In "Why We Diet" by Abigail Saguy and "My Soul To Keep, My Weight to Lose" by Alice Randall, in what ways do Abigail Saguy and Alice Randall agree and...

In her article
"Why We Diet," Abigail Saguy tells us that a group of women were interviewed and asked
whether they would take a pill to reduce their weight even if such pill also reduces their life
expectancy by 5 years. Over 90 percent of these women responded "yes," which was a
testament to the way society perceives obesity. Essentially, these people were saying that they
would rather be dead than fat.

In the article by Alice Randall, "My Soul
to Keep, My Weight to Lose," she also talks about the shame of being overweight. While she
does not directly ask women how they feel, she talks about the way she feels herself: ashamed,
insecure, unworthy, and ugly. She feels that her weight gain is a remnant of her slavery past.
Imagine how badly she feels to bring up slavery and connect it to weight gain, when, in reality,
weight gain is just an innately human bodily response to an excess of calories.

The fact that both articles say that obesity is seen as a "bad" thing by
society is where both articles agree.

The part in which the articles disagree
is that Randall talks about weight gain with a racialand under the parameters of race. She also
keeps it as a negative thing.

I'd always thought that
weight was a White girl problem, or a "less serious-woman-than me problem."

Saguy, who has written about obesity in other articles, approaches
the topic from a more universal perspective. She says that people should stop seeing obesity or
weight gain as a bad thing. She even asks society to stand up against the issues with obesity,
and she also invites us all to defend those who are overweight and obese.

But if you are trying to change your body to shield against
discrimination and stigma, consider making a different kind of New Years resolution: to stand up
to intolerance and bigotry in all its various forms, whether racism, sexism or
fatphobia.

In conclusion, Randall sees obesity as a
problem that she needs to fix because it may be linked to her racial and social past. She sees
it as a negative aspect of who she is. Saguy, on the other hand, wants to break the stigma with
obesity and wants people to see it from another perspective that is not
negative.

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What makes Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski different from each other in A Streetcar Named Desire?

There are
a number of major differences between between Blanche and Stanley that generate a good deal of
animosity. Blanche's arrival disrupts the rhythm of Stanley's home life. He's used to being
number one, master in his own house. But now that Blanche has arrived, he's no longer the center
of Stella's attention, and he's insanely jealous of Blanche for taking away that attention from
him.

Blanche is a tad too refined for the hulking, brutish Stanley. Although
she's not quite the paragon of Southern refinement and respectability she'd have us believe, her
superior demeanor and ladylike mannerisms drive Stanley up the wall. Stanley's an uncomplicated
man; he certainly hasn't much in the brains department. But what he lacks in formal education,
he makes up for with street smarts, and this allows him to see right through Blanche's delicate
facade.

The two characters are like chalk and cheese. There was never the
remotest chance that they'd get along. Though a thoroughly disreputable character, Blanche still
clings to her rarefied social background as the one thing in life that gives her pride and a
sense of who she is. She looks down on Stanley, contemptuously describing him with ancommonly
used against Polish-Americans. She's better-educated and more book-smart, in stark contrast to
the unlettered Stanley, and this further adds to her sense of superiority. Stanley hates being
patronized, so he doesn't take Blanche's airs and graces too well. With him, what you see is
what you get, and he doesn't have time for anyone who isn't the same. Blanche isn't like that at
all; to Stanley, she comes across as artificial, affected, and phony. This evaluation of
Blanche's character inspires Stanley to find out the truth about her past and destroy her
credibility in the eyes of Stella.

I need a 5-paragraph essay on the following questions: was Lady Macbeth responsible for King Duncan's death? Who was more evil: Lady Macbeth or...

A
five-paragraph essay has an introductory paragraph that states your thesis (whether or not your
think Lady Macbeth is responsible for Duncan's death), then three body paragraphs, then a
conclusion.

I would argue that Lady Macbeth is not responsible for Duncan's
death. I would use the second paragraph as my "admittedly" paragraph and, in it, list
reasons why people might think she is responsible. For instance, she goes to great lengths to
goad Macbeth into killing Duncan by implying she is more fearless and masculine than he
is.

Then I would offer evidence for why Lady Macbeth is not primarily
responsible for Duncan's death. I would argue that Macbeth himself is. He did not have to allow
his wife to push him into the murder. He could have said no. But he wanted this: he wanted to be
king. He was the one who actually performed the murder, not his wife. She was hardly standing
over him with a dagger to his heart, forcing him to do this.

I would argue,
too, that Macbeth is more evil than his wife. After all, he does the deed of killing his
monarchand then goes on a killing rampage that takes the lives of his close friend Banquo and
Macduff's young children. Lady Macbeth does nothing like this. Furthermore, Lady Macbeth, for
all her brave words, cracks and goes mad, ultimately committing suicide because she can't bear
the guilt she feels at having pushed her husband to murder the king. Macbeth, in contrast, grows
harder and harder as evil takes him over.

In Animal Farm, what does the struggle for power between Snowball and Napoleon represent historically?

From a historical
perspective, the power struggle betweenandrepresents the relationship between Leon
Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Just as Snowball and Napoleon overthrew Mr Jones,
Trotsky and Stalin both took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917 in which they overthrew Tsar
Nicholas II. In the years following the rebellion, however, the differences between the two men
started to emerge.

Just like Snowball, Trotsky was an idealist who believed
that Communism (represented here by the windmill) could really improve the quality of life for
everyone. Stalin, represented by Napoleon, was less concerned with such ideals and was instead
focused on the selfish pursuit of power. The tension between the two men came to a head in 1928
when Stalin banished Trotsky from the USSR and this event is portrayed byin Chapter Five, when
Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm. In fact, Napoleon's pack of guard dogs represent the KGB,
Stalin's secret police.

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What is the role of destiny in Oedipus Rex?

Destiny
plays a very strong role in . The play's central theme is that people can't
escape their destinies.

tries to evade his tragic destiny, which he learns
is to kill his father and marry his mother. When he discovers this is what he is fated to do, he
leaves his home in Corinth, not knowing that the parents who have raised him are not his real
parents. On the road to Thebes, he unknowingly kills his real father. When he arrives in Thebes,
he unknowingly marries his biological mother, .

Oedipus has the pride () to
believe he has beaten the destiny the gods assigned to him, as does Jocasta, who knows she was
fated to marry her son. When Oedipus learns from the oracle that an unpunished sin is causing
the plague in Thebes, it never occurs to him that he could be the cause.

The
message the play delivers is that humans can't hope to defy what the gods have
decreed.

What where some virtues of personal traits and characteristics of Andrew Jackson that affected what he did as President?

Andrew
Jacksons virtues and personal traits affected some of his actions while he was president. Andrew
Jackson grew up in poverty and had very little schooling. By the time he was fourteen, he had
lost both his parents and both his brothers; he was left to support himself. He read law and
eventually became an attorney. He also served in the military and led the United States in a
great victory over the British in the War of 1812, during which he also led military campaigns
against some Native American tribes.

Andrew Jacksons upbringing led him to be
an advocate for the common man and to develop a strong personality with strong opinions on
issues. Andrew Jackson believed that the common man had been shut out of playing an active role
in the government. When he became president, he worked for changes to give the common person
more of a role in government. Property rights were beginning to be phased out as a requirement
for voting, and he gave many government jobs to those individuals who supported his bid to
become president, including many common people. Additionally, nominating conventions were
replacing party caucuses. He also had a strong dislike of the Native Americans and wanted them
removed to areas that were west of the Mississippi River.

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what are the handicaps the ballerinas on tv must wear

In
Vonnegut's celebrated short story "," the United States Constitution has been amended
to ensure that each citizen is completely equal in every facet of life. In the year 2081, agents
of the United States Handicapper General have successfully developed a uniform society by
requiring any talented, intelligent, or physically attractive individual to wear handicaps. The
function of the handicaps is to limit the abilities of exceptional, talented members of society.
For example, George Bergeron has above normal intelligence and is forced to wear a tiny mental
handicap radio in his ear, which emits a loud noise every twenty seconds that interrupts his
thoughts and prevents him from thinking deeply about any subject.

In the
story, George and Hazel are watching ballerinas on television and cannot help but notice their
oppressive handicaps. The ballerinas are forced to wear sashweights, bags of birdshot, and masks
that cover their faces. Since the ballerinas are physically gifted and athletic, the heavy
sashweights and bags of birdshot limit their physical mobility and prevent them from displaying
their athleticism. Similarly, the ugly masks hide their beautiful features and make them equal
to the unattractive, mundane population. Once Harrison Bergeron takes over the television
studio, he proceeds to strip the cumbersome, ugly handicaps off the ballerinas as they
gracefully float into the air.

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