Why do you think Beatty let the first alarm ride?"

The first
alarm occurs when Mildred's friends notify Beatty that Montag has been reading and reciting
poetry. We learn of this in Part 3 when he says he let this first alarm ride. It is abundantly
clear that Beatty has extensive knowledge of literature and philosophy. He is able to quote
classic works without hesitation and he uses these quotes to counter any insights Montag has
learned from his readings. In the final scene at the firehouse, while Beatty is doing just this,
Faber speaks into Montag's ear saying he is just trying to confuse Montag. Beatty is using
quotes out of context in order to challenge the notion that literature is valuable. At the end
of Part 2, Beatty hypocritically says "The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose."
In fact, this is what Beatty is doing. A few paragraphs prior to this line, Beatty says
this: 

Read a few lines and off you go over a cliff. Bang,
you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy
authority. I know, I've been through it all. 

Beatty lets
the first alarm go because he was once interested in literature as well. He recognizes that
people are just curious. As long as they get that curiosity out of their systems and return to
the world of banned literature, he will let it slide. Likewise, he lets the first alarm slide,
thinking Montag will come to his senses and get rid of the books. 

Who defeated Hitler? Explain whether it was the Russians or the US who defeated Hitler.

The defeat
of Hitler and the Nazis was due to several simultaneous factors, including the Allied powers,
various resistance movements, and Hitler's own strategic mistakes. Thus to ask for an either/or
answer is to assume something simpler than was actually the case.

The Allied
powers fighting against Hitler included the United States, Britain, Canada, China, and the
Soviet Union (of which Russia was part). The US and Britain operated on the "western
front", conducting an air war against Germany and invading and liberating much of Europe.
Heroic resistance fighters in several European countries aided the Allies.

The Soviet Union was the largest country on the Eastern Front and was also instrumental
in Hitler's defeat. Sometimes it is argued that the Russian winter itself was a major factor in
Hilter's defeat, as the German soldiers were inadequately equipped for the harsh conditions, and
many succumbed to frostbite and hypothermia and even those who did not die directly from the
cold were not effective in fighting in extreme winter conditions.

Many
military historians argue that Hitler's own bad judgment towards the end of the war contributed
to his defeat, especially attacking Russia while Britain remained undefeated, leading him to
fighting on two fronts, a position that was unsustainable.

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What is the idea of a right according to the Bill of Rights and the English Bill of Rights? Who has these rights?

The
English Bill of Rights is deliberately restrictive in terms of the scope of the rights it
provides and to whom those rights belong. The primary purpose of the Bill was to set out once
and for all the precise nature of the constitutional relationship between the monarch and the
propertied political elite that dominated Parliament. That being the case, the document is
mainly addressed to a relatively small class of people, those of sufficient wealth and social
prominence to be able to participate in the affairs of the nation.

Of course,
certain of the Bill's provisions had widespread applicability. The right for Protestants to bear
arms, for example, didn't simply apply to the social elite. Nevertheless, the Bill as a whole
was designed to protect the interests of the wealthy, property-owning classes against the
potential tyranny of an absolute monarch.

The Bill of Rights emerged out of
the Glorious Revolution, when the political elite rose up and deposed the Catholic King James
II. This had taken place for a number of reasons, but mainly because a large section of English
society felt that James was turning himself into an absolute monarch, hell-bent on trampling all
over ancient liberties.

Once James had been deposed, and William of Orange
established on the throne, it was therefore imperative to restrict the monarch's powers by
enshrining the ancient liberties of Englishmen in a formal document. In relation to the Bill of
Rights, therefore, a right can be defined as a claim against the powers of the
monarch.

How would you describe the role of the gods in Gilgamesh?

The gods in are very similar to the temporal kings and heroes who
serve them: powerful but not omnipotent or infallible and not always particularly wise.
Gilgamesh himself is two-thirds god and the gods interact with mortals on what are sometimes
surprisingly equal terms. Gilgamesh is able to reject Ishtar with impunity. Even her father Anu
will not help her by sending the Bull of Heaven against Gilgamesh until she threatens to raise
the dead. When the Bull of Heaven does attack Gilgamesh, he and Enkidu are able to defeat it,
and Enkidu shows the greatest disrespect to Ishtar by hurling the dead bull's body parts at
her.

The gods decide that Enkidu is marked for death. However, his arrogant
treatment of Ishtar does not seem to weigh with them in making their decision. He must die
because of his part in killing Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven. Gilgamesh, of course, also took
part in both these battles, but the gods are arbitrary. Shamash, the sun god, who
actually...

In Of Mice and Men, who does George say are the loneliest people in the world?

loves
to listen totalk because George is able to express what Lennie feels but doesn't have the
ability to put into words. In Chapter One, Lennie asks George to tell him the same little bit of
philosophy he has told so many times before that it has become like a poem or a
litany.

Steinbeck uses dialogue asthroughout this work. As in a play, what
the characters say to each other is intended to convey information to the reader. It was
Steinbeck's intention to convert the book into a stage play, and his heavy reliance on dialogue
made the adaptation easy. The play was produced in New York in 1937, the same year the book was
published. When George tells Lennie what he asks him to repeat, Steinbeck is using the dialogue
to convey to the reader, and to the future theater audience, the main message of his
story.

George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words
rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. "Guys like us, that work on
ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.
They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and
the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail off on some other ranch. They ain't got
nothing to look ahead to."

Then in the final
chapter, just before he kills Lennie, George repeats some of the words that his friend loves to
hear.

George said, "Guys like us got no family. They
make a little stake an' then they blow it in. They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a
hoot in hell about 'em--"

The story begins and ends
in the same place, partly to suggest that guys like George and Lennie are going nowhere. When
George performs his mercy killing, it is as if he is saving him from a life that offers nothing
but toil and pain. George will be lonelier than ever now without his best friend. Like the other
guys who work on ranches, George "ain't got nothin' to look ahead
to."

How is comedy achieved in a variety of ways in "Pygmalion"?

There are a
few ways that come to mind:

1) Humor is found in the speaking patterns of
Higgins in contrast to the low speakers of different parts of London--in other words, accents
and word choice

2) Eliza's reaction to a hot bath and removing her clothing
for a bath is...

Assess the role & status of women in Christian thought & practise.

To a
large extent the answer to this question depends on which branch of Christianity one is talking
about, though it is safe to say that women's roles are contested in virtually all of them. Part
of this has to do with the ambiguous nature of women in both the Old and the New Testament, an
ambiguity that has been reflected by a number of later Christian thinkers. In some parts of the
Bible, women are portrayed as subjects rather than actors, and indeed their roles in the Old
Testament in particular are circumscribed. And the role of Eve, created for Adam as his
companion, and as the one who is tempted, is not to be downplayed. On the other hand, there are
a number of strong female characters in the Bible, including Ruth, Esther, and of course
Deborah, who is also a political leader. And it is also the case that Jesus, particularly in the
Book of Luke, converses with and treats women in many ways as equals. 

The
pre-Reformation...

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