Monday, July 5, 2010

why was the industrial city such a shock to people coming from agricultural areas

Jurgis and
his group of fellow Lithuanian
immigrants have hardly been outside of the Imperial Forest of
Lithuania and
have seldom even seen a town when they travel to America. They have no context
for
understanding big cities when they arrive in New York and later Chicago.
They have never
experienced anything like them.

At first
they are cheated by officials or
people who seem to be officials in New York.
In Chicago, as they sent to live near the
stockyards, the landscape is
completely different from what they are used to.


The
setting is barren and bleak, and when the train drops them at the stockyards,
they
become aware of the billows of smoke coming from six huge factory
chimneys towering in the sky.
Great streams of thick, black oily smoke rise
from the chimneys. There is an odd, rancid smell
in the air from the
stockyards. And they hear the strange sound of the distant lowing of cattle

and grunting of swine, a constant background noise from the stockyards. Finally, when
they
happily meet up with Lithuanians again, they are taken to a boarding
house that is worse than
anything they have seen in Lithuania. It is filthy
and crowded with people who rent a little bit
of floorspace, bringing their
own mattress and bedding, and sleeping with up to 14 people in a
room. Their
new terrain in Packingtown is dark, bleak, and very crowded.


The
immigrants are disoriented by all the differences, and lacking
language skills or a knowledge of
the law, easily cheated.


Sunday, July 4, 2010

By the end of the story, is there any source of hope? What message (if any) does Voltaire leave the reader with?

The answer
to this is unclear, because 's
is such a pessimistic work overall. It is
very
difficult to find much optimism within it, and the main character, who seems at times to
be
the incarnation of optimism and hope itself, is torn down until he loses
his own positive
attitude. However, the end of the book gives something of a
challenge, which offers hope in the
context of the work.


Optimism is clearly the enemy in Voltaire's eyes. He
embraces cynicism and
encourages his main character to eventually accept that the world is not

necessarily a happy and optimistic place. Most prominently, he seems to be decrying the
majority
of European civilization and the...

What does Banquo mean when he says "Were such things here as we do speak about? 85 Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner"?

Shortly
after the Three Witches giveandtheir seemingly favorable prophecies, they vanish into thin air
and Banquo questions the authenticity of their predictions and the reality of the odd situation.
Banquo asks ,

"Were such things here as we do speak
about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner" (Shakespeare,
1.3.83-85).

Banquo is essentially asking whether or not
the information andwere both real or were they simply hallucinating. The "insane root"
that Banquo refers to is more than likely hemlock or henbane, which are deadly herbs that cause
madness. Banquo is asking Macbeth if they accidentally ingested some poison that takes
"reason prisoner." He is saying that the poison would make them lose their minds to
the point that they can no longer think rationally, which is a reasonable question to ask after
witnessing the Three Witches vanish into thin air.

How does the Father-son relationship throughout three generations shape the personalities of Okonkwo and Nwoye in Things Fall Apart?

There is an Englishto the effect that trying to avoid making ones fathers mistakes
leads, all too often, to making ones grandfathers mistakes.despised his father, , who is already
dead at the beginning of the book, and it has become one of the major preoccupations of his life
to be as different from his father as possible. Unoka was a lazy, cowardly man: poor and
unsuccessful, constantly in debt, and mainly interested in drinking and playing the flute. No
one feared or respected him. He had one wife, for whom he could not provide, and took no
title.

Okonkwo is the complete opposite of his father in every one of these
respects. He is wealthy, feared, and respected, a brave warrior and a wrestler. He has multiple
wives and barns full of yams, and he even hates music because he associates it with his father.
He is a harsh disciplinarian who beats and berates his son,, for his laziness. Nwoye is already
becoming a sad-faced youth, resembling his...

What is one example of cultural continuity between Byzantine empire and the original Roman empire?

The legal
system of the Byzantine empire was continuous with that of the earlier Roman empire. The
Justinian Code was a compilation of the opinion of earlier Latin jurists, beginning with the
earliest known records of Roman law. Opinions of famous Roman jurists such as Ulpian and Paul,
and rescripts issued by the office of the ab espistulis from the beginning of the Roman  Empire,
as well as opinions mentioning earlier praetorian edicts were incorporated in the later legal
codes. Law, as a system based on precedent, is therefore a major source of
continuity.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Provide 3 examples Jem showing maturity in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.


demonstrates maturity inwhen a lynch mob surroundsoutside of the Maycomb jailhouse. Afterruns
into the middle of the group of men, Atticus instructs Jem to take her and Dill home. However,
Jem recognizes the gravity of the situation and refuses to leave his father's side. Jem's
disobedience demonstrates his loyalty and courage. Jem is determined to remain by his father's
side during the threatening situation, which is an extremely mature, courageous decision.
Fortunately, Walter Cunningham tells the lynch mob to disband and nobody is harmed.


Jem also demonstrates maturity inby preventing Scout from arguing with Aunt Alexandra
and getting into trouble. Scout becomes furious when Aunt Alexandra calls Walter Cunningham Jr.
trash and is about to retialiate when Jem intervenes. Scout mentions,


I...

Describe the role which advertising plays in the various market structures.

In a
competitive market, advertising is one of
the many tools firms use to compete with one another.
Firms compete on many
different fronts, including price, features, and brand loyalty.
Advertising
becomes a way to convince buyers to buy one product rather than another. It
attempts
to reach out to consumers and offer them persuasive information or
appeals. Even when products
are essentially identical, brands may compete by
offering consumers other reasons to buy their
products such as environmental
or ethical concerns. A company that makes public its commitment
to reducing
its carbon...


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How is Joe McCarthy related to the play The Crucible?

When we read its important to know about Senator Joseph McCarthy. Even though he is not a character in the play, his role in histor...