Does Tennessee Williams intend for us to admire or condemn Amanda for the way in which she deals with her family in the play The Glass Menagerie?

There
are only four characters in 's --five including the unseen presence of the
missing husband/father. Each of them is more complex than they might appear at first, and that
is certainly true of Amanda. The advantage readers/viewers have with her is that she is voluble
(she talks a lot) and various aspects of her personality are seen throughout the play. Based on
the things she says, her behaviors, and how others see her, she seems to be a more sympathetic
character than someone the playwright condemns.

What Amanda says is annoying
and sometimes ridiculous. She nags poor Tom about how he sits, about how he chews his food,
about bringing home a suitable suitor for Laura, about not having enough...

Discuss the caravan as a metaphor for a life's journey in The Alchemist.

A caravan
is a literal journey, but since nothing in is without symbolic meaning, it
is also imbued with figurative significance. In many ways, the caravan is a symbol of life's
journey from a place of ignorance and desire to a place of knowledge and
accomplishment.

When Santiago joins the caravan in Tangier, he knows little
about the Soul of the World, but he has a desire to discover it on the way to achieving his
Personal Legend. As the camel driver tells Santiago:

once
you go into the desert, there is no going back. And when you can't go back, you have to worry
about the best way to go forward.

This is the path of the
caravan, and it is also the path of one seeking their Personal Legend. For Santiago, there is no
turning back. He has begun to be awakened to the Soul of the World. Now that he is on that
journey, he could never return to his life as a shepherd back in Spain. Despite the danger and
uncertainty that await him on this path, he can only move forward.

The
caravan is also afor the safety and security that comes from being with other people. While
Santiago's journey is his to make, he cannot do it alone. While it is true that achieving one's
Personal Legend is up to the individual, it would be folly to try to do so without help. Just as
it would be dangerous, if not impossible, to cross the desert alone, one must seek help in the
support of other knowledgable people to walk one's life path.

What is the main theme of "The Open Window" by Saki?

One
important theme of this satirical
short story is revealed in the symbolism of the characters' names.
There is Framton Nuttel, Mrs. Sappleton and the niece, who is both a "very self-possessed
young lady of fifteen" and a "child." Let's look at these and find the theme
alluded to.

The name Framton indicates someone
who is reclusive and aloof and given to worry and mental tension. This sounds exactly like the
characterpresents. The surname Nuttel (Nuttall) is a place name
indicating someone who lives in and tends a nut grove. "Nut" is also slang for a
foolish person or a person who is thought mentally unstable.

Sappleton appears to be a made-up surname derived from the
Old English 's¦p' that has come to be slang for someone who is foolish and gullible. This
perfectly describes Mrs Sappleton in regards to her manipulative niece.

We
learn the niece's name is Vera, ironically meaning "faith" and "truth." She
is the pivotal character, and we can deduce something about her from her descriptive tags. She
has the appearance of being a mature and trustworthy young lady as she is
"very self-possessed" yet the narrator calls her a
"child" when she begins her tale:

"Her greathappened just three years ago," said the child;
"that would be since your sister's time."

The
dominant theme that emerges from the satirically symbolic character
names and this satirical description is that of what foolish, gullible and mentally strained
people do to themselves and allow to be done to others. The mentally stressed "nut"
allows himself to be manipulated and tormented, even by his sister who insisted he visit this
part of the country. The foolish and gullible "sap" allows herself to be fooled and
tricked by her niece and becomes an accomplice to the harm her remorseless mischief causes to
innocent people (one must suppose this is a past-time of long standing with the self-possessed
niece). Thus the theme is the harm done by foolish and unstable
persons to themselves and to others.

In addition, the niece introduces the
equally strong theme of appearances versus reality. Her name
indicates this theme since she is not very faithful to the truth in what she tells Framton or
her aunt. While she appears to be a self-possessed young lady, she is in reality a mischievous
child, just as while the approaching figures appear to Nuttel to be ghosts, they are in reality
the returning husband and brothers.

In the deepening
twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window, they all carried guns
under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his
shoulders. A tired brown spaniel kept close at their heels.

In "Hills Like White Elephants," could someone tell me why Hemingway mentions that the train will come in 40 minutes n stop for 2 minutes please?

By
saying that the train will come in forty minutes, Hemingway is creatinig a certain amount of
dramatic tension. The issue between the man and woman has to be resolved in forty minutes. He
wants her to go to Madrid and get an abortion. She doesn't want to go through with it, and he
knows it. She has consented, but he is not sure she won't change her mind. So he keeps tallking
to her, tryig to persuade her that it is the right thing to do and that it is a very simple
procedure and that it won't change their relationship. Meanwhile the train is approaching, as it
is in the classic movie High Noon starring Gary Cooper. A so-called
"ticking clock" is a common device in stories.

The fact that the
train will stop for only two minutes shows that this is a small, insignificant station. This
young couple may be the only passengers boarding here. I believe it is only a way of portraying
the setting, although it also suggests the time pressure. They don't have to do anything during
the forty minutes the train is approaching, but once it stops they will only have two minutes to
decide to get aboard or stay where they are.

 

 

 

 

What is a description of The Flower Girl's behavior in Act 1 of Pygmalion?

The
Flower Girl's behavior in Act 1 of goes through a number of
manifestations. First she is righteously indignant and defiant when gentleman Freddy bumps into
her, spills her flowers, inadvertently treads them underfoot, casually says "Oh.
Sorry," then runs away to fetch a taxi for his demandingly domineering sister and courteous
but overly-tolerant mother. When The Flower Girl learns that the woman who speaks to her is
Freddy's mother, she gives her a deserved scolding and requests that the mother pay for the
flowers damaged by Freddie.

The next manifestation comes after she makes a
politely casual remark to a gentleman, then properly asks him if he'd buy a flower from her.
This leads a member of the crowd, who are sheltering from the rain, to remark that she had
better be careful because a "copper's nark" was taking down "her words." In
the ensuing bedlam, The Flower Girl behaves in an adamant, loud, nearly hysterical manner
protesting (1) her right as a flower seller to ask a gentleman to buy a flower, (2) her respect
for and adherence to the laws of street selling, (3) her virtue as a "good girl", and
(4) her dignity and right to not have words taken down by The Note Taker, or at least to have
them taken down correctly. The finale of her behavior is a subdued hysteria that still quietly
and correctly protests her rights and dignity.

What role does religion play in Brown's life before the "dream," during the "dream," and after he "wakes"?

Goodman
Brown is portrayed as a devout, morally upright Christian prior to participating in the Black
Mass, which takes place in the depths of the forest. Before embarking on his journey, Goodman
Brown instructs his wife, Faith, to say her prayers and is reluctant to continue his journey
into the woods. Goodman even mentions that he hails from a long line of honest, good men and
martyrs. When Goodman meets the devil in the forest, he tells him that his family members are
"people of prayer" and "abide by no such wickedness." Goodman also worries
about interacting with the deacon after his dark errand in the forest and believes that his
voice will tremble during the Sunday sermons. Despite stopping several times and rethinking his
errand, Goodman cannot resist temptation: he continues on his journey and participates in the
Black Mass along with the prominent Christian leaders of his community.

Following his "dream," Goodman Brown experiences a dramatic transformation and
develops into a...

Explain the following line with suitable context: "The wind of the last day blew through his mind, his sins, the jewel-eyed harlots of his...

There is
much in way of excesses in chapter three of Joyce's . John Blades suggests that chapter three is
a chapter of "excess."  The sins that Stephen engages in are viewed in an excessive
manner, coupled by the sermons that Stephen hears and internalizes.  Stephen engages in excess
sin and excessive repentance for what he has done.  It is in this context in which Stephen
understands the nature of his being in light of the "day of judgment:"

The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed
conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin. Yes, the preacher was right.
God's turn had come. Like a beast in its lair his soul had lain...

In "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, where does the poem turn and shift its attention to something different?

In this excellent poem,
the speaker describes the experience of catching a fish which hadn't really fought to escape.
The poem describes the fish objectively, without emotion, talking about the "tiny white sea
lice" that "infest" it. What moves the poem towards its shift is when the speaker
begins to view the fish objectively. As she stares at it, we are told that the speaker
"admired his sullen face." As she continues to contemplate the fish, she sees
something else that brings on an epiphany in her and leads to her decision to let the fish
go:

and then I saw
that from his lower
lip
--if you could call it a lip
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five
old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still
attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.

This evidence of the fish's earlier battles for survival and his
evident success increases the speaker's admiration and respect for the fish. As nature and the
light combine to make everything appear a "rainbow," the speaker lets the fish go as
"victory filled up / The little rented boat." The speaker comes to some unspoken
understanding with the fish and understands his battle for survival and cannot do anything else
but let him go again.

What is the point of view for chapter 14?

Joaquin Bednar

byis a
unique memoir because the narration switches between
McBride himself and his
mother. Half of the chapters are from McBride's point of view reflecting
on
his childhood. The rest take on his mother's point of view in her
own...

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In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," how did Ichabod Crane treat his students?

Ichabod's behavior with his students
is best described in this paragraph:

he
administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs
of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the
least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were
satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch
urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.All this he called
"doing his duty by their parents;" and he never inflicted a
chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that
"he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to
live."

What we get from this description by
"The Late Diedrich Knickerbocker"'s papers is basically that Ichabod was a stern
believer in the old Dutch school in which the likes of Van Eyck and many others can also
appreciate the old normative and extremely strict systems of instruction. Ichabod was no player
with the boys, but he was more than willing to "play" with the girls.

However, like the first poster said, he also wanted to fill in the spot a parent might
miss, and he also shared with his male students in after school activities. Yet, he always kept
that "old time" distance that is meant to exist between a philosopher and his
apprentice, and he meant business when it comes to that. Yet, as you can also infer from the
description, Ichabod did try not to punish the weak and confused more than he did the strong and
hard-headed. So, among his many flaws and contradictory actions with his students, he was
consistent in his direct assessment of what needed to be done to make his students serious about
what they had to be.

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How Does Gatsby Represent The American Dream

Fitzgerald's novel is
often seen as a commentary on the corruption of the American Dream. Immorality, superficiality
and bad behavior are all characteristics of the upper classes in the novel yet the aspiration to
be upper class - to have everything and have fun too - is not directly questioned by thein the
novel (with the partial exception of ). 

It may be helpful here to note that
the novel was written as a , loosely based on the Roman satirical figure Trimalchio, a man who
dresses up to be rich. 

Fitzgerald
wrote   in the form of a satire, a criticism of...

In Oedipus Rex, how does the Chorus's response change from Ode 1 to Ode 2?

This is a great
question. It is well worth analysing theas a character in his own right, and considering where
he stands throughout the play and how he comments on the action and what is happening. Certainly
in Ode 1 the theexpresses both confident optimism and nervous apprehension. This apparent
indecision or ambiguity reflects the wider theme of's great knowledge against his...

Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

As a
bildungsroman, a novel of maturation,  is replete with
instances in which the Finch children lose their innocence and learn the hard realities of
life. 

1. loses some of her idealism. When
Scout discovers that her first-grade teacher is new to the area, she tries to help her by
informing her of the socioeconomic backgrounds of certain students. Having been given voice in
her home, Scout does not realize that Miss Caroline perceives her as being insolent. Scout is
then shocked when the teacher menacingly grabs her by the collar, saying, "You're starting
off on the wrong foot in every way. . . Hold out your hand." Scout is hit several times
with Miss Caroline's ruler.

Scout is also baffled by Miss Caroline's reaction
to her proficiency in reading aloud. Instead of being praised, Scout hears Miss Caroline
derogate Atticus for teaching her: "Your father does not know how to teach" (Ch.2).

2. Scout learns the truth aboutand Mr. Radley's and
Nathan's...

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Is "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe a horror story?

As in many
of Poes stories, "" employs a  narrator who spends the entire story trying to convince
the reader (and most importantly himself) about his mental stability.  Obviously, when a man
commits the heinous crimes that this man has, there is something terribly wrong.

The story would certainly qualify for the horror genre of
stories.  The details of the story feature the murder of the narrators wife,
burying an axe in her head.  To add to the horrific crime, the man walls up his wife's body  in
the cellar of their house. The point of view is first person with the narrator sitting in jail
awaiting his execution the next day.

Nothing constitutes revulsion more than
the maiming of an innocent animal.   The cutting out of the cats
eye both shocks and disgusts.  Taking the horror to the next level, the man hangs the cat on a
limb of a tree in the yard. ...

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What language is used in chapter 5 of Frankenstein to develop atmosphere?

In
chapter 5,uses suitably overwrought language which not only gives us an insight into 's feelings
at seeing his monstrous creation, but neatly sums up the catastrophic mistake he's made in
unleashing such a creature upon an unsuspecting world:

For
this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded
moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror
and disgust filled my heart.

Note the wonderful contrast
in this passage between Frankenstein's long-held fantasies"the beauty of the dream"and
the stark, horrifying reality of what he's actually created. Frankenstein's powerful, inspiring
visions of creating a new race of men have dissolved into the sordid truth that unfolds before
his disbelieving eyes.

Words like "horror" and "disgust"
immediately tell us what kind...

Where did Kit's mother die?

Both of Kit's
parents drowned while taking a cruise during their third year of marriage. Kit was raised by her
grandfather in Barbados, and is coming to the New World to avoid an arranged
marriage.

Kit will be in for a culture shock after the more relaxedof Barbados
in comparison to the Puritan's way of life. Kit has not been raised with a female influence, as
she barely has a recollection of her mother, and her independence and stubbornness is atypical
of women of the time.

Consider the image and analogies utilized by Edwards throughout the sermon. What are themes communicate by the image and analogies that Edwards...

As the
basis for his sermon, "," Johnathan Edwards uses the Bible verse Deuteronomy 32:35,
which reads: 

"Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay.
In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming
quickly" (NIV).

Edwards uses many analogies and
images to illustrate his main theme, namely, that the unrepentant man is subject to God's
wrath,which is greater than any earthly king's power. The only way to escape this wrath is to
accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a mediator between the sinner and God. He says that the
only thing keeping back this wrath is God's mercy. According to Edwards, many men flatter
themselves with the thinking that they are good and can, by their actions, strive to escape
God's wrath, but this is a delusion. 

The primary images Edwards uses are of
water and fire. These two images are repeated in several analogies. 

John 3:18: He that believeth not is condemned already. So that
every...

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In "A Rose For Emily," what do the appearance of the upstairs room in the Grierson house and the iron-gray hair on the pillow indicate?

Near the
middle of the narrative of "," there is the definition of the sections of the
story:

Thus she passed from generation to
generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and
perverse.

The final section in which the
single grey hair lies on a pillow indicates that all of these qualities ofhave
existed.

• Emily has preserved her lover Homer, a man she has
  cherished and held dear. She has attempted to keep him with her in death as
  she could not in life.
• Miss Emily Grierson has been an
  inescapable part of the community--"a fallen monument." She makes
  sure that Homer, too, cannot escape; she keeps him with her.
• Miss Emily has
  had to be reminded by her kinfolk of her noblesse oblige. But she is
  impervious to this obligation, as she captures Homer. 


• Miss Emily Grierson became tranquil, free from conflict and
  disturbance in the end as she lay with Homer.
• But she has
  been perverse in the way she has keptwith hershe has killed him and kept
  his corpse.

The iron-gray hair upon the pillow next to the
decayed Homer Barron indicates that Emily has slept next to Homer's body. Having been denied so
much in her life, Emily Grierson has grasped what she can from
death. 

What is the main purpose of the prologue to The Epic of Gilgamesh?

Theestablishes a bit of background about Gilgamesh, giving us an insight into what kind
of man he is. The narrator tells us that he will recount the great deeds of Gilgamesh,
indicating at once just what kind of man we're dealing with here. And yet, as the narrator goes
on to tell us, Gilgamesh is no mere ordinary...

Did World War I have a greater impact on American society than World War II?

had a far
larger impact on society that World War I. World War II ended the Great Depression, as nearly
every family either sent someone to make munitions, grow food, or fight the war itself. The
government took an active role in rationing, and hoarding was a punishable crime. Japanese
Americans were moved off the West Coast and sent to internment camps for the duration of the
war. Movie stars such as Clark Gable helped fight the war and also sold war bonds; there were
many more war bonds sold in World War II than World War I. Women went to war in support roles
during this war.

Also, people participated in scrap drives and victory
gardens. For four years, both theaters of the war were in the news and the topic of
conversation. The end of the war saw the popularization of air travel, and many Americans had
savings they...

Why did the policies of the federal government from 1865 to 1900 sometimes violate the principles of laissez-faire?

There
were times when the policies of the federal government shifted away from the principles of
laissez-faire between 1865-1900. Laissez-faire principles mean the government will not be
actively involved in the economy. However, after the Civil War ended, the federal government
needed to help rebuild the South that had been destroyed by the fighting during the Civil War.
The government enacted policies to help the former slaves. The government also authorized the
rebuilding of the South, as new industries and more railroads were built there. Rebuilding the
South and helping the former slaves were ways to help heal and to reunite the country after the
Civil War ended.

The government also intervened in labor disputes. The
government used the army to run the trains during strikes involving the railroad companies and
the railroad workers. The government involvement helped the railroad owners crush these strikes.
The business owners put a great deal of pressure on the government leaders to...

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Why does Antony use Caesar's will to persuade the people that Caesar was not a tyrant?

Having set
the crowd against Brutus and his followers by repeatedly mocking Brutus's assertion of being
honorable, Antony, a skillful speaker, knows that the crowd will be further swayed by evidence
of how much Caesar loved them. He wants the common people to understand that the assassination
of Caesar by Brutus and his fellow senators was not done for the benefit of the masses. The will
will clinch Antony's case.

Telling the crowd that Caesar loved them so much
he remembered them in his will moves the crowd to a great wave of tenderness toward Caesar and
to feel even more regret that he was killed, as does Antony carrying in Caesar's bloody corpse
for them to see. The good heart of Caesar and his fragility in death does exactly what Antony
intends, which is to set the crowd furiously against the assassins.

Antony
wants the Roman people to see the assassins as cold-blooded killers after their own gain, and he
is successful. He is very angry that his dear friend has been killed and wants the killers to be
punished, which happens when a civil war breaks out.

How did Romeo react to the news of his banishment in act 3, scene 3? Also, why does Romeo tell Friar Laurence that the priest cannot know or...

reacts
poorly to the news of his banishment.
He tellsthat exile holds more terror for him than death.
In other words, he
would rather face death than be banished from Verona.

Meanwhile, Friar Laurence advises Romeo to bear his trial with courage. After
all, the
world is "broad and wide," and many opportunities are abound for a
young man of
Romeo's station. Despite his encouraging words, Romeo persists
in complaining that banishment is
a state similar to death.

Upon hearing this, Friar Laurence becomes angry and
accuses Romeo of
being ungrateful. Apparently,intervened on Romeo's behalf by substituting

banishment for death for his part in 's murder. Yet, Romeo shows little gratitude for
this
courtesy.

Romeo accuses Friar Laurence of not
understanding how he feels. He
explains by saying that, while flies can hover
overand touch her skin, he is forbidden from
doing so. He must be banished,
while flies roam free to alight on Juliet's skin. What Romeo is
saying is
that flies have more freedom than him.

He begs Friar Laurence
to
kill him with poison or a sharp knife, maintaining that's more preferable
than to be
banished.

As for Friar Laurence, he tells Romeo
that "philosophy"
will cure him of his bad mood. Basically, the priest is
telling Romeo to be more rational and to
think a little more clearly about
his situation. Friar Laurence wants Romeo to act wisely rather
than to react
intemperately.

You can see Friar Laurence's advice in Act
3
Scene 3, where he tells Romeo to go to Juliet and to take her to Mantua for
a time.

When do Romeo and Juliet find out that they are members of the enemy families? Who tells them?

is the
first to find out that he has fallen in love with an enemy. After he has become deeply enamored
ofat the Capulet party, Juliet's nurse comes up to her at the same party and tells her that her
mother wants to talk to her.

As soon as Juliet is out of earshot, Romeo asks
the nurse who she is. The nurse says:

Marry,
bachelor,

Her mother is the lady of the house

Romeo is thunderstruck to realize Juliet is a Capulet and says
his life is now owed to his enemy:

Is she
a Capulet?

O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.

Juliet discovers Romeo's identity very soon after
this. She asks her nurse who he is. The Nurse goes off to find out and returns to tell her he is
Romeo from the hated Montague family. (It is interesting that, in both cases, the nurse delivers
the news,her role as go-between.)

When she finds out who her mysterious
beloved is, Juliet exclaims, as an aside:

My only love
sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too
late!

The last sentence in theabove implies that, if
she had known who he was earlier, she would not have fallen in love. Now, however, it is too
late.

What is the tragedy of Boxer? In Chapter 9.

was the
hardest worker of all the animals who resided on . He was also the most dedicated to the cause
of the animals, and he bought into everything that the pigs preached to him. It never occurred
to him thatwas taking advantage of his non-pork comrades, however, and he basically worked
himself into an early grave (though, as we know, his body did not receive the dignity of
interment). In the end, Boxer did not get to enjoy the retirement that was promised him;
instead, he was sold to a slaughter house.

In act 1, scene 3, of Hamlet, what is Polonius's advice to Laertes?

Assets off
for France,peppers him with advice. This includes worldly advice fit for a courtier's son: dress
as well (expensively) as you can, but in good, subdued taste; listen more than you talk; keep
your opinions to yourself; be friendly but not too friendly. All of this has to do with the
image you project and how you project and protect yourself. Polonius wants his son to be careful
about the external face he shows to people.

Other, more heartfelt advice
includes not borrowing or lending money and holding the true and tested friends you have made
very close, or, as Polonius puts it:

Those friends thou
hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel

The image of attaching a close friend to one's soul with hoops of
steel shows the importance of a true friend. Polonius also ends his advice with heartfelt words
that address issues deeper than mere surface appearance:

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night
the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

To what extend did the French Revolution archive the goals of Enlightenment?

The
French Revolution certainly achieved one of the goals of the Enlightenment by turning reason
into a god. During the radical phase of the Revolution, a full-scale campaign at
de-Christianization took place, an attempt to remove Christianity from French public
life.

In the eyes of the more radical revolutionaries, Christianity had been
a prop to the old system of monarchical government. The Catholic Church in France, the First
Estate of the realm, enjoyed enormous privileges, and became associated in the minds of many
with the rampant corruption and injustice of the ancien regime.

In their deep suspicion of the spiritual and temporal authority of the Catholic Church,
revolutionaries were very much children of the Enlightenment. France had been home to such
thinkers as Voltaire, Diderot, and D'Alembert, who were positively scathing of the role that the
Church played in public life. Instead of blindingly accepting the Church's authority, they
argued, man should follow his own reason.

During the radical phase of the
Revolution, this notion was taken to absurd lengths when festivals to Reason, personified as a
kind of pagan goddess, took place throughout France. Leading revolutionaries such as Robespierre
took such ludicrous spectacles very seriously indeed, believing them to be a fulfillment of
Enlightenment ideals as well as promoting loyalty to the new regime.

How does Atticus advise Jem to react to Mrs. Dubose's taunts in Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Inof
, Mrs. Dubose, a
neighbor, constantly tauntsand . She calls Scout ugly and
criticizesfor not
having remarried after his wife died. Jem and Scout develop an intense
dislike
towards her, but Atticus tells Jem, Shes an old lady and shes ill.
You just hold your head
high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you,
its your job not to let her make you
mad" (page numbers vary by edition).
Atticus asks Jem to turn the proverbial cheek to Mrs.
Dubose. 

Later, Jem and Scout discover that while Mrs. Dubose is not very

pleasant, Atticus has sympathy for her because she is addicted to morphine and decides
to kick
her addiction before she dies. This process is very painful for her,
and it shows her
considerable strength of character. Atticus teaches his
children to have sympathy for people who
seem unsympathetic because, as he
reminds them, they don't always understand other people's
lives. Mrs. Dubose
is a character in the...

A liveliness of nature can be transformed into lifelessness and dullness with the touch of man. Discuss this assertion with the examples from the poem...

The
poem is a dialogue between a clay goblet and the potter who created him. The goblet makes it
clear that he was much happier before he was dug up from the ground and unceremoniously flung
onto the potter's wheel. Life was so much better when he was just a humble...

What if anything, can be done to severely curtail same-sex sexual assault in prisons? Is it possible to curtail consensual same-sex sexual...

These are,
of course, two very different
issues.  We should not equate consensual same-sex activities in
prison with
sexual assaults.  Consensual activities are, at worst, immoral (depending on
your
point of view) whereas assaults are both immoral and illegal.

I would argue
that there is very little that can feasibly be done
to reduce the amount of sexual assault in
prisons.  There are one or two
things that could potentially help, but it is not clear that they
could be
implemented or that they would work if they were implemented.  One thing that could
be
done would be to provide prisoners with the chance to have conjugal visits
on a regular basis. 
This might...

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What is the tone of "Everyday Use"?

sagetrieb class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The tone of a story
concerns the attitude of the narrator or character toward the subject matter or the attitude of
the author toward the subject matter. In , we would describe tone through the attitude of the
narrator, Mama., and her tone changes throughout the story. In the opening sentences she is
boastful about how nice the yard looks, but she quickly becomes defensive when she begins
talking about Dee and then compares herself to her, describing herself as a large big-boned
woman with rough, man-working hand. Yet even while she defends her own sense of self, she never
slides into deprecation but maintains a tone of pride: Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up
with my quick and witty tongue. She is compassionate when she speaks about Maggie, but critical
when she speaks about Dee and frequently sarcastic when she speaks to her.  However, I think the
author becomes somewhat critical of her narrator when, at the end of the story, she chastises
Dee so severely and shows so little love for her while hugging Maggie close to her. The image is
a harsh onea mother hugging one daughter and, in effect, banishing the other. When Dee says,
You just dont understand to her mother, I believe we hear just a bit of Walkers voice in that
comment for the narrators understanding is not complete; she has no sympathy for the identity
crisis that Dee, along with many other African Americans at this time, was experiencing.

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What are the vocal, physical, and facial expressions of a villain in melodrama?

As with other
characters in , the villain is a stock character.  A stereotype easily recognized by readers or
viewers, the villain is the embodiment of evil; with no redeeming characteristics, he gleefully
places the heroine in the path of danger in order to lure the hero, whom he tries to either ruin
or kill,  or he torments the father of the heroine with promises of his evil unless the man
complies with his desires. 

Just as his character and appearance are
exaggerated with his always being dressed in black with a cape. his face sporting a large,
sinister handlebar mustache or a beard, so, too, are his gestures and facial expressions
exaggerated.  He makes sweeping movements with his black cape, walks with dramatically large
steps; his lavish facial expressions include a loud, menacing laugh, an angry, growling grimace,
sneers, scowls, leers, darting of the eyes back and forth quickly while frowning, and a most
sadistic closed-tooth smile that indicates his delight in his nefarious deeds.  His voice is
often fairly deep with an animalistic tone to it as an indication of his dangerous temperament. 
Even his name indicates his personality. Such a name as Snydley Whiplash. for
example, exemplifies the villainous personality of the character.  Here is a description of a
villain by Agnes Repplier, an American essayist of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, renowed for her scholarship and wit,

A villain
must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite
our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of
sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close
of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Who was Chaucer ? Evalute the qualities of Chaucer.

was
born around 1345 and died around 1400. He is a famous English poet whose best-known work is
. He is admired for his humor and for his understanding of human nature.
The Canterbury Tales consists of many stories, mostly in rhyming couplets,
and the book presents a fascinating picture of people and life in England during the Middle
Ages. The original language is somewhat hard to understand, but it is worth the effort because
it is such a important and entertaining work. Chaucer established the southern Englishas the
literary language of England. A course in Chaucer is required for English majors in many
colleges and universities.

In a poem, how do literary devices affect the readers? In what way?

Poets often
hope to have an emotional impact on readers and to write using language that will be remembered.
In other words, they want readers to feel or respond in certain ways after they read a poem and
to remember that response. To do this, they use literary devices, such as , , and rhyme scheme.
 For instance, in the poem "Dulce et Decorum est," the poet Wilfred Owens tries to
convey to the reader a feeling of horror at the violence suffered by soldiers in World War I,
and he does this, in part, through imagery. Owen doesn't pull back but instead describes the
effect of a mustard gas attack: 

if you could hear,
at...

What are the personal and universal elements in Dante's Inferno?

I think
that the personal elements featured in
Dante's work are very close to the universal ones.
 Dante, as a pilgrim, is
struggling with his own mid life crisis and his own loss amongst the

spiritually bankrupt nature of the world.  He needs Virgil to guide him and for him
to
understand the nature and meaning of sin, enduring a process of spiritual
purification
to...

What is the plot of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex?

The plot of 's
adheres to Aristotle's three unities: unity of place, unity of time, and
unity of action. Unity of place means that all of the action occurs in just one location; in
this case, it is the front steps of the palace whereresides with his wife, . Unity of time means
that all of the action takes place within one day. Unity of action means that there is just one
main plot and not lots of other smaller subplots.

Oedipus walks out onto the
palace steps and sees suppliants there, praying for divine aid. Thebes suffers terribly from a
blight on the crops as well as a sickness in the livestock. Oedipus has already sent his
brother-in-law, , to the oracle to ask for help, and he assures the Thebans that he feels their
pain even more than they do. Creon says that finding out who murdered the former king, Laius,
will end the sickness, so Oedipus vows to figure it out and cast out whoever it is. Oedipus then
sends for the blind prophet,, who...

In "A Rose for Emily," why did Emily kill Homer Barron?

We must look at
the events throughout the story
that fore-shadow Homer's death and the possiblity thatmurdered
him. She was
raised by her doting father who felt no man was good enough for her, already

setting Emily apart from the town. Her father idolized her, and the town begins to
also. When
her father dies, Emily loses the only person she had in the world,
and she refuses to allow his
body to be taken away for three days. Emily
isolates herself from the town after her father's
death, and this makes the
town of Jefferson even more interested in her life. Emily represents
the "old
South", and as the culture and values of the "old South" declined,
so did
Emily. She replaced reality with her own memories, living in her own world. This is
why
she tells the aldermen to talk to Col.about her taxes, even though he's
been dead for ten years.
Whenshows interest in Emily, she sees him as a
suitor who has finally come to court her. Perhaps
she's rebelling against her
father's beliefs that no one is good enough for her, or perhaps
she's
desperate to have someone in her life. At that point, Emily is trapped as the
spinster
"idol" of society, and she needs a husband to give her life meaning.
Perhaps her fears
become overwhelming when Homer leaves for a short time, and
she decides she would rather have a
marriage in death than no marriage at
all. She sleeps beside Homer's corpse for forty

years.

Please give examples of how Daniel Defoe's personal life affected his writings.

Many great
authors draw from personal experiences when writing their works.  Defoe was no different. 
Throughout his life, he suffered through many devastations and calamitous situations.

When he was seven, a plague killed over 70,000 people throughout England, and the Great
Fire of London swept through his neighborhood leaving only his and one other home standing. By
the time he was thirteen, his mother had died.  He married and had eight children, two of whom
died. Throughout his adult life, he was always in debt.  He was very involved in politics and
was very outspoken on government issues.  He eventually took to writing and wrote over 500
books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics.  It was his political pamphlets that got him
into serious trouble and prison in 1703!  He witnessed a horrific hurricane sweep through his
country in 1703; the experience later provided the material for his literary piece, "The
Storm," in 1704.

It is believed that in writing , Defoe may have used
the true story of Scottish castaway, Alexander Selkirk.  It also could have been based upon the
experiences of a Henry Pitman, a surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth who was imprisoned in a
Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. 

Whichever character Defoe wrote about is unimportant.  What is important is that
Robinson Crusoe is one of the best pieces of literature ever
written!  It has been called anfor the development of civilisation, as a
manifesto of economic individualism, and as an expression of European colonial desires. But it
also shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious
convictions.

  

How is the name of Hester's child symbolic in "The Scarlet Letter"?

There are
religious meanings in this book that focus on sin and suffering and the choices that people make
and how it affects their eternal salvation.

In the Puritan theology, or
beliefs, people are either saved, intended for salvation or they are not.  Salvation would be
very important to all Puritans includingand Arthur. 

The nameis symbolic, as
in pearl of great price. This reference can be found in the Bible, Matthew 13:45-46. 

"Even the use of "seeking" ( href="https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/23585/eVerseID/23585">Matthew
13:45) helps to identify the merchant as Christ because it means "to depart from
one place and arrive at another." Jesus did this Himself to pay the price of the pearl. He
departed from heaven and arrived on earth to complete His
mission."

The child, Pearl, has brought Hester to a
new place, her salvation is in question. 

Pearl, her daughter, has cost
Hester dearly, including, possibly her chance at salvation.

What are some examples of how Roger Williams used the religious theme in From Christenings Make Not Christians and From a Key into the Language of...

It is
impossible to separate the writings of Roger Williams from religious themes, as everything he
wrote (and all of his actions) was about the human conscience and its relationship with God.
Roger Williams was a Dissenter; he left the Church of England in 1631 because he believed it
corrupted the teachings of Jesus. He sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and joined the the
other Puritans in the hopes that the new colony would strip away adherence to the church/state
hierarchy and worship in the purity of conscience-driven Christianity. However, he soon found
himself at odds with the leaders of the colony, particularly on the matters of following ones
conscience as a direct response to God, the separation of church and state, and, in particular,
the ungodly treatment of Native peoples and the taking of their land.

In the
winter of 1636, Roger Williams left Plymouth, having been banished from the colony, and he found
refuge with the Wampanoag Tribe as he recovered from illness....

Why does Lyddie not sign the petition in Lyddie?

The
petition that your question references is a petition to improve working conditions in the
factories.  While the girls are paid to work in the factories, they are
worked extremely hard in conditions that are not always safe for the girls.  These difficult
working conditions often result in injuries to the factory girls.  

Whilemight agree with the petition in concept, she doesn't sign the petition for two
reasons. Fear and selfishness.  

Her fear is a legitimate fear.  Girls that
have signed the petition are blacklisted from the factories.  That means that they are fired,
and other factory owners will refuse to hire them.  Signing the petition basically guarantees
job loss and loss of income.  Throughout the novel, Lyddie is motivated to be financially
independent and pay off her family's debt.  She simply cannot bear the thought of being fired.
 

Selfishly, Lyddie doesn't sign the petition, because as more and more girls
get blacklisted, Lyddie gets more and more work.  That increased work load translates to
increased income for Lyddie.  

What is the lifespan of the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

The Ghost of Christmas
Present tells Scrooge that he has "More than eighteen hundred" brothers, and he
suggests that Scrooge could have "walked forth," or gotten to know by some experience
with the Christmas spirit, some of the ghost's older brothers, though not the brothers who are
so very old.  This makes it seem as though there is a new Ghost of Christmas Present for each
Christmas since the birth of Christ (which makes sense since he is the Ghost of Christmas
Present only). 

The book itself was published in 1843,
so if the Ghost of Christmas Present is alive in the year 1843, then he would have eighteen
hundred forty-two brothers.  Therefore, the spirit is asking if Scrooge has known his brothers
of more recent years, years like 1842 or 1835 or even 1820, etc. (since Scrooge seems as though
he is somewhat of an older man).  This means, then, that each Ghost of Christmas Present's
lifespan is exactly one day: Christmas Day.  This is confirmed by the ghost's appearance at the
end of the chapter.  The narrator says,

[...] the Ghost
grew older, clearly older [....].  "Are spirits' lives so short?" asked Scrooge. 
"My life upon this globe, is very brief," replied the Ghost.  "It ends
tonight."

Thus, the ghost's earthly life ends when
Christmas Day comes to a close.

Who are the four stakeholders in the Women United Against AIDS and what are the benefits of having them as stake holders?

The
first part of your question can be answered quite simply. These are the names of the four stake
holders you ask about:  Creative Arts Team, Research Foundation of the City University of New
York (in New York City), the Frannie Peabody Center (in Portland, ME), the North Carolina AIDS
Action Network (in Durham, NC), and SisterLove (in Atlanta, GA).

The rest of
your question requires some more explanation, of course. AIDS United is a successful merger
between two distinct organizations. The two organizations working independently before the
merger were the National AIDS Fund and the AIDS Action Council. By combining resources, funds,
and leadership, AIDS United has become more capable of serving a wider...

What does Mollie lose by her actions? What does this tell you about materialism?

Mollie, the
horse who pulled Farmer Jones' cart, loves the pretty ribbons braided into her mane and tail and
the sugar cubes her human masters feed her. She also doesn't like to work very hard. When the
Rebellion comes, she doesn't find any pleasure in giving up her ribbons and her sugar or working
hard for the cause of Animalism. She can't quite comprehend the principles of Animalism or why
it is better to sacrifice a few material goods than to be enslaved. She doesn't understand that
the ribbons symbolize the fact that she has been mastered, nor does she understand that she is
being bought with a few trivial treats of sugar. None of this seems demeaning to her.

Mollie fleesto return to her human masters because they offer her an easier life. She
loses the opportunity to be part of building a society independent of the masters. One may argue
that she doesn't lose much, however, because the pigs betray the other animals as much or more
than the human masters did. Mollie is arguably better offor as well offwith the Joneses than she
would have been on Animal Farm. At least with the humans, she gets some sugar for her
efforts.

Addressing the question about materialism, Mollie's example shows
the power of materialism over ideology. Animals (and humans) love their creature comforts and
are sometimes willing to give up their freedoms to keep them.

What happens to aggregate demand when the dollar depreciates? And what happens when households expect lower prices in the future?

The dollar
depreciates in value when a dollar
is worth less relative to another currency. A dollar
appreciates in value
when it increases in value relative to another currency. Currencies
globally
depreciate and appreciate relative to one another based on the economic conditions
in
the countries where the currencies are used and investor
sentiment.

The
dollar depreciating relative to another
currency means that exports from the US to the country
that uses the other
currency will expand, and imports from that country to the US will contract.

If you primarily use the other currency, goods priced in dollars have become cheaper,
which
leads to expanded exports from the US to the other country. If you
primarily use dollars, goods
priced in the...

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Can someone edit these two paragraphs on why 1984 by George Orwell is meaningful to me? This novel is meaningful because of its relevance in todays...

I would make
the following changes, which I have marked:

This novel is meaningful because
of its relevance for todays society. In Egypt, a country which
has revolted to overthrow its ruler, we
find many similarities to the Oceania described in 's
. There was even a reference made to Orwell's
novel by Mohammad El Baradei, who tweeted Since January 25th, innocents
continue to be...

Large firms in an industry have cost advantages over small firms in same industry. Explain the condition for this statement to be true.

Larger
firms have greater access to pools of resources. They can buy more goods in bulk provided that
there is a demand for those goods once ready for sale. Larger firms can also deliver larger
varieties of goods than smaller businesses. Some goods that do not sale as well can be carried
along with best-sellersthis gives larger businesses greater flexibility in deciding what to keep
in stock. Smaller stores, on the other hand, have to keep as much of the business as profitable
as possible.

Larger firms, especially established ones, are seen as more
stable among investors. Investors often see...

In what ways does Douglass emphasize the corrupting nature of slavery to American society? More specifically how does this corrupting influence shape...

Douglass emphasizes the
ways in which slavery corrupts slaveowners. His audience is white northerners whom he hopes to
sway against slavery and towards abolitionism by emphasizing the evils of slavery and its
corrupting effects on whites, including Christians.

The person who embodies
these corrupting effects is his slave mistress, Sophia Auld, in Baltimore. As she is a
northerner, she is at first not aware of the southern ban against teaching slaves to read, and
she begins to instruct Douglass, then a young boy, how to read. Her husband scolds her and tells
her that learning will forever spoil a slave, and Sophia Auld halts her instruction of the young
Douglass. Douglass portrays how Sophia Auld, once a kind and Christian woman, is turned into a
vengeful and evil soul by slavery. In the character of Sophia Auld, he dramatizes the corruption
that slavery brings to whites.

In addition, Douglass shows that slavery is
degrading to people's practice of Christianity. He writes about how his master, once turned
religious, becomes even more hypocritical because the master believes that the tenets of
Christianity (as practiced in the South) permit slavery. Douglass writes, "For of all
slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found
them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others." Though he was
criticized for his claims, Douglass maintained that the slaveholding Christianity of the South
is not true Christianity but is entirely antithetical to what Christianity means. In his
narrative, he describes the corrupting influence of slavery on American institutions such as
womanhood and religion.

In Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, what is the metaphoric meaning of the second paragraph in Chapter 3 as to what is vital to a racecar...

In the
second paragraph of Chapter 3 in 's ,
the extended that relays advice about driving directly
parallels Enzo's own view of a dog's afterlife and of steps needed
to take to achieve the afterlife.

One of the most important
details in the metaphor is Denny's explanation that racecar drivers must drive
"having no memory" of even things done only a second prior regardless of whether or
not the thing done was good or bad. The reason why is because "to remember is to disengage
from the present." A racecar driver must be completely focused on the here
and now in order to avoid fatal mistakes and achieve successes.


Denny's advice about driving...

How does Bruno's grandmother stand up for her personal beliefs against the Nazis?

On Christmas
Day, before Father became
Commandant of the concentration camp, he wore his new uniform for the
first
time.  The whole family applauded, and Bruno noticed that the soldiers seemed to show
his
father more respect when he wore it.  Grandfather was very proud of him
and told him he was
patriotic, but Grandmother told him that he was "Dressing
up like a puppet on a
string" (pg 90) Grandfather comes to his defense
telling him how proud he is of his son who
is helping to reclaim the
country's pride.  But Grandmother says, "...to see you in that
uniform makes
me want to tear the eyes from my head."  She stormed out of the house, and

Bruno didn't see much of his Grandmother after that, and she never forgave her son. 
When she
died, Bruno's mother said it was very hard on his father
because he never made amends with his
mother (pg 177)

One principle of the world of Orwells 1984 is panopticonism Discuss the role of surveillance and lack of privacy in Orwells 1984 as a...

At the
very outset of establishes the setting as one in which all citizens of
Oceania are continuously being spied on. Whensits down to write his diary, he can only do this
because of a fluke in the construction of his flat, where a small nook is hidden from the
telescreen. Obviously it's a massive form of control if everything a person does, even in their
own home, is being watched by a brutal regime in which the slightest provocation is punished by
torture or death.

Similarly, the only way Winston can read the note saying
"I love you" thathas surreptitiously passed to him is by making it appear part of the
bundle of documents he's planning to falsify when he sits down at the "speak-write" in
his work cubicle. He has considered unfolding and reading it in the men's room, butknows that
even in the stalls (or especially there) he would be closely surveilled.
Under these conditions everyone, one would think, is being kept in a continuous state of
anxiety, to the point where the Party is limiting or controlling people's actions and
practically making them into puppets.

The telescreens are also constantly
transmitting as well as receiving--that is, transmitting not just video but audio as well,
constant sound. The unending sound would, we would imagine, drive people crazy. Only the Inner
Party members like , as he himself tells Winston and Julia, are able to turn off the telescreen.

Yet we're told that "most of the proles did not even have telescreens
in their homes." Why would this be the case? There are, arguably, two reasons. First,
Orwell is probably emphasizing the primitive conditions under which the working class live
which, like everything else in the dystopia, are an exaggeration or extension into the future of
the way things already are. The unequal conditions of an industrialized world were examined
repeatedly by Orwell in his earlier books such as , , and .
But the second reason is that the Party simply doesn't bother with the proles--they
are beyond the pale, not even thought of as human beings. Hence, Winston and Julia think they
have nothing to fear by being together in the room above Mr Charrington's shop. It turns out, of
course, that they could not have been more mistaken, since the whole scenario is a set-up and
Charrington is an agent of the Thought Police.

What is the climax of the novel The Alchemist by Coelho?

As Santiago
is digging for treasure, a pack of
thieves finds him and proceeds to beat him and rob him. They
force him to
continue digging in search of the treasure, but when none is found, all of
the
thieves leave. Before they leave, however, one thief tells Santiago an
important secret that is
a clue to where the treasure really is.

The story ends as Santiago discovers
that the treasure is located
right where the adventure began, at the ruined church in Spain. He
digs under
the tree where he had the prophetic dream and finally discovers a chest full
of
treasures, gold and gemstones.

In the final climactic
scene of the book, the
wind begins to blow and Santiago smells the familiar
scent of his lover, Fatima, and feels her
kiss. He is taken up by the wind
and tells Fatima he is coming.

On the plane in Journey to the Center of the Earth, Trevor is trying to decipher a code, and he thinks it has something to do with what scientific...

Just to
be clear, this question relates to the 2008 film and not the
originalstory.

In the scene referred to above, Trevor Anderson is on board a
plane with his nephew Sean, headed for Iceland. Once there, they hope to investigate the remote
volcano, where Max Anderson, Trevor's brother and Sean's father, met his doom ten years
previously.

Trevor is deciphering some notations that Max made in his book.
They consist of a bunch of letters arranged in pairs. For example "S-A",
"I-S", and "G-G". There's also "P-B". Trevor seizes upon this
example and says that there appears to be some kind of code behind the letters in Max's notebook
that he thinks might have something to do with the periodic table.
As even those of us with almost zero scientific knowledge know, Pb is the
chemical symbol for lead. It's derived from the Latin word for lead, which is
plumbum.

Trevor works out that "S-A" most
probably stands for Sigurbj¶rn sgeirsson, who happens to be the executive director of the
sgeirsson Institute for Progressive Volcanology. Trevor's certain that Max must have known
this guy, so he determines that the Institute will be his and Sean's first port of call once
they touch down in Iceland.

In Dante's Inferno, do the penalties seem harsh? No, that's all.

All the
penalties in Dante's Inferno seem incredibly harsh because of the fact that
they are all destined to last throughout eternity. It is the time factor that makes them seem
not only harsh but sadistic. Otherwise some of them might be called poetic justice. It is hard
to believe that Dante was writing anything but poetry and that he was inventing torments that
were metaphorically appropriate to the sins commited in life by those unfortunate souls he was
observing. Eternity is endless. A billion billion years is only the beginning. Just being
confined in Dante's catacombs without any kind of physical torture would be sufficiently
excruciating if there was never any end in sight. Dante himself seems to have...

30.0 mL of 0.10 M Ca(NO3)2 and 15.0 mL of 0.20 M Na3PO4 solutions are mixed. After the reaction is complete, which of these ions has the lowest...

Amount of
`Ca(NO3)_2` mixed `= 0.1xx30/1000 =
0.003`

Amount of `Na_3PO_4^(3-)` mixed`=
0.2xx15/1000 =
0.003 `

 

`3Ca(NO_3)_2+2Na_3PO_4 rarr

Ca_3(PO_4)_2+6NaNO_3`

 

`Ca(NO_3)_2:2Na_3PO_4 =
3:2 =
0.003:0.002`

 

So 0.003 moles of
`Ca(NO_3)_2` will react
with 0.002 moles...

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How is social class determined in the United States?

Since there
is no official definition of class, determining what class a person belongs to is generally an
inexact process.  In the United States, the very most important determinant of a person's social
class is their income and wealth.

In the United States, class is almost
solely a matter of wealth and...

What does this quote from Walden mean? "Still we live meanly, like ants, though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men."

Thoreau
is referring to the fact that in modern society man unthinkingly allows himself to be a small
part of a large collective, just like a worker in a giant colony of ants. And to a staunch
individualist like Thoreau that's a pretty sorry state of affairs. He wants us all to affirm
ourselves as unique, distinct individuals with the power to think for ourselves and lead the
kind of lives we really want to lead instead of blindly going along with what everyone else is
doing.

Theto which Thoreau refers is from Ancient Greek...

What is a chapter that shows Meg is impatient?

Impatience is one of Meg's numerous negative
character traits, and she displays it on a number of occasions throughout the story. An example
of this comes in chapter 1. Meg is at school, vegetating in social studies class, and the
teacher asks her to identify the principal imports and exports of Nicaragua. Meg doesn't really
see the point of all this:

"Who cares about the
imports and exports of Nicaragua, anyhow?" she muttered.

If Meg's going to be rude, says the teacher, then she may leave the room. Meg doesn't
need a second invitation and flounces out of class without a moment's hesitation. Her impatience
has got the better of her once again. She is clearly a troubled girl. Yes, she's incredibly
clever, but her impatience and her negative attitude towards schoolwork are seriously holding
her back. The school principal, Mr. Jenkins, politely suggests that Meg needs to do something
about herself if she's going to turn things round. But there is precious little evidence of that
as Meg bawls out Mr. Jenkins when he broaches the subject of her absent
father.

Whar are four reasons why it is important to research an author prior to reading 4 reasons why it is important to research an author prior to reading

Sometimes it
is and sometimes it isn't important to research an author.  If you are reading an author from
the past, it's usually important.  Writers do not write in a vacuum.  Knowing about the culture
and historical elements will help.  Some writers also have interesting agendas or personal
problems, and it helps to know those.  Generally, you don't need to research current
authors.

Write note on Task-based language teaching. define and explain

The
Target-Based language teaching approach (TBLT), or Target-Based language instruction strategy
(TBI) is one of the most widely-used teaching interventions in language instruction,
particularly in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). It was created in the 1970s as
an answer to the need to teach both grammar and meaning during SLA. Its application branches out
of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) and, according to Cook and Gass (1993), TBLT is to
be pedagogically described as  

first, as an aspect of
the research methodology used in...

According to Edwards, have human beings done anything to appease God?

One of the
main motivations of Edwards's sermon is to galvanize the listener or audience to grasp the anger
that God possesses.  The anger of the divine is the result of how unhappy God is with the lack
of spiritual affection given to him.  For Edwards, God's anger is the result of transgression.
 In this, Edwards believes that human beings have not done enough to appease the divine.
"Their foot will slip" is a repeated phrase that Edwards uses throughout the sermon.
 This "slipping" is the result of human beings not doing enough in the name of the
divine. Even if human beings have done enough, Edwards wishes to paint the picture of an unhappy
vision of the divine.  This is where he recognizes that God's anger knows no limitations and
that his wrath is the result of human beings not doing enough to please the will of the
divine.

It is in this notion where Edwards drives home his point in his
sermon.  Human beings are sinners that are dealing with the wrath of God.  In recognition of
this condition of being, human beings have to alter their ways and must reform.  This is why
Edwards does not feel that human beings have done enough.  They need to continue to feel that
more must be done in order to avoid the anger of God and the wrath of the
divine.