What is the impact readers receive after reading the satire in Gulliver's Travels? Specifically, the voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

Gulliver encounters
the Houyhnhms in his final voyage in a world where there are the Houyhnhms and the Yahoos. It is
clear that the former group are greatly civilised compared to the Yahoos, who are shown to be
savage and vicious. The Houyhnhms have established a world that greatly appeals to Gulliver as
they live a life where reason is ther guiding compass rather than emotion. The advantages of
such an approach are shown to be very...

Are Goodman Brown's experiences reality or a dream?

I'm not sure
there is a definite answer to this question, and it depends on how you look at it. There are
definitely dream-like qualities throughout the story. There is one point during the story that
the reader could assume that Goodman Brown has fallen asleep. It is after he decides not to go
further with the "devil" and sits on a stump

applauding himself greatly, and thinking with how clear a conscience he should meet the minister
in his...

What do the eighteen hundred brothers represent in A Christmas Carol?

When Scrooge tells the
Ghost of Christmas Present that he has never met anyone like the ghost before, the spirit is
somewhat incredulous.  The spirit is quite large, and he has a "genial face," a
generous nature, and a "joyful air"; he wears an evergreen wreath atop his long, curly
hair, a long green robed trimmed with white, and an "antique scabbard" without a sword
and only a rusty sheath.  His symbolism looms large, and it helps us to understand the
implications of Scrooge's alienation from the spirit's "eighteen hundred"
brothers. 

The spirit is cheerful and goodqualities which are foreign to
Scrooge.  Further, he wears an evergreen wreath; evergreen is associated with Jesus Christ
because he represents eternal life (evergreens stay green all year and do not lose their leaves
and seem to die in winter).  Scrooge does not seem to be a spiritual man. At least, he certainly
does not act in a Christian manner to his fellows.  The ghost's lack of a weapon, his bare
chest, and even his want of shoes seems to show that he is gentle and that he has no need of
protection from the world because he would not engage in any kind of aggression. He is peaceful,
loving, and generous. 

Scrooge is none of these things.  Therefore, when
Scrooge declares that he has not known any of the spirit's brothers (one for each Christmas
since the birth of Christ), it is not only a relationship with the spirits that he denies, but a
complete understanding of what it means to be a good person. He possesses zero of the qualities
represented by the spirit himself.

Explain how the theme of loneliness affects Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men.

In this
novella, Steinbeck illustrates ways the every-man-for-himself ethos of capitalism isolates
people and causes them to be lonely and fearful.

Candy is lonely and fearful
because he is old and disabled. He cannot save enough money for retirement. When his bunkmates
want to shoot his old, blind, smelly dog, Candy mourns losing his companion. More than that, he
sees in the killing of a creature that is no longer useful a picture of his own end.

Curley's wife, a newlywed teenaged girl already dissatisfied with her marriage to a
swaggering bully, is lonely and isolated as the only woman on the ranch. She wants to be admired
as a sex object, yet the ranch hands wish very much to steer clear of her because of fear of
tangling with Curley. She has utterly unrealistic dreams and fantasies of going to Hollywood and
getting into movies. In the meantime, she dresses up in tawdry ways with no one to admire
her.

Crooks is a more complicated case, as he is a victim of racism. He is
lonely because...

In "Annabel Lee," how does the speaker react to Annabel Lee's death?

The
speaker's reaction is certainly one of
undying dedication. 

"" can
be read in the context of
American Romanticism. It employs language to evoke mood and emotion;
it uses
elements of the supernatural (e.g., angels, winged seraphs of heaven, and demons)
to
illustrate the extraordinary nature of the narrator's love for the
subject.

Because you are focused on the narrator's
reaction, I would look to the last three
stanzas. In the fourth stanza, we
learn how Annabel Lee died: "That the wind came out of
the cloud, chilling /
And killing my Annabel Lee." Exposure to cold and dampness (she lives
by the
sea) was a concern in the 19th century. Perhaps it was pneumonia that took

her. 

In the fifth stanza, the narrator expresses what was different
about
his love for Annabel Lee. They were spiritually connected spiritually
long before her
death: 

But our love it
was stronger by far than the
love

Of those who were older
than we

Of many far wiser
than we

And
neither the angels in heaven above

Nor the
demons down
under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the
soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

In the first three
lines, you have the voice of
a youth who believes that no one can understand the depth of his
emotion,
another characteristic of Romantic literature. For him, their love transcended age,
and
notions of good and evil. His evocation of demons and angels also
suggests the possibility that
their love transcended the boundaries of
religion and the church.

In the
final stanza, the narrator
describes how Annabel Lee is present in his memory:

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;

She has thus become a part of everything in death. She belongs not only to
the
narrator, but to the universe. 

The last few lines are
less spiritual. The
poem becomes dark, even morbid:

And so, all the nighttide,
I lie down by the
side

Of my darling, my darling, my life and my

bride,

In her sepulcher there by the sea

In her
tomb by
the side of the sea.

Here, it
seems that the narrator
wishes to join her in death: He lies down by his
"bride" in
"her sepulcher," in "her
tomb."

Depending on how one wishes to read the poem, this
could be affirmative to Annabel
Lee's memory: the speaker will never forget
her. Or it could be dark: he is trying to climb into
the grave with her. The
latter reading would make it more explicitly Gothic, and much of Edgar
Allen
Poe's work is in the early American Gothic tradition.

The
narrator's
reaction can thus depend on one's choice of how to read the
poem.

What are two comparisons between the role of women during the Paleolithic Age and in Mesopotamia?

Perhaps the
easiest comparison to be made
between women in the Paleolithic and Mesopotamian eras is that
they were both
responsible for the vast majority of child-raising. This is due to the work

distribution of the sexes. In the Paleolithic era, men were primarily focused on hunting
large
game, including giant woolly mammoths, which could provide enough food
for their tribe for weeks
or even months. In the ancient Mesopotamia era, men
were primarily farmers and would work
year-round in the fields due the fact
that there was always a growing season. Women would be
held primarily
responsible for raising children until they were old enough to help with
hunting
and gathering (in the Paleolithic) and farm
chores...

For a research project about ancient Egyptians mummies, I need some help.

First of all,
if you live anywhere near a large
city such as New York, Boston, Chicago, or Los Angeles, you
can begin your
research in the art museums there. In the Art Institute of Chicago, for
example,
there are some very interesting specimens in the "basement." At any
rate, do not
forget that virtual field trips are available which will present
a wealth of pictures and
information. In addition, a real library, especially
in a city, will have reference books that
can assist you as well as a living
librarian who can make helpful suggestions and aid your
search since there
are any number of reference books which will provide the history of the

Egyptian culture that produced mummies.

You may wish to begin by
explaining
that the preservation of the human body was important because the
ancient Egyptians believed in
an afterlife, and bodies had to be preserved
for this next life. Interestingly, there is a
theory that the pyramids were
made as a machine for resurrection. Scenes were painted on the
walls of these
pyramids because the Egyptians believed that certain prayers by the priests
would
bring these scenes to life. World Book
Encyclopedia explains,

Many
Egyptians bought texts containing prayers, hymns, spells, and
other
information to guide souls through the afterlife, protect them from evil, and provide
for
their needs....Collections of these texts are known as the Book of the
Dead.

Perhaps, then, you may wish to
organize your research by (1) the
history of the beliefs of the Egyptians and
then (2) an explanation of the mummification
process. (3) If you are allowed
to include power point or a visual explication with your
research, this might
add interest.

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