Greek
nation.

Part of what makes Alexander such a storied figure is that he became
regent over the kingdom of Macedonia at the age of sixteen, then was given increasing military
responsibilities, and became king at the age of twenty when...

Do the poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" By William Blake utilize end stop, enjambment, or both, and how does that affect the sound of the poem?

Enjambment is derived from a French word that means to step over. In a poem, enjambment
means to move from one line of verse to another without any kind of end punctuation mark. The
reader is meant to move from one line to the next without a pause. As a general rule, enjambment
will make the poem sound like it has a faster pace/rhythm. This is different from an end-stopped
line of poetry. An end-stopped line will have some kind of punctuation mark that causes a reader
to pause. It could be a colon, semi-colon, period, or comma. Using end-stopped lines will make a
poem sound more regular and methodical.

Both " " and "The
Lamb" use both structures. In "The Tyger," the first line of stanzas...

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The narrator of "The Pit and the Pendulum" is often uncertain about how much time has elapsed and about the physical details of the prison. What does...

The
uncertainties that the narrator experiences regarding the physical details of his prison and the
passage of time are an intentional part of the torture that the Spanish Inquisition is
conducting. Much of their efforts are put not just into physically tormenting the man but to
playing "mind games" with him, and the man, although he fights these manipulations as
best as he can, nevertheless falls prey to them. For example, when he first wakes up in the
dungeon after presumably having been drugged, he is in total darkness. The dungeon is capable of
being lit, but the tormentors make sure it is pitch black when he awakens. That makes it more
likely that he will fall into the pit, but if he doesn't, it doesn't matter to the Inquisition
because the terror of being in deep darkness for so long also suits their purposes. Drugging him
periodically keeps him in a state of confusion. Obviously when one wakes from a drug-induced
slumber and has no clock or access to natural light, one cannot determine how much time has
passed. Likewise, when the man is under the pendulum, he becomes disoriented as to time.
Sometimes he sleeps, and when he wakes, he feels that he may have only slept a moment because
the pendulum has hardly progressed. However, his mind is sharp enough to realize that his
captors may be manipulating him; he realizes that "there were demons who took note of my
swoon, and who could have arrested the vibration at pleasure." The man's
uncertainty about his physical location and the passage of time are not necessarily indicative
of his failing mental powers; they show that his captors are seeking to manipulate his mind as
well as his body.

Is the subject of Emma only marriage and matchmaking?

Romance and
marriage are definitely topics in
. In the nineteenth century when

Emma was published, women had very few opportunities to earn money
to
support themselves; there were very few jobs available to women. Marrying
well was one of the
only methods women had to achieve comfortable homes. Some
women (often from upper class
families) wanted to marry individuals of equal
financial and social status, so they could
maintain their level of comfort
and societal respect. Women from lower classes, too, tried to
marry men of
upper classes to increase their comfort and respectability. Sometimes women
from
wealthy homes fell in love with men with very little money or status. If
a woman loved a man
enough, she might be willing to sacrifice her material
comforts for love. Families generally
disapproved of their daughters (or
their sons) marrying someone of a lower social or financial
status.

In 's novels, marriage is not simply a matter of love and romance;
it
is a financial transaction. This is clearly seen in the idea of marriage
dowries, the gift of
money that a bride brings to her husband, which is seen
in Emma (and other
nineteenth century stories). Emma, we
find out, is an heiress of a substantial dowry. Men, such
as Mr. Elton, try
to woo Emma. It is likely that money is a part of his interest in her, since

he immediately goes on to romance other rich women after Emma rejects
him:

and if Miss Woodhouse of
Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand
pounds, were not quite so easily
obtained as he [Mr. Elton] had fancied, he would soon try for
Miss Somebody
else with twenty, or with ten. (ch. 16)

Additionally, friendship is a significant theme in Emma.
Early in
the book, Emma is introduced to a new friend, Harriet Smith. She is
highly involved in Harriet's
romances, as she tries to help her friend marry
a wealthy and respectable gentleman. Emma's
ideas about love and marriage
mature throughout the novel. She maintains a close friendship with
her
lifelong friend, Mr. Knightley. Emma has important conversations with Mr.
Knightley
throughout the book. Many of these talks help Emma to grow in her
understanding of life and
love.

In "The Catcher in the Rye", describe Holden's attitude and relationship with his parents, Allie, DB, and Phoebe.

The first
family member with whomshould first be connected is , his little brother who passed away from
cancer.

Allie's death set Holden's life in motion towards the paths that he
chose. His relationship with him was affectionate, as he was often more connected with all
things juvenile, and innocent. When Allie died, Holden was in such grief that punched out the
windows around him and wanted to punch those out of the family car as well, but his hands were
already cut, and he was rushed to the hospital. It was this moment that set im into that
depression that would come and go randomly, and which ultimately made him want to become a
"catcher in the rye" when he grew older, so that he can save children who are in
danger.

His parents, both normal, but affluent, and obviously caring, are not
mentioned as much as Holden's relationship with his siblings. He does mention that his mom is as
"insane" as every other mother, but he does seem to have an affection for them. He
simply does not openly show it.

D.B. is a famous Hollywood writer who used to
write stories. Holden held him in high esteem until the brother switched from working for books
to working for movies. Holden has a hard time with D.B. because D.B. is the shining star of the
family, and Holden feels like a lesser person around him. He also accuses D.B. of
"prostituting" himself for working for the phonie Hollywood- because, of course,
Holden hates movies.

is the strongest connection that Holden has in his
family, again, here we see the same pattern of connection to all things innocent, juvenile,
innocent, and genuine. She is 10, and yet seems to be a the same intellectual and/or emotional
level as Holden. She can tell his behaviors and comments on his decisions because she is clearly
aware of how he is. He loves her to death as well.

In 1984, what is the reason why Winston is sent to room 101?

To answer this
question, take a look at chapter 4 in part 3. At the end of this chapter,comes to visitin his
cell and he asks him about his feelings toward Big Brother. When Winston responds that he hates
Big Brother, O'Brien decides to send him to Room 101.

Remember that Room 101
is the worst possible place that a Party member can be sent to. Inside lies Winston's worst
fear, waiting to be unleashed by O'Brien. Winston is being sent to this place because he has
committed the worst possible crime: he hates Big Brother. How can he be a true Party member if
he does not idolize Big Brother completely? The answer is that he cannot.

As
O'Brien comments in this section, there is nothing intellectually wrong with Winston, meaning
that there is no obvious barrier to prevent him from loving Big Brother. Winston's problem is an
"emotional" one. In other words, he is lacking the devotion and the will to surrender
himself entirely to the Party's manipulation. This is why O'Brien...

Why is Question Period an important part of the Canadian democratic system? This is about the House of Commons in Canada

One
important part of a liberal democratic system like Canadas is that the government must be
answerable to the people.  Another important aspect of liberalism is that the people should have
the freedom to express their opinions.  Both of these aspects of democracy are enhanced (at
least ideally) by Question Period.

Question Period allows the people,
through their representatives, to express...

What is the tension between outward and inward conformity in 1984?

Throughout Oceania, Big Brother is constantly
watching each Party member and observing day and night for symptoms of "unorthodoxy."
Party members must not only display their unquestionable affection for Big Brother publicly but
also remain orthodox at all moments in their private lives. Big Brother expects every Party
member to fully accept government propaganda and logic through the process of doublethink, a
practice by which individuals accept two opposite ideas simultaneously. The Party also maintains
continual surveillance through their network of strategically placed telescreens, Thought
Police, and Youth League institutions.struggles throughout the novel to both outwardly and
inwardly conform to the Party. He finds it difficult to suppress his hatred toward the Party at
social events and is forced to pretend that he loves Big Brother at all times. Despite his
hatred and painful emotions associated with the Party, Winston must smile and cheer for Big
Brother in the...

What was the primary reason that the Cicones were able to do such damage to Odysseus€˜s men?

In Book IX of the
Odyssey,
Odysseus sacks Ismara, the city of the Cicones, kills the men and
enslaves
the women. He then wants to move on immediately, but his men disobey him and remain
in
Ismara, drinking and feasting. They are soon attacked by other Cicones who
live further inland.
These men are better warriors, stronger,
better-equipped, and more numerous than those they had
just
defeated.

As well as being more numerous, the Cicones take advantage
of
the element of surprise in attacking the Ithacans. They know the terrain
and are fighting for
their native land. Odysseuss men have just been eating
and drinking immoderately and are in no
condition to join battle. The Cicones
therefore defeat them easily, killing six men for each of
Odysseuss ships.
Odysseus stresses the greater numbers of the Cicones as the primary reason
for
their victory, while mentioning the other factors in
passing.

Discuss the extent to which Douglas may be considered a Transcendentalist in his view of human nature and the future of the United States?

Douglass is in many ways
a Transcendentalist, as he believes in the power and freedom of the individual. The
Transcendentalists believe that the individual's soul is all powerful and that a person should
be guided by his or her inner inspiration. Douglass is guided by his innermost thoughts and
feelings to break out of slavery and free himself. From a young age, he trusts himself and his
thoughts and beliefs over those espoused by the society, as he never considers himself inferior
to whites and refuses to believe that he is undeserving of his freedom. He is receptive to
arguments, such as those published in the abolitionist newspaper The
Liberator, that each human being has the right to freedom. It is this message that he
later spreads as a speaker on the abolitionist circuit.

His vision of
American society in the future is one in which individualism will triumph. He believes that
enslaved people have the right to pursue their own dreams and destinies and that they should not
be confined by the limitations of what their society thinks they were capable of. In addition,
he believes that people should not be judged by the color of their skin or their backgrounds but
based on their own merits.

How does Goodman Brown react to his wife and others upon his return to Salem?

More
specifically, he shrinks away from the blessings of the minister.He grabs a child away from
Goody Cloyse as she is teaching her the catechism, he refuses to greet his wife Faith, and he
worries and wonders as he sits in church for the rest of his life why the roof does not cave in
every time a prayer is said or a hymn sung.He becomes solitary and despairing, a man who has
become disillusioned with the one thing he had proudly built his life around, his
faith.

In Things Fall Apart, who is Unoka? How is he very different from Okonkwo?

is 's
father, who is a notorious alcoholic and debtor. Unlike Okonkwo, Unoka is depicted as feminine
and lazy. He enjoys spending his time indulging in palm wine and playing the flute. Unoka never
attains any titles and amasses a significant amount of debts owed to his neighbors. Although
Unoka is a lazy debtor, he is a charismatic, peaceful man. Unoka is not a controversial,
resolute individual and refuses to fight in battle. Unfortunately, Unoka is inflicted with
swelling of the abdomen and limbs, which is considered an abomination to the earth goddess and
left to die in the Evil Forest.

Okonkwo feared growing up to become like
Unoka and was determined from a young age to be a success. Unlike his lazy, unaccomplished
father, Okonkwo develops into a strong, masculine, successful man. Okonkwo is an accomplished
wrestler and revered throughout Umuofia for his performance in battle. Okonkwo is also a
successful farmer and even earns two titles.

Who are the characters in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster?

 byis a children's novel written in 1961. It begins with Milo, the
young , spotting a mysterious package. When he opens it, he finds instructions for constructing
a magical tollbooth. Once constructed, the tollbooth opens up to him a magical world in which he
has adventures and is given a quest to rescue two princesses. The plot structure is that of a
fantasy quest.

The protagonist of the novel is Milo, a...

In George Orwell's 1984, what are the two aims of the Party?

In 's
, the objective of the Party is quite simple:  control.  Though the Party
seeks to achieve this goal in a number of ways, they are encompassed under two specific
methods.  The Party first manipulates the population's ability to express itself.  In the
Ministry of Truth, the news of current events is "rectified" so that a certain
perspective - the perspective that presents Big Brother in the most appealing light - is the
only view expressed.  The population, not knowing anything different, does nothing to question
what they hear or read.  The use of Newspeak, the rather abbreviated language of the Party,
prevents the people from expressing themselves freely.  With a much smaller vocabulary, the
creativity of language is stifled, as is any real ability to form a dissenting opinion against
Big Brother.  Not only does the Party control the knowledge the population takes in but also the
way in which it can express itself.

The other form of control is a much more
physical one.  While Newspeak will eventually silence dissent by the process of eliminating
problematic vocabulary, the Ministry of Love provides a much more immediate deterrent to
dissent.  Those caught by the Thought Police are taken to the Ministry of Love, where they are
"re-educated," or "vaporized."  In the latter case, the Party erases any
evidence of a person's existence.  In the first case, somethinghimself experiences, his mind is
remolded in the pattern favored by the Party.

In both cases, the Party
establishes its one goal - control.  They control the thoughts of the population not only by
psychological and epistemological means but also by physical ones.

How did commercial exchange on the Silk Road foster other changes?

In human
history, commercial exchange tends to promote other changes because the people who engage in the
commercial exchange also engage (whether purposefully or not) in other sorts of
exchanges.

Perhaps the most important change that was fostered by commercial
exchange on the Silk Road was religious.  It was along the Silk Road that Buddhism made its way
from India to China.  Buddhism became a very important religion in China.  Chinese monks ended
up moving back and forth on the Silk Road to India to study and collect texts.

In this and other ways, the trade that was conducted along the Silk Road caused
cultural change to occur.

"""But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." This...""

In the
first chapter of the novel,begins to describe her small, boring town of Maycomb, Alabama and
alludes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address by saying, "Maycomb
County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (Lee, 6).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's said the famous phrase "Nothing to fear but fear
itself" during his inaugural address, which took place on March 4,...

Why is it, in the book Night, that Elie Wiesel could have wept with rage when his father begs for rest upon arrival at Buchenwald ?

By the time
Elie and his father arrive at Buchenwald, Elie has been fighting to keep them together and alive
for a long time. He is again faced with the task of trying to guide both of them through the
processing that was necessary before they could go to sleep. Elie's father, however, was too
exhausted physically and too tired mentally to continue the battle. He was ready to give up.
"I can't anymore...It's over...I shall die right here..."

To Elie,
this was unacceptable. He had worked too hard, had made too many sacrifices in order to keep his
father with him and to protect him so that he could stay alive. For his father to now wish to
die was beyond Elie's capacity to understand and allow - it was infuriating.

To have lived and endured so much; was I going to let my father die
now?...I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he
had already chosen.

Elie's anger with his father and with
their situation enraged him. His response was to weep with anger and frustration and
exhaustion.

 

What is oblique asymptote of graph y = (x^2-6x+m)/(2x-4) if m=9?

The line
`y = ax + b` is the oblique asymptote for the function `y = (x^2-6x+m)/(2x-4)` if there exists
`a = lim_(x->+-oo) y/x` and `b = lim_(x->+-oo)(y - a*x)` .

You need
first to evaluate a, at `m = 9` , such that:

`a = lim_(x->+-oo) (x^2 - 6x
+ 9)/(x(2x - 4))`

You need to force factor `x^2 ` to numerator and `x` to
denominator, such that:

`a = lim_(x->+-oo) (x^2(1 - 6/x + 9/x^2))/(x^2(2 -
4/x))`

Reducing duplicate factors yields:

`a
=...

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Who wears glasses in A Wrinkle in Time?

Knowing exactly who and who does not wear glasses in a
novel is a bit of a guessing
game.  A character might be wearing glasses, but
the narrator might decide not to tell readers
that detail.  I always assume
characters in books are wearing shoes and pants, but texts very
rarely
include that detail.  

How does Orwell represent female characters? How does he represent males characters? Why is there an imbalance and why is this significant?

depicts the
female characters in this book as being almost asexual. The Party had attempted quite
successfully to eradicate the sex drive and the need for close meaningful relationships like
marriages. While there are husbands and wives, they are unions purely created for procreation.
In fact, the Party will not even allow unions of love. People who wish to marry must have
approval from the Party to do so and they examine the match to make sure there is no attraction
there....

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what are the commonly espoused answers to Yali's question (other than the answer that Diamond suggests)?

Yalis question,
which is essentially, Why did some areas of the world develop wealth and
technology in greater quantities than others? has been answered several times
throughout history. Diamond himself asks on page 18, Does Yalis question really need another
book to answer it?" Obviously he believes so, and he proves his case by rejecting three
previous proposals before presenting the final potential answer that he believes is much more
likely.

1. Per Darwinian evolutionary theory, some sections of
humanity evolved to be physically or intellectually superior to others. The
Europeans are more highly evolved than other populations of the world. This is rejected, as
there is no evidence to support this claim, and it boils down to modern-day racism. It is
difficult to assess the average IQ of an entire population, and intelligence can be measured
differently between populations.

2. Cold climates require more
innovation than warm climates. While this would support a Northern European
answer to Yalis question as to why Europe was more technologically advanced that other areas,
this is also rejected. Warmer climates had their share of innovation, as Diamond cites the
development of writing, pottery, and agriculture in areas not previously considered cool enough
to require stricter innovation.

3. As evidenced by the Fertile
Crescent, the Nile, the Indus, and the Yellow and Yangtze Valleys, agriculturally productive
environments created more complex and centralized forms of government. In fact,
Diamond argues that this chicken and egg question goes the other way and that agricultural
abundance (in the form of complex irrigation systems) comes after centralized government,
according to modern archaeology.

4. The fact that Europeans had
guns, infectious diseases, steel tools, and manufactured products appears to be
the correct answer, according to Diamond. This is why Europe developed more wealth and
technology than other areas of the world, and this can be proven through multiple methods. That
being said, Diamond acknowledges that this is not a sufficient answer to Yalis question, and he
will spend the rest of the text exploring this particular answer.

What is satire, and how is it used in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?

In the
short story "" by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, an old man with wings like a buzzard's is
swept into the courtyard
of the home of some villagers by a powerful rainstorm. Although a
neighbor
concludes that the man must be an angel, the householders, unable to communicate
with
him, lock him up in their chicken coop. The local priest comes to
inspect the old man, but he is
suspicious due to the stranger's terrible
smell, parasites, and the fact that he cannot speak
Latin, which the priest
considers the language of God.

The householders
decide to
charge admission...

What are some connotations, personifications, similes, hyperboles, onomatopoeias, couplets, and rhymes in the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe?

The speaker says
that"lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me."This is an example
of ; hyperbole is an exaggeration or overstatement of the truth.It
is unlikely that loving the speaker is the only thought Annabel Lee ever
had.She must have thought of things like eating and sleeping, etc.; however, this hyperbole
emphasizes how important the speaker's love was to her in her life.

The
phrase "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee" is used as a refrain in the poem:
refrain is the repetition of words, lines, or groups of lines.The
repetition of this particular line emphasizes the speaker's obsession with his lost love and
his...

For the short story "Man and Wife" by Katie Chase from The Best American Short Stories (2008), I ask that you take one of the identity markers, make a...

Let's
examine identity markers in Katie Chase's short story "Man and Wife." At first, the
society seems to be our own until we find out about the arranged marriages of young girls. In
this society, gender is an important identity marker. Parents arrange for girls to be married
off to men in business agreements. This is standard and expected of them:

Now it was real: my future was just the same as any other
girl's.

Before she goes to live with Mr. Middleton, Mary
Ellen's mother teaches her how to cook, sew, and complete other duties expected of a wife.
Gender roles are extremely prevalent and define what the characters do with their lives. It is
rare for women to be included in business:

Mr. Middleton
has made me apprentice to his business, which he says one day when he is dead, I will take over.
Even ifand the decision to have children is entirely up to me, he saysone day we have a son.
This is highly unusual and very...

Using integration by parts, we find that `int x^(n)e^(-x) dx=`

The integral
`int x^n e^-x dx` has to be determined.

Integration by parts gives us the
rule: `int u dv = u*v - int v du`

Let `u = x^n` and `dv = e^-x dx`

  `du = n*x^(n-1) dx`

`v = -e^(-x)`

`int x^n
e^-x dx`

`= x^n*-1*e^-x - int -1*e^-x*n*x^(n-1) dx`

=
`x^n*-1*e^-x + n*int e^-x*x^(n-1) dx`

= `-x^n*e^-x + n*int e^-x*x^(n-1)
dx`

`int e^-x*x^(n-1) dx`

= `-x^(n-1)*e^-x + (n-1)*int
e^-x*x^(n-2) dx`

Substituting this in the original integral

`int x^n*e^-x dx`

= `-x^n*e^-x + n*(-x^(n-1)*e^-x + (n-1)*int
e^-x*x^(n-2) dx)`

= `-x^n*e^-x- n*x^(n-1)*e^-x + n*(n-1)*int e^-x*x^(n-2)
dx`

= `-e^-x*(x^n+n*x^(n-1))+n*(n-1)*int e^-x*x^(n-2) dx`

This can be continued n times to yield the final result.

=
`-e^-x*(x^n+n*x^(n-1)+ n*(n-1)x^(n-2)+...n!)`

The integral...

How might the USA's policy during the 1920's-1930's be seen as a contributory factor in causing the Second World War?

Of course,
the United States policies were not the major contributing factor to the outbreak of .  Instead,
it was the actions of Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia that were the most important factors. 
However, it is possible to argue that the US could have prevented the war from happening (or at
least made it much less likely) if the country had been more assertive and less
isolationist.

We can say...

In The Bronze Bow, what three things is Daniel amazed to discover that Leah knows how to do?

In Chapter 11, when
Daniel begins to live with his sister after their grandmother's death, he is surprised to learn
that Leah is not as weak and helpless as he thought she was. Firstly, he learns that she is an
expert weaver who is paid well by clients for the skill in her work. Secondly she is able to
bake bread and thirdly she knows how to tend a garden. This causes Daniel to radically reassess
his own thoughts and feelings about his sister:

Without
the faintest idea of what had really gone on in that dim shuttered house behind the
cheesemakers, he had taken for granted that Leah had lost her wits on the terrible night of her
childhood. Was he any better, he thought now with shame, than the neighbours who would have tied
her with ropes?

Leah thus shows herself to be far more
capable than Daniel would ever have imagined, and he is shocked to see what she is able to do
and also disturbed by his own prejudice and assumptions about his sister, who clearly has
aspects to her character that he is completely unaware of.

What are some examples of the different kinds of irony in Candide?

As one
observes with ,is a weapon in 's hands. He uses it to attack the
irrationalities and abuses of the world.

Possibly one of the most striking
examples of situational irony in Candide lies in the character of Pangloss,
introduced as Candide's teacher and described as "the oracle of the family." With his
role and reputation, one might think him wise or knowledgeable, but when we actually hear what
he teaches, we find that it's all nonsense. Consider his words from
Candide's opening chapter:

He proved
admirably that there is no effect without a cause, and that, in this best of all possible
worlds, the Baron's castle was the most magnificent of castles, and his lady the best of all
possible Baronesses.

"It is demonstrable," said he, "that
things cannot be otherwise than as they are . . . Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear
spectaclesthus we have spectacles. Legs are visibly designed for stockingsand we have
stockings."

The nonsense goes on; it's all
meaningless and banal. Note that the characters themselves continue to treat Pangloss as a font
of wisdom and knowledgeas the greatest philosopher of his ageadding a further touch of dramatic
irony to this situation. They believe in his reputation for wisdom, even as the audience knows
him for the fool he is. Moreover, as if this alone weren't enough, Pangloss's advice can be
actively destructiv. For example, in chapter 5, Pangloss actively convinces Candide not to
rescue the Anabaptist (who had previously aided them) from drowning, trying to rationally
demonstrate that the Anabaptist is meant to die and that it is best that Candide not intervene
to save him.

Voltaire makes effective use of verbal irony as well. His
narrator can be deeply sarcastic. In Candide's third chapter, the narrator
describes in gruesome detail the devastation unleashed by war, with the intense and monstrous
suffering involved, but he accompanies this grisly scene with exalted language, opening the
chapter with the telling line, "there was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so
brilliant, and so well disposed as in the two armies." In these ironic tensions between
what the narrator tells us and what he shows us, we find a powerful indictment of warfare and
the suffering it causes.

As another example of verbal irony, I would point
out the title of chapter 6: "How the Portuguese made a Beautiful Auto-da-f©, to prevent
any further Earthquakes: and how Candide was publicly whipped." This
auto-da-f© is described in the following terms within the text itself:
"it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive
by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from
quaking." As you can imagine, there is nothing beautiful about such a scene, even if
Candide's narrator presents it in those terms. Furthermore, in a final
touch of situational irony, Voltaire adds that on "the same day the earth sustained a most
violent concussion." In other words, this ceremony did not even work.

This answer has only drawn on a few examples and has focused only on
Candide's opening chapters. I'd suggest you continue reading to try to find
more examples of the various forms of irony.

The narrator describes the fellow traveler's staff as wriggling like a snake but then says this movement must have been an ocular deception assisted...

Haunted by his
Puritan/Calvinistic ancestry,writes a tale with an ambiguity which creates doubt about the
nature of man. Rejecting the surety of the Puritans whose tenets held that Adam and Eve's sin
had damned most people for eternity, with only an elect who would attain heaven, Hawthorne blurs
the lines of such tenets about the elect and the damned in "."

Self-righteous and sure of his "Faith," Goodman Brown does not, at first,
fear the path of temptation that he travels with the old "traveler." However, his
certainly waivers as he believes that he perceives the old man's staff wriggling like a snake,
so he tells himself, perhaps, that this movement has been a mere "ocular deception."
Likewise, Goodman is very disturbed when he hears Goody Cloyse and Deacon Gookin. two upright
members of the congregation. Then, when he sees Faith, his convictions that she is on the
righteous path are truly shaken as the priest of the black mass sermonizes, 

Now ye undeceived.  Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your
only happiness. Welcome again my children, to the communion of your race.

These words are the ultimate implication of the Puritan Calvinistic
doctrine of predestination. And, as he exhorts Faith to "resist the wicked one," there
is again ambiguity and Goodman finds himself away from the forest "staring about him like a
bewildered man." Shaken from his convictions about the elect, Goodman learns of
"misery unutterable" as he feels alone and shaken in his spiritual beliefs.

Thus, the ambiguity created in the story reflects the ambiguity of Goodman's mind. As
one critic writes,

The power and appeal of the story are
enhanced by scholarship that demonstrates that the plot is deceptive and the underlying
conflicts much more complex and even more compelling than the surface narrative. 

This controlled ambiguity of Hawthorne's leads his readers to probe
themselves into the darker regions of the human heart and to consider his subtle ironies that
accompany this ambiguity.

Describe the feelings of young Robinson during his first voyage.

Of his
first voyage, the youngsays the following, showing that he was miserable and frightened during
his trip:

Never any young adventurers misfortunes, I
believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The ship was no sooner out of the Humber
than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I
had...

What was the attitude of President Johnson toward the Reconstruction of the South?

Like
Lincoln, Johnson wanted the former Confederate states brought back into the Union as quick as
possible. Johnson did not insist on the Radicals "Ironclad Oath" which prohibited
anyone who willingly helped the Confederacy from taking an active role in government.  Johnson
realized that this would not only prohibit former Confederate bureaucrats from holding office,
but it would also stop former soldiers of the Confederacy from playing an active role in .
 Johnson, a resident of East Tennessee before the war and military governor of the state during
the conflict, did not like the planter class because he felt as though they dragged the majority
of Southerners into the Civil War.  Johnson also believed that the former slaves would be for
the planters' interests because of the security provided under the slave system.  Johnson, while
desiring free enterprise in the South, wanted to see a system where blacks would continue to
work the former plantations for wages.  He saw black suffrage as a hindrance to Reconstruction
because it would only cause whites in the South to hinder the Reconstruction process.  Johnson
wanted the Reconstruction South to be ably maintained, even if this meant giving government
positions to the planter class that he personally despised.  Johnson personally pardoned many
former Confederate officials, much to the consternation of the Radicals in his own Cabinet and
Congress.   

Why does Zinn assert that despite party differences among Federalist and Democratic Republicans they were both fundamentally similar?

For
Zinn, the differences between both the Federalist and the Democratic- Republicans were cosmetic.
 Both parties were not actively involved in the enlargement of wealth to more people or
increasing voices of previously silenced groups into the American narrative.  The emergence of
the political parties was something that Zinn perceived to be a condition in which there was
more entrenchment of political, economic,...

If Santiago is the main character in The Alchemist, who is the foil and why?

Santiago
is the main character, or the , in as much as he is in the story more than any other character
and because it his story that we follow. We travel alongside him and watch him develop into a
more mature, enlightened individual.

A foil character, who may also be at
the same time a protagonist, is a character who is in one important way, at least, very
different from the, or another, protagonist. The function of the foil character is to emphasize
by contrast the opposite trait in the, or another, protagonist. For...

What brought about the end of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Fever, 1793 and why?

The cold
weather brought about the end of the yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever is spread by
mosquitoes; people continued to get sick as long as mosquitoes proliferated. Mosquitoes thrive
in hot, humid weather. It was only with the coming of the first frost that the mosquitoes were
killed off and the epidemic came to a close.

The yellow fever epidemic that
struck Philadelphia in 1793 began in August and ended almost four months later in November. The
weather during that time of the year in that part of the country is generally oppressively humid
and warm.  Although much less was known about yellow fever during the eighteenth century, most
people understood that the fever would end with the coming of the first frost. It was thought
that the cold, clean air killed the germs that gave rise to the fever; the connection of the
cold weather with the spread of the disease through mosquitoes was not yet understood. Be that
as it may, the change in the weather brought a clear sense of hope and relief to the people of
Philadelphia, and, in fact, the disease did diminish correspondingly. Doctor Benjamin Rush
writes in a letter, "Blessed be God for the change in the weather. The disease visibly and
universally declines," and when Matilda awakens in Chapter 26 to see a "white veil
that lay over the weeds," she exclaims to Eliza, "It's frost! The first frost! The end
of the fever!" Sharing her sense of wonder and gratitude, Eliza responds, "Lord have
mercy...we made it."

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I agree with
#4; the most important thing you
can learn is effective leadership and management of people. As
a three and a
half year veteran of a job with the worst management in my experience, I know
how
even a reasonably good job can become impossible because of bad
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becomes better.

What is Virgil's advice to Dante as spoken at the gate of Hell?

InIII of
the Inferno, Dante and Virgil reach the gate of hell. Dante is absolutely
terrified. This is for good reason, too. He can hardly see a thing, but he can hear a lot; he
hears a hideous cacophony of groans, screams, and cries emanating from the swarm of sinners
within. No wonder he starts crying.

The fabled inscription above the gate
ends with the infamous words:

ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO
ENTER HERE.

It is fair to say that Dante needs a bit of
moral support at this momentand what better person to provide it than noble Virgil, wisest of
all the pagans. However, Virgil is not there to hold Dante's hand; he will guide him, but
ultimately, it must be Dante who digs deep to find the courage within himself to continue on his
perilous journey:

 Here you must give up all
irresolution;

All cowardice must here be put to death.

This is not so much advice as a stern, fatherly imperative. Dante
must be big, brave and confront his demons, both internal and external. However, Virgil's softer
side soon comes to the fore. He puts his hand on Dante's hand and smiles as they press
ahead.