Describe the major differences between President Lincolns and Congresss plans for Reconstruction.

Lincoln's
Ten Percent plan was quite lenient in letting the former Confederate states back into the Union.
Ten percent of the state's voters in 1860 would have to swear loyalty to the Union and draw up a
new state constitution. High-ranking Confederates would not be hung for treason, but they would
be ineligible to regain their citizenship.

The Wade-Davis bill was the
highlight of Congressional . The Radical arm of the Republican Party had taken over and sought
to punish Southerners. While the bill that would end slavery was passed on Lincoln's watch, they
made black citizenship and suffrage a condition for a state to be allowed back into the Union.
They also demanded that all men swear loyalty to the Union in order for a state to be
readmitted.

It is important to note that Lincoln devised his plan while the
war was still in progress; Lincoln hoped to break states away from the Confederacy by making it
easier for them to rejoin the Union. The Radical Republicans saw a...

What special gift does Charles Wallace seem to have when it comes to Meg and his mother?

Charles
Wallace has the special gift of intuitively understanding people and can communicate on another
level with people and nature. Charles Wallace is the youngest member of the Murry family and is
depicted as a child prodigy. Despite his stunning vocabulary and unique ability to understand
Meg and his mother on another level, Meg's peers believe that he is unintelligent because he
never speaks around people. Meg is often perplexed by Charles's ability at the beginning of the
story and he seems to know whenever she is upset or awake. Charles Wallace's uncanny ability to
understand Meg and his mother's thoughts is similar to the ability to read minds and his parents
acknowledge that he is neurologically superior and different. Unfortunately, Charles falls
victim towhen he attempts to understand IT and is hypnotized by the man with red eyes on planet
Camzotz.

What is it about the events in this story, "Araby," that cause the narrator to remember them years later?

Although it
is likely after the fact, there is no direct indication that the narrator is recalling these
events from a point in time that is specifically "years later." However, this is a
striking moment in his life, so it is reasonable to assume that this is something he will
remember into adulthood. 

There is a progression of events inwhich leads the
narrator from a state of mind of youthful idealism to adolescent disillusionment. The narrator
is so overcome by his crush on Mangan's sister that all other things in his life are absorbed
into the world of that infatuation. He waits in the parlour every morning to catch a glimpse of
her like it is a religious ritual. He thought of her while saying his...

What is the correct defination of pygmalion? What is the definition of "pygmalion?"

"" is not a thing to be defined,
but rather the name of a character from ancient mythology. According to Ovid's
Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved the image of a woman so
beautiful that he fell in love with her and pleaded with Venus to turn the statue into a real
woman. Venus was touched by his plea and granted his wish.

later used
Pygmalion as the title of his book about the transformation of a young
Cockney flowergirl into a highbrow woman of British society through the efforts of a linguist by
the name of Henry Higgins. The play was later popularized as the musical and movie, My
Fair Lady.

Why does Dee change her name in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use?"

In 's
"," the narrator speaks of herself, her home and her two very different
daughters.

There had been a fire ten or twelve years before that had harmed
Mrs. Johnson's daughter, Maggie. However, as the house burned, the narrator saw her other
daughter's face and the hate she had for their home. As the story goes on, the reader comes to
understand that it was what it meant living in such a house that Dee hated,
more than the house itself. Dee would never be satisfied to live in such a place, or have the
meager life her mother and sister have.

Mrs. Johnson has had a difficult
life. There is no mention of having a husband to help her on her homestead. Quite
matter-of-factly, she acknowledges (with some pride) that she can "kill and clean a hog as
mercilessly as a man." One year she "knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between
the eyes with a sledge hammer..." She had the beef hung up to cure before the sun went
down. Not a complainer, she has done what needed to be done. Mrs. Johnson is a realist; she is
also comfortable with who she is.

Maggie is almost the shadow of a
person. 

"How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says,
showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's
there almost hidden by the door.

Her mother describes
Maggie's behavior as similar to that of a dog that might have been hit by a car, now lame and
looking for someone to be kind to her. She is quiet and unassuming. She has the posture of one
who hopes not to be noticed.

Dee, on the other hand, has been a force to be
reckoned with since she was young. She is more attractive than her sister. She was the one to
leave home after her mother and the church put together the funds to send her to school in
Augusta. She learned, then and forced her learning on her uneducated mother and sister

...forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us
two, sitting trapped and ignorant under her voice.

Dee
showed no desire to help her mother or sister advance through learning, but wants to control
them with what she knew. It demonstrates how far removed the life she lives
is from that of her past and her family.

Dee wanted nice things. Her clothes,
though gifted to her mother and worn before, were transformed so that Dee was proud to wear
them, as they transformed her from a country girl to a woman with prospects:

At sixteen she had a style of her own: and knew what style
was.

Now Dee comes to visit and makes a dramatic
entrance. Not only is she wearing long and flowing African garb and real gold jewelry at her
ears and on her wrists, but she also carries herself like a princess. She treats her mother's
house and homestead like they are part of a museum rather than the remnants of a life
she once lived herself. She takes a photo of the place, and another of her
mother and sister. Like an outsider looking in, she has no connection with these people or her
ancestors.

Dee arrives with grace and style. With her is a stocky man who
tells them to call him Hakim-a-barber. As they approach, Mrs. Johnson addresses her daughter by
her name. However, Dee corrects her and tells her that her name is now "Wangero Leewanika
Kemanjo," and that Dee "is dead." She refuses, she explains, to be named after
the people who "oppressed her," though she was actually named after her aunt, and the
family has passed down the name through countless generations.

Changing her
name is just another way in which Dee has attempted to break away from her family and its
far-distant past. While she may express the need to remove herself from a young woman descended
from slaves, she seems more embarrassed than entitled in her new "position" in the
world. She sees no value in things that belonged to her grandmother or mother except as they can
be used to promote the new identity she has created. The benches and the butter dish are not
worthwhile because they were hand-made by someone in the family, but because they will fit
nicely in her new homewhich is an extension of her new identity. Both have been created in the
image Dee wishes to adopt for herself: how she hopes to be seen by the
world. There is nothing to connect her to the men and women who came before her, making
her personal transition possible in the first place. She has no regard for
her mother who worked so hard to provide Dee with a home, and managed to send Dee away to
school. She has no compassion for her injured sister. 

Dee changed her name
because she was ashamed of where she came from and did not want to be known as a poor kid that
started out in hand-me-downs. She has changed her name and appearance to disassociate herself
from her family, descended from slaves. She has returned only to take things that she believes
will be admired in her home, not because she acknowledges the significance of the sacrifices of
those who lived before her. In this way, Dee is very different from Maggie.

Maggie is actually the daughter who is richer by far because she sees the pricelessness
of the things and people of her past. Maggie is not defined by the past. Dee, ironically, is
completely defined by the past she is trying to reject. Dee doesn't really know who she is, but
Maggie (like her mother) knows exactly who she is. Maggie is not only
satisfied with her situation, but also happy with the life she will carve
out for herself with her soon-to-be husband, along with the patches of the past, sewn into a
quilt she will use everydayspecial because of the history it comes with, and the love of the
women who created it.

How can Oedipus be seen as a victim of fate in Oedipus Rex?

Aswas unable to avoid
fulfilling the
terrible prophecy laid upon him at birth, we can see him as being powerlessly

subjected to his fate. 

When we consider the great lengths that
Oedipus went
to in order to escape killing his father and marrying his
mother, we can clearly see that his
will was bent on mastering his destiny.
He did not want to fulfill the prophecy. He did not want
to be dominated by a
negative fate. 

The evidence of Oedipus' efforts can be

found...

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How did Calpurnia's church differ from the white people's church? To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In 's
, , one salient difference between the church of Calpurnia and the Maycomb
Methodist Episcopal Church South is that the black church allows the children,and , to remain
whereas the white churches are strictly segregated.  Thus, the spirit of charity abounds in the
poor, little church that has few hymn books and no organ or piano. 

On the
other hand, the ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church who practice charity abroad by
sending missionaries and charity to Africa, help no one at home who is outside their
perimeters.  Clearly, Chapter 12 points to the religious hypocrisy of the white
community.

That the congregation of Calpurnia's church are poor and oppressed
as well is evident when the hymns, which are sung jubilantly, end "in a melancholy
murmur."  

When the preacher gives his sermon, the children notice that
Reverend Sykes "used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses from
grace."  The Reverend scolds the more recalcitrant of his congregation, even to the point
of defining their sins.  Scout also notes that, to their amazement, Reverend Sykes chastises the
church members:

....Reverend Sykes emptied the can onto
the table and raked the coins into his hand.  He straightened up, and said, 'This is not enough,
we must have ten dollars.'

But, then, he explains that
the money is for the family of Tom Robinson.