How are George and Lennie different than other ranch workers? Cite a line of text from the chapter that supports your statement.

Steinbeck depicts the difficult lives of
migrant workers who travel throughout the country working arduous jobs during the Great
Depression. Unlike typical migrant workers,andtravel together and keep each other company. The
vast majority of migrant workers have no family, travel alone, and live unfulfilled lives. They
do not own property, have no place to call home, and struggle to make a living.

In the opening scene of the novella, George and Lennie arrive at a peaceful riverbank,
where George yells at Lennie for carrying a dead mouse and criticizes him for complaining about
eating their food without ketchup. Lennie responds by saying that he will simply leave camp and
live in a cave, in an attempt to make George feel bad for yelling at him. Lennie then requests
that George repeat their dream of one day owning their own homestead. George begins by
saying,

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the
loneliest guys in the world. They got no fambly. They don't belong no place. They come to a
ranch an' work up a stake and then they go into town and blow their stake, and the first thing
you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead
to...With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn
about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place
else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not
us.

George's comments emphasize the difference between
their lives and the lives of other migrant workers. George and Lennie's close friendship and
camaraderie are what make them different. Instead of experiencing a lonely existence, George and
Lennie travel the country together, and their friendship significantly improves their lives.
George acts as Lennie's guardian and protector, while Lennie provides George with much-needed
social interaction. Both men benefit from their friendship and face difficult obstacles
together, which would be significantly harder to face if they were alone.

How would this film Remains of the Day be better or worse if it ended with the two main characters getting married?

If the movie
Remains of the Day had ended with Stevens marrying Miss Kenton, it would
have changed theof the film's main figures. I can't write your page, but I can give you my
thoughts on this question. You likely have other thoughts as well.

If the
movie had ended with the wedding of these two characters, the plot would've shifted
considerably, as Miss Kenton would have had to decide to divorce her husband. She
would...

In the short story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson, why were Laurie's parents looking forward to meeting the kindergarten teacher?

Lauries parents were
looking
forward to meeting his teacher so that they could find out more about
.

Laurie did not adjust well to
kindergarten.  He was a spoiled child, and the rules and
order of school did
not suit him.  He came from school each day complaining about a classmate

named Charles who got into a lot of trouble.  Laurie and his parents thought that
Charles was a
lot of fun.

Well, he
said, Charles was bad again
today. He grinned. Today Charles hit the teacher,
he said.

Good heavens,
I said. I suppose he got spanked
again?

He sure did, Laurie
said.

As Laurie continues to come home day after day
and
describe the horrible things Charles does, his parents are curious but
not overly concerned. 
After all, their son is no angel.  He talks back,
harasses the baby, and generally wreaks
havoc.

When the
night of the Parent-Teachers meeting comes, Lauries mother
stays home because
the baby is sick.  As a result, she does not get to meet Lauries teacher. 

She continues to listen to his reports about Charles, the scourge of the
kindergarten.

When Lauries mother finally makes it to the
PTA meeting, she looks for any woman who
might be Charless mother and then
seeks out the kindergarten teacher.  The teacher is polite and
they discuss
Laurie.

Hes had some trouble getting
used
to school, she said. But I think hell be all right.

Lauries mother asks about Charles, and learns
that there is no
Charles.  Then she realizes the truth. 
Charles is not real.  Her son made him up.  Everything
that he has described
has been his own behavior.

Of course, it is truly
ironic
that Lauries mother is so judgmental when, overwhelmed with a baby, she has not
really
been paying attention.  Both of Lauries parents have let his behavior
go, when they should have
realized that it would have an effect on his school
life.  Charles was his way of telling them
that he needed help, and they
missed it completely.

 

 

Is William Blake the speaker in "The Tyger?" Please tell me why or why not.

was a Romantic poet.
Based upon this, his poetry tended to revolve around the importance nature and
imagination.

One could argue that, in the poem, Blake questioned nature and
its role in the world. For the Romantics, nature was very important. Theof nature was used to
allow readers to also question life and the things around them.

In
"," Blake (as the writer) questions

thecreation
of the tiger based solely upon the fact that he finds it hardto believe that the same hand
(God's hand) created the lamb.

Given that, one can only
assume that Blake is the speaker in the poem based upon the fact that he wrote the poem. The
poem contains open-ended questions which force the reader to consider the answers.
Unfortunately, for the reader, the questions are unanswerable. Therefore, given that Blake is
wanting the reader to consider the creation of the "tyger," one could easily assume
that Blake, himself, is the speaker.

What are benefical acts that Arthur Dimmesdale has performed in The Scarlet Letter? (I'm defending him to prove he's innocent.)

While the
Reverendhas committed the sin of adultery, the most grievous offence belongs to the theology of
Puritanism which disallows any human foibles, thus forcing people to dissemble and hide their
secret sins, and demanding absolute perfection from their religious leaders. Dimmesdale's sin is
that he is a man with natural feelings and desires, but these human urges are denied him by the
strict Calvinism which allows no imperfection from its "elect." 

Puritanism should be on trial, not Arthur Dimmesdale, whom it has imprisoned and whose
congregation perceives him to be a saint to the very end--even when he confesses his sin, they
forgive him.

Here are good acts performed by the Reverend Dimmesdale (not
including his usual ministerial duties):

1. Whilestands on the scaffold,
Dimmesdale is called upon to ask her with whom she sinned. Bending his head "in silent
prayer," he then approaches Hester and speaks to her in such a manner as to communicate
that she...

x+ y = 5 2x-y = 4 solve x and y

X = 3 and Y =
2.  Here is how we find this.

What we have to do is use the first equation to
get a value for y.  This is quite easy because all we must do is say

x + y =
5 so y = 5 -x

Now we plug that value into the second equation.

2x - (5-x) = 4

This becomes

2x - 5 + x = 4
(because you are subtracting negative x, you are in effect adding x)

3x - 5 =
4

3x = 9

x = 3

If x = 3, then 3 + y = 5
and y = 2

How are some of the characters symbols? What do they represent?

In
literature there is a fine line between saying a character is a "symbol" and
recognizing that authors always useto express ideas and to represent concepts that are part of a
work's . is not anin which the entire construct of the work is
metaphorical, as, for instance, an Ayn Rand novel is in which the characters clearly represent
good and evil. Still, there are several straightforward ideas relating to the African American
(and more, broadly, anybody's) experience that are embodied in the characters themselves.

Though the principal action centers around the Younger family's move to a
new neighborhood and their encounter with bigotry, perhaps the relationship betweenand Asagai is
more relevant to your question. With all ethnic groups in the U.S., there
has historically been a conflict or tension between loyalty to Americanism and loyalty to one's
roots, the ancestral culture. Asagai, as a native African, represents to Beneatha the culture
she is trying to recapture and to take pride in. As with her personality overall, the other
family members have little understanding of her in this regard. At the same time, Beneatha
herself is a symbol of the new generation's wish to free itself from the constraints of the
past, specifically religion and the dominance of the parents. One of the most striking moments
occurs when Beneatha says she's tired of hearing about God, and that man is the one who makes
miracles. Mrs. Younger slaps her face and forces her to repeat that "in my mother's house,
there is still God."

Mrs. Younger represents the unyielding human
spirit. Regardless of the oppression of her family and of African Americans in general, she
keeps going, refusing to be defeated or to allow her family to accept the fate that American
society has planned for it. This quality carries its own authority with it, and this is why
Beneatha, despite her independence, yields to her mother at that crucial moment. It's also the
quality that enables the family to succeed in the end and to resist the bigotry leveled at them.

In Emma, what tests does Emma have to pass in order to be worthy of the love of Mr. Knightley?

I like this question
very much, as it is actually an excellent way of thinking about this novel. In many ways, this
story focuses on the development of th ecentral character, as she moves from "having rather
too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself" to much
greater humility and emotional maturity.

has to learn a number of things
about herself in the novel in order to make her worthy to marry Mr....

Is Tennyson praising Ulysses, or Tennyson is criticizing Ulysses? Literary critics have debated whether Tennyson is sympathetic to Ulysses and intends...

Alfred
Lord Tennyson's poem, "" is written in the form of a dramatic , i.e. aspoken by
Ulysses overheard by an imagined audience. Because of this, there is no explicit narration which
tells us Tennyson's attitude towards the speaker. Unlike Browning's dramatic...

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, please identify the conflict of man vs. society conflict. Be specific please!

In 's
, there are two specific situations that can be identified as man vs
society.

The first is when Santiago reaches the oasis. He sees an omen in the
desert that he believes indicates the approach of war, even though the oasis is supposed to be a
"neutral zone." Even with fear in his heart, Santiago approaches the leaders of the
oasis to tell them what he has seen and that he believes danger approaches. Santiago is told
that if he is wrong, he will be killed, but that they will act on his advice and prepare...and
war does come to the oasis.

The second example is when Santiago goes with the
alchemist out into the desert and they are taken prisoner by a group of soldiers. This is toward
the end of the book. The alchemist tells the leader of their captors that Santiago (the boy) can
turn himself into the wind. At this point, Santiago cannot believe that the alchemist would say
such a thing: if the boy cannot turn himself into the wind, he will be killed by the soldiers,
and Santiago fully expects to die at the hands of these men. Of course, Santiago ultimately
does turn himself into the wind, thereby being saved.

In
both of these examples, we see the conflict of man vs society.

What was President George Washington's domestic policy and was it successful? What did he accomplish in this area?

President
George Washington was keenly aware that any action he took as President would set a precedent
for future administrations and conducted himself accordingly. An indication of the sensitivity
he felt for this issue is that fact that although he wore a sword at his inauguration, he also
wore a plain suit rather than a military uniform. The precedent: the Commander in Chief of U.S.
Armed Forces would remain civilian. Since that time, no President has worn a uniform while in
office.

Among his other accomplishments:

• Washington's appointment of Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury
  was key in putting the U.S. on sound financial footing. Although a dispute arose between
  Hamilton and Jefferson over the establishment of the Bank of the U.S., Hamilton's policies were
  largely implemented and secured the financial success of the nation.
• When
  the House of Representatives demanded to see documents relating to the Jay Treaty, Washington
  refused, stating that the proper business of advice and consent on treaties belonged to the
  Senate alone. By so doing, he established the principle of Executive Privilege.


• Washington sent a large army under General Richard Henry Lee to put down the Whiskey
  Rebellion. The Rebellion collapsed as soon as Lee's troops appeared. Although Alexander Hamilton
  wished to set an example by having the leaders of the rebellion hanged, Washington pardoned all
  of them, rightly believing that severe punishment would have made healing difficult.

It is interesting to note that Washington did not wish a second term in
office, and hoped to return to Mt. Vernon; however both Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson convinced
him to serve again. Both men, although polar opposites in political opinion, believed Washington
to be the only man capable of steering the new nation in the right
direction.

What part of the New Testament was written first?

The
epistles were the first pieces of the New Testament to be written. Chronologically, Pauls
epistles were written beginning in the mid-40s CE and continued for several decades. The Gospels
were written around 70 CE and throughout that decade, while the epistles...

What is the end rhyme of the poem "Annabel Lee" and what does it tell us about the poem?

The last
stanza of the poem bytitled "" reads,

For the
moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And
the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

This is very much a sample of the Romantic and Gothic aspects of
the poem. First, the exaltation of nature is typical of , and takes center stage in most
realistic, romantic and Gothic literature. The moon and the stars are not just satellites of
earth; they are witnesses of the pain and suffering that both the narrator and Annabel Lee
herself have had to experience through their respective existences.

Annabel
Lee, who is tragically dead too young, had all the factors that would have made her a happy
woman: beauty, youth, ample time. It is death that had to strike like a thief in the night the
same way that it had done with all of the women Poe loved the most in his life.

These verses are stating that life will never be the same. The moon will never beam, at
least not for the narrator. The stars will not rise, either. All will remain in total darkness.
Why would there be any more brilliance than those of the eyes of the young dead woman, who will
never open them again?  It is all allegorical also to the depression and grief that the narrator
expresses throughout.

And so, all the night-tide, I lie
down by the side
Of my darlingmy darlingmy life and my bride

Changing the rhyming meter and form in contrast to the rest of the
poem, here Poe, once again, makes mention of an element of nature, the night-tide, which he uses
as a base for support; a place where he can lie on and express his sorrows. He wants to be near
his love, so he goes lies next to her. He wants to emphasize that this is not an ordinary
childhood crush. She was everything to him, and he wants to make a point of it.  

In her sepulchre there by the sea,

       In her
tomb by the side of the sea

Here Poe offers a repetition
within the anapest that is allusive to the ocean, once again, bringing a tone of nostalgia,
coldness, an inevitability to the whole situation. Theelicited by the mention of the sea entails
that, under water, mysterious things lurk. Her sepulcher "there by the sea" shows that
not only is she buried, but she is also in the middle of the elements, which are so
unpredictable.

Yet, the reassurance that she is "by the sea" can
also signify that Poe knows exactly where to go and where to find her. He has pinpointed that
spot "by the side of the sea" and has made it their spot. This is indicative of his
desire to preserve her memory forever.

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Describe Thoreaus notion of poverty. Is it the same as or different from the notion of poverty we have when, for instance, we speak of...

There is a
profound difference between the poverty thatwrites of in and the poverty
that millions of people endure in lower/middle income countries (LMICs). One of the most
important examples of this difference is that Thoreau chose a temporary life of simplicity, not
because he had to, but because he wanted to test some philosophical truths. He famously writes
in chapter 2,

I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

It is clear from this passage that Thoreau's "poverty" is
voluntary, and that he lives simply not because he has to but because he wants to, as an
experiment. In contrast, most people in LIMC or urban poverty endure it out of necessity,
because they are unable to find a job or otherwise secure life's basic needs for themselves and
their families.

Thoreau performed his experiment in...

What underlying factors in the events of the 1770s led the colonies to declare their independence from Britain?

The
colonists' grievances were pretty clearly defined in some of their statements. Stemming largely
from taxation, the colonists' believed they were being taken advantage ofand truthfully, they
were. Great Britain was fighting more and more wars, including the French and Indian War that
took place on the American continent. This drained their resources, and so, instead of going
into the purse of Parliament or taking from the citizens living in the British Isles, they
levied taxes and fines against the colonists.

Unfortunately, the colonists
had little say in these fines and had absolutely no representation in the government to fight
against these taxes. The most frustrating thing was that the colonists were being taxed to pay
for wars and events that they perceived as having nothing to do with them, which they had no
opportunity to fightleading to the cry "No taxation without representation."

Additionally, during and after the war, the British were forcing colonists to
quarter...

What is the summary of the poem "The Laburnum Top" by Ted Hughes?

Ted
Hughes's "The Laburnum Top" is a poem about the cycle of life. It begins, in the first
stanza, with a description of a tree in autumn. Some of its leaves are turning yellow, and its
seeds have fallen. This represents one life fading and another, in the form of the seeds, about
to begin.

In the second stanza, a goldfinch arrives with "A suddeness, a
startlement," and the tree is brought back to life again. Its branches become busy with
"chitterings, and . . . tremor of wings, and trillings," and the entire tree
"trembles and thrills." The tree is also described, metaphorically, as "the
engine" of the bird's family. In other words, the tree helps the bird and its family to
flourish and, as it were, move forward. It provides the bird, and its family, with a place to
rest and find shelter. It also provides food, in the form of sap and buds, for example. This
stanza represents the co-dependency of life. One life, even (or perhaps especially) when it may
be fading, helps another. The old life helps the young life by providing for it, and the young
life in turn helps the old life by revitalizing it.

In the third and fourth
stanzas, the goldfinch flies away, "towards the infinite," and the tree dies, or
"subsides to empty." These stanzas represent death. This ending to the poem also
perhaps suggests that there is a spiritual side to life. Indeed, the bird may symbolize the soul
of the tree, which animates life (the tree) for a short while and then leaves to return to
"the infinite." Without the soul, life, like the tree, is
"empty."

Who is the antagonist in The Lovely Bones?

Theis George Harvey, the
neighbor who rapes and kills Susie.

An antagonist is a
villain, or a bad guy.  The antagonist presents a conflict for the .  In this case, the
protagonist is fourteen year old Susie, who is killed by her neighbor George Harvey.

My murderer was a man from our neighborhood.  My mother liked his
border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.  My murderer believed in
old-fashioned things like eggshells and coffee grounds€¦ (ch 1, p. 6)

Mr. Harvey was a loner and somewhat strange.  His antisocial
behavior was not as obvious as with some, but he kept to himself making dollhouses.  He raped
and murdered Susie when she tried to cut through a cornfield.  He dismembered her and left her
body there to rot.  She looked down on him and her family members from Heaven, keeping track of
the investigation.

Although Susie only has a physical conflict with Harvey in
the beginning of the book, he is the reason she is dead and therefore continues to be the
antagonist as her friends and family, and the police, try to find out what happened to her and
bring her killer to justice.  Harvey is eventually killed by a falling icicle, which  Susie
considered the perfect way to murder someone because the weapon melts.

Are exit interviews a worthwhile procedure for HR departments?

Although
many human resources departments conduct exit interviews, I would argue that they are not
worthwhile.  My main reason for saying this is that there is no reason to believe that they will
yield authentic results.

An exit interview is typically conducted when an
employee is leaving a firm.  That employee may have been laid off, may have been fired for
cause, or may have resigned to pursue another job opportunity.  HR...

In "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Urrea, how and why do you think Urrea describes illegal immigration as "a game"?

In any
game, there are always two opposing sides; this is certainly the case in the area of illegal
immigration.

In the book, Urrea discusses how the Border Patrol agents (La
Migra) often find themselves at odds with the Coyotes (human smugglers) who facilitate the
migration of illegals across the Mexican-United States border. Urrea characterizes the conflict
between the Border Patrol agents and the Coyotes as a game.

While the
Coyotes aim to guide their charges across the border unseen, the Border Patrol agents are paid
to "see the invisible." In this daily game of cat-and-mouse, Urrea tells us that the
Coyotes "score" when they successfully guide their clients across the border. On the
other hand, the Border Patrol agents get to "score" when they manage to stop the
Coyotes on any given day. In this dangerous "game," there is a formidable referee, and
it is La Muerte (Death). Urrea describes Death as a "masked invader who regularly storms
the field to disrupt...

What do Perry's possessions tell about him?

Perry's
possessions indicate that he lives in a fantasy world. He imagines himself as a songwriter and a
singer/guitarist, though he doesn't try to develop whatever musical talent he might possibly
have. He carries his guitarwhich he can barely playwith him and a trunk containing the songs
he's written, despite knowing that he'll probably never have the opportunity to perform for an
audience.

Another one of Perry's delusions is his intention to go treasure
hunting. In his trunk is a "secret map" that Perry tells Dick will lead them to the
sunken treasure of Captain Cortez that supposedly lies buried off the coast of Mexico.

Perry probably knows that all of this is nonsense. If he didn't, it's unlikely he
would have gone along with Dick in the foolish (to put it mildly) scheme to rob the Clutters.
The fact that they embark on this plan shows how disconnected from reality both of them are.
Dick has no way of knowing if the Clutters even have a safe, basing his assumption entirely
on...

What is the importance of Herbert Spencer in the field of sociology?

Herbert
Spencer was one of the most important figures in the early years of sociology.  Spencer was
strongly influenced by the ideas of Charles Darwin.  He brought Darwin's ideas into the field of
sociology.

Spencer looked at society as a biological organism.  He argued
that a...

In Edward's view, what must sinners do to be spared God's wrath?

According to
, sinners must come to Christ with humble hearts and ask for Christ's forgiveness in order to be
spared God's wrath. Only those people who have found Christ's salvation have a chance of
avoiding hell.

Edwards's sermon is famous for its vivid , showing how close
humans are to hell, whether we know it or not. For example, Edwards describes those who have
failed to come to Christ as

Unconverted men [who] walk
over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

This physical
image of walking over hell on a cover that won't hold makes clear that the unconverted could
fall to hellfire at any time. We are none of us, Edwards argues, as far from hell as we might
imagine. Our sense of security is at best precariousuntil we come to Christ.

Edwards wanted people to seriously seek salvation rather than live complacently, as if
everything would always be all right. Though perhaps shocking to us in the way it plays on fear,
his sermon is meant as a wake-up call.

What is Alice Walker saying in "Everyday Use" about the nature of heritage?

It seems as though
Walker does not want us to agree with Dee or Dee's ideas about heritage because she presents Dee
as a relatively unsympathetic character.  She's described in ways that make her presence seem
painful or damaging to her family: she "burned [them] with knowledge" when she was
young, and she insisted that she would come to visit her mother and sister -- though she would
never bring her friends -- because she seemed to be embarrassed about where
and how they lived.  When she returns home, she is unkind and selfish, insisting that she be
allowed to take items...

How does Meursault's lawyer twist his testimony?

Meursault's
lawyer, upon meeting him, is a bit horrified at Meursault's apparent lack of emotion, insight
and instinct for self-preservation. Meursault seems not to be aware, nor to care, that his
dispassionate attitude and absence of self-analysis will be held against him during the trial,
particularly in regards to his mother. While from a purely empirical perspective, Meursault is
correct in arguing that his behavior regarding his mother's death has nothing to do with his
murder of the Arab, he doesn't consider that the lack of affect in one area suggests his lack of
morals in another.  

Naturally, Meursault's lawyer has no intention of
allowing...

Why did the author of Kindred find it necessary to use a modern narrator to tell the story instead of having it all set in the past?

One of the problems with
historical texts is that they are set in the past and are so physically removed from our own
time. Butler's choice of having a character who time travels from the present back to a time
when slavery was the norm forces both the narrator and us as readers to experience the violent
and shocking collision between the norms of our world today and the very different and
terrifying norms of America during slavery. This narrative choice means that we, just like the
narrator, are unable to sit back and experience the reality of slavery from the luxury of our
armchairs. The juxtaposition of the two very different worlds constantly reminds us of the brute
reality of slavery and does not allow us to detach ourselves from it. Butler's purpose in this
tremendous story is to above all force us to become involved in the gritty, harsh reality of
slavery, just as Dana is forced to become involved. Note what Dana says to Kevin about the way
that what happens forces her to become involved as she struggles to cling on to her moral and
ethical reasoning from the present:

You mightbe able to go
through this whole experience as an observer... I can understand that because most of the time,
I'm still an observer. It's protection. It's nineteen seventy-six shielding and cushioning
eighteen nineteen for me. But now and then... I can't maintain the distance. I'm drawn all the
way into eighteen nineteen, and I don't know what to do.

The author intends for us to not become observers, and to, like Dana, be drawn
completely into the narrative action. This of course forces us to appreciate the brute realities
of slavery in a way that is much more powerful precisely because of the collision and
juxtaposition of the two different time periods with their different views on humanity and
morals.

How does Shakespeare personify Romeo's feelings for Rosaline and for Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

Theof 's feelings
towards the two women that he
loves in this play is achieved through Romeo's own description of
his love
and how it is different for both of these women. Take his feelings for Rosaline,
for
example, which are expressed in Act I scene 2. He confides tothat part of
his moodiness and
depression is that he loves Rosaline but she is obviously
playing hard to get. Note how he
describes his love in the following
quote:

And, in strong
proof of chastity
well armed,

From love's weak childish bow she lives

unharmed.

Romeo compares his love here to a
"weak
childish bow" that indicates that Rosaline is not touched by his
infatuation with her, and
also hints that there is a greater love to come in
the form of , where Romeo's love will not be
"weak" or "childish," and which
will surpass the affection he feels for
Rosaline. Shakespeare describes the
love that Romeo has for his women through powerful images
that help to
identify the difference in his feelings for them both.

What are the major conflicts in the short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"? What point of view does the author use?

The
narrative point of view of this story is
third person. More specifically, the story is third
person omniscient. This
means that the narrator is essentially looking down at all characters
from a
"god-like" perspective. Readers can get insights into multiple characters
from
this perspective without having to have the characters say or do
anything. The narrative point
of view is limited in one aspect as well.
Readers do not get any views of what the old man with
wings is thinking
about. He remains as much of a mystery to readers as he does to the people in

the story.

The conflict in this story is very unique. There seems to
be a
conflict ready to happen between the old man and the people, but that
conflict never develops.
The old man doesn't harm the people or struggle
against them. He is passive. You could say that
the old man does have a
conflict with himself. His main struggle is to regain strength and
escape. I
would say that the main conflict present in this story is an
internal...

How explicitly does the prophet Tiresias reveal the guilt of Oedipus? Does it seem to you stupidity on the part of Oedipus or a defect in Sophocles's...

Instead of
seeming like a mistake in the play, I feel like the vagueness and openness to interpretation
makes the play work in its own special way.makes it clear to the audience thatis guilty, and
recognition dawns on the entire crowd in light of the original words of the Oracle at Delphi.
Oedipus, however, is blind to this fact.

His naivete in light of these events
is a very important part of the story. It encapsulates his the fatal flaw that tears him apart
in the end. In his own pride, Oedipus is completely unaware of the idea of being guilty himself
and instead believes that the culprit is still on the loose. Because of this, his own
declarations twist him into further destruction as he decrees the punishments that the guilty
party should receive.

The fact that Tiresias reveals this information in
such an explicit way serves to underpin the depths to which Oedipus has sunk in his own pride.
He is completely incapable of realizing the truth, even if it is...

How many children are there in Jamess family in The Color of Water?

describes
his large and unique family and upbringing in his memoir/autobiography, .
There were twelve children in the household, including him. He was the youngest in the first set
of eight that Ruth, his mother, had with her first husband,...

What is your reaction to "Young Goodman Brown"? What is your reaction to "Young Goodman Brown"?

Frankly, I found the story amusing. It resembles some of Chaucer's stories in The Canterbury
Tales. What makes it amusing is that Hawthorne represents both the husband and wife of being so
insufferably good. The husband even has the name Goodman, and his wife is acting so nice and
sweet and good that she seems like a caricature of a perfect housewife. I was also reminded of
Al Capp's comic strip L'il Abner. There was a character named (I believe) J. Sweetpants
Goodbody. He was a rich philanthropist who had a reputation for being exceedingly good. But
every so often he couldn't stand being good anymore, and he used to have his chauffeur drive him
up into L'il Abner's country where he would go around...

In The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, in what chapter and on what page does Mr. Harvey die? In The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, in what chapter and on...

Mr.
Harvey (Susie Salmon's killer) dies on page 327 of the very last chapter called
"Bones" (the only chapter with a verbal instead of a numerical name); however, it is
not the fact that he dies that is important, it is HOW he dies that is important.  You see,
Susie Salmon had numerous conversations with her sister while she was alive about an icicle
being the absolute perfect murder weapon:  a weapon that leaves no evidence whatsoever.  This
is, in fact, how Mr. Harvey dies.  All of this happens after Mr. Harvey tries to "engage in
conversation" (obviously with ulterior motives) with a teen outside of a diner.  Here is
what it says in the text:

It was then that I noticed them,
hanging above their heads in a long and plentiful row.  Icicles.

The girl put
out her cigarette on the heel of her shoe and turned to go.

"Creep," she said, and walked fast.

A moment later, the
icicle fell.  The heavy coldness of it threw him off balance just enough for him to stumble and
pitch forward.  it would be weeks before the snow in the ravine melted enough to uncover him.
(327)

  Although there is absolutely no evidence in the
text that Susie Salmon, in the confines of her afterlife, is the one who actually used the
icicle to kill Mr. Harvey, it is pertinent that she is watching Mr. Harvey at that moment and
does notice the icicles.  It only takes one more moment for the icicle to fall and disturb
Harvey's balance.

How does Daisy Buchanan represent/symbolize the American Dream, in "The Great Gatsby"?

The idea of
the "American Dream" can be dated back to the book The Epic of
America by James Truslow Adams (1931). The author describes the American Dream
as 

 "that dream of a land in which life should be
better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or
achievement. [...]

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but
a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest
stature [...] regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

The character ofreunites every one of those traits. She is the
"better and richer"; she has also attained a "fullest stature", and to make
things even better for her, she was born under "fortuitous circumstances of birth AND
position". 

These traits make her quite a desirable woman, especially to
a man like Jay who visualizes her more as a piece to complete his American dream puzzle than
anything more. 

Like the idea of an American dream,...

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In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle, how is Meg impatient?

Meg reveals
her impatience early in the novel when she tackles a boy from school who calls Charles Wallace
"dumb" and gets a black eye as a result of her efforts. But it is on Camazotz that her
impatience shows itself most fully. She doesn't want to linger when they arrive. She wants to
get straight to her father and save him.

She is...

Which peter is Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self

In
, the classic novella by , an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge must
confront himself and make a decision about what kind of person he will be. A series of ghosts
visit Scrooge, showing him scenes of his life, and warning of what the potential outcome might
be if he continues on his current path of cold-heartedness and neglect of his fellow
man.

When Stave Two (Chapter Two) begins, Scrooge has left the confrontation
with his former partner, Jacob Marley, and has gone to bed still dressed. Despite his
exhaustion, he wakes in the middle of the night when a church bell begins to ring. Scrooge
remains in bed, counting the rings of the bell and waiting for them to stop. He believes he has
somehow outlasted the supernatural world but thats not the case:

He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow,
melancholy One. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were
drawn.

With the conclusion of the bell ringing, the first
of three spirits arrives to visit Scrooge, as Marley predicted. The ghost that appears is a
figure evoking a wise elder, an innocent child, and a paranormal entity beyond comprehension.
Scrooge confronts the visitor:

Are you the Spirit, sir,
whose coming was foretold to me? asked Scrooge.

I am!

The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it
were at a distance.

Who, and what are you? Scrooge demanded.

I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Long Past? inquired Scrooge:
observant of its dwarfish stature.

No. Your past.

The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first to guide Scrooge through
scenes of his life, in this case, taking him back to his childhood and his family, notably his
sister Fan. The Ghost shows Scrooge a scene of a boarding school and says:

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

Scrooge acknowledges the Ghosts statement and anticipates the next scene:

They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the
back of the house. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made
barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely boy was reading
near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as
he used to be.

At this vision of his young self, a child
who relies on fantasy to cope with loneliness, Scrooges defenses break down, thus preparing him
for the next visions and the lessons he must learn.

Which group suffered most from European colonization of the Western hemisphere: Native Americans or enslaved Africans?

Both
Native Americans and Africans suffered at the hands of European colonizers. When we consider the
question of who suffered more, it's important to understand perspectives.
 In my answer, I'll look at a variety of perspectives and compare the impact of European
colonization on both groups.

Social

The most immediate answer as to which group suffered more would be... well, both.  But
if we look at the Caste System (la Sociedad de las Castas), I would argue that enslaved Africans
were most negatively impacted by European colonies in the New World.  When colonies were
created, Europeans brought with them a social system that organized the inhabitants (both free
and enslaved) based on the percentage of European blood in them, or "whiteness."  At
the top of the caste system were the Europeans, both Spanish/Portuguese born as well as
Europeans born in the New World.  Underneath those Europeans were the mixed races, with
preference to mixes that had higher percentages of "whiteness."...

In the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, explain the speaker's view of the past, present, and future.

In this poem of an aged
adventurer desperate for one last jaunt into the unknown we can see thatis a man who does not
sit well with the present. Both the past and the future are described in similar terms: he looks
back to the "glory days" of his wanderings, when, free from responsibilities, he could
voyage and experience the harships and joys of "roaming with a hungry heart." In the
same way, he looks ahead to one last adventure before his death and the return of those carefree
days.

However, it is the way that Ulysses describes the present that is
interesting. Note how the poem begins:

It little profits
that an idle king,

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a
savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Ulysses describes his life as aimless and empty and purposeless. He
is savagely critical of his subjects, calling them a "savage race" and exaggerating
their ignorance. Later on he describes himself as a "grey spirit yearning in desire"
for another chance to have an adventure. We can clearly understand that Ulysses obviously feels
trapped and misses the days of his youth when he was free from such monotonous responsibilities,
yet we as readers are left with the question if this is an entirely responsible attitude to
take. Ulysses appears perfectly happy to leave his kingdom to Telemachus, without asking whether
he would like that role. Likewise, little mention is made of the faithful Penelope who waited
for her husband so long the first time, except to say that she is now "aged." We get
the impression that Ulysses is wishing to flee from his responsibilities rather than face up to
them, and that he is a character who is always living in past glory or future dreams of repeated
escapades. He is not a character that can face the present.

Can you point out and explain three types of conflicts that arise in the story? This question requires three different answers for each three...

has many different conflicts that you could choose from. One
conflict that I think too often gets ignored is the conflict between Rufus and Alice. This
conflict involves rape and the selling of her children. It escalates to the point where Alice
feels that her only escape is through suicide.

Another important conflict is
the internal conflict that Dana struggles with throughout much of the novel. She knows that
Rufus has to live long enough to have the children that will eventually give rise to herself,
but Dana is fully aware that Rufus is pure evil and deserves to die. It is a
struggle...

How did India become independent from the British?

Indian
independence from Great Britain was the culmination of many movements and events that took place
over the course of a ninety-year span beginning in 1857. Let's look at some of these movements
which would eventually lead to independence.

It can be argued that in the
Sepoy Rebellion, also known as the Indian Mutiny, of 1857 stirred the initial feelings that led
to the ultimate independence movement. The harsh British response to this rebellion planted the
seeds of future independence movements in the minds of many Indians.

In 1885
the Indian National Congress formed with the goal of increasing Indian autonomy and lessening
British control over many of India's internal affairs. This congress pushed for many reforms to
counter the poverty in their country which they considered to be the result of British rule.
During the early 20th century, this group organized boycotts of British goods and other
non-violent means of weakening British control and power in the country.

The
arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 also spurred on the independence movement. He quickly started
organizing peasants and laborers to protest against oppressive colonial laws. He was a great
uniting force for the various independence-minded factions in India.

The
post-WWI Khilafat Movement was a joint effort by Indian Muslims and Nationalists who were
angered that the British overthrew the Islamic Caliphate after the war. Over a five-year span,
they organized many anti-British protests around the country. This led to even greater
anti-British sentiment, particularly among Muslims who saw the British actions as
anti-Muslim.

In August 1942, Gandhi called for an orderly British withdrawal
from India. This spurred Indian freedom fighters to call for a total disobedience movement
against Great Britain in what became known as the Quit India Movement. This movement gathered
wide support across India. Since the British were preoccupied at the time with World War II,
they did not have the resources to overcome this.

After the war, the British
came to the realization that they had lost the ability to effectively govern India. Three
generations of independence movements had made it clear that Indians would no longer tolerate
colonial rule. Indeed, imperialism was falling away around the world. In 1947, the British
Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act, which effectively gave India its
independence.

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States Mentioned In I Have A Dream Speech

When Martin
Luther King, Jr., named so many separate states in his speech, he not only connected with his
audience, but he also subtly advocated for a federal solution to the problem of racial
discrimination. The setting of the speech was at a March on Washington that drew more than
200,000 people, the largest gathering to ever convene in Washington, D.C., at that time (1963).
People from all around the country had made an effort to attend the March, particularly civil
rights activists from Southern states. He specifically addresses those attendees when he says,
"Go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to
Louisiana" with hope in their hearts that change is coming. Not only that, but legislators
and sympathizers, both black and white, also attended, and by naming some northern states later,
such as New Hampshire and New York, and the western state of California, he acknowledged that
people from all around the country were listening to him and supporting the cause of racial
equality.

By naming such a wide variety of states in his speech, one could
say that Martin Luther King, Jr., was trying to "make a federal case" out of racial
discrimination. That saying means exaggerating something trivial, which his opponents in the
South no doubt believed he was doing. But to take the phrase literally, because some Southern
states had implemented Jim Crow laws with impunity, the solution seemed to be to get the federal
government involved to outlaw such discriminatory practices and improve the possibility of black
people rising to political positions in those states. Ultimately the Voting Rights Act of 1965
was a national solution to the problems posed by certain Southern states that had the most
egregious anti-black policies. Naming not only the offending states but also the friendlier
states was a way to make the problems black people faced a national issue, not just a state
issue.

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Explain the North American region.

North
America designates an area comprising three modern countries, Canada, Mexico, and the United
States. It has the Arctic Ocean as its northern border and is bounded on the west by the Pacific
Ocean and the east by the Atlantic Ocean. It is connected by land to the south to Central
America. Humans first arrived in the region from Asia via the Bering land bridge some 40,000 to
17,000 years ago, crossing from what is now Russia to what is now Alaska. They gradually spread
south across the continent.

There were several distinctive indigenous
civilizations including the Mayan and Aztec in Mexico and many tribes in North America including
the ancestral Sonoran peoples before the arrival of the Europeans in the colonial
period.

Although many different Europeans explored the Americas, the most
important groups to arrive in Mexico and the Southwestern United States were the Spanish and the
dominant colonists in the United States and Canada the French (Quebec and Louisiana) and
English. The English-speaking colonists of the what became the United States rebelled against
English rule and founded an independent republic which gradually expanded westward, while
Anglophone and Francophone Canadians formed a separate country with two national languages,
French and English. Mexico developed as a Spanish-speaking country. In the process of
colonization, European settlers oppressed indigenous peoples leading to inequalities that still
exist today.

The United States and Canada are prosperous high-income
countries and Mexico is ranked by the World Bank as an upper middle-income
nation.

What are some examples of the mundane portions of the story, and in what ways is Gregor's fantastical metamorphosis symbolic?

As far as some of the
more mundane portions of the story, not much seems very ordinary or dull. Since every
conversation or action seems to occur as a result of Gregor turning into a giant bug, even
conversations that might normally seem dull or commonplace suddenly take on new meaning.
Gregor's observations concerning the "quiet life" his hard work had made for his
family are relatively mundane, as are the descriptions of the family's routines, at least prior
to the boarders arriving. The family's conversations regarding money might be considered
mundane: a great many families worry about finances. Descriptions of Grete's cleaning Gregor's
room and even bringing him food are somewhat mundane as well: cleaning and bringing food for a
sick relative are...

In A Wrinkle in Time, what does the dark thing represent?

The Dark
Thing or Black Thing in
represents evil of all types, and it takes over

planets. Planets which have been fully enveloped by the Dark Thing are called dark
planets, and
the children see the planet Uriel, which is dark, and then
Earth, which is partly dark. The
darkness over Earth is being fought by good
people, including Jesus, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci,
and Shakespeare. When the
children and the Mrs. Ws are looking at Earth with the Medium, Calvin
asks
what the Dark Thing is: We know that its evil, but what is it?

Mrs....

In Romeo and Juliet, how is Romeo impulsive? Give examples.

is
endlessly the impulsive teenager, caught up in the intense whirlwind of whatever his emotions at
the moment happen to be. He transfers his love from Rosaline toin a flash and scales a high
orchard wall to seek out Juliet the same night he meets herdespite the risk of being killed if
her male relatives find him there. Romeo agrees to marry her almost immediately, imprudently
murdersout of passion, and quickly commits suicide when he thinks Juliet is dead rather than
waiting a moment or seeking out more information. Being young, Romeo habitually acts first and
thinks later. 

tries to counsel Romeo to slow down and not allow his passion
to burn at such a high intensity, telling him such a love will never last, but his words fall on
deaf ears. Though the play locates thein the way innocent young people become the victims of a
senseless feud, Romeo's headlong impetuosity arguably helps to propel the couple towards a bad
end. 

Why does Charles Wallace get left behind?

Charles
Wallace is a main character in 's . He, his sister Meg, and their friend
Calvin travel to Camazotz with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. The children are left to
travel to Central Intelligence without their guides. They do not make it very far before a
teacher finds their constant questions inappropriate and sends them to be reprocessed.

During reprocessing, the children encounter a strange man who speaks oddly and makes
them uncomfortable. He appears to be a mouthpiece, and the children speculate he may be
hypnotized, like the other adults they have come across in Camazotz. The man hypnotizes Charles
Wallace, and he leads the children to Mr. Murry. Meg and Calvin rescue Mr. Murry, but Mr. Murry
is not able to help Charles Wallace escape the hypnosis.

Charles Wallace
leads the group to IT, a giant, pulsating human brain that is controlling all of the hypnotized
people in Camazotz. IT almost begins to control Meg and Calvin, but Calvin encourages Mr. Murry
to "tesser." They escape Camazotz. They are forced to leave Charles Wallace behind,
though, because he is so taken by IT that they cannot connect with him enough to take him along
on the "tesser."

Where did Alice Sebold get the inspiration to write the book The Lovely Bones?

became
inspired to writefrom two different
instances. The first instance, is her own horrible
experience having been a
victim of a brutal rape during her college years. She already had
written a
novel about it in a memoir titled Lucky. However, she
used
elements of that situation to further develop the extremely sensible
topics of the rape, and the
murder of a young, innocent girl in The Lovely
Bones.

The second instance, as
Sebold narrates in the
introduction to The Lovely Bones, is the incidence of teenage girls
during
the 1970's which disappeared and were never found. This same observation is voiced by
the
character of Susie Salmon in the first chapter of the novel. It is
further evidence that
demonstrates Sebold's need to speak on behalf of these
young women, who are victims of a society
that had not yet become prepared to
deal with the reality of sociopathic behavior in "bread
and butter"
America.

In newspaper photos of missing

girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This
was
before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or
in the daily mail. It
was still back when people believed things like that
didn't happen.

Therefore, the crime
committed against her, as well as the crimes
committed against other young
and innocent women, prompted Alice Sebold to use her exquisite
talent as a
writer to voice their pains, their anger, and the sense of injustice that exists
in
those situations. Nobody, but the victim herself, could be able to
explain, in detail the
effects of crime on innocent
people.

Why did the Progressive Movement develop?

The
Progressive Movement developed to deal with problems existing in our country. Writers began to
publicize some of the abuses or injustices in our society. When people learned that average
citizens were being harmed, they wanted actions to be taken to correct these problems.

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle , people demanded that
conditions in the meat industry be improved. When people learned that foods were falsely being
labeled and sold for higher...

In The Lovely Bones, what is George Harvey thinking and why might he pursue those actions?

In s
novel , the character
George Harvey is thein the story. He is a 36-year-old
sexual predator, a
serial killer, and a rapist. He has raped and murdered Susie Salmon not far

from her home. It is difficult to say for certain what George would be thinking because
the
psychology...

What is the significance of Cunegonde's loss of beauty in Candide?

Cunegonde's
loss of beauty is yet another proof
that Pangloss's theory (from Leibniz)that "all is for
the best in the best of
all possible worlds"is absurd.

Cunegonde loses
her
youthful beauty as a result of the trials and tortures she undergoes in what is
supposedly a
wonderful world and the best place ever. She is gang-raped,
disembowelled, orphaned, left for
dead, made a prostitute, enslaved, and
displaced. These events leave her disfigured and
exhausted; what is done to
her is horribleand so exaggeratedly over-the-top that we laugh as
well as cry
at her fate, asintended.

It is also hardly what a young
man
dreams of whenfinds his beloved in an ugly and embittered state. Candide
sticks with Cunegonde
despite her looks and comes to realize that it is
better to withdraw from the world
and...

Help with an explicaton of "Five Ways to Kill a Man" by Edwin Brock? line by line explanation

I've
enclosed the poem here for you to look at
as I go through the different elements of it. If you
take a step back from it
and look at it as a whole, you'll note that in the beginning of the
poem,
with the Christ reference, the killing was very personal. There are people there at
the
site and they are actually touching Jesus. As you move down, the killing
gets increasingly
impersonal, to the point at the end where one is able to
kill a lot more people with no hands
on. The killer needn't look the person
in the eye as he is doing it. The impersonal nature of it
allows someone to
kill a lot more easily. At the end, however, there is an ironic twist, in

which the poet says the easiest way to kill someone is to leave him alone. In that
manner, I
think he's saying that we are meddlesome by nature and we need to
do this to survive
ourselves.

There's a link at the bottom
that will help you get started with
your line by line explication of the
poem. Hopefully, this description will give you a head
start.

There are many cumbersome ways to kill a

man.
You can make him carry a plank of wood
to the top of a hill
and nail him
to it.
To do this properly you require a crowd of
people
wearing sandals, a
cock that crows, a cloak
to
dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one
man to
hammer the nails
home.

Or you can take a length of steel,
shaped
and
chased in a traditional way,
and attempt to pierce the metal
cage he
wears.
But for this you need white horses, />English trees, men with bows and
arrows,
at least two flags,
a prince, and a
castle to hold your banquet
in.

Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind
allows, blow
gas
at him. But then you need
a mile of mud sliced through with
ditches,
not to
mention black boots, bomb craters,
more
mud, a plague of rats, a dozen
songs
and some round hats made of
steel.

In an age of aeroplanes,
you may fly />miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one
small
switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you,
two
systems of
government, a nation's scientists, />several factories, a psychopath and
land
that no-one needs
for several years.

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways

to kill a man.
Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see
that
he is living
somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and
leave him there.

How does colonization change Nwoye in Things Fall Apart?

changes radically as a result of colonization, namely because he converts to Christianity. He is
certainly not the only villager to whom the preaching of the missionaries appeals, but he is the
most important because he is the son of the.

Okonkwo is a village leader who
values masculinity above all else. He fully buys into the idea that his prowess in wrestling and
growing yams earns him a position of authority in his tribe. He avoids showing emotion even in
situations that warrant such a reaction. Okonkwo's personality was shaped in large part by his
father, who was a poor musician. Okonkwo wants to be as unlike his father as possible, so he
goes to the extreme and only pursues activities and attitudes that can be construed as
hypermasculine. His son Nwoye, on the...

What are three quotes that show how Juliet is impulsive in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Given the
fact thatis from an opposing and feuding house, Montague, andis a Capulet,
her initial draw to him flies in the face of her self-identity and self-interest and has no
rhyme or reason other than impulse. Indeed, the love is so strong that Juliet cannot help but
act on it in defiance of ramifications, beliefs, and values. This is clear when Juliet, having
only just seen Romeo and learned of his background, declares:

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown and known to
late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy!
(I, v, 136-139)

Such is the power of this impulseit makes
her love whom she should rationally hate and seek whom she should practically avoid.

Being drawn to Romeo in defiance of reason in particular serves to highlight the
impetuosity at the crux of her attraction. This conflict between impulse and reason is clearly
played out in the following quote of Juliet:

I have no joy
of this contract tonight:
It is too...

How did the Reconstruction period affect the lives of southern African Americans, the newly freed?

Reconstruction
had mixed effects on southern African Americans. Initially, Reconstruction gave African
Americans the right to vote. However, the right to vote was later curtailed through the Black
Codes, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests. 

African
Americans were granted the right to an education. Landowners apportioned some land to African
Americans to provide them with an opportunity to generate food and incomes. However, the
arrangement ensured that African Americans remained in perpetual poverty. Between paying the
landowners and their creditors, African Americans were left with meager incomes. The situation
forced some of them to move to cities seeking employment. However, the Black Codes prevented
African Americans from holding certain jobs. 

African Americans were not
allowed to mix with whites due to segregation laws and all services and amenities extended to
them were below par.

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Why does Orwell use a farm specifically as an allegory in Animal Farm?

wanted
to write a story in which there were many different kinds of animals representing many different
kinds of people. He really didn't have much of a choice for his setting because a farm was about
the only place (except for a zoo or possibly a jungle) in which he could have a whole lot of
different animals living together. A farm was also a place where many of the animals worked in
one way or another, and his story was intended to have animals substituting for workers. It
would have been possible to have a story set in a zoo, with all the animals revolting and
breaking out of their cages; but most of these were wild animals and the author would have a
hard time showing them suddenly beoming cooperative and industrious. The pigs would have gotten
eaten up rather quickly. On a farm he wouldn't have to show lions, tigers, leopards, bears, and
snakes. Same problem with a jungle. There at least the animals are relatively free already and
wouldn't have to revolt. There was really no choice for Orwell but to set his story on a
farm.

What are some criticisms Jane Austen makes through irony and characterisation in Emma?

critcizes
wealthy snobbery. In , she uses the
character of Elizabeth Bennet to speak boldy to the
Lady Catherine. When Lady
Catherine begins questioning Elizabeth on the training she and her
sisters
may have had, Elizabeth is bold and states that she could not be expected to give
out
such information.

All of Lady Catherine's questions
are meddlesome. It is
none of her business about Elizabeth's upbringing. And
she...

Why does the headless horsemen chase Ichabod Crane in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ?

The headless
horseman appears as a specter who haunts the scene where Major Andr© was killed and he chases
Ichabod Crane.

In "," the headless horseman confronts Ichabod Crane
on his way home from the Van Tassel's party by the side of a bridge. He rides at the same pace
as Crane as though he desires a race with him, a race similar to what Brom Bones has claimed to
have had with this ghost. When the light sets the horseman into relief against the sky, a
horrified Ichabod observes that this ghost is headless. As the frightened Ichabod realizes that
the head is carried by the rider on the pommel of his saddle, Crane "rained a shower of
kicks and blows upon old Gunpowder" and fearfully hurries toward home, but the specter's
dark horse keeps pace with him.

When the two horses reach the road turning
off to Sleepy Hollow, Gunpowder, who seems "possessed with a demon," plunges headlong
down a hill to the left. The road that the old horse goes on leads to the famous bridge of the
ghost story. Somehow, though, the girth of the saddle loosens, and Ichabod has to grab the
horse's mane as the saddle falls off. An opening in the trees gives Ichabod hope as he perceives
that the church bridge is near. "If I can but reach the bridge, I am safe," thinks
Ichabod. Old Gunpowder is given a hard kick in the ribs, and he jumps upon the resounding planks
of the bridge. When Crane turns to look behind him, he sees the goblin standing in the stirrups
of his saddle as he hurls his head at the frightened schoolmaster. This "horrible
missile" hits Crane, sending him headlong into the dirt as Gunpowder and the black steed
speed past him.

The next day the old horse is discovered without his saddle,
quietly grazing at his master's gate. His saddle is gone, and the reins are under his feet. The
children have come to school, but there is no schoolmaster to be found. When a search is
conducted, only the hat of Ichabod Crane is found by the stream near the bridge; close beside
this hat is a smashed pumpkin. Later on after the people of the town research the stories of the
Galloping Hessian, they conclude that Ichabod has been carried off by this villainous
specter.