What are the main points in Heck Tate's evidence?

In , Sheriff
Heck Tate testifies in court during Tom Robinson's trial; he answers to both the Ewells' lawyer
and , and there is a good deal of back-and-forth and clarifying and repeating of questions, but
the main points of his testimony are:

• He was called to the
  Ewells' home on the night of September 21; once there, Bob Ewell said his daughter had been
  raped.
• Mayella was "lying on the floor in the middle of the front
  room...pretty well beat up."
• He asked her who had done this to her,
  and she said it was Tom Robinson.
• He didn't call a doctor, because
  "Something sho' happened, it was pretty obvious," and there was therefore no need to
  verify that she was hurt.
• It had happened thirty minutes before he got
  there.

The most important part of Heck's testimony is the
information he had about Mayella's bruises. He says that:

• Her
  right eye was bruised
• There were bruises all the way around her neck, as
  though someone had tried to strangle her with their hands

This
last bit is very important, because we learn in the next chapter that Tom Robinson's left arm is
uselessit was harmed in a farming accident years ago, and he has been crippled ever since. So he
could not have been able to beat Mayella on the right side of her face, nor could he have
wrapped two hands around her neck.

What is Poe's intended effect/purpose through the repetition of "Nevermore" in The Raven?

When
someone loses a person he loves dearly, the thought inevitably occurs that he will never see
that person again throughout eternity, either in the flesh or in the hereafter. When King Lear
is talking to his dead daughter Cordelia, he says:

Thou'lt
come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!    (5.3)

And when the pitiful, mad Ophelia is mourning her father in
Hamlet, she recites the following verse:

And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is
dead;
Go to thy deathbed;
He never will come again.  (4.5)

In Poe's "," the black bird perches on the bust of the
Goddess of Wisdom, symbolizing that the one word it keeps repeating is the incontrovertible
truth which there is no negating and no escaping. When the poem ends with the speaker sitting in
utter dejection under the bird's shadow, it is that single word and the thought it expresses
that prolongs his hopeless mourning.

Name and explain three objectives of promotional strategy.

The main
objective of a company's promotional strategy is to make sure that the consumer is aware of the
product. To effectively communicate the differentiated benefits of your product to the
market.

Promotional Strategies include, advertising, public relations,
personal selling and sales promotion.

Creating the appropriate mix of
elements in the promotional strategy is vitally important to the product's success.

Presenting the product to the target market is accomplished through the promotional
strategy.

A second clear objective of promotional strategy is to create brand
loyalty.  In the first step of the strategy you create brand and product awareness, then the
marketing process attempts to create an ongoing relationship with the customer which will result
in repeat buying or brand loyalty.

A third key objective of the promotional
strategy is to stimulate demand for the product through the use of effective sales promotion
techniques such as free samples, coupons with both retailers and consumers to create short term
demand that you anticipate will develop into continuing long-term demand for the
product.

What caused the fire and what is its significance in the story "Everyday Use"?

I do not
believe that what started the fire is stated specifically, but it is significant that the house
that burned down had a shingle roof, unlike the tin roofs that are used now.  Shingle is more
natural, and has more beauty and character, while tin is cold; shingle, however, is more
vulnerable to destruction, it burns, while tin does not.  I think that the roofs might be afor
Black heritage, and what it means to truly appreciate it, according to the author.

Maggie was burned and scarred in the fire.  Her mother remembers carrying her away
"with her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little peppery flakes", while
Dee stood apart, watching the house burn from "under the sweet gum tree".  Maggie was
always the one who lived her heritage in the simple things of everyday, while Dee never touched
its richness, looking upon it with scorn. 

Dee wants only to escape her past,
denying the good along with the bad of the Black experience.  She thinks that she can keep her
heritage alive through artifacts.  Her concept of her rich African American roots is sterile,
like the tin roofs on the houses.  Maggie, on the other hand, has captured the spirit of her
culture.  Even though, like the shingle roof, its outward manifestations are subject to
destruction, its essence lives on in people like Maggie, who are not afraid to proclaim their
heritage through "everyday use".

Characterize snowball as a leader in Animal Farm. Do you think his reaction to the stable-boys death is the appropriate reaction to have during a...

During
the Animalist uprising, the big old shire horseaccidentally kills a stable-boy. Boxer feels
somewhat guilty about this, buttells him not fret over it as the only good human is a dead
human. This incident, and Snowball's reaction to it, shows us his ruthless side. Like the
fanatical ideologue he is, Snowball believes that the end justifies the means. If some
individuals get hurt or even killed in the course of a revolution, then that's just too bad. So
long as the revolution is successfully carried out, that's...

What is the relationship and significance between Charles and Laurie in the Shirley Jackson short story "Charles"?

In my
opinion, Laurie's parents are in denial about what their son has become. Laurie displays the
characteristics ofat home, and his parents ignore the behavior. Laurie is quite proud of the
tales of Charles's escapades, suggesting he is quite pleased with his own negative behavior. The
invention of Charles garners Laurie the attention he craves.

Remember that
Laurie is not the only child. He has a baby sister, and that has surely taken some of the
attention away from him. He is also a strong-willed child, as evidenced when the narrator says
he "renounced corduroy overalls with bibs." His parents are very mild-mannered and
likely don't have the first clue how to deal with a child like Laurie. They seem to have adopted
a gentle, encouraging approach to discipline when what Laurie needed was a firm hand. Consider
the first exchange with his parents after attending kindergarten:

He came home the same way, the front door slamming open, his cap on the floor, and the
voice suddenly become raucous shouting, "Isnt anybody here?" At lunch he spoke
insolently to his father, spilled his baby sisters milk, and remarked that his teacher said we
were not to take the name of the Lord in vain. "How was school today" I asked,
elaborately casual.

Notice that Laurie is not disciplined
for shouting, speaking insolently, spilling milk, or slamming the door. His mother glosses over
all of that and asks in a deliberately casual way how school was. Could it be that Laurie's
antics are all a grab for attention? When his mother still doesn't react, he comes up with a
story about Charles. It's actually a brilliant invention because he can brag about his bad
behavior without involving his parents in a talk with the teacher. It is not until the end of
the story that both the teacher and Laurie's mother figure out what he's done, because up until
that point they never communicated.

It is interesting to see the progression
of Charles. At school, he always receives a consequence for his bad behavior. Some consequences
seem mild and some are more severe, like having his mouth washed out with soap for saying a bad
word. This is in contrast to Laurie's home behavior in which he insults his father and has no
consequences.

Another possibility for why Laurie invents Charles is that he
may not want to go to school due to the fact that he is held accountable for his actions. He is
smart enough to figure out that he will not be allowed to stay in school if he is bad enough.
Consider this quote:

He kicked the teachers
friend," Laurie said. "The teachers friend told Charles to touch his toes like I just
did and Charles kicked him."

"What are they going to do about
Charles, do you suppose?" Lauries father asked him. Laurie shrugged elaborately.
"Throw him out of school, I guess," he said."

This may have been Laurie's plan all along.

In A Worn Path, What do all the obstacles Pheonix faces represent?

byis a
complicated story despite its seemingly simple plot about an old black woman walking to town to
get medicine for her grandson.   One key to the story is understanding the meaning of the
title.  A lot of time in literature when an author uses something like a path, road, or river,
it symbolizes a much different journey.  Because we travel on paths and roads, they become
representative of the larger journey of life.  The hardships Phoenix Jackson encounters on her
trip to town shows the obstacles she has had to face her entire life. 

A
phoenix is a...