In The Glass Menagerie, what does Amanda hope for Laura?

Amanda
hopes that Laura will get married to a nice man and settle down. She imagines all manner of
gentleman callers for her and is thrilled when one does finally materialize, in the shape of Tom
and Laura's old schoolmate, Jim O'Connor. However, things do not end the way she hoped, as Jim
turns out to be already engaged.

What Amanda really tries to do is to mould
Laura in her own image, as a popular and romantically-inclined young woman. Amanda endlessly
harks back to her own days when she was a Southern Belle and a resounding social
success,...

In chapter 12, what do John and Lorraine confess to Mr. Pignati?

In chapter 12,
John and Lorraine confess to Mr. Pignati that they are not members of the "L & J
Fund" afterall. Their guilt has gotten...

Based on the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder, write a 10+ page journal from the perspective of 25-year-old German...

This is a very
interesting and
compelling assignment. Though I cannot write the 10 pages for you, I will

provide you with some thoughts that you can adapt or use to organize your
work.

First, this assignment asks you to consider your
character's mindset. Your character
was born around 1900 and is a person of
German origin living in Poland. As such, you would have
been affected by both
Stalin's policies and by Nazi policies, particularly as Poland was
occupied
by both powers from 1939€“1941 (see page xi in Bloodlands
by
Snyder). Poland was part of the "bloodlands" that Snyder discusses in his
book, an
area that was subjected to the mass killings of both the Wehrmacht
and the Red Army, the Soviet
NKVD and the German SS.

First, you must decide whether your character is
Jewish or not. If
he was Jewish, his fate would have been altered, as he would have faced Nazi

persecution and would have likely been killed by Nazis or had to flee. However, if you
were not
Jewish and were a German who had witnessed German defeat in World
War I, you might have embraced
the rise of Hitler in 1933. As Snyder writes
on page 9 of Bloodlands, most
Germans believed that
"Poland's borders were illegitimate," so your character might
have supported
Hitler's rise and events such as Krystalnacht. Your character may have
supported
Nazism and the German takeover of Poland.

In
addition, your character might
have heard of the famines that were taking
place in the Ukraine. As Snyder explains on pages
29€“30 of
Bloodlands, many Ukrainians fled into Poland. If you
were
committed to Fascism and to Nazism, you would have been opposed to
Stalinism and hated his
imposition of collectivization on Ukraine. The Poles
referred to Stalin as the "Hunger
Czar" (page 30), who caused his people to
go hungry.

Related to your
diary entries during World War
II (1939€“1945), if you were a committed Fascist and supported
Hitler, you
would have supported his rampage through Europe. Though Germany and the
Soviets
signed a non-aggression pact in 1939 (the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact),
the Nazis invaded the Soviet
Union on June 22, 1941, ending the pact.
Therefore, your entires for 1939 and 1941 would reflect
these events, and
your entry for May 9, 1945, would include your reflections about the end of

the war. After the war, your character might have been imprisoned by the Soviets who
occupied
Poland if he had sided with the Nazis. You can write about your
character's fate following the
war, and you can use the other sources your
teacher has recommended to gain more knowledge about
this time
period.

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What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major? What might this arrangement say about future meetings or...

In the opening
chapter of , the animals gather in the barn to hear a speech by . While the
arrangement of the animals in the barn may seem random, it does, in fact, reveal much about the
nature of equality between the animals, in a number of ways.

First of all, we
are introduced to Major. He is seated on a "raised platform," which is symbolic of his
superiority on the farm. He is well-respected by the others, hence his prominent seating
position. 

Next, after Major, come the dogs and the pigs. These animals are
considered to be the most intelligent animals on the farm and this foreshadows their superior
position on the farm after Major dies and Mr Jones is overthrown. It also foreshadows an
important event which happens in Chapter Nine when the rations of all the animals except the
dogs and the pigs are reduced.justifies this by saying that too much equality in rations goes
against the principles of Animalism. Of course, Animalism states that all animals are equal, but
Squealer does not want to admit this because, if he does, he accepts the inequality inherent in
this action.

Finally, the other animals enter the barn. These horses, hens,
pigeons, ducks and cows represent the workers of Animal Farm. Their only consideration in their
seating is for the care of others: " and Clover, came in together, walking very
slowly...with great care, lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw."
This represents the friendship and loyalty of the working classes and, later, foreshadows their
role on the farm. Together, they will perform the work that keeps the farm running and the
animals fed, while the pigs and dogs rule from above.

Why is "pork barrel" spending important?

Pork barrel
spending is spending that is intended for specific projects that benefit donor or constituent
groups. Pork barrel spending can make legislation easier to pass because it allows for targeted
incentives towards Congressional members that might otherwise be antagonistic towards
legislation. Unfortunately, this kind of targeted benefit generally proliferates, as it gives
even friendly legislators an incentive to take an opposing stance in a bid to obtain some pork
barrel spending. This can lead to significant increases in spending and can blow holes in the
budget.

A second important issue with pork barrel spending is that it can
create inefficient funding streams. This is most visible in military spending, where certain
projects that are unnecessary can continue because of the benefit they bring to specific groups.
Certain pieces of military technology, such as Abrams tanks, continue to be purchased through
appropriations legislation because so many different Congressional districts benefit from these
purchases. The military doesn't need these additional tanks, though, so the continuing purchases
force the military to spend money on something it doesn't need, which prevents funding from
going to other projects which may be more useful. It also increases overall spending without
providing a noticeable benefit.

How does the quote "There's four kinds of folks in the world. The ordinary kind like us and the neighbors... the Cunningams... the Ewells... and the...

There are
two significant aesthetic features in the given quotation, taken fromof the novel. In the
quotation,is explaining to his sister, , his new-found understanding of the social hierarchy in
Maycomb County. For example, the repetition of the word "kind," used by Jem to refer
to different types of people, is an aesthetic feature because it draws the reader's attention to
the idea that the four "kinds" of people are considered to be so different as to be
thought of as different "kinds." The implication is that Maycomb County is a place
characterized by significant social differences and divisions.

In the full
quotation, Jem says that "there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind
like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes." One aesthetic feature here is the
sequence of clauses. In each successive clause, the location associated with the different
"kind" of people becomes less appealing, signifying the lower social position, or
class, of those respective people. The "woods" connote a place outside of or on the
fringes of civilization, and the "dump" connotes a place designated for trash. These
locations accurately signify the social positions of the Cunninghams and the Ewells
respectively.

It is significant that "the Negroes," mentioned in
the third clause, are not designated a location at all. The implication is that they occupy a
place in Maycomb County even less appealing than the "dump" in the preceding clause.
Another implication is that there is no place at all in Maycomb County for "the
Negroes" to make their home.

Why did the hens confess to Napoleon in 1984?

Everything seems to be going wrong with the Animalist revolution, and the absenthas
been made the scapegoat for all the problems that beset the farm. Buthas got in into his head
that Snowball must've had accomplices in his dastardly plot to destroy the revolution. So he
accuses a number of pigs of being in secret contact with Snowball and demands that they confess
their crimes. The charges are...